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WESTERN. GOVERNOR WAITE, of Colorado, threatens to move to Illinois and run for Governor. A COMMISSION has been organized in Nebraska to outline a plan of relief for drouth suferers. ERNEST HUHN, Superintendent of the Eagle Bird mine at Mayhert, Cal., fell 600 feet down the shaft and was instantly killed. THE Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway Company will build 122 miles of railway from South McAlister to Oklahoma City at a cest of $1,200,000. TRAIN robbers stopped a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train near Hyannis, Neb., but abandoned any attempt to rob it. It is believed their nerve failed at the last moment. Ex-Cashier JOHN B. KOETTING, of the failed South Side Savings Bank, of Milwaukee, has been held without bail for trial for receiving deposits after he knew the institution was insolvent. A BILL has passed both houses of the Cherokee Legislature making it treason for a Cherokee citizen to sell real estate of this nation to a noncitizen, making as a penalty for SO do. ing death by hanging. THE Rt. Rev. Abbot Bernard, Abbot of St. John's Abbey, Stearns County, died at Stillwater, Minn., after a lingering attack of Bright's disea e. Abbot Bernard was born in Austria fortysix y ars ago and came to this country early in the '60s BURLINGTON passenger train No. 41 was held up about one mile east of Hyannis, Neb., at 5 o'clock Wednesday morning by two men who boarded the train at hitman, covered the engineer with Winchesters, and told him to stop the train when ordered. When the train was stopped the men got off and ran, taking nothing with them. It is supposed the bandits lost their nerve at the last moment. THE survey of the Ohio canal to ascertain its practicability as a ship canal will begin in Akron, Ohio, by the corps of Government engineers appointed for the purpose. This will be the first of the routes to be surveyed, the other being the Erie Canal, a route from Erie, Pa., to Pittsburg. The engineers will work north to Cleveland. The canal is to be 70 feet wide and 7 feet deep. ROBBERS broke into the First National Bank at Oberlin, Ohio, and got away with about $400 in silver. The front doors were opened by the use of crowbars, and the locks of the vault were blown off with dynamite. The thieves then stole two rigs to make their escape sure. One of the rigs was found at Elyria. There is no trace of the robbers. The vaults were opened, but the safe, which contained $25,000, was not touched. AT Huntington, Ind, three men were killed and many others injured by the explosion of a box of dynamite. The men were employes of Keefer & Hall, contractors for the con truction of the big Flint creek sewer. The explosion happened as the men were warming the explosive. The dead are: Jack Flynn, John Hartman and Martin Keifer. So powerful was the concussion, fifty pounds of dynamite having been in the bos, that the damage to houses in the neighborhood will amount to several thousands of dollars. RUFUS N. RAMSAY, Treasurer of Illinois, died at his residence in North Carlyle at 5:15 Sunday morning. Never did a man look as healthy as Mr. Ram-
