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South and West.

South ana west.
THE bridge across the Tennessee River at
| Florence, Tenn, fell in, precipitating
freight train sixty feet into the water. The
fireman was killed and the engineer and two
brakemen fatally hurt.
Id. SLAUGHTER and Thomas Bailey, col.
ored murderers, were hanged at Little Rock.
Ark.
TIE United States war vessel Concord is
at Helena, Ark. The residents have not seen
q mau-of-war there for thirty years.
TIE only witnesses in this case against the
Wyoming cattlemen have mysteriously dis.
appeared.
TIE water is nearly twenty feet above low
water mark in the Illinois valley.
The Republicans of Virginia met in State
Convention at Roanoke aud after two
days session sent an unlnstructed delegation
to the National Convention, headed by ex-
Senator William Malone.
THE Arkansas Prohibition State Conven-
ton at Little Rock nominated Judge W. j.
Nelson, OF Rogers, Benton County, for
Governor. The convention also nominated
delegates to the National Convention at Gin
cinnati and full SGT Of Presidential Electors
for the State.
A COLLEGE Interstate oratorical contest
was held at Minneapolis Mimi, ten States
contesting. Miss E. Jean Nelson, Of Green.
castle, Ind, captured first prize, 800, an
Charles e. Geyer, OF Wesleyan College
Delaware, Ohio, second.
AT Butler, Miss, George b. Ross, colored,
was lynched few days ago for an at
tempted assault on a white woman. Ross
was hanged to tree.
AT Wellington, Kan, John Timm shot
and seriously wounded W. R. Warren, pro.
hnl- ~; ;ob hoI
failed soon after receiving a large deposit
from Timm.
TIE United States gunboat Concord
Tenn. She is the largest naval vessel
that ever reached that city, and the
first since the days of the war.
The United States war vessel Kearsags
anchored off Savannah, Ga. The Philadsl-
phia anchored of TyDee, Ga. and was
Joined by the Newark and the Vesuvius The
kearsage was piloted by the old pilot Of the
Confederate Alabama.
A REPORT from Western Kentucky is that
Buffalo gna 8 are causing great loss. 1t IS
estim ated that 1000 horses have been killed
by them.
THE Worlfs Fair Commission, Chicago,
ILL.,, has now only about $1,000 on hand to pay
salaries, rent, etc., for the remainder OF the
fiscal year ending June 30th. The expense
account now averages about SoOJO month
THE United Statas man Of war Adams and
the revenue cutter Rusk sailed from Port
Townsend, Washington. for the Bering Sea
MISS ALICE LA RUE and Miss Katie Clark
were drowned by the capsizing OF their boat
at Hamilton, Ohio.
Worlds Fair buildings at Chicago, ILL.,, re-
suited in q bloody collision with the police
The riot was due to the importation Of men
from New York, Pittsburg and Baltimore
to take the placs of the strikers who were
employed in the Manufacturers Building.
THE great Morgauza Lsves in Pointe
Coupee Parish, the biggest levee in louisiana,
broke during a rain storm. The fevee is
twenty-five feet high and from sixty to $50
feet wide. 1t is one Of the most important
along the lower Mississippi, and at point
where break must cause great damage.
NEWS was received of a terrible explosion
which occurred in the coal mines at Roslyn,
Washington. Forty-two miners, according
to the first report were killed in the disas-
ter. The men were working on the fourth
seventy miles east Of Tacoma. 1t Is on a
, , branch Of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and
has q population Of about $500.
iso met at Albuquerque. The Committee on
Resolutions reported in favor Of the abso-
lutsly free and unlimited coinage Of silver.
The delegates to Chicago were selected, and:
although they were uninstructed, all but one
man favored Cleveland.
DEPUTY UNITE STATES MARSHAL WELL
MAN, of the Blair Cattle Company. was shot
near Cheyenne. Wyoming, and killed from
ambush while on his way TO Buffalo. Well
L. Loa -. Shn ,oI0 ~ hn
men, and is the first victim Of the vengeance
Of the rustlers.
DURING theEIght at the site Of the old Foek-
Ter Brewery in West Dubuque, Iowa, sound
like an earthquake was heard, and next
morning it was discovered that nearly an
acre Of ground had dropped into q subterra'
mean lake which covers vast body Of min
eral.
The Republican State Convention of Mon
tana, to select delegates to the National Con
vention, was held at Missoula. An unin-
Structed delegation was elected