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previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week Of 1896
was 3G.3.
There were i0l business failures IN
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Cd, against 300 the week
previous and 334 In the sponding
period Of 1896.
Charles NJ. Charnley, OF Chicago, Tor
10 years treasurer Of the Presbyterian
board Of aid for colleges and academies,
was said to be dcfaulter 70 the extent
OF $4,000.
w. Russell Ward, the Euglishman
whose elopement with the wife OF John
Bradbury, Los Angeles (Cai) million
aire, created sensation last july
leaped through the window OF fast
train near Wheatland, Ia, and was
killed.
A company has been Incorporated IN
New York with a capital Of S'9'ooo'ooo
10 construct a ship canal from the Al
lantic TO the Gulf of Mexico.
After ten years Of comparative lux
ury Jack McAuliffe, the pugilist' has
returned to his old occupation, that OF
cooper.
IL is said that DIR. L. b. Andrews, who
resigned the presidency OF Brown uni
yersity at Providence, II. l., has accept
ed the position of president of the new
Cosmopolitan university, founded by
John b. Walker and to open on the 18th
inst. in Providence.
An explosion at the Sunshine coal
mine near Glenwood Springs, Col.'
killed IL men.
President Mckinley and his party
were the special guests Of the Ohio state
board of agriculture at the fair grounds
in Columbus.
Judge Ellsworth, of Oakland, Cal,
ruled that bicycle is personal property
and exempt from execution If used 10y
the owner i'm his daily business.
Fire destroyed all but two business
houses at IIillsboro, Ia.
II was thought that the miners strike
would end in few days, the national
executive board OF the United Mine
Workers having agreed TO recommend
TO the miners proposition from the
Pittsburgh operators for straight
price OF G5 cents n ton, TO continue in
force until the end OF the year.
On the farm OF Nathan Cox in Taylor
county, Ky, his two young sons were
bitten by rattlesnalcs and died.
The percentages Of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 4th were; Boston, COG;
Baltimore, GOA; New York, .G39; Cincin-
nati, 5s3; Cleveland, .514; Chicago,
.446; Brooklyn, AL; Pittsburgh, .43o;
Louisville, .43s; Philadelphia, ABS;
Washington, .434; ST. Louis, .243.
Two explosions OF natural gas at
Broad Ripple, Ind, killed eight persons
and "a others were badly injured.
In the ten weeks the miners strike
has been going on the strikers have lost
in wages S1O,5oO,ooo.
An official estimate OF the corn crop
OF Kansas this year places it at l65,677,-
ESQ bushels.
In Bloomington, Peoria and other IL
linois cities many business men were
yictimized through two-dollar bills
raised to ten-dollar bills.
Three tramps set fire TO the jail AT
Conway, n. d., and persisted in the
flames.
Forest II. Parker, president Of the
Produce Exchange bank OF New York
and his wife were drowned ia the Chain
lake In she Adirondacks by the upset
ting OF n boat
The sixteenth annual exhibition o.
the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition
association was opened by Gov. Scho
field.
The financial statement Of the com
mittee OF 81 OF the sixteenth interna
tonal Christian Endeavor convention
shows a balance in the hands of thu
treasurer OF S2,274.3s.
Two little sons OF Adam Maiewsk
were drowned at Stevens Point, Wis.
yellow fever was reported at Oceai
Springs, Miss. and the place was quar-
nntined.
An excursion train was wrecked nea
Newport. Me-, and one man was kille'
and four other persons were fatally In
jured.
New York city has now a population
OF 2,000,ol6.
Four masked men held up n train a
Irwin Mountain. Col, and took $40
900 from the express car
Miss Mabel Morrili, aged ~ year.
OF East Cambridge, Mass, while ridin
a bicycle, fell into an excavation an
was killed.
Charles T.. Cover. a moldcr OF All,
gheny. Pa. was shot and killed b
tramps on a freight train near Beavc
Falls.
Thomas II. Morgan, sr., head OF I'll
Morgan Engineering company, droppe
dead nj Alliance. o., from apoplexy.
Harry Eaton Smith, Of the Unite
States navy, and Miss Frances IIaye
only daughter Of the late ex-Presidei
Hayes, were married at the Hayes hom
stead In Fremont, o. President Mckii
ley was one OF the guests present.
Virginia republicans will hold the
state convention at Lynchburg Octob'
IN nominate n STATE ticket