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Pr ~ FROM FARAND NM Interesting Budget of Old and >'ev ^Tarld News. Great Damage by Fierce Storms in Many riaces. A dispatch from Williamsport, Penn., says: One of the heaviest rainfalls this citj has known occurred on a recent afternoon. The sewers were unable to carry off tn? water, and the streets in the lower portioni were flooded three feet deep. A span of the new Maynard Street Bridge, an iron structure, was blown down, Several mills were damaged. and thirty-tive houses on the south side of the river were wholly or partly blown from th9ir foundations. One house collapsed over the heads of the inmates, and Mrs. Frederacy, one of the occupants, was badly hurt. The aggregate damage was very heavy. A dispatch from Manhattan Beach, N. Y., says: During the progress of a thunder storm a stroke of lightning in the shape of a ball of fire, followed by heavy thunder, fell within a few feet of the railway station at Sheepshead Bay just as a passenger train was pulling into the depot. The shock threw the train, which comprised three cars and an anirino wimnlotfltv off the track. Intense excitement prevailed for a few moments. Almost simultaneously with the Sheepshead Bay treak a ball of fire fell in the rear of the Manhattan Beach Hotel at Coney Island and created consternation amoutf the guests and employes. It struck the telegraph wires witu a report like that of a cannon shot. A cablegram from Bombay, India, says: Fifteen inches of rain fell her a within twenty-tour hours. The towns of Mahooda and Bhowngger, in the province of (iujerat, were flooded with water, which rises breast high In the streets. Three hundred people and a countless number of live stock have baen drowned. A severe storm of rain, thunder, and lightning passed over the Province of Ontario, Canada. Five large barns and their contents t were destroyed by lijrhtmng. Standing grain suffered considerably. A boat containing three boys was struck by lightning at Presque Isle. All of the boys were knockad 6ens<jiess, and one named Arthur Crowe, fell Overboard and was drowned. Riots in China. The steamship City of Peking from Hong Kong and Yokohama brings the following advices from China: The trouble in the Yangtsza Valley has spread as far as Ichang, China. An inland . mission station ia Spasi was burned down and an attempt made by a mob to capture a steamer. Riots have also occurred at Haimen and Tsunz-Minc. A church was pillaged and consrerable damage done. Tbe feeling or uneasiness at other places in the north has not been allayed, but a large number of gunJ boats on the Yangtsze have checked the > rioter.-. An imperial edict reducing the Chinese garrisons throughout the Empire, imposing a new tax on salt and requiring the whole of the hkin on opium for imperial purposes is mentioned as one of the chief causes of the present ferment. American and English City Growth. Superintendent Porter received the preliminary advance copy of the English census, showing the population of twenty-eight of the large cities of England and Wales. Superintendent Porter has made a comparison with the figures contained in this preliminary report for these cities with the figures as ascertained by the Eleventh Cennis for twentv-eieht cities in the United States, with the following result: Popfllation, cities of the United States, 1880, S,694,630; 1890, 9,697,9S0; increase,total, J4003.324; per cent, 44.86; area in acres, 583, 033,060; population to each acre, 16.61. Population, cities of England, 1891, 8,437,214; 1891, 9,379,711; increase, total, 942,497; per cent., 11.20; area in acres, 258,869; popuv lation to each acre, 36.20. The New Paper for Government Notes The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a notice stating that he ha* adopted a new distinctive paper which will be used for all new designs of United States notes, certificates, National bank notes and securities other than checks and drafts. The silk threaded paper adopted in 1885 will be used for existing designs until the supply is exhausted, after which the new paper will be used. The paper for United States notes,National bank notes and certificates is a cream-white bank note paper. Its distinctive feature is a localized red and blue silk fibre incorporated in the body of the paper-while in the process of manufacture, so placed as to form a perpendicular stripe on either side of the centre portrait or vignette of each note and oth*r obligation. Two Fatal Collisions. At an early nour on a recent morning two - - -?- tii?:? ireigoc trams cauiw iu uumsiuu uu vuo v?ucinnati Southern Railroad, near High Bridge, Ky., killing one engineer and greatly damaging the trains. A wrecking train started to their rescue, and when six miles north of Lexington, Ky., it met a through freight, and a terrible head-on collision occurred, which destroyed the two engines and fourteen cars. Tne engineers saved themselves by jumping, but William McKinley, a firemen, was caught in the wreck and killed. 200 Lives Lost in a Collision. Advices by the steamer City of Pekin recently arrived at 8an Francisco, Cal., saj' the following telegram had been received at Yokohama: July 12, at 3 a. m., the steamer Tama? Maru, of Hadodate, while returning from 8uto with 320 laborers on board came into collision with the steamer Migoshi Maru otf Shiragami. The Tamae Maru immediately sank with the low of 260 persons drowned and missing. The Captain and first officer and sixty laborers reached shore. IXUiU iiuIUk lut 1 IVKIUJ, The excitement over the gold fini near Swank, Washington, confines. Many nuggets the tizi of a thimble have been brought in. The vein is four feet wide and eighty feet b9low the surface, Gold can be sien sticking out on the croppings. Only a.little 8hoveiling is necessary, anl two men are able to take out five tons a day. The Kiver Changed Its Channel. The channel of the Missouri River made a sudden change the other day at Fort Pierre, South Dakota. It washed "away a strip of the bank eighty feet wide and a quarter of a mile long. There were several frame buildings on tno strip, but by energetic work they were barely saved from toppling over into the flood. In Favor ot Kochine. Dr. Thamm, of Dusseliorf, Germany, says that he has managed, by the Koch system, to bring about a complete cure in forty per cent, of the cases of tuberculosis whfcn hi has treated, and that satisfactory result* have accrued in forty-five per cent, of th* other cases which he has treated by the same system. Millions Lost Through Forgeries. v.'. The Deutsche Bin.;, of Berlin, Gar many, has lost *2,950,000 by the forgeries of one o? ita clerks. COOLEST OF JULYS. While the Year as a Whole So Far Has Been Over warm. Nem-in tne history of th? United States Weather Bureau at Washington has then* been so cool a July. In all parts of the country east of the Rocky Mountains the temperature has been below the normal. Throughout the lake regions, northern New York.and New England the coolness has beeu most perceptible. On several occasions the minimum temperature in northern New York and along the borders of the lakes to Michigan has been within twelve degrees of freezing, and in Canada just north of the lakes It reached the freezing point. In New York City there has been a deficiency of ninety-four degrees of mean temperature below the normal of twenty years, although the record shows an excess of * temperature of 341 degrees since Jan. 1st. This shows that the winter months were warmer than usuaL : 1 . If. . r- _ . > .. x'.v 1 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern aiul Middle States. The United States steamships Philadelphia *nd Petrel of the North Atlantic squadron, svith Admiral Gherardi on board, dropped anchor at Bar Harbor, Me. The three story pulp mill of the Glen's Falls Company at Ticonderoja, N. Y., was burned. Loss, $50,000. The drill of the Ne? York Naval Reserve came to a close with a review at Fisher's Uland. Judge Hamilton- Barclay Staples, of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, died at Worcester, after a long and painful illness, of internal cancer. He was born in Mendon, Mass., February 14, 1829. Secretary Tracy in the Despatch arrived at New London, Conn., cruising to the eastward. Fifteen hundred representatives of the workmen in Pennsylvania collieries met at Plains, Penn., James Flynn, of Parsons, pre. siding, and determined to insist upon the companies obeying the law requiring payment of wages every two wee to;. The naval reserves returned to New York City from their drills at Fisher's Island. Milch cows were poisoned by some unknown person in Newark, N.Y., and the owners saved their customers by rushing through the town ringing bells and shouting to their customers not to drink of the milk. Andrew L. Westbrook, a former resident of Brooklyn, committed suicide in Dundee Lake, near the home of his son, in the village of Clifton, N.J. He was sixty-nine and very wealthy. Samuel Hano, real estate operator at Allston. Mass.. has assicned to his father. Louis Hano. His liabilities are $500,000, and gross assets $1,000,000. The works of the Richmond County Light, Heat and Power Company, at St. (ieorge, Staten Island. N. Y., were destroyed by fire. Loss over $150,000. William E. Cassells, of the firm of Wilson Cassells & Co., of Boston, committed suicide at Portland, Me., and next day it was learned that he had forged paper to the extent of between $30,000 and$5 ),000. He had taken bis life rather than face disgrace. Abraham Backer, of the ary goods commission houseof A. Backer & Co., New York City, a heavy dealer in commercial paper, assigned. His liabilities are estimated at about $4,000,000, of which $2,500,000 are direct and $1,500,000 contingent. The principal creditors are banks. The famous Weeks House at Palmer, Mass.. was burned, and ona of the guests, Rev. Francis F. Williams, a Boston clergyman, was suffocated to death. W. L. Buck, Cashier of the First National Bank of Darbv, Penn., was struck by a train at Collingdale and instantly killed. The formal opening of the great Chautauqua (N. Y.) Assembly took place, and full? 10.000 people were preseut to participate in the exercises. / The Squadron of Evolution, which saileJ recently in command ot acuuk xw?rAdmiral John G-. Walker, to pat the Naval Reserve Battalion of the State of New York through a week of man-of- warsmen drill at Fisher's Island, returned to New York Har bor. Schuyler's Steam Towing Company-, of Albany, N. Y., the oldest and best known of the rforth River lines, has suspended. The liabilities admitted foot up $350,000. Henry Bartels, a bartender in New York City, was "electrocuted" by an electric motor of ten arc lights capacity, which rum the fans for cooling the place. He wat hurled backward to the floor, and after t few spasmodic twitches of the muscles al was over with him. He was dead withio three minutes. Hundreds saw him die. South and West. Isham White was executed in the jail J -? T-l A _l. nt vara nwioua, miw., iui vuo v? Prince Malloy, a colored man in good cir cumstanees. Fifty kegs of powder exploded an', wrecked the Alabama Great Southern Depot at Birmingham, Ala. William Caldwell, colored, was hanged at Houston, Texas, for the murder of Dr J. M. Shambliu just three years ago. Cashier Kirby, of the City National Bank, MarshalJ, Mich., has been arrested, | charged with robbin ; the bank of $100,000. I A woman and three little girls were at | tacked by Texan cattle in the Cherokee i Nation's reservation in Indian Territory, Cowboys tried to rescue them, but all four were gorei to death. In a collision near Charlotte. S.C., Henrj Brissenden, engineer, and W. C. Brown, who was working his passage to Charlestor ! as fireman, were killed oy jumping from tht engine before the collision occurred. Commander Charles M'Gregor, of the United States Navy, died in Cincinnati Ohio, aged forty-six years. Ganeral anc Mrs. Sweitzer, his sistir, attended him. Bayliss W. Hann'a, ex-Minister to tht Argentine Republic under the Cleveland ad ministration, died at Crawfordsville, Ind He was born at Troy, Ohio, in 1333. Morris Godfrey, aged seventeen, died 01 hydrophobia in terrible agony at Saginaw. Mich. Jackson Donnelly, a rich farmer living five miles east of Arkansas City, Ark., and his wife were found murdered in their house Rev. William N. Perry, agel forty, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, at Bowling Green, Ky., fell'dead in his pul pit from heart disease while preaching. The large retail dry goods store of Siegel. Cooper & Co., at Chicago, III., was destroyei bv nre. The loss is $500,000. Tha flames also caught stores in the rear which were damaged $200,000 worth. , Right Rev. Kilian Flasch, Bishop oi the Roman Catholic diocese of La Crosse, Wis., died of cancer of the stomach. Dr. Flasch was born in Retgstadt, Bavaria, it 1S3L On Lock, Moore & Co.'s stsam road, twenty miles from Lake Charles, La., an altercation between the men employed there took place in which ten men were shot, six of whom were killed at once and one mortally wounded. The remaining three were seriously injured. The State election was held in Kentucky and on the day after it was estimated thai the Democratic State ticket was elected by pluralities ranging from 20,000 to 40,000. The new Constitution was carried with a sweep, and the majority for it was placed at anytning from CO,009 to 100,000. At a special meeting the citiz 3ns of Birm ingham, Ala., subscribed $102,000 to a million-dollar steel plant. The citizens wer? asked by the promoters for $150,000 and the other $48,000 is iu sight. The Farmers' Alliance and Democrats sympathizing with thorn have a working majority in the Kentucky Legislature. John W. Greene, postmaster of Los Angeles, Cal? died a few days ago at th< age of sixty-three years. He was a nativi or Michigan. Diphtheria in a malignant form is pro railing at the South Dakota Hospital for the Insane, near Yankton. Samuel Freeman", a wealthy merchant, went to his home in Severance. Kan., and killed his wife and year-old child, and then fired a bullet into his own brain. President Baker, of the "World's Columbian directors, Chicago, III., received a progjsition from M. Eiffel, architect of the iffel tower, for permission to erect a tower on the grounds, the enterprise to be backed by French capitalists. The cable set forth that the tower would be superior to the ona at Paris. "Washington. Comptroller of- the Currency Lacey has sent out a circular to all National banki suggesting prompt action on taa part oi those nanks that have circulation secured by 4!^ per cent. Iran Is, either to secure the continuance of the bonds or deposit other bonds in their place. Secretary Tract finally deci led tc award the contract for building cruiser No. I 13 to Cramp & Sods, or i'aiiarlelphia, although the Bath Iron Works, of Maine, wen the lowest bidders. A proclamation was issued by the President making public the provisions of thf treaty with .Spain in regard to t':e trude ol the United States with the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico. About 800 clerks were dismissed from tha United States Census Oflice at Washington, and other dismissals will follow, until the force is reduced lo 1000 ;lerks. General Daniel "'IcCauley* assumed ? -j. . .v. the office of Chief of the Appointment Division of the Treasury Department. A commission, consisting of Messrs. E. L. Mills, W. W. Uttz and Amos "Webster, of the Treasury Department, has been appointed to count the National bank notes in the vaults of the office of the Comptroller of the Currency, aggregating about $42,000,000. It will take four weeks to make this examination. Secretary Proctor approved the re ports of the two boards of army officer which recently examined non-commissione< officers and civilians for appointment to th? army as second lieutenants. Twelve candi dates were selected from each list. A proclamation was issued announcinj the terms of the new treaty relating to thi commercial relations between the unitec States and the Island of San Domingo. Focrth Assistant Postmaster-General Rathbone assumed office with George B. Cortelyoa, of New York City, as private secretary. President Harrison signed the commission, which makes J. Sloat Fassett Collector of the Port of New York. Andrew H. Dougherty, of Michigan, has been appointed principal examiner of land claims and contests in the General Land Office at Washington. General John M. Schofield has returned to Washington with his bride and resumed his duties at the War Department. The United States Treasurer continues the daily shipment of small notes to the West for use in moving the crops. The total amount up to a recent data was $2,800,000. LWI rrr. mr w?iKu. Simon Bergevine, postmaster at Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, is under arrest charged with stealing a ten thousand dollar package from the mails. Cotton to the value of $250,000 was deBtoyed by Are at Liverpool, England. British army authorities .are seriously alarmed by the information that socialistic literature is being widely distributed among the enlisted men. There was a fatal collision in the English Channel, off Dover. England. The steamer Godmunding collided with and sank the Norwegian schooner Lorma. Eight persons were drowned. Vesuvius has again burst forth into a state of eruption. The lava reached the village of Rio del Cavallo. Sl"r persons were killed by an explosion of fire-damp in the Karlsglueck pit in Westphalia. Mr. Parxell's overtures to Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien for a reunion of their forces were rejected. Mr. Parnell has been deserted by the Dublin Freeman's Journal. The Commissioners of the World's Fail in Paris spoke of unexpectedly widespread interest in the Exposition in England and France. Despatches from Zanzibar state that the Somalis, who recently made a treacherous attack upon Athale, an Italian coast station in northern Africa, were repulsed after a sharp struggle, during which thirty man were killed on each side. The celebration of the sixth centenary of the Swiss Confederation began with a series of fetes in Schwyz,ona of the four forest can tons, situated nearJy in the middle of the Confederation. An explosion took place at Corunna, Italy, in a fireworks factory. Sir people wen killed and many were injured by the explo sion, the cause of which is unknown. King Alexandria, of Servia, arrived at St. Petersburg, Russia, on a visit to the imgerial family. The Czar and saveral of the ussian Grand Dukes received him at the railway station, and ho was tendered all the honors due to a reigning sovereign. The Government of Uruguay has issued a decree extending for one month the payment of all claims against the National Bank During this period the Bourse will be closed At Hobarttown, Tasmania, the Bank ol Van Dieman's Land has suspended. Its paid up capital is $1,250,000 and its reserve capi tal amounts to an equal sum. The bank wat established in 1833. The Foreign Committee of the World'* Fair Commissioners were received iu Berlin, Germany, by VonBoetticher and Chancellor Von Caprivi. The anuual report of the President of the Dominion Miller s Association, in session at Toron to, Canida, estimates the wheat crop of the Dominion at 35,160,000 bushels?a reckoning which allows 22,130,003 bushels for export. A MONSTER PARADE, Nearly 50,000 G. A. R. Men in Line in Detroit, Mich. Tho National Eucampmant of the Grand Army of the Republic and the celebration of its silver anniversary formally opened in Detroit, Mich., with the grand parade. Special trains bringing State delegations from all parts of the country poured into the city throughout the night and early morning. Others brought visitors not officially identified with the encampment by the tens of thousands, and at ten o'clock that morning the streats in the center of the city ware almost impassable. Tho head of the Droce3sion moved at eleven o'clock, and both in nurub9r3 and equipment the parade was one of the most magnificent ever made by the Grand Army. Most of the veterans wore very handsome uniforms, and there was no end of naval features. Between 30,000 and 40,000 men were in the parade. Enthusiastically the uvet3" marched beneath the four great triumphal arches that had been erected, now and again breaking out into a cheer, the applause being carried along the line until it seemed to ena in a distant murmur. There were forty-seven divisions in the parade, and it took two and a third hours tor the first four to pass a given spot. Estimates of men who galloped along the line and through the formation streets after the column had moved placed the men in line at nearly 50,000. It was noticeable that there were more crippled and otherwise disabled veterans than hare beeu at any previous encampment, many more gray heads and enfeebled frames. Every division was reDlete with interesting features. The Philadelphia contingent, nearly 500 strong, carried umbrellas, each one painted to represent a portion of the battle of Gettysburg. Sault Ste. Marie Post was also repre sented by a brigade, each umbrella being so painted that when combined they represented Lake Superior and the City of the Sea. A striking featureof the Michigan division was the fact that numbers of old battle fiig3 wera carried by the men who bore them during the war. Still another umbrella brigade was that of George H. Thomas Post No. 5, of Chicago. Their umbrellas were paintod to represent a monster flag of the United States, covering the entire post and extending nearly two squares. The Ohio division was very large and presented an imposing appearance. Among those upon the reviewing stani were General Veazy, Commander in Chief, General Miles, of the Regular Army; erGovernor Oglesby, of Illinois; Governors Fifer, of Illinois; Campbell? of Ohio; Peck, of Wisconsin; General Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin; Governor Winaus, of Michigan; Mrs. John A Logan and over & hundred Others. INNOCENT VICTIM. Jack Marion Hanged for Killing a Man Who is Alive. A dispatch from Beatrice, Neb., says; More than fifteen years ago "Jack" Marion and one Cameron set out together in a wagon on a trip, aud were last seen at the Blue River, near here. A few days later the supposed body of Cameron was found in the Biue River, and when it was discovered that Marion had been seen with Cameron's team and goods in his possession he was suspected of murdering his companion. He was not arrested until ten years afterward, and was tried several times, and finally executed in March, 1887. William Wymore, an uncle of Morion, has always belived the latter innocent, and has at length proved it by finding Cameron alive in La Crosse, Kansas. Cameron had gone immediately to Mexico, thence to Alaska, after leaving Marion on the banks of the Blue River, and had returned from Alaska only a year ago. Hearing for the first time of Marion's execution. and fearing ' himself amenable to the law, he concealed his identity, but remorse caused him to re< veal it. ' He is folly Identified. ^ _ FATAL FEUD. Desperate Battle Between White Men and Half-Breeds. The ".Red Bones" GaDg Defeated With Severe Loss. A dispatch from Lake Charles, La., says: Full details of the bloody tragedy at Locke, Moore & Co.'s tram, twenty-two miles from here, are at last obtainable. It appears to be somewhat of a race war in that the strife was between whites and a number of thriftless halfbreeds who are called "Red Bones." A few days ago a Mr. Morris make a remark to an employe, "Where are those 'Red Bones' who were to drive this wagon?" His remark was evidently overheard, for the next night his house was surrounded by an angry mob, headed by Andrew As worth, who ordered him to come out and be whipped. This he refused to do. By strategy he succeeded in holding the fort all night. In the morning he was notified that he must leave the coun try Deiore tne sua went aown or uo wuuiu be assassinated. He at once communicated the news of these threats to the white people of the settlement, and they guaranteed him full protection. The next morning a party of white men went down to a little store a mile and a half from the mill to get some whisky. On arrival there they found a party of "Red Bones," who asked them if they had come for the purpose oi raising a disturbance or seeking a quarrel. The white men told them that they were on no hostile mission, but they had come to get some whisky. While this talk on the outside was coing on, Jesse Dyson, the leader of the "Red Bones," and as desperate a charact3r as ever graced the border, came out of Lacomb's saloon or store and declared himself able to clear out the whole party. He at once drew out his sixshooter, but hardly had it leveled before Jesse Ward, one of the whites, sent a bullet crashing through his brain and he fell dead. In an instant a general battle began and Ward fell mortally wounded, baing shot from behind. For a few moments it sounded as though a musketqg fire was going on. Winchester rifles ana six-shooters were pliel as rapidly as those holding them could fire, and though greatly outnumbered the whites, succeeded in routing their opponents after slaying five of them. Four of the dead fell in"their tracks, literally shot to pieces, while one lived lone enough to scrawl to a cabin, where he diel nt fch? door. Dupree Lacomb, the saloon man, was shot through the leg and his son wounded. "Ked Bones's" party ran his wife and younger children out of the house into the woods, firing on them, but they fortunately escaped. When the smoke of battle had cleared away the following were found dead: Jessie Dyson, Lee Perkins, Andrew Asworth,Owen Asworth, Marion Merkle, all Red Bonos. But this did not end the trouble for the Red Bones took to the bushes which is in Elaces well nigh impenetrable, and from amush they shot at passers-by. T. T. Swann, an old man who was on his way to the seat of war to ascertain the trouble, was ehot from ambush and killed. 'When the Sheriff's posse arrived with the Coroner they met with resistance, and failed to capture any of the Red Bone3 men. Three of the white men have been arrested and are in jail. The half breeds are in the brush, and the officer* dare not pursue them for fear of being shot from ambush. LATEE NEWS. Ths Vermont fish hatchery is to be located at Roxbury, as will the buildings of the National hatchery. Mi89 Emma Walravjen Comfort, the laughter of Major Samuel Comfort, of New ' STork, wa3 married at Philadelphia, Penn., to Pasha Crookshauk, Director General of the Egyptian Prisons. I At Cape May, N. J., the President appointed James W. Hind, of Michigan, Consul at Amheretburg, Canada. Minister to Greoce I A. Lou '.on Snowden and Civil Service Comi missioner Lyman called at the shore capi: tal. I J. Henry Jahke, one of the wealthiest j wholesale butchers in Philadelphia, Pern)., killed his son by a blow struck in self-iefease : during a quarrel. ; Thk transatlantic steamship Majestic of ' the White Star Lino has beaten all westward records, having made th9 trip from QueensI town, Ireland, to New York in five days, ! eighteen hours and eight minutes. Thii ; boats the record by flfty-sevon minutes. The Republican State League Convention at Syracuse, N. Y., adopted a platform of i principles, and re-elected Colonel E. A. McAlpin President of the organization. ! Admiral Walker and the officers of the White Squadron wera breakfasted in New York City by the Chamber of Commerce at the Lawyers' Downtown Club. Thk east bound train on the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad collided with the Ellenburg Sunday-school excursion train just east of Champlain station, N. Y., j and it was reported on the day after the acj cident that eight passengers had been killed, j from ten to fifteen badly injured and anum? ber of others more or le3s hurt. General Veazev opeaei the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the R?> public at Detroit, Mich. Washington, D. C., vraa chosen for the next encampment. The third annual convention of the Na ional Letter Carriers' Association of the ; United States was held at Detroit, Mich., all i the leading postoffices of the country being j represented. j Acting Secretary ok the Treasurer j Nf.ttleto.v appointed John S. Rogers Com, missioner of Immigration at Philadelphia. The twenty-first annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America was held at the Academy of Mu3ic, W ash* ingtoD, Right Rev. Bishop Cotter, of Winona, Minn., President in the chair. Cardinal Gibbons welcomed the delegates to the archdiocese of Baltimore. John Duckett, one of the aged patriarchs of Washington, died a few days ago at the age of 106 years. Duckett was born in slavery in Prince George's County, Md. He was classed as colored, but Indian blood predominated in his veins. The Czar, Czarina and the Grand Duke Alexis left St. Petersburg, Russia, for Finland, where thej will attend the autnmn maneuvers of the land and 6ea forces to be held at Vilmanstrand. At Gysegen, Germany, a widow was murdered by her three sons because she contemplated marrying again. The elder brothers then killed the youngest, fearing that he would betray them. A waterspout on ona of th3 islands of the Azores group has caused iminenss damage, and resulted in the killing of six persons. INDIAN EXECUTION, Funeral Honors Paid to Two Semi nole Murderers. John Frog and Jackson Wolf, Seminoli Indians, were executed at Wewaka, Indiai Territory, for the murder of John Hare. The whole tribe joined in paying the tri butes of respect after the men had been shot and they had such a funeral as would havi i been accorded them had they fallen in bat tie. The decree of the council had wiped on all blood feud between the families, and th< , whole tribe united in the ceremonial atten dant UDon the burial ' '' v ' :T. AGRICULTURAL FAIES. Where and Wben The; Will Be Held This Season. STATE FAIRS. Kame. Where held. * . t.? ? rw on_9,i Aiaoama Dirmiii|;uaui ? California Sacramento Sept 7-19 Colorado Pueblo Sept 24-30 Connecticut... Meridan Sept 15-18 Delaware Dover Sept 22-25 Delaware Wilmington.......Sept 7-11 Georgia Macon ....Oct 21-29 Illinois.. Peoria Sept 28-Octfc Indiana Indianapolis 8ept 21-20 Iowa Des Moines... Aug 28-Sept 4 Kansas Topeka Sept 11-19 Kentucky Lexington Aug 25-29 Louisiana Baton Rouge Oct 6-10 Louisiana Shreveport Nov 3-7 Maine Lewiston ....Sept 7-11 Massachusetts (Hort)....... Boston Sept 15-17 Michigan Lansing.. Sept 7-11 Minnesota Hamline Sept 7-12 Missouri Sedalia Aug 18-22 Montana Helena ....Aug 23-27 Nebraska Lincoln ... .Sept 4-11 Nevada Reno Sept 21-28 New Hampshire Tilton Sept 15-17 New Jersey.... Waverly Sept 21-26 New Mexico.. .Albuquerque Sept 14-19 New York Syracuse Sept 10-17 North Carolina. Raleigh Oct 1-Dec 1 Ohio Columbus Sept 14-18 I Oregon Salem Sept 14-19 Rhode Island. .Providence Sept 21-25 South Carolina.Columbia. lnov 9-13 South Dakota..Sioux Falls iSept 21-25 Texas Dallas Oct 17-Nov 1 Vermont Burlington Sept 1-4 Virginia Richmond Washington ...Walla Walla..Sept 23-Oct 8 West Virginia. Wheeling Sept 7-11 nr, Onnf 14_tR VV liCOaaiQ ..... UlliWttUiiOB ocp A* fcw Wyoming Cheyenne Sept 14-19 EXPOSITION'S, STOCK SHOWS, ETC. American Fat Stock Show Chicago?Nov 11-21 American Horse Show. Chicago?Nov 11-21 American Dairy Show. Chicago?Nov 11-21 American Poultry Show Chicago?Nov 11-31 American Institute...New York City?Sept 30-Nov 2 Augusta Exposition... Augusta Ga?Nov 2Blue Grass Palace Creston Iowa?Nov 20 -29 Coal Palace Ottumwa la?Sept 15 -Oct 10 International Fair and Exposition San Antonio Texas? Nov 10-22 Detroit International Fair and Ex As3'n. .Detroit Mich?Aug 23 -Sept 4 Flax Palace Forest City IowaSept 8-12 Hay Palace Momence 111?Sept 16 -2(5 Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Milwaukee Wis?Sept 2-Oct 17 Minneapolis Exposition MinneaDolis Minn? Aug 26-Sept 26 Piedmont Exposition..Atlanta Ga?Oct 1&Nov 7 Siour City Corn Palace Sioux City Iowa?Oct 1-17 Southern Exposition Co Montgomery Ala? Oct 28-Nov 11 Southern Inter-State.Raleigh N C?OctlDec 1 Toledo Exposition and Inter-State Fair..,.Toledo Ohio?Sept 712 Winona Fair and Exposition Winona Minn Aug 24 -28 INTER-STATE AND DISTRICT FAIRS. Great Inter-State Trenton N J?Sept 28 ?Oct 2 Great Inter-State Elmira NY?Sept 1-9 International Detroit Mich?Aug 23 -Sept Inter-State Agricultural and Mechanical Memphis Tenn?Oct 13-17 La Crosse Inter-State.La Crosse Wis?Sept 1-5 Kansas City InterState Kansas City Mo?Oct 3-10 Mt Gretna Fanners' Encampment Mt Gretna Pa?Aug 16-22 New Englan4 Agricultural Worcester MassSept 1-4 Western Pennsylvania..,. ...Washington Penn? Aug 31-oept 4 STATE ELECTIONS OF 1891. Arkansas, January 26. elected an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Delaware, May 19, rejected a proposition to hold a convention to revise the Constitution of the State. Iowa, November 8, will elect Governor and other State officers and Legislature. Kentucky, August 3, elected Governor and other State officers and Legislature, and voted upon the Constitution framed by the Convention which was elected August 4, 1890. Maryland, November 3, will elect Governor and other State officers and Legislature, and vote upon six proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State. Massachusetts, November 3, will elect Governor and other State officers aad Legislature. Michigan, April 6, elected Justice of the Supreme Court and two Regents of the State University. Mississippi, November 8, will elect thrje Railroad Commissioners and Legislature. Nebraska, November 3, will elect Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and two Regents of the State University. New Jersey, November 3, will elect part of the Senate and the Assembly. New York, November 3. will elect Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General, Engineer and Surveyor, the^ Senate, the As- J sembly, ten Justices or tneoupreme uuuru, and a Representative in Congress from the Tenth District. Ohio, November 3, will elect Governor and other State officers and Legislature and vote upon a proposed amendment to the Constitution providing for uniformity of taxation. Pennsylvania, November 3. will elect Treasurer and Auditor General, and vote whether a Constitutional Convention shall be held and elect delegates to the same. Rhode Island, April 1, voted for Governor and other State officers and elected the LejtIslature. There being no election of State officers by the people, the Republican candidates were elected by the Legislature. Texas, August 11, will vote upon five prodosed amendments to the Constitution of the State. Virginia, November 3, will elect one-half its Senate and its House of Delegates. Wisconsin, April 7, elected Judge of the Supreme Court. BLUNT PRIME GEORGE. In Disgrace Became He Did Not Flatter the Czarevitch. The letter which recently appeared in the Berangske TicUnde of Copenhagen, in which Prince George of Greece gave a detailed account of the attack upon the Czarevitch at Otsu, near Kioto, Japan, by a Japanese policeman, has greatly allured the estimates which were at tlrsfc formed at St. Petersburg of the Prince's action upon that occasion, and has been the means of placing him in terrible disgrace in that city. The reason for the altered feeling entertained for the Prince is the fact that he caused to be published hit; own account of the attack upon the Czarevitch without previously submitting the manuscript for revision. It is considered here that the story as told by Prince Georgo emphasizes certain rumors that the Czarevitch did not exhibit much bravery when ho was attacked. Particular offense is taken at the statement in the Prince's published letter that after the Czarevitch had been 5 struck, and while he was endeavoring to i make his escape from his assailant, he tumbled to the ground through sheer fright. The seventeen-year-old boy Pratte, who turned the wrong switch and sent a train on 3 the Manchester (England) Canal Railway over an embankment, causing the loss ol ' eleven lives, has been acquitted of the chargt ' of manslaughter. The magistrates who dis pofied of the case strongly censured the com* oaiiv for employing boys at switches. t i NATIONAL FINANCES. Synopsis of the Monthly Public* Tl .1.1 uewi ouLt'iufuu Decrease in Customs Collections and Total Circulation. The monthly public debt statement just Issued from the United States Treasury Department, at Washington, shows a reduction in the debt during the past month amounting to $3,447,500. There was an increase of $300 in the interest-bearing debt due to the issuance of a small refunding certificate bond; a reduction in the non-interest-bearingdebtof $1,537,802, and an increass in the surplus during the month of $1,889,907. The aggregate of interest and non interest debt August 1, less $100,000,000 gold reserve and $55,783,715 net cash balance or surplus, is $843,465,242, and of this amount $610,329,420 is interest-bearing debt, made up of $559,660,220 4 per-cent. bonds,:53^,184,700 4K per cent* and $11,679,500 4 per centa., confined at 2 per cent. Government receipts from all sources during July aggregated $34,300,344, against $38,303,216 in July, 1890. Customs receipts were $15,468,153, against $23,953,386 in July a year ago; internal revenue receipts were $14,551,867, against $11,717,499 in July, 1890; receipts from miscellaueous sources were $4,280,342, or nearly $2,000,000 more than in July a year ago. Expenditures during the first month of the current tiscal year were $39.719,H51, against $39,033,949 in July, 1890. The Treasury now holds $14S,OS9,630 to secure circulation of National banks. Of this $114,674,950 is in four per cents, $16,772,6-50 four-and-a-half per cents, $8,700,000 currency sixes, and $5,942,050 two per cent, continued fours. National bank circulation given on July 31, aggregates $16S,421,722, against $184,253,076 on July 31, 1890, a decrease during the twelve months of $15,831, 854. The total coinage of the mint3 during the month of July was 9,009,000 pieces of all kinds, valued at $2,899,000. Gold valued at $1,600,000 was coined; 976,000 standard silver dollars and 2,000,000 dimes were also coined, the silver coinage amounting to $1,176,000. The minor coinage amounted in value to $123,000, consisting of 1,572,000 five-cent pieces and 4,340.000 one-cent pieces. PE0MINENT PEOPLE, Kino Pomare, of Tahiti, is dead. Jay Gould is afflicted with neuralgia. The Prince of Wales has a mania for collecting masons' trowels. General Booth, of the Salvation Army, has started on a tour around the world. Dom Pedro is recovering from the serious illness with which he has been suffering. A reception and banquet were given to ex-President Cleveland at Sandwich, Mass. The Prince of Naples is said to know more about military matters than any prince in Europe. Professor Koch resigned his pubic offlcee to accept that of Director of the Institute of Infectious Diseases. General Schofield, who was recently married, will soon settle down in Washington in a cozy little home. A good part of the town of Falmouth, England, is owned by Lord Kimberly, who, in the matter of large real estate possessions, is something like the Astors, oI this country. They say that Philip D. Armour, the Chicago pork packer, is the largest individual sommercial operator in the world. Hla transactions last year reached the euormous aggregate of $63,000,000. Herbert Hz we Bancroft, who has_ sarned fame with his history of the Pacific" joast, began life as a clerk in a book store. He now owns one of the most valuable and complete historical libraries in the world. Lord Wolselet, the famous English General, is a small man, with a slim. Lithe dgure. His face is ruddy, his eyes blue, and he wears a drooping gray mustache. He is now fifty-eight, and bis hair has grown white. The classmates of the late Lieutenant G. W. De Long, United States Navy, who perished in the Arctic, having secured the necessary funds,are about having a memorial tablet placed in the .Naval Academy Chapel at Annapolis. President Diaz, of Mexico, is of medium Height, straight as an arrow, of dignified bearing, and suggests unusual strength of character. He wears citizen's clothes, and thereby becomes consoicuous among the many gaudy uniforms about him. The Shah of Persia is an enthusiast with the Kodak, and takes very good pictures with it when he condescends to do so. Wherever he goes he is accompanied by a court photographer, who takes views of everything that interests the King. The Princess Alois Liechtenstein, the beautiful wife of the well-known Prince Alois, has become totally blind. She is at present in Kissengen in the hope of finding some relief. The same misfortune has also befallen Baron von Pino, at oner time Min ' - ? i urwr 01 uommerue iu * rusna. A Geneva dispatch says' that Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, has met with a serious accident. According to information received at Genera from Muerren, Mr. Stanley, while sojourning there with his wife, fractured his left thigh bone by accidentally slipping while mouutain-cllmbing. John Claflin, the dry goods merchant, is known In the Rocky Mourtains as a man who slays a grizzly every time he goes out there for a month's rest and sport. Mr. Claflin woald never be taken for a sportsman. He looks more like the conventional ; Sunday-school superintendent, but he is fond of adventure. He is said to have been the first traveler to cross South America from the Pacific to the Atlantic. BOLD TEAIN BOBBEE. He Wounds a Passenger Who Kicks at Hun for Intruding Into a Berth. | 'While an east bound Chespeake and Ohio train was between Waynesboro Junction and I Basic City, in Virginia, at two in the morn j ing a stranger entered the Pullman sleeping car and approached the upper berth nearest the rear door, which was occupied by a daughter of Colonel R. C. Marshall, of Portsmouth, Va., her father being in the lower one. The voung lady on being aroused exclaimed, "Who is that?" when the man apoligized and went on. A few momenta thereafter a pistol shot was heard, which startled the occupants of the sleeper, and it was found that D. F. Connall, of Portsmouth, Ohio, had been shot in the groin by a pistol ball, inflicting an ugly wound. Connell then says he was aroused from sleep by a man who demanded hi3 money. | Connell kicked at the intruder, whereupon he drew a pistol, shot him and made his escape. By agreement all the passengers in the sleeper were searched, but no weapons were found. It is presumed that the robber got on the train at Waynesboro, found the door of the sleeper unlocked, and just before reaching Basic City, a mKe distant, he put his bold plan into execution, with the result stated, and jumped off as the train slowed up. EELICOF INDIAN BUTCHERY The Sign of the Red Cross Not Recognized by Red Warriors. The United States War Department has received from Post Surgeon John Van R. Hoff, of Fort Riley, Kan., a battle marked reiic of the late war with the Sioux in South Dakota. It is an ambulance guidon, which has upon its field of white the sign of the Red Crost=. According to the terms of the Geneva Convention th s cross, whea properly displayed, is respected by all combatants ia civilized warfare. There are more than a dozen holes in the guidon, made by the shots from the Indians' weapons, and Major Hoff, in his letter accompanying it, expresses the opinion that the Geneva Convention cuts no figure in Indian warfare. The guidon was one of those displayed ia the Wounded Knee fight, v/heu Hospital Steward Pollard was killed while going to the reliet of a wounded man. Privates Richard Costner and William Girdwood were gran tad certificates for gallantry displayed in this fight, as well as In the fight at I White Clay Creek. i i. .v :$.i llg Oxygen is the most abundant of oil .. the elements. mL T -t A lie numuer ui iu a au-puuuucw in November istfully 9,000,000. Prihceton College will send out an expedition to Western Montana in searcb of fossils. The City Council of Elizabeth, N. J.f has voted to have alarms of fire sounded in future by an electrical whistle. Recent calculations show that the electromotive force of a bolt of lightning produces an energy of upward of 3,000,000 horse power. #' .y The phonograph has been employed to register the conversation coming over the telephone wires so as to keep a record of the day's business. Recent observations with the Lick telescope of the shadow of one of Jupiter^ satellites are said to show that the tiny moon itself is double. The electrostatic resistance of the Atlantic cable reduces the speed of the electric current more than one-third, requiring three seconds tor it to travel "to ' Europe. The suffering due to a felon on oneY finger has been successfully relieved and 1 a rapid cure made by means of electricity. Salt and turpentine or a fly blister will check afelon at the start. M. Pictet, a Swiss scientist who Is trying to make pure chloroform, say* that the fatal effects following the use of this drug are not due to the chloroform but the impurities it contains. Recent experiments show that an elec- < nnrronf will fMtrol nrro*" o Ann. ^UAtVUH ni*4 WAUVWI. utti c* guwu V/W?ductor at the rate of 500,000 miles a minute, or around the earth in three seconds. Light travels at the rate of 1,000,000 miles a minute. i!" v'fj: Experiments upon the phosphorescence of gems shows that it varies according to the origin of the stone. Cape diamonds^ show blue, Brazilian stones red, orang^J-^ blue, or yellow, and those lrom Australia yellow, blue, or green. Experiment has shown that when coal is burnt in an open grate from one to . three per cent, of the coal escapes in the :fh form of unburnt solid particles, or r "soot," and about ten per cent, is lostin the form of volatile compounds of carbon. During the past winter the earth of the village of Kirnujarwi, near Paja, Lap- ; land, became suddenly very hot,, the ice and snow melting immediately, and the application of one's hand to the earth was liable to result in an uncomfortably warm sensation. In England leaflets are being distributed on the subject of the destine-;; tion of crops in tbe rural districts* Posters showing magnified illustrations of the Hessian fly and the winter moth, are being displayed in the poatofB.ee to enable farmers to recognize them. In the Argentine Republic the locomotives on the Argentine Great Western Railroad have been fitted to bum the heavy petroleum oil found at Mendoza, on the line of the road. This costs, u an equivalent for coal, about |3 in gold, while coal costs from $15 to $25 per ton. The source of all the world's energy H comes from sunshine., The energy of the H zinc plate of an electric battery comes H from the coal with which it was burned H when taken from the mines, and . the H energy of that same coal comes from the H sunlight that originally nourished it H when it was formerly in the form of I growing plants. ' 'fl Many years ago an ocean steamship H made only ten or twelve revolutions of H the engine, using only five pounds of ' H steam pressure. ..With this she averaged H about eight knots. High-powered shipe H of the present day use thirty-six, time* H this pressure and make seven times the H revolutions. Their speed is only two and H a half times as great. H The following metals will conduct elcc- B tricity in the following proportions, viz.: 19 Silver, 100; copper, ninety-six; gold, H seventy-two; aluminium, fifty-two; zinc, R twenty-six; platinum, sixteen; iron, H fifteen; nickel, twelve; tin, eleven; lead,^S seven. Of the above, copper and iron H have the greatest commercial value ai r H electrical conductors. fl The flora of Europe embraces aboof H 10,000 species. India has about 15,000. The British possessions in North America, Hj thnnch with an area nearly as large at H Europe, have only about 5000. One of KB the riches floras is that of Cape of Good H Hope and Natal, which figures up aboaf H 10,000 species. Australia also is rich is H species, about 10,000 being now known. Hj A recent departure in obtaining ertrf Hj draught for furnaces on steamships-with* out the use of blowers or other devices 'Hi has been successfully tried on the Scol H of the Cape Mail Line. This vessel hat been furnished with smokestacks 120 feet high above the grates. The increased draught is equivalent to a water press ur? of three-fourths of an inch. The vease) H speed is nineteen knots. Bjfl A Carious Property of the Diamond, George F. Kuntz, well known as an Kfl expert in gems, recently called attention BS to a property of the diamond which may Hg be employed as a means of distinguish' H ing it from other substances. Expert ments made by Mr. Kuntz demonstrate IH that the statement (made by Robert MB Boyle as long ago as 1663) that somi H| diamonds phosphoresce in the dark aftei exposure to the sunlight or an electric arc KB light, is true, also that all diamonds emit light by rubbing them on wood, cloth or metal. This property will prob- HH ably prove of great value in distinguish*- HH ing between the diamond and other Hb| hard stones, as well as paste, none o! H which exhibit this phenomenon, and will H be welcomed by the general public who do not possess the experience of th* flfl dealer in diamonds. The property if evidently not electric, or it would not be visible on being rubbed on metal.? Brooklyn Citizen. jfli Apparatus for Treating Deafness. 9B An electrical apparatus for the treatment of deafness has been invented by ^HE one George F. Webb, of Jefferson, Hm Ohio. It comprises a battery, a belt, ao H9 electrode supported upon the belt and shaped to rest upon the ear, and having an opening on one side to receive the car, aad connections between the clec-^H trode and battery. An efficient and^Hj simple device is thus provided for constant use to remove the source of deat-^H ness, one which may be safely applied, Hfil and is designed, while serving as a remedy, to enable the patient to hear diatiuctly.?Boston Transcript.