A —————" HS A SN, — ning school for nurses, an insti. n of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, at | imore, has been formally opened h eighteen pupils. Thomas A. Edison, the great Ameri pan inventor, made a strong impression fn England, during his recent visit, | through his conservatism. Cannon Farrar's scheme for establish. ing celibate brotherhoods in the Church of England is causing much discussion and some unfavorable criticism of the good Canon's own manner of life and luxurious surroundings. The women of Chicago who inaugura- ted the crusade against gambling some time 2g0, are very enthusiastic over the success that has attended their work. They are confident that they can eflect- ually suppress the vice. The suggestions that our flying squad- ron, composed of the Chicago, Atlanta, Boston and Yorktown, should take a trip along our own coasts before going to European waters, is not a bad one, in the opinion of the New York Journal, which says: Anything is good which will stir up the enthusiasm of the country about our ships, and prompt a demand for the best, and { y or plenty of them. Emile de Laveles French years hence, setting Cl and the United States colossal powers of ture of China i China is a sl is unknow: herself, as she the world will be her. The number of fn 1888 was 521, than on the previo holdi creased to 47,951 holdings, being a decrease of 171 from the ng land exceeding 22 There 223. not were excexding one acre, we ne I vious year. There are 150,146 holdi % being oeing between five and fifteen acres, ti the most humerous class, and 1501 hold. ers of above 1000 acres. It Russians attach so is announced from Vienna that the much importance to : eering i aducation as a means of domin Servia that an by the Russian offer has just been made Government to undertake the education of 3f have finished their the Servian ¥) young Servians who first success in The eagerly with the Servian Governm offer this ing pupils. nt Kussian education at Odesaa, Kieff snd St. Peter (0% burg. The new French military laws, which large additions are made standing army, has aroused great excite ment in both Germany and Italy, and has given the author tries an opportunity to demand more ities in both coun money and men for warlike purposes, At Berlin and Rome nothing is said to be talked of but warlike operat ahd parations are being ion i 8, ia both countries formidable pre The Garman press point out that France is made for war, endeavoring to become a greater military power the authorities to see that the aim is not suc cessful. than Germany, and urges A quarter of a million persons in the United States are engaged in business depending wholly on electricity, There are over 100,000 miles of submarine elec. tric cable, the cost of which is 81000 a mile, in operation, and over a million miles of surface telegraph. It requires but fifteen minutes to transmit a message from Sau Francisco—via New York, Canso, Penzance, Aden, Bombay, Madras, Penang and Singapore—to Hong Kong, China, There are 400 miles of electric railway in this country, more in progress | of construction, and 170,000 miles of telephone in operation. The greatest speed of an electric railway car has been a mile a minute. The ordinary speed is twenty miles an hour, The difference between the English and the American sense of humor is shown in Henry Irving's application for the in. terdiction of a burles jue imitation of him which was running in one of the London theaters, On this side of the water al. most any actor of note would regard this as a pretty good advertisement, to be en- wouraged rather than rebuffed. Booth, Jefferson, and others who have suffered in like manner at the hands of the funny A close observer remarks that among ! the noted men of the day names ending with ‘‘son” are unusually numerous. | Harrison, Edison, Robert Leuls Steven. | son, Tennyson, Murchison and others il lustrate the truth of this, T energy at this period of his life are sur Phineas Barnum's activity and prising even to the people who know him best. Heis now in the cightieth year of his age, was the editor of & paper sixty years ago, and is yet fill of novel ideas. | During his long career as a showman Barnum has always taken good care of his health. The latest development of the auto matic machine is a Doctor Cureall, in Holland. with compartments all over it, labeled If you have a pain find its corresponding lo It is a wooden figure of a man with the names of various ailments. cation on the figure, drop a coin into the slot, and the proper pill or powder will come out, The Scott exclusion act does not seem to keep the Chinese out of the country. After an intermission of a few months Chinese immigration is assuming its old proportions at San Francisco. A steamer which arrived net long since brought 168 assed as “merchants” The welong Chinese, the men cl and the women papers say that they evidently | the laboring class to know is rapidly wns of the Easter sledge themselve er to ameliorate of working w 1 Those me racy who are always English +8 sk inr seeking wo manners found in the recent electoral canvass an opportunity to fol low the example set by Lady Churchill. They made a strong campuaiga in favor of their husbands, friends who were sons, brothers and ii their distributing a hamper of Cand runn about the district in ville game, & basket of wine, warm clothing, and toys for the children, articles for the household, and, in fact, anyth that would influence the elector. Americans who may have any ingeni ous appliances for the cure of uld them to Europe with gical hy phy maladies sh be careful of the police incinn experience of the ( wis arrested as a Nihilist because his asthroa medicine was mistaken for dyna nffte The blunder would language which such » induce in the average American, says the San Francisco Chron. ice, would go far to make the European police believe the suspect to be a danger ous Nihilist. It takes more phil sopliy than the ordinary man is master of to en- dure calmly such gross stupidity, A Shanghai (China) special cable says: “A recent disastrous fire in the Temple of Heaven and the destruction of the dragon throne seems to be directly nected with the opposition to the new Cone railway policy. The censors reposted that the temple was struck by lightning, but it now appears that the fire was the he motive of The per- petra.ors imagined this disaster would be work of an incendiary, the outrage is clear enough. assigned to supernatural origin, and be accepted as an evil omen. As a warning sgninst the projected innovations their designe have failed, and a number of per. sons suspected of complicity have been arrested. The exposure of the plot can only strengthen the hands of Li Hung Chang and the railway party.” An interesting phase of the Chinese question has developed in New York city, | Despite the alleged restrictions of tha Ex. clusion Act the Celestial population there has increased fifteen per cent. within a twelvemonth. The representative of a Chinese company who held a lease. of some valuable New York property de. clined to renew the lease save on his own | terms. The landlord, declining to ae. i | quiesce, was confronted with this inter. Mongolian and no Mongolian was pes- mitted under the laws of America Mon- which one of his own mee had been ex. pelied, ‘I'he Chicago Herald considers will be to erect in New York an instita. tion such as has Jong been familiar to San Francisco; a Chinatown, with all ita esting situation: No Oaucasian would | occupy the property lately vacated by a | A FARMERS’ CONVENTION, | First Noeting of Its Kind Ever Held in This Country, What the Farmers of the Mi #8 issippi Valley Hope to Effect, The wheat-growers of the Mississippi Val loy assembled in convention at Turner Hall, Bt. Louis, a fow days since organize for future action. Walter N. Al len, President of the Farmers’ Federation, i called the convention to order and long speech, He said that it was the firgt meeting of the kind ever held on this contl nent, “We are not here,” ho said, “for th Jrltioes of denouncing trusts and combine mb to meet the issue of new systems and conditions in trade tealizing our individ ual feebiloness, and the importancs of unity of action wi have been called together 8 "ie sider the proposition to th he LE to a power of our own croation, the exclusive right to market the products of our farms, and to take such measures as will afford present relief and future protection to the agricultural interests of the Missisippd Valley. The farmer is the only produces who sends an over supply of his wares 4 parket to Le sold by and, ke the goods of the bankrupt, at some one else's prices; and, when he dares complain of the morifice, the answer of the waster lu, ‘Over production.’ Overproduction cannot, in justice, be wealth for the nation and slavery for the producer If farmers would organize, like man turers, to control production and reguls be output in the public market, they On all wlucers, n heir own produ tL IrrDeCEive roductic Central | made n groat ne fn loans ROME one alse ’ Wi with pet 1) power of th fda bile « § mpending rain lor by zabstity price of farm product tion on lands This will restore with & The power hel of Ames | i rid Hl ralised age he Mis chartered and as yo awnits ar Wdding { rede n Ex-Governor Charles Robic as, was made Temporary Chadron addressed the convention, str mity of action and orgar ners throu the Norman J of Agriculture, was made Permanes nan; Walter N, Allen, of Kansas, Vix femt: T. GG, Wilson, of Minnesota Secretary and J. P. Limeabener, of Kansas, Assistant jecrotary Mr. Robert Linbliood ngn wiefly to the delegates, stating that he sym mthized with them in their cause which b thought was a Remolution re adopted setting | arming, under existing laws business, nnd that ( and jont asked to IE treaties with | uch nations 0 tome duties fron farm products ipped abroad thereby re silting in a higher pri METeEs Wa ale Foye L] trotting trusts Lh Cun of t 8 ally KX) 0 bE 84] 4 growing Slates of Miwour nit Coleman SX -NCTEIARTY of Ch TR good one we { rth tha = a losing the reciprocity EE Pres wer ge as will ote ve 1 he product pass aw an A ros Gtion Was AN Pegs ejnosting pss i trading were adopted I five i mw The resol ' soon session the Wheatgrower of the Mississippi Val This a sort Farmers’ Federation clocted Preside: HY Wa Ht Execut wre from es The Exe 10 transa will fiz amd an was Board tm State or Territory, was to have (ull ¢ en med porary aseoctation oOtE sting ive Board it the price of wheat bsaidd granaries and store wheat until the fixed price obtalped Agencies will be established in Chicago, St Louie, Kansas City and Omaka on Decssiilse | Yor the purpose of handling the product the association. The conventioa » journed sine die ATE TWO MEN. A Revolting Tale of Cannibalism Sea, he business the ' in then : Carl Graves, fireman, and Ladwig Loder of the of tramship Barnmoor, who have reachial Bal timore, tell a story, horrible ia ite details, the way they sustained life by caunibalicy fordays. Loder said “The only food we had for the first fifteen days in the boat was a fiving fish and & few raw small seabirds divided among eleven men. On the sixteenth day oat William Da seaman, oaught me by the throat, and nade a dash at my head with a knife Ho cut me on the right cheek, the soar from which still remains as vou will we “He was told to attack me by Augus Piagge, a fireman, When Davis began to out me some of my companions caught him, but others shouted : “Kill him! kill him! We want something to eat—we are starving” It soem that Plagge, Davis and others in one end of the boat had decided that [| should die, as ming pretty fat, I Jooked inviting. Plagge was placed on watch that night, but he was missing next morning. No one saw him go overboard On the soventeenth day William Robi son lay down to sleep. When they tried to oall kim they found him dead. It was deter mined to ent his feah, and William Wright, the cook, was ordered to carve the hxdy Loder continuing, told how the fesh of the dead sonroen was partaken of by the rest of the crew, and how Third Engineer Hunt, whe died two days alter Robinson's death, was also cat up for food, INCREDIBLE BRUTALITY, mamas. two survivors orew tha vie a A crime has taken place In Tallapoosa County, Ala, that has rarely been surpassed | in ita horrible details, It seems that while | Albert Smith and his three oldest children golian ethics to lense » building from | that the effect of such conditions as these £ i = 3 E 3 F 4 i i LH £ i §a2 i 3 1H | United States Custom THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Bexsasun T. Banwrrr, the well-known | soup manufacturer, died a fow days since in New York at the age of eighty yours, He left a large fortune Tue Finance Committes of the World's Fair, at New York city, adopted a subserip- tion form for the $5 000 000 guarantes fund and ordered 1000 subscription books printed, Ture American Public Health Amociation began its annual session in Brooklyn. Gexenran B, ¥. Burren has President of the San ol Mining Company, of Tie Protestar been elected Gold Piacer opal General Conven. tion, at Ney } fed to make the COTE i the marriage sor vice, but re Joc or funeral PETER BARAXOWSK] bw Pottsville, Peun., for the bru two women en hanged at ol murder of Bxow fell in many Btates a few days ago Tr American Antiquarian 8 Worcester Mass Tre Episcopal House of Deputies, after two secret sessions on the nbiect at New York city, postponed marriage and divores legisla. tion to another convention NEanLy 200 Ci for China the other mare, Many of to join the National arm) thir y work on the new raliroad { wash ing shirts in thi Toe first furnas of ti fren ston] works of the Pennsvivania Bleel Company at Sparrow Point, been put in ope- ration ne and repair Tae rom shops of the Pittabury I Castis Shannon have t tie Shannon, Pean., ely met at inamen left rk city after: urn no thn ne Ng WI intend Ee hus 2 ' ¢ ” allway. » been burned Tur World by Cou rk Central and South and West, of Ge Ka ITaging & vy 0 NLT n, Mo. of the ne Frasx was sb Minnesota nearly one 3 failure Exronts from Northwestern Dakota state thal ¢ are destitule {1 Western ¥ rit ght was: ders Janes N iad forty miles from Portiand, an was killed and the engineer fatally injured Tux rd of Chicago, wi will { hre Belt lark | oh f JOH aide reste basi AX snginest and a fir the explosion of a lox boro, {nd were killed Ly woller at Wells IAN tive | the ings ‘oodville, Oklo, there deaths from ty wore from diph is have been phoid fever and theris Far Lonp Hi sh said t transection: in ( A COMPLETE in the Cronin murds y have been on 1 some swindling Ohio ad aired ago, 1 jury has at last fy case at Lh r Ballard at Lex and Mrs Ha mind, perished in fence of ex Mas ned THE res M y was of has Deen nar waned ington jard, wi the flames “rhe LE. ” f wheat gr at Ni . 5 AX importa opened Fee of Ohio, gradually fm yw favorabde GovERson seriousts until his con TeCOvery Tue large fouring Milling Company, at been destroved by fire mated at $150,600 No oollector has iss sn been mill of the I. C. Porter Winona, Minn, has The loss is approxi the wo stationed at Oeooy and the been Hous at Lake on the Britich Columbia border, now the Indians bave taken possesion of structure formerly occupied bY represenia- tives of this Gos Opium is being smuggled across the line and cattle are being stolen by border thieves Tre New Orleans Grand Jury have in dicted ex-State Tressurer Burke, who is now abroad, for forgery in uttering as true forged Louisiana bonds CuiLonex playing in & barn at Muskegon Mich., set the buliding on fire, and little An nie Michaels perished in the flames, ernment ALLIANCE DAY drew 60,000 farmers 10 the Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta, Ga A xemeer of vessels have been driven ashore by bad weather near Norfolk, Va. Waite Hogh MeCullogh, the Superintend ent of Perking's cotton gin, near Memphis, Tenn, was sitting in his wrson shot him through the window and illed him Washington, Presrorsr Hanmsox is already busy at | work on his forthe ining Message Tae President has appointed Oscar F. | Williams, of New York, to ks Consul of the | United States at Havre, Franoe Horemixrexorsy Porren, of the Census Bureau, has appointed Charles H, Cooley, of | Michigan, a special agent of the bureau for the collection of railway statistios, that the Venesuelan claims commission is Tue President has Green, of New Jersey, Jadge for the District of New Jersey, IMM1GRA NTS who arrived at the of the United States from the prince countries, sanept Canada and Moxico, during nine months ending ¥ ber 30, numbered appolntal Fiward T | 108, a decrease of 100,600 as compared the sme monthe inst year. x Aten Note Company of New York lice, an unknown , Ir is announced at the State Department | now ready to consider at once all ciaims pre- | | vented, : Tnited States District | Prestoeyr Bannirros, of Guatemala, has ordered the execution of seven insurrection. | ary lenders who were taken prisoners in the ! district of the Republic, where a revolution ix now in progress, Tre cotton crop of Exvpt promises 10 ex» euid last year's fo quantity he quality will probally bs similar Tne notified Count AVErags Liorman ios have the othorwise they Dillon exile, 0 quit Dieu irrest him and (Es #10 i him Tour Cunard sailed from Liverpoo into Holyhead on ac board, by which the four firemen wore French politics will from Germany Cephnionia, which Bout had to put ; LEORION On nid wlonrner ant of an SOI seriously Injured sooo Tar Central American met at Guatemala, approved the wnion of the Contral An Tue Baptist Union bas presented a ms morial to Lord Balishure jn which the Gov ernment is implored to use the moral influ ence of England to suppress the atrocities by the Turks upon Christisne which are reported from Crete, Thre Prince and Princess their arrival at Athen way station by King George of Gre the Czarewitch of Russa, and enthusiastic reception 5 dhe Tuy ecinl Oot imeem charges made by the Lond Charles Parnell! and othe Irish National Party in Pa gamed its session in London, ngress, which the basis for aca Blate df Wales upon wer pet at the ratl- und wer Yen an wpa in a LEE {nies ag of th hay res men hers lisment Dublin and on fngue Imes Nationalists ganized the Te met mn nants’ Deferred A HEROIC FARMER'S BOY, He Saves a Woman's Life and Loses His Own in a Railroad Collison, Details of when DANGEROUS DYNAMITE. Killed Houses One Person Five Injured and Many Destroyed A wirkman nsned Chartras of others In M several “iret nires primed dyns- which were being used by barge of the work cariride wie had ibe and the neighbor: Charbot OREN aan, fen. LABOR WORLD, Eastern nineieen re sas Penn a tod Stats DRIn, Me iv went to vance {rom aventy They won fur request aw which { umion Owing & x . {f the ana the dire of 4 In th ary have decidad § « institution ink 718 iete emploved in the Riverside Penitentiary are making mate and which warden says, are Australia Tare Columbus Trades Amembly will make spacial «ors to dhient candidates tor the Legislature wno refuse to sign their hour pledges ianvaRERs’ xy No. 10. of Philadel Ua, has made a miract with Gumpert w., Whe have granted thelr 300 employes a ight advance of Is Indiana Peni stop shoemaking in unions of ony "an Ins riod t the ox {a WR eS A New develo 4 went the labor question the suit begun by miners at Greens. wirg. Penn, against a boss who called them Mollie Maguires” and “Anarchists iocals of the iw IT is reported that 180 new of L., with =380 members. have been red within two months, and that 8 jo- als have been reorganised or reinstated Ax organization of clerks has been armed in Manchester, England with a wm bership beginning with 500. It includes nly those who are engaged in bookkeeping AX appeal has been ined for the forma wm of a National Union of Tile Layers, It « proposed to call a National Convention of we trade if this appeal meets the approval f the local unions Several ladies in Everlay, a village in orkshire, England, have stariad a coopera. ive shirt factory. KNtock i= being bought wpidly by workingwomen in other trades ind the affair has been a success from the {Unbows has won ite strike at Pittsburgh (or a Ave per cont. advance in wages, and business has bosn resumed. The plate glass workers of Pittsburg have also been successful in their “trike, Favonante accounts of the prospects of he K. of L. in Great Britain are given by Master Workman Archibald, of the New ‘ork Paper Hangers’ Assembly, who has spent two months in Barope as a promoter of the interests of the order. Tue paving stone cutters have a national union, with fifty.six branches asd 1700 mem. hers in nineteen States. Maine has ten swanches, About one thousand members are ooated in that State, and they cut about one wundred thousand stones daily. Tux new Brotherhood of United Labor has Rye~Btate.........oiveiiin AGGRESSIVE OUTLAWRY. — Desperadoes’ Threats to Attack a Court House. Armed Men Ready for a Battla With the Authorities, A desperate state of affairs is once more preveiling in Harlan County, Ky, The State troops sent there two or three months ago were withdrawn a few wooks since without anything being effected, and when this re- port was written the leadership of Wils Howard, had taken fresh :, Howard had organized (hem near s town of Harlan Court House, which is cupied by his old enemies, the county au- and was preparing 0 storm and the place at all hazards County Judge Wilson Lewis, who Jed the old fight against Howard, was In town and had taken charge of the Law and Order forces. They nusibersd about forty or fifty mon, snd were armed with Winchesters, pistols, muskets and other weapon, They were entrenched in Harlan Court House and were preparing to defend the place On the other hand, Howard, it Is thought oould bring from fifty to one hundred men inion the flold, and he openly avowed his in tent f masking a charge upon the village The tr brought about by an event which ocx ently when it was thought that sll the trouble wasover. John Howard, nineteen years old a brother of Wils Howard, the lead and disturber in Harlan Court House, where tho father of the H ves, Fi a of the the outlaws UDG rities wa ard wen lthi fh RA ol when tl is shooting occurred about Saturday afternoon fr ¢ Line In oom mune and the iatter vows the next mornd word we town that Wils had said tend to put uw the ts i Wape with ut his ene little Intor from another he wou die trying A confirmed News CRINe ing and A it law get Hise med a fow un mpi a1 IHeENRTIIers Sed 5 IAT Tr at bis sun The seat which fs converted and Order party, is i Pineville, which is the neares ! tis on the Virginia border Some be lieved that Wils Howard = 1 post detach mwents 80 as to shut off all « munication be. tweens the town and the outer world and await the moment when he iid make an at- tack on the town with the best chances of carrying all before him Harlan Court House is 80 situated that a war may be waged upon men in it with the attacking party well protected. The town has about four hnndred inhabitants and is on the banks where Martin's Forks joins the Middle Fork of the Comberiand River. Poor Fork empties into the main stream about a mile below On both sides of the town rugged hills rise. These are so close to the piace where Judge Lewis and the citizens were entrenched in the court house building that the Howard gang could pour a fusiliade into the structure from the hills. In doin this they would bs fairly well protected an will have the civizens at a disadvantage Howard is related to nearly Lall the peo ple in the county, and has relations in sur- rounding places and friends at Pineville This fact has so far aided him in escaping ar- rest. He is vindictive toward those who op- ose him, and has sworn that he will nover Pe captares Wil and the wd was gathers seat wers of Harlan County, by the law : i THE MARKETS. a KEW YORK Beeves. ...... . 2 Milch Cows, com, 10 good... 50 | Uslves, common 10 prime... 2 Khoo . | Lambs , ...... | Hogs—ldve. . | | | Wheat-No, 2 | Rye—State | Barley —Tworowed State, Corn— | Hay=No, 1...... | Straw Long © —-— . a aad g a1 rsessn Ea 2 SEERA NIN RRR EE. a] Yellow... ovis RE EE <i S3883A558 88% Awsana Otis REE BEZE EEIRIVES
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