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South and West.


said to be the smallest human being in the
world, died at Truckee New.
LOUIS PIERCE, aged sixteen, and Bert
Clark, aged nineteen, of East Dubuque, Iowa,
while skating on the river fell into an air
hole and were drowned.
JOE WRIGHT, Morgan Hoover and Bud
Mullins were killed by boiler explosion in a
sawmill near Charleston, w. Va.
GEORGE TABLER, colored man, has been
hanged at Forth Smith, Ark. His crime
was the killing of another colored man,
Irwin Richardson, at dance on April 81,
1SS9
BURGLARS entered President Harrison's
house, in Indianapolis. Although it is occu-
pied by Henry S. Frazer and family, much
Of the Presidents property was still in the
house. The loss all told amounts to nearly
$1,000.
THE people of Pierre, South Dakota, in
dignantly deny the reports that they are
suffering from poverty. Both branches OF
the Legislature officially denounced the re.
ports.
LEANDER ANDERSON shot and killed Anne
Carlson at Sioux City, Iowa, and then killed
himself. Anderson was about 26 years old
and the girl 49, She had not received his
attentions with favor.
THE Indians representing the ten tribes OF
Chippewas held their council at Odanan, Wis.
They say that the chiefs Of the old tribes only
ceded mineral rights to their lands to the
Government, and did not give up the fee
simple under the treaties of 1884. They now
claim land worth $500, 600.
REV. CT. PHILLIPS, Presbyterian min
lister of ST. Louis was assaulted by burglars
in his study in the Presby terian Church. He
was beaten until he was unconscious and was
then robbed. The burglars escaped.
The plant of the Kansas City Packing
Company and the Chase Refrigerator Com
pany, of Kansas City, have been destroyed by
fire. The loss Is about 500, 900.
DIR. EDWARD McGLYNN was taken seri-
ously i'll in Chicago, and was obliged to give
up lecture engagement there and return to
his home in Brooklyn.
The three sons of James Bright, Of kirk
land Township Ind, were found dead In their
beds. They had been suffering from lnt1u-
enza, but when they retired the previous
night their condition was not considered dan
gerous.
THE Chicago Presbytery declared for re-
vision of the Confession of Faith.
MENINGITIS has become epidemic in many
parts of Texas and people are dy .ng rapidly.
The Belcher district has already lost thirty,
and many more were dying. Not single
person attacked by the disease has recovered.
The house of William D. Ellis, of Chicago,
was burned in the absence Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ellis, who returned Just in time to save
nine months old baby from death. A SER
want and a two-year-old daughter were
burned to death.
Rev. s. R. FRAZER, pastor OF the Second
Presby terian Church of Youngstown, Ohio,
and well known as an eloquent orator and
successful lecturer on Japan, has suddenly
become insane.
CORA AND ANNIE BROCK ate a poisoned
cake intended for rats in the Schietz bakery
at St. Louis, and both died.
JOHN KELLY, of Mariana, Ark, muir
dered his wife, from whom he had been sep
arated, and young man with whom she was
living. He then forced a neighbor named
Owens to accompany him to the woods.
Neither was seen again.
A FREIGHT train crashed through bridge
at Peoria, ILL.,, and the cars were precipitated
into the Illinois River. The engineer, fire
man and brakeman were killed
A GREAT sensation has been caused in Gin
cinnati by public announcement that Theo-
dore Hayman, Superintendent OF the crema-
torv has been for months stealing and sell
ing the cofins of those brought for crema:
tion.
A NORTH bound passenger train struck
hand car near Clear Lake MINI: Three Sec
ton men on the hand car were killed.