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/FATAL PANIC IN CHICAGO.
^Frightful Disaster at an Exhibition
of Fireworks.
Many Persons Fatally Injured or
' Badly Wounded.
'' A terrible calamity attended the Centennial
celebration in Chicago in connection
with the pyrotechnic display on the lake
front.
One of the three exhibitions of fireworks
arranged by the Centennial managers was
Riven in the Lake Front Park, a lar?e,
flat inclosure in a central part of the
city. Fully 100.000 people were assembled
in the park and on adjoining
streets. While the exhibition was in
progress all passed off safely and the thousands
were scattering when the disaster occurred.
A piece of "fireworks in the form of
a flower-pot had not been discharged, though
lighted, and Daniel Grant, thirteen years old,
nicked it up when the display was over.
While handling the piece it exploded and
scattered its deadly flame and fire
in all directions. The crowd at
once became panic-stricken, and a horse
which hod been allowed in the crowd dashed
headlong the helpless, screaming mass of
humanity. Before the animal could be
stopped he had trampled over scores of people
and fatally injured many.
It was a sad ending to an otherwise
glorious and enjoyable celebration of the
nation's centennial anniversary. The
names of many who were injured, or
the extent of their injuries, will never
be known, as most of them who had relatives
or friends on the scene were immediately
removed to neighboring houses. Persons
who were in the panic, however, and
escaped uninjured, estimate the number of
badly injured at fully fifty.
To and fro t'u^ crowd swept until the last of
the fireworks had exploded. Then a rush
xcoc m.nrln the side streets and for home.
This only intensified the crush. The streets
are narrow, ;uid in the thickest of the
flight the weak were knocked down and
trampled under foot by the strong. The
police in their desperation fired their
revolvers in the air. hoping to check the rush,
but they were laughed at and hooted. Until
the mob had scattered no assistance could be
rendered to any of the injured as they lay on
the ground.
- Many of the crowd preferred a struggle
with the animals to one with human beings,
and soon people, horses and vehicles were
wedged tightly together. Several of the panicstricken
horses rushed through the crowd
and left a trail of injured behind. The animals
were stopped in their fatal rush with
great difficulty, and every carriage was
smashed and its occupants thrown out.
When all was over and the struggling mass
of humanity had scattered in all directions
the fcene on Michigan avenue presented a
horrible sight. The roadway on the corner
of Michigan avenue and Harrison street was
covered "with human beings, lying helpless
and groaning from their injuries. The neighboring
houses were turned into temporary
hospitals.
Daniel Grant, the boy at whose feet the
flower-pot fireworks exploded, had the flesh
stripped from the bone on both insteps. The
fire burned off both shoes and reduced his
clothing to shreds.
A large number of persons, some fatally
and others seriously injured, were taken
home by friends before their names could bs
ascertained.
- The victims were hurriedly gathered up
' and carried to their homes and the hospitals.
Ho time was consumed in asking names or
keeping records. It is impossible to give the
number of persons hurt in the jam. One estimate
places it not less than a thousand who
sustained injuries of some sort.
THE SAMOAN CONFEKENCE.
Its First Session Held at the Residence
of Prince Bismarck.
' The conference of representatives of the
United States, Germany and England to concider
Samoan affairs opened in Congress
Hall of Prince Bismarck's resilience.
The session lasted an hour and
jfifteen minutes. On the proposal of
iCount Herbert Bismarck, it was decided that
?he strictest secrecy should govern the delibjerations
of the conference.
- The conference adjourned without fixing a
,date for the next session. The sentiments expressed
by the Commissioners were of the
friendliest character.
TTTP T. A "RHP. WORLD.
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* St. Louis carpenters are on strike.
, Philadelphia has 7350 power looms.
The eight-hour movement is growing,
f St. Louis butchers have just organized
|' Texas industries are booming up rapidly.
, In West Virginia 4000 coke ovens are to be
flrailt.
An electric road has started at Nashville,
ttenn.
1 Moiy New York waiters have organized
fnnions.
Panama's unemployed workmen are dying
'of starvation.
The National Textile Union 13 being reorganized.
All the machinists of New York will soon
tbe in one union.
A Venetian manufacturer is making thoutsands
of glass bonnets.
Workingiien's building and loan associations
are multiplying.
The rail mills have very little work and
railroad building is backward.
THE uewisn worjcmen 01 i>ew iurs are ou
igetting into unions of thsir own.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters is trying
"to bring all of the building trades together.
The tanners think this year is going to be a
good one and they are buying hides rapidly.
Large numbers of stone-cutters com? to
this country every spring and go home every
fall.
The New York cigarmakers, 10,000 strong,
threaten to strike against a reduction of
wages.
Cotton* manufacture is progressing fairly,
with a consumption a little larger than in
'any previous year.
All the thread manufacturers in the
United States have combined, and wages
"have been reduced fifteen per cent.
There are 130 organizers in the American
Federation of Labor, and several of the general
organizers are to be kept on the road.
The workers in the breweries are afraid
that the powerful English syndicates will reduce
their wages after they get possession.
J In the proposed Williamson industrial
.school, the college system with a central organization
buildmg will probably be adopted.
A machine has just been made to sow
welts of a shoe to the upper, which will never
rip. Shoe manufacturers are taking well to
it.
A call has been issued for a convention of
barbers to be held in Pittsburg on the first
^Tuesday in September, to form a national
union.
The Eagle and Phcenix at Columbus, Ga.,
-employs 3000 hands, and is pronounced by an
^English expert to be the best managed cotton
"mill in the world.
President Harrison advises a full and
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luauudaiim ujl iuc ci^uiruuiu uutouuu, iw
I0 believes "that an eight-hour "law would
give employment to many now idle."
The Sultan of Turkey has reinstated the
cooks he recently discharged because they
wanted their wages. He has paid them one
per cent, on account, and agreed to spare
their lives.
The Lowell Carpet Company, Lowell,
Mass., has commenced using some patented
cards for carding cow's hair, to be used as a
filling for carpets, it being twisted by a peculiar
process, sufficiently for filling and in
this way colored and used.
Prizes have been offered by the Georgia
Southern & Florida Railroad Company of
from $25 to $100 to conductors, engineers, "firemen,
baggagemen, truckmen, flagmen and
agents who distinguish themselves most for
their honesty, industry and neatness.
House painters in Belfast, Ireland, receive
from $7 to $S per week, carpenters
from $5 to $6. Pavers, who generally work
by the job, make from $4 to $5 a week and
musnng from t5 .3 $6. Six to twelve cents
ypjirmr is usually paid for overtime.
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THE HEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.
The Legislatures of Rhode Island and Delaware
have adjourned sine die.
Felix Kt.ee, age fourteen, son of Adolph
Klec. a prominent dry goods merchant ot
Paterson, N. J., was found dead from a pistol
shot in his father's woodshed. The boy was
chastised by his parents and afterward shot
himself.
The earth over the Boston mine at Plymouth,
Penn., covering an area of one acre,
caved in. Surface water poured into tho
miues and submerged all the workings. It
will take six weeks pump the water out.
In the mean tiino 000 employes will be idle.
Charles E. Woodruff, of New Britain,
Conn., City Clerk, has uttered forged papers
to the extent of -540.000. His victims are the
First National and Mechanics' Banks of that
city, the three leading banks of Middletowu,
and banks in New Haven and Meridan.
Woodruff has practised forgery for nearly
six years according to his own confession,
during which time he has forged notes to the
extent of ?000,000.
SUUU1 UI1U H CM.
A tire broko out in Sparks & Co.'s liemp
warehouse at Lexington, Ivy., and burned
all day and night. One of the walls fell,
killing two colored men and a white boy
nametl Willie Dint-en.
Engineer J. S. Binns and James Merriam,
fireman, were killed by a train running
into a -washout near Richmond, Va.
Caesar Frazer, alias Berkley, was hanged
at Charleston, S. C., for the murder of Mr.
Oldenberg, an aged German.
A storm raged throughout Maryland, the
worst for years. At Chestertown there was
a hurricane. The high wind blew down hundreds
of fruit troes. The rivers and creeks
were all swollen. A portion of Salisbury was
flooded.
A train* pulling a private car, containing
Vice-President Morton, Governor Foraker
and staff, General Sehofield and staff, and
some ladies, collided at Baltimore with a fast
express train, and the entire party received a
severe shaking up. Four train men were injured.
An attempt to hold an election for Mayor
in Guthrie, Oklahoma, was defeated by a
violent storm. Excitement was caused by
the discovery that the brackish river water
is poisonous. A smallpox epidemic threatened
Guthrie and other towns in the new j
Territory. A man named Joseph Ellsworth
was taken with smallpox on his return from
Guthrie to Arkansas City. Hundreds of disappointed
people are returning to their
homes in Kansas and other States. A halfbreed
named Holbert was killed at Oklahoma
City by a white man named Poland in a dispute
over a claim.
Washington.
Further important appointments by the
President: Dr. Daniel Dorchester, of Boston,
Mass., to be Superintendent of Indian
Schools; Warren Truitt, of Dallas, Ore., to be
Register of the Land Oflice at Lakeview, Ore.
Thomas B. Baldwin, of Folsoin, New
Mexico, to be Register of the Land Office at
Folsom, New Mexico; James B. McGonigal,
of Colby, Ivan., to be Receiver of Public
Moneys at Oberlin, Kan.
A despatch from Auckland says that the
United States steamer Nipsic was again disabled
while beint; towed in Apia Harbor,
Samoa. Mataafa nas returned to Apia.
Justice Grat, of the United States Su?reme
Court, whose marriage with Miss
eannette Matthews, daughter of the late
Justice Stanley Matthews, is announced as
ibout to take place, was received into the
Episcopal Communion by Bishop Parrett in
5t. John's Church, "Washington. Miss Matthews
was confirmed in the same church
ibout a week before.
? Foreign.
A storm has destroyed all the crops in the
Soerlitzen district of Silesia, Five persons
were killed by lightning.
The Spanish Government will soon sell at
luction $40,000,000 worth of State woodland,
in order to cover the financial deficit to build
railroads, canals and highways and to estabdsh
rural loan banks.
The Weldon Extradition bill, aimed at
American boodlers, has been passed by the
Hanadian Parliament.
MINERS CRUSHED TO DEATH.
An Immense Rock Kills Three Men
in Pennsylvania.
The Hyde Park (Penn.) shaft was the scene
of a terrible mine accident. Three men who
were working several hundred feet below the
surface, loading coal from the mine
chamber in a car, were caught under a
falling slab of rock fifteen feet long, twelvo
feet wide and about two feet thick, crushing ]
them to death instantly. The victims were:
Michael Flymi. miner, fifty years old. inar- I
ried; Patrick Ratchford. miner, fifty-sis j
years old, married, and Patrick Rogan. i
laborer, single.
The men had just fired a heavy blast and j
sounded the roof, but except a slight hollow- j
ness at the face of the breast it seemed secure, i
Their car was nearly filled with coal when '
the terrific crash came. The roof that j
they had just concluded was safe :
gave way, catching them under i
it before they had time to realize what had j
happened. Flying pieces of the rocky mass j
struck and slightly injured two other miners j
who had heard the report and were hurrying !
to the scene of the accident. Vv hen help ar- I
rived it was seen that the victims were j
crushed into a pulpy mass, and it took sev- '
eral hours to remove the rock from the j
mangled bodies. The bodies were then car- j
T-i-i'l tn thf homes of the men who had a short I
time previously left for their daily task.
A FATHER'S CRIME.
i
Ee Kills His Two Children and Takes
His Own Life.
A horrible murder and suicide occurred in
High Bluff, Canada, the victims being a far- I
mer named McLecd and his daughter, while i
another child, a boy of thirteen years, was so ;
badly wounded that he could not recover. 1
McLieod's house is a mile or so away from ;
High Bluff station, on what is known as the j
"back road.'' He was last seen about dusk. J
A neighbor named Lotta visited the house !
after dinner next day and was horrified to j
find McLcod on his side with his throat cut j
lying near the stove. Both children were i
found in the bedroom off the kitchen. The j
girl, who was not more than eight years old, j
had been struck on the head with the sharp |
edge of an axe and was dead. The boy, who had
his clothes on, had four deep gashes on his
head. The axe with which the horrible I
crimes were committed was found a few feet |
behind the dead body of the father and the j
knife that he cut his own throat with was
discovered in the cellar. There we?3 tracks
of blood from the cellar to near where the
suicide lay.
The cause of the deed is attributed to the
financial difficulties of MeLeod, whose wife |
died two years ago. He was one of the best- :
known farmers in Manitoba, and a man re- j
spected by all who knew him.
A DEADLY DUEL.
Kow Tivo Alabama Farmers Settled
Their Differences.
A deadly duel occurred a few days since in
Jackson County. Ala., that resulted in tho
death of one of the participants. Two far- I
r.er neighbors living at some distance from {
Scotsboro named J. D. Prince and J. T. Green,
quarreled over some trivial matter, and
Green threatened to kill Prince, and he pre- j
oared himself with a shot-gun. On the fol- i
lowing morning the two men met in a public
road and immediately dismounted from their !
horses and resumed tlie quarrel. They filially j
decided to flcrbt it out. and Green made for
Prince with a large dirk, making a vicious
plunge at liini. Prince dodged and seized
Green's arm and the deadly struggle began.
Pierce's gun was leaning against the fence,
md the question with him was how to get it
before he was killed. With a sudden effort
he tripped Green, throwing him to tho
ground, and immediately made a break for
a is gun, which he reached just as Green was
in striking distance. Without leveling the
gun. Prince thrust the muzzle against his enraged
enemy, pulled the trigger, and lodged
a heavy load of buckshot in his breast, killing
him instantly. PrhOe gave himself up,
and was taken t= Scotsboro jail. i
THE YOW OF WASHINGTON;
Poem by John G. Whittier Read at
the Great Centennial Celebration.
The reading of the following poem by John
G. Whittier formed part of the Centennial
exercises at the Sub-Treasury in New York.
Mr. Whittier's age and infirmities prevented
him from being present to read his poem in
person:
The sword was sheathed: in April's sun
Lay green the fields by Freedom won;
And severed sections, weary of debates.
Joined hands at last and were United States.
0 City sitting by the Sea!
How proud the day that dawned on thee,
When tne new era, long desired, began.
And, in its need, the hour had found the man!
One thought the cannon salvos spoke;
The resonant bsll tower's vibrant stroke.
The vciceful streets, the plaudid-echoing
halls.
And prayer and hymn borne heavenward
from St. Paul's!
How felt the land in every part
The strong throb of a Nation's heart,
As its great leader gave, with reverent awes,
His pledge to Union, Liberty, and Law!
That pledge the heavens above him heard,
That vow "the sleep of centuries stirred;
[n world-wide wonder listening peoples bent
Their gaze on Freedom's great experiment.
Could it succeed? Of honor sold
And hopes deceived nil history told.
Above the wrecks that strewed the mournful
past,
Was the long dream of ages true at last?
Thank God! the people's choice was just,
The one man equal to his trust,
Wise beyond lore, and without weakness
good,
Calm in the strength of flawless rectitude 1
His rule of justice, order, peace,
Made possible the world's release;
Taught prince and serf that power is but a
trust,
And rule, alone, which serves the ruled, is
just;
That Freedom generous is, but strong
In hate of fraud and selfish -wrong,
Pretense that turns her holy truths to lie3,
And lawless license masking in her guise.
Land of his love! with one glad voice
Let thy great sisterhood rejoice;
A century's suns o'er thee have risen and set,
And, God be praised, we are one Nation yet.
And still, we trust, the years to be
Shall prove his hope was destiny, .
Leaving our flag with all its added stars
Unrent by factions and unstained by wars!
Lo! where with patient toil he nursed
And trained the new-set plant at first,
The widening branches of a stately tree
Stretch from the sunrise to the sunset sea.
And in its broad and sheltering shade,
Sitting with none to make afraid.
Were we now silent, through each mighty
limb,
The wings of heaven would sing the praise of
him.
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Beneath his own Virginia sky,
Forgive, forget, O true and just and trr.ve,
The storm that swept above thy sacred grave!
For, ever in the awful strife
And dark hours of the Nation's life.
Through the fierce tumult pierced his warning
word,
Fheir father's voics his erring children heard!
The change for which he prayed and sought
In that sharp agong was wrought;
No partial interest draws its alien lino
Twixt North and South, the cypress and the
pine.
One people now, all doubt beyond.
His name shall be our Union-bond;
We lift our hands to heaven, and here and
now
Take on our lips the old centennial vow.
For rule and trust must need be ours;
Chooser and chosen both are powers
Equal in service as in rights; the claim
Or Duty rests on each and all the same.
Then let the sovereign millions, where
Our banner floats in sun and air,
From the warm palm-lands to Alaska's cold,
Repeat with us tne pledge a century oldt
Oak Ksoll, Danvers, Mass.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
England has 500,000 velocipedists.
A new Atlantic cable is proposed.
Railroad earnings are increasing.
The apricot crop is reported short.
Delaware has adopted a ?500 saloon
license.
There are thirty-seven brands of champagne.
The Philadelphia police force consists of
105S men.
Unwonted activity in tree planting prevails.
Mexico has about five thousand miles of
railroad.
There are 290 churches in Chicago.
Steel rails are quoted at $27 per ton.
Cattle are selling at $10 a piece in Nevada.
There is an abundance of mnple sugar.
New York city has 9000 Chinese residents.
Texas is exporting large numbers of swine
to Mexico.
The Panama Canal won the first prize in
its own lottery.
TnE biggest mine in the world is under
the Aspan Mountain, Col.
The dog tax adds 830,000 a year to Connecticut's
Treasury.
Claus Spreckles, the California Sugar King,
is said to have a corner on the crop.
No fewer than 7000 horses are slaughtered
yearly in the market of Berlin.
Parnell's action iu the Irish courts
against the London Times has been cancelled.
The Maine is the heaviest vessel of the new
navy at present contracted for.
Mexico has nearly fourteen thousand
miles of telegraph lines.
Toe Catholic church in Australia has S00,000
communicants.
It is estimated that there are 20.000 more
women in Washington than men.
The new cruiser Chicago has been put in
commission.
Governor Nichols, of Louisiana, hat
issued a quarantine proclamation.
There will be only two-thirds of the usual
crop of peanuts harvested this year.
Yellow fever is still raging in Rio Janeiro,
Brazil, the deaths reaching 100 per
day.
The Roman Catholic population of the
United States is 8,157,676.
In Saxony there is one suicide to every
S446 people.
a t ?t>nv Aanyanca r\f phinoep irnmiftjltaoil
into British Columbia is reported.
There are eighty-one bauks on the taxbooks
of New York city, with 22.262 shareholders.
The Salvation Army has abandoned Berlin,
the officers in charge having discovered
that the city ,lis not yet ripe for salvation."
The entire Ohio oil district is producing
about 30,000 barrels daily, on au average of
300 barrels to a 100-acre tract.
The whole number of members of Baptise
churches in the United States is given as
2,207,7W.
Cats are being sliipped to Dakota by the
carload, owing to a plague of mice in the
granaries.
Twelve "Western railroads have suffered a
loss in the.values of their stocks since last summer
of ?121,000,000,
The Corean Government has placed an order
in America for fifteen field-pieces, 2500
rifles and 20.000 shells.
The rabbit drives in Fresno County, Cal..
are exterminating the pests which a year ago
seemed likely to drive the settlers from their
lands. Two thousand people recently went
over ground where a year ago they would
have corraled three or four thousand rabbits
and 150 were all they caught. Going over
the ground again but a single rabbit was
found.
In Italy there are 12,943 persons who have
received licenses to beg, and who are, therefore,
unchallenged by the police.
LATEK NEWS.
Postmaster Edward S. Jnnsox, of Ashbourne,
Penn., shot and lolled a burglar who
was trying to break into the postoffice.
Joseph Lutto.v, aged fifty-five, and A.
Lawson, aged forty, while returning home to
Vernon Centre, Conn., from Manchester
drove from the road down a steep bank and
over a wall into Talleotville mill pond. Both
men and the horse were drowned.
The body of Mr. James C. Anthony, a
brother of the late Senator Anthony, was
found floating in the river near Silver Spring,
R. I. He had committed suicide.
Jacob D. Sdaulis, a wealthy farmer, sirty
years of age, who lived in Jefferson Township,
Penn., was found dead hanging to a
tree near his house. Lying in the barnyai-d,
a few foot away, was nis young wuc snot
through tha body and fatally wounded. .
A receptiox was given to Chief Justice
Fuller by the Bar Association of Kew York
city.
Evert man in Pittsburg engaged in the
building trades, with the exception of the
bricklayers, went on strike and work was
generally suspended. The number of strikers
was computed at 5000. The principal gr iev
ances were the hours of labor and the employment
by the bosses of non-union men.
Patrick McGixxis has been hanged at
Canon City, Oregon, for the murder of
Sheriff Robert Lockwood.
A terrific wind and hail storm passed
over the northern part of Bell County, Texas,
covering a territory of twenty-five square
miles. The cotton and corn crops hs.ve been
destroyed, entailing a loss of thousands of
dollars.
Floyd Rice, colored, fell through the dome
of the Richmond Theatre at Richmond, Va.,
a distance of seventy feet, while hauling
down an American flag, and was instantly
killed.
The Centennial Celebration of Washington's
first inauguration was observed with
much enthusiasm in many cities?notably in
Chicago, Charleston, S. C.; Portland, Or.;
Nashville, Tenn.; Birmingham,Ala.; Denver,
Col.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Lexington, Va.;
Milwaukee, St. Louis, Staunton, Va.; Cinm'nnat.i
San Francisco: Richmond, etc.
The State Department has been informed
that the Government of Honduras will be
represented at the International Marine Conference
to begin in "Washington on October
16, 1889.
Secretary Tracy declined to order a
court of inquiry to investigate the loss of the
men-of-war in Apia harbor, Samoa, being
satisfied that the disaster was one that could
not have been prevented.
It was estimated at the Treasury Department
that there had been a decrease of $11.500,000
in the public debt since April 1.
Ths railway mail service has been placed
under the Civil Service rule. Since March 4
about 1500 changes in the forces of 5500 have
been made in the railway mail service
throughout the country.
The boiler of a dredger burst in the harbor
at Calais, France. The explosion killed
seven persons and injured several others. The
bodies of the killed were horribly mutilated.
While twelve men and a little girl were
crossing the Nicolet River at Ste. Clothilde,
Canada, in a skiff, the boat upset and three
of the men were drowned.
Malietoa, the deposed King of Samoa,
having apologized, Emperor William has decided
that the ex-King may be liberated.
The London Telegraph, in an article on
the American Centennial, says that from no
quarter of the globe will congratulations
heartier than those of Great Britain go to
America,
Ij? the House of Commons a motion of
Samuel Smith (Liberal),censuring the British
Government for fostering spirit drinking in
India, was carried by a vote of 113 to 103.
Henri Rochefort, who fled to London
with General Boulauger, applied to the
French Government for a safe conduct to enable
him to attend the funeral of his eldest
son, who committed suicide at Bona, Algeria.
The Washington Centennial was celebrated
by appropriate exercises in America
churches in Montreal, Canada; Rome, Italy,
and Paris, France.
Br an explosion in the Rechlingliausen colliery
at Dortmund, Germany, three persons
were killed and eight injured.
The steamship Berlin arrived at Bremen,
Germany, from Rio Janeiro with yellow
fever on board. The ravages of the plague
on the vessel have been something frightful.
Over thirty were down with it. Three passengers
died and were buried at sea.
A riot occurred in Guanajuta. Mexico,
originating in the arrest of five Jesuit priests
for the delivery of seditious sermons. In an
attempted rescue by the populace thirty
soldiers and policemen and 200 rioters were
killed.
Lord Bcxravex's yacht, the Valkyrie,
which is to contest for the American cup,
was successfully launched at Glasgow, Scotland.
The frames are of steel, the top sides,
deck and fittings are of teak, and the bottom
plankings are of hard wood. The length is
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tonnage 50.70. The length on the load water
line is just under TO fest.
OKLAHOMA'S "METROPOLIS.
Boomers Suffering at Guthrie for
"Want of Food and Water.
A cattle train, carrying 200 men in the caboose,
which left Guthrie at 0 p. M. arrived
at Arkansas City, Kan., at 3 o'clock in tho
afternoon of the following day. It was the
first train that reached that point from
the South after Oklahoma was opened, a
distance of only eighty-five miles. The road
was almost completely blocked. There was
as yet no difficulty in getting into the Territory
of Oklahoma, but it was more than
doubtful when one could get out. People were
represented as vainly attempting to leave
Guthrie by train, and as suffering greatly for
want of food and drink. No wells had been
driven yet in tha town. The only water that
could be obtained was got at a muddy creek
about a mile below the depot. It sold at $1
the bucket or ten cents a drink, and required
an excellent set of teeth and a good digestion
to swallow and enjoy it. Food w?.s scarce.
Sandwiches were worth twenty-five cents
apiece. Any kind of a meal was worth all
the way from SI to $5. The hotel tents were
doing an immense business, notwithstanding
the prices they charged. The water tank of the
railroad was guarded by soldiers, nnder orders
to shoot any one who attempted to obtain
water. The order seemed a cruel one,
but it was necessary to preserve the property
of the railroad and to insure the running of
trains. Ono engine was laid up for several
hours for w ant of water. The prices of lots
in the town, excepting a very few choice
locations, tumbled with as startling rapidity
as they rose. One man offered three lots for
five dollars and could find no takers. Some
lots could nut be given away. The only
budding in town was-the land office. It was
,a frame structure, containing only ono room;
-all other shelter consisted of tunts. Thousands
slept in the open air every night.
Mrs. Ammo.v, an old resident of Sheakleyville,
Penn., is a pauper. She is the mother
of the celebrated "Coal Oil Johnny" Steel.
At different tune: he asked his mother to
choose a farm for herself and he would buy
it, but she waited too long, and before the
farm had been bought Johnny's millions had
been squandered.
WASHINGTON TOPICS.
Some Important Happenings in
the National Capital.
No Homesteads for Government
Officials in Oklahoma,
A Washington special says that the Gov
erument officials in Oklahoma will get very
cold comfort from the officials there in their
efforts to deprive actual settlers of lands in
Oklahoma. A talk with Secretary Noble
demonstrates the view of the administration
that the Government officials there were sent
to earn their salaries and not to take
up homesteads. It is considered vastly
preferable if a Government official
like the United States Marshal, the district
Judge or the Register of the Land Office desires
to enter land, that ha resign his office
and become a homesteader. It may be accepted
as a foregone conclusion that all contesta
against entries made by officials will bo
sustained by both the General Land Office
and the Secretary of the Intex-ior.
'The Government officials there are filled
with indignation over the tricks played by
the alleged deputy United States Marshals to
get into the country ahead of the settlers, and
it seems quite likely that all of these people
will be deprived of 'their land on tho ground
that they illegally entered the country ahead
of the date set by the President for the opening
of the land. Secretary Noble said:
"I shall insist upon the military forces excluding
every person who may enter the
Cherokee strip as soon as he may set foot
thereon. There will be no dilatory business
about this, and no toleration of infraction of
the law. That strip is Indian country and
must not be invaded. On the other hand, we
propose to protect our homesteaders in Oklahoma
from any invasion of their rights by
persons who have taken unfair advantage of
them.1'
General Land Officc Commissioner.
The President's appointment of William
M. Stone, e^-Governor of Iowa, as Assistant
Commissioner of the General Land Office is
interesting. Governor Stone was one of the
strongest candidates for the Commissionership
when the Senate was in session, and it
was the warmth of the fight between him
and ex-Senator Chilcott, of Colorado, that
causea ine rresicienc to ntuu uij tuc apuumi.meat.
Now the Land Office has its hands
full looking after Oklahoma affairs. For
this reason the President announced to
Senator Allison that he would not make any
changes in the Commissionership at present.
Governor Stone accepted the position of
Assistant Commissioner with the understanding
that in doing so he did not relinquish his
claim on the Commissionership. In the position
of Assistant Commissioner he will be
able to familiarize himself with the affaire of
the office, and when the President determines
that he can safely supercede Commissioner
Stockslager, Governor Stone will be on hand
with his application as heretofore.
The Public Printership.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, has added his indorsement
to that of Senator Cullom and
other members of the Illinois delegation in the
fight for the public printership. He has urged
upon the President the appointment of P. W.
Palmer, of Illinois. Palmer once owned the
Dubuque (la.) Times, published in Mr. Allison's
own town, and later he owned Assistant
Postmaster-General Clarkson's paper, the Des
Moines (la.) Register. Mr. Clarkson has given
Mr. Palmers application a most unqualified
indorsement and he has the full strength of
Iowa, now joined to the full strength of Illinois,
to assure him success.
Rewarding: the Samoan King.
Officials of the State and Navy Departments
are considering what can be done in
the matter of suitably rewarding the Samoan
King Hataafa for his timely effort* to
rescue the American sailors and property
wrecked at Samoa. Admiral Kimberly's report
contained a strong recommendation
upon this point which cannot be neglected.
It is probable that the warrant of Congress
must be held for the bestowal of any suitable
reward, but the Navy Department m&y be
able meanwhile to give tne King a token of
its appreciation in the shape of boats or some
of the property now at Apia.
Pensions for the Veterans.
There was an aggegate of 580 pension certificates
issued by the Pension Office the
other day. The list includes certificates for
original pensions, re-issues, increases, etc..
and is the largest issue that has been made in
any one day since Commissioner Tanner assumed
charge of the Pension Office.
WILLIAM H. BAKNUM, '
Death of the Chairman of the Na
tional Democratic Committee.
Hon. William H. Barnum, Chairman of
the National Democratic Committee, has just
died at Lime Rock, Conn. Mr. Barnum's
health had been impaired for some time. He
leaves a large fortune accumulated in the
manufacture of car wheels and from fortunate
investments in the Lake Superior mines.
William H. Barnum was a native of Columbia
County, New York, and was born in
ISIS. He obtained his education at the common
schools. When eighteen years of age ho
eutered upon his business career. His political
career began with his election to the Connecticut
Legislature in 1851-2. Mr. Barnum
represented his district in Congress for eight
years, and subsequently served two years in
the Senate, filling the vacancy caused by Mi*.
Ferry's death.
He was Chairman of the National Democratic
Committee in 1S80, and had charge of
the Democratic campaign of that year. Mr.
Barnum was a sick man when he "undertook
the management of the Democratic campaign
last summer, and in a few weeks broke
down.
SWEPT OVEB THE FALLS,
Four Men Perish in the ColumDia
River Cascades.
News has just been received cf the drowning
of four meu at the cascades in the Columbia
River in Oregon, The victims are Peter Hanson,
Peter Boomer, John Larson, and Larenc:
Maelstrom The men were all employed al
the locks and the canal on Government
work.
They took the Whitehall boa't and startoc
across the Columbia a short distance above
the great rapids.
The river was rising and the current muci
stronger than supposed. The boat was caughl
in the whirl, and despite all efforts was swepl
over the rapids. Wheu about half way dowr
the boat struck on the rocks, was throwi
twenty feet in the air. and the occupant;
were "pitched into the roaring angry waters
Three of the men never rose to the surfaei
again. The fourth man clung to the boa' i
,Ucf?r>r.Q KllT Till I
terrible accident wr.> ?i'.tiessed by man}- per
sons on shore, who were powerless to rehdei
any assistance to th? Lolpless victims.
PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.
A Reduction of a Little Over Thirteen
Million Dollars.
The public debt statement just issued !
places the whole debt at SI,672,051,*
HOT. 14. Cash items of reserve held
and net cash in the Treasury amount to
S370.44?i.27S.iKj. leaving the net debt at
?1.101,60.>.42ii.4G, which is a reduction of
?1.?-. 07S.ttt4.il.
Since April 1 last the total receipts during
the mouth wereW.>.S51,7S0.90, and theexpendi
tu res >\i4. JS6f). S4t?.50.
T.w..im.r Hvntt's rc-nort shows the assets
in the Treasury, ?7'2G.4Tt>.(i(>7.r>3: liabilities,
i(Vtr),fXt0.i)?.:Jl, leaving a net balance of -^U,The
coinage executed at the mints during
the month amounted to S,312,000 pieces,
valued at $4,013,300.
Captain Hezekiah Williams, who was
at the wheel of the Merrimac during the Confederate
ram's encounter with the Monitor,
died recently in Norfolk, Va., aged seventytwo.
The Southern cadets, of Macon, Ga., were
awarded the first prize of $1000 offered for the
best drilled company by the sub-Tropical Exposition
managers.
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TEE NATIONAL GAME.
Boston is disappointed in Ray. I
The Washington Club is complete.
The Memphis Club has reorganized.
Bates will pitch for Havard College. ,
Barkley has signed with Kansas City. ]
Cleveland is the League baby this year. ,
Rtjland is to Captain the Havard Colleg? i
nine.
Bostonians begin to think their outfield ii
weak.
.The four ball rule makes the pitchen I
work. I
Phenomenal Smith is suing the Baltimori 1
Club for 8750. 1
Carroll has been appointed Captain oJ |
the St. Pauls.
The Columbus (Ohio) Club is in need of a
second baseman.
President Harrison thoroughly enjoayg
game of baseball.
Elmer Smith, of Cincinnati, is styled thi
dead arm pitcher.
O'Brien, of the Brooklyns, made the firsl
three-bagger of the year.
The Pittsfield (Mass.) High School girli
have organized a ball team.
Ladies are to be admitted free at all the
games in Louisville this season.
Quinn is said to be the best thrower and the
most active man on the Baltimore team.
The Minneapolis team is to have a handsome
street uniform of gray for use on trips.
Never before this season has the Baltimore
Club opened the championship season with a
defeat.
The first man to make two home runs in a
single game this season was Duffee, of St,
Louis. !
The Pittsburg Club has put its rules in
book form for the players to carry aboul
with them.
Baltimore has the honor of being the
first club in the race of 1889 to shut out another
club.
TnE largest and finest baseball grand stand
in the country is the one at the Philadelphia
baseball grounds.
Nineteen hundred dollars were divided
among the New York players as a result of
the Brooklyn series.
Hutchinson, Chicago's new pitcher, is ic
finer form than he ever was in his life, and
his speed is simply terrific.
, The salaries and traveling expenses of this
year's Kansas City team will cost the
management about $40,000.
Cross, of the St. Louis Browns, is themosl
agile catcher in the business. He is perfectly
cat-like and quick as lightning.
It is predicted that the largest leather
failure in Chicago this year will be the failure
of tho Chicago team to hit the ball.
Williams, of last year's Buffalo (N. T.)
team, is beyond doubt the smallest catcher
who ever played in a professional team.
Ed. Williamson, the famous shortstop oi
the Chicago Club, who was injured during
the game in Spain; has returned to America.
A man who contributed $1000 to the stock
of the New Yorks when the club was organ
ized has since drawn $10,000 dividends tnref
years in succession.
A purse is to be presented to John Morrill
upon his first appearance with the Washington
Club at the "Hub" by his Boston friends
as a token of appreciation.
The League magnates are quite unanimous
in their intention of passing a resolution not
to engage ball players who are in the liquoi
business during the winter.
President Spalding, of Chicago, is op
posed to the three-strike and four-ball rule.
*?? ?nia Tr-itfi thft nitehei
x2tj lavuia ituu j iiuv ..... k
put a few feet further back.
Manager Hart, of the Bostons, has taken
charge of the team. He will control th<
players on and off the field and will be helc
solely responsible for their doings.
The defeat of Louisville and Baltimore by
tho Kansas City and Columbus teams, re
spectively, indicates that the weak clubs ir
the Association intend to have a say in thi
pennant race.
The Chicagos and All-Americas broke
even in the ten games played in this country.
Altogether the teams played 53 games. All
America won 28, Chicago won 22 and 8
games were tied.
Owen "Williams, the voung player who
played right field for Canton, Ohio, last
season, ana whose sale to Lima for one dollar
has gone down into history in the company
with the Kelly $10,000 deal, has signed to play
centre field fo^.Hamilton, Ohio.
Governor Hill vetoed the bill which
would have enabled the New Yorks to play
another season on the famous Polo Grounds.
This compelled the New Yorks to play their
opening game of the League season in Jersey
City, tf. J.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Hon. S. S. Cox is lecturing out West.
The Czar is learning to play the cornet.
J. D. Dana, the geologist, is seventy-five.
Von AIoltke, the soldier, is eighty-eight.
Alfred Tennyson, the poet, is seventynine.
Ghnmaxer Krupp's annual income is $1,095.000.
Queen Victoria's favorite dish is tapioca
pudding.
Crown Prlvcess Victoria, of b.r^den,
has given birth to a son.
Senator Ingalls has a passion for bright
colors, and is very dressy.
John Wanamaker, the new PostmasterGeneral,
is worth ?10,000,000.
Within the past few years Secretary
Blaine has doubled his fortune.
George Bancroft, the historian, has entirely
ceased his literary work.
Secretary Proctor is going West to look
efter Government work in progress out there.
ntn. Chamberlain says that all domestic
animals had an instinctive fondness for John
Bright.
Russell Sage, Jay Gould's financial
friend, is seventy years old and worth $40,000,000.
Dr. McGlynn will spend the coming summer
in a lecture tour through Great Britain
and Ireland.
The King of Greece buys his clothes in
London, while the Queen sends to Paris for
j her costumes.
David Sinton is the richest man in Cincinnati,
born in a cabin in Ireland, and worth
now $5,000,000.
Queen* Natalie has been induced to return
to Servia. Ex-King Milan will, therefore,
return also.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is frequently
seen on New York thoroughfares, usually
with her mother.
Captain Rigio, the last survivor of the
band of Lafittc, the pirate slaver, recently
died at Grand Isle.
The German Crown Prince, six years old,
has to-get up at six every morring and begin ,
his studies at seven.
The widow of Chief Justice TVaite will be
compelled by her reduced circumstances to I
open a boarding-house.
The Kingof Holland has had a marvelous
rr,-? rxkfMnioMP bp will
rei'uvcrj. mo uiiv?\.iuu^ v^^w? ?
be able to resume his duties in a few weeks.
Colonel Hugh McCalmont is the most .
experienced cavalry officer in the British
service. He has served in eight campaigns.
The new Earl of Carlisle has emptied all j
the ale in his cellar, and closed the public
houses on his property. He is a practical
Prohibitiouist. '
E. P. Allis. who died in Milwaukee a few '
days ago, had policies of insurance on liis life ,
amounting to over $500,000. His yearly out- lay
in premiums reached ?32,000. i
William II.. at a recent banquet, drank (
tho health of "the youngest sailor in the <
German navy." He referred to Prince Henry, ]
his nephew, who was three days old.
Admiral David D. Portfp.. Grand Marskal
of the Centennial naval parade, will '
celebrate his seventy-sixth birthday on the
Sth of June. He recently held a reception
with his wife, iu Washington, on the occasion J
of tlieir golden wedding.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Army of 1
the Sultan of Morocco is an Englishman, tho '
eldest son of Surgeon-General Maclean, aud 1
he wears in Morocco the title of "Chief I
Ivaid." He enjoys immense honors in Morocco,
and as he "is to soon visit England, tho ,
Sultan insists that he shall be accompanied
by an escort of a hundred picked men. (
There are 1200 persons of the name of j
Smith employed in the United States postal -1
service. ^ (
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WASHINGTON'S LETTERS.:
Publication of Some Characteristic
Ones Never Before Printed.
The New York Post publishes a page of
>rigina! letters of George Washington, that
have never before been printed. These wera
ill written before the Revolutionary war,
ivhile Washington was at Mount Vernon engaged
in agricultural pursuits, and still a
70ung man. being little more than thirty
years of age. The letters are all characteristic
of the man, disclosing his methodical
babifcs of business, his probity, his generosity,
and at the same time his carefulness not to
allow liimself to be cheated.
In one of these letters Washington takes
his own measure for a suit of clothes and
sends it to London, there being no tailors in
Virginia to make the kind of garments that
a gentleman wore.
In another he directs the selling of a slave
to the West Indies, but is particular to acU
vise buyers that the negro is "a rogue and a
runaway." A hogshead of rum would be
taken in part payment. It was customary in
those days to sell runaway slaves to the islands,
and this practice prevailed in Massachusetts
as well as in Virginia.
In two letters Washington explains his p?
(miliary embarrassments to his creditors in
England at considerable length, and gives a
picture of life at Mount Vernon of exceeding T>
interest.
In two others he remonstrates with a debtor
(Captain Posey) who, while owing him ?700,
asks for his endorsement on a note for ?500
more.
It appears that claim-jumping was not unknown
in those days, for Washington re-,
monstrates against an act of this kind to hia
own detriment, though not in the terms of
exasperation which appear to be common in
Oklahoma. Another injustice which he
complains of to a Mr. Black is that after he
had bought and paid for a piece of
land and a mill from that person, Mrs.
Black refused to release her dower without
"the customary compliment." Washington
declines to pay Mrs. Black any compliment of
the kind, and recommends Mr. Black to pay
it if neccssarv. Otherwise he will sue him on
his bond. The paying of the purchase
money before the deed was fully executed,
so contrary to good business methods, la
satisfactorily explained.
The last letter is one to Lord Dunmore, the ,
Governor of Virginia, respecting land patents
issued to the volunteers who served
under Washington in the expedition to the
Ohio River in 1754. ~l; , ?
PABNELL ON TEE STAND.
Positive Denials of Various Charge*
Made by His Enemies.
Mr. Parnell was the first witness called for
the defense when the special Commission resumed
its sittings in London after the recess.
Mr. Asquith, for the defense, asked Mr. '
Parnell various questions about his father's
position, his own early life, his entrance into
politics and the history of the Land and National
Leagues.
Mr. Parnell, in the course of his answers,,
denied all the important points that the informer
Le Caron had made against him. He
testified that he did not know that Peter
Delaney was connected with the Amnesty Association.
He had never heard of any attempt
being made on Mr. Justice Lawson's life. He
tvas never a member of a secret society. Although
the late Mr. Forster did not know.
Mr. Biggar was a Fenian until 1877, he ad-i
vised Mr. Biggar to resign his seat in Parliament,
but Mr. Biggar refused. '
MUSICAL AND DEAMATIO. .
Maggie Mitchell has a new play. B
AT.pt.imv Rtstori was born in Italv is M
Robert Els me re proven an uner- B|
pected success in Boston. H
Mrs. Potter, the society actress, ha* y H
bought a farm on Long Island.
The Bijou Theatre, at Melbourne, Austra- H
lia, has been destroyed by fire. H
Georgie Drew-Barryxore has signed I
with W. H. Crane for next season. H
Among salaried actresses Ellen Terry fl
draws the biggest pay?{600 a week. H
There are thirty-four regularly appointed H
opera companies traveling on the roaa. ' H
Adelaide Moore, the English tragedi* H
enne, is preparing for her American tour.
The current theatrical seasons in Berlin H
and Vienna has been unusually successful. H
A musical entertainment for the benefit B
of the Home for Dogs, in London, netted H
*2500. .
Clay M. Greeks has written a new play H
of New England life called "Blackberry H
Farm."
N. C. Goodwin, the comedian, will be H
under the management of James C. Duff 9|
next season. The
leading New York society ladies pro fl|
pose to erect a monument to the memory of
Lester Wallack. D|
The late Duchess of Cambridge used to pay j^H
Sicnor Tosti SI500 a year to entertain ner fH
with music an hour every day. *? c"
There will be six or seven comic opera n
companies bidding for the patronage of New Hj
York theater-goers this* summer.
Catherine Sinclair, widow of the tragedian
Edwin Forrest, is seventy-two years old K3
and a resident of New York city. QM
Manager J. M. Hill, of New York, iiaa |B
discovered a new dramatic luminary in
(Gladys Orme, a pretty fifteen-year-old girl.
Mrs. Hailstones-ir-the-Stokach, who
will be with Forepaugh's circus next sum
mer, is described as the Langtry of the Sioux M
tribe.
Sigxor Novara, the well-known basso, HE
has been engaged to support Patti during |H
her operatic tour of the United States next
winter
Joachm, the great violinist, has returned
to Germany after a brilliant season in London
carrying the six-thousand-dollar Stradivarius
violi recently presented to him by j^H
his British admirers.
Charles "H. Duraxt, of New York, who
managed Estelle Clayton's theatrical tours
and who three years ago inherited $350,000, ||H
claimed in court the other day that his sole HI
possessions consist of a watch 8nd ring given |H
to him by Miss Clayton, and valued at $450.
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THE 3IARKETS. H
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Beeves 3 50 @ 4 70 H
Milch Cows. com. to good.. .25 00 @45 00 , Gfl
Calves, common to prime... 4 00 @ 5 2o
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Hogs-Live 5 15 | 5 ? H
Dressed 19
Flour-City Mill Extra 4 25 @ 4 g H
Patents 5 10 @ 6 86 }
Wheat?No. 2 Red ?X# 88 H|
Rye?State ? @ W IB
Barley?Two-rowed State... 8o @ w , QH
Corn?Ungraded Mired ^ oq 93
Oats-No. 1 White - @ 39 WM
Mixed Western 2SX@ 33 H
Hay-No. 1 ? | 95 , H
Straw?Long Rye '0 @ J?
Lard?City Steam ? @ HI
Butter?Elgin Creamery.... ? @ H
Dairy, fair to good. 20 @ 24 ( IB
West. Im. Creamery 17 @ M . BH
Factory f9 ' PHI
Cheese?State Factory ? @ " ' H|
Skims-Light o @ 8 (
Western
Eggs?Stato and Penn 12?'.;? 13
BUFFALO.
3teers-Western.......... 2 SO @ j -5 ,, BH
Bheeo?Medium to Good? 3 -o fa 4 <5 H
Lambs-Fair to Good..2^ ^ 6 00 , BB
Hogs?Good to Choice \orks ._> 00 @ o 0o . H
Flour?Family o 00 @ 5 25 HBj
SVheat?No.:) Northern ? ? ~ ' RB
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3arley?No. 1 Canr.da 70 teg 73 flflfl
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Hour?Spring Wheat Pat's.. G 00 <g 6 75 IB
2orn?Steamer Yellow 47)4 MBI
Jats?No. 2 White 3*2 37 KH
Rye?State 65 @ 70 * HH
WATERTOWX (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
3eef? Dressed weight 5J4
sheep?Live weight 4}Z(d) 6)2
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Lambs. vy. \j?\|
logs?Northern ? @ 6% ^HE
PHILADELPHIA. 9flH
iHour?Penn. family 423 @ 4 50 I H9
IVheat?No. 2. Red, May.... 89 @ 90
2orn?No. 2, Mixed, May... 41^@ 41 ?i
Dats?Ungraded 'White ? @ 31 HB
Potatoes?Early Rose 28 @ 88 HP
Butter?Creamery Extra.... 22 @ 23 )
Cheese?Part skims ?? @ 7 . KbB