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' TWO CONVENTIONS. Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Y. 51. C. A. The First Scotch-Irish Congress I Ever Held Opens in Tennessee. > Seven hundred delegates were in attendance at the opening of the twenty-eighth annual convention cf the Youug Mens Christian Association, held in Philadelphia. The convention assembled at 11 o'clock, and the morning was devoted to organizing. The convention was called to order by S. H. Blake, of Toronto, the Chairman of the last mcuvHncr The Committee oil Permanent Organiza- I tion reported the following nominations for officers, which were unanimously confirmed: President?Humphrey B. Chamberlain, i Denver, Col. Vice-Presidents?John E. Irvine. St. John, New Brunswick: Dr. Frederick W. Kellj", Montreal; A. S. Wood worth. Boston: Charles D. Alexander, San Francisco; Professor Charles W. Dabney, Jr., Knoxville, Tenn.; William E. Higman, Sioux City, Iowa; Charles D. Meigs, Jr., Indianapolis; Walter McDonald, Kansas City; Francis W. Kennedy, Philadelphia. . Secretary?George B. Townsend, Chicago. Assistant Secrecaries?Harry Kinpott?, Minneapolis, and H. O. Williams, Richmond, Va. Presidentelect Chamber If; in was escorted to the chair and was warmly greeted, not only by General Howard, but by the delegate. Mr. Chamberlain said be thought the committee-had made a mistake iu sweeting him to preside, knowing that he was not the man to lead the convention. Ho would, however, ask Divine guidance, and hoped to succesd. The prominent foreigners who attended the convention were M. H. Hodder, ot London; Baron Von Starck, of Berlin; Karl Fries, Stockholm; E. Hoffer, Secretary of the Zurich Association; Robert Burns, Secretary of the Aldersgate Branch of the London | Association; Robert McCann, National Secretary for Ireland; Viscount Michima, Japanese nobleman of Tokio, and John T. Swift, Secretary of the association which is doing in Japan the same work that Secretary McConaughy is to do in India. President Francis W. Kennedy delivered an address of welcome to the visiting delegates. The other speakers of the first day were Albert B. Monroe, of New York, and John T. Swift, of Tokio, who discussed the obligations of American young men to their brethren in foreign lands and W. A. Hunton, Norfolk Va., who spoke of the v.ork among colored men. In the evening Frances L. Patton, D. D., President of the Princeton College, made an address on modern unbelief among young men, and later a reception took place at the Academy of Fine Arte. ThaPi'rcf Cr>nti^li.1pi?h fnnpi'ess. The first Scotch-Irish Congress in the history of either side of the Atlantic opened a few days ago at Columbia, Tenn.. with a large attendance of delegates. It had been called to organize a permanent Scotch-Irish association, and to inaugurate the collection of data for a history which shall sihow the influence of the Scotch-Irish race on American civilization. Among those present were: Hon. J. Proctor Knott,of Kentucky; Colonel Aleck McClure, of the Philadelphia Times; Bev."Dr. John Hall, of New \ork; Henry W. Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution, and Senator Vance, of North Carolina. On the second day there was a reunion of Union and Confederate soldiers of ScotchIrish blood. at which ex-Governor John C. Brown, of Nashville, represented the Confederates, and Corporal Tanner the Union soldiers. The delegates also visited in a body "The Hermitage," the home of Andrew Jackson, the greatest of Scotch-Irish Presidents. IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTS A Public Printer and Two Civil Ser? vicc Commissioners Selected. The President has appointed Frank TV. Palmer, of Illinois, to be Public Printer; Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, and Hugh 8. Thompson, of South Carolina, to be Civil Service Commissioners; Arthur L. Thomas, of Utah, to be Governor of Utah; Elijah Sells,of Utah,to be Secretary of Utah; Ellsworth Daggett, of Utah, to be SurveyorGeneral of Utah, and sixty-one Presidential postmasters, including Alexander (J. Yard, at Trenton, N. J., vicc Eckford Moore,removed. Arthur N. Thomas, appointed Governor of Utah, is a member of the Utah Commission and is said to bo thoroughly familiar with the Mormon question. He is a native of Pittsburg. In 1877 ho was appointed by President Hayes to be Secretary of Utah. Tiieouore nooseveir, appoinieu a uviiService Commissioner, is thirty years of ago and a native of New York city. He graduated from Harvard and was admitted to tho New York Bar, but has never actively practised his profession, preferring the more starring scenes of politics and of adventuro on his Western ranch. He was elected to Assembly iu 1SS1. In 1SSC he got tho Republican nomination for Mayor of New York, and made a fight against Abram S. Hewitt and ITenry George but was defeated. F. W. Palmer, the new Public Printer, was born in Indiana in 1827. He learned the art of typesetting in New York city, and was publisher and editor of the Jamestown (N. Y.) Journal. He was a New York Assemblyman in 1853-4, and went to Iowa in 1S5S, becoming editor of the Dubuque Times. Ho was State Printer of Iowa eight years from ISfiO, and served in the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses from Iowa. After leaving Congress Mr. Palmer bought an interest in the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Ho remained with the Inter-Ocean until he was appointed Postmaster of Chicago by Pi'esi- j dent Hayes, which position he filled during | the Administrations of Garfield and Arthur. | Hugh S. Thompson, one of the Civil-Scr- j vice Commissioners, is the well-known Assistant Secretary of the Treasury appointed by President Cleveland. He was oorn in Charleston and is about fifty years of age. He was elected Governor of the State, ! which office he resigned to accept the Assistant Secretaryship of the Treasury. President Cleveland in February last sent in his nomination to the Senate for the office to which he has just been appointed, but it was not confirmed. MISSISSIPPI'S SOURCE. Discovery of the Rt al Fountain Head of the River. Professor J. V. Brc wer and a party of surveyors, who have been at work the past four months under commission of the Minnesota Historical Society locating the true source of the Mississippi River, have reported that they nave made complete measurements of the region and settled for all time the true source of the Father of Waters. They conclude that neither Lake Itaska, Elk Lake, the lakes named after Nicollet, nor even Whipple Lake are entitled to the | distinction of oeing regarded as th? head of the great river. Following the principal stream and tracing it through all the small lakes it. leads directlv to two lakes at the end of thobasin. which are the real source of the Mississippi. These lakes, one considerably larger than the other, are one hundred feet above the elevation of Itasca Lake, and back of them is the rim of the basin, composed of hills ranging from sixty to ninety feet in height above the surface of these lakes. The two lakes crown the supreme height of the whole basin. From that point the entire basin gradually slopes down to the level of Itasca. It was the opinion openly and freely expressed of all the members of Sir Brower's party that in these lakes the Mississippi has its source. There is nothing beyond them, and the more southerly one is at the base of an abrupt ridge many feet high, though itself on the top of a hill more than one hundred feet above Itasca. This body of water is larger than Elk Lake, and after a careful examination of the surrounding country every man in the party agreed that the reservoir of water entering Itasca Lake is on the top of that hill. From the top of the hill falls a spring fifteen hundred feet in length, and springs are found like regular steps down the incline. The twin lakes are on the same level, and a man can stand on the hill dividing the two and cast a stone into the waters on each side without moving a single step. They are handjBome lakes, containing many islands. The .water is of extraordinary depth. - THE NEWS EPITOMIZES, Eastern and Middle States. The funeral of Hon. w. H. Barnum, at Lime Rock, Conn., was attended by a large number of people. Among those present were ez-President Cleveland and Colonel Lamont. The Centennial Committee's expenses in New York were about $.'-00,000. A train demolished a coach in Philadelphia, killing two occupants, F. K. Womrath and James Dungan, and injuring three others. Gcstave HociEQriST and John Bullsley, both of Middletown, N. Y., were struck by a train in New Haven, Conn., and killed. Hu.vDr.EDs c.2 miners are starving in the Pennsylvania ccr.l regions. Three miners wore fatally injured by a fire-damp explosion in the Beachwocd col hery, near rousvn/e, -can. Italian railroad hands employed by the Raritan River Railroad Company invaded Furman's brickyard at Sayreville, N. J., at the dead of night to lay the tracks of an extension. The Drickyard hands resisted the attempt and their foreman, a man named Gessenger, and another riian were killed. The chiefs of State Labor Bureaus from all over the country are to meet in Hartford, Conn., for a four days' convention on June 24. MELcncm Hcber, a wealthy contractor of Scrauton, Fenn., committed suicide by cutting his throat. He had been drinking heavily for some time. Lincoln Clt.tis, chief salesman for Congdon & Aylsworth, wholesale boot and shoo dealers of Providence, R. I., was arrested, charged with the embezzlement of $12,000 John Davidson was instantly killed and his father fatally iniured by the explosion of a boiler at Beaver, Penn. Mrs. Joseph Sands, sixty years old, hanged herself while insane at Bethlehem. Penn. South and West. A merchant named Mellick, at Blair, Iowa, shot and killed his wife and two children, then set fire to his house and committed suicide. Warsaw. N. C., was struck by a cyclone a few mornings ago. Many small houses were blown away almost bodily, and large ones were torn up so that they are not habitable. The seminary building was nearly destroyed, and the Presbyterian Church totally demolished. Many people were seriously hurt. Miss Nannita Daist, the Oklahoma female boomer, was shot through the arm by a railroad engineer named Stafford, who had jumped her claim. Miss Daisy was making a visit to her claim after filing it, and was met by Stafford, who fired three shots at her. She was not seriously injured. William Tausor, a Chicago machinist, while temporarily insane, dashed his child's brains out against the wall and murdered his wife. Then he slashed his own throat. The contract to build the United States coast-defence vessel has been awarded to the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, at ?1,62S,000. The postal clerk and the engineer on a Northern Pacific passenger train were killed in a collision near Jamestown, Dakota. Walter Harris and Robert Williams, both colored, were hanged for murder at Emporia, Va. William Gilmore, a prominent young man of Albany, Ga.,shot and killed his seventeen-year-old wife, Fannie, and then killed himself. The dock trial of the Unite ] States gunboat Petrel at Baltimore was satisfactory. A blast at the Minnesota mine, at Tower. Minn., killed John Oleson and fatally injured Nelson Johnson. The entire business portion of Beaver Dam. Ohio, was destroyed by fire. But three buildings were left. At Waldron, Mich., thirty stores and houses, comprising the entire business portion of th6 place, were swept away by fire. The John Hpokins Hospital, at Baltimore, the largest, most richly endowed and completely equipped institution of the kind in the world, was formally opened in the presence of distinguished officials of the nation, State and city, and members of the medical profession from many parts of the country. James E. McCormick, a prominent contractor of Tacoma. Washington Territory, has disappeared with upward of ?50,000, secured through good influence and confiding friends. Stafford, Kan., was totally destroyed by a tornado. Crops, farm houses, and barns were mowed down. Three persons were lulled and about thirty injured in the vicinity. Mrs. John Love was blown fifty feet from her house into a wagon. She was fatally injured. -The Michigan Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors under seventeen years of age. Twelve blooded horses, valued at sos.ooo, were lost by the burning of Captain Moore's stables at Paris, Ky. Washington. Sir Julian Pauxce^ote, the new British Minister has been formally presented to the President. The verdict of the court-martial which tried Major Lydecker for neglect of duty in allowing fraudulent work on the "Washington aqueduct tunnel is that he forfeit to the United States $100 per month of his pay for nine months, and be reprimanded in orders. The sentence has been approved by the President. The Secretary of the Treasury has appointed John T. Williams, of Minnesota, to be custodian of dies, rolls and plates at the Bureau of Encrraving and Printing,at a compensation of &>00. Attorney-General Miller will investigate the Oklahoma land scandal. The Secretary of State has been informed j that Peru will send a delegate to the conference of American States, which meets at "Washington on October 4 next. The Court of Claims has given judgment i for $35,555 in favor of the State of Georgia for money advanced to the Government during the Revolutionary war, which has been withheld as a set-off to the money due the Government under the Direct Tax law. There were issued on a recent day by the Patent Office 530 patents, the largest number in any one week since 1885. William M. King, of Ohio, Chief of the Seed Division. Agricultural Department, has resigned, and A. T. Reeve, of Hampton. Iowa, has been appointed to fill the vacancy. The salary is $2099. . Foreign. John Dillon, the Irish Home Rule leader, is addressing monster meetings in Australia. The centennial of the French Revolution was celebrated at Versailles, Paris, and in various cities abroad; President Carnot attended the Versailles exercises and made speeches; in Paris a blank cartridge was shot at the President; the assailant, when arrested, said ho had no desire to kill the President. TPe Brazilian Parliament was opened by the Etaperor. The voters of Edinburgh, Scotland, hav< decided by a vote of 14,611 nays to 3197 yea.4 r.ot to confer the freedom of the city or rnell. "?>!E volcano or vesuvius u?? ucch w m. r. terming state of eruption. Streams of lavs t-jursed down the mountain on the Pompeii side. The soap works of Messrs. David ane "William Gibbs, London, England, wen btLrned. Loss ?5011,000. William O'Brien' and Edward Harrington, Irish members of the British Parlia- i ment, were released from prison in order that they mitjht give testimony before the Parnell Commission. Mr. Harrington was attired hi the prison dress. Ix the British House of Commons the budget recently introduced by Mr. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was passed by a large majority. M. Eiitel. the designer and builder of the Eiffel tower in Paris, was received, with Ms employes, by President Carnot. Count Tolstoi, the Russian Minister of the Interior, is dead. Tns Satnoan Commissioners, Messrs. Kr.sson. Phelps and Bates and Lieutenants xv-?r?? Tr~T. wen* to mace i^sraarck's iulace in Berlin and were introduced by Count Herbert. The Prince was extremeiy cordial and spoke in English. He said he was glad the conference was progressing so favorably. He hoped they would soon bring their labors to a successful close. FURIOUS FOREST FIRES. Great Destruction of Property in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Many Country Residences Near Duluth Burned, Furious forest fires have been raging in northern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin, and an immense amount ot damage has been done. For miles on three sides of Duluth tho fire raged, and many country residences were burned. On the Hermantorn road near Duluth every dwelling for four miles was destroyed. It was feared that some lives had been lost, as incoming fanners reported a vast sea of lire sweeping everything before it. A high wind blew which made it impossible for any headway to be made against the fire. It had simply to burn until thero was nothing moro for it to destroy. Several houses were burned near Spirit Lake. A large number of telegraph poles were burned i and communication was interferred with. In some places, too, ties on tho track burned out, making it dangerous to move trains. South of Ashland, Wis., for 150 miles tho forests wore ablaze, un tec * ona-cm-i^ac 111dien reservation moro than $20,000 worth of skidded logs were burnod. Other losses aggregating $10,000 also occurred on the reser- I ration. Cumberland, Wis., was almost sure | rounded by fire. The losses aggregato $40, 000. I North of Grantsburg, "Wis., the fire swept the country, destroying everything in its j path. Along the Northern Pacific in the neighborhood of Cromwell the Tamarack forests were on firo. Near Hinckley, Minn., Thomas Campbell and Ernest Lowell wero surrounded by fire, and finally their camp outfit was burned about them. They took refugo on half an acre of plowed ground, but were fatally burned. Four yoke of cattle perished. A heavy rain for a few minutes in the vicinity of Duluth cleared the atmosphere of the heavy smoke and checked somewhat the forest fires in that neighborhood, but the shower was local and the fires in most directions continued to rage. A lumberman who arrived from Ashland, Minn., on the Northern Pacific Railroad, said there was but littlo ram there and it did no good. Near Carlton Station, Wis., the house, bam and entire plants of the brick yard of P. H.Apygar wero burned. Superintendent Green, of the Northern Pacific, reports little ram, and the country covered with smoke from the burning woods. An engineer on the night train on the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad says that on the run from Mission Creek to Duluth, sixty milos, there was no need of a headlight, the tracks being lighted up by the flames. The damage to settlers and fanners and to lumbermen will bo great. A great deal of stock is destroy ?d. Several lumber camps hav? been burned out. AID P0B STATE SOLDIERS, Distribution of the $400,000 Appropriation Made by Congress. The War Department has just completed the allotment of the ?400,000 appropriated by Congress for the equipment of the militia. The allotments are based on the representation of the States and Territories in Congress. The distribution will be as follows: Alabama, $9492.70; Arkansas, 86554.89; California, $7594.16; Colorado, $2847.81; Connecticut, $S695.G2; Delaware, $2847.81; Florida, $3797.08; Georgia, $11,391.24 ; Illinois, $20,8S3.94; Indiana, ?14,5239. Uo; | Iowa, 812,340.51; Kansas, $8543.43; Ken- I tucky, $12,340.51; Louisiana, $7594.1G; Maine, $501(5.62; Maryland, $7594.16; Massachusetts, $13,289.78; Michigan, $12,340.51; Minnesota, $6(>44.S9; Mississippi, 8S543.43; Missouri, $15,188.32; Nebraska, 64740.35; Nevada, $2847.81; New Hampshire, $3797.08; New Jersey. $$543.43; New York, .$34,173.72; North Carolina, $10,441.97; Ohio, $21,833.21; Oregon. $2847.81; Pennsylvania, $28,478.10; Rhode Island, $3797.08; South Carohna, $S543.43; Tennessee.. $11,391.34; Texas, $12,340.51; Vermont, $3797.08; Virginia, $11,391.24; West Virginia, $5095.62; Wisconsin, $10,441.07; Montana, S2S47.S1: "Washington, $2847.81; North Dakota, S2S47.81; South Dakota, $3797.08; Alaska, $3501.11; New Mexico, $3501.11. The regulations provide that requisitions for militia supplies must be made by the Governors of States and Territories direct to the Secretarj of War. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. John Gilbert, the actor, is seventy-eight. "Carmen" is sung oftener than any other opera the world over. Next season Mrs. James Brown Potter will attempt Rosalind. Henry Irving has been invited to produce "Macbeth" in Germany this summer. Prince Henry XXIV., of Reuss, is coming to the fore as a composer of symphonies. Buffalo Bill's "Wild West" has sailed from New York on its two years' trip through Europe. Mr. Charles Santley, the English baritone singer, is a capital painter, both in water and oils. Mme. Hastreiter has made a great hit in the Florence (Italy) Opera House in Gluck's "Orfeo." The two thousandth performance of "Erminie" in England took place recently at Liverpool. Jones's new play, "Wealth," with Mr. Beerbohm Tree in the leading role, has fallen flat in London. The drama in London has taken a curious turn, which is well worthy of notice. The market now is for "morality." "Der Meisterdieb" (The Boss Thief) is the title of a new and successful comic opera just produced at Weimar, Germany. Sarah Bernhardt, having made a great hit as Lena Despard in "As in a Looking Glass," is about to appear in "La Belle Russe." Irving'S nest production at the London Lvceum will be "King Arthur," byW. G. Wills, and "Henry VIII." will be done later. W. J. Scajtlan, the Irish comedian, has made a very great success in England, where he has already acquired the name of "Peek-aBoo" Scanlan. Sarsate, the Spanish violin virtuoso, and Von Bulow and Schwarenka, the celebrated pianists, are included in next season's list ol concert artists in this country. John A. Duff, the New York managei who died a few weeks ago, went into the theatrical business with $500,000, and. left it with something less than $15,000. M. Memer, the chocolate-maker, has a private circus in Paris where the Queen of Naples jumps through hoops and the Marqim de Jauzy turns somersaults on a bare backed steed. Henry Irving and Helen Terry recently gave a private performance of "The Bells" and the Shylock trial scene at Sandringham, England, in presence of the Queen and royal family. "The Poachers," a comedy which has been successfully produced in Vienna and Berlin, is now attributed to the Queen ol Roumania, who has another piece ready fox representation. Reichjian, the favorite baritone of the Vienna Court Opera House, and the handsomest singer on the German stage, has sud- j denly severed bis connection with that institute, and will, in all probability, be heard iu New York nest season. Benjamin F. Marx and Louis Nathan ol St. Louis have made a contract with Gounod, the composer, for a tour of this country next season. The contract calls for sevanty-five concerts, and the sum of $250 is guaranteed to Gounod for each performance. It is related that some years before his r? cent death, Tamberlik, the great tenor, while walking through the bird market at Madrid, expended $200 m buying all the birds on sale. He then opened their cages, and as the birds flew away shouted gleefully: "Go and be free, my brothers." Rics's "Evangeline" company has graduated a large number of famous actors. Among them are Billy Crane, Laura Joyce Bell, Nat Goodwin, Pauline Hall, Sadie Martinot, George S. Knight. Henry E. Dixey, Vernona Jarbeau, Lillian Conway and Lillian Russell. The fifteen years' existence of "Evangeline" has made the play a school for the proressioa, * . t 'iwtiamaKSr.vi i>r y*--* I I LATER NEWS, Margaret Donovan and Margaret O'Brien, aged about twenty-one, were killed by a locomotive while wal.ing on the track at Pittsburg, Penn. A glass coal oil lamp exploded in the hands of Mrs. Catherine Harkins, of Hollidaysburg, Penn., setting fire to her night garments, and she was burned to death. Her husband, in trying to smother the flames, was also fatally burned. The new Inman Line steamship City of Paris has arrived at New York, having finished the quickest passage ever made across the Atlantic Ocean. Her time was five days, twenty-three hours and seven minutes, beating the Cunard steamship Etruria's best record of six days, one hour and fifty-Ave minutes by two hours and forty-eight minutes. The residence of Mrs. C. "Wilseman.at Hillhim, Ind., was destroyed by fire during her absence, and her three young children perisaea. niu hjvllicm a icaovu >? cvo u**balanced by the shock. Spauldixg, Mich., has been over half destroyed by fire. Three hundred people were leCt homeless, No lives were lost. Rain quenched the fires. Mat Rast and August Young were crushed to death between two sections of a train at Champion, Mich. Fifteen dwellings and two large mills of the Clinks & Sullivan Lumber Company were burned at Sullivan, Mich. Three members of a family named Brown perished in the flames. E. D. Obert, of Akron, Ohio, son of a wealthy coal oper ator, twenty-two years old, and George J. Kempf, of Cleveland, traveling salesman, twenty-six years old, were killed in a railway collision at Cleveland, Ohio. A fire started lay boys in Moreland, a recently annexed suburb of Chicago, destroyed forty-six houses, causing a loss of ?200.000. Three hundred homeless people bivouaced j that night on the prairie. The Census Office has sent out notions to I the newspapers, asking that public attention be called to the fact that the census year bei gins June 1, 1SS9, and ends May 31, 1SS0, and requesting that physicians keep a record of I all deaths occurring in that period. A conflict has taken place at Essen, Geraiany, between the striking miners and the military. Thr ae strikers were killed and five wounded. Tee Greek Government is concluding a loan o:f $25,000,'X)0 in London. Mr. Parnei.l's examination before the Special Commission in London has ended NOT VIOLATED IN SAMOA, The German Consul Denies That American Property Was Injured. Tho White 3ook on Samoan affairs just issued in Berlin contains a refutation by Dr. Knappe, late German Consul to Samoa, of the reports pu blished in tfhe American newspapers regarding the violation of American property during the German naval operations in "that country. Dr. Knappe complains that toy flags and handkerchiefs on which are imprinted the American colors and the portrait of the President of the United States have been hoisted promiscuouslj over native houses since the outbreak of the civil war in Samoa. He also says that American and British flags were hoisted on plots of land pledged by the "rebels" in lieu of cash in payment for arms and ammunition. The commander of the British cruiser at Apia, he says, declined to support claims to land thus pledged. THE NATIONAL GAME, Ray leads the batting averages of the Bos. tons. The Pittsburg club has released outfielder Nichol. The Southern League games are drawing large crowds. The Kansas City American Association club is playing great ball. John Ward bos agreed upon terms with the New York management. Richardson, of the New Yorks,appears to have developed into a slugger. Every man on the Philadelphia Giants Is over six feet two inches in height. The Chicago club, it is alleged, offered $4000 for the release of Long, Kansas City's short stop. Ekterbrook has been deposed from the Captaincy of the Louisville American Asso ciauon ciuo. On holiday:; visiting clubs in the American Association will receive only fifteen per cent of the gate receipts. The Brooklyns, one of the strongest of the American Association nines, did very poorly in their opening games, but are beginning to improve. Pitcher Ames is doing very creditable work for Princeton College. In the game against the Jersey City team he gave them only two hits. If one may judge at all from the scores of the baseball games so far played, the new rules have attained the desired object of securing freer hitting a nd mora runs. McClellan. the well-known ball tosser, f orraerlj' of the Brooklyns, is said to be further advanced in the degrees of Masonry than any member of the baseball profession. A curious result ot being hit with a baseball is reported from Philadelphia. A stuttering man was struck in the mouth and when he got well the impediment in his speech had disappeared. T:te rigid provisions of the Interstate Commerce law hurt baseball to a very serious extent. The railroads will get the biggest slice of the receipts and the money put up by the cities of the Southern League". Newspapers will now contain such notices as the following from an Indianapolis papsr: Mr. "Grasshopper" Whitney succeeds Mr. '"Egyptian "Wonder" Healy in the Indianapolis l>all club. Mr. "Cigarette" Shreve is stiil with us. The release of Baldwin, Sullivan, Daly and Pettit by the Chicago club was a surprise. Captain Anson says he let Baldwin go because nc was not a good enough player, and the other three men because their hamts were not correct. The New Yorks this year float three championship flags from their grounds?the League championship banner, the world's championship pennant, won from the St. Louis club, ana the local flag of superiority, wrested from the Brooklyns. The League champions, the New Yorks, are playing in much better form in the early oart of this season than they did at the same time last year. Tlie loss ot tneir grounds in I New York city, which compels them to play on Statea Island, has caused a decreased attendance at the games. It is a remarkable fact that not a single ! game scheduled for the tour around the worli by the Spalding tourists was postponed by bad weather. In foreign countries they [ ere not frightened by a bit of bad weather, and despite rain, sleet and snow, every game announced was played. i.eagce record. TVon. Lout. Pc.-ccn'noc. Boston 7 3 .700 ; Pittsburg 8 5 .615 Philadelphia 0 4 .(100 New York 6 5 .545 < Cleveland T 7 .500 Indianapolis 0 7 .402 ( Chicago 5 7 .417 , Washington 1 8 .111 3 < AMERICAN* ASSOCIATION RECORD. , tfok. Loit. Pereentnge. St. Louis 16 5 .762 < Kansas City 12 7 .032 ] Athletic 6 .600 i Baltimore 1" 7 -588 j Brooklyn 0 7 .563 i Cincinnati 8 11 .421 1 Columbus 4 13 .2o0 1 Louisville 3 16 .ijs < jvt-.. ?.v.. ?HE WEE WOULD OVER Newsy Dispatches Describing Some Important Events. First Celebration of Arbor Day in the Empire State, Arbor Day has been celebrated in the public schools of New York for the first time. Thousands of pupils in more than 222 schools joined in the exercises of song and recitation. The circular issued by the State Superintendent of Public Schools, A. S. Draper, explains the object of the day set apart by the Legislature as follows: "The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing Arbor Day was to develop and stimulate in the children of the commonwealth a love and reverence for rature as revealed in trees and shrubs and flowers. In the language of the statute to 'encourage the planting, protection and preservation of trees and shrubs' was believed to be the most effectual way in which to lead our children to love nature and rev erence nature's God, and to sea tiie uses to which these natural objects may be put in making our school grounds more healthful and attractive." In New York city the school ezercises were not as elaborate As the programme issued by the Superintendent of Public Instruction called for. This was owing to th e day coming so soon after the Centennial celebration. The first portion of the programme, the planting of trees in the schoolyards, was necessarily omitted do'^ntown, but in some of the schools in the Annexed district was carried out to the letter. The musical and literary portion was observed In all the schools with songs and recitations. With the exception of the Prospect Park exercises there was nothing of a public character to mark Arbor Day in Brooklyn. In Prospect Pirk an elm tree was planted at Eattle Pass by the venerable James S. T. Stranahan, who :!or many years managed the Department of Parks. The boys and girls of Public School No. 9 and other schools near the park took '.Dart in the exercises. Postmaster Joseoh C. Hendrix delivered an address and brief speeches were made by several other citizens. Arbor Day was observed very generally on Long Is land. At many places trees were planted and there were public exercises. At Breslau the teachers of the Public School planted a tree and the tender shoot was named "The Washington," in comm<smoration of the Centennial. Throughout other parts of the Sts.te the day was appropriately celebrated by the planting of trees and shrubs and by exercises in many of the public schools. The State will be the gainer by many thousands of trees, and tho first celebration of Arbor Day in New York is conceded to have been a great success. Arbor Day is now observed in thirty-four States and two Territories. Given Prominent Offices. The President has made the following ap- I pointments: To be United States Attorneys: Samuel W. Hawkins, of Tennessee, for the Western District of Tennessee; John Ruhm. of Tennessee, for the Middle District of Tennessee; De Alva S. Alexander, of New York, for the Northern District of New York. To be United States Marshals: Joshua B. Hill, of North Carolina, for the Eastern District of North Carolina; Carter B. Harrison, of Tennessee, for the Middle District of Tennessee; James W. Brown, of Tennessee, for the Western District of Tennessee. Mr. Hawkins was the Republican candidate for Governor at the last election. He is j a resident of Huntington and a lawyer. Mr. Ruhm is a native of Germany. He | came to this country in 1861, joined the Union Army and served through the war, most of the tune on General Thomas's staff. At the close of the war he settled at Nashville, and | has lived there ever since. He is said to be one of the best lawyers in the State. Mr. Alexander is a native of Maine, but has for a number of years been a citizen of Ohio and Indiana. From the latter State he was appointed First Auditor of the Treasury, but was removed from this position upon the advent of the Cleveland Administration. He then settled in Buffalo. N. Y., and engaged in the practice of the law. During the re- j cent campaign he assisted in attending to the [ correspor dence of Mr. Harrison, and was j frequently spoken of in connection with the ; office of Private Secretary to the President, j Mr. HiU has held before the office to which | he has been appointed. Mr. H?.rrison served in the Union Army during the war, and rose to the rank of Major/ He is a resident of Murfeesboro, and is a brother of President Harrison. Mr. Brown lives in Brownsville, and has held the office of Clerk of the Court of Haywood County. OlfJahoma's Busy Postoffice. T^rfmncf^T-.Oonnral Wannmaksp rpppiVPfi a telegram from Postmaster Flynn of Guth- j rie, Oklahoma, in which he says thathe daily I sale of postage stamps at his office amounts j to about $50; that the eleven clerks ; in the office are kept busy from 5 o'clock, t a. m. until midnight, and that when the j mail is ready for deliverv there is usually a f line of men a half mile long waiting for j their mail. About 3000 letters and j 1000 newspapers are delivered from j that office daily. There are five i banks and six newspapers in operation in the i new town. Land Commissioner Stockslager j received a report from Inspector Hobbs, at Guthrie, which shows that during the first week 450 entries were made ana forty-two notices of contest made. Four Children Burned to Death. A distressing accident, by which four children of Charles Williams, whose ages ranged j from 0 to 15 years, were burned to death, took j place at Abingdon. Md. The family, consisting of husband, wife, and five children, re- 1 tired to rest at about 10 o'clock. An i hour later neighbors saw the house burning ' and made ineffectual efforts to quench the j flames. Mr. and 3Irs. Williams escaped with ] the baby, who was fatally injured. The ' parents, seriously burned themselves, | stocd watching the Sre which was j approaching their sleeping children. | The house burned to the ground and con- ; siuned children, furniture and all. These ( people are left with no children excepsing the oaby, no money, home, or clothing. 1 The Killing of r. King. Advices from Massowah give details con- | earning the recent death of King John of Abyssinia. It is stated that on March 10 he | made an attack on the dervishes in their stronghold at Meteinmeh, but his forces i I were defeated, the King being badly j wounded. Two days afterward the dervishes , , made an assault and completely routed King | John's army, killing the King and his Gen- | erals, Ras-Area and Ras-AIulu. JThe King of Shoe then proclaimed hhuscl. Isegus and marched upon Adowa. I BURNED TO DEATH, i Five Persons Perish in Flames at "Westchester Village. X. Y. I Five persons were burned to death at a fire in Westchester Village, X. Y., early in the , morning. The residents were awakened from sleep by < the clanging of fire bells. It was learned that 1 the house occupied by Watson Bowne and his family had caught firo from some unknown cause" When tut! hose company arrived tho i liro Uncialready gainea consiueraiut.- iicaun . It sprca'l rapidly, and witliiu bnlf an hour after being discovered the building was en tircly enveloped. It was known that the mother of Mr. Bownc, Rebecca Uov.iic, aged sixty, Cnthurine Watson Bowne. aged six, and Ellen Margaret Bownc, aged four and n half, his children, were in the burning building. ' Frantic efforts r.-erc made to rescue them, bat ] without avail. The flames shut off any approach to the I building and rendered an attempt at rescua ] impracticable. After the lire had been sub- I lucd the bodies were recovered. They were iharred and blackened, but recognizable. . Two servant girls, Catherine Dunn, aged ] jigchtecn,and Mary Dunn,her sisleraged ten, ( llso perished. The entire population of the village turned >ut to see the fire and the utmost excitement " prevailed. Mr. Bowno was almost frantic 1 ivhen he discovered that his children and 1 nother had not left the bunting building. It svas absolutely impossible to do anything for 1 rhern, as the houso was a mass of tlame and ] ;ho poor inmates were cut off from the win* 1 lows. 1 i WHOLE FAMILY DROWNED. |j A Man, His Wife and Two Children ] Capsized in a Mountain Stream. A drowning accident is reported from Braxton, "W. Va. P. B. Harr and family lived in a thinly settled district, and he ^ and his wife and two children started to visit < a neighbor. A mountain stream in their path was swollen out of its banks, but Harr j attempted to cross it in a canoe. Half-way over, the frail boat capsized and the whole , family were thrown out. The wife and one | J child "immediately sank. Harr, who was an i expert swimmer, sei*eu auuuici emu mouo desperate efforts to escape. He caught on to , thecanoe, but was swept down stream, and I perished before help could reach him. The bodies havo been recovered. SIX LIVES LOST. Capsizing of a Sloop in St. Andrew's Bay, in New Brunswick. Six persons left St. Andrew's Bay, New Brunswick, in a sloop for their home at a neighboring place called Didequash. About three o'clock, while still in St. Andrew's Bay, a man named Holt saw the sloop capsize. He pulled in his own boat to the spot, but the little vessel and all the men had gone to the bottom. A Government fishery-protection cruiser has undertaken to grapple for the bodies. The names of the lost are Isaiah Flynn and his nephew, Clemention Flynn, Henry Barnes, Thomas Andersen, and a man named McLennan and his son John. Soma of them were married men with families. THE LABOE WORLD, Ship-bcilders have all they can do. A good many paper mills are going uj Electricity is now applied to tanning. The St. Louis carpenters' strike is ended. Cheat activity prevails in the steel trade. Th rre is still a great deal of unemployed labor. There are 17,392,099 workers in the United States. The boot and shoe makers of New England are busy. ] A large steel car works is to be erected In Kentucky. 1 The United Kingdom fisheries employ 250,? 1 QOQ nprsnTiK < The anthracite coal production is 100,000 tons per day. Pittsburgers are going to bore for oil in , South Africa. The Japfinese have no instinct for laundry < work like the Chinese. Nail makers have agreed to restrict pro- 1 duction twenty-five per cent. ' Half the iron molders in the country are j idle or working on short time. Chicago shoe dealers have sold ten per ; cent, more shoes than last year. Shipbuilding on the Clyde, the Tyne and the Wear, in Great Britain, is brisk. Organization is rapidly progressing among the weavers of Fall River, Mass. September 1, known as Labor Day, has been made a legal holiday in Pennsylvania. Southern iron makers pays one-third as much freight as do Pennsylvania iron mak- i ers. i San Francisco machinery makers have lately shipped machinery for Chinese silver mines. The average daily wages of miners in France and Germany, including children, is seventy cents. i Several of the tobacco factories at Dan- 1 ville, Va., where there has been strikes, have begun work again with white labor. The master joiners of Greenock, near Glasgow, Scotland, have advanced the wages of the men from thirteen cents to fourteen cents per hour. A large number of railroads have now taken measures to discontinue unnecessary i business on Sunday with a view of giving , their employes rest. i About 1200 workers are employed at the ruby mines of Burmah, who work on the j I most primitive methods and at wretched I rates of remuneration. i Large numbers of working people are j flocking'into Vienna to obtain employment ' on new-water works which are to be constructed, and which are to cost $100,000,000. America?.* sewing machine makers ex- | ported last year two million dollars' worth of I sewing machines, and beside nearly eight j million dollars' worth of machinery were exported. By introducing the tank system of manufacture Pittsburg hopes to regain control of the trade in fine glass, of whicn Belgium hna for several years past had practically a monopoly. The Swiss Government have invited European manufacturing States to send representatives to a conference in the interests of the working classes, to be held at Berne next j ' September. The fishermen at the herring fishery at t Ardglass, in the north of Ireland, hardly ever sleep in a bed during the season. When they are not in their boats they lie sleeping about the docks. Their earnings ore very ! precarious. j ^ A couple of Springfield (Mass.) men j ( have devised a metal roll for drawing out I slivers that not merely does the work better i j than the old leather covered roll, but will , J save the spinners the pretty penny now paid j 1 out in repairs upon them. iu_j ? NEWSY GLEANINGS. ! j Snipe are plentiful in Iowa. Loxdon* has an electric omnibus. ' p The Oklahoma boom is nearly over. ^ Spain* is about to denude her forests. Yellow fever is epidemic in Brazil. Ohio is to have compulsory education. a Pennsylvania has 2SG natural ges com- . c sanies. fc Montana leads the world in precious ^ netals. I i Sixty-six different railroad lines center in Chicago. : The yellow fever has made its appearanco in Florida. A bridge is to l)e built across the Missouri River at St. Louis. ^ Skunks are said to be almost as numerous ; in Oklahoma as rabbits. < The first white baby born in Oklahoma has f been named Oklahoma Lewis. ] It is said in Delaware that a full peach i ^ rrop may be expected this year. New Hampshire has the largest divorce rate of any State in the country. ^ The Mexican Government has decided to j jive bounties to sugar-producers. ] High license has reduced the number of ( saloons in Pittsburg from 720 to 18$. ( A careful estimate shows the strawberry acreage in Florida to be 20,000 acres. ? An international anti-slavery congress will j be held in Lucerne, Switzerland, in July. j The sugar crop in Brazil and the West Indies faffs many thousand tons below that 3f last year. It is estimated that there have been sold in C Japan 1,000,000 copies of the Constitution in me form or other. r So far this year the country has done >117 worth of business for every $100 worth up to j same date last year. j S Only 7S0 liquor stores were licensed this ? iL _ l?t?. ;? Rac+ati T.qct I L rear unaer uie nen m ~? . .. y-ear there were 1500 ? The Government estimated the value of ^ milch cows a year ago at $-4. Go per head, and the present figure is ?23.94. I ^ Theke arj now forty-six. or including j LJ branch stations nearly sixty, agricultural experiment stations in operation. I.\- a year the carnivorous animals in the Central Park menagerie. New York city. q liave eaten 57,715 pounds of horse meat at n two cents a pound. A bill to prohibit thebuvingand selling of igricultural products and stocks and bonds | ? for future delivery has passed both houses of | f the Missouri Legislature. The eleventh census will be collected by lO.'JUO enumerators, against 30,000 ten years igo, with an original appropriation of ?0.400,- , F X)(). against 000,000 voted in 1S79. U Captain Mcsrell. of the Missouri, and i j*' lis officers have turned over io the poor peo- | ^ pie they rescued from tho Danmark all the | testimonial money given them at Philaclel- I " tia*. ^JSCSWi-i 21 1 TEE PARIS EXPOSITION. !' _____ Form-ally Opened by President Car* not Amid < Brilliant Festivities. President Carnot, assisted by the President. ' )f the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, and n the presence of the constituted bodies at State, the Department of the Seine and the, ' jity of Paris, opened the universal exhibition n the main hall under the grand dome. M. Tirard, chief of the Ministry, delivered :he address of welcome. President Carnot^ , ising to inaugurate the exhibition, said: "To-day completes a century of progress. tVe salute the workers, and would give the friendly hand of peace and concord to alL Visitors will find here a hospitable countrjj md a city glad to receive them. France^ ivorthy to be among: the chosen nations, by ndomitable energy nas raised herself above ler trials, and inspired confidence by keeping! faith in all her public engagements. "I wish the guests of toe nation welcome. L now declare the exhibition open." \ The chorus of 2000 voices burst into a pat- r. riotic hymn, the assemblage cheered, ana sa- \ lutes were fired from the batteries in the ! Champ de Mars and re-echoed by the great juns of the fortifications around Paris. The ceremonial inside was brief, and shontf 3f much of its splendor by the unreadiness off the preparations for the display of the exhibits. Attempts had been made to decorate the central hall for the opening, but down the galleries could be seen lone rows of unopened packing cases and a wilderness of un? Unished carpentry. At 3 o'clock the proceedings were over, md then a cortege was formed, and, with the President at the head, passed as best it rauld through the encumbered galleries. As night fell the illumination began. Paris has seen no such spectacle before, many ana magnificent as have been the scenes of this land in her history. The electric light was for the first time profusely employed, and the \ effects were wonderful. The eccentric semi-circle of the Trocadero eras the first to burst into many colored Elanie; then the great dome of the exhibition flamed out upon the blue black sky a hemi- .. sphere of white light. But the most startling was the rush of fire ^ up the column of the Eiffel Tower a thousand feet into the air, topped by an effulgent blaze . Df electric light from the lantern, which could .'' be seen in the remotest part of the city,- and . t which made the exhibition grounds almost as y' bright as day. & All the buildings, public and private, along * the Seine, on both banks, the bridges across the river, the steamers, boats and barges, fall >;. of gay parties, were illuminated. The Seine I was a sea of light and color and the center of J revelry. Shortly after nightfall a torchlight procession, embracing 15,000 mounted cuirassier* and infantry on foot, most of the musical ?> cieties of Paris, both vocal and instrumental, with numerous brass bands, drum corps, etc., started from the Tuilleries palace, crossed the Jena Bridge and marched into the central garden of the Exposition Grounds amid most ? '['Ha /\P gllbliUSiaaiiii; uiuuuw vjl |op jets blazing in the grounds was upward of 100,000. . HURLED TO DEATH, i: /In Engine Runs Into a Street Cai Killing Six Ladies. A shocking accident occurred about 6:30 o'clock in the evening at the West Main street crossing of the Michigan Cen-; ' tral Railroad in Kalamazoo, Mich: A street car containing eight tiij dies and two gentlemen was crossing the track when a switch engine dashed down upon it from the east side at a high rate of speed, and the driver being unabieto get the car out of the way the helpless passengers were hurled to a terrible death. It was oafi tho work of a moment. | The street car was carried almost to ~ Academy street, the pieces flying in all di< rections, and the human freight being mangled in a frightful manner. Those in the car were: Mrs. Alexander Haddock, Mrs. M. E. Watles, Miss Gertrude Tillotson. Mrs. George Smiley, Mrs. Midi ileton, Mrs. Van Antwerp, Mrs. S. AJ Gibson, Mrs. Jonathan Barnes, Mr; L." C. Lull and Dr. Sutton. Tfatf first-named six were killed, two being found dead in the cattle guard, one in the , creek near bv, two on the trssl^1. '' and Mrs. Middleton died an honi f later. She was thrown in the roadway,-. Mrs. Gibson was injured in the head and side Mrs. Barnes was bruised badly. The two male passengers escaped. The driver of the car escaped by jumping. TVm pn<rine was running at a high rate of speed, ^he gates at tlie crossing I where the accident occurred are not used be> I tween 5:30 and 6:58 P. M., the gatekeeper goj I ing home at that tine. This custom probaj fl bly deceived the driver of the street car, who I was a new nan and probably supposed thai I the gates would of course be down if an en^ { ginc were coming. ^ I EXPLOSION ON A WHALEfij I Tlxe Result of Lighting a Cigarette' B Near a Keg of Powder. . I A letter from the United States Consul at* I 3t. Paul de Loanda, west coast of Africa,| I jives particulars of the explosion I >n board the whaling bark Sea Fox of 9 S"ew Bedford, Mass.. at Equimena, about . I March 1. The ship had put in for wood and I vater, and an agreement was made with An- I :onio de Bastos Pina to partly pay for sup-i I )lies in powder. He came on board withj I i friend, and the powder was hoisted; I lp on the Sea Fox. As the coverI I vns taken off the box a terrific ex-' >losion occurred, caused, it is said, by Senor I Pina lighting a cigarette. The aftec I jart of the vessel was badly damaged > I Lnd she was set on fire, but the fiames fl vere extinguished. Senors Pina and) fl Jarrinbas and Captain John Hclmes. Third I Hate Domicgos Bar baza, and Steward fl Tose Fernandez of the Sea Fox were killed,1 I md John Peters, boat steerer, Jose Laurenco,' fl look, De Ware Garro, Charles Legue, and B suerino Gonzalez were injured. B Captain Holmes belonged in Mattapoisei* lass., and the others of the crew lived at> K ?ape de Verde Island or Barbadoes. - fl THE MARKETS. I 19 XEVT YORK. I Beeves 3 70 @ 4 70 I Vlilch Cows, com. to good.. .30 00 (ij45 00 ! 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