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ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. The barracks at Fort Pembina, Minn., were destroyed by fire. Six negroes confined in jail at Lake City, Fla., escaped. They burned a hole through the floor of the cell in which they were confined. All were charged with trivial offenses. Dr. Parkhurst says of the retirement of Chief of Police Byrnes, of New York: "The result satisfies me and gratifies me. My warfare, however, has not been against Mr. Byrnes as a man, but as an official, and now that he has ceased to be an official it seems to me that for me to pass any further comment upon the matter would be both unwarranted and undignified." The Douglas County bank went into voluntary liquidation at West Superior. The Northern Trust company was appointed receiver to wind up its affairs. Walter F. Harris, a colored man 36 years of age, a butler, was shot through the left breast in New York and instantly killed by two unknown men. The murder occurred in the basement of his employer's residence. Charles A. Baldwin, postmaster under President Harrison and formerly publisher of the Vicksburg (Mich.) Commercial, committed suicide by taking strychnine. He was 45 years old. R. W. Fawcus was shot at his ranch near Camp Clark, Neb., by F.W. Bozarth, another ranchman, who lay concealed behind some brush and as Fawcus came by on horseback shot him in the back, killing him instantly. Obituary: At Cincinnati, Henry Lindley Fry, the noted woodcarver, 88; at Birmingham, Ala., ex-Representative Goldsmith W. Hewitt. 65; at Sing Sing, N. Y., General James B. Swain, 75; at Lebanon, Ind., Mrs. Catherine Adney, 97; at Neenah, Wis., Joseph H. Price, 47. Rumors that Marti, the Cuban rebel, was not killed have been set at rest by the exhibition of his body at Santiago. The body of an American, literally cut to pieces, was found at Juarez, Mexico. He had evidently been murdered by robbers. The actual murderer of Louis Klank, the old fisherman, was William Johnson. He has been arrested and has confessed that he stabbed the old man. Governor Altgeld has refused to interfere in the cases of Henderson and Jeffrey, sentenced to be hanged at Murphysboro next Friday. A constable at Chicago, in attempting to collect a debt of an impecunious tailor, levied on triplets that had recentiy been born to the i. t. The Chicago Daily Chronicle,a morning paper, proposes to supply the Democrats of Chicago with straight Democratic doctrine, and the party with an organ, which it has been without since The Times was absorbed by The Herald. Because the governor "might have commuted the sentence" of a murderer who was to be legally hanged June 7 at Ellicott City, Md., the mob swung him up. No resistance was made by the officials. The victim was a negro. "Coin" (W. H. Harvey) and Roswell G. Horr. of New York, will meet to debate the silver question at Chicago in the near future.