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TELEGRAPHIC NOTES. Joel Collins, who was killed as one of the Union Pacific train robbers, it is claimed by his father was entirely innocent, and the latter has begun a legal investigation into the matter. The elder Collins is said to be a highly respectable citizen of Dallas, Texas, and he says that his son had just been to the Black Hills with a drove of cattle, which he had sold and received the pay therefor in gold, nearly $20,000. sconduct when captured at Buffalo is accounted for on the hypothesis that he supposed he had fallen into the hands of robbers and determined to resist to the end. Advices from El Paso County, Texas, to the 14th, represent that the entire lower portion of the county is in possession of the mob, and that the Americans have all fled for safety to the town of El Paso. Judge Howard, who was at one time a prisoner in the hands of the mob, after being released killed Louis Cardis, the leader of the Mexieans, and fled to Mesilla. Judge Baker, with a posse of troops from Fort Davis, has gone to restore order and reinstate the deposed county officers. A Berlin dispatch of the 13th says that the Ritterschaftlische Bank of Stettin has failed and the Managing Director has committed suicide. The entire business part of Janesville, Onondaga County, N. Y., was burned by an incendiary fire on the morning of the 14th. Loss about $60,000; insurance, $18,000. Frank Nichols, the supposed St. Elmo (III.) murderer, has been tried and found not guilty, having clearly proven an alibi. The Columbia Life Insurance* Company of St. Louis, upon application to the Court by State Insurance Superintendent Relfe, has been enjoined from doing further business and will be placed in the hands of a receiver. The Citizens' Bank of Laporte, Ind., owned by Jacob and Simon Wile, suspended on the 15th. Liabilities about $70,000, which are said to be fully secured by the assets. Berry, the captured Union Pacific train robber, died on the 16th at Mexico Mo., from the effect of his wounds. Previ-, ous to his death he made a full confession, stating that he was one of the six men who robbed the express car at Big Springs. Collins, who was killed, planned the robbery. The names of the others, as known to the Express Company, are said to be correct. After the robbery they all traveled 200' miles together and then separated in squads of two. Berry leaves a wife and six children. He was very respectably connected in Callaway County. The Market Street Savings Bank of San Francisco suspended on the 16th. The bank has only about $30,000 in deposits, which its Directors say will be paid in full inside of eight months. The latest advices from San Domingo state that another revolution against the Baez Government is in progress, and that Puerto Plata was occupied by the revolutionists. Lucy Williamson, a beautiful girl of 16, daughter of a prominent citizen of Covington, Ky., was fatally burned on the 16th while kindling the firewith kerosene. Her father was also badly burned trying to save her. Her mother, who was lying on a sick bed, was SO badly prostrated by the shock that it was thought she could not recover. Fifty disguised men entered the jail at Jefferson, Texas, on the night of the 16th, and took therefrom a negro named Jim Johnson, who was accused of murdering Frank Jennings, a mail-rider. The negro's fate was not known, but is easily conjectured. The centennial anniversary of Burgoyne's surrender was celebrated at Schuylersville, Saratoga County, N. Y., on the 17th. Ex-Gov. Seymour and George W. Curtis were the orators. Mrs. Brendell, of Cieveland, O., was fatally burned on the 16th by the upsetting of a gasoline stove. The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad has been placed by the Court in the hands of a receiver, and Mr. Sidney MeWilliams, of Chillicothe, Mo., has been appointed for that purpose. Mayor Linde, of Hot Springs, Ark., has by public proclamation ordered the closing of all gambling-houses in that city under penalty of having their tables and other par-
