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scene or the outbreak. THE world's fair engine No. 999, a of the most modern used by the the type New York Central railroad, took Empire state express from New York to Buffalo at a speed of 86 3/4 miles an hour. naval review ceremonies were to an end in New shape of a street parade brought THE participated York in the all in marines and blue represented in by the the nations jackets the review of except Spain. HEAVY withdrawal of deposits caused the Second national bank of Columbia, Tenn., to suspend. from Washington say have increased by the REPORTS exports $75,000,- that the 000 during the first three months of The most notable advance was in year. cotton manufactures, pig iron and corn. DURING an entertainment at the a Methodist church at Fairview, Pa., panic was caused by a premature explosion of some colored lights, and many persons were seriously injured in the rush for the doors. THE settlement of the miners' strike in the Pittsburgh district by deciding to accept the wage scale of last year a national effect. It puts an end to the prospective strike of nearly 30,000 miners in the UnitedStates. CLIFFORD RUNYAN, aged 14, died in horrible agony at Springfield, O., from nicotine poisoning. His last act was to smoke seventy-two cigarettes without stopping. MRS. L. E. FINNEY, the pretty young wife of L. F. Finney, a prosperous mer- dischant at Huntsville, Ark., has tinguished herself by presenting within her husband with five baby girls, all the space of one year. JIM BURKE and Sam Massey (both colored) were hanged at Benham, Smith Tex., the former for killing Mrs. J. W. and the latter for a criminal assault on perMrs. B. F. Clements. Over 10,000 sons witnessed the execution. THE Standard Oil company has secured control of its chief living rival, the Manhattan Oil company of Findlay, the O. The property transferred by deal is valued at $15,000,000. FIVE prominent citizens of Colbert the Ala., have been indicted by United States grand jury at county, Huntsville last for intimidating voters at the presidential election. E. L. HARPER, the wrecker of freed the Fidelity bank of Cincinnati, was from the penitentiary at Columbus. CHARLES CALDWELL, a negro, was the at Jonesboro, Ark., for of Tab Freeman. a hanged murder also The negro, two at Big Bay February 18 last. had quarreled about a wom'an. FOR the ten months of the current fiscal year the receipts of government from all sources aggregated $324,589,393, or $20,000,000 more than during the corresponding months of the preceding fiscal year. The expenditures during the same time were $832,377,552, or $32, 500,000 more than during the corresponding months of the preceding fiscal year. MRS. MARY JENSEN, a wealthy widow, ged 52, was shot and killed at Seattle, Wash., by N. A. Sandborn, aged 28, who then killed himself. Mrs. Jensen's refusal to marry him caused the tragedy. DURING a heavy snowstorm in Wyoing ranchmen last over 1.600 sheep, the animals being smothered in the snow. THE World's Columbian exposition at Chicago was opened on the 1st in the At presence of nearly 500,000 persons. noon the president of the United States, after a brief address, pressed the electric button, and the vast machinery of the exposition was set in motion. The nature of the opening ceremony was characterized by dignity and simplicity. women jumped from a car in O., and one was FOUR Toledo, injured. street killed and the others were fatally They were frightened at the approach of an engine while crossing a railway. OWING to a family quarrel John H. Engels fatally shot Thomas Kamerling, his brother-in-law, at Wauwatosa, Wis., and then killed himself. THE bank of Salem, S. D., was forced of assign by inability to raise a loan to $50,000. The liabilities were $70,000. OWING to a law now in effect absolute divorce is legally impossible in Massachusetts. TWENTY thousand miners in Ohio struck for an advance of five cents per ton in price of mining. THE most terrific cyclone that ever visited Texas devastated Cisco and Eastland county, laying waste everything in its path. which was about threefourths of a mile wide. All but about fifty houses in Cisco were wrecked, not a church or schoolhouse was standing and but one house was intact. Thirty persons were killed and over 100 were injured. The most conservative estimates placed the total property loss at over $2,000,000. FIRE in Milwaukee destroyed the dry goods store and stock of Edward Schuster & Co., entailing a loss of $100,000. A BOARDING house at Burlington, Ia., was destroyed by fire and six men perished in the flames and several other persons were injured. THE curing factory of Stephen Dow & Co. at Woburn, Mass., was burned, the loss $175,000. an insaneman, JOSEPH being HALSON, killed St. his wife and seven children near
