Philadelphia has raised 50,000 marks for sufferers by the German floods.

Sixty-six thousand gallons of whiskey were burned at Boyle's distillery, on Pike's Run, near Pittsburg, yesterday.

Thomas Hilson of Philadelphia, formerly of Boston, committed suicide yesterday by jumping over Niagara Falls.

Professor Samuel F. Greene of Brown University was yesterday stricken with paralysis, and lies in a critical condition.

The bodies of twenty Chinamen and one white man have been taken from the ruins of the West Berkley, Cal., powder mills.

In the French Senate yesterday M. Waddington declared that the republic was threatened by nobody, and had nothing to fear except the faults it might itself commit.

It is expected that the British authorities will have much difficulty in proving the alleged conspiracy to kill government officials recently developed in the examination at Dublin.

The United States Supreme Court has decided that the section of the civil-rights act relating to conspiracy to deprive any person of equal protection of the laws, is unconstitutional on the ground that the law infringes upon the reserved rights of the States.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23, 1. A. M. For New England, colder, fair weather, westerly winds, stationary or higher pressure.