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Only one former Vice-President survives?Hannibal Hamlin, the first of the six Republican Vice-Presidents. He was elected to that office in 1860, and is now nearly seventy-eight years old. A.oKvAnr/f mAKAhnnt core fhot fVl/1 TT? OflPXT a out emu uici vuaa t oujo vuu? v**v j expended in labor to keep a brass sign properly scoured could be more profitably invested in newspaper advertising. He does not believe in brass ornaments of any kind. _____ In the "West, two-cent-a-mile-railroadfares are being agitated, on the strength of the general demand for cheaper rates, now that the railroads are making more money than ever under the Inter-State Commerce act. A baby is a great institution in the booming towns of the growing West, where every one counts in swelling the population to metropolitan figures. A white baby was born in South Sioux City, Neb., the other day, and it being the first occurrence of the sort there, the citizens celebrated by serenading the newffimer nnd nresentinsr it with a corner lot. ______________ The only piece of ground possessed by the United States of America elsewhere than in America itself, is said to be a little plot of land on which the American Legation is built in the town of Tangier. This was given to the American Nation by the Sultan of Morocco. The legations ?11 fifnn/) r\Tt rJ Ail an uiuu tuuuuito cvauu vu g*vuuv? rented, but not owned, by the American Government. Sweden has become a great exporter of butter. The amount sent abroad last year was valued at more than $4,000,000. The Swedish dairies are now worked upon the most improved systems. Only skilled hands are employed in receiving the milk, separating and refining the cream, and churning the butter. The work is performed with the greatest care and cleanliness. The dairymaids receive a practical and theoretical training at dairy schools. lyier is tne only fresident wnose wne died while he was in office, but that was his first wife. He was a widower not quite two years; and counting him there have been six widower Presidents, the others being Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren, Fillmore and Arthur, these five remaining unmarried while in the "White House, and but one bachelor President, Buchanan, who was single throughout his term, Cleveland being the only other who began a term as a bachelor. Fillmore married his second wife after his term as President expired. He and Tyler are the only two of our Presidents who have had two wives. A plan conceived as long ago as 1873 is about to begin realization for the construction, in New York city, of a Protestant Episcopal Cathedral, which will surpass in size and grandeur any similar building on this continent. The project is beinp1 aided bv others than Eniseona ? 0 ^ ?r lians, in one instance a Presbyterian giving $100,000. The estimated cost of the structure will be $6,000,000. The construction of the cathedral will be done in sections. The choir, which will probably be erected first, will, it is said, be as large as Trinity Church in the metropolis. The site has not been selected, but it will be as commanding a one as can be secured. The name will be the Cathedral of John the Divine, and the work of building will be commenced at an early day. Consumption is the cause of nearly fifteen per cent, of the whole number of deaths, or about three in 1,000 of the whole population each year of the world over. Impure air and bad hygiene are potent factors in its production. The disease is most prevalent in temperate climates, but exists in a virulent form in the tropics. The influence Of altitude is very marked. There is almost immunity from the disease among the higher Alps, the Andes, the Himalayas and other extremely elevated regions; while among the Tennessee and North Carolina mountains, a case of true pulmonary consumption was seldom, if ever, known to originate. In seeking a new location immigit nts arc wise who settle in non-malarious neighborhoods. A well-built young man of medium height, with blue eyes, blonde hair and a moustache, is a familiar figure on Broadway, New York. He is Alexander Doyle, a sculptor. He is yet under thirty years of age, although already distinguished. He is a native of Ohio and completed ~Ti. ~ OU) VUUUitUUU 111 JjUIU^C. XL ItiU WUJIC | there he cultivated a taste for art, but yielding to a desire of his perents select- ' ed a commercial calling. lie went to . Europe again as the representative of a J Cincinnati business house, and having considerable spare time, devoted it to art J and entered the Government Academy at Florence. Soon he became so infatuated | with the profession that he gave up his business life. He returned to this coun- | try about six years ago and opened a studio in New York. Since then he has made very rapid progress. His first work | *as a bust of General Charles Graham Halpin ("Private Miles O'Reilly"),which ?r located in Brooklyn. He was next awarded a contract to make a statue of General Robert E. Lee of New Orleans. The people of that city were so delighted with the work that they engaged him to make a statue of Margaret Hougherty, the Irish lady who gave $2,000,000 to the poor. He has recently completed an equestrian statue of General Albert Sidney Johnson, and the Statue of General Steedman that was Tin veiled at Toledo the other day, is his work. He is now engaged on two statues, one of the late Senator Hill of Georgia and the other of the late President Garfield, to be erected at Cleveland. A GREAT WHEAT PANIC. Unparalleled Excitement in the Chicago Board of Trade. A Big Drop in the Market, Followed by Heavy Failures. A clique of speculators who had "cornered" wheat and raised its price steadily for some time have come to grief. Particulars of the clique's collapse and the excitement which followed are given in a Chicago dispatch, which says: Never since the John B. Lyon wheat corner, iu 1872. has the Chicago Board of Trade known such exciting scenes as occurred in the pit to-day. Wheat, during the Lyon corner. fell 50 cents a bushel in one hour and colossal fortunes were lost and made. Five years later, in the course of the war between Russia and Turkey, there was another big drop, but it was not attended with nearly so great an excitement as the great flop of nearly 19 cents a bushel to-day. July wheat broke nearly 10 cts. before 1 o'clock. This tremendous break caused the failure of Maurice Rosenfeld & Co., and the latter disaster in turn was responsible for the collapse of Ham mil & Brine and E. W. Bailey & Co., and the serious embarrassment of C. J. Kershaw & Co. This involves a loss in sight of nearly $2,000,000, and should the latter firm not be sustained by their Cincinnati backers the combined liabilities of the four firms named will reach nearer S3,000,000. That in such an event other firms will go to the wall and materially swell the sum total of the disaster is a certainty. The following table shows the range of prices for wheat prevailing on 'Change to-day. Highest. Lowest. Closing. June 92% 73% 74% July 83% 75^ August .....78% 76 70% September 7S% 76% 77% it will be seen tnat cash wheat at the opening stood 8)4 cents higher than July delivery?a most abnormal figure. The general idea is that cash stuiT ought not to range higher than l>s cents over thirty days1 delivery. The causes which led up to the break are manifold and the inside history of the miscarried corner is largely a matter of guesswork. It is known that for the last two months most, if not all, of the cash wheat in sight was bought by a Cincinnati clique for which Maurice Rosenfeld & Co., Irwin Green & Co. and C. J. Kershaw & Co. were the principal brokers on the Chicago Board. This clique, which is said to consist of -TnonnJi wiltshirp Rohprt Haroer. of the Fidelity Bank, and H. if. Flagler, all of Cincinnati, had forced prices, it is said, by buying, as is estimated, more than 30,000,000 bushels. Fully one-half of it is held by Rosenfeld, and will, of course, be sold under the hammer. How little faith even the clique brokers kept among themselves is demonstrated by the well-authenticated rumor that Kershaw and other clique brokers "got from under"' 5,000,000 bushels onlv last Saturday,and unloaded upon Rosenfeld by a trick which is not new in the manipulation of a corner. The latter in this instance could not be sustained because the funds for margins were not forthcoming. It might truthfully be said that the panic began with the tap of the bell June wheat, which had closed at last night, broke to 8634 upon the announcement that 1,035 cars of wheat had arrived and that 600 more were expected during the day. Rosenfeld's buyers threw themselves gallantly into the breach, meeting the decline with the assertion that it was the intention of the clique to let the market down as low as the crowd would let it in order to get in on a lower range of prices. But it was of no avail, because exciting news came so thick and fast that before the first half hour had elapsed a veritable pandemonium had broken loose. Traders who have crown trrav in the business stood aghast at the spectacle, and the outsiders who were in the visitors' gallery witnessed a sight that they will not soon forget. In the wheat pit the traders were acting like insane men. The market fairly boiled. The screaming traders did not care a continental for fractions or even cents. The terrified bulls, knowing that the bottom had dropped out of their scheme, sold for what they could get, and if here and there an isolated "long'' turned up with a buying order in the vain hope of stemming the tide, his order was exocuted before he could catch his breath. There never was a time when there was such a mad clamor for margins, and the bull houses were fairly overwhelmed. For a block along Lasalle street the roar of voices could be heard. At noon the Secretary of the Board of Trade announced tho failure of Rosenfeld & Co., which roeant that the great clique had gone to pieces. Later the failures of HamiU Brine and G. W. Bailey & Co. were announced. Immediately there was a rush of excited brokers to the offices of the suspended firms. Later in the afternoon it was observed that Armour, Hutchinson and other wealthy men had come to the rescue to prevent further demoralization. Under these stimulating influences prices rose to 74%?a recovery of almost 2 cents for cash, and 85X for July. TV?n mopfl cfnf/jmonf- "hmvAvpr f,hn? wheat fell nearly 1!) cents in three hours conveys but a very incomplete idea of the actual destruction wrought. It means a direct loss of $3.500,000 in that commodity now here in store and on the track. Furthermore, it represents the transfer of from $3,000,- J 000 to $10,000,000 in profits on open trBde in June and July?taking into consideration the drop of 9% cents in the latter?from the bull to the bear accounts on the books of members of the Chicago Board of Trade. How many individual fortunes were wrecked | and made in the course of three anxious hours only subsequent developments will show. 1 Many Additional Failures. The situation at Chicago on the second day of the great wheat panic was summed up in a dispatch from that city as follows: The situation to-night is even more threatening than it was twenty-four hours ago. Tuesday's drop in wheat of nineteen cents was followed by a further break of 6% centp to-day, and the rally at the clos; was insignificant. Seventeen firms are posted to-day for failure to settle margins, and, while it is impossible to arrive at anything definite in the matter of the liabilities of the stricken houses, it is safe to say that more than 20,000,000 bushels are involved, and that the loss on this immense block, including n/uffAtvtav'c /?rnn ic nnf locc fKnn HAO fWl toTis makes a total of $8,000,000 in two days." MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, There is a rumor that Wilson Barrett lost $28,000 by his tour in this country. Donations for the sufferers by the theatre fire in Paris have reached over $300,000. Ma Ion Arnold and Mr. George Morgan have completed a new American opera. A young American soprana named Adiny has made a successful debut at the Paris Grand Opera. Helen Hooker, niece of Old General Joe, will be a dramatic star next season and will play in standard pieces. Somebody has already figured that it will cost the Saratoga hotels combined for music alone in July and August $30,000. George F. Bristow will give five orchestral concerts in New York next winter, with a corps of seventy musicians. Christine Nilsson threatens to become as pel u laicncau <V3 X auu, OUU JL3 IAJ make another concert tour through England shortly. "Pinafore" in a ship 138 feet long and thirty-five wide, in real water, is to be the next enterprise at Madison Square Garden, New York. The Emperor of Brazil maintains an Italian opera out of his own purse, and he has one of the most complete operatic companies in the workl. Mh?s E. H. Ober, the former manager of tie Boston Ideal Troupe, made the comfortable sum of $100,000 during the years that she was associated with the company. It is rumored that Miss Clara Louise Kel* logg is to marry Mr. Carl Strakosch. The gentleman is a nephew of Messrs. Maurice and Max Sirakosch, and is said to have always admired the American singer. Miss Kellogg will make her third farewell tour this summer. Mmt:. Ilma di Murs-ca, the soprano, who has been abroad for several years, will return to this country during the summer. In the autumn she will undertake a concert tour under the management of Mr. D. De Vivo. Her friends announce that upon the conclusion of this tour she will settle in New York and establish a school of singing. ? NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. The flames have destroyed the Havemever sugar refinery at Greenpoint, opposite Jfew York. Adjoining property was also burned. Total estimated loSs, *-it)0,000. It has been decided in a test case brought by the New York hotel keepers in the SuUrflino PAlirt: fHoh thor havo nn riorHf; fr\ coll spirituous liquors to guests on Sundays. Right Rev. Wm. B. Stevens, Bishop of tho Protestant diocese of Pennsylvania, died the other day at his residence in Pennsylvania, aged seventy-two years. At the dedication of the New York Press Club monument in Cypress Hills Cemetery Brooklyn, Chauncev M. Depew paid a noble tribute to the worth, integrity and power of newspaper reporters, and Rev. Dr. Talmage delivered a powerful eulogy. Ex-Secretary Manning has returned to New York from his European trip. His health is considerably improved. Smith Billings and Joseph Thompson collided while playing baseball at Marblehead, Mass., and were rendered unconscious for a long time. - Billings' frontal bone was crushed. The Carlisle (Penn.) Indian training school has just sent seventy-three pupils West, nearly all of whom have completed the mursA nf t.Via c/?hrv?1 Thar wore mncf.lv r?f the Sioux tribes. The vote in the New Hampshire Legislature by which William E. Chandler was elected United States Senator was as follows: Chandler (Republican), 180; Bingham (Democrat) , 145; scattering, 6. South and West. Yellow fever is abating in Key West and is thought to be under control. Four Mexican sheepherders attacked their employer, James Taylor, of Scurry county. Texas,with revolvers and knives while he was unarmed. He wrested a six-shooter from one of them and killed all four of his assailants. Four miners fell several hundred feet down a shaft at the Huron mine in Upper Michigan, and all were instantly killed. Edward Lickey was struck with a ball and killed while playing baseball at Lincoln. A dynamite cartridge exploded prematurely in the Inman mines, thirty miles west of Chattanooga, Tenn. Five miners were reported instantly killed and ten fatally injured. "Dago Joe," a half-breed, was lynched near Austin, Miss., for murder, and Peter Bettery, a colored man. met a similar fate at Jamestown, Ohio, for brutally assaulting an aged colored woman. The sudden dron in wheat at Chicago caused three Milwaukee firms to suspend. Washington. The State Department is opposed to pauper immigration. June returns of the Department of Agriculture indicate a reduction of nearly two per cent, in the winter wheat area, and an increase of six per cent, in the spring wheat area. The total area of wheat Is about 57,000,090 acres?a fraction of one per cent, more than that of the previous crop. The average for winter wheat is 64.9, and for spring wheat the average is 87.3. The condition of cotton averages 90.9, which has been exceeded only three times since 1870. Vincent Lamantia, of Louisiana, has been appointed United States Consul at Catania, Italy. The President has appointed the following postmasters: Valentine Butsch, Boulder, Col.; John C. Luning. Leesburg, Fla.; Walter Kirkpatrick. Virden, 111.; Thomas M. Ochiltree, Rushville, Ind.; James S. Cooper, Mount Gilead, Ohio; Albert C. Robinson, Greeui Bay, Wis.; James W. Wilson, Eafiton, Penn. Clarence H. Pitkin,of Vermont, has been appointed United States Attorney for tho District of Vermont. Foreign. The great bridge over the Tay in Scotland I has been finished at a total cost of $3,500,00') The army of India now consists of 73,00j Europeans and 145,000 natives. ITupcnnD Wtt t mr nf flopmanr Vine been sick abe<l, is reported better. Riotous opposition to the collection of tithes in North Wales was quelled by troops. The residence of James Edwards, a Menota (Manitoba) farmer, was Burned at night, and three children?aged seven, twelve and fourteen?pol ished in the flames. The parents and two other children were saved. Governor Torres, of Sonora. Mexico, offers $100 each for the heads of Apaches. Twenty-five thousand square miles of land are inundated in Hungary. A Cabinet ci-isis in Servia lias been prolonged by the fact that the new Cabinet will be expected to arrange for a divorce between the King and Queen. There has been serious rioting at Athloue. Ireland, between soldiers and civilians. Tlio soldiers wrecked a number of houses and many citizens were injured with stones. Owing to the failure of the crops a famine prevails in Asia Miner, and 100,000 poop e I are in dagger of starvation. I Prince Bismarck is reported in poor j health. Hailstones weighing over a pound each recently fell during a heavy storm in Eastern ! Roumelia. The hail stones destroyed the harvests, killed many laborers in the fields, and pierced the roofs of houses like bullets. LATER NEWS. Aftkr a long and harassing struggle a completed jury in the case of Jacob Sharp, charged with bribing the New York "Boodle' Aldermen of 18S4 to grant his Broadway Railway a charter, was obtained on Wednesday, and the trial began with the address of Assistant District-Attorney Nicoll. Charles F. Bur^h, a Jersey City (N. J.) policeman, dangerously 6hot his wife and I then committed suicide, Much opposition has been developed to the recent Presidential order to return to the authorities of the late Confederate States all the Confederate flags in the custody of the War j Department which were captured by Federal troops. General Fairchild, of Wisconsin, I Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R., at a ro| ception tendered to him in New York, ex pressed himself warmly against me return, <u these flags.and in Ohio legal steps were begun to enjoin the return of Confederate flags at the State Capitol. Attorney-General Garland has issued an order reducing tha compensation of Assistant District Attorneys twenty percent., and directing the discharge of all assistants whose services can be dispensed with without detriment to the public service. An official statement is made in London of the discovery of projected attacks by dynamiters upon public buildings during jubilee week. At the auction sale of Lord Crawford's library in London a Gutenberg Bible, the earliest book printed with movable metal types, brought $13,250. 30,000,000 ACRES. A Hujje Land Grant Made by Mexico to a New York Man. Tho huge land grant made by the Mexican Government lately to Henry P. Clifford, of New York, and J. A. Verges, of San Francisco, proves to be the largest ever made in that republic. It consists of a vast parallelogram along the hi err a Madre from the middle or uurango to the United States boundary, a tract 358 miles long by 120 miles wide. The consideration is the thorough survey of the country included in the grant, and the development of its known mines within two years. A surveying force of 300 men will be i put to work in a few days and $500,000 spent j for that object. Smelters will be erected and I farms and ranches opened. The tract is fifty : per cent, greater in acreage than Ireland and j nearly as great as that of England. I Advices from most parts of the West and South represent the growing wheat as looking unusually fine. East of the Alleghenies, however, the wheat is very slow recovering from a hard spring. OYER THE VISES. | Some Important Happenings Told by the Telegraph. A Panic and Heavy Failures in the New York Coffee Trade. The New York Coffee Exchange came near having a Black Monday on the 13th. Three firms suspended and many others barely escaped ruin by the timely aid of several houses who determined to avert a general crash. The amount involved in the three failures is at least $1,000,000. That represents only a small part of the day's losses, for speculation in coffee had lately brought into the market many general traders of the kind who always watch for active dealings in which to turn their money. No place in the vicinity of Wall street offered such temptations of this nature for the past tew months as the Coffee Exchange. It was the common belief that a break must come, but as usual every speculator had faith in his own ability to get out. The trouble began shortly after noon, when prices began to slip downward, and all sorts of ominous reports affecting the strength of the financial backbone of the Brazilian coterie of bulls crept into the Exchange, and were reflected in the flnm fnr nHHifJnno 1 morfrinc UUUglJ UV?UJ4?&?VlO AVI WUUIVlWliUt ?,.??*> made on Arnold & Co. It was quickly learned that the firm couldn't stand the pressure many minutes, and their suspension was quickly followed by that of two other firms. The Coffee Exchange has small quarters, and is the infant of the New York downtown exchanges, but when the suspensions were announced the brokers roared with an intensity , that even. the Stock Exchange might have envied. Hundreds of cargoes of coffee, representing millions of pounds, were thrown on the market and everything appeared to be on the down grade, when above the thundering racket was heard the voice of Joseph J. O'Donohue, the New York coffee king, offering to buy coffee. The stampeded brokers heard the voice,and it gave them assurance. They promptly plumped at Mr. O'Donohue 50,000 bags at a time, which were readily taken, and when Mr. W. H. Crossman rushed in and stood back to back with Mr. O'Donohue the brokers became calmer and sent up a mighty cheer for the two men whose courage had ended a panic that would have wrecked more firms. From that time until the last gong prices were turned on the up track, and the finar prices showed considerable recovery from the lowest figures of the day. A Girl Student's Fatal Fall. Miss Mary a. nju, aangnter 01 n. n. Hill, of Jamestown," N. Y., a student in the Freshmen Class at Cornell University, met with a fatal accident a few days since. She was returning from church at noon along the Cascadilla (Jorge, and at a very narrow place in the path turned to speak to some one behind her. when the earth beneath her gave way ana 6he fell down the slope to the lottom of the gorge, a distance of about sixi;y feet. Assistance was immediately procured and she was taken to her room, in the Sage College building. She could walk with assistance from the carriage to her room, and did not complain of serious pain. After an examination the physicians gave it as their opinion that Miss Hill would very soon recover, the apparent injuries being a fracture of one rib and a cut upon her knee. In the evening, however, a serious collapse occurred, supposed to be caused by internal hemorrhage, and the patient continued to sink until 2 oelock in the morning, when she passed away without having given evidence of great suffering. Returning Confederate Flags. President Cleveland, on the reccommendationof the Secretary of War. has ordered the return to the authorities of the late Confederate States of all the Confederate flags in the custody of the War Departm?ut which were captured during the war by the Union armies. In a letter to Fitzhugh Lee, Adjutant-General Drum makes a tender dL_ UkAlAnm'n?? +ViA rnlunfAAr VI. IUO uoga uciwufci"5 w wuw t viuuwv< v? ganizations of the Stat? of Virginia." General Drum adds: "In discharging this pleasant duty I beg you will please advise me of your wishes in this matter." He Never Knew "Wnat Happened. People at Olean, N. Y., were startled the other day by the trembiing of the earth, followed by a sullen report, and it was thought an earthquake had arrived. The report was caused by the explosion of forty mtro-glycerine cans on a wagon driven by Lew Hart, an oil-well shooter. The explosion demolished the wagon and everything standing in the vicinity, killed the horses and hurled Hart's mangled remains several hundred feet distant Several people were felled by the concussion. Judgment for $14,028,000. Judge Childs, of Buffalo, has granted three motions for judgment of foreclosure of mortgages and sale against the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad. The first had to do with the consolidated mortgage bonds for $7,000,000. The sale is to take place on September 15, in Pittsburg. The next concerned the collateral mortgage bonds of $28,000 and the third the first mortgage bonds of $7.000.000. EARTHQUAKE IN ASIA. ' A Town in Tnrkestan Destroyed? 125 Lives Lost. Severe shocks of earthquake have occurred at Vernome. in Turkestan. The town was almost entirely destroyed. One hundred and twenty persons were killed and 18-5 injured. Among the latter is General Friede, the Governor of the province of Semiretchinsk. Shocks continued to be felt at intervals. The inhabitants of the town were panic-stricken, and fJed for safety to the open country. LIGHTNlfaFREAKS, During a recent storm at Binghamton, N. Y., two boys were sleeping in the same bed. Lightning killed one of them, while the other escaped the slightest injury. Three boys of Stamford, Conn., took refuge in a barn during a thunder storm. They sat very close together in a row. Lightning killed both outside boys, leaving the centre one entirely uninjured. Mrs. Joseph Wilson, of Griffin, Ga., had her arm out of the window in the act of closing the blin Is, when lightning struck an oak near by and paralyzed the right side of her body. She has since recovered. While in tiie act of nailing up a gate, Jacob Baulknight, of Jonesboro, Ga. was killed by lightning. The bolt struck the hammer it maitoH in hi? hand. The family in the house were all knocked senseless. A perfect galvanic battery exists in the j person of a St. Louis man, who was recently struck by lightning. He can impart the current to those coming in contact with him,and he is affected with violent spasms. Miss May Bailey, of Owingsville, Ky., was turning the cows from the pasture preparatory to milking them, when lightning struck a wagon near her, ai!d the shock killed her. She showed no marks of injuries. Old Uncle Anderson Weaver was hoeing cotton near his house at Social Circle, Ga., when lightning struck him, tearing the rim from his hat, and his clothing and shoes into shreds. When reached ha was dead, with his clothing all afire. During a recent storm at Rosedale, Mo., Lewis Beckitt was instantly killed by lightning while sitting in his door-way and the house consumed. Not far away David Custer, who was on horseback, took refuge under a tree, when a bolt killed both horse and I rider. An Atlanta, Ga., drayman was hauling sand when a thunder storm came up. There was a blinding flash, when both horses fell dead in their tracks. O'Neil did not even get a shock, and being a pious man he instantly shouted to a man passing: "I rejoice that things are no worse." | Every season for the last five years the barn of Ely Warren, near Hartford, has been struck by lightning. Men and animals have been killed, but the building always escaped fire. During a receut storm Mr." Warren's son Henry, aged sixteen,was instantly killed, together with a horse. rtmnmu cIicitv t.hnt, 4-9 2.t4 vrri^iau ?7 r? ?ns left Alsace-Lorraine between the years 1880 and 1885, while during the same period < there was a German influx of 36,853. I II i~ " ? EIOT AT A PICNIC, A Sanguinary Affray in Which Sev? eral Men Were Shot. The Anarchists and Socialists of New York and vicinity gathered in force Sunday at Oak Cliff Park, Union Township, N. J. The occasion that called them together was a picnic, given for the benefit of their Chicago brethren who lately suffered in their collision with law, and was to aid in securing a new trial for them. The announcement that Johann Most and his coadjutor, Braunschweig, were to make addresses swelled the number attending into the thousands, and riot and bloodshed were not wanting before the end of the day. All went peacefully at first. Admission had been rigorously denied to all police and reporters. Finally, . however, it became rumored that something was going on within the "Park," which demanded the presence of ths law's strong arm. This in Union Township is represented by a small constabulary force. A man whom the Anarchists took to be a special constable appointed for Sunday was the man who first aroused the ire of the revelers. He attempted to cut through the park as a short route to the ferry. Admission was denied him Some one drew a revolver and shots were fired almost immediately. Then the crowd which had gathered outside the grounds took a hand in the fray and a general fusillade followed, in which several Anarchists were seen to drop, but were hustled away by their friends. Tne fight became pretty fierce. A reporter for the Hoooken evening News named Willburger was badly used up, as he insisted upon waving a small American flag, and thus drew upon himself much of the anger of the Anarchists. Finally the offending man,whose name was Bernard Winn, a laborer in Gurtenburg, disappeared and the Anarchists retired within their gates with savage threats. The trouble was not over yet, however. Later in the afternoon a ball game was begun in the adjoining field, and the Anarchists saw there Winn, the man who had before enraged them. This time, with the thirst for revenge 4-s\ fViAi* olrflo/ltr V?Aetilo f/vili"nrrc tVior OUUCU l/V cucu an uvovito icviiugo^ vucj managed to pet him in their hands. Shots were again fired, the crowd in the baseball field taking Winn's part. Judge Walker, the only available magistrate, appeared in person, but without effect. He found Winn in the hands of the mob, who were administering severe punishment to him. When the Judge attempted to interfere he was told he had no business there, and at a signal was surrounded by the Socialists. In the melee Patrick Tummany, a sp2cial officer, was shot in the head, though not seriously. Many of the crowd were injured and beaten. Willberger was shot in the head. Serious trouble .was now expected and request was made to Union Hill to send police. This aid it was impossible to give, although preparations were made to receive the mob if they returned to New York by theHoboken Ferry. The rioters, however," dispersed after Winn had been rescued from their hands by some of the baseball players and his friends. THE NATIONAL GAME. Toronto pays $5 for every home run made oy a local player. The Memphis Club made 119 runs iu four games with the Mobiles. Manager Williams, of the Clevelands, is scouring the country for pitchers. It is estimated that three tons of yarn are yearly used in the manufacture of baseballs. President Stearns, of the Detroits, says that no club can buy Hardie Richardson now for $10,000. Radbourne thinks that Chicago will never have another champion team. He says that Its glory has departed. The Brooklyns failed to win a single game from the St. Louis Browns out of four played on the Eastern trip of the latter. Baltimore is somewhat in need of pitchers just now, but not near so much so as Cincinnati and some of the other clubs are. The three Detroit games in Boston were witnessed by 30.000 people. Detroit's share was $375, while Boston put away nearly $10,300. The ex-Yale pitcher Hutchinson is said to receive $3,800 for the season from Des Moines, rhis, if correct, is the largest sum ever paid by a minor League for a player. Not a triple play has yet been made in the League. In fact only three have been made this season, one in the Southern- League and two in the American Association. Boston people think that Sam Wise is playing short stop this season eaual to the best work ever done by George Wright; his lefthand stops being something wonderful. Bob Ferguson says that it is all a'mistake that ball players do better work now than 4-1?" tuo mimti >io kdvq nn i i/uoj uiu jottia agu. xuv t.v more scientific than it was ten years ago. There Is not a club in the country which tries so hard to cater to all nationalities as j does tha Newark (N. J.) Club. There is the ! great African battery, Stovey and Walker; the Irish battery, Hughes and Derby, and the German battery, Miller and Cantz. Senator Gorman, of Maryland, is an old baseball player. He used to cover second base for the Nationals, of Washington, when Cashier Williams, of the Treasury, was pitcher. Gorman is trying to get the oldtimers together for a game-this summer. the national league record. Won. Lost. Won. Lett. Detroit 25 9 Boston 24 11 Pittsburgh....14 18 New York....21 16 Philadelphia.. 17 19 Indianapolis... 8 28 Chicago 16 17 Washington...12 19 the american association. Won. Lost. Won. Lost' St. Louis 34 8 Baltimore 26 13 Brooklyn. 20 20 Cincinnati....23 22 Louisville 21 21 Athletic 21 20 Metropolitan.. 9 529 | Cleveland..... y so eastern* league. Won. Lost. Won. Lost New Haven... 14 17 Hartford. 19 13 Bridgeport....24 9 Waterbury.. .15. 16 Danbuiy 13 19 Springfield 4 15 southern league,Won Lojt. Won. Lest Nashville 19 7 New Orleans.. 19 18 Memphis 20 11 Birmington.. 0 5 Charleston 23 14 the international league. Won. Lost. Won. Lost. Newark. 19 9 1 Syracuse 10 10 Rochester 18 11' Binghamton..ll 15 Toronto 17 11 Hamilton 13 17 Buffalo 94 10 Jersey City...11 15 Scranton. 1 2 Utica 4 21 the college league. Won. Lost, Won. Lost. Harvard 3 3 I Princeton 1 4 Yale 4 1 I PROMINENT PEOPLE, Thomas Sexton, M. P., the "Irish Demosthenes" is seriously ill at Dublin. Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, is living in faris at the rate of half a million dollars per pnnum. Miss Kate Field is now visiting California, and will go to Alaska on a sight seeing tour before her return to the East. Harvard s oldest living graduate is Mr. | William K. Sever, of jriytnoutn, mass.; wuu was ninety-six years old last Monday. Baroness Burdett-Coutts is a large purchaser of American buckwheat, which is canned ready for the griddle for the London market. It is said that John Wanamaker} of Philar delphia, now carries $050,000 life insurance. Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, carries $150,000. General O. H. Strother, who used to illustrate for Harper's thirty years ago over | the signature ot/'Porte Crayon,'Ms passing j his old age near Berkeley springs, \ a. The Empress of Austria is a pedestrian of much endurance. She walked from Herculesbad in Hungary to the Roumanian boundary, last month, a distance of twenty-five miles, and without resting. The late Major Poore, who never forgot his 1 schooling in the printer's art, went to the Government Printing Office, in Washington, on the birthday of George W. Childs, a few days before he was stricken down, and set his 1,000 ems for the Child fund like the rest of the printers. Advices from Alaska say white men are constantly migrating to the country, and its condition is rapidly improving as to civilizaI tion and traue. There are many induce[ ments to hardy and industrious men to settle, in the way of fishing, stock raising, garden1 ing, fur hunting apd mining. _ >-. ^ - ? : ^ THE PANAMA CANAL. i A Gigantic Undertaking Doomed to Early Abandonment. ' t The Work Done So Far, the Money ! Spent, and Human Lives Lost, J M. Boulange, a French engineer who re- j ^ cently came from Panama to recuperate his ' ] health, talked about de Lessep's great ca- | aal scheme the other evening before the American Society of Civil Engineers in New York. Ho is a compact, wiry little man, with close-cropped black hair and a complexion tanned to a copper color, and < wears gold spectacles. What looked like a I plaster cast, but which in reality was a i unique model of the Isthmus with the line of the canal marked in blue?the gift of t de Lesseps to the society?was con- 1 Kpicuous on an easel and used by the guest of < the evening for illustration. M. Boulange has been three years attached to the canal engineers' corps from France, and therefore i laiew what he was talking about. "The construction of the canal," he said, "has been very difficult work, and the completion will be much more difficult. I have jjrave doubts that it can be finished, and, if it is, the cost will be three or four times what has already been expended. The New York steam drill is being used by some of the contractors, but with such little success at certain points that only about five blast hqles are made a hour. The climate is veiy discouraging, and none of the engineers who had plans for necessary dams could remain long enough on the ground to t finish them. I was obliged to return to France myself, and when I got home the isthmus fever prostrated me for three months consecutively. "Even at this late day there is not a firstclass map or profile of the canaL Neither are there any official data of practical value to the surviving engineers." For those and other reasons M. Boulange thought the gigantic undertaking would eventually be aoanaonea. speatung 01 wcat had been done and the cost, he said: "Not more than one-fifth of the work has been done, or about 30,000,000 cubic metres out of 140,000,000 cubic metres have been excavated It has cost 900,000,000f., equal to about $200,000,000. Nothing has been done in Colon harbor, but about sixteen miles of the canal route inland from the harbor has been opened up. It is true, as reported, that a dredge did not shift its position for six weeks, having all it could do churning out the sliding clay. The great cut, which is to be 318 feet in depth, has been dug out about thirty-eight feet. The original survey made by Lieutenant Wise is of little value. There is very little sand in the soil, but plenty of clay and more solid rock. A considerable portion of the route is through swamps and has not been surveyed. Owing to the peculiar formation of the rock in the big cut the blasting will have to be more extensive than was at first calculated. "Great difficulty has Been experienced in getting laborers owing to the unhealthy climate. I was four months getting six men. We have S2nt to Trinidad, Hong-Kong and other remote places with varied success. Wegot about 800 Chinese, and they brought their own cooks and physicians for sanitaiy reasons. Sixty per cent, of the common laborers die each year. Eighty per cent, of the white perish. Last year our society sent seventy-two engineers, agents, clerks, etc., to Panama, and there are eleven of us left fit for work. .Forty-live aiea ana me remainder are as good as dead. It is a fact that there is a sliding mountain on the line of work which is, and promises to cause, no end of trouble. Scotch dredges only are in use. "We got 170 ccolies to go to work after much time and money, ana they stand the climate and labor better than any other class. " We have enough funds on hand to continue the work about four months. After the money is exhausted I think de Lesseps will be forced to abandon the enterprise for good or for some years at least. The scarcity of money; impracticability of the present route, and unexpected obstacles are reasons sufficient. "It rains about nine months of the year on the isthmus, day and night. The three dry months are not entirely free of rain either. The result is that there are frequent freshets along the line, and portions of the work have had to be rebuilt repeatsdly. At one point, in January, 1883, the water rose 21 feet in six hours, and not only destroyed our railroad bridge, but other valuable superstructures." THE COERCION BILL. Restricting; the Debate?An Amendment By Parnell Defeated. In the British House of Commons Mr. Smith moved the resolution previously announced requesting that at 10 r. m. on the 17th inst., the Chairman forthwith put the question on any motion, amendment or proposal touching the clause of the Cl imes bill then under discussion, then on the clause itself, and finally on each remaining clause. He urged that the step was forced upon the Government by continued obstruction. Mr. Gladstone said that a longer notice should have been giVen of this' important motion. The present state of business and * - T?- ? 1 3 J the entire paralysis 01 rariiameni/ uwxu intense dissatisfaction throughout the country, but the position had been brought about by the Government themselves. They had been pursuing the false and evil policy of coercion without the justification pleaded on former occasions. . Mr. Parnell satfd be could not understand the infatuity of the Government in rushing blindfold along a road which they had ulready seen would lead to the greatest disorder in Ireland. The Government speakers had harped on the theme of "obstruction." As a matter of fact the Irish members had not lifted one voice against any measure, exeopt. this Coercion bill, wjiich they were bound"?o resist to the utmost. He concluded by moving an amendment that the House decline to sanction a resolution limiting freedom of debate and assailing the rights of minorities. Mr. Parnell's amendment was rejected by 284 to 167. THE LABOR WOELD. There are nine labor members in the Illinois Legislature. A full labor ticket will be put in the field in Kansas next fall. A New York syndicate has purchased 4,000 acres of Alabama coal land and will erect a 100-ton blast furnace. A convention of shoemakers for the pur i/v.-xr kjl a uatiuuat uauoo uioui\.i has just been held in Brockton, Mass. The International Bricklayers' Union has now 132 subordinate unions. President Darragh, of St. Louis, has issued eighteen new charters since January. i There are 25,000 workmen encaged in the rubber industry of America. The new syn- | dicate of importers and manufacturers repre- i sents a capital of $35,000,000. The annual > product is estimated at ?100,000,000. Three years ago there were but eleven ! places where fur hats were made. In addition to these there are now shops at Yonkers, i Matteawan, Newburgh, Fall River, Haver- | hill, Bridgeport, South Jersey and St. Louis. 1 The National Knights of Labor Co-opera- | tive Tobacco Company, of Raleigh. N. C., is owned by local assemblies and individual members of the Order in the various States and Canada, and is strictly a co-operative in- I stitution. The International Typographical Conven- 1 tion in session at Buffalo elected the following officers: President, "William Aimison, of Nashville; Vice-Presidents. E. T. Plank, of i San Francisco, and Charles Gamewell, of 1 Washington: Secretary and Treasurer,David M. Pascoe, of Philadelphia. A plan* of profit sharing has been adopted ! by the stockholders of the Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Railroad Company, suggested i by President Ashley. In any year in which ' a dividend is declared every employe who has been at least five years in the service is to re- I ceive a dividend on his salary, the same as if | he were the owner of that much stock. It is ' expected that the dividends paid employes j will be more than saved by th#decreasing 1 waste. Reports of officers of the Grand Lodjre of ' Odd Fellows in session at Madison, Wis., show that the order is retrograding in mem- I snip, there being a loss of 400 in the year 1886. including 144 deaths. The present membership is 15,013, with seventy-five lodges. - i | _ - ? T>l-iCTmT>TT/irpr UT -nTTrr/lT* H U. JJJjO iHUUiiTU U JjUUUJLJi Sreat Damage Inflicted in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. The town of Nanticoke, Penn., was visited ) j a rainstorm the other afternoon which did i great deal of damage. A cloud over the antral portion of the borough burst and let ' lown the rain in torrents. . In a short time ;he streets were entirely submerged, in some places the water being three feat leep. Main street, which is a reoeptacl* for all the water from the surrounding bills, was turned into a river. The sewera were unable to carry off the water and burst* This let the water into the cellars of all the business houses in the street, damaging thousands of dollars' worth of goods. As the rain fall increased the volume of water grew . larger, and after passing in and out of the cellars made its way down Broadway to Arch street Here it swamped a number of booac* and carried them off their foundations. In a swamp in the rear of the armory an about twelve tenement houses occupied by laborers. The water surrounded the housea'" on all sides, and entirely submerged the first floors. The terror-stricken inmaiw were given no chance to make their escape. and, fearing death by drowning, they climbed to the roofs, whence they were rescued by parties in boats. All the railroad tracks lead- > mg from the coal breakers to the main track of the Pennsylvania Railroad were submerged, and in some places the tracks were . washed away. The merchants on Main street are heavy losers. The loss of property will reach $100,000. The deluge from the skleft lasted forty minutes. Almost continuous heavy storms lasting tea' days have also done a large amount of damage throughout West Virginia, and contiguous territory in Ohio. Railroad travel has been greatly interrupted, bridge# washed away, live stock drowsed, crops ruined, and great amounts of valuable lumber carried off. No through trains ran on the Ohio River Road sooth of Wheeling City for four days, and three or four passenger trains were blocked at Sister*ville. At New-Martinsviile, W. Va, the Methodist church was wrecked by lightning. So* much wet weather in June has not befeo known for a dozen years. PLUCKY TENANTS. Stubborn Resistance Against Eir!?^ tlon in Ireland. V;, Evictions at Bodyke, Ireland, were re 1 W?J-- ? _ J moo a nmoHfinfl Senator Jokes, Bonanza Maekay, Flood. and other California capitalists, have formed a syndicate and purchased the great tract of land known as the Mariposa grant. Friends of the Rev. Dr. Reid, a Hanson, la. missionary have received the news thai that gentleman wn kilied and eaten by a H| Central African tribe of cannibals. The Mexican Congress has adjourned without action on the pending postal con* vention reducing the postage between the United States and Mexico from five centatO two cents. -u THE MARKETS. I NEW YORK. 24 Beef, good to prime 7 & ' Calves, corn'n to prime 66% Sheep "%<& 9. Lambs Hogs?Live 5}f@ 5W\IH Dressed 5ft Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 3 90 @ 4 15 West, good to choice 3 85 @ 5 00 Wheat-No. 2, Red 93%? 85* H Rye-State ? @ 63 Barley?State 60 @ 75 flfl Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 43 @ 48 .BH Oats?White State 37 @ 37lf Mixed Western 34 @ 36 Hay?Med. to prime 80 @ 85 ..HH Straw?No. 1, Rye 55 @ 60 ^9 ? " ? tK /? 7 3.1 Lard?City Bream Butter?State Cieamery? W%? '-30 Daiiy 15 @ IS West. Ira. Creamery 13 (Q 15 Factory 9K@ 13 Cheese?State tactory $/4@ 9f? mm Skims ? ? 6% Western 8 @* 9)? Eggs?State and Penn 15%<g' buffalo. Sheep?Good to Choice 4 10 @ 4 30 Lambs?Western 4 75 & 5 00 Steers?Western 4 3.5 @ 4 60 Hi Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 90 (<? 5 00 Flour 4 T5 @515 Wheat-No. 1 N5!<@ 87,V H Corn?No. 3, Mixed 4^@ 4S)f H Oats?No. 2, Mixed ? @ 31}tf BB Barley?State 04 @ 65 BH boston. |h Beef?Good to choke 15 Hogs?Live 6 Northern Dressed.... 6%@ Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbl...12 00 @12 50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 00 (?< 5 15 BB Corn?High Mixed. 503^@ 51J? Bfl Oats--Extra White 40 V@ 41 HE ft,') I is x\.yw? ? WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef- Dressed weight C%@ 7 |fl Sheer)?Live weight 5J^ IH Lambs ? <g 5)2 IH Hogs?Northern 6^@ C)f PHILADELPHIA. H| Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 75 ? 4 00 IH Wheat?No. 2. Red 89 @ 90 Corn?State Yellow 47 @ 47V HI Oats Mixe L 32 @ S4 Rye fctate ? @ .53 Butter?Creamery Extra... 18 % 19 |H Cheeae-N. Y. Full Cream.. 10 lOJtf SUU16U UX1 rriUttjr, auu iuuc mwa * vyvww of the exciting scenes which have attendednumerous attempts to evict tenants. Th^ |H Sheriff and his body euard were stubbornly resisted at the house or a tenant named 0'HaI? oran. A hillside Hear the house was covere4^H with an excited mob,|who cheered the defend? H| ers of the premises, and urged them to hold O'Halloran and his party had .dug a trend! around the house and barricaded the lower" Hfl rooms, while the upper portion of the home was occupied by ten men, including two wbo-^H had returned from America, ana some women. The bailiffs made an attack on the watt MB of the house with a crowbar, but were re-'^B ceived with scalding water and fled. An in- H| spec tor of police, with drawn sword, thea Hi mounted a ladder placed against the side of the house, but was beaten down. A constable with a rifle and fixed bayonet next mounted the ladder, but his head was battered by the defenders. Several gashes-|H were inflicted upon him and he retired. An* ^9 other constable also attempted to climb tb?- l ladder, but failed. A second ladder was then E roe u red, and several constables mounted it^ -^^H ut were Sfeaten down. Mi-. Cox essayed to; climb up a ladder to speak to the inmates of.H| the house, but the police prevented him from doing so. B Finally a constable entered with a rifle and fixed bayonet, but the rifle was wrested from him and his safety was imperilled whenfttttattHj Hannan entered and secured a cessation of hostilities. The inmates were then arrested, and the eviction was carried out |M When Father Hannan entered O'Halloran'k'^H -house O'Halloran had Constable Nortoa^B| raised aloft and was in the act of throwing him out of the window, while a sister oi>^H O'Halloran was charging another constabls-^H with Norton's rifle and bayonet. The crowd of peasants who surrounded the place ieered at the evictors, whereupon they were charged by the police, who brutally beat several of the peasants with their batons. NEWSY GLEANINaS. I Mr. Parnell gains in strength and weight-^^B daily. Wolves and foxes are rapidly increasing IB in some sections of Illinois. It is again reported from Berlin that titf three Emperors are to meet soon. IH Five thousand Chinese left Hong-Kong tot America during March and Api*il. HI John P. St. John is to stump New Yortf^H State during the forthcoming Prohibitioncampaign. William Aimison, of Nashville, has beenre-elected President of the International M Typographical Union. There are nearly twenty thousand peoptehomeless in Michigan on account of the reoent j^B desti-uctive fires in that State. THE Japanese Naval Department has d&cide.l to make a standing fleet, to consist of fifty war-ships and several cruisers. HR Rev. Mr. Tong, a Chinese Baptist preacheiy^^B delivers exhortations in front of a lai^-.^B pagan temple in Chinatown, San Francisco, every Sunday afternoon. Sevator-elect Pasco, of Florida, is th?- Hj only Confederate private' who has ever been chosen to the United States Senate. All tfae others ranked as brigadiers. ; The inscription which Congress ordered la 178*5 to be placed upon the monument of Gen. Nathaniel Grepne, in the Capitol at Washing y\n hou insfc been completed.