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NEWS TN BRIEF. A Condensation of Interesting Items on Various Subjects. Dynamiters triod to blow up a saloon at Sauford, Ind. Perry Anderson was gored to death by a ball near Winchester, Ky. A boy was burned to death in a fire near Troy, N. Y., Sunday night. Charles Clark "Stevenson governor of Nevada, died at Carson Sunday. Rev. G. T. Cain tell dead in the pulpit at Albion, N. Y., Sunday of heart disease Mrs. George Vannatta suicided with strychnine at Shelbyville, Ky. Tired of life. The goverenment crop report last week was more faverable than for the preceding week. The trial of Burchell for the murder of Benwell was bégun at Wordstock on Monday. George Cuffy, white married man, eloped with a colored nurse girl at Greensport, N. Y. Several degenerate sons of noble Shelbyville, Ind., sires are in jail for systematic burgling. Joseph Stewart stole a ride on a train to Fort Wayne, Ind., and the iron wheels stole his life away. Investigation by the state board of health reduces that Bergholz, O., cholera story to a state of collapse. Sanford, Ind., temperanceites put down Isadore Mulvaney liquor-joint by sending it to mingle with the stars per dynamite. Muddy water in a steam thresher boiler at Athens, O., reduced the machine to small pieces, and the boy in harge to life less dust. Another grave dug in the Wapakoneta, O., cemetery for the 7-year-old Minnich child, who looked into the barrel of a shotgan. Rev. John Gailry, a Millersburg, O., United Presbyterian preacher, is suspended on charge of associating 100 gaily with the wine can. William Williams was fatally shot at Carrollton, Ky., by George Dean, who had seduced Williams' daughter. There is talk of lynching. The first of the ten-inch breech-leading rifles built by the ordnance department of the army. was tested at Sandy Hook Saturday with satisfactory results. At Carrollton, Ky., Billy Williams, who accused George Dean of seducing his daughter and threatened his life, was shot and fatally wounded by Dean, Saturday. Colored William Davis, is arrested on charge of being the man who willfully abbreviated the mortal career of the marshal of Haughville, Ind., somo months ago. And now it is Tiffin who is fighting the Standard Oil company with wild weeps and cusses for the privilege of lighting her own streets and houses as her municipal majesty sees fit. McAuliffe and Slavin, who were to fight in England Monday night, were both arrested Monday morning by police officers. Each were bound over in the sum of £2,000 to appear in court Tuesday. John H. Seering. bookkeeper for the Cincinnati stone works, has fled, taking with him bank books and checks and other evidences of his rascalities. He is supposed to be a defaulter for over $1,000. At Springfield, O., 7,000 people attended the funeral of suicide and murderer Charles Drumm and the wife he killed. The woman's coffin was covered with flowers, while the murderer's casket was bare Columbus Hanchias, the counterfeiter in the In ianapolis jail, attempted to courty the woman with whom he has en living that she might not testify against him, but the cruel authorities interfered. Indianapolis Cigar company has its safe as good as new through the thoughtfulness of the bookkeeper in leaving open the door through which the midnight callers abstracted $270 and fifteen gold watches. Indianapolis business men have lost large sums of money investing in "tiger" skins and their wives will shiver all through the inclement winter months in plain beaver cloaks with not as much as a sealskin trimming. The Oakland bank, Chicago, suspended Monday. The Hyde Park bank followed suit. Neither will resume. The unusually heavy demand of the depositors and the difficulty of getting securities cashed are the reasons given for the failures. The King Powder company and the Peters Cartridge company have sued the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway company for $167,833.05 as damages to property and delay of business from the King's mills explosion last July.
