— A Ne A TI ———— hn pd Water power is largely reiied upon in Maine, New York and Wisconsin, oo I The English language is taught in all Japaneses schools by order of the Govern. ment, ——— — — Dr. Munhall, the Kansas revivalist, says it is cheaper to convert a man than — It is estimated that forty per cent, of the members of the last two Congresses were college men, n— According to the check $1,000,000 from bank, The Johnstown sufferers have received enough clothing in the shape of contribu- tions to last the people twenty years. Up to the present time nearly $500,- 000,000 have been spent in supplying | drinking water to the people of the United States. This has been a year for horrors. While not yet half gone, 1889 witnessed | the Samoan tidal wave, the Conemaugh ' flood and the Seattle fire. fications for Statehood, the New York Telegram. Of its adult population only 2 6-10 per cent. are illiterates, says Millionaire C. P. Huntington, of New York, has been solicited by King Leo- pold, of Belgium, to secure an American interest Judge Prendergast, of Chicago, in a Cook County (111) insane asylum, recommends that the be from pelitical influence. lengthy decision regarding the removed institution The Emperor of China desires to re- organize the police and fire departments of that country, and he has directed a representative of his minister at Wash- ington to go to Chicago and get point. ers. A war cloud is rising in Brazil. A contest is imminent between Bolivia and Paraguay, and Brazil is so bound up by treaty obligations with Paraguay that she will almost certainly be drawn into the strife, -— - _— Idaho and Wyoming have gone to work in a way that indicates a belief in In both territories constitutional conventions have their early admission as States. been called, and the necessary machinery set in motion to place them in a position to apply to Congress next winter for ad mission, The incorporation at Chicago of the American Executing Company, organized to execute criminals who are sentenced to death, is either a huge joke, thinks the Detroit Free Press, mest of commentaries upon the capacity or one of the grim. of the American to business advantage. turn everything to American breweries have only whetted | the British appetite, and the English in. vestor now wants more. What shall it | bel? queries the New York Fost. Pean. | sylvania steel or Minnesota flour! Both | are on the bill of fare, and both exceed. | ingly attractive, and the husgry Briton, | menu in hand, ponders the question. A patient English gentleman, who col- | lects statistics, brings out some figures to help the cause of peace. It seems that from 1852 to 1877 war killed 1,948,000, people, and what is still more wonderful | the killing of each man cost more than | $10,000. The total cost was $12,085,000, . 000; so that peace has its good points from an economical side, The review of the acreage and condi. tion of the cotton crop for the year, as published by the New York Financial | Chronicle, shows that an increase of acre- | age of cotton in the whole South of 2 84-100 per cent., the increase in Texas | being 7 per cent. The acreage of the whole South in cotton this year is 20, 809,480 acres, being an increase of 464, 050 acres, —— —————— The London News tells this interesting anecdote in a sketch of the late Laura Bridgman: When Carlyle impertinently asked, “What great or noble thing has America ever done!” somebody replied : “She has produced a girl, deaf, dumb and blind from infancy, who, from her own earnings, has sent a barrel of flour to the starving subjects of Great Britain in Ireland.” I ———————————— A Belgian murderer named Hoyos will live in the annals of crime. Fourteen years ago bo insured his wife's life for $20,000, A fow weeks afterward she was killed by a horse's kick, Hoyos said, but it was proved that he had just pre- viously bought a horseshoe and fastened It to the end of a mallet, He was a man of enormous strength, and there killed the i ! : World, there are 500 | men in New York, each of whom could , — | firmed opiun ‘Wyoming is proud of one of its quali- in the Congo (Africa) Railroad, Agriculture carried on by means of fr- rigation is usually much more profitable, declares the New York Commercial Ad- vertiser, than if dependent on ordinary rainfall, and if 6,000,000 more acres can be redeemed in Wyoming by govern- ment aid it will outrank agricultural States, An Australian who was hanging to the beam of a bridge and realized that he must fall made a verbal will to a com- about $50, 000 worth of property, and the courts have sustained it, which leads the Detroit Free Press to observe that ‘‘once in a while the courts do a sensible thing." sanion, disposing of ’ (14 The New York Herald editorially ob- “Here in the East it is said to be liquor which creates a criminal class. Serves: The people of San Francisco, however, dread the pipe,’ as it is called-—as much as they do whisky. The Daily Examiner states that out of a little more than three hundred nearly one bundred are ‘opium fiends.’ | These criminals are not Chinamen, mind It is really a start- ling assertion that in any part of the you, but Americans, { Union one-third of the convicts are con- But opium and cocaine yield so handsome a eaters and smokers. profit that it is very difficult to enact a law either to prohibit or restrict their HEL ’ aavs of In these freshing, will-breaking it is re- confesses the San Francisco vi y Chronicle, . ) red occasionally of a be- st which is upheld by the courts, even A New York man named Edwards, while in a hospital and though it is peculiar. expecting to undergo a dangerous sur- gical operation, to his intimate friend a irections to open it in case the operation died 16 box, to his surprise, gave box for safe keeping, with and the : 4 i Edwards h oks representing deposits of £40... 000, with a letter from the dead man to keep the ney. Edwards's cousin in ersey City warned the banks not to pay | the money, as he was the rightful heir. A test suit was brought by the friend against bank and : i klyn deci Court Im one Br ed in his favor. A valuable estate was saved to Jeffer- son Davis ing the war, states the San X Francisco ponaut, by the fidelity and shrewdness “Ben” Montgomery, = former slave tions, kn lower end of Warren County, Miss. Three great cotton planta. ywn 88 “The Hurricanes,” at the « Wile owned by the Davises and practically managed by Montgom ry at the ope ning In ipated, the 1863, ie slaves sold” hundred Id,” and the title of the war, when WAS cman rtywas' to Montgomery ¢ three thousand dollars in g« given him saved the estates from con- i He raised n, corn and bay, by Federal agents g and { the richest colored men In 1875 Mr. property and it Davis re- ceived the back, now {elds him a handsome income. althougt Yiekds hum a handsome income, although he prefers to live at Beauvoir, his pre sea-shore home. It is said that the present distress in in 1877, thirteen millions died of famine. when Whole plains have been devastated and become China is greater than one mass of yellow mud, owing to the Yellow River, which is called the ‘‘curse of China,” having flooded the country. All is gone, even the millet and the sorghum, All crops have been destroyed. besides the rice and the corn, chaff, which literally kills men and women, unless mixed with grain. Fathers and mothers are thus trying to relieve this bodily hunger. A lady missionary visit ing a Chinese house saw a heap of straw in the corner, and thought a poor dog foot passed through the straw, Horrified, the lady said: “It is a chil!” “Oh, yes,” said the heathen mother, *‘it is only a baby girl; we are not giving it any food ; she will soon be dead!” The child was hunger-bitten. Boerhaave, the famous physician, de- clared that a man was more likely to get well by climbing a tree than by drinking a decoctiom made of its leaves that fs, he thought exercise better than medicine. It is on this principle that the Queen of Sweden, whose nervous condition has given rive to much anxiety, is being treated. Sho is ordered to make her bed and sweep her room, besides taking » large smount of walking exercise. This method the “‘housemald treatment,” as he calls it—has inspired a cynical jour nalist with some which are, perhaps, wiser than he knows. He ad- vises the “offico-boy treatment” for dyspeptic millionaire, the ‘‘groom ment” for the Orawus whose liver is | er opium habit—*hitting the | | large warehouses prisoners in the House of Correction very | ! fAouso i St, ] Hundreds | prgwned at a Sunday-School Picnic. | of thousands are now feeding literally on | fof A A CHAIN OF TRAGEDIES Telegraphic Details of Crime and Calamity, Goss of Life and Property b Floods in I y A heavy rain fell in Texas and great dam- age has resulted. Reports from the West thow heavy rains for 200 miles. The Brazos aud Trinity Rivers were booming, At Ben- brook, twelve miles wost, Texas and Pacificand 500 feet of the track were washed away, The St. Louis, Arkan- tas and Texas for two miles out was merged. The Missouri, Kansas and Weir tracks north, The Texas and Pacifio both east and west, toni lands to the north for two miles and to the east for a whe ad a half were sub- ged. The Trinity rose four and a half leet in an hour, and the dwellers on the low lands barely escaped. City Marshal Farmer, Sheriff Richardson, and thelr entire foren for the time became a rescuing corps, and manned the boats which brought the people to the city, where they were quartered in There were 300 men, wo- men and children thus eared for, H. Plume and sister are said to have been washed away, and Mrs. H, B. Bentley and Patrick, ber son, who lived on the Trinity, are missing and said to be drowned. Their was curried away. The river there is two miles wide and all the cabins and tents are gone, The Louis, Arkansas and Texas abandoned I'rinity was coming down with an « ight foot rise, Bix more inches of water, and the water works would have to be abandonasd, Wheat, cats, fruit and cotton are badly dam. | aged The loss can hardly be computed, but con servative sstimates placed it as high as 82. - K.000, There was for the little along the above Fort sone fon villages Trinity, | Worth, Nearly 200 Miners Killed An explosion of fire damp occurred in a codl pit at Bt. Etienne, France, Three hun- dred miners were entombed. A number of | bodies have been taken out of the pit Two pits were affected by the explosion One of these was inundated, the other was on fire Sixteen bodies have been recovered Ten of the miners who ware taken out alive injured that they died. Sixty rees were burned to death : i spread quickly, were sos elatives and iprisonsd miners ml Ar friends Many heartrend sme] as the bodies were There was no hope the men, all of whom have wits ly President Carnot has ordered that memsures w at once taken for the relief of the families of tho dead. Fourtee: difficulty y wero nearly dead. The num. ber of the dead Is now estimated at Money for the relief of the sufferers was are riving from all points, 185 i, Matricide and Suicide, A young man murdered his mother and hon sent a bullet » hits own bead in Jersey ity. XN. J himseli was no fess in before the police rapped for admission at the of the he where the bloodthirsty deeds were dons As they entered the young nan fired a second shot and killed himself The murderer Is Herman Probst and the victim his widowed mother, Elizabeth, with whom be lived, Mrs Probst was about fifty yonrse i and had been a widow VeRr Her sight was injured several i she was almost totally blind Sho was a woman of 8 kind and sweet dis position, and her neighbors chee rfully seaistad in the care of the threes tidy rooms wi served as a home for the mother and the boy wl uk el. She stantly describing bis devotion t twenty-six years lary young uk, 8 faithful member dist Church, and spent hi making his mother o dowry GOO teres SX Ie yenrs ag & #0 deeply lov was « her. He waa old, and was considered an man. He was sober sud f the Meth re BL Dome mfortable . ie Dervishes Beaten Of. An engagement has taken place at Arquin, Egypt, between a force of Egyptian troops, under command of Colonel Wodeh mise, and 8 body of dervishes. The dervishes were de feated and fled Their Joss was 500 killed or wotnded Seventy Egyptians were killed or wounded Two English officers were also wounded. Colonel Wodehouse pursued the tervishes The dervishes attempted to effect a lodge ment on the river bank. Colonel Wodehouse immediately advanced and attacked them with a field force. The dervishes made a stubborn resistance, but were fiially forced to retire, fighting as they went. They were driven northward seven miles, but every foot of the ground was hotly contested. Two guns belonging the enemy were captured by the Egyptians Colonal Wodehouse's troops continued the pursuit of the dervishes and captured 300 | A sad accident ha the Arch Street M hen "tts at the piente of olist Episcopal Church, City, Penn, at Forest Grove, Cassidy, MoComb, age age twenty twent Crook, the bridge of the | sub | Texas | and the Port Worth and Denver abandoned | trains | | At Fort Worth the bot. | ! operator | received a message that the west fork of the | | Richard Johnson, were hanged at Quitman Miss, for murder, “Awe; i Bert | Frostman, dee! The five named, with | was lying there; but presently a little | ane NE yok an id bangs aad | I fe during the i Be a reovived at the steps by the Prince of | Wales and sons, the Earl of | C an and Sir Henry Drummond Wolf, ritish Ambassador to Prussia, and | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, i Tueopore Dwionr Woorsey, ex-Presl. dent of Yale University, died a fow days ago nt New Haven, Conn. aged clghty eight (RAS, i Tue plant of the Reading (Penn) Iron Works, which falled for over a million, has {been sald for £150,000, subject to a mortgage of $500,000, to a representative of the Read. ing Railroad, Nixery-s1x yearlings from J. B, Hagging's Califoruis ranch were sold in New York for esta » £118,750, Tur semi-cantennial of the founding of the America, that at | joldest normal school in Warmingham, Mass, has just been celebrated, A WATERSPOUT broke over Altoona, Penn, at about 10 o'clock at night, doing great dam. age, flowing the streots and bursting sewers, Tie Chautauqua (N. Y,) Assembly opened its sixteonth annual session, Lizzie axp Mare Hawes, cousing, were killed by lightning while swinging {n a ham- mock on the farm of John Hawks, about three miles from Lockport, N.Y. | UsCAR PRAREALL, aged thirty-eight yenrs, { killed himself over the coffin of his mother, Hannah, who bad just died, aged ninety years, at Williamsburg, N.Y. Joussrows, Penn with disaster Ly the Conemaugh River and mountain torrenis, created much damage and consternatiof, and ANY BArrow escapes from drowning were reported, AT the celebration of the Fourth of July in Woodstoek, ( enn. " Hecretaries Noble and Tracy, General Hawley and others, South and West, Wittaam Bomineg and Charles Schroeder, two sixtocn-yoarold boys were drowned at Riverside, Iii, while boating on the picnic grounds Fire in Savannah, Ga. dishoents of J.T. C I. E By «x & Bon y Bremen were killed ane Witnian Pence, Buperinten- Public Warks Department, of La. and for years Captain of Hilary organization, the Conti. has committed suicide in wing oul his brains destroyed the os M. Bternberg, 2] Joss $150.000 1 eight injured cohen CAPTAIN the shear, the killed by owner, being struc) vere drowned | the rrybonat at Hatcher's spoon. River, Ala ss blocks were burned at Hal The bows is estimated af $600 000 Tum loss at Durango, Col, by the Ire, is now estimated at $3000 000 Tur Governors of throes States Louis jana, Misdssippd and Alabama issued pro- clamation gai the prise fight for the world’s « plonship between Sullivan and Kiirain Ix Kemper County, La, Gaston Jones, col ored, shot and killed bis wife and then blew his own brains out, recent Two colored men, Richard Fleming and . Washington. consular appointments by the President: A. Louden Snowden, of Penn- syivania, to be Minlster Resident and Consul. General of the United Biates to Boumania, Sorvia, and Greece; Wm. Hayden Edwards, of Odo, to be Consul-General of the United Staten at 3: Augustus ©. Bourne, of Rhode 1s i to be ConmulGeneral of the United States at Re . sgene Schuyler, of New York, to be A Consul-General of the United States at Cairo ADDITIONAL Hari tetween Ger we United Btates has boon signed wan Minister, Count IV’Aren Va ter Genoral Wanamaker, It it of a money order that ountry to the other A MOXY order convention any and 13 he rey RETARY Ets has made the following Thomas Taylor, of Mass £250: George Vasey, 20 and H. E Vande pomologist, £3500 - : betanist, san, Kansas Sponerany Braye Jeft Washington for Bar Harbor, Me. where be will remain until Bag 7 Tux reduction of the public debt during June amounted to §16,055 925.74 The total cash in the Treasury is $643, 113,172.01. Tun President appointed Augustus J Ricks to be Judge of the District Court for the Northern District of Ohlo, and Daniel Hogan Collector of Internal Revenue for the Thirteenth District of Niinode rn beer } Tae present indebtedness of the District of Colnmbia fs 820 142050, a decrease of §i,- 964.600 since July, 1888, Mes. Hanmmsox, her father, Dr. Soott, and the two grandchildren left Washington, for Deer Park, Md, via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, where they will spend the | Fanner J. B Dead Letter Office Foun new States were added to the Union on the Fourth of July Washington, North | Dakota, South Dakota and Montana-—and in recognition of their comi four new stars were added to the flag of the nation. The national ensign, therefore, now of forty-two stars and thirteen stripes, Foreign, of Persia arrived in embankmont Tun Bhah land. o to Westminster, osebery, Earl the driven to Buckingham Palace, ALDERMAN Jauxs WINETANLEY, a ho testant and su of Mr. Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, for 1890, Ferptsaxno pe Loca, Bn na M to at i y a score of 1015 to . The contest took place at the Nunhead Range, rit oF ot ———— TO The rain came down in torrents, over- | { Cygnes, , was again threatenod | 3 : ' ’ ng : | crossing near the Little Bilver, XN, J. station Heavy storms and floods | addresses were made by | | President Harrison, Congressman Reed, Sena {| tor Hiscock, | six weeks to two months | tion of Machinists had 34 Jo i Acxew, of Pennsylvania, bas do | clined the offices of Buperintendent of the was | with | — ALEXANDER vas unointed King of Bervia, 1 at Baltchar, Tue World's Sunday-school Convention opened its session in London. Mionaxl DAVIrT appeared as a witness before the Parnell Comssission in London, and gave some sensational testimony, Taw Massachusetts rifle team scored its third and fourth victories in England by defeating the London Rifle Brigade at Fain- ham, and the Bussex Volunteers at Brighton. By the bursting of an ether retort Drs, Fricke and Boemerhave wore fatally injured in Dr, Koenig's laboratory at Munster, Ire~ land, Tarovore Sowsnrr, the Dutch Consul at | Hamburg, has fajled, with Habilities amount. | ing to $5,000,000, | INDEPENDARCE DAY was celebrated in | Tondon, Tarfs and other European cities by Americans, and in many other foreign [aces i by citizens and officials of the locality, Presi- Carnot, of France, unvellsd a replica of Bartholdi's statue of “Liberty” at lle des Parle, Addresses were made by Minister Reid and M, Spuller, KILLED AT THT ZROSSING. | A Horrible Accident by Which Four Idves Were Lost, A terrible railroad accident occurred at the of the New York and Long Branch Railroad ¢ lute in the afternoon, by which four persons wore killed. The casualty was caused by a carriage being struck by a train of the Cen- tral Railroad of New Jerry, The carriage contained fie aged mother of Joseph A. Ward, a collar and shirt manu. facturer of New York city; Mr. Keating, her son-indaw, a hat manufacturer of New York city: Elsie Keating, his little daugh- ter, and Kate, the little oirls Irish nurse, The three adults were Lnlantly killed and the child lived Joss than two hours Tho party were out riding on a pleasure trip They reached the crossing just as a north bound Central Railrosd train was drawing out of the station. Afterit passed Mr. Kent ing drove upon the track directly in front of the express train of the same line which leaves New Yorkat 3:30 o'clock. This train rans through from Jersey City to Long Branch, sloppi only st Rad Bask The train was ropning at the rate of forty miles an hour when il struck the carriage The engine hit the sSieme squarely terrific foros, and huried its oocupants into the air. Mrs, Ward was rolled over and over by the pilot wheel of == Zngine for a dis. of about Zhiy foot, the ish nurse girl sas carried about one hun- dred and ten fe and M: § ne hundred and forty feel with hore was was smashed the nurse fd their bodies lay seattered a the track, Blood and shreds of flesh covered the the looomotive WAS crushed in she fl An Ward Keating ——— — THE LABOR WORLD. ndustries 1 female | with Switzerland, Germ resented in the Labor Congress at Berne Tux backbone of the br Chicago 8 brokenn and work on the old basis Tene are more idle men in London now than werein it at the same time of the year for the past ten years Tur whole glass industry throughout the country was shut down for a period of from iH tmators' strike in are resuming men A mia strike for high begun among the cigar: wages has been ers of Havana, Caba, and is rapidly extending. Tur recently organized National Associa. and 2000 members in fifteen cities of the Union. Oppixany field hands in China get three to four cents per day with food, and skilled workmen receive from five to six cents, Tue women are crowding out the men in a | | number of large shoe factories in England, Their wages are a third Jess, and they turn out very neat work, Miss Nawcy Horcsussss, a handsome | dxteoen year-old girl, has been found doing a man's work at a Yuba County (Cal) logging camp, disguised as a man, i Tix carpenters of New York uphold four | | rival trade organizations—the Brotherhood, the United Order, the Amalgamated Society and the Progressive Union. Tarr Pittsburg monument in honor of Tom A scuruMe for preventing the emi Turkish artificers to foreign countrie out previous permission from the Porte, has beens submitted to the Council of Ministers, swenty minety cents per ton, output is 190 tons per year per y the vuijput is 200 tons per ha E it 4 et fl rau 1 of his i “ a a] TRIED BY RED MEN, The First Trial on Record of an Ine dian by a Jury of His Countrymen, A dispatch from Red Lake Falls, Mion, gives particulars of the first trial on record of one Indian by & jury of red persons. On June 24 an Indian named Big Bird while out hunting shot and killed another Indian, BP Bird and Ws friends claimed it was an accd- dent, The matter was reported to Major B, P. Behuler, the Government's agent in charge of the reservation, By an act of Congress passed in 15855 the urtadiction of the United Braves Court waa for the first time extended over all the Indian reservations in the coun try. Major Behuler determined 10 have this matter legally Investigated and empaneled a | jury of six full-blooded Todians, entirely dis connected by ties of relationship or other in- terests with either the deceased Indian or the Indian who did the shooting, Big Bird and the friends of the dead man were allowed to pond for witnesses, who wert sworn and gave their testimony, after which the jury retired under the instructions of the agent, who pre sided as judge. The jury deliberated from 9 o'clock in the evening until 11 o'clock the next morning, when through thelr foreman they announced that they were unanimously, of the opinion that “there was sufficient cause for suspicion that the shooting wes not accidental ” and requested that the accused be beld for trial by the United Btates Court, whereupon Big Bird was locked up to await the arrival of the Deputy United States Mar- shal, Major Bechular states that he never saw a jury of white men more impressed with its respousibility, or who gave closer attention 10 the testimony offered thay did the India: jury in this case, and that be was also stroch by the evident desire to bring out the fects all of whom the on the part of ware lodians, witnesses A $1,500,000 MEMORIAL, Proposed Commemoration of Great Events in Our Country's History, The the thirteen original States, who were in Philadelphia in Septem. ber, 1887, Governors of luring the time of the Constitu- tional centennial celebration, eral conference some plan to oom per the groat events in United tates in the first one of Awmwrican independence It was agreed that the best method would be fo sscoure from Congress & return of the sum of $1 500.000 ] y the Government to the Centennigl Commission in 1876 and afterward returnd by that body to the Treas. ury, the money i ¢ erection of 8 Memos in Fairp ark, Philadelphia, A meeting 1 ) L Governor Beaver was held Indepen- asmembiled, thirteen vinmittes bave held sov- rr the Mn evising hundred years ate | be used for 1d bee Wm, BAKING that the § for the | PROMINENT PEOPLE. Bexaron Spxnmax is in Europe. PAarsxzLL is troubled with insomnia, Taz Shah of Persia wears a plug hat, Tux Inte Bin began life ss 8 printer Gexnaal B n Cameron VLANGER'S pension has been NIGHTINGALE is sixty-nine and of Spain has just entered his Harr, of New York city, » ter Pamers' famous be sufTering great nTitien a poe: On queted by uving ie Lins in ex- as Chanoellor y about $15 000 in his Lis falls a wp begin fo praise JA ox the morning papers read to him aning, and pays the reader £2) a week TooMas Ewing SuErMax, a son of Gen- eral Sherman, has just been admitted into the priesthood Tar widow of General Grant has thus far received about $000 000 from the publication “Memoirs.” Puesiorst Hanmmson wants to y the summer in the mountains, but Mrs, Harrison prefers the seashore Tax wedding presents received by the new Duchens of Portland were no less than five thousand in number M. Tarse, the Frenchomn, who is an an- thority on the Rngiian literature, cannot speak a word of our language, Manrix Inoxs, the labor leader, who used to run the railroad strikes of the west, now operating a small fruit stand in St, puis over © THE MARKETS. o KEW YORK, Drrowsed . Flour—City Mill Extra Patents ESRD, REREES Oate—No, | White, ......... Mixed Western. ...... EE EE a Rye..cooonses SEs EEraran E51 88 28] » oEEEEFIREULS WORGIR, . +0. es seen Penn. bd - ERSARASRLBARERES See “ aaa a sEsa 12 | 8888S fr a piping on hse AEA EAE EEE) AAR EE ats AEE Jd8a8 FRERATE ; i
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