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murdered by the red men and the settlement burned. The place had about 140 inhabitants. EVERY day brings to light one or more atrocious murders committed by H. H. Holmes, the insurance swindler. In all, so far as known, circumstantial evidence of the strongest character points to the man as the slayer of Julia Connor, Gertrude Connor, Amelia Cigrand, Benjamin F. Pitzel and his three children, Howard, Alice and Nellie, Minnie and Alice Williams and a Miss Wild. Mrs. Patrick Quinlan confessed in Chicago all she knew about Holmes, and she and her husband were arrested as accomplices. FIRE destroyed the county insane asylum at Verona, Wis, and Superintendent Edwards was probably fatally injured. MRS. KATHERINE ROBERTS, who is 100 years old, broke her arm in a fall at Topeka, Kan. A MONUMENT was dedicated at Spirit Lake, Ia., to the memory of the pioneers killed in the Spirit Lake massa cre of 1857. Many prominent men of the state were present. As A result of a fifteen-cent drop in the price of oil the last few days "wild catting" had been stopped and the oil boom was considered ended WILLIAM FREDERICKS, who murdered Cashier William A. Herrick in an attempt to rob the San Francisco Union savings bank in March, 1894, was hanged at San Quentin, Cal. THE percentages of the baseballclubs in the National league for the week ended on the 27th were: Cleveland, .605; Pittsburgh, .603; Baltimore .581; Boston, .575; Cincinnati, .563; Chicago, .548; Brooklyn, .539; Philadelphia, 534; New York, .520; Washington, .357; St. Louis, .346; Louisville, .203. CHARLIE BURWELL (colored), about 65 years old, was lynched at Meridian, Miss. It was thought that he was concerned in a murder. FORTY people were poisoned by eatting pressed beef the home of George Griswold in Thompson, Ia. AT Big Stone Gap, Va., John Hicks' house was burned and four of his children perished in the tiames. TWELVE THOUSAND tailors in New York city struck for more wages and shorter hours. Gov. CULBERSON issued a proelamation forbidding the Corbett-FitzsimTexas, u! 14.8g suour THE Indian bureau in Washington received a dispatch from Agent Teter saying that there was no truth in the report of a massacre of the Jackson's Hole settlers in Wyoming by Indians. J. W. BLUNDON and Charles Lynch, 13 years old, and J. Guy Brown, 15 years, were struck by an express train near Riverdale Park, Md., and instantly killed. VICTOR ADAMS, who shot and killed Justice Boker, his father-in-law, at O'Neils, Cal., was lynched by a mob of sixty men. HENRY BRADSHAW, a wealthy farmer near Paris, Tex., killed his wife and daughter and then himself. No cause "имоин SEM THE supreme court of Oklahoma has again declared that probate judges have no right to grant divorces, and that all divorces granted by them are null and void. DURING a storm in the vicinity of Three States, Mo., George McClelland and his wife and three children and a man named Thomas and his wife were killed by lightning. THE Superior national bank of West Superior, Wis., suspended with liabilities of $141,300. GEORGE WOLFE rode from Chicago to New York on a bicyclein sixdaysthree hours and five minutes, breaking all previous records. A HAILSTORM in North Dakota destroyed 80,000 acres of wheat, causing a loss to farmers of $500,000. EDWARD KNEVEN, of Dayton, Ky., fatally shot Mary Schneer, of Alexandria, Ky., in Cincinnati, and then shot himself. Unrequited love was the cause. THE stores of Scharles Brothers, dealers in toys, and Jacquin & Co., dealers in French millinery, were burned in New York, the total loss beSup FORTY prominent merchants in Macon, Mo., were arrested fordoing business on Sunday. THE Jacob Katz company. supposed to be one of the strongest mercantile establishments in Milwaukee, failed for $110,000. H. Z. SALOMON, one of the pioneer merchants of Denver, failed for $100,000 THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 29th was: Wheat, -usnq 000'202'S 'u.io bushels: els; oats, 4,887,000 bushels: rve. 154,-