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DOMESTIC. A YOUNG man and his sister were on the 20th reported to have been murdered at Rochester, Pa., the perpetrator, a German, cutting the corpses into small pieces. GEORGE WINANS, aged fifteen, while coasting at Mansfield, O., the other afternoon, was struck by an express train and instantly killed. THE Bank of Wadena, owned by E. S. Case, at Wadena, Minn., closed its doors on the 21st. It was thought that not more than twenty per cent. on the dollar would be paid. IT was estimated on the 21st that 100,000 men, previously unemployed, had obtained work in manufacturing enterprises since January J. THE Jamestown (Pa.) Savings Bank failed recently, and on the 21st a defalcation of $40,000 was discovered. One of the officers had been missing for several days. THE West Shore and the Pennsylvania Roads were on the 21st selling emigrant tickets from New York to Chicago for one dollar. THE Committee on Public Lands reported on the 21st to the House of Representatives at Washington that European noblemen had acquired twenty-one million acres in the United States, and that foreign capital would before many years possess itself of one hundred million acres more by the foreclosure of American railroad bonds. PATRICK LENNINGHAM, a laborer, living in the suburbs of Philadelphia, reported on the 21st that the savings of his life-time, $2,700, had been stolen from a sachel in his bed-room. TEN persons were injured on the 21st by a railway accident near Sedalia, on the Missouri Pacific Road. The west-bound passenger-train struck a broken rail and a chair-car was precipitated down a high embankment. AFTER an appeal by Director General Burke, members of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange on the 21st subscribed $60,000 to meet current expenses of the World's Exhibition. THERE was great excitement in St. Louis on the 21st concerning the outbreak of alleged Asiatic cholera. Two men-a Russian-Jew peddler and a negro-had died in that city of the disease within a few days. IN an affray with knives the other day in a Louisville coal office a white man was fatally stabbed, and two negroes were seriously wounded. FIRE in a tenement house at Baltimore on the night of the 21st created a panic. A woman jumped from a window and was fatally hurt, and two children would die of exposure. The remaining occupants had narrow escapes. POSTMASTER-GENERAL HATTON on the 21st sent to the Chairman of the House Committee on Post-offices and Post roads the draft of a bill providing for a reduction of postage on second-class matter, or newspapers, mailed by publishers, from two cents to one cent per pound. HOG cholera has within a short time swept off one thousand head in a township near Lincoln, Neb. A BAND of thirteen thieves who recently stole $16,000 worth of goods from the Chicago & Alton freight yards at Lexington, Mo., and had committed numerous other robberies, was arrested on the 21st at Lexington. MANUFACTURERS at Wheeling, W. Va., on the 22d advanced the price of nails twenty cents per keg. A PORTABLE engine exploded on the 22d on a farm near Groton, N. Y., killing two men and fatally wounding two others. AN officer of the Franco-Prussian war named Louis Ladenberger hanged himself the other day at Scranton, Pa., after having been out of employment for three months. THE creditors of Oliver Brothers, of Pittsburgh, Pa., decided on the 22d to grant a five-year extension, taking separate notes for the payment of interest semi-annually. GENERAL HATCH had on the 22d surrounded Couch's Oklahoma boomers at Stillwater, and intended to starve them out. Those willing to leave Couch's camp were permitted to go, and numbers were taking advantage of the order.
