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The state department was informed
of the death of William J. H. Ballard.
United States consul at Hull. England.
THE Burnet house in Cincinnati In
which Sherman's Atlanta campaign
was planned. and the scene of Inany
other historical events, closed 1t doors
because of poor business.
GEoRoE DALEY and Mabel Moore
were fatally burned In fire at Port
land. Ore
In runaway near Moulton. Ala,
william Cowart and his two children
were thrown from the wagon and
killed
LoRES ID. ELIAS. while insane, shot
and killed his mother and little sister
at Minneapolis.
JOHN WAGNER, a Cincinnati bar
tender. shot himself. and when his
sweetheart. Miss Sophia Wagneu,
learned what he had done, she took
poison.
THE Oklahoma national bank of
Oklahoma City, o. T., went into volun-
tary insolvency.
THE public debt statement issued on
the list showed that the debt decreased
s5,3s6,6ll during the month Of May.
The cash balance in the treasury was
Sis5, 270, 100. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
10 SOLE, 800. 2oe.
In Nebraska Curtis lake burst its
banks and swept down Medicine val
ley, destroying vast amount of prop
erty and causing the loss Of several
lives.
FIRE destroyed an entire block OF
buildings at Shenandoah, Pa, the loss
being si45,ooo, with only $4,000 insur-
ance.
A TERRIFIC storm swept over south
ern Minnesota, doing great damage To
crops and wreclfing many buildings.
The visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the Sd was: Wheat,
Sc, 22Q,O 600 bushels; corn, 10, 762, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 100000 bushels; rye, 1885,
600 bushels; barley. 100000 bushels.
TIE national headquarters of the
Salvation Army were formally dedi-
Gated in New York city.
GEoBGE JAMES and Webster Ziegler
We're killed by lightning at Plowville,
Pa.
Ir showed all day on the Sd at Cripple
Creek, Col.
THE Baptist anniversaries at Sara
toga, N. Y. concluded with the seven
ty-frst annual meeting of the Amer
lean Baptist Publication society.
ELEVEN persons died in New York
on the 3D. from sunstroke. seven in
Philadelphia, five in Pittsburgh. four
in Baltimore and four in Chicago. All
over the country excessive heat was
reported.
FRANK SHELDON arrived in New York,
having walked from Chicago in TWEEN
ty-iive days on a 81 900 wager, cutting
off five days from the previous record.
PETER RICHARD KESRIcK, archbishop
of st. Louis, was dcposed by Pope Leo
XIII, the reason being given as "men-
tai infi1nity.''
TUE First national bank of Pella, Ia,
closed its doors.
Ii was announced that Richard Oh
ney, of Boston, at present attorney
general, would succeed the late Wal
ter Q. Gresham as secretary of state.
Mrs. A. M. CRIssMoRE and her daugh-
ter were killed in runaway accident
at Georgetown, Ind.
X. V. BAILEY, Frank Jefferies, Sam
uel Mundy and C. M. Reveal lost their
lives In railroad accident near Ok
ford, Ncb.
JosEPH BENToN, OF Metropolis, Ill.,, n
preacher who had been blind from
birth, suddenly received his sight.
TERRIFIC forest fires were sweeping
through northern Pennsylvania. The
of several towns were
forced TO flee from their burning
homes, and IL was feared that many
had persisted.
THE entire family of Henry Buch-
void, seven ia number, were taken
into custody at Cleveland, charged
with insanity.
TIE treasury circulation statement
for May shows that on June l the cir
culation of all kinds Of money In the
United States aggregated 81, COG. IT'S, $50,
an increase since May last of go, 745
402. The decrease in circulation since
June /. 1894. is $50. 1000
THE United States Cordage company,
one OF the largest trusts In the coun-
try, with capital of ss4, 600, 900, went
into the hands of receiver In Boston.
TIm United States supreme court adj
journed for tho summer
BERT ELDER aud his wife aud two
children and Mrs. Sherwin and child
and Mrs. Powell and child were
drowned near Douglas, Wyo., while
crossing river.
THE brotherhood of Railway Train
men in session at Gnlesburg. H., elect
ed =. ii. Mooney as grand master.
BY decision In the supreme court
of Indiana prize fighting In the state
will be stopped for all time TO come
WILLIAM ZERBY and his wife were
terribly whipped by a mob near Elk
hart, Ind, for abusing a child, and
driven from the county.
STRIKING miners attacked nonunion
men OF the Gaylord Coal company's
works at Wheeling, w. Va. and beat