, 1888-04-24
T~ELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

Brig.-Gen. Dwight died in Boston sat
urday.
United States Minister Pepdleton is
rapidly recovering.
Senator Cullom authorizes the report
that he is not a presidential aspirant.
Secretary Villas states that Indian Com
missioner Gregory has rendered his resig-
nation.
Max Strakosch, the famous impress
sarIo, is lying seriously i'll at his residence
in New York.
The committee on ways and means held
a long meeting yesterday, but failed to
finally agree upoa a tariff bill.
Rear Admiral Charles Stuart Boggs
died in New Brunswick, N. j., Saturday,
OF paralysis and general debility.
The signal service crop report indicates
that the weather has been unreasonable
cold In the North but very favorable in
South,
Philip Held, a young farmer living
fourteen miles west of Lemars, Ia. shot
and killed his mother and then committed
suicide.
The revolt of peasants at Bucharest has
been suppressed, many arrests have been
made and the prisons are overlooking with
prisoners.
The Edgar Thomson Steel works at
Braddock, Pa, resumed operations yes
terday, several hundred n%on-union men.
going to work.
In Paris on Sunday a crowd of anti
Boulangerist students set fire to several
bales of newspapers-Ld Ldnterne and
II htrdnsigednt.
I'M
The senate bill granting a pension to
the widow of Gen. James B. Ricketts, was
yesterday amended to $75 per month and
passed in the house,
DIR. Junker, the German explorer, in a
lecture before the geographical society in
Berlin, expressed the belief that Stanley
is now with Emin Bey.
James Cummings, manager at Dun's
Commercial agency at Dayton, O., com
mitted suicide Sunday. He had been
dealing heavily at the bucket shops.
The Paris police have been informed
that they owe fidelity to the Republic,
and consequently no faction must be
sheltered If 1t becomes disorderly.
The nomination of Gen. Boulanger to
the chamber of deputies from the depart
ment OF lsere is said to be contrary to his
wishes and also of his committee.
The American ship Continental, from
New York December 81 for Calcutta. be-
fore reported ashore at Palmyra Point, has
become a total wreck. Her crew was
saved.
Five barns and two corn cribs belong
ing to the Union Stock Yards Transit
company, Chicago, burned yesterday
Loss about 100000. covered by insur.
ance.
Sunday a crowd of 500 stoned the DO
lice and rescued a prisoner at Abbey
1eale, Ireland. The police afterwards
captured live Of them. Fifteen police
were injured.
1t is estimated that 10000 persons were
parading in the Latin quarter of Paris on
Saturday night in favor of Gen. Boulan-
ger. They were mainly tradesmen and
working people.
III American steamer San Pablo, Can't.
Reed, from San Francisco March "a via
Yokohama, for Hong Kong, before re-
ported ashore at T~urnabout Island, is a
total loss. Her crew have arrived at
Shanghai.
AT Garzia Plaza, Colo, a general row
occurred in a dance house Sunday morn
ing, which resulted in the death of a
Mexican named Nicholas Adamson and
the wounding of several Others. John
Amison did the shooting and claims it was
done in self defense.
Adyices from Morocco say that a num-
Der of the %sultan's troops attacked the
Northwest African company's depot at
Cape JUDY, near Morocco. They killed
the manager of the depot and wounded
many others. Help is urgently needed.
The British gunboat Falcon has left Glib
araltar for Cane ,Jnby