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Show Brief Teles rate Lewis Cass Carpenter has been found guilty of forgery. Notice for new trial served. A fire at Evansville, Ind., Tuesday, destroyed $-30,000 worth of property; ; insured for $20,000. j A Russian agent is in Philadelphia endeavoring to make a contract for an iron bnag across the Danube. j The ninth biennial congress of the, Society of Friend of America met at; Indianapolis on ruesdy. Big atten- I dance, j An extensive cod fl-ig ration broke ' out in Fourth street, St. Louis, at midnight Tuesday. The wnole fire j department is on duty. Prospect of a speedy report on the silver bill by the senate finance committee com-mittee baa been greatly lessened by a diversity of opiaion among the members. mem-bers. In a match game of billiards for thecnampionhipof America, at New. York, Tuesday night, 600 points up. Sexton beat Cyriile D.on in ihe third 1 inniug, Dicn being 408. Sexton's highest rum were C4, 55, 59, 97; Dion's, ii, 45, 51, 105. j |