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BPDSON WEDS THE SOUND The Harlem Ship Canal Opened With Imposing Ceremonies,' LAND AND NAVAL PARADES. The Waterway In New York City Joining llir North and East Kivers Thrown Open to Navigation Amid the Boomlnj; of Gtin.o, the Tooting of Steam Whistles, anil Fireworks. With pomp and pageant, with the booming of cannon, with the passing of two great parade?, one on water and the other on land; with a big banquet, with the eloquence of orator and a blaze of fireworks, the Harlem Ship Canal in New York City, uniting the waters of the Hudson River with those of the Long Island Sound was formally and > UNITED STATES CRUISER CINCINNATI. (Took part at opening of Canal.) officially opened on the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, and these two great events will now go down into history linked together, although separated by an interval of 120 years. It was a fete day all over the city apparently, for not only were Harlem and the North Side draped in bunting and flags, but there was scarcely a street down from Harlem that bad not flags flying. It seemed as thoueh the whole population of Now York City had turned out to see the two parades It Is probable that at least half a million people lined the banks of the canal and.the shore , of the East River between Spuyten -Duyvil ana u;ik roim. In every detail the ceremonies in opening the canal were an unqualified success. The ?elebration was begun at noon with a parade of many steam craft through the canal, in which Mayor Strong, of New York City, and other distinguished public men took part. Ls the parade started a young woman dipped a flask of water from the Hudson, and when the flotilla came to anchor at Oak Point she poured the water into the Sound. That constituted the marriage rite. At that moment a salute waa flred from the United States cruiser Cincinnati, anchored at the western end, while another of Uncle Sam's warships, the Atlanta, saluted with barking guns the arrival of the leading v boat. At the Sound two barrels of fresh water?one from Lake Champlain and the other from Lake Superior?were emptied into the canal to typify the meeting of the *- vYTi + fi fKa waot lubfl waters, iijo cumwiwii iiiiu mv. system. Two hundred vessels composed the six divisions of the water parade. The streets through which the industrial and military parade passed were lined with spectators, and the banks of the Harlem and the shores opposite Randall's and Ward's islands were black with spectators. It formed at Manhattan avenue and North River, and in it were detachments of United States troops, members of various societies, exhibits representing the operations of several municipal departments, and a long line of floats illustrating leading industries of the city. The parade marched across town through streets* gay with the National colors, to" the Madisou avenue bridge, where it crossed and then proceeded to Oak Point, at the junction of the East River and Long Island Sound, where it was awaited by several thousand school children. Mayor Strong formally declared the canal open when the two pageauts met at Oak Point, where a banquet was served to 400 invited guests. Fordham Morris was the ora4^ A*** Wo ooM fa John Xewton, who died only a few months ago, belonged the honor of planning the Harlem Ship Canal, lor which Congress ordered the Government survey in 1874. In constructing the canal 550,003 tons of rock had bet?a removed. 162,000 cubic yards of earth excavated, 1,000,000 cubic yards of earth dre Jged, and 5000 cubic yards of retaining walls built without the loss of a single life. Mr. Morris 3ald that the present canal was only a beginning. The plan contemplates a channel 400 feet wide and fifteen feet deep at low tide. It will require $1,750,000 to complete this work. The fireworks display in the evening at Oak Point was the most elaborate ever witnessed in New York City. Fully half a million people gathered at Oak Point and its vicinity to witness the 810,000 worth of noise, blaze and smoke which concluded au $-" eventful day. The canal saves over twenty-five mile3 of distance in the traffic between the Hudson and Long Island Sound. Tbe National Game. All of the Cincinnati catchers are doing poorly. The Louisville Club has signed Pitcher Weyhing. Breitenstein, of St. Louis, wears a glove oa his right hand. Cleveland is playing a plucky game with a orippled team. Jennings Ls playing phenomenally at short for Baltimore. New York is having its turn at being seriously crippled. Dolan, Boston's left handed pitcher, is a ' second Breitenstein. The Western clubs of the League are holding thoir own in the East. Clarke's good pitching for New York ha3 certainly been a surprise. This is Anson's twenty-fifth straight season . as a professional ball player. It is next to impossible to purchase the release of valuable players just now. Duffy, of Boston, has developed into one of the finest outfielders in the League, k/ Brodie and Keeler are doing the be3t batting for the Ualtimores this season. Of the new Pittsburg players Clingman excels in fielding and Cross in batting. Boston won fifteen out of the last sixteen games played on the home grounds. Hawley, of Pittsburg, ha* shut out three teams?Boston, New York and St. Louis. V. The St. Louis men are fast on the bases, - especially Browu, Dowd, Coolev, Peitz and . Oniim. 'sr/?"v Bannon is now the star batter of the Bos ton Club and constantly improving in his ;; fielding. Clarke's record of nine put-out? in Louis vllle's left field at New York is the record of the season. 8ome of th? most promising young talent in the couutry can be found in the New Eng5 land League. Stafford, of New York City, played twelve games without an error this year, which is surely up to the Ward standard. It isn't often that ball players succumb to , sunstroke, although they wear heavy flannel . shirts that seem to weigh a ton. The Boston directors have instituted a new 'feature at the Boston B ill Park in fitting up ..a building for the checking of bicycles. Chicago has signed a new pitcher of the name of Frank Howe, a sou of J. J. Howe, tthe millionaire lumberman of Braiuer 1. A Cincinnati rontemporarv advocates the introduction of flag signaling, a- used in the lUnited States Army, to direct the aiovoment? koll ?oon. President Powers believes that there isn't a weak team in the Eastern League, and that the rivalry displayed between the towns on the circuit "is actually greater than that shown bv National League eitie?. In the League, up t'> a recent date, thirteen shut-out games had been played. Of these Hawley has pitched three, find Dwyer. Hoffer. Hutchinson, Nichols, Wallace," Broitenetein, Lucid, Kennedy, Taylor and Rusle cue each. William H. Soper, a dental student at Ann Arbor, Mich., from Greensburg. Wis., while making a throw home iromthe outfleld.gave his arm a twist and broke it near the joint. The cause of the accident is puzzling the physicians INTERSTATE COMMERCE REPORT. I Railroad Mlleafc Wan Increased During 1894 Over 2000 Mile*. Tho seventh statistical report of the Interstate Commerce Commission has just been submitted. It covers tho fiscal year 1334 and completes the preliminary statistics published last December. Tho first part of the report covers the last four months of the Columbian Exposition, during which time | there was an increased passenger traffic. Tho second part covers a period of widespread business depression. The third, beginning on June 30, 1894. when 192 roads, operating upward of 42,000 miles of lino and representing one-fourth of the total railway capitalization, were in the hands of receivers. The effect of these conditions is apparent in nearly all of tho figures presented. The total railway mileage in the United States was 178,708. an increase during the. year of 2247 mile?. The increase durinu the previous year was 4397. The State of Pennsylvania shows an increase of 300.20 miles: Florida. 234: North Dakota, 195: Ohio, 184; Georgia. 162: Maine, 125; Missouri; 120; West Virginia, 117. and Minnesota, 116 miles. During the year 1579 locomotives and 30.386 cars were fitted with train brakes, and 1197 locomotives nnd 34,186 cars were fitted with automatiecouplers. 'TUa n..MUn. nmnlnma f\T\ luc tuitil uuiliuui 111 ininmi ciup.vjw June 30. 1894, was 775,603, a decrease of 93, 994. and less than in any year since 1890. The total amount of reported railway capital on June 30. 1894. was 810,796.473,8*13, an increase of *290,238,403. The cross earnings of the railways for the year show a decrease of $147,390,977, or twelve per cent. One thousand eight hundred and twentythree railway employes were killed during the year, and 23,422 wore injured, as compared with 2727 killed and 31,729 injured in 1893. FLAG DAY. The Anniversary of the Adoption of the National Emblem Celebrated. The anniversary of the adoption of the American flag was observed universally throughout the Union. In New York City Flag Day was celebrated by the display of flags on public buildings and private residences, by exercises in the public schools " ? T n TnitAffa and by presentation 01 a nag uy u<najD?0 Post to Greenwich School. The celebration of Flag Day. tho 118th anniversary of the birth of the National emblem, was appropriately observed in Philadelphia. It is in that city, on Arch street, that the house stands where Mrs. Betsy Ross, the maker of the first flasr. lived, and thousands of public school pupils and a number of other persons visited the dwelling, which was profusely decorated. There were several flag raisings at public schools. CANADA'S NEW WATERWAY. Xts Rival to the American Sanlt Ste. Marie Canal Opened. The new Canadian Sault Ste. Marie Canal, which affords connection between Lakes Huron and Superior, independent of the Canadian Canal, was opened without ceremonies or speech makinp. The canal will I havo on nvaiidhle drftucht of more than fourteen feet on account of howlders in the channel. It will take a month yet to remove all obstructions. The contract'? for the canal and lift locks were let in November. 18S8, and those for the entrance works in January. 1889. The total length of the canal, with approaches, is about three and a half miles. The lock chamber is 900 feet long and sixty feet wide, with depth of water sufficient to pass vessels of twenty feet draught. The works altogether cost about $4,000,000. THE TEMPERANCE WOVIEN. Many of Them Conducted Meeting* in London Pulpits. The World's Women's Christian Temperance Convention opened in tli3 City Temple, London, England. Lady Henry Somerset, President of the British Women's Temperance Association, presided. The meating was conducted entirely by women. The Temple wa3 crowded with" white ribboned delegates from all parts of the world. Lady Henry Somerset made the opening address, and she was followed by Miss Frances Willard. Mother Stewart, of Ohio, and Antoinette Sterling, who sang. In nearly 200 places of worship in London during the afternoon and evening addresses were delivered by women on subjects closely identified with temperance and the temper ance movement. TO NORTH POLE BY BALLOON. SI. Andree Going to Paris to Superintend the Manufacture of His Air Ship. M. Andree will shortly go from Stockholm, Sweden, to Paris to oversee the making oi the balloon in which he will attempt to reach the North Polo. The balloon will be made of double silk, and will be capable of floatinp in the air for thirty days at a height of two hundred and fifty metres. It will carry three persons, instruments, ballast, four months' provisions, a sledge, sail boat, weapons and ammunition. M. Andree hopes to steer his air ship by means oi sails, aud brake ropes dragging on the oartb when necessary. He proposes to start in July. 1896, and hopes to return toward the inhabited parts of America or Siberia. Stole a Ride to Death. Two passenger trains ran into each other on the Charleston and Savannah Railroad at Yemassee, S. C. The engines telescoped and were comniatuitr wrecked. Engineer William Black jumped as the collision came and broke his leg. Four unknown colored tramps, who were stealing a ride on the front trucks, were ground and cut to pieces. Colorado's Mine Thieves. Di38overy of the thefts of rich ore from the Gold Fleece Mine has led to the belief that ore worth probably ten millions of dollars has been stolen from the mines of Colorado in the last ten years by an organized band. The robberies have not been committed by the miners, who are sronerally honest men. It was believed that with detective work and the spending of much money the ' thieves might be caught. His Life for a Cork Floater. Wescott Carpenter, of Clintou, N. J., twenty-one years old and unmarried, son of fex-Senator Carpenter, while fishing from n float in the Raritan River, got a bite. The pulling at the lim; released the <-ork lloater. Attempting to grab it as it was curried off by the tide, young Carpenter fell overboard and whs drowned. His body was recovered. Eleven Killed at a Funeral. A despatch from Rovigo, Italy, says that while about 100 persons were waiting on a platform there for the funeral services of a conspicuous citizen, the structure gave way, thmwini? evervbodv to the ground. Eleven meu and women were killed and twenty others were injured, several of them fatally. Prohibition's Leader in New Jersey. Henry W. Wilbur, editor of the Outlook, ol ru"'? .??!, K/intimiful nilliii Prohibition candidate for Governor of New Jersey in the convention at Essex Lyceum, Newark. PENSIONER Or THE WAR OF 13 I 2 DEAD Mrs. Nancy Start* Could IleiueuiUer the ISombarilinu.'it ot Stonlnfgtoii. Mrs. Nancy Stark, ninety-six years old, and the oldest resident of >Ivsti<\ Conn., died suddenly in that town a few nights ago. She leaves sixty grandchildren, <>ne of whom is William Stark. Judge Advocate of Nevada. Mrs. 8tark was one of the best known characters in New London County, and was a pensioner of the War of 1612. She retained all her faculties almost up to the day of her death. She remembered well the bombardment of Stonlngton and the tiin*- when the British fleet lay off the harbor at New Loudon, and could relate vividly incidents of that time. THE KIEL CANAL FETES. I lfl E 7! it ' $ With Pomp and Pageantry Germany ic Opens Her New Waterway. GREATEST OF NAVAL REUNIONS, . \ 4 Inscription of the Elaborate Dedicatory Ceremonies Conducted by Kaiser Wll- ^ helm?All the Great Nations Assist in i the Festivities?The United States Kepresented by Four Men-of-War. The greatest naval reunion of the century occurred during the three-day fetes which \ commemorated the opening to the ships of Si the world of the Kiel Canal, the stupendous a ratonrac?inot f>omnlpfoH hv the German ^ Empire?that forms the connecting link between the North and tho Baltic Seas, and makes it possible for vessels of all dimensions T to av^id the dangerous Danish coast and gain fromthree to five days'time when navigating the Northern waters. Tho whole ? affair was planned and executed by the inde- h fatigable Kaiser, and his land and water en- t( tertaiuments and pageants surpassed in Is magniflcence and elaborateness the barbaric w splendors that attended tho dsdication of a the Suez Canal, upon which the Khedive of tl Egypt spent 810,000,000. In answer to the B German Emperor's invitations flfty-two war- d , A UNITED STATES WAI? (Fastest vessel of its class at the opeuiu: ships of the newest types, earning sixteen h admirals and 20.000 sailors, assembled at tbe C war port Kiel to celebrate the completion of n the canal. Thev were welcomed by twenty- $ eight German men-of-war, manned by 10.000 tt sailors and marines. The United States were J represented by the ironclad cruiser New York, b the flagship of Commander Evans; the v cruiser Columbia, Captain Summer: the o cruiser San Francisco, Captain Shepard, and ft the cruiser Marblehead, Captain O'Neill, cl Rear-Admiral Kirkland was in command. The great American cruisers duplicated the si triumphs of their recent visit to England, | it when the whole town and numerous distin- j K Kuished citizens ot ljonaon aia inem nonor. i u The fireworks taken over oa tlie New York E were displayed at Hamburg and created a great sensation. During the pyrotechnical exhibition the New York displayed a picture in fire of President Cleveland from her foremast. FIRST DAY Tlie Emperor and His Guests Entertained Lavishly by the Hamburgers. On the first day of the ceremonies the Kaiser, the German Kings and Princes and the representatives of foreign royalties?notably the Duke of York, Great Britain's royal representative, who went to the scene of the festivities on the yacht Osborue?assembled at Hamburg as "guests of the Free City, which had appropriate! $100,000 for an entertainment, which was on the grandest possiblescale. The royalties, their suites and the members of the Senate numbered 80<>, and for these, and for nobody else, covers were laid at the official dinner in the City Hall. After dinner all repaired in special I boats and steam launches to the Alster j Island in the Alster basin, an iugenious af-[ fair, erected on stilts and posts, and covered | with plants, trees and shrubbery. It had room for 1)00 persons. There they found waiting for them 200 women and girls, wives and daughters and friends of the Senators. In the middle of the island the Imperial tent had been raisad for the Kaiser, the Kaiserin and their four eldest boys, and after the royal party and their guests had rested awhile all attended a splendid concert given in their honor. At its conclusion an exhibition ot beautiful aud elaborate lireworks was made. Then the Emperor and all the Kings and Kinglets, with their suites, j aud the Senators with their wives, daughters I and friends, went on a tour of the Alster and I the harbor, the embankments of which were j illuminated. The Emperor spent the night on his yacht Hohenzolleru. His colleagues of the purple accepted the hospitality of the wealthy Hamburgers, some of whom had been .ighting for that honor for months past. SECOND_DAY. The Banquet and Ball in a Tent Modelled ; After a Warship. Early the next day the royal personages and lesser notables embarked at Hamburg for Kiel, where the culminating ceremonies were to take place. They were several shiploads in number, for the Imporial Court Marshal had chartered a number of the crack _ steamers of the Hamburg-American Packet yi Company and the North-German Lloyd to .. convey the Kaiser's guests and those of the -j /"? X? ? Unnilui r<y ti \ Tvipl A-TIll ixurumu limine 11 ui w ...v. . . .. through the canal. The route they took was I ? bytheElbe. The Kaiser ran ahead of his ^ quests in order to be present at the reception H of the Grand Duke Alexis, the Czar of Rus- tf sia's personal representative, who traveloil t( to the Baltic port by rail, though he is Grand s| Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the ^ 1 ir f ' ^ S t| emperor of germany. w (Under whose persoual direction tlie Canal n was openeJ.) tl Czar's uavy. Alexis presented to the German J l? Kaiser au autograph letter from Nichola.-. j w congratulating the Emperor on the eomple-; p tion of the epoch-making event. Th" If Imperial yacht Hohenzollern ami ir the train of warships and pleasure craft u dropped anchor towards evening at Holte- h nau, uear the place where the eanal unit1?.? u with the Baltic. There the Imperial tent was a raised on the Kiel side of the canal. It wa.- j a constructed after the model of the old war- [ tl ship N'iobe. one of the Hrst vessels of which | tl the modern Prussian Navy could boast, si Three immense mast? supported the ten: si which measured 420 feet in length and 13C I feet in width. The mast of the old ship Vol b Moltke served as the bowsprit. The tent j a )ntained salons and bedrooms and a ban- ri net hall 310 feet long and sixty fent wide. < : was lighted by electricity and furnished in f ivish style. The Berlin Delmonico. Herr ( orchardt, furnished the dinner. Covers ere laid for 1200 and Borehnrdt received 25,00ii for the job. The dinner was foliwed by a grand ball in which the Emperor < ad Empress, many Royal Princesses, the ; BRIDGE OVER THE CANAL AT OHUEKEXTHAL* i J mbassadors and their wives, Ministers of tate and their wives, foreign diplomats and host of others distinguished for birth and osition participated. THIRD DAY be Kaiser Takes Formal Poggession of the New Waterway. The climax of the splendid fetes occurred n the thiTd day when the actual dedication f the gigantic undertaking was held at the .'oltenau end of the canal in front of the >wer that marks the spot where, in 1887, the ite William I. broke ground for the canal ith a spade of gold. The Katser first formlly took possession of the new water route, le projector and constructor of which, Herr aensch, was then especially honored by his elighted sovereign. This gentleman, when SHIP COLUMBIA. 5 of the Baltic and North Sea Canal.) * e undertook to construct the North-East Sea c anal, which is the longest in the world, t leasuring 61^ miles, calculated tne cost at j 39,000,000, and not only did he keep within t le limit, but saved f?175,000. On the 5th of une Herr Baensch celebrated his seventieth irthday. The most powerful fleet of war essels ever assembled, numbering upward f 100, took part in the naval display which < jllowed. The list of fighting ships of all lasses was as follows. 1 German. 8 battleships, 6 coast defencc ( jips, 3 cruisers, 5 despatch vessels, 8 train- i lg ships, royal yacht Hohenzollern, yacht | Raiser Ailler, 4 torpedo division boats, 24 t jrpedo boats, numerous small crafts; t iritish, 4 battleships, 3 cruisers, 2 torpedo i schle<|^ P%C \ W x ^ M Ml ROUTE OF TJ essdls, royal yacht Osborne, Admiralty ncht Exchantress; Italian, 4 battlelips, royal yacht Sarvia, 2 cruisers, 2 toreao vessels; United States, 4 cruisers; J ranch, 1 battleship, 2 cruisers; Russian, I 1 uttleship, 1 cruiser, 1 gunboat; Austro- 1 [ungarian, 4 cruisers; Danish, 2 cruisers, 4 j >rpedo boats; Norwegian, 2 gun-vessels, 6 ? >rpedo boats; Swedish, 2 coast defence ? lips, 1 gunboat; Spanish, 1 battleship, 2 ( misers; Portuguese, 1 battleship; Rou- j lauian, 1 <iruiser, 1 gun-vessel; Turkish, ? dmiralty yacht Fevaid. ' The grand procession of thi.-= formidable otilla through the canal was led by the Ger11111 ilisnsiteh boat Grille, followed by the mperor's .steam yacht Hohenzollern. with I !is Majesty ou board; after which came his ther yacht, the Kaiser Aiiler, conveying the < llers of Saxony, Wurtemburg, Bavaria and t le other sovereign States of the Confedera- ' , on. The long procession was closed by the t russiau iron-clad Worth, commanded by j rince Henry, the Emperor's brother. After | lis ceremony all the ships of the German fl eet passedthrough the canal, and paraded j afore the Emperor in the bit? Kiel war port, j. le basin of which is from 14)0 to 1700 feet j road and from forty to fifty-five feet deep, i ho other royalties passed through the inal on the Lloyd steamer Kaiser rilhelm II. The Ambassadors, Ministers ! nd other diplomats were accommo- j a ated ou the Augusta Victoria, the | \ [embers of the Ueichstag, the House I I f Lords and the Diet 011 the Trave and on I v le Columbia, the latter of the Hamburg c ue. All the ships drew up in battle line at- 1 u red in their gayest colors and the sightseers r '1-tv auowea id iiium ,iuu nmc iu luc taguiliceut sight at short range. One of | le vessels whi"h attracted great enthusiasm \ ns the steamer Tantallon C.istle, having 'in oard Hon. W. E. Gladstone and a party who . ere the guests of Sir Donald Currio. The ' reseuce of the Grand Old Man" of Eng- c ind called forth universal regret that Ger- t :an s Grand Old Maa, Prince Bismarck, was r nable on account of the feeble state of his I ealth to be present. Ia the evening there i ere Hreworks and torchlight processions nd the Emperor again entertained his friends t a state dinner. The German Empire at le same time entertained the members of le German Iteichstag in a specially cou- 1 tru:ted hall near Holtenau. Attheconclu- i be if these functions the mami?uvre? of the j ruperial German Navy took place, ending t y the Hohenzollern signalling the Kaiser's j dieu tc the departing foreign men-of-war. j This bit of sentiment marked the end of the teremonies and the Baltic Canal, one of the grandest waterways ever constructed, was , >pen to the ships of the world. DESCRIPTION OF THE CANAL 5ne of the Most Stupendous Works of Modern Engineering. Nearly eight years have now passed since, )n June 3, 1887. Emperor William I. laid the 1 foundation stone of the Holtenau lock of ! his canal, near Kiel. The President of the Reichstag handed the Emperor a trowel and j lammer, and the Emperor, tapping the 1 itone, pronounced the work to be one of Deace, honor, defence and progress. Then various Princes, Ministers, memoers ot mo BuncU:srath and other functionaries each struck the stone three times. The practical task was pushed forword vigorously, and it Is said that nearly 8000 officials and men were kept at work upon it continuously. The canal is about sixty-four miles long. Its course from Holtenau is through the route of the old Eider Canal and thence by a :ourse as direct as possible, and yet with not i few decided swervings from a straight line, it reaches the Elbe a little east of Brunsbutiel. The Eider Canal, which was, of course, i Danish enterprise, had existed over a cen:ury, the advantage of avoiding the long devour around Cape Skagen having been obvious for generations. Germany, in taking jp the new project of a ship canal, hadlargey in view its strategic uses, but it also had its advantages on the commercial side, and :hese, to a greater or less extent, the whole world can share. In order that the canal nay be constantly employed and earning noney, it will *>e lighted at night by eleo :ricity. The level is fixed for that of th? Baltic; and in order to protect it from cur .UU13 3U (W tW uupvuo |uv0ivuw, "~o? ocks have been built. The width of the canal it the top Is sixty metres and twenty-two a1 ;he bottom, and, as is obvious, large mer :hant ships can meet and pass each other, while, with a view to the demand of the eery largest warships or other vessels, there ire half a dozen side stations in which tc iccommodate one of the passers. Very high .ides are to be feared only rarely, and the heavy locks provided offset this source ol ;rouble. As a compensation for the currents in the canal, there is less danger of ice 'orming, although, of course, it is expected :hat in excessively cold weather it will be sntirely frozen over. The canal is 200 fee't sroad between the tops of the embank* nents. At its bottom it is seventy-five feet jroad. The average depth is thirty feet, rhe walls are constructed partly of sand, unjut stones and masonry. THE PRESIDENT'S VACATION. Ele Leaves Washington for "Gray Gables." Buzzard's Bay, Mhks. President Cleveland, accompanied by Private Secretary Thurber and Dr. O'Reilly,left iVashington for "Gray Gables," Buzzard's 3ay, Massachusetts, for the summer. When he President's train arrived in the Pennsylvania Railroad depot in Jersey City, N. J., he President. Mr. Benedict, Mr. Thurber tnd Dr. O'Reilly boarded a launch, and were (uickly conveyed to Mr. Benedict's yacht jneida. In five minutes the Oneida was .teaming down the river on its way to Buz:ard's Bay. During the absence of the President all ofIcial business will be transacted as usual hrough the White House. Announcements >f appointments or of action in other maters will be sent by mail from Gray Gables, ind made public by Mr. Pruden, the Assistint Executive Secretary. The Ubiquitous Bicycle. Scarcely a day passes without requests from one or more postmasters that their carriers bo permitted to use bicycles and to re:ain, as an offset to the cost, the car fare; low given to them. In every case the Department declines to permit the diversion ol :he ear fares for the purpose, but agrees to jrant from 82 to $3 per montn to each carrier, to be applied to repairs for his wheel. KSTADT ^uhamburg =?.?=?1 EIE CANAL. A Starving Preacher Who Stole. The Rev. John P. Smith, a Baptist country Dreacher, who had escaped from jail at Stillwater, Oklahoma, ten days before, was found ylng dead along the roadside in an adjoinng county. He had been in poor health for i long time, and stole meat to keep his wife tnd littie children from starving, was arrest>d and convicted of theft, and sentenced to Ive years in the penitentiary. Feeling bis mnishment too great, be broke jail and met leath from exposure and starvation. Bad Year for Sealing. The sealing catch off the coast of British Columbia is far below that of last year. Of hirty-two vessels which cleared from Victoia only one will pay expenses. The total lumber of skins taken in the coast catch is >308. as agaiast 11,703 for the same period ast year. Twenty-three Canadian vessels ire hunting in Japanese waters, and have >een unlucky, bad weather having seriously tampered their operations Slept in a Tree to Avoid White Caps. William and George Patterson and JIatt | ,nd James Hatchell, farmers and alleged Vhite Caps, were arrested at Harrodsburg, j [)*., charged with whipping John Hart, two j reeks before. Mr.*. Hart says she recoglijod these four men. Since the rough treat iteut Hart has slept each night in an impro- 1 ised bed iu the branches of an elm tree. ' I How She Found Her Father. , Mr?. Sorden of Stocklev, Del. recently ' ound her long-lost father, under unusual irjumstaices. Among tho testimonials in j he advertisement of a medicine she was j eading she found her father's name, which t ed to his discovery and au affecting reinton. t Woman Moonshiner of High Degree. UUHCU OLUtC? UAilkOUU..7 uwc uuv-ui mvu u * sai(|ue moonshiner at Atlanta. Ga. She Is a ?omac. Tlu; illicit whisky distillery which * the operated is said to be owned by the sis- J er of a County Judge of Georgia. Mar- * ihals McLean, Crow and Cope maae the raid * md found the still is active operation. SUMMER PROGRAMME. Services at Ocean Grove, N. J., for the Sea- j on of 1805. Auditorium Opening?Sabbath, June 30, L895. Holiness Sleeting in Janes Tabor- j aacle 9 a. m. daily. Young People's Meeting ^ In Temple, Rev. C. H. Yatman, Leader, 9 a. j m., every morning through the season. , Opening Sermon by Rev. H. A. Buttz. D. D., f President Drew Theological Seminary, Madi- T son, N. J., 10.30 a. m.: Summer Sabbath r Bchool and Dr. Hanlon's Bible Class 2.30 p. m. every Sabbath of the season. Sermon 7.30 . p. m., Rev. C. H. Yatman. One Hundred and Nineteenth National An- ^ niversary of American Independence?July 4. Oration Rev. W. H. Lawrence, D. D., Sea Cliff. Long LMand, N. Y., 10.30 a. m.; pa- ? triotic music, Declaration of Independence, etc. c W. li. X. U. 01 new Jersey?mini) nuu , Saturday, July C and 7, Mrs. Emma Bourne presiding. . Ocean Grove Sunday School Assembly, Rev. Dr. B. B. Loomis, Conductor?Tuesday. July 9,to Friday, July 19, Inclusive. Stereopticon Views, Lectures, Concerts, Baccalaureate Sermon by Rev. J. 0. Wilson, D. D., Brooklyn. N. Y. Lecture "March of Civilization." Thursday, July 18. 7.30 p. m., Bishop John P. Newman. Friday, July 19, Commencement Oration, Bishop John P. Newman, D. D., LL.D.. 11 a. m. Christian Arbitration and Peace SocietySaturday, July 20. Sabbath Observance Day?Monday, July 22. King's Daughter's Day, Tuesday, July 23, Mrs. Margaret Buttome presiding. Epworth League, Wednesday, July 24. Women's Home Missionary SocietyThursday, July 25 and Friday, July 26, Mrs. Clinton B. Fisic presiding. National Deaconess' Convention, Thornley Chapel. Saturday, July 27. Twenty-sixth Anniversary of Ocean Grove's Commencement-Sunday, July 28, Young People's Day. Monday. July 29, Anniversary continued; Ilustrated Service by Rev. C. H. Yatman, 10.30 a. m. Ocean Grove Memorial, 3 p. m.; Silent Service at 7.30 p. m. Tuesday, July 30. Anniversary continued. Wednesday, July 31. Anniversary continued?u uiaoor service, muiup Park, 6.30 p. m., and a closing address, Auditorium 7.30 p. m. National Temperance Days. Lectures by Mrs. .Emily L. McLaughlin, Cambridge, Mass.; Colonel George W. Bain, Rev. C. H. Mead. James Clement Ambrose, the Western Temperance Cyclone; Concert by Silver Lake Quartette, Friday evening, August 2. J. N. Stearns Memorial Service", Saturday, August 3 10.30 a. m. New Jersey antt-Liquor League, Tuesday, August 6,10.30 a. in. Summer School of Theology?Wednesday, August 7, to Friday, August 16, inclusive, morning and afternoon sessions,' taken up by classes. Thornley Chapel, Tabernacle and Young People's Temple, The Summer School of Theology will close on Friday evening, August 16, at which time the Oratorio Society, of New York, under the leadership of Mr. Walter Damrosch. will give the great musical masterpiece, "Th6 Oratorio of the Messiah," as rendered by him in the Carnegie Music Hall In New York City. . Running through these varied exercises ' during these many days of the Summer School, without interfering with them, will ; be the following: J Woman's Encouragement Meetings?Mon- , day, August 12, Wednesday. August 14, in- ( elusive morning and afternoon, Mrs. Dr. H. | Wheeler and Mrs. Chandler. TV- ? ? J ? ??* O'.toImabo w TTo nl An'a Tnran- ? JTCLUliliKlUll OOUilUdlJt l/l. uauivu a * n I ty-flfth Presidential Anniversary, 10.30 a. m., , 3 p. m. and 7.30 p. m., Thursday. August 15. j Addresses, music, presentations, etc. , Woman's Foreign Missionary Society?Sat- j urday and Sabbath, August 17 and 18. Mi*- ( sionary Sermon?Sabbath, August 18, 10.30 , a. m. by Miss Danforth. of Japan. j Annual Camp Meeting?Monday, August | 19, toTnursday, August 29, inclusive. Open- > ing Sermon?Tuesday morning, August 20. at 10.30 a. m. by Bishop E. G. Andrews, of New York. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. Foar Person* Killed in an Accident at Fall River. ] A flfty-horse power boiler exploded in the < rear of the basement of the Langley loom I U?-n.vin eKrtn rm pAiinK' nfroof T?nll Plvftr UaiUCM OUV^ wu wuukj HUVWI, Mass., a three-story wooden building owned 1 by Henry L. Langley. The sides of the 1 building were blown out, knocking away the supports and allowing the upper floors to settle Into ruins. Fire started in tha ruins and began to burn briskly. The firemen made heroic efforts to rescue the Imprisoned work people, of whom there were seventeen. Shrieks from the girls iD the ruins were mingled with the cries ol their friends, who hurried to the scene. Ambulance calls were sent out. and every physician who could be reached was called. At 9 o'clock the badly charred body of a woman was hauled from the ruins. The fire had then been quenched, and at noon It was found that four persons had been killed and seven had been seriously injured. The killed were Lelia Horton, aged seventeen, Adele Dube, aged eighteen, Robert Murray, aged twonty-one; Adolph Ballefeuille, aged thirty. When the explosion occurred it shook ??? " M In r? nHfhln o holf miltt Tf OYOIJ Tf*kUM U MV .. smashed the Stafford mill windows on the east side, and in less than three minutes every operative was out of the building. There is a great deal of wreckage among the mill machinery. The force of the explosion was enough to send bricks the whole width of the mill. The boiler was torn apart in the middle, and the furnace part was blown Into the building. EXTENSIVE FORGERIES. large Payments Made ou A. S. Moore'f Fraudulent Paper. A. 8. Moofe, of No. 100 West 124th street, New York City, Treasurer of the East River j Silk Company, of Astoria, was held in the Tombs Police Court in $10,000 bail on a | charge of forgery, preferred by the Union 1 Bank. The forgery, on which this charge is ; based, is for 312.000, but it is said tQat Moore ] has gotten away with about $150,000 since 1 November and that the following banks are < fellow suffers with the Union- The Bank of . New York, the Southern National Bank, the r United Statos National Bank and theBauk of j Amerlcii. J The loss will fall entirely on the banks and , the silk company, which has already gone Into the Sheriffs hands. Moore was book- t keeper for Inman, Swan & Co. in the Cotton J Exchange Building for four years up to last , November, when he was discharged for ' speculating. ( Moore lived in style with bis wife up in ( Harlem, where he studied psychology, taught Sunday-school and entertained liberally. He j never told Mrs. Moore of his dismissal and it ^ is believed that he was led into deeperspeculation and Anally forgery to keep up witn his unchanged expenses. Moore is only thirty-four years old and was a country schoolmaster up to six years ago. His penmanship is good and it was by the merest accident that the Union Bank discovered the forgeries. 3 c t The Labor World. s Thirty-five hundred Michigan miners h3ve f bad their wages increased. ^ To help maintain the laws trades union men of Cuicago will form a military organisation of their own. The Pioneer Mining aud Manufacturing Company of Alabama raised the wages of its e 700 miners ten per en:. v Bolt and uut manufacturers of the United ? States met at Cleveland, Ohio aud decide J j1 to raise prices ten per cent. '' The big steel mills operated by the Cirnegie Company at Bradduck, Pean., are to be :on verted into* tin plate mills. A demonstration was made iu Vieim t, Aus- C :ria, by 20,000 workiugmen in favor of uni- ?, irersal suffrage. The proceedings wero per- f( fectly orderly. Twelve hundred postmen struck at Budapest. Hungary, for an increase of wages. No etters were delivered on the right side of the River Danube, aud only a few on the left c lide. D The municipal administration of Chicago o ire laboring to discover how many of the lames on the city's pay roll represent actual smployes. and how many represent straw neu. The girls employed iu telephone offices in ti Jermany receive sixty cents a day. A good took can earn as much as 11.50 a* day, while rained nurses receive only seventy-Qve tea tail COLONIAL HEROES HONORED. rlonument Commemorating the Captor* ; of Loalibart Dedicated. The unveiling of the Louisburg (Cape ? '.'f Jreton) memorial by the 8oclety of Colonial Vara was a successful event. The day was > lne, the ancient harbor of Louisburg was >eaceful in its beauty, and over 2000 people rom all parts of the surrounding country vere present to witness the unveiling cereThe houses and ships in the harbor were bo- yfij lecked with flags. The monument, which tommemorates the capture of the fortrese . a rom the French by the colonists. 150 years I go, was dedicated in the afternoon. The V& ixercisea were arranged by the Society of \ Colonial Wars. \ Chairman Pell formally delivered the aonument to the citizens of Louisburg, and Jovernor Daly, of Nova 8cotia, accepted it in behalf of the people and of the Earl >f Aberdeen, Governor-General of Canada. S> ell 'VP ^ V^L3 V <W4L*i 7^ "J /**- " I LOriSBOCBO MEMORIAL COLUMN. It celebrates the Colonial victory of 1745.t The monument is a granite shaft twentysix feet In height, and stands near the :aY<3 ruins of tho Ola King3 Bastion and Citidel. On the front is engraved, "To Commemorate the Capture of Louisjurg, A. D. 1745. Erected by the 8ociety )f the Colonial Wars." On the leftside t ?fH| s the Inscription, -French forces, 2500 regulars, militia and seamen, under Gov. Duchambon." On the right side, "Provln3ial forces, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, Slew Hampshire, 4000 men, under Lieutenint-General PepperrelJ. British fleet, ten sails, 500 guns, under Commodore Warren, .,:,Y?j3 Provincial fleet, sixteen armed vessels,' iinety transports,'240 guns, under Captain A MONUMENT TO AN APPLE. To Be Erected 'Where the Baldwin Va- ? rlety Was Discovered. ] The Rumford Historical Society of Woburn, Del., will erect a monument where one hunired years ago was discovered the kind of ipples now known as Baldwins. Samuel Thompson, of Woburn. Mass., while surveying a route for the Middlesex Canal, discovered this apple. His attention ([THIS piiur^ WCTI0IMI895 via?! Z-> sf? aafe, m i I " .... I THE BALDWIN APPLE MONIWENT. aad been drawn to it by the number of woodpeckers which gathered about the trees on iccount of the apples, Mr. Thompson thought it a new variety, and as it pleased his taste lie called the attention of his neighbors to it. ind he and his brother hastened to graft .'rom it many trees on their own estates. It tvas first called the "pecker" apple, then the 'Butters" apple, from the owner ol the land ivhere the tree was found. The brothers Thompson were constant in their efforts to icatter it far and wide, and for miles around he people secured branches of it and grafted :heir tree*. The neighbor and friend of the Thompions, Colonel Loammi Baldwin, the eminent mijineer, showed the fruit to his many quests, who came from distant parts of the jountry, and this did much for the spread >f the apple's fame, which in a few years :ame to be known as the "Baldwin." \>'p The granite shaft which is to bo erected >y the Rumford Historical Association of iVoburn is seven feet'high, and is surmount- , ^ id by a representation of a Baldwin apple. Reward of the Peacemaker. Yang Yu, the Chinese Minister at Washngton, called at the White House and preented President Cleveland with a document if yellow silk, ornamented with ribbons of he" same color, and about two feet wide and everal feet in length. It contained the oficial thanks of the Chinese Government for he friendly offices of the President in trying o secure peace between China and Japan. ? *' '} Oldest Railroad Engineer Dead. t, o_l.1 ,t ivev. lttUpu owmjuiu, IUD vmwk ?U ngineer in the world, who was associated rith Robert Stepheason, the great inventor, ied a few days a^o near Charleston,w. va., ged ninety years. He was a native of Engind. '$ 1,095,000 Soul* in Chicago. The City Director}', just published, gives hlcago a minimum population of 1,695.000. t contains 60,000 more uames than tlie disctory of last year. Wai a Financial Snccea*. Antwerp's exhibition was a financial sucess after all; the shareholders have been aid the amount they Invested, with ten per eut additional. 41 / "W Patriots Successful in Ecuador. Nearly all the interior of the Guavas Provide of Ecuador has submitted to the revoluIon. A P?a?h Carolral. Maeoc. Ga., decided to hold a "pepch oar* ival" and exhibition. . . < : :: ^