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# THE LATEST IN GENERAL.
JOSETH BOYD, stepson of Alderman John Langdon, of LaCrosse, Wis., was driving a team home, when they became frightened and uncontrollable. They ran a short distance when Boyd, seeing they were about to collide with a wagon in which a little girl was seated, turned them against a large tree. The pole of the wagon struck the tree and Boyd was pitched out, his head striking the tree with such violence that h's skull was crushed and jaw bone broken, death being instantaneous. He leaves a wife and infant child.
D. E. FOGARTY, the Cashier of the bankrupt First National Bank of Livingston, Montana, who was arrested and in default of bail was brought to Bozeman and lodged in the county jail, has been so prostrated since his arrest by the troubles closing round him that his physician is very much a'armed for his safety, and is fearful that the illness now fastened upon him will end only in death.
N. MORGAN ROTH, dealer in gentlemen's furnishing goods, Chicago, has been closed by the sheriff. Liabilities, $35,000; assets about $23,000.
H. ZIMMERMAN & CO., of Chicago, cloak manufacturers, assigned. Liabilities, $8,000; assets, $55,000.
A CHICAGO firm, Wardell & Hinckley, dealers in engines and machinery, were closed by the sheriff. Liabilities $25,000; assets, $18,000.
THE schedule in the assignment of Burnett & Pond. New York, was filed. The total liabilities are $617,000; $385,000 actual assets.
GEN. DELISLE telegraphs: "The Chinese lost 1,000 men including several Generals in the late battle."
GRANVILLE, British Minister of Foreign Affairs, has forwarded Bismarck his acceptance of the invitation to attend, in behalf of England, the conference at Berlin upon Congo affairs, provided the conference be confined to questions concerning the commerce of the Congo, and shall not include French disputes relative to the territory of West Africa. The conference will meet at Berlin, Nov. 6. Bismarck will preside.
THE bonded warehouse of J. G. Reach & Co., Uniontown, Ky., took fire and was totally destroyed, together with about 2,000 barrels of whisky, which was three years old and valued at $150,000. The total loss will reach $175,000
FIVE cars of a freight train jumped the track near Henderson, Ky., rolled over an embankment, and were completely demolished. Henry Epmic and Louis Hoag were fatally injured.
DOCK MARTIN, who killed E. N. Pleasants, at Rolling Falls, Miss., was lynched by a mob of colored men, who overpowered the guards.
DANIEL DONAHUE, returning home in New York, found his wife suspended by her neck to the transom of her bedroom. In his excitement he rushed out, when he ran against a policeman who arrested him. On investigation he was released, it being evident that the woman had committed suicide.
OWING to the disappearance of cholera in Europe, the Secretary of the Treasury has requested the Department of State to discontinue the services of Sanitary Inspectors at London and Liverpool. The Inspectors in France and Italy will be retained for the present.
