The News Condensed

TUK. BAST. A laiuie fivc-story tenement building, oecupied by abont twenty-live peoplc, was lmrni'd in Bostou last weck. There bcing no fireeticapo and bnt one exit, the occupants escapad witk great difficuHy. JÍrg. Miza Oarn jnmpcd from a third-stoiy wiudow and iveeived fatal injuries. Mr. Diese] jnmped from the f ourth story and was likotfiso fatally njured. Sovoral woro more ór leas burced in tlieir efforts to escape. . . .A compronúsc has at last been effected in the Kweeiicy case, whereby the estáte of James 51. Sneeney, a doeeaprd brother of the groat ring robber of New York city, nndertakes to paj tlie ram of -400,000 lo niáke good in part the stcalings of Tweed's cliief partner. A DKSTUüCTiVE fire, attended with a shocking loss of human Ufe, occurred iu Bridgeport, Ct, last week. The flames broke out about midnight in the bat facto'ry of Glover, Sandford t Bon, a largp brick building. The lire-engines responded promptly, bnt the water-siipply proved insuffioient, and the (ire thereby obtained the mastory. While about a dozen vulunteers ware " uemoving tho goods from the office- a one-story strueture sflddeiily, and without warning, the back and front, walls feil out, leaving the tiro highest walls uisapported. The wall adjoining the oflicc leaned ontward, and, as a shriek of hi i ror went up from the spectators, feil apon the roof of the oflice, crushing through it to the basement, and burying those wiïhin. Eleven meo were killed outright, their IxkHm b.-ing sbockingly bruised and niangled. Tho moncy loss by tho fire aggregates .250,000 ; insnr150,000 V New York dispatch state Unit Richard IS. Couiiolly, of Une Tttnuuany ring, has oponed negotiations looking to the rosiorauonoi a part of bis plunder, now bold in the name of bis Bon-in-law. The terras under conskleration primarily concede the peaceful return of Connolly from exile. ...tbs. Lydia shonnan, the notoriona Conriectibnt poisoner, whose escape from State prison at Wethersneld was announced in these columns, bas been recaptured. THK WEST. Ge. C'ikmk, who ia now in Salt Lako City, l.'tah. looking over the sitiiation. has come to the conclusión, it is statcd,tbat no moro troops are neodcd i:i that Territory. . . . Avery Moore.' bitherto a re.speeted oitizeñ oí Chiciígo, and until (jnite recently a Town Supervisor, bas pocketed abont i!)000 of the eounty's funds and absconded to parts unknou;i. . . .Advices rem the Weat represent ihat tlie Shoshone Indians, in Wyoming, are in au almost stnrving condiiion, and fears aro ontertained tbat they irill bc driven to commit depredations tipon the ü Uiers A deplorable case oí insanity vasdevcloped in Chicago the other day. A widow lady, living in a lonely condition in the northwestem section cf the city, lost her only child about three inonths ago. She brooded over the bereavenient to snob. an extent that it onsettled her inind. Oji the day in question she was observed on the roof of her house, baving in her possession a bundie, which was af terna id di scovered tobe the remains of her child. How the poor ereature succeeded in gaining an entrance to thecemetery, or how shesucceeikd in exhuming the body without being discovered, is not known. Imt it is supposed she visitod tbc grave during tho precoduig nigbt. and with her ovvm hands disii.torred the remains of the dead babe Skveüai, of the parties who rocently made the dastardly attenipt to wreek and rob the St. Lonin and San Francisco express train, fifty milos west of St. Louis, JIo., havo been arrested, and one of their number, a youth of 20 yo&rs aud nn ex-convict, ha made a fnll confiïsion. 'J'ho crime was concocted by eight men of thu coimty, all (armers, whoec intention it was to wreek the train by pitching it over the forty-foot embankment, and thon pilIage the oxpress-car and rob the dead passengers. Moust Carmel, 111., which was recently devastated by a tornado, sends forth the following appeal for aid : " The calatnity which baa befallon this city bas not beea overrated by letter-writers to the papers of tne motropolitan cities. Fourteen blocks of beautiful homes and business housea art in rains, a hundred families houseless and helplcHs, a score dead, and over seventy badly hort in ft population of 2,500. A loss not less than 4800,000 is too heavy a load for this heart-stricken people to carry alono, and hielp muHt come from the country at largo. Any aid from cities or towns that may he sent to B. S. Gordon. Mayor, or Judgc T. J. Shannon. of the bankiug-iiöuse of Bhannon & Beal, Chairman of the Belief Committee, will bc wisely and faithfnlly appropriatcd toward those wbo are wortliy and uecdy." SOUTH. The city of Galveston, Tex., has been visited by a most disastroiis conilagration. Three squares in the business part of the city, bounded by Market, Twenty-first aud Tvventy-second streets and the bay, woro destroyed. The Cotton Exchange, Grand Southern Hotel, Krei National Baulf, Beligson's Bank, üdd Fellows' Hall and Washington Hotel were aniong the lurned buildings. The loss is estimated at 62,000,000.... Henry C. Dibble, late Attorney General of Louisiana, bas been arrestod in New Orleans on a charge of embezzling L12,000 of the State's funds, and held for tnal in bonds of 7.r,oo. The Supremo Court of Arkansas has decided that the act nnder which 1C,000,000 of bonds were issued in 1869 in aid of railroads in that State was unconstitutional, and that the bonds are illegal Memphis has been completciy ent off from raihvay conununication witli the outer world, by the customary iunndations conseqent npon the spring raiñs. Some damage has been done lo the railroads, hut nothing setious as yet. WASHINGTON. The Tresident has signcd tho commission of ex-Gov. Thomas A. Osborn, of Kansas, as United States Minister to Chili It is statcd from Washington the pension consolidation order is to be modiüed in somc particulars at least The chnnges mentioned are : The Illinois agency will be moved from Spriugtield to Chicago ; the Ohio Consolidated agency to be removed from Columbus to Cincitmati. Ski ■'.KTAr.v SCBOBZ lias appointcd a board of expert accountants to examine into the mode and methode in ful! iu the finance and accounting divisionsof the Indian Bureau, especially as to the analysis of money aud property accounts of Indian AgentR 'ï'hc rresulent bas appoíntedA. D. Haze), of Pennsjlvania. Tbird Assistant l'ostniaster General, vico E. V. Barber, of Michigan, resigned. Se.nou Maiuscai,, Mcxican Minister at Washington, bas submittcd to Secretary Evart a written protest against the recent aciion of the administration instructing Gen. Ord to pursue Mexican marauders across the I?io Grande. An important contract bas just been concluded by Mr. Sherman with tho syndicate of Europeau aud American bankers. It provides for the salo to tho syndicato of twiitvfivo millions' worth of i) per cent. bonds, that nam making np a round total of two hundred millions oí the isuo. The contract further embraces an immediate sale of twenty-five milliouu' worth of the new and thus far untriel 4 per cent. bonds. Thcrc is also provisión mado for plscing bonds of this latter issue on the home market as a popular loan, in M-.ms of Í50 and múltiples thereof, at par iu gold ; and further sales to tho syndicato wiU be mude as rapidly as bonds can be placed in investors' bands. Thkhk scems to be a misunderstanding about thesupplyof greenbacks of tho denomina', on of 81 and $2. Theso notes are furnished to AsBistant Treasurers, but applications from ! banks are refuaod. Limited supplies eau be got from tho Treasurers, it issaid, for distribution thrimgh the banks.' FOMTIC.YT,. Mk. Peter Coopeb, late Greenbackcandidate for tho rresidency, has addressed a long open letter to President Hayee, criticising the past financial policy of the sovereign Government and also niarking out the proper course, in hia ojiinion, to be pursued in luture. He advises i that onr national currency be made reccivable i for all pnrposes, aud interoonvertdhle into 3 per cent. Government bonds; that silver be with.drawn from eirculation and uscd in the purchase of foreign bonds, and that the fractional paper curroucy be revived. J. R. G. Pitkin bas been removed from the Marshalship of Louisiana, and Col. Jack Wharton appointed iu bis place. The President bas appointed James Lewis (colored) Naval Oliicer at New Orleans Upon the arrival in Washington, last. week, of exCongressman Kasson, ot' iowa, the mlssion to Austria, bieb ü is understooo be wonld ori;;inally have pnline 1, liad it been vacant when he was appointed Minister to Spain, was tenderodhimly the President, aud he has accepted it, and James liusscll Lowell bas boen tenderod aud accepted the mission to Spain. GKSKRAL, Haiini-m's reward of Í10,000 for the return i of Chnrley Jloss has reawakened public interest i ] in tlie ca,m, and the Philadelphia Ifmesreportfl astrong probability that it will result in bis restoration by tl. e Ufoi July, the tbird ' versary of bis disappearance, a penon who lias wotked long on the ooao is anre that the boy is in liiding in Western lViinsvlvauin, and says that the only hitoli now is the of those who have hini in charge that Barnum's i promise of immunity might notbe observad by ■ the autborities. Ifthey can have assurance that the Goveruor will grant thora freedom ] trom puniflimciil, tliuy will givo lihn np, and the matter will probably BOOD be arranged. Miixions of oaterpUlare have made thcir appc.tranoo in the región of London, Can. They are so thick as to seriously delsy the railroad trains. . . .The Canadian Government bas reoeived advices which lead to the belief that gitting Buil is at Wood Mountain, in Canadian territory. A delkoate convciition of representativos of the various medical colleges of the United States assembled in Chicago, last woel, for tho purpose of organizing the American Medical College Association, the object of whieh ia tho advanconient of medical education in the United States, aud the establishment of a eommoii polioy in the more important matton of college management. Twonty-nine of the principal medical colleges of the country were representod. A constitution, by-laws and articles of confederation were adoptes. The animal report of tho Pittaburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad, for 1876, just submitted to the stoekholders, 8&OW8 the receipts to have been 97,858,848, against $7,868,tifii in 1875; expenses. -lJ787, 1 (1, against $1,602,091 in 1875 net earnings, 43,00i,0S7, against !?3,261,572 in 1875. Out of reporta of orops from 211 points. in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois aud Kentucky, publiahed in the Cincinnati Commercial, lTüiudicategood ci'ops of wheat : 31, fair orops : 1. light erop, if any; 47, good crops oL' frnit ; 74, fair; HO, ligiit erop, if anv linrned : A lamber mül at Ean Claire, Wis., loss $50,000, insnrance L25,000 ; eight buildings in Sank City, Wis., luss $10,000, psrUy insured ; several buildings at Indiantown. N. B., losa f Sp,000 ; a wool warohouseat Gallipolis, Ohio, loss 613,000; a large nnmbor of hotrees at Snxton's liiver village, Vt, loss heavy Business f allures ' Walter 8. Baboock, lamber dealer, Chioago, Habilities 70,000 ; Bowen Brothers, large real■atate daatara, Cbioago, liabihües heavy ; Jamas K. Doolittle, tho leading dry-goods merchant of Denver, Col. ; the Union Saviugs Bank of Bath, Ta. The American Medical Assoeiation has jnst held a live days' session in Chicago. It was the lorgest and most interesting meeting tho as '.ciitimi has ever held, about 600 delégate, embraeing many of the most eminent phvsicians in the conntry, being in attendance. The association, anraog othcr thiugg, adepied a vigoróos memorial urging the repeal by Congress of t lie present oneroua tax on qnininc. The foliowing offioers were elected for the onsuing year: President, Dr. T. O. llichardson, LonisviÜe, Ky. ; Yice Presidente, Drs. J. 1'. White. New Yórk, Moses Gunn, Illinois, G. W. Bussell, Connecticut; A. Dunlap. Ohio ; Secreta ry, E. W. Bruah: Treaeurer, 1!. J, Dunglison, Pennsvlvania; Librarian, W. Lee, District of Columbia. A Washington dispatch credits Gen. Sherman with saying that " Kussia is aiming mainly at acquisitions in Asia. She wants Trebizond and the Valley of the Tigris, to set to the sea by way of the Persian Gulf." .... Germany has formally recognized Diaz as President of Mexico.... A llood is reported in the Missouri river, exceedin anyllung of the kind kuown since 1844, and cansing vast destruction of property along the river valiey. Tuk Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago and tbc Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroada have begun the running of lightning trains between New York and Chicago. The distanco between tito fcwo cities is now accomf)lishcd in the extraordinary time of twonty-five lonrs, and the oftieers of the roads promise to reduce the time to twonty-three hours. THK TUKKO-KL'SSIAN WAK. Ir is cabled that Count Schouvaloff is tha bearer of a note from Bnsgia to the Englinh Government, the purport of which declares that the Czar desires no mercase of territory in F.urope, but demanda the cession of a portion of Armenia, "from Bayazid to the coast, hut not including Erzeromn." A severe battle is reported between Montenegrins and Turks usar Maljat, in which tho latter were defeated with the loss of 500 men England has notified lïussia and Turkey that any attempt on their part to blockade or otherwise to interfere with the Suez canal wonld be regai-ded a a menace to India, aud incompatiblo with the British attitude of passive neutrality. . . The Czar has lejoined the arcny on the Danube. During the journey. in order to guard against any attempt on bis h'fe by wrecking the train, the imperial coaches were preceded and followed % safety traius. The numerous accidenta which have recently ocenrred on the Tïouroanian railways are bolieved to be the work of conapiracies The London Times' war correspondent estimates the strengthof theTnrks. of all arms, between the Danube and the Balkans, at about 200,000 men. A dispatch from Constantinople asserts that 1,000 Abkasian8 have been snrpriged and ent to pieces by Russians A Vionna dispatch says: "In militerv circles hcre the opinión gains jiround that the liussians will not cross the Danube. They expect such decisive success in Asia that every condition oí a diu-able poaco may secured from their effects." A sjiabp battle is reported between Turks and Montenegrins at Kristoc, in which 600 of the latter and 1.200 Turks were killed... A Vienna dispateli says the honses of 150 Jewish families have been pillaged by a mob, at Dowj baui, in lïouinania. Eleven were killed, twenty-fonr wounded, and 1)0,000 dncats stolen. Oit of the thirty-three district into which Roumania. is divided, twenty-eight have been virtually jilaced under martial law. This was done becanse capital pimishmerit is not recognized by the civil law, and the frequent discovery of spies rendered the measxire necessary. The Vienna correspondent of the New York Jlcrnld details the advance of the Ruasians apon Erzeroum. Three columns are now marching direct for that city, and its capture is certain. The right wing has sent forward a strong column from Olti. The army of investment at Kars, which numbers alniost 200,000 man, bas thrown .1 column forward down the valley of the Arras, which menaoes Erzeroum in front, and sovers all communicatiim betwedñ the two citiea. The extreme left has forced the mountaiu passés at Toprak-Kaleh, and is now about to form a junction with the center. The investment of Erzeroum will begin at once if the place eannot be taken by storm. This can be determined only after the character of the "deftnses bas been investigated. . . .Tho Turks are in great fear of a gcueral urrising of the Bulgarians, wlio have not forgotten the horrors perpetrated upon their countrymen at Batak. Throughout many of the largor toirns of Bulgaria the news of the fall of Ardahau was received with wild demonstralions of satisfaction, and cries of "Lang live the Czar !" Iïussia bas ordered an additional levy of 218,000 men. Wab notes and rumora : Hobart l'aaha has lift Varna witli bist fleet to bombard Odessa. - The Iiussiaus not only intend to occupy Bulgaria, but have made all arrangements f&r remaining thrce years. - liussian merchants in Baltic porta are roportcd to be clearing their wharves and warebouaos by exporting all goods as fast as possible, apprehending a genera] prohibition of exportation. - Odesaa was thrown into a great commotion, one day last week, by the appearance of a Turkish iron-clad Heet. The inhabitants of the ciiy we e seized with a panic, and thousands or them tled from their homes, Much to their relief, however, the Heet withdrew without dring a gun. - A strong pcace party appears to be developing in Constantinople, "and hostility to the exlsting Government, stimulated by the inefaciency of its conduct of the war, is assnming dangerous proportiona. - A state of siege haviug been proolaimed in Boumania, te'egrams concerning military movementa henceforth will be stopped. One of the great causes'of the state of siege was the unsatisfactory working of the Koumanian railways. All the railway officials are now subject to the military autiiorities. Anotheu flood in the Danube is reported. The riso was caiised by melting snow on the Carpathian Alps. This will again delay the lius.-ian operattons London dispatches say tliat the Iiussians will force the passage of the Danube at ome point west of lïustchuk, in order to avoid the Turkish forces massed witbin the lines of the quadrilateral. Passing the river at Histova or NlOÓpolis, the lïusshms ill lind ahnost uiiobstructed roads to the lïaHian passes, while one or two corps may be left to engage the attention of Abdu! Keriin and to opérate at leisure against the foftrosses. At longth the Egyptian troops for the ! tan's army have sailed fiom Ai.exandria. They are under convoy of tour Tuikiah ironclads. GBKERAL POltliIGN NKWS. Focbtou, MacMahon's new Minister of tho Interior, has issued a circular to the Prefects of Franco, instrueüng them to revise all licenses forhawking and sellin newspapers, books and pamphlets, and only allow lit agents, offering Eroper guáranteos to social order, toretain their censes Sopesare enter tainedby the Qoyemnient of British India that the crisis of the familie is nearly passed. Tim cabio rueorda a shocking disaster at Bath, England. During the celebration of the Bath and West of England Society's oentenary, the Widicombo susjjension bridge feil, and abont 200 persons wore precipitated thirty feet into the river Avon. About twenty perished, and many others were serionaly injiired. A pisrATCH from St. Petersburg says the liuasian Ambassadors to Paris, TiOiulon and Vienna have been oharged to give the niosi ampie assurances to the neutral Governinents that lusBÍa does not aim at a politieal transforniatiou of the map of the Kast, nor deairo or intend to do anything thatwould provoke fresh European coinplications. . . .The Pope rcalized from the jubilee contributions of tho faithful 6,000.000 lire, or Boinething les tliau $1,200,000 in gold, besides a large assortmout of costly gema Tnrkey'8 attcmpt to borrow money abrond bas rignally failed. and it is now proposcd to lovy au Interna] loan. M' ]5onset Ddvebdiuke, President of tho Paria Municipal Coimcil, who was rcoently arrested, clmi'ged witli [nsolÜDg President MacUfthoili inciting civil "war and nss.isKinat.ion, bas been aentoncod toflfteen montlis' iinpri.soninent and to pay 2,000 francs line. Th f; fanüne coniinues in GUina, and sufforing ipcieascs. There is no possiblo inoanH of avciting doath ly starvatioii of lmiidrcds of thousands. Tbcro is famine also in Corea, and a püKtilencc Huppoed to be cansed by tho exposnre of tho multitude of dead bodie all over the country. A Pahis dispatcb. says "the Government haö resolved to prohibit the projected proliininary meeting of tho group of the Left before the rpassembling of the Chamberí." Adviccs f rom Paraguay, South America, say that President, (lili and his brother William wero nuirdered in the most barbarouK manner. The President was at home with bis family, when ho was surprised and killed by a band of assassius. . . A xüot, tlie partios to wbich were a Miad of men írom a Germán mau-of-war and some Freuch sailors, oocurred at Yokoliama, Japan, a fciv daya ago. The Fi'encUmen, being mercliant seanicn, got terribly worsttd, nine of theni being killed and two mortally woundod. A lïerlin li.spatel; says the will be InTesügated, but intiniat'es that the Frenoh wcre the aggressors. . . . A,new rcbollion is tbreatened in Cret, the Sultan having rejeded the demanda of the Christian populatiou of that island.