, 1890-03-30
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

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The Liverpool spring cup was won by
Father Confessor.
A French gunboat was sunk yesterday
at Rochetort by collision with a man of
war.
The steamer City OF Paris has arrived
off Crook Haven. Her m~achinery.is dis
abled.
A special from Bowling Green, Ky,
says that no one was killed there, though
the storm did much damage.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
last night at 10 O'Clock at Contoockook,
n. d.. and several surrounding towns
A late dispatch last night said the pro
lection levee ip the rear of Greeuville.
Miss, could not last through the night.
Yesterdays temperature-New York
"a, New orleans 54o. St. Louis 800, Gin.
cinnati $40, Chicago 26o. Winnipeg iO0.
Ten thousand shoemakers of London
have struck. The object of the strike is
to do away with the sweating system.
By a boiler explosion 10 the axle works
OF South Wheeling, W. Va, yesterday
two men were fatally and a dozen others
seriously injured.
There is an alarming epidemic of diph-
iberia in East Stroudsburg, Pa. Deaths
are occurring daily. The disease orig
mated IN improper drainage.
The towboat Nail City was caught at
Gayoso in Thursdays storm. The Nail
City was not damaged, but the entire tow
was sunk and six lives lost.
Joseph Haworth. the we'll. known actor
playing Paul KaUdr, was shot at by a
woman as he was entering a New York
theater last evening, but was not hit.
The elevator of the John Kaufman
Milling company of St. Louis burned
yesterday. Loss. $3.50, 900; insured. The
fire was caused by a n electric light wire.
Two German officers aud a private ex-
perimented with a balloon in Posen yes
terday. The balloon collapsed. The
private was killed and the officers badly
hurt.
Forty thousand employees in the fac.
tories in Catalonia. Spain. have struck. A
conference is being held with the en-
ployers with a view to adjustment of diff.
ferences.
William Stewart. recorder of West Bay
City. Mich, has gone to Canada. The
mount of his shortage has not been de
termlned, but it is supposed to be SO. 900
or 81, 900.
The New York weekly bank statement
shows a reserve decrease of $685.
900; specie increase, 81, 523, 900; cash on
hand, I 1922, 600 in exc, ss of the % per
cent rule.
Frank Griffin a negro. raped two little
white girls, one aged 9 and the other 4, at
Stanton, Ala. He was caught and hung
to a tree, The smallest girl will die OF
her injuries.
The second trial of Father Boyle, the
Catholic priest oil Raleigh, n. c., charged
with rape, and who was before convicted,
ended last night in his acquittal. Boyle
was at once discharged.
The American delegates to the Pan.
American conference gave an elaborate
banquet to the foreign delegates last night
at the Arlington hotel. The cabinet, iu-
dietary and congressman we're present.
The police authorities OF Washington
state that there is absolutely no truth in
the story that Bridget Sweeney. an old
and trusted servant, confessed to causing
the recent fire at Secretary Tracey's
house.
A German spy has been arrested at
Eplnal, France. Documents found on
him show that there exists an organized
system of espionage of the French forts
and camps along the Franco Prussian
frontier.
An attempt was made near Silas, Mex
leo, yesterday to kill the oon of the late
Gen. Corona, who himself some time age
was the victim of an assassin. The in
tended victim escaped. but a lady was hit
and killed.