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The forest and prairie fires in the Okaw River bottoms have finally been got under control. Fire caused by a defective flue destroyed a block of dwellings in Kansas City. The loss will reach $100,000. Public meetings of all kinds have been prohibited in Sandwich, III., owing to the prevalence of smallpox. Three-fourths of the winter wheat sown in the western third of Kansas has been ruined by the drought. A new plot of General Manigat to overthrow the Haytian government was discoverd by President Hippolyte. Burglars blew open and robbed safes in Buttsville, N. J., and Ridgefield, Conn. Ferryboat Netherlands crashed into a ship in New York harbor and twenty of her passengers were injured. Five students of a medical college at Kansas City, Mo., were arrested while robbing a grave in a neighboring town. Henry G. Sidle ex-president of the First National bank of Minneapolis, has made an assignment. Robert McCullough, Frank Bleshenship and Charles Patton are under arrest at Ashley, III., for postoffice robberies. The salary of General Master Workman Sovereign of the Knights of Labor was reduced at his own request from $3,500 to $2,500. The application for a receiver of the St. Joseph, Mo., Loan and Trust company has been granted. The liabilities are about $135,000; assets $195,000. Charles F. Atkinson, theatrical manager and lessee of the Bowdoin Square thea v, Poston, filed an insolvency per tition. McNeary, Tenn, 11 small town on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, was wiped out by fire. The total loss is about $75,000. Seven business houses and one dwelling were destroyed at Swayzee, Ind. It is feared a woman lost her life. Four candidates are in the field for the short term senatorship in Michigan. It is predicted that the real fight will be between Olds and Burrows. Republican managers of Nebraska decided to abandon the proposed contest of the election of Holcomb, dem.pop. R. F. Nedrow, who committed a mur derous assault on Edgar Scott at Peoria, was freed by a jury and citizens are indignant. A Dubuque, lowa, jury set at naught the testimony of medical experts and gave the widow of Joseph Brunskill a verdiet in a damage suit. Antitrust distillers believe President Greenhut's trip east is for the purpose of securing funds to fight the independents. According to Rev. C. W. Blodgett, the ratio of divorces to marriages is greater in Galesburg, III., than in any city in the country. Alderman Madden, who is manage ing Joseph Medill's senatorial cam paign, Illinois, says there is little doubt of his nomination. Carleton B. Hutchins, inventor of a refrigerator car and a large manufacturer, died in Detroit of heart fail ure. John 11. Sickles, inventor of a hand fire engine, died at his home in Port Chester, N. Y., of paralysis, aged 76 years. University of Illinois football eleven defeated the Wesleyan University eleven at Bloomington by a score of 12 to 5. It is stated that the members of the cabinet are divided on the method for beginning reform in the country's finances. General Casey, chief of engineers of the war department, urges the secur-