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NERY LATEST. The debt of Boston increased $1,485,677 during the year. A car load of new Delaware wheat sold in Philadelphia at $1.10 per bushel. Six lives were lost by the sinking of the schooner Babcock near Barnegat, New Jersey. Fifteen buildings at Driftwood, Pa., valued at $75,000, were destroyed by fire Tuesday. The Bay State Casket company, of Boston, which owes $400,000, has suspended payment. In a race of 31 miles at New London, the Yale crew defeated the Harvards' by three lengths. Eleven men were dangerously injured by the explosion of a boiler in a flourmill at Stryker, Ohio. Twenty pool sellers who operated at the Coney Island races were indicted at Brooklyn Monday. The President has recognized Albert Francis Salvador as Consular agent of France at St. Paul, Minn. By an explosion in a colliery in British Columbia, twenty-four miners were killed and several others injured. The ladies of Flint, Mich, have presented to that city a spacious brick building and an extensive library. The Denver and Rio Grande road is unable to meet interest to the amount of $655,917 on its consolidated bonds. Two men were killed and ten others seriously injured by the wrecking of a construction train near Sumner, Mo. The democrats of Florida nominated General E. A. Perry for governor and M. H. Mabry for lieutenant-governor. At Huntsville, Ohio, while driving a vicious pony, Louis Murphy was fatally injured and his wife was instantly killed. J. Miller Kelly, president of the common council of Rochester, New York, has been held to bail on an indictment for bribery. The Illinois Watch company, of Springfield, has shut down for the summer, dispensing with the services of 1000, employes. For a distance of twenty-five miles along the Youghiogheny river the fish have been killed by sulphur water from the coal mines. The Garfield Monument association of Cleveland hasawarded the first prize of $1,000 for a design to Geo. H. Keller, of Hartford. Charles D. Gorham, a well-known military official of Chicago, has been appointed superintendent of the West Shore road. The receiver of the Newark Savings institution has commenced to pay a 60 per cent. dividend, which will require $3,700,000. The daughter of Mrs. George H. Jacobs, of Newcastle. Ohio, weighed precisely one pound at birth, and is a healthy child. In San Francisco, Wednesday, Wm. C. Milton killed Albertina Anderson for refusing to marry him, and then took his own life. Under instructions from W. H. Vanderbilt, Mr. Bair will take Maud S. to Cleveland and keep her in condition for use on the road. The democrats of North Carolina nominated Gen. Alfred M. Scales for governor and Charles M. Stedman for lieutenant governor. Captain Andrews, 93 years of age, has completed his walk from South Carolina to Massachusetts, arriving in Boston in good condition. Joseph F. Tucker, late traffic manager of the Illinois Central road, has been tendered the general management of the Wabash road. At the commencement dinner at Harvard college, President Eliot announced that only $125,000 had been donated during the year. Gilbert A. Pierce, a Chicago journalist, has been nominated governor of Dakota, and John H. Kinkead, of Nevada, governor of Alaska. The Central Pacific has given up the proposed postponement of the payment of the salaries of employes. All will be paid by the 10th inst. John O'Conners, of Milwaukee, nearly killed his wife with a common jackknife, and immediately surrendered himself at the police station. Four persons were killed and two others mortally wounded by a boiler explosion in the planing-mill of J. C. Smith, at Wausau, Wisconsin. The St. Petersburg bank of Clarion county, Pennsylvania, which was considered a very strong institution, has been forced to close its doors. A charter has been secured at Springfield, Ills., by C. R. Vandercook and others to build a railway from Chicago to Batavia, at a cost of $500,000. The Hungarian laborers in the coke region of Pennsylvania have had enough of free institutions, and are sailing for home in large squads. Dock Walker was hanged Friday at Texarkana for the murder of Lucas Grant. Two thousand citizens were permitted to witness the execution. The prohibition ticket for president and vice president will doubtless be exgovernor St. John, of Kansas, and Robert Pittman, of Massachusetts. The Waltham Watch company, of Massachusetts, has decided to run only four days each week in July, and to suspend entirely for half of August. The shore endof the Mackey-Bennett cable has been laid in Waterville bay, on the Irish coast, and the mid-ocean splice will probably be made by July 20.
