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themtiomumib! h THE CURRENT MONTHLY PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. A. Net Increase In the Public Dehfc, [ Less Cash on Hand, of $6,603- ! 030.58?A Net Loss of $22,000,i . 000 in Gold?Great Falling Off in the Revenue. The debt statement shows a net Increase of the publio debt, less cash In the Unite 1 atofo* Mar f>r OR RM 030.53. The Interest-bearing debt increasel 1 $460, the Don-interest-bearing debt decreased 8640.879.53, and the cash In the Treasury decreased $7,243,450.03. The balance of the several classes of debt at the close of business. Mav 81, were: Interest-bearing debt, 8635,041,340; debt on which Interest has ceased since maturity, $1,853,390; debt boarin? no interest, $380,016.330; total, $1,016,916,560. The certificates and Treasury notes offset by an equal amount of cash in the Treasury outstanding at the end of the month were $621,123,445, an increase of $M88.650. Total cash In tbe Treasury, 8783,283,264.77, gold reserve. $78.693.267: net cash balance, $39,161.068.83. Darin? the month there whs a decrease In gold coin and bars of 822,124,641, the total at the close being $148,067.816. Of silver there vtm an increase of $786,490. Of the surplus there was in th9 national bank depositories $16,939,421, against $16,840,719 at the end of the previous month. During the month of May the Treasury HStained a net loss in gold for export purposes of $22,000,000. The movement still mining Aflf fill ftf t\\Pk VUUlLUUtra, uucui; nipiu^ vm %?% V* ?V - . received by the bond Issue of last January. While the Treasury is losin? eold bv export, | It is also losin? it in Boston, Philadelphia and New York by withdrawals in ordinary business transactions. The gold is finding its way into the banks. In most of the cities of the West the Treasury 13 daily gaining gold In exchange for legal tenders, ona i day receiving $400,000 in St." Louis for Unite 1 States notes delivered In New York to the bank's credit. Gold received for customs dues at New York during May amounted to only 2.3 per cent., against twenty-eight per cent, six mouths ago. The falling off of ordinary revenues is . causing more uneasiness in Treasury circles . than the decline of the gold reserve. The re- : ceipts for the eleven months of the current fiscal year are $84,000,000 less than for j the eleven monchs of the previous fiscal : year. A saving of 813,000.000 in ex- : pendltur^s over the corresponding period J of 1892-3 brings down the differ ? a??? o7o nnn nnn ho. WIIUU 111 iuuua U^UICO IV V 4.vvv,uuv, MW- r ' lng the fexcess of expenditures ?>irar receipts for the eleven months of thU v^ar The * greatest falling oft Is show!.' m customs. r which have declined 866.000.0JC1. Internal , revenue also fell ofT $14,000,000. The great- ? est retrenchment of expenditures is shown k in pensions, a saving of $17,030,000 having been effected In this item. Civil and mis- * cellaneous expenditures show a decrease ot ? $4,000,000. ' ? The stated Treasury balance is $117,030,000; on January 1 it was $93,000,000. On January 1, however, the Treasury was le- ? duced to a working currency balance of on)y ? $9,000 000, the rest being sold and now the ; Treasury has a working currency balance of a 14 ftflrt nnn Thn Trnasnrv situation, there- , fore, w considered more favorable now, even | 'i with less gold than it held in January, than , at the beginning of the oalendar year, as its ' currency balanoe is four times greater than ? ft . ;. it was then. ? I- ! THE LABOTWOELD. * j 1 ' Thx average age of iron puddlers is thirty- _ two. J Thx hat making Industry is in a languish- p ing condition. r Ths railroads of the United States give TJ employment to 898,000 men. l>: Thb Boston hat manufacturers decided to E reduce wages twenty peroent. ^ Rmuxftioh of operations at the Johnstown ^ (Penn.) Iron and steel works will give employment to 5000 men. Dev. HmbjsbtN. Cabsos, of Lynn, Mass.. has founded what he calls a "Labor Church* p to advocate the abolition of the wage sys* ci tem. Labor organizations attach great fmpor tance to the"victory won by the American w Kailroad Union over the Great Northern CI Bailroad Company. ? It is said that there are more musical 0 unions In the American Federation of Labor ff than under the jurisdiction of the National al League of Musicians. c About 100 Philadelphia boss bakers have aj agreed not to patronize any flour merchants tc dealing with the large bread factories of that a) city, where bread is made at cut rates. s< Eighty-nine trades unions of St. Louis re- P a nest the American Federation of Labor and ie Knights of Labor to bury the hatohet ? and join hands in the political and economlo ^ struggle. B ' At Castle Eden, England, last month, 520 ?( miners were fined 61.25 each for absenting i themselves from the mines without giving notice. They left to attend the funeral of a (1 workman who died from injuries received .| the previous day. _ The newly elected officers of the Brother- b hood of Locomotive Engineers are: Assist- F iant Grand Chief Engineer, A. D. Youngson, ri u- / -1?4-4^ - "CIi A- J Ay UleadVII10, reoa., ^re-eiWLOu) ; xuai urniu ui Engineer, T. S. Injjraham; Second Grand ii Engineer, C. Hv Salmons. Grand Chief 'Arthur holds over. o . The average number of working days in various countries, according to the London " [Engineer, is as follows: In Kuasia, 267; in ? England, 278; in Spain, 290; in Austria, 295; In Italy. 298; in B;ivarla and Belgium, 300; 11 in Saxony and France, 302; in Denmark, 8 Norway and Switzerland, 803; in Prussia, 805; in Holland and North America, 308; and In Hungary, 312. The London Times says that Lord Rosebery offered to John Burns. M. P., the labor ] lender, a position in the Government when iMr. Gladstone resigned and again when Mr. Mundella resigned. Mr. Burns declined on fbotb occasions, giving as his reason that he < was best able to serve the interests of worklngmen on the outside. 8ix thou3 and-quarry men are employed In the marblo quarries at Carrara, in Italy. J There are more than 400 of these quarries, which are situated in the sides of the moun- ' tains, above and back of the town. Dyna- 1 mite is used In operating the quarries, from which 160,000 tons of marble are exported ] jamtiflllv. much of whioh comes to America. A convention of central organizations or ? railroad employes of the United States was held recently in the Lenox Lyceum, New York City. It lasted three days. Five hundred delegates and the chiefs of the following orders attended: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, P. M. Arthur, Chief; Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, F. P. Barcrent, Chief; Brotherhood of Trainmen. S. E. Wilkinson, Chief; Order of Railroad . Conductors, E. E. Clark, Chief: Order of Railroad Telegraphers, E. G. Ramsey. Chief; Switchmen's Mutual Aid Society, John R. Wilson, Chief. f. V. t DEAD BEFORE HANGED. A 3Iob Tortures Its Victim to Remind Him of His Crime. A'.*? vider McCurdy, about thirty yean of a-,'-. was convicted at Golden, Col., o? may. I?.... He had brutally assaulted his 3tepbrutaer, Charles Birry, wiom he char^jJ with Interfering with his domestic happl* ' ness. McCurdy was sentenced to throe years in the penitentiary, but had not been taken away yet. Early la the morulas; a moo seized Alexander Kerr, the jailor, choked him and made him give up his keys. Tueu the loaders dragged MoCurdy from his call to the jail lawn, where no wa3 tortured as ha had tore are J his stepbrother. McOur.ly died unaer the torture, but-his body was hanged to a trestle over Clea^ Creek, it was cat down at 6 a. m> Senator Patton, oi nnohlgan, Is a broadshouldered, well-built, athletk} man, with a line face and a handsome mustache. Like Senator Dubois, to whom he bears a resemblance, he has a swarthy complexion. These two Yale men, together with Senators Wolcott and Higglns, who are also graduates of the college, have formed a little sooioty jrMoh will hold monthly reunions. THREE EUROI rhe Emperors of Russia, Austria and in Eu FIFTY-THIRD CONFESS. The Senate. 118th Day.?The Senato adopted a rosoluion declaring that this Government will not nterfere with the domestic policy of Hawaii )r resard interference by others as friendly. ?Mr. Turpie introduced a resolution lookng to the abrogation of the extradition reaty with Russia. The lumber schedule )t the Tariff bill was finished ; Mr. Sherman ipoke in opposition to the bill. 119th Day.?The consideration of the nnrifr hill was confined to two lonir speeches >n the question of repealing the bounty on ugar. The first of them was by Mr. Mandirson and the socond by Mr. Peffer. Mr. larris gave notice that he would ask the Senate to sit later to train time. 120th Day.?Mr. Hill's resolution for open ession of the committee investigating the iugar Tru*t scandal was debated. The ugar schedule was discussod during the reaainder of the session. 121st Day.?Mr. Gray, as Chairman of the pecial committee to investigate the alleged iperations of the Suarar Trust, submitted he second batch of testimony taken beore that committee, concerning the exmination of all the Democratic memera of the Finance Committee.?? Ln agreement was entered into between the Barters on the two sides by which a vote was o be taken immediately on the pending mendment to the su<?ar schedule, and the ther committee amendments were then to e voted upon, and this vote was to be fol>wed by takinc up the tobacco schedule. 122d Day.?The sugar schedule of the 'arifif bill, as amended bv the Finance Comlittee, was passed. The substitute North iver Bridge bill was passed. The Senate issed bills authorizing the Missouri River ower Company to build a dam across the fifttirniri River and the construction of a ridge acros? the Monongahela River at [omestead. Penn. 128d Day.?The tobacco schedule of the ariff bill wa9 disposed of and the agricaliral schedule taken up. The House. 138th Dat.?Discussion of the bill to reeal the ten per cent, tax on State bank cirilation was continued. 139th Dat.?Senate bills were passed exsndlng to other nations than Great Britain 1th which the United States may make eaties relating to the care and protection tthe fur seal the provision of the act to entree the regulations of the Paris Tribunal f Arbitration on that subject and to facili* tte the entry and unloading of steamships t United States ports. Speeches were tade by Messrs. Brosius ana Henderson against the repeal of the ten per cent, bank is law. and by Messrs. Swanson, Tucker ad Izlar in favor of repeal. An evening jssion was held under the rales to consider rivate pension and relief bills. 140th Day.?The speakers on the Brawley tate Bank Tax bill were Messrs. Izlar, Les*r and Meyer in favor of repeal, and Messra. [all and Warner against it. The bill went ver. 'The resolution concerning nou-inirference in Hawaiian affairs was referred to ie Committee on Foreign Affairs. 141st Day.?Debate on the bill to repeal ie ten per cent, tax on State bank circulalon was continued. The Senate bill was assed, authorizing the construction of a ridge over the Delaware River between hlladelphia and Camden. A. Senate joint ssolution was passed appropriating 810,* DO to meet the expenditures caused by the lvestlgation of the Sugar Trust. 142d Day.?The day was devoted to debate n the State Bank Tax Repeal bill. 143d Dat.?The House concurred in the enate amendments to the New York and few Jersey Bridge bill. By a vote of 172 o 102 the House voted not to repeal the law mposing a tax of ten per cent, upon the isues of State banks and other associations. A FARMER'S CRIME, He Shoots a Farm Hand, His Mother* in-Law and Kills Himself. Maxon Miller, a farmer, who lived la Cheshire, about six miles west of Cananiaigua, N. Y., walked into his home and, without saying a word, deliberately flred :hree shots at the hlrerl man, E. G. Reish. Ee then walked over to where his mother-inlaw, Mrs. Ward, was sitting and shot her twice, both balls taking effect. Miller then, shot himself In the forehead and died in a few minutes. His wife escaped to some neighbor*, where she in a frantio manner related the story of her husband's crime. Every one in the neighborhood | hurried to the scene, where they saw Mrs Ward lying in a pool of blood, but still alive, and Miller lyin.i? dead in tae back yard Reish had escaped any Berious Injury, only one shot having taken effect, and that one In the left arm. Reish says that Miller had been absent from home for several months, and that the family had no intimation of his being in the nelgliporhood. The reason lor committing the deed is said to be jealousy. MILLIONS SWEPT AWAY. Many Lives Lost in the Fraser River Flood. Four million dollars will hardly cover the loss by the Fraser River flood in British Columbia. The waters continued rising, and as the warm weathor continues melting the snow in the mountains there was no immediate prospect of relief. One prominent railway official rhinks the loss of ltfe will reach 100. Bridges, trestles, tunnels and tracking along the Canadian Paciflo have gone. From Prevelstoke to the sea, 330 miles, the railway is new a watery waste. The last point above Vancouver which can aow be reached is Ruby Creek, eightytwo miles distant. Thence all is water. Masqul Mission, Chilliwack, Hatzle and Lanffley Prairies, and the towns of Harrison, Centreville, Langley, Chilliwack and Mission are all under water, and not a farm building is left Standing. Fully ten thousand cattle have perished. Telegraph and railroad services are completely demoralized. One raft was found with the bodies of a man and woman and three children strapped to it, and seven bodies wore found floating ting'.y. 'EAN RULERS. Germany, Arbiters of Peace or War rope. "'S"#/ tt< VI LATER NEWS. Two children of John Long were burned to death in a fire at Duko Centre, Penn. HExnr B. Cleaves, or Portland, was renominated for Governor at the Maine Republican State Convention hold*at Lewiston. Stbieebs in Indiana burned bridges and tried to blow up a trainload of troops ; there were reports of lighting at Farmersburg, Indiana; two rogimerts started from Baltimore to the Cumberland coal regions ; an I agreement was reached between the Colorado miners and the operators. The drought in Nebraska and Arkansas was broken. Kansas millers reporf gloomy crop prospects. The House Elections Committee decided the contested election case of Watson vs. Black from the Tenth Georgia District, in favor of Mr, Black, the contestee. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: To be Consuls for the United States, Alexander C. Brice, of Iowa, at Matanzas, Cuba; Perry Barthol, of MisHnrm nnv WllHom .T lard, of New York, at Hull, England. Attorney-General Olney filed, in the behalf of the United States, a claim against the estate of the late Senator Stanford, for the sum of $15,000,000. Tiie Italian Ministry has resigned ; there was a personal encounter between two Deputies while the Budget was under discussion. Frank Bradford, a prisoner confined in the Albany County Jail on a charge of intoxication, leaped, with suicidal intent, from the highest or fourth corridor to the stone floor below. He died two hours later at the City Hospital. Bradford comes from a highly respectable family in Bennington, Vt., and was a well known elocutionist and a prominent Mason. The late General George G. Bradford was his brother. West Point cadets gave a brilliant exhibition of gunnery. They made a bull's-eye shot with a sea-coast battery piece and a 450-pound shell. Fire completely burned out the largest retail dry coods store in Woonsocket, R. I. It was owned by A. J. St. Onge. The Unity brick block was also badly damaged. Loss $45,000. Govebxob Richaeds has forbidden the proposed sun dance ot the Creo Indians at Great Falls, Montana. Five Chinamen wore killed by an explosion of gasoline In a laundry at Portland, Oregon. Ohio Republicans foet in State Convention at Columbus and declared for a speedy restoration of silver as a money metal. The ticket nominated was: Secretary of State, Samuel M. Taylor, Champaign County : Judge of Supreme Court, John A. Shauck, Dayton; School Commissioner, Oscar T. Corson, Guernsey County; member Board of Public Works, Charles E. Groce, Circleville. Hes. Cleveland, accompanied by her two children, a nurse and a maid, left Washington in a special car on the Pennsylvania Railroad, for Gray Gables, Mass., to spend the summer there. 8en*ators Vilas, Smith, Gallinger. Blackburn and Patton have been appointed a committee to receivo petitions and give hearings on the existing industrial distress. Gctieeef.z has been proclaimed Prosldent of Salvador after an exciting day and night in La Libertad, during part of which time American forces were in charge of the town. The Brazilian insurgents have been defeated by the Government troops in Santa Catharina and Rio Grande do Sul. The golden jubilee of the Young Men's Christian Associations was celebrated in London. KILLED THEIB CEELDBM. Then Carl Seeger and His Wife Took Their Own Lives. Carl Seeger, his wife aud thefr four children were all found dead iu their home at Berlin, Germany. 8eeger was a master painter, and at one time was well-to-do, but has been unable to colleet money due him for work and became despondent. Mrs. Seeger was greatly cast down by her husband's financial embarrassment, and, judging from the evidence in tho hands of the police, the couple determined to kill their four children, nineteen, thirteen, ten and seven years old, and then commit luiolde. Procuring some cyanide of potassium tho parents placed the poison in tho food of tho two older children, from the effects of which they died in a short time, though the eldest son apparently made a despenito struggle before death relieved him of his agony. The other two children, one a girl, were, for some unexplained reason, hanged by their parents. After killing the children It is supposed that Seeger gave some of the poison to his wife, and immediately after sho swallowed it placed a rope about her neck and strangled her. Then Seeger made preparations lor killing himself. Taking the rope with which he had strangled his wife, ho placed the end with the noose around his neck, fastened tho other end to a door-knob, and, with the aid of a chair, passed the middle of the rope over the top of tho door. When he had done this he kioked the chair from under him and strangled. flDTHip WEOWEDW EI flflTlO ! imciii rnioimui rLuuuo' LOSS OF LIFE AND MUCH DAMAGE IN C0L0BAD0. A Cloudburst at Pueblo Fills the Night With Horror?A Large Pari of the City Under Water ? The Railroads Cut Off From the Town ?Other Cities Suffer. A dispatch from Pueblo, Col.,says: The cloudburst which sent a vast torrent of water down the valley and into this city, caused many deaths and rendered widespread destruction. The work of rescue had just begun whea a recurrence of the flood caused a suspension of the work, and it was feared that many bodies whioh were washed away and under debris would never be recovered. The list of the dead and missinf? compiled shortly before midnight was as follows: Dead: Dave Rafferty, steel worker; Josephi Coppa, smelter; body reported seventeen miles above town and another two miles knlrtnr TTnn T.aa ft OhfnMfl ln.iinflrvmn.n drowned In the cellar of his laundry. Hissing: J. Vandever, William Bush, Harry Burch, Mrs. Williamson, Josie Hurt, an infant, and five others reported by different families. Grave fears were expressed for twelve families of squatters on an island down the river. There was no means of reaching these people. The catastrophe, similar to the Johnstown horror of four years a go and remarkable from having occurred on the same day, utterly prostrated the citizens and paralyzed business. The property loss will be about $600,000. Both the Arkansas and Fountain Elvers continued to rise rapidly, and rain fell in torrents. But for a light here and there the city would have been in darkness. The entire business district from the bluffs to Fourth street was inundated, the water standing upon the Union Depot platform to the depth of a foot. Hundreds of families were rescued during the night. The electric light stations, the gas works and telegraph and telephone offices were rendered useless. The levee broke in a dozen places. The Arkansas River brought water from the west, Dry Creek from the northwest, and the Fountain Irom the north. All went out of their banks durine the night. No trains could enter or leave the city In any direction. Reports from the West Indicated that the railroads had been very badly damaged. The new Hue of the Florence and Cripple Creek road was badly washed oat. At noon several people were known to have been drowned. Traffic on the Pike's Peak Railroad at Manitou was entirely suspended for the first time in its history, by reason of great damage to the roadbed. The Rio Grande and San: a Fe railroads were seriously crippled at many points by washouts, rock slides and washed away bridges. The damage throughout the State was very great. Three spans of the bridge across the Arkansas River at Nepesta went out at 9 o'clock a. m., and there were indications that the whole bridge would be destroyed. There was a big washout between Colorado Springs and Colorado City, and there was danger that the shops and the depot in the latter city would be damaged greatly. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Bessemer, the Inventor of the steel process which bears his name, has made 810,000,000 out of the invention. Govebnob Altoeld, of Illinois, Is said to be afflicted with a disoase of the spine, and It is not expected that he will live his term out. Mas. Agnes Ibwin is to become the dean of Radcliff College, as the Harvard annex Is now called. Mrs. Irwin is about sixty years old. Onlt three of 'the United States Senators are of foreign birth. Walsh was born In Ireland; Pasco in England and McMillan in Canada. Lobd Robebeby's dairy farm in Buckinghamshire, England, comprises 1400 acres, on whlcn he keeps 120 dairy cows, 800 cattle and 1000 sheep. At the royal wadding in Coiurg, Queen Victoria spoke nothing but German, no matter what the nationality of the person she was talking to was. Senatob Jones, of Arkansas, is the nightingale of Congress. He is a member of a church choir and his bass solos are the feature of the services. Kino Humbebt, of Italy, will soon undergo an operation for canoer of the throat. It is said tnat hlis case is similar to that of the late Emperor Frederick, of Germany. B. P. Hutchinson, "Old Hutch," who is now a small operator on the Chicago Board of Trade, lost 63,000,000 in speculations during the past five years. His son is a millionaire banker. Eupebob William Is honorary colonel-inohlef of twenty-seven regiments belonging to various oountries of Europe. He has to have a complete and distinct uniform outfit for every regiment. When Governor Noithen, of Georgia, retires from the executive chair he will become Chancellor of the University of Georgia. He Is by profession a teacher, and is recognized as an educator of marked ability. Fbedebiok MacMonnies, the designer of the famous fourtain at the World's Fair, has taken a contract for 3100,000 to carve two groups for the soldiers' monument at Indianapolis. He has four years to finish them. Sib Patbick Sullivan, of Sheboygan, Mich., wbo was knighted by the Klnz of Sweden for writing a book on "Turnips as a Universal Article of Diet," has just taken out a patent for a bicycle made from com husk palp. BOTH BOYS DROWNED. A Nine-Year-Old Lad Tries in Vain to Rescue a Younger Brother. A nine-year-old hero was drowned at Lancaster, Ponn., and with him his little brother, whom he strove helplessly to roscue. The children were Willie and Jimmle Stock, sons of Frederick Stock. Together they went to bathe in the Conestoea Creek, about 6 o'clock p. m. Neither of tho lads could swim, so thoy kept close to the shore, paddling about ill glee. Soon Jimmie, the younger, ventured out a little and quickly got beyond his depth. He shrieked for help. Willie went bravely to the rescue. He seized hold of Jimmy, and then the boys struggled to get back to shallow water. "Hold fast to me, Jimmy. Til save you j we'll be all right," gasped the older lad, while the water was nearly rising over them. It was no use, and In a few minutes the two, locked In each other's embrace, went down before the gaze of several young companions who were watching tnem from the shore. The bodies were recovered. i LYNCHED IN COURT. Disgusted "With tho Proceedings Against Two Murderers. Ed. Hill and George F. Parker, murderers, were taken from tho jail at Colfax, Wash.,' nnd hanged from the balcony of the Court House. Hill killed Lnngford Summers at Garfield nearly two years aj*o, anl after a trial which cost tho county nearly '539,000 he was lound guilty of assault aud soutuucod to two years. His ease was pending on appeal. Parker was being trio-l for tho murder of A.. B. Cooper, at Pullman, last October, and tho jury sitting in bis caso watched the lynching from a room in the Court House. The mob awoke Jailer Newcorabor, and, ou plea that they had a prisoner to look up, got in tho jail. They took his keys, put ropes around the necks ot the murderers, led thorn to the second story of the Court-House and, without any parley, dropped them off tho balcony. Parker's arm caught in the rope find wus jorkedalmost from its socket. Hill's neck was broken. Five war ships were sold out of the service by the British Admiralty a few weeks aero, being unfit for further employment. One was a woodon battle ship built sixty years ago. Three of the others were also wooden ships, and one was an lion troop ship. i j THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. Dr. Mart Putnam Jacobi and other advocates of woman suffrage addressed the Suffrage Committee of the Constitutional Convention at Albany, N. Y. The annual review of the police took place In New York City. Business men held a meetinc: in Carneprle Hall, New York City, to denounce the income tax feature of the Tariff bilL Nearly 1500 wera nrftsent. Five rapid firing guns were experimented with by ths Ordnance Department at the Government Proving Grounds, at Sandy Hook, N. J. General Neal Dow spoke at the opening of the Temperance Congress at Prohibition Park, Staten Island, N. Y. I Three masked burglars broke into a farm < house near Bridgeton, N. J., bound and ( gagged the Misse3 Jones, two old women who occupied it, and by threatening to hang them compelled them to show where their money was hidden. The burglars secured J about 8700. Cab works in Laconia, N. H., worth $100- ( 000, were burned. South and West. Reports from the lower Kanawha Valley, j West Virginia, stated that there was a brisk fall of snow there, the thermometer falling J to th irty-flve degrees. In Greenbrier County corn, potatoes, etc., were frozen. Andrew Drioht and B. Landry were j killed at New Orleans, La., by falling from j the top of the Newcomb College dormitory, and Arthur Stanley, who fell with them, was fatally injured. The cornice on which the men were working gave way. They fell , sixty feet. Frank Ballard, colored, was lynched ( near Homer. Tenn., for attempted assault j on a white girl. J. W. J. Morgan, a white man, was hanged ( at Greenville, S. C., for the murder of his 1 father-in law. < Jeff Crawford, colored, who murdered J W. P. Blackburn, white, of Eethesda Town- c ship, S. C., and who was sentenced to be i hanged, has been lynched by a mob. Hardy , Gill, colored, was taken from the jail in Lancaster. 8. C.. and lynched. He assaulted th<5 wife of James A. Clark. At "Dublin, , Gn., a mob entered the jail, bound and gauged the jailer, took a colored man accus3d of assault, tied him to a tree, and shot him dead. The riotous strikers held fall sway at CannolUbtfrif, Ind. They tore up the Evansville <fc Terre Haute Railroad tracks, ditchnd cars, ruined railroad propprty right and left. They built rough fortifications, and the news that the militia was coming made them very ugly. They wore flvo hundred strong. Fifteen business houses and twenty residences in Ottumwa. Iowa, were destroyed by fire. The worst result was the death of James daymour, a dwarf boy, the fatal injury by smoke of one man and the serious injury of three others. The loss is estimated 1 at $225,000. A spark from a locomotive is supposed to have started the blaze. Striking coal mtner3 burned bridges and Interfered with coal trains in West Virginia and Ohio. Four minors were shot from ambush at Powellton, W. Va., while returning from work. At Farmersburg in a skirmish between tUe troops and the strikers four of the latter were killed. Steele & Walker, grocers, at St. Joseph. Mo., failed with liabilities of $700,000 and assets of about $1,000,000. Jealous Joseph Lozanskl killed his wife and committed suicide in Toledo. Ohio. At Kansas City, Mo., W. L. Marsh snot his wife ] and daughter in a court-room and tried to kill a constable. Mrs. Marsh was fatally nun. Gbeat damage has been done by floods at l Portland, Oregon; much of the business part t of the city was placed under water. Washington. .% The Senate confirmed the nomination of John A. Sullivan to be Internal Revenue Collector for the Second New York District. The United 8tates cruiser Columbia scraped the river bottom on her recent final acceptance trial and received some injuries. The National Lutheran Home for the Aged at Montello, near Wlnthrop Heights, Washington, was inaugurated. The house is surrounded by a tract of thirty acres, the gift of Mrs. Sarah Untermehie, of Wasnington. The cottage plan has been followed. An official statement of Secj ary Carlisle's connection with the sugar trust schedule of j the Tariff bill was issued. He helped the j Finance Committee put it in proper form, ( correct a blunder and write a provision re- j lating to the resiprocity treaty with Hawaii. t 8enator McPherson explained that a careless r servant was the cause of his buying 500 shares of Sugar. The Korean Legation In Washington received a cablegram from the King's palace at Seoul, saying that the rebels had gained possession of Chunlato, the southern and chief of the eight provinces of the kingdom, that the lives of all foreigners were in danger and that the presence of a United 8tates war ship at Chemulpo without delay to protect Americans was urgently requested. Secretary Herbert returned from his trip to the Pacific coast. Superintendent Stuot, of the Immigration Bureau, Treasury Department, took steps to prevent alien contraot laborers from taking the place of striking miners in the coke and coal regions of Clearfield and Connellsville, JPenn. The cruiser Baltimore was ordered to Korea to protect American interests. The State Department heard that there was danger of an uprising of natives. The Second Assistant Postmaster-General. J. Lowrie Bell, resigned to become General Traffic Manager of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. A Court or Inquiry was ordered to fix the responsibility for the grounding of the cruiser Columbia. The President nominated Charles Neilson, of Maryland, to be Second Assistant Postmaster-General, vice Lowrie Bell, resigned. Lieutenant Holcohbe testified that some of the blow holes in the Carnegie armor plates were six inches in diameter and that one such, plugged, can bo found below the Monterey's water line. Pnrfttfrn. Bbioaxds entered the house of Mgr. C.if* nro, at Acquaviva, province of Barl, Italy. 1 They murdered the prelate's father, ninety years old, and the coachman, who tried to defend the household, and wounded a maid servant. t At Sofla the military flred three times on ? the mobs, wounding many persons. j Dn. Wekehle, the Prime Minister of < Hungary, has tendered his resignation to ? the Emperor Francis Joseph. Civil war has broken out In Bulparln. { Two battalions of troops have rebelloa and ? demanded the reinstatement of 31. Stambu* e loiT. They have fceen joined by the cen? i ctarmes in an attack on the troop3 wao have ( declared for Prince Ferdinand. | J Advices nave reached London of a serious I rebellion in Manchoorin. f At London, United States Ambassador Bayard sure a dinner to the officers of the cruiser Chicago. Tur River Sacrre, in the Province of LerIdn, Spain, swollen by recent heavy rains, suddenly swept over the Seo de Urgel road, / destroying an inn and a warehouse. Fifteen bodies have been recovered. It is believed that fifty people were drowned. Thousands have been made homeless by the Hoods in British Columbia. The property 1 )o?? in Frasiir Valley alone is estimated at j ] $3,000,000. j , Tjie thirteenth international Y. M. C. A. < conference opened with a service in ^Vostminster Abbey, London. < The Government forces of Salvador wero t defeated, General Er.eta and 600 troops be- < ing killed. President Ezetn has resigned. t Hawaii sent a steamer to Neckar Island to post her flag and assert her authority. Some peasants found a shell on the Glern- < t?igh Artillery range, at Tralee, County j Kerry, Ireland, and tried to open it. Tho j shell exploded, killing three and seriously wounding four. j Jcbh.ee sermons In connection with the Y. M. C. A Conference were held in 1400 i churches in London and Its suburbs, and f also throughout Great Britain. The Conferenco elected SirGeorge Williams, the founder t of the assooiatlon, Its permanent President, c ; * : , v: .; . : > ' P1TB WAIFS POIWEE THEY ATE SLAB ROOT AND DIED IN GEEAT AGONY. Fifteen Inmates of the Catholic Home Near Tarrytown, N. Y., Struggled for Possession of the Deadly Growth ? Ten of Them Survive After Violent Convulsions. By the unfortunate eating of a poisonous foot, which they thought was sweet flag root, Ave little boys in the Roman Catholic Bisters' House of Mercy, about a mile back of Tarrytown, N. Y., were killed and half a dozen more were made critically ill. The name3 of the doad are: Richard Powers and John Donnelly, twelve years old, and James Forrestal, John Callahan and rhomas Pasmore, ten years old. These boys were in a company of fifteen r>r twenty who went out for play in the fields. While watching some laborers digring a trench for draining purposes, young Donnelly saw what he supposed was some sweet flag root and told the other boys of it. rhey all began eating of it and enjoyed their feast. A. couplo of hours later all the toys wno had eaten of the root were talten 111 with violent pains about the heart. This wholesale illness greatly alarmed the Sisters in charge, and they sent in haste to the village for all the doctors they could find. The physicians saw at once that the boys must have swallowed some kind of poison, md antidotes were given without delay. Some of the boys were affected in a much greater degree than the others by the poison, jnd the doctors devoted their greatest energies to saving these. The boys, according to the physicians, :ould not have swallowed the poison long jeforethe antidotes were administered. One )f the physicians, after examining the matter romited by the boys, said that he thought hey must have eaten a vegetable known . ?* ilag root. The doctors remained at the lome all night, working to save the lives of he boys. The Ave boys fatally poisoned died within l short time of each other. The other boys vere soon out of danger. One of the lads said the finding of the 'oot was accidental. As soon as the finder asted ir he shouted : "Here's something Ine, boys?flag root." Then they all made a rush for it, and tho act that there w as not sufficient to go around s the only reason why all were not killed. Those who died ate greedily of it. It was not moro than an hour after tho inding of tho first root when the boys who lad eaten the most of the roots became very ilck. The Sisters at once be^an to give what imple remedies they could think of to roieve the boj-s, but soon saw toat it would be tecessary to send for the ph3*8lcians. Coroner Apgar, of Pe?kskill, wasnotifledof ho death of the boys, and at once impanelled l jary in order to hold an Inquest. He lirected that an autopsy be mada upon the >ody of each of the boys. The autopsy showed that they died from jaralysis of the heart. Powers, Donnelly, md Pasmora were orphans. The fathers of Callahan and Forrestal live in New York, rhe Mother Superior directed that tho boys >e buried at the expense of the institution. )na of tho doctors who examined the root hought it was a species of "slag" root. STKIKEKS RAMPANT, Labor Disturbances Break Forth at Many Points. Violence marked the continuance oi the abor strikes in many sections of the coun;ry, and a review of the situation for one lay showed that tho struggle was growing nore serious as the contest between the workmen and capitalists progressed. McKeesport, Penn., was in the hands of a vild mob of tube-work strikers. Thev drove vorkmen from their factories, burned tip)les and other property, and held undisputed iway over the country rouud. They had hree cannon, and for a time retained possession of the mills and other property of iieir former employers. A desperate fight occurred between a iheriflTs posse and coal strikers at the Little 3oal Mines, near Pekin, III. T wo were killed md half a dozen wounded. One dead jody, several men on the verge of the prave, a number of others injured, $30,000 worth ?o! property absoutely destroyed and many homes made lesolate, was the result of an attempt made )y the miners of the Peoria district to close :he mine operated by the Little Brothers in razewell County, a mile or more back of SVesley City. Edward Blower, of Bartonrtlle, married, was shot in the side of the leek and killed instantly. Governor McKlnley has sent 1200 troops to Eastern Ohio, where strikers are stopping railway traffic. The commanding general jelieveg that the men will fight at at least >ne point. A mob near Harmony, Ind., stoned a Vanialla freight train and instantly killed the ?? - J? U1 snginuer rnuu tnu. The presence of troops quieted the riotera it Frostburg, Md., but just before the solilers arrived the house of ft working miner yas blown up with dynamite. A call for aid came from Round Pound In ] he Cherokee Strip. Men were tearing up railroad tracks and threatened to kill any- ' jody who attempted to repair them. A battle between the army of deputies and J fold miners near Cripple Creek, Col., was i verted at the last moment. The men said 1 hey were willing to surrender to the mili- J ;ia, and the deputies concluded to awnit the 1 omtng of the troops. . Neither the coal operators nor the miners 1 ook kindly to the suggestion of the National Committee of the United Mine Workers that iach mining district settle the strike for ltlelf. ! Tne importation of new men into the coke region of Pennsylvania Increased and bid .'air to defeat the strikers. Judge Emery Speer, who once made n de:ision unfavorable to organized labor, refused at Macon, Ga., to require engineers to ivork thirteen hours at a stretch, saying the policy of the '.aw was to improve the \-onlition of the laboring man wherever possible. OREGON ELECTION. The Republicans Win With Their entire State Ticket. A dispatch filed at Portland, Oregon, on he day after the contest, said: The most txciting election in the history of the State ias just taken place. Lord (Republican) for Governor, la elected by a plurality of < >000. The entire Republican State ticket s probably elected with the possible sxception of Irwin, for Superintendent of Schools. The Legislature will be very close i ind the Populists may hold tho balance of >ower in the Senate, thoughthe Republicans :laim they.will have a majority in both louses. Hermann (Republican) is elected to Congress from the First District with from 1000 :o 2000 majority. Ellis (Republican) is in the lead in the Second District. TO STOP UP SHOT HOLES, The Devise of a Marine Engineer Which Meets Approval. A devise for stopping up shot holes In war ressels. invented by a marine engineer named Douglas, and accepted by the British Government, has been tested by the Unitod States cruiser Chicago. It resembles a parachute with a rubber ;over supported by steel ribs. It is pushed 1 hrough the hole made by the shot. when, it 1 >xpands and clings close to the outside of ho vessel, preventing an inrush of water. i Captain Mahan and Lieutenant Com- i nander Clover, of tho Chicago, are much pleased with the device, and Lieutenant iowles, naval attache to the United States Embassy, has sent a specimen of it to the ; N'avy Department at Washington. English Capital After Our Watches. The local stockholder* of the Elgin (III.) National Watch Company were notilod by President Avery that an English synlicate had made au oiler of S7.00J 000 for he plant, and that three-fourths of the wnsrs of stojk had agraed to sell. ;* TEMPERANCE WHAT BUil WIIL no. Rom will scorch and sear the J.rain, Rum will mad the bwirt with pm'n ; Rum will bloat the flesh with fire And eternal thirst inspire. Rum will clothe with ra^s your hack, Make you walk a crooked track ; Change your meat to naked bones And to wrath your gentle toues. Rum will rob you of all sense. Rum will rob the purse of pence, Rum will rob the mouth of food And the soul of heavenly good. Rum the jails with men will All, And the dungeon's gloomy cell; It rouses passion's deadly hate And pours its curses oe'r the State. Rum the Christian's love will cool, Make him break the golden rule; TJII.,,1 ki. JLfUUU 1113 3UUl IV CilUl n WiuuJ And to evil turn his hands. ?F. S. Williams, in Home and Country. 1 DBUXKABl/s WILL. The following is a -will by a drunkard oi Oswego, N. Y.: "I lenve to society a ruined character and a wretched example. I leave to my parents as much sorrow as they can in their feeble state bear. I leave to my brothers and sisters as much shame and mortification as I could bring on them. I leave to my wife a broken heart?a life of shame. I jeave to -uch of my children poverty, ignorance, a low character, and u remembrance that their father fllle.l a drunkard's grave."?Christian Inquirer. ? BRANDT DSOPS FOB CHILDBED. M. D. Arnould, a candy manufacturer, was brought before the Board of Health, of New York City, to make explanation concerning brandy drops, which he had manufactured and sold to school children. Coneplaint was made against him by the Gerry Society. A chemical analysis showed that six of the candies contained as much brandy as an ordinary ' cocktail.'' Mr. Arnould stated that he badpiven up the manufacture of the drops, but that others were manufacturing them. The Commissioners will do all they can to prevent the manufacture of these intoxicating droos.?New York Witness. TESTIMONY OF SHE AGES. Thou shalt not drink wino or anything that may intoxicate.?Budhist Commandment. Temperance is a tree which has content* ment for its root and peace ior its fruit.? Arabian Maxim. Bodily enjoyment depends on health and health depends on emperance.?Thares, of Greece. 640 B. C. Strength of mind depends upon sobriety, for this keeps reason unclouded by passion. ?Pythagorew, of Greece, 580 B. C. Far from me be the gift of Bacchus?pernicious. inflaming wine, that weakens botU body and mind.?Horner, of Greece. SOOB. C. Look not upon the wine when it is red, for .it-. Inat it llkfl .1 sornont und sHnir. eth like an adder.?King Solomon, 1015 E. 0. It is good neither to eat flesh nor to driuk wine, nor anything whereby thy brother etumbleth or is made weak.?Paul the Adostie. 50 A. D. While the intemperate man inflicts cviJ tipon his friends, he brings far more evil upon himself. Not only to ruin his family, but also to bring ruin on his own body and soul, is the greatest wrong that any man can commit.?Socrates. 46'J B. C. The man who drinks intoxicating liqnov puils up his own root, even in this world, Dig up thirst by the roots, that the tempter may not crush you again and again, as tho stream crushes the weeds.?Bukha Sakya, Hindoo, born 627 B. C. THE MODEBN JU Jtf ERXAITT. Commander Ballin?ton Booth. in a recent number of the War Cry, referring to the licensed liquor traffic andthe saloon, writes. ' It has long been a mystery to me, both in my private and official capacity, bow any municipal or State governmont can hope to regulate the city or commonwealth witn any degree of advantage or prosperity or any anticipation of inculcating morality, chastity, t or justice, while the saloon and the open' traffic of liquor is allowed full sway and protection. Their work is avowedly baneful and destructive. It has been proved Incontestably that the business of five saloons in any locality will occasion more real permanent harm than the fervent efforts of five churches will accomplish good. While the sale and use of liquor is encouraged, our homes will continueto be blighted, our youth debased, our civil happiness robbed, and our public prosperity thwarted. Has not the argument 'Drinking in moderation.' long since proved weak and threadbare in the li?ht of the devastation, misery, and scourge brought through the fiery cup to multitudes H in our midst? 'Am I accused of speaning strongly/ I H will speak less so if any one reading thesd H lines can tell me that no relative or acquaint- H ance of his has ever been brought unaer tae H shadow of this curse. Oh, as men among men. as stewards of God, and as Soldiers of Hj the Cross, there is but one tiling left for us to do in this matter, and that is to vow present and eternal abandonment, and war against, Bg this modern Juggernaut." H THE COST OF ONE DEI>'8, " Some men are so made that the mere taste H nf liquor will kindle in them a raging thirst BE for more. A doctor and his friend were once talking H together in front of a saloon when a master Bn mechanic, a man of amiable and excellent character, a flrst-clnss workman, full of H| business, with an interesting family, respected by everybody and bidding fair to be one of the leading men of tho city came up MM lo them and laughingly sai.l Kg "Well, I have just done what I never did |R before in my Jife." "Ah. what was that;" 9H "Why, Mr. ? had owed mo a WU for work for a Ion? time and I dunne-l Llm for |H the money till I was tired, but a minute ago EH I caught him out here, and asked him for the money 'Well,' ho said. Til pay it to you if you'll step in here, and get a drink mo ' ?vnsniil I. 'I tieyer drink? never drnnk in my life.1 'Well.' he replied, Mo as you please : if you won't drink with HB m?*, I won't pay your hill?that's all!' But 19 I told him I could not do that. However. Hjj finding he would not pay the bill, rather BH than lose the money. I just went in and got the drink." And he laughed at the strange MS occurrence as be concluded. As soon as he had finished the stqjy, the physician's companion. an old, discreet, BB shrewd man. turned to him. and in a most Impressive tone, said Nvj Sir, that was the dearest r'rlnk that ever crossed your lips, and the worst bill you evr collected." Aud terribly did time verify that prcdie- ^9 ilou. In less than twt?lv<> months he was a :'onllrmed. disgraced sor. a vagabond in soeiety, a curse to those who loved him. a MB ioathineand a shame wherever he wont. At BH last he died a horrible rttath in an infirmary from a disease produced solely by mtoxica- Ha tion. Jg 'EiTPEEASCE SEWS AND NOTE'. KB Lord Bramwell says : '"Saturday is pay-^^H day, drink-day. crime-day." Eght per cent, of the Welsh manibsrs of Parliament are teetotalers. 9RH Even a brewer one hundred years flgo wrote: "rhrouirh drink there are half i million homes to which happiness nevct comes." 9BM Of the Clt paupers in the Edinburgh poor HH house not one w:is an abstainer, and 407 admittcd that their poverty was due entirely to intemperance. Four million four hundred and twenty- IH eight thousand have been convicted o! H& drunkenness and <1isorderliness ia Loudon in a quarter of a century. BHj Dr. Clara Shaw, of the Chicago Central W. C. T. U., has begun a series of scientific HB temperance lectures in the Christian En- flRfl deavor Societies of Illinois. The statement was recently made in tho German Reichstag that there are 11,000 persons in hospitals in Germany who are suf- ^H| fering with delirium tremens. That whirlwinil of the Lord, of twenty years ago, has not yet spent its lorce but is^HB still sweeping on. A part of it is embodied in the Y^ung Peoplo's Society of Christian Endeavor. Let us thank God and take new^^H courage.?Mrs. G. H. Bead. agS According to an estimate mado by a prorn-HH inent liquor dealer, the United States Sen-^^B ate, if it extends tho honding period. is^HS practically giving the liquor men S1.G7 tfvery gallon of whisky upon which tho bond-^H| ing period is extended to eight years. HH