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THE WITECIAPEL FIEND. Another Victim of tlie Mysterious Murders in Lon !on. A Policeman's Discovery of a Woman's Mutilated Body, A low part of Wliitcchapel, London, called Old Castle street, has been the scene of another atrocious murder of tho too wellknown "Whitechapel type. A large mass of clotted blood and traces of a desperate struggle bear testimony that "Jack the Ripper" has again rosumcd his deadly work of cutting up the bodies of unfortunate women. Four months ago the extra force of London policemen and detectives who had been on duty specially for the purpose of trapping the assassin wero withdrawn, as it was taougnc mat mere wvuiu uo nv muiv of such terrible outrages committed. But it seams that tho cruel-lienrtcd, unnatural beast is still living. The sceue of the crime is in tbo same restricted area, and once again the murderer is able to shield himself from discovery so as to leave no trace. At 1:30 the other morning a constable was walking leisurely down his beat when he noticed tho form of a woman lying in tho shadow of a doorway. Ho was about to rouse tho woman when ho was horrified to discover that she was dead and that there was a gaping wound in her throat. The body was lymg in a pool of blood, which had run in streams from a terrible gash in tho stomach, evidently inflicted by a sharp knife or razor. An alarm was raised and a crowd of detectives were instantly on the spot. Tho murdered woman seemed to be about forty years of age and belonged to the most depraved class of "Whitochapol unfortunates. On September 9 last news of the murder and horrible mutilation of a depraved woman in the Whitechapel district of London was cabled all over the world. Threo weeks later came the news that two other women, of similar character, had been mysteriously murdered and mutilated in the samo manner. This was on September 30, and tho next day all Christendom was shocked with the announcement of two more such lives sacrificed to some unknown demon in human form. The death of the eighth victim was flashed over the wires on October J!, and that of the ninth and last in 1888, on November 10. One more victim fell early this year, and only a few weeks ago fragments of a woman's body were fished out of the Thames which may or may not have been the eleventh. Chalked upon a board surface near some of ? the murdered women were notices signed "Jack, the Ripper," announcing that a specified number had been slain, and that when the fifteenth had died the murderer would announce himself and surrender to the authorities. The throat of each was cut and slashes forming a cross upon the abdomen were made. Several arrests were made, but the perpetrator of this most astounding series of murders on record has not been apprehended. Since these crimes came to light similar deeds have been reported " n ? n?i,? frA?#?e in .prance, uerinuuy, vuuu, niiuj and other places, while the "Whitechapel fiend" has chased unprotected women in Boston and numerous other cities and towns of the United States. DOUBLE MlHQEB. Two Boys Suspected of Killing Tlieir Parents Because of a Grudge. John 'Elfrins and wife were brutally murdered on their farm in Elk Township, Clayton County, Iowa. Ellans's second son, a boy of eleven, by a former wife, slept in the barn. He states that he was awakened about 3 o'clock by a rifle shot. Going into the house a fearful sight met his eyes of his father lying dead on his bed with a bullet through his brain, and his wife also on the bod with her head smashed in. A babe was still sleeping, the boy says, between them. Grasping the babe he made his way to the neighbors and gave the alarm. Suspicion rested on the boy and his elder brother, a young man of twenty-four, who both had a grudge against their stepmother. Elkins was a man of fifty and his wife of twentyseven years. THE LABOK WORLD. We have 6000 furniture mills. Chicago has 40.000 idle people. Strikes in Germany are subsiding. The bolt and nut makers have a trust. The bottom has dropped out of the Maino ?a\s-mill strike. The Clyde (Scotland) shipbuilders have given notice of a lockout. English barbers earn less than half the wages that American barbers do. The wages of hod-carriers in the country towns of England are S3 per week. Dressmakers say the most unjust employers are those among their own sex. The coal miners of Illinois are on strike because they cannot live on $17 per month. Russia has 48s cotton-weaving establishments, which give employment to 80,500 people. Russia has declined to take part in the International Labor Congress at Berne, Switzerland. * Birmingham (England) bricklayers de- j mand an increase, their first complaint in twenty years. The small machine shops between Pennsylvania and the Mississippi River are crowded with work. The workers in the Hematite Iron Works, Barrow-in-Furness, England, earn from $*< to $9 a week and work eleven hours a day. The dressmakers in Meritt, Mo., have organized themselves into a society for the regulation of wages and protection against the avarice of unscrupulous employers. The movement to unite the various branches of railway employes progressed so far at Chicago as to combine the firemen, brakemen and switchmen into one federation. According to the latest report the National Building Laborers' Union has now thirty-seven branches, with a membership of nearly 8000. The national secretary of the union says that it is growing rapidly. It is reported from England that the 20,000 South Staffordshire miners who recently threatened to strike have accepted the offered advance of twenty-five per cent, in wages, with the promise of an equal advance in the autumn. The recent eight-hour demonstration of tiie American Federation of Labor in Chicago was a great success. About 4000 men took part in the parade. Samuel Gompers, of New York, and Mayor Cregier made speeches. The greatest strikers in the world are the sbip-builders of Harland & Wolff's yard, Queen's Island, Belfast, Ireland. They are almost constantly either on strike, recovering from the effects of a strike or projecting ? now c+rrilrp In Larenton,Ill.,there is a woman carpenter who has a shop of her own and does light carpentry, but employs men to do the heavy work. Her own work is said to be remarkable for its neatness, and she is a very rapid workwoman. There are twenty cotton factories now in operation in Japan, with 82.680 spindles and employing about 5000 workingmen. Their wages are about So per week, which is ten times the amount craftsmen of any kind received in Japan ten years ago. There is a great feeling in London at present against the employment of anymore female type-setters. The employers say that one or two women in an office can take the attention of the men away so much that they cannot set as "clean" work as they would otherwise do. The men who were engaged in repairing the damage done by the flood along the Pennsylvania Railroad line, in the Conemauzh Valley, will, it is stated, bo paid double wages for every hour they worked. Fach man will also be given an additional gratuity of 35. The strikes in Germany are wanic~, starvation forcing the strikers to yield. In Berlin 3000 masons have resumed work. The painters have appointed a committee to meet the masters. The police are obliged to protect workmen coining from the country against the attacks of strikers. The better iCmiss of men continue to emigrate. i THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. I i Eastern and Middle States. John Mulvaney and James? Crosby were killed at a railway crossing in Newark, N. J. Miss Amy Crocker, a niece of Charles Crocker, the Central Pacific Railway magnate, and th9 divorced wife of R. Porter Ashe, the well known turfman, was married in New York city to Henry M. Gillig, of the American Exchange. The bride is worth $10,000,000. A desperate and bloody fight between Italian laborers occurred on the Schuylkill & Reading Railroad, between Staliugton and Reading, in Pennsylvania. Knives and clubs were used on both sides, and the battle was a fierce one. Twenty men and one woman were reported as having been fatally cut or clubbed. Foster Wells, aged seventeen, and Geo. Hussey, aged fourteen, were drowned while bathing in Messalonskee Lake, Me. T. C. Evans, an advertising agent of Boston, has failed. Liabilities, ?40,000. Samuel Fessenden*, Treasurer of the Cape Cod (Mass.) Ship Canal Company has failed. Liabilities about $75,000. The new l nitecl States cruiser jtiainmore returned to Cramp's yard, Philadelphia, after a satisfactory test of both speed and sea manceuvering. Charles Hamlin and Denton Reifsnyder were killed in a barn ten miles south of Gettysburg, Pehn., by a stroke of lightning. C. H. Treat & Co. and the C. H. Treat Manufacturing Co., Georgetown, Del., have failed with liabilities amounting to about SI00,000. They employed about three hundred persons and manufactured crates, baskets and plaques. Dr. William B. White, a medical electrician, of Boston, Mass., seventy-five years of age, shot his wife, Ellen, who is an attractive young woman, about twenty-five years of age. and then committed suicide. James Montgomery and two brothers, Charles and Emmanuel E&cassi, were drowned while bathing in New York Harbor. The conference between the officers of the Amalgamated Association and the firm of Carnegie, Phipps & Co., at Pittsburg, Penn., ended in a satisfactory agreement to both sides and full recognition to the Amalgamated Association. Over 0000 men are affected. The strike is off. Two Swedes were killed by a locomotive at a crossing in Asbury Park, N. J. The diver who examined the foundations of the stone bridge at Johnstown, Penn., for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, says that the bottom of the Conemaugh" River, near the bridge, is full of dead bodies, and that probably hundreds are lying there, one J upon another, held down by tons of wire. Michael Bolak has been hanged in the .-jail at Belvidere, N. J., for the murder of Michael Bollinshire. Soulh and "West. A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Charleston, S. C. ? . t THE pnzengncer oonn u. oumvau ?ivs i arrested at Nashville, Tenn., on a telegraphic I requisition from Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, but immediately released on a writ of nabeas corpus. A cloudburst occurred on the Sante Fe road a few miles above Albuquerque, New Mexico. The tracks for several miles wer9 washed away and two bridges are gone. Steel rails were twisted into all kinds of shapes. Wm.Weddixgtox,colored, has been hanged at Charlotte, N. C., for the murder of Policeman John Pierce. The eight-year old son of Pierce witnessed the execution of his father's murderer. Edmund Rice, Congressman from tho Fourth District, of Minnesota, died recently at White Eear, Minn. He was seventy-one years old. The Chippewa commission was successful at Red Lake and the Indians cede the greater portion of their reservation. The "green midge" has appeared in myriads around Palmyra, Wis., destroying everything infested by the insect. Whole acres of State vines are dead from their ravages, and rmers are burning their grain fields. Acting Secretary of State Wyatt, of Colorado, was committed to jail in Denver for ten days for having refused to comply with an order of court. Fire at Fresno, Cal., destroyed half a block of brick buildings. Loss, $300,000. The funeral of Mrs. John Tyler took place in St. Peter's Cathedral, Richmond, Va. At the conclusion of the services the remains were taken to Hollywood and interred by the side of her husband, the ex-President. Joseph N. Moody, of Ansley, Neb., shot and instantly killed his wife. He then fled, but his body was found some distance away with a bullet hole in his head. Heavy rains have seriously injured crops in Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana. Thomas Jefferson, the colored murderer, has been hanged at Memphis, Tenn. The Otis Iron and Steel Works in Cleveland, Ohio, have been bought by English capitalists for $4,500,000. Several lives are reported lost, cattle drowned and farm buildings and crops destoyed bv the storm that swept over Baltimore, Hartford and Carroll Counties in Maryland. The rainfall was the heaviest on record. In a few minutes fifteen bridges in the flooded district were destroyed. The losses in Baltimore County are estimated at ever S50,000. Newton* Cook, aged fifty-six; Henry Hoover, aged fifty-five, and Frank Warner, aged nineteen, were burned to death in the jail at Jacksonville, Oregon. j A cloudburst occurred in the mountains }"ust north of Fort Robinson, Neb. Marsh | )uncan, a woodchopper, and three of his children were drowned. Princeton*, Ohio, has been blown away by a terrific wind-storm. There were about thirty houses, including a sawmill and school-house. All are gone. While out sailing at Portsmouth, Ohio, William Bickle, Philip Herbst and his son were drowned by tne capsizing of the bor.t. Near Booneville, Mo., 150 head of cattle belonging to Chicago parties were killed in a railway collision. Both engines were demolished" and twentv cars were destroyed. Loss, $40,000. The engagement of Emmons Blaine, son of Secretary Blaine and Miss Anita McCormick, of Chicago, the second daughtor of the late C. H. McCormick, of reaper fame, is announced. She "will have a fortune of two millions or more in her own right. John Fitzpatrick, of New Orleans, who svas referee in the Sullivan-Kilrain fight, has surrendered to the Mississippi authorities. Mr. Rich, owner of the mill where the fight took place, and Mr. Jamison, who had charge of the guards at the ring side, have been arrested. Steps have been taken to forfeit the charter of the New Orleans and Northeastem Railroad. Mbs. Eatenhover and child were murdered by John Gilman, on his farm near Coquille City, Oregon. They were tenants of the murderer, who wanted them to leave, which they refused to do until their lease expired. Mrs. Terrt attempted to light a fire al Salt Lake. Utah, with coal oil. An ex. plosion occurred, and the burning oil caused the death of herself and a thirteen-year-old daughter. A violent wind storm accompanied by heavy rains swept over portions of Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, Wisconsin and Texas. The damage to houses and crops was immense. Tom Condor, who murdered Jack Riley? has been hanged at Nashville, Tenn. Condor was forty-three years old and had been a Mormon for years. Robert Dalton, fatally shot in Oklahoma, Kan., by Lee West, a desperado, was tho third United States Deputy Marshal killed within two weeks in that city. After receiving his mortal wound the officer fired at West, killing him instantly. The United States gunboat Petrel returned to Baltimore from her trial trip, which was very satisfactory to LieutenantCommander Bainbridge Hoff, who was in charge for the Government. The Mississippi Democrats have nominated ex-Governor J. M. Stone for Governor. Washington. The extra session of Congress is to be convened to meet Monday, November 4. President Harrison has recognized Nephtali Guerrero Lorrain as Consul-General of Chili in the United States. Under a decision of Secretary Tracy the the per diem employes of the Navy De partment, will hereafter be entitled to thirty, days' leave of absence each year. The President made the following additional appointments: Frank C. Crosby, to be Pay Director in the Navy; John W. Cobbs, of Kentucky, to be Survoyor of Customs for the Port of Paducah, Ky.; Alexander McMaster, of New York, to be Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels for the Ninth District (Buffalo, N. Y.). To be Collectors of Customs?Henry H. Lyman, of New York, for the District of Oswego, N. Y.: Robert Hancock, Jr., of North Carolina, for the District of Pamlico, N. C.; John P. Horr, of Florida, for the District of Key West, Fla. To bo Collectors of Internal Revenue?Frank E. Orcutt, of Massachusetts, for the Third District of Massachusetts; William H. Gabriel, of Ohio, for the Eighteenth District of Ohio; John Steckete. of Michigan, for the Fourth District of Michigan. President Harrison, accompanied by Secretarv Windom, Mrs. Windom and the Misses Windom, arrived at Deer Park, Md., from Washington in Mr. Robert Garrett's private car "Baltimore," to spend a few days with Mrs. Harrison. An armed body of men, about ISO white and thirty colored, broke open the jail at Lafayette, La., ana took Felix Keyes, colored, to the house where the night beforo he had murdered his wife, and there hung him. The President made the following additional appointments: Jesse Johnson, of New York, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Eugene Marshall, of Texas, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas; Charles S. Varian, of Utah, United States Attornay for the Territory of Utah: Elias H. Parsons, of Utah, United States Marshal for the Territory of Utah, and Lars P. Edhohn, of Utah, Judge of Probate, Morgan Comity, Utah. United States Treasurer Huston has directed that hereafter in the redemption of legal tender notes only the three-fifth rule, used in redeeming national bank notes, shall be observed. The three-fifths rule provides that where three-fifths of a note is presented for redemption the full amount of the note shall be paid. The Secretary of the Interior has made a ruling which allows pension attorneys to collect from veterans $25 for services, for which they were previously allowed only $8. Superintendent of Census Porter has appointed Edward Stauwood, of Boston, Mass., the editor of Youth's Companion, a special agent of the census office, to collect the statistics of cotton manufactures throughout the United States. The contract for the exterior walls of the Congressional Library Building at Washington has been awarded to the New England Granite Works of Hartford, Conn., of which James G. Batterson is the President. It ia for $1,221,600.72. R. J. Hartman, of Findlay, Ohio, has been appointed chief of the division of accounts in the General Land Office. Foreign. The International Deaf Mutes' Congress J convened in Paris. Delegates were present from the United States, England, Ireland, Canada, Belgium, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, Austria and Spain. A force of Egyptians cut off sixty dervishes from the main body to which they belonged, and in the fight which followed all the dervishes thus cut off were killed. The Germans bombarded Tanga, on the East Coast of Africa, and carried the town by assault. Hadji Hassein Ghooly Khan, the Persian Minister, and his Secretary, Mirza Mahmoud Khan, have left Washington and sailed for France. He is disgusted with America because of newspaper comment on his royal master, the Shah of Persia. The Russian Government has totally suppressed the Lutheran Church in Russia. English troops are b9ing hurried to Malta and Egypt in such numbers as to foreshadow serious fighting. One-half of the town of Djarkend in Semiretchinsk, Russia, has been destroyed by an earthquake. A conservative ministry has been formed in Norway, with Herr St&ng as Minister of State. General Boulanger has bean indicted at I Paris for the crimes of an attental against a Secretary of State, of conspiracy and of embezzling public moneys amounting to $50,400. In skirmishes with the Egyptian troops the dervishes have lost ninety men. The 100th anniversary of the Fall of tho Bastile was celebrated throughout Franco and the rest of the world by patriotic Frenchmen. The steamship Rapel. from Valparaiso, struck on tho rocks at the Hamblin or t!v: Socorro Islands, in the Atlantic, and immediately went down. Eleven of her crew were lost. William A. Bushnell, the noted swindler, has been captured in Chili. He robbed a Wall street (New York) firm of $75,000 ten years ago. A collision occurred at Grenoble, France, between a passenger train and a goods train on the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railroad. Twenty persons were killed. Mr. Lincoln, the United States Minister to England, and his wife and Russell B. Harrison, son of President Harrison, dined with Queen Victoria at Windsor Palace. Manuel Lopez, British Governor of the Bay Islands, in the Bay of Honduras, South America, is dead. The International Socialist Congress opened in Paris. The session of the French Parliament was closed in Paris amid some excitement. A fight has taken place at Puerto del j Agua, State of Nuovo Leon, Mexico, between a party of thirty smugglers and a force of custom house guards, in which two guards and three smugglers were killed. A waterspout destroyed the town of Chilapa, State of Guerrero, Mexico. The Bundesrath (Switzerland) has postponed the time for holding the International Labor Congress at Berne until next spring. General Grenfell, of the English army, has assumed command of the Egyptian troops now fighting the Dervishes. The Chinese Emperor has issued an edict ordering the immediate building of the projected Tung Chow railway, and has appointed Marquis Tseng general director of all railways in China. PROMINENT PEOPLE. ; President Harrison is very fond of fish. Queen Victoria has reigned fifty-one years. Meissonier, the French painter, was married recently. Julian Hawthorne has produced twenty-nine novels. Governor Foraker, of Ohio, is fortythree years old. The Prince of Wales is quite a successful *? VICCUCi UJ. U-Ci.ia.lC. General Boulanger thinks of visiting the United States. Herrmann, the magician, has his life in* sured for $800,000. Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, the writer, u George Francis Train's sister. R. W. Gilder, editor of the Century, geta $20,000 a year for his services. The late General Simon Cameron, ol Pennsylvania, left a fortune of $1,500,000. Allen G. Thprman is again suffering considerably from inflammatory rheumatism. The Earl of Zetland, the new Viceroy ol Ireland, has an income of over $1000 a day. Chadncey M. Depew, President of tha New York Central, has gone to Europe for the summer. Prince Bismarck, lakes more pleasure in recounting the duelling and drinking feats of his student days than in relating any of his triumphs in the field of statesmanship. John Dillon, member of Parliament for East Mayo, Ireland, will soon sail for America. He goes to Denver, Col., and thence to California, and expects to be absent a whole year. Tiie widow of N. P. "Willis, the poet, is living in Washington. She is a pleasant, attractive woman of sixty, and s occasionally seen in society. Her son, Bailey Willis, is a member of the corps of the geological survey. Frank G. Carpenter, the traveler and newspaper correspondent, is just back from a trip around the world. Carpenter is an odd looking chap, as slim as a fence rail, with 6omewhat ungainly figure, startling red hair and moustache and homely face. His is a persistent and voluminous writer and a rapid talker. He lives in Washington, where he has a delghtful home, and makes $13,000 to $15,000 a year, k. ACROSS THE WIRES. An Array of Important Foreign and Domestic Events. Parnell and Counsel Withdraw From the Special Commission, Mr. Parnell's counsel liavo formally withdrawn from tho inquiry before the spccial commission in London. At the reassembling of tho Parnell commission to-day Sir Charles Russell of the Parnellite counsel stated to the judges that after full consideration Mr. Parnell had given himself and Mr. Asquitb, his associate, instructions to no longer represent him before the commission. Presiding Justice Sir James Hannen replied: "Mr. Parnell will, of course, remain subject to the jurisdiction of this court." This step was taken by Mr. Parnell, under advice of his associates, on account of the manifest unfairness of the commission towards his side in its refusal to allow his counsel to examine the books of the Loyal and Patriotic Union. Messrs. Pveid and Lock wood, of the Parnellite counsel next withdrew from the case, fol lowing tho action or. air uuanes ivusseu anu Mr. Asquith. Mr. Parnell then personally addressed the judges and made application for a speedy final settlcmont of the case as far as he was concerned. He asked that if there was any design to further examine him, the Court would proceed to do so without delay. He complained of Attorney-General Webster's postponement of the inquiry for three months in order to re-examine him in regard to certain chccks. The Court, he declared, ought to appoint a rlay for his examination, if any was required, or else it should dischargo him from any further attendance upon tho commission. Sir James Hannen promised to try and meet the convenience of Mr. Parnell in this matter, and said that he would recall him on Thursday next. After tho Parnellito counsel had retired from the court Sir James Hannen said that the scopc of tho inquiry would noli bo altered and that the persons liithorto represented by counsel could appear in their own defense if they desired. Dakota Crops a Failure. The wheat crop of Dakota is thirty million bushels short. The total production cannot exceed twenty million busnels. Outside of the valley of tho Red River all the grain grown will probably not All fivo hundred cars. The best crops and, in faci, tho only fair yiold, will bo In the counties of Pembina, Walsh, Grand 'Forkfi, a small portion of Traill, the centre of Cass and Northwestern Richland. Elsewhere the ground is as bare and almost as brown as though a prairie Are had crossed it. In Nelson County, famously prolific, wheat will not yi ald as much grain as was seeded. Ramsey is bare, except in tho immediate vicinity of Devil's Lake, and in the famonsTurtle Mountain region, the rich soil of which has hitherto been regarded as drought proof; there will be but littlo wheat for export. Along the main line of the Northern Pacific, in the once famous bonanza farm district, the elevators are closing up and the country tributary to Bismarck is as barren as a sand hill. The Jim River Valley will barely feed its pe-ple, and, in short, nowhere in Dakota will thero be any wheat for export save alone the main line of the Manitoba road from a point thirty miles north of Fargo, the boundary. The cry of famine that was raised last winter in the western part of Walsh County will finds its echo all over the Territory the'coming winter. There is another danger which will be felt very severely, and that is the want of fodder for the stock. Tho oat crop is bad and the meadows away from the river bottoms areas parched as the prairie. More Room at tlic White House. Lieutenant-Colonel John M. Wilson, lingineer Corps, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, at Washington, in his ?vnnual report to tho Chief of Engineers, says that since the opening of tho Washington Monument 121,Si 1 people have ascendcd it. The Executive Mansion has been kept in good repair. The erection of an addition as a private residence for tho President is recommended, and it is suggested that it might be built on the site of the greenhouse, opposite tho State, War and Navy buildings, while on the other side of the White House, toward tho Treasury, a picture gallery might be built, opening out of the East room, and thence into a handsome conservatory and winter garden, worthy the homo of the Chief Executive. mi j.? x? f V?AAA a ne usbiiuiiius iur uuu uuai uz*xii jccu cuci Salaries of employes, $52,300; improvement and eare of public grounds, $102,500; care of Executive Mansion, repairs and fuel, $38,000; lighting Exccutivo Mansion and public grounds $15,783.50; repairs to water pipes, $2500; departmental telegraph lines, $10,000; total, $221,018.50 For the Washington Monument $11,000 additional is asked. Destructive Forest Fires. ?T Great rivers of firo havo boon rolling in different directions through the woods in Multnomah County, Oregon, and in Southern Washington. The firo was started by persons burning brush on tho Creighton Tract. The tiames, fanned by a strong west wind, ato through tho forest to tho Sunderland road and flayed havoc with tho cordwood and standing timbei in that ririnit.v. Tho loss to pnwvtv will be in tho neighborhood of three-quarters of a million of dollars. "The Angelas" is Ours. M. Proust has written a letter in which ho announces the withdrawal of tho request to the Chamber of Deputies for a credit for tho purchase of Millet's "Tho Angclus," for which he had bid $110,600. The painting will therefore become the property of the American Art Association of Now York city. The agent of tho American Art Association will exhibit "Tho Angelus" in Paris for two months for the benefit of charitable institutions. A Mexican Hanged. Jose Abram Ortez, a Mexican, who last March murdered a miner named O. E. Leduc, has been hanged at Antonito, Col. The crimo was committed while Leduc was asleep and for the purposo of securing possession oC a bag of gold dust valued at 550. On tho ? ? u n_i.? -? 4-u*. ?:.v,? ?,?i SCailOlCl UI"W.'i ULKiiumcuj; mu umicwiu asked forgiveness of all present. DEATH TRAPS BURIED, Snow Slicds That Cracked Brakemen's Skulls Destroyed. Within the pasi six months six Union Pacific brakemen have failed to stoop whilo on top of trains passing through snow sheds between Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Laramie, fifty miles west. All of the men were almost instantly killed. The Iirakemen's Brotherhood petitioned for the removal of the sheds or the revocation of the rule compelling the men to stand on top of the cars while passing through artificial tunnels. No attention was paid to their requests. A shed one thousand feet long was mysteriously burned on a recent night. A second one nearly three thousand feet in length, was burned next day, and at three o'clock in the afternoon a third big one was fired. Three remain, and these are closely guarded. Tho officials say that sparks from passing engines caused the damage, but it is generally believed that the brakemen have turned incendiaries iu self-defence. BIG- BANKING- ENTERPRISE, A Syndicate Puts Up $15,000,000 to Boom Beet Sugar. A conference of delegates from the coun. tries engaged in tho production of beet sugar was held in Brussels, Belgium. The conference founded a syndicate bank, which will establish branches and agencies in all the principal cities of the world. Tho capital will be $15,130,000. Tho bank will do no speculative business, but will sell sugar on commission and make loans to manufacturers. The profits of tho bank will bo divided among tho members of tho syndicate. Tho bank will also furnish the members with news concerning the sugar market. Tho books for subscription to the capital stock ware to bo opened simultaneously in tho Europoan centers. r TENANTS' LEASE A. Powerful Irish Organization to Eight Landlords. k Defense League Modeled After British Trades Unions, Charles Stewart Paraell authorizes the announcement that the Irish party will immediately form a Tenants' Defence League for | protection against the landlord syndicate. Conventions will be summoned throughout Ireland. The movement will be worked on the lines which Mr. William O'Brien has laid down. Mr. O'Brien announced that a league would be lormed uniting the Irish throughout the world for a final struggle against the landlords. Some weeks ago Smith Barry, with the knowledge and approval of Balfour, the English Secretary for Ireland, formed a syndicate of Irish and English landlords, the avowed object of .vhich was to compel tenants to pay rente. Since then the Irish leaders have had several anxious consultation.' as to the best means of protecting tenants against this new and formidable danger. The new league will be openly inaugurated Ct a public conference, which will be attended y every member of the Irish party and representative men from all parts of Ireland. The league will be modeled as closely as possible on lines of British trades unions. It will be in every respect as legal as those formidable organizations, and it will be difficult for the Government to suppress it without throwing to the winds every shred of consti nationalism m ireianu. Tne movement is the most important inau gurated since the establishment of the Land League in 1879. It has already created a veritable panic in the landlord camp, and their organ, the Dublin Express, weeps copiously, predicting all manner of dreadful things, including the extermination of the Irish people, and the handing over of the country to military colonists from England. The .'landlords are gasping at the possibility of a general strike against rent, and the Tories predict turmoil and bloodshed during the coming winter; but the new league will be ptrong enough to prevent crime, and will afford Balfour no reasonable excuse for proclaiming martial law in order to fight it. That is what the Tories are urging the Government; to do, and it enables one to estimate the extent of their fears. Michael Davitt, in an interview, said: "The new Tenants' League will give a new start to the Irish cause, which will be of immense importance. It will bring men of all shades of opinion on the popular side invo a fighting line under Mr. Parnell. The whole of the reserves will move up to his support. The Government will no longer deal with men in the gap. but with the whole Irish race. Mr. Parnell is more emphatically than ever the 'man on horseback.' Mr. Balfour will be better able to appreciate the difference six months hence than to-day." It is reported that Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Morley have approved the Tenants' Defence League. Mr. Tarn ell will be President of the League. The main object is to raise a fund for the purpose of giving legal assistance to tenants against combininglandlords, ead not to divert rent from the proper* channels. LATER NEWS, The large stable ?f the Lowell (Mass/) Street Railroad, was burned with 120 horses, about thirty cars, four carloads of hay and one carload of straw, 400 bushels of oats, be sides tools and ether materials. Loss, $200,000. Two running cars collided with a passenger train near Shamokin, Penn. JohnRoush, married, and Aaron Shipe, single were killed and seventeen passengers injured. John E. Barton, known as the Gogebic Iron King duringthe Wisconsin miningcraze two years ago, has made an assignment; liabilities, ?825,000. Shell Rock, Iowa, has beet totally destroyed by fire. The cotton crop in the vicinity of Columbus, Texas, has been damaged to the extent of $500,000 by a freshet along the Colorado River. At Brewton, Ala., a man named Gaston committed suicide by throwing himself on a circular saw. He was cut in twain. The Virginia State Prohibition Convention in session at Lynchburg nominated a ticket as follows: For Governor, Thomas E. Taylor; Lieutenant-Governor, W. J. Shelburn; Attorney-General, Judge J. M. Quarles. Three fanners have been killed by lightning at Grand Forks, Dakota. Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of the Census, has appointed Dr. David T. Day expert and special agent to take charge of the subiect of mines and mining for the Elev entli Census. President and Mrs. Harrison returned to Washington from Deer Park, Md. The wheat crop in Hungary is below the average and is in poor condition owing to the shrinking of the grain in the ear. -Ths rye crop is poor and the barley crop is very bad. Corn is in good condition. The vineyards make an excellent showing. The Manitoba and Canadian northwest wheat crop is a failure. The total yield will be little less than half last year's crop, and the disaster is so widespread and serious that there are thousands of acres that will not ba cut at all. The damage is the direct result of the drought. Emperor Doji Pedro, of Brazil, was fired at as he was leaving the theater in Rio de Janeiro. The shot was fired by a Portuguese. The Emperor was not hit by the bullet. The would-be assassin was immediately seized by guards and attendants. THE WAR IN EGYPT, Terrible Slaughter of the Advancing Dcrvislics. Tho dervish prisoners arriving at Assouan Egypt, are terribly emaciated, having suf- j fared greatly from hunger and thirst. Among them are many women and boys. An Italian woman, Marietta Cavacalo, says she was brought from Kordofan, Soudan, by Nad-el-Jumi. Thero were five nuns and two priests still alive at Khartoum. The dorvishos loft DonSola with 8000 men and six guns. Nad-elumi hoped to reach Bimbau without fight[ ing. On the march many died and deserted, I while many others were killed. Colonel "VVode' * * | nouse, in commana 01 ino onusu auuu^jrptian troops, estimates the dervish killed at 2500. The Government Is forming grain depots | along the Nile for the purpose of supporting fugitives who are fleeing before the advance I of the dervishes. Many tribal sheikhs are j tendering their services to the Government. HEAVY FLOODS IN CHINA, A Tornado Drowns 6000 People and Renders 10,000 Homeless. The City of Now York, from Hong Kong and Yokohama, has just arrived at Sau Francisco., Col. She reports that a tornado burst in the district northeast of Kwang Lung, China, June 2, and flooded the level country. Seven villages were inundated and houses were swept away. Moro than six thousand persons were lost. Other districts suffered greatly and hundreds of lives in those places were also lost. IVIore than tea thousand survivors are homeless. Arabs in large numbers have swarmed down upon the villages in East Central Africa, turning and pillaging the houses and robbing and murdering the people. The women and girls have been subjected to the grossest indignities, and several babies were I roasted alive in the presence of their pa' rents. THE FAIRS OF 1889. Where and When the Independent and State Fairs Will be Held. The Prairie Farmer publishes the following list of independent and State Fairs for 1889, with the dates on which they will be held: Alabama, Birmingham Oct 21-Nov 2 Alabama, Eastern, Eufaula... .Oct 31-Nov 6 Alabama, South, Greeneville American Dairy Show, Chicago.. .Nov 12-21 American Fat Stock, Chicago Nov 12-21 American Poultry Show, Chicago..Nov 12-21 American Institute, New York..Oct 2-Nov 30 American Horse Show.Chicago.Oct 30-Nov 9 Buffalo International,Buffalo,N. Y..Sept 3-18 Canada Industrial Ass'n, Toronto.. Sept 9-21 Central Canada Fair, Ottawa Sept 9-14 Colorado, Pueblo Oct 3-9 Connecticut, Moriden Sept 17-20 Dakota, North, Grand Forks Sept 17-21 Dakota, South, Ashton Sept 23-27 Delaware, Dover Sept 20-0ct 5 Detroit Exposition, Detroit Sept 17-27 Georgia, Macon Oct 23-Nov I Great Central, Hamilton, Ont Sept 23-27 Iowa, DesMoines Aug 30-Sept 6 Illinois, Peoria Sept 23-27 Indiana, Indianapolis Sept 23-28 Inter-State Fair, Elxnira, N. Y... .Sept 17-20 J. S. L. Ass'n, Trenton, N. J.. .Sept 23-Oct 4 Kansas, Topeka Sept 16-21 Kentucky, Lexington Aug 27-31 Louisiana, Shreveport Oct 8-14 Maine, Lewistnn Sept 10-18 Maryland, Pimlico Sept 9-14 Mass. Horticultural, Boston Sept 17-20 Michigan, "Western,Grand Rapids.Sept 23-27 Minnesota, Hamline Sept 6-14 Minnesota, Southern, Rochester.... Sept 2-7 Missouri, Sedalir Aug 20-24 Montana Agricultural. Mineralogical & Mechanical Ass'n,Helena..Aug 26-31 Nebraska, Lincoln Sept 6-13 Nevada, Reno Sept3(>-Oct5 New England, "Worcester, Mass Sept 3-6 New Era Exp n, St. Joseph, Mo.Sept 3-Oct 5 New Hampshire Grange, Tilton. .. Sept 10-12 New Jersey, "Waverley Sept 16-20 ?' ?- ' ? " 10 10 I I>ew xorK, iu Daily ocpt North Pacific Industrial Ass'n, Portland, Ore Sept26-Oct23 Ohio. Columbus Sept 2-6 Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska Sept 3-6 Ontario Central Agricultural and Live Stock Ass'n, Perry Oct 2-4 Ontario Provincial, London, Ont.. .Sept 9-14 Oregon, Salem Sept 16-21 Penn., "Western, Washington Sept 17-20 Rhode Island, Providence Sept 23-27 St. Louis, St. Louis Oct 7-12 South Carolina, Columbia Nov 11-15 Southern Exp'n, Montgomery, Ala.Nov 5-15 Tennessee, Nashville Sept 16-21 Texas State Fair & Dallas Exposition, Dallas Oct 15-27 Tri-State Fair, Toledo, 0 Sept 9-18 Utah, Salt Lake City Oct Washington and Idaho Fair Ass'n, Spokane Falls Sept 24-28 West Virginia, Wheeling. Sept 9-13 Wisconsin, Milwaukee Sept 16-20 Wyoming, Cheyenne Sept 17-20 A TRIPLE TRAQEDY, Augustas Rosenberg Kills a Woman, Her Son and Himself. A triple tragedy, one of the most horrible that has ever occurred in that vicinity, took place early in the morning in Somerville,near Boston, Mass. Augustus Rosenberg, whose mind is believed to have been unbalanced, Jailed Mrs. Catherine Smith, the woman with whom he had lived, and her fourteen* year-old son Thomas, seriously shot three more of the woman's children, Willie, aged twelve; Gussie, aged seven, and Charles, aged five. Then the murderer jumped from the window. His dead body was found 500 feet distant from the sceno of the crime. Willie, the wounded boy,was fatally injured. Rosenberg had been living with the Smith woman on ana on tor sevenu years, xus wife, who died a few years ago, was a sisterin-law of the murdered woman. From all that can bo learned Mrs. Smith was a vixen, and led the murderer a hard life. She had a penchant for dinging on to all the mcnoy that came into her hands. By the death or disappearance of her husband sho got control of tho store in Dane Court where the tragedy occurred. Rosenberg, who had an express business, began paying attention to her, and soon moved his family to tho Smith house. The man and woman had many quarrels, Rosenborg claiming that she seized all his monoy. He left her often, but always came back. Recently his mind has been affected, and he asked to be sent to an asylum. He was heard soveral times to threaten to kill Mrs. Smith, and some days ago purchased a revolver. Mrs. Smith was shot dead while asleep. The children must have been awakened and pursued by tho maniac while endeavoring to escape. The body of Thomas was lying at the door. SCOTCH-IRISH IN" AMERICA. Their Executive Committee Decides to Issue a History. The Executive Committee of the ScotchIrish Society of America met at the Olenham Hotel in New York city. Robert Bonnor presided, and there were present Rev. Dr. J S. Mcintosh, of Philadelphia; Professor Georgo McLoskie, of Princeton: Colonel T. T. Wright, of Nashvillo; Secretary A. C. Floyd and Treasurer Lucius Frierson, of Columbia, Tonn. The chief sub - -c -i'?ttmio nf f-.ViA JCCli UJL UiMJU9diUU ?tcw uuw v* ?MV "Scotch-Irish in America," a journal treating historically of tho part taken by tho men of tho North of Ireland in building up this country, and Dr. Mcintosh and Secretary Floyd were appointed to compile and publish the work, which will be furnished gratis to the members of the Society. The Committee also considered where nezt year's Congress sball be held, and Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburg and Nashville were mentioned, but no decision was reached. Colonel T, T. Wright, to whom the Society owes its existence, says ho was led to conceive tho idea by observing, both from history and personal contact, the remarkable number of influential men of Scotch-Irish birth in this country. He said the first Declaration of Independence was drafted by men of that lineage in Mecklonburg, N. C., while Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Philadelphia Declaration, was of tho same stock, as were Presidents Madison, Jackson and I oik. "Sam" Houston and "Davy" Crockett were also Scotch-Irish. DEATH IN A CESSPOOL, Four Men Perish, at .Lincoln, Neb. From Poisonous Vapors. During the afternoon four men lost thiir iives in Lincoln, Neb., under peculiar circumstances. A watch was dropped in a cesspool and the men were endeavoring to recover iuThey dug a large hole at the side of the pool. This hole was filled wth water by the rain. One man stood on a ladder above tho water and made an opening into the cesspool. The foul air and gas rushed out and overcame him and he fell into the water. A friend went to give aid and was likewise overcome. Others came to help and one by one seven men fell into the water, which by this time was full of muck and 9lime from the vault. Three were rescued, some by men who afterward perished in attempting to save the others. The dead are James Crawford.a bricklayer; Albert Kunkler, a laborer; John Cleary, a blacksmith, and Frank Maloney, a plasterer. TEE KNIftHTS OF LABOR, Their Next General Assembly?Pre. sent Condition of the Order. The next General Assembly of the Knights of Labor will be held at Atlanta, Ga., on tho second Tuesday of November, 1589. Concerning tho present condition of af- | fairs among the Knights of Labor Mr. Pow- j derlv: "In the beginning of 1SS0 we had 87.- ' 900 "members. Sis months later we had 1 TOO,000. At present we have 300,000. When I am asked to explain the falling off I ask why should so many come in? This present number is really an increase which I strongly opposed. Much of it is made up of those people who think the strike the solution of all evils. I have opposed this membership from the beginning.'1 About 5000 people have received railroad passes to leave Johnstown, Penn. Some ol them have been sent as far as New Mexico, j w?mmmmmmmmm?mmmarnm?mmmmmmmammmmmm POPULAR SCIENCE. Underground lighting has proved so| successful in Chicago that -the plant is toi be largely increased. Power .obtained from a fall of water ty mile distant is to be used for lighting thaf tower of Segorbe, in Spain. j The maximunj intensity of the ligh# from the Eiffel tower is 500,000 carcelsjj giving a range of 127 miles. It has recently been proposed to use aq? alloy of zinc and phosphorus in boilers ta> prevent incrustation and pitting. Naturalists and others are becoming considerably alarmed over the prospecfc of the early extermination of the kanga^f too. , Experiments made on the dog an<? rabbit show generally that the quality o? water is less in the venous than in th* arterial blood. M. Chauvin concludes that Iceland spa$ possesses magnetic rotary power not onlA in the direction of its axis, but also i& the neighboring direction. After more than twenty-seven years th^ pearl oyster has produced pearls off th? Madras coast in sufficient quantities to b4 worth thft oirnprsfi nf fishina. Gurjun oil produced from a fir tre* that grows in the Andurame Island ty said to be a sure cure for leprosy. It ifc . used by inunction and taken internally^, Carpenters and other tool users wh? keep up with the times now use a mixture of glycerine instead of oil for sharpening their edge tools. Oil, as it is well known}' thickens and smears the stone. ' > The invention of a "fog machine," by> which water is thrown in spray as fine aft} vapor, makes it possible to spin the finesl. cotton thread in mills established in th*.hottest, dryest parts of the South. ' ; The Insect House of the Zoological So-1 ciety of London is said to be the onlyj place where an attempt is made to afc-4 tract public attention to the various and! wonderful groups of the insect family. The increase in the amount of tonnage passing through the Suez Canal is claimed} to be due in a great measure to the light* ^ ing of the canal by electricity, admit* ting of its use by night as well as by day* Abroad conductors are being laict . underground and insulated by placing that bare wires in glass tubes, which are pib* tected by layers of cement, outside o? which is an iron pipe. This method fit cheap, gives a high degree of insulation^ W and water cannot penetrate. Both the French and German Govern* ments have provided facilities for the ex* amination and certification of electrical instruments, and it in now found thatapf paratus bearing the official indorsement ^ brings a better price in Continental markets than non-attested instnnnents. A steam carriage in which coke is used! as fuel has lately appeared in France*' The driving is effected by two hini wheels, and the speed attained is abouj' fifteen miles per hour, twenty-eight ana three-quarter gallons of water being sufi I ficient for a run of twenty-five miles. I In an improved method of wire-mak- ? ing, the wire is drawn eold over success I sive pairs of rolls, each pair having. * V greater speed than the pair preceding !t^ J with an intervening friction clutch to* graduate the speed of the rolls to thfi* speed of the wire in process of rolling. From the general appearance of tha vegetation, together with a discussion o4 I the origin and relations of the florist, iti I is concluded by eminent botanists that;^V Greenland is not a European province! I from the point of view of botanical geography, but has nearer relations to America. A century ago only "300" species of; orchids were known, and those very imperfectly. Now the latest authority gives* the extreme number of knows speciesas^ 10,000. This may be an excessive estimate, but shows the immense advances which have been made in our knowledge of these interesting plants, for which collectors now ransack the most remote: nf t.ViA crlnhe. 4 l|uai VA vuv A Skinless Boy. / William Crawford, the son of the well- " known' tug captain of that name, died the other afternoon in Chicago. He bled to death at the nose, but had lost i so much blood previously that the hem- M orrhage from the nose was not great. I Young Crawford, who was but twenty- I two years of age, was peculiarly afflicted. I He had but one skin. Which is to say I that he had no outer skin at all. The J veins stood out all over his body in the~^ plainest manner possible. From the time he was six years of age young Crawford had been subject to bleeding spells, which were liable to break out at any / time and in any part of his body. He lost vast quantities of blood in this way, and was afraid to take any sort of exercise at all, for fear of starting the bleeding afresh. For the past two weeks the young man had been confined to his bed, being too weak to sit up, even, and bleeding at the nose having set in he soon passed away. Physicians were sent fcr from various cities in the East, but they could do nothing for him. A new skin could not be grafted on, and it was but a question of a short time until the patient would bleed to death.?New York Journal. ^ ?? Richest of American Chinamen. I had the pleasure of meeting Sara jfl Lock, recently. Mr. Lock is probably T the richest Chinaman in California, and is /j nnotoccod nf nn annteness which would f j r""-"""* ? ? do credit to a Sam Slick. He is one of the very few Mongolians who have become citizens of this country, and has cut loose in every way from his native 1 land, and as far as possible from his people. He wears "store" clothes and keeps his shirt inside of his trowsers. He has a large ranch in this country, and possesses a number of mines in Montana. He spoke quite casually of building a canal seventeen miles long to take water to a mine which has not been profitable heretofore because of the lack of that article?New York Tribune. A 'Legend of Forget-Me-Nots. j The poet Shiraz gives the following legend of the forget-me-not: I "It was in the golden morning of the early world, when an angel sat weeping | outside the closed gates -of Eden. He had fallen from his high estate through loving a daughter of earth; nor was he permitted to enter again until she whom he loved had planted the flowers of the forget-me-not. When their task was ended, they entered Paradise together; for the fair, without tasting the bitterI ness of death, became immortal like the angel, whose love her beauty had won, when she sat by the river twining the forcret-me-not in her hair." . , ..... -u