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VICTORIA'S JDB1LEE., Unparalleled Demonstration at the British Capital in Queen's Honor. A MOST BRILLIANT PAGEANT. piamond Jablleo Procession Passes Through London Amid Great Splendor?To St. Paul's and Return?The Queen Escorted by Princes From All Europe? American Representatives. Lo>dox, England (By Cable).?The celebration here of the completion of the sixtieth year of the reign of Queon Victoria txceeded in magnitude and splendor any publio spectacle since th? world began. Representatives of eTery great religion on arth witnessed the solemn thank-offering of the highest prelates of the Anglican Church in the vast temple of St. Paul, which was thronged with the official enToys of every Nation on earth, splendid in their trappings of State. Gathered in the olty was the largest aggregation of human beings ever assembled In one place. The weather was perfect.and the whole monster demonstration passed off without hitch or erlous accident. The Queen left Buckingham Palace promptly at the appointed time, after sending a telegraphic message ot affeotlon to her subjects in all parts of the earth. She rode In State through seven miles of streets, gayly decorated and lined great crowds of enthusiastic, spectators. In the processfon, besides the gpecial representatives * of the Nations, were eleven Colonial Premiers and picked v men from every branch of the British naval and military services. The Queen was at *\fCt, tended by the members of her family under the escort of a Guard of Honor consisting of twenty-one of the native Indian Cavalry Corps, and Immediately preceded by the special Ambassadors and Envoys of other Nations and many native and foreign Princes. At Temple Bar the Lord Mayor presented to her the city's official sword, j At St. Paul's Cathedral a stop was made for brief religious ceremonies. Another stop was made at the Mansion House, where the Queen was received by the Lord Mayor,. and accepted a bouquet ot nowersirom toe Lady Mayoress. The return to the Palace was by way of London Bridge, the Borough and Westminster Bridge. It was "Queen's weather," a bright day of sunshine, and the historic pageant passed off without a marring incident. Nearly 50,000 soldiers, representing all arms of the service and all sections of tho British dominions, were.drawn tip along the streets and in the procession. Thousands in the streets and squares waited all night in the hope of a good view of the procession, and were amazing in their patience. The decorations were without stint, even In the poorest alleys of the East End. In the West End they were resplendent. Along the route of the procession banners, festoons and designs of every description were continuous. Red, white and blue were the prevailing colors, bu^ lack of concerted action may be said to have spoiled to some extent the general effect. At the clubs, public buildings and bridges the displays were especially lavish, many of the gray walls being entirely hidden. Private houses, too, along the lino of march were decked out gayly, one of them being cov?red from roof to basement with red plush. One or two of the West End streets were converted into arbors of colored bunting, the festooning forming a long waving roof. The Queen breakfasted at 9 o'clock and informed her physician that she was not fatigued by the ceremonies of the day before. A few minutes later the strains of -the national anthem as a band passed the place announced that.the unique gathering of colonial troops had formed in line and had begun the march toward Buckingham Palace. The colonial members in state carriages joined the cavalcade, each statesman taking his place at the head of the troops from his colony. Then tills procession, wnicu wus a secwou of the day's programme by itself, and the first of the kind that ever trod English ground, started over the regular route to St. Paul's, there to await the arrival of the royalties, the foreign envoys, the British home escort and the Queen. , Next to the Queen herself the person most cheered was General Lord Roberts, the most popular man in the army, and as such he was greeted. The General rode alone, mounted upon a white horse, holding a Field Marshal's baton. His breast was covered with distinguished orders. In the first carriage In the colonial division, surrounded by Canadian troopers, was Hon. Wilfrid Laurler, Premier of Canada, and Mrs. Laurier. The Premier received an ovation all alone the line and waved his hat in acknowledgment. The Canadians were followed by the New South Wales Lancers and other troops, headed by Premier Raid, the Victoria Mounted Rifles accompanying Premier Turner, and the New Zealanders, with Premier Seddon. The African section received a tremendous welcome, especially in view of the Matabeland campaign. They were headed by the Hon. Maurice Giffard, who lost an arm in the last fighting in Rhodesia. Next came the Cs^ie Mounted Rifles, followed by the contingents from South Australia, Newfoundland and Tasmania, each headed by the Premier of the colony. TV.on nnmn thfl section embracing the troops from Malta, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Bermuda, Hong Kong and Mauritius. After these came the Malays, Sikhs, Dyaks and others, the colonial part of the procession ending with the Hussars from the Gold Coast, who took part in the recent expedition to suppress slave trading. The whole cavalcade presented specimens of the fighting forces In every corner of the Queen's donations. The enthusiasm of the millions of Britons who cheered the col , ^ onials was largely born of tho pride of empire which these visitors represented. The second procession passed the palace ? J fifty minutes after the colonials had climbed Constitution Hill. Formed in Eaton Square and Sloane street, it more than eloquently tilled up the picture of Britain's war strength; more than magnificently completed the carnival of gorgeous costume and color. Scarlet and blue and gold were intermingled with white and vellow. shining cuirasses and polished hel mt'ts; plumes and tassels; furs and gold and silver-spangled cloths; bullion embroideries and accout rements; splendid trappings and more splendid trappings for men, sashes and stac?, crosses and medals?medals for the Crimea, India, Seringapatam, the Nile, Ashanti, Afghanistan, Chitral, South Africa, China and dozens of others, and here and there were seen the finest and most highly prized the world can show, the Victoria cross. There were also batteries of artillery; men of splendid physique, and horses with rare action, which fuily entered into the spirit and meaning of it all, and over all were heard the rich strains of that music they best loved to hear. The sight was one to stir the blood as only soldiers have stirred it since the dawn of time. As the soldiers wound out of sight to wait for the Queen's procession on Constitution Hill, it seemed like nothing so much as some streak of burnished gold flowing * * * 1 - U.%mon n ere Decween ciarit DauK? ui uuumu gathered to witness its passage to a land ol light. The empire had passed in review, the army and navy had been shown in theii panoplied strength, the head of it all was now to come, Her Majesty and the Royal Procession. Promptly at the hour appointed by the Queen tne'Field Marshal in charge of the head of the coIuim of the Royal Procession was at the Wellington Statue at the Hyde Park corner to receive the signal that the Queen was about to enter her carriage, and at 11 o'clock the starting gun in the park was fired and the line of march was takes up. At 11.10 a. m. a bustle on the main staircase of Buckingham Palace announced the coming of Her Majesty. Queen Victoria slowly descended the stairs, assisted by a scarlet-clad and white-turbanned Indian attendant. She was dressed in black, wore jBMii, / I a black bonnet trimmed with white, and carried a white sunshade. At the foot of the stairway Her Majesty I paused for a minute, and touched an electric button connected with all the telegraphio systems throughout - the British Empire, and it flashed around the world the message sent by the Queen to her subjects. It read: "From my heart, I thank my beloved people. May God bless them." Her Majesty then slowly seated herself in her carriage, the royal trumpeters sounded a fanfare, the Princess of Wales joined the Queen, and then the Princess Christian of Sehleswig-Holstein joined the party. Both the Princesses seated themselves opposite Her Majesty, and at 11.12 the Queen's coach started. Two gillies in Highland costume, wearing the tartan of MacDonald of the Isles, the so-called Crown Prince of Scotland, occupied the rumble. As the Queen drove under the archway, punctual to the second, the cannon shot of the royal salute was flred and announced to the waiting millions that her Majesty was on her wav through London. The Queen met with a most enthusiastic reception, and as soon as she emerged from the palace gates she began bowing right and left to the cheering of her people. The crowd began to show more eager interest in the approaching vehicles, as the Queen approached. Eleven road landaus, each drawn by four horses, boro the visiting Princesses and women of tho court. In the last were Empress Frederick of Germany, Crown Prince of Naples, Princess Louise and Duke of Coburg. Two senior equerries rode by the carriage of the Empress Frederick. As the familiar faces passed many and loud were the greetings. The colonial escort came next, drawn from all the colonies, the Canadians representing almost all the provinces, among them Captain Fleming and Sergeants Joslin, Leblond, Hodgins, Davis King. Dinman, Creighton and Bert.selinger. The foreign naval and military attaches were next, including Major General Miles, Lieutenant Colwell, United States Naval Attache, and Major Ludlow, formerly United States Military Attache. The Ameri ?n? nnlfnrmQ hilt u great deal of attention. Then the first part of the Sovereign's escort rode into view, the Second Life Guards. They were succeeded by the escort of British and Foreign Princes. Next camo the guard of honor, twenty-two officers of native Indian cavalry corps, men cf fine physique, picturesque uniforms and strange faiths; then Jat Sikhs, Brahmin' Sikhs, Mussulman Tathans, Hindustani Mussulmans, Hindu Jats, Mussulman Rajaputs, Punjabi Mussulmans and plain Mussulmans. Then the Queen at last. Cheers broke forth that seemed to shake the ground, renewed again and again, as Her Majesty's carriage approached. The famous eight Hanoverian creams, the last pair standing 16.2 hands, drew hertiarrlage. Beside her was seated the Princess of Wales, with H, B. H. Princess Christian opposite. On the left rode the Duke ol n n V. at> f V .1 1>{ i*Kf f hu Dp)nn>k r>l LnUiUIlU^C, va V4.1VJ ll^Ub ci 1U X11UVU \JL Wales, who was followed by the Duke of Connaught, the generul officer commanding. The procession closed with a group o( officials, followed by part of the Second Life Guards, the Royal Irish Constabulary and a squadron of the Royal Horse Guards. As the procession passed tDrough the city a cordial reception was accorded to Whitelaw Iieid, the special representative of the United States. Gf all the glittering throng that passed along he alone wore the ordinary clothes of everyday life, ami in black frock coat and tall silk hat he ? VWJT UUUUCUU1U ICiUUIC \JL IUC cession. Again and again he was forced by vociferous cheering to bow right and left. The great bells of St. Faul'a broke out in joyous chorus as the Queen's carriage started trom Temple Bar, and only ceasod as Her Majesty's carriage stopped in front of the steps of the City Cathedral, which she entered to attend the services. The "amois" in the service were accompanied by the blast of horns and the roll ol drums, and when they were ended the Archbishop of Canterbury called for "Thret cheers for Queen Victoria!" and all presenl arose and gave nine cheers for Her MdlestT, M. A wildly waving their hats and handkerchiefs, to which the Queen bowed repeatedly. Then, amid the farther ringing of be'la, the National anthem to sung, and the I DOOminp OI tne lowt'tsuus unug n wjoi salute could be heard as the Queen drove on into other scenes. As soon as tho ceremony was concluded at St. Paul's the royal procession passed on to the Mansion House, where she was received by the Lord Mayor. The procession then passed on over London Bridge to the southern part of London. The same uproarious welcome was given to the Queen everywhere. As Her Majesty entered the Rates of Buckingham Tace at 2 o'clock a distant gun in Hyde Tark announced to so much of the world as was not before the gates that the great Tprocession was over. The event so long prepared had passed into history. The I J J-X-- 1 i..?? ??? SUUilU VI LI1*3 ruvui 3JIIUIO Una uujnvnu still by cheering,"as though the loyal subjects who had come to cheer had not yet satisfied their ambition, and then the crowd faded away as it came. The Queen was very much pleased nnd smiling, and was not overfatigued. The whole affair passed off without a hitch. There was no serious accident, although a i number of women fainted. ! THE QUEEN IN HER CAPITAL Whttelaw Re id Delivers President McKln1 ley's Personal Letter to Her Majesty. I Queen Victoria recefcsd the United i States and Imperial and Royal envoys at 4 o'clock la afternoon of the day before J the jubilee procession la the Dow drawingl room of Buckiogham Palace, Londoa. Ia ? the party represeatiog the United States i were Special Envoy Whitelaw Reid, General [ Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A.; Rear Admiral J. ; N. Miller, U. S. N., and their secretaries t and aides. The Americans reached Buckingham Falace shortly after 2 o'clock. They .were i In evening dress, with the exception of , the American officers, and the republican , simplicity of their attire was in startling contrast "with the brilliancy of the uniforms i around them. Mr. Reid was received by the Prince of Wales in the most cordial ' manner. The Envoys f.tood in line shortly before 4 o'clock and went singly into the audience room, to which they were conducted by Sir William James Colville, master of ceremonies. The Queen was. dressed in black, wore a widow's cap, the ribbon of the Order of the Garter and some orders. She sat in a gilded chair near the centre of the room, the Prince of Wales standing immediately behind her. At her right hand was the Princess of Wales, and others of the royal family were stationed in various parts of tho room. The Duke of Auerstadt and the Duke of Sotomayor, representing, respectively, France and Spain! preceded the United States Envoy, Mr. Reid, who was third, and was followed by the Papal Envoy, Mgr. Sambucetti. All the envoys presented their letters with the lowest obeisance. The Queen took each letter and smilingly addressed two or three sentences of thanks and compliments to each envoy. Mr. Reld was received in the most cordial manner possible. He presented the following letter to the Queen: To Her Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India: Great and Good Friend?In the name and on behalf of the people of the United States, I present their sincere felicitations upon tue sixtieth anniversary of Your Majesty's ac- j cession to the crown of Great Britain. I express the sentiments of my fellow citizens in wishing for your people the prolongation of a reign illustrious and marked by advance in science, arts and. popular well being. On behalf of my coujtftrymen I ( wish particularly to recognize your friend- j ship for the United States and your love of peace, exemplified upon important occa- j sions. It is pleasing to acknowledge the debt of I gratitude and respect due to your personal virtues. May your life be prolonged, and peace, honor and prosperity bless the people over whom you have been called to rule. May liberty flourish throughout your empire under just and equal laws, and your Government continue strong in the affections of all who live under It. And I pray God to have Your Majesty in j His holy keeping. Done at Washington, this 29th day of May, I i A. D.. 1897. Your good friend. William McKinxet. ' By the President, John Shermax. Secretary. Her Majesty expressed her sincere thanks to President McKinley and to "The Great Nation of Our Kinsmen." After Mr. Reid had retired he strolled about the palace a j little and went home at 4.15 p. m. The Queen looked very well Indeed, and she seemed to be entirely pleased and in- ) terested In everything. She impressed all | the envoys with the sincerity of her thanks i for the national compliments paid to her. CAPTAIN BOYCOTT IS DEAD. i Bluft Old Irishman Who Originated the j Xoff Well-Known Term. Captain Boycott, of Ireland, Is dead. He Is about flfty-flve years of age, and became famous through being the first man sub- . In In Ireland. He was ft land agent In 1881 in the Connemara sec- t tion of County Mayo, where he collected | rents for a number of landlords notably the i Earl of Erno. In 1880 Mr. Parnell made a | speech, In the course of which he urged the 1 people of Ireland to abstain from agrarian i crimes and adopt instead the policy of send- I ing harsh landlords, agents and bailiffs "to Coventry," the old term of boycotting. Events so shaped themselves that Captain Boycott was the first man the Irish experimented upon in this connection, and hence the now familiar word, "boycott." BOTH KILLED ON THE SPOT. A Mississippi Duel Over an Elopement Finishes the Prlucl(Kila. At James Crossing, Miss., Paul James and Will Able shot and killed each other. James objected to the marriage of his niece. Miss Wright, who eloped with Able, j ' ? * * ? - i 1 ? l 'J I i It was rumored rnai jam<w hjvi jhuu iuu? he wonld kill Able if Able married his niece. The two men met, each armed, James having a revolver and shotgun and Able a revolver and Winchester rifle. After some words James fired with the shotgun, the load, hitting Able in the right shoulder and disabling bis ri:,'ht arm. Able then raised his gun with his left hand and tired three shots at James who was killed instantly. Able lived but a moment after the shooting. ORDNANCE STORES BURNED. A Fierce Fight With Fire In the Xavr i Yard at Brooklyn. 1 A lively fire broke out about 9.30 o'clock p. m. in building No. 13, in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which occupied the entire block between Second and Third streets and I Chauncey and Perry avenues. The tire | was fought vigorously by crews from | the Brooklyn Fire Department, six hundred sailors from the ships now at the yard and three hundred marines, but in spite of the best efforts of all these men the building was partially destroyed and all its 1 eontents seriously damaged. The estimated losses were 850,000 on the building and 840,000 on the contents. There was no insurance on the property. i CHARLEY ROSS'S FATHER DEAD. I ' Never Recovered From the Abduction of Hiit Son Twenty-three Veurs Ago. J Christian K. Ross, the father of Charley i Ross, whoso abduction on July 1,1874, from his parents' home, became a matter of 1 world-wide interest, and still remains an J unsolved mystery, died at his residence in Germantown, Philadelphia, aged seventyfour years, after an illness of but threo weeks. The abduction of Charley Boss, who was a beautiful child, practically wrecked the ( life of his father, and from tne time the boy was stolen, nearly twenty-three years ago, life seemed a burden to the once hustling , business man. 20,000 Prisoners to Be Freed. The Government of India, as a memorial s of the jubilee, decided to release 20,000 : prisoners who have been convicted ot va, rloua offences ia that country. jlffl VICTIMS OF STORK ! Great Havoc Wrought by Wind am Rain in Several States. I | AN ASYLUM BUILDING WRECKED Fire Persons Killed* and Several Hui by tho Fall of a Barn in Lincoln, 111.Heavy Damage Reported in Indiana Ohio, Kentucky and Nebraska?Grea Loss Indicted on Crops?Barns Burned Lincoln, 111. (Special).?Lincoln was vis ited almost on the anniversary of the water spout of 1892, by a terrible storm. Factor roofs and chimneys were blown awaj houses were damaged and trees dismantled The centre of the storm was about the 1111 nois Asylum for Feeble Minded Childred where Ave boys were killed and the 3upei Indendent seriously Injured. Tho building were considerably damaged. THE NEW AIR SHIP, TO. BE It was at the asylum farm, however, thai the greatest damage was done. Thisre aire about sixty boys regularly employed,undoi the direction of Superintendent Jacob Wilmert, to care for tbe six hundred acres owned by the State. A party of twenty-six boys, averaging fourteen years old, had been taken down to assist In picking peas, and placed under the charge of one of the oldest omployes, I Lemuel Gleason. The day was intensely [ hot, and when the work was done Crleoson took the boys to Salt Greek, which flows I through the farm, and treated them to a swim. As they started back from the creek o j storm cloud was seen coming up, ana, to j escape the rain, the attendant hurried t ie j boys Into the big farm barn. Superintendent Wllmert was in the barn. The boys j had just entered the barn when the stora } broke, and It seemed to centre Its fury on the structure. Without warning the building gave way and fell, crushing its oceu! pants beneath Its timbers. The storm continued for about thirtj [ minutes, but before it was over the work I of rescue was begun and five bodies wore taken from the ruins. Superintendent Wllmerts was one of the first of the Injured tc release himself. His head is cut and his back and abdomen were crushed by timbers. Attendant Gleason has a crushed foot and received injuries in the b&ci which are quite serious and possibly dun* gerous. The killed were Cornelius MacKlnzie, James O'Brien, Cassie D. Lazaron J. C. Cooper and Sylvester Baker. The in jured are Helnrich Berger, Milton Garray Bobert Aloot and William E. C. Witham, STORM DAMACE IN INDIANA. Remarkable Meteorological Varlatloni Make Things Exciting. Ixdian'apolis Ind. (Special).?Severe anc disastrous electric storms raged in manj portions of Indiana. The Governmenl weather obe ^rver says it was a most remarkable disturbance. Many buildings were demolished and the crops and for<;stt suffered heavily. John Street's farmhouse on the Ohio River was wrecked and his son and a servant were killed. At English, Ind., the courthouse was damaged to the extent of ?3000. A southbound "Monon" train eight miles beyond Bloomington, Ind., was struck by lightning and the passengers shaken up severely Johnston the conductor, was painfully Injured, but will recover. Later as tho trair was nearlng Gasburg, Ind., it ran into s large tree that had been blown across the track, and the engine was badly damaged At New Albany, Ind., about twenty house! were unroofed and the streets were.strewi with debris. A circus tent was ripped tc f>?Q mAnb-fltr n arrrt V7A.Q dfimoL ished, and there was a gr* at scattering ani chattering of the little animals. At Muncie, Ind., the Albany Lumbej Company's sheds were blown down, the Al bany bottle works unroofed and chimneyi and stacks blown down. The west wing of the Paragon Paper Mill at Easton, Ind., was blovrn in during th< storm. Four people wore buried in th< wreck. The loss of property is $25,000. OHIO AND KENTUCKY IN THE PATH Electric Storms Cause Death and Destrac< tlon In Many Counties. Defiance, Ohio (Specis.l).?In a terrifl< thunderstorm Jacob Griner, a farmer living near Ayersville, Ot.io, was struck bj lightning while in his stable and instantIj killed. The barn was destroyed. Light ning struck the Citizens' Opera Hou3( in this city while tie High Schoo graduating clnss was rehearsing, anc Clinton Garvey and Frederick Haller, mem bers of the class, were knocked senselesis Garvey being rendered blind and deaf foi I At WonoIrAnufo Dhirt PofAl UU UUUi. xil. T? a{/i?BV4i.w?i?, v u.v, w.v, I Tabler, a farmer, was killed by lightning ii his house, which was consumed by Are His wifo and children were seriously in jured by the shock. At Canal Dover, Ohio the electric light wires were burned out ii the storm, leaving the city in darkness Louijiville, Ky. (Special.)?A severe wiac storm passed over this city. Consid<3rablt damage was done to property, but no lives were lost. In several cases houses weri blown down and unroofed. Reports :re ceived from Central and Eastern Kentucky indicate that great damage has been dcni to crops. The wheat fields have been lait low, farmhouses and barns were wrecked and destroyed. Rosel, Kan., Wiped Out. Lab>-ed, Kas. (Special).?a tornado swepl the northwestern part of this county Rosel, a village eighteen miles west of here was stniok and wiped out. Two grain ele vators and every house in the place wer( swept away. Still further northwest, in tht track of the tornado, all the buildings j barns and cattle sheds were wrecked. Sev era! Head or norses ami catue were Kuiea and chickens and turkeys were slaughters by the wholesale. Decrease in Ocean Travel. Despite the inducemants held out by th< various steamship companies in tho way o superior accommodations and the jubilet attractions in England, travel to Europ< bas fallen off. The books of the large line; show that the decrease compared with lasl year amounts to about twelve per cent, foi first-class travelers, and about eight pei cent, for the second-class department. The National Game. Umpire Lynch says that most of the um pire'9 troubles comes from the manager; who sit on the bench. Sockalexis, the Indian, is certainly mak Ini? a wonderful debut. He has playec great ball and a Lao batted well for th< Clevela.nds. McOarr has been released by the Clovelands, and another good third baseman ii out of a job on account of not being able tc bat up to the .300 mark. The Bostons are now very generally accepted as a team of pennant possibilities and the more they develop that characteristic the harder they will be to defeat, foi luck always seems to follow suooeaa ia fcase baU as well as in some othei matters. X: t V ' ; * 1 AIR SHIP WITH CAS CYLINDER.' J Craft "With Side Propellers to Be Used aa "Well for Steering. There 13 now In course of construction J on the Frank Skilllg ranch, near Grand Island, California, a monster air ship, which, It is asserted, will solve the problem of iprial navigation. The craft will be ready for a trial within a few weeks. It is being built by the Sweany-Davenport Manufacturing Company, which was organized for that purpose. The San Francisco Call, in a description of the air ship, says: "When finished the craft will measure 125 feet in length, 47>* feet from the floor of the car to the top of i the cylinder and 37K feet between the tips ' of the propellers. The structure will conk sist of an elliptical gas filled cylinder, to I. whloh a car Is attached, and two propellers, situated not behind the cylinder, as has br>nn the case with moat air flhins. but on both sides of the craft, at the end of revolving shafts. It differs also from other y craft in being without sails or rudder, r being steered entirely by the propellers. "The car has been nearly completed and the canvas cylinder has been made. It will - be coated inside and outside with rubber l paint, and when all is ready for the trial .1 trip it will be inflated with hydrogen gas. The tank that will be used in generating 9 the gas is already on the ground, and also eight thousand pounds of sulphuric acid TRIED SOON IN CALIFORNIA. ; and eight thousand pounds of Iron shavings , that will be used in the process." ; COLD AND SILVER OUTPUT. ' Increased Production of the Precious Metals In the United States. The product of gold and silver In the several States and Territories of the United States for the calendar year 1896 is estimated by the Director of the Mint to have Gold, Silver, Colnefofnnr Value. intf ValuO. i Alabama $5,700 -iiA 1 Alaska 2,055,700 $187,863 Arizona 2,604,200 2,473,873 California 15,235,900 776,533 Colorado.. . .. 14,911,000 29,185,293 Georgia....? 151,000 776 Idaho 2,155,300 6,658,457 Iowa 1,000 .... Maryland 300 Michigan... 87,200 76,283 Minnesota...... 800 . Montana 4,324,700 21,640,404 Nevada. . . ........ 2,468,300 l,3o5,895 New Mexico 475,800 889,277 North Carolina 44,300 646 Oregon 1,251,000 78,998 8outh Carolina 63,300 388 South Dakota. 4,969,800 296,727 Tennessee ? 300 Texas ...........8,000 679,305 Utah > 1,899,900 11,413,463 . Vermont 1,000 .... * Virginia 3,500 .... Washington 405,700 355,426 Wyoming. 14,300 _ 129 Totals $53,088,000 $76,069,236 I xno H10CDU30. ill ud puuuowvu v> over 1895 was $6,478,000, while the production of silver shows an increase of $4,018,| 000. QUEEN VICTORIA REPORTED BLIND. Her Affliction Recent But Threatened for Some Time. It is announced, on the authority of one of the royal physicians attendant upon Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, that "tho Queen is almost totally blind." No detail8 of the sad news are yet available beyond the fact that the affliction is a recent culmination, although it had for some time been threatened. If the cause of Her Majesty's blindness is cataract, which is the commonest form of impaired sight In advanced age, it, of course, is possible to cure it by a simple delicate operation. This is the true reason why she will not ride alone in the procession, and why she will not leave her carriage at the jubilee services to bo held at St. Paul's Cathedral, and it is semi-offlcialJy announced that she - Will do unaoie to respuuu iu luc uicmugo 5 that will be extended to her along the line of the royal procession. , It also explains, possibly, the recent rei vival of the gossip of a regency under the 5 Prince of Wales in the near future. FATAL TORNADO IN PARIS. Twelve Killed, Fifty Injured and Factories and Dwellings Wrecked. A tornado passed over the outskirts of 5 Paris, France causing the loss of about ; twelve lives and injuring about fifty persons, r The damage throughout the area . swept by the tornado was } heavy. Factories and dwellings 1 were levelled to the ground. A cafe at 1 Courbevole fell upon its occupants, many . of whom were injured. The two hundred booths that had been erected for the fetes f at Asnieres, on the Seine, four miles from f the city, were wrecked. The village of i Colombes, six mile3 northwest, and the important town of St. Dennis, about five 1 miles north of Paris, suffered severely. A cloudburst caused devastation in cen[ tral France, notably at St. Germain, where . three persons were killed and a dozen inj jured. Houses were carried away by the > flood, the telegraph lines were destroyed, j and much damage was done to other prop) "ty. r No Shut Down Thla Y'ear. > For the first time in four yours the Amos1 I iceag, Amory, Stark and Jefferson mills at Manchester, N. H., will not make their usual June shut-down. This throws 14,000 hands out ot employment every year. There Is great rejoicing in consequence of the del eision to keep running. The mill compan. ies have received orders for sixty new , patterns of 25,000 pieces each. > Train Robbers Foiled. ' An attempt to wreck the New YorR ? ) press on the Baltimore and Ohio South , western about sixty:flve miles east of St. I LiOUlS was IOIIHU uy uuo ui tuu 1 umuk,, ,, warned the Sheriff. The latter reached the spot twenty minutes before the train was due. One robber surrendered and another was totally shot. They had piled ties on i the tracks. Tho express car carried $100,f 000. i Lumber Company Purchase* a Mountain. ? A lumber company has purchased Mount j Washington, tho highest of the White r Mountain peaks, its altitude being 0292 r feet. It was purchased for its timber, and tho price paid was 5100.000. Labor World. Tho Han Yang (China) Iron Mills omploy 3 1200 men and make Bessemer steel. K. of L. carpenters at Washington, D. C., - rejected the proposition mat tne iour 1 unions of carpenters desert national bodies 5 and act independently. The Birmingham (England) gun trade bag not been so active for ten years ae it is 3 now. One Birmingham firm has an order ) for 14,000 alarum rines ior me xsuvr vxoyernment. The shoe-shiners of Milwaukee, Wis., as , the bootblacks designate themselves, have adopted resolutions asking the shoe dealers r to discontinue the practice of polishing without oharge the shoe? of their customer^ ??? ? ? , .-:;v 11 ' |f^J p up v i rr \ * / o CCITnMl7Cn inc. iMt v*o urn viiiifcww. Washington Items. ' The Senate completed the schedules ol tjbte tariff relating to raw wool and advanced into the paragraphs on manufactured woolen goods. Mr. Hoar spoke ol Mr. Bryan's position on the Tariff, and brought Senators Mantle, Allen and Stewart to the latter's defense. Senator Teller warned the Republicans against dragging outside political Issues into the Tariff debate. Senator Allen, of Nebraska; Congressmai Knowles, cf South Dakota, and W. J, Bryan deny the statement of Professor L, C. Bateman, of Maine, to the effect thai Mr. Bryan's gift of 81500 to the Populistic National Committee was conditional upon the understanding that no action against fusion should be taken by the Populistic National Convention. Japan's protest against the annexatioi of Hawaii is considered in a more serious light than was at first made known by th< Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It L accepted as almost an ultimatum that th< treaty must not be perfected. There was an exciting debate in the Sen ate on the wool schedule, a number of Re publicans, including Foraker, of Ohio, ob jecting to the rates proposed by the Fi nance Committee. , Mr. Foraker chargec the committee with violating an agreemen In respect to certain rates. It was fount necessary to defer consideration of a por tlon of the schedule. The President sent to the Senate the nom ination of John Goodnow, of Mlnnesdta, t< be Consul-General at Shanghai, China. The Senate adopted the joint resolution passed by the House, appropriating $100, 000 for repairs of Dry Dock No. S of thi Brooklyn Navy Yard. The trials of the alleged recusant suga: witnesses were finished with the acquitta of John W. Macartney by order of Judg< Bradley. The Senate fixed the price of armoi plate for the new battle ships at $425 a ton Japan has filed a formal protest agalns the proposed Hawaiian treaty. A resolution appropriating $100,000 fo: repairs on the drydock at the Brooklyi Navy Yard was passed by the Hou?e. President HcKinley nominated John G Foster, of Vermont, to be Consul Genera at Halifax, and Albert C. Thompson, o Ohio: Alexander C. Botklns, of Montana and David B. Culberson, of Texas, Com mlssloners to revise and codify the crimina laws. Broker Allen L. 8eymour, of New York was acquitted of contempt in not answer ing the questions at the Senate Sugar Trua investigation. Domestic. Walter B. Humphreys attempted to shoo Lawyer M. V. Bergen in the latter's offlci in Camden, N. J. Martin V. Bergen, sec ond, a nephew of the lawyer, and< formerly a Princeton football player, "tackled' Humphreys in time to save his uncle's life General John B. Gordon was re-electe( nf the Cnnffirlofate Vet erans at the reunion in Nashville, Tenn. Lieutenant Peary, the polar explorei returned to New fork from Washingtoi assured of the needed Ave years' leave, an< prepared to leave for the North in July 01 a preliminary trip preparing for his mail expedition to the pole, which Is to start ii March. He Is confident of success in tlilf attempt. * John W. Murphy, formerly Town Clerl at Burlington, N. J., is said to have voAuntar ily gone to prison to shield his son. Ef forts were begun to secure his release. A golden eagle attacked a woman a work In a garden near Honey Creek, Iowa and attempted to carry her away. She diet of wounds and shock. At Canajoharie, N. Y., three boys, Clar ence Ireland, James Chrlstman andJame Patten, all of Palatine Bridge, wer drowned in the Mohawk River. Their bod les were recovered. Little Annie Hoffman died from injurie: received In a grade crossing accident 01 New York, New" Haven and Hartford roa< at Walllngford, Conn. With her red petticoat as a signal of dan ger, eighteen-year-old Mable Gemble savet the Wlliiamsport express on the Fail Brool Railroad from going over a thirty-foot em bankment Into Pine Creek, Penn. Whili walking on the track between Cedar Rui and Blackwells, she discovered a heav] saw log wedged in between the rails. Thei she heard the rumble of the approaching passenger train. Taking off her pettlcoa1 she ran to a curve and flagged the train. Miss Well, of Philadelphia, was fount drowned in the Seine, at Paris, Senator Hanna defeated Governor Bush nell In the contest for control of the Ohi< Republican organization at Toledo. The annual reunion of noted Confederal veterans began in Nashville, Tenn.; man; famous Southern leaders were present. ' T. Heber Wannamaker, of New York shot and killed Charles C. Jones in Bam berg, S. C. Jones attacked Mr. Wanna maker first with a knife. In the famous Murphy-Copes murder trial Mr. wanna maker's testimony as to the character o Tones was not complimentary, and th< latter determined to be revenged. Ben Brush won the Suburban Handica] at the Sheepshead Bay (N. Y.) Racetracl for 51. F. Dwyer, The Winner, belonging t< "Pittsburg Phil," running second, and thi Canadian horse Havoc third. A large ant fashionable crowd was at the track. The Rev. Dr. David H. Greer, of Nev York City, was elected coadjutor Bishop o Rhode Island. Ohio's Supreme Court decided that th< Lloyds Insurance Company of New Yorl could not do business in the Buckeye State News comes from Kaufmann, Texas, thai a colored man assaulted the little daughtei of a white planter named McReynolds, liv ing near Forney, and that a posse of far mers pursued the culprit into the botton Ot tne xnnity mver, eupmieu uuu ijutuci him by hanging from the limb of a tree. The torpedo boat Foote, built by th< Columbian Iron Works of .Baltimore, hac an official trial trip in the Patuxent River Maryland. She was supposed to mak< 24>^ knots, but fell short nearly half a knol of the required distance. Another trial will be had. James McGee, who was giving acquatic exhibitions on the lake at the Lagoon, ai open-air resort at Cincinnati, Ohio, in making a dive from an elevation of sixty fee) into the water, struck in such a way as to break his neck. Samuel J. Casey, Superintendent of Station D of the Brooklyn Postoffloe, killed himself. The police say that in a letter tu confessed he was short $500 in his accounts. E. V. Debs spoke in Chicago, saying thai the Social Democracy would attain itsendi peaceably if it could; forcibly If it must. A Grand Jury censured Governor Franklin, of Arizona, for abuse of the pardoning power. The Columbian Line steamship Financf arrived at New York with several passengers 111 and three dead from yellow fever. Malone I. Wilson, of Waltham, Mas9.,sho1 Vai?iTia TTinAa nrohablv fatallv. and ther took"his own life. Insanity la 'assigned ai the cause. Austin Smith, aged nineteen, the son o: James Smith, of Sandy Hill, N. Y., was killed while playing baseball. Smith was at the bat. A curved ball struck him un der the ear. The tug Dauntless, which recentlj started with an expedition for Cuba, was taken into Key West, Florida, in tow of the revenue cutter McLane. She was unabh to land her expedition, her machinery having broken down in the Gulf, leaving hei drifting helpless until the McLane went to her assistance and took her in tow. The leaders of the expedition came ashore. William Gardner, a farmer, living neai Platteville, N\ Y., was murdered while at work in the fields. A doc: attracted the at tention of a passing neighbor and led tc the discover}* of the bodv, which was lying in a cornfield, riddled with buckshot, Gardner's house and stable had been robbed. A horse and wagon was missing, also a shot gun, a brace of revolvers, twc silver watches, a purse and some jewelry. Joseph Decker, who lived near Gardner, was arrested on the charge of robbery. Princeton won the third and deciding baseball game in New York City for the intercollegiate championship from Yale bj the score of 22 to 8. A monument to Harry Wright, the "Father of Baseball," was unveiled in Philadelphia. OHIO REPUBLICANS MEET. BHH Governor Btrnhnell Renominated and Sen-^HHBB ator Hanna Endorsed. The Ohio Republican 8tate Convention met at Toledo, renominated Governor] Bushnell and pledged the party support toj V Mark A. Hanna as his own successor in thej " United States Senate for both the short and| long terms. The platform approves the; National and State Administrations, and also the Hawaiian treaty. ' J 11111s I 1 I '3 OOVKBXOR A. W. BC8HNELL. \ ? These nominations were made: Governor, 1 Asa W. Bushnell; Lieutenant-Governor, A. 3 W. Jones; 8upreme Judge, Jaaob F. Burkett; Attorney General, Frank Monnettj r State Treasurer, Samuel Campbell; Sohooi Commissioner, L. D. Bonebrake; Member t of Board of Public Works, C. A. Goddard. The new State Central Committee organr Ized with Harry M. Daugherty as Chalrj man, C. B, Fisher as Tlce-Chalrman and1 Peter Durr as Secretary. Diugherty and Dun are Hanna and Dick man. f | B!C ROAD'S NEW EQUIPMENT. j Nearly 5000 New Cars and Flfte?n Locomotives for the B. and O. Within the past four months the business of the B. and 0. has improved to such an ' extent and the prospect of a further increase is so good that the receivers ordered the following new equipment: Three thousand box cars from the Poll" man Car Company;. 1000 box cars from the B Missouri Car Worfcs for the Fairport Line; 600 coal cars from the Michigan Car ComP pany; twenty freight and five passenger locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive ' Works; fifteen freight locomotives from the 1 Pittsburg Locomotive Works. This equipment is being delivered daily i and as fast as the engines and cars are re-' . j ceived they are placed in active service.1 j i These cars and engines will not increase j | the equipment to such an extent as might ' V?q oa a crflof mnnr nlH In^AmnHvAA a | are to be retired from service as soon aa ! j. the new engines are completed. Among 5 these locomotives are about twenty of the | famous old camel baclqthat have been , j in use since before the war. They have c been doing the yard duty but have even : gotten too old for that. However, the new engines will Increase i the road capacity to a very large extent, t : and the new cars will glre the B. and 0. . ! the additional equipment that Is badly i i needed. ( } ,jM ! Within the past year and a half about - | 10,000 new freight cars and 140 locomotives g have been ordered and added to the equip9 ment. j< IOWA STATE CONVENTIONS. 3 I 1 . /T? j ! Democrats, Popnlltts and Silver Republic 1 ' can? Name a Fusion Tickat. At the conventions of the Democrats 3 Populists and Silver Republicans at Dea \ Moines, Iowa, this ticket was nominated, ^ about two-thirds of the middle-of-the-road 3 men bolting: 1 : Governor, F. E. White. Democrat; Lleur tenant Governor, B. A. Plummer, Silver Be1 | publican; Judge of the Supreme Court, L. j G. Klnne, Bryan Democrat; Railroad Com- > t J missioner, S. B. Crane, Populist; Superintendent, G.F. Spinehart, Silver Republican. 1 Silver and State issues were the war j cries. The platform Includes a sweeping, indorsement of the Chicago Convention^ " and takes In about all the corporation, '\i questions that have been discussed In the State, particularly In the Legislature dur3 ing the last year. Silence is maintained on f the liquor question, and this means the. ; end of the liquoj agitation in Iowa poll-; , tics, for the Republicans will not refer to, it in their convention In August. In th& main the platform relates to purely State 3 matters. f j Death Penalty for Stealing. i j Tom Chickasaw, a full-blooded Indian,' was executed by shooting at Okmulgee? ? Indian Territory, for stealing. Under tribal : laws larceny Is a capital crime. Chickasaw J was placed in a wagon and driven to the . 9 graveyard. He walked up and looked Into * his grave, and then knelt down and prayed with the Rev. John Mcintosh. He was 7 blindfolded and shot to death by the light f horsemen of the Okmulgee district. 3 | iiittuo oj n kjcaiciiu^Mbt |h c 1 Mary Mesarosh, a Hungarian girl, seven. H ;een years old, of Hudson, N. Y., has been *'-l jfl t ! made a raving maniac by the searchlight of n r a steamer. The powerful rays were thrown on into her room, and they frightened her so 9 that she became Insane. She was adjudged H| | a lunatic, and was sent from there to the BB 1 Hudson River State Hospital, at Poughkeepsie, for treatment. gB ' M [ Twelve Saved, Six Drowned. fljSf , Captain Nash, of the Furness Lino steam* ship, City of Antwerp, inward for Montreal, |H [ from Antwerp, reports that he has on board twelve seaman of the Norwegian bark,- Jm&t Magchlld, Captain Tellefsen, from Phlla?~~?^^B delphia, for Quebec, with a cargo of coal. 1 The Magchiid capsized off Fame Point drowning the master, mate, steward, cook* and two seamen. SB Collector KUbreth Dead. SB Collector of the Tort of New York, James ' jl. Jtviiorem uieu u euufsuaj ul ouuiuuiuij' ton, Long Island. Ho had been 111 for a HI week with pneumonia. To this was added |H stomach and liver trouble. His family was at his bedside when he died. James T. BH * Kilbreth was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in El 1.341. gjH Tale Freihrnea Won. H| Yale's freshmen won the boat race at . Bfi ; Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Harvard's boat was , IB second, and Cornell's third. The winners AH broke the two-mile record. H9 t . H One Man Kobe a Train. SbU There was a hold-up on the Louisville uHB f and Nashville Railroad, near Bethlehem, n[ ) Tenn., between Ciarksville and Nashville, alM 3 about 9 o'clock p. m. One man armed with two pistols sacked the express car and ob- fljo tained, according to reports in Ciarksville, HI r from $2000 to $4000. MB i ? OH ) Russian Drapoon* Drowned. BBS! ' The River Kur has overflowed its banks fljj n^ar the railroad station at Nawthig, in the Titlis District of Russia. Nineteen men be- , ^Hf 1 lonRinj? to tha Nijuinoyprorod Dragoons VH| were swept into the water and drowned. HBB Cycling Notes. TKAa*nnn'fln/?flrl rMAr flndS IlO dif -J-... Acuity in turning his head to see what is goirn* on behind him. He has the apparent ability to look in several directions at once.1 flfiB At the Southern Circuit bicycle races in^J^Oj Montgomery, Ala., Charles J. Carpenter New Jersey broke his own record for one hour's competitive riding (23 9-10 miles): HH and finished first with 24 miles to his K2 Half the people who, by reason of riding old wheels, have a poor position on their flH| macnmes, eouia oovmn; uiuuu ui ma ?uuble, make riding easier, if they would have longor seat-posts with front L, and adjos1 table handle-bars, with long stem, flted to Ri their bicycles. _ ' &? __i _ ^ m