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OUR FOREItrfi CJMflU?fiCI.
The Nation's Tra-le Account for
the Fiscal Year.
The Balance of Trade in Our
Favor $202,944,342.
l5. G. Brock, Chief of the Buraati of Sta?
tfatics, has completed his statement of foreign
commerce for the month of June and
the fiscal year ending June 3."), 1390. It is a
remarkable and gratifying showing of the
alue of our foreign commerce, which is
unprecedented in the history of this country.
The aggregate value of the imports
and exports of merchandise
attained its highest point, amounting
to jgl,85",726,910, as against $1,789,397,008
during the fiscal your
1891, an increase of $lSs8,329,9t)4, and an increase
of ^370,193,883. since 1839. This is
also a very large increase over the average I
annual increase for the last ten years from !
1883 to 18H1, which was $25,421,517. Since j
1889 our commerce has been making tre- |
mendous strides. There was an excess in the I
alue of the exports of merchandise over the
imports of $202,944,342, a very large balance
of trade in our favor.
The vaiue of our imports of merchnudisa
during the last fiscal year was 1827,391,284,
as against $844,916,196 for the fiscal year
1892, a decrease of $17,524,912, but an increase
of ?114,979,608 over the average annual
value of imports for the past ten year.-.
There was an incraase of imports of coffee,
raw silk and sugar, but a decrease in the
imports of tin plates, manufactures of silk,
woo! and tobacco and vegetables, fruits and
textile grasses.
The value of imports admitted free of
duty was $458,031,145, an increase of free
imports over the fiscal year 1891 of $91,759.793.
At the same time the vaiue of dutiable
imports was $369,390,139, a decrease of $109,284,705.
The value . imports of merchandise
free of dut?" during the last
fiscal year exceeds like imports of
]S8'J by the sum of $201,514,067. In 18S9
* imnnrfa r>f thft
lue per wuu ui. ?.??*, , ?
t >tal was 34.81. In 1892 it was 55.8S. In
1539 tbe average ad valorem per cant, of
lutv on all imoorcs, free and dutiable, was
29.(59; in 1892 it was 20.65. It will be observed
there has been not only a very large
increase in the value of free imports over
prior years, but a large reduction in the
average ad valorem per cent, on imports,
and the lowest since 1861.
The total value of our exports of mercnandise
during tbe fiscal year 1S92 was $1,030,335,626,
as against $884,480,810 during the
fecal year 189L an increase of $145,654,S16.
This is the first year of our commerce when
oar exports of merchandise have reached a
billion of dollars. The average annual value
of our exports for the past tea years has been
1754,345,844 The exports ot the last year
exceeded that average annual value by $275,889,782.
This large increase in our exports of
1892 over 1891 was made up largely of bread
tutt's, $173,706,915. and cattle, sh:ep and
hogs, an increase of 13,801,396. The value
of meat and dairy products exported
in 1892 was $137,411,385. There was
a decrease in tue valu9 of cotton
exported of about $32,000,000 because of low
Kcos. The value of exports of tbe five
ain^ products were as xollows: Cotton,
$25S,447,741; breadstuff?, $301.S28,60t; provisions.
$137,411,386; cattle, shesp and hogs,
$3-3,654,3>4; mineral oils, $44,783,13); all
Debar exports, $-31",665,370. ihis statement
snows a progress in our export trade that is
not equalled by any other Nation.
The total nuaiber of immigrants arriving
in the Unit*d States in the year eniing
June 30, 1892, was 691,320, as against 555,496
in 1891, au increase of 63,824. From
Germany came 130,622; Russia, 84,269;
Italy, 60,944; Sweden and Norway, 57,153;
Ireland, 55,381; England and Wales, 50,182.
THE LAB0B WOBLD.
The fllemakers went on strike in Philadelphia.
Carpet manufacturers are making more
carper.
Nearly 150,000 toilers at Pittsburg, Penn.,
are idle.
The last great iron and steel strike was in
1882. It cost *12,000,000.
The rolling mill output has been reduced,
and the iron trade generally is dull.
The International Union of Bricklayers
and Masons has at present 305 local branches.
The wages of the city laborers in Molyoke,
Mass., have been increased to $2 a
day.
a two per cent, increase in wages has
1 been made in the Pennsylvania coal r^.
gions.
The labor and farmers' organizations of
Kansas City, Mo., have nominated a county
ticket.
The New York City street cleaning brigade
wear uniforms and have numbers on
their hats.
Ten thousand miners in the San Juan
IHstrict, Colorado, have made up their
imnos to str.ke.
Tbk construction of a good deal of additional
raneage is also recognized as within
the i.rooability of the next year or two;
The Belgian Government Board of Arbitration
has settled 1145 grievances in the
. Charlerol District alone during the last six
months.
In all of the New England States the
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time, and a busy summer seems to be assured
on aJl sides.
Ovkr 18,(XX) men are employed in navigating
1114 steamers anl 6339 barges on the
Mississippi River and its tributaries. Tbey
earn an average wage o? $350 a year.Firry
clerks and thirty boys have been
added to the postoffice force in Chicago.
The increase is made to meet the large volume
of business caused by the World's Fair.
Thk annual financial report of the American
Flint (ti>'ss Workers' Union shows that
the Union has at present 7301, whose aggregate
wages amounted to $4,000,430 last year.
They have a surplus of $138,000 in the treasury
.
The sympathetic strike of the pavers and
ramaiermeh o: York City, in aid of
the Icclc-.'d-out granite cutters "in the New
Englaotl stales, ended in an unconditional
eurrenmr ?i th>; Union to the terms offered
by the p^v.ng contractors. The strike lasted
une weeKs.
ASHIPS'3 CREW MURDERED,
Terrible Results ol a Conspiracy oa
the High Seas.
News has reached Yokohama, Japan, of a
terrible murder and conspiracy on the high
seasL A few months ago the schoouer Undine,
of 180 tons, owned by Crawford & Co.,
of San Francisco, sailed from that port for
the South Sea islands, in charge of Captain
Castella. The vessel's crew consisted of the
captain and eight man. At Honolulu a man
who ssid he was the mate's brother joined
the vessel, and about threa days out from
Honolulu one of the brother* shot the captain
and supercargo. The crew were then
poisoned, with tue exception of the steward,
to whom was paid a bribo of $1000 uot to
divulge the crime. At one of the islands a |
new crew of natives were shipped, aud t:iw
schooner proceeded to Ascension Islant.
There the steward inforaiei tae authorities
of the crime, who arretted the murderers anJ
seat them to Manila.
A CONDUCTOR'S NERVE.
He iliuds His Crushed Leg in a Dying
Condition.
At midnight a special freight broke into
three sections near ShnbenacacaJie, Nova
Scotia, and subsequently the rear collided
with the middle section.
Conductor P. Y. Christian was thrown
over tiie rail ot the van, but grasped it with
sucii tore ; as to dislocate his saoulder. Unable
to hold on, lie attempted to throw himself
clear of the rail, but failoi, and the
whea.s of the iron van passed over one leg,
crushing it terribly.
vV ith remarkable nerve he tied his handkerchief
around the lacerated limb and
tightened it with a sliver from a sleeper, so
as to prevent bleeding to death. He wa?
mbsequently picked up and taken to Truro,
where he died shortly after his arrival.
! THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Ka*tern and Middle States.
A violent tornado struck the town of
Auburn, N. H., destroying trees and growing
crops.
The National Educational Association
ended its session in Saratoga. N. Y.
Non-union men were set to work in the
big mills at Homestead. Penn. Mr. Frick
took advantage of the presence of the sol1
diers to brin? in fifty or sixty men, and
I fires were kindled again in some of the furnaces.
The non-union men came in small
parties after the strikers' scr atiny of new
1 ? ? n 1
j arrivals was stopped, ny urenerai ouun.iou.
The entire force ot' assistants to the civil
! engineers in the employ of the Carnegie
j Steel C'ompan7 strucit out of sympathy for
! the locked out men.
The body of Cyrus TV. Field was buried
| beside that of his wife, in the family plot in
the Stockbridge(Mas?.l Cemetery.
Mary E. Gallagher, of Tremoat,Penn.f
and rer sister, Mrs. Pauline Murray, of
Philadelphia, were capsized off Gloucester
City, N. J., and drownei.
Arthur W. and W.B. W\rs, of Levant,
Me., twin brotners, aged eight years, were
| drowned while swimming.
A notice was posted at Homestead, Penn.,
inviting individual applications for emj
ployment at the Carnegie Steel Wor^s from
such of the locked out m9n as did not take
part in the efforts to prolong the trouble.
The notice said that unless they reported
for work immediately their places would be
filled by non-union men.
General James A. Cunningham, Sup*rintendent
of the Chelsea (Mass.) Soldiers'
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HOIQC, Uiou a ion ui^um stuuc, suwi*j ? i
two.
Thomas H. Cakter, of Montana, United
States Land Commissioner, was unanimously
chosen Chairman of the Republican Naj
tional Committee by the National Executive
Committee in New York,City; he was
authorized to name the Secretary of the
committee, and he wrote to ex-Congressman
L. E. McComas, of Maryland, offering him
the place.
Adlai E. Stkvenso.v, Democratic candidate
for Vice-President,arrived in New York
from Bloomington, 111., to receive the official
notification of his nomination. After spending
a day in the city, he went to Gray Gables,
Buzzard's Bay, Mass., to pay a short visit to
ex-president Grover Cleveland.
The Goshen (N. Y.) National Bank, which
was so nearly wrecked by its defaulting
cashier, William M Murray, ha3 reopened
tor business.
Warrants were swam oat at Homestead,
Penn., by Secretary Lovejoy, of the
Carnegie Company, for the arrest of Hugh
O'Donneil, Burgess McLuckie and fiva
others of the strikers. McLuckie surrendered.
The others could not be found.
They were accused of murder.
Rose Terry Cooke, one of the beat
known women authors of New England,
died, a few days ago afc her home, at Pittsfield,
Mass. Sne had been in delicate health
for several year3 and fiually succumbed to
an attack of heart failure. She was a member
of the noted Terry family of Connecticut,
and was bora at East Hartford
February 17, 1827.
Trainmen arriviog In Reading, Penn., reported
a severe frost at Best's Station, near
Blatington. Passengers and traiamea oa
the Lehigh Valley Road and those of the
Reading Road north of Broad Mountain
were obliged to build fires in the cars.
Governor Pattison ana statr iert turnsburg
(or Homestead, Pean., in a private car
attached to the Western Express.
The Atlantic Hotel at Long Branch, N. J.,
was burned; the guasts hai jewelry ana
clothing worth $30,000 stolen from them.
Lawrence and Georqe McDermott,
twelve and fourteen years old respectively,
were drowned while bathinj in Mill River,
New Haven, Conn.
Dr. Charles D. Scuddes, a son-in-law
of ex-Senator Evarts, committe I suicide at
Northport, Long Island, N. Y. He stabbed
himself to the heart.
South and West.
Newton Booth, ex-Governor of California
and ex-United States Senator from
California, died at Sacramento, CaL, a few
days since, in his sixty-seventh year. Mr.
Booth was born in Salem, Ind., and went
West in 1850.
Quarantine has been orderei at Puget
Sound, Washington, against British Columbia
on account of the smallpox prevalent at
Victoria.
To** nrvn.nntAn man vccxrA Aar?r?rfcvl hftfik to
the mines at \VarJner, Idaho, by a strong
force of Federal troops. There was no hostile
demonstration upon their eft-rival.
The collision of the steamer Jim Wood
with a natural gas main in the Ohio River
at East Liverpool, Ohio, resulted in an explosion
which caused the death of the enginear
on duty and one deckhand and the
injury of several others.
Train No. 27 ran into a washout about
five miles south of Florence, N. C. All the
car?4eft the track except the rear sleeper.
J. S. Cinamon, the news agent, and Wiliiam
Moore, a colored employe, were killed. x
The four sons of Christopher C. Ball
were drowned while swimming in the Manokin
River, just in the rear of their residence,
near Princess Anne, Md.
J. G. Kklso, Vice-President of theOuchita
Valley Bank of Camden, Ark., is a defaulter
to the extent of $70,003, and has disappeared.
He is also President of the Bank of Maguolia,
Ark., and or the Gate City National Bank'
of Texarkana.
Out of a population of 603 at Amelia,
Ohio, at least 450 parsons are afflicted with
whooping cough. Evan the domestic animals
are stricken. More adults than children
have died.
L. Woods, a farmer living near Sturgis
City, South Dakota, resented the attentions
a young man, Goody, was paying his daughter,
and forbade him the house. Goody
woulin't stay away and was shot by Woods.
He returned the fire. They both have died.
James Sanders and James Force were
blown to atoms by powder in Frankfort,
Ky.
There was a terrific thunderstorm at
Camden, Ark. The damage to property
was large.
Mrs. Emma Phipps, aged thirty-five years;
Miss Blanche Phipps, aged twenty-six years,
and Frank McCatnp, aged thirteen years,
were killed at a railway crossing near New
Albany, Ind., a train striking their carriage.
At Frankfort, Ky., Ben Calmer, a young
man, killed his brother, Samuel Calmer, a
bachelor aged fifty years. A dispute arose
between the brothers and Ben seized a chair,
striking his brother, killing hioi instantly.
Washington.
The President has withdrawn the norni*
nation ot' William D. Crum (colored) as
postmaster of Charleston, S. C.
The President has approve! the act to establish
an intermediate rate of pension between
$30 and $7*2per month: tbe act extending
the privileges of the immediate
transportation act of the port of Feruandina,
Fin.; the District of Columbia appropriation
art and a number of private pension bill*.
The President and Private Secretary Halford
left Washington for Cape May, N. J.,
where they spent two days, and then returned
to the White House.
] The President issued a proclamation comI
iDanding all persons in insurrection in Idaho
todisper.-eand return to their homes.
The House Committee on Ways and
Means unanimously ordered favorably reported
a resolution providing for the adjournment
of the first session oi thte Congress
on Julv '25.
Colonel Ernst. Superintendent of Public
Buildings and Grounis, in his annual reports
to the Secretary or' War, says that
?>i3,175 persons have visited th? top of the
I Washington Monument sine* in was o:)en<? I
I to the public, October 9, 1SS8. Numerous
| acts of vandalism occurred during the year.
: l.v the Hou?e of Representatives the bill
I appropriating ?5,'000,000 to aid the W orld's
i Fair in Chicago was defeated.
| Chairman* Carter, of the Republican
I National Committee, handed to the President
! his resignation as Commissioner of the Gan|
eral Land Office, and returned to New Yorlt
to assume active control of the campaign.
President Harrison reviewed the
I League of American Wheelmen. 5000 strong,
| from the portico of the White House.
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Foreign.
Further damage to Sicilian villages
1 from the eruption of Mount Etni was reported.
i
At the DuMln (Ireland) regatta a ooac
containing a number of aoectators capsized.
Four were drowned. Three persons were
killed by the explosion of a boiler of the
passenger steamer Hungaria at Novaglia,
Austria.
A dispatch from Melilla, in Morocco,
says that, in a recent battle between partisans
of the Arab Chief Mohatar and the
Mezquita Kabjles, 300 of the combatants
were killed.
Baron Coureel, formerly French Ambassador
at the Court of Berlin, has been
appointed to represent France in the Bering
Sea Arbitration Commission.
It was reported that a volcanic eruption
in the Malay archipelago had destroyed the
island of Sanjyuir, and that the entire population,
comprising 13,000 people, had perished.
A goods train was derailed near Windsfeld,
Germany, and three of the train hands
were killed. A switchman who was blamed
for the accident committeed suicide.
The steamboat express from Buffalo,
N. Y? collide i with the local train for Port
Colbbrne near St. Catharines, Canada.
Four persons were killed.
Two large fires broke out at Montreal,
Canada. The loss by the first will reach
nearly half a million of dollars, and $30,000
will hardly cover the loss at the second.
Three other fires were burning at tha same
time and destroyed property worth several
thousands of dollars.' At night the walls of
the Allan warehouse, the scene of the second
Are, fell in and buried twelve firemen in the
ruins. Two were taken out dead.
Ten* deaths from cholera W3? reported in
one day at Aubervilliers and one deith at
St. Ouen. Both of these villages are only
about five miles north of Paris. Eighteen
deaths from cholera occurred on board a
Russian steamer between Astrakhan and
Kazen. During three days seventeen persons
died from the disease on the Transcaucasus
Railway.
The Province of Rivigo, in Northern
Italy, was swept by a cycione, with great
loss "of life and property.
The final election returns in England
showed that Gladstone's Home Rule majority
in the next Parliament would be fortytwo.
Stringent measures to prevent the spread
of the cholera were taken by Russia, Austria,
Spain and Brazil.
Telegraphic reports frotn all parts of
Manitoba, Canada, state that the crops are
in magnificent condition, not a single drawback
being reported.
LATER NEWS.
i
James B urks and two boys, aged seven
and eight, were killed by a train at the Fifth
Street Pennsylvania Railroad crossing,
Newark, N. J.
Michael Varlet and his crippled nineyear-old
daughter Annie were found in a
bathroom in New York City, both dead from
suffocation by gas.
Burgess McLuckie, of Homestead,
Penn., coarged with mur'er in connection
with the recent labor rict, was released on
110,000 bail.
Lieutenant Sidnet H. Mat, of the
United States Navy, a member of the
United States Naval Board, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the head in his
room, in the United Service Club, New
York City. He was born in 1847.
WJ. Stone, of Nevada, Vernon County,
- ?*?n i? I
was Doouuaweu xur uuvbiuui uj vuu uamwim* i
Democratic State Convention at Jefferson
City on the nineteenth ballot. '
The People's Party of Georgia met at Atlanta
and nominated William. L. Peck for
Governor, and selected an Electoral ticket
pledged to vote for Weaver and Field.
The colored school in Brick Head village,
Ga., was struck by lightning. The school
was filled with pupils, fifty in number, and
two teachers. One of the teachers. Miss
Butler, and two pupils were fatally injured.
Sydney Stanfield and George Turner were
killed outright.
The President has signed the Naval Appropriation
bill.
Colonel E. A. Carr, Sixth Cavalry, has
been appointed a Brigadier-General of the
Army, vice General Stanley, retired.
Louis E. McComas, of Maryland, has
been appointed by Chairman Carter Secretary
of the National Republican Committee.
iur, aicv^uajas auu?pbuu iuu puaiuiuii auu 1
will begin tho discharge of its duties in New |
York City forthwith.
The Hazaras, who are fighting for their
independence against the Ameer of
Afghanistan, have ambushed his troops and
killed many hundreds of them.
Severe storms were experienced throughout
Great Britain; the ship Maxwell was
wrecked off the mouth of the Mersey. Three
Gloucester fishermen ware drowned.
Chile's influenza epidemic has grown to
such proportions that Congress has adjourned.
RIOTOUS REAPERS SHOT.
They Seized Corn to Fntorce a Demand
For Higher Wages.
A band of 180 reapers, men and women,
employed at Bebar, Hungary, struck for
an increase in their wages. When their demands
were refuse 1 they seized a wagon
loaded with corn, declaring that that would
be a fair share of the profits. Their employer
summoned the gendarmes to restore
order and get back his property.
The presence or the gendarmes oia noc |
frighten the strikers. They threatened to
burn the farmer's house and to lay waste
his fields. They even went so far as to
threaten the gendarme* if they interfered.
The Inspector commanding the gendarmes
gave the command to fire to his men
and they poured a volley into the riotous
strikers. One of the strikers stabbed the
Inspector. The mob showed no disposition
to disperse after they had been fired upon,
ani the gendarmes, who were armed with
Mannlicher rifles, fired volley after volley
into them, until forty-two rounds were discharged
.
Twelve men and women were killed and
many were wounded before the mo J was
dhven from the place. The strikers, fortunately
for themselves, were scattered
about the field, and it was owin<* to this
fact that a larger number were not killed or
wounded.
STABBED WITH A BAYONET.
A Drunken Militiaman Attacks a
Citizen at Pittsburg.
David Lester, of Company A, Fourteenth
Regiment, stabbed Frank Calhoun with his
bayonet on Grand street, near Fifth avenue,
in Pittsburg, Penn. The affair is the outcome
of a night's carousal that Lester
and Howard Hook indulged in
the night before. They were still
.ininVincr Thav went alone Grant street
iusutting almost every person they met
ana brandishing their bayonats in the
laces of passers-by. They entered tb i rooms
0; Undertaker Beinhaur, singing and very
noisy. Mr. tieinhaur ordered them out.
They went out, but renewed the noise outside
and defied arrest.
When they reached Devore's undertaking
establishment, wnere Calhoun is employed,
the latter advised Lester to be more careful
with the bayonet. Lester, with an oath,
piunge t tue weapon into Calhoun's ab loraen.
Calhoun fell without a struegie.
Le?ter rushed upon him again, but "was
cau^at by bystanders. After a hard fight,
L 'ster and Hook were arrested.
The hv^r was penetrated by the bayonet,
an i there was no hipe of Calhoun's resovery.
Calhouu was fifty-four years old, a member
ot the u . A. ft., and ha I a family. Lester
lives in the Thirty-second Ward and is
twenty-six years old. Lester and Hook
*-erj Ues rters tromthj camp in Homestead.
THE ELECTIONS OF 1892.
Offices to be Filled and the Dates at
Which They Will be Held.
The elections of 1892 inc'.uda those in all
the States for 444 Presidential Electors,
which will be held on Tuesday, November 8.
411 will be chosen by the several States at
large, except in Michigan, where two will be
chosen by the State at large and ten by Congressional
districts. There are als? to be
elected the National House of Representatives
(two members have already been chosen
in Oregon) ani State Legislatures, which
will choose twenty-si* United States Senators
(one Senator having already' been
elected m Rhode Island by the Legislature
chosen this year). The other elections of
t,h? vaar are "thus crouoe J bv the Albany
Argus:
Alabama will elect Governor and State
officers August 1 and nine Representatives
in Congress November 8.
Arkansas will elect Governor and State
officers September 5 and six Representatives
in Confess November 8.
California will elect seven Representatives
in Congress and a L ?gislature to choose a
United States Senator, vice Felton (R3p.),
November S.#
Colorado will elect Governor, Stats officers
and two Representatives in Congress November
8.
Connecticut will elect Governor, State
officer?, four Representatives in Congress,
and a Legislature to choose a United States
Senator vice Hawley (Rep.), November 8.
Delaware will elect a Representative in
Congress and a Legislature to choose &
United States Senator, vice Gray (Dem.J,
November 8.
Florida will elect Governor, State officers,
and a Legislature to choose a United States
Senator, vice Pasco (Dem.l, October 4, and
two Representatives in Congress November
8. Georgia
will sleet Governor and State
officsrs October 5 and eleven Representatives
in Congress November 8.
Iiaho will elect Governor and State
officers, a Representative in Congress, and a
Legislature to choose a United States Senator,
vice Shoup (Rep.), November S.
Illinois will elect Governor and State
officers, and twenty-two Representatives in
Congress November
Indiana will elect Governor and State
t;hirt?An R^nraRsnfcAfciVA* in linn
fress, and a Legislature to choose a United
tates Senator, vice Turpie (Dem.), November
8.
Iowa will elect Secretary of State and
eleven Representatives in Congress November
8.
Kansas will elect Governor, State officers,
and eight Representatives in Congress No*
vember 8.
Kentucky will elect eleven Representatives
in Congress November 8.
Louisiana elected Foster (Dem.) Governor
an1 a Democratic Legislature to choose a
United States Senator, vice Gibson (Dem.),
April 18; will elect six Representatives in
Congress November 8.
Maine will elect Governor, four Represen
tatives in Congress, and a Legislature to
choosa a United States Senator, vice Hale
(Rep.), September 12.
Maryland will elect six Representatives in
Congress and Legislature November 8.
Massachusetts will elect Governor, Stat)
officer;, thirteen Representatives in Congress,
and a Legislature to choosa a United
State3 Senator, vice Dawes (Rep.), November
8. /
Michigan will elect Governor and State
officers, twelve Representatives in Congress,
and a Legislature tochoose a United States
Senator,vice Stockbridge (Rep.),November 8.
Minnesota will elect Governor and State
officers, seven Representatives in Congress,
and a Legislature to choose a United States
Senator,-vice Davis (Rep.) November 8.
Mississippi will elect seven Representatives
in Congress November 8.
Missouri will elect Governor and State
officer?, fifteen Representatives in Congress,
nrtd a T.Atrialatii ra to rhoosa & United States I
Senator, vice Cockrell (Dem.), November 8.
Montana will elect Governor and State
officers, a Representative in Congress,and a
Legislature to choose a United States Senator,
vice Sanders (Rep.), November 8.
Nebraska will elect Governor and State
officers, six Representatives in Congress and
a Legislature to choose a United States
Senator, vice Paddock (Rep.), November 8.
Nevada will elect Supreme Court Judge,a
Representative in Congress, and a Legislature
to choose a United States Senator,vice
Stewart (Rep.), November 8.
New Hampshire will elect Governor and
two Representatives in Congress November
8.
New Jersey will elect Governor and State
officers, eight Representatives in Congress,
and a Legislature to choose a United States
Senator, vice Blodgett (Dem.), November 8.
I New York will elect Chief Judge of the
Court of Appeals, thirty-four Representatives
in Congress, and the Assembly of 128
members to take part in the election of a
United States Senator, vic9 Hiscock (Rep.),
November 8.
North Carolina will elect Governor and
State officers and nine Representatives in
Congress November 8.
North Dakota will elect Governor and
State officers, a Representative in Congress,
and a Legislature to choose a United States
Senator, vice Casey (Rep.), November 8.
Ohio will elect Secretary of State and
twenty-one Representatives in Congress
November 8.
Oregon elected Supreme Court Judge and
two Republican Representatives in uongress
June 6.
Pennsylvania will olect thirty RepresentaI
tives in Congress and a Legislature to
choose a United States Senator, vice Quay
(Rep.), November 8.
Rhode Island elected Republican GoverI
nor and a Republican Legislature, whica has
I elected Aldrich (Rep.) to the United Stater
Senate April 6, and will elect two Representatives
in Congress November 8.
South Caroiina will elect Governor ani
State officers and seven Representatives in
Congress November 8.
South Dakota will elect Governor and
State officers and two Representatives in
Congress November 8.
Tennessee will elecc Governor and State
officers, ten Representatives in Congress,
and a Legislature to choose a United State*
Senator, vice Bate (Dera.), Novembers.
Texas will elect Governor and State offic?rs
and thirteen Representatives in Congress,
November 8.
Vermont will elect Governor and Stat9
{ officers, two Representatives iu Congress.
| and a legislature to choose a United States
Senator, vice Proctor (Ren.), September 6.
Virginia will elect teu Representatives in
I Con*res* November 8th. Tne Legislature
will elect United States Senator, vice Hun
ton, appoiuted pro tern.
?ashinzton will elecs (Governor and Stato
officers, two Representatives tu Congress,
and a Legislature to choose a United States
Senator, vice Allen (Rep.), November 8.
West Virginia will elect Governor and
State officers, four Representatives tn Congress,
and a Legislature to choose a United
States Senator, vice Faulkner (Dem.).
November 8.
Wisconsin will elect Governor and State
officers, ten Representatives in Congress, and
a Legislature to choose a United States
Senator, vice Sawyer (Rep.), November S.
| Wyoming will elect Governor and State
officers, a Representative in Congress, and a
Legislature to choose a United States Senate*.
vice Warren (Rep.), Novembers.
FLOODS IN ALABAMA.
Hundreds )t Acres ot Crops Destroyed
and Houses Swept Away.
The floods in the Warrior and Tombigbea
Rivers ia Alabama caused by the recent
heavy rains, were unprecedented at this season
of th? .-ear. The ov~rfl:>w of th? lands
in cultivation in the valleys of the two rivers
was the most damaging; in yefs. An additional
rise of a few incaes spread the water
over u"rdreds of acres c.f luxuriant com and
cotton, and the result was tooir total de truction.
Some of the largest plantations cn the
lowlands were entire'y submerged, ard tho
tenants and owc?rs enveu out. There was
much destruction aiwd suffering among the
tenaut class, mostly colored planters, who
have been driven from their homes.
Governor Jones issued a proclamation,
calling upon the citizens of the State in
sections not affected by the floods to contribute
to the wants of the sufferers.
In response the Mayors of the cities appointed
committees to solicit subscriptions in
their aid. Tne loss to the planters and
farmers in the river bottom lands will aggregate
millions in stock, cultivated fields and
homes swept away by the waters.
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SHOT BY THE ROBBERS.
The Dalton Bandits Loot a
Train in Indian Territory.
Over $75,000 in Booty Secured
After a Fight.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas train No. 2,
northbound, vras robbed at Adair, twenty
miles south of Vinita, Indian Territory, a
few nights ago. For a week it has been
known that the notorious Dalton boys, with
several associates, making a party of eleven,
were m me country ana tae raiiroaa company
pat guards on its nieht train.
It was expected that Prior Creek would be
i the point of attack, and until the train whi?[
tied for Adair no one thought of an attack
there. Just as the train whistled, several
men surrounded Night Operator Haywood
at the station and ordered him to flag it. As
they were armed he had no alternative and
complied. As the conductor stepped off the
train he was made prisoner, and a moment
later the entire crew were doing duty as
breastworks.
Tnere was a short fight, In which Detective
J. J. Kinney of the railroad company
was shot in the shoulder, and Indian Police
Captain Laflore in the arm. An officer
named Johnston had his watch shot to
pieces, the same bullet embedding itself in
nis arm.
While this fight was going on, or immediately
after, a volley was poured into the
Pacific express car, and Messenger George
P. Williams opened the door. The officers
were compelled to stop firing lest they shot
some of the train crew. The express/ local
Bafe was quickly robbed of $75,000, and the
messenger was ordered to open the through
safe. He declared that he could not unloc-c
it, but went to work and soon got the door
5pen.
. W hile t'ae express car was being robbed
the operator was taken into the station and
ordered to open the station safe, but finally
convinced the men that he could not do so.
The cash drawer was broken open and $3
or <4 taken from it.
When the robbery was Completed three or
four of tte men started down the street west
from the depot, anc* 200 feet from it they
passed Dr. YV. L. Goff, of Fredericks town
and Dr. T. 8. Youngbiood of Adair sitting
on a porch. They firei at th9 two men. and
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uuu iou naiu, . twuumnmg JL
killed." Dr. Youagblood, although shot ia
the le*, started to ran, bat another bullet
brought hicn down. He made his way to the
depot, however, and told what had happened.
Dr. Goff was found to be badly wounded in
both legs.
Youngblood was shot in the leg and in
the toot. Both were taken aboard the train,
where surgical aid could be obtainei. Drs.
Frontier and fiagby, the local surgeons of
the road, were summoned, and made an examination
of the wounded men. Dr. Goff
had bled a great deal. One of his legs were
amputated, but he died next moruing at 6
o'clock.
The wounds of Dr. Youngblood were
ipeedily dressed, as were also tho3e of the
o Si cere. On a subsequent examination of
Dr. Youngblood'a wounds it was founi necessary
to amputate his foot at the instep.
There were eight officers on tke train and
there were eight men engaged in the robbery.
The amount of booty secured is a
matter of conjecture. The night operator
says the robbers filled one sack and partly
filled another.
The robbers have good horsee, and, know*
tag the country well, having lived here for
years until three years ago, are mope than
likely to escape.
Within the last seven years five robberies
have occurred on the M. K. ft T. Railroad,
within thirty-five miles of that place, buc
not since the first of these has any one oeea
killed or even wounded until now.
f IFTY-SEOOND CONG-BESS.
in the senate.
133d Pat.?The proviso, closing the
World's Pair on Sunday, passed in Committee
of the Wholet, was confirmed, that prohibiting
liquor was rejected?The appropriation
tor the Geological Survey was
largely reduced??Mr. Higgins introduced
a bill for retaliatory measures toward Canada
for its unjust discrimination against the
Unite 1 States??The Senate Committee on
Contingent Expenses reported a resolution
calling for an investigation by seven Senators
of the employment of Finkertons not
only in regard to the Homestead trouble,
but since they were first heard of
Mr. Sherman introduced a bill repealing the
provisions of the act of 1890, commonly
known as the Sherman act, which requires
the monthly purchase of 4,500,000 ounces of
silver. It also repeals the provision for the
issue of Treasurv note* in payment thereof,
but at the same time provides that nothing
in this act should impair or change the legal
character of the silver certificates already
issued.
134th Day.?The Senate confirmed the
nomination of William H. Leavcraft as Assistant
Aopraiser of Merchandise in the district
of New York The Senate agreed to
a House resolution further extending existing
appropriations till July 3)??The Senate
concurred in tbe Housa amendments to
the Naval Appropriation bill, and the bill
passed.
135th Day.?The General Deficiency bill
was discussed A resolution was agreed
to, instructing the Committee on Contingent
Expenses to inquire into the working of the
immigration laws.
13 th Day.?The Anti-Option bill was
made tbe unamsaect Business ine General
Deficiency bill was passed Mr. Morgan
introduced the bill introduced in the House
some time since granting to C. C. Moren>
and his associates tbe right to lay telegraph
cables in the Pacific Ocean between tne
American and Asiatic coasts.
13"tr Day.?The nomination of Georgs
Shiras, ot Pennsylvania, to be Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court was recaivil
A partial report o? th* Finiuc* Committee
on the effacc of the uriff 011 prices
was presantel,
13$th Day.?Mr. Vest spoke in opposition
10 the Anti-Option bil. Mr. Paiidock
reported a bill to provide for tae establishment,
protection an 1 a iminiscratioa
of puolic forest reservations and lor other
purposes.
In the House.
IoTtk Day.?Mr. .Fatson endeavored t>?
jo/'iiru ,v?iji,l?mi;i()ii nt a. reo.utio.i El ill
by tue waning tuiuuj. *
quickly lowered an! stowed away in the ]
compartments on either side of the dory. i
Ac precisely 5.45 sail was raised and the
canvas immediately took the breez?. Re- j
moving his hat Captain Andrews stood up j
and shouted to the cheering throng: * Within j
sixty days I will be in Spain." ,
Captain Andrews stated just previous to 1
going that he would set his course due east j
and would probably first sight land at Fayal \
in the Azores in about thirty days. Every <
evening during the voyage before turmug in ]
he will fill out a printed blank, sent it in a
bottle and throw it overboard. They will (
include local incidents of the trip. j
Chances for an education in the Naval 1
Academy at Annapolis. Aid., go begging. ,
On July 1, there wore sixty vacancies in the
acadeo^y, but Congressmen are not finding '
tpplicanta for these vacancies, and Secretary
Tracy is authorizad to fill them. Any
healthy, brainy and well recommended
young man who wants a good education can
secure an appointment on application to the ;
Secretary, so long as the vacancies hold out
vesciga'.e tne 1a >or trouoles ac t jj -Jra ie
d'Alene mines, I ia 10, an 1 th con itioc o!
the Su.livau po.ica therein, ou: oaj^caou
was made Air. Emoa offered a resolution
calling on the Postmaster-General (or information
as to whetner any new mail service
has been established since Marcn 4, 1839,
tne amount of pay per mile, and the completed
lines upon which Dostal service ha3
not been placed. The resolution was passed
169 to three?The House went into Com
mitteeoJ the Whole on the Sundry Civi
Appropriation bill, Mr. Lester in the chair
All the amendments werd non-concurred in
except that in relation to tha World's Fair
The House then took a recess until 8
o'clock. The night session was devoted to
pension business.
158th Day.?Discussion of the appropriation
ot #5,000,000 (or the World's Fair at
Chicago was continued.
159th Day.?Air. Broderick introduced
a bill foroiddlng the interstate transportation
of armed forces. The
measure is aimed at the Pinkertons
The House adopted the Senate
joint resolution authorizing the Committee
ou Labor to make au investi
gation of the slums of cities
Mr. Line), of Minnesota, 011 behalf of the
minority of the committee appointed to
investigate the administration of the Pension
Office, submitted the views of the minority
An evening 3?8sion was held for three
hours, during waicn tae World's Pair appropriation
was debated.
160th Day.?Tae .-Senate amendment to
Sundry Civil oil), appropriating $5,0.)0,0.)U
tor the World's Pair was non-concurred in;
th 3 Sunday closing proviso was c incurred
in. The Sundry Civil bill was then
passed as amended, aud the Speaker
appointed Representatives Holnian. Sayers
and .Bingham as the conferees
A resolution was passed for the appoint
ment of a s.jeciat committee of live members
to investigate the election laws an ! methods
inth" city and county of New York fue
conference report on the Fortification bill
was agreed to.
ItilsT Day.?The bill to raise life-savers
pay was passed; that to give American registry
to the Chinese was defeated The report
of the Yellowstone Parte Investigating
Committee comments upon the alleged exertion
by Russell Harrison of influence with
the Government in favor of a corporation. 1
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DEMOCfl ATICNOTIFIC ATION
Cleveland and Stevenson Officially
Informed ot Their Nominations.
Eighteen thousand persons attended Madi*
son Square Garden, New York City, to witness
the ceremonies of notifying Grover
Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson of their
nomination for President and Vice-President
"by the Democratic party.
The unusual spectacle of a notification of
nomination to candidates for President and
Vice-President in the presence of an immense
gathering of people was a success.
It was the" first time that the method of
performing this important and time-honored
ceremony in public has been attempted, and
the citizens of New York approved it by
crowding the vast auditorium to its fullest
r*?nA/>if,v Th? Hnora wertt nnenpd ahnrfclT
after 7 p. and within twenty minutes
every available particle of space was occupied,
both seats and standing-room, except
the boxes, which had bee a reserved tor men
prominent in the Democratic councils,
their families and other friends. Th9 box53
were not long in filling, and soon the
great structure contained a mass of
enthusiastic men and women, actuated,
seemingly, by the one purpose of doing honor
to the men who are to lead the Democratic
party in the coming campaign, and who
were about to receive official notice that they
had been chosen to perform this duty.
The audience chamber had been handsomely
decorated- A large p'atform had
been erected for the speakers of the
evening, and the various committees
interested in the proceedings.
Above the platform a canopy had been
placed, in which the inscription, "Cleveland
and Stevenson" spelled out in electric
lights, flashed above two large,
silk American flag?. Representations of
all the States of the Union, and festooned
with American colors, decorated the spaces
between the boxes around the circuit of the
hall which was brilliantly illuminated with
electricity.
At 8:15 o'clock, the candidate for VicePresident,
Mr. Stevenson, arrived at the
Garden. His appearance brought out a
demonstration of applause, which lasted for
four minutes. The tall candidate from
Illinois bowed very impressively and then
sat down.
When a moment later Mr. Cleveland
stood upon the platform, the applause
seemed to have gained redonbled volume.
Nearly every man was on his feet shouting
< ?/) arattrintr hia hat mnn op hnnHlrar. I
chief, and mo9t of the women joined in the
acclaim. For several, minutes, while Mr.
Cleveland stood bowing his acknowledgments,
the cheers were continued.
Nicholas M. Bell, of Missouri, the secretary
of the Notification Committee, opened the
proceedings by introducing Congressman
William L. Wilson, the chairman of the
committee. It was the duty of Mr. Wilson
to inform Mr. Cleveland of his nomination,
which he did in a speech which drew great
applause.
while Chairman Wilson was speaking
Mrs. Grover Cleveland entered the building
with quite a party of friends, who took the
box reserved tor them at toe left of the
stand. She was recognized and cheered.
When Mr. Cleveland advanced to reply to
the address there was another outbreak of
noisy enthusiasm. Mr. Cleveland did
not wait for order before bejiuning
his speech. He looked around to see
that Mrs. Cleveland had been safely seated j
in her box and then began his reply. The
first few sentences could not be heard except 1
by those immediately surrounding him, but
order came later.
The cheering which followed Mr. Cleve- <
land's speech luted nearly ten minutes. ' <
Then Mr. Bell, the Secretary of the com* 1
mittee, read the formal notification of tne 1
nomination on behalf of the members of i
the committee from tha National Con- i
vention. v <
Ex-Judee White, of California,'then arose 1
to address Mr. Stevenson and notify him of <
his nomination. Mr. Stevenson received al- <
moat as cordial a welcome as did Mr. Cleve- I
land, when ha advanced to reply. He waited i
patiently for the cheering to cease, and when
sufficient quiet had been secured for him to
be heard, be delivered his speecb.
The reading of the statement signed by
the full Notification Committee to the VicePresidential
candidate followed, and then
the assemblage adjourned.
After the meetiug at the Garden the candidates
were driven to the Manhattan Club,
where thousands personally greeted and
congratulated them.
THE VESUVIUS ASHOBE.
A Dynamite Cruiser Tries to Climb on
Sunken Meadow.
The Government dynamite gunboat Vesuvius,
the fastest in the service, went ashore
pn Sunken Meadow, Hiker's Island, entrance
to the Long Island Sound. The speedy craft
was bound from the Brooklyn Navy Yard
to Newport, R. L, on an official trip. She
was in charge of Lieutenant Sea ton Schroederand
with a full complement of officers
and crew. Shi went on the
meadow at 6:25 o'clock . m. There
was a thick fog at the time. The
boat is said to have been going ten miles an
hour at the tima She hit the meadow with
considerable force, and ail attempts to back
into deep water were unavailing.
The stranded cruiser remained fast upon
the meadows until after noon. By that time
the tide had turned and several tugs were
ready to pull her nose off the sands. The
tugs got to work with a will and at 1:15
o'clock the Vesuvius slid out into the channel.
The boat hod been stranded for eight
hours.
The Vesuvius immediately continued her
journey to join Admiral Gherardi's North
Atlantic squadron.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING-.
A Man, His Wile and Three Children
Found Dead at Kichmond, Va.
A family of five persons were killed by
lightning a few nights ago at Richmond,
Va. They were asleep in their two-story
residence, just beyond the eastern corporate
limits of the city, wh9n struck. The bedroom
was in the upper story. The building
was isolated and tne windows were raised.
The house was set on fire, and the tragedy
was discovered by fire issuing from the
roof.
The persons killed were Dale Emmett,
thirty-one; Alice Emmett, thirty-two;
Lilie Emmett, six; Norman Emmett, three, j
and a seven-montbs-old infant. The father
was a carpenter, who, with his family, went ,
there from Westmoreland County, "Penn., '
about a year ago.
W hen the rescuers reached the room by
ladders Mr. Emmett, his wife and Mby, lay
in bed, while near by were smouldering the 1
remains of his six and three-year-old chil- i
dren. i
The family were buried next day, three ,
hearses carrying the bodies to the grave.
OFF IK HIS TINY BOAT. i
I
Captain Andrews Sails for Spain from J
Atlantic City. <
Captain Andrews sailed from Atlantic 1
City, N. J., for Spain the other afternoon 1
in his tiny craft, the Fiving Dutchman, the j
smallest craft ever built for the purpose. i
Fully three thou-and peo;>le witnessei th9 i
starr. 1
The sea was calm. As the boat touched 1
the water at 5.30 a rousinj cheer was given I
Tha cnnnlioc worn 1
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WOELD'SJAIB N0f?8,
The World's Fair Directory has expended
up to date approximately seven and a quarter
million dollars.
The famed "Six Nations" in New York
State will be represented in the Indian exhibit
at the World's Fair.
Before being sent to Chicago, the Argentine
Republic's World Fair exhibits will
be exhibited in Buenos Aire*.
The Secretary of Michigan's World's
Fair Commission has estimated that 250,000
people from M.chigan will visit the World's
Fair.
The World's Fair Commission for Pern
has asked Government aid to enable it to
make an exhibit of l.ving animals of that
country.
It is proposed to hold world's fairs in Berlin
in 189S, and in Paris in 19D0. but definite
action has not yet been taken by the Nations
concerned.
lie Denmark's exhibit at the "World's Fair
will be a fine array of porcelain ware and a
notable art display, including reproductions
of many of the Thoswaldsen sculptures.
The work of assigning space to the thou*
sands of exhibitors in the various World's
Fair buildings has bean entered upon and
will be pushed to a finish as rapidly as possible.
Several Amazons of the King of Dahomey
will probably be seen in the Dahomey
village, which will be established at the
World's Fair. Sixty or seventy natives and
their manner of living will be shown.
An effort is being made to have the cotton
mills of Georgia make a fine exhibit at
the Worla's Fair. It is believed that such
exhibit would greatly stimulate the investment
of capital in the cotton mills in the
boutb.
Th< authorities of Harvard University
have applied to Chief Peabodv of the Department
of Liberal Arts of the World's
Fair lor 7000 square leac for a thoroughly
representative educational exhibit from that
historic institution.
The exhibit to be made at the World's
Fair by Krupp, the celebrated German gun
maker, will represent an expenditure of
IL,500,000. The largest cannon ever made,
weighing 122 tons, will be in the exhibit, as
will be also several hundred tons of war
material
Air etiort is Deing maae to saow oy an
exhibit in th9 Woaian's building at the
World's Fair the relics and data of the past
and present literature, musical, dramatic,
industrial and philanthropic work oC
women. The Irish portion of this
promises to be particularly complete and
interesting.
The Washington State building at the
World's Fair will show to some extent the
forest resources of the State. The foundation
alone will contain 171 logs, some of
them 120 feet long and forty-two inches in
diameter at the small end. The sup^rstruo- .
ture of the building will contain, besides'
heavy timber, fins finished woods, showing
the gnun and structure of the woods, and a
complete exhibit of shipbuilding material.
Captain R. EL Pratt, of the Government
Indian Sctiool at Carlisle, Pen a., wants to
place 809 of the voung Indian scholars at the
Carlisle school u the civic parade at the
time of the dedication of the World's Fair
buildings. Captain Pratt desires also to
have a full military band, composed exclusively
of these Indian scholars. He intends
to make at the Fair an exhibit illustrating
the educational and training work of-'the
Carlisle school.
It is next to certain that tht date of dedt _
cation of the World's Fair buildings will be
? to A _ a1 '
caangea irom ucwd9t i? w uuwugr si, w*
latter being really the 400th anniversary of
the landing of Columbus, allowance being
made for the correction in the calendar
made in the time of Pope Gregory. The
shange was requested by the World's Pair
Commissioners of New York,the Legislature
of which State had provided for a Coinmbtu '
celebration on Octooer 12. It was thought
that the two celebrations, if held simol- y
taneously, would detract from each other.
CHILE'S GENEROUS"AOT.
She Gives 975,000 Indemnity for the
Attack on the Baltimore Seamen.
Chile has given $75,000 in gold to the
United States to be distributed among the
families of the two seamen of the United
States cruiser Baltimore killed in the riot at <
Valparaiso last October and to the member*
of the crew who were wounded.
The tender of that sum was made by 8eoor
Errazuriz, the Chilean Minister of Foreign
Affairs; it was accepted by Minister Egan in
behalf of the United States as "a frank
friendly and entirely satisfactory settlement
of the deplorable occurrence at Valparaiso,"
and Secretary of Stat3 Foster has just announced
that "an entirely cordial and mutually
satisfactory settlement had been
reached between the Governments of the
United States and Chile" upon the subject of
this indemnity.
After Secretary Blaine wrote January 30
that the President believed Chile's seme of fl
justice would enable the two Government*
to make honorably a full en 1 of the whoia B
matter nothing was done till last month, H
when Senor Errazuriz entered the Chilean
Cabinet as Minister of Foreign Affairs and H
communicated to Mr. Egan the disposition
of the Chilean Government to come to an I
adjustment of the Baltimore indemnity. H
Mr. Egan was informed by Becretary Poa H
ter July 1 that the President was much;
gratified at the indications received of tha
disposition of the Chilean Government, and I
that he did not doubt that it would be ready fl
to make a liberal indemnity to the familiM I
of the deceased and to the wounded sur? H
vivors. H
Senor Errazuriz addressel Mr. Egan a H
note on the 13th p.acin^ at the disposal of B
the latter the sum o! $75,000 in zold and ask- H
ing him to cause it to be distributed among
the families of the two seamen who lost their |3j
lives and to the surviving members of the
crew wounded in tin affiir of October 1(\.
On the 17th inst. Mr. E^an replied, cordiality
accepting the offer. f I
The Baltimore indemnity finds no exact H
precedent in the diplomatic history of this H
country. H
According to Captain Schley's report two H
of the Baltimore's men were killed in the H
Valparaiso riot, thr?e seriously wounded and H
fifteen slightly injured, nuwing twenty men H
killed and wounded. Chile's indemnity H
money could be divided into twenty partSM
13750 each. SS
SUPREME COUET VACANCY.
George Shira?, of Pennsylvania, is
Justice Bradley's Successor.
President Harrison has nominated Gaorge
Sbiras, of Pennsylvania, as an Aa?
.ociate Justice of the Supreme Court, thus
ailing the vacancy which has exist 3d in ths
Third Judicial Circuit sines the death of
Associate Justice Bradley.
George Shiras, Jr., wa3 born in Pittsburg;
Penn., in 1833, where his father also was
torn and still lives at eighty-eight yean of
ige. One of his sons is a Unit9l States
District Judge of eight Western States.
The nominee for new julicial honors is a
:ousin of ex-Secretary Blaine, with whom
le is on intimate terms. He entered
the Ohio University in 1851, and
jntered Yale Law School in 1858.
Be also studied law in Pittsburg,
where he was admitted to the bar, where
almost continuously smce he has led the
uneventful life of a hard worker whose
time and thought havj bean occupied with
Sis profession. He is ona of the vary few
men upon whom Yale College has conferred
the degree of LL.D. In 1881,
when the great fight against bo33ism
was made in the Pennsylvania Lei?
isJature, and when a deadlock ex- D
isted on the selection of a Unite i States M
Senator. Mr. Shiras, in a secret caucus, was H
;hosen by a majority of two votes as a com- H
promise for tbo place. Tha next morning, H
however, another caucus was ordered by 09
the political leaders, an 1 John J. Mitchell
was nominated and elected, serving until
Air. Shiras lias never been an active parti- fix
san. His income from his legal practice is H
said to be second to no lawyer in the State. |H
As & lawyer he stands very high. His fara- M
ily consists of his wife and two son?. H
The Pittsourjc Bar Association and lawpers
from all over the State endorsed hid
.-andidacy with much enthusiasm. S
More trouble with the Indians is announced
by the Secretary of the Interior as H
likely to occur in the near future, unless H
claims made by some of the reds^imi for H
depredations are adjudicated and j?i(L By