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OUTLAWS ROB A BANK. | Two Hall-Breed Indians Inyade a Kansas Town. In the Presence of Ten Men They Secure $2500. Tbree officials of the Caney Valley (Kan.) TUnir W3re suddenly confronted by two ua ukad roLberj, covered with revolvers ad after a show at resistance the bank was coolly robbed of $2330 in cash a few aftermooms ago. The robbers were the notorious desperado Henry Starr and a halfbreed1 Indian, also an outlaw, whosa aims Is New* comb. In the bank at the time ware Cashier Terry Hollingsworth, Assistant Cashier fl. A. Schurr and Judge MeEnery. Vice-President of the First National Bank of Coflfey flle, where the Dal tons met their fate. As the robbers reached the bank counter each man pulled revolvers. Assistant Cash* tar Schurr jumped backward into the vault and dosed the door after him. The other two men were at the mercy of the robbers; who vaulted the counter. Starr ordered Hollingsworth to open the door of the vault, sajing that he would kill him if he refuse-}. At this Schurr opened the door from the in* side, fearing the threat would be carried into effect, but was coolly told to wait a minute. Starr covered the two bankers with his pistols and had Newcomb reach under the cashier's counter and secure the two Winchesters and a revolver lying there. Then-Schurr was ordered to open the vault door, and, at the point of a Win* Chester, was made to place all the money in the vault, $2000, in a wheat sack, and from the monev drawer $503 was added. All this was done very quickly. Starr jumped over the counter just as a insin&-s man came in to make a deposit. Starr ordered the man to throw up hi? hands, and was obeyed. Starr backed to ooe skle of the entrance just as another customer entered with bank boo i in hand. It was nearly the cloain? hour, and in five minutes, perhaps, the robber had seven citisans in line, each with his hands up. "The Daltons are not all dead," said Starr to the terrified bank officials and citizens. **I guess we'll pay the bank acros3 the street a visit," he laughed. It was 3 o'clock, and Starr calmly closed the bank doorc, but without turning his back to the prisoners. Then the robbers marched the tea men back through the bank ioto a yard surrounded by a nigh ooard fence, locked the door, walked hurriedly out at the front, mounted their horses and rode rapidly southward. It was ten minutes before the alarm was given. When the alarm was finally given the news of the daring robbery spread rapidly, aad a posse of citizens was quickly organ* iced "and started in pursuit. Before the tart could be made, however, the robbers had secured an advantage of fully thirty minute*. The bank was soon surrounded and the till frightened bank officials wera too overcome to accurately state their loss further tfaas that everything in sight in the money 1 kne had been secured by their visitors. Henry Starr is one of the notorious Dillon gang, and only recently escaped from Jail, LATER NEW?. _ Joseph Bidge and wife, of Machanicavillf, while driving across the railroad at Beiples Station, Penn., wera struck by an ngine and fatally injured. Coxa's iron breaker at Oneida, Penn., the ?u y one Ol its Kina iu mo uuuuuj, uu >?? borne i. It cost 1250.000. Commissioner oy Public Works Daly, C New1 York City, bagan bis work in the Croton watershed under the Webster law by burn in; a dwelling house an 1 barn and oodfmnlng many nuisances. Thb Clothing Manufacturers' Association obtained from Judge Lawrence, of the Supmne Court, New York City, a temporary injunction that practically restrained the United Garment Workers from continuing their boycott. Tkk President his made the following nominations: Herman Stump, of Maryland, to be Superinten lent o! Immigration, William P. Thompson, of Maine, to be Collector of Customs for the District of Belfast, Me. ARBITBATOES MEET. , First Session In Paris ot tbs Bering Sea Court. The Court of Arbitration appointed to adjut the difficulties between Great Britain r and the United States in relation to the seal isberies in Bering Sea met at Paris fe the office of the French Foreign Ministry. All the member* of the Court -were present. They are Justice John M. Harlan and Senator John T. Morgan, apMinted by the President of the United States; Baron de Conrcelles, appointed by the President of France; Gregera W. W. Gram, appointed bv the Kinz of Sweden, Marquis Emilio Visconti Veuosta, appointed by the King of Italy; Lord Hansen and Sir John 8. D. Thompson, appointed by the Queen of England. Ex-Sec rotary ot btate jo an n. rowr was prweut m agent on the part o( the^Jnited States, and Charles H. Tup per, Cauadian Dominica Minister of Marine and Fisheries, as " agent ok the part of Great Britain. The present on the part of the United ' States were E. J. Phelpi, of Vermont; ? James C. Carter of New York; Henry W. Blodgett of Illinois, and assistant counsel tor tbe United States, Robert Lansing, of Raw York. The ooanael for Qreat Britain resent were Sir Charles Russell, AttorneySeneral, Sir Richard Welter, ex* AttorneyGeneral; Q. C. Robinson, of tbe Canadian Bar, and W. H. Cross. 1L Develle, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, made a short speech welcoming the embers ot the Court, tbe agents ana tbe oansel. Tne meeting was purely formal. Credentials were presented, and the Court organized x < ky the election of Baron de Courcelles as President. It was decided to \ Met at 11:30 a. m. each day, and to sit for flow hoars and a half daily, the meetings to ka open to members of the press to whom \ aards should be issued. The Court then adjourned until April 4, in order to examine the printed arguments of the United States and Qreat Britain, which were presented. AQlilCULTUBAL INQUIRY. ftatvCominitteea ot the Senate A p. pointed to Make Investigations. , In April last the United States Senate passed & revolution directing the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry to investigate tbe condition of tbe agricultural interests in tbe United State?, and if found depressed to ascertain the cause, and inquire into the < proper remedy. Sub-committees made a- 1 partial investigation in regard to the cotton industry. The continuance of the investigation was authorised. Toe committee has appointed a sub-cooimittea consisting of the Cnairman, Mr. GeoV^e, an I Senators Bate and Proctor, to. inquire into the matter so no mttnn i? eonc?rn-aJ. and S?nator$ Peffer, Roach and \Va?htmrn, to in vest:- I gate the cultivation of wheat, oats, etc. It is understoo 1 that each sub-committee will go to work at an early day. and maka the instigation as thorough,as practiciola. \ ; A SHORT HONEYMOON". \ An Indian Who Had Married a White Girl Murdered. \ ? \ News -s been received at Dannison, Texas, t t*. Willis Jordan, of\ Jackson County, iJ t'icuiw Nation, w?i$ called to his door tb> oihe.* nisjht and ridilei with toilets. ! ?- kn, w 10 is a full blooi Indian, , , tii marr.e I several months a?o to a white girl Agp Ht the wuhee of his brother, who ' swore ta.i tbe honeymoon would be short. - v" \ BUILDINGS AT rJ Among s great number of sketches subm the Board of Lady Managers quickly dtacove gracefulness of details which Indicate the arc the execution of the design. ' Directly in front of the building the lago landing ana staircase leads to a terrace six four feet above, on which, aboutlOO feet bac shrubs. The principal facade has aa extreme is the style selected. The first story is raised about ten feet fn ing the main triple-arched entrance, with an elaborate bas-relief. The corner pavilions h ing Gardens. A lobby 40 feet wide leads into the open i ornamented skylight. This rotunda is surroi whole having a thoroughly Italian courtyard floor are located, on the left hand, a model The whole floor of the south pavilion is d Ization. Each of these floors is 80x200. The In the second story are located ladies1 ps whole second floor of the north pavilion inclo stage for the accommodation of speakers. T The building is encased with "staff," the corated Walls bathed in the bright sunshine, jj EPftfpfciLi Machinery Hall, of which Pea body <& St to the Administraton Building in the magu Annex and Power House cost abr it 11,200,OC Michigan and the west line of the Park. It cultural Building. The building is spanned I houses side by side, surrounded on ail the fox taken down and sold for use as railroad trail to end of the building for the purpose of moi hibits beneath. The power from this buildii The Forestry Building is in appearance tt a remarkable degree its architecture is of the is a colonnade consisting of a series of column in diameter and the others smaller. All of t the different States and Territories of the U The sides of the building are constructed of s as is the rest of the building. The main enti being contributed by several prominent luml no mistake as to kinds of tree-trunks which f and scientific name, the State or country fro: mate quantity of such timber in the region1 building are numerous flagstaffs bearing the c TJniqm among the other exhibits is that appearance. is a faithful fulfilled model of o on the Lake front In the northeast portion of J The structure has the fittings that belong V anchors, chain cables, davits, awnings, deolc mechanics and marines are detailed oj the 1 naval vessels are completely shown. Thede gives certain drills, especially boat, torpedo, The dimensions of the structure are those from the water line to the top ot the main dc mock berthing on the same 7 feet high, and At the forward end of the superstractur placed two circular "tops" as receptacles for the water line to the summit of this milltan The battery mounted comprises four 13 breech-loading rifle cannon; twenty 6-pounc tubes or torpedo guns. All of these are plac On the starboard side of the ship is show and cutters ride at the booms, and all the o prominent People. Pi rvpi nn h.i a wonderful memory. President Nunez, of Colombia, has refused a pension of $30,000 a year. Isaac Pusev Grat, the new Minister to i Mexico, is six feet ten inches tall and weighs 180 poundp. The full name of the Brazilian Minister at Washington is General Dionizlo JSvangetistade Castro Cerqueira. Wilfred Young, a schoolboy, is paid I6C0 a year for ringin? in the choir of All An pels' Church, New York City. Mrs. Lamost, wife of ths Secretary of War, will remain in New York until the close of the school year liberates the children. Ex-Skcreta.rt Tract says that, in addition to the bard tabor an1 constant anxiety, his cabinet life cost Jrim about J30.000 a year over and above his salarj. Governor Roswell P. Flower, of New York, got his first start in life from money earned as a clerk in the Watertown Postoffice. He reciived $700 a year. Verdi received for "Falstaff," his new opera, $32,000 down and will get forty per c*nt. of the publishing and performing royalty rights. Bolto got I2J00 for the libretto. In many sections there is doubt as to the way in which the name of Attorney-'Jeneral Olney ought to be pronounced. In Rhode Island, the chief seat of the family, they call it Oh-ny. The Russian oil kings, the Nobel Brothers, are really enterprising Swedes, who are said to dispose of upward of sixty million gallons of kerosene annually, and always for ready cash. Senator Mantle, of Montana, is an Englishman by birth and a telegraph operator by occupation. Ho is only thirty-nine years of age. and is the youagest member in the Senate chamber. THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN TKX WOMAN'S BUILDING. itted in competition for this building by wo red in the sketch submitted by Miss Sophia ( hitectural scholar, and to her was awarded tl on takes the form of a bay, about 400 feet ii feet above the water. Crossing this terrac k. the building is situated. The first terrace i i length of 400 feet, the depth of the buildin am the ground line, and a wide staircase lea< open colonnade in the second story, is finishe ave each an open colonnade added above th rotunda, 70x65 feet, reaching through the he inded by a two-story open arcade, as delicat effect, admitting abundance of light to all rc hospital; on the right, a model kindergarten evoted to the retrospective exhibit; the one c curtain opposite the main front contains th< triors, committee-rooms and dressing-rooms, ises the great assembly-room and club-room, he south pavilion contains the model kitchei same material used on the rest of the buildi the women of the country are justly proud i J& ~'"l " THE MACHINIST HA.LL. earns, of Boston, are the architects, has been iflcenca of its appearanoe. This building i 10. It is located at the extreme south end of t is just south of the Administration Building, i by three arched trusses, and the interior prese ir sides by a gallery fifty feet wide. The tru 1 -b ouses. In each of the long naves there is a rinj machinery. These platforms are built t ig is supplied from a power-house adjoining THX 70RESTRT BUILDIKO. te most unique of all the Exposition structui rustic order. On all four aides of the build s composed of three tree-crunks each 23 feet: heae trunks are left in their natural state, wit nion and by foreign countries, each furnishii labs with the bark removed. The window i ranees are elaborately finished in different k; ber associations. The roof is thatched with orm the colonnade, for he will see upon each n which the trunk was contributed, and otbei whence it came. Surmounting the cornice of olors, coats of arms, etc., of the Nations and THE XAVAL EXHIBIT. made br the United States Naval Dipartmoi Q? of the new coast-line battleship}. This ii ackson Park. It is surrounded by water aui h 3 the aotual ship, tuoh guns, turrets, torpaic fittings, eta, etc., together with all apppilauc far/ Department during the Espoiltion, a: tail of m9U is not, however, as *reat as the and gun drills, as in a vasjel of war. i of the actaftl battleship, to-wit: Length, 3i >ck, 12 teet. Centrally placed on this deck i: above these are the bridge, chart-house, au e there in a cone-shaped tower, called the "a sharp?hooters. Rapid firing guns are mouc r mast is 76 feet, and above is placed a fiagsu inch breech-loading rifle cannon; eight 8-inc ler rapid firing guns; six 1-pound rapid-firing ?d and mounted respectively as in the genuic rn the torpedo protection net, stretching th utward d apearance of a real ship of war is it NEWSY GLEANINGS. Cholera is gaining ground in Russia. The British army in Egypt ia being doubled. Austrian crops have been greatly damaged by Irost. ' The exodus of Illinois farmers to the W est continues. There is not a church of any sort In Taney Connty, Missouri. Prolonged drought is causing much damage in the North of Africa. News from Hawaii is that Royalists are forming And-American Leagues. The San Francisco (CaL) police have declared war on the Chinese highbinders. The indications are that North Carolina planters will not reduc9 the cotton acreage. There are 7000 families along the Kansas border ready to rush into the Cherokee Strip. An Indian Gfirl, a?ei tea, was carried off and eaten by cougars naar Tilden, Washiogton. All Hebrew bankers of Europe have been urged to boycott Russia in the loan market. A strange disease anion; cattle in Central Illinois is believed to b? due to the feeding of millet. It is now assured that President Cleveland will pre?s the button at the opening ol the World's Fair. The total shioments of bananas from Nicaragua to this country during 1892 wen 1,484,775 buQcben. A mysterious underground river hai been discovered four and one-half miles northwest of Augusta, I1L A cattle plague has ravaged Africa millions of cattle having died between thi river Niger and Lake Tehad. m CHICAGO. men from all over the land, tha President o ( li Hayden that harmony of grouping and le first prize of a thousand dollars, and also i width. From the centre of this bay a grand e other staircases give access to the ground a designed in artistic flower beds and low ig being half this distance. Italian renaissance is to the centre pavilion. This pavilion, formd with a low pediment enriched with a highly e main cornice. Here are located the Hang* ight of the building, and protected by a richly a and chaste in design as the exterior, the >oms facing this interior space. On the first , each occupying 80x60 feet >n the north to reform work and charity orgaus Library, Bureau of Information,records, etc.. all leading to the opan balcony in front. The The first of these is provided with an elevated ^refreshment rooms, reception rooms, etc. njs, and as it stands with its mellow, de? of the result pronounced by many architects second only measures 830x600 feet, and with the Machinery be Bark, midway between the shore of Lake ?nd west and across a lagoon from the Agrlnts the appearance of three railroad train* sses are built separately, so that they can be n elevated traveling crane running from end 10 that visitors may view from them the exthe south side of the building. 4 , res. Its dimsnilons are 230 by JSOO feet. To in; is a veranda, supporting the roof of whioh in lenztn, one of them from 16 ^ to 20 inches h bark undisturbed. They are contributed by lg; specimens of its most characteristic trees, rames are treated in the same rustic mannetinds of wood, the material and workmanship tan and other barks. The visitor can make a tablet upon which is inscribed the common r pertinent information, such as the approrithe veranda and extending all around the States represented in the exhibits inside. it It is in a structure which, to all outward! nit\tioa battleship of 1893 is erectei oa piling lis the appsaranceof being moored to c. wharf, i tubas, torpedo nets and boomt, with boats, jm for wonting the- gam?. Qffcars, seamen, ad the discipline and mode of life oa oar complement of the actual (hip. The crew > feat; width amid ships, 63 feat 3 inches; and 3 a superstructure 8 feet high with a ham1 the ooats. lilitary mast," near the top of which are ited in each of these tops. The height from iff for signaling. >h breech loading rifle cannon: four 6-inch ; guns; two Gattling guns, and six torpedo le battleship. e entire length of the vessel. Steam launches nitated. THE LABOR WORLD. Knights or Labor in 'New Zealand are ; going into the co-operative business. Hod carriers hare forty-six unions and will soon organize an international body. Farmers are beginning t? complain of a i scarcity of farm hands. They will pay |2 a day and more. The New Labor Lyceum in Philadelphia, Penn., has just been opened with a public demonstration. Waqes in Massachusetts average $1.70 to tl rk*i/t In Rncrlfln^ whilA thft of thft same mode of living is $1.17 here to $1 in England. James Hillhoime, Jr., recently appointed Mine Inspector of Alabama, was not man? years ago a common laborer in the Shenandoah (Penn.) mines. The operative cotton spinners of Manchester, England, offered to resume work 1 forthwith if the reduction of wages be limited to 2% per cent. The Federation of Master Cotton Spinuers' meeting practically refused to accept the off or. Before: the English Labor Commission i the fact was established that when tho hours i of the men employed ia tha gas works were reduced from twelve to eight, or thirtythree per cent., it was found that their ein. ciency was diminished only twenty-two per cent. The new French law relative to the em? ployment of children and women in fac* UJf.i fUa amnlnirmanh Cif tones, eiu, pivmuib^ vuw j children in workshops, factories, mines, . quarries, etc., unless they have received a certificate of physical fitness for the work from a medical man authorizad to grant ' such certificates. The inspectors of labor > can always demand to have caildren in such establishments under the age of sixteen , medically examinei, to determine whether b the work they are called on to do is beyond their strength. v SWEPT BY WmDSTORMS. ' Great Damage Done in the South and West. Several Towns in Mississippi Reported Nearly Destroyed. Scattering reports coming to Memphis from points ia West Tennessee and Northern Mississippi indicated that a terrific tornado had whirled up the Mississippi Vallej from the sonthwest, crashing and sweeping away everything in its mad path. Telegraph wires In every direction were iwutea idk) tangies tuia wuiuuiuuiwuu with the storm-swept localities was exceedingly difficult and unsatisfactory. Trains from the East reaching the city late in the afternoon and evening brought reports of widespread destruction. Passengers on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley train told of the destruction or Tunica, Miss. The Birmingham train due in Memphis at 5:50 o'clock could not get to Memphis until alter S o'clock, men being compelled to chop and remove trees off the track between Memphis and Kelly, which is situated about thirteen miles from Memphis. The swath of the storm as it crossed the Kansas City Memphis and Birmingham road seemed to embrace a territory between Cooperville and Olive Branch. Dozens of houses, huge trees and barns were rased to the ground by the violence of the storm. Tha damage at Tunica, Miss., was very great. Houses were crushed like eggshells. The ruthless visitor lingered over the town scarcely two minutes and yet in that time the greater part of the town was destroyed. The Knights of Pythias' and Masonic Hall is now only a heap of timber. The roof of the Court House was carried away. When the storm subsided cries and screams of children were heard from the colored ;cbool-house( where 150 children had been gathered at their lessons. The building, a two-story frame, had been blown down, and beneath the ruins was a mass of struggling children. None was killed, but there were many maimed and bruised, some with broken arms and some with fractured skulls. The loss to property will go into the hundreds of thousands. Trainmen on the Kansas City. Memphis - ? T>> . ?-J. J ana oimnngaam namum ic^iuiku Kelly, Miss., was wiped off the face of the earth, not a soul being left to tell the tale. Cleveland, Miss., was severely damaged by the tornado, losing a floe church ana a number of dwellings. There was no loss of life. A special from Crawfordsville, Ark., states that a severe wind blew down several houses in that town. It was also reported that a tornado had devastated Bowling Green, Ky. All wlrea were down to that point and nothing definite could be learned concerning the disaster. A wind storm of remarkable violence visited Indianapolis, Ind., doing about 1100,000 damage and injuring two persons. The Brown-Ketcham Iron Works were partially uoroofeJ. One of the big mills of the Cerealine Company was an* roofed, and the roof in falling struck Charles Myers, a workman, breaking his leg. The third story, of the Indianapolis coffin factory, three blocks away was blown off. Next to this factory la a boarding house and saloon owned by Charles Benhke, which was unroofed, and Mrs. Benhke had her foot crushed. Mr. Benhke was bruised. A number of sheds, stables and two frame houses in course of construction were demol* ished. Despatches from Kansas and Missouri say that a severe storm raged generally over the two States. The rainfall was very heavy and generally benefited the crops. At Oklahoma City a number of buildings were blown down and several of them were burned by lightning. The slate roof of the' State Insane Asyldm at Nevada, Mo., was damaged and * ~m a# fha natrium IDS no use Ol UIO ciujuim Ui ??V <~J blown down. Ia Kansas the rain was general all over the western part of the State. The eastern part of Charlton County, Missouri, was visited by a hurricane, killing live stock anl destroying a great deal of other property. The dwelling house of Mrs. Samuel Ounn was destroyed. Two persons were killed in the same neighborhood. Later Details. Additional news of the tornado in north* era Louisiana and southern Arkansas has been received. Near Shaw's Station, Miss., the house of Drury Sumral, a prosperous colored farmer, was levelled to the ground, killing the entire family of nine persons. The storm passed within a mile of Clarksdale, a town of 2000 inhabitants, and next struck Tunica, the county seat of Tunica County. Nearly every building in the place was wrecked. The newly completed Court House went down before the wind's fury. The colored school building was wrecked and over thirty children injured. As the cyclone left Tunica it divided, one portion traveling in a north* easterly direction, while the other took a northwesterly course ahd again crossed the Mississippi River into Arkansas where it spread ruin through three counties. The towns of Crawforasville and Vincent were nearly wiped off the face of the earth, and the storm thee took a northeasterly course, reaching Kelly, Miss., about four o'clock in the afternoon. Here the greatest damage was dona. Six people were killed outrlgnt. DTTDfLT AUQ BflU A "R A WIT JJ U XI>UXJ?kJJlU JJIWJJ J3. They Get $10,000 at Pawling N. Y., and Escape on a Hand Car. A daring robbery occurred a few morn* lags ago in Pawling, N. Y. The robbers entered the savings bank in the Dutcher House and secured $10,000. Twenty* five guests were in the house, but none of then were awakened. The safe was forced open and everything in it extracted without noise. After cracking the safe the robbers made their way to the railroad station, where they xtole a hand* car belonging to the Grand Central Railroad and rode to firewsters. There they ditched the car and walked to C&rmel station to wait for a train. At that point they found the station locked, but they broke in the door and rested until the 7 o'clock express arrived. This they boarded without exciting suspicion. They had their booty in a large valise. Soon after the train left the station a deputy sheriff rode into B re waters, bringiug news of the robbery. There It was learned that tbe burglars had. tcken a train at CarraeL. ana al? though it was a fast express it was decided to stop it at an intermediate station. This was done and the burglars captured. They gave their names as John Walters and Henry Cary. The stolen goods were recovered ana the robbers given into the hands of the New Tork officials. IN A FLOATING BARN. Remarkable Escaoe of Farmer Price's Pigs and Chiclcons. During the recent big freshet in the Susquehanna River the barn of VTilliam Price, who lives near Wilkesbarre, Penu., was carried away when the ice gorge broke. In the bain were ten pigs and seven chickens. Price gave up all hope of ever seaing his j-tock again, expecting that the barn would break up and the pigs and chickens drown, but the animals and birds were born under a lucky star. The barn held together and floated down upon the big cakes of ice until th9 flood subaided and left it stranded on a small islaud near Selins Grove, Penn., eighty-live miles down the river. There was a barrel of corn in the barn, and this had been upset by the pigs and furnished good living during their trip. The animals and chickens were found by a party mnn onrl WAPfl in POOd COEl'i i t lOI). The men found something in the barn with Price's name on it, and wrote to him. Price went to Selins Grove, and shipped his Jive stock home. JT is estimated tnat more boomers are squatting along the borders of the Cherakej Strip than can be accommodated with quarter-sections when the laad shall bare been opened for settlement , \ . ' -. J i-C- \ NOMINEESOONFIBMXD. Pictures of Tlire? ot CleTeland'e New Appointees. J AXES B. ITTSTD3. James B. Euatia, appointed Miaiafcer to Prance, is a native of New Orleans, La., and is Of ty-nine years old. THEODORE BUWTOIC. Theodora Runyon, appointed Minister to Germany, is sixty-two vecu's of age and a resident ol Newark, N. J. lit mm WAD* HAKPTOIT. Wad? Hampioa, appointed Railroad Commissioner, was bora in Charleston, S. C., March 28,1813. THEEE BANKS FAIL. m. a..in ! Wuhviiin (T?nn.) Oommer I X* ft RII1V X rw cial Circles. Three banks in Nashville, Tena., which bad been regarded as substantial failed to open their doors on the morning after the failure of Dobbins & Dizsy.the big cotton broker;. In oonsequence there was a panio in commere 1*1 circles and confidence in the stability of other institutions was shaken. The first announcement was that the Commercial National Bank had failed. This was soon followed by the reports that the Mechanics' Savings Bank and Trust Company and the Bank of Commerca were in difficulties. A run on all the banks was' feared, and to avoid this the banks made assignments, thus protecting equally the interests of all the creditors. Tbe Commercial National Banc had enjoyed tbe utmost confidence of the paople of Nashville. The suspension is tbe direct result of the failure of Dobbins & Dazsy, cotton brokers. The amount stated as the indebtedness of that firm to tbe Commercial was $80,000. It has since been learned that the bank's total loss on Dobbins & Daisy's paper, their foreignexchange and overdraft amounted to |i63,C00. Tbe Bank of Commerce made assignment naming John T. LHlyett as assignee. This action was precipitated by tbe general apprehension of a run on the bank, which the | officers believed would be made. The depositsjvere not large, aggregating only about The Mechanics' Bank suspended with* drawals by depositors for sixty days. The three failures will break aoout thirty small banlu in the country towns And the losses in all will reach on a million and a half dollar.'. Two small State banks failed that day. Tha failure will stagnate business and the loss from that sourca will be equally as great. SUNK,BY EARTHQUAKE. Many Killed by the Falling in ol Colombian Mountains. A tremendous and destructive phenomenon has occurred in the Department of Cauca, in the Republic of Columbia. The rolcano of Sotara had been unusually active, and the people in that region were greatly excited by tne rumbling ot the earth and the extraordinary violence of the volcanic eruption. Suddenly, while the volcauo was belching forth flame and smoke to a great height, the earth began to shake as if a most violent convulsion were in progress, anl tne mountain ridge called Cruz Loma suddenly sank along its entire extension. The inhabitants in the vicinity who had a cjance to escape fled in terror from the scene, and not toa soon, as the sunken ridge dammed up three rivers and added devastation to the terrors of earthquake and volcano. Twelve persons are known to have perished. and many cattle were destroyed, and more destruction in feired, as the rivers, whose usual channels have bee.i obstructed, are risiug radidly. Great suffering prevails in Cauca. usually the most flourishing department of Colombia, and many people are starving, owing to the failure of the crops, and this new and uuexpacted calamity has added greatly to the general wretchedness. The volcano of Sotara is 17.031 feet high, and is but a few miles south of the city o( Popayan, the capital of the Department of Cauca, which is the largest of the nine departments into which the United States of Colombia are divided. The city of Popayan has a population ot about 30,000. It is situated on an elevated plataau 'J5W feet above the level of th9 sea. Secretary Morton has discharged fortyseven and furloughed 121 employee of the Bureau of Animal Industry, thus saving 110,550 a month. AT IOK m ABROAD. ^ Important Happenings as Told by Telegraph and Cable. _ jA Singular Double Traeredv in & New York Gun Shop. One of the saddest tragedies ia the polio* annals of Now York City occurred at 5:25 i o'clock, a few aftera-vm* ago, In the big, ^ gun store of Hartley & Graham, 813 ancl 315 Broadway. William W. Reynolds, who for thirty years past had b?en at the head of the exoort department of the firm, shot and killed Miles V. Kellv, head bookkeeper oC the house, and then turned the pistol" against himself, inflicting; a fatal wound. Absolutely no motive can be assigned for, the action, and all th* persons acquainted 4 with the principals azr?e that Mr. Reynolds , l was crazy. The men had been friends for nearly a quarter of a century, Mr. K?Uy haying i served in Hartley & Uraham's establishment ' 1 -? 1 II +<? *? ior twenty years, ?nu nunux ?? hm? ? ? they myw once had a quarrel as far as any one knows. Not a word preceded the shooting, and' that Mr. Kelly was satectel as the noting was probably due slmpiv to the fact th?t he had the misfortune to be the person near-1 V;; eft at hand when the insane impulse to kill seized Mr. Reynolds. For a month! ' or ao the letter's friends hare noticed; . certain peculiarities in his actions. He would frequently ma-a mistakes in his cor* respondence, something formerly unknown; he was absent-minded and hesitating in his " fe speech, and was seizel with periods of the most intense despondence. He was fifty years old and married. He had no children, - > and lived at 155 Hewes street, Brooklyn. / Mrs. Reynolds got to Naw York City about v-, 8 o'clock. She found her sister-in-law at the . ;/' hospital where her husband had been taken., They remained with Mr. Reynolds until it was a certainty that h<? could never recover jEM consciousness,and went away at 10:30 o'clock.' ' .. p. He died at fifteen minutes of midnight. ; .<; ~ No writing was fou't i which could suggest yLM a motive for either murder or suicide, nor is %i 5* mnnnuH thp wpra nremeditated, v by Mr. Reynolds. H* never carried a pistol, J ijF/T and the revolver whicd ha used was a new one, taken from one of the showcases. It still had the tag attached on which was marked Its catalogsi nu?nb?r, its cost, and' selling price. It is b-lfov-jd tbuat it was taken ' y' from the case after 5 o'clook, when the clerks' had left the store. After it was taken car* m triages had to be got from another depar' - M ment before it conld be loaded. fl The Famous Alica Mitchell Case, Judge Dnboee has beau deposed from the ' ' bench at Memphis pending the impeachment V- -' proceedings in the State Ssnate of Ten- 4'j. nessee. and the members of the : bar. as prescribed by law under j such conditions, elected Thomas EL ; Scrum temporary Ju l?e of the Criminal Court. Judge Scrujrzs'g first official act was in reference to Miss Llliie Johnson of ' ,J/ the famous Mitchell-Ward case. Llliie ifv", Johnson was oat driving with Alice Mit- i?S chell on February 25,1392, when Alioe killed , Freda Ward. iilJie remained in the boggy i-'at the top of the hill, and said she knew nothing of the crime until after its oommjssion. Nevertheless she was ar> ' 'w rested as an acoeesory and confined in jail until her health gave way. Then she was admitted to 9^000 bat Jadge Dubose > In a brutal manner told hi* .in open court that he betiered her guilty. ; *8E! In August last A ice Mitchell was seat to an insane asyluns, where she still la Al- '. t though in the Mitchell trial and in the in- sanity proceedings nothing showed that ' ^ Lillle Johnson was aware of Alice's inteo- ' tions, Judge Dubose was so prejudiced that he refused to entertain the motions of At* torney-General Peterj to discharge her, and Insisted in keeping her under bonds. He said that he intended to try her for murder if - ever Alioe Mitchell recovered her sanity. General Peters moved to acquit, and Judge " jbg Scruggs promptly acquiesced.. Miss Johnson was not present, but was represented by , .v counsel. She has nut recovered her health fully since she broke down under the aocusa- ; tions against her. . Stricken WbUe Fighting Fire. The Misses Swain, three sisters, living at Townsena'j Inlet, N. J., were recantly mads {lad by the coming noma from Washington, >, C., of their only living brother, Henry Clay dwain, for a short visit. ?us sisters had the meadows on their farm '?? burned off next day. Tne fire was burning well when the wind cianged and the flames 'J turned towards the ho nestsad. Mr. 8wain! joined the workmen wao were fighting the advancing fire. The violent exercise brought on an attacK of heart trouble; and he felL Before he was foun 1 the smoke and flames had passed over him. He was suffocated and his body was burned in many places. The clothing was almost burned off. He was carried to the mansion and efforts wers , . made to revive him, bat he soon died. Mr. Swain was associated with the firm of Jay Cooke & Co. at the time of their failure. He was w*U known in Washing* ton society. Senatorial Confirmation*. ? o..i? t... mflllMMl ine UD1HM OHHca UOUIH . the fallowing nominations: Mix Judd, of , UUogri, to be Consul-General at yianoa; William fl. Sim ma, of CoJumbus, Miss., ,to be First Assistant Secretary of tne Interior; John 8. Seymour, of Nor walk, Conn., to be Commissioner of Patents: Edward A. Bower*, of Washington, D. C., to be Awistant Commissioner oC . the General Land Offi ^e; Henry C. Bail, of Marshall, Ul_ to be Second Deputy Coomi*?ioner of Pensions; George Pfefffer, Jr., ? --j of New Jersey, to be Marshal of the United 4 States for the District of New Jersey. J Cholera Again Baffin*. ?? It isstated in an official report just issued in Russia that an average of 150 new oases of cholera and fifty deaths from the disease are reported every week in the Government of PoaoUa. Cholera has appeared at Zalosce. a market town of Galicis. Every attempt haa been made by the authorities to che^k the disease, but despite their efforts it is spreading. Three deaths from cholera have ? already occurred, and several new cases were reported, i The Girls Will Attend to the Lamps. , The Young Women's Christian Temperance Union propose some practical temperance work in Ejrota, Minn. The village r&> cently voted "No liceuse," and the liquor men have said that without license fees tnera would be no public lighting of the streets. The young women obtained charge of tha < street lamps, raised money for oil by subscription, and allotted a lamp to each girl, whose pleasure it will be to ksep it trimmed and burning. Tobacco and Cotton Crops. The acreage in tobacco will be from eighteen to twenty per cent, lees than it was last year. Prices have not been good and there ' is an oversupplv. Notwithstanding that the crop of last year's cotton is nearly 3,000,000 bales short, the price has not gone up. Yet the acre- , age will be increased from tea no twenty pw cent. j Perished in Flames. The raining towa of Ksernten, near Blelberfr, Germany, has been almost destroyed. by Are. When two churches and sixty-flve houses bad been destroyed the fire was still spreadin?. Fifteen persons were known to have, perished in the flames, an J sjveral others were # missing. KILLED WIFE ASP CHILD. The Awlnl Crime ot a Pennsylvania Miner. Barney McFadden, a^niner, living near Leggett's Creek breaker, Scranton, Penn,, some time during the night murdered his wife and child. The scene in the home when neighbors mnr?n thn discovery next mornln? wasater* rible one, bearing evidences of an awtul struggle on the part of the woman to escape the murderer. Ministzr Joxks, of the Finanoe Depart- ?ments has announced that the total deb: at * the Hawaiian Government is t8.321.000.