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were charged with having outraged and murdered Mrs. Jane Simmons, wife of a farmer in Oklahoma, near Wewoka. For the 11 months ended November 30, 1896, the exports from the United States amounted to $956,675,874, a gain of nearly $86,000,000 over the same time In 1896. The boiler of the towboat Percy Kelsey exploded near Glenfield, Pa., and five of the crew were killed and four others were injured. Secretary Sherman has issued an appeal for aid for the destitute in Cuba. Gov. Bushnell was inaugurated as chief executive of Ohio. Fire nearly wiped out the business portion of the village of Ruthton, Minn. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 10th was: Wheat, 38,863,00 bushels; corn, 39,518,000 bushels; oats, 14,772,000 bushels; rye, 4,100,000 bushels; barley, 4,070,000 bushels. Hadley A. Sutherland, a negro murderer, was electrocuted at Sing Sing, N. Y. William Putnam and Parrish Johnson were frozen to death near Coulee City, Wash. After lying in a trance for three years and two months William Gipp, who killed his mother in Buffalo, N. Y., came to his senses. Harry F. Cagwin, proprietor of the Joliet (Ill.) city bank, a private institution, assigned with liabilities of $48,000. Mrs. Augusta Nack, jointly charged with Martin Thorn of the murder of William Guldensuppe in New York, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Francis D. Newton, a prosperous farmer of Brookfield, Mass, and his wife and ten-year-old adopted daughter were found murdered in their beds. A hired man was suspected of the crime. Rev. Thomas E. Moore fell dead from an apoplectic stroke in the midst of his sermon at the Baptist church in Harper, Kan. He was one of the five young men who, in 1865, originated the Salvation Army movement in London. The Twenty-seventh general assembly of Iowa convened in Des Moines. David Hall, of Hubbard, O., a pioneer iron manufacturer of the Mahoning valley, dropped dead. The big Port of Chalmette below New Orleans, with its hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in cotton compresses, wharves, etc., went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $2,000,000. The one hundredth anniversary of the occupation of the old statehouse in Boston was duly observed. The eighth annual banquet of the Hamilton club was held at the Auditorium in Chicago, Loren A. Thurston, ex-minister from Hawaii to the United States, being the principal speaker. Thomas A. Edison denies the story that he has discovered a new metal. Commissioner Martin A. Knapp has been elected chairman of the interstate commerce commission to succeed W. R. Morrison. Fourteen business houses in Shawnee, O. T., were destroyed by fire. Patrick A. Largey, president of the State savings bank and a wealthy mine owner, was shot and killed at Butte, Mont., by Thomas Riley. Dispatches say that Seminole Indians burned the town of Maud, O. T., and massacred 25 men, women and children, and their march through the country was marked at every point by bloodshed and fire. James England and his wife were suffocated by coal gas in their home at Burlington, Ia. A ledge of quartz has been struck in the Klondike that assays from $100,000 to $250,000 per ton. In a riot at the opening trial of William Hudley at Mount Vernon, Ky., for killing John Lawrence, two men were shot. It is definitely announced that the Rothschilds will build a railroad into the Yukon country in Alaska over the Dalton trail. Justice A. W. Newman, of the supreme court, fell on an icy sidewalk in Madison, Wis., and fractured his skull. His recovery was doubtful. The St. Louis & New Orleans Anchor line of steamers made an assignment in St. Louis. In the Ohio legislature Mr. Hanna got 56 votes in the house and 17 in the senate, enough to elect him United States senator on a joint ballot if no changes occur.
