The Nation

A flurry has beca croated ,11110113 the Granite Mountain mine tnllllonaires of St LonU, Mo., by an attempt of the city i lector to collect taxes 011 their stock. L. i M. Rumsey, who owns ín. 000 Bhares oí the valué of 81,800,000, transferred hls entire line to a brother-in-law Ín Detroit to evade paying S44.000 taxes. Paul Fusz, a heavy holder, is going to move to New York on June 1. G. I). lícLane aud Charles Clark, who own 33,000,000 apiece, also threaten to go to New York and take tlie headquartera f the mine wlth them. They say ll.eir bulllon istaxed Ín Montana and they do not want to pay taxes twice. The South Bend Times has found a I natural gas fraud, whlch is run like this: Swlndler No. 1 comes along and takes a nas lease os a farm; No. 2 shows up Id b week or twoand offers a bíg prlee for the t land, but when he finds out there is an encumbrance on it in the shape ofa gas lease, be will have nothing to do witli the land wlth the lease on it. No. 1 is Uien hunted ui, the lease cancelled at a big aJvance, Nu. 2 skips, and the swindle is couBuniinated. At Toledo on the 2Ctli lnst. will be unvelled a statueof Gen. James B. Steedman, the hero ol Chlckamauga, who was a magnificeut type of American. ïhis handsome monument has been presented tu the city of Toledo by Williain I. l-'iiullay, who built it at his own expense beeause he admired the phenomenal courage of the hero whom he thus honors. Addresses will be dellvered by the governors of Ohlo and Michigan and by the lleutenanti-governor of Illinois. A novel case has been developed by the real estáte excitement Ín Toledo, Ohio. A wiúuw looking ujitlie titlo lo her property dlscoveredthat her neighbor's frame house occupled about three feet ot' her land. The neighboT was nottfled and promlsed to have the house moved. He was-dilatory, however. and was astonlshed the other ilay tn Bnd tliat tlie widow had had a ear1 enter cut off the three fect of the house on her property trom cellar to garrett. A Toledo, ü., dispatch say.s: Infornialioii is being recelved every dayfrom sinall towns in thia locallty in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana of depredations by an extensivo band of horse thieves. They apparently opérate from one state iuto anoilur, and have managed thus far to elude eapture. Detectives and officers are on tbeir track. Three masked men broke Into James Porter'S farm house, seven miles froni Ilarriiigton, Del., overpowered Porter and his wlfe, tied tliein to the bed posts anti went torough the ineniises, securing S'J,00 in cash and bonds. Then they drove away. Win. H. Mclllianey. general frelght agent of the New York Central railroad opmpany, bas been dfecharged froin thal Ion by Mr. Vanderbtlf and Mr. Depew. Mcllhaney was accüsed over a year ago of embezzlng $26,000. The deatli of William B. Woods, a jOstice of the l'nited Statea supreme eourt at Washington on Sunday, followed a Ioiií: Ulness. As his suecessors are mentioned, Garland and Endicott. The United States consul at Kingston, Ganada, has written to the state departnient advislng the government of the disastrous eflects of the inter-state commerce law upon our trade wlth Canada. The supreme counsel of Catholic knights, in sesslon at Chicago, decided against graduated assessments and deprived all offleers from voting on nieasures brought to an issue of a ballot. James and William Murphy, aged 13 and 15 ycars, are in jail at Eau Claire, Wis., charged with train wrecking. The boys had been reading dlme novéis. J. 1). Fruchler of Murphys, Cal., has been seized on his arrival in France, denied counsel and forced to serve in the M-eneh army. It is denied that Blaine will spend the sunimer in Europe, luit said tliat he will inake his headquarters at Bar Haruor for the season. Secretary Whitney has authorized the admission to the naval academy as a cadet of H. Niere, a Japanese studeut of noble family. Senator Reagan says the eommerce commission is not justified in suspeiiding the long and short haul clause of the commerce law. Geo. E. Reid, city treasurer of Bismarek, Dakota, has gone to Canada, taking al. out S'J.000 in cash belonging to the rity. Swan Bros., the most extensive cattle dealers oí Wyoming, with headquarters at Cheyenne, have failed for si. 100,000. A tablet to the memory of the late Gen. Sedgwick was dedicated at Spotteylvanla Court House. Va., on tlie 13th inst. Fifteen thousand Chicago builders are out of work because of a lockout ordered by the bosses. Ex-President Hayes is being urged to accept the presidency of the university of Ohlo. Gov. HUI of New York bas appointed Col. Fred Grant quarantine commissioner. Milán, Missouri, sutl'ered an SS5,000 loss by lire a few days ago. James G. Blaiue will sale for Europe June 8.