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News of the Week. P.A.&W.V. Ahl, of Carlisle, Pa., made an assignment on Tuesday. The heaviest snow of the season fell on Tuesday at Dayton, Ohio. It is estimated that the number of men in the skilled trades now unemployed in Cincinnati is 16,700. Twenty-five car loads of fireworks for the inauguration festivities on the night of March 4th have arrived in Washington. The venerable W. W. Corcoran is confined to his bed with a cold contracted at the dedi cation of the Washington monument. Frederick Becker, treasurer of Chippewa county, Wisconsin, has been missing for over a week, and his accounts are about $10,000 short. A telegram from Lewisburg, Penna., says that about fifty "Omish people" left there or Tuesday for Lyons, Kansas, where they intend to settle. The California Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution requesting Con gress to pass the bill to place General Grant on the retired list. Annie Sullivan, wife of the pugilist John L. Sullivan, of Boston, has sued for divorce on the grounds of "cruel and abusive treat ment and gross and confirmed habits of intox ication. Great apprehension is felt in Pittsburg for the safety of about $1,500,000 worth of coal and coke lying along the Monongahela, which will be endangered by a sudden breaking up of the ice. President Arthur, it is stated, will remain in Washington for several days after March 4th, as the guest of Secretary Frelinghuysen. He will then take possession of his residence in New York City. While the closing hymn was being sung in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, Sunday morning Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher was taken sick while sitting in her pew, and was taken home in carriage. The attack is slight paralysis of the muscles of the throat, with which she has been afflicted before. Michael Murray, Charles Cassidy, Anthony Gerhardt and William Livenbroe, all boys, belonging to a gang of burglars, organized for "safe-blowing, were arrested in Cleveland. Ohio, on Sunday, and have been sent to the workhouse. Three others, whose names are not given, have also been captured. Miss Mary M. Fletcher, a wellknown lady, died on Tuesday in Burlington, Vermont, after a short illness, of congestion of the lungs. She was founder of the Fletcher Free Library and of the Mary Fletcher Hospital, "the latter being the largest benefaction ever given the public by a single individual in Vermont. The Robesonia Furnace plant, in Berks county, Penna., has been sold to William R. White and Mrs. Henry Borie, both of Philadelphia, for $870,000. This is believed to be the largest sum ever paid in Pennsylvania for a similar property. The furnace has the exclusive right to take "as much ore as it can use forever' from the Cornwall hills. Edward Vogely, bookkeeper of the Butler Savings Bank, at Butler, Pennsylvania, disappeared Sunday, after having sunk more than $40,000 of the bank money in stock speculations. Vogely was a Sunday school teach er, and considered model young man. It is said the bank, upon which a run has commenced, will be able to meet all demands. Silas E. Griffis, sheriff of Pottawatomie county, Kansas, disappeared Monday, with the proceeds of a sale of $20,000 worth of corn and cattle. He gave a check for the amount due each creditor on the commission firm in Kansas City to whom he represented he would ship. The cattle were sold by another firm and he is gone. General Hatch left Wichita, Kansas, Monday to be ready for a new invasion of Oklahoma, which is fixed for March 5th. The Camp Russell troops have returned to Fort Reno, in the Indian Territory, Indian hostilities being threatened. The Indians, excited by the recent raid of the Oklahoma "boomers, have recently been firing occasional shots into the fort. While a large, partly hollow, tree was being made into firewood near Galion, Ohio, on Saturday, the sawyers were horrified to find that they they had cut off the head from a man's body. A search revealed in the hollow of the log the body of the man, $800 in money, and a lot of burglar's tools. It supposed that the man got into the tree to hide, and, being unable to get out, starved to death. At a meeting on Tuesday of the General Ministerial Association of Portland, Oregon, composed of all the Evangelical Ministers of that city and East Portland, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That we, as an Association of Ministers, do hereby agree that we will refuse to marry any persons who have been divorced for other than Scriptural reasons, and also the guilty party in a rightful case." A very remarkable meteor passed over Victoria, British Columbia, at nine 0 clock Monday morning. An Associated Press despatch says: "It was of enormous size and appeared like a mass of molten iron. The noise caused by its passage was like that of escaping steam. Smoke and flames were thrown off by the meteor. It was seen to descend into the sea, a cloud of spray and steam marking the spot. General Horace Capron, ex Commissioner of Agriculture, died in Washington on Sunday night, at the age of about 75 years. He caught a violent cold at the dedication of the Washington monument on Saturday. Gen. Capron was native of Maryland. He was appointed Commissioner of Agriculture by President Lineola and served until 1871, when he resigned to accept a similar position in Japan, where he resided four years. A telegram from Wheeling reports that for some time past great distress, caused by the ruin of the crops by last summer's drought and the unusual severity of the present winter, has prevailed in portions of the counties of Lewis, Braxton, Calhoun and Gilmer, in West Virginia. Whole neighborhoods of people are actually famished for want of proper food, and large amount of stock of all kinds have died. The Legislature Monday took measures to relieve the sufferers. Henry Jones, a farmer near Waynesboro, Ga., plants a crop of ground peas every year. This attracts a large number of crows, result ing in great damage. Informing himself of the use of dynamite, Mr. Jones secured a small quantity, picked it into a lot of peas, an scattered them around for the crows on Tuesday. They came and took the bait. One rose several hundred feet in the air when the dynamite exploded. Since then not a crow has been seen on the place. James F. Adams, of Coble. and John Drum beller, of Catawissa, were on Monday arrested at Sunbury, Pa., on the charge of counterfeiting. E. D. Yardy, of Shamokin, said to belong to the same gang, was also arrested at that place, but, being seized with nervous prostration, was allowed to remain at his house under guard. Counterfeit five and ten dollar gold pieces were found on Adams and a quantity of counterfeiters' tools were found at the prisoners' houses. Dr. Cyrus Edson on Tuesday reported to the New York Board of Health a case of arsenical poisoning by wall paper in the house of Jay Dowd, 178 Lexington avenue. The paper had gray and red flowers on gilt ground. Mr. and Mrs. Dowd, who slept in the room, developed catarrh, pharyngitis, migraine, con junctivitis, cold extremities, muscular pains and sore joints and swelling of the salivary glands. seamstress, who worked in the room displayed similar symptoms. In wet weather all the symptoms were aggravated. The paper cost thirty-five cents roll.
