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CONDENSED NEWS Gathered From All Parts of the Country by Telegraph. The Spanish war offices are preparing to send 20,000 more troops to Cuba. The steamer Cadiz has sailed from Cadiz with a cargo of munitions of war. The Union Pacific fast mail, bound west. ditched four passenger cars near Ogallalla, Neb., Wednesday morning about 1 o'clock. The only person seriously hurt was Pat Dunphrey, of Grand Island, internally. The hall of the Des Moines Turner society, on Eighth street, Des Moines, Ia., burned Tuesday afternoon, causing a loss of $15,000. F. R. Shepherd and Jacob Harris, two firemen. were seriously injured by a falling wall. The Reading Co. has issued orders reducing the working time at its car shops in Reading, Pa., from ten to nine hours Tuesday. The order affects the entire system. This reduction of time is customary at this season of the year. The Iowa Savings bank, at Sioux City, failed Tuesday, posting a notice on its door that it had suspended payment. The bank had suffered a steady withdrawal of deposits since the failure of the Sioux national bank several months ago. In the supreme court in Troy, N. Y., Tuesday afternoon, ex-County Treasurer George M. Morrison pleaded guilty to two indictments for misappropriating county funds and was sentenced to ten years and five months in county prison. Two masked robbers entered the store of T. G. Harris, in the town of Lancaster, Dallas county, Tex., Monday night and, covering a clerk with their pistols, forced him to open the safe and give up $400. The robbersare being pursued by a sheriff's posse. The Paul Paper Mill company, Menasha, Wis., made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. The assets are $100,000 and liabilities half this amount. The concern lost heavily by Chicago and Minneapolis failures which brought about the assignment. Myron R. Kent, who, as Thomas Pancoast, robbed an Akron, O., bank of $30,000 in 1872, and, in 1894, hired a man to murder his wife at Mandan, N. D., will hang at Fargo on Thursday unless Gov. Allen interferes. The governor is not likely to act in Kent's behalf. A terrible railway disaster occurred at Sokolka, in the government of Grodno, Wednesday. The St. Petersburg and Warsaw express, while running at a high rate of speed, came into collision with a freight train, completely wrecking the engine and the entire number of cars comprising the express and killing six persons and injuring thirteen others, some of whom will die. Fire started in Bugbee's drug store, located in the Front Street hotel building, Traverse City, Mich., early Wednesday morning, and before it was gotten under control that building and 13 others were destroyed. The losses aggregate $55,000, with only $10,000 insurance. Edw. Newberry, a porter in the hotel, was burned to death. There were 80 guests and boarders in the hotel, but all escaped. The seventieth annual meeting of the general missionary committee of the Methodist Episcopal church was called to order in the Central M. E. church, Detroit, Mich., Wednesday morning, by Bishop Edward C. Andrews. All of the bishops of the church were in attendance, except Bishops Vincent, Joyce, Taylor and Goodsell, the last three named being out of the United States on an evanrelical tour. The Greatest Majority.
