W————— a S— A —— e— American capital is rushing into Cen- ! tral and South America, Uncle Sam makes a profit of four cents on every nickel put in circulation, There is a strong movement, intimates the Chicago Sun, to establish subsidies with steamship lines to foreign countries. An English mining expert declares that there is just enough coal to last Great Britain 102 years, no days, hours or min- utes. A Buffalo (N. Y.) Judge refused to is- sue naturalization papers to a man on the ground that he was a common drunkard and wife beater. Palmyra, Neb., must be short of Bibles, remarks the Chicago 7%¥mes, as the The Manvfocturers’ Record, of Balti- mors, in reviewing the industrial progress of the South, says that the number of or- ganized and projected enterprises in that region during the first three months of 1889 is 1076, against 1250 during the corresponding period of last year, there being an increase of capital from $38. 668,000 for the first quarter of 1888 to 858,227,000 for the first quarter in 1889, In the opinion of the Record, this promises to be the greatest year in the industrial history of the South, and it confidently predicts that the next and each sacceed- ing year will show a corresponding rate of progress. - Mrs. Hetty Green, once one of the | haps the richest woman in America, her | | . : | wealth being estimated to be anywhere She | local paper the other week published the ten commandments ‘‘by request.” The Japanese experiment of employing French and German army officers simul- taneously has worked badly. The races clash and trouble has arisen. two The builders in about twenty of the largest cities of the country predict teat | 1889 will be a larger year than was ever experienced in building operations. The method of monthly payments lately introduced in the United States army seems to be more and more favor- gble indorsed as its workings better known. become The Western Union Telegraph Com- pany has had fifteen different fights with the city of New York putting its wires under ground, and has in regard to won its case in every instance. The Mexican Consul at Los Angeles, Cal., turned a nice little penny by charg- ing from $3 to #4 for passports to cross the line, and scooped in many green. horns. No passport is needed. The Hartford (Conn.) Post has come to * the conclusion that abducting children who are heirs to fortunes is a thrifty, growing business out West No than five such occurred last less abductions year. The Vicomte Eugene Melchior de Vogue says, in Harper's Magacine, that there are 2500 in St. Petersburg ‘‘society.” “The 2500” comprise those who are in. scribed on the lists of the grand fetes of the Court. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore American declares that *‘Presi- dent Harrison now sleeps in the same room in which his grandfather is sup- posed to have died, snd possibly the same bed.” Copper still monopolizes the attention of financiers, and in France has become a political factor. The New York Herald declares that the year 1889 will justly claim *‘copper year.” hereafter to be known as the Probably not one in a thousand realizes the “fact that, next to England, little Holland, is the greatest colonial power in the world, observes the New York Telegram. area of nearly which include some of the The Dutch colonies have an 800.000 square finest colonial miles, possessions in the world. The Cherokees have in operation over one hundred common schools, with an aggregate attendance of 4059 pupils; » high school for boys with an aggregate attendance of 211 students; a seminary nearing completion, with a capacity for 165 students; an orphan asylum contain- ing 146 children, besides a number of charitable institutions. — The committee of Australian scientists, | appointed to investigate the discovery of | M. Pasteur for the extermination of | mbbits, reports that it found that rabbits | which had been inoculated with the virus | of chicken cholera or which ate food | which had been infected with the virus died, but that the disease was not coms: municated by one rabbit to another, Says the Chicago News: ‘‘Buropean musicians come to this country in droves every spring to wander through our cities and toot their woful wind instruments for small change and beer. Then they go back home late in the fall. Four hun- dred of them arrived at Castle Garden in one immigrant vessel the other day. Yet some people wonder why so many thou- sands of Americans habitually spend their summers in Europe.” S————— Dublin, Ireland, has had a remarkable dog case in one of its courts. Two men {| ments and careful saving, | E. H. Green, had China trade {| Coal Trade Journal, who is the acknow!- falls are at command is now set down from forty to fifty million dollars. { inherited ten millions from her father, foundation of his fortune in the whaling | business, and this has grown to its present | proportions through her judicious invest. Her husband, coined money married her, but his wealth is modest compared with hers, He is nearly six feet six inches tall. The a boy and a in before he couple have two children of girl—and their residence is place known to but few. ays the New York itive criminal has succe uz af cealing himself effectually. made to William R. I away in ster, Jr., v Sept mber last, after having bezzled £192,000 from the of the New York Produce cordin the fu 00 and the distribu s describing the fu of the meanest the blackne his depravity stands forth with consni ous brightness the act of his father ix senting to the fund 850,000 as offset to the infamy of Lis son, Just when people have come to the clusion that there will be no mo muses the Atlanta Constitution, some conflict always breaks out. » - said that Buckle not pe. He was led in there would be an« great in Eur this mistake by the fact, on which he | War great emphasis, that the only war w had broken fhe peace of Europe since days of the first Napoleon was one + grew out of the animos Turkey, two essentis lly barbarous nations, them. But that as he characterizes hardly had his prediction there would be no great wars between civilized powers been ittered than the tremendous conflict be tween France and Germany emphasized the truth that there : baric element in ugh o bar- & f the civilization to engender strife between two of its representative people, Most made by Professor Rein, a scientist, who remarkable wo statements are th | has been investigating the material re. scourees of They a national frugality and economy of a mar- velous type The than that of California. land is Japan. reveal area of Japan is less Its cu tenth of yet ils pr ducts Itivated . ; less than one ita total ACTER support 38,000 000. The United States has about 60. . O00 00) populati 0. In Japan 2500 persons subsist from each square mile of tilled A such circumstances land. people exsisting undpr must from necessity of preservation be provident, painstak ing, hard-working, ingenious and frugal. The Japs appear to deserve all these adjectives, with them literally market-gnrdening, because the soil is required to produce more than any Agriculture is | other place in the world. we} Mr. Frederick A. Saward, editor of the edged authority on all questions concern. | ing coal production, prices, transporta- tion, ete., in hiv interview of the trade for 1888 says: “The annual production of coal—in the countries for which de. at 480,000,000 tons; of this quantity the countries furnishing the larger portion ardthe United States, Germany and Great | Britain. In the United States there was a total output in the past year of over 130,000,000 tons, the State of Pennsyl- vania furnishing about fifty-five per cent. of this grand total 38,000,000 tons of hard coal and 33,000,000 tons of soft bitaminous coal. The trade Is growing wherever a line of railway exists, though the increase is greater in what one might term the older States; there is more coal used in Pennsylvania, New Yor New Eagland, bots for industrial domestic purposes, yet the growth in the past year in the interior and the Southern shrewdest operators in Wall street, is per- | | the signal agreed upon for the start { Edward Mott Robinson, who laid the | e | A hundred pistols discharging their contents { into the afr but faintly echoed the | THE PROMISED LAND. A Wild Race for Homestead: in Oklahoma. The Signal Sounded and 30,000 | Pioneers Cross the Borders, The gates of Oklahoma were swung open { | | | : at noon on the day appointed by President | Harrison, and resistless torrents of humanit y began to pour upon its soil. From the Chero- kes strip came the great fleet of prairie schooners noross the Canadian: from the Chickasaw Nation came troop after troop of | sturdy ponies, each one carrying a boomer: | from the Arapahoe and Cheyenne reservations | | on the west came a yelling mob of horsemen, who fired volley after volley to celebrate | their final victory. The Kiowa of the Southwest and the Cher okes and Creek Nations on the east, also | furnished thelr contingent of boomers Punctually at noon the trumpeter of Troop D, 5th Cavalry, at a sign from Lieutenant Waite, sounded the “dinner call” It was Im- mediately there went up shouts and cheers. the joy, the enthusiasm, the feeling of relief on | the part of the crowd that the Supra mo went had arrived at last. Away dashed the horsemen in mad gallop, lashing their horses as if life depended upon reaching the top of the hill yonder, They were followed closely by buggies, buckboards, and road wagons, and the rear was brought up by the heavy drays, all lashing up that #teep incline At the starting signal they moved all t gether, great waves of cheering bre aking upon the air, The wagons continued on over the green plain until they were about half across the northern tier of claims, upward of a hundred of them were to a standstill, The « rolled on lower tiers Mon, women and stationary short time the 1 home hands, Every farm had more t) all ready to swear border first, and provement Soit is level! THY and then ther schon 'S, Aan 1 AD novell undation for the of Oklahoma had Pioneer that that +h LE on the homa City oarcely 1 At ti homa Territory the boomers who had wd to get in qi wn ingde, thes snd the en end to the other was |i this WARY come lye, train from ned with them the line was reached als 13:06 o'clock. Before the late decd Hie was reached ary med, however the ransformation scene plainly wigble to the train. First ca RgOnS In 2 the little face of the cou once noticeable that the tons seen in any of these camps, and i$ was plain they had been taken if the harness rode scoross the border by hard riders, ¥ were to locate claims. A little further 0 and o rest begun tehers from 1 mgt Fa this conclusion was proven to be o k the entire face of the uniry, as far as the best field glass could carry the sight, was overrun with horsemen galloping to ths southward, Their fleclest horses had dently been picked for rk. and were carrying their riders rapidiy longed-for goal Out of the st which sid be seen, after rides. a wagon rect, for the = du arose toward ¢ the train had remcbed caravan fully two miles in length, and which was driven to the utmost epee] its hors These CAravans were plainly « out-distanced by the horseback riders, and after so miles of the territory had traversed, it was soon that the best were winning the best prises. Ope hom stender who had secured a magnifices quarter section of rolling land, had dug a hols two or three fest deep at the corner of it where the survevory' section was box tel, There be drove his stakes It was a curious sight to watch the boomers after they had got fairly on foot. The ma jority of then seemed to be dased by the vastness of their surroundings Many of them gasped stupidly to the north, south, east and west and then moved like men who were font Despite the orders relating to town site as sociations, there were already indications of bad blood among those speculators who have beens dremming of wealth to be gained in cities founded by them In Purcell rival companies for the same site across the river, known by one company as Lexington, and by the other as East Pur. ell, fssued incendiary dodgers headed: “De. fend your rights with rifles if necessary.” Boon afterward a little bill addressed to mem. bers of the Oklahoma League was posted up warning the members, “by order of the league,” to prepare to hold against all comers the claims and town sites selected and staked out by them. A disturbance took place there between rival land speculators and their adherents, in which pr and Winchestors were fired freely, however, without any serious result Tom Myers was shot in the head, Jos Martin in the arm, one Bimpkine, colored, was struck in the lag. At daylight the fighting ceased Two troops of cavalry arrived at Purcell and will probably prevent any actual out. break. The streets and hillsides of that town were covered with men, four-fifths of whom were speculators, determined to enrich them. # of wan riders | selves, —— OKLAHOMA'S METROPOLIS, Boomers Suffering at Guthrie for Want of Food and Water, A cattle train, carrying 200 men in the oa- booss, which left Guthrie at 6 ». M. arrived at Arkansas City, Kan, at 3 o'clock in the aftérnoon of the following day. It was the first train that reached that point from the South after Oklahoma was opened, a distance of only eighty-five miles he rond was almost gnhpletuly Blocked There was as yet no difflouity in getting into the Terri. tory of Oklahoma, but it was more than doubtful when one could get out, People were represented as vainly attempting to leave Guthrie by train, and as suff greatly for want of food and drink. Now had driven yet in the town. The only water that could be obtained was got at a muddy creek about a mile below the GEORGE WASHINGTON. y, THE NEWS £PITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, r Edison General Flectrd iETURNS from all we hasettis show that the prohibition asnendr nx WW. Brox mel Pe FERS New South and West + IE simpson ary a argest In formally opened in t aed ie Hstinguished visitors fock at Newport New the United States he presence of a party of Ve the wa Ar Grigeby's | WwW. Va election on ot i {ifficulty occurred between William Porter and Swin Howell Porter was shot three times, and expired in a few minutes. While trying to quell the disturbances Jo Sar. gent and Martin mortally wounded during a Boenae gue athe “ JOBLMOn wee A TREMENDOUS broke over Atlanta Jackson tailding, whic fell killing two firemen thers . Harris wer Mich. by a premature tasting stumps XXER He {f dyvoamite while Gronae M. MoNwn, f employed on the Oak Levee, at Baton Roug: h La. and two colored we Colly Norton and Prankie Romero, were drowned by the upsetting of a skiff in they were attempting to cross the rivers A COLLARION occurred between two freight trains a mile south of Glen Mary, Tenn Brakeman Taylor, Conductor Hineline and Engineer Rusk were crushed to deat! Two others were slightly injured James ( killed near explosion « anag ner wry { lows men which Washington, Tux Secretary of State is informed that Russia will send delegates to the Marine Cone ference, which meets at Washington on the 16th of October next Tug Postmastor-General made "he alia ing im ant appointments FB. Cooley, of kb to be Chief of the Money Order Department; Frank M. Smith, of Maryland, and 8 G. Sullivan, of Ohio, to be Superintendent of Mails at Baltimore and Cincinnati, respectively: John A. Chapenan, of Ninola, to be Chief of the Inspection Dividon ; Edward G. Carlin, of Pennsylvania, to be Assistant Superintendent of the Pail | way Mail Service, | twenty traveling : : Cosmisstoxen Taxxen hae discharged Fonsi examiners because the appropriation for their pay was exhausted. Tux Secretary of the Treasury has up pointed Daniel A. Grosvenor, of Ohio, to chief of a dividon of the First Comptroller's | loffice. Heo is a brother of Repressntative | | Grosvenor, Ex-Goverxon Wirtian M, Srose, of Towa, has been appointed Assistant Commis. stoner of the General Land Office, Foreign, W. F. Donsaar, Crown Timber Inspector at Rat Manitoba, left town sud. Sani} & Sow dnigs ago, 42000 short In Hines. coun has occurred in the Brance Durham, England. Five mercial aftache of Embassy Paris, have been ol Com siopers 10 represent England at the 8 Conferenc Xn Pexpre ter to Gere arm ference in § letters of | oAIranewsat Mess Re gy LR Conference an wei left Lome Kino Conanrs f R nounosd that hi had been anasina LATER NEWS, Oldenberyg A strom raged through worst for years At Chestertown there was The high wind blew down bun. T rivers and erecks A port a hurricane dreds of fruit trees Wer swollen un of Salisbury was ling a private Mors ! Schofield Foraker and staff. and collided at Baltimore with a fast General train, and the « e party recived a shaking 1} Four train men were iz Jured AX att Guthrie Mayor by id an elsstion for Oklahoma, was defeated empl to b in n violent storm. Excitement was caused by the discovery that the brackish river water A smallpox epidemic threat and other towns in the new A man named Joseph Ellsworth on his return from Hundreds of dis. returning to their = poisonous ened Guthrie Territory was taken with smallpox Guthrie to Arkansas City appointed people are homes in Kansas and other States. A half. | breed named Holbert was killed at Oklahoma City by a white man named Noland ina dis pute over a claim Funrnen important appointments by the President: Dr. Daniel Dorchester, of Boston, Mase, 10 be Buperintendent of Indian Schools; Warren Truitt, of iallas, Ore. to be Register of the Land Office at Lakeview, Ore. : Thomas B. Baldwin, of Folsom, New | Mexico, to be Register of the Land Offlos at | Folsom, New Mexico; James B. MeGonigal, of Colby, Kan, to be Recsiver of Public Moneys at Oberlin, Kan, A DESPATCH from Auckland says that the | United States steamer Nipsic was again dis abled while being towed in Apia Harbor, | Samoa. Mataafa hes returned to Apia. Justice Guay, of the United States So preme Court, whose marriage with Miss Jeannette Matthews, daughter of the late Justice Stanley Matthews, ix announced ns about to take place, was received into the Episcopal Communion by Bishop Parrett in St. John's Church, Washington. Mis Mat. | hows was confiomed in the same church about a week before, A stor bas destroyed all the crops fn the Goerliteen district of Silesia. Five persons were killed by lightning. Tur Spanish Government will soon sell st auction $40,000,000 worth of woodland, | in order to cover the financial to build Peru, . uitronds, canals and highways and to estab. lish rural loan banks. Tur Weldon Extradition bill, aimed at | | | | [| THE NATIONAL GAME, Bowrox is disappointed in Ray, Tur Washington Ciub is complete, Tur Memphis Club has reorganized, Bares will pitch for Havard College, Banxrey has signed with Kansas City, CLEVELAND fs the Leaguo baby this year Rurasp is to Captain the Havard College nine, } Bosroxiaxs begin to think thelr outfield i | weak, Tue four ball rule makes the pitcher | work | Butter Elgin Oreamery.. PresoMes AL Burra is suing the Baltimore Clubs for $750 Carnory has been appointed Captain of the Bt. Pauls Tue Columbus (Ohio second baseman Presioesy Hareison thoroughly eajonys game of baseball Club is in need of a Eruen Burra, of Cincinnatd, is styled the dead arm piteber O'Briex, of the BErockiyns, made the fire! three-bugger of the year Tur Pittsfield (Mass) High Bohool girl have organized a ball team be sdmitted free at all thy 1 this season Lapigs are to games in Louisyil Quinx most active » Toe Mins team iz to have a band. some street uniform of gray for use on tri is said to be the best thrower and the wn on the Baltimore team EADOLE : Never before this sesso Club opened t defeat Tur first man 1 game this senson ae CHAMPIOY 3 make two home runs int single was Duffie Lowi Tux Pittabus has put its rule book form f« by players 0 carry wilh ther BALTIMO} first ther snectively, indd : the pronant rao A smociatsom Tax and All-Ameri broke even in the ten games played in this country Altogether the teams played 53 pane All America won Chioag won 22 and 3 games were tied Owes WiLiiams, the young player who played right field for Canton, Oho, last season. and whose sale to Lima for one dollar has gone down into history in the company with the Kelly $10,000 deal, has signed to play centre field for Hamilton, Oho Govenxon Hine vetoed the bill which would have enabled the New Yorks to play another season on the famous Polo Grounds This compelled the New Yorks to play their opening game of the League season in Jersey City, N. J. Chicagos as i — CAPTAIN Huzexian Wiiiame, who was at the wheel of the Merrimac during the Con fedorate ram's enoounter with the Monitor, died recently in Norfolk, Va, aged seventy two Taz Southern cadets, of Macon, Ga, were awarded the first prise of $1000 offered for the best drilled company by the sub-Tropical E position managers ——— —— Ix Italy there afe 12 943 persons who have received lioenses to beg, and who are, there fore, unchallenged by the police, ———— THE MARKETS, 4 NEW YORK. Beeves 3 Mileh Cows, com. to good. . 28 Calves, common to prime, Sheed. . . Ambs Hoge live Dressed 0 ur-City Mill Extra Patents Wheat No. 2 Red Bve- Rate . a Rarley —Two-rowed State | Corn Ungraded Mized Usts~ Nao. 1 White Mixed Western. ...... HayNa. 1 . Straw lon Lard City Steam Dairy, fair to good, West. Im. Cremmery 58 & pugs ; 28) | 88s Foo or ud aggaeasan Yellow. ....... Fasbanntan S386RARED eaaaaseas Shrnan Pate. 6 Nor White E Es EE Ryo~8tate. .....oouiininee SA 6 RNa 5 did EE ELE he Lh ER
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