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be made at once. Domestic Rather than allow his paper to fall into the hands of others. Herman Meyer, editor and owner of the recently suspended Banner of Alton, III., owing to blindness, built a fire outside his office and burned the files of his paper from the date of its establishment in 1866 to the last paper published a few days ago. Edward Nallis, twenty-six, married, Danville, and Joseph Boesaler, nineteen, single, Southwestville, were instantly killed in Bunson coal mine at Danville, III., when a rock weighing seven tons dropped from the roof of a room, crushing both men into unrecognizable mass. The mine operators in southern Colorado, where 9,000 men are on strike, agreed to take back strikers not guilty of crimes. The basis of settlement was sent to Governor Ammons. The women's covered tennis court championship of the world was won at Stockholm, Sweden, by Miss Atchison of England, who defeated Mme. Fenwick of France. United States Judge Ray at Utica. N. Y., has handed down an important decision in settling one of the legal entanglements resulting from the crash in the affairs of the First National bank of Boston. In substance he holds that bank directors are liable to stockholders and creditors, when, through their negligence, the bank fails. Highwaymen boarded a sleeping car on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy' road at Council Bluffs, Ia., and robbed several passengers and made their escape. Three men were killed and four injured in a headon collision of freight trains on the Lake Erie, Alliance & Wheeling railroad, near Alliance, O., All were trainmen. Thirty people were hurt in a riot which followed the attempt to run a street car in Indianapolis. Seven strike-breakers who manned the car were injured. Walsh (Dem.) elected governor of Massachusetts by 57,815 plurality over Gardner (Rep.); Bird (Prog.) third. and Foss (Ind.) fourth. Republicans elected to vacant seats in congress. Control of general assembly of New York state was wrested by Republicans from Democrats. Republicans claim 30 majority in the lower house. Sulzer, deposed governor, elected assemblyman. Two vacancies in congress filled by Democrats. Republican judicial ticket elected. Six persons were injured, one of them fatally, when a boulder half as big as a box car rolled on the tracks of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad near Genoa, Wis., wrecking Chicago-bound passenger train No. 58 Engineer James M. Pratt of La Crosse was so seriously injured that he died With the election of J. P. Mitchel as mayor of New York city the office of collector of the port of New York becomes vacant, and in the opinion of the leading independent Democrats will be filled very soon by the appointment of Dudley Field Malone. A negro who killed a deputy sheriff was lynched by a mob at Wewoka, Okla. He was hanged to a telegraph pole, with a placard saying Governor Cruce, who commuted sentences on several murders recently, was to blame for the lynching. The private bank of E. A. Dunham & Co. at Montour Falls, N. Y., was closed because of the robbery of $12,000 during the night. Yeggmen drilled through four locks and got into the vault. Holy Cross college at Worcester, Mass., is proud of the election of an alumnus as governor in the person of David I. Walsh. In celebration of the event President Dinuard declared a full holiday. "Some homes I have seen almost justify the husband in running away," declared Mrs. Catherine L. VanWyck of Milwaukee, president of the state conference on charities and corrections, in concluding her annual report read at La Crosse Wis.
