The troops still show a clean bill of health with the exception of a couple of cases of tonsillitis, and appeared to much better advantage owing to the change in the weather, as bright sunshine has taken the place of rainstorms of the two previous days. Ended in a Riot. NEW YORK, April 20.--A meeting of 200 representative Italians held a meeting at the Hotel Colombo on Bleecker-st. last night for the purpose of discussing some reasonable methods of settling the Croton dam strike, but the meeting ended in a riot.

The disturbing cause was the presence of a number of alleged Italian anarchists. STATE LAWS. Governor Roosevelt's Signature Attached to Many Measures.

ALBANY, April 20.--Governor Roosevelt signed the following laws: Senator Elsberg: to secure equal rights to colored children in the public schools and abolishing separate schools. Senator Ellsworth: amending the charter of the city of North Tonawanda to provide for a street lighting fund of $15,000. Senator Ford: making it a misdemeanor to manufacture gun powder or any other explosives in a dwelling house.

Senator Graney: authorizing the village of Sing Sing to issue certificates of indebtedness in the sum of $12,000. Senator Wilcox: authorizing the state superintendent of prisons to index and classify the Bertillon system, Mr. Degraw: amending the tax law so as to provide that every foreign banker doing business in this state shall pay an annual tax to the treasurer of 5 per cent on the amount of interest earned on money loaned.

Mr. Doughty: appointing public administrators in counties where the office of county treasurer has been abolished. Mr.

Patton: amending the town law generally and providing that the town board shall determine whether or not there shall be one or more overseer of the poor. Mr. Rierdon: making it a misdemeanor for any unauthorized person to wear badges of the military order of foreign wars of the United States or the badge of Spanish war veterans.