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THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. DOMESTIC At a conference of representatives of the insurance departments of a dozen states and the Armstrong investigating committee in New York a movement was begun for uniform insurance laws in all the states. F. C. Hollister and A. W. Gentry, whose wives have recently been murdered in Chicago, appeared together before the grand jury to give evidence which led to the indictment of the two alleged murderers. Former Gov. James H. Peabody, wife and daughter, at Canyon City, Col., were food eaten at poisoned by breakfast. several The Governor recently received threatening lettlers. Capitalists of Duluth, Minn., have secured control of 1,700,000 acres of timberland in the Bahama Islands and lumbering operations will begin at once. A Philidelphia coroner's jury gave a verdict that Mrs. Anita McMurrow, who claimed to be the Countess de Bettancourt, died of heart disease. Henry Lear, former president of the (Pa.) National Bank, which Doylestown was five in the failed, sentenced to years penitentiary. A great library instead of a chapel may be established in Chicago as a memorial to President Harper. A score of people were injured, some seriously, by the fall of a part of a balcony during a minstrel performance at Fields' Opera House, Washington, Ga. The trial of a number of weighmasters at the Chicago Stockyards, accused of defrauding shippers, was begun. One of the men confessed. The wage scale committee of the Mineworkers' Convention is in receipt of large numbers of resolutions demanding an increase in wages. A crash of freight trains at Newton Falls, O., caused the death of two men and the fatal injury of a third. Heavy snow caused a railroad wreck near Denver, Col. Coroner Mix, of New Haven, Conn., has rendered a final decision, concurred in by the state's attorney, that Charles E. Edwards committeed suicide with laudanum and a bullet, owing to insomnia. At the request of Senator David B. Hill, the Bar Association of New York is investigating the payment of a $5,000 fee to the Senator by the Equitable Life Assurance Society. The government wireless telegraph station at Cape Elizabeth, Me., has received a message from the Dewey drydock tow that traveled 3,000 miles, breaking all records for distance. An official of the city of Chicago tied up two traction lines for two hours, claiming that open gates on the cars imperiled the lives of passengers. L. W. Burlen, secretary-treasurer of the Provident Securities and Banking Company, of Boston, has gone to Canada. The city of Chicago has sued two traction lines for overcrowding street cars. Four workmen in a tunnel under East River, New York, were drowned or suffocated by a bursted air pipe failing to keep up the required air pressure and permitting water to enter and flood a shaft. President Mitchell, of the United Mineworkers, in addressing the annual convention in Indianapolis, urged a demand for higher wages. The operators have agreed to meet Mitchell in conference. W. M. Wolfe, professor of theology in Brigham Young College, has renounced Mormonism, having found that the elders are still marrying plural wives in Mexico. The liabilities and forged stock certificates of Denison, Prior & Co., of Cleveland, now amount to $3,000,000. Knowledge that the cashier is missing caused a run on the Washington National Bank of Pittsburg. Mrs. Casie L. Chadwick, now in the Ohio penitentiary, has been put to work sewing buttonholes.
