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' Mexico would like to have a commer
cial treaty with the United State*, but
ia too proud, thinks the New Tork
Telegram, to take the initiative since
Grant-Romero treaty was rejected.
“The Exposition of 1882 will,” pre
dicts the New York Tribune, “draw
the greatest crowds ever assembled on
American soil. But it will not be cred
itable to this big and wealthy town if
that concourse of visitors secs General
Grant’s tomb in its present neglected
state, or the Washington Arch com
pleted only on paper.”
Governor Alger of Michigan, who
has recently visited Alaska, says: “I
learned at Sitka, that Alaska has a total
population of 32,000, of which 16,000
are Esquimaux, 12,000 Indians and
three or four thousand white persons.
In the interior the country is not in
habitable on account of the mosquitoes,
which often drive bears and other wild
beasts to the coast during the summer
months. Its only value to the govern
ment is its mineral resources and its
fisheries. ”
In view of the approaching census
the New Era of Lancaster, Penn., ad
vises farmers especially to begin prepar
ing statistics bearing on their occupa
tion. “Every man,” it says, “who
cultivates an acre of wheat or corn or
sets out a tobacco plant ought to keep
an accurate account of the results of his
labor. Everything pertaining to the
farm should bo scrupulously written
down, whether it pertains to crops,
stocky wages or prices. That will sim
plify matters when the census-taker
comes along and insure accuracy besides.
It is especially desirous that we should
have an accurate enumeration of all our
crops in this country; not a mere guess,
but the bottom facts themselves. This
can only be had if every individual
farmer goes to work on his own hook
and carefully puts down all the facts so
far as they relate to himself and his own
farm.”
The Yellow river has again proved the
fitness of the epithet which calls it
“China’s sorrow” by another destruc
tive inundation. Following so soon
upon the one which recently made enor
mous ravages, it may well reduce both
the Imperial Government and the suffer
ing region to despair. The Hoang-Ho,
rising in the mountains of Thibet,
brings down in its long course from the
highlands a vast volume of silt, which
is deposited irregularly here and there,
and the exact place where an overflow is
to occur cannot be foretold. The sim
ple over-passing of its banks is not the
only difficulty. This river has been
known to turn aside from its customary
bed and to seek a different and distant
outlet to the ocean. This does not ap
pear to be the case at present; still, the
loss of life is said to b* incalcub
On these disasters so»tim» , r^_?L
famines^ona^th*—loss d^crops. The
7?hinese Government has expended
great sums on various engineering de
vices, but the best remedy would be to
put the whole matter in the hands of
foreign engineers of the highest ability.
S»ys the Cincinnati Enquirer'. Proba-
y no one subject is attracting more
sneral attention throughout the
►untry than the wonderful ubiquity of
e representatives of English syndi-
fes in securing investments for the
.pital they possess. The natural
icstion that arises to the American of
contemplative mood studying this
ibject is: “How is it that all this
oney is lying idle in Great Britain?”
cores of explanations have been made
' the problem, but the most intelligent
id reasonable one is that given by an
□glish lawyer, who came to this
>untry to investigate into real estate
>r the purpose of placing a syndicate’s
mds in it. According to him the cap-
al is not entirely English, but that of
ic continent. All Europe appears to
2 flooding London with money seeking
pportunity for profitable investment,
ranee, Germany, Italy and the whole
mtinent are deejily interested in
ie negotiations now pending
l the various parts of this
juntry for the purchase of in-
ustrial establishments. In reply to a
uery as to what was the matter with
luropean investments the Briton frank-
r admitted that the industries of that
ountry had not been making money be-
suse the thinking classes—all being of
ie belief that it was only a matter of
ime when the continent would be in-
olved in a great war—had withdrawn
rom home securities, and in order to
repare for a rainy day had started the
icney to this country. The wonderful
scupcration of the United States after
lie Civil War has convinced foreigners
f the stability of its Government, and
hat investments here are perfectly se-
ure. Again, they recognize that a war
a Europe would benefit the Americans
acre than any class, and in direct coa-
equence European investors in Ameri-
an enterprises would profit thereby.
Lassoed a Bear.
The Globe, Arizona, Silcer Belt says:
lenteria, while riding the range out
our miles from McMillen, ran across a
>ig bear, and before bruin knew what
vas up Rente: ia’s lariat was fast about
i neck and he was gasping for wind.
,e bear was a tough customer to
adle, weighing about 300 pounds,
i Renteria pluckily stayed with him
finally succeeded in choking bruin
ith and dragging him into camp.
TELEGRAPHIC TICES.
An Interesting Budget of Late
Dispatches.
The Animal 0. A. B. Encampment
at Milwaukee Adjourns.
The National Encampment, G. A. R., has
closed its session at Milwaukee, Wis. The
pension question was again taken up and de~
bated at length. Finally a resolution was
adopted affirming the action of the twenty-
second National Encampment upon the mat
ter and instructing the Pension Com
mittee to use all possible means to secure legis
lation in accordance with the resolutions of
that encampment. By this action the en
campment indorses both disability and per
diem bills for the second time.
Majority and minority reports were sub
mitted on the proposition of the Department
of Massachusetts disfranchising; past depart
ment commanders, and allowing them here
after simply seats upon the floor of the en
campment as visitors. The effect of this
■would have been to largely reduce the vot
ing strength of the future bodies. The reso
lution was finally defeated by a vote of 187
to 38.
An adverse report was presented and ap
proved. upon the proposition to give the
eldest Sons of Veterans a qualified member
ship in the order.
A resolution favoring an amendment to
the Pension laws by which soldiers’ widows
should continue to receive pensions on re
marrying was rejected.
A letter of thanks from Mrs. Sheridan re
lating to the insertion in the last report of a
memorial sheet and picture of her deceased
husband was read by General Warner.,
After the appointment of the Council of
Administration General Warner expressed
his appreciation of the confidence and sup-
E ort which had been extended him during
is term of office and introduced his succes
sor, General Alger. The new Commander-in-
Chief, with the subordinate officers, were for
mally installed with the usual ceremonies,
and with three cheers the delegates filed out
of the hall.
Melvin Garlitz Hanged.
Melvin E. Garlitz has been banged at
Cumberland, Md., for the murder of his
wife. He showed no signs of fear on the
scaffold and died without extraordinary
struggling.
Garlitz made a statement on the night be
fore his execution as follows: “I desire to
express my gratified appreciation of the
treatment of the Sheriff and his family to
me while in jail; also the constant and con
siderate attention of the guards. I would
like to have seen my little daughter before I
died and to be buried beside my wife, but
my father-in-law refused both requests. I
die without any malice in my heart toward
any person.” ;
Garlitz’s crime was a most atrocious one.
On March 26 last, he shot his wife five times
on the streets of Cumberland Md. He held
the weapon so close to his victim that the
dress caught fire. Garlitz put out the fire be
fore he escaped to Martinsburg, W- Va. He
was arrested that night. His trial lasted
eight days, the jury bringing in a verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree. He ap
pealed, but the decision was sustained by the
Court of Appeals.
Garlitz eloped with his victim, Leah Eva
White, a beautiful girl. They were married
in Pennsylvania, but their married life did
not prove happy, and a separation followed.
Garlitz accused his wife of infidelity, and
claims that upon her forced admission he
shot her down.
Death by the Guillotine. .
At 5 o'clock in the morning about 2000
persons witnessed the beheading of Nael, the
murderer, in a public square at St. Pierre,
Miquelon, a French possession off the New
foundland coast by means of the guillotine.
A straight jacket was put on the prisoner
and his hands were tied behind his back.
After this a wagon took him from the jail to
the court house, where he confessed to the
Judges, saying that liquor caused him to
commit the murder, from the court house
he was taken to a public square, where he was
beheaded. He kissed the priest six times be
fore he walked to the platform. It was a
chum of Nael who was to drop the knife.
Nael, turning to the crowd, said: “Dear
my name is Nael. Jufe the fOW
Pierre. I am
Sbrry for what I have done, and I hope in
St. Pierre no execution like this will ever
happen again. May God protect you all.”
He was then laid on his face on a plank and
lashed to it. The plank was pushed into
place under the knife. Nael then said to the
executioner: “Do not make a botch of the
job.” The executioner touched a spring and
the triangular knife fell, but it did not sever
the head, although death resulted instantly.
. .il
Injured in the Naval Battle.
During the naval battle at Milwaukee,
Wis., during the G. A. R. celebration in the
bay, a cannon on the United Stjites revenue
cutter Fessenden was discharged nremature-
ly, and two sailors—John Schulz, of Detroit;
and Charles Mottshead, of Montreal, Canada
—were seriously injured about the hands.
Mottshead’s hands will have to be amputated.
A mortar exploded on one of the mortar
boats and two sailors, Frank Sayles and S.
S. Rock, were painfully but not seriously
injured.
William Bate, eighteen years of age, was
also injured by the premature discharge of
a mortar on the steamboat Henry Sill, of
Racine, and received severe burns about the
right hip and ankle.
Several veterans were overcome by the
heat and smoke, but were taken to the tents
of the Red Cross, where they were well
taken care of.
His Nap was Fatal.
Two freight trains on the Buffalo, New
York and Pennsylvania Railroad came to
gether at Colgrove Station, Penn. Fifteen
cars were wrecked and one engineer, J. B.
Comstock, was killed. A brakeman was
badly injured by jumping from the train.
The wreck took fire, but was extinguished
by a hose company. Two tramps who were
stealing a ride were buried under the wreck
andkiUed. Engineer Comstock had orders
to wait for the extra freight at Colgrove,
and it is supposed he was asleep when the ac
cident occurred.
10,000 Lives Lost.
Despatches received from Japan increase
the horrors of the story of the destruction of
life'and property by the recent typhoons and
the flootfs accompanying them.
It is now estimated that 10,000 persons
were drowned or were killed at Wakayama.
Junks, crops and various material were de
stroyed to an amoupt utterly incalculable.
There has been terrible suffering among the
survivors. Over twenty thousand people
are left homeless and without the ordinary
necessities of life.
Two Murderers Hanged.
William Walker and Jack Spaniard, re
spited from August 9, have been hanged in
the jail yard at Fort Smith, Ark., the execu
tion being witnessed by only a few persons. _
Walker's crime was the murder of Calvin
Church in Indian Territory about two years
ago.
Jack Spaniard, a half-breed Creek Indian,
murdered United States Deputy Marshal
Erwin in Indian Territory.
A CLOUDBURST.
Five Dams Carried Away and Miles
of Hallway Track Torn Up.
A cloudburst over Rockingham and vi
cinity, in North Carolina, destroyed the
Hams of the following mills at and near that
place: The Pee Dee, the Rober Dee, the
Great Falls, the Midway and the Ledbetters.
The machinery on the first floors of the Pee
Dee and the Great Falls mills were consider
ably damaged as was also the Midway build-
in*-. The damage was estimated at $100,000.
Five hundred hands were thrown out of em-
^iSe railroad track of the Carolina & Suf
folk Railroad for fifteen miles was more or
less tom up, and there were several wash
outs on the Palmetto road between Cheraw
and Hamlet.
The Great Bear’s Nest gold mine in Alas,
ka, recently purchased by the Duke of Suther
land and a syndicate of English capitalists,
1 3 aoo
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eaaterm and Middle State*.
At Paradise, Penn., a German farmer
named Philip Hemickle deliberately set his
own barn on fire and perished in die
A combination of Eastern has
been formed to purchase all the coal prop
erty along the Monongahela River in Penn
sylvania, and control the river coal bnsinees.
It has been decided that it will require $13,-
000,000 to complete the deal, including the
aggregate of stock the sellers are willing to
take.
Genxrai. Isaac F. Shepard died at
Bellingham, Maas., aged seventy-three. He
was a poet, statesman, journalist and
soldier.
A valuable vein of ochre, a rich yellow
metal extensively employed in the manufac
ture of paints, has been discovered on the
south side of Neversink Mountain, near the
Black Bear Inn, three miles east of Reading,
Penn.
Mart Ann Donnellt, a nurse-maid, was
stabbed and fatally wounded at Atlantic
City, N. J., by Mrs. Hamilton, wife of
Robert H. Hamilton, in the Noll Cottage.
The water in the rivers at Johnstown,
Penn., is getting very low, and as a conse
quence a great deal of pestilence-breeding
matter is being exposed. The stench along
the river bank is becoming unbearable. The
body of a child was recently taken out of the
sand near the stone bridge.
Mrs. John Aston, of Taylorsville, Penn,
poured kerosene on the kitchen fire. The oil
blazed up and enveloped the woman and her
babe in flames, the child being in a cradle
near the stove. Both were burned to death.
The house of Robert King, residing in Jef
ferson Township, Penn, was burned, and
Mrs. King perished in the flames.
J. K. Toole has been nominated for Gov
ernor. H. Conrad for Lieutenant-Governor,
and Martin Maginnis for Congress by the
Montana Democratic State Convention.
An oil tank exploded in the penitentiary at
Columbus. Ohio, which did damage to the
extent of $150,000.
Ten thousand visitors and exhibitors
from all parts of the country were presen at
the formal opening of the Grangers’ National
Exhibition grounds at Carlisle, Penn.
The Convention of the National Editorial
Association has been held at Detroit.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated
the eightieth anniversary of his birth at his
summer home at Beverly Farms, tytass.
Sheriff Flack, of New York city, owing
to the scandal caused by obtaining a divorce
surreptitiously from his wife, has tendered
his resignation to Governor Hill.
South and West.
The T. J. Mahler Carriage Company, of
St. Paul, Minn., has made a voluntary
assignment to ex-Congressman John L. Mc
Donald. The liabilities are placed at $400,-
000.
The trial of the six men indicted for the
murder of Dr. Patrick Cronin has com
menced at Chicago.
Jacob Thompson, of Port Tobacco, Mo.,
hanged himself to a cherry tree because of a
loss of $1800, which he had hoarded for many
years.
The Union Furniture Company at Rock
ford, 111., has been burned. Loss, $127,000;
half insured. Ralph Emerson, William
Ward and Fireman Cavanaugh were knocked
from a building by a hose, and fell forty feet.
Emerson was killed.
Four tramps arrested at Moberly, Mo.,
for vagrancy, were put up at auction and
sold, the highest price brought being $2.
At San Francisco, Cal., the new United
States cruiser Charleston had a satisfactory
official trial.
Fifty persons were.injured in a railroad
wreck at Kingman*, 111.
Reports from the Indian Territory state
that cattle are dying by hundreds of Texas
feycr in that section.
Trainmen on the Alabama Great Southern
Railroads’ train, report that they saw two
dead colored men swinging to limbs of trees
a few miles from Meridian, Miss. They were
told in Meridian that two of the editors of
the Independent, who were run out of Selma,
Ala., were caught there and were lynched.
The Scotch bond holders of the Oi
Railroad have unanimously
the road to C. P. Huntington.
“Gus” Klan, a tinsmith, who gave evi
dence in the Cronin[ case, was badly
in Chicago by a
American Bar Association met at
Chicago, David Dudley Field making the an
nual address. j
The Ohio Democratic State Convention at
Dayton nominated a full ticket headed by
Hon. James E. Campbell for Governor. The
platform favors tariff reduction.
At the national encampment of the G. A.
R. at Milwaukee, a resolution endorsing Cor
poral Tanner in his administration of the
affairs of the Pension Bureau was unanimous
ly adopted.
The office of the Times-Reeord at Valley
City, Dakota, has been mobbed and every
thing destroyed. The editor is a prohibition
ist
A. M. Pulliam, formerly County Judge of
Hardinsburg, Ky., has been sent to the peni
tentiary for fifteen years for murder.
Fire has wiped out nearly the entire bus-
ness portion of Dansville, Mich.
Mbs. P. E. Bennett and her sister, Mrs.
Dodson, were killed at Milwaukee, Wis.,
while returning from the G. A. R. celebra
tion. A Chicago and Northwestern engine
struck the buggy in which they were riding.
The Republicans of South Dakota in State
Convention assembled at Huron, nominated
A. C. Mellette, of Coddington, for Governor
by acclamation.
Washington.
The official report on the Boston shows
the accident to that vessel to have been even
more serious than was at first supposed. It
is thought that $100,000 will hardly be
sufficient to put the vessel in condition for
sea service again.
The President has appointed Charles R.
Flint, of New York, and ex-Seuator Henry
G. Davis, of West Virginia, delegates to the
Three Americas Congress, in place of Messrs.
Whyte and Pitkin.
Secretary of War Proctor has accepted
the resignation from the army of Surgeon
Joseph Y. Porter, who resigned because he
was ordered from Jacksonville to Louisiana.
The State Department at Washington has
been informed that the Government of Para
guay has accepted the invitation of the Uni
ted States to attend the International Con
gress, and that a delegate will soon be ap
pointed.
The President has appointed General
James M. Warner Postmaster at Albany,
N. Y., and Mr. James M. Bailey Surveyor
of the Port at Albany.
turned out to be perfectly worthless.
te will to
, has — r .
The loss to the syndicate
! $2,000,000.
foot up near
Foreign.
The wife of William R. Lewis, United
States Consul to Tangiers, Morocco, died a
few days ago at that place.
A severe earthquake shock has been felt
throughout Greece. Serious damage was
done in several towns.
The owners of Canadian sealers have,
through the Dominion Government, formal
ly demanded the protection of Great Britain.
William O’Brien and Mr. James Gil-
hooly, members of the British Parliament,
have been sentenced to two months and six
weeks imprisonment without labor respec
tively, for holding a Nationalist meeting
which had been proclaimed.
The crops have turned out very badly in
Russian Poland and a famine is predicted
there and in Galicia.
The earthquake shocks caused a panic in
many Grecian towns, and the inhabitants
passed the night in the open air, fearing that
their dwellings were unsafe. The damage
was done at Etalicon, where nearly half the
houses were so much shaken up that they are
no longer habitable.
Hau of. the city of Dubno on the Ireva
in Russia, has been destroyed by fire. The
losses are enormous, and many persons are
homeless. Dubno is in Volhynia, thirty-two
miles west of Ostrog, and has a population of
over 8000 people.
An earthquake was experienced on the
Russian frontier. In the village of Khen-
zorik 129 persons were buried alive.
Four boys in Matamoras, Mexico, were
struck by lightning and ail killed.
The jury of the Paris Exposition has
recommended that a gold medal be awarded
to Boston for its educational exhibits. Simi
lar recommendations have been made in favor
of Cornell University and the University of
Virginia.
Mbs. Maybrick, the
convicted of murder in
removed to the Wo
the regular prison garb <
She looked well
Advices from Samoa
MaBetoa declines tor the j
the royal prerogative on i
neas, and that *>-*»«*- i
The Government
Catholic university in
excitement in political c
Ireland.
There is a bad —
Montenegro and the peo{
prospect of a famine.
Owing to the failure of i
prevails in Maros-To
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HIS OWN FI
lAt PYEE.
fTh
Paradise, N. J., Excised Over a Hor
rible Traj :ed|r.
The town of Paradise, i ear
tains, in New Jersey, has
dreadful tragedy, which
ror of the country
around.
Philip Heinickle, a
mer, has for some j
that he would burn
was paid to him, as it
would carry out his
The other day he
in which was stored all
to that it was filled to b
a fire at the four
soon blazing and
and smoke shot high' in <
miles around.
Some of his neighbors wan1
the fire, but with a gesture hi
aid, and they could do nothin;
gazing at a distance, for thi
intense that a close view of
comfortable.
Suddenly they were hor^Med at seeing
Heinickle deliberately throw) 1 limself into the
flames when they were at their height.
Nothing could be done to pr^v ;nt his terrible
act, as no one was near enoug i to him at the
time.
When the flames went doWi l and the em
bers had cooled so that a sea rch among the,
ruins was possible, his char red and
consumed body was foundering the embers:
several hours later.
the BlueMoun-
the scene of a
cited the hor-
many miles
o German far-
made threats
but little heed
ot believed he
large barn,
ner harvest,
and kindled
e bam was
tile the flames
showing for
to put out
refused their
but stand idly
es were so
fire was un-
HBE IN SACKETlIS HARBOR
The Business Part of I
New York Village
The business portion of
of Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y.j
stroyed by fire, involving a 1c
000. The telegraph and telf
Rome, Watertown
Railroad ticket
in the place, dry goods' _
hardware and general stores,
houses containing the suj
Government contractors
barracks, and the best
village below the raf j
were all destroyed. There wl
fire department, and theeffod]
States regulars at Madison'
old-fashioned hand-pump 1
saved the entire village
tion. The Water to wd
ment were called upon
to the assistance of 1'
Harbor authorities, but the .
control when they arrived t
cently the taxpayers had vote^
propriation to ipufchase a stet
The fire originated in Bolo';
which was vacant, and is si
been of incendiary origin.
ie Historic
royed.
•rie village
been de-
[of about $40,-
tne office, the
Ogdensburg
r ery saloon
, stores,
td the ware-
; of the
Madison
of the
tracks
no organized
of theUnited
:ks, with an
' te, alone
>m destruc-
Depart-
and Went
Sackett’s
was under
A. M. Re-
|pwn an ap-
gine.
building,
to have
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Parnell intends to visit America.
The Pope has had his inrge bed room filled
with singing birds.
A soft black hat is President Harrison’s
favorite headgear. |
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, is the pub
lisher of her new novel, “His Honor.”
Queen Victoria has expends! nearly $3,-
000,000 on memorials to thePrince Consort.
George Alfred T^w? (“Oath”) is
writing a new ' **
jvhu
Milan OBRENOvrrca; ex4^te g? Servia,
has an income of ninety tnonsaud dollars
and is steadily running into debt.
George W. Williams (colored), the his
torian of the colored race in America, is liv
ing at Worcester, Mass., engaged at literary
work.
The Duke of Portland has been influenced
by his wife to devote his future earn
ings on the turf to the erection of alms
houses.
The late 8. L. M. Barlow, the great New
York corporation lawyer, had received dur
ing his lifetime several fees of from $25,000
to $100,000.
Miss Huntington, the daughter of the
California millionaire, is betrothed to Prince
Hartzfeldt, the nephew of the German am
bassador to this country.
The greatest honor which Electrician Edi-
' — 1 — J *■*-- ^articular at-
learaed mem-
iy
Fifteen President^ have visited New Eng
land as P residents, reckoning the two Adamses
and Pierce among the number, and four
went hither before they became Presidents.
Miss Mary Waxamaker, daughter of the
Postmaster-General, will make her debut in
Washington this season. She is not out of
her teens yet, but is an accomplished girl of
considerable beauty.
Rumors are rife in London as to the health
of the Prince of Wales, which is .said to be
much impaired. It is also said that he seeks
to keep the real truth of his condition from
the newspaper reading public.
John H. B. Latrobe, of Baltimore, is the
oldest practicing lawyer in the United States.
He is eighty-six years old, and was admitted
to the bar sixty-five years ago. Mr. Latrobe
is the father of Baltimore’s Mayor.
George W. Childs, the wealthy Philadel
phia editor, owns a number of the handsom
est carriages in the city, but does not ride in
them once a year. He is very fond of walk
ing, and goes wherever he can on foot.
The once famous historian, J. T. Headley,
is still living. He says that he feels just os
Bret Harte, Howells and other popular
writers will feel after fifty years hence, the
truth of the old adage, “Every dog has his
day.”
Among the well known figures at Saratoga,
N. Y., during the season was Judge Henry
L. Clinton, of New York city, once an active
lawyer, but now retired. He claims to have
defended and saved one hundred persons
from the gallows.
The Baltimore American editor ally de
clares that Robert Garrett's restoration to
health is assured. He attends to his large
correspondence, and on his return to Balti
more will resume active business life and take
personal charge of his large railroad enter
prises.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, is one of the
few men in the Senate wearing a beard, but
having a smooth upper lip. Senator Sawyer,
of Wisconsin, is another. Senator Plumb, of
Kansas, cultivates a short beard cut some
what after the style of an imperial. But the
majority of the public men wear mustaches.
The Emperor of Germany rode recklessly
at the recent Aldershot review during his
visit to England. His seat on horseback is
described as the reverse of good, being loose
and buckety, the sort known as “wash ball.”
However, his left arm cannot be useless, as
he more than once pulled his horse on his
haunches with it.
Justice Field, of the Supreme Court, who
has attained so much unwelcome notoriety
recently because of the killing of Judge Terry
is a small man, owing to his short legs. His
front is impressive. His forehead is high,
running back into polished baldness; his re
maining hair is bushy and silvery, and his
beard a venerable white. He is a very digni
fied man by nature.
The official statement of the Vienna Grain
Congress shows that wheat in Europe is fif
teen per cent, less than last year, and the
shortage in Austria-Hungary, Russia and
Roumania is 100,000,000 bushels.
The electricians are perhaps i
try. Elec
the bosket set
ot people in the country. Electric roads are
likely to be constructed in thirty or forty
cities this winter and next spring.
mm AM VETERANS.
Twenty-third National Encamp
ment Held in Milwaukee.
General B. A. Alger, of Michigan,
Elected Gommander-in-Ghief.
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GENERAL R. a. ALGER, OF MICHIGAN.
Thirty-five thousand veterans took part in
the parade of the Grand Army of the Re
public at thelTwenty-third National Encamp
ment in Milwaukee. General Sherman and
Commander-in-Chief Warner shared the
honor of the hour with General Logan’s
widow, who, with Mrs. Alger and Senator
Manderson, occupied the front tier of
the reviewing stand. The city was
crowded with strangers, and the veterans,
who came from all sections of the Union,
were heartily cheered. The Pennsylvania
delegation made the best appearance of any
organization in the line.
Overflowing central camp fires were held
at night at West Side Turner Hall and Light
Horse Squadron Armory, besides a dozen
minor ones. At West Side Turner Hall
Mayor Thomas H. Brown delivered an ad
dress of welcome and Commissioner of Pen
sions Tanner responded. General Warner
£ resided and made a brief address. General
iucius Fairchild presided at the other camp
fire. A monster war song concert, attended
by 5000 veterans and others, was given in a
large tent in Juneau Park. Mrs. John A.
Logan held a reception at the Court House,
and was escorted tnere by the entire Illinois
Department of 2000 veterans.
Second Bay’s Proceedings.
The real business of the Twenty-third En
campment opened on the following morning
at Turner Hall, when General Warner called
the delegates to order. About seven hun
dred were present. The Committee on Cre
dentials occupied considerable time. The
proceedings were held with closed doors.
After prayer by Chaplain Wharton, of the
Wisconsin Department, Commander Warner
read his address. He said that the growth of
the organization had been steady and healthy.
Th*e net gain in membership during the year
(in good standing) was 21,431. He commended
the practice of the posts in the Department
of New York of presenting on February 22d
the American flag to such public schools as
are not yet iq possession of one. On the sub
ject of jpensibas, with which his address
closed. General Warner said:
“The last encampment, after much discus
sion, by a practically unanimous vote, recom
mended to Congress a service-pension bill,
and what is known as the Disability Pension
bill, the latter having received the reported
approval of previous, encampments. This
action was tbs' result of compromise, and, in
my judgement, *'*as as wise as it was just and
conservative. My experience in Congress leads
me to believe that you will greatly
strengthen the hands of our friends in that
body by demanding at Milwaukee the
pension legislation asked for at Colum
bus. Let the Committee on Pensions take
your recommendations to Congress, back
ed by a united Grand Army of the Republic,
and there will be no failure. If we are true
to ourselves, before the next encampment
every comrade disabled by age, sickness or
it, and-the vidowa- and oj
r Black and Secre-
: also made brief re-
Adjutant-General,
idge
ension
tary of Agri<
marks. ,
. The reports the
master4Juiera], Judge Advocate-
and Surgeon-General were then read,
after which the Encampment took a recess
for two hours. In the afternoon Boston was
chosen as the place for the next annual En
campment, the steady quiet work of the
Massachusetts men during the two days be
ing rewarded by a handsome majority over
Washington and Saratoga.
■ Theannual reunion of the Veteran Signal
Corps was held and elected Governor J. B.
Foraker, of Chios President.
Very unexpectedly the Grand Army dele-
S .tes proceeded to an election of officers at
e night session. General Russell A. Alger,
of Detroit, had it all his own way. Twenty
men nominated him, Colonel James Sexton,
of Chicago, first presenting his name. All
the other candidates were then withdrawn
and General Alger was elected by ac
clamation, Colonel A. G. Weissert, of Mil
waukee, was elected Senior Vice-Com
mander, and John F. Lovett, of New Jersey,
'Junior Vice-Commander.
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SKETCH OF THE NEW COMMANDER.
• General Russell A. Alger was born on
February 27, 1836, in Lafayette Township,
Medina County, Ohio. His father came from
Connecticut and his mother from Vermont.
When but twelve years old his mother
died, and shortly afterward his father and
elder sister were stricken with death, and
the young boy was left without a dollar in
the world, and a younger brother
and sister to care for. Obtaining
places for these he started out in the world.
In 1850 he hired himself out to a farmer, he tc
receive $3 for the first month, $4 for the
second, and $5 for the next four months.
In 1860 young Alger went to Michigan, and
with a small amount of borrowed capital en
gaged in the lumber business at Grand Rapids,
which soon afterward collapsed. He was mar
ried to Miss Annette H. Henry, daughter of
W. G. Henry, of Grand Rapids, in 1861, and
when the war broke out he entered the
army, and was elected a Captain in the Sec
ond Michigan Cavalry.
; At Boonville, Miss., Captain Alger had his
Bide crushed in and five ribs broken by being
dismounted, his horse being shot.
By general promotion, after participating
in sixty-six battles, he was brevetted Briga
dier and Major-General, and resigned from
the service because of injuries received from
his horse on September 20, 1S64. After
this he went into the north woods of Michi
gan, and, with funds furnished him by
Franklin and Stephen Moore, entered
eovernment lands at $1.25 an acre.
In 1867-68, with his wife, he took up
his life in the woods to work his way.
In 1884 General Alger was elected Governor
of Michigan.
Although now worth about $5,000,000 it is
said that General Alger never sued a man or
was sued in his life.
LATEB NEWS.
The reward of $50,000 for the capture of
Tascott, the alleged murderer of Millionaire
Snell in Chicago, has been renewed.
WHEAT GOES HP IN SMOKE.
Ten Thousand Tons Bnrned at Port
Costa, Cal.
One of the McNear wheat warehouses at
Port Costa, in California, with about 10,000
tons of wheat, has been destroyed by fire, as
well as forty-two cars belonging to the
Southern Pacific. The total loss is estimated
at $700,000.
The fire was discovered by the night watch-
m&n of the warehouse in which the flames
broke out. He said the whole end of the
building was in flames before he detected
anything wrong. An alarm was sent out,
but few firemen could be had and no tugs
were at hand. As the wind was from off
shore it was seen at once that the American
ship Armenia and the British ships
Honauwar and Kenilworth would
go also unless they could get
clear of the wharf. There were only four
men on each, and they could not manage the
large vessels in time. Almost in a moment
the fire was leaping up the rigging, and by
the time the vessels were cast off they were
floating pillars of fire drifting away across
Sen Pablo Bay and lighting up Mare Island
Navy Yard, Vallejo and the surrounding
country for miles.
Meanwhile on the shore the efforts of the
firemen succeeded in stopping the flames.
One engine, which was at nand, was utilized
to save can loaded with wheat, but the heat
was so intense the work had to be abandoned
and forty-two loaded can went up in smoke.
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1 The Erie Canal franchise including liabili
ties has been sold at sheriff’s mle for $0000,
the purchaser being Colonel Thompson, at
torney for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany.
The Vanderbilts have purchased the Beech
Creek Railroad in Pennsylvania, enabling
them to form a direct line from Philadelphia
to Chicago 150 miles shorter than any now
existing.
- An explosion of hot metal occurred in the
Homestead Steel Works of Carnegie, Phipps
& Co., at Pittsburg,instantly killing Andrew
Kebbler and another workman and injuring
seven others, two, it was thought, fatally.
The Citizens’ Bank at Prairie City, Iowa,
has failed, liabilities estimated at from $75,-
000 to $100,000.
William E. Denny, the defaulting Post
master at Booneville, Indiana, has confessed
to the District-Attorney that he lost the
whole amount, $6300, at card playing.
The Democratic State Convention of
North Dakota has nominated R. M. Roach,
of Walsh County, for Governor, and a full
State ticket.
Wilson Nockum, a colored man, was
hanged at Plaquemine, La., in public, over
1000 persons witnessing the execution.
: Mrs. W. E. Christian, nee Julia Jackson,
the only child of Stonewall Jackson, died at
Charlotte, N. C., after two weeks’ illness of
typhoid fever.
'-‘.The contractors for the gunboat Petrel will
not ask for another trial. They will ask the
Government to accept the vessel, preferring
to suffer the penalty for deficient horse-power
rather than try further to reach the contract
requirements.
I Postmaster-General Wanahaezr offers
a reward of $1000 for the arrest and convic
tion in the United States Court of any per
son found guilty of making an armed attack
upon any stage coach or railway train hav
ing the mails in transit.
: Pekin advices are that a number of high
Chinese officials have petitioned Prince Chun
to have all Americans employed in China ex
pelled from the Empire. It is stated that
Prince Chun consents.
; The British Parliament has been pro
rogued. The Queen in her speech to the
Lords said: “A conference held in Berlin has
•greed upon a convention regulating the
Government of the Samoan islands. The in
strument has been accepted by me and by
the German Emperor, and now awaits the
•sseut of the American Senate.”
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Pittsburg was the first to lose a series.
Extra inning games are now frequent.
A female team is making a tour of Can
ada.
Pittsburg has inaugurated a “Ladie^
Day.”
Morris, of Pittsburg, is pitching as well ai
he ever did.
Anson, of Chicago, was bom in Marshall
town, Iowa.
Joe Hornung is the best captain Balti
more ever had.
Pittsburg is having a hard time of it with
the pitching talent.
Hartford has had eight ex-major league
players this season.
Crane, the New York’s pitcher, kicks the
beam at 220 pounds.
In the absence of Faatz, Tabeau always
captains the Clevelands.
Clarkson, of Boston, leads the pitchers ic
number of games played.
Titco^b, late of the New Yorks, is being
hit hard in the International..
at short the Chica-
gos are harder to beat than ever.
Krock, recently of Chicago and Indian
apolis, has signed with Milwaukee.
Louisville has won only one game from
Brooklyn and Cincinnati this season.
The Columbus Club has released pitcher
George, late of New York, at his request.
Roger Connor has participated in every
game played by the New Yorks this season.
St. Louis made twelve runs in one inning
off Foreman, the pitcher of the Baltimore
team.
Morris, of Pittsburg,has done the most ef
fective work in the box of any of the League
twirlers.
• Dude Esterbrook now captains the Hack-
ett, Carhart & Co. commercial nine, of New
York city.
Brouthers, of Boston, has made 150 safe
hits. He was the first League batsman to
reach that figure.
Ewing, of the New Yorks, is ahead so far
as the best catcher in the League, closely
followed by Zimmer, of the Clevelands.
Crane, of the New Yorks, is the only
f itcher who has succeded in striking out
routhers, of the Bostons, twice this season.
The Pittsburgs have shown the Eastern
teams a better front than any other Western
team. They have won more games from
them.
Ganzel says that young Daley, the Jersey
City (N. J.) player, recently signed by Boston,
has the malting of one of the best twirlers in
the land.
Pitcher Tim Keefe, of the New Yorks,
was married recently to Mrs. Helm, ol
Worcester, a sister of Helen Dauvray, Short
stop John Ward’s wife.
Omaha, Neb., has the temperance -team
par excellence of the West. It is claimed
that there is not one drinker in the team,
which will in all probability win the Western
Association penant.
Ward, of New York, has stolen more
bases than any other player in the League.
Duffy and Ryan, of the Chicagos, have
scored the greatest number of runs, each
having made over 100.
Gumbert leads Chicago in home runs,
Denny, Indianapolis; Connor, New York;
Beckley, Pittsburg; Thompson, Philadel
phia; Brouthers, Boston; Wilmot, Washing
ton, and Tebeau, Cleveland.
Glasscock, of Indianapolis, has had 10C
more chances at fielding than any other
player in the League, and yet he is second
among the short stops, McKean, of the
Clevelands, leading him by a very small per
centage.
In common with many other players,
John Morrill thinks the pitchers ought to be
put back five feet. That is only a question
of time. The pitcher’s overshadowing im
portance must be reduced, and an increased
S itching distance is the only thing that wil)
o it without giving the batsman undue ad
vantage.
When Sam Wise, of Washington, came tc
the bat in the first inning of a recent game
at Boston, Umpire Knight called for a hall
in the hostilities, and handed the ex-Bosto
nian an elegant bouquet of flowers, to which
there was attached a little bag containing
$150 in $5 gold pieces. The whole was the
gift of Boston friends.
A game starred in by Pitcher Jack Kornei
against Hartford, Conn., recently, will and
should go on record as one of the most re
markable ever pitched in a championship
series. Twenty-eight men only were at bat,
but one man got as far as second base, where
he was left, and he was the only man left on
base; two single hits, one base on balls—the
first man at bat—and no wild pitch, with
time of game sixty-eight minutes, is Horner’s
record.
league record.
Won.
Zest. Percentage.
63
85
.643
62
38
.820
53
47
.530
54
51
.514
50
53
.485
48
58
.458
44
61
.419
33
64
.840
Boston....
New York.
Philadelphi
Chicago...
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD.
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Baltimore
Athletic 58
Cincinnati
Kansas City
Columbus
Louisville
LONDON’S LABOR TROUBLES;
TSdOOO
Boslne
Workmen Strike.
A cablegram from London gives the foil
lowing particulars in regard to the strikaj
now in progrem there:
London is an inland town, and
remain such for some time to come,
communication with the rest of
world by water is as comp
cut off as though the Thames had dried
The great ships lying at the docks cam
load nor discharge their cargoes, and the j
mense traffic of the greatest commercial <
of the world lies at the mercy of men com*
merdally rated at $1.00 a day.
The strike and its cor
man, woman and
No meat is arriving 1
in Mark Lane are paralyzed, and maize ad
vanced $1.25 the quarter for immediate use.
The strike which was begun by the dock
laborers, and which subsequently spread to ths
carmen, has now extended to the Inames iron
workers, and the gas stokers threaten to join)
forces with the strikers. There was aliq
talk of compelling laborers In all tho trades
to quit work and force matters to an issue a8
once. The ironworkers’ strike adds 7000 to;
the number of unemployed. The man were'
orderly.
The shipping business is
lyzed, ana mail steamers are leaving i
cargos. The tinplaters at Bermondsey,
suburb of London, have joined the strikers.)
In Rotherhithe, the shipbuilding district of*
London, processions of strikers are march
ing continually.
Eight thousand sailors and firemen anil
8500 dockmen at Isle of Dogs, where several
large docks are located, have gone out. Thel
authorities became apprehensive of troubled
and held the military in readiness to suppress)
an outbreak should it occur. The coal
porters at King’s Cross have also joined in
the strike.
In consequence of the strike thousands of
tons of mutton are rotting, it being impoasi- 1
ble to find men to handle the stock.
All classes of workingmen are dissatisfied, i
and there is no telling where the strike wflT
not extend to. It is estimated that over!
7&000 men are on strike now.
A BBAVE DEED.
i
Engineer Meern’a Perilous Jonrney In
a Flooded Mine.
! Forty-five men were at work in the Alle
gheny mine, thirteen miles from Cumberland,
Md., when the wall between it and the ad
joining worket out Boston and AStna
mine gave v iy from pressure ot
water In the old mine. The water
flowed steadily in a strong stream over four
feat in depth, and there were grave fears for
the men inside. Hours passed before any
relief could be given the prisoners, and dur
ing that time the scenes around the month of
the pit were heartrending,
f Finally the water subsided so that an en
trance could be gained, and H. P. Meern, the
mining engineer of the company, started
down in search of the imprisoned
men, none of the outsiders being
willing to make the venture. After
wading through water, against a strong cur
rent up to his armpits, for the distance of
1500 feet, he came to a group of forty-three
men, who told him of a man and boy im
prisoned in a distant room. No one would
go to. their relief, but the engineer
started on again, and finding the
two, he placed the boy on his shoulder and
bidding the man follow, turned back and
joined the group. They seemed terrified
. -- judgme—- ""— J “’'— J
and without
ent. They declined to
go forward, and did so only after Meem
had taken the lead with the child
on his shoulder. Fortunately all escaped.;
Meern’s courage In entering the ruins, the
hope and encouragement he gave the en
tombed employes when he met them, may be
justly considered their salvation.
FIVE MEN KILLED.
A Bolling Mill at Towanda, Penn.,'
Blows Up.
The rolling mill and nail factory at To*
Bradford County. Eaun o^mTAtedhtr
wanq
r, Godcharles A Co., has been partially
wrecked by the explosion of a boiler, the dis
aster resulting in the instant death of five
men, the fatal in jury of two others and slight
injury of a dozen other workmen.
Ths force of the explosioon was terrific,
lifting the entire roof off the southern por
tion of the mill, tearing away the rafters and
girders and allowing the whole mass to
crush into the mill and upon the terri
fied force of workmen, who were scat
tering in every direction and crouch
ing behind all kinds of obstacles to escape the
fury of the hissing steam, which was filling
the structure from the nest of boilers that
were displaced and broken in their steam
connections by the exploding boilers, pieces
of which were hurled through the mill.
The larger portion of the bursted boiler
was carried through the side of the mill,
landing in a mass of scrap iron fully 150 feet
away. The explosion’s awful sound was
heard all through the town and great crowds
of the inhabitants rushed to the mill to leant
its effect.
DISASTERS IN THE EAST.
China and Japan Visited by Typhoons
and Floods of Great Severity.
North China and Japan have been visited
by a series of typhoons of almost unprece
dented violence. The number of junks and
lives that have been lost through inunda
tions at Wengehow and Ningpo is enormous.
According to the latest intelligence from
Japan, too, the number of persons who have
lost their lives by drowning in consequence
of the floods is at the lowest estimate five
thousand.
£i
On a recent afternoon at Miles Cit;
Montana, a hot wind came up from the soutl
east and blew for about three hours at a ve-l
locity of nearly fifteen miles per hour. Thej
temperature was ninety-five degrees, the hot
test known for years. It was almost un-.
bearable, and people sought refuge in houses.)
Fruit and vegetables in front of stores were)
wilted. * * . ;
THE MARKETS.
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43 ®
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Won.
Zoet. Percentage.
71
85
.670
69
86
.657
60
44
.577
58
44
.569
68
49
.642
43
62
.410
41
68
.876
23
83 ...
.218
35 NEW YORK.
Beeves 8 57J^@ 4 60
Milch Cows, com. to good.. .30 00 @45 00
Calves, common to prime... 2 75 @ 3 65
Sheep 4 25 @ 5 25
Lamos ® 25 (!t 6 75
Hogs—Live 4 40 @ 4 50
Dressed 8)
Flour—City Mill Extra 4 25 @ 4 40
Patents 4 75 @ 5 85
Wheat—No. 2 Red 87 @
Rye—State
Barley—Two-rowed State..
Com—Ungraded Mixed....
Oats—No. 1 White
Mixed Western 24^®
Hay—No. 1 *£ @
Straw—Long Uye * a @
Lard—City Steam —
Butter—Elgin Creamery-••• 18 OT
Daily, fair to good. 13 <8
West. Im. Creamery
Factory
Cheese—State Factory 6^@
Skims—Light 0 @
Western ® @
Eggs—State and Pehn
BUFFALO.
Steers—Western............ 3 25
Sheep—Medium to Good... • 4 25 (<5
Lamos—Fair to Good 4 50 @
Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks 4 70 @
Flour—Family 5 00 @
Wheat—No. 2 Northern — @
Com—No. 3, Yellow
Oats—No. 2, White 29 &
Barley—No. 1 Canada &
BOSTON.
Flour—Spring Wheat Pat’s.. 5 75 & 6 15
Corn—Steamer Yellow 48>£@ 48
Oats—No. 2 White 22 5! S
Rye—State 6o <3 <C
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef—Dressed weight 5J^@ 6J
Sheep—Live weight 3 @ 4>
Lambs » «
Hogs—Northern
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour—Penn, family 4 00 @ 4 26
Wheat—No. % Red, Aug.... 83 @
Cora—No. 2, Mixed, Aug... 4JJi@
Oats—Ungraded White. 26 @
Potatoes—Early Rose — §
Butter—Creamery Extra 17 g
Cheese—Part skims 5 <8
3 00
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