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NEWS IN GENERAL. America's Growing Power. The Russian government, through Count Cassini, the ambassador here, has informed the state department that it is prepared to negotiate a reciprocity treaty with the United States. A number of other European governments, notably Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, and Italy, have recently shown a disposition to expedite negotiations toward the same end. Although some of these countries have made overtures to the state degartment in connection with reciprocity agreements, they did not, until lately, evince any great desire to press the business to a conclusion., Now. however, for some reason, they are all anxious to make treaties as soon as possible, and it is probable that the negotiations with some of them will be concluded shortly. The expected expansion of American trade in the Pacific through the acquirement of the Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands is believed to be the moving cause in this revival of interest. Colebrook Banks. A delegation of interested persons who went to Washington recently with the affairs of the Colebrook National Bank, which was compelled to close its doors some time ago, has returned and report its interview with the comptroller as satisfactory. It is expected by the first of April the bank will be unning again. The bank suspended last fall after it was found out that the treasurer had permitted heavy overdrafts on the part of certain stockholders. It is understood the overdrafts have been made good. The Colebrook Savings Bank, forced to suspend after the national benk closed, will resume business soon, and a new national bank, organized with a capital stock of $50,000, will open its doors within a short time. The new bank will be the Farmers and Traders National Bank. To Investigate Nature of Malaria. Prof. Robert Koch, the celebrated bacteriologist, who, in 1883, at the head of the German cholera commission, visited Egypt and India and then discovered the so-called "Comma" chclera bacillus, will start with an expedition next month for the tropics, to continue his investigation as to the nature and origin of the malaria. The German Reichstag has made a grant of 60,000 marks in aid of the undertaking.
