- ~~ BI Sa A TL O————— i "it there is any country in the world where food ought to be cheap for the masses it is ours, ! — The Forum says that the wealth of the United States is $60,000,000,000, and that half of it is owned by less than 25,- 000 people, These are the men to put the world’s fair on its feet. A. {s a place with a population of 3000. A year and a half ago the site on which it Is built was a cornfield. It is already as- piring to have a street railway and elec. tric lights. Last summer New York dumped large quantities of fresh fruit into the bay to keep up market prices. San Francisco has been doing the same thing. One day recently dealers dumped 5000 mel- ans into the bay. Official statistics show that 25 000 people are killed annually by wild heasts ind reptiles in India. Of these about 20,000 are slain by snakes. The Gov- srnment offers rewards and makes other | efforts to reduce the danger, but the peo- ple are indifferent, Ten million dollars make a pretty large sum for the city of London to lose of dock Jut against paying their workmen reason. It is {feeling is growing there that it because a handful owners held able wages. no wonder that the is time {or the public to take its turn at run: shings. { At the congress of advocates of g the the eremation held in Vienna, that statement was brought out there exists at present throughout the world fifty cr natories, most of which are in tl United States, twenty in Italy, and one and each in Germany, England, Fran Switzerland. Senator Sherman, in a recent speech, said that while ‘‘we boast in America of the growth, population, wealth and strength, rapid progress we have made in yet it is equally true that some of the keeping and sldest nations in the world are aTess pace with us in industry, pro even in liberal institutions.” The deep-sea researches made by th United States Fish view to discoverin the fishing grounds ad to the 6 ish migrations ar with Commission g the temperature and thus learn the causes that le attracting great interest, not only amo scientific men but among those in practically in trade, To those who can read the signs of the times, it is obvious, says the Commercial h Advertiser, that a great change is coming into the relations of the two great schools of medicine. Surgery is constantly be soming a more and more exact science, but medicine is constantly shifting her ground, and the lines between allopathy sad hamaepathy are not by any means so closely drawn as they used to be. It has been estimated that the capital. of the toncerns in this country dependent upon electricity Western ization various corporations and for their business, from the Union Telegraph down to the humblest maker of electrical Company sppliances, is not less than $600,000,000, This mens that the people now pay an annual tax of beteewn thirty-five and forty millions for a convenience which forty years ago had scarely begun to at tract attention as something more than a scientific toy. The London docks, the scene of the of recent strike, are one the greatest systems of docking to be seen in the world. Upward of $100,000,000 have been expended in their construction, and hundreds of acres are covered by them, They are built of stone and concrete, and are as substantial as such work can be made. Many of them date back to the beginning of the It is estimated that in the warehouses of a single dock company there is at all times at least $25,000 000 worth of — goods. “Don't bmg and strut so much, Chicago, facetiously remarks the De- troit Free Prem. “ You are getting to be a big, overgrown town, but there are dozens of cities to which you would not make a respectable suburb. Your little million could be added to the five and a half millions of London without * increasing the streaming city's central roar to any appreciable extent. The city at the base of the Eiffel Tower is twice and a half your size, The suburbs of New York contain as large a population as you have on all your hills, valleys and prairies. Even Mongolian Canton could swallow you twice in rapid suc cession. Soochow, Hanehow, : California, it is said, now manufac. tures nearly all the iron she needs, though only a few years ago she depended on the East for her supply. Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress” has lately been translated into the Chinese dialect of Amoy, which 1s said to be the lect in which this work has appeared. | The Chinese are coming in from Cuba, | fellows out, says Judge, can it not make them to do the same? | nounced that he had purchased $10 worth of stationery and calculated to keep turn- | | ing the crank until he got some response. | | i | | Nova Scotia is remarkable for the num- i | ber of its old people. It has a larger number of centenarians than any other | country, there being one to every 19,000 They chiefly of the in circums the inhabitants, are comfortable to open air, plain food and plenty of it, farming class, stances, accustomed exercise in with good inherited constitutions. There is every reason to expect that the great Exhibition at New York in 1802 w ill far surpass the Paris Expo- 1 in the matter of attendance, as it should also do in respect of grandeur and tiveness. There will then be over of within a radius of fifty miles from New papulation attra 70.000.000 our own people, and York the will be ne 4.000 000, arly The Presbyterian Church in Philadel i the Reverend Madison C. New Yo and then ta rk, will Ki of the thirty sh Ne w like a simple way to This, says the . 100Ks but it No one man of the please a majority of the voting members, other hand, the man best for the place may refuse the handicap. convince must be some it to chalienge when ought to possible the intelli An MT evidence right rent man to sit he honest and inte upon t Hi ! Aa 3 lligen yald he and decide justly, in spite of any possible prejudice that he may have conceived in reading newspaper reports of the crime As greater conducted at present, there is no farce than of our They ce and not th many jury trials riainly favor cause of justice India has of late years been regarded as our most powerful competitor in the European wheat market, Advices from the East this year, the New York Com- mercial Adecirtiser considers, indicate that we have little to fear from India's come petition, the official estimate being that this season's output will be three-quarters As stock of a million tons short of last year's showing that no large marketable can be on hand, the official figures of for the quarter of this year are of interest. second It appears from this statement that India sent out in the three months 3.646.590 hundred .-weights of wheat, a decrease of 3,139,046 hundred.weights from the same quarter in 1888 and 4,800,752 hundred weights less than in 1887. India’s wheat export We have news from Minnesota that | treatries have just been made with cer- century, The | amount of traffic upon them is enormous, | ¢ Opened for settlement. | track | ervation for the remnants of a few small | tain tribes of Indians in that State by which 4,000,000 acres of land will soon This has been held in res. tribes of red men, but it has lain waste, and they readily gave it up when asked to do so. well wooded, and all ready for cultiva. tion by the crop raisers. ** Just think of it!" exclaims the New York Sun, ‘‘four | million acres added to the farming lands of Minnesota! Here are forty thousand 100-acre farms for forty thousand honest farmers, created in a day by a stroke of a pen. Perhaps there are able-bodied | New Sorkers who will go out to Min- eighty—third language or distinctive dia- | landing as Spanish citizens, If this coun- | try cannot make laws that will keep these | guns capable of going off and obliging | An Ohio man who has written Jay | { Gould a begging letter every day for the | | last 450 days, and in his last he an- | vast | It is fertile soil, well watered, | MANY PEOPLE KILLED. A Steamer Blown Up In the Mississippi River, The Survivors Rescued by the |’ Crew of the 8t, Louis, Another terrible disaster is added to the | long list of steamboat tragedies on the Missis sippi River. The steamer Corona, at about ten o'clock in the morning, when opposite Falso River, about one hundred and fifty i miles above New Orleans, exploded her boll ers with frightful effect, killing forty-six of the passengers and crew and completely wrecking the boat, which sank almost imme. diately { The loss of life would have been much greater had not the steamer City of St. Louis, commanded by Capt. James O'Neal, been in the immediate neighborhood of the Corona at the time of the diaster and saved all on | board or who were thrown into the water and not killed by the explosion L. T. Mason, Secretary of Btate for Louls- jana, who, with his wife, was a passenger on the Corona, having got aboard at Baton logue, fourteen miles from the scene of the nocident, states that he was in the cabin talking with Mrs, E. W. Robertson, widow of Congressman Robertson, at the time the explo- sion occurred. He immediately secured life preservers and succeeded in saving Mrs. Rob ertson and another lady. There was very little time for preparation, as the boat went down like lead a few minutes after the explo- sion, The steamer City of Bt. Louis was coming down the river and was hailed, She rounded to and took on board the passengers and crew who were not Jost in the river, and kindly eared for both the injured and the sa vod Mrs. E. W. Robertson says she was wedged in the ladies’ cabin as a result of the explo- fon, some of the debris lying scross her weer limbs, but was suddenly released and und herself Soating in the river, Bhe sank but was luckily picked up, escaping with a few painfal bruises L. C. Rawline, the pil asleep in the Texas at sion. He says ho does pot curred and was awakened by He was painfully burned « twice, noise it n both the Corona, was in- his body was not recov New Orleans and Jeaves The body of one of the and taken to or ; of H an wife and family COPETS WAS recovered aton Houge. None of ths rew of the Cot ida aster, Captain mmand of the boat at WAR WOTrSIng smo a left New with a ¢ wl ng suddenly collag The Corona Ouachita River hs the Orleans 5 { Eenern Unestir nth jee value « is had recently been p a ugh the winter trade was valued stoner Ve A yed by fire wn at the time 1 be ward tendency and hiew the boat, causing her to 1 he cali do axpd own out the bottom of sank amedintely iw Fear pore snd bearing a Captain Sweeny hap and started at ones to mit the ames which began burn at several places. He says the boat w un ubtedly have hors H she not gone ~~ 1 immed ne of the books, pa was torn the flown of of the saved ¢ TRIN to be forward, to hind ately N¢ other valuables were saved ity of St. Louis, which was shout vards above, at onoe put oul ber boats, she did noble work in saving lives, The Anchor liner staywd there several hours, ren dering all the assistance possible and taking on board the rescued passengers and crew When nothing more could be done she went Baton Rouge where physicians were moned and everything possible done for fi fured THE LABOR WORLD. _ Tix National Journeymen Tailors’ Union bas 00 members A MEMBERSHIP of 2000 is claimed bry the unions in Halifax N. 8 AROUT 400 of our Belgian and English glass workers go home each summer Tux Cigarmakers' National Convention will be held at Indianapolis in 1891 Usiow No, 542, Brotherhood of ( arpenters and Joiners, has been formed in Oklahoma, A MOVEMENT for higher wages is going on In nearly all the industries of Central Eure pe IN 1570 there were 730.167 children under sixteon years of age at work in factories in the United States VENETIAN and other fancy glass work is how being shipped from Brooklyn to Mexico. France and Germany, ; y Tae eight-hour movement was indorsed at the recent convention of the National Asso ciation of Saddle and Harnessmakers IT is rumored that Mr, Powderly will ten. der his resignation to the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor, in Atlanta. Ga A STRIKE to prevent the abolition of the eight-hour rule took place at the smelting works in Pueblo, Col. The strikers won A scuEME is announced for the construc tion of » ship canal between Edinburgh and i Ulaagow. @ capital is placed at $355,000, Mn. TILLEY, ono of the leaders of the re | cent strike in London, went to Rotterdam { 10 exercise his influence in behalf of the | strikers, | AsTRIXE occurred in Antrim, Ireland, re | cently, where some patterumakers and kin dred tradessnen went out for an advances of a | half dollar a week. ! Exoraxn allows children of thirteen to | work if they attend school half the day. No one | under eighteen and no women can work over | sixty hours per week. COMPRESSED air is being used as a motive | power in some of the cities of France. pers oF ihe t 1 + 10,000 members, THE NEWS EPITMIZED, | | Eastern and Middle States, 3 Friexsos of John L. Sullivan, the prize Bghter, intend to run him for Congress from a Boston district, Marrimias Guusenr, of ths Fourth Reg! ment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, was nceldentally shot during turg< practice at Allentown, AN unknown tramp and «x horses were burned to death in the destruction of Mrs, | Dr. Willets's barn at Harrisburg, Pens, Fraxk Cossaxas, aged forty and married, while at work in Hampton, KX, H,, fell ona | circular saw and his body was cut in twain, Death was instantaneous, Joux Frrzearnick, alias Liverpool | Jack,” who was on trial in New York city, | charged with kidnapping men and shipping them to the Isthmus of Panama, has Fs found guilty, Tor thirty-fifth triennial meeting ¢f the General Convention of the Protestant Epis. copal Church began its session in New York city A YOUNG man killed himself in Frooklyn, N. Y., after reading the story of his court ship and clandestine marriage in & news paper Tur Massachusetts Democrats have nom- inated ex-Mavor Russell, of Cambridge, for Governor of the State OxE man was instantly killed and four in jured at Miller's quarries, Bloomsburg, N J., by the explosion of a charge that being drilled out Tax Civil Service Ref League Philadelphia adopted and elected Goorge Willinm Curtis President Tue Bishops of the Episcopal General Con- vention held in New York city adopted the eighteen resolutions involving changes in the prayer-book and the House of Deputies passed sixteen of them GENERAL Lesten B, Favikxen's tris Buffalo, N. Y., on a charge of making report of the condition of the Danville Na tional Bank to the Comptroller of the Ct rency, resulted in a verdict of was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment Tie 200th auniversary of ttle of the town of Stratford. Conn, was « brated by great popular unveiling of the soldiers ment ut re- resolutions gulty, ar the ond Te and sal ACINE ns South and West, ARCHBISHOP ] t mone to Rome, and the affairs of Cleveland are to be investigat Tie Atlantic fn formally LY Danville Raliroad aide will be subs ber § A TERRIBLE ana Mich utly killed more badly hit Calumet Jacket in 1 ari CHARLES Baxpuns red farm hand, was shot and instantly kil by his eo Moyer, David Strange, in Woodford ( ks . because the man had Hanryas a loon Ohio, shot nd fatally himself ~] ursed hin CHARLES Rand ® Keetwr st sad ed IY " Jeal ET 8) fe and then Cti%e Kise Washington Tie delegates 4 beld a prelim ington The Vepanrt 1 charges made he Three Americas Con Krees uference in Wash | ment of Btate will investigate against Con ral Lewis at Tangier, who is accused mand ng me improperly from Vik neal Cohn and rem im from office because of his refusal Cnaxo Yex Hoox, the retiring Chinese Minister, called at the White House in com- | pany with Secretary Blaine and presented his letters of recall Miss Peer, of Washington, D. C., has { charged Colonel Charles de Arnaud, Ges { eral Fremont's intimate friend, with having obtainsd some property in Orange from her by fraudulent representation, Coxsopone Warken has been trans ferred from the Bureau of Navigation to the { comumand of the European Squadon with | the rank of Real Admiral Becaerany Procron bas received a letter | from the Governor of North Carolina, ob ing 10 the transfer of Geronimo and his mand of Apaches from their pressnt Jocation | in Alabama to a tract of land in North Caro lina A sraresmest prepared at the Pension | Office shows that the number of certificates | for original pensions issued in July, August | and Septernber, 1858, was S705; and in the | corresponding months of the present year, | 18, 660 | Tux Comptroller of the Currency has ap- Related Frederick Bostwick, of Pine Plains, N. Y., an examiner of national banks, Tax delegates for the Three Amerion's | Congress have been recs,ved by the Presi. | | dent, and entertained at dinner by Secretary Blaine, | Tue President has appointed James Me- { Canley Postmaster at Mifflintown, Penn. and Charles C. Brooks, Postmaster at Waver- iy, NY ! A sTatexzxt prepared at the Treasury y Department shows that thers was a net in | | crease of $14,711,080 in circulation during the month of September | Tar Postmaster-Goneral has pointed | | David P. Licbhardt, of Indiana, Superin. tendent of the Dead Letter Office, Post Office Department, at 5500 per annum, Tue new Chinese Minister has presented his credentials to the President. * Chenye { de He ot] ney eo ving hb Yorelgn. Tux strohg cotton corner, which has been formed at Liverpool, England, has collapsed. | Soal aR a profiest again { regard to the Behring Bea seizures, Was Taree towns in the State of Chiapao, Mexico, have been destroved by a cyclone, A sToRM has caused terrible bavoc at Islas del Carmen, Mexico, Twelve foreign sail- ing vessels, two steamers and twenty consters hav » been lost, NecoriatTions for a compromise between the strikers snd employers in Rotterdam were successful THIRTY IWO MILLION marks ane to be ox- pended by the German Government for new men-of.-war, wang | my Bupeomt eonod ¥ GY ANOS Gila usw pus peNOWIIV 06M RIPE] INIOKYIA0H WSIIUOIY 19 paALLIY Lamu] JOjunhy puw | Aopeqng Jotteansy Ly peruwduooos ‘prong (CUORBY noose) Jusmdeyy eg TR, Tux British steamer Ernmoor went to the bottom in 8 West India hurricane and nine- teen men were drowned, Beven of the crew | were rescued after threo weeks’ struggle in an open boat E. C. Baxznr, represeuting Victoria, B. C., in the Dominion Parliament, resigned his jritish inaction in Five persons have been drowned in the Rhine, off Rees, Germany, by the capsizing of a boat LATER NEWS, Ax explosion in the Boottdal Bteel Works Penn, killed badly burned two others By the fall of Rockville, Co Iron man an one and a siaging at a chur One man wl another fatally injured Tux Mount Mansfield Hotel at Stowe has been burned to the grou $105.000, The RUBE ( he fire Tie President has am fitt to be Collection let of Champlain Fine AE red LIER FR is posted are sont Prot rk city Fraver Pos tant Epsom Convention at adopted the proposed change Kk In nn with the ne Crosd Tooas A. Em arrived at New Thx and WYARe Ww Hatflelds, 1 has been renewed have Tween killed Ix ad wreck Rorze, the fireman and a brakeman were killed, and the engineer was fatally in Jured, Tee trial of Boyle priest at Raleigh, N. COC, for felonious assault, has ended his oon H t« death Tux United States warship Galena has ar rived at the Wand of Navassa where the fatal riot recently 8 rails eight miles from Ga. the Catholic in mn and sentence occurred Fruix Kaxry cut his son and daughter i death at Charleston, W, Va. He was drunk and the children refused him shelter Tax Secretary of the Treasury has ap. pointed Sidney G. Brock, of Missouri, to be Chief of the Burean of Statistics Tus Government has apology to the United States for the indig nity offered to Charles E. Contes, who was arrested and confined 25 & filthy coll without any charge baving been perferred against him. A TERRIBLE Lurrioane has island of Sardinia Sea. One hundred persons were buried in the debris of lmildings shattered by the storm and thirty persons were killed, Nwiss visited the Tux Earl of Zetland, the new Viceroy of | Ireland, took the oath of office at Dublin Castle, Tre harbor laborers at Flensburg, Ger. many, went on strike, leaving many vessels to remain unloaded, ————— A BOY MURDERER Conditional Pardon of a Young Ken tuoky Criminal, ever sent to tary, be plod in Industrial i { | 5 i i ; £ if i i fy i 13 Hi made an! in the Mediterranean | I Ti Tom How the Infuriated Insurgents Butchered Four Men, Ws ' A Desperate but Losing Battle With the Rioters, | The following particulars of the riot which pecurred at the Island of Navassa, in the Car. ribean Bea, have been received: “The negroes arose In insurrection snd killed four officers of the Navassa Phosphate Company Thomas N. Foster, Joseph Fales, James Mahon and William T. Shea “Mr. Roby was first ssssulted. He was hit on the head with clubs until loft for dead in a rock hole under a pile of boards. He was at ones removed 10 the house, and after having thirty stitches sewed In his scalp, took part no a battle with the blacks. He is at present doing well, “At noon the men congregated in front of the superintendent's house and refused to work. When Mr, Jones attempted to arrest one of the ringleaders and take from him = etol which bad been snatched from Mr, Why while unconscious, be was knocked down, and In a few seconds a howling mob surrounded him. He managed to get to the house, where the other officers bad sought shelter running the gauntlet of volleys of rocks and other missiles. We took refuge, said Acting Buperintendent Brith, in anu ed story and opened fire on the mob, which was now throwing stones against and into the house from every direction, as well as shooting at any one of us who happened to show himself, “The battle bad lasted about threes hours, when we were startled by the explosion of a dynamite bomb, which they had thrown on the lower porch. This was soon followed by another, until there was a continual roar of expioding dynamite. These bombs were go- ing off around and through the house, on the porch and in the rooms adjoining the one in which we had sought shelter, The colored people were behind cars drawn up in front of the house, and the trees, tanks and many buildings near by afforded them protection from our occasional shots. We bad but a couple of rounds of ammunition left, which we ware preserving for ol we knew must inevitably come “Shortly after 4 o'clock ry. u into the magaxine, and got a fr dynamite. By this tin he dynamite had be terrupied, and aon 10 bik e the they broke esh supply of lea h ficy we hadn y on they saw us recs reach the of. er sland, but l t away before and atta m every 4) Ales XI : mame will al the Lite man Mr. } a hered w was soon overtaken and "oster was the first to drop his He war at Other mur Maas Fules was the pieces with red Dis wen in was wild number Hl Was 0 ome up that harmed while going to and fr gone over thirty feet befor known as George 8. Key, pia within s few inches of James Mal and fired, and as he {oll oi him through heart “The brig Amoreite was time, but it blew so hard that communicate with the captain evening. I wrote him a note reg to ran over to Kingston, Jamaios the American Consul t us aid, but he bad discharged pearly all his balinst and could not sail until the wind abated which was not until Monday evening ‘Five days after Her Majesty's ship For ward oune to our assistance under orders to remain until relieved by the arrival of the United States steamer Galena. We beard nothing of the Galena whatever. When last beard from she was at Hayti. Truly, each of us, thorough Americans as we are. can sincerely esciaim ‘God save the Queen.’ The Englishmen have taken us abroad and treated us royally and as honored guests We are hourly expecting the Galena, We owe our lives to the prompt arrival of the Forward, Great credit is due William Heu- som, the colored Minister of Navassa, but for whose interosssion in our behalf not one of us would be alive to tell the tale “The object of attacking Mr. Ruby in the diggings was to remove him in order to se cure possession of dynamite and his revolvery Mr. Samuel Murch was severely burt being struck with rocks on the lack of the head. Mr. Harry Jones was injured about the face with rocks and bruised about the body, Mr. H. N. Vail was shot accidentally through the fleshy part of his right leg. Al} of the survivors have shown the {ostitude of velerans Of course all work has consed.” SHIP AND STEAMER SUNK. Many Lives Lost OF the Newfound. land Coast. The transatiantic steamer Geographic, of the Bossere Line, Captain Pausset oom manding, bound from Montreal to South. snpton, England, with cattle, sheep and a yof general merchandise, collided with the Nova Bootian sailing vessel Minnie Swift forty miles off St. Pierre, Newfoundland, at 2 o'clock in the morning The Minnie Swift sunk within two minutes, drowning, as nearly as can be two women, three children and ten men, | The others, with part of the crew of a Norwe. gian vessel who had previously been dow Lup, got on board the steamer, w | piteall efforts, also sunk. Two boats containing about thirty five persons, which put off from the steamer sar y in the morning, were , The third | boat, with the captain and flteen others, nats pighad 4 bt hs schounar Sister Bell, He FUT here at aid we OO mend » and VAOANT OFFICES FILLED. A Number of New Appointmonts by the President, The President bas made the following ape wer quarters, which A
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