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Show LIATJEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. P.-ned rr-ially for the ?alt Lvn Hiiiu fcy Wettera Union Teiegrph. THE WAR Spain Demands an Explanation Explan-ation from France. Another SkirniUh The French Worsted. TeedIe Gnnsvs. Chasssepots Painful Accident in Chicago. Chi-cago. The Situation in North Carolina. tScc, &c, &.C. GENERAL. Ten lble Accident. Chic3Ero, 31. A singular and terrible terri-ble accident occurred here on Friday. A young pan went to a drug store 1'or some nitric acid and some quicksilver. The druggist carelessly or ignorantly put bo'h iu one bottle. The young man got only half across the street when the mixture exploded, destroying his eyes entirely and terribly lacerating his face. A man was killed yesterday by an explosion of a gasometer in a soda wa-tjr wa-tjr factory. Crime In Xttv York. New York, Aug. 1'. The worst cases of murder and stabbing on Sunday's long list are those of Patrick Iooley, shot twice by his son fo." reprimanding him for keeping bad company and late hours, and Joseph Campbell, called into a basement on Washington street and stabbed eighteen times by Pat Hughes and wife. Elijuh Jones, coachman, shot by the Fishkili national na-tional bank robber, died on Thursday night. No further developments concerning con-cerning the murder. Washington Xeivs. Chicago, 1. Washington specials state that ad itional troops have been sent to North Carolina. , At present Gov. Ilolden has ten companies of regulars at his disposal. Before any troops were sent to the State, Ilolden came to Washington and had a long conference with the President and Secretary uf War, and explained the situation. Both the President and Secretary regarded it necessary that troops should be immediately sent. Troops have been as rapi-jly distributed distri-buted as possible; and it is now hoped the election w 11 pass quietly. The French minister has communicated communi-cated to the Suite Department the order or decree of his government, to the effect that no military officers of foreign powers will be allowed to accompany ac-company the French army on its campaigns. cam-paigns. It is thought that a similar order will be issued by the Prussian government. The construction given by Attorney-General Attorney-General Akerman to the new law, requiring re-quiring unexpended balances to be turned into the treasury, is creating even more trouble than was at first feared. This construction has rapidly given it a much wider application than its framers contemplated. |