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Show -r. a 3 Ai Jy ?( u CY TELCG5APH LAST SI3KT. i (Tragedies in Cliicao and I Kentucky. Fears that the Biz Morn Expedition i Destroyed. The Situation in Europe ! : A General War Imminent J i i Foreign "ev s. &.c, &.c, &e. GENERAL. Chicago News. Chicago, 9 Une Sanders, a negro, employed in a large boardinn house on Washington and Carpenter streets entered the ro' m of Anna Conli.i, a white chambermaid of the house, and demanded to know if she would marry him. On her refusal he cut her, it is feared fatally, and afterward when i-onie policemen came to arrest hi iu he inflicted several ghastly, but unfortunately unfortu-nately not fatal, wounds on himself. Thirteen houses, comprising the business portion of Illinois, were burned last night; loss $15,000; insured in-sured for half. A Tragedy. Cincinnati, 9 A horrible tragedy has occurred in Kentucky, a few miles from Lawrenceburjr, lad. Peter Blair, a discharged employee of Mr. Hoff man, enticed a little son of the latter Iroiu the house and nearly evered his head from his body. After tne murder mur-der he went into the house and attempted at-tempted to viol te Mr-. Hoffman, who escaped to a neighbor's. I he villain escaped. There is great excitement in the vicinity. If found he will be lynched. . Fears for the Big Horn Expedition. Laramie, 9 The Sentinel has the following : Judge Jones has informed us that but little was known of the Big Horn expedition since it left Camp Brown and st uck out into the wilderness. Further than that, they were beyond the reach of heaiing ot friends, and among intensely hostile Indians and tbejuvVe expressed the belief that not one of theui would ever get out alive. Jcdge Jnes wou d not express such an opiuiou lf theie were not 'he bestgrounos for apprehension of the worst The Army Bill. I'hicag , 9 The Tribunes Wash imrtoii special says. after a mnisu tauon with a number of senators, Wilson has decideit to take his army bill and strike out the sections reducing the pay of Sherman and Sheridan; also th sections boiishiug miliiaiy storekeepers store-keepers and bn-vet rank, ana then at temp1 to ttaeh it as an amendment to the army appropriation uiil. |