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begin soon. have no fear of the ultimate result, as I am innocent of at. tempting to overthrow the government, although participating in the revolutionary movement." J. R. Bartlett, president of the Nicaragua Canal Construction Company, confirms the report that negotiations are in progress for a fusion of the Panama and Nicaragua companies. The scheme, however, has not yet seoured the consideration of their respective boards. The consolidation of interests is regarded with great favor in banking circles in Europe, and, it is understood in America as tending to remove the rivalry between interests, and the governments are also believed to be friendly to the proposed combination. It is believed that an AngloFrench-American syndicate for canalbuilding is being formed, but the de. tails are withheld. Fire destroyed a block of ten houses in Pittsburg, Pa., rendering ten fam$5,0000. ilies homeless, and causing a loss of The Commercial and Savings bank, of San Jose, Cal., has closed its doors. The depositors, it is mid, will be paid in full. The defenses at Esquimalt, B. C., are again being strengthened. Seven new heavy breech-loading guns have just arrived from England. The collapse of the rear of a frame factory building in Chicago resulted in seriously injuring five persons and nearly 100 others had narrow escapes. Four men were killed and one in. jured by the blowing up of an engine on the Delaware, Susquehanna & Schuylkill railroad at Gum Run, Pa. There have been floods in the Alpine districts of the Tyrol and in Bobemia, with avalanches and landalides on the railways. It is feared that many lives have been lost. In Oakland, Cal, two children. aged 10 and 5. were run down by an electric car and instantly killed. The children were daughters of Frank E. Booth, a commission merchant doing business in San Franicso. James Duggan, a well-known citizen of Denver and five others have left there for the Alaskan gold fields. The praty will number fifty and they will go in a chartered vessel, and carry supplice for a two years' stay. President Cleveland held his first tri weekly recepiton to the public at the White House, after a suspension of nearly two years. About 200 persons took advantage of the opportunity to shake hands with the president. In San Francisco 800 painters went on a strike. They ask for an increase of 50 cents a day, making their wages $3 instaed of $2.50. The strike was ordered by the Painters' union, and was decided upon some days ago, The president has pardoned Nathan Blum, convicted in Oregon of smug. gling and conspiracy. but whose sen. tence was suspended, and F. M. Saulsbury, convicted in Oregon of misusing penalty envelopes, and fined $300. South Australia, which feared the construction of the British Pacific cable because it might injure its land line, will be conciliated by the offer of compensation to maintain revenue from the transcontinental line at the average level of the past five years. John L Sullivan and Parson Davies are preparing to head a movement to place pugilism on a paying basis again. Sullivan believes sporting men should oragnize and refuse to cast their bal. lots for legislators or congressmen who unmolested. would not agree to let pirsefighters go Robert Edgren, the well-known university hammer-thrower, has broken the world's record for throwing the 16-pound hammer. On the Berkley campus, in Berkely, Cal., he threw the missile which has made him famous 147 feet and 7 inchea. The world's record was 145 feet. The disreputable women who infest Morton street and St. Mary's Place, in San Francisco, are in a state of terror on account of the murder of two of their class within a month. Both women were strangled to death in their rooms, and in both cases the murderers have escaped. Delegates from the various commercial organisations of San Francisco held a conference as to the best means of protecting San Franicsco's trade with Eureka and other North Pacific way ports against Portland's competition. A committee was appointed to wait upon the O. R. & N. and North Pacific steamshlip companies, and ask them to discotinue their services between Port. land and Eureka and intermediate points. The plan for the reorganization of the Oregon Short Line & Utah North ern Railway Company, agreed to by all contending interests, has been officially issued. It calls for a foreclosure and new company to be known as the Oregon Short Line Railway Company. preserves the entire system, and also It the control of a block of Oregon Rail way & Navigation stock, which is secured by $18,000,000 collateral trust bonds, the new Short Line Company paying the assessment upon the Navi
