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LATE NEWS. Richard O'Gorman, the Irish national1st. died at his home in New York, aged 75 years. Dun's trade review states that there is very little activity to be discovered in any line of business. Telegraph operators of New York have formed a union which is intended to be national in its scope. W.C. Coup, of circus fame, died of pneumonia in a hospital at Jacksonville, Fla. He was 62 years old. The Illinois senate has passed bills to exterminate the Russian thistle and to regulate elevated railroads. Both branches of the Michigan legislature passed a bill providing for registration in the City of Detroit. A. M. Todd, of Kalamazoo. was nominated for congress, to succeed Senator Burrows, by the prohibitionists. In the Illinois legislature a bill has been introduced calculated to suppress vile and sensational publications. General John A. McClernand is rapidly growing weaker and the aged warrior has given up hope of recovery. Wisconsin legislators have agreed to appoint a committee to investigate all of the institutions under state control. Bradstreet's financial report states that the recent bond issue has failed to arouse speculators from their lethargy. Missionaries on the coast of Labrador state that there is great suffering and starvation among the Nascapee Indians. Leaders of the American Protective Association are agitating the question of forming an independent American party. Gen. Mason Brayman, ex-governor of Idaho, one of the oldest masons in the United States, died at Kansas City, aged 81. Spokane capitalists are going into the manufacture of beet sugar with a 300ton mill and $500,000 incorporated capital. Representative planters from all over Alabama have agreed on a reduction of cotton acreage this year from 40 to 50 per cent. Bernhard Meuser, a business man of Beardstown, III., disappeared February 27, and it is feared he has met with foul play. Two hundred English iron firms have formed a combination for the purpose of controlling prices of all manufactured goods. Nine sophomores in the University of Illinois have been suspended for the term for kidnaping members of the freshmen class. Two buildings in New York City fell, causing the death of four men. Twentyone other employes were seriously injured. Friends of Frank G. Lenz, the American bicyclist who was lost in Asia Minor ten months ago, have organized a search for him. Editor Weamer, of Bristol, Ind., has brought suit for damages against three wealthy residents, alleging libel and slander. Engagement is announced of Mary Leiter, daughter of the Chicago millionaire, to G. Curzon, M. P., son of Lord Scarsdale. Creditors and officers of the Ballou Banking Company, of Sioux City, Iowa, have agreed on a receivership to wind up its affairs. Mrs. Amanda Hamilton, of Granville, Ind., aged 45, and her mother, aged 70, were shamefully beaten by a gang of white caps. General John McNulty has consented to be a candidate for department commander of the Illinois Grand Army of the Republic. The Omaha conference of western railroad officials for the purpose of re-establishing freight rates terminated without an agreement. One hundred extra police and 300 residents patrol the streets of Little Rock, Ark., nightly to prevent hold-ups, which have been frequent. The Brooklyn grand jury has returned twenty-five indictments against persons who in various ways interfered with or obstructed trolley cars during the recent strike. An epidemic of diptheretic grip is raging among the 900 convicts in the Michigan City, Ind., prison. Several hundred of the inmates have been attacked by the malady. Forty-one car loads of emigrant movables and stock from Minonk, III., and
