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~ TELIGMP2IC TICKS. J Interesting Dispatches Abont important Late Eveiits. President Harrison Recalls Lieun n tenant uorup from r raneeActing on information received from Mr. Coo.iiigp, the United States Minister at Paris, the Secretary of War issued from Washington an or ^er relieving Captain Borup, of the Ordnance Department, from further duty at the United States Legation at Paris, nnd directing him to report to the War Department for further order.--. This act 0:1 was taken at the instance of thti Preneh Government. Secretary Elkins and Acting Secretary Wharton bad a confer ?nce on the subject at tne War Department and the Frencn Minister subsequently visited Mr. Wharton at the State Department. '1 he allegations upon which the demand for Captain Borup's recall are based in brief are to the effect that he has participated in a piot to secure possession of drawings of certain French coast defenses which have heretofore been kept in the secret archives of the Ministry of Marine. According to the reports from Faris, it appears that a clerk named Greuier, an etn ployo of the Government in the office of the Keeper General of National Archives, has implicated Borup in a confession made concerning the sale of plans and specifications of the defenses reierred to to the Governments of Germany and Italy. The Government officials do not believe that Captain Borup is guilty of the charges against him, and his recall is said to be due altogether to the request of the French Government and iu the interests of harmony. Mr. T. Jefferson Coolidge, the American Minister to France, has informed M. Ribot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, that Cantain Borup admits having paid for secret official documents, r.ut declares that in doing this be only followed the example of all military attaches. Cr.ptain B^rup has apparently lost his h*ad and has giveu several contradictory versions of the affair in interviews he has im with newspaper reporters. A French detective iu citizen's clothes sat Tor several days on a bench in the Avenue Marceau watching the house of Captain Borup and the doors of the American Legation. Killed in Open Court. ' Wax Cierget, a prisoner, was shot and killed in Judgte Martine's Court in New York City at 11:40 o'clock, a. M., a few days ago. The shot was fired by Edward Devm?, a brother of the girl for whose ruin the dead man had just been arraigned and plead guilty at the bar. Only one shot was fired, the thirty-two caliber bullet passing through Cler get's heart. It was the most draoiatio scene ever witnessed in a New York courtroom. Cierget was only eighteen years old. The Judge had announced that Cierget was remanded for sentence until the following Friday, and the young man, between two policemen, had started back to the prison* ?ra' pen, passing within five feet of Ed. Devins. Suddenly Devins arose, drawing a pistol from his pocket. He leaned forward, plac* ing the muzzle of the weapon within three inches of Clerget's heart, and fired. Tho acviie that lollowed simply beggars descriptica. JBefore Devins could fire again, as he evidently intended to do, he was overpowered by Court Officers McLaughlin and Collier, the latter wresting the smoking pistol from his 1 and. When the room was cleared the body of i Cierget was picked up and laid down bebind the benches. He was gasping faintly but not bleeding much. Four minutes after &he shot was fired be was dead. JJevins is twenty-iive years oia. ms father and mother are both dead, and h? has naturally felt as a father toward the ounger sisters, Katie and Sarah. He is a feeble-minded young man, lame and half paralyzed. His sister, Sarah, is also a small, laine,deformed girl of less than fifteen years. 8he, too, was of feeble mind. Took Strychnine To^elhei. Gilbert Palmer, of Jamestown, Ohio, about twenty-one years old, procured a horse and bvggy at a livery stable, as he said, to go to Port William, about four miles north. He was last feeu at the above-nam?d place about 10 o'clock, in company with Mary Concklin, aged sixteen, the daughter of a widow living in Port W illiam. Miss Concklin's mother strenuously objected" to fcer association with Palmer. t Next morning Palmer and Miss Concklin were discovered on the roadside, both dfa 1. They had tak*n the robes out of the buggy -and spread them down on the ground, and placed the buggy cushion on them tor a head rest. Near them was two glasses and two 'papers that contained strychnine. A note "Was found, written on one of the labels,reading aa follows: "Bury us as close together as possible. Good-by." Will Manage the Campaign. * The Republican National Committee met at Washington, and William J. Campbell, ef Illinois, was elected Chairman. ' '1 he others elected were: Vice-Chairman, "3LH.De Young, of California; Secretary, ^Thomas H. Carter, of Montana: Treasurer, iCornelius N. dliss, of New York; Sergeant!?t-Arm?, Colonel H. L. Swords, of Iowa. ' The members of committee met in the Arlington parlors at 11:15, and wer& called to order by Chairman Clarkson. Hbll call by Secretary De Young showed an attendance of all but three members?an unusual proportion. Under a rule adopted bv the National Republican Convention an Executive Committee consisting of nine members will be selected of which the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary and Treasury ot the National Committee v-ill be members exofficio. Departure of Peary's Reliet. The steamer Miranda left the foot of Congress street, Brooklyn, N. Y., ? fftm * {*>/*/% honnfr an KaopH ivn uaj J oiuucj uur iiij, va wu*v? the members of the exoedition organired by the Academy of Naturnal Sciences of Philadelphia to search for the Greenland exploring party under the command of Lieut. Robert E. Peary. The steamer will proceed to St. John's, where the party will be transferred to the sealing steamer Kit?, which is scheduled to leave for the camping grounds -of the Peary party at McCormick Bay. The relief party consists of Angelo Heilprin, Commander^ Henry G. Bryant, first mate; N. W. Stoke?, sketching artist; William G. Meeban, botanist; C. E. Hit?, taxidermist; Dr. Jackson M. Mills, surgeon; Albert VV. Varse and Samuel J. Entrekin. Provisions were taken aboard to list until the party reaches McCormick Bay. Cloudburst in Pennsylvania, A terrific storm passed ovsr Eastern Pennsylvania, and in many sections it assume I the proportions of a cloudburst. In Heading tne streets were flooded, several houses were struck by h?htnin?, am ? number of persons were more or less hurt. In Chester County the storm was the worst in twenty years. Homes in all parts of the county were unroofed, many were struck by ligbtnins: and at least a score of head of live stock were killed. At Crum Lynne a car on a train on the P., VV. and VV. was struck by lightainz while in motion. Bacgaj;e Master William L?wis, of Chester, was r^n lere l unconscious. A newsboy, the only other occupant of tdecp.r. was knocked down. Frorn messages rv Ceived from all over the eastern pirt of tno State it looked as though tha damage to crops would be immense. Lynched lor Wife Mur.lir. ~V7UL Bates, a thirty-year-old farnmr, ot J5edtord County, Tennessee, was lvneho I oy kis neighbors in the Court-House yard at SheJbyvilIe. The charge against him was wife-murder, an 1 that he was guilty there was but little doubt. Mrs. Bates was beaten to death with a fence rail while gathering vegetables for dinner. The alleged discovery of the crime was made by Bates, wheu he went to the house tor dinner, and he started the report (hat his wife had been outraged and murdered. Her skull had been crushei and her face horribly mutilated. Unfortunately for Bates there appeared before the C kroner's jury a neiehbor woman who swore th3t she bad seen Bates beating hi3 wife and heard 1 her screaming. Chicago Suburbs Flooded. A break in the .Eighty-seventh street dyke, Chicago, flooded the suburban villages of Grand Crossing and Dauphin. It is said that the dyke was cut by four unknown men. Boats were brought from South Chicago. Pullman and neishboring towns to transport goods and people, and ail busin?ss was transacte i in second stories. In Grand Crossing the damage will be very large. It is thought that the cutting of the dyke was instigated by certain real estate dealers. The flood reached Burnside and Fordham and Is said to have covered an area of five square miles. At least one thousand houses ware flooded. Killed Her Child. Conversing with some friends in her hou56 at Phillipsb urg, N. J, Mr.?. John Skillrnan raised a small Flobert rifle which she held on her lan. The rifle was discharged, and Leonora Laird, aged eleven, Mrs. Skillman's daughter by her first husband, fell to the floor exclaiming: "Oh, mamma, you hav? killed me I" The bullet pierced Leonora's heart. Mrs. Skilhnan seized the child in her arms and ran with her to a physician's office. When she learned that her daughter was dead she was almost crazy with grief. It is feared that her reason is dethroned. Santa Maria Launched. The caravel Santa Maria, which is a reproduction of Columbus's vessel, was successfully launched at Cadiz, Spain, in the presence of 10,000 spectators. The American Consul and the mate of the bark Yamokden were the only Americans present THE TEXAS LAUNCHED. First of the Battle Ships ot the New American Navy. Twelve thousand persons faced the rain storm and stood ankle deep in mul to witness the launching of the battle ship Texas, at Norfolk, Va. The Navy Yard gates were thrown open at 9:39 o'clock, and the throng that had baen gathing for an hour was admitted. At 10 o'clock all work was stopped in the yard. At 10:20 o'clock Miss Madge Williams, who had come all the way from the Lone ' Star State to christen the vessel, was escorted to the launching stand \y Lieutenant Hillary P. Jones. On the stand were General Meredith, Chief of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving; Lieutenant W. S. Cowles, Pay Director Luca, Pay Director Eldridge, Commodore A. W. Weaver, the Commander and other officers of the Brazilian man-of-war, Almirante Borroso, which is now in port. As the Texas started, slowlv at first, to glide into the water, Miss Williams's voice rang out: "I christen thee Texas." Then came the hurrahs and yells, the salutes of steam whistles, and the tunes of the band. The ship shot with great rapidity into the water. She was swung around with lines, and tugs towed her to the dock next to the Raleigh, which was launched recently. The battle ship Texas is the first armorclad battleship ever put into the water by the United State?. It has taken six years to construct her. She is double turreted, with a length between perpendiculars or vj\) reet, an extreme breadth of sixty-four feet one inch and a molded depth of thirty-nine feet eight inches. Her mean draught of water will be twenty-two feet six inches while with 500 tons of coal aboard she will be able to steam seventeen knots per hour. The vessel is buiit of steel throughout, with a double bottom so arranged that the compartment may be used for water ballast. The principal armament consists of two twenty-six inch and six six-inch breechloading rifles, the secondary battery comprising twelve six-pounder and four onepounder rapid-fire guns, four Hotchkiss revolving cannon and two Gatlings. Her armor is a foot thick. The vessel will be lighted throughout by electricity and will ctrry four powerful search lights, two of which will be for boat use. She is designed for a flagship and to carry a complement of 368 officers and men. THE NATIONAL GAME. Chicago is handicapped by its outfield. t? i jrrj&FjrjtK is again v/a^vaui \jk wuo uuuiaTutd Club. The New York Club has released Bassett, Murphy and Fields. "Buck " E wing's arm is no better and the Captain's catching days are over. Duffy, of Chicago, leals the League in stolen bases, with thirty-three to his credit. Connor, of Philadelphia, had scored ten home runs when the season was only b*lf over. It is a remarkable fact that Boston has lost but one game this season to a lefthanded pitcher. Crank's recent pitching success ha9 reinstated him in the good graces of the New York "rooters." Abbey, the crack pitcher of the University of Vermont team, has accepted terms with Washington. Robinson's record of seven hits in one name, off the St. Louis pitchers, is the record of the season. Milliqan* has made the longest hit ever seen or. the Washington grounds by driving the bail to the centre field fence. Clabkson, of Boston, has accomplished the feat of striking out Milligan, Donovan and Richardson, or the Wasblngtons, in one urning. Richardson's work at Washington's second base and short stop this season en itle him to be called the leading inflelder in the profession. And so Galvin. late of Pittsburg, returns to St. Louis after an absence of seventeen years. With him to help out Gleason the team is expected to do better work in the second series. '1 he work of the Boston players with the bat continues, with two or three exceptions, to be on the down graie. The batting of most of the players has been very weak and disapj>oinung. The New Yorks are mourning because Tay.or, who was droppe.1, has turned out to be a "i>h?tio.n" jn the Eastern League and is pitctiing oetter ball thin any twirler the New Yorkers r.*tain?d. RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS. i*or; Per Clubs. Won. Lost, ct.' CluOs. Won. Lost. ot. Boston 45 18 .714'Washing'n29 33 .463 Brooklyn...39 23 .629'hicazo. ..:7 31 .4M Philad'lp'a.38 '-3 .6:3 New York27 35 .435 C incinnati.34 26 .567 j .St. Louis.25 35 .417 Cleveland ..31 26 .55'Jj Louisville.25 33 .397 Pittsburg..30 31 .46>|3alti:uore.i0 46 .25i DISASTROUS WRECK. A Fatal Railway Collision Near iiarnsiuurj;, renn, The most disastrous wreck that has ever occurred in Harrisburg, Penn., took place a few mornings a;o at 12:33 o'clock at Dock street. The second section of the Western Express ran into the first section, completely telescoping two cars. Among the killed were Richard Adams and wife, a furniture man of Harrisburg; an unknown man from Altooua, and a man from New York. A lady on the train, who was uninjured, lost her infant child. Five dead bodies were taken to the Morgue at the Pennsylvania Railroad station. The number of injured was placed at forty. It rained hard, which greatly retarded the work of rescue. Robert Pitcairn and Mr. Westinghouse and family, of Pittsburg, vs^re on the ill* fated train, but escaped injury. Thirteen bodies had been recovered on the day after the tragedy, including that of the infant mentioned. The large marble slab whiea was recentlj found iu the Potomac, and which was supposed to be the original stone sent by the Pooe in 1833 to be placed in the Washington Monument, has been stolen. When tli; stono was found and the divers had heard of its history, they decided that it might prove of some value, and accordingly they placed it in an old shanty in whica was stored their materials. Some one entered the shanty and carried oil the relic. TSk amount of money for placing the powerful electric search light on the top of Mount Washington has been subscribed. The light will be the highest and strongest in the world, and will be seen from Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Canada. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois, Nominated at Chicago. Closing Scenes of the Democratio National Convention. ADLAI K. STEVENSON. The National Democratic Convention, at Chicago,completed its ticket by nominating Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois, to be the Vice-Presidential candidate of the party, and then adjourned sine die. The delegates were slow in gathering, and at 2 o'clock, the hour to which the convention adjourned, after its all-night session, at which Cleveland was nominated for t'ie Presidency, not over 100 of them were in their seats. At 2:55 Chairman Wilson pounded the table with his zinc gavel and called the convention to order. Most of the delegates were in their seats, and the galleries were quite well filled. The Chairman introduced the Rev. Alfred Green, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who delivered the invocation. Immediately after the prayer the Chairman announced that the next order of business was the naming of candidates for the nomination for Vice-President. The following four candidates were placed in nomination for the Vice-Presidencvi Isaac Pusey Gray, of Indiana; Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois; John L. Mitchell, of Wisconsin; Allan B. Morse, of Michigan, Then the Chairman ordered tha roll to be called upon four candidates. Everything went alon? smoothly and without excitemont ,mfii Iowa was reached, when it was announced that Governor Boies's State would cast her twenty-six votes for Colonel Henry Watterson, of Kentuckv. Montana cast five votes for feourke Cockran. The sixth vote from Montana went to Judge Limbert Tree, of Chicago. New York turned the tide for General Stevenson by casting her solid seventy-two votes for him, thus putting him forty-two ahead of Gray, but Pennsylvania evened matters by giving her sixty-four votes to the Indianian. As the contest became closer and closer, the cheering became general and the excitement increased. At the request of Colonel "Watterson, Iowa withdrew her twenty-six votes from him and Brave them to General Stevenson. The last Territory on the roster had been called at 4:50, and the tally stool Stevenson 402, Gray 343, with Morse and Mitchell dividing the rest between them. Instantly it was known that Stevenson was in the lead, changes were bagun at once. Montana started the business. Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon and Ohio followed. Then pandemonium seized the delegations, and the leaders from practically all the States jumped upon chairs and shouted for recognition. At precisely 5 p.k. Wisconsin announced her abandonment of Mitchell, her candidate, and gave her whole vote to Stevenson. Then Mr. Cole, of Ohio, moved that the nomination of Stevenson for the Vice-Presidency be made by acclamation. Mr. Hensell, of Pennsylvania, seconded it. Chairman Wilson put the motion and it was carried in most vociferous unison. While General Collins was speaking on a resolution in regard to the National Com mittee, one of the ropes which held the Dig electric lights in place over the center of the auditorium broke and let a lamp down on the heads of the New York delegates. The globes were broken and streams of white electricity shot out from the carbon points. Ia a twinkling every one in the building was making tracks for the exits. It seems as if there were no possible way out of a panic, which must have resulted in the loss of perhaps hundreds of lives. Fortunately, however, a cool head remained on its shoulders, and with braced muscles a cordon of brave men surrounded the panicstricken crowd. The police and the sergeants-at-arras rallied at once in the cause of order. Men and women were seized and with no gentle hand were planted in their seats and held there. At length the panic wa3 reduced and the convention proceeded with its business. Mr. Hensel, of Pennsylvania, moved that the resolution of General Collins ba referred to the next National Committee with an affirmative recommendation and with powe* to act, and it was carried. After the usual resolutions of thanks were adopted the convention adjourned sine di? Sketch of His Career. Adlai A. 8tevensoo, the Democratic nominee for Vice-President, is a resident of Bloomington, 111. He was born in Christian ^ ? ? OiMhor 23 1B85. and UOUOb/, DL7UbUW?j{ vvwww. , received hi8 preliminary education in the common schools of his native county. Later he entered Center College at Danville, and when he waa sixteen years old removed with bis father's family to Bloomington, 111., where he studied law and was admitted to the bar. In 1859 he settled at Matamora, Woodford County, 111., and engaged in the practice of his profession. Here here mained for ten years, during whica time he was a Master in Chancery of the Circuit Court for four years and District Attorney for a like period. In 1561 he wa<? named a3 the Presidential elector for the district. At the expiration of his term of office as District Attorney for Woodford County, in 1869. he returned to Bloomington and formed a law partnership with J. S. Ewing, which still exists. Mr. Stevenson was nominated for Confress by the Democrats of the Bloomington istrict in 1674. The district had been safely Republican by an almost invariable majority of 3000. His opponent was General McNulta. Mr. Stevenson was successful. His majority in the district exceeded 1200L He was in Congress during the exciting scenes incident to the Tilden-Hayes contest in 1876. His party renominated him for Congress a second time. In this contest he was defeated, but in 187S, having been nominated for the third time, he was again inoi-aoainot hia mnioritv in the Hi a. C1CUWCU, tuv? WW-.-Q ? n 4 ? - trict to 2000. He was a delegate to the Democratic Natianal Convention of 1894 in Chicago, and after the election of Cleveland as President of the United States, was appointad First Assistant Postmaster-General. Mr. Stevenson married a daughter of the Rev. Lewis W Green, President of the Centre College in Danville, Ky., in December, 1865. He has three children, one son and two daughters, all of whom are living. General Stevenson enjoys the honor of having founded the first post of the Grand Army of the Republic. THE ENGINEER WAS DKtJtfK Fatal Explosion in a New Orleans Ice Factory. A boiler exploded in the factory of the Pftncumflrc' Iao Pnmnnnr at Npw Orlanils La., partly wrecking and setting fire to tha building, killing Albert Coleman, whose head was blown off, an 1 fatally wounding Frank Smith, William Scully, Morris G. Smith, Andre .v Johnson, Richard M. Brady, Edward Williams, Mrs. Comeaux, Mrs. John .Hilbert and her five-year-old son. The explosion was caused by the carelessness of a drunken engineer. In clearing away the ruins the dead bcdy of Assistant City Attorney Frank B. Lee was found. He hart visited the factory on business, and was supposed to havo left befcr? the explosion occurred. WOKLD'S FAIE NOTES. Sooth Bctrmah and the East I ndies inten i to have a worthy exhibit at the Exposition. Japan has applied for space in the World's Fair Mines and Mining building for a mineral exhibit. A collective exhibit at the World's Fair by the various college fraternities in the United States is well assured. The Indian exhibit at the World's Fair will include representatives of every tribe from the extreme north to Terra del Fuego. A solid gold briclc, weighing 500 pounds and worth 4150,000, will be exhibited in the Mines and Mining building at the World's Fair, by a Helena (Montana) mine owner. The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Snciafcw will .crnihi* at the World's Fair, among many other interesting articles, a collection of specimen* of old colonial and State bank money. The chair in which Thomas Jefferson sat while writing the Declaration of Independence is now owned by the Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. It is reported that this interesting relic will be exhibited at the World's Fair. A Schooner is now being fitted out at Halifax to go to the arctic regions to get ten or twelve Esquimo families, fifty or sixty persons in all, for exhibition at the World's Fair. Dogs, fishing implements, utensils, and everytning necessary to show Esquimo life, will also be procured. Three World's Fair Commissioners from France are now in Chicago, to erect and decorate the building whicn will be the headquarters of France at the Fair, and to complete arrangements for installing the French exhibit. They say that France will have an exhibit unrivaled by that of any other Nation. The World's Fair grounds and buildings, now nearing completion, are so renowned as a most beautiful and interesting spectacle that not only do from 500'J to ri,0(K) people a day, at a cost of twenty-five cents apiece, inspect them, but the great majority of travelers who pass through Chicago davote n Hav or mora to the SaiUd purpose. Mrs. Potter Palmer, President of the Board of Lady Managers, who has recently returned from a European tour, reports tbat tne women of Europe, particularJy of Great Britain, France, liermany and Belgium, are deeply interested in tne World's Fair, and are wording hard to make tne woman's branch of it a splendid success. Ax exhibit of bells will be made at the World's Fair by a large manufacturing concern in this country, and the firm is planniag to display it in a reproduction of the 'lzir KoIokoI (king of bells), the famous broken bell of Moscow, wnicti is twentytwo feet in diameter and twenty-ono teet three inches high, weighs 443,772 pounds, aud is used as a chapel. Ii is probable that a number of genuine Astrakhan sheep, the finest specimens living, will be exhibited at the World's Fair, a dozen of tnem have recently arrived in this country irom Persia, having been purhw TTnirp/l states Minister iJea.e lor Secretary Kusk.of the Department of Agriculture, who intends to try the experiment o? raising the species in this country. Those who have been charged with the preparation of the Turkish exhibit are making very extensive preparations to have it of superior merit and interest. They will charter a large ship to transport the exhibit. They will bring over 401) native Turks arrayed in their National costumes. They will reproduce at Chicago a street in Constantinople with all its peculiar crookedness and narrowness and its interesting bazars and restaurants. The bazars will tie filled with salAble articles OH -uritish manufacture. PROHIBITION CONVENTION. Proceedings ot the National Assem blage at Cincinnati. The Prohibition National Convention met in the Music Hall at Cincinnati, Ohio. At 10 o'clock every delegation was in its placj. Chairman Dickie, of the National Committer. called the convention to order and intro duced the Rav. J. G. Evans, of Illinois, who led in prayer. The Rev. Dr. Lockwood, pastor of the First Baptist Church, delivered the address of welcome, and was cordially received. The recommendation of the National Committee of John P. St. John for Temporary Chairman made the hall ring witb cheers. At the conclusion of his speech on taking the chair the convention adjourned. It reassembled at 4 p. m., when the Committee on Permanent Organization reported the names of Colonel Eli Ritter, of Indianapolis, for Permanent Chairman and the Rev. Sam Small for Secretary. The committee reported a recommendation that the vote3 cast should only represent the delegates in actual attendance, and that the votes of delegates who had not come to Cin cinnati should not be announced by the Chairman of State delegations. On behalf of the Minority Committee Sam Small submitted a minority report, authorizing the casting of the full vote of each delegation. For nearly two hours the convention debated the question. Groo, of New York, moved to substitute the minority report tor the majority. At times the uproar was deafening, and Chairman St. John almost splintered bis desk and lost bis voice in an effort to secure even a semblance of order. Finally* after the previous questions had bean ordered by 200 delegates and tha Chair had been unable to decide which side had the best of it on a viva voce vote, a call of the roll was ordered and thb amendment was defeated by 721 to 359. The mrjori'.y report was then adopted amid prolonged cheering. At twenty minutes to 7 the convention took a recess until 8 o'clock. In the evening Eli F. Ritter, of Indianapolis, was presented as permauent presiding officer. He made a long address. At 10:15 o'clock the convention idjouived until 9:3) next dav. THE LABOR WORLD. The women compositors of Boston, Mas,, have been organized. Indianapolis, Ind.. has eight carpenters' anions with about 1400 members. KUSSrA is ricn in coai ana iron, ana ire mines for the want of labor remain undeveloped. The extreme heat is having a fatal effect on Hungarians working at the Pennsylvania coke ovens. About GOO Japanese miners recently left Kobj for Mexico, where they will be employed in copper mines. Nine years ago there were only eleven Stats labor bureaus in this country, and now there are twenty-eight. There were more strikes and demands for higher wage* in May among the silk workers than in the entire year of 18J1. Delegates from fourteen labor organi? rar.ions in Boston, Mass., recently formed a new Amalgamated Building Trades Ooun- ( cil. The telegraph operators in Spain havs struct, an l communication with the provinces is suspended. The wires are oein* worked by the military. < El ct <icians report a more urgent de^ man.] for appliances than ever before known, and ail of the well satisfied wor.:s ire crowded with coutracts. The co-operative factory established by tin Cigar-.Makers' Union of Hamburg, ' Jennany, employed about I'M people last i ; year, an i tu? surplus wis 5-1"-.tO. At axt.c City (N. J.) waiter* are pro- ; posin; to estibiis'i a grade i tip system ranging iroai a ten-cent tip at a two-dollar hotel to titty ciiitiat a swell house. i It is i-tated that the average wages paid murliiuists in sliipyar i? is about $10; only ' very t'?w men in Sew York shipyards have ev?.*r received more tnau $15 per week. At Pittsburg. P.mn., the demanl for ' finis ied iron is good, th? prospect of wage 1 stlmuiatin?, the workers demand- ' mg last year's scale and the manufacturers ' a ivouctjon. The guards, or brakemen, on English rail- j way* ivceive, on coiimsncing, eighty-seven ' Lvuts per day, and after a time get a dollar. ] The drivers, or engineers, get $1.13, and get , 1,1 to Si .'25. , Gi.aso w, Scotland, ha9 an industrial home waere women who have come out of ] prison xet a home provided for them and { wuere they are employed in lauudrj work, j "or whiul; taey receive payment THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Ewtern and Middle States. Having won their suit against New York parties who offered a forty yeara old reprint of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary as Sremium for subscribers to a paper, G-. & C. [erriam Co. are pushing other suits of a like nature?a Kansas concern being one of the latest. They will prosecute in every case where misleading announcements are made, and claim they are talcing such action in justice alike to themselves and the public. An incipient tornado passed through the Long Branch section of New Jersey and did considerable damage The rain fell in torrents, and the high wind that accompanied it swept away nearly everything in its path. Most of the destruction was done along the coast, where the wind blew furiously. Rf.THr.FHKW. Penn. celebrated the 150th anniversary of its founding by Count Zinz* endorf. Thirty tablets and monuments were unveiled. The number of deaths resulting from the wreck on the Pennsylvania near Harrisburg, Penn., was twelve. The signalman who caused the accident confessed and was taken into custody. He permitted the secon 1 section of the Western Express to enter the block before the first had cleared it. Corporal Fink, of the Ninth Regiment, New York City, was drowned in the Hudson on cbe way to Peekskill State Camp. The pilot of the Tolchester, from which he fell, refused to stop, and it was fifteen minj utes before a boat was lowered away. Three Italians who were walking on tho Central tracks near Herkimer, N. x., were struck by a passenger train and instantly killed, all three being bady mangled. A fourth was fatally hurt News comes from Amasbury, Mass., that the poet Whittier will write the opening ode for the World's Fair at Chicago. A milk train ran into a wildcat engine near Phillipsburg, N. Y., and James Scott and Frank Cassidy, firemen, were killed. Vnorinoar n'Noil nnrl Rrntoman Hawiev were badly hurt. The First National Bank of Grafton, Mass., which came to grief under the management of President Chester T. Linlev, has been turned over by National Bank Examiner Getchell to the newly elected Board of Directors. The bank has been reopened. A shall strip of territory between Mount Holly, N. J? and Burlington was visited by a cloudburst, doing much damage to the crops. Joseph Leman, a farm laborer, was instantly killed by lightning. Br order of the Board of Directors the Goshen {N. Y.) National Bank, pending: an examination of the books, securities and accounts by the Bank Examiner, has been closed. Thirteen of the Jersey Citv (N. J.) ballot box stuffers were sent to State Prison and seven to iho Penitentiary. Henry Weld Fcxler, the only brother of Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States Supreme Court, died at the home of his son, in New Rocaelle, N. Y.. a few days ago, at the age of sixty-one. Mr. Fuller was bora in Augusta, Me. A violent storm damaged many buildings in Williamsport, Penn. South and West. Disastrous floods have occurred in Illinois. Lennt James and Willie Wooley, of Milford Center, Ohio, about twelve years old, have been arrested for drowning (J-eorge A. Macdonald, six years old. They enticed the little boy to a pool and stood him on his head in the mud at the bottom and left him. The Alabama State Convention of the People's party adopted the St. Louis platform and selected a full delegation to the Omaha Convention. The convention declined to put out a State ticket. The Virginia State Convention of the People's party elected delegates to the Omaha Convention. William B. Smith, the richest man in South Carolina, died at Charleston, aged seventy-seven. He was engaged in the cotton business. Nearly all his fife his faculty for making lucky investments and turning over money was extraordinary. His estate is estimated to be worth from two and onehalf to three million dollars. Jacob Harvey, who murdered Mrs. Maggie Lehman at Dayton, Ohio, was executed in the penitentiary annex at Columbus at 12:27 in the morning. Clinton E. Dixon, a United States cavalryman, the murderer of Corporal William Carter, was hanged in a stockade just outside of the Douglas County Jail at Omaha, Neb. The execution was conducted Dy united states juarsuai Slaughter. The trap was sprung by means of electricity. Heavy rain flooded basements throughout Chicago, HI., for the third time within a week. The loss to goods stored in basements in the business districts was estimated at <150,000. Edwin J. Ryan, the special messenger of the United States Express running between New York and Washington, who absconded with <30,000, was captured at Denver, Col. The stolen money was recovered. County Treasurer Fuller, of Paris, Ark., deposited between four and five thousand dollars in a large trunk in his hous-a. While he and his wife were away the trunk was taJcen from the house, broken open and the money stolen, A few years ago th< County Treasurer was robbed of $11,000. Dr. A. B. Rose, aged seventy, one of th? most prominent business men of Charleston, 8. C., committed suicide by blowing out his brains. United States Bank Examiner Georoi A. Stone closed the First National Bank of Erie, Kan. The heaviest loser is Meosho County, the taxes for June having just been deposited to the amount of 0,000 oi 130,000. Robert Barbek, aged thirty-two, beathij brother John to death at Cedarville, Ohio, during a trifling quarrel, by striking him . repeatedly in the face with his list. itoberc naa oeen anuKiir<. duuu ?? was a cripple, and for thirty years had almost been unable to leave bis chair. The joint Democratic caucus at Baton Rouge, La., decided to postpone the election of the United States Senator to the session of 1894, but will ballot daily to the closa of the present session. Russell Wells, aged twenty, son of Pro> fessor S. C. Weils, ot Roanoke College, and Armistead Watson, aged eighteen, son of A. C. Watson, of Marl in. Texa*, were killed by lightning at Salem, Va. John E. Thornton was hanged in the United States Jail at Fort Smith, Ark., for the murder of his daughter Laura in a fit of drunkenness. Henry Block, colored, the murderer of Georga Smith, was hanged in the courtyard at Pine Bluff, Arlc. The Indiana Republican Convention at Fort Wayue placed Governor Chase at the head of their State ticiet. Tom Lillard, colore'), was dragged from the jail at Wocdoury, Tmn , an ! strung up to a limb by an armed mob of 200 men. Lillard Jay ia r.iit for Miss .McKnight, a highly respect.d young woman, and outraged her. A ctclon'K at Fort Yates, South Dakota, killed four Sioux Indians and wounded several others. The building and stock of the Schwabacber Brothers at Seattle, Washington, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $400,000. Rev. Shelby Hardy and two daujhters vore killed by lightning near Ridgeville, Tenu. Washiaeton. Senator Aixejt, of "Washington, has r?. :eived trom the Secretary of the Treasury i gold medal to be transmitted to Mrs. Hartha White, of Washington, for rescuing ;hree shipwrecked sailors of the British ship ceruuttie. Adjutant-General Kelli.v has been retired. Major Lewis C. Overman, of tfta Engineer Corps, recently tried by court martial, has resigned. A Census Bureau bulletin shows that there are 53,372,703 native and 9.249,547 foreign born people in this country. As to color, 54,983,890 are white and 7,638,3'50 are colored, Chinese, Japanese, or civilized Indians The President made the following nomllations: Surveyor General?Amos P. Shaw, 'or Washington. Register of Land Office? Richard D. Mobley, at Montrose, CoL Receiver of Public Moneys?Edward H. Smith, it Montrose, Col. The President's message, replying to the esolution of inquiry as to reciprocity negoJiations with Mexico and other countries, tias been laid before the Senate. V. Brigadies-General McCooz, commanding the Department of Arizona, baa been summoned to Washington to confer with the authorities regarding military affairs in that department. Extensions of the fr?9 list for American goods imported into Cuba and Port Rico were announced in a proclamation by the President. The President has set aside a tract of land containing 28,880 acres on the Kiowa and Comanche Indian reservations, Oklahoma, as a wood reservation for the military posfat Fort Sill. Foreign. Desperate fighting was reported In Matto Grosso, Brazii, and over 1000 men were said to have been killed. Senor Don Manuel Antonio Matta, Mtniifrar nf Pnpalffn Affiiri whrt came near embroiling his country with the United States, died at Santiago of apoplexy. Hereafter all telegraphing in Spain will be done by military operators. A hurricane throughout Northern Germany caused an immense amount of damage. While Gladstone was (3riving to address a meeting at Chester, England, a woman threw a hard piece of gingerbread which struck Gladstone on the nose, bruising it and causing it to bleed. He suffered from an inflamed eye. consequent on the assault and was confined to the house for some time. The harvest prospects in ten of the Russian provinces are almost hopeless. Cholera threatens to spread like wildfire in Central Asia. A total of 164 cases of Chopra has been reported at Baku during one week, with seventy deaths from the disease. Grenier, the clerk in the French Navy Department, who was arrested, charged with conveying documents relative to the French defeases to Germany and Italy, declares that Captain Henry D. Borup, of the Ordnance Department of the United States Army, who is in the military attache of the American Legation at Paris, bought plans of the defenses and communi?ted them to Germany and Italy. There is an epidemic of smallpox in the City of Mexico anl vicinity, ani a number Df deaths have occurred. The British Parliament was dissolved; the Queen's speech was read in both houses. There is almost a panic in Irish securities, including railway and bank stocks, owing to the fear that Home Rule will gain the day in the coming election. LATER NEW?, Commencement exercise were held at Yale, Harvard and Amherst Colleges. Mrs. Susan Sewell, tweaty-two years of age. threw her nine-months-old babe out of a four story window at Boston, Mass., and then jumped from the window herself. Both were killed. Professor Theodcre W. Dwight, for many years head of the Columbia College Law Schoo', died suddenly at his summer home, Clinton, N. Y. He was born in Cat skill, N. Yn on July 13, 1922. The fire-cracker mill of the Hazirdvilla Powder Company's works at Hazardville, Conn., was demolished by an explosion, and Dennis Bailey, the only workman in the building at the time, was instantly killed. The Grand Jury of Orange County, which lias been considering the Port Jervis (N. Y.) lynchinz case, completed its duty. Three indictments wera found. One against President 0. 3. Howell for criminal neglect of his official duties. While workmen were engaged in build ing an addition to a large building at Lynchburg, Va., the wall gave way and buried a number of people under the debris. J. H. } C. Winston, owner of the building, and two colored men were killed and seven colored men badly hurt. Bankruptcy has at last reached the World's Columbian Commission at Chicago, 111. Every cent of the appropriation has been exhausted. 8. D. Morrow, Mr?. Lesser and Miss Lesser were killed in a railroad wrack at Althernier, Ark., and a dozen people were injured. Three colored men, who assaulted white women near Colmes Neill, Texas, while on their way to Woodville Jail were met by a party of masked men and shot and killed. The President has directed Major-General Schofield to perform the duties of Secretary of War during the illness or temporary abs?nce of Secretary of War Elkins, whenever, during such illness or absence, the Assistant Secretary of War is also absent. Mb. Lacet, Controller of the Currency, has severed his official connection with the Treasury Department and will go almost immediately to Chicago to assume his new duties as President of the Bankers' National Bank of that city. The President approved the joint resolution directing the President to proclaim a general holiday commemorating the fbur hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America on the 21st day of October, 1892. Thk supposed intention of the (Jerman Government to prosecute Prince Bismarck for his recent utterances caused a sensation throughout the Empire. Heavy storms have prevailed in England, doing great damage to crops. At the Crystal Palace, London, England, Captain Dale, the well known aeronaut, in vited anv who desired to accompany him in his voyage in the air. Several volunteered and the balloon started. Suddenly the balloon burst with a noise like the discharge o 1 a huge cannon. The aeronaut fell to tho ground dead, and three of the passenger* were fatally injured. UNDER A LANDSLIDE. Thirty Persons Killed or Injured in an Italian Village. A terrible accident, causal 07 a landslip, occurred ht Monte Sasso, Italy, on the lir,? of the Bologna and Florence Railway. This railway runs through the Appennines and is one of the most boldly constructed lines in Italy. A large area of land on the mountain side slid on the houses below, completely buryiDg them. Some of the people managed to escape, but thirty persons, killed or injured, were taken from beneath the debris. The railway is covered with earth and rock to a great depth, and all traffic is consequently suspended. Ttiis line is peculiarly liable to interruptions from landslides. In 1351 the village of Vigo, one of the stations on the road, was completely destroyed by earth sliding down trooi Mounte Vigese. TERRIBLE CLOUDBURST. Chickasaw County, Iowa, Laiil Waste and Many Farmers Ruined. Complete reports of the cloudburst that laid waste Chickasaw County, Iowa, have been received. At Fredericksburg two persons were killed and a dozen injured, soma fatally. At Sumner five persons were killed niitricht. The destruction to nronertv and growing crops will exceed $3Jl),000.* The homes of twenty-eight farmers were completely destroyed ana as many more were partially wrecked. Throughout the path of the storm the destruction of cropc was complete. Many of the farmers are insured and the balance have decided to ask for assistance. The bronze statue of Red Jacket, the renowned Seneca Chief, has been unveiled in Foreet Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo. N. Y. "' -t PROMINENT PEOPLE. Prince Bisharck says be will never agmfn take office. Kino Oscar, of Sweden, is one of the losers in the Panama Canal scheme. Gounod, the composer, has twelve unfinished operas lying in his desk awaiting his finishing touches. Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, as a candidate for a seat in Parliament will be an interesting character in English politics. Elaine Goodale, the New England poetess, who was married to Dr. Eastman, an Indian, has presented her husband with a baby. Dr. John Tyndal, the eminent scientist, uegaa 1115 career iu ictu <u ou ??uvauv v? ( the staff of the British Ordinance Survey at 15 a week. Tinnysow, the poet, allows nothing to interfere with the luxury of smoking, or which he is extremely fond. His pipe is rarely away from his lips. It is officially announced that the Ciir of Russia has invite 1 the Austrian Emperor to r hunting with him in the autumn. This taken as an indication of peace. The household of ex-President Hayes at Fremont, Ohio, is presided over by his only daughter, Miss Fanny Hayes. The two younger sons of General Hayes also live at home. Governor Boees, of Iowa, is a widower but he has two sons who are practiciag law, at Waterloo, and a married daughter, Mr* I J. W. Carson, who resides at Mount VernoD, Iowa. Sioxoa GiOLrrn, the new Italian Prima Minister, prides himself uDon despising the mandates of fashion, and wear3 at all timet an old-fashioned rusty black frock coat toat reaches nearly to his ankles, to the great satisfaction of the political caricaturists and cartoonists. The Wanamakers have four hones?the residence in Washington, one in Philadelphia, a cottage at Capa May Point, called the Lilemyn cottage, from toe names of the two daughters, and Lindenhur3t, a very fine residence and estate, about fifteen miles from Philadelphia. There has been a curious dispute among the biographers regarding the age of Grover Cleveland. By some cf the campaign historians he is said to be fifty-seven years old, while others make him fully five yeara younger. Mr. Cleveland himself, in answer to numerous inquiries sent him some time ago. is reported to have given his ag# ai fifty-five. -ramhe documents have been found In tha military archives at Madrid, Spain, which go to prove that Columbus was born at a place called Saona, near Genoa, Italy. Them documents confer a title of nobility on Co* lumbua and his son. / " THE MARKETS Late "Wholesale Prices ot Country Produce Quoted In New York. 27 beans and peas. Beans?Marrow, 1891, choice. f210 @|2 12$^ Mtxliiifri ISftl rhnica ? Oi 1 SO Pea, 1S91. choice........ 180 @ ? White kidney, 1891,choice 2 85 @2 50 Red kidney, 1891, choice. 2 80 @240 Yellow eye, 189L, choice. ? @ 175 Lima, CaL, per bush.... 170 @175 Foreign, medium, 1S91.. 170 @ 175 Green peas, 189 L, per bush.... 160 @ 1 65 1891, bass.'. 155 @ ? ' ; 1891, Scotch 1 60 @ 165 BTTTTJEB. Creamery?St., & Penn, extras ? @ 2L St. & Peon., firsts. 19%@ 20 Western, firsts 19 @ 20 Western, seconds 17%@ Western, thirds 16 @ 17 State dairy?half tubs, and pails, extras. ? @20 Half tubs and paUs, lsts, 18 @ 19 Half tubs and pails, 3ds. 16%@ 17% Welsh tubs, extras 19 @ ? Welsh tuba, lata 17%@ 18% Welsh tubs, 2ds 16%@ 17 Western?Im. creamery, 1st*. 17 @ 18 1m. creamery, 2ds 15 @ 16 Im. creamery, 3ds 13 @ 14 i Factory, firsts. 14%@ ? Factory, seconds 13%@ 14 Factory and dairy, thirds... ? ? & 13 CHEESE. State factory?Full cream, larjresiza white, fancy.. 85f@ Sfi Full cream,colored, fancy 8%^ 9 Full cream eood to prime 8K38 8% Part skimsj' choice. <J Part skims,good to prime 5 Part skims, common 4 Full skims..., ^ EGGS. State and Penn?Fresh 16 @ ? Western ? Fresh, fancy...., Fresh, fair to prime. 15 @ ttjf FRUITS AND BEKRIE3?FRESH. Apples?Southern, red, crate 1 50 @ 2 25 Grapes?Western N. Y., Catawba, 5lb basket..... ? @ ? Western N. Y., Coucord. ? @ ? Strawberries, Jersey, par qt. ? @ ? Western, N. Y., qt 5 @ 11 Up-River, per qt 5 @ 12 Cherries, large,blacs, lb..... 10 @ 12 Large, red and white.... 8 @ 10 Small and poor 4 (g 0 Huckleberries, N. J., p<?r box 1 00 @ 1 25 Blackberries, Md., per qt 7 (t$ 10 Gooseberrries, prime green.qt. 6 @ 7 Raspberries, red,Jersey, pint. 5 @ 10 HOPS. State?1891, choice, per lb... 24 @ 25 1891, prime 23 @ 1891, common to good... 19 @ 22 1890, common to choice.. 14 @ 19 Old odds 7 | II) LIVE POULTRY. Fowls?Jersey, State, Jfenn.. 12 @ ? IM f- Western, per lb ..A ? @ 12 |H Spring Chickens, large, lb... 21 ? 24 w Small to medium^ 16 <gl 18 Roosters, young & old, per lb 7 @ 7)f Turkeys, per lb 10 (32 12 / Ducks?n!j., N. Y., Penn., / per pair..... o5 @ au M Southern, per pair 6'J @ -65 Geese, Western, per pair.... 125 <gj 1 37 Southern, per pair 112 @ 125 M Pigeons, per pair 3'J @ 43 DB DRESSED POULTRY?FRESH KILLED. N^E Turkeys?Selected hens, lb. 15 @ ? BH Mixed weights 14 (g 15 . Young toms,tair to prima 13 (? 14 S^H Old toms 13 & 14 Hfl Chickens?Pbila., broilers... 25 @ 30 L. L.broilers ? & ? Fowls?St. and Fena.. per lb 11 @ 12 Western, per lb 11 @ 11% fljl Ducks?Western, per lb...a 10 (& 13 Eastern,., per lb 21 (? 22 Spring. L. I. per lb 21 @ 22 Gees^?Spring Eastern, per lb 23 @ 23 Sauabs?Dark, per doz,,,... 2 00 @ ? n Light, per doz 3 00 @ 3 25 POTATOES AND VEGETABLE3k Oj| Potatoes?Southern, seconds 25 (gl 60 XI ?_n. uKl 1 nil /? 1 fi X1U11UID, UU1?? ? 1 w \UJ A. IV i^^B9 State, old, p4?t>bl ....... 30 @ 75 9H L. I., in bulk, per bbL.. ? @ ? Cabbage, L. I. per lUO 2 00 @ 2 50 Norfolk, per barrel 25 @ 50 HN Onions?Bermuda, per crate. 115 @ 120 8H Isew Orleans, per bbl.... ? @ 2 25 BB Egyptian, 112 lb sac^-, 1 75 @ 225 M Squash?Southern, marro?r, KH per barrel, 75 @ 100 H Southern, yellow 75 @125 BB L. I., yellow, barrel..1 00 @15!) HQ L. I., white, barrel 1 00 @ 1 25 Hh Lettuce, Southern, per bbl.. ? @ ? R9H Tomatoes, J'la. carrier crate. 1 25 @ 1 50 Asparagus,N.J.,doz. bunches 1 00 @ 1 50 Peas. S. Jersey, V bbl. basket 50 @100 SH| Long Island, per bag.... 75 @100 Hi String beans, Norfolk, wax, MB >2 bbl crate 50 @ 1 00 |^Q Norfolk., green 40 @ 1 00 Cucumbers, Savannah, crate 30 @ 40 ^^8 LIVE STOCK. ^ Beeves, City dressed 6 @ 7% Hti| Milch Cows, com. to good...20 00 @40 00 Calves, City dressed 7 @ Sheep, per 100 lbs 3 25 @ 4 35 EEh LamO.-, per lb. 5}^<g 7${ Ho^s?Lave, per 100 lbs 5 50 @ 5 70 HQ Dressed 7 (th 8 D1 GRAIX, ETC*, 9BH Flour?City Mill Extra 4 25 @ 4 55 HlX Pateuts 4 (50 <i$ 4 85 Bb| Wheat?No. 2 Red 81ft jg 92% BH Rye?State 83 ($ 87 Barley?Two-rowed State... ? @ ? HBH Corn?Ungraded Mixed 53 @ 66 ||H| 0at3_>o. i White 42 @ 4'i^H Mixed Western.. 37 @ 40 Hay?(jood to Choice 75 (g 80 KBa Straw?Long Rye 60 <g) 65 BKfl Lard?City Steam ? @ 6.25o jj^HH I