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& WEBSTER BOWDITCH, COMPANY NEWS NUGGETS. Brought by the Wires from the North. East South and West. The President has signed the Utah statehood bill. Adams & Ilsley, harness and trunk manufacturers, 150 Tremont street, Boston, have assigned. Liabilities, about $14,000, The shoe factory at Marblehead, owned by John F. Harris, was burned, Monday morning, with a loss on contents of $50,000 and on the building of $30,000; fully insured. The Castle Square theatre to be opened in the fall at Boston, bas been leased to Edward E. Rose, late stage manager of the Boston Museum. The new theatre is being built at the corner of Tremont and Chandler streets. A Guatemala special says: The British, it is reported here, are secretly supplying the Mosquito Indians with arms and money. A Tegueigalpa special says: Refugees from the coast continue to arrive, entering the country near Cape Gracias a'Dios. Fighting is reported to be going on in that region. The final accounting upon the estate of Charles W. Scranton of the insolvent banking firm of Bunnell & Scranton of New Haven, Coun., was filed, Tuesday. The estate will pay less than 1 per cent to the creditors. The claims aggregate $142,000 and the amount left to be divided is $1429 95. The people of Constantinople are in a state of panic owing to the prediction that another earthquake may be expected. Shops and dwellings are practically deserted. It is claimed that the government officials are concealing the number of the killed. In Stamboul alone the death roll amounts to over 200. The damage to property is put at £5,000,000. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says: "The cholera epidemic is much more intense and fatal than were the outbreaks of the two previous years. The disease has even penetrated into Finland, hitherto free from cholera. The hospitals are full and the prison is being converted into a hospital. The sanitary commission will henceforth sit permanently." The sub-committee of the constitutional convention on suffrage, appointed specially to consider the question of giving women the right to vote in New York, Tuesday, decided to report favorably to the full committee Mr. Tucker's proposed amendment to submit separately to the vote of the people the question as to whether women shall be granted the right of suffrage. The 19th annual convention of the National Amateur Press Association opened at Boston, Tuesday, at the United States hotel. Many Western delegates were kept away by the strike. In the absence of the president and vice president, Truman J. Spencer, New Britain, Conn, was chosen chairman. The business was wholly routine. The initiation fee of $1 was abolished. "Tom" Brado, who with M. Falk & Co., conducts a money transfer company at Bridgeport, Conn., was victimized by sports, Monday. to the extent of about $700 or $860. The concerns receive money for "transfer" to the racing tracks. The transaction was a clever wire tapping scheme. It is believed the strangers who worked the affair came from New York. The centennial celebration of the organization of the Lancaster, N. II., Congregational church occurred. Tuesdav. with an-