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IN GENERAL John Monosmith shot and gilled Miss Gertrude Lally, 18 years old, in Eaton, O., Saturday night. He was jealous. The Temple Opera House in Duluth, Minn., was destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning. The loss is placed at 890,000. In a fight with pistols in New Orleans on Saturday, Tony Lavia was killed and Dennis Corcoran severely wounded. J. J. Mosely, a liquor constable, was shot and killed at Greenwood, S. C., early Sunday morning. He had just seized come liquor that had arrived on a train. Crzscenzo Morello was arrested in Boston Sunday by a detective from Scranton, Pa., on a warrant charging him with the murder of Emanuel Lore in Lackawanna, June 17th, 1894. W. McInnis of the Canadian geological survey, has returned to Ottawa from the Rainy river district. says the gold belt extends over 400 miles, and that hundreds of claims have been taken up. Frederick Valkman, James Heuster, William Reynolds and Harry Steiner were drowned on Sunday. A boat in which they were crossing the eastern branch of the Patapsco river at Balti. more was capsized. The Massachusetts Reform Club gave a banquet in Boston on Saturday night, at which the principal address was made by Secretary Carlisle. He laid especial stress upon the necessity of retiring the demand notes. William Mack and Henry Convery, attendants at the State Hospital at Morris Plains, N. J., were arrested on Saturday for beating to death Nicholas Dolfus, an insane patient at the hospital. Both men were drunk. The jury in the case of Frank W. Harris, a professional base-ball player, tried for the murder of Charles Bengle, whom he shot last May, returned a verdict, at Freeport, Ill., Saturday, of guilty, and fixed the death penalty. The First National Bank of Franklin, O., which suspended payment August 23d, 1895, has complied with all of the conditions imposed by the comptroller of the currency precedent to its resumption, and was permitted to reopen its doors for business on Saturday. Franklin L. Pope, aged 65, of Great Barrington, Mass., was instantly killed in the cellar of his home at that place Sunday night by receiving an electrial shock of 3,000 volts. He was president of the local electric company, and a nowerful convertor had been placed in his cellar. Passengers who arrived from Havana Saturday at Key West, Fla., report that Chief of Police Trujillo has been arrested on the charge of defrauding the government. A conspiracy to loot the government is said to have been discovered, and $1,000,000 is said to have been stolen. Judge Josiah Coombs made a statement at a Republican meeting in Knott county, Ky., Fridav night, which displeased the audience, and a general fight with knives and pistols took place. When order was restored the judge and two Democrats were dead e and a dozen others were injured. Monday of next week will be Negro Day at the Atlanta Exposition. Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, professor of his-' torical theology at the Gammon School of Theology, in Atlanta, will be the orator of the day. It is said that his speech will be fully as memorable as the speech made by Prof. T. Booker Washington on the opening day. It is said that the negro race accepts and indorses every word spoken by Prof. Washington on that day.