Ten blocks, composing nearly the
entire business portion of Paris,
Texas, burned.
A. B. Haynes: grand master of the
State Grange and-a leading farmer of
Mississippi, is dead.
John King, and extensive St. Louis
lord and oil dealer, has goe. into
voluntary bankruptcy.
.Haiuburg distillery, Pekin, Ills.,
was destroyed by fire. A blacksmith
perished in the flames.
A convention of bankers will be
held at New York on the 12th, The
attendance will be large.
The Grand Encampmentof Knight*
Templar adjourned at Cleveland to
meet in Chicago next year.
The State department has advices
of the death of United States Vice
Consul Harrison at Guayas.
Robert Leich, a 8oteiiman, just
arrived from Florida, died in New
York Hospital, of yellow fever.
A locomotive ran into a group of
five persons at Salem, Mass., killing
three and wounding the others.
The Lehigh Valley railroad refuses
to transport coal for nminining com
panies that yielded to the strikert.
Hon. A. G. Lawrence of Rhode Is
land has accepted the civilian's pool
tion omt the Sitting Bull commissinu.
Dr. S. M. Stein, a New York physi
cian, committed suicide by jumping
from the Niagara suspension bridge.
Theopholus Gaines, recently ap
pointed attorney for Montana, has
complied with the request to resign.
Gen. Wesley Merritt will command
ten companies of cavalry to be lent
in pursuit of the hostile Nez Perces.
Mmrs. Catherine Berry of New Or
leans ventured heyond her depth
while bathing at Grand Isle, and was
drowned.
During a heavy shower the wall of
the Imuildinu of the Worcester Wire
Company was blown down, killing
two persons.
A house of ill fame at Cincinnati
fell while workmen were making an
excavation under the walls. Several
persons were injured.
