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JACK CHAMBERS, Dan Lewis and Jim Taylor, all colored, charged with an assault on Mrs. George Warren at Hoboken, Ga., last spring, were caught and lynched within 3 miles of Way Cross, Ga. A SOLDIER named William Laugherty was murdered by miners at Coal Creek, Tenn., and his death was avenged by lynehing Dick Drummond. IN convention at Cincinnati the Ohio democrats nominated Lawrence T. Neal, of Chillicothe, for governor; W. A. Taylor for lieutenant governor; B. C. Blackburn for treasurer, and J. W. Sater for supreme judge. The platform approves the Chicago platform, especially its reference to tariff and currency legislation; indorses the president's message to congress; protests against abuse of the pension Jaws, and calls upon the democrats in congress to extricate the great commercial interests of this country from their present distressed condition. THE flight was reported of Lee Butler, cashier of C. M. Wright & Co.'s bank at Altamont, III., with $41,000, the entire assets of the bank. IN Milwaukee fire among warehouses and factories caused a loss of $150,000. FREE silver men hanged President Cleveland in effigy at Ogden, Col. THE loss of the sealing schooner Helen Blum, of San Francisco, was reported, with her crew of twenty-five men. HENRY BROWN (colored), who was hanged for the murder of a peddler in East St. Louis, III., in December, 1880, while an accessory has been discovered not to have been the principal, the murderer being J. C. Jackson, another negro, who was acquitted of the charge. IN a battle with citizens of Clark county, Ala., thirteen of the Meachim gang were killed. The affair is the outgrowth of a feud of some years' standing. BEATTY'S bank at Mansfield, III, and the National bank at Waxahachie, Tex., closed their doors. HERNSHEIM'S cigar factory, Maginnis' cotton mills and Fisher's sawmills in New Orleans, employing in the aggregate over 2,000 hands, were closed. Henry HALL was hanged at Pikeville, Ky., for the murder of his brother. AN explosion at the Girard furnace in Youngtown, o., injured SIX employes, five fatally. FLAMES wiped out the business portion of Milford Center, O. AT Pensacola, Fla., A. W. Dunham killed his wife because she refused to live with him and then took his own life. AT the bicycle tournament in Chicago L. S. Meintjes, of South Africa, won the 62-mile international championship, the time being 2 hours and 46 minutes. THE republican state committee of Virginia decided not to nominate a state ticket this year. INCENDIARY fires in Minneapolis destroyed three planing mills, a sash and door storehouse, bottling and malt house, boiler works, box and ladder factory icehouse, carriage factory, 113 dwellings and in addition about 40,000,000 feet of cut lumber, the total loss being $1,500,000. FIRE destroyed the fertilizing works of Nelson Morris & Co. at the stock yards in Chicago, causing a loss of $271,000. THE doors of the Prairie City bank at Terre Haute, Ind., were clossd and Josiah Morris & Co., the leading private banking house in Alabama, made an assignment in Montgomery with liabilities of $1,1000,000 and assets of $2,000,000. Other bank suspensions were: The People's at Lewisburg, Tenn., the Bank of Plaquemine, La., and the First national at Gadsden, Ala. FRED ROOME and brother, and Grace McDonald, of Chicago, and Carrie Hammond, of Wauconda, were drowned by the capsizing of a yacht on Bang's lake at McHenry, III. IT was said that Barrett Scott, treasurer of Holt county, Neb., was $60,000 short in his accounts. He had disappeared. MRS. GEORGE RIEF. Mrs. Charles Rief, Miss Wagner and a child named Weber were drowned by the capsizing of a boat at Chattanooga, Tenn. THE expenditures at the world's fair thus far have been $23,101,821 and the receipts $23,680,417.
