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THE fireworks factory at Civita Vecchia, Italy, took fire on the 26th, and was destroyed. Ten bodies have been recovered from the ruins.
WHILE in the act of going aboard the Italian line steamship Archemide on the 27th Salvater Pietta, an alleged fugitive from Cincinnati, was arrested on a charge of having appropriated and fled with money deposited with him by his countrymen.
THERE were 4,777 new cases of cholera and 1,498 deaths from the disease reported throughout Spain on the 26th.
AT Clinton, Ind., on the night of the 26th, burglars blew open the safe in the Post-office and secured $400 in stamps and money. There is no clew of the perpetrators of the robbery, which was not discovered until the next morning.
THE run on the Spring Garden Bank at Philadelphia, Pa., has subsided.
UNITED STATES MINISTER STALLO arrived at Rome on the 28th.
GLADSTONE says his trip to Norway greatly benefitted him.
THE German Lutheran Synod began its annual conference at Rochester, Minn., on the 28th.
ADMIRAL COURBET'S remains were interred in the Hotel des Invalides, Paris, on the 28th.
FIRE at Tallman, Mich., on the 28th destroyed Butler & Petter's saw mill, also a large lot of lumber and shingles.
Ir is reported that Russia is making overtures to Turkey for an alliance.
A GREAT boom is reported in the Bear Mountain mining camps, recent runs of metal assaying very satisfactorily.
SUBSCRIPTION lists have been opened in Galicia for the benefit of the exiled Poles.
A TELEGRAM was received at the Department of Justice on the 24th from a man in West Virginia, asking if he could kill a man for drunkenness.
A QUARTER of a million dollars' worth of property was destroyed and 400 people made idle by a fire in London on the 28th.
THE Treasury Department paid out over $10,000,000 of pensions during August. It is therefore expected that the decrease of the public debt for the month will not be as large as usual.
BUSINESS failures throughout the country during the seven days ended on the 28th were: For the United States, 165; and for Canada, 24; or a total of 189 failures, as compared with the total of 177 the week previous.
Two policemen named McNatt and Grant were murdered at Geneva, Ill., on the night of the 27th. The deed is supposed to have been committed by burglars.
HON. A. M. KEILY is the guest of Secretary Bayard at Washington. He is reported to have resigned the Austrian mission.
A PETITION will be presented to the Home Secretary of Great Britain, praying for the suppression of the sale of obscene prints.
THE crew of the whaling brig Isabella, crushed in the ice July 20th, 1884, arrived in Halifax on the 28th with the loss of only one sailor, who died of scurvy on the voyage home.
HUNDREDS of laborers have been swindledjin Chicago by labor agencies who sent them to the Canadian Northwest on false promises of work to be obtained there.
A. WILSON NORRIS, late pension agent at Philadelphia, having failed to settle his accounts, has rendered himself liable to a prosecution for embezzlement.
COLORED soldiers at Fort Meade, Dak., who undertook to wipe out the town of Sturges because of the lynching of Hall, were captured and returned to the fort.
MARSHAL HENRY HOLLAND, while endeavoring to arrest counterfeit shovers at Cape May, N. J., on the 28th, was beaten into insensibility, and E. C. Merkley and others who came to his assistance were roughly handled.
It is now learned that three pilot boats and fourteen members of their crews were lost off Beaufort, S. C., during the recent cyclone.
THERE was a large crowd at Duluth, Minn., on the 28th to witness the hanging of Waiseman, who murdered Fairley last spring and then burned the latter's shanty to hide the crime. The execution took place at three o'clock. Only a few people were admitted to the inclosure, chiefly reporters and officials of neighboring counties.
VICE-PRESIDENT HENDRICKS and wife have returned to Indianapolis. He has given up his California trip and will remain at home until Congress convenes, with a possible brief visit to Washington in the intervening time.