The times., 1889-05-17

DURING the seven days ended on the 80
there were 151 business failures in the
United States, against 81 the previous seven
days. The total OF failures in the United
States January to date was 1896, against
3,S92 in 1888
AT Emporia, Kan, ON the Sd the Repub-
licans of the Fourth district nominated
Harrison Kelley for Congress. to succeed
Thomas f. Ryan, appointed Minister to
Mexico.
THE State Institute for Predetermined at
Frankfort, KY, was burned on the Sd, but
the inmates were all rescued without acci-
dent
BUNDY's HOTEL and stables in New Castle,
Ind, were burned ON the Sd, with several
horses and valuable vehicles
In New York on the Sd George Francis
Train passed his fourteenth day of total alb
stinence from food and drink excepting
water and little weak lemonade. He says
great pestilence Is soon coming and he
will be able to meet 1t better by reducing
his weight.
WALKER HARRIS and Robert Williams
icolored) were hanged on the Sd at EN-
peria, Va, for murder.
A MERCHANT named Welwick. of Blair,
La, shot his wife and two children on the
3d. set fire to his residence and burned the
bodies of his victims with 1t and then shot
himself No cause was known for the deed.
THERE were sixty-one strikes, involving
IL, 1913 strikers. reported to Bradstreet's dur
ing April last against 1913 strikes with &c, 600
strikers in April, 1888 Since January ],
1889, there were reported 221 strikes and
as, ,94 strikers, against 3lS strikes and 81, ,960
strikers during the same four months of
1888, and 1913 strikes and 3,03S strikers in
1887
COMMISSIONER TANNER, of the Pension
Office Mt Washington, stated on the Sd that
the number of ex-soldiers who were draw
ing pensions for total blindness at the rate
Of $72 per month was 85S.
SEVERAL copies Of an infiammatory secret
circular recalling the Haymarket tragedy
in Chicago on the 4th of May, 1886, and ex-
tolling the deeds of the Anarchists, were
found by the police on the 3D.
The house of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Will
Jams at Abingdon, Md, was burned on the
Sd, and their four children, whose ages
ranged from six to fifteen years, perished
in the flames.
THREE children of family named Silvery,
ut Ashtabula, o., were left alone in the
house on the 3D. when the building took
fire and the little ones perished in the
flames.
JOHN BARKER, a substantial farmer living
near Keokuk, Ia, was swindled out of
$4,000 on the Sd by three confidence men
who purported to be land buyers.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska decided
on the Sd that the holder of a mortgage on
growing corn could not recover after the
corn had been harvested and sold.
Four fine residences in Springfield, NO.,
were burned on the 3D., and an infant child
of J. M. Kinney was burned to death in one
of the houses
THE miners of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) dis
trict on the Sd issued an address to the rail-
road coal operators in which they demanded
q yearly rate OF seventy-four cents per ton.
The first general observance of Arbor
Day in the public schools of New York State
took place ON the 3D.
Mrs. JOSEPHINE KIssELL shot herself on
the Sd at her home in Houghville, Ind. She
had been married but a year, but quarrels
with her husband had been frequent
FRANK SHEREn, of Youngstown, o., COM
mitted suicide by hanging on the Sd be-
cause he could not pay his rent
BELOW will be found the percentage of
the baseball clubs In the National League
for the week ended on the 4th: Philadel-
phia, ia; New York, .625; Boston, .625;
Pittsburgh, 600; indianapolis, SEQ; Cleve-
land, .454; Chicago, .444; Washington 200
sas City, .666; Baltimore, $40; Athletic. 6l5;
Brooklyn, 500; Cincinnati, 1885, Columbus,
.3O7; Louisville, 200. Western Association:
Omaha, 800; st. Paul, .75O; Sioux City, 600;
St Joseph, .555; Denver 500; Minneapolis,
400; Milwaukee, 200; Dcs Moines, 200
OVER five hundred saloons in Cincinnati
were closed on the 5th. There were no ar
rests. Saloons that kept open would be
prosecuted
SAMUEL CoFFMAN, aged eighty-one years.
q very wealthy farmer living near Washing
ton Court House, o., was swindled out of
81, 600 on the 4th by two confidence men.
IT was stated on the 4th that a plan was
on foot among prominent old soldiers to
inclose the battle-ground of Chickamauga
and convert it into park.
JEFFERY HARRISON, an eleven-year-old
boy of Tobyhanna, Pa, shot and instantly
killed Sophia Everett during petty quar-
tel on the 4th.
NEARLY 4.5OO immigrants were landed at
Castle Garden, New York, on the 5th
ALL the oosi-mine operators near Evans
vile, Ind, shut down on the 4th, the min
ers having gone out because of a reduction
of wages.
The exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 4th aggregated
$S43, 146, l43 against 1884, ,359, 3l6 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the COR
responding week Of 1888 the increase
amounted to 1873
The saloon of John Sinkhorn, at Newton
vile, Ind, was blown to atoms on the 4th.
keg of powder with some fuse had been
placed under the building This was the
only saloon in that town.
FRENCH people in New York on the 9Th
celebrated the centennial anniversary of
the dawn of the French revolution by a
mass-meeting.
BY direction of the President the new
military post near Atlanta, Ga, will be
named Fort McPherson," In honor of Gen.
eral James B. Mcpherson, who was killed
near the site July %, 1854
IT was announced on the 5th that here
after all Sunday trains would be taken of
from the entire Dakota division of the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad. 1t covers
trackage of eight hundred miles.
TwENrY-oNE freight cars were wrecked
near Hartford, Conn, on the 4th, and one
hundred and twenty-one hogs, owned by J.
P. Squire q Co., of Boston, were killed.