' The loss of life by the recent flood: the Chinese provinces is placed at 104 000. In South America one sees great flold thickly covered with oats, which have not been sown, but growing J tancously. A professional swindler who w recently to Blackwell's Island, New {Yo city, boasts of having been arrested’fifty five times during the last nineteen yours, I ————— Now that Brazil is a republic, perhaps ber coffee will have a finer flavor. Rio coffee, an exchange alleges, made in North America is not as good as it might be. —— During 1889 slightly over a hundred million dollars’ worth of gold has been the four con- tinents; the largest quantity came from Australia, California and South Africa. dug from earth on the The striking bakers in London have succeeded in reducing their working day to ten hours and, as a result of this, the bakers add a half- to the price of the fourpenny master intend to penny loaf. Here are a few dates just now of pe- | culiar interest: 1776 1524 1561 The United States of America. The United States of Mexico, The United States of Columbia, s of Venezeula, The United States of Brazil. 1864 ~The United State 1880 1 powers are casting lots for frica is not allowed a chance Civilization preceded by on Russi as an |i climate, mercury in a | ting the bullet in a ri inch pine board pt observers have been senses of crin duller these is certain to lucrease and th re frequent. Of « the blacks ha no of but disre the remoteness of the TOW 11 chan ultin mcCess Inherited they must be calle reinforcements contest more This later ¢ will blush seems possible Africa MTYIRE of the war into have a terri ble issue In the deliberations of the international maritime conference st Washington, one resolution was insisted upon, the re quire fog, falling snow, vessels shall go at a moder. ment, namely, that in a mist, or ste rate of speed. Positive legs! require the gre badly noeded : ments in this direction, according to New York for the Clheerver, recklessness of steamy vessels at such times is continually on the increase The argument of the ocean steamers that there will always be a possibility of a eo) lision in a fog, and that on the whole the steamer running the fastest will have the best chance of escape, entirely ignores the chances of the second vessel. If it in a fishing smack or coasting ship, such | | pow known to the world as Emin Pasha, bee as are most frequently met in the fog banks, the probability that it will escape entire destruction is very small, and di minishes in proportion to the speed of the colliding vessel. Bull another point small ship is wrecked by the larger ves. sel, if the second ship is sailing at full speed, there is no chance that it ean be stopped ia time to rescue the survivors, A law restraining the speed of vessels in fogs 1% & law Bu the interests of humanity and common sense, { equatorial interior « | increast often overlooked is the fact that when a | ; ni iuitarest t. Being out of a window by mislake, and od Per Bla shaaus, and full ou. his t 1:50 the PM, among ond floor of f Lor pich oo 1 the pier, and th prema wiih ent rapiiy: In ten minutes the shed, which was long and eighty feet wide, was blazing from end to end, and t clouds of smoke rolled over the North River, Three alarms summoned a strong force of Aremen with fifteen engines, two fireboats and a number of powerful tughboats, and a determined fight was waged against the | aes, Before much progress was made in the work of wxtinguishing the fire a call for ambulances | i told of loss of life and injury to men on the pier. The progress of the flames had been so rapid that all of the wen emploved on the second floor of the long shed had not been able to escape. Half a dozen of them sagpered out of the shed with their hands aces burned seriously and their clothes on fire, The firemen helped to rescus them and called the ambulances. Then a sudden back-dranght caught some of the fire. | men who had ventured into the front part | ent labor bodies of the city of the shed, and two of them were burned | al seriously on their faces and hands, while a | third, when dragged out, wag half-suffoosted | when the | by the hot smoke. Ap hour later, flames had destroyed property valued at nearly 880.000, and were under control, the bodies of four men who had been burned to | i fire to the extent of about £100,600 death were carried out of the wrecked shod The injured were taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. Five firemen who were slightly hurt called at the hospital and had their hurts card for. A few others had their wounds dressed by the ambulance surgeon, and went immedintely to their homes The bodies of the dead were laid on the pavement in fromt of the wrecked pier and | covered with sailcloth When the fire was under conte the and all o shed along its entire lon perty lamaged wd fallen in pier had been iv as 8 Day { the pt on stroved or to bo nearly rihl When ( arrived at 4 o'clock he estion Superintendent Andrews and : fire fire moke and cinders, mpanions, THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, He « the Establishment of a Suggest Prison Barcan ¢ 8a bo vinendew fogree A receive suits eonirts f I nite risdiction to | crime perpets commission of the United definite fee hill before United any Hates ignte wi sted in and as a part ———— STANLEY'S RETURN. The Long Journey For Emin Pasha's Relief Ended Sad Accident Henry M. Stanley has arri n the Zanzibar ved ent coast of Africa, opposite having hun for many months conducting from the interior of the continent. The dispatch which announces their arrival stated that another detachment of the rescued community was safely nearing the point of rendevous, Thus ends successfully one of the most re. markable expeditions of modern times While Gegteral Gordon was Governor of the Houdan a German named Edward Schnitaler, with him Emin Pasha and about two dred people whom he has been came Governor of " province of Egypt in the the continent, To res cue him from his isolated position the exped) Hon was organised, which was put in charge of Manley, in February, 1887. From that time to this the public has watohed for news from the adventurer and his command with Frequently stories of his death have been published, but they proved to be false, Mr. Stanley brings with him not oply the whom he set out 10 relieve, but an ads ditional store of experience of life in interior phe, Which re expect him to reduce nt for @® efit of OER ileal and lu Zanzibar announced that Emin Pacha had met with & probly fatal nociden nearsighted, he walked ithe roof of | TON Middle States, a { Gratin of the and Dio Ra Company, while pr to New York from limore, sen. She cost $60,000, All the 0 rescued, AN from the bursting of an sm- ho on connecting with a patent ice oly pe w the side out JF Charis sory brick brewery in Newark, N. J, wrecking fifty hugo vats, flooding the asighborhood with beer and causing a loss of $175,000, Eartuquake shocks which occurred at Alton Bay, N. H., and vicinity eaused stop. page of clocks and breakage of glassware, A ¥smiNG boat, in which wore Charles Hoyt, John Batehelder and Robert Bridges was capeized off Norman's Woe, Mass, an Hoyt and Batchelder, who lived in New | Hampshire, were drowned, A pozex Connecticut Postmastors eradit, TweLve persons were hurt, some it was thought fatally, by a collision between an | : K 2 ial i | tein City, in the province of Bhantung, express and a freight train near Groensboro, Penn, Tuner Italian women wers shot In a tenement house fight in New York city and one died Tue TEXT of the bill to be presented in Congress for locating the International Exe position of 1802 in New York city'was agreed upon. Hexay Canvrox was hanged in Now York for the murder of Policeman Brennan, Tre workingmen of New York city held a mesting st Cooper Union to indorse the World's Fair project, The demonstration was arranged by the Central and Independ. A TERWYIC Marion, Del seven injured Tax Monongahela Héuse, the largest hotel in Pittsburg, and ont of the best known hotels in the country, has been damaged by mill explosion occurred at Three men were killed and Tae New York Chamber of Conunerce at its monthly meeting pronounesd the Chi. ness Exclusion act loconsiderad legisintion, and passed a resolution asking the Pre dent to restine the interrupted negotiations with i Chins, South and West, Tag fury in the trial at Baltimore of the Navassa Island rioters found ¢ guilty of murder Williams the cases not g f the « Two w at Chiey two Knives lakes the prisoner Lah hs murder Joss Srarverox and hi sixty years, and ir grandson wera found dead at their house at El They had beens suffocated by coal gas Tie Washington Hotel of 8¢ has been T ard the foeation A cotoned man and his wife, living near Franklin, Ky., went to visit a neighbor, lmving their th small children ia house In their ab wae caught fire and burned to the ground All three of the children perished in the Samos Cyne of ax-Pros Fillmore, die y . ty- seven IN a riot amos County, N. ( 5 versal others inj Ix as fight with Melrose, Kan, City tantly a Paul Minn, mes ane an Swede perished from suf burned ther an ltalian the s Fries brother lent killed Indian fatally Mixers Hover at East Tawas, Mich, has been partially destroyed by fire. Two charred bodies were found in the ruins Five men wore 1 Tar Sq tein Wa Ry shington on the United nt Norfolk Department that in the twenty per varefore be con tates ats : 8) 1h Wy ried I § not be repaired lHmit and she i 1 lemped and appraise Tur National Wool Gy re Cor which met in Was and paid their re 1 Ya, has she ron t ent nti aliedd In a body President Har of Internal ptm of the cur P40 TRLEND, as orresponding E aggregate total Revenue for the first four rent fecal year amounts to against B40 T4080 for the months of last year Foreign, Movssa Bey, the Turkish official accused of murder, arson and pillage in Armenia, | has been acquitted Srecrarons at a bull fight in the City of Mexico grew angry becauss the bulls refused to fight and demolished the plaza, Cure ano gentierssn resident in London had a big hunguet to boom the Lake City fos the World's Fair Tuner persons were indantly killed and many others injured by the fall of a railroad train down an embankment in Brandenburg, Prussia Mus Macxay, wife of the California bo panes king, has won her libel suit against the i ingland, | lading paper of Manchester, which find charged that prior to her mar Finge to Mr, Mackay she was a washerwoman in Nevaila, The paper has apologieed, Five persons perished in the mow duriag the storm wh prevallod at Waag, Hun gary. A rasixg is threattned in sight southern districts of India, owing 10 a total {allure of ropa, A ranon number of officials of stra beens dismissed EET A and | sugar, of wh \ have | heen fined $50 and costs for selling stamps on | oareeted to i theatrical display suddenly collapsed killing | two hundred persons, | unoyo, 0 her of the Munster Express, an hy hos bom tetttenced to two mon et 4 prunen! or report 8 most. ing at which Doping wan advoraiad, Joux Mavorer and hiswife and child were burned to death as Kingston, Ontario, Their home took fire, and while they were trying to extinguish the ames their means | of escape were cut off, Tax Rothschilds have consented to con- tinue their financial support of the Brazilian Government, provided the union is main- tained and order is preserved. A Lance sugar mill at Swolenlowes, Bo- hemin, collapsed from the weight of the po thare ware 1500 tons stored therein. Eight persons were killed and many injured. Tur Austrian Minister of Commerce bas written a letter strongly favoring an ade- quate show of Austrien products at the pro posed World's Fair in America, A tenrinLe disaster has occurred at Wein. China, where a platform which had been accommodate spectators at a A SrECIAL dispatch from Zanzibar states that Henry M. Stanley has arrived at Bag- the east coast of Africa. Hels sccompantied by Emin Pacha and two bun dred other persons Sxronsnes have taken place between the Turkish troops and the people of Crete, in which three gendarmes and five soldiers were killed Tir Turkish Government has instructed its delegater to the Anti-Slavery Conference at Brussels to oppose any intervention in the trade in Circassian women SOUTH DAKOTA, Its First Delegation in the Upper House of Congress, —— —— GIDROX ©, WH Gideon ©. Moody, United Bilates from South Dakota, was born mn | New York, in 1832, He sttendod the schools and studied law in indians arly sisted in organizing the Fepaul an party that Nate Legislature, by the war wy SMV Iractise moved § fifti in tae ¥ hs Was old 5 career there protnted al District 3, When Bouth Dakota b» Moody was elected to the Renate by the Republican Legislature, Ho was a me Convention last yea author of its rohan k TI p LT where he ¢ family nn med enter wk his way T0 was adr “Rine oh be ra sng Dakota ax reached the 1 in has gp» mi made his way He ta's Delegate in ( ’ pesistant He wn with twenty fv Mts wel, Lam served] three iT gn in than his hong hibition tle h not 3 : on, though not a he mw has terms as Dal wt he nore slende fio is a friend of | third-party man, ———— A TERRIBLE ACCUSATION, of Minneapolis Suspected Cansing the Fire mn Charles Ostrom, oashier and book keeper of the Minneapolis department of the Nosweer Frese, in in jail charged with having ems benrled $2900 of the funds intrusted to kis harge and suspected, furthermore, of have ing fired the Tvibune buliding, in which seven persons lost their Hives Whon confronted with the charge of steal ing he confessed a shortage and offered to asst in hunting the matter up, He was foroed to admit that $2900 was ihe correct amount. At once the rumcy spread abroad that he had deliberately fired the Tyibune Juilding to destroy the evidenoa of his pecnlations, and the Grand Jury will make a searching investigation Ho said: “I sxpected this charge would be made, 1 certainly had every incentive to destroy those books. If they had been burned up there would have been no proof against me, It je natural that 1 should be suspected, As additional poof int me, 1 Joft the books out « the mle on’ the night of the fire, i had often done this before and nothing was thought of it, 1 think I oan prove, how. ever, that 1 was not at the building that night. 1 left at 5 o'clock, In ng to leave the country, | went to the Summit {| (Democrat) had for to 178.588 for Hutchinson (eg and { the other Republean « | was about about 5500 i of cloth tightly LATER NEWS, Jonx GnERswALL, convicted of the mur. der of Lyman 8, Weeks. whose house he had entered for the purpose of robbery, hw hung at Brooklyn, N, Y Two children, who were room in New York while she went marketing set fire niture and were smothered Canes Frouook, Lincolnville, Me, was nocidental discharge of a gun by a oon of his own age. been inn locked up city by their mother o furs aged Joax Ross was ladder school building at Paterson, N, J.» Norman, sged twelve years thoug caught hold of a golde rope and begs ging at it. The ladder and I child and killed her official « on 8 lowa's (yover were elect ticket 1000), and Tuner Apache Indian been haxged at Floreno about 1 gled themselves W. H. Pursaax | Pontiae, IIL, is | smounting to $200 | of ten yeurs By the upset Oregon tally injured Tax Pacific | Ban Francis ing besten t ten minus CORGRIEES MA new Nposker Amos I. Alien decrelary ATa meeting Constantinop!s present shou bor ain wi CONGRESSIONAL AID, National Commemoration of the of Dis. covery Tmerica the Territories y extend an invitat the ant other Fur celebration i Provides tha in Washington » and organise, It a site, by purchase or otherwise of nations, of an area not ox of ground The President 0 the land for the each one W wn syie of architecture tions are as follows Fy ground, $5.000.000; for grading and MOD; for buildings of the | for incidental expensas, $1,000, 00 NTRAL AMERICAN UNION, Termes of the Agreement Between the Five Republics, tive nvoration eas than 2X a hall apports the YArous o r Unires he tr the pu Mowe clearing tited Niates President Roberto the treaty forming a publios of Nicaragua, Ban Salvador, and name of the United Amerion For the first ten years this union will sin. ply be sn offensive and defensive allinpoe, and the President of the Union will have charge only of the diplomatic and foreign re lations of the five Republics, At the sxpirs- Nacassa has approved union of the five Re Costa Rion, Honduras, luatemala under the States of Central mented b los and foreign powers, standard Corp-—Bteaamer Oats-—Re, % White. tion of that period the union will be oe | rs WHlght. 000s the adoption of w constitution | [am which will embrace all polities], commercial i and other relations between the five Repub | A vommon mone. | and common Arif laws will be — MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Tue advance sale of seats for Madame Patti s season in Chicago excosded $100 000, Mang VAx Zaxpr, the American singer, will receive $8800 for each of twelve perform ances ut Barcelona and 1isbon MAM cides 41. John EL Brapsuwaw, one of the American actors, died recently land, L.1 He wi ———— NEWSY GLEAN 4 4d NGS “ Beoves Mileh « Calves, coms Rhee; we Lax Hoge Live Dressed i Mil Patents Wheat -N Hos Rye Darley Corn Ungraded Mixed Onis No, | White Mixed Western No. 1 Lomg Rye City Steam Nate Creamery Dairy, fair to good West. Im, Creamery Factory State Fartory Skims- Light Western Egpe—8State and Penn RUFTALOD Steers Western. . . . Sheep Madium to Good, , Lambe Fair to Good we Hogs-—Goud to Chaloe Yorks Flour BREXUA Sale i'n wed State Hay Niraw Lard Butter Cherse 88555588688 668 Corn—No, 8 Yellow, ... Oate—No, White. ......... Barley—No. 1 Canada. ...... POSTON, Flour—8pring Wheat Pats. 59 @ Yellow, WATERTOWN (MASE) CATYLE MARKEY en. ¥ w - Live weight. ........ a shan Nane Seess gisajes os
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