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CONDENSED DISPATCHES. Fraudulent warrants amounting to nation. $200,000 are in circulation in the Creek Sixty more Armenians have been slaughtered Erzingjane. by Turks, this time at Gothenburg, Neb., State Bank failed; assets $25,000, but uncollectable: liabilities $8,000. John W. Kitchen killed William Coates, his rival for the hand of Ella Spangler of Danville, Ill. Sir Robert Peel has compromised with his creditors at 50 per cent. Mrs. Langtry was one of them. A census of Prussia just completed shows a population of 31,491,209, an increase of 1,585,228 since 1690. Digging a trench for a water main caused the collapse of the Elmore bicycle factory at Clyde, Ohio. Several men were injured. Scottish Rite Masons will hold services at General Alfred Pike's grave, Oak Hill, Washington, at each triennial session hereafter. Edna Schmidt, aged 18, daughter of the millionaire Chicago brewer, went from her mother's grave to elope with her father's coachmen. Senator Sherman will not run for presidential nomination any more, but is out for McKinley, and will attend the convention in his interest. Mrs. Granville Lancaster, wife of a farmer at Livingstone, Ala., locked her three children in the house, and while she gossiped with a neighbor the children were roasted alive. A. K. Ward, the Memphis forger who defrauded banks and business men of $340,000, is at Puerto Cortez, Honduras, under close surveillance. Miss Jennie Dart, a bright and energetic young lady of Kansas City, Kan., has started for India, where she goes as a medical missionary. Miss Dart is a graduate from the highest medical colleges of this country, of both the new and old schools, and is well equipped for her work. The assistant chief of Police and police clerk of Fort Worth, Texas, are to be discharged because of an alleged shortage in police funds. A fellow named Graham attempted a daylight robbery of the Banner county bank, Harrisburg, Neb., but was shot and captnred through the quick work of Cashier Carlisle. Bank robbers all but secured $30,000 from J. M. Morley's bank at Severance, Kan., when they were frigutened off. Four men were killed and one seriously injured by a boiler explosion on a tugboat in Chicago. The British government has decided to exclude Americans hereafter from the Greenwich Royal School of Architecture. Sidney Lane, a brakeman, and C. H. Neville, a conductor, fought with revolvers at Houston, Texas. Neville is dead and Lane is dying. Owing to the prevalence of diphtheria the schools of North Topeka have been closed and the attendance in the Topeka schools has fallen from 5,200 to 3,700. Perry, Okla., negroes threaten to arrest the Board of education for not admitting colored children to white schools. F. F. Kiner, justice of the peace of Ida Grove, Iowa, has sued Rev. George Gleason for $5,000 damages for pulpit libels. Under the pretense of cutting timber for mining purposes, which the law allows, the public lands of California are being denuded. Republican silver men announce through Senator Stewart's paper that they will support only a silver man for the presidency. Senator Thurston, who is at San Diego, Cal., recuperating, has been compelled by ill health to decline an invitation to participate in the Nebraska campaign. A. S. Wightman, a San Antonio, Texas, bookkeeper, is $10,000 short in his accounts. Bamberger, Bloom & Co., Louisville's largest dry goods firm, has assigned. Liabilities, $1,200,000; assets about same. The Missouri University football team defeated DePauw, Ind., university by a score of to 0. Dick Pine, a member of the Ryan gang of outlaws, was shot dead by deputy United States marshals near Cushing, Okla. J. R. Burton is said to be figuring on securing the Topeka Capital in case it is forced to be sold, Zeke and Dick Crittenden, Cherokee Indian brothers, were shot dead by Marshal Ed Reed at Wagoner, Ind. Ter. They were drunk and began the firing. The United States court of private land claims has rendered its final decision declaring the alleged Peralta grant in Southern New Mexico and Arizona fraudulent. In a collision between an express train and a locomotive at Valley Junetion, Iowa, Mrs. Mary Hillhouse of Burlington, Iowa, was killed and two men injured. The Eureka Endowment Relief Association and the Eureka Relief Association, both of Baxter Springs, Kan., have been excluded from the mails for conducting forms of lotteries W. T. Purcell, a druggist and liveryman of South Greenfield, Mo., was found dead with his skull erushed on the track near there. Murder is suspected but the body was not robbed. Mrs. Parnell's household goods were sold at auction for about $500. McKinney, the county seat of Collins county Texas had $200 fire.
