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The Maryland democratic association held a meeting in Washington and in- dorsed the Chicago nominees and platform.
The Dennison (Ohio) Deposit bank has closed its doors, The liabilities are placed at $100,000 and the assets at $60.000.
A receiver has been appointed for the Liberty Cycle company, at New York city. The liabilities are said to be $202.000.
The Holman friction-geared locomotive showed a speed of ninety-four miles an hour in a trial in New Jersey yesterday.
There is a clause in the financial plank of the Chicago platform which is found not to have been adopted by the convention.
In New York it is rumored that Richard Croker will return from Europe by September 1 and that he is against the Chicago ticket.
The governments of the United States and Honduras have entered into a parcels-post convention, to be operative on September 1.
Water is stored in South Dakota by means of a canal and dams in a river to irrigate farme. The results are very satisfactory.
The president has appointed John Sheridan, of West Virginia, to be a government director of the Union Pacific railway.
A Georgia populist says the democrats will be guilty of a breach of faith if they do not put up Watson electors, Sewall retiring.
Col. Calvin Fletcher Burns, president of the National bank of St. Joseph, Mo., died. He leaves an estate valued at four million dollars.
The Brown Hoisting Works employees at Cleveland struck again, and ima resultant riot one of the union men was fatally shot.
Postmaster General Wilson has issued an order warning railway postal clerks against "pernicious activity" in the political campaign.
United States Senator E. O. Wolcott, of Colorado, issued an address to the republicans of the state in favor of the republican national ticket.
Ponsions allowed to Wisconsin applicants are as follows: Original-Rudolph Schmalfuss, Cleveland, Renewal and Increase Henry Rosenberg. Tess Corners; Thomas Kansure, Boaz. Original Widows, etc. Anna Raedel, Eau Claire; Roseannah Ware, Terrill; Catherine Killoy, Ithica.
A company of forty Cretans have been recruited in New York who will sail for thier native land and fight their Turkish oppressors.
Leading Colorado republicans will demand the resignation of Senator Wolcott because of his support of the national republican ticket.
William F. Harrity of Pennsylvania, until recently chairman of the democratic national committee, announces that he has retired from politics.
The republican state convention of Washington will be held at Tacoma, August 26, to nominate presidential electors and a full state ticket.
Mr. and Mrs. George Knapp were married at Creston, Iowa, and went to Des Moines. The bride went shopping with $500 and has not been seen since.
Fire at Garden Prairie, 111., destroyed a number of buildings, including the Congregational church. The loss is heavy, with but little insurance.
Mrs. A. S. Rosenthal of New York has learned that she is one of six heirs to Melbourne, Australia, property worth $25,000,000, left by her grandfather.
An Illinois man says Schweinfurth, the pretended Messiah, acknowledged himself a fraud. Schweinfurth is reported about to marry a woman in Minneapolis.
Rev. Engelbert Stehle, rector of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church, Cincinnati, Ohio, died in Basle, Germany. He was born in Groenmgen, Germany in 1821.
Herbert Spencer, who was discovered in a hospital in Philadelphia about a week ago, having completely lost his memory, has been taken home to Lawrence, Kan.
Mrs. Josephine Widener, wife of P. A. B. Widener, of Philadelphia, was found dead of heart disease in her stateroom on the yacht Josephine, at Bar Harbor.
Rev. W. A. Forbes was shot and killed at the Cotton Belt depot, near Texarkana, Tex., by Col. John B. Hallum. The cause of the shooting is not known.
Mr. McKinley, in speaking to a delegation from Knoxville, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburg, said that the tariff question would not be settled until a new law was passed.
A boy stolen from Ireland a year and a half ago is found with his alleged abductor, a blind man, in North Dakota. The boy was badly injured by