180,000 and the expenditures about
$t]2,860,0u0, leaving a deficit for the
month of $13,680,000. The deficit last
July was $17,300,000.
There were no extraordinary receipts
or expenditures in July, 1904, and none
will appear in the figures for the pre?
ent month. This decrease of about
$3,500,000 in the deficit this month,
as compared with that for July, 1904,
is accounted for by the material in
crease in the receipts, particularly
from customs, and a slight decrease in
expenditures. The receipts from CUE
toms alone will exceed those for July,
last year, by about $2,000,000. Those
from internal revenue sources will
probably exceed those of a year ago
by about $600,000. The treasury offi
cials regard the showing this month
with satisfaction and point to the $2,
000,000 increase in customs i-eceipts
as an indication of a large increase in
business during the remainder of the
year.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Five Persons Instantly Killed at Coney
Island.
New York, July 31.—During a thun
derstorm of terrific intensity which
passed over New York Sunday after
noon five persons were struck by
lightning and instantly killed and nine
were seriously injured at the Park
way baths, Coney Island. At the same
time one man was killed and three
others prostrated at Gravesend Beaeh.
Those killed are: George'Dunwoo
die, Buffalo Charles Bennerle, Frank
Bennerle and Henry Ransweiler, all of
Brooklyn Jacob Frankel, Manhattan,
and Robert F. Wasch, Bronxborough.
MORTON CHOSEN PRESIDENT.
Directors of Equitable Life Assurance
Society Elect New Leader.
