Albert E. Kent, of San Francisco, gives $25,000 for a chemical laboratory at Yale College.
Judge McCrary, of the Supreme Court, has resigned, and accepted a position as a railway attorney.
The Government of China has ordered the construction of two more torpedo boats at the German port of Stettin.
St. Louis had many fires last week. There were nine outbreaks within forty-eight hours. The firemen were completely worn out.
There were 319 failures in the United States last week—the largest number yet recorded within the same number of days.
There was strong talk at Hillsboro of lynching the discharged prisoners in the Emma Bond case, but better counsel prevailed.
Governor Stoneman presided at a meeting in San Francisco, where arrangements were made to hold a world's exposition in 1887.
The mercury at Charleston, S.C., was 13 degrees below zero January 4th. Through New England the weather was extremely cold.
Mary, the seventeenth wife of the late Brigham Young, died at Salt Lake City Saturday from blood poisoning. She has fourteen survivors.
A pie made of tainted meat caused the poisoning of sixteen boarders and three Sisters at a convent in Montreal. Two of the former are dangerously ill.