S—— a a at gra om Wk Since 1800 the population of Europe dies just doubled itself. There is a growing exportation of American hogs to Mexico. The flag of the United States will here- After fly over all Federal buildings dur- ing business hours except when the weather is wet, Germany looks upon Emperor William's cordial reception in the captured French An anxious dweller in Pittsburg is un- easy over the amount of natural gas that is being extracted from the interior of the earth. , The daily draught, he esti- mates, weighs 12,000,000 pounds, of which two-thirds, or 8,000,000 pounds, The emeation in the earth's interior of such immense emptiness as are carbon, this must produce will result, he fears, in serious disarrangement of the surface. “The of the King of Sweden refuse to submit The Chicago Herald says: sONS provinces as an indication that they are | being Germanized, Russia has made contracts for two more ironclads and quite a number of torpedo vessels, The peace of Europe sits on a barrel of gunpowder toying withalighted fuse. An expert, who has examined the iron resources of that island are practically limitless. Great preparations are being made to increase the shipments to this | country. In four years Europe will be connected | of the | by steam with the very heart Dark Continent. Perhaps American the Freo be running to of the C steamers will also seaward terminus State Railroad. nmgo and guard the Commissioner is going to ground and make plans scheme into operation. and has everybody's annroval approval save, Pe rhaps, the soldicrs’. = —— suth with Reports from Chamberlain, in 8 Dakota, show that the .s - “land hunger emigrant already has his eye upon the United States territory which will be the Sioux Reservation is formally declared the the Nation. number of inquiries about the 11,000, | thrown open to occupation when property of A large 000 acres in the reservation come from persons who say they represent bodies of | men who intend to found colonies. Greater advante seems to have been made in Russia in the displacement of wood and coal as fuel than inglmost any | other part of the world. Naphtha dregs are used everywhere, and the railroads and manufactories have adopted the new | fuel to the exclusion of the usual articles. | It is fully 35 per cent. cheaper than | either wood or coal, occupies much less | space in storage and can be hantlled more readily. Its use has already become common for domestic purposes, and it is | rapidly supplanting all other means of furnishing heat. A Wyoming Territory prosecuting at. torney being asked to proceed under the territorial law against an Indian murderer, refused on the ground ‘that he did not think, if arrested and held to appear, that any grand jury could be found that would report a true bill against one In. dian for killing another, as such act was aot particularly objectionable or unpopu. lar with the white people of Stevens or the adjacent counties, Hence it would be incurring too much legal expense without any beneficial result, In fact he #ould not see that it was a matter of any concern to the taxpaying citizens, so long as no white person was killed.” It seems to the disinterested spectator, says the Detroit Free Prem, that the logic of to official Jeads inevitably to the con- to royal dictation when it comes to their marrying. Last year Oscar, the heirto the throne, married a plebeian, Miss Monk ; and just now Eugene declares that he is about to wed a dusky Princess of the Sandwich Islands whom he reeently met in Paris, Usually the monarchs of Europe have nothing sons and daughters of the to say ns to whom they shall marry, but more : \ uch independence as shown by the ore region of the Island ot Cuba, says the | such independence as is shown by Swedish Princes might not be a bad thing | for royalty. might be purified and invigorated if it re- ceived more frequent plebeian admix- | tures.” | Ni n 13 but nearly everybody uses it, At York i) ustant call for everybody abuses tho postal stamp windows in the New i i 3 * she Ail CIASses Uns ¢ the w ir iy le reports ple living in valley. stream is again in full flood; inundated, ment districts are now | thero has been again a terrible loss life. The Chinese will re foreign engine 3 numan tO sev steal } HALES U0 1 4 | ' 10008 OF, In many le river in the All the nations of Europe are making vigorous efforts to extend their colonial possessions in every part of the world, and a French journal commenting upon their rivalry in Africa takes occasion to tell the extent of France's sway abroad. figures furnished From the it appears that France is making considerable pro- | gress in the acquisition of colonial power, When this century began she had only a fow small possessions left, Groat Britain having taken from her the finest of her Now, colonies, olserves the Couriers | Journal, she owns countries with a popu Intion of 27,000,000, having begun the | new era of colonnial enterprise with the conquest of Algeria in 1830. Theso in- clude Algeria, Cayenne, New Caledonia, Cambodia, Tonquin, Anam, Tunis, Madagascar, Sencgal, Cochin China, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Reunion. It is true that none of these compare in importance with the British colonies, and their soil and climate do not promise much for the future, but they show that France is not disposed to be left out while the division of the remainder of tho earth's surface is going on. France's colonies are not worth a groat deal to her in the way of trade. Their total amounts to about 8150,000,000 a year, of which Franco gets not quite threo-ffths, The larger part of this is furnished by Al geria, and nearly all the remainder comes from the Indo-Chinese possessions. The French are brave enough to fight The royal blood of Europe | “SUNSET” COX DEAD, Death of the Well-Known New York Congressman. A Bketoh of His Long and Event- ful Public Career, SAMUEL SULLIVAN COX, 8. Cox died half biz home, Ne rk city, from Lose kw oo Hes Congressman 8 about past 8 o'clock in the evening at 18 East Twelfth street. New Yo His wife, Dr few friends were at his bed peritonitis wile Desnocrati President Fler thon of but be was 1 Sulsequentiy, b retaryship of the runtion and elected from the his Congr = ¢ mme day as Buchasan's Pres He was thrice reel vit ously from 1857 to 1805 hat the memorable years of the ad hanan and Alvaha m the assembling of the Congress. Mr Cox was the of the Democrats fon agninst Mr, Colfax expiration of the Thirty-eighth Congress in 1885. Mr. Cox removed to the city of New York, where he afterward re ededeed He publinhved that year, under the ti the of “Eight Years in Congresa” a book of his experiences amd observations while a member of the House. In 198 Mr (Xk again put into the field for time by the Demooracy of his adopted home and was elected. Before the assembling of Congress he again visite Hig Od World, jpuring through Spain ahd othe? parts of withern Europe and Northern Africa. On his homeward trip he tarried long enough in England to write an interesting book of his Secretary res wiew] wer sinned ration Lineols Thirty Ces Speaker CHER Lee Ux 0 tie X Was Congress, thi travels, which be published in London. It | was entitled “A Search for Winter Nun bonne,” and has had an extensive circulation in this country In 1870 My, Cox was reclected, over Hor ace Greeley, who was the Republican onmdi date. In INE he received the nomination from the Democratic State Convention for Congrosanan-at-large, and led the balance of the Democratic State ticket. The major ity against Mr. Cox was 15,000 less than the | majorities against Greeley for President and | The denth of Con. | Kernan for Governor, man James Brooks occurring the follow spring, Mr elect! to Bll the vacancy again and again elected; once with only forty. one votes against him, Mr Cox was a candidate for Speaker to A | the term loft vacant by the death of Me Kerr. Ho was subsequently beaten in caucus by Mr. Randall, though coming within a dozen votes of succes, On the th of March, 1885, President Cleveland nominated Mr. Cox to siovend General Low Wallace as Muister to 5 This post he resigned and was electad to Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy enused by the thon of Je Puliteor, und was resected to the Fiftieth Congress, His lest kiown book, “Why We Laugh.” is an anal do wription of American humor, In the summer of 1958 My, Cox vised Sweden, Nor. and Greece. The vole a. Bune el ye IM { Jobbers in New England, have failed | amount of Habilities is | $50,000 and $100,000 i terrible gale { antic | has i will be as memorable | of March, 1555 | been chan i ble degree by the gre i was called oamistonk } i Cox was nominated and | Ho has been | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED., Eastern and Middle States, Hion tides have occurred on the Eastern const, and some damage has been done to property, Tux suthors of the incendiary fires which have recently occurred at Roslyndaks, Mass, have boen arrested in the act of setting fire to a house, A Juny in Worcester, Mass, has decided that the Rev, Father Gi, Ely Brochu, a priest of Notre Dame Church, must pay $1720 for denouncing a parishioner from the pulpit, Leox Anserr has boon nominated for Gove. ernor by the New Jersey Democratic Con vention Mus, Aarox W, Dittiang, widow of the farmer who was murdered Penn., has confessed t she and Wi Faston, Ham H nen ! Bartholomew planned the murder and that | she assisted in carrying out the plot, Burr & Bxow, the oldest house of woolen The timated at between A DISPATCH from Wilmington tates that thirty which has prevailed off the At for three days / immense datuay Delaware vimeels Con done Tir contour of the Atlantic in many places at gal r soy Coast wasn heavy sufferer iy Mus ANDY BAVAGE of Bir Me 10 her « LF and shot dead the time A nEgng | rested AT the na of Veterans at Ntate Ciriffin nal enca Paters at Marah It was pr Mmjuring - Mas HL, was sho NYAnn a wealthy load bi fry her a burg A blind killing fom several other A OREL murderers, have NH A stan bat Battie of Nort more, Md Daxiet. Locax, for captain for the Pa Company. has bean 3 while trying to pn robbery ys Pod in tert na saloon Keener il between the I Kentucky, arred AS a result of the Iv and Turner fact murders have thins far o ne In {rains at ’ 1} om i" A COLIASION Det won lor's City, Ohio, onus a Both engineers were badly in) bows send Washington, Tur President has appointed George W Lyon to be Survevor of Customs for the Port | Willis to be Naval District be Collector of First District of New York Theodore B Officer of Castors in the York and Ernst Nathan Internal Revenue for the Now York Fanos H. Posner, United trict Attorney for the Eastern North Carolina, has resigned Deming the last thie ents were issued by the Land Office The issue fon exceeds that of any month in the history of the office Tie President has appointed Hewry C Warmoth to be Collector of Customs at New Orleans Tug President has designated Colonel Will States Dis District of onthe ELA pat {yea : 2 June, 16 NR, i dam FP. Craighill, of the Engineer Corps, to be a member of the Lighthouses Board*to fl the vacancy caused by the transfer of Cok nel Wilson to West Point Tir President has appointed to be Col Jectors of Internal Revenue: John 8. Loth- rop, of lows, for the Third District of lowa; James W. Hearne, of Texas, for the Fourth District of Texas Foreign. Wire a christening party was enjoying a il Take Killarney in Ireland, their boat ad. before | wild reach went down in the | The gale | from of New | of | { for trespassing A ——— AN Tue loses by the Autwerp fire will bs nearly $7,000,000, Cranres 1, Hosore, Prince of Monssa, is dead. He was born in 1818, A svuper of cases of choles have oo curred in Greeca Tie Prefect of the Seine has refused to so- cept the declarations of candidacy for mem- bership in the Chamber of Deputies made by General Boulanger and Heer) Rochefort, Tur Senate of Mexico has been formally insugurated and Benor J, M. was elected President. Tre Directors of the have decided that it must Alt Couttoleno Paris clone Exposition Benvia and Bulgaria preparation whi are making warlike protesting that nothing works of the American firm | . | the month of Beptember and the Gig end of ts | onside resort season of 1880 Welt at bent burned, of Burroughs & Kngiand, have Tur official ter mal Wands Lows. £100,000 Antwerp disas killed twenty 20 slightly in- 1 worth on niasing, 140 ured THOMAS bed (ore al nn 5 CUT OFF BY FLAMES. Men and Women Leap From Fourth Story Windows, McArdle's large bag and general Albany, N.Y. Tbe origin of the fire was paper 1s stock destroyed by fire warehouse at has been the spontansous combustion of a pile of rags kly did the saturated on the third story Ro qui spread through the gres ing that the employes, ¢ women and girls at w and ten men in the Water Flood Smothers tl ——. —— NEWSY GLEANINGS. LUXE in Give rent Brit PRxIamis Chasrterst for swea urg ng A SIXTEEN § Walter hy the other day i" X in the mins have exti in Montana Piishiond 1 Umi and pra rie fires Moe in the Nashville Wg the th highest grades in were od ninations ooo MirziTAny men in gland think the British troops in Egypt are iikely 10 have a ery lively time with the dervishes before ery ong Cras Tart. of Little Rook, Ark. has been appointed by Saperintendent Porter ip-bariiding for the LER TL. to collect stativtie: ext « IMs English syndicate has the tanneries in New aod will run thom that an stained control of all Bugiaod and New York as one large plant MELBOURNE Le clock, every hour, ex eplang during Sunday, when only sacred music will be played iT = mid Ausiraiio, is 10 have a pub Ususual cheapness of oste this season has brought out a heavy export demand slsn has been an extensive buye TWENTY years ago Iristrict Court in Dubugu ple, claiming $10,000 damage from the city on property. Recently his suit ose up for trial nis Two fresh British anpexations have been | rande in the South Pacific «the Phoenix and Unton Islands, which lie almost dues north of Samos. These groups mre situated near the line of the proposed Pacific cable A xuwsen of Brookive capitalists have decided to open a hotel on the New York plan fu Paris. They believe it will attract American customers as well ax the trade of Baglish psrsous who have vidted the United Rinies Peren Wanpre, a milkman liv near Atlante, Ga, will soon lead his ninth to the altar, eight having died. The dead are all bardad in his yard, and sach has a tombstone, Waddie has the wedding ares of each hung in his closet, A xxw business directory of Johnsiown and surrounding boroughs contains the naan of over M0 business and professional wien, It als) shows thal there are now thir ty wix ton stores nod fifty-one boone in oe, October | | worst mixture of the disagree | put a ssunmary end to the which will roll off a popular air | During | | one week 85.000 bushels were cleared for Mar- | seilles, France; Liverpool a wait was begun in the , flown, by A. Sim | “h DEVASTATING CALE The North Atlantic Coast Swept by a Furious Cyclone, Great Damage Done at Noted Sea side Resorts, A tidal wave which swept the Atlantic Const Bunday evening, causing damage and injury to life at various points, appears to | have been merely a preliminary skirmish, It was followed by a series of disturbances in the elements calculated to make memorable The weather all slong the const following a | period of delightful stmospheric conditions, wis rainy, cold and windy storm of Finally a furio wind and rain brought about the f i LMI La seasGn at all the popular places by the in the dnity of Now York Btories of the severit from many that will probaly pocunar rity of this ¢ and stamped it a Prove historica it swoep of territory the prolonged charactor the d in the great velocity the wind at rainfall, and in ti aestruct property by tides of extraordinary O13 whas ie bur bans, od, In the on in its large of COME Death and Destruction OF Delaware, 0 rene the gale bul » hur Their bodies we buried in the sand al The Joss to vessel property sd tl will res it is thought, §5 000.1 While all was in excitement in au g£ ws Fourteen Fathom Banks He booner J. and I Somers Point, New harbor enincted Phila~ Liowes WO being renr lips wo Jereey by auch in M r cable nnd was of the waves High waves after lowsd v wris B She al pec § —__— other tossed the boat about mer apparatus was carried away then the masts, and in Jess than an hour the was in pieces. Oul of her crew of only two persons, Mate Otto Kaiser and Seaman Pete Nelson, a West India ne gro, were saved Ocean City, a resort on the Worcester County shore of Maryland, has been almost washed away. The few remaining guests at th» hotels took refuge in the upper stories und were saved with great difficulty the steering | “EY en TANNER RESIGNS. Head of the Pension Goes Out of Office President cepted the resignation of Corporal Taser, Commissioner of Pensions. The following is Commissioner Tanner's let. ter of resignation and President Harrison's reply thereto: “DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, | “HUREAU OF PRNSIONS, ; “Wasmiverex, D.C, Sept, 12 1889 1 “To the Provident “The differences which exist between the Recretary of the Interior and myself as to the policy to be pursued in the administration of the Penson Duremu have reachad a stage which threatens to embarfas you to an ex- tent which | feel I should not call upon you to suffer, nnd, as the investigation inte the affairs of the Bureau have boen completed, and, | am ssured, both by yourself! and by the of the interior, contains no re flection on my in as an individueal or The Burcan Harrison has received and se- United States riher “yi : respecifull yours hat # py oi TANNER Commissioner, “Bxwevrive Massios, 1 CW ASRINGTON, ber 12, 1888, | * lon. James Tanner, Commiseioner of Pen. mons
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