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pieces and forty other persons injured, fourteen seriously. Immense damage was done, several tons of powder being exploded. EIGHT hundred marble workers of Boston have struck for nine hours' work at ten hours' pay. THE WEST. THE Methodist Church at Fremont, O., was destroyed by fire recently and two persons in the parsonage adjoining were injured by falling walls. Loss, $35,000. Br the explosion of a burr stone of a corn mill at Broadhead, Champaign County, IIL, recently, two men were killed and two fatally hurt. A SENSATIONAL feature of the failure of the Metropolitan Bank, of Cincinnati, was the arrest on the 7th of Hon. William Means. its president. Other arrests were expected. THE North Chicago rolling mill at South Chicago resumed work on the 6th after two months' idleness. THE lockout of the Cincinnati shoemakers has practically been settled by the giving way of the employes under the persuasion of the district master workman. A RECEIVER has been appointed for the firm of E. A. Spyer & Co., wholesale teas and coffees, of Chicago. The principal cause of their embarrassment is said to be the recent decline in the coffee market. The liabilities have not been made known. TWENTY-FIVE prominent persons of Chicago have taken steps to erect a crematory. OIL was struck at Lehigh, I. T., recently at a depth of 917 feet and is flowing at the rate of a barrel an hour. By the derailing of an accommodation train near Athens, III., the other night, eight passengers were injured and six freight cars ditched. THE people of Albuquerque have subscribed $40,000 in cash to the Rio Grande & Utah railroad. THE striking Cincinnati shoemakers have been ordered to return to work. THE Territorial miners' convention at Helena denounced the Northern Pacific. McCLELLAN & Co., insolvent Minneapolis stove dealers, schedule shows assets, $3,262, and liabilities, $5,296. THE Springfield, O., Manufacturing Company has been placed in the hands of a receiver. THE National Convention was in session in Cincinnati on the Sth. AGENT KINNEY'S Dakota blizzard stories have been again contradicted. THE Manitoba railroad bridge across the Missouri river at Great Falls, Dak., has been completed. It is 900 feet long. D. R. LOCKE, "Petroleum V. Nasby," of the Toledo (0.) Blade, was reported on the 8th to be dying of consumption. A DISASTROUS cable accident occurred at Kansas City, Mo., on the night of the Sth, on the incline at the Union Depot, caused by the grip breaking. Two persons were fatally injured and seven others were hurt, one quite seriously. The incline had been noted for several bad accidents previously to the late disaster. A PHASE in the railroad war on the Sth was a cut of $3.00 in the passenger rate from Chicago to Kansas City. THE American Newspaper Publishers' Union held its annual meeting in Indianapolis, Ind., on the Sth. AMOS S. SNELL, a capitalist worth $3,000,000, was murdered by burglars in his residence, 425 Washington boulevard, Chicago, on the morning of the Sth. One arrest was made. What the robbers succeeded in taking away was not known, excepting that with the property was a check for $5,000 made by A. J. Stone, Sne:l's son-inlaw. THE Oklahoma convention met in Kansas City, Mo., on the Sih at the Board of Trade Hall with a large attendance, Governor Morehouse, of Missouri, occupying the chair. A memorial to Congress was adopted as well as resolutions looking to the opening of the Indian Territory and favoring the Springer bill for the creation of the Territory of Oklahoma. FIRE in Cleveland, 0., the other day, caused $65,000 damage to J. L. Hudson's clothing store. Cause, electric light wires. BENJAMIN EGGLESTON, ex-member of Congress and one of the most prominent of Ohio political leaders, died recently in Cincinnati, aged seventy-two. J. C. EVANS, of Harlem, Mo., has been elected treasurer and Parker Earl, of Cobden, III., president of the American Horticultural Society. THE Andrew Jackson Club, of Chicago, has taken steps to call a meeting of Democratic Clubs of America in Chicago June 1. FIVE cases of trichincsis have occurred in the family of William Man, a resident of Toledo, 0. All five were in a dangerous condition. BENSLEY BROS., of the Chicago Board of Trade, failed ou the 9th. Liabilities were not definitely known, but were thought to amount to $300,000. THE Columbia Theater, of Chicago, IS reported in financial difficulties. GEORGE W. CLARK. a real estate dealer of Duluth, Minn., formerly a newspaper writer under the late Daniel Manning on the Albany Argus, died recently. WOLVES have become dangerously numerous in the vicinity of St. Cloud, Minn. The other night several made a raid on a pig pen, almost within the city limits, and destroyed nearly 2,000 pounds of live hogs. IN Liberty township. Wabash Coun y, Ind., recently J. I. Smith and Joel Hale were killed by the explosion of the boiler of a portable engine. The explosion was caused by pumping cold water into the superheated boiler. Two men were recently digzing up some dynamite which had been buried to protect it until wanted to use in a gas well near Bellevue, O., when one of them struck the explosive material with his pick. The explosion instantly killed the two men. WILLIAM DONALDSON & Co.. dealers in pictures and frames, Cincinnati, have failed with $75,000 liabilities and $40,000 assets. THE SOUTH THE people of Arkansas are preparing remonstrances against the Dawes bill to levy a tax on lard manufactured by the aid of cotton seed oil. THE Commercial Printing Company. of
