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CONDENSED NEWS Gathered From All Parts of the Globe by Telegraph. Joseph Barbot, the French tenor, died in Paris. He was born in 1824. Halanzier-Dufresnoy, formerly director of the Paris opera, is dead. He was born in 1819. Hon. Edward Avery, for many years a prominent democrat in state politics, died Tuesday morning in Boston. Isaac Prager & Sons, extensive retail dry goods dealers of Parkersburg, W. Va., have made an assignment. Assets and liabilities are estimated at $100,000. The President Tuesday amended the civil service rules so as to include in this service all employes of government penitentiaries in theUnited States which are subject to classification. John Pagan, a wealthy citizen of Yonkers, N. Y., committed suicide Tuesday morning by shooting himself. He was a prominent leader of the prohibition party in West Chester county. At Minneapolis, Minn., the Bankers' Exchange bank suspended payment Wednesday. It is a small concern and its officers claim that they have money enough to pay every depositor and stockholder. When the protocol is signed by Sir Julian Pauncefote and Senor Andrade, the representatives of Great Britain and Venezuela, diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Great Britain will be again resumed. A special from Galveston, Tex., states that 1,000 or more persons in that city are suffering from la grippe, which has been epidemic for nearly two weeks. Every physician in the city is overrun with patients, and druggists are busy night and day filling prescriptions. Senator Dubois, of Idaho, has left Washington for his state to look after his interests in the coming senatorial election. An interesting fact connected with the departure of Senator Dubois is said to be that he will have the support of the democratic party in his fight for re-election. At the state department it is declared that there has been no substantial alteration whatever in the international aspect of the Cuban question since President Cleveland wrote his reference to the matter in his annual message of December 7. It is believed the death of Maceo may have simplified the problem. The run on the Farmers' and Mechanics' bank, at Minneapolis, continues Wednesday morning. The bank has taken advantage of the rule which enables it to demand 60 days' notice before paying a depositor. There is also a slight run on the Hennepin County saving bank. It has deposits of $1,200,000. The Commercial bank of Selma, Ala., (a state institution), failed to open its doors Wednesday morning and soon afterwards it was announced that it had assigned. The local depositors agreed to an extension, but it is understood that several New York banks, which were creditors in large sums, would not agree and hence the assignment. The Northwestern Loan and Building association Wednesday made ap. plication for the appointment of a receiver for the Northern Trust Co. of Minneapolis, Minn., alleging that it is insolvent. The matter was put over until January 7, but the court issued an order restraining the defendant from paying out any more money before that time. A severe famine is reported from western China. It is particularly severe in the city of Chauntung, in Szecheun province, where there has been a prolonged rain, causing foods which have spread over vast areas of country, destroying almost the entire rice and vegetable crops. The inhabitants are dying by scores from starvation, and to add to the horror of it, a large por-
