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CONDENSED NEWS OF THE DAY. The opera singer Girards isseriously ill at Berlin. The valued policy insurance bill was passed Thursday in the Illinois house. The Prince of Wales has accepted an invitation to dine with Mrs. J. W. Mackay. It is an odd fact that Jay Gould, rain or shine, winter or summer, always carries an umbrella. The London Church Missionary society has received information that the missionaries in Nyanza and Usagara are safe. Union Pacific earnings decreased $172,180 gross and $77,189 net in February as compared with the same month of last year. At Lexington, Ky., a street car driver named Fleming was attacked by roughs while on his car, and probably fatally cut. A public debate has been arranged between Henry George and Samuel Smith, Gladstonian M. P. The debate will take place in London in May. Thomas Keegan, the Irish rebel of '98, was buried in Juniata township, Pennsylvania, Thursday, aged 108. He came to America seventy-five years ago. Dr. R. P. Howard, dean of the medical faculty of McGill university, Montreal, and one of the most distinguished medical men on the continent, is dead. Adam Forepaugh has sold a handsome African lion to Charles T. Yerkes, Jr., of Chicago, which the latter intends to present to the Chicago zoological gardens. At Lexington, Ky., seven desperate prisoners attacked the keeper of the workhouse, Sullivan, disarmed him, shot him perhaps fatally and escaped. They are still at large. Walt Whitman is again confined to his house in Camden, and his indisposition is great that the "good gray poet" is unable to write at all. He is very feeble. and has but little appetite. The Berlin Tagblatt learns than Vanderbilt's yacht will arrive at Hamburg in May, and that the family will leave the vessel at that port and make a visit to Berlin. The yacht is now at Nice. The comptroller of the currency has declared a fourth dividend in favor of the creditors of the National bank O: Auburn, N. Y., which failed Januar 23, 1888. This makes in all 45 per Cā¬ at on claims proved amounting to $790,870. Queen Victoria has sent a message of regret to Emperor William regarding Germany's naval misforture at Samoa and expresses her deepest sympathy for the relatives of the brave officers and sailors who lost their lives in the disaster. The steamer Harrox, which arrived in New York from Rio Janiero. reports the town of Santos as being yellow fever ridden, the death rate reaching thirty a day. Yellow fever and smallpox is also devastating Rio Janiero, the daily deaths being thirty. At Paris, Ky., aged Berry Childers, alone and friendless, could not pay his creditors, and his household goods were set out in the road by the sheriff. Having no place to put them the old man set them on fire and went out into the cruel world empty handed. White Caps visited Pittsfield, III., Saturday and almost totally destroyed the windows and sash in the building oocupied by Charles Martin, a negro running a restaurant and gambling den. They notified him they would hang him if he again opened his place of business. Emperor William has recently been giving the municipal authorities at Berlin some private lessons in politeness and courtesy. He has formally instructed them in regard to the entertainment and courtesies to be shown the new Japanese envoy, whose arrival at Berlin is shortly expected. A dispatch from Salt Springs, Kings county, N. B., says that an old man named Robert Leckie and his family were awakened Sunday morning by flames in their house and had just time to escape with their lives. Leckie rushed back to obtain some valuable papers and was burned to death. The Los Angeles police report that Verona Baldwin, who gained such notoriety several years ago by shooting "Lucky' Baldwin, is insane and that they propose to put her in an asylum. She fancies she is filled with electricity and that she is related to a noble English family. King Karl, of Wurtemburg is again having trouble regarding his American favorites, whom he placed over his state officers in his confidence. He has banished from his kingdom one of his privy councillors who had secretly obtained and afterwards divulged certain compromising correspondence between the king and one of the Americans. In New York, Judge Barrett, in the case of the National Express company against the tax commissioners, decided that joint stock companies that have not availed themselves of the privilege of becoming corporations under the general law are not liable to taxation on their stock under the state law assessing the capital stock of corporations.