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Domestic. The long threatened split in Tammany Hall, New York City, came when Henry D. Purroy, with several district leaders, openly bolted the organization and announced that he would form a new Tammany. Isaac Zuker was sentenced to thirty-six years' imprisonment for arson by Judge Fursman, in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court, New York City. Burglars entered the branch office of the Metropolitan Insurance Company, in West Forty-second street, New York City, and after blowing open a big safe in front of an open window stole $1500 in cash and valuable jewelry. Mrs. James Abercrombie Burden, wife of a millionaire iron founder. was attacked on Fifth avenue, in New York City, in broad daylight, by a highwayman, who flourished a knife, threw her down and ran off with her pocketbook. He was captured by Policeman Young after a hot chase. The Columbia National and Washington Banks of Minneapolis. the Commercial National Bank of Roanoke, Va., and the Van Nortwick Bank at Batavia, III, closed. Fire destroyed the electric light plant in Newark, N.J., and the city and'several nearby towns were left in darkness for a right. Isnac Zuker was convicted of arson in the first degree in having planned the burning of his building in New York City in January, 1892. The Atlas National Bank, of Chicago, Ill., began liquidating its affairs, and the Dime Savings Bank, of the same city, required depositors to give ninety days' notice of withdrawals. Three masked men, armed with revolvers, entered the saloon of Mrs. Mary Bernhardt, In Chicago, at 11 o'clock p. m., and robbed the place of $450. Mrs. Bernhardt was bebind the bar when the men came in, and two patrons of the place were sitting at a table playing dominoes. Two men were killed and another was fatally shot in a general fight six miles north of Mount Vernon. Ky. The dead are A. Rowland and Jack Rigsby. The wounded man is Greeley Lear. The fight began at a merrymaking. and was fought out on the highway in Kentucky feudal fashion between opposing factions. At Superior, Wis.. anticipating a run, the Bank of Superior did not open for business. Henry S. Butler is assignee. and has assumed charge of the bank's affairs. The failure is due to poor business and heavy withdrawals since recent failures in St. Paul and Chicago. The capital of the bank was $25,000, with a surplus of $6000. The deposits were nearly $100,000, including $13,210 of city funds. More than $1,500.000 was voted to hospitals, asylums and other charitable institutions for 1897 by the Board of Estimate, of New York City. The Lehigh Mills, in South Easton, Penn., manufacturers of cotton goods, have shut down for four months. and there is said to be but little prospect of a resumption at the end of that period. Depression in business is given as the cause of the shut-down, and one hundred employes are affected. The plant was started nearly one hundred years ago, and this is the first shut-down it has experienced. City Treasurer Turner. of Boston. Mass., opened bids for $1,890,000 3½ per cent. and four per cent. ten, twenty, and thirty year loans. The contract was awarded to Blake Brothers and R. L. Day. whose bid was $1,944,286 for the entire loan. The Scandia Bank, of Minneapolis, Minn., closed its doors. It was organized fifteen years ago by M. Grinager, a prominent Scandinavian politician. who died in 1893. Its President is R. Sunde, who came to Minneapolis ten years ago from Wilmar. Minn., where he had made a fortune as a money lender. Thomas J. O'Malley, a Chicago Alderman, has been indicted for the murder of "Gus" Colliander, in an election booth in 1894. A mail train from the West was robbed at one of the New York City stations and a large sum of money taken from letters addressed to New York firms. The letters, without in. closures, were found in the lower bay. Mrs. Agnes Antoinette Halpin, wife of ex. Assemblyman William Halpin, died in New York City of nervous exhaustion, collapse and gastritis, caused by the excessive use of Jamaica ginger. This habit is said to be prevalent in many places. The West End Street Railway Company of Boston, on which a strike occurred recently, discharged 700 union men, including the members of the Conference Committee and officers of the union. The Board of Directors of the Security Mortgage and Trust Company, Dallas, Texas, made application for the appointment of a receiver. The liabilitieso the company are, approximately, $2,000,000. Georgia's alleged titled convict, "Lord Beresford, as Sidney Lascelles called himself, was madea freeman by act of Governor Atkinson, who took pity upon him and pardoned him for his model conduct while in prison. The Atlas National Bank, Chicago, decided not to open its doors again, and the Clearing House will advance $600,000 tc help it pay all claims on demand. The bank has a capital of $700,000. W. C. D. Grannis is President. Thesecurities were examined and found to be ample to pay all claims in full.
