hy Sam © bn ——— Chicago has become the third manu. facturing city in this couutry, Professor John Fiske declares ‘‘that there is not a competent scientific man in the world to-day who is not an evo- lutionist,” With the reduction of the hours of labor in England during the last sixteen years crime has been reduced forty- seven per cent. A trustworthy statistician has ascer- tained that the gross amount raised by taxation in France is greater than that of any country in which authentic figures are forthcoming. Twenty-two acres of land are needed to sustain a man on fresh meat, while the same amount of land under wheat feeds forty-two unhej oats eighty- eight people, and under the plantain or bread fruit tree over 6000 people. people, The mortality from measles in England is said to exceed anything that can thus far be attributed to the influenza. There are 13,000 deaths from measles annually | in England and Wales, and the mortality has increased greatly during the | decade, The official census analysis of the Cape | Colony of South Africa discloses the that out of a 376,987, only 256,213 are and write, The Ba cludes 31,237 pe total white able however, in- under nine of age. John Maley, years in the West for the murder of released, proof having c¢ way, asks tho Maley be of justice, he riches of mated an reely decoratior wealth tombs, etc. temples, ’ fact that for hundreds of years been stated cumulation of treasure has on until at the present it is the gold and other ornam idle in that country are est ents imated now & € 3 worth $1,250,000,000, Dr. Krug, a German scientist, claims that he has disc satable and nutritious cake out of wood. ywered how to make an His method consists in transformin g cellulose into grape sugar, a substance assimilable by the animal organism. The biscuit is made by adding to this about forty per cent of meal of wheat, oats or rye. Phosphates and all the boue ele. ments may also be bread of wood gl fed to cattle, for [] place ol oll caxKes industria posed of Says the San Francisco That the German Emperor has a tender heart under all his martial steroness is shown by the pardon he granted to a de serter from the German captured on his return to the Father land. came from the prisoner, who appealed to him on her father's birthday. has retained his is always hope. army who was The application that touched him little daughter of the For an autocrat who warm sympathies there Napole mn or the great this Little Frederick would have tossed girl's letter into the waste basket, Many Eastern drug stores have adopted the precautionary measure of having two persons attend the prepara. tion of any prescription containing pois. The Medical Record calls the Harris onous drugs, attention to murder trial in New York City as an illustration of the importance of this check, because ‘if a single clerk received the prescription, prepared the capsules and delivered them it might readily have been claimed by the defense that a mistake had been made by the druggist. As it was, the druggist was able to go on the stand and testify that an assistant had also read the prescription and morphine which it called for properly weighed and dispensed.” seen the amount of The little island of Navassa, which les in the Caribbean Sea, about thirty miles from Hayti, is of small account in itself and geographically which is probably the reason acquisition as part of the United States territory by the mere act of Presidential recognition, as very briefly announced in one of President Hayes's messages, at teacted little public attention at time. Latterly the island has boen chiefly notable as the scene of a riotous out break by laborers in 1889, Commercially fts only value is in its rich phosphate de. posit. In a diplomatic sense, however, its acquisition may easily prove to have been an event of utmost Importance, since it has given the United States a foothold in the West Indies—s most de. sirable section of the globe, at times, io ‘which to have a stoppiog place. considered ; why its the last | fact | population ol | to read | The lowest birth rate for fifty years in England was that recorded during 1801, The death rate was the highest for three years, A syndicate of British capitalists is preparing to send an expedition to ex. plore the coast of Patagonia, South is believed America, for minerals, It that such an expedition would yield good results, The population of Bogota, the capital of the United States of Columbia, de- creased 854 during 1801. There were 2305 births and 3159 deaths in the city during the year, Emigration and immi- gration are not factors in the city’s economy. Louis Boissewain, a prominent mer. chant of Yokohama, says that American goods are popular in Japan, and that whatever may be the case in China, they are holding their own against the hot English and German competition they have to meet. The Island of Jamaica has entered the field as a competitor with the Island of Bermuda in the production of early vege- the The steamship Dana, which reached Phila- had a large tables for American market, delphia early in the season, consignment of tomatoes and cucumbers, which were equal 1n quality to the best Jermuda products, owing to the better and the ¢ quaily pr maica, the islaad w 2 large trade Northern cities for many carloaas eacl wn, which should WICH Cr I 5 A should be al There 13 a club of vegetarians in (Cl eago, lll, that practices what it prea It had a meeting the othe d AY he Urgamzing Association A titled “*Man Not a Flesh Eater” Mr. H. C. pres nt National Vegetarian paper et was read by most of those gave their ex- periences, Officers were elected, the } I'reasurer chosen being a woman, The while he ity but no one has had o present Ameer of Afghanistan, an exile, affected a stupid. many peopie; WAS that deceived a good since he has held his present place, asion to complain of lack of shrewdness On one occasion not long since, the Russian commandant word that it in Turkestan sent him Was proposed to take 500 artillerymen and Afghan bope that it cavalry out for exercise on the frontier, and expressed a would not give rise to apprehensions on the part of hishighness, Abdurrahman replied that he had no objection, because, as it happened, he was about to exercise 5000 cavalry, artillery and infantry on his side of the frontier at the same place, and there was plenty of room for both The wrote thanking the Ameer, but intimat. The hiot was enough, Russians ing that they had found another site for their maneuvers, “Are you aware of the enormous ex. pense incurred in sending coupon bounds across the Atlantic!” asked a gentleman of a friend with whom he was convers. ing in St, Louis. The gentleman an. swered no, “Well, let me give you an the “Mr, Gable bas just leit New York for Glas. 2,500,000, When first 1 some 350,000 instance,” maid questioner, gow with heard of his being sent miles | thought it was a piece of folly, a waste of time and a waste of money, But [ find it was aa economic step alter all. The shipping companies charge at tue rate of $3.50 for $1000 worth of bonds, and 82 mote for marine insur. anes, that is 85.50 for esch $1000 worth, A slight eaiculation shows that the ttle charges on the sum named would be $13,750. So that it is moch coeaper to pay the expenses of a trip thao to pay tae freigitage.” “ ya | & surprise by ¥ | her he Garner, and AT HOME AND ABROAD. Interesting Late Dispatches by Telegraph and Cable, A Villain Makes a Mother Kill Her Own Son. One of the most dramatic tragedies ever witnessed in real life has just been enacted at the village of El Rito, New Mexico. Rod- erigo Martinez was stabbed to the heart by what she had done, cut her The chain of events which led to this tragic denousment seems more like the creation of an imagina- tive novelist than the facts which they un- fortunately are, The villian in this drama of real life was George Hallston, who fell in Jove with a beautiful young woman who was betrothed to Roderigo Martinez. While pretending to be the friend of Roderigo he secretly made Jove to the girl, Nhe refused to listen to Hallston's protests of love Martinez having left home cn a visit, Hall- ston told his mother that he had been assas- sinated in Mexico. He theu wrote to Mare tines that his sweetheart was married and his mother dead, thinking by these moans to keep the young man away and leave the coast clear for him to renew the wooing of the young woman Martinez, however, his sweetheart was unmarried and his mother alive, Frustrated in his first plan, Hallston his mother, who, on realizing own throat, | then pursuaded Martinez to give his mother isiting her in disguise, Mean- mother's house and told slayer of her son should kill while he ran to the would bring the to her In a few minutes, and she rascal Hoderigo entered the man stabbed him to the heart, A mo- t later she found her mistake, and raving mad, ut her throat Ibe betrothed » enraged old she « ne at Prang a t Halls ) AYO Wite Marderer Executed, execuled atl lunxban murder of his wife. The Charles Wall was nock, Pear. for the drop fell at 1005 kr Charles Wall m n axe on J ntre-Morelan n the morning, srdered his wife Julia with n : They lived in { had marri and ) a | i N * t The Mafia Lonching Cases, Baits for damages growing out of the " nat and the Iynehing of foll od have boon fled in 31. | WY talians that te] Niates courts % EY + ¢ the city riean ia They are brought by the 1Zht aga or he ooou Wedding Guests Murdered A despatch from K the frontier of Albania forty Albanians wi ding procession a Ie Montenegrin while firi bride Though it was clearly apparent that the shooting was entirely accidental the rades of the wounded men poured a volley into the wedding party, killing and wound. ing nineteen of them. The Montenegrin party was building a bridge a that one ring a wad ntally shot a IE Asaiute to the iaschin, reports wn on } Were a0 wie A Conscience Contribution, Postmaster -General Wanamaker has re ewived a conscience contribution of $130 in a Jotter postmarked New York March 4 The bills were mostly of the $100 denominat and had been cut in halves, The letter was as follows: “Enclosed please find half bills which will mateh those this day sent to the Secretary of the Treasury Ms pay ment it interest on moneys restorad to the Government heretofore, and which | frauded it out of years ago Father and Daughter Perish A frame farmhouse near Kelly's Stat N. Y. was destroyed by fire about 2 o'clock the other morning John Landers age weighty years, and his unmarried daughter Annie, aged thirty five, perished in th flames. Ope of the neighbors who had been aroused by the fire looked saw the old man lying unconscious on the floor he upper Boor and roof fell in, pre venling a rescues Milch Cows for the Indians, The Commissioser of Indian Affairs awarded contracts for supplying the Indians of the Northwestern tribes with miloh cows and bulls, He bought #X cows at prices ranging from $15.60 par head to $25.95 and 400 bulls at from F098 to B38. 55 each, The aggregate o. thy con tracts was F250, 0), EE — — THE WOOLEN TRADE, OfMcolal Statistios Showing the Nam ber of Factories Official woolen statistion for the United States have just boon given out from Wash. ington, The number of establishments re ported for 1800 as sngaged in the manufac ture of wonlen goods proper, when compared with the number reported for 189), shows a decrease of 678 fhe nunbsr reported in 1880 for this branch of tae industry showed a decreass of WI sstablisoments from the number reported in 180 A comparative stats nent of all branches of wool manufactur axcept shoddy, ts given as foliows Number of establish nents reported in 180, S500; In 1850, WN0 Capital invested, 1800, $314,500, 044; 1880, $100, 001 0 Numoer of hands emoloysd, 1500, 291,089; 1880, 161 587, Wares paid, 1800, #76 741,909; 1880, $i, |, ONT, Misosllansons expences, 1800, $10,547,900; 1880, blank; no esas taken returned to find that | de | ina window and | ————————— THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. Tie State count gives New York City 1,800,891 population, Tune miners were killed and two others fatally injured by an explosion of gas in the Alden mine at Wilkesbarre, Penn, Whe a Swede, aged about thirty-two years, known as Peter, wax examining a new machine placed in the Terra Cotta Works near Woodbridge, N. J. he was instantly beteaded, Ho did not hesd the warning given him but five minutes before to look out, Jorx F. Wixsrow died at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., aged eighty one. He introduced the manufacture of Bessemer steel into this country, and was prominently connected with the building of the Monitor. ARCHBIEROP CORRIGAN received a letter from Pome announcing the appointment of Mgr. McDonnell, Chancellor of the Archdio. oese of Now York, as Bishop of Brooklyn to sucosed the Inte Bishop Loughlin ik Tug New Jersey Logislature adjourned sine die, aft er passing the bill Jegaliz ng the Reading railroad dea! < 4 NEARLY the entire New York State had a taste of the blizzard that developed in the few davs before Ihe was two feet on the Kale into drifts ratiroads suffered more or Ul having been abandoned. while ventured out stalled in the snow The storm was especially severe at Oneida ¥ Syracuse, Watertown, Auburp Elmira and northern portion of great Northwest a Know in some places level and piled by the foot deep All many trains others that ten the were Osweg RO Albany South and We Jacon Preven seriy habit 3 ent Harris viont has { Lien ria, 1 mineroe Commissioner, , dead, and William Lindsay . Uiements was born in Walker February | “4 *T Hammusox ses . yieonow n the bm 34 | inty; Dan James McCarry Tux! eral has nel uded money order vention between the Ur States and Austro-Hungary, which will into effect on April 1 stmaster (rer Tue President sent to the Senate the nom ination of George FP Mclean, of Conne cut, to be Attorney of the United States | the District of Connecticut, vice Nille, term expired Oeorge G, Foreign, Thur general elections f Quebwe, Canada, were held party bas sustained a signal defeat is a Conservative majority of thirty-eight the new Legislature r the Provin The Mer GENERAL Bannios the newly. elected President of Guatemais, has by order of President Barillas Tux British naval expenditure year will be $75. 000,000, an increase of §! O00 « ver last year grees Vor been arrested Ria, of England, osivedd the painting bY Frank B. « arpenter, the Amerioan artist, of the Alabama Art tration Commission, and has had it hung in the banqusting Hall of Windsor Castle. The donor was Mrs, Carson, of arg. N.Y Tax French Foreign Office In Paris ar pounced that the commercial treaty with the United States had been concluded ™ hiteh in the negotiations regarding the value of the articles to be mutually admitted free of duty was overcomes by the friendly att tude of both parties to the treaty, The value of the free articles is fixod at £2.000,000 an pually, Tur Argentine Minister of Finance has resigned Bilis were ru and a salute fired at Windsor Castle, England. in honor of the twenty-ninth annivers ry of the Princes of Wales's marriage. A series of explosions In a colliery at Anderiues, Belgium, destroyed the shafting and veutilating appliances, and ent off the exit of the 2X0 or more miners who were In the pit. Rescuers on the day after the soci dent bad taken out Alty of the miners alive and recovered twenty-nine dead bodies, Tur Balls ury Government was defeatnd by a vote of 154 to 140 in the British House of Commons on the question of the eancellation of certain voles for the survey appropriation for the proposed Mombasa Hallway in Afrios, Tre minery’ movement for stoppage of work began on the part of the Durham (Bag: land) miners, 9,000 in number, Ix drilling his men in the Mets (Germann Barracks Sergeant Lantson, of the One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment, ordered each in succession to step out and take aim at his oye, A raw recruit pamed Mungersdor! innocently used a ball cartridge fi his rifle, and when he fired the sergeant dropped dead, The recruit is under arrest, bas 1 \ Neowin | LYNCHED BY 4 MOB Three Bushwhackers Shot Death at Memphis, Tenn. to The Victims Ambushed and Killed Four Deputy Bheriffs, A dispatch from Memphis, Tenn., says A masked mob of seventy-five men took three colored prisoners from the jail at three A.M. marched them to an open lot about a mile and a half from the heart of the city and shot thom to death, The bodies, riddled by bullets and partly covered with were discovered at daybreak The names of the colored men are Calvin McDowell, William Stuart and Theodore Moss. The crime for which they were killed was the ambushing and shooting down of four deputy sheriffs in a notorious local- ity known as ‘The Carve” while they wera looking for a colored man for whose arrest “hey had a warrant, The mob appeared streot, near the jail wasin the jail office having friend named Seat, when aring was at the outer gate O'Donnell walked to the and asked, “Who's there? “Hugh Willlawms, of White Haven,” the roply “I have a prisoner " said O'Donnell, “This am always ready to re brush, on Front O'Donnell suddenly Watchman heard door of the jail came He unlocked the gate, and two or men pushed in. O'Donnell did not at that moment, but when he fi Was the prisoner he trapped. The three them closely saw that he had Leen masked “What does watchman as be reached for his pistol. “No yon exclaimed the masked men as they seized his arms and forced him against the wal men wera the this mean queried font ™ Three men who sel sonnell y-lwo thr nded spoke all mgh the walck and then fall men men FuaArd, an to distingal went from alarmed ins and unwitti Alice Mit friend hear the upper tier look a word wa Me a hand was Moss, the mail m of tee mob and the tracks of t road A few words in an undertone were taken as an order and the men started north alos the tracks, The priscoers securely as kept moving at a bot pay The iim of the city were reachsd and in field near Wolf River the victims for ret Lime wore a wad tO speak, wed Moss said: “If ar face the wes s the gage were rem 1 are going to EN us tara SoArosiT ad bh ttereal the tn went thro the signa the work A # words whe This wa wy & Cheesy wa ire H MeDowe AGG Stuart the bodies were ownward Moe ver other, and when found » morning they lay close together, They pressatad a horrible sight. McDowell's jaw was entirely shot away and back of his right ear there was a hole large enough to admit & man's fist His right & too, had been half blown away as if in self-defence he had grabbed the muzzle of a shotgun, Stuart was shot in the wouth and twice in the back of the head His body was riddisd with buckshot, Mom had ons ear shot off and several bullet hole in his forehead The mob, after it had completad ble work, came toward the town, frat crossing it scattered, a II THE LABOR WORLD. bgt its terri Al the Loxpox OUR coal indastry employs 300 000 men THERE are 20.000 { land England, has 80,000 barmaids farmers in nale Eng ff wor 1 last year. THE average annual wages Great Britain were §8 » THERE is a w Worked twenty me y who iting Maan in Ureg yoars at stonect INE authorities of Leinsi (iorman pr vide work for th ty inemuiloyed the ners ie Ine strike of Columbia al 1 TeArs Ww ellington Bry ver it lasted there are irawn Ix Chioag mn thowand meu idle, World's Fair Ine National Miners’ Faderation of Great Britain has 175518 members on its books, and its defense fund contains over 82, MX, 00, Fon the silk blouse waists which sell in the dry goods stores of New York City for 16 and $8 the machine girls get thirty cents for making Tue Union Pacific Railroad Company, in a statement recently issued, reports that its 24.000 employes receive $1,600 000 per month, or an average of 86 05 each THE fur sewers of St Paul Minn, wont on strike against a reduction of wages of thirty per cent. Their average income por week has Leon only eight dollars The prejudice against the wearing of whiskers by walter Is reportel to be be coming very marked in the leading clubs and restaurants in New York City Apovy 2% women and girls were recontly thrown out of wy loyment at Ferry's rend establishment in Detroit, Mich, by the wroduction of improved machinery Usxenrioven workmen of South Australia secured a promise (rom the Minister of Pais le Works that the Government would expe dite the cometruction of public works to af. ford lator for those out of work, Tux manufacturers of Chioago are form Ing a combination to High: the antiwmnoke society, They resson that it is the large manuincturing interests that have bullt up the city, and that the use of soft conl is a necessity, Five experienced miners from the Com. stock mines will lave V ia City, Nov, very shortly for Peru to the some Twenty there by a chat with a is the | ve | notios | the | ——— ——— o—— n—— BURNED AT THE STAKE. Terrible Revenge ot indians on a Supposed Witch “ Among the Indians to the west of Chibus- bua, Mexico, the belief raft is general, and for a number of old woman has held the Indians of that locality in great fear by her alleged powers over life and death and was accused of eating young children When the woman was known 0 be away from her house a party of men went there and found horrible evidences that she had indeed indulged in meals of children’s flesh, There were not only the bones to be seen, but a partly eaten child was found When she returned she was burned at the stake and the people ate small particles of ber body in order to keen off any evils that might befall them for killing her, in wits years an — FRANK MELBOURNE, the Australian rain. maker now at Nenora. Mexioo, is reported to have caused a rain fall of two inches Just at the beginning of the dry season THE MARKETS. Late Wholesale Prices ot Country Produce Quoted in New York, il BEANE AN FEAR Beans—Marro Medium, 1 Fea, 180} White kidney Red kidney Yellow eye, 1 Limes, Cal Foreign, mediur Green peas, 1801 1801, bag 1801, Scot arkevs Mixed Young t O41 toms sens hla wis Sate a ID. can. Westen, per Ib, Ducks—Jearsey. per it State and Pean Western. per Ib Western, per It | extra lar small to med pr, fair t 5 er (gover Potatoss.J eres oT] State Rose and Hels por IN ih State other kinds, IS 1. 1., in bulk, per Sweet potatoes, Jers Cabbage, L. L per Unions LL onnect H aunty Chrange unt ve Eastern, vellow, per Fastern, white I Squash--l. [ marrow, bid I. 1, Hubbard, ; Orange reel, rans | Turnips, Canada, por bhi | Celery — Mich, por doz. roots Long Island and Jersey, dopen bunches String beans, Fia, pet Lettuce, Southern, par bib Tomatoes, Fis. per bush crate orate 00 1 5) 1 0 LIVE STOCK Boovwos.... c.vooirinssannass: 300 @ 550 Milch Cows, com. to good... 2000 @¢d Calves, common to prime... 375 @ Ss» po SII 500 @ TN LAMAR oo nn os 00eues LTD @ TH Hogs live. ....... S500 @ 3.0 Dressed caer Seas eC @ 8 GRAZ, ETC. Flour-City Mill Extra. .... ! @ 51s Patents. ....... A ase Wheat-<No, 2 Hed MN aig Rye-ftate PTT waa Ww Barley ~Tworowed State... 8 @ » Corn—U Mized..... 4a Ny OateNo, 1 White, ...oonnee = $ de Mixed Western , ... mn Ny Hay Good to Chole, , Wa w Straw Long Rye, - 3 BB Lard-City Steam w.5 FURS AND BERING, Kastern # Bowthera # North wasters Bowlth western, +0 33 00410 on S00215 00 4008 190 TOSI 0 50 T A 50g Miaok bear... . Cubs and y'ritlags 2 F333 3330 ER SEES ERE 2S 35RES - we? SE84w OR Ne -. BERS Es UnET gules
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