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WESTERN. Forty structures, including two banks. an hotel, the Postoffice, nine dwellings, etc., were destroyed by fire at Devil's Lake, Dak. The loss is $100,000, and the insur ance about $60,000. St. Paul's new city directory contains 89,720 names, an increase of 4,388 over the number in last year's volume. It is estimated that about $11,000,000 will be expended on new buildings in that city during the year. In recognition of its increased population the Postmaster General has given it five additional letter carriers. Portland (Ore.) dispatch: "News has been received here that an organized band of stock-thieves has been run down and captured by a party of regulators at Willowa Valley. Ore. Seventeen thieves were caught with a large number of valuable horses. The two ringleaders of the band were lynched in short order, and the remaining fifteen are held in custody. They will be handed over to the regular officers of the law for trial." Some days ago the dead bodies of seven horse-thieves were found hung from trees near the mouth of the Mussel-shell River in Montana Territory. Two of the bodies have been recognied as those of Felix and Downer, noted desperadoes of the Northwest. The other men were subordinates in all probability. It is reported that twenty cowboys are in pursuit of another gang of horse-thieves who have sought refuge in the Woody Mountains. The cowboys are well armed, and if they capture the thieves they probably will not wait for the formality of an indictment and trial. The Barnum wire works at Detroit has made an assignment, throwing 500 men men out of employment. Twelve car-loads of Texas cattle which arrived at the Chicago Stock Yards were found to be greatly afflicted with Texas fever. Forty-five head of the consignment died on the way, and fifteen were found dead in the cars. The Commercial Bank of Brazil, Ind., has suspended, its liabilities being about $140,000, with assets nominally reaching $170,000. It is alleged that the concern took in deposits after refusing to pay checks. The report of John S. C. Harrison, receiver of the Indiana Banking Company is to the effect that he holds certificates of deposit for $6,206 as his only credit against $101,817 with which he is chargeable, and has mortgaged all his property to secure his bondsmen. He was arrested and held to bail in $60,000. Lightning struck the farm-house of Nathan Miller, near Maryville, Kan., killing his four daughters while asleep. Their ages were 17. 13, 9, and 7, respectively. A boy of 5 was badly hurt. The mother is in a critical condition from the shock of the bereavement. Charles Wright, a 16-year-old boy, fatally shot his step-father, Joel Laws, a farmer living near Shelbyville, Ind. Laws had quarreled with his wife and tried to get into a house where she was staying. Wright resisted Laws, and in doing 80 fired the fatal shot. At her residence in Cincinnati, Mrs. Upmeter assisted her boy in breaking open a six-pound rocket by striking it with a hatchet. The explosion which followed mortally wounded the woman and her little daughter, injured two children, and wrecked the premises. The school census of Chicago, just completed, indicates a population of 629,985, an increase of 12% per cent. within a year. The Chinese number 297 and the colored people 7,517. A boy named Bentley, 12 years old, fell from a flag-staff seventy-five feet to the ground at Flint, Mich., and was not fatally injured. The Grand Central Depot at Cincinnati, which cost $800,000 was opened by a reception to President Ingalls by the Order of Cincinnatus. It is estimated that the wheat yield of Minnesota for this year will exceed that of last year by 4,110,000 bushels, an increase of 10 per cent.: the entire corn crop will yield from 20,000,000 to 25,000,000 bushels: the barley crop will produce 7,000,000 bushels, the largest ever known in the State: and the oats crop will be about 35,600,000 bushels, 10 per cent. more than the crop of 1883.
