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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The General Assembly of the Knights of Labor, in session at Louisville, Ky., this morning selected Chicago as the next place of meeting. The steamer Belgenland, which ar. rived at Philadelphic this afternoon from Liverpool, is reported to have on board the crew of the Boston schooner Theodore Dean. It is said Captain Hodgdon, of the schooner, was lost. The argument for a recount of the rejected ballots of the special election held in New Jersey in September for amendments to the constitution was concluded at Trenton to day. The court took the papers and reserved decision. I. A. Wirstandley and C. J. Freder. ick, president and cashier respectively of the defunct New Albany, Ind., Banking Co., were arrested in New Albany this morning and taken to Jefferson. ville to answer indictments charging perjury. President Fetterolf, of Girard Col. lege at Philadelphia, issued an edict against football, and benceforth the students of the institution must keep off the gridiron. The ban on football was the result of a boy having his leg broken last Saturday during a practice game. Representatives of Sharky and God. dard have selected Bob McArthur, a well known devotee of boxing and a prominent member of the Olympic Club, to referee their contest on next Thursday night at San Francisco, Cal. The Knickerbocker Club has matched Dal Hawkins "and Eddie Connelly to fight twenty rounds at 130 "pounds December 16. After a prolonged session the directors of the Delta County Bank, at Del. ta, Colo., to-day concluded to suspend business and place the institution in the hands of an assignee. The bank has been regarded as one of the soundest on the western slope. The capital stock of the bank is $50,000 and the deposits at this time, as near as can be learned are $52,000. L. D. Spickler, a farmer, living near Cushing, Ia., yesterday shot and killed his wife and blew out bis own brains. The wife was shot in the breast and did not die for several hours. Four children are made orphans by the tragedy. They were the children of the woman by a former husband. Spickler separated from his wife over a year ago on account of family troubles. The company officials have notified the striking trammers of the Atlantic mine, at Houghton, Mich., that unless they return to work to-day new men will be employed in their places. Agent Stanton says that the company cannot grant a raise in wages nor dismissal of the boss trammer, as demanded. Trouble is predicted when the company begins filling the strikers' places. Al Hayman has decided to dispose of his theatrical interests in San Francisco. Action has been taken to dissolve the corporation which be organized in 1891 and which has since controlled the Baldwin and Columbia Theatres. It is believed that the leases of these two places of amusement will pass into the hands of Fried. lander, Gottlieb & Co., as Mr. Hayman's associates do not care to retain them. Dr. J. B. Webber and Selden Webber. of Warsaw, Ind, have fallen heir to an old Dutch estate which will net hem $50,000 each The founder of the estate, which ag. gregates $45 000,000, was a wealthy Antwerp merchant, who disinherited his son and entailed his fortune to the third generation of his descendants. The Dutch government, as trustee of the estate, has just identified the heirs. The coroner's jury at Passaic, N. J, rendered a verdict to-day, holding Thomas Welsh and George Cameron responsible for the death of George Nixon. of Garfield, N.J. who was killed in a brawl at McCabe's Hotel last Sunday week. The row arose out of the hiding of Nixon's bicycle which he had left in a rack at the hotel door while he went inside for re. freshments. Lindsey Neighbert, who shot Mrs. John Henry of Cincinnati, 0., on November 3, wounding her severely and who himself was shot either by his pursuers or by himself, jumped from the window of the hospital last night and was killed by the fall. The store house of the Woolsey Paint Works in Jersey City fell to-day Twenty-five people who had been employed in the structure had sufficient warning to enable them to escape, and no one was hurt The 1038 to the company will be about $20,000. J. F. Herman, for years 8 prominent attorney of Olathe, Kans., who was to have been tried in Lawrence on the cqarge of ob. taining money under false pretences, killed himself last night by taking carbolic acid. A dispatch from Chatham. N B., that the schooner Janet A. was lost Tuesday night of last week, off Fox Island. The bodies of three men and two women who were aboard were washed ashore.
