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Show LIGHTXOGr FLASHES, I Flainfield, X, J. has burned her planing mill. Loss 830,000. Gen. Scalola has taken command of the Spanish army of the north. The German evacuation of Verdun, France, was to bo completed last evening. The U. S. ship S"pi'!'J l';w arrived at London from Trieste. All on bcard arc well. A proposition has been made, to Professor Wii,e, to construct a $12,- 000 silk balloon for an ascension next summer. The old one cannot be rc- paired. j A Madrid telegram s)y3 the general gen-eral situation is improving. Govern . ment exnects to put 3t,0)0 effective I nun in the field. The Italian? of New York purpose 'celebrating the. Lth of October, the ' anniversary of the discovery of Amer- ica hy Columbus. The Shah has dismissed his grand ; vizier for official misconduct. He ' wid icmodel ids e.ihine-t on the basis of official responsibility. 1 Sixty-five miles of the Northern rat-i fie railroad in Washington Terri-. Terri-. lory, has been accepted by President , Grant not as a present, though, i In C.dalouia. Spain, thousands of families are reductd to indigence. The C.irli-ts are reported without cavalry, I and they keep to the mountains. It is reported in London that "Earl r Granville has demanded the release of the officers and crew of the yacht 1 Deerhound captured by the Havana - government. Tlie Maryland Republican State convention met at Frederick, Saturday, Satur-day, made nominations for comptroller comptrol-ler and clerk of court of appeals, and adjourned sine die. The Secretary of the Interior has just decided a twenty year suit in ' favor of LandsdaJe who claimed . under the homestead act 40.000 acres of land, a town site in Areola County, California. The New York Bank statement for the week shows a decrease in loans of $3,$3S,000 ; in specie reserve of $074,700 ; legal tenders, $'.'01,70u ; deposits, $4,2000 ; and an increase in circulation of $175,000. The Philadelphia JJcmld balloon will make an ascension about the middle of October. This balloon is on the Montgolfiere plan, and is inflated in-flated by a chemical apparatus which is carried with it. It measures SO bv 90 feet. . ' The Canadian investigation has adjourned ad-journed until Monday. Mr. Siaines testified on Saturday that $i;d,7o0 was j tiie exact sum subseribid to assist in the election of Sir George Cartier. Sir I John McDonald denit'd any ur.dcr- standing of government in regard to ! supplying funds for election purposes. 1 Governor Henry I). Cooke, of the ; District of Columbia, has resigned. ! nnd has, been succeed d by A. B. 1 Shepherd. Governor Cooke goeu to j Europe. Shepherd's appointment is j hailed with joy by the people of the ! District. He has been very successful success-ful as head of the board of public ! works. General Me Cook, secretary ofl Dakota, and P. R. Wintermute, a ' broker of Yankton. had an altercation in a billard room, Friday night, when the latter shot McCook in the breast. The parties then clinched, when three more shots were fired at Winter-mute, Winter-mute, one slightly wounding a, bystander, by-stander, McCook was fatally wounded woun-ded and died Saturday morning at 7 o'clock. Wintermute is under arrest. McCook was 39 years of age and the youngest of the McCook family. Wintermute was a bitter enemy and a political rival. |