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THE EAST. HUNDREDS of acres of tobacco at Lancaster, Pa., were ruined by hail. AN assignment was made by Robert H. Coleman, the Lebanon (Pa.) iron king. who was worth $10,000,000 two years ago, with liabilities of $5,000,000 and assets of $10,000,000. THE Madison Square bank in New York, the Bank of Wellsbury, Pa., owned by Samuel George, and the Barron county bank at Rice Lake, Wis., closed their doors. THE death of Charles G. Otis, of passenger elevator fame, occurred at his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y. IN New York the Hamilton Loan & Trust company went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $330,000. JOHN MIESTER, a wealthy baker of Brooklyn, N. Y., maddened by jealousy and drink, shot and killed his wife and then killed himself. AT Swinburne Island hospital in New York Vincenzo Cagliostro, aged 23 years, died of Asiatic cholera. JOHNSTON, BUCK & Co., of Ebensburg, Pa., conducting banks at Ebensburg, Carrolltown and Hastings closed their doors. THR largest steamboat in the world was launched at Chester, Pa. She will ply in the Fall River line. THE firm of Henry A. Hartly & Co., carpet dealèrs at Boston, failed for $125,000; assets, $100,000. LIZZIE POID, Edith Flay and Ella Johnson, aged 10, 11 and 17 years, respectively, were drowned in Newark bay while bathing at Bayonne, N. J. THE Boston assessors estimate the population of the "Hub" at 580,000. The last census shows a population of 446,570. SEVEN cholera cases have developed among the passengers of the Karamania, recently arrived at New York. A FINGER has been substituted for a nose upon Fred Darcy by a surgical operation at Rochester, N. Y.