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iNQAID FOR THE CUBANS. I The President's Proclamation Give? \ Warning to American Filibusters. i i iNEUTRALITY MUST BE PRESERVED I People Within Oar Borders Mutt Not Helnthe Patriots?Officer* of t lie United States Enjoined to Execute the Laws and Bring Offender* to Trial and Puuishment?Guarding: Florida's Coast. ProMdent Cleveland issued a proclamation (to the citizens of the country, admonishing them to observe the neutrality laws between the United States aaJ Spain. This action \s ibased upon the urgent request of the Spanish Minister that some official steps be taken to prevent American citizens from assisting the belligerents in Cuba. The Spanish Minister had a long conference with Secretary of State Olney on this subject. The object of the proclamation is to place tae miwa ocaies uuvcrauiea; m n tneuuiy attitude toward Spain, and guard against any claim for damages that may hereafter be instituted against the United States Government for violation of the friendly relations clause of the treaty existing between the two Nations. It has been charged recently that a filibustering expedition started for Cuba ,with arms ana munitions for the inBurgent?. The Spanish Minister notified the Secretary of State, and urged immediate action to prevent aid and comfort being furnished to the belligerents. As a precautionary measure, the Secretary of ithe Navy ordered the Raleigh to proceed to !Key West, Fla., with instruct! ins to patrol the coast and see that no filibustering expeditions leave this country. The action of the President is generally regarded as timely and proper, and it is a formal notice to the world that the United States is not In sympathy with any filibustering movement that may be contemplated by the friends of the belligerents who reside along the South Atlantic coast. It is evident from what has occurred in the past that there are many sympathizers with the belligerents in this country. The President's proclamation follows: "Whereas, The island of Cuba is now the seat of serious chril disturbances, accompanied by armed resistance to the authority I of the established Government of 8pain, a Dawaw tiri*K mVii/tk fha TTn<fo/1 fifofaa ora onH I desire to remain on terms of peace and amity; and "Whereas, The law3 of the United States prohibit their citizens as well as all others being within and subject to their jurisdiction, from taking part in such disturbances adversely to such established Government, by accepting or exer:ising commissions for warlike service against it, by enlistment or procuring others to enlist for such service, by fitting out or arming, or procuring to be fitted out and arming ships of war for such service, by augmenting the force of any ship of war engaged in such service and arriving in a port of the United States, and by setting on foot or providing or preparing the means for j military enterprises to be carried on from the United States against the territory of 3uch Government. < "Now, therefore, in recognition of the laws aforesaid, and in discharge of the obligations of the United States toward a i Iyt DAnrn* on^ no o mftQCiiM f\t Hon, and to the end that citizens of the United States and all others within its jurisdiction may be deterred from subjecting themselves to legal forfeitures and penalties. "I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby admonish all citizens and other persons to abstain from every violation of the laws hereinbefore referred to, and do hereby warn them that all violations of such laws will be rigorously prosecuted ; and I do hereby enjoin upon all officers of the United States charged with the execution of said laws the utmost diligence in preventing violations thereof and In bringing to trial and punishment any offenders against the same. ' In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United 8tates to be affixed. 'Done at the city of Washington this 12th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and nineteenth. "By the President: Gbover Cleveland. "Bichaed Olney, Secretary of State." Spain Will Push the War. Prenarntions are under wav in SDain to flave 40,000 troops ready to sail for Cuba in August, besides the 10.000 men who will start for the island next month. There are now ibout 30,000 Spanish troops on the island. The Senate has passed a bill authorizing the Government to raise 600,000,000 pesetas (?120,000,000), should that amount be necessary to put down x he insurrection. An official dispatch from Havana says that injurgents have appeared in the Camasjuey district of the central province. This is regardsd as important. Embargo on Crops. The Cuban revolutionists are putting an embargo on the coffee, cacao and tobacco arops in the interior. Tbey have forbidden planters to transport these products to market. Yellow fever Is increasing on the Island. HELPED BY A GERMAN IRONCLAD. She Goes to the Assistance of a French Transport In Distress. The debates in the French Chamber of De, putiea upon the action of the Paris Government in sending warships to Kiel have added Interest to the comments of the German papers upon a recent instance of German courtesy to a French ship in the Red Sea. On May 25, the French transport ship Commorin was observed by the German Ironclad Kaiser, oruisins in the Red Sea, to signal that she was unable to proceed owing to a disarrangement o! hor engines. The commander of the Kaiser sent one of that vessel's engineers on board the Commorln fo render what assistance he could. The German engineer helped to put the Comraorin's engines in order and the Kaiser afterward towed the Commorln for a short time. Ohl of Princeton Dead. Frederick P. Ohl, aged nineteen, one of the two students at Princeton (N. J.) College shot by the colored man Collins, died in tho Isabella JlcCosh Iafirinary, where ho was taken for treatment immediately after the shooting. His father and other relatives and several members of the faculty were at the bedside. Peritonitis caused by the wound and subsequent operation was tho immediate cause A of death. His body was taken to his home in Sharon, Penn., for burial. ( Fromlnent People. Dr. Parkhurst has sallod for Europe. The Marquis of Lorno is going to write the libretto of an opera. The Empress of Austria is subject to freauent fits of insanity. The German Emperor has again taken to I riding before breakfast. The King of Sium in his state attiro is worth more than 31,000,000. Krupp, tho German gun manufacturer, pays an income tax of 5200,000 a year. The dignified Charles Francis Adams bowling along on a bicycle is one of the sights of Boston. A recent suit in New York disposes that the late Henrv S.Ives,"Xapolcou of Finance," left >4500. Joseph H. Choato's fee for arguing against the income tax before the Supreme Court was 8150,000. The bicycle of the Khedive of Egypt is a gorgeous machine, almost entirely covered with silver plating. Governor Greenhaige has vetoed morebills than any other Massachusetts Governor within tho memory of man. General von Hanneken. who has played so great a part in the Japan-Chinese war, is on his way back to his home in Germany. It is said that in spite of all the talk aboug Governor Altgeld's aouse of the pardonint power he has pardoned fewer criminals than nig predeceseor. A CONNECTICUT MEMORrAL' State Monument in Memory of the Twelfth Kesiinent. The first repiment of Connecticut which has adopted plans for a State monument to be erected on one of the battlefields of the war under the new lawistheTwelfth, and the testimonial will placed in the National Cemetery at Winchester. Va. H? If A COSN'ECTICTT TRIBUTE. (Monument to be erected to the Twelfth Regiment at Winchester, Ya.) The Twelfth was commanded by Colonel Henry C. Deminp. of Hartford, who resigned the Mayoralty in order to accent the Colonelcy of the regiment. John W. Deforest, the novelist, of New Haven was a Captain In the Twelfth. Lieutenant-Colonel Frank H. Peck, of New Haven, was mortally wounded while leading the regiment at Winchester September 19, 1864. The Twelfth was the first Union regiment that appeared in front of New Orleans during the war. It participated in the Mississippi campaigns, culminating at Port Hudson. where it met with heavy losses. In February, 1864, the command re-enlisted and was assigned ,to the Shenandoah, under Sheridan. It was one of the bravest infantry commands that were sent to the front from Connecticut. The present Mayor of New Haven. A. C. Kendrick. was a Captain jn the rejriment during the service, and is at the head of the regimental organization at the r.resent time. The monument will be of cranite. On the face of tbe shaft will be the' badjje of the Nineteenth Army Corps, with which the Twelfth was identified in the Shenandoah. On the opposite side will be the State coat of arms, with the inscription, "Connecticut's Tribute to Her Fallen Heroes." The plans ;for the monument, designed by Stephen Mas.len, oi Hartford, have been approved by the army authorities at Washington, and a site ;has been assigned for its erection in the Winchester National Cemetery. "CUTTING A DASH" ABROAD. Ex-Tammany Chief Croker Gives Numerous Dinner Parties In London. Richard Croker, the Ex-Chief of Tammany Hall, since his latest trip to London from 'New York has been hobnobbing with the swells of English society, according to cable 'dispatches. He gives numerous dinner par EICHABD C20KZB. tip? and has a box at the ODera. Mr. Croker bos also rented a magnificent house in London. A few days ago Mr. and Mrs. Croker left London for Ireland, where Mr. Croker is to conclude the purchase of an estate. KILLED A SCHOOLGIRL A Married Man Falls in Loto and Corn* in Its Murder and Suicide. The people of Osterville, Mass., were stirred by the murder of Lizzie Coleman, thirteen years of age. while she was on her way to school. Henry Litkey, who killed her, shot himself dead immediately afterward. Litkey was a married man with a wife and three children in Germany He has been employed on the farm of Mr. 8. S. Leonard for the last six years. He was steady and honest and a faithful laborer. For the last si* months he has been infatuated with the Coleman girl, and had passed much time at the home of Mr. Coleman. His infatuation was noticed by the family of the girl recently, and Mr. Coleman forbade his coming to the house. Litkey made the girl several 'presents and save a few trifles to the mother. The girl, with her two brothers, started for school at 8.30 o'clock a. m. Litkey was in the habit of meetiug her on the way to school and speaking with her, and he often intercepted her on her way home. As soon as he met the children heflred two shots at one of the boys, but missed him. He then asked him what he had to say about turning him out (ft doors. The boy replied: "I did not say that. Father was the one who said it." Litkey then turned to the girl and shot her twice. The first shot went through her mouth and the second shot took effect in the back of her head and neck. As she fell dying, he turned the weapon upon himself. The ball passed through his head and he died instantly. He was about fifty years old. STOLE $300,000. Revelations as to the Wrecking of W1111mantic's First National Bank. The report of James E. Hayden, Receiver of the Natchaug Silk Company of Willimantic, Conn., was submitted to court. The report is the sensational climax of the wrecking of tlie First National Bank of Willimantio by its cashier, the late O. H. K. Risley. The report shows that Risley sunk over $300,000 in the Natchaug Silk Company, stealing the bank's assets and capital stocs to do it, and covering up his tracks by forgery and in isrepresentat i on. How successfullv he did this is shown by the fact that at the time of his death the stock of the bank sold above par, and there r>#>t a hroafh of susnicion that the bank was not in a flourishing condition. As a matter ot fact, it had been robbed of every available ass?>t. and there was nothing to show where the money had gone. The Louisiana Silver Men. The first gun of the fre^ silver campaign in Louisiana was fired at New Orleans when the Bimetallic Convention was opened in Washington Artillery Hall. The result was i the formation of thy Louisiana Bimetallic T ...irllinl. I...-- imriur+i1 tr. r. r,?n > i vn the silver lorces of the State for work. The convention consisted of 2500 delegates of nil parties. State ami city officials hastened to declare their allegiunc.5 to the silver standard. Cleveland and Carlisle were denounced in the resolutions. Hawaii's Now Minister. The Hawaiian Government has commissioned William B. Castle as its Ministor to Washington. Mr. Castle will proceed to his ! post in August with his lamily. He was the second member of the Commission, of which Mr. Thurston was the head, which negotiated the treaty of annexation with President Harrison in February, 1893. HUM WATER? MS,r A Long Chain of Summer Drowning Accidents. FOUR YOUNG WOMEN PERISH, OP a Tarty of Seven Girls Who Went Bathing, Three Only Were Rescued? Died to Save Another?Three Boys Lost in the Lake at Cleveland, Ohio?Half a Score Sink In Rnssla. Details of a distressing accident, which remiltnd in th? drrnrninir of four firirls at Big Run, a hamlet near Dubois, Penn., have just been received. The unfortunate ones wero members of a party of seven girls, whose ages ranged from thirteen to sixteen. They were bathing in a small stream called Mahoning Creek. Their names were Sadie and Haggle Anthony, Rosa Rimer and Cora Ruirh. Only oae of the girls could swim, and when Maggie Anthony suddenly disappeared in a bble of deep water ft panic ensued. All were soon beyond their depth and crying for aid. The Rirl who could swim rescued two of her companions, but could do no more. Before aid could reach them the other four had disappeared for the last time beneath the surface. The bodies were all recovered. Lent Hi* Life to Save a Woman. Mrs. Mary Pass and Mrs. John Ross, of Noristown. Penn., In company with Angelo Brown, went to the Schuylkill River a few afternoons ago above West Conshohooken to bathe. Mrs. Pass got beyond her depth and Brown went to her assistance. The burden was too much for him and he had to release his hold. He was so exhausted that he sank and drowned. In the meantime Thomas 8mitb went to the woman's assistance and rescuec her. 8he was unconscious, but was broughl back to life. Mrs. Pass's husband committed suicide bj drowning several weeks ago. and she was en gaged to be married to Brown. . Drowned in the Harlem Mere. Several boys were playing ball near tht Harlem mere in Central Park, New York City, just before dark. The bov at the bal hit the ball and sent it flying into tha water, The boys made a vain effort to reach th< floating ball with sticks. Finally one of th? boys, held by a playmate, in leaning far ovei the brink of the lake, lost his balance and fell into the water, dragging with him the boy who had hold of him. John J. Irving got one of the boys ashore and then waded and swam out to the place where the other, Joseph Genther. had gone down. He dived repeatedly, but could not save the boy. The body wns recovered. Boys Drowned Trying to Save Another. Three boys were drowned in Lake Erie, Cleveland, Ohio, near the life saving station, two of them in an attempt to save their companion. They were: Michael 8heridan, eleven years old; Patrick Morris, twelve years; Emmett Sweeney, eleven years. They were bathing in six feet of water, all being good swimmers. Morris was taken with cramps and Sheridan went to his assistance, but his strength gave out. Sweeney then attempted to rescue them, but all three became locked in a frenzied grip and were drowned. His Body Foand in the Hudson. The body of Frank B. Hull, son of District Attorney Hull, of Washington County, Secretary of the State Firemen't Association, was found in the Hudson River near Troy, N. Y. Hull had been misslnpr for about a week, and it Is thought to be a case of suicide. Mother Saved; Five Children LoU. A sailing vessel capsized on the Stint Lake, Russia, and twelve out of sixteen persons on board drowned. A woman who was saved lost five children. STUDENTS SHOT BY A COLORED WAN. Two Freshmen Receive Desperate Wounds at Princeton (S. J.) College. The mo3t dastardly crime in the history of Princeton (N. J.) College was committed late a few nights ago when Garrett Cochran and Frederick Pearson Ohl, of the Class of '98, were shot down, seemingly without provocation, by a colored man, John Collins. Cochran and Ohl were placed in the infirmary at the point of death, and Collins was locked up, in tne Trenton jaiL There were few witnesses to the tragedy, and from these no motive could be learned for the shooting. John Thompson, who keeps the largest boarding-house for students in Princeton, is the only witness who gives an intelligent account of the affair. The shoo tin# grew out of a street quarrel. Dr. Bull, of New York City, hurried on a special train to the college and extracted the two bullets. GREAT CLOUDBURST IN GERMANY. Many Persons Drowned and Much Damage to Property Done In Wurtembarg. The Black Forest district of Wurtemburg, Germany, was deluged by a cloudburst, inundating a vast tract of territory. A large number of persons were drowned and almost incalculable damage was done to property. The volume of falling water oausedtheBiyer Eyach to overflow, and a hundred or more houses in the villages along the river bank were swept away. One house in Balinsen, with nine occupants, was carried away, and as yet no trace of it has been found. Four houses were destroyed in Frommern and fifteen of the persons who occupied them are missing. Ten persons are known to have been drowned in Balingen. seven in Frommem, fifteen in Laufen and several in other villages. Besides these many others were missing. Growth of Cremation. At the meeting in Boston of the New England Cremation Society President John Storer Coob gave interesting statistics, showing that the number of cremations in America has steadily increased from thirty-six in 1885 I aic in iflfu TnJn? thws lira seventeen crematories in operation. Wazlris Show Fight. Waziristan tribesmen made an attack upon Fort Sandeman, in the Waziri territory, India, killing Lieutenant How of the British Army and eleven of his attendants. Breaks His Arm In Throwing. William H. Soper, a '9C dontal student from Greensburg, Wis., met with a curious accident on the baseball floM at Ann Arbor, Mich. He was playing in a class game, and in making a throw home from the outfleld gave his arm a jerk that broke it near the "~l_i rrn mni.K mw/liid n C frt JOiUl. J.UO UUtlUl.- Ciiu uiuvu ? -how the fracture could have occurred. Killed in n Mine Collapse. The top of the Doe Run Leud Mine, at Flat River, Mo., caved in, killing three men and badly injuring a fourth. Tiie dead are Robert Penhorfv, Robert Labuvure. John Decrous. Seeking a Cure for Leprosy. The Board of Health of Honolulu, Hawaii, has established at Knlili. near Honolulu, a hospital for the treatment of lepers, with a view to discovering a remedy. The patients, twelve in number, were taken from the leper colony at Kalawao Island, 011 the Island of Mol?kai. Hot medicated baths will be used. Remedies which experience has suggested will bo tested in the treatment of tho disease. Careful notice will be taken of tho patients' progress during tho different stages of the disease. French Navul .Expenditures. The French naval expenditures for the coming year are estimated at $54,600,880. with $1,600,000 for new ships. M CABINETJDFFICERS. 01 ney, Secretary of State and Judson Harmon, of Ohio, Attorney-General. CLEVELAND GIVES A SURPRISE. The Attorney-General Promoted to th? State Department?Judge Harmon, ol Cincinnati, the New Attorney-General? Hit Selection Had Not Been Looked foi UJ luo i~ UUUWIBUB President Cleveland gave the country a genuine surprise when the official announcement was made from the Executive Mansion that he had selected Hon. Richard Olney, ol Massachusetts, for the position of Secretarj of State, to All the vacancy caused by the death of the late Walter Q, Gresham, ol Illinois, and that he had chosen Hon. Judsoi Harmon, of Cincinnati, as Attorney General, to succeed Mr. Olney in that office, reCRETABY OP 0TATZ BICHARD OLX*T. President Cleveland had no personal ao quaintance with the new law officer of his Administration and had never seen him, Judge Harmon, when seen by a reporter al his home in Cincinnati, said that he had nc intimation that Mr. Cleveland was even con sidering him for the place, and that when h( received a despatoh from the Presi dent tendering him the place he could hardly believe it. There was a hasty consultation with one or two inti< mate friends, and then he submitted th< matter to his law partners in New York Hoadley, Har.xon, Colston and Goldstein When a reply came back commanding hin to accept he instantly wired the President that he would do so. Sketch of Secretary Olne.r's Life. Richard Olney was born in Oxford, Wor cester County, Mass., September 15, 1835 He was prepared for college at Leicestei Academy, and graduated from Browi University, Providence, R. I., in 1856 From that year to 1859 he attended th< Harvard Law School, when he was ad mitted to the bar and entered th< office of Hon. B. F. Thomas, of Boston He was a member of the Massachuaetti House of Representatives in 1874. Since th( year of his graduation at the Harvard Lav School and his admission to the bar, in 1859, he has been continually in the practice o the law in Boston. He received his appoint ment as Attorney-General of the United States March 6, 1893, the date upon whict President Cleveland entered upon his second term of office. The New Attorney-General. Judge Judson Harmon is recogpized a! one of the leading lawyers and jurists o Ohio. He was born near Cincinnati forty nine years ago, and has always lived there His father, the Rev. B. F. Harmon, was f Baptist minister well known throughout th< Ohio Yalley. The Judge graduated at Pennison University, a Baptist in stitute, at Granville, Ohio, in 1865, and began the practice of law in Cinclnnati in 1869. He wa9 a Republican till 1872, when he became a Greeleyite. He was elected Superior Judge in 1878, reelected in 1883, and when Governor George Hoadley went to New York in 1887 Judge Harmon resigned from the Bench to become the head of the firm of Harmon, Colston, Goldstein & Hoadley, which represents several railroads and other large corporations, and with which firm he will continue his connection. When Judge Harmon resigned in 1887 Governor Foraker appointed Judsre William Taft, now United States Circuil Judge and formerly Solicitor-General, to the vacancy. Mrs. Harmon Is an accomplished woman, the daughter of tho late Dr. Scobey, of Hamilton. They have three daughtersMrs. Edmar Wright Jr., of Philadelphia Miss Elizabeth, a recognized society leader, and Marjoria, who is fourteen years old. Judge Harmon is forty-nine years of age, ii about six feet two inches in height, atnleti< in appearance, and well preserved, thougt his hair is slightly tinged with gray. COTHAM REACHING OUT. Takes In 20,000 Acres of New Territory ii Westchester County. Governor Morton signed Senator Robert son's bill providing for the annexation to th< city and county of New York of territor] within the limits of Westchester, Eastoheste; and Pelham. The law adds to Now Yorl City an area of 20,000 acres, including two o the paost important of the recently acquirec parks in Westchester, and an additional pop ulation of 17,000. The new territory includes Morris Pari wn /i A lnnAlr ' I ' W? on /vrin rt 4 4U A AoniAMt A w I(WO liULA, 1U1U^3 C u , ui IUU ClWHCiU c.\ tremity of which stands Fort Schuyler Unionport, Westchester, Wllliamsbridge Bronxville, Olinville, Bay Chester, East Chester, Wakefield and Bartow. All thi territory Is to be Included In the preeen Twenty-fourth Ward of New York City an< County. The Labor World. The Paterson (N. <T.) Railway Compan; voluntarily increased the wages of its em" ployes ten per cent. Winers' wuges at Johannesberg. Soutt Africa, average from $5 to $7.50 a day, anc men are in demand. Notice terminating the wage scale wai served on iron manufacturers at Pittsburg by the Amalgamated Association. Twenty-three hundred and seventy-twc employes are engaged in handling the annual output of Chicago's postofflje. According to a report made by the Knightof Labor, the recent trolley strike in Brook lyn cost the labor organizations 413,739.69. By the ten per cent, raise in wages of the Carnegie employes at Pittsburg, Penn., which went into effect June 1, 25,000 mec were benefited. The mills in Olnoyville, R. I., which had been closed for several weeks, were opened, hut nnmnnrntivnlv fpw r?f th? at rib** re turned to work. For the first time in two years the exten, slve locomotive works at SusquehannaPenn., and all the shop9 in the New York, Lake Erie and Western system will hereafter and until further notice be in operatioc ten hours per day. The strength and activity of the cut and wire-nail trade is somewhat surprising, considering the rate of production that has been preserved since January 1. Secretary Patrick JIcBrvde, of the United Mine Workers of America, says there is no truth in the report that the headquarters art to be removed to Pittsburg. The Cambria Iron Company,'nt Johnstown Penn., has decided to advance the wages ol all its employes ten per cent., to take efteel on June 17. The order adds c>2j,00i) a month to the pay-roll. Notices of an increase of ten porcent. in wases at the Pennsylvania Steel Works al Harrisburg, were given. It means a restoration of the wages paid in 1893 and affects nearly 4000 employes. The plant Is crowded with orders. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED f Washington Items. Tho President directed that Paymaster?E. R. 8mith of the navy be dismissed from the SBrvice for drunkenness. [" The State Department is co-operatlnsr "with the Navy Department in preventing filibustering expeditions from leaving the United States to aid the Cuban insurgents. President Cleveland will visit the Atlanta Exposition in October. This agreement-was U made at the White House when the delegation from _t|jg "GajQ City of tho 8outh" i waited upon the President and invited him tc E ; attend their exposition. President Cleveland went for a day's fishing near Leesburg, London County, Va., ac companied by his old fishing companion, Joseph S. Miller, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and Secretary Morton. k Secretary Herbert ordered that the United Sf.tes battleship Iowa be fitted as a flagship. d ' The Department of State received a cable- t] ' gram from Cape Town, 8outh Africa, an- (j r nouncing the death there of Charles H, Benes diet, United States Consul at that place. p Mr. Benedict was born in New York, and p ' appointed to the Cape Town consulate by tl i President Cleveland in June. 1893. a The report of the Board of Visitore to the d , Annapolis Naval Academy has been com. pleteu. It recommend I he renovation of all < the buildings connected with the school and y a reconstruction of some of them on a fixed system. Washington officials considered the advisa- ^ billty of sending a warship to Key West. ^ Fla., to prevent filibustering expeditions . starting for Cuba. The President appointed ex-Representa- d tlve W. J. Coombs, of Brooklyn, to be a Gov- c * TT_ 1 DolL ernment i/irecior wi iuu u uiuu inuiuv amw r road. a Domestic. C MCOBD 07 THE LEAGUE CLTTB1 ^ Per Per Club#.. Won. T/nf. ct. Club*. W<v?. ct. Boston.....23 13 .639 Cincinnatl.21 20 .513 J Pittsburg..27 16 .628 Philadel.. .19 19 .500 1 Cleveland.24 17 .585 Brooklyn..19 20 . 487 ' Baltimore .21 15 .583 Waflh'ng'n.lS 21 .462 0 Chicago...25 19 .568 3t. Louis..15 28 .349 E New York*.21 19 .SWiLoulsville. 6 32 .158 ? Mayor 8trong, of New York City, signed a 2 proclamation making Monday, June 17, a c municipal holiday, so that all city employes l would have an opportunity of witnessing i the two pageants attending the opening of t the Harlem Ship Canal. p Eugene Y. Debs surrendered himself and o was taken to Woodstock (111.) jail. The graduating class of the West Point jj i Military Academy received their diplomas. ? Siegmund Schmeidler shot and wounded y t his wife and then killed himself in NewAYork e > City. 8 The Milford (N. H.) 8aving9 Bank sus5 pended payment The Bank of Commerce, o * Indianapolis, Ind., suspended business. t ! 8ix of the A. B. U. directors were sent to ^ jail in Woodstock, 111., to serve out their f * terms. President Debs did not keep his 1 promise to appear at the station and deliver ? ' himself up to the marshal. 8 [ The persons who blew up a Hungarian ? t boarding shanty near Wilkesbarre, Penn., c several months ago, killing four men, have been arrested. Five men and two women, ? all colored, were concerned in the scheme, . which was for robbery. At Harrisburg, Penn., 8. Harry Kishpaugh. son of C. M. Kishpaugh. of the Interna' Affairs Department, died from injuries re 1 reived in a football game at the Davis Military School, in Winston, N. C., in the fall ol 1893. The United States ship Monongabeln. with . the cadtts on board, left the Naval Academs 1 at Annapolis, Md., on her summer cruise. 1 Fifty-two buildings were destroyed by Are ? at Pnrrprnn W Vn r [ Fire at Milwaukee, Wis., destroyed the ? . Forster Lumber Company's yards. Uhrig's I 2oal yard and the steam "barge Raleigh, of ' i Detroit. The total loss is about $300,000. J [ Sixteen horses belonging to the Forstei ? Company were burned alive. - 1 A froight train ran into a trolley car in Streator. 111., and killed two passengers. Mrs. James Ish shot and killed R. Chapell, a sewing-machine agent, in Omaha, Neb. J. E. Emmet, a young comedian, while half crazed with drink tried to kill his wife, known on the stage as Emily Lytton, in San Francisco, Cal. Miss Sarah Jane Lester, Assistant Secretary of the Young Women's Christiaa Association, of Brooklyn, was instantly killed by being caught in an electric elevator. Mrs. Marian Whitelaw Reid, mother of Wliitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune, died suddenly at Xenia, Ohio, in tier ninety-second year. Miss Cora Wood, Assistant Postmistress at Conncaut Lake, Penn., has been arrested, charged with the embezzlement of 8847. A lumber train was wrecked at Happy Hollow, in Ouachita County, Ark., and three men were killed and a dozen injured. By a fire on East Monument street, Baltimore, Md., 100 persons were made homeless and 5125,000 worth of property wa3 burned. The planlsg mill of A. Storck A Co., tbelum[ oer yard adjoining and nineteen dwellings I were destroyed. , Three miners wero killed by the caving in af a portion of tho roof of the Doe Run Lead i Company's mine in Farmington, Mo. 1 Secretary Herbert presented the diplomas s 1 co the graduating olass of the Naval Acad- e imy at Annapolis, Md. I JohnH. Cooper, an amateur musical com- r poser, died at White Plains, N. Y., of hydro- I phobia. i ? lkayor Strong, of New York City, an- J aounced his new Justices of Special Sessions 1 and City Magistrates, giving seven to the ; Republicans, six to the various independent ! Democratic element and one to Tammany. > Governor Altgeld and other free silver i Democrats, of Illinois, determined to organ* . ize a National silver party. ? I ij J Foreign Note*. 1 Three more survivors of the Colima disos{ ter have been heard from in Mexico. The new-bom American liner St. Louis < i finished creditably her maiden voyage across i, the Atlantic. Her actual time from Sandy Hook to the Needles was seven days, three 6 hours and fifty-three minutes. She made an t average speed of 18.37 knots. Her engines j worked to perfection. General Maximo Gomez Invaded the province of Puerto Principe, Cuba, with a force of insurgents. ' The cloudburst in Austria washed away a great number of bridges and houses in the communes of Schwarzenbach, Schlatten and i Hochwoltersdorf. Twelve persons were I drowued iu the town of Schwarzenbach alone. 3 The Greek Ministry resigned: M. Theodore f Delyannis was summoned by the King to form another Cabinet. > Further news from the Roboradorf Valley. in Austria, which was swept by a storm, shows that seventy persons were killed. J The British. French and Russian Ambassa dors made a formal demand upon the Sultan of Turkey that he disarm the Jecldah Bej douins and pay indemnity for the attack upon the Consuls. l The French Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 8C2 to 105, declared its onlldenco in I the policy of the Government. M. Hanotaux declared that the visit of the French squadron to Kiel, Germany, was merely an net of politeness A statue of the late Sir John A. MacDon1 _ 1 . II ..1 ... p.hn.I.i .'il l >vji? uuveiiou as. avwihi, v.duiiuiii , The new Italian Parliament was opened by King Humbert. 1 Cholera has become alarmingly prevalent in the Zaborze district of Prussian Silesia. ^ The Japanese have taken Keelung, on the Island >it Formosa, ana are advancing on 1 Tni-l'eh. The Turkish Ministry resigned and a new ^ Cabinet was formed, with Kiamil l'acha as 1 Grand Vizier. 1 Eeuadorean rebels hold now eleven provinces. and the four principal seaports of that i republic. J By tfie explosion of an Eeuadorean gun' boat flftoen men were killed and seventeen injured. L Two Lynched in Texas. > Alexander White and John Cherry, the colJ ored murderers of a mau named Johnson [ were lynched by a crowd of citizens at Keno, Texas. The effects of the murdered nan wore found on the victims. , M OF THE CROPS L he Statistics as Compiled by the fa Department of Agriculture. ? a: fFICIAL FIGURES ABOUT WHEAT. J j 9( >eclded Falling: OtF In the Condition of fl Cotton?A Reduced Acreago In the ^ Southern Staple-?The Growth of Oats and the Returns as to Barley, Bye and Bice?Prospects Encuorazing. The monthly returns of the corresponents of the Agricultural Department make le acreage of winter wheat at present growig, after allowing for abandonments, 96-1 A t x-j :_ 10d4 TKo er ceni. 01 me area aarvesieu m un. ercentages of winter wheat acreage, upon tie basis indicated, of the principal States, re as follows: Ohio, 95; Michigan, 90; Iniana. 93; Illinois, 95; Kansas, 87, and 'alifornia, 115. The percentage of spring rheat area for the entire country is 99.5 per ent, being but a slight reduction from last ear's area. The percentages of spring rheat acreasre of the principal States are: Wisconsin. 107: Minnesota, 100: Nebraska. 01: North and South Dakota. 100 each. The condition of winter wheat has fallen ' ecidedly since last report, being 71.1 per ent. against 82.9 on Havl. The condition eported June 1,1894, was 83.2 per cent. The <. ondltipn of spring wheat shows an .vera^'i for the whole country of 97.8 per ent. The average percentage of all wheat .creape is 97.1 and the condition of same is 8.6 pjr cent. The result of the special investigation oade by the Department in 720 cotton-growne counties shows that in eighty-eight there * rill be little or no change in acreage is compared with last year; five re- J tort an increase of 10 per cent. 1 ind less, two an increase of from 11 to * 0 per cent.; three an increase of from j 1 to 30 per cent., and three an in- ' rease of over 30 per cent.; 127 a decrease of J 0 per cent, and less; 250 a decrease of from ? 1 to 20 per cent.; 158 a decrease of from 21 J o 30 per cent.; 44 a decrease of from 31 to 40 1 er cent.; 7 a decrease of from 41 to 50 per . ent. and 33 a decrease of over 50 per cent. j The consolidated returns of reports to the ' tatlstical division for the month of June I how the average for the United 8tates, 85.2, ' . reduction of 14.8 per cent, upon the re- ? ised acreage given out in aiay. xne gen- ral average of condition for the country is 1 1. against 88.8 last year and 85.6 in 1893. The preliminary report places the acreage f oats at 103.2 of last year's area. The reurns make the condition 843, against 87 last 'une. The returns as to barley make the acreage 04 per cent, of last year's breadth. The verage condition of the crop on June 1 was 0.3 per cent., against 83.2 last year. The acreage in rye is 96.7 of that of last ear. Average condition June 1, 85.7 per ent. The acreage of rice is 100.2 per cent, of hat of last year, and the condition is 89.2. CLEVELAND'S SUMMER HOME. In. Cleveland's Arrival There to Be Followed Soon by the President. Mrs. Cleveland has taken up her residence e or the summer in the President's seaside j lome, Gray Gables. Buzzard's Bay, Mass. ] ?he President will follow as soon as bis ofIcial duties permit. A Buzzard's Bay dis- t ?atch says that the Government lighthouse 8 ender Verbena has just been overhauled and ter cabin constructed and refitted in such a 1 ray that it is supposed the steamer would be ! ilaced at the disposal of the President and amily during the coming season. Hitherto J he President has used his catboat Ruth. 1 c v m \ MBS. CLEVELAND. t ?? 1 The Consolidated road has also built a s nug little station near the Cleveland cottage ] tnd called it Gray Gables. Henceforth the i .'resident's visitors will stop there, for the aain drive to the house leads from that < >oint. Mr. Cleveland has shut off his grounds 1 rith a substantial fence. A new sign orna- 1 nents a board fastened upon a post at the erminus of the cross-country path. It reads: Trespassing or shooting on these prem- * J , ises Is positively forbidden. : GROYER CLEVELAND. : The new barn is on the southern sweep of < i little hill near a turn in the main drive, f Chls Is for the President's cows and work lorses. i The National Game. The Minneapolis players all slide feet ( Brat. Connor, of St. Louis, is hitting the ball as ' lard as ever. Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston are 1 [ast going to the front. 1 O'Conner has made one error this year on , :he Cleveland grounds. Meekin's arm is in bad condition. He has ] it under electrical treatment. < The Washington Club has filled an aching roid at short stop by signing Glasscock. I The silver loving cup offered by the New ] fork Club has been awarded to tne Yale ! :eam. 1 Louisville has the losing record in the ] League for the season so far?fourteen < itraicht. Pitcher Knell has been released by Louis- 1 rille and has accepted the terms of the < Cleveland Club. i Rusie. of Now York, seems to have tho vorst luck of any first-class pitcher in the League this season. ^ Any team which away from home wins lalf its games is strong enough to make a Icht for the pennant. Manager Sharrott, of Bangor, Me., threw i lis hip out in a slide last week, and will be aid up for a long time. Cleveland needs a rattling good fielding md hitting third baseman to oiuke hers the jest infield in the League. The Western teams of the League are not lolding up their end of the stick in the ;ames on Eastern grounds. Thompson, of Philadelphia, never causes he umpire any trouble. Sam has never> Ined since ho started to play ball. The Pittsburgs have one of the best catch;rs in the League in Sugden. He is dirninuive in size, but ho can handlo speed without linching. Davis resigned as manager and captain of he New York?. He said things were not gong along to suit him. Doyle was appointed nunnger and captain. Clarko is proving himself to he a valuablo , nan for New York. Twice when his club iras in despair over their pitching depart- J nent bo went in and won a game. Chicago pitchers have a trick of striking J ill the new balls on the heel plates of their 1 ihoes. Many a ball is cut in that way, and , >pposingclubs should keep their eyes open. ? Cleveland has played better bp/1 in the i Sast than any other team of the Wert. < ATTORNEY-GENERAL HARMON. Utlce Harlan, of the Supreme Court, Ad* minister* the Oath of Office. The new member of the President's official) mlly, Attorney-General Judson Harmon,' is been formally Inducted Into office. Hei rrlved in Washington at 7.30 o'clock a. m.? nd went at once to the Arlington Hotel* here he will live for the summer. After reakfast the new Attorney-General walked ver to the White House to see the President. udge Harmon was obliged to Introduce hlm? ;lf to Mr. Cleveland, because it has been ve years since they met in 1890, and then it ras at a public banquet. ^ ATTOBXXY-GESIBAL HiBHOff. , When Judge Harmon arrived, President Cleveland was in his office, and after srreetnp: tne new Cabinet officer cordially, took a food look at him to see if he was aatiafacto- Y ' 7. The Cincinnati man is large in build, >ut his 200 pounds is made up of big bones ind tissue and not fat. He has a pleasant $; ace and most genial manner, and is destined ' 0 be exceedingly popular with the official amily. Judge Harmon, after talking with the President for some time, Informed him that le was ready to take the oath of office, and -v|j )reparations were made for this ceremony J it once. After leaving the White House,' ;<<! rudgw Harmon walked over to the Departnent of Justice and was introduced to Solicitor Conrad aod the other officials. Justice John SL Harlan, of the Supreme ' > % 3ourt, who administered the oath to the new v Ittomey-Qeneral, is an old friend of the new >fflolaL Those present during the ceremony vere Secretary Olney, Assistant Secretary Jhl, K. M. Landls (the late Seoretary Gresv iam'8 Private Secretary) and J. Walter 31andford, who has been Mr. Olney's Secre? ary for the last two years, and who was * v elected to succeed Mr. Landis In the State - A Department. YEW YORK BRIDCE PLAN APPROVED. (Tar Department Accepts the Six-Track ', Span Across North River. Secretary of War Lamont has approved >ne of the plans submitted by the New 7^ fork and New Jersev Bridge Company for a " iuspension bridge across the Hudson River, lonnectlnj? New York City and Weehawken, :< 9. J. This plan Is known as the Union Bridge Company's plan. The plan was accompanied by a guarantee hat the company would build the bridge at i cost not to exceed $25,00 ?,000. The structure which has been agreed .>? l pon is to be a suspension bridge crossing the lver from a point between Sixty-eighth and ' Sixty-ninth streets. It Is to span the water without any support between the pier-head lne on either shore; to have a clear opening >f 3110 feet and a height at the centre of .50 feet in the clear above high water, nith the grade running downward from the lentre on the New York side thirty-three eet to the mile. There will be six tracks on he same level, designed to carry 3000 pounds >er lineal foot on each track, with excess or engine loading. The cables supporting the roadway are welve in number, two on either side of the Ftiffening trusses and four between the true russes, arranged so as to divide the crossIaa? Vnnmo |nfA nnnol !oncrfha ThA 1UUA IAKIUU UlkV VUiuv V\|uiat sables are attached rigidly to the towers with>ut roller shoes. On the New York side hey are secured to a masonry anchorage hrough tunnels and are open to Inspection hroughout their entire length. On the Jerley side the anchorage will be in the solid ock, also provided with tunnels for inspecion. Each cable has a diameter of t went yhree inches. The two main towers have eight legs, >raced in two directions, and resting upon lis masonry piers founded on rock. These / :. owers are 587 feet in height above high / voter. The New York approach consists of >ne deckspan 575 feet long. From the New fork anchorage eastward the tracks are to >ccupy a space 100 feet wide on the north lide of Sixty-oighth street. The station in New York City is to occupy he blocks between Seventh and Eighth avenues and Forty-second and Forty-fourth streets and a portion of the blocks between Eighth and Ninth avenues and Forty-second ind Forty-fourth streets. Experts have given it as their opinion that :he bridge can be built in five years. It 1111st be stronar enouah to carry the heaviest height train." A DAY OF SUICIDES. i, Succession of Attempts at Self-Morder in New York City. The twelfth of June was marked by a succession of notable suicides aud attempts at suicides in New York City. Charles Walton Ogden, the wealthy iron merchant and club man, wandered away from his home and shot himself in Central Park, supposedly from religious mania. He died soon after be was found. Fairman Warren, of the wallpapei drm of barren, Fuller & Co.,'a victim of c^lanchoLia, shot himself dead at his home in the 5evilla flats in West Fifty-eighth stre et. His 3rm is a branch of the Wallpaper Trist. Gretchen Stein, said to be the most beautiful girl in Hartford, Conn., who ha<l lost her position In a drug store because her charms made her the object of too much '-ttention, ^ jnded her life by poison. Hannah Mannhelmeri a young, refined and beautiful school teacher, cut her throat and tvandered away from her home in Harlem. 3he was disappointed in love, it is said, and ^ that unsettled her mind. Adolph Lohman, a cigar maker, hanged iimself to a bedpost at No. 219 East 102d street after a quarrel with his wife. John Lang shot himself dead at No. 326 5Vest Thirty-sixth street because he was out 3f work and was tola mat ae was not wanieu it home. . INHALED GAS FOR FUN. . >! Kentucky Boys Have Discovered a New Way of Producing Dreamy Sleep. A policeman found several boys, In a deep dumber, lying on the grass by the roadside it Covington. Ky. It required some work to iwaken them. Each had a handkerchief ipread over his month, and the policeman bought at first that he bad run across a sui:ide club. The boys Anally said that they had climbed >ne of the city lampposts and had turned on ho gas until their handkerchiefs had been * TK?n Ihsitho.) .norougniysiuuruicu. auwiuvj ^ u.uwvk iown and retired to the grass to lie down md have a good sleep. They described the isnsation Drodueed from inhaling the gas as ielightful* producing a dreamy condition lasting for an hour. Tho practice has been ?oing on among hundreds of boys for some :ime, and many of them are gaa drunkards. Sonth Carolina 'Wins. The celebrated South Carolina registration ?ase was decided in tho United States Circuit ?ourt of Appeals at Itichmond, Va. Judge Jeff's famous injunction is dissolved and the original bill will be dismissed. The decision of tho Court was announced by Judge Elughes. An outline of tho Court's position ivas given. Judge Hughes submitted a, itrong individual opinion, and the order reversing Judge Golrs decision was entered at inoa. .. .. <