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ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. Fire losses at Chicago during 1889 foot up $2,251,471.91, which is $800,000 more than for 1888. Hobbs, Glidden & Co., of Boston, dealert in building materials, have failed with liabilities of $150,000. Rachel Dee, of Danville, Ills., charges her husband, Anderson Dee, with having another wife at Williamsport, Ind. The Bank of South Dakota, at Madison, S. D., assigned Thursday. Assets claimed, $150,000; liabilities. not given. Nelson's jewelry store at Mandan, N. D., was robbed Friday at noon of $600 worth of watches and rings. The proprietor was at dinner. Col. J. G. Stowe, of Kansas City, was attacked by footpads Thursday night, but he used his cane so vigorously that his assailants ran away. A petition has been filed in the Indiana supreme court asking that the case against Chicago dressed beef, recently dismissed, be reinstated on the docket. United States District Judge Foster, at Topeka, Kan., refused to receive the evidence of "spotters" Friday in liquor selling cases unless corroborated by other testimony. The First National bank of Chehalis, Washington, capital $50,000, and the Hazleton, Pennsylvania, National bank, capital $100,000 have been authorized to begin business. In the international chess congress now in progress at Havana, Cuba, a game between Tschigorin, the Russian champion,and Gunsberg required seven hours to finish. Gunsberg won. It is said at New York that a combination of Pennsylvania oil producers is preparing to build a new pipe line between the oil fields and the coast, in opposition to the Standard Oil company. Safe-breakers made a raid on the safe of Selz, Schwab & Co., at 190 Franklin street, Chicago, early Friday morning and got away with about $500 in cash. The work was done by experts. W. H. Bennett, who moved several years ago from Sterling or La Salle, Ills., to Council Bluffs, Ia., is in trouble because he is sweet on a woman other than his wife. In fact, he has fled with the other woman. The "Lucy" furnace at the Carnegie works, Pittsburg, exploded Friday, instantly killing Michael Welsh and seriously burning with molten metal Thomas Welsh, Thomas Summerlee, Henry Skilford, John Quigley, Michael Morrissey, Martin Summerlee, Henry Shilkin, and James Duffee. Hollanders who want to send watches and jewelry by mail to their friends in the old country are notified that they had better save their money. Such articles are dutiable in Holland, and the authorities there simply throw them into a pile until enough has accumulated, and then put them in a machine and pound them to pleces.