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Domestic. RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS. Per Per ct. Lost Won Clubs. Clubs. Won. Lost. et Cleveland. 52 34 .605 Chicago 48 39 552 New York 41 36 .532 Pittsburg 48 33 .593 .526 Baltimore. 44 31 .587 Brooklyn 41 37 Cincinnati 45 35 .563 Washing'n 25 47 .347 .833 33 .560 St. Louis 28 56 42 Boston Philadel 42 34 .553 Louisville 18 59 .234 Richard M. Hunt, the noted architect, died in Newport, B. L, after a brief illness. In the run of the New York Yacht Club from New London, Conn, to Newport, B. L, the Defen der outsailed the Vigilant by more than twelve minutes. The New York City Police Board appealed for 325 intelligent and able-bodied recruits for the force. Frank Burkett was nominated for Governor by the Mississippi Populists at Jackson and a full State ticket was put in the field. Fire in Menominee, Wis., destroyed & number of saw and planing mills and 25 000,000 feet of lumber. The loss will reach nearly $500,000. Simon Wormser, member of the banking firm of I. & S. Wormser, died suddenly from heart disease on the street in New York City. Everything was reported to be quiet at the scene of the threatened Indian disturbances in Wyoming. At the Coroner's inquest into the death of Lillie Low in New York City no mention was made of the three persons arrested in connection with it. and after the jury had returned a verdict of suicide they were discharged. The Defender was outsailed by the Vigilant, and under weather conditions in which her owners claimed the new boat would romp right away from the old cup defender. There was a strong wind and a heavy sea. Four miles from the finish the Defender's steering geer became deranged. This probably saved her from defeat. The Cunard steamship Aurania was found disabled in midocean by two steamships. but declined assistance, as her captain decided to make repairs and bring the vessel into New York under her own steam. Secretary Herbert arrived on the Dolphin and inspected the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A large number of colored women assembled in Boston and formed a National League. The doors of the Union Bank, Denver, Col., were closed and that institution is in the hands of the Government. It was upset by a demand for $75,000 of public funds. The County Treasurer's office was closed also. The silver debate between Roswell G. Horr and William H. Harvey, in Chicago, ended. Sergeant Franklin T. Germann, of New York City, while on duty got word that his wife and oldest boy. George, eight years old, had been drownedin Spring Lake, New York, while out boating. Dr. George Drury, of Brooklyn, was summoned to an empty house to attend a case of illness, and was there set upon by three men, bound, gagged and robbed. Fire at Rockville, Conn., destroyed six buildings. The loss is estimated at $100,000. M. E. Cummings, Cashier of the Utah Commercial Savings Bank of Salt Lake City, is alleged to be & defaulter to the extent of over $10,000. Santa Barbara, Cal., experienced an earthquake shock. The first of a fleet of iron canal-boats to' navigate Lake Erie and the Erie Canal was launched at Cleveland, Ohio. At Ceredo, W. Va., Mrs. Wm. Pierce and her son Franklin were drowned at the public landing. They were strangers in that city, having gone there from Middleport, N. Y. At San Francisco, Cal., William Fredericks wat hanged for murder. He made a short speech from the gallows. He shot down Cashier Herrick in a San Francisco bank. Tillie Hein, in attempting to change her seat in a pleasure boat. in midstream, at Otter Dam, north of Burlington, Iowa, overturned the boat, and, with Joseph Nelte and: Arthur Walters, was drowned. The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church opened its annual convention at Ocean Grove, N. J.
