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They were both employed in the telegraph business. Mariano Leyva, a wealthy farmer of the valley of Mexico, was crossing a range of mountains recently, when he lost his footing and was precipitated into a deep chasm. He could not climb out, and remained on a small shelf of rock overhanging a precipice seven days without food or water. The Terre Haute car works, one of the largest of its class in the west and the largest in the state of Indiana, assigned Tuesdav. It employed 900 men and did an annual business of $3,000,000. The stringency in the money market was the cause. Contingent liabilities $84,467. Assets nearly $600,000. An Egytian medical delegate to Mecca says the deaths there are double the number officially reported. In the valley of Mouna it is impossible to bury the dead. The road between there and Mecca is strewn with corpses. In Mecca the bodies lie decomposed for days, owing to the impossibility to get grave-diggers. Stein's Pillow is a rectangular rock from 20 to 40 feet across it, which lifts its head way above the trees in pine timber on the south bank of Mill creek, about 18 miles east of Prineville, Crook county Or. Many persons have guessed at its height but no one knows it. Some people think it is 700 feet high. Vice President Stevenson and party of personal friends will leave Chicago next Monday night for the Pacific coast and Puget sound country. They will visit Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and other points of interest and return via the Great Northern railroad. Ben Howe, 25 years old, an employe of the Spokane Chronicle, treasurer of Lodge No. 103, I. O. O. F., and a prominent Son of Veteran, has absconded, after embezzling $1,100 belonging to the Odd Fellows and $100 belonging to the Sons of Veterans. He was infatuated with a prostitute, on whom he squandered the stolen money. Chicago was visited Sunday afternoon by the most terrific storm it has experienced in several years. The wind blew almost a hurricane, leveling trees and breaking in windows, and the rain fell in torrents. Many pleasure boats on the lake were overturned and sunk. The loss of life is unknown, but at least ten persons are known to have been drowned. On the Fourth, at Gladstone, Oregon, near Oregon City, a distressing accident happened. A team of horses ran away, throwing the occupants of the carriage over a bluff. Mrs. M. P. Bradley and four children fell forty feet. The mother and the baby were killed, the others seriously injured. Mr. Bradley, who was driving, escaped. Several Colorado banks have failed in the last few days. The American national, the Western national, the Central national and the First national at Pueblo, Colorado, are in trouble. The first three have suspended. All the banks in silver mining districts are in great danger of failure, owing, to the threatened fall of silver. Henry Gee, supervisor of the roads about Sheridan, Oregon, is giving the farmers great relief in fixing roads leading into that city. Three-quarters of a mile leading to McMinnville, and equal distance on the North Yamhill road is being macadamized sixteen feet wide. The county furnishes the crushed rock, the city pays one half the expense of construction, and the balance is made up by private subscription. Word reached Topeka, Kan., Monday night from Englewood, Star county, of the drowning of William Wadell, his wife and four children, while in camp on the
