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iWTOTOPM President Cleveland Starls the Machinery From Gray Gables. THE NEW SOUTH'S FESTAL DAY. The Exposition Declared Formally Open Alter a Military Parade anil Several Speeches---Nearly All the Exhibits In Place-?A Colored Orator's Speech a Feature of the Day. With the booming of cannon, the blowing *\f Trhiot ina thn nnien of rsvolvlnE machinery, the playing of inspiring music by numerous bands and the applause of thousands of friends and well-wishers the Cotton States and International Exposition at Atlanta, Ga., was opened by President Cleveland, who sent from "Gray Gables," Buzzards Bay, Mass., a message of congratulation. This jubilee of industrial progress and development in the South, for such the Exposition is, oould not have had a more auspicious birthday. JUDGE EHOBYSPEEB, (Orator of the day at openlDg exercises on the Exposition grounds.) At the beginning of the ceremonies there was a bis? parade, headed by the United States Fifth Infantry and the Washington Artillery of New Orleans, followed by several regiments of Georgia State troops. The parade was about an hour In traversing the distance of three miles to the Exposition grounds, reaching there about 8.30 o'clock. The exercises were held at the Auditorium. It was crowded. The acoustic DrODerties were excellent, so that the speakers oould be distinctly heard in all parts of the building. President Collier was received enthusiastically when he arose to speak, as did Mrs. Joseph Thompson, President of the Woman's Board. The oration was by Judge Emory Speer, of the United States Court. The* hit of the day was made by Booker T. Washington, the representative of the colored race, who, in a twenty minutes' speech, evoked greater applause than all the others put together. He seemed to have the ear of the audience, and pleased both white and colored. Ex-Governor Rufus B. Bullock acted as master of ceremonies at the exercises. After President Collier's address Governor Bullock introduced Mrs: Joseph Thompson, President of the Woman's Bonrd of Managers. As Mrs. Thompson arose to deliver her address, the ladies of the Woman's Board arose and waved their handkerchiefs. Booker T. Washington, representative of the colored race, wa3 received with cheers by the audience. Almost every sentence was applauded. His assertion that the recognition of the colored race by this exposition would do more to secure the friendship of the two races than anything which has happened since the colored man was emancipated, wa3 received with approval by both white and colored. The n^xt speaker was George Brown, who reDresented Governor Atkinson, the Gover nor having recently been very ill, and was too weak to deliver an address. Next came Judge Emory Speer, the orator of the day. Mayor King was interrupted in his address of welcome by the boom of the salute, just as President Cleveland touched the button at Gray Gables. A great crowd of people gathered in the Machinery Hall be c ^ ~ f]j) \w ^ fA )/ sns. toseph Thompson. (Chairman of Woman's Board and Speaker at the opening exercises.) fore the close of the exercises in the Auditorily., waitiue to see the influence of the touch t fiat came over the wires. The bi? Prick engine ^-as in readiness, and a row of batteries rested near the engineer. Just as the President touched the button the whistle soundod and the <pnsrfne moved of. at a lively gait. The great cirocrd sent up a shout that ahook the root. Almost simultaneously Hundreds of are lights flashed out on the plaza, and incandescent lights gleamed from th* cornices anil domes of tlie*Wo man's building ' and the Government buildtag. lyt whs just dusk. > 8everal thousand Grand Army (member: came down from Chickamauga aacl wore con spicuous on the streets. They receivei marked attentions from the citizens. One o these, Lieutenant Franklin Berry, brotxgh down from Massachusetts the flag wLticl waved from Kennesaw the famous signal:-, "Hold the fort for I am coming." The Lieutenant went upon Kennestf.v Mountain an t waved the same signal whicl he received thirty-one years ago from General Sherman and waved to General Corse. The exposition was much nearer comple Hon on the opening day than the public hat supposed. The Government exhibit is com plete, and is said to be the finest ever gottei together by the United States. All the Gov ernaieut departments are stronirly repre sented anil ranie a fine showing. T iuexhibi of (ln? arts is also completed. Every pie ....... In ir iu in its smd the build inc is in rerfevt or'cr. There is i strong display oi sculpture. The agri cultural exhibit was practically complete Fourteen oi the seventeen engines began t move when President Cleveland tou -hed th button. The minerals and forestry displav i compu te. The exhibits in the Manuftictut ere' building and the Transportation build ing were in good shape and very near com pletion. The European exhibits, occupyin half of the big Manufacturers' HaU, wer nearly all in place. How the Machinery Was Started. A dispatch from Buzzard's Bay says: Th , machinery of the Atlanta Exposition wa wccessfully set In motion from thi Presi dent'ssummer home. The room in which tb ceremonies were performed is known as the President'sfjun room,leading out of the reception room on the northeast corner of Gray Gables. On a little shelf close by the window was the annunciator. It was of black rubber, with a small solid sold band around the ed?e. with the following inscription engraved on it: "Marion Cleveland, SeDtemberlB. 1895." The knob of the annunciator was white with an engraved Masonic emblem?square and compass?in gold. From 5 until the button was pressed the President remained beside the operator. The special wire was disoon nected from the telegraph instrument and for one minute the wire was left open, and at the end of twenty seconds Mr. Cleveland pressed the button. This was at 6.56. His thumb was on the annunciator hardly a second, and as soon as Operator Viles could connect the telegraph key word was received from Atlanta that the machinery had started. Those in the room at the house beside the President were Mrs. Cleveland, Mr. Thurber and Misses Ruth and Esther Cleveland and nurse. Ruth was especially interested in all that was going on,and stood be3ide her father when the button wa9 pressed, while Esther sat * - 'L In tier motner's lap. At me requrai *. ?. committee the President was asked to send a message before the button was pressed in order that it might be read to the vast assemblage. Mr. Cleveland wired the following at about 5.30 o'clock: "To the President and Board of Directors of the Cotton States and Interna* tional Exposition, Atlanta, Ga.: Fully appredating the value and importance of the exposition inaugurated to-day, I am especially gratified to be related to its inception and progress and to participate in the opening ceremonies. I sincerely congratulate those whose enterprise and energy have accomplished such splendid results, and heartily wish that the exposition they have set on foot will be completely successful in consummating all the good results contemplated by Its promoters. "Gboveb Cleveland." CHICKAMAUGA HEROES. I Dedication of State Monuments to Commemorate Their Valor. On the day before the beginning of the official ceremonies, thirty thousand Union and Confederate war veterans and other vis! ltors gathered at various points on the Chick amauga battlefield, Chattanooga, ienn., to j witness the dedication of monuments erected by the States of Ohio, Indiana. Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota. The programme was opened by Michigan, which held its exercises at the foot of Snodgrass Hill, where was the amphitheatre, which was filled with tiers of seats to accommodate 7000 or 8000 people. The exercises opened with prayer, after which Governor John T. Rioh, of Michigan, delivered the oration and formally transferred the monuments to the National Government, represented, in the absence of Secretary Lamont, by General J. S. Fullerton. Shortly after this Ohio dedicated its monuments. Governor McKinley was escorted to the spot by the Fourteenth Ohio Infantry, the Toledo Cadets and a crack cavalry troop from Cleveland. He was accompanied by his staff in kowous uniforms and glittering swords. Ex-Governor Campbell also bad a cordial reception, and he delivered one of the addresses of the day. Illinois dedicated her monuments at the Widow Glenn's house, which was Thomas's headquarters. The address was delivered by Governor Altc;?ld. A distinguished patherinpr marked the dedication of the Indiana monuments at the camp established near Cave Sprinsrs. Besides Governor Claude Matthews, the occa* si on presented as speakers the soldierauthor, General Lew Wallace, Colonel I. N. Walker, the newly-elected Grand Commander G. A. R.; Geuera! J. R. Carnahan and Judge D. B. McConwell, of the Ninth Indiana Infantry. Kelly's Field was occupied by the Wisconsin people, near it standing the monument erected to the First Regiment of that State. Addresses were made by Governor W. H. Upham, ex-Governor Hoard, W. W. Wntkids, chairman of the State Board, and others. The Massachusetts delegation dedicated the monuments to the Third and Thlrty-second Regiments of that State, Governor Greenhalge making the address. At the completion of the several State dedication exercises the troops in Camp Lamont, on the battlefield, under command of Colonel Poland, gave a dress parade. At night, under a big tent, thetwenty-flfth annual meeting of the 8ociety of the Army of the Cumberland wa3 held. General J. D. Morgan, of Illinois, presided. Mayor George W. Ochs welcomed the members. The response was by General H. V. Boynton, Corresponding Secretary of the Society. General Janes D. Morgan welcomed the Confederates. The ad dress was bv Senator Charles F. Manderson, of Nebraska. Other addresses were delivesed by Lieutenant-General Schofleld, Secretary Hilary A. Herbert. General Granville M. Dodge, General Daniel Butterfleld, of Hooker's staff, and General Horace Porter, of Grant's staff, and brief remarks were ' made by Colonel Fred Grant and Rev. Thomas E. Sherman. Cherokee Strip's Second Birthday. All the thirty towns of the Cherokee Strip celebrated the second anniversary of the : opening day. The Strip has more than 100, . 000 people. Perry is the largest town, with a population of 6000. Prominent People. Ambassador Bayard plays golf. Governor Morton's latest fad Is bowling. General Diaz is being boomed for another term as President of Mexioo. King Humbert of Italy Is a vegetarian and seldom eats anything except bread, potatoes and fruit. King Alfonso of Spain, being now nine I years old, has been provided with a father confessor to direct his conscience. Lord Dunraven on his yacht usually wears white flannel trousers (not duck), held with a black sash. In order to look his part he wears a single eyeglass. C. Rowland Hill, an Episcopalian missionary in Kansas, could own an English title of nobility, left him by a recently deceased father, but he prefers to be an American citizen. Dr. Conan Doyle's financial failure as a lecturer in America has "caused a flutter among tha English lecturers and writers | who have been meditating lecture tours in | the United States." Lord Roberts, of Kandahar, is to have a 1 I brass monument at Calcutta while he is yet i alive. Eleven old-fashioned brass rnuzzle1 j loading cannon have ju-t been sent to India I from London for the stulue. | Samuel Sloan, of the Delaware and Lacka; wanna Railroad, is the oldest active railroad manager in the country. He is eighty years of age and recently celebrated the golden ' , anniversary of his wedding. j I Ex-Senator William M. Evarts. of Vermont, . has bei-oine almost blind, and spends the [ I most of his time at his home in Windsor, Vt. | Ho can s-aroeiy read or write at all. but he ; takes a deep interest in the current news. Wilford Woodruff, who was elected head I of the Mormon Church on th<? death of John f Taylor, the successor of Urigham Young, Is t now eighty-eight years of age. As a mis1 sionary he has traveled 200,000 miles, lecturI ing, preaching and prose.viing. The Duke of York is said to "pro luce his * , voice well," but to speak with a very noticci1 j able foreign accent when ho makes public "'speeches. This Is not surprising, however, j\ as his father, the Prince of Wales, has a prc" | txounced German accent and his mother as * I equally pronounced a Danish accent. j I Hark W. Harrington, late Chief of the . j Weather Bureau at Washington, and pro I ie.?S')r IJI llhilDil'JIJI J Ul Ul'i uuwsinij v/l t I Michigan, has been electcd President oi the ' University of JJ'asbington. :it Seattle. an-1 I has be jti installed in the duties 01 that olllce. ? The university is in a flourishliu; condition. Sir Hilary Irving, nest to the Prince of I, Wales, is in .'ho most demand among Engo lishmen us a SDeaker at public 1 unctions, e The Dukes of i'ork and Cambridge follow s Wales and Irvingljn popularit}*. The Duke - of Conaaught is probably the best chairman - in England. He knows how to manage a - meeting, and always speaks without notes, g W. S. Stratton, the jrreat mine owner, e whoso income is ?1,200,000 p?r year, Walked from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek three years a^o, in ordtr to save the $4 railroad fare. He is a carpenter by trade and is e described as "a modest, small-sized man, a with iron-gray hair ana moustache, dressed [- in a plain business suit and wholly incone splcuous." CONGRESS OF FARMERS.: Pan-American Agricultural Parliament to Meet in Atlanta in October. AN ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME, Delegates Appointed by the Governors of the Varlons States?Many Prominent Men Will Make Addresses on Subjects or Special Interest to Tillers of the Soil?Secretary Morton to Take Part. Much Interest Is being manifested in the next annual meeting of the Farmers' National Congress, which will be a pan-American agricultural parliament, and be held lxi Atlanta, Ga.. October 10,11, 12, 14, 15 and 16 next. The Constitution recently said that "the meeting to be held In connection with it or attracted here by the Southern 8tates Exposition, will be numerous and able, bringing together the brightest minds of the country and many of the leaders in thought and action of other lands. Of these meetings the annual meeting of the Farmers' National Congress promises to be the widest In scope and perhaps in its influence. This congress is composed of delegates appointed by the Governors of the various States, each State having a? many delegates as it has Congressmen and United States Senators. Many not delegates will attend. At the last IHP-r 1/ rBESIDEKT BENJAMIN F. CI.AYTON. annual meeting thirty-six States were represented by delegates, and the attendance was from 1500 to 2000." Having made It, in the language of the Southern Cultivator, "truly, in form and es sence, National ana non-partisan, me officers of the Congress considered how to Increase its influence and usefulness, and adopted the suggestion of its Secretary, Hon. John M. Stahl, of Chicago, and his first assistant, Major W. G. Whidby, of Georgia, to invite all other agricultural and allied bodies, National in character. Mexico, the Central American and the South American countries, and the British provinces, to send honorary delegates to the meeting at Atlanta. Nearly all have accepted the invitation. 8KCBETA.BT JOH* M. 8TAHL. The following subjects and speakers have been, among others, definitely settled upon' "Bimetallism and How to Obtain It," Hon. William Lawrence, of Ohio, ex-Comptroller of the Currency, President National Wool Growers' Association, etc.; "The Relation ol Agriculture and the Currency," Hon. Geo. D. Thomas, of Montana; "Road improvement in the United States,'' General Roy Stone, Chief Division of Road Inquiry, Department of Agriculture; "Sheep Growing in the South," Colonel A. E. Shepard, Marathon, Texas; "An Export Bounty on Farm Products." DavidLubin, of California;"Agricultural Education," Professors 8anborn, of New Hampshire, and Knapp, of Louisiana; "The Weather and Crop Service: Its Relation to the Farm and the Market," John R. Sage, Iowa, Director of Weather Bureau, Department of Agriculture; "Marketing Cotton," Hon. Hector D. Lane, Alabama, President American Cotton Growers' Association; "Dairy Farming in the South,'" Major Henry ii. AlVOro, umet.L/airy.L/iYjBiuu, Department of Agriculture and late President National Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations; "Protection to American Shipping," W. W. Bates, of Maryland, ex-United States Commissioner of Navigation, author of "American Shipping," etc., nnd Major D. G. Purse. President 8avannnh Board of Trade; and "Recreations For Farmers' Wive9," by Miss Alice French ("Octave Thanet",), o I Arkansas. As Secretary of Agriculture Morton and J. H. Brigham, Master of the National Grange, will meet at the Parliament, it is expected that there will be at least onB lively session. The Agricultural Parliament will be preceded by a Southern Irrigation Parliament, lasting three days, and will be followed by a Good Itoads Parliament, lasting three days. The President of the Farmers' National Congress is Hon. B. F. Clayton, of Iowa, who, starting without moans, ha9 become th<! owner of more than 12,000 acres of land?the results of farming only. Mr. Clayton is held in high esteem by the farmers throughout the country. The Chairman of the Executive Committee is General Dennis Kenyon,oJ Illinois, who is worth half a million dollars., all made from farming and stock-raising. An* 1 1 "T* V., J otner Illinois at legate, o. x>. x-uiey, ?uu uuu nothing twentyiyeurs ago, cleared $22,000 oC his farm last year. The Vice-President ol the congress is Major G. M. Ilyalfl, of Savannah, the largest truck farmer in thf South and highly respected throughout Georgia, where he has held many positions of trust and honor. The Secretary is Johr M, Stabl, of Chicago, whom tho AtlanU Journal recently referred to as "one of the most brilliant men anil ablest writers of thf country, an editor, farmer and Christiac gentleman." Tho Assistant Secretary If Major W. G.'Wliidby, of Atlanta, one of the best known planters and newspaper men o.' the South. Fruits and Vegetables Abundant. Fruits and vegetables of all kinds are nn? , usually abundant in most parts of Virginia | Apples have brought only five cents a bushoi in market towns, and tomatoes are so plentiful that often the farmers are unable to sell the loads they bring to market, and hav< either to pive them away or throw thorn away. Oldest American Lineage. Mrs. Mary Barstow, aged, seventy-four, wi/e, of Dr. Noyes Barstow, died at Springfield, Mass., of blood poisoDing. Sho was n direct descendant In the seventh genoration of Peregrine Whlt?, tbo flrst white child bom In this 90&ntry. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED* Washington Item*. Secretary Olney decided to defer distribution of the Mora claim money until all conflicting interests in it are adjudicated by the courts. The Carnegie armor-plate for the Iowa, after a severe test, was pronounced the best ever experimented upon by the Navy Department. Secretary Herbert has sent instructions to Admiral Beardslee regarding the cholera on the United States steamship Bennington, ordering the vessel to sea on a cruise until the disease is eradicated. Secretary Hoke Smith resumed his duties in the Interior Department after several weeks' absence in Georgia, where he made several speeches in favor of "sound money." Seoretary Olney resumed his desk at the State Department and spent all his time In conference with his assistants. 8enor Dopuy de Lome, Spanish Minister to the United States, says that Spain's honor and her loyal subjects' Interests demand the Cuban revolt be crushed. He also assarts that Campos's autumn campaign will end thn rebellion. Secretary Herbert says he proposes to demonstrate the availability of the Port Royal Dock by ordering the Indiana to be docked there just aa soon as she has had her trial cruise and is accepted by the Government. Captain George W. Sumner has been suspended from duty for six months and reprimanded for allowing the cruiser Columbia to be injured in tne drydock at Southampton, England. L L. Parker. Deputy Collector and Inspector of Customs at Lynn, Mass., has been removed by the Secretary of the Treasury for attacking the Administration in a paper of which he is managing editor. The State Department has been apprised of the death of United 8tates Consul Muchmeyer, of West Virginia, and his wife at San Salvador. Both died of yellow fever. Domestic. BECORD OF THE LEAOUE CLUBS. Per per Clnb*. Wnn. Lost, ot Cluhi. Won. I/>*t. ct. Baltimore. 79 41 .65ft Pittsburg..66 57 .537 Cleveland.80 45 . 640 Sew York.64 57 .529 Phlladel ..74 48 .607 Clncinnatl.60 59 . 504 Chicago...67 56 .545 Woshlng'n89 79 .881 Brooklyn..66 56 .541 St. Louis..87 84 .806 Boston.. 65 56 .5S7.Louisville.32 91 .260 Tn W?w V/\?Ir fMH* fho America's fHnh Committee replied to Lord Dunraven's last letter, placing the responsibility on him for falling to sail the Valkyrie over the course In the last cup race. The organist of Emmanuel Churoh gave strong evidence against DuiTant, the alleged San Francisco murderer who showed signs of breaking down. Muoh damage was done by windstorms In Michigan. Charles A. Poole, formerly purser on the Ward line; fatally shot Mr?. Charles Curtis, of Brooklyn, with whom he was hopelessly in love, and then committed suicide. * The new battleship Maine was put in commission at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The New York Republican State Convention at Saratoga adopted unanimously a resolution offered by Warner Miller favoring "the maintenance of Sunday laws in the interest of labor and morality" and nominated the old State ticket by acclamation. Celora E. Martin was nominated for Judge of the Court of Appeals. The University of Pennsylvania won the International intercollegiate cricket match in Philadelphia, defeating Oxford and Cambridge, the English eleven, by 100 runs. The bull-light feature of the Atlanta (Ga.) Exposition was revived. Jacob S. Johnson, the colored evangelist ol Somerville, N. J., was arrested, charged with ' murdering the colored girl, Annie Beekman, whose body was found Sunday. Rear-Admiral Bunce's squadron of evolution arrived in port at New York and anchored off Siateu Island. Diamonds worth 920,000 were stolen from the cottage of H. Victor Newcombe at Long Branch, N. J. A fire of incendiary origin totally destroyed valuable barns and outbuildings on John D. Rockefeller's country seat, near Tarrytown, N. Y. The fourteenth annual National Encampment, Sons of Veterans, began at Knoxville, Teni',, with religious services. Louis Hoffman, of Chicago, HI., in a drunken fury, fatally shot and cut his wife and then fired a bullet into his own brain and died soon after being taken to the hospital. A big fire in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, destroyed an elevator. 150,000 bushels of grain and a spar yard. The loss is nearly $100,000. Gold is going out again from this country tn T.nrnnp Si7 Oflfl Oflft hnrincr hpftn nrnnrtpll from New York during the week. Pennsylvania State League of Republican Clubs met in convention at York. The 567 delegates in attendance represented 100 clubs. Foreign Note*. Mount Vesuvius is becoming more actively eruptive, and the volume of lava thrown out threatens to overflow the roads leading to Naples. News received in London from the Congo Free State says that affairs are in a condition of anarchy. Encounters between Belgian forces and natives which have been represented as Belgian victories have been serious reverses. Fifty houses and the Dominican Monastery at Friesach, Austria, were burned. The town, ancientlv known .is Viruem. i? noted as retaining its ancient character. It was a flourishing place in the time of the early Roman Emperors. Lord Dunraven has written deollning the banquet offered him by the 8t. Lawrenoe Yacht Club of Montreal. Canada. Foreign gunboats were sent to Ku-Cheng. China, to move the authorities to punish the ringleaders of the outrages. A Berlin paper says that the island of Chusan, oft the eastern coast of China, has been ceded to Germany. Ambassador Runyon at Berlin was informed that Louis Stern, a rich merchant of New York City, must serve his jail sentence for ruffling the dignity of a petty German official. ? Miles Stapleton, tenth Earon Beaumont, is dead. His death was caused by the accidental discharge of a gun while shooting on hta estatnci. r.irlfnn Tnwnr? Snlhv. Ynrk shire, England. Ho was found lying beside a hedge with his head shattered by the charge from his gun. It is supposed the gun caught in the hedge. The Italian bark Broomhall was sunk in collision with the British bark Condor near Montevideo, Uruguay. Captain ReEstto, the mate aud live of the crew of the roomhall were drowned. The German Government has decided to expel all foreign Socialists from the country. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani has been pardoned by the Hawaiian Government. Jo3e Macao's forces successfully withstood an assault by Spanish troops under Canellas and Garrldo in mountain deflles, near Ramon de la Yaguas. Cuba, and led them into a trap composed of a dynamite mine, which was exploded. The Spanish Lieutenant. Ruiz, was cut to pieces and many were wounded. 5 A n>!W Austrian Cabinet has been formed, with Count BaUluui os President of the Council and Minister of the Interior. Great Britain's Consul at Wenchow, in the province of Chekiang, China, has bean stoned by a mob. The cholera situation in Honolulu, Hawaii, is much worso thnn it was at first supposed to Lie. R-INDEEfl IN ALASKA. Herds Rapidly Increasing, Two Thousand llcad Now lleing Alive. K. Jeltman, of Ma:lison, Wis., who took the party of Laplanders to Port Clarence to take charge of the Government roindeer stations in Northwestern Alaska, has arrived from Alaska. The Government now has about one thousand head of reindeer and they are increasing. The cutter Bear brought over this season 18J head from Siberia, most of which are in poorer condition than the Alaska deer. The herds increased 300 head and only eleven died. These stations are supplied with tho following number of deer: Cape Prince of Wales, 210; Port Clarence, 500; Cape Nome, 200. AMERICA'S COP IS SAFE. international Yacht Races at New York End in a Muddle. DEFENDER GETS ALL THREE, The First Wa? "Won on Its Srerltg, the Second "Was Awarded on a Fool and the Third Was a Walkover Owln* to Valkyrie's Withdrawal After She Had Started?Why Dnnraven Withdrew. All three yacht races in the America's Cap series at New York have been won practically by the peerless Defender. The first was a square defeat for the British Valkyrie III., the Defender defeating her by nearly nine minutes. The second was awarded to the Defender owing to a foul, in which Valkyrie was decided to be in the wrong, and the third race was made a gift to the Defender owing to "Valkyrie's withdrawal. That the America 3 Cup would remain In this country at least another year was definitely decided when the Defender won the third of the International races. Valkyrie III. crossed the line at the starting point and then refused to go over the course. The Defender kept right on. followed by a fleet of yachts and excursion boats, sailed fifteen miles to leeward from Sandy Hcok Light- ( ship and return, and finished the race within the six-hour limit amid the noisy congratulations of a host of spectators who were as loud in their expressions of regiet at the action of the Earl of Dunraven as they were (n praise of the yacht which insured the retention of the trophy. (ntHI I?M ??*? m *11 ut i Mir I J,J-ZjJ/:-gy THE AMERICA'S OUR Lord Dunraven refused to let Valkyrie III. sail on the ground that he feared interference by the excursion fleet and that the Regatta Committee of the Ne'V York Yacht Club would not give him the assurance of an open course, which he demanded. Mr. Iselin wrote to Lord Dunr?j*8n. offering to resall the second race, wldcfc >asgiven to Defender because she was ran Into at the 6tart by Valkyrie III. Injured as she was by the collision, Defender kept right on. and was defeated by only forty-seven seconds. Lord Dunraven declined Mr. Iselin's proposition to resail the race. Excursionists estimated at 25,000 went down New York Bay to see the third race. These and the members of the Regatta and Rn?n f'nmmliteM were creatlv disaDDointed and amazed at Lord Dunraven's action. In I a letter to the Regatta Committee he had ' said that he would not sail If the excursion boats interfered with him. Extraordinary pains were taken to keep the start clear, so that there should be no occasion for com- , plaint on this ground. Lord Dunraven refused tn make any further explanation of his course, but when attention was called to the clear field allowed at the start, a friend of the Valkyrie's owner Intimated tbat Lord Dunraven feared the course would not be so clear at the finish, and this was his motive for giving up the race. On the day after the third race it was announced that Lord Dunraven was tcoing to Niagara Falls and that his yacht, Valkyrie m.. would be sailed back as soon as possible into English waters. Defender, it was stated, would not be raced again for some time, and it was said further that there would be no further test of sailing qualities between the American yacht and her transatlantic rival. It is not likely that there will be another contest for the America's Cup for many years to come, if ever. The trend of publlo opinion in New York seemed to be with Mr. Iselin and against Lord Dunraven, whoso action was bitterly resented by some members of the New York Yacht Club as an international insult. On the other hand the English press generally sided with Lord Dunraven and asserted that, owing to the many excursion boats, a fair race could not take place in the waters in the vicinity of New York. A New York gentleman offered a $10,000 cup for a ra.'e between Defender and Valkyrie III., with the understanding that writen guarantees have to be secured from the Captains of all excursion boats that the course would be kept clear. Lord Dunraven declined to race. nnwTINfi POR?ST FIRES. Great Damage Done to Property In Southern New Jersey. Business at Egg Harbor City, N. J., was entirely suspended, owing to the close proximity of the forest fires to the town. The oitlzens turned out In a body to fight the flames and protect their properly. Mayor Farr, the Col well estate and Congressman John- J. Gardner, of the I Second New Jersey District, are heavy losers. The light of the flames could be plainlyseen p.t Egg Harbor City, and thousands of people watched the glare in the sky. Other (Ires were burning In the swamp districts in and around Elwood. and in the western part of the county. Thousands of dollars have been lost by the owners of cranberry bog3, many of which will prove a total loss. Chicago's Schools Overcrowded. All the school buildings of Chicago are overcrowded, and it is estimated that fully 11.000 children are kept from going to 9Chool through a lack of accommodations. Around the World in a Pnnjy, nfflo P/tnanl Snrflj?iiA. writlnc* \j iiiicu outo 7 from Gibraltar to the State Department, reports the departure from that port of the small iioop Spray, in which her owner, Captnin Joshua Slocuin, started from Boston to circumnavigate the globe alone. He arrived at Gibraltar August 4. Anarchists Are Active. A B2rlin dispatch says thut Anarchists of all countries will hold a meeting in London in October, iuii will come to an agreement regarding common agitation and tne use of supplies Irom a common fund to support the needs of members. A Feat in Ocean Telegraph}-. While W. K. Vanderbllt was sitting in the1 yacht Defender at sea he received a cablegram from China. The cablegram was handed to the captain of a tug with the request that he try to deliver it to jlr. Vanderbllt. The tug steamed up to Defender, and the message, tied to a piece of wood and fastened to a heavlng-liue, was tossed on board. It Is claimed that this is the first time a cable mcasage was over delivered at sea. Thl* Woman Can Slioot. Miss Douglass, the champion marltswoman of England, recontly scored flfty-seven bulls-eyes in succession with u revolver at a twenty-yard range. THE MORA CLAIM PAID. . Spain Settles After Twenty Years of Con? f] troversy. After mote than twenty years of contro. versy, which several times threatened ta T bring about strained relations between Spain and the United States, a draft for the amount of the indemnity demanded by this Government for the confiscation of the Cuban estates of Antonio Maxima Mora, a naturalized American citizen, was delivered at Wash- Rj ington by SenorDupuy de Lome, the Span"X T1 8EN0B ANTONIO M. MOHA. ? Ish Minister, to Mr. Adee, the Acting Secre- ^ tary of State. Senor de Lome appeared Jf. at the State Department a few min- "j ntea after noon and was Immediately 7} shown Into the office of Mr. Adee. I~ He handed the latter a draft, signed by himself, on the London Pinan- if olal Agent of the Spanish Government, for j, the equivalent of $1,449,000. or 1,500,000 Spanish pesos, and Mr. Adee delivered In re- fu turn a formal receipt for the amount, signed . by himself as Acting Secretary of State. This constituted the whole transaction, and Senor de Lome and Mr. Adee uttered some polite . commonplace remarks, shook hands and parted, as though they had been attending j. to a minor matter of business instead of making history. The memoranda of agreement which .t provided for the payment of the money, the . time, place, and method of payment, was 0? signed in Boston on August 10 last by Sec- ^ retary Olney. representing the United States, and by Minister Dupuv de Lome, on the part of Spain. At this time Mr. de Lome informed ? J Secretary Olney that the full amount in ' | Spanish gold was then in the colonial vaults I j at Havana awaiting a final disposal of the case. It was thought by the Spanish Government that the United States might | prefer to receive money there, inasmuoh as Mr. Mora was a Cuban citizen. Secretary Olney said that it would be more gratifying .. to this country to receive payment in the form of a draft on London or Paris, to which jr Minister de Lome replied that such a course " would be entirely satisfactory to his Govern- F; ment, In view of the fact that Spain has 5; financial agents at all the principal European capitals. LOST AT SEA. The Steamer Catterthan 8unk Near Port Stephen's Lighthouse. The two thousand ton China steamer Cat- C! terthun, bound from Sydney, New South Wales, to China, with eighty-one human be- a ings on board, is lying, many fathoms deep, '( ctt Seal Rock, near Port Stephen's light- ^ house. Only twenty-sir lives were saved. gl The terrible details of the catastrophe fill ^ many pages of the Australian papers. Four- jj teen Australians and forty-one Chinese were ^ drowned. t1 The accident was due to currents drifting ^ the steamer on the rooks in the fury and darkness of the storm. At the Coroner's in- a quest it was empnaiicany pcuvou w <.uu a steamer was being steered all right, and that a the only way to account for the vessel strik- <j ing was that some mysterious current car- p rled her upon the rocks. Followineisan ac- j, count of the disaster by a survivor, Df. Cope- g man, which most accurately and briefly de- n tails the circumstances of the disaster: "At two o'clock on the morning after the v steamer had sailed a violent storm arose and jj the sea swept over the vessel, and at half- ^ past two I was shot out of the bunk by a a terrible shock, which was followed by a sec- g ond one. I rushed on deck and found the a steamer listed and rapidly settling. An offl- c cer told me we had struck a rock. There 0 was no screaming. The skipper was as cool e as possible and told the passengers not to get excited. In the meantime the steamer c was beln<* washed away in pieces. h "Captain Shannon gave orders to lower t; the boats, and immediately afterward he was j washed overboard and drowned. As tne s boats were lowered they were dashed to e pieces or swept away. At last only the star- t board boat was left. There were thirteen people in it. It was torn irom the davits T and washed away. I sprang into the sea, B and was picked up by a Chinaman. We res- E cued twelve more, the Chinaman working j, heroically. f The last one we pulled in was a European. 0 He dropped limp in the stern. I asked, c "Who are you?" He said, "It's Fawke's, old c chap. We tossed about, standing to all E night, with seas washing over us, and were t picked up by a fishing boat in the morning." E IN THE PULPIT 78 YEARS. Death of Rev. Dr. 'Wakefield, the Veteran * Methodist Minister. Rev. Dr. Samuel Wakefield, the veteran Methodist minister, died a few days ago at * West Newton, Penn. Dr. Wakefleld was said to be the oldest Mason and the oldest pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Churob, and probably the * oldest of any denomination in the world, having been ordained in 1817. He had been ? a member of the Masonic fraternity for almost seventy-flve years. All of his children are living. His career as a Methodist minis- ' nart nf thft historv of Western Pennsyl- ' vania. He preached occasionally in latter s years ami had had fairly good health until c recently, but he was much broken by the death of his wife some months ago. His t grandmother, Mary Wade, was a preacher, t having been ordained in the ministry by j John Calvert. <] Dr. Wakefield published several books on theology and music when he was comparatively young, which made him widely known. His principal theological work, "Wakefield's Theology," has become a classic in the lifetime of the Methodist Episcopal & Church. a b French Soldiers Die in Madagafcir. Over 3000 Frenoh soldiers have died in Madagascar since the French expedition be g gan operations against the Hovas. The r despatches also say it is not likely that An- 3, tananarivo, the Hova capital, will be occu- v pied by the French before spring. h tl A Mysterious Murder. P .0 Annie Beekmun was murdered on a road near Somerville, N. J., and her body hidden among bushes. Marks of a fierce struggle were found fifty feet away. Her pocketbook containing her savings was missing. Minietor r.roatlheiMl lteslgns. | j Tnmra o BroaJhe:ul, of St. Lonis, Mo., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- t tentiary to the Swiss Republic and Missouri's only representative in the rank of t' first class diplomatists, has forwarded his i: resignation to tlio Secretary of State. C Minister Broadhead is now at his official residence, in Berne. Mr. Broadhead was ap- a pointed to this place, which pays $5000 a a year, April 4, 1SP3. He iucceeaed Parson C. g Cheney, resigned, and hia nomination was s confirmed by the Senate three days after the appointment. j ? 1 I China Imprudent. e China refuses to execute the men convict- a ed of murdering Christian missionaries. ? msASTEQonoii irrific Wind and Electrical Storm in Northern New York. \IN SEEMED A CLOUDBURST. . ;| le r.'illron! Depot at c>p? Vincent 4 Smashed In and Eighteen Persons In* Jnred?Two Dead and Three Otheri ?[ Dangerously IT art?A Hundred Barn* .' { 'Were Unroofed In Jefferson County. a A terrific storm swapt ov9r the northwestti part of New York at about 9 o'clock p. . i .. causing much damage to property Ren- sfg ally, and culminating tn a serious disaster V Cape Vincent, at the foot of Lake Ontario. ; $ tie depot, in which about 200 persons had *j? >u<?ht shelter from the storm, waa partlj own down, and many were injured. Thomaa rniel and Georce Godfrey, of Cape Vincent, ed from internal injuries. Others were in- v^j red as follows: J. M. Anderson, of New YorlcCtt>; frae- . ^ ire at the base of the brain. Miss Maud, alsb, Kinfl-ston, Ont.; severe scalD wound. ^ IssLUlie Wilson. Cape Vincent: fractured i. aviole. Mr?. John Aiken, Hamilton. Ont.; '. il aotureri limb and internal injuries David . ndrus. Pierrepont Manor; hand cut. And ie following from Cane Vinoent: Mrs. ' .Ms aaene Fitzgerald; severely wounded inters , .f.-: illy. Miss Addie Denoison. Willie Rivers, j red Strong, Miss Addie Dunham, Mi* dele Seymour. Mis" Lizzie MoGowan,M(sg oseStumpf, Miss Grac* Augustus. Eugene ' Itzserald and Steve Ondine. Although it continued only a few minutes & was the most severe wind storm that has 4 sited that section since its settlement bjy ie whites. The rain came as from a ciouairst. and that continued half an hour; but e wind which wrought the destruction ; as like a tremendous gust, coming so sudsnly and passing so swiftly that it seemed '? )tto have lasted more than a minute, yetln at brief time showing a power before which i /j most everything movable gave way. * 'TThe station at Cape Vinoent, which was ;? recked, was an immense shed, capable of : ? lettering great crowds of excursionists to ie Thousand Islands and Canadian points. J seemed like a straw under the force of the . '3 ind. So violent was the force of the wind that "y shot boards and sticks of timber from a 31 mber yard not only through the windows / ! houses, but in one instance, at least, irough the clapboards and plaster into a tchen. v Reports from various parts of Jefferson ounty show that probably a hundred barns ere unroofed and some blown down. The ifferson County Fair was in progress with great number of tented attractions. The jgj rounds presented a scene of chaos, nearly rery tent being flattened and much of the mvas being torn to shreis. In St. Lawrence County, oarticularly in ie vicinity of Gouvernenr. the storm took j .v ie form of a flood, accompanied by the ter- ' , ; fying electric display. Several fires are .'porte i, in which farm barns were struck * 7 lightning and harvested crops and stock asiroyea. .T A FRICHTFUL EARTHQUAKE. hundreds of Persons Reported Killed and Great Damage Done In Honduras. A courier who arrived at Tegucigalpa, th? apital of Honduras, reported that a disaa oufl earthquake had occurred at Tetapau ad the surrounding country, causing the >ss of hundreds of lives and the destruction f many houses. At Yetapan, according to Is report, seventy-one houses were detroyed and 153 dead bodies had been taken rom the ruins. At Covajuanca thirty-seven ouses were destroyed and ninety-five dead odles had been recovered. At Cayuscat sventy-nine houses were destroyed and 111 oiies were taken from the ruins. The shocks commenced on Sunday, lasting 11 day and night at Intervals, causing muoh amage and grbat fear among the lnhabltnts of the city and neighborhood. By Honay the city was filled by an addition of 3500 eople from the mountains and outlying viliges. During Monday night sheets ol ames appeared at different points to the orthwest, rising to immense neignis. Tuesday morning the shocks ceased, quiet ras restored and people left town for their iomes. At 9 o'clock that night, however, eavy rumbling noises were heard, shortly fter followed by a reappearance of the lames in the mountains. Frightened people gain flocked to town and ai midnight the hurch tower fell, carrying with it the roofs f three houses. Nine people were killed and lghteen injured. Rumbling which sounded like the heaviest annonading commenced and lasted over an lourand a half, the people rushing madly hroug'n the streets, praying and crying, ust before daylight another prolonged hock occurred, which Is variously calculatd to have lasted from two and a quarter to hree minutes. Many fleeing people were killed by rocks rhich fell in a perfect shower like a hall* torm. Smoke from the mountains to the lorthwest rose to an enormous height, folowed shortly after by the bursting flames rom the mountain sides and the throwing iut of rooks and lava. Shortly after streams if molten lava set flre to a number of houses fh? mrtuntain side. Cattle grazing neat >y fled and were killed, being engulfed In he lava which continued flowing in imneose streams. / REUNITED BY A RING. .'n Picking It Up Dr. Mott Finds Hit "Lony Lost Wife." By the accidental dropping of a diamond ing at the station at Winimac, Ind.. a husland and wife who had baen separated fox orty years were reunited. Charles Mott, of Boston, stepped from the rain, and as he walked toward the station a roman leaned from the window of a car and isked him to hand her a diamond ring rhich had slipped from her finger and was ying at his feet. Dr. Mctt picked up the ing and on the inside read the inscription: 'Charles .Mott and Vera L. Burns." At the ame time the woman recognized him and ried: "Charles, my husband!" Dr. Mott clasped the wife who fled from ilrr. <? onrrur frtrfv YHArS MM. and Whftn th? rain departed they were sitting side by side, 11st as they sat forty years ago, before that [uarrel. A Miraculous Escape. Agnes Driscoll, two years old, tell out ot f a window in Brooklyn, N. Y , to the yard, eventv feet below. Her fall was broken by clothesline, and she wa3 only slightly raised. ISrlde is Thirteen ; Groom Is Sixty. social circles in Manchester. Tenn.. were reatly surprised the other day by the mariage of Frank Sharp and Miss Sarah Simpon, of that town. The bridegroom is a rell-to-do widower of sixty and the bride a andsome girl of thirteen, the daughter ol lie Rev. Adam Simpson. There was no oposition, though the marriage was a ^ulet ne. The persons Interested are of Manhester's best people. The Labor World. San Francisco has Chinese butchers. America has twenty-six bicycle factories. There are many women marble polishers a this country. The Michigan copper miners have raised he wages of their employes ten per cent. A conference of window glass manufacurers and workmen, at Pittsburg, resulted a an advance of 7>a per cent, in wages. )ver 20,000 men will De beneilted. There w;is a shortage of skilled carpenters t Atlanta in consequence of the great mouut of construction at the Exposition rounds, though there was a surplus of unbilled labor. This year's assembly of the Knights of ^ dUbor will be held at Washington, November 2. There will be about 100 delegates presnt, representing every State and Terrftorv^^S nd Canada. oDl