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WESTERN.
The failure is announced of Buford & Co., extensive plow manufacturers of Rock Island, Ill.
The small mission town of San Jose, Cal., was almost totally destroyed by fire. The loss is $50,000 and the insurance small. When water was exhausted, claret was used to extinguish the flames and prevent the destruction of the old mission church.
The Masonic Grand Lodge laid the corner-stone of Nebraska's new Capitol, at Lincoln, last week.
According to reports from the various counties of California the loss caused by the June rains will aggregate 135,000 tons of wheat, amounting to 7ยฝ per cent. of the entire crop, and 600,000 tons of barley, or about 12 per cent. of the crop. A large portion of the grain is lodged, and the harvesting will therefore be expensive.
J. K. Armsby & Co., of Chieago, dealers in canned goods, who have been doing a business of three to nine millions a year, have failed for about $300,000.
The boiler in Carter's saw-mill in Monroe County, Ind., exploded, killing three men and fatally injuring four others.
The private banking house of Fletcher & Sharpe, at Indianapolis, suspended payment last week, and made an assignment to William Wallace, who gave bond in $500,000. The failure caused quite a run on other banking houses. The suspension is said to be due to large advances on grain and pork paper, on which currency could not be obtained. Assurance is given that the assets are ample to meet all claims by depositors.
Dawson Brothers, manufacturers of mill machinery at Wilmington, Del., have failed for $60,000, and the senior member of the firm has absconded.
The wife of William Scholes, a wealthy cattle dealer at Bettsville, Ohio, fled with the hired man, Eugene Eldridge, in her husband's absence, and the latter, upon his return home, found the decomposing body of an infant in his deserted house.
Hiram Campbell & Sons, who own the Mount Vernon and Sarah furnaces at Ironton, Ohio, have suspended payment, with liabilities of $300,000.
By the capsizing of a rowboat on the Illinois River at Henry, Ill., Rev. L. O. Thompson, the Presbyterian clergyman at that place, his son, a boy of 14, and a son of Dr. Bishop, of Medina, N. Y., who was on a visit to them, were drowned.
The first car-load of beer ever sent east from California was shipped last week from San Franeasco to Chicago.
Rev. Dr. E. N. Potter, President of Hobart College, has declined the Bishopric of Nebraska, to which he was recently elected.
Reports have reached Ottawa, Ont., that foot-and-mouth disease prevails among cattle at Helena, M. T., and an investigation will be made.
The members of the wrecked banking firm of Fletcher & Sharpe, of Indianapolis, have deeded all their real-estate to a trustee for the benefit of creditors, their wives joining in the conveyances.
Lair, one of the men on trial at Grand Forks, D. T., for the murder of the Ward boys, has been acquitted, the verdict causing much excitement. One of the jurymen has been arrested, charged with perjury, in that he went into the case determined that the prisoner was not guilty.
Sowers & White, bankers at Ovid, Mich., are insolvent.
W. F. Burget, saw-mill proprietor near Delphi, Ind., has failed for $10,000.
Thomas Brigham, a farmer near Whitewater, Wis., went to the pantry at night for a lunch. He mistook for custard a plate of poison prepared for rats, and died in great agony within an hour.
Mr. Sheweli's new drama, "Shadows of a Great City," which had its first representation at MeVicker's Theater, Chicago,