The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, September 04, 1891, Image 2
* 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.
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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. Their bodies were found 150 feet
from the mouth of tbe tunnel, smothered by
gas from the explosion. A short time before
relief came a voice was heard by the men
outside saying, “For God’s sake, hurry up.”
MARKET
34 YORK. _
Beeves 3 5aV® 6 25
Milch Cows, com. t^wpod.. .25 00 ’w45 00
Calves, common to pntoe... 3 00 25
Sheep 4 00
Lambs 4
Hogs—Live 5 70
Dressed
Flour—City Mill Extra
Patents 5
Wheat—No. 2 Red 1
Rye—State
Barley—Two-rowed State...
Corn—Ungraded Mixed 73 & 82
Cats—No. 1 White — @45
Mixed Western 38 @ 37
Hay—Fair to Good 65 @ 70
Straw—Long Rye 00 @ 65
Lard—City Steam 6.25 @ 6.30.
Butter—State Creamery.... 18 @ 22
Dairy, fair to good. 15 @ 19
West. 1m. Creamery 12 @ 17-
Factory 11 @ 14)
Cheese—State Factory 9)
Skims—Light. 8 (5}
Western fi%@
Eggs—State aud Penn 17 ($
buffalo. /
Steers—Western 2 00 @ 3 00'j
Sheep—Medium to Good.... 4 00 @ 4 85
Lambs—Fair to Good 4 25 @ 5 75
Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks 5 80 @ 5 85
Flour—Winter Patent 4 90 @ 5 25 ^
Wheat—No. 1 Northern..... 1 13K@ 1 1*^
Corn—No. 2, Yellow 72
Oats—No. 2, White....... •
Barley—No. 2 Canada
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Seeds—Timothy^ Northern.. 2 00
Clover, N orthern.... 10
Hay—Fair 14 00
Straw—Good to Prime —
Butter—First*,..... 15
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef—Dressed weight
Sheep—Live weight
Lamos
Hogs—Northern .
PHILADELPP.IA.
Flour—Penn, family 4 90
Wheat—No. 2 Red. Aug...
Corn—No. 2 Mixed^ Aug....
Oat*—Ungraded W bite....
Potatoes :
Putter—Creamery Extra..
Cheese—Part skims
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