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Domestic. During a game of baseball at Lownesboro, Ala., Frank McCoy, one of the players, enraged at a decision of the umpire, Samuel Powell, picked up a bat and crushed the latter's skull, killing him instantly. An infuriated boar a few days ago bit George W. Snoke, 8 farmer residing near New Cumberland, Penn., severing a main artery and causing Mr. Snoke's death by poolq 10 5501 The "Southern Cross," home of General Wade Hampton, at Columbia, S. C., was burned a few days ago, the General escaping with the loss of parts of bis mustache, eyebrows and hair. The General's library and many valuable documents were lost in "sewey eqf James L. Hanchet. who fied from West-i field, Mass., under the fear that he was to be arrested for embezzling $7000 from the Steimer & Moore Manufacturing Company, has returne to the city and offered to submit to punishment. Business men of the city had contributed $1000 to save him from prosecution before he went away, and it is not probable that he will be punished. The auxiliary cruiser Prairie sailed a few days ago from League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia. She will spend five months or more in the training service, and will have on board at various times naval militia from all the States along the coast, from Louisville to Maine. Arthur Shattuck, of Gardner, Mass., the son of the Fire Department Chief of the town, died at Boston from the effect of having an ulcerated tooth drawn. The operation was performed over a week ago and the physicians were unable to check the flow of blood. The town of Checkly, Okla., conta twelve hundred population, was literally wiped out by fire a few days ago. Three persons were burned to death. The loss amounts to about $300,000. A violent earthquake shock was felt in Louisville, Ky., and Jeffersonville, Ind., a few days ago. The vibrations were from northeast to southwest and houses were swayed as tree limbs in a gale. Handsome stained glass windows in several of the churches were smashed, and in many private residences china and glassware were broken. There was only one shock, and it lasted only ten seconds. The United States transport Sherman, with eighty passengers on board, including Brigadier-General Harrison Grey Otis of the volunteers and three civilians, sons of JO ""i" Sepator 'SuH State JO Secretary Maine, and Congressman Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, arrived at San Francisco, Cal., a few days ago, from Manila. The transport Grant also arrived at San Francisco having on board 198 sick and wounded. Klondike advices have been received at Seattle, Wash., stating that Deputy Collector of Customs Andrews, stationed at Skaguay, recently seized the British sloop peq II 7547 punors out uo Dorothy to report at customs way points on the way from Skaguay. L. M. Pitkin, one of the best known business men of Cleveland, Ohio, was struck and instantly killed by the west bound Lake Shore express train at Colte, a suburb, a fam days ago. Mr. Pitkin was seventy years '09 .0 William Muhienfeis, from Sacramento, committed suicide at the Ruse House San Francisco, Cal., by putting a pistol bullet through his heart. He left a letter giving the address of his parents in New York about SBM °H AND Fire which started in the Polish settleB Chicago 10 epis northmest the JO quem few days ago destroyed eighteen tenement houses. One hundred and ten families, numbering in all about one thousand persons, were made homeless. Testifying at the hearing of E.P. Ingram and H. K. Hewitt, of Philadelphia, accused of helping counterfeiters by bribing deteccon- JO euo 'Spuey "I M 'sean spirators, said he made many payments to Ingham for a go-between. The Lake Village Savings Bank of Lakeport, N. H., has temporarily suspended payment. It is understood that withdrawals have been steady while deposits were not sufficient to equalize the loss, thereby necessitating a suspension of payment. The jury in thetrial of Margaret Anderson, of Ansonia, Conn., charged with murdering her husband by poison, returned a verdict of manslaughter. The verdict was a compromise. Mrs. Anderson was sentenced by Judge Edner to ten years in the State prison at Wethersfleld. Valentine De Graff, forty-seven years old, out 10 Cuptain pus Albany 10 resident B barge Jemima Leonard, belonging to Warford & Robinson, which was lying at her 1101 "I 'N 'SHO fesies uj declare and was drowned a few days ago. Frank V. Balling, who brought suit against W. C. Fuchs and Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, of Chicago, for the loss of a leg that was burned while Balling was under the light of the X-rays for treatment, was allowed $10,000 damages a few days ago by a jury in the Circuit Court. Ernest B. McNair, receiving teller of the Wilmington Saving Fund Society, at Wilmington, Del., has confessed to a shortage of $10,000 in his accounts. Inasmuch as Mr. Nair confessed judgment in real eetate valued at $15,000 in favor of the society it was decided by the directors of the society not to prosecute bim. McNair is thirty-one years of age and of high standing in the city. one detective ordeu U ' f 'V has been hunting evidence against alleged 04100 Incued **** qom B 10 negroes in Lee County, Ga.. in February, was shot dead in the country road near his home, nine miles below Leesburg, a few -1ed 1017 JO thirty 10 дош 8 Aq 'ODE slup sons. The Coroner's jury decided that the -un parties 10 spurt etf IV pelp ordeu known. Foreign.
