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News of the Week. The receipts at the places of amusement in New York city, from September last to May, is estimated at $8,000,000. Subscriptions for a cotton mill to be erected Aberdeen, Miss., to cost $100,000 were secured in that town in few hours last week. The Harmony Savings Bank, at Harmony, Penna., suspended on Thursday of last week, its money being tied up with the Penn Bank. Nearly four score young lawyers were turned loose from the Columbian University Law Department, Washington, on Tuesday night. The East London Aquarium was burned on Wednesday. Lions, bears, jackals and monkeys perished in the flames, and many animals were shot. There was a heavy snow storm last Friday morning along the route of the Lake Shore Railroad. The trains arriving in Buffalo were covered with snow. Mrs. J.N. Anders was burned to death by the explosion of a coal oil can, at Winchester, Va., on Wednesday evening, while she was starting a fire with coal oil. A faction of the United Presbyterians threaten to secede from the General Assembly, because that body did not condemn the use of musical instruments in the churches. The failure of Rhind & Bell, stock brokers of Augusta, Georgia, was reported last Friday. Rhind said that Bell used the firm's name in stock speculations in New York without au thority. A violent shock of earthquake occurred May 19 on the Island of Kishm, near the mouth of the Persian gulf. Twelve villages were destroyed, 200 persons killed and many others injured. Mr. John C. Eno, the absconding president of the Second National Bank of New York, was arrested Saturday at Quebec, on board the steamer on which he had taken passage for Europe. Gen. O. E. Babcock, who obtained considerable notoriety for his indictment in the whiskey ring fraudsand in the Harrington safe burglary, was drowned while boating in Flor: ida on Tuesday. A cattle "round-up" camp on Frenchman Creek, near the Nebraska and Colorado'line, was destroyed by a cloud burst on Thursday of last week, and eleven cowboys perished. The bodies of four have been recovered. Two masked men entered the house of Mrs. M. J. Truax, widow of the late Senator Truax, at Osborn, Mo., about 2 o'clock on Sunday morning, for the purpose of robbery, but finding no money, bound and gagged Mrs. Truax and outraged her. The National Line's new steamer America, which left Queenstown at 11 A. M. May 29, arrived off the New York bar at 10 clock Wednesday night. The time of passage (including the 4 hours and 22 minutes difference of time) was 6 days 15 hours and 22 minutes. In St. Louis on Wednesday John Staunton, a steamboat engineer, threw almost a gobletful of sulphuric acid over his wife as she lay in bed, inflicting fatal injuries. Her eyes were eaten out by the acid, and her face, neck, breast and shoulders were terribly burned. Henry B. Palmer, of New Orleans, who has swindled hundreds of victims all over the country, is under arrest in New York for en deavoring to entrap young women to pay him $50 to be employed as saleswomen for military chess game called "Grant's National Victory. Wm. Wallace, one of the most prominent business men of Stroudsburg, Pa., and president of the Stroudsburg Bank, failed on Wedneaday with liabilities of over $100,000. Itis charged that he had used $90,000 of the bank's money secured by paper only. The bank is still open. The London Telegraph says that the London dynamiters are directed by leaders in New York whom the American goverment should be asked not to harbor. The Republique Francaise of Paris severely condemns the United States for allowing dynamiters to plan outrages In America. Considerable excitement has been caused at Hammonton, N.J., by the discovery ofthe bodies of twenty-one infants buried in a plot of ground attached to the Mission Home, a sanitarium for ohildren conducted by Miss S. S. Nivison. It is charged that the death of the children resulted from improper food and want of care. In consequence of the dullness of the trade and the low prices of goods, the Ettricks, Mattoaco, Battersea and Swift Creek Manu facturing Companies, of Petersburg, Va., have decided to run their mills only on half time. These are four of the largest eotton factories in Petersburg, and give employment to several hundred hands. The convention of Exposition and Fair Managers, at St. Louis, on Wednesday adopted a resolution for the appointment of a com. mittee to report # plan of organization and management of world' fair to be held in 1892, to commemprate the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus. St Louis was recommended as the place for holding the fair, A Remarkable American Dwarf, who is not in a show, is Abechem Sawyer, of Cedar Key, Fla. He is 40, inches high, weighs 39 pounds, and is 22 years old. He is well proportioned, very bright, and can make a good speech in high voice that sounds like child's He was once reporter on the Key West Democrat, and is now clerk in a grocery store. He has a sister 17 years old, who is just a quarter of an inch taller than himself. The mill of Wood & Thayer, in Montealm county, Michigan, was destroyed by boiler explosion last Friday afternoon. Wesley Ammen, Augustus Newman and man named Matthews were killed. Four men were injured, one of them named Charles Sauers, it feared fatally, It is reported that the wife of one of the men killed being crazed by the shock, committed suicide on Saturday night by cutting her throat. The Rev. Benjamin Bosworth Smith, of Kentucky, presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this country, died of old age Saturday morning at his home in New York city, Though the Bishop would have ended his ninetieth your in 140 weeks more, his mental and bodily powers retained their normal condition until within the last month, when be attended a special meeting of the House of Bishops, held in New York, Rufus Minor, # noted bank robber, was AP: rested in New York last week for complicity in the robbery of $2700 from the Commercial Bank, of Augusta, Georgia, in Maroh last. Minor. it is said, has been arrested # number of times for engaging in bank robberies, but has always escaped punishment, He was one of the men who robbed the Bank of Baltimore of $22,000 on November 25th, 1882, and in the same year he assisted in stealing $71,000 worth of railroad bonds from a safe deposit company in Philadelphia. Riddle, the President, and Reider, the Cashier of the Penn Bank, were arrested in Pittsburg on Saturday evening, on the charge of conspiracy. Riddle, who is too sick to be removed from his bed. is guarded at the hospital by a policeman, while Reider is in jail. Suit has also been roughtagainst their bondsmen. The bond of the President is for $80,000; that of the Cashier for $50,000. T. J. Watson, the gil broker, whois charged with having aided in the wrecking of the bank, was arrested at Jersey City on Saturday morning. The trial of S. D. Hall, at Christiansburg, Virginia, for the murder of C. A. Bowyer, in 1870, resulted last Friday in a verdict of murder In the first degreg, A new trial WAS re: fused, and Hall WHA sentenced to 4e hanged on August 8th. The murder was the result of feud. Bowyer, who was land owner.
