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BRIEF NEWS NOTES ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. News Condensed and Brief Bits of Telegraphic Intelligence Reduced irom Columns to Lines for the Convenience of Readers. Thursday, Aug. 31. Paid admissions at the fair, 154,432. John H. O'Connor has been appointed receiver for the Algiers Brewing company, New Orleans. Mazzadonia Azala, at San Angelo, Tex.. murdered Antonio Monterez, and committed suicide. Five hundred old soldiers are attending the Fifth district Grand Army of the Republic reunion at Dalton, Kan. Rev. Dr. F. Clatworthy of Evanston, has accepted the temporary pastorate of the First Baptist church of Canton, Ills. Mike Kerwin. who stabbed John Marr at a dance at Dubuque, Ia., has been held for willful murder by a coroner's jury. J. T. Mitchell, Tacoma, has been appointed receiver for a portion of the Point Defiance, Tacoma and Edison Belt line. Andrew Jensen, clothing, Great Falls, Mont., assigned, with Columbia National Bank of Minneapolis as a preferred creditor. The trial of John Wagner at San Francisco, charged with the murder of Trobert Ojilvie, ended in the acquittal of the defendant. James Skidmore shot Marion Spriggs with an old army musket at Waverly, O., and he will die. Family trouble was the cause. Democrats of the First senatorial district of Ohio, in convention at Canton, nominated R. G. Williams of Alliance, on the fifth ballot. The local land office at Beaver, O. T., has been discontinued, and its business transferred to the Woodward land office, in the Cherokee outlet. The Methodist camp meeting of the Freeport district closed at Lena, Ills. Over 100 accessions to the church were dgaine during the session. Friday, Sept. 1. Antitax riots are in progressabout Raus and Tarragona, Spain. Judge George Short of the superior court of Chicago, died of consumption. Ten thousands descendants of John Smith met at Peapac, N. J., in annual reunion. The lower Wabash conference of the United Brethren church is in session at Terre Haute, Ind. The Kansas state bank commissioner closed the bank of Jennings, Decatur county. Its capital stock was $50,000. The Merchants' Life association of the United States, located at St. Louis, has been admitted to do business in Illinois as an assessment life insurance company. John Brennan, a notorious thief of Wisconsin, was captured at Rhinelander and placed in jail at Green Bay. Indignant farmers offered a reward of $500 for his arrest. The Ninth District Missionary convena tion of the Christian church began three days' session in Saunemin, Ills. Michigan's total tax levy for 1893, as declared by the auditor general, is $1,631,214, the rate being 1.7 mills on the dollar. Mrs. James Harlan of Ottumwa, Ia., committed suicide by taking carbolic acid on account of her husband's ill -treatment of her. Mrs. William Nelson of Paxton, Ills. accidentally set her clothes on fire while lighting her pipe, and was burned to death. Governor Altgeld has appointed W. E. R. Kell of Decatur, Ills., a commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics. Lee Whittington of Ohio Falls, Ind., 5 years of age, while playing with matches, was so badly burned that he died. Twelve thousand people attended the annual reunion of the Fox River Valley Association of Odd Fellows at Oshkosh, Wis. John Jackson of Wabash, Ind., 18 years old, while suffering an epileptic fit, fell in the Salomic river and was drowned. Professor Joseph V. Denney of the Columbus, O., university, and Miss Jennie Hawks of Aurora, Ills., were married in the latter city. Dr. Z. H. Madison, who was reported to have committed suicide in a Quincy hotel, died from an overdose of laudanum taken for cramp colic. The Pacific mail steamer Barracouta has arrived in San Francisco in a badly shattered condition. Monday a terrific explosion occurred in the vessel's hold, and the captain thinks it was dynamite. Jack Renfrow, John Bidey and William Lawson, Indian Territory desperadoes, have been arrested and are in jail at Andover. C. A. Wilson, a farmer living near Garnett, Kan., was stabbed to death with a corn knife by a boy, in a quarrel over 25 cents. Ed McSperritt, a farm hand of Macomb, Ills., has sued a farmer for $10,000. The latter told the neighbors that McSperritt was a thief. Saturday, Sept. 2. St. Genevieve, Mo., had its first fire in several years. New York Republicans will hold their state convention at Syracuse, Oct. 6. William A. McIlroy and Miss Cora Sallee of Paris, Ills., eloped to Terre Haute and were married. The third annual convention of the Iowa Public Health association is in session at Davenport. Michael Gleason, one of the best known sporting men of Boston, died at the South Boston insane asylum. John Rutherford of Manhattan, Ills., has been placed in the Joliet jail for a fatal assault on Frederick Ingraham. Patrick J. Maloney, while engaged in a drunken fight in St. Louis, was shot and killed by Officer John J. Lyons. Footpads intercepted George Miller, a farmer of Elkhart, Ind., robbed him of $4, and beat him into insensibility. The comptroller of Indianapolis has gone east to make one more attempt to sell $600,000 of city refunding bonds. Rival electric powerand light companies at Findlay, O., have consolidated, and consumers expect increased rates. A 5-year-old child of H. O. Rice was burned to death by the explosion of a can of oil near East Liverpool, O. By the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of his cousin, John Sterig of Pulaski, Ia,, was instantly killed. While undergoing a surgical operation at Norwalk, O., Mrs. B. F. Zaiber, aged 60, died from the effects of anaesthetics
