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? AEBEATMTTLE MM Eight Hundred Patriots Under Macec De!eat 2600 Spaniards. REBELS OUTGENERAL REGULARS. Kho Spanish 'Enemy Loses 395 Men Killed nd Wounded, Including Fitteen Officer*?Lack of Ammunition Prevents a Capture?Rebel Stronghold# Established?'Enthusiastic Women. * The famous mountain or Mopjote, one ol M>?? K<ni.Aof <n r>tiKo has h<>fln the scene of a heavy battle and one more victory for the in argents. The Mogole is forty-five mile3 northeast f Santiago de Cuba, and a point where ?anv battles were fought during the ten years' war. The rebeb, learning that Spanish Generals Garcia. Navarro and Linares were on their way to the mountain, placed themselves in a good position. The combined Spanish % aoltimn, 2600 strong, opened the attack trom their vanguard. Antonio Maceo, with 800 men, returned the Are. and after a severe battle of five hours he forced the Spaniards to retire, leaving five officers killed, ten officers wounded, and 380 soldiers killed and wounded. The rebels might have captured th? entire force of the enemy had they not *nn short of ammunition. During the last few days the insurgents kave made splendid camps in Sabana Mi' tanda, Mocrote and La Gran Piedra, the secand and last of these being natural fortresses, almost Inaccessible. Sabana Miranda Is situated about twelve miles from Ban Luis, the terminus of the American Railroad; Mogote, as said above, is foity-flve miles northeast ?* on,! To (Iran Pifxira is six miles from the American Iron Mining Company. Jurague, situated on the south coast f Cuba. The rebels have isolated the towns of San I?uis and Palma Soriana, situated twentyfour and thirty miles, respectively, from iantiago by setting Are to a bridge between the towns. A boat of the Spanish man-of-war Nueva Espana, manned by an officer and ten sailors, while passing near the Baconao River about thirty-six miles from Santiago,on the south oast of the island, was fired upon by a band of Sraurgents, who were on the coast making salt. The boat returned the fire, while the man-of-war threw six bombshells to protect the landing of the men. The wbels left the place, and no one was woundad on either side. Yellow fever still continues very bad among the Spaniards. Tho enthusiasm is great amongthe Cubans, nd many young men go to the field almost daily. The women are more enthusiastic than the men, if possible. MURDERED BY MOSLEMS. Armenian* Killed in the Market Place of Alchlssar. A despatch from Constantinople, Turkey, avs that reliable news has been reoeived that fifty Armenians were killed and a number wounded at Akhissar, in the villayet of adln, oq the Anatolian Hallway, by a Moslem nob. The slaughter occurred October 9, wbioh was market day. Many Armenians had gathered from adjacent villages. Early in the morning a Turkish rough, finding that fehe Armenians were not armed, picked a parrel and shot one of them. There was men raised on all sides the cry: "Why hesitate to massacre the infidel?" A mob of Turks, armed with revolvers and knives, looted the market aud massacred the helpless Armenians. Their bodies were thrown into the wells. No women or children were injured, probably on aocount of the arrival of Kaimaikaa from the village of Gieve, three miles distent, who made valiant efforts, at the risk of Ids own life, to save ths Christians. Otherwise the slaughter would have been complete. The panic among Christians revived in Constantinople on acconnt of this isolated attack, and the Armenians again flocked into the churches. BACK AT THE'WHITE HOUSE. The President Itetnrned b.v Water and Mrs. Cleveland by Rail. The President and fnmiiy were reunited in Washington at the White House, after separate trips from their summer home. President Cleveland reached the olty by water in the afternoon and Mrs. Cleveland and the children arrived by train over the Pennsylvania at 11.10 p. m. About 4 p. m. the steam yacht Oneida, with the President. Private Secretary Thurber and Commodore E. C. Benedict on ^ board, docked at the Seventh street wharf, where carriages were in waiting to convey hem to the Executive Mansion. The trip from lower New York Bay on the Oneida was accomplished just about on chedule time. The weather was rather *ossrh until the Delaware capes were passed, but alt the party stood tho voyage well and reported promptly at every meal. A brief stoo on the way un the Potomac R:ver wa9 made at Indian Head, whero a telephone message was sent to the White House officials notifying them n>lir pnrrlnsrps 011 hand to meat the nartv. The President has b>-en absent from Washington sinc? June 17?two days less than four months, and he has fished nearly a hundred days. A NEW NILE OF THE NORTH. A River 500 Miles I.onj Discovered In tho Province of Quebec. Professor Boll, of the Canadian Geological Survey, reports having discovered a lirge river in the Province of Quebec. Shortly after his party crossed the Height of Lad, thoy followed an uu* known rivor whioh gradually widened aniil it assumed a great size. They followed Ihis river to James Bay. Tho river had three large branohes, one of which has its Bonrce north of Three Rivers; another in the Lake St. John region, and the third, near Lake Mistissini. Tho now river, for whioh the Indians have o name, is much larger than the Ottowa, and Dr. ^ell affirms it to be the sixth of the grw.it rivers of the world. Its average width Is considerably more than a mile. It flows through a level, clay country, Is very deep and may be called a new Nile of the North. It is 500 miles long, and great Btretohes -would be navigable for Bteamers. Towards lames Bay there are successions of great tapids. Tho banks are heavily wooded with pino, sprude, tamarack, balsam and white biroh. Holding On to Wheat. It is reported throughout the Northwest Hurt tho wheat growers have, in response to a secret circular, formed nn organtzntloc lor the purpose of advancing the price of wheat to a figure where it will pay them Jo take tho grain to market. 8omc weeks ago an anonymous ciroulai was scattered broadcast over the Korthwest calling upon the farmers to hold Iheir whoat, the capitalists of the country were manipulating the price In order to miikf ? fortuno for themselves. They claim tc bare positive information that the prlen will advunce from twentv-ttve to llfty per cent Insfdo of a f-iw months, and they will them Soie continue to hold it. Keceivc<l the He:irt of Koscins!o. Tlr; reception of the heart ef Koscius!:o which had been transferred from the enape In Yezia, near Luzauo, was the occasion fo ceremony at the l'olish Museum iu Rapper swell, oil the Lake of Zurich. Delegate iroin Galicia, including the President an< municipal authoriticfof Cracow and thu Pol feb delegates from Pusen, Prussia, besides i amber oi American Poles, were present Several speeches were made in eulogy of th patriot. The Sweet Cora Cro,". Maine's sweet corn crop, which is now a! nost harvested, is the largest and best, i proportion to acreage, orer raised. _ ? c&?Ajiu*4?c~Aj. ? THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Wanhinsrton Item*. I Spatn backs down and restores diplomatic function3 toUnitel States Consul-General Williams of Cuba. I Assistant Secretary McAdoo decided to turn over nt once to the State of Massachusetts the old receiving ship Minnesota, now lyinc at New York, without making further repairs to her. Secretary Carlisle and Assistant Secretary Hamlin returned from Boston and resumed their duties at the Treasury Department. Secretary Hoke Smith has taken steps to protect gilsonite deposits in Utah. The Supreme Court of the United States nas reassembled. J. Zell Hoover, a well-known Washington character, related how he secured 8210C , from Lord Sackville-West, then British Minister to the United States, on a fictitious letter telling him that the Fenians were about to blow him up with dynamite. 0. J. Carroll. United States Marshal for the Eastern District of North Carolina, arrived at Washington, having been summoned by Attorney-General Harmon, and ' had an extended conference with the Attorney-General in regard to the activity of fili> blistering expeditions in North Carolina waters, supposedly destined for Cuba. A new *10 counterfeit silver certificate, , with the portrait of the late Vice-President Hendricks, series of 1891, check letter D. has been discovered. Its general appearance is very deceptive. The note has been "doctored" to give it an aged look. General Miles has leased for his residence in Washington the house at the corner of Twentieth and G streets owned by Medical Director Kindleberger. of the Navy. It is near the War Department and one square above the residence of Secretary Herbert. Soain has been warned from Washington, by her Minister there, it is presumed, that il she doesn't crush the revolt in Cuba forthwith Congress will recognize the insurgents as belligerents. Attoney-General Harmon said that the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight could nottakeplaoe on the Hot Springs Government reservation. Uomentlr. Women delegates to the Social Parity Congress in Baltimore, Md., visited the slums of that city. Mrs. Miner, living south of Magnolia, Ark., locked her two children, age six and four, in a room whim sue went to a neignoor s home. While she was gone the house caught Are and the children were cremated. The Rev. Frank Hyatt Smith, of North Cambridge. Mass., was arrested in Denver, Col., accused of sending sourrilous postal cards through the mails. Morris Schoenholz was convicted in New York City of arson, first degree, second offence, making himself liable to a sentence of from forty to eighty years. General Taylor, Commander of the Arkansas State Guard, arrived in Hot 8prings to prevent the proposed Corbett-Fitzsimmons prize fight. The Grand Jury of Monroe County, New York, indicted Rev. John M. Fitzgerald, pastor of the Holy Cross Church, Charlotte, for arson in the second degree. The National Association of Bankers held their twenty-flrst annual session in Atlanta, Ga. P. J. O'Connor, thirty years old, and P. McKelltvr, twenty-nine years old, were run over by a train at the Lawrence street crossing, Newark, N. J., and killed. The Farmers' National Congress at Atlanta. Ga.. declared for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. Ethel Oliver, a nurse in 8eney Hospital, Brooklyn, confessed that she had stolen jewels and money from sister nurses and from patients. At Fort Scott, Kan., the State Bank closed its doors. Its cashier stole 330,000. Maior Moreland. Cltv Altornev of Pitts burg, resigned; he and his assistant will be prosecuted criminally tor retaining interest on city moneys. The converter in the Frankstown Steel Works of Jones & Laughlin, Pittsburg, Penn., burst, throwing the liquid metal in all directions. Seven men were severely burned, one fatally and perhaps two mortally. Frederick K. Kelham, a youns: lawyer, wae . found dead on an elevated road track, New York City. He is supposed to have been killed by falling from a station platform, or by a passing train. Secretary Carlisle spoke to the Massachusetts Reform Club, of Boston, Mass., in favor of a "sound currenoy." Forelsrn Note*. The steam yacht Windward, which conveyed the Ja kson-Harmsworth Polar expedition to Franz Josef Land, has arrived at Bergen, Norway, with all well on board. A Brussels dispatch says M. Boique, Chief Inspector of the water supply of that city, was murdered by a discharged subordinate. While a new oilmotor street car, crowded with Town Councilors and others, was making its trial run at Qlassrow, Scotland, the oil tank cautjht fire and the car was burned in the middle of the street. All the passengers escaped. A French column, in a fls;ht with pirates at ranai, xonquin, recently, lost iorty men killed and over a hundred wounded. An explosion occurred on a steamship at Kungpai, near Kinchow, China. The steamship was loaded with troops and it is reported that 600 of them were killed. Brazil was reported to have recognized the Cuban insurgents as belligerents. Advices from Baku, in the great Russian oil field, show that another great naphthp spring has started and is yielding 300,000 poods daily. The British Fishmongers' Company, of London, are seeking to prohibit the sale J here of frozen salmon from British Columbia, alleging that the fish is salmon trout, the sale of which1 is illegal in the United Kingdom between the months of October and February, The rioting in Agram, Hungary,"continued; Croatian students burned the Hungarian flRF- ? A boiler of a steamship lying in the harbor of Speziar. Italy, exploded, killing four 1 stokers and badly injuring one of the engineers. The Cabinet ha3 resigned and Kin? Charles summoned Demeter Sturdza, the Liberal leHder. to form a new Roumanian Ministry. The insurgents in Goa have been promised amnesty by Portugal if they will lav down their arras. The American ship Parthia, from Liver; pool, for San Francisco, was burned at sea, the captain ami mate, with nineteen of the crew, ure missing. The Freddie L. capsized and sank twelvo miles from Corosal, Honduras. The bodies of nine persons who were drowned were rei covered, while the remainder of the passen1 gers and crew clung for nearly fifteen hours to the wreckage before they were rescued by a small schooner. The cause of the accident was a sudden squall. The Foreign Office in London denies the report that a British army is marching through Brazil en route to Venezuola. A despatch from Rome says advices from Abyssinia are that the troops of Ras Mangnscia, the Abyssinian leader, have been dispersed and that they are fleeing toward Shoa. The German Emperor and Empress were greeted with enthusiasm in Alsace-Lorraine. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria, has written a letter to his son, Prince Alfred, on the occasion of the latter's coining of age, exhorting him to ba mindful of the duties of a Germau Prince. 1 and to aid in furthering the welfare of the duchy and empire. An imperial ordinance has been issued prohibiting Japanese subjects from visiting Korea without special permission. The foundation stone of the new Dessid? Puluoo, t-j be erected to take the place o 1 .Mar LoiI^p, Braemar, Aberdeenshire, tin r Scotch Highland residence of the Duke o Fife, which wa.- burned in June last, wa: ? laid by Queen Victoria. The site of th< j palace is on the banks of the Dee, only a few miles from Balmoral, the Highland residenct lt the Queen. A serious rebellion lias arisen in Goa, tin e Portuguese colony in India. The new Norwegian Cabinet will be mad( up as follows: Hagerup, Premier; Sverdrup Minister of Worship; Kildil, Minister o I Finance; Engelhart, Minister of the In terior; Nielsen, Minister of Public Works Q Olssen, Minister of National Defence. AT LA : LONG DROUGHT BROKEN Heavy Rainfall in the Middle State : and New Englandi i WELCOME TO FARM AND FACTOR' Mirers EejoTee Bccan?e Works That Ha Shut Down for Lack or Water Wil Start Ajraln? MJU Operatives Partak In tbe General Jubilation at the Proj pcct of Renewed Activity. , A storm, which hag broken the Ion drought, advanced from the lower lakes t the New Jersey coast, attended by hear rain in the Middle Atlantic and New Englan States. This storm moved slowly northeast ward along the New England coast, attonde by high winds and heavy ralnalongthe Mid die Atlantic coast and in New England. Fi nally the storm became central over th Gulf of St. Lawrence, and heavy rain wa followed by clearing weather in New Yor and New England. At Boston, Mass., 5.6 inches of rain fell in twenty-four hours. Th following di3Datches from various points re port the effects of the welcome rain on th crops: Philadelphia: The first rainfall of an consequence since early In July befcan in thl vicinity on Saturday, and continued all o yesterday. In consequence there Is great re joiclng in all parts of the drought-strickei district, the farmers and miners being th Greatest beneflciaries. The drought wa the worst that has been experienced sine 1869, the deficiency of rain for th months of July, August and Sep tember being fully eight inches Many of the mines in the anthracite ooh region which were compelled to shut dowi because of tho lack of water/esumed opera tions to-day. In some of the larger town and cities of the State the question of i water supply became a serious problem, an* in some municipalities it had to be hauiei ' from a distance. The farmers will now b able to plow their fields and plant thei wheat. Pboyidence, R. I.: The storm of 8atm day and Sunday rased here thirty-nin hours, and the total rainfall of 5.28 inche wna the greatest, with one exception, sine 1877. The wind reached a maximum veloci ty of twenty-three miles between eleven am twelve p. m. yesterday, and broken wires re suited. Several street wash-outs wore re ported. Boston: The total precipitation of rail here on Saturday. Sunday and early thl morning was 5.64 inches. The drought ii the Immediate vicinity of Boston, where th heavy rain fell, had not been very serious although a number of cisterns were dry am newly seeded land needed rain. W00N80cket, B. I.: The lonor-contlnuei drought in this section was broken by th storm which set in on Saturday and con ttnued for thirty-six hours. The precipita tion about here was 6 3-8 inches, being th heaviest rainfall since the freshet of 188C Mills that have been shut down entirely o running on half time will now have wate enough to last them for two months, even i there are no further rains. The Blackston River is unusually high, and a huge volum of water is pouring over all the dams froc Millbury to Pawtucket. Poktiaitd, Me.r The drought which ha prevailed here for some time was broken t< some extent bv the rain storm of yesterday and last night. The precipatlon was ver light In Eastport and only moderate here The storm in this Stato, however, was ac companled by heavy winds, which did mor< or less damage. Albany, N. Y.: The rain that began fall Ing on Saturday relieved this city and vlcin ity of a bad drought. The river was exceed ingly loW; and the reservoirs supplying th city had suffered to such an extent that ii many sections water had to be entirely shu off during the night. Tho rain was a pene trating drizzle and lasted twenty-two hours Syracuse. N. Y.: Reports from the sur rounding towns in Central New York indl cate that the drought which Is reported t have prevailed in sections of the East an West has not been felt in this part of th State. Baltimore. Md.: While Maryland ha not been suffering from a serious drought rain has been needed, and reports fron throughout the State show that the heav; showers of yesterdav, which were general have been of great benefit. STONING THE PRIESTS. Workmen Attack a Religious Frocegglo in Spain. There was a procession of the rosary a Cadiz, Spain, that resulted in a somewha serious attack on the processionists. As th procession, which was headed by the Bisho of Cadiz, was passing through the streets, crowd of idle workingmen were met who dii not approve 01 tne religious paraae. xne; shouted: "We want work, not sermons! Go kill th insurgents in Cuba!" Not satisfied with thus insulting the clergy they hustled those who were taking part i: the procession and then stoned the priests The volleys were so heavy that the priest and their followers were compelled to tak refuge in a church. The mob then stood outside, hooting an< jeering, until dispersed by the police. Durin the stone throwing the Bishop was Blightl injured. The mob made a feeble resistance to th police, and many of the rioters were woundec The Prefect complains that the trouble aros from the fact that the Bishop did not advis him that the procession was to be held, thu not allowing him to take timely measures t protect those who took part In it. FOUR MEN BURNED TO DEATH. Cnncht In n V.lazlnj Mine From Wlilc There AVns No Escape. 1 Tho shaft house at thu Summit coal mini Scory City, Iowa. wa- burned a few night , ago. Four miners, Albert Peterson, Aloxar f der Eastman. Inge Ingleman and Georci ; Payne, were burned to death. The engiDec f had built a Are in the furnace which hoist > the shaft, and left for supper. Whilo he wa 5 gone the timber.* close to tho furnac r became ignited and tho mine rapidl ) filled with smoke. He returno and attempted to draw the imprisoned me; : from the mine when the rope broke, preclpi tating them to the bottom of the shaft. The , found no way to escape from the mino an entered a coll, hoping to barricade tho en j trance and thus keep the smoke out, but I was impossible. The indications were tha they died within a half hour after they com ' menced to fill the entrance to their reireal The bodios were charred almost beyond rec ognitlon. NTA EXPOSITION-ELECTRICAL BU ( , | ^ | ROAD TO HAVE A SINCLE RAIL ' Novel Project for a Line on the Canadian Border. William E. Seeley, a resident of Brainerd S Minn.,but now in the Rainy Lake gold coun try, has in process of completion a projecl to build a railroad from Tower to Rainj Lake Citv, on the Canadian border, over n route which an ordinary railroad coulc / "scarcely be run. But the road planned b\ Mr. Seeley will not be an ordinary one in any sense of the word, and his plans and specifications are already attracting consida erable attention from railroad men and mall chinists f?ener ?lly. The traok of Mr. Seeley's road will consisl * of a single rail instead of two, and the pai pers of the West are already referring to it as the one-legged road. The great advantage claimed for this road is its cheapness, it costing Jess than one-half as muoh as a reg6 ular double track, standard gauee road to 0 construot and operate. A row of piling l< y driven, and the sincrle rail is laid otl top ol a this piling, seven or eight feet from the ground- The cars are to be constructed so * that the floor is about Ave feet below the d level of the rail, and each side of the cars . will be loaded as nearly equally as possibly, so that the vehicle will ride easily and smoothly. " That the cars oannot be upset will be seen 3 at a glance, as the weight in them will be i. below the rail. The piles are to be set tec or twelve feet aoart, and will be capped with * heavy wooden beans, upon which the single e rail will rest. It is claimed by Mr. Sselej !- that such a road has already been operated e successfully, and that he has demonstrated by models that the plan will be a success in y this case. One of the proat needs of the s northern part of Minnesota is a railroad from f Tower to Rainy Lake City, and the residents i. of those places are more than enthusiastic a over the proposed line. 0 3 A TROLLEY DISASTER, e 0 A Broken Brake Rod Lets a Crowded Car . Dash Down a Lone Hill. .1 Three persons were killed outright and 1 nine others injured by a runaway trolley oar s on the West End Electric Line jumping the a traok and going over an embanscment at J Pittsburg. Penn. Those killed wore: Frederick * Heisel, aged flfty-flve. glassworker, of Care negie, Penn.; George Bothmaun, aged fifty, r furniture dealer, Carnegie, Penn.: unknown woman, about thirty years of age. Just before the olty limit is reached there 0 Is a sharp curve and hill alone the track for s about a quarter of a mile. When the car e reached this point the brake rod broke and - the motorman lost control. The car flashed i down the hill until It reaohed McCartney '* street, where there is a sharp curve. Here it jumped the track and turned completely over, landing In a ravine alongside of the a roai. The car was broken into splinters, s and the three persons killed were horribly a mangled. Just before the car jumped the 0 track Conductor McGuire yelled at the passengers to fall down at the bottom of the 1 ear. Before they obeyed the order Mrs. Foley dropped her young daughter Katie out i of a car window and probably saved the e child's life. i- When he could extricate himself from the - wreok McGuire, who was badly injured hime self, rushed to the houses of several resiI. dents in the vicinity and secured several r axes and other assistance. As soon as posr sible the oity ambulances wore called and f all care possible renderedthe injured passe engers. There were sixte3n passanTers on e the car when it left Carnegie, a suburb of Q Pittsburg. Two got off just before the hill where the accident occurred was reaohed, 3 and three boys jumped before the car leaped 3 the track and were, perhaps, not injured. f I MAJOR ARMES DISCHARGED. 3 The Court Says General Schofleld's Action Was Illegal and tyrannical. Major G. A. Armes, the retired army officer - who was arrested on the order of Lleuten 0 ant-General Schofleld wnue ncunz as oeuro1 tary of War, was discharged from custody in i- Judge Bradley's court, Washington City, on !. the prisoner's application for his permanent - discbarge, on a writ of habeas corpus. In an extended opinion reviewing: the 0 facts of the cose, the Court said that Major 1 Armes's arrest and imprisonment was in e violation not only of the spirit, but the letter t of the army regulations, and that in whats ever capacity General 8ohofleld may have acted, be it either as Lieutenant-General of a the Army or as Secretary of War. his action y was unwarranted, illegal, unjust and tyrant nlcal. The prisoner was entitled to his discharge, and such an order was issued. Some small applause followed the decision. From the order discharging Major Armee, J. N. Morrison, of tue Judge Advocat^General'8 staff, the attorney for the Secretary of u War, gave notice of ?^n appeal. t FOUR PLEASURE SEEKERS DROWNED, t Q A Ferryman** Yawl Overturned in the p Patapgco River. a A ferryman's yawl boat, in which six perd sons were crossing the eastern branch of thfl y Patapsco Kivor, near uaicirnorw, am., ?? capsized and four of its oocupants were drowned. The dead are Fred Volkman, a rf saloon keeper; James Huster, William Beyq nolds and Harry Stelner, one of the ferry!, men. g The party left Perry Bar to row across to e a resort In Anne Arundel County. A stiff breeze was blowing and a heavy swell was d running. No one seems to know what f. caused the little oraft to overturn unless it v was that one of the passengers stood up and caused it to dip. The acoident wp.9 witnessed 0 by hundreds of people, and several bouts 1 immediately put off to the rescue. Due ol q the men was found clingiug to the overi0 turned boat, and another bad managed tc 3 keep himself afloat by the aid of an oar. The 0 others had sunk. The bodies were recovered, Lotteries Have Veen Suppressed. Judge John L. Thomas, Assistant Attorney, j General for the Postofflee Department, ha? submitted to the Postmaster-General a report of the operations of his office for the >, fiscal year, which ended June 30,1893. During s the year tfiere were 51S frau.l orders isueJ, fifty-five of which were against lottery companics operated by so-called "bond Invest,' * ment" companies; twelve against avowed Ir lottery companies, and twenty-one against a miscellaneous gamos of chance. The res malnder were various schemes to defraud. y Death of Klectrlclnn Franklin L. l'ope. ij At Great Barrington. Mass., Franklin i- Leonard Pope, the famous eieclrieian, n y resident of Elizabeth, N. J., for twenty-five years, was killed accidentally by electricity [* at his home, where he had lived for th( f last year. Mr. Pope's death was install 1 taneous. It was caused by a shock of 3U0C '* volts received in the collar of his house. He ; was known as an electrical expert the wond !* over. ILDING. "official crop report Statistics for the Month Compiled bj J the Agricultural Department. ! FORMER AVERAGES COMPARED, t 1 The General Condition of Corn?Prelim Inary Estimate of the Tield of Oatt-l Cotton Shows a Decline*?The Kesnlt; > of the Wheat Harvest in the Princlpa States, as Indicated. " The returns to the statistical division ol ! the Department of Agriculture for October ! put the general condition of com at 95.J J per oent. against 98.4 for the month of Sep, tember. In most of the Southern State3 the i condition has fallen since the last report, j The returns of yield par acre of wheat Indicate a production of 12.5 bushels, being ; 8-10 of a bushel le33 than last October's pre> limlnary estimate. 1 The preliminary estimate of the yield of 1 oats is 29.6 bushels per aore; of rye, 14.4; oi ' barley, 26. i. I Cotton shows a decline of 5.7 points from 1 the September condition, which was 70.8, t against 65.1 for the present month. There > is a general complaint from all the counties i reporting extensive damage from early rains, i recent drouth and ravages by boU worms, and other Insects. CROP COMPARISON'S. The average condition of the crops, ai shown by the last report of the Government. oonmarei with the conditions one month ago and one year as?o, is: Oct. 1, Sept. 1, Oct.l, 1895. 1895. 1894 Cotton 65.1 70.8 82/ Corn 95.5 96.4 64.J , Buckwheat j 84.8 87.5 72.( Potatoes 87.4 90.8 64.J Tobaoco 83.0 ? 84. ( The estimated average number of bushels per aore, as stated In the report, compares thus with the estimates at the same dt?te in the two preceding years: 1895. 1894. 1893 Wheat 12.5 13.1 1U Oats 29.6 34.5 23.J Rye 14.4 13 7 13.S Barley 26.4 19.3 21.1 The results of the wheat harvest In the principal 8tates, as indicated by the Government report, are: 1 " Bushels Quality per Per Acre. C^nt. 1 New York 18.1 96.C Pennsylvania 15.0 90.(] Ohio 12.0 85 ( Michigan 12.0 85 C Indiana 9.0 84.( ? Illinois 11.0 76.( Wisconsin. 15.0 90. ( 1 Minnesota 19.0 96.( Missouri 12.0 78.( Iowa 18.8 95.( Kansas 7.5 G9.( Nebraska 12.0 88.( California 10.0 87.C South Dakota 10.8 85.C North Dakota 19.0 90.( Oregon 20.0 92.( Washington 14.0 92.( Average whole country. 12 5 85.1 FATE OF KOREA'3 QUEEN, Tho King's Father Attacked t'- Palace al Seoul. The outbreak in Korea has been entlrelj quelled through the prompt action or tn< Japanese troops. Their presence In Saiul, the capital, prevented a great 103S of life. King and Crown Prinoe are safe. The Queen of Korea disappeared after the outbreak and it was then believed she had THE QXTEEJi* OF KOHEA. been murdered. The order for Japanese warships to go to Korea was revoked. No additional troops have been sent there. It is slated on the highest authority that no International complications are expected to arise from the "incident at Seoul; that 1 I is, the Japanese Interierence to put aown tao > uprising. Tho outbreak in Korsa referred to was the attack on the royal palace in Seoul by tho Tai-Won-Kun, the King's father. The TaiWon-Tun, tho leader of the reactionary ele inent, has been a misehlef-malcer in Korea i for a long time. But becausa of his wellknown hatred of the Queen Japan set him up as Regent somo months , ago. The Quoou. presumably killed 1 in ths attack on the palaca, always strongly sympathized witn China, and in.-jssantly exerted a powerful influence against Japan I during tho war and against the Japanese ?"hnmn for the reconstruction of Korea af tarwards. She was a typical new woman in her country. In Korea tho women are permitted to have only tho most primitive education. Tho Queen was a scholar, a woman of remarkable ability and was reckoned as t the ablest politician in the Hermit Kingdom. She belonged to the powerful Ming family, ' of which she was the acknowledged leader. > } Celebrated Her 101st lilrthday. At Cold Spring, N. Y., Mrs. Martha Squire oelebrated her 101st birthday a few days ago, ' She has full possession of her facilities, ex1 cept her hearing. Her husbanl taught 1/ the War of 1812. " TBBTOBED ADD LYNCHED The Terrible Vengeance of a Mob in Tennessee. PENALTY FOR HORRIBLE CRIMES, Jefferson Ellis, a Colored Man, Pot to Death In a Most Crnel Way?Ears and Fingers Cat Off?Then His Head Was Removed and His Body left Hanging to a Pole. Jefferson Ellis, a young colored man, who ten days before had commuted a criminal assault on Miss Sue Praeter. a beautiful young woman, who lives with her parents near Galloway, Tenn., was lynched within one hundred yards of the scene of the assault. He was horribly tortured before he was killed. He was decapitated while his heart yet beat. Ellis was captured in Mississippi and taken to Galloway in a hack. He was placed in a buggy beside a constable, and was started toward the home of the young lady, to be identified by her, after which he was to be taken to Somerville and put in jail. Identifl, cation was entirely unnecessary, inasmuch as Ellis confessed his crime. duvu (u un nuuuu Ui luo uuiJSiauio g buggy made their first revolution 700 armed , horsemen swun* Into line behind it. The 1 officer drove with reokless rapidity, and the cavalcade followed him with every horse on a dead run. As the procession was passing out of the village of Galloway, a number of women standing by the roadside cried out to them: 1 ''Remember your wives and daughters, men; do not let the man escape." As soon as the Praeter house was reached . the young lady identified the prisoner. Immediately the constable was covered with a score of shotguns and made to deliver the ? prisoner, who was taken by the mob. j Ellis confessed to being implicated In the assault on and murder of Mrs. John Bailey, which occurred some two years ago. He also told the names of two colored cronies 1 of his who. he said, entered the home of Mrs. Harrel. a widow who lives within a few j miles of where he was lynched, two months ago, and, after assaulting her two daughters, burned them and thuir mother in their home, i Then he confessed to beating his own wife so badly that she died. After Ellis had made these confessions, he was taken to a point about one hundred and fifty yards from the Praetor house, where a huge fire had been built, and told to prepare for dentil. A frenzied, hot headed man pushed through the crowd, brandishing a knife, and ! yelled: ' Kneel down and pray, you dog. Tm going to cut off your ears." The wretoh knelt, but did not pray, and , the man began cutting off his right ear. Ellis , fell to the ground with a shriek of pain, and some one oried out: j ''You remember how that poor girl begged for her honor, don't you'?" Then members of the mob yelled! "Give me his other ear!" ? "I want a flnger!" The doomed man's other ear was severed from his head, after which each of his fl ngers was cut oflf. He was then farther mutilated. A number of the mob favored roasting their victim alive, and loud cries of "Burn him! " Burn him!" could be heard. The major por! tion of them, however, favored hanging him ) without further brutality, and he was strung I up to the telegraph pole, bearing on his 5 breast a placard on which was written: "Death to the Person Who Cuts Down This Body Before Sundown." When the victim had beep hung from the crossbars of the pole, the greater parf of the mob left, but a few remained, and while his j pulse still faintly beat he was lowered to the ground and decapitated with a penknife. . After the flesh was cut away frdm the neok' . bone, the bone was wrenched and the bloody head was placed in a sack. This terrible 1 trophy was sent to the family of a little girl living in Mississippi whom Ellis attempted to assault while the posse was in pursuit of him for assaulting Miss Prneter. The verdict of the Coroner'3 jury was "Deceased came to his death at the hands of unknown parties." The dead man's family was then allowed to cut down the body and bury It minus head, ears and Angers. TURKEY FINALLY SUBMITS. The Flan of Reform* for Armenia Accept1 a *_ o.i j m ? ? ' ea ay gsiu r nana. | I Said Pasha, the Foreign Minister of Tur) key, haa accepted the plan of reform in Ar' menia presented by Great Britain, France ) and Russia. It now awaits the Sultan's sig) nature. The plan is almost Identical with ) tne proposals of last May. The Governors and Vice-Governors of Van, f Erzeroum, Sivas. Bltlis, Khartut and Trebizond are to be Christian or Mussulman, as people in ea-h section desire, but either the Governor or the Vice-Governor must be a Christian. Appointments are to Ije con' firmed by the Berlin treaty Powers. Local, not State officers, are to oollect the r taxes, and enough money is to be retained to pay local administration expenses. Camplete changes will be made in the judioial system, torture will be abolished, the prisons will be under surveillance, the police force will be composed of Christians and Turks equally, and the laws against compulsory conversion to Islamism will be strictly enforced. Contrary to expectation, the High Commissioner charged with the exeoutlon of this reform scheme will be a Christian. This was the hardest pill for the Porte to swallow. CHINA HAS YIELDED. The Deadlock Orer Massacre of Missionaries at an End. Information received at Hong Kong,China, from Kucheng appears to justify the belief that the deadlock between the Chinese authorities and the commission which has been investigating, the massacre of missionaries there has been ended. The British Consul has had an interview with the Viceroy ofFu-Klen, whioh has resulted in an agreement that eighteen more of the convicted prisoners are to be executed and and that the remainder of the natives in custody are to be tried by the present comi mission, which is empowered to Impose the sentence of death. This satisfactory result of the negotiations is considered to be due to the ultimatum which the British Admiral, Buller, is reported to have delivered to the Viceroy of Nankiu. Korean Queen's Body Foand. The body of the murdered Queen of Korea has been found, a Seoul dispatch reports. Prominent People. Senator Quay is sixty-two years old. Ex-President Harrison's autograph sells for twenty-five cants. Pasteur died in the stable where 100 horses were kept for soientlflc purposes. King Milan of Servia and William Waldorf Astor have been hobnobbing in Switzerland. In the privacy of his study Emperor Willlam smokes a big china-bowled pipe of the typical German kind. Mayor Swift, of Chicago, has been presented with a magnificent diamond star by mumb;'..j of th'} city government. President Cleveland seldom wears gloves. They say that Congressman Heatwole, oi Minneapolis, is to bo tno handsomest man in the new House of Representative. Berlin's academy of science has elected Professor Alexander Agassiz, of Harvard University, as a corresponding member. Lord Sackville says he was offered 82000 a week to pose in a New York City dime museum after the Murohison letter episode. Justice White, one of the most portly members of the Supreme Court of the United States, appears in Washington streets on a bicycle. The Queen of the Netherlands is now sixteen years old, and in honor of the event has abandoned the pigtail for the ooiffure of the young woman. = I WORDS OP WISDOM, > ;i To lire an aimless life is to lose life.' I The inventor of soap was a friend of tie Gospel. Wisdom can live on what fools trample under foot. !/':>> A wrong desire overoome is a temp* tation resisted. No matter how safe sin may look, its end is death. It doesn't take mnoh money to Jj make a good man rich. ' : A bad man most hates the thing* that would do him most good. Wrong principles are as wrong is politics as they are in religion. The best views are sometimes right m at the end of the longest tunnels. If we do not learn from little trials the lesson may hare to be taught in great ones. g&njgHa ? ?* . ? ?1__ t'M Tiie man is traveling in xne wro?g direction who thinks money can make him happy. ?? Love sees danger afar off, but the 'v loved one too often turns a deaf ear to the warning. When we oome close to a giant, he often turns ont to be only a common man on stilts. Parents and children drift apart right where they begin to think there .. are some things too small to talk abont. Shouting in church during a revival Ji is one thing, and paying the preacher in chips and whetstones is another.? Ram's Horn. Whiniugr Children. ' Dr. Mary Wood Allen writing in .\; W$ Womankind of breaking ohildren of the habit of whining says: "In this ? case, I should say, that the first thing to do is to secure the cordial co-opera xl 3-11. 1 lion 01 every oiuer auuit meuiutu ui "*FS& the family. Let there be united par- .. pose never to give to the ohild that for v which he whines, even if it would be '$1 given to him otherwise. Give him to ; understand this in a firm bat gentle way, and if possible 'secure his ap- ^ proval of the idea. Tell him kindly V of the evil of the habit, the unhappi- ,; i ness it causes him ind every one else, show him that it is creating a habit || for the future years and tell him you all going to help him to overcome it. Let him feel that your refusal to grant 1 J his whining requests are to aid him, * 4 not to punish him. Then steadily, .rami persistently, sweetly and firmly, ad- -.J:here to this polioy. Never once yield % to his insistence, but always recognize* his attempt to meet your wishes in ? //.'j pleasant manner. If the thing he wants is something : he should not have, tell him so, and assure him that no amount of whining will secure it, and then let him whine. Wait, don't scold, don'l tantalize, ; V don't appear to be either disturbed or ^ moved by his whining. If what he de* y sires is something he can have, and he ? -i. m wmues lur 11-, USSUIO uiui man cu avvu as he asks pleasantly he can have it, and then give him time to make np his mind to be pleasant. We are too apt to try to drire onr children rapid' ly from one frame of mind to another. \ f.ji Wait patiently, and if possible help J him by diverting his thoughts to some* j( thing agreeable. In a few minutes he j will probably get control of himself. . ^ It is often a very touching sight to witness the efforts of children to gain self-control, sometimes under the / stings ot the tantalizing reproaohes of j their elders. "The Children ot Silence." A olass of deaf mute children is to be taken from an institution in Phila- '' i delphia to Atlanta, that visitors to the exposition may be shown the progress ' possible to those deprived of the usual means of acquiring elementary knowl- ! edge. Patience and sympathy have done much to open up the paths of .j knowledge to this class of people, once s shut out in places of ignoranoe. To the student of mind and expression, this subject of teaching deaf mutes to understand and to convey ideas is a most infcffrestinc one. ' The "children of silence" as they have been most touohingly named, ap- > ;;; peal to ns in a peouhar way, and we are gratefnl that it has been pat into the minds and hearts of able persons to do something toward sheedding light in darkness. When we realize how much a little child learns from hearing from parent and nurse long <> before he in turn can speak the words, / 4 we can better appreciate the great lack of the poor little ones who cannot hear. 1 A young man, a deaf mate, whose education had long been neglected, was finally entered at one of the State j institutions, and soon was highly in* terested to learn that every one has a name. In a short time his father came to see him, and the son's first inquiry was "What is your name?" The poor man was quite overcome at the fresh realization of how many simple things had been entirely unknown to his unfortunate and neglected child. ?Womankind. mm ? ; ^ A Telltale Chart. A naval engineer of Hamburg, John Paul, has invented an apparatus recording graphically the course of a ship during the entire voyage, upon a strip of paper the angles of the rudder in relation to the longitudinal axis of the ship and the relation of the magnetic needle of the compass to the , axis of the ship are continually recorded. The paper is moved along by clockwork, while the recording penoU receives its motion by means ot eleotro magnets connected by wire with the ship's compass and steering engine. The recording instrument, working automatically, may be shut off so as to be inaccessible to any but the captain, and such a record would doubtlessly furnish the most satisfactory evidence of the ship's course dur ing the entire voyage. With the auto? matic register of revolutions of the propeller and cf knots traveled, previously patented by the same inventor, the ontire maneuvering of a ship during a given time or an entire trip may be critically inspected by the ship's owners or the captain. ?New Orleans , Picayune. Cavalry Salvation Lassies. Tne Salvation Army at Denver, Col., 1 has organized a cavalry corps of mounted women. These are the only mounted Salvation soldiers in the world. They will make a tour of ,th?j mountain towns. r J