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# DOMESTIC.
Fire destroyed the Adirondack hotel, Emerson bank, the music hall and several residences and stores at Warrensburg, N. Y., the total loss being $100,000.
At Camden, N. J., Thomas J. Potter, a painter, and his wife were killed by the cars.
Thomas Brennan, engineer, and Douglas Wilcox, conductor, were killed in a freight train wreck near Liberty, Neb.
The Investment Trust company of America, doing business in Topeka, Kan., went into the hands of receivers with liabilities of $2,800,000.
Three women delegates to the Methodist conference in Cleveland withdrew their claims in order to avoid strife.
All the street car lines in Milwaukee were tied up by a strike of employes for an increase of wages.
A five-story building was blown up in Cincinnati by an explosion and six persons were killed and many others were injured, some fatally.
The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 4th was: Wheat, 55,519,000 bushels; corn, 11,319,000 bushels; oats, 8,240,000 bushels; rye, 4,414,000 bushels; barley, 1,139,000 bushels.
The annual report of John S. Seymour, commissioner of patents, says that during the year 21,998 patents and designs were issued. The aggregate receipts were $1,245,247; expenditures, $1,084,496.
The fire losses in the United States and Canada during the month of April were $12,010,600, about $1,000,000 more than the total for the month in 1895.
An investigation of the trust funds collected by the state department in Washington shows a shortage of $30,000.
The firm of E. & G. Friend & Co., wholesale dealers in leaf tobacco in New York, failed for $200,000.
The dwelling of William Harris in Albermarle county, Va., was burned, and his four children were cremated.
Rev. Prof. William Henry Green, D. D., celebrated the 50th anniversary of his appointment as instructor in the Princeton (N. J.) theological seminary.
A broken rail on the Baltimore & Ohio road at New Haven, O., caused a freight wreck, fatally injuring two persons and seriously injuring a number of others.
The German-American Title company of Louisville, Ky., failed for $225,000.
Mrs. H. Eastby and her daughter Clara started from Spokane, Wash., to walk to New York. They live on a farm and hope to make enough money in the venture to lift a mortgage.
"Cotton Head" Schmidt, the 17-year-old German boy, and Sam Foster, a negro, convicted of the murder of Bertram Atwater, the Chicago artist, in St. Louis on January 23, were sentenced to be hanged June 18.
As the result of an explosion of a gasoline stove in a Brooklyn (N. Y.) tenement house Mrs. Rebecca Cohen and her two children and Mrs. Pastern were killed.
An additional shortage of about $250,000 was said to have been found in the accounts of ex-City Attorney William C. Moreland, of Pittsburgh, Pa.
A vast labor organization of housemaids was formed in New York, nearly every kitchen in the city being represented on the rolls of the union.
The American Medical association met in 47th annual session at Atlanta, Ga.
Crop reports from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa were favorable.
The American Trading society of New York, with liabilities of $526,000, went into a receiver's hands.
The women of Liberty Center, O., sent notice to the saloonkeepers to close their doors in ten days or their places would be blown up with dynamite.
At Churchill Downs Ben Brush won the twenty-second Kentucky derby, completing the distance, 1¼ miles, in 2:07¼.
