The times., 1893-02-24

entertaining visitors at the grand army
/ encampment to be held in Indianapolis
next September.
AT the leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges
during the week ended on the 18th
aggregated 81, 1852, 252 S97, against 81,
$40, sos, 9sl the previous week. The
increase as compared with the corre-
spending week of 1892 was 2.7.
In the United States during the seven
days ended on the 18th the business
failures numbered 233, against 266 the
previous week and 200 for the corre-
spending time last year
THE American Newspaper Publish
ers' association in annual session in
New York elected officers as follows:
James w. Scott, of the Chicago Herald,
president; e. III. Woods, Boston Herald,
vice president; w. G. Bryant, Brooklyn
Times, secretary; j. S. Seymour, New
York Post, treasurer.
GOLD was said to have been found on
Newton Fl. Huston's farm in Calhoun
county, Mich.
Col. GEORGE w. KENDALL, aged 55,
millionaire, and one of the best
known business men in the west, COM
mitted suicide in his room at the We'll
lington hotel in Chicago. Sickness was
the cause.
Two YOUNG men named Robinson
and Meniffe were cooked to death by
escaping steam in the engine room of
the Big Four road at Covington, Ind.
M. B. VANDEGRIFT, highly respect
ed citizen, aged 65 years, dropped dead
at the Wabash depot in Chillicothe, o.
GEORGE GRIER, who built the first
log house in the eastern part of
Auglaize county, O., was found dead in
bed. He was 80 years old
THE report that Edwin Booth would
return to the stage, making farewell
tour next fall, is denied.
SEVEN persons were injured, three
fatally, in a railway wreck near Bra
I'll, Ind.
The legislative struggle in Kansas
has come to an end, the republican
house having accepted the terms pro-
posed by Gov. Lewelling which leave
the republicans in possession of the
house, leave the populists in posse ssion
of their hired hall down town, send
the militia home, stop those en- route,
dlsperse the thousand deputies and
leave the situation as to the legality of
each house in the courts.
ROBERT l.. WALKER, a prominent
banker and capitalist at Youngstown,
O., made an assignment, with liabili-
ties of $780, 900 and assets of 500, 900.
The failure involves Gov. Mckinley,
who indorsed Walkers notes, and the
indications were that every dollar of
property owned by the governor would
be swept away.
PROMINENT iron manufacturers and
capitalists in Cleveland have rendered
Gov. Mckinley loan of all the money
he desires to pay his liabilities grow
ing out of the Walker failure in Youngs.
town. The total amount for which
the governor was liable was said to be
$6t ,O00
MRS. j. HILTON, living near Shawnee,
O., fell against the CRATE in a fit during
her husbands absence and was burned
to death.
In rear-end collision on the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad
at Monroe, Ind, Engineer Knode, Fire
man Graham and Brakeman Blackford
were fatally injured.
SEVERAL schooners were driven
ashore and other sailing craft disabled
during a blizzard on Chesapeake bay
and six sailors were drowned.
JOHN HUGHES, negro, made in
sulting advances to a young lady on
the street in Moberly, Mo-, and soon
afterward her three brothers riddled
him with bullets.
AN engine exploded in the Texas &
Pacific yards at Fort Worth. Tex, kill
ing John Mills and fatally injuring
three other men.
HUGH O'DoNNELL was acquitted at
Pittsburgh of the charge of murder
during the labor riots at Homestead.
TRAINS collided near Bath station,
Col, and three men were instantly
killed and several others were seriously
injured.
A POSTAL car on train was burned
at Lancaster, Pa. 1t contained mail
matter from Chicago for Europe, and
fifteen bags were destroyed.
THE dry house of the tobacco firm of
John FINER e. Bros. in Louisville, KY,
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
$l00,o0
A SERIES of earthquakes in the Yel-
lowstone national park did consider
able damage.
AT Toledo, o., Mr.. and Mrs. Scheifer-
stein, an old and wealthy couple, were
suffocated by natural gas.
MCKEE RANKIN, the noted actor, has
retired permanently from the stage.
Two MORMON preachers who had
been in Lewis county, Tenn, for some
time preaching Mormonism were assas-
sinated by some one unknown.
In six-days' contest eight hours a
day. which ended in Syracuse n. Y,
Aggie Harvey, of Pittsburgh, broke the
worlds record for women for that time
by walking 200 miles
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.