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announced it is believed the use of metallic currency is imminent. The proposed reform consists in coining new gold pieces exactly corresponding in value to the present paper trouble." PARIS-Minister of foreign affairs, Berthelot, has resigned on account of ill health. GEORGETOWN, Texas.-Matt Moody, a negro, was hanged in the presence of 4,000 people, for the murder of Andrew Pickrell. PITTSBURG-At the wire nail manufacturers' association meeting in New York the price of wire nails was advanced 15 cents per keg. Cut nails will follow in the same ratio. VERSAILLES, Ky.-The deposit bank of Midway, whose cashier, Mr. Stone, was alleged to have embezzled nearly $30,000 of its funds, has assigned to John Wise, one of the directors. LONDON-The Chronicle says it will still hear of negotiations for the purchase of Delagoa Bay by Great Britain are afoot and King Humbert will arbitrate the price to be paid in spite of denials made in behalf of the government in parliment. LIMA. Peru - The government has notified the diplomatic corps that all claims against Peru arising out of the recent civil war must be presented within 30 days. ANSONIA, Conn.-Fire destroyed the $20,000 Germania hall, a brick block. The janitor, Henry Erben, fell from an upper landing head foremost and was fatally injured. JOHANNESBURG. - President Kruger will not go to England. Boer feeling is running high against the reform leaders, whose position will be critical in the event of further friction. LONDON. - Mark Twain has com pletely recovered his health and he sailed from Bombay for Mauritius and Cape Town. He has sold the copyright of a new work for 850,000. PATERSON, N. J.--Maj. Edward Leslie, a well known inventor, committed suicide by taking morphine. His wife and family: are in Canada. A suit growing out of infringement of patent was recently decided against Leslie, and this made him melancholy. HAVANA. - The column of troops commanded by Col. Pauvia has been engaged with insurgent cavalry numbering about 1,000 men, under the leadership of Lacret at the plantation of San Joaquin. The Spanish cavalry charged the enemy and the latter retreated leaving 15 killed. WASHINGTON. - All United States mails for the Bahama islands after April 8 will be sent from New York alone. Part of the service during the past winter months has been performed by a contract with the steamer Northumberland, plying between Nassau, N. P., and Palm Beach, Fla., but the arrangement terminates on the day mentioned. NEW YORK.-A verdict was returned in favor of the plaintiff for $129,240 in a suit tried before Justice Freedman in which Baring, Magoun & Co., of London, sued L. Waterbury & Co., brokers, to recover £25,000 with interest, loaned by the plaintiff on Dec. 21, 1892. Bonds and securities were given the loan, but the defendant refused to pay on the ground that the loan was on behalf of the National Cordage syndicate, which had failed. BROOKLYN. Edward King, the well known author and correspondent is dead. SAN FRANCISCO. - Three hundred Chinese were blown to atoms by the explosion of a magazine at Fort Kiang, China. According to advices by steamer the disaster was the work of mutinous soldiers. SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-Albert Batterton, a young man of Athens was shot and killed by City Marshal Trent in that city while burglarizing a restaurant. PANA, Ills. - Ddward S. Davis exmayor of this city and a prominent commission merchant committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. Cause of financial trouble. CHICAGO-Trans-Missouri lines have refused to grant the 1 cent a mile rate to the G. A. R. encampment. ROME-The senate by a vote of 109 to 6, has adopted the 140,000,000 lire credit asked for by the government for contemplated operations in Africa. CHICAGO. - Miss Frances E. Willard authorizes the statement that the national convention of the W. C. T. U. for 1896 will be held in St. Louis. MILWAUKEE. - The families owning two of the largest breweries in Milwaukee were united last night, when Miss Ida Uihlein become the wife of Frederick Pabst, Jr. HAVANA.-An expedition, supposed to be from the steamer Bermuda, has landed between Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba, in che province of the latter name. GRAND FORKS, N. D.-W. P. Alsip, of this city, was awarded the government contract for 2,500,000 brick at the Rosebud Indian agenoy. EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn.-A man named Smith Wheeler was found dead in a saloon. The officials hint at foul play and will hold an inquest. Acute
