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Tii int of Ui o public debt is sued on tho Ist showed the total debt to bc 8l,0aj,713,842; cash in the Troasury, 882,730,584; debt less cash in Treasory, $34,547,529. Decrease during February, 86,159.486. Duuumu slncu Juno 30, 188! mil. James Douohebty, affed lSyears, and Josoph Knel, aged 10 yoars, wero drowned on the 2d in Spring lako, near Grand Haven, Mich. Tuk wholesale boot and shoo house of Noyes, Norman & Co., at Sc. Josoph, Mo., was burned on the 2d. Loss, S158,000. Martin O' Mai.le y and Peter Faloy lost thcir lives on the Ist in a burning shanty in which they slept at Johnsonburg. Pa. August Gkoth, employed in a browcry at Stillwater, Minn., killed his wifo with a razor on tlie 2d and Uien took his own lifo. Domeatic trouble caused the crime. James E. Ekomsh, ex-Governor of Connoetieut am! ex-Congresaman, died on the 2d in New Haven, aged 78 years. Hioks & Ci-.i-iiat's Bank at Valloy Falla, Kan., was robbod of í?:i,000 by a man named Kobort ltobinson on the Ist, who held up tho oashier. Jn a few hours afterward the robber was shot dead while resistin arrest and the money recovered. At Covington. Ky., on tholstíG3of tho 105 saloon-keepers in tho city ware indicted for solliiiff liquor on Sunday contrary to an old slatute of the State. Joiix GuiSCOM, a man of prominence in railroad and scientific circles, committed suicide in New York on tho Ist by Inhaling s;ls while in bed. Geobge Fjiancis Thain left Boston at midniffht on the 3d for a trip around tho world, which he expects to completo in sixty.days. A hi-izza:-.!) in tho Wabash (Ind.) district on the Ist caused stock to suffer severoly and dam aged tho growing whoat. The British steamei Quetta, bound f rom Australia for London, struck a hïdden rock in tho Torres straits, near Somersot. on the Ist and went down with all on boaid, 160 persons bcinfj drowned. In a quarrel on the Ist at Mallio, Cot, A. M. Wassen killed a railroad man, and soon after a tnob lynched Wassen. The United States Sonate was not in sossion on the Ist. In tho llouso a bilí was reported providing for tho allotment of lands in severalty to the Quapv Indians in the Indian Torritory. Tdb Sonate bill providing for an Assisfc ani Secretar; of War was passed.
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