Gessler Rosseau is found guilty at New York of having sent an infernal machine to blow up the steamship _Umbria_. Andrew Carnegie announces that henceforth he will give donations to small colleges in preference to founding libraries. March 28.—Governor Joseph W. Folk of Missouri, at a speech in New York, declares that bribery is treason, and says that his state is leading a movement to make it odious throughout the country. March 29.—A disastrous fire over 100 feet underground is caused by a wreck in the New York Subway. March 30.—The New York legislative committee investigating the Gas Trust develops the fact that the company has been paying 10 per cent. dividends on watered stock. Charges are made that James H. Hyde, First Vice-President of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, used company funds in paying expenses of spectacular balls of last winter; also his private servants. President Mellen, of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, tells a legislative committee that great abuses have grown up in the railroad business, and says that there should be stricter state and Government control. March 31.—Harry N. Pillsbury, the American chess champion, attempts suicide at Philadelphia, but is prevented. Henry H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil Company, issues a defense of John D. Rockefeller’s gift to missions, and incidentally attacks ministers and deacons and defends railroad rebates to his company. April 1.—A mysterious epidemic of spinal meningitis, or “spotted fever,” is ravaging New York and other cities and baffles the medical profession. Over a thousand deaths have occurred since the first of the year. Mr. and Mrs. J. Morgan Smith, brother-in-law and sister of the notorious Nan Patterson, are located in Cincinnati, and letters are secured which, it is said, will have an important bearing on the trial of the actress for the murder of the bookmaker, “Cæsar” Young.