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# Telegraphic Brevities.
The Lombard Investment Company assigned on the 19th.
A family of six persons was murdered near Washington, Indiana, by robbers.
Michigan officers have obtained $30,000 of the money taken from the train last week.
The New York bankers are gradually reducing the amount of their clearing house certificates.
Frederick L. Ames, the Boston millionaire, gave none of his money to charities or publio institutions.
The French government is about to use force, if necessary, to compel Siam to comply at once with the conditions of the treaty.
The first thing that the Democrats in the House will do, will be to pass a bill repealing the laws providing for supervisors of federal elections.
The National Rolling Mill Co., which employs a large number of men at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, positively refuses to re-employ foreigners.
St. Joseph, Missouri, suffered from a $1,000,000 fire on the 25th, and the fire department had to work hard to save the business portion of the city.
Four steamers of the Belgian Anti-Slavery society have been lost on Lake Tanganyika, Central Africa, which greatly hampers the work of the society.
By the carelessness of a mine foreman an explosion of gas was caused in Plymouth mine at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, on the 21st, in which five were killed and six injured.
The English yacht Valkyrie, which comes to compete with our crack vessels, arrived at New York on the 22nd after being out thirty-two days. She experienced continuous storms.
The anarchists at New York have been making threats against the Fifth Avenue millionaires and the latter are hiring large numbers of special watchmen to guard against bombs.
Dr. J. M. Norman, of Denver, has been chosen secretary of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows recently meeting at Detroit. Richard Hoe, of Wisconsin, was made president.
Governor West, of Utah, has declined the invitation to send delegates to the meeting of the Pan-American Bimetallic Association to be held at St. Louis. He thinks it might do more harm than good.
Archbishop Ireland says that the "Farlbault plan" for partial union of Catholic and public schools has not been abandoned in Minnesota, although it has been suspended in the town of Faribault itself.
It is reported that the Haytien war ship Alessandre Petion suddenly sank near Hayti on the 6th of September, and that all but one on board, numbering eighty, were lost. The cause is unknown. She was a new vessel.
President Bonney, chlef of the world's fair congress auxiliary, has refused to allow the International congress of free-thinkers the use of the art institute. The free-thinkers have secured another hall, however, and will meet October 1.
The United States fishery steamer Albatross arrived at Victoria, British Columbia, on the 24th. She reports having made deep sea soundings off the coast of Alaska, reaching a depth of 4,500 fathoms, the greatest depth ever reached.
A meeting of the American Protestant Association at Kansas City ended in a fight. As the members reached the street they were attacked by a crowd of Catholies. In the fight which followed several were hurt and a number of arrests made.
A sopho-freshman "rush" took place at Princeton Friday. The sophs used their fists and a free fight followed. Many were injured on both sides, black eyes and broken arms and legs were numerous, while some received severe internal injuries.
There was a severe riot in Brooklyn the other day between Italians and Americans working on a street railway. The large body of policemen which attempted to disperse the riotors was attacked by the Italians and a great number were hurt.
James J. Corbett, the pugilist, signed the formal articles of agreement at Asbury park Monday morning to fight Charles Mitchell, the English champion, before the Coney Island club sometime in December. Mitchell had already signed the articles.
A dispatch from Rome says that the Vatican Tugworgura protes which formerly belonged to the pope. This installation is declared to be a direct insult to the Vatican.
The recent train robberies at Kendallville, Indiana, and Hallack, Michigan, have aroused the Canadian express companies to a lively sense of the dangers that threaten that side of the border. It has been decided to arm crews on every express train with Winchester rifles.
Ten more new cases of cholera, of which two have proven fatal, were reported at Hamburg on the 20th. The cases are all scattered about the suburbs, Six cases and five deaths were reported in Holland. Four new cases and nine deaths at Palermo and five cases and two deaths at Leghorn.
Six robbers attempted to hold up express train No. 3 on the Kansas City, St. Joe & Council Bluffs road, one mile north of St. Joe at 1 o'clock Monday morning. The railroad officials had wind of it and sent out an exact duplicate of train No. 3 loaded with policemen. Two robbers were killed, three captured and one escaped.
The statement of the New York banks for week ending September 23rd shows the following changes: Reserve, Increase, $7,008,250; loans, decrease, $735,200; specie, increase, $2,505,200; legal tender, increase, $3,471,100; deposita, increase, $6,673,400; circulation, increase, $856,700. The banks now hold $17,609,951 in excess of the requirements of the 25 per cent, rule.
The bark Alamba of Glasgow, after being 161 days at sea, has reached New York. She left Colombo, Ceylon, April 11, laden with cocoanut oil and plumbago and was storm-beaten during nearly the entire passage. She came in battered and weather-worn, but sound. On August 19 and 21 she lost nearly all her saile. Captain Max Falck told a reporter who boarded the vessel that it was the roughest voyage he ever made.
The suffering of the Cherokee Strip settlers from the recent drought and lack of water was relieved Thursday night by a coplous shower of rain. The rain will at once relieve the water famine, lay the dust and prevent the recurrence of the fearful sand storms of the past two weeks, besides putting the ground in condition for the plow. The rain began falling at 5 o'clock and continued for six hours.
Eleven cases of small-pox were reported to the health officers at New York on the 20th. It is the greatest number on any one day this season. Dr. Doty, the head of the department on contagious diseases, with a staff of eight physicians and five police officers began a thorough search of the infected districts, to find all concealed cases, vaccinate every person liable to have small-pox and take other precautions to prevent the spread of the disease.
For the first time a speaker in the parliament of religions was interrupted Wednesday by those in attendance who took exceptions to what he was saying. Mohammed Webb, the English convert to Islam, raised a storm by attempting to defend polygamy. The audience cried, "No! no!" He dropped the subject in despair. In the yells of protest many female voices could be plainly heard above the din.
Archduke Frans Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, has started from Spokane for the East over the Northern Pacific. Brigadier General Carlin, acting under orders from the war department, invited the prince to inspect or review the troops under General Carlin's command, but Count Wurmbrand, head chamberlain in waiting to the archduke re
