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CRIME THE postoffice at Kenney, De Witt county, Ill., was robbed last Sunday night of over $200 worth of postage stamps and $150 in money and jewelry. COL. L. E. Edwards, inspector-general of Fifth division of the Texas State guards, died from the effects of a knife wound sustained in an encounter with J. L. Wrenn, about three weeks ago. HAWLEY & Co., of Boston. owe $342,000, with assets of only $32,000. The creditor: are arranging for an indignation meeting. AT Madrid, Iowa, Tuesday night, unknown persons invaded the law office of A. R. Webb, and wrecked his costly library, tearing the books and throwing the fragments into the street. ON the outward-bound steamer at Quebec John C. Eno, the New York absconder, was captured Saturday morning. His companion who was dress d like a priest escaped. THOMAS J. WATSON, the oil broker, who hastily quitted Pittsburg Friday night, was arrested Satu. day morning at Jersey City. A judgment a ainst Watson for $30.000 was entered by the Armenia In-urance Company. A HORRIBLE tragedy occurred in Albany, New York, Friday night, an insane mother killing her five little children, and then with aBother child in her arms, throwing herself in front of a moving railway train and being crushed to death. IT is now announced from Pittsburg that President Biddle, of the wrecked Penn. bank. of that city, by fraudulently representing imaginary firms, "absorbed" about four millions of the bank's money in a "blind pool" of speculation. PRESIDENT BRUON, of the failed Hot Springs bank, was arrested at St. Louis Wednesday exorning in company with a woman named Mrs. Steele, of Peoria, III. They were imprisoned. Bruon is willing to go back, but declares that there is no necessity for the woman to go. At Hot Springs the excitement has abated, and the run on the other bank has ceased. Mks. ELLEN LONG, on trial at Princeton, Wis., for the murder of the boy Harvey Whittemore, testified Saturday that she had discussed with the boy's father the question of killing Mrs. Whittemore, and that she gave peisoned caramels to the latter, believing that in case of her death Whittemore would live with her. Whittemore has been arrested as an accessory to his son's murder. THERE is much excitment in the village of Oak Crewk, near Milwaukee, over the action of the relatives of Horace Baldwin in sawing off his legs when he died last week to make them fit in the coffin. Baldwin was six feet seven inches tall, and when the day of the funeral came it was found that the body was too long for the coffin, and a nephew severed the feet from the body with a common saw. While at work he thought Baldwin moved. and he fell in a dead faint, when another relative finished cutting off the limbs.
