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Miscellaneous News Notes
Blaine's plurality in Wisconsin was 14,581. That of Gov. Rusk was 19,343.
George Glass, harnessmaker, Hamilton, Dak., has been closed out by his creditors.
Torry, Davidson & Grossieup, wholesale grocers of Abeline, Tex., were closed attachments aggregating $20,000.
Gov. Brown of Rhode Island has appointed William S. Sheffield to succeed the late Senator Anthony.
Albert Manning, wholesale boot and shoe manufacturer of Boston, has gone into insolvency.
The reduction of wages of ingrain carpet-weavers in Philadelphia will effect probably 20,000 persons.
The assets of the Pioneer Lumber company of Eau Claire are placed at $316,235.88, and the liabilities at $268,315.67.
Michigan was an uncomfortably close state, too. Blaine's plurality over the fusion electoral ticket is less than 3,000.
S. H. Bradley, proprietor of the Menton mills at Menton, Ill., has failed. Liabilities, $40,000; assets nearly as much.
John Healy of Chicago, clerk of the superior court-elect, thinking himself beaten just after the election, bet $2,000 on his own defeat and lost.
David Eastman of Harlem, Ill., lost a $5,000 farm by betting on Blaine, and long after election day refused an offer of $400 to draw the wager.
Ashton, author of "Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne,โ accuses Justin McCarthy of plagiarism in his recently issued "History of the Four Georges.
Julius Blank of New York, convicted of illegally registering before the late election, was sentenced to Sing Sing prison eighteen months. Emil Godfrey, who aided him, got two and a half years.
The supreme court of the United States decided that it had no power to reverse the decision of a Virginia court holding that insurance companies were not liable for property burned at Richmond at the time of its capture.
There arrived at St. Paul depot recently in charge of George H. H. Moore, a special car belonging to the United States fish commission containing a large number of small fish for distribution throughout the Northwest, and 7,000 spawn for the Minnesota hatchery, near St. Paul.
In a contest for a purse in Helena Boyd Dickinson, of the firm of Hagdman & Co., and Thomas Murphy of Blake & Myers were the contestants. Fifteen sheep were dressed by each man in an hour. But Murphy was at work on the sixteenth when time was called, and about one minute ahead so was therefore declared winner, and the money, about $300 in all was turned over to him.
The suspension of the banking house of Hyatt, Levings and Co. of Washington, Davies county, Ind., announced recently has created much alarm throughout that section, as the establishment was considered in first-class condition and the stockholders gilt-edged. The institution was a private house, and a large part of the business men of Washington deposited with it. J. C. Billheimer, one of the assignees, states that the liabilities will probably reach $122,000, and assets about $100,000.
B. C. Winston & Co., dealers in hard wood lumber, with main office in St. Paul, have turned over their properity to three trustees, E. C. Long, Sardinia, N. Y., D. Tozier, Stillwater, and W. A. Culbertson, St. Paul. The firm consisted of B. C. Winston, St. Paul, and S. R. Stimson, Stillwater, and succeeded to the business of Long & Winston in September, 1883. The liabilities are placed at $80,000 and assets $100,000.