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ERNEST LACOXE is under arrest at Joliet, charged with assauiting and murdering the girl Ellen Byron. Lynching is threatened. GENERAL passenger agents of Eastern lines have recommended an advance in rates and the managers will probably follow their advice. THE Madison Square Bank at New York has failed. ELLEN Byron, 14 years old, was found murdered near Joliet, Ill. She had been assaulted. WHILE the doors of the jail at Findlay, O., were open the prisoners made a break for liberty and all escaped. THE village of Snow Hill, Md., burned. Only two stores and a few dwellings were saved. The loss is about $300,000. DIRECTORS of the Lehigh Valley road have dissolved the lease to the Reading Company because of default on bills due. AMERICAN sealing vessels report ill success off the Japanese coast. The catch will be 30 per cent. less than was expected. COMMISSIONERS will be appointed by Gov. Lewelling to solicit seed wheat or money for the destitute farmers of Western Kansas. WILLIAM STEWART struck Charles Crockett with a brick at Lima, O., killing him. Crockett had refused to lend Stewart some money. This caused the assault. Stewart was arrested. WITNESSES at Providence, R. 1., in the Mrs. Barneby murder case, have agreed to attend the second trial of Dr. Graves, to be held at Denver in October. GOVERNMENT officials are making no preparations for the reassembling of the international monetary conference. Dissolution of the Latin Union would have no special effect in this country. GAS has been struck at Stronghurst, III. CHOLERA is extinct in Alexandria, Italy. THE National Bank of Sturgis, Mich., has failed. E. L. HENNING, a banker at Plano, III., assigned to J. M. Sears. C. E. BLONDELL, groceryman at Spencer, Ia., assigned to M. E. Griffin, banker. HUNDREDS of acres of tobacco were destroyed in Pennsylvania by a hail storm. A GIRL named Crookshanks died at Oakland, III., of the bite of a rattlesnake. THE New York Central will cut the working time of all employes 10 per cent. a dav.