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At New Castle, Cal., the Cooperative Fruit company failed for $100.000. Three masked men held up the Union Pacific fast mail near Uintah, Utah, and the mail car was robbed. In South Dakota an organized effor C is being made to boycott the hard coal combine throughout the northwest by inducing as many consumers as possible to substitute corn for fuel. At Red Key, Ind., Mrs. Col. Vernon gave her two small children a dose of poison and then poisoned herself. No cause is known for the deed. John B. Hamilton, surgeon-general of the United States marine hospital, stationed in Chicago, sent in his resignation to President Cleveland. Masked men looted the little town of Peryear, Tenn., and then started fires in many places, but they were extinguished with small loss. On the Garfield park track in Chicago James Michael, the Welshman, broke the world's five-mile record, his time being 9:17 1-5. William Smith, George Harris and Charles Jones were killed and two citizens were wounded during an attempt to rob the bank at Meeker. Cal. At Duluth, Minn., the Marine national bank suspended with heavy liabilities. The oldest financial institution in Rockford, III., the Second national bank, closed its doors, having gone into voluntary liquidation. At Columbus, Ga., J. A. White shot and killed Richard M. Adams and William Jackson, police officers who were trying to arrest him, and was himself shot dead. By a wreck on the Florida Central road near Swansea, Ga., Baggage Master Lines and Mail Clerk Thomas was pinned down in the debris and burned to death. At Baltimore, Md., the Manchester Cigar Manufacturing company failed for $100,000. It is reported that if Spain does not put down the insurrection in Cuba by March 1 next it is the intention of the government to give up the struggle and to let the island go. The Fifteenth infantry, U. S. A., left for Fort Bayard, N. M., after a residence of six years at Fort Sheridan, near Chicago. Col. Robert H. Hall, of the Fourth infantry, succeeds Col. Crofton as commandant of Fort Sheridan. At the age of 69 years Thomas White Ferry, ex-United States senator, died at his residence in Grand Haven, Mich., from cerebral apoplexy. J. S. Miller, a farmer living four miles north of Linden, Wash., lost his house by fire and six children were burned to death. Near Piedmont, Mo., John Imboden. aged 23, killed his sister, brother and an old man named Jacob Wilhelm who made his home with the Imbodens. George McKerrow, of Wisconsin, was elected president at the session in Chicago of the International Association of Farmers' Institutes. At the annual meeting in Manchester, la., J. II. Brigham, of Delta, 0, president of the National Grange, said that there are now nearly 100,000,000 members, and 27,000 granges in the United States. At a political meeting in Shelbyville, Ind., an anvil burst and balf of it was blown through a window in the residence of John Lansing, fatally injuring two children who were sleeping in the room. At Indianapolis, Ind., Rev. John W. Milam, pastor of the Madison Avenue M. E. church, and his wife have both been declared insane. Overwork on illness on her nort were