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FLASHES OF GENERAL NEWS. George Slosson is out with a challenge and it holds good only to Ives. The American Society of Civil Engineers is in annual session in New York. While coming from Havana to New York S. Menede was robbed in his stateroom of $400 and a watch. In a $1,000,000 infringement suit at Sr. Paul, the Wood Harvesting company beat the Esterly company. An old Spanish grant, covering Pensacola's water front, is declared illegal by Florida's supreme court. Embezzler Burke, who stole $8,000,000 from Louisiana, says he will return from Honduras to stand trial. While being initiated into sixteenth degree Masonry, W. H. Boothroyd, a Detroit publisher, dropped dead. The Tariff Reform league of Boston passed resolutions calling from the prompt passage of the Wilson bill. High railroad rates will make the Spreckels, of San Francisco, send 50,000 tons of raw sugar round the Horn. Virginia legislators are considering a bill to legalize the sale and reorganization of the Richmond and Danville railroad. Managers of several potteries at East Liverpool, O., announce a new scale of wages and others will do sothisafternoon. On his way to the penitentiary, Bank Cashier Redwine, the Atlanta embezzler, absolved all other officials from wrongdoing. Striking coal miners at Salem, O., put a dynamite bomb against the door of Operator John Evans' office, but it failed to explode. The Massilion (O.) coal operators issued a circular asking Ohio miners to accept reduction in the price of mining of 15 cents per ton. Charged with helping her lynched son to murder Mr. and Mrs. Rhines, Mrs. Elizabeth Parker, of Winchester, O., was arrested. With a dynamite cartridge, unknown miscreants blew out the front of the suspended Exchange bank's building at Farmington, Minn. Oakland citizens will subscribe $50,000 toward building a ferry to San Francisco that will compete with the Southern Pacific railroad. A motion for the appointment of a receiver of the property of the ThomsonI Houston Electric company. of New York, was made to Judge Barrett. The deadlock in the special session of the Colorado legislature was clearly de: fined when the senate refused to consider the first bill submitted from the house. Admiral Mello visited the convict island, Fernan Noronna, enlisting many of the released prisoners, and took all the available provisions except enough to feed for five days those remaining on the island.
