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damage at Elwood. Lapel, Alexandra.
Middletown, Muncie, Frankton. Lin
wood and Yorkton.
Fire destroyed II. J. Bohman's livery
stable In New York and 40 horses were
cremated.
Decoration day was generally OBJ
served throughout the country.
Kate Niernay, Mabel Walter and Liz
zie McKeon were drowned In the Har-
lem river at New York by the upsetting
OF a boat.
BY the premature explosion OF powder
at Waterloo. Ia, Fred Burmeister and
Julius Burmeister were fatally injured.
The emigration from German ports
to the United States has been heavier
during the past fiscal year than for
years past, especially from Russia and
Hungary.
In dispute over mineral claim at
Browns Park, Utah, Matt Warner shot
and killed four men.
The government customs receipts Tor
the month of May were $lo.04o,9I5,
against $12,47i.s5s In May, 1895. The
deficiency for the year was $2G.s7O,472.
]. e. Jenner & Co.. dealers in whole
sale millinery in Milwaukee, failed for
$150,000.
At Chelsea. Mich. Emma Morelsel
was shot and killed by her fiance, Fred
Hydloff, who then shot himself, but not
fatally. jealousy was the cause.
Many buildings were wrecked Mt
Seneca, Mo-, by cloudburst and 25 per-
sons were drowned.
The Garfield statue, the gift of the
Fairmount Park Art association, was
unveiled in Philadelphia by Harry Gar
field, a son of the martyred president.
Three principal real estate dealers
state that they have figured that the
actual real estate loss in st. Louis by
the cyclone will not exceed S12,0OO.O0O.
The United Elevator company OF st.
Louis was placed in the hands OF re-
ceiver with liabilities of $2.000.000.
George Mock killed his wife at Marys-
Vile, Kan, and then took his own life.
A quarrel was the cause.
A sloop capsized near Norfolk, W.
and six colored persons were drowned.
The coinage executed nj the United
States minis during May aggregated
$4,6s3, 600, as follows: Colo, S2,s57 200,
silver, 81 ,s26,400, Of which $i.5Oo,OoO
was in standard silver dollars.
A treasury statement shows govern
ment receipts for the IL months OF the
fiscal wear were S290, s04,S SOC; eXpendt-
lures, S326, 7s6.Gs0; deficit, S26,0s1 ,s7d
Floods throughout southeast Kansas
destroyed thousands OF acres of crops.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed that the debt increased
81, $50 during the month of May
The cash balance in the treasury was
Ss65, o02, 100. The total debt, less the
cash balance In the treasury, amounts
to 81, 220 .66o,61o.
Tennessee, the third state added u
the original 10, celebrated her 100 years
OF statehood on the exposition grounds
at Nashville.
The people OF Johnstown, Pa. oh
served the seventh anniversary OF the
great food in Chat city In which $500
persons persisted.
The visible supply of grain In Tho
United States on the list was; Wheat
&C, $40, 900 bushels; corn, s,950,000 bush
els; oats, s,3O3.00 bushels; rye, 1,435,
600 bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels.
The wholesale dry goods house o
Wolf g. Sharp Mt Macon, Ga, failed 10
$250,00o
Five miners were fatally roasted b.
an explosion of gas at the Buck ludg
colliery near Shamokin, Pa.
At Columbus. Ca, Jesse Slayton AM
William Miles, both colored were hanged
by a mob for nssaulting white women.
In the recent cyclone 16 persons los
their lives In Missouri towns adjoining
st. Louis and as in Illinois towns,
total of 90, and property valued at SO
900, 600 was destroyed.
Thomas Allen, wealthy stock dealer
and Wallace Riley, a prominent either
, engaged In a duel in front of the post OF
/ flee at Lebanon, Ind., and Riley was in
stantly killed. The runaway marriag
of Aliens son and Riley's daughter wa
5 the cause.
Henry Mitchell Smith (colored) wa
! hanged at Lexington, KY, for assault
ing a white woman.
The national commercial tariff cor
, vention convened in Detroit.
Moser e. Friedman, dry goods mel
3 chants, assigned ut Maroa. Ill. and I'll
K failure involved the bank Of Maro'
! which closed It's doors.
i The School Field-Hanauer Croker
!, company failed at Memphis, Tenn, fc
! 100000.
v The First national bank at El Rem
c o. T., which suspended payment Ma
10, 1896, has resumed business.
n The treasury statement shows a d.
s crease OF all kinds of money In circul'
c ton during May OF $ls,422. 100, and sine
J. June 1, 1895. of $s5.000,o00. The pc
capita circulation was stated at $2l.S
r Andrew NJ. Henderson, one of the OLE
9 est and best-known members OF th
Chicago board of trade, committed su
q eide by shooting because of busine;
y rcverscs.
c PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
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