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THE FAIR IS FISHED SPLI^DOR OF THE "WHITE GOT" AS COMPLETED, Best Points From "Which to Get a General View of the Buildings? Plaster Figures and Columns That Seem to Have Been Sculptured For All Time. The White City, 'which Americans have *pent nearly ^40,000.000 in building, is complete in all but a few minor details, says a Chicago dispctch to the New York World. No such temporary home for the arts and sciences and the products of all the Nations was ever erected l>efore. Nor is it probablo that its iibe will be created again soon. It Is something that all Americans can view with pride, for the spirit and form of the classic age have been reproduced on the soil of the youngest of theNatlons.. It is a triumph of art as well as of enterprise. It is no injury to the Fair that its surroundings are unattractive. By any of the land routes the visitor approaches it through moratonous and common plaoe suburbs or along a ('reary maze of railroad tracks. It renderr the transformation more abrupt and more effective when ho passes through the gates an 1 enters the grounds. He has passed from dark and smokv Chicacro. with its dirtT streets and begrimed sky 3crapers, Into a place where nearly all the buildings are pure white or errata tinted. He is in an enclosure two miles long and about a half mile broad. Old Tyre, one of the most powerful cities of the anotant world, stood on an island smaller than this enclosure, and the whole population of Athens, in its glory under Pericles, could have been seated comfortably in thi Manufacturer Building, ail at the same time,. Chicago's 1,300.000 people would not fill the park. Thero are about a hundred large buildings' on the erounds, and the whole place is laid off into streets and courts just like a real 4 ait/. The first impression the visitor receives as he sees the completed Fair is tfeat of immensity. He might have had the same feeling, but more indefinite, had he been here on tho opening d|y. But then there was so mu"h debris and so much was not finished that half the Fair was hidden. Now he sees it sa its builders wish it to be seen. Then comes a feeling of perplexity. He does not know where to begin his travels through this city. He may remain here several days and then go away, leaving buildings he did not see and of whose existence he did not learn. ' iffflT DOJfB or OOVKB2T21ENT TJUTLDIKO Most people soon find their way to the Court of Honor, or the Grand Plaza, as it is Indifferently called. It is the space between the Administration Building on the east and the Peristyle on the west, with the Manafac mres rsuuaing ana tne Agricultural jsuucung occupying most of tho northern and southern 3ide8, respectively. The water curves under the Peristyle from the lake and forms a grand basin in the center. With the MacMonnies fountain at the hoad of the basin, the Peristyle at the foot, green turf and flowers along the rides and the huge white building further back, is formed the finest artificial view that the world affords. The effect is heightened when tho basin is covered with gondolas and launches filled VIEWI^Q THE FAIB XW A. BOLLE2 CXLIIB. with people. Swn from one of these boats the buildings appear to be of solid marble,as enduring as the Parthenon. The figures that crown the Peristyle seem to have been sculptured for all time, and the gigantic horses and bulls that stand on the coping of the basin look as if they would remain there forever. The most colossal of all the statury at the Fair is French's ideal representation of the Republic. This statue is sixty feet high and -J" ^ ? *%w% fmnnaintv ntulpufnl In tha CUUl UU vu ??** iuij/vo?*?rt ? ??%southerly basin of the lagoon. The most imposing view of tho Fair from the ground is probably that of the grand basin looking from the Administration Building up to the Colonnade. Here a grand court Is formed by the Administration, Electricity, Manufactures, Music, Colonnade Casino, and other buildings. At ona end is the beautiful Columbus Fountain, at tha other the . oiofsal golden Goddess of Liberty. The whole "fleet is certainly very striking, very fine. At night it is prettier, but perhaps less impressive. Then the buildings are partly outlined by couutless electric incandescent lamps, the great sear -blights from the Manufactures Building sweep fitfully over tho basin, tho electric fountains Hash with varied colors, the air is filled with delightful music, ami tho whole scene is brilliant ami fairv-like. Perhaps, the best view of all is from a boat in the centre of the basin. The eye can sweep around the whole court and secure the greatest effects. Next to this it is best to rftan J on the bridge at the foot or the Peristyle, beneath which the water runs, and look back towards the Administration Building. Howover, the reverse view is scarcely inferior, for tho late shining through the columns ol the Peristyle contributes variety and color. But there is another view, somewhat neglected by visitors, which has peculiar charms. Stand between the Agricultural Building and Machinery Ball look northward. Then you soe across the Court of Honor and i ! far up an arm of the lagoon. The View is cot bounded by buildings, but melts away in the distance. From the wooded Island Is another good place to see the Fair. Here one stands where the landscape gardener has done his best i ^^|/cf? ?n i'mmux 1",|,m I STATU* or TITZ BSPTOLIC. work and looks upon the city surrounding him. The island is strictly rural. There are no buildings upon it but the Japanese temple, the hunter's cabin .and the Australian miner's hut. It Is the White City's parlc, and people go there to rest and to see the grass. All this naturally reminds one of the classic age?not as the classic age probably was, but as the modem Imagination depicts It The city that Augustus boasted to have lelt of marble might have borne some resmblance in its better portions to the Fair. But no Roman or Oriental potentate ever possessed the power of the modern Amerl I 8H0WIS0 CA.LIFOBKIA BEDW00D. con purse which has built this Fair. The Roman Emperor might have ransacked his dominions from Spain to the Caspian, bat | the American republicans had the whole world to hunt through, and they have done it. The classic age cannot compete with the age of steam and electricity, it would not be in the race. Pericles and Augustus would have many things to learn If they could come back. * Yet this entire city was built for a temporary purpose. It was all raised that a Nation might have a playground for a siz months' holiday. When the people have hAd their summer's revel the white buildings wilt disappear. Everything will vanish, and the plaoo where it stood will be a park again. This is the Fair. Despite all the biokerings and petty quarrels that ocourred durlnj? the first month of its existonce, the result has been achieved, On soil that two or threo generations ago was a bit of the universal wilderness of tno Northwest, a Fair has been created with whioh nono other that has gon before it oan be compared. AT TUX STATS BUILDIXQ8. Ox the top of a flazstaff in the front of the Nebraska State Building floats a thirty-sixfoot flag, the largest in the grounds. It was presented to this State Building by the ladies of Omaha. Ttr* Tnnr.a Qfn^A nnlMIno Vina rind moat oomplote reglater on the grounds; It will ?sgiat<*c 200,000 pcoplo. Its nearest rival iB the one in the South Dakota Building whion will hold 100,000 names. WiseoxsiN* has contributed to her Stato Building on odd history, all written and illustrated by a pen. It is on a single leaf and mounted in an elegant gilt frame ;it contains almost every known incident of importance in the 8tate s history. Ixdiana'b Stata Building has a Postofliso made of thousands of pieces of colored gloss, artistically and tastefully arranged. Each box has a"different combination, like a bank safe. The whole was designed and executed by the Keyless Lock Company. I Idaho has silver drinking cups at her fountains in the Stato Building. They are solid silver and weigh about twenty ounces each, while tho chains which attach them to (tho fountains are likewise pure sliver. They ; were contributed by the ladies of Idaho. I Is the Michigan Building is a map of tho J United States made of wood; each State is I represented in shape by Its mo3t popular i wood, and around tho edge of all sire the Presidents of the United States, carved out I nf T"AA/1 TTTl Vi f Kn no Tin n n il fnwnt r\9 mi nil j Vi HVVU, nibU KUO i.UUiV UUU bniUi U1 n(K U, The two vases that were presented to Governor De Witt Clinton in honor ot the opening of tho Erie Canal in I8'25 occupy proaainent positions In the New York State Building. They are made of solid silver and embossed with beautiful designs of the canal and Its ! i advantages. f* J=L i THE SOUTH DAKOTA 3UILDIMU. | Is the South Dakota State Building u mln| iuture miner's cabin, made by a boy of twelve, . I is very ingeniously constructed and contains j minerals from nil over ttiut State. One side j of the cabin is open, into which you peep ; j the interior is as interesting as the exterior, j but must be seen to be appreciated. This t j buildlnjj Is 70x180 feet, two stories high, each i story fourteen feet. Fourteen of the princi | pal oitlee of the State are memorialised in as j many beautiful windows. Every nail has ; been driven by South Dakota muscle. The outside has been finished in Yankton PortI j land cement?1% product of the State, LIZZIE BORDEN SET FREE. THE JUKY SPEEDILY DECLARE HER NOT GUILTY. The Verdict in tlic Groat Fall River Murder Cuse Received in the New liedford Court House With a Tumult of Applause?The Defendant Waahu fnr Inr?Ifpp VufiiPA. Aftr;r an ordeal lasting thirteen days Lizzi* Borden ra acquitted by the jury which tried her at New Bedford, Mass., on tho charge of murdering her father and stopmother. She was almost overcomo when the verdict wa3 read, and men and women cheered tho findins*. Miss Borden returned to Fall River, where she became the guest of Banker Irenes. It had been a fearful day in court, a day of keen suffering for everybody, for the heat was intense. For tho prisoner it was tho most trying of all her ordeals, for she was forced to sit and listen for more than three hours while Mr. Knowlton with all the power of his eloquence sought to forge tight upon her the rivets of the government's chaim of circumstantial evidence. Court came in promptly at 0 o'olock ; the jury was polled and the District Attorney picked up the thread of his argument where he had dropped it. He congratulated the jury upon the near approaoh of the end. The counsel .who opened the cause Jor the defence had said that motive was a part of the government's case. This w.13 not so. although tho motive ha3 moved in elucidating the facts. The address of District Attorney Knowlton was a masterpiece in its line. From first to last he sustained the interest which he had created in the beginning. Tho whole matter was so cleverly handled, the little points were so woven together in a complete structure, that a deep impression was made on every one in the court room. When ho had finished the Bordens and their friends looked gloomy and ex-Governor Robinson tried to cheer them up. Lizzie cried a little just before court took a recess. When court reconvened at a quarter to 2 o'clock Chief Justice Mason said, solemnly: ' Lizzie Andrew Borden, although you have now been heard by your lawyers the opportunity is given you. as customary in such oas.\s. to address th? jury in your own liehalf, and if you desire to say anything to them you may now avail yourself of the opportunity to do so."' In reply the prisoner rose and, resting her hand on the railing of the desk, said in alow voice: "I am innocent. I leave my counsel to speak for me." Then she sank bac'-c wearily into her place and without more ceremony the jury were directed to rise. Justice Dewey, rising also, and resting one hand on a volume on the corner of the bench began to read his charge. He charged the jury to weigh the evidence 3D ;:s to soe whether defendant's permanent statu of mind showed a motive for the crimes. Every material allegation in the indictment must be proved beyoud reasonable doubt?that is, to a moral certainty. He compared direct and circumstantial evidence, and said that failure to prove an essential fact would be fatal, but failure to prove a heipi'u! fact might not be. Lizzie's state moats aDour rne noio were uiauussuu ui length and he said they must be satisfied they were false. Every fact proved must bo" reasonably consistent with guilt. The government nacd not show that nobody else had the opportunity to commit the crime, but must prove that defendant committed it. The jury must reason as to the effect o" defendant's conduct and statements. They were not to conclude by expert testimony. but worn to apply to it a reasonable judgment. They might convict if satisfied the act was done by another party, but that defendant was present, aiding and abetting. The fact that defendant did not testify shoutd not influence them against her. After she charge, which was considered very favorable to the; prisoner, the case was given to the jury. The jury retired at halfpast three o clock, and the opposing lawyers busied themselves in picking out from the grisly collection of relics of the tragedy articles the jury might desire to examine. They might well have spared themselves the trouble. 7/hen this matter had been settled the Justices loft tho bench, and Justices Dewey and Islodgett took a little stroll down the street, leaving the Chief Justice to await any communication the jury might desire to make. It had Deon rumored at twenty-five minutes past four o'clock that an agreement had been readied, aud within five minutes the judges returned and the jury filed into the box. When silence had been proclaimed tho Chief Justice said "Lizzie Andrew Borden, hold up your right hand and look upon the foreman. Foreman, look upon the prisoner. What is your verdict? ' Not guilty."' At the words Lizzie Borden fell forward in an attitude of prayer and the assemblage broke out into tumultous applause. The District Attorney rose and. after moving for the discharge of the indictment, said: "I now congratulate tho defendant and her counsel." As soon as practicable Mis* Eorden was removed to the Judge's room, where she was embraced by hoc sister and many of the trio'.vt* who have steadfastly stood by her. When congratulated on her acquittal she smiled, and in reply to inquiries about her turnrn plans referred nil to ex-Goxernor l!oi)iuso*a. who said that Miss Borden had made no plans, and only desired to escape as ooriip.etc.y as possible lrorn tne puolio notice. After tho greater part ofthoerowd had dispersed, Miss Borden, accompanied by her sister and several friends, entered a carriage and was driven to the depot, where she took the train for. Fail River, where she became tho guest of Banker C. J. Holmes. On the way she was repeatedly recognized and loudly cheered. Members of the jury say that an agreement was practically reached the close of the defence, and that it was only at the suggestion of the foreman that they went through the form of retiring. IN A SMASH-UP. Fatal Accident on the Manhattan Beach Railroad. Part of the special race-train on the Manhattan Beach Railroad which left the Coney Island Jockey Club 8tation at Sheepshead Bay. N. Y., at 5 :40 p. m., ran off the track at a blind switch near the Ocean Parkway tunnel. Several men were killed instantly. Many were wounded. Some of these died in the hospitals later. The number of killed was eight. The number of injured was twenty-six. The passengers were nearly all from the race-track. They had left after the Suburban and before the last race on the card was run. There probably were fifteen hundred people packed on the seven cars of the train. Over one hundred were clinging to the side steps of #u? cars. These were crushed against the high bank into which the blind switch ran. None of those who were in the cars were hurt badiy. While there was great fright among the passengers, there was no panic. The cause of the accident was not made clear. The switchman In the tower to the west of the tunnel wa? arrested on the theory that he had failed to properly set the switch. He was accused of having been asleep. He declared that the switch was set corroctly. By some of the passengers tt was believed that the derailment was due to the sudden slowing up of the engine on the sharp curve caused by the converging of the double track into a single track at the mouth of the tunnel. Other passengers declare that the sensation at the tirue the cars ieft the tr.vk was as if an axle of one of the cars or elsj tho l'rog of the switch had broken. Auditor Ackekmav made p. statement to financiers of tfta World s i-.ur ruai took thoir breuth away. Ku told them that the salary list lor May roa';h'jd the total of ?850,000, anil that mora than GOOD employes were on the pay roil during that period. There was a general exdamation that tho running expenses wore at l"ast 3100,000 a month too high, and tho announcement was made that Director of Works Durnham had ieoldod to drop 3000 men from tho roll* Governor Fisiiba.cz, of Arkansas, has written a letter to President Cleveland protesting against the Government's neglect of the lower rivers, resulting in yearly floods. TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Tiif. British Embassy has been temporarily transferred to Newport. R. I., where Sir Julian Pauncefote has rented a cottage for the summer. The Embassador and his family, and all the attaches except one of the under secretaries, will spend the season there. At thn instigation of tho neighbors wealthy and aged Eliphalet Stratton. of Brooklyn, N. Y., has been arrested on a charge of starving his invalid young wife. Rev. C. P. McKenxa, a priest attached to St. Ann's Church, in New York City, and Mrs. Maiy Burchell, his cousin, were drowned in the North River while boating. Doctor Gclick, one of the best known physicians of Seranton, Penn., committed suicide by thrusting tho muzzle of a shot gun into his mouth and pulling the trigger. Shortly before he took his breakfast he told his wife that his head pained him and thai he believed he was going crazy. Tttt, Tlnniiocrio Tii'nn Wnrks ComDRnV. Pittsburg, Penn., have failed for $350,000. The Infanta Eulalla arrived in New York City from Chicago and yent to the house of J. M. Ceballos, which had been placed at hot disposal. She expected to remain there a week, incognito. The Casseil Publishing Company, of New York City, is embarrassed through the note kiting operations of its President, 0. M. Dunham, and Judge Lawrence has appointed Henry J. Braker receiver. John J. Haooebty, of New York City, jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge into the East Rivor while intoxicated and escaped uninjured. He swam ashore. He was arrested. South and West. Chinch bugs are damaging wheat and corn in Kansas. The Congress of tho American Sons of the Revolution met in Chicago. > A reception was tendered to ex-President Harrison in the Ohio Building at the World's Fair. A disastbous rain and wind storm swept over South Georgia. Yaldosta and Thomasville report many houses blown down. The melon and poar crops wore badly damaged across the lower sections of the State. Bywabic and Mountain, two mining towns on the Iron Ran?e Railroad, north of Duluth, Minn., were reported to be wholly wiped out uy uro. Edward Davis, George J. Ringcamp and George Mortzan, all of Carbonado, Iowa, were drowned while bathing. The crowd at the World's Fair was smaller on the fourth open Sunday than on the third, and the attendance did not exceed 50,000. This, no doubt, was dua to the suitry weather. The Government exhibits were closed as usual. Most of the State buildings were open. An unknown cowboy entered th9 Turtle Mountain Bank at Dunsnth, North Dakota, held up Cashier Tucker, and robbed the bank of $1000. The citizens caught and lynched him. On California Day at tho World's Fair the building of the Golden State was dedicated with ifcteal ceremonies. "Washington. In accordance with th9 decision of Chief Justice Bingham, Doctor Patterson, the Coroner of the district, began a new inquest over the remains of the victims of the Ford's Theatre disaster. Sixty-seven clerks have been dropped from the rolls of the General Laud Office. Thk President has appointed Thomas D. r.obinson to be Surveyor General of Colorado. Commissioner Millf.b prepared a statement which shows that the total su?ar bounty for the fiscal year ending June 30 will be ?9,403,989.87 A. L. Ames, who was injured in the Ford's Theatre disaster, died at the Emergency Hospital, making the twenty-third victim. The acting Secretary of the Navy has ac| cepted the new cruiser New York, as a result I nf har ati?noaafiil fria) Thn hiiiMara of tan vessel will receive about $700,000 bonus. Complete official returns of the Chinese registration under the Qeary act have been received by Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller. They show that out of 110,000 Chinese in the United States, 13,179 registered. The President appointed Robert B. Glenn, of North Carolina, to be Attorney for the United States for the Western District of North Carolina. William Perry Murphy, of South Carolina, to be Attorney of the United States for the district of South Carolina. Otto Peemiller, of South Dakota, to be Marshal of the United States for the district of South Dakota. The Coroner's jury whioh has been investigating the Ford's Theatre disaster brought in a verdict of criminal negligence against Colonel Ainsworth, Superintendent Covert, Engineer Sasse and G. W. Dant, the contractor. Foreign. The elections in Germany passed off quietly ; reballots will be necessary in many districts. At two o'clock on the morning after the election the returns foreshadowed defeat for the Army bill. Every candidate in Berlin pledged to support the Army bill wus defeated. The provinces also seem to be very emphatic against it. The Socialists made great gains and their snccess created a sensation. The latest returns from the German elections showed slight gains for the Govern mont; in a majority of the districts nearu from re-ballots will be necessary. A Govebnmknt powder magazine a few miles from Athens, Greece, exploded. Twen ty persons, including officers and soldiers, were killed, and great (iemage was done tc surrounding property. Gladstonia58 have lo9t a seat in the British Housj of Commons, Linlithgowshire having returned Captain Thomas Hope, the conservative candidate for the seat previously hold by Mr. Peter McLagan, with a majority of 16'J. With only one district to hear from, the results of the llolchstag election in Germany are : For the Army bill, 101; against it, 114: reballots necessary, 181. Hkkb Liebksecht, the Social Democratic le.-#*r, admits that the German Governmanl will have a majority for the Army bill by effecting a compromise. Intense heat provailed throughout the (Jnitei Kingdom and on the Continent, accompanied in England by 7iolent storms, causing serious damage in various districts. TOWNS BUMED. Forest Fires Destroy Villages and Mining Camps in tfte Mesaba Range. Refugees from the towns destroyed by foraet flres along the Mesaba range in Minnesota bring interesting details of tho destruction caused by the flames. The first train load of refugees, carrying 250 persona, mostly women and children, arrived in Duluth, and the passengers hurried from the ooaohes to the baggage rooms, whore elaborate lunches were spread. The greater portion were penniless, dependent absolutely upon what charity might be offered. Few had saved anything beyond the most meagre effects and for the v/hole train load there was only one trunk. A second train bearing refugees from th3 burned district arrived at noon, bringing nearly two hundred persons. Advices from Virginia are that only son houses escaped the flames. Virginia was a village of 3503 inhabitants, with all that goes to make a thriving town. Mountain Iron was not so badly damaged as at first feared. So far as reported only tho r*hnf?/?h nnH a h.'ilf ?. Hnzfin hotl3J3 were burned. Merritt and Messania are c ompletely eieaned out, not a house remaining. There are numerous fatalities and injuries reported. "Ed" Kolly and Ida Vurth. sons and dance performers, who were playing at one of tho Merritt theatres, went bank tc the theatre to recover their war.lrob>\ when they were cut oil from all means of escape by the lake, and they were either drowned or burned. A young woman who3o namo has not yet been learned went back to her burning house to irot hor babe an 1 nerishe.l with the infant. One of the claims for damages for Indian depredations during the early days of Oregon is that for $1500 for the loss of a wagon load of apples, which were being brought to Southern Oregon to obtain the fabulous prices then ruling, wh9n the wagon was captured by Indians a ad tho contents lost. LATER NEWS. CnnwEM1, defeated Columbia in the fros man boat race at New London, Conn., eight lengths. Fbank Collins. a six-year-old boy, Keansburg, N. J., while playing with a sh< gun dropped it The gun discharged n blew off tho head of his four-year-old ni( and playmate, Madeline Carhart. The Suburban H.-.ndicap, a sweepstakes 6500 each, half forfeit, at a mile anc quarter, worth to the winner $18,000, to t second horse $5000 and to the third $20* was decided at Sheepshead Bay, New Yoi Lowlander won, Terrifler was second a Lamplighter third. Time, 2 K)6 3-5, the fa ! est ever run. In New York City and vicinity the temp ature reached 09}^ degrees in the shado, t highest recorded in June for twenty years. Daniel Loud, Ja., of New York Ci while asleep, walked out of a window u friend's house in Chicago and was killed. The West Virginia Building, at the Worl Fair, was dedicated. Secbetaby Carlisle has issued a circu headed "Discipline of Official Force," whi directs that ifthe office hours of the sevo . bureaus, offices and divisions shall be fri 9 o'clock a. m. to 4 o'clock p. m., with a cess of half an hour between 12 o'clock an< o'clock p. m. each day. Mbs. Cleveland, her little daughter, a household servants left Washington on special car for Buzzard's Bay, Mass. 1 President did not accompany her. The President of the Bering Sea Tribu: sharply rebuked Sir Riahard Webster, counsel for Great Britain. T^ A/1 fw/\m T)ni iaKAYX aiUriXlB were tOjJUtkeu UUJ1 A.O! Berlin and Lisbon. Secbetarv Cablisle bad a conference I Philadelphia, Penn., with trade orgAi tions and with individuals over the select of a site for a new mint. Twenty-nine s; were presented. Foub lives were lost in a Are at Dole Minn. In one day six banks shut their doors California?four at Los Angeles and tw< San Diego. The President has appointed Charles Howry, of Mississippi, to bo Assistant torney-General: Benjamin H. Ridgely, Kentucky, to be Consul at Geneva, 8witj land;C. F. JIaaDonild, of Mass^chusstts, bo Consul at Hamilton, Canada. In the Brodskl Chemical Works, at Odea Rus3ia, a large quantity of benzine explod killing sixteen men, including the direct Eight7 dwellings, six grocery and gene stores, two churches, the railway station i round bouse were destroyed by Are wh swept the village of Gibson, New Brunswi Loss, $2,000,000. A revolution has been started in San S vador again3t Pr^sid^nt Eseta. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The oldest living American poet is Is.' McLsnnan. aged eighty-eight. B.u/rmoBE has started a fund for a sta: of heroic size of Booth, the tragedian. Governor McKinle7, of Ohio, was mad< Knight of Pythias at Columbu3 recently. Among the official family of the new Con Minister at Washington are Messrs. YiHiu Chow Chick and Chang Bong Whang. ConobessuaN O'Neili,, of PhUadelph the '-father of the House," has served ci tinuously in Congress over thirty years. John Wcnch, of Birdsboro, the nei elected Grand Master of the Odd Fellows Pennsylvania, like Garfield, was a ca boatman in his younger days. Datid Stabb Jobdan bas resigned Presidency of the Leland Stanford Unh sity because Senator Stanford did not prove of his methods of managing it. Miss Vivian Sabtobis, the daughter Nellie Grant Sartoris, is sixteen years c She is studying for the stage at Buffalo, Y., and will make her dehut next fall. Pbofsssob John H. Finney has been augurated as President of Knox College Galesburg, 111. Ho is said to be the you est college President in the United States. Captain A. G. Thojissn, of the Thingv lino, has be?n knighted by the King of D mark on account of the captain's long s *rl/?n Vio rruHo 1 '1& vnvat?Ra ACrOSS j Atlantic. Wabeen Lei^nd, last survivor of I ; brother^ who made the name of Lelaud f; i ous in the hotel business from the Atlai j to the Pacific, died at Tort Chester, N. J. low days ago. The oldest living graduate of West Pc ! Is General Georgo S. Green, of New Y ; City, who graduated in 1823, and served m j distinction in the last War. He is now in 1 ninety-second year, and is living witi , son. : Charles Butler, of New York City, nov his ninety-third year, shook hands with ; fayette when th? great Frenchman paid | last visit, to this country. Mr. Butler is ? active and has lively recollections of j Marquis. j Princess Eclalia i3 said to have orde throe sets of newspaper clippings concern i her visit to tho United States. The Infa may be aristocratic, but she loves to n what is written about her, just as ordin people do. ! "Nat" M. Brighajt. recently appofn ! United States Marshal of Utah, will be memberod by Harvard men of about fift years back as one of the most noted ten WOO eTOr sunn in luo <jie<s i/iuu. fio i classmate of Theodoro Roosevelt and Jos j Quincy. ! It is rumored that in spito of his lavish i penditure of money William Waldorf As ! is not jjettiug all the recognition he wo I like in England. Mr. Astor's literary tin have nothing to do with his social cred , tials, and as there are hundreds of Engll men who write better than he does he not yet set the Thames on Are. I Govebnob Flo web, of Now York, is source of the keenest anguish to the mi bers of the Four Hundred when he appear take part in a social function at metropolis. He refuses to have his trous j creased, wears an ill-fltting and rather n coat and a silk hat that has not been bru&'] apparently, since it was bought. Ex-Pbesidkxt HABBisoy leads a very qi life in Indianapolis. He is seldom seen the streets, and never goes into society, bas not renewed business relations with ; . . ->r vrillo, Jtr TPIam hn? oia panncra, ?. a desk in the offlca of Howard Cole, wh ho transacts bis private business and wo on the lectures which ho will deliver at St ford University this fall. LIGHTNING IN A CIRCUS Several Killed in a Tcutat Iiiveiful Wis. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon lightn struck tfce large cirnus tout 01 King; Erotfcere. at llivorfalls. Wis., vhieh 1 crowded with people, instantly killing ei, and injuring more than twenty. The performance was. not quite over, the terrible storm caused this immense thr< to crowd out of the rent. While the pec ware passing out the tent was struck tw by lightning, with the above results. A started, but was extinguished. The lightning struck the centre pole of ' circus tent. The greabist consternation lowed. The ruin continued falling in gi sheets, and the bodies of the dead w soaked through before they could bo moved. The number of wounded was estimated the way up from ten to thirty. Most of tfc were taken home .t> soon as possible. in Ofclaiioma five train ro boors captu the ho"sos and guns of eleven soldiers v bad b.vm sent out to capture them. \ , ' V .v. ~ LELAND STANFORD DEAR < ft"y THE CALIFOENIA SENATOR 0' SUCCUMBS TO APOPLEXY. . Dtnd lea Found Lifeless in IHs Bed by His ? Valet After an Unusnnlly Active 1 0f Day?He Had Long Been ir. Dan- ' j a Rer of Apoplectic Attacks?His , }je Eventful Career DO, T'nited States Senator Stanford, of Call- j rk. fornia, died very unexpectedly o! apoplexy t nd at 12 o'clock a few nights ago. Ho passed < st- away peacefully at his home In Palo Alto. Senator Stanford was in the best of splr- j 0P. its on the day before his death. Ho took a s b0 drive around his stock farm and seemed as 1 well aS ever. He went to bed shortly after ] 10 o'clock, and about midnight his valet go- , . ing into his bedroom discovered that he was , " dead. i a For some time th J Senator had shown apoplectic symptoms, and his weight in- j creased alarmingly. There was a stiffness j 113 about his limbs that mado locomotion an exceedingly difficult task. His body was fast , becoming too heavy for his limbe to support. , l&r Six months ago the Senatorsent for Doctor , ch Curtis, of San Francisco. The doctor pre- , rai scribed heroic treatment, but the Senator was j not ready to undergo drastic methods forthe ? * 41? -' v ? -1 of hid reauciiou OI IIBSU iuih mo ioiwimivu V.. ? re- waning strength. His apoplectic symptoms 3 j inc;?ased and the situation became such as to create^erious alarm. About six weeks ago it was found necesjxd sary to impose a severely plain diet upon the Senator,.and since that time his 3olefood ? has consisted of fried hashed meat with ae hot water as the only liquid accompaniment. The Senator rigidly adhered to the severe aal requirements of the physician, and It of seemed for a time that the results were most beneficial and might possibly effect a permanent cure. The SeDator expressed hlmrla, self as much encouraged and looked forward hopefully to the time when he could In demote himself with renewed energy to pubI lie affairs and to thn completion of certain educational and other benevolent enterprises ion t?at were very near to his heart. \ But his ites strength was not sufficiently great to respond to the demands upon it. Its fundamental weakness suddenly manifested itself and he ltlJ| passed quietly away. Sketch of His Life. 5 Leland Stanford was born in Albany Jal County. N. Y.,March 9th,1824. After receiving an academical education he studied law in Albany, and on the completion of a three ; H. years' course of study he was admitted to practico by the Supreme Court of the State . or New York. He removed to Port Washlng01 ton, Wis.. where he practiced law for four :er- years. to After the destruction of his law library and other property by fire in the spring of 1852 he went to California and associated himself ?L1- ' rt* whnm 1Q Dlisiness Wliu tua uruiumo, iiuo? hmv-. ' had preceded him to the Pacific coast. He ?d, waa first in business at Michigan Bluffs, and or. in 1856 removed from there to Sacramento to , engage in mercantile pursuits on an extensive scale. md He was one of the earliest members ot the ioh Republican Party, and was its candidate lor 0k Governor of California in the campaign of 1859; the other two candidates being Latham, Democrat, who was elected, and Curry, antljaj. Lecompton Democrat. He was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1360 ? - *In the contest for Governor in 1851 he wr-s succeashil over McConnell, Democrat, and C'onness, Union Democrat, being elected by a very large majority. He was one of tho lac original incorporators of the Overland Railroad Company, and as President of tho Cec^jg tral Pacific Railroad Company superintended its construction. Through tha energy of himself and asso0 a dates the remarkable feat was performed of building 530 miles of it in 293 days, which is ;an unparalleled in railroad construction, im. His act of founding a university and endowing it with millions is proof of the large Lkj heartedness of the man. He was large in every respect?physically, mentally and i-->navnionf-iv California has never had a citizen of mora public spirit and of whom she fly could bo more justly proud. ?* His favorite amusement in past ye,its -was nal the cultivation of trotting horses. He bred the famous Sunol. novr the property of Robert the Bonner, and Arion, for the latter of which rer- Mr. Malcolm Forbes, of Boston paid 530,000. ap o( A GALA OCCASION. lid. N. German Day at the Fair?Indiana Building Opened. > in* , at The anniversary of Kaiser William's corog onation, was designated as German Day by the management of the World's Fair. The Germans of Chicago decided to observe it by ier. a grand demonstration. Tho parade was the largest and most impressive demonstration ever given by Germans in America. It was divided into eight divisions, composed of av0 bands, turners, militia, singing societies and elaborate floats. Fully 20.000 marchers wen} ?1C in line. Frank Wenter was Chief Marshal, * and was assisted by 100 aids. ' Hoosiers" thronged the Exposition )int grounds on the same day. For several days orlc incoming trains from the East have been ith loaded with citizen." of Indiana, and wiien his the hour arrived for the formal dedicatory x a exercises of the Indiana Buildingthe&pacious halls and parlors of the structure were filled. V in Ex-President Harrison arrived just before tho La- beginning of the ceremonies and was greeted his by applause. Prayer was o5ored by Doctor itni H. A- Tobin, alter which B. F Haven, Ex the ecutivo Commissioner, made a short address, and delivered the keys of the building to Clement Studebaker, President of the Indira1 ana Board of Managers. Mr. Studebaker ac"J? cepted the keys in a brief speech, and pren_, sented them to Governor Claude Matthews, 3aa who received them and consigned the build**7 Lng to the use of the people of Indiana and their friends daring the Exposition, tod im een THE DE LESSEPS FREE. ors i&h Sentences on the Panama Convicts Quashed at Paris. ex- Considerable excitement has been caused ltor at Paris by the decision by the Court of Cassation on the appeal of Charles de Lessepn on- and the other defendants convicted of fraud iah- jn connection with the Panama Canal Comhaa pany. The court handed dowa its decision quashing the sentences on the grounds that a the statute of limitations covered the offences 5m- charged and that the indictment on which sto the prisoners were tried was irregular, tha In consequence, of this decision M.Eiffel s ara was at once liberated from prison. M. Charles .sty de Lesaeps, who was in the St. Louis Hospif od. tal, suffering with an acuto attack of dyspepsia, WA3 informed that ho was at liberty, : t but ho was too ill to leave tho hospital. There were Ave defendants convicted on the trial, which ended on February 9th ladt. hi These were Ferdinand de Leaseps, his son Charles, Marius Fontane, Henri Cottu and "r! Gustave Eiffel. "? ' -i- T.noonna was sentenced to I ,-i-q | JC ijruiuauu \a\j Mwuwr^ ' five years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of $600. Ferdinand de Lesaeps, who is very oid and ill. was not imprisoned, but the other convicted men were tuKen co jail. Thus ends one of the greatest criminal , eases France has ever known, in which the names of men prominent in political and jg social life were badly smirched, and which ' caused one man. Baron do Reinacb, to commit suicide and two or three others to Ueetiia Iqj. country. Un i ? ? ? . * ' The world s ' air council or AdmlnTstntion has indcrs.il Ferd. W. Peck's plan to ?ht reproduco in Columbian souvenir coins the United States Treasury Building at Washingbut ton. The building is to ho three feet hign, 3a-< nine feet wide and about sixteen feet long, ?plo made entirely of the half dollars. Girl 'ice clerks will sell coins in booths about ths sil* Are ver boiklir^. fha fo. C. Robixso>\ Canadian counsel in the Ber eat ar!-);'trat'on> has made in his argument what many think a tolling point by constrastins; American apathy as to the fate of the buffaloes with American anxiety to uan lrf all ? m iem that a talent for money-making isn't always a good thing many an imrec prisoned counterfeiter can testify.? vho Buffalo Courier. t - : : , J w;. > MEED'S PAIS ATTENDASOE. " fust o6,S16 Tickets Sold Daily For $1,163,379 in Forty-one Days. J The average number of paid admissions to M be World's Fair in the first forty-one days i has been open is 50,315. The average dai?> fate receipts havo be?n $28,403. In these B orty-one days 8,250,000 peopla bare visited H be Fair1. It is estimated that the paid admittances nost Average 00.030 daily from Joly to S'ovember before the stockholders of the JH ?mmlro n nn tha mpvoutuu A.u NM . 531.000,000 which the Fair ha? cost. It Is In- JM cresting to compare tho presant attendance B vlth that at the last World's Fair in Phlla- |H| lolphla. which, though a more side show beside this one, was :is notable in 1878 as the present one is in 1323. The following table |H shows the daily average paid attendance at H Philadelphia: Hay 10,f)i.";An<?nst 84,949 1 June 26.7?<>,September 81,961 I July 26,2:3 October 89,789 ' M If Chicago's visitors increase as Philadnl- M phia's did, the attendance at the Columbian fl Fair in October will reach the magnificent H total of 160.000 daily visitors. The Chicago I Pair is sir times as big and six tlnoj as M costly as the World's Fair of 2876,. and many experienced prophets predicts an I attendance six timos as great before the Ex- K nnai+lnn nlflflM Th? first tWBntV-tWO daVS* attendance fit each exposition is'hare given " side by side: . 1 Chicago, PUIla. I Chtcw. Phlla. ' 1 1....128.985 76,172 !l2.. . 17,402 Sunday. 2.... 13,883 14.722 11.1. .. 44,100 17,402k 8. .. IB,637 10,252 |l4 Sunday. 15,552# 4.... 14,995 11,653^,15.... 22,107 20,53? 5.... 10,791 Sunday.113 ... 21,443 19,821}$ 6. .. 17.864 10,898^17. .. 32,553 10,792 7....Sunday. 7,055 |18 ? 33,355 20,091}< 8.... 22,367 12,117 19 ... 29,458 Sunday. 9. .. 17,171 11,051 20.... 55.363 16,202 " 10. .. 19,514 16,103 |21....115,578 41,111}* 11.... 13,677 18,191}^,22.... 41.SC7 28,223 It will be remembered that the complaint that the Fair was unfinished deterred many early visitors in Chicago?many more than were kept away from the Philadelphia Fair I in May. Besides the actual receipts for ad- ! mittan?es at the gates the Fair treasury is . swelled by the sale o! many souvenir tickets, which are carried away by visitors as keepsakes. Over 108,442 such tickets, or 954,221 worth, have already disappeared, presumably into home albums and souvenir books. It \a not possible to t?et ^ c-ict stgtgaent o| .the ." running 0Xp3Hd3iJt DU? 6UQ uuaiauaa VJ. MU , Finance Committee says they are not ntro greater than $20,000 par day, and that they ?"<w are sometimes as low as $15,000. It the , operating expenses a~s kept down to 915,000 for the remainder of the time the Fair to open, and If the average attendance eaoh day for the next 130 days Is more than doable the average attendance to date, there seems to be no obstacle in the way of the ExpocMai proving a financial success, TEE LAB0E W0ELD. _ v Iowa now has a 8tate Federation of Labor. - ;| Dunkibx, France, is a co-operative village. Holland bakers get from 92 to $7 a week. Great Bbitaiw reports 1,000,000 unemployed. Ovsa 500 unemployed theatrical people are said to be in Chicago at.present. Fob Government railroad employes 23,000 dwellings have been erected in Russia. A Minnesota law prohibits the employment of children under sixteen years of age. The first violinists x>f a flrst-claas symphony orchestra earn from $3500 to $6000 a year. Is E.urope they demand compdlsory trades unions to be managed by the Government In the United Kingdom there sirp, jfti. cooperative societies, with 321,600 members. New Yobk has a population of "Workingwomen reaching in rcand figures to about 300.000. Ovex 25.000 women hi this country are engaged in the decoration of different kinds of china and pottery. Ix France the railways employ 24,080 women. Most of them, liowevor, merely receive a small sum for opening and closing gates. Ix Indiana children under fourteen must not be employed in factories, and those of that ago must not be worked over eight hours. A sew Pennsylvania law fixes the maximum week's work of minors at sixty hours. Children under thirteen must not be employed. Lead pencil makers get $7 weekly, but the work appears to be unhealthy. The hours are shorter than in?somo other factories, and the work is lighter. The operators commence at about twenty years. The great difficulty in coffee-growing in Costa Bica Is to secure good labor. South Sea Islanders, like Chinese, refuse to work for the small wages and the native Indians run away as soon as they get i mont h's pay. Iir Sooth Africa the Kaffir servants have formed a union to which the members have to give a "character" for their mistresses. No member is allowed to enter upon a situation unless the registered character of the mistress of the house is satisfactory. AccoBDreo to official reports, the total number of persons employed in and about the mines of Great Britian and Ireland is 721,028. Of this total, 571.840 were men working underground, 143,869 ware men working above ground, and the remaining 6099 were women working above ground. The total number of fatal accidents during the past year was 862, and the number of deaths resulting therefrom was 1034. This is at the rate of one death by accident to every R70 norc/inq Pmoloved. AN INCREASED WORK.1 What the Young Men's Christian Associations Have Accomplished. The Year Book of the Young Men's Christian Associations of North America for 1893 has just been issue J. The number of American Young Men's Christian Associations is now 1139, with an aggregate membership of 243,809. These associations own buildings valuid at $12,591,000. Their total net property is valued at $14.203,013?more than $1,500,000 more than the year before. The average daily attendance at the rooms of the associations last year w.is 65,533 persons, an increase of more than 20 per cent, over the average daily attendance the previous y?Ar. In their educational classes, 298 :issociations have 20.52a students. One thousand one hundred and eighty-five General Secretaries and other p.iiJ officers ar ; employed in the various organizations, and 175 Physical Directors. T" f h" numhwp of associations and branches in the different States, New York loads all others, with a record of 118. Pennsylvania is second upon the list with 71 associations and branches, and M i33i?hu33tts third With 55. The contributions received by the International Committee during 1892 lor work in America was, from individuals, SSI.914.09; from associations, 8-57G.80; from extsnaioo funds, $1502.18: from collections, $6610.81. For the work abroad, thu committee received from individuals, *5900.37; from as303iations, 82840.37, and from extension funds, $2705.54. Individuals iii New York City gave the largest amount. 813,710, and Brooklyn citizens the second largest amount, 83091. In the College Dapirtm'jnt the report shows that 428 colle< J aso;i:itions ;vro in oxJsfenos. They arc distributed in thirtyeight States and six Cinndian Provinces. Three hundred and sixty-six of these .associations have a total membersiip of 25.207. of which 13.548 are active nwnnorj. x mrty <ji these association; have libraries '-obtaining S440 volumes. Of th<>s ? associations 121 havo ro-ims devoted to th;>ir ox Musive us;. Tae report shows that there ar.; ninety-six railroad Branches in oo 'ration, well distribute! throughout the country. Eighty-eight o? these railroad associations have a membership of 22.502. of which, however, only about "oue-tifth is active. Eighty-live associations paid out Inst voar for current ??xp .'uses 3176.213. Seventy-four association have libraries containing 43.975 volumes, <\nd twenty associations nave gymnasiums. The average daily attendance at the rooms of these associations has been 731'). Sixty asso 'iatio.is held 333 lectures and entertainments during the year. There are twenty-four Indian associations, with a total membership of 703. Riots have broken out in Corunna, Spain, against tho taxation arising from military reforms. Tho authorities tit Madrid have ordered troops to concentrate promptly to suppress the Corunna disorder. i