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were hurt, two fatally. IN Clay County, Ky., Robert Gregory, a merchant. was assassinated by the 15-year-old son of Thomas Woods, who had been killed by Gregory. AT Viroqua, Wis., fire destroyed a block of business buildings, causing a loss of $150,000. JOHN and Peter Kane, noted desperadoes, were shot dead by Marshal Booth while resisting arrest at Hinckley, Minn. FRANK E. DICKINSON, of Dubuque, Ia., and Minnie Brundage, of Long Island, N. Y., medical students in the State University at Ann Arbor, Mich., were drowned while skating. THE marriage of a boy of 17 and a girl of 13 took place at Columbia, Mo., and the wedding presents included a doll and a wooden gun. SAMUEL MICKLES shot and killed his daughter, fatally W unded his wife and then took his own life in St. Louis. Despondency in business was the cause. EISEMAN & Co., dry-goods dealers at Council Bluffs, Ia., failed for $300,000; assets, $350,000. THE first Legislature of Oklahoma adjourned after passing a complete code of laws. THE house of Samuel Malone, an old soldier, at Holden, Mo., was burned, Malone and his brother-in-law, John Hicks, perishing in the flames. FIRE at San Augustine, Tex., destroyed two hotels, half a dozen stores and many houses. THE death of Pedro Antonio Lopez, aged 115 years, occurred at his home near Santa Fe, N. M. FIVE negroes, arrested for the murder of Dr. E. H. Riggan, were taken from jail at Mecklenburg, Va., and lynched. CLAUDE MCCARTY and John Mahar, ared 12 and 13 years, were drowned while skating at Muskegon, Mich. THE doors of the Maverick Bank of San Antonio, Tex., were closed after a run lasting three weeks. The liabilities were said to be $844,161 and the assets $1,789,915. IN Ottawa, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Strong had on Christmas bidden guests to celebrate the fifty-first anniversary of their marriage. but in the morning Mr. Strong expired suddenly, and a few hours later his wife passed away in a similar manner. FLAMES destroyed the Edisto phosphate and fertilizing works at Charleston, S. C. Loss, $200,000. IN the streets of Chicago Dr. H. A. Kelso, of Paxton, III., was robbed of 35,000 in money and a watch worth $200. W. J. KITTRELL, chief of police at Gainesville, Ga., was shot dead by Jo in Pruitt, a negro desperado, and Pruitt was killed by another officer. THE death of Mrs. Sidney Ann Wilhite (colored) occurred at Sedalia, Mo., at the age of 106 years. She weighed 250 pounds and had been totally blind for several years. JOHN OLIVER and Ed Gallagher engaged in a dispute over a girl at Center Furnace, O., and both were killed. THE death of M. A. Dauphin, president of the Louisiana State Lottery Company, occurred at his house in New Orleans of pneumonia, aged 53 years. CARL REHER, a farmer at Carlisle, Minn., in a fit of anger killed his wife and son and fatally wounded his daughter and then took his own life. FIRE destroyed the freight depot of the Little Miami railroad at Cincinnati, causing a loss of $150,000. A BOILER explosion wrecked seven iwelling houses at Cincinnati, killing a :hild and a woman and severely injuring five other persons. FLAMES ruined the Bijou Theater in Minneapolis, Minn. THE six-day go-as-you please contest n St. Louis was won by Herty, who nade 518 miles and rece ved about $1,000. HUNTER & WEST, bankers at Greeley, Col., failed for $100,000, and the City National Bank at Hastings, Neb., closed its doors. THE oldest man in Ohio. William Roach, died in Cleveland at the age of 104 years and 10 months. AT Columbia, Tenn., a fire destroyed twenty buildings. ON the 27th Big Foot and his band of hostiles were captured by the Seventh Cavalry under Captain Whitesides. The seizure was made on Porcupine creek in South Dakota without a conflict. All the other Indians in the Bad Lands had decided d and the probabili-
