Show I NEWS OF THE DAY i The appointment of General Dick to be U S SurveyorGeneral of California will probably be made within a few days Judge Donahue of the Supreme Court of New York has granted an absolute divorce to Annie K Pox from Richard K Fox of the Police Gazette Mrs Troy who died in New York recently re-cently was well known to old theatregoers as Rachel Devil at PurdysNational Theatre and the Old and New Bowery Theatres Thirty years ago she was one of the most popular leading ladies on the New York stage It is rumored that at the last moment the German Crown Prince and the Prince and Princess will refuse to attend the wedding wed-ding of Princess Beatrice though the Queen is doing her utmost to induce them to attend It is believed the German court disapproves of the match Last week thirtyeight jotmp ladies took the vow of poverty chastity and jobedience for the period of seven years anne convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame near Govans town Baltimore county Md At the end of i seven years if they wish to continue in religious I re-ligious life they will be at liberty to make their vows final and perpetual The New York Suns London special says Revolting cases of sexual depravity contInue to be brought before the police courts as an indirect result of the Pall Mall Gazettes crusade John Ridding aged SO a tradesman and a verger m tne JJissenting church was committed today Birkenhead for indecently assaulting three little girls Secretary Whitney has decided that the eighthour law shall hereafter be enforced in the different navy yards that is the em ployes shall receive ten hours pay for eight hours labor Heretofore they received eight hours pay for eight hours Labor The general gen-eral order directing the change has not been issued yet but information of the proposed change has been received at the Washington navy yard The Chamber of Commerce at San Francisco Fran-cisco yesterday afternoon adopted a resolution resolu-tion protesting against the refusal of the PostmasterGeneral to pay subsidies to the steamship lines which carry the mails The protest states that without financial assistance assist-ance the Government steamers now running between San Francisco and New Zealand and Australia must be withdrawn and thus a material loss will accrue to San Francisco and the commerce of the United States The Mikado was performed at the Union Square Theatre New York Monday night despite an injunction John Stetson said to a reporter I would not be in the managers shoes for fifty thousand dollars Every member who has participated in the actual of this stands I performance opera now in contempt of the court and I will spend a hundred thousand dollars to see them get their just deserts The theatre and streets adjacent were crowded with actors reporters report-ers lawyers and managers Members of the ColoradoUtah Associa tion held a meeting in Chicago yesterday and agreed to extend the life of the Associa ion to October subject to thirty days notice of withdrawal thereafter It was also agreed that the question of percentage be I referred to three arbitrators te be hereafter chosen Tomorrow a joint conference will be held between the ColoradoUtah Association Associa-tion and the Colorado Railway Association at which an effort will be made to further prolong the existence of the former organization organiza-tion for thejperiod of two years A fire occurred in the Bijou Theatre i New York Monday night during the performance per-formance Most of those present thought it was all part of the play until a fireman turned on his extingmeher and a cloud of smoke arose Then one lady in the balcony fainted and several others screamed and rushed from the house despite the attempts of their male escorts to reassure them The excitement increased when one of the firemen fire-men began cutting away the charred portion I of the flooring extending nearly half way across the stage The orchestra was signaled sig-naled to begin playing and soon all danger was over An Erie Pa dispatch says A lovesick swain named Alfonso Brecht from the Lone Star State came here yesterday to meet a lady with whom he supposed he had been corresponding Upon his arrival he found to his extreme disgust that he had been duped by a younger sister of the young ladv in question The correspondence resulted from answering an advertisement in a marriage mar-riage bureau paper When Alfonso arrived he found the lady whom he supposed he was to marry about to wed a Michigan minister I Unable to stand the disappointment he swallowed I swal-lowed a dose of arsenic and is lying at the point of death His friends at Rockport Tex have been sent for A crisis is imminent in Munich owing to the freaks of King Ludwig the musicmad monarch of Bavaria It has just been ascertained ascer-tained that he has squandered the last 2000000 voted to him expressly to pay his debts in building fresh palaces and keeping I new mistresses The common people still look upon the King as a sort of demigod but the solid burghers and the moneyed men of Munich are disgusted beyond endurance The bankers have absolutely determined to lend him no more money and a loan of 1250000 was recently refused him by the American Insurance Company because he could not give satisfactory collaterals New evidences of insanity are cropping out daily and it is more than probable that he will soon be deposed The Spanish cholera commission reports that the only thing in favor of Ferrans method of inoculation is that those who have undergone it have lost all fear of the I disease I erran asserts that inoculated persons do not have any immunity until five days after the inoculation but he does not I know for how many days after that they are protected The inoculated however do not appear to acquire much immunity because I they are attacked by cholera and dislike those not inoculated The commission commis-sion has concluded that the inoculations I inocula-tions are inoffensive and recommend I recom-mend that Ferran be allowed to continue his experiments The opposition I to the present government of Spain has been making political capital out of the suspension I suspen-sion of inoculations pending the investigation investiga-tion thus allowing I erran and his associates I associ-ates to pose as martyrs in the cause of humanity I hu-manity science and progress It is the opinion that Ferrans prophylactics will be I shortlived and will fall into as much discredit dis-credit as the treatment of cancer by the use of condurango discovered some years ago by one of our own physicians did I |