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m PENSION FIGOBIS. The Commissioner’s Annual Be* port to Secretary Noble. About 30,000 Names Added tc the Bolls Each Month. The annual report of Commissioner Raum the Pension Bureau, just submitted to the Secretary of the Interior shows that on Jane 30, 1891, there were 676,180 pensioners home upon the rolls of the Bureau, being 138.216 more than were carried on the rolls at the close of the last fiscal year. They are classified as follows: Widows and daughters of Be volutions tv soldiers, 23^ Army invalid pensioners. 413,597; Army widows, minor children, etc., 108,537; Navy invalid pen sioners. 5449; Navy widows, minor children, etc, 2568; survivors of the War of 1812, 7500; survivors of the Mexican War, 16.379; widows of soldiers of the Mexican War, 6976. Following are the number of pen- rafoos of the several classes granted under the Act of June 27, 1890; Army inva lid pensioners, 97,131; Army widows, minor children, etc-, 12,209; Navy invalid pension ers, 3976, Navy widows, minor children, ate., 1433. During the last fiscal year first payments were paid uoon 131,160 original ■claims, requiring 331,391,538 for their pay ment. This is an increase in the number of oriemal payments over the year 1893 of 64.532. The aggregate cost, however, was $1,- 067.302 less. There are 222,531 first payments of every rdaacription, requiring 838,552.274. The ag gregate annual value of the 670.163 pensions on the roll June 31, 1891, was $89,247,200, and the average annual value of each pension was SI 39 .99. and the average annual value of each pension under the act of July 27, 1890. was S12L51. There will be a deficiency in the appropriation for the payment of fees and expenses of examining surgeons of about The total amount disbursed on account of pensions, expenses, etc., during the fiscal ▼ear, was $118,543,959.71, as compared with 9106,493,890.19 disbursed during the preced ing fiscal year; so that it appears that 138,216 pensions were added to the rolls during the jkcal year just closed, at an increased cost to the nation of $12,055,069 as compared with -the expenditures for the previous fiscal year. 'Pensions were granted m each of the last Jour years as follows: 188S. 13,173; 18S9, 145.298; 1890, 151,658; 1891, 250.565. It has been a prime object, says the Com missioner, to put as many cases as possible in train for completion. With this end in view, 603,641 orders were made for medical examinations, and 474,680 medical certificates of examinations have actually been received. The remarkable fact is disclosed that fifty 'Certificates were issued to men who served from 161 to 476 months. It also appears that of the 71,004 persons to whom pensions were granted under tbs Act of June 27, 1890, 1163 were issued to soldiers who served six months and under; 26,099 to persons who aarved a year or under, and 44.!f05 to persons who served thirteen months and over, and and that the largest number of certificates issued to any class was 4593 to men who ■erved thirty-six months. The age of the greatest number of pensioners under both the old aud new law was forty-seven years. Daring the last year 20,525 pensioners were dropped from the rolls for various causes, and of this number 13,229 were dropped by reason of death. It is estimated that 1,004,- 658 soldiers were killed in battle or died dur ing and since the war. ( On June 30 last 124,- 750 of these dead soldiers were represented on the pension rolls by their widows or other dependents. There are about 1.208,707 soldiers of the Union now living, and of tbs survivors 530,158 are now on the pension rolls. There are, therefore, 688,549 survivors who are not pensioned and 879,908 dead soldiers not represented ou the pension rolls. In concluding his report the Commissioner says that on au average about 30,000 pension certificates are being issued each month, and that during the current year he expects that aa many as 350,000 claims will be adjudi cated, for which he believes the present ap propriation of $133,473,035 will be amply snflictent. A WAlfc STREET SENS^jTQ] ^‘JJeifcCou” White Tries to Corner the Corn Crop and Becomes Bankrupt. EL V. White & Co., regarded as one of the ■Strongest firms on the New York Stock Ex change, made an assignment to Charles W, Gould, of No. 2 Wall street. Mr. White has been recognized as a power in the financial rid for the past twenty years, and his as- imeut created a genuine sensation on the cause of the firm’s embarrassment was a gigantic speculation in corn engi neered by the head of the house. He tried to corner the country’s supply of the grain jp^J^eptember and October delivery and The enormous crop interfered. His lia bilities are estimated at from a million and a half to two millions. He began his purchases when the price of September corn was fifty cents. He con- tinned buying until he ownel 10,009,000 bushels. The average price paid for the corn was sixty cents, and at one time Mr. White had a paper profit of $1,000,000 on bis deal. Two weeks before he failed the r ee for September was seventy cents. But was a great load to carry, especially as there were indications that the Chicago gamblers would break their necks or prevent firTWhite from unloading. A clique met daily in Chicago at the Calumet Club to de vise means of downing Mr. White. The continued heavy receipts of corn at Chicago from all centres materially assisted them. Even the most secret steps on his part toward unloading some of his corn were detected and the clique, aided by the big receipts, smashed down the market. The receipts continued, .nrl the attitude of the Chicago clique be came so pronounced that it was apparent that Mr. White could not withstand the forces against him. The Septamber option declined to 52V, L)f the 10,000,000 bushels he still held 8,000,003 bushels, and on roost of this heavy advances had been made by the New York banks. With the declin ing market the banks refusea further loans, and there was nothing to do but for Mr. White to make an assignment. Ho tersely - pot the situation thus; “I have been largely long of corn, and in dosing it out the depreciation, with the calls for margins, which were unusually heavy, exhausted my resources, aud there was notning left but to stop and as- **k n - ’ , , , Mr. White's chief trouble seemed to be that he based his operations on the visible supplr and aid not sufficiently regard the supplies that were kept back by the farmers. WILLIAM L. SCOTT DEAD. Tlic Pennsylvania. Millionaire Ex pires Suddenly at Newport, R. 1. • Ex Congressman W. L. Scott, of Pennsyl vania, died suddenly before midnight at Bewport, P-. I. He was taken there about two weeks Itefore from his home in Erie, Penn., suffering with acuta gastro intestinal catarrh. It was believe 1 that the climate would be beneficial. 'Mr. Scott’s de ath was sudden and unex pected and wat due to repeated heart fail ures, his gastric trouble being improved and there being no organic disease. Mr. Scott bad been ailing tor some weeks. His family were notified and all were present at the end. whicn was peaceful and painless. Hia '.body was taken to Erie, Penn., tor burial. Mr. IScott was born in Washington, D. C., July 2. 1828, of Virginian parentage. He was early iett an orphan and in destitute circum- Ctances. He began his career as a p ige in the House of Representatives. General Beoi. of Erie, Penu., who then represente i that district in the House, .Started linn as shipping clerk m the lakes trade. Mr. Scott subsequently be- ranie largely intere.-ted in the coal and iron business and also in railroads. He married the sister o: Frame D. Tracy, of the New York Stock Exchange. in politics he •was a Democrat and was elected a member o£ i. Forty-ninth Congress. Mr. Sc:tt v. as a.so a prominent patron of tiie tur. ant. owned many goal race horses, lie was a 13.rector of the Union Pacific. Laie Shore, Northwestern aud Canadiau South* ~ ... wa . a gp^juafcor Excuange. THE HEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The Butler County Bank of Millerstown, Penn., owned by H. J. Hoyt, suspended pay ment. The embarrassment created a panic at Millerstown. and judgments were entered against a number of residents. F. W. Dux lap, a deputy flelinquent mer cantile tax appraiser of Philadelphia, Penn., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the city and was sentenced to two years in the Eastern Penitentiary. The courthouse at South Atkinson.houses, barns and bridges were blown down by a i storm in Piscataquis County, Me., and Mrs- ’ Hall, of Orneville, was killed by a falling chimney. The contest of the $30,000,000 will of Mrs. ! Hopkins-Searles was commenced in Salem, Mass. Mr. Searles said the first proposition of marriage was made by his wife. Plkup-o-pxeumoxia has again appeared among cattle in New Jersey. Government inspectors have been sent there to stamp it out. Ix the Hopkius-Searles will contest at Salem. Mass., Mr. Searles testified that the annual income of the Hopkins estate was about $600,000. He and his wife received forty-five per cent, each, which was deposited in his name. The monument of the Tammany regiment on the battlefield of Gettysburg, Penn., was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies. Headed by a band the ninety survivors of the regiment marched in front of the monu ment. It stands on Hancock avenue, about 200 feet from “Bloody Angle,” where Pick ett’s famous charge was repulsed. Ad dresses were made by Colonel John R. Pel- lows, an ex-Confederate; General Daniel E. Sickles, General Martin T. McMahon, Gen eral Ely S. Parker, Barlow S. Weeks, Com mander of the Sons of Veterans, and Cap tain J. M. Eliendorf. The first instalment of nickel-steel plate made in this country for actual use has just been deliverea at Cramps’ shipyard, Phila delphia, Penn. It is three inch protective deck-plate for one of the triple-screw cruisers. Four huxdbed Smith’s College girls at- j tended a woman’s suffrage meeting in North ampton, Mass. The religious sect of Schcenkfelders cele brated at Clayton, Penn., the 127thanniver sary of the landing of their forefathers in this country. Besides the congregation lo cated there there are only four in the coun try, and all were in attendance. The boiler of Berlin’s new sawmill at Bear Creek, Penn , exploded, completely demol ishing the mill and instantly killin? J. Eiva Berlin, James Conger, and Charles B. Grove, all well-known lumbermen. A patixq vein of gold ore has been found in Silver Lake Township, Penn. Writs of quo warranto were issued against the State Treasurer and State Sec retary of Connecticut. Water in the New Hampshire rivers is so low that many of the mills can run only on half time. The public schools in Syracuse, N. Y., closed for a few days because of the phe nomenal heat. James Darling and Sandy Ferry, while dynamiting stumps near Garfield Penn., were instantly killed by the premature ex plosion of a cartridge. Rev. Dr. S. D. Bttrchard, author of the famous Rum, Romanism and Rebellion speech during the Cieveland-Blaine Presi dential campaign, died in Saratoga, N. Y. He was born at Steuben, N. Y., September Otb, 1812. Ox the day following the accident it was stated that eleven of the victims of the fire works explosion in Newark, N. J., were dead, and other fatalities were expected. All the victims were Italians. „ Two freight trains came into collision about two miles west of Hawleyville, Conu. The engineer, William Day; the fireman, James Gardner, and a brakeman, G. A. Sprague, of the eastbound train, were killed. They all lived in Hartford. RaLroaiis, aai latterly : the N.w £ork Stock Ex< South and West. The St. Paul (Mian.) public schools closed during the latter days of September on count of the heat. A coxvict in the San Quentin (C: Prison, named'Henry^gJker, killed! coavictjis««^-#SS^RaUew uto his meek, whiO*6#fing England and Germany have priWcally chosen sites for their buildings at the World’s Fair, Chicago, lit England is to erect a splendid structure on the lake shore, where the stone pavilion in Jackson Park now stands. Germany’s building will bQ.lp- S fced either on the lake shore, near the Mex- in quarters, or just south of the west an nex to the Fine Art Palace, near the Mich- gan and Ohio bufldfogs.' . ^-Rx-GrOVi;avor v Alblp.t P. Morehouse committed suicide at his residence in Marys ville, Mo. Several weeks before the Gover nor was much overheated while driving cat tle, and had been in a nervous condition ever since. He was born in Delaware Connty. Ohio, July 10, 183.3, and came to Missouri in 1856. He was a lawyer by profession. The whole of the business portion of Bradley, South Dakota, is in ashes. Nine stores, the M. E. Church, a hotel and one house were burned. Major McKinley spoke at the Coal Palace at Ottumwa, Iowa. W. H. Davis, who murdered his mother and her alleged lover, James Arnold, at Pueblo, Col., oecause they refused to give him money with which to continue his drunken spree, was executed in the prison yard at Canon City, Col. Fire destroyed the five-story brick build ing of the Moorewooi Carving Machine Company at Minneapolis, Minn., causing a loss of about 8200,009. Twenty firemen were hurt by the falling in of the top of an elevator located in the rear of the burned structure. Ix Lewis County, Ky., near the mouth of Kinniconick Creek, Thomas Carr, a farmer, aged thirty years, cut the throats of his wife and his mother-in-law. Than he cut his own throat. His weapon was a large corn knife. AU are dead. He was insanely jealous. Dax Sullivax and Tom Johnson, mem bers of a logging party. Were burned to death in the forest fires near Hickley, Miaa. The prairie fires in South Dakota were ex tinguished by a heavy rain. The Republic in State Convention of Ne braska met at Lincoln and nominated for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, A. M. Post. For Regents of the State Univer sity, H. P. Shumway and Charles Maple. Riley Smart, a young man of Monroe Township, Ind„died from the effects of being stung in forty-two places by yellow jacks. Osseo, Wis., has an epidemic of typhoid. Almost every resident is ill. There have been five deaths. Hezekiah Raxkix, colored, shot Fred Taylor, white, at Asueville, N. C. Acroivd lynched Rankin promptly. Washington. The American Pomological Society held its annual biennial session in Washington. The eleven Division Sunerintendents qf the Railway Mail Service held a meeting in Washington to discuss matters of detail in the improvement of the service. United States Minister Egan notified the State Department of Ealmaceda’s mi cide. It was* a short dispatch and merely stated the fact and that the deei was done at the Argentine Legation. Tranquility prevails in Chili. The President on June 3 granted a par don toRobert Sigel. son of Genera’. Si gel, of New York, convicted of forgery and sen tenced to six years’ imprisonment at hard labor, the pardon to take effect at the ex piration of two years and nine months of actual imprisonment. A few rtavs aco the President granted a full pardon “in view of the extreme illness of the prisoner, an l the fact that the term will expire in Decem ber.” The Ordnance Bureau of the Navy hassiic- oeried in procuring the most ranid of raoid- Hrhig guns in the wor d. The Dashiel four- nch gun was recently tested at the Indian Head proving grounds with the service- charge of Brown pow ier, firing in salvos of five rounds. The first five were fired in twenty-six seconds, the second in twenty-two seconds, and the third in seventeen seconds. Commodore Ramsey, Acting Secretary of the Navy, received a request that the CushinT and Stiletto b* allowed to take part in a race with the fleet steam yachts Vamoose. Norwood and Javelin. Although the naval officers feel confident of the ability of the Cushing to bold her own in such a contest, the request was not granted, as naval vessels are not permitted to engage in racing. Accordixg to a census bulletin the real estate mortgage debt of Kansas, January 1, 1890, aside from State and railroad land con tracts. was $235,485,106. Of this amount $167,145,030 is almost exclusively on farms. The President aopointed ChaHes W. Erd- man. of Kentucky, to he United States Consul at Stockholm, Sweden. Secretary Foster has awarded to Albert Owen, of Trescott, Me., a silver life-saving medal for hi« bravery in rescuing three men from drowning near'Eastport, Me., on July 10, 1887. Secretary Foster says it will take $2.- 000.003 to refund the excess of duties col lected on hat trimmings, in accordance with the agreement arrived at with the importers. At the meeting of division superintend* ent* of the Railway Mail Service in Wash ington. a resolution was passed calling upon the Civil Service Commission to adopt a physical examination for applicants, in ad dition to the mental one now in vogue. Secretary Rusk, of the Agricultural Department, says it has been found by ex perts that women make better meat inspec tors than men. The Secretary of the Navy has designated thirty-four British naval stations in different parts of the world as places where salutes may be fired by United States naval vessels. The Army Board on Fortifications and Ordnance made the following recommenda tions to the Secretary of War, which have been approved: That $30,000 be allotted for procuring carriages for five-inch siege rifles; that the Lewis depression range finder be teste! at Fort Wadsworth, N. Y., and that the Chief of Ordnance be authorized to make a few of the new twelve-inch rifle guns forty calibres in length. Foreign. Cstlian soldiers in Santiago are in revolt at the bad food they receive. The British Government has recognized the Provisional Government of Chili. Two passenger trains collided between Go laczowry and Wolbrotn, Prussian Silesia. The cars were shattered to splinters, and ten persons were killed and many injured, j In the House of Commons, Ottawa, 1 Canada, the opposition impeached another member of the Government; the Postmaster General, Hon. John Haggart, who is ac cused of participating in the profits of a Government railway contract and agreeing to the firm’s subscribing to Government elec tion funds( charged to the firm’s profit. The Western and Brazilian Cable Com pany has just laid a new cable between San tos and Pernambuco. The cable steamer Sil- vertown is about to lav a cable from Per nambuco to the Island Fernando do Norouha and thence to St. Louis, Senegal, Africa. Russian troops are being steadily moved westward; Russia is said to be meditating au entrance into Rumanian territory. The festivities in celebration of the resto ration of peace in Chili passed without polit ical disturoanee. Ix Oito Prefecture, Japan, 3000 cases of dysentery are reported, with 700 deaths. The King of Belgium has received Henry M. Stanley’s resignation as Governor of the Congo States. The post has been refused by a German officer of colonial experience, now in Africa. An express train running between Burgos and San Sebastian in Spain came into col lision with a combined goods and passenger train. Fourteen persons were killed out right and many others were injured. The Argentine Government, as a measure pf economy, has abolished its Legations at Vienna, Lisbon, Berlin and Mexico, which will effect a saving of $100,000 a year. Abundant harvests are reported from most of the Turkish Provinces, espefcially- Irom those in Asia Minor. It is estimated that the tithe revenue will exceed that of any previous year by 500,000 Turkish pounds. ; A Chinese fleet has been dispatched to the scene of the recent disturbance, and China nsks Franca to suspendactifllMili.tke matter. MAD RUSl FOR ROM Exciting See^s at the Opening of Eastefti Oklahoma. Boomers Pourliver the Line Pick Ouiliheir Farms. and A dispatch from Guthrie. Oklahoma says; At noon Eastern Oklahoma was thrown open and fully 60000 persons entered the reservation from tli west and south. The wildest of scenes w*re enacted and several persons were shot. Two colored men filled in a fight at Langs ton, the shooting ofa woman who attempted to cross the border before the alloted time and the drowning »f two men in the Cimar ron River were theprincipal events reported in the great rush or the Oklahoma lands. The population o* Oklahoma increased 20,000 in one day No country in the world has a record qf ant such sudden growth. That morning th« settled area of the Terri tory numbered S.O^O KJ acres and the popu lation was 60,000. Between noon and sunset 1,->00,000 acres wW added to the area, and the population is tow 80,000. All along the lire during the morning the scene was one of treat excitement. People foot, peoole onhorseback, people in bug gies, in wagons, nun, women and children, were gathered in froups a short distance apart. The scene rt 12 o’clock, when the sig nals were fired, was one never to be forgotten. Out fr»m the line and acrosslthe rolling prairie bo-semen shot like missiles from a catapult. Covered wagons filled with people rushed up hill and down dale, and hundreds of horie-stakers on foot started valiantly forth in search of the coveted claim. ThApent up excitement found vent in the firing of revolvers aid rifles, shouting and singing and cracking of whips and furious dnviug and runniig. The horsemen, of course, had the advtntage over every other man m the race an: most of the racers were horsemen. The nan who had pro ceeded to the border on a prairie schooner ■with his family left the schooner, family and one horse on tie border and mounted the other and bacc m> a horseman. After lo cating his claim he vi.1 return and direct his possessions to bis new home. Men who came with nothing but money purchased saddle horses, ponies, mules or anv kind of an animal that would carry a ma:, while others rented them. .Some of the more desperate cowboys mounted steers, and the latter, joining in the stampede, carrie. their riders to the in terior, while others were unceremoniously unhorsed, or unsteered, not far from the border. A pistol shot fired by an army Lieutenant the signal for die w-aiting crowd at race for _ svin, of Cl ly in dishonest practices, le at Ottawa by a vote of eigET^F 1 ^ 9 to 104. The House was divided on Mr. j Giroard’s motion for the adoption ot t,a0-i majority report, exculpating Langeviu, wr : , -j?2~yied by a vote of 101 yeas to eighty-six'nays. The Chinese Government has advised the British Foreign Office that it has offered compensation to the Powers, has punished rioters, and can preserve the peace in China. TEN LIVES EOR ONE. An Extraordinary Scene in a South Carolina Court. In the Laurens County (S. C.) Court of Sessions occurred the trial of “Jim” Young, Allen Young, Munroe Young, Henderson Young, John Adams, “Lige” Atkinson, “Tom” Atkinson, John Atkinson aud “Jack” Williams, for the murder of Thoruton Nance,all colored. The jury retired and in three hours brought in a verdict of guilty with a recommendation to mercy to alt. Piedmont <s the name of a colored church iu Hunter, near Mouutville, on the Georgia. Carolina and Northern Railroad. Un the night of August 5 last, service was held at Piedmont, aud Edmond Nance, an old and respectable colored man, with his wife and four sons were of the congrega tion. When the service was over the worship ers dispersed to their homes, but the band of murderers were on hand, though they had not been __ in the church. It seems that John Nance had made improper proposals in writing to John Atkinson's wife, and the husband, with his brothers and friends, was thirsting for [ vengeance. They waylaid the Nance family ; aud left Thornton Nance dead in the road ; and Samuel Vance shot through the lungs, i j John Vance escaped. Judge Hudson overruled a motion for a new trial. Then the ten prisoners stood ud j to receive the death sentence—eight in a line ! in front of the railing and two m the dock j behind, it was a remarkable sight. Asa : body, they appeared far above the average ! in intelligence. “Lire'’ Atkinson and tae , Adams boys are handsome mulattoes. The j Judge pronounced the sentence that they all I be hanged on October 23 next. The prison ers showed no emotion, but as the Judge c-ou- cluded there was a wail from the spectators. It was from the wife of Perry Adams. She was joined by another, aud finally they were taken out by constables. The wives, chil dren and parents were grouped together on the public square as the condemned men passed back to jail in charge of the depu ties. FATAL CELEBRATION. Three Men Killed and Twenty-five Wounded at Newark. N. J. A horrible accident occurred at an Italian ' celebration in Newark. N. J.. bv which three persons were killed outright and twenty-five persons seriously, and some of them fatally, injured. The residents of the Italian quarter in Boydeu street celebrated a festival which is known as St. Roro’s Day. in a three-story house. No. 23. Chinese lanterns, decorations I of all kinds and a shrine were among the 1 outdoor attr.tctiori-*. Among the novelties provided for the en- ! tertaiument of tue celebrants was the ex- ! p.osion of a lot of dynamite inclosed in a gas- ' pipe. This niece was fired about 10:45 i o'clock, th * oiople be.ng groups i in close 1 proximity to the cas-ripe. The explosion I came wita the most violent effects. Scarcely i had the detonation died when the air was | filled with shrieks, cries an i groans of pain i from a quarter of a hundrei people, who had | been torn and wounded bv the powerful ex-, | p.osion. i fhe se-n» was oua of terror aud contusion as the terrified people rushed wildly around | not knowing where to go. iv ord was tale- i phoned to the Second Precinct.* A squad of I men was dispatched to the scene, and all i four patrol wagons were di-patcaei to the spot. Tney were kept busy u itil long after ' mi inight iu removing the wounded to the 1 different hospitals. TVith the clos’ of hostilities in Chili the United States trade with that country has l>een resumed. South American steamers will now land at ail the Chilian porta. was Choctaw City to start in the the new country. When the signal shot was fired it was ex actly 12 o’clock, according to central standard time. The crowd had ranged up as closely as possible to the line until they looked right into the eyes of the soldiers who were there to see that no one got in ahead of time. The tali young Lieutenant galloped along the line of waiting settlers aud told them that the signal for starting would soon be given. When he arrived at a point near the centre he drew his revolver and rapidly dis charged its six loads into the air. The first report had no longer rung out when the great crowd commenoed to move. It was a Derby that is simply beyond de scription. There were blooded Kentucky racers,Texas bronchos, mules and ox teams. Everybody applied the whip and spur, aud many were the catastrophes, although none of them was serious. It was a race that few men want to undergo more than once, and the man who reached a claim and found it unoccupied was lucky indeed. Every man going into the country carries a gun and a whisky bottle, and many are going to their death. A crowd of nearly ^000 that was in camp Topee started in a body for the new seat of Chsndler. They declared for the survey to rill take the town b; 11 in this they wi fcoining section. The town have orders kjvould and bio lade.' At Langston i excited. The t camped near byl pmtterings were 1 Ciffiarron City .' «d by S-jaU.'rav „ fo. the lanufif P ro Jj Messiah. At the Sac and side the crowd was' eral men were kille Agency on the east [ry turbulent, and sev- during the morning. Along the line whisk^j^tand bottle*-were plenty and manyTfi 0 • were intoxicated. The one hundred deputy marshals and hand! xl of soldiers were anal e to do anything with the crowd. The numoer of women on horse back was remarkably large, and fully twen- S per cent, of the clfitns will be secured by e fair sex. In Guthrieeverythng was deserted. Stores are closed and do'-to-s, lawyers, preachers and everybody bas gone to the new El dorado. The boomer bought so many sup plies that a provisim famine now exists. Hundreds of men wto arrived on the mid night train could not get conveyances and are walking to the liie, while scores slept in the streets. One girl of twenjy-one from Winfield, Kan., walked ben mil's on foot to establish a claim. A colored wiman with a baby in her arms and leadirg a six-year-oid boy, walked fifteen miles and secured a claim. One woman of sixty-five went on horseback, and tw> women rode on with little children in horses behind them. There are C000 people in town, and the worst kind of a scramble foi 1 the 2000 lots is going on. At the northern tounty seat, the survey is not completed, and 10,090 people are being beld at bay by soldier. The crowd will at tempt to capture the ti*wn site. The reservations or Pottawatomie, Shaw nee, Iowa, Sac and FVx Indians amount to 1,287,000 acres. Partlof the land is prairie, part in timber ana nuch broken, and not over half of it is hu-.e -. for farming. The reservations lie directly east of the settlement pa: r of Gk adorra, and are divided into two counties, with 320 acres reserved a. he centre of each for the county seat-. 1 The location of the county seats is on poor broken ground, timber j underbrush and rocks, with absllutely no water. Both towns have beenbamed. The one that is to be the county ^at of the northern county is Chandler, nfned for the Assistant Secretary of the Inteilor, and the southern town is Tecumseh. Hj D. Baker, of Okla homa City, has alrady been appointed Postmaster of the corahg town of Tecumseh. A careful man estimates the number ot actual settlers who tent into the Indian lands on the opening c iv to be close to 20,- 000. Of these it is est natei that 10,000 will settle in the new cit is and towns which will spring up. The ither 10,090 are men and women "who wai; farms. The total number of acres whiqi open to settlement is into tracts of 1G'3 acre to 5900 people, and not less than 5910 have been thrown 30,003. Tnis, divide! each, will give farms the result is that in others will connection vs DROWNED IN THE HUDSON. Three Men. One W Go Down Of iman and a Child Low Point. Three men, one wo: an and a lictie girl were drowned in the I idson River, opposite Low Point, twelve m keepsie, on a recent af all Poles and were stra gers in the locality. They hired a boat at Hampton to row across the river at Lot Point. (Vhen about George Welton. il sank immediately, ung to the caosized one hundred varus ir<j|i tne east snore Um boat overturned, and except one man, who boat, but he let go lid sank before help coiiid reach him. Uni one body, that of a man, has been recover; d. son and two part em iustry ployed as de- of New Eng- THE LABOR WORLD. COD fishermen talk of a union. Chicago has over 890 letter-carriers. The girl spinners have united at Lowell. Toledo (Ohio) working girls have organ* ! Ized. Passenger engineers work six hours a | day- Great Britain has 58,000 women trade unionists. London buttonhole makers get thirty-five cents a day. The Labor party polls 68,000 votes in New South Wales. Shirts are made for ten cents each in San Francisco, Cal. A $430,000 cotton-mill is to be run at Riverside. Ala. Over 2030 men are at work on the Chicago World’s Fair Park. Colored cotton-pickers’ strike in the South was a failure. Over 150 colored miners deserted Iowa for Indian Territor f. Women in California canneries get from $I.16to $1.90 per week. The wages of shopgirls in London begin at from $35 to $40 a year. Log-cutters on the West Branch of the Susquehanna are organizing. Chickamagua (Ga.) Coal and Iron Com pany will build 203 coke ovens. The woo-iworkers are spreading their or ganization to big Western cities. A Mount Carmel (Penn.) mine uses an ox instead of a mule to draw cars. A glass factory at Baltimore, M d., has been closed by a strike of 150 boys. The Standard O 1 Company’s cooperage shops at East St. Louis, III., employ 450 men. Girls are now largely signers in the textile indu land. In Japan every workman wears his em ployer's name, business and address printed on his back. English railway managers claim that in creased wages to employes have decreased the dividends. The sailmakers of Liverpool are agitating against the use of sewing machines in the stitching of sails. The International Congress, called to dis cuss the causes of accidents to workmen, met at Berne, Switzerland. The third annual convention of the Inter national Brotherhood of Railroad Conduc tors met at Louisville, Ky. Five thousand girls employed at a lace factory in Venice, under the patronage of the Queen of Italy, receive seven cents a day each. In New York State 116 labor organiza tions, comprising 31,191 members employed in different occupations, have reduced their hours of labor in 1893. In Texas the colored cotton pickers have formed au organization, a rule of which says they shall not pick cotton under $1 per hun dred pounds and board. The United Wood Carvers decided not to co-operate with the Amei ican Workingmen’s Defense League in commemorating the exe cution ot the Chicago Anarchists. The Order of Railway Telegraphers and Brotherhood of Telegraphers in Chicago have been amalgamated. Tnis action was taken in accordance with the dec ision of the Na tional convention of the first named body. One of the strongest professional trades unions in the United States is the Dentists’ Protective Association. After due warnine the doors were closed when the membership had reached about li030. Every man paid iu $10, making $50,003 at the start. United States Minister Conger, at Rie de Janeiro, advisee all those who entertahi the idea of emigrating to Brazil to change their minds. He says that for unskilled la bor there is no prospect in that country but disappointment and suffering. For peopl< who do not speak Portuguese there is abso lutely no prospect of employment, and very' little for those who do. ifl AGED TRIPLETS HONORED. ople were very ^gang of cowboys pheir anger, aud erv side. From indrSa Presbyterians preacher, started led bv their modern V. Matlbiuv jmd- Xtorig-gnMrt- Gelebrate Thetr Birthday. Torrington, Conn., has had the distinc tion of honoring William Allen Grant, Mat hew Anderson Grant and David Augustus Grant, in all probability the oldest triplets in the world. The old gentlemen are remarkably well preserved for persons of the advanced age of seventy. Tney appeared at the reception tendered them by tne business men of the place, sang some old hymns with wonderful fervor and seemed to enjoy the occasion very much. The Grant brothers were born in Torring ton, Conn., September 23. 1821, and have always lived there. They are steady, sober, industrious men. They are the offspring of Augustus and Amelia Cone Grant. General U. S. Grant was a direct descen dant 61 the same stock, being a cousin of the now faiTous triplets. The Adventist preach er, Miles Grant, is also a cousin. The family- descended from the original English settlers, coming to Dorchester in 1630 and then set tling in Windsor, the parent of this colony coming to Torrington. The triplets have all raised families. Dan iel lives with his second wife and had two children—a son and a daughter. The son was killed in a railroad accident; the daugh ter is still living. William likewise lives with his second wife and has two children. Matthew is still living with his first wife and has one daughter. All the children live in that vicinity. A peculiar circumstance is that three of the cousins, children of the triplets, were born within a period of six weeks. The exercises in honor of the Grants’ birthday were formally opened with a musi cal programme and the singing by the triplets of the olden time songs as snug half a century ago, after which there were speeches. Alter the completion of the exer cises, which took place at the Opera House, a reception was given at a neighboring hotel. William and Daniel look much alike, and are often mistaken, one for the other. They all have light gray eyes, white hair and bronzed and weatherbeaten countenances, and look uncommonly well for men seventy years old. d sappointed. When — this is taken the fact t at of the 800,OX acres ready for settlement, at least one-eighth is unfit tor cultivation it can readily oe seen that there will bemuch suffering in the new lands. es south of Pougk- moon. They wvra FATAL FIRE IN CHICAGO. An Entire Family ot Six Persons Suf focated to Death. A fire ear’y in the morning in a three story brick building at Nos. 543 and 551 Sedgwick street, Chicago, 111., the upper stories of which were occupied by a number of families as living apartments, resulted in the death of seven people and the fatal in jury of another. The dea l are: John Sehulk,mechanic,age 1 ! forty-five years; his wife, aged forty-two ! years, and their tour children, Cynthia.aged J seventeen; Annie, aged fifteen; John, aged twelve, and James, aged eight. The fire originated in the rear of the first floor, which was occupied by William Keafitz as a bakery. it is thought to have caught from one "of the bake ovens. It spread to a sued iu the rear in which was a quantity of hay and straw. From tnis it ran up the rear stairway and into the sleep ing rooms of the people ou the second am third floors. Tne front rooms on the second floor were occuoiel by John Rondo, his wife and two children, all of whom escaped without in jury. The rear was occupied by Mr. Keafitz the owner of the bakery, and two bakers, Reginstein and Roseufield. TaeHeholk and Burns families occupied the rear of the tnird floor. Burns and wife and three of their children were rescued by tue firemen. Keafitz and his family escaped from the second floor by means of a ladder. When the rooms of th- Bcholk family were reached it was foun ; j that all were unconscious. Airs. Sckon: died : before the patrol wagon arrived, Tne family were smothered, not burned V death The financial loss is insignificant. ners have been sn-estei at Chicago for see ing for $40 to $125 eat “town lots in lull v.ew of tue World’s Far,” said lots having been discovered to ••• ’^nner the outlaying waters of Lake Mich’z*^- The tobacco crop of Tennessee is the larg est that has been known for many years It was the intention to hold a grand Confed erate reunion at Carksville, Tenn., or. October 1, to raise funds for the erection of a Confederate monument, but the farmeri were so busy with the tobacco crop that i| was decided to postpone it until October 15. SUICIDE OF DALIACEDA. Chili’s Ex-President Blows Out His Brains at Santiago. A Short Sketch of His Eventful aud Turbulent Career. Valparaiso, Chili, was thrown into wild excitement by the story that ex-President Balmaceda bad shot himself through the temple in his room at the Argentine Lega tion, in Santiago, at 8:33 on a recent morn ing. There was great rejoicing at the capi tal, and the streets were illuminated that night. Balmaceda attempted to escape from the country in disguise after the surrender of Santiago. The police were soon on his track. He found every avenue of retreat cut off end was obliged to return to the capi tal. He arrived at the Argen tine Legation and no one was permitted to see him except the Argen tine Minister and Senor Urriburia. AL^iy plans of escape were suggsSDd, tat. Balmaceda hesitated about essaying any of them. He continued in an extremely nervous condition, fearing the vengeance of the Junta. Senor Urriburia finally advised Balmaceda to give himself up to the Junta. Balmaceda retired at midnight apparently undecided as to what he should do. A pistol shot was heard in his room the next morning by Senora Urriburia, who notified her husband. Urriburia went after Carlos Walker Martinez before he entered Baimacela’s room. The door was broken open. The body was lying on the bed, un dressed. and a gaping wound was in the tem ple. The corpse was still warm. Balmaceda held the revolver tightly in his rignt hand. As soon as the news spread through the city jrreat crowds of people gathered about the legation. Their excitement amounted to frenzy. Domingo Torro, Balmacela’s brother-in-law, aud Arrieta Melchor Corleta, the Uruguay Minister, hastened to the le gation The Junta, upon receiving the news, im mediately issued a commission, whi-h com prised Carlo Walker Martinez, Senor Mel chor, Senor Concho and Judge Aguerro of the Supreme Court. They viewed the body at the legation, and then drew up a proces verbal certifying to the mode of Balma- ceda’s death. The German Minister, Gut- schmidt, an old friend of Balmaceda, also viewed the fallen leader’s body as it lay at the legation. Balmaceda left a letter to his mother and a statement intended for publication. He declares in the latter that during the past eight months he had acted with the firm conviction that he was right, and that he had no one in the army whom he could trust. He believed that his generals were false to him, that they continually deceived him, and tnat had they obeyed his orders the battle of Concon would have been won by them. He de clared that his heart bad been with Chili; that he sought to rescue his country from foreign domination and to make her the first republic in America. He expressed regret that he did not take Minister Egan’s advice, conclude peace, and retire from the country. His wite, he says, gave him $2509—all the money he had iu his possession. Balmaceda also wrote Senor Urriburia, saying that himself aloue was re- soonsible for his death. Sketch ot His Life. Juan Manual Balmaceda was bora in Santiago fifty-one years ago. He was care fully educated for a priest at Santiago. As soon as bis academic studies were completed his turbulent and active nature drove him into politics. He joined the Club de la Re forma, in Santiago, aa organization com posed of hot-headed young men who wanted to overthrow the Chilian Constitution of 1S30. He was a fine orator and became the club’s foremost leader. At twenty-eight Balmaceda, who was al ready distinguished throughout Chili, was elected a deputy to the Congress. He served five terms wita credit wd was the champion and idol of^Wje great Liberal party. -President JHrata ' rkane .u.i .'j or of Fortiun Affair^, in 1885. Tne next jflMlIHKeda was elecrA'i President of the an overwhelm ing majority. Fears the country enjoyed unprecedented prosperity and he was "the most popular man in Chili. His policy changed, and as the time drew near for his re-election, Balmaceda de termine! upon a coup d’etat to make himself master of Chili. He dismissed his able ministers and formed a cab inet with the unpopular Sanfuentes at the head. Baimaceia next an nounced Sanfuentes as a candidate tor the Presidency. Quarrels with the deputies followed." Ministers were removed, restored again, and the civil war that has just ended was finally brought about. GALES IN ENGLAND. Several Vessels Wrecked and Great Injury to Crops. A dispatch from Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England, announced that a furious gale has been raging there and that several vessels have been wrecked. Only one life is reported lost. Much damage has been done to the harbor, which has recently been so much improved. The crops through out the borough have suffered severely. Several yachts have been sunk at Llan- fairfechan. Heavy floods prevail in the Ed inburgh district. A number of pleasure boats have been destroyed at Porto Bello and the pier has been damage!. Railway bridges at Penicuick and in the Esk district have collapsed, and traffic is interrupted and in many cases suspended. In the River Mersey much damage has been done to shipping. At Blackpool, Lanca shire, houses have been inundated and a great amount of damage has been done to the crops. Reports from several sections of North Wales show that the storm has flooded the valleys in that section of the country and that the farmers have suffered severely. o 00 <5* 4 50 20 00 @45 00 2 25 @ 5 00 ic5 4 50 1<3 @ « 00 5 69 m 5 8(3 7 8 — tfe 5 25 r. 49 6 00 i u2;- ^ 1 03 — 98 90 @ 92 — 73 *>•> z ■■13 Q‘3 (Ol 8.1 125 @ 70 55 (<5 70 6.89 18 <§ (5 6.9-3 25 23 21 . THE MARKETS. 89 NEW YORK. Beev es Milch Cows, com. to good.. .20 Calves, common to prime... 2 Sheep Lambs Hogs—Live Dressed Flour—City Mill Extra Patents. Wheat—No. 2 Red Rye—State Barley—Two-rowed (state... Corn—Ungraded Mixed Oats—No. 1 White Mixed Western Hay—Fair to Good Straw—Long P.ye Lard—City Steam Butter—State Creamery.... Dairy, fair to good. West. 1m. Creamery Factory Cheese—State Factory Skims—Light Western Eggs—State and Penu BUFFALO. Steers—Western 1 59 @ 3 25 Sheep—Medium to Good.... 3 85 <S 4 23 Lambs—Fair to Good 5 00 ('J 5 33 Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks 4 '95 (g 5 2o Flour—Winter Patent 5 00 rtj 5 15 Wheat—No. 1 Northern 1 02%@ 1 Corn—No. 2, Yellow.,., Oats—No. 2, Wliite — Barley—No. 2 Canada — BOSTON. Egg—Near-by — (!£ Seeds—Timothy, Northern.. 2 Ou Clover, Northeru.... Hay—Fair Straw—Good to Prime.. But ter—F i rsts WATERTOWN (^ASS.! CATTLE MARKET. Beef—Dressed weight Sheep—Live weight Lambs Hogs—Northern PHILADELPHIA. Flour—Rye Wheat—No. 2 Red. Sept.... Corn—No. 2 Mixed, Sept.... Oats—Ungraded White Potatoes Butter—Creamery Extra.... Cbeeee—Part skims......... 1 C<S 53^ l " @ 32 — (3 b5 - - . 25 2 Oo 2 25 10 (9 11 15 <x> @16 09 14 00 @15 03 20 (9 23 4 6% 3 5 VA 5 <d 6Ji 4 75 @ 4 85 i 04^® i 04* 69 ® 70 34X0 35 25 33 25 6 0 7 X TEE NATIONAL GAME. The Cleveland Club has released Pitcher Beatin. Ewing is now New York’s most reliable pitcher. The St. Louis Club has released Catcher Darling. \ iau has of late been Cleveland’s only win ing pitcher. Browning, of Cincinnati, is troubled with a lame throwing arm. Ti ard. of Brooklyn, may cover second base regmarly next season. The Bostons say the Louisville grounds are the finest to play on iu the Association. Wilmot and Pfeffer carry off the bulk of C hicago’s base-stealing honors. | Pitchers Barr and voung Clarkson have j been released by the New York Club. Foutz. qf Brooklyn, seems to have re tained considerable of his former pitching skill. No money is to be spared to make next season s Cleveland team as strong as anv iu the land. M ithoct Rusie and Buckley the New York team would have been a sorry spectacle this year. The most reliable pitchers in the country to-day are Rusie, Nichols, Mullane and Hutcninson. In addition to Quinn, Staley and Stovey have resigned with Boston's League C.ub for next season. Pitcher Baldwin, of Pittsburg, won eleven straight games from the Pittsburgs and then lest one to the Bostons. Kelly, of the Boston League team, is no longer the idol of the baseball world. His name is scarcely ever mentioned. ; Radford's luck still clings tobim. Ho will once more be a member of a champion Boston team, just as he was wav back in 1883. __ Pebeau, of Cleveland, and Bassett, of New York, are the only League third base- men who are accepting over ninety chances in 100. In Boston the memory of George Wright! is so enshrined in the 'hearts of old-timers that his work is still made the standard for all short-stoD?- The star system has received a crushing blow this year. Hereafter man who play ball will be the “stars,” and not men who have played bal 1 . In Lynch, Gaffney. McQuade, Hurst and Emslie the League has the finest and most efficient staff of umpires it ever had. It would be hard to excel. Ten of the New Yorks have not made a home run this season, six of them have yet to make a triple and five of them are without a double to their credit. KirTKiDC?E,of Chicago, is one of the quick est-throwing catchers playing ball. "With him behind the bat. runners generally hug their bases pretty tightly. Suarott, the clever New York L?ague pitcher, who broke his arm early in the sea- son, says he is all right now and will be able to nitch as well as ever next vear. • I Young Taylor, who dwells on Staten Island and has the making of a great pitcher, has signed with New York. The boy pitched a grand game against tho Pittsburgs. Anson’s friends are shocked at the old war horse’s recent work. The great captain is unquestionably getting old and stiff, and ho does not handle grounders so well as of old. The most remarkable feature of the League season has been tho inexplicable and absolute let-Iowa of the New Yorks in bat ting. No team iu the League has been bat ting so weakly. The luckiest man in baseball this year has boon “Buck” Ewing, of the New Yorks, WJhat other player in the profession could have-.iitiwa about $700 par month for doing practically nothing? At Carson, Nev., Ralph R. Stanley was killed at a baseball game oy being struck on 1 the neck by a ball. He fell on his knees,- arose, tried to run, but pitched forward on' his face and died in three minutes. Germon, the popular little pitcher, won twenty-six of gomes lie pitched for Buffalo, y-^ar. This in a record unequaled ,bf anv ^ any igajp^exceptjKutohmson. of A ivtLL-KNOWN plaj^vright has presented to Captain Anson, of the Chicago League team, a plan to write a play founded on baseball, just as Boucicault’s “Jilt” is on horse-racing, and has suggested, that Anson play the hero. He says tnat Anson seemed to tall in with the idea. NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD. imutes. little Maryland r, the thirtv-threa^ alo, N. r., Per Won. 7/0*4. r*. Chicago.. .81 48 .623 Boston.... 79 50 .613 New York.68 54 .557 Pkilade!...67 62 .519 Per Won. Lott. et. Cleveland.60 72 .455 Brooklyn..55 73 .430 Pittsburg. .55 74 .426 Ciucia’ati..49 81 .377 AMERICAN ASSOOIATION RECORD. Per Won. Lott. et. Boston....S3 S9 .693 ci* - . Louis. .83 48 .634 Baltimore.63 59 .535 Athletic...68 63 .519 Per Won. 7,o*f. ot Columbus.61 72 .459 Milw’ke3..58 71 .450 (x»ui»ville..50 79 .388 VVash’gt’nril 86 .323 NINE MEN KILLED. Crashed to Death in a Railroad Collision in Pennsylvania. A terrible wreck occurrei on the Pitts burg and Western Railroad at McKim’s Sid ing, Penn., a station a short distance on the other side of Zelienople, Butler County. At this point a work train with a force of fifty men was engaged in putting down a new track. About eight o’clock this train got out of the way of a freight tram going west, but the crew did not know that a second section was following five minutes later. The work train again pulled out on the main track, and the men were engaged in throwing off dirt when the second section struck the work train with great force. Cars were piled up in a shapeless mass. The engines were a mass of broken iron and wood, and the hot steam and boiling water poured over the un fortunate ones caught in the jam. The train men and laborers who were not injured began at once to assist those imprisoned in the de bris. The head of an Italian was found twenty- feet away from the body. Engineer John Houghton, who had bravely dene his best to stop his engine, attached to the freight train, was found”wedged in broken and shapeless iron. Bv 11 o’clock the bodies of eight Italian laborers had been taken from the wreck aud laid beside that of Engineer Houghton. There were at least twenty men injured, several of whom cannot recover. All of the bodies were terriby mangled and disfigured. Engineer Hougnton was the only American killed. His home was in Allegheny. It is said that a mistake was made by the trainmen, wno did not correctly intenret a signal, and that led to the accident. Ail the trains were delayed, but the large force of men at wors soon cleared the track. A LONDON BANK ROBBED. From $750,000 to $1,2."0,000 Said to Have Been Taken. An important bank robbery has taken place in Lon Ion, England. The institution that has suffered is the London and West minster Bank, Limited, 41 Lathbury, E. C., an important establishment having over fifteen branch houses in that city. The money stolen consisted of a Mrge par cel of bills remitted from the country banks. The thief or thieves gained access to an apartment near the main entrance to the bank. This apartment was easy of access from the street. It is currently reported that the amount proien is not less than 8759,00(3. and it may amount to as much as $1,259,000. Notice of the robbery has oeen sent to the police cemres throughout the British Isles and on the Contiuent, and the sailing of every passtnger v-*ssel is being watched. Notice of the robbery has also been sent to all the banks upon which the bills were drawn, but the police theory is that no attempt will be made to change the bills in that country, but that the thieves will have recourse to the Continent, where the presence of so many wealthy travelers from England and the United States makes such transactions easier than in that country. The original draft of the State constitu tion of Wisconsin is missing from the archives of the Secretary of State's office. i