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Telegraphic Ticks. A brief but violent shock of earthquake was felt in the Tyrol yesterday. The Kendall Banking Company, Howard, S. D., closed Its doors yesterday. Gardner was given the fight at Buffalo with Solly Smith on a foul in the fifth *Yound. For the third week of November the inSouthern railway earned $413,291, an crease of $24,886. The business part of Athens, Ala., was almost destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Loss, $150,000. The big clothing store of A. Nathan, by Great Falls, Mont., was destroyed fire yesterday. Loss probably $200,000. J. M. Johnson was yesterday appointed postmaster at Sophia, Randolph county, N. C., vice S. W. Kivett, Jr., removed. The post-office at Derr. Lincoln county, N. C., has been ordered removed one and a quarter miles west of the old location. Messrs. Switzer, Newitter & Co., of Vicksburg, one of the largest dry -goods houses in Mississippi, assigned Monday. Liabilities nearly $150,000. Surgeon-General Wyman, of the MarineHospital Service, has received information of Rio that cholera prevails in the States Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Cologne Gazette publishes a dispatch from Kiel stating that the Brazilian Government has ordered the construction in Germany of four cruisers. The executive council of the McCarthyite wing of the Irish Parliamentary party have agreed that any men differing from the policy of the party shall be asked to resign. Adolphus Duncan (colored) was convicted in Atlanta yesterday of criminal assault on a white woman, the penalty for which is death, and will be sentenced to hang early in January. A royal decree has been issued at Madrid abolishing public executions, the decree, it is said, being due to the public exposure of the body of Anarchist Salvator Franch, recently executed in BarceIona. A violent shock of earthquake, having motions both undulatory and vertical, was felt at Brosta, Italy, yesterday morning, the shock being followed by rumbling sounds similar to those heard at Bologna and Verona. The New York Court of Appeals yesterday, in the case of the people against John Y. McKane, appellant, affirmed the judgment of conviction for felony rendered in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Kings county. All the executive departments at Washington will be closed at noon to-day, in order to give the clerks an opportunity to prepare to observe Thanksgiving-Day to-morrow, on which day the departments will be closed. The Security National Bank, of Grand Island, Neb., went into voluntary liquidation yesterday, and the Citizens' State Bank, of the same place, did likewise, the object, it is understood, being the organization of a new bank. Ex-Governor Oden Bowle, of Maryland, was stricken with paralysis at his country house, at Bowie Station, Prince George's county, Monday night, and last night he was reported as resting easily, and in no immediate danger of dissolution. Senator Bradley, of the Lexow Committee, says that he will, at the next session of the Legislature, have the Lexow Committee authorized to go to Brooklyn, and make an investigation there similar to the one made in New York city. The Central News of London has received a dtspatch denying the report of the foundering of the Italian torpedocruiser Monzambano, the facts being that the vessel went ashore and sustained some damage, but was subsequently floated and towed to Venice. A conference of free-silver leaders from all parts of the country is being held at St. Louis, among the champions of the white metal present being General A. J. Warner, Congressman Bryan, H. E. Taubeneck. General Weaver, and Congressman R. P. Bland. A fire started at 2:45 A. M. yesterday in Webb's Hotel, Lyndonville, Vt. which, before it was extinguished, had wiped out the entire business portion of the village, except J. L. Watchis's grocery and Dodge & Watson's furniture store. Loss probably $200,000; insurance, $130,000. The Department of State is still without Information of the alleged Armenian massacres in Turkey, and in the absence of despatches on the subject from Minister Terrell, is disposed to consider the accounts received by Armenians in this country as highly exaggerated. The Cabinet meeting was postponed for the third time yesterday, owing to the absence of the President, whose physician says that while Mr. Cleveland is much better, his rheumatic foot worries him considerably, and It is more prudent that he should remain at Woodley. The New York Herald's special cable from Buenos Ayres says General Avery, representing the Atlanta (Ga.) Exposition, has arrived there from Rio, and says the Brazilian Government has promised an exhibit, and that he was received with the utmost courtesy by all classes in Rio. E. c Hastings, a milkman who lived 307 at Flournoy street, Chicago, shot the and latkilled E. P. Hilliard, a lawyer, in
