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A DISPATCH to the Londen T1 mes from Calcutta said that sixteen men were killed by an explosion in the Kolar gold mines in Bangalore. A NEGRO named Alexander Simms killed a colored boy at Jacksonville, Fla., and the officers got on his trail. The murderer took refuge in a barn and opened fire on the officers, killing one and injuring three others, one perhaps fatally. He was finally captured. THE annual convention of the A. P. A. of the United States and Canada will meet in Milwaukee May 14. ON the Chicago & Alton cut-off, 1/2 mile north of East Alton, III., a freight train left the track and fifteen cars were piled on top of one another. Four men were instantly killed and two fatally injured. The victims were tramps stealing a ride. The wreck was caused by the train being too heavily loaded behind. A CONSTRUCTION train on the Highland and Homestead electric line, Pittsburgh, Pa., jumped the track at Salt Works station and crashed down upon the Baltimore & Ohio tracks, 25 feet below. In the car were five Italians, and three of these jumped when they saw the accident was about to happen. Two were fatally injured. THE City national bank of Fort Worth, Tex., has suspended. SENATOR J. J. HURT, mayor of Caspar, Wyo., shot William Milne, sheep owner, five times, killing him. Hurt claims that Milne was too intimate with Mrs. Hurt. Senator Hurt is one of the largest sheep owners in that section. Hon. H. C. ST. JOHN, of Oklahoma City, Ok., in a fit of jealous rage shot his wife, causing instant death. He was arrested. St. John is the son of the noted temperance lecturer and exgovernor of Kansas. CHARLES WARREN LIPPITT, republican, was elected governor of Rhode Island over George L. Littlefield. democrat, by 10,600 plurality. The remainder of the republican state ticket were all elected by pluralities of about 10,000. The next assembly will include thirty-two republican senators, sixtynine republican representatives, three democratic senators and three democratic representatives. This is a gain of one senator for the democrats. A TERRIBLE shooting affair occurred near Morrison, Ok., between Cook, Bennet and a woman whose name was not learned. It seems that the two men and the woman were claimants for the same quarter section of land and that Cook bought out the woman's interest and as he commenced to move into the woman's house a fight occurred, and Cook was shot by Bennet and instantly killed. Cook shot Bennet through the head and he will die, and the woman was shot through a leg. The woman used an ax on Bennet and inflicted serious wounds. IT is stated by persons in a position to speak with authority that as soon as Venezuela is convinced that Great Britain has finally decided not to arbitrate or settle the boundary dispute as suggested by the United States through Ambassador Bayard, the southern republic will resort to force. ARMOUR & Co., the Chicago packers, have begun their new refrigerator car service for transporting fruit from California east. They have made a start with 400 new cars and promise as many more as the business may require. A DISPATCH from Brillion, Wis., of the 4th said that unknown persons made an attempt to wreck the limited express on the Chicago & Northwestern railway. The would-be wreckers piled ties and planks across the rails and had it not been for an extra freight train going south, the engineer of which saw the obstruction in time to stop, there would have been a bad wreck. MORGANTOWN, Ky., was in a fever of excitement on the 3d over the murder of Maj. A. J. Hamilton, the famous originator and executor of the escape from Libby prison in 1864. A man named Spencer has been arrested for the crime. MARSHALL FIELD, of Chicago, has offered to the W. C. T. U. $25,000 provided $275,000 more be raised by January next, to be applied on the debt overhanging the Woman's Temple. Lady Somerset wrote to Mr. Field that the financial failure of temperance work in Chicago would be disastrous to the cause all over the world, and Mr. Field
