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Telegraphic Brevities. The settlement among the creditors of the defunct fi m of H. S. Ives & Co., in New York for five cents on the dollar is about to be consummated. A run was made on the Gloucester City, N. J, National Bank to day. The Washington, N. J., Shoe Company is financially embarrassed to the extent of $35,000. W. B. Lindsey, deputy postmaster of Helena, Ark, is $3,500 short in his accounts and a fugitive. The Boston doctors who examined the Swedish woman at quarantine pronounced it a case of Jepresy. The American warships Chicago, Yorktown, Boston, and Atlanta sailed from Malta to-day for Algiers. The Atholde Marble Company, at Fair Haven, near Boston, has been petitioned into insolvency. Liabilities $25,000. James Palmer was hanged in the prison corridor at Concord, N. H, at 11:04 this morning for the murder of Henry T. Whitehouse on May 17, 1888 At the Boston Athletic Association, last night the WO. ld's ocord in rope climbing was beaten by H. Williams, who accomplished 35 feet in 12½ seconds. The proposed reduction in the wages of the employees of the United States Express Company, in New York, was enforced to-day. Everything goes on as usual. D w's scap factory, in Poston, was damaged $15,000 by fire last night. A rendering tank was thrown 100 foot in the air and descended with great force through the roof of an adjoining building. No one was injured. The steamer Brittania, from Moditerrianean ports, which arrived at New York to-day, had an Italian mutineer on board, in irons. He tried to get his 1145 countrymen on board to throw the officers and reamen overboard and take possession of the ship. While driving across the Lehigh Valley tracks at Ballston crossing, near Linden N. Y., yesterday George Webber and his wife were struck by a passing passenger train. Webber was instantly killed and his wife suffered a fracture of the skull and will probably die. In the trial of Mrs. Vandegrift at Mount Holly, N. J., to-day, two of her servants swore to having purchased croton oil at different times for her, but they never saw her put the poison in Frank's food. An attempt to prove that Mrs. Vandegrift committed forgery to raise money was ruled out by the court. This morning an officer went to the residence of Henry C. Eaymond, at Sing Sing, N. Y, to arrest him on the charge of bigamy. Raymond received the announcement cooly, asked the officer to wait till he could get go his bat and then went to his room and fatally shot himself in the side The woman who made the chargeagainst him says Enymond married her in Brooklyn in 1888 and deserted her. He was 45 years of age.
