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# CONDENSED NEWS. A Collection of Interesting Items on Various Subjects, Especially Prepared for the Hasty Readers. Knights of Labor are raising funds to work for the release of Hugh Dempsey now serving a sentence for complicity in the Homestead poisoning conspiracy. Serious trouble is feared in the Kansas coal fields. Armed strikers are encamped near the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe mines, near Frontenac, and declare they will not let nonunion men work. At Chicago 25 labor leaders and 25 business men have organized into a relief committee. This joint committee will work together in trying to find work and bread for the unemployed residents of Chicago. Edward Rider, a rich farmer living near Baltimore, was bunkoed out of $5,000 by the old racket-two tin boxes shifted. Posters advertising for recruits for the United States army were torn down in Ottawa. According to full returns the cotton crop of Texas will fall 25 per cent below that of last year. At 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon the first spadeful of dirt was turned for the mid-winter fair in Golden Gate park, San Francisco. Mrs. Perine, Mrs. Cleveland's mother is announced to arrive in Washington about the middle of September "to take care of Mrs. Cleveland." Unless the employes of the St. Paul railroad change their mind there will be no strike. They claim that there is cause but not the slightest chance of success, there being so many unemployed. The national banks at Louisville are getting ready to resume business. Nellie Leavell walked from Marion, Ind., to get into the Indianapolis reformatory because she was mistreated at home. Northwestern Indiana and eastern Illinois are in great danger from prairie fires. There has been no rain in 10 weeks and already fires are blazing in the vicinity of South Bend, Ind. There will probably be great loss before the fires are gotten under control. The salmon run this year in the Fraser river, in British Columbia, is larger than ever before. Some of the small tributaries are so choked with fish that the boats are unable to cross. The run averages 900 to the boat. Many boats were swamped and one fisherman was drowned. One of the richest lead strikes ever made in the Galena region, was made a day or or two ago in an abandoned shaft. Frank T. Howard, brother of Miss Annie Howard, has announced that the marriage of Miss Howard to Mayor Carter H. Harrison of Chicago will take place in the latter part of September at the summer home of the Howards at Biloxi, the watering place of the gulf coast in southern part of Mississippi.
