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Emperor William is seriously ill.
The cholera is still raging with great
fatality in Japan.
The loss by the Eastport fire is esti-
mated at 100000.
The salary of Mr.. Powderly has been
increased to 5000.
Mr.. Edmunds has been re elected
United States Senator from Vermont
The Republicans of New York have
nominated Theodore Roosevelt for Mayor.
MIR. Tilden's will has been admitted
to probate. It will be contested by his nephew.
Benjamin Folsom, cousin of Mrs.
Cleveland, has been appointed Consul at shef-
field, England.
Meyer Karl Rothschild, the head of
the great banking firm, died suddenly at
Frankfort OF heart disease.
1t took four men an hour and half
to capture thirtv-foot snake which escaped
from q museum in Boston.
Mr.. Blaine opened the State cam
paign in Pennsylvania last Saturday, speaking
in Philadelphia to immense crowds.
Another call for 8 per cent. bonds is
probable. The revenues thus far during Oeto-
ber are averaging over 81, 900, 600 daily.
1t Is understood that Mr.. Cox, our
repr, sentative at Constartinople, who is now
in this country, does not desire to return.
The Socialists of London indicate
determination to make parade in London on
Lord Mayors day, regardless of the police.
Judge Manning, the new Minister to
Mexico, has gone to that sapital. The Mexi-
can Central road rendered him special car.
Yellow fever is raging to an alarm
ing extent at Biloxi, Mississippi, and New Or
leans has announced a quarantine against it.
There is q strike of switchmen at
Minneapolis. The men offer to settle their diff
ferences by arbitration but the railroads de-
Glue.
One man was killed and three others
were badly injured by the dropping Of q cage
in one of the shafts of the new aqueduct at New
York.
During the last three years the Con-
gregAtionalists of this country have erected An
average OF seven church buildings every three
weeks
John F. Dukemier, a Boston book
keeper, is the latest announced recruit to the
American Colony in Canada. With bin went
$4,000.
Geronimo and fourteen other Apaches
are to be imprisoned at Fort Pickens, Florida,
and the rest of his party will be sent to Fort
Marion.
Nineteen brakemen have been ar
rested on the charge Of robblng goods In tran
sit on the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain
railroads.
All of the powers have assured Rus
STA that they are opposed to Prince A'exan-
der's return to Bulgaria, and they will oppose
his election.
Mrs. Leader, the wife of London
butcher, after q quarrel with her husband,
drowned herself and four Of their dve children
in the Thames.
France has entered protest against
the British occupatio Of Egypt, and It Is un-
derstood that Russia, Turkey aud France are
in accord in this matter.
All the conductors and engineers on
the Panama Railway have struck, because bail
has been refused for u conductor who shot .
man. No t aims are running.
It is reported in Washington that the
reason the President did not take his wife with
lin To Richmond was because size would have
been obliged to meet the daughter Of Jefferson
Davis.
Miss Mary Anderson has subscribed
o., 500 for the benefit Of the sufferers by the
Charleston earthquake, the net proceeds Of
her performances during the last week going
for that purpose.
So far this season twentv-seven fish,
ing vessels from Massas husetts have been
and 116 men drowned, by which twenty-six
wives were made widows and fifty SIX children
| were rendered fatheriess.
The French recently had brush with
about z, 900 pirate near Hoo-Lee, Tonquin, in
which more than 500 Annamites were killed,
their Notifications destroyed, and lot Of can.
| non and small arme were captured.
The South Boston Iron Works, to
| which the Government owes $3.50 600. has been
fore, d to suspend operations 1t has furnished
r!ned cannon carriages and other material to
ths Government aud was engaged in making
heavy ordnance.
The National League, after canvass