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AT Washington park, Chicago, Directum lowered the stallion record to 2:06 1/4 and Flying Jib paced a mile in 2:04, equaling Mascot's record. FOOTPADS waylaid some twenty employes of a St. Louis firm on pay day and robbed them of their earnings. Two MASKED men held up the stage near Tahlequah, I. T., and after robbing the passengers carried off the mail pouches. LYDIA BULLIVANT shot her husband fatally at Spokane, Wash., and then shot herself. No cause was known for the deed. THE Cleveland, Canton & Southern railroad was placed in the hands of receivers. STAPLES GREEN. a negro, was hanged at Livingstone, Ala., for murder. He prayed and sang on the scaffold and confessed his guilt. BUSINESS failures to the number of 814 occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the 15th, against 821 the preceding week and 154 during the same time last year. a FIRE at Cynthiana, Ky., destroyed livery stable and fifteen horses were cremated. FOREST fires still raged in northern Wisconsin and hundreds of persons were homeless. The loss to forests alone was estimated at $6,000,000. WILLIAM JACKSON. a negro, was taken from jail at Nevada, Mo., and hanged to a tree for assault. FIRE destroyed the Benton club stables at St. Joseph, Mo., and 100 vehieles and eleven valuable horses were burned. NEARLY 100,000 persons made the race for land in the Cherokee strip and in the run six persons were known to have been killed and many others were injured. FOREST fires were still raging in northern Wisconsin, covering an area of nearly 200 square miles, and many lives had been lost. FIVE highwaymen held up fifteen harvest hands near Fargo, N. D., killing one of the workmen and terribly pounding three. REDMOND BURKE was murdered at Breckinridge, Mo., by white caps. He had been charged with frequently beating his wife. VOLSIN. Baslie and Paul Julian (colored), brothers of Roselius Julian, who murdered Judge Victor Estopinal in Jefferson parish, La., were lynched by mob. JAMES WICKS at Niagara Falls fatally injured two Italians and barely escaped lynching. THE flouring mill at Patterson, O., caught fire, and before the flames could be checked over a third of the town was destroyed. AN open switch caused an accident on Paul at and Charles the George St. Heddings, W. road Remsen, fireman, Oliver, engineer, and Minn. Anthony Brewer, brakeman, were instantly killed. All lived in Minneapolis. NEARLY the entire business portion of Bunker Hill, Ill., was destroyed by fire. THE First national bank of East Portland, Ore, and the Le Mars national bank of Le Mars, Ia., were permitted to reopen for business. WHILE the family of G. M. Raney, of Decaturville, Tenn., was asleep, robrs entered and robbed them of $4,700 and their jewelry. effigy of President Cleveland was found dangling to a tree in Sacramento, Cal. YELLOW fever is epidemic in Brunswich, Ga. The residents refilled with terror but cannot leave the city. LEADERS at Pittsburgh, Pa., were taking toward the formation of a new national association embracing all labor societies. HENRY S. COCHRANE, who had worked for the government forty-three years, confessed to stealing $134,000 in gold from Philadelphia's mint. TWELVE business houses at Manistique, Mich., were destroyed by fire, the loss being $150,000; partially insured. Ex-CITY TREASURER ISENOEE, of Whateom, Wash., was arrested on the charge of embezzling $47,000 of city money. INSANE patients to the number of 300 were given a picnic in Buckeye grove, near Columbus, O. FOR twelve consecutive hours Chicago firemen fought a prairie fire covering of twenty the world's Columbian an Seven adjoining area nearly guards fair blocks were grounds. in over- part come by the intense heat and smoke, and two will probably die. IN a collision between two sections of a Big Four train at Manteno, Ill., seven persons were known to have been killed'and twenty injured and it was probable that many bodies were buried under the wreck. IN a fight between Hungarian and American workingmen at Benwood, W. Va., five of the former were fatally hurt. THE Wayne iron works of Brown & Co. at Pittsburgh resumed operations as a nonunion mill. The plant employs 600 men and has been one of the strongest in the Amalgamated association. A GALE swept the Cherokee strip, laving low many of the tented towns.
