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NEWS OF THE WEEK. Gathered from All Quarters. DOMESTIC. NOTICE has been posted in the Bates mill at Lewiston, Me., stating that the mill would be shut down August 5 for five weeks. The mill employs 1,800 people with a monthly pay roll of $120,000. AT Palmyra, Pa., on the 27th ult., four houses owned by William Henry, furniture dealer, and four barns, the property of different persons, were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of between $16,000 and $20,000. ON the 27th ult. Arbuckle Bros.' Ariosa coffee mill at Brooklyn, N. Y., which closed down recently, resumed operations on a limited scale. The firm's managers denied that the company was affected by the business depression. AT Pittsfield, Mass., on the 27th ult. Cashier Edward S. Francis, of the Pittsfield National bank, who had been the subject of much unpleasant newspaper talk and who resigned his position rerently, committed suicide by shooting. A. J. McPEAK, ex-treasurer of Furnas county, Neb., was arrested on the 27th ult., charged with embezzling county funds to the amount of $10,000. The losses cover a period of which he was in office, from 1888 to 1892, and were immediately discovered when the books were turned over to his successor. AT Spokane, Wash., on the 27th ult. the First National bank closed its doors and with it an allied institution, the Spokane Savings bank. THE American Tube Iron Company, located at Middletown, Pa., has gone into the hands of a receiver. THE Deer Creek cotton mills at Cincinnati, O., and a belting factory controlled by the Henry Pearce Sons .Co., shut down indefinitely on the 27thult., 009 throwing Dull trade is the cause given. THE wire nail manufacturers held a meeting at Pittsburgh on the 27th and in view of the depressed condition of the business it was decided to continue the shut down until September 1. All the wire nail factories in the United States are shut down at present. IN a boiler explosion at Salem, Ky., on the 27th. John and George Dambron were killed and William Dambron's "No torn SEM ULIB up failures rueq the JO V the United States from May 1 to July 22 inclusive, shows that 301 banking institutions, with a capital of $88,951,033, suspended. AT noon on the 27th H. S. Wilmot and Samuel S. Smith started from Philadelphia to walk to San Francisco. The men expect to accomplish the journey in about 150 days. SECRETARY CARLISLE has replied the request of Kentucky distillers for an extension of ninety days in which to pay their internal revenue taxes upon their whisky which has been three years in bond, that the law perative and leaves him no discretion in the premises. THE directors of the York mills Saco. Me., met at Boston on the ult. and voted to shut down the for five weeks. This action was in cordance with an agreement made the directors of all colored cottonmills in New England. THE Bessemer steel department of Jones & Laughlin's Brownstone closed at Pittsburgh on the 28th and 500 men are idle in consequence. AT Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 28th ult. fire started in the rear of a saloon, which Charles O' Donnell, a roller the Lindsay iron mill, andan unknown man were burned to death. ON the night of the 27th ult. a Lake Shore freight train broke in two Harbor Creek, Pa., and the sections collided. Five tramps riding on a lumber car were caught and Louis and Daniel Egan were crushed to death. AT Port Washington, Wis., on 28th ult. the German-American bank closed its doors. The bank had singularly unfortunate, having been caught in both the Plankinton Mitchell bank failures at Milwaukee BUSINESS failures during the week ended July 28 numbered for the United States 386 and for Canada 22, or a of 409: against 457 the previous and 171 for the corresponding week last year. AT San Francisco, Cal.. on the ult., a statement was published to effect that prominent local business men had been shipping arms and munition to Hawaii to place the tives in a position to make a successful fight against the government. LOUIS IRIG died on the 28th ult. Whitney, Neb., after sleeping three B up pesodxe SEM 1 months storm in April, and after retiring awoke from his slumbers but twice once for about an hour and the time for only ten minutes. THE Harrisburg (Pa.) Rolling Company, one of the largest creditors of the American Tube and Iron pany, shut down on the 28th ult. and notice was posted on the door that would be closed indefinitely. Over men were thrown out of work. CoL. FREDERICK C. AINSWORTH,
