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DOMESTIC DOTS, Telegraph News from All Parts of the Land Over Which the Stars and Stripes Wave. Washington, D. C., June 29.-The commission of Hubbard T. Smith, as consular clerk was received from Gray Gables today. Mr. Smith has been ordered to Paris. Chicago, June 29.-Mayor Swift today issued a statement condemning Dr. Arthur Reynolds, ex-city health commissioner, for the management of the smallpox epidemic last winter, which caused 159 deaths. Philadelphia, June 29.-Mrs. Juliet Atkinson, of New York, today won the tennis championship of the United States by defeating the former champion, Miss Helena R. Helwig, of the Kings County Tennis club, New York. Score: 6-4, 6-1, 6-2. Denver, Colo., June 29.-The People's Savings bank was forced to make a second assignment today. F. J. Spencer was named assignee. The action was taken for the reason that sufficient funds could not be raised to pay the July certificates. Chicago, June 29.-The grand jury today began the investigation of the stuffing of the city pay rolls. Thirteen subforemen and time keepers of the water pipe extension department were indicted. It is charged the city was robbed of large sums. Denver, June 29.-Suit was begun today by the Mercantile Trust company, of New York, for the appointment of a receiver for the Colorado Mining Stock exchange. The trust company holds $250,000 worth of bonds issued on the mining exchange building, the interest on which has not been paid. Chicago, June 29.-An exciting battle, witnessed by at least 100 persons, took place on the north government pier last evening between four excursionists and six toughs. As a result, Ed Barnett is in the hospital and may die. Robbery supposed cause of attack. Chicago, June 29.-The rumor that Rev. C. A. Hirst, D. D., pastor of Simpson Memorial church, San Francisco. has accepted a call to the Centenary Methodist Episcopal church, this city, is not substantiated by Dr. Bolton, the retiring pastor, and the trustees. Brooklyn, N. Y., June 29.-Plymouth church, by an unanimous vote has decided to accept the proposition made by the Manhattan conference looking toward a reconciliation between the congregational churches of New York and Brooklyn. The breach between these churches has existed ever since the Beecher-Tilton trial. Santa Fe, N. M., June 29.-In the preliminary examination before United States Commissioner Pope, the claimant of the famous Peralta land grant for 12,000,000 acres of land in Arizona and New Mexico, was held in $5,000 bail to appear before the United States court here in December upon a charge of filing a fraudulent claim against the United Staes. Defendant James Peralta-Reavis is trying to secure bail. It is believed he will succeed. Washington, D. C., June 29.-The secretary of the treasury has appointed Scott Nesbitt, the present chief clerk of the internal revenue bureau, as appointment clerk of the treasury department in place of Mr. Kretig, recently appointed superintendent of the United States mint at Philadelphia; and E. C. Johnson, chief of the income tax division, chief clerk of the internal revenue bureau in the place of Nesbitt. New York, June 29.-The HamburgAmerican steamer Dania reached quarantine today with a broken shaft, in tow of the Netherland-American Werkendam. The Dania sailed from Hamburg June 18 with 30 cabin and 372 steerage passengers and a full cargo. The vessel proceeded at her usual speed until June 26, when the engines stopped to enable the pilot to be taken aboard. The ship's engines refused to work again. The tail-end section of the shaft was broken in the propeller. Seattle Wash June 29-Assistant