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DOMESTIC. The centennial of the establishment of the national capital at Washington was celebrated with pomp. President McKinley, Gen. Miles and the governors of many states took part in the large military and civic parade. The bank at Brillion. Wis., closed its doors with liabilities of $12,000. Justice Andrews. of the New York supreme court, held that midnight was late enough for woman to stay out. Sidney Samuel. son of a New York rabbi, shot and killed himself because he could not marry a Catholic. A lone highwayman held up the Lakeview and Ager stage near Lakeview, Ore., securing a large amount of registered mail. The Illinois Staats Zeitung, with ground and building, was sold in Chicago to Mrs. Margaret Raster for $200,200. The body of Michael Corcoran, a wealthy farmer, was found in a corn field near Griggsville, Ill., with two bullet holes in the head. Mrs. Jeanette Broadbent, witness in a divorce case at Des Moines, Ia., was shot by an unknown person. Fire destroyed a convent at Fort Dodge, Ia., and sisters of mercy and children narrowly escaped the flames. The American Federation of Labor in convention at Louisville voted down a resolution asking for a department of labor in the national cabinet. The Michigan legislature met in spe-, cial session to consider the tax question. Two robbers nearly killed a postal clerk on the Cotton Belt train at Bassett. Tex., and plundered the mail pouches. An Illinois Central fast train was held up near New Orleans, the conductor shot in the back and the mail car robbed of registered money packages. The National Civil Service Reform league met in New York. Joseph Huffman shot and killed Thomas Meeham. a rival coal dealer, and then killed himself in Chicago. William Woodson, a convict, was hanged at Richmond, Va., for the murder in May last of Ambrose Ferrbre, a fellow convict. The Klondike and Alaska gold yield this year is estimated at $25,724,223. The Order of Chosen Friends, one of the largest fraterna! insurance associations in the United States, with headquarters at Indianapolis and branches in 31 states, has asked for a receiver. A fast mail train on the Burlington was wrecked near Kirkwood, Ia., and one man was killed and five injured. bank at was robbed of Shanesville, John Doerschuck's O., private $2,500 by safeblowers, who escaped on a handcar. President McKinley has reappointed Judson C. Clements, of Georgia, as interstate commerce commissioner, and has appointed John W. Yerkes, of Kentucky commissioner of internal revenue.
