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Show EASTERN SPARKS. ' A careful estimate leaves little doubt of the passage of McCrecry's inter-state railway bill by the House. , A band of strikers on Friday attacked at-tacked a number of Italians hired by tho Erie managers and iapersed them. Xew York bank statement shows a decrease in everything but loans, and net decrease of legal tender reserves $121,237,750. Ou Friday the St. Louis mechanic shops of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad rail-road were burned. Loss, $100,000; fully insured. At Cincinnati, on Friday night, E. Bepler, banker and agent of European Euro-pean steamships, was shot and fatally wounded by an unknown party, while on his way to his residence in tho suburbs. At Pottsville, Fa., on Friday, by the breaking of a rope on a mine car, in a colliery, at Phoenix Park, Pa,, ten men were precipitated to the bottom bot-tom of the Bhaft and three were instantly in-stantly killed. Near Ccntreville, tit, Clair, III., on Friday, Fritz Stillzcuriter,eighty years old, his son, daughter-in-law and two small children were found murdered in their house. The throats of the tuo men were cut and the woman's and children's skulls crushed. No clue to murderers. The Treasury Department will acquiesce ac-quiesce in the decision of the U. S. Circuit Court at New York, that the wool act of March 2d, 'G7, was not signed by tho President, thcreforo is not a law until March 4th. This will involve the refunding of .duties on wool and woolen goods imported on March 2d and 3d,'(J7. |