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NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading. Domestic. The Detroit Trust Company was, in the United States District Court in Bay City, Mich., appointed receiver for the private banking firm of M. L. Stewart & Co., of Owosso, which closed its doors. The Northern Securities Company filed with the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J., articles providing for the reduction of the capital stock from $395,400,000. James Colin, mate of the steamer Queen City, was arrested at Bellair charged with the murder of Fred Norton, a deck hand, whom he knocked overboard. At a meeting of strikers at San Juan, Porto Rico, an American flag was trampled upon and the mob attacked the police. John Lans tried to shoot his wife and sister-in-law in Somerset. He hit his father-in-law, and then killed himself. Edward Sweders, a member of Edna May's Company, shot his wife and himself in a Philadelphia boarding-house. Chester Bell was fined $25 and costs in Muncie, Ind., for having cigarette paper in his pocket. Suit was instituted to restrain Superintendent of Insurance Hendricks, of New York, from acting on the proposed amended charter of the Equitable Society. New York steamboat inspectors reported that the passenger steamer John H. Starin carried loaded cartridges. The captain's license was taken away. W. H. Worth and Henry King were arraigned in Elyria, O., on the charge of operating bucket-shops at Lorain and pleaded not guilty. The Supreme Court in Philadelphia, by a vote of 4 to 3, decided that Mrs. Catharine Danz must hang for the murder of her husband. The stockholders of the United States Steel Corporation re-elected the eight retiring directors at the meeting in Hoboken, N. J. Thomas C. Haynes, secretary of the Rand-McNally Company, committed suicide at the Marquette Club, in Chicago. William Smith, I6 years old, shot Elizabeth Ohlsen, 16 years old, in New York, because she refused to marry him. A woman was thrown out of a runaway motor car in New York and a boy run over. The nude body of Annie Kintop was discovered near Little Falls, Minn., with every indication of the woman having been murdered after a violent struggle. Posses are searching for two negroes who were seen in the vicinity of the crime. For the first time in six years all places of business in St. Louis, including saloons, restaurants, cigar stands, barber shops and bookblack stands, were closed tightly Sunday. Trustee Lord, of the Miller 520 per cent. syndicate, has brought suit in New York to recover $170,000 left by Edward Schlesinger, one of the syndicate, who died abroad. Mrs. Howard Dunham, of Norristown, Pa., secured a verdict of $10,000 from Miss E. Winnie McMichael for alienating the affections of her husband. In a head-on collision between two freight trains on the Erie Railroad two firemen were killed. The engineers saved their lives by jumping. Dr. Bainbridge delivered a lecture at the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital on "Cancer, Its Growth, Causes and Cure." Governor Folk, of Missouri, has pardoned a young man of 22 years on condition that he give up whisky and cigarettes. After having been in the courts for five years, a suit involving 76 barrels of cider has been settled in Haverhill, Mass. Thomas W. Lawson says he has been planning a company to offer gas at 75 cents to New York consumers. There have been four victims of knockout, drops in Allentown, Pa., within a week. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, president of the Jamestown Exposition, called upon Governor Higgins, at Albany, and secured his co-operation for New York's participation in the Exposition. Foreign.
