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General News Items. Mason county, W. Va., is wild over rich tin finds. The state savings bank of St. Joseph, suspended and assigned. The S. A. Richmond Medical company of St. Joseph, Mo,, has gone up. Gen. McLaren of Minnesota, is acting secretary of the Republican national committee. Donnell, the New York banker, has $60,000 wf property under attachments at St. Louis. The commission house of A. K. Sheppard & Co., doing business on the chamber of commerce Milwaukee suspended payment. Haggerty & Lons, auctioneers of St, Louis, made assignment recently. Assets, $43,000; encumbered for $20,500. The liabilities of Emile Desmet of Moss Point, Ala., are $400,000. Amortgage of $150,000 to A. Carriere, New Orleans, covers all the assets. Judge D. J. Goodwin and Col. W. 4. Swank of Norfolk desired to fight a duel, but a confidential friend informed the authorities and they were bonded to keep the peace. C, F. Kindred and C. C. Parker of Minnesota have made all necessary preliminary prepara tions for embarking on an extensive scale in the cattle raising business, near Forsythe, Mont., where they have purchased a large tract of land for the purpose. W H. Mackney, who some time since bought the McKelvy bonanza farm in Minnesota, has just purchased forty acres of land in the southorn part of Grand Forks, Dakota, for $21,700. He intends to improve it at once and make it his future home. The Springfield Republican, which never tells a lie, and is neighbor to Ella Wheeler's new husband, says Wilcox, the husband, is the cheif salesman for Rogers, Smith & Co., the Meriden silver plate firm, and is not "very wealthy," as the dispatch made him, butis what the Meriden boys call "well fixed." Something of a panic was caused in Portland, Or., recently, by the suspension of the large Chinese firm of Gee Wah & Co. This firm has been engaged in the general merchandising business and contracting. All investigation of affairs shows that the total liabilities approximate $50,000, The assets are small. Mrs. Roger M. Sherman, eldest daughter of the late Gov. Bagley, obtained a decree of di-