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WEEK THL JO SMEN Gathered from All Quarters. DOMESTIC. AT an early hour on the morning of the 5th Sergeant Sheehan, of the Cleveland (0.) police force, was shot and instantly killed by burglars who were attempting to rob the safe of the Ohio Provision Company. Gov. TURNER, of Tennessee, has offered a reward of $5,000 for the apprehension of the persons engaged in the recent Millington. lynching of the six negroes near HOWARD WHITE, the leading bicycle dealer at Trenton, N. J., has absconded after disposing of a large stock at a great sacrifice and pocketing the proceeds. He is heavily indebted to wholesale dealers. THE Anchor Fire Insurance Company, one of the numerous wild-cat insurance companies, chartered in West Virginia, collapsed at Wheeling on the 6th, judgments for over $5,000 being issued against it in favor of policy holders. C. E. Merwin, the principal promoter of the scheme is missing, as is also about $40,000. AT New York City on the 6th the police commissioners announced that they had found Police Captain Stephenson guilty of bribe-taking and he had been dismissed from the force. AT Washington on the 6th the muchmooted German question was decided by the supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias by a decisive vote against permitting the use of the ritual in other than the English language. THE senatorial committee which is investigating the frauds against the state of Minnesota into the cutting of pine school lands, is now ready with evidence necessary to begin suits aggregating $500,000 against various lumber firms in that state. They have uncovered frauds which will sum up to $1,000,000. and the investigation has cost the state $6,000. AT Springfield, Mass., on the 6th, J. P. Bliss went, on Hampden park, the fastest mile ever made on a bicycle, making the record for the paced mile, flying start, 1:52 3-5 and incidentally lowering the three-quarter record to 1:23. THE cloak manufacturers' contractors held a meeting at New York on the 6th with a committee from the strikers and agreed to take back strikers without the conditions which the contractors had previously demanded. FOUR THOUSAND tailors belonging to the Knights of Labor in New York City went on strike on the 6th. of THE Middletown (Pa.) National bank closed its doors on the 6th. Assets and liabilities unknown. AT Wichita, Kan., on the 4th, the lower portion of the town was inundated by a cloudburst. The lightning, which was incessant, killed the little boy of Thomas Herman, fatally burned a 9-year-old daughter and tore the house to pieces. INDIANAPOLIS now holds the world's pacing record and came within a fraction of a second on the 6th of the world's trotting record. Robert J. made the second heat in his match with Joe Patchen for $5,000 in two minutes two and one-half seconds, being the fastest mile ever paced. HIRAM AGLER, president of the A. R. U. at Ashley, Ind., where Wabash trains were stopped, was found guilty of violating the restraining order of the court at Indianapolis on the 7th. Sentence was suspended. Arthur Desheno, who led a riot at Hammond during the days. strike, was committed to jail for twenty ON the theighty-six ladies, the upper crust of Frankfort (Ky.) society, signed a bitter denunciation of Breckinridge, begging the people not to return him to congress. AT Valparaiso, Ind., on the 7th, Peter Rourke, who claimed to be 115 years old, was found dead in bed at the county house, where he had been an inmate twenty-eight years. He came to America eighty-five years ago from Ireland. ON the 7th Chief Post Office Inspector Wheeler received information of the arrest of Louis A. Droffner, general delivery and stamp clerk at the Williamsport (Pa.) post office, for stealing ordinary mail with valuable contents. Two counterfeiters who refused to give their names were captured near St. Joseph, Mich., on the 7th, by United States officers. They have been manu facturing silver half dollars. THE Toledo passenger train on the Wabash railroad ran into some coal cars at Staunton, Ill., on the night O the 7th, and completely wrecked the engine, mail and baggage cars, killing two tramps who were stealing a rid and seriously scalding and maiming Engineer S. C. Fleming and Firema C. A. Sammis. AT Wampum, Pa., on the 7th, it wa discovered that Miss Daisy Major, th postmistress, was short about $1,500 in her accounts. Miss Major
