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to flee from that country on account Of his
incendiary publications. He was native OF
wilma, and man of fine natural powers and
literally educated.
A FIRE at Adrian (Mich.) College, on
the Dist, destroyed the entire north wing,
containing the department for 135 theologi-
cal students. Loss, $4,000; insurance, ST.
900.
DURING October 61,312 immigrants
arrived in the United States.
THE British steamer Mildred, from
New York to Marseilles, foundered in the
Atlantic. The crew, % in number, were
drowned.
THE number of deaths by the Mime
sofa Insane Asylum fire is now fixed at
twenty
PASSENGERS in sleeping-car passing
through the Baltimore tunnel, the other
night, were robbed of $1,000 in money and
valuables in the most mysterious manner.
JUDGE MCCRARY has refused to trans
fer to the courts of Colorado the case Of In
dian Agent Berry.
A LIFE-INsURANCE fraud has been de-
veloped at Reading, Pa, involving promi-
nent physicians, through whose certificates
policies to the amount Of $4,000 were taken
out on a consumptive woman.
PROF. JAMES G. WATSON, of the Wis
consin University, the eminent scientist and
astronomer, died on the 23d, at Madison. He
was native of Canada, born in 1893.
Four men were killed by the caving
in of an excavation on the Hasting and
Dakota Railroad, at Hopkin Station.
Their names were Thos. Fitzpatrick, James
Ward, Frank johnson and Perry Swanom.
Ole Parson was fatally injured.
Two children of Charles Bochringer
were locked in a house at Napa, Cal, and
burned to death during the absence Of their
parents.
CHARLES BROWN and Mr.. Heck were
murdered in bed, near Rogersville, Tenn,
the other night, and robbed Of sum of
money, which Brown had obtained the day
before for hogs.
JAMES L. PUGH has been elected
United States Senator from Alabama.
AT Fort Pierre, D. T., recently, a
fight took place between band Of outlaws
who had been for long time terror to the
town, and a vigilance committee, organized
for the express purpose Of Kidding the coun-
try Of their presence. The vigilantes were
victorious, killing the leader of the gang,
Arkansas Joe" and wounding four Of his
followers.
The new fast mail between New
York, Washington and New Orleans, saves
! "a hours in time over the old schedule.
A TREATY on the subject of immigra-
ton has been concluded in China between
that Government and the United States
Commissioners. The provisions Of the
treaty have not been made public.
AT Dubuque, Iowa, on the night OF
the 23d, Mrs. F. D. Shute, wife of F. d.
Shute, Of st. Joseph, Mo-, and Miss Amanda
Gregoire, of East Dubuque, while crossing
the Mississippi River on the ice, wandered
off the track, it being dark, and both were
drowned in an air-hole.
One of the inmates of the Minnesota
Insane Asylum, Ben Hasselman, whose de-
rangement was considered so slight that he
was given the run of the institution, has
confessed that he set fire to the building
burn down the building for revenge. The
| fire was kindled by saturating the wood
work with naphtha.
SERIOUS trouble is reported between
the American and Mexican inhabitants in
! the town of Brackettville, Texas, eau ed by
a Mexican shooting and killing a soldier in a
quarrel. Three Mexican houses were fired
in revenge for the deed, and the Mexicans
were threatened with determination. The
commanding officer ordered all soldiers into
quarters and the Sheriff called on all availa-
BILE citizens for guard duty.
THE house of J. G. Luker, at Summit
City, near Bradford, Pa, burned on the
morning Of the oath. Mr.. and Mrs. Luker
barely escaped in their night-clothes. Their
5-year-old child was rescued, but so badly
| burned that he died within a few hours.
THERE is coal famine in Georgia,
caused, as alleged, by insufficient transport
tation and limited supply, owing to last
fall's strikes. At Atlanta on Thanksgiving
Day coal was fifty cents bushel.
THE body of Mrs. Lucia Noys, wife of
/ c. H. Noys, lawyer of Warren, Pa, was
]
| Thanksgiving There were religious
services at the crematory, conducted by the
Rev. DR.. Hays.
ALFRED GATHER, Superintendent of
the Adams Express Company, died sud-
denly in New York City on Thanksgiving
/ Day.
The cases of Agent Berry and Com
! 4aA for nj ait
| in the murder of jackson, the freighter, on
] the Ute Reservation, have been postponed to
! April 81. 1t is now reported that Jackson
was not killed at all, but is held as hostage
by the Indians.
Cook, Fusion candidate for Congress
/ in the Sixth Iowa District, will contest the
election Of Cults, Republican, who was re-
turned as elected by majority Of II. 1t is
/ claimed that the votes Of two precincts, CIV
! ing some 90 majority for Cook, were thrown
| out.
DERvIsH PAsHA has finally succeeded
in getting into Dulcigno, after eight hours
hard fighting, in which the Albanians made
a desperate resistance. Both sides suffered
considerable loss.
SIXTY laborers were buried in snow
slide near Chalk Creek, on the Kokomo ex-
tension of the Denver and Rio Grande Rail-
road, on the 18th. They noticed the pine
/ trees trembling, and in an instant the slide
came with loud roar, tearing up the
[ track for distance of a quarter OF mile
and burying the sixty men. John Dine was
( killed, 10 men badly injured and IL others
Z slightly. The slide carried the track over
/ the heads OF the men and most of the wounds