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NEWS ITEMS. For the Week Ending July 11. During a fight at a pienic near Mascoutah, III., twenty-five men were hurt, one fatally. The Washington national bank at Spokane which suspended several weeks ago has resumed. John Lyons and Joseph Bishop were drowned at Stoneboro, Pa., by the capsizing of their boat. Drought in many sections of Europe bids fair to ruin the agriculturists. Fodder is a total failure. Siveter, 9. of and Dr. Thomas years age, one of the oldest physicians in America, died at Salem, In. W. F. Thornton & Son, bankers of Shelbyville, III., failed for $500,000. Assets may reach the liabilities. Meeting accident in a Windsor (Conn.) Mary Media remained food for swamp without Mrs. forty-one days. A severe rainstorm flooded several small towns in Dane county, Wis., and great damage to property resulted. in Oroville, wiped Chinatown out. Cal., was Eight brick stores and thirty other buildings were destroyed. Frank Boyes, a demented farmer near Wauseon. O., cut his wife's throat and killed himself. A daughter escaped. Reports to the state department say American agricultural implements are taking well in England. Trade is increasing. National banks throughout the country have during the last two months increased their circulation nearly $7,000,000. Floating indebtedness of the world's fair corporation has been retired. Money will now be accumulated to retire bonds. The Arkansas state bank of Stattgart, and the Arkansas Farmers' and Traders' bank of Dewitt failed to open their doors. Albert Lewis as shot and killed and Charles Lewis wounded in the climax of a fend with the Yandell family at Princeton, Ky. The world's 2-mile race record (4:48 k/) for trotters was broken at Salem, Ore. by the stallion Blondie, who made the distance in 4:48. It was said that conductors and engineers on the Queen & Crescent railroad had robbed the company of goods valued at $40,000. The Southern California national bank and University bank at Los Angeles, Cal., which failed recently, have resumed business. President Moshier, of the Capital national bank of Lincoln. Neb., was sentenced to five years in prison for wreeking the bank. The burning of the new school building at Monterey, Cal., destroyed priceless papers relating to the many early history of California. The bank at Lesueur, Minn., the Northern national at Big Rapids, Mich., and the Citizens' bank at Winneconne, Wis. shut their doors. During a drunken fight at Woodbine, Kv., City Marshal Morrissy, Bud Smith and Jim Francis were killed and four others were wounded. A heavy electric and rainstorm visited Middlesborough, Ky., in which a shower of fish of the sun perch species was precipitated on the town. The New York & New Haven railroad lost sixty-four freight cars and other property by fire at New Haven, Conn., the loss being $100,000. The statue of P.T. Barnum at Seaside park in Bridgeport, Conn., was disfigured by some vandal by being covered with red paint. Augustus Hemenway, of Canton, Mo., invited the twenty-six public school teachers there to a ten-day trip to the world's fair at his expense. The gross earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road for the year ended June 30 were $83,975,054. against for the $32,283,308 previous year. The State bank at Shubert, Neb. closed its doors owing to the flight of the cashier, G. V. Argabor ght, with $21,000 belonging to the institution. The July returns to the department of agriculture make the average condition-of wheat 76.6 per cent., rye, 85.3; barley, 101.1. SS.8; oats, 88.3. and potatoes The banking house of W. F. Thornton & Son at Shelbyville, III., made assignment with liabilities of $500,000. involving hundreds of business men and farmers, The body of Otis D. Dana, a Boston merchant. was found in a pond near Plymouth, Mass. He was and is to have walked friends there supposed visiting into the pool while asleep. Death of Justice Blatchford. Justine NEWPORT, R. I., July 8. -Associate Samuel Placet
