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The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. The receipts of the United States for the month of October were $25,282,829 and the expenditures were $38,978,277, showing a deficit for October of $7,655,458. The total deficit since July 1, 1896, is $32,889,577. The wholesale clothing firm of Reis, Toons & Co. in Philadelphia failed for $100.000. About 2,100 employes have been added to the classified service by the issuance of an order by President Cleveland directing that the rules of the navy department regulating the employment of labor at the navy yards shall not be changed without the approval of the rivil service commission. The United States Carriage company's works at Columbus. O., were burned. Mrs. Annie Schrieber. aged 28, and her nepbew. a lad of 14, eloped from their nomes in Chicago and committed suicide in Elgin, III. Three vast waterspouts connecting clouds and sea was the rare phenomena witnessed by residents of Cottage City, Mass. Jeff Jackson, John Adams, William Taylor and Robert Allison, negro laborers, were murdered by white caps near Wild Fork. Ala. The Emerson Piano company that failed recently in Boston has resumed business. At Merlens, Tex., Peter Hansen split his wife's head open with an ax and then committed suicide by shooting himself. He charged his wife with infidelity. A telegram from Lick observatory in California announces the discovery of a faint comet by Perrine, an assistant at Lick. Consul General Fitzhugh Lee arrived in New York from Havana. Half an hour after Harrison Bacon. aged 73, a pioneer of Courtland, O., had cast his vote he dropped dead in the street of heart disease. Capt. Hatfield, of Hatfield-McCoy fame, killed Henderson Chambers and John and Elliott Rutherford at Matewan, W. Va., during a quarrel over politics. Hatfield escaped. Constable Francis De Long, one of the oldest residents of Joliet. III., was shot and instantly killed by Lyman Hall, a young man 24 years old, whom De Long was trying to arrest. The following officials have been removed from the treasury department by Secretary Carlisle for offensive partisanship: Judge W. E. Fleming, of Kentucky; Thomas F. Brantley, of South Carolina. and Burton T. Doyle. In a battle at Winchester, Ky., between a posse of policemen and at squad of negroes six colored men and three whites were shot, three of the negroes being fatally wounded. President Cleveland issued a proclamation naming Thursday, November 26. as Thangsgiving day. The Gem theater in St. Louis was destroyed by fire and William Gray. the stage manager, was fatally injured by jumping from a tbird-story window. The Carter-Crume company's woodPD disb factory in Saginaw, Mich., was destroyed by fire. W. White & Co.. one of the largest and oldest cotton-buying firms in Texas, failed in Dallas for $200,000. The Chicago stock exchange opened for business after being closed for six months. During a storm on Lake Erie several sailboats were capsized and Henry Mayo and Jacob and George Vergt were drowned. John H. Inman, head of the cotton house of Inman, Swan & Co., and a business man of national reputation, died in New York of heart failure, aged 53 years. William Mann (white) and Abe Goss (colored) were killed by the explosion of a locomotive boiler at Atlanta, Ga. Arthur L. Snook, a brakeman. shot and killed his wife in Kansas City, Mo., and then killed himself. cause is know & A receiver was asked for for the Marine national bank of Dulutb, Minn. The liabilities are $270,000. Stanley Barrows achieved the feat in Denver of riding the fastest mile ever made on a wheel, and that is without any pacing, his time being 58 seconds. All the pork butchers at the packing houses in Chicago struck because of the failure to advance their wages. Rev. E. S. Nicholson, of Kokomo, Ind., father of the temperance law. has been reelected to the legislature, with 800 votes to spare. The Golden Scepter Mining company at Quigley, Mont., has assigned with debts of $285,000. Conrad Eichhorn deliberately put his 13-year-old son to death in Toledo, O., and then committed suicide. Domestic trouble was the cause. The Manhattan Clothing & Shoe company at Dayton, O., assigned with liabilities of $100.000. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 6th aggregated $991,552,065, against $968,781,558 the previous week. The decrease compared with the corresponding week in 1895 is 12.6. Gaines Murphy, who was put on the ticket as a joke, was elected sheriff of Gibson county. Ind. Mrs McCarthy. of Scranton. Pa