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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

crushed to death by the cars at Hamburg,
Ia, on the 22d.
QUEEN VICTORIA returned to Osborne,
Isle Of Wight, on the 22d.
MME. LOUISE MoUREY, convicted with
Editor Stead and others, died in Millbank
Prison, London, on the 22d.
THREE dynamiters at San Francisco,
CAL, were sentenced on the 22d 10 six
months imprisonment each.
THE National Board of Trade, which was
In session at Washington, adjourned sine
die on the 22d.
THE Congo Railway Syndicate has APP
pointed Henry NJ. Stanley manager of
construction.
THE annual meeting of the international
Monetary Standard Association was held
at London on the 22d.
A. Nj. WIRELESS, Superintendent of the
waterworks at Dallas, Tex, is short $4,000
In his accounts and has fed.
DELEGATES from the Savannah (Ga.)
Harbor Improvement Convention are in
Washington, and interviewed the Presi-
dent on the 22d. ffgeatfmn
IT is said that if the National League Is
proclaimed in Ireland the central execu-
tive of the organization will be located in
| England.
SENATOR VEST was reported sick abed at
Washington on the I'D.
THE President will attend the charity
ball at Baltimore.
Two men were killed by a collision on
the Philadelphia g. Reading road at Ring
town, Pa, on the 23d.
THE imports of general merchandise at
New York for the week ended the 2Sd, ex-
elusive of dry goods, were valued at %,-
5OS726.
/ JOSEPH BATES and wife, an aged couple,
were burned to death in their home at
Thorold, Ont, on the 23d.
ANOTHER dynamite scare has broken out
in London, though without any percepti-
BILE cause. Extreme police precautions are
being taken.
ABOUT five hundred nand-loom ingram
carpet weavers stopped work at Philadel-
! phia on the 23d and went out on strike.
ALvETH CHECK well known throughout
the country as the proprietor of tho Inter-
i.ational Hotel at Niagara Falls, died on
the 23d in his sixty-first year.
Hon. w. G.. WARDING, President of the
Hainview Bank, dropped dead of apoplexy
IN the land Office at Rainyiew, Mimi, on
the 23d.
THE New York Alumni association Of
Yale College had their annual dinner at
Delmonico's, New York on the night Of
the 23d, Chauncey NJ. DePew presiding.
A RUMoR comes from Berlin that Ger
many is making overtures for the partition
of the Somoan islands.
THERE were eleven murders in Paris last
week, the last on the list being that Of a
musician whom NJ. de Verneuil found in
the company of his wife on their way
home from the circus. The weapon used
was rapier, with which de Verneuil also
tried to kill his wife, who escaped with an
ugly wound in her arm.
SENATOR VANCE claims that his bill to
repeal the Civil-Service law outright will
be found to have more friends than is gen.
orally supposed before Congress adiourns
CONSULAR AGENT HERTzBERG at st
Etienne, France, has been notified Of his
removal for persistently ignoring instruc'
tions from the State department.
IT is expected that the President will
take some action during the present weel
looking to the filling of the Office Of Judge
Advocate General of the Army.
WALTER BURsoN, alias "The Kid" {
notorious desperate, was killed at Mon
tezuma, Col, day or two ago, by Lewis
George, on whom Burson was pulling hi!
gun, when George got the "drop,' on him
The coroner's jury justified the killing.
ALICE HALTER, a pretty fourteen year
old girl, was arrested at Buffalo, N. Y, OF
the 2Sd. on a charge of arson, she having
made a deliberate attempt to burn tn
house of her employer, with two yount
children, be ause she could not go to {
party.
THERE were three incendiary fires al
Kingston, Ont, on the night of the 23d
The incendiary was caught and provet
to be the SON of r. M. Horsey, a leading
merchant.
U. V. JONES and T. Treneder, Mormons
have been held in $4,000 and 5000 bond
respectively at Salt Lake City for at
tempting to bride United States officers.
HON. DonMAN B. EATON, Civil-Servic
Commissioner, sent his resignation to tn
President on the 23d, to take effect Marc
next.
The trial at East Saginaw, Mich, o
State Representative Barry for conspirac
in leading the strikers at the time of tn
mill mems strike in the Saginaw Vale
last summer, ended on the 23d with yer
dict of not guilty.
GEORGE F. LANGBEIN, JR., shot himsel
dead in New York on the night. of th
23d because Mrs. Jennie Noll, a divorce
: woman, of whom he was enamored, en-
couraged other admirers.
BY the explosion of locomotive boilt
J in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Mi
: waukee & 81. Paul depot at Madison
Wis, Peter Durk was instantly killed an
min others were badly injured, some it
!. feared fatally.
! ABOUT sixty feet of the road-bed of th
: Philadelphia & Reading Railroad cave
e in near Shenandoah, Pa, on the 2Sd, leaN
ing ole over seventy feet in diamete