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TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. The cruiser Philadelphia has arrived at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Southern California bank at Los Angeles, Cal., resumed business yesterdry morning. The Lafayette hotel, belonging to the Wabash and Big Four at Lafayette, Ind., was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The total number of fourth-class postyesterday was caused 126, of were to fill which masters 40 appointed death. vacancies by resignations and The Elmira (N. Y.) Savings bank reopened for business yesterday, paying its old depositors a dividend of 25 per cent. As soon as possible another dividend will be declared. a Secretary Herbert has directed court martial to assemble at Mare the Island, Cal., on the 29th inst., for trial of Paymaster J. S. Sullivan, charged with embezzlement. Mrs. Bancroft, the well-known actress, thrown from a cab in London yeswas terday and run over. She received injuries that necessitated her removal to a hospital. 1: The discussion of the ninth clause of government act. which relates to the in of Irish parliament the Irish representation counties the committee and imperial boroughs, began yesterday in of the whole of the house of commons. The missing yacht Sea Gull, which was supposed to have foundered near Chicago with nearly a dozen people all in Sunday night's storm, has turned up right. She landed in an out-of-the way place in the southern part of the city, and suffered no damage. Latest advices are to the effect that the steamer Bawnmore, which struck a rock off Point Gardo, Cal., and Cas- was about to sink, has been towed into She par bay, on the Mendocino coast. is a very much damaged vessel. The excursion steamer Eldorado ran aground on Horseshoe reef, near Buffalo, it early yesterday, and for a while which looked as though the accident, in itself slight, would dis- all but the passengers astrous, was prove were safely landed. The New Haven steamboat Richard Peck, whose highest ambition is to show Purher heels to some other boat, the the Fall River line, has by Mr. itan pride of lowered Hearst's in had little race her yacht Vamoose, who beat her a on Long Island sound. One million bushels of grain came to Ont., from the West last The receipts were received there in one as Kingston, week. ever week, the carriers largest and a of the large are there waiting to be result lying many grain unloaded. of the T. Oswin Mayo, vice president E. Wells Packing company. committed suicide at his home, in Chicago, by taking a dose of rat poison. His business affairs are said to be in good condition, act. and 110 cause can be assigned for the Enlisted men in the navy will now have the privilege of purchasing their Secretary Herbert yesterday order establishing for the purchase regulations issued discharge. an rules of and discharges, as authorized by the last naval appropriation bill. believed at Leaventhat the the coal miners IS at an among worth. It is Kan., generally sympathy strike end. into morning miners went mines. The men work at the price offered the Yesterday two when for resumed mine they first went out-80 cents a ton run coal. Reports to the South Chicago police who station indicate that three men were seen clinging to an upturned row aftboat off Cheltenham Beach Sunday ernoon, and who were supposed to have the been drowned, were picked up by occupants of a boat and brought safely to land. The statue of P. T. Barnum at Seaside park, Bridgeport, Conn., was disfigured Sunday night by being covered of with red paint. The granite steps the pedestal were covered with inscriptions derogatory to the character of the deceased showman. There is no clue to the perpretator of the deed. Jerry O'Donnel was to have been married at Calumet, Mich.. but at the time set for the ceremony a requiem mass was being sung for him. He died suddenly. O'Donnell was the one for very who-was sent to the penitentiary three years for trying to bribe the jury in the Croun case at Chicago. The New Zealand Loan aud Mercancompany, limited, the offices of are in London, is The capital of the tile day. which Agency failed company the yester£4,500,000. Three-quarters of loss It will on people in Great Britain. is that the company on wide speculations John S. Penman, tralia. carrying Rev. feared fall Dr. Irvington, rector has in been Aus- of the Presbyterian church at He N. Y., has resigned his pastorship. he has done so because of his inability says to longer sustain and subscribe to the "system of doctrine" of his church. Dr. Penman was one of the commissionto the general assembly at Washing- in ton. ers He voted with the minority favor of Dr. Briggs.
