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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS. Valparaiso, Ind., June 27. The Keystone Key-stone Limited on the Pittsburg it Fort Wayne fc Chicago was wrecked near here yesterday. Six cars and the locomotive plunged over an embankment. The fireman was buried beneath the debris and instantly killed. The engineer and one or more pass-gers pass-gers received injuries, but all will recover. The wreck was caused by a defect in a rail. Philadelphia, June 27. A resolution introduced in-troduced at a meeting of Typographical union un-ion No. 2 on Sunday las, denouncing the action ac-tion of the committee of Typographical union un-ion No. 6, in indorsing the candidacy of v-,jtelaw Ricd for vice-president, and calling call-ing upon the republican party to withdraw his name, w as tabled at a secret meeting yesterday. yes-terday. Colwekweil, Tex., June 217. The news has been received of an outrage on a widow lady named Beasly near Spurgeon Wednesday Wednes-day night. Five negroes have been arrested on suspicion. The latest accounts are to the effect that an excited crowd is gathering at Spurgeon. Lynching is feared if the guilty party be identified. Vicksburo, Miss., June 27. A sleeper attached at-tached to the West Alabama fc Vicksburg train jumped the track yesterday and tumbled tum-bled down an embankment into a pond four miles east of here. None of the passengers were seriously hurt, but all were half drowned and cut and bruised. Philadelphia, June 27. The sugar trust and wholesale grocers have entered into an agreement whereby the grocers will maintain main-tain uniform prices and the trust will give those that do so a rebate of one-eighth cent per pound, beside the usual freight discounts to protect them from loss. Nkw Okleaxs, June 27. Two of tfie men wounded by the boiler explosion at the Consumers' Con-sumers' Ice works, Freddie Mathise and William Doeblie, both white, died yesterday at the hospital. Francis B. Lee, a prominent 'awyer and stockholder iu the company, was found under the ruins. Bt;t FALO, N.Y., June 27. The full extent of Treasurer Dann's inroads on the funds of the National Savings bank- are uot yet learned. One of the bank examiners is quoted as saying that the defalcation will largely exceed $200,000, probably $;TO0,00O. CiT7 of Mexico, June 27. The first series se-ries of elections for the presidency were held Saturday. Quiet prevailed throughout the country. There was no opposition to the Diaz ticket. H ARRiSBURfi, June 27. The most of the injured in Saturday's wreck who are able to travel have left for their homes. Eleven persons are still at the hospital in a fair way to recovery. Den v eh, June 27. Edwin J. Ryan, who absconded from Washington with $30,000 of the I'nited States Express company's funds, lias been arrested. The stolen money was recovered. Kansas CiTr, June 27. C. M. Porter, president of the F'ort Bend County Bank of Richmond, Tex., was arrested here yesterday on charge of embezzlement. |