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fengant man, which has been identified as that of David B. Holden of Hamilton, Ontario, was found in one of the turbines of the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Co. in the power station at the water's edge in the gorge at Niagara Falls. N. Y. It had been observed that the turbine was not workng with its usual efficiency and it was shut down for inspection. M. L. Morrison of Peterborough, is in charge of the Francestown Savings Bank at Francestown. N. H., having been appointed assignee by the Hillsborough supreme court. Wednesday. The affairs of the bank have been in liquidation under the direction of S. D. Downes, treasurer, but the continued Illness of the latter made the appointment of an assignee advisable. The institution owes depositors $40,000. In a saloon on Pacific street San Francisco, Thursday. Joseph H. Cerdes of Elmhurst, shot three times at a woman but missed her each time and struck three innocent by-standers, all sailors. John Carison died shortly after arriving at the hospital. Peter Sjorgren of the transport Indiana, was fatally shot through the head. A. J. Shanley of the bark Harvester was shot in the back but probably will recover. The appellate division of the New York supreme court, Thursday, handed down a decision affirming an order by Justice Andrews to compel Bradley Martin to pay taxes in New York City. His personal property has been assessed in the sum of $200,000 for the year 1899. Bradley Martin claimed to have seased to have a residence in New York City and to have acquired a realdence in Scotland prior to Jan. 1, 1899. A fire in the six-story brick building. Nos. 355, 357 and 359 Atlantic avenue, and 80 Purchase street, Boston, Thursday, caused a loss of $10,000 and created something of a panic among the employes of the building, who ran from the burning rooms in the fourth floor down the fire escapes into the streets. There were several who fell, but none received serious injuris. During the progress of the fire Lieut. Cain of engine 25, and Hoseman Henry Kelly of engine 26, were incapacitated by being badly cut by falling glass. Detectives at New York, Thursday, arrested two burglars in the act of taking away over $10,000 worth of laces, silks, etc., from the building 342 Canal street. The men hired a loft on the top floor of 342 Canal street, bored through 30 inches of masonry. the hole being 4x4 feet, to the importing house of Joseph Rothehilds, 327 Church street, which adjoins the Canal street building. The men are John Meyers and Ignatz Miller, both of New York. They had an express wagon at the door to take away the stolen goods. The mail steamer Lake Ontario which arrived at Halifax. N. S., Thursday, from England had 21 cases of measles among her 600 immigrant passengers. The port medical authorities ordered the sick to the quarantine hospital. They compose four families of Russian Jews. Two families are bound for New York, ane for Chicago and one for San Francisco. There also arrived by the mail steamer a man named Emery from New South Wales who is traveling around the world on a wager and says part of his undertaking is to spend 12 months in America. He left without a shilling and must return with £2000. Despatches received at London from Paris, reiterate the stories of affronts to Lord Carrington and his suite while returning from Lisbon. after formally announcing King Edward's accession to King Charles of Portugal. It seems that the train on which the mission traveled conveyed a number of nurses returning from the Boer army. The result, says a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Co., from Paris, was that every station there were violent anti-British scenes. Lord Carrington and his suite were openly insulted while the nurses were greeted with loud cheers. The situation became SO intolerable that the British mission finally changed trains. Business men evidently believe, says the London correspondent of the New York Tribune. that there is some good in combination in spite of their condemnation of combines of the United States. It has been officially announced that the Thames Iron Works' Ship Building and Engineering Co., Messrs. Simens, Messrs. Mather and Platt and the Brush Electrical Engineer Co. are to close their ranks and to combine their forces in order to make a fight for British industry. One immediate consequence of the formation of this British combine is that designs have already been prepared for electrical equipment of two underground railway lines of London and the construction of another one.