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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The river at Dubuque, Ia., broke all records yesterday, falling 3-10 of an inch below the 1864 mark. Traffic is almost wholly suspended. Cashier Sattley of the defunct Kansas City Savings Bank, was found guilty yesterday of receiving deposits after he knew the bank was insolvent and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. Several passengers who arrived at Queenstown on the Britannic from New York were fined this morning for attempting to smuggle tobacco into the country. The democratic congressional convention at Texarkana, Ark., took additional ballots yesterday, making the total to date to stand 4,785. The convention is hopelessly deadlocked. The town of Gifford, Ill., was almost swept away by flames to-day. Two grain elevators, the Illinois Central station and almost the entire business part of the town are in ashes. The Wyoming democratic State con. vention met at Cheyenne yesterday but did nothing but effect an organization. The fight was on the adoption of the plank denouncing the attempt of the present administration to place the country on a gold basis. The dead body of pretty Alida Fritz, 17 years old, who had been employed as'a domestic in the family of J.S. McConnell. at Akron, Ohio, was found hanging from a rafter in the coal shed at 6 o'clock this morning. A love affair was the cause. Three attempts were made last night to burn the town of Anoka, Minn. The citizens turned out to guard the town, A dispatch from Catania, Sicily, says that the earthquake yesterday caused great damage to property there, but only a small loss of life. David Hahn, who drove stage coaches across the Alleghanies before railroads were built, died in Portsmouth, Ohio, yesterday at the age of 94 years. He had carried Gen. Jackson, Henry Clay and Presidents William Henry Harrison, Tyler and others. The ninety ton caisson of the Mare Island, Cal., dry dock capsized Tuesday night and sank, preventing the docking of government vessels. The dock is filling with mud, caused by neglect in leaving the dock full of water and not providing for the rise and fall of the tide. The rebellion against the enforcement of sanitary laws bearing on smallpox cases has assumed alarming proportions in Milwaukee, Wis. A mass meeting was held last night, attended by fully 3,000 persons, a great many of whom were women. Inflammatory speeches were made against the health department. John Moses and a companion, while returning with two women from a dance house at Gullett, Col., yesterday morning were held up by two masked men. Moses had on his person a large sum of money won in gambling. He opened fire on the bandits, wounding one and in turn was shot dead. The assailant who was wounded proves to be the faro dealer in the dance hall. Lizzie Daniels, aged 14 years, of Bridgeport, shot and instantly killed Mary Weaver, 16 years of age, at Scottdale, Pa., last evening. The girls got into a quarrel about a swing and the Daniels girl became SO enraged that she puiled a 32-calibre revolver and fired, the ball entering the Weaver girl's brain above the right eye. The Daniels girl has been arrested and will be taken to jail to-day. James Hardy colored. died at Hope Ind. last night at the age of 100 years. Hardy was Mr. Jefferson Davis's valet during the civil war. A GHASTLY MYSTERY.-A crowd of bathers were enjoving themselves in the