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|N:: MILES VICE SCHDFIELD. ^ Oetailei as Gsneral Commanding the United States Army. I?" HIS DISTINGUISHED CAREER, |\ * ' A ailnnfl f*lm to thf OCVrt'ttl 4 J uaiuuut gSK-V" j Place Occupied by Grant. Shennan, Sheridan and SchofieWl?Mo la Not a West Pointer?General Hu~er Succeed* Miles. Secretary Lamont issued an order detailing General Miles to dutv in Washington as General of the Army, and General Ruger, now on duty in Washington, to command the Department of the East, with headquarters & . at New York. Nelson Appletou Miles, appointed to sueeeed Lieutenant-Goneral Schofleld[as Major General commanding the Army, was born at Westminster. Mass., in 1339. and with th? B?y. " exception of General Sheridan, is the young' ?st officer that ever held that position. Hi; Itv ! appointment possesses more than an orrlin ary interest from the fact that he is the flrsi , occupant of the hisrh office who has not beer V ; graduated from the West Point Military It pan lit orally bo said that ho foucrht his w ' Tay>up the ladder. The outbreak of the wai fouri him a cleric in a crockery store in Bos ton. Afterasixmonths'course inatemporarj military school in that city, which wai paid for by his employer, young Miles went to the front as Second Lieutenant in ki.' the Twenty-second Massachusetts Volun> ' teers. He rose through successive (grades to ? ;, that of Major-General, being brevetted foi conspicuous gallantry in the battles of the If 1 V f- / NELSON A. MILES. GENER. \Vildern033. Chancellorsvillo and 8pottsylvanla Court House, and wa3 wounded three times. At the close of hostilities he entered the regular army as Colonel of the Fortieth Infantry. It is as an Indian fighter that he is best known to the younger generation. He gained enviable distinction by his hard flght, ing and brilliant campaigns against the Comaaches, the Nez Perces, the Bannocks and the Sioux under Sitting Bull. Kansas. Montana, Arizona and NewJlexioo all voted if . him either thanks or swords of honor. He b-ought about the capture of Sitting Bull, and subsequently compelled the redoubtable I' * uoronimc to -urr-.u'ioi. He was iv t.*ommand of the iroops durins the turbulent times preceding the Wounded Knee trouble, a few years ago. and it was his management of that campaign that undoubtedly prevented a general outbreak, More recently ho distinguished himself bj his course while conamanning the Federal troops during the railway strike an 1 riots lr Chicago. Ia 1880 he became Brigadier-General, and in 1890 Major-Genoral. His last command , was that of the Department of the East, witt headquarters at New York. General and ilrs. Miles are said to be the handsomest couple in the army circle. Mrs, Miles is a niece of Senator Sherman and ? sister-in-law of Senator Don Cameron. Sh< is a tall woman of commanding presence. They have two onildren?a daughter aboui twenty-two years of age and a son several years younger. There is assigned to New York in place ol General Miles a native of NewYork. General Thomas H, Ruger was born in Lima, N. Y., In 1833, and stood at the head of his class at West Point. He left the Engineei , Corps a year after Joining and . -v 1?? *i fr T.,^u=w]la Derail mo pruuitua ui *u?v ?i >mu?i<i..vl Wis. He was there when the war began and volunteered his services. Ha was mostlj with the Western armies, but accompanied Sherman to the sea as a Brigadier-General, During the draft riots in New York City he was in command of the troops. H? was made a Colonel in the regalai service, and for seventeen years com' minded the Eighteenth Infantry. He was engaged in delicate service in the South dur ing the reconstruction period an 1 later election troubles. He acted as Superintended at West Point and as commander of the Infantry and Cavalry Schools at Leavenworth, . Prominent People. Lieutenant Peary says he will make nc -more Arctic explorations. Es-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, has re . fused a pension to which he is entitled. "England's Only General" is one of th< well-known epithets of Lord Wolseiey. Honry M. Stanley's visit to Canada, it ii said, i3 to find a good place for Belgian em ''(grants. JoanS. Sargent, the American artist, ha; been awarded a gold medal at the Berlin ar exhibition. Kiug Christian of Denmark, is the oldesl European monarch, while King Alfonso o 0[>;t,!U IS luC}UUU(in?. Ex-Senator Jones, of Dubuque, Iowa, i; about to undergo an operation oa his eyes. II is nicety-one years old. Dr. Smith, the author of "America," de clines a memorial to himself and sugeest: instead a Lincoln memorial in the h'ousi where the martyred President died in Wash incton. Sir Conra t P.ocvos was the first mulatto t< ? ' - bo knighted. Hu is Chief Justice of Barba dos, allhough'of slave descent on his moth er's side Count von Waldersee is said to have sur prised Emperor William, and even Bernard himself, by his strategy during the late mlli lary maneuvers. /v?,ial Puiplln thnSnanish Premier is sixty-live years old. He eutered journal Ism whan he became of age, and politic throo years later. Admiral Fitz^raM, of th? Criti.-h P. >ya .N* ivy. Las 3.it down hard on Lord Dunrave: his ia the yacht race. i n:. :" Il -ary of Prussia, brothor of til Erajj'jrvr or Germany, has been appointed t rear admiral in the Austrian navy. Bishop Potter, who loves to rido hors< oa.'x, is out almost daily in New York an takes ri'l?:s against time, though he is seldor In the saddle more than an hour. 3Irs. Diaz will represent her husband pei aoually at tiio Atlanta Exposition, as th Mexican law forbids the President leavin that country during his term of office. Henry E. Abbey, the impresario, says tha Mary Anderson is the oniy A.metican artis that ever made any money ia Loudon. He last season at the Lyceum made a nroflt c ? <180,000. MRS. STANTON'S BIRTHDAY. ' To Be Observed by a National Celebrat on November 12. On November 12 next will occur 5 eightieth birthday of Elizabeth Cady SI I ton, who hajj devoted her life work to emancipation of women in every departn of life. < ELIZABETH CADY STANTON*. t Organizations of women all over i country. especially suffrage organ r tions, lire preparing to hold meetings iu honor on that day. Tin National SufTi i Organization, of which she is now Honoi : President, felt that her work for women - been of so broad a nature, it would c< r more directly in line with the work of ) JNationanjouncu or women, 01 waicn m : Lowe Dickinson is President. This cou i is the outgrowth of a meeting called years ago to celebrate the fortieth anoi > sary of the first Woman's Rights Conveni : ever hold in the world, and is organized s the advancement of women along all 11 1L COMMANDING THE ARMY. of thought and action; they therefore g over the National celebration of Mrs. 8t ton's birthdaj' to the National Council Women, who will fittingly observe it in York on November 12. BROOKLYN LAUNCHED. 1 The New Cruiser Entered the Water Sal nt 1'hlladelphla, Penn. i The United States cruiser Brooklyn 1 successfully launched at Cramps' ship ya Philadelphia, in the presence of an imme crowd. iiuss ocmeren, uuuguier wi Mayor of Brooklyn, christened the boat, number of Cabinet ofllcers and other dis1 guished spectators were presont. With the launch of the Brooklyn ' United States Govornment will soon com< 1 possession of the finest and most effect t ship of war in the world. The Brooklyi an urmored cruiser, and belongs to the sa 1 type of vessel as the New York. Tho ncl I Congress authorizing the construction of i Brooklyn appropriated S3,500,000 for purpose, exclusive of armament. 1 ) BrookljTi Is 4G0 feet G Inches long, 64 I , beam, ind h-.s a mean draught of 34 1 i and a moulded depth of 41 feet 3 inct ) The engines are of the vertical Inverted c , tnder, direct acting, triple oxpnnsionty : The armor of the Brooklyn consists o l nickle steel deck, of six inches thickness the slope, and three Inches thickness on t flat, a water line bolt of three inch pla I backo l by a double streak of hull plati , extending over tho whole of the maohin > space. The battery i3 to consist of ei r eiRht-inch guns, mounted on four turr I two on the middle line forward and aft, < , two midships sponsoned on tho sides; . flvo-inch guns mounted on spousons on ' prun deck, and sixteen slx-pounder rapid I and machine ruus. i WILLIAVIS NAMED FOR COVERN So'.ected by MaM.ichajctta Democrats Head the Stato TIckct. The Massachusetts Damocratlc State C I vention was hold In Monhanlcs' Hall, Vi cester, and George Fro 1 Williams \ nominated for Oovornor. The convent was callod to order by Johu W. Corcot , Chairman of the State Coamlttoo. ' Committee on Credentials reportod t there were 1559 delegates present out < possible 2321. The Committee on Porman Organization reported Josiah Qulncy, 3 Boston, for Permaueot Chairman. The nomination of Mr. Williams was m 3 unanimously. The Committee on the bala . of the ticket made the following rep which wa3 unautmously adopted: For Li tenant-Governor, James S. Grlnnell, Qrf ! field; for Secretary of State, Edwarc Flynn, Boston; l'or Treasurer, Eben Stevens. Sudbury; for Auditor, AlTred t Whitney, Boston; for Attorney-Gene f Henry F. Hurlburt, Lynn. The platform declares for sound mo ; and a tfold standard, and praises the Cl< and Administration. Sympathy was pressed for Cuba, but uone for Hawaii. 3 I'ortj-nino Vessels Lost, o Nineteen steamships and large sailing * sels and thirty smaller craft were lost off i coasts of England during the late stc 5 Twenty-four lives are known to have t " lost; it was feared that many more sai ] ana iisnermon iitjrisucu, <?? tU<> cjttoL I Devonshire and Somersets!) .-e. particula - i wore strewn with wreckage. A Novel Campaign. Henry Georgo is organizing a knaps I campaign through New Jersey. Orator s broad hats, biue shirts and loggias stump the Stats Tor the single tax. j I lilectricity lor a Ki; IlailroiUl Systo: The li.inois Central Railroad Direc e ' have issued a call for a special Stockholm a meeting on November 26, to pass on a p; osition to increase the capital stock f s 550,000,000 to $00,000,000. It is said tc d the intention of the company to equip n suburban system with electric motive chinery. A Yankee Yacht for England. '*) The Herreshoffs havo receive! an o from Sir Arthur Paget of the British L kt tion at Washington for a boat to bo usee j* racing off tho shores of England. The I ir is to be about twenty-seven feet on the wa ){ line and to have a tin of Tobln bronze, work of building will commence at once. i ATI A KIT A rVDAC n iLnnin uatva Jon ~ the faL tan- i the ( leat ( a AHBY OFFICER ABBESTI age rary ome Captain %Armes Alleged to Have I [ary suited the General Commanding, ncil teD K SEIZED BY SCHOFIELD'S ORDER for lues The Accused Man Wrote a I<etter to 1 Lieutenant-fJeneral Commanding 1 United States Army Which Deemed Insubordinate?Arrested b, File of Soldiers. flanffltn Oftortre A. Armes. United Sta Army, retired, better known as "Maj< Armes, was arrested at his home, Armesle Park, on the Chevy Chase road, Districl Columbia, at 8 o'olock p. m., by Lieuiem Albert 8. Coming. Adjutant of the Fon Artillery, and-a file of soldiers. and confli in the Washington barracks. The order his arrest was signed by Assistant Adjuta General Vincent, "by order of the act Secretary of War." Lioutenant-Gen< John M. 8chofleld was the acting Secret of War. Merely as commanding office: the army he would not have authority order tbe arrest. There has been a personal quarrel of tw ty-flve years' standing between Gen^ { 8ohofleld and Ilajor Armes. Genoral 8c field was at the time of the arrest on the 11 of his retirement, and it was the last day / one on which he could exercise any autt ' ity whatever over Major Armes. Smarting under injustice which, as he t fesses to believe, General Schofleld had d him, Major Armes visited the War Depi I ment, unaware that General Schofleld \ J aoting'Secretary of War. and requested Interview with General Schofleld, which i refused. Then he sent a letter in by a messenger i went home. Part of the letter Is a9 folio "General John M. Schofleld. U. S. A. 'Sir: Before you are relired from acl duty I thought I would call your attent to the Injustice, wrongs and persecute you have inflloted upon me during the ye 1869-'70 and up to the present time. Aa ave my knowledge I have given you no cat an" I would like to have an expla 1 01 tion as to your grounds ew trying to ruin me in the way you ha After^ny retirement you caused a court bo selected, and tried to ruin and dlsijr me. You also issued an order, and I i published a3 a person whose sanity wasqc tioned, but after the mischief was done i el} stopped the investigation without t request upon my part that you sho do so. Common justice on the part of a perior officer, the manly instincts of a g 'rd| tleman when shown that he is mLstak nse should cause you to apologize and ahov tllf disposition to amend the wrongs, as far possible, which you have for so many ye A heaped upon me. Respectfully, etc.. I'a- ; "George A. Armes ! Major Amies wa9 sitting in his parlor al dinner, when Lieutenant Comings, accc } in panied by Second Lieutenant Gor< ivo rra,*noV imiMigMil in thn doorwav with a a of soldiere and read the order of arr me Major Armes attempted to resist arre9t, t of Anally requested a few minutes to prep the himself, and then accompanied the offie the to the arsenal in an ambulance which 1 fhe been provided. set Lieutenant-General 8choQeld, when s eet said: les. ''Captain Armes has been endeavoring :yl- secure h brevet to which he thought him] pe. entitled for his participation in a certain i a diun fight a good many years ago. It y on all without avail, however, and I have recc the mended to the Secretary of War that tea, brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, wh ng, was desired by Captain Armes, ery not conferred upon him. Captain Art (?ht had evidently been made acquainted w ets, thi9 action in his case, and ho presen ind himself at my office in the War Departm ton just before I was leaving, and sent in the card. I sent oul word that I did not care fire see him. He tried to force his way into I 4. ? omce past my lutwsciigri, auu milium <.uai, left a letter for me which was abusive t threatening. The letter was of such a ch OR. acter, in fact, that it was absolutely nec sary that discipline should be enforced. T to fortunately, as it happened, I was Act j Secretary of War. Secretary Lamont 1 I been called away and the Assistant Secret; on" I was absent. Under the regulations therefc ror- ' the duties of Secretary developed upon i va3 The Commanding General of the Ar ,. i has no authority over retired offlo< ton ! and if Secretary Lamont had been h an, 1 I should have simply sent the papers up rhe him to take such action as he might de hat proper and necessary. As it was, there \ Df a nothing for me to do but to take immed' icnt action, and I ordered Captain Armes's ari of i and confinement in the guard house." ! Captain Armes has b?en in trouble dur ado ' nearly his whole oareer in the Army, tico j has been courtmartialed several times ort, insubordination. In January, 1868, Arc mi- I wua fnr conduct in the DoDartm son- of the Missouri, and was acquitted. 1 J. months later he was reprimanded by 8. other court martial, and a third dismisi C. him from the army in 1870 for c ral duct unbecoming an officer, and gentleman. He was restored by a spec nej act of Congress. He was again tried i ive- dismissed, but President Hayes commu es his sentence to suspension for one y? While serving his sentence Armes was ag put on trial for disobedience and again ( missed from the Army, but President Q ves field commuted this sentence to suspens . for six months. He was retired In 1883. lDt 1889 he pulled Governor Beaver's nose In >rm Rigzs House, and Sohofleld had him coi >?ed martialed. He was sentenced to five ye lore imprisonment In the city of Wa3hingt a ol within ft fifty-mile limit. He served 1 rlj", years and the sentence was remitted. Kilted an Iloar After Marriage. ;acj. The Rev. A. R. Lambert, .went to Juai g jn Township, Pennsylvania, and united Ji MorniDgstar an 1 Mary A. Bow39r in n riage. About an hour after the cererac while the bride was sitting by the gro George P. Spooaeybirger, Morningst brother-in-law, handed him a gun. and tors weapon was accidentally discharged. ' lers' shot took effect in the upper part of rop- groom's head. Death was instantaneous rom : i be Drilling Chinese Officers. m<^ The Czar has sanctioned the altachn of 125 Chinese officers to the Russian Ai for a period of three years and the admia of fifty others to Russian military sohool rder egft- Prominent People. f ^ General Lord Wolaeley is an amateur i ^ it of great ability. The Senator Knute Nelson, of Minnesota, casionally amuses himself cultivating a f. of 400 acres. SITION?MANUFACTURES AND LI BE -** 'ill! imSwMlllnii^ zt'u Hi, - w IMII MUU* W >* |JJ DR. TALMACE Wllfc CO. The Brooklyn Divine Announce* the A ceptance of Ills Washington Call. 1^,. The Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Tftlmage a nounced his acceptance of a call to the Fii Presbyterian Church of Washington, D. ( where President Cleveland worships. S' -M 1 T. W ^ P | r EEV. DB. T. DE WITT TALMAOE. ' to en. Dr. Talmaare expressed hl3 gratification ,ral the unanimity of the call and its hearty i ho, dorsement by the Washinjrton press. He e eve pressed his repret at leaving the pastorn but with which ho has been associated f lor- twenty-five years, but said he fully apprei ated the National character of a charge )r0. the capital. one Dr. Talmage said that, according to T ut. present plans, he would preach his last s? K&a mon before going to Washington at I an Gregg's Lafayette Avenue Presbyterif yag Church, Brooldyn. on October 6. He w make application to the Brooklyn Presb terv for official permission to leave his prf ent pastorate and will depart for*Washini?t< that night, presenting his letters to the Prf ive bytery of the city of Washington on Octob Ion ?' **e will proach his first sermon to 1 503 new congregation on Sunday, October 27. ara Dr. Talmage was In receipt of many co: i to gratulatory telegrams from prominent pe lse pie in Washington, many of whom express nal a wish that he should make Washington b for permanent residenoe. This he will probab ,V(1 do. as he arranged to diSDoae of his home t0* No.-18 South Oxford street. His family wi ace remove to Washington, vas ^ M'CILL FOR GOVERNOR rou iny uli Nominated Unanimously by the N? 9U- Jer?ey Democratic Convention. eD" The New Jersey Democratic State Conve r a tion at Trenton nominated Chancellor Ale as ander L. McGill, of Jersey City, for Govt iar9 nor. There was but one ballot, and ex-Co < gressman Augustus W. Cutler, of Morri 'ter town, was the only other candidate nami )m. In the convention. Chancellor MoGill i lan ceived 796 of th?)989 votes in the convenlio ale but before the result could be made kno^ sst, the Cutler votes changed, and it was a but nounced that the Chancellor hal recelv< are every vote and had been nominated unai era mously. lad 8umuel K-?li9ch, of Newark, was mai Temporary Chairman and ex-Senator Barrel eon of Essex; ex-Assembly man Matthews, Union, and Fjancis B. Lee. of Mercer, we t0 made Temporary Secretaries. After the a 3ell polntment of committees a recess was take jn. At the afternoon session the Committee < vas Permanent Organization reported in favi )m. of ex-Judge Howard Carrow,.of Camden, fi the Permanent Chairman and the Temporal jch Secretaries were retained. be The platform indorses President Clev neg land's Administration and approves his star ith on the currency question. It charges tl tod I recent industrial depression to the results ent Republican legislation. Race-track legisl hig tion 13 denounced, and the party declares i to favor of a constitutional amendment th the will render impossible the leglization he gambling in any form. Equal taxation md demanded, aud the late Republican Legisl ar- ture is denounced for its refusal to enact la^ !eg. asked tor in the name of labor. The pla jQ_ form pledges the party to the enactmenc i Ing 'aws that will secure to the people control lad the water supply within its borders. ary Alexander T. McGill was born in Pitl Ire burgh about fifty years ago. He came \ ne>' New Jersey in 1854, and was graduate! fro Princeton College in 1864 and from tl 5rg Columbia Law School of New York City ere 1866. He studied in Trenton with the la t0 Supreme Court Justice Scudder, and was a etn mitted to the bar in 1870. In 1874 and 18' he was a member of the Legislature. I ate was Prosecutor of the Pleas in Hudson at ast afterward Law Judge in the same count He was appointed Chancellor by Governi [aj. Greene In 1887 and was reappointed In 189 jjg Chancellor McGlll is a Presbyterian and for active in church work. His father was aeg Professor in the Theological 8eminary < ent Princeton College. Six JjJ THE FAMOUS ALERT BURNED, ona She Had Anchored Nearer the X'ole Tha ;lal Any Other Ship. ind Hsr British Majesty's steamer Alert, 01 ( of the most famous of the vessels that we ain engaged in Arctic exploring, has sailed h lis- last voyage. Bought at auction for less tht .ar" $5000 from the Canadian Government a fe ilOU In weeks ago by a shipbuilder of New Brun the wick, the Alert was oeaohed on the Bea Jrt- port Shoals, in Quebec Harbor, by her pu ar'3 chaser, and, after being dismantled, wi on_ flred for the sake of her old metal. 81 was presented by the British authorities Canada some ten years ago, to be U3ed j exploring the Hudson Straits. The Alert had the record of having and ored in latitude eighty-two degrees twent lita seven minutes, nearer to the pole thau ai other ship. At that time she formed part < the Nares polar expeditioa of 1875 and 187i iar- an,i wa3 commanded by Captain (now A< >11V. miruH Woi?L*ho.m TTftr aicztor uhin tpuq rl 0I?? j Discovery. For over four months the rnon ar'9 . bers of this expedition never saw tne sui the They reached the grave of Captain F. < -he Hall, of the United 8tate3 ship Polaris, ar the erected a memorial plate over it. In 1833 the Alert, having been found i well adapted for navigating the Arctic sea was borrowed from the British Aduirall and thoroughly reflttad by the commLsstc ie appointed by the United States Congress 1 rmy arrange the expeJitlon for the relief i jion Lieutenant Greely and i>arty. This was tl expedition which reached Lieutenai Greely and the survivors of his party wh< they were all on the point of succumbing famine and cold, having subsisted for over art- month on nothing but lichens and boil* strips of seal-skin. The Alert was the bu; -g. ply boat of the expedition. Had the resci ? " ing party arrived at Oreely'g headquarters few noura later, not one of the party wouj huve been found alive. RAL ARTS BUILDING. ~ ' I f k' ' CHINA YIELDED QUICKLY. c' She Submitted to the Demands of the British Ultimatum. n- The British Government has received inrst formation that China has yielded to the 3., pressure of the British ultimatum by degrading the Viceroy of Szechuen and according ? In full the other demands of Great Britain. A dispatch from P<?kin was received at the Foreign Office, London, confirming the oiulamant 4-hnf Phinn hj>d nntPil fnvnrriblv on the demands of the Marquis of Salisbury for the punishment of the Viceroy of Szechuen, who Sir Nicholas O'Conor. British Minister at PekiD, reported vras responsible for the outrages bednnincr in May at the mission stations in Chengtu, the capital of Szechuen. The despatch savs that the Chinese Official Gazette has published an imperial edict announcing that the Viceroy of Szoahuen has been stripped of his rank for failing to protect the missionaries and will never again be allowed to hold office, so that his case will serve as a warning, for nil future time, to officials who may oe disposed to do wrone. The decree also denounces the subordinate officials of the province who failed to take proper action for the protection of the missionaries. ? The Pall Mall Gazette says the Tsung-llTamen (the Board of Foreign Affairs; for'mally communicated its decision to the British Minister, who expressed himself as satisfled with the terms of the edict. The State Department at Washington was ? advised by Minister Denby that Viceroy Liu . had been degraded by an imperial decree. _ The abstract of the decree cabled by Mr. Denby shows that the responsibility for the r" Chengtu riots in the province of Szjchuen * rests with the officials; that Vice?r roy Liu was exceedingly careless and * " took no notice of the riots and made no atat tempt to stop the outrages. He will bp de. prlved of bis office, and will never again be 113 employed. Other offMals are also to ba jr* punished. *he American Commission will r* proceed," notwithstanding this action, to 'U pnnrtiir?t thA inTPstication of these riots. Liu, the deerrad?d Viceroy, appears to y~ have been ail official whose coustant aim was ^ to stir up strife with the missionaries and 311 seek the good will of the natives, whose deepiS" rooted anti-foreign sentiments caused these ?r periodical outbreaks in th? province over 119 which he ruled. He has been connected with previous outrages, and was compelled n" to pay the French an indemnity amounting ?" to $800,000 from his private purse for crimes committed against French Catholics in , November last. iy at 111 WHO WILL MARRY MOI LEE? Biz Reward for Any American Who Will Wed This Daughter of China. Hip Sing Lee, a wealthy Chinese merchant ,w of San Jose, Cal., offers a half interest in his business and $5000 in cash to any reputable n* young American who will marry his daughx" ter, Moi Lee. sr* Hip Sing Lee is the wealthiest Chinaman n. in the valley, his fortune being estimated at ' $75,000. He conducts a general merchan" dise store and lottery in San Jose, and has branch stores in Watsonville, Santa Cruz and ,e* Salinas. Lee has become thoroughly Amenn< canized. Lee's wife died about a year ago, rn and, as several attempts have been made to n* kidnap Moi, he is afraid that if she does not marry soon, the highbinders may succeed in 'I* carrying her off. Moi Lee is sixteen years old, and Is con30 sidered a good looking Chinese girl. She rt? reads and writes English, and plays some of o* the most popular airs of the day on a guitar. re Her English and musical education was obP" tained from an old Frenchman who lives near n- Chinatown, and whom her father has omployed as Moi's tutor for the past three years. Her father gratifies alt her desires, and a few of weeks ago he bought her a bicycle. 8he has ry learned to ride, and almost any afternoon can be seen riding in the northern part of the ?- city. id Hip Sing Lee is over fifty years of age, and says that as soon as he sees- his only child of married to an American and ensconced in n a- pleasant home he is willing to die. He owns in several fine residence lots in the city, ami at says that on his daughter's wedding day he of will give her husband the key tc a palatial is residence. He says his prospective son-ina law must come of good parentage and be of rs good character, and be tree from all vices tc t- which many of the young men of to-day are of addicted. of s- TOUCHED OFF THE WRONG BLAST m A Blander Costs Six Lives la a Missouri Qaarry. In te A premature explosion occurreJ. in a d- quarry S9ven miles northeast oflndepend 75 VTr? TTitrrt mon anH a hnv Irvcf fhnlf I l(j lives. Two blastB were set just before quit y. ting work, one on top of u large ledge oar rocks, the other much higher ami further ut 4. the side of the hill. They were to be touched is off with wires from an electric buttery. Thf a men took refuge under the ledge of rocks of immediately beneath the first blast, intending to touch off the one higher up. By i mistake the blast over the ledge was flrec first. The explosion tore loose the whole ledge of rocks, and the whole mass fell forward or m the men. The dead are: Miles McTiernan contractor: Thomas Ferguson, fourteen years old, son of John Ferguson, a farmer, 10 Dan Rodgers. Pat Welsh. Charles Truett and re an unknown Italian. All the dead excepl 0r the boy are of Kansas City. In addition to these, John Ferguson, father of the boj in killed; Joseph Fleming, and an unknowr iw Italian were seriously Injured by flying 3. rocks. u- ~ r- Baltimore Won the Baseball Pennant. jq The season's contest among the twelve ho baseball clubs composing the National League ended with games at New York Philadelphia and Washington. The pennant, h* which signifies the championship, wa3 wor by Baltimore. Cleveland finished second iy and hence those two clubs won the privilege of of contesting in a series of games for thf 5, Temple Cup. The clubs finished in the fol d- lowing order: Baltimore, Cleveland, Phila ie delphia. Chicago. Brooklyn. Boston. Pitts ft- burc. Cincinnati. Now York, Washington, St. a. Louis, Ljuisville. n id Tbe National Game. ,0 Boston made fifty-three home runs this ,3> season. Baltimore won the pennant, Cleveland bet0 ing second. of Indianapolis did not lose a series in tho 10 Western League fight. r? f TT rr . _ U .A^ninltl An4?'i In.l L. 1_ . nuuor is uoriifciuijr uuuuo^ iu ruuK. uuw as 3& Baltimore's star pitcher. t0 McCarthy, of Boston, intends to retire from ^ baseball after this season. p. There is no quieter man on the diamond j. than Reitzs, of Baltimore. a Anson, of Chioaffo, is said to be writing a Id book on bow to slide bases. i . PUBLIC DEETSTAMr T? The Monthly Report of the United "J States Treasury. Sfl DEFICIT FOR THE QUARTER. ? P* 1*6 There Was a Net Decrease In tho National ^ Liability Daring: September of 1,834,< 686.42?Government Receipts and Ex- 26 peadlture^ ? Coinage and Clrcola- jQ tlon?Ninety Sliver Dollars' Coined. th The United States Treasury monthly statement for September shows that the in- m terest-bearing public debt increased a trifle ?$210?last month, while the non-interest- fj< bearing debt decreased $168,689, and the surplus cash in the Treasury increased $1,366,- m 206, making in all a net decrease in the debt *n of $1,834,685. The gold reserve stands $92,011,973, or $7,417,864 less than it was a yj month ago, and with a feeling of uncertainty among Treasury officials about fc what changes for the worse a month to or even a week might bring about. Government receipts from all sources last month were $27,549,678. a million and a half St less than during the preceding month of w August. Customs receipts amounted last w month to only $14,653,967, about $1,090,000 pi les3 than in August, 1895, or in September, 1894. Internal revenue receipts last month si were $12,260,009, about $100,000 more m than in the preceding month, while receipts from miscellaneous sources were tj only $653,702, against $1,141,544 in Au- q gust. Expenditures last month aggregated $24,320,481, or $3,229,197 less than receipts; and it is in expenditures where the great cutting down is shown. Last month expenditures aggregated $24,320,481, against $32,645,800 in the preceding month of Au- d gust, and $30,323,018 iu September, 1894. There was a paring in every item except in the interest charges. Civil and miscel- , laneous expenditures were only $4,918,899, or $2,500,000 less than in September, 1894. War Department expenses were $5,745,389. or fully $500,000 less than in September, 189i. H Navy Department expenditures last month dl were $1,855,477. against $2,282,3D1 in Pep- li tember, 1894. Pension payments were t?it>,707.909, about $2,000,000 below September, ff 1894, and even the ''poor Indian" last month tl received only $796,508, against $1,260,809 ill September, 1894. . The total receipts for the last three months , or for theflrst quarter of the current fiscal year aggregated $85,572,072. against $97,848,174 tor the corresponding months of the w preceding year, while expenditures for the ^ last three months were kept down to $95,456,730. or $3,000,000 less than for the same o period in 1895. The net deficit here shown tor the first quarter of the ourrent fiscal year n Is $9,884,658. G , The National bank note circulation outstanding on September 30 was $212,762,237, . an increase for the month of $513,064, and a since September 30, 1894. of $5,290,736. The ^ circulation based on United States bonds in- ^ 3reased during September $606,534, and sinoe September 30, 1894, $8,345,812. N The coinage executed at United States mints during September aggregated 5,956,- h 551 pieces of the value of $8,078,653.40. as ti follows: Gold, 509,771 pieces or the value of n $7,543,575.50: silver. 1,464,360 pieces of the o: value of $473,166.50; minor coii, 3,982,480 tc pieces of the value of $61,914.40. $)nly ninety tc standard silver dollars were coined. TO PREVENT PR!ZE FIGHTS. ? The Texas Legislature Met In Sp?cial P Session at Austin. In compliance with Governor . Culberson's a] proclamation, the Texas Legislature met in special session at Austin to enact legislation tt affeoting the Corbett-Fitz3immons prize F fight. g Governor Culberson, in his message, confined himself solely to the prize fight question. He said that this question was being N wrangled over in the courts, and he deemed fr It advisable to stop further discussion by te I T n 1 o ttt k.i* tl uaviuj$ iuu uu^i^iaiuxu cuav/i ?? iarr imit would be clear and specific oil this subjeot, and be desired it to go into Immediate ef- <j, feet. His message concluded as follows: "By tt proclamation all persons have been given hi notice that this exhibition would not be pj permitted, and whatever has been done by its projectors was with full responsibility for the consequences. The publio Interests require that this exhibition, es- jl pecially, should be suppressed. Discountenanced by Mexico and the Territories, outlawed and driven from every State, it P1 Is proposed to nssemble a horde of ruf flans and Ramblers, and offer here this " commanding Insult to publio decency. Against it the instincts and the pride of hi the people revolt, and your prompt and bi resolute action will spare them the ignominy m and the shame. Impelled by a sense of duty m to exert every executive power to divert this calamity, you hare been called in special session and the responsibility for the consequences is now divided with you. That you will meet it as becomes the representatives of the whole people, anxious and ready to " protect the fair name of the State, Is not doubted." ol A bill was then {introduced, one in each tv house. The House bill declared that prize fighting or any pugilistic encounter shall be r deemed a felony and shall be punished by V( an imprisonment of not less than one ? nor more than two years. This bill had the emergency clause. The other bill, introduced in the Senate by ? Senator Simpson, provided a penalty of not less than Ave nor more than ten years, and J* further provided that any one who ia any J? manner aids or abets a flpht will be consid- 01 ?5iT5u ? participant auu suuj^ui iu tuo nuuio named punishment. The emergency clause Ci was also in this bill. ki MET DEATH ON THE TRACK. bi ni Two Fatal Railroad Crossing Accidents In New Jersey. Mrs. Clara Buckalew. flfty-flve years old, 61 and Miss Griggs, her niece, seventeen years old, of Monmouth Junction, were d< struck and instantly killed while crowing Bi the railroa 1 tracks at the road from Monmouth Junction to Dayton. N. J. The two d< women had ridden over to Dayton in a car- eo riage, and it was on their way home that the accident happened. The bodies were fear- gjj fullv mutilated. fli The Rev. S. Y. Lum, a Presbyterian mln- Dl isler, livlug at East Rutherford, was instantly killed by an express train at Rutherford, N. J. Mr. Lum had just received a , lelteratthe postofflce and he crossed the St-1'are to the railroad station and started to go over the tracks. Being extremely deaf P he failed to hear the approaching train and ln was struck and his body was hurled a hundred feet. The apt rent reckleaness of the Li act suggested sulcii until Mr. Lum's deaf- isl ness was recalled. he A Hurled City. QC A buried city like that of Pompeii is being excavated in Central America at the foot of tu; the volcano Agua. Pottery, fine glassware, jewels, flint instruments and human skeleton over six feet long have been taken out at depths of fourteen to eighteen feet. 1 . ag Ate a ro^sonei Fly. (u A singular case of poisoning occurred at Jj?. Areola, III. Daniel Miller, agod sixty years, cr was eating supper and accidentally swal? he lowed a fly thut had basn on fly paper. H# th lived about three hours. in, China Tayitij; Up Promptly. Special dispatches from Shanghai say that 30,000,000 taels in sliver have been deposited Dl at Shanghai by the Chinese Government Di with which to pay the supplementary in- lei demuity required by Japan as a consldera- fo tion tor the evacuation of the Liaotung Ij.j Peainsulx B1 f.. Fate of a Chief. ^0' A famous Chippewa c&ief known as Bun? 'ei pa Powagon waa out in a canoe on Beaver a= Dam La!ce, Wla., recently with his squaw when the boat upaet. The squaw swam upbore, but Bunga's load of liquor took hla down. He was 108 years old. tll . 'V r.. - t * . THE NEWS EPITOMIZED1 yfy Washington Items. A. despatch from United 8tates Minister srrell to the State Department states that >ward of 140 persons were killed In the rent riots In Constantinople, Turkey. The United States Geodetic Surrey has eebllshed a line between the Golden Gate at' in Francisco and rhe mouth of the Chesatake Bay, whioh will be of use in forming :aot lines of longitude and to determine the ecise shape of the earth. The District Grand JutJ at Washington ' commended the whipping post for wifelaters and petty thieves. United States Treasurer Korean mailed ,748 checks aggregating $4,899,830.50 for h Interest due on United States registered ur per cent, consols of 1907. A year aa;o e number of checks mailed was 26,882, Cgregatlng $4,895,059.50. The United States Treasury dally stateent hereafter will have added to it details vlng the redemption of United States notes id Treasury notes by the day, month and ical year to date. . ' J. President Cleveland approved the reprl and of Admiral Kirkland for congratulatg President Faure on his election. Captain Winfleld 8. Schley was ordered to >mmand the umtod states cruiser new jrk. Secretary Herbert awarded the contract r building one of the new torpedo boats i Mo ran Brothers, of Seattle, Wash., at leir bid of 3100.000. The poor showing made by the United ;atas ram Katahdin on the last private trial as due to the fact that the propeller blades ere badly bent, having, it is supposed, icked up a log while running. Government receipts for the first twentyx days of September exceeded thedlsbuxseentsby 6112,744.35. Attorney-General Harmon instructed ' nited Stales District Attorney Black, of liicago, to prosecute the Beef Trust. Domostic. One boy was killed and two men wera inircd by an explosion of gunpowder in the etwilier & Street fireworks faotory in Jorsy City. N. J. The thirty-sixth triennial convention ol le Protestant Episcopal Church was held in inneapolis, Minn. . At Danville, Ind., the trial of the Rev. Mr. inshaw for wife murder resulted in a verlet of gnilty. Hinshaw was sentenced to " fe imprisonment. An unknown young burglar was killed by illiDg from a fire-escape while fleeing from le St. Lorenz Hotel, New York City. The Gentlemen of Philadelphia won the ecicling match with the Oxford-Cambridge even in Philadelphia The steamship Margaret, of the Plant Line, as wrecked near Caps Henry, Va.; no lives ere lost. Many vessels were wrecked in heavy galea n the great lakes. A mass meeting of Brooklyn citizens nomi- ated Supreme Court Justice William J. aynpr for Mayor The Sheriff at San Francisco, Cal., made ^ ^ efensive precautions in anticipation of mob . loience in base Durrant, on trial for the mm aim el Church murder, is acquitted. Forest flres broke out afresh in Southern ew Jersey. William Qfninfr?^n?Vifnr?n tronra aM nn/Y is brother Gerry, a nine-year-old pupil of le public schools, were drowned In the orth Elver, New YorktCity.when the rowers f nearly a dozen boats were almost ready ) rescue them. William lost his life trying > save his little brother. Frank P. Allison, a nephew of Senator llison, of Iowa, W3S severely hurt in an at- " smpt to escape from Castle Williams, on overnor's Island, New York Harbor, where 3 was in prison for desertion from the :my. Frank Andrews was aiso wounded in 1 attempt to escape. Ethelwynn, the American boat, gave up le third race off New York with 8pruoe . 4 7., the British challenger for the Corinthian jAwauhakn Cup, her owner olaiming it was to rough for the small yachts. > Irishmen in Chicago organized the Irish ational Alliance of the World, to effect the vedom of Ireland by any means "consismt with the laws and usages of civilized Naonfl." The Ethelwynn, the American half-rater, sfeated the English boat. Spruce IV., in Lefpurth race off New York for the 8eawanika-Corinthion Challenge Cup; Spruce IV. rotested. . The Grand Jury found indictments for anslaughter against six men connected > ith the construction of the Ireland buiidig, which collapsed in New York City. Train No. 1, Now York and St. Louis exress, on the Baltimore and Ohio Baliroad, in fntr* ar* onot.h^tinH froin nt Tnnnfllfftn r. Va.; seventeen peraons were Injured. The worst drought ever known in Maine as been broken by rain. One forest fire irned over a tract six miles long and two lies wide, and another over a territory Ave lies long and a mile wide. Foreign Notes. The Kaiser quarreled with his brother, rlnce Henry, and virtually banished him om Germany. Advices from Ohina report a horrible case ' cannibalism as the outcome of a feud be* reen two villages of the Canton Province. The American Liner St. Louis cut her icord down about five hours in her last >yage from New York to Southampton, ngland. The Prince Kegent of Bavaria refused to irdon Louis Stern, tee millionaire dry >ods merchant of New York City, recently mdemned to a fine and imprisonment for suiting Baron von Thuengen, Deputy jmmissioner of the Spa at Kissingen. Fifteen huudred rebels were routed in aba by the 8panish troops, with forty lied. In the lower House of the Hungarian Diet lis wort* minntarl nrovidincr for the reC02 tion of the ifebrew religion and establishg freedom of worship. Brazilian Deputies engaged in personal icounters and fierce debate over the proved measure granting amnesty to.those cently engaged in rebellion in Rio Grande ) Sul. Friends of President Moraes, of razil, attempted to prevent his resignation. An attempt was made to assassinate Presi>nt Alfaro, In his palace, in Quito, the .pital of Ecuador. The village of Oberunsbach. near Siangan, Germany, has been destroyed by -e, and its inhabitants, one thousand in imber, are camping in the fields. Britons have subscribed 8150,000 for the instruction of a challenge bout to compete r the America's Cup. The great $7,000,000 bridge across the anube, between Tchernavoda and Pere3ti, Roumaniii, has been opened to travel. The British steamship Alene, of the Atlas j me, was urea upon caree iimus oy u, op null gunboat, while off Cane Maysi, Cuba, on ir voyage to Kingston, Jamaica. The monument to the late President Carit was dedicated at Fontainebleau, France Letters from Anttocn, 8yria, report th< eking of achureh by the Moslem populace q Armenians were killed or wounded. Spain Loses a Cruiser. Tho Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon ran round on the Bajos los Colorados, off Mana, Cuba. All of the crew were saved expt three sailors. The vessel is a total loss, le Cristobal Colon whs an iron bark-rigged uiser of 1130 tons, with engines of 1500 rse power. She was 210 feet long, ol Irtv-two feet beam, an I twelve feet five lilies draught, and carried ten guns. 131ack Elected Again. The Congressional election in the Tenth strict of Georgia between Major Black, the jmocratic candidate, and the Populist ider, "Tom" Watson, resulted in a victory r th? Democrat by a majority estimated to between one thousand and fifteen hundred, ack and Watson were opposing caadidatea r Congress at the last regular election, and ujor Black was declared elected. Mr. Watu charged fraud and Major Black chalaged Mr. Watson to go betore the people ;ain, which was accepted. Euphemism for Prize Fight. "The Dallas Physical Culture Festival" ia e new name for it.