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SUICIDE OF" BOULANGER. 1 The Notorious French General Kills Himself iu Brussels. A Sketch of His Turbulent and Sensational Life. "Vx" GENERAL BOULA.NGZR. General Boulanger committed suicide in 1 the cemetery of Ixelles, one mile south of Brussels, Belgium, on the tomb of Mme. de 1 Bonnemain. He killed himself about noon. He stood lone by the gave of his mistress for some < time, appearing to be deeply affected 1 by . sorrowful recollections. An attendant of the General, who had rpectfuily remained at som# distance i from Mme. de Bonneoiain's tomb, suddenly ! heard a sharp report In that direction. Run- ! ning to the spot, the attendant found General Boulanger lying dead upon the ground with a revolver clenched in his right hand. | A hast}- examination of the body showed | that the dead man had placed the weapon to : his right ear and fired th9 fatal shot. j General Boulanger went to Brussels from London a few months ago. Recently hehas not occupied his former gorgeous residence on the Avenue Louise, but, owing to 'reduced means, has been compelled to live in a small hotel, where his apartments were very different from those he had been accustomed to as a General of the French Army, as Minister of War, or as the friend of Mme. de Bonnemain. He had been jjlooiny and nervous, and, his friends say, had been inconsolable since the death of i Mme. de Bonnemain. He had a?ed percepti- | bly, a^i was much thinner than during his more prosperous days. Every day at about four in the afternoon he Ins, since Mme. de Bonuemain's death, gon? t ? the cemetery at Ixelles ani deposited 1 some handsome floral emblem, generally a cro^vn, upon her err five. He wouli stay by i the grave for some moments, sometimes for ! an hour, either engaged in prayer or in deep | thought. In the carriage which had carried him, I living, to the cemetery, he was taken, dead, I to his home. His niece, in a swoon, lay be- j side him. His death was entered on the po I lice register, one line, no more, as if he wera ; ' a ruined gambler. The police went to his ' lodgin? and stood guard nc the doors, allow ing fnoody to enter. In live minutes th3 wires had carried the I Atre M tVin T?Apaiom in Pine "Boulanger is dead!'' His aged mother and two of his nieces ppma'.ned at the hotel where he u ed tc Jive; in complete ignorance of his death. | It was arranged tbat he should be buried beside bis friend in the same vault, but in spite of persistent entreaties the Archbishop of Mali 11 ?s refus?d absolutely to allow the performance of any religious services in connection with the burial. Mme. Hou'anger, wife of the dead General, I is describe as being somewhat of areligieuse and a wccnan of modest and doraostic instincts. Reports as to her attitude toward Genfral Boulanger since his notorious infatu ation for Mme. ae Bonnemain differ. His Eventlul Career. George Ernest .Teau Marie Boulanger, French ex-Minister of War, was Ijoru at Rennes, Franc*, in 1837. His descant on the maternal side is Welsh. In 1S55 ho entered tha military olle^e of St. Cyr, and was made sub-lieutenaut in 1857. He served under Marshal llaneloa in the Kabylo cam* poi?u. He also took part in the Franco-Italian ??ar. aa l was wbunda-1 in th? battle of Turbige. In 186.) h? obtains! his full lieutenancy, and two years later was promoted to a caDts-n^v, having in the interim seen ser vice ui Cochin China, Just before the war - of 1S<\) he i.ecajie major. Ha was with Baziine nt Metz, but escaped the fate of Basain -'s aimv, and made his way back tc Par.>. He .. as promoted to a lieutenant-colonelcy by cue Government of National Defence, and fought at Oaampigny, (November 30 to Dece:m>er After the suppression of the Commune, doulanjer's newly attained promotion was qu-tsh&i by the Grade Revision Commit^.-, bat was restored to him in 1874. In 1 .yi ne De.-a ue Brigadier General. Being ? ^o.nti.l to the command of the army of occupation of Tunis he had a disagreement Widi M. Can!eon,the resident General, and was recalled. He next held the War Offl'Vs ?poo'utment of director of the in- , fantry -ii vision, and became Minister of War ' in 1 Wnen dr Freycinet resigned and was succeded >y 0. Goblet (December 1838), tho General retained his portfolio; but on the fall of Goblet. Bou'.anger'a name did not appeal ?n the cabinet of Rouvier. Soon after this th'i General was despatched to Cler mont-Kerrand to take command of an army corp.-, receiving a great ovation at Paris on vP . his departure. i Wlien the Limousin scandal broke np on Pari' nke a thunder c ap, General Boulanger coin vented very freely upon the War Minister's conduct, and was immediately ordere I un ler CI039 arrest for thirty days at i his own headquarters. The C*overnm?nt having deciJea in March, ISiS.to cashier the | General by placing him on the retired list, ! he inaugurated a vigorous campaign against , the ministry. Vacancies shortly after oc-' currei in the representation for the Bordo^ne and the Nord. Here lie was returned by 33,750 majority. In the Xord his triumph was still more re,v markable. This was on April 15, 1888, which, in a manifesto he issued to the electors, he declared would bo markel in the annals of the country as a date of true deliverance. Subsequently his popularity waned for a time. The General's appearance in the Chamber of Deputies in July 1888, to demand a dissolution of the Chamber, gave rise to a stormy scene. Floquet made a vigorous attack upon the General, and in the altercation between j them General Boulanger exclaimed: "You lie." This led Floquet to demand satisfaction, and on July 13 a duel wat fought be tween tnem, wiwi tne resun; that the Genei al received a deep wound in the neck. After his recovery he appeared as a candidate at bye-elections ana was returned by large majorities. The Patriotic League, of which he was the head, was sul> sequentlv suppressed and the General was tried by the Senate on a charge of having, while War Minister, appropriated *50,000 of public money for purposes of his own propaganda. ' He was fouod guilty. To avoid arrest he fled first to Belgium, then to London, whe^e he arrived April 24, 1889. The General was elected at the general election (Sepr.), for -dontmartre, by a smail majority over M. Jeffnn, but the election was annulle !. The General then retired to the Island of I . Jersey, and later remove'I to Brussels, where he rented the palatial residence formerly occupied bj the Austri\n Amb-ssanor. Madame cie Bonnenunr.toe G-ceral's mistress, upon whose tomo I: < oreatne 1 his lest, died in Brussels on J uly 16, 1S91, after having acco nuanied General Boulanier in all his later wanderinzs. s.-ie devoted an inherite i fortune of $!,5i>.\000 to the furtherance o. the Generai's political fortune-'. Thi tobacco crop of Tennessee is the largest that has been known for many years, tt was the intention to hold a graun Confederate reunion at Carusville, Tenn., on October 1, to raise funds for the erection ot a Confederate monument, but the farmers were so busy with the tobacco crop that it was decided to postpone it until October 15. I ^ The original draft of the State constitution of Wisconsin is missing lrom thi arc jives of thn Secretary o.*' State's olfl THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle Statfli, A paying vein of gold ore has beenYound in Silver Lake Township, Penn. Writs of quo warranto were issued against the State Treasurer and State Secretary of Connecticut. Water in the New Hampshire rivers is so low that many of the mills can run only on alt time. The public schools in Syracuse, N. Y., closed for a few days because of the phenomenal heat. James Darling and Sandy Ferry, while dynamiting stuniDs near Garfield Penn., were instantly killed by the premature explosion of a cartridge. Rev. Dr. S. D. Burchard, author of the famous Rum, Romanism and Rebellion speech during the Cleveland-Blaine Presidential campaign, died in Saratoga, N. Y. Ho was born at Steuben, N. Y., September 6th, 1S12. On the day following the accident it was stated that eleven of the victims of the firework explosion in Newark, N. J., were dead, and other fatalities were expected. All the victims were Italians. Two freight trains came into collision about two miles west of Hawleyville, Conu. The engineer, William Day; the fireman, James Gardner, and a brakeman, G. A. Sprague, of the eastbound traiD, were killed. They all lived in Hartford. The Rev. Caspar Wistar Hodge, D. T)., LL. D., Professor of New Testament Lit >ratureatfd Biblical Greek at Princeton iN. J.) Seminary, is dea l. His death resulted from a surgical operation to remove a cancer from the throat. He was born at Princeton on February 31, 1S31. Ex-State Treasurer William H. JVE3IBL.E, or jrennsyivania, uisu as rutmueiphia of heart failure. He was worth $3,000,A fourteen-year-old boy named Ambrose Parr committed suicide at Millville, N. J., by hanging himself in the garret of his home. He was employed as a tending boy at Whitall, Tatum & Co.'s flint glass works, and refused to go out with the other tending boys when they struck. On several occasions, it is said, the strikers called young Parr a "scab," and he brooded over the matter so much that it unbalanced his mind. An explosion of oil destroyed the wholesale coal-oil housa of Phillips & Cunningham at Philadelphia, Penn. The total loss is estimated at a little over $500,000. Francis Hendricks, Mr. Fassett's successor as Collector of the Port of New York, was sworn into office by United States Commissioner John Shields at the Custom House. The new Collector's bond for $200,000 was filed at the same time, his sureties being United States Senator Frank Hiscock, Colonel Elliott F. Shepard and Edward B. Judson. Some time ago Mrs. Catherin e F. Felt, of Salem, Mass., quarreled with and left her husband. Recently her pug dog was killed and its collar was sent her, as sae believed, by Felt. She poured two quarts of kerosene over her clothing and lighted it. Wrapped in flames she ran into the street and was so horribly burned that she died a lew houri later. John W. Mackay and Mrs. Fair reached " New York from San Francisco in four days, twelve hours, twenty-eight minutes, the fastest trip on record. The Massachusatts Democrats in convention at Worcester renominated William E. Russell for Governor. Judgment was rendered against John Bardsley; ex-Treasurer of Philadelphia, Penn., for $394,010. Remel, the man who attempted to wreck a Lehigh Valley Railroad train at Kennedy'l station, near Phillipsburg, N. J., a month ago, has been sentenced to ten years at hard j labor in State prison and fined $1000. William Gould, Jr., of Albany, N. Y., | who was found guilty of aiding and abetting 1 Bookkeeper Whitney in falsifying fhe accounts of the Albany City Rational Bank, han been sentencea to six gears' imprisonment. ' South and West. Rilbt Smart, a young man of Monroa Towns!iip,Ind.,died from the effects of being stuag in forty-two places by yellow jacks. Osseo, Wis., has an epidemic of typhoid. Almost every resident i3 ill. There have bein five deaths. Kezekiah Rakki.v, colored, shot Fred Taylor, whice, at Asjevilb, N. C. Acrowd .lynched Rankin promptly. The westbound limited mail struck a car- ' riage near Centrevilte, Ind., in w'aica were Joseph Black, his wife and two daughters. I Blact his wile and one daughtar were in- j stantly killed, and the other daughter was > fatally injured. Mayor Hennemas, of Spartanburg, S. j C., was shot anrl killed in that city by a colored man, John Williams. Williams was ; beating a colored woman, when Henneman ! interfered. Williams pushed the Mayor out and shot him. j Colonel Bradford Dunham, General i Superintendent of the Alabama Midland j Railroad, shot and instantly killei James Cunningnam, a young man, ninetesn years 1 old. Dunham surrendered himself. Two tires in St. Louis, Mo., destroyed the great establishment of tae Plant Milling Company, tbe one story Missouri Pacific warehouse and the seven story building of the Mnnsur-Tibbett Farming Implement Company. The loss by the first lire is $400,000, and by the second $500,000. It was supposed that two firemen, who were missing, were killed by the falling in of thero:>f. A severe earthquake shock was felt throughout Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky and Tettnassee. People flai from their houses in alarm, but no great damage was done to property. P. M. Gaddis, Sheriif of West Carrol Parish, had a personal difficulty with Jeff F Dunn at Floyd. L*. EugeDe Yarbrou^b, the Sheriff's son-in-law interfered. The Sheriff then secure i a pistol and emptied several chambers into Dunn's back and ran awav. Dunn snatched Yarbroush's pistol and tired after Gadd is, missing him. He then firei at Yarbrough, breaking both his arms, and shooting him between tue eyes and in the side. Dunn and Yarbrough leli together and died where tbey lay. Andrew Anderson, Martin Nelson, and a man whose name is unknown, were drowned by tbe capsizing of a rowooat near Madeline island, Ashland, Wis. Henrietta Murrell, colored, was hanged in Smithville, Va., for drowning her eight-year-old child. She confessed the crioje, and said sue committed it because she could not support herself and the child. Emmet B. Stanley. Superintendent of the Money Order Department of tne Po3tofflce at Atlanta, Ga., has been arrested on a charge of embezzling $1500. Edward Powell and James Laeper were hanged in the jail at Gatesville, Texas, for tbe murder, in 18S9, of J. T. Matthias. The Colorado Democratic State Convention met at Denver. Tbe only business was the nomination of a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.and tbe adoption of a platform. After effecting an organization asd transacting so-ne routine business the convention put in nomination Judge L. M. Goddard, of Leadville. In a pale at Saulte Ste. Marie, Mfck,, atng j sank. Her crew of six were drownefl. j Rufus Ferry, hackman. and Carrie , Rreon, a mulatto, wer<* drowned in the Chicaeo River, at Chicago. 111., at the Washington street bridge, Ferry driving into an open draw. Washinsrton. Secretary Rusk, of the Agricultural Department, says it has been found by experts that women make better meat inspectors than men. The Secretarv of the Naw has designated i thirty-four British naval statlons'n different ; parts of the wnr'rt as places where salutos may be flrsd bv United States naval vessels. The Armv Board on Fortifications and Ordnance made the following recommendations to the Secretary of War, wh'ch have been anproved: That S'W.001 bp allotted for ' procuring carriages for five-inch si*?'* rifle>; that the L??wis depression range finder be , teste' at Fort Wadsworth. N. Y.. and that the Chief of Ordnance be authorized to make ! a few of the new twelve-inch rifle guns forty calibres in length. Captain A. W. Fisker, of North Caro j lina, the Chief Clerk of the Pension Bureau, I was stricken with "aralysis of the right side | while at work at his desk in Washington. The President has appointed Jeremiah Coughlin, of New York, Secretary of the ' Legation and Consul General of the United States at Bogota, the capital of tho Republic of Colombia, in South America. The marble statue of the Pope, presented to the Catholic University at Washington by Joseph Loubat, of New York, was unveiled. An Important Cabinet conference was neia in *v a^uiu^iuu iaj wu^iuoi tuo jjuuuv uu be pursued by this Government in dealing with Chili for harassing Minister Eagan ana citizens of the United States in Santiago. President Harrison has approved the finding of a court martial expelling Cadet Thomas Pelham, Curtis, son of Colonel Curtis of the army, from Wert Point for making a false entry as to the time of his return to hospital after leave of absence. Foreign, The adoption of the minority report finding the ex-MiDister of Public Works, Sir Hector Langevin, of Canada, guilty of complicity in dishonest practices, was lost in the House at Ottawa by a vote of eighty-three to 104. The House was divided on Mr. Giroard's motion for the adoption of the majority report, exculpating Langevin, which was carried by a vote of 101 yeas to eighty-six nays. Starving peasants in Russia continue to set fires for the purposes of plunder. Prussia's wheat crop is nearly 1,000,001! double quintals larger than 1890. The Chinese Government has advised the British Foreign Office that it has offered compensation to the Powers, has ounished rioters, and can preserve the peace in China. emperon Francis Joseph, of Austria, had a splendid reception at Prague, the capital of Bohemia. An epidemic of influenza prevails in Melbourne, Australia. Justice Webb is one of its victims. A violent prisoner escaped from the hands of the police at Marseilles, France, by making an unexpected attack upon his captors with a carvine knife. Before he could be recaptured he had been chased through \ the town and had killed one policemau and cut himself so severely with a sword that he died. Chinese troops in Hunan are in a mutinous condition aud fear3 are entertained for the safety of the foreigners. Sixty thousand persons filled St. Peter's J in Rome on the occasion of the Pope's cale- , bration of mass. Complete famine prevails in thirteen ! Governments in Russia, and partial famine ! in eight. The White Star Line steamer Teutonic j reached Queenstown. Ireland, from New i York, breaking the eastward record by one j hour and twenty-eight minutes. The voyage Was made in five days, twenty-one hours and ! twenty-two minutes. David Evans has been etected to succeai Sir Josepn Savory as Lord Mayor of London. " ' The funeral train bearing the remains of the Grand Duchess Paul arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia, from Moscow. The coffin was borne to the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul by the Czar, the King of j Greece, Prince Waldemar, of Dsnmarl:; Prince George, of Greece, brother of the deceased Grand Duchess; Grand Duke PaulAlexandnmtcb, her husband; Granl Duke Constantino and the Grand Duke Constant:novitcb. THE LABOR WORLD. Cod fishermen talk of a union. Chicago has over S00 letter-carriers. The girl spinners have united at Lowell. Toledo (Ohioi workiner erirls have orzan* ! Ized. Passenger engineers work six hours a day. Great Britain has 54,000 woman trado unionists. London* buttonhole makers get thirty-five I cents a day. The Labor party polls 03,000 votes in New j South Wales. Shirts are mude for ten cents each in San ' Francisco, Cal. A $'400,000 cotton-mill is to be run at) Riverside, Ala. Over 2000 men are at work on the Chicago World's Fair Purk. Colored cotton-pickers' strike in tho South was a failure. Over 150 colored minors deserted Iowa for Indian Territor f. Woiie.v in California canneries get from ?1.16to 31.1)0 p^r west. THEwaaesof shopgirls in Lonlon begin at from $35 to ;40 a yeir. Log-cutters on tne West Brauch of the Susquehanna are organizing. Chickamagua (Ga.) Coal and Iron Com- i " ? 11 Knil J OA'I /1A l?/? c\ v inc JJUUJT ?? Ul uuuu ?w-/ cvnu vfea?a< The woodworkers are spreading their or- | ganization to big Western cities. a Mount Carmi^l (Penn.) :nine uses an ox instead of a mule to draw cars. A glass factory at Bnltimore, M d., has boen closed by a strike of 130 boys. The Stiniarl 01 Company's cooperate shops at East St. Louis, III., employ 450 men. Gihls are now largely employed as designers in the textile industry of ".Sew England. Ik Japan every workman wears his employer's name, business end address printed on nis back. English railway managers claim that increased wa^es to employes have decreased the dividends. The sailmakers of Liverpool are agitating against the use of sewing machines In the stitching of sails. The International Congress, called to discuss the causes of accidents to workmen, met at Berne, Switzerland. The third annual convention of the Inter- j national Brotherhood of Railroad Conduc- | tors met at Louisville, Ky. Five thousand girls employed at a lace j factory in Venic.-, under the patronage of the I Queen of Italy, receive seven c^nts a day each. Is Sew York State 110 labor organizations, comprising 81,191 raemoers employe! in different occupations, have reduced their hours of labor in 18'JJ. In Texas the colored cotton pickers have t formed an organization, a ruie of which says | they shall not pic* cotton under 31 per hundred pounds and board. The United Wood Carvers decided not to co-operate with the A.mei ican Woncingmen's Def ense League in commemorating the execution ot the Chicago Anarchists. The Order ot Railway Telegraphers an I Brotherhood of Telegraphers in Chicago havr, been amalgamated. Tnis action was taken in accordance with the dec ision of the tional conventiou of the first named body. One of the strongest professional trades ! unions in tfc* Unitad States is the Dentists' Protective Association. After due warning the doors were closed when the membership had reached about iOJl). Every man paid in $10, jnaking $50,000 at the start. United States Minister Congzr, atRie de Janeiro, advises all those who entertaiq the idea of emigrating to Brazil to change their minds. He says tt*at for unskilled labor there is no prospect in that country bill disappointment and suffering. For peopU who do not speak Portuguese there is abs> lutely no prospect of employment, and very little for those who do. LOST IN PBAIBIE FIBES. Men and Cattlo Overtaken by the Flames and Burned to Death. George W. Johnson aud his son, who lived near Beaver Creek, North Dakota, were burned to death by the Emmons County prairie fires. Mr. Tabor, an old man who lived near Williamsport, was seriously burned. In the Holland settlement, thirty-five miles south of Williamsport threo men ore Known to have perished, "i'ne i amount of dacncge done in the Holland settlem?nt is no: far from ?50,00j. One man, named Pratt, at Winona, twenty miles from Williamsport, lost forty-three steers, which were overtaken by the fire and burned to d?ath. A fire on South Prairie burned out Messrs. Fosburg, Mahoney. Hesholy, Houston and Parker. Advices received from various parts of Minnesota indicate that a general rainfall has quenched nearly all the forest fires. It has also relieved the apprehension of farmera that the pasturage would be ruined by the continuation of tha recent scorching ' weather. 1 WORLD'S FAIB NOTES. Nicaragua. wants half an acre for the sifcfl of its building at the Exposition. Farmed, Farmers' Alliances, and other rural organizations will be provided for in a special building at the World's Fair. Commissioner Shufeldt has cabled from '"'.ape Town, South Africa, that an exhibit of diamonds and feathers worth $300,000 will be sent from Cape Town. The Executive Committee of the Illinois Woman's Alliance has asked for the privilege of making a display at the Fair which will show the evil results of child labor. Sexor Notez, of Madrid, petitioned for the privilege of conducting bull fights during tbe Exposition, and offered to pay $1, 250,000 for the right to do so. The directory decided not to sanction any oiui ngnrs. It is probable that the five Territories? New Mexico, Utab, Arizona, Oklahoma and Alaska?will make their exhibit of their resources and products under one roof. They united in a request to that effect, and it was granted. Two anchors that Columbus carried in>hi3 ships will be exhibited at the Fair, and already one of them is stored in Washington, waiting to be brought to Chicago. The anchors were found by Columbian Commissioner Ober near two old wells at San Salvador. Secretart Dickinson is greatly interested in the efforts of Texas, his own State, to raise a large Exposition fund. He has offered prizes of 1100, $75, and $50 to the young woman of Texas who shall raise the largest amount for the fund before November 1st. Two granite columns for the Woman's Building have been contributed by Mrs. Alice Houghton, Lady Manager, of Washington. The columns are fifteen feet high, twenty inches in diameter.and will be placed In the main entrance on the east side of the Woman's Building. The Grounds and Buildings Committee decided to advertise for the construction of a building to accommodate four saw-mill plants. The structure will be located south of the Agricultural Annex, oh piles driven in what is now a natural lagoon. The building will be 130x230 feet and will cost $25,000. A. B. De Guerville, of Milwaukee, has been appointed a general World's Fair Com missioher, and will visit the different countries of Europe, Asia and Northern Africa, delivering lectures on the World's Fair. The lectures will be illustrated with stereopticon views of Chicago and the "World's Fair buildings. Secretary Butterworth, Major Handy, Commissioners Lindsay and Bullock, and director Peck, comprising the Exposition's European Commission, have returned to this country, having visited during the past nine weeks almost every European capital in the interest of the Exposition. This tour has resulted in awakening throughout all Europe very great interest and even euthusiasm in the Fair. It is now certain that England, France, Germany, and nearly all other European nations, will surpass at Chicago all previous efforts in making exhibits. Chief Buchanan, of the Agriculturl Department, says that the cotton industry will make one of the great displays of the Exposition. Cotton is the leading vegetable libre of the world, and the United States furnishes over fifty-six per cant, of the entire product, so that it ic entitled to a prominent place in the Agricultural Department. As contemplated by Chief Buchanan, the exhibit will embraca samples from every country where the plant is grown to any extent, and various illustrations of growth and preparation for market. Half a million pansies, one hundred thousand rose3, and millions of other flowers, including every known variety and species, will be seen at the Exposition. The horticultural exhibit will be on a scale never before attempted in the history o! the world. Mr. Thorp, of the floriculture" di nsion, estimates that the equipment of the horticultural building, including the purchase price of plants, will be $350,000, and the total expense of the display $750,000. Tha floriculturists of the countrv will donate a large share of the plants, 'fen of the sixteen acres of ground on the wooded island will be planted in flowers. The Brazilian Government intends to make a magnificent display at the Exposition.and will invest not less than half a miliion dollars iu carrying out the plans for it9 representation. It is proposed not only to erect a building in which to display the magnificant resources of Brazil, but to surround that building with practical illustrations of tne methods of agriculture ani industry. There will be a sugar mill in operation, a coffee quiuta, at which the method of gathering and curing coffee for the market will be illustrated, and the manner in which rubber is gathered and prepared for market will be shown in a similar way. There wij' be also several fac-similes of native huts, with native families living as they live at home, and pursuing their industries. It is proposed also to have the national band of Brazil in attendance. A DARING TRAIN ROBBERY. An Express Car Rifled at the Point of a Revolver. A train robbery, with nearly all the thrilling features that accompany such events in the wild West, took place about li. m. on a Central Hudson rauroaa tra-n Deoween Albany, N. Y., an:l Little Falls, on train No. 31, a solid American Exprea3 train of six cars, which left New York at 8:30at night, bound for Chicago. At the hour named B. A. Moore, of Buffalo, a trusted messenger ot the express company, who had bjeu in its employ fifteen years, suddenly realized the fact that a stranger stood over him, with two revolvers pointed at his head, and demanded the surrender of his revolver and the key of the safe. Moore was taken wholly by surprise, and as the robber had taken his revolrer, he had Co give up the key of tbe safe. The robber then opened the safe, took out all the money it contained, about $1000, and cutting the hose of the air brake, brought the traia u?arly to a standstill and jumped off, starting in a northerly direction. *8 soon as possible Moore made known to the other men on the train what had taUen place, and they made a S9arcb to see how the robber got into the car. There was no mystery about It, for a hole largo enough to admit a man's body was found cut tarough the j orward end of the car. It was about sixteen inches square and had been cut out with an auger and saw. Once the intruder got inside he was concealed from the messenger Dy tne ireignc ana couta tou-u mo iuc-senger without being seen himself. He waited until Moore was making out certain way bills and had him covered with the pistols and at his raercv. The car that was robbed waB the last ona in the train. his debtors'killed him, The Friouiis of a Usurer Slaughtered in China. A letter from Shanghai gives the details of a tragic and sensational occurronce in the northern provinca of China: In the region known as Tulufan, situated in what is known as the New Territory, are largo numbers o? Mohammedans, native Chinese, wno many years a *o adopted the Mohammedan faith. These people are numerous and powerful in tho community, but are said to be perfectly ignorant of the principles of trailo. A native, kniwn as a Shensi man, had for years conducted a sort of banking house at Hupoo. He had accumulated an immense fortune, making; large sums by lending money at usurious rates. Unfortunately for nim at tho wrong time he prasse 1 his debtors, who were all Mohammedans with too much severity. Tney held a ma*s meeting and threatens! him. This had 4a effectyand finally a few wesks since they ar.ned themselves, seizad the usurer and out himfo death ina most brutal minnor. With him ;-.h>? mob kille l no less tuan thirty-eight Chi cese, who were followers and friends of tho Shemi man. The hea ls of tlii victims uviv aftjr var.l p'.ajjd on bam >oo poles an I exoosed to view. A revolt was imminent, but wai stopped by.'the Mohamme lan chiefs, w,tu tho assistance of imperial sollieri A seat in the New York Stock Exchangt was sold the other day for $22,(XX). Nol verv long ago a sale was reported at $16,500, out"business is vastly brisker in Wall streel now than it was in those days. With the close of hostilities in Chili the United States trade with that country has been resumed. South American steamers will now land at all the Chilian ports. I DESTITUTION IN RUSSIA. A State ot Famine in Thirteen Governments. Straits to Which the Starving Peasants are Beduced, A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the London Telegraph, describing the situation m Russia arising from the failure of crops, ? J 1 r>f tha ttUU UCUtlUU^ utuiv/nui^ iUViUbuw w- ? famine new prevailing, says that not for centuries has such widespread distress been recorded. A circular has been issued by the Minister o? the Interior, which enumerates thirteen Governments in which the people are completely famine stricken, and eight in which a partial famine prevails. The trouble is chiefly due to the Government, which, although well aware at the beginning of the year that a famine was imminent, delayed taking any action to relieve the distress until it was too late. What beneSt would have been derived from the prohibition of the exportation of rye was nullified by the action of the Government in extending the time for the decree to go into effect. In addition to the scarcity of food, which has caused untold suffering, the distress has been intensified by the enormous number of disastrous fires that have occurred throughout the famine-stricken region. In many of the districts entire villages have been destroyed. Added to these cruel strokes of fortune came the cattle plague, from which thousands of head of cattle perished, many families thus losing their only means of subsistence. What little food It is possible for the peasants to obtain is of the poorest description. In many cases their only food is tne sweepings and refuse from the flour mills. In Saratoff the landowners found this refuse so injurious to their cattle that they would not feed it to them. But the landowners made bread of it and sold it to the peasants. Bread made of finely chopped straw and bran, mixed with a small quantity of rye, is considered excellent. In many districts the starving people are not able to procure even these miserable substitutes for nourishing food, and are reduced to the most dire straits to procure anything that will prolong life. In these districts the starving population are keeping themselves alive by making and eating what they call ''hunger broad," the ingredients of which are dried dung, the powdered bark oE trees and ground peas and goosf-?oot, a plant' more commonly known as pig-weed. Heavy rains have fallen and the ground is so soaked with water that the potatoes are ! rotting. The price of potatoes has already j doubled, and is still rising. The peasant boards have sent petitions to the Ministry praying that tho taxes and arrears of taxes be wiped out. The petitioners declare that the Government will be obliged to maintain the impoverished people for fourteen months, ana that it will ba utterly impossible for them to pay the taxe3. The great fair which is annually held at Nijni Novgorod, and wlihh is attended by merchants and dealers from all parts of Rus sia, was a failure this year. This was due to ( the enormous number of bankrupts and their 1 consequent withdrawal from trade. In many villages the peasants have nailed J i up their huts, and have left their communes to scour the country in search of work. Hundreds of them have failed in their search, aud are begging along the roadsides. In numerous cases the seed corn which was furi nishod the peasants by the Government has I been eaten instead of being planted, and the . i ' land is lying fallow. j Notwithstanding the terrible condition of > the peasantry, the taxes continues to be ex- I j torted from them. Where the peasants dis- ! , i play any unwillingness to pay over their ' j taxes, the collectors resort to physical : i means to collect the money from them. The I ' knout is extensively employed by the ' ! officials of the tax-gathering department of 1 Russia. NEWSY GLEANINGS. i Oystermen* report a big crop. i India publishes 600 newspapers. I The situation iu China is serious. Wyoming's wealth is J32,5o2,072. The Iowa potato crop is enormoi;. I i J JLNFLiUli.azA is epiueuiiu ai/ an.iujvr, opt*iu. ! Prairie fires are raging in the North* west. I Conyec icut's tobacco crop is worth 1 . 130,000.000. | Russia will not tolerate foreign war ships j in the Black Sea. I A plague of locusts is feared in the Argentine Republic. j Allerton has lowerep the world's stal. lion record to 2:09^. j Belgium proposes to make the Congo State a penai colony. > Large numbers of Italians are emigrating ] to the United States. I Philadelphia is undergoing an epidemic ' I of suicide by laudanum. I ! Phylloxera is ravaging the vines in some parts of Austria. ; The "Holy Coat" at Treves. France, has : been viewed by 3,000,000 persons. Polygamy is dying out in Utah under j ' the operation of the law against it. | : The damage to the cereal crops in Canada by insects has been estimated at $38,000,000. i A New York 9heriff has seized a tombRtone in Greenwood Cemetery to satisfy a j lien. Our copper output this year fell short of the usual amount by more than 100,000 tODS. I During the year ending with Inst June, 25,798 immigrants were landod in Phiiadel- j phia. Potatoes are so abundant in Southern j California that they can hardly be disposed : of at any price. The recent heavy crop3 of wheat and corn , are already showing their effect upon the stocks and markets. j A MosticelloiIU.) Justice of the Peace ' has been >er.tenced to two years in the penitentiary ror burglary. | ' It is reported that Canadian vessels have ] captured about twelve thousand seals in i ' Berhing 3ea this season. , Successful experiments at Spezzia make ' | it probable that petroleum will be used as fuel on the Italian war' vessels. | English capitalists recently purchased ' * $159,000 worth of railroad machines in , ' Philadelphia for Brazilian railroads. , 1 Maine has 1G5 prisoners in its State pris- , on, Ave of which are females. Of these , forty-one are serving a life sentence. I Proposals will he submitted to the Up- . per Chamber in New Zealand for a legislative I j oody to be composed entirely of women. , A pamphlet issued bv the Massachusetts | f Board of Agriculture shows that 860 farm* ! have been abandoned in that common | j wealth. The distrass in the Volga provinces of j Russia is intense. At Penza women and j children wander exhausted shrieking for foo<i in the mark-it places. The population of Alsaec-Lorrainebas decreased 33,000 during the last five years, al- | thouah the births during that period hav< largely exceeded the deaths. The Rev. Howard McQueary, whose trial at Clevt-land, Ohio, for alleged heresy las January created such a sensation, has with drawn from the Episcopal Church and be como a Universalis!. A BOOMER'S BICYCLE, It Beats All Horses at the Opening i of Hasten* Oklahoma. Elmer E. McGuire, formerly of Winfleld, j Kin., now of Chicago, accomolishe I a wonder.ul feat at the opjniu^ o' the Indian . lands. He rode from Gutarie, Oiilaiio.na, ; to Chandler and back on a bicycle, making | the entire distance of ninetv-tivo miles in eight hours and a quarter. He travelej I over rou^h roads, part of the distauce on an j j old Indian trail, and beat every boomer's J horse m the country. George Welton, his son and two partners have been arrested at Chicago for sell- : ing for $40 to $125 each ''town lots in full , i view of the World's Fair," said lots having I been discovered to be under the outlaying Waters of Lake Michigan. mm t ".- ' ' LATER MEWS. The total 4)? par cent. Government bonda continued at two per cent, is |25,364,5'J0. Third Assistant John Moore retired from office in the Department of State to undertake the duties of Professor of International Law in Columbia College, New York. Mr. Moore has filled the position of Third Assistant Secretary since Mr. Bayard'? accession to the office of Secretary of State. According to a Census Bureau bulletin, there are 4510 nurseries in the United States, valued at 541,973,833.80. The President has appointed ex-Governor E. J. Ormsbee, of Vermont, Land Commissioner In Samoa, vice Henry C. Ide, resigned. The receipts of the Government since September 1 amount to $2S,335,000. The net cash balance in the Treasury,inclusive of fractional silver and deposits in national banks, is stated at $42,000,000. Business is at a standstill in Savannah, Ga., owing to the spreading of the wharf laborers' strike. A freight train on the Erie Railroad collided with a passenger train near Kent, Ohio. Three were killed. They were: W. H. Maxwell, road foreman of engineers; Fireman Glass and Mrs. Dewey, of Richland, Mich. Twenty-two passengers were slightly injured. McCartney's Exchange Bank, of Fort Howard, Wis., has been robbed of $3000 in money and $4000 in Government bonds. At the meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League at Buffalo,N. Y.,George William Curtis was re-elected President. The First National Bank of Clearfield, Penn., of which William H. Dill is President, closed its doors. President Dill authorizes the following: An unprecedented run, amounting to nearly $40,000, made it impossible to continue business, and, therefore, the bank snspends payment. W, F. Gould, of Portland, was released from the Maine State Prison on a pardon by the President. He had sarvei five years of a ten years' sentence for embezzlement while acting as cashier of the First National Bank of Portland. The Canadian Parliament was prorogued by Governor-General Stanley. It is reported that the trooos in manv places in Brazil have mutinied. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The Pope is said to be in splendid health. The Emperor of China is but twenty years old. Governor Francis, of Missouri, is worth |i,0j0,003. The Czar of all the Rassias travels in a shot-proof car. The most prolific of English novelists is Mrs. Alexander. The Prince of Wales Is Colonel in fortyone different regiments. Alexander Dumas, the French author, Lf now sixty-seven years old. The estate of the late Mrs. Fair, of San Francisco, is estimated at about $6,000,000. John Penn, who has just been elected to the British Parliament, is a descendent of the great William Penn. Deacon Price, of Manchester, Mass.. is said to bo the oldest school teacher in the country. He was born in 1808. Mrs. Leland Stanford has purchased 150 handsomely bound Bibles to go in the student's rooms at the Pala Alto University. The late James Russell Lowell is said to have seen the inside of more English country houses than any other American who has ever visited England. Ex-Judge William Strong, who retired from the United States Supreme Court bench in 1886, is now living in Washington at the age of eighty-four years, in feeble health. Who would suppose that the ch'Ken recreation of the greatest of American (ireek scholars, Professor Gildereleave, of Johns Hopkins University, was the composition of Mother Goose melodies? The young Prince of Naplei heir to the throne of Italy, is said to be a moiel Prince, intellectually and morally. He is an only Uio narunfc anH a o^knlflP LililU, lUUHiCJ ujr UU paiWUW, aus* ? tfvuw.w* and a gentiemau in every sense of the word, John Fitzgerald, the President of the Irish National League in America, is the richest man in Lincoln, Neb., having a fortune of $1,500,000. He be?au bis career as a laborer with pick and shovel on a Western railroad. Captain John liohtfoot.one of the men who organize! the Grand Army of the Republic by statins Po3t No. 1 at Decatur, 111., in 1866, died recently at his home in Bloomiugton, 111. He was captain of Company A, 101st Illinois Infantry, and was born in Kentucky in 1814. He was a harnessmaker, and was at work until three months ago. Clara. Barton, so widely known for her labors in extending the Hod Cross Society and the Women's Relief Corps, is said to be the tirst person to deiorat9 the soldiers' graves as a patriotic rather than a personal act of homage, and is the only woman who ever sat in the Swiss National Council; no other woman ever received, as she did trom the oid Kaiser Wiliiaai, tae iron Cross of Prussia. THE NATION'S DOMAIN. Mr. Carter's Report Showing tne entries on Public Lands. The report of Commissioner Carter of the operations of the General Land Offlc9 during the fiscal year, ended June 20, 1891, has been made public at Washington. The cash sales of public lan is amounted to 2,143,090 acres. Of thisamount l,391.413acres were preemption cash entries, 259,913 acres were timber and stoue land entries. 400,432 acres were desert land entries, 33,691 acres 1 were mineral and 30,955 acres were private entries. Ot the miscellaneous land entries (not caeh) 5,040,35*3 acres were homesteaded; [)f-;9.006 acres were entered under the Timber Culture law. The railroad selections amounted to 1,557.572 acres, the State selections to 174,4*^4 acre?, the Indian , allotments to 117,48"? and the original swamp selections to 23.107 aero*. The total area of public laud entries and selections made during the rear is given at 10,357.231 acres, exclusive of 120,4:W acres of Indian lands. The total casti receipts during the year were $5,429,220. Filings wera made ; during the year to the number ot 20,241, tees on which amounted to $77,009. Th9 number of final entries made during the ye-ir was 51,934, representing an acreage of 7,859,905. MAN AND WOMAN LYNCHED Taken From Jail by a Mob and Hanged From a Bridge The usually quiet town of Holl ndale, Miss., has been for forty-eight hours in a fever of excitement ou account of the unprovoked murder of a white citizen by colored men and the speedy administration of justice to the murderer and his accomplice. Lou Stevenson, a mulatto woman of low character, for reasons not yet ascertained, decided that a white man named Davis must die. With her colored lover. Grant White, sbK plotted the murder. D.H.vis, who worse 1 tor Miller & GriHiu. merchants, was called from the store at about 11 o'clock at ni^ht by the woman an.l was engaged in conversation. White then crept up behind him and shot him dead. The entire town was aroused by the crime. Tho murderers were put in jail, "but on Sunday night a posse of fifty men demanded and received the guilty pair from the officer in charge, and carrying them to the bridge across Deer Creek, hanged them from the trestle. O ^ The absence of soft water is no excuse for drinJuag hard, ' mm* RACEFOR COMER LOTS. A Wild Stampede for Oklahoma Building Sites. The Lines Meet, Riders Are Unhorsed, and Several Killed. Couriers who have arrived at Guthrie, Oklahoma, give the following particulars of the opening of the Government town site of Chandler in the Sic and Fox reservation: The town site was opened to settlement at 12 o'clock, and the scone which followed the volley of musketry which announced the opening of the town beggars description. A mass of 3000 excited men ana women, intent upon securing a lot, had gathered about trie boundary of the town. Some were on horses, broncos and others on foot, stripped of all suoerfluou3 clothing, each carrying a sharpensd stick, with name and notice of lot taken thsreon, all strung to the highest pitch of excitemenr. At 13 o'clock sharp the signal was given, and with a mightv yell from 3000 throats and amid the cracking of whips and volleys of oaths, shouts, and corses the mass of men and women on horse and foot rushed like maniacs for the town lots. They clambered up the steep cliff like soldiers charging a for* ' tress. The line was one mile long on each side and a half mile long on each end. The rash was towards lot 38, which was reserved for a Court House. As tbe angles of the advancing lines met many riders were unhorsed and hurled pell-mell into the road. Some persons are reported as killed and others as having received severe injuries. Miss Daiiy, a reporter of the Guthrie News, was thrown rrom her horse at the beginning of the race and, striking her head ou a rock, was killed. The excited and merciless crowd had no time to attend the dying, and rode over the body of the unfortunate woman until it was recognized by a friend who took it out of the crash. A? there were three or four times as many people as there were lots, the result could be easily foretold. There are from three to six claimants for a great many of the good lots to-night. On every hand cm be heard curses and high-worded discussion. It will take considerable time to adjust these differences. An Indiaa killed a white man in a quarrel in one of the tents where liquor was being sold. NINE MEN KILLED. Crushed to Death in a Railroad ' Collision in reniujriYnuui. A terrible wrack occurred on the Pittsburg and Western ?-Hlroadat McKim's Siding, Penn., a station a short distance'on the other side of Zelienople, Butler County. At this point a wore train with a force of fifty men was engaged in putting down a new track. About eight o'clock this train got out of the way of a freight train going west, but the crew did not know that a second section -was following fiv? minutes later. The work train again pulled out on the main track, and ths men were engaged in throwing off dirt when the socond section struck the work train with great force. Cars were piled up in a shapeless mass. The engines were mass of broken iron and wood, and the hot steam and boiling water poured over the unfortunate ones caught in the jam. The trainmen and laborers wao were not injured began' at once to assist those imprisoned in the d?> bris. The head of an Italian was found twenty feet away from the body. Engineer John Houghton, who had bravely dene his best to stop nis engine, attached to the freight train, was found wedged in broken and shapeless iron. By 11 o'clocic the bodies of eight Italian laborers had been taken from the wreck and laid beside that of Engineer 1 Houghton, There were at least twenty men injured, several of whom cannot recover. All of ths bodies were terriby tnang>ed and disfigured. Engineer Houghton was the ouly American killed. His home was in Allegheny. It is said that a mistake was made by the trainmen, wno did not correctly interpret a signal, and tuat led to the accident. All ths trains were delayed, but the large fores of men at work soon cleared tee track. EIGHTEEN MILLION'S. Estimate ot the Cost of Running the World's Fair. E. T. Jeflery, Chairman of the Grounds and Buildings Committer of the World'f Fair at Chicago, made the following estimate of necessary exposition expenses for sub mis sion to the recent meeting of the National Commission: Buildings $7,S95,000 J Grading and flllins: 450,000 Landscape 323,490 Viaducts and bridges 125,000 Piers 70,000 Waterway improvements.. 225,000 Water supply and sewerage...... 600,000 Railways 500,000 Steam plant ' 800,000 Electricity 1,500,000 Statuary on buildings 100,000 Vases, lamps and posts 50,000 Fuel and light during construction 20,000 Seating 8,000 World's Congress 200.000 Improvement of lake front.... H.. 200,000 General expenses of Construction Department 500,000 Organization and administration. 3,308,563 Police, watchmen and othar expenses 1,550,000 Total $17,825,453 FATAL CELEBRATION. > Three Men KMed and Twenty-fire Wounded at Newarit, N. J. A horrible accidcnt occurred at on Italian celebration in Newark, N. J., bv which three persons were killed outright and twenty-five ?Cfimn nf thsm fatallv. persuuo aoi iwuoij , ? r injured. The residents of the Italian quarter in Boydeu street celebrated a festival which is known as St Rooo's Day, in a three-story house, No. 28. Chinese lanterns, decorations of all kinds and a shrine were among the outdoor attractions. Among the novelties provided for the entertainment of the celebrants was the explosion of a lot of dynamite inclosed in a gaspipe. This piece "was fired about 10:45 o'clock, the people being grouped in close proximity to tne gas-pipe. The explosion came with the most violent effects. Scarcely had the detonation died when the air waa filled with shrieks, cries and groans of pain from a quarter of a hundred peopie, who had been torn and wounded by the powerful ex-, plosion. . . '< The scene was one of terror and confusion as the terrified people rushed wildly'around not knowing where to go. Word was telephoned to the Second Precinct. A squad of men was dispatched to the scene, and all four patrol wagons were dispatched to the spot. They were kept busy u-itil long after mi'l night in removing the wounded to the different hospitals. BLACK DIAMONDS. The Census Office Is?ues a Bulletin ou Coal Production. The Census Office has issued from Washington a bulletin on the coal product of the United States. It shows that the coal pro- ? duct of the United States reached a total of 141,229,3!3 short tons in the census year, and' was valued at the mines, be'oreany expenses for shipment, at $110,220,323. The product included 45,60'3,4Sr short tons of Pennsylvania coal and other anthracite worth $05, 879,514, and 95,62!),02B short tons of bitummous and lignite, valued at S34,34G,S09. The average value of all salable grades of anthracite was S1.5S a ton at the mines, and the average of bituminous coal was ninety-nine cents a short ton ut the mines. In 18S0 the total product included -viC49.S12 short tons of anthracite and 42,S31,V.*S short; tons or bitumiuous coal. The product increased 97.37 per cent, during the decade, aud the total ' value 07.53 per cent. The total number ot persons engaged in the industry was 2&?,539, who received in tk? aggregate #1.00,130,928 as tfages. . * . . J