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DISTANCES AT THE FAIR, i (i IMMENSE SPACE COVERED ; BY TEE EXPOSITION. ' c I A Visitor Must Walk a CJroat Many J Miles to All tlic Wonders of r thn Whit" City ? Route 01 me i c Average Sight-Seer ? Some Kx- M hibits of Foreign Countries. The World's Fair is not only a wondenul j # exposition of the globe's industrial, meehan- j J ical and artistic pro>;re<j<, but it is a "city of j f magnificent distance." Speaking of the i J immense space covered by the Fair, the Chi- , j eago Record says: Some poor weak woman who could not j l travel fo\ir blocks downtown without board- ! j ing a horsecar will walk five miles at Jack- j ^ son Park. She does not realize it at tho * time. All the time something is happening I , to engage the mind. The long ja?nt is taken I , In homeopathic doses. 100 yards at a time. It I i has often been remarked, and there is no i v harm in repeating it now. that the general ! j bigness of things around the Exposition t j gives delusive ideas or distance. The visitor i has an experience like that of a "tenderfoot" j In the Rockies who concludes to walk over to j a certain peak before breakfast, nnd aftar i traversing a few miles is told that he will be there before night ir he keeps moving. The > excursionist at the Fair often forms a hasty j ?j conclusion that he can see nearly everything I j in a day. Afterward he is ready to admit I j that he couldn't cover the ground in a week j < on a bicycle. _ j ^ Take the Plaisance, for instance. From j j the Cottage Grove avenue gate to the en- j ^ tran< e lrom the main grounds is exactly one j ^ mile. The man or the woman, however, who wander? out to the limits of the Plaisance and then back agaiu does not travel in a 1 Jtraight line. He or she makes diagonal t outs across the roadway from one noisy show S totha ofhor, strays off into pockets and I probably tramps a quarter of a mile in Java j c or old Vienna, forgetting that each of these | c shows Is a little city of itself. In fact, a i \ journey into the Plaisance and back will ' e mean not far from three miles of walking if I f the sight-seer is .it all industrious. Once I \ ^ i ^ ^ WOBLD'b faib diploma aw around on the Ferris wheel is nearly one- , sixth of a mile. e Here are some distances which the habitual isitor will appreciate. From the entrance to Midway it ia 4300 feet to the Administration Building. This is considerably more than three-qttartere of a mile, a good walk, even in the country. Yet people who cover d the distance every day loolc over at the dome 01 and say: ''There's no need of taking a train; P it's only a step." Up at the. narrowed north f end of the grounds, it is 2000 feet from the ; :! Fifty-seventh street Kate over to the lake, yet IJJ this preliminary stroll is unnoticed by those * who pass the Stale Buildings and then turn f! southward for the main part of the show. In 11 keeping track of distances it is always well v to remember that once around the Manufac- n tares Building lacks about 200 feet of being a n mile. a suppose you land from a boat at the Casino P pier, walk ove?: to the peristyle, turn north 11 and pass through Manufactures Building. | " traignt through the Government Building j b and then proceed by the shortest cut to the j ? art palace. How far do you suppose you j 11 have traveled? A mile? More than that ? C800 feet, if you kept as near a bee line as | 11 possible. But if you selected some of the j ? winding paths and reconnoiterd in side aisles ; P through the two buildings, you walked one Mid one-half miles. i Follow the average sight-seer through a jj day's walking. Pick out a route which is " common. He alights from a train at the ter- " minal station and goes to the Administration I J* Building, whence he drops south to the Ma- j " efcunery and Agriculture Buildings, merely j " passing thr&ugh them to reach the peristyle, along the iength of which he passes to the ftl Manufactures Building. By the time he I ^ reaches it he has covered, at the lowest, 4500 J C feet. Through Manufactures Building once, ' then through the Government and Fisheries c' Buildings and over to the art palace easily P makes 6000 more. If he follows the muchtraveled route from the Art Building down b past the southerly State Buildings to the Plaisance entrance it Is just about 2500 feet P to be added. . ? Then tho Plaisance. Perhaps he will not ' walk to the extreme west end, but he will go P r-hree-fourths of a mile and return, makinir 0 nil actual chalk-line distance of one and one- i half miles with another mile to tye added be- I rause of the zig-zag course, making it 18.000 * feet on an easy compromise. Leaving the !l Plaisance, suppose that he passes through f' the Horticulture and Transportation Build- e Ings to the court of honor and the grand basin, around which he walks slowly during P the illumination and band ooncerts", finally ( " directing his way to the terminal stntion and | a a train for home. Any tape-line measure- j u ment following his steps would show that ; c another 9500 feet had been placed to his " credit. He had not crossed the wooded | n island, had not looked into the Mines or Elec tricity Buildings and had not gone farther north than the art palace nor farther south than the Agriculture Building. Add up the figures and it will be found that ho walked 35.500 feet, or a trifle less than seven miles, ? with hardly any allowance for incidental j J foraging to the right or left. As a matter of c fact any one following that route would walk 3 len milvs. j ? Many persons have covered the ground in- , n dicated. Perhaps you have, yet you couldn't j ' understand why you were so tired out at n night and went to sleep on the way home, j f your bead resting on trie shoulder of a per- | c feet stranger. Any man who started at Madi- t son street and walked to Jackson Park would t irjjQK uw was periurmiii^u lern, wit-uuuiouw. ~ He comes to Jackson Park nil 1 covers the ! ^ samp distance without knowing it. Why is ! s it? Those who have studied the strange | s ways o! humanity say it is because he is : a buoyed up and exhilarated by novel sights r and kept on the prance by rousing music, n His mind is so busy that he forgets about his 1 ii legs. j r How far must a man walk to see all the | r Fair? This is a hard question to answer, but a here are some fairly aoourate figures on the n larger buildings. If yo.j wish to traverse the main aisles in the Manufactures Building, K just to get a goo'l general impression but j a ' - ..,5, ' ..i-V;', -vU' - ; vithout edging around thousands of show ra ases. yon will find nine main aisles east and in v<*t. each 750 foet loner, a total length of fc 1750 feet. The north and south aisles, eleven g, u number, are eaeh 1750 feet long, making in l total length of 10.250 feet. This makes tt G.000 feet, a trifle less than live miles. The & ninimum estimate for the gallery on the j 01 ame basis is 12,500 leet. This does not rt tllow for passing through the narrow aisles j p( >f open exhibits. It refer* only to what | St night property be failed the streets aud ave- | \ lues. Furthermore, it does not allow for fl| loubling up ou each thoroughfare. The pi fisitor must see both sides at the same 0I imp. <* Machinery TTall Las five east and west ni lisles, each 1300 feet long. To p;iss through w iiese requires 6500 foet of travel. There are 1' 'ight main aisles north and *outh, each 509 y< eet long, making 4000 additional leet or 10. 00 in all. To "do" the building thoroughly 0I he.se transverse aisles should be covered. )n this basis the necessary traveling distance s called 10.500 feet. The same rule is folowod in the case of each building. Manufactures, main floor 26.000 ai Manufactures, gallery 12,500 is Agriculture, main floor. 9,900 c< Agriculture, gallery 4.500 ai Agriculture, annex - 4,400 ui forestry. ..... . 2.900 pi >'.ioe and leather 3.500 e] irupp gun and convent 1,000 ci Administration 400 sc Jiectricity, main floor 5,250 rt Slectricity, gallery 2,600 Mines, main floor - 3,150 Sj Mines, gallery 2,000 ai transportation, main floor 5,440 te rransportation, gallery 4,000 tt transportation, annex 7,000 tn iOiticulture, main floor 3,000 d< iortieulture. gallery 1,000 fc Jovernment 9,000 es Voman's including gallery 4,000 "isheries 1,500 tt Lrt Palace, main sectiou 3,500 it Lrf furn orinw 2.000 W tc The grand total is something in excess of ^ 18,0?)0 feet or nearly twenty-three miles. At C{ he same time the estimate does not include R( Itate, Government or private buildings ; the ^laiSHn'ce is ignored and no account is taken ,-D >f the long jumps from one building to an- m >ther. Let the reader figure for himself ;u vhether by walking forty miles he could see tj, ivery nook and coruer of the Exposition ra rom the washy head of the pier to the west- ja ran I end of Midway Plain ance. fa ir^im'i"V""/Xn* |l .?ni?in.nn||j{|n( y /\ \ |i v 1 : p A Hi"* -i-s | ? ^ ill fj ! (italt V>m* I tt , jg*BiaRiLvaj 0, {fiMAtn fhvirti ir I <--l 1 tfc ARDED BT THE JODORS. The moral of this is: "Don't try to see in verything in one day." ai THE EXHIBIT Or ITA1.T. Italy has reason to feel proud of the unqualed exhibit she has made in the various epartments of the World's Fair. No other ountry of equal size and, commercial im- " ortance has done so much to make the Kjj" reat Columbian Exposition a success. In 9" le Manufactures Building, west side, sec- ei on A, Italy's main exhibit is to be found. ' he liberal art section contains 18,000 square mi jet, and is located on the interior floor in tw le north-weet gallery. This space is de- au oted to the exhibit of books, photographs, co lusical instruments and other articles that in ?ay be included in the category of liberal th rts, but nothing, however, of an educational Hi ature, except, of course, what is contained i the books. Italy Is Jealous of her book- an talcing art, and many line specimens of an ook making and printing make this part f the exhibition one of the most interest- an nr. fig The main section on the floor proper of ^e le Manufactures Building is, perhaps, one UD f the best arranged and most unique dislays of a country's handicraft and ingenuity ' > be found in the whole building. There re specimens of hand-carved woodwork so , elicate and wonderful as to command the 'e Ighest praise for the artist's skill, but not P4 lis alone : so perfect anu so exquisite is it as _ ) make one question whether its superior ^ as ever been seen. The largest bas relief l'*1 ver carved from wood is among the articles. I ltl : is twenty feet long and three feet wide, j ! nH from a single blo.;k of wood. I m? r'hat is more, it was made expressly for the wt olumbian Exposition. is There are specimens of Italy's beautiful it i biseled marbles, Florentine mosaics, so su- m< erior to anything in this line shown as to an save them without a competitor in this th< ranch of industry. ?' An enameled silver coffee set for twelve or arsons acquires its great value from a very it omplete history of the world engraved on j ie platter and oups. All the details of the be rincipal events of the world from the days sti f creation to the present are worked out in of finest lines. ar Lace, Said to be worth $1000 per yard, m< rlth. brocades and tapestry of untold value vis nd exquisite design, foims an attractive m, snture and calls forth many oompllmentary J an xpressions from lady visitors. I to The two majolica paintings in front of the i otl avllion are much admired, and are valued ! a the appraisement at $20,000. The pottery 1 . nd glassware, the figures in gilt, the stat- J s ary and carving in wood, the beautiful j * ollec'ion and display in marble and bronze, ! V lake the Italian exhibit not only one of the j . lost valuable, but among the most interest- . * atr. ! ^ K ! so in ALGERIA'S KXHIBrr. fir t\v Algeria is a French colony, but it has been ! :iveu a distant plaae and large space in the j Lirricultural Building. The most prominent { J'1. ibject in the exbiiit is what is called the ' ** loorish room, which is a reproduction of ! iU1 .n apartment in the palace of the Governor HU t Algiers. Inclosed by Moorish arches, in j 11,1 nutation of marble, 13 a central court. The \ ' ifflce of Mr. Moutoils. the commissioner ! I:]1 ro;n iiie colony, is situated at one of the ! orners, the rest of the space beinl? devoted j } o a display of the products and art works of | j"1 ho country. Pictures by native artists hang I u the walls, showing the four seasons in Listeria, a street scene in Algiers and other csl ubjccts. A fine cabinet in native woods is tu hown. tobacco, manufactured and natural, ou nd specimens of the ramiee a variety of St: eed from which fine fibrous material is of lade. Woods of the country are exhibited is a the form of thin sections bouud in volumes, 3tc esembling books. There is a fine Arabian sh nirror, the frame of which was carved with th . knife by a native artist, and other 3peci- re] nens of wood carving. do In the main department of the exhibit, a ea reat display of cork is made. The trunk of su tree is shown, the rough bark in bales, and su anufactured oorks. Sheet cork for bat 11c iRSta shown, and Viicker leaven for insole ?r shoes. There are 1,200,000 acreu In Al aria covered with cork trees, which will b i full production in five or six years, whei le crop will be enormous. Algerian cork i jual to that of Spain, it is asserted. Growt ! the tree is limited to lands in the Meditei moan basin. There are 260,000 Frenci eople in Algeria, the same number of pet >ns of other Nations, and 3,500.000 natives curious product ot tho country is alfa. brous grass from which ropes are made. I nips readily, and line paper is made, muc f which is exported to England. As evi encing the importance of Algeria's conn erce, goat skins to the value of $300,00 ere exported to the United States in 1895 his industry is of recent growth, as, fou jars ago, none were exported. wooi \ mother important product, while the grai: f the colony is of superior quality. SPAIV AT THK FAIR. Among the foreign countries contributim > beauty and elegance in design of exhibit id display Spain is prominent. The Span h section in the Manufactures Buildin n*ers an area of about 23,000 square fm id it has been economically and judiciousi sed. The pavilion erected Is an exact re reduction of the famous Cathedral Cordova ccept, ot course, in size. The structure oc jpies space under the inner gallery in th mthwest corner of the bnilding and in th sar of the Italian and Swiss sections. In this section there are 350 exhibitors froi pain, mostly showing products of clotl id lace. In the working of the finest lac ixture, in design and delicate execution le Spanish may have equals, but they cei linly have no superiors. In embroidera Aligns, silk workings and gauzy wove; ibrics an exceedingly ingenious and intet iting display is made. ?_ 1 mfnnnoMfft avhlKif All AS usual CUB U1U91 aAjjomji <?uw? .... le ieast space. Because of its novelty an< a representation of something new in th orking of precious metals, the greater in irest, perhaps, attaches to it. Fellpa Guia sola, a lady ot Madrid, some years ago con >ived the idea of ornamenting steel wit] 5ld, by first sketching designs on steel am len hammering gold into the grooves, leav ig a greater or less projection of the preciou etal on the surface, according to the siz id character of the figure desired to be pro need. The gold was then shaped by ham ering or was cut on thesurface to represen ,ces, figures, flowers or whatever desigi ,ney or the love of art dictated. The fines ork of this kind in the exhibit, worth ove 100.000, is two fine vases, one of tho Pom jiiau design and the other Renaissance hey are about four feet high, and the stee >dy is richJy ornamented with gold of a1 >lors. MA.EINO THE AWARDS. Fifty judges in the Manufactures and Ma linery Departments started to work for th rst time a few days since. They foum >me of the exhibitors not prepared, and ii ich cases the exhibits wero passed for th resent; but all the exhibitors who wer sady expressed their acquiescence inth rstem of awards. The foreign and domesti idares in the Department of Agriculture me i the Assembly Hall of that building for ot animation. They elected as President Will irn R. Williams, delegate from Russia am rofessor in the Academy of Moscow. Coun ddleman wiw chosen First Vice-President. Meetings of judges of awards in the De urtmonts of Mining, Electricity and Fin rts have also been hold to perfect the or tinization preparatory to getting to work 01 le exhibits. The fine arts judges will fol >w the European jury plan, which the; link aloue practicable and satisfactory t< le exhibitors in such a department. The Committee on Awards is discouragei vec the refusal of nearly all the agricuitura Dplement exhibitors to participate in th sld test outside the city. Only two harveste laohine exhibitors entered for the examine on, and the feeling among the bulk of th nplemeut exhibitors, as expressed in th joent protest sent to Chairman Thaeher, i r>t favorable to suocess in that branch o ie exhibits at least. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. Nkw Yobk cheese manufacturers have ae ired three ilrst prizes. Auqustcb Hemkxway. of Canton, Mass. els invited all the schooma'ams in town ti 3 to the World's Fair at hi# expense. Ther re twonty-six of them. The Rev. W. H. Milburn, the blind chap An of tho House of Representatives, pre ded over a well attended congress of in ructors and friends of the blind in a hall o le Art Institute. A bio map showing the educational pecu irities of the Pennsylvania public sohools >llegea and academies, has been shipped ti le Fair. It is fourteen by eight feet in slz< id contains 112 square feet of canvas. The Masonic apron worn by Washlngtoi the lodge room as well as the valuabl id interesting lodge emblems of Genera ifayette form a feature of the exhibit ii e Government Building, beneath the grea >me. In the dome of the Horticultural Building ere is a perfect facsimile of the Capitol at ushington, done in immortelles. Thi ounds surrounding the Capitol are als( own, and it forms a unique and interesting ;biblt. The World's Youth Congress, a gatherinj i^le up of the brightest young people be een the ages of twelve and twenty-one representing schools, aoaiemies and lieges throughout the country and various jtitutions of learning in England and on e Continent, has been la session in the ill of Washington. It Is generally conceded that forthe limited lount of money expended on its building! d display of articles made, the State o: kansas leads all the rest. The mlnera d wood exhibits In the State Building are peeially interesting, both from their num r and completeness, as well as from the lique manner in which they are arranged, Cardinal Gibbons has acoepted the inviion of the Committee of the Maryland ate Commission to make the prayer and nediotlon on the occasion of Maryland ly at the World's Fair, September 12. That also the date fixed for the meeting in Chigo of the Archbishops of the Catholic lurch. Cardinal Gibbons, the primate o o United States, will preside. [n the East Indian Buildingthere is a larg< irble model of the Taj Mahal, the building lich, according to a tradition of opinions the most beautiful in the world. Perhaps Is, but the model doesn't appear to be the wt beautiful model in tho world. Then a at least two temples in Jackson Park? b Fine Arts and the Agriculture Buildings which seem quite as impressive as the iginal Taj Mahal must be if its model doe? justice. Successful life-savin? exhibitions havf en given on the lake shore by the United it OS Life-Saving Crew under the direction Lieutenant McLellan. These drills, whict e a part of the regular service, have provet sst interesting attractions for World's Fail titors. The orow is put through prescribec ithods of re?ouing shipwrecked seamen d the exhibition lb a source of Instructor the crowds that gather on the beaoh evorj her afternoon to witness the drill. Midsummer Day was celebrated by natives Sweden at the Fair, and nearly all th< redish societies in the oity took part in th( remonies and parade. When tne paradt ,d finished the trip to the Fair was raadf steamboats. The headquarters for the bilee were at the Swedish Building, whert; nijs, speeches and a lunch were followed the evening by an immense display ol eworks. Tho festivities continued on tho o succeeding days with various changes. Thk first competitive flight ot hominj i?eons was won by a bird from tho loft o lomas J. Clark, at Ozouo Park, Lony Isl .d. Tho winged m?.ssHui?er reached th> d of its journey at 7. IK o'clock in thi urn lug. A few moments lator a dispatct UY<?jriiiii Lur? luiULttiiiiiuu ?y.*o in^oivcu i? t Agricultural Dup irtnu'ut at the World': dr, find was read by Chief Buchanan :it the ry moment ii second lot of lorty-eighi rds was liberated on tho plaza in fronc o e Government Building. Brazil's Buildinc. is one of th.> handsom t and most striking of the foreign struc res. It occupies a commanding position ; the north lagoon, Opposite the Illinon ite Building. It is surrounded by a grove trees aud a beautiful lawn. The struetun in tho form of a polygou, and has twe >ries ornamented in the renaissance styln owing allegorical emblems representing a twenty States which compose tho Federal public. The building is surmounted by a me forty feet in diameter and with four mpaniles, affording a splendid view of the rroundings. Tho interior deaorations are perb. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. 8 g Eastern and Middle States. a The will of A. J. Drexel was filed for pro3 bate In Philadelphia ; among; the bequests h was one of $1,000,000 to found an art gallery or museum. J. R. Thomas, Postmaster of Ovid, N*. T., v after being wounded twice slightly, killed ' one of two burglars who were robbing his a office. The dead thief is William M. Lindt pay, an ex-saloon keeper of Rochester, N. Y. j? The Rajai Rajagan, of Kapurthala, a native _ State of the Punjab. India, arrived at New n York, with a retinue of servants, to visit the " World's Fair. Hvp anliH hlrtfllr r\f hW/?lr nnrl fwrno KiHM. g insjs and a portion of two others were den stroyed by Are in Lon? Island City. N. Y. The total loss will amount to over half a million dollars. St. Mary's Catholic congregation is the heaviest loser, for its new _ church, school and priest's residence were , burned. i- A TEnaino explosion of gas occurrod in g the No. 4 shaft of the Kingston Coal Com:t pany at Edwardsvllle, Penn., by which two y men were killed and two fatally injured. The i- dead are : Martin Brennan. eighteen years old. a driver; Patrick O'Malley, thirty-four i- years old, miner; loaves a widow and four e children. 0 Oveb thirty men were injured in a race war between Hungarians and Poles near jj| Scranton, Penn. 0 The Russian man-of-war Nicholas I; ar! rivad at the Port of New York fronr'Europe, 1 having lett Cronstadt June 11. She makes 4 the fifth Russian ship now in that harbor. a The New England coast was visited for - forty-eit?ht hours with a terrific storm. From Portland, Me., to the Massachusetts coast 8 the !os3 w;is irreat. and the lake region of 1 New Hampshire as well as the cities on the e f-oast were at the mercy of the elements. Houses were unroofed, trees torn down and i- strewn upon the railroad tracts and in the - streets of cities, and the crops ruined. Damh a^e was done at Haverhill, Mass., Lakeport, i Lowell, Bradford, Dover, N. H., and Amesbury. 8 Mccn damage to gardens and farm crops 6 was done by a storm in New England. ~ These have been some remarkable varia* 4 n TW >11 n An Ana A O ? LIUU3 VS1 IDUipOldlUIO Ui ulaiun. vu vuu q the mercury was ninety-six degrees in the t shade. There was also a hail storm at Dex|r ter which damaged crop3, furnished snow enough for a snowballing match, and sent the temperature down from ninety-eisrht degreos to fifty-six degrees. In Bangor there ^ was a decided snow flurry, and the weather was as cold as in October. S6uth and West. r The Commissioners of Agriculture of thu 3 Southern States, in session at Atlanta,passed j a resolution calling for the adoption of a a uniform system of control and regulation of e the manufacture and sale of commercial a fertilizer. e Sweden's day at the World's Fair was c celebrated by a big prooossion and a. conit cert; Columbia's Building was openedonthe - same day. A number of striking miners, with their 'I wives, attacked the strip pit miners in one of 1 the mines near Weir City, Kan. A fierce fight ensued, in which clubs and firearms h were used. About 100 shots were fired and 0 a number on both sides were injured. No * one was killed. 1 It is estimated that ten thousand persons ' in Denver, Col., and twenty thousand outj side of it have been thrown out of work by the cessation of silver mining. They are in j great distress. il A handsome monument to the Confederate e soldiers of Nottaway County, Virginia, has r been unveiled at the Klchmonu Court House. The shaft is surmounted by a Confederate o veteran, life size, and on the tiase the names e of 500 soldiers are inscribed. a Thbee young men. sons of Frank Lund* ' gran, of Genesee, III., ware drowned by the capsizing of a boat. The cotton crop all over Texas is in critical condition. The Commercial Bank, of Milwaukee,Wis., hab failed. The bank assigned to A. B. Cefl" fuss, the cashier, who filed a bond of $1,650, 090." ' Aa ;i result of the long-continued disputes, ? charges and counter-charges between President Turner and Professor Ogden. of tha West Virginia 8tate University, Morgantown, * the Kegents dismissed all of the professors. " The privato Russian exhibits in the World's j Fair Manufactures Building wero closed, the exhibitors being inoensed ut the search made by the customs officers. The ruins of a prehistorio temple, 460x260 ' feet, with great granite columns, have been 9 discovered in the Colorado Desert. Fobiist fires have been raging in Northern Wyoming, where no rain has fallen In 9 ulna TToeks. 1 Leo Walked, colored, who assaulted Miss x Mollie McCadden, near Bond Station, Tenn., t and on the same day assaulted a colored girl, was lynched at Memphis in spite of the , tact that twenty-flve well armed deputy I sheriffs guarded the jail. The body was cremated after hanging in full view of one j thousand men, women and children, j The closing of the World's Fair on the flrat Sunday after "Heroes' Day" was absolute. There was no clamorous multitude at the I gates, nor was there a single instance of protest such as happened when the six-day Fair ' was In progress. | Fifteen persons, including eight Federal i employes, were indicted in Oregon fcrsmug ) gung oninamen aaa upiuxu uuu mu vuucu States. 1 } A FinE in the Transportation Bnildincr it f the World's Fair caused a flurry of excite1 mont. Washington. The Department of State has just issued it register containing pome new features. One j of these is a historical seetch of every Secretary and Assistant Secretary. Another is a record of the persons in the diplomatic and f consular service. i, Ax,thodoh it has not been officially com? j municated to the Secretary of State, it is f known as a fact that the President of the Swiss Confederation has compiled with the joint request of the Governments ofthe United ? States and Chile for the appointment of a ' member of the International Commission to ' arbitrate the claims and counter-claims which 5 have been pending between the United States ' and Chile for many years. Skcbetaby Carlisle, accompanied by his , family, returned to Washington after an ab, sence of three weeks spent at the World's , Fair. The Secretary was much pleased with the Exposition. , True bills were found by the Washington [ Grand Jury charging Colonel Ainswortli and the engineer, superintendent and contractor j ofthe Ford'a Theatre building with manj slaughter. i roreign. The Storthing:, iia an outcome of the dls1 pute with King Oscar regarding the appoLntr ment of Norwegian Consuls, has reduced the King's Norwegian appanage from 336,000 to \t 256,003 kropel. j The Infanta EuLalia. of Spain, who has j been vialtinsj Paris, left en route to England. ? where she will visit the Duke of York and ? his bride. Princess May. 1 The ultimatum sent by France to Siam ' called for the cession of the left bank of the Mekong River and for a heavy money in1 demnity, in addition to the settlement of all claims by French citizens against the Siam; ese Government. England informed the f (Government of Siam that she was under no obligation to assist that country in its trous bliis with France. ' Sia.m'8 reply to Frances ultimatum was J said to be unsatisfactory, and after its r.>c >*oipt the French Minister began preparing 1 to leave Bangkok. Siam object ! to the ' amount of the indemnity demanded and r-+f duced exactly one-half the extent ofterrifory claimed by France. This answer was considered as a check for France and French politics. " A dispatch from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, says that a revolution has broken out In the Stat;? of Santa Catharina, which borders Rio ' Grande do Sul. Government troops are reported to have joined the revolutionists. , Gladstone's linancial clause to the Home Rule bill fixing Ireland's contribution to tho [ Imperial Exchequer at ono-tnird of her , revenue was adopted by tho British House of Commons. i The French Government gavenotico tothe Powers of its intention to blockade the coast of Siam; M. Pavle, the French Minister, gave notice of his Intention to haul down the French flag and laave Bangkok. LATEE NEWS, The silver men'9 meeting at the Fifth Avenuo Hotel, New York City, ended in a boisi terous row. Speeches were interrupted, and a war of words caused for two hours. The electric lights were Anally turned out amid the utmost confusion. The delegates to the Chicago Convention, however, were appointed. Thk Erie Railway was placed in the hands of John King and J. G. McCullougb as Receivers. the appointment being made by Judge Lacombe, of the United States Circuit Court, New York City, on the application of ' Trenor L. Park, a holder of first and second 4 mortgage bonds. Ha stated in his complaint I that the $6,000,000 of floating debt em- I barrased the company so that it was in dan- * ger of defaulting on its bonds, and many creditors threatened actions. The Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance ^ I Company Bank of Milwaukee, Wis., failed ; ] two banks in Indianapolis, Ind., and three t in Louisville, Ky.. also closed their doors. Generaj. St. Claib, World's Fair Com- j missioner from West Virginia, tried to enter * the World's Fair grounds without his badge g and was badly bruised in an sncounter with t three gutemen. 1 CoMrTBoi.LEB Eckleb received a dispatch c stating that Cashier Lomax, of the First Na- c tional Bank of Vernon, Texas, which failed a ? few days before, had committed suicide by 7 shooting himself. E e Fiftt deaths daily are reported in St. 1 Louis, Senegal. The disease also prevails in *Naples and vicinity, in Italy, and in Smyrna, q Asia Minor. e X M. Pmi, the French Minister-Resident, * left Bangkok; Sir Edward Grey, the Parlia- 3] mentary Secretary of the British Foreign 1( Office, assured the House of Commons that 0 England would protect her subjects in 8iam? 0 Officebs from the Russian man-of-war. tl Nicholai I, visited Camp Werts, 8ea Girt, n _l 11 XT? mna " wuero iu*j iiew uciocj iiiiuuuiu uwuu naa ^ encamped. Seveue electric storms did damage in various places in the Now England and Mid- tj die States. One man was killed and sev- p eral injured at Coney Island, New York, a W man was killed on Staten Island, and a man ^ severely injured at Nyack, by lightning. Ax Italian, Daniel Arata, a saloon keeper, *a was taken from the jail at Denver, Col., by r( a mob of citizens estimated to number flf- fr teen thousand persons and hanged to the nearest tree, where his body was riddled with bullets. Arata had killed an old Grand lo Army veteran named Benjamin C. Light- T1 foot. g Maggie Taylor, Lulu Johnson, Marian Smith and Nellie Patrick were drowned in ^ the Wicomico River, near Patrick's Landing, ^ Md., by the capsizing of a sailboat. W( fr The Navy Department has transferred to 9n Admiral Kaznakoff, commanding the Bus- ai sian fleet now In American waters, the electric launch or gig recently built for the armored cruiser New York. Postmaster Datton visited Washington to -j make an effort to secure an additional allowfnr fho r>nnrJiiH of lh? NflW York Post office. After a two-hour conference with ^ First Assistant Postmaster-General Jones he succeeded in obtaining an allowance of $50,700. I P The 8panish steamer San .Tuan. loaded J with kerosene for Amoy and Manilu, was do- Q atroyed off Honj Kong by fire. Out of 250 jj people on board, only twenty-nine were ^ saved. a: A new treaty of annexation to the United y States has been prepared by the Provisional n Government in Hawaii. The steamship Pearl was run into and d , sunk by an unknown steamship off the Irish Je coast. Seven people were drowned. [j The revolutionists of Nicaragua have H captured the city of Managua, the capital of K the Republic. j, THE LABOR WORLD. ? . - ti ht. Louis has colored unions. a St. Louis claims 40,000 union men.~V ft Ohio jewelers held a State ConventloaNv. '( A. hkbk are ww union grotJU glues uiuwdio. u Massachusetts law protects anion labels, a Indianapolis. Ind., has 5000 unemployed. b, Thebk are 7400 anion flint glass workers. ^ Thebe is a general cutting of wages at tl Denver. Col. A Pbooki.tn musical union wants street w musicians abolished. b< The Lanoashir? fEnsrland) cotton strike m cost the union $300,000. e. Fall Rivek, Mass.. is to have a trades tt processioh on August 15. ti Rnis (Spain") coopers won a strike and fined every employer $25. tt Philadelphia plasterers eet forty-flve " cents an hour and work eight hours. The sboeworkers' convention at Lynn, jj, Mass.. represented thirty-eight States. St. Louis letter carriers have been prohibited from vrorkintr in their shirt sleeves. At Liverpool. England, twenty workmen and twonty bosses comprise an arbitration E board. The Federal Labor Union of Port land.Me.. is to be composed of laborers of every occupation. 9il Operatives have been imoorted from Ala- 111 bama to take the places of Denver (Col.) cot- cc ton mill strikers. f0 Alt, German workmen in Russia Poland he Kotra Knan nrrlnrar? +r\ loilfn fha rliaainn 1 an. ail guage by January. 1894. cc Mas8\chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut Knights of Labor have indorsed 01 Governor Altgeld's anarchist pardons. j Fall Riveb (Mass.) mills talk of shutting n( down for a week ?r two each summer. This would relieve the market and give the hands tj( a rest. in Some Concord (N. H.} laborers struck be- th cause their pay was not given them before it jv was due in order that they could attend the ae circus. * w New York. New Haven A Habtfoud Rail- w hoad conductors have been advanoed to 893 cl a month. Raggage masters will get $2.10 and brakemon $2 a day. a1 Bi The average wage per week of women in " Kansas and Wisconsin is $5.27 ; in Minnesota. 86.00 In Indianapolis the sum paidfot r shirt-making ranges from thirty cents to sbctv cents a dozen. c: st A DuntiAM (England1) mine owner got to damages from workingmen who refused to vt lal>or with non-union men. Thev refused to work unless a special elevator was provided for nd>n-union men. and the boss 9ued them for absenting themselves from work. Statistics gathered by the German Im- A psrial Commission on Labor show that in many parts of the Empire the duration of ! work exceeds fifteen hours daily. In northwest Germany the percentage of workpeople at laboring tlius loner is^H.3 ol tbw whaJu. manTE tno-prevailing depression In many lines of business. Connecticut's principal th summer industry, the garnering of little pi neck clams, is prospering. The catch along m : the shores of Connecticut averages about 500 m i barrels a week, for which wholesale dealers ot in Now York and other cities pay 38 to $10 a in barrel. There are usually about 3500 clams in a barrel, so at the prevailing rates of w twenty-tive to forty cents for seven or eight Ii< of the little bivalves, the retailer soils them in for something like $200 per barrel. at ?? H It is reported that within a few monttis ?| twenty-four carloads of hogs, raised in North Dakota and fattened on wheat, have been sold at St. Paul, Minn., by wheat-growers, < who declare that by this process they have R1made their wheat yield them il """ hnoh>?! " 17; ' " ' % ^'v'f. >1 n ' ,y"7- > %*'" GASDALMS ON THE BAIL J A CHAIN OF FATAL AND DESTRUCTIVE ACCIDENTS. i I A. Mall Train Derailed and Two Pos- ! tal Clerks Killed?A World's Fair ( Excursion Wrecked and Thirty l Passengers Injured ? Frcightmen J Killed?Other Accidents. ] A chain of railway casualties occurring on ' ;he same day in different parts of the connrv werA nhnrnpforiTo^ Kw >assengers injured and the vast amount of ? >roperty destroyed rather than by the num- J >er of killed. < At 1.01 o'clock in the morning the first < lection of the mail train from Boston to New < fork on the Old Colony system of the N. Y.( j f. H. <fc H. was wrecked opposite 1 Dodgeville Station, a suburb of Attle- t >oro, R. I. The train consisted of Old 1 Colony Engine No. 14.7, two United States 1 nail cars, a baggage and several ] lassenger coaches. A freight train from Boston had passed through Attleboro at t aidnight and switched off some of the cars t ,t Dodgeville, and one of them was left on 1 he main track in the way of the mail train, 1 ?he train approached the obstacle ac t he rate of thirty milee an hour and < rashed into it before the engineer I ould reduoe the speed of his train. The ngine was completely demolished. A mail lerk, C.J. Miller, of Walton Falls, N. Y., i ras instantly killed, and another mail clerk, f !. S. Murphy, was seriously injured. , 8ev- < ral of the passengers were also injured, t 'he mixed train was in charge of Conductor ? lharles Keene and Engineer C. A Bo wen. The second section of the Baltimore and t >hio express, west-bound with World's Fair 1 xcursioniats. was wrecked one mile e>.st of s [unroe Falls, Ohio. Spreading of rails j ausedthe wreck at a point where there is a hort curve in the track. Five of thecoac'ios, i >aded with passengers, most of whom were * n their way to Chicago, were thrown down ten-foot embankment. Nobody was killed C utfight, but thirty were injured, five of lem, it was thought, seriously. Ail of the laimed were taken to Akron by special train nd sent to the city hospital. About a dozen ft ootors from Akron went down with them. .. A north bound freight train on the St. c louis, Chicago <fc 8t. Paul Railroad, consist- tl lg of eighteen local freight cars, crashed fc] irough a trestle near Relhl's Station, Mo., y lling the entire train in a heap. Conductor si r. E. Borrell, of Springfield, IlL. was in- ^ antly killed. Brakeman Charlee Johnson ii ad W. A Clements, of Alton, and Walter o [anning, of Springfield, were prooably d itally injured. fi A wreck occurred on the Ohio Valley Rail- h >ad about 12.30 o'clock, a. m., two miles om Morganfleld, Ky. Freight train No. tl !, consisting of an engine und six cars a aded with through freight, was ditched id afterward burned. Three lives were u st: Robert Vandorn, engineer; Frank si hrelkoid, fireman, and Marlon Davis, head a, akeman. Their bodies were burned to a a isp. . ) 1 w A terrible wreck occurred on the Southern n iciflo seven miles east of Houston, Texas, tl a engine escaped from the yards without tl tgineer or fireman and went dashing east- ei ard. It crashed into the rear end of a st eight train going in the same direction, sA lashing up thirty cars. Conductor Harrison <> id Brakeman Watson were killed. d T FODE INSTANTLY KILLED, g (Trnlnitnii In A William*. burgh (N. Y.) Factory. An explosion in George W. Campbell's ruber, cement and hatters' materials faotory in ^ le rear of 211 Walworth street, Williamsargh, N. T? resulted in the death of the roprietor.hia fourteen year-old son, Charles; oaeph Knee, the engineer, and John D. 16 [cCutcheon, a laborer. The factory was a p< ne-and-a-half-atory frame building stand- y lg back of a two-story frame house in hich Campbell lived with his wife and ^ iree children, Hannah, Charles and John, ^ ged respectively sixteen, fourteen, and nine eors. The factory was on the first floor, ? here were located the engine and boiler, j le varnish room and several machines. Al- vc loagh the making of ruober cement is a J *1 angerous operation the neighoors never ob- a 1 scted, for they had become used to the fao>ry and also because Campbell had been in K ie business for many years. Campbell had ?f [cCutcheon helping him in the plaoe while ^ .nee looked after the machinery. * His eldest boy, Charles, had assisted him i his labor since his school vacation began. I was a few minutes after 3 o'clock, while he [rs. Campbell was sitting at a window in ^ ie rear of her house overlooking the fac>ry when Charles, her step-sou, came from ie building. The boy had been engaged 11 the afternoon with a machine in which he round rubber, moistened with benzine, inta 1 >lly. "I've been helping papa all day," said the oy. *'But the smell of the benzine makes ie very sick." ' < 1< Mrs. Campbell told the boy to 3top work, ^ ut he replied that they would be through .. i fifteen minutes. He th^n went back into " ie factory and closed the aoor. " Fifteen minutes later Mrs.' Campbell, who as sewing at her machine, heard h3r hus* w and's voice exclaiming: "Joe, what's the latter? The machinery is stopped." His voice had hardly died away when the r< rplosion occurred- Mrs. Campbell was 1:1 irown from the chair on which she was sit- 0 ng against the bed. ? It is estimated that property and glas3 to " te value of $2000 were destroyed by th? cplosion. The damage by the fire will not ?< cceed ?2500. What caused the catastrophe ? a one could say positively, but it is be- ? aved that an explosion of naphtha did it. WHIPPED THE B0TS. lght Kentucky Mothers Execute the ^ Law's Decree. Kentucky walks at the head of the proceson for novel methods of punishing orlm- n als. At Harrodaburg, a few days ago, eigne .u ilored boys, ranging in age from eight to C( urteen years, were caught breaking Into a >use whose owners were absent for the }j, immer. They were arraigned in the police w iurt before Judge Caldwel . i ;o Using his discretion, ho .called the mothers Qa ! the young offenders into court. Ho pro- ;Q >sed to them that if they would give the !0 >ys a first-class whipping in court he would )t send them to the penitentiary. >a The women eagerly accepted the proposi- * i an and promised there would bea whipping in town tnat would go down in history. In :h e morning the spvje in front of the idge's bench was cleared, the mothers ized the eight struggling sons and time as called. Rawhides cut the air and fell , ith terrible force on the backs of the thinly ad culprits. There was a yell that started the people it id lasted for the next fifteen nunutes. lood W3S brought in more than one inance. Once the Judge interfered to -event too serious a beating for one of the ?. >ys. When he thought they were sufflently punished they were led down thi hi reet. Every one of them is likely to carry fll i bis grave some mark of the thrashing. A w i ?TT?>r?Qaaurl fh?4 nrtvrt! <4 )r) awwu rf ivu^mv TRIPLE TRAGEDY. ? "i Fight at a Tennessee Picnic Costs ^ TJiree Lives. ju Information has been r?celv31 of a tra^e ly P) lion Aqua, Tenn., that cau3ed the death of ^ r?e. F There was a picnic at Don Aqua, given bv e young people q/ Warner, and during the onto a light occurred in which the three en were badiy cut. One of those died al- 'f 03t iustautJy. His name was Yates. Anher .vhoso name was unknown was fatally jured. The third penon in tho light aad the one ho cut tho two named abovo was William* adding, a young man of the highest stand- A-t g, and after the fight Rodding disappeared sti id was thought to have gonj to Nashville. co owever, word was received that the body Redding had been found in the woods gt( :arthe place where the cutting was done, ar 3 having died from his wounds. W( I'm State of Georgia will spend 61,063,- of 1.81 for the public schools this year; mora wi an ever before^ki its history^ ... . - r: TO COVEB CRIME, \ Father Suspected of Murdering His Wife and Two Little Girls. The South Side Fire Department, Pitte)urg, Penn., was called out at 2 o'elook l m. to extinguish a slight Are In the house >f John Smaus, who lived on Oak alley on he side of the hill. Themenhad.no difflnilty in extinguishing it. Some of the members of the deportment, in looking about the louse, found throe dead bodies. They were hose of Smaos's wife and his two children, tfary, aged four, and Maggie, aged two. There were three deep dents in the woman'* lead. Smaus was at onco surrounded by the Are- nen, and the police were sent for. He told a itory to the effect thnt he had been sleeping on ;he floor down stairs, but was awakened by imoke and ran up stairs to extinguish the lames. It was then, he said, that he first die ,-uvciou mo umiu uymes 01 ma wire ana two tjj :hildren. The police, however, have a liflereut idea of the crime, ana at once >laced Smuus under iirroat. They were con- J ldent a triple murder hud been committed, .> ind say that the murderer set fire to the. 1 louse to conceal the crime. Smaus is a aborer, thirty-five years of age, and ap)arently very ignorant. The family consisted of four children and he parents. A boy, eight years old, and a hirteen-weeka'-old infant were uninjured. >ut were left in the building after it had >een set on fire. The family has occupied he miserable quarters about three years. Juarrels have been so frequent that the leighbors gave them little attention. On the floor were two hammers covered rith blood, a broken lamp, and blood on learly every piece of furniture and every oot of the floor. The room was in terrible lisorder, showing that a desperate battle V V oolcDtocebetween the murderer and Mrs, ; Imaus. It is reported that the boy told the polios hat his father killed his mother. "He hit ter on the head three times with the hatchet,'' obbed the little fellow. Neighbors think ealousy was the causc ot the deed. j . I MOTHER'S DOUBLE CHIME. (? 'ut Her Baby'a Tfll^t With a Razor . i and Then Cut Her Own. tl, In Clarence Centre, K. Y., Henry May- d ach, twenty-seven years of age, cut her ' iroat with her husband's razor and oat the iroat of her seven-mouths' old girl baby:' [aybach is a harness maker, and is a thrifty , V' oung man with a jrood business and oonderable property. His wife was a handsome fi?* 'oman, accomplished, :ind a generalfavorite 1 the village. Tliey had two children, a girl f three years old and the baby. For several ^ ays the baby had boen teething and very etfnl and In poor health, and the mother . ad been greatly concerned for it. : At about 3 o'clock, a. m., while a heavy : i-snder storm was in progress, Mrs. Maybach odkened her husband to assist-her with the aby. It was only restless, and a few mtntes afterward Maybuch fell asleep again, ;3| apposing his wife was sleeping also. Abogt ' a hour later he was awakened by groan*, , ad sprang out of bed just in time to see his ; ife running out or the door into the street <;.gg 1th blood gushing from a great gash in her iroat. Looking for the baby he found it in le baby carriage with its throat cut fromS v^Sg ir to ear. He followed his wife into the "' V reet, where he found her with the razor itygk :ill in her hand, but s? weak from the loss .-v-' f blood that she wns boyondrecovery. 8h? ied an hour later. The baby was also dead. he woman loft a note spying that she feared tat her baby was going to die, and that she' w du1<1 not bchr to live without it, and asking iat all of her property bo given to her little iree-year-old daughter. TEBEIFIC EXPLOSION. " . Number of Chinese Villages Destroyed and Many Lives Lost. , Hong Kong newspapars give details of a > 'j rri3c powder explosion at the Government ' %J|j )wder magazine at C^pton, China, which , Ued many, injured over 300 people and ' 7 recked 400 houses. About 5 p. m. the. la- - . kbitants of the Sam Unli district, In which e magaziae stands, were startled by a tre- i 'ifM endous report, wbioh was heard oyer a ''A rge area and was followed by an enormous - tyffi rlume of smoke, quite darkening tho sky. 1 iry quickly it was known far ana wide 'that : terrible calamity had occuiredL , , Every village in the neighborhood was impletely wrecked, and in a village on the ;.?5 iposlte side of the stream which divided it : ?// am the factory several hundred bouses ere shattered. The total number of houses v stroyed Is approximated at, 400. . The catastrophe originated from a cook- ')* . iuse near the magazine, which caught fire id r&pidly spread to the powder housa. I /, J BURNED TO DEATE . WL ; Tie Victims Were Drilling aa OH Well, When the Oil Caught Fire. An oil well was being drilled on a farm be- % V >nging to the Ohio Oil Company, about half 'v? 'ay between Freeport and Woodsides sta- X-'* ons, twenty or twenty-five miles south of . oledo, Ohio. The last screw was being turned when the -ell suddenly began to flow furiously. The jols were thrown out of the casing and then le casing followed, The flood of oil soon cached the hoiiera near by and ignited. So 5 ipidlv did the flames spread that only two f the five workmen f>s?aped with their lives, nd they were terribly and perhaps mortally ! urned. The dead are: David Arnlt, the coutrao- - >r; David Ramsay, a driller, ana i,emet i ockart, a tool dresser. The latter was ?/. urned to a crisp. ' , ' ? n MINERS FLYING EAST. tarvln^ Men Take Possession of ? Train. Boone, Iowa, had a visit from 150 Colorado ihers on their way East. They captured , e Chicago & Northwestern last freight at >uncil Bluffs and took possession. The railroad company made no effort to act them, but carried them on. The city ithoritles were notified that the men were ming, and, further, that they were hungry, .ving nad nothing to eat sinos the day bore. Arrangements wore promptly made give them a meal, and when they arr.ved * iout 1 o'clock they were led on the ground st of the roundhouse. The men were nearly famished, They were i orderly set and took tne first train out, e railroad company permitting them to ie. . TESTS WITH EMMENSITE. ; is Said to be Even More Efficient Than Melinite. * The ordnance officers of the United 8tates rmy are making some interesting tests of gh explosives at Sandy Hook, N. J. Shells ^ led with gun cotton and with emmensite oro fired from the twelve-inoh mortars. g| The purpose was to demonstrate that this H mid be done without danger of explosion . the gon. and the tests were convincing ion tnat point. The ommensito shell carried a bursting large of eighty-seven pounds, and if the irther trials that will be made to And & ropor fuse are successful the Army and ...... - r:11 hnvn an exclosive even ore efficient tban tha iamed m'elicite of the f reach artillery. ATTACKED BY PIRATES. .. ? ? - * ho Captain, Mate and Twenty-two Sailors oi':i Dutch Ship Killed. A <lo?patch from Singapore, India, says at a piratical outbreak occurred amongtho ;hineso passengers on board the Dateh : ?amer Rajah Kongsee, trading ?a the oast J aft of Aehcen. j The Achinese attacked the crew of tho J satuer, killing the English Captain, mate I id twenty-two of the Asiatic sailors, and M xmdcd fifteen others. I They then quitted the vessel, taking somo I the passengers as captives. The steamer , B th the wounded la now in Dutch hands. fl