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erick Faulkner, at Lowell, Mass., was burned, on the 18th, while the family were away at the beach. The con. tents of the house are a total wreck, and the loss will exceed $125,000. The fire was undoubtedly the work of an incendiary. FIRE at Lancaster, Ky., on the 18th, destroyed all the buildings on the east side of the public square, including the post office. Loss, $30,000, twothirds of which is covered by insurance. A DISPATCH from Athens, on the 19th, said that insurgents in Macedonia had burned two villages in the Kosoni district and massacred eighty persons. AMONG the passengers on the steamer St. Paul, which sailed from New York, on the 19th, for Europe, were Senatorelect Joseph B. Foraker and Postmaster-General Wilson. THE democratic state convention assembled in Pueblo, Col., on the 19th. There was a large attendance. George Thomas, who had been looked upon as the probable candidate for governor, created a sensation by sending a formal letter to the chairman positively declining to accept any nomination from the convention. MAJ. McKINLEY denied himself to all callers, on the 19th, and devoted the hours to the work of reading the proof of that part of his letter of acceptance which had been put into type. Almost one-half the letter had been revised. ON the 19th a deputy state bank commissioner posted a notice on the closed doors of the Argentine (Kas.) bank, announcing that he had taken possession and that application for a receiver would be made. A TERRIFIC boiler explosion took place in Rockland park, Rochester, N. Y..on the 19th, where a new sewer was being constructed. Contractor Wm. Fuller was blown 100 feet and probably fatally injured. John Holliday and John A. Metzger were terribly hurt, and 20 others were slightly injured. A FRAUD order was, on the 20th, issued by the post office department against the Creditors' Beneficial association of Rockford, III. THE treasury gold reserve declined, on the 20th, to $103,932,711. The day's withdrawals were $129,700 and for the month they aggregated $7,750,000. PROF. M. A. GREEN, M. A., professor of geology of the University of Oxford, died in London on the 20th. A HEAD-ON collision occurred, on the 20th, on the Detroit, Lansing & Northern railroad, near Fowlerville, Mich., between two passenger trains. Both engines were ditched and one fireman was seriously injured. Several cars were derailed. The accident was caused by the west-bound train failing to make a siding to let the eastbound train pass. FIRE of an unknown origin, on the night of the 19th, destroyed the residence of John Felbach in Watertown, S. D. Mr. Felbach and two daughters, Tillie, aged 10, and Hattie, aged 15, were burned to death. The mother and another daughter escaped. THE Tomhicken Powder Co.'s mills at Derringer, Pa., exploded, on the 20th, killing E. J. Whitebroad and injuring Peter Shell, Oliver Ross and John Kisbach. The mills were completely wrecked, and the country surrounding was alarmed by the shock. THE funeral of Sir John Millais, president of the Royal academy, who died in London on August 13, took place in St. Paul's cathedral on the 20th.
