— —" -— A A, A ——— ion wa gm a Wa General Miles disapproves of the plan to consolidate State militia with the rezular army, ” Adobe residences are becoming popu- lar in Southern California, {from the fact that they are cooler in summer and warmer in winter than ordinary resi dences, Contrary to time immemorial custom | the German Emperor has resolved that his eldest son, while a minor, is not to accept the patronage or presidency of any social or philanthropic association whatever. ‘ When American farmers do business with Europe, brags the Philadelphia Record, they do it on a large scale. It will take $100,000,000 to pay for the wheat which France will this year be compelled to secure from this country, — Now Russia, following the example of | Austria, | Belgium and Switzerland, has adopted a | “The | England, Germany, France, magazine gun for the armies. United States has yet to fall in line,” comments the New York Mail and Er press. The Treasury officers at San Francisco | Rave rejected papers presented at that port by Chinamen seeking admission to | the country, as certificates of identifies. | tion issued by the Chinese Government, | in compliance with Section six of the Re- | striction Act adopted nine years ago. | The highest selling price for mes pork in Chicago during the last thirty years was $43, in July and October, years was 86.02} in December, 1878, Milking cows by steam is now a sub- ject of experiment in Scotland. On one farm hand milking and steam milking | are being carried on together with a view to noting the comparative results, Nothing, muses the Washington Star, has occurred recently to illustrate the decline of sentiment among the Ameri- can people more forcibly than the sale of Andrew Jackson's old coat for $3.50 at a public auction in Bultimore. Ex-8enator Ingalls, of Kansas, con- gratulates the country upon the fact that ‘“from 1860 to 1890 the permanent wealth of the country in- creased more than $260,000 an hour for every day, Sundays and work-days in- cluded.” accumulated A monument is about to be raised to | the women of the Southern States of America commemorating the heroism and devotion they displayed during the Civil War. | meeting of Confederate survivors, said lately: General Buller, in addressing a “The women of the South have spent days and months and years in building monuments to the mea of the | 8 [s uth, and it is now time that the South should build & monument to them." This section provided that all Chinese, | other than laborers, to be permitted to enter the country, should show a Gov. ernment certificate properly identifying them. Chinamen have not attempted to avail themselves of this provision until within the last few months, The port officers suspected that the papers offered were forgeries, and tained that such documents, forged and bearing an imitation of the imperial seal of China, have been sold to Chinamen coming to this country for from $250 to §300. The rapid, the startling growth of the debt of Canada, states the New Eagland Magazine, which has increased from $78,200,742 in 1870, to $288,000,000 in 1890, with a population almost at a standstill and a stagnant trade, has struck ealm, impartial observers with the idea that there has beea something wrong in the government of a peaceful young Btate of enormous extent and great nat- ural resources. Of course, a large por- tion of this debt was incurred for the construction of railways, improvement of canals, and similar political and commer. cial works; but the results or returns do not compensate for the vastness of the new debt, with its oppressive load of in. terest. They freely comment upon the fact that while the United States have reduced their debt from $39 to $16.50 per head in twenty years Canada has run up her's from $21 to $47. have since acer. = A young student at the Nichols Latin Bchool at Lewiston, Me., who goes under the name of Lewis P. Clinton, is really Bomayou, King of the Bassa tribe in the southwestern part of Africa. The tribe occupies a territory running back over the Kong Mountains, 500 miles in length and 200 miles in breadth, with an outlet to the sea. In his boyhood Somayou had a strong desire to learn the English lan. guage, 0 that he might trade for his people. With this determination he ran away from his tribe and finally found his way to this country under the care of a missionary. Helis not only a good Eaglish scholar, but has shown average ability in mastering Latin, Greek, matha- matics, and other studies. He contem. plates a course in Bates College, after which his plan is to go back to his peo- ple, not as a ruler, but for the purpose of establishing a civilized colony and de. voting his life and energy to the inter. | ests of his people, elucationally and re. ligiously, peases at school by lecturing, The French earned long ago aa hon. orable distivction by their success in the treatment of the blind, and the figure read at the recent annual meeting of Le Bociete d'Asistance pour les Aveugles in Paris fully sustaing their reputailon fo this respect. The two principal institu. tions of the city are the Clinique Opthal. mologique des Quinze Vingts and L'Ecole Braille, the former devoted te the preservation or the restoration of sight, and the latter to the instruction ol the hopelessly blind, Since its creation fn 1880 the Clinique has had under treatment 108,798 patients, and the pro. portion of cures has reached the splen. did figures of ninety.five per ceat., while the expenses incurred in each case has not exceeded seventy france, or less than $15. The Ecole Braille bas an equally creditable account to give of iwell. The blind boys and girls are educated to be _ /breadwioners, not only for themselves, in many cases for their parents and ati While st the school they not earn enough to pay for their main. | firing of the gr Bomayou defrays his ex. | A gentleman desiring to test the en- | durance of a horse drove one 1000 miles and he | to adog cart, the cart, passenger baggage weighing over 800 pounds, journey was done in nineteen consecutive days, an average of over fi The long y Mn fty two miles n day, est distance, eight miles, was covered on the | random, and York, E Glasgow, Carlisle, Notting! The road was selected at led from London to linburgh, mm and Lon. don again. The horse was fifteen hands high, what is called “well-bred,” and returned home, according to the report of the veterinary, no worse for the Jour ney. Lieutenant Ridgely Hunt, in his arti. cle on “The Steamship Lines of World" (the last of the interesting series the on Ocean Steamships) in Scribner's, gives the following information about a trip sround the world entirely by water: | “The traveler from New York has been gone from start to finish, by the ocean highways to Europe, India, China, San Francisco, South America, and back to New York, nearly 200 days; has steamed | over about 40,000 miles of water, and has speat $4000, there are other lands and other peoples He has learned that than his own worthy his admiration and study. Let him take a year and $5000 for this rounding the world, and he will | be better satisfled and better informed, | and appreciate more fully that ‘going to | sea clears a man’s head of much nonsense of his wigwam.'" The London Lancet, referring to the eat guns aboard ship by the officers in the conning tower, raises | the question whether the strain on trained gunners after an hour or so of gun prac. in covered casemates would not render the gunners incapable or decidedly reluctant to man their guns, The effect, it is contended, produced on the nervous system by the uncertainty as to when the guns fired by electricity from a distance would go off would be very coosiderable, and prove exhausting | to the gunvers. It is held that if a man | bas to do anything which calls forth un. | wonted effort of any kind, he either tice carried on | voluntarily prepares himself for it or the | | system involuntarily adjusts itself ac cordingly. A sudden and unexpected | noise causes a shock to the nervous sys. apt to induce nerve tension, followed by nervous exhaustion, At the New Orleans Exposition In 1885 the only exhibit Peansylvania had County Mountains. The bear stood over length and seven inches in width, weighed more than 500 pounds and was vania. The county now intends to shed more honor on the Keystone State by placing on exhibition at the World's Fair in Chicago one of the greatest spec imens of bluestone ever quarried. The stone Pike County intends to show to the world in Chicago was quarried eight years ago in the Pond Eddy region. In unloading it at Stairway it slipped from the rigging and smashed a man and two horses to death. It has lain where it fell ever since, but was purchased a fow days ago by William Sanford, who paid $500 for the slab. It measures twenty. six feet in length and eighteen feet wide, and weighs twenty three tons, It is ten inches thick. 1t is to be polished at a cost of $2000, It is said by experts to be the niost perfect piece of flagging quarried, # 1864. The lowest selling price for thirty | tem, which, if frequently repeated, is | | indebtedness of Kansas, The total assessed | | St sed: i, he estimated of any note was aa enormous black bear, stuffed, which was killed in the Pike | four feet high and was eight feet long, Its paws measured fourteen inches in | I there has been an advancement in improves the biggest bear ever killed in Pennsly. THE COUNTRYS CROPS Review of Their Condition by the Agricultural Department. Corn and Wheat Figures Are . High, but Cotton Unsatisfactory, The Statistician of the Department of Ag- riculture reports from Washington the Bep. ! tember general averages of cereal crops as follows: Corn, 91.1: wheat, 96.8: rye, 95.4; "oats, 90.7; barley, 4.3; buckwheat, 00.6. A small advance is noticed in all, buckwheat alone excepted. The average for potatoes fs 94.8; for tobacco, 87.4, The condition of corn is twenty-one points | © ’ | Fassett, of Chemuug: Lisutenant-Governor, { John W, Vrocoman, of | of Btate, Eugeno F, O'Connor. of Kings; { Controller, A. C, Wade, | Btate Treasurer, Ira M. Hedges, of Raock- i land; Attorney-General, William E. Suther- { land, of Monroe; State Engineer, Verplaack { Colvin, of Albany, higher than in Beptember of last year, and | has been exceeded only three times in the last ton years. State averages are generally high; the lowest are those of Michigan and Wisconsin, In the Eastern and Middle States the crop is well wn, is generally earing well, but a little Inte, and recent cool nights prevent rapid advancement; frost has as yet } i no damage, The crop is in fine condition in the Bouthern States. It is not so much injured by heavy rains as cotton In some bottom lands water has caused material injury, while on uplands the crop Is remarkably gosd. It was somewhat late, but is now genacally frost. A fine yield has been made west of the Mississippi, though in Western Texas a by drouth. Itis above medium little redu throughout the South ns a whole. In the Ohio Valley corn is heavy in stalk, some. places has been down winds, yet Is generally promising. Iu Indiana and Illinois there was injury from drouth in July and early in August blown which has been partially repaired by recent | rains. In Michigan there has been consid. erable injury from frost. Wiscousin reports damage {rom frosts; there was also damage from frost in the Dakotas, braskn the crop is late, In Missouri alter nate heavy rains and drouth have been unfavorable, In Western Kansas erops suf- ferad from drouth; eastern counties have a heavy crop The condition of wheat is very high, con- sidering both winter and spring varieties, in soils, latitudes and elevations so widely dif. fering. The general average has besa ex. coeded only slightly twice sinos 1879, in IN and 188, State averages are quite uni only mp falling below 95 and three b being X w South Carolina, and MM for North Care In the Middle Hats ent was generally well filled | veste.l in good con the spring. in a vania, and in parts of gina, there has sock There is a reduction in the condition of cotton during the last month of six points from 88.9 to 82.7, The cause on the Atlantic Coast has been an excess of rainfall, causing overgrowth of the plant and diminishing the tendency to fruiftage. From Alabama west. ward drouth was the main factor of loss assisted by the boll-worm and caterplliar, Condition is lowest in Arkansas po and Tennessee, In a few counties of Texas heavy rainfall in the morning, followed by bot sunshine in the afternoon, caused serious shedding of forme. The most serious compiaints are of shedding fruit and leaves, rotting of boils, sprouting of seed in the bolls, ras, staining of open cot ton, except in a few regions, where cotton worms are unusually destructive. In the area affected by drouth, rust snd shedding alsooccur. The State averages are as fol- lows: Virginia 7 a loss of 3 points: North Caroline 7%, a gain of 4 points; South Caro- lina ¥1, a loss of ¥ points; Georgia 52, a loss of 4 points; Florida #8, x joss of 8 pointy; Alabama 53, a low of 6 points; Misslaippi EL, a loss of 10 points; Louisiana 55, a loss of b points; Texas 82, a low of 10 pionts; As 9, the lowest wi untioes in Pennsvi- Maryland and Vir some injury in the few ¢ berry kansas 86, a los of § polaty; Tennessoo 84, a gain of 2 points, cm — I —— THIRTEEN ROBBERS KILLED The Men Who Robbed the Express Car in Texas Shot Down, The train robbers who were thougie to bave escaped acrow the Rio Grande River with a sum sald to be £20,000 that they se cured from an express oar on the Southern Pacific Raliroad, were met near Uvalde, Texas, by a body of rangers who had been in pursuit of then and a hattie took place, From reports received, thirteen of the robbers and two rangers were killed and several on both sides were wounded. The rangers followad what was thought to be the course pursued by the robbers through the mountain passes, and although they had at several Umes Jost the trail they gained on the robbers. Nextday they discovered unmise takable evidence that the men they were looking for were only a few miles ahead of then and were headed towards Las Vegas New Mexico. The pursuers after pushing on a portion of the night were rewarded next day by falling in with the outlaws The engagement between the two partios was short, as the bandits were outuumbered, They held the best position, however, and stood their ground until the number of their dead and wounded was so great that further resistance was impossible, and then the re mainder fod. It is said that only two men escaped, KANSAS INDEBTEDNESS. The Census Office Issues a B lletin on Mortgages, The Census Offics has issued from Wash. ington a bulletin which gives the mortgage | valuation of real and personal property in | 18800, mot includ the value of railroad at $57,504, 285 was true value is SOO,000000 and $900, 000,000, | It is found toat Kansas has a mors debt of $235 4851 which does | of include a fitate aad” relirons ion Son tract dobtof 87,061,718. Thisdebt is twenty. | seven per cent. of the ectimated true value | of all taxed real estate. The average amount of debt on a i" ments, HAWAII'S QUEEN A WIDOW, The Hon, John Dominic, the Prince Consort, Is Dead, The steamship Mariposa arrived at San Francisco, Cal., from Australia via Hono. lulu, bringing Honolulu advioss to August w The Hon. sobn Dominic, Prince Consort { 000,000 will of Mary ¥. 8. Bearles, of Mothuen | The party went out in Mr. | delphia, They | Albert | Harry Hunter and James FP. Bell, and are | charged with making false lists of taxable, beyond the reach of | for Attorney General, In lowa and Neo- | | to Hayti, has been tendered THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middie States. A XOTICE of intention to contest the £30, Mase, was flled at Halem. The notice re cites that the contest is on behalf of her adopted son, Timothy Hopkins. The ground for the contest is undue {nfluence, Tore 180th anniversary of the Battie. of Butea Helghta was celobrated at Groton, Jonn, Tue President was out gunning in Cape Isiand Bound, near Caps May, N. J., and | killed thirteen yollow-logged snipe. The | President was accompanied by George W, Boyd, of the Penusylvania Ra road; Lieu- tenant J. W, Parker, Charles Coffin, of Bal- timore, and Congressman John E. Reybura, Reoyburn's stewu- { launch Neosho, Tue New York Republican State Conven- tion, at Rochester, nominated a full State | ticket as follows: For Governor, J. Bloat Herkimer; Secretary of Chautauqua; WARRANTS wero issue! for the arrest of the five mercantile appraisers of Phila. are Edward W, Patton, Crawford, Bamuel FP. Houseman, classification and Sxuptions and adding the names of dead and fictitious persons to the list. Tnx Massachusetts Prohibition State Cone vention met at Worcester and nominated : | Charles H. Kimball for Governor, Agustus | what late in earing from cool nights, in some | by heavy | R. Lee, dr, for Lisutenant-Governor, Alfred W. Richardson for Becretary of State, Mr, Armstrong for Auditor, and Walcott Harlin | AN attempt was made to wreck a train on the Lehigh Valley road, near Phillipsburg, Peon, by exploding dynamite, Lows Lema was arrested charged with the deed. Tue National Amociation of Rajlway Fostal Clerks olocted H. M. Robinson, of Atlanta, Ga, as President, and C. E. La- grave as Secretary and Treasurer, at Water town, N. Y. Savile SHaw, four years old, and Johnny Souders, one year older, were playing in a newly excavated sewer trench at Bridgton, N. J, when the earth oaved in, burying both. The girl was instantly killed and the boy received fatal injuries, V. A. Bait, a New York for swindling a Poughkeepsie ut of $54 000 broker, was N. : hant South and West, Battle Creek, wer Hundreds part in Lhe In the school election at Mich, two 0 candidates . by the large ) polled and took elected Of women © fight Tue interstate soldiers’ reunion of Kansas Missouri, Nebraska and Southwestern lowa was beld at Chelsea Park, Kansas City, Kan, Two thousand colored people are waiting at Gathrie, Okishoma, the throwing open for settlement of the Sac and Fox lands Gustave Bencnen and his wife, of Tope ka, Kan, quarreled over rent money and Bergher shot his wifeand killed ber and then blew out his brains. The couple had been divoroed, but bad remarried. Bergher was a Uerman Count, Many Muscnerre, aged twenty, of Min. neapolis, Minn, committed suicide at Wash. ington. She bad just passed a civil service tamination and iL = thought to bave driven her road. Drury Suxuiry Conveiey was killed by Policeman Rufus Highnote, whose cousin, Calvin White, was shot three times, io a three-cornered attempt to settle a food, at Corsicana, Texas, Tug United States steamship Pensacola sailed from San Francisco, Cal, for Hono lulu, Carrarx Faeperiex 8. Dopo, as retired army officer, who has been der i fo some years, committed suicide at Detroit, Mich, He was fifty-one years old, Ex-Mavon Joux H. B. Larnose, the old. est lawyer in Maryland, and widely known As a jurist, author and philanthropist, died in Baltisoore, aged eighty nine M. B. Conn, the well known actor who frapersonated Bam’l of Posen and Schatehen, is in jail in San Francisco, Cal, charged with murdering Policeman Grant while the latter was trying to arrest him Thr Chickasaw Legislature convened as Ardmore, Indian Territory, and received Governor Byrd's message WitLiax E. Banner, a young millionaire bank President of Seattle, Washington, and RB. Albertson, his attorney, were kid- | sapped in that city, Presipest Coremax, of the Catholio Knights of America, is at Chattanooga, Tenn, investigating the accounts of M. J. OF Brien, Treasurer of the Order, Mr, O'Brien is out of the city. There is an apparent de ficit of about $30,000 Jacon H. Snarren and his daughter Ida were killed Uy a railroad train at Warren, Ohio, LizvresaxrOovenson MimLerony, of Nebraska, was badly used up in a fist fight with Dr. Keenan, at Madison, Wis Washington, : Tux of Consul to San Domingo, to suoored Joho 8. Durham, the new Minister President Harrison to William F. Powell, Principal of | the Sixth School District of Camden, N. J, | | Mr. Powell is an intelligent, cultured man, | about forty years old. Tue Navy Department has authorized the first payment, amounting to 806 427, on the | battleship Oregon, just begun at the Union | Iron Works, California. Ir bas been decided by the United States Government to abandon the case against the | steamer [tats, which carried arms to Chili | | during the recent troubles, i BECRETARY TRACY issued an order for the | tion, snd the gunboat Petrel for servios on | the Asiatic station, i Trsrs made at the Naval Ordnance Prov. ing Grounds, near Washington, of the new unokeless powder were highly satisfactory, resignation on account health, Judge Cooley was appointed President Cleveland at the unanimously chosen Chairman by his awo- cintes, | portation of | nominee of the elected, - rocent day. The father and mother showed the way by haoging themselves ani the thers, who were adult children, {mitated thelr parents, Abnvices have been received of the wreck. Ing of a Grimsby smack in Iesland, and the drowning of twelve of her crew, Tue transatinntic steamer City of New York arrived at Queenstown, Ireland, from Now York, having cromel the Atlantic in five days, twenty-two hours aud fifty min. utes. This run beats any previous record from that port to Queenstown by seven min. nutes, Tue Emperor of Germany, A upon the Austrian army manosuvres was received | with the utmost enthusiasm and respect, As the imperizl uaa approached the city tens of thousands of voices greeted it with | choers, Durixa a performance of “Lakme” at the | . 4 noe, the electric | | Opera Comique in Paris, France, the e | and had been used on fast trains, lights suddenly went out and a panic en- susd, Upon examination it was found that the stage carpenter had become entangled | with the dynamo belts and had been tora in shreds. This is how the lights went | out, Crank F, Cann, United States Minister to Denmark, has received notice of the re moval of the prohibition placed upon the im- merican pork into Denmark, which prolibition has been enforced since March, 1888 Tur Presidential election in Honduras was quietly conducted. Ponmmiao Leiba, the progressive party, GREAT gales swopt over the Nova Bootia const, doing considerable damage. Tae Chilian Government agreed to reim- burse the United States for the expense in- | curred in chasing the ship tata, ues gold bearing quartz has been discov. | ered on the Atikokan Iron range at Port | Arthur, Canada. Tae wall of a foundry in Leeds, England, collapsed Two children were instantly kill and two others were removed from the ruins fatally injured. Exrzron Wittiax and Prince Regent Luitpold reviewed the two Bavarian army corps in Munich. Ths weather was splendid, and the review presented a brilliant spec taclie, The Emperor was at the head of the regiment of which be is Honorary Colonel, AX expross train killed five of a gang of railroad workmen near Glasgow, Scotland. Exrzanon Wiiiau and Prince Ra Laitpold witnessed a sham fight at Bavaria. The western army, under Laitpold's son Arnolph, was victor Emperor congratulated the viet Tre Foposed reproducti Lohengrin” in Pars, F . much excitement and indignation had to be postponed Tar fishing schooner Georgians, of Yar mouth, was upset in making Halifax (Nova Bootia} Harbor, and her captain and crew of fifteen mea were drowned AT least forty liver were lost in the earth- quake shock at San Salvador Me Lacosre Speaker of the Senate, has been appointed Chief Justios of Quebec, Canada A sTEAM launch carrying laborers from Dublin to Londonderry sunk in Lough Povie, Ireland, colliding with the stommer Alba- tross, Fifteen persons were drowned, Ir is announced that 374 estates belonging to the Russian nobility will be sold by ave tion ia October under foreclosure by the State Bank. The estates are located all over European Rosia, and the sale indicates the desperate straits to which the landed nobility are reduced Benmrrenstaprt, in Rbenish Pavaria booty destroyed by fire. The disaster or pated in the sawmills, and, notwithstanding all efforts, the flames spread rapidly, con- verting a flourishing town to ashes. THE LABOR WORLD, Bowzxia miners average $122 a year, 87. Louis has a working girls’ library. Evcewonra (Penn. has a girl carpenter, New Youx union plasterers laborers get $2.75 a day Cicano eight hours, Tug Hebrew.American Typographical Union bas adopted a union label AT Fall River, Mass, 20.00 textile work ers are offered a reduction of wages A New York CexrtraL stockholder wants the road to allow ita hands to organize Tux confectioners of San Francisco are moving to have a six-day working week. Grasp Master PowornLy, of the XK. of L., wants work prohibited on election day AT a conference of labor delegates recent. ly held in Edinburgh $4,000 men were repre sentad, Tae United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners will send lecturers all over the country OVER 1500 women have joined the New York Cloakmakers’ Udon daring the last six months, Tux Danvers (Mass) electric road has been turned over to the employes, who are run ning it on the co-operative plan. Tue employes in the RBigin (IIL) Watch Factory are being organised. are furniture workers struck for | 3000 employes, two-thirds of thems women, It is stated that there are T2000 plancs made anpually in America, and that three pounds of steel wire are used for each instru- ment, AX electric drill in an Idaho mine recent! performed the feat of boring a two-inch ho through twenty feet of solii granite in four hours. A MOVEMENT is on fool at Fairport, N.Y, looking to the establishment of & new shoe factory, the stock of which is to be owned almost exclusively by the workers, Out of 1145 strikes in Eogland last year, in which 344,540 ee . The average duration of strikes was eighteen days Jin radiiads oF the dountey exnploy 30d. 000 men. Each yoar they lose their number in killed, and 20 000 of them are in » It is estimated that 3000, people depend on these employes for a The Trades’ Union Congrem was bald at Newoastle wi 0 1,800,000 skilled and unskilled Bettiah work- men, The Congress adopted a resolution in favor of making the proposed interaational Eight-hour Inw permissive io certain oases, Tur Workingwomen's Union, of Halle, Germany, has been dissolved by the police and Its funds Sle coasted, iguieg a several " women's politial Fights were in Germany it is against the law for women to discuss politics, FLAX STATISTICS. The Amount of Acreage in the West. ern States, The Census Office has made public the fol. hig are | rival at Munich, Bavaria, from the scons of | expioded in front of the Glen Cove | | | A LOCOMOTIVE EXPLODES Fatal Railroad Accident at Oys- ter Bay, Long Island. Three Men Hurled Hundreds of Feet and Instantly Killed, The boller of a locomotive under full steam (Long Island) depot, instantly killing three men, | dangerously injuring another, breaking the engine into many fragments, and demolish. wengers, | James Donaldson and | Dickinson were in the cab. ing part of the station roof. The locomotive was only two years oid The train behind it consisted of a baggage car, smoker and two conches pretty well filled with pas It was 7:08 o'clock, snd Engineer Fireman Townsend Brakeman | Michael Mahoney came forward to get the | time, while Conductor Alfred | somo | moment | head | Inson, | hurled in opposite directions, Was | | platform was torn Jones stood him at the The latter's A piece of irom scalded. Dick. Mahoney were the latter's body falling on the roof of the third Car, while the others fell in a neighboring meadow. The engine, down to the wheels, was a total wreck, A large portion of the up and many the train's windows broken Fortunately, none little distance behind of the explosion. was cut open by he was frizhtfully Donaldson on. and of | of the parsengers was injured, | eritical | cidldren and a crippled mother The explosion brought people rushing from all parts of Oyster Bay. Conductor Jones was carried on a stretcher to the house of the nearest physician. His condition was Donaldson had thirtesn years ex- in raliroading sod bad a good repu- He loaves a widow and two children. was thirty and leaves several Mahoney perience tation Dickinson | was twenty The only theory of the cause of the explo. sion 0 far is that the water might have been allowed to run too low in the boiler, Master Mechanic Thompson of the Long Island road thinks it could not have occurred from over pre sure WORLD'S FAIR NOTES, g whol send it te Micra aw will con f Michigan 1 sect Call. to fllus Z by Eli Whitney, will be exhibited at position by t New Orleans Mashine mpany, which will also make an extensive exhibit of cotton gins, sugar mills and other machinery Wrrsuwes will bold an elsteddlod in Chi cago at some time during the Exposition e dispensation permitting them to do so bay. ing beens granted by the National Associa tion, which mt recently at Swanses, Wales. Tax owner of a Wisconsin has offered to the State ( sion for exhibition at the Puir. a = olith, larger than Cleopatra's 1 York City. The obelisk, wi will weigh 490 tons and of brownstone ever quarrie Tix Texas World's Fair Associa. tion is pushing, with great « the work of collecting funds for the Btate's repressn- tation at Chicago. Thesum desired is $300, « 000, and this has been: assessed among the 245 counties as nearly as possible, arwrding to population, on a basis of fifteen cents per capita A MAGNIFICENT microscope has just been completed by the Munich Poeller Physical and Optical Institute for the great Chicago Exposition, at a ost of $8750. It PhOusmEses a magnifying power of 11,000 diameters. As might be expected, electricity plays an im portant part in the working of this gigantic instrument THE preparation of Colorado's exhibit is progressing ener cally Bemides the min. eral, agricultural and educational exhibits, the flora and fauna of the Sate will be shown in great completeness, Already more than 1000 specimens of plants have been [rena nearly 200 varieties of fruit have wen duplicated perfectly in wax, snd more been br wnstone quarry in mms lid mon- in New ° mpleted, ti IArgest mass oe {14 it bye Exhibit ergy than 2000 species of insects have mounted IT has been decided to have the Machinery Annex an aunex in fact instead of being an isolated structure as at first planned. The annex will adjoin Machinery Hall on the ‘west, The entire structure will thus mes sure 500 by 1400 feet, and be second in size only to the Manufacturers’ Building, the di- mensions of which are 788 by 1656 feet. With ite galleries, the latter building will have forty acros of floor space. A HUNDRED LOST Sinking ot LL the Steamer Taormina Off the Greek Coast A collision has taken place off Cape Col- onna, the most southern point of Attics, Greece, between the steamship Taormina, of the Italian Messageries Company, and a Greek steamship, the Thessalia. The Teor mina sank soon after the accident, and her pian Svea of her crew and forty of oabin passengers were drowned. The total number of lives Jost was sald to be 10. The second officer of the Taormina and a number of passengers who ware standing on the bridge at the time the collision cocurred were saved by the boats of the Thessalia, Most of the Taormina's their berths at the time of the The Thessalia was but by just CHANGED HER MIND, That Was Why Dr. Ballard Killed His Sweetheart and Mimself Dr. C. E. Ballard, member of a prominent family at Saybrook, Hl, shot and killed Miss Ison and then killed himself, He had Next refased he made a final a her through heart, himeel! three times In the inthe head. He died Inn
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