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# NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
# DOMESTIC.
AT St. Louis, Mo., on the 31st ult., it was stated that an amicable agreement had been reached in the difficulty existing for nearly four years between Liggett and Myers, tobacco manufacturers, and the Knights of Labor.
PURCELL THOMAS, an æronaut of national reputation, while making an umbrella descent from the top of the parade house at Buffalo, N. Y., on the 31st ult., lost control of the parachute and fell a distance of fifty feet, sustaining fatal injuries.
Ar a meeting of the creditors of ex-Secretary Foster, at Fostoria, O., on the 31st ult., it was decided to accept 50 per cent. in payment of claims, leaving it with Mr. Foster entirely as to whether or not he should pay more in the future if he became financially able to do so.
# THE Sixty-seventh annual meeting of the Home Missionary Society of the United States
commenced at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., on the 31st. The reports showed total receipts for the past year $738,081, an increase over the previous year of $75,292. The society workers number 2,002, ministering to 3,841 congregations and missionary fields. New schools to the number of 265 have been organized. One hundred and forty new churches have been established. Gen. O. O. Howard was re-elected president; Rev. W. H. Holman, recording secretary; George S. Coe, auditor.
A STOCK train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road was wrecked near Sioux City, Ia., on the 31st ult. Five persons were injured, one fatally. A half dozen cars were demolished and considerable stock killed.
A DISPATCH was received at the state department from Minister Baker, dated Massaya, June 1, stating that peace is restored at Nicaragua and the new government went into operation on that day.
# THE furnaces of the Rock Hill Coal and Iron Company at Rock Hill, Pa.,
were closed down indefinitely on the 31st ult., owing to a strike of the employes, who demanded the reinstatement of several discharged leaders of the local labor union. The company refused to accede to the demands of the men.
Ат Tacoma, Wash., on the 1st the directors of the Merchants' National bank announced a temporary suspension, owing to the run which lasted thirty days and the failure of the bank to realize on its assets
# THE steamship Fuerst Bismark, which sailed from New York on the 1st for Europe,
carried $2,750,000 gold and $182,800 silver.
P. F. FLEURY, manager of the Waukesha Mineral Springs Company, was fatally shot by burglars at Chicago on the 1st.
On the 1st Dean Bros.' bank at Ava, Ill., was robbed between 12 and 1 o'clock at noon of about $3,000. There was no clew as to who committed the robbery. Runners were sent out in all directions.
NEAR Haddam, Washington county, Kan., on the 1st, S. C. Kerns shot and instantly killed W. R. Combs. They were interfering with a fist fight which was in progress between two farmers and began quareling themselves. Kerns drew a revolver from his boot and placing it at Combs' breast sent a bullet through his heart.
FULL blooded Chickasaw Indians have held indignation meetings and forwarded protests to President Cleveland against letting the treasurer of the Chickasaws distribute the big strip money. They are afraid of being cheated.
NEAR Los Angeles, Cal., on the 1st, a regular freight train was run into and badly wrecked by a special freight. George R. Shatte, a prominent capitalist, was instantly killed. A number of other passengers were badly cut and bruised.
GEORGE M. VAN LEVEN, JR., has been held to the United States grand jury at Dubuque, Ia., in $2,000 bonds on the charge of illegally receiving money for securing a pension.
D N. MORGAN, of Connecticut, the new United States treasurer, took the oath of office on the 1st and entered upon the discharge of his duties, relieving E. H. Nebecker, of Indiana. The committee appointed to count the money in the treasury immediately assumed charge and began the count. It will take six weeks to complete it.
AT St. Louis, Mo., on the 1st representatives of several wholesale houses in that city returned from a conference recently held at Pittsburgh, Pa., and stated that another trust to be known as the American Flint Bottle Company is about to be formed with a capital of $1,000,000.
# THE Hope rice mill at New Orleans, La., was totally destroyed by fire on 2d,
entailing a loss of $100,000; partially insured.
AT Nashville, Tenn., the high court of impeachment on the 2d found Judge Julius J. Dubose, of the Shelby county criminal court, guilty of two charges in the articles of impeachment preferred.
# THE street car strike at Fort Wayne, Ind., was declared off on the 2d.
The motormen and conductors were granted the advance in wages which they demanded.
BUSINESS failures occurring during the seven days ending June 2, numbered for the United States 238 and for Canada 21, total 259, against 207 for the corresponding week of last year.
# THE failure to raise $6,500,000 on the Cherokee strip bonds has caused a commercial crisis in the Indian territory.
J. W. Stahler & Son, at Tahlequah, the principal traders on the strip
