) tsem——————————— . —— Wo In one California pounty (Inyo) there were 1600 red to 6 ) white skins, Captain Meade, of the United States Navy, says that in peace times we do not get the best natives in the navy, and that high, will bring us the best. no wages, however Englishmen are to have ‘an auto- matic railway library,” which of books fitted into riages, means a case railway car- The books will consist of short novels and stories by good writers, and any books likely to the traveier into putting the all-important coin “‘into the slot.” tempt weary The Commercial Advertiser thinks that the Argentine Republic has done a good stroke of business by abolishing, on the of Switzerland. its embassy at Ayres minister plenipotentiary at Berne about ground economy, Buenos needs ‘a as much as Constantinople needs an en- voy extraordinary in Iceland. According to the Detroit »° firm in New York can make you big pice landscape and your name door, for $13. It out of sheet iron, and 1s for the use fire and burglar proof safe, is a dummy, made of people who want to set up offic make a spread of themselves. They give outsiders a feeling of confidence. Poor England BOUT revenue which the S (Mass.) Union cl ritably hopes Ww ministers in have a y of ringfield ill not this Instead of salting down their 1 them to ho gets as much as $5 a Laid be accorded to their brethren in country. old sermons in barrels they se the bookseller, hundred for the 400 1 if +} and if they are } sermons piain band” t not yet forty. Other old and und Gray, fifty; forty grew, Allen, 1 nd Ken seven; ty 2, f Very few De dentist has d mention one thin iY to which the manufacture that I used t¢ the I heipl that h. be- Dem Cause parent rid or res iemne through his declining years, At a Geographical recen of the F rest Master Kessler called attention to the ex " ’ A WAR travagant waste of timber in the United Btates, Mr. Kessler spoke of the tremendous de- Among other interesting details struction of forests in the United States during recent decades of years. Quoting from the tenth census, he stated that in 1880 the 25,708 saw mills then mn opera. §120,000,000 worth of kinds of lumber, and he asserted that at the same converted mw timber tion stock mito various rate there would be no good-sized timber He of the enormous waste of wood through forest fires, which are the left in forty years. spoke result, for the most part, of carclessness or a desire to clear land for cultivation, sud declared that | the planting of new forests, which has of late years received some attention in the Eastern States, cannot begin to offset the waste of forests. He said that there is every reason to fear that America will soon be a country impoverished for tree property. Mr. Kessler made the striking comparison that, while the United States Bad but eleven per cent. of its area covered by forests, the empire of Ger. many bas twenty-six per cont. of ite entire area 50 covered. Mr. Kossler said that the reckless destruction of forest trees in America and the indifference manifested by Americans in the restora. tion of forests is 8 menace, not alone to the wealth of the nation, but threatens serious deterioration both to the elimatis apditagus and the fertility of the soil, Bitting Bull was the Macchiavelli of the North American Indians of his time, ys the Mail and Express, France has now nearly 4,000,000 sol- diers and reserves, but wants a few more regiments and proposes to get them. “This scarcely looks as though an era of universal peace was about to prevail in | Europe,” exclaims the Washington Star. The fashionable housekeepers of Il, have just availed themselves of the co. { Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, operative housekeeping scheme, and now their fifty displaced domestics have engaged a lawyer to assist them in re. | gaining their situations. The agricultural experiment stations of the country, over fifty in number, issue annually some three hundred bulletins and reports of from four to two hundred and fifty pages each. Very few people have access to all of these publications, and quired to note the character and results fewer still can afford the time re. they describe. Those to pace the progress of agricultural experim tic of the experiments who find it irable keep with n will find a condensed rec station work in the Experiment Station Record, issued by the Umted States De. partinent gathered, opine ue Chicago fee, from the ads riven by Instrue tor Shepardson, of the electrical engi neering department of Cornell Univer sity to the Senior Electrical Association on ‘Opportunities Open to a Technical Graduate.” He recommended graduates of electrical schools not to imme liately enter some large construction shop, but rather to strike out in some undeveloped field. Am fle! mentioned the following: Electric metal. - og such is of work he lurgy, electroplating appliances, electri. city as applied to chemistry, the simpli. fication of the dynamo, elec tricity from heat, improvement of the are lamp as to onrbon efficiency, electric ear lighting, decrease of weight of storage batteries, far-gecing by electricity, the telephone, the electrical utilization of the energy of the tides, ‘‘animalism electricity or per. sonal magnetism,” electro-therapeutios, utilization of atmospheric electricity and sarth currents, the improvement of gas- lighting apparatus, a constant current dynamo regulator, an electric.car truck in which the armatures may revolve whether the car is running or standing still, thus allowing the car to stop promptly when going down hill as well A to start easily, a method of connecting the armature to the wheels 0 as to dis- peuse with goars and allow the armature to revolve in the same direction which. ever way the car is running, a trolley wheel combining good lubrication with conductivity, the reduction of loss of energy when going around curves, light. ning arresters for cams and the getting tid of magnction irithin olestris cars, RECKLESS REDSKINS, A Detailed Battle in South Dakota. — | Twenty-five Soldiers and Nearly | | a Hundred Indians Killed, The battle with the Indians on Wounded | Knee Creek in Bouth Dakota was bloodier and more deadly than the first reports indi. | | cated. Twenty-five soldiers wore killed and | thirty-five were wounded Nearly 100 Indi | ans foll bafore the sheet of flame that swopt | down from the batteries and guns of | 1 uited Nita tos troops. The manner in which | Big Foot's band turned upon thelr captors, | stood before the terribly raking fire and shot | down so many soldiers rivals anything that | has accompanied the Indian wars of Amer | lon. Though enenmbered by their BOA WS | and pappooses, they almost snatched viet ry | from dadent and displayed a degrees of reck | loss daring and bravery that has rarely been equaled ; Big Foot and his band were surrounded at G o'clock in the morning by the Seventh Cay airy and Taylor's scouts Four Hotelikiss guns were stationed on a hill about two hun dred yards from where the Indian warriors were encamped in a seni-cirel The posi- tion taken was that it seemed a hopeless task for the reds! braves to make any sort of resistance, Faroutnumbered by soldiers and directly in range of the sheot of flame and shot, that m come from ugly looking Hotehkis th realize that resistance meant death n, while the foe in comparative safety Major Whiteside arranged this line of bat te with a view of overawing the Indians and and diary them 8 strong in shit guns, Vl Te oth was ing s made od to surrender n ordersd to come for sarm ly three ward display ule ther i A troop diane were or They had be twenties nnd i mad « Ma} ne | ne 3 White nn nrage re they had falles th aanImnunit ed by the soldis rye sing excepting barging of Was ondy Funes int ninety Indiaas were killed by ti y fire from the Hotehikies guns and th ring aim of the soldiers But when the ioared away it was found that the ft had been on a ae at of the trained tv-five brave soldiers were id and thirty five others m wounds that may yet r Francis M. J. Crafs, priest who had hastened to the front to lend his services in settling the diff onitiens with the red men, lay on the field with a mortal wound in the lungs The death of ais brave man, in addition to the killing of aptain Wallace and the wounding of Captain Myles Movian and Licutenant BE. A Garlin ton, make up a list of ensualties which muse this strife to be regarded as a most ox. peosive om A late dispateh from Pioe Ridge Agen mys: “General Miles has assumed command of the forces bere, relieving General Brooks, who started into the fleld with the Second Infantry going by way of Oslrichs to a point some fifteen miles north of here Amid as wild, blinding and bitter a win ber's storm as ever swept this bleak and barren country, were lakd away to their last uner he redekins ve 1 : £1 ren wall will | rest thirty of the bravest boys who fell with face 10 the fos in the bloody encounter at Wounded Knee “The graves were in rows of six, clos to gether, in the southwest corner of the ceme tory, and overlooking the camp, After the reading of the burial service by the Rev Mr. Cook, the Episcopal clergyman here, aided by bis assistant, the bodies were lowersd ints the ve Owing to the intensely critical condition of the surroundings, with hordes of the enemy flocking about the 1y threatening an attack, the usual salute of guns was omitted, while soft notes from the bugle and the wall of the storm whispered a lnstloving good bye “The remains of © sent to Fort Riley, for Interment Those of Captain Stile, who was found dead in biz tent from rheumatism of the heart, were sent to Omaha” AN EMPEROR'S SLEIGH RIDE now Was Specially Laid Down to Get the Necessary Depth, Account of the the | n Wallace will be | 4 Pom 3 EFPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Manmiy Cunrez, his wife, Annie, and Michaol Hudak, Hungarians, were shot dead in the mining hamlet of Broderick's Patel, near Wilkesbarre, Penn. John Trallo was suppoked to have done the shooting Tue PostofMos Inspectors ordered to Hart. ford, Conn, to investigate the recent steal ing of staruped envelopes by KE. E. Fay, found that Fay stole 20,000 envelopes, He bad confessed to the stealing of £7000, -y he UE TES 2 wd Pa BPR | 0) "WE - - Two men were killed and ten injured by the falling of the roof of an old factory in New York City BATEMAN & Co. the well-known bankers of New ¥% ) of which Commodore Inteman is a member, has filed assignment pap ' Tunes train at killed In Now York "ity last year the deaths numbered 40,230, the births 89 250. and mar rlages 14.902. Estimated population in July was 1.031 3 NEARLY all the Clifton Prison buildings at Davnemora, N “Were destroyed by fire, The Aames were od first in the hos pital and sll efforts to check them proved unavailing, Loss, 8 Joss KOHLER, a New butcher, after drinkivg hard was a wild steer and ran smuck avenue with hors head and a knife his has 1. He st od four per iN Tur old Wilkinson & dence, K. 1... was [4 ocd O00, Insured : Polish laborers were struck by a Buffalo, N. ¥Y and instantly sco ver LINE §) H York City imagined on Seventh his on hi in at Provi- Lows $125 alt in i813 (ireen by fire toll] was b live t Wa poultry Mone than 6000 § hington yed ina Market » h pounds ge i \ rk Ci Norwich Surrems Ve. wird Dartmouth Gronge F. Kmmaxe hax been fined $8000 by for selling Hquo tuden at College, South and West, vd §20 J rt f property wa Washington, Ntates 4 tad or 890 or A ty { ® mans The | n probably ex SECRETARY censure to 1 who was in coms f-war at the time General Barrundia ws me will letter of ANTOAn Reiter, f the American man wi and killing of # written a or to President of certain mntry to the Mires has written the Lhe Gexenal Harrisom tranefer Indiag age x charge of the War Department, urgmeg fies in a Foreign, A porren in the Irvens lard factory at Liverpool, England, exploded. Three men were killed and the buliding badly wrecked by the explosion Iratiax mallway travel was much ime paded by floods, which followed the heavy In the district of Naples trafic was almost completely at a standstill Ocrave Frunier, the great French novelist, dramatist and Academician, bs dead He was born at Bt. Lo, the capital of the De jartment of Manche, in August, 1812 Ax epidemic of black smallpox prevails in the Transcaspian (Turkish) territorion Hox w E. Gramsrose ocolebrated at Hawarden, England, biseighty first birthday, Proresson Koon, who left Berlin several days ago to take a much needed rest, js stay ing at Klausthal in the Harz region. Toe inhabitants of the town gave a torchlight procession in his honor, Tur Seotch railway companies refuse to recognises Mr. Tait, the Secretary of the strikers’ organization, and will treat with the men only as individuals, They also talk of refusing to reinstate the men Mussna, Pansers, axd OF Bronx, the Irish agitators, had a secret conference at Bou logue, France. A great fire in the heart of the busines WOW contre of London, England, near Bluckiriare | Brig destroyed property estimated at a. 08,000. | ment for the establishment of & sea postoffios Tux inundations have caused great dam age throu bout southern Italy, Mary cotton mills owned hy twelve com [lias were destroyed by fire at Cologne, ny. Hevex suicides tack olass almost simul. asously in London, England, the persons gulity of sel | ZONE AND ABROAD. | DomAe and Foreign AWairs | pyelegraph and Cable. LATER NEWS, A navy fog checked commeres in | pivers and harbor at New York City ana zave trouble to railroads; In a collision on | the elevated road one man was fatally | injured, : { Two Haged Perish on a Burn- | indyinese Steamer, the China to Bhanghul from tesmship Further a¥* as near burning of t¢ Woo Hoo, in province of Ngan Hi about fifty milgrom Ns the disaster was Bi) ™ Tiaprlier ors CON yet ith Baro pean officers, were sup, «0 bave mot death either in fla Raa \ 7 . ju atly by drowning while attemptyg’ scape from the burning vessel. It naw that the nun of lives lost will two hundred, and that Hive \ by drowning Me ’ serious than at frst imagined advices received dating of veral stated that the about sixty natives U« Lin po msintain Chinsmen, mn jorit by y of 1 wt tiaeir ves did in order to esc; Oihers mat their deat: wampiog of the clamsily low- rowded bos ts two British stemnships bear ne { And now in Chinese wi oof 204 toms reg Oober 19 for Shang hip Shanghai gst shooting Deserters Pension Claims Filed jo tied Death and Devastation, bor loa red on Jr. sausages Seven dwell were wrecked Bertha Giny, led Mrs Loewensten back and ocapnot live, Mra Aanghiter, badly euvt and Higging, rib broken and e Kennedy, cut about the daughter Jennie ext rus Is ni . f pos Of and mamiacturer incinnati OU Loreweniste “t of Vij ne was k a broken her i) 7 . m fa Ww arn Mi Mrs ay and he IrEFT renee th slightly In jure Shot to Death sached Kingfisher, Ok- ¢ Rawr vation that tof lodians had wreaked summary upon a cowboy who had In a want shot and mortally | a squaw of that tribe. They tied hot him to death ¥ rt has just in nn Troms | Chavet Doe i ven ean drunken munees wound to 8 3 nd him 10 a stake and » Two Dead, Ten Injured During a bloody affray which occurred at Bwan Lake Ark. ins resort called “Alrion” at a colored peoples ball, two eolorel men wore killed and ten more or jess serionsly in- are, some of whom Wale expect to di OCEAN POSTOFFICES, Postal Clerks on Steamers Between New York and Germany, Mr. Sachse, the Director of the Post and Telegraph Department of the German Em. pire, and Captain Drooks, the Buperintend. ent of Foreign Malls of the Postoffios De- partment, have concluded an informal agree. | service on all vessels of the German line f murder choosing the last houy of the expiring year for their act, Aimar Avee, of the Freach Navy, for Minister of Marine, fa dead, ying between New York and Bromen and ain burg, The agreement prov.des that each Goverp. went shall furnish a portal clerk for servies vounding mi 3 wr Ji i“ > of Bouth Dakota, hoping to starve gulhiie fire nen December, as pointed A. L. D be Ciel of U g the Treasury, Choose ~Btate Factory Fggr—State and Pann Froers— Western N i H] 1 the | am Hox, | United States Court for the District of New | Hampshire, died suddenly at Manchester, Tug exploded a eylinder head, at Portsmouth, 10, Tur Avenue Hotel, a wooden struct Dawier. Crank, Judgs of the towboat Anna Roberts, of Pittsburg, instantly killing five men and terribly MY mov circle of wi Lands thom nto hrowing =u tiles Gexenat Migs g around the hos in ction without further Dic Tux Oblo River and its tril greatly swollen by rains and the took at Corsicana, Texas, and a woman, two and a boy were burned to dea Tue redaction in the public debt during wn by the monthly stale. D Dartinent partmen the Treasury The x S502,480,041 Tue Becrotary of the Tre smond, of J i rom total 4 PY IOn nas, the Bec- ended require subst of Indians the fr wen 10 denll ANOTHER INDIAN BA‘TLE. vite the Chirty three of the Hostiles Dust fight ati morning een the Indians 9 agency. & ed and “i gtrikes's wn or s near J were the ATE wade the attac took to the hills about 11 when the pews of the other battle Lands came. They ambusoaded fight, just belore it reached the a ne ppened a brisk fire on the trooper Dom it The sthack was bert the AVA fire a and in the . ni #0 an rious 7 has Desh ai veraa ast a =m being : uth n . A ry r Kool have a mr } Pog ii hich he have been decvived into purchasing pogus preparation. The agents of Prof Koch fen been unable to discover the lacturers of the counterfeit i Cmues welign medion —— 1 Beoves ‘ee Milch Cows Laives Kheen Lams Hog» Sw a ak | live Dressed , . . City Mill Extra Patents No. 3 Red, Flour a a od Wheat Rye Barle y SEABASRRENS Maned. 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