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Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, DOMESTIC. ADVICES of the 26th say that the recent storm in the East had resulted in great loss of life. The fishing schooner Edward Newton went to pieces on the Massachusetts coast and fifteen of her crew were drowned. At various points snow fell to a considerable depth, seriously interfer with railroad travel. Thirteen coal-barges were sunk in New York bay. but no lives were lost as far as known. Five seamen were drowned off Nantasket Beach, Mass. At Long Branch, N. J., many cottages were carr ed out to sea IN a drunken affray on the 26th at Vian, Ind. T., four Cherokee Indians were killed and another was shot through hand. Two MEN were killed and three injured in a collision on the 26th between passenger trains near Husted, Col., and three cars were burned. THE bootblacks of Indianapolis inaugurated a strike on the 26th to put the price of shine up to ten cents. "Dock' HAGGERTY was unloading glycer ine at Pleasantv lle, Pa., on the 26th when it exploded by some means and Haggerty was blown to atoms. Parts of his two horses were found in neighboring trees, and a piece of the wagon was found half a mile away. AT Centerville. Pa., on the 26th three men were killed and one badly injured by a boiler explosion. NEAR Brazil. Ind., on the 26th Tom Warren and John R. Berry, miners, were killed by falling slate. A KEG of powder exploded in George Palmer's store at Scrufftown. Pa., on the 26th, fatally injuring him. killing a ten year-old daughter and wounding three other persons. A COTTON mill with a capacity of ten thousand yards a day. and employing two hundred men, was started at Des Moines. Ia., on the 26th, and as it was the first in the State the event was celebrated by speeches and other ceremonies. REPORTS on the 26th from Rochester and Albany, N. Y., and St. John, N. B., say that vessels had been frozen in and navigation was closed up. THE St. Louis, Quincy, Omaha & Sioux City railroad was incorporated on the 26th, with a capital stock of $12,000,000. TWENTY miles west of Chattanooga, Tenn. a deposit of rich lubricating oil was found on the 26th at a depth of one thousand feet. THE store of the Canton (O.) Co operative Clothing Company was closed on the 26th on executions aggregating $26,000. The liabilities were $50,000, THE corner stone of the new court-house at Evansville, Ind., to cost $500,000, was laid on the 27th with masonic ceremonies, THE true source of the Mississippi river has, it was alleged on the 27th, been discovered by persons living at Sauk Center, Minn. who say the Father of Waters flows from two small creek-fed lakes whose waters are emptied into Lake Glazier, recently discovered by Captain Willard Glazier. JOHN WOODS, aged sixty-fl years, and his bed-ridden sister M ry, age. sixty-one years, were burned to death in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 27th by the destruction of their house by fire. A STATEMENT prepared at the Pension Bureau in Washington on the 27th showed that of the 15 000 estimated cases under the act of June 7. 1888, allowing widows arrears of pension from the date of their husbands' death, 14,502 had been allowed and settled. THE new church of the First Congregational Society at Northampton, Mass. was ruined by fire on the 27th. It 175,000. ADVICES of the 27th say that the steamer Allentown went to pieces in the recent storm on the coast near Cohassetts, Mass. and eighteen lives were lost. The losses caused by the storm at Atlantic City, N. J., were greater than had been experienced since the incorporation of that city. FRANK TRAVIS, a bar tender, committed suicide on the 27th at Shelbyille, Ind, because he had been discharged for drunkenness. AT Morrelton, Ark., on the 27th City Marshal Bentley was accidentally shot and cilled by his brother, Sheriff Bentley, who was examining pistol THE City Council of Reading, Pa., on the 27th passed an ordinance making it unlawful for contractors to employ any but citizens of the United States on municipal work. FOR the first time in one hundred and twelve days there were no new cases of yellow fever reported at Jacksonville, Fla., on the 27th. Towns all around were raising the quarantiue and trains were again running. a JEWET DARGENTON, proprietor of boarding house at Amesbury, Miss., shot his wife on the 27th and then killed himself. Jealousy prompted the act. IN the trial in Chicago on the 27th of Hronek, the Anarchist, informer Chleboun testified that Hronek confe sed to him that he tried to throw a b mb under President Cleveland's carriage in the procession last year and that he threw the Haymarket bomb. CHARLES E. STANLEY. treasurer of the Cleveland Gas C mpany, was on the 27th charged with defalcations amounting to over 20,000. BANKERS at Milwaukee on the 27th reported counterfeit five-dollar silvercertificates in circulation. They are of the series of 1886, and bear a blurred picture of Grant, which is the principal defect of the bill, aside from the paper not having a silk fiber. A BOILER explosion on the 27th at Ralston's saw-mill at Adams Corners, Pa., killed three men. THE canning house of McGaw Bros., near Spesutra Island, Md., was destroyed by fire on the 27th. Loss, $100.000 THE sale to a New England synd cate of thirty-six thousand acres of mining land in Alabama was announced on the 27th. The price obtained was nearly $1,000,000. ALBERT L. WALLACE, of Sandusky, O. acc.dentally dropped two sticks of dynamite in his office on the 29th ult. demolishing the building and causing his own death. FIFTEEN business houses at Durant, Mi-s., were burned on the 29th ult THE Woodsdale (Kan.) State Bank suspended payment on the 28th AT Spikerville Ind., Elias Jackson on the 29th ult. mortally shot Curtis Jellison,