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# IN GENERAL.
John Warfield, sheriff and collector of Desha county, Arkansas, is missing. He is short in his accounts about $25,000.
Clarence Busbee, assistant treasurer of the Buena Vista Saddle and Harness Company, in Lexington, Virginia, has disappeared. His accounts are short.
At Brierfield, Ala., yesterday week, Dr. G.B. Croweshotand fatally wounded B. F. Glass, a prominent citizen. The trouble grew out of a remark made by Glass.
The Right Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, missionary Bishop of Western Idaho and Wyoming, was last week elected Bishop of Georgia by the Protestant Episcopal Diocesan Convention.
The Asbury Park National Bank, at Asbury Park, New Jersey, was closed yesterday week by order of the comptroller of the currency. Impairment of its capital is assigned as the cause.
The coroner's jury, in New York, in the case of Theodore Larbig, found last night week that death was caused by a pistol shot, fired by Darwin Meserole and that Mrs. Comstock was an accessory to the killing.
The strike of the 350 cloakmakers of Landesman, Heischeimer & Co., at Loudon, Ohio, was settled Tuesday week by A. W. Wright of the general executive board of the Knights of Labor, who went from Columbus for the purpose.
New York card sharpers Tuesday week drove from Saratoga to Ballston and buncoed Eli Rathrick, farmer, out of $3,000. Later they dined at White Sulphur Springs and then, driving to Wayville, caught a Fitchburg train and escaped.
The President last week approved the rules and regulations prepared by the Civil Service Commission, which, from October 1st next, will govern in the appointment of Indian agency physicians, superintendents, assistant superintendents, teachers and matrons of Indian schools.
William Mizener, a wealthy farmer of West Salem township, near Greenville, Pa., was buncoed out of $3,000 last week by two confidence men, who succeeded in getting him to play three-card monte. Mizener did not have much cash at home, and the party induced him to come to the bank and get the money.
It is understood that President Harrison will appoint William E. Simonds of Hartford, Connecticut, to be commissioner of patents, vice Charles E. Mitchell, resigned. Mr. Simonds is a member of the firm of Simonds & Burdette of Hartford and represented the First district of Connecticut in the last Congress.
Governor Pattison has appointed Miss Mary S. Garrett of Chester to be a member of the commission to select a site and erect a suitable home for the training in speech of deaf children under the school age, vice John F. Lewis. The commission organized yesterday week by electing Gov. Pattison president and Mr. Megargee secretary.
The commissioner of pensions has received reports from pension agents giving the unexpended balance of pension funds in their hands at the close of business June 30th. All have not yet reported, but the indications are that the balance in the hands of agents will be about $5,000,000. Under the law the balance unexpended is turned into the treasury.
The Pike's Peak railway in Colorado is now in operation, the first passenger train having gone to the summit on Tuesday week. The lower terminus of the line is 6,400 feet above the sea level, the upper 14,147. The distance is nine miles and the steepest grade 1 in 40. The style of the road and arrangement of the engine and cars resemble those on the Mount Washington railway in New Hampshire.
Dr. I. I. Kinyoun of the Marine Hospital, arrived at New York last week. The doctor was sent to Berlin last December under special commission of President Harrison with instructions to study the operations of the Koch lymph. After investigating this matter thoroughly Dr. Kinyoun visited Paris and studied with Pasteur. The doctor will proceed to Washington and take charge of the Bacteriological Laboratory in the Marine Hospital.
Daniel Burch, colored, aged 35 years, attempted to feloniously assault a young woman, whose room he entered near Bluffton, Georgia, on Sunday week. Being captured, he confessed his guilt. A mob of 200 men took him from the sheriff, and after horribly mutilating him with a pocket knife, strung him to a tree and riddled him with bullets. Brush had served a five years' term in the penitentiary for an offence similar to that which cost him his life.
It is learned that the western sales agents of the anthracite coal companies, at their meeting in New York last week, decided that the July output be limited to 3,000,000 tons, and that the July circular be as follows: For free burning coal, free on board, net-Broken, $3.50; egg, $3.75; stove, $4; chestnut, $3.75, and no coal to be sold for less. July's schedule for the east provides for an increase of 10 cents a ton on egg and chestnut coal and 15 cents on stove grades, grate being unchanged.
Secretary Rusk said last week that the results of the pork inspections at Chicago have been very satisfactory. The proportion of animals found effected is less than was expected, and he believes less than exists in the hogs of any other country. Our pork, he continued, is the most wholesome of any produced, in the world, because our hogs are raised under the best sanitary conditions. They are not confined to small pens and filthy quarters, as in other countries, but they have the run of large fields and are fed upon clover and corn.
