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LATER. THE Indian bureau in Washington received a dispatch from Agent Teter saying that there was no truth in the report of a massacre of the Jackson's Hole settlers in Wyoming by Indians. MRS. ISABEL MCKEEHAN, of Washington county, Tenn., died at the age of 112 years. VICTOR ADAMS, who shot and killed Justice Boker, his father-in-law, at O'Neils, Cal., was lynched by a mob of sixty men. TWELVE THOUSAND tailors in New York city struck for more wages and shorter hours. CHARLIE BURWELL (colored), about 65 years old, was lynched at Meridian Miss. It was thought that he was concerned in a murder. FORTY people were poiΘoned by eatting pressed beefat the home of George Griswold in Thompson, Ia. HENRY Bradshaw, a wealthy farmer near Paris, Tex., killed his wife and daughter and then himself. No cause was known. H. Z. SALOMON, one of the pioneer merchants of Denver, failed for $100,000. A HAILSTORM in North Dakota destroyed 80,000 acres of wheat, causing a loss to farmers of $500,000. FORTY prominent merchants in Macon, Mo., were arrested fordoing business on Sunday. DURING a storm in the vicinity of Three States, Mo., George McClelland and his wife and three children and a man named Thomas and his wife were killed by lightning. THE Superior national bank of West Superior, Wis., suspended with liabilities of $141,300. THE Jacob Katz company, supposed to be one of the strongest mercantile establishments in Milwaukee, failed for $110,000. AT Big Stone Gap, Va., John Hicks' house was burned and four of his children perished in the flames. J. W. BLUNDON and Charles Lynch, 13 years old, and J. Guy Brown, 15 years, were struck by an express train near Riverdale Park, Md., and instantly killed. Gov. CULBERSON issued a proclamation forbidding the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight in Texas. Turpercentages of the baseballclubs in the National league for the week ended on the 27th were: Cleveland, .605; Pittsburgh, .603; Baltimore .581; Boston, .575; Cincinnati, .563; Chicago, .548; Brooklyn, .539; Philadelphia, 534; New York, .520; Washington, .357; St. Louis, .346; Louisville, .203.