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THE NEWS. Sixteen lynchers were indicted for murder in Washington county, Ala., and eighteen men for assault and battery. and Mrs. Fred. Taake, Swedish settlers on 8 claim three miles from Okarche, Indian Territory, were found deal inside their house. Both had been sho', and the surroundings indicate murder. The couple were agel fifty-four and fifty-two, respectively. -The jury in the Iams case in Pittsburg brought in a verd et of not gulty.-Earne t Trietle was shot in Orange, N. J., by Nathaniel Williams, private secretary to William Steinitz, the champion chess player The shooting, it is said, was an accident.Mrs. Levy was driven crazy in New York by the ppearance a synagogue janitor in his night robe.-W. G. Pollack, a diamond salesman, was robbed and nearly kil'ed on 8 Sioux City and Pacific trail.-Mrs. Par melia's Wright died in Benton Harbor, Mich., aged one busdred and two years. She retained her mental faculties to the last Mrs. Wright was born near Fairfax Courthouse, Va., and often met Gen. George Washington Thos. difersonand other noted men at that time.-United States cruiser No. 6, was launch di at the U ion Iron Works, San Franci-co, and christened the Olympia.- Carrie Parson, aged sixteen years, eloped with her uncle, Herbert Hos. kin, aged sixty years, from Minden, Mich. -Fire destroyed tl e Stewart Hotel block, the finest in San Bernardino, Cal., including the San Bernardino National Bank. The losses aggregate $200,000, partly insured The cause of the fire is unknown. The Merican government furnishes an of:1cial account of the trouble with the Aztec. -Attorney-General Miller confirmed the report that he would retire from the Cabinet -The W. C. T. U. Convention, which has been in session in Denver, adjourned.-A collision occurred in the Rice Tunnel, five miles from Galena, on the great Western Railway, between a construction train and a regular freight train. Both trains and engines were completely demolished. Two firemen were fatally injured, one man instantly killed and several other trainmen seriously injured.-The recent gales on the great lakes were very destructive.—Mrs. Sarah Shephard, one hundred and four years of age, and the oldest woman in Indiana, was fatally burned in Brazil, Ind. Her two stepsons left her alone in the house, and when they returned, found her lying on the floor fearfully burned.-A carload of cripples left Dubuque for Canton, Minn., to be cured by the vision of the Virgin and Child in the church window there.-The Binghamton Trust Company was appointed permanent receiver of the Iron Hall funds in New York. The General Committee of Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church con Vened in Philadelphia.-The ma ufacturers of Fall River voted to increase the wages of weavers 7 per cent. The American Axle and Tool Company's works in Beaver Falls, Pa., were destroyed by fire.-Judge John Collier, one of Atlanta's pioneer citizens, and one of her most prominent men is H. Rupp, the yardmaster of the Reading Railroad Company, to whose carlessness the coroner's jury decided was due the fatal collision at Manayunk on "October 24th, was arrested under the statues andtaken to the Norristown Jail, where he gave bail for a hearing.-The Women's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church South elected officers and ad The body of Cornelius 8. Hoover, of Lancuster, was found lying beside the ra Iroad track near Conestoga bridge. His injuries indicated that he had been struck by a train. He had been working recently in Phi'adelph'a.-William Gerlach, a Philadelphia broker, was declared solvent by the B oard of Governors of the Stock Exchange.
