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) WEST AND SOUTH. I THE doors of the Farmers' and : Drovers' bank at Battle Creek. Neb., were closed. THE table-glassware manufacturers of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir) ginia have consolidated. ON the California desert Salten lake continues rising. until now the overflow reaches 2.000 square miles. The lake will be permanent and will change the climate and topography of the surrounding country. THE railway postal clerks met at Cineinnati and formed a national organization with C. A. Guthrie, of Chicago. as president. THE firm of Spooner R. Howell & Co., lumber dealers in Chicago and other western cities, have failed with liabilities of $2,000,000. THE directory of Chicago for 1891 contains over 500,000 names and indicates a total population of 1,250,000. By the death of her uncle, Sir James Baxendale, of England, Mrs. Dr. J. Holloway. of Springfield, O., has fallen heir to $1,000,000. AT Pine Bluff, Ark., Robert Williams was hanged for the murder of Albert Hayes in November, 1890. THE marriage of Miss Nina Van %andt. the so-called widow of the executed anarchist, August Spies, to Stefano S. Malato, a young Italian journalist, took place in Chicago. N. II. VAN SICKLEN. of Chicago. made 25 miles in 1 hour. 25 minutes and 11 seconds in a bicycle race at Detroit, Mich. AT West Superior, Wis., during a windstorm a new building was blown down and five persons were killed and some twenty others injured. AT St. Mary's, O., the chain works were struck by lightning, and seventy of the employes were knocked speechless by the shock and some were serieusly stunned. THE failure of the First national bank of Wyandotte, Kan., with liabilities of $100,000 and assets of $200,000 was reported. THE death of Gen. B. F. Kelley, who raised the first regiment of loyal troops south of Mason and Dixon's line during the war of the rebellion, occurred at his home near Oakland. Md. AT Eldon, Ia., an incendiary fire destroyed the business portion of the town. IN the northeastern portion of Puiaski county. Ark., a storm did great damage to the growing crops. THE grain in the path of a storm for a distance of 5 miles was destroyed in the township of Luxemburg, Minn. NEAR Fort Collins, Col., a heavy hailstorm greatly damaged grain over a tract 20 miles long and 3 wide. NEAR Glencoe, Minn., Gustav Kuthkee and his two little boys were probably fatally injured by being run over by a mowing machine. THE evangelist. Rev. Sam Small, is to be managing editor of the new Evening Herald of Atlanta, Ga.
