Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-11-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


 Fire in Kansas City destroyed block of 15 residences.
 The official count of Nebraska's vote places Holcomb's plurality at 3202.
 The Holy Name cathedral at Hender- son, Ky, was robbed of goods valued at $500.
 A student of Fairfield seminary, New York, became violently insane over foot ball.
 Ten miners were buried by snow- slide in Washington. One was dead when they were taken out.
 Mrs. George J. Gould lost valuable dresses, messenger having them in charge being bunkosd.
 Throe-fourths of the wheat crop sown this fall iA western Kansas has been killed by the drouth. Dr. H. c. Bosworth of Staten Island. N. Y., lost heavily in speculation and committed suicide.
 Ed Nicholson, while trying to repair an electric light at Joliet. Ills, was killed by an electric shock.
 Miss Anna Cramer of Columbus, O., ran away to Atlanta, Ga, and married private in the regular army.
 Dr. G. l.. Baglsy of Des Moines. Ia., died from blood poisoning contracted while performing a surgical operation.
 Three citizens of Brookside, Ala, werc mistaken for deputy United States marshals and were shot from ambush.
 Two officers attempted to arrest a murderer at Enon Church, near Carroll ton, Miss. The murderer resisted and was killed.
 Walter Hall of Denver took tho Keeley cure, but returned to drink. His mind is now affected and he imagipes that he is single, though he has family.
 Zerah Martin. halfbreed Indian, was shot and killed at Ardmore, I. T by boy.
 Andrew Young was fatally shots~by Policem an Luster at Corsicana, Tex.
 The city and private schools at Hills- boro, Tex. have been closed on account of diphtheria.
 Mascoutah, Ills, was slightly shaken by earthquake shocks on Monday.
 Tom Henderson, negro, who es- caped from jail at Houston, was cap tured at Brenham, Tex.
 Italy and Brazil may go to war over a slight disagreement.
 Andrew Sidney Johnson attempted suicide at Itasca. Tex. Business trou- bles.
 Ad Motion was accidentally shot in the legs by his companion while hunting near Kimbsll, Tex.
 J. A. Bailey, merchant at Reno, Tex, has assigned.
 P. E. Kein, a jeweler at Fl Paso, Tex, has assigned. Assets, $31 900; liabilities, &4s. 1000.
 The interior department is preparing to put in telephone service of its own
 The Capitol building has been thoroughly repaired and renovated for the coming session of congress.
 Additional clerks and assistants for the Fort Worth. Tex, postoffice have been approved by the postal department.
 The treasury department has shut out g lot Of Chinamen, who tried to land at San Francisco, on the ground that they were merchants.
 Bids for the new bond issue were opened. A syndicate from Drexed Mor- gan 6 Co.,, at $1l7.077, was the highest. It is for the entire issue or none.
 A new desk shas been placed in the senate chamber, Vice President Steven son having pounded the old one to pieces during the last session of congress.
 Martin Warner of Fairfield, Ills, committed suicide by jumping into his cistern.
 Samuel Carson, an ex-Missouri con- vict, has fallen heir to S10,000 in Chi cago.
 A boiler in a mill near Moulton, Ia., blew up, fatally injuring one man and destroying the mill.
 The trial of J. l.. Bay, charged with embedding Arkansas state scrip, has be- gun at Little Rock. ggsseseo hstexp ssy that f peopis ate