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near Fifield, Ia, and, after ransacking his
house, fired it. Brink crawled out and is
still alive.
On the 9th the New York Central &
Hudson River Railway grain elevator at
West Sixty-second street, fell. The loss
is $4,000. Nobody hurt.
AT Jamestown, OAK, on the 9th, fire
destroyed the south half of the block from
the Grand Central Hotel to Sixth avenue.
Loss estimated at $4,000; insurance light.
The ruins of the Brooklyn fire continued
to reveal new horrors to the searchers on
the 7th.
On the 18th three hotels and several cot
tages were destroyed by fire at Hampton
Beach, N. J.
On the 7th Francisco Caruso had the
body found'in trunk at Pittsburgh, Pa,
exhumed and identified it as his brother
The supposed murderer was arrested in
New York.
A DARING burglar entered Congressman
Bynum's house at indianapolis, Ind, the
night of the 7th, and frightened Mrs. By
mum nearly out of her wits.
HALF of the $1,000 worth of diamonds
recently stolen from the carriage of Briggs
Swift in Cincinnati have been recovered.
A. A. H. KLEEcAMP, the prince of swim
dlers, who has piled his vocation in all
quarters of the globe, is in custody in New
York, under the name of H. r. Lawrence.
He is a Chicago citizen, and was once
book agent.
On the 7th Charles Blanchard, aged fif-
ty, employed in Kl ady's Novelty Works,
at Big Rapids, Mich, was caught in the
shafting, and was almost pounded to
pieces. Both his legs were broken and his
ribs crushed. He was alive at last ac-
counts, but unconscious.
A LARGE break has occurred in the
Standard Oil Company's pipe line near
Shaefferstown, Pa, and hundreds of bar
rels have escaped into Havana Creek. A
conflagration is feared.
ANOTHER of the wounded quarrymen at
Lemont, ILL.,, died on the 9Th.
MOSES CATION was hanged at Morgan
field, KY, on the Sth. He killed his wife.
FIRE among Chicago lumber yards on
the sth destroyed nearly $1,000, 900 worth
of property.
DIR. j. II. MILLER, of Islip, L. l., made a
desperate effort on the Sth to murder his
wife, but failel.
THE jailer at Marshall, Tex, prevented a
jail delivery ON the sth by fatally wound
ing one of his prisoners.
KLEEKAMP, alias Lawrence, the "prince
of swindlers," was sentenced in New York
on the Sth to eight and a-halflyears in Sing
Sing.
HARVEY NJ MUNsELL, one of the jurors
in the Short trial in New York, has been
arrested for contempt of court and per-
jury in connection with the case.
SIxTY-EIGHT people were killed by an
avalanche on the borders of Lake Van, in
Armenia, on the 8th.
ALEXANDER STEEL, an attendant in the
Pennsylvania Insane Asylum, whose bru-
tally caused the death Of a patient, is
charged with murder.
On the 9th five masked men took Jim
Green out to hang him at Vinitia, l. t.
After the rope was around his neck he
begged for mercy and was releaGed on q
promise to leave town.
On the 10th two men were killed and
two slightly hurt by powder explosion
at Tarrytown, N. Y.
On the 10th an unknown man was found
dead In field near Toledo, O., evidently
murdered. His socks were marked &c. G.
Loomis."
On the night of the 9th two masked mer
entered the house OF F. S. Thrall at Oswe-
go, N. Y, and cut a fourteen-year-
girls hair off ito be revenged on he
father"
AT Washington, D. c., the colored sex
ton of fashionable church has just con
fessed that for twenty years he has beel
stealing church funds.
OK the 18th fire was raging in tn
Hampton Coal Mine at Williamsburg, Pa
OK the 18th the trial of Cunningham anC
Burton, the alleged dynamiters, be AN il
London.
AT Terre Haute, Ind, William Wrigh
has been arrested, charged with the re
cent express robbery near Harrodsburg
Ind.
MRS. JOHANNA LEEsMAN was arreste
in New York on the 18th on charge o
killing her husband with paris green.
On the 18th seven members of the Buz
zard gang of Pennsylvania outlaws wer
arrested in the Welsh Mountains.
On the 18th young Langston, the colore
youth who killed Washington Cd. G. pc
liceman made a desperate effort to brea
jail, but did not succeed.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The English troops in the Soudan, &C
cording to the Duke of Cambridge, are 4
splendid condition aud we'll cared for.
The ordinance under which "opiur
joints" have been suppressed in st. Loui.
NO., is declared invalid by Judge Noonar
on the ground that no penalty is provide
for selling opium for other than medica
purposes.
ABOUT one-half OF the vote Of credi
asked for by the Government it is esti
mated has already been absorbed in En-
glish war preparations.
THE Russian corvette Strelok and tn
British ship Canada remain in New Yorl
harbor The Garnet has gone.