Epitome Of The Week

A fiük among business buildings in New York caused a loss of $2,000, 000. The flatnes started on Bleecker strect in the building1 occupied by Alfred Benjamin & Co., the largest manufactring house in this country in men's fine ready made clothing. The accounts of Williara A. Wisong, treasurer of the Baltimore (Md. ) Poor association, were said to be short to the extent of over SI 0,000. In a wreek near Greencastle, Mo., Mrs. Sarah G. Campbell was killed outrijjht, the conductor was fatally and eleven others were seriously injured. A motion for a new trial for Patrick O'Sullivan, now serving a Ufe sentence in the Joliet penitentiar3' for the murder of Dr. Cronin, was submitted in the Illinois supreme court. Three cottages were crushed and a man fatally hurt by a landslide at Kansas City, Mo. At Cleveland, O., Edward Stein was attacked by three big mastiffs, the dogs chewing the flesh f rom the upper portion of the body and arms. If he recovered he would be crippled for life. The Variety iron works at Cleveland, O., made an assignment, with liabilities of about $200.000. COMMANDER IN ClUEF VEAZEY of the Grand Army of the Republic requests the various posts of the country to celébrate the silver anniversary of the order April 6. The villag-e of North Washington, Ia., was nearly wiped out by fire. A break in the levee near New Orleans caused a loss of over 3500,000. Two men were blown to atoms and one was fatally and others seriously hurt by a mine explosión near Ashland, Pa. Elias Youxo was arrested at Wilkesbarre, Pa., for the murder of Lieut. fstewart Robinson in 18(54. William Palmer, who killed his brother at Saginaw, Mich., has been tenteneed to thirty yeara at hard labor at Jackson prison. At Lanark, 111., Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Hawk were killed in a railway crossing accident. Heney W. Volroth, a wealthy business man of liooneville, Mo.. shot and killed himself accidentally while hunting. Assistaxt SiccRKTAKY BüSBKT has decided that there is no provisión in the dependent pension act of June 27, 1890, nor in any other act, whereby aminor's pension tliat lias lapsed for years by reason of age may be revived and started afresh, even though the ciaimant be a depondnL Rai.im! Sti.vshv, a yotuuj farmer living near West I'lains. Mo., killed James Uoyle and I'eter Herbert, members oí a ■ c:ip gang, whiie detending his home from attaek. It was reported that three consumptives had been completely cured by Irof. Koch's romedy at Sau Antonio, Te:,-. Mrs. Jamks Kidd Rohoch, of Toronto, Ont., af ter a lapse of eight yearf found her husband in Chicago marricd witHottt the forniality of a divoree. Ax unknownman ag-ed about 24 years and well dressed jumped over Niágara falls at Prospect point. lie carne from the west and had a ticket for New York. A party of sixteen yonnfr people were hurled down a moutain side near Georgetown. Col., by an unmanageable team, and fifteen were injured, some iatally.Gkorge E. Harris, the colored butler at a Chicago boarding house charged with poisoning the family by putting arsenic in their tea Nov. 20 last, was senteneed to ten years' imprisonment. In a quarrel over the massacre of Italians in New Orleans Frank Waters, a newspaper man, was shot dead by Arthur Dunn, and the latteAwas fatally wounded by Waters before he died. At Birmingham, Ala., Andy Moore, aged 21, and Miss Allie Cox, ag-ed lfi, were drowned. Moore could have saved his own life by swimming out alone. At Jennie's Creek, Ky., B. Cunningham and Sam Rice were killed by Jack Wraughn because they were too attentive to the latter's wife. 'Mus. CiiAiw.Ks Dimmick. wife of a Shamokin (Pa.) miner. luis fallen heir to a fortune of 5400,000. Savannah"s cotton receipts for this season have reached 1,000,000 bales, the largest receipts for one season in the history of Savannahas a cotton port. At Doyleston, Pa., Judge Yerk;srendered an important decisión in which it is held and laid down as lavv that the word "issue" in a wiü includes illegitimate children. Three colored children were burned to death in a fire at Baltimore, Md. Eioht passengers were injured in a wreek near Ozark, Ark., caused by preading rails. The steam cordage works at ELizabeth, N. J., were destroyed by fire, the loss 9700,000. The application of Mary E. Dewey, of Goshen, Ind. , f or pension bring-s to lig-ht the fact that fhe served through the war in the Twenty-sixth Ohio volunteers as a man, passing as Charlea Dewey. An explosión at the Crescent steel works in Pittsburph, Pa., killed Frederick Bonnhunt, Hans Wittman and John Gustavison. J. & A. Simiklson, boot and shoe manufacturera at Cincinnati, have failed for $400,000. The United States saving-s bank of Topeka, Kan., has closed itsdoors with liabilities of 8:350,000. A han was under arrest in Aberdeen, S. D., on suspicion of being Tascott, thè taurderer of A. J. Snell, of Chicago. Nkak Reuo, O. T., Will Schwab and Williajñ Fletcher quarreled over a debt of twenty-five cents, and the latter killed the former with a knife. The oycni house at Joliejt, 111., was destroycd by lire, eausing a loss of 1100,000. A LABflfB nuintter of childivn died at Madison, N. J., from water from a badly pollutcd well at tbc schoolhouse. The demand for notes f sinall denominations, such as Si, 83, $5 and WO, was very ireat at the treasury ment iri Washington, tut sö far the supply had been equal to the deinand. Work on the white house crevasse near New Orleana had been abandoned and all the country about that city was under wut'-r. Tuk supreme association of Patrons of Industry, in session at Lansing, Mich., elected N. II. Lake, of Rose, Mich., ns president. The report of the ecretary showed ;i total of 113,000 members in the country. Mus. Wn.r.iAM WATTEB8ON, aged 75, was burned to death in a smoke house near Easton, O. Sevkn men were found frozen to death in the recent heavy storm in Montana, and it was said that many perished of whom no traces had been found, and whose bodies had made food for wolves and coyotes. A highv.'avman robbed a California stag-e near Redding and compelled the driver to hand over the treasure box. The colored editors closed their national convention at Cincinnati and will meet next year in Philadelphia. Mr. John Mitchell was elected president. Peter Cuvant, aged 50, and his sister Mary, aged 55, were burned to death by a flre in a New York tenement house. The famous Laguna de Tache ranch in Tulare county, Cal., was sold to an English syndicate for 81,000,000. Bsoaubx bis bride threatened to leave him when he vvas drunk January VVriteman, of Napoleon, O., hanged himself. Theodoiíe SfH'VAinv, & Co., private bankers at Louisville, Ky., failed for about 9500,000, the crash earrying down the Union tobáceo worke. It was reported that gold had been found noar Boston, Mo. The resig-nation of A. W. Thurman as chairman of the national baseball board has been accepted and N. E. Young selected to fill the vacancy. D. J. Spaui.di.ng, wagon manufacturer at Black River Falla, Wis., made an assignment with liabilities of $210,000 and assets of 5700,000. James M. Noi.an, a wealthy resident of Pittstrargh, )'a., died after cating prepared meat obtained at a grocery. His wife was taken violently ill, but would probably recover. In the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 20th numbered 275, against 273 the preceding week. Cuauncky Marüle, a wealthy farmer of Marión county, Pa., was arrested for countorfeiting, and dies and other tools were found in his possession. In the follow'ni th'rteen states and territories world's fair appropriation bilis have boon passed and are in forcc: California: S800,000; Idaho, $25,000; Indiana, 575,000; Iowa, í?50,000; Montana, 8100,000; New Mexico, 25,000; North Carolina, 25.000. Oklahoma, .157,000; Oregon, S100.000; Pcnnsylvania, 8150,000; Vermont, 85,000; Washington. 6100,000; West Virginia, 50,000; total, 1,007,000. Ike AiAeN cut John Weatherford's throat at a dance in Mosquito, Tex., and Weatherford's brother Bud shot and killed Allen. All were prominent young men. Owbn Mir.r.EH, of St. Louis, was elected presiden of the National League of Musicians in session at Milwaukee. A fike at St. Joseph, Mo., destroyed the stocik and the of the Kennard Grocery Company, a total loss of Si 10, 000. It is proposed to establish a naval war college on Coasters island near Newport, R. L, under control of the navy department. Twk.vty ear loads of cattle were killed or maimed in a wreek near Ada, O., on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railway. At St Alban's, Vt., F. T. Harding, ag-od 22, husband of a dissolute woman, shot her dead, and then killed himself with the same weapon. Fire destroyed Kt. Georfre"s Episcopal church in Ht. Louis. It was built in 1873 at a cost of 6115,000. A De Rbisthax, & Co., china and glassware importers at Xew York, failed for 3150,000, due principally to European houses. By the closing of nany Montana mines 1,700 men have been thrown out employment. Nineteen young1 women renounced the world and took the veil at the St. Joseph and St. Mary convent in St. Louis. After fourteen years for a crime of which he was g-uiltless Warren Clough was released from jai] at Stewart, Neb. The three children of John Doan died at öpring-ville, Ia., while under the treatment of Christian scientists. Four car IoíkI.s of valuable merchandise were destroyed by a fire in the Kaltimore & Ohio transfer house in Chicag-o, the $100,000. The comptroller of the currency caused the Keystone national bank of Philadelphia to be closed. It was said that the bank's deposits amounted to $1,400,000. W. L. Bartlett and G. W. Freese, respectively city editor and managing editor of the Monmouth (111.) Atlas, togsther with two daug-hters of a man named Kines, of Huron, S. D., were reported to have been drowned in Puget sound. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Mrs. Hakriet Letübno died at Mexico. Mo., aged 100 years. She ivas a half-breed Iudian, a granddaug-hter of Blackhavvk. Celestine Kaitk-MWch, the oldest, postmaster in the United States, died at Potosí, Wis., aged 78 years. William J[. IIkundon-, the former law partner of Abraham Lincoln, died of the grip athishomenear Springfield, 111., aged 72 years. Benjamin Fababeb, oí Oíd Concord, Pa., and .Miss Mary E. Imlay eloped to Pittsburgh and wefe tnarried. The groom is a vcaltliv farmer 7( years of age and the bride is only 20. CnAia.KS N. PBLTOR (liep.) was electcd Tnited States senator from California to succeed the late Senator llcar.st. Ciiari.es P. Kimbai.i,, of Chicago, head of the large carriage-building house of C. P. Kimball & Co., died at the Urevoort house in New Vork, aged 65 ye ' BoBA.CE A. PaÍMBB, known throufrhout the union as the inventor of the Palmer Bewer trap. died at Erie, Pa. IiAWBENCE Jíarrktt, the great tragedian, died in New York city of pneumonía after an illness of three days, aged 53 years. Ekv. Fbedebic Ui'tox, said to be the oldest Methodist clergyman in America, died at Fairhaven, Mass., aged 91 years. FORE1GN. Accordino to a blue book issued by the English government 152 peers own places where liquor is sold. Tei.ki'iio.m: communication has been established betvveen London and Paris. Later reports say the number of lives lost by the sinking of the Anchor line steamer Utopia in Gibraltar bay was 569. Among the missing was C. G. Davis, of Boston. The Norwegian bark Imperator, bound from Cardiff to Santa Rosalie, was wrecked east of Bonavista, Cape de Verde islands, and twelve of the crew were drowned. The United States minister to Germany, Mr. Phelps, has induced the German government to remove the embargo on American cattle, and they are now allowed to land at llamburp. By the collapse of a bridge at Cagliari, Italy, fie members of the committee inspecting1 the sito for the annual cattle show were killed. The Canadian parliament will meet at Ottawa April 29. In Paris a man named Herbelot, crazed by the belief that his wife was unf aithful, cut her throat, strangled the child s'eeping by her side and stabbed his wife's mother to death. Messrs. Wii.kks' linen works at Kirriemuir, Scotland, valued at 3250,000, were destroyed by fire. The British ship Malaysia, vvheat laden, from San Francisco for Queenstown, was said to have foundered wlth all hands, numbering tiventy-eight. Sarah J. Flanagan and her daug-hter Anna were han-ed in Xew Zealand for the murder of a child. Mrs. Quiolby, sister of Arthur I);iv, who was cxecuted at Weiland, Ont., December 18, 1890, for his wife into Niágara, confessed on her deathbed that she incited Arthur to the murder and helped him push his wife over the precipice. In the interior of New Zealand eighteen sliocks of earthquake occurred within an hour. Kut slight damage was done. The steamcr Kakamis was lost off the coast of New Zealand and nineteen persons perished. Heavy rains in the southeast of France had inundated larg-e districts. Advioes from Australia say that the brush fires had caused enormous damage, many thousand sheep had been killod and many acres of grass land and crops burncd over. At SligD, Ireland. Messrs. Harrins'ton and Clancy, who attemptd to hold a I'arnell meeting, were roughly handled by the nationalists. lx reply to a communication from the United States.. Michael Basso, an Italian interpretar at Toronto, Ont., say that Canada can be depended on to supply 4,000 armed Itáh&,ns to avenge the men killed in the New Orleans jail in the event of the Italian government failin to secure redress from the United States government. LATER NEWS Tino iïii í between the Ih-.tfield and ïicCoy factions in West Virginia and Kentucky which had been in existence eighteen years and caused the loss of over 100 Hves has been declared at an end. A iVKLi. yielding 150 barrels of oil a day was struck in the Montpelier (Ind,) field. HUGHES won the six days' walkingmatch in New Vork, making' 558 miles. Bennett made 540 miles, Moore, 530; Hegelman, 526; Uerty, 525; Korèmac, 525, and l'eaeh, 300. The sixteenth legislature of Arizona was adjonrned sine die. At Caldwell, O., Georg-e Harris in a fit of jealousy cut his wife's head almost off with a razor and then cut his own throat. The forty-seventh anmial boat race hetween the crews of Oxford and Cambridg-e universities was won by the former. Over 200 houses were destroyed by fire in Yokohama, Japan, and four or fivo persotffi were burned to death. MoONsniNKBS killed oftiecrs E. J. Barnwell and ï. L. Brine near Greensboro, N. C. hile thcy were attempting to make some arresta. Ei.iovEx greenhouses belonging to Wiliiam K. Vanderbüt at Islip, L. I., were burned, cansing :i loss of 8100,000. Judge Richard H. St.intox, aged 78 years, died at Maysville, Ky. For six years he was a member of congTess. PKTEB RlCHMOfTD, living near Wheeling, W. Va., ehopped his wife's head off because she lid uot obey one of his commands with sufficient celerity. Ei.mkk Coi.i.ins, of Allegheny City, Pa., flnished his thirty days of fasting. The vSwedish ship Senator Weber, Capt. Winclc, whioh sailed from Cardiff March ö, for Rio Janeiro, was wrecked off the English coast, and fourteen of the crew were drowned. (ex. JoSEPH K. Joüxstox died on the Slat at his residence in Washington, aged 84 years. Nearly all of the traffie upon the railways of Chili had been suspended because of a coal famine in that country. The price of coal was 955 a ton, and the supply almost exhausted. Many Louisiana cotton fields were flooded by a break in the East Carroll parish. At the leadincr clearing--houses in the United States the exohan.üvs duriug the week ended on the 21st aggregated 91,083,436,660, againsi (995,851,944 the previous week. As compared with the correspondinfr week of 1&J0 the decrease arnounted to 2.5.