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* HUNDREDS XHLED. Terrible Resalts of a Hurricam at Martinique. Many Towns and Plantation* Laid in Ruins. Dispatches from St. Pierre, capital of th» island of Martinique, which has been visited by a terrible hurricane,‘show that 313 peo ple have been killed in the coast towns alone, the towns in the interior not having been heard from up to recent date. There is no doubt that the loss of life in the interior towns may have been as great, if not great er than in the coast towns. Consternation exists throughout the island. The roads leading into the interior have been rendered absolute impassable. These roads are blocked in some cases for several miles by fallen trees and displaced earth and rocks. Houses, crops and trees, from one end of Martinique to the other, have heem demoi- ished or flattened down beyond hope of re covery. The loss to the coffee and sugar planters will be very great. AtDuoosonly four houses remain standing. Of the inhabitants of Dncos, eighteen have been killed and a number are injured more or less severely. The troops at the disposal of the Governor and a large body of volunteers are busy succoring the injured and burying the dead. The physicians of the island hard ly had an hour’s rest for the first forty- eight hours following the hurricane’s pas sage, and citizens of all classes are doing their utmost to succor the sufferers and to repair, so far as possible, the damage done. At St. Pierre, according to the first re ports, there were five people killed. “But,” it was added, “it is feared that this number does not represent the entire loss of life in the capitalThis fear seems to have been well founded, for it is now announced that at least thirty-foui oeople lost their lives at St. Pierre The death list by towns as forwarded by Governor Casse up to date is as follows: St. Pierre, 34; Morne Rouge, 28; Ponds St. Denis. 7; Precheurs, 6; Car'oet, 4; St. Joseph, 20; Marin, 8; Vauchin, 10; La men- tin, 26; Francois, 22; Robert, 2S; Riviere Pilote, 7; miscellaneous, 18. These numbers do not include the deaths in isolated places, interior towns, or upon plantations with which no communication can be had at present. Perhaps a rough e.=> timate of 300 killed and 1000 injured will about cover the ground. The wounded re ceived their in juries from falling buildings or falling trees. Of course, much suffering among the poor ha* resulted. The majority of the inhabi tants of Martinique are practically without any shelter but that afforded by the tempo- rary huts which they have erected upon or near the spots where their homes recently stood. The Governor and the colonial au thorities are doing everything possible to relieve the sufferers. Martinique, one of the French West India Islands, is about thirty miles southwest of Dominica. It is forty-five miles long and from ten to fifteen miles broad. It is irregu lar in outline, and has an area of 3S3 square miles, with a population of over 161,002, mostly blacks. There are six extinct vol canoes on the island. PROMINENT PEOPLE, / The King of Sweden is a great swimmer. / Senator Plumb, of Kansas, is an enthusi astic bowler. Bismarck pockets $1000 a week as the profits of his bttle poultry business. Ex-Empress Eugenis, widow of Napoleon HI., has failed visibly during the last few months. Governor Francis,of Missouri.has within the last ten years amassed a fortune of $1,000,000 by judicious and lucky invest ments. Fully$600.000 has been spent on the Em press of Austria’s new palace at Corfu. The wood-carving alone in one suit of rooms cost $15,000. " TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. President Harrison on his way fron Cape May to attend the centennial exercise* at Bennington, Vt., made short addresses at Kingston, Newburg, and Albany, N. Y. Charles Lawrence, ex-Assistant Cash ier of the broken Keystene Bank, of Phila delphia, found guilty of conspiracy and mak ing false entries, has been sent to prison for seven years. . The Pennsylvania Republican Conven tion at Harrisburg nominated General David M. Gregg for Au litor General, and Captain John \V. Morrison for Treasurer. The steamship Teutonic, of the White Star line, arrived at New York from Queenstown, having made the voyage in five days, sixteen hours and thirty-two min utes, breaking the record held by the Majes tic since August 5. Flames in a lumber yard and a manufac turing establishment in New York caused a loss of $200,000. C. Almy, the farm hand who slew his employer’s daughter. Miss Christie War den. at Hanover, N. H., a few weeks ago, was discovered in Mr, Warden’s barn and Oaptured after a desperate resistance, during which he wounded one man and was shot twice himself. After the centennial exercises at Ben nington, President Harrison proceeded to Mt. McGregor, N. Y., where a dinner in his honor was given by ex-Senator Arkell. The President also visited the cottage occupied at Mt- McGregor by General Grant during his last illness. From Mt. McGregor the President went to Saratoga. Kate and Mary Walton, sisters, aged nineteen and twenty-two, belonging in Dorchester, Mass., were drowned in South Boston Bay on their return from a moon light yachting cruise. Five men were injured by an explosion of dynamite in a stone quarry at Howellsville, Penn. General W. L. Bragg, Interstate Com merce Commissioner, died at Avon-by-the- Sea, N. J. He was born in Alabama in 1838,and was appointed Interstate Commerce Commissioner by President Cleveland in A great throng of people listened to an address by President Harrison at Saratoga. After the address the President held a recep tion on the piazza of the Grand Union Hotel. South anti West. While bathing in the Red River neat Grand Forks, N, D., the Rev. William T. Currie, rector of St. Paul’s - Episcopal Church, Miss Ruth Currie, his daughter, aged thirteen, and Mrs. Dora Van Kirk’ were all drowned. Michael Ahern, of Murray,Iowa,shot his fourteeu-year-old daughter tor interfering in a quarrel between father and mother. Farmers have established a shot-gun quarantine over the “Blue Bottoms’’ Dis trict, near Independence, Mo., where there ire twenty-five cases of smallpox. A fire at Waco, Texas, destroyed a dry- goods and a house furnishing establishment, causing a total loss of $150,000. Three young lady artists were drowned by the upsetting cf a boat in the Ohio River opposite Cincinnati. One hundred pieces of skin hare been grafted on the body of William Shaw, who was scalded at the Standard Oil Refinery iu Lima, Ohio, on July 4. Mrs. Dickinson, unable to obtain a di vorce from her husband, drowned herself and her fourteen-year-old daughter in a lake near New Auburn, Minn. A freight train was wrecked near Cleve land station in Mississippi by running over a bull. A brakeman and two tramps who were stealing a ride were killed, and fifteen cars were derailed. The American Wheel Company of Chi cago, 111., has been declared insolvent. The ag^eteare $M°3,000 and the liabilities fl,- 500,000. - -*.4*-• >■*. ■- -r Two masked robbers held up a freight train near Kansas City, and, after robbing the conductor, shot the brakeman dead. Edward Blair was hanged at Columbus, Uhio, for the murder of Arthur Henry. George Hamilton, of Ironton/Ohio, went out with his wife to make_a_calL anc VER1DHK CENTENNIAL. Dedicating a Battle Monnment at Bennington. Many Noted People Participate in the Ceremonies. The centennial observance of the admis- «ion of Vermont into the Union and the de dication of the tattle monument, held in historic Bennington the other day, was the most notable and successful celebration that ever occurred in the Green Mountain State. The celebration was signalized bj the pres ence at Bennington of President Harrison and members of his Cabinet, Senators and Congressmen, and the Governors of Massa chusetts and New Hampshire, and many prominent men from other States. There were also in attendance military and civic organ izations from sister States, who came to join in this dual celebration. The day was a charming one, and many thousand visitors participated in the ceremonies and exeivises of the day. The decorations were lavish iu the extreme, flags and bunting being dis played on e$ery building. BENNINGTON’S BATTLE MONUMENT. Early in the morning Colonel W, Sewaril Webb, accompanied by a mounted Grj Army post, escorted President Hail from Gen. McCullough’s house t<^ diers’ Home, where Governor' all the living ex-Goverj State were waiting The President ali.^ carriage, and was escoij where he remained was introduced to the He then resumed his plal which, with the other v| places in the line. - At 9 o’clock the guns boomed the signal for the : Ions. The column, except on the parade ground, ar getting into position, so t| Before the procession move nam Phalanx of Hartford it honor as escort to the a score of carriages fol taining the distinguished camp grounds, where Home is situated and where 1 . National Guard had been in ca eral days, was filled with peol procession moved. The Preside nat in salute to every manifest! plause, and to keep the fierce rays^ from bis head Colonel Webb held an brella over him The column moved through Nortfc^ Ga^e, Bafford, and Main streets to the ^-nawing^ stand. Here a short halt was ma<je.''"jLbe*" column then passed in reyjswfcefore Presi dent Harrison, afld -continued its march ►brough Maiir' street and Monu ment avenue to the massive and lofty pillar ..which commemorates the battle of Bennington. Here the first di vision, except batteries, was massed on tfie west side of the monument; the second and third divisions, except carriages, on the east side. The batteries then took positions and fired a national salute of twentv-oi Met Is plain! The fij meat of them of Massa< mont. 1 room con placed th ciety, the corner st lows and W' Mof.e make an visible seven miles away. _ room in the monn- atains four tablets three ■cribed respectively to the States isetts, New Hampshire- and Ver- fourth is blank. The outlook ins four historic granite tablets, e by the Vermont Historical So- lasonic Fraternitv, which laid the e in 18S7, the Order of Odd Fe!- e Grand Army of the Republic. RAMAY DISASTER A Paris Express Runs Into a Swiss Excursion Train. ILL’S FAIR NOTES. k n $5,000,000 of Exposition wort is now ci reacted for and is in progress. -Mass* husetts will devote $10,000 to it.* educatioi i\ exhibit. The State’s entire ap propriat: n i s $75,000. The tan of Zanzibar has decided tc xtensive exhibit, and a request foi space has <een cabled. •tUATE gold for i 820,000 a. ala has appropriated $100,000 in 5 exhibit at the Exposition, and litional for its building. Lettei i received by the Latin-American it of the Exposition indicate that omen will take a prominent place rid’s Fair. Departm Mexican at the W The Ai| circu.ar u •States to f American It is re Emperor cf Persia the Wort A MOVE Sons oi th October 1] world each The man] tion at Che! allow than: ■/pient has issued a strong l ,y architect iu the United "O/ assist in the exhibit of Wpjure. iu*:' the Prince of Wales, M Germany, ani the Shah usly contemplate visiting fpa 1893. HU s been inaugurated by the dtion in New York to have eiebrated throughout the as “Discovery Day.” • of the great naval exhibi- England. have consented to 7. of Nelson’s ship, the Victory, to be trans»rred to the Columbian Exposi tion. * fi he SllMo.X) painting of Christopher Coiumbus, Piecuted by the famous More in 154 J, and pnrehased in London by Charles F. Gunt .er, h.$s arrived at the Custom House in ChicugoJand will be displayed at the r aii*. E The photi«yaphers of the country want a separate at the Exposition, adapte l to a photographic exhibit co - e cted world. A committee confer with the Ex- ithe subject. Fe a tribe of African pig- the Exposition is pretty I.cceed. Tippoo Tib has given his 'theconsent of the King of Bel li also is necessary, can easily be Tis believed, through the State itorial Convention of the Liberal ,h has voted to request the Leg- ppropriate not less than $100,059 ritory’s representation at the It is reported that the Demo- epublican conventions are cer- Isimilar action. nt H. R. Lemly, the Special r of the Exposition at Colorn- that a typical orchestra from consisting of ten musicians, f native instruments, which are pf any other people, has been It will appear at Chicago dur ition in connection with the he Republic of Colombia. ition European Commission, :srs. Butterworth, Handy, dsay and Peck, is receiving attention in European capitals tes, and everywhere exceptional e been extended. The Com g a wonderful amount of good Id fTfiTBMHtion in arousing interest abroad md insuru^ extensive participation by foreign nations. has received a letter from frank Mason, at Frankfort- says he has recently !d town St. Die, in e was published the ia Introductio,” the book irica its name. He says he is manuscripts in relation fry of America and other nd will show thorn at the Chief Fe'rn Consul-General an-Main. He visited the France, whei the “Cosmogra which gave Ai collecting rar to the discov valuably felics. Exposition. Eugene and Champion, of Neuilly- d Efipcs of ExposrEu er, dynamite, nor other ex- jis used in producing the Anroperator sits at an in- ~ting like a piano and by I the keys produces designs fashion. The whole ma- electncity.’ feature of the dedication 892 is to be an important H0,000 soldiers will partici- ' the National Guard who baor to take part will be rom the different States— fcown that they excel in ig and drill. Competitive line which companies shall great event will probably be ry State having a National W. E. Saffop.d, U. S. N., ■issioner of the World’s Fair to i*ia, has secured for the Latiu- irtmeut of the Exposition five ceremonial dresses of the iparros Indians. One of the lies is reported to surpass any Sf savage tribes yet discovered, lauty and lovely contrasts of two Zaparrcs costumes are lau hair, and are ornamented ‘ designs. rs are to be permitted within grounds. The Directory has Lie entrance fee shall entitle the everything within the enclos i be, however, several theatres pt running, at which the finest world, it is expected, will ap- itors who choose to attend the Is will have to pay an admission Ights as “A Street in Cairo,” will latives of oriental countries in a be allowed to charge a small t performances of a theatrical ^resting relics from Saa Do le Columbus landed have been (the Washington office of the for- 1 department of the exposition, kluable of these relics and the [ting, perhaps, is the first church • rang out in the New World, jted to the colonists of the first If Sail Domingo by Queen Isa- Ireciation of the fact that the Lent bore her name. There is lact reproduction of the cross J inbus raised immediately upon ■he material of the cross is the |y as that which Columbus nailed \been taken from the wood of a iu 1509. WORK IN CHILI, of People Killed in la—The Governor's Fate. iox, a native of Chili, whose father 3, tus just reached San Francisco ia. Chili. He bad been working i the nitrate docks at that place, was discharged with 5000 other miners. He was an eye-witness Ire of the city by Balmaceda’s the ferocious punisUment inflicted I opposed the Dictator. Governor who had been driven from the | insurgents, returned witn Baltna- liers and wreaked his vengence on fo had conspired against him. Ex- i became so "common that they ex- Itao notice. Although people were kg in the streets, none dared complain governor’s action in 1 ocking up grain, w miners came iu one day from the pins, and when they failed to get sup- packed the Governor’s house with cob- He ordered the troops to tire on [and twenty-five persons, mostly Id children, were killed. Jthe citv was bombarded by the . Out of 300 troops only twenty when the tiring ceased, and the F mg the inhabitants were terrible. Valenzula was made a prisoner and rd a war vessel which steamed harbor. When it returned the r was missing, but it was reported »d been cast overboard as food for es the new State of Washington i. A Seattle paper mentions a i which is eight and one-half feet Near Stan wood there is a • enteen feet in diameter, thirty- from the roots and twelve feet In 2 feet from the roots. Nooksack 1 twelve feet in diameter. Fourteen Persons Killed and Many More Injured. The people of Switzerland have hardly re covered from the railroad scare caused by the disaster at Moenchenstein in June, by which more than 130 persons on an excur sion train lost their lives and about 300 were injured, when they have been again startled by another wholesale loss of life. from a railroad acci dent. This last disaster has occurred on the Jura-Simplon Railroad lines near the village of Zollikofen, not far from Berne, and re sulted in the death of fourteen persons and the serious injury of twenty-four others. The victims were all Swiss peasants. A special train, carrying a large number of pleasure seekers from the country, was on its way to Berne, the passengers intending to take part in the fetes in progress there and elsewhere throughout Switzerland. The train was stopped at Zollikofen in order to enable it to be shunted into a siding, so as to let the Paris express pass it. By some gross negligence, apparentlv. upon the part of the railroad officials, tBe Paris train, loaded with foreign trav elers, was not warned to look out for the excursion train while passing Zolli kofen, and the result was that the express dashed into the special train. Luckily, the engineer of the express had caught sight of the excursion train in time to put down the brakes, so the damage done and the loss of life were not so great as they might have been. As it was, the engine of the express almost entirely de molished the empty guards’ van at the rear of the excursion train, and then crashed into the rear passenger car, wrecking it and causing considerable loss of life. The recent holiday traffic has thrown un usually heavy burdens upon all the railroads centering in Berne. The excursion train was partly composed of baggage vans, tem porarily converted into passenger carriages. The line was blocked by other excursion trains in advance, and an other excursion was coupled to the Paris ex press. A curve in the line prevented the engineer of the express from seeing the danger ahead, but the passengers of the ex cursion train heard the express approaching, and many jumped out, ail the occupants of the open goods wagons escaping in this way almost unhurt. A special train carrying wrecking appli ances, doctors and nurses from the hospi tals, together with a detachment of engineers, was sent to the scene of the accident. Surgical operations resulting in the loss of limbs were necessary to save the lives of most of the twenty-four persons seriously injured. Thirty other passengers received more or less severe wounds or bruises. All the passengers on the Paris ex press escaped with only slight bruises. The bodies of the dead were carried to the waiting-room of the railroad station at Zol- likofen, and were there laid in rows while awaiting identification. Many of the dead were so terribly mutilated as to be practi cally beyond recognition. The injured were attended to by the relief corps sent to the scene from Berne. Those of the injured who were iu a condition to be removed have been taken to the hospitals in Berne; others are being nurssd near the scene of the disaster. THE LABOR WORLD. The, ap-operative foundry failed after an existence of twenty- mployers are obseiving the ; the payment of wages every Indianapolis talks of a labor hall. New York has 60,000 night workers. The flint glass workers have $500,000. New York has an Italian cloak-makers’ union. London button-hole makers get thirty-five cents a day. The English Trades Union Congress has 700,000 members. New York u'q^n launj^iworkers want the Chii )nI/T one person in ItoumnighiOu earns' more than $5 per weekp New York letter-carriers want to be re tired on half pay after twenty years^service. A State convention of typographical ijnions is to be held at Syracuse N. Y.; on October 6. at Somerset, mwt" - 1dm* years. Missouri em law compelling two weeks. There are at present over 1301 papers in this county devoted to the Labor and the Farmers’ movement. The receipts on the street cars ia New York City average about $20 per day, while the actual cost is about $6. .Municipal markets where meat is for sale at cost to the citizens having paid up their taxes for the year have been established at San Cristobal and Tres Equinas, Argentine Republic. The Brotherhood of Machinists,comprising branches in Pittsburg and Beaver Falls, Penn., and Youngstown, Ohio,have amalga mated with the International Association o. Machinists. Out of 114" strikes in England last year, in which 344,840 people took part, 478 were successful, 207 were failures and ninety-four were undecidel. The average duration of strikes was eighteen days. At the thirteenth congress of the New Jer- sey Federation of Trades, held in Paterson, a resolution to petition the Legislature to ap propriate an additional $2000 per year to the State Labor bill for the purpose of securing more definite statistics, and various recom mendations were adopted. Wood-working machines have caused twenty-six fatal accidents in Ohio last year, while 159 persons were disabled by machines, causing a total loss of wages of $10,820.25. The report of the State Factory Inspector says that wood-working machines are more dangerous to life and limbs of workmen than any other machines. Statistical comparisons show that wages are independent of the form of government. Mexico, a Republic, Malta and Ceylon, un der British rule, Algiers and Tunis, Freuch dependencies, pay less than Russia or Spain. The Anglo-Saxon pays more than the Ger man, the German more than the Latin, the Latin more than the Semitic and the Semitic more than the Malay and Mongolian. The highest average wages are paid In the Aus tralian colonies, and the highest iu the United States at Sau Francisco. THE NATIONAL GAME. The New York and Pennsylvania Base ball Leagne has disbanded. The Chicago Club has signtd Vickery ani Shriver, the battery of the Milwaukee Club. Hanlon, of tbe Pittsburgs. has made on an average more than one hit a game this season. The New York Ciub has signed Arthur Clarkson to pitch. He is a brother of John Clarkson, the Boston pitcher. Nichol, of the Bostons, has won seven consecutive victories from Pittsburg this season and none from the Chicagos. Captain Anson, of Chicago, is showing hie coits that he knows how to play baseball as well as tell how it ought to be played. Captain Ewing has only played in ten games, but he leads the New York team in batting averages in spite of his “glass’’ arm. Nicoll, the boy pitcher of the Chicago nine, has a remarkably effective incurve, which not only deceives the batsman but the umpire as well. Richardson, of the New Yorks, now has the record for a single nine inning game ou second base. He accepted thirteen plays without an error. I Dell Darlikg. who signed with St. Louis j a few days ago, was under Comiskey’s management last season aui was for several years with Anson’s team. McAleer and Davis; who guard left and centre field, respectively, for the Cleveland team, work together better than any other outfielders in the League. Veteran George Wright, the “kin» of shortstops” in his day, thinks that the Bos ton Association team can outplay any other team in the League or the Association. Pitcher Inks, who the Pittsburgs secured from the Duluth Club, is a left-handed twirier. He was with the Chicagos a part of last season, but has since improved remark ably. Pitcher Gleason, of Philadelphia, al ways feels sore after every defeat, and in variably wants to go in the box the next day in order to “get square” with his oppo nents. Zimmer, who has been back stop in about ninety games played by the Cleveland team this year, is trying to equal his record of last year, when he caught in 115 consecutive games, a feat unequalled in the history of baeebal). The latest “deal” in baseball is the aban donment of Cincinnati by the American As sociation and the substitution of Milwaukee. Some of the Cincinnati Club’s players went to Milwaukee. Captain Kelly goes to the Boston Association Club. “Harry” Wright has some unique ideas about handling his pitchers. He makes all of them put the ball over the plate and in veighs against bases on balls. Fie insists upon speed and makes a particular point about watching base runners. Statistics of the field work done by the League players in the various positions uo to recent date show that Buckley, of New 1 ork, leads the catchers; Reilly, of Cincin nati, the first basemen; McPhee, of Cincin nati. the second basemen; Bassett, of New York, third basemen; Glasscock, of New York, shortstops: McAleer, of Cleveland, leftfielders; Griffin, of Brooklyn, centre- fielders; Thompson, of Philadelphia, right- fielders, and Rusie, of New York, the pitch ers. national league record. Dst I Fer ITon. Lo»f. rf. ITon.Lo»f. rt. Chicago...61 39 .610 Brooklyn..46 49 .484 Boston....56 40 .583!Cleveland.46 54 .460 New York.53 38 .5S2,Cincin’ati..39 60 .394 Philadel...50 47 . 515;Pittsburg..37 61 .378 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD. Per 1 /’er ITon. Loaf. <*£.1 ITon.Losf. ct Boston....71 32 .6891Columbus.48 58 .463 at. Louis..68 38 .642 Milw’kee. .45 57 .441 Baltimore.55 44 . c 50 Louisville..37 70 .346 Athletic,. .52 48 .520] Wash’gt’n.33 64 .340 HEWSY GLEANINGS. China is to have flour mills. Illinois leads in railroad mileage. The world has 335 electric railroads. _ Ore railronrU employ 3,000,000 people. Chicago’s Mas .mid Temple win ds aCfcTeet" high. Missouri has the biggest fruit farm— 2900 acres. More than $2,000,000,000 are investel in various trusts. Wheat is bought in San Francisco for shipment to Australia. A mountain of coal in Wyoming has been burning for thirty years. In twenty years there has been no counter- feilmg of American postage stamps. Some of the peach trees in Georgia are already bearing a second crop of fruit. Strawberries grow in the greatest pro fusion ij^Alsska, and now is the time for them. iLLiNOjk^mcs to the front again with a flying ijchiuS^ This time it is called a sky- bicycle. One Iuns, e r m : *1\in the Ht ite of Washing ton turned out iiV 1H90, to' v 000,000 feet of lumber. The watermeim Georgia has been ove change their crops. Some parcels of ianl own<.q by the cv-own on Pall Mall, London, “•‘Id at a v tion of $2,590,090 an acres Records for the last sixNi lor J l h5 show ME WORLD’S GRAIN. Conditions Which Promise to Enrich- the American Farmer. If the American farmer knows how to* seize the opportunity, saya a cable dispatch ,rom Paris to the New York Herald, his- money bags will this year be filled to burst ing. Rarely has an opportunity more golden been within his grasp than is held forth by the condition of the crops in Europe, This was the impression received by a Herald correspondent from a conversa tion with United States Senator William D, Washburn, of Minnesota, who has during an extended tour iu Europa collected valua ble information from strictly reliable sources regarding the condition of the crops. Senator Washburn said the prospect was there would this year be a surplus of two million bushels of wheat in the States. To all appearances Europa would want every grain of it. After a trip to the North Cape, I went from Stock holm to St. Petersburg, through Russia to Moscow, with the view of ascertain-! ing by personal observation and inquiry the real condition of the crops of wheat, rye and small grain in Russia. They are, if not ab solutely a failure, the very next thing to it; in fact, they are so short the Government* has been obliged to take steps to prevent ex« porta tion. “That this is a grave condition of things is evident from the fact that the Muscovite is not in the habit of doing anything until the trouble is right on him. The ukase just published forbidding the exportation of rye is a mere measure for self-protectidn, even of self-preservation. There is absolutely no ground for the statement made by the Ber-^: Kn press that hostility to Germany was the raison d’etre of the ukase. “Owing to the ukase great anxiety pre vails in Norway and Sweden, which depend for their bread upon the rye from Russia. Norway and Sweden will have to import wheat from the States. From Russia I went to Buda-Pesth, which is the largest milling centre in the world after Minneapolis, then to Viennn. All the authori ties I consulted were unanimous in cstima^ ing the crops of Austria-Hungary at thirty per cent, less this year than last. In Germany the shortage ia less; it probably will not exceed 15 per cent. With respect to France I have not yet been able to obtain reliable official information, but I understand it will be safe to say that this country will have to import about half its consumption. “I don’t taink the short crops «£ Europa will result in any great ‘corner’ in the States, but 1 believe it will create a tendency among farmers to hold their crops. To my mind it will not be possible to organize such a general plan of campaign as was suggested in the wheat circulars sent out by the Farmers’ Alliance people, but the effect of those circulars will undoubtedly bd to teach growers not to pile their wheat on the market as they have hitherto done. “Is there any chance of a bread fam ine?” “Well, the crops in the States were never so large as this year, especially in wheat and I think we can take care of the rest of the world. Of course the rest of the world will have to pay for it.” ss in southwestern one, anaVany will fac. ories and 1 ^me of 3 US l guf- RAIN MADE TO ORDER, Further Exi»eJ*nents in Texas Prove Successful. General Dyrenforth’s rain producers, who were sent to Texas by the United States Department of Agriculture to see if they could not draw some moisture from a cloul less sky, have male some very^ suc cessful * experiments on the Nelson Morris ranch, about twenty-five miles north west of Midland. They sent off a large bal loon filled with hydrogen gas, ani when it was at an altitude of one and one-quarter miles they exploded it by an electric wire. A few minutes afterward they exploded a great quantity of rendrock powder over about two miles of ground, and also a quantity of dvnamite attached to the tails of kites flying 1000 feet high. The result was that it began to rain immediately, and at every explosion the rainfall perceptibly increase 1. It con tinued raining for over four hours. Next day they exoiodei soma more kites an 1 powder an i brought ou another shower. People from all over the Western country gatnered to see toe rain made to order, and the farmers took a tremendous interest in the work of the expedition. Ten Chinamen were arrested on Whidby Island, near Port Townsend, Washington, and taken before a United States Commis sioner, wuo ordered them returned to China. The Chinamen were found scattered about the Island, working on farms leased by Chi nese farmers. The report of the Commissioner of Labor of Massachusetts shows that sixty-six per cent, of the persons employed in manu facturing and mechanical industries in that State earn less than $1.09 a day. This in cludes both sex-38. « investment of $11,500,000 i: railroads in South Carolina. Short crops are reported fr the Mexican States, and the poor fer intensely in consequence. Fortv steamships have been chartei'fid .\t Baltimore to load grain for ports of the United Kingdom before October. A swordfish that weighed 880 pounds was caught by Ueorge Wakefield, who keeps the Cape Porpoise lighthouse in Maine. There has been an increase of 20,000 in the number of United States pcstoffices during the past year. They now number 64,3Q|. It is expected that 500,000 bushels of wheat will be harvested from the Dairym- ple farm, near Casseltown, North Dakota. The 46,000 oil wells in this country pro duce 130,000 barrels of oil a day. The capi tal invested in this interest amounts to $120,- 000,000. The National debt of Germany, which is much smaller than that of any other great country in the world, is, in round figure?, ^95,000,000. The limited mail on the Pennsylvania line between Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Ind., is soon to be the fastest railroad train in America. About half the railroad which is to con nect Jaffa with Jerusalem has been com pleted. The remainder will be finished within a year. Mr. Ingham, of Montreal, who experts annually to Europe, mainly to England, 50,000 dead cattle, is said to be the largest exporter of American meats. A woman ordered $5500 worth of dia monds from a jewelry house in Denver, and when the cierk deli v ered them at the hotel she gave him drugged wine and decamped with the plunder. A shark nearly twenty-four feet in length was recently caught in the harbor of Pan ama. The skin was about half an inch thick. It was captured by a harpoon thrown from a steamer, and the vessel was turned com pletely round by the powerful fish when first made fast. WORK OF CLOUDBURSTS. Many Persons Drowned in tnstria— 10,000 People Drenched in Wales. A dispatch from Botz?n,au Austrian town at the confluence of the Talfer and the Eisacb, announced the parti.il destruction of the village of Kollman through a cloudburst. The clou I burst over the mountains near Botzen, which is protected from inundations by a strong dyke two miles in length. Tue fall of water flooded the lowlands and converted a monntain stream into a torrent, which swept through the village of Kollman, carrying away men and cattle, an l destroying half the houses of that place. Miuy persons were drowned and the Bremer railroad track was flooded. A desnatch from Swansea, Wales, brings news of the soaking, by a clou 1 burst, of 10,009 persons who had assembled there at the National Eisteddfoj. Tr and about au inn -<^»vered wU»r^«ianv| mat-ed to have amounreu to over ten tnou- sand persons, hal assembled to listen to the Eisteddfod competitions or competitions in Welsh minstrelsy. The weather, during the early part of the day, had bean fine. Sud denly the wind increased in violence and a black cloud swept over the place. With a sullen report the canvas covering over the pavilion was torn asunder by the force of the wind, and almost at the same moment the huge cloud burst aud deluged 10,000 people with water until they were literally soaked to the skin. A stampede followed the carrying away of the canvas roof and the drenching downpour, men, women ani children run ning, helter-skelter, for any place of refuge available. Many were knocked down and trampled upon during this wild rush for shelter, but nobody was seriously injured. FORGED OVER A PRECIPICE. Two .Soldiers KilleU and Ten Seri ously Injured In Hungary. A singular accident occurred to a regiment of soldiers while they were on the inarch near Temesvar, Hungary. The road passed close to a precipice, and owing to some dis order in the ranks the flies nearest the edge were forced over the brink, seventeen of Xem falling a considerable distance. Two onUiem were killed and ten seriously in jur?* Prudent Polk, of the National Alli ance, attending a meeting of the Vir ginia State Alliance, at Richmond, said: “The National Alliance has over 3,000,000 lembers aiSl is growing rapidlv. It i$' k e strongest ih the Southern and North-' States^%id is increasing at a rapi;; in California^Oregon, Washington an oth3fcgxtreme WesHrn States.” The ^keat harvest 1^n progress in Cali fornia. ^hbulk and valOl it will be one of the most it^ortant harve\pf recant years. •20 @ 5 50 © 6 00 ^ 1 12% 7ft 92 EIGHT MINERS KILLED. I rightful Result of an Explosion oi Giant Powder. Two hundred pounds of giant powder ex pio led at the mouth of the lower tuanel ol the Black Bear mine, Burke, Idaho. Four men were imprisoned at the breast oi the drift by a rack aud were suffocated. The bodies of four other miners are not yet found, but all hope of finding them alive has been given up and it is feared that they were blown to piece*. The explosion was terrific, tearing ■ip earth and caving in the tunnel for a dis- tancjof 100 feet. A rescuing party recov- ered the bodies of G. McNeill, general manager; Peter Jense, assistant man ager; Robert Blackburn and John Barrows, miners. 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