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THE SRBAT fiiPOSITIDN. OHICAGO NOW PREPARED TO ENTERTAIN THE WUKLU. Her Columbian Exposition a Polyglot City With Over 100,000 Inhabitants and a Municipal Government ?Sights That Thrill the VisitorStriking Features of the Fair. A little over two years ago the site of the World's Columbian Fair at Chicago was practically a wild marsh. To-day it contains several hundred buildings, and DirectorGeneral Davis estimates the wealth represented by the buildings and exhibits as something like $150,000,000. Fifty Nations and thirty-seven colonies are represented. Added to these are the United States Government and the various States and Territories of the Union. Roughly speaking, the grounds contain six hundred acres. They are a mile long ana j about half a mile broad at the widest part. I { THE C The distance from the middle of Chicago is seven miles. One side of the grounds runs along the great lake and the other side faces hundreds of hotels and stores hurriedly erected at the smallest possible cost There is a strip of land six hundred feet wide and a mile long extending from the main grounds eastward, and this Is the Midway Plaisance, ?klA^ aMAo)tAnra art/4 nrlrnfa WHICH CUXlbOUiO bUO D1UWOUV TV nuu y??rw?w enterprises. The whole exposition will be open from an early hour in tne morning until ten o'clock at night and the price of admission fifty cents. The exposition is marlad off into three great divisions. At the north end is the Art Palace, surrounded by the separate buildings of the States, Territories and foreign Governments. This is the social department,and millions of dollars will be spent in the entertainment of visitors and in formal banquets. Going southward are to be found threequarters of a mile of structures representing manufactures, machinery, electricity,mining, agriculture, horticulture, forestry and minor material interests, with buildings here and there representing woman, music and the government of the grounds. The third division is the Midway Plaisance. dedicated to Oriental villages, dancing girls, balloons, bear pits, gl&s blowers, panoramas, barbaric theatres and everything that goes to makeup tia ilria ohnw Ufa nf an PTnofll tton. Hera alone will the visitor be forced to pay extra. Outside of the Midway Plaisance everything is free after the general admission fee is paid, with the sole exception of the Esquimau Village and the Cave of the Cliff Dwellers. It waa the genius of Frederick L. Olmstead that turned the waters of Lake Michigan into lagoons, ponds, basins and canals with bridges and terraces to beautify the place. Every main building can be reached by water. There are fifty electric launches and scores of gondolas oared by picturesque Venetians. It costs twenty-five cents a trip on the launches and the gondolas can be employed at so much an hour. An intermural elevated electric railway penetrates to all parts ol the grounds, and. visitors can make their rounds with great rapidity if they do not care to walk. Around the great basin is grouped the formal architecture. At one end is the noble peristyle with its Corinthian columns, pierced in the middle by the great Columbian portal, on the top of which is a magnificent group representing a chariot drawn by four horsea Is j i ? I I I ..... > ^ abreast. Flanking this quadriga are statues ' representing the States and Territories. The peristyle connects the Music Hall and Casino, where Theodore Thomas will storm the gates o! heaven with harmony. On either Bide of the basin are the facades of the Agricultural Building and the Manufactures and Liberal V. Arts Building. The principal corners of the Electricity Building and Machinery Hall are projected into this grand court of honor. Between them is the Administration Building, which serves as a vast vestibule. The pomp and splendor of this structure are beyond description- It is in the form of four massive pavilions, united and crowned by a mighty golden dome that flashes 250 feet above the ground. Each of the pavilions is e4ghty-four feet square and the dome is 120 feet in diameter. The colossal entrances are rich in sculptures and the piers of the pavilions are crested with statuary. At every point the eye meets with some striking group. The interior of the dome is lit by an opening of fifty feet, the light disclosing panels en riehed with sculpture and vast paintings, representing the arts and sciences. Mr. Dodge's great fresco occupies the upper rim of the dome. This is the seat of government. In the four pavillions are the headquarters of the Director-General. the Foreign Department and the Department of Publicity and Promotion. Here the purely executive work is carried on, the construction headquarters being in the ServiceBuilding. During the construction period Dlrector-uenenu jjuvis na3 commauued more than fifteen thousand men at a time, and Major Handy, or the Bureau of Publicity, has supplied a list of 70,000 correspondents. Proai this building messages are going out constantly to the most remote corners of the world. It must bo understood that the exposition is a city, wit i a complete government. There are over ft."/ thousand exhibitors, and two persons for ;ch interest represented would give a fixe; opulation ot 100,000. There are nail /-.rerun' . i and eauiDDed uolice and fire The Independent body of police numbering in thf neighborhood of two thousand men, largelj made up of ex-soldiers. This body is com manded by Colonel Edmund Price, of th( United States Army, and all of its superioi officers are detailed from the army. The mer are uniformed like soldiers, wear shorl swords and are under strict military disci pline. They present a fine appearanoe soat tered c.bout the grounds. Police and flr< stations nra Dlaced at straeetic Doints. anc the floors of all the buildings are patrollec night and day as a protection against Are. Standing at the foot of the Administration Building the visitor is thrilled by his sur roundings. Beside him, in the main entrance. is St. Gauden s fine statue of Coluov bus. In front of him is the wonderful Mc Monies fountain, and on either side of it th< big fountains that throw up masses of elec trie lighted water in thousands of tints at night. Beyond is the smooth basin, crowdec with gondolas and launches. Further on is the huge figure of the Repub lie rising out of the water on a pedastal witl the peristyle as a background. To the lefi are the towers and recessed pilasters of Machinery Hall, the obelisk and the-small peristyle. The water that flows in front of Machinery Hall divides it from the Agricultural Building, whose florid capitals, masses o: statuary and gilded dome, surmounted bj Diana, add an indescribable richness to th< general efifect. On the north side is the grand facade of the largest building in the world Wiioao tilII ly CkLXJ UOTUICU W mouuiai/ tores and liberal arts. The walls of this edifice measures almost a mile, and the stupen IEM OF THE FAIB?THI ADMIVISTEATIOIf BT7II dous hinged arch spans the main floor at a height of 150 feet. Yet its fluted columns, triumphal arches and vast loggia have converted this architectural leviathan into a thing of beauty. From the roof of this huge building beams the biggest electric search light ever constructed. It ha.% reflectors six feet in diameter, and give a light of 194,000,000 candle power. It is asserted by those in charge of this light that people sixty miles away can easily read by the reflected illumination at night. Following the canal, which is spanned by graceful bridges, on which are life-sized sculptures of American animals, one skirts the Electricity Building. On the other side of this is the Mining Building, and still beyond is the monstrous Transportation Building, the decoration of whioh alternately sug gest a kaleidoscope and the band wagon or a circus. Leaving out the State buildings there are only throe conspicuous blotches on the beauty of the exposition as a whole. They are the Transportation Building, the Illinois Building and the United States Government Building. The first is a burlesque and the latter two are simply shabby. A remarkable thing about the exposition is the number of interests that have been given separate representation. The Woman's Building is an instance of this. Education is illustrated in a thousand forms. In fact, this element is likely to bore the public. It is too elaborate. Almost every Government has turned its educational department loose, and the result is a wilderness of charts, models, books and statistics that confuses and overwhelms the spectator. Provision has been made for the transportation of sixty thousand persons an hour to and from the grounds. The elevated railway, the Illinois Central Railway, the ordinary street cars and a fleet of steamboats have been organized into a complete system. Passengers who travel by water are landed at the portal of the great water court, while all the railways terminate in a beautiful building on the grounds. On the steamboat pier are moving sidewalks. The outer sidewalk moves at the rate of three miles an hour, so that passen gers can step upon it while it is in motion. They can then step to an inner sidewalk which has a speed three miles faster, so that they are carried along the pier at the rate oi six miles an hour and can get on or off at / THE HOBTXCULTTTBAIi BtJILDnfO. will without inconvenienoe. Close by is a fine harbor for visiting yaohts, and it is known that there will be a fine attendance of yachtsmen from all parts of the country and from Europe. Lines of coaches will be run to and from the exposition, and the glorious outdoor sport will be revived in royal fashion. Fifty thousand people can be fed. And the mothers, too, have been provided for. There is a building where babies can be oheoked just like a hat or coat or umbrella. The charge is moderate and the nurses are good. Aside from the cost of the great buildings the following are among the sums which have been spent in preparation of the exposition grounds: Grading and filling, $450,000 ; landscape gardening, $323,500 ; viaduct and bridges, $125.000; piere, $70.000 ; waterway improvements, $225,000 ; railways $500,000 ; steam plant, $800,000 ; electric lighting, $1,500,000 ; statuary, $1,000.000 ; vases, lamps, etc., $50,000 ; lake front adornment, $200,000; water supply and sewerage, $600,000 ; other expenses ; $1,000,000. Total, $5,943,500. The total expense of organization, administration and operation of the exposition is estimated at $5,000.000. This takes no account of the sums spent by the Government, the States or foreign Nations. One hundred and twenty car loads of glass, enough to cover twenty-nine acres, were used in the roofs of the various exposition structures. More thap forty-one car loads, or eleven acres, 'Were required by the great Manufactures Building alone. A thing that will impress itself upon the thoughtful observer is the fact that every branch of 6oience and industry has been solit ua into minor departments. This is tue age of the specialist. Each separate thread is taken by an independent division of workers and followed out minutely. Visitors to the exposition will be confused until they recognize this fact. Agriculture, horticulture and forestry are apart. Electricity, mining, steam machinery and artillery en \ ) gineering are divorced from each other. Th? r artist and the merchant are no longer undej - one root * ) This impressive lesson is, of course, only to r be learned in the departments of the greater i Nations. The old style still holds with the t Japanese, the East Indians, the South Amer icans and the South Sea Islanders. And after the student has spent weeks in 3 ( the various buildings he can sit down in the I open air and watch the world pass before i I i-i? tv--i j tj 1?? ?n/q p?l_ i | mm?j. una miu nuooiiuu, uiotho <*uu. garians, Japs, Esquimaux, Indians, Britons, i Frenchmen, Spaniards, Italians, Dutchmen - Switzers, Peruvians, Chileans, Brazilians, - Moors, Swedes, Danes, Cingalese and the - people of all lands come to honor the mena ory of a man who built his fame on faith ) and courage. For a mile around him will be - palaces, flower gardens and the wealth of t civilized man in its highest form challenging I criticism. Here Saint-Saens and the Garde Republicain Band will pour out harmony; there the wand of Theodore Thomas will i wate over an army of fiddlers. Great ohorals t will swell from the lips of innumerable sing ers. A hundred thousand armed and uniformed - soldiers will be massed in Chicago this suml mer. This great camp of American warriors f will be in August. Militia organizations r from every State in the Union will be pres) ent, besides a large representation of troops I from the regular army. To these must be , added military companies and perhaps regi meats from foreign countries. The military - display will probably be the grandest ever seen in this country. DIKO. HORTICULTURAL DISPLAY. An Exhibition Never Before Approached in This Country. Two years ago Jackson Park, Chicago, was a sandy waste, with a few puddles of water which the waves of Lake Michigan had washed over the beach into the hollows. There was one little hillock near the centre of the plot, covered by a growth of shaggy oaks. When the World's Fair landscape gardeners took hold of the park to put it in shape for the reception of the buildings, they dftflnened the nollows. made silvery lagoons , of the mud puddles, and an island fringed , with rushes of the wooded knoll. Walks, roads and avenues of trees followed, and the lake was hemmed in by a stone embankment, ! along which there is a magnificent promeni ade. The islands are fringed with shrubbery and i great stretches of wild flowers growing in colonies, as they do on the prairiee and | borders of woodlands and in marshes all through Northern Illinois. Semi-aquatio i plants troop down to the brink; tall reeds and other water plants rise from the lagoon , itself, and on its quiet surface lily leaves float dreamily, while the low outlying isles are tinged a living green by the sedgy things : that creep to the water's edge. There have been planted on the islands and in the other parts of the grounds 12,618 trees, 50,644 shrubs, 151,394 hardy perennial, herbaceous, and miscellaneous plants, 136,678 aquatic and semi-aquatic plants, 3300 ferns, 9582 vines, climbers, and ornamental grasses: 60,000 willow cuttings, 114,920 bulbs and similar plants, and a great collection of native plants, which were used by the carloads. The trees used were principally willows, poplars, water maples, cherries, elms, and lindens. The Bhruboery consists of various kinds of low-growing willows, cornuses, spiraeas, loniceras, lilacs, snowballs, and barberries. These form the basis of the groups, but to give variety and tests their adaptability to the climate many rare shrubs were added. The inner, higher part of the wooded ; island, reserved for the use of the Flori: cultural Department, was laid out in lawns, ' flower beds and a rose garden, while the ex : treme north end space was set apart for the i WV ''Hljj 1 J i Japanese temple and garden, which are to remain as a permanent reminder of the patience, ingenuity, gentleness, good will and love of beauty of that nation of artists. The flower exhibits on the island will form t a long and charming procession. The wooded island is about sixteen acres in extent, ten of which are devoted to the planta tions of trees, shrubs and native plants already described. Through the mi ddle Is the long sweep of lawns and flower garden, about six acres in all. At the south end of this space will be shown for the first ti me j in the West, it is believed, a combination of Jilants and style of grouping that is seen on arge places in the East, notably on the grounds of the Newport home of the late Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, consisting of azaleas and rhododendrons, and in the partial shade of these shrubs great clumps of lillies in many varieties will be planted. The bulbs and shrubs bloom at different seasons, and thusthe arrangement affords double pleasure. Over the lawns north from this fine exhibit will be seen a green and flowery wall, the first hint of the rose garden?the glory of the island. This is a plot of one and one-quarter acres, oblong in shape, and it will bo inclosed by a wire fence supported by posts nine feet high set at intervals of eiRht feet. Between the posts the wire netting droops in curves, the lowest point of each curve being six feet above the ground. The fence will be lined with climbing roses and draped on the outside with many kinds of light growing creepers. Tho gracefullyoKutxaH tHnn-nAmraH flntrrtp.afnrrpfl wull will bo in itself a thing of beauty. Access to thp interior will be at four points only?in the middle of each side and at the middle of each end?so the gavden will possess the lirot requisite of a garden?seclusion. It will als.) possess the second?flowers. In addition to the floral displays cn the island. Chief Thorpe has arranged for exhibits of flowers in the Horticultural Building. which will extend throughout the months of the fair, varying from time to time. LIVES LOST IN A WBEC AN APPALLING RAILROAD A CJIDENT IN INDIANA. The Air Brakes Wouldn't Work, ai the Train Was Going Sixty Ml] an Hour?It Left the Track ai Plunged Into the Station?Peor Killed on the Platform. A terrible accident occurred on the I Four Road in Lafayette, IncL, at 1:15 a f mornings ago, as a result of which ten m were killed and many more injured. T train was the east-bound passenger leavi Chicago at 9 p. m. The accident was caus by the failure of the airbrake to work. The engineer undoubtedly discovered tl before reaching the cut beyond the Waba River, as the vigorous whistling of t engine for brakes could be heard when t train was still a mile west of the city. T engineer's desperate efforts to stop tne tra were shown by the large amount of sa: thrown by him on the bridge through whl the train came just before the fatal crash. The engine dashed out of the bridge ov the Wabash River at a speed of not less th sixty miles an hour, crashing into the dep building, tearing off a portion of the dep and train sheds, and carrying them sevei hundred feet. The engine when it left t track was followed by the baggage car, t\ postal cars and the express, and all we i<ileu in a heap, buryinsr a score or more v. tiun*. The truoks of the first day coach we dragged out and the side of the car knock into fragments, but no passengers in this c were injured. The chair car and two Pu man sleepers remained on the track. FJ started from the stove in the baggage ci bat the Fire Department rapidly extinguish the flames. A large crowd of citizens gathered ve quickly, and a force of local physicians ga the necessary attention to the wounde Several victims of the wreck were perso standing in the depot waiting for the train, trackman, a mail cart driver, and passengei The dead were: Michael Welch, engine* Indianapolis; Fireman Mclnnis; Indiana oils; Ed. Myers, Logansport, mail Tier MoMahon, Cincinnati, express metse ger; A. E. Chadwlck, Cincinnati, mail cler Charles Meyers, Lafayette, hackman; Jol Lennon, Lafayette, mail cart driver; Jesse ! jLiong, L.eDanon, ma., man oierjt; unari Schanell, passenger, had just bought a tick to Indianapolis; Otto Jerselson, Alhamb Hotel, Chicago, passenger waiting for t train. Eleven others were injured. The daroaj to property will be fully $80,000. High bluffs rise on the west bank of tl Wabash, just opposite the city, and there ii long and steep grade at that point. The i fated train must have been a mile up t grade from the river when the engineer d; covered that there was something wrong wi the air brakes, for he began to whistle shril for hind brakes. The speed at that time to increased so terrifically, however, that I control was beyond human agency. The engine dashed around the curves ai across the long bridge, although the man the throttle had reversed the machinery ai streams of fire were being dashed off from t! driving wheels. Just after leaving the ea end of the long bridge the cars described semicircle at the midway point When tl engine struck that sharp curve it left tl track, followed by the cars, and they pil upon each other 100 feet away after craanh through the train sheds. EXECUTED BY ELECTBICIT: Carlyle W. Harris, the Wife PoUonf Dies in Sing Sing Prison. Carlyle W. Harris, convicted In New To City of poisoning his girl wife, Mary Hel Potts, has been executed in Sing Sing Prise At 12 o'clock p. m., 1760 volts of el< triolty were eent into his body. He died wi a declaration of innooenoe upon his lips. At 12:15 o'clock Warden Dorston took 1 witnesses down Into the prison, and, aftei delay of ifteen minutes, they went tot! execution room. The witnesses took seafe around t death chair. Head Keeper Connaught went to Harris's oell to tell him that his ej oution was about to take place. Connaug ton returned to the execution room for a f< minutes while Electrician Davis tested tl apparatus to see that it was all right. Connaughton went out again, and at 13: returned with Harris. The condemned mi was dressed in plain black, with no collar i necktie. The right leg of his trousers hi been out off at the knee, so that the electro could be applied there, and the hair had be< cut from the crown of the head for the Ban purpose. Hams waited alone. He stood eree Chaplain Weills was just behind him, rea ing quietly the prayer of commendation fro the Episcopal Prayer Boek. The doomi man looked strange without his beard, whit was shaved off when he was taken to tl prison. His face was set and resolute. H eyes had the quizzical expression that wi peculiar to them. He looked calmly at the witnesses and th( at the chair. Without a tremor he walked i the chair, and just as he was sitting do* said In a voice that was strong and unshakei "I wish to say a word, and I think I ha1 the Warden's permission to say it." He motioned to the Warden gracefully i he spoke and bowed his head. "what is it you wish to say?" aske Warden Durston. "I have no further motive for any concea ment whatever," answered the man who life was to leave within a few seconds. The he raised his head and ran his eyes along tt line of witnesses' faces as he continued, ' ucai&u iu oioic uuuii x uio nuouiui.ua jr i-lluuucj of the crime of which I have been coi rioted." That was all. He settled back In the eha and himself adjusted his limbs for the straj and electrodes. Everything ready, the ham kerchief was dropped, and the currei turned on. The body became rigid. In a instant the lips parted and the air in tl lungs was discharged by the muscular coi traction. The current was kept on for four seconc at 1760 volts. Then it was reduced at once 1 160 volts and continued that way for 5Ij seconds. It was then turned offentirel; The doctors went to the chair, examined tt body with instruments, and at 12:43 o'cloc pronounced the man dead. He really die the instant the current was turned on. An autopsy was held on the body soon afte The skin was not marked wheretheelectrodi had been applied. All the organs were foun to be in about a normal condition except tt left lung, which was almost gone, and or kidney, which was small and indicated di ease. It was only four and one-half minutes froi the time that Harris was brought from h cell to the time that the current was turne on, and a good part of this was consumed t Harris himself with his declaration. Thei was not a hitoh anywhere. The witness* suffered much in anticipation of the seem especially those who had not seen an execi tion by electricity, but with the exception < one man who fainted, they all withstood ti ordeal without breaking down. When the little black flag was run up o the pole of the Warden's house announoin that the execution had taken place, Mr Harris and her son Allan could see it froi the window of Ambler's boarding hous where they were stopping. TRAMPSKILLED. Beating Their Way on a Freight Tra When It Was Wrecked. While the first section of a north bou: Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton froig train was taking water near Tadmcr, Ohi the second section dashed into it, making bad wreck. Of six tramps who were in oi of the cars of the first section beating the way towards Lima, Ohio, only one survive xne engineer ana nreman oi ino secoi section saved their lives by jumping an i stant before the crash. The crew of the fli section had neglected to display the prop signals. Official reports 9how that the heignta i Quebec, Canada, are crumbling. The ran part wall facing the Parliament buildings hi fallen and reveals cracks and fissures in tt solid rock, such as indicate that large se tions of the enormous elevations are becou lng detached bodily, and may at any tin give way in a mass of ruins. . THE LAMBWOBID. (] The be are 108 barbers' onions. These are 20,000 union bakers. 0- Hibed girls are flocking to Chicago. ? Thebe are 307 iron moklera' unions. Chicago reports a scarcity of sailors. xbawce legalized iraaes unions in iot?. ad Of 104 Austrian strikes nineteen succeeded. T les Pennsylvania coke miners are reorganlaQd ,ie Indianapolis, Ind., has a letter carriers' band. Tacoma (Washington) brioklayers receive Jig (5 a day. ew Boston letter carriers work only eight I'< en hours a day. *he J"he boiler makers of Boston won their th ng strike for a working day of nine hours. m ed Eioht thousand men employed in the ^h Loire Navy Yards struck at Nantes, France, jg All the iron ore companies of the Ashland jj s{! (Wis.) region, except the Aurora, have closed ^ Ijq aown indefinitely. a he Thebe is a great demand for waitresses, of he sewing girls, dressmakers and servants In the ht in large towns of Idaho. pc It is said that the railroad managers of the 00 ch United States have agreed to* sign no more ^ contracts with labor organizations. It Is the almost universal practioe in . Pennsylvania collieries to discharge men for ,nf. notifying the authorities of violations of the ul rai mining laws. n( he A reduction of one per cent, in the wages ar 70 of miners and mine laborers in the Schuyl- cc iro kill (Penn.) region has been decreed, owing ee Lc- to dull trade. pi A labor exchange 'has been established cc ire by the unions in Kansas City, Mo., who in- D; ed tend erecting a building after the pattern ol cc ar the Paris Bourse du Travail. 01 11- TTi The employes of the Reading Railroad Company have commenced working ten , J hours daily. Up to the present they have 'n only worked nine hours a day. 01 ry Thz establishment of a Labor Exohange by va the labor organizations of Kansas City, Mo., id. is an attempt to carry into practical effect 0u na the co-operative idea of Edward Bellamy. , a May Dat passed passed off in Europe with- da rs. out special note. In many places in Germany le; 5r, the workmen took no holiday, and where pc p- there were parades there was no disturbance, pc *? The first organized strike in South Africa P" was made recently by the carpenters and * ' joiners of Cape Town. They want an ad- J? ^ vance of wages from $2.25 to $2.60 a day. j?* u* claiming that the coat of living has lately n< largely increased. They ask support of all 0E workmen in South Africa. A professional acrobat flnda employment ^ at the zinc mines of Ogdensburg, N. "J. His SD _0 services are required in getting oat snarls ^ and removing obstructions from the cables M u0 and electric wires used about the ore can, 5j( j a which are run on steep grades. He can walk ^ on a tight rope when necessary. ^ ho The union fishermen who were on a strike lai [a- at Astoria, Oregon, patrolled the harbor to %y th prevent fishermen from landing fish or sell* m Jy ing them to any ono until the cannery men im ad came to terms and agreed to pay the pro- tfc Its posed price of $1.15 per salmon. They also compelled the non-union fishermen to throf jp id overboard all the salmon they had cae^'it. ic at as ? PBOMHreNT PEOPLE. ? ^ ?? a The German Kaiser Is a very expert horse* nifln i he Queen Victoria's late continental trip cost ed about $50,000. , ig Sajtcel MiKTinuf Peck, the poet, now Aa weighs 250 pounds. Ik Spain the Duke of Veragua is popularly rr known as the best breeder of bulls for boll Hl I fights. In The former Adjutant General of the United a 1 !ri States Army, General R. C. Drum, is living p? on a farm in Maryland. rk IiOBv Wolseley, the greatest of living English soldiers, is below medium height and of en slender and lithe of frame. Jo ? xh* isari or uraven, at me very aitar itseu, m xv and in the act of receiving the nand of his v. ;th bride, in New York, wore his trousers turned up. Julks Vebioe, who is about to bring outhis ve [ seventy-fourth novel, is said to be a native of t0 lie Warsaw. His real name la said to be Olohe- , wit* * i*? Pbince Biskabck recently addressed the th ? students at Bonn and it is recorded that in th jT mentioning the subject of dueling he did not hi Jjj actually condemn it he Pbksidxht McCosh, of Princeton College, Is a great lover of flowers and he watohee ar 33 over those in his gardeu as tenderly as does jj m a mother over her baby. ^ or W. S. Gzlbkbt has so far oleared $200,000 ? id off his play of "Pygmalion and Galatea," 31 ie which is said to be the most valuable theaan trical property in the world. or 116 Whim Gladstone is about to make a great 1U speech in the House of Comm^Jbs somebody * tidies him up, straightens his neckcloth, P1 a~ brushes his coat and puts a flower in his but- oi tonhole. Wl jh Pbofxssob Caspab Rzne Gbeooby, tho ie only American we recall who is a professor in ja a German university, has just received the B1 ja honorary doctorate in theology from the the- ^ ological faculty at Leipzig. sn Henby Reoinald Astob Cabey, a nephew hn of thn lat? John .Tfumh Astor. died fludaenlv m o( heart disease at Newport, B. L He was a se 1: member of the Rhode Island Legislature and re prominent in club life in New York City and nis native State. St 33 Miss Jennie Youno, the American woman m who owns extensive salt deposits In Chihua- th ^ hua and Coahulla, Mexico, has gone to England to bring over several thousand English J" families to settle on the lands which she has of 111 been granted by the Mexican Government te j0 The Maharajah of Patlala has married an it English lady, Miss Florrie Bryan, according to Sikh rites. Patlala is a native State in the m j. Punjab of India, partly in the plain south of fr the Sutlej and partly among the hills near ^ { Simla. It has a population of about 1,500,? 000. Ifc i- Fbedebick Weyebhauseb, one of the rich- eh it est of the lumber kings of Minnesota, began n in work in a brewery when he came to this coun- ^ le try from Germany. He worked for $1 a day, i- then was employed at piling slabs in a sawmill, and finally came to own many saw-mills CQ Is and lumber camps. I MIMED BT CLEVELAND. " ie 'j. A. Minister, Consuls, Territorial Offl- ^ cers, and a First Comptroller. Wl r- The President announced the following th appointments ja, ie Alexander McDonald, of Virginia, to be (j? 19 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo?" " ??v. st.fm Varala tfannonary ui mo uun.cu omiw w * Consuls-General?Wallace S. Jones, ol or k Florida, at Bome; Alfred D. Jones, of North oil ^ Carolina, at Shanghi. _ >y Stephen Bonsai, of Maryland, to ba Secre.q tary of the Legation of the United States to 33 China. ju a Consuls?James B. Taney, of West Vir .. j! ginia, at Belfast; Charles T. Lyons, of New in 3f York, at Zanzibar; Harrey Johnson, of It ie Georgia, at Antwerp; Benjamin Lanthier, of ac Massaohusetts. at Sherbrook; Harrison P. lQ Williams, of Missouri, at San Jose, Costa ljr PJea; RaJph Johnson, of New York, at Fort 9_ Erie; Henry P. Da Bellett, of Texas, at ^ Rheims: James C. Monaghun, of Rhode A a< Island, at Chemnitz j Charles Schaefer <rt Kansas, at Vera Cruz. , William C. Renfrow, of Oklahoma, to b? Governor of the Territory of Oklahoma. be Charles C. Richards, of Utah, to be So ere- res tary of Utah. , Charles M. Bruce, to be Secretary of Arin zona. Robert B. Bowler, of Ohio, to be First Pe ,(1' Comptroller of the Treasury. 30! * A SCOEE DBOWNED. ?E er fl ]|^ a0 A Religious Procession Precipitated ^ !ir Into the Gallcgo. jj, A.n incident by which twenty persons lost n_ their lives is reported from the province of st Saragossa, Spain, near Santa Eulalia, in that B er province. A religious procession was crossing on > oi pontoons the Gallego River, which runs from yf, a- the Pyrenees to the Ebro. is One of the pontoons collapsed under the ie weight of the procession and a large number ufi o of persons were plunged into the water. 6t) Q- Twenty perished in the river, and scores or Ne ie others were rescued in an exhausted con- ca Oitlon. | m; IFFIGIAL CROP REPORT. 1 STMATES OF TEE AGBICUL- ?$ TUBAL DEPARTMENT. not i he Condition of Winter Wheat 2.1 ^ Points Lower Than in April?Rye yean and Barley Have Also Suffered? them Cotton Seed Scarce for Replanting y?rk Purposes. f The May returns of the United States De- great irtment of Agriculture on the condition of Britl inter wheat show a reduction of 2.1 from Ri^ ie April average, being 75.8, against 77.4 last onth and 84 In May, 1892. The averages of trails e principal winter wheat 8tatos are: Ohio, tilird l; Michigan, 71; Indiana, 79; Illinois, 62; lasourl, 72; Kansas, 51. The average of these J101?1 s States la 68.3, against 74.2 In April, being tand> decline of 5.9 points since the first last montn. in (jamornia me condition ? is advanced ten points, while in the princl- ?*tej J wheat producing States there has been cbos< insiderabie deterioration. In Kansas, Colo- Go do and Nebraska, where planting was back- by & ard and germination slow, owing to con- Blaki inal drough and much of the plant being Robe Inter-killed, large areas have been plowed Hunt 3 and devoted to other crops. The same Jame is been done in Missouri, Indiana and 1111- jj >is, where the plant was badly winter-killed ^ u id greatly damaged since by the fjoo mtinued wet weather. In Michigan the ' verity of the winter greatly damaged the .. w* ant, and the weather since has been too * ? ' ild and backward to admit of recuperation. t~.? image from Hessian fly in some of the at ^ unties of the latter State, Indiana and entei bio Is reported, and from the chinch bug In Th uisas. In some of the principal wheat mure ates the plant on the uplands is reported twee; good condition, while on lower and un- Harr ained lands the conditions are poor and Uo t uch of the crop was destroyed by drown- Prise ?. Winter rye, like wheat, has suffered a dome in condition since last month, its aver- m;e for May being 82.7, against 85.7 for same jaci. ite in April. The average condition of bar- men y is 88.6. against 92.8 last year. The pro- jw0 rtion of spring plowing done May 1 Is reirted as 73.4 per cent, against an average y 77 per cent, for a series of years. J*" 5 The cotton report to the department for 1 ay relates to the progress of cotton plant- ttie n g and contemplated acreage. The propor- Ba >n of the p.oposed breadth already planted the \ . a# Wnff rrrno QK Q nor nOTtf Trhlrth y-1 I VUO UXOb V* iixuJ ntw W.v wvi, wwmmj ITMV** ua iproaohes very closely the area usually anted at that date, which Is estimated at ton ' per cent. In some districts corre- ureJj onaents report dronth, while in others the two ( turns show the retarding causes to be frost three id excessive rain. Germination has been were )w and the growth of plant backward, ba-jj me Indications have been given as to the conmplated acreage, as compared with that of *' it year, which was considerably below the J*, erage lor a series of years, but they are of ,ow i uncertain oharacter, and therefore it is 0 possible to base any satisfactory predic- Vi ins thereon, and the figures relating thereto Briti e only given to indicato what the corr&- Navi ondents believed to be the intention as to Rich reage. There will be less replanting than two ual, owing to the great scarcity of seed. Blak .timate of acreage will be made on Junel te usuaL nL,i had I LATEB NEWS.' shall The body of Roehl, the condemned mur- was rar who recently escaped from Bing Sing Bive f. Y.) Prison, was found floating in the 511(1 ndson River near Sing Sing. A bullet hole bimz his head and a fracture of the skull from p^g blow led to the belief tl^t his companion, i>b illister, killed him. at CJ Captain Alfbed T. Mahaw, lale President the Naval War College, relieved Captain >hn P. McGlensey as Commander of Ad- den, Iral Walker's flagship, the Chicago, now In Norr 3W York Harbor. Joseph Frahcis, the life saving boat in- Tb inter, died a few days since In Coopers- ded< wn, N. Y, He was born on March 13,1801, tloni Boston, Mass. In 1887 both houses of e National Legislature passed resolutions anting him for his "lifelong services to imanity and to his country." Han St, I Thx National League of Republican Clubs id the National Republican Committee both the ild meetings in Louisville, Ky. Thomas H. note irter was elected Chairman and Joseph H. w^c anley Secretary. , 0f ^ A ba.bok loaded with fireworks exploded note i the river at Thunderbolt, Ga., during an Tb umination. Ferguson, a Philadelphia emoye, of Pain & Son, and one colored man ^ t board were killed. Neither of the bodies ?ie(i. as recovered. not 1 sued Th* President has appointed James H. whic ount, of Georgia, Envoy Extraordinary Tb id Minister Plenipotentiary to the Hawaiian Boaz lands, succeeding John L. Stevens, rejned. Mr. Blount's commission will be Thoi nt him by the next mall for Honolulu. Chic ABOTTxzirrs were made in the United ates Court in the cases of the three China- gx en arrested to test the constitutionality of i e Geary Exclusion law. ol C In tc The President appointed Frank H. Jones, Springfield, 111., First Assistant Postmas- encl< r-General, vice H. Clay Evans, resigned. By an order issued by the Navy Depart- ton t will ent Surgeon-General Browne was relieved ni" om duty aft chief of the Bureau of Medi- Ts ne and Surgery and placed on the retired ^jso it. He was appointed from New Hamp- the 1 ire, and has served more than forty years A the navy. He was retired on account of ? TB 1 boar The Greek Ministry, headed by M. Trl- trip' mpls, has resigned, owing to the failure to (gotiate a loan for the relief of the present 0f q abarrassed condition of Greek finances. of Aj Adkoal Gomez y Lono, who commanded ^ew St e Spanish vessels of war in the recent ival review in New York Harbor, and who mad< as prevented by 111 health from reviewing sor t e land parade, and went to Havana, Cuba, Ta ter in his flagship, the Infanta Isabel, is >ad. that Heeb Delezck, actor, committed suicide i the stage at Lemberg, Galicia, by blowing it his brains. An actress with whom he is In love flirted with another man. _ Be Qvekh Victoria, of-England, opened the Thej iperial Institute in London, and was enuslastically received by enormous crowds. ^ ^ was announced that it was her last pubHc fran ipearance. dent Tb FATAL FLAMES. ^ Li n Indiana Village Almost Entirely land Destroyed by Fire. el8h TH The village of North Galveston, Ind., has en almost totally destroyed by flre. The Sl, sidence of J. J. Jackson, among others, was bate nsumed, and the entire family, consisting a^on/ himself, wife, two sons and a daughter, rished in the flames. Several other perus were badly burned- !>"] Many families lost their entire earthly pos- wil1 J ssions, and made their escape clad only in the \ iir night clothes. The village had no Are and ' tinguishing apparatus, and being off the pH o of a railroad, it was lmpossiDle to secure placo L deati "" art ci COLUMBUS IN SILVER, e* the c artholdl's Design Successfully Cast ^ -A Tou of Metal. {5lll The silver statue of Columbus for the Mb orld's Fair, designed by Bartholdl, was sue- *ore' ssfully cast at the works of the Gorham Han- Th icturing Company In Elmwood, R. L The itue is somewhat larger than life size. sarly a ton of metal was employed in Its sting, the value of the silver being esti- ^ Ued at about $25,000. 1 ===== I EE NEWS EPITOMIZED. 1 Eastern and Middle States. ' x stock market in Wall street, New Tork was saved from a wild panlo by Drexelfan and Yanderbllt interests; 8. V. White rnded, and there were wild scenes on the i Exchange; other Wall street men oould aeet their obligations. is. Pawxi* Wabiko Kobw, after giving >n to her two ohiMren, Edwin, eleven i old, and Fannie, six years old, shot j and then shot herself in her flat in New City. The girl died. * Herald's regatta in New York Harbor oreign men-of-war's boat crews was a : success. The first race won by the sh ship Australia, Etna second and icleiine third; the secend race, by the lan ship General Admiral, Blake second, ralia third; the third race, by the AusJ l (both first and 83:ond prizes), and Blake eutisajtr Bobebt E. Pzaby left Phlla- . ila, Penn., for St. Johns, New Found to complete his arrangements for the 1 to take the Arctic exploring party to e Sound. The party will be composed i men, seven of whom have been already ML i , l-'vV ld medals for life savingwere presented >ns of St George on board EL 1L 8. 3, in New York Harbor, to 8eamen rt Half yard and Henry Charles William and on shore to Battery Boatman ? uuonnor. H. Wabkzb, of Rochester, N. Y., made isignment, with liabilities estimated at 000. mi In New York Harbor the crew of Jnited States steamer Atlanta enterd the crew of H. M. steamer Magicienne Inner, and other foreign Bailors were tained by the Philadelphia and Newark. e body of Carlyle W. Harris, the wife lerer, was buried in Rural Cemetery, ben Albany and Troy, New York State. is's last written statement was madepub>y Assistant Superintendent of State , ins Baker. \ > . South and West. k big steam pipe in Machinery Hall, son Park, Chicago, 111., burst. Three ; were dangerously scalded, one fatally. were knocked Insensible. lde Haines. colorod, was hanged in the ard at Columbia, S. C. Jesse Yarbo rough l&nged at Appling Court House, Ga., for ' lurder of a colored man named Williams. 0 weather diminished the attendance at World's Fair, Chloago. ptauc Ida Bente-it, of the Salvation f, was murdered at Spokane, Washingby her lover, Daniel W. Hoskins. He two shots into her heart and then fired ihots into his own head. In less than 1 minutes after the quarrel started both dead on the floor of the Salvation Army , toks. roBHADo did much damage in and near esville. Texas; a Santa Fe train was ' fn off the track and wrecked; there was loss in Oklahoma. ce-Admbai, Sib John O. Hopkins, ofthe ' sh Royal Navy, visited Annapolis (Md.) d Academy, accompanied by Lieutenant ard Mulligan, United States Navy, and midshipmen from the British flagship i ?. as Chemical National Bank, of Chicago, pith depositsof $1,500,000, has failed. It ho fha Waff UCIUBIII^ piJIUVJO OV M*w ? V?*V? w nds and had done a good business there. silk returning to his home near Mar- %, l's Ferry, HL, in a s'dff, Peter Jackson caught in the current of the Wabash r and overturned, and Jackson, his wife two children were drowned. lonil Wabd H. Laxon died at Martina- . , , W. Va., a few rights ago. He was Ident Lincoln's private secretary. at World's Pair buildings and grounds licago were illuminated by electricity at t during the second week in honor of 'first opening" of the Exposition. txx colored men were lynched at BearArk.. for a murderous assault on Jesse an, a merchant. The men lynched i: Abe Crain, aged twenty-five; Doo ion, forty-six; Jim Stewart, twenty. [X Superior Court of North Dakota has led the Prohibition law to be cozatituiL . Washington. rx President appointed Richard Dalton 0 Collector of the Port of Vicksburg: ry EL Sain, to be Collector of the Port of iOUiS critabt Carlisle decided, to instruct United States Treasurer to issue small ? s in place of those of large denomination, ih are returned to the Treasury for reiaHe determined upon this plan because e steadily increasing demand for small 8. particularly from the West and South. x President decided to postpone the renhiing of the International Monetary !erence until November. isidint Cleveland has officially notithe office-seekers that hereafter he will isten to their personal appeals. He isa statement from the White House in :h he made known his decision. ' [E President appointed the following d of Visitors to West Point Military lemy Charles Fairchild. New York, ry L. Pierce. Massachusetts, Frank npson, Philadelphia; A. C. McClurg, ago; John W Dinsmore, San Jose, QaL ; ard A. Alderman, Greensboro.; N. C.. John P. Bsn, Mlnneapnlis. cbxtabz Cablisle received and accepted eeignation of General W. 8. Rosecrans. California, as Register of the Treasury. n Kla Mfl^/vnofiAn AanaM.1 RAOA. iuuuiau5 uu V. v-v? V? ? b referred to his impaired health and mm a certificate from his physician ih says that General Roseorans Is unable ndertake the long journey to Waahinguxd does not hold out any hope that he be able to do so in the near future. [? President announced' the following lintments: H. W. Smith, ot Utah, to be , ciate Justioe of the Supreme Court of Territory of Utah ; Everett E. Ellin wood, -rizona. to be Attorney of the United a for the Territory of Arizona. tB Secretary of the Navy appointed the d of Naval experts to conduct the trial of the New York. cs.itaet Cablislk appointed Charles S. 2hild, of New York City; Daniel Magone, gdensburg, N. Y., and Poindexter Dunn, rkansas, a committee to investigate the York Custom House. atz Department officials confirmed the rt that Commissioner Blount was to be 9 Minister Resident to Hawaii as succeso John L. Stevens. [e United States cruiser Atlanta has been red to proceed to Nicaragua to protect rican interests during the revolution in country. Foreign. :z Colonial Bank of Australasia, Victoria, lusnonded navment. TonmoNi9T8 in Nicaragua are gaining. ' have captured three important cities ire now investing the capital of the ReIc. l Eustis, the American Ambassador to ice, has been officially received by PresiCarnot. tK French Government has declined to >se a tax upon foreigners. lbob demonstrations were held in Eng- ' , Ireland and Germany in favor of an t-hour day. ;e long drorth in Austria has been en. i John Moeley moved closure on the deon the first clause of the Irish Home bill and the motion was carried amid 3s of great exaitement in the British ae of Commons. fanta Eulalie and Prince Antonio, who represent the royal family of Spain at World's Fair, arrived in Havana, Cuba. were enthusiastically welcomed. imf. Minister Gladstone offered the f of Poet Laureate, made vacant by the 1 of Lord Tennyson, to the distinguished ritic, John Ruskin. [pebftn William, of Germany, addressed )fflcere of the Guards on the rejection of urmy bill; he stated that he would stake 1 his power on the enactment of the l Coudert concluded his argument bethe Bering Sea Tribunal at Paris. e Bank of Victoria, Limited, at Heine, Australia, has suspended payment, liabilities of about $12,000,000. ralue $50 each, were sold at auction Id Y<jrk City tot $4 for the lot