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News of the Week. Turk's Island, West India. is being ravaged by yellow fever. Alexander Salvini, the celebrated Italian actor, died on Tuesday, aged 35 years. An epidemic of measles prevails in Pike county, Pa., and several deaths have occurred from the disease. During December there will be 400 sheriff's sales in Crawford county, Pa. Business is booming for the sheriff. Hermann, the magician, died suddenly in Rochester, N. Y., on Thursday. He was born in Germany 50 years ago. Wheat in parts of the Argentine Republic is reported to be in bad condition, especially so in the Province of Santa Fe. Wm. Bruce, of Tulare, California, has a cow that weighs 2500 pounds. She is 5 feet 4 inches tall and is a fine milker. Over 1,000,000 barrels of sweet potatoes were shipped the past season from the two eastern shore counties of Virginia. The First National Bank of Niagara Falls, New York, has suspended. The assets and liabilities are estimated at $800,000. The Harlan, Iowa, Bank was closed by the State Auditors. The deposits, amounting to $75,000, will, it is said, be paid in full. The Cataract Milling Company, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., has been seized by the Sheriff on executions issued by Eastern parties. Smith & Burden, contractors, of Long Island City, N. Y., have made an assignment; liabilities and assets each about $100,000. The postoffice, Lee's Hotel, Masonic Hall and seventeen other buildings, at Floyd's Court House, Virginia, were destroyed by fire Monday. Wm. S. Harris a member of the Chester county Pa. Bar, has been held in $800 bail at West Chester, on a charge of forging bonds aggregating $1800. Willis A. Meyer, who operates a large department store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has assigned; assets from $170,000 to $200,000 and liabilities $100,000. Bagot's Sons, dealers in ladies' wearing apparel, assigned in New York on Saturday. The liabilities are said to be $140,000 and the actual assets $45,000. Fire at Altoona, Pa., Monday night de stroyed the dry goods store of Frank M. Morrow and damaged several other buildings, causing a loss of nearly $100,000. F. B. Newton, a large lumber dealer of Cleveland, Ohio, assigned on Saturday. The assets are $125,000, and the liabilities are expected to reach the same amount. Norfolk, Virginia, and other seaports were flooded by the heavy storms of Monday night and Tuesday. Wires were torn from the poles and few details have been received. From the 1st of August to the present time there have been 106 cases of diphtheria in York, Pa., and 19 deaths; 135 cases of scarlet fever and 5 deaths, and 42 cases of typhoid fever and 7 deaths. Inspection of winter crops of colery, now in trenches in the Kalamazoo, Michigan, celery fields, shows that fully one-third is rotten on account of damp, warm weather. The loss is estimated at $50,000. Statistics compiled by the crop department of Iowa show a loss of over 30 per cent. of all hogs in Iowa by cholera, the percentage being from 1 to 77 in the different counties. The loss in money is given at $15,000,000. The winter's crops in the southern prov inces of Russia have been greatly damaged by the drought. The eastern crops are in a satisfactory condition and those of the western and northern provinces are in a good condition. Reports reached Key West, Fla, Saturday from Cuban sources to the effect that Antonio Maceo was enticed by treachery within the Spanish lines and shot by Spanish troops in ambush. The report is officially denied by the Spanish. Sterling W. Turner, a theological student at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., president of the University Y. M. C. A., committed suicide by cutting his throat on Monday. Ill health had caused him to fall behind his class. More of Carnegie's steel plates would not stand the test, and some of those tested after being placed on the ship at Washington, D. C., showed signs of weakness and had to be taken off. About 300 men will be laid by until other plates are made. The South mountains along the northwestern valley of York county, Pa., are on fire between Smoketown and Black Rock, and much valuable timber land is being destroyed. The fire was started by some boys who tried to smoke a squirrel out of a stump. Mr. Boatner, Louisiana, has offered in the House, a bill increasing to $10,000 per year the salary of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to $7500 per year the salaries of Senators and Representatives, to go into effect March 4, 1897.
