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THE Advices to the Merchants Exchange in San Francisco state that the British steamer Mineral, at Zoritas. laden with coal for San Francisco, has been burned, and is a total loss.W. B. Thompson, president Farmers' and a Merchants' Bank of Uhrichsville, 0., filed deed of assignment. It is said depositors will not loss a cent. -Tom Maher shot and fatally wounded Miss Maude Fessler, at a dance in Nebraska City, Neb. Albert Applegate was murdered in his cornfield, near Wilsonville, Neb. The New York and Buffalo express was partially wrecked at Pittston, Pa. The passengers were shaken up but nobody was hurt. steamer Puritan went ashore in the fog off Great Gull Island, Long Island Sound. -Edward Marrs was put on trial in Huntington, W. Va., on the charge of murdering his eightyear-old daughter. William Hall, a Pennsylvania oil operator, committed suicide in Parkersburg, W. Va. Dalhouse, acensed of killing Samuel Doom in Staunton, Va., was acquitted. Mrs. Rebecca T. Barnham and Miss Susie Sherman, who were missing from Dighton, Mass., for a year, were found in Nashua, N. H.-An anti-lynching provision was adopted by the South Carolina Constitutional Convention. A big pool is said to have been arranged to control all the traffle between Chicago and the seaboard. -The Chicago tourists to the Atlanta Exposition were entertained in Nashville, Tenn. -Tadman & Mickman's morocco factory in Wilmington. Del., was burned. Hill's cold storage warehouse on William street, in Montreal, caught fire. The damages were mostly caused by water, and amounted to between $80,000 and $100,000. Henry H. Kingston was appointed general traffic manager of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, to take the place of John Taylor, who recently died, J. W. Cadman, who shot himself several days ago in Chicago, died at the county hospital from the effects of the bullet wound in his head. He was Indian agent in South Dakota, and was a relative of President Cleveland's wife. -Freight No. 28, on the Kentucky Central division of the Louisville and Nashville Railway was wrecked by an open switch at Morningview, The seventeen miles from Cincinnati. venerable Judge Allen G. Thurman fell in his library at his home in Columbus, Ohio, and seriously injured hiship. The missing lake steamer Missonia, with a crew of seventeen men, has been given up for lost. She was owned by Captain Thomas Wilson, of Cleveland, valued at $80,000. Bernard Arena, thirty-six years old, of South Boston, while painting a smokestack, accidentally touched an electric wire, and was instantly killed. Burleigh Kitchen, aged seventeen years, of Newhope, Pa., was shot and accidentally killed on a gunning trip.-Theodore Durant was brought up for sentence in the San Francisco court, but the judge granted a continuance until November 22. Chauncey Depew made a speech on "The Wealth and Power of This Country" at a dinner given in his honor at Buffalo, W. E. G. Gilkinson, seventy years old, a lawyer of Charleston, W. Va., committed suicide by drowning in the Kanawha River.--The taking of evidence in the Addicks divorce case in Wilmington was concluded. At Columbus, O., the reorganized Culumbus, Sandusky and Hocking Railroad Company elected N. Monsarrat president; W. E. Guerin, vice president and general counsel: G. C. Hoover, treasurer; H. D. Turney, secretsry. -The American Inter-Seminary Missionary Alliance began its annual convention at Lancaster, Pa. A receiver was appointed for the Bank of North America of New Orleans Linford Overpeck and his son William, of Brodheadsville, Pa., were suffocated in a lime kiln about five miles from their home. They worked at the kiln and, not returning home at their usual hour. search was made and their bodies found. The money order dep artment of the postoffico at Chicago paid out $105,000, the largest amount ever pai. out in one day. was reported at Clevelan. that the Erie Railroad has been sold and will be reorganized. Snow and rain fell throughout Nebraska, and the farmers think the wet weather is in time to save the fall seeding. Frank Cross wa convicted of the murder of his sister, Mrs Cameron Taylor, at Ellenboro, W. Va., an sentenced to imprisonment for life.-More o than thirty dead bodies were taken out the wrecked Journal building in Detroit, of victims will b and the Ne braska the 40. -Revs. total Catholic number Fitzgerald Murphy, probably an priests leading the faction trouble with Bonacum Rooker, bitterly which has attack had Dr. Bishop secretary of th apostolic delegation, in a letter to edito -C. T. of Harrisburg, of letter the carrier. Omaha Bee, Householder, Pa., the was ar rested for stealing a registered letter. A party of miners from the head waters the Yukon River arrived at Port reported that the Canadian Wash., ernment and is establishing well-equipped Townsene fort go Acations on commanding bluffs on the strategic elsewhere points along supposed Forty-Mile international overlookin Creek an Coe Memphis, at Island 63, one boundary burg. plying sunk between line.-The steamer Tenn., hundred and Peter Vick an while h way to with a about twenty down miles below Vicksburg Memphis, cargo on one hundred and twenty tons of mi cellaneous freight. Rev. William E. Hi show, convicted at Danville, Ind., of th murder of his wife, was denied a new tria and will be sentenced to life imprisonment -Three little children playing on a sid N. Y., were a runaway team. Emma aged down I walk three in by Poughkeepsie, knock Jank years, was killed, and seven-year Lemka was cotton mill, erected years ago at and Simpson's old Aldred Norristown, Pa., badly injured. owned sixty-fl Dean & Mitchell, was destroyed by fire.