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iNQAID FOR THE CUBANS.
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The President's Proclamation Give?
\ Warning to American Filibusters.
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iNEUTRALITY MUST BE PRESERVED
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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' 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.
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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
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MBS. CLEVELAND. t
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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
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