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DOMESTIC. THE business portion of South Wayne, Wis., was destroyed by fire. THE sealing schooner Helen Blum, of San Francisco, was reported lost with her crew of twenty-five men. THE August report of the statistician of the department of agriculture at Washington shows that crops throughout the country have suffered severely from the drought. LEE BUTLER, cashier of C. M. Wright & Co.'s bank vat Altamont, Ill., absconded with $41,000, the entire assets of the bank. DAN LEWIS, Jim Taylor and Jack Chambers, all colored, charged with an assault on Mrs. George Warren at Hoboken, Ga., last spring, were caught and lynched within 3 miles of Way Cross. Ga. TROUBLE at Coal Creek, Tenn., has broken out afresh. A soldier named William Laugherty was murdered by miners and his death was avenged by lynching Dick Drummond. AT Chester, Pa., the largest steamboat in the world was launched. She will ply in the Fall River line. FIRE among warehouses and factories in Milwaukee caused a loss of $150,000. THE Broadmoore Land & Investment company of Colorado Springs, Col., went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $260,000. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was hanged in effigy at Golden, Col., by free silver enthusiasts. CHARLES J. EDDY, aged 53, one of the oldest railroad men in the west and until six months ago second vice president of the Reading system, committed suicide in Washington park, Chicago, by shooting himself. No cause was known. DURING the first seven months of the present fiscal year the losses by fire in the United States reached $98,101,300, against $76,967,250 in 1892 and $79,247,370 in 1891. VINCENZO CAGLIOSTRO. aged 23 years, died at Swinburne Island hospital in New York of Asiatic cholera. THE fo llowing bank failures were re ported: The American national at Nashville, Tenn., the Hamilton county state bank at Webster City, Ia., the Caldwell county exchange bank at Kingston, Mo., the Exchange bank at Polo, Mo., and Johnston, Buck & Co. of Ebensburg, Pa., conducting banks at Ebensburg, Carrolltown and Hastings. THE New York. Lake Erie & Western Railroad company suspended its unmarried employes on the Honeydale (Pa.) division. ToM RICKETTS and Robert Miller, residents of Parnell, Mo., were run over and killed by a Chicago & Great Western train. ARRIVING from England in search of her husband, Mrs. Edward Douglass found him a convict at the Joliet (111.) prison. WONG DEP KEN is the first Chinaman to be deported under the Geary law. He was shipped from San Francisco. AT the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 11th aggregated $799,905,224. against $978,880,758 the previous week. The decrease as compared with the corresponding week of 1892 was 20.2. HAIL ruined the tobacco crop in five counties in Kentucky. THERE were 394 business failures re. ported in the United States during the seven days ended on the 11th. In the week preceding there were 436, and during the corresponding time in 1892 the number was 160. THE National bank at Waxahachie, Tex., and Beatty's bank at Mansfield, Ill., closed their doors. FOREWARNED of a visit marshals laid in wait at Lehigh, I. T., for Jim Percy and Clem Jones, bandits, and killed them. IT was discovered that Henry Brown (colored), who was hanged for the mur der of a peddler in East St. Louis, Ill. in December, 1880, while an accessory was not the principal, the murderer being J. C. Jackson, another negro, who was acquitted of the charge. THIRTEEN of the Meachim gang were killed in a battle with citizens of Clark county, Ala. The affair is the outgrowth of a feud of some years' standing. BOSTON assessors estimate the population of the "Hub" at 580,000. The last census shows a population of 446,570. UNITED STATES MARSHAL WHITEMASTER was murdered in the Cherokee strip by Laura Maundas, a female horse thief. WILL MCCARTY dead and Bob Sparks and John Ritter mortally wounded is the result of a drunken row at Shelbyville, Ky. SEVEN cases of cholera have developed among the passengers on the Karamemania, recently arrived at New York