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_____________________ [FmSTirTAMPS. [THE CBUISEE MINNEAPOLIS BEEAXS AIL EECOEDS. fcglie Attained to a Maximum Speed of 25 20 Knots on Her Formal Trial $ ,-Trlp?A Sustained Speed of 23.05 Knots?A Premium of $402,500 Earned for Her Builders. , By making a ran off Bo9ton of 89.94 miles in tnree nonrs, lorty-nlno minutes and two seconds, the latest addition to the United States Navy, the Minneapolis proved herself jthe fastest seagoing cruiser. Her speed has inever been approached except by the jColnmbia, which over the same course last (November covered the same distance Jin three houre, fifty-one minutes and ;twentv-four seconds. The Columbia's [average speed was 22.80 an hour, which has "been the record for large cruisers until the :Miuneapolis raised the figures a quarter of 'a knot, and now holds the record with an (average speed over the forty-four mile (course of 23.05 knots. ' The Secretary of the Navy, accompanied [by the official Trial Board, Commodore Selk , ridge, President, and about 100 invited .guests, reached the Minneapolis in a tug iboat at eight o'clock a. m. i There were in the party,besides Messrs.Ed Win S., Charles H. and Henry W. Cramp, exSecretary Tracy, Admiral Belknap. Senator Hawley, of Connecticut; Senator Washburn, of Minnesota* Congressmen Cummings, of New York ; Cogswell, of Massachusetts j flulick, of Ohio, and Money, of Mississippi, and Chief Engineer Melville. At 9.44.08 the Minneapolis dashed across the line, and immediately the official inspectors and the amateur inspectors began their calculations as to her speed. It required but six minutes and twenty-two seconds to cover the first leg of the course, thus giving heraspeed of 22.74 knots, and considering the fact that she had started without a full head of steam the builders were satisfied with the result. With her engines still working at high spee.l the Minneapolis made a detour of about s.-ven miles and then headed once r-orw in a straight line for the course. Everything depended upon this homeward run. She was very close to the Columbia's speed for the first half. That vessel had covered the distance in one hour, 55 minutes and 7 seconds. It took the Minneapolis 1 hour. 55 minutes and 18 seconds, a record ol 22.90 kntfs as against 22.92 knots for the Columbia. 1 The line was crossed In front of the Dol?lxin. on the homeward run, 11.58 o'clock, i 'he firemen were as busy as beavers down in the vessel, and the forced draught lifted big chunks of cinders out of thn lont* imntp. 1 stacks. The big cruiser's machinery throbbed, and ail on board knew that she was ^needing . as no vessel had ever before done. When the j "Vesuvius was passed a little flouring showed , llhat the speed had been 25.20 knots. It wad the best record shown. > The prospects for a new record looked j bright, but were dimmed temporarily by the report that the speed betwocn tho Atlanta 1 and the Fortune was only 21.80, a3 against 22.09 on the first trip. Bat tho engines be- I gan to throb with renewed vigor, and tho re- I mainincr legs of the course wore covered in 1 22.80, 22.07 and 23.22 knots respectively, J making the elapsed time for the homeward I trip only lh. 63m. 42s. and the average speed I 23.23 knots, or an average of 23.05 knots for the whole course. ] Wild cheers tollowed the announcement of ( the new world's record, and the hoisting of j I rooms to each masthead informed the people on the yachts and steamers swarming . around the finish line that the Minneapolis . w; s the fleetest ship in the world. As the brooms went up, Edwin S. Cramp jumped down from the bridge into the arms of Commodore Melville, who seized him about the waist and swung him off his feet. Then Secretary Herbert shook hands with j and congratulated him. Ex-Secretary Tracy t followed suit, and then all the naval officers c who had been watching the cruiser's per- t formance crowded around the Cramps to i add their cocgratulations. g It was not to be wondered at that when \ this result was known it spread through the hip with marvelous rapidity, and that the ? news was greeted everywhere with cheers, , The off watch of firemen on deck cheered the figures, the Secretary otthe Navy, the Messrs. Cramp and Engineer-in-Chtef Mel- t ville in rapid succession. ^ ! Secretary Herbert, at the suggestion of Engineer-in-Chief Melville, went to the lower 1 deck, where the men were scrbbbing them- fl selves in their wash rooms, and wns re- ( ceived with applause and cheering as ho congratulated them on their splendid work. ^ t In making this astonishing speed the en- t orlrtPB vapa trAnt nnhur nn nfftoanfA r of 163 pounds of steam, 165 pouods boing _ the maximum. The total horso-power was 21,000. The average revolutions of the screws were 132.5 per minute, the maximum * being 137 on the port side. The big Are bc::es consumed twenty tons of carefully selected coal per hour. The builders of the Minneapolis ore entitled to $50,000 for every quarter knot of * .speed she makes over twenty-one knots, and this will entitle them to a premium of about $402,500. As soon as Charles H. Cramp, the builder, reached Boston he wired this telegram to President Cleveland: To the President, Executive Mansion, Wash: lngton, D, C.: ' The cruiser Minneapolis has made twentyrt'-iree knots an hour, surpassin? all records. JW? >?re pleased to Inform the Commanderin-Chief of the Army and Navy of this peer* less addition to the national defenses. % Charles H. Champ. , The Minneapolis is a triple screw protected ( cruiser, intended to be a commerce destroy- ( er, capable of Ion? distance cruising with a speed greater than that of any other cruiser o.' any merchant steamer now afloat, H?>r displacement is7350tons; indicated horso powt'r. about 21,000; length, 412 feet; beam, ilfty-eight feet; draught, twenty-two and a half feet. Her coil supply will bo fully 2600 j Ions, with which she can steam about 15,000 miles without recoiling, although her theo- ' retlcal cruising rauge is 26,000 miles. Her battery will be one 8-in'ih ami two 6-inch breech loading rifles, eight 4-inch rapid flro guns, and twelve 6-pounder rapid fire guns. She is nearly a twin of the cruiser Columbia, ficent in having a somewhat better boiler capacity anl two smokestacks instead of lour. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. i The Senate. i ISOttiJDat.?Mr. Hale introduced a reao- i lution asking tor information concernlngtho ( . meetings of the Tariff Conference Commit- j tee. The Army and Fortiilcat ions Appropriation bill* were passed. I 151st Day.?Mr. Hale's resolution of inquiry as to what had become of the Tariff J bill was discussed. The River and Harbor ] Appropriation bill was passed. 152d Day.?The Senate adjourned for lack ( of a quorum, without acting on the Legislative Appropriation bill. 15Sn Day.?The Legislative, Executive and Judicial, and District of Columbia Appropriation bills were passed. 154th Day.?The Agricultural Appropria- j tion bill was passed, with an amendment or Wing the expenditure of 41,000.000 to exterminate the Russian thistle. Mr. Peffer introin^e-i a petition asking Congress to or Vr Attorney-Qeneral Olney to en'orce tne Bs"rman law against the Eastern Railroad A*-oeiatioi>. 155th Day.?The day was occupteu wun the consideration of the Indian Appropriation bill. The House. 172d Day.?The Hons-* acrreel to the amendments made by the Senate to the Utah Statehood hill. A number of bills of a general character were passed. 173d Day.?Only routine business was transacted. 174th Day.?The House spent the day considering the Revenue Cutter Service bill without acting upon it. 175th Day.?The House discussed the Sailey Bankruptcy bill. The House adopted a strong resolution approving the President's course in the strike. It was passed without division, the minority not being Btronsr enough to get the yeas and nays. 176th Day.?The House, after passing the Bailev Bankruptcy bill by a vote of 127 to 81, devoted the rest of the day to the consideration of bills reported by the Committee on Judiciary. 177th Day.- BoutIne business only was transacted. . .. THE SEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Ik New York Citv, Judge Barrett sravo a certificate of reasonable doubt in the case of Erastus TiVlman, sentenced to Sing Sing for forgery. He gets a new trial. A monster mass meetlncr wa9 held at Cooper Union, New York City, under the auspices of the labor organization*, in order to express the sympathy of the Eastern workingmen with the Western railroad strikers. Henry George and Fathor Ducey were among the speakers. L. D. Alexander <fc Co., bankers, of New York City, have failed, with liabilities of $200,000 and assets of 3150,000. Ebastts Wimas was released from the Tombs, New York City, in 830,000 bail. FiBEat Millhall, Penn., destroyed the en- ' tire business portion of the town. i George M. Pullmax made public at New i r'uw a f A<ao/*?^kinfho rain* tions between his company and its employes, ( and answering charge? which had been ( made against the management of the town , of Pullman. , Ex-Postmabterh Beuard F. Gentscb killed himself at Buffalo, N. Y.. in a fit of ] temporary insanity due to worry over his i many business enterprises. He was the i owner of a large plokle manufacturing business, Vice-President of the Hydraulic Bank < and a stockholder in many land and Invest- j ment companies. i Two young girls. Ro9a Berger and Anna Priest, were drowned while bathing in 1 Whitney's Pond, Yineland, N. J. 1 Five thocsaud Socialists assemBlei In Union Square, New York City, to denouuce Pullman and the action of the Federal . Government in sending United States troops to terrorize them. ' The forest fires which started in the for- , cats near Egg Harbor City, N. J., burned over an area aggregating over 5000 acres. j Forest fires raged with increased fury In t Southern New Jersey; between 6000 and < 7000 acres of land have been burned over. < Police Commissioner McClave, of New ' YorK City, resigned and General Michael < Kerwin was appointed in his place. ^ South und West. j Special crcp reports from ten counties of j South Dakota and Western Minnesota lndi- < cated that the late hot wave was of such in- ? tensity that it caused widespread ruin in the j wheat fields. ? a fntrn nf mflfl fnhfthltjinfa Jn Will- ] lams County, Ohio, was almost totally destroyed by Are. Toe loss is estimated at $175,000. Seventy-two buildings were burned. Two brothers, Tom and Calvin Cooley, white men, aged twonty-seven and twentytwo, respectively, were handed at Louisbur^. N. C. They killed Charles Tucker, colored, with an ax and robbed him of $169. The men met their fate without emotion. The remnants of Kelly's Coxey Army arrived at Wheeling, W. va. They were arrested and sentenoed en masse to fifteen days in the workhouse. Twenty small dwelUntrs were destroyed in a fire on North Beach, San FrAncisco, CaL rhe two little sons of E. Leideoker, aged two i and four years, were burned to a crisp. Employes in the Pullman car shops, whose Strike led to the great railway troubles, an- ( QOunced themselves as eager to return to 1 tvork. It was decided that the shops should t won be started and the former workmen 1 :aken back, possibly at advanced wages in f some departments. t A Gband Tbtjnk train was wrecked near * Battle Creek, Mich., it was believed, by 1 rtrikers; one man was killed and several } persons were seriously Injured. 11 At Los Angeles, Cal., United States Dis- ' rict Attorney Dennis brought suit against a he Southern Pacific Railroad Company un- 8 ler the anti-trust law. i TtTaaKlnfyf An ti a sevext?En-inch Harvevized Carnegie ? )late, representing about seven hundred 8 ons of the armor composing the barbettes t >f the Oregon, was pierced as though it had n >een made of cheese by a twelve-inch Ster- d ing shell at the Indian Head proving s [round, near Washington. The shell used d fas of American make. The nomination of Captain James Parker ? is United States District Attorney in New ? fersey was withdrawn by the President. Bepbesextative Spbingeb introduced in n he House a bill to create a National Board of d Arbitration. b The value of exports of merchandise dura? June was $57,471,915, against $65,416. - w i69 in June, 1893 ; imports in June last, $51,- ri 124,904; in June, 1893, $69,694,544. k Lieutenant Willey, in command of the ^ Jnlted States revenue cutter MoLane, re- J" ?orted from Tampa, Fla., the seizure of six ? Spanish schooners from Cuba for smuggling ? fines and liquors. President Cleveland's action relative to he strike was indorsed by the House of Representatives. te . fl Foreign. c< * jipas accepted England's offer of media- ej ion in the Korean dispute. The Frenoh Chamber of Deputies rejected p H. Cavaignac's proposal for an Income tax, r ind voted confidence in the Ministry. Thf. Britannia defeated the Vigilant for r he sixth time on the Clyde, in Scotland; w :he American yaoht gained rapidly in the atter part of the race, but was unable to w jyertake her rival. tt As attempt was made by an Anarohist to m jurn the Frenoh ironolad Lazare Oarnot as w jhe was being launohed at Toulon. w The Fourteenth of July, the anniversary ?f the fall of the Bastlle, was observed as a [e oatlonal holiday throughout France, but S owing to the death ot President Carnot the oelebration hi Paris was Bhorn of muoh of " its usual brilliancy. Bbitoss resident on Corn Island, Mosquito Territory, whippod the Nicaraguan y troops stationed there and seized the Government offices. 18, The Vigilant was again beaten by the p Britannia. The American boat was the lead- p er until she lost the wind, while the British d craft held a breezo and Anally won the race by this fluke. F I KILLED HER HUSBAND. p w He Had Shot the Stage Driver and a p Passenger. p Robert Logan was so insanely jealous of ? Li 1?. iL.4 -I 1UJ ? _ , " lim who imu out) uppueu lur a ukvko, ituu o \ few days ago went homo to her mother's n it Cottonwood, Nov. Logan followed her, jj and thnt night severely wounded Dan Love- f lock, the stage driver. t Mrs. Logan thereupon drove the stage j back, and returned to Cottonwood to bring a Lovelock home. The wounded man sat be- j side her, and on the back seat was Fred Su!- ^ llvan, a stranger. ( About dusk Logan rode up on horseback, armed with a Winchester, and ordered his wife to leave the stage. When sho refused, < be turned his horse in behind It, and so they J journeyed for two hours. Suddenly there was the sharp craok of a ' rifle, and Sullivan fell forward, shot through the heart from behind. Another report and Lovelock toppled over dead in Mrs. Logan's lap. Then Logan took the reins and drove , five miles to a well, saying that ho would throw the dead bodies into it and then kill his wife. ] bhe, however, persuaded him to water the horses first, and as Logan stooped to take a bucket from under the stage, sho wronchod a revolver from Lovelock's body and flred. Logan begged for mercy, but she flrod again, ] and as her husband dropped she Jumped from the stage and put still nnother bullet into his body to make sure that ho was doadj She loft it there in the dust and drovo into town with the othor corpses, where sho was being lionized for her courage. 1 ROBBED A WAaOtf. i thieves Make a Rich Haul, Including a Package Containing $11,600. A bold robbery was committed at Wlcken, ( Montana, a few davs ago. An express a Wagon of the Great Northern Express Com- \ pany was held up by several robbers, who j took away the whole outfit. A package of money containing $11,600, whioh had been ? I'olpped by Baok, Cary A Co., wholesale c wooers, was among the booty soourei b; f pe rubbers. I DEBS OFFERS PEACE. TEEMS TO END THE GREAT STRIKE SUBMITTED. Tli-i Railroad Managers Asked to Reinstate All Strikers Not Charged With Crime, But They Refused to Treat With DebsShot Down by Regulars. T'tia * of iH'A a # Pht'rtft r?/*v n n ^ In ha territory tributary to that city of railway men in sympathy with the striking workingmen at Pullman ended in conditional surrender of the strikers. President Debs, of the American Railway Union, sent to the Boarl of General Manager, through Mayor Hopkins, of Chicago, an offer to declare the strike off if the manleers would acrree to take back the men without prejudice, excepting those convicted of violence. The General Managers returned this letter to the Mayor unanswered on the ground that they could not recognize the American Railway Union. Mr. Debs said that the rejection of his offer tvould cause a renewal of the flght, and that ill his resources would be devoted to its maintenance. President Debs submitted certain terms to the Association of Railroad Managers. In srief they were "1. That arbitration as proposed by Presilent Cleveland be entered upon. "2. That all the striking employes, except :hose who had been guilty of criminal mls? jonduct, shall be restored to their positions without prejudice by the railroad companies." He said that the proposition was inspired jy a desire to subserve the public goo 1, as he strike, small and unimportant in its injeption, had extended until "it now involves )r threatens not only every public interest, jut the peace, security and prosperity of oar :ommon country." This proposition was signed by Debs.Howlrd and Keliher, the principal officers of the American Railway Union. It was taken by hem to Mayor Hopkins, who at their request sresented it to Chairman St. John, of the jeneral Managers' Association. The aslociation was not in session, but after tin ndivldur.1 members had been conraited, the paper was returned to Mayor 3opkin3 without answer and with the information that no communication whatever from Debs, Howard and Keliher could be received or considered by the Managers' Association. This action of the strike leaders was taken. :bey assert, not because of Impending defeat, but in order that they should be in harnony with the suggestion President Cleveland made in announcing that he would appoint a commission to investigate the strike :roubles. The refusal of the General Managers even :o consider the proposition, the acceptance )f which, would make necessary tne dismissal of all men engaged to All the strikers' jlaces and would place them again In the sower of the organization which had paralyzed their lines for days, was considered jy many a decided setback to the union. Following It came the result of the two lays' deliberations of the conference of la>or leaders called by Samuel Go:npers, of he American federation of Labor. The eaders of all the big organizations outtide the American Bailway Union and he Knights of Labor decided not to nvolve the men they represent in any local >r general strike. They expressed sympathy pith the Pullman employes, but declared a itrike at this time of general business de>ression an act of folly. Strike Manager Egan declared that as fai is the roads were concerned, the 'strike was .lready at an end. If the men wished to tay out of work, that was none of the busiiess of the General Managers. All the roads rere running in nearly as good order as at Irst, and the managers had nothing to ay beyond the fact that they felt hey had been grieviously Injured and that auoh of their property had heen wantonly estroyed, and they did not see why they hould grant favors to - the people who had one them all this harm. Mayor Hopkins made a strong plea for a nt tlin whnla mon?r HAnoInfArl aillOlUUUl V/A fcaw TVA?W?V> J ut that if the General Managers refused to ccept this proposition, the troops must be ept guarding the city for at least two weeks lore, entailing a loss ot many thousands of ollars on the State, and that there might e more rioting and bloodshed. While these measures to eni the strike rere being taken in Chicago stirring oecurances were witnessed in the West. The illlng of fohr members of Bittery L of the ifth Artillery, United States Army, in the aia wreck at the trestle two miles from aoramento, Cal., was in a measure avenged y regulars belonging to the same company, vo men, both, however, disclaiming to be :rikers. being shot. One was mortaliy ounded. Shortly before 11 o'clock Division Superinindent Wright ordered a switch engine and at car to clear the track along Front street sntiguous to the headquarters of the strikT3. Fearing that an attempt would be made to loot the engineer and flreman, Captain oberts and Lieutenant Skerrett of Eattery , with a number of men, went along on the at car. The men jeered at the soldiers, and oberts ordered his men to charge them ith bayonets. Just then several shots were fired, but hether from the crowd or from the roof of le freight sheds, occupied by a number of len, it is not positively known. But this as just the moment the regulars had been alting for, and they returnel the fire. As le reports of their rifles rang out the crowd ill back and two men droppsd to the round. The news of the shooting once again irew the city into a great state ol excitelent, and the streets in the vicinity rapidly lied with people, who, however, were disersed by the troop? with little resistance. United States Marshal Baldwin rode irough the lower portion of the city with lirty cavalrymen late in the afternoon and roclaimed martial law. He ordered all peole to disperse and return to their homes uner penalty of punishment by th'j law. The New York express train ou tho Big our, westbound, was wrecked at Fontanet, nd., a large mining settlement, and the ngineer and fireman were killed and two oital clerks were injured. No p issengor ras hurt. The train was running at igh speed when it struck a mislaced switch. The engine, baggigc, ostal and oxpross car3 and a coach were iled in a ditch. All day the company met rith serious obstructions. The freight lockade had been lifted and freight trains aadeupbyn9W switchmen and with nouinion firemen wero sent out for tho Irst time in a week. Some of he miners at Fontanet stopped he irst of these trains hy flagging t and then drove the firemen and bnkeiueu iway. Though there was no evidouco that he miners threw tho switch causing the vreck, it was generally believed that llioy Lid. KILLED BY A CLOUDBURST. Trusty Escaped, But His Wlfo *nd Four Children Drowned. Word has just been received of the result }f a fatal waterspout at Lead Hill, Ark. The ?torm came on early In the afternoon, being proceded by heavy wind and vlvld lightning. The Tru9ty Roller Mill was swept from its foundation. The miller, William Trusty, his wife, and lour children, lived in a cottage near the building. Trusty himself escaped, but the house, with the wife an 1 children, was washed away, all the inmates perishing. Mrs. Trusty was lorty years old, tha children beln? aged thirteen, twelve, seven years and an eight-months-old Infant. FUN COST TWO LIVES. Vactical .Joker and Another Man Drowned in Colorado. T. A. Hawiey a practical joker, took up oose plank in a bridge at Edwards, Co'., ,nd when Minnie and Clarence Fleick and Villiam Burnison drove upon the bridge lawley said . "You cannot cross her?." The "horss be.?am? frlcrhteued and backed tffthe bridge. Hawley jumped into the iver and rescued the girl. He went back or the brother and both w?re drownd. 3urnison swam out, V LATER NEWS. At New York City Joseph Palermo, twelve years old, grew tired of life and twice in one day triad to kill himself with carbolic aoid. A forest fire destroyed the hamlet of Green Bush, N. J. Mbs. Maby MoClellan, an Inmate of the Rochester (N. Y.) Hospital for the Insane, kicked to death aged Mrs. Gertrude Eihinger. another inmate. The Forty-first Separate Company, N. G. S. N. Y., was ordered from Syracuse, N. Y., to Oswego. Trouble with the 'longshoremen was expected. Loms Lafebdette, a Coreylte tramp, was lynched near Cincinnati, Ohio, for murderous assault on a farmer who had fed and lodged him. H. P. Babxeb, bo3s weaver of the South Dallas (Texas) Cotton Mills, stabbed Super intendent A. H. Nickels to the Heart ana fatally cut his son, John W. Nickels, in a frenzy over his discharge. A boiler at the Ecc'.eson k. Parmalee Lumber Association Mills, Jacksonville, N. C., exploded, killing three colored men instantly and tatally injuring a fourth. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations: David A. Wells, Jr., of Connecticut, to be Second Secretary of the ! Legation of the United States at London James R. Jackson, of New Hampshire, to be Consul of the United States at Sherbrooke, Canada. Obdees directing che establishment of a uniform system of paying enlisted men in the navy have been issued by the Navy Department. The river steamers Nishegorodsetz and Dobrovoletz came in collision between Perm and Kasan, in Russia, and the Dobrovoletz wau sunk. Twenty-eight persons were drowned. Thk American colony in London gave a supper to the members of the Tale athletic team. The Vigilant won the race for the RearCommodore's Cup on Belfast Lough ; the Britannia was disabled at a time when the Vigilant hac! a winning lead. mkett-thkee men and women started from New York on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, In France. Afteb nine weeks of idleness the 5000 strikers at the National Tube Work, McKeesport, Penn., met and declared the strike off. Nellie Kevke, a nine-year-old child, hanged herself at Bradshaw, W. Ya., be. eau3e she had been kept home from school by her mother to care for two babies. She was dead when found. 8he had fastenod a clothesline around her neck and to a beam, in the barn, and dropped through a hole in the hay-mow. Win, London met his wife on the maiD street of Kisslmee, Fla., and brained her with a hatchet. The woman's head was split in twain and the hatchet left in the wound. He was jealous. Light earthquake shocks wero felt in part3 of Kentucky, Tennessee, Iiilnois and Missouri. A hundred and fifty strikers at Pullman, Chicago, returned to work. Mas. T. F. Meagher, of Louisville, Ky., shot and killed her father, who was beating and kicking his wife to death. Governor Tillman* announced that the South Carolina dispensary system would be put in operation again on August 1. Orders were received by Adjutant-General Maus at the headquarters of Genera) Miles, commanding the Department of th? Missouri, for the withdrawal of the Federal troops on duty in and about Chicago. Secretary Greshast instructed our Min ister to Japan to offer to the Japanese Gov ernment the good offices of the United State? Government in the Korean dispute. The Tariff bill conferrees decided to roport a disagreement to Congress. Director Preston ordered the mints tc resume the coinage of silver dollars. Secretart Carlisle adopted a design fot $1 silver certificates made by Will H. Low, the New York artist. The Italians of Lyons, France, who suffered injury and loss during the anti-Italian outrages after the murder of Carnot are suing for $100,000 as compensation. The Samoans have sent to Emperor William a petition praying that Germany annes tne islands. THE LABOR WORLD. ?7ew York has 600 unions. London police get 86 a week. Iron moulders now use a label. France has female farm laborers. Detroit. Mich., has a Pastor's Union. Syracuse. N. Y., has a labor lyceum. Co-operative potteries are increasing. Alleohent (Penn.) police have a union. The French working day is eight hours long. Ireland's linen industry employs 100.000 persons. Chicago paintera and decorators work eight hours. St. Louis, Mo., carpenters get thirty-five cents an hour. Housemaids in England receive an average of seventy-five cents a week. In a Mt. Carmel (Penn.) coal mine only one native American is employed. A plumber in St. Petersburg, Russia, is paid 812 a month, with board ; abaker $9.60. Threethousand iron smelters werethrown out of work at Butl<\ Montana, because of the strike. German Postoffloe employes are not permitted to marry without the special permission of the Government. Six hundred custom tailors went on strike iA New York City, in opposition to an attempted reduction of ten per cent, in wages. Delegates of the Bohemian miners have decided in favor of a general strike in August for shorter hours and higher wages. The tin plate scale was signed at Pittsburg, Penn.. at a conference of manufacturers and workmen. Forty mills and 18,000 men were affected and a general resumption took piace. The Society for the Promotion of Engineering E lucation, in which the railway engineers of the United States are largely interested, wiil hold its first meeting in Brooklyn from August 20 to August 23. Considerable interest is bein? manifested nmnni*sramcn :ill over the world about a proposed international union. The American sailors numberabout 15.000. Altogether it is reckoned that 78,000 men of all nations follow the sea for a liviu?. Fourteen young women of Indianapolis (Ind.) laundries,by putting their small means together and borrowing the rest of the money, established the Union co-operative laundry two years ago. They now own a plant valued at 84000 clear of incumbrance. Eugene V. Debs, who ordered the big anti-Pullman strike, is under forty years of age, anl was selling sugar in his father's store in Terre Haute, Ind., before he became a railroad fireman. Debs, as President of the American Railway Union, gets a 83000 salary. The Department of Agriculture shortly will adopt some distinctive design of tags to designate the condition of mt its from cattle slaughtered for the purposes intef-State aad foreign commerce. r' , r v- # UTAH ALMOST A STll THE PRESIDENT HAS SIGNED THE ENABLING ACT, Machinery Set in Motion.to Make the Forty-fltth Member of the Union ?The Population, and Resources, Developed and Undeveloped, of the Mormon Territdry. Utah practically passed into Statehood at midnight, when President Cleveland signed the act enabling the Territory to be admitted Into the Union. There was nothing dramatic about the signing. The President merely took up a silver penholder, in which an ordinary steel stub pen point was inserted, and wrote "Approved, Grover Cleveland," to the engrossed copy or the act. The silver penholder was furnished by Mr. Rawlins, the Delegate in Congress from Utah, and he will present It to the new State, along with the pretty suede case In which it is enclosed. The signing of the bill closes one of the most remarkable Contests Jn the history of American politics. Tne Territory Das Deen an applicant for Statehood, and really eligible In population and wealth for many years. It has formed the only break in the string of States that stretches from the Atlantic to the Paoiflc Oceans. The struggle over polygamy and the Mormon Church has deferred its admission until the present time. President Harrison, in 1892, issued a proclamation giving amnesty to all Mormons convicted of polygamy, and President Cleveland completed the final step in the preliminary progress toward Statehood. According to the operations of the enabling act. it will devolve upon the President. in November or December of 1395, to issue a proclamation formally admitting Utah into the Union. One remarkable feature in the latter stages of the contest has been the unanimity with which the two great political parties have acted in favor of admission. Neither party now knows which will gain it when a State. The bill empowers Utah to form a State government. Under it a Constitutional Convention will meet next March. The Constitution framed by it will be submitted to tne people of Utah for ratification in November, 1895. If it is ratified and, in th? opinion of the President it provides for a representative form of government, Utah wil) be declared a State by proclamation, and the forty-fifth star will be added to the flag Under the law the Constitution must guarantee religious liberty and prohibit polygamy. A State Governor and member of Congress i will be chosen in November, 1805, and the Legislature then elected will choose two i United States Senators, of whom, it is be lieved. the senior will be the present dele- ' gate, Mr. Rawlins Under the provisions of the Statehood act 1 Utah is to disclaim all title to the unap- 1 propriated public lands, and all Indian lands 1 are to remain under the absolute jurisdiction of the United States. The Government concedes liberal grants of lands to the State for public purposes. One hundred sections are given for public buildings at the capital. 90,000 acres for an agricultural college.two townships and 110,000 acres for the University of Utah : for irrigating purposes, 500,000 acres for an insane asylum, for a school of mines, for a deaf and dumb asylnm, for a reform < school, for a State Normal School, for an in- j etitution for the blind, each 100.000 acres, s and for a miners' hospital. 50.000 acres. The United States Penitentiary, near T Salt Lake City, is grnnted to the State. J All granted lands are to be sold at public sales for not less than $5 an acre, but the State may lease them for terms of five years. Ten per cent, of the pro- 0 ceeds of the sale of the public lands after the admission of the State is to c be paid by the Government to the State as a permanent fund for the support of the common schools, of which the interest li only is available. All of the educational c institutions are to remain under the ex- s elusive control of the State, and no part of the proceeds of the land can be used for the p support of any sectarian or denominational t( school. h These are the principal provisions of the contract upon which the Government of the . forty-four existing States admits to Statehood the Territory of Utah. Her popula- n tion is now estimated at 225,000, and the pro- ? portion of foreign born is less than in thirteen of the States. As to her resources, the assessed value of * her real and personal property and improve- "t< ments for last year was $103.860.111. and in > incorporated cities and towns alone it was 'a $94,533,352. This last is an increase of upward of $7,000,000 above the value of the r previous j-ear, while the indebtedness of cities $ > .. r,.,t ?? -wO flQS fMft a rte- a crease from the year preccdini:. The va-lue s: of the sheep a'.one in Utah is 42,613.128. that of the cattle greater than that of the sheep, . and of the horses ami mules greater still. The aggregate valuation of these animals v exceeds $8,000,000. The mineral product for 1892 was reported as $16,276,818.03. 8 Turning to the undeveloped resources, large deposits of iron and copper ores and J great beds of coal aniv sulphur, of asphalt " and salt are found. Agriculture is im- 61 peded by the aridity of much of th? soil, P yet there are many fertile and well-watered a (lands, and the progress of irrigation i3 adding to them. The Indians of the Terri- I tory are all quiet and peaceably disposed, t The sohools are thriving, thanks to the Free n Schools laws, and Utah nas an agricultural n college, besides Deseret University. Above 0 all, polygamy is dead, never to be resurrected either by Church or State, and thus the 0 great obstacle of former years to Utah's ad- f mission Is removed. C -* I OXFORD WINS. Yale Athletes Defeated for the World's College Championship. Tale made a splendid light against advorso * circumstances In the International collegiate sports at West Kensington. England, but she failed to win. Oxford was the winner A of five out of the nine events, but she is s not making excuses for the defeated to j say that they were peculiarly unfortunate. In the flrat place it was English, not ? American weather. Instead of hot sunshine In whioh American athletes do their best a work, It was a cold, drizzly afternoon, with a heavy rain only naif an hour before the j A games began. This caused Yale to lo3e ; j all the runs, which comprised four of , t| the nine events on the pro- j gi gramme, none of her men being able to equal u the work which they did in practice. A oad fall which occurred to Cady in the hurdle race caused him to lose that event when leadingat the eighth hurdle, and also interfered . with his chances in the high jump which followed. ? It is probable that no event in the history of English athletics of recent years has at- q traded half the interest which centred in ? these events. The champion university team t] of England waa to meet the champion unl- jj versity team of America, and this was sufficient to cause the wildest enthusiasm . amoDg all admirers of athletic sports, and g among sportsmen generally throughout the British Isles. Over 15,000 spectators were present. The results were as follows: 0 OXFORD 5>??YALE 33^. d Broad Jump?Won by Sheldon, Yale: Oak- C 1 1 00 11 1] ley, uxioru, aeuuuu, jyiauui^c, ** it. ii iu, ? High Jump?Sheldon, Yale, and Oakley, b Oxford, tied at 5 ft 8 in. v Putting Shot?Won by Hickok, Yale; Brown, Yale, second. Distance, il ft. 4% In. Throwing Hammer?Wou by Hickok, Yale; Brown, Yale, second. Distance, 115 ft. 5 in. One Hundred Yard Dash?Won by Fry, Ox- C ford ; Jordan, Oxford, second. Time, 10 sec- o onds. v One Hundred and Twenty Yard Hurdle? v Won by Oakley. Oxford ; Hatch, Yale, sec- 1 ond. Time. 16 3-5 seconds. a Quarter Mile Run?Won by Jordan, Ox- C ford; Sandford, Yale, second. Time, 51 a seconds. h Half Mile Run?Won by Groenhow, Ox- S ford ; Pond, Yale, second. Time, '2m. 4-5?. U Mile Run?Won by Greenhow, Oxford v Hildpard, Oxford, second. Time, 4m. 24 ti 2-5s. ti ? o Though P. D. Armour, the Chicago pack- ^ er, has a desk full of railroad passes h? never uses one of them, but always pays his fare like ordinary mortals. He is disposing of bis property to his sons as fo.st as they " show their qualifications to use it aright, believing it to be wiser to see his wealth in ? proper hands while he la still alive;. He has f no faith In wills. " KILLED IN THE MINE. Two Hundred Sticks ot Dynamite Explode in a Shaft. At No. 8 Stockton mine, Hazleton, Penn., 200 sticks of dynamite exploded among a sang of men who were preparing to go to their day's work. Eight men were killed. The explosion occurred about 7 o'clock a. m. The men were descending the slope at the time and distributing themselves in the various chambers and gangway where they are employed at the bottom of the slope. Charles O Donnell, who looked after the explosives and supplies for the loaders and other company workmen, was busy dealing out dynamite and caps to the leaders and the starters. The latter came to him in groups, and between eight and ten of these workmen wen standing about him at the time of the exnlosiou The place was filled with dust find flying debris. All lights were extinguished. The men were demoralized for the time and did not know which way to turn. Although the explosion took place 300 yards below the surface the shock was felt over an area of surface extending to the lumber yard three miles south and in the adjoining mine, No. 3 Stockton. From the latter mine a rescuing party rushed through subterranean passageways to No. 8. As these men approached the bottom of the slope where t&e accident occurred they came up with the driveri and other laborers griping about in the darkness. Pushing toward the bottom they found huge timbers twisted and torn and scattered about. Not one of the bodies of the victims was in a condition to permit identity. It was 10 o'clock before the workmen got the temains of the victims sufficiently together to arrange for hoisting them to the surface. Eight rough boxes were taken down the slope. From the mouth of the opening a high trestle work extends to the tower ot the breaker. As the remains were too mutilated tor the friends of the men to recognize them, it was decided t(* hoist the boxes to the top of the tower and carry them from there to the railroad, thus keeping them away from the crowd. It was 11 o'clock before the first box was hoisted up. The other followed quickly, and as they emerged from the darkness a loud wail from the throng of relatives arose. The scene was heartrending in the extreme. It was repeated until the last ofthe victimswas taken out at noon. The Undertakers took charge cf the bodies. Charles O'Donnell was the only one who could be recognizad. To learn the names of the others it was necessary to find the living men, as it was not known how many stood around the supply house when the ex plosion occurred. The names of the victims, as furnished by the mine foreman, are . Caarles O'Donnell aged twenty-flve, married; Andrew Sabol' aged thirty-eight, married, John'Primbone, a?ed twenty-two, single ; John Keohled, aged twentj'-three, single, Anthony Moscavitz, figed twenty-flve, married; John Krinock, iged twentj'-aight, married ;John Maetofskl, iged forty-four, married; John Brizzon, aged twenty-flve, single. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Prince Bismarck's health Is now better. Kaiser William sits for his photograph ibout once a week. More than $800,000 worth of flowers were >rdered for President Carnot's funeral. Sib Austin Henry Layard, the explorer ind archaeologist, died recently in London. M. Dupcy and M. Declasse, each forty-two enrs old, are the oldest men in the French Jabinet. It is not commonly known that Bu4yard Jipling is not of pure English blood. One f his parents was a half-cast Hindoo. Colonel George E. Gouraud sailed reently from New York for England with an avitatlon to Gladstone to visit America. The Infanta Eulalia, of Spain, is residing q London, where living is more economial. Her pension has been reduced, and he is attended only by a maid of honor. Vice-President Stevenson, Chief Justice 'uller and General S. V. Benet, of Washing>n, Chief of Ordnanoe, United States Army, ave taken cottages at Sorrento, Maine. Secretary Lament has sent his family to leir old home In New York, has closed his *??? will fha, mmaf nf fhft T^rPQlfiAnf VUTO (lUU *y ill U'j IUU ^uu<jk V4 *mv A ...v.? t the White House during the rest of the mmer. The widow of General Philip H. Sheridan, rith her three ohlldren. lives in Washingon. Mrs. Sheridan is about thirty-five years Id, having been very much the junior of er husband. M. Casimib-Pebihb, President of France, eceives a salary and expense allowance of 240,000 a year. He received from his fathr the snu* legacy of $8,000,000 and has ince added largely to his fortune Richard Henbt Stoddard, who i3 now in is seventieth year, and next to Dr. Holmes, ur oldest living poet, is still in the literary arness, and contributes book reviews reularly to one of the New York newspapers. Sexatob Gobdox's lecture on "The Last )ays of the Confederacy," promises to yield im handsome financial returns. Age has Hvered his hair and somewhat Impaired his hysique, but he is still soldierly in appsarnce. By the wilt of the late William Walter 'helps, his daughter, the Baroness von Rotenberg, receives over $2,000,000, which, i dded to the wealth of her husband, will lake them one of the wealthiest families in iermany. Colored people of Philadelphia can boast f having graduated from their ranks the Inest artist of their race in America. Henry j !. Tanner's picture of "The Bagpipe j wesson" excited great interest at a recent j cademy exhibit. ROLL OF PENSION'S. )ver 600,000 On the List?Nearly 300,000 Additional Claimants. The results of a week'9 examination of the les of the United States pension office are et forth in a statement made public. It hows that although the total number of asee on the flies on June 30, ISM, was 619,27, the number of actual claimants for penions was 514,414. Of the latter 227,265 are lready on the rolls, leaving the number of laimants not already receiving pensions 87.209. Claims for service prior to March , 1961, aggregate 8326, and those subsequent j that date are as follows : General laws, 06,933 ; act of June 27, 1890, 130,604 ; claims nder the act of June 27, 1890, additional to i thers on file but not pensions!. 11,571 ;perons pensioned under old laws who have inrease claims pending, 162,576 ; persons on oils under old laws who have original latms pending under tbe act of June 27. 890, 51,402 ; claims of widows, etc., for denied pension of deceased pensioners, 12.31; and claims under the act of June 27, , 890, with pending old law claims on file herewith, 87,221. Of these claims, indu iag increase claims, the number under the ct of June 27, 1890,13 280,771), of which 62,637 are invalid, 68,161 widows, ani 49,81 increase. There are also in the flies 346,S31-) rejt?2te<i j nd 44.471 abandoned claims, making a total f 391.287 claims abandoned and rejecte l by liferent administrations up to June 30, 1394. >f the claimants, 252,845 are classed as oriuaal invalids; Increase invalids. 136,547; ounty land, 628; widows, 124,173, and ridows increase, 221. Wonderful Flowing Well. Tho iittle village of Red Falls, Greene ! 'rmnfv v Y_. now has one of the wonders ! ftho Empire State, iu a flowing well. It ; rub bored by 1. J. A J. M. Lewis, of Schene- J us, for Charles ilerwiu, a Ited Falls farmer, | 'he well was cased with iron as fast as bore J, I ad was sunk to a depth of over 100 feet. [ i >n removing the drill the water spouted to I ' height of nearly twenty feet, or ten feet igher than any other flowing well in the tale. It was found to have a pressure of fty pounds. Farmer 3Ierwin has had the rater cou lined by proper apparatus and atlehed to a motor by which he doss his lireshing, wood sawing, churning, and ther farm work to wiiich water power may o applied. General Coxet C03t the Government of le United States about $160,000. This repre5nts the fees and expanses of special United tates deputy marshals and the cost of ar:stlng the men who paraded under his name x different parts of the country. THE MBS Iffill MS TWO BATTLES AT AN ALABAMA COAL SHAFT. White Strikers Kill Half a Score of Colored Men Who Had Taken Their Places?Many Desperately Wounded?Five Hundred State Mi^ia on Guard. A large body cf men, armed with rifles, were discovered about 5 o'clook p. m. near Slope No. 3, of the Pratt mines of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, seven miles from Birmingham, Ala. It was the hour when the men at work at the mines came out. These men were colored miners who bad taken the places of thft strikers, and the attacking party were strikers and their sympathizers. As the colored men came out the strikers, | who were hiding behind bushes and fences, opened fire. Several hundred shots were fired before the strikers scattered. Guards; stationed around the mine returned the flre^' but they were few in number. The casualties were : H. W. Tierce, white guard, killed colored miner, name unknown, killed; striker named Racquet fatally wounded. Several men on both sides were wounded. One of the wounded strikers was dragged off b> his friends. It was a deliberate attack by the strikers on the miners put; to work in their places, and they shot to kilL' Two local military companies were; hurried to the scene. The ten companies which had been sent to Birmingham from other cities for a week on account of the railroad strike had been ordered home. The Montgomery companies were stopped en; route and turned back, and all the others wpnt back in the morning for duty at the mining camps. Thn minim* strike lins lwen on since the middle of April, and the feeling is growing I bitter, being accentuated by the railroad strike. Governor Jones saw the miners* committee and begged them to accept the compromise lately offered, but they declined. The proprietors are proceeding to open all mines with such labor as they can get, and Governor Jones is of the opinion that troops will be needed indefinitely The above attack followed in less than two hours after the departure of the troops. The bitterness of the strikers is illustrated by a captured striker. He was kneeling be>hind a cowpen fence firing his rifle when a bullet from a guard knocked him over. He rose up and emptied his gun- He could not speak a word of English. The colored men scattered in all directions ; when fired upoq. Only a few had gotten out of the mines when the firing began, whlob accounts for the small loss of life. , A second battle was fought at Slope No. 4, of the Pratt mines, simultaneously with that ; at No. 3,,and the tfltal dead raaches six,with at least a score wounded. Another mob of1 striker^ had ambushed themselves near the mouth of No. 4, whence the colored men' came in box cars. The train was guarded | by deputy sheriffs, who were placed in the cars and on the engine. The train had proceeded but a short distance from the mine when the party in ambush opened fire. The first shot went through the window of the engine cab, flicked some hair from the head of Mine Superintendent J. J. Moore, and nearly killed the engineer. The deputies returned the volley with vigor, and in a shoR time the mob began its retreat toward Cedtre Point. Posses of scouts were hastily formed in the vicinity of the mines and the work of searching lor dead and wounded was entered upon. The miners made their escape, except those unable to walk for their wounds. Ten bodies were picked up, of which six were lifeless. Many wounded were helped away by their comrades. The name3 of the colored dead are unknown. George Campbell, one of the colored laborers, had his leg broken, and a bullet passed through his chin. He says the strikers came on him after he wasj shot down, beat and kicked him and! t&en fired the bullet through his face. Th? bodies or the dead were all taken to Birmingham. Great excitement prevailed there, the streets beini? crowded with terror-stricken citizens. Every precaution was ' taken to guard the mines a?raJn?t further depredations. The 'Third Regiment of the State Guard was ordered into camp, aad altogether there tt??re live hundred soldiers in the vicinity. ? m ARTILLERYMEN KILLED. Terrible Scene Caused by the Ex plosion of a Caisson. The explosion of a Second Artillery caisson and the bursting of shot and shell caused frightful carnage anions* soldiers, civilians, and horses, during a drill of regulars on Grand Boulevard, one of Chicago's finest driveways. Four United States sol-Here were instantly killed and the bodies of the unfortunate * men were burled a considerable distance. Two of the wounded soldiers were not expected to live. Eisrht more were burned and struck with leaden and wooden missiles and half a dozsn civilians were injured. The list of killed was : Jeremiah Donovan, cannoneer Second Light Artillery. Battery F, blown from seat alongside Doyle Edward Doyle, cannoneer Second Lisjht Artillery, Battery F, from Fort Riley, Kansas, blown from caisson or ammunition chest; Joseph ? ? T? QuT?anth rjnrnlrr. ?*auer. turner, nuu|> u. ,, Fort Sheridan, body riddled andtorn by shot and pieces of gun carriage; Fred Lotz, wheel horse driver, Battery F, Second Artillery, bodv pierced by shot and wooi, died at Michael Bees Hospital at 8 p. m. The mortally wounded were' Martin O'Donnell, cannoneer, Battery F, Second Artillery, body pierced by fragments of wood. burned by powder* taken to Mercy Hospital ? Sergeant Lider. same battery, Injuries similar to O'Donnell's: takeu to Mercy Hospita'. Besides these, eight troopers and live civilians were badly hurt. At least 525.009 worth of damage was done I to the property of the residents on both sides of Grand Boulevard for half a clock north of I Oakwood Boulevard. Houses in adjoining H streets were also damaged, principally by H broken windows and door glass. I The body of troops were proceeding south I from the Lak? Front alon? Grand Boulevard I at a trot. Having no rioter3 to quell or B railroad property to protect, the soldiers were out for drill and exercise. When with- 81 in 100 feet of Oakwood Boulevard there came B a crash like thunder, followed in an instant H by a succession of snarp explosions. Hon, H horses, wneels and c lisson ros? in the air. H rhe artillerymen received the bruut of the H explosion, being directly in the rear of the H missiles and powder. I Donovan was blown through the air over H trees fifty feet high a distance of 501 feet across a vacant lor. droppin; on the Union Stock Yard's railroad tracks. Part oi one H leu was torn off. Doyle was hurled 300 feet H across the intersection of Oikwool Boule var 1, on the opposite side of Grand Boule Galler, the farrier of the Seventh Cavalry H Troop, whs ridins? in the second column be- H hind the artillery. The shell which killed H Kim his hnnrl ovar the heads of the trooDers in tho froat ranks. Part of the load took oft half ot Kane's ear and tore a big bole in his bat. Steel and wood pierced the holy of Fred Lotz, the whetM-horse driver nearest the exploiter ammunition, aul kille I the animal. All the eight artillery horses are dead. The four which pulled tho first sun were hurled in frout of the exploding powder and shells to a grassy part of tho boulevard, 100 teet away. Three were killed outright, being shot through and through. The foruth had to be put out of his misery The four horses drawing the second gun were hurled to one side of the boulevard on the grass, an I all instantly killed. Galler's horse was shot from under bim, and his life had to be taken. mTT-riT-in rrrTrnn TvTi rvTZT VTJTn TttttijJj WJjUJj JJHU VV IN lilJi Father, Son and Uncle Lost at Burlington, Iowa. M. S. Walker, a young lawyer, S. M. Walker, his father, and T. EL Walker, hJi uncle, wore drowned in th? river near Burlington, Iowa. M. S. Walker was seized with oramps, and the other two were dragged down while try* log to rescue him. ,