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today while endeavoring to recover an anchor at the battery, the air tube having burst. Sr. LOUIS, Mo., July 31. - J. P. Krieger, Senior President of the defunct Broadway Savings Bank, has been arrested on a charge of embezzlement, in connection with the alleged frauds committed by officers of that institution. He gave bonds and was released. INDIANAPOLIS, July 31.-A shooting affray occurred at a farm, the residence of Lucas Covert, near Columbus, Indiana, at the breakfast table yesterday morning, between his sons Henry and Aleck, in which Henry was instantly killed and Aleck mortally wounded. HARRISBURG, July 31.-The Governor has pardoned Dennis F. Canning. of Schuylkill, convicted of conspiring to commit murder several years ago, in conjunction with Jack Kehoe and other Mollie Maguires. Canning was sentenoed to 14 years' imprisonment. BROCKVILLE, July 31.-Miss Hugel, aged eighteen, and sister, aged five, were drowned in the St. Lawrence, while bathing. Martin, Republican member of the House from North Carolina, says the Sherman boom is gaining in that State, and he thinks Sherman would have a stronger delegation to the National Convention than Grant. Judge Isanc C. Collins, a prominent lawyer of Cincinnati, died on the 29th of heart disease. At East Farrington, Wisconsin, on the 19th, John Kranz, a farmer, drove into a lake to water his horses, and the animals becoming frightened, ran into deep water, upsetting the wagon and drowning Kranz and five children. The sixth swam out. The eldest was a girl, seventeen years old. The Exchange Bank of St. Louis has gone into liquidation. All depositors will be paid in full. The eighteenth annual session of the National Educational Association commenced at Philadelphia on Tuesday. The Chicago Jockey Club announces two running meetings for next year, one in July and one in August.