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THIRTEEN residences were burned in Francisco, causing a loss of $100,000. Richard Windrow, Edward Davis Charlee Madison, firemen, were dilled another fatally injured while fighting the flames AFTER the discussion of constitutional prohibition and the religious aspects of the temperance cause the world's temperance congress in Chicago came to an end. A DOZEN buildings at Oshkoah, Wis. were burned, causing a loss of $200,000. MRS. ENMA MORROW, Otto Stevens and Luther W. Turner were drowned near Spring Valley, Minn. Their team plunged into Deer creek, upsetting the carriage. THE failure of the private bank of A. C. Robert at Washburn, Wis., caused the Shell Lake savings bank, of which be is principal owner, to suspend. THE republicans of Ohio in convention at Columbus nominated William McKinley for governor, A. L." Harris for lieutenant governor, W. T. Cope for state treasurer, J.K. Richards for attorney general and P. Bradbury for suprente judge. The platform favors protection to American labor and industries; protestion against the hefuxof vicious bad criminal classes; favors pensions to disabled soldiers and sailors of the late war and the widows and orphans of such as are deceased, and favors honest money composed of gold, silver and maintained at equal value and under national and not state regulation, IN the Texas regatta Oarsman Peterson won a quarter of a mile dash in 1:16 % defeating Stansbury, Hanlan, Teemer, Ten Eyck and others. INFANTA EULALIA, of Spain. and her husband, Prince Antonio, together with members of their party, visited the world's fair. IT was decided by Judges Woods and Jenkins of the United States circuit court that the gates of the World's Co. lumbian exposition should be closed on a Sunday. Judge Grosscup rendered dissenting opinion. A MOB lynched L. a Dumas, a young colored man, at Gleason, Tenn., for assaulting a daughter of a farmer. THE men and women whose official positions make their duty the caring for the unfortunate in the public institutions of the country inaugurated a con gress of charities and corrections in Chicago. Six masked men held up the Mobile & Ohio New Orleans express train at Forest Lawn, III., and robbed the express car of $10,000. THE Nebraska state building on the world's fair grounds was dedicated with great enthusiasm. IN Chicago the congress of vegetarians was opened and paperssetting forth the benefits to be obtained from abstention from eating flesh were read. A WINDSTORM swept Rice county, Minn., doing fully $50,000 damage. The village of Dundas suffered the most severely. AT the annual meeting in Peoria, III, John A. Lee, of St. Louis, was elected president of the Travelers' Protective association. THE recent fire in Fargo, N. D., caused a loss of $3,500,000, and an appeal for aid for the many persons left destitute has been made. Ar Mayfield, Ky., Bob Brown, a negro, was hanged for the murder of Albert Colley, a well-to-do farmer, on the night of December 10, 1892. BANKS failed at Mascoutah, Ill., Hudson, Wis., Ellenburg, Wash., Missoula, Mont.. Gillespie, Ill., and two private banks in Chicago. AT the session of the Women's Christian Temperance union congress in Chicago the world's fair directory was denounced for permitting the sale of liquor on the grounds. ON the line of the new drainage canal at Lemont, III., a sheriff's posse met and put to rout 400 striking quarrymen, killing seven of the number and seriously injuring a score of others. Gov. Altgeld ordered troops to the scene of the strife,
