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j FLOODS IN NEW JERSEY. !
Many Cities and Villages Damaged
by RagingWaters.
Seven Dams Burst and Sweep
Away Houses and Bridges.
The flood gates were lifted during the late
heavy rain in New Jersey, and, since the
-TnVinefnwn riicncfor w*s frwh in the minds
of all, it would be hard to gauge the amount
of terror that existed in some parts of that
State for a few hours. The streams were
already running full, and a succession of
deluging showers in the afternoon and
tev.ening caused them to overflow. The rainfedl
was especially heavy on the Orange
Mountains, and the result was that cities
like Newark, Plainfleld and Elizabeth on the
low land which received the mountain's
streams suffered from floods. Bridges, dams
and houses were washed away, trains stalled,
and other damage done.
The greatest flood Plainfleld, N. J., has
ever known followed this heavy downpour
of rain, and wash-outs and broken dams
were the result. At 4 o'dock Codington's
dam, on Stony Brook, cave way, and the
large body or water thus freed carried
away Codington's icehouse and threatened
the Green Valley Mills with destruction.
The damage along the course of this stream
was heavy, for many barns and other buildings
were washed away.
At 4:30 o'clock the great dam at Feltville
gave way, and the rush of the water down
the valley proved too much for the little
Green Brook, so that the torrent divided and
part of it made its way to Cedar Brook. This
brook flows through the choicest resident
portion of Plainfleld, and the elegant houses
there were badly damaged. An area in the
town covering three square miles was entirely
submerged.
At 5:40 Tier's dam in Green Brook gave
way, precipitating a great body of water
through the center of the town. This brook
divides the two counties of Somerset and
Union, and where it runs through the town
is built entirely over. When the water, in a
great torrent, rushed down the stream and
found its way blocked by buildings it turned
Into the street. Somerset street became a
raging flood, and where the brook was
bridged the street was washed out badly.
Many small wooden buildings were washed
away and demolished.
Several houses situated along the brook
were flooded and the inhabitants compelled
to move in short order. Frenche's mill and
carriage factory were threatened with destruction.
All the cellars and first floors of
the stores in Somerset street were flooded and
the damage to property was great.
Host of the houses were occupied when the
water came rushing down, and the greatest
alarm prevailed among the occupants, who
felt sure that the fate of the people of Johnstown
was about to overtake them. The
creams of the women could be heard above
the noise of the torrents, and scenes such as
have never been witnessed in that part of the
country before were enacted.
So far as known, at least seven dams were
carried away. The last one to go was that
neav Cadmus's mill below Plainfleld. The
mill was reported to be wrecked.
Bloomfleld, N. J., especially its business
centre, is a wreck from the great flood. The
second river dam at Fritz Mill, near the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Depot, has given way and the land for two
miles around was submerged. Stores and
residences were flooded and thousands of dollars'worth
of property destroyed. John P.
Scherff, druggist, lost $3000 worth of drugs
and other trticles; Robert M. Stiles, feed
merchant, is also a heavy loser, while nearly
all on the north side of Glenwood avenue
have lost from $500 upward each. One or
two lives were reported lost.
The breaking of Fritz's Dam on Parrow
Brook, near Orange, flooded and entirely destroyed
Eppley's Park, which was recently
laid out at a cost of $40,000. The damage in
Essex County will amount to over $100,000.
Reports from Morris County intimated that
even greater damage lias been done there.
The worst effects of the storm were felt in
the Orange Mountains, however, and in the
towns and villages lying at their eastern
base. All the ponds and brooks on the
mountains contained moro water than
usual at this time of the year be
cause of the unprecedented rains or
41m past few weeks. This downpour
overflowed them and atone time early in the
evening disasters were feared in Milburn,
M"plewood1 Wjoining and South Orange, as
the reservoir of the Orange "Water Works
was unusually full, and it was feared it would
burst. In this reservoir the waters of several
mountain streams are dammed up for futuro
use, as drink water in Orange, East Orange,
West Orange and South Orange. lis is 300
feet above nigh water mark, and about two
zxiil as and a half west of South Orange, the
elevation of which is about 175 feet.
<: In South Orange several buildings, includ,
ing the postoflice, were carried away, and
350 barrels of flour were washed out
? of one storehouse. In Orange Valley
the water was up to the second-story
windows, and great damage has been dono
to the stock in the numerous hat factories
there. People were compelled to paddle
around on planks and to swim in order to
reach places of safety on high ground.
Rutherford, N. J., was flooded badly and
large portions of three of the prominent
streets were washed out entirely.
Several prominent stroets at Cailstadt,
W.J. ,* were turned into mill-raoe3 and will be
impassible until repaired, targe portions of
the sidewalks were carried away. Passaic
also came in lor her share of the cloudburst.
At Hackensack many of the prominent
thor?Tlghfares were entirely washed out and,
made impassable. The Hackensack River
had risen considerably and many of the cellars
in the lower portion of the town were
fi6oded.
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badly. The finest streets in the town were
totally ruined by the torrents. Cellars were
flooded and great holes and ditches made in
several private gardens. The storm, on the
whole, was the heaviest that has visited those
points for twelve years.
Landslides and washouts occurred on nearly
all tho main railroads in New Jersey and
tie movement of trains was stopped.
TWO MURDERERS HANGED,
Dramatic Scenes On a Scaffold in the
( Louisville (Ky.) Jail.
i'Charles Dilger and Harry Smart, murderers,
were hanged at 6:04 o'clock in the morning in
the jail yard at Louisville, Ky.
i At the conclusion of the religious service
Bmart and Dilger bade goodby to all the turnkeys.
They then took positions on the trap.i
Smart laughed as he stepped upon tho fatal
door. Deputy Sheriff Hikes pinioned them
with leather bands at 6 KM o'clock exactly,
and both men shot down through the trap. 1
; Smart turned round and probably died instantly,
but Dilger slipped through the noose,
the rope catching him over the chin at the
lower teeth.
i He was seemingly unhurt and was drawn i
*rp by the rope until his shoulders came
tnrough the trap, when the deputies took him <
by the arms and pulled him upon the scaffold.
Anew rope was brought into service, and
when the noose was adjusted Dilger asked: ,
^TThat's the matter?" When he was told, ]
he said: "This shows I should not die" He
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jby making two nops. The drop was again
iforung, and at 6:09 he was strangled to j
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STARTING ILLINOIS MINEBS !
Eighty Tons of Provisions and Supplies
Sent From Chicago. 1
Mayor Cregior, Congressman Frank Lawler
and other members of the Chicago Relief
Committee left with eighty tons of provisions
and supplies for the starving (
locked-out coal miners of Spring Val- (
ley, HI. There are about 2000 idle miners in
the district, making, with their families,
about 6000 persons in need. The arrival of
the train thero during the afternoon was <
greeted with great demonstrations of J
joy. Everywhere there were evidences
of extreme poverty. Men, woman
and children wore scantily clad in the cheap- 1
est materials, and there was a groat dearth bt i
footgear among them. Their pinched faces J
told unmistakably of hunger. Tho miliars 1
have been locked out nearly three months
and were on the verge of starvation. <
t
The OO^QOO East End, London^ inhabits nta i
are all poor, and 111000 of'thejnare homela&
ana cannot urovide for a mw aheed. 1
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Ex-United States Senator Stephen w
Doksev has been arrested in New York citj
at the instance of the Nevada Bank of Sai
Francisco, Cal., because of his failure to paj
a judgment of $4525.08.
Five Paterson (N. J.) breweries, Kat:
Brothers, Hinchliffe Brothers, Braun Broth
ers, Sprattler & Mennett and James A
Graham have been sold to an English syndi
cate for $2,380,000.
Assistant Engineer Charles Gr. Tal
cott, of the United Stages ship Atlanta, committed
suicide in New York harbor, in the
bathroom of the ship by shooting himseli
through the head. No cause for the suicidt
is known.
Charlemagne Tower, who went to th<
Pennsylvania anthracite coal regions from
New York years ago when a poor and un
known lawyer, died a few days ago of pa
ralysis at his simmer home, at Yvaterville,
N." Y., aged eighty-one years. He was
worth 820,000,000.
The New York commission dry goods flnr
of Lewis Brothers & Co. has failed, witl
liabilities placed at $4,200,000. "Hie assets arc
said to be sufficient to cover all indebtedness.
Cornelius N. Bliss is the assignee.
Mrs. "William Irwin, of Washington,
Penn., and her three-year-old son were killed
by a train at Elwood's crossing.
The Richmond Paper Company of East
Providence, R. I., has failed for $800,000.
English syndicates are said to be trying
to buy New York dry goods stores and Newark
(N. J.) leather factories.
The new Hamburg-American twin-screw
steamer Columbia has arrived in New York
harbor after sailing from the Needles, England,
to Sandy Hook?3100 miles?in as
days, twenty-one hours and thirty-seven
minutes. That is the best time ever made
by an ocean steamship over that course.
General John Kilpatrick, one of th?
most conspicuous figures in political circles in
Pennsylvania, died at his home in Harbor
Creek, Penn., at the age of sixty-eight. He
stood almost eight feet high. 'j
The United States gunboat Yorktown returned
to New York from a cruise at sea,
undertaken to test the ship's strength and
stability and the effectiveness of her main
battery. The results were highly satisfactory.
A cyclone, followed almost immediately
by a terrific rain storm, visited Worth Wilbraham,
Massachusetts, doing considerable damage
to property. The otrth was torn up,
plowing a furrow fifteen feet wide for a
long distance. It threw water fifty feet high.
Public thoroughfares were badly damaged
in many sections of western Massachusetts.
Laurel, Del., and the surrounding country
have been visited by a disastrous storm,
which continued with uninterrupted fury for
two days. Small wooden bridges across the
streams and fences have been washed away,
and fields and orchards ruined.
John Ireland, a well-known New Yorker,
who for years has kept a popular restaurant
on Lispenard street, was robbed of $43,000
in securities while a patient in Chambers
Street Hospital
E. & A. E. Batcheller, of Boston, Mass.,
one of the largest boot and shoe firms in the
country, have assigned. Their liabilities are
$1,250,000.
Edward Styjles, son of Dr. D. W. Styles,
and Captain Philip H. Wagner, both of Buffalo,
N. Y., were drowned while boating.
McKean & Appleton, shoe manufacturers,
of Salem, Mass., have failed, their estimated
liabilities being between $65,000 and
?75,000.
In Ulster County, N. Y., a tornado destroyed
several houses, and three persons
were badly hurt, one.of them fatally.
Sonth and "West.
The yield of spring wheat in Minnesota
and Dakota is placed &i 60,000,000 bushels.
Jess Oglejias', a young man, shot and
killed his sweetheart, Miss Madge Smith at
Xenia, Ind., and then killed himself.
Joe Cook and SolDorsey, two colored men
of Trenton, La., quarreled after a church
meeting and killed each other.
The Ohio Prohibitionists have nominated
Rev. J. B. Helwig, of Springfield, for Governor.
Thb> North Dakota Constitutional Convention
decided to submit the prohibition question
to popular vote, and the Constitutional
Convention at Olympia, Washington, has
approved the taxation of churches, private
schools and charitable institutions.
Two little sons of Fredi Droenke were
killed while playing on the railroad tracks
atElmhurst, 111.
James Kelly, (colored), who assaulted Mrs.
Peter Crow, wife of a section boss, was taken
from jail and hanged to a bridge at Paris,
Ky., by a mob.
W. T. Davis, who for three years has been
the Secretary of the Tennessee State Wheel,
a farmers' association, mysteriously left
Nashville after confessing in a letter to officers
of the organization that he was short
?2000 in his accounts and intended to commit
suicide.
An English syndicate has purchased seventy-eight
grain elevators in the Van Deusen
system m the Northwest.
SftTCH damage was caused by storms in the
Northwest; excessive rains threatened to
ruin the wheat in shock.
Tom Bowling (colored) was hanged in
the jail at Baton Rouge, La., for the murder
of Philip Walsh (white). Charlss Sellars.
who murdered Bunyan Adams in Richland
Parish, La., was hanged at Raville, La..
and.Frank Blunt, a colored desperado, was
hanged at Voldosto, Ga., for the murder of
Willis Miller, also colored.
Colonel E. A. Jones, Surgeon-General of
Ohio and a prominent resident of Cincinnati,
was found in a manhole, murdered. His colored
servant has confessed to the murder.
Csart.es 8. Crtsler, a prominent lawyer
of Independence, Ma, is a defaulter to
the amount of $50,000. He has fled.
The joint commission, between the two
Dakotas at Bismarck, has reached an agreement,
North Dakota, agreeing to pay South
Dakota $42,500 to square accounts.
Five railroad hands were reported to have
lost their lives by an explosion of dynamite
twelve miles west of Wabash, Ind.
In Elk Township, Clayton County, Iowa,
Wesley Elkins, but a little more than eleven
vpars nf ftrrp mnrrfArAfi hi?: fntViflr m.r?r? of^rv.
mother.
The Cannon Fruit Commission and the
Wichita Wholesale Grocery Company were
burned out in Wichita, Kan. Loss, $170.D00.
The five men accused of complicity in the
murder of Dr. Cronin?Cougnlin, Beggs,
Woodruff, Kuenze and O'Sullivan?were arraigned
in Judge Horton's court in Chicago.
All pleaded not guilty.
Thb steamboat Tolchester on her way
from Baltimore, Md., to Deals Island, ran
down a sail boat. There were five persons
in the boat, three of whom, Mary Kalb,
Mary Wiener and John Bitz, were drowned.'
The signature of Whit* Cloud, the leading
Chippewa Chief, has been appended to an;
agreement by which 8,000.000 acres of his
tribe's reservation will be thrown open to
settlement. His signing ends the labors of
the Commissioners.
Field fires have burned twelve dwellings
and killed numerous cattle and horses m
Santa Barbara County, Cal. Loss, $50,000.
Forest fires have just destroyed a vast
amount of property along the Missouri
River in Montana. An area of over four
miles was laid waste near Chico, Cal. Several
mining camps and a quantity of timber
were burned at Lost Gulch and Gunnison,
in Colorado.
Mrs. Snodgrass and her two children
svere drowned at Rockford, Ark., while
fording the White River.
Washington.
The Secretary of the Navy has awarded
the contract for furnishing 428 tons of steel
Jor the new cruiser Mlune to the Linden Steel
Company of Pittsburg for $34,753.
The contract with the Union Iron works,
jf San Francisco, Cal., for the construction
}f a coast defence vessel has been signed by
Secretary Tracy. The contract price is $700,XX).
Secretary Windom has received a letter
trom Mr. C. W. Arnold declining for private
reasons the office of Collector of Internal
Revenue for the district of Georgia, to which
io was appointed a few days ago.
President Harrison has approved the
changes in the civil service regulations
ipplied to the railway mail service recomnended
by the Civil Service Commissioners,
The count of the cash and securities in the
United States Treasury, incident to the
transfer of the office from Mr. Hyatt to Mr.
Huston, bus been completed. The amount
reported on band aggregated over #700,000,000
in gold, silver and paper, and was all ac"
counted for.
i The retirement of Major Alexander
r Sbarpe, of Washington, on account of age
reduces the niimber of paymasters of the
United States army to thirty-two, leaving
the quota three in excess of the number fixed
by the act of 1884.
The Civil Service Commission has decided
to exempt from examination clerks on
steamboats who also act in the capacity of
" postal clerks.
j The President designated General MacFeely
| as Acting Secretary of War in Secretary
5 Proctor's absence.
; | Foreign.
t The Parnell Commission in London hasad.
journed until October 24.
The revolt in Crete is spreading. Risings
, are threatened at Sphakia, RetLmo, Milata
5 and Sidera.
The Yellow River has again burst ita
i banks in Shantung, China, inundating an imi
mens? extent of country. There is twelve
> feet of water throughout ten large Govermental
districts. The loss of life and property
is'incalculable. The Government authorities
at Pekin are dismayed.
i Sir John Henry Puleston, Member of
English Parliament for Davenport, gave a
; dinner in the House of Commons to Robert
T. Lincoln, the United States Minister, and
Chauncey M. Depew, of New York.
General Boulanger will be a candidate
for the Councils-General in ninety-two cantons
in France.
A tornado in Hungary, Transylvania, and
Bukovina swept over several thousand square
miles of territory. Hundreds of persons were
killed, the crops were destrored, and enormous
damage was done to houses and
churches. The districts of Grosswondem,
Szegedin, and Mohacs were completely
1 ravaged.
Thomas . T. World and his daughter
Lillie were drowned at Toronto, Canada, by
the swamping of their boat in a heavy sea.
The official report of the crops in Galicia,
Silisia, Bohemia and Moravia is unfavorable.
In the Tyrol the crops are unusually good,
while favorable reports are made of the remainder
of the Alp and Karst country. Beet
root is promising, but rape is in poor condition.
Me. Sexton, member of Parliament and
Lord Mayor of Dublin, IrelandL complains to
, the State Department at Washington, that
President Harrison's letter, thanking Dublin
for the empathy expressed with the Johnstown
su^erors, had been opened in transit
and the official seal defaced.
The United States revenue cruiser Rush
recently seized the British schooner Black
Diamond, while sealing in the Behring Sea.
Dr. Tanner, member of the British Parliament
for Cork, Ireland, was sentenced at
Tipperary to one month's imprisonment for
assaulting Police Inspector Stephens in May
last. When judgment was pronounced he
cried out in the dock: "I defy you. The magistracy
are the real criminals." For this outbreak
three months was added to his sentence.
The Japanese town of Kumamoto on the
island of Kiou Siou has been destroyed by an
earthquake. A great number of people perished.
Sixty more dervishes have been killed in a
skirmish with the British forces in the
Soudan.
The Shah of Persia arrived in Paris from
England. He was received by President
Oarnot.
San Luis, a village near Santiago, Cuba,
has been visited by a disastrous fire. Sixty
houses were destroyed and two children were
burned to death.
Later election returns from Paris show
that General Boulanger was elected in twenty-three
cantons. A Boulangist organ, ac*
" ? A * *- 1 f _ is r\f\f\ AAA
cuses tne government oi iaasuymg o,uw,uuu
voting appers. >
LATER NEWS.
The bill to move the State capital of New
Hampshire from Concord to Manchester was
killed in the Legislature by a big majority.
Ex-Untted States Senator E. H. Rollins,
of New Hampshire, is dead, in his
si-*y-fifth year. He had been twice Speaker
ot the New Hampshire House of Representatives;
was elected to Congress thrice, and in
1877 was chosen to the United States Senate.
Fred Farr, aged twenty-fiv?, an engineer
on the Carthage and Adirondack Railroad,
killed his wife at Clayton, N. Y., and then
committed suicide.
John L. Sullivan, the prize fighter, was
arrested in New York city by Inspector
Byrnes at the request of Governor Lowry, of
Mississippi, and was held at Police Headquarters
while awaiting the action of
Governor Hill.
A sawmill boiler exploded at Golden
Gate, 111., instantly killing Frank Peters, a
son of the proprietor, and fatally injuring
Joe Wallace and William Fox.
Tom Talbot, a white man, was lynched
at Meridian, Miss., by about sixty men, for
an uuurageuub uosuuiu ujkjuu <x iulu iccu-jccuold
white girl.
Misses Flanagan, McCabe and Farrell
were drowned at Ishpeming, Mich., while
trying to cross the Menominee River in a
boat.
Tee Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton express,
due in Cincinnati at 11 P. M., was
wrecked near Oxford, Ohio, and twelve persons
were reported killed.
Negotiations were completed at Omaha,
Neb., for the sale of all the breweries to a
European syndicate for $1,500,000.
"William L. Ross, a note-teller of the Nevada
Bank of San Francisco, Cal., robbed
the institution of $95,000and fled to Victoria,
British Columbia, where he was arretted.
The Postoffice Department has received
the resignation of Postmaster Paul, of Milwaukee,
whose administration of the office
was recently severely criticised by the Civil
Service Commission.
Ex-Senator Albert Daggett, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., has received the contract for supplying
the Government with postal cards during
the next four years. The contract involves
between $700,000 and $800,000.
Secretary Tracy has ordered a Government
vessel to go to Arenas Key, Yucatan,
to rescue three American sailors who were
left there to care for the property of the
company working the guano beds as their
limited supply of provisions is by this time
exhausted.
Sir John 1Thompson, Canadian Minister of
Justice, signed the warrant for the extradition
of Burke, the alleged murderer of Dr.
Cronin. Ho was taken to Chicago for trial.
Two deserters from the Mexican army
were captured by mounted soldiers fifty
miles from Ensenado, Mexico. The prisoners
were compelled to follow their captors on
foot at a rapid pace to Ensenado, where on
their arrival both fell dead from exhaustion.
A machine gun exploded on board the
French training frigate Couronne at Hyeres,
France. Eight persons were killed and
seventeen injured.
Thirty persons were killed and eighty injured
by the recent earthquake on the island
of Kiu-Siu, Japan. I
The German squadron, escorting the Emperor
William to England, sailed from Wilhelmshaven.
i
The Italian war office has decided to tr]
the mobilization of a hundred thousand me^
in the autumn. The grand maneuvers wil j
be given up, and the whole country will b? :
convulsed with this tremendous experiment,
which will cost S3,000.000. A large part ol
these troops will be taken from the militia, i
so as to test the country's readiness for warIT
is stated that both Germany and Austria
have conveyed to ex-King Milan their i
desire that he return to Servia and .assume su- <
preme power again as a check to Russian in- j
trigue.
C ' I
j A WORLD'S FAIR IN 1892.
Four-hundredth Anniversary of
the Discovery of America. .
-. ,
Important Action Taken by the
Citizens of New York City.
Successful meetings of the Chamber of
Commerce, the Mayor's committee and the
Spanish-American Association took action
In New York city to formulate plans for
holding a World's Fair there in 1692 to celebrate
the four-hundredth anniversary of the
discovery of America.
At 8:15 o'clock the gentlemen who had been
Invited to confer with the Mayor began to assemble
in the Governor's room, and by 3:S0
there was hardly standing room. Chairs to
the number of 110 had been provided, but
these were inadequate to accommodate all
those present.
It was a big gathering, and it was unanimously
in favor of having the biggest fair
the world has ever seen in 1893 in New York.
All the banks wore represented by their
Presidents and directors. Railroad Presidents
were as abundant as at a meeting
of the Trunk Line Association. Merob
if f.lia full roll
ULLCUlbO AiA/UUUW ^ row AMM - ^?
of the Chamber of Commerce were
present to answer to their names. There
were workingmen representing as many
trades and industries as a national convention
of the Knights of Labor or the American
Federation of Labor. There were representatives
of all the industries, professions,
businesses and trades of New York city.
They were all there, the heads of firms, the
men whose names are as well known in
London and San Francisco as they
are in New York. Billions of dollars
of capital were present in the men who
control the railroads, the steamboats, the
real estate, the hotels, the manufactures and
the trade of the city. The assemblage proved
the unanimity and enthusiasm of all the citizens
of New York about the World's Fair
which is to be held in 1892.
The Mayor, in opening the discussion on
the subject of the proposed quadri-centennial
in 1892, said:
"I have invited you to this meeting in order
that you, as representative citizens of
this great metropolis, may consider the desirability
of commemorating the discovery
of this continent Dy holding
an interactional exposition in this,
the chief city of the WWern Hemisphere.
This event which we intend to commemorate
is the discovery of a new world. Its
importance is not to be measured by
a mere addition to the sum of geographical
knowledge; its fruits are observable in
the happiness and prosperity of a nation
which has maintained free institutions
while it has acquired boundless wealth, and
in the general improvement which the success
of one government has wrought in the condition
of mankind throughout the world.
"The city of New York is the capital of
this new world, whose achievements are but
a Tyromisa of a still more glorious future, and
in this, the most powerful and populous of
the cities of America, I think it eminently
desirable that we celebrate the triumph of
Columbus by a World's Fair, which will
eclipse all former industrial expositions."
Mayor Grant was then unanimously made
Permanent Chairman and William M. Spear
Secretary.
Mr. Charles G-. Haven suggested tJiat the
name of the committee bo the Committee for
the International Exposition of 1893. The
matter of the appointment of committees was
immediately taken up. Controller Myers
offered the following:
Whereas, It is fitting that there should be
a suitable recognition of the four-hundredth
anniversary of the discovery of this continent,
such anniversary occurlngin 1892; and
Whereas, Public opinion indicates that an
international exposition will most satisfy and
meet the requirements of the occasion and
afford a desirable opportunity for foreign
countries to testify to good will in our national
regard; and
Whereas, In its location, through which it
holds the key to commerce, through its many
and varied industries, through its resources
of capital, through its unlimited facilities for
the reception and entertainment of visitor^
through Its liberality in me promotion ux
all that constitutes national success,
through its acknowledged supremacy as the
metropolis of the Western "world, New York
is indisputably the proper site whereupon
such an international exposition should be
held; therefore, be it
T Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting
that an international exposition shall be
held in the city of New York in the year 1892
and that all present do pledge themselves to
devote their best energies to the promotion of
the success of such exposition; and
Resolved, That a general committee of
twenty be appointed by the Mayor, whose
duty shall be to formulate detailed plans for
organization of such an exposition and report
at a public meeting to be called by the
chairman when the committee shall be ready
to report.
Charles S. Smith offered the following substitute
for the closing resolution:
Resolved, That the chairman appoint the
following committees, namely,one on finance,
one on legislation, one on permanent organization
ana one on site and buildings, each to
consist of twenty-five members; and that the
chairman be allowed such reasonable time as
he deems proper to select and name such
committees.
Mr. Smith's motion for the appointment
of the four committees was earned unanimously.
The Mayor and Secretary Speai
were made ex-ofncio members of the foui I
committees, and the meeting adjourned subject
to the call of the Chair.
The New York Chamber of Commerce, at
its meeting the same afternoon, appointed a j |
committee of sixty membsrst o co-operate <
with the National, State and city authorities .
in regard to taking measures for the holding
of a World's Fair in 1892. (
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THE WHIPPING- POST.
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A Man Whipped in Maryland Under I
the Law for Wife Beating.
A special from Hagerstown, Md., says: I
Tho first whipping administered in this county
since the passage of the act of 1882for wife j
beati occurred hero this afternoon. Thepris- I
oner was David C. Herbert, a resident of tho j
Carfoss district, this county. Herbert is a tall i J
well-proportioned white mou, while his wife, '
who maae the complaint is a fragile, delicate- !
looking woman. At tho trial before Justice 1
Bitner it was proved that Herbert, while 1
intoxicated last Friday, beat aud choked his I
<rife into unconsciousness. While she was 1
in that condition he grabbed a char, swear
lug LllUb ilO l?ll?UUeU l/J ban UCI. JLlw >?oo piv
vented from carrying bis threat: into execution
by his son wresting the chair from him.
Herbert has been guilty of the same offenco
several times before, and the Justice determined
to impose a salutary restraint upon
his future conduct by sentencing him to re- ,
ceive fifteen lashes and au imprisonment of L
five days in jail.
The Sheriff was notified and at once, made !
preparations to carry the sentence into execution.
A thick piece of leather two feet in 3
length, tapering to the end, and joined to a
wooden handle, was selected for the lash. ,,
The prisonor after being stripped to the waist, *
was mado to stand handcuffed to the bare
of a door in the jail. One of the >
deputies counted the strokes while
the Sheriff laid them on with ?
force and in quick succession. During tho
whipping the prisoner writhed repeatedly,
and savaral moans escaped him. After the
last stroke had fallen it was found that a portion
of the prisoner's back was covered with !
welts, and his right side, which the end of the
strap had lasboa, was badly discolored, and ?
in several placss ridges had been raised. ]
MANY MILLIONS SAYED, 1
Statement of the Bond Purchases 0
Made by the Government. ^
The United States bond purchases to data ^
cinder the circular of April 17, 1888, were
5152,215,200, and cost the Government $170,- 1
137,529. The $50,675,350 4s purchased cost 1
&72,811,52S, and the S95,539,850 iy~s cost$103,320.000.
The following statement of United States
bonds purchased from August 3, 1887, to and
including July 27,1889, has been made at the
Treasury Department:
Amtpnr- 4 percent. 4#pi.-sent. Total 1
chased.. $01,741,100 $114,707,430 $170,538,650
3ost 79,153,213.03 124,211,939.60 203,841,252.03 ;
3ost at
natality 108,718,486 130,475.783.31 2S9.2&1.222.31 1
Saving.. S9.6ft5.272.97 6,257,696,71 35,922,909,ec 1
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AN AMERICAN PRINCESS,
Miss Gwendoline Caldwell la Engaged
to Jprince Mnrat.
The recent report of the engagement in
Paris of Miss Gwendoline Caldwell, of New
York city, to Prince Murat, a grandson of
Marshal Murat, who was one of the officers
of Napoleon I., has been confirmed by a cable
dispatch from Miss Caldwell.
Miss Caldwell is very well known in New
York city, says the Sun, for her gifts to Boman
Catholic enterprises. She contributed
HISS GWENDOLINE CALDWELL.
$800,000 toward the fund to build the proposed
Catholic University of America, now
Doing built in Washington. Her sister followed
this gift up with a donation of $50,000
for her share of the Caldwell estate.
The coming American Princess is petite in
figure and not so noticeable in social gathering,-s
as her sister, Miss Linda. She is fond
of travel, and has spent a good deal of time
in Europe. When in this country she lives
during the summer at the Caldwell villa at
Newport. She is at present in Paris with
her sister and Miss Donnelly, a relative, who
always accompanies them m their travels.
Miss Caldwell's mother was a Kentucky
belle of the Breckinridge family. Her father
was the son of an English theatrical manager,
who made a fortune in building gas
houses in Chicago. St. Louis and Mobile.
A BOYAL WEDDING-.
Earl Fife Married to the Princu
of Wales's Eldest Daughter.
Earl Fife has been duly married to Princess
Louise, the eldest daughter of the Prince
of Wales. The ceremony took place in the
private chapel of Buckingham Palace, London.
This was the first marriage that ever
took place in the chapel, which & small, and
the number of guests was, therefore, limited.
Notwithstanding the rain, the route to the
palace was crowded with spectators. There
was a vast concourse of people opposite the"
palace. The Prince of Wales was enthusiastically
cheeked.
Upon reaching the chapel the Queen was
escorted to the seat prepared for her, while
the other royal personages took seats on
either side of the altar. The Earl of Fife, accompanied
by his groomsman, Mr. Horace
Farqahar, took his position at the altar rails
and awaited the coming of his bride.
The Prince of Wales, with the bride and
Princesses Victoria and Maud of Wales, and
members of the household, arrived at the palace
just before noon. Thoy wore received by
the Lord Steward and conducted to the Bow
Library, where the bride was joined bv the
bridesmaids, who were Princesses Victoria
and Maud, of Wales, Princess Louise, of
Schleswig-Holstein, Princess Victoria,of Teck,
Countess Feodoro Gleichen, Countess Victoria
Gleichen and Countess Helena Glexchen.
The clergymen officiating were the Archbishop
of Canterbury, the Bishop of London,
the Dean of Windsor, aomestic chaplain to the
Queen; the Rev. F. A. J. Hervey, domestic
chaplain to the Prince of Wales, and the Eev.
T. Teignmouth Shore. A choral service was
sung by the choir of the Chapel Royal St.
James. A feature of the service waB the
singing of a special anthem, entitled "A Perfect
Love," composed by Mr. Joseph Baraaby.
After the benediction had been pronounced
the Queen kissed the bride ana cordially
greeted the groom.
On arriving at Sheen House the newly
wedded pair were enthusiastically welcomed.
They passed between files of Venetian masts
doccrated with floral festoons. The path was
covered with carpet, upon which wild flowers
were strewn by girls dressed in white.
Princess Louise Victoria Alexandra Daglnar
is the eldest daughter and third child
of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Her
Royal Highness was born at Marlborough
House on February 20, 1867, and is a Lady
of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India.
The Earl of Fife (Alexander William
George Duff) and Baron Skene, of Skene, in
the United Kingdom, Viscount Macduff and
Baron Brnco, of Kilbryde, County Cavmn, in
Ireland, was born on jmo vera dot iu, iwm#. ne
succeeded his father (James, the fifth Earl)
on August 7, 1879, and was created an Earl
of the United Kingdom in 1885.
BOULANGER'S FALL.
France's Whilom Idol Meets a Crushing
Defeat at the Foils.
Returns from the elections in France for
Councils-General had been received from
L195 cantons on the day after the election,
rhe Republicans have been successful in 748,
;he Conservatives in 419 and the Boulangists
in 12. There will have to be second ballots
in 149 cantons.
The defeat of Boulanger was more crushing
and complete than even the most sanguine
followers of the Government had anticipated.
The most rabid adherents of the
General admit that he has ceased
to be a power in French politics.
They are endeavoring to discover the
muse for the revulsion of public feeling. It
is agreed on all sides that had Boulanger
stood his ground and submitted
bo trial the result would have been
Ear different. There is no doubt
that the flight of Boulanger was looked
upon by the masses as little snort of cowardice,
especially so in the case of one whose
whole political capital consisted of his supposed
oravery and disregard for personal
langer.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
o a tmtv a t. Manwisg is eiehtv-one vears of
geQueen
Victoria's health is said to be failng.
President Harrison, it is said, smokes a
ozen cigars a day.
Marshal MacMahon, of France, is now
a his eighty-first year.
Princess Victoria, of Teck, is said to be
he belle of the British royal family.
Frederick Douglass, the colored orator
nd Minister to Hayti, is worth $800,000.
John Ttler, son and private secretary of
'resident Tyler, still lives at Washington.
Buffalo Bill's social success in Paris
leases hiui rvore than his financial success.
Ex-King Milan, of Servia, is expected
hortly in Paris, where ho intends to reside.
Bill Nte's income from his humorous
writing and lecturing amounts to nearly $40,00
a year.
Lucas Silva, who was a doctor in the in- j
[ependcnce army of Bolivia, has reached his
20th year.
The King of Greece will probably be the
mly European sovereign to visit the Paris
Exhibition.
The youngest college professor occupying |
;he full chair of an important school in any i
American institution of standing is believed
:o be W. ILBocock, whoisnowinhistwenfcyifth
year and ha3 just been elected to the
hairs of both Greek and Latin in the University
of Georgia.
General Sherman and party recently
ascended to the top of Pike's Poak in Colorado.
While the carriage was being loaded a
photographer attempted to take a picture of
aim, but the General turned his back, with
the remark that photographers were a nuisance.
On the top of the peak the General i
sat on a rock and ate a cheese sandwich, 1
while the others clustered around him ana !
related reminiscences.
A DELUGE IN CHICAGO.
The Most Terrific Storm that
Ever Occurred There.
Nearly a Score of Lives Lost and .
Much Property Destroyed,
One of the fiercest storms of recent years .
burst over Chicago, 111., at 6 o'clock in the ;
evening. The day had been sultry, with
scarcely any wind. When the sun went '
down liie sky became overcast with greenish
clouds, and darkness came on with incredible
speed. Shortly after 0 o'clock rain be- j
gan falling in torrents. Great streams
of water pourred into the basements, driving '
hundreds of people into the streets and ruin- <
lng an immenso amount of property stored
in the down town stores. The electrical
display was appalling. Scores of objects <
were struck by lightning, and the roar of the
thunder was deafening. Seven alarms of
fire were rung within fifteen minutes.
The water poured into the Lasalle street
tunnel in such volume that passengers on the i
cable cars were compelled to stand upon the i
Beats. In the southwestern portion of the
i city it is estimated that 1000 persons were \
driven from their homes. The Wisconsin
Central tracks wore submerged, the water
being so deep on the tracks that it entered
the nxa boxes of the locomotives.
The signal service officer said that a suo* i
cession of thunder storms had swept over the
M4rrr TVjatT noma frnm f.ViA "WVxrfc nnH Pflrh
was mora severe than its predecessor. At 9
o'clock the water was falling in blinding
sheets, with an almost continual roar of thunder.
Some of the big down-town gas mains
were flooded, and many merchants did business
by the aid of candles and lamps.
On the west side buildings were demolished,
trees uprooted and entire sidewalks
disappeared. Garfield Park was almost
bereft of foliaeo. There the wind devastated
a path of 400 feet in -width.
Four new brick buildings at Rockwell and
Sixteenth streets were demolished, and two
men who had sought refuge in the doorways
were crushed to death in the wreck. Two
large brick buildings on Twenty-first street
'Xillansed, fell on adjoining cottages and
' killed seven people, besides injuring six
others.
Two families were almost obliterated in
this disaster. James Lusk's cottage on Fifteenth
street was blown to pieces, but the
family miraculously escaped death. It
rained for three hours, and the clImaT camo
at 8:45, when all elements united and the
very foundations of the city were shaken.
Water poured into every basement and
drove thousands of poor people into the
street. In the police stations prisoners were
compelled to ding to the bars to escape t
drowning.
The fins in the Palmer and the Grand
Pacific were extinguished. Three feet of
water flooded the Clifton House basement, j
At the Chicago Opera House much of the ;
"Blue Beard" scenery was ruined.
Panics were narrowly averted in the
theatres where the electric lights ceased to
burn. Whole blocks beyond Western avenue
were under water and the wooden sidewalks
floated like rafts. Both the cable railways
were completely paralyzed and in theLasalle
street tunnel was a surging stream.
Hinman street officers saved Mrs. Chepeks
and six children in a basement by plunging
into four feet of water. Officer Thomas Dorgan
was dangerously injured by electrical
discharge and Maggie Austin was rescued
from a current on Lake street.
Scores of instances were reported next day
of casualties mainly by lightning, and a num
ber of the victims cannot recover. John
Hayes's house on Oakley avenue was demolished
and one son fatally hurt, three persons
being very seriously injured. Ernest Blocter
was Trilled on Sixty-sixth street.
Fires were innumerable, and #?0,000 damages
resulted from that cause. , Off at Hammond
three great packing houses succumbed
to flames, caused by lightning.
The police report fourteen persons dead
and twenty-five injured, three of them
fatally. In the Chicago Tribwie office the
stereotypers worked in water to thoir waiste.
So much sewage was returned from the river
by the back current that the Health Commissioner
advised the boiling of water before
drinking. The pecuniary loss was estimated
at $1,009,000.
The records of the local signal service
station show nothing approaching the deluge.
Prom 6:80 to 9:80 4 12-100 inches of rain fell.
Without going into figures it may be stated
that the volume of water which fell inside ol
the city limits would make a lake on which
could be floated the greatest navy in the
world. It was impossible to estimate the
damage with any degree of accuracy.
Hardly a house in the city escaped the fury
of the storm.
THE QTTEBNAL REVENUE.
A Total of $130,890,482 Collected
During the liast Fiscal Year.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mason
has made the following preliminary report of
the operations of the internal revenue service
for the fiscal year ended June 30 last: .
The total collections for the fiscal year
just ended were $180,895,433, against $124,326,475
the previous year, an increase of $6,568,057.
The cost of collection for the fiscal
year just ended will aggregate about $4,185,<)00,
exclusive of the amount expended for
the printing of internal revenue stamps,
whicn is paid from the appropriation, made
to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
The total receipts from the different objects
of taxation during the last fiscal year
were as follows: Prom spirits, $74,313,300,
an increase of $5,007,039 *
over the previous fiscal year; from tobacco,
$31,866,880, an ir crease of
$1,204,429; from fermented liquors,
$23,723,835, an increase of $899,617; from
oleomargarine, 3894,248, an increase of $30,108;
from banks and bankers, $6214, an increase
of $2011, and from miscellaneous, $91,069,
a decrease of $74,248.
Tho-following table shows the aggregate
collections of internal revenue by States dur*
lng the last fiscal year:
Alabama.... $92,762 Missouri....$7,730,603
Arkansas.... 120,719 Montana.... 162,640
California.. 2,097,013 Nebraska... 2,248,624
Colorado.... 294,116 N.Hampsh'e 469,851
Connecticut. 785,714 Now Jersey. 4,319,618
Florida 424,083 Now Mexico 59,063
Georgia 430,119 Now York..15,048,675
Illinois 31,007,419 N.Carolina. 2,467,150
Indiana.... 5,788,236 Ohio 11,566,726
Iowa 392,576 Oregon 226,524
Kansas.183,432 P'nsylvania. 8,520,793
Kentucky.. 16,910,814 S.Carolina. 81,722
Louisiana.. 632,009 Tennessee... 1,066,335
Maryland.,. 3,986,928 Texas 228,117
Massachut's 2,424,536 Virginia.... 3,303,62f>
Michigan.... 1,962,397 W. Virginia 782,663
Minnesota.. 1.877.796 Wisconsin.. 3.096,495
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
Merchandise Passing Through Our
tjusiom nouics uaai< J. uvm JL ?u.
The value of imports of merchandise during
the last fiscal year amounted to $745,127,470
and of exports to $742,401,799, an excess
of imports over exports of $2,725,677. Of our
exports the value of domestic merchandise
was $730,282,606 and the value of foreign merchandise
$12,119,193.
The total value of imports and exporls of
merchandise was $1,487,529,275, as against
$1,419,911,621 during the fiscal year 18JS8, ea
increase of $67,617,654.
The value of imports of merchandise
amounted to $745,127,476, as against $723,957,114
during the fiscal year 1888, an Increase
of $21,170,362.
The exports of merchandise amounted to
$742,401,799, as against $695,954,507 during the
fiscal year 1883, an increase of $46,447,292.
The value of exports of merchandise during
the last fiscal year wa3 larger than during 1
any other year since 1883, and was only exceeded
by the exports of 1881, 1882 and 18S3. 1
The value of imports of merchandise during
the last fiscal year was the largest in the history
o? our commerce, being larger than in i
the year 1SS2, when it amounted to $724,639,- i
574. _ i
The mackerel season of the Atlantic coast
has been very unsatisfactory thus far. The 1
fish have not "schooled" near the New Eng- 1
J and shore as yet, and very few of them have 1
"been taken. The consequence is that Ireland
is shipping a great many mackerel to this 1
counter, the fish being unusually plentiful i
on that coast. The sardine pack is also very <
light and altogether the fishing season Is not <
prosperous, . i
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HONEY BEE KEEPEBS. j
A Litigation Taken Up by the National
Association.
Among the *iriifain down re*,
cently at the adjourned General Term of
fcheFonrth Judicial Department, New York;'
was One of eztraordisaFy interest and im?
portance to thekeepers of boneybees throughout
the country. The litigation is entirely
novel in its features, and arose under the
following firyrrm etjinrvx.
John M. Olmstead and Robert 8. Bich
have fine residence* about fifty feet apart in
the village of Hobart, Delaware County, N.
Y. Olmstead is a banker, and Bicb is one oC
the largest bee keepers and honey producers
In the country, he haying over 150 gwanna .
in his apiaries. About twenty of time
swarms were kept in the recur of Rich'a -.
bouse, and were therefore in clofa 1
proximity to . Booker Olmstead's dwel-j
Sing. In July,. 1887, Banker Olmstoack
served a notice upon Rich, alleging that the'
tatter's bees were a nuisance and requiring;
him to remove the twenty mves from the
place where they were kept to some other
point where they would cease to be an annoyance.
Rich paid, no attention to the
warning, and thereupon Banker Ohnstead .
brought an action in the Supreme Court
against the bee keeper, asking $1200 in
damages for the annoyances already suffered
and for an injunction restraining the
defendant from keeping his bees in offensive*
proximity to the plaintiffs dwelling.
The case came on for trial at the October.
term of the Dataware County Circuit, at
Delhi, before Jnstiee Douglass Bo&rdman and
a jury. The National Bee Keepers' Asuocia/
tion, of which organization Mr. Rich ia a
member,recognising the far-reaching, impart- ".
anceof the case to the Interest it ropreseota" ?'
took up the defense of the alleged insect tree?
passers. On behalf of Banker Olmsteid it
was claimed that defendant's bee*
were vicious and offensive insectL
which had caused his household great
pain and annoyance by attacking
and stinging any member who ventured out)
of doors, and had also annoyed and injured
his horses and pet stock. The defense
pleaded a general denial of the alleged trespasses,
and also claimed that even if the trespasses
had been committed as charged, itwaa
impossible for the other side to identify the .
defendant's bees out of the countless swarms
Kept m uie ntugnuuruuiju tut u? actual marauders.
Much testimony was given pro and coo,
the trial lasting several days exerting
ereat interest among the bee keepers of Gengal
New York. Ale couraTfought?
case vigorously on both sides. The outcome
of the trial was that the jury found, that
the marauders came from the Rich hives^'
and that his apiary was a nuisance adcharged,
and awarded the plaintiff 9
cents damages and costs. Thereupon the court
issued a permanent injunction restraining. ~
the defendant from further matotimBE
nuisance to the annoyance of the plalritiffj
The defendant appealed from thfa judgment
to the General Term, which now hands down)'
a decision affirming the verdict of the court
below, with costs. Itis understood that the
National Bee Keepers' Association will continue
the fight by a further appeal to the
court of last resort : ;
WEST TIBGINIA FLOODS. i
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Details of the Disastrous Freshet on
the little Kanawha.
Farther details of disastrous flood fit Wirt
County, W.Va., have beenreceived. Thomas
Hughes, his wife and two children .'wars
drowned. r
Thomas Blade, who lived close to the
Hughes family, and who was drowned with
his wife, had wit recently been married.
A circus was showing on Tucker Creek
when the cloudburst struck that section. ,
The flood struck the show jusfr after the performance
began and tore the-canvas and
paraphernalia to atoms, utterly wrecking
and ruining the whole ooncera, carrying off )
horses, wagons and tents.
Miga d'AIma, who . performed on the
trapeze, was drowned. Borne employes also
lost their lives.
Saulsbury, on the Big Tigart River, is
virtually wiped out of existence.
Telephone reports show that, there was a t
terrible rain and flood in the upper waters Of
the uttie Jtuuawno. uungun mu
devastated, and crops, fences end
houses w?e washed ww*y during
the nirht. Several lives were reported
lost The river at Grantevflle -was reported
tobefltteen feet high. Bear Bon,' Kitchia :
County, suffered terribly. Tho loss is r*>
ported as not less than-1660. OOP.
THE LABOB VQBLD.
Wood-oabvxbs are enjoying good tiroes. 1 |
The strike of the Berlin bakers has colli
lapsed.
The Federation of Labor hastened anfighf H
hour primer. SB
Thz strike fever appears to have spreads# H
over the central portion of Enjrope. B
The custom of provid ing sick relief fund^ I
Is on the increase with trades unions. M
A mw gun factory isto be started In Fta*} |
enca, Mass., to employ about 400 men. ~
Mayor Habt, of Florence, Maw, has ajn B
propria ted $1000 for sports on Labor-Bay.
These are 172,000 persons engaged in tho I
manufacture of cotton goods in this conn try j H
About two-thirds of the States now haw I
bureaus for the collection of industrial stait I
tistics. M
Thohjls Mattisoh, a iionaon coacnmzuterj M
has written a treatise on the coaching oTap?
prentices. 9
James G. Blaine, Jr., son of the Secretary fl
of State, is now a fireman on a Maine Cew I
tral locomotive. I
In Russia then are sixty-seven fl
spinning mills, employing an aggregate ol B
115,000,000 spindles. K
Strikes of one kind and another arc ep? B
demic in England and Scotland on both a ~H
large and a small scale.
A movement is on foot for the formation H
of a national organization of the alo and I
porter brewery employes.
BRTfTTTT, Ayr.na in ^iffarant parte nf 'Rngfoti^ H
have lately received an advance in wages ol fl
one to two cents per honr. ag
The head roller fix a Pittsburg iron mil] H
makes fifty dollars per day, and his family II
rides behind a spanking team.' II
A roreign company representing capital. II
amounting to $10,000,000 is to establish an II
iron and steel plant at San Francisco. lfl
The New flnpinnh Boot and Shoe Lasterrf
Union, which was organized in December, H
1879, now has a membership of 10,000. 9|
Mr. R. Bellctgham has just retired from H
engine-driving on the Great Northern Kail
way (England), after forty years' service.
The board of public works and city conn* fl
til of Cincinnati nave adopted the eight-houii H
day for city laborers, with no reduction ol! fl
pay.
Reports from builders in the large cities . H
and small towns show that housebuilding fl
was never more active than it is so far in K
Mr. Powderly, of the Ejiights of Labor,' I
considers eight hours a day too long to work;
and inclines to Bon Franklin's four-hour
New Haves (Conn.) plumbers now worW I
eight hours a day for three months of the
year, and nine hours a day for the remaining
nine months. ' H
The New York State labor appropriation H
for this year allows $15,000 for the Board ofj
Arbitration, $30,000 for facto it inspection,;
and ?30,000 for the Bureau of Labor Statis- H
In New England the Saturday half-holiday H
movement is growing rapidly. Almost all ofi H
the largo manufacturing concerns in Massa-; H
chasetts and ilaine have adopted its praci H
In Sahl, Germany, and other places where! H
the manufacture of military arms is a H
specialty, the men take work home, and their MR
wives and children assist them sixteen or* H
eighteen hours a day. | H
The American Federation of Labor is H
pledged to strive to secure the adoption by H
all the States of laws prohibiting the employ
oient of children under fourteen years of aga H
in factories, mines or workshops. B
In Stoverstown, a village in Yorkshire,! H
England, there is a society of women barb?rsj H
numbering six members, and in Seavilleu H
about five miles from the village, a kindred'
society of five buxom women barbers.
The Italian laborers are largely given to H
the quaffing of sarsaparilla and ether light H
non-intoxicating beverages in tho hot season; B
if the year. Comparatively few of them in-< H|
lulge in beer or other ulcoholic liqucn; while* H
it work. _ v . _J