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PERSONAL AND GENERAL. ON the 19th the New York court of appeals decided the Fayerweather will contest involving the distribution of over tions $3,000,000 all among the educational country. Twenty institudifferent colleges and universities share in equal proportions in the distribution. SENATOR HENRY M. TELLER was reelected in both houses of the Colorado general assembly, on the 19th, the vote being non-partisan and almost unanimous. CONSUL-GENERAL KARRELL, at St. Petersburg, sends the state department copy of the ukase issued by the czar census of be providing the Russian for the empire, first which general must completed by February 9. HON. EBE W. TUNNELL was inaugurated governor of Delaware on the 19th. ON the 19th the Imperial bank of Germany reduced its rate of discount from five to four per cent. RICHARD R. KENNEDY, a silver man, was chosen United States senator from Delaware on the 19th. HUNDREDS of Oklahoma divorcees, who have failed to pay the costs in court married are the again proceedings guilty and have of bigamy. since decrees not being valid until all costs are paid. ALEXANDER HULL, ex-sheriff of Boone county, Ind., was arrested, on the 19th, on a charge of extorting money while in office from his deputies. Hull was also made the defendant in a civil action brought by Prosecutor Holloman to recover about $6,000 in fees which, it is alleged, he collected and failed to account for. THE Youths' Temple of Honor, an insurance organization made a voluntary deed of assignment, on the 20th, to Dr. Russell T. Goodwin, of Minneapolis, Minn., supreme secretary of the organization. MRS. MARTHA MARIA HARRIS, wife of United States Senator Isham G. Harris, died at her residence in Paris, Tenn., on the 20th. MME. CARNOT, mother of the late President Carnot, died in Paris on the 20th. BY the explosion of the great furon John and nace Kirby, at aged Wellston, 22, O., John the Matin 21st, and James were terribly and can not live. burned, Waddle, aged 21, Weakness of the breast of the furnace was the cause. THE official returns of the output of the gold mines of British Guiana for the year 1896 show that it was in excess of $2,250,000. THOMAS B. YOUTSEY. ex-cashier of the First national bank of Newport, closed on Ky., which its doors the 22d, the 18th, made an assignment, on to C. W. Wagel. COMPTROLLER ECKELS, on the 22d, ap Robert H. pointed Courtney national receiver for the suspended German bank of Louisville, Ky. THE miners' strike in the Jackson on to work district miners returning of Ohio ended, the at the 21st, rate the of 51 cents. the same as paid in the Hocking valley. THE official returns of the health of authorities Bombay for the week ended on the 21st show that the num ber of deaths from the bubonic plague was 470. Ex-Gov. WILLIAM.J. STONE, of Missouri, is confined to his bed at the Planter's hotel in St. Louis. He that on the 21st, and to hisroom reached went at one city suffering from the effects of a severe cold. tribunal of in THE Pythias, grand sitting of New the York Knights city, on of the Bayard 22d, expelled Taylor lodge Charles 157, H. of Klee, that city, from the order. Klee is the leader of the German wing. BIANCHI, bishop of died in on CARDINAL Palestine, ANGELO Rome the 22d. in 19, was created a Sep 1817, He was and born Rome, cardinal November number 35, 1000
