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Brevities Electric The banking-house of J. B. Wheeler & Co., Colorado City, and Manitou, Col., did not open yesterday. The branch telephone office on Eighteenth street, New York, was burned out last night. $ $120,000. The United States steamer Yorktown, Commander Harrington, left New York for the Pacitic yesterday afternoon. The private banking-house of T. A. Kent. at ( heyenne, Wvo. did not open yesterday, and is in the hands of an asignee. The First National Bank of Canon City, Col. suspended yesterday owing to the fact that its funds are in suspended Denver banks. The "Senate' of the National Union (mutual benefit insurance organization) will meet next year in July at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. The last eleven clauses of the Irish home-rule bill were taken through the committee stage under closure in the British House of Commons last evening. A reduction of 85 on round-trip rates between Chicago and points south of the Ohio river was agreed upon at meeting of southern-line representatives in Chicago yesterday. A sensation was caused in Frankfort (Ky.) business circlea yesterday by the assignment of Colonel E. 11. Taylor, Jr., the famous distilter, to the Lexingtion Trust Company. A third furnace of the Maryland Stool Company at Sparrows Point, Baltimore, was banked Wednesday night. throwing all of the furnaces which had been in operation out of blast. At a directors' meeting yesterday it was de. cided to shut down the mills of the Westbrook Manufacturing Company. makers of ginghame, Portland, Me., from July 27th until September 4th. A dispatch from Montevideo says that the confliet in Rio Grande do Sul has become a series of small and utterly indecisive encounters between insignificant forces of revolutionista and government troops. In the United States Court at Atlanta yesterday an attorney for the Central Trust Company filed a bill to foreclose a $14,500,000 mortgage on the Georgia Pacific railroad, this being a part of the reorganization scheme. It is said at Leavenworth, Kan., with railroad officers as authority, that 1.000 colored met were put on the cars at Birmingham, Ala., Wednesday night and started for Kaneas to take the places of the Sterling coal-miners. At Grand Junction, Col., the First National Bank failed to open its doors yesterday. Assoon this became known the business-men of the town commenced depositing in the Mesa County Bank in order to make its credit good. A special from Washington, Ga.. says that the Tom Watson meeting passed off without any trouble. About 2,000 people were present 1,500 negroes and 500 white Populists. The Democrats kept away, not over 25 being present. The last will and testament of Anthony J. Drexel was admitted to probate yesterday at Philadelphia. dtidposes of between $25,000.000 and $30,000,000 worth of property, large sums being devoted to charitable and educational purposes. The report that Italy has proposed that 21/6frane pieces be no longer regarded as international coins has been confirmed. Belgium and Greece approve of the proposal. If France and Switzerland refuse to accept it Italy will withf draw from the Latin Union. 4 Governor Jones, of Alabama. has appointed Willis G. Clark, of Mobile, Railrond Commiss sioner of Alabama, to succeed the late General Holtzclaw. He is a business-man. and during Mr. Cleveland's former administration was Collector of the port of Mobile The agent ot the Waumbeck Company. Milton Mills, N. H., has issued orders for closing the mills for three months 33 8007 as the goods now in process of manufacture are finished. the reason assigned for the action being a lack of or1 ders, except at ruinous prices. The Chautanqua Ore and Iron Company, whose mines and iron foundries are located Lyon Mountain, N.Y. closed yesterday. did also the Crown Point iron-cap mines and iron makers. at Crown Point. N.Y., the cause a given being dulness in the iron trade. The Reynoldsville (Pa.) Woolten-Milla-Sykes 2 Allis & Moorehouse, proprietors- burnet yesterday. Loss, 8100,000; insurance. $20,000. The fire originated in the picking-room, on the 1 third floor, and was caused by a nail among the wool getting into the machinery and sending off sparks. There is a complication in the affairs of the d Atlanta (Ga.) Provision and Commission Company, 8 small concern whose principal stockholders are country merchants. Application for a receiver has been made, and the stockholders are anxious to find N. W. Murphy, the general manager. ₫ At Vidalia. Montgomery county. Gs., James : Strickland killed James Lockley yesteria It 4 is said that Lockley had killed Strickland's dog 0 the day before. and that when Strickland n learned this fact he took his shot-gun, went to Lockley's house, and shot him while at supper. Strickland is in jail. 8. 4 The business portion of the town of Ewin, 1 Mich., has been entirely destroyed by fre, and d the people there are holding as prisoner & man supposed to have started the blaze, who is almost certain to be lynched, as the citizens are worked up to a frenzy by the loss of their property. Loss by the fire, about $250,000. Insurance, less than $50,000.
