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ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. A bill providing for the abolition of capital punishment is to be introduced in the New Hampshire legislature. The Richmond Paper company, a large Providence (R. I.) concern, has failed. The last statement of the company showed assets of $884,000, and liabilities of $668,000. The death of J. H. Fenton, the well-known Chicago dealer in turf goods, is announced from Paris. A cablegram states What he died Wednesday night. In the death of Mr. Fenton horses and horsemen have lost a great friend, it being conceded that he had done more for them than any living man. The bark Ivigtut, arriving at Philadelphia Thursday, reports having passed forty-seven large icebergs during its passage across the Atlantic. The "Bald-Knobbers" of Ozark county, Missouri, have warned Justice of the Peace Johns to leave the county in ten days or be lynched. The justice has been an active anti-Bald-Knobber. "Napoleon" Ives was refused a release on writ of habeas corpus by Judge Ingraham at New York Friday. James McCall, of West Troy, N. Y., kicked and stabbed his wife to death Friday morning and delivered himself up to the police, coolly admitting the murder. The Erie Telephone Co. and the Bell Telephone Co. at Lowell, Mass., have consolidated. The Chapin Mining company of Iron Mountain, Mich., paid off its men in checks on the Plankinton bank, Milwaukee, Thurs. day, and the men presented the checks to the First National bank of Iron Mountain. There was $65,000 to pay and as the bank only carries about $20,000 in cash the run "broke" it temporarily. There was much excitement for a time, but the bank is all right and will be ready to pay Monday. The failures during the seven days ended Friday were: For the United States, 187; for Canada, 29; total, 216. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 199 in the United States, and 22 in Canada. A family at Indianapolis were all poisoned Thursday evening by drinking milk supposed to have been dealt out from corroded tin vessels. They will all recover. The Cedar river at Waterloo, Ia, is so low that the mills will have to use steam in order to operate. A young man named Bass, living near Ty Ty, Ga., ran away with Miss Sheaver, and married her. The male members of the Sheaver family went gunning for the young husband. He stood them all off with his battery, and now everything is serene in Georgia. A hailstorm which passed over Crawfordsville, Ind., Friday covered the ground in some places with hail-stones as large as hens eggs to the depth of a foot. A desperate Italian shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Moore, of Wallace, N. M., Friday, while the latter was trying to arrest him. M. E. Billings, the lawyer of Waverly, Ia., who was granted a new trial on the charge of killing County Attorney Kingsley, of that town, is reported to have escaped from the custody of the sheriff at Gary, D. T., where be had gone by permission of the court.