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tendent of the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific railroad, died at his home in Chicago from injuries received at the "chutes" accident. IN a trial of speed at Decatur, m., Effie Powers and Pestora Wilkes paced a mile as a team in 2:15 flat. This beats the world's record one and one half seconds. THE Methodist church at Quakertown, N. J., was struck by lightning during services and a score of people were injured, several of them probably fatally. ADVICES from San Francisco expose an alleged plot torestore Queen Liliuokalani and loot Honolulu. Rudolph Spreckels, the youngest son of Claus Spreckels, was said to be backing the scheme. THOUSANDS of persons from Ohio and adjoining states met at Greenvilie, O., to celebrate the centennial of Gen. Anthony Wayne's treaty of peace with the Indians. *AN express train on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad collided with a freight near Zanesville, O., and Fireman William Bolin was killed and Engineer May fatally injured. EUGENE TAYLOR, of Denver, who recently broke the world's record in agate composition, has now made a new record of 76,300 ems minion in eight hours on a linotype machine. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 5th was: Wheat, 38,517,000 bushels; corn, 4,654,000 bushels; oats, 3,754,000 bushels; rye, 194,000 bushels; barley, 28,000 bushels. JOSEPH BINGHAM and Oliver Benway were killed by poisonous gases while digging a well at South Perry, O. THE levee in Cincinnati was visited by a $200,000 fire in which one half of the Laidley river steamboat line was destroyed. JOHN M. TRENDLEY, of St. Louis, arrived at Denver, Col., after an adventurous journey of 1,200 miles on a bicycle. THE Citizens' state bank at South Sioux City, Neb., failed with liabilities of $30,000 and assets of $23,000. J. M. CURTIS, a Kansas City horseman, was relieved of a pocketbook containing $2,300 by pickpockets in Cleveland, O. RICHARD LEACH was electrocuted at Sing Sing, N. Y., for the murder of his wife, Mary S. Leach, on December 11, 1894. HUERFANO COUNTY, Col., was attracting attention on account of important discoveries of tin ore. R. D. MARSHALL, of Chippewa Falls, was appointed judge of the supreme court of Wisconsin. A NEW counterfeit $10 national bank note on the First national bank of Detroit was discovered by the secret service bureau. The notes are photographie productions of brown backs, series of 1882, check letter "C," "B. K. Bruce, registrar; James Gilfillan, treasurer." WILL SIMS and Lucy Perry, sweethearts, quarreled at Paducah, Ky., and Sims started to leave when the woman shot him dead and then killed herself. TWENTY-TWO prisoners were terribly injured by a falling bridge in the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo. WILLIAM NEWTON LANE shot and instantly killed James Rodenbaugh and mortally wounded the young man's father, H. C. Rodenbaugh, in a drunken debauch at Versailles, Ky. All were prominent citizens. EVERY negro in Delta county, Tex., was notified that he must leave abonce or he would be hanged. THE total assessed valuation for taxation in Wisconsin this year will be about $605,000,000, which is about $5,000,000 more than last year. THE fire loss of the United States and Canada for the month of July shows a total of $9,085,000. against $16,307,000 for the same period in 1894. WILLIAM E. BROCKWAY, the notorious counterfeiter and forger, and three members of his gang, were arrested at Jersey City, N. J. THE Iowa Liberal league in state convention at Marshalltown determined to work in a non-partisan manner to secure a law permitting the manufacture of liquors in Iowa. THE Rocky Mountain savings bank at Denver closed its doors with liabilities of $60,000. PEORIA, III., has been decided on as the permanent headquarters of the Order of Railway Telegraphers. THE secret service gave warning of a new photographic counterfeit five-dollar national bank note, First national bank of Flint, Mich., series of 1882. A. E. KELLEY, a commission dealer, shot and killed himself at the grave of his wife in Cleveland, O. A DISPATCH received at the war department from Gen. Coppinger at Jackson's Hole, Wyo., said the Indian
