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ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. A crevasse 2,100 feet wide in the Mississippi levee near Vicksburg has driven 2,000 people from their homes, and Governor Foster, of Louisiana, has been asked for ten days' rations for the destitute, and will supply them. The First National bank, of Brady, Tex., has suspended, and a receiver will be appointed. Directors say depositors will be paid in full. The ezar has celebrated the tenth anniversary of his coronation. Bert Fisher, who was accompanying George Williams from Iola, Kan., to Oklahoma with a drove of horses, the property of Williams, arose during the night and tried to kill his employer with a revolver. Just as he pulled the trigger Williams drew the quilt he was sleeping under over his head, and the bullet failed to penetrate it. Williams then rose and overpowered his assailant, took him to Topeka, and had him jailed. A mob of men and women, calling themselves the "Law and Order" league raided the saloons of Cheney, Kan. and destroyed all the property in three of them and tried to inflict bodily injury on one firm which resisted the proceedings. While Ben Williams was dipping steel plates into a pickle of boiling acid and oil at the Elwood (Ind.) tinplate works a plate slipped and the liquid splashed over his face and head. His face was burned to a crisp and his eyes burned out. G. Creek stabbed Albert Wilson to the heart at Glen Ellyn, Ills., during a dispute over money. The murderer is in jail. A disreputable printer at Arcola, Ills., resisted arrest by the city marshal, who is Mr. Bunch, a very old man. The resistance was SO savage and brutal that Bunch's right eye was knocked out, his left arm broken and he may die. A. B. Moore, of Washington, who followed his wife and her paramour to Grand Rapids and killed the latter, has been acquitted. The audience in the court room loudly applauded the verdict. Julia Morris, an 11-year-old girl, was drowned at Watseka, Ills., while playing with another child in a boat on Sugar creek. Louis Moran, wealthy and well-known in the old aristocratic French circle at Detroit, was the divorcee in a "marriage failure" case seventeen years ago. He and his long-ago wife have just remarried. Augusta Legnard, moving in the first circles at Waukegan, Ills., has been married to her father's coachman and is living at Chicago. During a panic caused by the altar of the Church of the Holy Virgin, Munich, catching fire, four children were killed and twenty-seven women received terrible injuries. The Campania has arrived at New York on her second westward trip, which is six hours behind the record. But she has established new records for two, three and four days consecutive progress, making 2,047 miles, the record of the Paris being 2,046. A lone highwayman "held up" an engineer and fireman of a switch engine in the h yards at Armourdale, a suburb of Kansas City. He got only a little loose change. Sontag and Evans, the desperadoes of the region about Visalia, Cal., got the drop on a detective who was hunting them. and he is off duty now with a severe wound. Dr. Hamilton Griffln, prominent because he was stepfather and manager of Mary Anderson before that talented actress became a wife, is dead at the age of 62. Mrs. Steele, an aeronaut, fell 1,000 feet at Tarborough, N. C., and was only a trifle stunned. She held to her burning balloon and her parachute all the way down.
