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RASCALITY'S REIGN. A Deadwood "Daughter of Sin" Saved by HerCorsets-Fatal Row Between Saloon Keepers-A Chicago Rag Picker Kills His Man -Defaulting Bank Cashiers-Miscellaneous. SHOT BY A RAG PICKER. CHICAGO, April 29.-Louis Larrault, an Italian rag picker, this morning shot Nicholas McCue, aged 18, killing him instantly. The Italian had stolen some paper boxes from the Novelty Manufacturing Works, and was making off with them, when McCue, in the employ of the firm, gave chase, and succeeded in capturing the thief, who thereupon drew from his coat a revolver, and placing it close against the left breast just below the heart, pulled the trigger. Larrault was hurried off to the Central station, to prevent lynching. SAVED BY HER CORSETS. DEADWOOD, D. T., April 29.-Another attempt at homicide was made here last night. John D. May discharged three chambers of his revolver at Mollie McKey, a "frail daughter of sin." One of the bullets struck Mollie's corset and glanced off one of her fingers. Jealousy is assigned as the cause of the trouble. HELD FOR TRIAL. NEWARK, N. J., April 29.-J. H. Stedwell, president of the defunct New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance company, plead not guilty today on the indictment with Noyes and others to defraud the policy holders. His trial was fixed for May 8, and he was released in $5,000 bonds. RUINED BY GRAIN SPECULATION. CINCINNATI, O., April 29.-The Gazette's Urbana, Ohio, special, says Mat. Weaver, cashier of the Citizen's National bank, is a defaulter to the amount of $46,700. Weaver resigned his position in the bank a week ago, when the defalcation was discovered, but it was kept secret until the amount was made ΠΏΡ by assessing the stockholders, and the bank is now in good condition. Weaver appropriated over $75,000 of the bank's money, but the directors recovered $29,000. Other citizens of Urbana are losers to a large amount. Among them, Weaver's younger brother will lose $30,000. Speculation in grain in Chicago is said to be the cause. KANSAS HORSE THIEF LYNCHED. ATCHISON, Kansas, April 29.-A special dispatch to the Champion from Greenleaf !Kansas, announces that Fritz M yers, a notorious horse a thief, was taken from jail at Belleville, Repubf lic county, Saturday night and hanged by a mob of forty men armed and masked. Myers stole a span of horses from a man named Hancock, on Thursday of last week. He was arrested the next day and lodged in jail. The first attempt at lynching was on Friday night. Saturday night a second and better organized raid was made with the result above stated. Myers' body was still hanging Sunday morning. It is alleged he was a prominent member of an extensive gang of horse thieves, whose depredations recently have been quite numerous. ONLY $20,000 THIEF. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 29.-The defalcation of James Baynes, cashier of the Salem National Bank, amounts to $20,000, which has n been paid by his bondsman, Mr. Lyon, and the e bank will resume business. Baynes' where abouts are still unknown. POST OFFICE ROBBED. GALVESTON. Texas, April 29.-A News special from Marshall says the post office atthat place was visited by a party of masked robbers las night, the post master compelled to open th of safe and $2,000 in money and stamps carried of off. A News special from Tyler says last nigh four negro children left locked up at home