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LATER NEWS.

fell in New York and Pennsylvania.
The Spanish man-of-war Nautilus, lying
in the North River off Twenty-seventb
street, New York City, was run into by
tugboat. Her gangway and one Of her boats
were smashed, and several Of her crew mar.
rowly escaped death.
The Chicago's Worlds Fair has opened an
Eastern headquarters in New York.
The Advisory Board Of the Western Traf'
fic Association met at the Windsor Hotel in
New York City.
The remains Of DR.. Joseph Leidy, the
famous scientist, and those Of his brother,
DR.. Philip Leidy, were cremated at the
crematory of the Philadelphia Crematory
Society. This was done according to the
expressed desire of the eminent physicians.
GENERAL J. F. B. MARSHALL died at Ken.
dali Green, Mass. he had been manager Of
the Hampton Institute for indians; member
of the staff of the Massachusetts, War Gov.
ernor Andrews; 'forty-niner'' Of Cali
fornia, and big sugar plantation holder in
the Sandwich Islands. He was born In
Boston in 1918.
~'THR tWenty.ninth international Y. NJ. c.
A. Convention was held in Kansas City,
Mo.
HEAVY frcsts in Virginia. North Carolina,
Indiana, Michigan and Iowa inflicted great
damage On fruits and early vegetation.
The county inflrmary, Ave miles east OF
Munice, Ind, was burned down and four OF
the inmates were burned TO death.
The shops Of the American Wheel Com
pany, at Sidney, Ohio, were burned. Loss
s10O,00
The Convention Of Republican Clubs Of
MARYLAND was held in Baltimore.
CASHIER J. K. BRANTLEY. Of the st.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad
Company, at Little Rock, Ark, is O,0OO
short.
The draft of the treaty Of commerce be-
tween Spain and the United States has been
ent to the Spanish Minister at Washington
with instructions to sign it Immediately.
TIE Clerks in the Treasurer's office, Wash
lngton, have identified SIG, 900 Of the sl7, 600
,harred and buried in the recent wreck near
Waring Station on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad in Maryland. The money was so
,harred and black that the packages looked
ike charcoal, but by expertness in separating
each notey and putting it under a strong
nagnifying glass, all the money was identt-
led with the exception of 800, which the ex-
Dress company carrying the money will lose.
ANOTHER report regarding the condition
of the Alert has been received at the Navy
Department, and does not agree with any
Of its predecessors. If it be accepted by the
Secretary as final, it will vindicate Naval
Constructor Joseph Feaster, who was re-
Gently detached from the Mare Island, CAL,
Navy Yard with an implied censure.
The Bureau of American Republics at
Washington learn that the Government OF
Colombia will erect a building at the Worlds
Fair, the interior Of which will be embel-
ished with the different precious woods OF
that country. 1t Is probable that the build.
ing will be reproduction Of the Capitol at
Bogota.
| THE Gladstonians won the bye-election in
! the Northeast Division Of Suffolk, for sue
! cessor in the British Parliament to Edward
| Greana Conservative,
THREE HUNDRED students and four hun
dred other persons have been arrested II
Warsaw, Poland, for taking part In an or
! derlv celebration Of the Polish festival.
EIGHT miners were killed and seven In
jured by an explosiso near Saarbrucken
Rhenish Russia.
| CAPTAIN VERNEY, member Of the Brit
ish House of Commons, has been sentenced
to two years imprisonment for conspirac.
to procure governess, Miss Nellie Beckett
] for immoral purposes.
The Russian authorities have suddenl.
suspended the expulsion Of Hebrews from
| Moscow.
d. ScHNrrzER, we'll known banker o
Berlin, Germany, was thrown from hi
horse, run over by carriage and died sool
| afterward.
THOMAS B. AIKEN. for thirty years Recor'
| Commissioner for Nova Scotia, died few
days ago at Halifax, aged eighty-three. b.
was one of the most prominent Americans il
Canada.
A REVOLUTIONARY movement Is in pro
gress in Costa Rica, and the President ha
declared a state Of siege, and suspended per
| conal guarantees