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or Baetke & at Co. Brighton, Mich., was robbed of $4,000. Thomas Cole was hanged at Clinton, Ky., for the murder of Emma Cara Rice, his sweetheart. Dun's review of trade notes brisk business everywhere. Consolidation of all labor unions into one big organization is the aim of labor men. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 28th were: Cincinnati, .800; St. Louis, .667; Brooklyn, .600; Boston, .500; Pittsburgh, .500; Philadelphia, .500; New York, .333; Chicago, .143. More than $100,000,000 has been taken out of the Cripple Creek (Col.) gold mines since 1889. The seventy-ninth anniversary of the birth of Gen. Grant was celebrated at Galena, III. One million feet of hemlock logs were burned near Mellen, Wis., in a forest fire. Toribio Huerta was hanged at Las Cruces, N. Mex., for the murder of a companion to obtain $45. Six miners and 39 mules perished in a fire at Latrobe, Pa. James Callahan was acquitted at Omaha of complicity in the Cudahy kidnaping The jurors were given a bitter scoring from the bench. The national debts of the world at the close of the nineteenth century aggregate $31,000,000,000, largely due to wars. The condition of labor in Porto Rico is much improved since the island came under American control. The governor of Kansas repents of his offer of silver mugs to all triplets born during his second term. He has given 15 already. Job Copping, a florist, and his wife and three children lost their lives in a fire at Houston, Tex. A Cincinnati woman calcimined her husband and the saloon keeper who sold him liquor. The Cuban delegates started for home after asking the president to do all he could to give the island reciprocal trade relations. He assured them political questions must be disposed of before economic questions were considered. The Pan-American exposition in Buffalo will be open from one p. m. until 11 p. m. on Sundays. President McKinley and members of his party started on a trip across the continent. The journey will be 15,000 miles long and will take in 25 states. Twenty persons were killed by a snowslide at Sunrise City, Alaska. Two men, a woman and a boy committed suicide in Chicago in one day. Government Chemist Wiley says that a small proportion of the food sold in American markets is adulterated. The Mechanics' savings bank at Westerly, R. I., went into liquidation with assets of $1,100,000 and liabilities of $1,000,000. The National Women's Christian Temperance union will make an impartial investigation of the effects of the anti-canteen law. George Morrison, 16 years old, shot and killed three desperadoes at a dance near Watseka, Ill. The Building Trades league, a new labor body in Chicago, organized on a basis of arbitration of all disputes and opposition to sympathetic strikes. The longest transmission of electrical power in the world was tested at Oakland, Cal., where street cars were "
