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In France, the army, to a man, is lot General Boulanger. American clubdom grow* year by yeai more especially in New York. Not less than $5,000,000 are invested in special palacs cars by the railroad companies of this country. An epidemic of suicide is again on. At every side, in all classes, for all rea sons, the suicidal blow is falling. The last Rhode Island Legislature had eigty-seven Republican majority on joint ballot; the present one has eleven. There is only one physician to every 6500 of the population in Russia, and yet the destitution among the members of the profession is alarming. At Harvard College $250 has been subscribed for a cup to be given to the man who, within the next ten years, shall have kicked the highest. The Mikado cf Japan really has no more power than the average monarch of Europe, and his duties and privileges are very similar to those of the queen of Great Britain. A new parachutist, W. S. Young, hopes to outstrip his rivals by dropping with his parachute tied up in a sack. He says he will go so high that he will have time to release the para chute and come down as usual. The common school system is meeting with popular favor in Mexico and regu lations for primary compulsory educa tion will soon be completed, while for the training of teachers a normal school has been established, and the furniture and apparatus for a normal school for fe male teachers is now being put in place. The women of Chicago have estab lished the first College of Practical Arts for women in this country. It is de signed to give women a practical insight into the avenues of business life, such #.s law, railroads, life insurance, general office work, etc. The incorporators of the college are Mesdamcs Helen M. Mott, Charles B. Smith and Miss Katharine G. Todd. The New York Jfetcs says that the wonderful success which Mr. Henry George has achieved during his lectur ing in England, Scotland and Wales has attracted the attention of a great mar people who hitherto have given littl no attention to the land questj his speeches have had amount of situation.,, are these: A young woman of^ccellent character and noble birth is the chief prize; her name is to remain a secret until after the drawing; the total re ceipts from the sale of tickets, amount ing to $2500, are to form her marriage portion; the holder of the lucky ticket is to marry the young woman and then receive the dowry; but if she won’t marry him she must pay him $1250. The cottage at Fordham, N. Y., where Edgar Allen Poe and his unfor tunate girl wife lived for a time, and where she died; in which the severest of his struggles with poverty took place, and where “The Bells,” “Annabel Lee,” “Ulalume” and other well-known poems were written, has been sold under the hammer to Mr. William Fearing Gill, Poe’s admirer and biographer. He in tends to keep it as it is now, announces the Mail and Express, a memorial of one of America’s greatest geniuses. Fays the New York Commercial Ad vertiser: “The immediate cause of the downfall of Gladstone’s ministry four years ago was Mr. Childers’ budget, with its proposal of an increased tax on beer. There is, therefore, a note of confident menace in the protest of the British brewers against Mr. Goschen’s last budget estimate, which raises the beer tax one-fourteenth of a penny per gallon. This is a point in which the British taxpayer’s sensitiveness may be veiy sorely touched. Who steals his purse steals tra?h, but he who filches from him his ’arf-and-’arf is liable to get into serious difficulties with the voting public. The ale-houses from Land’s End to the Hebrides were plastered on the former occasion with placar ds de nouncing with pitiless force the tyrants who taxed the poor man's beer, and passed over the millionnaire’s sherry.” Photographing by Heat. It may be said that photographs can be taken by heat as well as by light. The action of the shorter waves of energy which we call light is quicker and sooner manifest to the eye than the action ol the long waves, which we call heat; but the invisible heat rays in the solar spec trum have been photographed. The alow action of heat in changing the molecular state of bodies is well known. It is probable that an emulsion could be formed which would give an image of a hot black kettle in a dark chamber. The efcAent of time, however, would probably be an important one. Indeed, we are often presented with evidences of the picture-making facility of heat rays. A fern-leaf upon ice is soon represented by the difference ol molecular action. A stationary carriage- wheel standing in the sun upon the frozen ground is found to have left itt photograph upon the ground when h ^Xnoves on.—Scribner's Magazine. . CBM OF THE NEWS. Rich Shimmings from the Latest Telegraphic Dispatches. A Frightful Accident Caused by Trainwreckers in Missouri. A frightful crime was committed by train wreckers near Sullivan, Mo., a few minutes before 12 o’clock in the night. The plates and rails were removed on a dangerous em bankment on the St. Louis and San Fran cisco Railway, and in the wreck that followed over forty people were seriously hurt, several of them fatally. The train left St. Louis at 8:15 P. M. It consisted of two baggage-cars, two day- ccaches and three sleeping-cars. Every sec tion was occupied in the sleeping-cars, and the coaches were crowded. At 11:25 p. M., as the train was rounding a sharp curve, three miles west of Sullivan, the ten der, baggage-cars, smoking-car and two coaches jumped the track and were smashed. The tender and one baggage-car went down the embankment, but all the other cars except the coaches were crushed at the top. People were tossed about in the cars in all di rections, and some of them were thrown out of the coaches and down the embankment. One man, Walter Davidson, an agent of the West- inghouse Air Brake Company, was thrown out of a window on the opposite side of the coach from where he was sitting, and rolled down the embankment to the edge of the the creek. His feet were in the water. Another passen ger in the same coach was tossed from the rear end of the car to the forward end. The forward cars were smashed into kindling wood, and the debris was scattered on both sides of the track. The trainmen and passengers who escaped injury worked hard, and soon had all the wounded placed in the cars that remained on the track. A special train was sent from Sul livan, and the wounded were taken back to. the town. The family of Colonel John O’Day, Vice-President of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, were on the train, and all were dangerously hurt. His son Patrick, aged seven, sustained a fracture of the skull. On the train was a large body of physicians returning from Springfield, Mo., where the State Medical Convention was held, and they rendered valuable assistance in caring for the injured. Laura Bridgman Dead. Laura Bridgman, aged sixty, the deaf, dumb and blind woman made famous by Charles Dickens in his “American Notes, published more than forty years ago, also by many public references to her wonderful intelligence, printed in newspapers and else where since then, died a few days ago at the South Boston Asylum where she had long dwelt. She was born in Hanover, N. H., Decem ber 21, 1S29. When she was two years old a severe illness deprived her of sight, hearing and speech. Her sense of smell was also de stroyed and that of taste much impaired. At the age of eight she was placed in the Per kins Institute for the Blind in Boston, where the Superintendent, Samuel G. Howe, under took the difficult task of instructing her. With infinite patience and skill she was taught to read and write by the sense of touch alone, as well as to sew, embroirtai and even play the piano a little. The process of addition and subtraction in small numbers had also become familiar to her, and she could coun^Md conceive objects up to 100 in numbei^^B knew the days of the week andjUa^^^B^e day by the beginning and the recesses and by the ar- |ies. 1842, Laura was visited by Iwho was so much interested \iiained several hours. His i his “Notes on America.”' at the Perkins Institute the exception of the sum- 1 Hanover. In 1887 there on of the fiftieth anni- t into the schooL lahoma Lots, out a few days ago „q£ Qklar and for several hours the city of Guthrie was partially under martial law. One of the best lots in Guthrie was awarded by the Board of Arbitration to a man named Driscoll, of Chicago. An old man by the name of Diemer, of Kansas, occupied the front of the same lot with a tent. Driscoll erected a building on rollers, ready to move it to the front as soon as Diemer should va cate. Recently the Council passed an ordinance empowering the Marshal to eject every per son whose claim for a lot had been rejected by the Arbitration Board. This put into execution would affect over a thou sand persons. The City Government made a test case of the Driscoll-Diemer contest. The Marshal proceeded to remove Diemer and his tent. Immediately a mob of 1200 men collected and drove the Marshals away. The mob was about to attack the City Hall when Captain Cavanaugh arrived upon the scene and dispersed it, after which the city authorities resinned the work of ejecting Diemer. Diemer fought like a tiger and had to be dragged from his tent to the street. Driscoll’s building was rolled forward. The mob at tempted to tear the house to pieces, but this time the city authorities were able to repulse the angry men without the aid of soldiers. That night soldiers guarded the principal streets, and more trouble was anticipated. Argentine’s Cattle Trade. E. L. Baker, United States Consul at Buenos Ayres, in a report to the Department of State, says that the cattle industry of the Argentine Republic is in such a languish ing condition that a law has been passed offer ing a guarantee of five per cent, for ten years on the capital employed in the business of ex porting fresh or preserved beef. The report says it is understood that several establish ments are preparing to take advantage of the guaranty provided by the Government and are going into business on a large scale with special steamers fitted up for the traffic and warehouses in England and France. Great things are expected from this bounty law by the Argentines, but Consul Baker says he does not believe the law will hurt United States beef shippers much until new methods are adopted for the preparation of beef for exportation. Stall fed cattle are quite unknown in this country, and all bullocks for the market are taken directly off the grass, the meat, of course, being soft and watery. Argentines, it is thought, will not cut much of a figure until they learn that dry food is absolutely necessary in order to pre pare fresh meat for very distant foreign markets. 1 Gladstone’s Narrow Escape. The Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone while walk ing in Piccadilly, London, attempted to cross the street and was knocked down by a cab. The driver did not stop his horse, but endeavored to escape. Mr. Gladstone re gained his feet and ran after the vehicle. Ho caught up with it and stopped it until the police arrived and arrested the driver. Mr. Gladstone was not hurt, and was in his seat in the House of Commons that evening none the worse for his tumble. A rumor in circulation that the ex-Premier was seriously injured created great excitement until it be came known that it was groundless. Six Miners Killed. While a bucket of broken rock, weighing over a ton, was being hoisted to the surface in the new Pettibone shaft of the Delaware, Lackawanna &Western Railroad, neai' Kings ton, Penn., the wire rope broke, letting the bucket fall nearly one thousand feet upon ten men engaged m blasting at the bottom. Edward Jones was instantly killed, and James Coyle, Samuel Gessman, Cornelius Conn, George Veet and George Gresley were mangled so that they died before morning. The other men were less seriously injured. The Cholera in India. A despatch from Madras reports that the cholera, which always prevails in a modified degree in various parts of India, has devel oped extraordinary virulence and mortality in the Ganjaw district. A thousand deaths have taken place in one week. The local authorities are taking steps to prevent the spread of the disease. for a Girl's Love. Madison County, Ala., Fought a Duel Near Brownsville, James Roundtree and George Wilson'fought a duel with pistols. Wilson was killed at the second shot, and Roundtree fled. The men were young farmers. They loved the same jirL and agreed to settle their affair by a THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Millions of catenrillars covered eleven miles of railroad track in Maine and stopped a train. The busy mining town of Nanticoke, Penn., experienced an epidemic of small-pox. Cases multiplied fast, until there were probably over twenty persons prostrated in the bon ough. The tenth anniversary and graduating ex* ercises of the Carlisle (Penn.) Indian Indus trial School took place. The programme was varied and attractive. A special train from Washington city brought John W. Noble, Secretary of the Interior, and wife. The passenger station, freight houses and immense wharves of the Housatonic Rail road Company at Wilson Point, Conn., were burned, causing a loss of $200,000. Dr. J. H. Mato, of West Randolph, Vt, who was arrested for forging a note for $100, obtained leave to enter a closet, and while there cut his throat with a pocket knife, in flicting a fatal wound. Frank Compton of West Pittston, Penn., thirty-five years old, cut his wife’s throat fatally with a knife and then killed himself in the same way. Mrs. Compton, in the struggles to save her life, had all her fingers cut off. A staging on a new building at Boston, Mass., gave way killing George Hanscom, aged twenty-two years, and John Smith, aged sixty years. LATER NEWS. and South and West. A storm did heavy damage to crops small buildings in the West. The Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed the case against Ives and Stayner, indicted for swindling stockholders of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. Joseph Scheidhelm and Peter Goetiz, two Milwaukee coopers, went fishing in the Milwaukee River. The boat capsized and both were drowned. The passenger steamer Johns Hopkins, of the Baltimore and Savannah route, was burned at Baltimore. Loss $200,000. Snow fell in northern Michigan, and a se vere frost in central and southern Minnesota and Wisconsin did considerable damage to the young crops. There was a severe hail storm at Harrisonburg, W. Va. Snow also fell, but not enough to lay on the ground. The surrounding mountains were covered with snow. The Sioux Indians held a big council at Standing Rock, Dakota, and all agreed not to sign the treaty unless paid $11,000,000 for their land. The body of Dr. P. H. Cronin, the Irish agitator, who mysteriously disappeared from Cuicago two weeks ago, has been found in a catch basin. The condition of the body shows that he was murdered, and the circum stances indicate that he was the victim of a terrible conspiracy. A blighting frost at Findlay, Ohio, did a great deal of damage to field and garden crops and severely injured the fruit. Ice from a quarter to half an inch in thickness formed in water pools, and it was feared that the growing corn and wheat could not recover. The Kentucky Republican State Con vention at Louisville, nominated John Barrett, a young lawyer, for Treasurer. "William Hempkee, of Dundee, 111., and a boy named Frank Hintze were instantly killed by the collapse of a barn which they were moving. Washington. The Secretary of State is informed that Mr. Zegarra, the Minister of Peru in Wash ington, will represent that government at the Conference of American States, which meets October 4 next. The Treasury accountants completed an es timate of the cash value of the currency, coin and securities turned over to Treasurer Huston by ex-Treasurer Hyatt, and found the total amount to be $722,000,000. The pension appropriation for next year, it was estimated, will be short $15,000,000. The United States Government and the Government of Denmark have agreed to arbi trate the claim of Carlos Butterfield against the Danish Government for losses and mjur ies sustained in the Danish West Indies in the Foreign. The coal miners, who were on strike in the Dortmund. Boehum and Essen districts of Germany, have resumed work. Two French fishing vessels, the Ella and the Four Brothers, which left France some time ago for the Newfoundland fisheries with seventy men on-board, have been lost and all hands were drowned. Forty-five persons have been lost through the floods in Bohemia. The steamer City of Paris arrived in Queenstown, from New York, after a phe- nominally fast trip. Her time was five days and twenty-two hours, beating her own record on the last westward trip, of five days, twenty-three hours. \ King Humbert, of Italy, arrived in Ber lin, and was given a brilliant reception. Em peror William and Prince Bismarck and General Von Moltke greeted him as he alighted from the train. The streets were filled with people and the buildings were pro fusely decorated. Mr. Parnell will visit Edinburgh on July l t when he will receive the freedom of the city. A conservative Irish lady living near Dublin, who died recently, bequeathed $10,- 000 to Mr. Parnell. Prince Albert Victor of Wales laid the foundation stone of the Albert Bridge, in Bel fast, Ireland. An immense crowd attended the ceremony, and the Prince was accorded an enthusiastic reception. The German Emperor and King Humbert, of Italy, reviewed a parade of troops in Berlin. Lord Dunraven’s yacht Valkyrie, which is to race with the Volunteer for the Ameri ca’s cup, sailed her maiden match. She was first home, but was beaten on time allow ance. The bark Lizzie Williams was wrecked on Tugidak Island, a barren and uninhabited shbal in the Pacific. Six Chinamen and two seamen were drowned. The vessel and cargo worth $130,000 are a total loss. Robert T. Lincoln, the new American Minister to England, has been presented to Lord Salisbury, the British Premier. Seventeen Anarchists were arrested at Milan for inciting tumults at Gallarate. A severe thunder storm in the Lauterbacb district, in Germany, has done great damage to crops. Nine persons were drowned or killed by lightning. The railway bridge at Gossnitz was destroyed, and all the rivers in the vicinity rose to an alarming height. The root of a colliery at Merthyr Tydvil, Wales, fell in, killing one miner and entomb ing fifty-eight others, who were finally res cued. The trial of General Boulanger has been postponed until August. Ten thousand miners at Saar, in Bohemia, have struck. The Prague tramway lines were at a standstill owing to the strike of the drivers. The women employed in the rice fields of Medicira, Italy, were on strike. They pillaged a number of bakers’ shops. Troops were ordered to the scene. Serious strikes are being organized in Belgium. Nine hundred colliers struck at Seraign and Lie~ FIVE PERSONS BURNED. Sad Fate of a Clergyman and Four of His Family. The pretty little house of the Rev. T. C. Clarke, pastor of the London Bridge«Baptist Church, about two and a half miles from Tunis Station, Va., on the Virginia Beach Railroad was entirely destroyed by fire, and the clergyman, two of his (laughters, his son and a niece, who was visiting him, were burned alive. Shortly after midnight the oc- cuoants of the house were awakened by in haling thick, black smoke, which was in every room. The sleepers were out of their beds in a moment after. The Rev. Mr. Clarke was the first one to be aroused, and at once gave the alarm. He succeeded in getting his wife, two of his children and Miss Ella Bidgood, a governess, to places of safety by lowering them from the window. He then started to the rescue of the other inmates. The fire cut off his retreat and all perished. The younger victims were Marianna Clarke, Bessie Clarke, Frederick Clarke and Miss Pullen. The fire is thought to have been of incen diary origin. Mr. Clarke was a preacher of great abwty. ... .j While Anthony Zesnhold, Henry Wil- thelder and James Dolan were at work in Otto Colliery at Biranchdale, Penn., they were overcome by a sudden outburst of gas and suffocated to death. Cashier BRAm.gr and Assistant Teller Palmer, of the Merchants’ National Bank New Haven, Conn,, nave been detected in financial irregularities. The amount in volved is estimated at $50,000 to $100,000. John Filet, an aged farmer living near Shippensburg, Perm., was found hanging to the limb of a tree, having eojnmitted suicide on account of family troubles. The United States man-of-war Yan tic came into New York Harbor, having been struck by a hurricane; her foremast, top masts and a part of her bowsprit were gone, and she had lost her steam launch and three of her boats; some of the men were injured. A monument to the Confederate dead was unveiled at Alexandria, Va., with imposing ceremonies. The town was crowded, and the military and civic parade surpassed all ex pectations. The presentation speech was by Mr. R. T. Daniel. The oration was delivered by Governor Fitzhugh Lee. Heavy white frosts have damaged crops in Indiana. The weather was the coldest ever known there at that season. The Navy Department has begun to assign the officers of the vessels wrecked at Samoa to other ships and stations. The President appointed B. F. Gilkeson, of Pennsylvania, to be Second Controller of the Currency, and S. B. Holiday, of Pennsylvania, to be Commissioner of Customs. By direction of Secretary Noble, Agent McChcsney has ordered all the white settlers off the Cheyenne reservation. The German Reichstag passed the Aged Workmen’s Insurance bill and adjourned. Queen Victoria has just celebrated her seventieth birthday by creating three Baro nets and a Knight. The Bellows Falls (Vt.) Times building and a number of stores were burned. Loss $30,- 000; partially insured. The Presbyterian General Assembly (Southern) concluded business at Chattanoo ga, Tenn., and adjourned. A band of six horse thieves, who stole 500 horses from San Miguel County, New Mexi co, were arrested by Sheriff Loper, and 350 of the horses were found in their possession. The Rev. H. Greenfield Schorr, aged twen ty-nine, the assistant rector of St. Paul’s the oldest ani most fashionable Episcopal church in Baltimore, Md., has committed suicide. The cause was unrequited love. President Harrison, Attorney-General Miller, Private Secretary Halford, General George B. Williams and Representative Anderson, of Kansas, loft Washington for a trip down Chesapeake Bay on Mr. Wano- maker’s yacht Restless. They spent Sunday in Hampton Roads, off Fortress Monroe. General Lew Wallace and Nathaniel B. Tucker have been appointed Commis sioners by President Harrison to go to Hayti and endeavor to secure coaling stations at Mole St. Nicholas and Samana Bay for the United States. The marriage of ex-Secretary Bayard to Miss Mary Willing Clymer, is announced to take place on June 12 in St. John’s Episcopal Church, Washington. Several warehouses in Lubeck harbor, Germany, were burned and $400,000 worth of cotton and flax was destroyed. FOR THE FARMERS. Tills Country’s Share in Filling Deficiencies in Europe. postoffice and three stores were burned at Bridgewater, Canada; loss $70,000. Three men were killed in a boiler explo sion in a quarry at Mille Roches, Canada. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The Earl of Malmesbury is dead. The Pope has been taken suddenly ill. P. T. Barnum, the showman, is seventy- eight. Walt Whitman, the poet, is just seventy years old. Mrs. Garfield has an income of about $16,000 a year. Prince George, of Greece, has joined the French navy. Governor Biggs, of Delaware, owns 80,- 000 peach trees. Mr. Gladstone is going yachting on the Devonshire coast for his vacation. Erastus Wiman, the great mogul of Staten Island, began life as a newsboy. The Sultan of Turkey has sent to the Em press of Germany a necklace valued at $150,- 000. Princess Beatrice, the wife of Prince Henry of Battenberg, has been safely deliv ered of a son. George Francis Train, the eccentric New Yorker, has been offered $10,000 for his autobiography. Mr. Gladstone has declined an offer of $25,000 for twenty-five articles on topics to be left to his selection. Ex-President Cleveland is one of the committee to solicit funds for the Centennial arch for New York city. The examination of Mr. Parnell’s bank account shows that he has been very generous in his gifts to the Irish cause. M. Tirard, the French Premier, has a short, full, gray beard, and wears his long gray hair poshed straight back. Queen Victoria seldom drinks more than one glass of wine at dinner, and afterward takes a few drops of good Scotch whisky. The ex-Secretary of the Navy, Whitney, who is doing the European capitals, has just been dined by Joseph Chamberlain in Lon don. It is asserted that General Boulanger has quite fascinated the Baroness Burdette- Coutts, the wealthy London lady, with whom he dined recently. General Franz Sigel, of New York city, who has recently relinquished Federal office, is thinking something of going into journalism—an old love. A dealer in photographs of prominent personages says that he sells more photo graphs of Wanamaker than of any other member of Karrison’s Cabinet. Quern Victoria made an American art ist happy during her recent visit to Biarritz by asking him to paint a picture for her. The lucky man is William Gedney Bunce, of Hartford, Conn. Mr. Adolf Sutro is traveling about the world getting ideas and plans for the great public library building which he proposes to put up in Sau Francisco. He will give the building and two hundred thousand volumes to that city. Rider Haggard, the novelist, will visit Persia and surrounding countries unattended, save by a small dog. This is the only weapon he takes with him. He claims that the carry ing of firearms is apt to awaken hostility among strangers. Princess Kalulani. the niece of King Kalakaua of the Hawaiian Islands, and a party bound for Europe have arrived from Honolulu. King Kalakaua intended accom panying his niece, but was detained by sick ness. He, however, contemplates an early visit to the Paris Exhibition. Don Jose Zorrilla is to be crowned poet laureate of Spain at the Alhambra Palace on the eve of his approaching sixtieth birthday. The palace will be decorated in the style of the period of the Moorish Kings, the famous gar dens will be illuminated and a representative of the Queen regent will crown the poet. The expenses of the festivities, estimated at over twenty-five thousand dollars, will be borne bv the Dutchess of Medina-Celi, one of Zor rilla's enthusiastic admirers. Besults of Investigations by the Department of Agriculture, The May report of the statistician of the Agricultural Department contains the result of an investigation of the deficiencies or sur plus of each European nation, especially in the production of American agricultural products that seek foreign markets, such as cereals, fibres, butter, cheese, etc. As to wheat, Mr. Dodge says that Europe is practically the only market that America can have for this ceraU, and she imports only 144,000,000 bushels a year, raising 1,200,000,- 000 bushels herself; more than naif of the world’s crop and twice that of all America. Of the European deficiency the United States supplies 95,000,000 bushels. In oats and barley there is a very small international trade, Europe importing net only 19,000,- 000 bushels of oats, and the United States exporting 2,500,000 bushels. Of barley this country imports 7,500,000 bushels. Rye is the great broad grain of Eastern and Central Europe, and Russia alone produces more than does the United States. Europe imports not less than 1,500,- 000 bushels, and the United States exports less than 3,000,000 bushels. The receipts of European countries requir ing maize do not make a sum half as large as the product of Rlinois or of Iowa or Missouri. Great Britain takes nearly three-fourths of the total, or 62.000,000 bushels, and this country exports 68,000,000 bushels. Europe reports over l,000,0p0,000 pounds of rice but none of it comes from the united States. Of potatoes, Europe grows more than she needs, while the United States sup plies her deficiency from Canada and Ger many. Only Great Britain, Belgium and Portugal, of all European na tions, do not produce enough butter and to spare. For the deficiency of 25,000,000 pounds, the United States exports 24,000,000. It requires 140,000,000 pounds of cheese to supply the European deficiency, of which 118,000,000 pounds are furnished by the United States. Europe has to import all her cotton, the average annual imports be ing 2,(*36,000,000 pounds. The United States sends her 1,850,000,000 pounds. Europe gets from South America, Asia, Africa and Australia two or three times as mnch wool as she imports from the United States. The net deficiency of Europe is 780,- 000,000 pounds, slightly more than is produced there. The United States produces four- fifths of the wool manufactured here. The aim of the wool grower of this country is to supply the home manufacturer if possible; never to export raw wool. If there ever shall be a surplus it will bring more mony to the wool grower if sent abroad in the manu factured form. The United States imports net 69,000,000 pounds of wool every year. The statement shows that Europe produces about as much tobacco as the United States —500,000,000 pounds annually—and could easily produce all she needs. But tho United States furnishes 242,000,000 pounds of the annual deficiency of 324,000,000 pounds. In conclusion the statistical! says: What other products can. bo exported? More cheese could be sold if its reputation for quality should be kept up, and butter too, if it were of better quality. Evaporated or preserved fruits, oranges of tho Southern Pacific coasts, wines from California, may seek a profitable market. What agidcultural products are now im ported that our country mid climate are capable of producing? Sugar is the first to be suggested. Our wheat and flour sold will scarcely p*\i. for tho sugar bought in the present anr immediate future. Flax and hemp should be more extensively grown, displacing foreign fibres cost ing millions of money, and furnishing material for bagging of cotton, wool and hops. The imported fibres, with their manu facture, altogether amount to a value more than two-thirds as much as the boasted cot ton exportation of the United States. There is an importation of fruits of the value of $20,000,000, half of which at least should be produced in this country. A BANK WRECKED. A Scranton (Penn.) Savings Institu tion Robbed of Si35,000. Cashier George Jessup, at the Scranton (Penn.) City Bank, was placed under arrest in the bank after the close of business at that institution. The arrest was made by order of the board of directors. He is charged with embezzling the sum of $135,000. The direct ors also decided to close the bank, placing it in the hands of an assignee until its condition could be ascertained. The announcement of the cashier’s arrest created intense excitement in business and banking circles, and especially among the depositors, many of whom had made deposits up to the close of business at the bank. A number of the depositors swarmed around the building decrying the dishonesty which was practiced by the officers of the bank in receiving thqir money, knowing that the bank was insolvent. Several women de positors, who were frenzied with excitement, faiuted upon the street. The bank had been the depository of the city and school funds, but with the change in the municipal officers on April 1 $186,000 of the funds were withdrawn and deposited else where. The county is caught for upward of $10,000. The funds of a number of secret and building societies were deposited with the bank, and it is believed the societies will be heavy losers. The downfall of the cashier is attributed to high living and speculation in unprofitable coal lands. His bond is only $25,000. flis father-in- law and his brother, Judge Jessup, are his bondsmen. The capital stock of the bank is $100,000 and the deposits nearly $500,000. Mi\ Jessup had been cashier and Vico-Presi- dent of the bauk for nearly six years. He is about fifty-five years of age and is a member of one of the most prominent families in northeastern Pennsylvania, and was an officer in the Second Presbyterian Church. He was also a promineut member of the bicycle club of that city. President of the Pennsylvania State League of American Wheelmen and Vice-President of the National Association. He has two children, girls of twelve and fifteen years respectively. THE MARINE CONFERENCE. The Countries Represented, and the Subjects to be Discussed. The following countries have thus far accepted invitations to participate in an In ternational Marine Conference to be held in Washington, beginning October 16: Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Russia, Belgium, Mexico, Brazil, Chili, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Hawaii, Japan, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Uruguay and Honduras. The United States will be represented by a board of seven persons, and it is expected that the larger Powers will have about the same number of representatives. The smaller countries, it is thought, will general ly be represented by their Ministers, assisted by one or more technical experts in the sub jects before the Conference. The American Board has framed a programme of subjects to be considered, and this has been made public. The proceedings will be in English. The Argentine Republic is suffering a spasm of go" _ from gold gambling as pronounced as though on a smaller scale than the great American fever of the same kind which so many New Yorkers well remember. TWO CLERGYMEN DROWNED. Father and Son Meet Their Fate While Fishing: in a Lake. The tragic drowning of two clergymen— father and son—is reported from Batesville, Ark., the victims being Baptist minis ters named Rev. John and Rev. James R. Moxley, the elder being some fifty years of age. and the younger, his son, twenty- five. They were fishing in a lake, when their boat was . ecidentally capsized, pre cipitating the men into the water, which was fifteen feet deep. They made desperate exertions to save themselves by swimming ashore, but became exhausted and sank a short distance from each other. The acci dent quickly drew a crowd to the bank—too late, however, to render assistance. The Moxleys were well and favorably known, the elder having been t ainister for a number of years, while the younger man had but re cently entered the ministry. O’BRIEN’S BLAST. Tbe Irish Editor Speaks Plainly Be fore the Parnell Commission. Ex-Premier Gladstone appeared at a session of the Parnell Commission while Editor O’Brien, of United Ireland, was being cross- examined. Mr. O’Brien admitted writing and printing in his paper that Queen Victoria was only known to Ireland by her scarcely decently disguised hatred of Ireland and by her Inor dinate salary; also, that Earl Spencer would be the last strong Englishman who would “at tempt to rule Ireland by means of barbarism, paid perjury, butchery and the use of the sacred rope.” He also admitted writing that the Chair man of the Committee on Reception to the Prince of Wales, on the occasion of the lat ter’s visit to Ireland some years ago, would be hunted from public life. Mr. O’Brien here excitedlv exclaimed: “He has been driven from public life, and. rather than allow Englishmen to be deceived by a show of Sham loyalty,. I resolved to tell them the troth. I never personally spoke dis respectfully or offensively of the Prince of Wales. If it is clear that England will not satisfy Ireland’s aspirations, and if there is any rational chance of success, an attempt should be made on the part of the Irish to re bel.” The London papers, the witness declared, were more responsible for the use of dyna mite than the efforts of Messrs. Finaerty and Patrick Ford. But for the views the’ Lon don journals had expressed it would have been impossible to collect £1000 in America for dynamite. The witness stated that he wrote an article in which he said that Allen, Larkin and O’Brien, the men hanged for killing the policemen in the Manchester riots, were hon ored by their Chicago kindred. The statement was greeted with rousing cheers from the spectators present. Presiding Justice Hannen thereupon threatened to clear the court-room if such a demonstration was repeated. He reminded Mr. O’Brien that the Court regarded the Manchester shooting as murder, and the men were hanged for the crime as murderers. The Attorney-General then declared that he had finished the cross-examination of the witness, and Mr. O’Brien was allowed to leave the stand. WAR ON GOPHERS. Eighteen Thousand of the Pests Killed in One Iowa County. The striped and pocket gophers that abound throughout the West at present threaten to become a formidable pest to farmers in por tions of Iowa. Already it has become neces sary to begin a war of extermination to pre vent the rapid encroachment that these little animals are making on the crops. In a number of counties a bounty of five cents each has been placed on gopher scalps. This has resulted in the active labor of farm ers’ sons to secure gopher scalps for the bounty. In Boone County thus far this spring over 18,000 scalps have been presented and paid for by County Auditor Everhall, who has drawn over 3000 warrants on the county treasury, a number larger than is usually drawn during the entire rear. EARTHQUAKE IS JAPAN. Oscillations That Lasted an Unprece dentedly Long Time. An earthquake of the most unusual char acter was recorded at seven minutes past two P. M., April 18th, in the seismological ob servatory of the Imperial University of Tokio, Japan. The peculiarity of the phenomenon lay not in its violence, but in the extrema slowness of its oscillations, it taking from four to seven seconds to complete one forth and hack motion, chiefly in a horizontal plane lying south and north. They were a few vertical motions, howeveij^f equally slow periods. The pheuomenon^i as ted f SP minutes and thirty-six seconds, arTdamaee be'ffitAone as yet reported. ^ THE NATIONAL DAME, j Pittsburg is in a bad way for pitcher*, i Amherst College recently beat Yale by 5 to 4. Brouthers, of Boston, leads the League In batting. The Cleveland Club is breaking all “baby* records. Clarkson, of Boston, is pitching a slow ball this season. Ik the ’89 lexicon of the game base hits are called “safeties.” The Detroit .Club has signed pitcher Shreve, late of Indianapolis. The Indianapolis Club sports the ugliest uniform in the League. The Pittsburg Club has suspended Pitch* ers Morris and Conway. There have been comparatively few shut out games so far this season. General Lew Wallace is a great ad mirer of the popular American game. The Southern League has increased tha salaries of its umpires to $150 a month. Frost, the Fort Worth (Texas) catcher, had his collar bone broken by a fool tip. Burdock, the veteran second baseman, is playing with a New York semi-professional team. One American manufacturer of baseballs employs 500 hands and keeps 40,000 balls in stock. The Kansas Citys are reported to be the finest lot of men on the bases ever gotten to gether. Toronto (Canada) clergyman of all de nominations patronize the games in that dty in large numoers. Ward and Keefe have been re-elected President and Secretary, respectively, of the Ball Player's Brotherhood. The daily “take” of the New Yorks in gross, that is, at their grounds in Staten Island, averages only $350. On a three-bagger Billy Sunday, of the Pittsburgs, recently ran from the home plate to third base in 10 4-5 seconds. John Morrill says he never played with as sober, quiet, orderly or easily man aged team as the Washingtons. • The Boston Club has appointed two phy sicians to the team, and one of the two wfll be in attendance at every game. George Henninger, aged ninety, Henry Geist, aged eighty-nine, are among the warmest baseball zealots in Bethlehem, Penn. A feature of the New York game thfo year is the magnificent fielding of O’Rourke. He covers a great deal of ground and throws admirably. The grand stand of the Brooklyn Baseball Club, which was partially destroyed by fire, will be torn down and a new one built. The loss is $18,000. Forty-five actual players will appear on the Makiki (Sandwich Island) diamond this season. Their uniforms will cost $8 apiece, ora total cost of $360. The Louisville Club’s franchise is still on the market. Milwaukee and Des Moines are both anxious to take Louisville’s place in the American Association. Joe Purcell, who, after Van Haltren, ranked first among the pitchers of the Cali fornia league, has permanently retired and will enter the priesthood. John Ward, of New York, is exercising his Uterary talents again. He is preparing an article on the classification rule. It indicates that a fight against it will be made in a short time. • ^LEANINGS. No pitcher filled the “box” for a shorter time than “Ad” Humbert, of the Chicagos,at Philadelphia. He delivered just one bafi,and that was knocked out of the ground, and the pitcher returned to the field. The stockholders of the old Detroit Na tional League Club have declared a dividend of $54,000. The directors own four-fifths of the 400 shares of stock. The par value of each share is $50, and the holders will receive $135 per share. In a recent game between the Brooklyn* and Kansas City Clubs the latter scored In every Inning, winning the game by 18 to 19 nms. It rarely happens that in a game be* f-tween first-class dubs runs are made by one sile in every inning. Iron is down a dollar. Baltimore has 3000 saloons. Oklahoma is practically settled. Sweden has 6000 miles of railway. The rainy season in Mexico has begun. We are to have a new Chinese Minister. Seventeen-year locusts have appeared. America has 10,000 electric motors in use. Brazil is preparing for war with Bolivia. Iowa has 45,000 mules, valued at $4,000,000. Great Britain is to have 147 torpedo boats. Breadstuffs are tending downward in price. Gophers are becoming a terrible pest in Iowa. There is a great shortage in tobacco plants. Anarchists are fomenting trouble in Lom bardy. India wheat is lower in the English markets. There are now 3,000,000 Baptists in this country. The domestic hemp crop is only 10,000 tons annually. » Mackerel are said to be plentiful on the Irish coast. The Buddhists claim 340,000,000 adherents in the world. There are upward of 50,000 club men in New York city. There are 200,000 people engaged in farm ing in Oregon. Immigration to this country seems to-be on the increase. There are over 30,000 locomotives in use in North America. Secretary Proctor has been inspecting West Point Academy. The admission to the Paris Exposition is twenty cents per day. A well of turpentine has been discovered in Laurens County. Ga. The Florida vegetable growers are having a very prosperous season. The outlook is now generally good for crops throughout the West. Dakota has a gold rush to new placers forty miles from Deadwood. The Pacific coast wheat crop this year is estimated at 100,000,000 bushels. On July 1 the State Treasurer will pay the last dollar of the Iowa State debt. The rice output in the Indies is reported 908,360 bags short of last year. ‘ ‘Boomers” are gathering in Dakota await ing the opening of the Sioux reservation. Chicago has twenty police stations, 1145 policemen and 113 miles of street railroad. The signs of Broadway, New York, run to brass, and are said to have cost $20,000,000. Appointments for the Census Bureau will be made without reference to Civil Service rules. Sixteen contested election cases will be fought out in the next House of Representa tives. Detroit is the best electrically lighted city in the country. It has 136 towers and 121 poles. Over 2000 Mormon men, women and chil dren are said to be migrating from Utah to Idaho. A widespread plot against the Czar of Russia has been discovered among military officers. It is claimed that Iowa leads all the States in the number of its hogs, having over four millions. A new style of sword, just introduced into the German army for the use of officers, is straight. The gamblers of Louisiana have offered to pay the State debt—§12.000,000—for a fifty- year lease. In the army operations of the year the most important work will be done by France and Germany. A vein of graphite 300 feet long by about four and a half feet wide has been discovered at St. Joseph, Mo. A monument to German Confederates was dedicated at Charleston, 8. C„ recently, and United States Senator Wade Hampton made aspeecb. Frenchmen abroad, who have left France without performing their military service, may visit tbe Pam Exposition this veer without X»r of arrsst _ iclT^fru{t5>4‘ than" other teams. The games are bitterly con tested, and no matter how badly the two clubs may play against other nines, they play a fine game .when pitted against each other. Harry Wright, manager of the Philadel- phias, says that batting mil win more games than fielding, and be proposes to play the strongest batting team he can put in tbe field. An error was not of snuii vital conse quence last year, when scores were It takes good hitting to win this year. The highest baseball chib in New York city, in the location of its home grounds, if not on record, is that made up of Tribtme employes. It practises daily upon the top of the Tribune building. There is a space there a hundred feet long and surrounded by a high wall, where everything but heavy batting is perfectly feasible. LEAGUE RECORD. Boston Won. Lost. Percentage 6 .727 Philadelphia.. 9 .609i New York 14 11 .560 Cleveland 13 .519 Chicago 13 .500 Pittsburg 15 .423 Indianapolis... 15 .375 Washington... 15 .286 1 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD. \ St. Louis Won. Lost. Percentages 10 .722 Brooklyn 19 12 .613 Cinciunati 19 15 .559 Athletic 14 .517 Kansas City... 17 16 .515 Baltimore 14 16 .467 \ Columbus 10 Louisville 8 .323 £50 caterpillars stop Pacific’s new line Immense numbers of trains on the Canadian through the Maine wilderness. It is impos sible to run trains on a regular schedule, and in announcing their train service tbe Cana dian Pacific managers have to put in the clause, “caterpillars permitting.” Every train is delayed from two to five hoars. Two hundred men have been hired to spread over ^ the line and fight the pests. THE MARKETS. 21 NEW YORK. Beeves 3 70 Milch Cows, com. to good.. .30 00 Calves, common to prime... S 25 Sheep 4 25 Lambs 6 30 Hogs—Live 4 50 Dressed 6>£<! Flour—City Mill Extra 4 80 0 Patents Wheat—No. 2 Red Rye—State Barley—Two-rowed State.. Corn—Ungraded Mixed 40X(i Oats—No. 1 White — Mixed Western 27 Hay—No. 1 '... Straw—Long Rye Lard—City Steam Butter—Elgin Creamery.... Dairy, fair to good. West. Im. Creamery Factory Cheese—State Factory..... Skims—Light Western Eggs—State and Penn BUFFALO. Steers—Western Sheep—Medium to Good.... Lambs—Fair to Good 5 80 Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks — Flour—Family 5 00 Wheat—No. 2 Northern.. Corn—No. 3, Yellow Oats—No. 2.White Barley—No. 1 Canada.... S BOSTON. Flour—Spring Wheat Pat’s.. 5 85 (<| 6 40 Corn—Steamer Yellow 45K@ 47J£ Oats—No. 2 White 32 @ 41 Rye—State 65 @ 70 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef—Dressed weight 5) Sheep—Live weight 4) Lambs — Hogs—Northern — PHILADELPHIA. Floor—Penn, family 4 25 Wheat—No. 2. Red, May.... 90 Corn—No. 2, Mi xed. May... 40tf< Oats—Ungraded White. — Potatoes—Early Rose 25 Butter—Creamery Extra.... — Cheese—Part skirnf.......... 0 5 15 @ 6 25 82K@ 54 8* (03 85 ' 40>*@ 44 38 27 @ 30 85 @ 95 70 & 80 — <k 6.50c 20 @ 21 15 @ 10X 9 @ 14 11 11 • 9 - <S8 9 - @ HX 2 75 @ 4 25 3 75 38K« 74 4 50 ss .‘f