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276.s74. falling of of over s5.loo.ooo
as compared with January, 1896.
The visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the LIST was:
Wheat. 1851. 900 bushels; corn. $685.
600 busels; oats, 1915. 900 bushels; rye,
a,s25,ooo bushels; barley, 3,45s,ooo
bushels.
Charles Russell and his wife were Gre
mated in their home at North Balti-
more. o.
The United States supreme court says
that states have the constitutional right
to tax the entire capital stock of inter
state corporations doing business with
In their limits.
Charles G. Dawes. OF Chicago, an
nounced that he had been invited SJ
Prcsident-elect Mckinley TO take the
comptrollership of the currency and
that he would accept the position.
Albert Sisznka, a laborer, and his wife
Sophia were nsphyxiated by coal gas
in Chicago.
The monthly statement of the comp
troller OF the currency shows that the
circulation Of national bank notes dur
ing january decreased $56s,296. The
total amount outstanding was S235,00s,-
Os5.
Theodore Van Horn, cabinet maker
in New York, shot his wife and her en-
ployer, Samuel Schulhafer, and then
killed himself.
During January the coinage executed
at the United States mint amounted
in value TO $o.s51, 22o.
A large syndicate of English and
American capitalists are effecting COM
bine of the woodworking machinery
manufacturers of the United States.
The secretary of war transmitted to
the senate an abstract of the militia
force of the United States in which he
says the number of men available for
military duty (unorganized) is TO-
-140,lS4.
burglars robbed Bradley's bank at
Eldon, Ia, OF $1,000 In cash.
Fire that broke cut in the rear Of Scott
a. Co.'S hardware store in Salt Lake City
caused loss of $230,000.
The Venezuelan arbitration treaty
was signed at the state department in
Washington by Sir Julian Panncefote,
the British ambassador, and Senior
Andrade, the Venezuelan minister.
4. W. Linderstrom, farmer at Ia
coma, Wash, in a fit of anger, blew out
the brains of his five-year-old son and
then killed himself.
The Pennsylvania state capitol,
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stroyed by fire, the loss being $780,
600.
Three boys belonging to the family of
G.. w. Gibson, one boy TO the family of
Phoenix Gibson and one girl 10 j. Nc
Ilvane were drowned while skating near
Pacific Junction. Ia.
Edward Butler, the notorious Aus
tralian criminal, murderer of IA men
and general desperate, was captured in
Sam Francisco.
Judge Joseph McKenna, OF San Fran
cisco, has been selected for secretary
OF the interior in Presdent-elect Nc
KinIey's cabinet and he has accepted.
The Pennsylvania Lead company
went into the hands of receivers at
Pittsburgh with liabilities of 81, 100000.
The Keystone company, manufac-
turcrs of agricultural implements at
Sterling, ILL.,, went into the hands of a
receiver with liabilities of $4,000.
James Shclhammer, son Of farmer
near Apollo, Pa, killed Grace Clark and
then committed suicide Jealousy is
supposed 10 be the cause.
The First national bank at Oakesdale,
Nash., went into voluntary liquida-
ton.
The Moscow Idnho) national bank
closed its doors with liabilities Of $780,
600.
The burglars who looted the Eldon
(Ia.) bank secured bonds worth $780,
600. besides $1,000 in money.
The National Association OF Mutual
Insurance Men began its annual meet
ing in Des Moines, Ia, with delegates
present representing 747 companies.
The high school and manual training
school building in Menominee, Wis, was
burned, the loss being 100000.