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Domestic. The failure is reported of the First National Bank of Orleans, Neb. Simon Banks, a wealthy farmer and shipowner at Southport. Conn., dropped dead just after discharging a shotgun at a cat. Mr. Banks was sixty-seven years old, and was a sufferer from heart disease. shot James A. Marks, of Newark, N. and killed John Sauerbrei, who conducted a delicatessen shop in Bayonne, N. J. Marks attempted to dispossess Sauerbrei illegally from the shop. George Louis Shaw, of Baltimore, was arrested, charged with having aided George Barnard, the dead cashier of the Fort Stanwix National Bank of Rome. N. Y., to embezzle or misapprop riate $32,000 of the funds of the bank. = The Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly; the retiring Moderator, Dr. Withrow, preached the opening sermon. The Brooklyn Navy Yard band has applied for discharge from the Government service because it has been ordered to accompany the Brooklyn to English waters during the Queen's jubilee. The Florida House of Representatives has adopted a resolution appointing exSenator Call State agent for the collection of an Indian war claim of $750,000. Marquis Visconti Venosta, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, suggests reprisals for American tariff duties. 'A new loan of $4,000,000 has been sanctioned by the Uruguayan Chamber. The armistice between Greece and Turkey has been fixed at seventeen days. A neutral zone is to be established between the armies. The terms of peace may be the result of long deliberation on the part of the powers. There is talk in Japan of retaliatory measures against the new American tariff. Five cannon, captured by General Scott from General Santa Anna during the Mexican war have been stolen from the West Point (N. Y.) Military Academy grounds. Judge Chester, at Monticello, N. Y., declined to vacate the order granted May 11 with reference to changing the place of taking testimony in the proceedings against the alleged Coal Trust. He did grant an order, however, tending to delay the beginning of the investigation. At San Antonio, Texas, natural gas has been struck at a depth of 600 feet in a well on the County Court House grounds. Mrs. L. C. Elliott. of Nashua, N. H., died of excessive bicycle riding, according to physicians. She spent much of her time on her wheel, and recently cerebo-spinal meningitis developed. By a fire in Jersey City, N.J., six houses were destroyed, eleven badly damaged, and seventy families were rendered homeless. No lives were lost. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Miss Fannie Richardson, a recluse and miser. died in Taunton, Mass, worth $50,000. No will has been found, and as far as is known she had DO relatives. The Pittsburg jury returned a verdict of acquittal in the case of Lieutenant Edward S. Farrow, charged with conspiring to defraud the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association of New York. The members of the United States Birnetallic Commission are in Paris waiting for the appointment of French delegates by President Faure before they proceed. to England. Oscar Wilde, who was sentenced on May 25, 1895, to two years' imprisonment with hard labor. was released from Holloway (England) Prison. He refused $5000 to write his prison experiences. He will do literary work in London under his own name. Superintendent of Streets Thomas F. Maloney, of Buffalo, N. Y., was convicted of attempting to bribe Superintendent of Police W. S. Bull by offering him $500 to protect the Goelet Gambling Club last July. The Presbyterian Union Theological Seminary graduation exercises were held in New York City, and Miss Briggs, daughter of Professor C.A. Briggs, received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, being the first woman graduate of the seminary. A diver discovered that the leak in the big navy yard dock at Brooklyn is caused by a ten-foot-square hole in the apron outside of the caisson. Much additional damaging evidence has been found against Adolph L. Luetgert, the rich sausage manufacturer, of Chicago, Ill.. who is accused of murdering his wife and burning her body. Phineas B. Smith, a well-known citizen of Roxbury, Mass., died of heart trouble resulting from overexertion in climbing a hill while riding a bicycle. He was fiftynine years of age and was a lawyer. Governor Black. of New York, has signed the General Tax Rate bill. The State tax rate for the year is 2.67 mills. The revenues from direct taxation are estimated at $12,003 792.92, and from indirect taxation at $10,043,708. The Illinois Battlefield Commission has decided to erect nine monuments each at Lookout Mountain and at the north end of Mission Ridge to the Illinois regiments which participated in these battles. In New York City Helen Horsford, left an orphan by the death of her mother, grieved constantly, and committed suicide by hanging. There was a $25,000 run on the Framingham Savings Bank at South Framingham, Mass. The Government Building at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition was opened. George Bartholomew, an engineer for the Crown Slate Company at Pen Argyl, Penn., was blown to pieces by the explosion of a boiler. Bartholomew is supposed to have fallen asleep and on awakening found the boiler dry and turned on the water, thereby causing the explosion. His sister, when she learned of her brother's death, attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself into the burning boiler house. John Farrell was fined 85 for planting potatoes on Sunday at Nanuet, N. Y. The Holland, a small vessel owned by her inventor and designed for submarine warfare, was successfully launched at Elizabethport, N.
