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ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. R. Lynn Minton, editor of the Anna (Ills.) Talk, is dead as the result of a blow with a chair given by his foreman, James T. Moreland, during a quarrel Dec. 20 last. Moreland is under arrest. The house of James L. Kernochan at Hempstead, L I., was entered by burglars and property to the value of about $5,000 was stolen. The stolen property included two large and two small silver polo prize cups and other silverware. John Smith died at his home near Jonesboro, III., at the advanced age of 105 years. Bud Moore, colored, shot and instantly killed his wife at their home in Charleston, Mo. Moore used an old musket and tore one side of his wife's face off. H. R. Green, son of Hetty Green, the New York multi-millionairess, is one of the Reed delegates chosen by the Sixth Texas district Republicans to the national convention. The "Parisian," a department store at St. Louis, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $150,000. "Frankie" Nelson won a six-days' women's bike race at New York, making 418 miles, 8 laps. Helen Baldwin was just five lengths behind. Nelson Mills' large saw mill at Marysville, five miles south of Port Huron, Mich., burned. Loss estimated at $75,000 to $100,000, inciuding a large quantity of lumber. Miss Nina Van Zandt that was, later Mrs. (proxy) Spics, and still later Mrs. S. S. Malato, announces that she is going on the lecture platform to make a living. The window glass works controlled by the Pittsburg and Indiana combinations have shut down for a month, with a prospect of a staike when they resume work. The venerable Iowa jurist, Judge George G. Wright, died Saturday morning from an apoplectic stroke, aged 76 years. The jury in the case of Jacob S. Johnson, a colored ex-preacher on trial at Somersville, N. J., for the murder of Annie F. Rogers. rendered a verdict of murder in the first degree. The Exchange bank at Greeley Centre, Neb., has closed. Nobody loses much, as the liabilities are only $10,000. The blind, sash and moulding mill of Ringger & Friedberger, Hoboken, N. J., burned. Loss, $70,000. Chris Smith's fine race mare Maid Marion, holder of the world's five-eighths and mile and twenty yards records, died at Montgomery Park near Memphis. The Fifth Avenue Savings bank at Columbus, O., has suspended. It is claimed that creditors will lose nothing. Cincinnati has $25,000 pledged to secure the national Democratic convention and is raising $50,000. Zella Nicolaus is stranded at Cincinnati, where she was appearing with a variety company on the strength of being the actress who got a $40,000 check from George Gould. G. W. Hurd of the firm of Stambaugh & Hurd, of Abilene, Kas., has just returned from a visit to his parents in Galena, III., with a souvenir of Lincoln's early career. It is about a foot off a rail split by the martyr president.
