The four great ocean routes employ 1100 steamships. The output of the American manu- factories for the past year was $7,215,- 000,000. Every State and Territory in the Union has an organized militia except the Ter- ntory of Utah. The number of foreigners who took up their residence in America last year was bd43. 4.7, 118,278 Germany. of whom came from What was once the heart of the Wie- consin pine region is now importing thousands of feet of that timber from Washington State. General Schkopp, of the German army, gays: ‘‘If his majesty draws his sword it will never return to its scabbard until } his last enemy is crushed, or he, with his people, is overthrown.” The increase of more than a million of sheep in this country during the past year is more than matched by the in- creased use of wool in producing woolen goods, which was 59,000,000 pounds. The Chicago Mail estimates ths v % ' 1 3, 00,000 peopie wio ‘hicago during visit ( cpend while + smite HILRAES absence Fair. | and photog mechanical d ed matter, by-laws, rules for subscr departments and their ma alogue, classification ane de femg binding partments i of and receipts for restoring, samples bin ling, covers ling and | cleaning, shell and building depart- ments and an architectural exhibit show ing plans, elevations, tives and perspec : best library buildings. models of the There 5000 volumes, selected from will also be a model library of lists pre pared and seat in by the various librari- us of the country. It is related that a man who was writ. ing a history of New York employed an expert to flad out for him how many speculators in Wall street succeeded in the long run. After a laborious inves. tigation the expert reported only single instance which he could dis. COYEr Was a man Rhode Island, named Smith, who actually won $30,000 and carried the money away to specu- I¥ was the mingle bright instance in a long line of wrecks, adds the New Picayune, and was written down in the book to hand the name of Smith doww to immortality, Usluckily for his reputation, however, hardly was the book published before Bmith turned up on the street and put his $30,000 into another speculation, ie never heard of it again, and the sole in- stance of a successful speculator was ruthlessly destroyed, from had in a speculation in the street late no more, Orleans that the | | | { in Chicago, | New York Recorder | and file. about 2700. The | whose nerves were no longer England continues to incresse her red force in Egypt, and France is herefore irate, The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral, it. John the Divine, in New York City, will cast £10,000,000, Vegetarianism is making great pro- gress in Berlin, The German capital 10w contains twenly vegetarian restagr- ants which are largely patronized by the working people, clerks and students. here were 43.94 square miles Now there are 181.70, and | Rogers Park is soon to be annexed. The estimates that will make as big an area as a Manha { Island a hundred mi! The police force of New York City numbers 3966 mmcluding the rank The men, police force of New area of i City is forty-six square miles. {of Chics ro 18 four time 15 groat. London journalist, 9 | thie to Deat ' noise made b from a coal-l firs feventy<tar There were forty-ni three new Knitting irst employing 2500 | new hands, Massachusetts leads with eight, ! Hos with and Pennsylvania nol The figure much in the new woolen industry, woolen mills, South does Kentucky with three and two mills being the only Southern State represented, knitting mills Pennsylvania thirty-two, or more than one-third; New York, twenty, ind the rest distributed among twenty-two other States, Silk figures fourth in the list of new plants to the extent of twenty.one new mills, the majority of which are in New York, New Jeisey and Pennsylvania, with Paterson, N. J., as the center of the in. dustry, both old and new, In the nis cellancous list are six new plush wills, six making shoddy, seven cotton Lmtting, three linen, three lace, two upholstery and two gitap and dress trimming (all four in Philadelphia), and a scattering list, including dye, bleaching, jute, bag. ging and a few others, New England, Pennsylvania and the South seem to be the most prosperous manufacturing sec tions, if the erection of new plants for manufactures can he accepted as an 1n- dex of prosperity, seven | third with six new | Missouri with Of the ninety-three now | furnishes | OUR BIGGEST VESSEL The Huge Indiana Successfully Launched at Philadelphia. Full Description of Our First Real Battleship. The great United States vattle-ship indi ana was successfully launche! at the ship yard of the William Philatelphia, Penn,, Com SONA th Cramp & pany, in OY eRe NOE of thousands of people, among President of the United Stat averal members of the Cabinet and quite a large delegation of Congressmen and others The Presidential party came from ington on a special train over the Baltimore ana Obio Railroad. Among the visitors were Secretary of tha Navy Tracy, Post master-General Wanamaker, Atwrney General Miller and his daughter Miss Jos sie, the fair christener; Senator sorh em and Turpie, of Indiana (la honor which State the vessel is named), and other The christening party procesled to where the battle ship lay and took positions on o raised platform at the bx Just as the 4200 tons of st the incline, Miss Miller broke the customary bottle of champagne, it being en lin a beautifully hand-painted and embroidered satin cover, a firmiy said “I christen thee Indiana Whistles rang crowd cheered and waved handker flags The huge const well-gr wil ways with ity and struck the Delaware Hiv with a for high into th hen she was to to the wharves od in gbout a ready | Gover them the Vash | started down wos the bow and the and shrieked, bells delencs ship slid comparat smooth wala s that » dui bie tending canery LWAY Al in ted 3) » Wal Will answer ' Purpose } she was bulit RE TRAGEDY AT A LAU whe NCHING, tors Drowned at a Shipyar.iin West Bay City, Mich a LI olay ng of he keal (‘ent wi ia launching results which several persons v n the shipyard of F West Bay City, Mich iredth keel laid by this was made one of enjoy vited guests, Lhe great crowd of to the wool -w wking sunching of No. #9, a schooner, was to ur, Un the north the slip was th team barge Kittie M. Forbes, fron in th er. The blak with men and boys, who we iT the boa®once and warned of psisted upon returning As the Inunched struck water, it foroad an immense volu me of snder the PF on her beam ends, There wes a great soram ble, and about fifteen were swent overboard in an instant the forms of the drowning arose to the surface, landed on the los between the two boats which were then only a few feet apart Every person in sight was savxd, but fiveor more were drowned, firm, nmt to numne spectators adjourned yard, whore 1 side of re driven the wale schooner iwrbes, ousing het and some A COLLEGE BURNED. The Students Jumped and Six Wore Injared, Two Fatally, The Arkansas Baptist College building, established at Little Rook, Ark, six years sgo by the colored Baptists for the educa. tion of girls, was burned about 2 o'clock a few mornings ago. All the students wars compelled to and of the twenty, six wers badly two, Florida Raaey and Ha Turner, fatally, the former having her back broken and the latter sustaining internal in ju: ies, Nothing wns saved, not even clothing, Jump, injured, | gymen | Jersey | against the racetrac) hurricane deck of the Forbes was danger, but ] to roid almost | injared ana | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Eastern ana Middle States, A #ROTION hand shoveling snow on the New England Railroad, pear Hopewell Junction, N.Y. stopped from the track to allow a train to pass, at the samo time stick. ing his shovel {nto 5 mowbank. The locos motive struck the handle of the shovel, knocking the man un ler the wheels of the engine, He was instantly killed, REAn-ApMimar Guraann ny mand at New York of the Fleet umd eom Naval Review I'nk Philadelphia and Reading statement for January showad a deficit of $2580. 784.50 A MASS MEETING Of leading lawyers, olor " , hy ani ations! teachers of New was held in Trenton to protest lnw edu Tre Governor the nomination of Samuel Gustine Thompson of Philadelphia, to be Justios of the Suprems Court of Pennsylvania in place of Ju ign Faxson, resigned, The appointment ha on tendered to Judge Heyirick, but he declined f Tue Geographical Club, of Venn. de id Peary in his xX! regions. The amoy tributed by the Gen from $5000 to $10,000 sent to the Senate Philadelphia, pant KR, E, Are nie will be iy was hanged at in the presenc about Tne murderer William ( Pittsfield, Mass. 40) people, Tie boiler of n locom McKune's, Penn., killing uring two others, tive e two South and West, broke it in 4 Fi] [el A rine which elt H] about caus a lo in the contre buliding France Sariy town LHE ¢ Hall Washington, Fl new M formally Presi formal pu It was toe character, in § Mr. Harrison his term as Ps Line the nominations Nebraska, to be © E. Stone, of Ma std meal at No gales; W ey | boston, C at Mozam largest wniate ney Tus spacial train, assting of three pa lor-oars and a baggage car, which carried Grover Cleveland, Mra. Cleveland little Ruth and servants from Lakewood N. J.. to Washington made the trip in six hours and a half. Un the train Mr. and Mrs Don M. Dickinson, Mr. and Mrs, Danial 8 Lamont, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Watson Gil der, Doctor and Mrs, Joseph D. Bryant. EB C. Bmedict and bis family The CI lands were lms to their apartments in the Ariiagtoa Hote were Fania y riven Mn. Hannrsox, before retiring from the Presidency, accepts a professorship in the Leland Stanford University of California He will deliver a series of lectures on oon. stitutinnal aw, comasnomz a October next, Tax House Consus Bureau Investigating Committee reported that the charges agains the bureau are not sustained Tar nomination of Truxton Bwale as Min ister to Roumania, Servia and Greeos was confirmed, Tux President approval the Car Coupler bill, and the pen with which te sigued it was prosonted to |. A. Mosely, Beoretary of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, Tur United States Minister at Eouador bas secured a treaty by which the United Brats gute possession of one of the Gallas. pago Islands as a coaling station, Tue only bill vetoad by Mr. Harrison dur ing his term as President becamen Jaw, hav. ing been over the veto by both Houses, It provides for the appointment of a Distriot Attorsey and a Marshal for the Middle District of Alabama, Foreign, Mapasure Juss Geevy, widow of the former President of France, dig, THREE THOUSAND strikin tural In. borars created a riod near Doli Taty. A regiment of infantry restored order. Tar Aan Dh vara Sit and hi corvettes Empress nga an ora Heidler to the naval review at New York. Tne ® wighty-third birth was ob werved in Italy, ny A PRINCESS PLEADS, Kalulani, Seeking Sympathy, Issue a Manifesto to the People, PRINCH Princess Victoria Kalulan BATE? year-old Hawaiian girl wh ! the throne of Hawail when New York from Teutonie a few after noon from her Englisn schoo H Davies, and her { and Miss Davies and Mi anion, The Princo left ro. whe rived at n she ing her stay been a ward of Mr. | reside most of the time in | Mr. Davies is the British ( { the largest 17 and one f kaus ar Kaiar hildren Saffo ing Teacment precinet. into itd from the H y me whose ranch ut for him wn 10 the bottom w y was partially over footing He fell, was within a few feet : was holding it While going one Officer Kel smoke and lost fortunately | ground The child was saved, and the ga oar escaped with a spraine! ankle, ast the lives of threa littis children eradit While seven engines were flames, the firemen and polie to get all the prople ou! When it i» take nto consideration that there ware nary JN person in the tenet portion of them young ohildren, it is surpris ing that more lives were not lost The fire destroyed the roof of the building and the upper three floors before it could be extinguished and the firemen could enter to make a search for the missing children, Chief Riley orderad six men to go up and make a search, and in a few minntes five re turned to the street by the adjoining build ing, No. 198, each bearing a cnild wrapped tn a blaniet The children were not at all burned. The hed clothes in which they had wrapped themeelved ware blackened and singed, but the Bames had hardly gained the room waers they slept before they were drowned out by the streams of water thrown from the roofs of the adjoining buildings. Toe mother had locked them in the room, — ——————— } is ant off with a to his paving on th worked har house, a Jarzes AR irrigation company proposes to dam the Mohave at Viotor Narrows, Cal, where the river passes thiouga & granite gorge 173 foot in heaght and not over 100 foot wide. A Inke will be formed nine mies long, thes to five miles wide, and of an av depth of thirty feet, with sufficient watsr to irrigate $30,000 acres of Government nnd In the Senate, 57m DAY. ~The Lesgwiative Appropris- tion bill was taken up snd an amendment was agreed to appropriate $15,000 for the purchase of George Bancrofts library of historical mapuseripts and printed books und pamphlets The bill was then passed Business was then suspended in order that fitting tribute might paid to the memory of the late Representative Francis B. Spinola, of New York Hpeeches were wade by Messrs. Hill and Hiscock 58TH Day. ~The Pension Appr bill was passed without amend conference report on the Military bill was agreed to——The Agri was reported with a net ir EE s As passed by the Hou t i plat lf) the etimntes Ix crelentinks of J from the Bt! Senator B be print Ine Rens tor place of 1} mn ner iter ibut v of his ale i Kenna, of West | ors Day UY the conler: amendment wa $500 KK) ap rials Custom Ho bill repori riation bill was me Was then tting of the late was wk galleries tors, but the atte floor was not Ravers movad to susnen concur in Senate amendments tot Deficiency Appropriation was agreed to, and the bil! wa forenopeeMr. Herbert sub ference report on the Nav bill After a brief pposit Holman and De Armond to the paval review appropriation, the report was agread to Mr. Hateh submitted the donference report on the Agricultural A Prog ristton bill and it was sgread to Mr. Henderson submit ted the conference report on the Postoflice Appropriation bill. The nlerence report was agreed to, and the consideration of Lhe Senate amendments to the Sundry Civil bill was resumed The World's Fair amend. ments were disagreed to, and the bill was Again sent to conference I've House then at 5:15 “ook a recess ua fl 8 v'meck A RIOT IN HUNGARY, Three Persons Kitlod and Many In. Jared by Gendarmes, ae vis the iol rale A riot, attended by lighting and blood. shed, oocurrad in the town of Ssobossio, Hungary, over the imposition of new mar. ket tolls, A maititale of paxwons was gathered in Heshogls as it was a regular market day. They poited the gendarmes with stones and mud, The latter were un able to resist the mob and retreatad to the Baobe 0 town hall, they were gickly surrounded. The geniarmes barrels eaded the building and fired on the multi. tude, The Iabier only grew mors en nnd would probably have captured ths town ball and killed the geniarmes but for the timely arrival of reinforcements, The riot ere were disperse], these of their number VO ied vu way warigung EE ——— ee —
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