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tion. Pennington's scheme for an electric road from Chicago to Indianapolis has lapsed. Great clouds of grasshoppers have been passing over Fort Dodge, Iowa, from north to south. Western lines bave agreed on oneway rates for Illinois day and other western state days at the fair. The steam launch Elida was sunk in Duluth harbor by the steamer Lucille and Lewis Winge was drowned. Through the carelessness of a physician, smallpox has become an epidemic at Muncie, Ind. In an interview at New York Dr. Carl Peters, the African Explorer, severely criticised Stanley's treatment of his men. The Bank of Albany, Mo., has suspended. Assets are $110,000 and liabilities $80,000. The California midwinter fair managers have accepted plans for four buildings to cost $360,000. August C. Krueger, twenty-six years old, of Chicago, butted his brains out in Eeast St. Louis. The American Bankers' association convention has been postponed indefinitely owing to the financial stress. It was to be held in Chicago Sept. 6-7. F. H. Weeks, the fugitive embezzler, has been located in Central America. The National German-American bank, of St. Paul, Minn, will resume business in two weeks. "Jeff" Hankins, the well known turf man and sporting man, died at his home in Chicago. John Hagan, an old blind soldier, at Shelbyville, Ind., was found dead in bed, with $1,200 in greenbacks tied around his arms, and on each side a revolver. Kansas republicans are alarmed at the activity of the populists, and a meeting of the state committe has been called. There was a terrific tempest in the region of Somerville, N. J., which cost five lives and caused great loss of pr perty. In a drunken row at Paducah, Ky., W. F. Woods killed his 19-year-old son by hitting him on the neck with a beer glass. Marion Manola Mason, the actress, was bitten while rescuing her daughter from a vicious dog on July 24, and it is feared that she has hydrophobia. A case of black drilling diamonds valued at $30,000 was lost by a New York drummer while riding from a St. Louis hotel to the depot. It is believed they were stolen. George C. Perkins, now representing California in the United States senate as successor to the late Senator Stanford, ran away from his native Maine when a boy, to serve before the mast on a small sailing ssel. He was after te Maine chance and struck it. The boiler of the Wellington roller mills at Lexington, Mo., exploded and instantly killed Engineer Richard JohnSCD and a boy named Frank Albin. The Dallas and Oak Cliff and the West Dallas street railway companies at Dallas, Texas, have been placed in the hands of a receiver. The application was made by the St. Louis Trust company. William Highfield, one of the white #aps who brutally whipped William Davis and his wife at Jasper, Ind., has been sentenced to two years imprisonment and to pay a fine of $10. Chase Fenner. the oldest member of the Louisiana supreme bench, will shortly resign the office to practice law. New York bankers are anxious as to the needs of their southern correspondents for money to move the cotton crop. The question of dividing Kansas and making the new state of Lincoln out of the western half of the state, is beIng agitated. The National Bank, of South Pennsylvania, at Hyndman, Bedford county, closed its doors. Liabilities $356,000; assets, $450,000. Searle & Webster, show manufacturers, of Haverhill, Mass., have as signed. Their liabilities are about .000 with assets far below these $1, figures. The burglar recently arrested in Missouri, who gave his name as Rev. T. J. Brown, of Waupun, is Frank Bender, an ex-convict of the state penitentiary. Private advices received in New York from London are to the effect that the Indian council has receded from its position against silver. B. Severson. a farmer residing in Canoe county, Ia., assaulted Patrick Roney, an old resident of the county, with a hammer yesterday and killed him. Severson is in jail.
