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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Servia now appoars to bo pacific." Ex-GovornorStnithof Kliode Itlaud U dead. Spain will Bend troops to the Philippine Phil-ippine islands. A $200,000 boot factory burned at Hopkintou, Mass. tin nd ay waa a constitutional holiday holi-day at Rio Janeiro. The new St- LouU directory estimates esti-mates the population at 4'JS,iS2. Some of the Montenegrin leaders refuse to quit the insurgent lanks. Saturday's storm prevailed over New England, doing immense dam age. Queen Victor and Princess Beatrice Bea-trice are making a trip to Cherbourg. Cher-bourg. A Chinese iron-clad juat launched has been named 2'crrer to Western Nations. A flood in the Merrimack river, New Hampshire, destroyed much property. There were 53o deaths from yellow fever at Rio Janeiro during the last fifteen days. The first locomotive in China made a trial trip of one mile on a tramway near Shanghai. The present Cuban sugar crop will comprise alvmt $100,000 boxea, valued val-ued at f30,000,0u0. The entire Chinese contributions to the Philadelphia Centennial are estimated esti-mated at $100,000. At Bumville, Ct., the loaa by the flood was over $200,000. Seven lives were lost in various parts. Marsh's testimony before the judiciary ju-diciary committee is said to be conclusive con-clusive ol Belknap's guilt. I ThoniM W. Piper, the Boston sexton sex-ton who murdered Mabel Young, has been sentenced to be hanged. A Japanese company propose to establiah a line of steamers between Yokohama and San Francisco. Russians are making bold advances into Chiueae territory, having estab liahed a port on the Amoor river. At Big Sandy Creek, Ills., on Sunday Sun-day Mrs. Hogan and three children were drowned in crossing a bridge. The kingdom of Corea has opened their porta for trade, and the entire kingdom is opened to the Japanese. Teller Rogers of the Fulton bank, Brooklyn, has absconded to Knox-ville. Knox-ville. His frauo amounts to $50,000. The Chinese propose opening to foreign trail e Wen cho, a seaport, and Wuhua and Tehong, interior towns. At the Philadelphia Jewish convention con-vention at Kesber Shel, B. H. Selig-mon Selig-mon of Chicago waa appointed president. presi-dent. A large edifice ib completed in the public park at reddo, Japan, for a permanent industrial exhibition and museum. After April 1st postage between Japan and the United States will be fire cents for letters and two cents for newspapers. America, Russia and England support Germany in her claim upon China for the piratical attack upon the ship Anna. The Bteamship Great Britain was wrecked on the Long Island coast Saturday, and it will probably be a total wreck. All hands saved. The new Italiun minittry propose a scheme ol elective and administrative administra-tive reform, compulsory education and the abolition of paper money. A destructive fire occurred on 10th and 11th Btrects, Philadelphia, on Saturday night. Two firemen were dangerously injured by a lolling wall. The Western Iron association of Pittsburgh, Pa., have sent a protest to Representative Kellcy against the disturbance of tho present tariff on iron. A largo number of the Lawrence (Mass.) mills are stopped on account of the floods, and much damage has been done. Higher water ia expected. ex-pected. The senate committee on Pacific railroads on Monday considered the Texas Pacific railroad and other schemes and postponed further action for two weeks. The great fall in silver creates alarm in China. In Japan silver Mexican dollars are two per cent, below be-low Japan paper money and 9 per cent, below gold. j A gold medal valued at $-00 liu honij prepared by ex-inemliera of the Nuw York 7th regiment at San Fran-ciaco Fran-ciaco for preaenlaliou to that regiment regi-ment an a prize for marksmanship. KyadicVfl famous stallion "Hara-blrUtiiiiui" "Hara-blrUtiiiiui" died at Cheater, N. Y., on Siuic'iiy niht, and alxiut 28 yearn. Ho was tha Hire ol the moat noted and valuable trotting stock in the country. A New Hampshire paper boast that ono of its cilizoiiM, Sargent, paid Belknap $12, 000 for the contract for lurni&lung heating apparatus for tho government buildings al Fort Leavenworth. Leaven-worth. The citizens of Han Francisco will hold un anli-ChiucMo iniwi convention (Saturday evening next,. Tho Blato graugo will participate in the movement. move-ment. Governor Irwin will bo invited in-vited to prenide. Charlea H. Burth, a transportation clerk of tho quartermaMter's department, depart-ment, arrested for defrauding the government of $'50,000 in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, moat of which he restored, haa escaped Irom custody. At Yokohama March 1st, a boy 15 years old, who was carrying $3,000 to a bank, was decoyed into the house of his former master and strangled. The body waa found packed in a box of rice, and tho money concealed in tlno murdcrcr'a houso. The steamship llevelins, with the emperor and empress of Brazil on iMiard, whilo leaving the harbor of Itio Janeiro for thia country on Sun-' day, came in collision with a IraDS- j port vestal, but waa uninjured and proceeded on her voyage. Memphis ia greatly alarmed, the Mississippi river being only nine inches bylow the danger line, and rapidly rising. At Devil's Klbow, fjrty miles above the city, the river has cut through a neck of land, shortening tho passage fifteen or twenty miles. Tho American whaler Young lh:cnx, rescued from one of the CroHclte group of rocks in the South Pacific o -can several of the crew of the wrecked emigrant ship Strath-more, Strath-more, from London for New Orleans. Foity-four of the crew were drowned, and of those who were upon the rock, four perished from exposure. The re-t were upon the rocks for six months and lived on sea birds and |