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THE NEWS IN BRIEF. The London Standard confirms the state ment that Russia has abandoned her claims to Zutfikar pass, In a reilway collision at Lucas, Ohio, Sunday Charles Johnson, a brakeman. was scallel to death. George R. Newton, formerly of Minonk, Ills., losse. $50,000 by the suspension of the rt Worth National bank. Martin & Co., leather merchants, of Buffato, N. V., have failed with liabilities estimated at $100,000. and assets nominal. The Democratic candidate for state treasurer of Kentucky was elected by a majority of 67,597 over Republicans and Prohibitionists. Three more iron mills in the Mahoning valley signed the Amalgamated association scale Saturday night. All the mills in the valley are now in operation. After a four-months' strike the miners in the employ of the Ellsworth Coal company at Danville, III., have accepted the company's terms, and will go to work Monday. The Reman Catholic Bishop Keane, of Richmond, has written a letter to the rejected minister, Kelley. commending him for his cause, and severely condemning his critics The Hon. John Russell Young. ex-United States Minister to China, arrived in Chieago, Saturday, and is confined to bed at the Palmer house by a severe attack of malarial fever. A collision occurred Sunday evening in the Metropolitan District Underground railway in London, by which one engineer was killed and five others so badly injured that they can not recover. George Wilson was pardoned out of the Wisconsin panitentiary several months ago, but the matter has been kept quiet until this time. Wilson was sent to the penitentiary twenty years ago for the murder of & Milwankee bar-keeper. Recently it was proven beyond question that be was innocent. Agnes Kledzeick. living with her husband at 186 Southport avenue. WAS found dead by him on returning from his work Saturday evening. Examination of the body showed that she had been struck on the back of the head with a heavy knife or hatchet just as she was in the act of crubbing the floor. Her rooms had been ransacked and about $100 in money stolen. The British foreign office. in reply to the charge by Rochefort that the English were responsible for the death of Olivier Pain, the adventurer, says that the report that a reward of 500 pounds sterling was offered for his head is not true, and, furthermore, that the English officers wouldn't have given five pence for his head, on or off his body. A Cairo correspondent says, on the authority of Lupton Bay, that Pain died of fever at Obdurman. The Spanish people continue very much excited over the German seizure of the Caroline islands, and Bismarck's pretext for seizing them is reported to be the complaint by German traders, who charged thetSpain had failed to provide a suitablegevernment. In Madrid, Sunday, an anti-German demonstration took place, participated in by 40,000 persons. Speeches were made in Spanish and French denouñeme Bismerck's action in annexing the Caroline islands. At Springfield, Ills, Saturday evening L S. Gardmer, a confectioner, was arrested and locked up by Folicemen Camp and Gall for beating his wife. fie was Mberated Sunday on paying his fine. On being released he threatened to kill the policemen OR sight. Procuring a revelver be started in search of the officers and on meeting them at once opened fire. Gall was shot in the right groin, the ball passing into the bowels. Camp was struck just above the heart. He fired in return and dropped dead. Gardner fell about the same time with three bullets in his heart.