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Comptroller OF the Currency, vice Tren-
holm, resigned.
THREE deaths from small-pox occurred
on the 31st ult at the Onondaga County
poor house near Syracuse, N. Y, and
fourteen persons were down with the dis
case.
The striking street-car employees Of New
York made numerous violent demonstra-
lions on the 3lst ult., but the companies
succeeded in running number of cars.
The officers OF the Connecticut Mutual
Life Insurance Company stated at Hart
ford on the 31st ult. that the loss by the re-
cent defalcation of Joseph A. Moore, their
Indianapolis agent, would not exceed the
amount first named-$5OO. 600
The Arkansas Legislature on the 31st
ult. passed bill authorizing the Governor
to offer reward Of SIS, GOO for the arrest
and convection of the murderer or mur-
derers OF John NJ. Clayton at Plummer-
vile.
The report of the Commissioner OF Pat
ents sent to Congress on the 3lst ult
showed that patents were issued during
the year to the number of 2O,42O, of which
1885 were to foreign inventors
The Nebraska Legislature on the 31st
ult voted to submit the question Of pro-
hibition or high license to the people of
the State.
AT Olathe, Kan, Mrs. Lucy Ferguson,
seVenty-dve years old, was on the 3lst
ult. convicted Of numbering her husband
and the death sentence pronounced A
motion for new trial was overruled. She
is the mother of six children.
The stables of the celebrated Mount
Hope farm near North Attleboro, Mass,
were burned on the 31st ult, and twenty
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TWENTY THOUSAND mechanics at Pitts.
burgh, Pa, decided on the 3lst ult to with
draw from the Knights of Labor
A FIRE on the 31st ult in a tour-story
fiat building in New York City caused a
loss of $780, 600
THE engine house and breaker of one of
the Reading Company's largest colleries
at Ashland, Pa, was burned on the 3lst
ult, throwing five hundred employees out
of work.
The President transmi tied to Congress
on the 1st additional correspondence re-
lating to the Samoan affair, which showed
that the German Government had ex-
empted foreigners from the operations Of
martial law and ordered the German Con-
sui to relinquish his command Of the ad-
ministration of the islands.
The Board of Indian Commissioners in
their annual report on the 1st asked that
the appropriation for educational work
among the Indians be increased to s., ,O0O,-
600 tor the first year, s3,000000 for the
second and $4,000 600 for the third year.
! The statement OF the public debt issued
on the 1st showed the total debt to be
81, ,6S5, 30S, ,059; cash in Treasury, s84 $780,
943; debt less cash in the Treasury, ST.
121, S45, ,972. Decrease during January. s12,-
IA -s on 10
73S, $685.
The Graniteville Is. CO. Manufacturing
Company's warehouse, containing 2,346
bales of cotton, was burned on the lst.
Loss. 500, 900; insurance, 100000
THE coke workers in the Connelsville
(Pa.) region struck on the 1st for an in
crease Of wages, about eight thousand
men being affected
SIX boys, ranging from ten to sixteen
years OF age, broke through the ice while
skating near Paterson, N. j., on the 1st,
and three Of them were drowned
The mail packet Bowling Green plying
between Bowling Green and Evansville,
Ind, WIS burned on the 1st near Rock
port, KY.
THE Reading Coal &, Iron Company on
the 1st shut down all but twenty Of its
fifty collieries.
The business portion of the town of
Carbon Ind, was destroyed by fire on the
1st.
THERE were 332 business failures in the
United States during the seven days end
ed on the 1st, against 33l the previous
seven days.
THE Jackson Memorial Association of
Lexington, Va, on the 1st ordered bronze
statue of "Stonewall' jackson to cost
4 41v,i1l l>a
years.
WHITE CAPS were on the 1st terrifying
the residents Of Norfolk Va
WHAT would probably prove to be the
worst fire that Buffalo. N Y. had ever ex-
periencel, both in extent and financial
loss, was raging at four o. clock on the
morning of the I'd, Many business blocks
had been DESTROYED, two largo hotels
swept away, and the flames were still
raging, with a fierce wind blowing.
REINA VICTORIA, the brood mare recently
sold at auction, bringing $780, the high
est price ever pad for brood mare at
public auction, died near Terre Haute,
Ind, on the 1st.
MIR. G. G. NIASDT. editor of the Mount
Horeb (Wis.) Sunni Prohibition paper,
was shot and mcrtally wounded in his
own house on the 1st by an unknown mis-
creant, who made his escape.
THE Union Academy building at Johns
town, n. Y, was burned on the 1st, caus-
ing a loss Of s45 00o George Thompson,
chief OF the fire department, was instantly
killed. and Teddy Smith was fatally hui t
by the falling falls.
IT was announced en- the ist that Mrs.
Laueque, living near Father Point, Can,
had fallen heir to $1,000, 600 left by her son
who recently died in Illinois where he
had been living under the name Of
Lavack. Mrs. Laneque was the only heir
a YEAR ago ut Lincoln, Ncb., colored
man named Warwick had a barber Of that
city arrested under the Civil Rights bill
for refusing to shave him The case was
appeale to the Supreme Court, wh ch
handed down q decision on the 1st in War
Wick's favor.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The Maine Legislature in joint conyen-
tion on he 2Sth elected George L. Beal, of
Norway, State Treasurer by vote Of 112
to33.
F. B. PosEY (Rep.) was on the goth
elected to Congress from the First Indiana
district to fill the vacancy caused by the
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