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[For the convenience of readers who do not have time or opportunity to master all the news as it appears from morning to morning, we have madea brief summary of the week's doings, ending Tuesday. as follows Yellow fever Is decreasing at Havana. Godlove S. Orth's will is to be contested. The State Fair opens at Columbus to-day. The epidemic in Egypt has caused more than 27,000 deaths Foot and mouth disease is spreading among the of cattle England. fund has been raised in London to defend O'Donnell, the slayer of Carey. The ffee and sugar crops of Java were badly damaged by the late volcan eruptions. George F. Moore. formerly Chief Justice of Texas, died of paralysis at Washington yesterday. The Watson Paper Mills. at Fairview, Pennsylvania, valued at $ 0,0 0, were burned yesterday. Pennsylvania steel manufacturers say the new tariff is destroying the iron and steel business. Evidence closed in the Frank James trial last Saturday The argument will be heard this week. A perfect mine of Indian relios was discovered by workmen excavating in a Chicago cemetery Saturday. State's Attorney Loucks, of Peoria, is a fugitive from justice. He claims to have gambled away trust funds. Peter Vonderer, a child two years eld, of St. Louis, choked to death Saturday, trying to swallow an acorn. At the close of the camp meeting at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, 100 ministers administered communion to 2,000 persons. The London police are trying to establish a connection between the dynamite societies of England and America. It is reported that the Barings of London have just acquired $2,000,000 worth of Atchison. Topeka Fe stock. Santa and Plans have been completed int Washington for silver vaul for the New Orleans mint with a storage capacity of $20,000,000. There are rumors at Springfield that John H. Oberly is to be brought out as Democratic candidate for Governor of Illinois. Fire destroyed the houses and machinery of the Spring Lake Ice Company near Vincennes, Ind., valued at $45,000, last Thur-day Three Chinamen last week went before the proper officer in Philage and signified their intentions to become citizens of the United States. Colonel J. A. Ekin, Assistant Quartermaster General. stationed at Louisville, has been retired, and will besucceeded by Colonel Rufus Saxton. The gale reported off the fishing grounds of Newfoundland ran for four days. The loss of life among the fishermen is estimated at eighty per!one. One hundred cases of rifles and revolvers and seventy five cases of cartridges were last Wednesday load d at San Francisco OD. a steamer sailing for Shanghai. The Indiana National Bank at Bedford, which for the past three weeks has endeavored to secure a living support from the citizens, surrendered its charter last week. With the consent of the Vicar of Stratford-uponAvon, the remains of Shakespeare are to be exhumed, in order to compare the skull with existing busts and portraits. Invitations are bei ? sent out to the numerous relatives of President Z chary Taylor to attend the unveiling of statue in the burial ground near Louisville, September 20. Edmund P. Smith, United States Consul at Certhagena returned to lucennes Ind and filed a bill for div ree, the gr und that his wife per sistently remains in Washington. The Grand Jury at New Orleans makes the sug. sestion that & crematory be estab ished at the Charity Hospital, as sanitary m asure to dispose of persons who die of contagio u diseases. At Crystal Falls. Michigan 150 miners in the Great Western shaft struckagainst a change in offi 0018 The new Superintendent turned the mine over to a Deputy Sheriff as the men threatened his life. Some alarm was created on the b order of Kansas, on Friday, by he appea ance of a band of Cheyennes at Monume Ge eral Pone sent a company of cavalry to the front to investigate the matter The story comes from St. Louis that some workmen have unearthed a cave or vault containing historical relies of great interest. including Indian pottery and parchment documents in French and Syanish. While an excursion train was going at the rate of thirty miles an hour near Scranton, Pa. a boy named John Kerrigan was put iff for having no ticket. He fell under the wheels and was instant ly killed. A Berlin cablegram says train passing Steglitz Sunday ran into a crowd of people There were forty killed and wounded Te crowd was press10g forward to take a train coming from the opposite direction. The Quidneck Mill in Rhode Island is a part of the property involved the Sprague litigation. An attempt was made to take possession of it last Faturday and Sprague resisted, threatening to kill the claimant. Major Ewing, of Nashville. was robbed Saturday night in Cincinnati while coming from the Highland House, by some roughs, of $100 in cash and a gold watch presented to him by Supreme Judge Stanley Matthews. For the first time, on Sunday, in the history of Dodge City. Kansas, the gambling-houses, dancehalls and saloons were esterday closed. Some of the bad characters with which the place swarms are leaving in disgust. Issac H. Lockwood. of New Haven, was found guilty of using the mails for frandulent purposes. He was taken to the Connecticut Penitentiary last week for year. and is represented as completely overcome by the verdic'. Hon. J. C. S. Blackbura, of Kentucky. makes the announce ment that he is not candidaie for the Speakership of the House of Representatives, as concentration of forces is necessary to win a victory for & revenue tariff The drought, which is reported as affecting a limited pertion of New England and the Central States has become so severe in Texas that thegrass has dried up and prairie fires are raging. Stockraisers will suffer heavy losses. It is announced from Newport that Henry A. Herbert, handsome member of the British Parlisment, the owner of the estate of Muckross and the Lakesof Killarney is envaged to Miss Rebece Williams, whose father is President of the Maryland Senate and a millionaire. Secretary Cha dier ran the Tallapoosa into Bangor, Maine, ast Thur-day, to give the citizensa view of American Royalty Secretary Folger put into Cleveland on the evenue cutter Andrew Johnson, and drove to the tomb of Gartield. A dispatch from Panama rep rts th over 10,000 workmen are employed on the Isthmus canal, most of whom are from Jamaica All but two contractors have begun operations and there prospect of completing the cut in five years. The people of Montreal showered courie ies on be officers of the United states frigate Vandalia, winding up last evening with 8 ball and supper. The Royal Sects Reg ment visited the ship in H ghland costume, with bagpipes and band Dispatches from Sioux City announce the arrival of Senators Logan, Dawes and Cameron, of the ecial Ind an Commission. en route to Pine Ridge and R sebud agencies It is only a day since the frontier Hers had the Illinois Senatov booked for a week in bed A1 a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Mas achuseus Democratic Committee last Naturday it was authoritatively stated that Governor Butler had decided to run for re-electi in this fall. The State Convention will be held at Springfield, September 26. M: for Wasson, the embezzling Army Paymaster, now out bis time, has been detailed to superintend the work of buildings road between Leavenworth and the Kansas Penitentiary He asks to be allowed to wear overalla instead of conviet trousers family of assisted emigrants, who had been shipped from Ireland to Canada ma ie their ap(arance at Castle Garden, New York, last Friday, and demanded relief. The Secretary of the State Foard of Charities placed them on a steamer for Londonderry. It appears that in the trial of Frank James. Thursday, General Joe Shelby appeared in the Court in 80 intoxicated condition and drew pis tol on the State's attorney Friday morning the General made an apology to the Court and was let off with a fine of $10. In a hotel at Elgin. m. early vesterday morning, Edward Joslyn killed Miss Ette Buetingham