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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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. _ >-. ^
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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
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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.
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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.