THE Woman's Municipal Suffrage bilL
which had passed the Michigan House, was
defeated in the Senate on the 16th by a vote
of 16 to 10.
HE New York Legislature adjourned sine
die on the 16th.
PBESIDENT HABBISON made the following
appointments on the 16th Solomon Hirsch,
of Oregon, Minister to Turkey Colonel
Clark E. Carr, of Ulinois, Minister to Den
mark Henry W. Severance, of California,
Consul at Honolulu John Jarrett, of Penn
sylvania, Consul at Birmingham Thomas
of Washington, Consul at Liver
pool.
ALLEN THOBNDIKE RICE, the newly-ap
pointed United States Minister to Russia,
died suddenly at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in
New York on the 16th from throat trouble.
Mr. Rice was thirty-six years of age, was a
bachelor, and was very wealthy.
FOREIGN.
EN THOUSAND weavers employed in the
cotton factories at Thizy, France, struck on
the 11th for higher wages.
THE immigration to Canada has fallen off
largely this season The whole number up
to the 11th was 9,695, against 14,738 last
year.
THE projected American bank in the City
of Mexico has encountered insurmountable
difficulties, and it was Baid on the 11th that
it would be unable to perfect its organiza
tion.
A PLOT was unearthed on the 13th among
the military at St. Petersburg having for its
object the assassination of the Czar, and a
large number of arrests had been made.
IN a dispute on the 13th at Eisenheim,
Germany, over some land, the villagers
were fired upon by the gendarmes and
seven persons were killed
IT was reported on the 13th from Rio de
Janeiro that there was imminent danger of
a war between Bolivia and Paraguay.
AN enormous landslide occurred on the
14th in the region of the Spiessback, Swit
zerland, destroying villages, forests and
cattle.
