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A Savings Bank Suspends. KANSAS CITY, Sept. 3.-The Journal's Richmond, Mo., special says: The Ray County Savings Bank suspended business this afternoon. It is asserted that the embarrassment is temporary, and that the bank will resume shortly. No statement is published.
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MINOR MENTION BY WIRE. Some Little Items of Interest and Some Items of Little Interest. THE HAGUE, Sept. 3.-Count L. G. A. von Limburg-Starum, one of the Ministers of State, is dead. GENEVA, Sept. 3.-Mr. A. S. Solomons was elected Vice President of the Red Cross Congress which convened here yesterday. Miss Clara Barton was present. DARIEN, GA., Sept. 3.-Lazarus Harris (colored), the murderer of Dick Wylly (colored), was captured at Hackton and brought back to Darien to-day. He said to the officer: "I know I am going to die." BERLIN, Sept. 3.-The North German Gazette, in an editorial article to-day, attributes to Prince Bismarck a design to create a political blockade against England by forming a coalition of the powers until her egotistical policy of colonial extension is abandoned. Growing activity is apparent in the German electoral campaign. The Socialists of Berlin have brought forward six candidates, named Vollmor, Hasenclever, Tutzaur, Dietz, Singer and Grillenberger. Among the Progressist candidates are Veichow, Loewe, Klotz, Trager an : Eugene Richter. BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 3.-The wifeof Frederick Merrill, of Cleveland, early this morning, being crazed with grief on account of the death of her child, shot her husband while he was in bed, and then swallowed a fatal dose of carbolic acid. Merrill will recover. VIENNA, Sept. 3.-A number of Anarchist printing materials have been found in the suburbs of this city. The police have seized a quantity of printed revolutionary proclamations. NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-It was reported that warrants were issued to-day for the arrest of eighteen Aldermen who passed the ordinance over the Mayor's veto in the matter of the Broadway Surface Railroad on a charge of bribery and corruption. READING, PA., Sept. 3.-Mrs. Washington Keller, residing at Strausstown, near this city, who has been fasting 48 days, died today from starvation. She had been affected with a fever and began her long fast after reading of Christ's fast in the Wilderness. When she was well she weighed 275 pounds, but was reduced to less than 100 at her deach. BERNE, Sept. 3.-A convention with the Vatican has been signed providing for the restoration of the Catholic diocese of Basle and making Ticino an apostolic vicarate. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 3.-The Czar started for Warsaw shortly after midnight last night. CINCINNATI, Sept. 3.-The gates of the twelfth Industrial Exposition were opened this morning, but the formal opening exercises occurred to-night. These consisted of addresses by Senator George H. Pendleton and Representative John F. Follett. and a concert by an orchestra, chorus and organ. There was an unusually large attendance for the first day. ST. JOHN, N. F., Sept. 3.-The steamship Greenland was burned to the waters edge last night at Harbor Grace. She was towed to Riverhead where she sank. The vessel is a total loss. NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-The boss stone cutters of this city threatened to lock out their workmen unless they withdrew from the almalgamated trades-union and ceased to support the bricklayers in their strike for nine hours. The men at once quit work. To-day a meeting was held and a strike was formally declared. PEORIA, ILL., Sept. 3.-State Veterinarian Paaren yesterday investigated alleged pleuropneumonia cases in herds of Jersey cattle here belonging to D. H. and T. Tripp. Two animals, each valued at $300, were found badly affected, and were slaughtered immediately. The right lung of one weighed 17 pounds more than it normally should. DUBLIN, Sept. 3.-A meeting of the National League was held here to-day at which Timothy Healy, Member of Parliament for Monaghan, presided. A resolution was adopted denouncing the Irish Executive for refusing to hold a fresh inquiry into the Maamtrasna murder case in view of informer Casey's recent confessions, and pronouncing this refusal a breach of public faith. The previous inquiry, the resolution asserts, was a mere farce. "CHICAGO, Sept. 3.-A dispatch from Joilet, Ills., says: "A riot occurred at the wiredrawing mills this afternoon, on account of a reduction of wages said to be caused by competition in the State penitentiary. Part of the men remained at work. and were attacked by the strikers. A considerable number of men, including the Chief of Police, were seriously, though not fatally, hurt. Most of the attacking party have been arrested and fined." KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 3.-A Richmond, Mo., special savs: "The Ray County Savings Bank suspended this afternoon. It is asserted that the embarrassment istemporary.' COL MBUS. O., Sept. 3.-The Columbus Boot and Shoe Company, operating at the penitentiary, to-day assigned, previously executing a chattel mortgage to the Cincinnati National Bank for $31,000, and the Commercial Bank of Columbus for $10,000. The State brought cuit and issued an attachment for $50,000 due for convict labor. The liabilities are $70 000 The assets are unknown.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The decrease in the public debt durAugust was $8,542,852. Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, died at Providence on the 2d. The steamer A. M. Jarret burned at Quincy, III. The boat cost $16,000. The Connecticut Democrats have renominated Governor Weller by acclamation. During the Czar's visit to Warsaw each police agent is charged to watch five houses. Judge Tait, the American Minister to Russia, presented his credentials to the Czar on Tuesday last. The collated cholera reports in Italy show 140 new cases and forty-five deaths in twenty-four hours. The Coroner has finally decided not to exhume the body of Private Henry of the Greely expedition. Mrs. Harlan, the wife of ex-Senator Harlan of Iowa, died at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, on the 5th. The English crop reports continue favorable and there is no demand in that market for foreign grain. General Gordon writes under date of June 15, that Khartoum can hold out until the middle of November. The whisky distillers have formed a pool, which limits their production to 40 per cent. of their capacity. The party of the extreme Left in the French Chamber demand a formal declaration of war against China. The Mazeppa Mill Company at Red Wing, Minnesota, has assigned. Liabilities $140,000; assets $175,000. The Indian Bureau has taken measures for the speedy relief of the starving Piegan Indians in Montana. An additional 250,000 pounds of ChiIt cago compressed beef has been ordered by England for the army in Egypt. The International Electrical Exposih 8 tion at Philadelphia was formally opened by Governor Patterson on the 2nd. d Seven of the striking Ohio coal miners were wounded in the attack on the guards on Sunday night at Longstreth. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton cast her first vote at the election for School Trustees at Jamestown, New York on the 1st. The French Customs officers have a left Canton. The Chinese officials other a re* p ward for the heads of Frenchman. A Boston firm have contracted to raise the Tallapoosa and deliver the vessel at the Brooklyn navy-yard for $35,000. Ten prisoners in the South Bend, Indiana, jall escaped by sawing off several bars of the ventilating register in the floor. d The American Express company is now running fast trains of its own between Chicago and New York and Boston. Proceedings have been commenced against seventeen saloon keepers at Dubuque, Iowa, to enforce the prohibitory law d W. N. Walker, Son & Co. 8 drug house at Memphis, Tennessee, burned on the 4th. Loss, $70,000; insurance, $35,000. Eleven dead bodies have been taken y from the steamer Belmont, which was wrecked by the tornado near Henderson Kentucky. 5 An incendiary fire burned an entire block of buildings in Muscotah, Atchison county, Kansas, on the 30th. Loss, $20,000. The ignorant people of Naples now believe that the Archbishop is in complicity with the physicians to poison the inhabitants. The postoffice at Emporia, Kansas, was robbed of $1,000 in stamps, some cash and a large number of registeerd letters on the 30th. The Czar's visit to Warsaw is postponed until September 8. In the meantime the Warsaw police have been reinforced by 500 men. A fire at Haleigh, North Carolina. burned two market houses and a number of other buildings. Loss $60,000; partially insured. Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, has issued a proclamation against importations of cattle from a large portion of the eastern states. Dick Moore, a resident of Bunker HIIL Kansas, was run over by a freight trais at Raton,1 New Mexico on the 31st, and instant ly kiked. The American schooner Sophia Johnson has been seized at Behring's Island by a Russian corvette for illicit rum selling to the natives. At Troy, Ohio, while supposed to be Insanc, Mrs. 5. Merril shot her husband and took a fatal dose of poison. His wound is not dangerous. The Ray County Savings Bank at Richmond, Missouri, has suspended. The bank officials say that the suspension is only temporary.
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Failures of a Week. There were 180 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet during the week, ending 13th against 178 in the preceding week and 136, 137 and 88 in the corresponding weeks of 1883, 1882 and 1881, respectively. About 83 per cent. were those of small dealers, whose capital was less than $5,000. Among the suspensions reported were: Burger, Hulburt & Livingston, molasses and syrups, New York city; National bank of New Jersey, at New Brunswick; State bank of Fort Edward, N. Y. ; Lincoln Savings bank of Fayetteville, Tenn. ; Ray County Savings bank of Richmond, Mo.; Green Manufacturing company, print cloths, Providence: Payne, Villey & Co., cotton factors, Louisville, Ky.; Rust, Harris & Co., wholesale hardware, and F. J. Burton & Co., wholesale cigars and notions, of Denver; Stafford & Co., manufacturers of cotton yarns, at Brownsville, Mass.
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Failures of a Week. There were 180 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet during the week, ending 13th against 178 in the preceding week aird 136, 137 and 88 in the corresponding weeks of 1883, 1882 and 1881, respectively. About 83 per cent. were those of small dealers, whose capital was less than $5,000. Among the suspensions reported were: Burger, Hulburt & Livingston, molasses and syrups, New York city; National bank of New Jersey, at New Brunswick; State bank of Fort Edward, N. Y. Lincoln Savings bank of Fayetteville, Tenn. Ray County Savings bank of Richmond, Mo. Green Manufacturing company. print cloths, Providence: Payne, Villey & Co., cotton factors Louisville, Ky. Rust, Harris & Co., wholesale hardware, and F.J. Burton & Co., wholesale cigars and notions, of Denver; Stafford & Co., manufacturers of cotton yarns, at Brownsville Mass.