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A TRAGEDY OF THE SEi TheSteamer Colima Wrecked, and Pas senders Perish by the Score. STRUCK A REEF OFF MEXICO The Vessel Containing 813 ?onls Wa Seeking Shelter From a Storm Whe ine uissam "jccurreu six jimo Land?Terrible Scenes Before the Hai less Victims Were Engulfed. The Pacific Mail steamer Colima wt wrecked between Manzanillo and Acapulc< off the west coast of Mexico, and, accordin to the latest report. 187 of the passengers an erew were drowned. She was bound fc Panama, and left San Francisoo, Cal., wit 191 persons on board?thirty-nine cabin pa; jengere, thirty-seven steerage, forty-thre Chinese, eleven officers aad a crew of sixtj one men. Of the passeugers five cabin and thre rteerage were bound for ports at which th steamer stopped before the accident hap pened. A lifeboat containing twenty-one men, c which nine were cabin passengers, eeve: were steerage passenger? and five wer members of the orew reached Manzanillo th day after the disaster. The next day thre passengers and two members of the crew ap peared off the coast below Manzanillo an< they were resound. The accident was th most frightful in its loss of life which ha ever ucuurreu 111 jiojuvou nouu ?u Colima Is a complete loss unless some of it cargo can be recovered by divers, which wil probably be attempted. Se^nty-flve miles below San Bias, Mexico where the vessel had stopped for passengers who brought the nnmber of people on boan up to 213, a hurricane was encountered. an< it was debated whether the ship should at tempt to gain partial shelter in the shallow and'treacherous Banderas Bay, which ha rocks near the entrance, or whether it wen better to push out to sea. One Mexican passenger. Don Marti as Mor eno, says that while cautiously steering fo: what, to all appearance, was the usual en trance, a slight tremble was felt to go througl the ship. It was so faint that it was hardl; apparent, except to the trained senses of th pilot and Captain. The Captain ordered i slight change in the course, and gave othe directions which were obeyed by the officer and crew. A very few seconds later the keel groun* on a rock, lightly, and there was at onc< great excitement among the officers and orewand fear on the part of the few passenger AfXf* 1? Tn 1 Ann iknn fan aa/tAn/1a offfip frVli UU Uvv&? XXI 1CM IUUU ICU SCV.VUVIQ miVl, ?.* ' Bhlp struck on an unknown reef and a 9hud der ran through the hull from bow to stern The passengers sprang from their berths in terror and ran out on to the decks, scream ing and praying in a paroxysm of fear, foi the awful truth began to burst upon them The wind howled and a dense pall of tof, hung over the ship as she was tossed by th< surges and began to pound herself to pieces on the rocks. She rose and fell three times. "Man the boats," trumpeted the Captain. The boats had previously been made ready with all the life preservers placed at convenient places, although covered from the view of nervous passengers. Within three minutes of the first crash in the hull the ship began to reel from its upright balance, to settle and to sink in its free hinder part. The scenes about the lifeboats were indescribable. According to all the testimony obtainable, the panic-stricken passengers and the ship's crew struggled for first place, although, to the credit of the crew, few ol the sailors or ship's people lost their presence of mind, but gave their main attention to 9aving the passengers. ThereVere a number of children on the passenger list, and one of these was pitched overboard iDto the frothing sea by a frenzied mother, who meant to throw the child into one of the lifeboats while it was still upon the davits. A woman of evident wealth and refinement among the passengers, whose name is thought to be Broslin or Crosslyn, displayed remarkable presence of mind, and In the most trying moments passed among the frenxied throng exhorting the people to keep quiet and taking particular care of the women andchildren. Some of the passengers, not willing to await the chance of a place in the boats, seized the life belts and cast themselves into the seas. They were dashed against the * rocks. The first boat to be lowered, with its heavy burden of humanity, succeeded in clearing tne snip s sides, oui was swept away and swallowed by the night of fog. Of this load only one of the sailors is known to bave escaped the eqgulflng flood which swept over the boat within five minutes after it was launched. A similar fate befell all the other boats with one exception, and this is the boat with twenty-one persons aboard, which was picked up by the steamer San Juan. A special train bearing a rescue party, including four physicians, was sent out from Colima to Manzanillo. They were badly needed in Manzanillo, as most of the people there were panic stricken, and the few skilled workera were almost exhausted in caring for the Baved. It was said that fifty-four bodies had been brought iDto Manzanillo by several searching parties patrolling the coast on foot and in boats. The weather was hot, and no means for embalming were at hand,and as it was impossible to dig separate graves the bodies unclaimed by survivors were of necessity interred in long trenches. The Jefe Politico of Manzanillo summoned ftll the mounted rural forces in the district to duty at Manzanillo and a garrison of soldiers was placed on guard to prevent robbery of tne dead and to dig graves and trenches. It is knpwn that sorpe vandalism has been committed, as several bodies have been found a short distance from the shore Btripped of all valuables and clothing. PorMrmq nf fh? aViirv hova vao/>Ka^ oKaho on^ to apparent she will be a total loss. One of the saddest incidents of the wreck Lb the death of Professor Harold Whitney, of the University of California, and his family. He wa3 formerly of Harvard. He went down with his wife and four children. He gained much reputation while at Harvard by his book on physics, and three years ago he went to Berkeley, where he took the chair of physics. v Later details are contained in the followS&Bg despatch from Colima: - 'Six survivors of the steamer Colima have - reaehed here. They are John Thornton, J. ; E. Chilbred, of Seattle, and cabin passengers jLiewis Peters and Vindor, Seamen Gonzales .. and Fred Johnson. They got ashore on a raft from which three "seamen were lost. Another r?ft with five persons was seen near San Talino. Its fate is unknown. The women and children were all in the staterooms . and all went down with the steamer. "The survivors saw Purser Wafer in a well-manned boat pulling away from the . sinking steamer toward shore. It is supposed that this boat ie still afloat." Th? Labor Wrold. In Hawaii Japanese laborers get 812.50 a month. The strike among the journeymen bakers -<*t Rochester, N. Y., is practically ended. . Brickmakers went on a strike in Chicago to enforce their demand for higher wages. T1UC-XI turnout okcvousuu nm ai luo Illinois Federation of Labor demonstration in Chicago on July 4. About two million dollars of claims for overtime have been filed at Washington by United States letter carriers. The Knights of Labor headquarters will be in Washington in future, where a handsome building is being erected for them. Several hundred children under the le^al age are employed in Wisconsin factories, and prosecutions will follow in a number of cases. The Salem (Ohio) Wire Nail Company and the Findlay (Ohio) Company have advanced wages ten per cent. The advance affects 6000 men. Tho horseshoers in New York City complain that their trade has been nearly ruined 6y the substitution of electricity for horse power on the surface cars, and also by the elevated railroads. On account of the increase in the price ol flour and a proposition to add to the wage; and lessen the hours of the journeymen bak ere in Washington the wholesale price ol bread was increased from three to four cents per loaf by the boas bakers. BIGGEST AMERICAN-BUILT SHIP. fw tt '* Successful Trial Trip of the American la Liner St. Louis. The biggest ship ever built in the United States, and the first vessel constructed In Jjj this country under the Subsidy act, the ei American liner St. Louis, arrived at New re York after a trial trip which, her builders w . nnd ownors say, was in every way satisfac' tory. The trial proved her sea-going quali- th ties and proved her speed, although they ra did not try to speed her. Tne United States, th whose malls she will carry, demanded that tb [ she makQ at least twenty knots an hour, ta n She easilv made that. She made more; she st Q made 21^ knots an hour without being ai pushed, and for on? run of an hour the pat- d? ' ent log showed that she had made speed of 12Ya knots. In time of war the St. Louis M will be a cruiser?will carry our flag and our fu 13 sruns. She was built bv William Cramp <k ta ) Sons, the Philadelphia shipbuilders. al ' Her sister ship, the St. Paul, was launched P* g on March 25. These are the largest vessels fu d ev6r built in an American shipyard. wi (r The St. Louis Is said to be practically un- be h sinkable. She has no less than seventeen Pi watertight compartments, all below the next cc deck above water. She also has tanks which be e are arranged with a view of trimming her. ve fm There is no communication between either of at the watertight compartments, it being neces- 3ii enrv f-n r>r> un on daek and downstairs azain th e before being able to reach one from"the ~ e other. " wi . It was proved that ninety minntes were wi consumed in an attempt to close all the di water-tight compartments in the Elbe, and Se tt this under the most favorable circum- pr e e i THE ST. L (Biggest Ship Ever Built ii r ' stances. The doors of the St. Louis are so re arranged that there would be absolutely no rei ? I delay in closing them should the boat be Pi ? placed in a predicament similar to the Elbe, tu * The doors are all worked by a lever, so that r it is an absolute impossibility for the water 3 to get into them. . Another and an equally important pre: caution has been taken in the construction xi , of the St. Louis. She has two bottoms, and ' is thus enabled to sail clean over a rock, ? which would not materially affect the boat J 3 even if it should rifle a huge hole in the thi bottom. The bottoms are from eight to ra, * sixteen feet apart, and the space between } them is available for water ballast to deepen ve or lighten draught when necessary. ge: r The dimenstons of the St. Louts are as fol- ] lows: Length over all, 554 feet; length on eel ' the water line, 535 feet; extreme breadth, 63 vel 5 feet; depth, moulded 42 feet; number of dei 5 decks, 5; number of water-tight oompart- he! ments formed by transverse bulkheads and pe; ; flats, 17; distance of collision bulkheads fro abaft of stem, 33 feet. The displacement at na 26 feet draught is nearly 16,000. There are re: 1 two funnels, two masts "and a straight stem, ex1 and accomodations for 320 first class, 200 Go 1 second class and over 800 steerage passengers, wi gr< THE CONFEDERATE MONUMENT. |!|j wt 1 Blue and Gray Veterans Unite in Dedlcat' inc It in Chicago. th< Federals rind Confederates united on P? i Decoration Day in Chicago in dedicating the tj,( monument to the Confederate dead in Oak- im [ woods Cemetery. Or i The ceremonies began with the ringing of 1 the Columbia Liberty bell and firing of a y,< [ National salute by Battery D, Illinois Na- ad tional Guard, on the lake front. exi JLUOU ? unuia^o paiaua ui Atui.uniu aau ovi Southern Generals was formed and moved shi under military escort to the railroad station mi ' and there took trains for Oakwood Ceme- j 1 tery, where the dedication ceremonies oc- pa curred. esc De ian fltl an in) on de pSpN Bo CONFEDERATE MONUMENT. ^ (Erected to Memory of Confederate Prisoners un, Who Died at Fort Douglass, Chicago.) j Those present included Generals John B. Gordon, Wade Hampton, James Longstreet, Stephen D. Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, Henry Heth, S. G. French, E. C. Walthall, M. C. Butler, L. L. Lomax, Marcus J. Wright, Frank C. Armstrong, Jos. O. Shelby, William H. Payne, n Fayette Hewitt, C. A. Evans and Josh Lewis. The dedicatory oration was delivered by ^ General Wade Hampton, of South Carolina. Then followed the most impressive portion of the ceremonies, that of monumenting the bee gunp. The four cannon used in the cere- Sm; mony formed part of a Federal battery dur| ing the war. frie A vocal selection followed, and then tCM Maior Henrv T. Stanton, of Kentucky, re cited the memorial ode. He was followed jn? by the Right Rev. Samuel Fallows, Bishop of tQ * the Reformed Episcopal Church, and late one Major-General United States Volunteers,who gpa impressively voiced tne blessings of peace. The exercises closed with the ttring of three tail volleys over the graves of the dead by the . First Regiment, Illinois National Guard, {jj ending with a bugle blare and "taps." Fol- {J lowing the set programme, then came the a?t decoration of the graves of Union soldiers in tt the cemetery by the ex-Confederate- Associa- ^ tion, assisted by a large number ot women from the South, among whom were General p q. Underwood's daughter, General Longstreet's * daughter and General Cabell's daughter. str^ BURIAL OF W. Q GRESHAM. The Body of the Late Secretary Placed In a Temporary Tomb at Chlcag*. Hii Secretary Gresham's body, which had lain in state in the parlor of the apartments in A onnay TV h i r? h fhA haH ^ occupied during life and in which he had died, was removed at 9.30 a. m. from that *en resting place to the great East Koom of the at 1 White House. The military escort inoluded froi four cavalry troops, two light batteries, two anc heavy batteries marching as infantry and a per battalion of marines. I As the casket left the hotel the President sho and his Cabinet formed in double column as wo a guard of honor ou each side. Tne body 0; | bearers were eight stalwart Sergeants. tlm The members of the family who accom- am panied the cortege to the White House were the Mr. Otto Grosham, his sister, Mrs. Andrews, wo! | and her husband, and Captain and Mrs. Prt ! Fuller, the latter Mrs. Grosham's niece, poi .Mrs. Gresham was too ill to accompany them, tra She fainted repeatedly and was at last re- ter i moved to her private apartments, where she "la s remained until she left for the railway alo > station to take the train for Chicago. aq It was the tlrst funeral over the remains of t a Cabinet oflleer ever held in the White 5 House. The services were conducted by , . Bi3hop Hurst, of the Methodist Church, and f were short and impressive, and many were Mil ( deeply affected. to Around the casket were gathered repre- en< wtatives of the foreign Nations with which flf] le United 8tates maintains dlplomatlo re- \ tlons. The Justices of the Supreme Court U J kt on the sides of the coffin opposite. icing the family and the Ambassadors ?3The decorations of the room were very iautlful. The floral offering of the Presi- Mp 3nt and Mrs. Cleveland, who was also preslt, was a large wreath of orchids, white I8GS, rhododendrons and maidenhair ferns, ith a long white silk ribbon attached. Al^the conclusion of the funeral exercises ie march down Pennsylvania avenue to the KE illroad depot was most Impressive. All ie Executive departments were closed, and ie avenue was lined with spectors. The train pulled out of the Tw ation for Chicago at exactly 12.14 p. m., id reached its destination at 2 o'clock the ly following. Vice-President Stevenson, [-Postmaster-General Bissell and Governor atthews, of Indiana, met th? train. The neral procession was headed by the miliry escort of honor, composed of a troop of . 1 arms from Fort Sheridan. The honorary ill-bearers followed, and next came the Soi neral oar, with the vtive pall-bearers da] alking on either sifle. Next rode the memsrs of the late Secretary's family and the residential party, and the rear of the of irtegft was brought up by the mem- ing rs of the Loyal Legion. G. A. R. acj t T..J -I Cfofa V i tenuis, o ui iuo uuutw. uvoiu id municipal officers, civic societies and * tizeDS. Mayor Swift, of Chicago, rode with stn e President. wjj Arrived at the cemetery ohapel, the casket is removed from the funeral car and borne Ithin. The services in the chapel were con- woi icted by the Rev. J. McPherson, of the c icond Presbyterian Church, and were im- ^ essive but simple. At their conclusion the wej boi ,0UI8. vat 1 the United States.) ^0! doc ? mains were temporarily deposited in the ceiving vault in Oakwood Cemetery. The ^j esidential party at once started on the rd- ^ut rn trip to Washington. ga, ma; DECORATION DAY. cl* Gei le Memorial Exercises in Various Places dea AVeTe Unusually Interesting. Tre Memorial Day was bright and clear ^ roughout the Union, and the sun poured ps of fierce heat upon the heads of all who A utured into the streets. The day was very *roi nerally observed. [n New York City the groat feature of the , ebration wa3 a monster parade of war terans and public school children. The v monstration was one of the largest eyer , Id on Decoration Day. There were 25,000 j rsons in line, of whom 11,000 were pupils ? >m the publio schools, marching under the B me of the American Guard. The parade was p viewed by Governor Morton, of New York, ?7: -President Harrison and Mayor Strong. ~~Qi ivernor Morton, after enduring the heat ? , thout complaint toran hour and a half. th ' jw suddenly faint. As soon as ho had fflcientlv revived he was Induced to go the m fth Avenue Hotel and to take his comfort be ( die the parade passed under the windows. ec, [-President Harrison accompanied him to L 3 hotel. After the parade the Grand Army u d sts decorated the statues and tombs of ? astrious dead and the srraves of 3ir former comrades. In the afternoon an ^ mense concourse of people gathered at ve^ ant's tomb, on Riverside Drive. Mrs. T ant, the General's widow, was there, and a ler members of the family, and Governor jKinley, of Ohio, delivered a patriotic ,p dress. Mayor Strong presided at memorial c ercises at Carnegie Music Hall in the . ening. State Senator Henry J. Cogse- T all was the orator, and there was a long isical programme. ? Lii uiuuM^u iuo icaiuinvi IUU uaj yyw liiu VATm rade of the veterans of the war and their T jort, the regulars, National Guard, Fire ipartment, Sons of Veterans, the cadets ~~~ a other organizations. PJ: Every hamlet, village and city in West- boo ester County celebrated Memorial Day in a ting manner. Busjness was suspended d the day given up to enjoyment and pay- _ * tribute to the Nation's dead. rhe Memorial Day exercises at Boston in- A I ided a parade of the Grand Army and the Si coration of the soldiers' monument on ston Common. General Nelson A. Mi'.ss livered the memorial oration of the day in dec 3 Boston Theatre in the presence of a large Tre dience. , It Gettysburg, Penn., Decoration Day was _ served on the battlefield with the usual v\? eresting and impressive exercises. The Vt Washington City Decoration Day was SS8 aamorated by appropriate exercises. The crej sence of the President and his Cabinet sev< :orting the remains of Comrade Gresham nesi their resting place deprived the day of $7H ne of its expected features. ceai Lt Wilmington, Del., a staiuo erected in bea: nor of General Garfield was unveiled. $1,' Lt the Memorial Day exercises at Frank- T , Ind., Congressman Overstreet delivered offs oration in memory of Walter Q. Gresham. Trei It Chicago a monument to General moi omas, the "Bock of Chickamauga." was $G,t Heated. T; ?o the memory of Jeremiah M. Busk, 473, fflldent Harrison's Secretary of Agriuul- net e, a monument was dedicated at Viroqua, Ir = , with imposing ceremonies, conducted coil ier the auspices of the Grand Army. the .afayette's tomb in Paris, France, was thei iorated by request ol the New York G. A. suq post ol that name. itor at t! RODE A THOUSAND MILES. Interesting Test of the Powers of the ^ Native Western Horse. Con ji interesting test of the endurance of til e ive Western horse for cavalry service has 9tar n made by Lieutenant Cornelius C, tota ith. of Troop H, Second United States ^37. ralry. Lieutenant Smith has numerous inds and several relatives in Washington, jQC, rhom the feat he has performed is as well mot tatter of pride as it is of interest. Startfrom Fort Wingate. April 10, he set out $52, ldo 1035 miles, to San Antonio. Texas, in 20O month's time. The horse was part tjie' ,nish in breeding, weighing 993 pounds. i journey was a rough one, over moun is and desert, with little subsistence in ties except the wild grasses. Being an old Tl insman, an athlete, a fine equestrian and atari in Indian languages and signs, J.ieuton- l Smith was well fitted to undertake such u^ei >st. Jtte reacnea san Antonio Jlay 6. The tjj0I se looked well and had lost but fifty-four <.Th indf hit! 'he-journey is looked upon as a satifac- _ y demonstration of the toughness and , mgth of the average native Western horse P the uses of the cavalry service. B; to b THE PRESIDENT IN FLAMES, p| pad I Portrait to Be Part of the Kiel Pjto- t^10 technic Display. W T1 'resident Cleveland's portrait will illulate the night during the festivities at Paij ding the opening of the Baltic ship canal dali ild. It will be shown in pyrotechnics Pi rn the yard arm of the cruiser New York. P"b 1 at the'same time a fiery portrait of Em- , rc or William II will be displayed. ,a? t was suggested to Secretary Herbert c rtly before the New York sailed that it D ulu be an excellent idea to have a display late ireworks at the opening of the canal, and whi t the President's portrait would look well wes ong other set pieces The Secretary Ji ught well of the suggestion and the order prei i accordingly given. From one of the wifi ssident's latest photographs this immense Cou trait was laid out to scale on a light q me, with thin strips of bamboo. At invals of about four inches little candles or .nces of slow-buniing powder were placed ng the bamboo strips and connected with uick fuse. u Spain Favors Bimetallism. Sou To j Lt a Spanish Cabinet Council tho Finance pja aister announced that Spain was willing ' me join ac* international bimetallic confer- reti e. '.hln ? fATE TREASURY ROBB sw Hampshire Loses in a Myster Way Over $5000. :y used by unknown thie1 0 Strangers, Who Entered the Treai to Get Change, Were Supposed to I Secured the Key to the Vault and Combination of the Lock to the Sa No Clue to Their Whereaboptg, 1 dispatch from Concord. N. H., i na time between Saturday night and! r of the first week in June the vault o: & Hamnshire fitniA TreASnrv was rol cash and securities amounting, acc to Treasurer Carter's latest estimat ?9.66. 'he robbery is laid at the door of mgers, who were seen about the build 0 in some manner secured possessioi key to the vault, and a knowledge of rking of the lock. n the Saturday morning mentioned, v puty Treasurer Gerrish and a State ofl re in the Treasurer's office, a strangei 3d and requested a $53 bill in exchi small bills, which was given Ihiir antime standing where he could g >d view of the vault. hortly before noon the Treasury sed and Treasurer Carter and his de at to dinner. When Deputy Gerrisl ned at 2 p. m. he found a man wa! side who wanted a $20 bill changed, that he could not get accommodate street, as most of the stores were clc 3 deputy said be would accommodate 1 the two entered the Treasury togeth 'he State Treasurer's vault is "a small ecure affair, and the 6afe, which sti ide it, is old-fashioned and one uld require but little skill to open, 'he custom is to place the cash in the < : in the vault, lock the latter, place lit key in the snfe outside in the ol je the safe door, and then lock the o >r when the Treasury is closed for the leputy Gerrish opened the vault on asion, after first taking the key from 3, and his visitor had nothing else t watch the movements of that offl (ring obtained the required change, a departed. 'he Trea?ury was all right when it aed on Saturday night That night M rish received the news of his motl ,th in Vermont, and he did not read asury till Monday morning at abou ock, when, noticing his grief, Treas ter advised him to go home and ri He. iter making some change for hin n the cash drawer Major Gerrish cl vault and cash box in the usual mac ilng the vault and putting the key Id i. Treasurer Carter left the office i srward. [ajor Gerrish returned at about 2 o'cl I, finding a gentleman waiting to c le money, went to the safe to get the he vault, but it was not there. [e told the gentleman that Treas ter must have inadvertently taker home with him and that the vault & bo opened till his return. When tha al returned he said he had not toui key of the vault since Major Gerrish sed up in the morning. he next day, as the key was nowhei 'ound, the servicas of a locksmith 1 ired and the vault wa? opened, whec tling discovery was made that a rob! i been committed. mong the State property taken are r Hampshire State bonds of 8500 e . one for $1000, which are readily < tible into cash, and 81300 in curren here is also a certified check for 820^ le payable to the order of the State Tr r, on which payment has been stop 3 bank books in the name of Treasi ter's daughter and several old deec i for military purposes were also tal hey left untouched bonds and mortgi th nearly 310,uOO, also two State b( n which the cancellation marka ^ V indistinct. he deftness with which the robbery imitted indicates that it was the wor tessionals, and their sagacity is show manner in which they selected t ty. THE DEBT STATEMENT. JecreftBe^DnrlnJt the fiontli of Ma S,436,Oil?Gold Reserve, 899,151,4C he May public debt statement shows ? rease in the public debt, less cash in asury during May, of 85,436,611. T i in tho Treasury, $797,473,755. he interest-bearing debt increased 5 non-interest-bearing debt decrei 4,527.50, and the cash in the Treasurj ised $4,552,184.33. The balances of *rai elates of debt at the close of h i May 31 were: Interast-boaring < S,202,010; debt on which interest >ed since maturity, $1,734,920.26; < ring no interest, ?379,836,461.92; t< .97,773,392.18. he certificates and the Treasury n et by an equal amount of cash in asury outstanding at the end of ith were $573,366,743, an increase 78.119. be total cash in the Treasury was $' 755.45; the gold reserve was $99,151, cash balance, $86,218,692.47. i the month there was an increase in | t and bars of $7,692,824.18, the tota close being $147,690,977.53. Of si e was an increase of $769,075.57. Of dIus, there was in National bank de les, $16,483,720.80, against 816,797,02 be end of the preceding month. Comptroller's Statement. be monthly statement of the United 8t iptroller of the Currency shows that J amount of National bank notes tding is $211,388,029, an increase il circulation since May 31, 1894, of 347. and since April 30, 1895, of $1,' The notes outstanding against be r 31. 1895, aggregate $184,969,578, ease in circulation during the ith of $2,435,254. The lawful mone; Arte i!1Q r\f url 0S1E BK^regtiiea , i,685was deposited in May, 1895, and 833 of National bank notes redeemet same month. Prominent People. lie King- of Abyssinia collects posi ops. ady Gwendolen Cecil, Lord Sallsbu :arv daughter, has acknowledgeu the ship of the recently published st ie Curse of Intellect," which has ma In England. mperor William speaks French wit !ect Parisian accent. Ismarck says that he thinks he may e 100 years old if he likes. txilip D. Armour, the Chicago million ier, it is reported, is about to buy u] street railways in Kansas City at aco* 100,000. tie oldest Universalist minister in ted States is said to be Rev. Luciu je, of Cambridge, Mass. He was led in 1825. rince Edward, of York, has made his lie appearance iu London. He was dri >ugh St James's Park in an open ;e, propped up by his two nurses, and sred as ho went by. r. O. W. Sampson, who died at X ily, aj,'"?d ninety-throe years, was the te physician among the Indians of No tern Ohio. ustico Harlan, of the United States me Court, is six feot two inches and 9 nearly as tall. They are the lor pie in public life. ladstone looks forward to the fu liout fear of death. In declining tc ie litorary work recently on accoun ss of other business, he agreed to bi task in the latter part of 1896. ecil llhodes, Premier of Cape Col< ith Africa, reads character by men's fa a recent appllcatian from England f ce for a young man he replied: "? his photograph and I'll let you kno^ im mail wnether I can do anything 1 or not." nri SULTAN OF JOHORE He Gained Notoriety In Lorn a Suit for Breach of Pi Abu Bakar, Sultan of Johort i0US don a few days ago. The Suli notoriety in 18S3 through a bre suit brought against him in the name of "Mr. Albert Bat Jenny Mlghell. The 8ultan w ^ES the ground that he was a reigc and, therefore, the English < jurisdiction over him. Abu Bakar ascended the thri sury jn 1866. He was the grandson lave ^ho ceded Singapore to the Br born in 1835, and was an enlij the with liberal ideas. Until he fe? v <-vKYrv ange ^Wf| >. > B 11 Ll " say^ ^ d on THE 8CLTAX OP JOHO ised. years old he had an English ? , tutor, and was_ always largely u"u English ideas. Johore, which is lying two degrees north of tl tnat now under a British protec . Saltan visited Europe three tii welcome guest, especially in E; ' tne he was exceedingly popular "ce- Shah of Persia and the young , ce now in England, he adopted tl "J??* the country in which he trav Vh pensed with the train of nati 1 t?e other attendants which have m ?. .? al personages such a drawing ci*u entertainers, the was MARCH OF AN INSEC' iajor ler's millions of the Army Worr t^ll Vegetation In Soothern C urer The army worm is on the ma sst a ced south to Los Angeles, and aself Secretary ?'t*10 State Board o) osed k in rec?lpt of many letters fro iner, orchardists who are anxious to i the scatter the inseots. joon The reports we have recei' said Assistant Quarantine Offl< ock, dicate that the army worm is di Iraw a formidable post that threat key plish serious injury in the sout has invaded Madera. Pomon urer Bernardino, Merced and Port i the marching further south. Thes ould out every particle of vegetatioi t of- and their destructiveness is pri :hed out limit. In Porterville and had have been attacking Ihe vim orchards. In Woodland Swo w re to thirty children were taken to vere fested with the pests. i the The children were provided bery and opened up a war of extermi the worm. In Pasadena the \ two vastated lawns and gardens, ach, From other points we have 1 on- farmers are digging trenches i cy. worms are driven and then 1.16, army worm has not bean seen eas- eral years, and it is to be hoped ped. schemes will be used to exten urer sect invaders. Is of ages DUG UP $80,000 IN >nds vere The Bullion Stolen From the Found Buried in a Woi was [j 0f The missing $80,000 in gold n by the Carson (Nev.) Mint, conc there has been a Government lur uvor twu liiuuiua, >yus iuuw shed of William Plcfeler, *mei MTnT ^e fnqulr^'proveTTha y of W? the result of collusion amo >8 meiters' and reflnera' departme impossible to fix the respoasibl met individual. the One of the employes, named , t , and several others were arre; under heavybonds. The offlci investigate the case made little 1100, til a woman who had been livir ^ged ler called on them and offered r jn_ hiding place of the missing fcul the> bad a quarrel with Pickler, IUS{. disclosures for revenge. lebt 8k? 8ave t^10 directio; hag the missing bars of bullion in P debt 9h*d, aQd a search of the placi )tai truth of her statements. The g ' dug up and brought to the Min otes THE ALLIANCA INCIDENT i of Spain Makes Reparation In tb r97,- acted for the Faul The reply of Spain to the 1 ;old Graham's cabled demand of M kl at Allianca affair reached the lyer ment several days ago, having I D0S? to Minister Taylor at Madrid, 3 I- rjZ The Department of State dec public the contents of the co which is long and exhausti thorized the announcement [after full investigation, dlsavc the commander of the Conde V iuo ing on the Allianca off Cape March 8; expresses regret at tb ?'Jt" and assures this Government t ' tn have been taken to prevent a f *>" the matter. r5??" As Spain has complied spe >nds demands of Mr. Gresham tl a& closed. past Product? of the Mil tiich $1,- During the month of Ma; 1 111 8tates mints turned out 587,25; valued at $4,163,937. The bull sisted of 499,727 half eagles, item of gold coinage was f tage nine quarter eagles, valued During the same period 1,50; jy's silver were coined, of th au- $440,503. The bulk of this wtv ory, and dimes, the total number of de a lars being but 150,180. Inc coins, the grand total of piece h a | 016, valued at 64,691,951. yve Kentucky Kepuoiican to The Republicans of Kentucl aire State Convention at Louisvili ) all dared against the free coinage it of nominated W. 0. Bradley for G ^e Rioting in Venezue s R. At Maracaybo, Venezuela, tin or* among the troops of the gart persons were killed and eleven first iven Cotton Crop Damaged by tl was Reports from Mexico and I Texas indicate that the weevil: iffln serious menace to the cotton ci first TT?*th<?r ond riillflrfin I ren- While William J. Cowart, a r Su- County planter, waa driving ' church near Moulton., Ala., h b came frightened while passing mountain road and sprang dow tur? Cowart und his son John. thirt< > do were dashed to death. His d; ' ?' tie aged nine, had her back 3ffin died soon after. Jny, Oscar Wild* Goes M ora Oscar Wilde's mental conditii Send affected, and he is being caret v hy by the medical staff of the Eng for which he is confined. It has b to confine Wilde in a padded rc DEAD. . THE NEWS EPITOMIZED 3on Tliroasrh1 Washington Item*. romUe. Secretary Carlisle called for the r > died in Lou- tion of William H. Manogue, Collectoi ' . . i Port of Georgetown, D. C. an came n The President removed from offic ach of promise Morton, Democrat, of Maine, And London under the Treasury for the Navy Departmer :er" by a Miss, wrote letters reflecting on Cleveian on his case on Carlisle. ting sovereign, The annual exodus for the summer i courts had no of Washington society was initiated w departure of Mrs. Cleveland and her tv jne of Johore dren for Gray Gables. Mrs. Cievela of the Prince accompanied by Mrs. Olney. During itish, He was sence of Mrs. Cleveland the Preside fhtened ruier, make the White House his home. > was sixteen The President appointed H. Claj ? strong, of Alabama, Secretary of Lega Madrid. Spain, in the room of Stephei ^ sal, of Baltimore, who resigned. Mr sk - strong is at present Consul at Gr< France. mjL A blank form of application for thoi Sa\ paid the income tax to use in making E3S cation for a refund of the money ha El] prepared. Count Reventlow, the Danish Ml presented his letters of recall to Pri fc ittm Cleveland. Expressions of regret wi phftnffAH flnnnf uH 11 \ Minister from Denmark to Rome and 1 w The fifteenth anniversary of Gari death was celebrated by the Revolut i r in Rome, Italy. 6 f The last month of the fiscal year < b f with expenditures 8200,000 in exc / ?, receipts, while the total deficit stood a ig 957,202. /li^. President Cleveland and the meml his Cabinet returned to Washingtoi / Gresham's funeral at Chicago in good ] Senator Hill answered 8enator Shi saying he favored international bi-me VW at a ra^? ?' * t0 ^? Domestic. BE. BEOOBD OF THE LEAGUE 0LU01. ???? Per miastnnnrv aq Clubs'. Won. Lost. ct. Club*. Won. L' influenced h? P?lt*burg..25 12 .676 PhilaSel.. .18 1! i a Malav State Baltimore .18 12 .600 Sew York.17 1' ie eauiitor is Cinclnnatl.21 15 .563 Brooklm.,14 1! wl ThA Chicago...22 IB .579 Wash'nK'n.14 21 nesand was a Cleveland.20 15 .571 St. Louis..13 2ngland. where Boston.... .17 13 .567 Louisville. 6 2: Unlike the '"Jim" Powell, a colored farm ham Afghan Prince, the death penalty for an attempted i tie customs of <>n a white girl in Strasburg, Ala. eled, and dis- Secretary Lamont arrived at West ve cooks and Military Academy and witnessed the c ade those roy- drill of the cadets. card for their The Democrats of Illinois held a free convention at Springfield; a tumul caused by a resolution indorsing Altgi r PEST. The New Jersey 8enate passed the; repeal the act providing for the publi a Destroying of the laws in newspapers. allfornla. The American Line steamship St. . - _ ,Ta_ started from New York amid much o siasm, on her first transatlantic trip. B. M. e ong, Charles C. Harrison, of Philadelphia ! Horticulture, a donation of 6500,000 to the Unlver m farmers and Pennsylvania In honor of his father, tl i learn how to George Lelb Harrison, LL.D. Presbyterian pilgrims celebrated the fed thus far, lishment of their faith in America by jer Isaac, in- ciees at Free Hill and the old T Bveloping into Church, New Jersey. ens to accom- Judge Alfred Reed, of the New Jers :h. The pest preme Court, was appointed to succe a, Chino, San late Vice-Chancellor Green by Cha erville, and is McGill. Cii?h The United States Naval War Coll cdcaUy with- NewP?,rt' B", L' wa3 ?Pened for 0 vicinity they 33113011 8 work* ?s and orange The grain storage bull ding of P. Ball ra<?on-loads of & 8ons' ale brewery, Newark, N. J a vineyard in- totally destroyed by fire. About bushels of barley burned, causing a with scissors ?200.000. nation against Rain quenched the forest fires in Po vorm has de- vania after a loss of 3250,003 in pr destroyed. leard that the The State Senate of Massachuset nto which the lowing the action of the House, pass buried. The Veterans' Preference bill over the Gov< . here for sev- veto by a vote of 28 to 7. The bill tl that effective comes a law. ninate the in- The Ancient and Honorable Artill Boston celebrated its 275th anniversar; By a decision of the General Term COLD, Court of Common Pleas. William S. D who was a police captain, and Edw Canon Mint Glennon, who was his ward man, an . ? ? were dismissed for bribery from the York City force by a former Board ol bullion from missioners, were reinstated. erning which Missouri's Democratic State Commitl investigation cided by a vote of ten to live not to , . .. . special convention on the silver questio 1 in the wood- A _ i The wheat, oats and hay crops in C nploye or the ulin(;iig ^ be a failure. There is t the stealing stand of corn, but it needs rain. Bece ng men in the winds have dried up pastures. int, but it was The cadets at West Point (N. Y.) II ility Upon any Apn^orrtr cava a Hrpw whi( Henry fled witnessed by the Board of Visitors. ited and held At Minneapolis. Minn., Mrs. Mart ars detailed to Elias and her daughter, Annie M. headway un- a<*ed flfty-flve and twenty-flve vear3 r ig with iPlck- tlvely, were murdered by unknown r< to divulge the ?t their flat. lion. 8he had Druggist Louis Hanvey shot and kill and made the young wife at Atlanta, Ga. The trage fiurred on the street. Hanvey had as for finding drinking. lckler's wood- j)e Grimm.wife of the wellkno^ 0 tist, committed suicide in New York C old bars were shooting herself. Her mind had bee * ing since the recent death of her son. At the Deal's saw mill, near Downvi CLOSED, C., toiler exploded and killed E< Deal, Pender Oxford and Gordon 0 _ firemen, and Reuben Bones. Two te Terms ex- men were 8evereiy bruised and scalded Chauncey M. Depew gave a dinner i; ate Secretary York City to ex-President Harrison; i arch 15 in the the two dozen other guests were Go^ at. *o. _* Morton, Governor McKinley, Senatpr C State Depart- 0j jjontana; Senator Elkins, Mayor S )een delivered ex-Senator Thomas C. Piatt and Cor lay 16. Vanderbilt. lined to make May heat records in New York City mmunication, broken.it being ninety-five in the sh< ve, but an- the last day of the month. that Spain, Morris Schoenholz, charged with ws iif act ot made a confession which showed th enadito in fir- CCnt flres in New York City were of : Maysi, Cuba, diary origin. le occurrence.. hat measures repetition of Foreljrn Note*. Cornell's crew has arrived in Engli ciflcally with good shape. tie incident is The Ecuadorean rebels took the pi Guayaquil, after three days' severe flg At Madrid, Spain, Major Clavijo, wh and wounded General Pri mo-Rivera y the United executed in accordance with a court in 5 gold pieces, decree. . 0f con. A dispatch from Hong Kong anno The smallest C0"aP3e of tbe Form?3a Republic, i mintage of The German Kaiser's yacht Hohcnz I at $22.50. has steam0d safely through the new . 5,401 pieces oC Canal at Kiel. e value of, Dispatches from Constantinople i 3 in quarters that the Porte gave a negative reply ,1^1 fiaronfls nt tho PnwflN for Armenic OIOUUOIU UVi- UVU..M4U^ v. v ... luding minor forms, and that a demonstration of w.u is was 4,923,- in the Bosphorus was imminent. The Japanese landed at the Island of mosa in strong force, and, after s>. nyention. hours' fighting, captured the city of Kc ?y held their the Aght 200 Chinese were killed, le They de- Part of Japanese Imperial Guar of silver and feated a lar?e bod-v, ?/ Formosan r Governor. many of whom were 3l,liD ' General Primo Rivera, Captain-Gene ia Madrid, SDain, was shot and mo W(W q wounded by an infantry officer, who i was a rtot lievsd to be insane. A cablegram received by Assistant i tary of Staio Uhl announced the dei _ Hull. England, of W. J. H. Ballard, ? ie w eevii. states Consul at that point. Southwestern Eighteen Chilean railroad laborers is becoming a drowned by the swamping of a boat ii op. Bay of Aneud, Chile. A shaft in the Fifeshire (Scotland) co 1 ? ' VJ..? U *.uie_.. caugni lire*. nuiu|iv-?uiuuioauuaiiu ich Lawrence recwived iu tryinfe'10 ej,caP.ehome from Japanese troops have landed at Fori is hnwq h<?- England has sent warships to Jedd along a steep Protect tho lives ftIld property of foreit n a precipice. By the explosion of an, Ecuadorean Jen years old. boat flfteen.men were killed and seve aughter. Mat- injured. broken and Amador Guerra, one of the Cuban let was reported to be killed., ad. Buffalo to Try Plnjfjree's Plan. jn is seriously Buffalo, N. Y., is the latest city to ully watched *be Plngroe plan of potato patch fai lUh nrison In for the Poor- Mayor Jewett, of that cit iwn nficaMsrT appointed a committee to raise $5000 f< een nevessary scheme. iom. * - J \ t I VA THE SUPREME COURT ADJOURNS. A Decision Involving: One of the Grestoaf es^.gna- Controversies In International Law. r of the Seventeen cases were disposed of by the e C B ?uPreme Court of the United 3tates at itor in Washington, and then it adjourned for the it. He term. It will assemble again for the term d of 1895 on the second Monday of October. A decision involving one of the greatest nonths controversies in international law?the 1th the validity of foreign judgments?was among 70 chil- those handed down. The case in nuestlon is nd was that of Henry Hilton and William Libby, late theab- co-partners in A. T. 8tewart & Co.. against nt will Gustave Quyot, "as official liquidator of the late firm of Charles Fortin & Co., of Paris, r Arm- history of the case is a long one. runition at back into the seventies, when the Arm n Bon- A T. Stewart & Co. was still in existence. Justice Gray announced the decision or tne "noble Court. It denies the validity of the French ' judgment against A. T. Stewart & Co., on the ground of want of comity in France, se wno reversing the decision of the Court bo; appu- i0W) and remands the case for trial in is been the Ciroult Court of the Southern District of New York, Chief Justice Fuller and Justices inlster, Harlan, Brewer and Jackson dissented, the ?sident Court standing five to four, the majority be5re ex- ing Gray, Field, Brown. Shlras and White. >ecome Justice Gray also announced the decision in ladrld. the Bitchle case affirming the decision of the baldi's Court below, holding the judgment of a Cana;ionists dian court valid. It was decided by the United States Supreme Court that the tariff act took effect August 28,1894. ( it ?46, THP PAIR PSTATP'C T.Ol OSSAI DPAL )era of l from 179,000 Tons of Wheat Sold for S3,053,200, health. Paid In Cash. talUsm ^ar^es* stT^ct^y commercial transaction, aver consummated in San Francisco, CaL, was closed In the office of the administrators' of the estate of James G. Fair, involving the final transfer of 179,600 tons of wheat belongPer lng to the Fair estate to four leading shipping nt. ct. Arms and the payment of $3,053,200 cash. > .545 Certified checks upon four banks were given. 1 .500 The sale had been confirmed by Judge 3 .424 Slack on May 4. The buyers and the ) .412 amounts applied for by each were as foll .351 lows: George W. McNear, 60,000 tons; Ep1 .182 pinger 4 Co., 57,400 tons; Balfour, Gatbrie i, paid k Co., 50.000 tons, and Girvin, Baldwin 4 assault Evre, 12,000 tons. The price named was $17 per ton. After Point wards, when an account of stock was taken, avalrv 14 wa8 found that the amount of wheat * actually on hand exceeded that named in 3ourt by 200 tons, which the buyers agreed i silver ;0 apportion among themselves at the same * ,,waa price. 3ld. The commission allowed by the Court on bill to :he sale amounts to $89,000. The buyers ication tiave control of nearly all the ships in port, md they have given orders to nave them Louis !oaded as fast as possible for Europe. enthu WIPEl? OUT BY FOREST FIRFS. made slty 01 Coon Bun In Pennsylvania Said to Har* h6latQ Been Destroyed. >estab- Five rigs, tanks, and boiler houses, beexer (ongingtothe Middle Land Oil Company, ennent (yer0 destroyed by forest fires near Hunter 0 gu Run, Penn. A large quantity of > ed the logs and lumber were burned, ncellor Fire8 raged at Chipmunk, Tally- < Ho, GufTey, and along the line of the Erie and Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg rail?8? at roads, between Bradford and Johnsonburg. notner The settlement of Coon Run, in Elk County, was reported completely wiped out. There iantine were twenty-five dwelling houses in the t., was village. A message from Knapp'? Creek 150,000 says that fifty rigs belonging to loss of Messrs. Curtis, Burns tc Russell have been destroyed. The town was completely surnnsyl rounded by fire. operty Everything between Russell City, Penn., and Coon Run ha3 been wiped out, including . . . all the rigs, tanks, the pump station of the *f\ i? " Standard Oil Company, and the Elk County tnlit Pipe Line Company. srnor s ? . * lus be5WEPT BY A MAD TORRENT. ery of y. Curtis Lake, in Nebraska, Bursts Its of the Banks aud Floods MeJiclne Valley. "very. A despatch from Curtis, Neb., says Curtis A who ^ake '3Urs^ its banks. The railroad grade 1 New wa3 torn up, freight cars were strewn across C Com- the Medicine bottom, and the fine rolling mills ruined. teede- Curtis Lake was nearly emptied, and a call a flood of water ran down the Medicine Valley, n. aarrying destruction in its mad rush. Antral The fine alfalfa meadows just below the a fine city were ruined, and homes all along the nt hot valley destroyed. News from above and below is coming in, nit* anc* oaly one story is told, of dire destruo h wm kton 411(1 *08S ?' Pr?Perty an(* hve stock swept away. The wall of water was five feet high and ha M. several hundred yards wide. Elias, I -M DbEera A SAN FRANCISCO HORROR. -M ed his Murder and Bobbery Committed in a Flat dy oc- House. been Another diabolical crime, bearing some resemblance to the terrible tragedies of EmanII? uel Church, was unearthed at San Francisco, n fail- Cal., by the discovery that Miss Nellie Harrington, thirty-five years old, who occupied lie. N. an upper flat at No. 1017 Ellis street, had iw'ard been assaulted and murdered in her bed- ; v xford room, the door locked and her clothing and other the furniture of the apartment set on fire. TKa rnnm hurl been ransacked and her q New lewelry and purse stolen. imone Attention was directed to the rooms by rernor scaping smoke. When the door was1 broken 'arter ?Pen tte bedding, which was piled in the tronir' of the room, was on fire, and beneath noiiiia the smouldering clothes was the bloodstained body o? Miss Harrington. Staba svere found all over the unfortunate woman's were body and face. ide on mm Tragedy la the Surf. a re^ Miss Jennie Grogle, of Philadelphia, was Lncen- drowned in the presence of thousands while bathing at Atlantic City, N. J., and her companion, C. E. Crawford, of Cleveland, Ohio, who was with difficulty rescued, was arrested inrUn 'barged with having against her will dragged her beyond tie safety line. The National Game. hting. * ; o shot Brouthers is captaining the Louisville ' , was team* --n-i ninfilnnatl leads the Leasue in baso run ning. unces Childs is Acting Captain cf the Clovoiands. ollern Hawke has not been in the boi for Balti" Baltic more yet. Pitcher Hart has not yet lost a game for 3tated Pittsburg. to the Without much exertion Duffy leads the in re- Bostons in batting. rships peitz ha3 succeeded Miiler as Captain of the St. Louis team. J"31 hsfore the Pittsburg Cluo left for the ilung Pitcher Weyhing wa9 released. Bonner is covering third for Balti mo>> r, during the absenoe of SIcGraw, who is ill. ebels, All the Chicago pitchers are hitters and can help to win their games with the stick, traiof Not for years has Cincinnati figured so rtally prominently as a factor in the championship a be- struggle. The Boston twirlers never know who is 3ecre- going to pitch until the team arrives on the ith at grounds. 'nited In the National League Sunday playing if doomed. Next year neither Brooklyn noi were Baltimore will play Sunday games in th? a the West, and the Chieagos will close their gate* on that day. illiflrv An?nn of Chicaeo. is now accused ol juries shouldering and jostling opposing base runners at first. nosa. O'Brien, Pfeffer's successor at second foi lah to the Loulsvilles, has made a decidedly favorjners. able impression. gun- Of the Pit'sburg pitchers Hawley has hit nteen H batters this season. Hart 4, and Killeu and Colcolough 1 each. ^ idcrs, Tbe York Bannon, like his Boston brother, is a strong and sure thrower, somathing that was needed in New York's outfield. adopt la Pittsburg and Cincinnati the visitin| mine teams are treated as detested enemies. Everj v has occasion is taken to hoot and hias them, anc Srthe seldom is a fine play by the opposition acknowledged.