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/ j NATIONAL FINANCES., Synopsis of the Monthly Pnblic Debt Statement. Decrease in Customs Collections and Total Circulation. The monthly public debt statement just issued from the United States Treasury De partment, at Washington, shows a reduction in the debt daring the past month amount ing to $3,447,500. There was an increase of 1300 in the interest-bearing debt due to the imoance of a small refunding certificate bond; a reduction in the no i-interest-bear- icg debt of $1,557,802, and an increase in the surplus during the month of $1,889,907. The aggregate of interest and non- interest debt August 1. less $100,000,009 gold reserve and $55,783,7 15 net cash balance or surplus, ia $848,465,242, and of this amount $610,529,- 420 is interest-bearing debt, made up of $559,660,220 4 per-cent, bonds, $30,184,7(10 43* per cents, and $11,679,500 4 per cents., con- lined at 2 per cent. i Government receipts from all sources dur- a July aggregated $34,300,344. against 303,216 in July, 1890. Customs receipts -were $15,468,153, against $23,953,386 in July • year ago; internal revenue receipts were *14,551.867, against $11,717,499 in July, 1890; receipts from miscellaneous sources were *4,280,322, or nearly $2,000,000 more than in July a year ago. Expenditures during the first month of the current fiscal year were *89.719,651, against $39,052,949 in July. 189a. The.Treasury now bolds $149,089,650 to Imre circulation of National banks. Of •his $114,674,950 is in fonr per cents, $16.- *72,650 four-and-a-baif per cents, $8,700,000 Currency sixes, and $5,942,050 two per cent, continued fours. National bank circulation given on July 31, aggregated $168,421,722, against $184,253,076 on July 31, 1890, a de crease during the twelve months of $15,831.- 654. The total coinage of the mints during the month of July was 9,009,000 pieces of all hinds, valued at $2,899,000. Gold valued at *1,600,000 was coined; 976,000 standard silver dollars and 2,000,000 dimes were also coined, the silver coinage amounting to $1,176,000. The minor coinage amounted in value to *128,000, consisting of 1,572,000 five-cent pieces and 4,340,000 one-cent pieces. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Alaska contains six volcanoes. Nevada has only 12,000 voters. Smallpox is raging in Honduras. There is a case of leprosy in Chicago. Disastrous floods are reported in India. Vesuvius is again in a state of eruption. ' Pill-box lids circulate as money in Chili. Grasshoppers are damaging crops ic Ohio. The Alabama cotton is being damaged bj worms. Kansas had the coldest and wettest July in twenty years. British money is said to be fighting Bal- maceda in Chili. The wheat crop of Oklahoma is pro nounced a failure. Drought and bugs have done great harm to crops in Wisconsin. The settlement of Hebrews on unoccupieo land in Italy is proposed. The Farmers’ Alliance people of Kansas are to hold camp meetings. Customs receipts in July were $15,468,153, against $23,953,386 last year. The corn and cotton crops in Mississippi have been damaged by floods. Farm property in Kansas has doubled in value since the wheat harvest. Macon (GaJ dealers have been shipping watermelons diVect to Liverpool. The new Wea'ther BiTpssji. chief proposes to appoint twenty local forcasters!^w Millions of worms are destrovf a S the hemlock trees in Potter County, Pe " THE HEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. W. L. Buck, Cashier of the First National Bank of Darbv, Penn., was struck by a train at Collingdale and instantly killed. The formal opening of the great Chautau qua (N. Y.) Assembly took place, and fully 10,000 people were present to participate in the exercises. The Squadron of Evolution, which sailed recently in command of Acting Rear- Admiral John G. Walker, to put the Naval Reserve Battalion of the State of New York through a week of man-of-warstnen drill at Fisher’s Island, returned to New York Har bor. Schuyler’s Steam Towing Company, of Albany, N. Y., the oldest and bast known of the North River lines, has suspended. The liabilities admitted foot up $350,000. Henry Bartels, a bartender in New York City, was “electrocuted” by an electric motor of ten arc lights capacity, which runs the fans for cooling the place. Ht was burled backward to the floor, and after a few spasmodic La itches of the muscles all was over with him. He was dead within three minutes. Hundreds saw him die. The Vermont fish hatchery is to be loca ted at Roxbury, as will the buildings of the National hatchery. Miss Emma Walravkn Comfort, the daughter of Major Samuel Comfort, of New York, was married at Philadelphia, Penn., to Pasha Crookshank, Director General of the Egyptian Prisons. At Cape May. N. J„ the President ap pointed James W. Hind, of Michigan, Consul at Amherstburg, Canada. Minister to Greece A. Lou ’on Snowden and Civil Service Com missioner Lyman called at the shore capi tal. J. Henry Jahke, one of the wealthiest wholesale butchers in Philadelphia, Penn., killed his son by a blow struck in self-defense during a quarrel. The transatlantic steamship Majestic of the White Star Line has beaten all westward records, having made the trip from Queens town, Ireland, to New York in five days, eighteen boars and eight minutes. This beats the record by fifty-seven minutes. The Republican State League Convention at Syracuse, N. Y., adopted a platform of principles, and re-elected Colonel E. A. Me Al- pin President of the organization. Admiral Walker and the officers of the White Squadron were breakfasted in New York City by the Chamber of Commerce at the Lawyers’ Downtown Club. The east bound train on the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad collided with the Eilenburg Sunday-school excursion train just east of Champlain station, N. Y., and it was reported on the day after the ac cident that eight passengers had been killed, from ten to fifteen badly injured and a num ber of others more or less hurt. James F. Danner, of the defunct bank of Schall & Danner, was arrested at York, Penn., charged by John B. Walsh with the embezzlement and larceny of $20,000. The Rhode Island Legislature in session at Providence adjourned. An effort was made to get the Judiciary bill before the Senate again, but it failed. Governor Ladd’s bill to have a special election in No vember to vote upon the new State House scheme also failed. After a desperate struggle nine insane convicts overpowered their keepers in Au burn (N. t.) Prison, scaled the wall sur rounding the institution and escaped. All but three w re recaptured. One keeper was dangerously stabbed. By an accident to an excursion train at Champlain, N. Y., on the Ogdensburg di vision of the Central Vermont Railroad three persons were killed. Their names are: William Angell, of Champlain, N. Y.; Henry Lamouutain, a French tailor, of Champlain, aged twenty-two; Vanet, of Chateau- gay Lake, N. Y. Isaac Van Wart, grandson of Isaac Van Wart of Revolutibnary fame, one of the three captors of Major John Andre, the British spy, died a few days ago on his farm at Westchester, N. Y. He was seventy-one. An inmate of the County Hospital, at Reading, Penn., named Hiram Troxel es caped from bis attendants and drowned him self in a water trough contauq^g only fif teen inches of water. Ttoj eaten* Jack Estees and Tom Long, who fought i duel in the northern part of Franklin County, Kv., election day, have died of their wounds. They were desperate men. Was (nut: ton. Andrew H. Dougherty, of Michigan, ms been appointed principal examiner of and claims and contests in the General Land Office at Washington. General John M. Schofield has re- rurned to Washington with his bride andre- tumed his duties at the War Department. The United States Treasurer continues .be daily shipment of small notes to the West for use in moving the crops. The total imount up to a recent date was $2,800,000. Acting Secretary of the Treasurer Settle ton appointed John S. Rogers Com- nissioner of Immigration at Philadelphia. The twenty-first annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America was held at the Academy of Music, W ash ington. Right Rev. Bishop Cotter, of Winona, Minn., President in the chair. Car 4in«l Gibbons welcomed the delegates to the archdiocese of Baltimore. John Duckett, one of the aged patriarchs of Washington, died a few days ago at the age of 106 years. Duckett was bom in slavery in Prince George’s County, Md. He was classed as colored, but Indian blood pre dominated in his veins. Brigadier-General Adolphus W. Greyly, Chief Signal Officer of the Army, has been ordereu to Munich, Bavaria, to attend tbe Meteorological Conference and v .he International Polar Commission which neet in that place in August and September, 1891, respectively. General Superintendent Kimball, of ’.he Life Saving Service, has directed the establishment of a telephone service along the coast of Rhode Island, between Narra- gansett Pier and Watch Hill, with a station at Black Rock, midway between Point Ju- iuth and Narragansett Pier. The Department of State is informed that, iceording to the views of the Minister of State of Japan the subjects of that Govera- ment, under the existing laws of tbe Empire, will be unable to avail themselves of the oenefits of our recent statutes relative to eopyright. The President has appointed F. M. Wise as Lieutenant Commander, Lovell K. Reynolds and James C. Gilmore as Lieu tenants, and William A. Gill as Lieutenant of the Junior Grade. Foreign. At Hobarttown, Tasmania, the Bank of Van Dieman’s Land has suspended. Its paid up capital is $1,250,000 and its reserve capi tal amounts to an equal sum. Tbe bank was established in 1823. The Foreign Committee of the World’s Fair Commissioners were received iu Berlin, Germany, by VouBoetticher and Chancellor Von Caprivi. The annual report of the I resident of the Dominion Miller’s Association, in session at Toronto, CEnada, estimates the wheat crop of the Dominion at 55,160,000 bushels—a reckoning which allows 22,180,000 bushels for export. The Czar, Czarina and the Grand Duke Alexis left St. Petersburg, Russia, for Finland, where they will attend the autnmn maneuvers of the land and sea forces to be held at Vilmanstrand. At Gysegrn, Germany, a widow was mur dered by her three sons because she contem plated marrying again. The elder brothers then killed the youngest, fearing that he would betray them. A waterspout on one of the islands of the Azores group has caused immense dam age, and resulted iu the killing of six per sons. All the negotiations between the Foreign Committee of the World’s Fair and the official representatives of the German Gov ernment have been concluded. The Empire is pledged to make a worthy exhibit. The river Yara overflowed its banks at Melbourne, Australia. Over 1000 families were rendered homeless, and there is much illn^sw aud fever among them. The damage cause . ’ amounted to $2,000,000. 8h> P 1 '*"’-- -’tneda left dn< FATA1 FED. Desperate Battle Bet ween White Men and Half-Breeds. The “Bed Bones T? Gang Defeated With Severe Loss. A dispatch from Lake Charles, La., says: Full details of the bloody tragedy at Locke, Moore & Co.’s tram, twenty-two miles from here, are at last obtainable. It appears to be somewhat of a race war in that the strife was between whites and a number of thriftless half- breeds who are called “Red Bones.” A few days ago a Mr. Morris-make a remark to an employe, “Where are those ’Red Bones’ who were to drive this wagpn?” His remark was evidently overheard, for the next night his house was surrounded by an angry mob, headed by Andrew AdWortb, who ordered him to come out and be whipped. This he re fused to do. By strategy he succeeded in holding the fort all night. In the morning he was notified that he must leave the conn try before the sun went down or he would be assassinated. Hp-’ht once communicated the news of these threats to the white people of the settlement, and they guaranteed him full protection. 4 . The next morning a party of white men went down to a little store a mile and a half from the mill to get some whisky. On arrival there they found a party of “Red Bones,” who asked them if they had come for the purpose oi raising a disturbance or seeking a quarrel. Tbe white men told them that they were on no hostile mission, but they had come to get^s3me whisky. While this talk on the outsipe was going on, Jesse Dy son, the leader of the “Red Bones,” and as desperate a character as ever graced the border, came out of Lacomb’s saloon or store and declared himself able to clear out the whole party. He at once drew out his six- shooter, but hardly had it leveled before Jesse Ward, one or the whites, sent a bullet crashing through his brain and he fell dead. In an instant a general battle began and Ward fell mortally wounded, being shot from behind. For a few moments it sounded as though a musketry fire was going on. Winchester rifles! and six-shooters were plied as rapidly as those holding and though greatly bites, succeeded in rout- s after slaying five of dead fell in their tracks, is, while one lived long cabin, where be died riflei as rapid! them could fire,! outnumbered the ing their oppone: them. Four of tT literally shot to pi enough to scrawl at the door. Dupree Lacom through the leg a] Bones's” party ra dren out of the h ing on them, bu When the smoke tne following Dyson, LeePerki Asworth, Maria But this did n< Red Bones took laces well nigh ush they shot a an old man who the saloon man, was shot his son wounded. “Red |his wife and younger chil- se into the woods, fir- hey fortunately escaped, battle bad cleared away s found dead: Jessie Andrew As worth, Owen erkle, all Red Bones, end the trouble for the tbe bushes which is in etrable, and from am- rs-by. T. T. Swann, his way to the seat of war to ascertain the trouble, was shot from ambush an<} killed. When the She^Ts posse arrived with the Coroner they met with resistance, and failed to capture any/ of the Red Bones men. Three of the white men have been arrested and are in jail aMThe half breeds are in the brush, and tholfficers dare not pursue them for feJ^ of being shot from ambush. . PROMINENT PEOPLE. s health is failing Ex-Senator Th fast. Governor H stout. Senator Briq, in London Justice preme ew York, is getting ^ is sightseeing of t is ris- ’ West V irginia, i about to make a (id. Pennsylvania, is p,ooo. |r of Brazil, is said and spirit, conferred the order [ Prince of Naples, irgh is the most pen- British royal family. _ _ Han, is said to be 9Cts of over-indulgence in stenographers pronounce ■ooks tbe fastest speaker i Davis is a sufferer from made preparations for fondness for having |ud to him, now that he 1 deserted by all but a iwers, but be declares an intimate friend at Me'.rcio, 8cot- led ninety-two years. \been such a lover of |as spent more than stes in that di- bas invested in a block at the knd Georgia streets, ious spy whose career SFupt ending by Parnell’s idon Times, is dying of a Iayard, of Delaware, is e advances in years, and iow balanced by a fair keraber of the next Na- bresentatives will be Bai- f not yet thirty years of o£ unusual quality. Lewenbaupt, Secretary jvho was lately widowei jtressiug circumstances, per in Sweden with tbe (id. who has charge of the I unance-proving station tbe Potomac, receives if $1200 a year from the this salary he furnishes the subjects of naviga- ice, civil engineering, :ity. machinery and in- sry, who succeeded Ad as Chief of the Bureau picturesque figure in the He looks more like a (preacher than a naval t f the best sailors of the d is a man of fine phy- i as an Indian, with close : and a trim little gray ( ;NCE GEORGE. use: He Did Not Flat- Czarevitch. eceutly appeared in the of Copenhagen, in which >? Greece gave a de- tho attack upon the , near Kioto, Japan, by a In, has zreatly altered the pre at first formed at St. Prince’s action upon that t en tho moans ot plac.ng ace in that city. Itfie altered feeling enter- ace is tho fact that he shed his own account of e Czarevitch without pre- ' the manuscript for revis- msidered here that the y Prince George em- rumors that the Czar- |ibit much bravery waen i'articular offense is taken | in the Prince’s published tbe Czarevitch had been |o be was endeavoring to |om bu assailant, he turn- through sheer fright. TEE NATIONAL GAME. Latham has resigned the captaincy of the Cincinnati League team. In Columbus they “spread black dirt over the diamond to keep the glare of the sun iff.” Catcher Clements, of the Philadelphia League Ciub, has stolen only two bases this fear. The New York team is badly crippled in the box. and the catchers are off also in their work. No pitcher in the country is giving so few bases on balls as Buffinton, of tbe Boston As sociation. Each member of tbe Pittsburg team is to be furnished with sliding pads, and they will be coached in base sliding. Brodie, of the Boston League team, has made one error in forty-three games, and five errors during the season. Pitcher Conway’s release by Kansas City broke the Conway-Gunson battery which had been together for six years. Brooklyn is playing excellent baseball, and the prospects are that it will not be far from the top when the season closes. Hamilton, of Philadelphia, is regarded by all the League pitchers as the most danger ous man on bases now in that body. Clarkson has won as many games as the rest of the Boston League pitchers combined. The same may be said of Hutchinson, of the Chicagos. San Francisco enjoys the unique privi lege of being the only city in the country that has erected a statue to the baseball thrower. The Louisvilles and Pittsburgs, who have the record for the most games lost in the As sociation and League respectively, are both tail enders now. Boston’s new left fielder is a prize. Lowe is a first class man in the field, but a heavy hitter was wanted, and it looks as thougn Kelly fills the bill. Stovey, of tbe Boston League, has been playing in his old form lately, batting terrif ically and stealing bases in daring fashion. “Jos” Quinn, too, has recovered his batting. The League race this year is closer than ever before. The eight teams have the pen nant within their grasp, and the one that makes the strongest spurt at the finish will win it. John Burdock is over forty years of age, and has given it out that after a ball player has passed the four-line mark it is useless to try and stay in company with the young bloods. playing Mullane, Caruthers, Barr and Tip O’Neil. Terry, O’Day, Bob With a half dozen associations and leagues exploded this year, the market will be glutted with ball players next season, and salaries will no doubt rule considerably lower than at present. Bierbaurer is the best player Pittsburg has and the most popular, too. His eleva tion to the captaincy upon Hanlon’s retire ment was a graceful compliment bestowed upon a worthy individual. A catcher like Zimmer, of the Clevelands, is worth his weight in gold. He isn’t afraid of the base runner, like some catchers, but stands right over the plate when a man is coming in from third bas9 on a hit. O’Rourke, of the New Yorks, and Cap tain Anson, of the Chicago’s, were good batsmen eighteen years ago, and are holding their own with the new blood to this day. Both have led the League with the stick. Secretary Rusk is said to be almost as much of an enthusiast over baseball as the head of the Treasury Department; and, like Mr. Foster, when he attends a game in Washington the Agriculturist-in-Chief sits up in the reporters’ box instead of in the grand stand. O’Brien, the Brooklyns’ new second base- man, played with the Shamrocks of St. John, New Brunswick, last season, and was a great favorite in that city. His batting and fine work at short stop and second base materially helped the team in winning han'piouship of the New Brunswick ’■fcj^irg’s uew shortstop, while m *? CGART - PitfSi Milter and Reilly in that pos “JCl^TSlls below the stonewall stand ard which is required at that critical point. He is very quick and no man can recover 1 from a tumble and shoot a ball to first in less time than he, but be is too impatient to get hold of the leather and so spoils many plays. national league record. Per Won. Lost. of. Chicago.. .53 35 .602 New York.46 34 .575 Boston....48 37 .565 Philadel...43 43 . 500i Per Won.TjOst. ct. Brooklyn. .41 44 .483 Cleveland.42 47 .473 Pittsburg. .35 51 .407 Cincin’ati..86 53 .401 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD. Pet Won. Lost. ct. Boston....C2 30 .674 ot. Louis. .61 34 .642 Baltimore. 51 37 Athletic.. .44 44 Per U’ori.Tjnnt. ct. Columbus .40 47 .493 Cincinnati.42 50 .457 ,580 Wash’gt’n.kO 58 .333 5U0 Louisville..31 66 .319 F0TJE LYNCHED, Incendiaries Shot to Death in Henry County, Alabama. News has just been received of a quadruple lynching in Henry County, Ala. On a recent day the residence of William Davis, a promi nent farmer, was burned and the family nar rowly escaped with their lives. On Sunday Ella Williams (colored) was arrested and con fessed to saturating the house with oil and setting fire to it out of revenge. Her con fession implicated William Williams, VV illis Lowe and Eliza Lowe (all colored). They were arrested, and while the officers were taking them to jail at Abbeville a mob over powered the officers and shot the prisoners to death. Their bodies w ere thrown into the ri /er nearby. BOILED KIM ALIVE. How the Shah of Persia Punished a Thieving Tax Gatherer. Advices from Teheran, Persia, bring a queer report to the effect that the Shah, having become much enraged against Ab dullah Khan, the Governor of Mazender- aun, condemned that ruler to the terrible death of being boiled alive. The charge against tbe unfortunate Governor was that he had embezzled taxes due to the Shah’s treasury. The truth, it is alleged, is that Abdullah had not embezzled any more than he was in the habit of doing, but that, owing to poor har vest and the poverty of the peasantry, he did not keep the usual amount lor the Shsh. The Shah, with a view of striking terror into other thieving governors, ordered that Abdullah should be boiled alive, but grac iously declared, also, that the ivater should be boi ing bot at the time of the fatal dip, so as to finish him as au.cklv as possible. DRIVEN TO SUICIDE. Indignant Women With Pitchforks Make a Libertine Jump to Death. A fellow named Boehme, notorious for his libertinism, recently assaulted in Weissen- fels, Germany, a girl who had rejected his advances. The women of the village as sembled, carrying pitchforks and scythes, and surrounding the guilty man, drove him to the brink of a well, into which he jumped and was drowned. It was given out that Boehme bad committed suicide through shame, and there is no likelihood that hii tormentors will be prosecuted. . _ FRIGHTFUL COLLISION. AUSTRIAN CROPS RUINED. Terrible Rain Storms and Floods and Several Persons Killed. Bad weather is spoiling the crops in many j districts in Austria and Hungary. It is im possible to harvest the crops on account of continuous rain. A hurricane in Lower Austria, Moravia and Upper Hungarv de stroyed the season's vintage. In the Gum- E oldskirchen district many of the rivers ave overflowed their banks and the adja cent country for miles is inundated. Several persons have been killed by falling trees and houses. Fatal Accident on the West Shore Railroad. Half a Score of Italians Killed and Many Injured. « _____________ The Chicago and St. Louis limited passen ger train on the West Shore Railroad was wrecked at the Montezuma station, a few miles west of Port Byron, N. Y„ at 2:40 o’clock on a recent morning. Ten Italians who were in the smoking car were killed, and about as many more were wounded. None of tbe regular passengers were killed, but two or three of them were more or less seriously injured. The passenger engine and train are a complete wreck. Tbe Chicago and St. Louis limited leaves New York at 5 p. m.. and passes Syracuse on its way west at 1:5S a. m. It is one of the fastest trains on tbe road, stopping only at Newark, bet .veen Syracuse and Rochester. On this night it consisted of two express cars, one baggage car, a smoking car, a day coach and the four Wagner sleepers, Mara thon, Pocassett, New Foundland and San tiago, made up in the order named. The train left Syracuse on time, and was prac tically on time when the accident occurred, running at the rate of forty-five miles an hour on a good track. Montezuma station is on the eastern border of the Montezuma swamp, which is crossed by a causeway built on stone piers. Only lo cal trains stop at the station. A freight train is due to be side tracked on tbe Monte zuma switch at the time this great'passenger train passes that point. The freight train wnich caused the acci dent consisted of forty cars, and was bound for the West. It was to let the “flyer’ pass it, by drawing over on the Montezuma side track, It had started to leave the main track, and was half-way upon the switch when a coupling broke in the middle of the train. Realizing that there was no time to lose, the conductor, Thomas Tobin of the freight train, sent Edward Connolly up the track with a lantern to check the “flyer,” but whether he did not get far enough up the road, or his signal was not seen, is not known. A new coupling had been made and the freight was slowiy starting. In a minute more it would have been out of the way and the disaster would not have occurred. The freight train was in charge of Thomas Tobin, conductor, and Thomas Whitcomb, engineer. The former was on top of the train and was thrown violently to the ground by the con cussion. Beyond serious injuries caused by the conductor’s fall, no one on the ireigbt train was hurt. The engine was hurled from the trtcK down a slight embankment, and was fol lowed by the cars of the fore part of the train- Fire started almost immediately in the wreck. It caught from the burning coals of the engine, which were scattered in every direction upon the inflammable material of which the wrecked cars were constructed. AH the passengers in the sleepers which re mained on the track got out safely, but it was impossible to save all the sleeping cars from tbe spreading flames. By the utmost exertion tbe three sleepers were detached and pushed back by trainmen out of reach of the fire. The other was destroyed. As soon as possible help was telegraphed for from Syracuse. A wrecking train, with coaches for the dead and wounded, was promptly »ent to the scene of the wreck. It carried a corps of physicians and hospital stores for the comfort and treatment of the dead and wounded. The entire fatality was confined to the oc cupants of the smoking-car and locomotive. in the former was a party, consisting of twenty-one Italian laborers in charge of an interpreter, Saverio Scozzavava, who was taking them from Tompkins Gove to Niag ara Falls, where they were to be worked on tbe new railroad tunnel. Only one member of this party escaped death or serious in jury. The fireman, Michael Bergen, was found to have been instantly killed at his post on the locomotive, and the engineer, Patrick Ryan, seriously injured. The death-list began to be appalling as body aft^abody was removed, until ten were laifflWng da a* row. . The injured were twice as many, and their sup plications for aid were heart-rending. The dead and injured were all taken from the cars before the fire reached them. On board the relief train were put the bodies of the ten men who were dead, and the injured were disposed of as comfortably as the cramped seats of the day-coaches would allow. When Port Byron was reached the dead were taken off and laid in the freight house. THE LABOR WORLD. Boston has a peddlers’ union. Pittsburg reporters have a union. Berlin girl-waiters have organized. London employs 500,000 factory hands. Londonderry, Ireland, has 700 K. of I* Indianapolis workingwomen are organiz ing. Locomotive firemen will build a $150,000 ball. Illinois miners averaged $1.15 a day last year. An international woodworkers’ union is proposed. New York furriers who work overtime are fined $25. The weaving trado of Saxony is suffering from depression. Tee plush-makers’ co-operative shop at New Yor.-v failed. A mass meeting of the unemployed was held in New York. Australia’s Labor party elected twenty- six men to Parliament. Women in California canneries get from $1.16 to $1.90 per week. San Francisco seamen kick against the competition of J apanes?. Two railroad conductors in Illinois were fined for instituting a strike. Twenty-eight unions compose the New York Hebrew Trades Union. The diamond cutters of New York earn an average salary of $<i0 a week. New York organized workingwomen marched to a picnic in a body. The women of Italy who work olive oil presses get twenty cents a day. Coopers will hold a National Convention at Indianapolis on September 14to. Trade is extremely dull for carpenters and joiners througUout this country. Indianapolis laundry girls are inducing employers to pay for work after 6 P. M. The street car railways in Chicago have decided to employ women as conductors. The New York Housesmiths’ Union has 4000 members—only 125 non union men in town. Miss Sarah Shea is the manager of the K. of L. co-operative shirt factory of New York. France has proh’bited the working of railroad firemen and engineers over twelve hours a day. The farmers in New England are offering $25 per month and board for laborers, and cannot secure them. For carrying marble blocks on their beads from tbe quarries, Italian women receive twenty-five cents per day. They are now on strike to get three cents more. For producing twenty thousand slate pencils the State of Meininger, Germany, pays about $3. A family of about seven persons has to work an entire week to ac complish the task. The slate quarries are property of the State. INDIAN EXECUTION. Funeral Honors Paid to Two Semi nole Murderers. John Frog and Jackson Wolf, Seminole Indians, were executed atWewaka. Indian Territory, for the murder of John Hare. The whole tribe joined in paying the tri butes of respect after the men had been “hot, and they had such a funeral as would have been accorded them had they fallen in but tle. Tbe decree of the council had wiped out all blood feud between the families, and the whole tribe united in the ceremonies atten dant upon the burial. A MONSTER PARADE. Nearly 50,000 G. A. R. Men in Line in Detroit, Mich. Tbe National Encampment of the GrapJ Army of the Republic and the celebration of its silver anniversary formally opened 'in Detroit, Mich., witn the grand parade. Special trains bringing State delegations from all parte of the country poured into tfcje city throughout the night and early morn ing. Others brought visitors not officially identified with the encampment by the tens of thousands, and at ten o’clock that morn ihg the streets in the center of the city were almost Impassable. The head of the procession move! at eleven o’clock, and both in numbers and equipment the parade was one of the most magnificent ever made by the Grand Army. , Most of the veterans wore very handsome uniforms, and there was no end of naval fea tures. Between 30,000 and 40,000 men were in the parade. Enthusiastically the “vets” marched be neath tbe four great triumphal arches that. had been erected, now and again breaking out into a cheer, the applause being carried along the line until it seemed to end in a dis tant murmur. There were forty-seven divisions in th« parade, and it took two and a third houra for tho first four to pass a given spot. Estimates of men who galloped along the line and through the formation streets after the column had moved placed the men in line at nearly 50,000. It was noticeable that there were more crippled and otherwise dis abled veterans than have been at any pre vious encampment, many more gray head* and enfeebled frames. Every division waa replete with interesting features. The Philadelphia contingent, nearly 500' strong, carried umbrellas, each one painted 1 to represent a portion of the battle of Gettys burg. Sault Ste. Marie Post was also repre sented by a brigade, each umbrella being so painted that when combined they repre sented Lake Superior and the City of the Sea. A striking feature of the Michigan division was the fact that numbers of old battle flags were carried by the men who bore them du ring the war. Still another umbrella brigade was that of George H. Thomas Post No. 6, of Chicago. Their umbrellas were painted to represent a monster flag of tbe United States, covering the entire post and extending nearly two- squares. The Ohio division was very large and presented an imposing appearance. Among those upon the reviewing stand were General Veazy, Commander in Chief; Genera] Miles, of the Regular Army; ex- Governor Oglesby, of Illinois; Governor*-. Fifer, of Illinois; Campbell, of Ohio; Peck,' of Wisconsin; General Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin; Governor Winans, of Michigan: Mrs. John A. Logan and over a hundred others. INNOCENT VICTIM. Jack Marion Hanged for Killing a Man Who is Alive. A dispatch from Beatrice, Neb., saysi More than fifteen years ago “Jack” Marion and one Cameron set out together in a wagon on a trip, and were last seen at the Blua River, near here. A few days later the sup posed body of Cameron was found in the Blue River, and when it was discovered that Marion had been seen with Cameron’* team and goods in his possession he was sus pected of murdering his companion. He was not arrested until ten years afterward, and was tried several times, and finally exe cuted in March, 1887. William Wymore, an uncle of Marion, has always belived the latter innocent, and has at length proved it by finding Cameron auve in La Crosse, Kansas. Cameron had gone immediately to Mexico, thence to Alaska, after leaving Marion on the banks of the Blue River, and had returned from Alaska only a year ago. Hearing for tho first time of Marion’s execution, and fearing himself amenable to the law, he concealed his irlentity, but remorse caused him to re veal it. . He is fully identified. A RATTLESNAKE’S VICTIM! s HoerlDleOen4.il pt a Mam._Bjttenr by Reptile In New Jersey. William P. Elliott, of Branchville, N. J., died the other day from the effects of a rate tlesnake bite, which he received a week be fore. Elliott was picking berries, when h« suddenly heard the warning rattle, and the snake, tour feet long, sprang at him from beneath a low, hanging bush. It sunk ita fangs again and again in bis arm. Instead of sucking the poison from th« wound at once, Elliott tarried to kill the rep tile. By the time he got home his arm waa terribly inflamed and swollen. After lin gering in great agony for a week he died, tiiough every known medical aid to save him was administered. INDIA HUNGRY. Famine Extending in Two Districts, or the Madras Presidency. There has been no rainfall in the Chingle^ put and North Arcot districts in the Presi dency of Madras, India, and all hopes of averting a famine have been abandoned. | The heat is unprecedented. The standing; grain and other crops have succumbed to the long drought, and all are withered and burned. , Many deaths from starvation have been reported. , Horses, cows, donkeys and other live stock are dpng in large numbers everywhere in the districts. It is not only the poorer classes of tho population that are suffering. Many natives, of the high castes are making application to the authorities for relief to keep themselves and their families from starvation. 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