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a speed of 35 miles an hour to ocean steamships. A public test will be made next month. A company has been formed with $1,000,000 capital to push the invention. Fires in the forests in Lewis county, Ky., broke out last week. and the winds spread them over the whole region. Saturday night from Clarksville to Sugar Loaf mountain the whole country was one vast sea of flames. Fences were destroyed everywhere and many houses were burned. J. W. Flood, the cashier of the Donahue & Keeley bank of San Francisco, who has recently been arrested, charged with embezzlement, is said to have spent about $194,000 of the bank's funds in a year. The Sibley, Ia., national bank has suspended, with liabilities of many thousands. The Yellow Poplar lumber company establishment at Coal Grove, Ohio, opposite Ashland, Ky., was burned Friday night. Dry kilns, planing mills, offices, store houses, and 35 dwellings were destroyed, in addition to 50,000,000 feet of valuable timber. The loss is estimated at $750,000. Nine Italians were killed and five seriously wounded at Romeo, Ill., Saturday. They were working on a drainage canal and during a storm took refuge in the engine house. The huge cantilever, weighing 280 tons, became unfastened, ran down the tracks and a part of it crushed the engine house. The Lenox library of New York is to receive, through the generosity of John Stewart Kennedy, the library of the late George Bancroft. This is a splendid benefaction, bestowed at a cost of $80,000. The library is especially rich in documents relating to the events and men of the Revolution. William C. Robbins, the general agent for the National Life Insurance company of Montpelier, committed suicide in his room on the fourth floor of the Clarendon hotel, Brooklyn, Sunday, shooting himself in the right temple. He belonged to an aristocratic family and had an income of $7000 a year from his business. Henry Flamian, a worker at the World's Fair, met a frightful death last week Thursday. He had completed some decorations on the dome of the agricultural building, 180 feet high, and in a spirit of bravado made a slide of 30 feet down the sloping roof, expecting to strike on the trough surrounding the base. He gained too much momentum, and was precipitated through the skylight to the floor, 150 feet, striking head first. The great Russian famine, which aroused the sympathy of the whole civilized world two years ago, is by no means a thing of the past. A Moscow despatch to the New York Tribune says that in Perm, which is the easternmost government of European Russia, the famine is worse than ever before. The poor are dying by hundreds. In the smaller villages the people have given up trying to bury all the dead and the bodies are lying on the roofs of the houses. It is estimated that two and a quarter million bushels of grain will be necessary to keep the peasants in food until the next harvest. The government of Perm occupies an area of 128,000 square miles and contains 2,500,000 inhabitants. The larger part of the central portion is occupied by the Ural mountains and the climate is very severe.