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Our Continent. The Board of Directors of the Olympic Club, New Orleans, have decided to di. vide the purse between Bowen and Burke, the middle-weight pugilists. A special from Houston, Tex., says: The wholesale grocery house of W. D. Cleveland & Co., one of the largest in the State, was burned last night. Loss, $165,000; insurance, $140,000. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Reading Railroad Company yesterday the resignation of President A. A. McLeod was accepted, and Joseph S. Harris was chosen to fill the vacancy. The steamer America arrived at New York last night having in tow the Danish steamer Hekla with her shaft broken. The America has been towing the Hekla since April 3d and will net heavy salvage. The Coeur d'Alene'Bank. of Wallace, and the Bank of Gardner, Washington State, closed their doors Friday morning. The suspensions created great excitement in the regions most concerned and even evoked threats of violence. District-Superintendent William Samels. of the Lehigh-Valley Coal Company. Wilkesbarre, Pa.. was burned to death in Dorrance shaft Friday. He entered the shaft to inspect it and in some unknown way set the mine on fire and lost his life. Reports from a number of points in Western New York show that the windstorm of Friday did considerable damage to property. At Springville the barn of Vedder Hemstreet was blown down and Homstreet. who was milking cows. was killed. The preliminary trials of A. R. Sutton, the warehouse receiptforger. and his bookkeeper, Beecher. were held in'the Louisville City Circuit Court yesterday morning. Sutton was held in $35,000 and Beecher in 85,000 to answer before the grand jury. The 200th anniversary of the use of the printing press in the colony and city of New York was celebrated with appropriate exercises at the building of the New York