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Show 1 TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS. , , , A m'euioilal service ia honor of General W. S. Hancock, was held at Governor's Island last night, under the auspices of the rnilitary service of the institution. ' Article's for W. K, 'Vanderbilt's large steam yacht were signed yesterday. The builders are the Harlan & Hollingsworth I company, Wilmington, Delaware. " She i will be 285 feet long." V : j - . j The House. Committee ' on' Territories has directed an adverse report to be made on Representative' Townshehd's bill to organize the entire Indian Territory into ' Hie Territory of Oklahoma'.1 " Three New York cigar firms, Brown & Earle, Levi Bros., and M. Coy & Co., have concluded to accept the Knights of Labor labor rates paid by the Union shops, and all hands in the shops will go to work to-morrow: '' ' ; . The prospects of the' trade dollar redemption re-demption bill are as uncertain as ever! Fairly treated on its merits, such a proposition propo-sition would doubtless pass both Houses, , but it is involved in the. general muddle into which Congress ,has"fallen oveir the' ! silver Question. ' " ' 'hum ;'- ';-' " The tour of the' Grerman 'Met'r'opolitian Opera company : has been arranged as" follows: Chicago,' March 15, two weeks; St. -Louis, one week ; ; Baltimore ' and , Washington, one. week.? ? It i is reported they go directly to the Pacific Coast after their Washington engagement. i -ii; ' An. Albany IN. X) "dispatch savs: A bill.''as introduced into the '.Senate, today," to-day," annulling the privileges,' and iran-chises iran-chises of the Broadway Surface Railway, "New York' City, and providing, for the appointment of Commissioners'" to take possession of all its prdperty'and ' sell the same, including its ' franchise,' at? public auction'. "1' " ' ". 'r' t'T I i The reports that the :Parnellites possess pos-sess compromising ; letters from Lord Randolph Churchill, pledging himself in favor of Home Rule, are declared to be untrue, i Churchill, it is i asserted; never committed his offers ; to writing.' The Parnellites assert that Churchill had personal per-sonal interviews with the' 'Irish leaders, and offered them. Home Rule.-.:: ! Yesterday in the ilouse of Com mohs Committee of Supply, . Mr. Healey,. Na: tibnalist, refused to grant 1,200 for nied-, als for the volunteers who' ' took' 'part in the campaign against Louis jRiel. . He saidthat if Canada , chose to go to war with Riel, she ought to pajV for the medals. med-als. Mr.' W. H. Smith and; Lord Randolph Ran-dolph Churcliill denounced" Mr.' Healey and praised the volunteers. ' . .Mr.1 Gladstone Glad-stone urged that the rejection' of , the proposed pro-posed grant might jxssibly create bad feeling in Canada.' ' The sum for the medals was agreed to by a vote of ; 200 to c6. .... .:t: : :.Vl , . A dispatch of yesterday says : j "Politics "Poli-tics are booming in Guatemala; i Many ; arrests have, been: made. --" Offenders are beins locked p every day.1 It is rumored that Mrs. Barrios 'has given f (30 ,000 toward to-ward the disturbing movement and that , Mr. Lienflesta; who is also in New Yorkr ( has helped the revolutionists 'with funds,, There have i been two vessels "off.: thef coast of f Honduras with men and arms, ( sailinz under the Costa Ilican flag. : Soto, the President of Honduras, is ambitious, ; and it is understood lie says that he will j not be satisfied with anything less than i the Presidency of Guatemala, Honduras j mid San Salvador."" i,: : . |