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CONDENSED DISPATCHES. The Bulgarian cabinet has resigned owing to ministerial differences. By an explosion of gas in the Maxwell colliery of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Co. at Ashley, Pa., Wednesday. SIX men were burned, four of them, it is feared. fatally. The mine was badly dam aged. The cause of the explosion is unknown. Eagle City on the American Yukon was connected by telegraph with Dawson City, Oct. 20, giving through service from Eagle to Skagway. The same system is also extended south to Atlin. Eagle is the first town on the American side of the boundary and is about 100 miles fr 111 Dawson. The strike of 400 men at the Royal City Planing mills, Vancouver, B. C., was settled, Wednesday. through the intervention of Federal Labor Commissioner Brenner. The management promised to defer the cut in wages which caused the strike for four months and the strikers thereupon returned to work. Secretary Gage's report has made an excellent impression in financial circles at Berlin. A financier to whom the correspondent of The Associated Press showed the figures, exclaimed: "It is magnificent and confirms the condition of the American money market, as indicated by the various loans to Europe during the year.' Robert Turner. 45 years old. of Taunton, Mass. was found dead by his ro m mate in a room at a hotel at Toronto Ont., Tuesday night, the gas being turned on. He had been there since May last, in the employ of a silver plate company. but was discharged. He left a note saying that despondency over his discharge caused his suicide. Fred T. Gilmore of Baxter. Ia., was knocked senseress, late Tuesday night, near Michigan avenue and Harmon court, Chicago, and robbed of $11,229 in negotiable papers, $23 in money and a watch. The robbers, Wm. Cummings and Geo. Hayes, after a desperate battle with detectives, were captured and all the boo y save the watch and money was recovered. Gilmore went to Chicago to exhibit cattle at the Live Stock show. Elmer J. Smart, assignee for the Rochester Savings Bank of Richester. N. H., which closed its doors three years ago, owing to the absorption of its business by other banks that were able to pay a higher per cent. of interest. states that he has petitioned the supreme court to grant a hearing Dec. 29. for the final settlement of the bank's affairs. It is expected that the final dividend of 13 7-10 per cent. will be paid to depositors, Jan. 10, 1901. Judge Lacombe, in the United Sta es circuit court at New York, Wednesday. issued an order for the Anglo-American Savings and Loan Association of New York to appear before him, Dec. 7. and show cause why an injunction should not be granted and a receiver appointed as asked for in a bill 01 complaint of James W. Carpenter, Marvin P. Carter and Pulaski P. Carter against the association. The order restrains the association until further notice of the court from making any transfers or conveyances of their property or making payments of any kind to stockholders or to withdrawing stockholders. Two men, one about 50, the other 20
