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NEWS OF THE WEEK. Thursday, Jan. 9. Robert G. Still, colored, well known in Democratic political circles as a leader among people of his race, died in Philadelphia. A bank at Fayette, O., was entered by burglars and $48, 750 in money and about $4,000 in bonds taken. There is no clew to the perpetrators. The steamer Ealing, Captain Meek, from St. John's, N. F., for New York, is ashore off Halifax. She has been abandoned by her crew. Passenger train No. 300 on the Erie railroad ran into freight train between Riverside and Fourth avenues, Newark, N J. Three freight cars were thrown from the track, and travel was blocked for several hours. Several passengers were slightly hurt. A Detroit dispatch says that Thomas B. Reed is Mayor Pingree's presidential candidate, and his honor announces it in tones of exultation. It is improbable that the mayor's fiatfooted declaration will do his own gubernatorial boom any harm. Reed is pretty certain to have most of the Michigan delegates. Friday, Jan. 10. Near Mount Pleasant, Gadsden county, Fla., Henry Thomas and Albert Stafford fought a duel about a girl. Both were killed. E. B. Wight, Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean and widely known as journalist, died of heart fail. ure in Washington. Unknown men called at the home of Ed Welch at Holton, Kan., blindfolded him, threw him to the floor, cut off his left hand with an ax and robbed him. Mr. Clement A. Griscom, president of the International Navigation company, has been elected commodore of the Corinthian Yacht club of Philadelphia. The Fait & Slagle company, oyster packers of Baltimore, made a deed of as signment to John S. Gibbs. The cause of the failure is excessive competition. LAabilities are placed at $50,000. As John Robertson, a prominent farmer in the town of Riga, N. Y., was passing through his barnyard he was attacked by a bull, and six ribs were broken before his son arrived and beat the animal off. John W. McDonald, alias George Allen, indicted for kidnaping Lawyer O. O. Cottle, pleaded guilty to the crime in the criminal term of the supreme court in Buffalo and was sentenced to the Elmira reformatory. Saturday, Jan. 11. The Ontario and Western railroad depot at Rock Rift, N. Y., was totally destroyed by fire. Fire at Brushton, N. Y., destroyed five blocks, and only part of the contents was saved. The loss is estimated at $15,000. Eight masked men blew open the safe of the Farmers' bank at Verona, Mo. with dynamite and escaped with $9,000 in cash. A decree has been gazetted in Paris prohibiting the export from France for the French colonies of warlike munitions in tended for the island of Cuba. R. G. Dun & Co. of New York report that the failures for the week have been 431 in the United States, against 420 last year, and 53 in Canada, against 54 last year. John McBride, former president of the American Federationn of Labor, has written his farewell to that organization, in which he says he will "never again seek or accept official responsibility in the labor movement. Monday, Jan. 13. George Spengler, deputy postmaster at Chatham, N. Y., dropped dead while attending to his duties in the postoffice. Frank H. Lummus, who owned two of the largest cotton gin factories in the south, died at his home in Brooklyn. Mrs. Addona P. Fotch, aged 84 years, wife of Walter Fotch of Stafford, committed suicide by hanging at Batavia, N. Y. The annual exercises in commemoration of the founder of Cornell university were held in the armory in Ithaca before 1,200 people. Governor and Mrs. Morton gave a dinner at the executive mansion in Albany to the judges of the court of appeals and a few other invited guests. The Fifth Avenue Savings bank of Columbus, O., closed its doors. The cause is alleged to be money loaned too freely. The officers say everybody is secured. The Vassar College Glee club gave a concert in the theater attached to the Hudson River State hospital in Pough. keepsie, where 500 insane patients composed the audience Tuesday, Jan. 14. Peter Houghard, who is thought by the police to have been insane, killed himself, wife and five children in Chicago. McGowan's undertaking establishment, at Haverstraw, N. Y., was burned, with its contents. A. Saul's shoe store and Cohn's market were also destroyed. The steamer Royal, one of the fastest vessels on the great lakes, burned to the water's edge at Evansville, Ind. The loss is $24,000 and the insurance $15,000. In Philadelphia a scaffold, on which three painters were working, fell. William Anderson and Edward Petroski were in stantly killed and Henry Petersen fatally injured. At Newmansville, Fla., Henry Jordan, a negro desperado, charged with murderously assaulting Dr. J. N. Cloud. was burned to death in a house where he had sought to escape from a mob. Richard J. Oliphant, one of the wealthlest, most progressive and influential business men of Oswego, N. Y., died from blood poisoning, the result of contracting a cold in his jaw after having had some teeth extracted. Wednesday, Jan. 15. Henry S. Tyler, mayor of Louisville, died in that city. He had been ill for about five weeks. The French chamber of deputies reassembled at Paris. M. Henri Brisson was re-elected president. In New York city Michael McGowan, the murderer of Rose Finn, was found guilty of murder in the second degree. James Farley of Philadelphia was found dead in an area in Railroad avenue in Newark, N. J. He had fallen into the area, and, striking on his head, broke his neck. The American Savings and Loan association of Minneapolis went into the hands of a receiver, application to the court having been made by Attorney General Childs. Major W. D. Halemann was named as receiver. The 20 rate yacht built by Sibbick for Mr. Arthur Goelet and Mr. Paget was n launched from Sibbick's yard, Cowes, Isle of Wight. The trial of R. F. Kneebs, the American horseman charged with fraudulently entering Bethel in races under a false name in Berlin resulted in a verdict of guilty.
