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WEST AND SOUTH. AT Canton, O., James H. Carney, ar employe of the Kinsely iron works, was accidentally shut in an oven of the works, and when found on the 25th he was completely baked. FIRE on the 25th at Edwardsville, Ill., destroyed Kehlor Brothers' mill, elevator and warehouse and other buildings. Loss, $300,000. DISPATCHES of the 25th say that the two bandits who recently robbed the express car on a train in the Choctaw Nation, Ind. T., secured between $40,000 and $50,000. WHAT was alleged to be a fraud involving $900,000 was said to have been developed in the Fredericksen Land Company on the 25th at Chicago, hundreds of persons, both rich and poor, being the victims. IN the Cronin murder trial in Chicago, the defendants after introducing two or three witnesses on the 25th to strengthen their alibis for Kunze and O'Sullivan, closed their side of the case, and the State began at once to offer its rebuttal testimony. IT was said on the 23th that Abram H. Lichty, administrator for several large estates at Mount Carroll, III., and guardian for a number of heirs, was a defaulter for from $20,000 to $50,000. OVER one thousand hogs died of cholera near Seymour, Ind., in the two weeks ended on the 25th, and many more were affected. AT Salt Lake City arguments in the matter of admitting Mormons to citizenship were finished on the 25th, and the court reserved its decision. DISPATCHES of the 26th say that Hans Jacob Olson, of Preston, Wis., a troublesome character, was taken from his home by masked men and lynched because he refused to leave town. IN the Cronin trial in Chicago on the 26th the efforts of the prosecution were directed toward breaking down the alibis of Beggs, Burke and O'Sullivan. A number of witnesses testified in contradiction of statements made by previous witnesses for the defense. ON the 26th the Citizens' State Bank of York, Neb., suspended. ON the Topeka & Santa Fe road an express car was robbed of $30,000 by fifteen masked men on the night of the 26th at Berwyne, Ind. T. THE North Pacific whaling fleet arrived in San Francisco on the 26th. The catch this year was theopoorest in ten years, and comprised 12,000 barrels of oil and 217,000 pounds of bone. THE death of John B. Emery, the oldest Grand Past Master of the I. O. O. F. of the United States, occurred in Baltimore on the 25th, aged eighty-three years. THE failure of McLeod & Anderson, tobacco warehousemen at Louisville, Ky., occurred on the 25th for $100,000. A. J. GERSTEL, of Peoria, III., tobacco dealer, was on the 26th charged with defrauding creditors out of $40,000. He had fled. THOMAS DAVIDSON, a wealthy farmer, aged seventy-five years, who lived alone at a farm near Arcola. Ill., was found murdered in his stable on the 26th. AT St. Louis on the 26th the National Silver convention met with 350 delegates present from all parts of the country.
