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Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. DOMESTIC. THE work of inclosing and securing the grave of Gen. Sherman at St. Louis has been completed and the military guard about the tomb would be withdrawn. YALE and Harvard have completed arrangements for a series of annual athletic contests, this year's meeting to be at New Haven, Conn., May 16. LATER developments prove that Alexander Snyder, an old citizen of Goshen, Ind., thought to have been murdered by tramps, was attacked in his sleep by rats. THE steamer Earle Kinsley, from Hiawa, arrived at San Francisco and reported that in northern China there had been a severe flood and that over 10,000 people had been drowned. Two YOUNG women at White Oaks, N.M., committed suicide by shooting themselves with the same revolver. They belonged to wealthy families and left a note saying: "Death is sweet, and we prefer it to life." Two CHILDREN at Plattsville, Col., were fatally burned by the explosion of a can of kerosene which they were using to start a fire. GEORGE HARRIS, who cut his wife's throat and did the work successfully, was sentenced at Caldwell, O., to a life term in the state penitentiary. BY an explosion in a Hungarian boarding-house at Braddock, Pa., eleven men were burned, four fatally. PHILADELPHIA'S new mayor gives the police department ten days to get out of polities or out of the city's employ. THE New York Methodist conference has decided overwhelmingly that women shall not be admitted to the general conference. THE Stockbridge savings bank at Stockbridge, Mass., has gone into a receiver's hands. Depositors would lose 25 per cent. DOZENS of cattle, horses and hogs were dying of hydrophobia in Britt, la. A mad dog run amuck in that vicinity several weeks ago. HENRY M. STANLEY'S lecture tour in the United States is over. He said in New York that the total number of miles he had traveled in all his exploration of Africa was 25,000, and that he had beaten that record by over 2,000 miles on his lecture journey. LEWIS BOOKER. one of the most prominent business men in Richmond, Va., was arrested, charged with misappropriating $100,000 of fid iciary funds. TOOF. McGowa & Co., grocers and cotton factors at Memphis, Tenn., have failed for $126,728. THE most valuable cargo of coffee ever brought to this country arrived at Baltimore. It consisted of 23,328 bags, worth $660,213. THE town of Tobias, Neb., was nearly wiped out by fire. DAVID DAVIS, a detective employed in hunting out illicit stills, was found murdered near Elkhorn, Va. THREE of the Hungarians who were in the labor riot at Braddock, Pa.. last New Year's day in which Michael Quinn was killed. were convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged. THE celebration of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the American patent system was begun in Washington, a large number of inventors participating. N. BYRES & Co., lumber dealers at Laneaster, Pa., have failed for $190,000. MICHIGAN salt manufacturers have formed a new organization to control the price of their product. Two UNKNOWN men were seen to capsize in a boat on the Mississippi river at Davenport, la. CHARLES E. KINCAID. the newspaper correspondent on trial in Washington for the shooting of ex-Representative Taulbee, of Kentucky, in February, 1890, was acquitted. THE championship season of the American association of baseball clubs opened on the 8th. THE loss to the oyster beds near New Orleans caused by the crevasse at Ames' plantation will reach $500,000. THE United States treasurer has paid the governor of Tennessee the direct taxelaims of the state, amounting to $392,000. THE directors of the Washington national bank of New York have decided to close up the institution. A TERRIBLE cyclone visited Nevada, Mo., and houses were wnroofed, wires prostrated and havoc played in all directions. One person was killed. Two SOCIETY women at Albuquerque, N. M., became insane from the use of cosmetics on their faces. FRED HUNDLEY, 18 years of age, was sentenced to fourteen years in the penitentiary at Huron, S. D., for shooting his father over a quarrel in putting down a carpet last summer. JAMES Cow and his mother quarreled in Jeffersonville. Ind. She struck him with a stone. when he shot and killed her. THE Central hotel at New London, Conn., was burned, and Michael Daley, father of the proprietors, was suffocated in his room.
