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LATEST NEWS. Condensed for Convenience of Hurried Readers. A big brewery at Fairbault, Minn., has been burned. It was forty years old. The 000'008$ St I A party of hunting gentlemen from Indianapolis, Ind., had a ten days' hunt in the Indian territory; returning to Parsons, Kan., with much game. Homestead claims on the lands making up the townsite of West Guthrie, O. T., have been dismissed by the secretary of the intea rior and the townsite board will issue deeds to lot claimants December 22. Justin McCarthy has informed a committee of the Irish parliamentary party that he must resign the chairmanship of the party, owing to ill health. He proposes to make a long stay in the south of France. A Union Pacific freight house agent is charged with carrying on for a long time a system of underweighing grain cars; being paid by grain men. The First National Bank of Liberty, Mo.. has been wrecked by dynamite. Many valuable papers were torn and burned but the burglars did not get at the money. The typhoid epidemic at St. Louis continues frightfully. There are over 20 cases in the asylum for the blind, alone, with probably 400 new cases in the city, daily. Charles F. Church. a representative of a dry goods house of Winnipeg, Mani., was found frozen to death on a prairie near McLeod. He had started to drive across the prairie and was caught in a blizzard. The secretary of the English Master Cotton Spinners' federation announces that eight-tenths of the spinners organized in the federation are now stopped or are running on half time, affecting 64,000 employes. John S. Boyd, who went from St. Charles, Mo., to teach at Glasgow, Ky., was taken from his boarding house and whipped into insensibility by five disguised men. There had been a difficulty between him and the board. school A slight earthquake shock was felt at San Francisco Thanksgiving day morning. A shower of meteors was observed in the evening. Over 1,200 were counted by Professor Davidson, of the coast and geological survey, in less than two hours. The government of Baden has publicly warned the people against eating raw American pork and has ordered all American meat brought into the Duchy to be exainined even though accompanied by an American certificate of inspection. J. S. Sebastian, a Rock Island brakeman, nephew of General Passenger and Ticket Agent Sebastian, of the Rock Island, was fatally injured by falling between the cars of a freight near Flagler. Colorado. He struck on the back of his head rupturing a blood vessel. A brilliant meteoric shower was witnessed at Mount Pleasant, Ia., November 23. The falling stars were very numerous over at Burlington. At Chicago hundreds of meteors shot across the sky and the display was far ahead of anything of the kind seen there in many years. Stamboul is again king of the turf. He trotted a mile on a kite-shaped track at Stockton, Cal., in 2:07½. The day was not favorable, it being cloudy, cold and the track damp from rain. The stallion was in good condition and had it been a better day his time would have been lower. A great sou'wester gale at San Francisco, lasting from Saturday night, all day Sunday, knocked vessels together promiscuously all about the bay: dragging anchors, wrenching ships from wharves, destroying wharves, etc., yet no loss of life is reported. What may have occurred outside on the cpen ocean is still SO be learned. Fire broke out in the Blossburg mine, four miles south of Raton, N. M., owned by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road, the largest mines in New Mexico, the average production being seventy-five cars per day, and destroyed all the mules and mine cars. Over 100 men were at work in the mine at the time, but all escaped through the abandoned entry. President Weihe. of the Amalgamated association. is quoted as stating, in connection with the Homestead strike: ootherstrike was so broad in its influence and men were never so persecuted in any other strike. On the estimate of $1.40 per day for laborers and $3 for skilled workmen, the 7,300 strikers in the Homestead, Lawrenceville and Beaver Falls mills lost $22,000 daily, or $2,000,000 during the strike." An earthquake at La Union, San Salvador, has laid low nearly all the houses in thatcity, and those left standing had their walls so cracked that it was not safe to remain in them. The people are living in tents and in fear of further disturbances. The
