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THE WEST. THEGerman-American national bank, of St. Paul, which suspended a few days ago, will resume business just as soon as the necessary formalities can be complied with. ST. PAUL and Minneapolis publishers are talking of reduced prices for typesetting. AN express car containing a consignment of gold for Chicago was wrecked on the Fort Wayne, at Whiting, Ind., and the coin was scattered in the road but was all saved. IT was reported that soldiers and a band of sooners had fought on the strip and that three of the sooners had been killed. THE other night an unarmed body of laboring men waited on the Chinese restaurants in Selma, Cal., and deported the keepers, sending them out of town quietly and using no violence. GEORGE A. DEAN, an actor in Denman Thompson's "Old Homestead" company, dropped dead of apoplexy in Chicago. Dean, who was 65 years old. has played the part of Cy Prime in the company ever since the play was first put on the stage. THIEVES broke into the rooms of the republican city committee, of Indianapolis, and stole all the precinct poll books for one ward and other valuable information. By an explosion in the boiler-room of a wire works at Joliet, Ill., restarting has been delayed, one man was killed and two fatally hurt. IN order that they may not adjoin any of the Cherokee allotments the county seats and land offices in the strip have all been moved. IT is said at Denver, Col., that Will R. Perry gutted the county funds to the amount of $22,000 before he absconded. A REPORT has it that Treasurer McCurtain, of the Choctaw nation, has failed with $500,000 of the lease money. THE world's fair directory has requested Theodore Thomas to resume charge of the music. WALTER SANGER, the bicycle champion, has been expelled from the Milwaukee club for refusing to appear in a race after being advertised. CROP bulletins of Illinois and Iowa say that recent rains have been greatly beneficial to corn, though more is needed yet, especially in portions of Illinois. Apples and potatoes will be short in Illinois. AT Caldwell, Id., the house of a family named Brookshire, lately from Missouri, was burned. Two children aged 4 and 2 years were burned to death. THE private bank of J. N. Knapp & Co., of Cedar Falls, Ia., failed to open its doors. E. M. DONALDSON. president of the Marion (Kan.) First national bank, also of a dozen Iowa banks and secretary of the Union Trust Co., Sioux City, all suspended institutions, is a fugitive, charged with forgery and embezzlement of over $600,000. THE Butlen-Mueller Co., Milwaukee, dealer in lumber, has assigned. THE Indiana Manufacturing Co., of Peru, Ind., one of the largest woodworking establishments in the west, made a general assignment of 10 per cent. among its employes. THE People's bank, of St. Paul, Minn., which closed August 4 in order to protect its creditors from a prospective run, although at that time perfectly solvent and able to pay all depositors, has reopened. CONSTABLE JOE JONES was instantly killed at Paul's Valley, I. T., by John Stevenson, whom he was trying to arrest. THE Ohio Stone Co., of Cleveland, went into the hands of a receiver. Assets about $300,000 and liabilities $250,000. THEODORE HAUGHEY, his son Schuyler Haughey and three others asso-v ciated with them, have been arrested at Indianapolis charged with wrecking the Indianapolis national bank. The arrests were made by the United States
