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I F VOL. XL EDWARD CROWNED. Coronation of the King and Queen 0f England WAS A HIGHLY IMPOSING AFFAIR The Occurrence Was One of Great Splendor, and Wns Witnessed By Tremendous Crowds. I Tjondon, By Cable.?Special..?Edward VIII. R. I., by the grace of Goti. of the United Kingdom of Great Bri tain and Ireland and of the British dominions beyond the seas. King. Ucfender of the Faith. Emperor of India was Sntunlay crowned without hitch or harm, in all respects the celebration Was impressive and it'was carried out with a perfection of detail and lark of accidents that has rarely characterized similar displays. That pride of Empire which marked Queen Victoria's jubilee was larking and in it.5 stead there pervaded all classes a keen recollection that only six weeks ngo their hirg lay in danger of death, and this day produced thankfulness and genuine sympathy for the man rather than adulation of the King. This feeling was voiced by the archbishop Of Canterblll V wheti ho InuorCn 1 in one of the? coronation prayers, the words, "For whose recovery wo now give the heartfelt thanks." Yet this did not prevent the public from voicing appreciation of such military dis play ns the short procession gave them a chance to see. Karl Roberts, commander-in-chief of the forces, was once more the hero of the hour, and next to the King himself, received the heartiest welcome of the assembled crowds. "Here comes good old Bobs!" was invariably the signal for all the reserve power of British lungs to be hi ought into play. Lord Roberts rode alone and constantly bowed and smiled acknowledgements of his greet- | Ing. Ixird Kitchener was not so early recognized but he was seen as be rode with General Sir Alfred Gasele and Admiral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, iind was the crowd's next favorite. At various points nlong the route of the procession l ord Kitchener received thunderous ovations, which he acknowledged neither by look nor by j bow, but as English crowds are used to this treatment from Lord Kitchener j it failed to suppress the enthusiasm Rut it was for the King and Quee.i themselves that people really let themselves loose. Throughout the day, wherever and whenever. Their Majesties were seen, the cheers were long and loud, and especially was this co on the return journey of the King a,1jL tpieen to Buckingham Palace. In Westminister Abbey, the scene , was nothing less than marvelous ! Noarlv 7 ftAA -? x " * .. ,.vuv iiitTiiiiH-rs or 'no noiillity the clcrpy and the gentry had Rath ered with foreign Princes, ambassa dors, Colonial rulers, Indian pot en tales and leaders from the furtherest ! quarter of the globe where the lrnion i Jack flies, to do honor to the King. Two incidents in the service in the Abbey will live in the memory of all who witnessed them. The first ol them, which almost developed into a dramatic contretemps. centered around the aged archbishop of Can terbury. From the commencement <>l the service the archbishop had the greatest difficulty in reading or re raemberlng the prayers. The book from which his almost blind eyes endeavored to read shook in his hands and when he came to place the crown unon King Edward's head, his huge f ime, towering above the seated King, swayed so violently that. th< bishop of Winchester had to support him, while the dean of Westminister put a guarding hand under the crown It was evident, that the archbishop of Canterbury could not see his King'shead, and, after grouping .tround hr was Just, about to complete the most important part of the ceremony, when it. was discovered that be had the crown with the back to the front. Cs l ?? ? oiuwly no raised it, hut too late. foi the choir had burst into- a loud "God Save the King!" Amid tension that had grown to a pitch of a painful nervousness, the archbishop finall managed to place the crown correctly upon the head of the King. A few minutes later came the climax of liis feebleness. He was kneeling to do the first homage of all subjects of the King, when suddenly he almost fainted and would have fallen upon his sovereign's knees had not King Edward tenderly, hut firmly, grasped the prelate's hands and lifted him io his feet. The bishops of London. Winchester. and Durham clasped their arms around tho archbishop of Canterrnn^ the King kissed his wrinkled hand, the archbishop's head fell back, his feet moved slowly and mechanically and thus he was moie carried than led from the throne to King Edward's chapel, where he was revived. Tho Queen's own crowning was brief and simple. When the four Duchesses went to hold a canopy over Her Majesty's head, the Duchess r-1 Marlborough and tho Duchess of Portland led the way. They performed their duties excellently. As tho eriiical period for which tho Peeresses had long practiced, namely, the putting on ORT F< of their coronets at the moment the Queen was crowned, approached, a flutter of nervousness ran through their ranks and coronets were pulled out and patted and pinched into shape, their faces hardened with anxiety and then all their arms suddenly went up. and coronets, large and small, were put in place, some crooked and soma straight. For the next five minutes. Peeresses disregarded what passed before them; first one and then another railed for advieo and help, and then ensued a mutual pushing of each other's coronets into place. No stage effect could have equalled the climax that ensued the moment the crown was placed upon Kins Edward's head, the sudden illumination by hundreds of electric lights making the thousands of priceless Jewels. Including those in the crown itself, to sparkle with dazzling brilliancy. The instantaneous movement of the Peers, the placing of their coronets upon their heads, the choir's loud "God Save the King!" with its unharraonious. vet genuine refrain from thousands of male and female throats, constituted sueh nu outburst of pent up thankfulness and rejoicing as oven Westminster Abbey, with all its historic traditions, never beforo witnessed. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Senator tjnny had a narrow escnne from drowning in u gale at Atlantic | City. The Crown Prince of Siatn will ar- i rive here a I milt October 1 to tour the j country. Klinu Root, Fnited Stales Secretary j of War. arrived at Carlsbad, Austria. ' lie intends to make a considerable stay Itussell Sago celebrated his eightysixth birthday by working hard in his j oilier, lie says lie has no intention of giving up liis business. Senator Ilaiitia declared to a meeting of railroad men in Cleveland that he i intends to devote the remainder of his ! life n? tlie solution of questions of cap- | ital and labor. (Icneral Miles is a brilliant French scholar despite the fact ttiat he did not 1 take up llie study of the language until late in life, lie studied it to till extra time while in the West. The Washington Post has laboriously | counted the capital 1's in a recent speech by Representative Jones, of Washington, a new member, and finds j that in the tirst forty-two lines of the effusion as it appeared in the Congres- 1 sional Record, the personal prououn occurs forty-seven times. l>r F.dward Kverctt Hale gave the T'niversit.v of Chicago students these three "practical working rules" the ! other day "Keep out in the open air as much as possinle. Have faith in your neighbor Make a practice of eru lii niiivcrsiinon each day some on*' vrliom you know to bo your su- | pcrior." When Queen Alexandra mot Lord Kitchener afior his rr.uru from South Africa she told him there was only one | tiling ncessary t?? make him every- | thing that could he desired, lie asked 1 her what that was. The Queen an- i swerod, "A clever, handsome wife." To which Lord Kitchener smilingly re- j joined. "That is a defect capable of , being remedied." NEWSY CLEANINGS. Good peaches were never more plen 11Till nor cheaper. It is estimated that there have been i 2K.o'mi eases of cholera in the lMiilip- i pines. Mrs. Neal Campbell has been arrest< d in Chicago, on the charge made by a j child of trafficking in infants. Orders have been issued to electrical ; companies in Baltimore, Md . to pluee j wires under ground within six months Itichard Ii-.nry Stoddard prononneed an eulogy on his dead wife at hfu I grave, this being tlie only funeral ceremony. The ami trust conference proposed l?y llie Czar will he ignored, it is said, l?y all the Powers, including the United States. A mammoth plant will be built at oik e in Richmond, Va.. by the Imperial Tobacco Company, of Great Britain, to light the American Trust. Archbishop Island in a sermon counseled Catholics to refrain from ngitn- j lion of the Philippines friar problem, i and defended the Administration. Mrs. Anna V. L. I'ierson, widow of I)t William Hugh Pierson, inventor of celluloid, committed suicide by hang iug tit lic-r home in Glen Hidge, N. J. With the Idaek cap over his head, George Itobinson waited to lie hanged at Wise Court House. Va.. while the Sheriff went to buy a second rope, the lirst having broke. It is authoritatively announced that Hear Admiral Lord Charles Bcrcsford will visit the United States this fall to study the United States Navy and inquire into the workings of Morgan's shipping *rust. A ring has been constructed in the yard of the State prison at Jackson. Mich., and a circus performance, lasting an hour and a half, given for the convicts. The full program of the circus was given, and the audience en :oyed the show immensely. Director Roberts of the United States mint estimates that peace in South Africa will add $100,000,000 a year to tho world's output, of gold. The Rand mines had about reached that mark, when hostilities practically dosed them. Mr. Roberts believes that South Africa vnn easily increase its gold production beyond any former flgures. MI] [>ltT MILL, S. ( WlilJ ARP ROASTS SLCDD. The Creator Made the Negro Inferior and lie Will Remain So. NO MATTER WHAT IS WRITTEN. Sledd, Bill Says, riitst Have Had a Diseased Imagination When He Wrote That Article Little things fret us more thnn l>ig ones. If I write that Neptune is sixteen hundred millions of miles front the sun and it comes out in print six on.. ."Hit fx ?- " " ~ i<;cu 11111nuns 11 worries inc. ir I write that the doctor sewed up luirc lips and it comes out hair lips. 1 don't like it. The type didn't know that a rabbit had a slit under its nose. If 1 write that I walked out Into the garden to let nty choler down, meaniug my anger, the typo tnlnks I meant my shirt collar, and so changes the spelling to suit his own idea. But since 1 read an editor's defense in a New York paper i feel better, for he says it is amazing how few of these mistakes are made in the great dailies that have to lie rushed through with lightning speed. The constant pressure on type setters and proof readers is tremeudous. but they rarely make any serious blunders, and the intelligent readers can generally correct thent in his mind. And so I will not worry any more about it. There are some other little things that are of more consequence juet now. Our cook has quit, and so has the house maid? gone off to Rockmart for a week or two ?gone to a house party. 1 think. That is all right, for the cook has been faithful a long time and needed rest. She is a good servant and keeps a clean kitchen, and wo hnvo had a house party ourselves for several months. 1 have been sick, but now we are reduced to the regular family of five and have but little to cook and can get along on two meals a day. My wife arranged it. for me to fire up the stove and fill up the kettles and grind the coffee and put on the hoxilny and then ring the bell for the girls to get up and finish up the breakfast. She said that if I felt like ft I might sweep out the hall and the front veranda and settle up the front room. XVell, of course, 1 had to split up some kindling and bring in tbe stove wood, but I am getting along fairly wall and my wife thinks the cxereise is doing me good. Last night she hinted that the veranda was badly tracked up since the rain and needed a good washing. So this morning 1 turned loose the hose pipe on it and she praised me right smart and I brought her some roses from my garden. We let her sleep until breakfast is ready, for she cleans up her room and makes up two beds and then sews all day for the grandchildren. But I want that colored house party to break up as soon as possible, for I don't hanker after this morning business as a regular job. Mrs. Mimms says she likes it, and I think she docs. She has a good room in the back yard and ennri fnrnifiiro nn.l > lamp to read by, and her li*?l-^ grandson lives with her. and 1 don't know of any colored woman that, has a b? tter time. In fact, I know of iots of good negroes in town who are contented with their situation and will continue ho if they are let alone by the northern fanatics and southern cranks. What craze has come over that man Sledd to cause him to write such a fool piece for the Boston magazine? What good can it possibly do, even if it was true? But it is not true and only the product of a diseased imagination. 1 would write hard things about hint but for his family connections. Wor their sake he had better have smothered his feelings and his pen. The Atlantic Monthly has never shown any love for the south, and why he should select that as his organ passeth comprehension. Professor Sledd says the negro is an inferior race. Then why does lie insist that we give him a plac? in outown churches and hotels and railroad cars? It was the work of the Creator that made him inferior, and he will remain so?and neither education nor miscegenation will ever change it .so far as social equality is concerned. Mioses violtTted the law of God when he. mardricd that Ethiopian woman,and he had todis card her, and Aaron and Miriam chided him for it long: afterwards. 'Numbers xil. The story goes, according to Josephus. that the Egyptians \v<y.c at war with theEthicpiansandhad suffered defeat in every battle until Pharaoh was advised that no oni could commend his army successfully but Moses. So Moses was given command and he marched with the army to the bordcrs.iof Ethiopia and met the enemy : nd defeated them and then marched on to Sana, the royal city, and attacked the walls, and Tharhls. the daugnter or tne King, rnw Moses from the window of her tower, and he was so handsome that she fell desperately in love with him and rat a raoscnger to hint to say that if he i would marry her she would surrender I the city and army to him. Menses agreed to this and their marriage was at once eonsumamted. Then Moses returned with his victorious army to Egypt. He did not take with him his Ethiopian wife, but not long after he married Zlpporah, the daughter of Jethro the Mtdlanlte. So we must suppose that. Moses mar- \ ried the Ethiopian princess as a war measure and with no idea of keeping his promise. At any rate it caused trouble and shame in the family, and so it has done ever since whenever a white "erson mates with a negro. 1 ^ f ll : 'NESDAY. AUGUST 1.3 Wliat rt monstrous falsehood to say that the southern negro is dehumanized. Right here in our town ever* negro moehanic is employed Jit good wages. Blacksmiths, carpenters, masons, painters. draymen are all busy. Cooks, nurses and washerwomen find constant employment?and they arp not only contented, hut sometimes dare to he merry and laugh. Where did Sledd get all that rot auotu Kicking and cursing afld boating the negro? We never hear of such treatment in this region. Mr. Milam, a truthful gentleman, whose husines. 5:reps him on the street, told me the other day that he had heard but otu oath uttered by anybody within a year, and that was by a northern man towards a negro who asked hint a civil question. Dehumanized, indeed! Ask Tribble and Brown who give their shops the roost patronage. What ridiculous folly to demand seats in our churches for the negroes. They have churches of their own that were built mainly by the charity of the white folks. They don't want seats in our churches. They have schools of their own that wo support, and they have excursions and baseball and watermelons and funerals and Daughters of Zion. Ob. for shame on Sledd! 1 pity his family and his kindred, lie thinks he has found a marc's nest, and for lack ol , something fresh has raked up Bam Hose again, lie laments the lynehings, but not the outrages, and he proposes a remedy. Mr. Sledd can set this down ?that the lynehings will not stop until the outrages do. When a negro (Hiumauizes himself and becomes a beast he ought to he lynched, whether it is Sunday or Monday. Let the lynching go on. This is the sentiment of our people, and let Boston and the Atlantic Monthly and Sledd howl. We are used to that. Not long ago we had a lynching in Rome that was to my notion. The beast was strung tip in Broad street in the daytime and shot to pieces and nobody was disguised. The judge lived there and sheriff and town inarshels find iKilirAmnit o?/i n ;it ? ? ? ?1IU u. inm 1*1 iv ? *?iii|iauv, and the governor wasn't far away, but not n soul said nay. That suits me exactly.? Bill Ari> in Atlanta Constituj tion. Killiil lO-Yenr-Olit Wife anil IflniKelf. Itiley Watklns. aged twenty-seven, shot ami killed his girl wife and then 1 j blew out his own brains in St. Louis, j 1 Mo. The young wife had left her lius- j < band and returned to her parents' | home. The murdered wife was not yet j sixteen. Two Drowned In Hie lloticittonic. Captain tJcorge Culliver. aged tlftytive, and Miss Iva Muller. aged twentythree, were drowned in the lloiisatonie It Ivor. at Stratford. Conn., by the capsizing of a skiff. 1'erNoitul Mention. Tin? Duke of Cambridge has lived under tlvc sovereigns of England Rear-Admiral Charles E. Clark is a native of Vermont, where he was born in 1840. lie lias been in the naval serviee since IStiO. Hudyard Kipling will move to Tunbridge Wells to escape the crowds that have sought him at ltottiugdeau, near llrightoii. England. Former Senator Peffer is writing reviews of certain periods of American history, and is engaged on a work dealing* with capital and labor. LABOR WORLD. There is a great demand for skilled laborers of all kinds at Ogden, Utah. A reduction in wages is about to he made by the American Tin Plate Company. Teamsters at Pittsburg, Pa., are dismissing the question of a higher wage scale. At Mitchell. It. C., the miners' strike has been settled, the companies there agreeing to recognize the union. Street railway employes at Troy, N. Y., have settled their dispute with the United Traction Company by arbitration. Machinists from Xr-mnio.i -- lived to take the place of strikers at the locomotive works at Kingston, Ontario. Striking carpenters at Buffalo have returned to work at thirty-three cents in hour. The strike was the result of i demand for thirty-seven and one-half cents. Jlcseshoers at Albany, N. Y., have settled their differences with employers. All demands were granted excepting that for the extra hour on SatI unlay. The longshoremen and marine and ] transport workers at Chicago, I1L, have amalgamated and will endeavor to regulate salaries and redress grievances. Wages of Northumberland, England, miners have been further reduced three and three-fourth per cent, under the regulations of the Conciliation Board Definite steps toward organizing the ' railroad employes of Louisville, Ky? ! into a branch of the United Brotherj hood of Bail way Emnlovea hum taken. Carpenters at Baltimore. Md.. have refused to a crept a compromise offered by the contractors, hut demand a day or nine hours, eight hours on Saturday. The school hoard of Florence, Wis., has decreed that the teachers In its ! employ must not dance on any night preceding a school day. The board opines that when a teacher dances until breakfast time she is not in condition properly to discharge her regu> lar duties. rr i I \ riME ,1902. RELIGIOUS ARMIES AT WAR | The Volunteers of America and the' Salvationists at Loggerheads. A Fierce Striicglr in AIlfglictiTi l'a., For Choice Coriipr* AT here Open-Air May Ito Held. Piltshnrg. Tin* Salvation Army anil the Volunteers are at loggerheads in Allegheny. Cltoiee earners where thoy may hold their open air meetings are holng sharply fought for. and only the gospel of peine, whieli tlie litigants prejieli. has prevented elashes over .their possession, liming ilie pas; we'k relations between tlie two organisatiotts have been strained almost to the breaking point, and ti. re seems to 1h% fnrther unpleasantness in store. The iwn unities :m* ?-sseiitkilly oppom ms. The Volunli'i r>< of America \ re <?riratii/.rd hy liallinuti'M 1?<oth. a; it his quarrel with his father, ilemwal \Yiii iaiii Ifooth. founder anil executive head uf tit" army. It* purposes ami nie.l: oils aro much like those of tile oriyii al organization. hut there are distin.tive differences which have kept the two from licim; couI'm- .1 in the popular mitiil wherever they o mpy ? ,im i n ground. Coinplaiitt was ttiaile to the Police Department coia crnie. : th.e ?1 itli ettlty, hut Superintend' lit II toy Moth i explained that he was not in a po- ,:i m to Interfere, since the pei-uiit . al!< wed the workers to go wherevw they pleased. >o long as there was no impediment to trallie or complaint from ! tin residents. There seems to he u > room for dottht :ts to the jnsti: e >>' t he position taken hy >!r. \|uiii ami nnless there is same clash h iwccn tic i two organizations there i- lift" prolia hillly of police illici t I retire. I i|e yt ill eanso of the trouble is veiled in mi lory. Karl: party f - is confident that j right is on its side, hut there can I c 1:0 doulit that there is trotlhle. FAMINE IN HONEY PREDICTED. Continued ItatiiH Saitl to lluvr Kepi Iter* til T'trlr lilies. tleneva. N. Y.?T1 w. I weather is j causing shortage In the pit .Ittetioti of j I liouey. which is likely to n sttl: in a j famine in thai sweet commodity The I rnlu keeps the hot s in their hives, ami | also deprives tin-in of f 10.1 in I big the nectar ami pollen from tin1 tlowcrs. As n result the ho !? per- iii tin: neighborhood of ticiievn report that their bees arc ill :i s'aic ?> ' actual starvation. and they h:ive lent t?> resort to artificial food. They ex en have i i '*ihie in (loin:; this on neeotliu of roving ! sxvarms of rohher bees, xvho scent the 1 food and take possession of ihe hives. 1 When they oliee got in it i< vi ry hard to get tlieni out. and a battle sitsues bat ween the rightful oeeu|iants and . | the intruders. To diniini-h the danger of starvation the heekeeiiers have had to kill the drones in the hives, it' the bees can work throughout the month of August there may he eliae.eo of a small crop of hutlcv. in some h>ealities tlie liees depend for their fee 1 on plants that hleotn early in ihe sum iner. and thus the rainx season ba> directly and seriotislx affected them. Either rains or drouth is said to have affected I lie bees in nearly every St; to. A YEAR !N THE SAVINGS BANKSl.epnrt of Stole Siiperlntenili-i.t Ki'lttiru For I lie Ifnlf Veal*. Albany. N. Y.?Superintendent I*, h. Kllburn eompleted his taluilalii u : -h i\x ing the condition of the savings hanks of tlie State at the (lose of bus.in tune ::n. These insiitnlions hold for depositors Sl.n."l.usii.tsu, which is an increase during the year of S'il.ii'lT. 'ITS. The aggregate resnurei > of li e savings hanks is ^1.1 and the 11 loonni <>r i l..a 1 - ... ..mh r>ui|iiiis. ngttrctl on the nnrkot value of their slocks nn<l hotels, is $1 iri.rpiii.riiiii, which is lr.vs i>y s'.-r*.t. r.SC, than on .Inly 1. I'.HH. Must of this decrease Is believed to ho due t<> n do crease in the estimatcd value of real ?stato. Including hanking houses. The uunihcr of open amounts increased during tin* year hy '.?!>. s~l. Tito hnsinoss of tlio hanks shows a slight not loss during the your In thp ratio ol growth. Thp total tiniount deposited was $'J5M1.SItt.I'Sti, which was an in crease over thp previous year, of $11. 7>!23,1!N). Thp atnount withdrawn was f'Jon.tiT t.S#.', which wits tin increase of fIt?,." (The interest given hy the hanks shows an increase front !?.TJ,GOti, 74G to $.'M.l8iUllO. RAN AWAY IN HUSBAND'S CLOTHES. A Cleveland Wnimiii Works an h Midi on n Farm Near Roi lteHter. Chili. N. Y. ? Deputy Sheriffs railed int.. ei>" ni.u \ inn to make a raid on a camp of chicken stealers made the discovery tlint a woman has boon masquer ndlng as a hired man on Spencer Widencr's farm for most of the summer The woman at first denied lcr sex. bu? after being landed in jail on the charge of impersonating a man. confessed all and told her captors a remarkable j story. The woman has been going un der the name of .Tames Mnedougnll. She Is small hut broad shouldered and when arrayed in her overalls and blue loan Jumper made a handsome, sturdy looking hoy. Speneer Wiilcner, on whose farm the wnpian worked, refused to believe that his willing and aetlvo young farmhand was in reality a woman. He said that sin- had taken to farm work "like ti duck takes to water." She was known as ".litnmie the Kid." and had won many friends. The deputy sheriff spotted her as a 1 woman by the way in which she climbed a ladder while they were asking questions* about the chicken thieves. What will bo done with her the officials do not scent to know. i ' :s. NO. 21. mrnmmm WASHINGTON ITKMS, N State Department has been infdrjned that Cuban House lirt* passed .a 1?lll for n loan of $:tT?.(H>0.iKH>. Tho real object of (tit* naval maueuvrcs planned by tin- bonnl headed by Admiral lb-wry. it is said, in to impress on Congress and thr countr.v thr nrrd of a great increase of the Navy. President Roosevelt eonlirmed the sentence of dismissal imposed on a West Point cadet for hazing. The campaign textbook issued by the Republican Congress Committee contrasts the policies of the Republican and l>eniocratic parties on trusts aud other great public questions. Time for tho completion of the seven submarine boats was extended by the (lovenunetit from t wo to seven months. Distribution of flower and vegetable seeds by the tlovernment will tie start od September 1, tlirec months earlier til.-Ill usual. Minister W'u Ting-fang was untitled that lie will not lie relieved l?y Sir l.inng Cheng. the new Chinese Minister to ilie I'liitvd States, until about January 1. one AIlOPTKIl ISI.AMtS. It is said in Koine that the Vatican will appoint an American prelate as Apostolic Delegate at Manila. A force of Filipino fanatics was de foaled with heavy loss by police In Tayaltas Province. Thirty lliousand Filipinos have been vaccinated by American physicians. Cholera is decreasing in Manila, but increasing in the provinces. The Fnited States transport (leneral Alava will go out from Manila to meet Coventor Tuft at Singapore. A free telegraph school was established by ihe Interior Department\of I'orto Itieo. The Hawaiian Attorney-!Jetteral rendered an opinion r!??t the former Omen. I.iiiiiokalani. must pay an income tax on the pension of $7J?00 a year which she receives front the Territorial treasury. DOM KSTIC. A deul |o Hip death was fought at Iiiil< |>< ndeiieo. Texas, by John Arnold and Wesley Davis, colored, each fatally wounding the other. Dies for the Filipino coins are to he cut at the Philadelphia Mint. Texas stoeUnun will make the experiment of pasturing cattle in Canada. President Sehurtuan of Cornell Fillversity spoke on the Philippine problem at Chautauqua, N. Y. Coventor Stone, of Pennsylvania, deelined to accede to the request for withdrawal of the troops in the strike region. saying it was neither wise nor prudent. Many of the coast defenses along tlie Atlantic seaboard are declared ittelllcicnt. Forma! announcement was made in Newport. K. I., of the engagement of Kcgiuahl C. Yanderhiit and Miss Kathleen (I. Neilsou. The Skyscraper Trust was hound to come; and now* it has arrived. The concern will he ready to start the business of construction of twenty-story high steel cages in all the larger cities by October 1 next. An extensive cattle show* is to he given in November by the I'ennsyl; \ania l.ive Stock Association. Alter killing Lottie Itlissell. n waitress. at Salt Lake ('it.v. Ctnh. J. C. Met\aslin. a well known mining engineer, committed suicide. Charged Willi being an expert founlerfeiter, Alfred S. Cunningham is under arrest at < 'hleago. Coventor Wldte, of West Virginia, offered $."<!(? reward for the conviction of any person en jinked in the recent lynching* in Itandoiph County. I?r. I']. M. ICngle, of Beaumont. Texas, wealthy and prominent, committed suicide. Crand Duke Boris. a cousin of the Czar, reached San Francisco, Col., for a tour of the i'nited States. Federal olHeers discovered that Chinamen were beingsmuggled into Texas from Mexico in prairie schooners. .Miss Anna It. Collier, of Worcester, and .Miss .fean Brown, of Detroit, .Mich., were caught by. the undertow while bathing at Hull, Mass., and drowned. FOREIGN. Canada Is to hnve a steamship service between some one of its ports and South Africa. King Victor of Italy will visit tho Czar of Russia to propose a reduction in Coiitinctal armaments. Germany is arranging to increase its naval force l?y lto.0?.*0 men tills year. Professor Jaggs., at Fort do France, Martinique, predicts . " her eruptions from Pelee. It is thought that the German Empdor will not agree to a plan for disarmament of Continental powers. it was denied that an attempt to assassinate President Lonbet of France was made. More than 12.000 applications to reopen schools in France have been made. An effort is on foot iu the Argentine Republic to suppress lotteries and to clo.se garni ding houses. No agreement lias been readied, it is said, by tin- Rritisli colonial conference in regard to a custom union. A statue iu memory of M. Pasteur was unveiled a few days ago at Dole, France, his birthplace.