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AT New Orleans the Cooperative Banking association, capital stock $100,000, suspended. The bank had but few depositors.
POPULISTS of the Eighteenth Illinois district nominated G. S. Culp, of Shelby county, for congress.
THE Irish national convention at the closing session in Chicago effected an organization to be known as the Irish National Alliance and having for its object the securing of the independence of Ireland by any means within its power consistent with the laws and usages of civilized nations.
THE governor of Texas called an extra session of the legislature to meet October 2 to make provision for preventing prize fighting in the state.
AT Columbus, O., Martin Adams was hanged for causing the death of John Ohmer by poisoning his beer.
SIX men lost their lives by an explosion at the Belgian mine near Leadville, Col., and four others were badly injured.
In St. Louis Joseph Renisch, a pressman, and Delia Bolin, his sweetheart, committed suicide.
THE federal officers of San Francisco were notified that all British sealing vessels were carrying arms contrary to law.
FIRE nearly wiped out the village of Haskins, O.
"PADDY" PURTELL and Johnson, the "Terrible Swede," were sentenced, at Weir City, Kan., to one year each in the penitentiary for prize fighting.
ONE person was killed, two fatally injured and several others seriously hurt by a collision of trains near Tunnelton, W. Va.
WILLIAM NORRIS, of De Kalb county, Ala., the oldest counterfeiter in the United States, was convicted at Birmingham of making and passing spurious coins. He is almost 100 years old.
JOHN KUTTLER, a farmer living near Barada, Neb., was found dead in his hog pen, partially eaten by the hogs.
D. U. REED, of Blue Springs. Neb., secretary of the Nebraska State Horticultural society, while attending the "apple carnival" at Glenwood, Ia., was run down by a fast mail train and killed.
AT Springfield, Ill., the world's pole team trot record was broken at the fair grounds track, a mile being made in 2:12¾.
JAMES B. SHERMAN, a relative of Gen. Sherman and a former comrade of Col. Cody and Wild Bill, was acquitted at Caldwell, Kan., of the murder of Mayor Meagher, of Caldwell, twenty-one years ago.
FLAMES in the Cincinnati Leaf Tobacco company's storage warehouse destroyed 2,775 hogsheads of tobacco, entailing a loss of $300,000.
JUDGE WILLIAM MAY, at Salyersville, Ky., while hiving bees was stung to death.
FIRE destroyed the elevator of the Daisy flour mill at Superior, Wis, causing a loss of $180,000.
IN western Kansas 200 steers died because they dieted on second growth sorghum.
AT Monrovia, Cal., Mrs. Nellie W. Hagel, of Illinois, fell from a ballon a distance of 1,000 feet, and was instantly killed.
AT Great Falls, Mont., twenty-four horses, including the best drivers in town, with all carriages and hacks, were burned, and Hostler Marshal Nevins was roasted to death.
Os the reservation west of Hennessy, O. T., the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians were holding war dances and disregarding the agent's orders to keep on the reservation.
Is Chicago, typhoid fever, due to impure water and impure milk, was epidemic.
FRANK G. BIGELOW, a Milwaukee banker, and Edwin W. McHenry, of St. Paul, chief engineer of the Northern Pacific, were appointed receivers of the Northern Pacific railway.
FLAMES almost totally destroyed the town of Big Stone Gap, Va.
THE Church and School Furniture company at Wabash, Ind., failed with liabilities of $100,000.
THE doors of the Farmers' and Citizens' bank of Pawnee, O. T., were closed with liabilities of $50,000.
AT Summit and other portions of northern Michigan 3 inches of snow fell.
GREAT damage was done by gales on Lakes Michigan, Superior and Huron.
