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BOILED DOWN. President Diaz will have no opposition for re-election. J. M. Kizer, former treasurer of Texarkana, died at Boerne Saturday and was buried at Texarkana yesterday. The American colony in the City of Mexico celebrated Washington's birthday. Minister Ryan held a reception. f The comptroller of the currency has appointed Emerson Collins of Williamsport receiver of the First national bank of Muncy, Pa. An investigation along the frontier shows there is no danger of an uprising in Mexico. The Garza banditti appear to have disbanded. A rousing Trinity river navigation meeting was held at Dallas Saturday night, and a considerable sum of money raised to test the feasibility of navigation. The amount of 4½ per cent bonds redeemed yesterday was $16,000, making the total redemption to date $23,300,650, and leaving outstanding $2,204,050. Hanlan and O'Connor have accepted Teemer and Hosmer's challenge for a race at Point of Pines in June for $1000 a side and the world's championship. George William Curtis delivered an address yesterday before the Brooklyn institute on James Russell Lowell, the seventy-third anniversary of his birth. Congressmen and diplomats spent yesterday in Jackson Park, Chicago, inspecting World's fair preparations. At night Chicago gave the visitors a grand banquet, Chief of Police Hackett shot and killed James Hannon, a well-known citizen of Tarrytown, N. Y., last night. The murder was the result of a quarrel at the Democratic primaries. There is considerable anxiety expressed in regard to the health of the queen regent, Marie Christiana, mother of little King Alfonse XIII of Spain, son of the late King Alfonse XII. The great cake walk, of which the colored population of New York and vicinity have been talking for days past, occurred last night at Madison Square garden, New York, in the presence of 12,000 persons. George Pellew, an editorial writer on the New York Sun, was found dead in a basement area on West Thirty-fifth street by an ashman. His neck was broken and he had evidently fallen while on his way home, two blocks away. The Galveston Chamber of Commerce appointed the following delegates to the trans-Mississippi commercial congress which meets in New Orleans: Hon. Walter Gresham, J. G. Goldthwaite, R. B. Hawley. James Moore, P. J. Willis, John Raymershoffer, Judge George E. Mann and Frank Leach. The family of M. Heary, living in the northern part of Sac county, Iowa, was suffocated yesterday by coal gas. Neighbors who went to the house found all the family insensibie and at once summoned a physician. It was too late to save all the family, and a young child died, while the rest are very feeble. During the singing of a hymn at the opening of the evening service in the Evangelical church at Loganton, near Lock Haven, Pa., Rev. John Heller, a local preacher, inclined his head as if in prayer and breathed his last. Heart disease was the cause of his death. He was eightyseven years of age. The neighbors of Henry Assenmayer, at Joliet, III., yesterday found him and his aged wife barely breathing and the room filled with coal gas that was escaping from the top of the stove. Doctors were summoned, but so far have not brought the sufferers to consciousness and they are beyond recovery. The couple are about eighty years old. The president has granted a pardon in the case of Alexander Smith, convicted in Georgia of violating internal revenue laws; in the case of Isaac Rogers, convicted in Pennsylvania of violating national banking law, and sentenced May 21, 1886, to seven years' imprisonment and to pay cos of prosecution, the president has remitted that portion of the sentence requiring payment of costs. Cadets have been appointed to the Military academy as follows: Lucian Stacey of Porter, Second Maine, with Timothy Murphy of Lewiston as alternate; Thos. J. Powers, Jr., of Philadelphia, Fifth Pennsylvania; Walter G. Amos of Detroit first Michigan, with Horatio J. Lawrence of Detroit as alternate: Chas. E. Russell of Comanche Eleventh Texas, with Dennis H. Currie of Glen Rose as alternate; Cyrus B. E. Pinkerton of Rantoul as alternate in the Fifteenth Illinois: Geo. F. Markham, New York city, Fifteenth New York, and Daniel A. Eillin of Philadelphia third Pennsylvania. Championship Bicycle Race.
