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The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. oldest person in Iowa thus far the census returns Alexander (colored), of shown Lucy THE by Keokuk. is Mrs. She was born in Virginia 119 years ago. THE Dollar savings bank in Kansas City, Mo., went into voluntary liquidation for the purpose of retiring from business. It would pay dollar for dollar. MARY THRUSH was sentenced at Ash- for land, Wis., to state's prison for life murdering her husband last spring. DEAD fish by the million were floating down the Missouri river, some weighing as much as four pounds. THOUSANDS of bushels of peaches and apples will be lost in the vicinity of West Plains, Mo., for the want of means to take care of them. A CLOUDBURST at Adelaide, Col., destroyed property and killed three persons. THE tonnage tax collection for the last fiscal year is shown by the records of the navigation bureau in Washington to have been $522,234, against $539,023 for the previous year. CHARLES E. COLE set 76,300 ems in seven hours and fifty-four minutes on a Mergenthaler nonpareil machine at Cineinnati, beating the world's record of 63,400 ems, set by a Denver printer named Taylor. a pleasure resort MichiMAYWOOD. forest in fire. gan, was destroyed by a FARMHOUSES and crops were entirely swept away near Socorro, N. M., by a cloudburst and seven persons were killed. The property loss was over $1,000,000. THE public debt statement issued on the 1st showed that the debt increased $88,435,938 during the month of July. The cash balance in the treasury was $187,149,530. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $1,127,258,435. THE Colorado City State bank at Colorado Springs, Col., closed its doors. THE Standard Wagon company of in Cincinnati assigned with assets The $300,000 and liabilities of $400,000. Davis Carriage company was carried of down by the failure with assets $150,000, and liabilities of $300,000. THE monthly statement prepared by the director of the mint shows that during July the total coinage of the United States mints amounted to $3,235,800, as follows: Gold, $2,910,000; silver,$277,000 minor coins. $48,800. WILLIAM HOGAN'S residence at O., was destroyed and her son Mrs. Marion, Hogan Frank by fire were and fatally burned. GEORGE PERKINS aged 45, who until a year ago had been the leading editorial writer on the Cincinnati Enquirer. was found dead in his room in that city. A WATERSPOUT and hailstorm visited Hardscrabble. Col., and completely destroyed farms and orchards. ROBERT J., the king of the light harness pacers. was defeated at Cleveland, time O., by Joe Patchin, the average for the four heats being 2:04 1/2, the fastest race ever paced. BISHOP PHELAN, of the Roman Catholic diocese of Pittsburgh, Pa., issued peremptory orders to the clergy to that prohibit round dances by Catholics in diocese. BY the breaking of a cable at the "chutes" in Chicago twenty persons plunged with terrific velocity in a run- and car down a 250-foot incline were injured. one away thirteen fatally. New FIRE among shipping in York caused a loss of $150,000. THE receipts of the government during the month of July were $29,069,697, against $24,809,339 for July, 1894, disbursements, $38,548,063, against $36,648,582 for July. 1894. MAYOR STARKWEATHER, of West Superior, Wis., was impeached by the common council on a charge of extorting money from policemen and firemen. FOUR business blocks were destroyed by fire at Lima, O., the loss being $100,000. A STATEMENT prepared by the comptroller of the currency shows the amount of national bank notes outstanding July 31 to have been $211, of 281,908, an increase for the year $3,836,419. The amount of circulation based on United States bonds was $186,577,433, an increase for the year of $5,521,499. REAME'S tobacco warehouse and opera house, A Max. and Ellis & Stone's dry goods stores and several other business dehouses at Durham, N. C., were stroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000. DURING July the total ore shipments from Duluth, Minn., were 536,148 tons, the largest on record. THIRTY life-saving stations on Long Island were opened a month earlier than usual. THE exchanges at the leading clearhouses in the United States during ing the week ended on the 2d aggregated $915,847,689. against $726,665,760 the previous week. The increase. com- in pared with the corresponding week 1894, was 18.6. PAPERS were signed at Pittsburgh which increase the wages of 100,000 miners in Pennsylvania Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and put a stop to the contemplated strike. THE Indian scare in Wyoming was said to be at an end were 261 business in States in the seven days the THERE United failures ended on the 2d. against 202 the week 920 in the
