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ers. Troops are required for the serv ice and several riots have occurred. CASUALTY. Charles Thorson died from sunstroke at Ishpeming, Mich Thomas Cummins, 50 years old killed himself at Columbus, Ind. with a rifle G. Stewart of Braidwood, III., was drowned in the Kankakee river while bathing. N. B. Wheeler, a Hazleton, Ind., photographer, was killed by leaping from a train. The Joseph Burns Chemical Works at Williamsburg, N. Y., burned with a loss of $100,000 Philip Walsh, a farmer diving near Maywood, Mo., was run over by a harrow and fatally injured. A fatal accident occurred at the Andway Plaisance, world's fair, a coasting train jumping the track A cloudburst at East Peoria, III, caused a number of families to be driven from their homes. The Mexican town of Pauchmetta was destroyed by a wind storm. Some thirty persons were injured. Frank Drilling, the son of a wealthy farmer living near West Union, Ia., accidentally shot himself and died. The plant of the Meriam & Morgan Parraffine Company at cleveland, O., was destroyed. The loss is $250,000. The village of Alba, in Antrim county, Mich., was nearly destroyed by fire. Every business house except the Exchange hotel was burned. Peter Blume, 18 years of age, who came from Holland three months ago, was killed by lightning while working in a field near Kalamazoo, Mich W. P. Willson was struck by a train on the Des Moines, Northern & Western while driving over the track at Boone, Iowa, and instantly killed. William Hammer, of Madison, S. D. and Miss Gay Pyle, of Bryant, were drowned in Lake Madison, at Madison, S.D. They were out rowing in a boat after dark and the boat capsized. Harry Boyd and Fred M. O'Donnell were drowned in the Allegheny river at Pittsburg. The two men with another companion were out in a boat which upset. Their bodies were recovered. The latest allocution of the pope is a discussion on the situation in Italy and the general policy of the Vatican The stories that it was on the school question in America is denied, there being no reference to America in the letter. The Nashville Savings company, the oldest financial institution in Nashville Tenn., founded in 1853, assigned. The liabilities are placed at $222,000 and the assets, according to the president' estmate, will pay not more than 25 or 30 per cent. The chemical works of Joseph Burns, in Williamsburg, N. Y., were destroyed by fire. The works are one story frame buildings at White and McKibbin streets and cover an area of two blocks. The fire destroyed the entire plant, with the exception of one building The concern carried a stock of at least $200,000, and the loss will run over $100,000. 1 GENERAL The body of Herman Schaffner, the Chicago banker, was found in Lake Michigan. Hobbs & Tucker, private bankers at Albany, Ga., have assigned. Deposits aggregate $80,000. The supreme lodge of the Knights of Honor has created the office of supreme medical examiner. The name of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of Good Templars is changed to International Supreme Lodge. Two trunks from Toronto were seized at Buffalo and were found to contain 200 pounds of smuggled opium. Six colored workmen were attacked at Lamont, Ill., by 600 strikers. The men were finally rescued by officers. "Railroad Jack," the dog whose travels by rail throughout the United States have made him famous, died at Albany, N. Y. Five thousand of the iron workers and coal and iron miners at Klando, fifteen miles from Prague, are out on strike. Cardinal Gibbons says that the position of the Catholic churches is that the world's fair should be open Sunday afternoons. Chancellor Creighton, of the Nebraska Wesleyan university, announced at chapel his intention of handing in his resignation. The bill providing for a board of arbitration to settle disputes between employes and employers was passed by the Illinois house. German Pythians from all parts of the country met at Indianapolis to protest against the law requiring the use of English rituals. The Burnham cafe at Indianapolis, Ind. recently fitted up at an expense of $10,000 on interior decorations and fixtures, went into the hands of a receiver. Kuhn, Dorflinger & Co., of New York, importers of diamonds and precious stones, have made an assignment. The etimates of liabilities range from $150,000 to $250,000. The property of the Verde Antique Marble Company at Ishpeming, Mich., seized and will be sold to The company openthree years ed satisfy has a been quarry executions ago. Another severe affiction has fallen
