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South and West. ALICE MITCHELL the nineteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy retired merchant, jumped from a carriage at Memphis, Tenn., seized Freda War3, her friend, and killed her by cutting her throat. FIRE destroyed the Metropolitan Opera House Block at Columbus, Ohio. Loss over $300,000 FRANK BROWN and his wife, of South Boston, Ind., were kicked to death by a stallion. THE farm house of George Myers, three miles west of Kendallville, Ind., was burned to the ground, and Marion; the eighteen-year old son of Mr. Myers, and Dr. Owens, a brother of Mrs. Myers, were roasted to death. LEE GIBSON, colored man, seventy years of age, was taken out of jail at Owenton, Ky., by a mob, and banged for murder. AN official dispatch from San Antonio, Texas, says that Garza, the bandit, has escaped from the Lower Rio Grande frontier, and that he is now in the country between Del Rio and the Picas River, with from 4500 to 5000 well armed and mounted Mexicans. OTTO HAUSER, who committed suicide at San Antonio, Texas, is reported to be Stanislaus Padiewski, the Nihilist, who assassinated the Russian General Michael de Seliverstoff, in Paris on November 18, 1890. NEAR Pineville, Ky., "Bob" Jones and Lee Davis. members of the Parton faction, were killed by Turner and his men. RAIN began talling throughout Central and Northern Arizona. It is the first rain since February 15, 1891. THOMAS THOMPSON, colored, was hanged at Chestertown, Kent County, Md., for the murder of William Adams, also colored. The hanging was the first in the county since 1851. THE doors of the Fall River County Bank, at Oelrichs, South Dakota, were closed. The depositors are mostly poor farmers and laborers, The deposit bankat Glasgow, Ky., has also closed its doors after a run. By a premature blast in the Rush Run Coal Mines, Fayette County, W. Va.. five men were killed and five wounded. They were all colored laborers.