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Minor Mention. After being idle nine months, the miners in the Monongahela coal region are returning to work at the old rates. Otis P. G. Clarke has been promoted to the position of commissioner of patents. The prisoners in the county jail at Denton, Tex., made a break for liberty on the evening of the 16th. Eleven men escaped. The safe of the Texas Express Company, at Bryan, lex., was broken open early on the morning of the 16th, and robbed of funds to the amount of nearly $11,000. William Smith, a farmer, living at Vandalia, Ill., was kilied by a falling tree near his home, while coon hunting on the night of the 13th. On the 13th, John Maxwell, of South Argyle, N. Y., an insane man, perished in the flames which consumed the house in which he was confined. A shed containing a large amount of powder near Toledo, exploded on the 13th. No lives lost. A train ran into an open switch at Vincennes, Ind., on the 13th. Engineer G. Fairbanks was killed. A severe earthquake shock was experienced in several New Hampshire towns, on the evening of the 12th. A freight train was wrecked near Ashland, o., on the 13th, killing two brakemen and seriously injuring a fireman. A handsome monument to commemorate the battle of Manmouth. in 1778, was unveiled at Freehold, N. J., on the 13th. John A. Brahm, president of the First National Bank of Petersburg. Ill., made an assignment on the 12th. Liabilities $80,000. Diphtheria and typhoid fever are epidemic at Montreal. Cause, imperfect drainage. By the bursting of an anvil during a Democratic celebration at Luling. Tex., on the evening of the 12th, two men were instantly killed. A broken emigrant train on the West Shore road was run into by a freight train at Cornwall Station, N. Y., on the 11th. The emigrants saw the danger and burried from the cars before the smash-up occurred. Most of the passenger cars were demolished and the engine and several cars of the freight train ditched. John M. Masteson, the embarrassed banker of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., was arrested on the 11th on a charge of fraud in receiving a deposit of $1,000 when he knew himself to be insolvent and was about to fail. A collision between an engine and a freight train, near Pana, Ill., on the 11th, killed both engineers and a fireman. A. D. Slv. who robbed the American Express Co. in St. Joseph, Mo., a year ago of $10,800, pleaded guilty to embezzlement and grand larceny on the 11th, and was sencenced to four years in the penitentiary. Bartley Marrin, a farmer, was run over and killed by a North-Western train at Milwaukee on the night of the 7th. A collision between passenger trains near Selbyville, Del., on the 10th, wrecked both engines and killed J. H. Russell, an engineer. Engineer L. Smith was badly injured. A St. Johns, N. F., dispatch of the 10th announces the sinking, by collision during a storm, of the English schooners, Northern Light and Elsie. Two lives were lost. Fritz Groskopf, foreman of a Milwaukee hook-and-ladder truck, wasrun over and fatally injured while endeavoring to board his truck on the way to a fire on the 10th.