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Show DOMESTIC BRIETS. Subecriptions to the 4 per cent, loan on Wednesday, $770,000. The Potter committee will probably orgauize on Friday or Saturday. John T. Corcoran, Cbicigo democratic demo-cratic politician, died on Taureday. W. W. Lang, master of the Texas grangers, announced himself aa an independent candidate lor governor. Dr. George St. Louis, Fremont, Nt-b., has been sentenced to be bung September 20th, for the murder of hit wile. . Su-piciom are now entertained tht the alleged proofs against Noyee and Sherman, in regard to electoral fiaude, are forgeries. At a meeting of the national democratic demo-cratic committee on Tburaday, some of the members were aevere in condemnation con-demnation of the Putter investigation. The senate publio lauda committee commit-tee baa adopted Urover'e hill Jor a new lund district, comprising the eastern portion of Idaho, with tho oflice at Oxford, Oneida county. The Benate has confirmed the nom ination of I. B. Packard to be United 8tatea consul at Liverpool; also L, Fdircbild oonsul general at Paris, and Theo. Waguor eurveyor general ot California. John MoCullough and Mary Anderson, Ander-son, appeared in the Boston theatre Wednesday alternoon as Claude and Pauline, respectively, in the "Lady oi Lyons" at the benefit of H. A. McGlenen, businesa manager. Philetua W. Gates, Chicago contractor, con-tractor, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. bank-ruptcy. Preferred debts, $1,700; secured, $404,000; unsecured, $40,-000. $40,-000. Assets lands valued at $309,-000, $309,-000, but mortgaged for 325,000. At Dubuque, la., three children of a farmer named John Wormley, were aulTocated on Wednesday by the burning of eLicke thrown into tbe wood boxes. Wormley and wife bad locked the children in the room and gone to work in the corn field. The Indiana national convention on Wednesday nominated the following follow-ing ticket: For secretary of slate, Henry JameBj auditor, Jas. T. Bird; treasurer, R. P. Mam; attorney general, gen-eral, David Mots; superintendent of public instruction, Johu Young. Tbe corouor's jury on v ctirusof the mill explosion at Minneapolis, returned a verdict that the disaster was "the result of an explosion ol mill dust floating in the air, kindled by a fire in the woodwork of VVaeh burne, 'A' mill, originating in a epark from the atones running empty." |