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# LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
-Mt. Etna is said to be subsiding.
-The grip is increasing in Valparaiso.
-Smallpox in British Columbia has been
eradicated.
-Cubans in Chicago are aching for a war
of independence.
-Friday was the hottest day of the sum-
mer at Ft. Wayne, Ind.
-The cases of the Taney county lynchers
have been nolle prossed.
-Weaver will swing around the circle
through the silver States.
-The Honduras Government has closed
its coast to foreign commerce.
-Newfoundland will receive an Imperial
loan for the benefit of St. John fire sufferers.
-The amnesty bill has passed its third
reading in the Brazilian Chamber of Depu-
ties.
-Dr. Talmage is still the lion of the hour
at St. Petersburg, where he is the guest of
the Czar.
-The strike of Wabash Railroad men in
Indiana has ended in a complete victory for
the men.
-A joke started a run on the People's
Savings Bank at Evansville, Ind., which
weathered the gale safely.
-A Sioux City man named Doc Reynolds
has been arrested for passing Confederate
bills upon ignorant Italians.
-An earthquake at Guadalajare, Mexico,
damaged the State House, cathedral, hos-
pital and many private houses.
-The Egbas tribe in South Africa who
were recently reduced to subjection by the
British, are becoming aggressive again.
-Three men, who had been entombed for
a long time in a mine at Bilin, a town of
Bohemia, have been rescued alive. They
had been without food for 17 days.
-Canadian militia have been ordered to
Isle Aux Coudras, where Bouchard, the
liquor smuggler, has successfully resisted
the customs officer. Bloodshed is expected.
-For the second time in the history of
Canada exports have exceeded imports, the
only other year in which the balance of
trade was in favor of the Dominion being
1880.
-San Antonio police have arrested Joe
McDonald, a painter and fire bug, who has
started many a blaze in that city. He had a
large amount of stolen goods in his pos-
session.
-Five of the largest breweries of Cincin-
nati have entered into a combination to sell
beer at $7 per barrel. The price heretofore
has been $8 per barrel. A beer rate war is
imminent.
-Edward Deacon has begun a criminal
action against his wife. The action has
been instituted, it is said, to enable Mr.
Deacon to get possession of the children
upon his release from prison.
-Captain Lloyd, owner of the Detroit
garbage boat, was fined $400 at Amherstburg
Friday for violating the customs law in dis-
charging cargo without clearance papers.
The cargo consisted of garbage.
-The State Turnfest, being held in Du-
luth, has adopted resolutions condemning
the interference of any religious sect with
the public school system. This is a direct
disapproval of the Faribault system.
-Shortly after Friday midnight, Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Scott, of Denver, were almost
chopped to pieces in their bed, presumably
by Peter Heenan, the divorced husband of
Mrs. Scott, who used a hatched. He escaped.
-Michael Cucovich, armed with a rifle,
held up a stage near Stockton, Cal., Friday.
The Sheriff and police pursued him. The
robber hid himself and shot the constable,
Carroll. He was finally caught and is now
in jail.
-The latest sea serpent yarn comes from
Kingston, Ont. A man and wife sailing in a
skiff on Lake Ontario claim to have en-
countered one 30 feet long, which they beat
oft with an oar. It disappeared, hissing like
a buzz saw.
-The consignees of the Norwegian ship
Frank Corville, from Glasgow for San Diego,
have about given her up. She sailed 205
days ago with a cargo of Scotch splint coul
consigned to the Spreckles Brothers Com-
mercial Company.
-Photographer C. W. Page, whose young
wife died at Bangor, Mich., July 5, of poison
under suspicious circumstances, was ar-
rested at Hammond, Ind., Friday night,
charged with murder. Mrs. Eliza Tobin, of
South Chicago, Page's partner, was arrested
on the same charge.
-Secretary Foster has instructed Minister
Egan to press the settlement of all out-
standing claims against Chile. Some of
them have been pending since 1828. The
claims aggregate several millions of dollars.
Secretary Foster has proposed that the
matter be settled by arbitration.
