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FITH OF THE NEWS. The Hon. George B. Loring, en. minister to Portugal and former commissioner of agriculture, died suddenly yesterday morning at Salem, Mass., of heart trouble. Robert Garrett has given to Johns Hopkins university his library of valuable Americars. Mr. Garretts 8 collection includes many works on early rare. American history, all valuable and The swimming match at Worcester, Mass., for the championship of America was won by James L. McCusker, of Lowell. The distance was one mile and the time 28 minutes 19 3-4 seconds. Advices from Cuba show that the faland's future grows darker. With banditti on one hand, robberies by government officials on another and enormous taxes for appropriations, the burdens of the people are becoming greater than they can bear. A British army officer on his way to inspect the defenses of British Columbia says the general belief in England is that trouble with the United States is inevitable, unless the cause of irritation between Canada and the republic is removed and matters of dispute between the two countries are settled before very long. The works of the Menasha Wood Split-Pulley company. the flour mill of James Jones, and the warehouse of the Menasha Woodenware company. at Menasha, Wis., burned. The loss is $45,000; insurance, $38,000. Several firemen were injured by falling walls. About one hundred men are thrown out of employment by the fire. It is estimated that the yie'd of wheat in Michigan for the present season will exceed 28,000,000 bushels. A company was organized Dubuque, Iowa, Monday to build a mill at for crushing zinc ores. Monday the five mercantile appraisars of Philadelphia, Messra. Patton. Houseman, Crawford, Bell and Hunter, charged with dereliction in office, were held for appearance at court in bonds of $2,500 each. # The Metcalf-Mackey Carriage com' pany of Cincinnati made an assignment $50,000. Monday. Liabilities. $55,000; assets, Judge Beatty, in the United States Circuit court at San Francisco, Mond day. held that Chinese merchants could e not be permitted to land in the United . States without the certificates proit vided for in the Chinese restriction act of 1884. 0 t The veterinary department of the in British board of agriculture has decided that kochine is useless in the die agnosis of the presence of tuberculosin in animals. at er A band of brigands recently attacked © and captured she railroad station at Pavlokioi, sixty-seven kilometers east : of Adrisnople. The outlaws shot two he them. rendarmes who attempted to opposs o The Citizens' bank of Webster, 8. D., it has unknown. failed. Liabilities, $10,000; assets au nThe Atchison (Kan.) fair, which has a been running all last week, closed in r. disgrace. The gate receipts were stolen by one or more members of the association and the employes, exibitits ors and others cannot get their money. The north-bound Central passenger ut train from Savannah. Ga., was held up it by masked men near Millen. They held the passengers at bay while conlafederates robbed the express train of he its packages. Dogs were started the track of the robbers and on detectives too and special officers of the railroad and pe, express companies are in the county. air The indications are that the President's proclamation opening to nettle. p.m ment the Indian reservation in the nteastern part of Oklahoma will be isdea sued before the middle of the week. the A man supposed to be William B. Tascott, the alleged murderer of Milit lionaire Spell, of Chicago, has been an rorested at Bambury, S. C. fty The notorious Ellen E. Peck, alias E. the Eliza Knight, is said to have swindled Merritt H. Day, a Dakota lawyer, out ain of Brooklyn real estate worth $250,000. a All Europe is greatly worried in the Russia's Dardanelles. recent move in regard to by the , The advanced trades-unionists r it it ale. Socialistic tendencies won every o point of in the Newcastle labor congress. $ American tourists on the continent complain that they have everywher ing been persistently snubbed by the swell English travelers. upconCharles Ter ront rode from Paris t ade Brest, and return, on a bicycle, 74 H han miles, in seventy-two hours. king never slept during the trip. Herr Bock. who fled to America after embezzling $75,000 from th keep Prussian mortgage bank, has beer traced to the steamer 1 hich left H am burg last Saturday. He will lldoubtles 7 ces; be taken into custody upon the sier rival of the steamer at New York. Mays Vantine was Murdered. leep is . TIFFIN, Ohio, Sept. 16:One ago last June Charles Vantine, a well yea four known stock dealer, was found dea acin a bed on his farm near Republic nine miles east of this city A bullet hole through his heart and a revolve for . with one empty chamber on the shes suggested the theory of suicide. To fioo day a man claiming to be a Springfiel