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paying $650,000. The Wade Park bank, of Cleveland, O., of which Iri Reynolds is secretary and treasurer, together with two branches, has been taken over by the Cleveland Trust company, which will conduct the business of the three institutions. W. C. Matthews, the negro football and baseball player, has been elected one ficers. of Harvard's senior class day ofJames R. Garfield, commissioner of corporations, in his first annual report, made to President Roosevelt, recommends compulsory regulation of corporations chise. under a federal license or franAdmiral Sir Frasmus Ommanney, the "father of the British navy," died at Portsmouth, England, after a lengthy illness. He was the last survivor of the battle of Navarino, fought in 1827, which resulted in the destruction of the Turkish fleet. George L. Shoup, former United States senator from Idaho, died at his home in Boise, Idaho, in his sixty-eighth year. The Metropolitan clubhouse, the home of the most fashionable club in Washington, was gutted by fire, involv$100,000. ing an estimated loss of from $60,000 to Mrs. William Gladden shot and killed her husband at their home at Requa gulch, south of Cripple Creek, Col. She says that he abused and beat her. The bodies of John C. Kenyon, William Lillyblade and William Emmermon have been taken from the Crocker hotel ruins in Minneapolis, Minn. Receipts of the Britt-Nelson glove contest amounted to $26,900. of which Britt received $8,877 and Nelson $5,918. The postmaster general removed two more mail carriers for interference in politics and legislation. Republican leaders conferred on the proposed railway rate bill and assured President Roosevelt congress will act during the present session. All traffic in London was tied up and Christmas shoppers inconvenienced by a dense fog. The Illinois state board of equalization made a cut of $2,000,000 the in assessed valuation of all property in the state. City Clerk Edward M. Schuengel, of Milwaukee, Wis., aged 47 years, died suddenly. Mr. Schuengel had been suffering from Bright's disease and heart trouble for some time. After a lingering illness of three years, due to infirmities of old age, Rt. Rev. Richard Phelan, bishop of Pittsburg diocese, of the Roman Catholic church, died at Pitisburg, Pa., aged 76 years. The official report shows that during the world's fair at St. Louis the total admissions were 19,694,855, of these 12,804,616 were paid. The free admissions amounted to 6,890,239. Two trainmen were killed and one was badly scalded in a collision between freight trains on the Rochester & Pittsburg road, near West Falls, N. Y. The John Thompson & Son agricultural machine works and gasoline engine factory at Beloit, Wis., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $100,000. Seven were killed in the disaster at Minneapolis, Minn., when the wall of the tel. Peck building crushed the Crocker hoSenator Fairbanks has decided to forward his resignation to the governor of Indiana January 9, the date of the meeting of the legislature, to take effect March 4, next, when he will be inaugurated vice president. Four men were killed and their bodies terribly mangled as the result of a boiler explosion at the sawmill of B. F. Redline near Rohrsburg, Pa. James P. Eagle died at Little Rock, Ark., after an illness of three weeks. He 1893. was governor of Arkansas from 1889 to A disastrous storm which suddenly burst on the northern coast of Portugal has caused great loss of life. From reports perished. already received 37 persons have President Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to deliver an address at the Lincoln day dinner to be given by the Republican club, of New York, on the 13th of next February. The Minnesota board of pardons has granted a pardon to Col. Ames, brother of former Mayor Ames, of Minneapolis, and who was Mayor Ames' chief of police He was convicted of graft in connection with the Ames administration. The First national bank, of Conneaut O., and the Marine bank, of Conneaut Harbor, have suspended. The suspen sion resulted from runs on both con cerns owing to the panic caused by the Chadwick affair. e The protestants in the Smoot inquiry rested their case. The hearing was post d poned until January 10, when the de fense will present evidence. e Many Europeans flocking to America now are paupers and unfit for citizen
