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$2.00 Per Year. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The Chicagos defeated the Philadelphias Monday in eight Innings, 15 to 10. A number of cattle and sheep at Clinton, III., are dying of an unknown disease. It is the intention of the Czar to be crowned King of Poland during his stay in Warsaw. John McCullough, the tragedian, reached New York Monday from Europe, in vigorous health. The annual convention of the National Association of Fire Engineers is in session in Chicago, William McAdoo was renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Seventh New Jersey District Monday. Mrs. Mary Walker lighted a fire with kerosene at Adrian, Mich., Monday morning, and was burned to death. The principal business block at ArkanBas City, Ark., was destroyed by fire Mon. day, involving a loss of $60,000. The Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest will hold their annual convention in Chicago Wednesday and Thursday. The cotton mill of James Riddles, Son & Co., at Wilmington, Del., was closed Monday, the result of a strike against a reduotion. Saugatuck, Mich., is shipping about twelve thousand baskets of peaches daily to Chicago. The fruit is ripening very rapidly in the burning sun. A wager of $80,000 to $25,000 on the Republican National ticket, offered by Angus Smith, of Milwaukee, has been aocepted by a Chicagoan. Charles S. Parnell telegraphs Patrick Egan his congratulations on the determination to hold the Irish National League Neutral in American politics. The National Prison Association began its sessions at Troy, N. Y., Monday, Rutherford B. Hayes, ex- President of the United States, in the chair. A three-day celebration is being held at Chambersburg, Pa., to commemorate the advent of the first white settler in Franklin County, one hundred years ago. Ben Butler was waited upon at Des Moines by a delegation of woman suffragists, to whom he said he had no doubt of woman's right to citizenship under the constitution. Charles J. Downie, who killed his broth= er in Chicago last Friday, made an attempt to hang himself in his cell with a cord supporting his bunk. His piteous cries indicate that he is a maniac. Governor Cleveland on Monday visited the fair-grounds at Elmira, where fifty thousand persons had gathered, and was recelved with an artillery salute. He delivered a brief address from his carriage. Patti's and the Marquis do Caux's lawyers have arranged that the latter shall join with her in her application to the divorce tribunal, which, it is now expected, will give Its assent to their legal separation. Clearing-house exchanges last week$684,556,164-are greater than the returns of the previous week by $34,887,059 but when compared with the corresponding week a year ago slow a decline of 22.1 per cent. Reports from the corn-growing regions or the West are to the effect that the recent warm weather has rapidly matured the grain, and that it is now virtually beyond danger of harm by frost. The crop is immense in the aggregate. The Lincoln Savings Bank, at Fayettville, Tenn., suspended payments Monday. The assets are said to be $200,000, and deposits about $100,000. The latter will all be paid, it is said, and the stockholders will receive but fifty per cent. At a "christening" Sunday night in Hamtramek, Mich., a girl refused to dance with a male guest, when a row occurred, in which Pat Bourke was stabbed and bled to death, and Fritz Krum was seriously hurt, and others were slightly injured. H. Wheeler, the statistical agent of No. braska for the United States Department of Agriculture, reports this year's corn and wheat crops in Nebraska to considerably exceed the average of past years. Other crops, including hogs, are equally successful. The well-known commission firm of Payne, Viley & Co., of Louisville, failed yesterday. Its liabilities are $160,000. It Is charged with using bogus warehouse recolpts. A loss of $65,000 falls upon the United States National Bank of New York.
