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nier. -President Diaz's wife will send to the Fair at her own expense a band of 45 women musicians. --Matthew Ashton is under arrest at Ful ton, Wis., charged with the murder of Mrs. Daniel Stone. -Daniel B. Pond (Dem.) was re-elected Mayor of Woonsocket, R. I., for the fourth consecutive term. -A receiver has been asked for the Mor chants' and Farmers' Bank at Washington Court House, Ohio. -Sixty steerage passengers on the steamship Vancouver, from Liverpool, are quar antined at Portland. -James Cooper ran amuck with a revolver and razor at Basset, Neb., and was killed by the sheriff. -Maine fishermen have been selling shut lobsters to the canners, and there is danger of a crustacean famine. -Mary Ann Quinn, of Jeffersonville, Ind., is seriously ill because of fear that the comet would strike the earth. -Fire at Zanesville, O., destroyed Beau mont Co. 'smill and Blankenbuhler's ware house and mill; loss over $50,000. -Three men, believed to be the recent robbers of the train at Hot Springs have been located in the mountains near Seattle, Wash. -Major Nicholas Vedder, on the retired list of the United States Army, dropped dead Tuesday from apoplexy, in Washington. -0. M. Hannan & Co., produce merchants of Montreal, have assigned with assets of about $15,000 and liabilities of about $100,000. -H. H. Lostetter, United States Express agent at Huntingburg, Ind., was arrested while pawning diamonds consigned to New York. -The labor troubles in the Maring-Hart window glass works, at Muncie, Ind., are still unsettled and a long struggle is threatened. -Henry Lundenslager, who gave himself ap to the police of Springfield, O., saying he had poisoned five people, has been adjudged insane. -The $2,500 raised at Providence, R. L, :wo years ago for the Irish fund will be sent to the priests in Ireland to relieve evicted tenants. -It is reliably reported that the U. S. Government will interfere with the scheme of Cuba to farm out its custom revenues to a French syndicate. -The Supreme Court of the United States has decided the Lake Front case in favor of the State of Illinois and against the Illinois Central Railroad Co. -During a saloon row in Chicago, Matthew Hildebrand, the proprietor of the place, shot and mortally wounded Gus Wunderlich, a drunken teamster. -William Nagle, who shot a landlord in Ireland, and came here two weeks ago, is in Chicago. He was allowed to land on condition that he report at Ellis Island. -John W. Smathers, of Asheville, N. C., student at the Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia, shot and fatally injured William E. Williams, another student. -John Koccis, of Trenton, N. J., the Slav who was convicted last week of a murdering his mistress, Mary Majolis, has a been sentenced to be hanged on February 10. o -One thousand dollars, saved by Mrs. Fox to take a trip to Europe, was stolen from the safe in the greenhouse of Albert Fox at Chicago, and the police do not suspect burglars. -Ex-Mayor C. F. Evans, aged 56 years, and one of the best known citizens of Reading, Pa., was found dead in his room at the Hotel Penn on Monday. Heart failure. = -Henry G. Trickey, a Boston "Globe" reporter, indicted at Taunton, Mass., with Miss Lizzie Borden for the murder of the E latter's father and stepmother, was killed at Hamilton, Ont., last week by being run over by a train. -The "Yough" express of the Pennsylvania railroad was wrecked near Pennsville, Pa., on Tuesday, by a collision with a freight. Baggage car and engine of express were demolished. Several passengers were injured, but none fatally. -Senator Chandler, Chairman of the F Committee on Immigration, has prepared a bill which he will introduce at the first opportunity suspending and prohibitt. ing immigration into the United States, except from the countries of North and South America, for one year from March 3, 1893. -That convict James M. Bradley, alias h Maitland, walked out of the Charlestown, P Mass., State prison during Thanksgiving Day is no longer a matter of doubt. b A thorough search of the prison has been h made and he was not found within P the walls. la -District- Attorney George S. Graham, h of Philadelphia, who is receiver of S the defunct order of Iron Hall for Pennsylvania, would like to know the whereabouts of Supreme Justice F. D. Somerby T and so would the anti-Somerby people in a Indianapolis, who have fought his reorT ganization scheme tooth and nail. n -A group of anarchists styled "Individn ual Initiative" has been founded in London by Parmeggiani, and is composed chiefly of Frenchmen and Italians who are 01 advocates of robbery and the use of dynamite. It has been decided to avenge the extradition of Francois by attempts to to wreck the residences of the English judges re and magistrates. ec -The War Department is informed by Gov. Willey of Idaho,that Alexander Chis-