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INTERPRETER Yoshikawa and Com missioner Minano, Japanese represent ing their government at the world's fair, have been converted to Christianity. THE impeachment of President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle is demanded by the Advocate, the organ at Topeka of the Kansas populists, for failure to purchase the prescribed quantity of silver in July. THREE cars were dropped 60 feet by the giving way of a bridge near Milton, Va., and seven persons were killed and four injured. THE First national bank at Dubuque, Ia., the bank at Albany, Mo., and the Kendall county bank at Yorkville, III., closed their doors. MARTIN SCHULTZ and his wife, an aged couple living near Cherokee, Ia., were murdered and their home ransacked by robbers. IN Cincinnati the Standard Wagon company, one of the largest concerns of the kind in the west, failed for $700,000; assets, $1,200,000. By a collision on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad near Dubuque, Ia., twelve persons were injured THE death of John Logan Chipman, member of congress from the First district of Michigan, occurred at his home in Detroit, aged 63 years. THE Nebraska democrats will hold their convention at Lincoln October 4. IN a fit of anger Cyrus Brow n, of Cincinnati, shot and killed his wife, to whom he had been married thirty years. VIRGINIA democrats in convention at Richmond nominated Charles T. O'Ferrall for governor and R. C. Kent for lieutenant governor. THE four banks in Le Mars, Ia., suspended. They were the First national and Le Mars national, with a capital of $100,000 each, and the Le Mars state and German savings banks. DRINKING water from an impure well caused the death of three children of J. L. Casey, of Little Rock, Ark., and the rest of the family were seriously ill. A TRACTION engine near Martin's Ferry, O., became unmanageable and ran backward down a hill, killing Carrie and Nellie Ackerman, aged 5 and 11 years, respectively, and fatally injuring Ella King. A FIRE at Benton, III., destroyed the city hall, post office and the Chronicle office. J. S. JOHNSON made 3 miles in 7:55% in a bicycle race at Minneapolis, lowering the record 15 1/4 seconds. BUSINESS has been resumed by the First national bank of Anthony, Kan., which suspended payment in July. A MOB near Morganfield, Ky., lynched Charles Watson, a negro who cut the throat of little Sam Keith, 10 years old, to secure four dollars. WILLIAM J. JAMISON (colored), who murdered Supervisor Charles N. Aaron April 19, 1892, was hanged at Quincy, III. This was the third hanging in Quincy in sixty-five years. WITHIN ten days twenty members of the Meachain gang have been killed near Jackson Ala., and five others were surrounded, but escaped. BY the upsetting of a boat Mrs. Foster, her two children and her sister weredrowned at Bonnot's mill, 12 miles east of Jefferson City, Mo. NEAR Fort Smith, Ark., Charles Tart, a federal prisoner, was lynched by a mob for wounding Capt. C. C. Peete with a gun during a struggle. DOUGLASS CURTIS, of Chicago, as the result of a long spree, killed his child, fatally wounded his wife, and then took his own life. MRS. Anna E. SCHOLTKA, after forty years of married life, brought suit at Milwaukee for divorce from Christian Scholtka on the charge of cruelty. The couple have nineteen children. BUSINESS was resumed by the Union and People's national banks at Denver, Col., after a short suspension. NEAR Hunnewell, Kan., four haymakers were killed in a eollision with a company of soldiers who were clearing the Cherokee strip of intruders. A MOB lynched Monroe Smith(colored) for an attempted assault at Old Spring Hill, Ala. FIRE destroyed a large portion of the town of Dickson, Tenn.
