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Show LATEST NEWS I BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. : Kuj .rtcl I., -:ir,;iy fr :;L: I.:: HifcvLii tv ' j Uuiisual Mortality in ZVew j I York. Painful Accident at a 4th ol" July Celebration. Massacre of Christians in China. i War Prospects in France. St. Louis on the Social Evil Foreign JVews. j &.C., &C. ! GENERAL. New York Advices. New Yoik, 0. It appears by the report of the iegiter of vital statistics Jo the board of health, that the death rate in this city for the last week was higher than that of any corresponding week for the pa-t 15 years, j here were 3cS deaths from i-unstroke or other di rect effect of beat. A genuine case of Asiatic cholera, which resulted f ttally, occurred in the bth waid. But one case of small pox is reported A platiorm crowded with children of the Itoman Catholic presbjtety, at We tchester, New Yoik, gave way on the evening of the 4tb of July, as the children were witusMng a discharge of fin works, and precipitated the mass of human beings to the ground. Over forty children and several adults were severely and some fatally wounded. Anions; the bitter are a monk and two christian brotners. Supreme Court of Illinois. ChieaiiO, 6. The Timrs says the new supreme c U"t of Illinois will be composed as follows: Fi st district. Judge Sidney Bre. se; second. Anthony TlnTiitn ; third. J. M So itt ; fourth. P H. Walker; filth, C. B. L.'wience; sixth, Benjamin Sheldon ; Seventh. A. M. McAllister. 0 these judges, B'eese, Walker and La'- rence compose the present court. Four of the seven judges are democtats. Licensing Bawdy Houses. St. Louis, 6 The city council last night pas.-ed an ordinance 'or the reg u atinn of bawdy houses, baed upon and cont lining many provisions nf the French, B .lgium and other Eu. opean laws on the subject |
