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following ticket: Justice of the supreme court, Vernon Smith, of Ionia; regents of the state university, Dr. Orson Millard, of Flint, and James Kersey, of Boyne City; member of the state board of education, James G. Healey, of Jackson. The liabilities of the firm of Ellingwood & Cunningham, bankers and brokers, New York, which suspended February 16, will total $2,239,505, with assets of $265,801. Mrs. Sylvester Moon, aged 50. is believed to have committed suicide at Eldora, la., while in a somnambulistic condition. She arose from her bed in the middle of the night and, going to the barn yard, drowned herself in a water tank. Over 700 prominent educators from all parts of the country attended the convention of the department superintendents of the national educational convention in Milwaukee, Wis. Judge Tayler, of the United States district court at Cleveland, O., overruled the motion of Attorney J. P. Dawley, counsel for Mrs. Chadwick, that the two indictments returned against her by the federal grand jury on February 21, be quashed. Battling Nelson of Chicago defeated Young Corbett of Denver in a bard battle of nine rounds at San Francisco. Prof. Jacques Loeb, formerly of Chicago, has perfected the artificial reproduction of life in sea urchins, and expresses the belief that science is a step nearer the chemical creation of all kinds of beings. In three years preceding death. Mrs. Abbie B. Blodgett. of Fishkill-onthe-Hudson, spent $283,770 for subscription books. Her last purchase was 130 volumes of an illuminated edition of Dickens at $1,000 per volume. After an illness of a few days, George Sewall Boutwell, former governor of Massachusetts, and former United States secretary of the treasury, died at his home in Groton, Mass, aged 87 years. Senators Emmons, Bunkers, Wright and French were expelled from the California senate for receiving bribes. Michael Kelley, millionaire coal operator, died in Danville, III. Kelley was a native of Ireland, and came to America in 1851 as a common laborer. His wealth is estimated at over $4,000,000. Ex-Mayor James L. Cole. of North Birmingham. Ala., was arrested on an indictment charging embezzlement of municipal funds amounting to over $6,000. William B. Hart, a respected farmer living four miles north of Newton, Kan., shot and killed his ten-year-old daughter Myrtle and then went to his room and shot and killed himself. The death of his youngest child a year ago unsettled his mind. The United States government denies rumors that it has directly or indirectly laid before Russia any peace proposition on the eastern war. Frank Elster, of Springville, Cal., shot and killed Milton Hubbs, a neighbor, and after killing his wife. committed suicide. The triple tragedy is attributed to jealousy. Henry Phipps bought a plot of land in New York city for the first group of his model tenements, on which he proposes to expend $1,000,000. Joseph Oleson, residing near Prophetstown, III., was found frozen to death in a snowdrift. Miss Mary C. Mulveil, of Chicago, philanthropist and friend of the church and the poor, was cruelly murdered in the street by Detective Daniel Herman, who had been a persistent and unwelcome suitor for two years. Herman completed his crime by taking his own life a few hours later. The Illinois Central will rebuild the burned docks and terminals in New Orleans on a larger scale. Estimates of the fire loss vary from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000. The house committee learned that the Panama railroad had purchased $215,000 worth of supplies for the isthmian canal commission without advertising for bids. Fire in Hot Springs, Ark., caused the death of three persons and a property loss of more than $1,000,000. Two thousand persons are homeless. The fashionable hotel section escaped damage. The Illinois Central terminals at New Orleans, covering nearly a mile of river frontage, with 15 cottages, hundreds of cars and immense quantities of merchandise, were burned, with a loss estimated at $5,000,000. Because he was snubbed by a girl at a dance near Greensburg, Pa., a man started a fight, which resulted in the killing of two men and wounding of six others. Miss Bessie Irby, the 18-year-old daughter of Marshal J. P. Irby, of Ardmore, I. T., accidentally shot and killed Clarence Morgan, her sweetheart. They were playing with a gun which was supposed not to be loaded. France will spend $200,000,000 on its navy in the next ten years. Judge E. F. Dunne was nominated as democratic candidate for mayor of Chicago, with F. W. Blocki for treasurer, W. B. Moak for attorney, and Adrian C. Anson, the famous baseball player, for clerk. As a result of an expiosion in shaft No. 1 of the United Coal & Coke company at Wilcoe, W. Va., 23 miners are supposed to have lost their liver the
