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or court ΠΠΠ’. refusing to obey Gov. Lewelling's orders in the late legislative row began at Topeka, Kan., on the 2d. Hughes' counsel raised a question as to the eligibility of Gen. W. H. Sears, president of the court. Ex-Gov. CAMPBELL, of Ohio, denies emphatically that he is in the field again for the democraticnomination. THE officials of the world's fair announce that the finances are now in a satisfactory shape. THE silver convention effected a permanent organization by electing Gen, A. J. Warner president. THE private bank of Lazarus Silverman, Chicago, has suspended. GEN. W. P. INNES died recently at Grand Rapids, Mich. During the war he organized a regiment of mechanics, which was of great use in building and repairing bridges. INSPECTOR THORNBY, who had a fight with World's Fair Commissioner St. Clair and was discharged, has been reinstated. STRIKING iron men at Ely, Minn., have warned the cashier of one of the companies to leave the place, threatening to burn him alive. STARTLING developments are coming to light about the cold storage fire at Chicago, a witness testifying that the place was robbed and fired by an organized gang. THE Osage Indians, being well fixed financially, have declined to sell their lands to the government. SCHNAUBELT, the Haymarket bomb thrower, is reported to be living in Springfield, O. THE Michigan Peninsular Car Co., of Detroit. has laid off 500 employes and reduced the wages of the remaining 700 each 10 to 15 cents a day. LARGE numbers of Austrians and Italians are leaving Pueblo, Col., and returning to their native homes. ATTORNEY-GENERAL ELLIS, of Michigan. has given an opinion to the effect that the insurance law passed by the late legislature is unconstitutional, owing to section 5, which permits unauthorized companies to do business in that state. THE Union Stock Yards Co., at Rodeo, Contra Rista county, Cal., has suspended operations because of the inability of packers to continue under existing financial conditions. The plant is new and valuable and has only been running a few months. MRS. MARIA L. MITCHELL, widow of Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, has begun a suit against her son. Senator John L. Mitchell, and the Wisconsin Marine & Fire Insurance Co.'s bank. The bank owes her $200,000, it is learned from good authority, and her son, it is alleged, is behind some $50,000 on her annual allowance. THE Anti-Somerby Iron Hallers in session at Indianapolis got down to work and materially modified the organic laws of the order. A BAD row between non-union and union sailors occurred at Chicago. Two men were probably fatally hurt. AT a colored emancipation celebration at Goose Neck Bend, I. T., John Vann, a colored desperado, was killed by a young white man named Singleton and almost a race war was precipitated by the occurrence. NELSON VAN KIRK, for many years a well known trader on the Chicago board of trade, committed suicide after failing. THE pruning of the expenses of the fair goes on and every effort is being made to save money with which to meet the bonds. JOSEPH W. HOWELL, who murdered a woman and four children near Brookfield, Mo., January 9, 1889, was executed at Trenton, Mo., on the 4th. WALKER & Co., dry goods, Chicago, failed. THE American Loan & Trust Co. has resumed business at Omaha under the old officers. THE Choctaw elections resulted in a victory for the Locke faction. A FIRE at Princeton, Minn., destroyed the First national bank building, a hotel and six business houses, causing a loss of $50,000; insurance only partial. FIFTEEN hundred of the depositors of the Akron, 0., Savings bank unanimously agreed to a plan whereby the institution will be enabled to discharge the receiver and open its doors for
