THE G. A R ENCAMPMENT Monster Parade of the Vete- rans at Washington. Details of the Order's Twenty gixth Reunion, The first day of the twenty-sixi annual encampment of the G A. R., held this year at Washington, opened with Jair weather, erowds of veterans and visitors and many interesting ceremonies. The feature of the day was the dedication of Grand Army Place, the old white lot, just south of the Executive Mansion. The ceremonies were preceded by a parade. The procession consisted of five brigades, commanded by General Eugene A. Carrusa, as follows: Troop of the recular army, na- wal batteries and marines. District Nation sl Guard, Post of the Department of the Potomac, G. A. R. and Sons of Veterans [t started at ten o'clock from Second street west of the Capitol and proweeded up Ponn- svivania avenue to a stand in front of tha Treasury, where it was reviewed by Vice. President Morton. : At noon Commander Palmer, address from the grand stand, declared the encampment opened, He then read the fol- lowing telegram from President Harrison: Loox Lake N, Y., September 18, 1802 General John Palmer, Commander -in-Chiel G. A. RR: 1 had looked forward with much interast to the great rehearsal in Washington nex Tuesday of the victors’ march of would have esteemed it one of the hi honors of my public life to have welcome to the National Capital and to have received in its historic avenue this representative as sembly of the men who not only saved the city from threatened destruction, but made it the worthy political capital of an un n Union. It would also have been one of most favored and tender incidents o private life to have taken these comrades again by the hand, but all this has been de- nied to me by the intervention of a sad and imperative duty, and I can only ask you to give to all my cordial greetings and good wishes, Accept my sincere thanks for your very kind and sympathetic message. Bexsaviy HARRISON, that he had from 16 sider mt he in a short 1845 ) { my General Palmer announced received word was iraw a 1 tha: cond Day pie wh streets, of fluttering be attested t “vy ty their owners, cheered on of hundreds of school triotica bh Grand Army of the R mar ’ i by had yad 1 hy 1 il each side the Capitol partment wasas pi lecorators’ skill cou Ihe weather was perfect { those rich aut hir n is {amo tween ne ’r = nsylivani rt gh They mar 1 avol led Tr pre the GG. A 4 a S s« Department o i Ale was vou | 4 they presented an at Necretary which was the numbers, cavalry ng line tment ¢ State banner Sate and thirty. rode past at insyivanians, the procession in { her crack the head of the | wh men ' P. OK up the whois time iL here were pr Hoe, and it took an hour them to pass one point Ohio's marchers were distinet way and were probably abs unique as A MAL for in their ranks ping briskiy siong like the piainest © tigen, was ex President tutherford B, Hayes President Hayes received great cheering alo whole line of march. He marche aloot, hat was in his hand most thas t WAYIRZ & COurieous respons the kindiy greetings he constantly received There were 30 y ten in line The Empire 8 ate posts followed the O rans, riages their head Blocum and Rosecrans and Br Kiyn posts tas bably and ve in every utely hing body, stop. v th g th BRO Ds ne 1 55) Of lose upon two car Kise vet and m one of ro Generals BS we Now York City od Now York de nent New York also had ma procession, and one ile eightee arriel in a body grested with applause It took New York Just one hour 10 pass, and the Empire State representatives would have been much long r n going by were it not for the fact that by lirection of the Commander in "hiof orders had been ven t ip the ranks, waleh thereto. hs had been rather open There were ap proximately SN) of the New Yorkers Connecticut's troops, about 3X0, were all neat and fne-Jooking men, with good large bands Finally, at 6.186 of last veteran had passed by, the grand parade of the twenty«ixth ansual encampment of the G A. IL. was over, and was ready to be written an unqualified sucosss in the page of G. A. R history. In every way it had equalled the expectations of ita projectors. More men were in line than at any other Grand Army parade, An estimate closs on to 5,000 men would not be far from the mark. The appearance of the men was highly creditable to to the organization. Third Day. Hoon after sloven o'clock Benjamin Palmer the enoam pment in due form. After rayer by the Ohaniain in Ume!, Rav, BB, ry of Ocean Grove, N. J. the Come mittee on Credentinle reported the delegates present; then the Commander.in-Cualef bee gan reading his annual addres The first part of General Falmer's addres wan dev to speaking of the aporopriate. ness of Washington as ths place of reunion for the veterans of the war, and to re. miniscences and associations conneted with the spot. Speaking of the returns of the Union Army on ita disbandment to civil duties and avoeations, he said that every avenue of business life numbers former by thousands and tans of they. battle flags in ber ion of about WAN eVervywhers poi Book, the review of his work whila Comnmander-in- Chief followed All that he said on the sub- ject of pensions was as follows; “The vassage of the Disability bill under date of June 27, 18.00, was so munificent in its scope, providing pens ons to all honors ably discharged soldiers suff swing from man=~ tal or physical disabilities, recognizing the service of a class who by lapse of tims ware unable to furnish the testimony of their comrades as to the origin of thelr disabili- ties, requiring only the certificate of a phy- sician and the examination by a pension board, that no additional legislation was sought by the last National Encampmoant, The Pension Committee have endeavored to have corrected certain inequalities in the ratings which were not commensurate with existing disabilities, from which many com- rades are suffering, all of which will be given to you in detail by the ¢ ymmittee.” At the conclusion of the address the re- ports of the Adjutant-General, Quarter master-General, Surgeon-Gieneral and Judge-Advoeate General were submitted, The report of Adjutant-General Fred Phisterer gives the total exoenditures of bis office during the fiscal year as §11,500, and us the per capita tax of two cents par mems- ber produces an income of but $8000, the Adjutant-General says that the tax shoul i be at least three cents per member per an- wum. He says that semi-annual returns from posts and departments are unnec gary, and that annual reports will suffices, He also calls the present inspection sys- tem unsatisfactory and cumbersome, and thinks that the installing officer of a post could also act as its inspecior. A revision of the present rules and regulations is also recommended. The number of persons en- titled to seats at the present encampment is stated at 1148, of which 453 are repressnia- tives-at-lar ze and apportioned according to membership December 31 last, During the last calender year thare was a gain of 220 in the number of posts, making the total number 7508, There was a gain in membership of 64,401, but the losses were 66.100, leaving the number of members in good standing December 31 last 407,781, an apparent loss of 1708 This loss is said to be appaent, becauss in one department it was found near.y three thousand hal been added out au. thority and the returns previously made wers incorrect, so that there was actually a hundred in the total snizgation., Daring the yoar deaths numbered 6474: honorably discharged, 15.0; transfers, 9 sions, fishonorable dis gain ol i LWaivae strength the suspen. sharges, 467, and delinquents, 13,552, Commenting on the (i anoeral {t nn wo sald that the mem - (GGeand Army is now at it no doubt, will reman about y {ew years to come losses, SAYS A at from July $00 011 was ex w the relief oldiery’ widows i the total expendi! 1871, to Jun | 1891, was irns show t hr 11 1&0 ’ arious p sts { mrades, jutant-Lreneral rrect, believes and says unt was of expenss during the yea wastage and incidentals, the Grant Monument sap of the in his report says that at the close il year June 3), 1801 ¢ 078 pensioners on the rolls, a appropriations agzrezated §! addition to these vast expenditures or the merous Gov a! There are ernment cemetarics kept up by Government appropriation fhe m and interestiag fea. rs of the al’eraoon was the selec indianapolis as the place where the nnual encampment will held sanounoed that she would test, and Governor a, had made an address ex- antazes of Indianaapiiis tod by scclamation. The adjourned till 9 3 MRsIOn yaa of 2 bo alter Iodia ad 18 sele ! w- thea Fourth Day. Minny w { Grand A nander-in IZ YEA Was the prince pa encampment, Captain A. Or Milwaukee, Wis., was chosen amation, Colonel Lincoln thdrawing Ensampment tings of the | eo Wonan's Reljef « isanrt by ace his prin. ’ orgasizations im ber t corps and ber reuni ations were held { 1 were he the mm amp vote, defeated the propos tion t msn Hersh) n the gran! offic rs an! ex-post comman lors A warm the election of Commander resulted in the H. Warfisld, of San Francis mander Pabmer's position on the « was sustainad by tae encampment his having exhausted the business o ampmen? ostallation of officer for the ensuing year jenth, of Penneyivania, Comnander-in jlef, obligation After the new der«n-Chief had been installed asked Mf he could name his personal staff for the year. He answered that at present he was preparad to pams but one, E. B. Gray, of Miiwaukes, t> bs Adjutant General, Comrade Gray then came for. ward and was inducted into offica by Com rade Heath The new | ymander-in-Chief then as sumed the gavel and deslared the Twenty sixth Nationa! Encampmont adjourned sine die, by an ning leny life encampment to past (teat over Hen Ww Abe fe on the et he tok piace L the ranking administering mrade Past the Comman hae was — A HUSBAND'S ACT, He Shoots Has Wife, Kills Ris Mother, and Wounds His Brotherdn- Law Dessanpedro, a painter Hving in the Pasy Quarter of Paris, rance, shot his wife, killed bis mother, and mortally ‘wounded bis brother<ndaw a few evenings ago. The killing was done in Desanpedre's home, He did not live happily with his wifeand in the afternoon returned home hall drunk. He began abusing mother and wife, and finally struck the Intter, When her brother interfered, Desanpadro shouted that they were all in lea sus against him. He threatensd to kill then all, and started for a back room where he keph his revolver, His brother indaw followed him and grappled with him, The painter shook him ys ROL the revolver, and shot him in the side, then caught his wife, who had started to run down the hallway, crowded her back into the room, and shot har in the breast. His mother seream ol for help and tried to open a window, He shot her four times in the back and she fell dead, | hilt by | suaded that thers will be | in making a variel display at | slenhants, so that visitors can take rides WEAVER AND FIELD, A Joint Address Acoepting People's Party Nomination, the JAMES RB. WEAVER. Generals Weaver and Field, the People's President and Vice- of their to the which GENERAL Party candidates for President, accept the nominations party in the form of an addres people of the United States given out for publication in Pensacola, Fla, After announcing their hearty acc wd with the Omaha platform, they say: “We have already, one or visited fifteen States in the N South, and if h and spared wa intend to continue the campeign is closed, “We have been received by of the peoy le with marked « enthusiasm manifested every simply without parallel and extends to of the Union thus far visited, “By contact with the people i with Dean to was both « wih us, Lhe 1 are rk until mith the great bo wdiality, 1 i b jo come acquaint their sufferings, and face with the manifo ously threaten throw of popu nave 1 peril remunerat “Ths ArT WORLD'S FAIR NOTES Tne inte r World's df Fair Tur British bailing at the Wor will wong its d rations flags the OR ities of the 1 K arin Tnited Meats for 125,000) are 1 Mm pro vided in the great Manulacturs i he World's Fair for the dedi Lon exer wy Det Tnx rfatsan: ™m x wt uring a v 3D ling at 1 ® faving t } wornen and wut to ys World's Fair Ths allway station " « Fair grounds, w main rans HES a handsome In will arg» £re mmo iate $ the World's Fair lines of the i Norse stave chur but with Wwe a ' ™ batlding Is being constructed in hh fen an} will to Chicago in se billing at . on the SWEDENS 194 heen hes, Nw tone i» sent wiliective ax. World's Tur propossd building for a merchant tallors at Fair will probably be near Fisheries building. As planned, it will fifty five feet square with a portico extendiag to the the the In | lagoon Prusox’s in Bombay, India, are per ensiderable profit the Worl I's over (wealve “in howdah with mybout to give sxhithitions of suttes, cremation, juggiery, naated, wrestling, sto, and to sell tea at ten cents a cup. They expect to sell a million cups, AT an expenses equal to about 8550, an in dustrial school at vuntoor, India, will make a notable exhibit at the World's Fair, The exhibit will be entirely of articles mals by Mohammedan women, and It is statad that none of their work has ever been exhibited st an international or national fair A small drawing room in the Woman's build - ing will be furnished with articles made by the pusils of the school Daven County, Pan, will send for sxhitition in the Woman's buliding at the World's Fair an elaborately carved table of extraordinary historical interest. It will be composed of woods taken from the yoke of the famous “Liberty Bell” fron the houss in which the first American flag was made, irom Washington's headquarters at Valley Forge fron the old ship Constitu« tion, and from a pillar in Indepmdence Hall, The u; surface will bs iniatd with Indian arvow hades, relics of the Mix Na tions, with whom what 1s now Dauphin County wasonos a favorite hunting ground. em Fair. They send propose "n — Tax ils of Kiolly are RAILROAD FATALITIES Great Loss of Life Attending Three Wrecks. Robbers Derail a Train But Miss the $1,000,000 Booty. The eastbound night express on the Santa Fa track by would-be train robbers, thrae miles east of Osage City, Kan, at three o'clock the other morning and about tallroad was thrown from the Four men were killed twenty-five persons seriously injured The train, consisting of a baggage, ox- press and mail car, two day coaches, two chair cars and three sleep:rs, was thrown over an embankment threa feet high, and the first five cars pilet on top of the engine Eaginesr Edward Hayer stated before he died that he had seen that the rails had been loosened and turned so as to derall the train, and, being unable to stop in time, had tried to ‘ump the ohetrnetion There ware 81 000 000 ary bonds Mees in Boston, in ths safe in ar. and it was probably the mistaken im f the wreckers that amount that caused them to wreck in Maxican subsidi sonsigned to the Mexican Central the express gression o the Was In currency the train The three remained on the track passengers were extricatod from the tales cars and a relief train summoned from Topeka, thirty miles to the northeast The relief train yeloek in the that t wlentwrs that city at Neveral pas men returned to foren on ZOrs say a number of the brush near by immediately after The toolhouss at Barclay st of the " me of the acc font, night before and a od, Leveral empty bottles were found in a pool of of the HW near the s ne wreck roe men bad iain in Kk wand leading from the raliway track ched the train vf the 11 that the fis noved and the irawn from t to the inside ind where ti tracks ware fo Burned in the Wee A Fatal Collision JTisems ia Ba 8 AT ROCKAWAY, Totally Almost Fire The Famous Resort Ident royed hy SEAWAS Avs Nearly ' { amusement AGG saveras slo res shore for a miy a heap mewhers In ye body of ape from yore the | ro 3 Wis fame am OD attem pla ue her was horribly althouzh bis injuries were not necessary (ata The fire started in Johan Cornish's Seasid Dime Museum, on Seaside aveaus, abont! half way between the of wm and the bea flames atta along the besch { Nwanide wml tulddings wh Hotel, Murra & Grand Ocean Hotel, the New York Poterson & Barry's Hotel, Meyer's pavilion and pler the Columbus Rowh's Hotel, the annex of Wain. Smith's Hotel, Walnwright & n, Barchell's groowy H Krusw's Hote Peterson's pool room fire tower, the Garrisn's Hotel, ant a the beach the Hotel Btutigart, the Ooean House. the Columbia, Sobhuber’s Hotel, Morrisotrs Hotel tae Grand Republic Hotel, the Hotel Albermarie and the St J ames nthe Boulevard Boside these buildings, which are all large size, a host of smaller Gulldings occupied as drug, © gar, los cream and « andy stores, and shooting galieries, were dmstroved With thet went merry-go-toun is, carousaly to boggan slides, ani the dos mw of similis de v.ces always found at seaside resorts mneill wh burnt and 0 aks) 1] holes sides e pring Loliinss rug store ani w Hou electrio light station the » the o— sa CONDITION OF CROPS. The Government Statisticians port for September, Ne ee The Etatistician’s Feport, submited ty the of that there has boon a dedline in the comdition of In with September reports of the past ten yoars only three were lower 1800, 1587 and 1984 {be September average condition of wheat, ss harvested, Is 53.3, of winter, 87 4 and spring, 51.9 Alhough these fi ures show a oi tht decline from those for wheat for the corresponding month in 180. it nevertheless higher than for five years in the preceding ten, The condition of oats is very uafavorable, there being a decline sinos June, The con« solidate! cousty returns of the present month show a decline of mors than seven points, the average of 78.0 reported for the month being the lowest, with one axesption, ever reported The condition of rye and barley has changad bat little, although the harvest season has been badly handicappel by rain and storms, The condition of potatos Is very unfavor. able, the average being, with two XC Hous, the lowest aver reported for Bapten. Cotton is lower than in any Siptember sings 1843, : PAren-niANoEns are about the only men who succeed in business by going §ituings. Department Agriculture, shows corn for Neptember, 00 DPArison to the wall, Texas EE LT h » i MES, HARRISON REMOVED, The President's Sick Wile Returns to Washington, ns PENIAMIN HARRIBON, Iake, N. Y. President decided to nutain air at pr ved beneficial to n's siek wife re- move her to Washingt At 11 doiock a bo Harrison's jour. ney was begun by b transfer to the Jong which she was © road station, mountain veyed to miles distant Four strong men « 1 her on a stret to the ident and Dr ner walks wm either side, each |} f the pa ie nree nr her Gard. ' ding ome ner was a large and the wazon he Pre stret arefally mnforia and the Pr WRZONn on nurse, THE ANARCHIST'S DUE. two Years Prison For Mr Friek's Twenty in Ausatiant 18) that he another ballet th Alsar. appears alter the x was salen the « th wasring at that ved showing ol farnitnre was ah Mr shorting ng that tine lerkmann was then ssied and said said in broken Eaglish di { wanted to shot Mr. Laishman Frick said he did not know about jolt the stan! Mr. Laishman, Vier negle Steal Company, who was in Mr Friek's private office at the time, sail that he did not ses Berkmann nor know of his presence until h#® heard the revolver shot He grappled with Berkmana, who trie to shoot him, but the weapon missed fire. Mr Frick came to Mr, Lelsh man's assistance, and together they grappled with Berimann, who then drew the knife an | stabbed Mr, Frick waveral times Berkmann sald: “That statement is un true.” and asked Mr. Lelshman, “Are you positive | tried to shoot you™ “1 am comitive my statsments are correcl™ was r. Lotshman's answer, Here the prosecution rested. and Berke mann asked for an interprater, which Was granted, He then said, “i am not guity 1 have a defene "and then be began to res irrelevant matter from a large roll of paper, The statement was an anarohistic and in. flammatory addres, writtsn in German, rerkmann continued his harangus irom 11:45 until 1:08 o'clock, when the Lourt shut him off. The Distriots Attorney did not wae i" he hal any No." Then he yi think that | too®™ Mr that, and questions to ask hairman of the Car. make an address, saying that arunent was’ UANPOMATY Judge MoClung made a brief caarge, and the Jury returns i a verdict of guilty on all seven indiounents without leaving the box. The Judge pronounce] sentencs al onos, ag- ting ty<ns years the peni- one year to the workhouse, Just sentences was “awe | Bergmann wud he rod not obtaloel justion, nor had he ox THE LABOR WORLD, A Priscy FAILROAD strikes are increasing, ot a Mos ow cab. Our telephones employ 816% persons TexTILE Cupsres, 1, has are first in Russia indostr.oe, several females butehera, Ex raess messengers hava organized labor anions in Chicago and Bt, Louis is of (FAMEKEZPFERS In the Highlan Boot. land bave struck for higher wage FREIGHT -WAXDLERS organizing 8 international union of their trade Tue telegraph wators have failed their «fforts WO form a new brotherhood Propose op in Srrixes of the Paris cabmen are monthly, They never last more than twenty-four bours ¥ ork has been tin wine of California beciuse went as Lo Wages. the Temescal of a disagree. stopped in Tur laundry girls of Lozansport, Ind. re- peutly organized a union and marched iu a body in the Labor Day parade. Tix Pennsylvania Eallway has ders to all its employes raquiring est cleanliness both as to pers company's property. Lospox railway esfreshme ma work from per day, and many of them are fed on has w eft fourteen to fifteen mn castomery’ plates corn cutters in the vicinity « Oto AN Bee t the patent r iting have formed hE ’ yd LO WO : wd by the organized France, jemand whday, says that at present ey ours keep the un lertaker ivy b wkers o who the gh of t irw ear need « ey where and bearing Hew} WTS iwgiand per the walls Tene are mills in ildren work seventy b wonk, on laughter mn wi placards * 3 wd those lege toria W M rs Vie President oodbnall of Ame f the elect Slates nS or Lussiay Ad nen ma NT AQTAN FATAL EXPLOSION, Leven Lives Lost by the Barsting of a botler enty lefinitaly exploded Le One was un ale The bole fort, residenon eb pi scattered in all direction ut the hoa the neighborhood escaped with afew br WIiDJOUWE, SE — - LABOR RIOTS. trol of a Mob are reported fr Indies he met Fierce labor riots Thomas in the West YM and they them After a allied out near « In injured e shot were the Eaglish bank sharp fight a soldiers wee seversly with stones and several colored men the troops were driven back When the order for retreat was given the mob abe tacked 0 hotly that the soldiers broke ranks and fis The worst element then had almost com. ete possession of the city. Soores of houses Pe won entered and plundered by bur Binrs Many of the wealthiest families tosk refuge on their ships for fear that thay might become victims of fire ani outrage in the oily which sleve lt I... A MOTHER'S CARELESSNESS, It Results in the Death of Her Four Children The four children of Mrs. Eckenbach were burned to death at Missouri Valley, lows, a few mornings ago. They were sleeping wp wairs Their mother tried to fill a lighted gasoline stove and an explosion fo lowell. She threw the stove down stairs and ran down herself to extinguish the flames, The fire rapidly spread, and before help arrived the house was a mam of Sames The bodies of the children wore burned to a ‘“. BATTLE IN DAHOMEY. The Natives Lose 1200 Killed and Wounded. Advices from Porto Novo, Africa, sy thet the troops under Colonel Dodds, commander of the land foroes of France in Dahomey, met and defeated 400 Dabomeyans ab In tad four hours. The Dabs
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