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Show 1 BRIEF TELEGRAMS. A $75,000 fire in Cincinnati on Friday, Fri-day, Hulson E. Bridge, a prominent citizen of St. Louis, died on Friday. The president has nominated Jas, M. Tyner, of Indiana, second assistant assist-ant podtmouter general. President MacMahon has authorized author-ized Eufet, president of the assembly assem-bly to form a new ministry. John A. Tracy, long a director of the Luke Shore and Chicago & Eock Island railroads, died at Erie, Pa., aged 78. The river at Knoxvillo, Tenn., was forty feet above low water mark on Thursday, and mills and bridges are being swept away. Gordon Claude, a naval cadet at Annapolis, has been expelled from the academy for refusing to fence with a colored cadet. The steamship Song Kong, from Loudon to Japan, foundered off the island of Abdel; six persons were drowned and eighteen are missing. Mr. Owen, director of the South Kensington museum, England, has been appointed commissioner to the Philadelphia centennial exhibition. The ways and means committee will report to the house a bill excluding exclud-ing all improperly authenticated attorneys from business before congress. con-gress. . It is intimated that the house will authorize the prosecution of two of the Pacific Mail subsidy witnesses who received large sums of money for perjury. An attorney of the Pacifio Mail company has gone to Minnesota to attach the property of Wo, 8. King, with a view to recover the amount received re-ceived by him in connection with the subsidy. |