I = EE The four new States come into the Jnion with an area threo times as great the British Isles Since August 4, 1887, up to recent sdate, the Government has purchased bonds to the amount of £201,720,650, at a total cost of $234, 497,744, Captain Chapel, of the French Artil- lery, has devised a projectile which is lit- erally ‘‘to shoot round a corner.” Itis to be sent over the heads of men behind | ‘breastworks, turn a somersault, and take them in rear. rograde,” he calls it. “Projectile ret. The Bostonians are pluming themselves upot the fact that Sir Edwin Arnold said that they remind him of Englishmen. But, when he added that they ‘‘talk the ) English language in its native purity,’ the Commercial Advertiser says, they be- gan tobe doubtful of the value of the | compliment, Every one in Paris was surprised at the youthfulness of Mr. Gladstone during his recent visit. Being asked by some one how many lines of the Iliad” he still remembered, he replied, after a moment's hesitation: “If some one would give me the first line of any page I think I could repeat what follows to the bottom of that page.” teresting One of the m to visit strike in in London during the was the “‘Booth Arm Army. and g 80 as allotted them John Si the finge resting 1" Medi, 8 more vear out, found Acc Island can boast of a farm which is oper- peo- Islip farm, and It was a wilderness a few years ago, but has rding to the New York Sun Long ated entirely by the labor of insa ple. 250 lunatics are employed upon it. It is known as the been brou high state of cultiva- tion. Grain, fruits and flowers are- grown upon it, and the men engaged in producti n are said to take a deep in In their work. They are sent there city institutions by the commissic charities and correction, and pennment is decl proaound ared to have A question much divided at the congress. in Paris, was whether the grains of corn found in th phagi had any seminal that most, of remarkable for It appears Hnmy corn, streaks of tar on the sur. face and sold to travellers in Egypt at the rate of about $1 per twenty-five grains, is A gentleman who re. from M. Maspero in various soils and 8 gross imposture. ceived a few himself plante« positions. A good many sprouted, some Y looked even grew about two feet, when the like rotted away, maturity and then to ordinary spring wheat, but none ever came A story full of pathos of the death of a brave man was made known to the Loa. He fireman, and in searching for pessible don public the other week. was a sufferers in a burning factory his retreat was ort ofl. through a small window, but he being His companions escaped too bulky was prevented from following them, and though at the outset he called to his companions to let them know of his plight he said sever a word when he saw that all hope of escape was lost, but stood and burned to death with the for.’ titude of a hero. When his body was found his legs were entirely consumed, but in his charred hand he still held the nozzio of a fire hose. He had done his duty to the last, A —————————— The experiments which have recently been brought to a conclusion abroad with a smokeless powder, the latest of the kind invented, have disclosed ne defect which militates strongly against its intro. dnetion. Immediately upon the dis. charge of the shot, there is such an in. tolerable smell produced by the eombus- tion of this new explosive that several of the officers and men st the firing-point have fainted. The powder creates hard. ly any perceptible smoke, and imparts to the shot a higher velocity than any form. er compound. The statement that it is noiseless is, however, erroneous. On the contrary, the discharges are louder than ro with the old Yack powder. return | | guished { and Pereyra | { an hour, Dr. G. W. Knox believes that Japan will yet bocome the centre of the Chris. tian agencies that are to revolutionize in the East. ia The Government of Denmark has for years spent over $50,000 yearly for the maintenance of dairy schools. The re. sult has been an immense improvement | in dairy precincts, and a lively demand { for Danish butter, The Argentine Republic will have an | International next year, and has charged the distin. | engineers—Gamiza, ing plans, The Argentine Republic does second fiddle to anybody. The Chicago is now the strongest fight. ing ship in the American navy. As she was not expected to do much running, | her speed is not more than sixteen knots | and Philadelphin were built more with a view to speed, but we hope not so much | { for running away as running after, A Cityof {This cit biggest Mexico correspondent says: iz booms ever known in its dreds of new houses are in | ction in suburban iburban real estate is relativel t is but f the mon miles off Hatter. : for kero- the wat fifty y and caring rock had rr. Cot y than if taken blubbe strong iron ( mented : y $3 ite 1 is es nit snveont ane mall 13 BILE DEUS SO 48 10 prevent any malicious At disc bearing the removal of the bound the top of each post is a big Hohenzollern eagle in black, surrounded cr 5 AAA AAA FAUNA SEW IW SOONG Exposition of Agriculture | Otamendi ; | containing about three square miles with preparing the build- | The Baltimore, San Francisco | is in the midst of one of the | by red and white bands to complete the national colors, and inscribed ‘German Empire Kimberly, ing a reputation that will compare Routh Africa, is fast obtain favor. ably with that which Denver and Lead ville possessed in their palmiest days. The and murders, ‘ of revolver is in daily action, robberies and burglaries sre matters Editorial ties are exchanged with a force, continual occurrence, ameni power and vividness of description that would shame the editor of the Arizona Kicker, Swindlers, frauds and blackiegs are al The script of the Tharsis Gold Mining Company was re most in the majority. cently forged. There is no social life, and the barrooms | Btates man The forger was arrested. | are reaping rich harvests where the drink. | ing is of the heaviest, France is not satisfied with the results of Panama, and is projecting the build- ing of a canal on its own soil. Tt is though! if Paris be connected by a canal with the { outlying ocean it will become a seaport and thereby greatly increase its commer. cial operations. It has the earth, and now it wishes a slice from the universe. It is the second city in the world, It has treasures beyond limit; if has palaces, parks, libraries and schools, grand old churches, vast wealth; what more can it have that will contribute tc ta greatness? Its ort, its science, i manners, dress and refinement lend the world, Commerce would soil its silks snd sating, and the coarse odors of hide and tallows would overpower its exquis Paris is too greedy, re | | marks the Chicago Herald. » . . i and is not admit that in agriculture it plays | | ored men to dig and prepare the or } tleman, an American THE NAVASSA MASSACRE, | i Full Details of the Murder of | Five Americans, | oe —— A TA A 5A BAILII THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, — * Kastern and Middle States, Quanrenvasren Wintiam H. Brows, of Admiral Foote Post, G. A, RR, of Kew Haven, Conn,, is short $4000 §1 his accounts i with the post, Guronar PP. Mans, once prominent in Bal | timare society, died from chloroform poison. The Ringleaders Taken to This | Country in Irons on a Warship, { Concord ing in a lodging house In New York city, Tax grave of Ralph Waldo Miss, was apt od by vandals: i coffin was exposed to view, but the body was i Bot touched, Farther and fuller details of the massacre of five white Americans on the island of Na- vassa by colored laborers, in September, are Ata which arrived a few days since at New York brought by the line steamship Athos, Navassa is a rocky island of voleanic origin and is situated about thirty miles southeast of Caps Dame Marie, Hayti. It is rich in bird guano occupied by the min Phosphate which employs a large force of col Na “ Company, fort of shipment to the American market "here are no women on the island and none of the wex is permitted to land. For several years Navassa has served as a mail station for the Hayti-Now York mails. a regular fortnight ly service having been established and the Atlas Hteamship Company giving gra tutions service between the ports on the sodthern coast of Hayti and the island The bags collected wre left in charge of dhe | Superintendent of the company, who deliv. them to the first homeward bound vessel port after their recep hm. Upt fth of September last this ervice had been rende by Mr, Shay, ths Superintendent, un amiable and kindly ge: aud believed to have New York Stale On th aiternoon of in endeavoring to ape from a murde of n 4 Li He, alts firel seeing four of that touches at thy ii i ty the wd Lise & native that day utinsers HOPDRRION At he Septem! purp Ihe lischarging their reve uy throwing thee FE Ch } i rushed Thoma literally ppd to stabbed and ba Kerd Witie pitiless | god was dyed with their John McMahon third the head and al | Marsh was | suffered sm ani LOY ial | the gr the ee nteudent earf wide against hi by flight. He ran isa ping 0° erboa of Britis the harhs { dyn { the rig Amoretis Li eer on the x hether wR. Mrs swimmer Khay ne the ar wank the im or he was captured nati Bais A morette ' immediately r and set sail for Morant Bay, 1 from thers a cablegram to Consul Allen, at Kingston the Forward was await there the man-of war Ga- at Prince No offi. were and the United fowar had no knowledge of what was going on until (x Liber when she fell in with the Atlas steamship Allsa at Gonaives and received from her A COPY of a New York paper containing a brie account of the mutiny The Galena immediately started for the island, and Admiral Gherandi upon his arrival made a thorough and ex. haustive Investigation result of this was that several of the supposed ringleaders were captured, put in jrons and sent to this country on board the Galena One hundred and twenty-four of the mob were put on bosrd the brigs Alice mind I ¢ and sent to Baltimore ihe fvrniia ‘ |] 4 A Dew SipDerin » tendon! p fresh Jot of tv mia # WAL NOTE se { the was going The Capiain when he found what we kK § o asad United States mal Al soe] 4 5. B71 bg LI on 4 request Navassa to £ the United States ih waa at Port cial orders received nne Tie man and laborers. The Alico was in the harbor and was temporarily pressad into service as a prison ship by orders of the Admiral, SWEPT BY A TIDAL WAVE, Hundred Lives Lost dapaness Coast on the Fight A tidal wave which nearly 800 persons lost their lives and At Ondo all the houses, twenty three In num ber, were washed away, and oot of ninety inhabitants fifty-four Jost their lives At Jitsuroku forty houses were washed away, and about fifty oul of the population of 250 were killed, At [kote Mara 120 houses were washed away, sbout twenty broken up, and about forty of the inhabitants killed, At Yoshida - Mura 350 out of the 630 houses were washed away, and 62% of the population of B00 were killed, At Toba«Mura, containing | 290 houses and a population of 1130, ten houses were broken ul) and ten parsons pers ished, In addition to those already enumerated, 80 bodies have been found, and there are Jus 20 persons taming, The Emperor and Empress have sont £1300 and $300, ree rpectively, (or the relief of the suTerers hae occurred in Japan in about 2000 houses were washed away. MET DEATH UNDER GROUND, Disastrous Explosion in an English Colliery, An explosion hes coourred in the Bentilon colliery, at Longton, England. Seventy winers were {nthe pit at the time of the acvi- 1 hs fy ht i anaua x to ’ a da raged off Msn Ald much A PIERCE storin the chusetis coast and shipping A wWoMaX nama! O'Brien was her babe by falling from ment house in New York ther ivy Tre American Board of Co Foriegn Missi in thelr nm nat nnet ual ral Convention in N it ws fas Prayer mn Book MORE than three led fo i ity has already beet ty owner Fay inl meeting of the Republican clubs of New Jersey was held in Elizabeth Tas yey EFT the East and threo schooner Laura capsized in ciLy, close to New York Ore were drowned Demo vpn neral assembly of the Pennsylvania was PRE first oh States steamship Penssools frican od from New York with the Afri r expedition on board Tue entire plant of the ht ( poany, of Boston, Thomas Houston t $3,250, 000 Tw RR ER Brush Electric Mass, has been Electric Com- oontrol of timber land was s | restry Congress ut | = South and West THe Brown Kan, fel was soalde IVT BAe i Lhe sw i 4 CLBeTrHOOd ang wns! bad an NIXE men wid ted, charged pos and b Charlot Robuery § in North lina 3 three Withee have hosn ary wil JNA Tyee now oosst-defenos vesss! iy cast at the Paci a a0, Bixiesn ii feel were poured into the Tee stem of the bar £1 HT] SUOORS shot and killed his near Lexington ANd Beaninn wi aw, Mrs captured nea 1 Walser _ Was ireensbore ys Lox where he was ha fa ng row i the outskirts ¥ ¥ RESENTATIVES of an English three largest 1 Indiana, all situated in Indiarapolis, A rarer collision has ooonrred at Sterling, Cal., between a Burl gton and a Union Pscific passsager train, in which about thirty passengers were killed and many in jured, ier ve pur fyniica hassd the rower Ix a fight botwesn members of the Farm Allisgoe and the town party at Dothen Lig... two men were killed and several w rely injured Tur Ohio River steamboat Minnie Bay bound from Manchester to Cincianati with 15 passengers aboard, struck a snag opposit Moscow, Ohio, and ssuk. The passengers and crew were saved Wai five men were digging a large well at the Victor coal mines, in Colorado, the walls caved in, killing two white men and one BeEro, Pars MoBripe, son of a well-known St Louis lawyer, while drunk shot and instant iv killed Frank Loftus, a fireman, who acch dentally jostled against him on the street Lessixa, Bopomox & Rosesruar, whole sale dealers in dry goods and cotton in Waco, Texas, have suspended, with labilities of nearly $1,000,000, Gov enxon Hiv, of New York, spoke toa large crowd at the Atlanta Exposition Two bands of brigands are raiding Came. ron County, Texas. Many murders and rol berries are reported, and county are in a state of terror GaEar farmers of Central Dakota, caused by theal most total fallure of crops, out wheat, corn or vegemblos mitten has been organised ! Emerson at | the | damages to} the people of the i destitution prevails among the | Many are with. | A relief com. | Jonux Osiex and William Draper have | been hanged at Placerville, Cal, for the murder of John Law, J. H. Myers was sofne thine ago | hanged for participating in the same crime | Mere Boon, of Santa Ana, Cal, mur | | ceive the coveted pennant : | dered her two children to prevent them from | falling into the hands of i whom she was divoresd, or husband, from She afterward at- tempted to take her own life, Oxg man has been killed and several fatally injured in a ralirond wreck at Lebanon, | Ind, F. F. Knnant, United States District At. | torney for the Western District of Missouri, has died in Knosas City, By the explosion of a boiler in a sawwmill at Marshall, 111, two men wore killed, and three badly injured, James Hickey Tux President has appointed Carroll E, Bmith postowaster at Syracuse, N, Y In his report for the inst ilscal year Cliel Bell. of ths Treasury Rervice, shows that 457 arrests were made afl & Inge quan tity of plates, dies, moulds, ete,, vas selesd, besides counterfeit money BATT. 081, Tue Convention of Railroad Opsrators at Washington elected C, H, Dal ton Presid Lange Beerel ent. Grserat. A, PT Camrnrrl., One the prominent candidates for the Pension Comnissionership, bas been given the Consulship at Melbourae, Australia Tue International Maritime Conference at Washington has completed its organization and entered upon its deliberations, PresioesT Hannisox has appointed Oliver C. Bosayshell, of Pennsylvania, to be Buper- intendent of the Mint of the United States at Philadelphia, and = 1 E. Blosn, of Arizona, to be Associate Just of the Bu- preme Court of Arnzona Cran Ey, of Foreign. Tue Russian Czar and his son have been visiting the German Emperor at Berlin, Ex- traordinary precautions to guard the persons of the roval visitors from violence were taken Canina, Austria, has been by an overflow of the Dralsx A ¢ been destroyed, and much other inundated number of bridges § damage done, THIRTY-FIVE BUX on strikes at Lens, France, 'ne Italian Government protectorate over Ab india. NDEads Coal miners wont has declared a Ix a battle betwesn {ish and a foroe sat the Islas IMrara, on the wal, twenty of the latler were Lats wants > TOWNS ndertake a BOYCOTTING WHOL South Caroling Farmers 1 Mig Fight ne of the five daily the Niste has hoes Lane { i largest ARG the OILY « ty in the Sate suffer & stagnation of next in ” uy the ral n arniarg 1 Charie i in many paris of farmers are holding back their Mi 88 & Con uence there are oom 8 of dull business Ihe boyoott prom. asstime Jarge dimensons, and next \ vou " 1 ary p ay got a he p> a n Aten THE NATIONAL GAME, Tene wae twelve tie games in the League tiie past season THEA were 518 games played in the League this year, against 315 last year Tite attendance at the games in Chicago averaged Jower than it had for many soa- BOTS, Faarz, the Cleveland fined more often than any « payer this season fret Lmseman, wae League % Lsonae Lae ant single-handed ume near doing it CLARKSON y the pet for Chicago in 1888 and for Boston this year Canvraeng pitched winning games for Brook the record for the season twelve consecutive vn, which is about CINCINSATI wot sighitern games out of twenty from Louisville "hat beats Boston's record with Pittsburg, 16-8 Tis 8. Louis Club won every series with the other American Association Club, ine luding that with the pmanant winners, the irookivynae Tue Kanme City will have quile a rividable array of talent in the field next ear to do battle for the championship of the Association, Tee New York team won a series from every ciub in the League but the Bostons, and dost fewer games om (ts own grounds than any other club in the League, Jusr as well observes reese, that Boston didn't get the baseball wnnant. How would ft look 10 see such an allitecative heading as “Baked Bean Boston Base Ball Pennant.” team the Dansville played for the world's championship bet ween the New Yorke and the Brooklyns was eloven, the club winning the first six 0 re Tae St. Louis Club's President, Von der Abe, feels very sore because be lost the American Association championship to Brookiyn, and says: “It was scheming and not bad playing that beat us." Tar work of Clarkson has been of the fin. est possible description. Not only has be pitched in a larger number of contests than any pitcher in the League or the American Association, but no proeher lias a larger nom. ber of victories to his credit, Last spring a watch company offered prise of a ol valued at Tam, to the ho sacoceded Brooklyn. ...oesevsins "wt Be Lontis, «ooo eonvvinns i ASAE LE] ALE EE Casa ERAREEY Fiaswnnsnnsn HERE RABRAEERS ERE —— Ann orion representing | i Telegraph | has been acting as Tre number of games decided upon to be | New York city next spring. fisnitat has hein enpafed or a series of twenty concerts in principal cities, be HE a aa THE PENSION OFFICE Facts and Figures From the Commissioner's Report. Green B, Raum Bucceeds Corporal Tanner as Head of the Bureau, The annual report for the fiscal year 1585. BO of the Commissioner ions shows that at the close of the vesr thers 29 pensioners. There rolls during the Year 221 new pensioners 17% whose pension dropped were re rand an aggregate of 58.6 pensioners addsd during the year There wers dropped from the rolls for various CRT 16,507 pensioners, leaving a net in crear: 10 the rolls of 37 108 names The average annual value of each pension at the « year is shown to have been § The amount paid for pensions during the year was $85 275 115.25, The total amount disbursed Ly the agents for all pur- poses $80 131.1 i“ Amount paid as Toes Lo allorneys, $1, 063 553 47 In the aggrogate 1 24% 146 claims have been filed since 1551, and in the same po rion] TRG 121 hinve Leer wed, The amount irved on account pensions sinos 186) has been $1,052 218 418 The of oes tifhomtes hows a grand total i BLL were wears 499 . the names of 51.« the names of Ley previously were added to fhe and have making ose of 14 1% WS PEON clint sue Yen thi AUring the of 145, 2» Li nn ber floats pending original oer thore were Al the close of the ven Howed 470.000 that aier fhe service General Green IB Made Pensions lanm missioner of One Killed Crash and Many Tajnred Near Omaha, tly after The chair « { fire, and ma of the p ny : iy burned, in addition to their we alioit vere slight Older in mires MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Ir is sald that Buffalo Bill will take his “Wild West” show from Paris to St. Peters burg. Sanan Bensxmanor is reported to have made an nmense hit with “Theodora®™ in Paris, Mr. axp Mae, Kexpari, the English art. ists, are doing well st the Fifth Avenue thes tre in New York Macam Mrreaxiy made her first appean ance in New York city the present season io ber new play, entitled “Ray.” P.T. Barsvx and his cirens haves gone to England for the winter. They will be back in New York probably next April H. B. Fanxig, whose name as an a japter of comic opera i= as well known in this coun try as in England, died recently in Paris, Da, Nasxsex, the distinguished explorer of Greenland, will visit this country next sjeing for the purpose of delivering lectures, His young bride will accompany him. Epw ann Grina, the composer whose works are just now so popular among musicians, is a native of Bergen, Norway. He was born in 1543 and is accordingly 46 years old, Max Arnvany, who was such a provounced favorite nt the Metropolitan Opera House in New York city last soason, has made a groat hit at Carlaruhe in the role of Bisglried, Rongnt J. Bunoerre, the humorist, who or of the Lower Merion Baptist Church, near Philadelphia, Auring the summer, has started on his lectur- | ing tour, Dr. Hawxg vox Brriow will be heard in The eminent ginning March 20, It is said that there are at least 20, about one
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