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A FIRE among business houses at Osceola, Ia., caused a loss of $135,000. THE senior editor of the Christian Advocate, Rev. Dr. McAnally, died in St. Louis, aged 78 years. AFTER a fast of sixty-eight days, A. M. Kennedy, 71 years old, died in Morris county, Kan. His tongue, lips and throat were paralyzed. A FREAK of nature that can be witnessed on a farm near Sailor Springs, III., is a pear tree loaded with apples. IN a crazy fit Mrs. J. Debay, of Annawan. III., killed her two children, aged 3 and 5 years, with a hatchet. FIRE destroyed a grain elevator at Indianapolis with its contents, the loss being $100,000. THE bank at Cloverdale, Ind., closed its doors. A RECEIVER was named for the Campbell Commission company of Chicago, with branch offices in St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha. The liabilities were $850,000. WHILE insane W. D. Bender, of Cinein nati, burned up $45,000 in cash and Si: ,250 in United States bonds. THE oldest circus horse in the country, Ginger, aged 34 years, died at Cincinnati. WITH a child in her arms, which was asleep, Mrs. John Cooper, of Traverse City, Mich., was found dead in her rocking-chair. ENGINEER AL HORNER and Fireman John Devine were killed in a wreck on the Texas Pacific road near Handley, Tex. THE National Furniture association in session at St. Louis resolved against handling prison-made goods. FIRE destroyed William Lanahan's country home stables near Baltimore, six valuable horses being lost. IN Chicago one of the biggest gangs of counterfeiters that had operated in the United States for many a year was found. They had been making silver quarters and half-dollars and $1, $2 and 85 hills by the wholesale. MARY HUNLEY, Cora Pace (colored) and Lewis Stewart, confined in the Owsley county (Ky.) jail for immorality, were taken out by a mob and given 100 lashes each. FLORA and Mary Tomasch, who accompanied an excursion from Cleveland to Chippewa lake, were drowned by the,capsizing of a rowboat. Two NEGROES were hanged by eightyfive men at Hampton, Ark., for killing a white man two weeks ago. JESSIE ROBINSON, aged 20, of Indianapolis, will ride a bicycle from Chicago to the city of Mexico, 3,000 miles. She will start August 10, will ride alone, and has wagered to make the run in thirty-eight days. THE death of Frederick Remann, congressman from the Eighteenth Illinois district, occurred at his home in Vandalia, aged 48 years. NEAR South Haven, Mich., the yacht Arctic capsized and Messrs. Coates and Stilson, builders of the yacht, and H. S. Tisworth, the owner, were drowned. FLAMES destroyed the large passenger steamer Cibela, of the Niagara Navigation company, at Leadstone, N. Y., the loss being $250,000. MARSHALL GARNER and Isaac Huffman, two young farmers in Shelby county, Ky., killed themselves with knives in a fight. FOREST fires in northern Michigan were dying out. The loss to property thus far was over $200,000.
