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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. A mob which intended to lynch two men had their designs frustrated early this morning at Lebanon, Ky. Charles W. Nordstrom was hanged at Seattle, Washn., this morning for the murder nine years ago of Thomas Ma. son, a ranchman in a quarrel over $3.85 due Nordstrom for work performed on Mason's ranch. A cyclone did considerable damage in West Texas last night. The wind blew at a velocity of sixty miles an hour. The Windsor Hotel at Abilene was practically wrecked as were several other buildings. There were no casualties. The Superior Savings and Banking Company, of Cleveland, o, is in the hands of a receiver and its doors were closed today. The Superior Realty Company interested in the bank asked for a receiver on the ground that the bank had been mismanaged by a former official. A psculiar incident occurred between Elmira, N. Y., and Corning last night on Frie train No. 5 when a woman and her two sons went suddenly insane and used knives. The woman gave her name as Dr. Nellie Geer, of Chicago. The three are reported no better today. Dr. Alfred s. Dana, in attempting to cross the Harlem railroad tracks at Bronxville, N. Y., yesterday afternoon while riding in his carriage with his coachman, was struck by the Chatbam local express and instantly killed. The transportation committee of the ParAmerican Exposition has cabled M. Sartos Damont, in Paris, a $10,000 offer to give an exhibition with his flying machine at the exposition on September 14. During an electrical storm last night at Mahanoy City, Pa, Edwin Reber, of Blackhome was struck by lightning and killed. A bolt also destroyed the home of George Adams, of Landryville. Admiral and Mrs. Sampson passed through Lake Sunaree, N. H., last night on their way to Burke Haven, where they are to spend & couple of weeks. The admirel looked weak and fatigued. Mrs. Beckham, wife of Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, is improved today. She res'el fairly well last night and it is now thought she will recover. Fully 10,000 firemen were in Fae of parade in Buffalo, N. Y., today. With their bright uniforms they made a grand spectacle. Two strangers in & buggy yesterday at. ducted the J0-year-old son of Dan Honeycutt, residing in Bloomington, Ind.
