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imprisonment in the county jail. alleged forgery consisted of an interlineation of a lease, whereby Pauli was enabled to remove the porches from a building. John Morrissey, New York State Senator died at Saratoga, N. Y., on the 1st, after a long sickness. He had recently returned from a trip to Florida, where he had gone for the benefit of his health, but without gaining any relief. Mr. Morrissey was born in Ireland in 1831, and cameto this country three years later. In his early days he was a prize- fighter and gambler. He became member of Congressfrom a New York district in 1866, and was re-elected in 1868. In 1875 he was elected to the State Senate, and at the election last fall he ran again for Senator in the strongest district and against one of the best known candidates of his political opponents. The canvass was one of the liveliest and most exciting ever known in the history of New York politics, and Morrissey, although successful, was 80 prostrated by his efforts for victory that his strong constitution was undermined, and he never took the seat to which he had been elected. The Newtown Banking Company, of Newtown, Pa., has suspended, and the Citizens' Savings Bank, of Woonsocket, B. I., has been temporarily enjoined from doing further business. E. Remington & Sons, the well known manufacturers of rifles, at Ilion, N. Y., have become financially embarrassed, and have submitted their affairs to their creditors. Their liabilities amount to $1,000,000, and the assets are estimated at four times that amount, but are not immediately available. Thomas E. Ladd, a prominent business man of Laconia, N. H., disappeared after committing a number of forgeries and signing large number of notes that he cannot pay. The old-stage coach days have been revived by trip from New York to Philadelphia, made by members of the New York Coaching Club, in their coach Tally Ho. The trip was made in twelve hours, relays of horses being stationed at different points along the route and the huge coach, with eleven members of the club perched on top, each taking his turn at the reins, attracted much attention as it rattled through New Jersey. When the coaching party reached Philadelphia it was received by large number of vehicles of every description and escorted through the streets by numerous equestrians of both sexes, while the streets were filled with pedestrians and many of the houses were decorated with bunting in honor of the unusual event. Joel Smith, captain of the Brooklyn First police precinct, was shot in the neck and seriously wounded by Morris Heffernan, policeman. The shooting was done in the station house, and Heffernan had been on a spree. At Bradford. Pa., a fire destroyed a block containing fifteen buildings and caused damage amounting to $50,000, on which there is about $25,000 insurance. A skiff containing three women and two children was struck by raft on the Allegheny river, near Pittsburg, and two of the women drowned. Deaths on the rail: Thomas Goram, a brakeman on a Wallkill Valley railroad train, while making a jump from a caboose to a flat car near Shawangunk, N. Y., fell with his leg on the track, and the train passed over it in two places he was brought to Rondout, and died about five "clock. Charles Tuttle, resident of Katonah, N.Y., was instantly killed by the Chatham express, at a point half way between Katonah and Bedford he was walking on the track directly towards the coming train, but being very deaf and having the setting sun in his eyes, did not perceive his danger. Western and Southern States. At Kansas City, Mo., Theodore Hattenbach and wife were found murdered in their home, which had been set on fire, while their little girl was discovered out of doors with fatal injuries. No clue to the murderer was found. Matthew Weaver, the defaulting cashier of the Urbana (Ohio) bank has been arrested in Chicago. There were 265 petitions in bankruptcy filed in Chicago during April, with total debts of over $13,000,000. Three men were killed and twelve others, more or less, seriously injured by an explosion of the boiler in the towboat Warner on the Mississippi river, at Memphis. W. S. O'Brien, one of the California bonanza kings, is dead. He leaves a fortune variously estimated at from fifteen to twenty millions. At seven o'clock P. M., as the night hands in the immense Washburn flouring mill at Minneapolis, Minn., were about to relieve the day hands a sudden and appalling explosion took place which shook the city as by an earthquake and crumbled the mill like an egg-shell. The Washburn mill is the largest of its class in America and employed from forty to sixty men. The first crash was followed by other explosions in surrounding mills, eight of which were destroyed by the roaring flames. From fifteen to twenty men in the Washburn mill met terrible death in the falling ruins, while the pecuniary damage is estimated at over $1,000,000. The explosion is attributed to gas generated in the patent middling purifier. Eighteen lives were lost by the explosion in the Washburn flour mill, Minneapolis, Minn. At an election riot in Weldon, N. C., John Purnell, colored man, was killed and Captain T. S. Emery was badly hurt. The latter and another man were held in $2,000 bail. A dangerous counterfeit note of the denomination of 8100 on the Merchants' National Bank of New Bedford, Mass., has been put in circulation in the Western States. Miss Susan A. Stuart, & public school teacher at Zion's Church, Norfolk county, Va., was found dead in her room over the school house. Her pocketbook, rifled of its contents, was lying near the body, and there were other,evidences of foul play. Municipal elections have been held in various cities and towns of Indiana, with varying results, in some cases the Republicans electing a majority of the ticket in others the Democrate. At Terre Haute three tickets were in the field, and the new National party elected their candidate for mayor by twenty-one plurality. It is asserted that frauds upon the govern-. ment by whisky ring in Cincinnati have been discovered, amounting to about $1,250,000. Treasury agents from Washington were sent secretly to Cincinnati to investigate the matter. The frauds have been committed by refilling packages, the re-use of stamps, fraudulent guaging, and the use of a peculiarly shaped barrel which would permit the distiller to place in the barrel three or four gallons more than it appeared to hold. The evidence in the possession of the government officers in regard to these frauds is said to be conclusive. From Washington. The sub-committee of the House committee on education and labor has agreed on bill imposing tax of $100 apiece on Chinese immigrants. The public debt statement for April shows a decrease in the debt for the month of $3,015,865.59 and the following balance in the treasury: Currency, $1,163,140.68; special fund for redemption of fractional 10.000,000; special deposit of legal tenders for redemption of certificates of deposit, $28,315.000: coin (including coin and silver certificates, $55,144,500), $156.037 236. outstanding legal tenders, $346,681,016; the total exports for March were $72,347,000, and the imports, $37,350,638. Two treasury employes have been temporarily suspended by the President, Mr. Glover, of the House committee on expenditures in the treasury department. having stated to him in writing that they had been guilty of misconduct. The matter will be investigated. The House committee on education and labor agreed upon substitute for the several pending bills to restrict the immigration of Chinese. It makes it misdemeanor for the master of any vessel to take on board at any foreign port whatever any number exceeding fifteen Chinese passengers, whether male or female, with the intent to bring such passengers to the United States. rnd provides that the act shall take effect from and after January 1. S. B. Packard, of Louisiana, has been nominated by the President to be United States consul at Liverpool, and Lucins Fairchild,
