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THE NEWS. James McGuire was pierced by a miner's drill at Eagle Hill colliery, Pennsylvania. He will die.-Night work was begun at the Jackson Park on the Electricity Building, and from now on the double force of men will be employed.- Everett Townsend, of the firm-of Townsend and Grahl, manufacturers of hat bands in New York, assigned to Abram S Townsend, with preferences for $3,830.Co!. W. Hayes Grier, of Columbia, Pa., was appointed superintendent of public printing in Pennsylvania, in place of Major Barton D. Evans, of Westchester -Bernard Bischoff, in trying to stop Jacob Heck and Jacob Eidier from tormenting an old man in Philadelphis, got inton quarrel and stabbed both men, inflicting serious wounds.- Frank R. Draeger shot end fatally wounded Mrs. H. O. Fick, of Cleveland, O., whom he charged,had hypnot Deputy Sheriff Floyd Slusher was killed in Leslie county, Ky., by the Brown brothers. He had levied on their property, this incensed the Brown brothers to murder. -Ohio's secretary of state, Daniel J. Ryan, has tendered his resignation to Governor McKinley, in order to accept a position as World's Fair commissioner. It is thought his chief clerk, McKinney, will be appointed to succeed Abraham Cooley a Michigan farmer, cut his wife's throat and his own. B. Morse, of Providence shot and killed himself.-Henry King, while trying to burglarize store in Steubenville, Ohio, strangled himself.-Rev. Wm. Lane, a Presbyterian missionary, in Brazil. died. Nine men were terribly burned, four of them fatally, by the turning over of a convertor filled with molten metal, in the Carnegie mill, at Homestead, Pa.-A decree was filed in the United States Court, at Charleston, S. C., directing the railroads in that state to pay into court the amount of taxes on the old assessments,and ordering the clerk of the court to turn the money over to the state. The Norfolk, Wilmington and Charleston Railroad Company was incorporated and organized at Charleston, with A. A. Gaddis as president. a quarrel over a butcher bill, at Somerset, Ky., Jesse Davis was shot and killed by Robert Ethridge, Davis' wife and children witnessing the shooting. little daughter of William Taylor. at East Union, Ohio, died from the sting of rattlesnake. Wyoming M. E. Conference, in session at Wilkesbarre, Pa., voted against the admission of women. The Reading Railroad Company has shut down the Jersey central's shops at Ashley Planes throwing seven hundred men out of work. Hutchins, a farmer, who believed in the Henry George theories, left his entire estate, valued at $30,000 to that cause. His widowonly received her legal dower. She contested the will, and her money and the entire estate was finally expended in lawyers' charges, and the widow is now in the poorhouse. A. Leak, president of the Bank of New Hanover, at Wadesboro, N. C., died at the age seventy years. Walt Whitman, the poet, died at his home, in Camden, N. A detective employed as a night watchman at stove factory in Blissville, L. I., was murdered by strikers.-Frederick A. Thompson, aged thirty-two years, wanted in New Haven, Conn., for forging checks to the amount of $10,000, was arrested in New York.-Henry Albinger shot his brother Nogardore, Ohio, then blew his own head off. Barney White, who took part in a lynching in Georgia was convicted of mur. der. South Dakota delegates to the Republican Convention were instructed for Harrison.The American National Bank, of Birming ham, has gone into liquidation. The bank originally had n capital of $250,000, which was, to a large extent, loaned out on securities that depreciated in value, and not long since it threw out its worthless securities and scaled its stock down to $120,000 ExecuFors for $135,000 were entered in Allentown, Pa., against the Lehigh Iron Company. Stag. nation in trade and the recent break in prices are the causes assigned for the embarrassment of the company.-The Supreme Council Royal Templars of Temperance elected officers. Engineer A.E. Leighley and Fir man J. W. Keeler on a west-bound train on the Texas and Pacific Railroad, near Bonham, Tex., were killed by collision with an engine. The government, appreciating the services of Chief Redstone, of the Assinaboine tribe, has paid his way to Chicago for treatment for cataract.-A tin-manufacturing concern will be opened at Duluth.-Max Phillips, a St. Louis musician, who is under hallucination that people are going to kill him, cut himself in twenty places, and will probably die.-The court-house at St. Charles, Mo., was destroyed by fire, with all its records. It is now reported that Sheriff Dunn, of Seward county, III., was not murdered by a mob organized to kill Judge Botkin, but by his own deputies for the money he possessed. Rev. John Temple, of Evansville, Ind., has been sentenced to seventeen years in the penitentiary for the murder of Warren Gray, who was acting as peacemaker between Temple and his wife. A fire swept/Dunlap Island, Miss, loss $25,000. Henry Smith was hung at Louisville, Ky. His crime was the murder of his employer, Louis Specht, January 18, 1891.- Burglars made an attack on the house of James Taylor, at McKeesport. Pa., and roughly handled the daughters, one of whom will probably die from the shock. The burglars were frightened off.-John McKirdy, auditor of Allegheny, has been put under arrest on the charge of selling feed to the city while serving as city councilman. A Chinese steward of the ship Annie M. Staple, of Boston, committed suicide because a plot with the Chinese cook to kill the captain and his wife had failed. Before killing himself the steward hacked the cook up with a sharp knife. Yantie, Ct., postoffice robbed and a suspicious character is under arrest.-The railroads have conceded the demand of the Birmingham iron masters for reduced rates on pig-iron to points north of the Ohio.-Mrs. Henry Lards, wife of the turnkey of the county jail at Adrian, Mich., was fatally burned while clean ngta carpet with gasoline, and both her children were burned to death J. B. Wickers ham, an inventive genius, and for whom is claimed the invention of elevated railroud system, is dead. -There was a row in the yards of the Erie Road at Kent, O., and an attack was made by discharged men and others on new men. The police interfered, and two of the attacking party was badly hurt. United States Minister to Russia Charles Emory Sm th telegraphs to this country that the Russian peasants will need relief till June.-Massach usetts capitalists will crect at Nottingham, Ala., & cotton mill to cost $400,000. A TORNADO'S WORK. Buildings Leveled and Houses Carried in
