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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.
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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 ?
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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.
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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.
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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