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f,v :J ^m nmbimmmmbbbmbh I , OUR NEW M7Y. Condition of tlie Tesscls Built Under Secretary Whitney. * Official Eeport of the Bureau of UUiliibi UUWUU dUU JLl>CjJOUi.i A statement has just been prepared by Commodore T. N. Wilson, Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair of the United States Navy, for the use of Secretary Tracy, showing the condition of vessels of the navy in progress of construction at the time the new administration entered upon its duties on March 4, last. Under the act of March 3,18S5, $1,805,000 appropriated for the construction of two cruisers and two gunboats. The Newark, cruiser No. 1, and Yorktown, gunboat No. 1, were contracted for with W. Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia at tho prices of Si,348,000 and $455,000 respectively. Tho forma* is not to be completed until October 27 next. The Yorktown has been ? placed on the dock in New York to b9 cleaned and painted for her turning trials at Newport, R. I. The Charleston, cruiser No. 3, was built by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, under a contract for ?1,017,500. , She has had one trial trip. The Petrel, gunboat No. 3, was built by the Columbian Irou Works, Baltimore, price ?345,000, and will have a third trial. By tho act of August 3,1886, $3,500,000 was appropriated, and tho bureau prepared plans for nine vessels. Contracts were let as follows: Baltimore, cruiser, No. 8. W. Cramp & Son, $1,335,000. Will bo completed about November. Vesuvius, dynamite cruiser, Dynamite Company, New York, $350,000. Its steam trial was satisfactory. Torpedo boat, HerreshofT Company, Bristol, R. L, $83,750. In process of construction. The following vessels are being built at the navy yards named: Maine, armored cruiser, Now York; Texas, armored battle ship, and Amphitrite, monitor, Norfolk. (The latter's engines were put in by tho Harlan & Hollingsworth Company, or Wilmington, Del.) lionadnoek, monitor, Mare Island, Cal; Terror, monitor, New York. She will be sent to tho Boston yard to receive ? pneumatic gear. The Puritan, monitor, will also be constructed at Norfolk. The act of March 3, 1887, authorized the building of two cruisers and two gunboats, and of five monitors to bo constructed at a total cost of $3,430,000, and one coast and J&arbor derence vessel, unaer tnis act too following contracts were made: Fhil.y nelphia, cruiser No. 4, W. Cramp & Sous, $1,350,000, to be completed in October next; San Francisco, Union Iron Works, 31,428,000, also to be completed in Octobcr; Concord and Bennington, gunboats Nos. 3 and 4, N. F. Palmer, Jr., & Co., New York, $550,000 each, to be completed this month. Work on them, however, is reported to be progressing slowly. The Miantonomah, monitor, is being built at tho New York Navy Yard and is nearly completed. The construction of the coast and harbor defense vessel has been awarded to the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, at a contract price of $1,628,950, and it is to be completed in three years. No name has yet been selected for this vessel. The sum of $3,760,000 was appropriated September 7, 18S8, for one armored cruiser of 7500 tons, one protected cruiser of 5300 tons, two protected cruisers of 3000 tons each, and three protected cruisers of 2000 tons each; also a practice ship for the naval school, the latter to cost $260,000. Plans for tho 2000 and 3000-ton vessels are complete, and bids will be opened soon for their construction. Tho 2000-ton vessels are limited to a cost of $700,000 each, and tho 3000-ton vessels to $1,100,000 cach. The total of these figures more than oxkausts the amount of the appropriation, $3,500,000. Tho limit of tho cost fixed by tho bureau of the 5300-ton vessel is $1,800,000, and of the 7500 tonner $3,500,000. The practice cruisor authorized by this act will bo , about 800 tens, armored, "and carrying a battery of rapid firing guns. Plans for tnis vessel are well under way, and will soon be completed. The Bureau of Construction and Repair, the Commodore states, is at work on plans for the vessels authorized by the act of March 2, 1889, which appropriated $4,055,000 for 1 construction purposes, besides $140,000 for four steam tugs. Bids for these tugs have just been opened, but the contracts are not let. The principal vessel provided for in this turt is the armored submerged cruiser monitor known as the Thoinas ship, its general design having been suggested by ex-Congressman Thomas, of Illinois. Plans for it are nearly completed, and it is estimated to cost $1,500,000. Two steel cruisers, or gunboats, estimated to cost $350,000 each, will be 1200 tons each, carrying batteries of rapid-fire guns. Plans for those arc well under way. There were also provided for in the act of 1889 a harbor ram of the plan designed by Admiral Ammen, and a dynamite cruiser of the Vesuvius type. Nothing has yet been done toward tho construction of these vessels. The cruiser is estimated to cost $-350,000, but no estimate is made upon the ram. The original four ships of the new navy, constructed under acts passed prior to March, 1885, and in accordance to the requirements of the Naval Boards of 1881, are the Atlanta, JJoston, Chicago and Dolphin. A STATE'S INSTITUTIONS. Where the Public Buildings of North ; Dakota Will be Located. Tho public buildings in North Dakota will be situated as follows, in accordance with a report of a committee of the Constitutional Convention, which has been adopted: Capital at Bismarck; the State University and the School of Mines at Grand Forks; the Agricultural College at Fargo; a State normal school at Valley Citv, to nave 50,000 acres of land; the Deaf and "Dumb Asylum at Devil's Lake; a State reform school at Mandan; a State normal school at Mayville, with 80,000 acres; a State hospital for the insane, and an Institution for the feeble minded in connection therewith, at Jamestown, with 20,000 acres of land; a soldiers' heme, when located, or such other charitable institution as the i. Legislative Assembly may determine, at Lisbon, with a grant of 40.000 acres of land; o4>lind asylum, or such other institution as the Legislative Assembly may determine, in Pembina County, with a grant of 80,000 acres; an industrial school and school fcr ' ' 1? v manual urumngt w** ouou uiuac=& instituion as the Legislative Assembly may provide at Elloudale, with a grant of 40,000 acres; a school of forestry, or such other Institution as tho Legislative Assembly may determine, at such place in one of tho counties of HcHenry, Ward, Bettinoau, or Rollette, as the olectors of said counties may determine; a scientific school, or such other educational or charitable Institution as the Legislative Assembly may prescribe, at WahBeton, with a grant of 40,000 acres. TWO EMPEE0ES AT BEEIIN. A Royal German Welcome to the Ruler of Austria. The Emperor of Austria has arrived in Berlin, Germany. He was met at the station by Emperor William, Prince Henry and Prince Bismarck. Among the distinguished persons present were Count Herbert Bismarck, General von Molike and General von Blumenthal. The meeting between the two Emperors was of the most cordial character. After Francis Joseph and Prince Henry had exchanged salutations the imperial visitor shook hands with Prince Bismarck. The imperial party took carriages and drove to the castle by way of the Thiergarten and Unter den Linden. Troops were stationed along the route from the station to the castle. The houses were decorated with flags and bunting. Large crowds assembled along the route and cheered the Emperors as they passed. Salutes were fired by the artillery m honor of the visiting Emperor. The weather was fine. Upon arriving at the palace the Austrian Emperor was welcomed by Empress Augusta and ex-Empress Frederick. The Reicnsanzeiger, in an especially prominent article, welcomes Emperor Francis Joseph on behalf of the German people, as a friend and ally of Emperor William. The North German Gaze tte says the visit of the TEE ffEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, wife of the President, was callod by a telegram to the !>edside of her sister, Mrs. Scott-Lord, who tfas very ill at Nantucket, Mass. General Henry Du Pont, head of the p-eat powder manufacturing firm of Wilnington, Del., died a few days ago on the '7th anniversary of his birth. He leaves an ?C+B +a trolnnH SI 5 000.000. Miss Mat.y Cushman was elected Tax Collector and Mrs. Minerva Cushman District Clerk of Lockport, N. Y. Riverside, N. Y.. igain elected Mrs. T. C. Albertson School Librarian. Many ladies voted in both places. Secretary Tracy sailed on the Government boat Despatch for Bar Harbor, Me., fchere he was to join the President as the juest of Secretary Blaine. President Harrison and party arrived at Bar Harbor, Me., from Boston. The party irere met at Mount Desert by Secretary Blaine, who had gone over on a special boat to await the arrival. John Randall and Thomas Fovle, of Syracuse, N. Y., were killed in a collision near uOlumbus, Ind. The Vanderbilt family have bought a conailing interest in the Beach Creek Railroad n Pennsylvania. Two more bodies were taken out of the and at Johnstown, Penn. One was identi3ed as that of Alex. Hamilton, Jr., a promilent resident of the town. Sheriff Flack, of New York city, retigned his office of Grand Sachem in the Tammany Society, and also resigned from the General Committee of the Tammany 01janization, because of charges that were nade against him in connection with securing a divorce from his wife. A terrible explosion of natural gas occurred at Oliver Brothers & Co.'s South Side mill, Pittsburg, Penn. John Miller, iged seventeen years, had his neck broken i ind died almost instantly; John O'Connor, a carpenter, had his skull crushed and died instantly; John Greiner was fatally injured. Mayor Grant, of New York city, appointed four committees of twenty-five each, in Permanent Organisation, Finance, Legislation and on Sites and Buildings, to make !he first preparations for the International Exposition of 1S92. A riot occurred at the Hecla works, Sreensburg, Penn.,owned by William Thaw. Three men were fatally injured. About 700 men went there from the Mammoth works md asked the men at work to quit. Upon - * ' ^ mo/la fka fofol ;neir rcnisu iuo ui mucu wvu umu- me issault. President Harrison attended services jonducted by Bishop Doane at Bar Harbor, Me. The annual athletic exhibition of the Cl&naa-Gael at Philadelphia was attended by 25,WO persons. The profits, which amount to ?5000, will be devoted to securing the arrest tnd punishment of the murderers of Dr.P.H. Dronin, of Chicago. Dr. Alexander Brown Mott, one of the most noted of American surgeons, and a son of the famous surgeon, Valentine Mott, died it his country seat, near Yonkers, N. Y., of pneumonia. Dr. Mott was born in New York March 31,1826. H. Webb, of Wilkesbarre, Penn., thirtyfour years of age, and Herman Newmayer, 3f the same place, forty-five, jumped from a train at Cham Dam, Penn. Webb was instantly killed and Newmayer was fatally hurt. The Riverside and Oswego mills property in Rhode Island and New York have assigned with liabilities of $900,000. The steamer City of Paris lowered the ocean record eastward, crossing from New York to Liverpool, England, in five days, twenty-three hours and forty-four minutes. Judge Bookstaver, in the Court of Common Pleas, has annulled the decree of dieorce granted by him to Mary A. Flack, wife of the Sheriff of New York. The annulment is on.the ground that the divorce tvas fraudulently obtained, without Mrs. Flack's knowledge or consent. Lawyer Wright hi an affidavit threw the blame for the fraud on the shoulders of Monell and Ruffiroo "MWiL-c TVTooVq tr.ii? fnrci?d to resits his office of searcher. South and "West. Eugene Dearn and a friend were drowned at San Diego Cal., by the capsizing of their boat. The committee to examine the books of R. H. Stedman, County Treasurer, of Vinton, Iowa, reports a deficit of 811,500. W. Hardee, for five years Probate Judge of Towner County, Dakota, has disappeared, leaving a large indebtedness. Heavy rain and hail storms prevailed in Minnesota, Dakota and Montana. Much damage resulted. A Wisconsin Central passenger train at 4 o'clock in the morning was held up and robbed by a single man between Chippewa Falls, Wis., and Abbotsville. He got only ?100. The robber pulled the bell rope as soon as he had completed the robbery, and when the train came to a stop jumped off and escaped. J. D. King, of Janesville, Wis., has been appointed Postoffice Inspector, in charge of the Washington division, which is composed of the District of Columbia and the States of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Delaware. Sheriff E. C. Swain, Sheriff of Paulding County, Ohio, is short in his accounts to the amount of over $2000. The eleven one-armed night switch turners employed on the Northwestern road, between Western avenue and Fortieth street, Chicago, struck for higher wages. Not a switch was turned that night In their district except by officers of the road. Chee Gong, a Chinaman, was hanged at Portland, Oregon, for the murder of Lee Gick, a fellow countryman, two years ago, j and George Duncan Bryson was hanged at j Boulder, Montana, for the murder of Annie Lindstrom, in September, 188S. Mrs. N. Preman and her twolve-ycar-old daughter were killed by lightning at Pipei City, HI. The great packing houses of George H. Hammond, of Hammond. Ind., were burned. Wif.Kin t.no-n liniirs SLtOO 000 worth of Drooertv was destroyed. Set%n buildings were re duced to ashes and 700 men thrown out of employment. Daniel K. Stewart, the richest man in I Virginia, died at his residence in Henrico I County, near Richmond, aged eighty-one. I ill*. Stewart was a Scotchman by birth, ana amassed his fortune by dealing in tobacco. At Otter Creek, Mich., Charles T. "Wright, President of the Otter Creek Lumber Company, of Racino, Wis., shot and instantly killed Under Sheriff Neal Marshall and Dr. Frank E. Thurber. They had attached some of the lumber company's logs for debt. A widow named Gillis.and two daughters, who lived in a remote district of McDowell County, W. Va., were found mysteriously murdered in their home. The returns from the school elections in Kansas, on the day after the election, showed that' about 50,000 women voted. Many ladies were elected to office. Dr. J. B. Wortham, of Winchester. Va.. committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Turee brothers, named David, Joe and Albert Sill, brutally murdered Edward Standford, their sister's husband, five miles north of Shelbyville, Ind. All were chunk. The boiler of Thomas Anderson & Co.'s stave factory at Dawson, Ky., exploded. James Jackson was killed and six others seriously injured. Laton Menser and Dennis Purdy, who were wounded, have since died. Dr. James L. Cahill, senior member of the faculty of the University of Virginia, died a few days ago at Overton, Va. He was born in Nelson County, Va., August 26, 1813, ar.d graduated from the University of Virginia in 1833. "Jim" Brooks, colored, was arrested at Orange, Texas, for assaulting a white woman nearly eighty years old. He was taken from the guards next morning by a mob of five hundred men. who hanged him to a tree and then riddled his body with bullets. A fire at Truckee, Cal., burned all east of Bridge street and north or the railroad to the roundhouse. Forty dwellings were burned, rendering many families homeless. The loss is about $75,000. Washington. Secretary Noble has requested the War Department to take all necessary steps to keep intruders from the Sioux Reservation. f Ex'Attornet General Garland has been appointed resident attorney in Washington of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company at a salary of $25,000. President Harrison made the following appointments: S. F. Phillips, of North Carolina, Commissioner on the part of the United States under the Venezuelan and United States treaty concerning the adjustment of claims; Charles Pope, of Missouri, Consul at Toronto, Canada, and Richard G. Lay, of the District of Columbia. Consul-General at Ottawa, Canada. First Comptroller Matthews has decided that the appropriation of $800,000 made by the act of March 2,18S9, for "agricultural experiment stations" can be used for the benefit only of the forty stations for which estimates were made. The Superintendent of Census has appointed Dr. J. S. Billings, Professor Henry Gannett and William C. Hunt to report upon ! the relative merits of the several systems of tabulating the Eleventh Census returns. Secretary Windom has designated the name of "Lot M. Morrill" for the new revenue marine vessel just finished at Baltimore for the Charleston (S. C.) station. Carry's brewery, in northeast Washington, has been sold to New York capitalists. The price paid is $400,000. Foreign. Henry M. Stanley is coming down the African coast to Zanzibar with Emin Pacha, 9000 men and an enormous quantity of ivory. The exact date of their arrival tyas uncertain. general iJotrLANGER's trial before the High Court of the Senate in Paris was begun. Signor Benedetto Caxroli, the distinguished Italian statesman, is dead. Schooner Union, Captain Kelley, from Boston for Little Salmon Biver, upset in the bay two miles from St. Martin's, New Brunswick, and three men were drowned. Chakir Pasha, now Turkish Ambassador at St. Petersburg, Russia, has been appointed Governor-General of Crete. Ho will demand a force of 20,000 men to restore order on the island. Larfone, Crown Prince of Nerdfu, Varan, one of the Samoan Islands, is dead. The Legitime Government of Hayti delivered to the United States Minister $7500 as a compensation for the seizure and detention of the United States steamer Ozama. This money is now aboard the Kearsarge. Cattle are dying from the effects of the drouth in Mexico. Thomas A. Edison, the American inventor, has arrived in Paris, and will combine business with sightseeing at the big exposition. H. TV. Severance arrived in Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, to assume the office of United States Consul-General. King Kalakaua declined to give him an interview and refused to accept him as Consul-General. He was dismissed some years ago from the eame position. A fire at Sachsenberg, Germany, has destroyed one-half of the town. The losses are very heavy. The poor are the chief sufferers. Many families lost everything, and the greatest distress prevailed. Mrs. Ma yb rick, the American convicted of poisoning her husband, was sentenced to be hanged in London on Monday^ August 26. Mr. Lincoln the united states minister, ana many Americans in London signed a petition for a reprieve. The Duke of Fife declines to permit his wife, Princess Louise of Wales, to accept any share of the recent Parliamentary grant to the royal family. Senor Sard in a, who was recently kidnapped by banditti in Cuba, has been released on the payment of a ransom of $12,000 in gold. Inventor Thomas Edison ascended the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Exposition and took luncheon at the summit. A number of artists from the opera were present rnd sang into a phonograph, which afterward reproduced tne airs. King Humbert has appointed him "a Grand Oficer of the Crown of Italy. HONOLULU IK EEVOLT, An Unsuccessful Insurrection in Wliicli Seven Natives Were Killed. News has just been received from the Hawaiian Islands of an attempt to overthrow the Government. It was headed by two halfwhite TTn.wniia.ns named Wilcox and Boyd, who at 4 o'clock in the morning inarched to the palace of King Kalakaua in Honolulu, leadinga body of rioters numbering 250. TheKing was notified and the Cabinet called together. The rioters summoned Lieutenant Parker to surrender the palace. When he refused some of the attacking forces deserted Wilcox. The field pieces of the rioters were soon silenced by the fire of the sharpshooters, who kept up a steady fusillade upon the men at these guns as long as any of the rebel gunners appeared in sfeht. By 11 a. m. tne rioters had all taken shelter in a bungalow situated in the palace grounds and the fire of the Rifles slackened to only an occasional shot as the rioters came within their range. Prom that time there was little or no tiring dono by the rebels. In the afternoon the Honolulu Rifles used I a dynamite bomb on the building, whereupon | the insurgents surrendered and were locked up. When arrested Boyd had letters on hisperson implicating 800 natives and whites, some I of them very prominentpersohs in Hawaii. It was rumored that Wilcox had intended to secure the person of the King, compel him to abdicate in favor of his sister Liluokala- i ni, heir apparent,and demand a new Cabinet. ! In all there were seven killed and twelve j wounded of the rioters. 1 GREAT IRRIGATION SCHEME | Arid Land in Dakota to be Reclaimed by a Canal. A syndicate of Dakota capitalists, including a dozen or more millionaire residents of Bismarck, Grand Forks and Jamestown, has been organized to develop a new canal scheme that will reclaim upward of 5,000,000 acres of arid and now useless land in North Dakota. The idea is to construct a canal from the Missouri River at Bismarck, 1668 feet above the level of the sea, to Lake Traverse and , Big Stone Lake, 900 feet above the level of the sea. This canal would run through a section of country in North and South Dakota that is in great need of irrigation. Lateral canals are to be constructed by the various counties. and hundreds of thousands of acres of arid land reclaimed, while the present cultivated country will be wonderfully enhanced in value. The fall of the canal will be suflcient fco keep up a steady current when properly protected By locks and dams. This canal would make an easy water course to St. Paul and Minneapolis, and for that matter clear to the Gulf of Mexico if a few million dollars were expended. It would also tend to reduce freight rates on wheat for export and on imported raw materitu. Tho coal mines of Western Dakota would also be easy of access, The canal, it ia estimated. would cost ??,000,000. A FATAL OPEN SWITCH, Three Killed aud Seven Injured in a Railroad Accident, The Rome, Watertown and Ognonsburg express train ran through an open switch At Forest Lawn, nine miles east of Rochester, N. Y., at 8 o'clock in tho morning. One lady, Miss Perrin, was instantly killed, and John Jay, of Rochester, and Fireman Lane, of Oswego, wero so badly injured that they died soon after. Half a dozon other persons were seriously injured. The list of wounded is as follows: H. M. Perrin, head and face bruised and injured internally; Mrs. H. M. Perrin, collar bone broken and badly bruised. Mr. and Mrs. Perrin are parents of the young lady killed; Andrew Tiffany, of Oswego, injured internally; Mrs. Lewis Moore, of Gratwick, N. Y., rlgnt leg broken; Samuel Brown, of Sherman, N. Y., right leg cut off and toes of left foot amputated; John Barker, engineer, badly cut; Miss Mary Hannon, of Siskyou, Ontario, right leg broken and face and head badly cut. The accident was said to have been caused by the neglect of proper signals. The station agent set a flag to stop the express, but it was not seen in time. The agent was attend / { '. *. "THE NATIONAL GAME. Columbus is after a receiver. Wilkesbaf-Re is selling its players. Chicago is still out for the pennant.). The Wflkesbarre Club has disbanded Chicago carries fifteen men on the pay roll. Columbus has received the most whitewashes. Cowat is now Kansas City's winning pitcher. Chicago plays her best game against the New Yorks. "Washington has seven left-haaded batter* on the team. Denny, of Indianapolis, still leads the League in home runs. ' Little Duffy. of Chicago, 1b one of the best batsmen in the League. Governor Beaveb. of Pennsylvania, Is an enthusiastic lover of baseball. The Washingtonshave a fine trio of young pitchers in Keefe, Haddock andFerson. Tmr. T/rndnn dnh >ina rAl<?Afiad flrnfc TiniA. KILLED FOR A SLAP. Judge Terry Shot After Insulting Justice Field. Tragic Sequence to a Famous California Divorce Case. A dispatch from San Francisco, CaJ., says: One of the most sensational tragedies that ever startled the people of the Pacific coast occurred during the morning at Lathrop, a small town on the Southern Pacific Railroad, a few miles from Stockton, in San Joaquin County. David S. Terry, ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, slayer in a duel of United States Senator David C. Broderick, assaulted United States Supremo Court Justice Stephen J. Field is a public dining room at the railroad station, and was shot dead by United States Deputy Marshal David Nagle, who was traveling as Mr. Field's body guard. The shooting occurred in the presence of about sixty or seventy people, and created a scene of the wildest excitement. The cause of the shooting was the well known quarrel existing between Judges Terry and Field, which grew out of the latter rendering a decision adverse to Sarah Althea Hill, plaintiff in the famous Sharon divorce case, who during the litigation became the wife of Terry. Dispatches from Lathrop, CaL, state that upon the arrival of the Southern overland mail at 7:20 a. m. Justice Field and Marshal Nagle walked into the dining-room for breakfast and sat down side by side. Judge David S. Teny and wife, who figured in the Sharon divorce case, came m also. They were going to another table when Mrs. Terry recognized Justice Field, and immediately retired to the train. As soon as she had left the dining-room and before she had reached the train. Judge Terry walked over to where Justice Field sat, and, stooping over him, slapped his face. Deputy Marshal Nagle thereupon arose from his seat and shot Judge Terry through the heart. While he was falling Nagle shot again, but missed Terry, the bullet going through the floor. Both shots were fired within a few seconds and before any one could interfere. Whether Judge Terry's intention was to provoke Justice Field and draw a weapon before the latter could turn is, of course, not known, as Deputy Nagle, who sat opposite Field, prevented this by firing, his first shot resulting in the death of Terry. After the shooting Deputy United States Marshal Nagle backed up against the wall of the dining room and warned every one not to arrest him, saying he was a United States officer in the discharge of his duty. There was no semblance of an attempt to molest him at any time. Constable Walker took Deputy Nagle from the train at Tracy and proceeded witn him to Stockton, where he is now in jail. District Attorney White ordered the arrest of Justice Field upon his arrival at San Fran- | cisco, and telegraphed the order to tie Sheriff of San Francisco. Justice Field man tamed his quiet demeanor, and replied to a press representative, when askea to narrate the particulars of fhe shooting, as follows: "I can tell you the story in a few words. For the last few months all manner of reports, both public and personal, have reached me that Juage Terry had threatened to subject me to some form of indignity, if he should happen to meit me. This fact caused the Dnitea States Marshal to decide to provide such protection as he could during my stay in this State. When I started for Los Angeles to hold court, Deputy Nagle accompanied me. He seemed to be a quiet gentlemanly official, though I only met him twice whilo away from Los Angeles. He asked me in that city when I intended to return, and accompanied me, taking a seat in the sleeping car opposite to me. "We heard this morning that Judge Terry and his wife were on the train,but paid no attention to the fact. "When we arrived at Lathrop, we entered the eating station to get breakfast. I took a seat at the en d of the table, while Nagle sat on one side of me. Terry and his wife came into the room soon after. As soon as she saw me she went out of the room, as I afterward learned, returning to the car for her satchel. Judge Terry rose and I supposed that he intended accompanying her. instead of doing so, he walked back to me, and struck me % heavy slap in the face. I was completely astonished, and, seeing he was making ready to strike again, Nagle cried out 'Stop, stop,' but Terry did not desist, and as he was raising hi$ arm a second time, Nagle shot at him, the bullet entering his heart. Ho fell to the floor, Nagle shooting a second time, but the second &ot did not strike him. That is the complete story so far as 1 am aware of the facts," said the Justice in conclusion. Protection was accorded to Justice Field, it is claimed, by authority of AttorneyGeneral Miller, who telegraphed from Washington to the Marshal of the district to see that the person of the Justice was protected at any haaard. "later news, The citizens or Danbury, Conn., are greatly excited over repeated attempts which tiave been made to burn the town. Thirteen fires were started within seven days, burning many buildings and causing the loss of one life. John Henderson, of Syracuse, N. Y., and Bernard McKennon, of Philadelphia, two of the crew of the schooner Marion Manson, from Bath, Me., for Baltimore, were swept overboard and drowned. Lightning caused heavy loss by fire in oil works at Bayonne, N. J. A Government building at Sandy Hook was destroyed. President Harrison visited the shipyards at Bath, Me. An engine at the South Omaha (Neb.) Stock Yards struck and instantly killed James Connelly and Owen McDonald. Great damage was done to Western railroads by recent storms; a flood at Lincoln, Neb., made several hundred people homeless. Sullivan, the prize fighter, was indicted L?ll LVYU wiiaw kJJ bUO UXCWUUU1J *** Jkiurio, Miss., and Kilrain was arrested in Baltimore on a requisition from Governor Lowry. A great electric storm struck Albuquerque, New Mexico. A driver and bis team were killed and many people were Btumied. Much property was destroyed. The Burton Building in Chicago, which was gutted by fire some weeks ago, collapsed, burying a number of workmen in the ruins. Joseph Hopp and Nick Sever were killed. The State Department at Washington has been notified of the appointment of the following delegates to the conference of American nations, to be held in "Washington next October: From Mexico?General Angel Ortiz Monosterio. Venezuela?Mr. Nicanor Bolet Pieraza, a distinguished litterateur and po uiicui euuuuluisi'. The Emperors of Germany and Austria witnessed a sham battlo at Spaodau, Germany. The second anniversary of Prince Ferdinand's ascending the throne of Bulgaria was abserved with appropriate festivities. Four thousand troops were reviewed, banquets w ere held, and in the evening Sofia was illuminated. General Boclanger, Count Dillon and M. Henri Rochefort are sentenced by the French Senate in Paris to imprisonment In a fortress, GEEAT FLOODS IN JAPAN. One Hundred People Drowned by tlie Overflow of the Chltugo River. The Japan Gazette, received by the steamer Arabic, says that about one hundred persons were drowned in Japan, twelve thousand houses washed away, and about 2500 acres of cultivated land seriously damaged in four of the seven cantons which suffered most from the overflowing of the , ChiJratgo River in Fuhuokaken by the recent MHHh loan Tom Esterbrook and pitcher Emll Geias. "William Sottoay, center fielder, has been i^pointed manager of the Pittsburg Ball Thx Philadelphias have of recent years always been the strongest finishers in the League. The Middle StateB League is proving to be a much stronger organization than was expected. Thx Toledo Club has secured the release from Cleveland, of .left-handed pitcher Sprague. Gore, O'Rourke and Tiernan. of the New Yorks, are again the heaviest hitting outfield in the country. Chicago is the only League and Brooklyn the only Association club to escape the whitewash brash this season. McGuire is doing all the catching for Toronto; he officiated behind the bat in thirty-nine out of the forty games played. The best baseball player in Congress is Representative Ben Butterworth, of Ohio. He frequently plays in amateur games at his home. Maul leads the Pittsburgs in batting, Glasscock the Indianapolitans, Clements the Philadelphias., McKean the Clevel&nds, Daly the Washin^-tons and Van Haltren the Chicagos. Indianapolis is certainly the enigma of baseball. With a great infield, good, outfield, fair batteries and well managed, the team yet plays losing ball and makes no ucaunaj* Pitcher Mobbie's troubles are pronounced internal injuries, and absolute rest is ordered by his physicians. In fact it is not improbable that he may not appear on the diamond again this season. James Hamilton, the Weir City's pitcher, met with a peculiar accident in a game at Weir City, Mo. The force of the delivery of a ball broke his arm square in two between the shoulder and the elbow. John S. Babnes, the manager of the St. Paul Club, who recently fell h9ir to an estate in Ireland worth $300,000, has promised his men that he will take them to England if th#y win the championship. A baseball player named William Camp bell had his eye knocked out and jawbon? ' broken while catching behind the bat in a game played at Somerset, Ky. He was carried from the grounds unconscious and apparently lifeless. Boston's only weak spot has been strengthened by the addition of "Pop" Smith, of the Pittsburgs. He will play short, and Bay or Quinn will likely be released. This addition is a strong one to the Bostons, as Smith is a batter and fielder. The many friends of Morrill will learn with regret that his hand had a relapse and that he had to undergo a surgical operation, that caused him a great deal of pain and suffering. The injured member is now making good progress toward recovery. Some papers talk about there being a question abont the best shortstop. That was settled long ago. John W. Glasscock, of the Indianapolis Club, is admitted to be clearly entitled to the first place. Eis fielding alone would entitle him to supremacy; but take his batting, base-running and coaching abilities in consideration, and he is way on top. league becobd. Wiyn. Lott. Percentage New York 54 30 .643 Boston 54 31 .685 Philadelphia 48 88 .556 Cleveland 47 42 .528 Ohicagi 44 46 .489 ndianapolis 97 54 .406 Pittsburg 86 54 . 400 Washington 29 54 .349 american association record. Win. Lott. Percentage. St. Louis 64 32 .667 Brooklyn 60 38 .645 Baltimore 55 38 .591 Athletic 51 38 .578 Cincinnati 52 43 .547 -lansas City 8S 55 .409 Columbus 30 61 .871 tiouisville 20 76 .208 NEWSY GLEANINGS. Persia has no public debt. Immigration has fallen off. Canada has 124,589 Indians. The rate of interest is falling. Baltimore has 4000 rumshopa. A glut of peaches is promised. Bloody flux is spreading in Illinois. The Indiana Ice Trust has collapsed. Forest fires are raging in California. The Boulonger bubble i3 in collapse. Small-pox is raginj; in lower Egypt. Home rule in Hayti is not a success. New York farmers arc growing hemp. A school-book trust has been formed. St. Louis is to have an elevated road. Great forest fires are raging in Idaho. A trust in human hair has been organized. The Dervish invasion of Egypt is at an end. Duo tight is general throughout southern Europe. THE MARKETS. 33 new york. Beeves . 3 57J?@ 4 60 Siilch Cows, com. to good.. .30 00 @45 00 Calves, common to prime... 2 75 @3 50 Sheep 4 00 @ 5 25 Lambs 0 25 @ 7 25 Hogs?Live 4 75 (g 5 15 Dressad 7 @ Hour?City Mill Extra 4 25 @ 4 50 Patents 4 SO ($ 6 25 Wheat?No. 2 Red 88 @ S8K Rye?State 53 54>j Barley?Two-rowed State... 80 @ 87 Dora?Ungraded Mixed 43%@ 44>? Oats?No. 1 White ? @ 88 Mixed "Western 25 <S) 29 Bay-No. 1 95 @ 1 00 Straw?Long Rye 70 @ 80 Lard?City bteam ? @ 6.25c Butter?Elgin Creamery.... 18 @ 18>? Dairy, fair to good. 13 @ 15 West. Im. Creamery 10 @ 14 Factory 9 @ 12 Cheese?State factory 6%@ 8% Sldms?Light 6 @ 7 Western '6 <2 7 Bggs?State and Penn 17 ? 17% BUFFALO. Steers?"Western 3 23 @ 3 90 Sheep?Medium to Good.... 4 25 @ 4 60 Lambs?Fair to Good 4 50 ? 5 50 Elogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 70 @ 4 75 Flour?Family 5 00 (iii 5 35 Wheat?No. 2 Northern ? (j# 95 2orn?No. 3, Yellow ? (<ij 40}? D&ts?No. 2, White ? (?) ol^ Barlay?No. 1 Canada .? ? @74 BOSTON. jlour?Spring Wheat Pat's.. G 00 @ 6 40 ' Itorn?Steamer Yellow 46 @ 49}* Dats?No. 2 White 30 @ 40 live?State 65 @ 70 WATERTOW.V (MASS.) CATTLE MAItKET. i Seef?Dressed weight 4}{@ 6}{ iheep?Live weight ? @ 4l,i L.ambs 5}?@ 0}? logs?Northern. . ? @ 5}* 1 PHILADELPHIA. Hour?Penn. family 4 00 @ 4 25 K7hoat?No. 2, Red, Aug.... 83%@ 83& Dora?No. 2, Mixed, Aug... 43^@ 43% . Data?Ungraded White 32^@ 38}* ' 'V .. ; * THE COUNTRY'S CROPS. August Report of the Department of Agriculture. The Condition of Corn, Wheat, Potatoes, Barley and Cotton, The August crop report of the Department of Agriculture at Washington makes the condition of corn 94.8; spring wheat, 81.2; j spring rye, 95.4; oats, 92.3: barley, 90.6; buckwheat, 95.2; potatoes, 94.8; hay, 94.5; tobacco, 84.4. Corn has made an improvement during the last month of 41-2 points, and is now less than one point lower than at the same date last year. The August return of condition has not stood up more than one point higher during the last nine years, ' and the present return has been equaled but three times during that period. The improvement is quite generally distributed throughout the country, following favorable growing weather and sufficient rainfall. In a few States, especially along the Atlantic coast, the condition has been somewhat reduced from excessive rainfalls ind local floods and overflows. The general average for the seven surplus States is 95, against 90 last month and 96 for August, Spring wheat has suffered a further falling off during the month, the decline amount ing to nearly three points. Condition is now nearly three points higher than in 1887 and one above that of 1886. "With these exceptions it is the lowest since the very small crop in 1881. Minnesota records some improvement since last report, but in Dakota there is a further decline from the same causes noted last month. Dakota is now the largest spring wheat State, and the very low condition there reduces the general average. The quality of the crop will be better than usual, especially in the extreme Northwest. Rye and barley each decline one point, the falling off being mainly in Nebraska and Dakota. Condition of oats while two points lower than reported last month, is higher than August of any year since 1885. In many sections the crop has suffered from heavy winds and rains about harvest time, and the next report may show damage from **?<? cause not yet appreciated. Potatoes have maintained their nigh condition of a month ago, and now stand one point higher than at this date Inst year. Tobacco has fallen off materially on account of excessive rain. The condition of cotton is 89.8, an advance of nearly two points during the month. Since 1880 this average has been exceeded but three times, m 1882, 1885 and 1887. Damage wherever reported is attributed to excess of moisture and consequent inability to keep the crop clean. Some fear is expressed of too heaw a growth of stalk, rendering injury liable should dry weather set in. BOPLANGEB FOUND GUILTY. rhe Fugitive General Convicted of Conspiracy and Treason. The State Council of France has annulled the elections in twelve cantons in which General Boulanger was recently elected to the Councils-General on the ground that the General was not legally eligible to the position. General Boulanger has written a letter,' in which he states that he gave the sums of monoy which he is accused of embezzling to the chief clerks in tho War Office, to bo used for the relief of widows and orphans of soldiers. Five lodgers in tho house of Mine. Pour pres. me iormer tuunjamuu ??. Boul anger, have sworn that tho General was in Paris on Jnly 15,1887, the day on which, it is alleged, he visited the city in disguise. The Senate Court during the afternoon found General Boulanger guilty of conspir?he court also found Dillon and Rochefort guilty of complicity with BooLcaiger in his plots. They further decided, by a vote of 198 to 10, that Boulanger was guilty of treasonable actions against the State in connection with the Lyons depot incident. JUDGE LYNOH'S VENGEANCE The Murderers of Two Women Hang Up by the Heels and Shot. Mrs. Gillis and her two daughters, living in McDowell County, W. Va., were found dead by neighbors a few days ago. They had been assaulted and murdered. The Hollis brothers were suspected, and a vigilance committee was organized to punish them. The Captain of a push boat, that arrived at Catlettsburg, Ky., down the Big Sandy from Pikeville, reports that the Hollis brothers were capj J i? u.? ..... K,T biu^u uj uuo wuiuuuucu^ uuug up uj um i heels to the limb of a tree, and then shot to death. THE LABOR WORLD, Powderlt denounces trusts. Trot (n. Y.) has 8000 iron workers. A K. 07 L. assembly has been established In Australia. Aboct: 3,145,572 workers are deprived of their Sunday rest. Union bricklayers generally fight shy of New York sub-way work. Engravers and painters receive from ten to twelve cents a day in China. The twin children of a locked out miner in Illinois have died of starvation. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, rarely 6leeps more than four hours a day. A. vert large proportion of the slaters employed in this country are Welshmen. There seems to have been an epidemio of cutting down wages all over the country. The Government printing office now demands only eight hours' work of employes. Foreign capitalists are said to be negotiating for the control of American cotton mills. Claus Spreckels, the California sugar king, is to build a second big refinery in Philadelphia. Chicago iron moulders work entirely at piece-work, and earn from $3.25 to $2.50 per day of ten hours. Tobacco and cigar-making give employment to over 80,000 persons in Brooklyn, New York and vicinity. The Printers' Benevolent Association pays its members $7 a week when sick for forty cents dues per month. St. Louis claims that she heads the world in the tobacco industry, and employs 2500 hands in seventeen factories. The profit-sharing principle is beginning to be looked upon with favor by some English employers in their dealings with workmen. There are about fifty establishments throughout the country in which the employes get a share of the profits accumuThere are at Troy, N. Y., 16,000 persons working on collars and cuffs and their annual wages aggregate $4,500,000, and none of them are Chinamen. A number of the labor organizations of New York city and Brooklyn are holding Sunday night mass meetings in favor of the j eight-horn* system. Chili gave 3000 of the idle workmen on the Isthmus of Panama free transportation to Valparaiso in order to secure their labor on public improvements. The movement recently inaugurated in Manchester, England, to compel employers to adopt a uniform short-time system for employes has failed completely. The National Textile Workers' Union, which holds a charter in the American Federation of Labor, has nineteen branches with a membership of over 3000. The New York Journal has shown up the misery of a crowd of men and women in that city who make knee breeches at sixty cents a dozen, and work sixteen hours a day. The International Cigarmakers' Union of America was founded June 21, 1864, with twenty-one unions and membership of 981. There are now 260 unions and over 28,000 members. It is said that on invention, which promises to revolutionize the method of discharging firearms has been lately under the conriaenffionof theBritaah.War Office. It <yar. % : Wm . x TEMPERANCE, THE CONQUEHING LEGIOtf. $ "' For God, for home and native land. We raise toward heaven onr strong right hand, t And proudly wave our banner white, ' All stainless as the morning light. . Chorus: , ' See where it floats our Bignal lightt Our cloud by day, our fire by night, Our sheltering wing, our guiding hand, For God, for nome and native land. .. , .?J Through customs vile and banded bate, ; ' . And lust thatmaketh desolate, : Fearless we press our onward way, And hopeful hail the coming day. . . What though the world may call defeat, -, Our music never beats retreat; And when we fall we face the foe, And leap to victory even so. For right is might, and right at last Shall sound on nigh her trump# blast; And o'er the conquer'd field snail tread, When every hnman wrong is dead. Then proudly wave the streamer white, The emblem pure of God's own light, " hub pieugea Deneaxn ics ioias we stanu For God, for home and native land. ?Rev. Frank Bottome, D.D, BUM PRODUCES CBUfE. . A few years ago one of the leading secular papers in Cincinnati made the statement that seventy-five per cent, of the criminal cases in the courts of that city were traceable to the liquor traffic. This statement wag disputed. The managers of the paper sent a reporter to examine the records, and he found by actual count that eighty-one per A cent, of all the cases that reached tne criminal court records owed their origin to the drink traffic.?Witness. . /% THE OLD TYPO'S ADVICE. I " It don't pay, yonng fellows. There's beer down stairs and there's ice water in the pail in the corner. One costs money and the tether's free; one makes tramp printers and .*7 the other saves'em. Stick to the saloon in the jorner, fellows; drink at the sign of the tin iipper, and you'll always have eyes and nerves to stick type when you're seventy.* 3omehow the boys always enjoyed the old J~]i nan's homely little temperance lectures, and In the forty years he stood at the case aad jnached, if be wasn't quite so eloquent as Sough, every now and then he coaxed same ;ypo away from the sign of the glass-mug to -uesignof the tin dipper. And sometimes hp old man used to stimulate a little him but that was long ago. He would be Soaea day or two, and comeback quietly, penitent, and very oblivious to the occasional remarks of a mysterious character which would drift up and down the alleys. But this didn't often happen, because tne boys fflced the old man ana felt sorry for him, and : they respected his penitence, and finally only the new men or the subs ever said a word about these annual, disappearances. All the Did man would ever say about them was that tie had'Haeen up in the country to buy his ancle." His uncle died hard, buthedid die .4. imh frar manv Trmra *U iOOU, IMIVI UW VM* HHI11 ? itood like a conquerer at the time-worn old' -,"fl :ase with his enemy tinder his foet. I TO PEOHTBIT THEATING AT SABS. 'fl The measure which is pending in the Legia- fl lature of a Western State to prohibit treat- B ingatbars, isapraisworthy one. This treat ing practice is something which should be J| broken up as soon as possible. There is no i intent on the part of the framer of the bill to stop drinking. The bill merely forbids treating by the wholesale. This is, indeed, a very foolish custom. One or two men will enter a saloon. There they are introduced to four or five more, then the treating begins and goes the rounds. Each man has to pay for tike drinks for all, and each man arinks'mor* than is good for him. The treating has to be \ done, because public opinion with its Idiotic gauge brands tne man who refuses to treatfu a 6habby fellow. There is no getting out of it unless the man has the moral courage to bid defiance to public opinion and to withstand the contumely of nis associates. There is nothing to be gained by this bibulous practice. It is an expensive as well as aa-Jn oushabit.?Detroit Free Press. IT IB MON8TBOT7S EVIL. The evils of intemperance are so manifest and so monstrous that the State is compelled to recognize them, and to take action against them in its own defense. Tho State is concerned in the welfare not only of its own communities, but of every family and individual under its dominion. The influences which tend to undermine health and shorten life, to cripple labor and prevent thrift, to ???? ? J <MA?I&AAA Awwinala awk prOQUCti pttUUtUO CUXU luu CUOC w nil ....MP, clearly hostile to the State, and it Is the dutr of the State to suppress them as far as possible. The life of the humblest individual is as sacred as that of its most honored citizen, and the State is under obligation to provide all possible safeguards not only against all attempts to destroy it, but against all epidemics and plagues and sources of disease. The State has the same solicitude for the moral welfare of the citizen. In shorty the State not only has the power to provide for the public safety, the public health, and the .public morals, but it can not, as we have already shovm by citations from decisions of the Supremo Court of the United States, "divest itself" .of that power. The very purpose for which government is organized is to exercise it. The State in its care for the public health prohibits the sale of impure and unwholesome articles of food. Unripe or decayed fruit, diseased meat, aaaiterawu mu>, <u? seized and destroyed and the dealers punished. H The sale of articles dangerous to lire or limb HI or health is regulated or prohibited. Boards H of health are established to investigate com- H mon sources of disease, and to abate them as H nuisances, and may exercise extraordinary. H powers in the prevention or suppression of M contagious diseases. The necessity for pre- B serving the public health is so clearly recog- M nized under our Government that the States H may, despite the constitutional right of Con- BJ gress exclusively to regulate interstate com- B| merce, prevent the importation of infected S articles and establish quarantine regulation. ?New York Independent. H TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Bfl Liverpool, England, has a deaf and dumb temperance league. jfl A silver fish is the appropriate badge of the Alaska W. C. T. U. H There are thirty temperance societies in bD the Hawaiian Islands. BE The census in England for 1887 shows one Uj drinking place for every 250 peoplo. Wm No man has a right to plead for bread flH with the smell of liquor on Ins breath. An observant traveler declares that French QP wine drinkers look exactly like tho brandy flH and rum drinkers of America. The Japanese Temperance Society, of Hawaii, fifteen months old, numbers 1700 j^H out of the 8000 Japanese residents. |H M. Lunier, an eminent French physician, H claims that alcohol from cider is more per-nicious than that from beet root or grain. aHj rpu? Mta nt tho i?t? .Tnhn B. Finch is about to be published in German, to be used ih the temperance work among the peoplo of that. nationality. According to the New Orleans Times, no flfl liquor has been sold for the last six years in"-? one of the wealthiest and most prosperous H counties of Texas, and consequently the jail jH| is empty. H It doesn't pay to give one man for $13 a quarter, a license to sell liquor, and then spend ?5000 in trying another man for buying Ml that liquor and committing murder under its Wl influence. Temperance is making headway in Switzer- HI land. In two cantons?Vaud aud Neuchatel ?there are societies with a united member- |^H ship of 3108, including fully 200 reclaimed H drunkards. H9 Dr. Felix M. Oswald declares that "every 1^9 family of the United States has at present to pay an average of $05 a year to enjoy the ffl privilege of abundant facilities for being |Hl poisoned." In 1880 it required $3504 of liquor money to employ one man and pay him in wages $447. The same amount of money invested in boots and shoes would employ eight or nine men and pay them in wages $33.87. HH The only religion in India, says Mr. W. S. } Came, M.P., which did not prohibit the use IB of intoxicating liquors was the Christian religion. Yet we had induced twenty per cent. IBB of the Indian people to learn the nabit of drinking. BH Bechuanaland, a country in South Africa,. lj ing to the north of Cape Colony, haa no ?st?ueriefi or public houses and consequently HH no drunkenness. Khama^ the chiaf, haa of