Evening journal., 1888-06-02
GeneraI News OF tho raornlng.

yeiterdsy, and was no worse for bis trip.
Mr. spurgeon while attending bis mothers
funeral yesterday was attacked by a
chill.
DR.. A. L Chaplin. sx-presIdent of OF the
Beloit College. Beloit. Wis, has been
stricken with paralysis.
1t Is semi-ofiicially denied at Rome that
referred the works Of Henry George 10
the Congregation Of the Holy Office.
Rev. James Freeman Clarke is suffering
from a complication OF diseases which are
thought TO DO incurabls. though be may
I've for sometime.
From private information received at ST.
Louis last night by the editor OF the Repub,
licsn, IL is learned that Jay Gould ia very
seriously III In his private car near Kansas
City.
The Syracuse Stove Company OF SYr a
cuss, n Y, failed yesterday. Liabilities
S50,000. Judgments for the amount OF
$S7, 200 were flsd, mostly in favor OF local
banks.
ID. J. Sullivan, a dry goods dealer OF In
dianapolis, Ind, has assigned, with $50, :
600 liabilities and SIS 600 assets. He says
be was forced to do so by importunate
creditors
The schooner Maggie BcCrea was sunk
by an ice foe 10 Lake Superior Wedn esday
night. The crew escaped. The vessel ives
valued at $4,000 and the cargo 500, 600.
Tbs latter was insured.
Philadelphia is getting ready for an old
fashioned Fourth Of July, and yesterday
Mayor Filler, John Wanamaker. Thomas
Do'an, William H. Singsrly, the Public
Ledger and the Times each contributed
$3.50 to fireworks fund.
The novelty works Of John T. Bon & Co.
and the picture frame factory OF Raymond.
PaywoEth & Burkhart. Al TO AZ West On
oudago street, SyrAcuss. N Y, were gut
ted by Hre yesterday. Loss $40 COO, insur-
ance s26.OO
The remains Of Mrs. Asia Booth Clarke.
wife of John Sleeper Clarke, were taken to
Baltimore yesterday and burisd In the fam
lily lot at Greenmount Only members Of
her immediate family, including her hus
band and her brother. Eiwin Booth. we're
present.
The officials in New York OF the Grand
Army OF the Republic affism 10 the most
positive msnner that General Sherman was
invited to review the Decoration Dsy pro
cession, and they exhibited letter signed
by the general acknowledging the invita-
ton and declining it on account OF a pre-
yious engagement.
At the annual meeting Of the American
Tract Society, held at Boston yesterday.
William z. Chapin was elected president.
The benevolent receipts for the year. were
Si26,sll, benevolent expenditure, s13s liz.
lpavtng balance overdrawn. from the bus
insss department Of Sll .305 The businefs
department receipts were $685.. .047; expen.
ditufes, S3i0,3Ss. surplus ii the business de
partment, S22,659.
Business failures throughout the country
during the last seven days, as reported to
X. g. Dun & Co, number. for the United
States 1856 and for Canada 10. or total OF
205 as compared with a total OF 225 last
week, and lS9 the week previous to the
last The failures for the corresponding
week of last year numbered $50, made up
Of 1875 in the United States and 25 ia
Canada. There Ia noticeable increase
this week In the failures on the Pacific
coast, the number there being 4S, which ia
far above the average. The failures In ths
other sections OF the country are light,
and as a rule unimportRnt.