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business Tailures ported in the United States during the seven days ended on the St0h ult. In the week preceding there were 217, and durtime was 190. For the the failures of ing number 1893 the corresponding number in six 1892 months 6,401, the against 5,503 during the same period 1892, showing an increase of 898. The total liabilities in the first six months of 1893 are $168,000,000, while the same period in 1892 they were $62,000,000, showing an increase of $106,000,000. DURING the week ended on the the 30th ult. leading clearing houses in the United States reported exchanges amounting to $936,117,887, against $3,309,822 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1892 the decrease was 7.4. THE First national bank of Provo, Utah, closed its doors, with liabilities of $60,000. A VIOLENT rainstorm, followed by hail, passed over a portion of Iowa in the vicinity of Boone, doing great damage to growing crops. THE American and European copper producers have formed a trust, the properties affected being valued at over $200,000,000. THE Muskegon (Mich.) Iron & Steel company went into a receiver's hands with liabilities of $150,000. WILLIE KEYS, aged 8, and George Compton, aged 6 years, were fatally burned by a gasoline explosion at Hamilton, O. JOE BIRD, a negro, was shot at Wilburton, I. T., by order of the court for murdering his wife and mother-in-law. DURING the months of May and June the total paid attendance at the world's fair 3,728,579. AT the session of the Epworth league in Cleveland a report was adopted asking the world's fair commissioners, on behalf of more than a million people, to close the exposition on Sunday. THE total government receipts during the last fiscal year aggregated $385,000,000 and the expenditures were $383,000,000, leaving a surplus of $200,000,000. SAM WILSON, the lone bandit who robbed the express car of the Missouri Pacific train a few weeks ago, was sentenced'at St. Louis to fifteen years in the penitentiary. WILLIAM PINKNEY and Daniel Barber, both colored, were executed at Marlboro, Md., for the murder of Francis M. Bowie, a wealthy farmer of Prince George county, the evening of March last. SCOTT WIKE, of Illinois, has been appointed assistant secretary of the treasury, and James F. Tillman, of Tennessee, register of the treasury. THE Bank of Clear Creek county at Georgetown, Col., made an assignment with liabilities of $233,000 and assets of $397,000 LIGHTNING set fire to the prairie in Hodgeman county, Kan., and three farm houses and many head of horses and cattle were burned. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued a for the convening conin on Auproclamation gress extraordinary session of gust 7 to consider the financial situation. GUS ALBERS (white) was hanged at New Orleans for the brutal murder of Mrs. Wiemann, a widow lady who had very frequently befriended him. JOHN BERRY, the cowboy who was the first to arrive in Chicago in the great race from Chadron, Neb., was awarded the first prize of $1,000. THE public debt statement issued on the 1st showed that the debt decreased $1,217,258 during the month of June. The cash in the treasury was $745,004,601. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $838, 969,476. ROBERT P. PORTER, superintendent of the census, tendered his resignation. WILLIAM B. SHAW, ex-cashier of the Lincoln national bank in Bath, Me., was sentenced to ten years in state's prison for embezzlement. TEN lives were lost by floods from a crevasse at the New river basin near New Orleans. CLIFFORD CALVERLY walked across the Niagara gorge at Niagara Falls a three-quarter inch wire cable. He also wheeled a cooking range out on t and there lighting a fire in it cooked several dishes of food, which he ate. R. E. PEARY'S ship Falcon left New York for the Arctic ocean. THE total amount of money received for duties, etc., at the New York custom house during the year ended on the 1st was $138,000,000. AT the session in Chicago of the National Association of Elocutionists F. F. Mackay, of New York, was elected president. THE military department of Arizona has been reorganized under the name of the department of Colorado and headquarters established at Denver. A STATEMENT of the government bureau of statistics shows the value of merchandise imported for the world's fair was $12,160,042. A CONVENTION of the advocates of free coinage will be held at St. Louis July 17. THE gold reserve in the treasury at Washington on the 1st was $95,485,413, or $436,773 more. than a month ago. T.J. WOOD, until recently cashier of the Ninth national Tex., was on the embezzling of the arrested $229,000 bank bank's charge of Dallas, money. of THE percentages of the baseball clubs
