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NT The First National Bank of Cherryvale, Kansas, which suspended on July 14th, has resumed business. Leading oyster growers along the Connecticut coast estimate the damage to the oyster beds by the recent storm at *000'000'2$ The Rodgers Locomotive Company of Paterson, N. J., has issued an order reducing the wages of its 1,200 employes from 5 to 25 per cent. A telegram from Jacksonville says there is no yellow fever in Florida. The sickness of Newman at Tampa has been declared not to be yellow fever. A number of Senators are in receipt of letters from their constituents along the coast urging them to take some action that will still further improve the life-saving service. The bacteriological test of the suspected cholera case at Jersey City shows that it was not Asiatic cholera, but only cholera morbus of a very mild type. The authorities believe that no more cases will be found. Saturday was Catholic Educational Day at the World's Fair. Among the speakers at the celebration was Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia, whose subject was "The Vocation of the Christian Educator." Six human skeletons were found Saturday on a sand bar in the Mississippi river two miles below Memphis. They are supposed to belong to the crew or passengers of the steamer Gold Dust, burned a few years ago. Outlaws stopped and boarded the 'Frisco train at Mound Valley, Kansas, Sunday morning, and shot and killed the express messenger. Nothing was secured from the express car, but not a passenger escaped being robbed. The Farmers Loan and Trust Company of New York has begun foree closure proceedings against the Toledo, € Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan Railroad Company, because of its failure to pay interest due in July on the $10,/ 000,000. a The Atlas line steamship Alvo, which U sailed from New York August 16th, for 0 West Indian ports, is 14 days overdue at her most distant port, and much anxiety is felt as to her safety. She carried a crew of 60 men, and had nine cabin passengers. a The steamer City of Birmingham arA L rived at New York from Savannah, D Sunday, bringing the crew of the wrecked steamer City of Savannah, and also three of the crew of the Joseph o Southard, which was wrecked 40 miles 1 east of Georgetown. John I. Davenport, United States supervisor of elections, was, Saturday, evicted from the office in the Federal A Building, in New York, which he has occupied. This action was taken by 0 Postmaster Dayton on instructions from TI the Treasury Department. p p The city of Quincy, Massachusetts, has broken ground for a seminary provided for by the will of Dr. Ebenezer Woodward, who died 22 years ago. a The fund, which amounts to $250,000, D is also claimed by Dartmouth College at and a litigation on the question is in progress. The Senate has rejected the nomination of Henry C. Stuart of Denver, S Col., to be secretary of legation in Guatemala and Honduras and Consul'I General to Guatemala. While the S specific charges are not given it is S1 understood that reasons were assigned to show that he was persona non grata. X 11 A final conference was held Saturday between officials of the Louisville & 'I Nashville railroad and representatives of its employes in the various depart1 ments. An agreement was reached by 10 the