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South and West. 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 falling 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 bank at 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. THE residence of George Cramer, a few miles from Brainard, Minn., caught tire, and Mrs. Cramer and her three children were burned to death. THE British ship Ferndale, coal-laden, went ashore five miles north of the entrance to Gray's Harbor, Oregon. Twenty of the crew, including the officers, were drowned. Three of the crew reached shore alive. DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHALS started on from Rabun, Ga., with three revenue offenders. Two of the prisoners were handcuffed together, while the third, named Lovell, marched in front of a deputy. Lovell's mother and sister, both deaf and dumb, suddenly sprang from the bushes beside the road, seized the officer and held him long enough for Lovell to run into the woods and escape. WHILE scouting ahead for D troop. United States Army, Rufus Glover, a wellknown scout, was shot and killed by the Garza revolutionists. THE historic old Appomattox, (Va.) Court House has been destroyed by fire. All the records and furnishings were consumed. DAVID PORTER, Deputy Collector of Savannah, Ga., was, while beating his wife, shot and killed by his son. ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ABRAHAM SEAY, of Oklahoma, was sworn in as Governor of the Territory. JACOB LEESE, the first white settler in California, has just died at San Francisco, aged eighty-two years. He came to California in 1833 and built the first house in San Francisco in 1836.