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EPITOME OF THE WEEK Interesting News Compilation. DOMESTIC. R. E. WALLACE, President of the First National Bank of Jamestown, D. T., on the 26th confessed judgment to his brother in Newcastle, Pa., in the sum of $80,000, and the bank suspended. A FEW nights ago the Pacific Bank of St. Paul, Minn., was robbed of $10,000. The money was taken from the safe by some person who must have known the combination. A young book-keeper named Mason was suspected. A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt in Eastern Tennessee the other night. It lasted a minute and a half. A BOSTON dispatch of the 26th states that the most perfect counterfeit silver dollar since 1881 has made its appearance in that city. The only perceptible difference between it and a genuine dollar is that it does not weigh as muchas the standard dollar. It is also thicker, and will not enter a tester. It has about the same ring as a good dollar. THREE cases of leprosy exist within ten miles of Granite Falls, Minn. REV. CHARLES SHARP, a Catholic priest, shot himself dead a few days ago at Bloomfield, near Pittsburgh, Pa. He was crazed by sickness. THREE young women-Bridget Hayes, Annie Hayes and Mary McCabe-residents of New York City, were drowned at Catskill, N. Y., recently, while bathing in a creek. SAMUEL ROBERTS, late paymaster of Charles Parrish & Co., coal operators at Wilkesbarre, Pa., was on the 27th reported a defaulter to the amount of $50,000 or $75,000. He surrendered his property to his employers, and a settlement has been effected. THIS year's hop crop in this country is estimated to be about one-fourth short of the average. THE Second National Bank of Xenia, O., suspended on the 27th, owing to speculations by its cashier, J. S. Ankeney. The liabilities were placed at $400,000; assets, $600,000. DR. SALMON, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, said on the 27th that he found eight cases of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle in the vicinity of Chicago, and ten cases in other parts of the State. NINE HUNDRED cigar-makers have been on a strike at Cincinnati for twenty-four weeks, during which time the union has paid out $130,000 in benefits. SEVERAL arrests have been made at Duck Hill, Miss., of parties who have on several occasions wrecked trains on the Illinois Central Railroad. Two CHILDREN of Judge Davidson, of Cleveland, O., a boy aged fourteen years, and a girl-aged eleven, were drowned at Dennison a few days ago by the upsetting of a boat. The bodies were recovered. A CYCLONE visited Forestburg and Diana, D. T., on the 28th. At the former place a farmer named Briggs lost his house, thirty head of cattle and three horses, and a man named McKillon was killed. At Diana a track eighty yards wide was swept over, several houses were destroyed, and a number of lives were lost. AN open switch the other night on the Wabash Road wrecked over twenty freight cars, killing Henry Nordeck, the engineer, and Thomas Devlin, the brakeman. THE business portion of the village of Adams, Jefferson County, N. Y., was burned on the 28th, involving a loss of $200,000. GRAND DUCHESS 43d, an animal that cost about $3,000 in England, was burned to death in a railroad accident near Albany, N. Y., a few days ago. BANNISTER'S shoe factory at Newark, N. J., was burned the other morning. Loss, $100,000. DURING a recent fire in a tenement house in Minneapolis James Curran, one of the occupants, was fatally burned. He had rushed back tc rescue a child. MAGGIE JONES, of Baltimore, in filing a bill for divorce a few days ago alleged that she believed she was marrying a bachelor of sixty years, but discovered at his residence nine grown children, eight of whom were older than herself. S. W. TALLMADGE, the crop statistician of Milwaukee, on the 28th issued his final estimate of the wheat crop of the United States for 1884, as follows: Winter wheat, $30,000,000 bushels; spring wheat, 150,000,000, or 130,000,000 bushels more than the crop of 1883. AGENTS of the West Shore Road were selling tickets from New York to Chicago for $14 on the 29th. A RAILROAD-CAR attached to a circustrain caught fire near Greeley, Col., on the 29th, and of seventy-five men who were sleeping in the car at the time ten perished, and several others were badly scorched. WESLEY A. LUMM, while city engineer at Sandusky, O., was indicted for accepting bribes. He soon entered on a career of dissipation, which caused his wife to commit suicide, and he finished the sad chapter on the 29th by ending his own days with morphine. AN unknown sailor died of yellow fever in New York on the 29th, the first case there. EXECUTIONS for murder took place as follows on the 29th: Berry Johnson (colored). at Shreveport Ln. Schip Holly
