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Miles City, Montana, bad a $30.000 fire on the 2 1. The warm weather is Improvlng Gen., Qrknt's condition. Kingston, Out., Las deieated the Scottliquoi ! act by 45 votes, May Slat ts the date Üxctl for the closlng ol '■ the Èïew Orleans eipositlon. Pouudmaker, the Indian eilief, surrendered apon hearing of Riel's capture. A diseovtry of glariug pension frauds in the office of Major Adreou of Baltimorc is reported. The issue of standard silver dollars froin the miuts during the week wliieli euded Mav 3i I was taea 477. ■ ; Indiaas in Arizona are ou the war path. A i number of persons have been killed, and propertj destroyed. John Brightsays Eiigland will ïiot return te ' the policy of protaction till United States returns to slavory, Za h. Montgoiuery of California has been ap polnted a sistant at'orney genera', for the in. terior de artmeut. The Grand Arm.' has taken tip the case ol the thive ex Union soldiers recently diseharged trom the treasury watch. A terrible eyeloue struck Winnipeg; on the 521, blowing down building?, unrootlug othera and d'jinsf much damage. J. R. Oifi-ood & Co., publishers, Boston, havefalled. Ll'abilitlea are gl7u,tü.), wlth 100,000 as avaiiable assets. Wm. M. Alger tas sued the Grand llapids strect railway lor $10,000 damages, for injuries recelved while getting on a c&r. Hon. Jas. C. Pope, ex-minister of marine and lisheries of Canada, died recently at Sumrnerside, Prfnce Edward Island. The Illinois state tenate has p86d the UiU lieenslug teK'graph eomitaniei and ('om]elling them t: make detailcd reports aimually. Postmaster General Yilas iutends to forbiil i thatcheap novela sent througli the mails dallj bc designated as seeond-elass mail matter, Secretary FivriighuyscH's death was due to the aoeonite wbieh in some unaecountable waj was bottled wlth the mim ral water he used. Alexander Ilibbard. the young Milwfiukeesi who swallowtd a siiver dollar some time ago, 1 is in gnat agony as the result of his adventure. The American bank note rooipalij of Neiv York has been awarded the coutrnct for furnishing postuge stamps for the next foui years.' At a funeral in Plttsbur a porcli gave wuy, precipltatlng sixty-tive persons uto f lie cellar. Two were iniured, probably fatally, imü otnnri were serloUsly bruised. The American Bell telephone companv lias ealled a coníerencfi of uompunk's operacins ander lts Ucenses to meet lu {otou, Jime 8 for ;l ove tttivs' BGssIon. Henry and Liz.ic Stakc, coloro), aro lindel arrest in Nottoway eounty, Va., for liaving murdered their son bv stunniu hini vitl fl blow, and bnrying hini alive. It appears that Uutts, a ouo-HrincU soldier ciflployd at the tri-astirv. was dlschareil on rcommendation of Sauator CuckreH oí Mis souri ou a false statement f friuts. Charles Angelí, the secretan1 ol the Pullman car company, who went t" the .lolict, 111.. pcnltentiarr, In 1878, for 10 yeara tor nu $::iö.OOC embezzlement. will ba release ! May 38. The faci that the treasury has gained $3,0iXl, 000 m silvcr and lost n arfy aa uueli in gold Is thought to indícate o ehange in niethod;. ol disbursementB, whleh act agalnst s-ilver. Ira Jenkins, the Ameritan engiueer ivlic was lmprisoned 11 montha at San Juan de' Rio, Mexico, without trial, has txten releasec and wlll lay the facts before the state department. Wllllam C. Whithead of K!. omington, Ind., Itas obtaini'd n $17.rOJ judffment at;ainst th( Indiana, Bloominicn t Western load for personal (lámales whieh will eventually cause hls death. Prof. Odium jumped trom the üronklvn bridge into Ihe river below, a distante of l'!5 teet. He}ivedbut a few momenls. Odium bad acquire ! some relrlirity hj jumping from great helghts. Mrs. Loi.i told her frieiuls in Washington (bat ihe waa the hanpjeat womar. i the country, and hlit wished slie could 'luiki: liand.irith each member of the H'gislature wbo voted for her husliand. James Wav. t !u' 12 year oíd son ol Jame; V:i, i mitlwr'glH, rus d;oiH'd while bathing in Piaster Cresk, near Grand Rapids, iinin cent aft'ji uoon Ho was with a iimiibur ol smaller boys and w;is taken with erainps in three fect of water, llis companloni wcreeoj Boared thal they ma.lr (itteinpt o lescitu hini except by veach'in fitickg to him, althonffh they could casilj bave waded to lam. Hii body was rwovcred forty-five minutes later bj sorne uu-u wuu were c-a'lled, bat lifuwagextiuct. i