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NEWS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY North, East, West and South. Kearney P. Speedy dived from a viaduct, 81 feet high, into a river at Cleveland, o., and was uninjured. George E. Ross, money clerk at Kansas City, Mo., for the Pacific Express Company has mysteriously disappeared. A gasoline tank exploded on the pleasure boat Pilot, at Cairo, III., fatally injuring Captain Mitchell and T. C. Bryan. A man and woman were found lying dead in a pool of blood on a sidewalk in Indianapolis. It is believed that the man shot the woman and himself. An original Murillo is said to have been found in New York. It is alleged to have been brought from Mexico by one of Scott's soldiers in 1847. Rev. James Miller, of Bloomington, grand prelate of the Illinois Commandery, Knights Templar, was found murdered in the treets of Decatur. III. Dr. Roberts, of St. Louis, claims to have obtained remarkable results in aiding the blind to see by the aid of the X-ray. A man named Dennis Dwyer was arrested in New York on suspicion of being guilty of numerous fires in letter boxes. Montreal advices say that Canadian manufacturers are appealing to the Tariff Commission for protection and 3 ower duties on raw materials. Three hairs found in the grasp of Charlotte Sanderson, murdered on Coney Island Marsh, on October 28, have 1ed to the arrest of George Buckley, a neighbor. Albin Pfeilschmied was arrested in New York and held for extradition, on the charge of passing forged notes in Zurich, Switzerland. A suit begun in San Francisco discloses the existence of a correspondence with the late Senator Fair, which is said to contain the history of the famous "Comstock" lode. The acquisition of the Roanoke & Southern Road by the Norfolk & Western, is said to mean ultimately a new line into Atlanta. Frank Doherty, suspected of the murder of Captain Mulligan, at Saugerties, cut his throat with a piece of glass at Kingston, N. Y. Helena advices say that street care are tied up with snow, and that the thermometer is as low in parts of Montana as 30 below zero. Official notice has been received at Washington of the coalition of the three governments of Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador into one union called the Greater Republic of Central America. Dr. George B. Fowler, of the New York Board of Health, is agitating in favor of the abolition of leper colonies in the United States and the release of 4 their inmates. Walter M. Castle, of San Francisco, arrived in New York with his wife and child. Mr. Castle gave out statement relating to the charges of shoplifting and the imprisonment of his wife in London. The fertilizing plant of Treston & Sons, at Biissville, L. I., was destroyed by fire and $200,000 worth of machinery was lost. It 18 announced in New York that the Hamburg dock laborers' strike has given an impetus to the organization of the same class of laborers in this country. Lord Aberdeen has recommended Premier Laurier, of Canada, for knighthood by the imperial authorities, according to Ottawa advices. It is announced that a German syndicate has purchased a group of mines in the Houghton, Mich., copper region. The Leadville miners have issued a manifesto to the Governor and the citi5 zens on behalf of the strikers. An entire family, consisting of the father, invalid mother and three small children, were c insumed in a burning house at Perry, N. Y. An insane farmer in Marion, O., blew his wife's head off with an old musket and then shot himself dead. Horace L. Stearns, a wealthy citizen of Perryville, 0,, was shot dead, the murder growing out of a lawsuit in which Stearns was the attorney for the successful party. Experiments were performed in Boston on Dr. Cooke, whose eyes have no retinas, in which, by means of x rays, the blind man experienced, new sensations, probably of light. Keeper White, of the New York Morgue, has been suspended pending an investigation as to the disappearance of threebodies from the Morgue of which one has been returned. The Indians of Red River and Eagle Counties, Tex., came to blows over a ball game, two being killed and many sustaining injuries, some of which 1 may proval fatal. The Missouri National Bank of Kansas City closed its doors. L. J. Williams, a State officer, killed J. V. White and fatally wounded S. D. White, brother, who attacked him with knives at McCormick, S. C. Pomposo Ramos Rojo, a leader of the band of revolutionists who recently attacked the Mexican Custom House at Palomas, has been captured in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Baltimore's 31 per cent. loan of $500,000 was subscribed fourteen times over. Post Chaplain Malnor C. Blaine, U. 8. A., was burned to death with his daughter by the destruction of their house at Fort Ringgold, Tex. A Chicago physician avers that he has succeeded in sending photographs by wire by the use of the X Rays. William Steinway, the piano manufacturer, died at his home in New York city.
