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{AT HOME MB AMR XATE DOMESTIC AND FOR, EIGN TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. .John Craig Killed His Wife, MotherIn-Law, Father-ln-Law, BrotherIn-Law, and Then Tried to Kill Himself?Murderers Hanged? . Rumors of War. hn Craier, Los Aneeles, Cal., shot and j killed his fnther-ln-^aw, William Hunter; * * ^ ? * ** V?{a I nis moiner-;n-iaw, :u.ary nuwci , ? brother-in-law, George Hunter, and his wife, Emily Hunter Craig. Craig drove to Glendale, Ave miles from Los Angele?, where his wife, from whom he was divorced three months ago, was stopping with her brother, George, nnd deliberately ahot and killed them both. He then returned to Los Angel PS nnd went to the home of his father-in-iaw. William Hunter, and killed him, after which, stepping over the body, he waited to the dining room, where he shot and killed his mother-in- law. 1 He then turned the pistol against his forehead and fired t\yo shots, both of which failed to kill him. He was taken to the police receiving hospital and will recover. He states that be was hounded by his wife's relatives ani wanted revenge, but was sorry be had not succeeded in killing himself to ' omplete the whole business. Craig was prominent in politics. The killing grew out of trouble over the settlement of community property. Craig ha* borne the character of a desperate man, and had few friends. Down a Shaft to Death. Lehigh Coal Company officials went on a tour of inspection of Exeter mine, one of the company's collieries at West Pittston, Penn. The party comprise I Colonel A. Mason, of Pittston, the superintendent;Robert Mirror, of the Lehigh Valley Engineer Corps; Professor Burrell, of Lehigh Universitv. and Inside Foreman William Wilpon. With the party was the foreman, Jacob Gtr?i. ' Wii'n goingup theoldair shaft, wliiob. isa seconl opening for the Exeter shaft, the bottom o' the carriage gave way and precipitate 1 the men to the bottom. Gates, the foreman, when he felt the timber giving ?iio oWu nf tlm hnntinc and Wrt V, KIKJfJmi lut- oiuu ?? r, held on until rescued. Colonel Mason was killed by the shock. Inside Foreman Wilson was fatally Injured and died at 3 o'clock. Mr. Mercur was badly and Professor Burrell slightly injured. . Half-Breed Indian Hanged* At two minutes past 11 o'clock a. m. Wal? lace Burt paid the penalty at Dvlestown, Penn., for the murder of Mr. an 1 Mr*. Samuel L. Rightly. He caused no <"? <ne at the gallow?. Burt was asked by the sneriff if he had anything to say. He replied, saying his fat" wis a warning to all wrongdoers, in ahotji twenty minutes after the drop fell Burr w is pronounced dead. . R'-Mtly and his wife w?r<? over eisrhty yearn of .i<?e and lived near Richboro, Bucks County, Prtnn. They were murdered for th*?ir money. Burt wjis a half-breed Indian, who had worked for them. The first clue to the murder was a piece of tobacco dropped oe'irthn dead man, which a neighbor recogniz-* I as the kind used by Bart. The fellow afterwards confessed. Invalid Burned Alive. H ?or^e W. Dee, a farmer, living < eight mi:*- west of Burlington. Iowa, was burned to d".ith in his house. He was eigaty-sevan years of asje an t weighel 300 oounds, and had been confined to his bed. When the fire was discovered the flame3 were all around Dee's bed. His son-in-law, Scott Devault, attempted to assist him out of the house, but the sick man was unable to walk. Devault partly carried and partly dragged him as far a9 the door, when the flames wept upon them and Devault was compelled to abandon the invalid to his fate. Tbe flames soon reduced his form to ai blackened mas* ia full .view of the horror-stri*ken , spectators. His aged wife was terribly KnvnaH Rumor of War Declared. Tbe Central News of London has this despatch from Shanghai. "War has been declared between Jnpan and China. The Japanese have seized the Sing of Korea and hold him prisoner Eteven Ohinese steamers are on their way to Korea. Moat of the troops aboard them are coolies, armed with bows and arrows. "Some Chinese steamers which have arrived at Korea have been prevented br the Japanese from landing troops. It is reported that the Japanese artillery sack several Of them." ' , Two Men Instantly Killed. ' While John Everly, Fran^ Jones and Milt Blaok were engaged in running a traction engine three miles south of Warsaw, Ind., il broke down/ While Black was repairing it. Everly and Jones, who had lost several nights' sleep sitting up with a sick friend, threw themselves down in front of the engine to take a nap. Black, not knowing where his companions were, started the maohlne, killing both instantly. A New Japanese Minister. Gozo Tateno, Japanese Minister to Washington; has been recalled to Japan, and Mr. Knklno, an experienced diplomat, has been appointed to gncceed him. rf>Ki? AVioncra fc* made on account of dls satisfaction at the manner In which Minister Tateno has conducted the negotiations with the Washington Government, looking to the modification of the extra-territorial treaties. Two Girls Drowned. Katie Johnson and Sadie Johnson, aged fourteen and twelve yeare respectively, were drowned in a little pond of one acre in extent, at Bay Yiew Heights, West Chapel Hill, K. J., while bathing. The children with early one hundred others fro21 St. Chrysos$om Chapol, New York, were having a two 7eeks' recreation. >lurderer Executed. Charles "Wilson, colored, was executed In the jail yard at Sr. Louis, Mo., for the mur* der of Moses Hodges in a quarrel over a Toman. WEISHED 590 POUNDS. Sirs. Walters Lost !2.~0 Pounds in Three Weeks. ''Big Alice," a museum freak, whose name was Mrs. Hattie Walter^, died at Camden, N. J.t of blood poisoning. Mrs. Walters scratched her finger on a rusty nail three veeks before. When in good health Mrs. Walters weighed 590 pounds. Her Intense suffering reduced her weight until she only neighed 300 pounds at the time of her rteatb. The door of the house In which she live 1 was too small to allow me coma lu nurer, ?a I IUO uuuy had to be carried to the hearse oa a cooling board. Mrs: Walters had beoa a dime museum freak for a lone while, and hai been exhibited all oyer the world. TIN PLATE PRODUCTION. Report of Special Agent Ayer to Secretary Carlisle. Special Aqent Ayer, of the Treasury Department, detailed, in connection with the tin plate Industry reports, to Secretary Carlisle that daring the quarter ended.March 81 last thirty-six firms produced 38,260,411 pounds of tin and terne plate proper, against 37,510,441 pounds by thirty-alae firms in the previous year. Of the tin plate seventy-two per cent, was rolled in the United States. All classes of tin and terne plate produced aggregated 40,423,300 pounds, ot which 90,070,601 pounds , were blank plate produced In the United States. Of the thirty-six firms making formal returns, nineteen used American plate Wholly, three foreign plates wholly and fourteen firms used both, a shock resembling an earthquake ex* cited ail the geysers In the Noma basin, "flows'.one Pari. i?ia aativitr. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Police Captain Dohei:ty nnd his ward men, Hook and Meehan. of New York City, were found guilty of tbo charges against them and dismissed from the forue; charges were also prefered against five sergeants and two patrolmen, who wero suspended until trial. The General Term of the Supreme Court, Jn Brooklyn, handed down a decision affirmhie the judgment of conviction and sentence of .Tohn Y. McKane. the Graves end "boss." The first election of School Trustees under the new Borough an<l Township law passed by the last Legislature or New Jersey was held in Vineland, N. J. The women made a bitter fight to exercise the right of puflfrage, but they were refused. Andrew Fttrman\ the infant son of Andrew Dilks, died at Milvilie, N. J., from the effects of an overdose of medicine administered by his two-year-old brother Willari. Several deaths from sunstroke and many prostrations from heat wer>3 features in New York City of what the records show to have been one of the hottest July days ever known in this latitude. The temperature on the street level reached a maximum of 104 degrees in the shade. There were ten deaths from heat. Joseph Daul, of Newark. N. J., planoed at a Broadway thermometer, saw that it registered 102 degrees, and then cut his throat. Bt the explosion of one of a nest of six boilers at Packer's No. 4 colliery of the Lehigh Talley Coal Company. Shenandoah, Penn., one man was instantly killed, two so badly hurt that they died, and one seriously burned. Postmaster Charles W. De Bevoisb, of Confers, N. Y.. who was found $1100 short In his accounts, died of heart disease. FrRE practically destroyed the Lorlllard block on the southwest corner ot Pulton and Gold streets, New York City, at an estimated '.otal loss of $150,000 to $200,000. At Waynesboro Junction, Penn., James Wally. a farmer, was driving over the track whm nnw.ac hv tho train. In the ear riage with him were his wife and two children. Mr. Wally and one child have since died. Both horses were killed. The squall which swopt the Hudson River, overturned, opposite Hastings, N. Y., a catboat containing seven young inon, three of Khom were drowned. South and "West. Majob W. H. Upham was nominated for Governor by the Republicans of Wisconsin. Mas. M. A. Hartlt shot and killed State Senator M. D. Foley, at Reno, Nev, Mrs. Hartly Is an artist, and she killed Foley in her rooms in the Bank of Nevada Building. William Hekry Harrison Duxcax, colored. aged twenty-*ven. was hanged at Clayton, Mo., for the murder of Policeman James Brady on the night of October C. 1890. Duncan had been scntenoiid to death at Beven different times. Chiko, the chimpanzee attached to Barmum & Bailey's circus, died at Dayton. Ohio. Mr. Bailey had refused an offer of $10,000 from Hagenbeck for the animal. The body has been embalmed and sent to New York. The North Dakota Democratic State Convention nominated this ticket: Governor, E. M. Kinter; Lieutenant-Governor, E. A. Ueland; Secretary of State, George Slette; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mrs. Elsenhuth; Auditor, A. W. Por ter; Treasurer, Knutt ,T. Newland ; Commissioner of Agriculture, George Kurtz; Insurance Commissioner, James Cudahie; Congressman, N. G. Larimore. Joes W. Love. cashier of tho Watkins (N. Y.) National Bank, was arrested in Chicago, charged with having a shortage of $70,000 in his accounts. Comhoxwealebs from Seattle captured an Ohio train and held it until threatened at Alliance with a bath by hose. Mayo Coi lege, the leading educational Institution of Northeast Texas, at Cooper, Delta County, was destroyed by Are. Loss. $100,000. "Washinstfon. Sexatob Vilas defended the President In a 9peech in the Senate. A vote to instruct the conferees to report a bill making coal jad iron ore free was defeated. Cabboll D. Wright made a report to the President concerning his investigation of the slums of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Thk President approved the Naval, Diplomatic and Consular and Military Academy Appropriation bills. Ax investigation of the tacts concerning the Nova Scotia coal syndicate shows that the charges that W. C. Whitnev, Secretary Lamont and President Cleveland are interested in it are false. Admibal Staxtojj applied to be retired - "? - ' ' 1 die onnll. under ms lony-vcar 3cmv;o ??n. ..jjj/..cation Is before the President. Mail advices from United States Minister Willis, at Honolulu, were received at the State Department, giving in detail the facta attending the inauguration of the new republic and its recojnjtion. Mb. Gozo Tatkxo, the ex-Japanese Minister. took leave of the President. ExpressIons of personal and national good will were exchanged. The Conferreas on the Tariff bill adjourned without rcachingan agreement. Both House 8nd Senate eonferrees announced they would make no concessions. Secrstart Gresham ordered Minister Denby to return to Pekin immediately. b& lleving war between China and Japan to be Inevitable. Secretary Herbert has finally accepted the 300 tons of barbette armor intended for the battleship Oregon, represented by the aeventeen-inch Carnegie Harveyized steel plate, which has been tried at Indian Head. Foreign. The French Chambor of Deputies passed the Anti-Anarchist bill 2G8 to 163. Meunier, the Anarchist, was found guilty of having blown up the Cafe Very, in x'.irls, and sentenced to penal servitude for life. The Bank of Engiand celebrated in London the two hundredth anniversary of iu establishment. An earthquake has dcno much damac-e and killed several persons in Macedonia, Old Sarvia and Eastern Bulgaria. The laying of the new Atlantic cable between Heart's Content, New Foundland, and Valentin, Ireland, was completed. Twesty-iive lives were lost by the sinking of a Russian ferryboat in a collision. The Archduko William-Francis Charles, ol Austria, was thrown OH his horse and killed near Baden. The Britannia defeated tho Vigilant at the Penzance (England) yachting regatta. A oeea.t heat wave, which was predicted by Professor Falbe, visited Germany. While or.e big Chinvse army is inarching threugh Korea another i? preparing to folio v.'. Japan is said to have ilred on the British Sag in the rectat naval light. A BIG BLAZE. Half a Million Dollars' Wortli of T;timber and Railroad 1'roperty Burned. Tho third disastrou-s flro in tho history of Minneapolis, Minn., broke out about 3.30 p. m. in the lumber yards of the Rhevllu-Carpenter Company, on the bank of the Missiseippl, at the foot of Eighth avenue. North. It spread with remarkable rapidity and burned 20.000,030 feet of lumber, the gca manufacturing plant of the Omaha Railroad Company, with its round-house, tool-house, sand-house and turn-tables, nearly forty freight cars, some of them loaded, and the office building of tho ShevlLn-Carpenter Company. The saw-mill, the planin^-mill, drying kilns and store-house for moulding and prepared wood, although in the very heart of the fire district, were saved by a fortuitous change in the wind. Help was summoned from St. Paul aud seven engines with full crews were sent over from that city. The loss is nearly $500,000 and insurance about *350,000. ' The salmon run at the Cascades, Oregon la something unprecedented. in the history of the State. Wheels catch tons every day, and the facilities for transportation over the portage are sorely taxed to afford means of fhipmsob CHINESE WAR SHIP SUM. TTTF TAP A WEST! VTflTORTOTTP, IN A NAVAL BATTLE. China's Second Largest War Vessel Lost, With Many Lives, and Two Cruisers Captured or Destroyed? Superior Fighting: Skill of tho Japanese?Statement by Japan. News has just been received ot a desperate 6attle between the fleets of China and Japan, in which tho Chinese were defeated and tho Chen Yuen, tho largest battle ship but one in the Chinese service, was sunk, and two other large Chinese vessels, said to be firstclass cruisers, were captured or destroyed. The battle was hotly contested,but the Japanpso appear to have handled their guns, ships, and torpedoes with more skill than the Chinese. The Chinese fleet engaged carried nearly a thousand men, and the latest despatches state that few if any of them escaped. Two of the German officers in ommand of the Chen Yuen were reported to have met death with the crew of that vessel. Tie news means that on end has been put to the power of China so far as fluhting Japan upon the seas is concerned. Not one of'the remaining ships of China would dare to show itself out of port after learning that the first-class battle ship Chen Yuen has bppn sunk. The two Chinese cruisers, supposed to have been captured or destroyed during the engagement, are the Chin Yuen and the Foo-Ching. The Chin Yuen was a protected cruiser, built at Elswick, England. She had a displacement of 2300 tons and attained an average speed, in her trial trips, with all weights, batteries, and crew aboard, of 18)^ knots. Her armanent consisted of three 8^-lncb Krupps and two sixinch Armstrongs, protected by splinter-proof shields. She also carried eight six-pounder rapid-fire Hotchkiss guns, six Gatlings, and four torpedo tubes. The Foo Ching was also an English built protected cruiser, very similar to tbe Chin Yuen. She had a displacement of 2500 tons, was built of steel in 1890. and carried ten guns of about the same calibre as those carried by the Chin Yuen. A Statement by Japan. The following official statement of the difficulties between China and Japan, which led to the outbreak of hostilities between those two o?untries, has been issued by the Japanese Government: 'Japan and China were approaching a settlement of their difficulties when China suddenly requested Japan to withdraw her fleet from Korea, and to give a formal compliance with the Chinese demands by the 20th, otherwise the whole Chinese forces were to land and a sea advance upon the part or China was to be made. The Japanese regarded this as an ultimatum ; but, acting unier the advice of the friendly powers, they agreed to the proposals, in principle, in amended form, at the sametime declaring that if the threatened Chinese advance was made on the 20th, it would bo regarded as a menace to Japan." It is conjectured that the Japanese naval commanders were instructed to be on the qui vive for the Chinese warships and seeing the latter advancing on July 27, they opened lire, Japan Declares War, The hews that the Emperor of Japan had declared war against the Emperor of China reached the British Foreign Office, The Japanese Government has wireddnstrtlctlous to the Japanese Minister in Lohdon to offer an apology to Great Britain for firing upon and sinking the KoiV Sbing while she was flyih# tbe British flag., The Minister is also instructed to in form the Government of Great Britain that the commander of the Japanese cruiser was upaware until after the fight that the RoW Shing was a British vessel. Captain Galeworthy, the commander of the Eow Sbing, and many others on board the transport, were saved by the boats of the Japanese war ship Naniwa. In oonsequenoe of the declaration of war upon China, the,Chinese Minister left Tokio, The Japanese flag was hauled down from the Consulate at Shanghai. The light has been removed from the mouth of theNing-Po Tilrftr. It was reported that eight Russian war ships were about to sail from Vladivostok. Advloes from Tashaa state that the Chinese are strongly Intrenched there and that repeated attempts have been made by the Japanese troops to dislodge them. In every Instance, however, the attacking forces, after hard-fought engagements, were tepulsed at all points with heavy losses. A portion of the Chinese soldiers engaged'In these battled were the beet troops of the northern army of Vloeroy LI Hung Chang. The Chinese losses were small. The North China News says that the Japanese brought tip for the attack every availably man, almost denuding Seoul of troops. The successful defence made by the Chinese vjaa dlrectod b,v European officers. Fifteen hundred Japanese were killed by the Chlneeo at Yashan. GOVERNMENT FINANCES, A Cash Balance of $119,065,3512? Gold Reserve $45,024,393 Short. The regular monthly statement of the public debt, just Issued by the United States Treasury Department, shows that the aggregate on July 31, 189*. was $1,641,806,240, as against $1,632 253,636 on June 30, 1894. This apparent increase is owing to the increase in the issue of certificates and Treasury notes, which, however, are offset by nn equal amount of cash In the Treasury. The in terest oearingaeot amountea xo TM;>,u4z,oyu, an increase for the month of 8700. The debt bearing no interest was $379,950,470, a decrease of $51,215. The increase in certificates and Treasury notes, which, however, are offset by an equal amount of cash in the Treasury, was from $615,355,820 on June 30, 1891, to $616,972,329 on July 31. 1S91. The cash in the Treasury is $771.201.760. against which there are demand liabilities amounting to $655,136,114, leaving a cash balance of $119,065,352, of which $51,975,607 was gold reserve. The increase "in th? cash balance during the month was $1,180,915. HEAT IN GERMANY. Many Soldiers Have Died From Sunstroke?Killed by Lightning. Although tropical heat prevailed throughout the German Empire, the summer military drills were carried on without any appreciable alteration of programme. The troops suffered intensely. Fifteen soldiers died of suustroke at th? garrison manoeuvres round Bautzen, Zlttau and Leisnig. 8cores of othors who were prostrated by the heat are convalescing slowly. From all parts of the Empire where tne soldiers are In the field come daily stories ol sunstrokes and prostrations from the heat. Many soldiers of the Berlin garrison have been Incapacitated for duty for the last throe days and have been senttotho hospitals. In a hnavy thunderstorm at Essen, Germnnt? 1) r?Vifn 1 n of on nlf f K alcv>t fll* One person was killed and twelve others were stunned. Eight persons were killed by lightning in Aimanfeld. A COMMA SAYED HIM. Jones Was to Be Hoiiged, But Tliero Was a Flaw la the Judge's Charge. Jesse H. Jones, nineteen years old, owes his oscupc from the gallows at Little Rock, Ark., to the uso of a comma in the Judge's charge. Jones was charged with the murder of two brothers named Hibdon, with whom he traveled through Arkansas. They cam pod one night in an unoccupied house. The next morning the charred bones of the Hlbdous were found. Jones's trial was hurried forward, and on April 9th ho was sentenced to death. A stay was secured ponding an appeal. The opinion of the Supreme Court points out that by the misplacement of a comma In the Judge's charge the Judge appears to have made an error. It Is claimed that enormous defalcations have been found in Ezela's administration of Salvador's affairs, as muah a? $10,000,; 000 being abstracted Irom one d^***vjaeat. LATER NEWS, Ocean Grove, N. J., celobratedtho twen. ty-flfth anniversary of Its birtb. The Michigan Republicans placed a fall State ticket in the Held, headed by Governor Rich, who was renominated on the first ballot. Three mon were killed and several hurt, two of them fatally, by an explosion of dynamite in a Chicago stone yard. A railroad station 1500 feet away was damaged and a car wrecked. Attorney-General Olxey decided to investigate grave charges against United States Judge Ricks, of Cleveland, Ohio, upon which lmpeaohment proceeding may be based. The Strike Commissioners met in Washington and decided to begin their public inquiry at Chioago August 15. " ??? - afhfl Mftl.nra nJf I SPANISH iroops uoioumu wv ?.-?J- ? Mindanao, killing 250 of them. The annual camp meeting of the National Temperance 8ooiety began at Ocean Grove, N. J. The Armor Plate Investigating Committee of the House of Representatives visited the Carnegie works at Homestead, Penn. State dispensaries in South Carolina opened. Local authorities In two towns arrested the dispensers. The North Dakota Prohibition State Convention named for Governor Roger Allln, of Park River. Jttdoe Joseph Holt, who was Judge Ad' voeate-Genernl of the Army, and at one time acted as Secretary of War, died at his residence In Washington. His death was due indirectly to a fall sustained a few days before, but to which he paid little attention. Joseph Holt was born in Breokenrldge County, Kentucky, on January 6, 1807. Evidence taken by the Senate Sugar Scandal Investigating Committee was made public. Comhodobe Meade was ordered to command the North Atlantic Station with the rank of Roar-Admiral. Secbetabt Carlisle accepted the Sixteenth and Spring Garden streets sit* as the location for the new Philadelphia Mint Building. The consideration agreed on is $305,000. The White Star steamer Majestic ran down and sunk the Ashing schooner Antelope In a fog off the Grand Banks, New Foundland. One member of the schooner's orew was drowned and another died from exhaustion. The keg containing $10,000 In gold that was stolen while In transit from New York to Paris, but not its contents, was found at a railway station near Paris. Thbee thousaxl Insurgent troops are marching upon Porto Alegro. This city Is the oapltal of the State of Bio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Tns Spanish Government purchased three cruisers from English firms to protect her Philippine possessions against the Japanese, HFTY^THIRD CONGRESS. The Senate. 161bt Dat.?Mr. Vilas defended President Cleveland's letter to Chairman Wilson in a long speech, nnd Mr. Stewart criticised the President; Mr. Hill's motions for free coal and iron ore wer.e voted down. 1C2d Dat.?After a lone parliamentary debate the Senate sent the Tariff bill back to the Conference Committee without instruc tions, as agreed upon in the Democratic caucus. 163d Dat.?The Agricultural Appropriation bill was sent baok to another confer* ence. Mr. Allen introduced a bill for the relief of tie States. The Senate passed a number of bills, incltadingthe House bill extending the annual term of the Life-saving Service and the House resolution extending the appropriations of the last fiscal year. The Sundry Civil bill was reported with amendments increasing by $2,538,301 the House appropriation. 164th Day.?The Senate voted to buy the Mahone lot tor the Government Printing Office. The conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill showed aereements and disagreements, and a further conference was ordered. The General ; Deficiency bill was placed on the calendar, , and so was the House Bankruptcy bill. Some half dozen unimportant bills were pas?e-l. 165th Day.?Mr. Chandler introduced a resolution tor the investigation of the Nova Scotia coal syndicate by the Sugar Trust Investigating Committee. The conference report on the Agricultural Appropriation Din was asrreea to. xne Dea;ue from Its Russian thistle million-dollar amendment. Most of the day was occupied in the consideration of the amendments offered by Senators to the Sundry Civil bill. Tie House. 184th Dat.?A bill providing that life-savlnff stations shall be kept open ten months instead of elgftt was passed. 185th Day.?The day was devoted to the consideration of routine business of no public interest. 186tu Dat.?The Hons* passed a resolution emending the appropriations of the last fiscal year until Au?ust 14, and discussed without action the bill to punish those who pirate plays. A larsre number of private pension bills were passed. 187th Day.?Mr. Boutelle presented a resolution for recognition of the Hawaiian Bej public. It was referred to the Foreign AN . rairs uommiuee. I li)?Tn Day.?The House transacted con- I s'dijratle business in the three and a halt hours that it wrs in session, but little of it was important. Most of the bills passed were reported from the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. Hatch reported the result of th e con ferenoe on the Agricultural Appropriation bill?an ngr.^omant on all items except the one appropriating ?1,000,000 for the extirpation of the Russian thistle in the Northwest, put on the bill by the 8enate. By an overwhelming vote the House determined to adhere to its disagreement, and to further confer about the amendment, as the Senate requested. 189th Dat.?The Agricultural Appropriation bill was passed, the Senate having withdrawn its amendment regarding the Russian thistle. The Funstoa-Moore contested election case was considered. COST OF THE STRIKE, One Railroad Alone Presents Chicago With a Bill for $*50,000. Bills for damages to railroad property by tlw strike rioters are now coming into the City Hall, Chicago, 111. J. T. Brooks, Second Vice-President of the Pittsburg, Cincln- ) nati A St. Louis Railroad, has presented a bill which aggregates $4-19,091. Tho largest item is $401,691 for 729 freight cars destroyed and forty-two damaged. The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago hu3 presented a bill of $21,347. The largest itom is lor fourteen , freight cars destroyed and ilfty-eighr damaged. Mayor Hopkins smiled when ho saw the bills, and remarked: "Wait until wo get through with them." SIXTY BUILDINGS BURNED. The Business Section of Belle Plain, lown, Destroyed by Fire. The entire business section of Belle Plain, Iowa, with the exception of three buildings, was destroyed before the fire which devastated it had burned itself out. More thau sixty buildings, business houses ani | dwellings were burned. The loss is estimated at $.500,000, whilethere is only $150,000 insurance on the property consumed. | The flumes originated in a livery stable, and, leaping across the street, were soon communicated to several buildings. _ 'TfflXT FLAME ANB FLOOD FOREST FIRES DESTROY POPULOUS WISCONSIN TOWNS. Driven in Panic From Their Homes, Citizens of Phillips Rush for Safety to a Lake?Nearly a Score of Lives Lost?A Sea of Flame in the Lumber Region. Forest fires raged over a wide area in Northern Wisconsin and wiped out the town of Phillips, driving citizens headlong into the lake. Nearly a score were burned or drowned, and 3000 were made homeless. A dispatch from Ashland, Wi?., sravethe following particulars Northern Wisconsin is beins? swept bytb? worst forest flres in the history of the State. The losses already amount to millions of dollars, and unless rain falls speedily this sum will be vastly increased. Reports in^cafe that several towns have been burned within a radius of a hundred miles of Ashland. To the south, Phillips, the county seat of Price Count}-, a thriving town of three thousand inhabitants, has been wiped out. Taylor County, directly south of Price, is beina: laid waste, and Shores Crossing has been destroyed. To the southwest of Ashland, MasoD.a busy town of Bayfield Count)*, has been burned, while in Forest and Langlade Counties the flames are making destructive progress. It Is reported that twenty persons lost their lives in Phillips. It is said that when the flames swept over the town many persons tried to save their valuables and household effects, and lingered so long in the effort as to be cut off from every avenue of escape except a small lake formed by the widening of the river. They then rushed?to the lake, and while some succeeded In escaping, twenty are reported to buve been drowned. Five hundred women and children from Phillips are In the woods near Flfleld, the next town, without food or shelter. A requisition for supplies wa3 sent from Milwaukee, Wis. It is feared many persons have perished in the woods, as with the lire r? nil o ?aii n A fliam (a ? A /ihonAii for the women and children to escape. The number who have lost their lives will probably never be known. The list of dead whose bodies have been recovered is as follows : >Irs. David Byrden and her two children. Frank Cliss and child, James Locko and three children, Charles Pllantzer,burned to death. A hole has literally been burned in the ground over a territory one a half miles Ion? and a half mile wide, and the sawdust, which is all of four feet thick, is still burning, sending clouds of smoke over the city to stifle the few residents who have returned and are engaged in putting up temporary sheds for the protection of their wives and families. In the woods around the city the people have erected tents to shelter them until such time as the crude houses which they are building will be ready. Appeals for aid to fight the Are were coming in ali day. Belief trains were despatched, but in nearly every instance they encountered burned bridges and were forced to re luru. rwui# wuueu ju uy iuo uttuica it n<? practically Impossible to get assistance to the towns frantically asking (or it. Cut off from all outside succor, rains were the only source of relief. The woods are dry and the flames sweep through them. There were only three brick buildings In Phillips, the rest being constructed of wood. The lumber Industry was the main source of wealth and prosperity to the Inhabitants. They hewed an open space in the forest an3 built a wooden town. Baked for weeks by a bla7jngsun, It fell an easy prey to the flames that swept up to its edges through the forest. When the box fastory ourned the boiler exploded and shook the entire town. An explosion of powder and dynamite occurred when the lumber company's hardware store burned. It is estimated that twenty million feet of suwed lumber waa destroyed. The John R. Davis Lumber Company sustained the heaviest -loss, as Its plant was valued at $500,000. A big tannery, several churches, the Court House, the Wisconsin Central Ballroad station, the public school and all the business and dwelling houses are in ruins. A dozen bridges on the Omaha line have been burned and it will take weeks to rebuild them. The littietown of Mason, with Its big lumber mills was wiped out, with, a loss of nearly $1,000,000. The fire start?d in the lumber yards of the White River Lumber Company. The Are came upon Shores Crossing with terrible rapidity and residents there lost everything they possessed. A freight engine with a caboose arrived from Mason, and the worst reports of lire there are confirmed. The town is literally wiped out of existenoe. Superintendent Collins, of the Wisconsin Central Railroad,said in the morning that all the news there was from Prentice, the first station next south of Phillips, was tbat the town was gone. As the wind had changed and decreased in violence, the prospect was ttmt lurther progress ot the forest fires would be stopped. In various cities throughout the State steps were being taken to send relief to the ufferers. Provisions, food and money will be forwarded. Briefly summarized, the fires have burned as follows: Phillips la wholly wiped out j Mason Is' practically destroyed, with the White River Lumber Company and 30.000,000 feet of lumber; the headquarters ?I the Ashland Lumber Company, (Uiftpaa Pr?aoin(7 nrn crone: a special train on the Omaha, consisting of sixteen care and locomotive, was burned, having broken through the bridge near Ashland Junction ;the camps of the Thompson Lumber Company are burned at White River, along with two bridges on the main line of the Omaho Railroad and two bridges on the Wisconsin Central's main line, south of Ashland. The damage to timber and logs scattered through the woods, to Individual homesteaders, nouses and other property, to cut cord-wood, etc., will swell the general damage to appalling figures. 8everal parties of berry-pickers from Aahland narrowly escaped with their lives, and it is almost certain that some ot the lone homesteaders through the timoer perished, unless they in som? providential manner escaped through the suffocating flames and smoke. THE LABOR WOELD, Babbebs have 160 unions. Jap ax reports a cotton strike. m? o -V.1- tnnn JLHL vntuip ouiy jatu cuipiuja uuuu? Detroit, Mloh., has 2000 carpenters. Chicago painters get 32% cents an hour. Tobokto, Canada, hss a Building Labor* era' Union. PoLiopiittt In Austria mast understand telegraphy. Massachusetts plumbers bare a State association. Toronto (Canada) city laborers get fifteen cents an hour. A Texas K. of L. District Assembly baa 6000 members. Masbachusetts K. of L. recently held a State convention. Leadworkixq is the most disastrous of ail trades to the health. A Proofreaders' Union has been organized in Indianapolis, Ind. A rxioif of shirt ironers and laundry workers ha? been organised. Tiie New York State Worklngmen's Assembly condemned prison labor. Wheelixo and Lake Erie railroadere have had the 33% per coat, cut rostorod. A uxiox of workinswomen was orcanlzed lately in the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum. Hacoma (Wnsh.) unions are opposed to the abolishment of the manual labor school. The Chicago Printers' Union ha9 in four months distributed $3500 to Idle members. A St. Paul striker tvas fined S.jO for turn? ing off atr brakes and "attempting intimidation." LiUJ uanuiv*. 9 .HlWU'll .-WJ7VIUUUU 4 ocently held its annual convention ill Sandusky, Ohio. The annual convention of tho Harness and Saddle Makers' Intern tttonal Asaoola- i tion was held in Peru, Ind, BICYCLING IN ASIA.. THE REMARKABLE WHEELING TOUR OF TWO AMERICANS. In the Capital of Turkestan?RusBlan Home-Life Around the Samovar ? On the Vast Steppe ?A Mishap. W TTT1 I? J 1. _ .11 1 I 1 i j xuej story 01 ine remarKauie I . bicycle tour around the world I by the two young American students, Messrs. Allen nnd j Sachtleben, now running in the -Century magazine, shows how many dangers and difficulties they had to contend with, and what enterprise and mastery of resource they displayed. Their route lay through countries that were not accustomed to Western visitors, and their strange method of locomotion invariably called out great curiosity, not unmixed with superstitious fear. In the August Century the young men describe their journey from Sammarkand to Kuldja. Soon after leaving the former place the lowering snow-line on the mountains, the chilling atmosphere, and the falling leaves, warned them of the approach of winter. A failure to obtain necessary passports prevented them from attempting to reach Vernoye, a provincial capital near the converging points of the Turkestan, Siberian, and Chinese boundaries. "Permission to enter Turkestan is by no means easily obtained, as is well understood by the student of Russian uolicv in Central Asia. We were not a little surprised, therefore, when our request to spend the winter in its capital was graciously granted by Baron Wrevsby, as well as the privilege for one of us to return in the meantime to London. This we had determined on, in order to secure some much needed bicycle supplies, and to complete other arrangements for the success of our enterprise. "Our winter quarters were obtained at the home of a typical Bussian family, Jn company with a young reserve officer. He, having finished his university career and time of military service, was engaged in Tashkend in the interest of his father, a wholesale merchant in Moscow. With him we were able to converse either in French or German, both of which languages he could speak more purely than his native Bussian. Our good-natured corpulent host had emigrated, in the pioneer days, from the steppes of Southern Eussia, and had grown wealthy through the 'unearned increment.' "The Russian samovar is the charscteristic feature of the Bussian household. Besides a big bowl of cabbage aoup at every meal, our Bussian host would start in with a half-tumbler of vodka, dispose of a bottle of beer in inf.ervH.ls. and then ton off with ?"v ' y * - - x ? two or three glasses of tea. The mistress of the household, being limited in her beverages to tea and soup, would usually make up in quantity wh&t was lacking in variety. In fact, one day she informed us that she had not imbibed a drop of water for over six years. For this, however, there is a very plausible excuse. With the water at Tashkend, as with that from the Zerafshan at Bokhara, a dangerous worm caUed reshta is absorbed into the system. Nowhere have we drunk better tea than around the steaming samover of our Taakeud host. No peasant is too poor, either in money or sentiment, to buy and feel the cheering influence of tea. Even the Coasack, in his forays into | the wilds of Central Asia, is sustained i by it. Unlike the Chinese, the Russians consider sugar a necessary concomitant of tea-drinking. There are three methods of sweetening tea: to put the sugar in the glass; to place I a lump of sugar in tiie moutn ana sack the tea through it; to hang a lamp in the midst of a tea-drinking circle, to be swung around for each in turn to touch with his tongue, and then to take a swallow of tea." When the spring came the young men began their journey again with unabated ardor. At Chimkend their course turned abruptly from what was once the main route between Russia's European and Asiatic capitals, and here they began that journey of 1500 miles along the Celestial mountainrange that terminated only when they began to descend into the burning sands of the Desert of Gobi. "The steppe is a good place for learning patience. With the absence of landmarks, you seem never to be getting anywhere. It presents the appearance of a boundless level expanse, the very undulations of which are so uniform as to conceal the intervening troughs. Into these, horsemen, and sometimes whole caravans, mysteriously disappear. In this way we were often enabled to surprise a herd of gazelles grazing by the roadside. They would stand for a moment with necks extended, and then scamper away like a shot, springing on their pipe-stem limbs three or four feet in the air. Our average rate was about seven miles aft hour, although the roads were sometimes so soft with dust or sand as to necessitate the laying of straw for a foundation. There was scarcely an hour in the day when we were not accompanied by from one to twenty Kirghiz horsemen, galloping behind us with cries of 'Yakshee!' ('Good!'). They were especially curious to see how we crossed the roadside streams. Stand Viont tliAv would watch I iUJJ UU T j intently every move as we stripped and waded through with bicycles and clothing on our shoulders. Then they would challenge us to a race, and, if the road permitted, we would endeavor to reveal some of the possibili- I ties of the 'devil's carts.' "On an occasion like this occurred | one of our few mishaps. The road j tfas lined by the occupants of a neigh-1 boring tent village, who had run out j to see the race. One of the Kirghiz < turned suddenly back in the opposite I direction from which he had started The wheel struck him at a rate of tif- i teen miles per hour, lifting him off his feet, and hurling over the handleLars the rider who fell upon his left arm and twisted it out of place. With the assistance of the bystanders it was pulled back into the socket, and bandaged up till we reached the nearest Russian village. Here the only physician was an old blind woman of the faith cure persuasion. He massage ' treatment to replace the muscles wa? really effective, and was accompanied by prayers und by signs of the cross, a common method of treatment among the lower class of Russians. In one instance a cure was supposed to be effected by writing a prayer on a piece of buttered bread to be eaten by the patient." British Crowns. What has becemr of Charles IFs crown? He expressed in characteristic phrase his unwillingness to risk again the loss of a crown that had been recovered for him. As his predecessor's actual crown disappeared in the commonwealth, a new one was made for him, at a cost of ?21,978 9s. lid., ($109,892.45) and this served for the coronations of himself and subsequent kings until George the IV's accession. It was known as St. "Edward's" or the "memorial" crown. At a recent beraldical exhibition at the Society of Antiquaries, Lord Amherst, \ of Hackney, exhibited the skeleton of a crown as being that made by Sir Robert Vyner for Charles II, and stolen by Colonel Blood. We understand, however, that Lord Amherst bought his relic of Rundell & Bridge. He purchased, it seems, one of the three crowns whose stones, with many morajj were used for Qaeen Victoria's. But it also seems that the old crown so'a to him was George IV's, and not Charles II's. A "St. Edward's" or "memorial crown," mounted with false stones, is kept in the Tower. The imitation jewels may be accounted for by the fact that at the Queen's accession Messrs. Rundel & Bridge were supplied with three old crowns and some jewelry, with directions to use their stoners for a new crown in readiness for her Majesty's coronation. That wiM uunt?, auu tuc new vxuwu, ui uxadem, weighing under three pounds, may be seen among our regalia, resplendent with a sapphire and the rubby given to Edward, the Blaok Prince, by John of Portugal, and worn, it is said, by Edward at Crecy, and Henry V at Agincourt. For George IV, Bundell & Bridge had made a fresh and very large crown, six and one-half ponnds in weight and fifteen inches high, its arches rising to a point.?London News. Bicyclers Race Against Horsemen. Messrs. Allen and Sachtleben, the wo young American students who made a bicycle tour around the world, were compelled to give many exhibi* tions of fancy riding before the curious nomads of Central Asia. The following, from the Century, is an account of one of their experiences in the Chinese city of Kuldja: Although built by the Chinese, who call it Nin-yuan, Kuldja, , with it<? houses of beaten earth, strongly re- . sembles the towns of Baesian Turkes~ AUA Ana/tiiAfiAn 4- k A bttUt (JiUUD uuu cra^uamuu kjj Russians the Chineic have built around the city the usual quadrangular wall, thirty feet in height and twenty feet in width, with parapets still in the course of construction. But the rows of poplars, the whitewash, and the telegas were still left to remind us of the temporary Russian occupation. For several days we were objects of excited interest to the mixed population. The doors and windows of our Russian quarters were besieged by crowds. In defense of our host, we gave a public exhibition, and with the consent of the Tatai made the circuit on the top of the city walls. Fully 3000 people lined the streets and housetops to witness the race to which we had been challenged by four Dungan horsepien, riding below on the encircling roadway. The distance around was two miles. The horsemen started with a rush, and at the end of at- ? ^ *<*awa A ^ fK a 1/I1U Iirau 111 11C >T CJL O aucan, av vtiw third turning we overtook them, and came to the finish two hundred yards ahead, amid great excitement. Even the commander of the Kuldja forces was brushed aside by the chasing rabble. The Pikeman and Ills Weapon. The pikeman was covered with defensive armor, an iron headpiece, iron "back and breast," and "tasses," a kind of iron apron protecting him from waist to knee. He cirried a pike sixteen feet long, with an ashen shaft, an iron head, and a blunt iron spike . at the butt end, whereby to fix it in the ground; and, besides the pike, a rapier. The pike, from its great length, was a weapan which required deft handling in order to be of effective use, aud, as may be imagined, was excessively showy on parade. The modern lance exercise is a pretty sight enough, but the old pike exercise,. perfectly executed by a large body of men, must have been superb. We are not surprised, therefore, to find that the postures, or instructibns, for this exercise are extravagantly minute. To give one example, at the close of the instruction on the word "Order your pikes," we find after a mass of complicated details the following con elusion: "You place the bat end of your pike by the outside of your right foot, your right hand holding it even with your eye, and your thumb right up; then, your left arm being set akimbo by your side, yon shall stand j with a full body in a comely posture." ?Macmillaa's Magazine. Recovered His Mcmorjr In Old Age. Authentio instances of old people who have recovered lost sight, hearing or speech, or who have grown a third sat of teeth or a supplementary crop of hair are not uncommon. Bnt cases in which perfect memory has been regained after being impaired almost to | the verge of extinction by paralytic I shock are rare. This, however, has happened to William McEntee, an old man of eighty-four, residing on North Twenty-eighth street. During the recent storm he insisted upon taking his daily walk, nud in consequence was laid up with a severe cold. While sitting in his arm chair after his recovery, a day or two since, he found himself humming an air which he haJ j not heard since he wa9 a boy in the ! Emerald Isle. Then he began to tell a story which the old song recalled, and to the amazement of his family he went on to recite incidents and event3 not only cf long ago, but of more recent dates, of which before his brief I illness he had no recollection. ?PhiUj delphia Record