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GENERAL The cattle crop has fallen off in many western states this year. Dakota, however, shows an increase. The abettors of the prize fight which took place in St. Louis the other night and in which one of the participants was killed, will be sentenced to ten years in the state prison. Thos. Brown, who was hanged at More head, Minn., on the 20th inst. for murder, sold his body to a doctor in that city for $10. For the year ending June 30, 1889, there were received at the patent office 35,740 applications for patents, and in the same time 21,518 applications were granted. The receipts during the year were $1,186,557, and the expenditures $999,697, leaving a surplus for the year of $186,800. The total amount in the United States treasury to the credit of the patent fund is $3,524,526. Thirteen freight cars were wrecked, and a foreman killed in a railroad accident near Lancaster, Mass., the other day. The Indiana supreme court has decided that bicyclists cannot be made liable for damages resulting from horses becoming frightened at the wheels if such runaways occur while the bicyclists are riding upon the highway and are doing nothing which shows a lack of regard for the rights of others. The government authorities have commenced War upon the liquor dealers in Oklahoma. J. P. Williams receiver of the First National bank of Denver, Colo., is a defaulter to the extent of $5,000, and has gone to Mexico. The president of Hayti has granted great privileges to an Americ in syndicate with $18,000,000 capital. The syndicate agrees to make all manner of improvemonts on the island. The national civil service reform league will hold its annual convention in Philadelphia Oct. 1-2. Judge Anderson of Utah has refused to grant naturalization papers to a man who told him th t he should violate the laws regarding polygamy. New Jersey republicans have nominated Gen. E. B. Grubb for governor. Mrs. Elizabeth S. McClellan, mother of Gen. George B. McClellan, died in Philadelphia Sept. 18, aged 96 years. Mrs. Senbower's house near Deer Park, Md., was destroyed by fire the other night, and her two children, aged 3 and 6years, were burned to death. In his annual report the commissioner of education says that the growth of the public school system in the south has outstripped the increase in population. He denounces compulsory education and makes a plea for manual training schools. Secretary Noble has ordered certain portions of New Mexico, in which there are cliff dwellers, to be withdrawn from the market, until their historical value is determined. One passenger was killed and two fatally injured in a railroad accident near Wichita, Kansas, the other day. The Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore road has been sold to an English syndicate for $5,000,000. Rerrick Lopes, aged 13, was killed in the Frogfoot creanberry bog near Wareham, Mass., the other night by Joseph Lebarron, a boy eight or nine years old, with a pocket knife. While playing with other boys the two quarreled and clinched, and Lebarron stabbed Lopes in the left side of the back. Lopes died within three hours. The steamship England of the National line, which sailed from New York, carried $110,000 worth of cattle to Liverpool. The will of the late Prof. Elias Loomis bequeaths the bulk of his estate, which is valued at $300,000, to Yale university, to be known as the "Loomis" fund. This is the second largest gift ever made to Yale. Advices have been received of a riot which occurred at Navassa, an island in the Carribbean Sea, in which a number of Americans were killed. W. B. Webb was arrested at Helena, Montana, the other day, charged with embezzling United States fund while acting as secretary of the territory. The standing committee of the Logan Invincibles of Maryland, largely composed of old soldiers, adopted resolutions strongly recommending Mrs. Gen. John A. Logan for the office of commissioner of pensions. Forest fires are destroying valuable timber in Oregon. Minister Ryan transmits for the information of the state department statistics of the value of American machinery imported annually from the United States into Mexico from 18:0 to 1887 inclusive, which shows that the exportations were in value from $462,384 in 1880 to $4,000,000 in 1887. Miss Sallie L. Bull of Alaska has been appointed a copyist in the Interior department on certification from the civil service commissioner. Miss Bull is the first person ever appointed to the department service from Alaska. FOREIGN. The London strike lasted a month, and cost $10,000,000.
