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MAD RUSH FOR HOMES. * Excitin? Scenes at the Opening of Eastern Oklahoma. Boomers Pour Over the Line and Pick Out Their Farms. . Adis at.?h from G:it'arie, Oklahoma siys; At noon Eastern Oklahoma was thrown open and fully 00,000 persons entered the reservation from the west and south. The wildest of scenes were enacted and several persons were shot. f Two colore 1 men killed in a Sght at Langston, th? s.o-jtlnT of a woman who attempted to cro-s Tlir> liorder before the ailoted time and tho dro wning of two men in fhs Cimarron River were the principal events reported in the screat rush for the Oklahoma lands. Th? population of Oklahoma increased ' 20,COO in one day No oouutrj- iu the world has a rev or i of any such sudden grovvts. That morninr: the settled area of the Territory nutnb -r'd 3,000,000 acres and the population whs <'.0,000. Between noon and sunset 1,500,00) a'-res were added to the area, and the oopuliTion is now W),000. All aloji^ the line during the morninsj the scene was one of great excitement. People on foot, p onle on horseback, neople in bug gies. in wagons, men, women and children, were gath r?d in groups a sbort distance apart. Tbe scene at 12 o'clock, when the signals werj fired, was one never to be forgotten. Out from the line and across ?the rolling prairie borsem^n shot like missiles from a catapult. Covered wagons filled with people rushed up hill and down dale, ' / and hundreds of home-stakers on foot started valiantly forth in search of the coveted claim. Th?p?nt up excitement found vent In the firing of revolvers and rifles, shouting and aingin,- and cracking of whips and furious driving and running. The horsemen, of F course, had the advantage over every other Tn?n in the race and most of the racers were horsemen. The man who had pro4 ceeded to the border on a prairie schooner 5 with his family left the schooner, family and one horse on the border and mounted the other and became a horseman. After loj eating his claim he will return and direct his possessions to his new home. Men g who came with nothing but r money purchased saddle horses, ponies, rcuies or any kind of an animal that would carry a man, while others rented them. Some of the more desperate cowboys moante 1 steers, and the latter, joining in the stumped a, carrie I their riiers to the interior. while others were unceremoniously TinhI or Tint, fnr frnm t,h? horde.-. A p:siol shot fired by an army Lieutenant was tile signal for the waiting crowd at Choctaw City to start in the big race for the new country. When the sisjual shot was fired it was exactly o'clock, according to central itacdard time. Tne crowd had ranged up as closely as possible to the line until they looked right into the eyes of the soldiers who were there to see j&'p: that oo one got in ahead of time. ?; The tall young lieutenant galloped along :>' the line of waiting settlers and told them i, that the signal for starting would soon be ;; given. V\Then he arrived at a point near the v centre ho drew his revolver and rapidly disoliargo't its sir leads into the air. r The first report had no longer rung out when the great crowd commenced to move. V- It was a Derby that is simply beyond dey<*riptlon. There were blooded Kentucky ru,jers, Texas bronchos, mules and ox teams. 5 Everybody applied the whip and spur, aud many were the catastrophes, although none of them was serious. It was a race that few men want to undergo more thau once. and the man who reached a claim and found v it unoccupied was lucky indeed, v. Every man going into the country carries a gun and a whisky bottle, and many ara going to their death. A crowd of nearly 3000 that was in camp in Topee started in a body for the new "') oounty seat of Chandler. They declared that taey would not wait for the surrey to be completed, but will take the town by force, and if they fail in this they will found a town in the adjoining section. The eompany of soldiers at the town have orders to shoot, and blood will flow if the attempt is made At Langston the colored people were very excited. Tno signals of a gang of cowboys camped near by inflamed their anger, aud mntterings were heard on every side. From Cimaron City five hundred Presbyterians ledby a tall,"raw-boned preacher, started for the land of promise led by their modern jp > Messiah. At the Sac and Fox Agency on t.be east ride the crowd was very turbulent, and sevKV oral men were killed during the morning. Alc<jg the line whisky jugs and bottles were piracy and many men were intoxicated. The one hundred deputy marshals and handful of soldiers were unable to do anything with the crowd. The number of women on horse* back was remarkably large, and fully twenty per cent, of the claims will be secured by the fair sex. In Guthrie everything was deserted. Stores are closed and doctors, lawyers, preachers and everybody has gone to the new Eldorado. The boomers bought so many supplies that a provision famine now exists. Hundreds of men who arrived on th9 midnight train could not get conveyances and :are walking to the line, while scores slept in the street?. One girl of twenty-one from Winfleld, Kan., walked ten mile3 on foot to establish a |J>i* . claim. A colored woman with a baby in aiifl loa^ino- A HlT-Vftftr-ald bov. walked fifteen miles and secured a claim. f/l. On* woman of sixty-five went on horseback, and two women role on ?*ith little children on horses behind them. There are HOOO people in town, and the worst kind of a scramble for the 2000 lots is going pa. At the northern county seat, the survey is not completed, and 10,000 people are being held at bay by soldiers. The crowd wiii attempt to capture the town site. The reservations of Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Iowa. Sac and Fox Indians amount to r-. 1,287,000 acres. Part of the land is prairie, part in timber and much broken, and not y over half of it is suited for farming. The reservations lie directlv east of the settlement part of Ok a ioma, and are divided into two counties, with 1 -* rt* aa..K frtl* 330 acres reserve at mo tcuu= m -.? !?> -.. the county seats. The location of f,\ the county spats is on poor broken groum., timber underbrush and rocks. with absolutely no water. Both towns have been name J. The one that &;V t ig to be the county seat of the northern county is Chandl-r," named for the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, and the southern town is Teeumseh. H. D. Baker, of Oklahoma City, has already been appointed Postmaster of the coming town of Tecuusch. A careful man estimates the number of actual settlers who went into the Indian lands o.j the opening day to be close tr> uO,000. Oi" these it is estimated that 10,000 will settle in the new cities and towns whic'u will sprin; up. Thi other 10,000 are men and wo:n3n wno want farms. The total number jt .-cres which have been throwr open *n settlement is 800,005. This, divided into tracts of ICO acres each, will give farm; to 5'J0<> people, and the result is tha not less t'ban 5000 others will b< (disappointed. When in connection witb this is taken the fact that of the 8-X),' 00 acre ready for settlement, at least one-ei ihth is unfit for eultivatiou, it can readily b 'seen th it there will bo much suffering iv thi I'.' new lands. flEOWNED IN THE HUDSON . \ Three 3Jen, One Woman and a Chik Go Down Oft' Low Point. Three men, one woman aud a little gii were drowned in the Hu ison River, oppositi Low Point, twelve miles south of Pou^h keepsie, on a rec?nt af tern odd. They wi-r all Poles an 1 were strangers in tha locality They hired a boat at Hampton to rov across the river at Low Point. When abou one hundred yards from the east suore th boat overturned, and all sank immediately I except one man, who clung to the caosize* boat, but he let go and sank betore hel] could reach him. Only one body, that of i man, has been recovered. E.\or;40us sacks have been placed la ta Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg, Russia for th? receipt of scraps of food., which wil be sent tothefamma district* and distrib uted. Sones pieces of bread not larger thai a radish, which had been toastad by the con tribute rs, were found yio donations THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Mrs. Harrison, wife of the President. ( and her friends from Auburndale witnessed, with 75,000 others, the Venetian carnival on the Charies River at Walt ham, Mass. Jame3 E. Ostrander, of Kingston, N. Y., was arrested for stealing $75,000 from the Ulster County Savings Institution, of which he was treasurer. Fire at Barton Landing. Vt., damaged that town to the extent of $275,COO. Jon.v W. and Fred Walmslet, twins, aged nine, were drowned at th3 lower end i of the Passaic Falls, Paterson, N. J. They j wero in swimming, when one of thorn slipped off a rock. His brother jumped after nim, and both sank. Ax attorney for parties unknown has paid to the State National Bank at Boston, Mass., SIS, ISO as "conscience money." This lawyer does not himself know from whom this money comes. Rev. Father Mclloxet, pastor of the Roman Catholic Church at Granville, Washington County, N. Y., drooped dead on the altar while savin? mass. The congregation became greatly excited. Luther O. Greene, Inspector of Finance of the State of Vermont and for about thirty-five years editor and proprietor of the Woodstock Standard, died suddenly at Montpelier. For two years past he had been President of the Vermont Press Association. m -1?' TO .'J 1 .0 IV. 1T-4. JOSEPH r. r resiueuii ui iuo aieuropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York City, died at sea on board the steamship Champagne. An unknown disease is attacking the cattle in Pennsylvania, almost always with fatal effect. It is believed to be a form of Texas splenetic fever. "W hen attacked the animal's head falls helplessly and its legs seem unable to bear the weight of the body. A freight wreck occurred two miles east of Greensourg, Penn., demolishing forty freight and twenty cattle cars. Engineer Rogers and Brakeman Wads worth were fatally injured, a tramp killed and Fireman R. E. Stanley seriously injured. The Italian citizens celebrated in New York City the twenty-first anniversary of the end of the temporal power of the Poj$? By the fall of a roof in the Caynga oolliery at Scranton, Penn., James Horary a miner, and two Hungarian laborers were instantly killed. The Butler County Bank of Millerstown, Penn., owned by H.J. Hoyt, suspended payI ment. The embarrassment created a panic at Millerstown, and judgments were entered against a number of residents. F. TV. Duvlap, a deputy delinquent mercantile tax appraiser of Philadelphia, Penn., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the city and was sentenced to two years in the Eastern Penitentiary. The courthouse at South Atkinson, houses, barns and bridges were blown down by a storm in Piscataquis County, Me., and Mrs. Hall, of Orneville, was killed by a falling chimney. The contest of tho $30,000,000 will of Mrs. Hopkins-Searles was commenced in Salem, Mass. Mr. Searies said the ilrst proposition of marriage was made by his wife. Sonth and West. The United States Savings Bank of Topeka, Kan., whica failed last March and | " was reopened July 2, has been again placed j in the hands of a receiver. Vnmrif fnrast fires razed in Wisconsin. I Several villages and much valuable farm property have been destroyed. A vote at Chicago, 111, as to whether the World's Fair should ba kept open on Sundays showed the citizens overwhelmingly in favor of its being open. Albert More a, alias Grant Kitchen, the colored wife murderer, was hanzed in the county jail at Savannah, Ga. R. H. Duncan, the four-times murderer, paid the penalty of his horrible crime on the gallows at Eagle Pass, Texas. The State Constitution of Wisconsin has been stolen from tne archives. At Port Neuf, Idaho, passenger trains Xos. t and 2 collided, killing Ave men and seriously injuring saveral others. The killed are L. tVeidemyer, mail clerk, and four Indians from Fort Hall Reservation. Workmen* on the railroad saw a woman walk to the Great Northern bridge, at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, throw a boy eight years old into the river, hurl on eighteauI montLs-old baby after him and plunge into the water herself. All perished. The woman is the wife of a contractor named Neprosich and had become crazed on account of her husband's business reverses. Anton Siebolt, who pounded James Meighan to death, was taken from the Darlington (Wis.) jail and hanged. The first foreign flag has been raised on the World's Fair ground at Chicago. HI. It is that of Turkey, and was displayed on tha site appropriated for the Constantinople exhibition. The Turkish Consul led the caremonies. At 12:30 o'clock in the morning three strangers, who wora silk handkerchiefs over their faces, walked into the office of the Pacific House, the leading hotel of St. Joseph, Mo., situated in the very heart of the city, and deliberately robbed the clerk of over tsrm in mgh onrl vnliiahla^ Tha men drew large revolvers and ordered the clerk to thro w up his hands. The Cleveland Hotel an-t ten business houses were burned at Sheffield, Ala. The buildings are a total wreck, and the loss is about $110,000. The extra session of the Tennessee General Assembly citue to an end at Nashville without any action having been taken upon the convict lease system. More trouble was feared among the miners at Briceville in consequence. The St. Paul (Minn.) public schools closed during the latter days of September on ac 4. t> A convict in the San Quentin (Cal.) State Prisou, name<l Henry Baser, killed a fellowconvict namod Jatnes Bailey by plunging a knife into his neck, whil9 eating nis supper. England and Germany have practically chosen sites for their buildings at the World's Fair, Chicago, III. England is to erect a splendid structure on the Take shore, where the stona pavilion in Jacksoa Park now stands. Germany's building will be located either oa the lake shore, near the Mexican quarters, or just south of the west annex to the Fine Art Palace, near the Micbgan and Ohio buildings. "Washington. Secretary Tract awarded the contract for building torpedo boat No. 2 to the Iowa Iron Works of Dubuque at 6113,500. ' Tns President issued his proclamation opening the new lands in Oklahoma tor settlement on Tuesday, September 22. I, Sir Julian Paunceforte, the Eritish ^ Minister, has complained to the State DcL partmeut of an allege 1 violation of the modus vivendi in relation to the seal fisheries. Plans have just been approved by the War Department for additional buildings at | Plattsburz Barracks, N. Y., which will give ' accommodations for a regiment and a half ^ of troops. 3 Collector Hendricks, of New Yltrk, ! called at tha White House and speut an i hour !n consultation with the President. J The Attorney General has given direc9 ; tions to dismiss the second libel against the i Chilean ves-el Itata, and she will ba immediately released and free to resume traffic. Senor Don Benjamin Molina Guip^>l^ the Minister from Salvador, presented his ! letters of recall to the President. The usual courtesies were exchanged. 1 ' The larger postcfTives are soon to be furnished by the Postoffice Department with i i stamp canceling macaino?; these can cancel j the stamps on 1500 letters every six min1 utes. j The American Pomolorical Society held 3 j jts annual biennial s?ss:on in Washington. j TriE eleven Division Superintendents of ' , the Railway Mad Service heid a mating in . Washington to discu-ss matters o! detail in 0 i the improvement of the service. j j United States Minister Egan notified the Stati Department of Batmaeeda's sui ^ cide. It was a short dispatch and merely stated the fact and that ;ha deed was done i at toe Argentine .Legation. Tranquility prevails in Chili. j Foreign. i. The damage done by the flools in Spain 13 1 , estimated at $4,000,000; the bodies of 1205 ip ' victims at Cocsuegra have been buried. b Therb was a heavy storm in Labrador. Two fishing vessels, the Parsee and the Amazon. returning: loaded with fl3b. were wrecked, and seven men were drowned. In the same gale tne schooner Blossom struck Gull Island, Notre Dame Bay, and went to pieces; five men and one woman were drowned. Spain has officially recognized the provisional government of Chili. A great coal vein has been discovered in Spitz bergen, and it is probable thac Russia will enforce her claim to the island, which heretofore has be9n regarded as valueless. The Holland budget shows a deficit of $1,000,000. The overturning of a mail coach near Geneva, Switzerland, resulted in the death of two women and the injury of three others, j The Pope received 2000 French workmen who visited Home as pilgrims. Agob Pasha, Kazazian Minister of the [ Civil List and formerly Minister of Finance, was thrown from bis horse in Constantinople and so seriously injured that he died in an | hour. Dr. Charles Pelliqrixi, President of I the Argentine Republic, has signed a bill providing for a representation at the World's Fair and appropriating $100,000 or that object. An explosion took place at the FarchiesLa-ilancnecolliery,near Charleroi, Province of Hainaut, Belgium. The number of dead is twenty-nine. 4 Extraordinary high tides have done | groat damage to the marshes of Westmoreland County, New Brunswick. Seven miners were killed and many seriously injured by an explosion of fire damp | in Silesia. A serious riot occurred daring a bull fight at Marseilles, France. Displeased citizens drove bulls and toreadors out of the arena, heaped and burned the seats, and were only quieted when repeatedly charged by a force gendarmes. The building was finally cleared and the flames extinguished. Many arrests were made. Sib James Ferguson, Bart., Political Secretary of the Foreign Office, has been appointed to the office of Postmaster General of Great Britain, vacant through the death of Henry Cecil Raikes. Chilian soldiers in Santiago are in revolt at the bad food they receive. The British Government has Recognized the Provisional Government o? Ubui. Two passenger trains collided between Go laczowry and Wolbrom, Prussian Silesia. The cars were shattered to splinters, and ten persons were killed and many injured. In the Hcuse of Commons, Ottawa, Canada, the opposition impeached another member of the Government, the Postmaster General, Hon. John Ha^gart, who is accused of participating in the profits of a Government railway contract and agreeing to the Arm's subscribing to Government election funds, charged to the firm's profit. LATER SEWS, PtKTTRO-pxEUMONiA has again appeared among cattle in New Jersey. Government inspectors have been sent there to stamp it out. In the Hopkins-Searles will contest at Salem, Mass., Mr. Searles testified that the annua! income of the Hopkins estate was about $600,000. He and his wife received forty-five per cent, each, which was deposited 1U UiO UOillC. Tme President on June 3 granted a pardon to Robert Sigel, son of General Sigel, of New York, convicted of forgery and sentenced to six years' imprisonment at hard labor, the pardon to take effect at the expiration of two years and nine months of actual imprisonment. A few days ago the President granted a full pardon "in view of the extreme illness of the prisoner, and the fact that the term will expire in December." The OrdnanceBureau of the Navy has succeeded in procuring the most rapid of rapidfiring guns in the worid. The Dashiel fourinch gun was recently tested at the Indian Head proving grounds with the servicecharge of Brown powder, firing in salvos of five rounds. The first five were fired in twenty-six seconds, the second in twenty-two seconds, and the third in seventeen seconds. Commodore Ramsey, Acting Secretary of the Navy, received a request that the Cushin; and Stiletto be allowed to take part in a race with the fleet steam yachts Vamoose, Norwood and Javelin. Although the naval officers feel confident of the ability I of the Cushing to hold her own in such a contest, the request was not granted, as naval vessels are not permitted to engage in racing. According to a census bulletin the real estate mortgage debt of Kansas, January 1, 1890, aside from State and railroad land contracts, was ?.435,485,108. Of this amount 1167,145,039 is almost exclusively on farms. 'pr.nnrbnvnil al.rkrt p. morehouse committed suicide at his residence in Marysville, Mo. Several weeks before the Governor was much overheated while driving cattle, and had been in a nervous condition ever since. He was born in Delaware Conntv. Ohio, July 10, 1835, and came to Missouri in 1356. He was a lawyer by profession. The whole of the business portion of Bradley, South Dakota, is in ashes. Nine stores, the M. E. Church, a hotel and one house were burned. Major McKinley spoke at the Coal Palace at Ottumwa, Iowa. W. H. Davis, who murdered his mother and her alleged lover, James Arnold, at Pueblo, Col., because they refused to give him money with which to continue hi3 drunken spree, was executed in the prison rnrrf at Canon Citv. Co). Thk Western and Brazilian Cable Company has just laid a new cable between Santos and Pernambtco. The cable steamer Silvertown is about to lay a cable from Pernambuco to the Island Fernando do Noronha and thence to St. Louis, Senegal, Africa. Russian troops are being steadily raovt l westward: Russia is said to be meditating an entrance into Rumanian territory. The festivities in celebration of the restoration of peace in Chili passed without political disturbance. In Oito Prefecture. Japan, 2000 cases of i dysentery are reported, with 700 deaths. Thf. Kins of Belgium has received Henry M. Stanley's resignation as Governor of the Congo States. The pctet has bean refused by a German officer of colonial experience, now in Africa. GALES IN ENGLAND. Several Vessels Wrecked and Great Injury to Crops. A dispatch from Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England, announced that a furious gale has been ragin^there and that several vessels have been wrecked. Only one life is reported lost. Much damage has be?n done to the harbor, which has recently been so much improved. The crops throughout the borough have suffered severely. Several yachts have been sunk at Llnnfairfecian. Heavy floods prevail in the E I- ! inburgh distr.ee. A number of pleasure boats have been destroyed at Porto Bello and the pier has boen damaged. Railway bridges a: Peuicuick and in the Esk district have collapsed, and traffic is interrupted and in many cases suspended. In the River Mersey much u a mage has b_>ea done to shipping. At Blackpool, Lancashire, houses have been inundated and a great amount of damage has been done to the crops. Reports from several sections of North Wales show that the storm has flooded the valleys in that section of the country and that the farmers have suffered severely. SUICIDE OF BALMACID1 Chili's Ex-President Blows Out His Brains at Santiago. A Short Sketch of His Eventful and Turbulent Career. Vftlnarafsn. Chill, was thrown into wild excitement by the story that ex-President Balmaceda had shot himself through the temple in his room at the Argentine Legation, in Santiago, at 8:30 oa a recent morning. There was great rejoicing at the capital, and the streets were illuminated that night. Balmaceda attempted to escape from the country in disguise* after the surrender of Santiago. The police were soon on his track. He found every avenue of retreat cut off and was obliged to return to the capital. He arrived at the Argentine Legation and no one was permitted to see him except the Argentine Minister and Senor Urriburia. Many plans ot escape were suggested, but Balmaceda hesitated about essaying any of them. He continued in la extremely nervous condition, fearing the vengeance of the Junta. Senor Urriburia finally advised Balmaceda to give himself up to the Junta. Balmaceda retired at midnight apparently undecided as to what he should do. A pistol shot was heard in his room the next morning by Sonora Urriburia, who notified ner husband. Urriburia went after Carlos Walker Martinez before he entered Balmaceda's room. The door was broKen open. The body was lying on the bed, undressed, and a gaping wound was in the ternEle. The corpse was still warm. Balmaceda eld the revolver tightly in his right hand. As soon as the news spread through the city great crowds of people gathered about the legation._ Their excitement amounted to frenzy. Domingo lorro, caimaceaaa brother-in-law, and Arrieta Melchor Corleta, the* Uruguay Minister, hastened to the legation The Junta, upon receiving the news, immediately issued a commission, whi^h comprised Carlo Walker Martinez, Senor Melchor, Senor Concho and Judge Agusrro of \he Supreme Court. They viewed the body jt the legation, and then drew up a procas verbal certifying to the mode of Balmaceda's death. Tho German Minister, Gutschmidt, an old friend of Balmaceda, also viewed the fallen leader's body as it lay at the legation. Balmaceda left a letter to his mother and a statement Intended for publication. He declares in the latter that during the past eight months he had acted with the firm conviction that he was right, and that he had no one in the army whom he could trust. He believed that his generals were false to him, that they continually deceived him, and that had they obeyed his orders tbe battle o? Concon would have been won by them. He declared that his heart had been with Chili; that he sought to rescue his country from foreign domination and to maka her the first republic in America. He expressed regret that he did not take Minister Egan's advice, conclude peace, and retire from the country. His wife, he says, gave him $2500?all the money he had in hi3 possession. Balmaceda also wrote Senor Urriburia, saving that himself alone was responsible for his death. Sketch of His Life. Tnm XTanniil RnlmwAq horn in Santiago fifty-one years ago. He was carefully educated for a priest at Santiago. As soon as his academic studies ware completed his turbulent and active nature drove him into politics. He joined the Club de la Reforma, in Santiago, an organization composed of hot-headed young men who wanted to overthrow the Chilian Constitution of 1830. He was a fine orator and became the club's foremost leaaer. At twenty-eight Baimaceda, who was already distinguished throughout Chili, was elected a deputy to the Congress. He served five terms with credit and was the champion and idol of the great Liberal party. President Santa Maria made him Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1883. The next year Balmacaaa was elected President of the republic by an overwhelming majority. For three years the country enjoyed unprecedented prosperity and he was the most popular man in Chili. His policy cnanged, and as the lime drew near for his re-election, Balmaceda determine! upon a coup d'etat to make himself master of Chili. He dismissed . his able ministers and formed a cabinet with the unpopular Sanfuentes at the head. Baimaceda next announced Sanfuentes as a candidate for the Presidency Quarrels with the deputies followed. Ministers were removed, restored again, and the civil war tnac nas joss eaanu was filially brought about. PBOMINENT PEOPLE, Servians boy King writes verses. The Russian Czar is at work at 7 a. sc Tub: new Queen of Hawaii is unpopular. Rudyard Kipling is writing a drama. W. W. Astor's daily income has been estimated at $23,000. Spctrokon was only nineteen when he preached bis first sormon. The Prince of Wales desires to try his new yacht in American waters. Thk Er-Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro, is a sufferer from melancholia. M. Rouvier, the French Minister of Finance, was a traveling salesman. It seems to be an accepted fact in Germany that the Kaiser will visit us in 1893, Mrs. Langtry's 5000-acre propertv on the Pacific slope has increased five-fold in value. Justice Field, of tho Supreme Court, sneaks Greek, Latin, Turkish, French and Italian. Ex-President Grevy, of France, left a fortune of $2,000,000. He has but one heir? his daughter. hie late rroressor npencer was at mo of twelve thought the finest penman in the United States. General Whichcots, th3 last surviving officer of the battle of Waterloo, died recently in London. Bishop Talbot, of "Wyoming, has peremptorily declined his recent election to the diocese of Georgia. James Russell Lowell, C. A. Dana. Dr. Holland, -Walt Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, and Queen Victoria were all born in 1819. Dn. Zeyner, of Philadelphia, who has just returned from Chile, says that Balmaceda was overthrown because he tried to elevate the lower classes. He wanted to break down an oligarchy and establish a real republic, and he has paid the penalty. k Fkank Stockton, the novelest, claims to work with a deliberation which would hard- | ly prove financially profitable to writers les9 i known. He dictates to a stenographer, and J sometimes, be says, he waits an hour for the i right word. In this way he turns out about j a thousand words per day. James Lane Allen, the Kentucky author, lives in a little frame house on the Tate's Creek pike, just out of Loxington. Here he passes nearly all his time in literary work, coming into town only when desirous of meeting his frieuds. He is now at work on a new story, the scene of which will be laid in Kentucky. M. H. De Younq, the California editor, started his first newspaper in San Francisco in 1685 on a capital of $20?and that loaned him by a more prosperous acquaintance. Bret Harte was at that time a clerk in the mint and did his first writing for Mr. De Youug's paper, never asking for pay for his contributions. Within a few weeks after the pap^r was started its advertising receipts \ver-? ijlOM mozich. 7ns Junta of Chili published a decre? recognizing the papar issue by Balmaceda. The amount is $27,000,000, aud it is almost the only money In circulation. General sat> isfaction is expressed with the decree. Th? first result was the opening of all the banks. All natives of Italy who failed to perform military duty from the class of 1848 to that of 1SF2 have been granted amnesty and may now visit their native land without fear of molestation. _ i i WORLD'S FAIB NOTES. The World'n Fair power plant will be of 24,000 horse power, and will require tha services of 250 engineers, firemen and at? tendant-% ' Mes. Susan Gale Cook, of Tennessee, Is now Permanent Secretary of the Board of Lady Managers, having been elected at the September meeting. The London Chronicle says that the Prince of Wales has all but decided to go to Chi cago to accent! ldu r^xpusibiuu, auui/uav likely to bo accompanied by Emperor William of Germany. It is now estimated that nearly $18,000,000 will be spent upon the World's Fair by the Exposition Company alone. This sum does not include what will be expended by the United States and other nations, the States of the Union, cities, industries, and private enterprises. The National Association or Canned Food Packers has applied for space to exhibit its products at the Fair. The association in its jurisdiction covers the packing interests of twenty States. There are in the country about 2000 canning concerns, consuming the product of 2,000,000 acres of land and giving direct employment to a million people. A committee of live stock experts has apportioned the cash premiums to be awarded in the Exposition Live Stock D> partment, amounting to $150,000, as follows: For horses, $52,000; cattle, $30,000; swine, $15,000; poultry and pet stock, $10,000; dogs, $4000. This leaves a contingent fund of $19,000, which Chief Buchanan says should be held for special breed of animate that may have been overlooked. The Exoosition Directors have appropriated $50,0ft0 for the expense of reproducing at the Exposition the Convent of La Ribada, Palos, Spain, where Columbus lived while perfecting his plans for his voyage of discovery. The building will be used for housing an extensive collection of Columbus relics, and its ancient appearance, it is believed, will afford a pleasing contrastto that of the magnificient palaces by which it will be surrounded. Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Brazil will erect special buildings. Mexico will produce at Jackson Park one of the ancient Aztec templed. Guatemala will erect at a cost of ?12,000 a building on the model of one of the palaces of the ruined city Antigua. The building of Colombia will be the capitol of that republic in miniature. Ecuador has already given orders for the removal to Chicago of the reproduction of thelncas'a "Temple of the Sun" that ornamented the grounds of the Paris Exposition. Plans have been completed for the Live Stock Assembly Hall at the Exposition. This building will stand just south of the colopnade connecting Agricultural and Machinery Buildings. It will in form resemble the letter T, one portion being 500 feet long and the other 200 feet. On the first floor will be office room for cattle and horaa associations, dog and pet stock associations, and all remaining live-stock organizations. On the second floor will be an assembly hall 1TZ feet long and seventy-four feet wide. Here the farmers will be given a chance to hold their assemblies. Special rooms are provided for the Farmers' Alliance, the National Grange, and other similar associations. The entire structure has been so planned as to give the farmers and live-stock men generally all they could ask in the way of accommodations. Chief oI Construction Burn ham has been instructed by the Committee on Grounds and Buildings to perfect working drawinzs and ask for contracts. A WALL STREET SENSATION "Deacon" White Tries to Corner the Corn Crop and Becomes Bankrupt. 8. V. White & Co., regarded as one of the strongest firms on the New York Stock Exchange^ made an assignment to Charles W. Gould, of No. 2 Wall street. Mr. White has been recognized as a power in the financial world for the past twenty years, and his assignment created a genuine sensation on the street. The cause of the firm's embarrassment was a gigantic speculation in corn engineered by the head of the house. He tried to corner the country's supply of the grain for September and October delivery and failed. The enormous crop interfered. His liabilities are estimated at from a million and a half to two millions. He began his purchases when the price of September corn was fifty cents. He continued buying until he owned 10,000,000 bushels. The average price paid for tae corn was sixty cents, and at one time Mr. White had a paper profit of 11,000.000 on his deal. Two weeks before he failed the price for September was seventy cents. But it was a great load to carry, especially as there were Indications that the Chicago gamblers would break their necks or prevent Mr. White from unload in a;. A clique met daily in Chicago at the Calumet Club to devise means of downing Mr. White. The continued heavy receipts of corn at Chicago from all centres materially assisted them. Even the most secret steps on his part toward unloading some of his corn were detected and the clique. Air) nd bv the big receipts, smashed down the market. The receipts continued, and the attitude of the Chicago clique b? came so pronounced that it was apparent that Mr. White could not withstand the forces against him. The September option had declined to 52%. Of the 10,000,000 bushels h6 still held 8,U00,000 bushels, and on most of this heavy advances had been mode by the New York banks. With the declining market the banks refused further loans, and there was nothing to do but for Mr. White to make an assignment. He tersely put the situation thus. "I have been largely long of corn, and in closing it out the depreciation, with the calls for margins, which were unusually heavy, exhausted my resources, and there was nothing left but to stop and as* sign." Mr. White's chief trouble seemed to be that he based his operations on the visible supply and did not sufficiently regard the supplies that were kept back by the furmnru. AGED TEIPLETS H0N0BED, William, Matthew and David Grant *-.-.-1 r>;?, Hrl., w Torrington, Conn., has had the distinction of honoring William Allen Grant, Mathew Anderson Grant and David Augustus Grant, in all probability the oldest triplets in tho world. The oid gentlemen are remarkably well preserved for persons of the advanced age of seventy. They appeared at the reception tendered them by the business men of the place, sang some old hymus with wonderful fervor and seemed to enjoy the occasion very much. The Grant brothers were born in Torrington, Conn., September 23. 1821, and have always lived there. They are steady, sober, industrious men. They are the offspring of Augustus and Amelia Cone Grant. General U. S. Grant was a direct descendant or the same stock, being a cousin of the now famous triplets. The Adventist preacher, Miles Grant, is also a cousin. The family descended from the original English settlers, coming to Dorchester in 1630 ami then settling in Windsor, the parent of this colony coming to Torrington. The triplets have all raised families. Daniel lives with his second and had two children?a son and a daughter. The son was killed in a railroad accident; the daughter is still living. William likewise lives with his second wife and has two children. Matthew is still living with his first wife and has one daughter. All the children live in that vicinity. A peculiar circumstance is that three of tho cousins, children of the triplets, were bora within a period of six weeks. The exercises in honor of the Grants birthday were formally opene 1 with a musical programme and the sinking by the triplets of the olden time stouts as suag WalJ a csntury ago, after which ther-j Wc>r< speeches. Alter the completion of the exer cises, which took place at the Opera House a reception was given at a neighboring hotel. William and Daniel look much alike, ant are often mistaken, one for the other. Thej all have light gray eyes, white hair an< bronzed ami weatherbeaten countenances and look uncommonly well for men seventj years old. A bscint estimate places the number of cans of tomatoes consumed annually in th< United States at 84,000,000, of which'Mary land produce# one^third. j j WOBLD'S FOOD SUPPLY. An Exhaustire Study of Eu* ' rope's Breadstuff Shortage. h Deficit of 200,000,000 Bushels of Wheat and Bye, ; n An exhaustive study of the world's food supply in the forthcoming number of the ^ American Agriculturist emphasizes facts g of r.Tflro imrvirfonnQ +a ViAfVi A v* 6* * ?v tv uutu ftiuerimi CLUU ^ Europe. It declares that the half 1ms not ' been told about the European shortage in breadstuffs, which not even a bountiful crop this year would have relieved. Continental P powers, especially Russia, suppress the facts L as far as possible. In many Russian provinces the scarcity of food became pronounced as far back as February lasc. In the Kon- tl etantinovka district many families have not ft cooked a meal since Easter, but subsist on bread, soake rye, grain, etc., bestowed in charity. The prohibition of rye exports is followed by a ukase forbiding the shipment t of bran and other cereal cattle foods. The as- ,, founding shortage in Russia's yield of rye, u announced a month ago by the Ministry of ? Finance, proves even greater than the most extravagant estimates, and effectually obliterates all possibility of Russia exporting ( any of her scant wheat crops. That eastern t Germany is in practically the same plight ? admits of no doubt. The European reserves j . that have heretofore eked oat insufficient harvests are everywhere exhausted. The parade made by Russia of the existence of e such stores in the Baltic provinces is done for effect, to convey the impression that * military stores are abundant. Such reserves e are of small importance. Indeed, the danger c of famine is destined to spare Europe the horrors of war for fully a twelvemonth hence. b Accepting the largest estimates of produo a tion, both at home and abroad, and even as- r sutmng that the United States and Canada can export 235,000,000 bushels, the Agrieul' 0 turi.it still finds a deficit in the world's food supply of at least 200,000,0(30 bushels of wheat and rye, with a possibility of the c shortage being twice as great. Added to this a is the almost total failure of the potato crop t in Ireland, and a serious curtailment in the yield of potatoes on the Continent. Even with the utmost economy of distribution and an unheard of consumption of American. s maize, grave distress is before the masses of ~ Europe. J The Agriculturist says the enormous ex- I ports of wheat and flour from the United t States in August proves that Europe regards the situation as worse than it has yetbeen painted. Otherwise, why should she c buy in a single month close upon the harvest j nearly half as much wheat as she took trora the United States during the entire fl?jt 5 eight months of the year following one of t our largest wheat crops and a period of bedrock prices? Indeed, August wheat exports were almost treble those of the same month last year and over four times as much as the ] average exports at this season of late years. ? for the first time in years wheat bran and middlings are being exported to Europe 8 thus eariy in the s?ason. The Agriculturist accepts these circumstances as the strongest 1 possible reason for believing that prices of wheat are to-day unnaturally low. It looks ' for a sharp advance in all cereals as soon as i the demand realizes the 1/mited extent of j the world's actual supply. Although noted . for its conservatism, the Agriculturist re- ' news its judgment that every bushel of highf grade wheat is to-day worth fully one dollar on the farm where it erew. r THE LABOR WORLD. Bismarck runs a brickyard. New Yobs teamsters have a union. Cleveland, Ohio, will build a labor halL Canadian unions want Chinese excluded. Illinois has a State Typographical Union. Chiet Aethdb, of the B. L. K, was an engineer. Unemployed workmen paraded at Kansas City, Mo. New York has an American-Italian stonemasons' union. There are now 775 labor and farmers' papers in the United States. London omnibus drivers gained $90,000 a year by winning their strike. The Boston Cigar-Makers' Union have over $30,000 in their treasury. The British Trades Union Congressof 1892 is to sit at Glasgow, Scotland. The State Labor Commission will investigate the "sweaters" of Chicago. The average salaries of the mistresses in the London fcoard-schools is $950. Girls who work in eleciric lamp factories | average $25 a month and telephone operators < i are paid ?30. j ] A Labor Day parade of cowboys on their j , bronchos took place in Canon City, Fremont i County, Col. There are now abont eight thousand ! j onion brass moulders in this country. Their i ' wages a re from $2 to $4 per day. | ] The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- j < neers held their annual session at Mont- , real, Canada. Chief Engineer Arthur presided. 1 The German Government has decided to 1 establish a factory at Spandau for making cloth uniforms, and to employ soldiers ia the j work. ( Watchmaking in Switzerland is now , carried on in large manufactories, instead of at the homes of the watchmakers, as here- ' tofore. 1 The Paris waiters not only insist upon < their right to wear beards and no uni- < forms, bnt also to smoke when not actually , serving. The Central Labor Union of New York i resolved to request the President to recom- i mend to Congress a National Labor Day j holiday. Tasmania, it seems, is in sore straits for a . supply of lacor. From all the country dis- 1 1 tricts farmers clamor for help. Some of > I them have actually abandoned their farms . j owing to this scarcity of labor. Owing to the complete lack of farm laborers in West Prussia, the German Government has' permitted the importation of 1 Russians and Poles from the Warsaw dis- | trict into Prussia for the purpose of agricul- I , tural labor. i ^ Although not quite three years old the | . ' International brotnerhood of Railway Con- i ; j ductors has at present eighty-eight divisions | < I with about 3000 members and 322,000 in the j ( j treasury. They pay $1000 for total disabilI ity or death. I The fair wages for skilled female tailors in ! ! Eerlin are 31.42 n week, though they run I | down to 31.10, and the working season is a ( short one. Good cloakmakers get 31.66 per . week. Young girl workers get from fifty cents to 31 a week. The price paid for mak- 1 ing a dozen button-holes by hand is two and I a half cents. , A LONDON BANE ROBBED. ' i1 From $730,000 to $1,250,000 Sail I i to Have Been Taker.. i < An important bank robbery has taken j 5 j place in LonJon, England. The institution ' I that has suffered is the London and West- ? | minster Bank, Limited, 41 Lithbury, E. C., ' | an important establishment having over ' j fifteen branch houses in that city. < I The money stolen consisted of a large par- , I eel of bills remitted from the country hanks. * J The thief or thieves gained access to aa ' ! apartment near the main entrance to the i ' bank. This apartment was easy of accass j from the street. It is currently reported that tha amount i ! stolen is not iess than 3730,000, and it may J j amount to as much as $1,230,0'JO. j , ; Notice of the robbery has bean sant to the . I police cen:res throughout the British Isles , and on tho Continent, and the saiiing of ' . ' every passeuner vessel is being < i watched. Notice of the robbery f j has also been sent to all the banks upon J ' I which the bills were drawn, but the police ; ' I | theory is that no attempt will be made to I ' r ; change the bills in that country, but that the | j j thieves will have recourse to the Continent, 1 j whore the presence of so many wealthy r ! travelers from England and the United , j States makes such transactions easier than I in that country. i I Two hundred convicts In the jute mill at I San Francisco, Cal., went on an unsucceto* : * ' ful strike for better food and mors tobacco, ' * ' ' ' POPULAR SCIENCE. Habitual divers in salt water often have inflammation of the eyes. A Japanese recommends cleansing the ands with tartrate of ammonium to void poisoning from white lead. Four different mountain peaks in daho are from thirteen to twenty-three eet lower than they were fifteen yean go. A meteorological station is to be es< ablished at Tiberia, Palestine, a place 82 feet below the level of the Mediteranean Sea. Electric heating is promised as one of be new uses of electricity, and a com< >any has been organized in Chicago U atroduce the system. Recent researches in medicine shoif sat persons having a tendency to gouty roubles generally improve more rapidly rhpn thftw nn fruit. French scientists assert that the Eiffel 'ower causes electrical disturbances and tint the climate in Pans has been much rorse since the tower was juilt. M. Olszewski has found that liquid >xygen, instead of being colorless, has a right blue color. He concludes that tie blue of the sky may be due to the ir'? oxygen. ' It is now too intention of European' - ngineers to store the waters of the Kile o such an extent as to enable a greater xtension of the cotton and sugar cane rops in that region. Dr. Pinel, of Pari?, has .found that typnotic patients obey the phonograph a readily as they do a living speaker. < le, therefore, discards the whole theory if animal magnetism. A strong wind prevents the formation rf dewr by keeping tho air* well mixed, ad leaving no part of it in contact with he- ground long enough to become cool j>d deposit moisture. To determine whether the joint of s ewer pipe leaks or not, wrap it with a >iece of white eloth saturated with a sotxtion of acetate of lead. If it leaks, be cloth will become black. Humboldt calculated the mean level if North America to be 748 feet above he sea, and he found that in 4,500,000 rears the whole of North America might >e worn down to the sea level. / ''..-J Goal equaling that of the finest Lebigb TaIIavv koa Kaon in ?*? *? J MVWU Brazil, the veins being from four to wenty-five feet in thickness. The mines ire situated at and near Sonora. The survey for an observatory upoo Host Blanc, Switzerland, is now being nade> and as soon as it is shown that ron columns can be sunk through the . ce cap forming the summit, plans for he observatory "will be prepared. The pongee silks, both plain and fig-, ired, will be worn during the fall, the latural shade predominating. Combina;ion suits in two shades of pongee will >e favored. The two shades of brown rod black, with delicate combinations, will be noticeable for reception gowns. The cultivation of the Indian-rob* jer tree on the island of Trinidad is reviving much attention. A few trees of lifferent varieties were imported some pears ago and were placed in the botani;al gardens. The results have shown ;hat the soil and climate are remarkably favorable to their cultivation. Accordion plaiting, after its brief re- . ia a rrtin f/\ tho frtF UlCUjgUbf W O^iiiu wv wmw *vaw ?v* w? nomen,t at least. A costume of fla6 woolen is made entirely of accordion plaits. The corsage is ornamented with square figaro jacket fronts and backs of 5ae guipure lace. The upper part ol :he sleeve is of fullwccordion plaits, the lower part tight-fitting and covered with guipure lace. The collar and bands are it guipure. In a paper lately read before the Scientific Section of the Manchester (England) < Literary and Philosophical Society, Mtc John Watson maintains that the rede* /elopement of lost limbs is not unusual unong insects. He himself has had three cases in which limbs have been redeveloped and one case of complete cicatrization. Redevelopemcnt, he says, an take place either at the larval or (he papal stages of an insect's metamorphosis. The bosk of Indian corn is being used in the manufacture of paper. In some jxperiments to test this use the huskt were thrown into a rotary boiler, and ifter being mixed with caustic soda and thoroughly boiled, they formed a kind )f spongy paste, full of a glutinous substance. This paste was then placed in a Hydraulic press, so as to separate the gluten from the fibre; a compact mass ol Sbre was then obtained, which is worked ; in various ways. ' The ichthyosaurus which was found by diggers who were making excavations it Saintc-Colombe in trencn ourgunuy is one o* the largest ever found, and can be considered one of the finest specimens. jf paleontological wonders. Its body, ibout nine yards in length, and its head, 3ve feet in length, were found in a good state of preservation, the anterior and :he posterior fins adhering to the vertebral columns. Scientists gave this ante* liluvian monster the name of Ichthyojaurus Burgundianus. C. V. Boughton, Secretary and Manager of the Buffalo, (N. Y.) Seal and Press "Works, i: working on an electrical machine for conversation at long disanccs. Jfr. Boughton is an inventor who has come into prominence lately }y his machines for making seals, icid has two big contratcts with the j jovernment for furnishing them. He is lot yet prepared to give out details of lis plan, as the foreign patents have not ret been obtained. He has been at work >n tbe scheme for a year and has spent H600. The medium used is electricity, [t is not a system of signals, he says, nor inything of tbe kind. Tbe President's nessage or the contents of a newspaper nay be transmitted to a vessel ten miles listant with ease. He will bo ready very soon to show its operations to the ivorld. yueer jmroses. Every nation has its own familiar phrases, which sound very queer to a foreigner. We have a great many that seem very natural to us, because we have known them since childhood, and other countries similarly have expressions that we would think funny, but which are not in the least to them. The French, for instance, say, "One of these four mornings," when we would say, "One of tbese days." Where we say, "One can't do a thousand things at once," the French say, "One can't accomplish thirty-six things in a breath." In China a blustering coward is said to be as "harmless as a paper tiger."?New Tcril Telegram* .. -?? ~ v. . i