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Show MOBNIXO TELEGRAMS CONDENSED . A semi-panic prevails on the Bourse and there are rumors of failures. Th pending fear is that the cashing ol cheeks in gold will become obligatory, Gold is at 200. Engudine valley, Germany, is covered cov-ered with snow to a depth of twelve inches, necessitating the use of sledges. The temperature is two degrees below freezing point. Stanley has not recovered from his indisposition. He is confined to his bed at Melchel Court. He has been overi whelmed with notes and telegrams of congratulations on his marriage. . Full census returns from western Washington show the population to be' 225,000. The estimated population of eastern Washington is 125,000, rnakin the total population of the State 350,0001 The Russian ambassador has ex4 pressed to the grand vizier, Russian re-1 gietui me nuis in Jiiisziouu. xie iearein the excitement in Armenia might entail trouble, both in Russia and Turkey. ' Sheriff Whitmore passed through Rock Springs. Wyo., en route for 'irecn River with the tramp who pushed Brakeman Pat Taggert off the train near Salt Wells, thereby causing hit death. He was captured near Black Buttes. A delegation of citizons from Bingham Bing-ham county, Idaho, met Hon. F. T. Dubois Du-bois at Green river, Wyo., and escorted him to the capital of the new state in a special car. The doligation was headed by W..H. Savidge and Colonel G. A. Hannaford of Pocatello. Patrick Meehan, 22 years old, an inmate in-mate of the insane department of the Philadelphia hospital awakened yesterday yester-day from a sleep of four months, recognized recog-nized those about . him, and asked for tho attendant who was with him when he sank into his slumber. He came from Ireland a few years ago. The report of the Irish Local Government Govern-ment has been submitted to tho Com- mitteo on Colonization in the Houso of Commons, and Bhows that tho total emigration from Ireland since 1851 has been 8,270.104 persons, which is equiva- , lent to 5!) per cent of the whole popula- J tion.- The report approves the scheme J of state aided emigration by families as preferable to other methods. 1 Perry Comstock, a wealthy farmer aged 00, at Owasso, Mich., shot ant'J killed his wife aud then suicided, aftcl an ineffectual attempt to kill his 20-ycar- old adopted son. The murdered woman 1 was his secoud wife and only about 23 vears of ace. The counle havo latnlv quarreled constantly, sorr.o say over property matters; others that Comstock was jealous of his adopted son. They had oue child. The signal service reports show Snu- J day to have been an unusually hot day 1 east of the Rocky mountains, except in J New England, the lako region, and 1 from Maryland northward to New York. Of 143 stations, uo less than 108 report a maximum temperature of eighty degrees or more; forty-six sta- , tions a maximum of ninety degrees or J over; while twelve report a maximum ' temperature of 100 degrees or over. About two years ago tho Buffalo mare Belie Hamlin beat the world by trotting trot-ting half a milo over the Buffalo track in 1:02, a 2:044; gait, and Saturday sho ! trotted an eighth in 14 seconds, a 1:58 gait, though no horse could carry that clip further than an eighth. She was J driven by W. J. Andrews, who gave her I head and allowed her to go as fast as sho wanted to and without the least urging or touch of tho whip. This was. , never equalled by any trotting horse, j , The first annual session of tho Inde- I pendent Order of Railway Conductors was held in New York. It now has a membership of 300, nearly all secedera i from the old order of railway couduc- J tors, who could not stand the elimina- tion of the nou-striking clause from the old constitution. The mutual insur ance scheme provides for $1000 of death, instead of $2500, as in the o! body. C. S. Wheaton. formerly grav chief conductor of the old order, w elected president. Six more bodies have been recover from the hold of the steamer "Tiog; making nineteen so far, exclusive one of the injured who died at tho I pital. One of tho corpses taken out day was that of a white man, and others negroes. The only two ide lied were Louis and Henry Alexani colored stevedores. How many m men were killed is now a growing i certainty. Probably it would not bVj too much to assume that thirty deaths as about the correct total. Half of tht hold is yet littered with wreckage fron-the fron-the explosion. It cost John Lennon $8000 to open the . single licensed liquor place allowed, to J the little town of Dracutt, Cal., and! Judge Hadley fined hiin $50 and costs for selling liquor under the papei granted to him by the selectmen of tht town. Lennon was pulled into tin court on "spotter" testimony worked up by the law and order league, and the validity of his two licenses were attacked at-tacked by the league's attorney. The liquor laws of this state are such that a liquor dealer arrested is almost sure to be fined on some technical point. In the carelessly written license papers! given to Lennon for $8000 there was the tho omission of the words "election days" in that part which provides for the closing of liquor places. His bond was defective, as he did not have it changed when the license was tians-ferred tians-ferred early in May. |