THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. Telegraphic Notes of Interest Briefly Told. nEitr, there am evertwheke. ftmall tiwt KutrHlousThe Itrwi of the . World Kroin role to role Carefully Ciillril mid Rolled Down for Itunjr Readers Thronffliotit Ilia Country. 1 hmailny, Dec. 31. The prnlu blockado at Chicago Is believed to be at an end. Rochester, N. Y., has 1,800 cases of tho grip and tho disease is sproading. Cohn Brothers, dry goods dealers of Port Huron, Mich., have failed, with liabilities of $20,000. Tho American Radiator Company has been organized at Detroit with a capital stock or $3,Goo,ooo. Tho hosiery mill of Samuel West, at Oermnntown, Ph., was burned Tues day night. Loss, $100,000. The Ways and Means Committee of tho World's Fair ha9 decided to allow tho buIo of liquor during tho Fair. Tho opening session of tho National Conference on University Extension was held at Philadelphia yesterday. The Dnltinioro Evening News hns boon sold to a company, and will bo mado a strnightout Cleveland organ. John Ritchie, wholcsalo boot and shoe manufacturer of Quebec, has suspended payment; liabilities, $&), 000. The Messiah crnzo has broken out on the Cheyenne and Arnphoo reser vation and a thousand Indians are dancing. William Guerin, a Now York fire man, has fallen heir to a f 50,000 cat tlo raucho in Colorado by tho death of a brother. It Is reported from Mexico that 4,000 Mexican troops have revolted and joined Garza, tho revolutionist on tho Texus border. Tho ew Y ork State Board of Claims has rofused to pay John Snaith's claim of f39.080.01 for work on tho Capitol's celling. Gideon W. Marsh, the absconding president of tho Keystone Bank of Philadelphia, is said to have been seen in Elkton, Md., Tuesday night. Two men wcro killed and one was fatally Injured by tho explosion of dynamite at a stono quarry in Wau watosa Village, Wis., yesterday. During tho year 1891, there havo boen 4,093 milos of new railway con structed, which brings tho total mile age of the United States up to 171, 106. The general store of Moore & Seaver, at Byron Centre, N. Y., was entered by burglars Tuesday night and robbed of several hundred dollars worth of goods. The Hatch Flexible Shoe Company, Rochester, N. Y., has sold out to J. W. Hatch, Its largest creditor, and suspended payments. Its unsecured creditors, mostly New York and Phil adelphia parties, will got nothing, but the total loss is small. Friday, Jan. 1. The police of New York made over 90.000 arrests in 1891. Dr. Robert Milter has been missing from his home in Chicago since De cember 24. Foul play is suspected. The Standard Oil Company's cooper age at Bayonne, N. J., was burned this morning, causing a loss of $380, 000. Dublin was excited yesterday by an attempt to blow up Dublin Castle, tho official residence of the Viceroy of Ireland. A reciprocity arrangement was signed Thursday by Secretary Blaine and Senor Calvo, representative of Costa Rica. Geo. W. Walling, ex-Superintendent of Police In New York, died at his homo in Keyport, N. J., this morning, aged sixty-eight years. Walter N. Thayer, of Troy, N. Y., has beon appointed Warden of tho State Prison at Dannomora, to suc ceed Wurden Fuller, resigned. The large new summer hotol at Lake Denmark, seven milos from Do ver, N. J., was burned to the ground Wednesday night. Loss, $30,000. The revenues of the government for the month of December were $28, C00.000, or $2,500,000 less than the ex penditures during tho same period. Bradstreet's report for the current week shows tho total failures in tho United States to be $102,893,000 as against $92,775,025 for tho sanao period In 1890. The Prudential Fire Insurance Com pany of Boston has docided .to wind up its affairs, and has reinsured Its risks In the Homo Insurance Com pany of New York. In Seymour, Ind., a city of less than 7,000 inhabitants there are over 2,000 cases of grip, and there has been a number of deaths directly or indi rectly duo to that malady. The president has commuted to ten years' imprlaonmont tho sentence of death imposed on four Yuma Indians of California, who were to havo been hanged January 15, 1892, for murder. Howell & Presby, wholesale dealers iu woolens and dross goods, at No. 20 White street. New York, failed yesterday, giving preference for $17, uoo. Their liabilities may reach $200,000. Joseph J. Ashforth, formerly secre tary and treasurer of tho Royal Aica rwini Bulldinpr and Loan Association, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who was arrested at Liverpool, on November 19, on tho charge of embezzling nearly $20,000 from the Association, was surrendered, in London, for extradition, on Thurs day. John M. Flnerty, Inventor of the cotton picker, dlod in Washington, 1). C, Wednesday, uged soventy-four years. No wns bom In Ireland, ntnl, after coming to this country, engagod in business In St. Louis, where ho was accumulating a fortune when tho war began. Ho lost nil by tho war. Mr. Finerty was also tho inventor of a railroad splko and a ballot box. Saturday, .Inn. . A flro at Clarksville, Tenn., yester day did $70,000 damage. Tho bank of E. A. Menrs, at Mlnot, N. J)., closed its doors Thursday. Tho Jackson block In Birmingham, Ala., was partially destroyed by fire Friday. Loss, $150,000. Fire, supposed to bo of Incen diary origin, nt Nashua, N. II., yester day, did $10,000 damage. W. W. nnnnan, n wealthy real es tate agent of Detroit, has been miss ing since Wednesday night Mrs. Talmyra Cotton, of Water bury, Conn., celebrated her 100th birthday on New Year's day. Stephen II. Boll was hanged at Windsor, Vt., Friday, for tho murdor of his wife nt Fairfax In 1889. Thirty-five Stato militiamen havo been sent to Coal Creek, Tenn., to guard tho 200 convict miners there. A fire in Mt. Airy, N. C, a flourish ing tobacco town, on Friday morning, caused n loss of $300,000 to $500,000. Tho Eureka Transportation Com pany began business at Kansas City, Kan., Thursday, with a capital of $2, 000,000. Fears ore entertained nt San Fran risco that tho Union Pacific steamer Oregon has been wrecked off tho Ore gon const. Gov. Russell has issued an earnest appeal to the people of Massachusetts, nstung them to contribute) generously to the aid of the sufferers iu Russia. Mrs. Fred Kctchcll of Valparaiso. Ind., has received notico that sho is one of eight heirs to a fortuno of $3,000,000 left by an aunt In Scotland. Tho total shoo shipments from Haverhill, Mass., for the year havo been 292,005, against 327,7(10 cases for 1890, showing a falling off in the amount paid for labor of $357,000. Ex-Congressman Thomas B. Ward died iu Plainlleld, Ind.. early yester day morning. Mr. Ward severnl months ago returnod from Dwight, where ho had taken tho bl-chlorido of gold treatment. George Weldlor, who in 1895 wns sentenced to twenty years' imprison ment in Brooklyn for manslaughter In tho second degree, and William Conroy, sentenced to life imprison ment in the samo year for murder In the second degree in New York, wero pardoned from Sing Sing prison by Gov. Hill and released yesterday. John Dietol, who has been on exhi bition in Cincinnati at a museum as a fat giant, died Friday morning from an attack of tho grip. His waist meas ure was eight and one-half feet, and his weight 7C3 pounds. Ho was n butchor in Baltimore, where he re cently married a wife who boasts a waist measure of six and three-fourth feet, and weighs GOG pounds. Governor Humphreys of Kansas, Friday evening appointed ex-Congressman Bishop W. Perkins as United States Senator, to fill tho late Senator Plum's unexpired term. Mr. Perkins has served four terms In tho House of Representatives, having been elected from the Third District of that Stato to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftioth and Fifty-first Congresses. James E. Cooper, proprietor of tho Adam Forepaugh shows and a former partner of Phineas T. Barnum, diod in Philadelphia yesterday of inflam mation of the stomach. He started la tho circus business in 18G3. Mr. Cooper made a fortune in the circus business. He owned four farms near Philadelphia and much real estate in that city, besides the Forepaugh show property. Ho leaves a widow and three children. Monday, Jan. 4. There wero eighty-six deaths from grip in New York last week. Andrew Carnegie has donated $30, 000 for tho erection of a publlo library at Fairfield, Iowa. Nearly 3,000 employes of the Elgin Watch Company are about to strike because of a reduction in wages. Tho Southern Express Company's mossongers on the Illinois Central and branches struck Saturday for higher pay. A mob of 500 negroes burned tho railroad depot and committed other depredations at Pino Bluff, Ark. A posse pursued them, and captured seven. A. C. Shrade, ono of tho largest planters and morchants of Sharkey county, Miss., has mado an assign ment. Liabilities unknown; assets, $335,000. Owing to the recent rains tho An droscoggin River is higher than it hus been for thirty years. Soveral booms have broken and many logs aro escnpiug. Shortly before midnight Saturday, Edwin Fairchild, of Sheboygan, Wis., shot his stepdaughter, Arlislo John son, and then killed himself. Tho girl will probubly Jlvo. By nn explosion of nitro-glyeerino in the McDonald oil field, neur Pitts burg, Saturday evonlug, Jouu M. Fair and George Condy were instant ly killed, und T. E. Irwin fatally hurt. F. E. Worthlngton, 6tock broker, of Dan bury, Conn., hus loft town mysteriously, an(( supposed to be at Richmond, Va. It is said that ho carried awny anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000, A car containing ten non-union op erators, whom tho Western Union TelcgrupH Compnny was sending South to tuke tho place of strikers, was broken into Saturday night nt Tcxarkana, and threo of them woro lulled. Executions to the amount of $30,000 Were ibsued Saturduy against B. 0. Kendig & Co., extensive leaf tobacco dealers of Lancaster. Pa. Tho total liabilities will exceed $75,000, and the assets win not reach much moro than half this amount David Hannum of Cortland, N. Y., died nt Homer, N. Y., Saturday. Ho I wns well known in Cortland Count v. and ut ono timo was reputed to bo worth $10,000,000. He was noted for bis reckless expenditures on sports and sporting events. Roswell B. Mason, who was Mayor of Chicago during tho flro of 1H71, dlod Friday night after a short Illness. He was elRhty-sIx years old. Ho wns nt ono time Chief Engineer of tho Illinois Central Rond, and at another Superintendent of tho Alton. Ho wns Mayor of Chicago from Novem ber, 1809, to Dccembor, 1871, and was conspicuous for his courngo and wis dom during that troubled time. Titeadity, Jan, It, The report of a threatened strike nt tho Elgin watch factory was without foundation. Tho Hotel Godfrey nt Green vlllo, Tenn., wns burned Sunday, and Bar ney Foster lost his life. Senator Gocbcl introduced n bill In tho Knnsns Sennto yesterday for tho suppression of lotteries. A. J. Shono & Co. '8 clothing store nt Full River, Mass., was damaged $10,000 by lire yesterday. Moro than 2,000 cases of grip are re corded in and about Concord, N. H., and tho discaso is spreading. Tho Allison-Obear glassworks at East St. Louis wero totally destroyed by Are yesterday. Loss $50,000. Two lives were lost, and several per sons injured in a lire in the Waverly hotel, in Chicago, Monday morning. Tho vault of tho County Clerk's ofllco at Sub-Arcadia was blown open late Saturday afternoon by a burglar, wno got 5GU0. Fivo buildings, Including tho Leader ofllco and Standard ofllco, wero burned in Westlleld, N. J., Monday morning; loss $50,000. Tho plant of tho Mlshawaka Woolen Manufacturing Company, nt Mlsha waka, Ind., makers of knit boots, was destroyed by flro yesterday. Loss $30,000. The Roich Spinning Compnny.a now corporation with a capital stock of betweou $400,000 and $500,000, will erect a new cotton hosiory yarn mill in Now Bedford, Mass., in the spring. Gen, Ebenezer Spraguo has just died at the Masonio Homo at Grand Rapids. Ho was once prominent In Masonic circles, and was Past Grand High Priest of tho Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and Illustrious Past Grand Master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masons. The thirty-nlnth annual report of tho State Railroad Commissioners of Connecticut shows a gain in tho gross earnings of tho railroads of $1,162,949, or a total of $23,401,771. The total operating expenses wero $16,091,932. No passengers were killed during tho year except by their own negligence. Preliminary steps have been taken at Wheeling, W. Va,, in tho forma tion of a gigantio glass combino in opposition to tho United States Glass Trust The combino will Include twelve leading flint glass factories in tho Ohio Valley not in the United States Trust, and will bo capitalized at $4,000,000. Wednesday, Jan. 0. Tho failure of 8. W. Lochs & Co., merchants of Oakley, Miss., has beon announced. Liabilities, $75,000. Strikers on the San Antonio and Arnnzas Pass Railroad disabled fif teen engines at Yoakum Monday night. 3 Mrs. Frozler Troxell and her little child were killed by an explosion of gasoline near Clay Center, Neb., Monday. Thirty cows wero burnod to death in tho barn of William Goegor, near Newtown, L. I., Tuesday morning. The building was burned. Loss $20, 000. Reports from Western cities show that the pool rooms wore swindled out of $100,000 to $150,000 Tuesday by a perfectly planned and executed scheme to bent tho Guttonburg races. Eight men were killed in a general fight at Brights & William's turpen tine still, in Clinch county, Ga. Tho light started with a quarrel between two of the men over alleged cheating in a game of cards. Six men were killed outright, two probably fatally injured, and many others badly hurt iu a collision, Tues day morning, between tho east nnd west bound Cannon Bnll trains on tho Wabash road, at Aladdin, Mo. A train of tho Kentucky and In diana Bridge Company nt Louisville became derailed Monday and ono car fell from tho bridge thirty-five feet to tho ground. Conductor Frank Mahan was crushed to death, and Paccon, a passenger, was injured. Cashier John Glcason or tho Clove land Iron Mining Compnny of Ish pcmlng, Mich., was shot and killed by unknown persons yesterday morning. 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