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LATER NEWS.


| and Hartford, striking the rocks OFF Rye
Beach, N. Y, and the Europa, from Ham
burg bound for New York, going aground
near Quogue, Long Island. No lives were
lost, but both vessels were badly damaged.
GERONIMO, the captured Apache chief,
with twenty of his followers, has escaped
from the custody of the United States troops
| in Arizona.
In executive session on the 31st Mr. Logan
made speech favoring open sessions. The
nomination Of the postmaster at Webster
City, Iowa, was rejected by a nearly unan-
imous vote on the charge of "offensive par.
| tisan hip"
THE nomination of William NJ. Merrick
for judge of the District of Columbia has
been confirmed by the Senate notwithstand-
/ ing the adverse report Of the judiciary COM
mittee.
| The collections of internal revenue for the
first eight months Of the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1886, amount to So, ,15S, 200, an in
crease of s2,41G,3Ss over the receipts for the
corresponding period of the last fiscal year.
ST. JOHNS, n. F., has been the scene Of an
exciting labor riot. A mob, demanding
labor and railroad extension, assembled
around the parliament buildings with flags,
storn1ed tho assembly house, routed the police
and broke into the council chamber, planting
their banner on the table Of the house.
| THE total plumber Of arrests made in Bel-
gium in connection with the labor riots is
$500. Hundreds Of persons were killed or in
jured, scores of buildings destroyed and dam
age amounting to millions of dollars was in
ficted.
AN explosion Of petroleum occurred the
other day on board vessel at Baku, Russia.
The vessel was wrecked, and the entire crew.
consisting of thirteen persons, perished.
THE steamship Gulf of Akaba, from Huelv a
bound for New York, with thirty-fve men
on board, has been given up as lost
The strike Of 5000 operatives in theCohoes
IN. " mills has ended, the mill-owners con-
cedng the twelve per cent. increase in wages.
DR. EDWARD DE L. BRADIN, who attended
Neall, the Newark IN. J.) poundkeeper dur
ing his fatal attack Of hydrophobia, is him.
self in danger, and has started for Paris for
treatment by NJ. Pasteur. While attending
to his patient frothy saliva from the mans
lips came in contact with DR.. Bradins sore
thumb. The doctor is the seventh person who
has gone to Paris from Newark for inocula-
tion against hydrophoba.
MINERS in Pennsylvania are holding mass
meetings to inaugurate the eight-hour sys-
tenn in the mines after May l.
Ex-ALDERMAN WILLIAM P. KIRK has
been arrested in New York on the charge Of
bribery in connection with the Broadway
horse car company's franchise, obtained
from the city's aldermanic board in 1884. The
confession of ex-Alderman Waite led to
| Kinks arrest.
| On the 1st the decree came from st. Louis
that the strike must 60 on. The executive
Loard Of the Knights Of Labor for the dis
tricts involved claimed that Jay Gould's rep
resentatives were acting with duplicity; that
they refused to re-employ men identified with
the strike. and that they would not receive
or confer with representatives of the order.
| For this reason the board declined to name a
time for the strikers to resume work, and
issued an appeal to the country in the form
# short official address. The Missouri
Pacific road claimed to berunning its freight
trains with regularity, and announced its
ability to handle all freight committed to its
care. At East ST. Louis the strike was still
in full force, and all freight was blockaded
except on the Wabash road.
| &1,oC ofo.
William c. Emmett, Of New York, consul at
SMYRNA; Alien r. Bushnell, Of Wisconsin,
attorney western district of Wisconsin; Alex
ander H. Shipley to be consul at Auckland;
! H. A. johnson, of District Of Columbia, con-
sui at Venice; William Gordon, Of New
York, consul at Medelin II. c. Crouch, of
New York, consul at Milan; Galusha PEN
nell, Of Michigan, marshal eastern district
of Michigan; Spuille Braden, Of Montana, to
be assayer, Helena; George F. Bayls, Of
New York, surveyor Of customs, Port Jeffer-
son, N. Y; Arthur D. Bissell of New York,
collector of customs for district of Buffalo
Creek, N Y; Brigadier-General O. O. How
ard, major-gcneral, vice Pope, retired.
The reduction Of the national debt last
month was ST., ,os1,, SS4, leaving the total debt
on the 1st, less cash in the treasury, at 81,
4l1,a992,?3H5.
DURING March the total government re-
ccipts were $'0,O7G,lG and expenditures,
sl3,9sl6"5.
TIE steamship Resolute, whaler and sea'er,
has been crushed by ice and sent to the bot
tom off the coast of Newfoundland. Her
crew, numbering $50 men, were forced to
leap for life, abandoning everything All
but three reached land, seventy miles from
the scene of the disaster AT the time Of the
accident the Resolute had captured 10000
seals.
A DUEL with pistols in which one of the
principals was Instantly killed bas been
fought between two French officials in q pri-
vate house at Valrcas.
BULGARIA having refused the demands Of
Russia to submit certain questions to the
European powers, is threatened with in
vasion by the cars troops, and the posi-
bility of a war is again looming up.
MAsSAcREs Mt Catholic missions in AMMAN
are reported, the number OF victims bel ing
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