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DOMESTIC. The people of Johnstown, Pa., ob. served the seventh anniversary of the great flood in that city in which 3,800 persons perished. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 1st was: Wheat, 50,340,000 bushels; corn, 8,950,000 bushels; oats, 8,303,000 bushels; rye, 1,435,000 bushels; barley, 857,000 bushels. The wholesale dry goods house of Wolff & Sharp at Macon, Ga., failed for $250,000. Five miners were fatally roasted by an explosion of gas at the Buck Ridge colliery near Shamokin, Pa. In the recent cyclone 16 persons lost their lives in Missouri towns adjoining St. Louis and 46 in Illinois towns, a total of 62, and property valued at $3,000,000 was destroyed. At Columbus, Ga., Jesse Slayton and William Miles, both colored, were hanged by a mob for assaulting white women. Thomas Allen. a wealthy stock dealer, and Wallace Riley, a prominent citizen, engaged in a duel in front of the post office at Lebanon, Ind., and Riley was instantly killed. The runaway marriage of Allen's son and Riley's daughter was the cause. Henry Mitchell Smith (colored) was hanged at Lexington, Ky., for assaulting a white woman. The national commercial tariff convention convened in Detroit. Moser & Friedman, dry goods merchants, assigned at Maroa, Ill., and the failure involved the bank of Maroa, which closed its doors. The School Field-Hanauer Crockery company failed at Memphis, Tenn., for $100,000. The First national bank at El Reno, O. T., which suspended payment May 13, 1896, has resumed business. The treasury statement shows a de crease of all kinds of money in circulation during May of $18,422,799, and since June 1, 1895, of $85,000,000. The per capita circulation was stated at $21.35. Andrew M. Henderson, one of the old est and best-known members of the Chicago board of trade, committed sulcide by shooting because of business reverses. At Mohonk Lake, N. Y., the international arbitration conference opened a three days' session with ex-Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, presiding. The Rock Island road sent a special train from Chicago to Rock Island, a distance of 181 miles, in 3 hours and 39 minutes, lowering the best record so far 3 minutes. The Farmers' deposit bank at Creighton, Mo., closed its doors. George Herpo and Frank Samuelson will row across the atlantic from New York to Havre in a boat 18 feet 4 inches long. Tre national commercial tariff convention in Detroit adopted resolutions declaring in favor of taking the tariff question out of partisan politics, the placing of the consular service in the hands of men having knowledge of business and international law, and the es tablishment of a department of commerce by the government. Clarence Craig, a 15-year-old lad at Shelbyville, Ind., was handling his father's shotgun when it was accidentally discharged and his mother was instantly killed. Jacob Rich, as an individual, and the First street railroad at San Jose, Cal.. failed for $600,000.