“— - We spend $80,000,000 a year on our C—O ——— fences. The Chinese propose trying to dislodge she Russians from the Pamir, or that part of it to which China lays claim, RR i i ii Our navy will rank as the tifth in the world when our new ships are afloat, be- ing surpassed only by England, France, Russia and Italy. The Chicago Herald alleges that *‘our language is phonetically so difficult to for- eigners that to lecture before an Eug- Hsh-speaking audience in the English tongue gives them an acute pain in the jaws.” The statement that a woman could be implicated in every case of bomb throw- ing which has taken place in Paris has been proved. The New York World facetiously asserts that women are em- ployed almost exclusively in the dyna. mite factories of France, and are equal upon provocation to blowing men up. A Chicago paper recently gathered the statistics for several years of murders, legal hangings and lynchings. In 1887 the murders were 2335; in 1889, 8567; in 1800, 4290; in 1891, 5906, and in 1892, 6792. There were 123 hangings in 1891, or 1 legal hanging to 48 murders, and 107 legal hangings in 1892, or 1 to 63 murders. legal Science makes slow progress in aerial navigation, exclaims the Brooklyn Citi- The balloon of to-day is scarcely the gen. an mnprovement in Montgolfier affair of a hundred years ago, sod the flying machines, thougl complicated, better against abrupt descent toward t Any sense on more are no of gravity than that of the who announced about a century s that he was going to fly out of Edin burgh on a pair of big wings, and broek his leg at the first attempt. In the latter part of October a good roads congress wiil be held under the auspices of the Agricultural Department of the Columbian Exposition Road ma- chinery, taxation, legislation, tolls, free roads, repairs, and material for construc tion, will be discussed. The object is $0 advance the cause of good roads in America, and to develop a wore practi. cal system of improving our highways, best methods of construction, and to en. courage the public and private support be held Palace for the same. The congress will in the permanent Memorial Art T. worth, of Chicago, is Chairman of the committee. in the Lake Front Park. Butter- The England, which ended by a compromise, take rank as tween capital and labor which ti has seen, weeks, involved directly and indirectly 125,000 employes, and cost labor troubles in Lancashire, the be- greatest struggle we world The campaign lasted cwenty in loss of wages alone $10,000,000, Each side was ' "g $10, ’ side was sandstone, trusses, equally willing at the outset to engage in a test of strength, and at last they | ei hey | crash came, the coyote sometimes picks were just as glad to call a truce with the honors even. Great both parties to the conflict have had all desire for fight taken out of them, sad the advantages of mutusl compromise are for the time being fully conceded. The operatives th peace conceded just a shade more than have in the masters, but there has been really no victory for either side. The plans agreed upon for settling future disputes seem to be the best thus far, They assure the necessary stability in the cotton market by all future changes to five per cent. at intervals of not less than one year. ever devised limiting The New York Indicator says that railway construction will soon be in full swing again, and prints a table showing 164 thirty-five Financial new lines in Btates and Territories, with over 4800 | miles of proposed mileage, on which some work has been done or is sbout begun. the present time, we find the following new lines and mileage credited to the South Stats, RIAA. 000eeees sess sasses ATRADSAS, , Lous ivvnrsrssseice, BCs ea0scss noses seis snssens SAORI 4000s .00neivsssnsrsssess o BAMIAND . 00 000000s080008000s os A WAPRIDIA soueseosnsiinnnniiiennns West Virginia, couseeiiiiiiiies. iB — » Total.ucocurusnsnnssssnrnnens sd 1,700 Other lines will doubtless be projected or started duricg the year, adds the At. lanta Constitution, sad the outlook fs certainly full of promise. The figures quoted show that railway construction is fairly sctive in the South, snd they ine dicate a more prosperous state of al. fairs than has been supposed to exist, If it be true that money talks, the millions invested in these big enterprises should be regarded as positive testimony of the most encouraging nature, to be At the close of last year, or at Lines. Miles } [ eiectric | that Pennsylvania takes the frame huts, It | ters ( f the great sc of th) people of terms of | passed without his saving Vegetarians are making great progress In many of the large cities of Germany. —— An expedition will shortly be equipped by Bir Thomas Elder to explore the in. terior of the Australian continent, A syndicate of Milwaukee bachelors who undertook co-operative housekeep- ing has failed, One of the four men is to be married, and the others do not care to keep up their establishment, which costs £500 a month, It is said that if the United States were supplied with ministers in the same proportion that the heathen world 1s with missionaries, there would be alto- gether about two hundred and seventy five, about two-thirds as many as there are now in Boston alone. Paris advices report that the apprecia. tion of horseflesh has so developed at that that she butchers who center of culinary civilization now maintains 150 in that kind 20,000 equine carcasses were de. deal of meat alone, and that voured last year. It appears that these are not for the most part eaten by the The England has grown but slowly during very poor. use of horseflesh in the thirty years since its introduction, In Belgium it has made more progress. There are at present 1850 cities and | . . " towns in the United States equipped with lights, It is interesting to note lead 0" 150 towns, New Jersey and Illin lowing with 147 apd and that in the first State Mnote irom cet But, strange to say, ther [ » ry "i . ’ 1 8 town w Den. It contains large some brick ings, rows of ing dwellings, and hundre 8 the collapsed boom town of Sullivan, started by the beme of the old Den. ver Water Company to dam the subtler. and | reservoir for the use ranean flow of Cherry Creek mp it into an enormous Denver. The work was an engineering failure, and as financial one, as many Eastern bondholders found out, While the boom | sands of men were employed uy rices of Ir like mushrooms, p soared, and there was even a bitter I office fight, A year and a half ago Pera. tions stopped, there was an exodus of speculators, tradesmen and laborers, the postoffice was shut up, and Sullivan's greatuess was a thing of the past, Among the acres of building materials pipes, boiler stacks and plates, ete., abandoned when the | his way now, and he is the only gue t at ‘a j ' sacrifices have | been endured, with no result, save that | the mammoth hotel that was once the sight of the place. A strange and grostesque figure disap- pears from the upper ranks of the British nobility with the death of the Duke of Bedford, Succeeding to the dukedom on the suicide of his father only two years ago he has, accor ling to the New intensified York Bun, exhibited in an form the Russell family traits, He was practically a recluse and never had any intimate associates. Though enormously rich he was a miscr, Scores of acres of the most valuable property in the heart of London belong to his estate. His pas sion for saving manifested itself when a boy at school and it remained with him till the day of his death. Never a day something and “ reckoning how much he had saved, vast property accompanying it the pas. sion increased. His one absorbing thought | find to was to pile up further hoards, to new possibilities of retrenchment, form ways of lucreasing the unneeded surplus, and every penny he continued to invest by the best advice procurable in the soundest securities. During the last fow years he had become physically al. He was well pro. portioned and active as a young man, but jodulgence of a most gluttonous appetite soon made him corpulent. The very corpulence that made more exercise necessary prevented exarcise at all, Of late years his habits have been most se. dentary, For days together he would not go outside his house. His appetite was huge, gross, enormous, Gargantusn, He ate, ay an eminent man who kuew him better perhaps than say other de. scribed it, like a woll, He was reputed to be the largest and heaviest feeder In Englsnd. Those who had seen him eat ing say it was a sight never to be fore gotten. Heart disease of long standing was the immediate cause of death, but be really died of gluttony. most a monstrosity, | Judge D, M | Was CYCLONES SWEEP THE WEST. (ireat Wind Storms and Cloud. bursts in Five States. Towns Badly Damaged in Ne- braska, Iowa and Kansas, One of the most disastrous storms in the history of the Missouri Va¥ey passel cast. ward through Nebraska and Iowa late a few afternoons ago, carrying death and destruc tion in its path. Page, a small town of 100 people, in the extreme northern portion of Nebraska was the first place steuck by the hurricane, Mes, Harry Bllis and two children were blown from the doorway some distance into the prairie. The mother was killed and the two children fatally injured, Many other peo ple in the town were injured by the flying debris, and pearly all of the houses were more or less damaged, The inhabitants reported the torna lo or rying with it many articles of housenolld furniture and pieces of houses, indicating that some towns further west sufferel ina greater or less degree, For a hundred miles the tornado passe | down a valley occupied by farmhouses, The damage fn this district was great, When the storm crossed thé Missour River it struck the town of Akron, lowa the line of the Chicago, Milwaukes and 5: Paul Road, which has a population of about 1000 people, 1s was devastated by the wo nado, It began to grow dark in the town, ani in half “an hour it was necessary to hay lights, About 6 o'clock the storm stru the place with scarcely a minute's warning It was a regular whirlwind, BSevera' men and one woman were killed were thrown from thelr foun ns and overturned, and many of the to pisces, A bridge across the Sioux River was wrencuasd from the plers and dashed against the river The iron rods wera twisted and bent A large elevator was demolishs t arriel acrom the raliroad track slumber yard 8 lumber iouses wn ' Dans. 1epoi ' Cars londel with stone m thse rar | p vi and i tack ana eauwd the isan ds Louis, mid by a wind « tornado Aan fo, was wit the hen vioat 1 ni hai ns know Bs ia sDOY heavy od by « Dall stonss ware The bail followed YeAre, nen's PRT] utes lasted by a gE. L BOG Was storm was reports heavy throug! Mant . F H » bridges were Later Lietalle Inmage were killed persons have bos Searcely a ling storm came {row the ing point was a little where it tou vay beyvon od the ground, teas houses and the dwelling ored man named Hill and brea¥in From there the storm passing over Inman is described by those who saw it ing about a half-mile wide and turning GYVOTY O90 ovivable shap While the storm was Pes ing overbmad the fectly still it HY a very heavy ble damage first building town was the academy It The building was torn to pleces At Salem, Mo, about twenty baros and dwellings were festroved Con dray, Mo. a ing town of ‘ was torn Ww pec wn stores, shops, barns and residences, only remain in shape and only two oan be repaired, At this place seven per. SONS wera killed outright, and three others have sioce died. The list of injured rmohes nearly twenty, two shu as Ix atmosphere bat was preos ind at hall, which did Ww WAS Dar. this point considera « he struck in MLN cont minis two one or more { All along the line of the storm, which av eraged about a mile in width, fruit trees, forest trees and fencing were swant away, The tornado was preceded by hail and ac- companied by heavy rain. The residence of Green In Courtols tywaship was blown down, and Judge Green was killed, On Crookes! Creek the house of Louis Kev was destroyed, and Mr, Key injared About 7:30 o'clock in the evening, during A heavy rainstorm, a toroado struck Ypsi- lanti, Mich, and swept through its centre, | Twelve or fifteen of the princioal bosiness | blocks in the city wers demolished and others | had their roofs tora off and were otherwise | demaged, After his succession to the dukedom and | {| on | gress and Hoveral wrecked, Nearly Haron strat, between Cone Pearl stronts sullored, Among the principal blocks blown down are the Opera Houses, Hawzine House, Union block, Occidental Hotel, business college and the Postoffice building. The Central Telephone and the Western Union Tele graph offices suffered severely, the former ng all of i's main wire A box factory Quite a number of dwellings all the were also buildings also wrecked, people ware injured ————————— FOREST AND PRAIRIE FIRES, Ohio, Kentuoky, Nebraska and South Dakota Communitios Devastated. Forest fires have been doing immense dam. age to Ohio, Kmtuoky, Nebraska, and S8oath Dakota. They were fanned by high wins Burning wood was dropped into the town of MoKinney, Ky., from the forsst three of a mile away, Bob Moore, John ison, Alph Roland, Will Roland and Sam Moore, farmers near there, lost their houses, from Liberty, Casey County, Ky. stated that it was impossible to save the town, At Grayson, Ky. fies are raging on all 4. B, Hale's tobacco barn and three Dorit Wey burned, Everybody was fighting double-span wagon 1) » . THE NEW S— Eastern and Middle States, Jonx Ryan and David Freer wera drowned In Rondout Creek, at Kingston, N. Y. They backed their team over the bank in turning around in the dark, Coroxer ELLiorr F, Bugrann's will was filled in New York City: his bequests for religious purposes aggregated $250,000, Tue White Star steamer M a jostic arrived at New York from Liverpool with a of thirty Hritish newspaper men, who will visit the World's Fair st Chicago and inci- dentally the leading cities of the Union. party WiLLiam Grimes, a wealthy recently suffered a fracture lecided to go to the Hospital to undergo the operation of wiring the femur, Dr. W, A. Korn, assistad by the hospital staff, performed the operation and were horrified to find the patient dead at its conclusion. young man, of the hip, and Bridgeport (Conn) AT a tenement house fire in Willlamsbury, N. Y., Mrs. Mary Ainsworth and two of her culldron wers burned to death and of her other children ware injured, two Joux Hire, a colored lad ninsteen vears of age, wno shot and killet Joseph Dodson, aged twenty-one years and also colored. on October 10, has been hanged at Camden, N.J Tur United given her first preliminary river at Bath, Me Her engines Do weakness or defects, and her are well satisfied, She average! 12% knots with nothing like a full head of steam, and experts are confident she will make over fourteen knot States cruiser Machias wa developed ngineer South and West, Most of the American fi Roads, Va,, for a short wn J. JEFFrCoare, wast of i for kill as then riddisd with ot Jaft pra mob ns mvention Washington nfirm «i I. Mar : of the United States for the Eastor ff Virginia, Tur unofficial list of mendes elect of the House of Representatives for the Fifty-third Congress shows that of the 35 bat on is vacant, that caused by the election 4 Representative Lodge to the Senate Democrats will have 230 Hepresentativ the Republicans 197 and the People Party 8 Tag President made the following » inations: Richarl H. Alver, of Maryia: to be Chief Justios of ¢ urt of Appeals ff the District of Columoia; Martino F,. Mor rie. of the District of ¢ mol, 0 be Ass fate Justios of the Court of Appeals, of t District of Columida; Seth Shepard, Texas, tobe Asmociate Justice of the Court of Appeals, of of Columbia Lacius Q. U, Lamar, of Mississippi, to Iw Lecorder of the General Lani Offios rney District sons ih we the District Fug Treasury Department decided to ac cord 10 the exhibitors at the Work¥s Var the privilege of gratuitous diswribution of their samples, catalogues, descriptions, ete #0 far as these may relate to the ariic.es ex hibited, Foreign, Wonkaex in Belgium went on strike be cause the Chamber of Deputies voted against universal suffrage Wintiax Waroonr Asron the splendi { estate of Cilivalen of the Tha nes, Eagland, from Westminster, Toe sum paid $1.250 50 Trousanos of parsons, including the high est officials, visite! the Columbus oarave Santa Maria at Havana, Cuba, A banguwt to the commander and the officials of the Santa Maria was given at the town hall A TERRIBLE mins explosion occurred at Pont. y-Pridd, Wales, and on the day after, many lives were bellevad to have boen lost, A GRXEAAL uprising of against has bought n the banks the Duke of natives trial on the | is sald to be Christians is threatened in Corea and prompt | steps have baen taken by the State Depart ment and Navy Department to avert blood. | shad, Tueng were rioting and strikes in many | places in Bolgiam on acount of the rejec tion by the Chamber of Deputies of the bill for universal suffrage. CroLERA Is spreading rapidly in Eastern Galiols, Toe average number of deaths has doubled, Tar strikes in Beigiun are spreading, The rioters have teen in severe conflict with the troops amd police Tax strike for ths ballot spread through out Belgium, andar ns had to charge the orowds at -~ — IT has been decided to keep the World's Faw open ww die uolie unt 1 o'owox, To Chrome woo, on aoouant of money considers Bours We doatne to spend mush time at Ulilcagy, 1% will be of the greAtest impor. noe What the opportunities for seeing the AF showid Le us reat as they oan be made, ihe Duaber of emi grmuts from ireland wu 180) | 82: Hlinode, 72; PENBION COMMISSIONER. Judge William Loclren, of Minne “ota, Successor to General Ranm. WILLIAM Judge William named to succeed General Ia sioner of Ver me, Is ie aown Northwest yoars of age, an where he wa . " and admit to Mine newota in TET tix iis profession, but when the v vas one of the first ms Landon his Minnesota, ne OC Lochire raise n the , and popular y -9even Vermont, ox yer eivil pur Minnesota 14g WAP Was sev where nist that cheo be LAr Y aun 3 i HE vs States is 41 oh, LE) RON 1 ther Un against HEH sane 1 @ inst your INR rice than the pre ye hia the war ni. greater ani Ins that bere d January Was Ole MAR And allie HE OCHRE ‘ lemoastration in vosl option teetola vers MM Against the ¢ iaw 01 and musa influx Wi's Fair is belug tet at Sis are or Ww «Lovet ani pain bh sig titsoers, ihe Ors Irom oeany «ve France, Bagpand Was Droden visitors to th Washington, Arists Mngs are 0 registers show quarier f the ouwand, Hussia, ara A Austria, and ted orazil, Veuezdels, Nw Ne w Mia and Japan has a road MM DRONA AD J a prog. the Joaamiature in the Tore pr tor panoe of vandas, the proceeds of walon shail be dis ribated pro rain among the several coun- Wes an proportion 10 their axabve va. ues, ww De uses as a primary road [aad under the LEE) oti Od Lae county mre i III 5. —— ARKANSAS mprovement mition is Leflore of a bil wach gl Lu ot ag tation Vides the The Canaition oft Winter Wheat 77.4 Against 81.2 Last Year, The April report of the statistician of ths Department of Agriculture makes the aver age condition of winter wheat on April 1, Td, ngninst SLY last your. The average condition of rye is placed at 85 7 ihe averages of the priocioal wheat Bates are: Onlo, 87; Michizan, 74; Indians, Missouri, , and Kansas, 4 he average of theses six States fs Niates range from 84 in Texas, i i i : : i | der [| and several smaller structures were | torn up. | Moss was blown down FIERCE TORNADO, Iett a Trall of Destruction Through Western New York. It Western New York was tornadoswept a fow days since, The storm spread over Bpringville, Westflold, Brockton, Angola, Maysville, Dunkirk and the adjoining country. It did pot last tnuch over an hour, but the damage to erops, eattls and build. Inge will reach many thousands of dollars, It swept over the grape country, At Bpringville a barn belonging to Ved. Hempstroot was blown down, and Hempatreet ani his hired man were buried in the ruine, Hompstreet being crushed to death, The hired man was caught between two cows and was saved from death, while the four cows around bim were killed At Westfield trees a foot in dis:ueter were uprooted, many bulldings were unroofed blown from their foundations. Many greenhouses were destroyed, the roofs being scooped out clean. A water tower and windmill on E. H. Dickerman's place was lifted bodily and | moved six feet from its site, At Brockton, the heart of the try, the orchards and vineyar A new store belongin grap Angola had heavy rain with the wind bose tower, fifty feet high, wi mounted by the fire bell, wa carried with it all the graph wires, The roof of th was bn ly wrecied , Between Angoisn and Farry embankment by the side of t Railroad tracks was washed track had to be abandoned were washed away at L Dunkirk had the Trees were 1 CUORIO was swept! slate roof of 8 up in me telept resryeral § ITA Br 374 4 A Remarkable Ac Brown's Status or Late Wholesale Prodagce Quote ROLY wb whit Fall Fall cream, gor Part skims, oh ee Part skims, good t prime Part skims, MEMION. , .. Full skims. . fancy ream, © TOGS Htate and Penn Fresh Western — Fres {n Puck eggs, ... “ » - = ¢ 5 FRUITS AND BERRIES FRESH Apples— King Baldwiy Greening Grapes, up r Fiorida ! Cranberries, Jersey Ang es Btate<1802, cholee 1982, prime 1802, common Old odds... . LIVE POY Fe wisJoersey, State Western, per It Chickens, Jooal, Ib... Western per Ib Roosters, old, par 1b... Turkeys, per ib... cove Ducks-N. J N.Y. wr pair, teneen {18 tern anne DRESSED POULTRY ~~ FREER Turkeys, per Ib. ........ Chickens hile. per ib, Ducks—Fair to fancy, per Ib or dos. .... White, per lta .e VEGETABLES, Potatoss—State, per bil. . , .. Jorwy, Prima, por bts, , Jersey, inferior, per bis, Lo Lin bulk, per bhi, , Cabbage, Florida, per crate. Onions Eastern, yellow, bil, oe 52 4 4.41 a Ge we EINETT ERE8i 8865440 Flour~City Mill Extra, .... Patents, , . SEER ANE ana Wheat No, AAA LES LAA A AE ETT] Cornel Waite. ,... Oate—No, Bie snsesess Mixed W Hay >» 213s - ss Fil . Jie 3 gigize. Ee [nde TTT ny Chole, oes Srsasanes Pog pir oe Arossed, ———— IDB. cennnnnes 1] oT Renan por sree RR hE I 52 sasedes Clty per
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