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were injured in careless target practice at
the Boston Navy Yard.
Hon. JOHN G. NEW has resigned his
position in the Treasury Department.
The Coroner's jury in the case of Mr..
and Mrs. Bonecker murdered recently
near st. Louis, NO., returned a verdict on
the oath that deceased came to their deaths
at the hands of some person or persons I'M
known. The authorities have clue,
though slight, which it is thought may lead
to the capture of the murderer.
GENERAL GORDON has called coun-
Gil of war in Cairo, Egypt
| ANTONIO DERTTA, on trial for muir
der in st. Louis, No., was acquitted on the
18th.
HERR LAsKER's body was landed on
the 18th at Bremerhaven.
BODIES continue to drift ashore from
the wrecked City of Columbus.
OUTBREAKS of hostility against all
foreigners are reported in China.
THE Horticultural Convention at
Kansas City, Mo-, adopted a resolution
calling on Congress to establish board of
forestry.
THE failures for the week ended the
18th in the United States and Canada num-
| bered 317.
THE Marquis of Hartford died on the
25th from the effects of fall from his
horse while hunting.
The situation of quite feet of boats
and tugs in the Mississippi River at st.
Louis, Mo-, looks exceedingly critical
l. TWIN baDes of Isaac Martin of Lib
erty Mills, Ind, were frozen to death in
their crib ON the 18th.
THREE members of the Buzzard gang
of outlaws were arrested on the 18th near
Lancaster, Pa.
ADMIRAL CoURBET has established a
blockade against the entry of war materials
to Tonquin.
JAMES ANDERSON and Zack Snyder
were hanged on the 25th at Mount Vernon,
Ind, for the murder of James Van Weyer.
A MgLATTO made o murderous as
sault upon farmer Sprague of East Mead
ow, l.. l., on the 25th and robbed his house.
The whole neighborhood went in pursuit
and caught the scoundrel, who was iden-
tilted by Mrs. Sprague.
The Georgia Capitol Commissioners
have been unable TO agree upon design
from those submitted, and have called in an
architect to assist them.
j. AsTHEDI, wealthy New York
dealer in brewers supplies, died the night
of the 25th in Russian bath.
J. JAS. 4. MURDOCH, the veteran actor,
! was rendered a reception the night of the
18th at the Academy of Fine Arts, in Phil
adelphia.
GEoRGIA's electric girl'' has started
for the North, where her peculiar powers
will be exhibited as source of profit.
T. Miss EMILY FAITHFUL and her COM
panion, Miss Charlotte Robinson, dined on
the 25th with the Mormon President Tay-
lor.
Jos. KUHN, long wealthy private
banker of Detroit, Mich, failed on the 18th.
| The Porte will send no troops to the
| Soudan
The Montreal Cam fluid beef fac
tory burned on the 9th; loss, 100000
} NJoHN G. THOMSON, of Ohio, was re-
4 ported critically i'll at Columbus on the
eth. tHt
SAN DOMINGO wants commercial
treaty with the United States.
BREMzER's Opera-house at Marion,
] o., burned to the ground on the 9th.
DR.. JOHN B. WOOD, recently editor
of the st. Louis (Mo.) Chronicle, was killed
| by fall in New York ON the 27th. q 4n-
ARRANGEMENTS have been perfected
for the extension of the Texas Trunk Line
to connect with the Texas & st. Louis Mar
row-gauge Roads.
JOHN T. GAME, Congressional dele
gate from Utah, is out with card de-
nouncing Governor Murray's "misrepre-
sensations and perversons of fact" in his
recent message to the Legislature.
JAMES II. EMsLIE, one of the most
prominent citizens of Winnipeg, Man,
committed suicide on the 9th by shooting.
Ex-Governor LETCHER of irginia
died on the morning of the Goth.
The Minnesota Penitentiary at Still
water burned the morning of the Goth. One
life was lost.
CAPTAIN A. S. KEYEs, Tenth Caval-
ry, is to be court-martialed for duplicating
his pay accounts.
A NUMBER of business houses burned
out at Xenia o., on the 10Th. VIM. Powers
was killed by falling wall.
TWENTY of the actors in the Orange
riot in Newfoundland have been impris
oned to await trial for murder.
EXTENSIVE combinations of English
cotton-mills are curtailiug production tc
avoid overstocking the market
The Northern Pacific Railroad peo
pie had a hearing on the Goth at Washing
ton in defense of their land grant.
THE mother of the late Sultan Abdul
Aziz was buried on the 26th at CONSTANT
nople with great pomp.
UNDER plea of guilty to a charge Of
murder in the second degree Christ. Schnei
| L L. Il.