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Show NEWS SL'MMAIIY. The 'i hint. Fifth ami Sixth army corps have been ti is or, t in tied. Major A. Ouk.y Hit!!, a noted politician politi-cian of the Tweed rcgiui-, is (h ad. Companies Iv, L and M of tin- Second voliint.e'-r en;iii-ers. now at Honolulu, will I,.; the (jarrlvm l.-ft th.-re. The Liis-dan imp-ri:tl yacht '"Pule Star," having on board the Czar of Russia, has arrived at Cupenhagt-n. j The sultan has yielded to the. de-' de-' mantis of tint powers, and the Turkish troops will he withdrawn from Crete. The strike situation in Paris is improving. im-proving. Some of the strikers arc r turning to work at the exposition grounds and other plaees. Commodore Watson was slightly injured in-jured in a railroad wreck near Colfax, Cal., while en route to his command of the Mare Island naval station. In a fire at Hankow, China, 1,000 lives were lost, and tine square mile of the city was destroyed, including1 the government buildings and temple. Thirty persons were killed and eaten at a barbaie feast given by the Head Hunters, a canihal faction of Kendova, Australia, in honor of their victory. William Ogilvie, Yukon, administrator, administra-tor, has been appointed by the Canadian Cana-dian government to inquire into and report upon the alleged scandals among govern ment ollicials at Dawson. Joseph Simon of Portland lias been elected by the Republicans to the United States senate, to (ill the vacancy vacan-cy which has existed since- March. 4, 18'.i7. If. If. Lowry, president of the American Amer-ican university in China, denies the truth of all the recent stories as to the suicide or assassination of the Emperor. Em-peror. General Grant's brigade, consisting of the Fourth Ohio and the Third Illinois Illi-nois regiments, has been ordered to sail for home from Puerto Rico about October 16. .Toseph Murray, United States agent in charge of the Pribyloff islands, is dead at Fort Collins, Colo. Mr. Murray Mur-ray was noted in the west as a campaign cam-paign speaker. Bishop Whipple of Minnesota, who is in Washington in attendance upon the Episcopal council, places the blame of the Indian uprising at Bear island upon whisky. The Chinese foreign oflice has protested pro-tested against the excessive Russian escort, pointing out that it is twice the strength of the detachments of the other powers. Tho English troops who have returned re-turned from Khartoum are dying like flies from enteric disorders, supposed to be due to canned beef and indulgence indul-gence in cheap spirits. Chen Taochen, governor of the province prov-ince of Hu Nan, who is the most enlightened en-lightened governor in China, and has been active in introducing improvements, improve-ments, has just been cashiered. The steamer Reina de Los Angels has arrived at Manzanillo, Cuba, with Colonel Henry Ray and 400 United States troops, and the United States flag now floats over one more Cuban city. Lieutenant Morgan, Twenty-second Kansas, charged with participating in the desecration of Confederate graves at Manassas last August, has beenac-quited beenac-quited by a court martial and restored to service. United States secret service officers have discovered that large numbers of counterfeit S100 silver certificates have been produced in San Francisco. The operators are reported to be under police surveillance. The depot quartermaster at Philadelphia Phila-delphia has been authorized to purchase pur-chase 400,000 yards of kersey, 150:000 yards of flannel, 50,000 yards of cloth, 2,000 Sibley stoves and 12,000 joints of Sibley stove pipe. F. Mallen. an eighteen-year-old boy who enlisted in the First Washington volunteers without permisson of his parents, has been discharged on habeas corpus by United States District Judge nawley in San Francisco. Major C. T. Doxey's S300.000 holdings hold-ings in the American Plate Glass company, com-pany, the great anti-trust concern, have been transferred to the Pittsburg parties, who had acquired the other 5700,000 of the capital stock. The new owners have planned additions to the Alexandria plant which will make it the largest of its kind in the world. Queen Victoria, it is reported, has invited Emperor Nicholas to Balmoral after the funeral of Queen Louis of Denmark, with a view of a personal discussion of the far Eastern situation, but it is said the Czar is not likely to aoeept. J. J. Kunkie, a wealthy merchant tailor of Lawrence, Kans. . has been arrested, charged with poisoning his wife and daughter, both of whom have died. Before his wife died she declared her husband had poisoned her and her daughter. The president has issued an executive execu-tive order amending the Cuban tariff so as to admit into all ports ia the possession of the United States, duty free, oxen for draugb t purposes, boviue aiii-iia:..- for breeding purposes tuu immediate im-mediate food supply. It is probable that Elder Piatt D. Lyman, one of the presidency of the San Juan Stake, will succeed Elder Rulon liVells as president of the European Euro-pean mission. The official report of the Church institutions in-stitutions of learning for the 'academic year ending June 30, 19$, gives three colleges. 11 academies, and two semen-aries. semen-aries. of which nine are in Ctah, four in Idaho, and three in Chihuahua, Mexico. These schools are conducted by IIS teachers in S54 classes, and were attended by 3S63 students, |