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The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.
THE Merchants' national bank, the oldest banking institution in Tacoma, Wash., suspended payment temporarily with $600,000 liabilities and $1,000,000 assets.
DURING the first five months of 1893 there were twenty failures of national banks, the capital involved being $6,150,000, against seven failures for a corresponding period of 1892, when the capital aggregated $625,000.
THE Presbyterian general assembly in session in Washington suspended Prof. Charles A. Briggs from the ministry.
THE Plankinton bank of Milwaukee closed its doors with liabilities of $1,100,000. Continued withdrawal of deposits was given as the cause.
THE Home brewery and rice mill at New Orleans were burned, involving a loss of $250,000. Thirty horses perished in the flames.
WITH a paid-in capital stock of $1,200,000 the National union bank of New York has begun business.
MANY houses were wrecked by [a cyclone near Forest City, Ark., and Mrs. Thomas, a widow, and her 13-year-old daughter were instantly killed.
AT Van Buren Point, N. Y., a farmhouse was burned and four of the five inmates perished in the flames.
FIRE destroyed the iron foundry works of J. B. & J. M. Cornell in New York, the loss being $300,000.
THREE men were killed, two others fatally and one seriously injured by a cave-in at the Ivanhoe tunnel near Leadville, Col.
MRS. FRED SHEFFNER, of Bowerstown, Pa., was accidentally shot and killed by her husband as she entered their doorway.
THE public debt statement issued on the 2d showed that the debt decreased $739,435 during the month of May. The cash in the treasury was $754,122,984. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $840,185.733.
AT Battle Creek, Neb., Fred Sargent shot and killed his wife and then fatally wounded himself.
FAILURE to raise money on Cherokee strip lands has caused suspension of credit in Indian territory.
CHEVERTON, MARTIN & Co., private bankers in Chicago, have assigned. The assets were said to amount to $100,000 and the liabilities to $70,000.
W. G. MORROW shot and killed Effie Baker at Greenville, Miss., and then fatally shot himself. Jealousy was the cause.
AN unknown schooner was sunk in collision with the steamer Corsica in Lake Huron and all on board perished.
MARTIN PETRITUS fatally shot Mrs. Frank Wiethom at Springfield, O., because she would not leave her husband for him and then shot himself.
THE Thorp & Martin company of Boston, manufacturers of stationery, made an assignment with liabilites of $125,000.
A NEW counterfeit two-dollar treasury note has made its appearance in Chicago. It is described as imitating the series of 1891 and as bearing the check letter "B," and the counterfeit signatures of W. S. Rosecrans, register, and E. H. Nebeker, treasurer.
THE world's congress on social purity was opened in the Art institute in Chicago.
POTTER'S bank, the oldest bank in Paulding county, and heretofore considered one of the safest, closed its doors at Paulding, O.
NEAR Cotton Plant, Ark., a cyclone spread death and destruction. The plantation of John Gazallo was left without a house of any kind standing. The width of the cyclone was about 1½ miles.
TWO DAUGHTERS of F. G. Smehla, living near Wilson, Kan., perished in the flames which consumed their residence.
THE rear coach of a Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis train jumped the track near Newsom's, Tenn., and eleven persons were hurt.
A CYCLONE swept over Huntingdon, Falcon, Camden and Trumble, in Tennessee, destroying a vast amount of property and killing several persons.
GREAT damage was done by extensive floods in eastern Galicia and eighteen persons were drowned.
THE village of Eldorado, Ark., was destroyed by a cyclone and fifteen persons were said to have been killed.
PROF. HOLDEN, of Lick observatory, telegraphs that a large group of spots are now clearly visible on the sun, which can be seen with the naked eye by the use of smoked glass.
THE survey to settle the Alaska boundary question has been begun by the American and Canadian commissioners.
THE plant of the American Strawboard company at Lima, O., was burned, causing a loss of $300,000.
THERE were 288 business failures reported in the United States during the seven days ended on the 2d. In the week preceding there were 276, and during the corresponding time in 1892 the number was 175.
STRIKING quarrymen inaugurated a reign of terror along the route of the drainage canal between Romeo and Lemont, Ill., and several men were injured, some fatally.
DURING the week ended on the 2d the leading clearing houses in the United States reported exchanges amounting to $899,142,352, against $1,048,014,447 the
