so a A : The Washington Star thinks the news- paper is gradually crowding the brass band out of politics. The people want to think——not listen, ba In a recent test of the trained dogs of the Prussian Infantry, seemingly wounded men hidden in the brushwood were discovered by the animals, who re. fused to cease barking until litters were brought. It is estimated that $130,000,000 will be necessary to put our coast in proper defensive condition, Admiral Porter once said that even two iron-clads could sail from Maine to Texas and put every pert under contribution. It is said that the mining output in Colorado this year will exceed anything ever known in the history of the State. The snows on the mountains will furnish plenty of water for thé gold placers this | summer, and the silver deposits are rap- Kly being developed. QOoe of the train despatchers in the service of the Georgia Southern Railroad 8 a woman, Mrs. Willie Coley. ‘It is s remarkable innovation in railroading,” | sbserves the New York World, *‘and it shows that woman is gradually captur- ng all the strongholds of masculine la- bor.” Canada’s new banking law, which re- tently went into effect, makes the sale of stock on margin a penal offense, It also fixes the minimum capital at 8250, 000, restricts dividends to eight per sent. and provides for a redemption fund of five per cent. on circulation to pay the aotes of suspended banks. Another depressing prospect of doubt snd misunderstanding itself, exclaims the Washiogton Star. A Chi- gaman was arrested New York | passing a counterfeit note. came to a question of identification, the presents in 1] 4 But when it main witness was nonplussed by the fact that a large number of Chinemen had the same facial peculiarities and could not be distinguished. Here we are with 8 large population of people among whom alibis may at any tum? grow like grass in summer, ‘‘Singular as it may appear,” says the Paris American Register, ‘the German capital has and pays an official bird- catcher, The catching of birds is pro. bibited, but the collections and educa- tional institutions of the university fre- quently require, for scientific purposes, birds’ eggs, nests, etc., and the taxider- mist Lemm is the only person commis. sioned to furnish them within the precincts of Berlin, and the districts of Teitow and Niederbarnim.” A very pretty idea is carried out in London which aims to bring about a love of plants and flowers among the poorer classes. A fund is raised out of which prizes are paid for the best display of window gardening or potted plants, sad the scheme has become so very pop + alar that thousands of cottage homes are sow beautified by floral effects, and it is 80 uncommon thing to see a window set sut with plants growing in old teapots, sans or cigar boxes marked as a prize winger, Harper's Weekly says: The impression made by Bismarck's personality has cer. tainly been disturbed by his course since his removal. Apparently he has some. what mistaken his hold upon Germany. It was not that of a popular leader, but of a ruler of great, resources and despotic will. Consequently when he fell from power, and it was seen that there was no interruption of the usual course of events, that the situation was, in fact, unal. fected, there was no strong personal feel. | ing aad loyalty upon which be couid rely in opposition to the Government, It is not to be expected that Bismarck will | greatly influence aflurs when he reap pears in the German Parliament. In the conviction of Germany, undoubtedly, his | day is past. The Pennsylvania Deal Instruction. An account sags: *‘Moses Moses, & boy of Easton, Penn., who has been in the institution since 1886, is one of the marvelous products of the ‘orsl lostruction’ system. He was born deaf, and bas never heard the sound of his own or of any other person's voice. But be can now move around among his fel. lows In the world outside of the inst ity. snd Dumb Asylum, near Philadelphia, has discarded | the use of sign language ani will adhere bereafter to the so-called oral system of NATIONAL FINANCES Synopsis of the Monthly Publie Debt Statement, Decrease in Customs Collections and Total Circulation, The monthly public debt statement just issued from the United States Treasury De- partment, at Washington, shows a reduction in the debt during the past month amount. ing to $3,447,500, There was an increase of $300 in the interest-bearing debt due to the issuance of a small refunding certificate bond; a reduction in the non-interest-bear- ing debt of #1 507 802, and an increase in the surplus during the month of $1. 850.007. The aggregate of interest and pon interest debt August 1, less §100,000,000 gold reserve and £55,783. 710 net cash balance or surplus, is SEAN 465,242, and of this amount $610,520 « 420 is interest-bearing debt, made up of $550 66) 20 «1 per-cent. bonds #32, 184,700 44 per cents, and $11,679,500 4 per cents, cons ined at 2 per cont Government receipts from all sources dur- ing July aggregated £84 900 344, against $33,003,216 in July, 1800, Customs receipts were $15,408,153, against $29,055,385 in July 4 year ago; internal revenue receipts were $14,551,807, against 811.717.4909 in July, 1800, receipts from miscellaneous sources wers $4,280,322, or nearly $2,000,000 more than in July a year ago, Expenditures during the first month of the current fiscal vear were $30,710,651, against $30 052 940 in July, 1800, The Treasury now holds $144,080.65 to secure circulation of National banks. Of this S114,674,050 is in four per cents, $16 12,050 four-and-a-half per cents, #5, 700.000 currency sixes, and £5 942,050 two per cent, continued fours. National bank cirenlation given on July 31, aggregated $165 421,722 against SIM. 253078 on July 81, 1800, a de- crease during the twelve months of $15,831, B54 The total coinage of the mints during the month of July was 9000 000 pieces of all kinds, valued at $2 809 000 Gold valued at §1,600,000 was coined; 076,000 standard silver dollars and 2,000,000 dimes were also ox ined, the silver coinage amounting to $1,176, 000, The minor coinage amounted in valus to $123,000, consisting of 1.572.000 flve-cent pieces and 4,340,000 ope-cent pieces, PROMINENT PEOPLE, EX-SENATOR THURMAN'S health is failing fast Goverxor Huy, of New York, is getting stout. Sexator Buioe, of Ohio, Is sight seeing in London Justice FizLp is the scolar of the Bu. preme bench EviLe Zova, the French novelist, is ris ing one-and-fifty Cur Justice Lucas, of West Virginia, is only four feet high. Ex-Sexaror I¥caris is about to make a pligricaage to the Holy Land, Sexaror Caxerox, of Penasylvania, is reportel to be worth $6,000, 000 Dox Prono, ex-Emperor of Brazil, is said to be much troken in body and spirit, Query VicroRria has conferred the order of the garter upon the Prince of Naples Tur Duke of Edinburgh is the most pene urious member of the British royal family Epwix Boorn, the tragedian, is said to be dying from the effects of over-indulgence in tobacco IT is said that stenographers pronogsce Bishop Phillips Brooks the fastest speaker in the world Mus. Jerreasox Davis is a sufferer from heart disease and bas made preparations for a sudden death GLADSTONE has a fondoess for having Longfellow read aloud to him, now that hoe can't read Homer PARNELL has been deserted by all but a few insignificant followers, but he declares bimeelf still in the fleld, Jory Bri, who was an intimate friend of Bir Walter Scott, died at Melrose, Soot land, the other day, aged ninety-two years lonert Boxxen has been such a lover of speedy trotters that he has spent more than $000,000 in gratifying his tastes in that di rection Presioexr Hanrnmsox has invested $20,000 of his surplus cash in a block at the wrner of Pennsylvania and Georgia streets, Indianapolis, Le Carox, the notorious spy whos career was brought to an abrupt ending by Parnell's suit against the London Times, is dylog of a mortal disease, Ex -Sgcrerany Bavaro, of Delaware, fs growing fleshy as he advanos in years, and bis fine height is now balanced by a fair breadth of body ’ Tue youngest member of the next Na- tional House of Representatives will be Bai ley of Texas. He is not yet thirty yoars of age, and i® an orator of unusual Quality Tux Countess Lewenhaupt, Secretary Bayard's daughter, who was lately widowed under the most distressing circumstances, is spending the summer in Sweden with the family of busband , Exsran Dasusxri, who has charge of the important naval ordnance-proving station at indian Head, on the Potomac, receives the muoific nt sum of $1200 a year from the Government. For this salary he furnishes expert knowledge on the subjects of naviga- ton, naval ordnance, civil engineering, architecture, electricity, machinery and in- veutions Commonons Raxsey, who succeeded Ad. miral John Walker as Chief of the Bureau by Navigation, is a picturesque figure in the navy Department, He looks more like a popular New York than a naval officer. He is one of the best sailors of the navy, bowover, and isa man of fine phy- sigue, tall, straight as an Indian, with close erupped silvery hair and a trise little gray mustache INNOCENT VICTIM, Jack Marion Hanged for Killing a Man Who is Alive, body of Cameron was found In River, and : I . i iL if | the exercises, i recently { Admiral John 3, Walker, to put the Naval | of Albany, N, Y., the oldest and best known i The habilities admitted foot up §450,000, mck to China and not to Canada, as hereto J THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Eastern and Middle States, W. L. Book, Cashier of the First National Bank of Darby, Penn. was struck by o | train at Collingdale and instantly killed, Tur formal opening of the great Chautau- qua (N, Y.} Assembly took place, and fully 10,000 people were present to participate in Tue Squadron of Evolution, which salle in command of Acting Rear: Reserve Battalion of the Ntats of New York through a week of man-of-warsmen drill at Fisher's Island, returned to New York Har bor, SCHUYLER'S Steam Towing COMPANY, of the North River lines, has suspended, Hexny Banrrers, a bartender in New York City, was “electrocuted” by an electric | motor of ten are lights capacity, which runs | the fans for cooling the place, He was | buried backward to the floor, and after a few spasmodic twitches of the muscles all wasover with him. He was dead within | three minutes, Hundreds saw him die Tue Vermont fish hatchery is to be loca- ted at Roxbury, as will the buildings of the National hatchery. Miss Emma Warnavex Cosmronrr, the laughter of Major Samuel Comfort, of New | York, was married at Philadelphia, Penn. to Pasha Crooksbank, Director General of the Egyptian Prisons. AT Cape May, N. J., the President ap- | polnted James W. Hind, of Michigan, Consul at Amherstburg, Canada. Minister to Greece A. Lou ‘on Snowden and Civil Bervies Com- missioner Lyman called at the shore capi. tal J. Hexny Janke, one of the wealthiest | wholesale butchers in Philadelphia, Penn., killed his son by a blow struck in self <lefense during a quarrel, Tur transatlantic steamship Majestic of | the White Star Line has beaten all westward records, having made the trip from Queens wwp, Ireland, to New York in five days, dghteen hours and minutes, This mats the record by fifty-seven minutes wight Tue Republican State League Convention st Syracuse, N, Y., adopted a platform of winciples, and re-elected Colonel E A. McA! din President of the organization ADMIRAL WarLken and the officers of the White Squadron were broakfasted in New York City by the Chamber of Commerce at he Lawyers Downtown Club THe vast bound train on the ( 'edensburg wd Lake Champlain Railroad collided with he Ellenburg Sundays «xcursion rain just of Champlain station, N. Y.. snd it was reported on tae day after the ac bt passengers had bean killed, tecn badly injared and a num- hood a rom ten to i ddent that vr wr of lesa hurt thers more or the defunct bank of arrested at York, han B, Walsh wita the of £50 000 F.Daxxenr, of Sehali & Danner, was charged by J un bezzioment and larceny Jane ‘ono nr Rhodd Idand Legislature in session it Providence adjourned An offors vas made to get the Judiciary bill befors de Senate again, but it failed, Governor Ladd’s bill to bave a special election in No ember Wo vote upon the new State House heme also falled AFTER a desperate struggle nine insane | ¥nmvicts overpowered their kesnws in An warn (N. 2.) Prison, scaled the wall sur vunding the Institution and escaped. All wat three w re recaptured. One keeper was fae gerousiy stabbed, BY an accident to an ‘haplaio, N, Y.. on rision of the Central Vermont Railroad Liree persons wore killed, Their names are: William Angell of Champlain, N. Y.; Hoary Lamountain, a French tailor, of Champlain, wed twenty-two; we Vanes, of Chateau gay Lake, N. Y. IfAAC Vax Waar, grandson of Isaac Van Wart of Revolutionary fame one of the Aires captors of Major John Andre the iritish spy, died a few days ago on his farm tt Westchester, N. YY. Ho was soventy.one Ax inmatg of the County Hospital at Reading, Penn, sameld Hiram Troxel es mped from bis attendants and drowned him- wil ina water trough containing only Af. een inches of water, Troxel's face was | timost eaten away by cancer, and he was | iriven to desperation by pain and bunger. He had eaten nothing for pearly a | noni | PHILADELPHIA bas taken the first step to ward the formation of a paval reserve, in mitation of New York and Boston excursion train at the Ogdensburg df Noruax CAMPRELL, a prominent mem. | yor of New Yorx Conwlidated Stock Exchange, committed suicide with a pistol n Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Business roubles drove him to the deed. Campbell the | was about fifty-eight and had a wife and | ‘amily W. E. Scuxenrs, President of the Third | National Bank of Pittsburg, Penn, has ‘alled for $233 000, Uxrrep Stares Conxmssionzn Hinsn. SECK rendered a decision at Buffalo, N, Y., 0 the effect that Chinamen smuggled from anada into the United States must bs sent ore South and West, AY a special meeting the citizens of Blrm. nzbam, Ala, subscribed $162,000 to a mil londoliar steel plant, The citizens were ssked by the promoters for $150,000 and the ther $48,000 is in sight Tar Farmers’ Alliance and Democrats ympathizing with them have a working najority in the Kentucky Legislature Joux W. Greese, postmaster of Los Angeles, Cal, died a few days ago at the age of sixty-threo years, He was a native of Michigan IDIPRTHERIA in a malignant form is pre. railing at the South Dakota Hospital for the (nsane, near Yankton, BANUEL FREEMAN, 8 wealthy merchant wont to his home in Severance. Kan. and Killed his wife and year-old child, and then fired a bullet into his own brain, Prestoest Baker, of the World's Colum- bian directors, Chicago, [IL received a pro wwition from M. Eiffel, architect of the Hitel rower, for mission 10 erect a towar mn the grounds, the en i" to be backed ty French capitalists, The cable set forth that the tower would be superior to the one at “srs Gexenar Veazey the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Re blic at Detroit, Mich. Washington, D, “vo Was chosen for the next encampenent, Tue third annus! convention of the Na tional Letter Carriers’ Association of the United States was held at Detroit, Mich. the Mading postoffioss of the country belag representa, Tux famous Indian smoke dance is Arizona, in Tux Winston County (Ala) court hous wan burread with all records, tenant-Governor, Frank Jonw PaLsen, of Albany, N.Y Ave Jou Passn, NY. was at Detroit Mich, of the Grand LAR LN of Willis, Indian Ter aE aut | Winona, Minn. | dinal Gibbons welcomed the delegates to the i archdiocese of Baltimore | sttend the | tal amounts to an aqua! sur, | wtablished in 1923 | Pair Commissioners wore recsived fu Ber | Alexis | Finland | Jered by her three sons because she « { Sydney, New South | tenant William J, Hedges, of Hor Majesty's | Tomas 8, Booock, for fourteen years a Member of Congress from Virginia, and for four years Speaker of the Confederate Con grese, died recently at his home in Appomat tox County, Va., aged sixty-six, Tue New York and Chicago lHmited ox gd Jumped the track, near Salem, Ohio. he engineer and fireman were killed, A cLERk in the clothing store of A. L. Abraham & Co, fudulged ina surreptitious smoke, at West Sunerior, Wis., and when one of the proprietors came fn ho hid the cher stub on a table piled with clothing. The re sult was a fire, and before it was suppresse | almost the entire stock, valued at $40.00 was destroyed]. GOVERXOR BUucHANAN., of Tennesss ? sud a prociamation calling an extra session of the Legislature for August #1, Be JACK Esters and Tom Long, who fought | a duel in the northern part of Franklin | County, Ky., election day, have disd of their wounds, They were desperate men Washington, Axorew H. Dovengrry, of Michigan, bas been appointed principal examiner of land claims and contests in the General Land Offices at Washington, GENERAL Joux M, Bosorietd has re. turned to Washington with his bride and re- sumed his duties at the War Department Tue United States Treasurer continues the daily shipment of small notes to the | West for use in moving the crops. The total amount up to a recent date was £2 5800 000 ACTING BECRETARY OF THE TREASURER {| NerrLerox appointed John 8. Rogers Com. missioner of Immigration at Philadelphia, Tue twenty-first annual convention of the | | Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America was held at the Academy o! Musle, Wash ington, Right Rev. Bishop Cotter, of President in the chair, Car Joux Dvexerr, ons of the aged patriarchs | of Washington, died a few days ago at the | age of 100 years. Duckett was born in slavery in Prince George's County, Md. He was classed ax colored, but Indian blood pr dominated in his vein BRIGADIER-GENERAL ADOLPHUS Ww. Greely, Chief Bignal Officer of the Army, bas been ordered to Munich, Bavaria, to Metsorologioai Conferencs the International Polar Commission pest in that place in August and Septem ber 1801, respectively GENERAL Bursnistexpest Kmvpart, of the Life Saving Service, has directed ths stablishment of a telephone service slong mst of Rhode Island gansett Pler and Watoh Hill, with a station it Black Rock, midway tween Point Ju futh and Narrmagaosett Pier ar wh the « bat ov sve Narra of State Ture Department weording to State of Japan the subjects nent, under the existis will be unable to avail nefits of our recent wopyright the views themselves statutes relative FATAL EDD, vesperate Battle Between White Men and Half-Breeds. The “Red Bones” Gang Defeated With Severe Loss, A dispatch from Lake Charles, Ta. says: Full details of the bloody tragedy at Locke, Moore & Co.'s tram, twenty-two miles from here, are at last obtainable to be somewhat that the strife wax between and a number of thriftiess breeds who are called “Red Bones.” of a in whites half- A few racs war days ago a Mr, Morris make a remark to an | | | It appears | | | employe, “Where ars thoss ‘Fal Bones’ who | were to drive this wagon? His remark was | evidently overheard, Tor the next night his | headed by Andrew Asworth house was surrounded by an angry mob, who ordered him to come out and be whipped, This he re- fused to do. By strategy he succeeded in holding the fort all night. In the he was notafled that he must leave the coun- be assassinated. He at once communicated the news of these threats to the white people morning | | try before the sun went down or he would | i of the settlement, and they guarantee! him | full protection : Tux President has appointed F. M. Wise | Lovell re as L K «9 is Lisutenant Commander, Reynolds and James C. Gilm tenants, and William A. Gill as of the Junior Grade —— Foreign, Ar Hobarttown, Tasmania, the Bank of Van Dieman's Land bas suspeaded. Its paid ip capital is $1,250,000 and its reserve Capi The bank was Tue Foreign Committees of the World's 0, Germany, by Von Boetticher and Chancellor Von Caprivi Tie anoual report of Dominion Miller's Association the Provident ¢ in sos | Foronto, Canada, esthmates the wheat or of the Dominion at 55. 160.000 bushels-—i reckoning which allows 22, 190,000 for export Tie Cear, Cearina and the Grand Duke loft Bt Petersburg, Russia, for whore they will attend the autamn magkuvers of the land and sea forces t bald at Vilmanstrand lee AT Grysegen, Germany, a widow was mur ~ ' yy teeny The elder brothers fearing that be nated marrying again, then killed youngest, would betray them the A WaATERSMOUT on one of the islands of | the Azores group has caused immense dam ge, and resulted in the killing of six per | ome ALL the negotiations between the Foreign Committees of the World's Fair and the | Wlicial representatives of the German Gov The Empire wnment have been concloded @ pledged to make a worthy exhibit THE river Yara overflowed Melbourne, Australia. Over 1000 families ware rendered homeless, and there is much lines: and fever among them, The damage oaused by the flood amounted to $2,000, 000 SHORTLY after the steamor Alameda Jolt Wales, Second Lien ita hanks at ship Ringdove, jumped overboard and was drowned. He bad been suspended from duty for a breach of discipline, and it Is believed Lieutenant Lashels | The next morning a party of white men went down to a little store a mile and a half from the mill to get some whisky. On arrival there they found a perty of “Red Bono ® who asked them if they had come for the purpose ol raising a disturbances or seeking a quarrel, The white men told them that they were on no hostile mission, but they bad come to get some whi ky. While this talk on the outsiae was going on, Jesse Dy. son, the leader of the “Red Bones” and as desperate a character as ever graced the border, came out of Lacomb's saloon or store and declared himself altide to clear out the wholes party. He at once drew out his six shooter, but hardly had it leveled before Jose Ward, one of the w hites, sent a bullet crashing through his brain and he fell dens In an instant a general battle began as Ward fell mortally wounded, from behind. For afew moments it sound as though a musketry fire was going on. Winchester and Zidhootera piel as rapidly an th them oould fire, and though outnumberad the whites, sucoseded ing their opponents after them. Four of the dead fell literally shot to pieces, while enough to scrawl to a abin at the dor Dupree Lacomb, the saloon through the leg and his son » Bones's” party ran dren out of the house ing on them, but they When the smoke of had clears the following dend Jom Dyson, Lee Perkins, Andrew Asworth Owen Asworth, Marion Merkle, all Red B But this did not end the trou for the tad Bones took to the bushes which is in Jase well nigh impenetrable, and from an jush they shot at passers-by. T. T. Swann, an old man who was on his way 10 the seat of war 10 ssoertain the trouble, was shot from ambush and killed When the Bbheriff's powse arrived with the Coroner they met with resistance, and failed to capture any of the Red Booes hree of the white men have been arrested and are in jail, The half breeds are in the brush, and the officers " theen for fear of being shot ambush being = rifles saving in thelr track . me lived where ba was shot “Had man, undead his wile and younger the Tortunately escaped 4 X i AWAY woods, Ore "ew, wo pom, lare CALE » from A MONSTER PARADE. Nearly 50 000 G in Detroit, Mich The National Bacomoment of the Grand Army of the of its silver anniversary formally opened in Distr dt. Mich Noecial trains bringing State delegat from all parts of the country poured lato Lhe city throughout the night and early morn. ing. Others brought visitors not off] “ally identified with the encampment by the tens of thousands, and at ten o'clock that morn. ing the stress in the center of the city were almost impassable The head of the procession moved at eleven o'clock, and both in pumbers and equipment the parade was one of mo magnificent ever made by the Grand Army Most of the veterans wore very handsone uniforms, and there was no end of naval fea tures. Between 30,000 and 40.000 men wore in the parade Enthusisstioally the “vets” marche! ba neath the four great triumphal arches that lepublic and the oelebration with the grand parade os 2 Se A. BR, Men in Line | bad been erected. now and again breaking | out into a cheer, the apjeause being carried along the lime until it seemed to end (n a dis tant murmur, that chagrin at this fact caused him to commit | w'ckde Tur pun moth, whose ravages disastrous to vegetation in various parts of were | Europe some years ago, has reappeared in | Westphalia, Germany, and is causing wide spread havoe, THEnrk is a tremendous rush of gold seek ors to the new fields in Mashoualand, South Africa Tre Rasdan Imperial Council decided tc prohibit the exportation of corn from that country, owing to the bad harvest ia Russa, which has caused a soarcity of this cereal, Ar Morden, Manitoba, lightning struck the house of Martens Killing. His wife wa instantly killed and the house destroyed. At Moose Jaw the wife of John MoGinnis was also killed by lightaing, Tux famous Tokay vineyards, in the He district of Hungary, have been rav- eet by phylloxers and almost entirely de stroye Ax woman % 7 fatally stabbed and cut in erik] , London, by a man sup to be “J the Ri thas making thirteenth victim of yslerious as main, BLUNT PRINCE GEORGE. In Disgrace Because He Did Not Flat. ter the Crarevitoh, 3 i 3 3 : | i : § i i iif! § ifs i were forty-seven divifoos in the warade, and it took two and a third bours or the first four to pass a given spot. Estimates of men who galloped along the line and through the formation streets afSer the column Bad moved placed the men In ! line at nearly 50.000, It was noticeable that thers were more crippled and otherwise dis abled veterans have been at any pre vious enocam A,'many more gray heads and enfosbln] Thames Every division was with interesting features Poe Philadelphia contingent, nearly 500 strong, carried umbrellas, sach one painted to represeut a Rortion of the battle of Gettys burg. Sault Ste Marie Post was also repre sented by a brigade, cach umbrella being painted that when combined they repre sented Lake Superior and the City of the Sea, A striking feature of the Michigan dividon was the fact that numbers of old battle flags wears carried by the men who bore them do- "ing the war, Still another umbrslla brigade was that of George H. Thomas Post No. A of Chiongo, Their umbrellas were painted to represent a monster flag of the United States, covering the entire post and « fearly two squares, Oho div was very large and presented an imposiag appearance Among those upon the reviewing stand were General Veazy, Commander in Chief; General Mies, of the Regular Army; ox Governor Oglesby, of lllinols; Governors Fifer, of Hlinols; Campbell, of Ohio, I of Wisconsin; General Lucius Fairchild, Visconsin: Governor Wisans, of Mighignng Mra John A. Logan ani over a bund others, w a — OOOLEST OF JULYS. While the Year as a Whole So Far Has Been Overwarm. Never in the history of the United States | Boston... | &%. Louis, 61 | THE NATIONAL GAME, Latium has resigned the eaptainey of the Ciucinnat League team, In Columbus they “spread black dirt over the diamond to keep the glare of the sun i of.” | Carenen CLeuests, of the Philadelphia League Club, bas stolen only two bases this year, Ture New York team ls badly erippled in the box, and the catchers are off siso in their work, No pitcher fo the country is giving so tew bose on balls as Buffinton, of the Boston Ase sociation, Each member of the Pittsburg team is to be furnished with sliding pads, and they will be comched in base silding, Brovie, of the Boston Lrngue team, has made one error in forty-three games, and five errors during the season, Pricer Conway's release by Kansas Cit broke the Conway-Gunson battery whic had been together for six yenrs Brookryx is playing excellent baseball, and the prospects are that it will not be far from the top when the season closes Havruron, of Philadelphia, is regarded by nll the Lemgue pitchers as the most danger. Us man on base now in that body CLARKSON has won as many games as the rest of the Boston Lea Rus pitchurs combined. The same may be sald of Hutchinson, of the Chicagos BAX FRAXCISCO eno ¥ loge of being the that has erected thrower, . Ad THe Lousy and Pittsburgs, who have the record for the mast games lost in the As. sociation and League respectively, are both al enders now the unique only « ity in the 0 tatu the privi. country Lame Ladd 0 Lies Lowe a heavy though BosToN's new left fielder isa price 1 first class man in the field, but aitter was wanted and it looks as Kelly fills the ball v, of the Boston League id form lately in stem! bas been batung terrif. ng teases in daring fashion too, bas recovered bis batting ying in his « ¥ ana Quinn Tue League race fu ver before TT: nant within their gre ort FOAr Is Cioser & have the peu and Lhe e eight ten i, spurt Mmkes Lhe str K 18 over forty + ul that aft: ir line inark mpany wit LAT oe... 79 the ¥% and inarket will and nederatiy Gozen sssoctations his year, th bas players next t doubt rus SEARON, 1 preset BER ws the Dest player Pittsburg ) 1 Lox His eleva Hanlon's retire bestowed Popular | ups 1] sa gracelul imdividus! oomplinent HER like Zimmer, of the ( levelands, He n't afraid oatohers, but man lke sane the plate when & i» cnthusine i rensur when be attends ashington the Agricultur ' ip mn the reportery’ box instead grand stand the Brooklyny' new second ma i with the Shamrocks of New Brunswick, last and was in that city, Hw batting ™ sop and seo fam In the New O' Brigs la ye rE td Dae winning Brunswick 11s fin KEK ats ermily bel A $ 6) ae ip of P the champions | aga Sursant, Pittsburg’s new shortstop, while an improvement on Miller and Reilly in falls bedow the wewall stand- red at that itioal point Ml PecoOver first in jess : roma ta a his re ju very quick and no man fom a Tom bie and shoot a ba me than Le, but be is tox impatient to get bold of the leather and so spoils many plays, BATIONAL LEAGUR RECORD, Fer Fer ” Won Lost, of, Chiengo.. 58 35 602 Brooklyn. 41 44 452 New York 48 34 535 Cleveland 42 47 472 Boston 8 37 565 Pittsburg. .B5 51 407 Philadel. . 45 43 500 Cincin'ati. 36 53 404 AMERICAN ASSOUIATION RBOORD Fer Won, Lost, mS 2 Jer Won, Lost, Wom Lost, oo, A2 3 634 Columbus 46 47 405 MM S42 Cincionati 42 50 457 Bau'tmaore 51 37 80, Wash'gt'n 20 58 388 Athletic... 4 4 50 Lonsvilie B51 G8 210 BOLD TRAIN ROBBER, He Wounds a Passenger Who Kicks at Hun for Intruding Into a Berth, While an east bound Chespeake and Ohio train was between Waynesboro Junction and Basic City, in Virginia, at two in the mora ing a stranger entered the Pullman sleeping oar and od the upper berth nearest the rear or, which was cocupied by a daughter of Colonel R. C. Marshall, of Porte mouth, Va, her father being in the lower one The vou Indy on being aromsed ex. olai “Who &s that” when the man apoligiesd and went on, A few moments thereafter a pistol shot was heard, which startled the occupants of the deeper, and it war found that DD. F. Connell of Ports mouth, Ohio, had been shot in the groin by a pistol ball, inflicting an ugly wound, —— thet says he was aroused from y A man who demanded! his money. Connell kicked at the introder, whereupon he drew a pistol, shot him and made his oe onpe. By agreement all the passengers in the sleeper were searched. but no weapons were found, It is med that the robber got on the train at Waynesboro, found the door of the unlocked, and just before reaching Basie City, a mile distant. he put his bold plan nto execution, with the result stated, and jumped off as the train slowed un, RELICOF INDIAN BUTCHERY The Sign of the Red Cross Not Reo ognized by Red Warriors, The United States War Department has received from Post Surgeon John Van BR Hoft, of Fort Riley, Kan, a battle marked elie of the late war with the Bioux in South = ambulance which hed of waite gre the of the
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