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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Condensed Telegraphic Reports of Late Events. BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. Budget of News For Easy Digestion-All Parts of the Country RepresentedInteresting Items. Governor Sadler of Nevada has signed the bill legalizing prize fig its. W. G. Harrington & Co., jewelers, have assigned at Columbus, Assets, $25,000, liabilities, $17,000. The people of Alabama are so much opposed to the Australian ballot system that it will probably be abandoned. e Ira D. Sankey, the revivalist, is coming west on account of his wife's health and will be in San Francisco in April. The abolition of the forty days' quarantine bill wll probably result in a large cattle trade between the United 0 States and Canada. The directors of the Chicago Gas Company have declared a regular n quarterly dividend of 1½ per cent payable February 20th. r r The Homeopathic Society of Kings county, N. Y., asserts that the girls of e Brooklyn are being injured by the IS amount of study enforced at the is schools. y The Indian school that is maintained E 10 by the Government at Carlisle, Pa., has been quarantined on account of the 15 prevalence of measles among the boys and girls. m Colonel M. J. Foster of Louisiana is st at Colon, Colombia, making inquiries in connection with the quarantine at New Orleans against shipping from South d American ports. ce 11 A receiver for the Dime Savings Bank of Chicago has been appointed. The bank owes depositors $365,000, 1, and has but $175,000 cash, but claims y to be able to pay depositors in full. y 10 Charles A. Eaton & Co., who operp ates one of the largest shoe factories in or Brockton. Mass., have discharged 300 employes and issued notice that the at factory would be closed indefinitely. 1. Burglars entered the shop of the A. ee et H. Reeves Gold Leaf Manufacturing Company, 153 Fifth avenue, Chicage, and blew open the safe, securing $5000 in gold in various stages of manufac ture. The woman suffrage bill passed the Senate of Nevada by a vote of 9 to 5 id and was sent to the Assembly, where 10 it was referred to a committee. It is 11 thought it will be defeated in the Ash te sembly by a very small majority. 01 The boys' dormitory of the Genessee Wesleyan Seminary, a four-story brick 18 building at Lima, N. Y., was burned ly the other morning. One student was en injured. The valuable library was or 000. entirely destroyed. The loss is $50,is or A defalcation of $43,000 has been ne discovered in the Second National ne Bank of Parkersburg. West Va., in the de accounts of Lee McFarland. an old and to trusted clerk in charge of indivioual on deposits. McFarland had speculated ne in grain and stocks. rd ht With the intention of providing at something to occupy the minds of the ed convicts at Sing Sing Prison, New se York, a class in drawing will be rt started. Among the convicts is an n. artist and architect. There is also in of Sing Sing an Italian sculptor, who will SS. start a class in modeling clay and wax. n, Edward Batson was instantly killed and ten others seriously injured, two iiprobably fatally, at the Georgia mine, ill near Flemington, W. Va. Coal is sent th down an inclined railway by gravity ry loaded cars hauling up empty ones or er another track. When the accident roccurred thrity miners were going up on in two cars when a loaded car jumped the train. the track, crashing into the upbound all A stockman named Maxiuall
