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Foreign Gossip. Premier Crispi makes a statement of the cabinet policy. Germany's great fortifications at Mahmedy are said to be with a view to easily invading the north of France. Canadians are against any proposition to annex their country to the United States. For making an incendiary speech at a Socialist meeting, the mayor of Monreale, Sicily, has been suspended. The extraction of a nail from Vaillant's thigh. received from his own bomb has thrown the anarchists into a fever. A pleasure yacht with tifteen persons aboard capsized in the harbor at Sidney during a squall and seven of the party were drowned. The offices of L'Anarchistse at Paris were raided to-day and a number of documents were seized. The Journal des Bats says that ten dynamite cart ridges have been found in an omnibus in the Rue Fuvier. The statement is made on the best of authority that the relations between the Vatican and Russia are less cordial than they were some time ago. The pope, in his recent autograph letter to the ezar, complained of various acts against the liberty of Polish Catholics. It is reported that Joseph Codina, the anarchist who was recently arrested at Perpignan. Spain and brought to Madrid has confessed to being the father of the Liceo theatre outrage. He added calmly, "Now. only my death remains I wait it. "Letters have been received by the authorities of Gijon threatening to blow the Jesuit college up and other public buildings at that place. A committee of Spanish manufacturers, who are supported by several well known politicians, has arrived at Madrid in order to protest against the commercial treaty with Germany The committee intends to seek an interview with the queen, and will represent to her that the concessions made to Germany will ruin many trades and injure Spanish interests generally In addition, the committee will point out to the queen the vast increase in Ger man imports during recent years. Miscellaneous Items. The long strike in the Providence, R I., mills is ended by arbitration. "Buffalo Bill" Cody is a candidate for governor of Nebraska. In many localities in Texas cattle are perishing by thousands No rain has fallen for five months. Samuel Gompers is re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor on a close vote. The private bank of Olmsted & Storms of Galesburg. Mich., has suspended. Lawrence Gronlund, socialist, was de nied permission to speak in any of the Topeka, Kan., churches. Surveyor of Customs Alexander of Omaha has sent his resignation to the president. Pennsylvania heirs of Stephen Mast claim acres of land in Baltimore, Md., now valued at $100,000,000. Denver police are being execrated for their inability to cope with the epidemic of robbery in the city. Erath & Thym, cut stone dealers at Kansas City, Mo., made an assignment to J. A. Boyard. Assets, $13,000. The Working Woman's Home, established at a cost of $250,000. has been thrown open in Philadelphia. Anxiety is felt for the fast line steamer Corean, which is now five days overdue at St. Johns, N. F. Aldermen of Mankato, Kan., passed an ordinance fining any one whistling "After the Ball" 50 cents. James Ogden, chief of the Lima, Ohio, fire department, has sued the Times-Democrat for $10,000, alleging libel. Boston's cradle of liberty was rocked with true American speeches on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the Boston tea party. The United German society of Hamilton, Ohio, assigned to Christen Benningholen. Assets and liabilities, $18,000 each. Kansas mine operators are said to 1gnore the weekly pay law. An investigation has been ordered by the governor. Suit for stock worth $950,000 has been brought by the administrators of the A. J. Davis estate against A. J. Davis, Jr. The strikes at Olneyville, R. I., involving 5,700 persons, fell through, the manufacturers making slight concessions. H. E. Pilcher has been appointed general freight agent of the Jacksonville Southeastern, with headquarters at St. Louis. General Master Workman Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor, declares himself 2 foe to strikes and an out-andout free trader. The Young Men's Democratic club of Massachusetts held a banquet at Boston. C.S. Hamlin, assistant secretary of the treasury, was the guest of the evening. The receiver of the Union Pacific system has closed a contract for 30,000 tons of steel rails, which will keep the plant at Pueblo busy for al nost four months. The Baltimore & Ohio finance committee has authorized the payment of the customary dividend of 3 per cent on the preferred stock on the business for the six months ending Dec. 31. A Cleveland, Ohio, syndicate, with H. A. Everett, president of the Cleveland. Street Railway company, at its head, has secured a controlling interest in the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation company. The banking firm of Joseph Steiner & Sons, the general merchardise firm of Steiner Bros. & Co., both doing business at Greenville, Ala., made an assignment to E. R. Adams and Bernard Steiner. The liabilities are estimated to be not less than $100,000
