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9 % i UNCLE SAM’S GOLD TRAIN. San Francisco Ships Twenty Millions to New York. Guarded by Armed Men During the Transcontinental Trip. The undertaking of the railway postal •arvioe to transport safely *20,000,000 in gold from the United States ISub-Treasury in San Francisco to the Sub-Treasury in Hew York City has been successfully ac complished, the Tast treasure now being locked np in the massive vaults in Wall street. The shipment was the largest of the kind ewer attempted tor anything like the distance involved, and the precau tions taken for its safe transport were of an extraordinary character, making robbery practically out of the ques tion. The treasure cars themselves were of steel and supposed to be bombproof. Half a hundred and more trusty guards were •board the train, each armed to the teeth, and arrangements had been made whereby the authorities of the postal service were in formed by telegraph of the location of the train every quarter or half hour of the total time consumed in the journey. The tram made the fastest run that bos ▼et been made between San Francisco and New York, covering the distance in 107 hours. The train followed the schedule time, but evervthing else had to give way to it. From Ban Francisco to Ogden the trip was made over the Central Pacific track. Tbenoe to Omaha the Union Pacihc was used. It was on this route a delay of four hours was caused by a broken eccen tric strap. The trip to Chicago was made over the Burlington route. Buffalo was reached with the train two hours behind time, but under Vioe-President Webb’s instruction was brought into New •York Citr almost on time. From Buffalo the ran was made at a speed of nearly a mile a minute. No accident occurred and if there was any pl«n to rob the train it did oome to fruition. CUt devolve* upon the PostoIHce Depart ment to furnish safe transport for the gold, and its custody was entrusted to some of the ^gaost faithful employes at Washington. The train was in charge of Captain James £. White of the railway serv.'e\ with fifty- aeven assistants. The train consisted of five cars, one pri vate car directly behind the engine, where, through the observation end a guard was kept day and night over the engineer and fireman: one mail and three express cars. In each car was an officer of the railway • mail service and ten guards, each of whom carried a Colt revolver and a carbine. The *20,000,000 was packed in wooden boxes sealed and registered and equally di vided among the four cars. The guards slept upon these boxer, and not for a single moment were they left unguarded. " At the Gfand Central Depot, New York City, the train was met by Assistant Post master-General J. Lowrie Bell, and soon the boxes were being transferred to the sixteen express wagons in waiting. These wagon: were loaded five at a time, and as each de tachment was completed it started off toward Wall street. On each wagon were three of the armed guards, and each driver was a aworn member of the Postal service. Down Broadway the procession started. The spectacle of a procession of what ap peared to be unloaded express wagons, each Wagon guarded by three men with openly ^displayed weapons, naturally aroused much 'astonishment and Inquiry. As the first wagon drove up to tho Pine Street entrance to the Sub-Treasury a cordon of police was ready to help in its safe de livery, and back of them a small crowd had gathered. As the news spread, however, the crowd increased.until at times the police were bothered in keeping them back. Every one wanted to see what $20,009,000 looked like, and, although tho plain wooden boxes gave no indication of tbeir precious contents, the mere fact that tho gold was there was potent enough to hold the observers spell bound. The boxes were made of inch pine, strong ly fastened, and in sise were about twelve by eight inches. They bore four seals of t>e Railway Postal Service, and tbesa will re main unkroken until there is a demand for the contents. The money in each box amounted to $40,- 000, and it took all the strength of one man to raise one box from the ground. In each express wagon was a million and a quarter of gold. It made no remarkable appearance in bulk, but its great weight caused the wagons, large os they were, to bend and aag. Assistant United States Treasurer Ellis H. Roberts handed over receipts for thv vari ously numbered boxes, and with these in their possession the work of the Postoffioe officials was completed. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Prince Bismarck is partly of Slav orl- gin. Justice Lamar s long locks «have been clipped close and are now quite gray. It is fifty-nine years since Gladstone took his seat in the British House of Commons. Carl Schurz has built for himself a pretty summer cottage at Lake George, Jules Massenet is regarded by many pie as tae most popular musician in ari*. KTr Bismarck and Von Moltke once fou^Rt a duel over a girl wuen they were fellow students. Benat rs Hawlet, of Connecticut, and Gibson, of Louisiana, very much resemble each other. General Bidwell, the Prohibition can didate for President, will not do any cam paign speaking. Baron Hirsch, the Hebrew philanthro pist. is planning an extended tour through the United States and Canada. Justice Shiras, the new appointee to the Supreme Bench, is a cousin of James G. Blaine, his mother having been a Blaine. Sims Reeves, the famous English concert tenor, who is now an old mao, has joined the teaching staff of the Guildhall School of Music, London. Watson R. Sperry, of Delaware, the newly appointed Minister to Persia, is about forty-five years of age and a graduate of Yale, class of ’71. Colonel Robert H. Crockett, Demo cratic candidate for Congress in the Sixth Arkansas District, is a grandson of the fa mous Davy Crockett. The little Queen of Holland has had a uniform made for her, as Emperor William, of Germany, has appointed her Colonel of the Second Regiment of Westphalian In fantry. Chairman Carter, of the Republican National Committee, wears a light colored goatee, and in many personal features is a striking reproduction of the traditional ••Uncle Sam. - ’ Robert H. Folgkr, of Massilon, Ohio, is claimed to be the oldest practising attorney in the United States. He was born in Ches ter County, Penn., 1812, and began the prac tice of law thirty years thereat ter. Charles F. Lummis, the young novelist and explorer, whose fame is beginning to spread beyond the pages of the magazines, is about tuirty-two years old and has passed his recent years in the Jar Southwest. Knut Nelson, who is the Republican can didate tor Governor of Minnesota, is fami liarly called “the little Norwegian. - ’ Mr. Nelson is short in stature, being about five feet, five inches in height, and wears a closely cropped, dark chin beard, streaked with gray. His profession is the law. In it, os in political life, he is especially popular witn the Scandinavian citizensof the North west. OYER A PRECIPICE. A Family of Six Killed by a Team Running Away. A whole family, consisting of a man and wi.o and four children, namas unknown, were killed at Guthrie, Oklahoma, a few days ago. The family bad been in that city buying provision*, and while returning to their claim on fie Old Cheyenne reservation their team ran away and over a precipic*. Every member cf the family aad both horse j were kfttlec. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Bridget Kelly, aged twenty-one, of Bhenandoah, Penn., committed suicide by saturating her clothes with kerooene oil and setting herself on fire. The New Jersey Prohibitionists held their convention at Trenton and nominated Thomas J. Kennedy, of Hudson County, for Governor. Edward, aged seven, and William, aged ten. sons of Frederick Bennett, of Trenton, N. J., were drowned in the Delaware River a few afternoon ago. The boys, with their father, were fishinsr, but became separated from him. The lounger fell into the water and the brotber jumped in to save him. Ernest Nyk, aged sixteen, shat and killed his sister Maud, aged fourteen, at their home in Brookline, N. H. He didn’t know the rifle was loaded. Belle McKenzie, employed as a stenographer on the fifth floor of the new Exchange Building, Boston, Mass., fell five stories down an elevator shaft, headfore most, a distance of eighty feet, and was killed instantly. Miss Lizzie Borden was arrested at Fall River. Mass., charged with complicity in the murder of her father and his wife. Mrs. Stephen Berray, of Delaware County, New Ifork, while assisting her hus band in caring for several hives of bees was stung on the right temple and in fifteen minutes was dead. It is the opinion of the physicians who examined the body that the poison struck a uerve and went directly to the heart. Dysentery has prostrated many persons at Helmetta and Bpottswood, in New Jersey. Over twenty deaths have occurred. Fierce thunderstorms prevailed in the eastern part of New York State. Orange and the adjoining counties were visited. Barns were burned and cattle killed in all* directions near Ellen vide. At Beaver Dam the house of John Edwards was struck by lightning, and his daughter and grandchild and Harvey Edwards, a relative, were killed. The other inmates received severe A dog crouched under a table was kil’od. The wall of a building being put at the Ogden mine, in Ogdensburg, N. J., fell and buried twenty men in the ruins. Two men were killed and several injured. The grain elevator at Eleventh avenue and Thirty-fourth street, New Yor^ City, of T. B. Chase & Company was burnei, with a loss of $809,009. A severe thunderstorm prevailed at Buz zard’s Bay, Mass. At Monument Beach the cottage occupied by iieorge Alden was struck by lightning. Mrs. Alden was in stantly killed. She was twenty-eight years old. A house a fbw feet away was also struck. The bolt entered the tower, went direct into the cellar, and instantly killed the cook, Ellen Eagen. South and West. The Tennessee Democratic State Conven tion met in Nashville and nominated Judge Peter Turney, of Franklin County, for Gov ernor. Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, com muted to imprisonment tor life the sentence of Colonel H. Clay King, who was to have been hanged at Memphis for the murder of David H. Posten on March 15last on a puo- lic street in that city. Judge James C. Normily, of St. Louis, Mo.. committed suicide by taking poison. He had brought a libel suit against the Post- Dispatch, and his mind is supposed to have become unbalanced on account of the ques tions put to him by the counsel for the de fence. Eight colored men were drowned by the swamping of a ferry sloop between Sullivan's Island and Charleston, S. C. They were hucksters on their way to the island with vegetables. A steam thresher, operating on Thomas Faulty’s farm, near Elizabeth, W. Va., was blown to pieces and Samuel Booth and an other man wera fatally and three others seriously hurt. Dynamite had been placed in the machine, it is believed, to kill the operatives. The Democrats of Georgia met in State Convention at Atlanta and placed in the field a full State ticket, headed by tv J. Northen lor Governor. * C * In Tal’adega, Ala., R. L. Rasberrj^UJfer- tender who hau been_discharged by N.'Siui- mons, met his former employer in the street and shot him to death. Then he turned his revolver against himself and sent a bullet through his heart. Intense excitement prevailed at Mem phis, Tenn., over the commutation by the Governor of the sentence of Murderer H. Clay King to imprisonment for lite. Threats to lynch King were made and he was taken out of to*n. out friends of the man he mur dered said they would overtake and bang him. A huge crowd gathered at the corner of Main and Madison streets, where King assassinated Posten, au J hanged Governor Buchanan in effigy. A landslide near Carrollton, Ga„ re sulted m the death of three workmen—Jerry Collier, Sain Wimousb and Sam Waerns. Five others were badly hurt. The Michigan Prohibition State Conven tion assembled at Owasso an 1 nominated the Rev. John Russell, of New Haven, for Governor, Hugh McCurdy, of Michigan, was eleetei Grand Master of Knights Templar at Den ver, Col. It was decided to hold the twenty- sixih triennial conclave at Boston. Foreign. Herr Hxrfurth. Prussian Minister of the Interior, has resigned, and will be suc ceeded by Count von Eulenburg, President of the Prussian Council of Ministers, j Henry B. Rider, United States Consul at Copenhagen, Denmark, has confessed to ! embezzlement, forgery and subornation of perjury. Venezuela is in a state of anarchy. Gen eral Urdaneta has proclaimed himself Dic tator of the Western States. The French Consul at Carupano was imprisoned bv the Venezuelan authorities, and a man-of-war wss sent to demand his release. Eighteen Indians of the Balia Coolla and Wake Neb tribes, were drowned while en gaged in a sea lion hunt near Queen Char lotte Islands, British Columbia. In the dense mist their canoe struck a rock, aad the Indians were precipitated into the water At Scharnitz, a village and pass in the Swiss Tyrol, a landslide caused the death of five persons, who were overwhelmed beneath the mass of rock and earth which came thundering down from a mountain. Cholera is increasing in Teheran, Persia. The deaths now average sixty daily. France has taken possession of St. Paul and New Amsterdam Islands, nsar Mada gascar. The British House of Commons divided on the motion of Herbert Henry Asquith (Gladstonian), member for the E\st Di vision of Fifeshire, of “no confidence” in the Government; and the motion was carried by a vote of 350 to 310, thus defeating Salis bury. A fatal accident occurred in a pit at Bes-. seges. Department of Gard, France. While eight miners were ascending the shaft in a cage the cable attached to the cage broke and all were dashed to the bottom and killed. The Queen of England through her Pri vate Secretary has commanded Gladstone to form a Ministry. Johann Singer, a clerk in Vienna, Aus tria, killed his sweetheart and his three children by charcoal fumes. He was driven to the act by poverty. BLOODY FIGHTING. About 500 Men Killed in a South • American Kevolution. The city of Bolivar, Venezuela, has fallen into the hands of legalistas after a desperate and bloody battle. The legalistas, some 400 ) men strong, were under command of Generals Hernand»a and Gil. They appeared bet ore the city early in the morning and demanded of the commander of the Government forces that he surrender. The reply w.isa prompt refusal. This precipitated the engagement. Her nandez and Gii at the head of tbeir forces advanced on the position of the Govern ment troops and attacked in the face of a murderous fire. The attack was made with desperate courage, and was resisted with equal vigor. For a time the decision was in the bal ance, but numbers told at last, and thegov- ernment&ls gave back slowly, contesting every inch ot the ground. It was not until Generals Carrera, Acosta and Laudalta nad been killed at the head of their troops that the governmentals broke and retired from the field in much disorder, leaving on the field nearly five hundred men dead. The legalistas, while they lost no general officers, suffered fully as much as the gov ernmentals, losing almost five hundred men. SOLDIERS DROWNED. They Were Practising i» the Military Swimming School. Seven soldiers were drowned at Neisse, in Prussian Silesia, while practising in the mil itary swimming school. The men were or dered to go into the water beyond their depth, the percenter supposing them to be sufficiently practised to be able to swim. This proved not to be the case, and they sank without making any sign that they were drowning. The fact ttiat they were drowned was /not suspected for some moments, until they failed to come to the surface. It was then too late to save them. THOUSANDS IN LINE. Grand Parade ot the Knights Tem plar m Denver. A grand Knights Templar parade took place at Denver, Col., at the opening of their annual conclave. Orders were issued to be in place at 9 o’clock, and at the time the commanderies were all ready. After waiting an hour three guns were fired and the head of the procession began to move. After several miles of marchiug the parade broke up at the Masonic Temple. The I ourteen divisions formed on as many side streets and took their places as the line moved along. As the start was made at 10 o’clock with 20,000 men in line the rear end was hardly in motion two hours later. SITTING BOLL’S DA0GHTER, Colonel H. Clay King, the Tennessee murderer, has been safely delivered at the Penitentiary in Nashville. L. B. Sale and his two sons were drowned in Fox River, at Grignon’s Point, Wis. The two boys were bathing and got beyond their depth. Calling to their father, he pulled off his coat and hat and jumped in to rescue them, when all were drowned. The official count of the Choctaw vote in Indian lerritory gives Jones, the Progres sive candi iate for principal chie’’. a large majority, and gives the Progressive four teen out of twenty representatives in the Nati >ual Council. The Georgia Republican State Conven tion met at Atlanta and refused to put out any State ticket. Debates showed a strong feeling in favor of the People’s Party ticket. An electoral ticket, however, was agreed upon, alter whica the convention adjourned. In a stampede at Bannock Butte, Idaho, which was caused by hungry prospectors attempting to capture a calf, two cowooys and 301 cattle were swept over a cliff and dashed to pieces. W H. Foreman, Albert Inman, Alex ander Moore, Charles Sawyer anl Jacn Pummel were killed by a falling wall at Hartford city, Ind. A. Price and Arthur Kurtz, each eight years old. were found dead at Lansing, Mich., in an ice-chest. They had evidently crawled into it in play been smothered. Washington. General James W. Denver, of Wil mington.. Ohio, oiei in Washington of uraemic poison. His Illness was ot bnet duration. General Denver was born in Winchester, Va.. in 1817. Secretary Noble ha« appointed as c. commission to negotiate with the Yankton Indians of South Dakota fora cession of their surplus lands, J. C. Adams, of Web ster, South Dakota: W. L. Browr. of Chi cago. and John J. Cole, of St. Louis. These surplus lands aggregate about 168,000 acres. Letters have been sent by the Postoffice Department to about 2800 postmasters at countv seats asking them to repeat this year, some time between August 1 and Dece nber 15, the visits of inspection made by them last year to the smaller postoffices in their respective counties. Acting Secretary Nettlyton has is sued a circular to customs officers and all others concerned, calling for a ri.id enforce ment of the laws lor the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska. Dispatches received by the State De partment from Minister Egan said that Chile had aireed to the establishment of a Claims Commission, to meet in Washington for the settlement of claims against her. The July report of the Chief of Statistics, Treasury Department, shows that during the month the exports of breadstuffs aggregated #14,267.4)0, as agams-#lo,37J.- 291 during Julj’. 1891. Assistant Secretary Soley has com pleted plans for the course of study to be pursued by officers the Navy and Marine Corps who will be i ssigned to ^ uty at the Naval War College. Married in Rond out, N’. to Peter Markde, Formerly of the Army. ' A romantic wedding occurred at Rondout, N. Y.. a few days ago. The contracting parties were a daughter of Sitting Bull, the great Indian chief, and Peter Markle, formerly of the United States Army. Markle served with Custer for a long time, and it is reported that his bride once saved his life when attacked by Indians. The wedding was celebrated at the resi dence of William Van Bramer, Union ave nue. in the presence of a tew intimate friends of Mr. Markle. KILLING THE COTTON. The iloll Worm is Plaving Havoo Wi;h the Texas Crop. Reports of the boll worm continue to come from all i ai ts of Texas. J. B. Kuight brought to Salido stalks of fine looking cot ton, every bolt of which was destroyed. On« of his neighbors offers 100 acres of cotton for #1 an acre. Mauy plantations are completely ruiued. Planters at Stafford’s Point are com plaining of tbeir fine cotton crops being uestroyed by the boll worm-. Boil worms are playing iiavoc in many fields about Fulcher, and nothing can be done to stay their ravages. SISTERS DROP DEAD, They Had Been in a Runaway a Short Time Before. At Fairmont, Neb., Lizzie and Bertha Bhuitz, aged twenty and seventeen years re spectively, were driving from their country home into town when the team took fright at the cars and ran away, throwing the oc cupants to the ground. They were assisted to a house and quickly recover.ng, hired a team and star tea home. Bertha, while put ting away the horses, suddenly dropped dead. Lizzie and her mother ran to the barn, wlien Lizzie fell prostrate almost on the body of her sister and expired. Frank Weisenb ach, seventeen years on, was playing with some oovson tae Harrison pike, near Cincinnati, Ohio. A water melon wagon passed along. The boys slipped up behind it and Weisinbacb reached in under the curtain for a melon. He suddenly uttered a stream and drew out his arai oleeding fearfully and the hand merely hanging by tne skin. He fainted and fell 11 the ground. One of the occuoauts of the watermelon wagon was oonceale I b«nind the curtain and witn a large knife, use* in cut ting melons, he caoppel off W’eiseaoach’a' bund. A new oil pipe line, rival to the Standard Oil Company, i« to be run from Northwest ern Pennsylvania to Newburg. on the Hud son. The '.ine will be 212 miles lonv, and will cost about $1,200,000. \ WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. The Fine Arts building at the W orld’s Fair will have a mosaic floor, the con tract for which bos been let at $16,989. Ontario (Canada) breeders of thorough bred animals have already applied for space for 163 horses, 193 cattle, 278 sheep and ninety-one swine. A SEPARATE building at the TYorld’s Fair for the shoe and leather industry exhibit is now an assured fact, as the required $100,000 has all been raised. A “model of the figure of Lot’s wife in salt” will appear in the Kansas World’s Fair exhibit to represent or illustrate the salt industry of the State. The German exhibit at the World’s Fair will contain an architectural display includ ing drawings illustrating 200 or more of the most notable buildings in the empire. The New York State Board of Charities is preparing an industrial exhibit for the World’s Fair of the products of the charita ble, corrective, reformatory and eleemosy nary institutions under its supervision. Fully 100,000 men, it is believed, will participate in the parade oh the occasion of the dedication of the World’s Fair buildings in October. The militiamen and “regulars” who will participate will number about 10,- 000. An Indiana stone quarry company is baying a life-sizo figure of an elephant chiseled oat of a solid block of stone. It will be eleven feet high and weigh thirty tons. It will be exhibited at the World’s Fair. Rhode Island will present its World’s Fair building to Chicago after the Exposi tion closes. The structure will bo very pic turesque in appearance, being a reproduc tion in part of the famous “Old Stone Mill" at Newport. Mrs. Potter Palmer, President of tha Board of Lily Managers, and Archbishop Ireland hav* agreed upon a plan for secur ing for the Yorld’s Fair an exhibit of the work of the Catholic women of the world. This project has the special approval of Pope Leo XIII. A whaliig party is being fitted out at a Massachusetts port with a view of obtaining a live whalefor exhibition in the Fisheries department at the World’s Fair. If cap tured, the waale will bo confined in a tank aud towed t« Chicago by way of the St. Lawrence River. M ore than 200 panels of native woods will enter iito the interior decoration of the Washingtonls World’s Fair building. Some of them will be carved and others decorated with paintings of Washington scenery and groupings cf flowers, fruits, grains, fish, game, birds, etc. Thk South Kensington Muse am, London, recently pail ilSG ($400) a yard for some lace manufacturer! in the south of Ireland. It is said that this is the highest price on record and that the lace is of the most exquisite workmanship. The lace will be *xhibite<l at the World’s Fair. An international congress of charities, correction ind philantrophy will be held at the World’s Fair, to consi ler questions relating to the care of criminals, paupers and unfortunates. The congress will begin June 12, 1893, and last one week. Ex-Presi- deut R. B. Hayes has been invited to pre side over its deliberations. Tee California Capitol will be represented in miniature at the World’s Fair by an ex hibition of pickles. The women ot I’Yesno County will distribute2500 pounds of raisins in couvenir boxes. A playing fountain of wine will form a feature o£ the viticultural display. A rose tree twenty-four inches in circumference will be oueot California’s ex hibits . The New York Central Railway, in its exhibit at tho Worla’s Fair, will strikingly illustrate the wonderful improvements that have leen made in railway transportation by showing a maguificient, complete vesti- buled train aud along side of it a reproduc tion of the first train of cars used in this country, the care of which resembled old- fashioned stage coaches. CROP REPORT. The Month’s Averages as Made by the Department ot Agriculture. • The crop^v^Srns of the Department of Agriculture thdw a slight improvement in the condition of corn, raising the monthly average from 81.1 in July to 82.5 in August. In only four years since the initiation of crop reporting has there been a lower August condition. In tbe year of worst failure, 1881, it was 79, declining to 66 in October. In 1S90 it was 73.3, declining to 70.6 in Octo ber. In August, 1886, it was 80.7, and in 1887 it was 80.5, declining later oaly in tbe latter year. A slight imorovement is indi cated in the States north of the Ohio River, and a greater advance in the States west of the Mississippi River, except Kansas and Nebraska. Con dition is high in nearly all the Southern States, neany the same as in July in the breadth west of the Missis-ippi, higher in the lower States of Atlantic Coast, and slightly lower in Alabama and Mississippi. A small decline is seen in the Mid dle States, except New York, and also in the Eastern States, though in both of these divisions the average is higher than in the West. The following averages of principal States are given: New Yorx, 90} Fennaylvania, S^; Virginia, 9); Georgia, 97; Texas, 94; Tennessee, 92; Oaio, 81; In diana. 74; Illinois, 73; Iowa, 79; Missouri, 88; Kansas, 81, Nebraska, 83. Most cor respondents indicate a present tendency to furtner imorovement. Tbe returns relating to spring wheat are lower, declining during the month from a general average of 93.9 to 87.3. Condition of other crops averages as fol lows: Spring rye. 89.8, instead of 92.7 in July; oat-. 86.2 a fail oc one point; barley, 91.1, instead of 92; buckwheat, acreage, 101.3, condition, 92.9; potatoes, 86.8, declin ing from 93; tobacco, 88.8, a fall from 92.7; hav, 93.2. Tue report shows a reduction in the con dition of cotton during July from 86.9 to 82.3. This is the lowest average since August. 1886, wnen tne general condition wai one point lower. Tbe season has been almost everywhere too wet, though in South Carolina and Georgia alternations of ex cessive rainfall and blistering sunshine have been injurious. The natural result of these conditions ap pears in grassy fields, rank plant growth and small fruitage, with considerable shedding. Grass worms and caterpillars have appeared in the more Southern and VVestern districts, but ny material damage has yet resulted. 1 he State averages of condition are Vir- inia, 83; North Carolina, 82; South Caro- ma, 83; Georgia, 84; Florida. Si; Alabama, 83; Mississipoi, 8l); Louisiana, 83; Texas, 86; Arkansas, 75; Tennessee, 79. HONOES TO RIGGIN. The Dead Sailors Remains Roach New York From Chile. ;rhe body of Charles W. Riggiu, the boat swain s mate of the United States eru.s?r Baltimore, who was killed by the mob in the riot at \ alparaiso, arrived at New o 0r « da ^ s a K° from Colon on the Pacific Mail steams iip Columbia The body wag i n charge of William B. Mc^reery, United States Consul at Valpa raiso. 1 A delegation from Philadelphia met the bodv. ) he de egation had among its num ber John K.Riggi n . a brother of the dead sailor, and Major R. M. J. in charge 0t 'Tn! ie / U j era Cerenionies at Philadelphia. The body was transferred from the steam- sbip, where it was sto ved between decks jost aft of the main hatchway, to the wharf. 1 he embalmed body was in a coffin which was encased in an hermetically sealed leaden casket. When it was removed to the w iarf it was wrapped in an American flag. The special steamboat which had been engaged to trans port the bo iy to Jarsey City was in readi ness. Consul Mcvreery turned the body over totbe Committee of Arrangements, find it was placed cn board the waiting steam boat. At 10:30 o’clock the steamboat started for the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Jersey City. Ihe body was then placed on board of a by the Pennsylvania delpbia. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Cholera is raging in Burmah. The drought in Texas is broEen. The cholera is still moving westward. The oat crop is reported a fair average one. Tourists are numerous in the White Mountains. The Agricultural Appropriation bill stops further foreign crop reports. The Queen's speech to the British Parlia ment is the shortest on record. Brazil has doubled its purchases of American cotton within a year. The drouth in Australia has been effec tual in destroying many thousands of rab bits. Great damage has been done to Spanish vineyards through the ravages of phyl loxera. The shipments of new crop India wheat to the English market are less than those of last year. Seven widows of Revolutionary soldiers are on the rolls of the Knoxville (Tenn.) pen sion office. After gathering in their crops in Utah, 500 Mormon families will move to Mexico in the autumn. The Chilean Senate will try the late Min isters of Balmaceda on charges of treason and corruption. The salmon pack on Columbia River, in Oregon, for the season just closed amounts to 448,000 casts. South Dakota is overrun with tramps. Farmers tried wiihout success to hire them. They are now being driven out of the coun- tr 3'- During their concert tour through G?r- many the New York Arion Society sung to over 50,000 persons aud added $5030 to var ious poor funds. Complaints are heard from Omaha that in many sections there are few or no grains of wheat in many heads which look plnmp acd promising. Astronomers throughout the United States expect great scientific results from the observation of the planet Mars, while in opposition to the earth. United States troops are driving “soon- ers” and cattlemen out of the Cherokee Strip. The latter are using all possible means to delay eviction. Professor Koch has gone to the cholera infected districts of Russia to renew his in vestigations into the cause of the disease, paving special attention to the comma bacillus. The New York Sun’s estimate points to a wheat yield in Minnesoti and the Dakotas of 100,000,000 to 120,000,00) bushels if the frosts hold off until the later sowu crop matures. * - --7W LAND OFFICE REPORT. Commissioner Carter’s Review ot the Operations During the Year. Land Commissioner Carter’s valedictory report of the operations of the Land Office for the past fiscal year has been made pub lic. The Commissioner says that, under the repeal of the timoer culture law, approved last year, large numbers of cases, long sus pended on the merest suspicion of fraud or under harsh technical rulings, have been passed to patent, aud more than 3 *0,003 ad ditional entries have been considered and propei - action taken. . 'Ihe total number of agricultural patents issued from 1885 to 1888 was 162,754, cover ing 26,040,009 acres; while tho total number of agncuK'-**.) patents issued from 1888 to 1892 was 398,128, covering 63,700,000 acres, substantially clearing tho docket and leaving tho office Iree to attend to current business. The total num ber of mineral patents issued from 1885 to 18?8 was 3708; the total number is sued from 1888 to 1892 was 7354, clearing the mineral and coal dockets. The total educa tional and internal improvement selections made from 1885 to 1888 were 334,000 acres, while from 1889 to 1892 the total selections made were 2,026,000 acres. In the matter of surveys and resurveys during the same periods like results were maintained. The acreage of public, lands disposed of during the d eal year was 1,571,003 acres. The miscellaneous entries aggregated 11,- 1)95,000 acres; Indian lands, 97,000, making a grand total m round figures of 13,664,003 acres. There were patented for the benefit of railway companies under Congressional grants during the past fiscal year 2,018,000 acres, as against an area patented for rail ways during the previous fiscal year of 8,088,- 000 acres. The total area of the v^eant public land in tbe United States is 567,586,000 acres, of which 283,691,000 acres have been sur veyed. CHOLERA PATIENTS SHOT. They Tried to Break INirough the Guards at Trebizond. The cholera is raging in Asia Minor, hav ing been brought there by travelers from Persia. At Trebizond, the capital of the vilayet of that name, not less than 1590 per sons are confined in the lazaretao, a rude enclosure outside the walls of the town. Many are restless under detention, and the other day made an effort to breaK through the cordon established around the lazaretto and to gam their freedom. The Turkish troops were summoned to prevent the es cape. A targe force of military hurried to the scene, aud the mob was ordered to disperse and return to the lazaretto. The mob re fused, whereuoon the troops were directed to fire. The soldiers sent a volley straight into the struggling mass, who were filling the air with cries and shouts of defiance. A number of persons fell, killed and wounded. This terrified the rioters, and the survivors returned, without further demon stration, to the lazaretto. The number of killed was eight and of wounded thirty- four. In Northern and Central Russia t he dis ease is increasing, and in Moscow twenty- three more factories have been closed, owing to the spread of the plague. The Grand Duke Sergius, Governor of Moscow, has surprised the people by his display of per sonal energy in dealing with the plague; while the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, granri- aaughter of Queen Victoria, devotes her personal attention to toe relief of the suffer ers. Besides the sanitary precautions taken, prayers are offered up daily in the churches for the abatement of the pestilence, and the monks of the various monasteries may be seen going in procession and chanting hymns. The authorities are enforcing a thorough cleansing of the filthier districts of rtf. Petersburg, much to tbe disgust of the lower classes, who object to being dis turbed. People who fail to obey tbe sanitary regulations are severely punished. THE NATIONAL GAME. Dwyer is Cincinnati’s winning pitcher. EhretIs Pittsburg’s only winning pitcher. New York leads even Boston in base- runmng. Boyle, of New York, plays first base to perlection. Beckley has superseded Miller as Pitts burg’s Captain. Ward, of Brooklyn, is sending visiting teams to the bat first. Hutchinson, of Chicago, is the best hot weatcer pitcher extant. Richardson, of Washington, is the star second baseman this year. Rusix, of New York, is one of the best bat ting pitchers in t.e country. New York never before had a team that could run bases like the present on?. There is not a pitcher living who can give Chamberlain, ot Philadelphia, points. New York is the only club making two pitchers—Kusie and Crane—do all the work. The Cincinnati team as now constituted is made up entirely of ex-Associatiou play ers. Radford, of Boston, is playing the strongest right field game of any player in America. Pfeffer, of Louisville, can play anywhere on & team, txcept behind the bat. He is even a fair pitcher. Sacrifice hitting wins too many games to be dispensed with by sensible managers and captains. Stricker is playing a wonderful second base for Baltimore and handling the team in a masterly manner. Daly, the catcher, seems to be Brooklyn’s utility man. He plays every position well, even at first trial. The Boston team is batting better now than at any time daring the first season when it was in the lead. Boston has, for this year, lost the reputa tion ot being the best ball city in the world. Brcoklyn is at present justly entitled to that distinction. Pfeffer, of Louisville, says Clausen has as good a drop ball as Ramsey ever had, and is a far better fielder. He is quite an acqui- sit.on to the Louisville team. Captain Ewing, of New York, is now playing behind the bat with all his old grace and skill. With Ewing at one end of the battery stolen bases will be few and far between. The famous old Chicago team has fur nished quite a few captains to tha profession apart from An;on, viz.: Gore, Kelly, Burns, Pfeffer, Duffy and Van Haltren. All have done, and are still doing, credit to their alma mater. The New York team is now batting with good judgment, particularly when bunting and sacrificing is required, and is running bases as no New York team has ever before ran them. The result is a most entertaining game, even if heavy slugging be lacking. Miller, of Pittsburg, is the only catcher in the country who does not use a chest pro tector when playing behind the bat. He has a clavicle which has several shades the bet ter of it when matched against the resisting jowers of a rubber bag inflated with air. A twelve-inning ball game in Brooklyn resulted in a victory for the Boston club. Btivetts really won it by making a home-run hit in the twelftn inning, while Tucker was on base, thus making the score 2 to 0 in favor of Bostou. Kelly, Tucker and Nash made a triple play in the fourth inning. Haddock pitched for Brooklyn and Stivetts for Bos ton. RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS. Clubs. Won. Lost. Cleveland.. 17 7 Philad’lp’a.15 9 Boston.. ..14 9 New York. 13 9 Brooklyn.. 13 11 Baltimore.. 12 11 Per | Per ct.; Clubs. Won. f.ost. et. ,7t/8 Pittsburg. 12 11 .522 .6;.* hicago...l0 14 .417 .609 JincinnatilO 14 .417 .591 vVashing’n 9 14 .391 .54‘: Louisville. 8 15 .34a .522iSt. Louis. 7 16 .304 A MURDERER AT BAY: The Desperate Fight Martin Reed Made for Libertj'. Martin Reed, who murdered Alexander Chapelle at the Burgettstown (Penn.) Fair last August, by giving him drugged whisky, who was condemned to death by the Wash ington County Court, and who escaped from jail five weeks ago, blew his brains out at 7 o’clock a few evenings ago, after a fight of five hours, in which he kept two hundred men at bay, killing one and wounding an other. At about 2 o’clock in the afternoon Chief of Police Orr, of Washington, Penn., with several policemen and citizens, surrounded Reed in an old dwelling, now used as an icehouse, on tne edge of the McDonald oil field, and not far from Noblestown. K.eed was summoned to surrender, but re fused, and when Chief Orr attempted to en ter the building Reed shot him tnrough the shoulder. The policemen opened fire on the house, and the tight was kept up all the af ternoon. the police being reenforced by two or three hundred citizens. At about 7 o’clock Hugh Coyle, of McDonald, attempted to enter the iceUouse, when Reed shot him through the head and again through the heart. The oil men. frieude of Coyle, who were present, then got a can of nitro-glycer- ine and exploded it in the building. The house was wrecked and the ruins caught fire. "When the fire was out Reed’s body was found charred to a crisp and with a bullet hole in his head. MARBLEHEAD LAUNCHED. I and at2:20 o’clock shipped to Phila“ Rockcastle County. Kentucky, soc purchased and distnouLed over the county about $8060 worth 0 f road tools ia the boo? of getting ite roads worked better. EIGHTY-SIX DROWNED. They Went Down in a Collision Off Finland. Later details of the collision, attended by a great loss of life, between steamers near the coast of Finland, show that two coasting steamers, the Ajax and the Runeberg, col lided off the port of Helsingfors, capital of Finland. The Ajax was crowded with pas sengers from Helsingfors, who were out for a sail. The Runeberg was in the coasting busi ness. The Ajax had s:arted our, an i, hav ing oeeu delayed on the return by a heavy fog, was not at high speed when tbe collis ion occurred. The Runeberg was going at ordinary speed, and struck the Ajax near the center, shattering that steamer so that tue water poured in in a torrent. The passengers on the Ajax, nearly all Swedish Fins, behaved with notable cour age. The men pushed the women and chil dren to the life buoys, thrown out by the Runeberg, and took their own cnances at struggling in the water. There was no time to lower boats, as the Ajax sank almost instantly, carryitig down nearly a hundred "passengers, Eighty-six persons were drowned and thirty-nine bodies Were recovered. It has been tea years since hogs were as high as they have been this summer. Values have been up to 16.17^ per 100. One ot the highest sales that has been made at Bt. Louis wss in 1682, when $<.75 was paid per TDe Last of the Three 2000-Ton Crnisers Slips Into the Water. Cruisar No. 11, the first large man-of-war launched in Boston sine? 1848, was put over board a few afternoons ago at the Harrison Loring ship yard at South Boston, Mass. Assistant Secretary J. R. Soley, Govern or Russel), members of the Massachusetts Legislature and representatives of Boston’s Board of Aldermen and Common Council were among the thousands of spectators ot the launching. All the ships in the neigh borhood were dressed with flags, as well as the cruiser herselt. About one o’clock all was in readiness, and as the ship started down the ways, Mr?. C. F. Allen, of Salem, broke a bottle of wine on the vessel’s stem aud christened her the Marblehead. The Marblehead was constructed at the ship yards of Harrison Loring, who re ceived the contract for building her Novem ber 11, 1889. The price agreed upon for the hull and machinery was $074,000. The principal dimensions of the cruiser are: Length on water line, 237 feet; beam, 37 feet: draught, 14‘^ feet; displacement, 2030 tons: maximum burs? power, 5400: speed, 17 knots. A RICH TRAIN CAPTURED. Mexican Brigands Make a Big Haul of Stiver Sulphides. The mail courier from Mazatlan brings information of a bold and successful rob bery committed by a band of brigands near Culiacan, in the State of Sinaloa, Mexico. A tram of ten burros was on the way from the Yedras mines to Culiacan, loaded witn $60,000 worth of silver sulphides in boxes lor export. It was guarded by twenty men, who were attacked in camp by fifteen bandits. Tnree of the guards were killed and the others were overpowered an i bound hand and foot. They were left in that condition by the brigands, who drove the mules with their precious loads into tbe deep recesses of tne Sierra Madre Mountains. A company of Government troops went in pursuit of the robbers. The annual leport issue! by State Comp troller Heppenaeirner shows tnat duriug tue past year mere were 1530 accidents on all the railroads in New Jersey. The number of persons killed iu the accidents was 331; 204 were killed or iniured by jumping from trains in motion. Tne elevation of the Penn sylvania Railroad tracks in Jersey City has greatly lessened the number of fatalities. An insane Chinese at Hillsboro. Oregon, chopped off his right band at the wrist. Ue sto colly made two strokes with a hatchet before tbe member droppe I off. Tbe oaly explanation that he mode was tnat the hand “stealer,’’ and he wanted to rid himself of tbe dishonest portion of bis anatomv. Padgett WILL PAY THE FREIGHT SAY! DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU Can buy any article of FURNITURE, Cooking Stoves, {Carpets, Mattings, Window Shades and Lace Curtains, Cor nice Poles, BABY CARRIAGES, I Clocks, Mirrors, Pic tures, Dinner Sets. Tea Sets, Chamber Sets, Mattresses, Comforts, Blankets and a thousand and one articles needed in a house delivered at your depot at the {same pr ce that you buy them in Au- |gusta? I CARRY EVERYTHING I You need, and can quote you prices that will sat isfy you that I am giving - a dollar value for every | dollar paid. Special Offer No. I- I To introduce my business in every neighborhood in the quickest possible manner, I will ship you one Bedroom Suite complete, consisting of One Bed- steady full size'' Bureau with glass. One Vv ash JSt One Centre Table, Four Cane Seat Chairs, One Rocker to match, well worth $20; but to introduce my goods in your neighborhood at once I will deliver the above suite at your railroad | depot, all charges paid, FOR ONLY $16.50, I When the cash comes with the order. BESIDES this Suite, I have a great many other Suites in Walnut, Oak, Poplar, and all the popular woods, running in price from the cheapest up to hundreds of dollars for a Suite. Special Bargain No. 2 Is our elegant Parlor Suite, seven pieces, walnut frames, upholstered in plush in popular colors, crimson, olive, blue, old gold, either in banded or in combination colors. This suite is sold for $40.00. I bought a large number of I them at a bankrupt sale in Chicago, hence I will deliver this tine Plush Suite, all charges paid by me, to your nearest railroad depot, for $33.00. Be- j sides these suites 1 have a great many other suites in all the latest shapes and styles, and can guarantee to please you. Bargain No. 3 I Is a Walnut Spring Seat Lounge, re duced from $9 to $7. All freight paid. Special Bargain No. 4 Is an elegant No. 7 Cooking Stove, I trimmed up complete for $11.50, all charges paid to your depot; or a 5- hole range with trimmings for $15. J Besides these I have the largest stoctc I of Cooking Stoves in tne city, includ- 1 imr The gauze door stoves and ranges, and the CHARTER OAK STOVES with patent wire gauze doors. I am delivering these stoves everysybere, all freight charges paid, at the price ot an I ordinary stove, while they are far I superior to any other stoves made. Full I particulars by mail. I 103 rolls of Matting, 40 yards to the roll, $5.50 per roll. 1003 Cornice Polls, 125 cents each; 100 Window Shades, 8x7 feet, on spring roller and frigned, at 37>£ cents each. You must pay your own freight on Cornice Poles, Window Shades and Clocks. I Now, see here, I cannot quote you I everything I have got in a store con taining 22,600 feet of floor room, be- I sides its annexes and factory in anotheP I part of the town. i I shall be pleased to send yc anything above mentioned, or will set my catalogue free if you will say yt saw this advertisement in The AIKSJ Recorder, published at Aiken, S. J ysyNo goods sent C. O. D., or I consignment. I refer you to tho edit and publisher of this paper, or to aj banking concern in Augusta, or to Southern Express Co., all whom me personally. 1 Yours, etc.; L. F. FADGETj DYER BUILDING. 805 Broad AUGUSTA, Proprietor Padgett's F| Stove and Carpet St Factory, Harrison 8t.