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MEN AND THINGS. Geo. Wm. Curtis has been re-elected president of the civil service reform league. Philips & Cunninghan's oil warehouse, Philadelphia, burned Monday. Loss $500,000. The failures for the month of September number ,754, against 2, 196 for the same month last year. The boycott of the Anheuser-Busch brewing company has been declared off by the knights of labor. Henrietta Merrill, colored, was hanged Monday at Smithville, Va., for the murder of her 8 year-old child. Gov. Steel is at the head of a movement to have the territory of Oklahoma admitted to the union as a state. The navy department estimate for furwishing war vessels already under construction will be $16,000,000 this year. Yale seniors enjoyed their annual shirt rush last week. It was as silly and disgusting as any of its predecessors. James S. Sinclair, who owned a small farm in Lakota, N. D., has succeeded to the title and estate of the earl of Caithness. The exports from the United States during the 12 months ending Aug. 31 were valued at $909,264,438; imports, $839,039,241. S. V. White & Co. will resume business this week. Their assets, it is believed, will be nearly a half million above liabilities. Ralph Ray, of Durango, Col., who murdered his mother, has been arrested and pleads guilty. His father has become insane. Express Messenger Hottel, whose run was between Waco and Gatesville, Tex., has skipped with two packages containing $5,300. Andrew Anderson, Martin Nelson, and an unknown man were drowned by the capsizing of a rowboat at Ashland, Wis., Monday. The refunded 41/2 per cent bonds at 2 per cent amounts to $25,098,950, up to Monday night; the amount redeemed, $17,696,900. Maj. William McKee Dunn, of the Third artillery, U. S. A., died at Cushing's Island, Me., Wednesday. He entered the service at 18. Judge Paschal, of Texas, has refused to naturalize a socialist, R. V. Sauer, because his principles are opposed to those of the United States. The refunding of the 4½ per cent bonds at 2 per cent closed Wednesday. The amount continued is $25,364,500; redeemed, $18,009,600. The First national bank of Clearfield, Pa., closed its doors Wednesday, being unable to stand a run which had been made since last Saturday. T. v. Powderly says the knights of labor and farmers' alliance will hold a convention in Washington February 1st and nominate a candidate for president. The receipts of the government since September 1 amount to $28,385,000, an excess of $4,287,000 over ordinary expenditures during the same time. The United States treasury has $42,000,000 on hand. Which is about $100,000,000 more than it had when President Buchanan vacated the white house. There have been shipped from Duluth, Minn., during the past six weeks 6,500,000 bushels of wheat, of which, it is estimated, 4,000,000 bushels were for direct export. The auditor general of Pennsylvania testified before the legislative committee yesterday that for more than 30 years the state treasurers had bean in arrears during their terms. The sorghum sugar output in Kansas this year will be $,000,000 pounds, of beet sugar it is estimated that Nebraska, Utah and California will produce 24,000,000 pounds. Miners have been parading the streets in Houtsdale, Pa., vewing vengeance on the officials of the Dill bank at Clearfield, which have closed and in which they had all their savings. Ignatius Donnelly has sent a circular to farmers, urging them to hold their wheat for 30 days S longer. He says that farmers are now being robbed of one-third the value of their product. A merchant in Chicago turned over to United States secret service officers several thousand spurious 25c 50c and 10c pieces, a which had been passed in bis store for several years past.
