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. A Till ASHES. Seabriijht, N. J., "Visited by a Disastrous Fire. Over 400 Houses Burned, Causing a Loss of $300,000, Seabright, N. J., a summer resort near Long Branch, was almost entirely burned down. The fire originated in the livery stables of J. A. Buckalew, on River street, at 4:45 - o'clock in the afternoon, and an hour later every building in the business portion of the Dlace was on fire. The flames spread with such rapidity that the one fire company at Seabright was almost helpless, and before fire companies could be summoned from Red Bank, Long Branch, West End, Elberon and other adjacent towns the entire business portion of the city was ablaze. Hundreds of families were driven into tk; ; streets and are homeless. The only build- , ings that escaped the disastrous flames were the Octagou, Peninsula and Panuacia hotels and the Seabright InD. Everything else is in ruins. The Octagon cottages were totally destroyed and it was only by the shifting of the wind that the Octagon Hotel was saved. Among the business houses destroyed were Knapp & West, Rud's drug store, PostofBee, Seabright M. E. Church and parsonage, Seabright Sentivel building, Couser'sfeea establishment, S. Levy's clothing store, the Garfield Hotel, Clough'.ey & Son's lumber yard, Seabright Public School, T R. Minugh's tenement row, Peter Poppuga'a Riverside ! Hotel, M. Garting's residence, Cook & Jac- , ques's fruit store, Frank Martin's butcher store, Frank Heidel's bakery, the I water works, R. Biber's jewelry j store, New York and New Jersey Telephone 1 Exchange, Dr. J. J. Reed's brick building, I Charles Reese's Hotel Irwin, Nesbit'splumbing establishment, Charles Desch's barber shop, the Seabright fisheries, George Elliott's iD.tmmoM tot'u csiauiuuiiieut/, aiiu a uuu- i dred or more small dwelling houses on the Shrewsbury River. The loss will be fully $300,000. From Seabright to Low Moor Ocean avenue presents a disheartening scene. The wealthy have grr.srously given shelter to about fifty destitut3 families,and as many more are bemoanin r; their loss on the lawns. \ he scene was a most affecting one. The streets were filled with heart-broken mothers and fathers, who had been burned out of house and home. i The conflagration was seen hundreds of ! miles from Seabright. A relief corps has been organized by Colonel C. N. V. Wilson, [ and men are working earnestly to alleivate the sufferers. Fire engines were placed on all sides of the devastated city. Several head of cattle were burned. The season at Seabright opened Saturday, and the damaging conflagration means a ! loss of a million of dollars' worth of business. I When the fire was discovered the wind wa3 blowing a gale from the west. Had it not been for this the city might have been saved. Proprietor Buckalew believes that the fire originated from the carelessness of a tramp -who took shelter in his haymow and poss:- ' bly set fire to the hay from the sparks of his . "^ffcstor Owens, of the Asbury M. E. Church, lost everything after he thought he had escaped. His furniture was moved into the street, but before it could be carted away it was set on fire by a spark and burned. . One of the saddest features of the fire lies ' in the fact that but few of the dwellings ; were insured, the inmates being unable to ! -carry any insurance. Upon the total loss of j $300,000 not more than half is covered by in- . surance. i > There was a rumor afloat that the fire had been started by a drunken stableman, who threw a lighted match in the hay in revenge j for his fellow-workmen drenching him with a pail OI water wnue ue was aeieojj. Owing to repairs being made to the water , mains the water supply was utterly inade- , quate to the needs. The Seabright firemen ] lost most of their hose in the flames. Many of the families burned out were those of poor fisherman, who have lost all , they owned in the world. A mass-meeting I was called to raise funds for their relief. j The burned section extends from the . Shrewsbury River to the ocean, and to where j the New Jersey Southern Railroad crosses Ocean avenue. As far as could be estimated over 400 buildings were destroyed. THE LABOB WORLD. China has iron and steel works, London has 300,000 factory girls. Union men coutrol Detroit's dock3. Illinois miners want nine hours. LndianaPOLIS has 300 idle carpenters. Key West, Fla., has 400 cigarmakere. London has 15,000 locked out carpenter.. Canada letter-carriers get $300 to $600 a year. Uncle Sam has 1,000,000 working children. San Francisco has a women's shoefitters' Union. 1 Some waitresses in Australia work eighty hoard a week. Detroit recintly had a working girls' mass meeting. Minneapolis, Minn., has a K. of L. build* Ing association. In New York City 300,000 men and women are hunting work. New England cotton manufacturers talk of a summer shutdown. New York furniture workers have bought ground for burial purposes. Seven thousand shipworkers at Clydebank, Scotland, ara out on a strike. An adult laboring man wastes five ounces of muscle in the course of his daily labor. Seattle, (Washington) compositors worh eight hour?, and $4 is the minimum wage. Everything is in smooth working order again at the Westphalia (Germany) mines. England is aske 1 to givo a pension of 233 a year to workmen over sixty years of age. During tha year 135 girls have joins J tin Yonkers, (N. Y.,) Association of Working Girls. The French Chamber of Deputies has de cided to devote ona day in the week to th? discussion of labor matters. Dieppe, France, suddenly appears as the home of the most marvelous ivory carvers known, the Chinese and Swi33 not excepted. Gold beaters, in convention in Boston, Mass., formed an organization known a3 the Journeymen Gold-Beaters' Protective Association of the United States. About 650 men are employed in the con Firucnon 01 ueorge vanaerDins casus as Asheville, N. C. It will require about two years to complete the building. There is a pnnic in the shoe business at Pirmasenp. Germany. Thirty-six firms have failed and 2500 workmen are out of employment. Over-speculatioa was the cause. SIXTY DROWNED, An Excursion Train Breaks Through a Bridge In Switzerland. A fearful accident is reported from Switzerland. A railway bridge across the Moenchen, a small affluent of the Rhine, at Stein, in the canton of Basel, not far from Germany. gave way under the weight of an excursion train crow !e;l with people on their way to a musical fete. Two engines and the first ca;\ with all its passengers, plunged into the river, while the thirteen cars regained suspanded over the gtream. All the trainmen were killed and every passenger in the submerged car was drowned. Thirteen cars were saved. Sixty at least were killed, and not less than 100 injured. Tm* Sultan has ordered that young girls shall not be publicly exposed for sale in the markets of Fez, Meauiuez and other towni of Morocco. Of la e* the supply of slaves la Morocco is so large that the price has fallen from 1130 for girls to exactly one-half. It is claimed that about one-half the number die on the way from Timbuctoo and the interior. ffC*-' f " * * fel THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Secretary Proctor delivered their diplomas to the sixty-four members of the graduating class at West Point (N. Y.) Military Academy. C. Mason* Moody, who has been Treasurer of Franklin County, Mass., for fifteen Years, bas confessed to having used $16,168 belonging to the county in his private business. H. H. Yard, of Philadelphia, was arrested, charged with conspiracy with ex-City Treasj urer Bardsley to defraud the city of Philadelphia; another deficit of over 5400,000 was I discovered in Bardsley's accounts. The Su; preme Court has banded down a decision that W. Redwood White, appointed City Treasurer by Governor Pattison, is the | proper appointee to succeed Bardsley. Richard G. Oellers, appointed by the City Council, is ousted. The West Philadelphia (Penn.) abattoir was riestroved by fire. " It was a large structure. covering several acres. Many cattle perished. The loss is $500,000. A whole family?father, mother and son ?was swept out of existence by a fire which completely gutted a five-story brick apartment house in New York Citv. Andrew ETratowiski and John Mehen were hurled into the air by a fast freight near Mahanoy Plana, Penn., and both ware instantly killed. Fclly fifty thousand persons visited Father Mollinger's church, on Troy Hill, Pittsburg, in honor of St. Anthony's Day, hoping to be miraculously cured of their bodily ills. Thk Princeton Baseball Club defeated tho Yale nine in New York City by the score of i five to two, thus winning the intercollegiate ! championship. Skvill Schokield, a woolen manufacturer of Philadelphia, Penn., failed for ?1.000,000. Two Italians were killed and three others fatally injured by a dynimite explosion on the work of the ftewark (N. J.) water supply and pipe line of the East Jersey Water Company, between Bloomingdale and Pompton. John* Adams, a^ed nineteen, and Miss Jessie Orr, the eighteen-year-old daughter of William Orr, sexton ot the Episcopal Church at Whitehall, N. Y., were drowned in Lake Champlain while disembarking from a pleasure boat at Chubb's Landing. Joseph Kline Emmet, the famous German dialect comedian, popularly known as ' Our Fritz," died at Cornwall, N. Y., at the age of fifty. The new United States Circuit Court of Appeals organized in New York City. The Judges wear black silk robes like those worn in the Supreme Court at Washington. Justice Blatchford opened the proceedings .by reading the act under which the new court was established. On behalf of the Bar Joseph H. Choate made a short address. The great Suburban race, worth $15,000, rras run at Sheepshead Bay (N. Y.) course before 35,000 people. It was won by Loantaka, first; Major Doruo, second; Cassius, third; time 2:07. South and West. William Blaney was hanged in the jailyard at Baltimore, Md., for the murder of his grandmother and aunt. The Central National Bank of Broken Bow, Neb., has closed its doors. Lewis Davis ancl Thomas Hughes were instantly killed by being dropped 117 feet to the bottom of a mine at Bellville, Mo., the hoisting tub having become detached. The Rev. John F. Ray,of Wayne County. Ohio, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for burglary. He was a minister in the Disciples' Church, and robbed a hotel at Orville, Ohio. Ah Quo.vg Tia, having been acquitted of the charge of murdering Poker 'lorn, a Piute Indian, at Bridgeport, Cal., was dragged from the court-room and turned over to the Indian?, by whom he was cut into pieces. The Chinese Consul will bring the matter to the attention of the Washington Government. Allen Young, of Scottsboro, Ala., suddenly became insane, and while in that condition killed his wife anl himself. The town of Dovvthan, Aia., was almost wholly burned. Most of the business portion of the place is in ashes. Loss, ?50,000. Miss Jessie Rolliw, Miss Anna Kockler, C. H. Anderson and A. D. Cooley were drowned at Rock ford, Iowa, by th? capsiz ing of their boat. Brakemax Jordan was killed, Engineers Moore and Abbott were fatally hurt, an 1 many passengers badly hurt in a collision between the Los Angeles express and a freight train at Port Co3ta, Cai. Rev. J. H. N. Montgomery a prominent Baptist minister, committed suicide at Vincent, Ala., by blowing out his brains with a shotgun. He is thought to have been insane. State Comptroller Colgan*, of California, has refused to sign the warrant for ?300,000 for the California World's Fair Commission, on the ground that the grant is unconstitutional. Washington. The court-martial in the case of Commandj er Lyon, who was charged with negligence in stranding the Triana while on the way to , rescue the crew of the Galena, wrecked at | Gay Head. Mass., has found that the official was not guii'y cf the charge. The contract for making the steel forgings for the Haskell multicharga gun has been awarded bv the War Department to the Bethlehem Iron Company, of Reading, Peun. Secretary Foster has decided to sustain | Mr. Meredith, Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in his controversy with the Knights of Labor, and has refused to direct the reinstatement of the plate print ers discharged by Mr. Meredith. Comptroller of the Currency Lacey, in his report to Secretary Foster of his action in the Keystone Bank wreckage, in Philadelphia, relieves himself of all blame, and says that Bank Examiner Drew's report did not reveal the real state of affairs. George Bowie and Charles Washington, both youne co!ored men, had an altercation in Washington, during which Washton cut Bowie slisjhtly. Bowie then took the knife from Washington ani disemboweled him. By a formal order issuod from the War Department the field or union of the national nag in use in the army will hereafter consist or forty-four stars in six rows, the upper and lower rows to have eight stars, and the second, third, fourth and fifth rows seven stars each, in a blue field. J. D. Owejt, the newly appointed Superintendent o? Immigration, qualified at the Treasury Department and entered at onco on the discharge of his duties. E. T. Hall, of Ohio, has been selected a3 Chief Clerk of the new Immigration Bureau of the Treasury Department. Ge.ier.vl Grosyenor, Chairman cf the Immigration Commission to visit Europe, has sent his resignation to Secretary Foster. The National Chautauqua at Glen Echo, a suburb about seven miles from W ashington City, was opened with a series of interesting exercises. The main building is an amphitheatre 206 feet in diameter,seating 6(XX) people, and built of solid stone at a cost ol $150,000. rorciKik In the recent Galician storms fifty persons were kiJled. Jl-uo MEKZBUcaER, one of the SpanishAmerican agents of the New York Life Insurance Company, robbed the company of 5372, COO. Her Majesty Queen* Victoria has ordered that the name of Sir William GordonCumming, the plaintiff in the baccarat suit, shall be stricken from the army list. The striking omnibus drivers of LondoD, England, have accepted the companies' terms. The concessions made by the latter will cost them not less than $450,090. Solemn* requiem services in commeration of the death of Sir John A. Macdonald, late Premier of Canada, were held at Westminister Abbey, London, England. Tite laundresses of LonJoa, supported by numerous trade societies, aggregitlng 80,000 persons, hold a demonstration in Hyde Park. John Burns and all the labor leaders spoke in favor of a work-day of ei^ht hours, and Louise Michel harangued the crowd from the Socialist platform. > I Premier Abbott has formed a Canadian Cabinet; all the members of the late Mlnis, try retain their portfolios. I The Prince of Wales's name was hissed by an audience at a lecture in Wales. The total number of the dead in the re* , cent railway disaster near Moenchensteln, | Switzerland, is now placed at ISO, and the number of the injured at about 300. The Itata started from Iquique, Chili, for San Diego,Cal., after sundown under convoy ; of the Charleston. The Hon. J. J. C. Abbott, of Montreal, has been selected by Lord Stanley, Governor-General of Canada, to form a Cabinet. I The Prince of Wales acknowledged before the House of Commons through Secretary of State for War Stanhope his error of judgment in not requiring Gumming toreport to his commanding officer the charges against him. LATER NEWS. Rain* fell throughout the* Adirondacksin ; New York, and the forest fires which had been raging for a week and threatening the | entire section were extinguished. Frank Fall.vma.ll, t-.o oight-year-old ; sou of a mechanic of Brawstars, N. Y., was ! accidentally shot and killei by his brother, j Fred, four veirsolder than himself. The eighth annual National Prohibition camp meeting will be held at Oakland Park, 111., from July ' > to 2<). A tie placed on the track caused .1 wreck on tne Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, near Cooj Rapid*, I-;wa, by which three were killed and many injured. The Assistant Secretary oc th> Treasury has appointed Hon. Charles Grosvenor on the Special Commission to visit foreign countries in the interest of the Wtxrld's Fair. "William Syphax, one of Washington's most respected colored citizens, died there a few days ago. He was connected with all the prominent movements in that city for the advancement of his peopl?. He entered t'ao Interior Department in 1851, and ser/ed under nine diffjrent Secretaries. A waterspout fail on tin mountains in which is situated the Concepciou silver ;t ine, in the State of San Luis Potusi, Mexico. Eight parsons were killed and a large number were injured. A heavy rain and hail storru did damage to the extent of many thousand" of dollars around Thorold, Canada. Hails'.-mes of a great size fell. There were many washouts on the Welland ?nd Niagara Central railrays, and traffic had to ba suspended. Th& :rops are almost annihilated. McKINLEY NOMINATED. Ohio Republicans Select Him for Their Standard Bearer. Ex-Congressman William McKinley, Jr., was nominated for Governor of Ohio by ac clamation by the Stato Rapublican Convention at Columbus. His name wa3 presented by ex-Governor Foraker. It was the second day of the convention and most of tha noted Republicans of the State were present. Prayer opened the proceedings and then the report of the Committee on Credentials was presented. Amid cheers General Asa Bushnell, of Clark County, was chosen Permanent Chairman, and E. J. Kessinger, of Athens, Permanent Secretary. Chairman Bushnell made a brief address, and declared nominations in order. In an instant ex-Governor Foraker was uoon his feet. Cheers came f rom every throat in the vast audience, and then, in a brief speech, the exGovernor placed the name of Major McKinley in nomination. Colonel Harlan, a colored politician, sec ondei the nomination in the n'im-3 of 30,003 colored voters, and then with three cheers Major McKinley was made the choice of the Convention by acclamation, Be was quickly escorted to the hall by a committee, and in a brief speech expressed his thanks for the nomination. Andrew L. Harris, of Preble County, was then nominated for Lieutenant-Governor; Ebeneza W. Poe, of Wood County, was renominated for Auditor and W. T* Cope, of Cleveland, was nominated for State Treasurer. The platform adopted reaffirms the devotion or tlio party to the doctrine of protection, recognizes the McKinley bill as the ablest expression of that principle, and pledges support to it, "always haviug in view its improvement as changed conditions or experience may require." FATAL WATERSPOUT, Loss of Lile and Property on the Texas Border. A terrific waterspout, accompanied by a windstorm, has visited the vicinity of Frazier, Greer Ccmnty, Texas, causing heavy loss of life and property. Rain had been falling several days, and at eleven o'clock in the night a waterspout burst and in a few minutes the streets were four feet deep in water, presenting the appearance of a raging torrent. All the business houses were flooded. The men with great difficulty succeeded in removing the women aud children to places of safety. Three persons were drowned in Turkey Creek?romp Poindexter, a young farmer, his sister ana a young man named Albright. The dwelling house of Captain Phillips was lifted from its foundation and carried nearly i a mile, when it was hurled against a tree and wrecked. Phillips and one of his daughters caught some floating debris and were washed ashore half a mile from where the J house was demolished. Mrs. Phillips and ! her babe caught a plank and were washed into the branches of a large tree, where they remained till next day, when they were rescued in a boat. A lar^e number of houses were blown down and many others washed away. Dugouts were filled with water aud hunlreds of people rendered homeless, and all their live stock, crops ana otoer property swept away. A young farmer named Burdone, who was trying to reach the shore in a ferry boat, was thrown from the boat and drowned. Near Leoni, thirty miles from Gaiuesville, on Red River, the dead bodies of a man, woman and little child were found in a drift, they having been drowned during the late overflow. The bodies have not yet been identified. (V. W. Lynn, a farmer residing on Hickory Creek, was drowned in that stream. DOWN THE GRADE. Brakemen Lose Control ot Their Train nnrl linunf 11 ifi> Rpvaulta While coming down the Alleghany Mountains from Lloyds ville, Penn., toBellwood,on the Pennsylvania and Northwestern Railroad, about midnight a heavy coal train got beyond the control of the trainmen, and, dashing down the grade, the heaviest in America east of the Rocky Mountains, was piled up and smashed into kindling wood at a curve about three miles nortn of Bellwood. j The engine and twenty-five cars lay piled I up in a mass of broken wood and twisted I iron at the bottom of the ravine, and amon^ J the debris were the bi>d;e.s of the conductor, engineer and one brakeman, with almost all semblance to humanity crushed out of them. ! The other train hands escaped with their lives, but all were more or less injured. The accident is supposed to have been * caused by ! wel rails and tne air brakes refusing to woric : nrooerlr. I Lady Macdonald, the widow of the late ' Canadian Premier, is a remarkable woman. She is tall, with abundant white hair and a face that is stamped with energy and determination. She is a clever talker an omniverous reader and the possessor of extraordinary social graces. She is frequently in attendance at the sittings of Parliament. I ? President E. A. Turner, of the Lincoln University, in Nebraska, is the youngest college President in the country. He is now , twenty-nine years old, and he has held hii ' position for two years. ... I BEHRING SEA DISPUTE. The United States and England Arrange a Modus Yiyendi. Sealing to be Fracticallv Stopped for a Year, President Harrison issued a proclamation in which he announced that the United States and Great Britain have reached aa agreement with respect to the closed season | in BehringSea. He also addressed communications to the Secretaries of the Navy and Treasury Departments, in which he called their attention to the modus vivendi adopted. The s:?m*otnrT7 nf thp Troi?fiiirr trill send instruc lions immediately to the revenue cutter3 I Bear, Corwin and Rush, and the Secretary ! ! of the Navy will communicate with the j commanders of the cruisers at the San Francisco rendezvous, where the British men-of-war will meet them. | The provisions of the modus vivendi which is announced to be for the purpose of prej venting irritating differences, and to pro- , mote ttie friendly settlement of the claims of I the two Governments in th3 Behring Sea, is as follows: I Whereas, An agreement for a modus vivendi between the Government of the United States and the Government of Her Britan- , nic Majesty in relation to the fur seal fish | eries in Behring Sea was concluded on the 15th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-oue, J word for word as follows: Agreement between the Government of ! the united States and the Government of | Her Britannic Majesty for a modus vivendi I in relation to the fur seal fisheries in Behring j Sea. For the purpose of avoiding irritating dif- ' ferences and with a view to promote the friendly settlement of the questions pending between the two Governments touching their respective rights in Behring Sea, and for the preservation of the seal species, the follow mg agreement is made without prejudice to the rights or claims of either party (I) Her Majesty's Government will prohibit until May next seal-killing in that part of Behring Sea lying eastward of the line of demarcation described in Article No. 1 of the Treaty of 1867 between the United States and Russia, and will promptly use its best efforts to insure the observance of this prohibition by British subjects and vessels . 02) That the United States Government will prohibit seal-killing for the same period in the same part of Behring Sea and on the shores and islands thereo", the property of the United States (in excess of 75WJ to be taken on the islands for the subsistence and care of the natives), and will promptly use its best efforts to insure the observance of tins pronibition by unitea states citizen3 anrl vessels. (3) Every vessel or person offending against this prohibition in the said waters of Behring Sea outside of the ordinary territorial limits of the United States may be seized and detained by the Naval or other duly commisioned officers of either of the high contracting parties, bat they shall be handed over as soon as practicable to the authorities of the nation to which they respectively belong, who shall alone have jurisdiction to try the offence and impose the penalties for the same. The witness^ and proofs necessary to establish the offence shall al90 be sent with them. (4) In order to facilitate such proper inJuiries as Her Majesty's G overnment may esire to make, with the view to the presentation of the case of that Government before arbitrators, and in expectation that an agreement for arbitration may be arrived at, it is agreed that suitable persons designated by Great Britain will be permitted at any time, upon application, to visit or to remain upon the seal islands during the pres ent sealing season for that purpose. Signed and sealed in duplicate at Washington this fifteenth day of June, 1891, on behalf of their respective Governments, by William F. Wharton, Acting Secretary o? State of the United States, and Sir Julian l'auncefote, G. C. M. G., K. C. B? H. B. M., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlaMi'mtDnfiQrv * iV.U^VkV.UW.U. J . Willi&mF. Wharton (seal). Julian Pauncefote (seal). Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, have caused the said agreement to be made public to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed an 1 j fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused tlia seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and of the independence of the united States the One hundred and fifteenth. (.Seal). BEN'J. HARRISON, By the President, WILLIAM P. WHARTON, Acting Secretary of State. The BehringiSea correspondence was made public by the Department of State that same afternoon. The correspondence begins with a letter from Sir Julian Pauucefote in reply to one from Secretary Blaine, dated Muy 4. In Sir Julian's letter one ot tue stipulations was that the proposed agreement should uot take effect unless Russia gave her consent. .In reply to tnis it was urged that sucu a ; delay would thwart th_* purposes intended, I a* by the time Russia's consent would be ob I tained it would be too late. It was also contended that Russia never claimed any rights in the part of the sea under dlscus| ^Salisbury then raisad the point that Rus1 sia's consent be obtained. He expressed ' some doubt as to whether this Government | would limit the catch to <500 seals. Acting Secretary Wharton then wrote that Lord Salisbury would surely not question the good faith of the Gov I ernmeut in limiting tho catch, mi J agreed that Great Britain could send a representative to the Islands to sec jro evidence by which to properly present h?r case. A number of other proposals and counterproposals followed, and finally tho modus vivendi as above was agreed upon by representatives of both Governments. GERONIMO SLAIN. Deputy Sheriffs Put an End to tho Notorious Stage Itobber. Deputy Sheriff Gray arrived at Tucson, Arizona, with the body of the notorious Mexican stage robber Geronimo, and Leon, his accomplice. They have beeu robbing stages in Southern Ar.z^na for the past five years, andoftic.rs have been after them continually. Gray and his posse ran them dowu in the mouutains near Panato. They made a fight and Geronimo tired five and Leon three shots without effect. Geronimo was killed; Leon surrendered. Geronimo robbed the United States mail and stage passengers more thau a dozen times, and lias committed many murders.' He was ce.ptured several times out always escaped. Leon, his accomplice, up to s:x months ago; was a deputy sheriff. KILLED S0N_A.ND SELF. Double Crime of an Episcopal Clergyman in V.rginia. The Rev. Frank D. Lee, son of the late Cassius P. Lee, residing near the theological seminary in Fairfax County, Va., in a moment of temporary aberration of mind killed his only son, aged nine years, and then orgmittei suicide with a pistol. The deed was not discovered until noon next day. when the housj, which was securely fastened within, was broken open, and the two boiies wera found on a bed in suc'-i a position as to reveal the facts. Mr. Lee was a graduate of the University of Virginia aul of the Theolog'cal Seminary, and for several years exercised acceptably his ministry in the Episcopal j Church. He was compelled to give it upon account of ill health, aul since lSS'i he lias [ lived iu retirement ou Seaiiuary Hill. A statue of J. S. T. Stranahan, known as Brooklyn's foremost citizen, was unveiled recently at the entrance to Prospect Park in the preeenoe of a large number of distin> ! guished citizens. Mr. Stranahan was pres* I ent and assisted in the ceremony of unveiling. WORLD'S FAIB NOTES. The National Lithographers' Association has decided to make an extensive exhibit of lithography at the Exposition. The visitor to the Exposition will have an opportunity of learning among other things, just how a first-rate postoffice is managed. A working model of such an office will Be a part of the U. S. Government exhibit. An international Exposition regatta is talked of as one of the attractions of the World's Fair. It is believed that the great oarsmen of the world can easily be induced to participate in such an event, and negotiations to that end have already been begun by interested parties. Colonel Mcsgrave, who was in charge of the exhibit made by the Island of St. Vincent at the Jamaica exposition, will bring to Chicago a group of Carib Indians, who are descendenta of the natives discovered by Thaca TrrHiana will livfl nn fchrt I W1UIUUU9* a.uvwv .. m. ...? ? grounds and pursue their industries, the chief of which is basket-making. Lieutenant Bafford, special Exposition Commissioner to Peru, has secured a collection of Indian antiquities found in the graves of thetribes that inhabited the coast region of northern Peru before the conquest. The collection embraces specimens of potter 7, copper instruments and various objects of ethnological interest. An emergency hospital will be built on the Exposition grounds at onco. Dr. John E. Owens has been chosen medical director of the Exposition, and. he will organize a medical bureau which will hare charge of all cases of personal injury occurring & the lines of duty, and any other cases for which the Exposition company mayr in a measure, be responsible. One of the interesting'features of the exhibit which will be made by the- Interior Department of the Government will be that relating to the American Indians. One of the officials of that Department, in speaking of the matter, said: "We will have Sioux and Pueblos on the ground in their peculiar wigwams, making all the articles of merchandise that they now make. The Ztinis. who are clawed with the Pueblos, will make blankets, stone bottles and a peculiar kind of pottery, while the Navajoes will weaveblankets so firm that they will hold water. The peculiar huts of the Pueblos, which are entered from theroof, will also be shown." Contracts for the erection of the World's Fair buildings are now being let at the rate of about one a week. Chief of Construction Burnbam says that there is no good reasou why the buildings should not all be completed by Julyl, 1892. Contractors are put under heavy bonds to finish their work wit&in a specinea time. xaeursi> uuuuin^ contracted for must bo completed by December 31 of this year. The grounds are to be kept lighted by electricity at night, so that the contractors, if they chose or ii they find necessary, can work three- gangs of men, eight hours each. Plans for the new life-saving station, which will be a part of the U. ck Government's exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition, have been completed. Tha building will be eighty-four by forty-fire feet in dimensions, three stories highv and will have wide verandas on three sides. The first floor is arranged for offices, and the upper portion for the living apartments of the keeper and crew. At the rear is the boat house for the life-boats. A pavilion fifty by 100 feet will be put up for life-saving apparatus. Il is thought probable that the Government will allow the station to remain permanently at Jackson Park. F1FTEEU BEHEADED, One Executioner Does the Work Belore a Big Crowd. The China steamer which arrived at San Francisco, Cal., a few days ago, brought details of the beheading of fifteen Chinese at Kcwoloon, opposite Hong Kong. Amom the victims were thres leaders of the pirates who looted the steamer Namoa five months ago, killed the Captain and mate, and secured $30,000 in coin and goods. A great crowd witnessed the spectacle, which was made more repulsive by the cynical Jesting of the chief pirate. All the prisoners had their hands tied behind them. The chief executioner and two assistants thrust their keen swords Into the sand and amused themselves chaffing the police. The pirates were among the first lot of prisoners who arrived, and a howl of execration from the crowd greeted their appearance. "You," said the c'.uef executioner, kving his hands on the shoulder of a tall, tnin man, with keen, piercing eyes. "'We'll begin with you." "All right," responded the pirate leader, "I'm number one." He had been swearing in English and Chinese, one of tho Chinese officers said, on the way to the execution ground. He was placed at one end of a square, and all the others knelt in line with him. A few seconds sufficed to put them in order, and then the daughter began. Lai Atsat, the pirate leader, kept looking around at the executioner, while that worthy primmed his cword and while lis held Lis long, thin neck outstretched, he continued to spaak as if he wished the spectators to know he was not afraid. "You may kill me now," ho said, "but I'll revive again." '"Now, don't move," said the executioner, as he pulled the pirate's pigtail out of the way of the sword. 'ihe kneeling man said something about everybody having his own luck, and as h? said it the sword came down and he was no more. The others, most miserable-looking wretches, shud dered and gave one unwilling look around. They had not lonj to wait, for the brawny executioner was getting through his work with great celerity prefacing each stroite with the warning, "Don't move," and accompanying each blow with a vigorous utterance of a Chinese expression, which might bo rendered into English as ''Done for." When he came to the pirate who had planned the expedition to seize the steamer, he saw this fellow hai lost his nerve. He swore roughly at him, but the victim was ?o nervous that his head moved. The heavy sword fell on the shoulders, and the head did not roll off. .His legs moved convulsively till the executioner, after chopping off the h?ads of the others, returned aud dispatched him. Tue whole bloody work only occupied a few minutes. MURDEROUS PIRATES. Thoy Kill Six Russian Soldiers Oil Batouni. A boat containing five Russian soldiers met off Batoum a strange boat manned by twelve pirates. The officer in command o? the soldiers ordered the pirates to stop and allo:v the soldiers' boat to run a'ongside of them. The pirates answered by firing: a volley from their rifles at the soldiers, killing four of th?m. The pirates then escaped, and the two surviving soldiers pulled ashore and gave the alarm. A boat manned by four soldiers then went in pursuit of the pirates and managed to overhaul them. A^niu the pirates tired, k'lling two and wounding tha two remaining of the four Russian troopers sent in pursuit of their boat. The wounded Russians managed to pull ashore and gave an account of their experiences. The result was that a third boat,this time better manned, was sent after tho pirates. The latter made good their escapo. A Russian gunboat has been sent in pursuit. A FATAL PKANK. A Drunken Mail Drowned With a Child at Parker lord, i'eiin. Jennie Knerr, age J ten, and saveral other little girls were wading in the Schuylkill at Parkerford, Penn., when Fred Bixbie, aged twenty-sight, came along intoxicate), saying: "I'll show you how to swim." He seized two of tha children under his arms and started in. One of them escaped, but with the other, little Jennie Knerr. he started to swim to the oth ?r side. He had not gone far when he aud the ehil 1 sank. Ilia bodies were subsequently recovered. Some startling disclosures in relation to the seemingly endlesss litigations over A. T. Stewart's millions are promised in relation to the suit brought by the Irish claimants. It is said that the syndicate has been selling stock at the rate of $1500 for every $50,000 that may be recovered if the trill la broken. TIE COUNTRY'S CROPS. Monthly Report of the Govern* ment's Statistician. The Condition of Wheat, Cotton, Corn and Oats. The June report of the Statistician of the Department of Agriculture makes the area in winter wheat, as compared with the breadth harvested last year, 111.5; spring wheat, 103.4; barley, 107.1; rye, 101.5: oata, 97.9. The condition is: Winter wheat, 96.8, spring wheat, 92.6; barley, 90.3; rye, 96.4; oats, 95. In comparison with 1889-r the increase in wheat acreage is quite moderate. The reduction last year of more than 2,000,000 acres suggest) the reason for most of the present increase. This ad 7ance is therefore Doth replacement and development, the former notably in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and California, the latter in1 less Hoctpp ? in Washington. Oregon. the Dakotas and in several Territories. These violent fluctuations make the investigation difficult, and in some districts- will render necessary supplementary work. To this extent present estimates may be considered preliminary. The extension of acreage, according to our correspondents, depends on price of wheat and not on available land. A large increment of wheat breadth is reported in Washington, "a large amount of new land is being broken for next year's crop," and the local opinion is expressed that no more than one-fifth of the wheat land of that new State is under cultivation. The winter wheat crop is encroaching npon the southern and eastern borders of the spring wheat district, notable in Iowa and Wisconsin, under the protection of crop diversification and new methods of cultivation. while spring wheat extension responds moderately to the stimulus of higher prices. | The condition of winter wheat has declined only one point. The average of New York is 96; Pensylvania, 97: Georgia, 98;Texas,98; Ohio, 99; Michigan. 90; Indiana, 99; Illinois, I 96; Missouri, 99; Kanap.s, 95; California, 97. The first monthly statement of averages of spring wheat makes Wisconsin, 77; Minnesota. 89; Iowa, 95; Nebraska, 97; the Dakotas, 90. Early-sown wheat was injured by frost in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Germination was arre6ted by drought in the same region. In South Da' .ota drought has retarded growth. Conditions have been more favorable generally in North Dakota. Recent rains in Nebraska and Iowa have greatly benefited wheat and encouraged the growers. Drought in May has greatly injured oats on the entire Atlantic coast. Winter oats In the Southern States are far better than the spring crop, which has been partially destroyed by drought and insects. Not only was the acreage reduced in the Ohio Valley, but condition is low in consequence of dry weather. In Minnesota the injuries 01 drought" were supplemented by those of cutworms. Condition is highest on the Northern Atlantic coast and on the Pacific where areas are very limited. The increase in the acreare of barley is general in almost every section where it is grown, and especially marked in the States of the Ohio Valley, in Wisconsin and California. Condition is uniformly high except in portions of the Northwest, where it has been lowered by drought and cool weather. Tha report for June makes the acreage in cotton 97.7 per cent, of the area ot 1800, and the average condition 85.7. The reduction of the area is attributed in 3ome districts to concerted contraction on account of low prices, but it is erident that it is mainly doe to unfavorable conditions for planting and germination. Planting delayed by early rains, drought in the latter half of April, followed by continued drought in May, germination arrested, replanting active, defective stands corrected, are the features of the record frequently and almost universally reported. These conditions were less general and con trolling in Texas than in any other State. I PROMINENT PEOPLE. Colonel Lbbel, Inventor of the Lebel rifle, is dead. Pqpe Leo XIII. will grant no more private audiences. A mkt.re Rxvsa Chanler is in Paris eni gaged in literary worJc. Mark Twain says T. b. Atdrich ia the wittiest man he ever met. The Grand Lodge of Free Masons elected William Sharer, Grand Master. Secretary Blaine is said to be rapidly niproving in health at Bar Harbor, Me. Alan Arthur, son of the late President Arthur, is six feet four inohes in heighc, very erect and slender. General Schofield's brida-alect, Miss Kilbourn?, of Iowa, is thirty-four year? younger than fee la. Frank Dempster Sherman, the poet, is a processor ia the Columbia School of Mines in New York City. Lord Dunlo, the new Earl of Clancarty, husband of Belle Bilton, has taken his seat in the British House of Lords. President Diaz, of Mexico, has a strain KlnnH in hi? vninq. A_i had his Dre decessorf, Juarez and Hidaigo. The Empress Frederick has caused an old ruin near her new castle to be turned into a hospital, and she personally attends patients therein. Vice Admiral Adams is to succeed Vice Admiral Watson in command of the English North Atlantic squadron, and will hoist his flag abroad the Hercules. Major Turxer Goldsmith, of Atlanta, Ga., eujoyi the distinction of having lived under twenty-one Presidents. He is eightynine years old and has a host of descendants. Rear Admiral Carter, who died a few days ago, is said to be the onlv naval officer of his rank who had previously besn a major general in the Unite i States army. The Duke of Portland is the champion subscriber to newspapers. He takes all the papers of England and a heap more from all over creation. The preceding duke used tc do the same thing and filled up three houses with them. When Ex-Governor Lonjj, of Boston, once disturbed the harmony or a meeting over which he was presiding by asking Miss I Susan B. Anthony, who was delivering uu address, to "speak louder" he was snapped I up with the reply: "I speak louder than you do, Governor." I To Contributor*. Taverner, of the Boston Post, make; a suggestion which may be commended with some grains of allowance, to al contributors to The Companion. "} . doubt," he says, "if Shakespeare him self would have furnished good 'copy' i he had attempted to put down his play; with a pencil and a pad," aud he con tinues: The late Philip Welch, who floodec all the comic papers and some of th< serious ones, with the most original, th< most concise and pointed paragraphs wrote each one?they were always short?in the middle of a sheet of good thick note paper. Thus he secured two advantages Having a sheet of paper for each joke ho was under no temptation to lengther his witticism to suit the page; and th< nature of his material, such as on< would use for an invitation to an even | ingpaitv, naturally led him to be con -i_- liava a bpantifn Cise ?UU UUI3UCU I" *- ? ? ? bon mot in the middle of a beautifu expanse of white. I will only add that I make'these ob serve tions chiefly for the benefit of rn; friend Penloper, whose comparativi failure as a humorist I attribute to hi use of cheap yellow paper, and an ill sharpened penciL A French authority estimates tha( cats are responsible for 30 per oent. o | the cases of common contagious dis eases. 1 wm About the only women in the worlc ; who swing their arma when walking are ? ' Fortunes in Pho#p&ateg. \ The history of the development of th#\ phosphate industry by Americans readf \| more like a romance than the truthful record of a mining pursuit. In Florida alone, where an experimental venturt was made only two years ago, the Indus-' ' try is already established on such a basidas to involve millions of capital and em^ ploy thousands of men, adding thousand^ of dollars daily to the country's wealth and challenging comparison in pro9pecn tive magnitude with any of the great inJ dustries of the world. The world's con-* sumption of phosphate, which mu?t be an indispensable article of commerce until that probably distant period when the chemist shall manufacture in the laboratory what the agriculturist now grows in the fields, is now rated at 1,500,000 tons, aud increases annually at the rate of twenty-five to thirty pel cent. In five years 4,000,000 tons will be required to supply the markets for the season, and in ten years 12,000,000 or 13,000,000 tons will be required. The old sources or supply?South Carolina, Canada and the West ladies?have probably all reached the point of maximum production, and it is to Florida that the world must look for its increasing wants. What untold riches lie under thesoiLof the Peninsula State maybe imagined from the fact that one of its richest tracts of phosphate land is 1000 f miles square. Over most of this land the thickness of the deposit varies from three to> thirty feet or more, the average probably being about ten feet. A cubic yard of the crude staff will wash out . from. 600' pounds to half a ton of clean, dry nodules, and a recent survey has given the contents of a single section of land (640 acres) at 3000 tons. An acre of phosphate land, if the deposit be only, three feet deepy will contain 4840 cubic yards of stratum, yielding 1600 or 2000 tons of clear phosphate nodules. Such land can be bought for $50 to $100 pet j acre.. A complete plant of a daily capacity of fifty or aixty tons can be pat up and started for #10,000 or less. The total daily expense of producing fiftjj tons- of phosphate will not exceed $40.! It will cost fifty cent* to $1 per ton to transport it to tidewater, and there it is worth $(L50 to $7 per ton. In the face of such figures as these it is beyond quea j/xr. ?Viof tk*? f.rvnincr nn of the Florida phosphate field is destined to afford an- r other instance of the way in which America leads the world in the rapid development of gigantic industries.?New York Commercial Advertiser. _ Superstitious Chinese Gamblers. Chinese gamblers are not less superstitious than those of other races. The owners of the gaming establlshmepts use nothing but white in the decoration of the quarters the; occupy, because this ia the color of mourning as tfell as the hue of the robe3 worn by the spirits of the dead in the after world. It is always considered inauspicious, is associated! / with the idea of losing money and is believed to bring bad fortune to the patrons,' with corresponding gains to the com-! panies. Pieces of orange peel are kept in the box with the fan tan cash to bring good luck to the house. In San Francisco each gambling house provides a supper nightly for its customers. Any) one may cat what he wants without charge, but the meal is consumed in si? lence, because it is considered unlucky, to talk. Gamblers on their way to play; fan tan turn back if any one jostles them. They refrain from reading books before playing, because the word for "book" in the provincial patois is the same as the word for "lose." Tiiealmanac, whichis properly termed the "star book," is al-> ways referred to as "lucky stars," to aroi^ the omninous designation. Gamblers use the almanac a great deal in the selection of lucky and unlucky days. It also contains rules for the interpretation of dream j, to which the utmost importance is attached. ' - - <*> Many deri*^ arj resorted to in order i to secure the winning numbers in the lottery. Seme mark the tickets with their eyes closed, while others mark such "of the characters as when read in succession will form a nappy sentence, a yuuug child is often called upon to mark the tickets. At the shrine of the god of war eighty splints of bamboo, marked with the eighty lottery characters, are ordinarily kept for the convenience of gamblers, who make selection from them at 1 random and mark their tickets accordingly. Among the questions asked on the occasion of the new year's pilgrimage to the temple is whether the votary will i be fortunate at play during the coming twelvemonth. Many burn incense and mock money before the god when they . intend gambling, and in a fan-tau cellar a tablet is invariably erected to the lord of the place, a tutelary divinity who is 1 thought to rule the household ghosts.? j Washington Star. I Ml Problems for Iuventors. Among the things which inventors are hunting for now is a contrivance for accumulating and storing up power that coes to waste?the blowing winds, the O ? rising tides, the sun's heat and the change of temperature between night and day. Over every town is powar daily wasted, , a hundred time3 aa much as that town could ever use. 1 Another thing: How to get electricity [ from heat directly, without turning it - I into steam at such tremendous loss. A f quarter of a pound of coal should pro3 duce a horse-power for an hour. The * chemist will dominate coming inventions. j All our fuel will presently be furnished 1 in the form of gas. In a quarter of a century more we shall wonder why man 5 was ever such a fool as to carry coal into * the house and burn it. Perhaps the J time will come when condensed sun' shine will be sold in the market, just as canned corn is now sold.?Tfu Continent. J 1 Midgets and Giants at a Wedding. * A weddimr of an extraordinary char * acter took place at the Registrar's office - at South Shields recently, the bridal pair 1 being a little lady uiiss, who is only 1 thirty-two inches in height, and Professor Hedley, solo euphonium player, who * is six feet one inch in height. The genP tleman who gave the lady away was M. e Hubert, a man without arms, who signed 3 the marriage certificate as 3 witness with a pen between his teeth, and the bridesmaids were Xiua, an American giantess, who is forty-four stone in weight, and J j Setonella, the "Fire Queen." The best ' man was Captain Dallas, who is seven * feet ten inches in height, and General Metelcne, who is twenty-nine and one| half inches in height, formed one of the | party, all of whom are connected with a, * j menagerie and circus which is traveling: through the cowitry.?Q<ucttoj