MO ae -—— Work has already begun on the eleve —————— An International Congress of Geogra- phers is to be held in Paris during the summer, The Nebraska Supreme Court has de- wided that mortgages on growing corn are favalid. The Louisville Courier-Journal calls for a free delivery mail system for the farm- ing communities, Me i About fifteen companies are reported to have been organized during the past | few weeks to build cotton mills in the South. The New York Telegram estimates that | there has been in three years a twenty- five per cent. decrease in prison inmates in prohibition Iowa. One may stand on top of the Eiffel | Tower in Paris, they say, and be entirely out of a heavy storm that ragesata lower | level. The structure is 984 feet high. The statement is made, says the A¢- lanta Constitution, that not more than five eminent scientists in the United States re- ject the Darwinian theory of evolution. Our country is not altogether defence- | Jess on land. The Centennial demon- strated that 70,000 militiamen can be as- sembled in New York within fifteen hours. The Chicago Journal thinks that the coming census may show a decrease in the population of some of the States. It pre- dicts a falling off in some of the New England States and in the two Carolinas Both France and England have decided that the female sex has not the necessary intelligence to make proper use of the ballot. And still American girls run af- ter those fellows! indignantly exclaims the Detroit Free Press. Ata recent banquet in New York Gov- ernor Buckner, of Kentucky, said that after the surrender at Appomattox General Grant followed him into the woods, and offered him the use of all his funds and food for the comfort of himself and his men. Cincinnati firemen gave a ball the other evening and an alarm left the maids and matrons without partners while the fire. men worked for three hours in white ties and ‘swallow tail” coats in the duty. Both the ladies and the fire were put out, The revival of the spelling bee promises, thinks the Atlanta Constitution, no end line of of innocent and hearty amusement. There is more genuine enjoyment in one of these contests than there is in a hundred walking matches or uther tests of physical strength. The wives of the foreign ministers at Peking, China, must have been highly flattered to receive portions of the State dinner at their homes. This was the nearest approach to recognition that they have any hope of in a country where the woman is never deemed worthy to appear in public. It is of some interest to recall the fact that Ramsey says in his ‘Life of Wash. ington” that Washington's mother ‘‘was from the influence of long established habits so far from being partial to the American revolution that she often re. gretted the side her son had taken in the controversy between her King and her | country.” P———————— A nilway company in Texas, which has 7,000,000 acres of good land to sell C2 easy terms, has agents drumming among the disappointed boomers. Asall Oklahoma contains less than 1 900,000 | acres, there should be no trouble, remarks the Detroit Free Prem, in accommodating i “There is a little food for | thought, too,” it adds, **in the possession | the overflow, of so much land by a railway corpora tion." A —— “The Cherokee outlet is the next section His ad. | of the boomer’s promised land, vance guard is already there, aunounces the Washingten Star, dodging the United States army, fighting over worthless claims, and, as in Oklahoma, swallowing great quantities of alkali dust in the water and air. Alkali water in the Oklahoma cities is now very expensive, and, after drinking, the imbiber heartily wishes that he hadn't, ——————— The ancient Japanese custom of Hari- Kari, or Happy Despatch, has received a set-back, For centuries it has been the custom for officials of high rank who may ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE Sudden Death of the Newly Ap- pointed Minister tc Russia. Taken Sick in New York as He Was About to Sail for Europe, ALLEN TRORNDIKE RICE Hou. Allen Thorndike Rice, recently ap { pointed United States Minister to Russia, died at 4 o'clock the other morning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, of edema glottis. The disease is a peculiar one, an ag gravated form of quinsy Mr. Rice's death was altogether unex woted. Having been appointed United State Minister to Russia by President Harrison he was about to sail for Europe, and bad already engaged his passage when taken fll He was sick only three days, and expired on the day after he was to have departed for his post at 5 Petersburg Sketch of His Life. Allen Thorndike Rice was best known the editor and proprietor of the North Amer: can Review He was born in Boston in 1853 of wealthy parents, and at eighteen years of age went to England and Oxford University, whers he his degree in 1870 Returning to United St entered the Columbia C ol, but never wed the North nel has since mad f American periodi enters | the ates he lee Law Soh practised law : purci American Reviev it one of the best known cals, In 1870 be organized the Charnay « ped tion to investigate ancient « tral America and Mexico. In 1584 he bough a controling influence in Le Matin, a news paper of Paris. He edited *RemBiscences of Abrabam Lincoln.” and contributed to As cient Citiesof the Now World He also ad voeated the Australian system of voting In 1886 he was the Kepublican candidate for Congress in the Tenth District of New York, against General Spinola, and received the support of the “Henry George party He cane within 527 votes of an election. His defeat was attributed to the treachery of the party leader to whom the conduct of his ca vass was intrmsted. Mr. Rice exposed the treachery, and caused the expulsion of th accused fender from the party organization Mr. Rice was the proprietor of a large cat tle ranch in Kansas, which brought him a handsome revenue He an extensive knowledge of literary topics, and was also an accomplished linguist, speaking Auently the French and German languages His con. versptioual powers wore unsom- monly brilliant Hoe had a strik ing personality, being tall well built and ortioned, dark brown hair, with eves of similar color. His manners were polite and engaging, and he was very energetic and a hard worker. A habit of speaking rapidly especially in ag animated conversation, ofter ed to stAmmering Mr. Rice possessed an inherited fortun that was estimated at several millions. H never married. Both his parents are dead, apd be had no brother or sister vilization in Cen TREATED AS A CRIME. A Minnesota Law That Prescribes Fine and Imprisonment for Being Drank. The now gone into effect becomes intoxicated by vi intoxicating liquors shall be deemed guilty of the crime of drunkenness, and upon con- viction thereof shall be punished as follows For the first offense a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $40, or by imprisonment for not less than ten nor more than forty days for the second offense by imprisonment for not less than thirty nor more than sixty days, ow by a fine of not less than SX nor more than £50; for the third and all subsequent of. fenses by imprisonment of not less than sixty days nor more than ninety days MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Magote Mrronrry has closed her tour “PIORWICK” has been dramatized In Dane isk? Lora, it is reported, will not play next wason BUrraro Brit and his show landed on French soil. STRAUSS, the great Vienna walts writer and conductor, is to visit America mext year, AT Coblents, Germany, “The Nights of St, don,” & new opera, has been very success ronkards law in Minnesota bas It provides that whoever luntarily drinking Kiso Jonx™ Manafleld's London, Mix O'Ruri, the French satirist, is to lecture on “Jonathan and His Continent” next season, AN opera company is now being engaged in may be the subject of Mr, ext Shakespearean revival in | Europe to support Patti in her American tour next winter, Rosson and Crane, the comedians, who have been in partoership for twelve years, have separated, Tue Booth-Barrett combination and Fann Davenport have played to the heaviest bust. ness this season, Miss Brarmiox Cawerox is the only American loft in Richard Mansfleld's com. pany, in on, A sung of French residents propose to build a theatre in New York eity to be de voted exclusively to French plays. Hesny Invine has a to tour this country ae Sehoeffel & Graa's management during the season of | pieces of silver, THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. Springhe 1d (Masa) Heprabits po - Thr eld ( ) can, was sho led by his brotherin daw,” who mistook him for a burglar, Axprew Covesasn and Stephen Good- tash, Hungariun laborers, were killed by a freight train near Tullytown, Penn, Daxter Giuiey and a man named Joseph, Iaborers, were killed by a falling wall in New York city, Foreman Thomas was horribly mutilated and fatally injured, Wasmngron Inving Bisuor, the world famous mind reader, died while giving an exhibition of his powers in New York eity of kystrocatalepsy, a disease peculiar to people of extraordinary nervous development, Tre recent count of money at the New York Bub-Treasury revealed a discrepancy of $35 out of a total sum of $184,000,000 to be ac counted for. The shortage resulted from the nceeptance of a fow counterfeit notes in the burry of business and by the loss of a few good. LasGrey & Sith, shos manufacturersof | | Boston, have fafled for $100,000, GENERAL ADNA AxDERSON, well known { 0s a railroad engineer, committed suicide in | Philadelphia by shooting himself, | Philadelphia millionaire, {| mysteriously Tae body of Heyward M. Paul, a young who disappeared uncle's residence has been recovered from his Edgewater Park, N. J from the Delaware River | himself while insane, ThE strike of the 6000 Pennsylvania rail road coal miners is ended, and work in all the mines was resumed { made by both operators and diggers, and the price agreed upon to rule for the year is seventy-three cents per ton, which is one cent less than was demanded. Coroxzr Frep Yerkes, Internal Bevenue Collector of Philadelphia, died a few days ago of apoplexy. Witriax Mavserr, ex-Amistant City Clerk of Hoboken, N. J., convicted of forg ng city improvement certificates, was sen tenced to hard labor at State Prison for six yearsand six months SIX TROUSAND employes of the Nat Tube Works Company, at McKeesport, P have struck for tan per cont. advan York onal nn. , his siature of New South and West, 1 quarrel at a dance near Por Wilson Amos Cooper were instantd Warn an gineer at the Memphis (Tenn) Gas Works shot and killed his ug wife and then killed f. He had been married four months apd was jealous Oho He hime of Balida, Cal, was lerk, of $35,000 worth JEWELER CORNWALL robbed by Strauss, his « Jewelry of ANDREW and Ole Ericksen, brothers, aged and ten years respectively, ware drowned in the river st Crookstown, Minn They fell off some logs on which they were playing, and their father nearly Jost his in the attempt 10 rescue them HEAVY rains have fallen within the past fow days over a vast wheat, oats and growing area in Hliools Indisoa Wisconsin and Michigan, Five men wore killed by the o lapse of a three-story building in Tacoma, Washington Territory. Bxow fell to the depth of two inches a few days since at Hope, Dakota Mrs Winniax Waos and were killed an accident on the Vashington Territory) cable road Kestocxky's long drought has been broken by a cyclone and rain storm that did much damage, A TERRIVIC storm prevailed at Danville Va. Factories were unroofed, trees pros trated and fences blown down Hail fell tn large quantities. A swath six or seven miles broad was cut through the trucking region { Norfolk and Nansemnond Counties, Va. by the storm. The los will probably reach a million dollars fehit *ght 3 life daughter Heattle by A VERY light vote was polled in the else tion for the ratification of the Sioux Falls metitution of 1885 throughout South Dakota At least eighty-five per cent of the total vote favored the ratification THE entire Wabash Railway system was sold to the committer representing the ma Jority of the bondholders for $15. 550.000 Ean Aominat Eowany Doxatpsos, United States Navy, died of old age at his hows in Baltimore in the sixtywighth year of bis age. He was born in Maryland Ax English syndicate has consummated the purchase of five large Detroit breweries The consideration was §,00,000 Foun laborers were unloading a carload of fron at Detroit, Mich., when some part of the brace holding the load broke and several tons of from fell on the men. Joo Bensootte was killed and his three companions mortally in. jured. A sTORM of wind and rain swept over Bar lington, lows, and surrounding country, do- ing considerable damage to buildings. Baow fell in Northern Michigan and Wisconsin to a depth of from three to five inches SEVENTEEN-YEAR locusts have made their appearance in Tennessee Cuiey Excixeer RL Hanns, United Hates Navy, who was on the Naval Examin- ing Board to test the cruiser Charleston. at Han Francisco, died suddenly at Santa Bar. bara, Cal Wane Mrs. Louis Palmer was cooking supper at her home, five miles from Rockdale, Texas, she dropped a kerosene lamp, which exploded and she was burned to death, Her husband discovered the house to bn in Games, and his attempts to save the two small . children asleep in the building were futile. Tur American steamer Alaskan broke in two during a storm, off Cape Blanco, Oregon Two sailors were drowned and several were missing. Washington, Hox. Coanves Lymax, of Connscticut has been elected President of the Civil Service Commision, Mu Justicn Gaay and Miss Jeannetts Matthews, daughter of the late Mr. Justice | Btanley Matthews, will be nsrried at the | Tux United States | that the SBeott Chinese yra Clark Oaines in their mit city of New Orleans for $570,000, in this famous suit which ————————— ——————————— nS ———— a Cuer-Justicr FuLLek, of the Bupreme started for Bouth Carolina on his Judicial district tour, A DESPATCH was received by the Btate ent from Mr, Carlisle, the United Btates Minister to Bolivia, stating that Bolivia swould be represented at the con- ference of South American nations to be held in Washington next autumn, Joan W. DovucrLass and Simon G, Hine were appointed Commissioners of ths Dis triet of Columbia, James J. HAxxA, of Missourd, has been ape pointed a Postoffice Inspector on Mall De- predations, with headquarters in Boston. The loss was promptly made | He had drowned | Concessions were ; Tug following additional appointments in | the Diplomatic service were made by Presi. { dent Harrison: Solomon Hirsch, of Oregon, to be Minister to Turkey; Clark E. Carr, of i Illinois, to be Minister Resident and Consul. | General to Denmark: Thomas H, Bherman, of the District of Columbia, to be Consul at Liverpool; John Jarrett, of Pennsylvania, to { Consul at Birmingham; Henry W. Beverance, | of California, to be Consul at Honolulu, Foreign. AMARAL VALENTE, Brazilian Minister to Bolivia, has been appointed Minisiter to the United States, A SERIOUS affray occurred at Flisenheim, | Germany, arising out of disputed claims to the occupation of private lands, The mili. tary were called out to disperse the angry villagers, but were unable to do so without | Oring upon them. Seven persons were killed, Taz Bbah of Persia has left Teheran for | Bt. Petersburg. On his arrival on Russian | soll he was welcomed by a body of Russian notables, A detachment of Cossacks was de- | talled to act as a guard of honor to the Shah, MANY congratulatory telegrams wore re | sedved by the King of Holland from foreign rulers and other notables on the occasion of his resumption of the Government, The streets of the Capital were decorated with Sage. Thanksgiving services wore held and at night the city was illuminated AX enormous landslide has Splessback, Switzerland, , lages, forests, and cattle Five brigands yard of the pris were led separately to the hanged in succession ¥ pud in a bag passed reaching to the waist MaLAYs attacked the Duteh port in Sumatra, killing five of the parr wounding tweaty-five. The Malays dead on the field Jory CO, New entered upon his duties as nited States Consul-General Lemdon ix the British Hous of Commons Mr, Bal ir, Uhilef Secretary for Ireland, stated that rish members of the House are pow in m for offenses under the Crin occurred at destroying vil were bead and wer Lhe of Edt 4 and left 100 jos acy CAPTAIN GENERAL Baramanca, of Cuba, bas been authorized to draw on the Spanish Treasury { n of $500 000 " bye NEWSY GLEANINGS, Bramx owes $1 000,000,000 OxLanoxa is filling up rapidly, CALIFORNIA has 8 00 00 shes Iuxexse wheat or Ps are promi IDARO has 7.000.000 acres of forests Tue railroads are not making me Yerrow seven still ney revails in Brasil, Westeny prairie hay is not selling well Albany, X.Y thirty-three bird Fr THERE are 0 saloons in Turne are Loxpox bas Afty-aine fire In Gee THERE is ot re Vv FLrvex filled Foury sal Alaska in Chicago, engine N froight os ExGrLasy ; Norway Tan « £400 (00 THERE are York city Avorol 8 in Montana Tue Haml Sweden L375 a {le Tuk Chicago asual THE acroag increased largely Tue Mothodist Epis 2,143, 297 communicant Savaxxan Ga. fssaid to be flooded with counterfeit silver dollars |suaren activity pal « SURVEYORS in Oklaboma $65 a day fer their work Dissariarien half breeds in threaten another rebel! A perosit of tin has) twenty miles from Tope THERE appears to be a contagion of rabies among the 4 2% throughout the counters towns receive Manitohs 1 Heoovered about A Kan Tux Standard Oil Company will build the largest ofl refinery in the world at Whiting, Ind THE area of oats in Kansas is reported at LL 46 acres against 1.656.821 acres last yoar, Tix watermelon crop, from the acreage planted, will probably be 200 cars larger than last year Sin Cwantes Russert's foe for acting as counsel for the Parnellites before the Special Commission is $50 000 Trae are 32,000 children in the New York schools in exces of the permitted number for the present teaching corps Tur Canadian Fisheries | already sending out fis arme watch American fishermen THE cost of the Washington Centennial eelebration In New York 2,000,000, in round numbers Tix United States war vessels Chicago. Boston, Atlanta and Yorktown are to be | sent on A cralse around the world Tie Afriean Methodist Church has 12.000 | churches, 10,000 ministers and contributes 2,000,000 annually for church work New Youx has purchased three clectrie. | Night dynamos with which to execute mur Jarun under the new capital punishment | law, wmrtment is oruisers y ant I» estimated at PARIS EXPOSITION. Some Unique Features of Great Werld’s Fair, the The Most Elaborate and Magnifi- cent Exhibition Ever Held, cam— = A correspondent of the New York Sen whe is doing the Paris Exposition says of the great show: Ihave see ost of the great ex hibitions of recent vears in different parts of the world, but 1 have no hesitancy in saying that I have never yet seen an exhibition which even approached in magnificence and in elaboration of detail the present exhibition in Paris. The public will not walk from one building to another in mod and on newly buflt ronds, for the grounds have been Ind out in a fashion that will last for centuries The steps and the terraces are of marble and granite. All walls are of stone, the fountains are magnificently constructed, nod all the de tails of the great work have been carried out on a scale which suggests future ages as well as the year 1850. The exposition grounds form a workd which is destined to last Perhaps after the Eiffel Tower, one of th most unique features of the exposition is the “History of Human Habitations,” which has been organized by Charles Garnier, the em pent architect of the famous Grand Opera House in Paris, Thisis an exces lingly curi ous exhibition, and, as I fancy, must eves have the germ of novelty, It runs parallel with the Champ de Mara and the facsimile of habitations of mankind which it exhibits date from the remotest periods, when men lived in holes and CAVE, to the marbles of the Renaissance 0 arrange his history clearly Garnier has divid it into parts—the prehistoric and the first division ranean dwellers caves, while the form of archite this valuable o progress of men stone and mets i ole order villa of the Aral and Mexico, the Roman forms mansions and « All of these bean built with faithful ¢ : . lutely r Prese tell 1 of the human race, & a’ © i go into the details of su ax this fa cla The energy has bad Niatos section far advan most of the partnen ts It § A portion of the sho ive Jess attention any other sectio for most {f us familiar with the character of the exhibits A big show, which will afford food for re flection to a very large number of citisens who are al present in Europe who do not return to their native reasons not unknown to Inspector B a section representing the prison » the past and present, for every variety of prison oells, from th airless dungeon to of today, are tally there ss a Lion screws, racks, and implanents which would make the fantasies « ard’s nightmare appear pale by comparison here are several ht tres in the grounds, amd one of them given over 0 curions nations! danoes are to be performed by the natives t ed ven It is worth noting here that they will not be reproductions of French danoss, but huge troupes are to be brought from BSamatrs and other lands too diffoult to remember for enumeration here. There are to be ten or twelve tr apes of these peo pie. They will be accompanied by their own musicians, and the stages will be sot tofrepre sent the land where the dancers came from Some of the most pretentious buildings in the Exposifion are the pavilions of Vene ruela, Mexico and Ecuador. It is the cus tomary thin $% see the smaller States of South America: making a more pretentious exhibit at expeditions of this character than the United Btate « Haelf Perhaps it will give some idea of the size of the Exposition when I explain that an army of pearly 11,000 laborers base been at wor on it for months, and that this force was con siderably augmented tows tha closing days One building is a huge palace construc entirely of wood, built in the tallan style Woods of every known variety are smrdored in the construction. Columns are formed from absolute trees, whicl have been brought intact at enormous expense, from various quarters of the world, packed so that the bark i» not dis figured by 20 much as a swerateh. The ex terior is entirely of unhewn vood but so skil. fully matched that it has all the effect of souipture. It shows that a man in modern times, drawing his inspiration from the forests alone, can omnstruct a building with. out the us of any other tools than saws and hammers, which in beauty the marble palaces of modes France. The architects of Paris claim that this style of building will become the rage after the e« hibition, and that country houses and shoot ing boxes constructed from unhewn wood will be particularly fashionabie nv England sr far the entir moerned. It in We spac fd the INerions the effect pushing mir ia unlikely by the way from Amerfoans than -re American band t YIDos is stems of atde { the prisons DORs ay nitary I neides of thumb torture f a drank vw thea will be which er dale Tit Ral THE LABOR WORLD. Tue iron trade Is in a bad way Brent rails are down to #35 per ton, Kawsas Cry has a labor exchange Tux output of crude fron is 150,000 tons per week, A CEXTURY ago only charcoal iron was produced Tux deraand for glass blowers far exceeds the supply. Tur United States has 200,000 journey. men barbers TuEne is great activity in the mining re | ghoms all over the West Ix the ranks of the Knights of Labor there } are 100 ministers surolied ALL the unions of Minneapolis have rooms | in their big Labor Temple Toe new Edison Elect | Company basa Oats~No. 1 White, ......... | enpital of $2 000,000, I A | 3 SA SA SA THE NATIONAL GAME, Corvynus pays Pitcher Baldwin $3500, Kansas Crry is putting up a strong game, AUSTRALIA is adopting our national game, Boron shows constantly improving work. a Cievelands are playing a fine game of Exrea inning gdmes are very scarce this season, Kansas City at last has a ball tesn 10 be proud of, Kerry, of Boston, is eatehing better than last year, Ramsey and Kerins have been suspended by Louisville, Haney Wout says no player's release is worth £12.000 Clarranooca, Tenn. is giving its team heavy support Wou. Lousy Tux lew (31. 850 ¥ ix the best allaround player in the lle tesun, Washington Passball Club d Donnelly, third baseman hae re. OCK Ww suffering with a split th and Denny with a sprained ankle ot D JOE QUEST is playing a strony Larne / | . - for Toledo and « sptaining the team well Tis is Cs ptain Comiskey's ninth season in Lowi He has an interest in the club CRICAGO has made the most threes bases to date ard Pittsburg the most b me ru Every League club shows an im over last ever, Preeuse Goxren Aeveland, has rmising speed ball effect, wn EVERY home ru on the home gro cigars MAA LEeOlation Re ot POY ay : nt ' Ost, Bowe a new uses to good have * Us salary lim the Western nt EYs Ir hay make hose Pittsbnr League runs on the By other ir Tue four-ball effort of greatly Ln Leag Fe Tare Londone. of Cans the barber pole suit sgliest uniforms Presioest Day. of Kes As prix A ® RI'rns mated and rev iis life in New up and he did gnfled Ba. ew addition rans from fling desperately Suerziase, wh in all positions for fii teen Youre, £ great work at third base this season Philadelphia Giants, in the Mid os League has played pro. ile Mat CLARKSON of Boston he e remarkable work this season in his fielding or bit balls from his position. He bas most decide done better work than was ev wn ink career as a pitcher TKI Tax Southern League bas a fairly lores populati m to draw from Kew Orleans about 205.0% people, Atlanta about Charleston 75.000 Memphis 85.000, Birn ham 60,000 and Chattano ga abMt 40 (x total of 615,00 LEAGUE BRBOORD Boston . Philadelphia New York Chicag Cleveland Pittsburg India apo] Washi ton { ASEOCIATION Won Bt | Brood Kansas City Athletic Cincinnati Baltimore Colum bus Louisville THE MARKLTS, 2 KEW YORK. Beoves . esos 8% Milch Cows, com. to good, , & Calves, common to p 58 TYPE EREES2 & Dressed, Flour—City Mill Extra. . Pateats Wheat No. 2 Red Rye~8State . ..... hte Barley — Tworowed State. Corn—Ungraded Mized. .... a vannde & HRERPPLITEND, ¥ # C2869 34588868843 8 Ed #, Mixed Western Hay- No, FP Straw x Rye Lard City Steam. gl 368i za * by roe=EE3 Ld BU re mie SA Choloe Yorks FERRE AB I RET aay pi $131 30 aad Eat ab ma 2SFamBIT “hae rear ERan Rana ERE 1 Canada. ..... 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