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COMITION OF THE CBOf S.
THE REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL
DEPARTMENT.
The Drouth In Many Parts of the
Country Has Affected the Growing
nrain?The Wheat Estimates
?The Peach Crop Said to Be a
Commercial Failure.
The report of June 1 of the Agricultural
Department make9 the acreage of winter
wheat sown, compared with that which was
harvested last year, 99 per cent., being a decrease
of one point. There is an increase of
acreage as compared with 1893 in only ten
States, the principal part of which was made
i_ Thft npr^pnfftpes of
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winter wheat acreage of the principal States
are: Ohio. 93. Michigan, 85; Indiana, 91
Illinois. 122; Kansas, 126, and California.
103. The percentage of spring wheat area
for the whole country is 87.8 per cent., being
a reduction from last year's average of
12.2 points. The percentages of spring wheat
area of the principal States are: Minnesota
87; Nebraska, 81; South Dakota, 85 ; North
Dakota, 90.
The average percentage of acreage for
both spring and winter wheat for the whole
country Is 95.8. making a total area in round
numbers of S3,000,000 acres. The condition
of winter wheat has improved since last report
a little less than two points, being 83.2
per cent, against 81.4 on May 1. The
percentages of the principal States are
as follows Ohio, 96; Michigan, 89; Indiana,
93 ; Illinois, 84; Missouri, 82 ; Eansas, 57;
California, 60. The condition Qf spring
wheat presents an average for the entire
country ot 88 per cent., and for the principal
Bprlncr wheat States as follows ; Wisconsin,
96 : Minnesota, 99: Iowa, 90 ; Nebraska, 44 j
South Dakota, 79; North Dakota, 97 , Washington,
89, Oregon, 96.
The preliminary report places the acreage
of oat9 at nearly one point less than last
year. The general average for the whole
country is 99.1. The returns show the condition
to be 87 3gainst 88.9 last June. The
preliminary returns ot acreage make the
brsiulth devoted to barley 93.5 per cent, of
that of last year. The averacre condition,
Jun<* 1. was 82.2. against 83.3 on Jhe
same date last year, and 92.1 in 1892. The
acreage in rye Is 95.3 per cent, of that of
last year. Average condition, June 1,93.2.
A very decided increase in the acreage of
rice is shown by June returns. The breadth
seeded in 1894 is but 76.4 per cent, of last
year's acreage. The average condition is
97.1.
The peach crop, commercially considered,
Is practically a failure. The condition of ap?les
is rather better than that of peaches,
onditions are high in Northern districts,
but relate principally to bloo n?. No fruit
is expected in the Piedmont nn. I Ohio Valley
districts, an^ little in the 3r-sourl belt.
Prospects are brighter in the mountain and
Pacific States. The area of clover decreased
3.8 per cent, below that of last year. Condition
reported at 87.3. The ceneral average
of ?pring pasture is 92, against 97.7 last
montn.
BATTLE WITH STRIKERS,
Seven Deputies Repulse Three Hundred
Slavs.
A battle between seven armed deputies and
a mob of 300 strikers occurred at 9 o'clock
a. m. at the Lemont No. 3 works of the McClHro
Coke Company, Uniontown, Pena,
One striker, a Slav, was killed Instantly, and
two ot her Slav strikers were fatally wounded.
The deputies ware surrounded and fired upon
hy the strikers before they shot.
The incidents leading up to the battle bemn
in the nieht. when amob of several linn
dred strikers, mainly from the Trotter
works of the Frlck Company, gathered at
the Pennsylvania Railroad station at
New Haven, and took as prisoners
foor workmen who are employed
at the "Valley works of the Frick
Company, and -were on their way homo at
Lelsenrincr. The names of the workmen are
John Delaney, Oliver Attleby, John Britt
and John Furlough. When they stepped ofl
the train the mob surrounded them and
marched them away. Tho four men were
covered over with chalk and big plac1
ards, bearing offensive epithets, and
wero then marched through th? streets between
the company houses. The strikers
jeered them and the women spat upon them
and hit them with stones and club?. They
were even marched past their own homes,
In sight of their wives and children.
SherifT Wilhelm dispatched Deputy Sheriff
AUen with seven deputies to rescue the
workmen. Allen arrived at 6 o'clock. At
no time was he able to overtake the mob
having the men in charge, and he finally
learned that the men were being passed
mob to mob. It was found that tho
four men had been taken to Morrel
from there to Younsretown, and then to L?mont,
where the battle occurred. Early in
the morning, after placing the deputies to
prevent the strikers from taking the prisoners
away, AUen returned to Uniontown for
further orders, and was directed to rescue
the prisoners. ReturningtoLemont he found
frrrrv sYorvnHoa rotro'itinr* hofnr>a o hnrpMnn
in v \?"|/unvg wwiv&u 11 uuiiitu^
mob of Slavs. As Allen rode up a Slav
fired a revolver at him, the ballet passing
over his head. Several of the mob then began
tiring at the ofacers. Allen's revolver
was detective an l only two shots were tired
by him. Five of his assailants came up and
began fir in j? with their Winchesters. About
fifty shots were exchanged, the mob
slowly advancing, the deputies retreating
until reinforced by other deputies,
when a stand was made. The mob then began
to disperse. Sheriff Wilhelm was again
Informed, and sent thirteen more deputies.
An hour later, twelve of the mob were arrest
ea and brought to jail.
The Slav who had been killed was found
lying in the -oad, shot through the body by
a Winchester ball. Two others were found
in houses near by, both said to be mortally
wounded, having been shot through the
thighs. The strikers refused to give the
names of the men killed and injured. One
of the men arrested was shot in the arm.
Many others were believed to have been
wounded. None of the deputies were injured.
TWO RESCUED,
TTnf al A nnMpnf to u. ft or
Id a Reservoir.
A terrible accident occurred oa Tully Foster
reservoir, Brewsters, N. Y. A party consisting
of Bessie Blainey and Maggie Blainey,
sisters; Kate McClusker, Martin McClusker,
Thomas Scanlon, and Patrick Marooney,
took a boat ride on the reservoir
Everything went smoothly until 4}-?
o'clock, when the boat overturned, throwing
all the occupants into the water. Tne
wpmen screamed for help, and the men did
all in their power to keep on the surface of
the water. By the merest chance Kate McCiusker
caught bold of the upturned boat,
and held fast, shouting at the top of her voice
for assistance. Patrick Aspel aal Thomas
Donohue, who were in a boat some
distance from where the accident occurred,
hasteued to the spot and rescued her. They
then looked for the rest of the party, but
only one of Jhem was to be seen. Patrick
Marooney was the only member of the p irty
that could swim, and he had started for the
ahore.
Thomas Lynch, who saw the boat keel
over, and who has a boat moored at tbe rear
of his hous?, set out to the rescue. On the
way to the place where the accident occurred
he came upon Marooney and pulled
him into the bo:it. In vain the resellers
looted for the rest of :ho party, out not oud
of them could be seen.
IT'S HAWAII'S ISLAND,
Its Flag is Hoisted by the Mlulster of
the Interior.
< Hawaii has won the raco with Great
Britain and secure-l possession of Necker
Island. The Hawaiian steamer Iwalani beat
the British cruiser Champion in the race to
the barren bit of land. Minister of the Interior
King returned to Honolulu and announced
that he had hoisted the flag of Hawaii
on a promontory of the island.
The now acquisition is perfectly barren, of
no use whatever except as a possible resting
place for the proposed cable.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States
Pbofessob W. D. Whitxey died at his
home in New Haven, Conn.
The L ancoster ship of war returned to the
Brooklyn-(N. Y.) Navy Yard, after a three
years' cruise.
William McGeab and Chester Loud went
out In a boat with four girls on Tumbling
Dam Pond, N. J. One of the girls stood up.
This caused the boat to rock, and she fell
overboard. The others In trying to rescue
her upset the boat. Miss May Hires and
Miss Millie Powell were drowned.
Secretary Lamoxt was entertalnad by
the cadets at West Point, N. Y., by splendid
target practice.
At New York City E. B. Bartlett 4 Co.
made an assignment, and the Union Warehouse
Company, controlled largely by members
of that Arm, went into the hands of receivers.
Commodore Benedict's steam _ yacht
Oneida, with Mrs. Cleveland, Rath, Esther,
and Mr. and Mrs. Benedict and Miss Benedict
aboard, arrived ax Buzzard's Bay, Mass.
The party went immediately to Gray Gables.
Db. Meyer, the poisoner, was sentenced to
imprisonment for life in New York City and
taken to Sing Sing.
Thref. strikers are known to have been
shot and many workmen were injured in a
riot at the Silver Brook (Penn.) colliery.
Richard Croker. ex-leader of Tammamy
Hall, sailed from New York City for Europe,
where he will sta7 till after election. His
friends say he is in bad health . his enemies
say he has fled from the Lexow Committee.
The injury to the cruiser Columbia proved
to be slight when examined in the drr dock
at the League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia,
Penn.
Cyrus W. Fieed, Jr.. youngest son of the
late Cyrus W. Field, died of quick consumption
at New York City. Returning from hi3
consulate at Brunswick, Germany, he contracted
in London the illness that proved
fatal.
The New York Socialistic-Labor party's
State Convention at Syracuse nominated
Charles S. 3Iatchelt for Governor, and William
Steers for Lieutenant-Governor.
The final drill and dress parade of the
class of '94 took place at the West Point
(N. Y ) Military Academy; the graduating
nop was given In the evening.
South and West.
The United States revenue cutter Bear
went on the rocks at the entrance of Sitka
Harbor, Alaska. There wa3 no hope of sav
uiK uer.
Theodobe P. Hacohet. the aged ex-President
of the wrecked Indianapolis (Ind.) National
Bank, was given six years in the penitentiary.
He pleaded guilty to misapplying
the funds of the bank, and thereby avoided
a public trial. In passing sentence Judce
Baker broke down and cried like a ohild. He
said that it was the most painful duty of his
life.
LAWBEXcr Spilleb, convicted of the murder
of Lottie Rowe, was hanged at Staunton,
Va. Death seemed instantaneous.
The strike in Cripple Creek, Col., is
ended and the settlement has been effected
without bloodshed.
Coal trains were moved on Ohio railroads
under protection of the military.
A tornado visited Grant County, Oregon,
killing at least three persons and doing great
damage to crops and property.
At the Annapolis (Md.) Naval Academy
Secretary Herbert delivered the diplomas to
the graduating class.
Isaac Kestp'2, colored, who murdered
Deputy Sheriff Ned Carver, at Westover,
Md.. was taken from the iatl at CaDe Charles.
Va.,' by a mob and shot to death.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska has declared
unconstitutional the eight-hour law
on the ground that It denies the right
of parties to contract for compensation.
About $800,000 was distributed by the
World's Columbian Exposition, Cnicago, in
the shape of a ten per cent, dividend. Between
^600.000 and 8700,000 will go to individuals
and the remainder to the city of
Chicago.
The village of Sagola was destroved and
a large amount of timber burned by forestfires
in Michigan.
Washington.
A religious enthusiast named Heffen9ln
was arrested at the White House. Ho said
he wanted to convert the President to ways
of righteousness. This was his third visit.
The President signed the New York and
New Jersey Bridge bill.
Secretabt Carlisle received a denial of
the report that the revenue cutter Bear had
been wrecked.
E. R. Chapjias, of New York, refused to
tell the Sugar Investigating Committee the
names of speculating Senators.
The President instructed Admiral Walker
to take precautions to protect Americans in
Hawaii in case of a revolution.
" ^ -> T 1 J ~1U.
^'OXEY, Browne anil joues, icauera ui me
Commonweal, were released from jail at
"Washington. No demonstration attended
their departure.
Sesatob Quay explained certain charges
that Senators and Representatives were interested
in a Washington street rail way deal,
and the Sugar Scandal Committee was directed
to investigate the matter.
Foreign.
A violekt hailstorm passed over Vienna,
Austria, lasting fifteen minutes. A half*
million windows were smashed and many
roofs broken in. Three persons were killed
and several injured. The city's parks and
gardens were devastated. It was the worst
etorm since 1818.
The United States has made a claim on
Spain for reimbursement of a large sum
(about $4,000,000) improperly collected as
duties in Cuba.
Gcitebbez, the leading Revolutionary
General, has been proclaimed President of
Salvador in place of Ezeta. The deposed
President has just fled to Panama.
Japan has sent a battalion of troops to
Korea to protect the Japanese there.
Native troops mutinied in Kingston, Jamaica,
wrecked the police stations and terrorized
the town.
A despatch from Asuncion, the capital of
Paraguay, says that a coup d' etat has been
effected, and that Senor Marinigo has as
sumea tne jrresiaency. mere was uu uiautder.
Five women, including a membsr of the
Salvation Army, were suffocated to death at
Glasgow, Scotland, while in bed, by an escape
ol gas.
Ax outline of the proposed Hawaiian Constitution
was made public.
Nearly 400 guests attended the reception
on the United States cruiser Chicago, at
Gravesend, England.
M BANK FAILURES,
Comptroller Eckels Talks of the
Money and Business Situation.
James H. Eckels, Comptroller of the Currency,
in response to inquirlo3 as to the
present condition of finances, said: "The
condition of the banks of the country presents
a striking contrast to that which existed
a year ago. At that time scarcely a day
passed without a failure occurring. Now a
failure is an exception, and only happens
under conditions tuat are woolly specific and
not general. Less than ten bunks have closed
their doors sinca October. Tae money
starvation which was everywhere met with
has not only disappeared, but every bvak is
glutted with i lie "money, which uuler present
conditions caunct ue employed.
"The increase in deposit of money has
been notably greater in the birga cities than
in the smaller places. In looking over the
reports from the bau!:s. It is noticeable that
in the South an i west ine reserve is quire ? >
high as in the Easr. aa 1 that all ara oeyon 1
a point ever before known. It must be evident
to every oue that the present standstill
la business cannot continue loa^' waeu the
tariff question is settle J. Of very necessity
there must be a business revival, aui it will
be rapid an 1 su'istautul.
"It is a yreat source of congratulation
that the upprenension that was upon tue
people when the Shermau law was operative
does not now affe-jt them sines its repeal,
and though the gold reserve is at a poiut tar
lower, no one is alarmed and no one fears a
return of the conditions of Jun? and July
last."
THE NEW METHO
Largest Building Devoted Exclai
United
Methodists ?rom all over the land will assemble
at Ocean Grove, on the Jersey coast,
daring the summer. The regular programme
of summer services will be inaugurated in
the new auditorium on July 1, and the interest
in the great religious revival which it is
proposed to conduct will not be allowed to
flag until August 30, when the summer
campaign against the minions of evil will
close with a ten-dav camp meeting.
The auditorium, which Architect P. T.
Camp, of New York, will turn over to the
Building Committee,will be the largest edifice
exclusively devoted to religious purposes in
the country, its seating capacity of 9500 being
in excess of that of the great Mormon
Tabernacle in Salt Lake City.
The auditorium is built on the beach with
its front facing old ocean, and is 224 feet
deep by 161 feet in width, outside measurements.
The centre of the roof is eighty-five
iwi Clear iruLu tut? uuur. IUO ueigui
from the cornices on the side walls Is an
even fifty feet, the interior thus made being
grand and imposing in its effects. Four
towers will adorn the roof, the main one
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THE NEW METHODIST A.CI)
with its cupola rising to a height of 125 feet,
presenting a striking landmark, visible many
miles at Bea.
In a building of such proportions and designed
for its special purposes, the architect
must necessarily devote much of his skill to
the securing of proper acoustics, at the same
time providing for the fullest ventilation. To
secure the former the roof has been made a
vast sounding board, the lines of the celling
being parabolic from front to rear and side
to Bide, while the ends are polygonal. At the
rear of the speaker's platform a parabolic
sounding board is attaohed to the vertical
wall, and a smaller sounding board is placed
directly over the platform. By this arrangement
the voice of a speaker i3 forced outward
in such a manner as to preclude echoes.
This arrangement ia also assisted by a system
of exhaust register placed in the floor
toward the rear, by which a gentle current
of air Is drawn from the direction of the
speaker, and by the further use of fans
thrown up through the two front turrets
above the roof.
The rear and side walls of the auditorium
are constructed in three tiers of portable
WETMORE FOE SENATOR
The Rhode Island Legislature .Electa
Dixon's Successor.
I P
OEOBGE PEABODY WErMOBE.
In Gran I Committee of theRaode l3lanl
Legislature at Newport George Peabody
Wetmore was elected United States Senator
to succeed Nathan Dixan. A dinner and a
salute of 10) cun9 followed. In the 8enatc,
thirty-two of the thirty-seven members ware
present, and the vote was unanimous for
Wetmore. In the House there were four
absentees, and the -ote of the sixty-eic;ht
other members was ?so unanimou-s for Wetmore.
George P->abody Wetmore is a New Yorker
by birth. He is forty-'ive yaars old. He is
a pleasant, self-contain 3d centleman. with a
round, smooth face. The namf of Wetmore
is a powerful one in Newport. Senator-elect
Wetmore's father hailed from Vermont. He
and his son, Geonre Paabody, became
prominent in New York banking circles. The
elder Mr. Wetmora amassal a fortune in the
China trade. When the old gentleman died
George Peabody Wet-core fell heir to his
father's fortune, which was estimated at several
million dollars. Early in life he married
Edith K?teltas. who was one of the
belles of New York society. She was exceptionally
beautiful. George Peaboiy Wetmore
was made Governor of Rhode Island in
1885. He was n candidate for the Senate
ugainst S?nator Dixon, whose successor he
will now be. He aiso sought to defeat the
candidacy of 3enator Aldrich last year. One
of Mr. Wetmore's daughter?, is the wife oJ
Barton Willing, of Philadelphia.
SOLDIERS THRASHED THEM.
Ohio Slllitla Whip a Mob of Strikers
With Tbelr Fists.
About 9 o'clock a. m. the troops of Company
K, Eighth Regiment, were at the mouth
of the dangerous cut at McClalnesville.Ohio,
and were aroused by a terrific yell. Im?
mediately a mob of thirty strikers descended I
upon them and began an assault upon the
troops with stones and clubs. Captain Weybrechtandhis
company (K) were on their
feet in a minute and ready for them.
The mob showed fight. Captatn Weybrecht
saw they had no arms, an.l that ha
had more men in hi3 company than tney
had, and he ordered his men to put
down their arms and whip them unarmed.
He would not shoot unarmed men.
The soldiers put down their arms and
leaped in among the men, and in
less than two minutes the Hungarians. Poles
and Italians were scattered all around the
mouth of the cut, but none seriously hurt.
Captain Weybrecht beat them completely.
There was not one of the soldiers scratched.
The mob went away, a disappointed crowd.
THE PLATE WINS.
Value of the Harvey Process Proved
at Indian Head.
Without notice, Captain Sampson, Chief of !
the Naval Ordnance Eureau, slipped quietly
out of Washington to the Indian Head prov
ing ground, and fired two shots from the I
twelve-inch ride at the seventeen-inch Bethlehem
armor plate, against the testing of
which, under standard conditions, the company
had vainly protested.
The result was the complete trinmph of
the plate, and the demonstration .of the
value and practicability of the Harvey process
as applied to plates of this thickness, i
The plate was curved, representing 300 tons
of armor intended for the barbettes of tha
battle ship Massachusetts. I1: measured
sight by twelve feet, and weighed thirty
tons.
Owiso to cno iaio frost the orange crop o.
California will be far below tho average this
season. The total output from Southern j
California will reach about 40,000 carloads. |
This Is twenty per cent, below last season s i
crop. The output for Northern California
.will very small.
DIST AUDITORIUM.
jively to Religions Purposes ia the
States.
panels. Those of the lower tier can be removed,
so that the breezes of the ocean may
blow through the whiskers of the elders and
vibrate the flowers on the bonnets of the
young people. Sections of the two upper
tiers may be moved to meet the demands of
the weather. This interesting piece of architecture
will cost $52,000 when completed,
and has been constructed under the supervision
of the Rev. Dr. E. H. Stokes, of Ocean
Grove, President, General Manager and Superintendent
E. H. DeHaven, the well known
stock broker; T. J. Preston, of Newark: G.
W. Evans, of Ocean Grove; W. H. Skirm, of
Trenton, and D. H. Brown, of Brooklyn.
Among the distinguished divines and
Christian workers who are to take leading
parts in the two months' programme are
the Rev. E. H. Stokes, the Rev. Dr. Thomas
Hanlon, of Pennington Seminary; Evangelist
Charles H. Yatman. the Rev. C. H. Mc
Anney, of Tarrytown, N. Y.; Mrs. Emma
Bourne, President of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union of Now Jersey; the Rev.
Dr. B. B. Loomis, the Bight Bev. Bishop
Vincent, Joseph Cook, the great evangelist ;
the Bev. J. B. Day, Chancellor of Syracuse
ITOEiUH AT OCEAS GBOVE.
University, Colonel George W. Bain, oI
Kentucky; J. N. Stearns, of New York, a
great temperance worker ; Bishops Eowmaa,
Fitzgerald, Foster. Mallnlieu, Walden nnd
t oss, ot tne m. unurcn. ine x;ev. ur.
C. E. Mandsville, of Chicasro, who will deliver
soven lectures on the "Seven Churches
of AsiaMrs. Rev. Dr. Whoeler, Professor
J. R. Sweny, a sweet singer, and Mrs. Dr.
I aimer.
Leading events are the opening of the
season July 1, celebration of July 4. temperance
convention of New Jersey July 5
and 6, Ocean Grove Sunday-school Assembly
July 9 to 20, Christian Arbitration and
Peace Day July 21, Sabbath Observance
Day July 22, King's Daughters July 24,
Epworth League July 25. African M. E.
Church jubilee July 27, twenty-fifth anniversary
of Ocean Grove July 29, annual
meeting of National Temperance Publication
Society August 1. Ocean Grove Memorial
August 6, dedication of the auditorium
August 9 to 12, Woman's Encouragement
meetings August 15 to 17, Woman's Foreign
Mission Society August 18 and 19, camp
meeting August 20 to 30.
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS,
The Senate.
124th Da?.?1The agricultural schedule of
the Tariff bill was discussed. Mr. Hoar
spoke in favor of the Government relinquishing
its claim against the Saafor 1 estate.
125th Da.t.?The Hoar resolution as to re
linquisbing the Government claims Against
the Stanford estate was, after discussion,
laid on the table?yeas, 24; nays. 19. The
Tariff bill was then taken up. Eight paragraphs
of tlie agricultural schedule were
disposed of.
126th Day.?The conference report on the
bill authorizing the Pennsylvania and New
Jersey Railroad Company to construct a
bridge across the Delaware River was agreed
to. The Senate passed a bill dividing railway
postal clerks Into seven classes,
with salaries ranging from 8803 to
$1330. Mr. Walsn . introduced a
bill to establish in Washini?ton a permanent
exposition of the products and resources
of the several States and Territories.
Mr. Hoar introduced a bill to release
the Stanford estate from the Government's
claim. The Senate disposed of the agricultural
schedule ot the Tariff bill.
127th Day.?Three schedules, filling eighteen
pages of the Tariff bill and relating to
spirits and wines, cotton manufactures and
flax, hemp and jute, were disposed of. The
five-minute rule was in operation. Tlie
cotton schedule, covering ten pages, was
disposed of in thirty minutes.
128th Day.?Little progress was made on
the Tariff bill, the day being chiefly occupied
with flve-minute speeches.
129th Day.?Mr. Sherman and several
others made attaoks on the wool schedule of
the Tariff bill.
The House.
144th Day.?The day was devoted to contMaratinn
nf thfl Indian ADDroDrlation bill.
the discussion being over the rider to re^
move the supply warehouse from New York
to Chicago. No action was taken.
145th Day.?The Indian Appropriation
bill was considered in Committee of the
"Whole.
146th Day.?The House spent three hours
in consideration of the Indian Appropriation
bill under the five-minute rule, and passed
over seven pages in that time.
147th Day.?The day was devoted to the
consideration of District of Columbia business.
143th Day.?The Indian Appropriation
bill was further considered. The Indian
Commission was practically legislated out of
office by a refusal to make an appropriation
for it.
149th Day.?The Hous-? spent the day in
discussing the Indian Appropriation bill.
WAE COLLEGE OPENED,
Plague in Hong Kong.
A plague is epidemic among tho natives at
Hong Hons, China. Fifteen hundred havo
already died, and half tho remaining number
have fled the city. Many Europeans havo
been seized with tho scourge, but thus far
only one death in the European colony has
been reported. The average daily number of
deaths among the natives is ICO. Business
is at a standstill and labor is completely
paralyzed. The Goverament expects
a total failure of the revenue from opium.
It is proposed by the Government to destroy
tho native quarters, which are exceedingly
filthy, and have long been tho sourco of
most of the diseases which have afflicted the
community.
jibs. Kendall,~wT?e of a doctor of Quiney,
111., was driving with her husband. wh?>n
the horses toot fright and rau away. The
doctor stopped them after they had run but
three blocks and then found that his wife
had died from fright on tho seat by his side.
Assistant Secretary McAdoo on the
Naval Situation.
The Naval War College was opened at
Newport, R. L. by Assistant Secretary of
the Navy William McAdoo. In his address
the Secretary said he had not come to eulogize
the navy of the United States. Its proud
record was a complete answer to its bitterest
critics. It was exceedingly fit. he
continued, that a school for the study,
both theoretically and practically, of tho
art of naval warfare should have been
founded contemporary with the National
effort to rebuild our navy. A naval nation
must be possessed of two things i
The best modern shipji, well armed
and equipped, manned and officered : and,
second, the power to reproduce these as
quickly as possible when lost, or to add to
their number when desired. The mere possession
of ships does not of itself make a na
tlon a naval power. The United Stares,
therefore, while it does not possess a preat
navy in the numb?r o! its ships has within Its
limits colossal plants, both public and private.
and great armies of skilled workmen,
led by contractors, designers, and inve..tors
cf marked ability, and it is therefore essentially
and substantially capable of national
defence, and, if need be. of offensive operations.
The naval problem, Mr. McAdoo said, concerned
us much mote deeply than our military
progress on land. It was utterly impossiblei
he said, that tho United States could
ever be successiully invaded even by an alliance
which embraced morn than on^ of tho
great military nations of Europe. The only
hope of military or political domination from
Europe on this content could come from a
dissolution of the Union as tho result of
car<?s?mn ATr TVT<> lrlnn ?s.lid thnt OR .in fid
ditional incentive to the fact that whatever
our wishes might be, whatever theories
may have been laid down in the piust,
wo were driven by Inexorable circumstances
into a relationship toward the
whole South American continent, which
begets for us moral duties and grave national
responsibilities, and from which there
was absolutely no escape. To the grand sum
of our national wants and responsibilities it
is only a short course of time tvhen we will
have the interoceanlc canal.
In conclusion, Mr. McAdoo mentioned the
prido he felt at the splendid pre-eminence
given to the great naval historian, Captain
Mahan, who was so long connects.I with the j
college.
THE MINNEAPOLIS FAST.'
THE NEW CRUISER IS A RECORD
BREAKER.
On Her Preliminary Trial at Sea la
Shallow Water and With Anthracite
Coal She Makes the Wonder*
ful Speed of 21.75 Knots ?The
Contractors' Trial Is Satisfactory.
A broom at the foretopmast and the
figures 21.75 painted la big white lettere on
the funnel of the Minneapolis told every
crait In the Delaware River and the crowds
on the shore, as the man-of-war steamed
back to Ptuladelphia, the result of the big
cruiser's preliminary trial trip off the Delaware
Capes and proclaimed to the world that
the United States Goveinment has anothei
ship superior in speed to any vessel possessed
by other nations.
The 21.75 knots were made in an offshore
run off the Delaware Capes. The run
was made under forced draught, in comparatively
shallow water and with anthracite
coal burning in the furnaces.
The Minneapolis left Cramp's shipyard,
with Captain B. "W. Sargeant in command,
and a crew of 407 men. Edwin S. Cramp,
the engineer of the firm, and Superintendent
Lewis Nixon represented the builders of the
ship, and had general supervision of the
trial. About a dozen friends of Mr. Cramp
were aboard as guests.
The Naval Department was officially represented
by Naval Constructor John Hanscom,
Past Assistant Engineer A. B. Wllletts and
G. W. Dengerfeld, Inspector of Equipment.
The oonditions were favorable for the
ship, as she passed Five Fathom Bank lightship,
for her first run to the Northeast lightship.
The Minneapolis was running under
natural draught, and passed Northeast lightship
at nineteen minutes past 9. The run
was made at the rate of 18.73 knots.
On the run back the speed on this run had
increased to 19.14, and on the next run out
to the Northeast lightship the spoed went
up to 20.52, The run batfK to Five Fathom
Bank light was made in the same time. The
next run showed an increase of
speed to 21.54, and on tho return it
leu io zi.u*. rno iourcu ana ia.?i run
of the day showed tho best speed. It wo3
made under light forccd draught, and on tho
run out to Northeast light 21.2(> was logged,
and on the ran in the cruiser was spurted to
21.70 knots.
Captain Sargeant got undor way at halfpast
six o'clock next morning, and passed
out to sea at ten minutes after eight for a
speed trial of the cruiser.
The cruiser was loaded with water ballast
to make up for the weight of her armament
and displaced 7300 tons, the bunkers being
filled with anthracite. At ten o'clock the
cruiser was turned, and her prow pointed to
the shore.
The engines were working perfectly under
the tremendous strain to which they were
being subjected. The revolutions of the
screw under 160 pounds pressure ol6team
ran up as high as' 138, but only for a few
minutes During the hour s run the average
revolutions of the three screws were 128 a
minute.
At the end of an hour the forced draught
was turned/)ff and the speed of the ship decreased.
The Capes wero passed at ten
minutes to twelve, and so perfectly satisfied
was Mr. Cramp with the trial that the ship
proceeded directly up the river to the yard.
As the course was not marked, a perfect
dependence cannot be placed upon the
patent log, and it was difficult to arrive at
an exact knowledge of the speed made.
Calculations approximated it at 21.75 knots
for the hour's run, but it is more than
probable that it was greater than this. Tho
Columbia on her preliminary trial trip made
Knf OA QQ lr?Afa
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As a result of the preliminary trial of the
new cruiser her builders and the officers on
board pronounce her the best of her class
and the fastest of her size in the world.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Congressman Daniels, of New York, was
a cobbler for ten years.
The Emperor of Germany is exceedingly
partial to horseback riding.
Prince Albert, the Emperor of Germany's
third son, is to become a sailor.
Ex-President Harrison's cottage at Cape
May, N. J., is advertised for sale.
A statue of Marshal de MacMahon. thirty
feet high, i3 to be erected at Autun, France.
Patrick Walsh, the new Senator from
Georgia, is the busiest letter writer in that
body.
Kino Oscar, of Sweden, was in his young
days one of the most accomplished tenors in
Europe.
Secretary Hoke Smith delivered the
commencement address at the University of
North Carolina.
Captain William H. P. Haines, of the
Cunard Line, has crossed the ocean 600 times
and has never lost a life.
Captain Nathan Peters, the oldest Free
Mason in the United States, died a few days
apo at Amesbury, Mass., aged eighty-one
years.
J. L. Mollot, the song writer, is an English
barrister, who divides his time between
his profession and music, which he considers
a recreation.
B. J. Gatling, of Hartford, (Conn.) the
Inventor of the pun of that name, is seventyfour
years of age, with snow white hair and
a clean shaven face.
Sib Chables Russell, now Lord Russell,
is said to be the prospective successor of
Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England.
The salary is $40,000.
Belva Lockwood, the woman lawyer of
Washington, is sixty-three years old. She
began teaching school at the age of fourteen
and was married four years later.
Genebal Pleasonton, who, many years
aco, was widely known as "Blue Glass"
Pleasonton, has lived very quietly for the
last sixteen years at a Washington hotel
Senator John Shebman has scrap books
covering the history of the United States for
the past thirty-eight years. He has been
keepine his letters since he was fifteen, and
everything of valae has been saved.
Rudolph Hebtzoo, the "A. T. Stewart of
Berlin," died in Carlsbad a few days ago,
seventy-nine years old. His store was known
far and wide in Germany.and made him one of
the wealthiest men of the capital, although
he had begun with almost nothing.
Oxl? three of the former United States
Senators from Massachusetts are now living
?Robert C. Winthrop. who served in 185051;
George C. Boutwell, who served from
1873 to 1877 : and Henry L. Dawes, whose
term of service extepded from 1875 to 1893.
Albebt Gbimaldi, Prince of Monaco, got
$1,500,000 as his last year's share of the
profits of the notorious gambling establishment
in his dominions, not to speak of his
dividends on the gambling company's stock,
which, notwithstanding it was a "bad year,"
exceeded forty per cent.
Pbince Bisjiabck, according to the book
recently published by Hans Blum, "The German
Empire at the Time ot Bismarck," i3
not a wealthy man in the American sense.
The mortgage on his estates requires him
to pay about $30,000 every year. The
Income from his Friedrichsruhe property has
been as much as $60,iA)0 a year, but it has
averaged only about half that sum. His entire
income is not far from $100,000.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED DEAD.
About 100 Deaths u Day From a
TEE SULTAN DEAD.
Muley Hassan, Rul?r of Morocco,
Passes Away & \ddenly.
SULTAX OF MOBOCOC*.
Mnley Hassan, the Sultan of Morocco, died
a few days ago, while journeying between
Marakesh and Rabat. Everything is quiet
for the moment, but the latest advices
say that an uprising is expected
throughout tho country as a result
of the death of the Sultan. No details
as to the cause of death can be procured, but
many sensational rumors are in circulation,
and it is openly hinted that the Saltan was
murdered. One report say3 that the Sultan
died suddenly at Tadla, between Morocco
and Casa Bianca, and that his son, AbduJ
Aziz, was shortly afterwar 1 proclalmod Sultan
by the army and by the Ministers who
accompanied the lato Sultan on his
journey. The latest dispatches from Morocco
say that Mnley Hassau died of malignant
fever. His successor, Mulai Abdul, is sixteen
years old. He is the son of the old Sultan's
favorite wife, a Circassian woman.
The old Sultan's famous one-eyed son, the
first born of his numerous children, is already
regarded as a pretender, and it is
feared that he will take advantage of the
first opportunity to incite the people to rise
in his behalf.
Muley Hassan, the late Sultan of Morocco,
was born in 1831, and succeded to the throne
September 26, 1873. His sudden death is
likely to aggravate the friction that has long
existed between the barbaric nation an l Eu
ropean powers. The latest entanglement
was that in vrhich Spain became involved
with Muley Hassan's subjects, the Riff tribes.
This resulted in an expedition and sharp
flghtinc, and finally Muley agreed to punish
the Rifflans and pay an indemnity. He hadn't
paid this at the time of his sudden taking off.
The power of the Sultan of Morocco was of
an indefinite character among the distant
tribesmen, and the result had been numerous
disputes with foreign powers. In 1886
he refused to continue the European commercial
treaties. The policy of the country
adopted on this occasion was generally observed
by other nations. In 1889 Muley sent
a special mission to European nations, That
year he issued a proclamation, forbidding
assaults on Christians. Muley Hassan
was a handsome man of the Oriental
type. His court was noted for
its splendor and luxury. Aside from
the romantic interest uf his nation, his
country had additional interest from the
anxiety of European nations to take part
in its dismemberment when the times were
ripe therefor.
TIE LABOR WORLD.
Is Indii agricultural laborers get five cents
a day.
East LrvEBPO0L,0hl0, Is to have a co-operative
factory.
A building trades counoil Is to be established
in Paterson, N. J.
Pall Riveb fMass.') weavers' wages have
lately been cut thirty per cent.
Fullt one-third of the female population
of France are laborers on farms.
Efvobts are being made to establish trade
assemblies throughout New Jersey.
It is said that 1000 Illinois manufacturers
have combined to kill the eight hour law.
Operations are beinj? generally resumed
at the iron mines in the Lake Superior region.
There are more iron safes made in Cincinnati
than in all the cities of the Union combined.
A reduction of twenty-five per cent, in the
earnings of Boston hatters has gone into
effect.
Aiteb a stormy session the bootblacks of Chicago
formed a union and elected Jefferson
King President.
The Laborers' Union in New York City is
divided into English, German and Italian
speaking branches.
The shops in Altoona, Penn., of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company have been opened
for work on full time.
The union wnces for laborers on buildings
in New York City 13 thirty cents an hoar,
eight hours to constitute a day's work.
The committee of the striking miners abandon
their hope of effecting a National settlement
and call for district conferences with
the operators.
rTI? T AAAnntlnl W/VptrO flchpTlA#
JL-tus uiuuao jjwvmvii* v > ?
tady, N. Y., have received an order for thla
ty passenger locomotives and thirty locomotives
for the Central Railway of Brazil.
Delegates from France, Belgium, England,
Germany and Austria are expected at
the coming International Congress of Textile
Workers, which Is to be held in this
country.
Gbifsie* and conductors on the Third
avenue line. New York City, had their wages
Increased to 82.50 and $125 a day, respectively.
They are to make Are round trips a
day instead of four and a half, as heretofore.
As appeal is contemplated to be made by
the iron trades unions to the New York
State Constitutional Convention for an
amendment to the law which will hinder
contract prison labor competing with free
industry.
The only ones among the textile workers
of this country whose wages have not been
reduced during the panic are the spinners,
who have an organization comprising over
ninety per cent, of tho spinners in the
United States.
" ? n /tlnlma frt htf
UOUST WEUtSUE. ae.La^r.1., n HKJ wo.uu ??
the son of a wealthy and powerful Austrian
nobleman, whose estates were squandered
by the trustees while he was in his minority,
is picking slate in a coal breaker at
lYilkesbarre, Penn., for sixty cents a day.
THE COAL STKIKE.
Miners Get Half Their Demands at
the Conference.
A settlement of the soft-eoai strike in a
portiou of' he region involved was reached
at Columbus, Ohio, by the adoption of a J
new scale of wages for mine labor on a |
basis of sixty cents for Ohio and sixty-nine j
cents for Pennsylvania. This implied mutual |
concessions. The miners are to receive an
average of ten cents increase over what they
were paid when the strike was declared, but
ten cents less than they demanded.
The miners' National officers believed the
men would abide by the agreement. But
,?i,i nnt denv that there would be dis- j
satisfaction and threats of rebellion ior a few
diy?. It was believed that the agreement
would be ratified throughout the States involved.
The only dissenting vote was that o' A. A.
Adam*. President of the Ohio District United
Mine Workets. He refused to sUtn the asr-?ement.
Portions of ?uio. Pennsylvania, Indiana
and Illinois were represented.
President McBridesaid 4,It is not what
we hoped to get. but it is nevertheless a victory
for the miners, and it was the best we
could hope to get under the circumstances.
Everything was turning against us. The
miners were starving in many places. Industries
were paralyzed, an 1 property was
being destroyed by irresponsible parties in
many places ; all of which was blamed upon
the miners. Tbis caused us to lose public
sympathy.
I think the agreement will be generally
and promptly ratified by tho miners in all
the districts."
A majority of the operators left for their |
homes immediately, and those who could ba i
seen were confident that the agreement '
would bring about a speedy settlement of
the strike. J
I k
LATER NEWS, I
Sahuel McKelvbi and William Minnis, of
Franklin, Penn., were killed by a freight
train near Polk, Penn.
Two young men named York and Bashey
were drowned in Bound Brook, Augusta,
file., wldle bathing.
Koostos, N. Y., was visited by one of the
most violent hail storms known in years. It
was accompanied by a fierce gale, Th?
hailstones were an inch in diameter. Much
damage was caused to fruit and crop*
Many windows were broken.
A shabp frost visited Idaho, resulting In
great damage to vegetables.
The house of a farmer, Mitchell, near
Grady, Oklahoma, was struck by lightning.
Orton Mitchell, aged twenty, was instantly .
killed and his three sisters fatally injured.
Hi>*ee8 were dissatisfied with the terms of
the settlement agreed on in Columbus, Ohio,
and the workmen in many sections declared
they would not accept the compromise.
The Prohibitionists, in convention at
Emporia, Kan., nominated E. 0. Pickering
for Governor.
The President has nominated Joseph B.
Jewell, of New York, to be agent for the
Indians of the New York agency.
Spain, France, Italy and Germany sen^
warships to Morocco, where civil war was
thought to be Inevitable.
The seventeen-year locusts and an astounding
crop of mosquitoes have New Jersey
at their mercy. Special church services
were held for relief from the plague.
While out rowing at Forty-ninth street
and the North River, New York City, two
men lost their lives by the capsizing of a
boat. One was Antonio Saplo and the other
Norman Drlsdale.
John M. Taylob, for many years a citizen
of Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, has confessed
that the $18,000 in pensions he has
drawn from the Government has been obtained
by perjury, forgery and bribery.
Mbs. Henry L. Sweet and her thirteenyear-old
son were found drowned in Lake
Superior, near Duluth, Minn. ?
The Kansas Populist Convention adopted U
a woman sr. ffrage plank, whereupon Susan 9
i B. Anthony and Bev. Anna Shaw publicly UN
donned Populist badges. Governor Lewell- i
ing was renominated by acclamation.
The coalition of the American Ballway
Union and the Knights of Labor was effected I
at the first annual convention of the Ballway S
Union at unicago.
A sawmill engine near Laclede, Mo., exploded,
killing James Logue and son.
seoretibt Cablisle appointed the Hon.
Henaan Stump, Superintendent of Immigration
: Dr. Joseph H. Senner, Commissioner
ot Immigration at Ellis Island, and Edward
P. McSweeney, Assistant Commissioner of
Immigration at Ellis Island; a Commissioner
to investigate the general subject of the immigration
laws, with special reference to the
padrone system. They are clothed with full
power.
The President selected the following
Board of Engineers to recommend what
length of span, not less than 2000 feet, would
be safe and practicable for a bridge over the
Hudson River under the terms of the act ot
congress recenuy passed rroiessur ? . a..
Burr, of Columbia College, New York,
George S. Morrison, of Chicago; G. Bouscaren,
of Cincinnati; Theodore Cooper, of
New York, and Major C. W. Raymond, Corps
of Engineers, United States Army.
Pbopebtt valued at more than 81,000,000
was destroyed by Are In Panama.
Brazilian insurgents are gaining victories.
General Saralva's troops are reported to have
token Baulista de Curlm and to be now ad*
vanclng upon Santa Anna.
CURIOUS FACTS.
The phonograph was invented io
1887.
False teeth made of ivory have been
fonnd in the Roman catacombs.
The oldest house in Chicago stands
on the West Side and was built in 1839
A. D.
In 1872 ocean cables were laid from
India to Australia, and railroads were
begun in Japan.
Roman capitalists and persons de
siring to be such, sacrificed to Flatus, CT
tha god of wealth. H
The Penates were gods of the pan- H
try, from a Latin word signifying a H
room where food is kept. 9j
A Nebraska man is credited with H
catching oat of the Niobrara River a H
catfish weighing fifty pounds. jH
City Treasurer Cole, of Iron Moan- H
tain, Mich., gets a salary of only $150
a year, and hae to give a bond of H
$150,000. Kg
In Turkey the hoase a man lives in H
cannot be seized for debt, and safficient
land must be left to serve to Ha
support him.
A Norwegian woman living near
Yankton, South Dakota, is thirty EK
years old, and said to be the mother H|
of twenty-four children. |9
Green Graves is the name ot a new
doctor who has located in Kensington,
Kan., and advertises that he has graduated
from a medical college.
The "chaste mimosa" is so sensitive
that the near approach of a human Bm
hand, even without touching its leaves, BjH
will cause them to shrink away. BM
Cleveland, Ohio, has an Episcopal
Church which was built from the Hgj
ground up in one day, and in which IH
Easter services were held next day. nI
Samuel Hutchinson, of Prescott, BB
Wash., who is claimed to be the tallest
man on the Pacific coast, stands seven
feet two and one-half inches in hight.
Ohio's oldest inhabitant, Mrs. Polly
^ !lt -? TTr?-i/-vrt r? lorl VOP/ant,lr I^M
ijmna, 01 ?? v. uiuu, ~ ~ j , i^bm
aged 103 years. Oddly enough she
is said to have died of quick consump- jjj
tion. OB
The skunk farm near Buchanan, Hjfl
Mich., is booming. Not less than BBS
5000 are burrowed in the side hills.
Their hides are worth from $1.25 to
?1.90 each.
Gold leaf, when beaten into the
thickness of one-two hundred and ^B
fifty thousandth of tin inch, appears to ^B
be of a beautiful green when held up Bjj
to the light. BO
A farmer in Holton, Mo., has a duck Bfl
with feet like a chicken. It is unable ^B
to swim, but doesn't know it, and has KB
to be tethered to a stake to keep it |M
from drowning. MB
Twenty-six nationalities were represented
at the Young Men's Christian Association
Conference In London by 1907 delegates, of AH
whom 200 were Americans. gflH
I Fous naval officers who have returned to MR
Brazil have been sentenced to ten years' im- ||B
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