Wheaton.—Members of the fashion* able Wheaton summer colony placed a six-mile limit on negro colonies following the announcement that “Pony” Moore, Maj. John C. Buchner, Rev. A. J. Carey and other prominent colored men were attempting to locate a second negro colony near Wheaton.Chicago.—A bank merger embracing the Oakland and the Drexel State banks, neighboring institutions in Cottage Grove avenue at Thirty-ninth street, wasvreported in Ba Salle street as being in progress following the sud-den appearance in Chicago financial affairs of Robert Jones.