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/ Hm CHOP REPORT. Facts Gathered by Agents of the Aeri/ cultural Department, /cotton and wheat prospects, I In Spite of the l)rv Weather In the Earlj Sprlnc the Crops Are a Little Fnrthe: Advanced Than Usual?There Hai Been Some Diminution of the Wlnte: Wheat Area. Washington, June 11.?The consolidate! return of reports of the Statistical Divisioi of the Department of Agriculture for th< month of June shows the State percentagi of acreage of cotton, as compared with las year, to be as follows: Virginia, 107; Nortl Carolina, 117; South Carolina, 111; Georgia 113; Alabama, 112; Mississippi. 114: Louisi ana. 109; Texas, 116; Arkansas. 130; Ten nessee, 128; Indian Territory, 161; Missouri 163; Oklahoma, 1S4. The general average is 116.2, being 1.3 pei cent, increase over the May statement. The averaee condition of th* crop for June 1 was: Virginia, 91; North Carolina. 90: South Carolina. 97; Georgia, 98: Florida. 85: Alabama, 103; Miest?sippi, 104; Louisiana, 94; Texas, 92; Arkansas, 102; Tennessee, 118; - - - ? /V* Missouri, irj; general average. ji.c. In the Atlantic States, in spite of the dry weather in early spring, the crop is a little earlier than usual. Poor stands, on account of droucht. are reported from two connties in North Carolina and South Carolina and from seven couuties in Georgia. But the plants are in fine condition as respects both cultivation and growth throughout this region. In Florida the crop is late and stands are poor on account of excessive drought. From Alabama, Mississippi. Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and Indian Territory the reports ire unusually encouraging. The crop is not only early, but stands are good, the plant free from crass, and outlook promising for all crop. In a few localities, however, there are complaints of damage by out worms and lice. In Texas the conditions have been less favorable than In the Atlantic and Gulf States. The cold, damp weather at seeding time not only makes the crops late, but has resulted in infesting ma :y fields in a large area la the southwestern part of the State with all manner of insects that damage the plant. A considerable improvement, however, has been made within tho past month. First plantings seem to be doing much better than later ones. In many of the heavy producing counties the stands are good and indicate a close approximation to a full crop. Acreage of wheat percentages of areas harvested last year have been obtained from a greatly enlarged list of-correspo'ndents. inquiries being addressed in particular to 15,000 of the principal millers tnrougnout tne country, 10 wuusr t-iirciui comparison of present acreage witb that of previous years many corrections of the preliminary estimate of December last ore due. There has been some diminution of winter wheat area, owing to the total failure of the crop in some sections, the ground being plowed for spring wheat or oats. These returns, reduced to acres, give for the principal winter States: California. 3,011,000; Kansas, 2,684.000; Ohio, 2,422 000; Indiana, 2.294.000; Illinois, 1.906 C00; Missouri, 1.418.000; Pennsylvania, 239,030; Michigan, 1,202,000: total winter area. 22,794,000. Spring States: Minnesota. 3.200,000; North Dakota, 2,530,000; South Dakota, 2.463,000; Nebraska, 1,824,000; total spring area, 11,825,000. MARYLAND DEMOCRATS MEET. Senator Gorman Takes Hold and the Silver Men Are Beaten. The attempt to commit the Democratic oartv of Maryland to a free silver declara tion was defeated by a vote of 87><j to 29% in the State Convention at Baltimore. Senator Gorman prc-sldod as Temporary and Permanent Chairman. After disposing of the money question, delegates to the National Democratic Convention and Presidential electors were chosen. They will each have half a vote in the convention and are uninstructcd. The money plank as finally adopted wa?: "Believing that the true interests of the people require that the earnings of agriculture and trade and the wages of labor should be paid in money that is intrinsically worth in all the markets of the world what it purports to be worth, we demand the maintenance of the existing gold standard of value, and, further, that the Government shall keep all its obligations at all times redeemable and payable in money of the greatest intrinsic value and o* the hiehest standard adopted by the civilized Nations of the world; and we, therefore, resolutely oppose the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1." CONVENTION HALL DEDICATED. Ten Thousand People Take Part in the Ceremonial at St. Louis. The magnificent Auditorium at 8L Louis, Mo., built for the Republican National Convention, was formally dedicated with enthusiastic ceremonies. The interior of the building was brilliantly illuminated for the occasion, and a crowd of over ten thousand persons was in attendance. Speeches were made by Mayor Walbridge, on behalf of the city of St. Louis; President Samuel Konnard, of the Business Men's T flntrnn r>n/1 TT A QfnnorH An UUU OA-UV)(.lUVl AJ. V. IJKUUIUU. MU elaborate programme of vocal and instrumental music was carried out. The occasion thoroughly tested the acoustic properties of the Auditorium, and they were pronounced perfect. The hall seats 14,125 persons, and the chairs are so arranged as to give every occupant an unobstructed view of the chairman's desk. KILLED BY A I5-YEAR.0LD BOY. The Lad Told Mr. Lindgard He Would Shoot If Be Came Nearer and He Did. Thomas Lindgard, a farmer living near Quay's Crossing, Canada, was shot and instantly killed by a lad of fifteen years named Prentiss, an inmate of the Bernards Home, Toronto. Prentiss was rabbit shooting on Llndgard's farm, and Lindgard ordered him off his DroDertv. The bov refusing to obev. Llndgnrd said if he did not he would put him ofT by force, and advanced toward Prentiss. The latter raised his gun and said: "If you come another step I will shoot you Jead." Lindgard continued to advance, when the boy fired, tbe charge taking effect in Llndgard's neck, killing him almost instantly. 8ome farmers promptly arrested Prentiss. i ? A Criminal Beheaded. A criminal namedOehlmann was beheaded at Brunswick, Germany, for the murder of * - ' An hia wnr tn fhP UJ5 ItUUl auu VUUSlll. vu u.t; ? place of execution Oehlmann attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself over the prison staircase, dragging with him the warden who had him in charge The warden was frightfully and fatally hurt. Tlio Theater Bonnet. The Federation of Women's Clubs, ir 3{=sion at Louisville, Kv., unanimously do ilared against the bonnet or high hat in interior placcs of amusement. Prominent People. T'<f> row Shall of Persia is said to bo a ?? l i-1 Christian XI. of Penaiark is tho oldest King of Europe. baing seventy-nine. Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, who is seventy years old. has been in Congress sinco 1361. Emperor William has volunte-ro i to act a? godfather of Count William Bismarck's new General Baratior!, the unsuccessful Italian General tn Africa, It is said, has practically lost his mind. Charlotte Bronte's husband, tho Bev. Arthur Bell Xicholld, is sti;l -J've, though he is in feeble health. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED' Washington Itrmi. J Mr. Aldrlch, Republican contestant from the Ninth Alabama District, was seated by the House. i Senator Woicott's resolution to investigate the Sherman statue award was defeated. Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle crave the text of his*statement to the Senate Committee chareed with the investigation of the sale of bonds of the United States in the years I 1 1894-95-96. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of R. M. Bartleman, of Massachur setts, to be Consul at Malaga, Spain. 1 P Secretary Smith has appointed T. D Loach, of Texas, principal examiner and J ' F. Wooten, of Georgia, Chief of Division in r the Bureau of Pensions. William Dubois was appointed head usher at the Executive Mansion in place of George . Dexter, of Michigan, apppointed a Postoffice Inspector. Mr. Dubois is a native of New i York. 1 ? The President nominated G. F. Smithers. * of Delaware, now Deputy Consul at Osalcl c t and Hioga, Japan, to be Consul at Chung Ki- j. ansr, China. 5 The House, by a vote of 113 to 5, adopted i the resolution giving to Martin (Pop., N. C.), the seat occupied bv Lockbart (Dem.). Rina- \ . ker (Rep., III.) was"piven the seat ol Down- f lng (Dem.) by a vote of 167 to 51. i 0 0 . Domestic. ! EECOBD OF THE LEAGUE CLTTBS. ^ Per Per } Clnt*. Won. Lost, ot I Club*. Lost ct ? Cleveland 26 13 .667 Chfcapro. .22 23 .489 b Baltimore.27 13 .643|tirooklvn.2l 2'i .438 ( Cincinnati27 18 .600 Pittsburg.20 21 .488 Philadel.,26 19 .578 New York20 24 .455 <3 Boston....23 18 .561 St. Louls.13 29 .810 a W'shing'n21 20 .512 Louisville..9 33 .214 * The Legislature of Massachusetts ad- c journed sine die. A cyclone swept over a portion of Cocke County, Tennessee, and laid waste a tract of land three-quarters of a mile in length and a quarter of a mile wide. It carried trees, fences, telephone poles and everything in its track. The United States battleship Massachusetts was placed in commission at the League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia. Unscrupulous specu ators circulated falsereports in Wall street in the vain hODe of causing a panic. Wall str?et, at the same time, was duped by a rumor that a warlike message on Cuba was to be issued by the President, and in two hours bears gathered in about $500,000. Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Wilson have made the formal announcement in New York City of the engagement of their daughter, Grace, to Cornelius Yanderbilt, Jr., son of the millionaire. By premature explosion of 180 cans of dytiAmlfo nt T.illv Punti Afielinol St>Avmn<5ki I was killed and live fellow workmen on the Pennsylvania Railroad were probably fatally injured. Captain John G. Bonrke, of the Third Cavalry, United States Army, a wellknown Indian fighter and frontier soldier, died in Philadelphia, Penn.,at the Polyclinic Hospital, where he had been under treatment for several weeks tor an abdominal trouble. He was about fifty years of age. Dwipht Steere, a life convict for murder, and William Johnson, who had served eight terms for various crimes, secured a key and escaped from the State prison at Wethers field, Conn, Two children, eight and eleven years old respectively, of Mull Clerk J. E. Jones, of North Ternon, Ind., were drdwned in the water works at that place. Four men and tnree women of East Pittsbnrg went fishing on the Monongahela, got drunk and were run down by the packet James G. Blaine. Two of them?a man and a woman, names unknown?were drowned. Ex-State Senator Tobias Lord, of Ste?p Falls, Me., shot and killed himself as he was being taken to an insane asylum. During a heavy electrical storm at Clearfield, Penn., Mrs. George Hess, of Stonoville, was killed by lightning. Fred Bush, aged seventeen, and Fred E Smarr, about the same age, were drowned tl In the Ohio River off Augusta, Ey., while bathing. C< Thomas Thompson, of Jersey, N. J., while ^ riding a bicjvle. rode over the precipice of the Gorge, on the Palisades, falling twenty B' feet. He received fatal injuries. . The handsome bronze statue of B-njamln ^ Franklin, presented to the printers of Chi- a' capo by Joseph Medill. and erected in Lin- jE coin Park, Chicago, was unveiled. tc Charles P. Symonds. a prominent citizen w of Salem, Mass., was found guilty in the ri United States Circuit Court of violating the a contract alien labor laws by employing ac st Englishman and bringing him to this coun- aj try. The verdict carries with it a fine of $1000. tc An eight-year-old son of Henry Acklen, of Racine, Wis., was torn to pieces by two bull* b< logs while returning from school 63 A Long Island City jury found a verdict for $5000 acainst Dr. Seigbert Balaban for making a similar statement about a woman patient as did Dr. Playfair, the London physician. nn/1 Tinr>1 corrflnto e\ who were arrested in London with the family cc jewels in their possession, arrived in New jj, York in charge of detectives. Henry B. Hill, who for thirty years past di was cnshier of the Catskill (N. Y.) National tt Bank, died, aged seventy-nine. His sister, tt widow of Dr. A. Cooke Hull, who was a prominent New York physician, died the tt same morning. ai Joseph Windrath, one of the slayers of 8J Carey B. Birch, receiver and cashier of the West Chicago Street Railway Company, was hanged at the county jail at Chicago, 111. Mayor Strong, of New York City, trans- y ferred from the exempt schedule to the com- ? petitive list, subject to the rules of Civil 8er- c? vice examination, 140 city offices, with annual salaries aggregating $318,000. At Ellsworth, Me., Burton E. Frazer, re twenty-seven years old, died from an over- u< dose of morphine prepared by his friend Qi James Clouffh. and administered by Miss Nellie Newell, his sweetheart. Frazer had g( been suffering from acute rheumatism. g? The Ynle erew that is to race at Henley, st England, left New Haven, Conn., and the si students gave the oarsmen a rousingsend-off. Equestrian statues of Generals Meade and ^ Hancock were unveiled on the battlefield of ^ Gettysburg, Penn. John Boylan. a lineman, was shocked to' death on an electric-light pole in Brooklyn. ^ Antoine Nedou, aged sixty-seven, and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Levy Paulin, were p) thrown from a buggy at Clinton, Mass., and gi killed. pi v Forelcm Note*. ni As a memorial of his coronation, the Czar ^ of Russia has given $75,000 to *haritie9. ^ Spanish Cabinet Ministers denied the re- H port of negotiations with Cubans to restore w peace. General Weyler gave a dinner to ol General Lee. Macfarlane's column of Britishers bad a d sharp brush near Imguza, South Africa, with c< a force of Maiabelts. The latter were routed, r< with the loss of thirty killed. Two troopers ^ were wounded. * a' The Chambers of Commerce of the Empire j! decided to ask the British Government to second any suggestion made by the Colonies T for a closer commercial union." ^ s Two British r fftct-rs were arrested at Metz tj on suspicion of being spies engaged in obtaining information regarding Germany's D fortifications. {, Discouraging reports of the condition of C nffairs in Cuba were published in Madrid. tl Chambers of Commerce of the British Emimnrans,! in T..'.ndnn to con.'illL-r com- 1 IrTcinl union. ^ Tli?- Egyptian cavalry occupied an aban- ,v dored can. p of t lie Dervishes in the Soudan J and captured n great quantity of stores. c The new Hungarian houses of Parliament j | were opened with groat ceremony. f i Mobs gathered iu Barcelona. Spain, and d I threatened to lynch the prisoner? suspected b ! of complicity in the Anarchist outrage by a i which eleven persons were killed: martial | law was proclaimed by the authorities. r | The Egyptian mixed tribunal decided ^ I against granting funds for the expenses of ! the Soudan oxpedition. I onlohrntpristntps. . j uif" j: riui'juiff oiuiuu, iuv v..v ?.? -~ j( . man. life member of tho French Senate, j : member of the French Academy, and form- r erly Prime Minister of France, died a few j clays ago in Paris. ^ I J ma con DM Thrown From a Carriage on His Estate at Newport, N. H. :AMILY WITNESS THE ACCIDENT. Us Coachman Also Killed and His Grandson and Dr. Kunzler Seriously Injured ?Horses, Driven for the First Time Without Blinders, Become Frightened ?Mr. Corbln's Career. Newport, N. Hm June 6.?Austin Corbin, he multi-millionaire, the master spirit of he intricate Long Island Railway system, niei owner 01 ouannanan ueacn ana leaaer a the restoration of the Long Island wllderiess to beauty and attractiveness, was kllbd 1 hi? country house, two miles from this lllage, Thursday afternoon by being thrown rom his carriage. The accident occured at o'clock. His fortune is estimated at $10, 00,000. Mr, Corbin, with his wife and daughter Lnnie, left their New York City mansion last peek aqd took up their summer life on the Ine New Hampshire farm known as "Coriln's Wonderland," with its fish and game larks and other attractions. The accident took place at 3 o'clock yesterlay afternoon. Mr. Corbin had made prep.rations for a fishing trip to the pond in his amous Blue Mountain rant, ana tne parry, onsisting ol himself, his grandson, Corbin \ AUSTIN COBBIN. PRESIDEN (Who was killed In a runaway aeci dgell, and Dr. Paul Eunzler, started from ie house. A pair of horses which Mr. Corbin had resntly purchased were harnessed to a light, fo-seated open carriage. They were driven >r the first time by Coachman John 8. tokes. The horses were driven without blinders ?r the first time. About half way down the nveway from the house Mr. Oorbin raised sun umbrella, which frightened the horses tto a run. Coachman 8tokes was not able > hold them, and at the end of the driveay, where there is an abrupt turn, the carage was dashed out of the road. It struck tree and threw the occupants out, down a eep embankment, about eight feet high, gainst a stone wall. When the injured mpn bad been removed ? the house. Mr. Corbin's condition was t-i- -J-Ui. U~A >en to De very serious, me ngm 10^ uau sen broken, both above and below the knee, id crushed in a terrible manner. A large :alp wound, about four Inches long, was it to the bone on his forehead, and there as another cut nearly as long and deep on le right side of the head. His lip and chin ere also badly torn. Dr. Cilley, of Boston, reached Newport at o'clock p. m., and everything was done > alleviate Mr. Ccrbin's sufferings until Bath released him at 9.45 p. m. John S. Stokes, the coachman, sustained a suble fracture of the right leg and a fractre of the base of the skull. He lived about iree hours after the accident. Mr. CorbJn's grandson had a double fracire of the right leg, and Dr. Kunzier's left to was broken near the wrist and his ankle >rained. Sketch of His Career. Austin Corbin was at different stages of ] is life successful as a lawyer, banker and itlroad man, but it was as the latter he beime most famous. He was born in Newport, N. H., on July | , 1827. His father was well to do, and he 1 ceived a common school and academy edition. He studied law with Chief Justice ushing and Governor Ralph Metcalf. After that, he went to Harvard Law rhool, and was admitted to the New Hamplire bar. He was soon taken into partnertip by Governor Metcalf and practiced lccessfully until October, 1851. In that year he gave up his practice In ewport, ana moved to Davenport, la., here he soon became known as a successful iwyer. In 1854 he became a partner in the inking firm of Macklot Sc Corbin. The firm aalt largely in Western mortgages and arte money rapidly. When the National Banking law was issed he saw its advantages and at once or- I inized the First National Bank of Davenjrt. It began business June 29, 1863, and as the first National bank opened for busies in the countrv. In 1865 he sold out his business Interests In avenport. and came to New York Olty. Here e established the Corbin Banking Company. !e became interested in railroads, and was ithin a few years known as a large holder t stock In good properties. In 1873, while staying with one of his chilren, who was ill at Coney Island, he con;ived the idea of making it the great met)politan watering place. He bought the est half of the island, built railroads to it nd hotels and resorts on it. Its success was istantaneous. find he made millions out of scheme. He next bought up all the rivals roads on ions Island and consolidated tliem into one istem, which gave him a monopoly of the ransportation business of the entire island. H* became even better known by the rominent part he took in the re-organizaion of the Reading system, aud New Jersey eutral Railway. He took the latter out of tie hands of a receiver and made it a divien I paving property within throe years. is'Mdestiie immediate members of his family Ir. Corbin is survived by grand-children, rho wid aimost ct-rtainly share in the euorious wealth h'; leaves. ?.Ir. Corliin established a came preserve ailed lit no Mountain Forest, near Newport, i. Ii., which ha* become famous. It conains nearly 30,OUO a"re.s, niiil in it are elk; ear, bulYaio, wild boar, and other kinds ol ig same. He also hau a farm of about 7l0 cres on Long Island. In 1853. at Davenport, Mr. Corbin marled Hannah M. Wheeler, u 'laughter of imon Wheeler, of Newport, N. H., his native own. His eldest daughter, Mary, married Rene !heronnet Champollion. Sho died in Paris our vears ago, leaving a son, Andre, now in his country. Champollion is also dead, sabella Corbin is tbo wife of George S. Idgell, 5Lr. Corbin's partner. Another aughter Is unmarried, and Austin Corbin, r.. Is at Harvard. I I STATE CONVENTIONS. The Delegates Chosen and the Financial Flanks Adopted. Conventions to take action in regard to the coining nominating conventions met In various States and took action as follows: Lexikgto>*, Ky.: The Kentucky Democratic State Convention was in session two days. The Committee on Permanent Organization reported complete reorganization of county committees, as well as State organiz- i ation, silver men being put in charge, with Major P. P. Johnston, of Lexington, Chairman of both State, Executive and Central Committees. This removes State headquar- ' ters away from Louisville to Lexington. A long discussion followed the return of the majority report, declaring for the free coinage of silver and nominating Senator Blackburn for the Presidency. The majority report was adopted?veas, 678; nays, 214. Blackburn, Hardin, Rhea and Ellis were elected delegates-at-large. Next to Blackburn, the delegates' choice for President is t is Bland, of Missouri. t Staustos, Va.: Virginia Democrats met at Staunton and sent to the National Demo- * cratic Convention twenty-four delegates in- t structed to vote for free and unlimited coiu- . age of silver. The Uuit rule was adopted. The money plank approved by the convention, which was written by Senator Daniel, r is as follows: We hereby instruct all of the i delegates from Virginia to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago to vote tor a platform declaring for the free and un- t limited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1, and for candidates for Prest- , dent and Vice-President who openly advo- j cate that prlnoiple. The convention was ( composed of 871 gold standard men and ( 1276 silverites. Resolutions favoring free ? sliver were adopted, rne nunomy kjjuh was voted down?1276 to 371. Jamzstoww, North Dakota: The Democratic State Convention adopted a free sliver *7 A i T LONG ISLAND RAILROAD. dent on his farm In Newport, N. H.) platform. The following, delegates to tha Chicago Convention were elected: State Senator Rich Williams, of Grand Forks; J. J. > Hill, of Burleigh; R, Hartman, of Cass: Eaton, of Ramsey; Wilson, of Pomblna. The delegates were instructed to vote for free coinage of botb gold and silver at the ratio t of 16 to 1 and to vote for a candidate for : President who would stand on that plat- ! form. t Lswistox, Me.: The Maine Populists met J In State Convention. After indorsing the Omaha platform, the resolutions demanded r Via fraa unlnacrfl nf hnth silver ftnd ffold in a ratio of 16 to 1, without asking the consent * of any othor Nations, and further demanded ^ that no bonds shall be issued under any clr- : cumstances hereafter. Luther C. Bateman was nominated for Governor. Closing: Days of Congress. t The 8eimte passed the Filled Cheese bill c Without amendment. i Senator Cullom introduced a bill for a j peace monument at Appomattox, Va. The United States Millers' League, at J Cleveland, Ohio, appealed to Congress to ; pass the Reciprocity bill. The House Committee on Ways and Means, t by a vote of 13 to 2. decided to report ad- c Tersely tne Ann-jjona dui passea oy iuo c Senate. c In reporting n bill for the construction of * the Nicaragua Canal, Senator Morgan asked that December 14 next be fixed for considering the bill. The bills lately before Congress tor the erection in Washington of monuments and statues to distinguished men provided for an expenditure of over $1,500,000. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill, which was passed over the President's veto, was signed oy the presiding officers of both Houses and sent to tne State Department for record. The project for a pan-American Congress was jjiven definite form in a resolution introduced in the House by Mr. Smith (Mich.) ' authorizing the President to call such a con | The final conference report on the General j ! Deficiency Appropriation bill was agreed to | by the House. The Senate amendments to the t bill to retire Commander Quackenbush were r adopted. , The 8enate rejected the nomination of William H. Fowle, to be Collector of Internal c j Revenue for the Sixth District o* Virginia. c The two Senators from Virginia were not t consulted about the appointment, besides 1 | which ttier.j were charges to the effect that j Mr. Fowle would not make a satisfactory of- i flclal. In the House Mr. Phillips, Chairman of 1 the Committee on Labor, called up his bill ( to create an industrial commission of twelve J members, three representatives each of J labor, agriculture, manufacture and busi- j ness, salaried at S50c0. each group to have 1 a legal adviser at $5009, the duties of :ho I commission to be to investigate questions pertaining to immigration. It was passed J without opposition. j; Senator Morrill, Chairman of the Finance j Committee, reported a joint resolution to authorize a scientific investigation of the fur seal fisheries, and it was considered and passed. It authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to expend $5000 for the employ- ? meut of persons to conduct ascientiflc inves- j tigation in the fiscal years 1S'J6 and 1S97 aa t to the fur seal herds on the Pribilof and ( other islands ana m lieiing oeu. j The Senate adopted the conference report \ on the Indian Appropriation bill. The controversy had l>een oi?. the proposition to impose cit?zjnshlp on the Indian# of the five civilized tribes. When the Indian bill shall become a law. those Indians will have lost ? their tribal relations aud will havo become i citizens of the United States. Tim coi.fer- s rees reached aa airreenvnt on the school c question Tin* Senate refused t>? icce.le from i its amendment continuing the coutraot schools up to the first day of July, ISM. The President's Family (jo to Gray Gables. C Mrs. Cleveland and her three littlo girls, 1 Ruth, Esther, and Marion, aud her maid, left j Washington by a sp cial car for tho Presi- \ dent's summer cottage, "Gray Oables," at r. Buzzard's Bay, Mass. I: ^ Rewnrd for lynchers. Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, bas offered a reward of ?500 each for tho first ton ot the lynehors of Jesse Slayton and Will Miles ar? 1 ? f^fnl amount. i resrea, iuus covcriuy iuo ?.?#?? -- 45000, authorized by the statute to be paid ? for such a purpose. I t raom b? cimlm Ths President Disapproved the General Deficiency Measure. ANOTHER BILL QUICKLY PASSED. rile IJome Sustained the Veto by 172 to 40?The French Spoliation and Other Claims Objectionable?Those Items Cut Ont and the Measure Pat Through Without Any Delay. Washington. Juno 8.?The President sent o the House of Representatives Saturday afernoon a message vetoing the General Delciency Appropriation bill. He replied briefly o the criticisms of his exercise of the veto >ower, and said he had hurried the preparaion of the message in order that Congress night take action in the matter without deav. The irround for the veto was the pro rislon for the payment of the French spoliaion claims. The President's veto was based upon two pounds?flrst, that the bill was, in mmy of ts features, far removed from a legitimate leflclency bill, and, second, that the specific ilalms to which he referred were not just ind equitable claims against the United Jtates; that their payment would amount to he (riving of gratuities, and that they would )e payments of grace, and not of right. In his veto the President say*: "This bill is in many of Its features far renoved from a legitimate deficiency bill, and t contain* a number of appropriations vhlch seem to me to be exceeding'y quesJonable. '""L - V Ml f _ A- A? AM m A Aft ?A. ? '?ne Dm appropriates 9i,u2f,3i*.u? iui a partial payment upon claims which oriRinnt3d in depreciation? upon our commerce by French cruisers and vessels during the closng year of the last century. They have besome quite familiar to those having Congressional experience, as they have been pressed for recognition and payment, with iccasional intervals of repose, for nearly one lundred years. "I do not understand It to be asserted that here exists any legul liability against the Government on account of its relations to :hese claims. At the term of the Supreme 3ourt just finished the Chief Justice, in an jpinion concerning them and the action of Congress in appropriating for their payment, said: 'We think that payments thus pre jcriuwu iu ue mtiuu >voro ^uipuc^ij vivu^uk within th? catagory of payments by way of jratuity?payments of grace and not of right.' "If Injustice has been done In the refusal )f these claims. It began early In the present sentury, and may be charged against men ;hen in public life more conversant than we :an be with the facts involved and whose ionesty and sense of right ought to be secure from suspicion. "I think it will be found that in all bills proposed for the payment of these claims Ihe sum to be appropriated for that purpose iid not eicced 85,000,000. It is now estimated lhat those already passed upon, with those still pending for examination in the Court of Claims, may amount to ?25,000,000. This inlicate<3 either that the actual sufferers, or :hose nearer to them in time and blood than :he present claimants, underestimated their osses, or that there has been a great development in the manner of their presentation. "rue appropriations ro lnaemnuy a^masi jisurance losses rest upon weaker grounds, t seems to me, than those of owners, but in :he light of all the facts and circumstances surrounding these spoliation claims, as they ire called, none of them, in my opinion, ihould be paid by the Government." THE HOUSE SUSTAINS THE VETO. I. New Bill, With tho Objectionable Features Left Out, Immediately Pasted. Washington*, June 8.?Speaker Reea, imnedlately after it was received, laid before he House the President's veto of the Geniral Deficiency bill, and it was read. From he applause which swept over the hall at he close of the reading it was apparent that he message met nearly general approval. The Committee on Appropriations had full inowiedge of the Intention of the President, md had already prepared a deficiency bill ixcluding the claims objected to by Mr. Cleveland, and also the war claims under he Bowman act. Representative Cannon, of Illinois, heartier upported the veto, and gave the advocates >f war olaims to understand very clearly hat although their claims had not been ibjected to by the President they would lot be included in the new deficiency bilL le also announced that if the Senate again astened them on the bill he would hold Congress in session a montb, if necessary, before te would let the measure go to the President rith these claims included. "If Congress,"' said he, "refuses to pass a >111 appropriating for the ordinary expenses >f the Government without 700 claims fast>ned on by the Senate, there is nothing but l healthy, wholesome public sentiment to fall >aefc upon." The vote was then taken on passing the >ill over the President's veto. It was deeated by a vote of 40,to 149. Mr. Cannon then moved to suspend the ules and pass bis new General Deficiency >111. The men interested in the discarded ilaims filibustered all they could, but the >ill was passed by a vote of 172 to 43. Phe new bill appropriates, in round num>ers, ?2,000,000 less than the one vetoed. ANARCHIST BOMBS. Jlx Persons Killed and Twenty-four Hart I in Barcelona, Spain. The Anarchists have resumed their activity n Barcelona, Spain, and much fear is enterained that they will inaugurate another elgn of terror similar to that which pre mailed in 1892 and 1893. During a relijrious procession on the feast )f Corpus Christi a bomb was thrown in a lust neap near the cathedral. The bomb ex>loded when the processionists worn enterng the Church of Santa Maria and the peo )le were panic stricken by the explosion and ts effects. Six persons were killed by the explosion ind twenty-four wounded. The CaptainJeneral of the province of Barcelona acted is standard bearer in the procession, while he v^ril Governor and the city Alcalde held he streamers of the banner. It is thought hat the designers of the outrage contemjlatei killiDg these officials. Two dynamite cartridges exploded outside >f a house occupied by a priest at Orendain, It. Sobastain, province of Gnipuzcoa, }pain. The house and other buildings were >adly damaged, but nobody was hurt. Anthrax Epidemic In the South. Reports from Tonsas, La., say that the mthrax is affecting all kinds of domestic an mals from poultry up to horses, and that hreo colored men have tiled of the disoase. )ne man knew of 250 mules that had died. Pne deer in the forest are said to bo dying pith every symptom of this complaint. Utali Democrats for Free Coinage. Tile Democrats of Utah in convention it Salt L-ike City adopted a platform deeiarns lor the freo and unlimited coinage of ilwr, the divorce of Church and S ate. and ilected delegates to the Chicago Convention nstructed to vote for these principles. Showing tlie Crown llegalia. Tho Auitro-Huuirary crowa regalia wr.s [isplayed at li;i lapest in connection with he celebration in honor of tho on-s thouandth anniversary of the founding ot the lungarian kingdom. The regalia was iewe I by C:)0,Oi)J persons. while 503.0 K) .tliurc nr.?rr? llll:lllhl t. I'llil: :! til tllO >uil<ling in whioLi tiic cjibldias oi royalty vero uisplaycd. Hurricanes in Germany. Violent hurricanes, aecompaniel by rain, lave prevailed throughout Germany, eating great damage to property. The tele;rapti and telephone wires were prostrated, ind communication by wire, particularly lirmich thrt f p'ftnhnnA traj 4iifinnnr1t>i1. CUR NAVY'S CR The United State! Battleship Indians, 2 and Awaiting Further Ordei '53g3| THE BATTLE This is the greatest fighter of the new nf of New Tork from Hampton Boads a few d five months. Til PUD TBB mem IW 1UU1I 4UU 11JLIM w*l*l Governor Morton Names the Greater New York Commission. MEN CHOSEN FOR THE WORK, Complete Commission Stands Politically : Republicans, 11; Democrats, 4?All Interests Are Protected?Seth Low, General Tracy, John F. Dillon and Comptroller Fltcli Named for New York. Albasy, N. Y., June 10.?Governor Morton yesterday named the nine Commissioners who, with the six designated by law, will draft a charter for Greater New York. Tney are: Seth Low, President of Columbia College and formerly Mayor of Brooklyn. General Benjamin F. Tracy, once Judge of the Court of Appeals and Secretary of the Navy during President Harrison's administration. John F. Dillon, former Judge of the United States Circuit Court BETH LOW. JHe heads the list of Greater City Commissioners.) Ashbel P. Fitch, lawyer, Comptroller of the City of New York and formerly a member of Congress. General Stewart L. woottiora, lawyer ana onoe Lieutenant-Governor. Silas B. Dutcher, banker, former State Superintendent of Public Works. William C. De Witt, lawyer, formerly Corporation Counsel of Brooklyn. George M. Pinney, Jr., District Attorney of Richmond County. Garrett J. Garretson, County Judge of Queens County. tOHPON. I CREA-rj 688.31 \39 scwwt mev \ 1 ( CYtCA&l- A-* I 712.93 I \ s-/"v \ / *y\ COMPARATIVE AREA 0] The first four represent New York and thts next three Brooklyn. Richmond and Queens Counties each have one representative. The -1 1 1.. .U ? VnTfVn?t six m emu era uulu"~u ui iuc uioair. *v*?. law aro: Andrew H. Green, PresWent of the old Greater New York Cor' mission, formerly Comptroller of the city of New York. Campbell W. Adams, State Engineer. Theodore E. Hancock, Attorney-General of the State. William L. Strong. Mayor of New York. Frederick W. Wurster, Mayor of Brooklyn. Patrick J. Gleason, Mayor of Long Island City. There are four Democrats on the Commission. They are Mayor Gleason, Mr. Green, Comptroller Fitch and Mr. De Witt. Of the eleven Republicans District Attorney Pinney, of Richmond County; County Judge Garre'.soc, of Queens, State Engineer Adams and Attorney-General Hancock nr? nrcanization men. and General Tracy. Sir. Dillon. Mr. Dutcher and General Woodford are counted as friendly to the or w it r /*" t n !i / 1 ANDREW U. GREEN. (Originator of the project and President of the old Commission.) ganization. Mirers Strong and Wur? er and Mr. Low are considered as anti-orgauizaticn Republicans. The appointment ot Mr. Low is said to have beau made without tho approval of the organization. There is no Tammany man on the Commission. Mr. Fitch is not a member of the Tammany Hall organization. Nine of the Commissioners are lawyer*. Messrs. Green, Fitch and De Witt, by th?lr j EATEST FIGHTER. Wow lying in the Harbor of Xetr YoTH^H ra From the Xavy Department. HH sifej b - "A- ?_ > * SHIP INDIANA. ivy so far completed. She arrived at the Port ays since. She has been In commission aDoutj experience In municipal office, and Mr. Green by his long and thorough study a the problems of consolidation, are coo sldered peculiarly fitted to asstst-ln mak lng a charter for the new city. Ex-Judg Dillon Is a recognized authority and i writer of text books on municipal la* while General Tracy Is a leader at the bar The youngest member of the Commission 1 District Attorney George M. Plnney, Jr., o St. George's. Richmond County. Mr. Piane; came frojpi San Francisco nine or ten year ago, and studied law with Evarts, Choate i MATOB W. L. STEONO, OF HXW TOBS. (A member of the Greater New York Commission ) i Beaman. Notwithstanding the iegal leaning of the Commissioners, counsel?probably two; or three?will be appointed to assist in the preparation of the charter. Ail of the gentlemen appointed by tha Governor have been ardent advocates of consolidation, although Mr. Low was op? -posed to the present law, as he thought eon- I solidation ought not to be effected until a J charter was prepared. Mr. Low and Gen- 1 amI 'PwOftvr tttV*<"? om fa Vav Vnplr i Uiw Aiavj | ?TUW (UV vtwuivvu IV Aivn City by the Governor, have always been 1 looked on as Brooklyn men. , ] Da ties of the Commission. | Under the terms of the Greater New York 1 act, this Commission most prepare a charter for the greater city, and submit it to the Legislature by February 1, 1897, and shall t oeaae to exist on March 1 of the same yearJ I The Commission has power to make complete; 1 Investigation of the municipal corporation^ M to be consolidated; to subpoena and sweat S witnesses; to examine public records and H documents of these municipalities, and to make any Inquiry whioh they may deem H necessary to the framing of a charter for th< H greater city. The Comm ssion'mav emploj I counsel and other persons that they maj deem necessary for the prosecution of th? H work. The charter which the Commission U ?9-(75 29? 7242. J s./A \ Js rx" J P GREATER NEW YORK. charged with framing must be one of uniformity, drawn upon the principle of unirorm taxation for the entire consolidated territory. The expenses of the Commission are Hmirofi trt .095 flflfl whlnh shall be raised bv the cities of New York and Brooklyn. " H HANCED IN LONDON. Three RIarderers Die oa the Gallows In H Newgate Prison. William Seaman, Henry Fowler and Albert Millsom, who were convicted of murder after trial in London. England, were hangedfl together in Newgate Prison. The execution of the death sentence was private. Crowds^B gathered in the streets and in the low-class^M saloons in the neighborhood of the prison to^fl watch for the signal of the black flag. There^H was some cheering in the 'crowd when the^H black flag was hoisted as the signal that the^H hanging was over. m William Seaman batted to death an old^H Jew, John Levy, in his house in Whitechapel^H at 2 o'clock in :fce afternoon of Saturday^H April 4, and afterward murdered Lery'^H . housekeeper by cutting her throat. Henn^M 1 V,-iTrior nml Alhsri Mlllsom broke into Mus^^B J vreli Lodee, in the northwestern district o^H I London, on the night of February 13, an<^H ' murdered its owner, Mr. Henry Smith, a re^H I tired engineer. Swept by a Tornado. A small manufacturing town of Wyetl^H City, Ala., was mowed down like grass by tornado. Thirteen houses were nized, barns and outbuildings swept awav, tree^H I uprooted an-1 fences nn<l other o<>struetion^^B lifted into the air unit set ilowu numireus ?U yards away. Perhaps eijrhty persons rejHH i-ided in tno track ot the stortn. but by miracle only two were killed outright, these were struck by lightning. Alaska Democrats. The steamship Willava, from Alaska, bring^H the news that tho Democratic Temtoria^H Convention was held at Juneau on June 1t^^| select six delegates to the Chicago Conven^^H finr. The delegates were Instructed to vot^^l as a unit on all questions, in uccordanc^H wltti the will of the majority. mm Justice Pipe, of Colorado, has rendered decision that the recent State law prohibltln^^H gambling is unconstitutional. |^B I