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THE CREAM OF THE NEWS. Gathered from Our Dispatches. Subscriptions to four per cent. refundng certificates, since yesterday's report, $1,063,580. The New York Legislature adjourned sine die, yesterday. Widow D. P. Stone has given $25,000 to the Young Men's Christian Association of Boston, toward erecting a new building. The Lowell, Mass., Five-Cent Savings Bank has been temporarily enjoined by the Bank Commissioner. Withdrawals of deposits and shrinkage on mortgages was the cause. William Lloyd Garrison is ill. His death is hourly expected. it Portland, Oregon, dispatch says the town of Dallas was nearly destroyed by fire. Loss not estimated. Sam Patch has been outdone. A young man named Peere has accomplished the unprecedented feat of leaping from the new suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, a distance of 192 feet, coming out safe and sound. Patch jumped 142feet. Hon. Charles Foster has written a letter stating that he is certain of receiving the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio, and that he will not accept the second place on the ticket. It is said that Sherman has written another letter in reference to the Ohio gubernatorial candidacy, to be used in the contingency that neither Taft nor any other candidate receives the nomination on the first or second ballot; and if then Sherman's name be presented, the letter will be read to convince the doubting that he will run if nominated.
