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I \ P A DELUGE IN CHICAGO. The Most Terrific Storm That Ever Occurred There. Nearly a Score of Lives Lost and Much Property Destroyed. One of the fiercest storms of recent yean bant otst Chicago, HI., at C o’clock in the evening. The day had been sultry, with scarcely any wind. When the sun went down the sky became overcast with greenish clouds, and darkness came on with incredible speed. Shortly after 6 o'clock rain be gan falling in torrents. Great streams of water pourred into the basements, driving hundreds of people into the streets and ruin ing an immense amount of property stored in the down town stores. The electrical display was appalling. Scores of objects were struck by lightning, and the roar of the thunder was deafening. Seven alarms of fire were rung within fifteen minutes. The water poured into the Lasalle street tunnel in such volume that passengers on the cable cars were compelled to stand upon the seats. In the southwestern portion of ^he city it is estimated that 1000 persons were driven from their homes. The W%consin Central tracks were submerged, the water being so deep on the tracks that it entered the fire boxes of the locomotives. The signal service officer said that a suc cession cf thunder storms had swept over the city. They came from the West, and each was more severe than its predecessor. At 9 o’clock the water was falling in blinding sheets, with an almost continual roar of thun der. Some of the big down-town gUs mains were flooded, and many merchants did busi ness by the aid of candles and lamps. On the west side buildings were de molished, trees uprooted ana entire side walks disappeared. Garfield Park was almost bereft of foliage. There the wind devastated a path of 400 feet in width. Four new brick buildings at Rockwell and Sixteenth streets were demolished, and two men who had sought refuge in the doorways were crushed to death in the wreck. Tw<# large brick buildings on Twenty-first street collapsed, fell on adjoining cottages and killed seven people, besides injuring six others. Two families were almost obliterated in this disaster. James Lusk’s cottage on Fif teenth street was blown to pieces, but the family miraculously escaped death. It rained for three hours, and the climax came at 8:45, when all elements united and the very foundations of the city were shaken. Water poured into every basement and drove thousands of poor people into the street. In the police stations prisoners were compelled to cling to the bars to escape drowning. The flies in the Palmer and the Grand Pacific were extinguished. Three feet of water flooded the Clifton House basement. At the Chicago Opera House much of the “Blue Beard” scenery was ruined. Panics were narrowly averted in the theatres where the electric lights ceased to burn. Whole blocks beyond Western avenue were under water and the wooden sidewalks floated like rafts. Both the cable railways were completely paralyzed and in the Lasalle street tunnel was a surging stream. Hinmon street officers saved Mrs. Chepeks and six children in a basement by plunging into four feet of water. Officer Thomas Dor- gan was dangerously injured by electrical discharge and Maggie Austin was rescued from a current on Lake street. Scores of instances were reported next day of casualties mainly by lightning, and a num ber of the victims cannot recover. John Hayes’s house on Oakley avenue was demol ished and one son fatally hurt, three persons being very seriously injured. Ernest Blocter was killed on Sixty-sixth street. Fires were innumerable, and $50,000 dam ages resulted from that cause. Off at Ham mond three great packing houses succumbed to flames, caused by lightning. The police report fourteen persons dead and twenty-five injured, three of them fatally. In the Chicago Tribune office the stereotypers NEWSY GLEANINGS. Wb have 7000 missionaries. I Chicago has over 4000 saloons. • There are less than 250,000 Indians. The watermelon crop is abundant. Turkey has joined the Triple Alliance. I Seven States elect State officers this year. Chicago wants the World’s Fair in 1892. There is a glut of butter in New York city. Algeria is suffering from a plague of locusts. f3000a C year" nO r ° f North Dakota “ to get The watermelon growers of the South have a trust. Chile has floated $1,500,000 of 4^ per cent, bonds at par. ^ Newport, Ky., is very much excited be- cause it has four Mayors. ,, There are twenty cases of sunstroke at the North to one at the South. Rice will be plenty and cheap, as an un usually large crop is promised. The fare on the new Congo Railroad in Africa is thirty-eight cents a mile. The number of telegraph stations in the world was increased last year by 7200. The premium on gold at Buenos Ayres has advanced to seventy-five per cent. The Government will take control of all the telephone lines in France within a year. Twenty-two persons are known to have lost their lives In the West Virginia floods. Excessive rains have damaged cotton and wheat in Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas. There will be twenty-seven agricultural fairs in Connecticut during the present season. Chile has let railroad contracts to the amount of $32,476,000, all to be completed withiu five years. General Sheridan’s THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and. Middle Stateo. J ames Mahoney and Robert Fisher were run down ■■nd killed by a train at Provi dence, R. L They were pushing an empty car on aside track at the tune. Albbrt F. Whitman, aged nine years, and Harry E. Hamlin, aged ten years, were drowned while bathing in the Merrimac River at North Andover, Mass. Commissaries at Johnstown, Penn., have all been closed. The postoffice at York Corners, N. H., was destroyed by lightning, causing a loss of $5000. Five murderers now in the New York Tombs have been sentenced to be hanged on August 23. Reports of damage by severe thunder storms come from all parts of New England. Postmaster-General Wanamaker, Sec retary Windom and Supervising Archi tect of the Treasury Wind rim met in the room of Postmaster Van Cott, of New York city, to consider some needed improvements in the Postoffice building and to get an ap proximate idea of the cost. They will en deavor to induce the city to buy the present New York Postoffice building, in which case the Government will build another Postoffice uptown. Julian Hawthorne, the author, and four or five other writers and artists, accompanied by the fifty workingmen selected by the Scripp’s league of newspapers to visit the Paris Exposition and points of interest to workingmen in Europe, sailed from New York for Havre. Colonel Emmons Clark, ex-Colonel of the famous Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard, has declined the appoint ment as Consul to Havre, France, recently made by President Harrison. Ex-United States Senator Stephen W. Dorsey has been arrested in New York city at the instance of the Nevada Bank of San Francisco, Cal., because of his failure to pay a judgment of $4525.08. Five Paterson <N. J.) breweries, Katz Brothers, Hinchliffe Brothers, Braun Broth ers, Sprattler & Mennett and James A. Graham have been sold to an English syndi cate for $2,380,000. Assistant Engineer Charles G. Tal- cott, of the United States ship Atlanta,com mitted suicide in New York harbor, in the bathroom of the ship by shooting himself through the head. No cause for the suicide is known. Charlemagne Tower, who went to the Pennsylvania anthracite coal regions from New York years ago when a poor and un known lawyer, died a few days ago of pa ralysis at his summer home, at \Vaterville, N. Y., aged eighty-one years. He was worth $20,000,000. The New York commission dry goods firm of Lewis Brothers & Co. has failed, with liabilities placed at $4,200,000. The assets are said to be sufficient to cover all indebtedness. Cornelius N. Bliss is the assignee. authorities burned ths pelled the archives. Belgium has voted $2,000,000 for the nest Congo Railway in Africa. A fir* at La Chow, ChiM. barorf for twenty-three hours. During that time 87,000 dwellings were destroyed and 1200 persons perished in the flames, beside 400 who were crushed to death in their effort* to escape. Mr. Parnell testified again before the Commission in London; he declined to give any information concerning the Trust Fund sent from America. Five sailors were drowned at the Island ot Flores while trying to escape from the rink- ing May Frazer. The vessel was a total loss. Mrs. Hattie Gibson Hewn, wife of Rev. David Henn, formerly of Tennessee, is under sentence of death m Corea for teaching Christianity. The American whaling schooners, James A. Hamilton, Otter and Annie together with sixty officers and men, have been lost in the Arctic Ocean. The Parnell Commission in London has ad journed until October 24. The revolt in Crete is spreading. Riainga are threatened at Sphakia, Retimo, Mi-ata of Greece, accompanied by lYe- mier Tirard, of France, visited the Pans Ex hibition ana ascended the Eiffel Tower. Count Sparre, a Swiss of high family, shot and killed his mistress, Elvira Madigan, a circus performer, at Taasinee, Denmark, and then put a bullet through his own brain. The Austrian infantry has been increased by the addition of 9000 men, raising that branch of the service to a war footing. Rt. Hon. TV. E. Gladstone and wife have just celebrated in London the fiftieth anni versary of their marriage. The harvest has been very bad in Hungary and South Russia owing to continual drought. In Vienna this drought has been severely felt through a decline of the water supply, which has diminished to the extent of 400,- 000 hogsheads a day. WASKTON NOTES. South and West. The burning of three elevators and their contents at Hastings, Nebraska, caused $50,000 damage. E. E. Polster, lessee of the Terra Cotta Lumber Company in Kansas, has skipped to Canada with $20,000 of stolen funds. Colonel Rodger J. Page, editor of the Marion (N. C.) Times-Register, while walk ing with a Texas Judge, fell dead, a bullet penetrating and breaking his neck. The shot was fired from the rear and at a dis tance of but a few feet. The unknown as sassin fired three shots more and fled. The Hon. John T. Clarke, Judge of the Georgia Court, stepped off the train at Smithville, Ga., and was killed. Tommy Williams, aged five, and his sister Agnes, aged three, put a lighted match in coal oil at Columbus, Ohio. The children were so badly burned that they died in an hour. White Ghost, head chief of the Crow Creeks, has signed the Sioux bill. He was the bitterest opponent of the bill. President Frank Brown, of the Denver,^ Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad, ' 'o of his assistant - 1 hay HONEY BEE KEEPERS. A Litigation Taken Up by the National Association. Among the decisions handed down on the 20th inst. at the adjourned General Term of the Fourth Judicial Department, New York, was one of extraordinary interest and im portance to the keepers of honey boee through out the country. The litigation is entirely novel in its features, and arose under the following circumstances: John M. Olmstead and Robert S. Rich have fine residences about fifty feet apart in the village of Hobart, Delaware County, N. Y. Olmstead is a banker, and Rich is one of the largest bee keepers and honey producers iu the country, he having over 150 swarms in his apiaries. About twenty of these swarms were kept in the rear of Rich’s house, and wero therefore in close proximity to Banker Olmstead’s dwel ling. In July, 1887, Banker Olmstead served a notice upon Rich, alleging that the latter’s bees were a nuisance, and requiring him to remove the twenty hives from the place where they were kept to some other point where they would cease to be an an noyance. Rich paid no attention to the warning, and thereupon Banker Olmstead brought an action in the Supreme Court against tho bee keeper, asking $1200 in damages for the annoyances already suf fered and for an injunction restraining tho defendant from keeping his bees in offensive proximity to the plaintiff’s dwelling. The case came on for trial at the October term of the Delaware County Circuit, at Delhi, before Justice Douglass Boardman and a jury. The National Bee Keepers’ Associa tion, of which organization Mr. Rich is a member, recognizing the far-reaching import ance of the case to the interest it represents, took up the defense of the alleged insect tres passers. On behalf of Banker Olmstead it was claimed that defendant's bees were vicious and offensive insects, which had caused his household great pain and annoyance by attacking and stinging any member who ventured out of doors, and had also annoyed and injured and pet stock. The def< ma- ,, . —E fell inside of its would make a lake on which .,, D® floated the greatest navy in the rid. It was impossible to estimate the damage with any degree of ooenraev. Hardly a house in the city « of the storm. George Beiden, Te: •xas, ing the well of William Shaw. colored, living near eon lynched for poison- eecaped the fury Lewis. a, has b >f Willia: Carbon & Johnson, big builders at Ishpe- ming, Mich., have failed; liabilities, $60,000. The entire Chinatown district of Sacra mento, Cal., consisting of forty wooden bnildings, mainly rookeries, has been des troyed by fire. The bodies of three unknown man two white and one colored, were found at Pine, Ind. All three of the men’s heads were crushed, and it is supposed they were mur dered while asleep and that the deed was committed by tramps. The yield of spring wheat in Minnesota and Dakota is placed at 80,000,000 bushels. i JmsOgleman, a young man, shot and tailed his sweetheart, Miss Madge Smith at Xenia, Ind., and then killed himself. Joe Cook and Sol Dorsey, two colored men of Trenton, La., quarreled after a church meeting and killed each other. The Ohio Prohibitionists have nominated Rev. J. B. Helwig, of Springfield, for Gov ernor. _ the count pt m nil! neighborhood as the actual renders. was given pro and con, the trial lasting several days and ovtHHnp among the bee keepers of Cen tral New York. Able counsel fought the case vigoronsJy on both sides. The outcome of the trial was that the jury found that the marauders came from the Rich hives, and that his apiary was a nuisance as charged, and awarded the plaintiff 6 cents damages and costs. Thereupon the court issued a permanent injunction restraining the defendant from further maintainingthe nuisance to the annoyance of the plaintiff The defendant appealed from this judgment to the General Term, which now hands down a decision affirming the verdict of the court below, with costs. It is understood that the National Bee Keepers' Association will con tinue the fight by a further appeal to the court of last resort. The North Dakota Constitutional Conven tion decided to submit tho prohibition ques tion to popular vote, and the Constitutional Convention at Olympia, Washington, has approved the taxation of churches, private schools and charitable institutions. year will com — s private secretary from 1875 to 1880, is in jail in Kansas City for horse stealing. Two hundred and JiFTT ministers have applied for an army chaplainship which be comes vacant soon. The cotton crop of Texas thic probably reach 2,000,000 bales and the Crop will be enormous. The Shah of Persia is said to have two or tureo of bis wives accompanying him on his ■European tour in men’s attire. Over $250,000 has been paid to benefici aries in the Conomaugh Valley of Pennsylva nia by life insurance companies. ^TT-AiGa.. now owes between $1,500,- 000 and $2,000,000 upon which it is paying seven and eight per cent, interest. gets a new industry worth ♦50,000 annually by the discovery of a fine bed of terra cotta clay near the city. The hay crop of New England this ▼ear will not only be enormous, but it will be by far the largest that has ever been cut. Within the past year over 5000 Russians liable to military service have been forcibly prevented from leaving that country for the United States. Oklahoma, with its suburbs, now s 15,000 inhabitants, six banks, eight news- pers, thirty-seven Inniber yards, and hun- nreds of stores. Comptroller Meyers, of New York city bRS negotiated a loan of $12,000,000 for the new parks for thirty years at two per cent. % interest per annum. S. S. Cartwright, a wealthy miser worth t$250,000, died a few days ago at Topeka, Xan. He was living in a garret and no one was present at the time of his death. He owned several large cattle ranches and had valuable real estate. He had two daughters jand a son in Albany, N. Y. His will makes 'mn equal division of his property among (them. Washington. The United States Government has been invited to participate in an international cat tle show to be held at Buenos Ayres, under Argentine patronage, in April, 1890. The committee appointed by Postmaster- General Wanamaker to investigate the con dition of the New York PostotBce recom mend 123 additional clerks and ten additional carriers at an increased cost of $87,000. The Attorney-General has appointed Henry M. Foote of Pennsylvania and James H. Nixon of New Jersey to be assistant attor neys in the Department of Justice. Teb United States war vessel Monocacy, which has been lying in a disabled condition at Yokohama, Japan, for a number of years, will be put in active service again by the Navy Department. A committee composed of Dr. George Ew ing and H. L. Bruce, of the Pension Appeal Board, and Captain Frank L. Campbell, of the Assistant Attorney-General’s office, has been appointed by Secretary Noble to inves tigate the Pension Bureau. Secretary Noble has rendered a decision granting $15,000 to J. Milton Turner, the colored attorney of the Cherokee freedmen, who obtained an appropriation of $75,000 for them from Congress. Father James Curley, of the Society of Jesus, probably the oldest priest in the world —certainly the oldest in America, and known wherever the science of astronomy is known —died a few days ago at the age of ninety- four years in the infirmary of Georgetown (District of Columbia) College, where ne had lived for sixty-two years. Commissioner Porter has selected B. R. Carroll, the editor of the New York Inde pendent, to have charge of the work of col lecting religious statistics for the census. ling mills, employing an aggregate of 00,000 spindles. eleventh The Secretary of the Navy has awarded the contract for furnishing 428 tons of steel for the new cruiser Maine to the Linden Steel Company of Pittsburg for $34,753. Foreign. In the British House of Commons Lord George Hamilton announced that the con struction of fifty-two warships had been be gun. Twenty of these vessels were being built in the Government dockyards and thir ty-two in private yards. The steamer Lorenzo D. Baker, of Boston, Mass., was burned at sea and two firemen were drowned. Loss $100,000. A later report says that 1000 persons were rendered homeless by the fire in the town of Paks, Hungary. Six men were burned to The damage to property amounts to $250,000. The island of Crete is again in a state of insurrection. of insurgents have insurrection. Bands of insurgents h seized the towns of Vamos and Cldonia, THE LABOB WOSLD, Wood-carvers are enjoying good times. The strike of the Berlin bakers has col lapsed. The Federation of Labor has issued an eight hour primer. The strike fever appears to have spread all over the central portion of Europe. The custom of providing sick relief funds is on the increase with trades unions. A new gun factory is to be started in Flor ence, Mass., to employ about 400 men. Mayor Hart, of Florence, M«jwi has ap propriated $1000 for sports on Labor Day. There are 172,000 persous engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods in tl lis country. About two-thirds of the States now have bureaus for the coUection of industrial sta tistics. Thomas Mattison, a London coachmaker, has written a treatise on the coaching of ap prentices. James G. Blaine, Jr., sen of the Secretary of State, is now a fireman on a Maine Cen tral locomotive. In Russia there are sixty-seven immense spinnin— 115,000. Strikes of one kind and another are epi demic in England and Scotland on both a large and a small scale. A movement is on foot for the formation of a national organization of the ale and porter brewery employes. Bricklayers in different parts of England have lately received an advance in wages of one to two cents per hour. The bead roller in a Pittsburg iron rnill makes fifty dollars per day, and his family rides behind a spanking team. A FOREIGN OOmp&nv representing eepitol amounting to $10,000*000 is to establish an iron and steel plant at San Francisco. The New England Boot and Shoe Lasters’ Union, which was organized in December, 1879, now has a membership of 10,000. Mr. R. Bellingham has just retired from engine-driving on the Great Northern Rail way (England), after forty years’ service. The board of public works and city coun cil of Cincinnati have adopted the eight-hour day for city laborers, with no reduction of pay. Reports from builders in the large cities and small towns show that house building was never more active than it is so far in 18S9. Mr. Powderlt, of the Knights of Labor, considers eight hours a day too long to work, and inclines to Ben Franklin's four-hour limit. New Haven (Coun.) plumbers now work eight hours a day for three mouths of the year, and nine hours a day for the remaining nine months. The New York State labor appropriation for this year allows $15,000 for the Board of Arbitration, $30,000 for factory inspection, and $30,000 for the Bureau of Labor Statis tics. In New England the Saturday half-holiday movement is growing rapidly. Almost all of the large manufacturing concerns in Massa chusetts and Maine have adopted its prac tice. In Sahl, Germany, and other places where the ' manufacture of military arms is a specialty, the men take work home, and their wive* and children assist them at Interesting From Uk ’opies Telegraphed National Capital. A Large Nu ber of Claims Pend ing in t Pension Office. The 500 clerk employed in the recently created pension War Departmi have been dex a leave of absence in vain, for soldiers whose the thousands now the cl Thirty tho: action of the that there are pending in nave not y< Department, there for thi months to awaiting ever, is already The doily when the dr the end’s agement—and, running being missioner of work, so: detrimental of the clerks, make a good complete chances : cases. ad record division of the are unhappy. They their regular annnal They have protested, bat says that the old have accumulated into aited long enough and wait for their leaves, claims are awaiting the .ent, and it is said ed thousand more Pension Office which referred to the War ave not been referred m that it would take of those already there The new division, how- wing good results, ge of cases disposed of divided up Detween ’s and Adjutant-Gen- Under the new man- s have not got to r yet—800 cases are daily to tho Com- msions. This rush clerks say, however, is ' >n claimant, for some s in their efforts to fail to give perfect or thereby cutting off tho ble settlements in some A Case Uud« The Sucre an interesting alien contracfl Irvin & Belle who have a 1 recently d New York James 1. Wi keeper in tho 1 Hennessy, to plained to the! the result was r at that port Him to land would be a I labor IuWk „ Secretary of the Collector giving bond turn in came within question was i Treasury, that', as He country: ing would be The Secretary instructed the ( pel Henna | e Contract-Labor Law Treasury has decided ion arising under the yr law. It seems that | merchants, of England, house in New York city, the bookkeeper in their , an American named and sent over a book- J office named Edward F. I his place. Watson com- llector at New York and when Hennessy arrived [Collector refused to allow the ground that it Nation of the contract- appeal was taken to tho isury, and he instructed | allow Hennessy to land on sum of $500 for his re- it was decided that he prohibitory class. The red to the Solicitor of the _ officer gave an opinion ’ had clearly come to this m tract to labor, his laud- Ipable violation of law. Dincwcd in this opinion, and [hector at New York to corn- return to England. Codfish H the Pacific Coast. The Fish Co/umission has been advised of reports of the discovery of a cod bank on the Pacific, eight miles off Nestucca, Oregon, sixty-five mues south of the Colum bia River. Fhis point is abont twenty- five miles Aiorth of the bank dis covered sonufconths ago by the force on the Fish Comraftsion steamer Albatross off Yaquina Heal, and the officials here are puz zled to know why the Nestucca bank was not discovered by | tho Albatross at that time. The whole coast was investigated, and at a time when the fish should have been plentiful if present at all. The same ad vices state that the true cod has never be fore been found iBtli of Puget Sound. To this Acting Com^Hsioner Raymond says tho true cod is recorcWl as far south of the Far- tllone Islands, the fishing grounds off San Francisco, but it haq not been found south of Paget Sound in Sufficient quantities for :o aimer cial l’s Sentence Remitted LATER HEW8. Mbs. William Irwin, of Washixgton, Penn., and her three-year-old son were killed by a train at Eh wood’s crossing. The Richmond Paper Company of East Providence, R. L, has failed for $”00,000. English syndicates are said to be trying to buy New York dry goods stores and New ark (N. J.) leather factories. The new Hamburg-American twin-screw stcamor Columbia has arrived in New York harbor after sailing from the Needles, Eng land, to Sandy Hook—8100 miles—in six days, twenty-one hours and thirty-seven minutes. That is the best time ever made by an ocean steamship over that course. Two little sons of Fred. Droenke were yiiioH while playing on the railroad tracks at Elmhurst, 111. James Kelly, (colored), who assaulted Mrs. Peter Crow, wife of a section boss, was taken from jail and hanged to a bridge at Pans, Ky., by a mob. W. T. Davis, who for three years has been the Secretary of the Tennessee State Wheel, a farmers’ association, mysteriously left Nashville after confessing in a letter to offi cers of the organization that he was short $2000 in his accounts and intended to commit suicide. An English syndicate has purchased sev enty-eight grain elevators in the Van Deu- sen system in the Northwest. Much damage was caused by storms in tho Northwest; excessive rains threatened to ruin the wheat in shock. Tom Bowling (colored) was hanged in the jail at Baton Rouge, La., for the murder of Philip Walsh (white). Charles Sellars, who murdered Bunyan Adams in Richland Parish, La., was hanged at Raville, La. and Frank Blunt, a colored desperado, was hanged at Valdosta, Ga.. for the murder of Willis Miller, also colored. The contract with tho Union Ironworks, of San Francisco, Cal., for tho construction of a coast defence vessel has been signed by Secretary Tracy. Tho contract price is $700,' 000. Secretary Windom has received a letter from Mr. C. W. Arnold declining for private reasons the office of Collector of Internal Revenue for the district of Georgia, to which he was appointed a few days ago. The Yellow River has; again burst its Konfrg in Shantung, China, inundating an im mense extent of country. There is twelve feet of water throughout ten large Gover- mental districts. The loss of life and prop erty is incalculable. The Government au thorities at Pekin are dismayed. Sir John Henry Puleston, Member of •p.njTiigh Parliament for Davenport, gave a dinner in tho House of Commons to Robert T. Lincoln, the United States Minister, and Chauncey M. Depew, of New York. General Boulanger will be a candidate for the Councils-General in ninety-two can tons in France. General John Kilpatrick, one of the most conspicuous figures in political circles in Pennsylvania, died at his home in Harbor Creek, Penn., at tho age of sixty-eight. He stood almost eight feet high. Colonel E. A. Jones, Surgeon-General of Ohio and a prominent resident of Cincinnati, ytns found in a manhole, murdered. His col ored servant has confessed to the murder. Charles S. Cbysler, a prominent law yer of Independence, Mo., is a defaulter to the amount of $50,000. He has fled. A WORLD’S FAIR 1H 1892. Four-hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of America. Important Action Taken by the Citizens of New York City. at New York not discovered for sever- Successful meetings of the Chamber of Commerce, the Mayor’s committee and the Spanish-American Association took action in New York city to formulate plans for holding a World’s Fair there in 1892 to cele brate the four-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. ... At 3:15 o’clock the gentlemen who had been invited to confer with the Mayor began to as semble in the Governor’s room, and by 3:30 there was hardly standing room. Chairs to the number of 110 had been provided, but these were inadequate to accommodate all those present. ..... It was sl big gathering, and it was unani mously in favor of having the biggest fair the world has ever seen in 1892 in New \ ork. All the banks were represented bv their Presidents and directors. Railroad Presi dents wero as abundant as at a meeting of the Trunk Line Association. Mer chants abounded as if the full roll of the Chamber of Commerce were present to answer to their names. There were workingmen representing as many trades and industries as a national conven tion of the Knights of Labor or the American Federation of Labor. There were represen tatives of all the industries, profession^ businesses and trades of New York city. They were all there, the heads of firms, the menwhoss names are as well known in London and San Francisco as thev are in New York. Billions of dol lars of capital were present in the men who control the railroads, the steamboats, the real estate, the hotels, the manufactures and the trade of the city. The assemblage proved the unanimity and enthusiasm of all the citi zens of New York about the Worlds Fair which is to be held in 1892. The Mayor, in opening the discussion on the subject of the proposed quadri-centen- hial in iS92, said: “I have invited you to this meetmg m or der that you. as representative citizens of this great metropolis, may consider the de sirability of commemorating the dis covery of this continent by holding an international exposition in this, the chief city of the Western Hemisphere. This event which we intend to commemorate is the discovery of a new world. Its importance is not to be measured by a mere addition to the sum of geographical knowledge; its fruits are observable m the happiness and prosperity of a nation which has maintained free institutions while It has acquired boundless wealth, and in the general improvement which the success of one government has wrought in the condi tion of mankind throughout the world. “The city of New York is the capital of this now world, whose achievements are but a promise of a still more glorious future, and in this, the most powerful and populous of the cities of America, I think it eminently desirable that we celebrate the triumph of Columbus by a World’s Fair, which will eclipse all former industrial expositions. Mayor Grant was then unanimously made Permanent Chairman and William M. Spear S< Mr. ta G^arles G. Haven suggested that the name of the committee be the Committee tor the International Exposition of 1892. The matter of the appointment of committees was immediately taken up. Controller Myers offered the following: , ,. Whereas, It is fitting that there should be a suitable recognition of the four-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of this conti nent, such anniversary occunng m 1892; and Whereas, Public opinion indicates that an international exposition will most satisfy and meet the requirements of the occasion and afford a dearable opportunity for foreign countries to testify to good will m our nataon- ^ Whereas, In its location, through which it holds tho key to commerce, through its many and varia^fidus'-ries, through ita resources ^— ^ facilities tor. THE RATIONAL Chicago won the penant six times.* Ewing leads the New York batten. Babyian has been reinstated by Chicago.. Captain Anson is once more batting welLj' The Bostons have fallen off greatly in bat] ting. Ryan, of Chicago, leads the League hiroq getting. Wagenhurst, the collegian, has been ral leased by St. Pam. Shannon has succeeded Wolf as Captaiq of tiie Louisville team. Rogers, of the Houston (Texas) team, hai caught in sixty consecutive games. Change of speed is now more effective t.hun all the curves in the category. Williamson, of Chicago, is the champion! long-distance thrower of the League. Big Ed. Williamson, who is on the injured list, made $800 off his benefit in Chicago. New Haven, Conn., is pronounced the best ball city in the Atlantic Association. Boston won thirty-one of the first thirty* ■even games played on their own ground. Denny, of Indianapolis, has made more home runs than the whole Cleveland team. The St. I-ouis Club has traded Pitches! Hudson for Ramsey, of the Louisville Club. Daly, the young Jersey City (N. J.) pitchy er, recently released to Boston, is only tw< of age. en- last tn/tn-of- April and »1 days. He ^as charged with absence from duty and station and pleaded guilty, and the oonrt sentenced him to six months’ suspension from rack and dnty on furlough pay, and to retain his presen',; number on tho list of assistant paymasters, with the recommenda tion that the Secretary of the Navy remit the sentence, becanse the court believes bnuth not met tally responsible for his ac tions. In accc "dance with this recommenda tion the Secret try hrs remitted the sentence. ValuJof Damaged Notes. Treasurer Huston has issued new regula tions regarding the redemption of cur- rency, os follows: If three-fifths of a note is pres anted the face value will be given; if less than three-fifths and more two fifths is presented half the face value will be given. The face value will also be given on less than three-fifths of a note on affidavits rtating that the missing portions were de- ■troyod and explaining the cause and the manner of the loss. Making the Postal Guide Interesting. TOie Postal Giiide has heretofore been of little use to the public, because it contains mrtter interesting only to postoffice offi cials The Posfirn * ster-General will make an” Effort to popuUrize it, beginning with the August issue of the monthly supplement, by SSSSJap o' *u P.&.S Chinese Tourists. of the Treasury has in structed the Collector of Customs at New i — .J", . ®iiow the twelve Chinese coolies churches, detained there under the Chinese Exclusion , to . P” M3 ® < **t , y the Southern Pacific Rail- roaa to San Francisco as tourists. This ac- m * e c<”|dan ce with ths opinion ren dered by the Attorney-General. WEST VIRaiNIA FLOODS. Details of tho Disastrous Freshet on the Little Kanawha. Further details of disastrous flood in Wirt County, W.Ya., have been received. Thomas Hughes, his wife and two children were drowned. Thomas Blach, who lived close to the Hughes family, and who was drowned with his wife, had but recently been married. A circus was showing on Tucker Creek when the cloudburst struck that section. The flood struck the show just after the per formance began and tore the canvas and ■ms, utterly wrecking concern, carrying off dlents. who performed on the- Borne employes jtiso paraphernalia and ruining the horses, wagons Miss d’Alina, trapeze, was lost their lives. Saulsbury, on virtually wiped o| Telephone terrible rain and the Little Kana devastated, houses were the nigh lost. Thi to be fifteen feet fver, is Count; DO: Big T _ i existence, ihow that there was a th«j upper waters of 'ChQhoun County was r crops, fences and washed away during ;bt. SevAral lives were reported e nver at Grantsville was reported „h. Bear Run, Ritchie suffered Terribly. The loss is ro- luntr, suffered terribly. The rted as not Je*s \hu . $650,000. CAVE-IN 'OVER A MINE. I Many Foundations Cracked—An Ex plosion Causes Loss of Life. A cave-in occurred in Hyde Park, Penn., over a vein ofathe Central mine. Over six acres ground were affected and the Fifth ing was badly private residences' •x* [ eighteen hours a day. public school build' aged. Fully a dozen private residences' have cracked foundation walls and jammed doors as a result of the cave-in. Large fL sures may be seen in the earth, and in the c :ntre of the affected dis trict the earth has iettled felly ten feet. The damage cannot b< estimated. Within the mine six c ham be -3 were affected by the cave-in, and the mi tiers and their laborers are unable to proceed i^ith tneir work. while a number of crock and coal from the the cave-in of the morn of the laborers ignited frightful explosion fol- and Robert Roberta others were frightful!} agreeing toT pay South to square accounts. hands were reported to have lost thei^ves by an explosion of dynamite twelve miles west of Wabash, Ind. In Elk Township, Clayton County, Iowa, Wesley Elkins, but a litth more than eleven years of age, murdered his father and step mother. President Harrison has approved the changes in the civil service regulations applied to the railway mail service recom mended by the Civil Service Commissioners.* The count of the cash and securities in the United States Treasury, incident to the transfer of tho office from Mr. Hyatt to Mr. Huston, has been completed. The amount reported on hand aggregated over $700,000,- 000 in gold, silver and paper, and was all ac counted for. The retirement of Major Alexander Sharpe, of Washington, on account of age reduces the number of paymasters of the United States army to thirty-two, leaving the quota three in excess of the number fixed by the act of 1884. A tornado in Hungary, Transylvania, and Bukovina swept over several thousand square miles of territory. Hundreds of persons were ' killed, the crops were destrored, and enor mous damage was done to houses and The districts of Grosswondein, Szegedin, and Mohacs were completely ravaged. Thomas T. Would and his daughter Lillie were drowned at Toronto, Canada, by the swamping of their boat in a heavy sea; The official report of the crops in Galicia, Silisia, Bohemia and Moravia is unfavorable. In the Tyrol the crops are unusually good, while favorable reports are made of the re mainder of the Alp and Karst country. Beet root is promising, but rape is in poor condi tion. HOADLEY’S TRIPLE MURDER He Kills His Wife and Her Fathex and Then Commits Suicide. Hiram Hoadley, Jr., murdered his wife; her father, at Byron, Ohio, and then killed himself. He had been married three years, but a year ago his wife left him and returned to her father. Recently she applied for a Hoadley insani all through its acknowledged suprefnacy as the metropolis of the Western world. New York is indisputably the proper site whereupon such an international exposition should be held; therefore, belt Resolved, That it is the sense of this meet ing that an international exposition shall be held in the city of New York in the year 1892: end that all present do pledge themselves to devote their oest energies to the promotion of the success of such exposition; and Resolved, That a general committee of twenty be appointed by the Mayor, whose duty shall be to formulate detailed plans for organization of such an exposition and re port at a public meeting to be railed by the chairman when the committee shall be ready to report. Charles S. Smith offered the following sub stitute for the closing resolution: Resolved, That the chairman appoint the following committees, namely, one on finance, one on legislation, one on permanent organi- zatiou and one on site and buildings, each to consist of twenty-five members; and that the chairman be allowed such reasonable time as he deems proper to select and name such committees. Mr. Smith’s motion for the appointment of the four committees was earned unani mously. The Mayor and Secretary Spear were made ex-officio members of the four committees, and the meeting adjourned sub ject to the call of the Chair. The New York Chamber of Commerce, at its meeting the same afternoon, appointed a committee of sixty memberst o co-operate with the National, State and city authorities in regard to taking measures for the holding of a World’s Fair in 1892. ty years Bennett, of Boston, Ewing, of New Yorki and Farrell, of Chicago, seem to be a trio of tireless catchers. ^ j At twenty-five cents Detroit is making far more money t.haji it made in either of the two past League seasons. It is a notorious fact, alleges a baseball pa* per, that Pfeiffer, of Chicago, has had to cover both Anson’s and his own territory for years. One of the most unfortunate players in tho business is Rickley, of Toronto, Canada. Hardly a game but what he is more or less injured. Gore, of the New Yorks, has so far been playing great ball. He has had the laugh op the ex-colts who used to jeeringly call him “papa.” The Pittsburg Club has purchased pitcher Sowders's release from Boston, and he haa signed with the club. White and Rowe were laid off. The only players now in the League who were members of the organization when it was formed are: Hines, Anson, O’Rourke and White. Rochester, N. Y., is to lose its Interna* tional League club, which is $2200 behind* The club and franchise are to be sold to the highest bidder. Philadelphia won three straight games on their own grounds from New Yota. Of late the “Phillies” have been playing tho strongest games of any club in the League. ^ At the end of the season Syracuse, N. Y^ is to lose the services of Jack Chapman, who is to manage and have entire charge of th« Louisville Club next season at a salary ol >2500. Murphy, of the Syracuse (N. Y.) team, hat he portrait of his best girl tattooed upon hp right arm. When the opposing team are nlti Hng him he seeks inspiration by study mg th« oicture. The new Chicago ball ground will be 650 eet long and 632 feet wide and has been pur- ■hased for $105,000. The field will be ^closed jy a brick wall and will be the prettiest in he country. The following cities have baen represented n the NationalLeaguein the past: Kanm* Jity, St. Louis, Milwaukee Cincinnati, Louisville, Syracuse, Troy, Woreester, Provi* lence, Hartford and Buffalo. Boston has played less men, fifteen, than my other team. Chicago has used sixteen, ndianapolis and Cleveland seventeen each, ^ .iew York eighteen, Philadelphia nineteen, Pittsburg twenty-one and Washington twan* ty-three. . A Boston paper is authority for the state- nent that “Hardie Richardson’s wife is a constant attendant at the ball games. josts Hardie $1 for every strike out andevety srror, while Mrs. Richardson is taxed $1 for svery base hit. Hardie has decidedly the beat of it thup tar.” whil<> lathe sixth: Frank Morris, who was at 1 A. quarrel and a fignt followed. Bates fatally stabbing Morris w: tnife. Bates was arrested and moms soon ifterward died. Bates is but riTby-n rears >ld. divorce. This act made eyi icly re- : person kill the Daring the men were remo chambers the mine vengeful. During the morning he secreted himself near the house where his wife wai living, and as she came out to millr cow* v e shot her throe times. Mr. Newman, He. father, ran out and was also shot three times. Hoadley then pursued the mother and younger sister of his wife, but they escaped. He then returned to where the two dead bodies of his victims lay, and, lifting up his wife's bflfly. fired two more shots into it and then shot himself dead. Hoadley had three revolvers on his and it is thought that he intended to entire Newman family. He was once a prominent politician of Williams County and a prosperous and respected citizen. STARVING ILLINOIS MINERS Eighty Tons of Provisions and Sup plies Sent From Chicago. Mayor Cregier, Congressman Frank Law ler and other members of the Chicago Relief Committee left with eighty tons of pro visions and supplies for the starving locked-ont coal miners of Spring Val ley, 111. There are about 2000 idle miners in the district, making, with their families, abont 6000 persons in need. The arrival of the train there daring the afternoon was greeted with great demonstrations of joy. Everywhere there were evi dences of extreme poverty. Men. women and children were scantily clad in the cheap est materials, and there was a great dearth of footgear among them. Their pinched faces told unmistakably of hunger. The miners have been locked oat nearly three months and wwson ths verge of starvation. A ROYAL WEDDING. Earl Fife Married to the Prince of Wales's Eldest Daughter. Earl Fife has been duly married to Prin cess Louise, the eldest daughter of the Prince of Wales. The ceremony took place in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace, Lon don. This was tho first marriage that ever took place in the chapel, which is small, and the number of guests was, therefore, limited. Notwithstanding the rain, the route to the palace was crowded with spectators. There was a vast concourse of people opposite the palace. Tho Prince of Wales was enthu siastically cheered. Upon reaching the chapel the Queen was escorted to the seat prepared for her, while the other royal personages took seats on either side of tho altar. The Earl of Fife, ac companied by his groomsman, Mr. Horace Farquhar, took his position at the altar rails and awaited the coming of his bride. The Prince of Wales, with tho bride and Princesses Victoria and Maud of Wales, and members of " ace the Library, where the bride was joined by the bridesmaids, who were Princesses Victoria and Maud, of Wales, Princess Louise, of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess Victoria, of Teck, Countess Feodore Gleichen, Countess Victo ria Glcichen and Countess Helena Gleichen. Tho clergymen officiating were the Arch bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Dean of Windsor, domestic chaplain to the Queen; the Rev. F. A. J. Ilervey. domestic lapl* ' ** ' . Tei The Cherokee Indians are the “boas” ball players of this continent. Fifty or sixty fears ago, when they lived in northern Geor gia, they used to meet once a year on a large plateau among the mountains and have a K ind ball game festival. The Indiana r*mm m a hundred miles around. A hamlet iear by retains the name of “ball ground” to Ibis day. Paul Hines, of Indianapolis, the only ball player who completed a triple play alone, nade his first appearance as a professional inder the management of Nick Yonng at Washington in 1872. The phenomenal play made by him was in a close game in Prcvi- lence in 1878 against the Boston chib, with nen on second wd third, and he made a mirao- iloos running catch, close to second base. Both men had started for home, and Hin*a Kith ball in hand, touched third and second. LEAGUE RECORD. Boston Wen. Lott. Feroentof 25 .653 New York. ... 43 28 .006 Philadelphia 32 .573 Cleveland 33 .500 Chicago 39 .494 Pittsburg 43 .419 Indianapolis 48 .80$ Washington 46 .321 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD. St. Louis iron. Lort. Per ten face. 27 .075 Brooklyn 28 .640 Baltimore 33 .577 Cincinnati 36 .550 Athletic 33 .554 Kansas City... • ••••••• 31 40 .403 Columbus 52 .3(56 Louisville 03 .233 The 908,000 East End, London, inhabitants are all poor, and 111,000 of them arc home less, and cannot provide for a meal ahead THE MARKETS.— @ 5 50 @ 5 00 @ 6 65 @ 5 10 80 NEW YORK. Beeves 3 4 60 Milch Cows, com. to good.. .30 00 (g.45 00 Calves, common to prime... 2 60 ~ Sheep 4 00 Lambs 5 50 Hogs—Live 4 60 Flour—City Mili Extra. . Patents Wheat—No. 2 Red Rye—State Barley—Two-rowed State... Corn—Ungraded Mixed Oats—No. 1 White chaplain to the Prince of Wales,and the Rev. T. Teignmouth Shore. A choral service was sung by the choir of the Chapel Royal St. James. A feature oC the service was tho singing of a special anthem, entitled “A Per fect Love,” composed by Mr. Joseph Barn- aby. After the benediction had been pronounced the Queen kissed the bride and cordially greeted the groom. On arriving at Sheen House the newly wedded pair were enthusiastically welcomed. They passed between files of Venetian masts decorated with floral festoons. Tho path was covered with carpet, upon which wild flow ers were strewn by girls dressed in white. Princess Louise Victoria Alexandra Dag- mar is the eldest daughter and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Her Royal Highness was born at Marlborough House on February 20, 1867, and is a Lady of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India. The Earl of Fife (Alexander William 7 8H 4 40 (g) 4 00 5 00 (« 6 25 87K<8 88 53 <0 54 80 <3 87 43 44« — 37 26 29 80 ® 95 60 70 17 <3 18K@ 9 (g> @ 0.20c ~ 17* 10 Baron E Ireland, was born on November li succeeded his father (James, the on August 7, 1879, and was created an of the United Kingdom in 1885. ty Cavan, in 10, 1849. He s fifth Earl) Earl Hay—No. 1 Straw—Long Rye Lard—City Steam Batter—Elgin Creamery.... Dairy, fair to good. West. Im. Creamery Factory - Cheese—State factory Skims—Light 7^4 ! Western 7 @ Eggs—State and Penn 14J<@ li BUFFALO. Steers—Western 3 25 @ 3 9< Sheep—Medium to Good 4 26 (a, 4 fA Lambs—Fair to Good 4 50 @ 6 .V Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks 4 65 @ 5 Of Flour—Family 5 00 <» 5 2J Wheat—No. 2 Northern — (ti Hi Com—No. 8, Yellow — (m 41 Oats—No. 2,White — (g Si Barley—No. 1 Canada — @ 7( BOSTON. Flour—Spring Wheat Pat’s.. 0 10 @ 6 GC Corn—Steamer Yellow 40 «*■ 41 Oats—No. 2 White 80 @ 4C Rye—State 05 @ ?C WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. .. 5 Beef—Dressed weight. Sheep—Live weight Lambs .777. Hogs—Northern PHILADELPHIA. Floor—Penn, family 4 Wheat—No. % Red, Ji * Corn—No. 2, Mixed, Jt Oats—Ungraded Potatoes-Early Row.... Butter—Creamery Extra. 00 4 25