Su Every Northern State west of the Al- leghanies has a State university, ’ London publishers are said not to relish the increasing sale in that city of the American magazines and pericdi- cals, According to the New York Indepen- dent *‘business is growing more active at nearly every important point, whether in the East, West or South.” A well-informed statistician has stated that more Hebrew synagogues have been set up in this country during the past ten years than in all previous years of American history. The popular subscription of $13,000 raised in New York City to provide for sick babies did a great Over 116,000 families were visited and 10,000 sick were prescribed for. I work. over The Boston Transcript laments that whales are getting almost as scarce as sea serpents, and that whalebone is get- ting to cost so much that dressmakers’ bills aro just about half ‘‘for trim mings.” The Kalmucks have an original method of treating Whenever one of them 1s by the epidemic he mounts a horse and gallops as long as he cholera, attacked has strength tostay on the animal’s back. A Russian journalist tried this remedy recently and is said to have found it ef- fectual. Columbus is everywhere, the Now York Journal winds seem to shout his tho very Even lectures exclaims, and name, the yacht clubs talk of having on the voyage of Columbus, and before the winter is over some of them may be debating the question * Was Columbus much of a sailor?” It was lately quoted in British shipping | ciroles as a proof of the depression affect- | ing the shipping trade that a splendid four-masted iron bark of 2000 tons reg- ister, owned on the Clyde, came into port from Australia in ballast, was un. able to get a cargo, and sailed back for the antipodes again with the same ballast she brought with her, The Azores are to be connected with Europe by cable and European weather prophets are indulging in the hope that the islands so eligibly situated in mid- Atlantic ocean may be utilized as meteo- rological stations. As most of the Euro- pean storms come from that quarter the Chicago Herald thinks that a station in the Azores would be of the utmost value to science as well as to the world's com mercial marine, The railroad building of 1892 in the United States is estimated by the New York Independent at a little less than 4000 miles. This 4000 miles will bring the railroad mileage of 175,000 the country up to an aggregate of miles. Oaly 10,000 miles of railroad were built from | 1830 to 1851; during the next five years | as many more were built, and then the increase was greater until 1887, when 12,800 miles were built, the largest num- ber of new mileage recor led in any one year. J Capitalists are preparing to establish a line of steamers between Portland, Ore. gon, and the Band wich Islands to obtain a share of the trade which Ban Francisco now mcnopolizes, The islands last year paid to San Francisco firms $373,000 for flour and $465,000 for grain and feed. Portland can supply these staples cheaper than its rival, and in return for them expects to bring bananas, pineapoles; mangoes, and other fruits to its own door, loeal “There is no reason why Portland should As a qerchant puts it: pay San Francisco a commission on our fruits, should pay Ban Francisco a commission on Oregon flour and feed. mercial relations must prove profitable both to Portland and the islands, and I see no reason why the enterprise should not be sa success.’ TR In an Eastern paper appears a lament over the departure of the typical grand. mother. A pretty picture is drawn of the gray haired old lady that is a mom ory of childhood, with her sweet and patient face and gentle manners. Thea it is affirmed that she is no more. In her place has come a woman who uses rouge and has her children's children call her ‘‘Auaty:” There would be reasuns for lamentation had the grand. mother really vanished, admits the San Francisco Examiner; but she hasa't, The Eastern writer may have been deprived of one, and may have seen a specimen or two of the bogus aunty. But the grandmother is a fixture, household she Is the central object of af. fection, as sweet and gentle as ever, Manners of living change, and not al wags for the better, but they have never changed so mdically and badly sm to oliminate the grandmother, and when they do the time will have come lo write civilization # failure, and no reason why the islands Closer com | various rsilroads | | tions from Government | information relative to the | troops in large bodies. | they are addressed In many a Ex-Senator Edmunds says immigra- tion is the vital problem to-day. A Berlin journal makes the admission that the best and most skillful dentists in Germany are of ‘American citizen. i ship.’ Goldwin Smith spoke at an annexa- tionist meeting in Ootario, Canada, the other day, that the country was either at a standstill or de- declaring whole clining in prosperity. The father of the Daiton boys, two of whom were shot recently while trying to rob a bank in Kansas, says they were in- fluenced to begin their career of crime by reading sensational detective tales and other such books. There is an unwritten law among as- tronomers that when new bodies are dis. covered in the heavens they are not to receive the names of their finders, nor of Without exceptécn taken from any other person. the celestial nomenclature is Greek and Roman mythology—not only the gods and mortals enjoying this dis- tinction, but beasts, from Pegasus to Medusa, things of mythological association, and oceasiovally inanimate Says the St. Louis Republic: A sen- sible innovation which Mrs. Harrison in- troduced at the White House was the abandonment of handshaking at recep - tions that made the evening one of to ture to all her prede easors., She man aged this with much tact, by carrying a i mand snd a bouquet in the other, so that persons seeing her han 1 full, offering a handshake she could were spared the awkwardos “The dreaded dis familiar to New York, observes the San Francis “we know it well because | here on so many vesse No one has been able to It is something like e¢ | far more swift and deadly in its effec and science has n t discovered any cure for it. is like many South Sea island maladies which show that earthly paradise there is always tl of the serpent.” Incidental to the war flurry occasioned by the Chilean affair officers of the received communica. officials asking movement of Secretary Elkins J: 1 Baltimore has received a letter from Odel the General Manager of and | Ohio road, stating that since the R. encampment at Washington | able to reply to the inquiry. 1 trunk lines, he says, interior to the coast distance at 1000 in thirty hours, necessary equipment, supplies. At the same these roads can move enough commercial supplies so as not to affect the general business of the country, According to the New York Times it is better in that city to be a crimiasl than to know anything of his crimes. It the house of detention a jail where witnesses draws a very forbidden picture of y are kept sometims for long periods of unfliequenily while the deeds time, and not criminal, of whose evil they are supposed to be cognizant, is enjoying There is a detail of polic attached to the house as a guard, has liberty on bail. No written communications are permit. ted to be received by any unfortunate in. mates unless they are delivered unsealed to the Sergeant in command, who, upon reading them, determi nes whether they shall be delivered to the persons to whom No persons are al lowed to visit or converse with the per. sons under detention except with the written permission of the Superintendent of Police, the District Attorney, or the | committing magistrate, and then only in the presence of the Sergeant in com- mand, The idence of its first quarter only, and con. Nineteenth Century, on the ev sidering men and women of genius alone, can be shown to be one of the greatest centuries in the of the world, Born in the first yoars of this period were the following suprems *‘oate- gory ol the illustrions” in the order of their birth; Cardinal Hugo, the older Dumas, Ranke, Land. seer, Emerson, Liebig, Hawthorne, Cob. den, George Band, Sainte Beuve, Hans Andersen, John Stuart Mill, Longfellow, Lee, Kossuth, Agwssiz, Lincoln, Dar win, Mrs. Browning, Tennyson, Gad. stone, Pow, Cavour, de Musset, Thack. ery, Boght, Lisst, Leverrier, Brown. ing, Dickens, Greeley, Beecher, Wagner, Bismarck, Mommsen, Ruskin, Lowell, George Eliot, Herbert Spencer, Genersl Sherman, Huxley, The fact that the omissions ure nearly as imposing figures in the world as the list here presented emphasizes the grandeur of the Niue: tenth Century, history twenty-five spirits, picked out of a larger Newman, Victor | selves uninjured hastened to | It was difficult work, owing to the | gether, and | partment | the | deo rated for that and | gOme years ago, An Increase | Treasury, | MANGLED AND BURNED, | THE News eeroowize. A Frightful Rail way Accident in Yorkshire, England. ———————— Half a Score of Passengers Perish | and Thirty Injured. An appalling railway accident early a few mornings ago near Yorkshire, England, on the day after the accident was placed at from nine to thirteen. About per- sons were injured, The express train burgh every evening for London running at full speed as it approached Thirsk, when ahead of it appeared a heav- ily laden goods train, The engineer of the express train reversed the engines and put on the brakes, but the momentum of the heavy express was too great, and it dashed into the goods train, making a terrible wreck, To add to the horror the carriages caught fire and were destroyed. A large number Thirsk, in eleven which leaves Elin. | of persons from nearby places were soon at { the scene and did everything possible to extricate the dead and injured Those who managed Ww extricats them- other 3 wreck, way in crushed opening com doors that were fastened after the usual British fashion. Men and women could be heard shrieking for assistance, man who wa owl burning to death, and wh mild not ge out, begged the rescuers to Besides thirty were lot them seriously. The fireman of the traig was the engineer, who jumped at t the coll n, escaped with a bro The Marquis of Tweeddale ar quis of Huntly, the latter a lord to Queen Victoria, were The Marquis « jured, and in spite Asnint who were vet alive and caught in the which the carriages were Lo- the trouble in Une wee y innders, rains wreck and aead, It ba man att wi Rev ralis and »s capad death ringes were { {used heap, PROMINENT PEOP fort GLADSTONY phy an tending evenis pr Mat story writer, is out y SOOM Fd ton PASSANT, the famous Freue { the lunacy hospita HUY I EXNYSOYN is believed to have made m money by his poetry th ther [oet GovERsonr | LE riy Montana fon who has n oe of the {i merican nuth Paris ns received i because troop nfidential secretary Hussian MKmperor aR birth and a very levout La EXER and adv; German therar CRTER the the Chief INERE { i ani Magistrates Roode Idan Brown are ar nors Maryia Davi the Washi Rinis his letters na fit of Froude's E.R. Guxay, of Yampa, Fla fe Colle tor of Customs at that piace, thirty-tw years old, boyish looking, and i» said to! the youn r in the country Pansox Kxuirr, of Germany, the basis of whose medical system is water and going barefooted, has been called upon for advices and treatment by the Express of Austria Ex-Goveaxon Menmiwearnen, of Ken tucky, who was Henry Clay's sessor in the United States Senate, oslebrated his ninety-third birthday at Louisville the other day . gost Collect Gorxon, the composer, is an ecoenting individual and will only work at his own time and to order It is said that he has twelve unfinished operas lying in his manu script drawer Tue late Mrs, Harrison's portrait, to be painted by an artist not yet selectad, has been provided for by the Daughters f the American Revolution in Washington, and will be sent to adorn the gallery in the White House Frepenicx S1ox, the sailor who planted first Frenca flag upon ths soll of Al- geria, on the 14th of June, 153), has just died at the age of eighty-five years He was other achievements NATIONAL FINANCES. "no he Public Coetober Debt for The monthly public debt statement Just | Issued from the Treasury Department shows | A slight Worease in the debt during the last month amounting to #5). 087, There was a decrease of ISSL51T in the surplus during the month, an increase of #840 in the interest. bearing debt and a decrease of $100 SN in the non. interest-bearing debt, The surplus or net cash balance in the including the #10 000000 gold greentack reserve fund, aggregates $131. O11. 401, against $151 505 018 a month ago I'he National debt, less the cash 'alanos in the Treasury, amounts to 88811, FE, of which 8585 (008) is Interest bear ing debt, made un of 50087 50 four per cent, an | $25 364 500 two par cent, bonds. The Treasury holds $28 151 090 in certificates, with $120,055 M9 in eirau. mtion: #0.297.772 of silver cortifioates, with $504, 502,522 in efroulation, and $2,041 810 of silver Treasury notes with #114 547,423 of them in circulation, Government receipts last month gated in round sumbers thirty-two dod three-quarters millions, agai twenty. eight nnd a half millions In October, 1501, SHERIFF KILLS MARSHAL, Oud Friends Made Enemies by Polith cal Differences, Town Marshal Eagene Heath, of Corydon, Ind, was shot and kille! by Clabe Shuck, Sheriff of the county, A dispute The two had long been friends, { the last few days only occurred | The number of killed | was | | ap Just | masked Eastern and Middle States. TI, mu, the cook of the tug Colonel B J). Grubb, lying in the Erie basa rooklyn, N. Y., "and two guests who wer: passing 3h Right on board, were parboiiel iy an explosion of the ty died soon afterward. Rs boiler aul Suey PENNSYLVANIA farmers are sald to have paid as high as #1 a barrel for water within | twenty miles from Wilkesbarre, y Over thirty thousand acres of valuable timber have besn destroyed by forest fires around Groensburyz, Penn, Jonny Caney, a New York detective was | | shot down and killed by James De Blanche nv hoele , uling David Wheeler, a young ( hicago bur ;« lar and ex-convict, Woo is in custody, South and West, “HE southbound ex south of ress train was hela Pielmont, Ala., by two men hey made the messongor deliver $705 hey then went into the mail ear and got a lot of valuable packages, The whole thing was done in three minutes Forest fires in Maryland, north of & River, have consumed about 1000 acre timber land Witrian Weirrrne and soldiers in Fort Brown, over a woman, and dead, Whalen quarreled Winlen Barney Texas, Whipp » shot Whipple then killed himsel’, A CROWD of str house of Mrs because she diers, burned th ive Springs, Tenn, friendly to the so king lLewi had miners at ©) been Washington, John D and Minister 1 Slates to resignation I — FREDERICK SCHWATKA. The Famous Explorer Dies From an Overdose of Landanum, Lieutenant Frederick G, Schwatka, who world over bs the Aretic regions in search of the lost Rir John Franklin party is deal The Licutenant was found in Portland, Oregon, at 3 o'clock in the morning Iviaz on First street by an officer, Hy his side was a half empty bottle of landanum. He was ina comatose comdition and was ramediately removed to Bt. Charles Hotel, where he din, Frederick Schwatka was born at Galens I, September 20, 1840. He duated at West Point in 1871 was appointed Neon i Lieutenant in the Third Cavalry and serve! on garrison and frontier duty uatil 1877, He also studiel law and medicine, being ad mitted to the bar in Nebraska in 1875 ant receiving a medical degree from Believa Medical College in this city in 1878 On June 18, 1878, he salled for King Wi jam's Land, returning on September 2 1880, He discovered and buried many the skeletons of Bir John Franklin's parts and removel much of the mystery ol it fate. He commanded an Alaskan sxplorin party in 154 and another in 1896, In August, 1854 he resigned his con mission of First Licutenant of the This Cavalry, to which he had been appointed 10 March, 187, He was the author of a nus ber of works relating to his and discoveries, and had recived medals from scientific societies, ot which he was an honorary member, FLOODS IN M IN MEXICO, Persons Drowned and Heavy Damage Done to Property Further particulars of damage by the re cont overflow of the Saldo River, in the State of Paxaca, Mexico, have been received. Thousands of acres of coffee and cane lands were inundated, and fully $300,000 dam. age tn those or alone Was done. On the hacienda Pedro Cells, 2000 head of cattle were caught ia the torrent of water and swept into the coon. Feily fifty persons in all lost their lives, Fifteen em A ok hile they Were AL ov b w by drowned homeless, made his name famots the commanding the expedition to + of the recorls many Fiity work in the fields, and all were Hundreds of families were made EE — WILL MARCH BAREFOOTED, Unemployed Workmen of London Will Make Thre Demonstrations The unemployed Hebrew workingmen of London have decid» that they will march barefooted through the streets of London on three Aff armt days Agents of the Social DD mmosratio Fe lera- tion are organizing the ills workin gmen, ‘These agents approvs of marching through | districts in China, | boys have to be hired to stone { the turnip elds i that they xp orat.on: of several NEWBY GLEANINGS, Ture world has 450 paper mills Cimaaao handles 1300 trains dally, Danomey has fallen to the French, Frost in Brazil bas sent coffes up, CHICAGO is to have n Chinese theatre, Rains bave caused floods in England, Deen are plentiful in the Adirodacks, IraLy is suffering from a lack of small coin CnoLena ismaking appalling ravages in China Tuene are 300 Indian Btate of Washington. Avacng Indians in New Mexico and Arie zona are on the warpath, Tux Bwiss Hepublic has been duped by a bogus Minister from Balvador, voters in the new Tue Bolivian Congress has passed a law fixing the Presidential term at four years Tue rallroads of the country were never ! sooverrun with business as the are to-day. raging fatally in with 3044 death DYSENTERY is BOE in 15,~ (X)) ones liver at Fittabur: and traffic ux Ohio Penu., is lower than for yeers, suspended Michigan that them out of Dees are so pleniifal in ARoutr 800,000 fine sweet corn and 106 cases of unusually 000 cases of ccotast: is | the pack reported for Maine, Ine girl village at the baby born in the KE quimaux World's Fair, Chicago, has been named Columbia Busan, unties in OUkishoma are so poor bave been unable to mply with Territorial Australian ballot law MAXY « the Road ha the families of t nx Missouri Pacific given $1 ed in t with the Tue heaviest loss amor othe Department of Le seventecn defend the 0 MCE the big atl their hands THE LABUR WORLD. vers have been raised two | Coal Exchange ER seven © reoenliy received five vacant posits wer fifty. sand applications in Paris, Francs, Oven 3.750.000 women are wages in Fax ana t are seeking work with it 1%: working for 10 reds of Whousands ut being able to find brickiayers who were amployad to taild an addition to the Batier University at Indianapolis, Ind., refuse! to work on aa i foun lation built by non-union men. The trustees allowed them to tear down the old wall and then the work want on Tux Order of Train Dispatchers was per. manently organized at Memphis, Tenn, with 152 charter members. The constitution and by-laws embruee the protective features which csused so muh discussion at the oon vention in New Oricanus last June of the Making ine following are a fow examples rate of pay of Lmd nm paper bags, eight cents per 1000; possible earnings $1.95 to $2.95 week - pw tiatton- holes, six cents por doz ‘nn; possibile earnings por week women In Khirte, four conte. mach wore fluding ber own cotton can got six done be tween Ga. mand dlp. w Arran several yoars of struzis colton spinning of Chiness cotton by Chinese han | ts estatdishad in Sawnghal Five hundral an | Afty looms and 20, 000 spindles tara out weekly 150000 yards, thirty-six inches wide, of a superior quality of imitat on American drill shoeting. Half the looms ars of Eag lish make and ball of Awnerican, Koxsnxno, in Norway, seams to be a little paradise for workmen. OF the 40 miners employed there every one has a house of his own, an | men having worked for ten years hava a right to s pansion of tan per cat of their wages, which inoreases every year two per cont After thirty years the peasion would mount to $5.25 per month, or sai. clent for a man to live upon, ldieness from lack of work orshrough strikes is unknowa in Konsberg. ROBBED A BANK, Ten Thousand Dollars Taken From the Cashier at Point of Winch ssters, Three masked men rode up to the bank in pears" Kan, the other afternoon, Two of the dismounted and went loside the bank, where, at the point of Winchssters, they compelled the cashier to bani over $10,000, They then made their sscaps, galloping out of the town at a furious t. A pos started in pursait J of the Latik wud thelr wa idles a y aters came along, and of th bald robe opened fire has been | MURDERED ALL. An Irish Constable Kills a Whole Family and Then Commits Suicide, A horrible crime was committed in the Royal Irish Constabulary Barracks at Bal inadrins, County Kildare, Constabils FP ilk. ington, selzsd, it is supposed, with a sudden fit of insanity, entered the bedrooms where Bergeant Logan and bis wife were slesp~ ing and shot them with & revolver, killin them instantly, The madman then turned to the sleeping rooms of Logan's children, and attacking them left them all for dead, Two were found to be dead with their heads crashed in, three fatally injured and the re. maining two seriously injured. Pilkington then tried to burn the bar. racks, but the alarm spread, and finding himself disonvered he committed suicide, INDIANS -IMMOLATED. seven Bed Men Hold an Orgie and Burn to Death 4d Unoss B wi Bpoakane Falls, Was gon County seven Indian across [rom and the Ug back. Toey and beid ar moroing. About that hour setl light, ani cabin had caugnt who were In a8 darangen burned to mly th remasning. investiga fire anit iealh TWO BROTHERS LYNCHED. An Attempt of Muardercrs to Escape Causes Two More Marders hers named Burges: w Russell Count f {) of L¥ escape a few 3 neensed Butherian frie Fow gwJersey Western Slate, Pens per 1b Spring Chickens, local, Ib, ... Southern per Roosters, old, per Markeys, per Ib Ducks—N, J per pair Southern, per pair Geese, Western, per pai Southera, per pair... ... Pigeons, per pair DRESSED POULTRY FAESN XI Turkeys— Young, ver Ib Old wixed weights Toms, air to prime Chickens "bila per Band lo I. Wn Fowis-St and Penn Western, per it i Ducke—Western, per Ib... Eastera per ib ... .. Spring, L. 1, per in Grose ~Npring Eastera per Ib Squats Dark, per doz Light, por dos...... VEGETABLES Potatomss-«State per bb Jersey, prime, per bi Jersey, inferior, par bbl, Lo Lin bulk, per bb, Cabbage, I. 1, por i0,,.. Onions « Eastern, veliow, bib, Eastern, rel, per bl Bate, per bbl... : Rquash — Marrow, par barre Cuocunbers, piokiey per 100) Lome Inland, per 1000, Tomatoos, por orste, ........ Lana beans, fair to prime, bag J Eig plant, Jersey, per bhi, Saeet potatos, Va, per bid, 173 Mouth Jerwy, per bbl 20) Celery, near by, doz, bunches 75 GRALIX, ETC, Flour «ity MI! Extea,, . 4 PoASRES. cov 500s sana sans § Wheat—No. 2 Red. .ooencnes Rye—=Stabe, .ooovievisvarnnns Bariey «Twosrowed State | Cora=Ungraded Mixed, ,... Onta=No, 3 White, ...ouu.ve Mixed Western...... us Hay tool 10 Choloe, .vuv. Niraw- Long Rye... ecivnees Lard==Ulty Beam. couus. LIVE STOOR. Bowvres, Clty drossald, f Mileh Cows, oom, togood., . 35 00 CUnives, City dronend, oui Sheth poe 0. 0eunennss im ate, EE EEE Livy, per 100 Ibs, ,.... 580 1 ors per ib R588 SE0A84R84RA 6 Saaketo et © ¥ AAT {LEE Fé
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