THE NEWS, Jabob Whittier forced six dynsmi'e caps into Miss Dollie Walton's mouth, in Denver, and made ber swallow them —— Robert Bar. bour, president o’ the Barbour Flax Spin- ning Company, died in Paterson, N. J., of apoplexy. He was boru in Ireland in 15 4. $e came to this country in 18365, and estabe lished an extensive American industry. He was also interesto l in large linen at Lisburn, Ireland. He left a fol tune various, works of saciations of } opular the the traveling Oliver P. Pinde |, «x president Commercial Traveler, A United Btates, and a salesman for the pa t twenty yea s, diel in Columbus, OQ iio, aged forty-five. —=A fire broke out in the Blossburg Mine, four miles south of Raton, N. M. Over a hundred mon were at work in the m'ne, but all escaped through an atandoned shaft. All the mul s and mine cars were de: tsoved.] These mines are operated by the A. T. & 8 F. Railroad, and are the la'ges: in New Mexic o, the average production being about seventy-five cars a day. About five men thrown out of work.—The Michizan Penin sula Car Company's works, in West Detroit, burned down. Loss will probably be half a million. ——=Sydney Wo tham was shot and killed while on his way, with other good gitizens, to raid a house of ill-reputs in Dan. ville, Ky.——Sam Lancaster drank six beer glasses of whiskey in Knoxville, Tenn., and dropped dead. Mrs. D. E. Park, aged sixty six years, of Washington, D. C., 8 saloon passongar on the steamey Servis, which sailed from Liver. pool on November 12, and arrived in New York. died on bord on the 10th inst. of heart failure,——The hearse horses ran away in Brown City, Mich., and the body of Joshua Summers, which was Ye ng taien to hundred are y badly mutilated. ——The st:amer Anzlomen arrived in Boston from Liverpool! with the erew of th: wrecked bark Cubena, of Lon- don, —Tra n-wreckers placa obsiructions on the tracks of the Western and Atlante Railroad two miles from Atlanta. gine and four cars left the track. En ;ineer fquires ani his fireman were seriously, jer haps fatally, injured. A train was wrecked at the sama spot a year ago in the same way by fas eninz an iron bani across the rails The purpose of the wreckers is suppose d to be robbery.—John Fulton, living near Reading, was shot by a party of tr sportsmen whom he oi dered off the pace The on- annssing passing Alexander Jones, James Fox and Hughes have teen found guilty of slaughter in the Di trict Court, in mine, La. on July 17 las nell Collegs, low r trouble with class fi (Lis amo ~The la‘g Benz at B av Chester coun and the lo: A frame sumed, with | Henry or the murder of an Ar: japir m Episcopal : bas deciled t ct a the culieze proporiy coilage, law school, d of divinity. $15.00 to A moven for B rm ngham Senator A. H. Colqui days ago, st nti is on i ken witl fous. aud death Colquitt, who was two mcnths ago Cit zan, a payer the Atlanta 1 levied on for d | cation wil Welder was ac bat, wile wines Pa.- Huntingdon, nearly drowne the Juniata ! Thers were no ds tist Church, New tion ie! Tithe c ur.h Pe pite the slforts ties of Philadelphia t by isolation, the victims of tie diseass con- tinue to increase. Atp Heal i Oificer Yeale reported thi ty-sove: new forty-oight hours. Las $2 deaths wore returned wes 2 ADE TT P atweo th hea'th authori- y stamp out diphtheria on, cases In wee 167 cases and and within a there have been 4 170 cases and 1,211 deaths. me 14 §% reported in San Francisco that the Chinese Exclusion law is having the effect of breaking up tie budnes of the Chinese on the Slopes, and many roing to China. ——Scoit Bailey, a longshorem mn, was mysteriously murdered in New O Jeans within ai quare of the S« cand Precinet Police Station. He wasseen iz conversation witha well dressod man on Chartres street, near Toulouss street, opposite a chap lolging house, and sudden'y a shot was fire | and the well-dre sad man wa: o. served (0 escape around the corner, He was pursued, with- out success. — Rev, J hn Brown, one of the ploneer Methodist preachers in Lilinois, died at the age of ninety.one year. He was a native of Virginia, came to Illinols in 18 6, and had been a membor of the I linois Con. ferenca siwco tiers iss i . TORNADO IN ILLINOIS. Several People Killed or Wounded and Much Damage Done at Redbuad, At 3:30 o'clock in the morning a tornado struck Redbud, 11, It first demolished the Catholic church and schoo! an | the residency of Herman Drage. The German Lutheran round, After destroying several cArey- ng away fencsw it next attacsel the two. story stone residencs of Peter Kandi an mall year are retu ‘FIGURES OR FARMERS. Secretary Rusk Submits His An- nual Report. ing to Tillers of the Boil, The report of the Secretary of ture bas been submitied to the The report begins with a comparison « f the Agricul: £1,0.0.000,000 senting the exports of our domestic ducts for the past year nearly 80 per cont that of the more than repre pro consisted of agricultural products, thus not only making the United States the cr dit or of the world for a sum exceeding $29,000,000 ~the excess of our exports over impor ts but relieving cur home markets from a sur otherwhbe below lave of production, For a large share in brioging r.l out the condit.ons which have made these pus product which weuld reduced pr.ces to a poipt cost gratifying results posible the claims eradit for h s department, scoreiary 11 regard to imports. he finds encourage ment for the farmers in ths {set luat, in spite of »n aggregate increase, there Ix a re duction in the proportion of imports consist ing of producss which compets wilh our American agricul ure, for whils in the fiscal year ended in 1840, 4 per coat. of the me ports were competing, only # per cent. of pur i nports for the pa t fiscal year did #0 compete, He nevertheless regards the im ports, competing with the products of our awn sail, as still far to> great. He mstances #4),000,400 worth of anit roducts, §067- 00,000 worth os fibers L000, 00» worth of hides, £33 000 000 worth of fruits and wines, ag arti f tas kind, and cites the im) oris of rew silk, smwounting 10 §25,000 000 yearly, as an instance of p oducts imported, wauich could witu proper encourazemwoen’, bs pro in our own country. He ddclares ti eso t gures 10 ladicate the main ultunate i wt ot the work of the depart-nent whic! d floes in brief as ‘the cost study id tuemarkets abroad which may b - reg ur own asriouitura: produ. ts and nteiligeat and tha subs tut on hi howe-z1own for fot fei 4 cuced nied by poasiden y attend them m, produg ts." s bis last repo t ! I porsd pro.dcts swan in all counrice and 40.00,000 pounds «ff inspeced pos whic Ww could had a market abroad, JWI reels oi prohibitions against have been with i aey where existed 1d : + X POT Ls Sepien ithout inspect.on, have been $ { the price of « fhe pr . exports ¢ ALWAYS re sed in 4 ation is called the ai Increases which has taken piace of late year in imports of raw colton, imports which Ia a few years ago were hardly known, Dur 12 the past fiscal year raw cotton was in xiied free of duty to the smour HB as agninst $5 525 004 {or vious aod $1,002. 723 for the fiscal 1 1800 ¢ yg tof 84.515 the Yent pre Year end ing i “The most of our imported colton comes from Egypt and is demanded Ly msupufac. turers on account of the peculiar cheracter- fetics which it possesses, and which are not to be found in ome gown cottons, Hom» imports of cotton are also made from Peru, and the entire supply of Peruvian cotton imported finds its way, not into the co. ton factories, tut into the macufactories of woolen goods, its character being such as to make it sp cially available for mizing with woolen gods wi bout detection.” With reference to cereals he at ributes the exnossive auticipations formed regarding the price for wheat throughout the crop year of 891 to failure to appreciate the changed con ditions now surrounding the production and marketing of “oe world's wheat crop, “Tak- ing the world throughoat, Lhe fat crops,” he says, “more than equaled 151, so that there was actually more wheat turkin, where famine existed for a time prohibited, amounted to 105,000, - (00 bushels, nearly as n uca as the average of the past four years and more than the averags of the pat ten years He says: “Toe conditions which have at last over. whelmed cotton-zrowers now coofliont wheat-growers.” Hence the American farmer must reduce the wheat acreage acd so bing predaction down to the normal de. mand Ihe experience of the department in the domes ic sugar industry Yor the psst year confirms his former reports, and saows that to the grower of the crop and to the manu. facturer, provided that the conditions of cul. ure aud mavufacture insisted upon ty the department are secured, Reviewing the work of the Bureau of Antal Industre, he summarizes the work and cost of the su on of pleuro-pnen. monia, showing the entire cost to have Leen less by $1.0,000 than vas pail out by Gent Britam during seven yoars as inde muity ror slaughtered catile a'one. He a'so points out that the total loss to the cattle growers of Great Britain by this divease in deaths alone Las amounted £) not jess than $U0RL,L40,000, and thet t us is the only country in the worl where the dsmse, having once gained a foothold, has Leen ontirely eradicated, The total number of animais subjected to both ante and post-mortem pxasinations fir the fis al year excecd 5,000,000, of w 1,267,823 wers hogs, of which oily two vent. were found to be affected with trichi use, ‘t he Secretary then reviews in detail the Sark of Sha éveral other divisions of the Al The Wenther Bureau, coucluding ation extent and the variety of thy contributions planned from the Depa tment of Agriculture to the World's Fair, won Ki1oax persons were poloned at a Ban gor, Maine Loardiug house Ly eating ueased pork, + MALL-POX has broken outiu the Connect- | jet Stats Hospital at New Haven, aud U.e i we titat,on has beea quarantined. { A 1 SSEXGER train ran into an electric | moto. car, in Uleve.and, Oo, iRjuriug six pei. ons, Louw of them wott dy. Mun, Lock Taeux, a promtweit ye sociay women of New Oilesns, Wes Killer (ashing dowu stairs at tue opera, Ung Ly JESAE SYK 8, su old [armer near New. core, Indigua, was s8.ze | with an epileptic fit white jesding bogs nud was partialiy ve vuti ed uy th se animals, yviment Ruri, animate of the “ail at | 8 nury, Penn., woo bas manifested syni- | vis Of uydiophob.a, ute some giass wuich | i+ bit Oe iro toe cell Widow, Icis stated pal be Canuol rover, \xprkw VAN Tassg nu, oneof the “ol princes’ of ibe .ear:y petrolenm days in i enn vivavin and a noted horseman, Was i jd 1m Erie uy falliag from the third- rv w ndow of his lod lug house, A ree.eGRAM from Lima, Ohio, says a wr ck occurred on the FPitsbur , Fort \s syne and Chicago Raiircad at Nevada, Ja vu, & west bound mall and express run- wily into a freight. An unkown tramp iiled and an engineer sud urazeman wets se lously Lajured. A piseated from Boiss, | lano, says that i+ eis grounds for the beef thal Mr« Anna Mavaurd, & bride of a mooth, was buri d Rive Friends declara their velief that she as living, but the physician decided otuer- j.¢ and the funeral wok place, Now the in erm nt of th: casket is demanded, that the thre Was A Bosi0x disputch says mated schoouer, Plate J. Woo fru, oi iinraich, Captain Wao, from Phi adeipu a f r roitlang, with about BU Ons of coal na Leon abandoned at sea. The Cc ew Was . cued an i landed at Fernandina, Fioriis, ihe wi oodrutf was owned by J. B. Bakes, riarw.chport. z \ Horse, idabo, dispatch says that ‘Wil 1 Garber, long suspected of veing a moon ner, me: a vislent death »hile fle. ing wr a party of men whom bho thought wus vw ui the law. He and two ludians got y a canoe and padded up Big Creek. 1he ians were drunk and started down Sires canoe entered the rapids, when the Ine ans both fell out and were drownes The os cashed over the cataract apd G.r.er also drowned.” \ MAGABISE containing 160 fA N.Le BeAr The main Wis root 5 niagara Falls, Nw Yora, exploded, Joan H a wachinist, and several oth km-n were injured The Concussion several adncen .% snd to smash a large amount The explcs On Was caured 1 ¢ “1 ©i Lon gan jent to demolish v gine, 1 the powder hese, snd mo ramon heard the alarm and fled thus saving their lives je ale i iy - I 5 — FATAL STEAMEOAT FIRE. was ly ng ha Ora Lee, A COMP Ing f burniag ¥ Le 4 3 ings an kartor boasts nswere | t § : t was sent in eeded in sa il oft the l . ; sd to Fave been | d at the gover m men 8 ghport Foe fire, evr Ke rom the § sss oI sis THOUSANDS SAW HIM HANG. Murderer Harrison's Gallows Erected in a Country Field. The execution of Allen Harri on for the murder of Bettis Adame, on April 2, took | place in Hun iogton, W. Va at 215P. NM Sheriff Kyle road death warrantat | o'clock, allowing forty minut. s demmed for preperation, The scaffold was erectsd in a field two | miles from the jail, and thy procession to it was in carriages, More than ten thousand | prople witnessed t .e execution, Harrison made a siatement in which he statad he had ns knowledge of the commis, thouzht was startel by ipes of the deck passengers. —— os the to the con ing done it while under th» influence of poison that be had swallowed with the in tention of committirg suicide . ce cnc SHCT BY HIS LITTLE SON. Au Ohio Farmer Fatally Wounded by ths Child Pulling the Trigger of a Gan, James Neer, a farmer reading near Van Wert, Ohio, was fataiiy shot by his 5 year. od son, Neer had loaded one barrel of his shotgno and as be was atout to Joad the other barrel, the child came up and, une noticed by the father, raised the hammer of the oaded barrel. Ths hammer = ipvel from the child'sh ind, and the gun discuarpel. The entive load of suot struck Mr, Neer in the face. Tan first Justioo of the Ann Seally, of Fort onied as a te about 10 a. w. on GREAT STRIKE ENDED. The Lockout at Homestead De~ clared off, fix Million Dollars. At last the great strike at Carnegie’s Homestead Bteel Works has off, After a five for bitterness bas probably never been equaled been declared months’ straggle, which in this country, the army of strikers finally deciled to give up the fight This aciicn the lodges of the ut was inken at 8 meeting of Amaigamated Association Homestead, aring the sirike off and ¥1 against it, Among those present at the meeting were Vice-President Carncy, Fecretary Ki gallon Treasurer Mad len rnd avid Lyoch, of the advisory board, The ofZcials addres od the members, and in plain words told them the strike was Jost and advised them to take ste; 5 to Leiter their condition, The remarks met with considerable opp sie tion. but when the vote was inken it sbi wed a majority of 10 in favor of aring the strike «ff. ‘1 hose who were ju favor of end. ing the struggle were julilsn’, while those who were against it badly put out, Most of the latter nore men who were ob stiuste. and many of them bad either sp- piled 1or pos tions io the oil] and had Deen wirned down or fet sure that thir names were on the company's black list and could pol get pus tions, y A member of the advi ory board sa’d that he (as bes Gry BZ 10 gel 1he slrike Go iared off 1or weeks, as hie Kpew 10 Was 30 Lt. and it would have Leen bet er for the men, 4s a great many of them cou d have gotten Lhe.d plac s 1 ack, Those who coul i back are in a bad fix, as the relief funds will be stopped and many hunds eds of them have notsing to live on. The people in Home t ad, especially the bus ness en, are higkly vialal over the a tioa of the m-etinz, for if | ike had « tioned much long r i ould bave ruined the town Many business houses have fell pio the hands of the sheriff sit the strike has ted to resune its aee wero no’ ge ¢ 54 33 been Ou Ni«iness Gora: The BB the most dis 10% « n toe history 111 it £ ror a recucts 1® EXP westoad strike has proved one of : of the VOT 30 the depa tinenis in Wh « members of the Amalgamated A Workers were vid what i» kn geale which regains #3 of ihe v.OID ther tail » ad pw Bas Lis pany. At the rofus he Momdstend mill gama is rer riy 80 10 the FL] . treason shi strike omestoad st hes of reas | ra i A In the CUriminai ih wo are Al three, OU Douneil, fo dail. It is slid t e ofl oars t any of the 35 deaths were misang mn d rectly or indi. Al leas? recoils cous d by the strike Besides those kilelin tue battiz ot Ju y 6 many ders ¢ mtracrted fever, sy posited fala iy, on » solidier wa« ace dentally shot by a comrade, another nas kills d by the cars; siriker committed suicide, one wai drowned, ons was Lif +4 Dy ths care: several non-union men ded fr and several! wore kil el i the a « one was murdere ! by snother noes ion ist The altempie] sas«uation : the Carpe ie wn One is feve mild of Coairman Friey, of {Ome p.uy is al o indirectly credited to the str.Ls A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION, Three of Them Fatally. A fearful powder explovon oocurre jocatad at the west ood of Colliers, W. Va. stant death of three n iners and the ser.ous probably dis, John Hu'ly, a miner, is missing, but itis the tirae of the explosion or no’, The explosion occurred ae the men were return ug from dinner, wich was provi tor pad it ocourred ten misutes the destracidon of lite wou'd in all been something awful. The terrific, the later, The foros of tie expl sion is shown 3 the distance sone of the men were blown, ‘tsley Auder on’s body was thiown through the air a distare of 100 yards. It is supposed that the xploson wa. caused by a piece 0 fuse wh ch Lecame ignited in sowe manner and conveyed the fa al spark 10 the boxes in which the powder cars were Rept. I he scene at toe mouth of the mine fol lowing ihe « xplosicm was one of great ex. cit- ment. Th entire miation gathered and th 0 women, sit ag at first t at more of the men weie in he mine tan really were that resow rs go down the shoot. 1. would have been death, however, to have gone in before the air was cleared. That some of those who wers in the m ne wera Lot suffocate] to death w dus to the Prine of mine of James Clark and James , who got tie outsi le door of ihe shaft, which Lad been blown from its hinges ard replaced is, Toe nine bel to 1. C. Bmith, of New Cumberisnd, W, Va, ant Wm. Smtih asd John McNuty, of Wellsville, 0. Avout fifty wen are empl in the mine, waich bas teen in : since May, 129k : a Tus Amorican swind er, Frede ick Evane, who calied himse { the Dake of Teck, was wen snoed to one yoar in Py iscn in Loadoa, ie s a son of Dr, Henry Heimbold, of PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, Ee — Epitome of News Gleaned from Various Parts of the Btate. Tne committee appointed by Governor Pattion to look into the practicab lity of es tablishing manus! trainicg schools for sold. jers’ orphans bas returned from a trip through various States and will make a re port, WiLrLiax Ronen, of by family troubles, it is Shenaadoah, worn thougnt, committed suiced by bang ng Firg Department Chief Huntingdon, was nearly drowned in trying Greenburg, of 10 wa le the Juniata river, swollen by rains in accor ance wil election bet Jonx Honpixas, a Polish miner at Honey Han brood, who alter five years’ hard work esrped enough to bring a i « from Warsaw, was foser. ed by the woman, who refused to live among her dirty fel .o s-countrymen, Canserl Tvoco, charged with the murder of Andrew Unko, has bean £ usd guilty at Wilk: s-Barre of manslaughter. a Choster srustied 10 death under forty tons of coal. Joux Boanpry workman, was LACKAWARNA Iron end Bteel C.mpany min rs have received an locreass of wages Ropert WeLpes, of Head ng, was prob ably fatally burt by a base ball bat which flaw out of another's baud and crashed his skull, SyEak-thieving tramps ers Ww rrying Strout sburg, thought to be attracted there by the construction of the Eastern Ra lrosd, it is thought that Mis. Walton, the present incumbent, will Wilkes-Barre & bis posi-i of Kennett Square, Tug miners of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company compisin of Jack of work, which is 1a 4 to be necessaries of life depriving them ol the IL GHT curves armor paates (or the cruiser Tertor, now in building at oklyn navy vard m fron ein wil were shipped from shel orks. The Terrir's twe Davio asd Andrew ot Ce'esta Yeager, a salooakeepsr at Abuetta, Tyrolesns Da incor, Luzerne County, because be refused give them drink Andrew was captured on he moustain side after an exciving chase th» nt Tug thirty wighth snnaasl se sion « Yirk County Institute began York County, Superintendent HC man was made presideat Juno McMuoLrex, charged the Lanea ter Grand Jury to bring iadictm nt: against all those who made beis on the election. Teachers’ Brenne- 1wriLve million feet of loge stranded in the Susquehanna, near William port by the draught bave been floated by the rain, Faascis Crank, of Readicg, bas surren- dered himself and said it was he who shot John Fulton on Sasday. It was accid ntial, No. Sslope at Mt. Carmel! gave way and caused a pan ©. Houses shook as though by sn carthquake, but no one wi hurt The depression is 150 yards long and forty A WARRANT has been issued for Rev. Mr Kassalko, priest of the Hungarisn church ot of church fends is mi sing, UNHAFPY HAYTL a — tion ia D co mben, The H ¥t an exiles and malcontents lave Gereral Msnignat is detyrm ned to over throw Hippo .yte, who bas lad his bands in the treasury for nearly three yuare, and ought, therefore, 'o give place to others wha are humery for a chance in the same diec. tion, yt Maniguat wishes 10 sccomplisn his jurposs without doing injury to tie busi oess interest of Has ti, The supp riers of the insurees. tion, 0a mi to be sure of sucess when they are read ¢ to meve, on the ground that Hip. polyte bas disgusted everybody with bis esx cessive tyrancy and his velfish grass on tee po tical spui ®, on the other wholly without and that some of the tam farther © hdl ng TR Bly | i i go TRAGEDY OF DESPERATION. An Alsatian Mother Kills Herself aad Pour Btarving Children. A horrible tragedy is 1 eported from Mal- hausen, in Aliace, Germany, A woman by the name of Kern, the wile of a basket- maker, had been driven to desperation by the misconduct of ber husband On Satur day last there was no food in the house aad the little ones were crying for bread, Mwer Kern, driven to distraction by the suffering of her childrn as her own, put the four youngest in a whee barrow and told the fifth child to fol Bhe wh i barrow through the ns wel low Lier ihe town, the prope who saw wondering, bul not sus; ing that the WOIGH Was to commit a terrible rime and Bhe went straiget t the © led ths barrow io chapel, There the cans the little ones out of ths down berself and caus -d and she offered up a prayer After praying the mother eroie and drew a sharp knite, Drawing one of the children toward ber +he gquickiy «ut its throat, She just as quickly cut the throats of the three vther cudires snd reached for the fifth, Toe lutier tried to get away iho keeper of the cenelery beard the ¢ jes of the children and ran to interfere, He was in time pein the fifth child before the mother had sucoeets | in inflicting a fatal blow upon it, although it was wounded by a cut from the knife The frenzied woman made no attempt to injare the keeper, but turnsd the knife aguinst her own throat. The keeper ran to grasp the weapon from ber, but too late, Sbe drew the knife neross her throat and fell, with ths life b ood gush ing out, on the cene- tery path, Mother and ch ldren will be bur- ed lu a common grave, melery cen y and took Bhe knelt others 10 kaesl whi ioa Lary t bis — cn — —— FIVE LUMBERMEN BURNED. North Uaronua POULTRY. HICKENS— Hens Old Roosters, . “rans Ducks, per B.....0n0us TORACCO, TOBACCO-Md. Infer's$ 1g0 Sound common :% Middling 61 Fancy... LIVE BTOCK. BEEF.--Best Beeves,..... $430 Good to Fair... 400 SHEEP, 300 Hogs 57 FURS AXD SKINS. MUSKRAT Ractoon. ....... Red Fox....... Skunk Black... Opposes... . nk. ....s CORRE. caisson @ w SEHEIL - NEW YOR L, FLOUR--Southern B815 60 WHEAT--No. 2 Red....... we 6 RYE--Westorn..........oc.. : QORN-No. £..onvvinininin OATH NO, Eins BUTTER -Staiv....oivn © BOGR-SImte.., ooo dle CHEESE~Staiv........ fy | yg oy Naam A PHILADELPHIA. Bae FLOUR «Southern, , ..... 8260 WHEAT-No. 2 Red i) CORN«Nao, a. 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