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THE NEWS. Compiled From Late Dispatches. DOMESTIC. The Sherburne (Minn.) bank robbers have been identified as Lu Kellihan and his brother Hans, the latter, who was killed by his captors, being only 18 years old. Knights of the Golden Eagle from nearly every part of the United States met at Reading, Pa., in annual convention. George Harris, William Smith and Charles Jones were killed and two citizens were wounded during an attempt to rob the bank at Meeker. Cal. Cummings Bros., exporters of hardwood lumber and logs at Houston, Tex., failed for $100.000. The J. & P. Coates company of Glasgow, Scotland, has bought Clark's MileEnd thread mills at Newark, N. J., for $1,250,000. Three men were fatally injured and 20 others were more or less seriously injured in a trolley accident at a railway crossing in Hazle'on, Pa. The Second national bank. the old. est financial institution in Rockford, III., closed its doors, having gone into voluntary liquidation. James Michael, the Welshman. broke the world's five-mile bicycle record on the Garfield park track in Chicago, his time being 9:17 1-5. The annual report of the third assistant postmaster general for the past fiscal year shows that the total expenditure for the year was $90,626,296 and receipts $82,499,208, leaving a deficiency of $8,127,088, or a reduction of $1,679,956 less than the preceding year. J. A. White shot and killed Richard M. Adams and William Jackson, police officers who were trying to arrest him at Columbus, Ga., and was himself shot dead. Michael Boyd and a man named Murphy were asphyxiated in a large gas tank at Syracuse. N. Y. In a wreck on the Florida Central road near Swansea, Ga., Baggage Master Lines and Mail Clerk Thomas were pinned down in the debris and burned to death. The Bank of Commerce, one of the leading financial institutions in Buffalo, N. Y., suspended because of heavy withdrawals. The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States at its annual meeting in Philadelphia elected Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, U. S. N., commander-in-chief. Settlers in Ontonagon and Gogebic counties, Mich., were meeting with heavy losses by forest fires. The president has appointed Robet t A. Smith postmaster at St. Paul, Minn. The appointment ends a long contest over the office. Four members of the volunteer fire department of Blue Island, III., have been placed under arrest charged with burning the principal business block in that place some time ago. Mrs. Col. Vernon, of Red Key, Ind., gave her two small children a dose of poison and then poisoned herself. No cause is known for the deed. Dr. John B. Hamilton, surgeon-general of the United States marine hospital, stationed in Chicago, sent in his resignation to President Cleveland. The Union Pacific fast mail was held up by three masked men near Uintah. Utah. and the mail car was robbed. A gang of masked men looted the little town of Peryear. Tenn., and then started tires in many places, but they were extinguished with small loss. Capt. William Clarke, of Hampden, Me., shot and killed his wife and then shot himself. Jealousy was the cause. A treasury statement says that the first half of October shows a deficit of $5,739,873 and for the fiscal year to date of $30,934,009. The total receipts for the fiscal year to date have been $91,575, 670 and the expenditures have aggregated $122,509,670. The wholesale chinaware and crockery establishment of Pearson & Wetzel in Indianapolis was gutted by fire, the loss being $75,000. In a collision between two freight trains near Meridian, Miss., Will Tulsche, engineer, and Zip Alexander, fireman, were instantly killed and, 40 cars were wrecked. The Manchester Cigar Manufacturing company at Baltimore, Md., failed for $100,000. At the annual meeting in Colorado Springs, Col., of the International Typographical union William P. Prescott. of Toronto, Ont., was reelected president, and a nine-hour labor law was passed.
