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The long strike of coal miners at Virden, III., has come to an end. Thieves entered the office of County Treasurer Culbertson at Chariton, la., and robbed the vault of $1,600. The exchanges at the leading clearthe States on the ing the houses week ended in United 11th during aggregated $1,254,558,581, against $1,462,743.683 the previous week. The decrease compared with the corresponding week in 1897 was 6.9. R. R. Tolbert, whose father and brother were shot in the race war at Phoenix, S. C., was in Washington to secure an investigation of the riot by the federal authorities. The entire business section of Covington, La., was swept away by fire. Robert Brown shot and killed his father-in-law, Louis McClellan, his mother-in-law and his wife Bertha and dangerously wounded his brother-inlaw in Glasgow. Ky. Prairie fires in the Chickasaw nation in Oklahoma have devastated scores of farms and ranches of crops and buildings. Gen. D. W. Flagler, chief of the buleau of ordnance, in his annual report says that there were expended during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898, $7. 348,795. The president has appointed Richard Guenther, of Wisconsin, to be consulgeneral of the United States at Frankfort, Germany, and Frank H. Mason, of Ohio, to be consul-general at Berlin, Germany. The Turney & Jones Coal company of Columbus, O., and the Pennsylvania & Ohio Fuel company of St. Paul, Minn. went into a receiver's hands with liabilities of $1,200,000. Lieut. Herman G. Dresel, U. S. N., committed suicide in a hotel in Baltimore. His home was in Columbus. o. In convention in St. Paul the Woman's Christian Temperance union decided to abandon the temple building in Chicago. Window glass factories that have been idle in Pittsburgh, Pa., many months have resumed work. giving employment to 10,000 persons. Fire destroyed a large section of Dawson, Alaska, causing a loss of about $500,000 and leaving hundreds of people homeless and destitute. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 14th was: Wheat, 19,194,000 bushels; corn, 23,529,000 bushels; oats, 5,499,000 bushels; rye, 1,017,000 bushels; barley, 3,341,000 bushels. The twentieth annual convention of the Knights of Labor began in Chicago The annual report of Charles P. Eagan, commissary of subsistence of the army, shows an expenditure of $6.008,715, with a balance of $20,222,689 to the credit of the bureau. Telephone communication has been established between Austin, Tex., and Bar Harbor, Me., a distance of 2,600 miles. The 2,600 employes in the seven shoe factories in Marlboro, Mass., struck for higher wages. More rioting took place near Greenwood. N. C., between whites and blacks and three of the latter were killed. Fire at Canonsburg, Pa., wiped out fully a third of the business portion, two of the principal hotels and many dwellings. Mrs. John B. Cuneo fatally shot her husband and Mrs. Fannie Howell at Argenta. Ark. Jealousy was the cause. says ing the ten excess of A Washington past dispatch months the that du $460.exports over imports aggregated 206,802. an increase of $240,958,653 compared with the same period last year. A seat on the New York stock exchange sold for $28,000, the highest price in 15 years. Anna Swanson eloped from her home Webster City, Ia., with F. E. Fred the father purnear erickson, and killed of the Frederick- girl sued the elopers and son. At the annual meeting in St. Paul of the Woman's Christian Temperance union Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, of Maine, was elected president. supreme says are illegal than boycotts The Michigan when employed. other court peaceable methods are of coal den district, which the The (III.) strike miners bloodshed, has in been the Vircause of rioting and has been brought to an end. Chase. Isherwood & Co., the oldest tobacco firm in Ohio, has gone out of business. national bank at Owego. N. which The Y., Tioga suspended recently. has resumed business. Three Indian outlaws were killed in fight with officers at Chelsea, I.T. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The fusionists have conceded the republican control of the Nebraska legis-
