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NEWS NOTES. DOMESTIC. The Governor of Ohio has appointel exPresident R. B. Hayes to be trustee of the Ohio State University for the term of seven years, beginning May 14, and the ppointment was confirmed by the Senate. About 200 cases of giant powder exploded while in transit in a magazine car over the Missouri Pacific road a half-mile west of Fort Scott, Kan. Fifteen of the 23 freight cars were completely demolished, and the magazine car was blown to atoms. The engine was badly broken up. A spec'al from Spokine Falls, Wash., says: Terrible suffering exists on the Colville reservation, 80 miles north, smallpox having broken out in the tribe with great fatality. Deep snow has prevented hunting, and government supplies have been inadequate. Hugh Sutherland, president of the Hudson Bay road, !unning from Winnipeg, Man., to Hudson's Bay, announces that the company will spend $4,000,000 the coming year in construction. Ex-Treasurer Hollingsworth of Knox county, Ind., who decamped last May with $80,000 of the public funds, recently created a sensation by walking into the court room at Vincennes, and giving himself up to Judge Mallott. The 'longshoremen's strike in New York and vicinity continues; the estimated nums ber of workmen now out reaches 50,000. Only a few European and coastwisesteamers are able to leave their docks. The jury in the case of Beiral, who was in dicted in New York for attempting to murder Surveyor Beattie last November, have rendered a verdict of guilty. C. J. Winship, constable and collector of the town of Weston, Vt.. has defaulted in the sum of $600, which his bond men must pay. Five of the men engaged in the recent robbery of the railroad train at Gordon, Tex., have been arrested. and the prospect is that the other three will be captured. The great railway suit of Sarah A. Angle against the Chicago, Portage & Superior Railway company at Madison, Wis., for violation of contract has been concluded. The jury rendered a verdict for the plain:iff of $351,965.50. Reports from the west show that heavy snowstorms prevailed in western Dako a and eastern Montana. Trains on the Northern' Pacific railroad and other roads are badly delayed. Black diphtheria is raging near Madison, Wis. The schools at Wanuakee have been closed and the town quarantined. The Little Rock, Mississi: pi River & Texas railroad has been sold under the foreclosure of mortgage, Jay Gould being the purchaser. The price paid was $1,800,000. The road runs from Little Rock to Arkansas City, a distance of 112 miles, connecting w th the iron Mountain road at Little Rock, Ark. Gould was the only bidder. Americans in the vicinity of Lewis' Cove, in Perry, Me., are indignar t at the fact that there are several fishermen from St. Andrew's in the cove, as when the fish seek the other shore the war vessels of the Dominion se ZB any American vessel tound inside the limit. A recent fire at Vanceboro, Me., destroyed the fin large steam mill used by the Vanceboro Wooden Ware Company in the manu facture of kiln dried hardwood lumber. Loss about $40,000; part!y insured. About 100 men are thrown out of employment. Diphtheria prevails to such an extent in Shelter Island, L. I., that the public schools have been closed to prevent its spread. The disease S said to have been brought from Boston. The treasurer of the Germania bank at Jersey C ty has robbed that institution of $30,000, and left for parts unknown. The depositors will be pai 1 in full. The largest and fastest passenger engine ever built was recently run out of the Rhode Island locomo ive works at Providence. During the week ending Jan. 28, 1887, 1278 gallons of soup were distribute and 6102 meals provided by the city of Boston. The reports of corresponding week of this year, show the number of gallons to be 1012, and
