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South and West. IN the Tennessee Legislatura the bill to abolish the convict lease system after the expiration of the present lease was kille 1. The bill probibiting corporations from paying employesin scrip was passed. CLARENCE T. JENKINS, a prominent church member, was arrested at St. Louis, Mo., charged with embezzling nearly $14,000 from his employers. He confessed his guilt. For seven years he has been the truste I cashier and bookkeeper of Armstrong, Gilbert & Co., cork manufacturers. JOHN McCAFFERTY, a lineman, received the full current of an electric wire at Cleveland, Ohio, and hung by his iron spurs for three minutes from a telegraph pole, his face and hands turning black. Ho diei on the way to a hospital. JUDGE DUBOISE, in the Criminal Court, at Memphis, Tenn., overruled a motion for a new trial in the caso of Colonel H. Clay King, for the murder of David H. Posten, and sentenced him to be hanged on November 6. FRED HARVEY, who has a number of eating houses along tha line of the Atch son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, was granted a perpetual injunction at Chicago, III., restraining the company from running dining room cars over its line. THE Memphis Theatre, the oldest in Memphis, Tenn., was burned to the ground. Loss, $50,000. FOUR convicts-David Bonney, William Britton, James Purcell and Samuel Murray -escaped from the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. EVERETT MOORE. editor of the Alliance Vindicator, was shot dead in the street at Dallas, Texas, by E. M. Tate, editor of the Hopkins County Echo. For several months the two editors have been engaged in a bitter newspaper controversy, which had its origin in a dispute over the Sub-Treasury scheme. GENERAL FRANKLIN FOSTER FLINT, a veteran of over forty years' service in the Regular Army of the United States, died suddenly at his home in Highland Park, III., of apoplexy, aged seventy-one years. THE Bank of Lyons, supposed to be one of the strongest financial institutions in Kansas, has made an assignment of all its assets. A WEALTHY Northerner went South last winter to shoot. Editor Harris, of Rocky Mount, N.C., was kind to him. Editor Harris is now richer by $100,000, willed him by the Northerner. The United States Savings Bank of Topeka, Kan., which failed last March and was reopened July 2, has been again pla ced in the hands of a receiver. FIERCE forest fires raged in Wisconsin. Several villages and much valuable farm property have been destroyed. A VOTE at Chicago, III, as to whether the World's Fair should be kept open on Sundaysshowed the citizens overwhelmingly in favor of its being open. ALBERT MOREA, alias Grant Kitchen, the colored wife murderer, was hanged in the county jail at Savannah, (ia. R. H. Duncan, the four-times murderer, paid the penalty of his horrible crimo on the gallows at Eagle Pass, Texas.
