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Ceneral News Items. The committee to select a place for the annual convention of the German Baptists of the United States, has decided on Harrisburg, Va. The convention will be held the first Tuesday after Whit-Sunday in 1889. A jury in the city court at Mobile returned a verdict giving $25,000 damages in favor of G. Hall, a brakeman, against the Louisville & Nashville Railway Company. Hall was knocked from a freight train by a low bridge on the Mobile & Montgomery division of that road, and had to have his foot amputated. The Montana democratic territorial convention elected Martin Maginnis and Thom. as Marshall delegates to the St. Louis convention. W. A. Clark was chairman of the convention. Messrs. Davidson and Savage were chosen as alternates. The delegates were not instructed, but are pre. sumed to be for Cleveland. The administration was endorsed by the convention. The committee of five appointed by the anti-administration Knights of Labor convention held in Chicago last October, have issued a circular to the order declaring that it had dwindled in numbers from 702,000 to 240,000; that Powderly's special call to get funds for lecturers was in reality to get funds to keep the order out bankruptcy till the next convention, and calling on all true Knights to join the op. position and help reorganize the order. St. Paul and Central New York parties have filed at Yakima, and Olympia, W. T., articles of association with a capital of $500,000 for an irrigation ditch sixty miles long, from the canyon of Yakima river. which will water over 200,000 acres of valuable land in the valley. The surveys are made and the work will begin this season, and will be finished in time for next season's irrigation. Twenty-six thousand acres are already entered under the desert land act. In 1886 the National Bank of Albion, N. Y., failed and was placed in the hands of A. Anderson, receiver. The president, George H. Warner, had gone to Canada after having lost $225,000 of the bank's money in stock speculations through Kissam, Whitney & Co., stock brokers of New York. The receiver brought suit against the firm, claiming that they had guilty knowledge of Warner's speculations and knew that he was using the bank's money in speculating. The jury brought in a verdict for the bank for $149,000. The situation at the Edgar Thompson Steel Works near Pittsburg, is viewed with much apprehension. A mob of several hundred Hungarians and Poles gathered at a place close to the company's property and laid in wait for a party of Hungarian operatives that had refused to join the strikers. The men had been engaged for the night turn. As soon as the workmen came near where the strikers were gather. ed, the latter assaulted them with clubs stones and bricks. The workmen broke and fled in every direction. the strikers chasing them with the vilest imprecations and threats if they attempted to return to work. One of the largest real estate transactions that has ever taken place St. Paul has just been completed. The amount inyolved is not made public, but it is un. derstood that the sum is $485,000. The property sold was portions of the Davidson estate, and includes 115 feet on Fourth street, between the new Pioneer Press building and the First National bank, sixty-nve feet on Robert street next the new Pioneer Press building, 135 feet on Fifth street, between Robert and Jackson streets, and 200 feet on the corner of Sixth and Cedar streets. All the property was sold to Henry Endicott, of Boston, a relative of Secretary Endicott.
