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THE NEWS. Compiled From Late Dispatches. DOMESTIC. i THE schooner John Raber went ashore 18 miles east of Whiting, Ind., and Capt. Johnson and an unknown sailor were drowned. THE St. Louis Loan and Investment company and the Aetna Loan and Savings company consolidated atSt. Louis with a capital of $9,000,000. FROST was general and very destructive in Virginia and North Carolina, a h of the tobacco crop being ruined. THE famous still run by Tom Blair, who was lynched New Year's morning in taken at Mount Sterling, Ky., as the mountains by revenue officers after a search of five years. THE monthly statement of the director of the mint shows coinage during the month of September as follows: Gold, $7,543,572; silver, $473,566; minor coins, $61,414; total coinage, $8,078,653. SOUTH CAROLINA is the only state in the union which has no divorce law, and the constitutional convention at Columbia added a section to the law which prevents recognition of divorces granted in other states. SINCE June 30, 1892, the net expenditures of the government have exceeded the receipts by $120,151,467. PETER CRAWFORD, 22 yearsold, a mail messenger, has been asleep in New York for the last seven months, and every device employed to awaken the man had proven futile. ALBERT WADE, assistant cashier of the First national bank at Mount Vernon, Ind., was said to be $20,000 short in his accounts. He had disappeared. CHARLES F. KLINE, a life prisoner in the penitentiary at Columbus, O., was paroled, being the first life man to be 60 favored. HENRY CARPENTER, an engineer, and three negroes were killed near Dupont, Ga., by a sawmill boiler explosion. THE Texas legislature convened at Austin for the purpose of passing a law that will effectually prohibit the Corbett-Fitzsimmons prize fight at Dallas announced for October 31. THE Valley Mutual Life Insurance company of Richmond, Va., failed for $100,000. JOHN LITTLEFIELD, of Ukiah, Cal., accused of shooting J. V. Vinton, was hanged by a mob of cattlemen. BRICK yards, a row of houses and an electric light factory were burned in Philadelphia, the total loss being $250,000. STULTZ, LISBERGER & Co., large tobacco manufacturers at Danville, Va., failed for $100,000. THE banks at Monett and Purdy in Barry county, Mo., were placed in the hands of receivers. AFTER a two-year struggle to re"trieve the loss caused by the financial depression the produce cold storage exchange in Chicago went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $500,000. REV. WILLIAM E. HINSHAW was convicted at Danville, Ind., of the murder of his wife on January 10 last and the jury fixed the punishment at life imprisonment. THE Texas legislature, by a vote of 27 to 1 in the senate and 110 to 5 in the house, passed a bill making it a felony to engage in a prize fight in the state, and attached to it a clause providing for the law going into effect at once. THE thirty-sixth national triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States met at Minneapolis. JAMES P. TILLOTSON, a prominent member of the Chicago board of trade, drowned himself in the lake because of heavy losses in speculation. THE president issued an order placing Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles at the head of the army of the United States. THE board of education of St. Paul, Minn., decided by a unanimous vote not to permit married women to teach in the public schools of that city. IN the Silver Creek (0.) district 2,000 coal miners went out on a sympathy strike, though they had themselves received the advance they asked for. THE whole business portion of Cambridge, O., was destroyed by fire with a loss of over $100,000. J. A. BLOWICH & Co., cloak manufacturers in New York, failed for $100,000. MANY orchard trees in North Coloma, Mich., have been forced into blossom by the heat from the forest fires that have been burning in that vicinity during the past few weeks.