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D. Case now has possession of the Bellvue postoffice, At Bunker Hill, Ind., several drunk. en loafers poured coal oil over the clothing of James McDonald, an old man, and ignited it, burning McDon. ald nearly to death. At Frankfort, Ky., William M. Cable was shot and instantly killed by a man named Davis Sunday afternoon. Davis was arrested and placed in jail. A family affair was the cause. Just after the explosion in Sant An' der the other day many people hurried to the railroad station to leave town as fast as possible. In the rush to enter the trains large numbers were injured. It is reported that Colonel North, the "nitrate king," supported by Lord Randolph Churchill and Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, will contest West Leeds in opposition to Mr. Herbert Gladstone at the next election. Brown-Over hall, near Rugby, Eng., which the dower Duchess of Southerland has taken for the winter, was entered by burglars Wednesday evening and valuable jewelry belonging to visitors was stolen. The assistant secretary of the treasury Wednesday advised Mrs. Potter Palmer, in reply to a question as to how best settle the wrangling of the board of lady managers, to try a harmonious settlement. Lawyer Francis S. Weeks, the selfconfessed embezzler, whose extradition from Costa Rica caused so much talk, was Wednesday taken to Sing Sing to serve out his sentence of ten years' imprisonment. The death on Wednesday, of Mrs. Toole and daughter, from drinking poisoned liquor, is laid to one of the two Toole boys, for the reason that the father was about to die and had willed all his property to Mrs. Toole. The sheriff took possession of the Washington building at the world's fair grounds Monday. He acted on a tachment proceedings brought in the superior court by the Union National Bank of Chicago to enforce claims of R. M. Hall, of Georgia, D. F. Stacy, of Minnesota, and Peter Veling, of Wisconsin, appointed last spring to examine the pine on the ceded Chippewa lands. in Minnesota, have been -Seu pue JOJ distinsed lect of duty. The wife of Adam Bright, the Miama county, O., farmer, who was -unq 4q $4,500 JO not deceed CO men, died Monday afternoon from the shock caused by the loss. She had worked all her life to help earn the money, Miles Baird, 14 years old, of San Francisco, wanted to see how well his fellow pupils would act in case of real fire and so set the Clement school there on fire. The 700 pupils all marched without panic and he is under arrest. 3 The entire hill country of Tonkin, Siam, is in revolt. The French forces there are impotent and confined to their posts. The native soldiery demoralized and rebelious, and the railway and road works have been abandoned. The five Russian convicts who were picked up by the whaler, Morgan, in Okhotsk sea and brought to San Francisco, prove not to be political offenders but felons. The whaler bearing the other five refugees is now due at 'Frisco. Now that Schieg, the absconding teller of the bank of Minneapolis is to be brought back, it is rumored that some new light may be thrown on the suicide of Cashier Bofferding, which took place the day after Scheig's falcation became known. The firing upon the American flag at the port of Amapala on Monday was done by President Vasquez's direct orders. sach was his keen desire to get hold of his old enemy, Barilla, but he now throws the entire blame on the commander of the port. George M. Rose. of St. Paul, a chemist and consulting engineer, well known in Europe and the United States, died Monday at Chicago from an attack.of pneumonia. He. with his wife, had been stopping at the Grand Pacific, where he died. A detachment of Troop E. Fourth cavalry, has left Vancouver, Wash., for the Bitter Root mountains, Montana, to search for General Carlin's son and uo Spokene ter очм 'eay JO Party 8 hunting expedition weeks ago and P are now two weeks overdue. The sheik in command of the beseiging forces at Melilla was killed by ashell from the Spanish cruiser Gonde de Venadito on November 6. The Riffans are reported to be discouraged. Several thousand of them thought to have withdrawn. u L. F. Menage, president of the wrecked Guarantee Loan company of Minneapolis, who fled the country afthe failure, has been located in Guateu mala, and Secretary Gresham has 7. wired Minister Young to have him p placed under arrest at once. p An epidemic ofinfluenza that counts at least as many victims as could grippe in its palmiest days, prevails
