The Methodist Protestant Church has stricken the word *‘obey” riage service, from the mar. The population of Guatemala which, on January 1, 1881, of 1,220,602 inhabitants, had increased to 1,471,025 was on the same date in 1801, accor ling to the last official census. “Fighting with the scabbard when the sword is broken,” was the clever sentence by which its author prize offered by a London paper for the best definition of the word **Pluck.” won a The pay of the American farm laborer has, according to a late report of the United States Agricultural Department, about doubled in the last half century, and compared with other countries it tands first in the rate of compensation. ono The great overflow of rivers covered much of the cotton land in the country. flow, disastrous as it has bec property, may, remarks the New Herald, materially in the needed reduction in the cotton cr he the southwest most fertile This over- mn to life and much aid ity ity Union lays it down as a fact 80 good an autho as teriorated quality of youpg mer ing It seems to be a harbor of last res into the ministry at the present rt persons who find th hey are bl accomplish s The State providing ‘‘that any tax who shall transplant the public highway « of the way it can ananihi sun and with old Time's h calend day science, are af with the execution of Murderer Deeming in Australi cent Monday. Deeming, York Sun, was hangs results often pr parently i x little MLC 35 the le islands on our Pacific otta « 1 ‘1 y Little west ies, Cal., states Yates vlant ccuient of Los Ange the New York Sun. Dr. f says that sheep have found the Gordon herbage growing along the eating, and have destroye was these plants, | bound the sand to the | that the Y are gone the driven by drifted killed most the i becon nsequet ninhabitable, wind or dents cannot abolish the $ sand, it may be neces: ary to baaish the sheep to save San Miguel, Santa Rosa and the other once verdant islands co nplete desolation. that 9% 0 aa wd, It has estimated horses are emp! of London, that their value is 8¢ aud the cost is for food alone $4,000,000 been syed in the ¢ 3,250,000, a year. A rule prevails of foraging the horses on six cents an inch per that is, a horse costs as many quarters of a dollar a week as it stands hands high. The heavier horses employed in the four. horse drays weigh nineteen hundredth York | | toba) f n | of 23,00 arrying trade | week, | weight, The Great Western Railway , Company have 500 h stable at Paddington, in which they have the flocr being most as high as the hotel, TRONS in one four floors one above another, top with a lookout over the station rool. No railway company buys a horse after he is The Midland has 1350 horses, the Great Northern 1300, the Great Western 1100, the Southwestern 8650, the Southeastern 275, and Brighton 225. The London add North. western has only 650 horses, but Pick ford & Co., who do most of the North. western business, have 4000 horses. Car. ter Patterson's, a delivery business, have 2000. The Railway News says the ma. jority of London railway horses work seventy hours a week. In Carter Pat. terson’s, only one parcel in 10,000 jt js said, goes wrorg. As a rule the London railway horse is bought at 8800 and sold seven years old, the new | altor five years’ work at 850 cr $60, The American hog is now a welcome visitor in all the principal countries of Europe. The Methodist Protestant, a published at Baltimore, predicts that wo- paper men will ultimately occupy every po. gition in the church. State to the proposed law The New York Dental takes which classes them as mechanics or Society exceptions mane. ufacturers. They object to being called ‘tooth carpenters.” Professor Buchner, of Darmstadt, Ger. issued interesting His conclusion many, has just an investizations at volume on longevity. th women point to the live longer than men. Frank the financial Leslie's Weekly of Ei nd, Germany and Austria indicate that the led creat teports in from centres gold standard continues to be regar as the commercial safeguard of the powers, Dickson County, Kansas, has a ( Superintendent of Schools, who, he visits schools, takes along tools, saw, hammer, ete,, and the broken seats, decay dilapidated brooms he President of the Winnip Joard of Trade says th }. O00 ’ The it upwards from Ca. was rrowed his incarcerati esent time it is probably Astor of fn , ’ 15 eat {ortune to a siagle mem the policy amily is followed it is plain en in a few years there will be an The Vanderbilt with the interest on it a 11 3 billionaire. n about twenty years amount 1,00 will round it nearly ),000,000 but its other pr yat to that sum perhaps r a dozen It is alto = wr uKely, thinks the Am among us early in tl ten years. that ment prints says that ¢ worn currency United States, never reissues a note w of that English money is alway The Uni greenbacks and National bank nots pays filthy they may be, except, its custom and fresh, receives s and them out again, no matter how of ¢ badly worn for re. nurse, currency that is too Issue. The damaged currency becomes 1 7 3 : Sa a loss to the people, and the Govern ment makes a large hold to be profit on it, which 1 a wrong policy.” The New York Mercury sags: “Twen. ty yearsagoa family inheriting £100,. 009 could count upon a life of Compara. affluence, cent. and upwarl might safely be looked for. Live since an income of ten per To-day, as investments in general go, four per cent, is considere1 a highly profitable income. Within a very few New York and other Eastern money centres will be compelled to find good flelds for the in- of #¥750,000,000 years the savings banks of vestment or perhaps double that vast sum. The surplus cap. ital in New England, seeking profitable investment, is greater than iu New York, and it would be well probably even for Southern enterprises to be more vig. orously pushed in that fleld. In the mean. time capitalists, banks, tru. companies, savings institutions aad other floancial concerns are puzzled where to put their idle capital to the best advantage, There fore, it seems only common sense t> ade vise the purchase either of dividend pay: ing or of dividend promising storks,” TORNADO IN MINNESOTA. The Destroyer Sweeps Through Five Southern Counties. Soores Killed, Buildings Demol- ished and the Crops Ruined, that red One of the worst di ited Southern Minne Sani 6 o'ele Inid wast Ler aver between A torando killed the than ever ita oO i L fow ys ag of happy homes and The greater known in the history of th State, and it was fortunate indeed that no considerable town or village lav in the tornado's path, Starting near Jackson, on ths Southern Minnesota Divison of the ChiBago, Milwau kee and St. Paul Railroad, the tornado swept eastward and passed four miles south of Minnesota Lake, and then took a broad eire! south, and passed south of Vells Cour ( erable rain had fallen furing th vhout 5:3) o'clock he at suffocating form in the in won a wind forty or aexisat of country damage y two t truck a dis twenty injured Sx wrecked : i . Shae - wa wrt La Hed bLtween At Hartland five + was i r farmer, liv ta Lake and 1 injured ounty , f 3 peo; I hey wer nyYevar AWAY of or (rend all kinds of mostly swept A BIG HAUL, Men Robbers Relieve Two ina Car of S16.000 in Con 1 robbery A bo ACT OE Cal. In Oakland ol car ware robbs they were a company, who started Francisco on the 11 ipled a seat ar uext to the baggage « As the train » wed u stitered the front 4d aisle, stopped Mortenson the bags over the yatal ir na #1 Oe presente | pists (+ilson and Mort sacks then Ih Olin was | were other passengers in was reading a newspapar completely be ! the pistols pointal in taneously w.th the dema the oo The train started almost Lmvasdiately the two train rob ers backed out of the « eovermg Ullson and Mortenson with their pistols as they escaped. The money taken was 215.00 in gold andl $1000 in silver, It revressnted a fortnight s wages of 40) men | he robbers had provided themselves with a buggy drawn by a bay horse in which 1 escape, loto this they stepped and drove rapidly away, The buzey wat founl later hitohal in Oakland, The sides had been coverad itn sheet iron so as to guard against bullets io case the men wears fired upon, LL ———.. r——— Coroxel HEXDRICK Vox Star, of Dene mars, end Miss Mildred Hammond, of Balti more, Md, a few days ago were martied In a cemetery over the graves of the bride's parents, we two fac» Ix California this sammer an odd indus ty will be the cultivation of pampas plums, which for the imposing display they make are carried about in the political parades, 4) ' ; THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States, Mns, Jares Lenoy af r pours | kerosens on the kite : one child killed and child fatally injured. AN Italian le conviet in the Peon } Penitentiary, after a vain to kiki his ke \ Ima ring Mn Tire mother Eastern attempt per plunge 1 a knife into 1 stomach of a fellow conviet and then himself by cutting his throat Tre fire burned ome hundred bulldines sit uated ; treet between Blinpary ra, Benn ned Rock and Main I'he water supply and or Mil in Chie alm ost int | 1 Hike pave out Of burne i SENATOR ALDI algeted by the Gov Republicans of Pr twin tv . twenty. honor ne guns in hi Gesenar Horace Poi resident of the Bo lety of y nacat the reunion In S Horatio « 1 ware ri {TER wa aloe ti 1* Army of ral I'ruesdale reasurer Ki » King sins, Fast. vis Far nin in diameter, rton Tar conferrses on the River bill, after being in conferen failed Lo agres Tie House « resentatives passe | the Fortification Aporour at m bill wit ¢ fivision The mens nriat » | $6, 32. 427 lon i wa by th make a further and Haroor thras days, or £1.71 f yt : (Ei E) last Congrew Authority th for eortain Tre fiftieth anniver Hu presentative and diana, apartmen r Ms wer H and Mr reoel 1 en from vas in the i tha punch bowl, with ladle of the sa Rear Apinar E. A. K. Bex: ben ordered to hoist his flay and to procesd to and assum the South Atlantic Station Tre State Department has the resignation of the President been Foreign, FIrry THOUSAND workmer in and around Barcelona, Spal: ployers have offerel to wventy-five cents a day, bu been rejected by the strikers GLADSTONE told ¢ London Trades Cou eight-hours question upon his consideration, that the rest of his life was dedicated to the cause of Home Rule, icing spontane Tie Democrats of O im ninatel sev an dru Ma Bar fented by the & £ 1o ele I'me State ( MeEnery factions t n Louisiana at patched up a truce in tee which was ratified tions Each oonventi the delegates re LL.D. WELLING lias been nominated Governor by the People's party in Kansas met ts (74 jnct Ax artificial rain company, w rking on the Melbourne plan, produc] rain at Good jand, Kan. breaking a drouth of several weeks’ duration and saving the erops from jestruction. The farmers ars jubliaat A DISASTROUA collision occurred between freight trains in the Twelfth street yards at St 1ouis Mo., by waich two irom pillars UT ng the Twelfth street bridge were broken down and nearly 100 the widge roa lway leveled to the gr The lamagze will exceed 83) Tne wheat harvest is in full blast in rn Ka The grain is excellent i nt The report from a larger yield fest of aad, mm south AS {1 the An lion nts indicates early ail p than last year of Warrace, the murderer of Henry le, a peddier, has been hanged near Jas- ar, Marion County, Tenn The execution was witnessed by 10,000 people. The gal lows was erected fifteen miles from the al n a valley surroundel by high hills, on which the spectators stood, Washington, ALL, the European Governments except Rusia have accepte 1 the Presidents luvia tion to a monetary conference L.W. Hansnoou, fifth anlitor of the Treasury, called at the White House and tendered his resignation to the President He redgne to enter the practice of law in Washington and to resume his newspaper work Grunnat Eur T. Eracxnovee, Member of Congress from he Bixth District of South Caroling, and a prominent member of the Farmers Alliance, Med in Washington a few mornings ago of heart failure, Ho was ome of the narty that accompanied the ms maine of the late Colona! LL. L. Polk, Presb dent of the Farmers’ Alllancs to Raleigh, N C. Mr. Stackhouse was born in Marion, 8, C,» March 27, 1824, Zu aco, Vics Pres ROMINENT PEOPLE, woell's now under forty, id years ag re on Princ {ward Isdand | of Bpain is already be. very royal--and n't get what he ung King & $O «XUIDIT som? iman—traita, Wher ants he flies into a rage, like the dead we royalties that bistory telis us of migh be is only six years of age, hoe is trying hard to raise a mustache ——— CHILDREN SLAIN, Canadian Schoolhonses Blowa Down on the Papils, Montreal, iamiage A toraado straok ana la, and did a great amount of terrible to life and proparty The santry places, At Si Lachute anil Ottawa » 11% 10 hava basn moet severa wt. Rose is a summer { disas'r Ross, Valley most it ia Jeans, thy damage tornado wa ye R resort om the lin» of the Canadian Paszific Rallway, twenty miles from Montreal, There the scaodlhouse was blown down while thirty childrsa wer? in side, who were buries! in thas ruins. From six to ten of the cohilirea ware killed oat right and most of the others re2rivel serious injuriss. The school mistress was injaral fatally, At St. Theresa, another town on ti Cans dian Pacific Raliway. the schoyslaouss was blown down oa forty children, twos basing killed outrightasd osha fatally iajared Ex Mayor MaoElroy, of Tenjistia, Oa tario, was kitlal, Hu raidencr was purisld and dashed nto frag nrats walle tas fa nliy wera seated at tea Two chlldren wore while playingin the stresi, are reported from every pact of the prov. nos and graat loss of life was feared, Han dreds of houses have ben damlishr i ant tae damage am) ante 50 han leads of thm sands of dollars, while maay families wars left homeless, This was the worst storn ever known in that part of the country, Tho wind blew with terrific foroe and the raise fell in torrents ascompanisd by thunder aa’ lightning. killel nsar Baloail Maay a22 dents A LARGE number of Japanese are prepar ing to emigrate to the United States. About 1000 will eclonize in the Sandwich Islands. DOWN WITH THE BRIDGE A False Structure Falls in Ken tucky With Fatal sults, al i 1 Many Drowa TX nv lr vi 4 | PRR Workman Plunges with It ROA LYNCHED FOUR. Workmen Hang for Murder American Italians { a murder and st been reo laborer . And when be ti liering f talians Nelso was ground sallants dro crowbar his head, killing } The Americans at the camp. numbers about sixty, became 0 euraged over the brutal murder that they seized the Italians, an i in the presence of 150 countrymen, strung them up to a tree The place where the iynching ooccurrad is forty miles from the nearest railroad sta- tion, on the line of the Everett & Monte Cristo Road, now being built from Hart ford, { seven miles north of Seatlie, to the Monte Cristo Mines —— KILLED AT THE MONUMENT. Lightning's Work at the Big Grant Statue a Chicago verpowered and thro While he was down ’ the point of oy Thre njured ¢ persons were killed, two seriously 1d the Grant Monument in Lincols short Geree which visited Chicago, Ill, » nights The killed were Lewis , Mre. Shelby, of Chicago, and an un- nan The injured were Harry and Mrs Mattie Olsen, also of amazed ina but kines The catastrophe was the result of a bolt of Hghtning which struck the monument in the corridors of which nearly fifty persons sought shaiter, At the first sigus of the an. proaching storm, Lincoln Park, in which the monument stands, was covered with people who had prepared to enjoy the cool of the vening. The storm began with a slight shower which rapidly de veloped into a small burrios Atom. panied by a downpour of rin, vivid Oashes of lightuiag and terrific pails of thunder. When its fury was at its height, a blinding flash struck the status, taking its course fire:t'y through the little crowd which had sought safety in ite enclosures, Everybody, with the exception of three men, was thrown to the ground but all were uninjured except those named, The bolt did not strikes ¢ wrongs figure of Grant and the damage to the monument will be covered by a few jollars, UFFICIAL 1 wis as 10 the Russian hary- (81 prospects show that the general outiook is much worse than it was in the early sum. mer of 1891. Locusts have destroyed the Cropa in the O the stores of grain in which district the situation last autumn,
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