Miscellaneous

Wasbington's wa'ttr supply needs improvement and increase, and the House has voted to that end, tue jovernment to pay one-half the cost. A loss of several hundred thouaand dollars whb cansed by the burninz of business place in Victriat guare, Montreal. Bailroad property nearPhiladelphia, valued at 100,630, was ruined by fire. President Haight of the Univereity Vincen nes, Ind., bas been iovited to resign, owing to imprnper relations bfttween himself and Miss Adama, another teacher. Washington will DVlte the Army of the Potomac to hold their next reunión in that city. BepreBentatives of knit goode in Washington are iobbying with zeal to secnre if possible the refundingoí duties paid before the reent decisión of the Snpreme Court. One hundred more men have gone to work intha Cleveland Rolling Mille. Bohemians who were stoned last night returned this morniDK. President Chisholm says he has letters every day f rom oíd employés not in the uuion who wiah to come back bat are alraid. He says he can get plenty of skilled hands from elsewhere, bnt prefers to let former employés take the places If they will renounce the union. Major Herriok has conferred with the commandant of the infantry and artillery coropaijies. Sincethe riotous demonstration more vigorous measures will be adoptad to nrevent violence. The estiniited losses by the Montreal lire in Victoria Square are 760,000; insured in the leadiDK Euglish and Canadian companies. High water reeulted in Indianapolis, owing tothe severe rains. In the mornlng a larg? number of peopie were standing on a plat form spanning Rogue'a Bun just east of the Uuion depot, looking at the flood when the structure snddenly gave way and the entire numbar were precipitated into the swlft current,' fifteon feet below. At his point there is a bridge at Meridan street, and the street, and the streain runs under the union depot, emerging on the south eide througb. stone culverts. Gyrus BartleU, a workman, immediately jumped into the flood and reecued two gttls, and at least fifteen others were saved before being swept under the bridge. Others were swept by and under the culveits to South street. Tea Uves are suppcsel to hava been lost. The four Biookfield bank robbers have plead guilty and were each sentenced to 25 yeare' imprisonment. Joha Nelson, a prominent dry goods merchant, hls wif e, son, and Miss Bradley of Springfi-ld, O., were boating, when they came in contact with the cable ot a ferry boat. All were thrown into the water and both the ladies were drowned. Mrs. Nelsoa's body was recovered. Chang Teung Liang, an attaché ol the neae Logatioa, says the Chinese government will return 50 studente to the A.merican colleees, baving discovered the removal was a mistake. ihe f resident approves of the dipmissal of Lieut Flipper from military service. Mills in Pittsburg will atternpt to run witb nop uniou men. The New Haven Car Trimtng Co. 's building burned at f25,000 loss. At WorceBter, Mass., a üre in the Badley Car works did f80,000 damile- . ... . Aa accident on the iClarksburg & western B. fi. iDJured seriouBly 17 persons, some fatally. Among that number were Ure. G. H. Moffatt, wife of ex-Speaker Moffatt. It is supposed a turned rail caused the accident, just as the train was entering the Walton (W. Va.) trestle. A passenger coach landed bottom up, crushing ia the top. A train on the N. Y. Central near Brockport, ruDning at 30 miles per hour, jumped the track. The engiueer and firemen were killed Passengere somewbat bruised and track blockaded. Tbere was no session of the U. 8. Senate Saturday. Eight minere ware badly burned by gas explosiona at Wilkesbarre, Pa. MORE CICLONES. Eariy Saturday morDiDg a tornado passed over St. Louis, blowiug down chimneye, unronfiag bouses, and floodingstreetsandcellars. Ligbt buildings were demolished, and women and cbildren waded through mud and watr for hcurs seeking places of shelter. ■ Tbe dai knes ajued to the terrors of tbe scène. At Kansas Cuy two mea were killed by falling buildingB. At Wyandotte, across the Kansas river, DuniüK'B opers house was unroofed. At Leavenwortb the storm was terrible. Five ladirs v:ere killed in one house, and a great amount of damage done. A remarkable circamstance ia the wide spread devastation. In Ainsterdarr, N. Y., the cyclone struck the city in the afternoon. It was 690 feei wide, and did tremendous executien among buildings of lighter construction in the city as well as in the vicinity. At a fire in Benjick'a cotton waste raill In E-ston Highlande.the walls suddenly feil. owi jg to the weight of water absorbed by the cottoD, aad 19 firemen were buricd in the debris. About half of the number were seriously, if not fatally hurk Schofield's lumber and milis at W-uiseon, Wis., were visited on Saturday by a $75,000 tre The town of Willis, Texas, has been aearly destroyed by fire; loss f75,000. Fire in a Cambridge, Mass., express companj's atables burned to death two hostlers sleeping in n hay loft, 13 horses, and seTeral wxgons and harnees. E. O. Ingersoll, Judge Christiancy's principal attorney has lost hls reason. For some days he has seemed absent-minded, but his friends hoped reet would restore health. A youth at Olmstead Falls, Ohio, was shooting at a mark he could not bit, but he accideutally inflicted a fatal woand upon a man named Barren Kyle who was passing by. Bunker Hill day was celebrated on the 17th in Boston with p-ocessions, speeches and a grand concert at Music Hall with a chorus of 1,000 voices.