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| Latest Domestic Notes-Washinston Newu Nstes and Gossip-Foretxn NeWs Notes, Etc., Etc. Five boys charged with the crime of mur- der were acquitted in Philadelphia for lack of | evidence.
 Arkansas cotton crop is twenty-five per cent ahead of last year and the largest ever raised in the State.
 | William Reed treasurer of the South Bos- | ton horse railroad company, arrested for enl bezzlement, confesses to S164, ,0OO. Ethan Allen Maynard, Of Moonville, Ind, | having betrayed his neighbours wife. cowardly | shot him dead, and then wound up his record | by suicide.
 | The trial of young Mason Pell Helmbold l son of Dr. Bucha Helmbold, who was indicted for forgery in the second degree in Albany, N | Y., was reached by the Court of Sessions, and | the jury returned verdict of guilty. l A drunken husband, who has disappeared; | young mother lying dead by the side of her | new born baby and her body covered with | bruises-these form the leading points of a | Somerville (Mass.) tenement house tragedy. The engineer of a south bound Iowa Cen | tral freight train disobeyed orders and ran | past Lacy. The result was collision with an other freight train and the killing of fireman named Martin. The engineer said he had had | no sleep for sixty hours, and WAS asleep when he passed Lacey.
 Yale beat Princeton with a score of te 6 in the football match.
 Violet Cameron, the English actress sailed away to her English home on Thanks | giving day.
 Sir John Macdonald denies that Canada has offered to lease her fishing grounds to the United States.
 Burglars broke into fur store in Roches- | ter and carried off goods valued at several thousand dollars.
 Mai Shun, one of the few Chinese women | in New York city. was buried with Chinese | rites. Scattering ''eash' was one of the cere- ] monies.
 Patrick Hayden, wealthy saloon keeper, | also prominent as a politician in Jersey City, | was shot and mortally wounded by James | Cavanagh.
 The Canadian government is anxious that | Esquimalt, the naval station on the Pacific, | should be immediately fortified in view of a | possible Russian attack. Gov. Currier, of New Hampshire, has ap- | pointed exGov. Cheney, of Manchester, United States Senator to fill the vacancy occa- | stoned by the death of Austin F. Pike, of | Franklin.
 | Gen. Macfeeley, Commissary~General of ! Subsistence, U. s. A., reports that the average contact price of fresh beef during the year | was S.36 cents, as against g.. cents the pre- | cedlng fiscal year
 | The boiler of the tugboat Sunbeam ex- | piotled in the East river, New York making a detonation that was heard miles away and | killing five men belonging to the boat-all ! these were on her at the timc. | A fire started in tho upper stories of the sash and blind factory of Cutter X Parker, l Friend st., Boston, and in a short time the up | per stories We're completely gutted, A fireman named Flavel was killed and Chief Weber badly injured. zs
 | The Department of Santa Ana, in San Sal l Vador bas been placed under martial law the Government having discovered the existence | Of conspiracy. Various arrests have been l made, and the arms destined for tho revolr- tloS,lsts have been seized.
 Two children, named Mcsal, were frozen to death ten miles north of Mandan w. T. l They went out to look after cattle, lost them selves in the storm and were found afterward l dead. Two young men, brothers, at Sims were frozen to death while returning from work. Seven Indians Big Thunder, the Crow chief, among the number-were drowned while attempting to cross the Missouri, near | Blsmark. Big Thunder one of the most famous chiefs of the Crow nation, and his son, | White Eagle, is said to have been with the party when the accident occurred. | Taylor Mckinney and his three sons were husking corn in field on their farm, near Edena, Mo-, when they were prostrated by lightning. One of the sons, aged sixteen years, was instantly killed, another was so severely injured that lespair -af and the third was made insane and is missing.
 -Erastus Brooks, the well-known New York editor, is dead. He was born in Portland, Me, in 1s1a His father, Captain James | Brooks, commanded the privateer Yankee in tue war of 1872, and his mother was of pa- \ uiotic New Hampshire family-the Folsoms 'l He edited the Portland Advertiser, and with his brother James, established the New York | Express in 1856.
 Peter Morton, Cambridge car driver. is arrested for kicking his pretty young wife to death. Peter says it's a lie.
 Mystery surrounds the supposed death of
 Captain Thomas D. Carpenter, of the schooner Long Island, that was found with sails set on | the beach at Sea Cliff
 The wheat crop Of the Red River Valley, in
 Minnesota, beats tho capacity of the railroads
 and of the farmers barns, and has to be stack ed Ill sacks out Of doors. ,
 The possession of two wives secured fo,
 Emll Meyer, of Buffalo, tenn in prison, but the1r lntercession made thesfefm briefer than
 the Court intended to make it.
 -Mr. H. I. Hoxie, First Vice-Prcsident oi
 the Missouri Pacific Railway, who has been i'll
 Tor some time, died in New York City, He
 made reputation during the late strikes.
 A young man of Owesso, Mich, took his
 glrl for drive, Next morning he was found
 dead In the buggy with bullet in his brain
 Ills hands still grasped the reins. The loca
 gosslps want to know whether it is suicide ol
 murder.
 The Court of Appeals of New York has
 c1snrmed the judgment of the court below il 1 the case of Buddensick, the New York builder
 convicted of manslaughter, having been de
 clared responsible for the death of workman
 emrloyed on a TOW of buildings in course o
 erection under his supervision.
 A man killed himself on the Harlem Rail
 road just above Scarsdale Station brake.
 man on the last platform of train, as it swun,
 around curve, looked forward and saw hin
 standing on the side of the track taking of his coat and hat, and then saw him get dow1
 on hls knees and lay his neck on the rail. Th
 head was cut off.
 Susan Quinn, a young woman employed . Tn her brothers restaurant at Horseheads, N
 4., threw bottle of sand as she supposed
 into cook stove, but it proved to be gun !. powder, and the stove was completely shat
 tered. The young woman was frightfull, iacerated. She is still unconscious and vii
 probably die
 As William Dunn of Theresa, N r., wa i driving home from church with his wife, ant
 Mrs. A. N. Brittan, his horse became frightene,
 and ran away. throwing MT. and Mrs, Dun,
 out against tree by the roadside. Mrs
 Dunn was instantly killed and Mr. Dunn wa
 badly bruised, though he will recover Mrs
 Bilttan had one leg and shoulder broken, an,
 her recovery is doubtful
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