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The funeral ol the lato Walker Blaine took place in Washington on tho 18th at the Churoh of tho Covenant A large numbor of frlepds of the family, the President and hls Cabinet, mcmbers of tho Diplomatic corps and public officials woro present. J., woro burncd. Mus. Ltdia üacox diod on the lSth at Sudbury, Mass., agcd 102 years. The exchanges attholeading clearing honses in tho United States during the week ended on tho lSth aggregate d $1,149,890,08, against 8189,907,042 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1889 the increase amounted to 1.8. Fivk collieries at Shamokin, Pa., shut down on the lSth indefinitely, throwing twenty thousand men and boys out of work. John Kuxzk, tlio Cronin murderconvict to whom Judgo McConnell granted a new trial, was veleased on the 18th ia 85,000 bonds. Prisck Amadeo, Duke of Aosta, brother of the King and formerly King of Spain, died at Turin on tho 18th, aged 45 years. A bii.t, was introduced in tho Canadian Parliamont on the lSth prohibiting the importaUon and imniigration of foreigners and alions under contract or agroement to perforin labor in Canada. Joiix RrsKix, tho great leader in English critical literature, was on tlie 18th declared to be hopelessly insane. Genehai.M. G. Vai.lejo, one of the most conspicuons figures in the history of California, died at his homo in Sonomo on the 18th, aged 81 years. Wild hogs entored tho cabin of a farmer on the 18th in the Chickasaw Nation, near Arbuckle, and devoured a little child which was alone in the house. A teukific gale, accompanied by thundor and lightning, prevailed on the 19th on tlie Irish soa, and several persons were killod by lightning and a number were Urowned. Pbajtk Mason and Theodore Wiokey of Concordia, Kan., attempted to roscue a horae that liad fallón into tho river on the 18tli and all wevo drowned. Oklow W. Chai'man, Solicitor-General of tho Departmentof Justice at Washington, diod on tho löth, aged 66 years. Therk was no session of the United States Sonate on the 18th. In the House bilis were introduced locating tho World's Fair at St. Louis, and in relation to the naturalization of aliens. The Oklahoma town-site bill was further discussed.