The News In Brief

A straightout Republican daily, a rare thing in the south, is to be started next week in JacksonviUe, Fia, lts editor will be Edwin M. C'heney, a Massachusetts man, an oíd soldier and a lavvyer. Beíore adjourning at Cleveland the exeeutive committee of the Irish National Laague of America possed resolutions deploring the illness of Gen. Sheridan, and of sympatuy with the faraily of the late Henry F. Sheridan, of Chicago. Two prisoners escaped from the Iroquois county (Ills.) jail by digging a tunnel under one of the walls. A C'incinnati music firm bas off.red a prize of L1.50 to the composer of tbe best concert waltz to be used at the exposition. Fire at Indianapolis, Ind. , destroyed the Indianapolis Veneer company's works, D. E. Stone & Co. 's f ancy cabinet ware f actory , and M. J. Osgood's lumber yard, at an aggregated loss of $JOO,000 and Insurance of 853,000, and also Root's stove fonndry; loss and insurance imknown. Kennedy, of Quincy, Hls., easily defeated Plaisted, of Portland, Me., in the three-miie race on Lake Quinsigamond, Massacbusetts, finishing thirty lengths ahead in 22:57%. All the window-glass factories in the Pittsburg section and the west closed down Friday night in accordanco with a resolutioii adopted in the recent convention. The shutdown vvill continue until Sept. 1, ani longev unless the workera and employers agree on a wage scale. The flags on Gotham's city hall were not placed at half mast Friday wben the news of the ceath of the Emperor Frederick was received. Mayor Hewitt said he did not feel iustified in orderin thoin un. An old and bitterly-contested lawsuit came to an end Thursday at Stillwater, Minn. , , when the jury awarded J. A. Reed,ex-warden , of the state penitentiary , 81 ,000 damages in his snit against Warden Stordock for libel. Mrs. Margarèt Conlon, her husband and , Patrick Mulholland have been arrested at . oy, N. Y., for kicking to death Mr. Ellen . jaundrigan. , By the destruction of an extensivo icelouse near Albany, N. Y., by lightning and ire Friday morning, property to the amouLt $100,000 was consuined. Ned Stokes, the slayer of Jim Fisk, and .Villiara Turnbridge, a retired broker, had a ist-fight on Beaver street in Gotham Friday. Stokes had the best of the battle. Count Richter, who was designated to succeed Count Piper as Swedish ambas3ador at London, has committed suicide at Stockholm by shooting himself with a revolver. J. Pierard & Son, general merchauts, of Marshall, Minn., have made an assignment to M. E. Wilcox on an attnchment of Greens'elder & Co., of Chicago. The firm's liabilities are estimated at 815.000. The emperor of Brczil bas completely recovered from his recent illness. Mary N. Prescott, authoress and poet, diad Thursday night at Newburvport, Mass. In a raca at Ironton, Ohio, Friday, one . jockey was killed and auother crippled for life. A. M. Sloan, workman in the rolling-mill at Joliet, Ills., was killed Thursday night by a red hot rail running rrom the' rolls to the saws, striking him and running through his body. Myriado of grasshoppers have appeared 'in many parts of southern Indiana, and are devouring all vegetation as they go. Augusta Norling, aged 39 years, jumped from the roof of a five-story building in Boston Thursday night and was instantly killed In a quarrel Calvin Young, of Bloomfield, Mich., struck Jay Alian with a spaIe, fatally in.iuring hun. Jesse R. Grant, just from Mexico, reports that there is a general f eeling of regreU among the Mexicans of the better class throughout the republic that the Mexican reciprocity treaty failed to become a law. In view of the number of Yale graduates and railroad employés in Connecticut, Editor Shepard, of The New York Mail and Express, thinks the Republican convention can make sure of the electoral votes of the state by nominating Dr. Uepow, the most popular of Yalensians and the pearl of railroaders. All the window glass factories of Pittsburg and the west have closed down, to remain closed until Sept. 1, or longer, unless the workers and employers agree on a scale of wages. The manufacturers want to reduce vvages from 1U to 20 per cent. Thomas Davis, colored, living at Lodo bor, Tenn.. is being pursued by lynchers, who will make short work of him when caught. He was working for Mr. Scott, a prominent farmer, and leaving Mr. Scott in the field at work returned to the house and assaulted Mrs. Seott, who is in a critical condition. The new steam ferryboat, Robert Garrett, put on for business between New York and Staten Islíuid, can carry .",000 passëngers, and is said to be the biggest ferryboat in the world. Minute guus were fired at Gibraltar Monday out oí respect for the late Emperor Frederick. Willian Stokes, of Dinwiddie count.y, Virginia, was found murdered near hú home Sunday afternoon. The notorious bandit Serafín Ramos, alias Dionosio Castilla, has been captured near San Felipe, Cuba. Rev. S. H. Virgin, of New York, calis the women belonging to the Salvation army "hailelu jah lassies. " The Democracy of ülney, Hls. , ratifled the nomination of Cleveland and Thurman Mondav evenin in a very enthusiastic manner. The St Joseph Catholic Orphan asylum on the Alexandria pike, seven miles back of Newport, Ky., burned Monday. Loss, $25,000. Williatn Francis, of Galena, Ills., attempted to assassinate his partner. Peter Linsen, Suuday evening. The wound will not be fatal. The warm weather of the past few days has proven very beneflcial to the corn erop, and the farmers are accordingly in much better spirits. The present warm weather is general throughout all portions of the country. Heavy rains are reported in the región of Galveston, Tex. No foreign oflicers will be allowed to attend the Russian military manoeuvres tuis year, aud Russian oflicers have been forbidden to attend similar manoeuvres abroad. A country man mistook Cbauncey M. Depew ior Adam Forepaugh in the Grand l'acifie hotel, Chicago, Mondar, and had the temerity to ask him how his circus was getting along. In Judge Clifford's court, Chicago, Monday, a verdict for $1,002,491.24 was rendered in favor oí the plaintiff in tb" case of Augustin I. Ambler, of Washington, against Rodney M. Wuipple, of that city. This is the largest verdict ever renderedin a single case in Chicage. The Chinese headquarters in New York, 16 Mott street, will be torn down and a new building of oriaiital design erected. The directors of the Oregon Transcontinental company have elected the following officers: President, Henry Villard; first vice president, Brny ton Ives;second vice president, C. B. Bellinger; secretary, S. B. Willey; treasurer, Edward Eads. The trial of Joseph R. Banks and John Cockrill for the killing of John J. Littleton, editor of The National Review at Nashville, Tenn., last December, bas been broughtto a close. The jury was brougbt into the court roo:n a; Í) o'clock an.l ren .rtod ten for acquitta] an I t'wo for fifreen years' imirisonment. Several jurors being il!, ttey vvere dismissed. At Aurora Fred Jíimes, a 16-year-old boy, was drovvnde while bathing. Healoy Buekner, a fireman on the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City railroad, was killed at Mattoon, Dis., by the overturning of nis engine. Au?nst Bender, of Horndale. Pa., while drunk, wos shot as he was trying to break into the house of ilrs. Nicholss ijtagner. The city eouncil of Charleston, S. C, has passed an ordinance nllowing the sale of soda water, ice, (ruit. and cigars on tëunday. TMf is in controveution of the state law, and will be opposiiil. Maggio Wells, aged 11, has arrived at Pittsburg from England, unacompanied. She had inaile the journy safely, through means of a tag tied around her waist, with the s npon it of ber uncle, John Kay, of this city, whotn sbe bas come to visit.