The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, June 07, 1889, Image 6
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
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