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\ ; i TilllS BOUGHT. Eleven Million Acres to be Thrown Open to Settlers. The Terms Upon Which the Indians Surrended Their Domain. Secretary Noble received the following telegram at the Interior Department in Washington, announcing the successful completion of the work of the Sioux Commission: Port Gates. John W. Noble, Secretary of the Interior, Washington: "We have won the fight. We will leave here to-morrow for Chicago. Will write you fully from Chicago. Charles Foster, Chairman. ' The commission, composed of ex-Governor Poster^ Major-General Crook and Hon. William TV araer, commenced their work among the Indians some two months ago. Their object was to secure the consent of two-thirds of the Sioux Indians, numbering 22,567, to a surrender of about one-half of their reservation of 21,000,000 acres of land to the United States Government, which it turn would throw it open to public settlement. According to the act of Congress under which the agreement was made, the unrelinquished portion of the Sioux Reservation is divided into six reservations, as follows: Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Lower Brule, Grow Creek, Pine Ridge and Rosebud. The land thrown open to settlement will aggregate about 11,000,000 acres and will be disposed of by the United States to actual settlers only, at the following rates: $1.25 . per acre for all lands taken within the first three years,after the act takes effect; 75 cents per acre for all lands disposed of within the succeeding two years, and 50 cents per acre | for the residue of the lands then undisposed of. All lands still open to settlement under the agreement at the end of ten years from the taking effect of the act shall be accepted by tho United States at 50 cents per ere, which amount shall be added to and credited to the Indians as part of their permanent fund. ; The act provides for furnishing the necessary seed to the Indians for two years, for which adequate appropriation ie made. In addition thereto tnure is to be set apart the sum of $3,000,000, which is to be deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Sioux Nation of Indians as a permanent fund, the interest of which at five per cent, per annra? is to be appropriated under the direc~"taon of the Secretary of the Interior to the cse of the Indians. After the Government has been reimbursed for the money expended f cr the Indians, under the provisions of the act the Secretary of the Interior may in his discretion expend, in addition to the interest of the permanent fund, not to exceed ten per cent, per annum of the principal of the fund in the employment of farmers and in the purchase of agricultural instruments, teams, etc., necessary to assist the Indians in agricultural pursuits. At the end of fifty years the fund is to be expended for the purpose of promoting education, civilization and self-support among the Indians, or otherwise distributed among them as Congress may determine. All the new reservations include the land in the vicinity of the agencies where the Indians are now living. The land to b* thrown open to settlement is not occupied at present by the Indians. The number of Indians on the reservation is SJ?,567. : The act provides that the agreement as now entered into must be submitted to Congress at its next session for ratification. In case the agreement is approved and no further legislation is enacted, the Secretary of i the Interior will proceed to carry into effect i the provisions of the law. A. T. Lea, an agent of tho Interior Depart- I ment, is now in Dakota, and has been ordered to proceed to take a census of the Indians with a view of ascertain- ] ing how many of them are ablo to support themselves and their phys-. ical capacity to work the land owned or occupied by them, either individually or | collectively; the value of the land, it6 near- I ness to market, its general productiveness and ! such other facts and circumstances as will as- ; gist Congress in determining now many ot the Indians are capable of seif-supporfc PROMINENT PEOPLE. I ?. Gout threatens Queen Victoria. . ! Dr. Talmage receives $500 a lector?. Zola is the best paid novelist in Franca. The King of Sweden has written a play. 4 ' Mrs. Benjamin Harrison weighs 1S7 ponnds. George M. Pullman is said to be worth $30,000,000. Sir G. B. Airt, the noted astronomer ia eighty-seven. The Earl of Dudley lost $50,000 at cards in Paris recently. Postmaster-General Wanaxaker's life is insured for $1,000,000. John G. Whittier, the poet, is roaming through the White Mountains. Baby McKee, the President's grandchild, tips the beam at nineteen pounds. The King of Italy has been limited by his physicians to ten cigarettes a day. King Kalakaua has an annual income of 170,000 a year, but he is continually hard up. Senator Beck, of Kentucky, is fond of hunting, and bags a good deal of game in the eourseof a year. The Prince of Wales is one of the best informed men in England. He rarely opens a book, but is always conversing with cultured people. EIing Menilek, the new ruler of Abyssinia, is a fierce looking man, dark, tall, thin and active, with piercing black eyes and a long dark beard. Chauncey M. Depew never writes a Speech, but usually spends a few moments in reflecting on his subject, jotting down a few headings in the process. ^ Pro^fessor Todd, of Amherst College, is vu i?au one vjrvv eminent oxpeiuLxuii w ouuuuwestern Africa to observe the total eclipse of Ihs son on December 22. It is proposed in Fremont, Ohio, to establish a school in honor of the late Mrs. Hayes, wife of ex-President Hayes. The school is to be given the name "Lucy Webb Hayes Seminary." . Congressman "Sunset" Cox is over sixty years of ago, although his wit and vivacity keep him young. Hia hair has become thin and gray, but his eye3 are as bright as ever. The Earl of Fife and the Princess Louise, who were recently married, are third cousins, both being great-great-grandchildren' of George IIL Their wedding presents were Valued at $1,000,000. ^-President Harrison, Secretary of the Treasury Windom and Cardinal Gibbons, Were the most prominent guests at the recent dinner given at Deer Park, Md., by ex-United States Senator Davis, of West Virginia. Thomas A.Edison has sailed for Europe for the purpose of getting a view of the xaris Exposition, and of the way in which his various inventions are displayed there. He is accompanied by his wife, who is the daughter of another inventor. . Senator Eustis, of Louisiana, is so fond of Washington that he spends most of his time there during his Congressional vacations. He is to be seen on Pennsylvania avenue^ attired in ilanneL aloaca. straw hat and Turaet leather shoes. * He is very fond of baseball. President Patton and ex-President McCosh, of Princeton, are to deliver addresses at Earrisville, in Bucks County, Penn., September 5, in commemoration ot the founding ol the "Log College" there in 1736, which was th? beginning of the educational work of thi Presbyterian Church in this country. Don Jose Zoreilla, who was recently crowned poet laureate of Spain, is a short deader old man, seventy-two years of age He has a fine head, with white "hair brushed back from the forehead. His eyes are large And dreamy, and his mouth is handsome 'His moustache and goatee give him a militarj appearance. President Harrison has a very peculiai complexion. It utterly defies the efforts ol ithosun to burn it. He spent a good deal ol tame in the open air at Deer Park anc paid no attention to shad;ng his face from the .sun'srays. In spite of this his complexion retained its peculiar pallor, and even the end ' of his nose showed no tinge of brown. j ) The total cantonal vote in France for the 'Councils General is as follows: General Boulanger, 158,000; republican Candida tea. 1,50(4* . COQi reactionist candidate*, 600^000. \ ? THE NEWSEPITOMIZED. : Eastern and Middle States. "W. P. JoHNRor? & Co., leather dealers of Boston, have failed with liabilities of $250,000. Six thousand cokers of the Coanellsville district of Pennsylvania have gone on strike. Four thousand ovens are idle. Horace D. Phillips, manager of the Pittsburg (Penn.) Baseball Club, has been declared insane. A riot occurred among 500 Italian railroad hands at Beaver, Penn., during which Antonio Costinello was killed, two Italians fatally injured, another shot in the leg and several, others badly beaten. The License bill was passed by the Rhode Island Legislature, after which the special session adjourned. George D. Penrose, one of the Auditors at the Philadelphia office of the Reading Railroad Company, was drowned while bathing at Atlantic City, N. J. While Horatio Fraser and his wife and two children were boating on the Pawtuxet River it Providence, R. I., the boat capsized and the children, aged two and one-half and four years, were drowned. ^ Miss Jessie^ Crocoher jand Miss J311a uiive jrarr, 01 jsoswri, were ui\j v> m uui u Pond near Woburn, Mass., by the capsizing of a sailboat. Commodore "William E. Fitzhcgh, United States Navy, died a few days ago in the Naval Hospital at Philadelphia. He was sixty-three years old. A sailboat containing five persons was capsized on Silver Late, near Pembroke, Mass. Fred. Allen, of Brockton, and Marcus Howe, of East Bridgev. ater, were drowned. Iw the trial of the United States cruiser Boston for speed in Narragansett Bay, off Rhode Island, the vessel made 15.6 mots with seventy revolutions under unfavorable conditions. lie a drunken quarrel James Quinn, aged sixty, of Coxsackie, N. Y., struck his son James on the head with an axe. Death resulted next morning. Henry Simmons, aged twenty-four years, and two boys, Willie Simmons and Edrne De- j I plore; aged respectively twelve and nine . years, were drowned while boating at Pittsburg, Penn. A premature explosion of a blast at Coal Valley, Penn., killed two miners, John Stokes and Thomas Allen. Patrick E. White and Stephen Wallace fell from a staging seventy feet high while j working on a building in Boston, Mass., and , were killed. President Harrison, accompanied by | Secretaries Windom and Proctor and Private , Secretary Halford, went through New York city on his way to Bar Harbor, Me., where he was to pay a visit to Secretary Blaine South and West. ' Firs in the village of Fennville, Mich., t destroyed the uostofnee, opera-house, express office, Forest Hotel and eight stores. Harry Seybold, teller in the Bank of Wheeling, W. Va., and George Hennig, ' another employe in the institution, have been arrested, charsred with embezzling $30,000. ! Five large companies engaged in the manufacture of artificial ice in the South 1 have formed a trust to control the entire business in that section. 1 John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, who was j wanted in Mississippi on a charge of having committed a felony in having engaged in a prize fight in that State, was taken to Jack- , son from Now York city on a requisition from Governor Lowry. ! William Gaskixs, colored, has been ' hanged at Leland, Fla., for the murder of , his wife a year ago. He made a speech on the scaffold, and then gave the signal for the drop to fall. Charles Keiimer and Henry Arnett were drowned in Braxton County, w. Va., while ' ittempting to cross a flooded stream. The low grounds around Galena, 111., were j risited by a frost, which did considerable damage to growing vegetables. Corn suf- ( fered m most exposed places. The Rijriey (Ohio) Mill and Lumbar Com- i panv's buildings, with a large amount of < lumber, were almost entirely destroyed by | 8re. The residence of J. P. Parker and the konse of William Rode were also burned. 1 The loss is about $800,000. j Ik the Republic mine at Marquette, Mich., < Jwo cases of giant powder exploded, killing two men and three boys. All the victims , were torn to shreds. ( C. M. Hull, editor of the Bolivar Democrat* \ ras killed at Rosedale, ^ss-, by^ 8. A- j vreissenger, oairar ol w acdkui. aium i paper war was the cause. A terrific wind storm visited a portion >f Prince George County, Va., leaving detraction and havoo in its track. Many bridges have been washed away. In the upper counties of Virginia the crops have been literally ruined by constant rains. Iir Columbia, S. C., William B. Meetze, a livery stable keeper,shot and killed James S. Clark, an ex-trial Justice of Lexington County. They had quarreled about a woman. Hal Harris, an old resident of Montevallo, Shelby County, Ala., was killed during a quarrel by his son-in-law, Will MoCall. John Gibbs and David Erwin, farmers, quarrelled over a division of crops near Kansas City, Mo., and Erwin shot Gibbs deAd. Later in the day a son of the murdered man shot and instantly killed Erwin. Chris. Sylvester, and Archie Cock- < burn, while fishing from a rock ten miles south of the Cliff House, San Francisco., Cal., were washed off by an immense wave and drowned. Returns from the election for State Treasurer in Kentucky on the day after indicated that Stephen "G. Sharp, of Lexington, the Democratic nominee, had been elected by about 80,000 majority. A wagon containing a family of five, father, mother and three children, was blown from the road into Black Creek during a storm at Mitchell, Ind. All five were drowned. An epidemic of bloody flux is raging with fatal effect in Warsaw,*Iowa,and Whitehall, 111., and has also appeared in Keokuk, Iowa. Thirty-one deaths have occurred at Whitehall, and sixteen at Warsaw. Ollie Martin, of Connersville, Ind., and Miss Maud Saylers, of Brownsville,Ind.,were drowned in the Whitewater River. They had nnfc driviner. and in attemDtin?r to ford the river the horse and buggy were carried down by the current. Tiiey were to have been married soon. At Princeton, Ky., John Hutchins shot and killed two brothers, George and Albert Lewis. One of Hutchins's stray shots also killed Prank Dunn. Delhi, Iowa, has been nearly destroyed by fire. Every business house but one was consumed. Tmt'young twins of Mrs. Line were killed by a passing train at Lawrence, Va. John Carter, a guard a Ban Qnentin iCal.) Prison, killed nis wife while she was dressing her hair before a mirror, and then shot himself in the head, dvinz iastantlv. 1Uc?ard Tate, Kentucky's defaultinj Treasurer, has been arrested at Scottsboro, Alabama. The Topeka (Kan.) sugar works wen bnrned, involving a loss of about 5250,000. Severe storms were reported in Kansas, Missouri and Virginia. Washington. Treasurer Huston has given a receipt to ex-Treasurer Hyatt for $771,500,000, representing the amount of money and securities in the United States Treasury turned ovei by the latter to the former. Of the above sum 1237,208,402 is actual cash, the remainder including United States bonds and the reserve fund. The public debt statement shows an increase of the public debt during the month of July of $1,017,811.51. Total cash in the Treasury, $634,723,023.44. Postmaster-General Wanamaker has directed that an additional allowance of $78,000 be granted Postmaster Van Cott, oi New York city. His present allowance is $1,034,000. An additional force of clerks, to the number of 102, is also allowed, which with his present force will make an aggregate of 1298 employes. President Harrison left Deer Park,Md., and arrived in Washington. Assistant Secretary Tichenor wa? I taken suddenly ill in his office in the Treasury Department at Washington, and had to b* taken home. For some time he has been in ?11 health and has been overworked. His principal trouble is rheumatism in an acute form. Postmaster-General Wanamaker hai issued an order extending the age limit oi appointment of letter-carriers in non-civiJ service postoffices, from thirty-five to forty years. This age-limitation does not apply to persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service. Venezuela and the United States of Colombia have notified the Department of State at Washington of their acceptance of tht invitation to take part in the three Americas' Commercial Congress to be held in Washington next October. All the nations interested have now signified their intention to be represented in the Congress, excepi Paraguay, Hayti and San Domingo. John C. Coates, New York; Thomas G. Stoddard, Massachusetts, and R. J. Elliott, Kansas, were appointed Postofflce Inspectors on mail depredations by Postmaster-General Wanamaker. The President appointed John R. C. Pitkin, of Louisiana, to be Envoy Extraordi nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Argentine Republic and tendered the appointment of Collector of the Port of New Orleans to ex-Governor Warmouth, of Louisiana. Secretary Windom has directed that all the bonds purchased by the Government since July 1 be applied to the sinking fund until the requirements for the current fiscal year, estimated at $47,000,000, are met. The , amount already applied to this purpose is ; 63,963,450, of which all but $15,500 was in j 41-2 per cent, bonds. AT tne request 01 me .rostmtiswjr-vreuei tu i the Secretary of War has directed the Quar- | termaster-General to instruct his subordi- I ates to pay no more Government telegraph i bills until tne rates to be paid are furnished j by the Postmaster- General. Acting General Land Commissioner Stone in his annual report shows that during the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1889, there were certified to railroad companies under the various grants a total of 425,046 acres of land, being a decrease of 404,116 icres as compared with the precediug year. Foreign. The steamer Rapel. from Valparaiso to Montevideo, was totally wrecked at Hanniblin Island, and the chief engineer, purser and iight of the crew were lost. Snow storms and icy rains prevailed throughout Switzerland. The mountain passes were partly blocked. Extensive floods were reported in Silesia. Colonel Evaristo Carazo, President of Nicaragua, is dead. Dr. Sacasa has succeeded to the Presidency, in conformity with the constitution of Nicaragua. Hon. Mr. Davte, Premier of British Columbia and Attorney General, died a few lays ago at Victoria. The Shah of Persia attended Cody's Wild West show in Paris, and at its close expressed a desire to meet Buffalo Bill, whom tie thanked for the admirable performance he had witnessed. All Europe is alarmed because 80,000 rurkish reserves have been called out. The Porte is buying uniforms and stores, and work is proceeding at the dockyards witn feverish activity. Sir William Ewabt; member of Parliar ment for the north division of Belfast, Ireland, is dead. He was a Conservative in politics. The dervishes'charged the Egyptian cavalry at Toski, Soudan, and killed twentysairan man T.4<mt?nnnt Damiilar dislodeed I the dervishes at llasmas village and killed fifteen of them. When the train for Quebec on the Grand rrunk Railway had passed St. Lambert's, Canada, after going, through the Victoria Bridge, an explosion occurred in the express zar by which a messenger named Rogers was killed, the car completely wrecked and the express matter destroyed. Second ballots for members of the Councils General were taken in the cantons in France at the recent election. The returns show the election of twelve Republicans and thirty Conservatives. M Lajjuerre, the Boulangist leader, was elected at La Rochelle. In a fight at Atchin, Sumatra, precipita ted by the Netherland troops, nineteen i Dutchmen were killed and twenty-two ' pfounded. The natives have grown emboldened, and matters begin to assume a serious | aspect. The Royal Grants bill was passed by the British House of Commons. This gives to Queen Victoria the additional sums of money that she asked for. Heavy rains have fallen In certain districts of Japan. At A magi 565 houses were sither washed away or knocked down and twenty people were drowned. At Hita 200 aouses were washed away and nine people Irowned. A terrible riot took place between two j 'actions of the Chinese coolies at Sangkong, j Siam. About five thousand men engaged ui ' the conflict. Spears and firearms were used <ion coolies were killed. The entire Pacific fleet of the British navy lias gone to the scene of the recent seizure by I the American vesel Rush, on the Behring , Sea. This was the result of much telegraphic | jommunication between the admiral in com mand of the fleet and the Canadian and 1m- j perial Governments. The fleet that went | North consists of seven war ships and two | torpedo boats. General Philippovich, the conqueror j Df Bosnia, died recently at Prague from i apoplexy. Privy Councilor Krugeb has been I arrested in Berlin on suspicion of complicity ! In the corruption recently unearthed in the ; German navy, for which several naval officers are now in prison. EXPLOSION ON A YACHT. Three Cbildren and a Man Killed ; Near Buffalo, N. Y. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, while the yacht Cedar Ridge, owned by Mr. L. L. | Crocker, of East Buffalo, If. Y., was being got ready for a trip down the river, and just ' as the engineer had started the fire, two explosions followed in rapid succession. The yacht at once took fire, and burned to the water's edge. Of those on board the following were killed: Ethel and Lamey Crocker, girls, burned, and Howard Crocker, boy, drowned. The people who hurried to the scene were first attracted by the sight of Mr. Crocker's little son, who stood on the yacht's deck in a dazed condition,almost surrounded by flames. He seemed unable to move, and when a man named Charles Schweigel reached a pike rvole to him the bov did not take hold of it. and a moment later he fell back into the fire and was burned to a crisp in full view of the horrified spectators. Attention was now drawn to John Rugenstein, the carpenter, a man about thirtyyears old, who was clinging to a rafter in the shed that extended out over the yacht. He could not be reached, and after hanging a few moments he apparently became suffocated and dropped into the flames below. He leaves a widow and five children. The tragedy was due to the explosion of naptha, by which the boilers were heated. Mr. Crocker is the superintendent of the New York Central stock yards at East Buffalo. He was the father of the three children killed, THE STORM-SWEPT ABEA. An Estimate of the Damage Wrought by the Late Doluge. Dispatches from many points in the fanning district within a radius of one hundred miles of New York city show general damage to crops by unusually heavy rains. The total losses in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey will mount up betwera $300,000 and $400,000, and perhaps more. The hay, potato ana small fruit crops suffered most. Much grass that had been cut and stacked is a total loss from mould. Potatoes in many cases are ruined by rot. Grapes along the Hudson have been badly injured. The situation is peculiarly discouraging to farmers, because, owing to the forward i spring and unusually good weather until within a fortnight, they were confident of ' exceptionally large crop of nearly all kinds. , Farmers in New York State are the heaviest losers. In the great dairy district of Central New York their losses in hay and small grain are particularly severe. In Connecticut the potatoes suffered most, although considerable hay on the salt marshes and-on the bottom lands along the rivers is destroyed. Truck gardeners are the main losers in New Jersey, although along the Walkill Pdver and the Paulins Kill considerable dam- j age was done to hay and grain. .. - <" . i V " V THE LABOR CONGRESS. Proceedings of the Six Days5 Convocation in Paris. The Delegates Agree 011 a Labor Programme for the World, The International "Workers' Congress, which has just closed its six days' session at Paris, was very largely attended, and those who Vfrere in attendance declared it to be an ( enthusiastic and successful meeting. It had been called together by the French worlringingman's party, the "Possibihsts," as they are called there. There were present 421 delegates from Prance, and representatives from America. Holland, ! Denmark, Belgium. England, Spain, Italy, Russia and Algiers. The Polish refugees also sent a delegate. The hall was gay with flags, tho scarlet of militant socialism gleaming brilliantly from balcony and flagstaff. On the platform rose the figure of tho Republic, draped in scarlet cloth, and on either hand drooped the flags of England and America, signaling the international character of the gathering. In all there were over 600 delegates. The proceedings were in perfect order, throughout. At the same time there also assembled the Socialist or Marxist Congress with nearly tho same number of delegates. At the opening of the Workers' Congress it was proposed by Mr. H. Hyndman, the famous English member of Parliament, that the two Congresses should fuse themselves into one. The Marxist people refused to agree to the proposition of the "Workers' Congress, and there was no union. The interesting fact was brought out that though Austrian newspapers had been suppressed by the police merely for announcing that the Congress was about to take place, nevertheless there were Hungarian delegates from over forty societies. At the proceedings each day there were elected two Chairmen, one from France and one representing the foreign delegates. The delegates first made report? on the condition of labor in the differeut countries. M. Defnet, tho Secretary of the Belgian Labor party, said that the new Belgian law, establishing courts of arbitration, had not proved a success. M. Defnet insisted on the necessity of establishing intimate relations between the English and Belgian coal miners. The Spanish delegato pointed out how powerful tho labor organizations of Spain had been in the days of tho old International, and how these bodies had fallen to pieces in consequence of internal squabbles over theorectical questions; but he remarked that they were now prospering once more, and able to support seven labor newspapers. The first question discussed was the subgct of international legislation on labor. r. Brown, representing the American Knights of Labor, said thai as in America there were fortv Legislatures, one for each State, it was difficult to obtain improvements by the action of trade unions, because of the constant influx of immigrants. He urged that the many dishonest misrepresentations made by emicrrafcion nerfmts oncht to snbiect such men to severe penalties. The workers of Europe would win the sympathy and support of the Americans if they would take up the subject of emigration. Four French delegates and a Dane spoke in advocation of international legislation to limit the hours of labor. They pleaded in favor of an eight-hotrr day, the reduction of night work, and improved inspection of factories, and urged that children should not be allowed to labor before they were sixteen years old. John Burns, from England, pointed out that workmen preferred Parliaments and laws, with edght hours of work, to Anarchist freedom with fourteen hours of work. Mr. Fenwiclr, M. P., said that when trades were well organized they generally obtainod reasonable improvements. In a conference held that afternoon with foreign miners he 1 had found that tho English miners worked | seven and a half hours, while they earned fifty cents a day more than the German and Belgian miuers. Tlie following resolution was adopted: The Congress affirms the principle that each nationality is the best judge of the political and social tactics it should pursue. In view of International correspondence, an International Correspondence Bureau shall be created by the Syndical Chambers of each country. A similar Correspondence Bureau shall be created by the Socialist parties in each country. At the closing session the real work of the Congress was accomplished. The delegates agreed with fair unanimity, upon a labor prof ranatno for the world. The final resolutions callod for these enactments: 1. Eight hours a day to be the maximum Of the day's work fixed by international law. 2. At least one day's holiday to be given each week, and no work to be done on fete days. 8. Abolition of night work as far as practicable for men, and entirely for women and children. 4. The total suppression of labor by children below the age of fourteen, and protection of children up to the age of eighteen. 5. Complete technical and professional education. 0. Overtime to bo paid for at double rates, and limited to four hours in twenty-four. 7. Civil and criminal responsibility of the i employers for accidents. 8. An adequate number of qualified inspectors to be nominated by the workers themselves, and paid by the State or the commune, with full power to enter workshops, factories, or relieious e?at anv time, and to examine the apprentices at then own homes. 9. Workshops to be organized by the work- ' era with subsidies from the municipalities oi State. 10. Prison and workhouse labor to be conducted under the same conditions as free labor, and to be employed, as far as possible, on great public works. 11. No foreign laborers to bo allowed to accept employment, and no employers to be allowed to employ such laborers, at rates of wages below tne trade-union rates fixed for their trade. 12. A minimum wage to be fixed in every country, in accordance with a reasonable standard of living. 13. The abrogation of all laws against the international organization of labor. 14. Equal pay and opportunities for women and men for equal work. The Congress adjourned to meet at Brussels in 1891. a tvnatmn a mt? t) a mrpT f n. isxiDrxin.tt.xxi u^.jl jljjjj, Tho Egypto-British Forces Slaughter 1500 Soudanese Dervishes. General Greiiell, In command of the combined British and Egyptian forces, engaged the Soudanese near Toski, Soudan, and com* plefcely routed them. Wad-el-Jumi, the Soudanese loader, was killed The Arab loss was 1500 killed and wounded. The Egyptian lose was slight. Besides Wad-el-Jumi, the slain on the Arab side include twelve emirs and nearly all the fighting men. Fifty standards were captured by the Egyptians. General Grenfell marched out of Toski at 5 o'clock in the morning with a strong reconnoitring force of cavalry and camels and advanced close to the Arab camp. Making a feint of retreating he drew the whole of Wad-el-Jumi's force to a point within four miles of Toski. Here the Egyptian infantry were held in readiness for an attack, and a general action was at once begun. The Soudanese made a gallant defence, but were driven from hill to hill. The Egyptian cavalry made a succession of effective charges, in which Wadel-Jumi and tho emirs were killed. After seven hours of hard fighting the dervishes were completely routed. Gunboats followed the scattered remnants of the Arab force along the river. General Grenfell, in his official report of the battle, says that the dervishes made repeated and desperate charges upon his men. They were met by the infantry, in line of battle, supported by the Twentieth Hussars and tho Egyptian cavalry. Tho Egyptian horse artillery did excellent service. The dervishes numbered three thousand fighting men. Tho British troops will now return to Cairo. The latest advices give the Egyptian loss as seventeen killed and 131 wounded. One thousand dervishes were made prisoners. In Sitka, Alaska, a town of 1000 inhabitants. not a foot of land is owned in fee simple, but buildings and improvements pass from one to another by simply a bill of sale, and this practice is universally regarded as In even r?mo* a comDleta and nerfect titlat 4 'j ?? k> LATER NEWS. The Arm of Brown, Steese & Clark, wool dealers, of Boston, Mass., has failed for abont $2,000,000. The State Convention of Pennsylvania Republicans nominated Henry K. Boyer, ol Philadelphia, for State Treasurer and adopted resolutions indorsing President Harrison and the Republican platform of 1888. The Henry Elias brewing concern of New York city has been sold to an English syndicate for $850,000. Eben Si Allen, President of the Fortysecond and Grand Street Railroad Company, of New York city, is under arrest charged with forgeries of stock of that company amounting to from 9150,000 to $350,000. President Harrison, while on his way to Bar Harbor, Me., to visit Secretary Blaine, spent a day in Boston. He received an enthusiastic welcome. The steamer Old Dominion ran into* and sunk the sloop Ella May in Norfolk (Va.) harbor. T?> sloop's crew of three men were drowned. J. Frank Collou, a young lawyer, has committed forgeries to the amount of nearly $300,000 in the name of John S. Blaisdeli, one of the oldest, wealthiest and best known citizens of Minneapolis, Minn. Bozeman was chosen as the capital of Montana at the Constitutional Convention in Helena; the North Dakota Convention declared in favor of Bismarck as the capita] site. The Postofflce Department of Washington shows that the increase in the mileage of railway mail service for the fiscal year, 1889, was 6946 miles. Nebraska furnished the largest increase, 592 miles; followed by Alabama, with 473 miles; Kansas, 416 miles, and Kentucky, 385 miles. Charles Francis Me serve, of Springfield, Mass., has been appointed by President Harrison Superintendent at the Haskell Indian Institute, at Lawrence, Kansas. Mr. Meserve is a graduate of Colby University, Maine, and was highly recommended for the office as an educator of large experience and a gentleman of culture. The Turks are arming the Moslems throughout the island of Crete. A fight took place at Heraclion between Moslems Ton wppa IHllori on pflrh fridfl and many were wounded. Twenty prisoners were killed by soldiers in a revolt at San Juanilla, Mexico. The jury in the case of Mrs. Maybrick, thei American lady who has been on trial in London, England, for the murder of her husband, brought in a verdict of guilty. Mrs. Maybrick was thereupon sentenced to death Emperob William of Germany reviewed 30,000 British troops at Aldershot, England. FILLING FEDERAL OFFICES. Important Appointments Made by President Harrison. The President made the following appointments: Edward F. Hobart, of New Mexico, to be Surveyor-General of New Mexico. Joseph V. Clark, of Maine, to be JPensic n Agent at Augusta, Maine. Calvin G. Townsend. of Michigan, to lie Principal Clerk of Public Lands in the General Land Office. Isaac P. Conwell, of Indiana, to be Principal Clerk on Private Land Claims in the General Land Office. "William T. Harris, of Massachusetts, to be Commissioner of Education. William H. Hart, of Indiana, to be Third Auditor of the Treasury. John T. Rankin, of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy Auditor of the Treasury for the Postoffice Department. Joseph H. Kibbey, to be Associate Justic* of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Arizona. George W. Jolly, of Kentucky, to be Attorney of the United States for the district of Kentucky. William Grant, of Louisiana, to be Attorney of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana. Peter A Williams, of Florida, to be Marshal of the United States for the southern district of Florida. Walter H. Johnson, of Georgia, to be Collector of Internal Bevenue for the district of Georgia. Eugene A Webster, of South Carolina, to be Collector off Internal Bevenue for the district of South Carolina. Granville G. Benedict, of Vermont, to be Collector of Customs for the district of Vermont. Henry Hebing, of New York, to be Collector of Customs for the district of Genesa, New York. Columbus C. Wimbish, of Georgia, is to be Surveyor of Customs for thqport of Atlanta, Georgia. John F. Patty, of Louisiana, to be the Naval Officer of Customs in the district of New Orleans. John Ingle, Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels for the Sixth District (Louisville, Kentucky). TTTBTm A C*C< A C5C5TMQ XLJLXbJJJJ auuauMxxiui Two Mountaineers Agree to Kill a Man for $300. A dispatch from Mount Sterling, Ky., says that James Combj, Jesso Barnett and Charles Wall were arrested on suspicion of having murdered John A. Rose ten days ago in Powell County. At the examination Combs made a full confession, and afterward Baraett did the same. Combs says he and Barnett were hired by Goodloe Combs, a Deputy Sheriff of Breathitt County, and cousin of James Combs, to kill Rose,' promising to furnish the pistols and to pay each of them $500. He uaya Qoodloe Combs told him that James Hall was to furnish the money. Doc. Hall, a brother of James Hall, was lolled by Rose about a year ago. Combs says he and Barnett overtook Rose the day he was killed and had some words with him, and then passed on and hid and shot him whan he came hack. THE LABOB WORLD, Brooklyn has the biggest bakery. Pittsburg has the biggest ax milL Boox and shoe manufacturers are busy. M Thrill enrtn efftpfc fin. Tf lriUUYT glOOO lOV/Wi i&O II4U ?wu WW * The bakers of Leipzig have gone out on strike. Electricity is used to haul coal out of mines. Great Britain has 1500 co-operative unions! England is complaining of the arrival of pauper labor. The European workingmen are opposed to standing armies. One of the street car drivers in Dubuque, Iowa, is a woman. Silk manufacturing is growing very rapidly in tho United States. The United Order of American Carpenters is said to be increasing rapidly. There is a wonderful increase in the number of foundry nnd machine shops. On June 30 288 furnaces were in blast in the United States, and 293 out of blast. A. J. Drexel, the New York banker, has founded an industrial college at Wayne, Penn. Belfast flax weavers get $5 per week. Other workers make from fifty cents per week up. English iron workers are agitating "no Sunday work and five days per week with Monday off." English mill men who are obliged to work on Sunday, are making an effort to have it stopped. j' Great alarm is caused in the City of I Mexico, by the terrible ravages being made throughout the country, and especially in the low-lying districts, by the yellow fever. The J mortality increases in number every day. i A CITY Of ASHES. . . > . .. .i: Spokane Falls, Washington, Destroyed by Fire. Twenty-Five Blocks Burned, Causing a Loss of $14,000,000. Spokane Falls, a city of 20,000 inhabitants and one of the most prominent towns in the new State of Washington, has been almost completely destroyed by fire. Twenty-five blocks were reduce*" to ashes. The estimated loss is $14,000,000. The-fire started at 7 P. M. in a lodging house on Railroad avenue. The Fire Department came on the scene quickly, but owing-to a lack of water the fire quickly spread to adjoining frame buildings, and was soon beyond control" The flames then jumped across the. street to the Russ House and the Pacific Hotel. By this time a strong wind sprung up, and it was evident the city was doomed. The flames spread with fearful rapidity. The firemen were powerless. Attempts were made to cheek the are by blowing up buildings in its path, but it was useless. From the Pacific Hotel the fire swept across First street to the frame buildings in the next block, and soon it rcached the heart of the city. The block of two-story buildings on Riverside avenue was easily carried away. From here the fire communicated to the magnificent Hyde block, a four-story buildingt tak ing in the whole square between Mill ana Howard streets on Riverside avenue. The fire next leaped across Howard street, and in a few minutes the block between Howard and Stevens streets was a mass of red-hot ashes. The n?rt structure to succumb was the large Tult block. Prom there the conflagration went whirling through the solid blocks of fourstory brick buildings, including the Postofflce, between Stevens and Washington streets. At this point the fire burned out from lack of material. From the place of origin the fire had meanwhile taken another direction, leaping across Sprague street to the Opera House, and thence over Riverside avenue to Brown's Bank. Then both sides of the avenue were in flames. The buildings between Port and Mill streets were quickly licked up, including the Grand Hotel. From here the waves of flame poured into the adjoining square on the right, containing the Frankfurt block, the largest building in the city. The Frankfurt cost 5250,000. It withstood the fire for some tir~> out finally burned. The Arlington notel was now enveloped in flames. Suddenly a man was seen to jump firom the second story. He arose and started to ran down Howard street, but was overcome by the heat and felL Several people rushed to his assistance and carried him to a place of safety. He was a pitiable sights having been literally roasted alive, the skin pealing off all over his body. The unfortunate man's name was Charles Davis. He died at noon that day. Northward was the direction taken by the fire from the Arlington. It consumed the block between Howard, Main, Front and Stevens streets, burning east as far as the latter thoroughfare, when a vacant lot checked further progress in that direction. Everything in a northerly direction, including the Northern Pacific Express office, the Union block and the Winc~tr Hotel was soon a mass of flames. The river prevented the fire doing further damage, and was the means of saving all tha big louring and lumber mills. Three hours sufficed to complete the awful destruction. The only business block left standing in the city was the Crescent building, which was saved Dy means oi tearing aown intervening buildings. Owing to the rapidity with which the fire spread, little was saved. Provisions were scarce, and could last only a short time. The City Council appointed a committee on relief. It was decided that provisions should be sent for, and the needy supplied free. The superintendent of the city water works was denounced by the Council for neglecting his duty, he being away at the time of the fire. The big pumps were not connected, and as a result, there was scarcely any pressure. Had the contrary been the case, the fire would have been easily gotten under control. The militia was called out in force, and all persons without passes were forbidden to enter the burned district. Five out of the seven banks destroyed were again doing business during the day, all being m the Crescent block, the only business structure left standing. The business district was in a strip between the Northern Pacific Railroad tracks and the Spokane River. This strip was five squares acoss, and extended about seven squares in length. It was solidly built up with stone and brick structures, the cost of which varied from 125,000 to $225,000. Ten banking houses, five hotels, the Opera House, ana many wholesale establishments, doing a * * A?1 -A ArAA AAA ?.U mama Dusmess estimated au fjw.um ww, nuo u> the district described. Spokane Fall* Is the first town of Import* anc? in Washington Territory when apfroached from the East on the Northern 'acific Railroad. It is the oldest town in that part of the Territory, and the onlv one that preceded the great railroad. Located upon the gravelly plain, just above the point where Hangman's Creek unites with the Spokane River, it commands a beautiful view of .the surrounding hills. Its proximity to a great water power early attracted the attention of settlers, whose faith in the value of real estate there has been rewarded with generous fortunes. The many flouring-mills and saw-mills are abundantly supplied with the products of the fields and forests far and near. Other forma of manufacturing are in a flourishing condition, and it is estimated that the town before the fire had a populaj tion of about twenty thousand people. II had fine hotels, handsome stores and wellbuilt echoolhouses. One feature of the town was the fact that its inhabitants were nevei taxed for pavements and never troubled with mud, the streets havin2 been beautifully macadamized by nature. A GBEAT NAVAL BEYIEW. Fifteen Miles of "War Ships Sail Past the German Emperor. The Greatest naval review that England or any other country ever saw has just taken place at Spithead, England, in honor of the German Emperor. There were three five mile lines of battle ships, each built to do the utmost harm oi wluch a ship is capable with powder, shot and shell or torpedoes. The weather became moderately cleax about noon and the review of the fleet took place at four o'clock in the afternoon. The German Kaiser left Osborne Bay in the imperial yacht, Hohenzollern, accompanied by the Admiralty yacht Enchantress, the royal yacht Albert, the Trinity Board's yacht Gar.tea, the vessels conveying the members of the House of Lords, the diplomatic body, Members of the House of Commons, represents tives of the press, the Lord Mayor and Coj> poration of the city of London and others. As the Hohenzollern approached the fleet each ironclad in turn hoisted the German standard and fired a salute. The ships were moored in three parallel lines, of which the center line was about two and a half and the outer lines about one and three-auarter miles in length. In going to Spithead the inspecting procession passed between the center column and that moored nearest the Isle of Wight. Returning to Osborne Bay, the reviewing vessels rounded the head of the center colunr 1 and passed between it and the column lying off the mainland shore. At its conclusion the Emperor William received all the admirals on board his own yacht and tendered them his congratulations. Workmen doing the grading on a railroad near Atlanta, Go., witnessed the sight the other day of a snake feeding its offspring. The baby snakes were secure in the roots of an old tree, and the mother, which caught flies by springiDg at them, would, when possessed of a fly, rapidly glide to the young snakes, which came pell-mell, helter-skelter to meet her. She caught a fly a minute, and was watched securing thej?.fer over two hours. / '-. V \ SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB AUGUST 18. Lesson Text: "Saul Rejected by the Lord," I Sam. xv., 10-28? Golden Text: I Sam. xr., 23 ? Commentary. - V The intervening chapters between this lesson and the last one are chiefly occupied with Saul's first victories over the Philistines, and also over the Moabites, Ammonites and Edo-j mites; but there is a sad statement concern-! ing Saul, and a precious one concerning Jon?4 than, his son, to each of which we ought to give good heed for our own profit The first? refers to Saul's foolish conduct and disobedience in the matter Of the sacrifice (chapter xiii., 8-14), which brought from Samuel th? message: "Now thy kingdom shall not ooOr? tinuo; the Lord hath sought Him a man after His own heart." The second is the nobtoj conduct of Jonathan and his armor bearer and the good words: "There is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few." We may, if we will, be men and women afte? God's own heart, and daily profit by the good! word of Jonathan. The lesson to-day is the story of Saul's disobedience in the matter of the Amalekites. 10. "Then came the word of the Lord onto Samuel." Saul's orders were: "Go &ndsmft? Amalek. and utterly destroy all that thejl have" (v. 8); but he saved Agag the king alive, and spared the best of the sheep ana oxen (v. 9). Thus, as in the matter of the sacrifice already referred to, he did who# seemed right to himself, acting upon his owf 'judgment rather than the express command 11. "It repenteth me that I have set xt0 Saul to be king." So in verse 85 -"the Lorq repented that He had made Saul king over Israel;" and yet in verse 29 it is written: efwmfffJi nf Tmal will nnf. Ha APMJ pent, for Ee is not a man that He should reJ pent" Compare also Num. xxiii., 19;P&ox.,; 4. Now the question is how to reconcile these apparent contradictions, for the coo* tradiction is only seeming, not reaL We must first get firm ground on which" to stand, and we have it in the -fact' that a God of Truth (Isa. lxv., lfl) cannot lie; and a God to whom all His works are known from the beginning of the worn (Acts xv., 18) *cannot possibly make a mistake or be sorry for anything He haf the Gentiles and Israel "was only what? Go)i had determined before to be done (Actb ivJ 27,28). but that did not lessen the guilt, of Herod and the others. God certainly knew b?^ fore hand just how Saul would turn out, bow long He would have to bear with him, ana just when He would set him aside and phf David in his place. When God, in His infinite wisdom,' doing what He alwa;re knew that He would do seems to us to change His mind and! do a new thing. He is said in Scripture to re*! pent; man, on the other hand repents when he actually does change his mind, and does what he had not intended before to do. v < 12. "Saul came to Carmel and, behold, haj set him up a place." The I^vised Verado* says he set up a monument. It seems to have been, like Absalom's place (EL Sam. zviii.rlnj a pillar rather for his own glory than t$f glory of God, rather to commemorate hjtat own name than the nam^of Jehovah. j 13. "Blessed be thou of the Lard: I have performed the commandment of the Lard." This was SauTs greeting when Samuel caza* to him; if in the previous verse we see hM vanity, surely here we see hypocrisy. j v., 14. "What meoneth then this bleating of tS? sheep, * * * and the lowing of the oxen!? All things are naked and open to the eyes ? Him with whom we have to do; and from Him who searcheth heart and veins no secrets caii be hid. > 15. "The people spared the best of the sheep h and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God." Being cornered, as we say, henoiti puts the blame on tho people, yet series to justify them by saying it was for the Lord,' but his heart is somewhat shown in his say* in?? t.hA thv God. instead of "the Lord our God." It is evident that Saol did nofi know the Lord; he did not understand thai the Lord wants nothing that belongs to Hit enemies. 16. "Stay, and I will tell thee what tito Lord hath said to me this night." Blessed Samuel who talked with God and witfi whom God talked, who sought only to know; the mind of God and do it; when he came die it would not be a very great change folk him, for he had from his youth livea witit ?S God and served Him. Why should we not in our daily life thus walk with God, careful above all tilings to know what He hath said,; . that we may believe it and do it. J 47. "When little in thine own sight * % * the Lord anointed thee king over Israel.*j Had Saul only continued little in his own sight and sought to be great hi the eyes of the Lord who had exalted him, all woukl have been well, but he forgot the Lord ana thought more of Saul and his deeds. 18. "The Lord sent thee on a journey, aai said, Go. and utterly destroy the sinners the* Amalwkrees." Saul was not required to m his opinion, or make any suggestions, bo$ only to do as he was told. 19. "Thou didst not obey the vofce of tbe Lord, * * * but didst evil in'the sight of thi Lord." It seems hard for some people to realize that God sees all their actions, and even the motives for their actions, and oo4 ?11 If < u/w't.bn that uumau UUlAJgD, J WAV ways of man are before the eyes of the Lor<L and He pondereth all his goings;" and again; "The eye# of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good." (Prov. yj 31: xv.,3.) : j 20. "Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord and have gone the way which the Lord sent me." Still justifying himself, and refusing to humble himself before God: making J out that Samuel was wrong and that God ] was mistaken, and that he alone was right;' 1 insisting that his view of the case waa the I correct one, and that in doing as he did ha fl had indeed obeyed God. The time has not I gone by when people pervert the words of tht. fl Lord (Jer. iniL, 86) and yet insist that thw' I are right. Saul had to learn that God meanl I just what He said. * 1 31. "The people took of the spoil, * things which should, have been utterly destroyed." It is sometimes easier to see the sins of others than to see our own. He had previously said that it was the people who spared the best of the sheep and oxen, bat that they had spared them for a good end, making the end to iustify the deed; now he confesses that the deed on the people's part was wrong ana that sheep and oren should have been utterly destroyed. His eyes are opening out very slowly; he sees now the people's sin, but not his own. After the piercing words of the nest two verses, which close our lesson, he ajes his own sin and confesses it, but still pleading, an an extenuation of his guilt, that'he did it because ho feared the people and obeyed tneir voice. ina* ao was 110c a truly humbled and penitent man even then is evident from verse SO, -where he begs Samuel to turn and honor him before . the people. Where there is true brokeaneai of spirit, there is no honoring but rather a loathing of self (Job xlii., 6), and the even and heart are directed to God and not to the people. ' 22. "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." In ' Jar. vii. 21-23, it is written that when God / brought them out of Egypt He did not talk /J to them of burnt offerings or sacrifices, but /] of obedience; and in the same prophecy the /J Lord complains of them at least fifteen time* that they obeyed not. The two words, obey 1 and hearken, in this verse signify, to hear ana 1 give heed to. 23. "Because thou hast rejected the word J of the Lord, He hath also rejected thee from j| being king." By this rejecting the word of 'J the Lard, he had proved himself guilty of rebellion and stubbornness, or willfulness, and had thus lost the kingdom. There is nothing standing in the way of the salvation of any sinner who has heard of the love of Christ I but his own will.?Lesson Helper. Some papers do not like tlie En? glish habit of omitting the article "the* before the names of yachts, especially in the case of yachts named after wom?j . en. The omission does seem unfortun^ / ate when it makes such statements a* j| these possible; "Cora proved slow in ^9 her stays," "Gracie ran her nose ill 1 the mud," and "Alice careened an^ 1 staggered under her heavy load." I Jerusalem is growing fast in population, owing to the large number of Jew| flocking thither. They now nfambel' 30,000 more than the combined Moslem and Christian population. 1 : / i