Fair play., 1895-09-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| The convent OF Eibordaiuc, 4 village
| in the province of Turin, Italy, was
partially destroyed by fire on the 18th.
| Eight women perishcd and four others
were severely injured.
The yield from general taxation in
| Spain for July shows decrease of
! 3, 529, 800 pesctas, as compared with the
| month of July, 1891
QUEEN VICTORIA, accompanied by
Princess Beatrice, left Osborne house,
on the eth, for Balmoral.
The American Bar association CON
vened in eighteenth annual session at
Detroit. Mich, on the 27th.
THE coroner and the police of In
danapolis, Ind, went to IrvingtOn, on
the 2Sth, to get together al! the re-
mains of the body of Howard Fietzel,
and to collect the mass OF evidence
developing there against II. Ii. Holmes.
Later the coroner began the taking of
testimony in the case.
IIIrroLYTH HAMMAN, the dramatist,
committed suicide in Paris, on the
eth. by shooting himself with a re-
volver.
APARTY OF hunters have found in
Harlan county, Ky, a lot of skeletons,
guns and cartridges, which are believed
to throw some light upon Il missing
party of soldiers belonging to John
Morgan's famous command, which
went into the mountains of Kentucky
TO cope with Union bushwhackcrs.
ARTHUR MASTER, son of Col. Chester
Master, of Circncestor, ,Gioucestershire
and a cousin of the marquis of Sails
bury, fell from second story window
at Middlesborough, Ky. on the 2sth.
and was fatally injured. He had been
in Middlesborough five years, having
come to Kentucky with Il number of
other English capitalists when the
famous Middlesborough boom began.
LIGHTNING entered the telegraph Of
flee of the Chicago. Milwaukee Il st.
Paul Railway Co. at Whitewater.
Wis. on the night Of the eth, ana in
s,antly killed the operator, Joseph
O'Mallcy
NM. BENEpITTI and Ale>sandri, rival
candidates for the canton of Pcdicroce,
Corsica. fought a duel with pistols, on
the 2Sth, and Alessandri WAS killed.
AN important order giving full pro
lection To foreign consumers, of Ameri-
can meat products was issued on the
2sth. 1t will prevent the expectation
of any beef that is not inspected, and
will cause the exporters of horse meat
So tn mark the packages that the ma
turc of the contents shall hc apparent.
GEORGE WALTERS, lincman em-
ployed 10y the Conntilsvillc I'a.l Flee
trio Light Co., was instantly killed,
on the 10Th while making repairs IL
an are light. The wire had been
crossed with another during a storm.
TuE duke of Orleans, who, upon the
death. last year, OF his father, the
count of Paris, became the head of the
royali>t party in France. and claimant
to the throne. has become convinced
of the futility of further fighting the
republic. He has, therefore. decided
t. abandon the royaiist propaganda
and save the money spent in its main
tcnance.
The factional fight that has been
going on Cor some time in Chinatown,
san Francisco. between the See Gup
and the sam Iup families, has culmi-
mated in The disruption OF the Six
Companies. The most powerful orgaui-
zation ever instituted by the Chinese
in this country.
Ex-PoLICE .IUsTICE PATRICK GAvAN
DUFFY. of New iorl, city, who was
stricken with paralysis two weeks
previous at Forllej River. y. J.. died
there on the 18th. He was one Of the
most popular with Tammany) justices
that ever sal on the hcnca in New \ Ori>
city.
WILLIAM GAILLAHD, Of Palestine
Commandcry, No, 6, Knights TeInplar.
of New Lohdon, Conn, dropped dead
from apoplcXy on Washington street,
Roxhurv, Mass. on .the 2sth. He was
returning 10 headquarters after pa
radc, apparently as well a> usual,
when the fatal attac" seized him.
THE next tricnnial couclave of tn t
grand encampment Of Knights lem
plar of the United States viii be- held
in Pittsburgh, Pa, IN l>9S
The Paris Matin advises that Great
| Britain ana Brazil >uumir the question
! Of possession of The i>.auG of Tri nilat
to arbitration.
On the Goth the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
/ syniicate deposited SI.Iu0 900 in gold
{ in the New York suh-trea>ury in cy
/ change for grccnbac2lS, which raised
/ the treasury gold reserve to Sl0I.1t)
| OUa.
! \ ROLLING rock struck a Colorado
| Midland passenger train near Fisher
| Col on the 18th. wrec>ing the bag
gage car ami smoking ear. One Yer
| son was killed ana two injured.
\ DISPATCH from Moscow, on the
aQth. said that half the town of Yukh
noff, in the province OF Smoleusk, hat
| been burned.
A GERMAN torpedo boa: caps;zeG
and sank in the North sea on ths
oSth. Thirteen Of her crew were
| drowned.
LIBRARIAN SPoFFoRD. on the 29th
forwarded 70 tine treasury department
statement Of ms accounts covering 4;
period OF >svcrai years. The repor;
| specifies moneys received AMI dis
bur,ed FOR library and copyright pur
poses up 10 Angus; Il. last. The figure
will not be given nEt pending III,
action o. tie department ou The rcoart