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and this so enraged Mahren that he dashed a bottle of vitriol in Wilson's face. Wilson died in great agony and Mahren was chased out of town by a mob. THE house of J. S. Miller, a farmer living near Linden, Wash., was destroyed by fire and six children were burned to death. Another child and a man named Frank Boise were seriously burned. Miller and his wife were away from home, leaving their children in care of Boise, who was visiting them. THE International Typographical union, in session at Colorado Springs, Col., re-elected W. R. Prescott, of Toronto, Ont., president and chose John W. Bramwood, of Denver, Col., for secretary-treasurer. A law for a nine-hour day was ordered to be voted on by subordinate unions and $2,500 was voted to prosecute a boycott against a printing firm of Kansas City, Mo. Syracuse, N. Y., was chosen as the next meeting place. THE third annual convention of the American Society of Municipal Improvements began at Chicago on the 14th. Papers were read on paving and other appropriate subjects. FOREST fires have broken out afresh in Millard and Negro canyons, near Pasadena, Cal., and the Alpine tavern, a noted summer resort, was reported to be in danger. More than 50 square miles of valuable timber have been destroyed. SAMUEL B. TUTTLE, a wealthy farmer living in Livingston county, Ill., has been committed to the insane asylum. The silver agitation drove him crazy. GREAT excitement was reported around Sumner, Tex., over the discovery of gold. THE grand jury at New York has indicted 11 directors of the Bank of Commerce which recently closed up with a loss of $310,000. The cashier was also indicted for swearing falsely to bank statements. A SPECIAL from Gloucester, O., on the 14th stated that 2,000 miners were on a strike in the Hocking valley. FIRE at Great Barrington, Mass., burned the Kennedy hotel and did damage to the amount of $200,000. SOME one recently poisoned 40 jack rabbits at the state fair grounds at Dallas, Tex. They were located there to run races as a fair attraction. WOOD & PEMBER'S novelty works and the Carner manufacturing plant near Saratoga, N. Y., have been destroyed by fire. THREE men have been given life sentences at Mobile, Ala., for lynching Christopher Chamblis in 1892, and five others are awaiting trial. A CALL has been issued for a meeting of the National Educational association to be held at Milwaukee during the first week in July, 1897. MISS MABEL TAYLOR was driving across the railroad track near Jacksonville, Ill., in a buggy when she was run down by a train and killed. MRS. MARTHA WOMACH, an old settler of Marshall, Tex., stepped on a parlor match and was burned so badly that she died soon after. THE two-year-old son of Dan O'Brien, of Brazil, Ind., was fatally burned by the explosion of a coal oil lamp with which he was playing. SEVERAL persons were more or less injured by a street car at Burlington, Ia., getting beyond the control of the motorman on a steep grade. THE people of Washington county, Ky., have risen in rebellion and torn down about all the toll gates in the county. THE last day of the Christian Alliance convention at New York developed into a thanksgiving meeting for the generous response to the appeal for missionary funds, the sum of $135,000 being collected. THE Chickasaw and Choctaw legislatures have enacted a law that no person shall go to the nation and kill game and carry it out of the boundaries. The law goes into effect at once. MARTHA E. WILSON, the fat woman in a show operating at Danville, Ill., was fined $100 for illegally selling liquor. The defendant weighed 640 pounds and the cell door was barely wide enough to admit her body. A HURRICANE swept along the Atlantic coast on the 12th and did much damage. At Coney Island, N. Y., the beach was swept clean and bathing houses and board walks were carried out to sea. "PEDLAR" PALMER, of England, the champion bantam-weight pugilist of the world, defeated Johnny Murphy, of Boston, in a 20-round go at London. The affair was voted very tame. AGENT WISDOM, of the five civilized tribes in the Indian territory, began the payment to the Shawnees and Delawares on the 12th of the Cherokee strip money, each member of the tribe receiving $965. JAMES MICHAELS, the Welshman, on the 10th at Chicago broke the American bicycle record for five miles, making the distance in 9:20. THE committee of the Trades and Labor assembly, of Chicago, sent to Mexico by that organization "to investigate the condition of the laboring classes of that country," has returned and submitted its report stating that the condition of the laborers in Mexico is far inferior to those in the United States. JOE WALCOTT, of Boston, whipped "Scaldy" Bill Quinn, of Pennsylvania, knocking him out in the 17th round at Maspeth, L. I., on the 12th. BUFORD OVERTON was hanged at Harlan, Ky., on the 12th for the murder on June 21, 1895, of Gustave and Julia