rtivBxektwaf Mnii Berrta*^Washington, April 27. -On and after^next Wednesday, May 1, the railway mall^service will be subject to tbe civil service^law, rules and regulations, and all ap^poititmen'h to positions other than to those^excepted by law will thereafter be made^only upon certification from the civil ser^vice commission. An effort has been made^to induce the president to again extend the^time at which the law bringing the rail^way mall service under the civil service^law and rules would become operative,^but he has decided agstnst further post^ponenient
NaUoual( i|^ui Not**^W AMU No TON, April 27. I'ostmaster^General Wanainaker has issued an order^that hereafter the rostoffice department^will be closed on Sunday to clerks and all^employes except the required watchmen,^eLglneers and firemen.
J.M. Baker, Michigan, has t^een appoint^^ed aasiatant superintendent of the railway^mall service. Francis A. Weaver, of Penn^^sylvania, has been appointed chief of the^division of lands and railways in tbe inte^^rior depar'iuent.
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Jonrhhoho,Ark.. April 27.^ The most^destructive tire that ever occurred in north^east Arkansas took place here to-day, re^^sulting In the total loss of over forty^houses. A powerful gale was blowing at^tbe time. The loss is $150,000 to S200.000,^With alK)ut 976,000 Insurance.
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BitcnaVista, Col., April 27-At^o'clock this morning fire broke out In the^rear of a vacant bnllding in a business^block on Main street, owned hy Nat Kicb^and before water could be turned on the^fire communicated to adjoining buildings on^either side snd rapidly spread till about^half tbe block was In flames. Intense^heat blistering paint and cracking glass in^all the windows in the opposite str*eto The^total loss aggregates 976,000. The insur^^ance Is ligbt. The buildings burned aje^owned by C, Tenons.
ThreeBurarxl to Ilaata.
