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NEWS SUMMARY. MISCELLANEOUS. A reduction in charges has been ordered by the Suez Canal Company. The largest business block of Millican, Texas, was destroyed by fire. The citizens' National Bank, Indianapolis, will go into voluntary liquidation. The Exchange National bank of Cincinnati has gone into voluntary liquidation. Joseph Mulhatton has written a letter of acceptance 88 the drummers' candidate for President. The Ninth Episcopal Congress of the United States met at Detroit. Bishop Harris presided and delivered the address of welcome. The Western Union reports breaks in both the American or Gould cables 700 miles from Canso, Nova Scotia. This leaves the pool six cables. Customs examiners in New York, seized forty-one large diamonds, found in the mail brought by one steamer. The gems are valued at $10,000. Andrew J. Cooper and other Chicagoans have incorporated at Springfield a company with a capital of $1,000,000 to operate a gold mine in Michigan. A pleasure tug carrying about twenty persons left Grand Haven, Michigan, for New Orleans, on a fishing excursion, and expect to take six weeks on the down ward trip. 6 A reduction of ten per cent. has been made in the wages of the men employed in the quarries belonging to the State Ex change of Lehigh and Northampton counties. Capitalists will meet in Pittsburg Oct. 15th to arrange for the construction of an air line 1,2000 miles long to connect New York with Chicago, Council Bluffs and St. Louis. A tragedy in a Negro brothel on Polk Chicago, ended in the death of Minnie Brooks, who once reformed and for a time expended all her means in keepinga refuge for fallen women. All the effects of the St. Louis Malleable Iron Company have been turned over to its officers by order of the Court. Work has been resumed on the large contracts, which will require a run until 1886. An exploaion of gas caused the burning of the Windson hotel at Kingston Canada One guest leaped from a third-story window and others barely escaped with their lives. The loss is estimated at $40,000. H. K. Tyler and E. M. Wilson have been appointed Receivers of the Malleable Iron Works. Bad management is the cause. The owners of the concern are leading capitalists. The assets are largely in excess of the liabilities. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, who has just returned from a trip to California, expresses the opinion that steel ships and cruisers can be built on the Pacific coast at 10 per cent. less cost than on the Atlantic seaboard, on account of the rich iron deposits. Reuben Springer and David Stinton have offered $25,000 each to the Cincinnati Museum to pay for the removal and erection of the present postoffice building on the grounds of the Association in Eden Park, as a sample of the pure Grecian architecture. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe have inaugurateda new line, to be known as the Pacific Coast Fast Freight line, from Chicago to all points in California, New Mexico and Arizona. The scheduled time from Chicago to San Francisco is nine days. It is announced that the Woman's National Christian Temperance Union will meet at St. Louis on October 22, 23, 24 and 25. Prominent lady speakers will occupy some of the church pulpits the preceding Sunday. October 7 will be made a day of prayer by thousands of local unions throughout the country. The general assignment of J. W. Rosenthal & Co., one of the largest clothing manufacturers of Rochester, was filed in the County Clerk's office Oct. 6, and the assignee is Louis Greisheimer, of Chicago, and the claims of the preferred creditors amount to nearly $100,000. The real extent of the failure cannot be learned until the *assignee's schedule is filed. The officers of the Hampden Mutual Fire Association, of Springfield, Mass., have decided to close up business. The general agent, S.C. Warner, has issued a circular calling in the policies, which now number seven or eight hundred. The losses incurred by the burning of the Newton paper mill at Holyoke are the immediate cause of this step. The policy holders will all receive their return premiums. Judge Dealy, of the United States District Court, has delivered an important decision in the case affecting the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company. Villard, representing the Northern Pacific, took a ninety-three years' lease on the Oregon Railroad Company's road, at $140,000 8 year. Villard's successors endeavored to repudiate the lease, but the Jndge decided that the lease holds good. The Federation of Trades and Labor Unions adopted the following resolution Resolved, That owing to the painful circumstances in connection with the existing trouble between the International and Progressive Cigarmakers Unions, we instruct the Legislative Committee at the close of this congress to open communication with the principal officers of the above unions and offer their services as mediators, with the view of bringing about harmony between those bodies. The earnings of the Union Pacific Railroad, entire system, for August is $2,530,000; decrease from August a year ago, $47,000;. The expenses were $1,101,000; decrease, $275,000. Surplus earnings, $1,328,000; increase, $228,000. For the eight months ending August 31st, the earnings were $15,871,000; decrease from same period last year, $2,066,000. Expenses, $9,372,000; decrease, $148,000. Surplus earnings for eight months, $6,498,000; decrease, $2,215, 000. John L. Sullivan in an interview with a Bulletin reporter, said he intends to train down to 200 pounds or less for a set to with Laflin. After the Laflin fight he desires matches with Alf. Greenfleld, the Eglish athlete, and with Mitchell, if the latter is so inclined. He declares solemnly that he has stopped drinking for all time, and is determined to take care of himself. After completing his engagements in this country he will give some farewell performances and then make a tour to England, Ireland, Scotland and Australia. The lockout at Oliver Bros. & Phillips'
