PER P&ESS ASSOCIATION.]

Brownnd. DtmsDiN. May 3. Mr William Blake was drowned at Ramsay's crossing, near Hyde. He was an old colonist, having been private secretary to one of the Australian Governors. For the second time the jury added a rider calling attention to th» dangerous state of the crossing, and urging tha authorities to immediately erect a bridge. j

LABOR.
■ — m "-* London, May 1. May Day was quiet in Europe. The police will not permit the un employed to assemble in the capital, and the latter are sending delegates. Wasminston, May I. Four hundred Ooxeyltes, headed by a band, and carrying banners inscribed with attacks on financiers, couched in blasphemous language, marched to the grounds of the Capitol to-day. The entrance was barred by the police. Ooxey, accompanied by his wife and daughter, were in front of the proces sion. The daughter was fantastically attired as the Goddess of Peace and rode a white horse. Coxey and Brown (another leader) jumped over the wall surrounding the Capitol, but were pnr sued and captured before they could ascend tbe steps of the building or speak. Both were hustled out of the precincts, upon which the mob became excited, and were eventually dispersed by the police after a free use of batons. The movement was an entire fiasco. beven thousand unemployed com mitted excesses at Cleveland, Ohio, and teveral persons were injured,

CORRESPONDENCE.
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