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\ English syndicates are making quite a stir around this country these days. Uncle Sam is making very heavy ship ments to Australia, and British mer chants are taking alarm. The introduction of the electric light has caused a marked diminution of crime in Pittsburg, Penn. There is a bill before the Brazilian Parliament for making the English sov ereign legal tender in Brazil. In many of the smaller cities in thii country the gas companies and the elec tric light companies arc consolidating. There are 21,241,903 acres of land in the United States under the direct con trol and management of 30 foreign in dividuals or companies. German authorities are going to place a commemorative tablet at the spot where the first German soldier was killed in the war of 1870. Austria is as cosmopolitan as the United 8 ates. At the hotel in Sydney the other week there were thirteen dif ferent nationalities represented at one table. Herr Stephan, the Postmaster-Gen eral of the German Empire, computes the entire length of the telegraph line, in the world to be 580,140 miles, equal to about twenty-six times the earth’s circumference. The lines employ 1,- 634, 000 miles of wire and 1G0,000 in struments. The San Fiaucisco Eximintr points out that “California has taken a leadina position in the raising of fine horses and is in no danger of losing it.” Such men as Lcland Stanford, Seuatoi Hearst, E. J. Baldwin, J. B. Haggin and L. J. Rose have gone into the breeding business with capital and en terprise and have achieved success. Cal ifornia thoroughbreds have proved fre quent winners on Eastern tracks, whi e California trotters often appear as record breakers. The Riilway Age estimates the new railroad construction in the first half ol the year at 1522 miles. This not half as much as the mileage reported in the same period last year, when the total cpnstruction was 7100 miles, and, ol course, the comparison is still more un favorable with 1887, when the con- •tructioo amounted to over 13,000 miles. The Age says that the tendency in the last two years has been toward tly building af numerous short lines,^ of lona^Bnpctitive lines, whicir i healthy growth. The lai new track-laying has been hi, V limit* will be about thirty million less bushels of wheat raised in Dakota this year than usual. The season has been very dry, and the heat, with the terrific winds that prevailed in the spring, is responsible for the falling off. Dakota cannot expect all the blessings in one year. She has been admitted to State hood, and that will have to compensate the settlers for poor crops for the time being. It is the more unfortunate, how ever, that they have come this year; for the indications are that there will b° little or no surplus in Russia, India or Austro-Hungary. Professor Orton, Ohio State geologist has for years urged on the people the need of using natural gas economically. But, on the contrary, it has been wasted so that not over one-twelfth has been utilized and the rest allowed to escape. A contemporary shows that over one- fourth of all the gas consumed in Pitts burg factories is also wasted, either through defective apparatus or the care lessness of operatives. This showing would not be so bad if the supply were inexhaustible; but already the pressure is greatly diminished in the wells and not a few are entirely exhausted. Pro fessor Orton believes the supply will be of comparatively short duration. Pisa’s Leaning Toivev. Pisa’s famous marble tower, with its circular front of over 200 columns, and its upper story overhangiag the lower i>y a difference of thirteen feet, is a puzzle to philosophers and antiquarians. Whether its singular leaning attitude was the result of design or of accident never has been ascertained. One of the many interesting things connected with the leaning tower is the fact that Gali leo, os remarkable a mind—certainly as great an experimental philosopher—as any within the Christian era, demon strated, by experiments conducted from the top of that structure, the error of Aristotle’s theorem, that the velocity of falling bodies is proportioned to theii weight. The learned but angry scien tists of Italy coufidentiy gathered ir front of the tower to witness the crush ing and silencing of the pestilent philos. opher whose reasoning they had been unable to confute, but whose audacious blundering was now to be exhibited and demonstrated in the shape of an object-lesson of his own foolish propos ing. But the philosopher, instead of being flattened out by the proofs, con founded his learned and highly scientific enemies, who, however, like so many of their illustrious successors of today, de clined to be convinced by the facts, and Galileo found it for the interest of his health to get right out of that vineyard, and he left—without standing on the .order of his going. OUR NIW NAYY. Condition of the Tessels Built Under Secretary Whitney. Official Beport of the Bureau of Construction and Bepair. A statement has just been prepared by Commodore T. N. Wilson, Chief of the Bu reau of Construction and Repair of the United States Navy, for the use of Secretary Tracy, showing the condition of vessels of the navy in progress of construction at the time the new administration en tered upon its duties on March 4, last. Under the act of March 3, 1885, $1,896,000 appropriated for the construction of two cruisers and two gunboats. The Newark, cruiser No. 1, and Yorktown, gunboat No. 1, were contracted for with W. Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia at the prices of $1,248,000 and $455,000 respectively. The former is not to bo completed until Octo ber 27 next. The xorktown has been placed on the dock in New York to be cleaned and painted for her turning trials at New port, R. I. The Charleston, cruiser No. 2, was built by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, under a contract for $1,017,500. She has had one trial trip. The Petrel, gun boat No. 2, was built by the Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore, price $245,000, and will have a third trial. By the act of August 3, 1886, $2,500,000 was appropriated, and the bureau prepared plans for nine vessels. Contracts were let as follows: Baltimore, cruiser, No. 3. W. Cramp & Son, $1,325,000. Will be completed about November. Vesuvius, dynamite cruiser. Dynamite Company, New York, $350,000. Its steam trial was satisfactory. Torpedo boat, Herreshoff Company, Bris tol, R. I.. $82,750. In process of construction. The following vessels are being built at the navy yards named: Maine, armored cruiser, New York; Texas, armored battle ship, and Amphitrite, monitor, Norfolk. (The latter’s engines were put in by the Har lan & Hollingsworth Company, of Wilming ton, Del.) Monadnock, monitor, Mare Is land, Cal.; Terror, monitor, New York. She will be sent to the Boston yard to receive pneumatic gear. The Puritan, monitor, will also be constructed at Norfolk. The act of March 3, 1887, authorized the building of two cruisers and two gunboats, and of five monitors to be constructed at a total cost of $3,420,000, and one coast and harbor defence vessel. Under this act the following contracts were made: Phila- nolphia, cruiser No. 4, W. Cramp & Sons $1,350,000, to be completed in October next; San Francisco, Union Iron Works, $1,428,000, also to be completed in October; Concord and Bennington, gun boats Nos. 3 and 4, N. F. Palmer, Jr., & Co., New York, $550,000 each, to be completed this month. Work on them, however, is reported to be progressing slowly. The Miantonomah, monitor, is being built at the New York Navy Yard and is nearly completed. The construction of the coast and harbor defense vessel has been awarded to the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, at a contract price of $1,628,950, and it is to be completed in three years. No name has yet been selected for this vessel. The sum of $3,760,000 was appropriated September 7,1888, for one armored cruiser of 7500 tons, one protected cruiser of 5300 tons, two protected cruisers of 3000 tons each, and three protected cruisers of 2000 tons each; also a practice ship for the naval school, the latter to cost $260,000. Plans for the '2000 and 3000-ton vessels are complete, and bids will be opened soon for their construction. The 2000-ton vessels are limited to a oust of $700,000 each, and t]uk 3000-ton vessels to f^lOO.O'X) each. of these figures more than exhausts fount of the appropriation, $3,500,- ' e limit of the cosc fixed by the of the 5800-ton vessel is $1,800,000, the 7500 tonner $3,500,000. The prac- kruiser authorized by this act will be it 800 tons, armored, and carrying a bat- of rapid firing guns. Plans for tin is ves- wull under way, and will soon be leted. a Bureau of Constr uction and Repair, iodor«*,stsA»«, <s at ywopk- m-rteps for the vessels authorized by the act of March 2, 1889, which appropriated $4,055,000 for construction purposes, besides $140,000 for four steam tugs. Bids for these tugs have 2 ust been opened, but the contracts are not st. The principal vessel provided for in this last act is the armored submerged cruiser monitor known os the Thomas snip, its gen eral design having been suggested by ex-Congressman Thomas, of Illinois. Plans for it are nearly completed, and it is estimated to cost $1,500!,- 000. Two steel cruisers, or gunboats, esti mated to cost $850,000 each, will be 1200 tons each, carrying batteries of rapid-fire guns. Plans for those are well under way. There were also provided for in the act of 1889 a harbor ram of the plan designed bv Admiral Ammen, and a dynamite cruiser oi the Vesu vius type. Nothing has yet been done to ward "the construction of these vessels. The cruiser is estimated to cost $350,000, but no estimate is made upon the ram. The original four ships of the new navy, constructed under acts passed prior to Marcn, 1885, and in accordance to the requirements of the Naval Boards of 1881, are the Atlanta, Boston. Chicago and Dolphin. THE LABOR WORLD. The coal market is glutted. A congress of barbers has just been held in Germany. German miners are working for from $125 to $185 a year. English metal works do not admit for eigners to their shops. The strike of the cigarette makers at Ha vana, Cuba, has ended. The plumbers will hold a convention in Washington in October. A union of Jewish goldsmiths has been formed in New York city. New York claims the best diamond cut ters. They make $60 per week. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has decided to increase the works at Altoona, Penn. There is great rejoicing in the Pennsyl vania coke regions over the settl nnent of the strike. W a iters for the Paris Exposition are paid $30 a month each and must be able to speak three languages. In Glasgow, Scotland, there are more fac tories to the square mile than in any other city in the United Kingdom. The five flint-glass factories of Findlay, Ohio, resumed operations after the usual summer shut down with 643 hands. Lowell (Mass.) union carpenters are tak ing contracts on the co-operative plan and dividing the profits among themselves. About fifty large pulp mills, giving em ployment to from 100 to 400 people each, are being built in different parts of Sweden. The movement for higher wages through out central Europe continues, despite set backs among workers in textile factories. The Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Company has increased the wages of its puddlers from $3.25 to $3.80per day, and has raised the pay of its other men. In all parts of Scotland the workers have a spirit of revolt against low wages and long hours, and everywhere the employers have been yielding. It is said that the Knights of Labor order is rapidly falling away, two-thirds having withdrawn from a membership of nearly three-quarters of a million. The organized weavers of Fall River, Mass., are still divided into two bodies, each having a different object and scope. An at tempt is to be made to affiliate them. At the convention of the National Associa tion of Silk Yv'orkers in Yonkers, N. Y., it was decided to strive tor the equalization of wages in the trade all over the country. President Weihjc, of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers; has been re-elected President and his salary ad vanced to $2000 per year, an increase of $500. Brushuakers in England are beginning to organize. They have to fight an army of itinerant brushmakers, who travel about from town to town, making brushes by hand and selling the brushes at a cheap rate. The last census shows that the av’erage yearly earnings of the whole American peo ple amount to $800 each. Mechanics average $1000 yearly earnings, clerks and other sala ried persons earn $1500, and the learned pro fessions average but $2500. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The animal athletic exhibition of the Clan- na-Gael at Philadelphia was attended by 25,- OOOjpersons. The profits, which amount to $5000, will be devoted to securing the arrest and punishment of the murderers of Dr.P.EL Cronin, of Chicago. Dr. Alexander Brown Mott, one of the most noted of American surgeons, and a son of the famous surgeon, Valentine Mott, died at his country seat, near Yonkers, N. Y., of pneumonia. Dr. Mott was born in New York March 31, 1826. H. Webb, of Wilkesbarre, Penn., thirty- four years of age, and Herman Newmayer, of the same place, forty-five, jumped from a train at Cham Dam, Penn. Webb was in stantly killed and Newmayer was fatally hurt. The Riverside and Oswego mills property in Rhode Island and New York have assigned with liabilities of $900,000. The steamer City of Paris lowered the ocean record eastward, crossing from New York to Liverpool, England, in five days, twenty-three hours and forty-four minutes.. Judge Bookstaver, in the Court of Com mon Pleas, has annulled the decree of di vorce granted by him to Mary A. Flack, wife of the Sheriff of New York. The an nulment is on the ground that the divorce was fraudulently obtained, without Mrs. Flack's knowledge or consent. Lawyer "Wright in an affidavit threw the blame for the fraud on the shoulders of Monell and Referee Meeks. Meeks was forced to resign his office of searcher. The citizens or Danbury, Conn., are great ly excited over repeated attempts which have been made to burn the town. Thirteen fires were started within seven davs, burning many buildings and causing the loss of one life. John Henderson, of Syracuse, N. Y., and Bernard McKennon, of Philadelphia, two of the crew of the schooner Marion Manson, from Bath, Me. v for Baltimore, were swept overboard and drowned. Lightning caused heavy loss by fire in oil works at Bayonne, N. J. A Government building at Sandy Hook was destroyed. President Harrison visited the ship yards at Bath, Me. William Jones, for twenty years a trusted employe of E. H. Butler & Co., edu cational publishers of Philadelphia, has dis appeared. He is said to be short $40,000 in his accounts. Jones is a bachelor. The State Committee met in New York city and decided to hold the Republican State Convention at Saratoga on Septem ber 25. About 2200 plasterers struck in New York city for an increase of wages from $4 to $4.50 a day. About 700 had their demand con ceded. Professor Elias Loomis Munson, Pro fessor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at Yale University, died in New Haven, Conn., of Bright's disease. He was born in 1811. Great devastation was done by storms on the New Jersey coast. Many watering- places were seriously damaged. After a nine-days’-vacation in New Eng land President Harrison left Bar Harbor, Me., for Washington. He stopped at Man chester, N. H„ long enough to drive about among the mills. At Concord, N. H„ he was formally received by members of the Legis lature in joint convention. He made a brief address. He went thence to Fall River, Mass., where he took the steamer Pilgrim for New York. During the late storm Benjamin Andreas and William McDonald, both married, were drowned at Walnut Port, Penn. They were employed on the bridge being erected across the Lehigh River. South and West. The returns from the school elections in Kansas, on the day after the election, showed that about 50,000 women voted. Many ladies were elected to office. Dr. J. B. Wortham, of Winchester, Ya., committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Three brothers, named David, Joe and Albert SilL brutally murdered Edward Standford, their sister’s husband, five miles north of Shelbyville, Ind. All were drunk. The boiler of Thomas Anderson 8c Co.’s stave factory ** Dawson., Ky-- «w»V*ladL James Jackson was killed and six others seriously injured. Laton Menser and Dennis Purdy, who were wounded, have since died. Dr. James L. Cahill, senior member of the faculty of the University of Virginia, died a few days ago at Overton, Va. He was born in Nelson County, Va., August 26, 1813, and graduated from the University of Vir ginia in 1833. “Jim” Brooks, colored, was arrested at Orange, Texas, for assaulting a white woman nearly eighty years old. He was taken from the guards next morning by a mob of five hundred men. who hanged him to a tree and then riddled his body with bullets. A fire at Truckee, Cal., burned all east Bridge street and north of the railroad to the roundhouse. Forty dwellings were burned, rendering many families homeless. The loss is about $75,000. An engine at the South Omaha (Neb.) Stock Yards struck and instantly killed James Connelly and Owen McDonald. Great damage was done to Western rail roads by recent storms; a flood at Lincoln, Neb., made several hundred people homeless. Sullivan, the prize fighter, was indicted on two counts by the Grand Jury in Purvis, Miss., and Kilrain was arrested in Baltimore on a requisition from Governor Lowry. A great electric storm struck Albu querque, New Mexico. A driver and his team were killed and many people were stunned. Much property was destroyed. The Burton Building in Chicago, which was gutted by fire some weeks ago, collapsed, burying a number of workmen in the ruins. Joseph Hopp and Nick Sever were killed. The Iowa Republican State Convention convened at Des Moines. Mr. Hutchinson was nominated for Governor on the twenty- fifth ballot. On the second ballot Poyner was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor. Fred Toshman, a saloon keeper, was lynched at Roslyn. Washington, for shoot ing a man named. Thomas. The .latter owed him $2 and would not pay it. Captain Philip W. McKinney was nomi nated for Governor by acclamation by the State Democratic Convention of Virginia in session at Richmond. Bill Westmoreland, colored, has been banged at Jacksonville, Fla., for killing his wife on the night of April 5 last. A cyclone 200 feet wide by a mile and a half long struck Russell, 111., inflicting great damage. An engine which was being repaired at Charlotteville, Va., exploded, killing two men and injuring several others. Washington. First Comptroller Matthews has de cided that the appropriation of $600,000 made by the act of March 2,1889, for “agricultural experiment stations” can be used for the benefit only ol the forty stations tor wmen estimates were made. The Superintendent of Census Vac ap pointed Dr. J. S. Billings, Professor Henry Gannett and William C. Hunt to report upon the relative merits of the several systems of tabulating the Eleventh Census returns. Secretary Windom has designated the name of “Lot M. Morrill” for the new revenue marine vessel just finished at Balti more for the Charleston (S. C.) station. Carry's brewecy, in northeast Washing* ton. has been sold to New York capitalists. The price paid is $100,000. The State Departmental Washington has been notified of the appointment of the fol lowing delegates to the conference of Ameri can nations, to be held in Washington next October: Front Mexico—General Angel Ortiz Monasterio. Venezuela—Mr. Nicanor Bolet Picraza. a distinguished litterateur and po litical economist. President Harrison has definitely de termined not to place the clerks of the Census Bureau under the civil service rules. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has issuer! a circular from Washington prohibit ing the refilling at distilleries cf casks or packages previously used at the same distil lery. ahk ngnt offerings or Donas nave resulted in a steady increase in the Treasury surplus at Washington, which amonnts to $70,800,- 000, being the highest point reached since October last. The pension payments for the present month are estimated at $18,000,000. Foreign. . A fire at Sacbsenberg, Germany, has da- of the town. The losses are le poor are the chief soffer- loet everything, and the prevailed. , the American convicted msband. was sentenced to be on on Monday, August 26. > United States Minister, and in London signed a petition stroyed one-' very heavy, ers. Man; greatest Mrs. Mays: of poi hanged in Mr. Lincoln thi many for a reprieve. The Duke of) Fife declines to permit his wife. Princess Louise of Wales, to accept any share of the retent Parliamentary grant to the royal family^ Senor Sardin*^.. who was recently kid napped by bajucfltti in Cuba, has been re leased on the payment of a ransom of $12,000 in gold. Inventor Thomas Edison ascended the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Exposition and took luncheon at the summit. A number of artists from t be opera were present and sang into a pi onograph, which afterward reproduced tn< > airs. King Humbert has appointed him a Grand Officer of the Crown of Italy. ^ The Emperors of Germany and Austria witnessed a sham battle at Spandau, Ger many. The second Anniversary of Prince Ferdi nand’s ascendiqg the throne of Bulgaria was observed with Appropriate festivities. Four thousand troqfps were reviewed, banquets were held, and t in the evening Sofia was il luminated. General Boulanger, Count Dillon and M. Henri Rochefort are sentenced by the French Senate in Paris to imprisonment In a fortress. An attempt will be made by France to ob tain General Boulanger's extradition from Great Britain. A GIGANTIC W0LF-DKIVE. Wyoming Stockmen and Cowboys Unite in Hunting Coyotes. A big wolf-drive, by several hundred stock- men, cowboys aij^ sportsmen took place a few days ago in Southern Wyoming. The drive resulted in the extermination of all the coyotes and gray wolves in the large district, and afforded unique sport for the partici pants in it. The district swept by the drive is watered by numerous creeks, along which are rich stock ranches. The country is hemmed in for its entire length by a range of limestone cliffs, known as (’balk Bluffs, in which are hundreds of small caves and dens. In these gray wolves and coyotes hide. Dur ing the present ^ason their numbers have increased largely-, and the losses of the stock- men from their constant preying upon young live been excessive. ,n every ranch between ebraska line, thirty miles md cowboys took the field They were reinforced tm Cheyenne and ha i as spectators a large number of business men and ladies, who drove to the starting point. At 7 o’clock the long line of riders, under command of ten captains, moved forward. All 'the known haunts of the wolves were scoured by men and dogs. Slinking coyotes and defiant wolvii broke from cover and ran for the protecting cayes of Chalk Bluffs. Occasionally the hounds- turned a wolf to ward the riders and brought him to bay. The expert cowboys would throw their lariats around the wolf and drag him to death across the prairie. The drive lasted until noon. At points of rendezvous in the valley skirted by the bluffs were barbecued steers and coffee for the hunters. The after noon was devoted to smoking out the wolf dens and killing their occupants. Where flames and smoke failed to drive out the wolves charges oir dynamite were exploded, tumbling down portions of the cliffs and burying the wolves in the ruins. Twelve big wolves were smoked from the first cavern assaulted and all were killed as they ran. Dogs drew seven heavy fellows from the second, and thirteen died in a den rather than face the hunters. Their brushes were secured by blowing up the cave with giant powder. BOULANGER FOUND GUILTY. The Fugitive General Convicted of Conspiracy and Treason. The State Council of France has annnliAfi thfid eral Boulanger was recently elected to the Councils-General on the • ground that the General was not legally eligible to the position. General Boulanger has written a letter, in which he states that he gave the sums of money which he is accused of 'embezzling to the chief clerks in the War Office, to be used for the relief of widows and orphans of soldiers. Five lodgers in the house of Mme. Pour- pree, the former companion of General Boulanger, have sworn that the General was in Paris on July 15,1887, the day on which, it is alleged, he visited the city in disguise. The Senate Court during the afternoon found General Boulanger guilty of conspir acy. The court also found Dillon and Rochefort guilty of complicitv with Boulanger in his plots. They further decided, by a vote of 198 to 10, that Boulanger was guilty of treasonable actions against the State in connection with the Lyons depot incident. calves and colts At daylight Cheyenne and tl| distant, stockmc against the woll by 200 horsemen LIGHTNING KILLS TWENTY. The Missouri Valley Loses Over Hall a Million Dollars by Storm. The storm which passed over the Missouri Valley recently was the most disastrous known to that section this season. Fully twenty persons, it is said, were killed by lightning, and the damage in animals killed and ruined crops will run over $500,000. This, of course, includes the damage to railroads. Among those killed were a son of H. H. Silver, at Cortland, Neb.; George Warner and George Richardson, of Dawson. Neb.; E. Winkler, of Winthrop, Mo.; H. Hunter, of Hamlin, Kan., and Fred Case, of Oalathe, Kan. Reports from other towns state that there ■were many fatalities. NEWS^ GLEANINGS. The hop crop is a failure. The trunk lines are at war. Peaches are unusually scarce. The table glass trust is the latest. The Cretan insurrection is spreading. Electric street cars are gaining favor. The salt trust has apparently collapsed. Serious rains are reported in England. Great forest fires are raging in Oregon. A water famine is threatened at Vienna. The invasion of Upper Egypt is at an end. An ice trust has been formed at Savannah, Ga. A typhoid epidemic is prevalent in Chi cago. Fifteen States will this fall choose State officers. Aerial navigation is again attracting attention. This has been a poor season for Labrador fishermen. The cotton crop of Texas will be worth 184,000.000. The losses in Spokane Falls amount to $10,000,000. The sugar trust made a net profit last year of $19,000,000. Eleven bridges cross the Harlem River at New York. i The California ifaisin crop is estimated at 1,250,000 boxes. Thirty-four missionary societies are at work in Africa, j The German imperial budget shows a de ficit of $4,000,000. | Rich petroleum (deposits have been discov ered in Tabasco, Mjexico. supports 500 blind pau- ity fund. garian crops are twenty- the average, congress at Lucerne, abandoned. schools on the American ms in Turkey, sweet potatoes in Flor- ever known. _ St. Louis than it i* in in the country, ttle at Chicago for the 000 head larger than in New York cl pers out of its d The Austria-H five per cent, belo The anti-slavei Switzerland, has Five hundred plan hold daily This year's croj ida will be the * Coal is cheaper any other large ci The receipts of year are about “ LATEB NEWS. The vicinity of Mammoth, Penn., was visited by a snow storm. The ground was completely covered. Michael and John Murphy, two brothers, aged five and six. respectively, while sailing their little boats near Bloomfield, N. J., fell into the Morris Canal and were drowned. Eben 8. Allen, ex-President of the Forty- second Street and Grand Street Railroad Company, of New York city, who had pleaded guilty, in the Court of General Sessions, to the fraudulent issue of stock of the company was sentenced by Judge Gildereleeve to four teen years imprisonment in State Prison. An explosion of gas in the crockery store of T. J. Macable, New York city, killed Ja cobs Morris, aged seventeen, and wounded twenty-five other persons. Damage was done by flood in North and South Carolina. Glanders is raging among car horses at Chicago. Thousands have died. Supreme Court Justice Stephen J Field was arrested at San Francisco, Cal., charged with being an accessory to the mur der of Judge David S. Terry, and released on habeas corpus proceedings in $5000 bail. The jury at Purvis, Miss., returned a ver dict of guilty of prize fighting against John L. Sullivan. At Jackson, Tenn., Henry Prewit, an ex cowboy from Texas, shot his young wife through the neck, inflicting a fatal wound* wounded his mother-in-law, and then shot himself through the head, dying instantly. The Montana Constitutional Convention finished its work. The North Dakota Constitu tional Convention decided upon Bismarck as the permanent Capital of the new State. The Navy Department has ordered the payment to Cramp & Sons, of Philadelphia, of $10,200 on account of the new gunboat Yorktown. This is the last regular payment on the vessel. Acting Postmaster-General Clarkson awarded the contract for furnishing postal cards to the Postoffice Department for four years, beginning October 1 next, to Albert Daggett, of New York. The Department of State has been in formed that the Nicaragua Government has appointed Senor Don Horacio Guzman, the present Minister to the United States, to rep resent Nicaragua at the Congress of Ameri can Nations to be held in October. Turkish troops are hastening to Crete to suppress the insurrection there. Ex-King Milan has consented to allow ex- Queen Nathalie to visit her son, King Alex ander of Servia, several times a year and to reside in the palace during each visit. United States Senator William M. Evarts sailed for Europe, from New York city, accompanied by his son Allen and daughter. He goes to have eminent oculists operate on his eyes, which are failing him. A horse and wagon hired from Pearsall’s livery-stable at Freeport, N. Y., were stolen from in front of the hotel in Bellmore. Next day the outfit was found at Baldwin's in the possession of Miss Susie Brower, of Merrick, N. Y., a highly connected young woman, who confessed the theft. Drunken quarrels among miners at Pitts burg, Penn., who had just been paid off, re sulted in two murders in quick succession. Thomas Snell, a sinker, aged forty-five, and Charles Fitzgerald were the victims. Governor Goodell has prorogued the New ^Hampshire Legislature. During the last scission the Governor approved 238 bills and joint resolut id^vetced one act. Walter Asburo, alias Berriam, was lynched at Pooler, Ga., ten miles west of Sa vannah, for assault upon Lulu Kiss- man, a seventeen-year-old German girl. The work of the Revision and Phraseology Committees was completed at Helena, and the Constitution being finished, the State Convention of Montana adjourned sine die. The Constitutional Convention of North Dakota has finished its work. Eighteen men were injured by a train accident near Lincoln, Neb. John L. Sullivan was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment at Purvis, Miss., for prize-fighting. He appealed the case. Ex-Governor John G. Brown, of Ten nessee, late receiver of the Texas and Pacific Railway, and at the time of his death Presi dent of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com pany, died recently at Red Boiling Springs, Tenn. Congressman J. Laird, of the Second Ne braska District, died a few days ago at his home at Hastings, Neb.,from a complication of diseases. He was born at Fowler ville, N. Y., in 1849. A fight occurred between the “Jaybirds' and “Woodpeckers,” rival political factions at Richmond, Texas, in which Sheriff Garvey and Deputy Blakeney were killed and several others wounded. The Governor and two companies of State troops went there and quelled the disturbance. The President and Mrs. Harrison left Washington for Deer Park, Md., for a brief sojourn. The Piesident has authorized Brigadier- General MacFeely, Commissary-General of Subsistence, to perform the duties of Secre tary of War during Secretary Proctor's ab sence. The President has made the following ap pointments: Robert B. Rentfro, to be Col lector of Customs for the District of Brazos de Santiago, Texas; Daniel R. Collier, to be Surveyor of Customs for the Port of Louis ville, Ky.; Robert A. Mosely, Jr., to be Col lector of Internal Revenue for the District of Alabama; Louis Weinstein, to be Collec tor of Internal Revenue for the Fourth Dis trict of Iowa. Colonel John M. Wilson, Engineer Corps, late Superintendent of Public Build ings and Grounds in the District of Colum bia, has been appointed Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, to succeed General John G. Parke, who was recently retired. The rioters in Totien, province of China, fled before the approaching troops. For the loss of four or five of their countrymen last year the rioters revenged themselves by tilling between 400 and 500 inhabitants of Chin Chu villages, including women and children. Legitime is now virtually in charge of the mtire island of Hayti. Hyppolite's forces, since their defeat, have become demoralized. General Boulanger has issued from his retreat in London a manifesto addressed to the “Honest People,'’ declaring that the French Senate and Chamber procured his Sonviction by fraudulent means. Earthquake shocks were felt in Bosnia tnd Herzegovina. Laura Wolford, the colored giantess, died recently at Lafayette, Ind., after a short illness. Laura was the mother of seven children. She weighed 904}£ pounds and measured three yards about the waist. THE COUHTHTC CROPS. August Beport of the Depart ment of Agriculture. The Condition of Corn, Wheat, Potatoes, Barley and Cotton. The August crop report of the Department of Agriculture at Washington makes the condition of com 94.8; spring wheat, 81.2; spring rye, 95.4; oats, 92J): barley, 90.6; buckwheat, 95.3; potatoes, 94.8: hay, 94.5; tobacco, 84.4. Corn has made an unprovement during the last month of 41-2 points, and is now less than one point lower than at the mme date last year. The August return of condition has not stood up more than one point higher during the last nine years, and the present return has been equaled but three times during that period. The improvement is quite generally dis tributed throughout the country, following favorable growing weather and sufficient rainfall. In a few States, especially along the Atlantic coast, the condition has been somewheX reduced from excessive rainfalls and local floods and overflows. The general average for the seven surplus States is 95, against 90 last month and 96 for August, Spring wheat has suffered a further fall ing off during the month, the decline amount ing to nearly three points. Condition is now nearly three points higher than in 1887 and one above that of 1886. With these exceptions it is the lowest since the very small crop in 1881. Min nesota records some improvement since last report, but in Dakota there is a further decline from the same causes noted last month. Dakota is now the largest spring wheat State, and the very low condition there reduces the general average. The quali ty of the crop will be better than usual, espe cially in the extreme Northwest. Rye and barley each decline one point, the falling off being mainly in Nebraska and Dakota. Condition of oats while two points lower than reported last month, is higher than August of any year since 1885. In many sections the crop has suffered from heavy winds and rains about harvest time, and the next report may show damage from t.Mn cause not yet appreciated. Potatoes have maintained their nigh condition of a month ago, and now stand one point higher than at this date last year. Tobacco has fallen off materialiy on account of excessive rain. The condition of cotton is 89.3, an advance of nearly two points during the month. Since 1690 this average has been exceeded but three times, m 1882, 1885 «**<! 1887. Damage wherever reported is attributed to excess of moisture end conse quent inability to keep the crop oWn Some fear is expressed of too heavy a growth of stalk, rendering injury liable should dry weather set in. Stevens, the long-distance bicyclist who was sent to Africa to find Stanley, is return ing to Zanzibar, having failed to accomplish anything whatever. BRAZIL’S COFFEE CROP. The Recently Emancipated Slaves Produce a Small Yield. Some important information was received on the New York Coffee Exchange respect ing the situation of the Brazilian coffee crop. Brazilian coffee being the only product dealt in on the exchange, the information at hand was deemed of the utmost importance. The best informed houses in Rio now say that as a yield 5,500,000 bags is a moderate estimate. The quality of the crop has, in genera!, not been good; careful preparation is no longer profitable, and the differences in price be tween the lower and higher grades are now much greater than for years past. Previous estimates of the new crop were fixed at 2.500,000 to 3,000,000 bags, but the severe drought and excessive heat has reduced the probable yield so much that, with the con tinued disorganization of labor, about 1,500,- 000 bags below the regular crop is expected, which is considered a moderate estimate in one sense, as 5,500,000 was in another. The quality of the new crop as shown by arrivals so far is poor. Washed coffee is very scarce, and of Serra ahaixon none has been seen. From July 1, 1888, to June 80, 1889, Rio pipped -Uar?; Slates, against l,336,509in 336 in 1886-87, and 2,449,166 in If are still in a transition state; it has taken time for the recently emancipated freedman to realize that he is free. Many of the ex slaves are already reduced to working for their keep. The condition of these people will have an important bearing upon the fu ture coffee production of Brazil. TWO EMPERORS AT BERLIN. A Royal German Welcome to the Ruler of Austria. The Emperor of Austria has arrived in Ber lin, Germany. He was met at the station by Emperor William, Prince Henry and Prince Bismarck. Among the distinguished per sons present were Count Herbert Bismarck, General von Molike and General von Blu- menthal. The meeting between the two Emperors was of the most cordial character. Aft.gr Francis Joseph and Prince Henry had ex changed salutations the imperial visitor shook hands with Prince Bismarck. The imperial party took carriages and drove to the castle by way of the Thiergarten and Unter den Linden. Troops were stationed along the route from the station to the castle. The houses were decorated with flags and bunting. Large crowds assembled along the route and cheered the Emperors as they passed. Sa lutes were fired by the artillery in honor of the visiting Emperor. The weather was fine. Upon arriving at the palace the Austrian Emperor was welcomed by Empress Augusta and ex-Empress Frederick. The Rcichsanzeiger, in an especially prom inent article, welcomes Emperor Francis Jo seph on behalf of the German people, as a friend and ally of Emperor William. The North German Gazette says the visit of the Austrian Emperor will further insure the peace of Europe. ARMY DESERTERS. The War Department Alarmed at the Increasing; Number. The War Department officials at Washing ton are greatly exercised over the number of desertions from the army, especially as they are increasing in numbers every year. During the six months ending June 30 last the records show an increase of 135 over the number reported for the corresponding per iod last year. For the past six months of the present year there were 1467 desertions against 1209 for the same period in 1888. F*illy seven-eighths of the desertions took place during the first year of enlistment. The importance of these figures, is appre ciated by General Schofield. This has been the subject of much thought and discussion lately, and some plaiu action which will look toward modification of existing articles oi war will receive the General's earnest advo cacy and be presented to Congress. A number of officers believe that one of the best ways of breaking up desertion in the army would be to put a stop to the soldiers doing so much extra work. When a man en ters the army he expects to become a soldier. When he finds that in addition to his duty as a soldier be has to do all the work around the garrison and the officers’ quarters the sol dier feeling dies out and he deserts at the very first opportunity. A decrease in the number of useless calls, now prevalent at army posts will also, it is said, result in fewer desertions. IN A BURNING MINE. Two Americans Try to Rescue Eight Mexicans and All Are Lost. The Mexican steamboat Alejandro arrived at San Francisco, Cal., from Guaymas, Mexico, bringing word that in the early part of July a fire broke out in the 1500-foot level of the Triumfo mine, near the town of the same name, and ten miners lost their lives. Eight Mexican miners were in the mine at the time of the fire and two unknown Ameri cans, formerly of San Francisco, volunteered to go to their rescue. The shaft was full of smoke and gases, and when the bucket was hauled to the top the Americans were found to be dead. The fire lasted several days art), filially burned itself out. TEE NATIONAL GAME. The Brooklyns are demoralized. i Barkley is captaining the Toledo*. Minneapolis has the League bee in its boo^ Pittsburg’s salary list amounts to $40,000) a year. Healy, column. of Chicago, heads the pitchers?* bytedi^ 1 ^ 118 ®* anies are l**gBly patronized, . Tebeau is considered the best captain Cin-i cmnati ever had. Ward, of New York, is doing a heap od scientific batting. In Boston Ganzel is now considered the) Hub’s star player. Cleveland and Chicago will have to fighti it out for fourth place. Clarkson, of Boston, now leads the League) in pitching percentages. Hanlon has outstripped Sunday as Pitts-l burg’s leading base stealer. President Byrne, of Brooklyn, has. it ia said, renewed his offer of $15,000 for Comis- key. Henry McCormick, at one time one of the most effective baseball pitchers in the coun»‘ tty* died in Syracuse, N. Y., recently off cholera morbus. Fred. Dunlap has resigned his position as field captain and acting manager of the Pitte* burg club, and Hanlon has teen selected to> fill the vacancy. Joe Gerhardt, second baseman, and Catcher Moore, lately of Easton and Wilkes-' barre, Penn., have been engaged by the Hartford (Conn.) dub. The Kansas City team has been a sore dis- appointment this season. It surprised the baseball world at the outset by whipping everything that came along. The Clevelands have anew uniform. It is all black, even to caps and stockings. The only white in the suit is the belt and the let-' ters across the breast of the shirt. Latham, of St. Louis, has been suspended indefinitely for, as President Von der Ah* puts it, “his generally bad ball playing and for conduct prejudical to the dub’s interest.”; Jim Hart contemplates taking a trip through South America, Mexico and Cuba next winter to sound these countries and lay out a route for a baseball tour the fol lowing winter. In sacrifice hitting Kelly leads the Bostons, McKean the Clevelands, Thompson the Phila- ielphias, Anson the Chicagos. Dunlap the! Pittsburgs, Glasscock the Indianapolis Club, ind Carney the Washingtons. “Buck” Ewwo.of New York,is considered, to be the best all-round player in the League. Out of a vote recently taken he polled 17ij out of 375, and the field included such men as Anson, Ward, Kelly and men of that caliber.! Some years ago the regulation ball con-; tamed two ounces of rubber, double the I weight now used. With straight arm pitch- j ing and rough ground one can easily imagine j the livdy time the infielder had during a I game. Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, is ai lover of baseball. Whenever he has an op- 1 port unity he attends a professional game He thinks that Philadelpnia would be greatly benefited if its League team could win the. pennant. In no city in the country has baseball pool-* selling reached the height it has in Boston.. It is carried on openly, and in one place the' business done is simply immense There from $1000 to $1500 worth of $1 combinations are sold daily. Perhaps the youngest professional ball! player is McGill, the Evansville (Ind.) pitcher. He is but sixteen years of age, andi his record so far is four games won and four games lost. He recently struck out eleven of the Davenports. The clubs with the young pitchers are be coming more and more successful. Person and Haddock, of the Washingtons; Dwyer! and Gumbert, of the Chicagos: Rusie, of In-' dianapolis; Beatin, of the Clevelands, are examples in point. Captain Comiskey, of St. Louis, bitterly, deplores the home umpiring system which uj coming into vogue, and declares that if it is' persisted in the time will come when every clnb will just about win nearly all of ito home games and lose all its foreign games. John 8. Barnes, for the last four the club to Michael J. Roche tot $15,000. Mr., Barnes has cleared $22,000 in baseball, end last year inherited an Irish estate valued aft $140,000. league record. Boston Won. Lost. Percent jqs 32 .638 New York 83 .621 Philadelphia 39 .557 Cleveland 44 .522 Chicago 46 .505 Pittsburg 54 .419 Indianapolis 55 \409 .337 Washingtcfa 29 57 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD. ?t. Louis W*n. lost. Percentafti .32 .677 Brooklyn 63 33 .656 Baltimore 40 .583 (Athletic 40 .565 Cincinnati 53 44 .552 Kansas City.... Columbus 56 .416 36 63 .364 jouisville 20 79 .202 JUDGE LYNCH’S VENGEANCE The Murderers of Two Women Hung Up by the Heels and Shot. Mrs. Gillis and her two daughters, living in McDowell County, W. Va., were found dead by neighbors a few days ago. They had been as saulted and murdered. The Hollis brothers were suspected, and a vigilance committee was organized to punish them. The Captain of a push boat, that arrived at Catlettsburg, Ky., down the Big Sandy from Pike ville, reports that the Hollis brothers were cap tured by the committee, hung up by the heels to the limb of a tree, and then snot to death. The Standard Oil Company has bought up all the white lead companies in the United States. The estimated amount paid is $<«>.- 000,000. The calculation is based on the fact that $4,000,000 was paid for the Atlantic White Lead Company of Broofc’yn. THE MARKETS. 33 NEW YORK. Beeves 3 57%(i? 4 60 Milch Cows, com. to good.. .30 00 <&45 00 Calves, common to prime... 2 75 Ut: 3 50 Sheep 4 00 @ 5 25 Lambs 6 25 @ 7 2o Hogs—Live 4 75 @ 5 15 Dressod 7 (<D. 8J4 Flour—City Mill Extra 4 25 (p> 4 50 Patents 4 90 <<z>6 35 Wheat—No. 2 Red 88 & S8X Rye—State 53}* (3? 54}£ Barley—Two-rowed State... 80 («c 87 Corn—Ungraded Mixed 43%( r <tf 44}£ Oats—No. 1 White — 38 Mixed Western 25 (<c 29 Hay—No. 1 85 ft{100 Straw—Long Rye 70 (fl! 80 Lard—City Steam — <£8 6.25c Butter—Elgin Creamery 18 <m 18}£ Dairy, fair to good. 13 (cC 15 West. Im. Creamery 10 (a? 14 Factory 8 On 12}£ Cheese—State Factory fyi&i 8}£ Skims—Light 6 <& Western 6 <§} 7 Eggs—State and Penn 17 @ 17}^ BUFFALO. Steers—Western 3 25 @390 Sheep—Medium to Good.... 4 25 @ 4 60 Lambs—Fair to Good 450 @550 Hoes—Good to Choice Yorks 4 70 & 4 75 Flour—Family 5 00 @5 25 Wheat—No. 2 Northern — @ 93 Corn—No. 3, Yellow — @ 40}£ Oats—No. 2, White — @ Barley—No. 1 Canada. — @1 74 BOSTON. Flour—Spring Wheat Pat’s.. 6 00 @ 6 40 Com—Steamer Yellow.. ... 46 @ 49)f Oats—No. 2 White 30 @ 40 Rye—State 65 @ 70 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef—Dressed weight 4)^0 6}f Sheep—Live weight ~ @ 4« Lambs. 5^0 6^ Hogs—Northern — 0 0)4 PHILADELPHIA. Flour—Penn, family 4 00 @4 25 Wheat—No. % Red. Aug.... 88X® Com—No. 2, Mixed, Aug... 483^@ Oats—Ungraded White. 32)4@ Potatoes—Early Roy. 30 « Butter—Creamery Extra 16>4@ IT Cheese—Part skims • # "