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an TTT faind as the national, proposes to treat Great Britain as a brother, not as a parent. A bride of two months was found dead in Chicago, with her husband, evidently her murderer, fatally shot beside her. The United Bank and Trust company, at San Francisco, was closed by the state board of bank commissioners "to prevent further waste" and until a court can pass upon its solvency. Statistics at the close of the tourist season show that more visitors, particularly Americans, have been in London this year than ever before, and that Paris no longer leads as an attraction. Upon petition of some of its creditors, E. J. Becker, of Kansas City, Mo., was appointed receiver for the Imperial Brewing company, of that city. The company owes about $625,000. The failure is attributed to the reform movement in Missouri. Russian strikers have paralyzed traffic on all the leading railroads, amazing the government by their display of strength. Admiral Togo made a triumphant entry into Tokio and, cheered by thousands, drove to emperor's palace to report officially the return of his victorious warships. Gov. Folk, of Missouri, commuted the sentence of Edgar G. Bailey, who was to have been hanged at Kansas City for murder, to imprisonment for 99 years. Johnnie Goodson, a 11-year-old boy, who on August 18 shot and killed Hannah McQuade, a girl about 12 years of age, in Detroit, Mich., was acquitted on the charge of manslaughter by a jury in the circuit court. The new brick worksof the Hummelstown Brownstone company were destroyed by fire of unknown cause at Harrisburg, Pa. The loss is $50,000 with insurance of $40,000. United States Senator Boies Penrose denied emphatically the rumors connecting him with loans from the Enterprise bank, at Allegheny, Pa. He says the charge is malicious and was made for political effect. Commissioner Warner, of the pension bureau, has announced his intention of recommending the dismissal from the service of a number of employes who have been engaged in loaning money in the bureau at usurious rates. Martin Barth died at his home in Gallatin, Tenn. Mr. Barth in 1848 was chief messenger of the old Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph company at Pittsburg, Pa., where Andrew Carnegie was given his first employment as a messenger boy. Beside that other great actor, Garrick, and under the shadow of the statue of Shakespeare, as the interpreter of whose plays he won fame, the ashes of Sir Henry Irving were given burial in Westminster abbey. The governor of Odessa, Russia, has issued an order to the police instructing them that in the event of disturbances they are to fire directly into the mobs without any preliminary volleys in the air. The question of the friar lands purchase was practically settled at Manila when the commission paid the Dominican order $3,225,000, which is the last payment. The Minnesota state board of health has issued a circular to county superintendents of schools forbidding the employment as teacher of any person suffering from tuberculosis, and debarring children sufering from that disease from admission to the schools. The British public celebrated the centenary of Lord Nelson's death and cablegrams were received from Dewey and Togo. The Bridgeport (Conn.) -police found $9,000 more of plunder of the Adams Express $101,000 thief. Weekly trade reviews show continued enormous demands on productive capacity and active retail distribution. Samuel Gompers says he will make a strong fight against the employment of Chinese on the Panama canal. Gov. Cummins announces that the tariff revision fight will come up in Iowa at an early date and that the revisionists will win. The National Purity league is divided over a proposition made by delegates to the La Crosse (Wis.) meeting to form a new organization. Mr. Landis says that investigation has revealed a sensational condition of extravagance and improvidence in public printing and says that congress is certain to take action. Edward George Cunliffe, the express clerk who stole $101,000 at Pittsburg, Pa., was arrested in Bridgeport, Conn. The police recovered $80,000 of booty, but the prisoner declares that he has burned the remaining $20,000. The Pennsylvania's new car order brings that road's expediture for equipment for the year up to $26,000,000. The New York police have been or-
