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FRANCIS w. WILLIAMS. of New York,
the senior member of the firm of Williams,
Black & Co., brokers, who suspended pay
ment recently by reason of losses sustained
through the Chicago wheat corner, COM
mitted suicide at the Grand Union Hotel.
A CoLoRED man named McCondon was
shot and killed at Birmingham, Ala, by q
party of four colored men, who took him to
the woods and made way with him
n. B. WADE, of Knightstown, Ind. MUIR
dered his wife and his aged mother, and af-
ter taking a fatal dose of poison set fire
to his residence. The three bodies were
partially consumed in the flames.
THE Supreme Court Of Utah has declared
the Mormon Church corporation dissolved,
and its property escheated to the United
States Government.
JUSTICE of the Peace Lawrence and a
friend named Lacy, who was drunk, visited
the Admission (Ala.) Hot Blast Office and de-
manded a retraction fof certain statements
which Editor Edmunds refused. Then the
shooting began, Lacy firing at Edmunds,
shooting him in the arm. John Chapman
and plumber named Tipney were shot in
the head. Their wounds were fatal
nominations: L. W. Crofoot and &. F.
TempletOn, to be Associate Justices of Dakota;
E. d. Sim, to be Collector Of Customs at
Saluria, Texas; John H. Oberley, to be Com
missioner of Indian Affairs.
A DISASTROUS flood in the Province of
Moukden, China, about $50 miles northeast
of Pekin, caused the death of hundreds OF
natives the destruction of many houses, and
the ruin of the crops.
In the recent storm at Nokejorie, in japan,
1000 houses were demolished, eighty five yes
ses were totally lost and 500 wrecked, and
$4,000 persons wounded, injured, or made
dependent upon public assistance.
A WOODEN stable at the foot of East Thirty
fourth street, New York, was consumed by
fire and two hostIers and twenty-six horses
were smothered to death.
AT East Watertown, Mass, in a little
pond, May Crafts, a young woman about
twenty years old, petite and pretty, deliber-
ately drowned herself.
GEORGE E. LEAVENwORrH, night editor
OF the Bridgeport, Conn, Morning Neu0s,
died after taking laudanum with suicidal in
tent. He left letter to his mother saying
that he was tired of life.
AN explosion in a grist mill at Charity
Neck, Va, killed George w. Dawley, the
proprietor
j. r. NORTH, a farmer near Independence,
Kan, quarreled with the Rev. G. W.
Pickett, a Methodist minister, and shot him
fatally
SCHUNEMANN'S packing house in the stock
yards, Chicago, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, $125.O00.
THE employees of the Chicago West Side
street railroads have gone on strike to assist
their striking comrades of the North Side
road, making 1000 men now engaged in the
occurred between the strikers and police, in
which twenty people were injured.
CONGRESS has passed the supplementary
legislation thought to be necessary for the
counting of the Presidential vote.
THE British man of-war Osprey has cap
tured off Mocha three dhows, having on
board 2O4 slaves. The captains of the dhows
and four of the slaves were killed before the
slavers surrendered.
THE death is announced of Father Schleyer,
the parish priest of Constance, France, and
the inventor of the new language known as
Volapuk.
SIR ANTHONY MUsGRAvE, Governor of
Queensland, is dead.