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Minor Happenings of the Past Week. EVENTS OF LAST SEVEN DAYS. Political, Religious, Social and Criminal Doings of the Whole World Carefully Condensed for Our Readers-The Accident Record. Hot Springs, Ark.-T. J. Hicks and Edward Winfield overpowered the jailer and escaped from the Garland county jail. Milwaukee, Wis.-The jewelry store of Theodore Schelle has been closed by the sheriff on an execution for $10,808.56 in favor of James Gilowsky Watertown, Wis.-Joseph Reinehr, a wood and coal dealer, was arrested on a charge of forgery, pleaded guilty and a was sentenced to state prison for year. Massilion, 0.-At East Greenville fire destroyed the businees houses of Benjamin Edwards, John Boyd and John Howells and the residence of John McGinnis. Loss, $15,000. Findlay, 0.-Gustave Wagner, aged 16, tried to dive from a ladder ninety feet high into a stone quarry filled with water. He received injuries which will result in his death. Valparaiso, !nd.-Henry A. Stone: was swindled out of $4,000 by two men who claimed they wanted to buy a farm. The three-card monte game was used. Stoner recovered $2,200. London-The Times says that a challenge for the America cup will be issued by the Royal Ulster Yacht club. Topeka, Kan.-A spark from a railroad engine in Rush county started a conflagration that swept over a wide area, destroying thousands of dollars worth of wheat in stacks and many fields of oats ready for harvest. Columbus, Ind.-McaFrren's large grain elevator at Lewis Creek, near here ,was burned, with 1,500 bushels of wheat and 500 of corn. Loss, $5,000; insurance, $2.000. Paris-The Madrid correspondent of the Temps say that a band of 300 Carlists recently appeared near Seo de Urgel, in Catalonia, and the troops are pursuing them. Canton, Ill.- Monroe Seidel, a carpenter, aged 40 years, was dangerously stabbed in the abdomen in Canton by his stepson, Albert Seidel, a boy of 15 years. Geneva, N. Y.-The farmhouse of Mrs. J. Zartman, situated one and onehalf miles south of Waterloo, was deetroyed by fire. Mrs. Zartman, her married daughter and a hired man were burned to death. Birmingham, Ala.-At Ensley City six miles from Birmingham, ground has been broken for the construction of the $1,000,000 steel plant of the Alabama Steel and Shipbuilding Company Jefferson City, No.-Attorney General Crow and Superintendent of Insurance Orear left for Chicago to take testimony in the proceedings instituted by the attorney general in the supreme court against the foreign fire insurance companies doing business in this state for violation of the state anti-trust law. Berlin-A dispatch from Shanghai states that the Chinese warship Jutschi foundered during a storm at Port Arthur. One hundred and forty-six of her crew perished. Yokohama-Prince Henry of Prussia has arrived at Fusan, on the southeast of Corea. and will visit Japan. Pewaukee, Wis.-Henry Geuting, a Milwaukee salesman. met death by drowning at Waukesha Beach in fuil view of hundreds of resorters who had gathered to witness the weekly Sunday regatta, Milwaukee. Wis.-Former Sheriff S. S. Conover died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. W. G. Parsons. Mr. Conover was 80 years of age, and came Washington, d.-Calvin Stewart, 14 years old. was drowned while swimming in White river. to Milwaukee in 1837. Leavenworth, Kas.-Two families, consisting of thirteen persons, on the De Coursey farm, south of here. were Doisoned by buttermilk. One child 5 years old is dead. Valparaiso, Ind.-Albert Seeley of Hebron was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by William Sloan. Marshalltown, Iowa-The Commercial State Bank. which closed its doors Tuesday will go into the hands of a receiver at once. Terre Haute, Ind.-Mrs. Maggie Wane has brought suit against John Apman for $5,000 damages for breach of promise. Annapolis, Md.-Admiral Cervera is slightly ill. Milwaukee-Capt. Otto Lehfeldt, well known by all marine men along the chain of lakes. is dead after an illness of three weeks. Capt. Lehfeldt was €8 years old. Frankfort,Ind.-J W. Hackard, aged 22. of Jefferson, was shot by Nelson Smith, aged 70. Smith had forbidden Hackard calling upon his granddaughter, and his order was ignored Huntington, Ind.-Charles Laudig committed suicide by shooting himself. Livingston, Mont.-The electric light plant in this city was almost entirely destroyed by fire. Loss, $32,000; insurance, $24,000. Freeport, III.-The brew and malt houses of Franz Bros.' brewery were destroyed by fire. Loss, $10,000; insurance, $2,000.
