————— A ab, THE WIDE WORLD OVER, Newsy Dispatches Describing Some Important Events. « i SL. 0 First Celebration of Arbor Day in the Empire State, Arbor Day has been celebrated in the pub- lic schools of New York for the first time. Thousands of pupils in more than 222 schools | 9 Joined in the exercises of song and recitation. The circular issued by the State Superinten- | dent of Public Schools, A, 8. Draper, ex- | pains the object of the ature as follows: primary pur- | PP of the Legislature in establishin Arbor y was to develop and stimulate in the chil dren of the commonwealth a love and rever- ence for nature as revealed in trees and | shrubs and flowers. In the language of the statute to ‘encourage the planting, protection | and preservation of trees and shrubs’ was be- | lieved to be the most effectual way in which to lead our children to love nature and rev- erence nature's God, and to see the uses to | which these natural objects may be put in making our school grounds more healthiui and a ive.” In New York city the school exercises were not as elaborate as the ‘programme issued by | the Buperintendent of Public Instruction | called for. This was owing to the day coming | 80 soon after the Centennial celebration. The first portion of the programme, the planting | of trees in the schoolyards, wus necessarily omitted downtown, but in some of the schoo in the Annexed district was carried out to the letter. The musical and literary portion was observed in all the schools with songs and reci- tations, With the exception of the Prospect Park exercises there was nothing of a public c acter to mark Arbor Day in Broo! Prospect Park an elm tree was planted at tle Pass by the venerable James 8, T. Strana- ban, who for many years managed the De- sartment of Parks. The boys and girls of *ublic School No, 9 and other schools near the rk took part in the exercises. Postmaster oseph C. Hendrix delivered aun address and brief speeches were made by several other citizens, Arbor Day was observed very generally on Long Island. At many places trees were lanted and there were public exercises, At reslau the teachers of the Public School planted a tree and the tender twas pamed “The Washington,” in commemora- tion of the Centennial Throughout other parts of the State the day was appropriately celebrated by the slanting of trees and shrobs and by exercises in many of the public schools. The State will be the gainer by many thousands of trees, and the first celebration of Arbor Day in New York is conceded to have been a great success, d Arbor Day is now observed in thirty-Jous States and two Territories, day set apart by the | “he - shox Given Prominent Offices. The President has made the following ap- pointments: To be United States Attorneys: Samuel W. Hawkins, of Tennessee, for the Western District of Tennessee: John Rubm, of Ten nessee, for the Middle District of Tennessee; De Alva 8. Alexander, of New York, for the Northern District of New York To be United States Marshals: Joshua B Hill, of North Carolina, for the Esstern Dis trict of North Carolina; Carter B. Harrison, of Tennessee, for the Middle District of Ten- nesses; James W. Brown, of Tennessee, for the Western District of Teunesseo Mr. Hawkins was the Republican candi. date for Governor at the last election. He is a resident of Huntington and a lawyer Mr. Rubm is & native of Germany He came to this country in 1861, joined the Union Army and served through the war, most of the time on General Thomas's staff, At the close of the war he settled at Nashville, and bas lived there ever since He issaid to bo * one of the best lawyers in the State Mr. Alexander is a native of Maine. but has for a number of years been a citizen of Ohio and Indiana. From the latter State he was appointed First Auditor of the Treasury, but was removed from this position upon the advent of the Cleveland Administration. He then settled in Buffalo, N. Y., and engaged in the practice of the law During the re cent campaign he assisted in attending to the correspondence of Mr. Harrison, and was Suen spoken of in cot tion with the » ce of vate Secretary to the President + Hill bas beld before the office to which bé has been appointed , Harrison served in the Union Army during the war, and rose to the rank of Major. He is a resident of Murfeesboro, and is a brother of President Harrison Mr. Brown lives in Brownsville, and has held the office of Clerk of the Court of Hay- wood County, at Oklahonii's Busy Postoffice Postmaster-General Wanamake: received a telegram from Postmaster Flynn of Guth rie, Oklahoma, in which he says tha the daily sale of postage stamps at his office amounts to about $50; that the eleven clerks in the office are kept busy from 5 o'clock, A. M, until midnight, and that when the mail is ready for delivery there is usually a line of men a half mile long waiting for their mail, About 3000 letters and 'S are delivered from daily, There are five banks and six newspapers in operation in the new town. Land Commissioner ork thager received a report from Inspector Hobbes, at Guthrie, which shows that durin the first week 400 entries were made oy forty-two notices of contest made, Four Children Burned to Death. A distressing accident, by which four chil- dren of Charles Williams, whose ranged from 6 to 15 years, were burned to death, took at Abingdon, Md. 0 husband, wife, and five children, re- to rest at about 10 oelck. An hour later neighbors saw the house burning i octual efforts to quench the Mr. and Mrs. Williams escaped with the baby, who was fatally injured. The serious Wr The Killing of a King. Advices from Masowah give details the recent death i 2: John of It in stated that on March 10 he | jn, Stink on the dervishes in their | found floatin, THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States, PosTMasTE: EpwARD 8. Jnwisox, of Ash. bourne, Penn., shot and killed a burglar who was trying to break into the postofice. Josgen LoTTOoN, 1 fifty-five, and A, Lawson, aged forty, while returning homo to Vernon Centre, Conn., from anchester drove from the road down a steep bank and over a wall into Tallcotville mill pond. Both men and the horse were drowned. Tae body of Mr. James C, Anthony, a brother of the late Senator Anthony, was in the river near Silver Spring, R. L Ho had committed suicide. Jacos D. SHAULIS, a wealthy farmer, sixty years of age who lived in Jefferson Town. | ship, Penn., was found dead hanging toa! tres near his house. Lying in the barnyard, | | a few foet away, was his young wife shot | through the body and fatally wounded, A RECEPTION was given to Chief Justice | Fuller by the Bar Asssoclation of New York | city. EVERY man in Pittsburg engaged in the | building trades, with the exception of the | bricklayers, went on strike and work was | The number of strikers | | | generally suspended. was compirted at 5000. The principal griev- | ances were the hours of labor and the em- ployment by the bosses of non-union men. IN a collision between trains at Hancock, | N.Y, due to the carelessness of an Erie rall- | ‘road tel ups operator, a car was thrown into the Delaware and ton passengers were hurt. Maxacenr Hairy, of the Manhattan Ele | vated Railway, Now York city, has said that | about 2,346,000 fares were taken during the | three days of the centennial. This is an | average of TS2.000 a day, and specifically, Monday, 05,000; Tuesday, 825000, and Wednesday, 756,000, Estimated in dollars the returns were $117,200, | THE entire force of the li%e saving crows along the New Jersey coast has been laid off until next October. The keepers will take care of the houses during the surnmer months Mayor GRANT appoivted Thomas F. Gil roy to be Commissioner of Public Works of New York city. He made a formal demand for the office and the books upon I. Lowber Smith, who refused to give them up. Tae four-story building attached to th Catholic College at Germantown, Penn. was burned. Ignatius Hillian, aged seventy, per ished in the flames, and his brother Michael, aged eighty-five, was fatally injured by jump ing from a window, Tu Southern Society gavea dinner at ita new club-house in New York city in honor of a number of Southern Governors were delivered by Vies President Tevi FP Morton, Chaune ey M. Depew, Gordon, of Georgia: Governor Lee, of Vir. ginia, and others speeches Governor South and West, hanged a murder beset the Parr MoGiswis has City. for Sherif Robert Lockwood A Terie wind and ball storm over the northern part of Bell County a territory of twen ™ “ryt t N - Lhe cot dl corn cro a loss of Canon Oregon, pass Texas covering miles, destroyed, ental dollars Frovp Rion gh the dome mond, i a while hauling was instantly colored, fell throu of the Richmond Thestre at Ric a distances of seventy fect down an American flag, and killed Toe Centennial Celebration ton’s first Insuguration was much enthusiasm in many cities—notably in Chieago, Charleston, 8. C.: Portland, Oy Nashvil : Birmingham, Als ; Denver, Col.; Indianapolis, Ind: Lexington Va Milwaukee, St. Louis Staunton, Va.: Cin cinnati, San Francisco: Richmond, ete THE quarantine at Sanford, Fla, has been raised and the yellow fever scare is over Fick at la Crosse, Wis, ol he saw mills of John Paul and C. 1. Coleman and the large flouring mill of Willia=z List man. Loss about £30 000, Tae block coal miners of Brazil Ind. 2000 in number, quit work to a man, because of the reduction froma %W to 0 cents mining THE reprecentatives of the eotton mill throughout the cotton States, met at Au _ and permanently organized a Southern Manufacturery’ Association, with headquarters in Augusta. HH. H. Hick man, of Aug Was elected President of Washing observed with Tenn destroye or Washington, Tux State Department has been informed that the Government of Honduras will bx represented at the International Marine Con ference to begin ia Washington on October 16, 1850, SECRETARY TRACY declined to order a! court of inquiry to investigate the loss of the men-of war in Apia harbor, Samoa, being satisfled that the y flpo was one that could not have been prevented THE railway mail service has been placed under the Civil Service rule. Since March / about 1500 changes in the forces of 5500 have been made in the railway mail service throughout the country F. C. Parrrupar, of Proctor, VE, has been: appointed Private Secretary to the Sec retary of War Tie President of the Argentine Republic has appointed three delegates to represent that blic in the International Maritime Congress, to be held in Washington next Oe. tober, Taz boiler of a dredger burst in the har bor at Calais, France. The explosion killed seven persons and injured several others. The bodies of the killed were horribly mutilated Woe twelve men and a little girl were crossing the Nicolet River at Ste. Clothilde, | Canada, in a skiff, the boat upset and three | of the men were drowned. MarieroA, the wed Ki the ex-K A REVOLUTIONARY outbreak took place at Bilao, Mexico, and the Prefect was assas sinated, Tuy third session of the Fifth Parlinment of the Dominion of Canada has boen pro rogued by the Governor-General, OWING to the improvement in the health | of the King of Holland the Dutch Parliament | by an unanimous vote passed a resolution re storing his power, received with cheers. Parlisement pen the favorable turn in his disease, ry LATER NEWS, Tae funeral of Hon, W." H. Barnum, af Lime Rock, Conn., was attended by a large number of people. Among ex-President Cleveland Lamont, those and present were Colonel Tae Centennial Committee's exenses in New York were about $300,000 A meAaIN demolished a coach in Philadel. phia, killing two occupants, ¥. KX. Womrath and James Dungan, and injuring others, A MERCHANT named Mellick, at Blair, Towa, shet and killed his wife and two chil dren, then set fire to his house and committed suicide, three Warsaw, N. C., was struck by a cyclone a few mornings ago. Many small houses ] were blown away almost bodily, and large | ones were torn up so that they are not habi- table. The seminary building was pearly destroyed, and Church totally demolished people seriously hurt, the Presbyterian Many wert Oklahoma the ar by a railroad engineer named Stafford, wh Mis after filing it, ax tha through Miss Naxx'ra Darsy, female boorier, was 3 shot had jumped her claim, Daisy maxing a visit to her claim was met by Stafford, who fired three her, Bhe was not seriously injured, Sir JULIAN PaUuscer TS Minister has been I | President, TH: verdict tried Major Lydecke allowing frandulent w on aqueduct tunnel is that | United States §100 per un ne months, and be repri The sentence has been approves dent, Jonux Dua vidressing monster moot THREE lumbermen three others badly Inj to “run a slide” in the Deu Gusrave Hosuegu:r both of Middletown train in New Haven Buxoneos of miners are starving in the Pennsylvania coal regions Taree miners fire liery, near Pottavill wore p explosion in Wiriax Tavson while temporarily insane a Lk] dashed 1 brains out against the wall and ma wife. Then he slashed his Tue art. d wn throat sontract to £ i 3 Warren Hanns both Emporia, Va Wu man and RH dored, wers LIAM GiLw f Albany, Ga John T. Wi custodian of Bureau of Eograving and pensation of #2 ¥ Mus dies, roll EE] ATronxey-GEXERAl gate the Oklahoma land The centennial of was celebrated at Versaille Paris and In various cities abe at tended and made speeches; in Paris a blank cartridges was shot at the President; the assailant, when arrested. said he had no desire to kill the President wd, President Carnot the Versailles exercises Tue Brazilian Parliament was oped by the Emperor Tre voters of Edinburgh, Scotland. have decided by a vote of 14.611 nays to 2197 yeas not to confer the of city on Parnell, freedom the The voleano of Vesuvias has been in an alarming state of eruption. Streams of lava A FATHER'S ORIME, Ee Kills His Two Children and Takes His Own Life, A horrible murder and suicide ocourred In | High Bluff, Canada, the victims being a far- | mer named McLeod and his daughter, while badly wounded that he could not recover, McLeod's house is a mile or so away from High Bluff station, on what is known as the “back road.” He was last seen about dusk, A neighbor named Lotta visited the house after dinner next da s HE ii%s sis * Tho asnouncement was | sent ou | telegram to the King congratulating him | Some Important Happenings in the National Capital, ———— No Homesteads for Government Officials in Oklahoma, A Washington special says that the Gov- | ernment officials in Oklahoma will get very { cold comfort from the officials there in their efforts to deprive notusl settlers of lands in Oklshoma, A talk w Bearatary demonstrates the view of the administration ith Noble that the Government officials there were sent to earn their salaries and not to take up homesteads, It is considered vastly waferable it an Government official ike the United States Marshal, the district Judge or the Register of the Land Office de Eires to enter land, that he resign his office and become a homesteader, it may be ac | cepted as a foregone conclusion that all con- tests aguinst entries nade by officials will be sustained by both the General Land Office and the Secretary of the Interior “The Government officials there are filled with indignation over the tricks played by the alleged deputy United States Marshals to | get into the couniry ahead of the settlers and it seems quite likely that all of these people will be deprived of their land on the ground that they llegally entered the country shesd of the date st by the President for the open- ing of the land. Secretary Noble said “Iahall insist upon the military forces ex cluding every person who may the Cherokee strip as soom as foot thereon There will be no frvoes ie, and no tolerant enter ne may set OfMice Commission BL 8 naa tas when the Sens the warmti The Public L15i Printershin, Senator resent to ber members ' or the publi of 38% the Pre ¥ of This Ia lewarding the Samoan Kiag. Navy | what can bed the efforts t an rewarding Ba f Cong ny suitable may b Ken or = must be k reward, b abies mea ita appre J nd of the property Pensions for the Veterans rate of S80 : ies I here was an ag Lie Office th certificates fo increases hasbeen made ir Tanner ne susned charge of the Pension Office. THE NATIONAL GAME, RAY leads the batting av tons, Tur Pittsburg club has released ontflel Nichol Tux Bouthern League gunes are large crowds Tee Kamsaz City American tlub is playing great ball Jos Wann has agresd upon terms with the New York management Rionanpsox, of the New Yorks appears to have developed into a slugger EvERY man on the Philadelphia Giants is gover six feet two inches in height Tue Chicago club, it is alleged, offered | 84000 for the release of Long, Kansas City's hort stop Esrerpnoox has been deposed from the LH ety and is the Inrges any one day sine erages of th Bo ler drawing Association ‘aptainey of the Louisville American Asso- | dation club Ox holidays visiting clubs in the American Association will receive only fifteen per cent of the gate receipts Tur Brooklyus, one of the strongest of the American Amociation nines, did very poorly | in their opening games, but are beginning | to improve, | Prronen Axxs is doing work for Princeton College very creditable In the me net the Jersey City team he gave them | | only two hits | Ir one may judge at all from the scores of | the games so far played, the new | rules have attained the desired object of securing freer hitting and more runs | MoCuetiax, the well-known ball tower, | | formerly of the Brooklyns, said $0 be further | | ward the erection of « | advanced in the degrees of Masonry any member of the baseball profession. and | whan he got well the impediment in his speech | had disappeared . of the Interstate Com- THE VOW OF WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON TOPICS, | | And severed sections, | The { As its great | Hin pledge to In world-wide wonder | ———— Poem by John G, Whittier Read at the Great Centennial Celebration, The reading of the following poem by John | G. Whittier formed part of the Centennial | exercises at the Bub-Treasury in New York, | My, Whittier's age and infirmities prevented | him from being present to read his noem in | person: The sword was sheathed : in April's sun Lay green the fields by Preedom won wonry of debates Joined hands at Inst and were United States, O City sitting by the Sea! How proud the day 1 dawned on thee, When (he new ern, long desired, Lega; And, in its need, the One thought the cannon salvos spoke: The resonant bell tower's vibrant stroke, volesful the plasdid-echoing halls, And prayer and hy from Bt. Paul's slr Lesavenward How felt the land in every part * The strong throb of a Nat ay Leader gave, ons neart with reverent awe Union, Liberty, and Law! That pledge the heavens above kim heard, That vow the sleep of centuries stirred stening peoples bent Their gaze on Freedom's great experiment id il history told strewed the m of oil s that Conid It suecead? And hopes de Above the past H the long dream of ages true a Or wre urnful last? are sined by wars! PROMINENT PEOPLE. arm VAR GER has ved in Lossdon Hox. 8. 8B. Cox is sixty-five years old 3 SRCRETARY TRACY has sold his trotters, OW, Horues, the poet, is seventynine Tux Emperor of Russia is forty-five years 1 Day thre Tux thr Tue Czar of Russa is 1 & est man in Europe Tne Empress of Austria is under massage trontinent Provessor TYspart, the scientist, is an Irishman, but an intense Anti-Home Ruler GoveErsor Axes of Massachusetts is obliged to retire from politics on account of ill health Tur wife of the Japanese Minister at Washington learned the English language so as to speak it fluently in one year Tar Duke of Edinburgh, who has the tation of being the most economical man in Europe, is suffering severely from dyspepsia, Tux late John Bright, when at Llandudno, Fiero, the lawyer is eighty. of Holland has resumed his King LE be the polite unproving used to go almost every day to pass an hour | with a poor decript old cheur him up. Bm Coances Rossy, drank nothing but pauper, in order to covon during the delivery of his great speech | at the opening of Mr, Parnell's case before | the commission, Mug, Hanmsox's father has re after lve at the White House with his daughter and the President ReEan-Apxinat Jouerr, States Navy, is an enthusiastic fox hunter, He has a farm in Maryland, and maintains a | pack of full-blooded Trish foxhounds Bexaron Srasxvonn will give $50,000 to Faas SYOtrOpolitan Methodist church in Ran Francisoo, pro- vided Bishop Newman be called to the pastor. ate, Tax municipal authorities of Newoastle under Lyme, England, have voted a address of congratulation to Presiden rison, whose ancestors were natives of that CuievJuosrics Jonx DD, Pang, of the Con nectiont Court has | nial celebration ¢ with the pyrotechnic display on | front, . arranged by hour had found the man! | | city | grown FATAL PANIC i GICAGD, Frightful Disaster at an ¥x- hibition of Fireworks. Many Persons Fatally Injured or Badly Wounded, terrible calamity attended the Centen Chie in in « psetion neo ¢ LF FU One of the three exhibitions of fireword the Centennial managers was the ure given in flat Front Park incl central Fully prs in $ pur) EF] a large part of the wore 3 Ban Mn was In off safely and the thos sands were scattering when the disaster oc curred. A pi f fireworks fn the form of a flower-pot had not been discharged though Lighted, and Daniel Grant, thirteen yours old, picked it up when the display was over While handling the plecs it exploded and scattered its deadly flame and fire in all direction The erowd al ance became paniostricken, and a which bad been allowed in the crowd dashed headlong into the helpless, scremmning roass of humanity, Before the animal bus stopped he had trerapled over scores of PHO ple and fatally inju t was wen bled ing streois progress all pase vd Vises ood names give § One eet who sand MINERS CRUSHED TO DEATH. An Immense Rock Kills Three Men in Pennsylvania, The Hyde Park (Pens of a tery ring = ids mine a veral hundred feet b werew surface, loading chamber falling #ia fort v them to ¢ blast and hollows a heavy a slight it seemed secure with coal when The roof that laded was safe under report and w ocident When } ti and it MOCK re hurry wlp ar ns were took ses the from the The bodies were then on g of the men who had a short eviovsiy belt lor their daily task, EE ——————— A DEADLY DUEL. How Two Alabama Farmers Settled Their Differences, . that ths % 0 a puppy 0 remove N nes eral mang ried %« time ju A deadly duel occurred a few days since in Jackson County, Ala, that resulted in the Jenth of one of the participants. Two far- ner neighbors living at some distance» {rom Scotehoro named J. D, Princeand J. . Green, juarrcled over some: trivial matior, and freen threatened to kill Prince, and he pre- pared himself with a shotgun. On the fol wowing morning the two men met in a public oad and immediately dishounted from their 4 ig | BOTS and resumed the quarrel. They finally YIN im | clerkship in the Pension Office, and will here. Jocided to fight it oul, and Green made for {| Prince with a large dirk, making a vicious Prince dodged and seized plunge at him | Green's arm and the deadly struggle began. of the United | | 1nd the question with him was how to get it Pierce's gun was leaning against the fence, bofore he was killed. With a sudden effort be tripped Green, throwing him to the and immediately made a break for ais gan, which be Ny as Green was in striking distance, Without level the un, Prince Shiruth 14% nigtalls Sysing ne enemy, pulled the trigger, Jodged hy rk oad of buckshot in his breast, kill- him instantly. Fra.e gave himsell up, and was taken to Scotsboro Jail : PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. A Reduction of a Little Over Thier teen Million Dollars in April The public debt statement just fssuod places the whole bt at LEI 00. GTI Cash items | of reserve held
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