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Show EASTEUX Sl'ARKS. Carlinville, Ills., is to have a reunion reun-ion of California '49ers. The shawl factory of Ray & Co., Schenectady, has commenced to run on half time. A ,"b'i'K'k of business bouses was buruel at Farniimrton, Ills., on Suu-i Suu-i day. Loss, $12,000. Suveral Xew York bricklayers and in. i.-ons have struck owing to :t re- miction of wages. At the Xew York mint. on Saturday I 21,00.) pounds of Gold bullion were ; received for coinage. The New Vork assay office lowered I i;-; pi'ivha.-ing rates on Silver, on j S:.i:rd.:y, from 12 to 1.1 S. 'The examination of James Dclos Canter, the arretted Stokes juror, takes place on Thursday. The Washington City Savings bank i:i forms depositors that it will ultimately ulti-mately pay seventy-five per cent. S"iiafor Carl Sehurz arrived at Xew York from Kurope. on Satunlay, and started for Washington on Sunday. The Xew York B ard of Alderman have reconsidered their resolution. appropriating ap-propriating $:, 500, 000 for an Industrial Indust-rial Exhibition. Memento Mori, the Japanese minister, min-ister, goes into the treaty making department de-partment and will be succeeded by a new representative. The Xew York Police are hart! at worn endeavoring to verity the statements state-ments in the confession of the Nathan Na-than murderer, Irving. Members of Congiess, and attorneys, attor-neys, interested in the Geneva award, are already moving for legislation ns to who should receive it. Oily attorney Col. IT. L. Kerr, of Pi oria, Jils., died on Saturday from a gun-shot wound received several weeks ago while hunting. Tiic International bridge nljJBuflalo has been finished. The (.fraud Trunk road of Canada will now ignore ferry boats and run through cars. Affairs on Monday, on Wall street, were very unsettled. Further developments devel-opments in mercantile and manufacturing manufac-turing circles were looked for. Win. J. Lock shot and killed a German named Sepping, in a ballroom ball-room row at Washington, Mo., Sunday Sun-day morning, lie has been arrested. The villiage of Scotia, N. Y., near Schenectady, was badly injured by fire on Sunday. One house was destroyed des-troyed and ten were severely dam-used. dam-used. Philip II oid Howard was shot dead, on Sunday, at Jamaica, L. L, by two hunters whom he ordered oil his land. James Laguard has been arrested. ar-rested. The Kansas Pacific and St. Louis and Southern roads, and Central branch of the Pninn Pacific road, faikd to pay their semi-annual coupons cou-pons on Saturday. The First National bank of Washington Wash-ington will pay, from present assets, fiiiy cents on the dollar. Larger payments depend upon the condition of Jay Cooke & Co. Xew Orleans had a $50,000 fire on Saturday. The square bounded by LaroiKtelet, isayormc, nrst, ancirnu-lips ancirnu-lips streets was three-fourths destroyed. destroy-ed. Nearly all insured. W. 13. Wade, late clerk in the office of the Secretary of State of Tennessee, has been arrested at St. Louis for forging $20,000 in bonds of that Stale, lie has been taken to Nashville. John C. lleenaivs funeral took place at the church of Holy Innocence in New York, on Sunday. Solemn high mass was ofiered. The body was afterward sent to Albany by special train, The secretary ot the New York employees em-ployees Association reports nearly nil their men at work at reduced wages. The striking men will return soon. The bricklayers will adere to their scale of prices. At Sprinlield, Ills, Saturday night, John Gavin beat out the brauisof ward Gillespie with a gun during a drunken quarrel at the lat tor's house. He then staggered to the jail and surrenderee! sur-renderee! himself. Memphis reports cloudy and wet weather. An increase of yellow fever eases is feared. Eaght deaths from this disease and seven from othoj; causes on Sunday; four on Monday, with several new cases. The Chesapeake & Ohio road says Us credit can .only be rcstablished by funding the entire floating debt. Ail issue of $12,000,000 in seven per cent, twenty year income bonds has been authorized for this purpose. The Kansas Pacific directors can't meet their coupons now due, even by offering to loan the road $20,000,-000. $20,000,-000. Bondholder are asked tq ap. point a committee to satisfy thoih-selves thoih-selves of their embarrassments. The Dan forth Locomotive Works, of Paters-an, N. J., discharged 500 hands on Saturday ; the Grant works have discharged nearly their entire force; and the Rogers works iiawo re; ducul their wages to oS cents a day. Xo prospect of improvement during the winter. |