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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Senator Hill, Perry Belmont and Thomas F. Conway spoke at a large meeting of democratic business men in Carnegie Hall, New York, last night. Dockyard officials at Halifax have received strict orders forbidding them to give out the slightest information regarding what is being done or has been done in preparing for possible hostilities. The first break in the ranks of the window glass workers' association occurred at Pittsburg last night, when in open defiance of the explicit orders of President Burns, a number of the blowers and gatherers started to work at several of the plants of the American Glass Company. Edwin Gould's Continental Match Factory, in Passaic, N. J., is closed down to-day and about 400 day hands are temporarily out of employment on account of a strike in the packing department, the employes refusing to work at reduced wages. Only Hungarian women are employed in this department and there are 175 of them. A financial deal which caused a great deal of surprise was consummated in Chicago this morning when the Union National Bank assumed all accounts and obligations of the Bank of Commerce, which yesterday voted to go into liquidation and transfer all its business to the Union National Bank before banking hours this morning. A telegram from Walker Minn., says that an Indian who was subpoenaed as a witness in the murder cases refused to obey the summons, and the Indians are holding a council to decide whether they shall resist the officers. Unless he surrenders, the Leech Lake troubles will be repeated. The Indians who caused the former troubles are still at large. Four large buildings, comprising half of the plant of the National Starch Manufacturing Company in Glen Cove, L. I., were destroyed by fire this morning. The works will have to suspend operations until the burned portions are rebuilt. In the meantime the entire force of operatives, nearly 1,500 men and women, are thrown out of employment. The loss is estimated at $100,000. John Meadows shot and killed John and Clayton Mathews, brothers, at Pine Hill, in Livingston, Ky., last night. Meadows was a school teacher. The Mathews brothers had bad reputations. They followed Meadows from the school house to Fagan's store, where Meadows secured the shotgun with which he shot them. Meadows surrendered and is now in jail. Fagan, the storekeeper, who was the most prominent witness to the tragedy, was found dead this morning in his store. Indications are that he was murdered. Charles F. Beasley, a cab driver, was sandbagged and robbed in west 40th street, New York, early this morning. One of his assailants, Edward Wise, was arrested while running from the scene of the crime. Beasley was taken to a hospital where he died a few hours later. A police officer yesterday went to the barracks at Staunton, Va., and attempted to arrested a man for disorderly conduct. He was met with a positive refusal from the guard, who claimed that a soldier was under military authority and not subject to civil arrest. The passenger steamer Pacific, owned by the Great Northern Transit Company, and valued at $65,000, burned at the wharf at Collingwood Ont., this morning. The railroad freightsheds filled with goods were also destroyed. The loss is heavy. Hon Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas, last night addressed a large meeting at Huntington, W. Va. He devoted most of his time to a denunciation of the conduct of the war. He was vituperative and sensational and predicted a democratic landslide. Charles R. Brooke, a member of the Second West Virginia regiment committed suicide at Cumberland, Md., yesterday by taking laudanum. Fear of being arrested and taken back to his regiment and courtmartialed is given as the cause for the act. C. H. Summers, chief electrician of the Western Union Telegraph Company, while walking on the street in San Francisco last night was seized with an attack of heart trouble and died a few minutes later. Joseph Herbert once a drummer boy in Napoleon's army, died at his home in Chicago yesterday, aged 101 years. After the battle of Waterloo he sailed for Quebec and later came to the United States. The steamer Panama which which was reported in a dispatch from New York to have been wrecked off Cape May entered Havana harbor this morning and left for Key West.