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DOMESTIC. At Belleville, Tex., Clem Stawthor and Buck Chappelle (negroes) were hanged for murder. Martin L. Sweet, a capitalist at Grand Rapids, Mich., failed for $200,000. A fire destroyed the masonic temple and considerable other property at Providence, R. I., entailing a loss of $325,000. Orders were sent out from Washington to seize all filibustering expeditions leaving the United States to aid the Cuban insurgents. Sheriff Doggett and Constable Reed were shot and a train robber named Daniel McCole was killed in an attempt to hold up an express train near Tulare, Cal. John Moes, a manufacturer at New Riegel, O., shot and fatally injured his divorced wife and her sister, Miss Katie Smith, and made his escape. While insane from sickness Albert Kinchlow shot and fatally wounded his mother at Indianapolis and then killed himself. As a result of a conference of the leading Cuban sympathizers in New York three steamers will be fitted out for Cuban shores laden with arms and ammunition for the insurgents. The State bank at Bloomfield, Neb., went into the hands of a receiver. The scheme of adding the latest weather forecasts to the regular postmarks on letters with be commenced by the post office department July 1. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 20th aggregated $975,883,801, against $943,098,042 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1895, was 2.4. Mrs. Abigail Knapp Holman, the wife ofex-Representative William S.Holman, of Indiana, died suddenly in Washing ton. One of the worst snowstorms of the season prevailed in western New York, the snow in many places being two feet e deep on the level and drifts were enormous. North Port, a small mining town in 7 S Washington, near the Canadian boun. 1 dary, was wiped out by fire. e Gus Elzy (colored) shot and prob9 ably fatally wounded his wife at Peoria, t III., and then shot and killed himself. 9 Domestic trouble was the cause. 1 Reports to New York commercial t agencies show that the business outlook d throughout the country was not encouraging. t At Forest City, Pa., Frank Creagle fatally shot his wife, from whom he and then killed shot 1 r and young Miller, was aged John separated, mother-in-law, Holzinger fatally wounded Mrs, and Catherine killed his himself. his is wife in Milwaukee. Family trouble was i the cause. The murderer was arrested. n Ballington Booth has changed the x name of his new salvation army to 9, "The Volunteers." h There were 261 business failures in L the United States in the seven days e ended on the 20th, against 300 the week 11 previous and 278 in the corresponding e period of 1895. it Fire in the Atlantic oil refinery at Pittsburgh, Pa., caused a loss of over $100,000. e Elijah Rutter and John White, of a Brice, O., quarreled over the former's ts wife and both were fatally injured. 1Julia Bird, an aged squaw, her daugh 6 ter, Charlotte Bird, an infant daughter r of Charlotte Bird and O. Biquette, an Iner dian, were burned to death near Bay is field, Wis., during a drunken carousal 10 A mob took William Murphy from the it jail at Huntsville, Tenn., and strung is him to a tree for the murder of William 10 Knowlin, a miner. ol John Cloggett and Lee Williams were 1, killed and three other men were injured d by an explosion of dynamite at Ellicot City, Md.