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LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Eighteen miners were killed by an
explosion of fire-damp In a colliery near
Saarbruck, in Rhenish Prussia.
The rebellion against Chinese rule in
Chinese Toorkistan is spreading. At Kash-
gar the insurgents killed all the Chinese and
native overseers, and cut OF communication
with the interior of China.
g. Smalley says that the new British
Cabinet is the result OF compromise be-
tween the Marquis of Salisbury and Lord
Randolph Churchill. The formers party in
the House of Commons is weakened by the
transfer OF Sir Stafford Northcote and Mr..
Gibson to the House of Lords.-Earl spen-
GERS departure from dublin was witnessed
by great crowds of people. He knighted
Secretary Kave and Commissioner Greene
for their work in making the visit OF the
Prince and Princess of Wales success
John Mccullough, the tragedian, has
been placed in the Bloomingdale IN. W In
sane Asylum.
At Boston w. A. Rowe, of Lynn,
lowered the fifty mile bicycle record to three
hours ffty-three minutes and twenty-five
seconds.
James d. Fish, the convicted Presi-
dent of the late Marine Bank of New York.
has been sentenced to ten years imprison-
sasas An s's- state zp-s@on Aaburn.
showed little agitation when sentence was
passed.
The New York, Philadelphia, and
Boston banks are still accommodating a sur
plus of money. Lorin Blodgett says that the
ho he ,foknI In Al .I.Gw A..
business of the country cannot go on with
out this money, and that IL a commission
was appointed to report on the subject it
would say that whether this reserve was
used wisely or not used at all, is not supreme
to the great interests of actual production
and of legitimate exchange.
In O riot at the Polish Catholic
Church in Toledo two men were killed and
several injured. The trouble grew out of a
long-existing feud between two factions in
the congregation.
John Martin, one of the two escaped
negroes implicated in the outrage and MUIR
der of Mrs. HAZEL, at Elkhart, Texas, was
taken out of the Grayson County Jail and
ays.si.s-a rta. s.si-~.s ais sSistisaa ladsa
Lynch FOR the murder OF Mrs. HAZEL.
The President last week suspended
Horatio c. Burchard, of Illinois, as Director
of the Mint, and appointed as his successor
DR.. James P. Kimball, Professor of Economic
Geology in the Lehigh University at Bethle-
hop, Pa Following is the text of the letter
of Mr.. Burchard to Secretory Manning de-
Ginning to resign when requested to do so:
Respectfully acknowledging your request for
natl IN N n ar IN ma fha
10th inst, have the honor to state that after
careful consideration, / am not satisfied that
duty or proprlety requires me at this time to
resign my Office. Were any malteasance or
misconduct alleged or be ieved to exist an
sure you would have done me the justice to
have had an impartial examination, and given
ing my res gnation. Nor do L understand
from You that the request is made for such
reason, but IL Is because YOU deem the rela-
tions of my office to be so intimately connec ed
with your administration of the Treasury De-
partment that y, u should have the rvilege of
selecting the officer to be in charge OF this
bureau. Were this the Case, and the int ntion of
the law, IL might be proper and becoming for
me to place the tenure OF my service at your
so when you became head "A thy, dfn9ftpsHRJts
been my understanding Of the purpose OF
the coinage act in providing that the Di-
rector OF the Mint shall hold his Office for the
term Of five years, unless sooner removed by the
President, upon reasons to be communicated
by him to the Senate" The length Of the term
five years-the conditions upon which re-
moval is authorized. and the discussions and
explanation preceding the passage OF the act
indicate the intent that the Office OF Director
of the Mint should not be changed on account
of a change of administration, or In the head
OF the d partment, or for personal or polit-
zeal reasons My predecessor, appointed by
President Grant, although Of opposite politics.
continued in Office under five successive Secre-
taries of tn Treasury until his Death. AS to
myself, having served with acceptance for a full
term, and upon reappointment and confirmation
a part OF another, am conscious OF no reason
why an exception to the policy of the law
should now be made or whyI ought not to con-
tinue the performance of official duty until the
Admiration of INV commits sinn-