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THE will of Bishop Ames, of the Methodist church, after standing fourteen years was broken at Baltimore, and the estate, valued at between $150,000 and $200,000, will now be divided according to law. THE Brunswick national bank and Oglethorpe national bank, both of Brunswick, Ga., suspended, and M. Ullman, president of the Oglethorpe, committed suicide. FLAMES of an incendiary origin swept away seventeen business houses and residences at Montfort, Wis. Loss, $100,000. THE doors of the Evanston (III.) national bank, with a capital of $100,000, were closed. FIRE in the building occupied by the Dr. Price Baking Powder company in Chicago caused a damage of $115,000. THE King Iron Bridge company's works at Cleveland, O., were damaged to the extent of $150,000 by fire. IN the jail yard at Lake Charles, La., Lewis Taylor (colored) was hanged for assaulting a negro woman some months ago. FREDERICK C. SCHENCK, for seventeen years consul to Barcelona, Spain, beginning in Hayes' administration, died at Lafayette, Ind., aged 53 years. THE death of James E. Murdoch, the famous tragedian, aged 83 years, occurred at his suburban home near Cineinnati of various ailments combined with old age. IN session in St. Paul the international convention of press clubs elected John A. Cockerell, of New York, as president. It was decided to establish a home for aged and infirm journalists. AT Bellaire, O., Ethelinda Mayhue has brought suit for divorce against Oliver Mayhue, a grocer. They were married April 20, 1854, and have fourteen children. Cruelty was the charge. THE directory of the world's fair adopted a rule that for the future all children under 12 and over 6 years of age will be admitted to the fair for twenty-five cents. IN the southeastern Kansas coal fields 5,000 miners struck for higher wages. FIRE suffocated twenty-five horses belonging to the People's Outfitting company in Chicago. FIVE distilleries withdrew from the whisky trust and the monopoly was said to be on the verge of dissolution. The headquarters are at Peoria, III. IN St. Louis the stable of the Crum Livery company was destroyed by fire and 150 horses were burned to death and Eddie Quinn, a 7-year-old boy, lost his life in the flames. The total loss was $200,000. A FOREST fire wiped out the town of Bryant. Wis., not a single house of any description being left to mark the town site. No lives were lost. FLAMES destroyed Meed's sawmill, planing mill, boarding house and thirty or forty residences in the south part of Antigo, Wis., the loss being $100,000. FLAMES that started in the mill property of Sample & Cump in Saginaw, Mich., burned a district a mile in length and four or five blocks wide, destroying 275 buildings and other property, the total loss being $900,000; insurance, $600,000. Robert Turner, aged 89. lost his life, and several other persons were injured. AT the National Editorial association in Chicago Walter Williams, of Columbia, Mo., was elected president for the ensuing year. A CONCERT of sacred music closed the Woman's World's Fair Auxiliary congress. No less than twentysix nations and 110 women's organizations were represented in the congress, and every line of woman's work, from household economy to woman in national politics, was discussed. THE forest fires raging in Michigan reached Louis Sand's lumber campnear Lake City and resulted in burning to death eleven men. DOMESTIC trouble caused George Lankford to shoot and instantly kill his wife at Marietta, O., and then to kill himself.
