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DOMESTIC. HEILZBERG & Co.'s packing house at St. Louis was entered, the watchman bound and the safe rifled of upward of $1,000. EQUAL pay for equal work was advocated in addresses before the National Council of Women at Washington. Two OF the three men who robbed a bank at Griswold, Ia., were captured by Council Bluffs officers after a fight, in which one on each side was wounded. A RECEIVER was appointed for the Merchants' bank of Lake City, Minn., whose president had borrowed $40,000 of its funds. BRADSTREET'S revised record shows the business failures for 1894 aggregated 12,724, with assets of $83,215,000 and liabilities of $151,548,000. CORDELIA HILL, the colored child who shot and killed her father in defense of her mother at Charlestown, W. Va., was acquitted THOMAS CAVANAGH and his wife were burned to death near Middle Haddam, Conn. GEORGE WEAVER and his wife, living alone on a farm near Trotwood, O., were burned to death in their dwelling. THE reported damage to the orange crop of California by frost was denied. CHIEF BRENNAN issued an order dismissing all but nine of the 220 police officers in Chicago who failed to pass the civil service examination. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 26th was: Wheat, 79,476,000 bushels; corn, 12,969,000 bushels; oats, 6,772,000 bushels; rye, 340,000 bushels: barley, 1,522,000 bushels. Ex-PRIEST SLATTERY lectured at Savannah, Ga., and all the police and troops in the city were required to suppress a riot which followed. Several persons were hurt. RIVER miners held a convention at Monongahela City, Pa., and decided to strike for the old sixty-nine-cent rate. MARY L. DICKINSON, of New York, was elected president of the National Council of Women at the session in Washington. TWENTY-ONE indictments for frauds at the fall election were returned by a special grand jury at Kansas City. A STATUE of Gen. Grant will soon be added to the group now in statuary hall at the capitol in Washington. IN a general order Commander in Chief Lawler, of the G. A. R., urges efforts be made to reclaim suspended comrades. CURTIS and William Waltz were killed by the bursting of the boiler in a sawmill near Adelphi, O. THE national dairy congress, consisting of delegates from the various state dairy associations, met in Washington. AN epidemic of grip prevailed at Lynn, Mass., to an alarming extent, there being over 500 cases, and many deaths had occurred. C. FARNHAM &.Son, extensive leather dealers at Providence, R. I., assigned with heavy liabilities. THE remains of Fred Douglass were buried at Rochester, N. Y., after impressive ceremonies in Centra church. A NATIONAL society for boys from the ages of 12 to 18 was incorporated at Indianapolis under the name of the "Princely Knights of Character Castle." The originator is Rev. A. W. Connor. ALFRED DAUGHERTY and Oliver Lockwood were fatally scalded near Nottingham, Ind., by the explosion of an oil pump boiler. MRS. ISAAC REYNOLDS, a society leader of Cleveland, dropped dead in the cloakroom at the art exhibition. CHARLES L. HOBART, a member of the New York produce exchange, was married at noon, and died in the evening while attending a theater with his bride.
