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ended on the 11th, against one week previous and 333 in the corresponding period of 1895. Mustapha Bey, the Turkish minister, has received peremptory instructions from his government to secure a retraction of the injurious statements made by President Cleveland in his message to congress. and a rupture of the diplomatic relations between the United States and Turkey is threatened. The Georgia legislature has passed a bill making women eligible for state librarian. The International hypothecate bank was incorporated at Dubuque, Ia., with a capital of $10,000,000. Walter F. Slade and Francis H. Clough, operating the Clear River woolen mills at Burrellville, R. I., failed for $1,000,000. The National bank of commerce at Duluth, Minn.. closed its doors with liabilities of $135,000. The First national bank of Niagara Falls, N. Y., suspended with liabilities of $150,000. Mrs. Sarah B. Ingersoll Cooper and her daughter, Harriet Cooper, both widely known as workers in the cause of temperance, Christianity and philanthropy. committed suicide together their home at San Francisco because of in a church scandal in which they sided with the pastor and were snubbed by former friends. The Commercial Travelers' Life association of Syracuse, N. Y., went into receiver's hands with liabilities of $100,000. At the annual meeiting in Philadel- Reof the National Civil Service phia form league Carl Schurz, of New York, was reelected president. Print paper manufacturers at a meetin New York agreed to form a naing tional association to control the product of all mills and fix prices. An Iowa organization of friends of Cuba has been effected, with headquarters in Des Moines. Miss Helen Beers, of Bridgeport, Conn., born blind 49 years ago, has had her sight restored by the removal of a cataract from each eye. An exceedingly well-executed counterfeit of United States five-dollar gold coins is in circulation in St. Louis. Mrs. Catherine Corbett, aged 70, and daughter Mary, aged 40, were sufher focated by gas at their home in Indianapolis. The railway earnings in Iowa the past year were $41,000,000, a gain of $5,000,000 over the previous year. The three young children of Edward were drowned at BrookH., while playing on is made of the that line, Farnsworth A denial N. report thin ice. the sultan of Turkey has entered a protest against the language of the presi- treatdent's message to congress in its ment of the Turkish question. Samuel P. Putnam, aged 56. of Chipresident of the free thought con of gress, cago, and May L. Collins. aged 20, Midway. Ky., a promising free thought by lecturer and writer, were suffocated gas in Boston. Bagot's Sons. dealers in dry goods in New York, failed for $150,000. In the six-day bicycle race in New the York, Hale, the Irish flyer, was winner, making 1,910 miles and a new was record. Rice, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., second. with a score of 1,882 miles. F. B. Newton. an extensive lumber dealer at Cleveland. O., made an assignment with liabilities of $125,000. A new city directory gives Indian- inapolis a population of 180,000, an crease of 11,000 in one year. The Free Press and Doniphan Eagle deoffices at Grand Island, Neb., were stroyed by fire. The high school building at Urbana, O., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $100,000. The annual report of Commissioner S. Miller, of the internal reve- the Joseph bureau, shows the receipts for nue fiscal year ended June 30. 1896, to have been $146,830,615. against $143,246,077 the previous year. The Nonpartisan W. C. T. U. convenat Washington reelected as presi- of tion dent Mrs. Annie M. Wittenmeyer, S Pennsylvania. Charles D. Lane, chairman of the nah bimetallist committee, has issued to his followers an active agitation tional suspend address silver urging of the for them sub- the ject to of free coinage of the k present and to join in upholding d hands of Maj. McKinley as president him of the United States, and to support I in all efforts to increase the prosperity 0 of The the people. visible supply of grain in the United States on the 14th was: Wheat, bushd 54,284,000 bushels: corn, 17,461,000 2,582,els; oats, 11,359,000 bushels; rye, 000 bushels: barley. 5,403,000 bushels. is The president sent to the senate the of nomination of Charles A. Prouty, , to be interstate commerce G. a commissioner Vermont, in place of Wheelock Veazey, resigned. n In fit of insane jealous rage Ernest his e Chase, a aged 38, cut the throat of then wife L. aged 32, in Detroit, Mich., and 1 cut his own throat. it The Cuban League of the United e was organized in New York by M Chauncev States Denew Roswell
