Generalities In Brief

The N. Y-, P. -fc O. railroail was sold at Akron. ()., f 10, 000,000 totlie lirst tnortyage bondholters. Over 500 clothiny Ciitters are o;;t on a strike in Chioapo. and several hundred :l go out at Cincinnati. Au imperial edict has been issued by the sultan poriniuiiii Miss Clara Hartón, president of the American Ret Cross society, &ud lier representativas, to travel in Anatoliaami distribute "eliei to sulïerers there. The esecutive assembly of the grand eouncil of the Kniylits of Pytbias met at Cincinnati and decided that, in view of the fact that the western railroads vrould not g-ive thetn us good ra tes to .Minnenpolis as tliev do the (. A. i. to St l'aul, the biènnial convention of the supremo lodg-e will be held at Cleveland. Aujj. 23, instead of at Mianeapolis.