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THE NEWS. Compiled From Late Dispatches. DOMESTIC. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 23d was: Wheat, 59,971,000 bushels; corn, 18,150,000 bushels; oats, 12,208,000 bushels; rye, 2,657, 000 bushels; barley, 6,146,000 bushels. Mrs. Casper Laboy, of Nesquehoning, Pa., was stabbed to death and her husband fatally slashed by robbers. At Delmont, Pa., John Tarr, aged 25 years. shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. They were not living together. Patrick Meagher, a justice of the peace at Gilberts, III., and his mother were suffocated by coal gas at their home. A temporary prison at Mena, Ark., was burned and Tom Casey and H. Hopkins, confined for disorderly conduct, perished in the flames. Miss Clara Barton, president of the Red Cross society, in her report of the work of the Armenian relief expedition in Asia Minor says that 50,000 Armenians will starve unless helped by May 1. The report of Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, inspector general of the army of the United States, speaks highly of the army as being in as good condition in respect to instruction, discipline, equipE ent and supplies as ever before in its history. For the first time in nearly 20 years the national republican party closed the campaign with all its debts paid and a surplus of $100.000 in its treasury. At Weir, Mass., Frederick Luther. an electric fireman, shot his boarding mistress, Mrs. Abby F. Barber. and then killed himself. No cause is known. Mrs. F. A. Walker and her daughter Mabel and Mary Overland. a domestic, were fatall, burned in Minneapolis by the overturning of a gasoline lamp. Mably & Co., one of the leading retail clothing firms in Detroit, failed for $400,000. The Dakota national bank of Sioux Falls, S. D., closed its doors with liabilities of $230,000. The board of publication of war records has submitted its annual report to the secretary of war. This work has been in progress for 21 years and is about completed. It has cost thus far $2,334,328. Seven sophomores of Princeton (N. J.) university have been suspended for the part they played in the hazing of 11 freshmen. Twenty-six banks in eastern and southeastern Nebraska have been burglarized with losses amounting to over $30,000 within the past two months. It is officially announced that Troop A, Ohio national guard, of Cleveland, will act as the military escort of President-elect McKinley at the inauguration ceremonies in Washington. Alf and Bob Holly brothers) were killed at a negro cake walk at Selma, Ala., by the Hayes brothers, Henry and Jack. A disastrous prairie fire swept over the Seminole country near Rochelle, o. T., and 16 persons were burned to death. The Davies county savings association at Gallatin, Mo., an old banking institution, closed its doors. Joseph Green and Mike Inhofer, two West Newton (Minn.) farmers, were killed instantly by the explosion of a thrashing engine. Rev. James Miller, pastor of Grace Methodist church at Bloomington, III., was murdered in Decatur, where he had gone to visit his son. Robbery was the motive. The differences between the window glass workers and the manufacturers, which has kept the factories of the country idle since May 30, were settled at a conference in Pittsburgh and 15,000 men will be at work again December 15. Baltimore Methodists erected a bronze tablet to mark the site of the Lovely Lane meeting-house, where the Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1784. Mrs. Swearnier, the wife of a rancher living in Lewis county, Wash., cut the throats of her three little girls, aged respectively five years, three years and nine months, and then used the knife on herself. She was insane. The body of the late George W. G. Ferris, inventor of the Ferris wheel, was cremated at Pittsburgh in accordance with a request made by him before his death. Fire destroyed five of the best business houses in Atlama, Tex., the loss being $100,000.
