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an with then cut his throat with a razor. The Kings County (N. Y.) Elevated Railway company, capitalized at $4,750.000, has been put in the hands of a receiver. A cloudburst within eight miles of Pueblo, Col., washed away miles of railroad tracks and did much damage to the surrounding country. The historic Red Lion hotel of Stockbridge, Mass., the most popular hotel in the Berkshire hills, was totally destroyed by fire. Only the front wall. which dates from 1773, was left standing. William Robbins, the father of sereral grown children, shot and killed his 18-year-old daughter from ambush near Charleston, W. Va. It developed that she had been assaulted by her father. who murdered her to conceal the crime. The Armington & Sims Engine company, of Providence, R. I., has been placed in the hands of a committee of creditors. The liabilities of the company are about $280,000. Arstick of dynamite exploded in the hands of George Jones at Schooner Ledge, Pa., and literally blew his body into atoms. The farmhouse of Richard Tunney, near Cadillac, Mich., was struck by lightning and his two children, a boy and a girl, aged seven and ten years, were instantly killed. The First mational bank of Beatrice. Neb., has closed its doors with liabilities of $110,000. By the burning of the Hanks block at Lawrenceburg, Ky., two children of John Gray, a tailor, lost their lives. By an explosion in the drying house of the California Powder company at Hercules Station, Cal., four white men and eight Chinamen were blown to atoms. A number of white men were reported missing. Henry Regas, Henry Rogers and Thomas Keffar, employes of the Equitable powder works at East Alton. Ill., were instantly killed by the explosion of the mills. Acting Comptroller Bowers has decided that a man transferred from the volunteer service to the regular army is not entitled to veteran bounty. The debt statement issued on the 1st shows a net increase in the public debt less cash in the treasury during August of $12,342,683. Total cash in the treasury, $849,388,746. Frank Morris, aged 18 years, was hanged at Uniontown, Pa., for the murder two years ago of Bernard Loker, a farmer of Chestnut Grove. While a crew were threshing on the farm of Herbert Lossing, near Sanilae Center. Mich., the boiler exploded, killing three men and severely injuring two others. George Kelly, for several years a member of the Boston Ideal Opera company. was killed by a train at Bloomington, III. Judge Thomas. assistant attorenygeneral for the post office department. has decided that it is unlawful to send an ordinary letter by express or otherwise outside of the mails unless it be inclosed in a government-stamped envelope. Election returns from Vermont indicate that the entire republican state ticket was elected by an increased majority. Ten thousand employes under the war department have been classified in the civil service, in accordance with the sweeping order of the president of May 6 last. Secretary Hoke Smith closed his administration of the affairs of the interior department on the 1st and retired from the cabinet. Among those who paid their respects to Li Hung Chang in New York was a deputation of elergymen representing the various American boards of foreign missions engaged in missionary work in China, including the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. Joseph Orosz was executed at Pittsburgh, Pa., for the murder of his sweetheart, Theresa Bobak. Charles E. Warburton, proprietor of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, was found dead in bed in his room at
