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NEWS NUGGETS. Anatole France, the author. has been elected a member of the French Academy. Mme. Modjeska is SO seriously ill that all her engagements have been cancele. A receiver is asked for the Lincoln (Neb.) Savings Bank and Safe Deposit Company. Bertram E., Atwater. the Chicago artist and designer, was shot and killed by highwaymen in a St. Louis suburb. William Foster, Jr., of New York city, engaged in the business of mining and manufacturing, has made an assignment to his son. The liabilities are expected to be about $400,000, and the assets are largely in excess of that amount. The assignment is made in order to enable Mr. Foster, who is in ill health, to retire from business. An explosion of chemicals in the laboratory of the Swanson Rheumatic Cure Company. in room 219 of the old Stock Exchange Building at Chicago, caused a fire that wrecked all the offices on the second floor, frightened into panie or hysterics the occupants of the building and resulted in the severe injury of two persons. Miss Clara Barton and the staff officers of the Red Cross Society sailed Wednesday from New York for Constantinople. President Cleveland declares that the Davis Monroe doctrine resolution is "mischievous, inopportune and unfortunate." Jennie Goldthwaite, the "Kitty Glover" of the Princess Bonnie Opera Company, is engaged to marry Frank Murphy, the Chicago broker. The Democratic members of the Mississippi Legislature have nominated Congressman H. D. Money for United States Senator to succeed J. Z. George.