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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Lewis & Dryden, the largest publishing house in Oregon, has gone into the hands of a receiver. George T. Carpenter, chancellor of Drake Univerity, at Des Moines, Iowa, died at 11 o'clock this morning. The loan committee of the New York clearing house issued $50,000 certificates making total outstanding to date $25,450,000. A registered mail pouch containing $50,000 in securities left the Salt Lake postoffice, eastbound, July 8, and has not since been heard from. At the pienic of the hop growers association at Sylvan Beach near Rome, N.Y., to-day, Senator David B. Hill made an eloquent address, his subject being "Personal Liberty." The building occupied in Chicago by the Chicago Oil Refining Co., a large lumber shed, and four dwelling houses were destroyed by fire last evening. Loss $65,000, insurance about the same. In Mobile, Alabama, yesterday, Bolivar Hudson, a man 69 years old, was convicted of a homicide committed 24 years ago and sentenced to five years i nprisonment in the penitentiary. Gov. Boies, of Iowa, says he is through with politics. Under no circumstances will he accept another nomination for Governor, and says he would not accept the senatorship as a gift. A cable dispatch from London says the yacht Britannia has been selected to protect the gold cup challenged for by the American yacht Navahoe in September. The race will take place off the Isle of Wight. George C. Perkins, the newly appointed U. S. Senator from California yesterday said "I am in favor of bimetallism to a certain extent and will do everything that I consider will benefit the middle classes of the country on which I consider our prosperity mainly depends." The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is preparing to run a series of excursions to Chicago for its emplyees. Transportation will be free and the employces will be given a week's holiday. The transportation agreement provides that the wives, daughters and brothers of the employees may accompany them. The first train will leave New York to-day. At Pittsburg this afternoon a seven story brick and iron building at the corner of Spring alley and Ninth street, owned by the Second National Bank collapsed and crumbled to the ground. About forty workmen were seated inside the building eating their dinners. The men all rushed for the street and escaped, save two, who are yet missing and are supposed to be covered under the many tons of debris. Chambersburg, Pa., was crowded yesterday with people from all along the Cumberland Valley from Harrisburg to Winchester, Va., to witness the dedication of the monument erected by popular subscription. This monument commemorates the burning of Chambersburg by Confederate forces under General McCausland on July 30, 1864 The exercises consisted of a parade, participated in by civic and military organizations from a radius of fifty miles, the singing of national airs by a choir of one hundred voices, and an oration by W. I. Cook, of Baltimore. The monument was presented to and accepted by the City Council. No. 2 Corning Mill of the American Powder Company at South Acton, Mass., blew up at 8:20 o'clock this morning. One man was instantly killed. The explosion was very severe and broke most of the glass in the buildmgs near the mills. There were 2,500 pounds of powder in the mill at the time. Last year the company had two mills blown up. An amputation of the hip joint, one of the most dangerous of operations and the thirteenth of its kind in the annals of surgery in this country, has been successfully performed upon Mrs. Josephine Jaherg, of Rahway, N. J., by Dr. Victor Marvlag. The form of operation was that known as Diffenbach's operation. The following failures are reported to-day Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Covington, Ind.; the C. W. Chapin & Co.'s private bank at Stanton, Mich the Pineville Banking Company at Pineville, Ky; the Citizens' Savings and Loan Association's Bank of Akron, Ohio; and the First Natiodal Bank of Kankakee, Ills. NEW YORK APPOINTMENTS.-President Cleveland's private Secretary, Mr.
