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face, houses two hundred feet from the
mines being overturned, and the farmhouse
and tan entirely wrecked. Fire had bro
ken out at the entrance to the mine, and it
| was feared the victims would be consumed.
THREE passengers on the Chicago g. At
lantic express were despoiled of their mon
ey and watches by two men who entered
the coach early on the morning of the 18th
at Ada, O., and who held the conductor al
bay with revolvers.
1T was announced on the 18th that West
| ern manufacture rs of brass had formed q
syndicate to control the market, and that
three large establishments had already
been absorbed.
EDWARD SUMNER and Charles Thorn.
burg were fatally shot during n saloon
row at Mansfield, Pa, a few days ago,
The persons who did tho shooting were not
known.
THE Mississippi River at New Orleans
was ON the 18th within one inch of the high
water of 1874. md a rise Of one foot would
cause a general inundation.
1T was ascertained on the 18th that two
men were burned to death in the recent
carpet-sweeper factory fire at Grand Rap
ids, Mich.
On the 18th e%ighty-one thousand dollars
in United States four per cent. bonds,
dated July 1, 1877, and numbered from 3d.
425 to 90, 432, were taken by burglars from
q safe in O~enterville, Inc.
A FIRE in Woodward, Faxon & Co.'s
wholesale drug house at West Kansas City,
Mo-, the other morning, caused a loss OF
$4,000. An employee jumped from a fourth
story window, and was fatally injured.
THE foot-and mouth disease has broken
out i'll Adair County, No.
MATT LEWIS, q colored citizen of st.
Louis, was executed on the 18th for killing
of liberty by breaking Jail, and had been
tried four times. Frank Slagel, who muir.
dered two brothers named Adair, for the
purpose of robbery, was hanged at Somer-
set, KY, in presence of the mother of his
victims.
1T was estimated on the 14th that in the
region tributary to the Black Hills there
were 5s3,90o cattle and s 200 sheep. Stock
had wintered exceedingly we'll, the losses
not being over one and one-half per cent.
THE recent floods destroyed fifty-five
bridges in the Ohio Valley, which would
require $4,000 to replace.
A LAD named w. T. Williams, while rid
ing recently on the step Of a, locomotive,
at Minneapolis, was thrown to the 1ail,
when the drive-wheel severed his head
from his body.
A SNoW.sLIDE on Aspen Mountain, Col
orado, caused the death of three employees
Of the Vallejo mine a few days ago.
THE grand levee in Pointe Coupee par
ish, La, one of the largest entertainments
i'll the State, gave way on the 18th, owing
to the enormous pressure of water against
it, II flooded many of the most valuable
sugar plantations in the State. The loss
would be enormous. Scott leyee, another
great e%mbanklnent in the same parish, was
in bad condition, and fears were felt that
it would 60.
FREDERICK ]. DIETRICH, the teller of the
Laclede Bank of st. Louis, who was re-
Gently shown to be a defaulter in the sum
of $4,000, was captured at his brothers.
house in st. Louis OH the 14.h.
DURING the seven days ended on the IA tn
the business failures throughout the
United States and Canada numbered 224,
against 264 the previous week. The dis
tribution was as follows: New England
States, 81; Middle, Al; Western, SO;
Southern, SO; Pacific States and Terri.
tories. 10; Canada and the Provinces, IS.