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The two negroes who attempted to assassinate Col. C. D. Hunter near Selma, Ala, were lynched -Victor Nottingham and Edward Wilson were sentenced in Norfolk to five years in the penitentiary for the murder of Allen Jones ----Guy Smith n boy, was arrested in Huntington, W. Va., for horsestealing ----A small boardwalk at Atlantic City collapsed, and several young people were badly hurt Two passenger traing on the Illinois Central, le running at full speed, collided Two were killed and a number injured -The Columbus Buggy Company, of Columbus, 0., made an assignment.--The death list at the Atlantic City disaster is now placed at forty-four, of whom forty have been identified It has been found that Frank Donnelli, who was supposed to have leaped from the steamer Pocahontas into the James River, was murdered, -William Hawkins, a bartender, was killed in Chicago by J. G. English and his sister Nellie, He had deceived the gir John Webster shot his mother in Laport, Ind., because she refused to give him money. J. George Smith, manufacturer of spring and iron bedsteads, at Chicago, made an assignment to A. 8. Tobias, an employe of the firm. Assets are given at $55,000 and liabilities $18,000 An unknown woman riding a bike ran down and killed Wm. Klink in Chicago. Frank Owens, a brickmason, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who had been working in Kent, 0, received his pay and went on a spree. He WAS arrested in Akron, O., while intoxicated, and attempted to hang himself in his cell at the city prison with his suspender. He was dis covered and cut down before harm was done. Two men robbed a faro bank at Nowport, Ky. -The East Chicago Iron and Steel Company, of Hammond, Ind., has made an assignment Bert Green, colored, convicted of the murder of Miles P. Mitchell, near Whiteville, Hardeman county, in Decomber last, was hanged at Jackson, Tenn. -Henry Lyons, who killed his wife near Mt. Pleasant, W. Va., went to the home of his mother and committed suicide Charles De Heart, a farmer in Patrick county, Va., who bad given information to rev. enue officers about moonshiners, was found dead in a field shot through the head. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has decided to stop all work on its lines wherever possible, in order to reduce expenses The Dennison Deposit Bank at Dennison, O., an Liabilities over $60,00 of a crack was killed 000; made Minnesota, assets assignment. bicycle -Joseph racer, Greidler, $100, on the track at Lima, O. George McConnell, grand keeper of records and seals of K. of P. of Oregon, has disappeared. His accounts are short 82,000 The main auditorium of the Frankford Music Hall inFfankford,asuburbeot Philadelphia, was destroyed 'by fire, The loss will amount to $20,000. The origin of the fire is unknown The building was 50 G. Elliott & made an 150 ufacturers in Philadelphia, Co., paper assign- man- by Tillinghast, of the R..I directed a the of ment.--Judge trance Court of of Providence, decree forfeiting charter Appellate the enthe Commercial Mutual Fire Insurance Company, restraining the president and other officers of the company from transacting any insurance business in the name of the company, and appointing James C. Collins, Jr. receiver, -Sheriff David Douglass and an were found in near Navada Cal each other. -Filteen unknown the probably woods killed highwayman City, They dead miners had were drowned, several other lives were lost thirty-six persons were injured, many of them by lightning, and property valued a $100,000 destroyed in the storm that swept over Pittsburg and vicinity Monday night The storm also did great damage in other parts of Pennsylvania. Edward Burl hok, on3 of the robbers of the Cripple Creek stage coach, has been caught -The Civic Federation of Chicago, claims to have wholesale evidence of police cor ruption in that city ----Two masked men robbed the Illinois Central Station at Walker a station between Springfield and Clinton in Illinois, Agent Campbell was shot and probably fatally woulded by the robbers -Colonel John Hallam, an Arkansas at torney, shot and fatally wounded Rev. W. O. Forbes, a prominent Baptist minister in Texarkana, Ark, Ephraim Glover, prominent citizen of Haddonfield, N. J., was instantly killed by being struck by the At antie City express on the Camden and Atjantic road. -Edward Johnson struck John Hildeberg, of Perth Amboy, N.J. a blow in the him. -James was in the Smith, for eral alias jaw jail George that killed at Fort Wilson, Ark hanged Casherega, undering fedman for the of bery. his innocence on gal of North lows.--Andrew named He protested Thack Todd, purpose Adaws the rob was before United in Boston on a postal car at Mass., of Commissioner robbing arranged Fiske Newport, a Vt., charge States and was court W. C. Aus his wife and little tin, Tex., held for murdered Burt, two of children, and placed their deac bodies in cistern.- --A number of persons were kille and injured in a railroad wreck at the cross ing of the West Jersey and Atlantic City rail roads on the meadows just outside of Atlan tic City. Fifty people were overcome by the heat St. Louis. Of these ten died Wm. Fi of Carlisle, Pa, has been arrested in Chi cago on a charge of forgery.--Two maske men shot George Hetzler, a saloonkeeper f Cincinnati, who ref sed togiveup hismon robbers was arrested. of A tiller cient One reached of and the Honorable Company -The A e Boston, from their excursion 9 and France. When S her berth, a letter from 1 England Quincy had reached the eteame Maye was handed to Colonel Walker, which the company was congratulated on r safe return. Revised lists of the dead at / injured by the railroad wreck on the mea I OWS near Atlantic City show that forty-sex
