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1111, 111 1118 annual report w que Date De partment, speaks very flatteringly of Bismarck and the success of His colonial and other policies. THE Mayor of Venice, Italy, has sent out a circular in which he declares that the stories of cholera are much exaggerated. A FIERCE battle took place in Poplar Island Narrows, Maryland, the other night between a fleet of dredge boats and one of the oyster police steamers. The steamer found the at to them. arrest dredges They which work resisted and and returned attempted opened fire on the steamer, was at first with small arms. The dredgers made it hot for the steamer until her Captain opened fire upon them with a cannon. This silenced their fire and put them to flight. THE Houston (Tex.) Insurance Company, whose capital was badly impaired by the failure of the City Bank of Houston, has reinsured all its outstanding risks in the of London The City stockholders expect to Company, lose $300,000. limited. THE Grant monument fund has reached a total of $111,728. A PORT TOWNSEND, W. T., special says: A citizens a 125 an number miles distant, of telegraphed of Quellente, here that town Indian was for The grows protection. outbreak trouble feared, of doubtless the and Indians asked out of the ill treatment by the white settlers. It is not believed that it will be serious. ONE of the Schlitz Brewing Company's storehouses at Milwaukee, containing 120,000 bushels of choice barley, was damaged by fire the other day. The loss was $75,000, the insurance $68,000. THE Christmas tree at the county hospital, Chicago, caught fire during the entertainment on Christmas day. An indescirbable panic occurred among the children and others in consequence. Fifty persons were badly injured and many others slightly, but no one was killed. The fire was subdued without serious damage. Two men were killed and two dangerwounded by the a at the ously Spring Valley bursting waterworks, of boiler San Francisco, recently. The damage amounted to $150,000. THE French Chamber of Deputies has the a 274 270. It is adopted to Tonquin rumored credit that by owing vote to of the closeness of the vote the Cabinet has resigned. FIRE in Cincinnati the other night caused a loss of $60,000 on the building and stock owned by the Western Paint and Roofling Company and M. E. De Hart & Co., patent roofers. THE Manchester-Congo Railway Comhas been a pany granted franchise to to construct a railway from the upper the lower Congo region in Africa. THE Montreal Board of Health has perordered the Pointe to emptorily Longue Asylum lady have superior all the of the inmates vaccinated at once. There were eighteen cases in the asylum. SEVENTEEN convicts out of a force of 150 on a railroad in the conworking escaped other night. Stokes The County, victs waited men were on one at each entrance to when all to one guard, ade, N.C., until rushed only two the entrance, stockwhere they overpowered the guard and with axes cut out the planks of the gate and seventeen escaped through the opening. A FATAL accident occurred the other morning at the Walnut Hills Incline Rail way, near Cincinnati. Jack Failon, a subdriver, while on the descending car lost his hat and jumped off to get it, and was the car up to the of the hill. One foot was cut and caught top by going and dragged off he was terribly bruised from his waist down. He was taken to the hospital where he died. J.C. FRANCE, while examining a pistol, was accidentally shot and killed at Rockfield, Ky., recently, Three days before he was kicked by a horse and had his leg broken. A YOUNG man named Benjamin Beebe was killed while jumping from a passenger train at Berea, O., the other night. Hip body was completely cut to pieces. was is of Abyssinia, IT reported engaged that in the King occupation John, of Massowah and is preparing to make war upon the Italians. THE residence of Dr. Emil Bessells, the Arctic explorer, at Glendale, Maryland, was burned the other morning, and all of his books, charts and other valuable documents relating to Arctic matters were totally destroyed. BETWEEN eleven and twelve o'clock the other night fire broke out at 424 Water street, New owned and as a occupied York.in the by M. three Fink story building factory of whale and fish oils. The fire caused an estimated damage of $40,000; partly insured.
