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# ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS.
J. G. Lindon, of Clear Lake, Ia., has iost $1,500 by the ravages of dogs among his sheep.
Frederick Muntz was crushed to death in the machinery of the pulp mill at Niles, Mich.
Peter Schnell, a grain dealer of Jasper, Ind., has left for Mexico. Seven men are on his bond for $40,000.
Robert F. Ballantine, of Newark, N. J,. gave his wife a $40,000 pearl necklace on the fortieth anniversary of their wedding.
The estate of the late Charles F. Crocker, of San Francisco, is reported at $7,032,129. Of this amount $5,658,154 is personal.
The bank of Antigo, Wis., has been relieved of a receiver by an order from the circuit court. All depositors will be paid in full.
A movement is on foot to establish a hospital at Madison, Wis., for the care of students of the state university who may be taken ill.
The wife of Prince Hohenlohe, the German imperial chancellor, died at Berlin yesterday morning of inflammation of the lungs.
John Sweeney, aged 23 years, was caught in shafting at Dayton, O., and hurled about until both of his legs were torn off below the knee.
At the burning of the Golden Rule store, at Danville, Ills., Mollie Reid, a cloak trimmer, was burned to death. The property loss was $110,000.
Nick Zimmerman and Matt Heger, of Jefferson, Wis., charged with stealing poultry, were sentenced to six months in the county jail at that place.
Turks at Smyrna fired on the U. S. S. Bancroft Dec. 4 and upon protest. by Minister Angell at Constantinople the porte apologized and punished the offending officials.
George Thurston shot and dangerously wounded his mistress, Lizzie Parker, at Chicago, and then he pressed the muzzle of the revolver to his own forehead and pulled the trigger.
The chief of the Hamburg fire brigade, In the course of a report on the recent fire in the Cripplegate district of London, condemns the London fire brigade as "inadequate and antiquated."
While piloting a heavy freight train up the Merchants bridge incline at St. Louis, an engine of the Terminal Railroad association jumped the track and plunged to the ground. Fireman Pensinger was instantly killed.
An American negro recently died in an Australian mining settlement. He was a man much esteemed by the mates, who recorded their feelings in these few words, burnt on a sheet of bark: "In memory of Black Sam, name unknown, a white man all over."
Notices have been posted at the China, Pembroke and Webster cotton mills, makers of print cloths, announcing a reduction of wages of about 10 per cent. on Jan. 1.