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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. The break in the canal, near Brighton, N. Y., has been repaired and water let in as fast as possible. Rowell & Co.'s plow works, at Hartford, Wis., were destroyed by fire Saturday morning. Loss, $25,000; no insurance. The planing milland warehouse of the Weston Lumber Company, at Manistique, Mich., burned Saturday night. Loss, $50,000; no insurance. The Cincinnati National Bank will go into liquidation. Last November the capital stock was reduced from $500,000 to $280,000. Depositors will be paid in full. The failure of George D. Morrison, a stock broker and a member of the New York Stock Exchange Board, was announced on the floor of the Exchange yesterday. Aqueduct Commissioner Hamilton Fish, jr., of New York City, has sent his resignation to Mayor Hewitt. It is to take effect at once. Mr. Fish, in his brief note, assigned no reason for his resignation. The Poles of Chicago and all the larger cities of the United States have joined in a petition to Pope Leo, asking him to order the Polish clergy of this country to remove the religious ban from the Polish National Alliance. The exports of specie from the port of New York last week amounted to $241, 984, of which $6,600 was in gold and $235,384 in silver. All the gold and $6,324 in silver went to South America, and $229,060 in silver went to Europe. The City Council of Toronto has passed a resolution asking the Ontario Government and the Canadian Institute to invite the American Association for the Advancement of Science to hold its annual convention in Toronto next year. Senator Wilson, of Iowa, from the Committee on Education and Labor, Saturday reported favorably is the Senate the House bill to create boards of arbitration for settling controversies and differences between railroad corporations and their employes. In a street row at Norfolk, Va., Saturday morning, about 3 o'clock, Peter J. McLean received four pistol-shot wounds and died in a few minutes. The verdict of the Coroner's jury is that McLean was killed by John F. Evans. Both men were prominent sporting characters of Norfolk. is At Belleville, Ill., Saturday night, a Morris Kampler, a molder, aged 26 years, had a quarrel with his wife, of whom he r was extremely jealous. She fled to West Belleville to pass the night with 8 friends. He followed her an hour later e and shot her, inflicting a mortal wound. it Kampler was arrested. e The grand jury at Chicago has returned five additional indictments o against the Bohemian dynamite conspirators. The indictments previously returned charge the four men with general conspiracy to commit murder, and specifically to kill Judges Gary and Grinnell and Inspector Bonfield. The peculiar disease which has affectmany personsabout Rarden, Adams county, O. is extending towards Ripley, 1and prevails over a large section of the country. Several persons have contracted the disease near Decatur. It resem1bles cholera in some symptoms, while it some physicians think it is merely an exaggerated form of flux. e John Anderson has passed the ninth day in the well at Johnstown, Neb. Food and water have been given him regularly, and he is gradually growing stronger. hAn effort was made yesterday to saw re through the roof, but it has been aban doned, as the sand commenced to cave pas in, and Anderson's platform sank inches.