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LATER NEWS. A FOREST fire nine miles in extent and covering several thousand acres of valuable timber land has been raging in the vicinity of Huntingdon, Penn. About 5,000 cords of wood and as many cords of bark were consumed. DEVELOPMENTS show that the late A. B. Johnson, the prominent Utica (N. Y.) lawyer who shot himself, was a defaulter in thesum of $800,000. the money misappropriated belonging to the McDonnell estate, of Rochester. Mrs. McDonnell is a sister of Johnson, and he had entire charge of the estate. MARY O'CONOR, a young operative, jumped out of the burning mill of Samuel G. Keeley, a Philadelphia manufacturer, last December, and sustained injuries which crippled her for life. She sued Keeley, and the jury have just warded her $10,00 nages. MRS. HUSTON, a farmer's wife, and her two children, were burned to death in their home near Unionville, Mo. THE liabilities of the suspended Mississippi Valley bank, of Vicksburg, will probably reach $1,000,000. A NEW island, created by volcanic action, has been disc overed off the coast of Alaska. ANDREW TAYLOR, the last of the three notorious Taylor brothers, who murdered Sheriff W. T. Cate and his deputy, J. J. Conway, in the fall of 1882, was banged at Loudon. Tenn. On the day previous to his execution, while being conveyed to Loudon from Knoxville, he jerked a pistol out of the pocket of one of his guards. and was about to shoot another sheriff, but was knocked down and the weapon secu before he could do further harm. On the gallows he appeared unmoved, and died with curses on his lips. THE President has appointed Surgeon Robert Murray, now on duty in New York, as the chief medical officer at Major-General Hancock's headquarters, to be surgeon-general of the army. vice the late General Charles H. Crane. IN hisannual report Mr. Knox, com: troller of the currency, says that the total number of national banks in operation on November 1, was 2,522, the largest number that has been in operation at any one time. During the year 262 national banks were organized, with an aggregate organized capital of $28,051,350. Forty banks, with aggregate capital of $7,736,000 and circulation of $4,137,033, have voluntarily discontinued business during the year. From November 1, 1882, to November 1, 1893, the production of gold by the mines of the United States is estimated to have been $32,000,000. The total amount of silver coined during the year has been, after deducting the recoinage, $29,021,143, of which $28,891,069 were standard silver dollars. The following is the amount of coin and currency in the country on November 1, 1883 : Gold coin and bullion, $581,970,254: silver coin, $242,701,932; legal tender notes, $346,681,016; national bank notes, $352,013,787; total, $1,523,306,989. THE trustees of the Exhibition hall in Cork refused to permit Mr Parnell, the Irish homerule leader, to use it for the purpose of making an a dress to his c onstituents. Two infernal achines, of sufficient power to demolish any building. were discovered by the London police at the residence of a cialist namel Wolff, who was arrested. COUNT FREDERIC DE LAGRANGE, a French politician, and a prominent patron of the turf. die in Paris a few days ago, aged sixty-seven. His horses captured the Derby in 1865 and 1866. TWENTY passengers were drowned by a collision between two steamers on Lake Geneva, Switzerland. A DISPATCH from St. Thomas says the Hay. tian steamer Dessalines has sunk La Patrie, the war ship of the revolutionists. A PARIS dispatch asserts that Marquis Tseng, the Chinese ambassador, has notified Earl Granville, the British foreign secretary, that war between China and France is certain to OC '111'
