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All the great cannon foundries ol Europe are overrun with orde s and working day and nisjht. The Tro\ Times thinks they'll have peace ovej J there?after a big war. The Baltimore Manufacturers' liecora . Invokes the Southern farmers to establish creameries, stating that the amount of Western butter consumed in the South, and often in good live stock section*, is surprisingly large, while of cheese almost . the entire consumption in the South t comes from the North and West. j Eeggars, go South! Walk right down 1 across Mexico. Central America and the J Isthmus of Panama into South America and wend your ways to Bra?il. A ( professional beggar died recently in Ric 1 Janeiro and left a fortune of $200,000. A local iournal remarks that the dis:ov- 1 ery should occasion no surprise, as it ' is well known that many of the beggars in that city are worth more than those who bestow alms on them. According to the New York Commercial Advertiser the Mongolians of that city have learned the secret of managing the policc force. Within the limits of two small blocks in the Chinese section of the city there arc, our contemporary asserts, between forty and fifty Chinese gambling saloons, the proprietors of which pay on an average $5 a wc.k for "protection/' The numbers of the houses in which the games go on are given, together with the names of the proprietors and the names of the collectors. The total yearly revenue is set down at $12,500. . A German observer of nature says that the persons v. ho think they see thunder storms going on down below them are the victims of an optical delusion. He refers to those persons who declare that they have seen such phenomena among the mountains. Observations made by him among the Alps have convinced him that the lowest stratum of clouds in a thunder storm is never less than 4,200 feet above the earth, and that generally it is 7,500 feet up. This fays Ihrpers ] 'Weekly, might be reassuring to nervous people who fear that they and thunder ctorms are likely to come in contact, were it not for the fact that the most terrible parts of these storms notoriously come as low down as church steeples and persons standing in open fields. Perhaps it was not cloud strata that the mountain tourists were speaking of, but the light- J jiings which escaped from them, and which they observed playing far below, i- ? ' The Corean peninsula, which is a kind of forefinger of China's hand stretched out into the Pacific, may possibly open up by and by as a new gold field Mr. Foulk, our consul at Wonsan, has sent to Washington some very interesting statistics on the subject, and a succinct history of the "yellow fever.'' The natives have no machinery, no means of digging.into the bowel? of the earth, but ! in simply hunting over the surface dur- j ing the last year they have pickc 1 up auggcts and particles worih something like half a million dollars. The peculiarities of the people, however,constitute g - at present an obstacle to foreign enter- i prisi. There is so firm a predjud'cc * against outsider that they are apt to find a grave at the same time that they find gold. This fact is only a slight deterrent, though, for if the mountains of ( Corea look promising both Americans ( and Europeans will tcach the natives a * lesson in tne resources 01 civilization. t ? An Asheville (N. C.) letter 6ays: "The mineral resources of this scction of North Carolina are attracting renewed attention. A few days since machinery for extensive gold-mining operations passed through this city for Swain County. There were j several car-loads of engines and huge j hydraulic attachments which impressed ] the observer with the idea that the company beginning this work meant to get j the gold out if there be any. In Ilender- J snn County a mine near Boyleston is in ] operation and is reported to be rich in J the deposits of the precious metal. Northern captitalists are beginning to . invest in mineral lands in this State. ; Immigation Agent J. T.Patrick informed . me that within the near future a large ; number of men of means from the North would consummate negotiations now nn<1 rnmo t.r? tliia Ststfl to rnrrv i' o ? J on mining operations. In the last sixty days he says that $200,000 of Northern capital has been invested in undeveloped 3 North Carolina mines." ? The Forestry Division of the Un'ted ] States Department of Agriculture is tryiug to get spe:ific answers to such ques- , tions as the following: The number of acres, by Congressional districts and by j States, which since 1880 have been cut j over for lumbering purposes; turned into farm land; grown up into forests; ] burned over and destroyed by lire; i amount of timber that has been cut, and 1 ^ the percentage of dilTereat kinds of tree'. The Southern Lumberman says that in mixed forests like those of Ten- ( ties ee, where a given area has been cut ] over for trees of one or two species, such as black walnu^, leaving those of other j epecies standing, the first question can- J not be answered as definitely as it could be in the ease of regions covcred with i pine or cypress, where clean-sweep cut- j ting is the rule. Excepting rid cedar there are no important lolies of timber in the Sta'e of one specie:. The ques- J tion about clearing for farm land could I be answerer], but how about cases where an old field is allowed to grow up in per?* " eimmon and sassafras? Shall that be ru' turned as forest? Again, fires do little damage fexcept in resinous woods, of which Tennessee has very little. This shows something of the difficulty of collecting rel'able statistics as to these forest products, although their total value , /- ' is much larger than that of either cotton, 1^ wheat, corn, or metals. I, SPEEDY BETBIBDTION. 1 Burglar Caught In the Act Kills His Pursuer. japtured and Hanged Two Hours After His Victim's Death. A terrible tragedy was enacte 1 the other noraing at Huron, Ind., a quiet little hamet of two hundred inhabitants, ou the Ohic ind Mississippi Railrcai. Residents of the )lace were startled about one o'clock in tho norning by cries for help. Dr. W. C. Buter'a wife heard the cries and awoke her husjand, who immediately went to the rescue. 3e was soon joined by others, who, on arriving near the point from which tho crie3 ;ame, perceived two men struggling, but ailed to recognize either. As they approached one man drew a knife snd plunged it into the other, after which he led. Thi crowd passed the fallen man and pursued the murderer. Alter a short race, md firiDg several shots, he was brought to my in the grass near the railroad culvert. Keturniug to where the fallen man lay they ifrfMvered it was Mr. John T. Davis, a highly respectable citizen, and agent of ihe Ohio and Mississippi Kailroad it Huron. He was then without the power of speech. There was a cut about four inches long in the muscle of the right arm, tvbuh had severed the main artery; a cut in the neck under th3 jaw, and a bruise on the forehead as if he had been struck by a rock. Dr. Butler endeavored to save his life, but tie had la^sel bevond humau aid, having Died to death. Mrs. Carri? King was the [list person to reach the victim, and his last words wore: "Carrie, I am dying. That man murdered me." Alter securing the murderer the crowd brought him back to where his victim lay ind asked him if ho had killed that man. He answered "No."' The shirt sleeve from the left arm of the murderer was missing and parties went out to search for it. They were successful, and -it was soaked iu blood. Alter finding he would be captured he bad A ** nl^A torn it oil ana cast it nnaj. a uv-j found Mr. Davis's clotlies in tho stoclc pen, with bis gold natch in the vest pocket Tames Strange, Constable of Spice Valley township, Lawicure county, arrived on tho icene and took charge of the prisoner. When scorching him the}' found a fine burglar f aw, spectacles and cases, two combs, a pair of libber shoes, a caseknife without any stains >f blood, a brick mason's hammer and some >ther articles. It was learned that he had seen lingering around the depot and had isked several suspicious questions. AN'hen Mrs.'Davis heard of the arrest she iesired that she might see the man. He was laken to the residence, nnd she said: "Wicked wretch! you are the man who dlled my husband!" She then said: "That man entered our bedroom, which is in the part of t!ie house facing the street on the Srst floor, through tin front door. He tried to secure the money under my pillow and iwakened me. 1 was too frightened to cry jut; yet, seeing me awake, he took Mr. Davis's trousers and vest from the foot or the bed and fled. I awoke Mr. Davis, who immediately started in pursuit of him. That is the last time I saw him alive." The prisoner's shoes were found in front of [ the Davis House, and be acknowledged that they were his. He was then taken back to where the victim lay, when a party of six or sight masked men appeare 1 and took him in charge without any resistance. They took him to a walnut trej at the east side of Crim's store on Main street Whe:i asked what his name was ho said William Dunn, af Cincinnati, Ohio, and that he was fiftyTour years old. He was asked if he had anything else to say and answered "No." A rope was quickly thrown over a limb and the murderer was swung iuto mid air at 3 o'clock. The body was cut down and a Coroner's inquest held. Tiie verdict read: "Came to his death by the hands of parties unknown." He was placed in a rude imitation rosewood coffin and theremaius were b.iried in a fleld. While returning from the scene on the passenger train L. P. Stephens, son of the County Clerk, and 0. P. l'ieroe, both of this place, 1 * * - -----?1 ije.ame mvoiveu 111 a ijuunui. oiqmcua struck Tierce with a pair of brass knuckles, and Fierce drew a knife, stabbing Stephens in the side and abdomen, inflicting fatal wounds. A REMARKABLE LIFE. Career of Flynn, tbc Indicted New York Contractor. The following is an epitomized account of he life of Maurice B. Flynn, the New York :ontractor who has been jointly indict:d with Commissioner of Public Works Squire for conspiracy. Flynn is the man with whom squire male a written agreement practically permitting the contractor to control he oilice of Commissioner of Public Works: iorn, Maiden, Columbia couuty..Nov. 3,1818 Came to New York 1865 Was worth then $35 Smployedas clerk in grocery.. .$3 per week rhreo weeks later in Novelty Iron Works $5 per week 3ne week later employed as bookkeeper for Guy C. Hotchkiss & Son $8 per week Made junior partner 1861 Made ejual partner 1871 jraduated from Cooper Institute 1870 Entered politics in Brooklyn 1876 Was then worth $10,00!) Assemblyman from Brooklyn 1875-7G Entered New York political life 1S77 Begau getting contracts from Deparfcmeut of Public Works 1878 Made under Thompson's regime. ...$1,000,000 Made under Squire's regime $700,000 Made on new aqueduct contracts. .$1,000,0JO Number of contracts on hand 50 Will make out of these $4,000,000 Made from dredging harbor $100,000 Will make out ot Subway Commission $2,000,000 [s now worth $3,000,000 Indicted for conspiracy Aug. 12 Will be tried Sept. 1 PROMINENT PFflPT.R Mr. Jay Gould spends $216 a day on hla pacht Atalanta. Attorney-General Garland is on his farm near Littie Rock, Ark. General Sherman has been the social lion of the season in California Senator Stanford, of California, bos five mansions in different parts of the country, ill elegautly and completely furnished. Dr. Loring, ex-Commissioner of Agriculture, will fount! a new town, to be called by lis name, about seven miles from Washington. Mrs. John W. Mackay is the American woman referred to by London Truth as hiving been refused an invitation to the Queen's state balL Governor Fitzhcgh Lee, of Virginia, Brill attend the Steuben County Fair at Bath, N. Y., in September, as the guest of General VV. W. Averell. Ciiauncey M. Drpew, Franklin B. Gowen ind Thomas Powell Fowler are three railroad presidents who entered the railroad world from law offices. General Boi-langer, the French Ministar of AVftI\ nilrt thft t.nll.*r? l.nf mtn in Pari-, is the sou of an attorney at Rennes. His mother was English. Joaquin Miller Las assume 1 the editorship of the Golden Era, a maga iue published at San Francisco. It is the same magazine upon which Bret Harte made his debut. Mr. P. T. Barxum says that if he lives much longer and retains his present activity be will exhibit himself in a side tent as "on? of the greatest curiosities Barnum ever handled." The secret of M. DeLosseps's success in raising the Panama Cnnnl loan is his pcr.-uasive power with the ladies. He has inveigled no less thau ltj.000 ol the gentler sex into his scheme, aud still they corae. Although Senator Morrill, of Vermont, is seventy-seven years old and has spoilt nearly half his life in Congress, it is said that up to the tiino of his recent illness lie was never absent but one day Irom his scat. Thb Prince of Wales declines to go out to the Adelaide (Australia) Jubilee Exposition next year on the ground that it would not be proper to absent himself from England during the jubilee year of the Queen's ! reign. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle State*. Ax imaginative Boston pedagogue allege he saw the genuine sea serpent off Capo Ann He-eays the snake wa* fully eighty fee'; Ion, and contiuued in sight twenty minutes. Charles Larabee, the umpire in a gam of baseball at Medford. Mass., was struc! over the heart by a foul tip and killad, al most instantly. The New York City Knights of Labor hav been defeated in their efforts to break ud th Union of the cigarinakers aud compel th members to join their Order. The manufa( turcrs sided with the Knights, but as the lal ter could not fill the shops with skille hands, the bosses have been compelled t take liack the old employes whom they ha locked out. A strike of coal boatmen at New Yor has resulted in the tying up of 1,000 boats. A small boat containing five Swedes up set iu Raritan Bay, opposite Perth Amboj N. J. Threo of the Swedes?a man an two \v:iin ->n?ware drowned. A fire in New York the othsr night d? stroyed the plant of the Brush Electric Ligt Company, causing a loss of about $130,0(X Twelve hundre 1 lights went out, an! parte thi city was in darkness. The body of the seven-year-old Freema boy, alleged to b9 one of the victims poisone by Mrs. Robinson, of Somerville, Mass., he been exhumed and examined by chemical ej perts. Signs of poison were discovered. Mayor Grace,of New York, has remove Rollin M. Squire from the position of Con missioner of Public Works, subject to the a] proval of Governor HilL Developments in the case of Gray, tb defaulting Treasurer of two Boston mill co: porations. show that he squandered tt stolen money, together with his wife's foi tune, on the support of a fleet of yachts. Dec-aware Democrats at their State Coi Wilminrrtnn nominated flX-Coi gressman B. T. Bigg?, a wealthy farmt aud peach grower, for Governor, aud Job B. Pennington, a lawyer, for Congress. South and West. The Tennessee Democrats have nominate Robert L. Taylor, United States Pensio Agent at KnuxviU?, for Governor. He i a brother of the Republican candidate, an there is some talk of the Prohibitionisl nominating their father. General L. C. Ross has been nominate for Governor by the Texas Democrats. Tli platform endorses Cleveland's administn tion. The candidate for State Auditor nom nated by the Kan as Democrats is a colore man. A fire at Cleveland, Ohio, destroye 12,000 barrels of oil, causing a loss of aboi *7.r?,000. William Gorham, a Wayne (111) farme aud bis hired man, Gusfcav Politzke, wei standing at a barn door when a flash < lightning killed both. Henry Smith, a burly colored mai brutally assaulted Miss Lizzie Bacon at tt house of John Morrison in Bryan count; Ga. The family were absent, and Smit kept his victim a prisoner for thirty-si hours. Then he cut off part of her tongi to prevent her from exposing his fiendishnes He was captured, but escaped after serious! wounding one of his captors. He was agai pursued, with the certainty of being caugl and lynched. Full reports state that the Western cor crop, owing to prolonged drought, is not i ? dc it. wnst.histime last vea CV5 ^uua I.VUU1V1VUUM ? ?? -? ? Sheriff A. S. Armstrong was shot an killed by Ben C. Thompson in a politics quarrel at Tuskegea, Ala. The damage by forest fires in Wisconsin estimated at several millions. At least fift saw-mills were burned and 3,500 people rei dered homeless. The Gedde? and Bertrand mining mill, i Secret Cauon, Nev., has been destroyed I lire; loss, $200,OM). Fifteen thousand people witnessed, at Ai napolis, Md., the unveilin? of the statv erected in honor of Baron Do Kalb, the Gei man soldier who fought on the side of lil erty during the Revolutionary War. Go1 ernor Lloyd and staff were present, and Se retary Bayard made a speech. Three ranchmen were killed and tvt wounded in a desperate tight with Indiai in Arizona. The whole country north of the Missou River in the vicinity of Fort Benton, Moi tana, has been burned over by great prair lires. Immense damage has been inflicted. Four persons were killed and one fatal! injured by a storm at Newark. Dakota. Mr Culver was frightened to death the same da by a storm at Chicago. Striking switchmen at Chicago have a' tempted to wreck several passenger an freight train % A train of seven cars fille with passeugers narrowly escaped disaster. General Arthur M. Manigault, a ve era of the Mexican war and an ex-Confede ate officer, died a few days ago on Soul Island, S. C. Washington. The Mexican government, through a con municatiou revived from Minister Jacksoi requested the authorities at Washington I send a speciul envoy to Mexico, who :ou1 investigate imj artially the legal questioi involved in the Cutting controversy and r port thereon. To this the Cabinet a^ree and General A. G. Sedgwick, of New for was selected as this country's representative General C. C. Augur retired U. 8. A was shot four time.?, but not dangerous] wounded, by William Pope, a colored mai whom he attempted to drive from his doo for using abusive language. Pope wai at rested. The President, Mrs. Cleveland and he mother, Mrs. Folsom. left Washington o: the lfith for a month's vacation in the Adi rondaeks. President Cleveland made the follow Ing appointments before he left for the Ad rondacks: John T. Doyle of New York, t be Secretary of the Civil Service commission Henry A. Khninger of New York, ta b United States Consul at Cienfuegos, vie Win. P. Pierce, suspended. Foreign. Forty miners were reported killed by a explosion iu a colliery at Leigh, England. A cable dispatch from Paris announce the marriage of Christine Nilsson, the prim donna, to th? Count de Casa Miranda, c Spain. This is the great singer's second mai Three heavy shocks of earthquake ha\ visited Malta, greatly frightening the inhal itants. A great demonstration of Socialists an provincial workingmen has just taken pla( at Brussels, 20,000 people participating in tt procession and demanding universal suffras and the release of imprisoned rioters. Smallpox is spreading eitensivel' throughout Chili. An aged and imbecile widow Hamed Lebo living iu Paris, has met with a hjrrity death. Her sons endeavored to obtain at mission for her in a madhouse but failet They did not want to support her, and s they tied her to a stake, bjili a fire roun her, and burned her t) death. A strange calamity is reported from Po Stanley in the Falkland Islauds. An iu inense peat bog, from which the laboring pe pie cut their fuel, suddenly broke loose an rushed upon the town, c arrying away over; thing iu its course. Many boats and hous< were swepi away, and two lives were lost. wroTr-p-NT nnDT?TnA\Trc! IT XJUiXJibil XXUiti.li.UXJ.il JJ'JI Four Tramps Killed in Illinois? Circus Tent Blown Down. During a wind storm a large donlile in house at Mitchell, Ma lison County, III., wi blown down, and four tramps who had tak< refuse i:i the li .ilding were killed. 11 builling was about half l ull of ice, and w; 1 a: e 1 to the gruu id. At the aftenn o:i | erforman-e of a cirri iu Edina, Mo., a tremendous wind torni can up, tearing the iium n>e ctiuvas from t! l>oles. The whole fell to the ground, bury in great liu.nbsrs of men, women and childn beneath tin canvas aud creating a pan which resulted in a munber of persons lie it seriously injured. A hurricane passed overKec>knk. Iowa, d ing great damage to buildings and levelin fences and tree--. Numbets of l.usine houses were unro tfe l and the spire o!' tl Fir.it Baptist Chunb was blown down. C<) siderable loss was entailed in the luinbi district. Throughout Iowa and in portions of 11] nois a violent storm has greatly invur< crops. ' WHIRLPOOL mm ?, Graham Makes Another Trip * ? Safely at Niagara Falls. ? An Exhibitor Loses His Life in the t - Whirlpool Rapids. , e C e Graham, the Philadelphia cooper, made f ? his second successful trip through the Whirl- I t'. pool Rapids at Niagara Fall? on the 19th. a d The barrel was the same as that usid iu the j o first trip. A slight change was made iu the e ^ hammook, tho inside of which was v k raised up so as to throw his head l out. Tha head of the barrel was \ h taken out, anl in its place a canvas was p r, tackeJ around the edge, leaving a hole suf- fc d ficiently large to let his head through, and . fastened closely around the neck. This left 5_ his head and facj plain y visible to tho crowd, ' fully 1,'HX) strong, standing on the banks and bridge. E The barrel was taker, down the bank early in the afternoon and :"astenod to the shore 5 under the trees, near the old Maid of the Mist v " landing. At 3:15 o'clock Graham started j d leisurely down the bank and stripped, prepar- [13 atory to the trip. At ?!:50 o'clock the barrel c* was towed out into the centr.5 of the stream. Five minutes later the f d rope was cut off and the barrel a i- started down, passing under the bridgo a lity tlo nearer the Canadian shore than on the " first trip. As he passed the Maun ing el evator * .. his head could be pluinly seen, and as the barrel whirled round ail had a chance 3 * to see his fa^e, which could be easily recognized. The barrel was several 5 times out of sight and enteiel tho a whirlpool near the Canada .shore at 4 ** o'clock. The course w is such that the barrel r ** went into the c-onti e of the whirlpool, where 'r it circled around, giadually nearitig the 3 a I Cauadn shore, for ten minutes. C. D. Garl- t ton, a citizen of the Falls, who had gone to the point, to view, the trip, took off a part of liN clothing preparatory to entering the c , water, but the barrel drifted in sj close that i he could catch it. Graham was in a r ? very had pla e, driftiug among thu . j ro ks and breakers near the outlet and ^ hud he not been caught would have stood I ^ a good chance of being killed. So close' was he to the shore that ho called for some one . d to come out and get him. When taken out 10 of the barrel it was found that both iilbowa ' * and one knee- were niore or less bru.sed by s striking against the cask. t i- Graham says that th-i weight of the waves d had no effect upon him, but that the spray 1 uenrly strangled him and $1,(HX) would not ^ tempt him to repeat the trip. It is doubtful ( if ho would have stood the trip through the . Devil's Hole llapid.?. J. Scott, a noted fisherman of Lew is. ten, who f? was auxious to go down on the dummy Maid ? of the Miit, aud who also figured as ail im- ^ >r portai.it witness iu the "Webb inquest-, was drowned in the whirlpool about noon. -He hud been hanging around all day, i ie intending to earn ten dollars offered for ( Ki taking Graham out of the Whirlpool, and ;h with a life preserver had been giviug uxhibix tions in swimming aud diving. Abjut noon j ie lie jumped into the water off Thompson < ? ftf fhfl Whlpln'V'kl niifi ;y t* a< drowned. The body at on?e rose to the J n surface, and was caught at Lewiston. 1 RIOTING RENEWED. n ! ' i> Blood Oucp Morn Flowing ii? the i j Streets of Belfast.' Lj A Belfast (Ireland) dispatch of late dabs says: Rioting has boon resumed. From mid* is night last uight until four o'clock this morn- j y ing a rifle fight was in progress 011 the Sliank** hill road and the Old Kails road. One person was killed aud mauy were wounded. Tho * y town is seething. Sectarian strife lias ? recurred in a deplorable, cold-blooded .? a- fashion. Expert marksmen this mora. c 10 ing conducted a riflo light from roof ' *" tops, chimney stacks and street corners. Im- s mease crowds of partisans, who carefully kept out of range, were prepared to assist by { c" supplying amimmitiou ami removing tho wounded. The sides were equally divided. c 'o Tho moon shono brightly througho.it tho 1 is contest. The Orangemen admit that one of 2 their nun, named Mavfatlane, was killed, . ri aud that two others, named Smith ami j. Johnson, were mortally wouuded; alsi), tliut v ie there were numerous minor < astial:ies on k their side. They claim that they killed and v wounded many Catholics, but the lalCtT deny that tliey sustuiued >erious losses. Many s b" houses were riddle-l by bullets. Whenever e * the military appearodtho combatants shifted r their ground. Finally, at 5 o'clock, after tho $ t- riot act had been twice read, tho troops . d charged upou the crowds aud clear-'d tho * sd stra.'ts temporarily. An old man and two 1 women, the inmates of a hou;e ou t- Conway street, froiu which many shot: * r- had been fired, were arrested. They stated ;h that three men had forced an entrance into 4 the house and had remained there al night ? firing from tho roof. A howling crowd es- j corted the prisoners to tho jail. The ntob to- 1 ilay repeatedly urea upon uiu pouro. ii tavern owned by a Catholic, situated in a 1 , Protestant district, was looted The order j to instructing the police to use buckshot instead * !d of bullets has been cancelcd. is Au Orange proce-sion, while passing e- through the streets of Widnex, ILancashire, i d, says a Loudon dispatch, was jeered at by the ( k, spectators. The Orangemen thereupon e. broke ranks nail attacked the crowd. Duo of the spectators was stabbed and mortally ' |y wounded and two policemen and a number i u of other persons were injured. r' A later dispat-li from Belfast says that at 2 o'clock a. m.,the city wasouiet. The priests ' by superhuman exertions inauced the C&tlio- I lies to retire at midnight. All the wouuded , were doing well, exceut one little girl, Mho ^ had been shot in the chest and wasdylog. A BIG DEFALCATION. < i o A Boston Treasurer Steals Ilatf a ] i: Million?Committing Suicide. 0 Boston business circles were surprised the , e other afternoon by the auuouucemeut that i William Gray, Jr., Treasurer of the Indian Orchard and Atlantic Cotton Mills, was a j ueiauuer. , It was ascertained that the defalcation 13 would amount to over $500,OUJ. The capital ? s-tock of the Atlantic Company is $l,00:i,(K)0, and that of the IndianOrenarJ *00 i,0:M). The "* former has extensive mills at Lawrence, Mass,, for the manufacture of cotton goods, e Mr. Cray was elected treasurer of the compa- ' a- liies about live yours ago and the utmost contideuce was placed in him. He had lieen a Park < d Commissioner, and has been prominent for ?e years in social and busine s circles and owned ? w considerable property at Dorchester, all of re which fs said to be covered by mortgages. . ' After having an interview with the 1'resi- ' dent Mr. Gray left tha office aud went 1 ^ aboard his yacht Huron and cruLsod about the harbor 111 n a. m., when ho landed at i 'i South Boston. From there he went to his < e residence, ordered his stable-keeper to harJ* liess his last bor.se awl then drove of without < i- swiug any cf hi* family. The ca e was i placed in the hands of a private detective d agoucy. and on the lwth the lifelc s body of ^ the defaulter was iounu near mo wouus ui> ? rt Milton, Mass. He hail shot himself to death, a- Mr. Gray had been prominent iu yachting , o- circles for the past dozen years ftud was a * id member of the Kastern Yacht Club. H<> f Y- was also" one of the syndicate of ten that 53 b iilt the Puritan, the America's cup de- \ fender. He was also a designer of no mean i ability, and from a model made by him his | yacht Hurou was built lour years ago. j Gray was a member of one of Boston's | wealthiest families. His fat her was tha lead? ing ship-buil<ier in the country for a number of yeurs, and retired several years ago. He J owned one of the finest ro-idences on Itea-on 1 " street, Boston, had a wife and nine children, if and was assessed la t year $l,00yHX). * The money stolen by Gray, as well as his * wife's fortune, was spiandered on yaulits, 1 - SUICIDE 0N~THE STAGE. An Actor Kills Himself in Pi t-once ^ je of ilic Aiiilieiioo. A ival tragedy of the theatre has occurred ' ;n at Casnle, a town of Piedmont, in Northern ' ,c Italy. An actor, who v.-as playing a lead- i '** iug part, fail mI to jilea-o the audience, who o- displayed th -ir disapproval by prolonged r hissing. The actor stopped suddenly in his 1 <s lines, ami, advancing to the footlights, drew c io a revolver and shot himself dead. 1 ii- His wile, who was seated iu a box, wit- c i>r nessed the tragedy, and in a frenzy attempted s to leap to the floor beneath, which was quite Ii- a distance. She was restrained by several >J friends who were in her company, and wa? [ tiuaJly carried from the theatre unconscious, j c ' ~ .. : ' '^ ^ * > r " / LATER NEWS. The lifeless body of Gray, the defaulting Boston Treasurer, was found on the 18th in 2 he woods at Milton, Mass. He had driven nto the woods and then shot himself. Elimination of the books of the two corporaions discloses a deficit of about (690,000. ] The Pennsylvania Democratic State Contention, held in Harrisburg, nominated Jhauncey E. Black for Governor on the Irst ballot, he receiving 193 vot.-s to 129 for 5x-Senator Wallace, twelve for McCormick, S ind one for Dechort. The ticket was com- 1 >leted by the nomination of Robert B. Rick- I ffo T l'onfftnonf riA^TflrrAr "Morwoll Sfp. t UIO &V1 ujtuwuauu-uuTutuwi, enson for Congressman-at-Large, J. S. Africa for Secretary of Internal Affairs, antl V. J. Brennan for Auditor-General. The ilatform endorses Cleveland's administraion; favors a just and fair revision of the evenue laws, and expresses sympathy with he cause of labor. ( Part of a train went through a bridge lear Bratt'.eboro, Vt., falling into the river ixty feet below. Two railroad employes rere killed, a third was probably fatally inured, and five or six other persons were iadly hurt. The Democrats of Ohio have nominated a ull State ticket headed by John McBride, ,ud adopted a platform which "cordially ndorses the administration of President Cleveland." ci? . ? n 1:- e iu* D1 AiJC, VAIIlVeilblULib UL tuu JXJLKJiilgUU *->U\LXera ta and the Greenbackers have baen held imultaneouslvat Grand Rapids, and a fusion fleeted, the latter naming candidates for Governor, Treasurer, Commissioner of the ^and Office and Superintendent of Public Intrusion, and tha former namiug the rest of he ticket. The Irish American Laud League Convenion, the members of which are Parnell's American allies in tho effort t J obta'n home ule for Ireland, opened at Chicago on the 8th with an immense att ndan:o. John )avitt and Mrs. Parnell were present The st?araer St Paul, which has arrived it San Francisco from Oonalaska, Alaska, >ring; news of the seizure of three British chooners by the United States revenue cut. er Corwin for violation of the seal fishing aws in Behring's Sea. Serious riots have occurred at Nagasaki, Japan, betwesn. Chinese and Japanese. Five Chinese wore killed and 100 wounded. Two more adventurous Alpine climbersProfessor Migotti, of Poland, aud an English jrouth of fifteen?have just lost their live?. The reported marriage of Christ'ne Nilsron, the celebrated singer, to a Spanish Count, has been denied. A verdict of deliberate murder has been ' rendered against nine Belfast policemen who , book part in putting down the recent bloody riots, and warrauts for their arrest have { been issued. As 'xeneral Santo?, the President of the 1 Argentine Republic, was entering thetheatre 1 it Montevideo, a man fired aievolver almost . point blank at his head. The ball entered the , President's cheek, inflicting a slight wound. A.n infuriated crowd attacked the would-be 1 issassin and maltreated him so terribly that lie died shortly afterward. Treasurer Samuel G. Snellixg, of the j ^owell Blcachery, has been arrested in Boston barged with a defalcation of $40,000. ^.The Grant Monument Association has received eleven models of design for the dead ieneral's monument. The estimate of the . ulptors i-an^e from <50,OX, to $90,000. Parnell's peace policy was sustained at he second day's meeting of the Irish-Ameri an Land League Convention in Chicago. This result was due to the efforts of Michael )avittand the other foreign delegates. Resoutions warmly endorsing Parnell's policy rere adopted. John Fit :gerald, of Nebras:a, was elected President, receiving 703 otesto214 for Hugh McCaffrey, of Pennylvania. Tlie latt t was unanimously lected Vii e-Presideut. The finaucial statenent showed that in the past two years S320,2$i.57 had lieen collected, of which only >5,0.0 were still in the hands of the Treasirer. ' A CniCAGO special of tha 20th says that , he jury in the trial or me eigns ^.uariuists . harmed w.th killing policemen by throwing i bomb during th3 receat riots rendered the ollowing verdict at 2 a. m. : Editor Spios? ] Lingg and Fischer to be hanged; Parsons, , Fielden, Schwab and Engel to be imprisoned for ttrois ranging from fourteen to seven- i ?en years, an I Neebe acquitted. Eliza Wood-:, a colored cook imprisoned n the jail at Jackson, Tenn., on the charge >f causing a white lady's death by poisoD, vas forcibly taken from confinement by a < nob and banged. Arsenic had been found 1 u the dead woman's stomach. Acting- Surgeon General Stoker, of :ho Marine Hospital, says that the United States is in a very 'good state of health at i present, and is entirely free from contagious 1 liseases, except a few cases of yellow fever , low under treatment at the Ship Island I piarantine station, off the coast of Louisiana. Nebraska Prohibitionists have nominated j H. W. Hardy for Governor. Four persons were killed in a tornado i ivhi.h nearly destroyed the village of New- i irk Dakota. I ' A storm of unusual violence, causing . nany wrecks and serious l"ss of life, is re- ' jorted from Newfoundland. m ^ i MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, i Verdi is still filing and polishing away^at lis new opera, "Oteilo." Henry Iiiving and Miss Terry are in this :ountry on a short pleasure ti ip. Mme. Janisii will produce next season 'Diana Losora,'' a story of Polish life. Dellinuer, the composer of "Don ^Tsar," is at work on a new operetta, "Lor- 1 ain?." TtfE widow of Meyerbeer, th3 composer, I vho recently died in Germany left a fortune )f $2,500.00 i. Rubenstei.v has deflnitaly refused the >.fer of a tour for piauoforta recitals in the j liited Ktat.'s. Mr. Lawrexce Barrett will "revive" he old p'ay of "Rieuzi" at the Star Tneatre n New York. Mrs. Thomas Jefferson', the wife of Mr. ! Foseph Je.Terson's youngest son, has written i c<Jii:e i_v t'limien *_,ias.. Hue. Etelka Gersteu, who has been rery ill again at Paris, ha? recovered sufli ieutly to reappear in concert. During h;r eugagentent in Pwio Jaueiro it ^ 9 reported that Mine. Bernhardt played to lonses averaging $5,WO a uight. A beautiful prima donua, of Hungarian j >rigin, has bceu engaged at the Paris Graud )2cra after a brilliant examination. Augcstin ij.vi.ys iiew York Conipan.*, 0 laving finished its London engagement, i vill uow be seen in Paris, B.'rlin and H im- ? mrg. a Duiu.vg Henry Irving's r>re?e:itat.'oii ot' I 'Faust" in London, tin book filers of tli?t ^ ity sold over 1(M,(MO copies of the original , Irnma. Miss Adelaide Moore, an English a tress (J vbo l>esi<?ged manv small Western cities last t eason, is to set ou in September in n private ^ ar of very e'aborate design, with hor name c n great big gold letters ou the outside. e Ms* Helen Daiivray says: "Fren h a.'i- r lien -es lose interest iti the play during the c lalf-hour intervals between the a ts. in my j iwn theatre 1 shall never allow an actress t nore thuu nine minutes to change her dress, a ir a carpenter more than eight to sot the t taga. 1 e K.UBENSTEI.V is the only Kussian compose* o vhnse operas have been sung to any extent h ?uts:de of Kussia. t "mwm7' in American Fishing Schooner Boarded by Canadians. Pined for a Trivial Offence Committed Weeks Ago. A dispatch from Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, announces that the Gloucester seiuer Jo ward Holbrook, Captain McKean, Las >een seized for violating the customs laws at bat place by failing to report at the Custom louse. Three weeks ago the Holbrook passed hrough that ocean highway, the Strait of 3anso, on her way to Gloucester from North iay with a full fale of mackerel. She renamed in the Strait some hour?, but did not eport at any Custom House. The Strait of ?anso is lined with Custom Houses, and it is lifficult for a Captain to know where to inter. Cuptaiu McKean did not think it vorth while to enter at any of them for he few hours he remained in this oceau lighway. The other day tli * Howard Hoi>rook again entered the S( raits on her way :o North Bay on her second trip, when she vas promptly seized by Collector Bourinot, vho took possession of Captain McKean's opes and placed an officer on board. The acts were telegraphed to Ottawa, and this norning instructions were received to release he vessel on payment of $100 fine. A Halifax dispatch soys: Tbis action of he authorities is important, as it shows that American vessels are liable to seizure and (uni-hmentat any time for alleged trivial (reaches of the customs regulations ommitted weeks or months ago. As tbe ustoms officers receive a proportion of the Ines inflieteJ, they will be apt to uake it lively for Ameri an skippers .gainst whom they, can trump up charges. 3ut while these vexatious and hitherto obsoete customs laws are bein.;; rigorously eabrced in a few ports they appear to be entirely ignored in others, as in the case of the chooner fib rloh, whic h was driveu out of jiverpo j), but received special psrmission rom Ottawa to remain in Louisburg four lays, ship men and buy all the supplies she equired. No seizures are to be attempted or fishing within the three-mile limit in I while public meetings in Prince Edward sland are unanimously condemning the xovernment for its farcical fishery protecion service, the Government officials are le.laring that the Americans are scrupu- | ously obeying the law. The truth of the mat?r is that American skippers can distinguish l cruiser five to soven miles distant If the American is inside the limit all he has to do s to get outside before the cutter comes ilong. If there is a calm aud he < an't get icross the imaginary line neither can the cuter reach him, so that the American is safe mder any circumstances. THE NATIONAL GAME Savannah has won fourteen straight jam 63. Ferguson, the Philadelphia pitcher, is iie terror of League batsmen. Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, is one of the stockholders in the Atlanta club. Despite their low position, the Bostons aave drawn 70,000 people to their gamej at iiome. Dunlap, the St Louis second basaman, ias been sold to the Detroit League nine for i large sum. iiivert cjud in tne league nas lost a game to every other club except Kansas City to Washington. The New England League has had less trouble with its umpires than any other base ball organization. Detroit's big right fielder, Thompson, makes more phenomenal catches than any ither League player. The announcement is made that a protective and benevolent association of baseball players has been formed. Governor Hill attended a recent game between the New Yorks and the Detroits on the grounds of the former. Anson, of the Chicagos, and Connor and O'Rourke, of the Ne.v Yorks, have each crossed the 100 base hit line in their order. The New Yorks won three straight game8 from both the Chicagos and tha Detroits on the last Eastern tour of these two Western clubs. Rochester has an advantage In the International League race by reason of closing the season at home with sixteen straight games. There are said to be more and better amateur nines in Philadelphia than any other ball city in this country, with the exception of St. Louis. Browning is playing brilliant ball with the Louisvilles since he rejoined the team. In two games he made seven hits with a total of fifteen bases. In their drubbing of the Boston? this year the Philadelphia^ are wiping out old scores. The Bostons, in two successive seasons, won twenty-eight game; from them. It is on the cards that after the ending of the Southern League season the Atlanta club will make a tour through the Eastern and Western States, and will play all the leading clubs in the country. Thomas au 1 Alvord of the Bridgeports, were fined $i0 each for refusing to play an exhibition ga ne on a recent Sunday. It is said both raeu will seek to recover by law,as there is no rule compelling Eastern League men to play Sunday. Hardy Richardson, short stop of the Detraits, made a neat douole play and assisted in making a triple in Boston a few days ago. He captured Sutton's fiv, touched Hoynung, who wa9 playing off second base, and theu cut Burdock while trying to steal Iiome. Ok all th9 minor orgauizations th3 International League has been the most fortunate thus far this season. It cau claim the eight clubs at the present time that it started the season with, an 1 it is having an intJresting race. Thf re is nosign ofany club weakening; nil will undoubtedly finish the season and b# %n hand araiu next vear. national league record. iron Lost. . Won LW!. f;<i 91 I Philfldelnhia..4b 2> ~ *. | s Chicago 56 22 | Boston S3 42 New York...50 21 I Washington.. 12 63 St. Louis 26 54 | Kansas City..l'J 55 american association record. Won Lost. iron Ij)*t St. Louis....66 29 Pittsburg 50 41 Brooklyn....4 7 43 Cincinnati... 50 4S Athletic 35 52 Louisville. ...56 3.1 Baltimore. ..39 57 Metropolitan. 29 55 international league record. WoiiLoit. ' Won Last. Utica. 41 24 Hamilton.... 86 31 Toronto 41 27 Buffalo ."2 3J Rochester.. .33 27 Binghamton .26 4'J Syracuse... 37 31 Oswego 18 50 eastern league record. Won Lost. Won Lost. Bridgeport...23 38 Waterbury. ..3i) 20 Hartford 31 27 Newark. 45 17 Jersey City.. .31 20 southern league record. Jl'on Lost. ITon Lost Atlanta 53 27 I Macon. 31 46 Charleston...34 44 J Savannah... 45 24 Memphis 38 38 | Nashville 40 37 A FATALST0RM. I Mother and Four Children Drowned in West Virginia. A storm which raged along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, east of "Wheelug, "W. Va., between midnight and 2 a. m., . few days since, was one of the most severe n the history of that section of the country. Several railroad bridges were carrieu .way. and at least fh e live? lost, all iiemliersot' 0110 fan ly. This occurred at Mill I!uu, a small tributary of Buffalo Creek, lul! two mil.a from Farinington. The uaortunates are Mrs. Snoderby and four of helix children. The family, with IIr. tr'uoderby's tged mother, resided in a small liou.-e close o the bank of the lun. About midnight, vhen the storm was at its height, torrents if water invaded the dwelling and Mr. Sno.1rby started to remove his family. He caried his mother and two children ton p'aco >1' safety and returned for his wife and four emainiug little ones, only to find that they, ogether with the house, had been washed 1 .way. The bodies were recovered during he day. The "railroad bridges at Littleton ami C'amron are gone. At Barrocksville a number if housas were carried away. Great damage ias beau done to crop? ana property in all he sin-rounding country. , , jvV;'-iff* ' ?:' y*' A NEW ORUISEB. The United-States to Have the Most Powerful Vessel Afloat. The Army and Navy Register publishes the following: Secretary Whitney has determined to include .in.the list of new cruisers for which proposals are to b9 invited the large unarmnred cruiser authorized by t?e bill passed two weeks ago to increase the naval establishment and has directed that for this vessel the plans prepared by Chief ConI rtructor White, of England, for the ship known as "No. '27," be used. These plans contemplate a vessel of greater power and speed than any cruiser now afloat?in fact, the very highest powered % essel of the kind in the world at the time of completion. The principal dimensions of the vessel are as fol- ' lows: Length over all, 3!15 feet; beam, extreme, 48 feet 8 inches; draft, mean, 19 feet tiinches; load displa ement 4,413 torn; indicated horse power, Lo. 5J0, forced combustion; twin screws; estimated speei, nineteen knots. The ship has two military masts, no sail power except storm sails; coal capacity about WOO tons. 1 he complement of men is :&0. The main battery consists of four 8-inch and six IS-inch breech-loading rifles; secondary battery, eight 57-single-shot Hot:hkiss, gaiis, two 37-revolver machine guns and one short Gatling. Th hull will be constructed of steel throughout, with double ?; * bottom running the entire length of I he mac hinery space, or 1J>0 feet. The outer plat ng varies from thirty pounds to seventeen anu one-half pounds, the ordinary weight being twenty pounds per square foot. Th? machinery, magazines, shell rooms, torpedo rooms and steering gear are placed below au armored declc, which is four inchesthick on its sloping sides and two and one* half inches on the horizontal part amidships. AN AVALANCHE OF PEAT, ' Loss of Life by a Strange Calamity in ,.; the Falkland Islands. Secretary Bayard ha? received a dispatch from the United States Consul at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, giving au account of a ; peat slide which occurred one night recently, causing loss of life and great destruction of property. Extending the entire length of the south shore of the harbor, and at a slight elevation. is a peat bog from which the laboring population cut their fuel. There are no channels which drain the bog, and large quantities of water collect there daring tie ' long rains, which at certain seasons last for days at a time. For three days previous to the disaster a rain storm had prevailed. At about 8 o clock in the evening the bog began to quake, and finally, with a noise like thunder, it broke loose, rushing down upon the ? town, carrying away everything? in it? course, blocking up the streets and piling up ~ the peat in places to the height of six or eight feat. Solid stone walls were rent asunder, and fences, porches, and iron posts torn away. Eoats and houses were swept away. , The bewildered and terrified population believed their town was being destroyed by an earthquake, and added their piercing yells and cries for he'.p to the indescribable horrors of the night. The avalanche lasted only an hour, but its path was one of great devastation. A mass of scattered peat amounting to no less than 60,000 tons lay . - '3 over the town. A boy of seven and an old man named Patrick Keating were last A FEAT IN SURGERY. A Man's Stomach Cot Open to Remove His False Teeth. A remarkable surgical-operation has just been performed at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, by Dr. M. H. Richardson of that city. About a year ajo John McCarthy swallowed a set of artificial teeth, which passed through the cesopliAgus and lodged in the cardiac orifice of the stomach. Some months ago an attempt was made by a surgeon to remove the obstruction by the introduction of an instrument into the oesophagus through the month, but to no purpose. The passage of food to the stomach being almost wholly prevented, the patient became very much emaciated and very weak, and it was evident that unless relief was soon had he must die. Afe>r having had the case under observation at the hospital for a short time Dr. Richardson determined * upon opening the stomach. He made a transvej-83 cut in the left side of the abdomen, through which the stomach was drawu and th?nopened, when Dr. Richardson was.able to reach and remove the teeth. The internal opening was then closed with fine silk and the stomach replaced, the external cut being also closed with stitches. The whole operation was completed in forty-five minutes. The patient is doing well, and his complete recovery is now considered certain. NEWSY GLEANINGS. The honey ant fa now sought as a delicacy by California epicures. Eight members of Congress have died during the present Administration. The new Boston Directory contains 177, 665 names or 1(),'20J more thau last year. Four homing pigeons released in New York reached New Ilaven, eighty-seven miles_distant, in sixty-se^en minute. The census /jsfc ta'cen in Paris shows that ' the city contains one married woman of I fourteen, three widowers of eighteen and two widows of sixteon. whex the Texas paople get ready to build a town they do it in a hurry. Ba dinger, a new town in Runnels county, is only a month old, b.it it has 2,0JU inhabitants aud is still growing. A tsamp arrested in an Illinois town for sleeping in a box car was found to have $103 in gold sswed up in one of his pockets and rovcifirvitfts of denosit in a St. Louis bank amounting to 12,500. Horace Smith, of Salisbury, Conn., who is uinety-two years old, fias lived to see seventy graudchildren and four great-grandchildren. He was a sclvool teacuer iu that town from 1813 to 1613. THE .MARKETS. new york. 33 Baef cattle, good to prime 1 w ^4&t Calves, com n to prime veals Sheep Lambs Hogs?Live 5 @ 0 Dretsed, city fi tin 7 Flour?Ex. St., good to fancy S 20 @8 <0 West, yood to choice 3 W @ 4 70 Wheat?No. 2, Red 8<> Rye?State 57 c4 &14 Barley?Four-rowed State... & - TT j if; 1 V? l7h ,V?1^ i uoni?UllglWl. :uiAi*u vh; -? ? Oats?White State 40 (ft> 41 Mixed Western JW <g 35 Hay?Med. to pr. Timothy.. $5 @ 00 (Straw?No. I. live 80 (a 85 ! Lard?City Steani 7 45 7 4'.? Butter?State Creamery.... 21>?@ 22}$ Daisy 12 ($ 17 West. Ini. Creamery 11 (si i;> Factory 10 @ 12 Cheese?State Factory 7 (g !) Skims <> rd5 7 Western 7,l^@ 7->| Eggs?State and Peun 1*> BUFFALO. Sheep?Good to Choice o 25 (<? 4 00 Lambs?Western 5 50 ((? 5 80 Steers?Western . 4 60 (j? 5 15 Hogs?(lood to Choice Yorks 4 H5 @ 5 00 Flour?Cy ground u. process 5 25 (a. 0 25 Wheat?.\o. 1. Hard Duluth. S7 (d, 87.l? Corn?No. 2, Mixed New (q :x>\.J Oats?No. 2, Mixed Western :JS @ .'55j ? barley?Two-rowed State... ? (i$ ? BOSTON. B^ef?Ex plate aivl family. 10 W (?11 0 ' Hugs?Live .ri;4(<r Northern Dres-sed... i Fork?Ex. l'rimo, wr bbl...ll "?'/ ?/ 12 0J Flour?Winter Wheat pat's. "JO (a 0 TO Cora?High Mixed *>0 (i 07 Oats?Extra White 4?j$ Rye?State 1J (it 74 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATT.'.S MARKET. Beef?Extra quality "> - > % 5 00 Sheep?Live weight V4? 5 Lamtis Hogs?Northern, d. w &}{(& PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn. ex family, goo-1 5 i) (a. 5 30 Wheat?No. 'J, Red ? (cr. Rye?.State @ to Corn?State Yellow (<$ )!? OatsMixeJ .*>7 (ft 30 | Butter?Creamery Extra Pa 17 0r> I Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 7 (? ?3i ' " - ' - _