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OSCAR PETERSON, James Doggett and Daniel Connoys, miners, were suffo cated to death in the Jefferson mine at Victor, Col., on the 27th. by foul air. Peterson was first overcome and the other two went to his rescue. MR. WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER, poet and journalist, died at Louisville, Ky., on the 27th, aged 86. The first of his poems to attract attention was "The Wreck of the Hornet." He was recognized as a capable journalist of broad views. AN alarm of fire was rung in from the Charlestown (Mass.) prison on the 27th, for a small blaze in the prison. It caused an outbreak among the prisoners, in which one man was fatally shot and another seriously hurt. DR. J. K. HESTAND committed suicide at Ardmore, I. T., on the 27th, by taking cyanide of potassium. lived but a few minutes after swallowing the fatal drug. He was a graduate of the Wherry bichloride of gold cure for the whisky habit, of which institute he was manager. ISAAC GOODMAN, the leader and the third of the notorious Goodman gang to appear for trial at Anderson, Ind., was, on the 27th, denied a new hearing and was sentenced to four years in the Michigan City prison. He is 80 years old, and is worth $50,000. THE trial of John S. Beach, president of the Prairie City bank of Terre Haute, Ind., which closed during the panic last summer, resulted. on the 27th, in acquittal. the jury being instructed to bring in a verdict of not guilty. Beach was indicted for embezzlement. THE jury in the case of Andrew Sauer, cashier of the defunct Defiance (0.) savings bank, charged with embezzling $10,000 of the bank's funds, returned a verdict of acquittal on the 27th. Ex-EMPRESS EUGENIE requested M. Decrais, French Ambassador to Great Britain, to forward to Mme. Carnot a message expressing her sympathy. IT was reported from Rome. on the 27th, that thirty-eight anarchists had been arrested. The Italian police, acting with the French police. are tracking an international anarchist plot. A DISPATCH from Berlin states that Emperor William ordered Count Von Munster, the German ambassador to France, to represent him at the funeral of M. Carnot. His majesty sent a splendid wreath to be laid upon the coffin. LATER accounts from the storm ir South Dakota and Minnesota, on the 27th, give the names of ten persons killed outright and more than a score severely injured by falling buildings and otherwise. MR. MATTHEWS, a partner in the firm of Gore, Matthews & Co., millers of Lima, Peru, which recently went into bankruptey, threw himself from the steamer Serena, between Cerro Agual and Ceila, and was drowned. IT is said that a suicide club exists ir the east end of Indianapolis, Ind., the members of which, all young men. end their lives by the use of prussic acid. DR. AND MRS. EDWARD PERSON ar rived in Freemansburg, Pa., on the 28th, on a visit to the doctor's sister, Mrs. Joseph Keener. They rode all the way from West Point, Neb., 1,600 miles, in a two-horse buggy, starting on the journey on April 28, and traveling at the rate of 45 miles a day. The longest day's drive was 62 miles on the prairies # in Illinois. THE Inter-state Sheriffs' convention at Sioux City, Ia., on the 28th, elected William Remer, of Deadwood, S. D., president: G. W. Tose, Madison, Neb.; G. T. Hazen. Council Bluffs. Ia.. E. B.