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the agreest previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1894. was 1.3. WILLIAM CRAMER, about 30 years of age, shot and fatally wounded his divorced wife at Decatur, Ill., and then killed himself. SIR BELIVERE, the champion St. Bernard and one of the most famous dogs in the world, owned by Capt. S. A. Pratt, and valued at $20,000, died at Little Rock, Ark. THROUGH undervaluation of imported goods at the port of New York it was said the government would lose over $100,000. SIXTY business houses at Ardmore, I. T., were destroyed by fire, the total loss being $600,000. THERE were' 241 businessfailures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 19th, against 207 the week previous and 219 in the corresponding time in 1894. A CYCLONE sweptaway twenty houses at Matties Landing, Ala., and killed three persons. FIRE in the building in Philadelphia occupied by the New York Biscuit company caused a loss of $300,000. BALDWIN BROS. & Co., brokers at Boston, with branch offices in over fifty New England cities and in New York, suspended with liabilities of over $500,000. PATRIOTS' day, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, was generally observed throughout New England. THORNTON PARKER (colored) was hanged at Westchester, Va., for assault on Mrs. Melton, and Frank Fuller (also colored) was hanged at New Orleans, La., for murdering Henrietta Gardner. FIVE HUNDRED garmentworkers went on a strike at St. Louis against the sweating system. THE Furnas county bank at Beaver City, Neb., closed its doors with liabilities of $27,000. JOHN B. THOMAS, late editor of the Mount Vernon (Ind.) Republican and a cripple, left Evansville to go round the world in a wheel chair in two years without a cent of money except what he earns on his way. MRS. DELIA T. S. PARNELL, 80 years of age, mother of the late Charles Stuart Parnell, was murderously assaulted by highwaymen near Bordentown, '[ N HARRY BLAKE, Patrick Harvey and William Hardpke were killed and John Conly and J. J. Hand were fatally injured by the collapse of hoisting machinery in the Chicago Ship Building company's yards at South Chicago. JUDGE EVERETT, of the superior court at Lafayette, Ind., in the case of Helen M. Gougar, decided that women were not entitled to the right of suffrage in Indiana. THE National Union of Heavy Hardware Dealers began its annual meeting in Louisville, Ky. THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 20th were: Boston, 1.000; Cincinnati, 1.000; Pittsburgh, .667; Chicago, .667; New York .500; Brookyn, .500; Baltimore, .500; Philadelphia, 500; St. Louis, .333; Louisville, .333; '000' :000* A TRAIN on the Philadelphia & Readng railroad struck a wagon containng Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frank, aged 2 and 65 respectively, near Richland, Pa., and both were instantly killed. THE Chicago Times-Herald and the Chicago Evening Post were purchased Rohnsant "H "H "W Aq THE forty-second regular session of the Wisconsin legislature adjourned sine die. THE First national bank of Ocala, Fla., closed it doors. LAKESIDE, a summer resort on Pewaukee lake, about twenty miles east of Milwaukee, was destroyed by fire. DURING a storm at Fort Worth, Tex., a portion of the roof of the tabernacle rave way and fell on part of an audince of 10,000 listening to Evangelist Dwight Moody, fifty persons being inured. MATTHEW CALLOWAY, a negro who nurdered Jim Walters (colored) at Santa Fe in July last, was executed at Columbia, Tenn. JULIUS and Ernst Haefelin and John Miller were drowned in the Delaware river at Philadelphia by the upsetting f a boat. HENRY A. SHIRLEY and James S. Amerton, English capitalists, were irowned south of San Antonio, Tex. HENRY WILLIAMS, of Hillsboro, Tex., killed his wife because she refused to ret up and make breakfast and then oisoned himself. ALL persons using profane or vulgar anguage on the streetsof McKeesport, 'a., will be arrested by order of the nayor. AFTER serving continuously in the ervice of the United States for period f forty-three years, Maj. Gen. Alexnder McDowell McCook retires from he army, the age of 64 years having een reached.