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Show GENERAL. Flrt. Waterbury. Conn., 10. A fire broke out in the large and handsome hieh school budding of this ouy, about 10:30 to night. The building was destroyed de-stroyed at midnight. The fire is still raging fiercely, and threatens to destroy des-troy that portion of the ci'y. The loss to the ci:y. from the destructio of the school, is about 73,000. Making Nctvi Washington, 16. A ridiculous story is telegraphed here from Europe, that President Grant had written an autograph auto-graph letter to the Emperor Alexander, Alexan-der, tendering him the aid of a fleet of war vessels in case of war. It is a pure fiction. It is was not deemed worthy of contradiction until it had been repeated here. It is a story out ol whole cloih. Tlie Enropean Complications. Private telegrams received here from Europe, regarding the last phase ol the eastein question and the new complications com-plications on the Luxembourg difficulty, give rise to a very uneasy feeling. It is known that the-e matters have beer .linrnssed reeeutlv in official iiuarter; with unusual waimth. and further de-elopments de-elopments are anxiously awaited. Commissioner llson. Itis gcre-ally admitted that Commissioner Commis-sioner Wilson, of the laud office, will be superceded, but tint no ch ange will he made unt l shortly b f re ihe dissolution disso-lution of the present Congress, and i hat the del.iv is occ iMoued by the de-ire of the Pie-ident to appoint some un mber of the present Cngre-e who is not ehcted to the next Conficss. Horse Tl.lcf Shot. San Franci-co, 10. C " . ,V Bai ley, of Ei Dora lo e ea .. , orday -hot a horse thief whoi:. - ' t.- ' ying to arrest at a Spanish c-.p, u.jitaily 1 woundiug him. omlunttons. Washington, lo. Among the nom-i0Wfortiil? nom-i0Wfortiil? 'M rifano? Fatal Uootlug. San Francisco, 10 Chares K. Fisher, business manager of the Sacramento Sac-ramento D'lih R -porter, and State printing expert, was shot dead in his own house last night by Charles De'i, a young man paying attention to Fisher's Fish-er's daughter, who had just been ordered or-dered to leave the house. Fisher struck Dell several blows over the head with a cane before the fatal shot was fired. At Colusa, California, yesterday, Dud Shephardson, a farmer and Len Stevens, an employe, had a fight, Ste-veus Ste-veus attacking with a pitchtbrk, and Shephardon repeliinu with a revolver, b'our show were fired ; two went throueh Stevens' lungs and the other |
