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CONDITION OF CHOPS. The Monthly Report of the Got* eminent Statistician. i The State of Winter Wheat and tiie Cotton Acreage. Tho statistical returns of the United State3 Department of Agriculture for May indicate an a vera ;e condition of 84 for wheat, aga nst 81.2 last month. The weather has been too coJ:i for rapid growth, yet the crop ba> improved perceptibly. The change in the central wheat region is from 71 to 75 in Ohio. 83 to S4 in Michigan. 75 to 85 InJiana, 82 to 8fi in Illinois, 72 to 74 Missouri, and 76 to SO in Kansas. In Miroigan April weather was quite severe, causing considerable "heaving" in clay soils that nearly offset the improvement in other areas. Low temperature prevented much improvement in Missouri. Condition has lightly dec! ined in California, yet the prospect is still good on the Pacific Coast. The conHition of rye has advanced from 87 to 88.9. Winter barley averaees 92.8. The percentage of New York is 92; California, M; Illinois, 90; Michigan, 88. Mowing lands have suffered some loss of condition from winter freezing, but make a higher averaga than the winter grains, or 89.tt for the entira breadth. The condition of pastures average 8T.fi. t The proportion of spring plowing usually done on May 1 is a little a bore throefourths for the whole country, or 76.6 per cent, as reported. The present season bas been cold and unfavorable for rapid progress f spring work, and tbe proportion returned as done is only 64.6 per eent. In the Eastern states temperature has been high,and the work is more advanced than usual. From Pennsylvania to Virginia there has been alight excess of rainfall, with low temperature, which has hindered spring work. In the centred West alight departure from normal precipitation has occurred, with some daiciency of heat, with sucb distribution as to delay farm operations, which are not so well advanced as usual in this region. The Pacific Coast has been comparatively cool, and spring plowing has been delayed. Altogether the spring may be considered late, ani the work of the farm crowded into narrow limits. The May returns to tbe Department report delay in tbe work of cotton planting from low temperature, drouth in many districts, and in some an excess of rain. Germination is arrested and the plants ?tart slowly. Some replanting will be necessary. It is estimated that 85 per cent, of the crop is usually planted by May 1. This year the estimates m&ko only 78.3. The decrease of area as indicated averages Th/? TwrrantacM are as fol JOkU yxf* wuv ?? ? ^w? Q _ _ lows: Virginia, 72; North Carolina, 70; South Carolina, 80; Georgia, 83- Florida, 80; Alabama, 85; Mississippi, 83; Louisiana, 82; Texas. 82; Arkansas, 80; Tennessee, 74; Missouri, 74. PROMINENT_ PEOPLE. Sir Edwin Arnold has returned to Japan. Senator Sherman-, of Ohio, is a staunch defender of the Chinese. The Queen of Portugal invariably sits by ker husband while he does all his work. George Eiffel is said to have made $10, 900,000 as his share in the Eiffel Tower at Paris. William Astor Chanler, of New York, is going to Atrica on an exploring expedition, with an army o1:200 men The Prince of \Vales attended an agricultural society meeting the other day, his first public appearance since his son's deatb. Colonel Jerome Bonaparte is described as a man with the most correct taste in the matter ot dining oi any man in Washing ton. A homk for the homeless poor of all classes and all nations to be built in East London, as a memorial to tbe late Cardinal Planning. Paderewski began to play the piano when six years old. At twenty-three he was Professor of Music in the Conservatory f Strasburg. Gekat preparations are being made at Rome, Italy, for the Pope's jubilee next year, when it is estimated over $30,000,000 in presents will be sent him. Charles Henry Harris, the humorist known as "Carl Pretzel,'' editor of the National Weekly, died in Chicago a few days ago. He was fifty-one years old. Isidore Rather, the Maryland Representative, is one of the most promising of the younger orators in Congress, to it is said. But as he is forty years old, he has had time to win his spurs. Whin Kudyard jupiing was Bixteen ae had written quantities of stories and columns mi verse. It was at that age that he vas engaged to go to India as the sab-editor of a ewspaper tbere. The death at Chicago, 111., of Henry 8. Bryant, founder of what has been called the "business college," accentuates the curious place that institution has in American life which gave it birth. The wife of ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, is not onlv one of the brightest graduates from Vassar, but she has contributed not a little to her husband's political advancement. ' Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, lad first one son and then another for Private Secretary in Washington. The second one looks so much like the first that xiost people fail to discover the substitution. The Senator's oldest son is now practicing law in Aaheville. James Gillespie, whose body is to be removed from the abandoned cemetery in Georgetown, D. C., was a famous man in the ' rly"days of the century, when he was Ave tones a Member of|Congress from North CaroMiml If he has any fame now it lies in the lact that he was Mr. Blaine's namesake. Chakles GayaU.-uc, the historian, of Louisiana, ia living in a state of destitution fc New Orleans, and the press of that city ^ 11? upon the people to rescue from want a Ban whose ripe scholarship and oomprehen re works have reflected honor on the State. Mr. Gayarre is more than eighty years of """ It is more than fifty years since General Zachary Taylor was elected President and terminated his brief career in that office. His daughter, Bettie, njw Mrs. Dandridge, mt Winchester, Va., presided ovar the White House in these days. She is still living and m visiting friend 3 in Baltimore at the present time. The Monumental City, by the way, is the home of another mistrass of the Prvsi dental mansion, Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson. FKENOH LOSSES IN AFRICA. The Heads of Four Officers In King Hamadoa's Canfp. A dispatch from Sierra Leone, Africa, ssys: "A messenger from the interior reports that King Samadou, es a piece of strategy, allowed the French to capture thre* native towns and afterward recaptured two of them, the French losing ksavily. "The messenger says he saw eighty-one French prisoners and Senegal natives and the heads of four French officers in King Bamadon'8 camp. "King Samadou commands 30,00? warriors, 8000 of whom are armed with chassepots. The King's soldiers are accustomed to the country, in which the French find it difficult to travel and to procure su;>;ili33." In June last J. T. Wilson was arrested for an alleged slander of Mrs. Louisa Taylor, wife of a Sherwood (Texas) barber. About 1 f ha nthpr dav Mrs. Taylor went to 4 VVlVwn v?v , the jail as Jailer Williams was taking dinner co the prisoners. She slippo i in behind him, and apon reaching the cage of her slanderer sent a bullet into his brain, killing him. Mrs. Taylor was not arrested. A toksus bulletin shows the number of dwellings in the United States to be 11,483,818, as compared with 8,955,812 in 1880. Tbe average number of persons in a dwelling is &.45, as against 5.60 in 1880. Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York are most densely peopled, having more than six persons to a dwelling. .1 ! TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Fas tern and Middle States. Willie Colliesst. aged eleven, wm killed at Watertown, Mass., by Willie Reordan, about the same age, with a pitchfork. Charles H. Pixkham. Jr.. ex-President: of the Bank of Harlem, New York City, has ! been indicted and arrested for swindling I the bank out of a large sum of money, Estimated at $73,000. Henrt M. Miller, ex-Treasurer of Crawford County. Penn.. is under arrest + AmKofvUmanf rtf 4X1 fWI I UUait^UU TVtl/U KUO DlUUCbbiVIUOUV v?. V'/ r,uwv of the county's funds. He siys the money was deposited in the Delamat9rs' bink the day before that institution failed. Six of the ten buildings of Schwartzchild & Sulzberger's slaughter house in New York Citv were burn9d down, causing a loss of 1300,000. Two daughters of Thomas Frondsman, of Hornellsville, N. Y., four and eii?ht years of age, attempted to walk across a narrow temporary root bridge which crosses Crosby I Creek, which was much swollen bv the recent heavy rains. The eldest child was carrying her sister, and when about the middle of the bridge she lost her balance and both fell into the rapid current and were swept into the Canisteo River. wtt.t.TAM Astor's body arrived at New York City from Paris by the steamer Li Bourgoge for intsrment in the As tor vault it "Till! A _i. il *9 4-U*. mru. IT lllldQI A91UI, IUD muun v?i uuo ^toau millionaire, and her daughter, Mrs. Coleman Drayton, accompanied the body. Aster shooting and killing his wife in Canartde. Long Island, N. Y., Abel Smith, a colored laborer, agei twenty-three, threw himself before a train and was instantiy trilled.- His wife, Miianda, was a year younger than he. Harkt McClosky, the twelfth victim of the Central Theatre Are, died in Philadelphia a few days ago. Mrs. Margaret scanlow.of Hydo Park. Scranton, Penn., killed her husband. She wanted to more to one part of a certain building, and he wished to go somewhere else. He laughed at her persistency, and she struck him with a hammer. The result was his death. John Bresvahaij, a local politician, was killed by a pistol shot fired by John Crouch in a drunken brawl at Syracuse, N. Y., the sequel to a quarrel over a woman. Crouch then committed suicide. Thb Connecticut Democratic own.a wavention met at New Haven and elected delegates to the National Convention. Not a word was said as to instructing the delegation for any particular candidate, but they were all regarded as Cleveland men. South and West. The bridge across the Tennessee River at Florence, Tenn., fell in, precipitating a freight train sixty feet into the water. The fireman was killed and the engineer and two brakemen fatally hart. L. D. Slaughter and Thomas Bailey,colored murderers, were hanged at Little Rock, Ark. The United States war vessel Concord is at Helena, Ark. The residents have not saea a man-of-war there for thirty years. The only witnesses in th9 case against the Wyoming cattlemen have mysteriously disappeared. The water is nearly twenty feet above lowwater mark in the Illinois valley. The Republicans of Virginia met in Stata Convention at Roanoke, and after a twodays' session sent <in uninstructed delegation to the National Convention, headed by exSenator William Mahone. The Arkansas Prohibition StatB Convention at Little Rock nominate! Judge W. J. Nelaon. of Rozers. Benton County, for Governor. The*oonveution also nominated delegates to the National Convention at Cincinnati and a fall S9t of Presidential Electori for the State. A college Interstate oratorical contest to held at Minneapolis, Minn., ten States contesting. Miss E. Jean Nelson, of Greencastle, Ind., capturad first prize, $100, an 1 Charles E. Gayer, of Wesleyan College, Delaware, Ohio, second. At Butler, Miss., George H. Ross, colored, was lynched a few days ago for an attempted assault on a white woman. Ross was hanged to a tree. At Wallington, Kan., John Timm shot and seriously wounded W. R. Warren, proprietor of a bank at Mnlvane, which had failed soon after receiving a large deposit from Timm. Ta* United States gunboat Concord dropped anchor in front of Memphis, Tenn. She is the largest naval vessel that ever reached that city, and the first since the days of the war. The United States war vessel Kearsage Rn Thn Philadal phia anchored off Tyoee, Ga., and was joined by the Newark and the Vesuvius. The Kearsage was piloted by the old pilot of the Confederate Alabama. A report from Western Kentucky is that Buffalo gna s are causing great loss. It is estiro ited that 1000 horses have b3en killed by them. The World's Fair Commission, Chicago, 111., has now only about $1000 on hand to pay salaries, rent, etc., for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30th. The expense account now averages about $5050 a month Thi United Stata3 man of war Adams and the revenue cutter Rusk sailed from Pore Townsend, Washington, for the Bering Set Miss Alice La Rue and Miss Katie Clark were drowned by the capsizing of their boat at Hamilton, Ohio. The strike of the 300 ironworkers on the World's Fair buildings at Chicago, 111., resulted in a bloody collision with the police. } The riot was due to the importation of men I from New Tork, Pittsburg and Baltimore | to take the plaes of the strikers who were employed in the Manufacturers' Building. Th* great Morganza Levee in Poiate Coupee Parish, the biggest levee in Lousiana, broke during a rain storm. The leree is twenty-five feet high and from sixty to 153 feet wide. It is one of the most important along the lower Mississippi, and at a point where a break must cause great damage. News was received of a terrible explosion which occurred in the coal mines at ftoslyn, Washington. Forty-two miners, according to the first report, were killed in the disaster. The men were working on the fourth level. Roslyn is in Kittitass County,about seventy miles east of l'acoma. It Is on a branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad,and has a population of about 1500. f Thx Democratic Convention of New Mexico met at Albuau?raue. The Committee on Resolutions reportedin favor of the absolutely free and unlimited coinage of silver. The delegates to Chicago were selected, and. although they were uninstructed, all but one man favored Cleveland. Deputy United States Marshal TV ellman, of the Blair Cattle Company. was shot near Cheyenne. Wyoming, and killed from ambush while on his way to Buffalo. Wellman has been in the employ of the cattlemen, and is the first victim of the vengeance of the rustlers. During the night at the siteof theoldFoekler Brewery in West Dubuque, Iowa, a sound like an earthquake was heard, and next morning it was discovered that nearly an acre of ground had dropped into a subterranean lake which oovers a vast body of mineral. The Republican State Convention of Montana, to select delegates to the National Convention. was held at Missoula. An uninstructed delegation was elected. Washington. Chairman Wilcox, of the Eleventh Census Committee, has appointed Messrs. Plthian, Bentley, Lawson, J. D. Taylor and Huff a sub-committee to investigate the Census Office. j Secretary blaine.G-eneral J. W. Foster and E. J. Phelps hi I a conferance with the I r. f J._* -i. \T7U:>? in rresi(1911fc ?U tu-s ?* UJW IVU13 iu ig^aiu vw the Bering Sea arbitration. A permit was issued from the Washington Health Offica for the interment of Mary Ann Coleman, a colored woman, who died ot old age. According to the death certificate, the deceased woman was born in Virginia in 1779, her age at the time of death being 112 years and eight months. a concerted movement is on foot in Washington to determine whether the Congressional consent can be obtained to the annexation of Hawaii. a River and Harbor Bill,carrying and appropriation of about 121,000,000, was passed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 186 to sixty-five. The bill granting an Ame^'oan registry to the bteanwrs City of Paris and City of Neir York was passed by the United State* Senate by a vote of forty to ten. Charles Emort Skith, of Pennsylvania, United Sates Minister to Russia, formally tendered his resignation of that offlce to the President in order to resume his journalistic duties in Philadelphia. The House Committee on Elections decided the contested case of Reynolds against Shonk^ of the Twelfth Pennsylvania District, in favor of Shonk,the sitting member, who is a ttepuoncan. Thb President approved "the act to encourage American shipbuilding]' within an hour after its receipt from the House Committee on Enrolled Bills. Foreign. M. Crajtts, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, has been appointed French Commissioner-General of the World's Fair. Euoims Wolff, special correspondent for the German colonies in Africa, telegraphed to hi? paper in Berlin that Arabs arriving at Zanzibar say that Emin Pasha is dead. He was stricken with small-pax while on his way from Wadell to Bnkoba. Six members of a family named Nieditz have died at Zeitz, Saxony, from the effects of some poison administered to them in dumplings, of which they partook at dinner. Thb insurrectiona ry movement in Venezuela has spread to Coro, and forces Irom that department are preparing to join Crespo. The Bering Sea treaty between the United StfLtMAnri Orwit Britain has bnen siomafl at London by Queen Victoria, Lord Salisbury and Minuter Lincoln. Scott's famous Hay market restaurant, London, England, has been burned ta the ground. Four waiters were burned to death. In a fight south of Los Toques, Venezuela, between Palacio's troops and insurgent lancers, the latter were defeated. Atter conferring with Signori Crispi and Zmardelli King Humbert, of Italy, asked Signor Giolitd to construct a Cabinet. Five miners were killed and several injured by the breaking of a cage chain in a Belgian colliery. Three miners were crushed to death and two badly injured by a cave in at the Mouvers colliery, in Yorkshire, England. At an inspection of the Guards Emperor William, of Germany, called from the ranks and, before the whole regiment, complimented and shook hands with a sentry who recantly shot two men, one of them being killed. The incident has caused a decidedly unfavorably impression. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Japan has 2038 corporations. Iowa has wiped out her State debt. Cholera is epidemic in Benares, India. Seal skins have gone up twenty per cent. Australasia has 50,000,000 acres of forest. There are 260.000 acres planted to tea in Ceylon. Terrible prairie fires hare been raging in Nebraska. " ! Gray otters are being found in the ponda of Miilviile, N. J. Prairie wolves are creating havoc among stock near Elkhorn, Wis. It ooflt the United States $150,000 to ad* just the Bering Sea trouble. Nxw Orleans, La., is to hare a new < courthouse and jail to cost ?359,000. 1 The hall for the Republican Convention at Minneapolis, Minn., has been completed. The Wyoming Exoeriment Station has ! six experiment farms in different sections. Mining property in Mexico (s hereafter to ( pay annual taxes, like any other property. The Scotch-Irish congress at Atlanta, (la., held an interesting three days'session. The population of the town of Okarche in J Oklahoma grew 1500 in one night recently. No grain of any kind can be shipped from ' Russia till after tht> harvesting of the next crop. Indications ara that Alaska will be the great objective point of tourist travel this j summer. Italt has resolved to give up all her i African colonies, with the the exception of t Ma&aowah. i A big rat hunt has been goin? on in the j Postofflce and Treasury departments at J Washington. J Cobn planting in portions of Arkansas j was given up on account of the wet weather, and cotton substituted. Owb of the most valuable fin is Alabama i ever knew is tbat of a bed of almost pure 1 kaolin in Marion County. ( Thb condition of winter grain in New ' York State is reported as good. The past winter was unusually favorable. 1 There are forty-one companies doing | fire and insurance business in Pennsylvania. , The losses paid last year ware ?7,265,842.17. ( The new method of gauging distilled I spirits, in order to ascertain the taxable quantity in each barrel, has gone into effect. ' Twentt thousand women have peti- 1 tioned the Canadian Dominion Parliament * in favor of the extension of suffrage to wo men. j There is a general feeling throughout France, in apite of the quiet which reigned on May Day, that the danger from Anarchists is by no mean3 passed. They are taking in from $500 to S1000 a day gate money now at the World's Fair grounds in Chicago from people who go to < se<? bow the workmen are getting on. 1 The descendants of Christopher Columbm, who are to be invited to the World's Fair, , were named as follows in the United States ' Senate: "Cristobal Colon d6 Colon de Ccrda, Duke of Veragua, Marquis De B&rboleo, his brother, Don Cristobal de Larreatigui, 1 his son, and their wives and children, U *nu " OHINA FILES A PfiOTEST. Tbree Reasons lor Objecting to the New Exclusion Act. Toui Kwo Yin, Minister from China, called at the State Department, Washington, after learning that Congress had passed the Chinese Exclusion bill, and said to Assistant Secretary Wharton, through Interpreter Ho, that he desired to file a protest against the bill, and the document reached the department that afternoon. In it the Minister says that he objects to the bill mainly for three reasons: 1. It renews the Scott law of 1SS8. 2. It deprives the Chinese of tue right of bail in habeas corpus cases. 3. It requires a registration of Chinese laborers which it is practically impossible for them to comply with. They must all prove by white witnesses that they are lawfully entitled to be in the United States, and ai the first Exclusion act was passed in 1882, every Chinaman must produce before the Collector of Internal Revenue a white witness who knew him ten years ago and who can swear that he wa3 in the United States at that time The law leaves the issuance of the certificate of registration entirely to the discretion of the revenue officer, and provides no way of compelling him to do justice to the Chinaman. He must register and produce his evidence in the district where h? resides. His white witness may be 3000 miles away. Senators who have carefully examined the Dill announced in the Senate that its practical effect would be to compel all Chinese laborers to leave the United States within the year fixed for the registration. Senator Sherman, Chair man of the Foreign Affairs (Jommicwe, saiu this registration was similar to the slave regulations in force before the Civil War and to the ticket of leave of the Australian convict system. The Minister says that these features of the hill are in direct violation of the treaty of 1890, which guarantees to Chinese laborers in the United States the treatment of the subjects of the most favored Nations. He further says that the treaty of 188 J was agreed to by China at the express request of the Government of the United States, which sent three of its most distinguished citizens to Peking to ask for it. The emigration of Prussian Poles, chiefly to the United States, is rapidly growing heavier. This is attributed not only to the agricultural depression, but to the general fear that war with Russia is inevitable sooner or later. The emigration from Germany has been heavier thus far this year than for many years. The figures so far show that the emigration has doubled siaoe 1888. BIG WESTERN FLOODS. Rains and High Water Spread Bain in Many States. Farmers Are Appalled by the Remarkable Weather. Floods, waterspouts, cloudbursts, hurricanes, and fierce thunder and lightning kept a good portion of Illinois in a turmoil for nearly a week. Every stream in the State was swollen, or out of its banks, and scores of towns were cellar-deep in water. The rainfall was unprecedented. For four days and four nights the water came in sheets, accompanied by the most deafening thunder . and vivid lightning. Railroads were washed out, buildings moved from their foundations, and cattle drowned by the hundreds. Even in Chicago the water rose to a great depth on the prairie land, carrying away sidewalks and destroying roads. The greatest damage was reported from the cities along: the Illinois River. Seas of water swept over Ottawa, Marseilles, Peru, La Salle and Utica. Boats were used for communication, and their twinkling lights glistening over the unbroken expanse of water added to the appearance of ruin which was all around them. As the waten rose at Ottawa, 111., build* ing after building would close down and'the employee leave to await the subsiding of the flood. Marseilles, La Salle, and Peru were in an even mora desperate condition. At La Salle, 111., the manufactories, the water works, street railway and electric light plants were under water. The same condition prevailed at Peru,and in both cities all business was practically suspended. At Lacon, 111., all traffic was suspended. Bridges have been swept away, and trains stopped running on the Rock Island, between Peoria and Bureau. The bottom lands were submerged, and no corn will be raised on thousands of acres. The great marsh dike, fifteen miles long: and protecting a strip of bottom land about two miles wide, gave way at a point opposite Pekin, III* The crevasse was about 600 feet wide, and increased rapidly, as the Illinois River reached a stage not exceeded since 1844. From the southern portion of Illinois reports come of tremendous damage and a continuance of storms of rain and wind. The Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa, was five miles wide, having overflowed the lowlands. Much damage to crops will result. Trains on the St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern were abandoned on account of a flood at Alexandria, Mo. The entire town was under water from two to six feet, and all communication through the streets was by boats or rafts. At Kansas City conditions were similar to those of 1881, when a most disastrous flood did so much damage in that part of the country. The wet weather so long continned has caused the wheat to rot in the ground, and it is reported by the farmers that the crop will be almost totally ruined. The heaviest rain for years fell at Okla noma. East or urianao mere was a ciouaburst, causing streams to rise six feet in a few minutes and drowning many cattle. At Oklahoma City the lower part of the city was flooded and much damage done. Near Stillwater three houses and many barns were destroyed by wind. John Crockett was fatally injured, and some stock was killed. Throughout the northwestern tier of counties in Nebraska a sheet of snow Bixteen inches deep oovered the ground. At Rushrille and Morton it was even worse. In other portions of the State the snow was not }uite so doep. Farmers are appalled. RESULTS OF ALATESPBINfl, "rops Affected by Long Rains and Cold Weather. The New 1 ork Times presents special dis? witches from ita correspondents in the folowing twenty-two States in the Union, gi vng a careful aud conservative summary of ;he acreage, condition, prospects, and probible yield of cotton, corn and wheal: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Hississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Indiana, N*jraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota. Washington, Wisconsin, Illinois, [owa, Kansas, Onio. These States are tfee leading ones engaged n the growing of the articles named, and ;he reports indicate the true condition of :rops. The Times says that it is not a cheerng prospect. In some8tates, at the time the report was xiade, tbe cornfields had not evep been flowed, while in others very little seed had aeen planted. Wheat was decidedly backward, except in the Dakotas and WashingL? AAffnn loco onH t.na XJU, LLU5 Otrco^o Uli WWI.VU ield suffering from drought. The significant fact about the cotton crop is the decrease in acreage. That there is. rach a decrease is reasonably certain, though opinions differ as to how great it is. Estimates run from ten to fifteen per cent, less in Louisiana to thirty to thirty-five per cent. ' less in Virginia. The low prices last fear left everybody poor. The planters had no money with which to buy fertilizers and supplies, and the merchants and cotton factors were unable to make the usual advances, j Drought has seriously affected the crop in i some States, in others it is reported to be in excellent condition. The total yield will be less than last year. Corn has suffered from the late spring in fche great corn-growing States, but more particularly from continuous and heavy ----- T? ??- nlonrinrr at thft I rains, in buuiu um>io9 vuu jmv? .uoi ??.w time the report was made, was not half done, while in others it has not even been begun. In Indiana not fire per cent, of the seed was in the ground, while in Nebraska it will be a week before the plow can be put into the soi', even if it should stop raining. Still, if good weather should come at once, there would be an average acreage and yield. In some States the acreage would be larger than last year. Of the great wheat-growing States South Dakota is the only one that promises a large crop. The acreage in that State is forty per cent, larger than last year, and it is estimated that the yield per acre will be tbree per cent, greater. In Minnesota only one-third of the wheat has been sown, and though the acreage is ten per cent, larger than last year, the weeks of cold rain have made the prospects of the harvest far from flattering. Similar conditions have prevailed in Wisconsin in a less degree, and the outlook for a large crop is not good. Washington has enjoyed good '*? ?1 'KTm-fch Dnkniia has had weacoer, auu muu^u ?? a wet spring, and has an acreage of twentyfive per cent, less than last year, it is confident of a good crop. From Illinois, Kansas and Ohio the reports are not discour *5102-, though those States have suffered from the spring rains. STATE CONVENTIONS. The Democrats Meet in New Hampshire, Missouri and Iowa. Democratic State Conventions were held on the same day in New Hampshire, Missouri and Iowa. The Democrats of New Hampshire assembled at Concord and adopted resolutions highly flattering to drover Cleveland, and sat down upon Delegate Urch, who charged the ex-President with disloyalty to his party, and who endeavored to have inserted in the resolution the name of Senator Hill in place of The dalesrates-at-large are: XTJL1 UiCTCiwuu. w _ Harry Bingham, of Littleton; Frank Jones, of Portsmouth; Alvah W. Sullowav, of Franklin, and George W. Chandler, of Manchester. The delegation is uninstructed, but favors Cleveland's renomination. At the Democratic State Convention at Sedalia, Mo., delegates-at-large were elected to the National Convention. Resolutions were adopted favoring the renomination of Grover Cleveland. At Council Bluffs over eight hundred delegates attended the Iowa Democratic Convention, and pronounced their unshaken fealty to Horace Boies for President of the United States by a unanimous vote, and without a dissenting voice either in committee or in Convention. Resolutions were adopted instructing the twenty-six delegates of the Hawkeye State to vote as a unit for Governor Boies, and un every effort in their power to secure his nomination for the Presidency. f IFTY-SEOOND CONQRESS. In the Senate. 89th Day.?In presenting a remonstrance from East Hard wick. Vt., against legislation to close the World's Fair on Sundays, Mr. Morrill remarked that if it were so closed il would deprive the working classes of any fn.nAM.kl. f/\ wfoif fha atKIKI. 1000UUUU10 uuyui UUUIUJT W rioiv wuo V*u.ut tion The House bill appropriating $100,003 to establish a military post at Helena, Montana, was passed?'The House bill appropriating $150,030 to defray the expenses of the Bering Sea arbitration at Paris was passed without discussion The Choctaw and Chickasaw award was discussed. 90th Day.?The Choctaw and Chickasaw award was discussed Eulogies on the late Senator Wilson, of. Maryland, were pronounced. 91st Day.?The House bill to admit certain foreign-built ships to American registry was passed without change by a vote of forty to ten. 92d Day.?The Senate oassed the bill enlarging the Yellowstone National Park by about one-third its present area. 93d Day.?The Senate passed a bill appropriating $30,000 for a monumental column to commemorate the battle of Princeton, N. J., on condition that the Mouument Association will contribute a like sura ? The Senate passed the Lake Erie-Ohio River Canal bill ? Mr. Sawyer introduced a bill creating a new grade of letter carriers to receive $1200 per annum aid empowering the Postmaster-General to appoint from the carrier xurwo a JL/U?U~AW OU^tU lUVOUUCUV W or di; division numbering not loss than fifty nor mor? than 100 carriers Senate bill for the development and encouragement of silk culture in the United States under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture was made a special order. In the House. 102d Day.?After unimportant routine business the House went into Committee of the Whole (24r. Hatch In the Chair) on the Riveraad Harbor Appropriation bill, general debate to b? limited to two hoars. The bill was then taken up by sections under the five minute rule. Mr. Holman moved to strike out the provision allowing the Secretary of War to enter into contracts for material aad wort to continue the construction of the Harbor of Rsfuge, at Point Judith, R. L Lost, twenty-seven to 117. The appropriation tor the harbor at Manitowoc, Wis., was increase! from 118,000 to (28,000. On motion of Mr. Reed the appropriation for Harasackett River, Maine, was increased from 110,000 to $16,000. Pending further action the committee ross and tne tioase aajoarnoa. 103d Day.?The River and Harbor Appropriation bill wm considered?A bill, designed to prevent the employment on public works of prison or convict labor, or the products of such labor, was reported. 104th Day.?The House com Dieted consideration of the River and Harbor bill, but did not pass it. The only amendments of importance were: Increasing froni 170,000 to $100,000 for improving the Missouri River at Great Falls, in Montana, and Sioux City; $10,000 for damming the Gila River near Yuma, Arizona, and a section providing that In cases where the Secretary of War was not satisfied with the bid, or where the contractors failed to finish the work in the specified time, he oould complete it other wise than by contract. 105th Day.?The River and Harbor bill was passed. It carries an appropriation of about $21,000,000. 106th Day.?The House began the consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Mr. Fithian introduced a resolution to set apart three days in June for discussion and voting on the bill introduced by him to admit to American registry foreign-built ships. 107TH Day.?The House agreed to the conference report on the Urgent Deficiency bill Mr. Watson, of Georgia, gave notice that the People's party representatives henceforth would oppose all leauests for unanimous consent The House spent the remainder of the day in Committee of the Whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, most of the time bain; devoted to the eighth item, which provides an appropriation of 9020,800 for the new mint at Philadelphia. It waa stricken out. UNFORTUNATE MINERS. Over Two Score Perisb at Roslyn, Washington. Later particulars in regard to the fearful mine disaster at Roslyn, Washington, state that forty-six men lo3t their lives by the explosion. The slope in which tne explosion occurred is a new part of the mino and was hfiinar driven to the place where the shaft is to ba sunk. It is 3000 feet long and has seven levels. Fortyeight men were at work at the time of the aocident, most of them were married. Work in the slope was more remunerative than in the mine proper and the company had, therefore, been giving men with large families the preference for this labor. All are dead. The slope was being driven in for the development of the mine. At intervals of 300 feet along its length levels were run laterally from the main slope. Main ways were being driven parallel to the slope from different levels, in order to establish a draught and prevent fire damp. There was 150 feet of this yet to be completed when the explosion occurred. It is supposed that the explosion occurred in this manhole. A few moments before the 'explosion a new shift of six men had relieved an equal number of men in one of these levels or entries. They bad been in the mine about an hour when the explosion occurred. The only living persons who were in the mine at the time are Walter Steele and Frank Hodgkina. The latter was a rope rider, who attends cars going up and down. Steele r*na a t.r*nnflr. who attended the trap doors, opening and shotting them as they passed. As Hodgkins passed Steele the latter was taken with an impulse to go to the surface, and mounted 'the car with Hodgkins. -Just as the boys reached the surface the explosion occurred, both being blown from the mouth of the slope. , Immediately after the explosion the inhabitants of the village crowded about the opening to the mines, giving utterance to tneir piteous lamentations, and calling upon the assembled miners to rush into the mine. The families of the dead miners are almost destitute. The mine is running on short time. Many of the dead men had only been working a tew days, after a throe-months' lay off. Most of the bodies recovered were horribly burned and m- tilated. The dead were taken care of as fast as thev were brought to the surface. The City Hall was turned into a temporary morgue. The feeling is one of general censure of the mining company, and there is a decided disposition to hold it responsible for the death of the forty-si* men who are known to have perished in the accident. A. Ronald, who, up to two weeks ago, was Superintendent of the company, resigned his position because he refused longer to accept the responsibii'* ? m? man unripr nim Tin 1 by 1UI tuo Mtouj Vfc ?... less the company took extra precautions. GERMANY'S BABY OFFICER. The Emperor's Oldest Son, Axed Teu Years, Becomes a Lieutenant. The German Emperor's eldest son, Crown Prince Frederick William, was teu years -,J - Haxra am. and in accord UJU a ?C" ~mmj w -o-f anco with the loug established custom, became "the youngest lieutenant" io the army. He was assigned the First Regiment of the Guards. The ceremony was witnessed by all the members of the imperial family and a brilliant assemblage of the members of royal families from all parts of the Empire. After the Crown Princa had taken his place in the troop the Emperor headed the j regiment in a march past the Empress. A f grand bauquet in honor of the occasion was glren at the castle that afternoon, in which j the Emperor toasted hi3 son and heir. | Reports indicate a possibility that ran- j bits, "jack rabbits," as they are called, may become a pest in the Dakotas as they are in California, or as the hares imported from England into Australia have become there. They are increasing rapidly. Samoa is reported quiet, and merchants have adopted English, Uermiu and American gold u>4 silrar aoia d at CtuLwn, LABOR STATISTICS. dL The Annual Report of Commissioner Carroll D. Wright. \ Wases and Oost of Living in This Country and Europe, The Hon. Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor, transmitted to the President hl3 annual report. In that part of the report relating to cost of living, facte are given from 5284 families, representing 27,577 persons. These families are distributed through the cotton and glass producing States of the United States, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain and Switzerland, and constitute the moet extensive collection of data relative to the cost of living that has ever been published. The total avaraee income of families from all sources for different countries, for the number of families for which budgets were obtained In each country, was: For the cotton industry, $56.76 in the United States, 5365.94 in France, $802.11 in Germany, 9666.14 in Great Britain, and $858.5ti in Switzerland. In the woolen industry 1663.13, in the United Rtatfw 14-24.51 in France. *275.99 in Ger many, and 1615.64 in Great Britain.' In the glaae industry in the United States I8 W.6J, in Belgium $827.65, and in Great Britain 9601.69. Bringing these averages into comparison i with those of ktcome* in other industries, as reported in the sixth annual report, the Commissioner finds that in the ;Unlted States the total . average income of families engaged in tne pig iron ! ibduttry was $391.61; in Belgium, $874.58, and in Great Britain, $456.86. The bar iron workers are a well-paid class, and thsir inoomesper family wereas follows: Fo?" the United States, $784.11; for Belgium, $850.37; for France, $164.74; for Germany, $282.20, and for Great Britain, $519.99. Looking at some of the items of expense) of families in different countries, and tat different industries, it is learned from ttu report that in tne United States the aver age cost of rent for the familia reported in the cotton industr] was $72.58; Jn France, $34.76; in Germany. $27.96, and in Great Britain, $31.24. fot families engaged in the woolen industry, ii the United States, $90.87; in France, $83.25j in Germany, $25.43, and in Britain, $52.24, For families in the glass industry in thl United States, $109.57; in Belgium, $88.96, and in (-frreat Britain, $50.73. The euros expended for amusements and I ?ar?*t.<on indicate varr clearly the tendency of tha J amities of working men. For thi families la the United States in the cottoi indoatrj. the average cc?t was $9.36; in France, 116.03; in Germany, $19.83, and in Great Britain, 436.20. The glass workers in this country, however, spent mors money than thoee of any other country for amusements and vacation, in the united State* such expenses amounted to $28.60 per annum: in Belgium, $11.40. and in Great Brifc ain. $22.66. The comparisons on intoxicating liquor* ".' 2 as follows: For the families engaged in the cotton Industry in tha United States, so far as considered, $15.93; in Franca, $15,08; in Germany, $11.41, and in Great Britain, $19.47. In the gla&i industry, in the United States, $54.84; in Belgium, $46.09, and in Great Britain, $32.74. The expenditure for food by tha families of the ootton workers in the United States was on the average 9287.06; in France, rvo. {. ?1 i.9 and in Great Britain, 9346.50. For the families engaged in the woolen industry: In the United States, 1262.85; in France, $186.78; in Germany, 1140.27, and in Great Britain, $223.80. For the families of glass workers: In the United States, $294.75; in Belgium, $237.22, and in Great Britain, $220.96. The reading bropeasities of the families comprehendeain the report constitute Inter* esting points of comparison. The average cost of boo leg and newspapers for families engaged in the cotton industry in the United States was 95.35; in France, $3.79; in Germany, $1.48, and in Great Britain, <5.86. For families engaged in the woolen industry: In the United States, $7.66; in France, $3.33; in Germany, $1.37, and in Great Britain, $6.47. For the families engaged in the glass industry: In the United States, $9.14; in Belgium, $3.82, and in Great Britain, $3.44. The total average expenditures per family for all purposes in the cotton industry in the United States were 9610.61; in France, $333.70; in Germany, $282.58; in Great Brit-> ?/?. ?a ?J 1_ a ?14 ! _ J 9ZAA AS TVi? aid, fO'Ji. io, BUU 1U OI>lWCiMuu,??lv,vu. ? families in the woolen industry in the United States expended $394.09; in France, 9384.05; in Germany, (281.59, ana in Great Britain, $481.64. The families enraged in the glass industry in the United States expended $769.C6; in Belgium, $492.42, and in Great Britain, $460.44. WORLD'S FAIB NOTES. The Administration building will have a mosaic floor costing $5000. a collection1 of finely mounted birds and animals will bo shown in the Pennsylvania buildings. a telephone exchange baring, it is now thought, about 600 instruments, will be established in the Exposition grounds. It is the intention, if possible, to arrange for a grand international regatta for both salt and fresh water yachts during the Ex position. The model of the Victory, Nelson's celebrated flag-ship, will be brought to the Exposition by Manager Abud, of the Prince of Wales's Theatre, London. Ijtv itatxojfs are being sent to distinguished guests to attend the dedication ceremonies of the Exposition next October. Some 30,000 or 25,000 invitations are being sent out. It is announced that the Pope has directed that specimens of the beautiful mosaic pictures, made at the mosaic works in the Tatican, shall be exhibited at the Exposition, and that at least one picture shall be made ex pressly for the Fair. It ia announced that the Virginia Exposition fioard intends to reproduce at the Fair Mount VernoD, the famous home and last resting place of George Washington. If this is done a large and interesting collection of Washington relics will be exhibited in the structure. Dr. He.vry J. Reynolds and Samuel B. Foster, Chicago tourists, ^recently climbed to the summit oi aoutn uomj, one ut vu? highest points of the Yosemite range, and painted in enormous letters on one of the J most conspicuous cliffs the words* "Visit the World's Fair in Chicago, in 1393." A company has been granted the privilege of carrying visitors by lake to and from tne Exposition ground.?, "it is planning to run at least fourteen steamers. Between tne "Jake front'' in Chicago and the grounds, four large boats, two of them wh&lebacks, and all having a capacity of 5000 each, will make trips every half hour. A New Jebsey pottery firm is making a large numbor of specimens of fine work for exhibition at the Fair. One piece already completed is an elegant vase, forty inches high and fifty-two inches in circumference, valued at fli)00. It is thought to be one of the most perfect and beautitul specimens of the potters' art ever produced in cais country. SAW HER BABY DEVOURED. Two of Her Children Killed by a Black Bear. Mrs. Mary Carter, a widow, with a famj lly OC small CUIiUlOU, 10 a 1BMU5 luauiav. 1*0 a result of a raid upon her little cabin by a half starved black bear, in which two of her children lost their lives and one was half i devoured before her eyes. ( Her cabin stands upon a hillside some distance above the town of Mountain Home, Ark. A heavily wooded grove extends to it, with the exception of a small clearing immediately before the house. In this i ;>atch her five children were playing while the mother was engaged inside the cabin. Suddenly the wild screaming of her children startled her. She saw an enormous bear strike down her oldest boy, who had bravely attempted to defend the children in his charge. The beast seiz9d her baby and shuffled rapidly awav. Tne animal tore the little one limb from limb before the mother's eyea, and before help arrive 1 from the village completed his meal and escaped within the forest. About 5000 persons witnessed the latuMH| ing of the United States gunboat No. nHj Castine, at the Bath (Me.) Iron Works. HMjj essel was gaily decorated with bunting^HB made a satisfactory launch. Mi? Hiohb^EH daughter of the 24aval Conn true tor, bJHH the bottle and named the veaeL jflffiB Joseph M. Schoolet, the senior of HHjj four Police Captains of Philadelphia, PeflB at the City Hall, went to the Capte^RB room, where he locked the door and himself dead with a ball from his rtrol'^BH No other cause can be assigned for ttaa^aH cide than melancholia. HH A txrhotc tornado passed over Colli^BS rille, Tenn., wrecking many houses and Hfi ing great damage. M| Geobgx H. Grxswold. cashier of H| Fourth National Bank, of Colombo!, has disappeared with $2000. Tax new bridge across the Mississippi JflB formal! j opened at Memphis, Ten a. HH Th* President has approved the bfli IHj propriatiag tlM.000 to pay the expense^^H the United States members of the B<rfl| Sea Board of Arbitration. SB Th> President nominated J. Stanlfl^B Isaacs to be Assistant Appraiser of kH| chandise In the district of New York* P08TICA3 T*B -GEJTKRAL WxSAMAmi received an onsigned and undated letter oJHD taining 11000. In his letter the writer sa^^B "This is the balance of interest 1 owe of sum I took from the Government in I bare now paid principal and interest, _n 0i+ tuv\ L.. m J - - - ftUflljUW. X1U (UAU UA3 IUUWW UiUTO his crime than I have, and I now pray t^H LortPs forgiveness for my sin." M General Gbesseb, Perfect of Polios 5t Petersburg, Russia, died from theeffec^H of a quack medicine. flH A dispatch from London says that EaS| land has accepted the invitation of ti^HK United States to a bi-metallic conference. H Ik the anti-Hebrew riots at Lodi, in land, ten Hebrews were killed outright ai^H 100 injured. A laitoe skating rink in course' of ooiflK struction at Buenos Ayree, Argentina, ocJHBj lapsed. Thirty persons were killed. archltest and the bnilder were arrested. H TEE LABOE WOBLD. B Zulu woman build the houses. ' HP Fakm help is in great demand Is Nort^M Dakota. H A Seaman's Uirco* or Axebica has buH organized at Chicago. h Chixakek have been imported into Be^H gium to replace striking iron workers. Stbjxes for eight hours and more wag^H are being reported from all over the coui^H The spoftga industry of the Bahama andH employs 500 boats and nearly SOOHj The Durham (England) minors will go wort eight hoars a day* and five days Thb minimum age of employment on tife^H Continent ii generally twelve,or from twetv^H to fourteen. Km It is calculated that the aggregate nual income of the working claasee of KngfH land is about 91,800,000,000. Out of the 240,000 domestic servants ii^l London it is estimated that 10,000 of are always out of employment. H| English army nurses are paid moo year, and this is increased $50 for every yeafll of service until it reaches $1000. JH Ik Massachusetts the demands of organJB ized labor nave secured the passage oji thirty-live laws during the lakt five years. ;H Tai dry roods firms of Baltimore Kd.l have agreea to close their stores at noon oaH Saturdays throughout the summer monfluH Ovib 3700 journeymen have rraduato^l during the last ten years from thelfair-YoR^B City Trade School, which at present ha^B ?AA mtinila UUUV VW Thk bakers' anions of Berlin, bare eatabflf li*hed & co-operative shop, furuishinr bnifl to eighty-three different stores and man A hundreds of families. jH Thk entire membership of the trade^h unions in Germany is about 350,000 at preaH ent, as shown by the reports at the recerfll National Convention in Halberrtadt. H To enable the continuance of theQueenflH land sugar industry it has been found in^H perative that cheap Polynesian labor b^H Introduced from the South Sea Trianfa Labor CoKMisgioran Robhtsox, of Sflcl^B igan, shows in a recent report that tl^H average hours of labor for women in tluflH State are at preseat ten per day at seveutj^H five cents. ? The Superintendent of a big division fh* P?nnsvlvania Railroad in a lectors employes under him recently declarers against the running of passenger ani freigb^H trains on Sunday. The }>ew York Association of WorkbA| Girls' Qubs has twenty different societfa^H with a membership of 2500. Sevan societidH rent an entire house, twelve rent rooms an A| one owns its house. BH Iw Lancashire, England, the Federatio^H of Master Cotton Spinners has ordered general lockout in order to limit prodaritiooH This action will result in throwing tbooV sands of mill hands out of employment. JJ Thx r?*nt annual report of John nett, Chief of' the British Labor Baraat^H shows that the trades unions of Great BrifiH un ere in a highly prosperous conditiotaB and that their membership is growing dpi Thx Labor Congress of Canada demauidifl of the Dominion Government an emplcnranfH liability act. incorporation of trades omoa^H abolition of convict contract labor, tk ninrB hour workday, factory inspection by wom men. weekly payments, public libraries,? more public and trade scnools with freiH books and universal suuro^o. , _ SUICIDES IN BEB^Ig. I A Banker and Two Merchants Thtufl Escape Financial Scandal. fl The suicide of a banker and two proml-B nent mercnants m Donm, vrm?anyt um. shaken financial confl ience, and a panic lik? that of last winter is feared. Hot Ham mar* stein, the chief of the well known K*,wlriTtg; house of Hanxmentein & Friedlander, went to bed apparently in his usual frame of mind. Next morning he was found dead, having shot himself in the head. He left no message as to the causa, bat it has bean known for some time past that the h?nHwg house has been threatened with disaster. Later in the da y it was announced that Fagerstroem Brothers, wholesale merchant* and exporters in Berlin, had committed suicide. The elder was found in his room with a bulls* wound in his temple and a revolver on the floor. His brother hanged himself in the attic. They are believed to have made the agreement to die together. They were financially embarrassed. TERRIFIO_WIND. A Cyclone Cave Falls In and Destroys the Itelujjees. A terrific cyclone passed over Anthony, Kan., creating havoc and consternation imong the people. William Wilkins, his wife and five children, colored people, went into a cyclonc cave to escape the storm. - J i- 1.11 IS ^KiMran 1D0 root caveu in, &uiui^ uto ? "-? ?t ranging in age from sir months to fourteen fears. Wilkins and his wife were seriously hurt, but not fatally. SFa, Murphy, the special agent of the United States Government to Introduce the use of cornmeal, states that the German Government is now establishing a corn-mill plant in one of their largest mills at Magd^ ourg. The tests are satisfactory aid extensive experiments are contemplated. The bread used by the Army in the future will consist of on^third ooraaj^al and two* thirds rye.