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The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. Calvin and George Diehl, brothers, aged 16 and 18 years, were drowned in the canal near Middletown, Pa. There were 320 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 28th, against 280 the week previous and 130 in the corresponding period of 1895. The firm of F. G. & I. N. Vanvliet, malsters and dealers in grain in New York, failed for $400,000. Over 1,000 men, women and children were said to be starving in burned Ontonagon, Mich. Light frosts were reported in different sections of Nebraska. For the first time in many years all the collieries under the Lehigh Valley Coal company's system have been ordered to work six days a week until further notice. Mrs. George W. Hibbard, an aeronaut, met instant death at Clayton, Mo., by falling from her balloon, a distance of 2,500 feet. In their annual report C. A. King & Co., of Toledo, O., say that clover seed in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan will be about two-thirds of a crop and that the wheat crop left in the states named will be unfit for milling, owing to damage by rains. Domestic troubles caused William R. Dederick, postmaster at Marion, Pa., to take his own life. While temporarily insane Mrs. C. W. Green, of Kansas City, Mo., murdered her three sleeping children, aged 13, 9 and 6 years. and then took her own life. LA Hung Chang, viceroy of China, smbassador extraordinary to Russia and world-renowned diplomat, arrived in New York and became the guest of the nation. Mrs. O. H. Stickles, of Stratford. Conn., gave birth to three girls and a boy. Every building at Moquah, Wis., was destroyed by a forest fire. TheSpringfield (Mass.) Brewing company, with a capital of $500,000, went into the hands of a receiver. John S. Holmes, of Oshkosh, Wis., one of the best-known horsemen and drivers in the country, dropped dead from his sulky in a race at Green Bay. Heavy withdrawals of deposits caused the failure of the Sioux national bank at Sloux City, Ia., with liabilities of $900,000. The percentage of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 30th is as follows: Baltimore. .692; Cincinnati, .639; Cleveland, .607; Chicago, .577: Boston, .546; Pittsburgh, .542: Brooklyn, .481; Philadelphia, .477: New York, 468; Washington, .396: St. Louis, .308: Louisville, 255. Norman Allen, a wealthy cattleman. was killed by an unknown assassin near Mayo. Fla. Lightning set fire to the main building of the Iowa state institute for the feeble minded at Glenwood and it was destroyed. entailing a loss upon the state of $150,000. The George H. Taylor Paper company of Chicago made an assignment with liabilities estimated at $150,000. Fire at Cheboygan, Mich., destroyed a million feet of lumber belonging to Mr. Charlton. of Toronto, and the Sprv Lumber company of Chicago, entailing loss of $200,000. Li Hung Chang paid his respects to President Cleveland at the home of exSecretary of the Navy Whitney in New York. He also visited Gen. Grant's tomb and placed on it a wreath of flowers. The Knights of Pythias' supreme lodge in session at Cleveland, O.. refused the request for the restoration of the German ritual by a vote of 106 to 8. Prof. E. D. Cole, of Ann Arbor, Mich., an aeronaut. was drowned off Presque Isle "by his parachute alighting in the bay. A newspaper train and n freight col. lided near Orange, Mass., and Engineer William Clements was instantly killed and Fireman George Fowler received fatal injuries. Clarence White, Frank Carpenter and Walter Gurney. who were charged with the murder of T.J. Marshall, proprietor of a Chicago department store, were acguitted. Fred Lamoreaux was killed and his wife and wo children fataliy injured by a train near Worcester. Mass. For some unknown cause John A. Hunt fatally shot his daughter Mary at Columbia, Mo., and also endeavored to kill his wife, who was only slightly wounded. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 31st ult. was: Wheat. 45,574,000 bushels; corn. 13,964.000 bushels: oats. 6,735,000 bushels: rye, 1,699,000 bushels; barley, 740,000 bushels. In a drunken frenzy Frank Beaubien shot his wife at Detroit, Mich., and then willed himself. A resolution was introduced in the supremelodge of the Knights of Pythias in session at Cleveland, O., prohibiting the payment of death benefits to suicides whether the victim be sape or insnne.