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WEST AND SOUTH. AT Portland, Ore., Mrs. George H. Williams, a religious enthusiast, finished a forty-day fast and resumed eating. IN the Michigan peninsula 8,000 persons were said to be in need of assist. ance. A BILL providing for the issue of currency notes by state banks was passed by the Georgia house. IN Cincinnati a den where counterfeit nickels, dimes, quarters and halves were being made was discovered and the counterfeiters arrested. THE Minnekahta state bank at Hot Springs, S. D., closed its doors. IN the cellar of his employer's store at Omaha Martin Anderson murdered an unidentified woman and then kille 1 himself. THE Journeyman Barbers' National union at its meeting in Cincinnati decided to favor Sunday closing of shops everywhere. JOSEPH B. DOE, of Wisconsin, has been nominated to be assistant secretary of war. A RECEIVER was named for the Chicago trust and savings bank. THE oldest lady in New Orleans (Mrs. Lydia Rezau) died at her home, aged nearly 102 years. She witnessed Washington's funeral. FIRE destroyed the Southern female university at Birmingham, Ala., and Minnie Dean was fataily burned and several other girls were seriously injured. IN the navy yards at Norfolk, Va., fire did damage of nearly $300,000. It originated in cotton waste. FIRE destroyed the stables and barns of the Consolidated Street Traction Railway company in Dallas, Tex., to gether with thirty cars and sixty mules. SOME 700 families applied to the township authorities at Springfield, 0., for aid. Ar the Michigan City (Ind.) penitentiary 100 cases of grip were reported. A MOB beat to death Bob Greenwood, a negro, in Cross county, Ark., because his family offended the wife of a white neighbor named Wilson. THE value of all the exhibits at the world's fair was estimated at $14,000,000, and the customs duties unid to the United States government amount to $484,170
