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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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