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# NEWS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Items of Information Gathered From a Wide Area-Political Happenings and Industrial Notes-Crimes and Accidents.
The report comes from Wisconsin that one of the largest timber deals ever made in the United States will be closed within two weeks. The property is one billion feet of sugar pine on the Klamath river, in northern California. The consideration will be something like $1,000,000.
Representative Barrett of Massachusetts has introduced a resolution allowing the naval affairs committee to incorporate in the naval appropriation bill an appropriation not to exceed $5,735,000 for new dry docks or extensions to existing ones at New York, Norfolk, Port Royal, New Orleans and Mare Island, Cal.
It is reported from Brenham that the agents of McFadden Bros. of Philadelphia, one of the world's great cotton firms, have been instructed to stop buying cotton. The same notification is said to have been sent to all their hundred or more agents in Texas. Inquiries are said to have brought the answer that it was because of the Cuban complications. This has caused a considerable flurry among the local cotton men.
News has been received of the death at Beyrut, Syria, of Mrs. Emily R. Montgomery, a missionary, aged 59 years. She went to Turkey with her husband 30 years ago, and has been one of the most devoted and efficient missionaries in that country.
While resisting arrest at Baker City, Ore., William S. Johnson, alias "Omaha Bob," was shot by Officer Bailey and mortally wounded. Johnson was walking through the streets at midnight threatening to clean out the town when the officer attempted to arrest him.
William Chenery, cashier of the Portland, Me., postoffice, who died last Friday, was short $6000 in his accounts, according to postoffice inspectors who have just examined the accounts Mr. Chenery has held the position of cashier about 40 years, and had never been suspected of speculation.
Judge Sharp, at Baltimore, Md., has appointed Simon P. Schott receiver for the Bank of South Baltimore. The assets are estimated at $20,000 and liabilities at $170,000. The larger portion of the deposits, amounting to $130,000, are by poor people.
It is announced that the woolen commission house of Sawyer, Manning & Co. of New York is in financial difficulties, caused by the failure of the Berlington Wooten Company, the Winnooski Worsted Company and the Colchester woolen mill, for which receivers were appointed in Boston Monday. Sawyer, Manning & Co. are said to have indorsed paper for these concerns to the amount of $1,000,000.
The Canadian government has decided to permit Canadian goods to be shipped from Vancouver and Victoria in American vessels free of duty by St. Michaels to the Yukon for the coming season. An order to this effect has been sent to the customs office on the coast. The order applies to the Yukon route by St. Michaels, and does not include Skaguay or Dyea.
Charles Henson was divorced at Belleville, Ill., from his wife, Miranda, and within an hour married to a Chickasaw Indian girl from Wyandotte, I. T.
Advices from the City of Mexico state that all the employes of the large Colmena & Barron cotton factories have gone on a strike because of a cut in wages.
Steve Bilheimer has been appointed chief clerk of the railway mail service, with headquarters at Little Rock, to succeed B. D. Lydick. The new clerk has been in the service 18 years.
W. J. Scanlan, the actor, familiarly known as "Billy," died at Bloomingdale asylum, New York City. Scanlan was stricken with paresis six years ago, and was removed to the asylum. He never recovered from the attack and for three years has been a hopeless imbecile.
A rich deposit of lead ore has just been discovered on the farm of Victor Hilton, near Nashville, Ill. The ore crops out on top of a high bluff, and the pieces broken off assay almost 95 per cent pure lead.
Rev. Sam Jones arrived at his home at Cartersville, Ga., from his western lecture tour and announced himself an independent candidate for governor of Georgia on a platform of his own, which he will announce shortly.
Captain Oldrieve, who is planning to walk across the Atlantic ocean from Boston to Havre, France, will begin his journey July 4. He will wear on his feet a pair of cedar boxes five feet long, with fins at the bottom and sides. They are very light, but strong enough to sustain his weight. In these he is able to walk over choppy seas, and even in heavy swells of the ocean. Captain A. W. Andrews will accompany him in a small boat.
Fire has destroyed the large flour mill of Cargill and Fall at Houston, Minn. The capacity of the mill was 750 barrels a day.