THE NEWS. An unsuccessful attempt was made to hold up a train oa the Bt, Louis and | 00 road near Eureka, Mo, express messonger san Francls- A robber and an exchanged shots, and both were wounded. ——W. H. Metealf and W. H. MeNutt, wire tappers and swindlers, were arrested in Chicago on charges of for. gery and obtaining money under false pre. tenses, There is a colored man in Evans. ville, Ind., whose skin is turning white, —— The ship Shandon, which had long been overdue, arrived at Honolulu in distress, At Bucyrus, O,, a west-bound freight on the Pennsylvania broke in the two other parts collided, a car of oll and one of gasoline took fire and consumed hall the train, also destroying 500 feet of track, Four tramps were stealing a ride oan the oil car, end all were burned to death.——Henry Dohme shot and killed his wife in Chicago, and fatally wounded himself, sald to have two; about Jealousy is crime, Fire at Marion, Ct, destroyed $125,000 worth of property in the business part of the town, One of the principal losses was the and bank building, estate caused the gas plant owned by the Daniels £40,000, with insurance of $35, 000. of the Banta Fe before the United Fire destroyed Dakota. The Four hundred road refused to States Court at Topeka, the town of Lamore, North A RU anxious to go to work in St. Paul. Tufts, head posta elerk of the Rook Island road, reste 3 at Chieago on the charge of theft, Rev, ried at Ke employes appear men are Benjamin F. has been ar- . Bireh, an old preacher, was mar komo, Indiana, in bed, —The Noten sawmill at Wilkesbarre, burned; £15,000. An effort was made to rob the grave Jackson at the Hermitage, Nashville, ~The loss by th Chicago is $1,963,000, killed and six injured in a at Detroit, The state convention, headsd by W. Y. Atkinson Two killed and a Philadeiphia fire, In the primary at Ri nd, Va, C George DD. Wise was defeats od 1 for ( Col. Tazewell Ellett, of Richn John Harris, eme in the Was Pa., wa unsuccessful of Andrew twelve miles fron 1 % 1088 e lumber fire a One firemen Georgia nominated for govern firemen were five hm fessor Carter of Latin sity, Va, 1s « aged Worth, whe the tice on Sunday at Om tialed. A supplemental bill was tempt case tors of the the order o gasin the Coal miners were h swept fend, » gave filed gainst Debs to incl Piym erts and near throu ~Join C, Johnson, for secretary of the Phil change, at his Several packing-house Orr, a suicide in Der HO XBT of Virg mostly in gold bonds, in 8 nail k the latter had kep is valued at $30,000 and Western Railro August 1. Major jured by he Julius were Waite has withdrawn the Creek, Col teenth an adelphia, The h ado, - John of the Chicago B William and Canton, Miss, by an ex; near Chic hers in the Omaha ) -David M. known architect ; Sedpon Ado Spri wel Ver srs of inia, I ind in raos at Greenburg Minnie bathing, and drowned while crops In Color. id member Frank Be were Three workmen we n of dynamite in aston the men f Arm redu was no strike, glern Ia was ou # at « red fii The hicago teen per cent. There main building of the Northw College at Watert Wia lightaing and burned; loss $40,000; in were JWI, small, — Farmers in Indiana wheat to bh ports fom China say the missionaries th ~ Madison was banged at Norfolk for John Ix Cross Creek ( putting the longing to the company on ball time, Nine thousand men are affected, —-Dr. F. Oppelt, a pupil of Hahnemann and a skilled died in the aimshouse at eighty-seven years, are snd selling their corn, Brown, the murder of - Orders were jssued by the f Hazleton, collieries be. are in danger, liard, oal Company, © Pa. employes in all the chemist, Jethiehom, aged The speaker of the Newloundiand legisla. ture was unseated by the court because he had without av- thority and had treated voters, Tne Chi ago grand jury reported that gambling pre- vailed in the city, and that the keepers are being protected by the police, The sinims of the property owners on Grand Boulevard, in Chicago, have been sent to Washington by General Miles, Fifty thousand dollars is the aggregate amount asked by the owners of the properties damaged by the explosion of the artillery calgon July 16.