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FLAMES in a mine at Franklin, Wash., caused the death of John H. Clover, S. W. Smalley, John Adams and James Stafford. ON the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad the pay car was wrecked near Ceylon, Ind., and William Brown, James Gilson and John Matott were killed and several others ,were injured. THE annual session of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution began at Atlanta, Ga. THE president granted a pardon to George M. Van Leuven, sentenced in Iowa to imprisonment for two years and $1,000 fine for violation of the pension laws. FLAMES destroyed four blocks of the business portion of Creede, Col., causing a loss of $175,000. KUTTNAUER, ROSENFELD & Co., wholesale clothing dealers, and Louis Kuttnauer & Co., wholesale tobacco dealers, failed in Detroit, Mich., with total liabilities of $200,000. FIRE wiped out several buildings, including a rice mill, at New Orleans, the loss being $300,000. THE E. W. Backus Lumber company's sawmill at Minneapolis was burned, the loss being $125,000. HANS HANSEN and Thomas St. Clair were hanged at San Quentin, Cal., for killing Nate Fitzgerald. IN a row at a colored cake walk near Moorestown, N. J., James Haggerty, a negro, fatally shot Charles McKim, Mrs. Silas Wessels, George Whitaker and Charles Wiman. Some one then shot Haggerty fatally. AT Hot Springs, Ark., the Corbett habeas corpus case terminated in Chancellor Leatherman granting the writ and releasing the prisoner. A PORTION of the city of New Orleans known as Algiers was almost wiped out by flames, causing a loss of from $350,000 to $500,000 and rendering 1,000 persons homeless. AT Newport News, Va., twonew gunboats for the United States navy were, launched. They were christened the Nashvilleand Wilmington. AT Puyallup, Wash., the First national bank made a run on its depositors, probably the first time such a thing was ever done in the history of banking. FIRE ruined the plant of the Northwestern Fertilizing company in Chicago, the loss being $100,000. By a prairie fire five farmers near Kewaunee, Wis., lost their dwellings and barns. THE death was announced of Frederick L. Billon, aged 95, who had resided in St. Louis longer than any other inhabitant. He was the oldest mason in the west. FLAMES swept away the village of Riverside, Mich. MAUD LEWIS, the woman who killed State Senator Morrissey last winter at St. Louis, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary. IN their home at West Hancock, Mich., Chris Kramer and his wife, an aged couple, were found murdered. Robbery was the motive. THE Detroit republicans renominated Mayor Pingree for a fourth time. A TREE fell and killed John Carr and his wife and two sons near Dry Forks, W. Va.
