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MISCELLANEOUS. The general assembly of the Presbyterian church has opened at Winona Lake, Ind. Secret Service operatives arrested three women and a man who are charged with counterfeiting silver coins at Philadelphia. Lieut. Granville Chapman, stationed Okla., was the killed asat back Fort and Reno, instantly shot while in Bisting in company maneuvers. Eight trainmen were killed and four persons were injured in a head-on collision between Illinois Central freight trains south of Echols, Ky. Thomas Meany shot and killed Frank Duchetau in a clash between union and non-union glass workers at Elwood, Ind. During a quarrel in Chicago James Kutickes shot and severely wounded his friend, Slip Vrachnos, and then shot himself through the heart. Coffin, of Manchester, N. as a H., J. Edward prominent cartoonist of typhoid and newspaper writer, died at the age of one best fever, Joseph Elkinton, 45 years. of the ministers of the in America, died at sumknown Friends Society his Mr. of mer home near Philadelphia. Elkinton was 75 years of age. Margaret C. Orr and her two Margaret grandchildren, Mrs. aged Smith, 9, were aged 11, and Annie Smith, asphyxiated by illuminating gas in their home at Newark, N. J. An express car on a Washington and New York train on the Reading railroad was destroyed by fire at Bethayres, a few miles north of Philadelphia. A battle with pistols between a squad of New York harbor police and a band of river pirates resulted in the capture of the latter and the recovery of five bags of concha beans valued at $1,000. At Pueblo, Col., in a fit of jealousy, Frank Cowells, a railroad switchman, shot and killed Miss Stella Brie, his former sweetheart, and immediately afterward sent a bullet into his own brain that resulted in his death. The First National Bank of CornN. has been closed the of tion wall, of Y., comptroller the by currency, and direc- Naon the ground of insolvency, tional Bank Examiner Charles E. Van Brocklin has been appointed receiver. George H. Wood, of New York, pleaded guilty of murder in the second in shooting a of Watchung, on liams, degree grocer George Feb- Wil2. Wood was sentenced at SomN. to 30 years ruary erville. J., in prison. Morton will leave the 1, if the cabinet Secretary July president date. will his resignation on that has not his accept The secretary completed has plans for the future. He a number of offers under consideration. James D. Colt, receiver for the & Freese Co., has a bill of Haight filed complaint stock brokers, in the United States circuit court at Boston, in which he charged that $200,000 of the concern's funds is missing. in which fought After a struggle Dalton, he madman, Michael an of the like employe a Homestead postoffice, charged was arrested in Pittsburg, the mails. In the inof his coat was a side with pocket robbing found decoy letter. Justice of the Peace John Lynch, clerk of the district (state) N. D., arformerly court at Minot, has been B. Goss rested by order of Judge E. of on the charge embezzling the 12 $8,671 in fees received during years Lynch was clerk of the court. Dagmar E. Turnberg and her sister two women stenographwere struck and Dora, ers, young instantly Forest killed Glen, by a passenger train near Ill. It is reported from Tokio that a junk filled with Russian officers has been captured. It is presumed that they were making a reconnaissance from Vladivostok. house at New York City The where Canfield Lafayette was Fulton once lived a and where Robert the for guest while engine his pioneer steamboat, the Claremont, was being built in a shop nearby, was destroyed by fire recently.