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Ontario, and went down an embark
ment of twenty-five feet. Two cars
were soon destroyed by fire, and one
was broken into fragments. Twelve
persons were injured, and were taken
to Whitby. The damage is estimated
at 100000.
Six of the finest business blocks in
Cleveland We're set on fire during
Thursday night. Incendiaries on FRI
day evening ignited oiled paper on the
fourth floor of stone structure on
Euclid avenue, used by an electric
light company. The underwriters
offer large rewards for the capture of
the fire-bugs.
The announcement that Alexander
Mitchell had resigned the presidency of
the st. Paul road is evidently prema-
ture, as it meets with vigorous denials
by his associates in the company. He
has managed that huge corporation for
twenty-one years, and finds himself
greatly embarrassed by the illness OF
Manager Merrill.
William Bloodworth, farmer near
Richwoods, Arkansas. discovered two
years ago that his wife was intimate
with George Bullen, and he quietly
killed the latter in the woods. 1t has
taken many months to trace out the
murder, and sentence of twenty-one
one years in the penitentiary was pro-
nounced last Friday.
Charles r. Ford, an attorney who
was disbarred at Detroit, and who was
thought to have been drowned in the
river Raisin, is in indianapolis, where
he was found keeping small cigar
store. There was an insurance of So
600 upon his life, and it is thought he
expected to secure it.
b. +. Chapman, of Wharton, Ont,
made an experiment on the Niagara
river with an air-tight life-boat. She
went through the rapids all right be-
low the falls, and came near enough to
the Canadian shore to be caught, and
was uninjured. The boat was again
sent into the current and headed for
the terrible whirlpool, where she struck
rock and almost instantly went to
pieces.
DR.. Paaren, state veterinarian, visit
ed the farm of NJ. j. Clarke, near Ge-
neva, Illinois, and caused two Jersey
heifers to be shot. An examination
clearly showed the existence of pleuro-
pneumonia, and the appraisers fixed
the value of the animals at $110. Ten
others of the herd have Gied within
six months, and a young bull is In
quarantine.
The clearinghouse statement for
last week shows falling off Of 30.1
per cent. in the aggregate clearances
of twenty-six leading cities as COM
pared with the corresponding week
of last year. The decrease in New
York was 357 per cent; in Chicago
IA per cent; outside New York 1871
per cent. Milwaukee and Kansas
City are the only points where there
was an increase.
In a Brooklyn court, Friday, sent
ence of three and one-half years in the
penitentiary was passed upon hand
some woman of 20 years named Ellen
Larrabee, known to the police as q
professional burglar. She has already
served two terms in prison. A Connec-
ticut farmer, named Daniel Shugpee,
has fallen in love with the fair thief,
and begged permission to marry her.
The drouth which prevails in the vi
Unity Of Petersburg, Va, is the sever
est for many years. Great damage is
done to corn and tobacco. In many
places the ground is so dry that wells
are drying up. The reservoir in that
city has become SO low that the Super
intendent of the Water-Works has
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supply Of water by turning the water
from the canal into the main pipes of
the city. which will be done tomorrow.
Seven years ago it became necessary to
do this in consequence OF q prOtracted
drouth.
One of the greatest corners ever
engineered on the Chicago board of
trade reached its elimination Tuesday,
when September corn was bid up to 81
per bushel. When the squeeze was
planned there was short interest of
eleven million bushels, nearly one
third of which is still in default. No
one seems to know who furnished the
cash required to conduct an operation
of such magnitude. Unless the corner
can be perpetuated for October there is
reason to suspect that the manipulate
ors will meet heavy losses. 1t is
rumored that Wall street operators
were the principal sufferers by the
squeeze.
IL man wants to take the trouble he