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NEWS IN BRIEF. Therun on the Spring Garden Bank, of Philadelphia, has ended. Ida Dingman, of Seymour, Ind., aged seventeen, took a dose of Rough on Rats and died. The Current, the Chicago literary publication, it is stated, will appear as usual hereafter. Another case growing out of the assignment of Archbishop Purcell has been filed in the Ohio Supreme Court. A fire in Cincinnati damaged the Pioneer Cooperage Company's building and stock to the extent of $18,000. James Merrill, a bridge carpenter on the C. & M. R. R., was instantly killed by fall from a trestle near Cambridge, O. At Polk, O., Willie Moon, aged nine years, shot his sister Jennie, aged six, with his father's musket, killing her instantly. B. F. Coates, of Portsmouth, Ohio, has been appointed receiver of the Cincinnati & Eastern road, vice John R. McLean, resigned. Henry L. Skagga is in jail at Crawfordsville, Ind., in default of $3,000 bail, on a charge of ravishing his thirteen-year-old step-daughter. Freddie Doran, a two-year-old boy, fell t from the second story plarform of a Cineinnati fire escape, and sustained injuries from/which the died. In a reunion of the Stubbs family, near Elkton, Preble county, O., over three hundred relatives were present, representing eight different States. Alfred Johnson, aged sixty years, Postmaster at Port William, O, who had been sick and despondent for some time, ended his misery by hanging himself. The Washington Park club, of Chicago, offers $5,000 for a race between Miss Woodford and Freeland, or $0,000 between these two and Pontiac. Corrigan, owner of Freeland, will accept either proposition. Ira F. Powers' frame furniture factory at Portland, Oregon, burned yesterday morning. Loss $32,000; insurance $18.000. An open wharf of the Oregonian Railway company was damaged $10,000; not insured. At Muncie, Ind., Saturday morning, af. ter a night of carousal, John Galbraith and will Collins quarrelled. and in an exc change of shots that followed Galbraith received a ball in his breast. He afterward accidentally shot himself in the leg. Thefarniture factory of Gardner, Holmes & Co., at380 and 340 East Sixty-first street, New York, was burned yesterday morning. Fireman John Eanis, of Company No. was killed by the falling walls. Fireman Andrew M. Deavitt. also of Company No. crushed by falling walls, but his injuries have not proved fatal. The loss is estimated at over $100,000. The explosion on the steamer 8. M. Feb ton. at Philadelphia, has been discovered to have been the work of one Adriance Spears, who was himself killed by it. Investigation shows that it was part of n scheme he has successfully pursued for years of getting himself injured for the sake of the accident insurance involved, 3, of which he carried $35,000 at the time of his death,