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-TIRT &a 1JUU AIDRO SBM usur euo 010 ing walls. Others were more or less injured. THE most interesting wedding of the year took place on the 21st in New York City at the home of Mme. De Barrios, widow of the late president of Guatemala. Mme. De Barrios was the bride and Senor De Roda, of Spain, the groom. The bride is worth $10,000,000. AT St. Cloud, Minn., on the 21st thieves stole a mail pouch containing $50,000 in checks, drafts and other papersfrom the wagon which conveys the mail to passenger train No. 8, eastbound, on the Northern Pacific road. The funds were principally remittances to eastern banks. JAMES A. PALMER, manufacturer of gas fixtures, was arrested at New York on the 21st charged with robbing Tiffany & Co. of $50,000 by means of forged and fraudulent bills. Palmer has confessed his guilt. THE breach of promise suit for $50,000, instituted by Miss Georgine Wolters against her faithless lover, Louis Schultz, the inventor. whose wealth estimated at $250,000. was concluded New York on the 21st by a jury verdict awarding $25,000, and $1,000 extra counsel fees for the plaintiff. THE First National bank of Grafton, Mass., was closed by National Bank Examiner Jeremiah Getchel on the 21st. The bank has a capital of $100,000 and a line of deposits of only $3,000 or $4,000. The cause of the suspension is supposed to be due to investments in business paper which were not acceptable to the bank examiner. BRIEN, the bunco steerer, who being taken to the penitentiary from Albany, N. Y., to serve ten years swindling a citizen of Albany out of $10,000, escaped from officers on the way. FIRE broke out on the 21st in machinery hall of the Georgia Technological school at Atlanta, and the building burned to the ground. Loss, $50,000; insured for $30.000. SHIPPING interests at Chicago are fering on account of the 'longshoremen's strike, which seems as far settlement as ever. Fights between the strikers and non-union men are of daily occurrence, and the strikers are growing more and more desperate. AT Sioux City, Ia., Judge Foley deci led the test case involving the of the Rapid Transit Company to street cars on Sunday. The judge holds that street cars are a necessity. The decision disposesof the 500 arrests of rapid transit employes and will stop the sade against the street cars. THE proposition to open the Colville Indian reservation in Washington created a great deal of excitement Spokane. A rush will now be made for the reservation and it is likely that 2,000 claims will be filed in a few days. It is held by good lawyers that the dians are merely tenants on the vation by suffrance and that the whites have a perfect right to the land. THREE lives were lost and three fatally injured on the 22d at Jonesboro Tenn. Repairs were being made in the county court house and the walls of the vaults had just been completed. These walls reached to the top of the building, forty feet in height. The temporary arches were taken out, and the walls collapsed. Five brickmasons were work under them and all were buried under a great quantity of brick mortar. R. T. GUPTILL, a prominent glass manufacturer, claims to have discovered the lost art of casting glass tubes, which is known to have been practiced by the Egyptians. He has erected factory at Pendleton, Ind., and has his first cast with success. The tubes are suitable for sewer, gas water mains and are joined by a glass cement. THE business failures during the week ended April 22 number for the United States 178, Canada 23, total 201, as pared with 226 the previous week and 247 for the corresponding week of year. ONE of the most important conces sions yet granted by the directors of the world's fair was made on the 22d to the Lehigh Valley Transportation Company The contract awards a monopoly of steamboat business to the world's between all points on Lake Michigan from Kenosha, Wis., on the north, Michigan City, Ind., on the south, cluding Chicago. The company will begin business with enough vessels carry 75,000 passengers a day. Two brothers, George and Henry Kelly, of Salem, O., have fallen heirs property valued at $40,000,000 in the high Valley coal regions. H. H. ANDERSON, who is wanted Lincoln, Neb., to answer the charge forgeries to the amount of $40,000, been arrested at Chester, Pa. ON the 22d three fishermen were found in their cabin at Hope Creek, suffocated by coal gas. When taken out they in a dying condition. The men all sided at Hancock Bridge, six miles T N Salem By the collision of two trains on Baltimore & Ohiorailroad near Salisbury Junction, Pa., on the 22d eight grants were injured, three of them
