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Joseph S. Hardin, the escaped train robber, was recaptured near Menard, III. The Bengal chamber of commerce voted against reopening the mints of India. Prof. E. J. Phelps, ex-minister to England, is ill with some serious symptoms. At Quincy, III., fire in the Reliable incubator company's work caused a loss of $198,000. Fire is burning in the Springfield Junction (III.) coal shaft. No lives are endangered. Richard Croker and family of New York left Nashville for Texas and the Pacific coast. The Grand Army of the Republic, department of Nebraska, elected Church Howe commander. Eight of the crew of the British bark Montgomery Castle were drowned in a storm off the Azores. The grand jury returned indictments against officials of the broken Cass county bank at Atlantic, Ia. Near Huntington, W. Va., in a dispute between George and Cy Adkins, cousins, the former was fatally shot. The First presbyterian church of Evanston. III.. was destroyed by fire. Loss, about $35,000; insurance, $20,700. A. S. Jones, station agent of the Missouri Pacific at Walton. Neb., shot and killed Jerry Peck, a constable. President Frye of the railroad miners says that there will be a general strike among all miners about April 15. A. M. Beattie, the Hawaiian consul at Vancouver. appointed by President Dole, has at last received his exequatur. The rescuers in the Gaylord shaft are now working under great difficulties, another cave-in being threatened. The police of Lyons have arrested three more anarchists and the work of searching residences will be continued. At Kimmswick, a suburb of St. Louis. Thomas Lazater was found with a small hole in his head. apparently murdered. The dynamite factory of James S. Miller. near Boyerton, Pa., was blown up. A man named Fritz was blown to pieces. At Louisville Jacob J. Nave, a West End tough. was shot and mortally wounded by John Lemon in his saloon. D. R. Reagan, dry goods. with branch houses at Refugio and Edna, Tex., assigend. Liabilities, $50,000; assets, $70,000. At San Francisco Dr. Eugene F. West got twenty-five years in prison for killing Addie Gilmore by a criminal operation. The Chicago fire underwriters' association decided upon a sweeping advance of 25 per cent. in rates on mercantile risks. Twelve foundry firms of Cleveland have decided to withdraw the proposed 10 per cent. reduction in their employes wages. Charges of brutality against Superintendent Stephen B. Clark of the Oho institute for the deaf and dumb were not sustained. The Missouri penitentiary has 1,920 convicts of whom 900 are unemployed. It is a matter of serious concern to the state. At Montgomery, Ala., the Montgomery mill and lumber company has gone into a receiver's hands. Liabilities, $50,000; assets not given. The stockholders of the Chicago Edison company met in special session and voted to increase their capital stock from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000. The Dawes commission, in compliance with the desire of the Choctaws and Chickasaws, made them a definite proposition for a change of government. The Paris police raided the lodgings of a number of anarchists. two of whom were arrested. A quantity of chlorate powder and documents were seized. The big dog show of the Westminster kennel club closed at Madison Square garden and the management declares that it was the most successful yet held. The home of William Smith, near Hudson, Mich., was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Smith. crazed with excitement, rushed into the flames and was burned to death. Five men were killed and several oth. ers injured by the explosion of a boiler in the oil mill of Messrs. Freeman and Haynes at Compte, Ia. All but one were negroes. At Campbellsburg, Ky., J. C. Carroll shot and fatally wounded O. H. Buster. The shooting occurred in Carroll's store on Main-st. and was the result of an old quarrel. William Garrett and Lilly Hamilton, charged with robbing John McCaffery, a wealthy Pittsburg iron manufacturer. at Chicago during the world's fair, were discharged. The iron molders of Pittsburg have suffered a very material reduction in wages during the past four months. Their salaries have been reduced from $2.75 to $2.25. The miners at the Wheeling Creek mines of the Pittsburg-Wheeling coal company, on the line of the Cleveland, Loraine & Wheeling railroad, decided to go on a strike. The four New York witnesses in the late trial of Dr. Howard at Jackson, Tenn., who pleaded guilty to the charge of perjury, were each fined $100 and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Thirty-two persons interested in food and dairy products organized a state association at Columbus, O., to force manufacturers to sell oleomargarine on its merits and not under the guise of genuine butter. Harry Hall, a section hand on the Southern Kansas railroad, dangerously wounded a Mrs. Leeds, a widow. whom he loved, and then committed suicide by sending a bullet through his brain at Princeton, Kas. Emperor William arrived at Bremen and visited the celebrated Rathskeller, whose cellars contain some of the oldest wines in the world. The oldest of its casks of wine are known as the "Rose" casks and date from 1653. A party of hunters have slaughtered an entire herd of buffalo in Yellowstone park. The animals were chased into deep snow and shot down. The object was to secure the heads, which command a high price. The governments of England, France, Italy and Austria have replied to the note addressed to them by the sultan of Morocco. They all advise him to accept the demands of Spain for the settlement of the Mellila troubles. I Cure Dyspepsia, Constipation and Chronic Nervous diseases. Dr.
