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GENERAL. DAVENPORT, Iowa, celebrated its third annual river carnival with great success. VILLA MARIA convent and academy at Frontenac is dedicated. I. MERIDITH, of Monticello, Ill., has been tapped 278 times for dropsy and 3,614 pounds of water drawn from his body. THE board of lady managers of the world's fair will send agents abroad to work in the interest of the women's department. THE jurors in the famous Davis will case at Butte, Montana, disagree, standing seven to five in favor of the contestants. # ITALO-AMERICANS ITALO-AMERICANS have called a meeting at Washington, Dec. 7, to discuss and take action looking to the promotion of the fair by urging Italy to accept the invitation extended by the United States. The annual convention of the National Electrical association of the United States has opened in Montreal. Nearly 300 delegates are in attendance, including prominent electricians from all parts of the United States and Canada. # ROBERT REED ROBERT REED, who has returned to San Francisco from Chignik bay, Alaska, says that reports of trouble with natives at that point are without foundation. Work at the canneries went along without interruption during the season. LEON. V. STEPHENS, receiver of the Third National Bank of St. Louis, has brought suits against the directors of the bank to recover $343,337.97, money alleged to have been loaned by the bank in violation of statutes and which could not be collected by the receiver. The ladies of New Orleans are moving to secure the release of Mrs. Florence Maybrick from Working prison, England, where she is confined for life, convicted of having poisoned her husband. Gail Hamilton's recent articles, showing that there should have been a different course taken than the one adopted toward the unfortunate woman, have brought the case once more to public notice. The ladies will present a petition, numerously signed, to the queen, whom they will ask to right the injustice done to Mrs. Maybrick.
