— DRE BE Russia is tightening her grip on the Balkan Peninsula. The collapse of the copper syndicate fs one of the monumental failures of the age, - —- - es ——— - - The Atlanta Constitution thinks that diphtheria is a more destructive scourge than yellow fever. No child born in Aspinwall on the Isthmus of Panama has ever reached the age of twenty-one years. The rabbit pest is again making head- way in Australia, The means taken to eradicate it have proved insufiicient. A Chicago paper announces that Jay Gould will have control of a road from the Pacific to the Atlantic in twelve months, The countries between Texas and Cape Horn contain about 635,000,000 people, and their territory is about twice as large as ours. The Atlanta Constitudion announces that the natives in New England are gradually decreasing, and the French and Irish are taking their places, both in the manufacturing and rural dis tricts, | with separation of the cream by the cen- | The | | Department at London. The New York Commercial Advertiser says: ‘‘A national monument should be erected to Ericsson, for the nation was his debtor for priceless inventions,” or ols One of the characteristic features of the industrial discoveries and inventions of the day, observes the Soientific American, is the development of the new fibers, There was no wie in sllowing Adams, the forger, to starve himself to death in Macon, according to the Atlanta Consts- tution. In New York when a prisoner tries that sort of thing they tie his hands behind him, pry open his mouth, intro - duce a spoonful of liquid food and hit his throat a gentle tap. His muscles spasmodically relax, his throat opens, never fails, A co-operative creamery in the United States is doing a big business, declares the American Agricuilturist, if it utilizes the milk or cream of 2000 cows. Little Denmark has over 200 such factories | that each work up the milk of 5000 to | 6000 cows, Tie whole milk system, trifuge, is universally adopted. | cost of producing milk varies from sov- | enty-five cents to $1 per 100 pounds; | 5000 pounds cf milk in one year is much A newspaper correspondent roam. | ing about Paris in search of unpublished gossip about the first Napoleon, has un- | earthed the fact that the great man once pawned his watch in order to pay for a six-cent dinner, It has been the aim of Great Britain, in which, in the opinion of critics of its naval policy it has not altogether suc- ceeded, to maintain an effective navy equal in strength to the combined navies of any two other powers, Crime is decreasing in England, if penal statistics can be relied on. With. in five years female convicts have been reduced one-half, and there are, in pro portion to population, fewer arrests of both sexes than ever before. A society bas been formed in New York which, for an annual fee of $3, undertakes to attend to the legal affairs of its members, furnish them all neces- sary advise and prosecute or defend all | actions brought by or against them, A Chicage surgeon testified in a crimi. nal case the other day that he had prop- erly set the defendant's broken nose, but that the patient was morbidly afraid that his beauty wouid be spoiled and that to ease his mind the witness had twice thereafter rebroken and reset the nose. Tombstone, Arizona, is famous for its apt names. Its leading newspaper is called the Epitaph, and the Sheriff of the county is Colonel Slaughter. He defeated Major Blood by two votes at a recent election, Captain Cutts was also above the average yield per cow: from twenty-five to thirty pounds of milk are required to make a pound of butter, and about thirteen pounds for one of cheese, Residents in the west and northwest portions of Texas are calling the atten tion of the Legislature to the wholesale destruction of deer which progress in these sections. is now in The animals are killed simply for their hides, and the slaughter is said to be somewhat unpre- cedented, as it is all done The killing is fair enough, It is the and wrpose of which is objected to by those : J J with the rifle. constancy with which it is done most affected. Ten years ago an entire section of country, which is now under fence, literally swarmed with buffalo, They were exterminated, however, in three years' time, and strictly by the rifle. The deer bid fair to go in the same way. Colonel J. T. North, who is known as ‘the Nitrate King," or “South Ameri- | can Monte Cristo,” is dazzling London a candidate, but was nowhere in the race, r in the South beyond all precedent, de. clares Goodall’s Sun. Capital is rushisg in; all sorts of manufacturing enterprises are springing up. occur. Land keeps low, and railroad : Industrial enterprises are multiplying | Very few mishaps | building is opening up the territory all | the time. Vaccination is compulsory in England and optional in France. In the large cities of France the number of deaths from smallpox was 1956, or 0.31 per 1000 of the living population. In the large cities of England during the same period the cumber of deaths was 332, or 0.04 per 1000, Bays the Chicago News : “The ‘ladies | revenue of the White House' have been gifted | with sensible names, worthy of imita- tion in American families, Mary, Julia, Lucy, womanly names,” Letitia, Emily, Angelica, Louisa, According to the Eraminer, there are houses in San Francisco to which victims of the morphine habit resort, They are cared for until their money gives out, when they are kicked out of doors, A hypodermic syringe is called a *‘gun,” and a woman who is employed to give the injections is known as the “gunner.” Each shot costs five centa, —— When the train, bearing Mr. and Mee, Cleveland on their way from Washington to New York stopped at the depot in Philadelphia, George W. Childs took occasion to present Mrs. Cleveland with three gilt-edged coples of the Public Ledger, with blue pencil marks around the column editorial eulogizing the lady lately of the White House. Two of the most prominent elements in the character of the late John FErics. son, inventor, were his absolute accu. racy in the matter of the smallest details | a warm fire. | shell by the magnificence of his entertaining, the cost of a fancy-dress ball which he recently gave being estimated at $75,- Aud yet his title is new, and was acquired through becom ing the head of a volunteer regiment OUD the ( olone was thirty years ago a workman in an implement factory at Leeds. He was nt to South America ma chinery for his employers, obtained con- se to put up trol of vast nitrate beds by government concession, and made his millions. Ie now lives at a beautiful country piace is at the head many money-making ventures, of Kent, Fngland, and ruler Msidi, the of Sanga, an African province, fecetiousir observes the Atlanta Consti An enterprising is ruler tulson, evidently a wise man. The advance of civilization has doubtless furnished to fanda some Canada where its boodle al- dermen can go, for Msidi eyes all 0 ficers wita suspicion. He is evidently a gen- ius, Finding himself the happy posses- sor of a vast domain and 500 wives, he has divided the country into districts and has placed one of Lis consorts as ruler The smount of her pin money depends upon the amount of she turns into the national freasury, and no doubt she takes pains over each. | to see that every subject pays his trib- ute, They have so many peach stones in Martha, Vaca Valley, Cal, according to the Port- Abigail, Eliza, Elizabeth, Mar. | invent some way of getting rid of them. garet, Sarah, Jane, Harriet, Dorothy, | . lasad Oregonian, that they have had to It occurred to some wiser mind than the | average that the peach pits will burn, so Frances and Caroline are all good, | R Pula P he tried it, and sure enough they made Of course, every hull or of fruit, or stone of this kind, | possesses oil in a great degree. The meat | of all nuts will burn, and the whole nut will make a splendid fire if enough of them are used. The man who made this valuable discovery now has no dread of a conl famine, only necessary to plant fruits with oily pits or seeds. are still being fonnd our, The New York Telegram says the as sertion that the household of President Harrison is the largest which ever oo- cupied the Exeecdtive Mansion, is er- roneous. The family of the President consists of Mrs. Harrison, his son Russell Harrison aod his beaut ful wife and one child, Mr. J, Robert McKee and wife, the daughter of Mrs, Harrison, and two children.’ The largest White House family, includiog those of the married son and daughters, irrespective of rosi- dence, was that of President Tyler, con. of | castle, Penn, Charles W, {| ville, Va Eis is a great Kingdom snd he is | | esiver of Public Moneys at Kingfisher Stage | | Station, acob To save the country from | th reed of coalmonopoly it is now | 0 gree poly |] he The ways of Providence | NOMINATED FOR OFFICE. Prominent Names Sent by the President to the Senate, Ea Nearly All th Leading Diplomatic Appointments ade, Tenth Day's Nominations. President Harrison during the afternoon sent the following nominations to the Sensis: Francis KE. Warren, of Wyoming Territory, to be Governor of W Joming Territory. Benjamin F. White, of Dillon, Montaaa, to be Governor of Montana, lao Moorehouse, of Oregon, to be t for the Indians of Unatilla Agency in - gon, Robert \. Bolt, of Maryland, to be Assist to be { ant Commissioner of Indian Affairs Oscar M. Spellman, of Arkansas, | Marshal! of the United States for the Eastern and the food is swallowed. This method | be | United States Attorney for the Eastern Dis. | trict of Arkansas District of Arkansas, Charles C. Walters, of Arkansas, to Postmasters—Charles B. Holyoke, Mass.; Clarence M Orescott, Reed, at Dun | Kirk, N. Y.; Edward B. Vrooman, at Sali Y.; James M. Clark, at New Jones, Martins manca, N. The following nominations were confirmed by the Senate: James Tanner, Commissioner of Pensions Jeremiah Sullivan, Collector of Customs for Montana asd Idaho. James W, Wakefleld, Collector of Customs, Dath, Me Seligman Bro«, special fiscal agents Navy George W, McBride, Collector of Customs for Grand Haven, Mich Charles 4, Edwards, Collector of Customs for Minnesota. Charles M. Bradshaw, Collector of Cas toms, Puget Sound, Washington Territory Z, T. Walrond, United States Attorney, Indian Territory. T. B. Neadles, Marshal, Indian Territory, J. M. Bhackleford, Judge, Indian Terri tory. Eleventh Day's Nominations The President on this day sent to the Sen ale the following nominations Hobert Lincoln, of lllinois, to be Minister | | to Great Britadn, | Murat Halstel, of Ohio, to bo Minister to Germany Allen Thorndike Rice, of New York, to be E18 f Nebraska, to be Minister FUsneral Portugal Marion Erwin, of Georgia. to be States Attorney for the Southern Ii Georgia Tyre Glenn, of North Carolina to be United States Marsha! for the Western District of North Carolina James OO. Churchill, of Missouri. to be Sar. veyor of Customs for the port of St. Louis Postmasters— Abram W Lansing at Platsburg, N. Y.: David A Jones at Sora: ton, Penn. ; Chester A. Wilcox at Quincy, HL: Ososola KH. Servis at Kansas City, Mo The Senate confirmed the foll wing noni nations: Albert A Burleigh, Collector of Customs at Aroostook, Me. . Francis EE War ron, Governor of Wyoming Territory; Ben amin F. White, Governor of Montana Hlobert V. Belt, AssMan: Commissioner of Indian AfMalrs United trict & Twelfth Day's Nominations President Harrison has seat the folio nominations to the Senate Postmasters-John Sg ningshy, Harbor, Me. ; Augustus J, Hoist Mase. ; Suydam F. Wheeler, at Hs Y.; Richard W, Oldfieid, at Haverstraw, 1: Lewis B,. Willams, at Long Bran J.: Bart C, Drake at Gainesy } lando B. Happy, at Mayfield Jenney, al Mount Clemens, Mich Cassius M. Barnes, of Arkansas. 10 I» He oniver of Pub Moneys at Guth Indian Territory: John I. Dille { Indiana, to bs Register of the Land Office at Uuthrie, In dian Territor Charles E. Monteith, of Idaho, 10 for the ludians of the Nex Peross Agency in ldah The nominatio Consul General to | $0 be Governor of by the Senate. The nomination of Murat Halstead as Minister to Berlin was reported favorably to the Senate by a unanimous vole of the For eign Helations Committe, and the Senate procesdsd to vole upon it. It turned out that five Republican Senators voted against him, together with all the Democrats, ana | on that vols he stood rejected ] A motion was immediately mads by Sen ator Sherman to reconsider the vole, and on this motion debate went on until the Senate adjourned, es five Republicans who vole! against Mr. Halstead's confirmation were Ingalls, | Plumb, Teller, Cullum and Farwell, Thirteenth Day's Nominations Tha President seat to the Senate thess nominations Robert Adams, Jr., of Peansylvania, to be Minister to Brazil i Lansing B. Mimer, of California, to be | Minister to the Centra! American States, William IL. Scruggs, of Georgia, to be | Minister to Venezuela i William ©, Bradley, of Kentucky, to be Minister Resident and Consul General to Corea, George B. Ferguson, of Maine, to be Col Joutor of Customs for the District of Belfast, | .. i Charles Henry Tilighman Lowndes, of Har Hand to be an Awistant Surgeon in the Navy. George Chandler, of Kansas, to be First Assistant Secretary of the Interior, George L. Shoup, of Idaho,to be Governor of Idaho, Edward J. Curtis, of Idaho, to be Secre- tary of Idaho, Jacob V, Admire, of Karsss, to be Re- 5 he, rie, be agent John CC New to be ndon and Lewis Woifly Arizona were confirmed Indian Territted. J C. Roberts, of Nebraska, to be Reg: ister of the Land Office at Kingfisher Stage Btation, Indian Terri ‘ Beion A. Darnell, of ( ia, to be Attor- ney of the Unitad States for the Northern ¢ fton, of Tennesses, to Marshal for time Eastern at | “ Postmasters—Fdward M. Bliss, Bpencer, Mass. ; Ira KE Hicks, New Britain, Conn, Henry Flood, Elmira, N. Y,: Samuel 8, Moore, Elizabeth, N, J.; Cornelius 8. Gould, Emporium, Pon. ; James Ogden, Latrobe, Penn ; Wm. H. Zufull, Myersdale, Penn; Robert A. Love, Warren, Penn. : Hobert 8. Barker, Lock Haven, Penn; David DD, P, Alexander, Apollo, Penn, : Thomas Dawson, Rockville, Md.; Chas, H. Walker, Frost burg, Md. J Benate has confirmed the following nominations: John Hicks, Minister to Peru; George B, Joring, Minister to Portugal: Robert T. Lincoln, Minister to Great Britain: Allen Thorndyke Rice, Minister to Hussia: Thomas Ryan, Minister to Mexico: Patrick Egan, Minister to Chilli; Robert Adams, Jr., Minis | ter to Brazil, Lanzing B, Mizner, Minister to the Central American States; W, L Bel 8, Minster to Venezuela: W, O, Drad- ley, Minister Resident and Consul-General to Corsa. W. 8B. Tipton, Marshal for the Fistern District of Tennessee; Tyre Glenn, Marshal for the Western District of North Carolina; Marion Erwin, Attorney for the Bouthern District of Georgla; George Chandler, of Kansas, First Amistant Customs at Belfast, Ma Hecelvers of Public Moneys— Cassius E. Barnes, at Guthrie, Indisa Territory: Jacob V. Admire, at Kingfisher stage station, Indian Territory. Registers of Public Lands — Jacob C. Roberts, at Kingfisher's stage station; John L Dille, at Guthrie, Indian Territory, Postinasters— William KR Demond, Gor- ham, N. H.; Andrew D. Cayles, Statesville, NC After about two hours’ debate ths Benate | rejected Murat Halstead as Minister to Ger. many by a vote of 25 to 18, The votes was taken on & motion to lay on the tables the motion to reconsider Thurs day's vote of rejection. Two Democrats, Blackburn and Call, voted to confirm, Twenty-five Senators, all of them Demo | crats except Messrs. Quay, Teller, Ingalls, | Flumb, Evarts and Dawes, voted for his re- jection. Mr, Culiom There were art and Jones did not vote | sleven Hepublicans in all who would have their | | dinner, Among those present were Governor | volad to reject the nomination had voles been needed. OKLAHOMA OPENED. A Presidential Proclamation Open ing the New Lands to Settlement i ident has issued a proclamation a ax he Luis i. is Lo settle 3 of the to a review of the oosedings by which the lands in question been secured by the Indians and the n of Congres viding for their ttlement ihe proc amation T | ation is devoted . then reads as follows Now, therefore, |, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States. by virtus of the power in me vested by said acts of Con gress approved Mareh ISS0, aforesaid, do bereliy declare and make known that so much of the lands as aforesaid acquired from or nveved by the Muscogee or Creak) Nation of Indians, and from or by the Seminole Nation of Indians lavely, as is contained within the following de rived boundaries, viz. (bere the bound aries are described], will at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon, of the 204 day of April next, and not before, be open for wold en ander the terms of and subject to all conditions, limilatl ani re siriction mained in said Act of Congress, approved March i, and the laws of the United States applicable thereto And it ix hereby expressly declared and made Known that no other parts or port.ons of the lands embraced within the Indian Territory scribed and declared to be open to sett ement at the time above named and fixed are to be considered as ops to settlement under this prociamation act of March 15%, aforesaid and warn. ing i» hereby again expressly given that no person entering and occupying said 17 o'clock noon, of A. 1. 1588, hereinbe lever be permitted to enter 1y of said ‘ands or acquire auy rights there and that the officers of the United States be required to strictly snforce the provie tof Congress to the above ef- rae na, or the upon ommissioner of the General Land Of. | wd an onder establishing two land of in the Ukiaboma Territory. one at ghahers-=fitate station <and the other at Guthrie YELLOW FEVEL. Over 2000 Victims a Month at Rio, Brazil In Rio, Brazil, at present there is but one topic—the epidemic which is making such great ravages among all classes, The official returns of the deaths from yellow fever since | the commencement of the year sum up 1500 victims from that form of fever alone, and | the mortality from other types is unusually The inhabitants of Rio are in fact dying at the rate of two thousand a month in a city of threes hundred thousand, largely depleted by the flights of avery one able to take refuge in the highland great mnitaria. Children from ten years down are | the special prey, even infants a few days old | suocumbing to yellow fever, and no medical skill avails to save the families of the most eminent physicians from decimation No doubt the great severity of the epi- demio arises from the complet failure of the rainy season to make its appearance, result ing in a great soarcity of water and in the | p55 who had attempted to rob him ! of drying up of the swamps inside and outside the city so effectually t not a croak of a frog is 80 be heard where in other yoars the ears were deafened with their noise, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Karte Fiero is lecturing on Prohibition, CrnisTine Nissox was born in Sweden in 1841. Crana Monns, the actress, Is {ll in St Louis, Ava Rumax, Augustin Daly's leading lady, In worth $150,000 Boon axp Bannerr will pay Mod jeska $1500 a week for next August, Comepiay Winiiax J, FLoREscE was born in Albany, N. Y , In 1831, Mamie Vax Zaxot is having great sucoms in Italian opera at Kroil's Theatre, Berlin, “Tar Mika” bas besn produced with much success at the Gartnerpiat: Theatre in Munich, A XW theatre, 0 cost nearly $7.30 000, is to be built on the Champ de Mars, 4 has Eowanp Scovel, the American tenor, met with distinct sucosss in Chicago as Faust and Don Jose, Daxier. 8 Magurisxis, the wellknown comedian, died in Boston a few days ago, aged fifty-five, aT Rn SRS to England at once. retary of the | Interior; George B. Ferguson, Collector of with the Hepub- | licans for reconsideration, which was a vote | { from oar t N was paired for the re. | ! 3 our | Jection of Mr, Halstead, and Stanford, Stew- { toward Loan those herein specifically de | | publicly banged at | murder of Len Martin Hungerford, Mich, | Stewart and his brother Charlie Eastern and Middle States. Owen McGoiprick and bis son James, aged fifty cud twenty yours respectively, were killed by a train at Meriden, © onn, OxE workman was killed and two were Jarally injured by the eollapse of un un¥in- ished building at Binghamton, N, ¥ PATRICK FreminG, a hay dealer of Provi- dence, R. 1., has sft town with liabilities placed at $40,000, W. H. Borrow, of Maine, has been ap- inted Buperintendent of the Railway Mall vice of Hew England. Tux probabilities were that the st onmship b va, which exiled from New York w becomes a gunboat in the servics of Hippolyte, the leader of the Haytian insurgents, was wrecked by collision and that not andy 1id she £0 to the bottom. Lut also the unknown craft which struck her. The Commander of the steamer was John Henry Ankers, of Brook- lyn, ol Malays and Lascars, Tae explosion of = barrel of kerosene dee GOVERNOR Braver, of Pennsylvania, was asaulted in Washington by a retired army officer named Armes. The Governor ree pulsed him with his crutch, The cause of the troubls was the exclusion of Armes from the Insugural parade, CoMMISEIONER OF Pensions Tawxer hag appointed A. W. Fisher, of North Carolina, Chist Clerk of the Pension Office, Foreign. AN excursion party of ssventeen persons enjoying a sail on Lake Chalps, in the State or Jalisco, Mexien, were capsised by a gale and | all were drowned, | dno snd Visayas collided off Manills, | | The crow was composed of twenty- | stroyed a hat factory is Williamsburg N.Y, , | and thers being no other escape for the sighty workpeople, they leaped from the win. | dows. About twenty were seriously injured, | | two fatally. E. Coxyixngs & Co,, Boston leather deal- ers, havo failed for $300,000 Mase. , is ended, and the operatives have re. turned to work on the old basis, Tix largest dry goods establishment in Beranton, Penn, owned by the firm of Clelland, Simpson & Taylor, who carried a | Chapala stock valued at $200.000, was destroyed by fire. The loss is almczs total, Tue patternshop of the Fort Pitt (Penn) Foundry was burned. The lows is $100,000, fold, Mass, was destroyed Ly fire, and ida Tix two Spanish comsting steamships Min. The former sank with thirty of her crow and passengers, Tax Ministers have prevailel upon the the Queen f Holland to undertake tempore arlly the duties of Regent. The Cabinet bas decided to convoke a Congress of the two Chambers for the purposs of declaring the King incapacitated for the duties of a Bovereign. Ex-Parsivpsr CLEVELAND was enter tained at dinner in Havana by the Governor of Cuba. . Tur Hon, Gay Dawnay, Member of the | British Parliament, has been killed by a buf- ' falo while hunting on Mass Island, Zanzibar, | Africa. He was member for North York- " shire, served in the Zulu w 8 THe strike of the weavers in Fall River, | served in the Zulu war and was just forty years of ago, King Cuanries's pephow, Prines Ferdi. { mand, bas been procisimed Crown Princes of Roumania, Tux steamer Ocotlan foundered on Lake near Gusdaisjers, Mexico, A | large excursion party was on board at the | time, | wreck, | in the wreck Taz bouss of Elder EB. Greene in Bpring- Greene, aged fourteen, was burned to death. i : . i THE body of John Maider.a wealthy retired | Christina met at San Bebastian, Spain was found | butcher of Allegheny City, Penn, in the Allagheny Hiver with his throat cut | cutting his throat, jumped into the water Mayor Frrien, of Philadelphia, tained Potmasisr General Wanamaker at Beaver, George W. Childs, Charles Emory and Alexander McClure, South and West. Tax plant of the Bt. Paul (M and Provision Company was burned $200 000, Burss Hancer: caught by the foot roliers of a corn-crasber at Fred was two hours before the body ¢ joased, and then it was ground mere mas of Sesh and bones NAVIGATION fs open for the season in all the Western rivers Arvis Ti inn.) Meat Lows aged twelve years, was and drawn between the . Md It d be re ap into a nyen and Jeff King were going Cumberland Gap, Ky. and James Burch was coming to town, and the meeting was oslebrated by Alvis Tu Burch, the ball only str £2 Burch returned the fire, Alvis Turner, and thea King fired on Burch, killing him and beating a hasty retreat up Clear Creek Figur tramps were put flogged on their bare backs by a Citizens Committees in Fairbury, Neb, for impudent and boisterous conduct, Armeat Kenny, 111. dest worth of property nelading twenty stores and bu A TRAIN near Dunlap's struck a buggy containing Robert McCaffrey twenty, and Miss Della Love, aged eighteen, of Eikhart. Both were found on the pilot of the engioe desd. MeCaffroy's head was crushed, and the young woman's peck bro ken. Hanvey Jonxsox, a thirteon year and a playmat found a small der in a barn al Bioux Johnson boy droppad a ligh the keg, snd an explosion killed them both, Tie Central Warehouse its valuable store of tons burned to the ground, eatailing a about §1.500 000 Lez Lvoxs, a colored exoon driven to bay at Franklinton, N C he refused to deputies fired six bul life Barch's gun vod $100.000 mors than Oth wk nd ind. , 0M « ict, , and as urrende 1s into him, ending his ARToun Marra and William Grav elly Darling, two Englishmen, have been murdered and robbed by a Ball bread guide named Cray Bod in the vicinity of Swee Grass Hills, Montana, whither they went on LE | & busting excursion Ex-Presipest CLEVELAND bas returned | to Florida from Cala Mack Francis were Lebanon, Teun. for the Jie Torsey and “Graxral” Toerxen's house at Pineville Ky., was burned on Tuesday Turner and his family perished in the flames Jonx Rosexarncen, a farmer, shot dead Andrew Castaline in a row over a trivial matter near Creighton, Neb, then burned his own house to the ground and shot him voll dead, GENERAL Lem E Tonnes, Governor of He bad evidently gone | A straight to the river from Lis home and after | 10 many deaths, enter | | of the Bootch Court o | Bmith, William Singerly, George Elverson { Palace, London wr shooting at | promptiy killing | | hess must nol ox aged | | pounds to the yard to ow rE i old boy, Fifty bodies were recovered from the Many more were known to be still Tax Duke of Buckingham is dead He was born in 1825, Quis Victoria and Quesn Regent A DIRASTROUS collision is reported on the Taku and Blentsin Hallway, Chins, resulting Four Americans from Ei Paso, Texas, shot and killed two Mexican policemen in Juarez, Mexico, who had attempted their arrest. Lon Frazen, Judge of the Outer House { Beasion, is dead, Tue British steamer Delta was captured by the Haytian gunboat Defense and subss- quently released by General Legitime, who paid the Delta's commander $3000 as indemnity. Tux Baltic timber yard, near Buck bas been destroyed ingh The los the fire a pile of ti ber of firemen Feros 3% f rinse of AND Bright of Belgium, The act was due allied firms, whose liabilities lossal sum, ——— ————— — THE LABOR WORLD. MASSACHUSETTS silk operators average $12 weakly, Boles. MaAXERs in San Francisco averazo $5.50 a day, THE miners at Wellington, British Co’ume- bia, are on strike THE soap stone a flourishing state industry of Vermont is in ied that the beathen Chi- ne Cnril has dech Tie Amalgamated Union of American Carpenters bas 404 branches St 4} weight fr 8 rails have grown in Aland “AH Ga enlared igs with Jtalian iat RATAN men rer Tie New Yori granted a ten per silk mang fact cont. advance in wag Fraxcisoo clerks 10 have stores rer NA% movement A TEX.TH J mill, to cost $26 000 Texas RAND spindle cation is to be put up at Wa 0 men, women and children are tobacoe industry of New OVER 30.0 employed in the | York city the Sherif and his | Taz labor movement is spreading through ont Germany. Many strikes are reported in Lhe provinoss, Presty of farm hands are to be had in China for $12a year and women for two | cents por day night, and | gition order has Leen Tie Sons of Labor to the Knights of started in England, OLD miners assert that in eleven years there har not been so continued a period of dullness as at the present time THE coal miners of Indiana have Join the new organization sntitied the tional Progressive Union of Miners, Tue Laborers’ Protective Union of Jersey City, N. J., bas engaged a physician with a yearly salary to attend sick members A QUARTER OF A MILLIOX plow: wers turned out in Louisville last year for the Southern trade, and their manulacture gave is an Labor, which Op azraed to Na- | employment to 2000 men Touxne is said to be a great demand for balp of all sorts in South Africa, and thon | sands of artisans and mechanics of all kinds Lower California, has sent a message to the | | press, stating that the reports of the discov. ery of gol in that country bave been grossly exaggerated A PorxTER in Morgan's shingle mill, at urst, Ligvrexast Baresax of the Tenth United | States Infantry, was run over by a train and killed at Muncie, lad, B M Huey, Jn, the Southern Express Agent at Blocton, Ala, killed an unknown 7000 after wounding him, Ture OM Dominion Steamship W yanoke, from New York, collided off the Delaware Capes, Va, with the schooner Ruth Darling, * sinking bor. Captain Lowell, who was at the schooners whesl at the time of ths dis aster, and seaman Charles were lost ———— Washington. Tine President has reserved Monday to himself, and on that day sees those only with whom be bas engagements Covoxst, Fuxp D. spars of State and took the oath of as Minister to Austria, HBRCRETARY Wivpow has issued the follow. ing instructions to customs officers in regard to the Paris Exposition: Manufac articles or wares produced or mana inthe United States which may be sent to the Paris Exhibition of 1589 for exhibition will upon their return to the United States be admitted to fres entry. PosTaMAsTER-UEXERAL the Hawalian Miniuter ve ne a con vention increasing amount money orders between the two to $100, penal. Waxavaxen has the following division superin. of the railroad mail servios: First Waxanaxen and ha are wanted at good wages Tux French Chamber of Deputies recently enacted a law prohibiting the employment of women at any sort of labor between the {hoursof 9 r. x. and 5 A. wu, killing Edward | Tux workingman's blacklist law, which d the lodians Legislature, provides # that such employers as may blacklist any . workingman shall be fined $50. | Woman's O ACCORDING to reports given at the in Detrodt, 2,000,000 of the women and girls of this country are en- | gaged in work other than domestic i | from $6 to #5 leaving not more | The coal miners, as a rale, live n rented houses, the monthly rent of which wy = an $4 as | best with which to support their {amilies Tae total immigration from Huu ary and Bobeoria lest year am uated to 16,85 most of which found its way to the coal fields, ooke ovens and iron mills of Pennsylvania, A MLL recently ht into the States | General of the Netherlands by the Minister of | Justices, makes provisions for the prevention | of excessive labor of youthful persons and Gaaxt oalied at the | H : § | Ht fh i i
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