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The Bank Holds Out. NEW HAVEN, Jan. 26.βThe run on the New Haven savings bank continued all day. Over $100,000 was paid out. The officers state that they still have plenty of money.
51-0011# BRIEFLY TOLD. The Oklahomaites have given up to military authority. Ingalls has been re-elected senator from Kansas. Cleveland, Ohio, is to have a line of electric street cars. The ice carnival was inaugurated at Montreal on the 27th. Melville is desirous of making another journey to the frozen north. Mrs. Mary Griffith, aged 92, a sister of General Grant's mother, died on the 27th at Batavia, Ohio. In a run on a New Haven savings bank $250,000 were paid out, but the institution remained intact. A resolution was adopted in the Missouri house of representatives petitioning congress to open Oklahoma to settlers. The insane asylum at Kankakee, Ill., burned a few days ago and seventeen of the forty-five inmates perished in the flames. 6 The Nashville and Chattanooga road offers to carry freight three hundred and eighty miles, from Chattanooga to Memphis, for five cents per hundred pounds. John Prough, of Jersey county, Illinois, aged 106 years, died last week. He was a farmer, was always busy, used neither liquor nor tobacco when well nor drugs when sick. The widow of Judge James Cole, aged 69, was murdered by robbers Tuesday night at Plaquermine, La. The burglars carried off her jewelry and forced a diamond ring off her finger. Mary J. Druse has been indicted at Warren, N. Y., for killing her husband, and her daughter, aged twenty, son, aged ten. and a nephew fourteen years old, are held for being present and aiding in the crime. The Wisconsin board of health met and decided to have a bill prepared appropriating $15,000 as a contingent fund, to be expended by the board, subject to the governor's approval, in case of an outbreak of cholera. A desperate encounter between two suitors for the hand of a widow occurred near Levis Canada. The men had seconds and begun the fight with pistols, but finding that method slow they drew knives and hacked each other until separated. A few days ago Henry Wahis, a farmer of Crawford county, Ill., lost a fine barn and twenty-five head of cattle by fire. Wahls immediately charged Doca Efferman, his domestic, with the crime. She pleaded guilty. There are rumors of a scandal connected with the affair. Four men broke into the postoffice at Huntington, Ind. They were confronted by Max Baumgartner, night marshal, who shot one, killing him instantly. One of the burglars then shot Baumgartner in the back with a revolver. His recovery is doubtful. The burglars then stole a horse and sleigh and escaped, leaving their dead comrade. Abram Spaun, secretary of the Detroit Hops and Malt Bitters Company, was found in his office on the 27th, having deliberately hanged himself to a coat hook in the wall. The suicide caused a great sensation, as Spaun was one of the most popular and prominent young men of the city. He was to have been married on the day of his death, and killed himself because he had a chronic disease which he feared was incurable.
# ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. GEORGE ELIOT'S biography has already brought in to its publisher $40,000. CAPTAIN LORD "Charley" Beresford, who is doing capital service on the Nile, was thirty-nine years old last week. SIR HERBERT STEWART, the hero of Abu-Klea and Gubat, is a teetotaler. He is a man of irrepressible spirits and untiring patience. It is said that the run on the New Haven Savings Bank brought out several persons with bank books who have been drawing aid from the city for years. MISS CALDWELL, who has given a large endowment for a Roman Catholic university in this country, will this year be the recipient of the golden rose annually given by the Pope to the church's greatest benefactor. CAMERON, the correspondent who was killed in the Soudan recently, was unmarried, but his aged mother was dependent upon him for support. The London Standard, for which he was working, has granted her a handsome life pension. A GERMAN paper states that eggs may be kept perfectly fresh for a year by rubbing them with vaseline which has been melted with three-tenths per cent. of salicylic acid. The application should be made twice at an interval of a month. MR. HENDRICKS, though not quite as good a shot as Davy Crockett, knows a thing or two about a rifle. An American who was in Paris when Mr. Hendricks was there says that they went together on a trip up the Seine and halted at a landing where there was a shooting gallery. As they sat in a booth watching the marksmen fire at the heads of clay pipes at a distance of four rods, Mr. Hendricks suddenly said: "I