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Show C0XDEXSED TELEGRAMS. Vice-President Wilson is still improving. im-proving. Bank of England rate of discount 3 per cent. "Brick" Pomeroy has suspended; loss, $1-10.000; no assets. Alabama has ratified her new constitution con-stitution by 50,000 or 60,000. Several parties at Evansville, Ind., have been arrested for whisky frauds. On Wednesday night a house at Craigvale, Out., was burned and four children perished. The-Union League of America was in session at the St. Nicholas hotel, N. Y., on Wednesday. The city hall at Louisville was damaged by firo on Thursday, to the extent of $35,000; fully insured. The propeller Mohawk was burned at Buffalo on Thursday afternoon; cause unknown. Value, $25,000. Senor Ruhi, royal commissioner, has arrived at Havana. Many good results are expected from his presence. A. C. Buell, indicted some time since tor a libel on benator Chandler, has given bail for his appearance in Washington. The Prussian government is about instituting proceedings to depose the archbishop of Cologne and the bishop of Trivas. The suspension is announced of tho wholesale provision house of Asa Jacobs & Co., New York. It is a Tory old concern. The conspiracy to seize the arsenal and burn Raygoon has been discovered dis-covered and a groat many Burmeso have been arrested. The mixing mill of the Oriental powder company at South Windham, Me., exploded on Thursday morning; but no one was injured. The second anual convention of tho Woman's temperance union is in session at Cincinnati. The progress of tho work in the various states was reviewed. Bishop Haven presided at the American Woman Suffrage association associa-tion in New York Wednesday night, and addresses were made by Autio-nette Autio-nette Brown Blackwell, .Lucy Stone and- Charles Bradlaugh. The steamship Illinois, which sailed for Europe from New York on Thursday, Thurs-day, has among its cargo thirty dressed beeves, 150 dressed sheep, and a large quantity of poultry and oysters, which it is proposed to land in good order by the means of refrigerators. re-frigerators. The Mexican senate has elected Romero Ribio president, and Senor Saved ra vice-president, and the lower house has elected Vidal Cas-taneda Cas-taneda president, and Sebastian Camacho vice-president. A compulsory compul-sory education bill has been introduced intro-duced in congress. |