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IN GENERAL The Marion, O., Deposit Bank has closed its doors. The Hotel Chalfonte, at Cape May, was sold at sheriff's sale Mouday for $20,000. The new Masonic Home in Wichita, Kan., was seriously damaged by fire Monday. The new Turkish minister, Mustapha Tabsin Bey, arrived in Washington Monday. B. F. Foster, grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, died in Indianapolis Monday. Commander William M. Gamble, U. S. N., retired, died Monday in Morristown, N. J., at the age of 70 years. The entire business portion of Enfield, Mass., comprising the property of 12 business firms, was burned Monday. Senator Peterson of Minnesota declares that McKinley will carry that State by from 35,000 to 50,000 majority. The plant of the Alexandria, Va., Fertilizer Manufacturing Co. was damaged by fire Sunday night to the extent of $20,000. St. Peter's Polish Catholic Church at Stevens' Point, Wis., was burned Sunday by a fire supposed to have been of incendiary origin; loss, $30,000. Candidate Bryan denies the report that he had applied to the manager of a New York theatre, in January last, for the position of press agent. L. W. Yeomans & Co.'s drug store in Belleville, Ont., was burned Monday morning. L. W. Yeomans the head of the firm perished in the flames. At Somerville, N. Y., Sunday, Orrin D. Kinnie killed his father with an axe and then took his own life by hanging. He is supposed to have been insane. The Comptroller of the Currency has declared a final dividend of 10½ per cent to the depositors of the Corry, Pa., National Bank, making in all 801/2 per cent. Charles Bertrand & Co., general storokeepers of Isle Verte, Quebec, have failed. Their liabilities are $235,000, and they claim assets amounting to $288,000. Ex-Gov. and Judge S. Brooks Fleming of Fairmont, one of the leading Democrats of West Virginia, has announced his opposition to Bryan and the Chicago platform. Fitzhugh Lee, consul-general at Havana, bas been granted leave of absence and will return to his home in Virginia. It is said he returns solely on account of his health. It is stated that the Pope is sending special instructions to Archbishop Martinelli in regard to the attitude of the Catholic clergy in America in the present political campaign. St. Clair Grover and his brother. a deaf mute, are under arrest at Clarks8 ville, Ga., charged with the murder of their grandmother because she had cut off the first-named grandson in her r will. Gladstone declares that it would be a wild paradox to say that the enforcement of British treaty rights to stop the systematic massacres in Turkey would provoke hostilities from the Powers. A fire at Corsicana, Tex., Sunday, destroyed the National Oil Co. 's cotton oil mili, together with machinery, a S large quantity of cotton-seed, crued and refined oil. The Jose is estimated at $70,000. A 500-pound clock weight crashed r through three floors of St. Hedwick's Church in Milwaukee, Sunday afternoon. The church was crowded at the time and a panic ensued but no one c was injured. 6 0 A Boston dispatch says that the Hallett & Davis Piano Co.: which
