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ELIZA PORTER (colored), of Atchison, the oldest woman in Kansas, is dead. She was born August 16, 1792, in Kentucky. FLAMES destroyed the immense car barns of the Canton-Massilon Electric Railway company, at Canton, O., the loss being $100,000. SIX prisoners confined in the sounty jail at Bowling Green, O., escaped by digging a hole through the foundation, one of them being a murderer. THE National bank of Kansas City, Mo., which recently suspended, has been permitted to reopen for business. IN St. Louis at the bimetallic convention resolutions were adopted strongly advocatir g the free coinage of silver, opposing the further issue of government bonds and demanding the speedy improv ement of all great western and southern waterways. THE town of Fulton, Ark., a thriving place of several thousand inhabitants, was entirely destroyed by fire. THE death of ex-United States Senator Groome occurred at his home in Baltimore, Md. He was elected governor of Maryland in 1873, and at the expiration of his term served one term in the senate. BISHOP H. M. TURNER of the African Methodist church, south, has issued a call for a convention to meet in Cincinnati, November 28, to consider lynchings. AT Jamestown, Ind., Oscar Darnell, shot and stabbed Miss Tillie Major and then killed himself. Jealousy caused it. THE agentof the Adams Express company at St. Louis has ordered the discharge of every clerk who gambles in any form, including betting on horse races. NEBRASKA democrats in convention at Lincoln went on record as according heartily with Cleveland's financial policy. JUDGE LONG, of Detroit, will attempt to force the government to pay his pension, suspended September 23. AT Indianapolis, Ind., during a iot at the Big Four shops special police fired at the crowd, fatally wounding one man. IN state convention at Lincoln, Neb. republicans nominated a state ticket headed by T. O. C. Harrison, of Grand Isl and, for judge of the supreme court. A MAD bull at the Cincinnati steck yards attacked John Maher, aged 19, and gored him to death, one horu penetrating the skull near the right ear. MARTHA BLAND, a pensioner of the war of 1812, died at Seneca county, O., aged 100 years. IN state convention at Lincoln, Neh, the democrats nominated Frank I. Irvine for justice of the supreme court to head the ticket. NEAR Goffs, Kan., Gottfreid Greutse, a farmer, had his head completely severed from his body in a runaway accident. THE body of Charles Cook, living near Cairo, Ill., was found in a field close to his farm. He had wandered away six weeks ago. THE death of S. A. Robinson occurred at Dennison, Tex., aged 64 years. He was chief of the United States secret service department during the war and a delegate to the first convention that nominated Lincoln for president. AT Cincinnati ex-President Harrison was installed commander of the Ghio commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. AT Bumtown, 0., W. K. Hill sought out his wife, who had left him, killed her and her mother and escaped. REV. D.L. MOODY closed the congress of missions in Chicago with a stirring appeal to close the saloons of that city. A BOAT containing a fishing party of four men was overturned in the Mississippi river near St. Louis and two of the party-Joseph Franklin and an unknown man-were drowned. A TERRIBLE wind and rainstorm which passed over Arkansas in the vicinity of Little Rock did great damage. Six persons were reported killed and several severely injured. FREIGHT trains collided near New Haven, Ky., killing Engineers Burke and Higgins. ANDREW LIPPS, a boy. was killed, and Billy Brown, a miner, fatally injured by the explosion of a blast at Clinton, Ind. J. G. WILLIAMSON, of Hawkeye, Ia.. fell under a train at Springfield, Mo., and was killed. NEAR Salina, Ark., white caps were burning gin houses of farmers who sell cotton for less than a certain price.
