—— a ———— Over 300,000 Stop Work in the English Coal Fields. Railroads and Factories Crippled by Lack of Fuel, A dispatch from London, England, says: The Britain are idle. majority of the coal flelds in Great The grand total of men at play is about 450,000, In Durham the men to the number of 80,000 are on strike against dis lod to takea weeks' holi- of coal Cheshire, distr reduction of wages, but in all the other tricts the men have simply deci weak, fortnight or even three day in order to restiiot the output I'he collieries of Lancashir Yorkshire, North Wales rnd other are idl The miners Seoting Wales rthumb of rland are he miners of astic meetings, p wad redu t nent has caused the British labor w ing centers, American dreds of per cent, tl fifteen per YOAr Ag ments, @ er ———— THE LABOR WORLD. ROO Eat nany 3 ’ 455 dren and ar % in 150s in England 80.4090 under 1 years were employed er between irieen wore! in the sG days are of inequal Russia, var ; 1% x to irs. the aver the re an estimate than I'he lefinite, claim of Ww belt ive hours re that there is nev overtime possibile bowever Ixrengsring information upon the un willingness of the working class to subscoribe in early life for an old-age pension is afford od by a great English firm of cotton spin ners I hey offered to subscribe $5000 to a pension fund on condition that the work people subseribed upon an peturinl seals, wt this proposal was rejected by a vote of more than two to one Muon suffering has been caused in Queens. land by stagnation of industries in one day 49 women and children besieged the Labor Bureau in Brisbane begging for re- He', The crush was so great that many fainted Husbands have gone into the country seeking work, leaving their fam- Hies destitute, and the women and children are dependent upon the Government for food to keep them alive, — i —— A Vinotvia Crry (Nev,) youth was recently detected in the act of saocoting an arrow, with a cigarstte attached, throughs broken window in the rear of the jail to some boys who were imprisoned therein, THE BIG BRITISH STRIKE | FIFEY-38C0ND ooNGasss. bill was passed t { I ( ported and piaced on the calenda vid the World's { | In the Senate, Bp DAY. =Mr. Vest's Postoffice Buildings House bill to amend the wet to provide for the performance of the futies of the President in tho ease ol the re. noval, death, resignation o- inability both f President and Vice-President, was re- It pro Secretary ol tho In authoriz ion of the Secretary of ite joint resolution arian of Congress to exhibit at Fair such books, papers, docus from the library ol to Christ America g for the succes 4eulture after the nents and other articles OnNEress as may relate olumbus and the early history ol phe was passed. Military Academy app passed tho adjustment : i and were for Deficiency bills —e Mr, Berry int ue a bill i of the rig! n the Indian Territors ng that Territory sdmitted Mr. Morgan int atl np Day The Uy CALAMITY AT SE! Seven Sailors Asphyxiated on a Cattle Seamer bunks Wwers embrace, in Appear a the wants of m routed { the almost mosphere, : seven almost d BOTH ( were BLIZZARD IN THE The Fruit Crop Greatly SOUTH. Damaged by A howling swept over all Texas norther with a heavy ain in an hour the ther mometer fell from seventy to thirty-four The clouds were heavy with Fruit there is no degrees, an { and early doubt of oceasional fall o vegetables escaped ran but everything being In imminent Peaches, plums, apricots and pears bud or full bloo market gardens everywhere wore far advanced At 10 o'clock in the mor anger were in while hurricane culminated in a sow and foe Fruit full bloom, wers coated was hardly any hope that be saved It began snowing tinued all day The groun i was covered by about three inohes of snow and sleet and the fruit erop was destroved around Jefferson Texan, Untold damage will result, Bix inches of wow fell at Little Ark, the heaviest known or rears, damage is reported t fruit where, The snow rea hed such a depth at phis, Tenn, that the electric ears on all the Hines were unable to rus It was the hoa Clest fall of snow in that part of the country for many years covered with with joe. There anything would trees and slesting sand con £9 ron Boek, (irom! Top evary the Mem OVER 100 Congressmen, embracing prac tically the entire delsgations of [loos lows, Kansas, Michigan, Minnssota, New York, Pennsylvania, Oto and Wisconsia, have petitioned the River and Harbor Com. mitten to recommend an initial appropria tion for the proposed twinty-onsfost chan nel from the lakes to the Atlantic, | nor 1 | just PROMINENT PEOFLE, Presipext CARXOT is one of the very few Frepohmen who never get axcited, BENATOR BRERMAN, of () build a maosion in $100, 000, Ex-SexATor EDMUNDS, Canes of 1 is about to Washington to cost HO of Vermont, takes only importance, and his smallest retainer is 5000 Tag late W. H, Smith, the London news man who became a British Cabinet Minister, loft $20.000, 000, Joux DD, RockererL., Standard Oil interest §7,000,000 a year VERNOK ) Conte t Mew to his offic 1's income from h is probably neariy Kx-Gie decided t ovd Tnaven, of Nebraska, has the right of Gove Barox Hinson, banker and friend of IXty-One the the years old Austrian of Wales, is wenlthy Prine Wueen of bad band and family mu (sreecn is nt and Arm present ino A f causes her hw slate of orted to he year Loe ath Hastened bythe Palling at His Legs Hangman PERHAPS JACK THE RIPPER, Made in England A Startling Discovery Liver pool Mather ind benes had their f three wii dr ‘ replace, iw and the oldest, a girl of twalve youu ving apparsotly bean strangled to feat The body of a dark woman lentifial as a dtor to Williams wi inl Hote eneath the fi ith a 4d The Ix {ie he was at the Uo was ad wlies were suppos mer also found babe In her wl to be thos and t " her ch fo ren I'he police of Loncon Williams to Eagland to the murders © Jac alleged des lon bugaboo Williams, who is said t tix, who lived in Sydney ¢ visits of rresponded Ripper, and the Loo with that of Arthur Cur Australia, in 1580, a desoription oorrespon found in Hainhil ription of COrTeRpOnIA the y be one Woman o ff the Holy with a y that ne t ng OULTIVATION OF HEMP, A Census Bulletin Showing the Aore age and Yield, A Census Bulletin shows the total acres of land devotad to the cultivation of hemp the United States in 1550 to have been 25,054 acres, and the production of fiber 11.511 tons, valued at $1,102,602, The average yield pe sore is 1020 pounds and the average value por nore $44.01 or $95.70 per ton, Kentucky pros duced 98.77 per cant, of the total hemp crop of the country, lilinois produced 4.53 per cent. and the remaining six States from which hemp was reported had an aggregate yiald of only 161 tons, Although theerop of 1580 was more than double that of 1879, hemp production is re garded by those sngaged in It as a declining ndustey, a condition which they attribute to forwign competition and to soma extent to their own lank of improved machinery for breaking and cleaning the fiber, “ RAFPERS in Oregon and Washington port that fur-bearing animals are ory numerous this winter, the beaver especially, mn WORLD'S FAIR NOTES, Five acres of space in the Midway ance have been reserved for a hibit, Plains nursery «x | Tue Custer Mining Comp iny, of Thaho, is extensive collection t the Fair Fouriax participation in the | as ascertained up to the present seventy-two nati making a very of for exhibition ores us and proving CANADA ha DRoe pa boon given 65.471 in the various bu antoed ir of of spat to be gr and live stock departmen Tie Suffolk Hor offered two gold medals, each, for the best Buff ik filly exhibited at tae Worl Cago, ue Women Uni Mi Ww foot, CXL the Temperance ile ! in the K conduct a cat GRAND DUKE LUDWIG of Hesse. Darmstadt Law of Vik ht ¥. The Ruler and Sonn oria Dead, KILLED B Mexican Bandits Capture a Sale Dollars With 10 000 Silver nd an astananda, one of the gu Herndon was saveraly t { the bandits tain and} Iyert nnd was s guard, and was kille ash was put t gained rap ey otive, Mr. Br chapparal with Mr ne They made their way where they notified the tien A detachment of & s to the scene of the 1 y arrived at the spot they found that safe had been broken open and robbed, —— A ORY FOR FOOD, Twenty Million People Dying of Star. vation in Hussia LIAN Me Herndon toe military is Ar 0. yrbery, ou’ wim { Lhe The following piteous appeal has cabled from St. Petersburg to this country by the committees of Amer.can citizens sent to If the American people knew the axtent of the suffering in the famine districts of Russia they would everywhers ons 10 the rescus, Twenty mill tons of people are affectal and in danger of ath from starvation Typhus fever in raging in many proviooss, and horses and cattle are parishing of hunger, Does this not appeal to th* hearts of those able to help! Russia is Secpt grateful to the Amerionn people for what they have done, o distribution of supplies is under the di- rection of the American Minister and an ex. oellent committees, Nothing will be hated. Every particle of food will Frapar y dis tributed. Help usi Rudolph Blankenburg, A.J, Drexel, Jr, Alexander W, Biddie, Committee, boen Ruiesin: | SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FoR | MARCH 27. | Lesson Text: “The Blessings of the Gospel, Isaiah x1, 1-10 (Quarterly Mission Lesson) ~Golden Text; Isaiah x1, 5- Commentary, 1. “Comfort ve, comfort ve, My prople saith your God.” This chapter begins the weoond section of thi great prophecy, which so frequently quoted from by the New Testament writers as words of lsaiah the prophet that believer should be per fectly satisfied that the sans Isaish wrote, by the Spirit, the Math vill, 17; xii, 17; Luke iv “Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem nd ery unto her that her warfare (wp ] time margin ae every whole book Neo } ointed mplished, that her quity pardoned Chis is Jerusalem throne of Jeh the principal Holy Land, r presenting ( ¥ vah the oarth for the redempt the ’ . + 0 redemption For we read, “The me and all the saints ng of our Lord Saints “If we rose again, even us will God xiv, 5; 1 Thom lin Rev, xix, 11-16 we vist shall come in glory Kings and Lord of Lords the Heaven shall follow Him, as He mes to overthrow the beast an 1 the false prophet, and shut up the devil in the bottomless pit hese armies we judge rom their clothiag to be the saints the re loomed from the earth (verses 7, £ 18. The great and ever ra irring question in every i should ba, “Is He my Lord God, and o 1 rejoloe in ty If #0, am 1 by His Vstond fast, unmovabile, always inding in the work of the Lord knowin ny labor is not vain in the Lord? r. xv, OK To be a vessel, empty oan, filed with His Spirit and meet for His service, Is this my honest desire? Lesson Helper in comi ist with all His hat Jesus died and also, which sleep in Him ( 14 wi orm y om oe bring with M1 iv road that ax King of Artes mn lenw : Hin v ~ A - Ix San Francisco they are endeave oring to establish a society to abolish *the annoying anachronism of church bell ringing.® If they succeed in doing this it is to be hoped there may at least be branches In other cities which will take a hand at silencing the discordant chimes which now make hideous the Sunday which should be peaceful. Presroest Parxen, of the World's Fair, has come into possession of a Detroit newspaper, having taken It on a mortgage. Probably he will think It wise to draw his fgll salary trom the Falr hereafter bottle tw HOUSEHOLD AFFALLS. 0 CLEAN and tt ith a tablespoon! 0 tablespoonfuls of nil eve nilk and sugar are some Tamarind Water--Si of tamarinds w stoned waler § yit is, ch ps, yattered Pa. buraing, the i throuzh emon squeszer this Ge ong sf ns as press oul a makes a gravy to pour over a sce or a bit of tenderioin strengthening roast beef ——— Largest Train House in the World. The new Reading terminal Philadelphia, Penn., is to the largest train house in the world, What is termed the {alse work of the great area bas already been begun, Its span will be 299 feet, and height from the ground 120 feet, ‘he train house is to be 555 feot in length. The station proper will te 110 feet in length, making the termine al building 663 feet long. The tran house will be laid out with thirteen tracks at the Market street end, which will be reduced by switches to nine tracks al the Arch street end. The reol will be eon. structed of iron, copper and Woud,== Boston Transcripts station in boast
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