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MERE MENTION. The Floyd County Savings bank, of Charles City, Iowa, suspended payment, owing to the embezzlement of $20,000 by the cashier, who is now enjoying himself in Europe. Miss Henrietta Beebe, the well known soprano singer, and Mr. Wm. Lawton, the leading tenor of the Boston Ideal Opera company, were quietly married in New York Tuesday. The Chicago ministers have been invited to attend the performace given by the American Opera company in that city, and give an opinion on the morality of the American opera ballet. Thomas Conney, a paving block contractor, of Minneapolis, has sued the Tribune of that city for $30,000 for libel. The alledged libelous article referred to Canney as a "rough riding road tinker." Henry M. Stanley has received a cablegram from the king of Belgium ordering him to return at once. This unexpected summons is occasioned by trouble with predatory Arabs in the free Congo state. Edwin Houghton, formerly of Arvilla, and later of Michigan City, Ind., died suddenly Friday night, at the Union hotel in Larimore, Dak. He had been drinking heavily. He was 50 or 60 years old. Alphonz King, a young Frenchman, attempted to walk across the Niagara river in a pair of shoes of his own invention. The attempt was unsuccessful, but those who witnessed the feat are of the opinion that shoes could be made practicable in ordinary waters.