, 1886-07-18
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

English election returns show the Torie.
still 1870 ahead.
Two of the St. Louis delegates indicted
for bribery have been arrested.
The senate has decided to consider the
oleomargarine bill, by a vote of % to 10.
Albany, N. Y. is celebrating the two
hundredth anniversary of its corporate
existence as a city.
The president has nominated s. Davis
Page, assistant trea urer of the United
States at Philadelphia.
The New York weekly bank statement
shows a reserve Increase OF $449.475, and
amount held in excess of requirements,
$1,000 OPS.
Six members in the st. Louis house of
| delegates have been indicted for drunk
enness in office and four Of them for
bribery, also.
Friday was the hottest day of the sea
son in Fort Worth, Tex, the hottest
| place in the country, with the mercury
at l2O' in the shade.
The emperor of Germany has approved
the proposition Of the reichtag to have the
portrait of Gustav Freytag, the artist,
painted at the public expense.
The city railroad strike at San Francisco
has been ended by concession on the part
Of the companies and the discharged men
have been re employed.
The convention existing among the
steel rail manufacturers of England, Bel.
GUM and Germany to prevent %ruincus
competition will not be rene we'd.
A bill has been favorably reported to
the house reducing the excise on spirits
distilled from fruits, and modifying the
restrictions upon the sale OF leaf tobacco.
Among recent combinations are the APP
p%ointments of A. II. BAKER, receiver of
public moneys at Grand Island. Neb., and
George l.. Wright postmaster at Denison,
Colo.
The senate committee on Indian affairs
has unanimously recommended the pas
sage over the veto, of the bill granting
right of way through the reservation in
Northern Montana.
The earl of Roseberry, British foreign
minister, has sent Russia an emphatic
protest against the closing of Batoum,
characterizing that act as a fragrant viola
ton Of the treaty OF Berlin.
The third days session of the confer
ence oil charities and corrections at st.
Paul, MINI, was largely taken up by the
discussion of the treatment of insane per.
sons and the kindergarten system.
Mexican insurgents are raiding ranches
in T%amanlipas and the revolution is
spreading rapidly in Nuevo Leon. The
country around Mier and Guerrero is in
arms and recruits are reported as crossinp
from the American side of the Rio
Grande.
Gen. Boulanger, French minister of
war, and Baron de Lareinty fought a duel
in the forest of Meudon, neal Paris, yes
terdav. Boulanger received his adver-
sary's shot and then fired in the air. The
affair grew out Of the baron's criticisms on
the general in a speech delivered in the
senate on Thursday.
George r. Watkins paymaster of the
United States warship Ossipee was tried
by a court martial held on board that yes
sci at Yokohoma, found -uilry of embez-
element and desertion and sentenced to
three years imprisonment at hard labor
and to be dismissed from the service at
the expiration OF that term.
Samuel Gay, chief clerk in the Pitts.
burg pension Office, has gone to Canada,
after forging checks to the amount Of $500
and embezzllng a considerable sun be-
sides. estimated at over $4,000. Gay
was the son of wealthy parents. a regular
attendant at church, active in the Young
Mems Christian Association and a prom
inent leader in the Murphy temperance
movement.