GENEBAL CHABLES A STETSON, for nearly
forty years proprietor of the Astor House,
in New York, died on the 29Ch, aged Beven
ty-seven yeara
THE bill conferring municipal suffrage on
women was defeated in the New York
Legislature on the 29 ih.
THE remains of the late Chief-Justice
Waite reached Toledo, 0., on the 29th, ac
companied by the official escorts from
Washington, and after funeral services in
Trinity Church were taken to Forest Cem
etery for interment.
GOVEBNOB JACKSON, of Maryland, on the
30th ult. pardoned seven Democratic elec
tion officers who were sentenced June 27,
1887, to two years imprisonment for elec
tion frauds.
THE Virginia Republican convention to
elect National delegates will be held at
Petersburg May 17.
HON. W. E. SMITH, late Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, died on the 30th ult at
his home in Plattsburg, N. Y., aged thirty
eight yeara
ON a strict party vote the Republicans vtf
the New York Assembly on the 30th,^t
passed the High-License bill.
FOREIGN.
THE house of Thomas Ball, pos^naster at
Orillia, Can., was destroyed by fite on the
27th, and his three young children perished
in the flomea
DISPATCHES of the 27th s*y that near
Matanzas, Cuba, the crops on three exten
sive esGates had been destro/ed by tire.
THE house of Mra Peter Bsrtine, at Bath
urst. N. B., was burned on she 27th, during
her absence, and her two girls, aged thir
teen and eleven years, were burned to
death
THE banks of the Elba in Germany, were
flooded for a distance cf many miles on the
27 th, and hundreds of villages were sub
merged. An enormous amount of damage
had been done, and many lives had been
lost.
