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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. Bristow wilt probably be appointed to a foreign mission. The prtsident says ho will stick to bis civil service policy. Three men killed at Hustonville, Ky., by a boiler explosion. Mr. Edwin Adams passed an uucom-fortable uucom-fortable niyht Wednesday. It is said the English mission has been oflered to Wayne UcVeagh of Pennsylvania. A counterfeit $50 note of the Central Cen-tral national bank of New York baa been discovered. The Uuiled Stales railway mail service ser-vice mutual benefit association is in session at Cincinnati. Rosevelt, mentioned iu connection with the New York coilectorship, is an importer and ineligible. Thorpe has been convicted of murder mur-der of Howard at Auburn N. Y., a short time ago; both were convicts. The contest for the speakership is narrowed down to Randall and Goode, with chances in favor of the former. Three Boston women were fatally injured Wednesday evening at the Btreet crossing of the Old Colony railroad. rail-road. The village of Durham, Pa., has been flooded by the fall of an aqueduct aque-duct which carried a canal over the river; loss $30,000. The New York Times congratulates the republicans that Sherman's successor suc-cessor in the United States Benate will not be Stanley Matthews. General Sherman Bays there has been a greater apathy iu Ohio among tbe republicans than ever before witnessed wit-nessed in bis long experience. The total vote polled in Iowa will reach about 2)0.000, of which Gear (rep.) has 130,000; Irish (dem.) 80,-000; 80,-000; Stubbs (greenbacker) 35,000; Jessup Iprobib.) 6,000. Thus far the receipts from the sale of tickets for Edwin Adams' benefit amounts to $7,000. It is thought he amount relized by the different benefits to occur will be i'2Q,-000. i'2Q,-000. Judi?e Daniels of New York in the case ol the Quicksilver mining company com-pany decided that a corporation whose charter does not give it any right to issue preferential shares cannot do it without the consent of every stockholder. stock-holder. It has been discovered that the war department at Washington rents twenty five buildings in addition to the department buildirjga, none of which are fire-proof, and that all the valuable valu-able records of the department and of all our wars are exposed to the constant con-stant danger of destruction. The attention of congress will bo directed to these startling facts. |