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DOMESTIC.
Postal receipts for the year will
show an increase of $7,0OO,00O, the to-
tai being nearly 100 per cent. greater
thansin 1890.
The warship Machias willsail at once
for Panama to guard American inter
ests in Colombia during the revolu-
Two Dowieites who attempted to
hold q street meeting in South Chicago
driven away by a mob.
Fire destroyed q livery stable and
several adjoining buildings at Port
land. Ore. Fifty. horses persisted.
Loss of ground by the steel strikers
is reported at various points, but
Shaffer minimizes the sto-
rjes and cites figures in behalf of the
men. Leaders on both sides assert
neither will sue for peace.
The body of a murdered girl, cut to
pieces, was found in a trunk un-
earthed by street graders at South
Seattle, Wash.
A a meeting at Fort Scott, Kan,
ordered temperance workers to leave
the city.
Prompted because of losses
through clerks, Chicago business men
organized to fight gambling at the
Harlem race track.
Ten persons were seriously injured
and others slightly hurt in a railway
wreck at Confluence, Pa.
Late wheat was damaged by frost
neal Bottineau, N. D.
A former employs of the Selby
smelling works at Vallejo, CAL, which
was looted of $3.50, 900 in gold, has been
arrested as one of the thieves.
A storm at Portsmouth, N. H., Sc
verely damaged the navy yard and two
persons were killed and many injured.
Z. Mrs. Hogan and her three children
were killed by lightning at Mount
Hennen, La.
The warships Wisconsin and Iowa
have been ordered to be in readiness
to go to Panama to protect Ameri-
can interests in the Colombian rebel
lion.
Prof. Triggs,s Of Chicago university.
told his class in English literature
that Longfellow's poetry was trivial
and unworthy of consideration and
scored Oliver Wendell Holmes.
A thief who robbed the Washburn
Jewelry company, of Anderson, Ind,
of $4,000 worth of goods, repented and
confessed to a priest, who returned the
plumber.
Clements Buchter shot and killed
his daughter, aged 10, and fatally
wounded his wife in louisville, Ky.
Officials of the steelcompanies admit
that thousands of men will obey the or
der of President Shaffer, of the ANAL
gamated association, and go out, but
deny that the tie-up will be general.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the seven days ended on the 9th
aggregated $1,932, 529,352, against ST.
s793, 365, 296 the previous week. The
increase compared with the GORE
spending week of last year was $40.
There were .173 bushes failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 16O the
week previous and 177 the corre-
spending period of 1900.
Preparations are being made by the
wal department to make a further
reduction in the military force in the
Philippine islands.
Women taxpayers in Alabama have
been given the privilege of voting on
questions Of Issuing bonds or incur.
ring obligations.
The entire business district of Ran.
tout, ILL.,. and half a dozen blocks Of
residences were destroyed by fire.
September S will be "President's
day" at the Pan-American exposition
in Buffalo.
A census bulletin gives Michigan
1,248,905 males and 1,172,O OFT females
and Minnesota 932,49o males and
$4,000 females.
The Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America in session in Hart
ford. Conn.,, passed resolutions con.
demning the custom of treating.
Benjamin Boyce was hanged at Ia.
coma, Wash, for killing his wife.
Jesse Jamison, chief Of the Seneca
Indians. was killed in q fight on the
Cattaragus IN. " reservation.
The business portion of Lime
Springs. Ia, was wiped out by fire.
Senator Tillman has been sued for
$4,000 damages for SANDER by a res.
ident of Columbia. S. C.
Ten persons 9 hurt, two fatally,
In an accident on the Lehigh Valley
railroad near North Leroy, N. Y.
The business section of Mercer, Mo.
was DESTROYED by fire.