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THE NEWS. George Wellsworth got drunk for three days in Webster City, Iowa, a temperance town. on lemon extract and pop.-The new government was proclaimed in Honolulu on the 4th, which was celebrated in American style.-Two men were seriously injured, and three others severely hurt, by an explosion of water gas in the Strout Building, on Union street, in Lynn, Mass. The building. which is a six-story brick structure, was badly damaged, and the loss will be about $50,000.- flreman on board the steamer Scandia, from Hamburg, fell from the deck into one of the steamer's coal bunkers, while she was lying at Now York quarantine. The man's skull was fractured. and he died in a few moments.- building in Birmingham, Ala., occupied by Perry & Mason and Stowers' furniture establishment, and the adjoining Caldwell Hotel, were destroyed by flre.-"Guilty, with a recommendation to mercy," is the verdict reached after a trial lasting four days in the case of Hugh Lynn, charged with the murder of John Green and Thomas Taylor, ranchers, living on Savary Island, B. C. Lynn, on his own behalf, ndmitted killing Green, but claimed it was done in self-defense. Lynn will be hanged August H. H. Hart, a prominent physician of Philadelphia,was drowned in the Youghlogheny River at Connellsville, Pa.-Thomas Hanion, cashier of the Mutual feInsurance Company of New York, committed suicide. Republicans of North Dakota have nominated for governor Roger Allin.-The potters in East Liverpool, O., by an almost unanimous vote declared the strike off.-Between fifty-five and sixty indictments were found by the United States District Court in St. Paul.-A number of men applied at the Pull nan works for reinstatement.The federal troops moved out of Chicago.Resolutions demanding a congressional investigation of Hon. Augustus J. Ricks, Judge of the United States Circuit Court, were adopted by the Central Labor Union at its meeting in Cleveland, O.-Thomas Geiselhart. of Midd.etown, N. Y., and his family of four ate some blackberries which had been picked among poison ivy vines. They are all dangerously ill, having apparently been poisoned.-The bottom of a converter at the Homestead Steel Works of Carnegie & Co., blew out, scattering 3,300 pounds of molten metal in every direction. Four workmen who were in the were terribly burned, two of them fatally.-James Sullivan, a school teacher, was poisoned in Shamokin, P.., by his life-long friend, Thomas McCaffery who gave him a drink of corrosive sublimate in mistake for whiskey. Sullivan became unconscious. and was totally paralzed in ten minutes after he drank the poisonous compound. He cannot recover.-Three miners were killed and two injured in an accident at the Williamstown colliery. shal Ryan, of Eastpoint, Ga., was shot in the breast, but not seriously, by a negro whom he had arrested. Ryan shot the negro dead and wounded another. Mrs. Melinda Hayes, of Chicago, was arrested on a charge of poisoning her son-inlaw.-Gertrude Elhinger, a patient of the New York State Hospital was killed by Mary McClellan, another Innatic.-Mike Brolomski, a Polander. age thirty years, was instantly killed at Wilkesbarre, Pa., by the falling of a huge mass of top rock in the Blackman mines of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, where he worked.-Lewis Rowan and Adam Sugane, two miners employed by the Susquehanna Coal Company at Nanticoke, were caught under a heavy fall of coal while at work, Rowan was instantly killed, and Sugane is in a critical condition.-While Mr. and Mrs. Philip Tucker were going after a warrant, in Wilmington, for the arrest of Jacob Lock, whom they had a quarrel, Lock pursued them and a fight ensued. Lock drew a pistol, and in the struggle it was discharged, the ball entering Mrs. Tucker's abdomen and inflicting a wound that will prove fatal. Lock was arrested.The young daughter of John Riddell, of St. Augustine, Fla., was run over and fatally injured by an electric road motor-car in Saratoga.-Eugene V. Debs,George W. Howard, L. W. Rogers and Sylvester Keleher, officers of the A. R. U., were committed to jail by United States Judge Seaman, for alleged violation of the injunction issued by Judges Wood and Grosscup. They refused to furnish bail for their appearance. United States Judge Phillips, of Kansas City, instructed the United States marshal to employ deputies to preserve the peace and arrest all violators of the law. At Lake Argo, Col., a boy was killed by lightning. At Colorado Springs a boy was made blind by lightning. Kan., Judge Foster. of the Federal Court, appointed Waldo H. Howard, of Kansas City, and W. S. Hinman, of Boston. receivers of the Commonwealth Loan and Trust Company. of Kansas City, Kan, The company went into voluntary liquidation about three years ago. The army worm is doing much damageabout Marshfield. Wisconsin.-A sextuple photograph telescope will shortly be placed in the observatory of Yale University.-Thomas H. Gorman, editor of the Ottawa Free Press, died at Ottawa, of heart trouble. He was thirty-eight years old and had achieved considerable reputation as a writer for American magazines.-The Canadian government is investigating the ways of obtaining and distributing vaccine from the government farm. There have so far occurred at Montreal three deaths, under terrible suffering, from bad
