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DOMESTIC. Barney McKernan, the last survivor 11 this country who took part in the amous charge of the Light brigade at Balaklava, died at Phoenixville, Pa. The lives of hundreds of families and housands of live stock were in peril hroughout the lower Mississippi valey on the Arkansas side from the disistrous flood that was sweeping down pon them. Mount Baker, one of the loftlest peaks n the Cascade range, is in a state of eruption for the first time in years. Three negroes who murdered John Barfield and John R. Turner at Juliette, la., were lynched by a mob. The visible supply of grain in the Inited States on the 15th was: Wheat, 1,449,000 bushels: corn. 26,795,000 bushIs; oats, 13,528,000 bushels: rye, 3,616,00 bushels; barley, 3,135,000 bushels. President McKinley in his first mesage to congress declares in favor of a protective policy and says that prompt revenue legislation is the first duty of he lawmakers. The wholesale dry goods house of Ely, Walker & Co., the largest in St. Louis, was destroyed by fire, the loss being $1,000,000. and George Gutewald, a fireman. was killed and others were injured by falling walls. Seven tollgates were destroyed in Mercer county, Ky., by regulators. The jail at Dover. Tenn., was detroyed by fire and three colored prisoners were cremated. Chairman Dingley, of the ways and neans committee, says the new tariff ill is expected to increase the revenue Secretary Sherman informed the Spanish minister, Senor de Lome, that this administration will insist upon Americans in Cuba being amply proected. In South Dakota over 600 miles of road have been practically abandoned for: fully two weeks because of a snow blockapr A train was wrecked at Wolf Creek, Kan., and Engineer Nye, Fireman Connor and J. P. Meador. a passenger, were killed and six persons were injured. John Cramer, aged 16, son of Jacob Cramer, of Duryea, Pa., died of hydroohobia and his father while witnessing his son's struggles dropped dead. The Headley Grocery company (wholesale) at Springfield, Mo., failed for $100.*000 Postmaster-General Gary says that the administration has decided to adhere to the four-year-tenure-of-oflice policy for all postmasters. John O'Rourke, John Burns and Antonio Molinaskj were fatally burned by explosions of molten iron at the Emma blast furnace in Cleveland, O. For the eight months ended February 28 there has been a gain of over $132,000,000 in the amount of merchandise exported and a decrease of nearly $110,000,000 in the amount imported. The First national bank of Sioux City, Ia., which suspended payment November 19, 1896, has resumed business. The five new state senators, four republicans and one democrat, were sworn in by the Kentucky legislature, and this will insure the election of a republican United States senator. Charles Rodatinsky and his wife and baby were burned to death near Omaha, Neb., by the explosion of a gasoline stove. . The piano and organ firm of Estey & Camp, which has been in business in Chicago for 30 years, has decided to retire. Gen. James M. Warner, aged 62, a prominent resident of Albany, N. Y., and postmaster under Harrison's administration, died while attending a theater. Brodie Williams, the bigh diver, jumped from a 75-foot tower into Lake Worth at Palm Beach, Fla., struck the bottom, broke his neck and died within n. few hours. It is generally believed by cattlemen that 75 per cent. of range animals in North Dakota and Montana have sucPierre winter. the to
