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General Summary. Dean Stanley has consented to the erection of a memorial window to Dr. Livingstone, the African explorer, in Westminster Abbey. Two men, while smearing a large iron tank at Belcher's sugar refinery at St. Louis with coal tar Tuesday, were burned to death by the tar taking fire. Notice of an objection to the grant of a patent to Edison for his electric light was filed at London, Tuesday, in behalf of J. H. Russell. The case will be heard in about a fortnight. A Constantinople dispatch says that the term of imprisonment to which Suleiman Pasha has been sentenced for misconduct during the late war is fifteen years. He has taken an appeal. Mayor-elect Cooper of New York, took the oath of office Tuesday, it being, under the charter, the last day for swearing in new officials. He does not assume the office until January 1, however. Vreeland, one of the parties arrested on suspicion of implication in the desecration of of Stewart's tomb, was discharged from custody Tuesday. Burke, arrested at the same time, is indicted for forgery. M. Tkindt, manager, and M. Fortamps, president of the Banque de Belgique, Brussells, who defrauded the bank of 20,000,000 francs, have been convicted and sentenced, the former to 15 years' solitary confinement, and the latter to one year's imprisonment, with $1,200 fine. A Fort Smith (Ark.) special says that a few days ago in Little River country a tramp named Hilliard, shot a traveller from Illinois named Farris, for his money. Farris, after being shot, rode to the nearest farmhouse, gave a description of the assassin and died. The citizens caught and hung Hilliard. The Penacook Savings Bank, at Fisherville, N. H., has failed, and its doors have been closed by the bank commissioners. The failure was cause by the recent suspension of Henry F. Brown and D. Arthar Brown, at Fisherville, and by losses in other directions. The liabilities are as follows: Due depositors, $284,718; surplus, $7,047 guaranty, $3,500; premium account, $2,053. While the face of the assets is $297,319, nearly half of the resources of the institution are invested in personal and collateral security. There is connected with the bank 11 private banking house, operated by Samuel F. Brown, the treasurer of the institution, and John S. Brown, a wealthy cotton manufacturer. This private firm has, it is alleged, used the funds of the savings bank in operations which the law does not allow savings institutions to pursue. The deposits have been scaled down 30 per cent,
