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John G. Stewart, banker, Coshocton, Ohio, has assigned.
Rev. R. Heber Newton denies that he endorses Ingersoll.
C. K. Ingham has been nominated for postmaster of Afton, Iowa.
The coinage of the mints during January was $4,642,187, of which $2,385,200 were standard dollars.
Canon King, professor of theology in the University of Oxford, has accepted the bishopric of Lincoln.
Annie M. Knapp of Philadelphia committed suicide, rather than marry the suitor selected by her mother.
Mrs. John Tucker, aged twenty-two, has been arrested at Mayville, Ky., on a charge of killing her husband, aged sixty.
The Mormon temple at Salt Lake will yet require more than four years for its completion, and will cost $3,000,000.
J. C. Briggs, a prominent farmer of Colby, Wis., committed suicide-caused by ill health and financial despondency.
William Leonard, a native of Wexford county, Ireland, died at the Providence hospital, Seattle, Wash. Ter., aged 106 years.
Ezra Bostwick of Union City, Mich., has donated a 640 acre farm, valued at $30,000, to Albion college, for a chair of astronomy.
Mrs. Leaman, of Doland, Dak., left her little boy alone in the house and returned to find him so badly burned that he died soon after.
At Durand, Wis., the body of Mrs. Catenhausen was found in her cellar. Her husband confessed the deed, and hanged himself in jail.
Frank M. Duffy, the postal clerk arrested at Winnipeg on a charge of mail robbery, has been released for lack of evidence to convict.
The property of the La Crosse Gas company was sold to W. W. Woodbury of Minneapolis; consideration private, but probably $100,000.
Three disastrous explosions of natural gas occurred in three adjoining houses. A score of people were injured, some of them fatally.
O. C. Hanson, aged thirty-four, and his wife, aged thirty-three were found dead in their bed at Racine, Wis., having been suffocated by coal gas.
Charles E. Hill of Syracuse, N. Y., who died in Japan last October, leaving $1,500,000, received a divorce three days before his death, and Mrs. Hill will fight for his ducats.
Joseph Kaufmann of Dubuque, who had been slowly starving to death from a paralyzed stomach, died recently. It is a remarkable case and has puzzled the medical fraternity.
At Vincennes, Ind., Adolph Graphenstein shot Henry Bussman three times, and supposing that he was dead, robbed him of $150 and covered his body with snow. Bussman recovered.
The municipal authorities of Paris have decided to raise a loan of $40,000,000 for the completion of long-projected public improvements which will furnish work for thousands of the unemployed.
Gen. James Chestnut, United States senator from South Carolina at the time the state seceded from the Union, and afterward member of the Montgomery congress, died at Camden, S. C., aged seventy years.
The schedules of John J. Cisco & Son, New York, shows debts and liabilities to be $2,987,000; nominal assets, $3,264,000, and actual assets will be largely increased by the realization of the true value of the securities.
Mr. Cannon, controller of the currency, says the contraction of national bank circulation is less than was anticipated, owing largely to the absence of bond calls. The banks generally desire to continue their charters.
Postoffices discontinued: Iowa-Bailey, Hancock county, mail to Aldrich. Postmasters Commissioned-William T. Bycroft, Goodle, Dak.; J. W. Henton, Hot Springs, Dak.; Annie E. Henry, West Grove, Iowa.
Julius Yattow, one of the deputy United States marshals in Chicago tried on the charge of murder, for having killed a man on the day of the recent national election, was acquitted before a state petit jury, he having acted in self-defense.
Truth reminds the shriekers against America in the dynamite matter that Lord Palmerston was turned out of office for venturing to try and strengthen the English law when Orsini threw his bombs at Napoleon, believed to have been made in England.
Rev. Mr. Lough, assistant chaplain to the imperial troops on the British North American station has been convicted of drunkenness and indecent assault upon the wife of Sergeant Talbot, a member of his congregation. He was fined $50 or three months in jail at Halifax.
