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Table of Percentages. W. L. P.C. 2 8 Baltimore .800 .786 3 Cincinnati 11 5 .667 10 Cleveland 7 4 .637 Brooklyn 8 .616 5 Chicago 572 6 8 Boston 7 9 437 Pittsburg 5 .417 7 Philadelphia 4 7 New York .364 5 .313 11 Louisville 3 9 .250 Washington 2 .167 St. Louis 10 CONDENSED DISPATCHES. The National Congress of Mothers is in session at Washington. An application has been made for the appointment of receivers for the defunct Northampton (Mass.) bank. John Glynn, 14 years old, while playing ball in the street at Middletown, N. Y., ran in front of a trolley car. He was run over and instantly killed. The second trial of Mrs. Olive Adele Sternaman, charged with the murder of her husband by poisoning him, commenced at Cayuga, Ont., yesterday. Nearly 400 structural iron workers at Buffalo have struck for an increase in their wages from 25 to 30 cents an hour. Work on the new postoffice and armory is delayed in consequence. The sixty-fifth annual national convention of the Psi Upsilon college fraternity convened at the West hotel, in Minneapolis, yesterday. Delegates were present from all the 21 chapels except one. W. A. Kin, formerly a sergeant of police in Chicago, was arrested in the militia camp at Springfield, Ills., on a charge of robbing W. T. Harkness, secretary of the Anaconda Mining company, in New York, The robbery is said to have occurred two weeks ago. Hotel Shikellimy, a large summer hotel situated on Susquehanna heights, Sunbury, Pa., was totally destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The structure was owned by Drumheller Bros. of that place and was just being put in shape for the summer season. The loss is placed at $50,000. on which there is an insurance of $19,000. The origin of the fire is a mystery.