The Nation

The Northwestern & Duluth smelting company, organized in Detroit six mouthï ago by Geo. W. Fletcher of tliat city and Boston and San Francisco capitalista, has made arrangements with the West Duluth land cömpany by which, in consldera,tion of 140 acres oí' land, worthabout Sl-50,000, for a site, it will begin atoncc the erection of a mammoth copper and silver reflning v orks at Duluth. The works wlU wln-n completed have cost SI, 500,000. David S. Fotherlngham, the expres messenger who was charged wlth compllcity in the rohbery of tlie Adama express company last Octobcr, and whose prosecution was thrown out of the criminal court in St. Louis, has filcil suit acrainst theexpress company, Supt. Damseland Detective Plnkerton for Sioo.ooo, &o,ooo of which is for false imprisonment and $40,000 eac.h for his inüictmcnt and prosecution. E. O. Oliver of lieardsley, 111.. jumped trota a west-bound train n the Burlington road at Iowa Point and was diowned in Missouri rlver. He was trlghtened by lwo confidence men who were working hlm. He rau to the platform, draggjng widi liim his 10-year-old boy. The conductor grabbed the boy in time to save hini. Mr. Oliver was temporarily insane. The ]{ev. Chas. Ward, the Knglewood, N. J. rector aecused of attempting to morder his wife, was found dead atthe home Of Judge Drew, his counsel, at Roekland Lajee, Sí. Y., the other afternoon. lt is supposed that Iib took. an overdose of chioral. Col. W. II. Bolton, exuperintendent of sec-ond-class matter in the Chicago postoiiice, who was convtctédof (lie embezzlement of about $25,000, has been senlenced by Judge Blodgettto fouryears' mprlson ment in the penitentiary. Commissioner Sparks of the General Land Office, lias recommended for rejection Beveral iarge private land claims in New Mexico aggregating in area nearly 175,000,000. lt is stated that France has concluded a defenslve alllance with certain otlier powíts, and that henceforth France will nut be alone in the event of aggression against her. 1 A statue and monument in memory of the late President Arthnr are to be erected in New York. Over $10,000 has airead y been subscribed to the fiind. W. J. Love, a young married man employed as collector by W. 8. Bogleof (,'liicago, is Onder arrest charged with the' embezzlement of Sll,000. The cigar makers' International union wants the governinent to loan it $7,000,000 for 15 years at 10 per cent. for co-operative purposes. Gov. Ilill of New York has slgned the bill makingSaturday a half holiday in that state. The new law becomes operative on the Sist insr. The treasury department has decided that material for the construction of the Sault bridge lamled on this side, is subject to iluty. The treasury department decides tliat Canadian contractors on coming to the United States must pay duty on tools and horses. D. E. Keith, eashier of the bank al Elkton, Dakota, is ander a.rcst on a charge of robbery. The bank is elosed. Tlie President and Mis. Cleveland cntertajnod the Hawallan qneeu and her party at dinner the other evening. Later advices from the shaken district say that no volcante eruptions have occurred in Southern Arizona. The Ilawaiian queen and her suite were received by President and Mis. Cleveland, the other afternoon. Great damage lias been caused in many towns and cities in Maine by the spring trésnete. The graves of the confedérate dead in Memphis, Tenn., were decorated on the 7th inst. Nearly all the bodies have been recovered frora the Nanaimominenear Victoria, B. C. The historian Baneroft gave a dinner to President and Mrs. Cleveland a few days ago. Forty-four railroads have petitioned to le released from the inter-state conimeree law. Kentuoky demócrata have noniinated Gen. S. B. Buckner for goverijoi. President Cleveland is planning a tiip to the Pacific coast in September. Mr. Blaine has postponed his trip to Europeuntil the middle of June. Prairie lires have oaused considerable damage in Dakota this spring. Judge Kaulkner has been electcd seua tor from West Virginia. The Mexican consulship at Ualtimorc kis heen discontinued. Elk Blver, Mimi., had an 885,000 fire ;he otlier day. Twelve thousand men in the Coke region are die. Disastrous lires are raging in Manitoba,