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PERSONAL AND GENERAL. SECRETARY CARLISLE has ordered that the United States mints at Philade]phia* and San Francisco be fully manned and the full capacity of both mints utilized. in the coining of gold bullion. The treasury department possesses from $85,000,000 to $90,000,000 worth of gold bullion, which is a part of the gold reserve of $100,000,000. AT an early hour on the morning of the 28th the Baltimore & Ohio freight depot at McKeesport, Pa., a large iron structure, was completely wrecked and its contents destroyed by fire. Matches in household goods stored in the building are supposed to be the cause. The loss can not be fully estimated, but is several thousand dollars. HAYWARD A. HARVEY. the inventor of the Harveyized steel armor plate and roller screw, died on the morning of the 28th, at Orange, N. J., from kidney trouble. He had been sick for the past six months. B. F. BOOMER and his son Allen, private bankers at Waukon, la., were arrested, on the 28th, and taken to Lansing. They were charged with receiving deposits knowing they were insolvent.) RIOTING in San Sebastian, Spain, was renewed, on the night of the 28th, the orchestra again refusing to play the Basque hymn. The troops fired. wounding many civilians. The streets were patroled by the military all night. Two ACRES of buildings in the business center of Delavan, Wis., were destroyed by fire on the night of the 28th. Next morning the town was without a hotel, a livery stable or post office. FRIENDS of the cholera patients who were being conveyed to the pest house in Brahilov, Roumania, on the 28th, attacked the attendants. The police fired into the mob, wounding many. MORE than 100 persons at Shelesnovodsz, a summer resort in the Caueasus, were poisoned, on the 29th, by impure koumiss. The rest of the summer visitors left in a panie. THE official vote on the passage of the Wilson repeal bill shows Boatner (dem., La.) and Capehart (dem., W. Va.) not voting. This makes the total vote: Yeas, 239: nays, 109. CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y., suffered a loss amounting to several thousand dollars from a storm on the night of the 29th. THE epidemic in Grimsby, an English seaport in Lincolnshire, has been declared officially to be Asiatiecholera, after having been called a "choleraie disease" for many days. The last vietim of the disease was a woman, who died on the 29th. Several other cases before hers had ended fatally. THE New York republican state committee. at their meeting on the Sist, decided to hold their convention at Syracuse on October 6th. THE West Side bank of St. Paul, Minn., which suspended August 4, resumed business on the 31st. THE last stage of the home-rule debate in the British house of commons began on the 30th. THE steamer Alameda arrived at San Francisco from Sydney, via Honolulu, on the 31st, bringing news from the latter place of a conspiracy of royalists torestore the queen by firing the city, dynamiting the buildings and then in the panie rushing in and capturing the government building. The plot becoming known, however, to the authorities, was abandoned or postponed. FIVE carsof the 1:50 p. m. train on the Bost & Albany railroad from Pittsfield went through the bridge at Chester, Mass., on the 30th. Fifteen persons were killed and twenty-seven injured. THE steamship Aller. which arrived at New York on the 31st, brought 1,735,000 franes and £80,000 gold. THE weekly statement of the Bank of France, published on the 31st. shows a decrease of 13,000.000 francs gold and 5,495,900 trands silvers
