Warren sheaf., 1896-06-18

The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 11th aggregated
$685., 1865 against $685., ,078 the
previous week. The. decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
was 6.5. EsSss3. a
II There were 234 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 24o the week
previous and 252 in the corresponding
period Of 1895.
Fifty houses were damaged by fire at
Newport, KY, and the tobacco ware
house of J. NJ. Armstrong, with it's con-
tents, was totally destroyed.
The bank of Palmer, Kan, was broken
into, the safe blown open and entirely
destroyed and the icash-box robbed of
ST, 100.
A fire in tenement-house in Pitts
burgh, Pa, caused the death of Mrs. z.
Garbies and, her, five.year-old son, and
her daughter. aged IL years, was fatally
burned. 4s
The steamship Bermudasleft Philadel-
phia with another cargo of arms and
ammunition for the Cuban insurgents.
!. The Taylorville Gill; coal mining
works were destroyed by fire and three
men and 20 mules perished in the flames.
The property loss was $4,000.
John johnson, (colored), who on the
night Of March 81 murdered in cold
blood Charles Carter, well-known and
prominent young man, was hanged at
Lancaster Courthouse, Va. @
Leading commercial agencies in New
York reported trade as being very dull
throughout the country. .
Egbert C. Smith has resigned as pres
ident of Andover (Mass.) theological
seminary, after a period of ,1s years
in that position Prof. George Harris
Abbott, professor of theology, will sue
coed him. &E &HgssSs sse& %@#E f&e.% .r~
Orders were tclegraphed by the Sec
retary> of the navy. to commandants of
all navy yards to resume work at once.
In all parts of southwestern Michi-
gan grasshoppers were doing great in
jury to the peppermint crop.
y The total number of silver dollars
coined from bullion purchased under
the act of July14, 1890, to June l, 1896,
was 46,104,651. Upon, this coinage there
was profit of $10,117,2
Monroe Jackson and j. W. Vest, popu-
list politicians, fought duel over poll
tics at Hartselle, Ala, apd both were
killed. ~ g '-a = / < -.
Mrs. Robert Gresham and Mrs. Mollie
Gaines fought duel at =Travers. Fla,
because ofstrouble over the latter's hus-
hand and Killed each other.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
IN the National league for the week
ended on the 18th were as follows:
Baltimore, .622; Cleveland, .619; Phila-
delphia, .5s3; Cincinnati, .5s3; Boston,
.56s; Washington, .535; Pittsburgh,
523; Brooklyn, .522; Chicago, 500; New
York, .426; st. Louis, 1895; Louisville,
.222.
With the disbanding at Pittsburgh, :,
Pa, of Parson Davies "Wicklow POST
man company John L. Sullivan says
farewell to the stage. .
!, Shep Palmer, negro, was executed
at Jackson, Miss, for the murder, in
December last, of Charlie Cordell and
wife, newly married couple.
At Tunis, Tex, Jesse Massey and
j. T. Chance were murdered by un-
known parties.
Fire destroyed a large warehouse Of
the White Mills Distillery company in
Louisville, KY, the loss being $125,0OO.
A terrific wind and rainst.,rm did
great damage at Atlantic City and AS
bury Park, W.
President Cleveland has issued an.
other civil service order that brings
under the civil service rules all govern
ment employees carried on the p.ly rolls
as laborers who really perform clerical
duties.
John Elliott, brakeman, and an un-
known tramp were Killed and number
of other persons injured in rear-end
collision on the Lake Shore road at Lig.
onier, Ind.
The supreme lodge of the Knights of
Honor in session at Louisville, Ky, de-
cided not to admit women to the order
by vote of 81 to 36.
Pigeons flew from Alton, Ill.,, to
Green Bay, Wis.,, a distance of 4O3 miles.
in IL hours.
Rodney Fisk, who two years ago was
a millionaire and lost his all in Wall
street, died at a cheap lodging house: in
Boston.
The wheat and oats harvest was in
progress in Nebraska and the yield was
unprecedented
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Lemuel w, Royse, Of Warsaw, now
serving his first term in congress from
the Thirteenth district of Indiana, was
renominated by the republicans.
Gen Robert Henry Kindwoodg White