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Domestic. The thirty-eighth anniversary of the historie debate between Lincoln and Douglas was commemorated by Knox College, in Galesburg, III., by the unveiling of a bronze tablet. Major McKinley received delegations at Canton, Ohio, from the States of Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana, numbering in all 3600 visitors. The Major delivered speeches to each delegation. President Cleveland arrived at Indian Harbor, Conn.. where he rejoined his family at E. C. Benedict's country house. William J. Bryan concluded his campaign in Indiana and started for Iowa and the Northwest. Bishop W. D. Walker of North Dakota, has been elected Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Western New York. Daniel G. Griffin and F. W. Hinrichs, "Gold Standard" Democratic candidates for Governor and Lieutcnant-Governor of New York, were formally notified before a large meeting at Cooper Union, New York City. They both made speeches attacking Mr. Bryan. Three men attacked Julius Coslin, of Youngstown, Ohio, in a Pullman sleeper at the Erie station, in Jersey City, N.J., and, robbing him of $2250, escaped, leaving him helpless. The police of New Haven. Conn., assert that trainmen on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad murdered several tramps for stealing rides on freight trains. W. J. Bryan traveled during one day from Louisville to Indianapolis, speaking in these cities and at way stations. A delegation of Republicans from East Brady, in the county of Clarion, Penn., wen in the rain to call on Major McKinley at Canton, Ohio. The delegation was made up of miners, farmers and workingmen. A new electric motor was successfully tried on the Thirty-fourth street branch of the elevated railway. New York City. The Philadelphia players won a brilliant victory over the Australians in thethird and last of the series of cricket matches. Ten thousand persons heard William Jennings Bryan's speech at the baseball grounds in Memphis, Tenn. The general store owned by Burlingame & Pitts, in East Olean, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. The junior partner of the firm, Leon Pitts, who had sleeping apartments on the second floor, was burned to death. Frederic R. Coudert, of the Arbitration Commission, returned to New York from Europe. He examined in the Vatican, through the courtesy of the Pope, valuable archives bearing on the Venezuelan dispute. Randolph Percival, thirteen years old, doomed by consumption, hanged himself in his home in New York City. Allan L. McDermott declined the Bryan and Sewall Democracy's nomination for Congress in New Jersey. The second quadrennial convention of the National Association of Democratic Clubs was held in the Auditorium at St. Louis, Mo. Vice-President Stevensou delivered an address in the afternoon, in which he declared emphatically for Bryan and Sewall, and indorsed the Chicago platform. He was folto .ved by Chauncey F. Black. The conventioned declared for Bryan and Sewall and the Chicago platform. The Populist State Convention in Syracuse, N. Y., indorsed the Democratic State and Electoral ticket. excepting for Judge of the Court of Appeals. Half of the business portion of Ladonia, Texas, was destroyed by fire. The landlady of the hot in which the fire started and two others perished. Frank H. Whitney and Whitney & Son, managers of the Bank of Atlantic, Iowa, have gone to the wall. J. B. Bruff has been appointed receiver, and annountes the bank proper has $200,000 liabilities and assets of $175,000 that cannot be made available at once. The first of the trio of new torpedo boats which are being built at the Columbian Iron Works, Baltimere, Md., for the United States Navy has been successfully launched. George Barnum, a brother of the late P. T. Barnum, was murdered in his hut at Harrison, Mich. Barnum was reputed to be wealthy. When his body was found it showed signs of a terrific struggle. His head was literally battered in with some blunt instrument. The but had been ransacked and everything of value was taken. A cloudburst in the Whetstone Mouhtains sent a flood of water through the east end of Benson, Arizona, destroying several buildings. Twelve persons are believed to be drowned. The bodies of William Zeek, a barber, his wife and two children, and Oscar Ashburn have been found. The path of the storm was twelve miles wide. Walter Harris, flfteen years old, of New York City, while riding a bicycle, was run over by an express wagon and killed. It was learnel that the sixteen-year-old daughter of the proprietor of the Hotel America. New York City, had committed suicide because she was not allowed to return to school when she wanted to. Foreign Notes.
