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News of the Week. Lightning rod swindlers are at work in the Southern part of Pennsylvania and Western Maryland. Statistics shows that 544,2$8 children below 14 years of age are engaged in industrial pursuits in Germany. William Brown & Sons, wool dealers, of Philadelphia, have failed, with liabilities of over $1,000,000. Danjel Hotzapper, 89 years old, the oldest bachelor in York county, Pa., died at his home, in York township, last week. He had lived in that township all his life. II is estimated that the cotton damage caused by the recent floods and high water in Texas will reach 400,000 bales, worth at least $20, 000,000. Atthe close of business on last Saturday the banks of New York city had on deposit $877,210,800. and their circulation was $10. 110,800. The official number of bodies recovered from the debris at Galveston, Texas, is 5,000; beyond the city limits, and on the mainland over 1,000. A receiver was appointed Saturday for the Cumberland Building and Loan Association of Tennessee. Liabilities are stated to be about $144,000. Winfield Townsend. a negro, was burned at the stake at Eelectic, Elmore county, Alsbama, on Tuesday of last week. He assaulted a white woman and fully confessed. A tornado at Biwabic, in the Mesaba iron range of Minnesota, or Saturday, killed ten persons and destroyed property variously estimated at from $300,000 to $500,000. The assignment of the firm of Charles M. Lee's Sons, boot and shoe manufacturers, of Boston and Athol, is announced. The liabil ities are placed at $125,000 with assets not stated. A dispatch from Fort Worth. Texas. says that the losses caused by the storms and floods in various sections of the State since the Galveston disaster are estimated at $1,000,000. The rivers are still rising. In Chester and Montgomery counties, Pa., a small black flea is eating the wheat stored in barns and stacks, and hundreds of bushels have been destroyed. Farmers are rapidly threshing in order to save what is left. The Adams Mine powder house, at Eveleth, Minnesota, blew up Sunday evening, breaking every glass window in the city. No fatalities are reported. The shock was distinctly felt twelve miles from the scene of the accident. Representatives of the insurance companies believe that Marie Defenbach was murdered in Chicago, as the result of a conspiracy to secure $12,000 insurance, and Dr. August M. Unger, F. Wayland and Detective Frank H. Smiley were arrested. A general strike has been ordered in the cigar factories of Sanchez & Heya and Ar. guelles Lopez & Brothers, Tampa, Florida. About 1000 persons were thrown out of work The strike grew out of the employment of three non-union men. A receiver has been appointed for the Mont gomery Banking and Trust Company, of Montgomery, W. Va., on the application of its officers, who alleged that the cashier misappropriated funds to the amount of $62,000, making the bank insolvent. Nearly one-half of the flour mills operating in Minneapolis closed last Saturday night for an indefinite length of time. The officials report the cause due exclusively to the late marked shortage in demand for flour. The foreign trade, it is declared, is practically dead. Eight days at sea in an open boat. with plenty of food but not a drop of fresh water, is the painful experience of Samuel Dutton and John Bauer. two Alaska miners, who started out from Nome September 15 to round the cape on a prospecting trip. They were caught in the great storm and blown out to sea, but were finally reseued by the steamer Centennial. A remarkable engineering feat is soon to be attempted in Boston-the moving of a six story brick and stone hotel building from one site to another without taking it apart. The ground upon which the building now stands is of a swampy character, and 780 piles will