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CONGRESS ADJOURNS. The Fifty-second Ends. Its First Session. The Bill Givma: $2,500,000 to the World's Fair Passed. After a session of eight months, the first session of the Fifty-first Congress at exactly 11 o'clock p. m. adjourned to the first Monday in Decemoer next, ana lour minutes after the two gavels descended in the Senate and House, indicating the adjournment, a special train started on iti journey northwaid, baring the President to his sick wit'e at Loon Lak9, N. Y. The principal events of the day were the passage of the World's Fair bill appropriating $2,500,000 and the presentation to the House of the reports of the special committees on Congressional drinking, and the workingtuen's strike at Homestead. The reports were ordered to be printed, but action upon them will be deferred until next winter. The Capitol was crowded during the last hours (Sf the session with curious sightseers, hundreds of ladies remaining in their seat* in the galleries for four long hours anxious .jj" not to miss the interesting scenes that usually precede an adjournment of Congress. The utmost good humor prevailed on tha floors of both Houses during the closing hours, and many expressions of good will were exchanged alike among Democrats, Republicans and Third p&rtyites. The Sen?te. When the Senate met at 2 p. m. there were thirty members present, but the number soon grew to forty. Some routine business was disposed of, and then there was a patient waiting for a message from the Hous.\ . The Senate then went into executive sss?? tw? oAfmn rtf fha CTnneA on the Dur borow World's Fair bill was reported to the Senate soon afterward, and tha doors were imaie iiately thrown open and the bill was read to the Senate and delivered at some length. Shortly before 4 o'clock the Senate took a recess uutil 8 p. M. Promptly at 8 o'clock, in a sultry atmosphere, witn well filled galleries but a very sparsely occupied floor, the Vice-President rapped the Senate to order after the recess. It was 9:25 before Chief Clerk Towle, of the House, announced the House agreement on the Sundry Civil bill. Tne report of the conferenoe was then ' unanimously agreed to. I Mr. Allison said that the appropriations I for the first session of the last Congress I were, in round numbers. $463,000,000; for I this session, $507,000,003, showing an Increase of 144,000,000. Tne principal iucrease for the present session was found in the aopropriations for pensions and the Postoffiee department. There were some diminution?, notably in deficiencies, wnich were $5,000,000 less this Congress than two years ajo. and in miscellaneaus expenses. Mr. Allison at 10:25 reported the House adjournment resolution, substituting for Saturdav, July 30, at 3 P. M., "Friday, August 5, at 11 P. M." The resolution was agreed to, and the customary committee of two, Messrs. Allison and Gorinac, was aopointed to wait upon the President of the United States. At 10:50 the Senate Committee reported that they had waited on the President and he had no further business to lay before Conzr^ss. The Vice-President paid a fitting tribute to the two Senators who had died during the | session (Messrs. Plump and Barber) an:l appropriately acknowledged the vote of | thanks, and then declared the Senate adjourned without dar. $ The House. When the Speaker took the chair and called the Housa to order there were not more than 100 members in the Chamber. After some unimportant business, the Housa went into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, in th2 chair) on the Durborow World's Fair bill. The measure was debated at length. tVhen 1 o'clock was reached, the time fixed for a vote on the Durborow bill and amendments, a vote was first taken on the substitute offered to the first section of the bill by Mr. De Armoad, of Missouri. The Republicans made a point of order against vot log on the substitute, but Speaker Crisp ruled against the points The substitute was rejected by a vote of 139 to seventy-six. The Durborow bill was then ordered to a I third reading, aud Mr. Holraan demanded the yeas and nays on its final passage. The | win Motnrf?vp a a 1311 nivi. eiehtv- I U1U " UJ ?v < J - ..?, ? _ - T ? three. Ad ineffectual attempt to filibuster was made by Mr. Kilgore, of Texa?. Expectation of an adjournment fiUei tin galleries of the House at its night session, and the same reason brought an unusual attendance of members. Promptly at 7 o'clock Speaker Crisp called the House to order, and soon afterward the Durborow Workl's Fair bill was reported from the Senate. After the passage of several bills on the private calendar, Mr. Holman presented the report of the conferrees on the Sundry Civil bilL Mr. Holman explained the nature of the agreement, detailing the items in dispute and the compromises effected. He said tne bill, as finally azreed to, carried $37,837,428, being#9,600.23'J lees than the bill as it passe.1 the Senate, and $2,614,246 more than its aggregate when it passed the House. The totals in the regular appropriation bills for this session are $3S5.837,500, and for the first session Fifty-first Congress, 1861,770,057 and the reduction of first session, last Congress, from this sassion is 117,476,604. The permanent and annual appropriations of this session were $121,863,880, and for J; 1_??. t'fll _ corresponding bedbiv.u juou wu^i 628,453. or an increase ot ?30,285,427. The grand total appropriations of this session were $507,701,380, and of last session, 5493,378,510, or an increase of $44,332,870 over the first session of the last Congross. i?- In the interim between the transaction of . further business the House devoted itself to private pension and relief bills, and a large number of taem were passed at locomotive speed. At 10:40 o'clock the Secretary of the Sen. ate reported that the Senate had adopted the resolution of the House, agreed to last week, providing for adjournment at 2 o'clock last Monday, with au amendment providing that adjournment should take place at 11 o'clock that night. The resolu tion as amended was agreed to. Mr. McMillan reported that the committee appointed to join a committee ot the Senate *na inform ths President that Congress was ready to adjourn had performed its duty, *nd the President ha 1 said tnat he had nothing further to c ?inmunicate. It was just one minute of 11 when a resolution was offered directing . the President t? Invite representatives of the Nations of the earth to attend the International Arbitration Congress to be held in Chicago during tho Woriu'a Fair. This went through without objection. It lacke-l five seconds of 11 when a dosen members shouted wildly for recognition, waving papers in their bands. But they were too late. Senator Crisp announced that the hour of 11 o'clock had arrived, and, brinspn; his Ravel down on his desk with a bang, declared the first session of the Fiftysecond Congress adjourned *vithout day. J4. gr?*?s soouc weni up trom ine meniuera on the floor, great bundles of waste paper were thrown high into the air and fell in showers on the happy Congressmen, while from the press gallery cim-? the deep resonance of the Dnxolocy, "Praise God trom whom ali blessings flow.-' Then there was a h ;ni*haki?g and many gooi-oyes. an 1 in hnlf an hour tha Mouse of < Representatives was deserted. 1 lie President at tliu Capitol. The President spent considerable timedur ing the evening in a reception room off the Senate lobby signing bi'ls. Senators cam; in to shake nands with him and aslc absut Mrs. Harrison. Various bills were presented, and then with unusual ceremony the Senate clerks brougfit in the bill whici was immediately signed, appropriating ?2,500.000 to aid the Chicago people to mane the World's Fait' an exhibition worthy of the name. About 10:30 the committer appoints 1 to notify the President that Congress had completed its labors entered thi room. It was composed of Senators Gorman and Allison and Representatives McMillin, Fellows and O'Neill, of Massachusetts. The President greeted each cordially and deV'"i clared that he had never receive! a message in his life that was more welcome. A pile of pension bills had gathered on the President's table by this time, and, after he had attached his signature to the last one, be arose with a sish of relief, put on hi3 hat, anJ, accompanied by Secretary Tibbott, entered the White House carriage, which was in waiting at the east tront. Just aree minutes later the big bay team that draws the President'9 carriage pulled up alongside the Cracks at the Baltimore and Potomac station. The President and Mr. Tibbott sorang out and climbed up the steps of the private car. Standing on the platform the President waved the signal to the stationmaster and at 11:04 o'clock the train shot out of the station bearing the President to his sick wife at Loon Lake. TEE NATIONAL SAME. Carctbeks's pitching daj-3 are over. Kelly is Nash's successor as Boston's captain. Sanders is now Louisville's winning pit* cher. This is truly the championship race of the decade. Pitcher Knell has signed with Philadelphia. Bassett is fielding and batting finely for Louisville. Glasscock, of St. Louis, is again playing "dirty ball.'' The pace seems to be too hot for Getzein, the St. Louis pitcher. Anson, of Chicago, has decided to take a team to Cuba next winter. New York was never such a strong base running team as at present. Crane and Rusio are at last doing some good pitching for New York. Davis, of Cleveland, is in the very front rank of all around ball players. Gore, late of New York', has been ap L%JI UlUUOl auu UlCU ..WW? A poisonous snake bad been cooked with the cabbage. The President's proclamation, calling on the rustlers to return to their homes, has b9en shot through in many places. The Tennessee Democratic State Convention met in Nashville and nominated Judge Peter Turney, o? Franklin County, for Governor. Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence of Colonel a. Clay King, who was to have been hanged at Memphis for the murder of David H. Posten on March 15 last on a public street in that city. Judge James C. Nor.milt:, of St. Loui3, Mo..committed suicide by taking poison. He had brought a libel suit against the PostDispatch, and his mind is supposed to have become unbalanced on account of the ques! tions put to bim by the counsel for the defence. J Eight colored men were drowned by the swamping of a ferry sbop between Sullivan's I island and Charleston, S. C. They were ! hucksters on their way to the island with vegetables. point?! captain ot' the St. Louis Club. The St. Louis team is playing the best game of any losing club in the country. Four ex-Brooklyn players are now with Pittsourg, viz., Terry, Donovan, Corkhill and Bierbauer. Porter, tbe catcher of the Atlanta (Ga.) C.ub, has only two fingers on his left hand, but is a clerer backstop nevertheless. The New Yorks seem to have pickkd up a jewel in Doyle. He is not only catching remarkably well, but is batting hard and effectively. Burke is playing a fine second base for New York. He is quick in touching a runner on the line, and makes a double play without loss of time. Some years age Gillespie, while with the old "ilets," insisted that he couldn't afford to piay for ?1500 per season. Now he is making about a dolllar a day at coal mining. Chicago's whilom grand combination of players?Flint, Corcoran,Goldsmith, Anson, Pfeffer, Burns, Williamson, Dalrymple, Gore and Kelly is considered by experts the best team ever put together. One of the gratifying results of the consolidation is the discipline and good behavior that now prevails among the players. Tn? centralization of power in the hands of the magnates has led to the elimination of the rowdy eiement that once made life in the same hotel with a ball player a terror to all tlie other occupants. Bas? ball is a peculiar business and tbe artists who play it are merely transients. When their usefulness is at an end they are bundled off the sporting earth wtth but scant ceremony. Once New York raved over Ewing. Two years ago he could have strangled the Brotherhood. Now the threat to put him off the team arouses no comment whatever. axcoao or the leaguc clubs. fer POT Clubs. Won. Loit. ct. Club* Won. Logt. ct. Cleveland..15 7 .682 Pittsburg.10 11 .476 Boston 14 8 .636 Chicago.. .10 12 .455 Fhilad'ip'a.13 9 .591 CincinnatilO 12 .455 New York.12 9 .571 Washinz'n 9 14 .391 Brooklyn.. 13 10 .565 Louisville. 8 14 .364 Baltimore.. 12 10 .545 St. Louis. 6 16 .273 LAND OFFICE REPORT, Commissioner Carter's Review ot the Operations During the Year. Land Commissioner Carter's valedictory | report of the operations of the Land Office for the past fiscal year has been made public. The Commissioner says that, under the repeal of the timber culture law, approved last year, large numbers of cases, long suspended on the merest suspicion of fraud or under harsh technical rulings, have been j passed to patent, and more than 3 K),000 ad- ! ditioual entries have been considered and proper action taken. The total number of agricultural patents > issued from 188-5 to 1888 was 162,754, cover- , ing 20,1.40,COO acres; wnile the total number i ot agricuK ??! patents issued from 18S5 to I 1892 was 3&S, 128, covering 63,700,000 acres, i substantially, clearing tho docket and j leaving tho office tree to attend to ' current business. The total number of mineral patents issued from 1885 to 18?8 was 3708; the total number is1GWV tn * ttto o 73'il nlnarinnr fka mineral aun coal dockets. The total educational and interna! improvement selections made from 1835 to 18S8 were 334,000 acres, while from 1839 to 1892 the total selections made were 3,026,000 acres. In the matter of surveys and resurveys during the same periods like results were maintained. The acreage of public lands disposed of during trie fl-cal year was 1,571,000 acres. The miscellaneous entries aggregated 11,995.000 acres; Indian land.-', 97,000, making a grand total in rouud figures of 13,661,000 acres. There were patented for the benetlt of railway companies under Congressional grants during the past tiscal year 2,018,000 acres, as against an area patented for railways during the'previous tiscal year of 3,088,000 acres. The total area of the vacant public land in the United States is 5o7,5S6,000 acres, of winch 289,$91*000 acres nave been surveyed A SUDDEN FLOOD. Three Persons Killed and Many Injured at St. Paul. A sudden flood at St. Paul, Minn., besides doing great damage to property, caused the death of three people and the fatally wounding of a number of others. The killed were: Mrs. August Adam^ Mrs. J. Horn, William Erciger. Th? fatallv iniured were: Philip Stroe her and five-year-old son, August Adams, Frederick Krei?er, Paul Keuk, Henry Ludwig, John Wilich. The accident was the result of the late heavy rains. Upon the hillside above Page street was a deep gully,the natural outlet of the water from the country above. A year ago Page street had been filled up across this gully, leaviug a small culvert to carry off the ordinary water. This culvert ha i long ago been choked up, an 1 the recent storm bad Hilled the deep basin to the brim, making: a lake two acres in extent and fortyfive feet deep. A crack three inches wide appeared on the lower side of the fill, but no one thought of any danger. Suddenly the fill let go, and the body of water swept down upon the low land below. In ten minutes the whole thing was over. A general alarm of fire was sounded, and all the ambulance and patrol wagons in the city were on the soene. Men, women and children were tishpdouc of the debris for neirly half a mile. To add to the horror of the scene the wat?-r bad carried away the gas pipes and left everything in darkness. The loss to 11 ? .tsrt ruv\ 1 rjpti'ty WHi UUl'.HKlt. LU VVIJ,wv. A BANK ROBBED. Twelve Hundred Dollar-; Carried off From a Missouri Institution. The other afternoon at 5 o'clock four masked men rode up to the bank in Benton, Mo., and two of taem dismounted, while the others remained outside. The men on entering the bank presented revolvers at Cashier Smith and ordered him to hand over the cash in the bank. The castiier cave the men about $1*200, which they place i in a bag, and after caution! ing Smith to remain inside the building they I left. The men had hardly left tha building I when Cashier Smith gave the alarm, but beI fore a posse cou!d be gathered they had a good start. The men were well mounted. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eaatero and Middle States. Judge Rcmset, of the New York Stat# Supreme Court, handed down a decision declaring the recent legislative Apportionment act unconstitutional. H. C. Fricc, manager of the Carneirie Steel Company, who was shot by the Anarchist BerLmann, has returned to his office in Pittsburg. James Rod an, known in the Eastern Penitentiary, Philadelphia Penn., as "A 6074," committed suicide by setting fire to his bedding and sitting down in the flames and then drawine a keen-edged knife across his throat. Ptodan was a native of Ireland. Is a drunken row on Chautauqua Lake, N. Y, JPatrick Dowd, of Dunkirk, shot ueorge iiasa, or Jamestown, tnrougu me i heart. He then killed himself. Fked Primmer, the Pinkerton detective ' who ifave himself up at Pittsburg. Penn., on the charge of murder made by Hugh Ross, has been released on his own recognizance, Judge Ewing holding that there was no evidence against him. His case was a test. The other Pinkerton men wanted will now give themselves up, and will also be released. The Board of Walking Delegates formally announced the collapse of the great building trades' strike in New York City. Over 20,000 men returned to work. The strikers at the Carnejle mills at Duquesne, Penn., went back to work. While the schooner Charlotte was getting under way at Portsmouth, N. H., she drifted across the bow of a collier. Two of the Charlotte's crew went into a small boat between the vessels to keep them from fouling. The vessels unexpectedly came together wito considerable force, smashing the boat and crushing one to death. The other was forced under water and drowned. Lieutenant Colonel James B. Streator has been unanimously re-elected to his position in the Tenth Regiment at Homestead, Penn., his term having expired. Colonel Streator became famous for his connection with the Private lams case. Bridget Kelly, aged twenty-one, of Shenandoah, Penn., committed suicide by ont-nrntrinfr hor flnt-hoa with kprnssna oil and setting herself on fire. The New Jersey Prohibitionists held their convention at "Trenton and nominated Thomas J. Kennedy, of Hudson County, for Governor. Edward, aged seveD. and William, aged ten, sons of Frederick Bennett, of Trenton, N. J., were drowned in the Delaware River a few afternoon ago. The boys, with their father, were fishing, but became separated from him. The younger fell into the water and the brother jumped in to sav e him. South and. West. Loreszo CnouNSE, Aisistant Secretary of the Treasury, was nominated for Governor by the Republicans of Nebraska at Lincoln. Allan Carter, colored, who had been arrested at Wynne, Ark., on a charge of assaulting his fourteen-year-old daughter, was taken from jail by a mob of colored men and lynched. J. H. McInttre's family of four and the colored cook, in Buena Vista, Ky., ate a ? *>? ji/v/j o?v\n offarornnh. Washlugton. ; The names of tho five Commissioners who are to represent tho United States at the I coming international Monetary Conference ! have been officially announced. They are; Senator William B. Allison, Iowa; Senator Jo'uqP. Jones, of Nevada; Congressman James B. McCreary, of Kentucky; ex-Comptroller Henry W. Cannon, of New York, and General Francis A. Walker, of Massachusetts. The United States Treasury Department is advised that silver touched .8525 cents per I ounce in London, the lowest figure on record. The Department of State is in receipt of information that a serious revolutionary conspiracy has been discovered in Bolivia AcrriNO United States Treasurer Whelp let issued a check for $1,040,000 in favor of the owners of the Mission street property, San Francisco, recently selected as a site for the postoffice. General James W. Denver, of Wil- | mington, Ohio, die! in Washington of uraamic poison. His illness was of brief j duration. General Denver was born iu Winchester, Va., in 1817. \ i Foreign. Kino Maleetoa, of the Samoan Islands, ( has been presented with 82300 by Mr. Black- < lock, agent for a wrecking company, being the proceeds from the sale of tbe wreckage | of the naval vessels lost in the great storm, ; presented to the Samoans by the American ] Government Part has been distributed among the chiefs. , Six miners were drowned in a coal pit near Dewsbury, County of York, England, by a flood from an adjoining abandoned pit. I At Rome, Italy, two hundred members of clerical associations, with Lands playing and ' banners flving, marched in procession to the Pinciana Gar a ens to place a wreath upon the ' bust of Christopher Columbus. A group of 1 Liberals carrying National flags tried to 1 place themselves at the head of tbe clericals, ' whereupon a scuffle occurred, in which the bust was overturned. The combatants were < dispersed by the police. The Canadian Dominion Cabinet passed 1 !'- <?-LS | i an oraer iq council auuiuuiu^ v.uD i ouki/o tolls on all east bound cargoes, whether ! Canadian or American, shipped to Montreal, j This removes the alleged discrimination against American vessels. Fkderici, Bishop of Foligno, was murdered in a first-class railway carriage be- , tween Assisi and Foligno, in Italy. Robbery , was supposed to have oeen the motive. < Ubgkd on by their priests Persian fana- 1 tics at Astrabad wrecked liquor saloons in 1 the belief that alcoholic dnnlcs caused the cholera plague there. The cholerine outbreak in Paris was caused by drinking impure Seine water. Thk Address fro-n the Throne was read in the British Parliament, and the "no con* fllence" debate was begun in the House of Commons. At Heist nsrfors, Finland, a pleasure steamer was run down outside tho harbor and forty-five of tne persons who were on board were drowned. Hkrr HKRKUKTflt. Prussian Minister of the Interior, has resigned, and will lie succ?eled by Count v in Eulenbunr, President ; of the Pruss.an Council of Ministers. THOUSANDS IN LINE. *"' ? "*??^If f?i i?hf-a Ta?w_ ) wranti rarauc ui m>. ^?** plar in Denver. A grand Knights Templar parade took plice at Denver, Col., at the opc-ning of their annual conclave. Orders were issued to be in place at 9 o'clock, and at tne time the cormninderies were all ready. After waiting an hour three guns wore tired and the head of the procession began to iu jv?. After several miles of marching the p-irade broke up at tne Masonic Temple, i'he .ourteen divisions formed on as many sid > streets aud took their places as the line mo vert along. As the start was made at 10 o'ciock with 20,000 men in line the rear end was hardly ia motion two hours later. UNCLE SAM'S GOLD TRAIN. San Francisco Ships Twenty Millions to New York. Guarded by Armed Men During the Transcontinental Trip, The undertaking of the railway postal service to transport safely 120.000.000 in gold from the United States Sub-Treasury in San Francisco to the Sub-Treasury in New York City has been successfully accomplished, the vast treasure now being locked up in the massive vaults in Wall street. The shipment was the largest of the kind ever attempted for anything like the distance involved, and the precautions taken for its safe transport were of an extraordinary character, making robbery practically out of the question. The treasure cari themselves were of steel aDd supposed to be bomb proof. Half a hundred and more trusty guards were aboard the train, each armed to the teeth, and arrangements had been made whereby the authorities of the postal service were informed by telegraph of the location of tha train every quarter or half hour of the total time consumed in the journey. The tram made the fastest run that has vet been made between San Francisco and New York, covering the distance in 107 hours. The train followed the schedul? time, but everything else had to give way to it. From San Francisco to Ogden the trip was made over the Central Pacific track. Thence to Omaha the Union Pacific was used. It was on this route a delay of four hours was caused by a broken eccentric strap. The trip to Chicago was made over the Burlington route. Buffalo was reached with the train two hours behind time, but under Vice-President Webb's instruction was brouzht into New York Citv almost on timei From Buffalo the run was made at a speed of nearlv * mile a minute. No accident occurred "and if there was any plan to rob the train it did not come to fruition. It devolved upon the Postolfice Department to furnish safe transport for the gold, and its custody was entrusted to someo" the most faithful employes at Washington. Tbe train was in charge of Captain James B. White of the railway servic \ with fiftyseven assistants. The train consisted of five cats, ona private car directly behind the engine, where, throuzh tha observation end a guard waa kept day and night over the engineer and fireman: one mail and three express cars. In each car was an officer of the railway mail service and ten guards, each of whom carried a Colt revolver and a carbine. The $20,000,000 was packed in wooden boxes sealed and registered and equally divided among the four cars. The guards 9lept upon these boxes, and ftot for a single moment were they left unguarded. At the Grand Central Depot, New Ysrk City, the train was met by Assistant Postmaster-General J. Lowrie Bell, and soon the boxes were being transferred to the sixteen express wagons in waiting. These wagons were loaded five at a time, and as each detachment was completed it started off toward Wall street. On each wagos were three of the armed guards, ana each driver was a sworn member of the Postal service. Down Broadway the procession started. The spectacle of a procession of what apfrt hn unloaded exDress waeons. each wagon guarded by three men with openly displayed weapons, naturally aroused much astonishment and inquiry. As the first wagon drove up to the Pine street entrance to the Sub-Treasury a cordon of police was ready to help in its safe delivery. and baci: of them a small crowd had gathered. As the news spread, however, the crowd increased,until at times the police were bothered in keeping them back. Everyone wanted to see what $20,009,000 looked like, and, although the plain wooden boxes gave no indication of their preciou3 contents, the mere fact that the gold was there was potent enough to hold the observers spellbound. The oozes were made of inch pine, stronglv fastened, and in siza were about twelve by eight inches. They bora four seals of tho Railway Postal Service, and these will remain unkroken until there is a demand for the contents. The money in each box amounted to $40,000, and it took all the strength of one man to raise one box from the ground In each express wagon was a million and a quarter It mario no remarkable aonearanco ia bulk, but its great weight caused the wagons, large as they ware, to bend and sa^. Assistant United States Treasurer Ellis H. Roberts banned over receipts for the vari ously numbered boxes, and with these ia their possession the work of the Postofflco officials was completed. A COUPLE KILLED. Andrew J. Borden and His Wife Foand Mysteriously Murdered. A bloody double tragody was enacted at Fall River, Mass., a few days ago. Andrew J. Bordon and bis wife ware found dead at No. 92 Second street at 11 o'clock in the morning. Both had been frightfully mutilated about the head and face with an axe, clearer or razor. Mr. Borden lay on a sofa in a room oG the bop floor of the house. His head had been sut, and gashes from four to six inches long were found on his face and neck. Mrs. Borden was in her own chamber on the upper floor, and the condition of her race and head was the same as that of her hushanri. She lav face down in the bad, which was a veritable poo! of blood. The police were notified, an J immediately an investigation was began. No implements that could have been used in the commission of the crime have been found. The daughter of the unfortunate couple was the first to make tae discovery, a ho went upstairs after finding the body of her father and saw that of her mother. She thought her mother had fallen in a swoon, but on finding that she, too, was murdered, the girl fled downstairs and fainted. The police have searched in vain for any slew to the murderer. Word was sent to Mrs. Borden that morning that a sick friend lesired to see her, but she dii not go out. ft is said that the servant, Bridget Sullivan Miys she went into the room to make some inquiry of Mr. Borden about five minutes before Lizzie Borden gave the alarm. He was then sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper. Mr. Borden was a wealthy real estate jwner and mill man and was seen on the street half an hour before he was found dead. There is not even an appareut motive for the crime. A reward of $5000 has been offered for the detection of the murdarer. A MURDERER AT BAT. The Desperate Fight Martin Heed Made for Liiberry. Rand who murdered Alexander Chapelle at the Burgettstown (Penn.) Pair last August, by givin? him drugged whisky, who was condemned to death by the Wash* ins^on County Court, and who escaped from jail five weeks a^o, blew his orains nut at 7 o'clock a few evenings ago, after a fl?ht of Ave hours, in which he kept two hundred men at bay, killing one and wounding another. At about 2 o'clock in the afternoou Chief of Polics Orr, of Washington, Penn., with several policemen and citizens, surrounded Reed in an old dwalliug, now used as an icehouse, on tlie Ige of the McDonald oil field, and not fur from Noblestown. Reed was summoned to surrender, but refused, and when Chief Orr attempted to enter the building Reed shot him tarou^h the shoulder. The policemen opened lire on the house, and the tight was Kept up all the afternoon. the police being reenforced by two or three hundred citizens. At about 7 o'clock Hugh Coyle, of McDonald, attempted to enter the icehouse, when Reed shot him through the head and again through the heart. The oil men. friends of Coyle, who were present, then got a can of nitroglycerine and exploded it in the building. The hous9 was wrecked and the ruins caught fire. When the fire was out Reed's body wa3 found charred to a crisp and with a bullet hole in his head. v PROMINENT PEOPLE. Prbsidxht Harrison baa a gold mounted yun. Cyrus W. Field's life was insured for $250,000. Prince Bismarck has an income of $250, 000 a year. Justice Shiraa is the only member of the Supreme Court who wears whiskers. Representative Cable, of Illinois, ia declared to be the best camp cook in Congress. Chauncky u. ?mith, or narr. jra. uonu., has been fifty years a deacon of the First Baptist Church in that city. Superintendent Byrnes, the head of the New York Police Department, baa just celebrated his fiftieth birthday. Queen Victoria is surrounded by a cordon of detectives as many as those about the petvon of his Czarship of Russia. The present Lord Fairfax, who lives in Virginia, is a doctor and practices his profession. In Engl&nd bis title is fully acknowledged. Chauncey M. Depkw says that while on shipboard he sleeps upward of eighteen hours out of the twenty-four in every day of the voyage. Secretary J. W. Foster is the only diplomat who has held three first-class missions. Grant sent him to Mexico, Hayes to Russia and Arthur to Spain. Princess Mary of Edinburgh, who by her marriage to Prince Ferdinand will become a tuture Queen of Roumania, is not quite seventeen years of age. Govervor Peck, of Wisconsin was once a printer living on a back street. He now lives handsomely in the house in which Ole Bull, the famous violinist, once lived. Captain Fred I. Dean, of Washington, D. C., though not an old man in years, is said to be the oldest G. A. R. veteran living. He is one cf its original four organizers. Homdv TLf flitiwrrr Hoc tunnma an angered by the allusions in the American newspapers to his late canvass for Parliament that he declares he will never set foot in the United States again. Robert H. Folger, of Massilliou, Ohio, is claimed to ba the olde9i practicing attorney in the United States. He was born in Chester County, Penn., 1812, and began the practice of law chirty years thereafter. Edward Omver Wolo tt, of Massachusetts, who served as a private in an Obio regiment in 18S4 and now represents Colorado in the United Statei Senate, has taken Oakview, ex-President Cleveland's old home. Richard Crokep., who rose from a machinist's bench to bo the head of Tammany Hall, was engineer of the first steam fire engine used in New York City. He afterward aecame foreman of Engine Company 28, a position of influence and importance in politics, and his election as Alderman a few years later, in 1867, gave him a start on the career be has since follower?. Joseph Senior, wnoso death occurred recently, was tamous in England tor the verses he wrote while to'lin* at his forge as a cutler in Sheffield. He published his poetry under the title of "Smithy Rhymes and Jtithy Chimes," and the book bad a large sale. At the age of sixty-five Mr. 1 Senior was stricken with blindness and he thenceforth devoted himself entirely to verse-making. A BABT THE PBEY. Two Eaglea Fight lor Possession ot a Child. Two eagles had a duel to the death for the possession of the six-months-old baby of Pete Bhaw, who lives four miles north of Allis, In Presque Isle County, Mich., a few days ago. Mrs. Shaw had laid the baby down in the grass and returned to the house for a few moments when an enormous eagle swooped down on the infant and sunk its talons into the little one's fieeh and clothing. The mother heard her baby's cry, but came too late to save it. The mother's shrieks brought the father, who quickly mounted a horse and armed with arin9 rode to the shore of a nearby lake, where he knew was an eagle eyrie in the cliffs. Shaw arrived just in time to witness a terrible sight. Two eagles were hovering above a crag of rock, filling the air with their cries and battling for possession of the baby that lay high upon the cliff. Before the father reached the summit one of the eagles had fallen to the ground while the other had again taken up the child for another fiight. The father fired, and the bird and baby fell into the water. The frantic father pluDged into the lake, caught up the body, but t&e littl" one was dead, fie took home the bodv, a ing with those of the two eagles, one of >vtiich had been killed in the fight over the prey. EIGHTY-SIX DROWNED, Ther Went Down in a Collision Off Finland. Later details of the collision, attended by a great loss of life, between steamers near the coast of Finland, show that two coasting (teamers, tbe Ajax and the Kuaeberg, collided off the port of Helsingfors, capital of Finland. The Ajax was crowded with passengers from Helsingfors, who were out for a sail. The Rnneberg was in the coasting business. The Ajax had started out, and, having been delayed on the return by a heavv fog, was not at high speed when the collision occurred. The Runeberg was going at ordinary speed, and struck the Ajax near tbe center, shattering that steamer so that the water poured in in a torrent. The passengers on the Ajax, nearly all Swedish Fins, behaved with notable courage. The men pushed the women and children to the life buoy.->. thrown out by the Runeoerg, and took their own cnancaa at struggling in the water. There was no time to lower l>oat?, as the Ajax sank almost instant.y, carrying down nearly a hundred passenger*. Eighty-six persons were drowned and tai: ty-nine bodies were reuuverw. SISTERS DROP DEAD. They Had. Been in a Kanawaya Short Time Before. At Fairmont, Neb., Lizzie and Bertha Shultz, aged twenty and seventeen yours respectively, were driving from their country home into town when the team took fright at the cars and ran away, throwing the occupants" to the ground. They were assisted to a house and quickly recovering, hired a team and started home. Bertha, while putting away the horses, suddenly dropped dead. Lizzie and her mother ran to the barn, when Lizzie fell prostrate almost on the body of her sister and expired. OVEB A PRECIPICE. A. Family ot Six Killed by a Team Banning Away. A whole family, consisting of a man and wile and four children, namas unknown, were killed at Guthrie, Oklahoma, a few days ago. The family had been in that city buying provisions, and while returning to their ?l?um on the OliChayence reservation their team ran away and over a precipice. Every member of the familyand both horse* were '.lllo-rl Conservative estimates are that 40,000 laborers will be nee.ied within the next month in order to harvest the immensa grain crop of the Northwest. The acreage is a little less than last year, but the yield promises to be equally great, if only the Jropcanbe secured. la order to induce laborers to come to the relief of the wheat farmerd of the Northwest, all the railroads in that section have announced a special rate of $5 froai Chicago to the Dakotas for farm laborers. Third Assistant Postmaster General Hazen is preparing the designs for a sot of stamps to be iS3uea by the Postofflce Department in honor ?f the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus. He is getting together material that will suggest to him the most appropriate subjects to be illustrated ou the t tamps. . .. . ; . X - y? ?.- ' ' .' y. MMOBBEES' RICH HAUL Dynamite Used to Splinter the Express Car. Two Masked Men With Shotguns Do the Work Quickly, The fifth train robbery in the San Joaquin ValJey in three years occurred early a few mornings ago near the small station of Colli?, fifteen miles from Fresno, Cal. There were two robbers, and their methods of procedure were precisely the same as in pre VIUUO uuau vuojr MW molested by any passenger. After rapidly splintering the express car witM dynamite they cleaned np about $23,000. jumped into a wagon aad struck off across the plains. They selected one oC the loneliest spots on the line, and showed such knowledge of the country that there is no doubt they belong near Fresno. As the train was pulling out of Collis just after midnight the engineer and fireman were startled by the appearance of two men on the tender. The strangers were armed with shotguns, and quickly covered the trainmen, at the same time telling them Jo obey orders. w hen the train passed Rolendo station the engineer was ordered to stop and the fireman was ordered to touch off with a lighted cigar the fuse of a dynamite cart- ! ridge Which the robbers placed on the piston of the driving-wheel on the left side of the locomotive. Th? fireman hesitated, but under the persuasion of a shotgun touched the fuse. The explosion was terrific, breaking the piston rod and disabling the engine. The engineer was ordered to get off and walk up the track while they proceeded to bombard the door of the express car with dynaruice cartridges. About eight cartridges were used and the door was torn to splinters. Big holes were knocked in the sides of the car and the floor smashed into kindling wood. Then the pair, masked and completely disguised, entered the express car covering Louis Roberts, the messenger, with shot guns and ordered him to open the Wells Fargo safe. Roberts set about doing this, but he was combination. He so informed his captors, , and one of them struck him a heavy blow on the head with a gun and threatened to kill I him if be did not immediately open the safe. This action strengthened the messenger's memory, and with trembling hands he opened the strong box and they took out all the sacks of coin. W ban the desperadoes exploded the first cartridge on the engine the pasdeagers poked their heads out of the windows to see what was up. Their curiosity was amply satisfied when one of the robbers fired a pistol twice along the row of win lows. There was a panic, and the passengers made a wild scramble under the seats. The explosions of the bombs ag&inst the express car rocked and shook the train with the violence of an earthquake. A window in front of the passenger coach immediately behind the express car was shattered to pieces. For twenty-five minutes the train was held, but only one passenger attempted to interfere with the robbers, and as he was armed only with a small revolver be soon retired. The safe contained three bags of coin, each holding $5000, These the robbers compelled the engineer and fireman to carry to a wagon which they had hitched by the side >f the track. When the coin was thrown under the seat the masked men jumped in and rode off. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. The Fine Arte building at the V^rUs Pair will have a mosaic floor, tht yontract for which has been let at $16,98'.). Ontario (Canada) breeders of thoroughbred animals have already applied for space for 163 horsaa, 1^3 cattle, 278 sheep and ninety-one swine. A s bpa rate building at the World's Pair for the shoe and leather industry exhibit is now an assured fact, as the required $100,009 has all been raised. A "model of the fl^re of Lit's wife in salt" will appear in the Kansas World's Fair exhibit to represent or illustrate the salt industry of the State. The German exhibit at the World's Fair will contain an architectural display including drawings illustrating 200 or more of the most notable buildings in the empire. The New York State Board of Charities is preparing on industrial exhibit for the W orld's Fair of the products of the charitable, corrective, reformatory and eleemosypary institutions under its supervision. Fully 100.000 men, it is believed, will participate in the parade on the occasion of the dedication of th<) World's Fair buildings in October. The militiamen and "regulars" who will participate will number about 10,000. Aw Indiana stone quarry company is having a life-size figure of an elephant chiseled out of a solid block of stone. It will be eleven feet high and weigh thirty tons. It will be exhibited at the World's Fair. Rhode Island will present its World's Fair buiiding to Chicago after the Exposition closes. The structure will be very picturesque in appearance, being a reproduction in part of the famous "Old Stone Mill" at Newport. Mrs. Potter Pjllmeb, President of the Board of Lady Managers, and Archbishop Ireland have agreed upon a plan for securing for the World's Fair an exhibit of the work of the Catholic women of the world. This project has the special approval of Pope A w haling party is being fitted out at a Massachusetts port with a view of obtaining a live whale for exhibition in the Fisheries department at the World's Fair. If captured, the whale will bo confined in a tank and towed to Chicago by way of the St. Lawrence River. M?re than 300 panels of native woods will enter into the interior decoration of the Washington's World's Kdir building. Some of them will be carved and others decorated with paintings of Washington scenery and groupings of flowers, fruits, grains, fish, gauju, uuus, owj. The South Kensington Museum, London, recently paid ?80 (8400) a yard for some lace manufactured in the south of Ireland. It is said that this is the highest price on re?ord and that the lace is of the most exquisite workmanship. The lace will be exhibited at the World's Fair. An international congress of charities, correction and philantrophy will be held ai the World's Pair, to coosi !er questions relating to the care of criminals, pauper* and unfortunate). The congress will begin June 12, 1893, and last one week. Ex-President R. B. Hayes has been invited to preside over its deliberations. The California Capitol will be represented in miniature at the World's Fair bjr an exhibition of pickles. The women of Fresno County will distribute2300 pounds of raisins in souvenir boxes. A playing fountain of wiue will form a feature of the viticultural display. A rose tree twenty-four iucaes in circumference will be one ot California's ex titbits. Thk New York Central Railway, in ita exhibit at the World's Fair, will strikingly illustrate the wonderful improvements that have > een made iu railway transportation by showing a magnificient, complete vesfcibuled traiu andalon? side of ita reproduction of the first train of cak-s used in this couutry, the cars of which resembled oldt ashioued stage coacnes. KILLING THE COTTON, The Boll Wtirna is Playing Havoc With the Texas Crop. Reports of the boll worm continue to come from all parts of Texas. J. B. Knight brought to Salido stalks of fine looking cotton, every boll of which wai destroyed. On?i of his neighbors offers 100 acres of cotton for JI an acre. Many plantations are completely ruined. Planters at Stafford's Point are complaining of their fine cotton crops being destroyed by the boll worms. Boll worms are playing havoc in many fields about Fulcher, and nothing can be done to stay their ravages. ' * ' : ' t Wj? J "' 1 ,,m* LATEB NEWS, Erjtest Nye, asjed sixteen, shot and killed bis sister Maud, aged fourteen, at their home in Brookline, N. H. He didn't know the rifle was loaded. Belle McKznzij. employed aa a stenographer on the fifth floor of the new Exchange Building, Boston, Mam., fell five stories down an elevator shaft, headforemost, a distance of eighty feet, and waa killed instantly, A steam thresher, operating on Thomas Faulty's farm, near Elizabeth, W. Va., waa blown to pieces and Samuel Booth and another man were fatally and three othetra seriously hurt. Dynamite had beeniplaced in the machine, it is believed, to kill thn operatives. Tax Democrats of Georgia met in State Convention at Atlanta and placed in the field a full Stato ticket, headed by W. J. Northen for Governor. In Talladega, Ala., R. L. Ras berry, a bartender who bad been discharged by N. Simmons, met his former employer in the (tree! and shot him to death. Then he turned hii revolver against himself and sent a bullet through his heart. Intense excitement prevailed at Memphi?, Tenn., over the commutation by the Governor of ths sentence of Murderer H. Clay King to imprisonment for life. Threats to lynch King wers made and he was taken out of town, but friends of tha man he murdered said they would overtake and hang him. A huge crowd gathered at the corner of Main and Maduoa streets, where King jssassinated Posleo. and hanged Governor Buchanan in effizy. A landslide nsar Carrollton, Ga., resulted in the death oi three workmen?Jerry Collier, Sam Wimt.ush and Sam Waema Five others were badly hurt Secretap-t No3:/2 ha8 appointed as a jommis-ion to negotiate with the Yankton Indians of South Dakota for a cession of their surplus lan ^3, J. C. Adams, of Web? rter, 8outh Dakota, W. L. Brown, of Chicago, and John J. Cola, of St Louis. These surplus lands aggregate about 163,000 acres. Letters have beeu sent by the Poetoffioe Department to about 2300 postmasters at county seats asking them to repeat this year, some time between August 1 and December 15, the visits of inspection made by thstt last year to the smaller postofficee in thsir respective counties. Henry B. Ride?, United States Consul at Copenhagen, Denmark, has confessed to ambezzlement, forgery and subornation of perjury. Venezuela is in a state of anarchy. General Urdaneta has proclaimed himself Dictator of the Western States. The French Coosul at Carupano wa3 imprisoned by this Venezuelan authorities, and a man-of-war was seat to demand his release. Eighteen Indians of the Balla CooQa and Wake Neb tribes, were drowned while engaged in a sea lion hunt near Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. In the dense mist their canoa struck a rock, and the Indians were precipitated into the water. At Scharnitr, a village and pas in tto Swiss Tyrol, a landslide caused the death of five persona, who were overwhelmed beneath the mass of rock and earth which cams thundering down from a mountain. Cholera is increasing in Teheran, Persia. The deaths now average sixty dailv. . CROP EEPOBT. The Month's Averages an Made by the Department of Agriculture. , The crop returns of the Department of Agriculture show a slight improvement in the condition of corn, raising the monthly average from 81.1 in July to 82.5 in August, In only four years sines the initiation of crop reporting has there been a lower An?un condition. In the year of worst failure, 1881, it was 79, declining to 66 in October. In 1S90 it was 73.8, declining to 70.6 in October. In August, 1SS6, it was 80.7, and in 1887 it was 80.5, declining later only in the latter year. A slight improvement ii indicated in th9 States' north of the Ohio River, and a greater advance in the States west of the Mississippi River, except Kansas aad Nebraska. Condition is high in n?arly all the Southern States, nearly the same as in July in the breadth west of tha Mississippi, higher in the lower States of Atlantic Coast, and slightly Lower in Alabama and Mississippi. A small decline is seen in the Middle States, excspt New Yort, and also in the Eistern States, though in both of these divisions the average is higher than in the West. Tho folio win? average* of principal States ar* given: New York, 90; Pennsylvania, 80; Virginia. 90; Georgia, 97; Texas, 94; Tennessee, 93; Ohio, 81; ln[ diane. 74; Illinois, 73; Iowa, 79; Missouri, 83; Kansas, 81; Nebraska, 80. Most correspondents indicate a present tendency to further improvement. The returns relating to spring wheat are lower, declining during the month from a general average of 9J.9 to 87.3. Condition of oth9r crops averages as follows Spring rye. 89.8, instead of 92.7 in July; oati, 86.3 a fall of one point; barley, 91.1, instead of 9>; buckwheat, acreage, 101.3, condition, 9"J.9; potatoes, 86.S. declining from 90; tobacco, 88.8, a fall from 947; hay, 93.2. The report shows a reduction in the condition of cotton durin? July from 83.9 to 83.3. This is the lowest average since August, 1886, when the general condition was one point lower. The season has been almost everywhere too wet, though in South Carolina and Georgia alternations of excessive rainfall and blistering sunshine have been injurious. The natural result of these conditions appears in grassy fields, rank plant growth and small fruitage, with considerable shedding. Grass worms and caterpillars bare appeared in the more Southern and Western districts, but no material damage has yet resulted. The State averages of condition are Virginia, 83; North Carolina, 82; Sonth Carolina, 83; Georgia, 84; Florida, 81; Alabama, if-?i?s?r o.i. r ?oo. OA. OO; iXLiSSiSSippi, ou; xjuuisioii<i| ic*n^ w, Arkansas, ?5; Tennessee, 79. HONOBS TO BIQQUT. The Dead Sailors Remains Roach New York From Chile. The body of Charles W. Riggin, the boatswain's mate of ih9 United States crois* Baltimore, who was killed by the mob in the riot at Valparaiso, arrived at New York a few days ago from Colou on the Pacific Mail steamship Columbia. The body was in charge of William B. McCreery, United Suites Consul at Valparaiso. A delegation from Philadelphia met the body. The delegation had amoar its number John K. Riggin. a brother of the dead sailor, and Major R. M. J. Reed in charge of the funeral ceremonies at Philadelphia. The body was transferred from the steamship, where it was stowed between decks just aft of the main hatchway, to the wharf. The embalmed body was in a coffin which was encased in an hermetically sealed leaden casket. When it was removed to the wharf it was wrapped in an American flag. The special steamboat which had been engaged to transfko fn JarcoTT Pifrr vaa in rflfl.fii ness. Consul McCreery turaed the body over to the Committee of Arrangements, and it was placed on board the waiting steamboat. At 10:33 o'clock the steamboat started for the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Jersey City. The body was then placed on board of a special car tendered by the Pennsylvania Railroad and at 2:20 o'clock shipped to Philadelphia. . -v '' > I