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duty.
AT Prescott, Arizona, on the GOTH
Deputy Sheriff Briant was killed by des-
perado named Miller. The murderer es-
cIped.
FIVE men were killed and two others
injured by q collision at Mckinney Station
on the Cincinnati Southern Railway, said to
have been caused by drunken engineer.
THE stage between Aims and Fay.
ettville, Ark, while descending the Frog
Mountains, came to grief, the team running
away through the carelessness Of drunken
driver, who paid for it with his life. j.
Brown, passenger, was dashed to death,
and several others were severely injured.
| JABEz SMITH, mail agent on the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Road, was
drowned ut Sabula, Iowa, in attempting to
| cross from the Illinois shore. The boat
struck the bridge and was capsized.
NEAR jackson, Almador County,
Cal., the dwelling of Nicholas Jelletich, an
old and respected Austrian, was destroyed
by fire. Jelletich, his wife and two chill.
dren were burned to death.
d. L. LOVE, reporter for the Vicks-
burg press, was shot and Instantly killed at
Greenville, Miss, on the 21st. by Mr.. La
nier, who had recently married q young
lady to whom Love claimed to have been
engaged. The provocation in the case was
an alleged publication by Love rejecting
upon the BRIDES character. Lanier was
| placed Under arrest. His father in-law ac-
companied him to Greenville and witnessed
the shooting, but took no part In the affair.
WHILE E. P. Ferry and wife were
misunderstanding, near Park City, Summit
County, Utah, Mrs. Ferry's horse fell and
rolled over, crushing her so that she died
while being brought In on q litter. Mr..
Ferry is a brother of U. s. Senator Ferry.
AIIsCELLANEoUs.
BIM RYAN, the convicted Glendale
(NIo.) train robber, has been sentenced to
twenty-five years in the State Penitentiary.
AN attempt was made the other night
to burn the Cunard steamer Bothnia, at her
dock in New York City. Two men gained
access to the steamer on the plea of wishing
to see \ friend, an officer of the vessel. AZ
ter some time they departed, and q few min
utes later fire was discovered in an obscure
passage, where the carpet had been satur-
ated with a very inflammable liquid COM
posed principally of kerosene and phos-
phorus. Traces of their work were subse-
quently found in other parts Of the vessel.
the carpets upon which the mixture had
been placed bursting into flame rs soon as
tread upon. Fragments of the bottles con-
tanning some Of the fluid were also found,
and turned over to the police. Experiments
showed 1t to be one Of the most dangerous
infammatory agents ever concocted.
GLADSTONE was burned in effigy by
admirers of Parnell in Philadelphia. A
large crowd collected.
THE appointment. of Gen. Pendergast
as Governor GeneraISo of Cuba, to succeed
Gen. Blarco, has been gazetted: 1t is be-
lieved he will take out decree granting
amnesty to the exiled journalists.
A DISPATCH from Tucson, Arizona,
says three men were killed while hunting
stolen cattle in Wachet Mountains. George
and fourteen of bis band had a running fight
with soldiers near Eagle Creek.
AN obnoxious saloon at Palestine,
Hancock County, Ind, was blown up either
with gunpowder or dynamite. A number of
citizens were badly shaken up, but no seri-
Gus injuries resulted.
THE Coroner's Jury, at Philadelphia,
holding an inquest upon the bodies of the
nine per,ons who lost their lives by the
burning of tile Randolph Mills. charge the
providing proper safe guards against free
nor means of escape. The city authorities
are censured for not enforcing the laws.
PRoF. KLEIN, Louisville astrono-
mer, writes the Courier-Journals 81 have
for several weeks past noticed a singular
phenomena in the heavens ia the shape OF
double comet, or comets, attended by nine
smaller ones, all in circle, closely resem-
bling one of Saturp's rings. They all APP
pear to be connected together, as they move
in the same orbit, and the larger of the
double comets will at regular Intervals
eclipse the smaller one, and the little ones
are on such occasions lost sight of
in the mists thus created. I have
no doubt that this is the comet
Of 1S45-46, supposed to have been
that now appears to us in this
singular shape, attended with numerous
satellites, which by some of the wonderful
processes of nature were undoubtedly
thrown from its nucleus, but not with suffi-
are therefore resting in the original ring
like nucleus, which has undoubtedly been
rent asunder by great cometary eruption
and gathered again in its present Shape.
This, too, believe to be the comet of 1911,
having a period Of thirty-five years. Aside |
from this wonderful comet, or rather eleven |
comets, there are five others now visible"
CAPT. ADAMS, of the whaler Arctic, !
says he visited the scene of the loss of the |
Erebus and Terror, of the Franklin exped- |
lion. He found the house and store Of pro-
visions near the Franklin monument in a |
condition. In Fury and Hecla |
Straits Esquimaux gave him some particu-
xxyhf ct, tn eli he fufa of fha
ost survivors of the Franklin expedition.
After the loss Of the ships seventeen men
,tarted overland, hoping to reach Hudson's
Bay, but only three Of the survivors Jour-
Keyed to the house Of the narrator's father.
One Of these is supposed to be Lieut.. Gro
.ier, who died first, and the deaths of the
others speedily followed.
A DARING robbery was committed at
Fieldon. Jersey County, H., on the 18th.
About 2 O'Clock p. m. two men entered the
house of W. p. Parks & Son, and
with revolvers drawn threw down and Sc
cured the elder Parks, while the younger
me was compelled to open the safe and de-
liver over the contents, consisting of
Il 900 in gold and $500 in currency.
The robbers then mounted their horses At
he door and rode Off, receiving as they went
! yolley from the old gentleman's revolver
which killed one of their horses and COM
PEELED them to pursue their journey on a
single animal. They went toward the Ma
,oupin bottom, pursued at no great distance
BY posse Of citizens. 1t is said the robbers
we're identified by DIR. Parks as two young
men named Charles II. Clay and James
Bunnis, who had for some weeks previous
BEEN hanging around the vicinity.
THE mail c0ach from Gaipos,,;II, g..