for ten years past has varied but little from 832,000,000 annually, Tests recently made of the hauling powers of American and English loco- motives on the Tokaido Railway in Japan resulted decidedly in favor of American engines, and preference will be given to them in future. A noted health officer claims that a | large number of cases of bronchitis, pneumonia and inflammation of the lungs during the winter are directly raceable to tho exposure of the patient at football games in the fall. There are truck “farms” in New York City, avers the Mail and Express, which are assessed at $100,000 an acre. About forty such acres are to be seen in the vicinity of the Kingdom Come Curve, on the Sixth avenue “I,” be- tween the 104th and 116th street sta- tions, or two years ata time, but no lease They used to be leased for one falling in is now renewed for more than six months in advance. The New York Sun observes: It is a curious faot, in view of the com- plaints that Ireland and Scotland are downtrodden, that three Irishmen and a Scotchman constitute the supreme tribunal of appeal for all English sub- jects, which is the court known as the “Lords of Appeal in Ordinary.” The names and nationality of its four mem- bers are as follows: Lord MacNaugh- ten, Irish; Lord Morris, Irish; Lord Watson, Scoteh, Russell, Irish. and Lord The domesticated herd of buffal Otoe County, Nebraska, ferred to by Secretary Morton, num- They three calves rounded up with cattle in recenily bers eight. were br from Colorado. The buffalo have been kept in a six-acre lot and fed the Two of eight years, fought like native cattle. bulls, seven and out the question of leadership a year ago, and the elder was pushed by the younger through a heavy plank fence. They are now kept apart. Along with the buffalo is a herd of elk, also numbering eight. the situation. A cross between the elk and black cattle was obtained, but the only calf proved barren. The elk are fed lightly and are ordinarily peaceful, but when they | are in search of water their rush is | irresistible. They are masters of Mr. Mulock, a Liberal member of the Canadian of made a sensation the other day by in- House Commons, troducing a bill to ent down the salary the He plained that when the salary of that of Governor-General, ex- official was first arranged it was fixed at 850,000, That was at the eration. Since that confed- time the ex- penses of the office have been coutin- ually increasing, until now they were out of all proportivi: iv any services that it could possihly do to the coun- try. He said that since the confedera- tion in 1867 the office cost the country $2,851,917, or about 8114,076 a year, which was some 865,000 more has than its maintenance had been rated at. He thought that the luxury of having a Governor-General came alto- He did not propose any change to go into gether too high. said that he effect before the expiration of the term of the present incumbent of the office, Lord Aderdeen The Atlanta Constitution speculates cold-blooded what would be likely to ensue if a predie- tion made by Professor Falb, the Vi- ennese earthquake prophet, in a way upon came $0 “Ap. cording to the New York Herald the | new prophet is a scientist of high standing. His success in foretelling | two earthquakes in Greece will cause | people to take a good deal of interest | in his prediction of a tidal wave that will overwhelm New York in July of August. pass. Says the Constitution: If such a calamity should oc- eur it would havea far-reaching effect upon this country. The destruction of New York with its concentrated | wealth would transfer the financial center elsewhere, and Southern ports would doubtless leap into prominence in a very short time. Of course, Pro- fessor Fall may have made two lucky guesses by accident, and New York may escape her threatened doom. Btill, it is a well known fact that the const of New Jersey has been gradu. ally sinking for the past one hundred years, and it is possible that it wili sooner or later be swallowed by the ocean. In that event, New York would probably go down at the same time, Bat it is not likely that the bulletins from Vienna wiil depress the price of metropolitan real estate or couse a wholesale exodus. The average New Yorker will have to be shaken up pretty roughly before he will abandon his property.” The gold production of this country | | in Germany. The population of Melbourne, the metropolis of Australia, has decreased 46,004 since April, 1891, Cincinnati is said to be the greatest saddlery and harness producing city in the world. The industry dates back over half a century, Senor del Castro told the Spanish | Cortes the other day that if England attempted to seize Tangier, it would precipitate the greatest naval war that the world has ever known, Good pencil cedar is getting so scarce that the great firm of Faber & Co. | have begun to cultivate forests of cedar At Schloss Stein there | is a cedar forest which covers thirteen acres, and the head of the firm has, for many years, maintained nurseries and plantations of cedars on his land | in Bavaria, grown from seed which he imported from Florida. - Women are commencing to take the place of men as buyers and drummers for large drygoods houses, more par- ticularly in the West, states the New York Witness, this change is that the habits of women Que reason given for { men. are more reliable than those o Another reason assigned for the pref- erence of women to men in these cases is that the former have better taste in whatever pertains to apparel, es 1, especi- ally feminine dress. Greater New York, a topographies ints out statistician j area of 317 square mi the size of Loz China is not con- the him by his subjects, and recently issued teat with respect shown the “After bringing our sacrifice recently to the i bh ae following peculiar order: ighest being, we heard upon our re- turn to the palace, near the gate lead- ing to the Imperial quarters, a rather loud noise caused by talking. This shows that the peoples have not the | proper regard for the majesty of the 1aler, and also that the officers of the do The officers who were bodyguard have failed to their duty properly. on post at the particular gate must be punished, therefore, by the Ministry of War, officers, high or In the future, however, all low, must see that a shall not RoOlse 80 Improper occur in our presence. " Dr. Salmon, Chief of the Burean of Animal Industry in the Agrieultural Department, said recently that there had not been any pleuro-pneumonia {or more than two years, but that tuber. among cattle in the United States culosis is to be found everywhere more or less. *“‘It is not confined to any one locality," “nor is there an unusual prevalence of the said Dr. Salmon, disease. It has existed from time im- memorial, but it can be lessened, and can probably be eradicated by adopt- is a disease ing Iroper measures, It of the lungs among cattle and con- tagious, being communicated by germs, It is most prevalent in dairy catte which are raised and kept under con- ditions where contagion can be easily commugicated. The disease is more apt to spread among cattle kept in stables than among those in a pasture or on a ranch.” of 1893 factories, the largest being in California, and others in Nebraska, Utah and Virginia, the latter only recently established and with a production for the past year of only eighteen tons. of capital invested in the sevun factories is about $2,000,000, Tributary to these factories, under cultivation in beets are about 20,000 acres of land, the best of the California farms being rated at $200 an acre. The average yield of the lands was ten tons of beets to the acre, for which the farmers re- ceived, delivered at the factories, an average of $4.50 per ton. Apparently this is a profitable crop; but not only iz fertile soil required, but high fer. tilization, and a great deal of hand culture; so that, on the whole, the crop is seldom heavy enough to be profitable except on fertile land which is too valuable for ordinary erops, These requirements, and the fact that sugar-beet cultivation must be in the line of scientific farming, if satisfac- tory results are to be reached, will al- ways have » tendency to confine this branch of agriculture to certain favor- able climatic or other localities and conditions, The beet-sugar crop manufactured at was seven The amount | he had begun with almost nothing, | Benators from Massachusetts are now living | B1 George C, | 1473 to 1877 ;and Hen term of service exterd | ment in his dominions, not to speak of his | dividends on the gambling company’s stoek, which, notwithstanding it was a “bad year,’ THE MINNEAPOLIS FAST | ORD BREAKER, { A REC- On Her Preliminary Trial at Sea in Shallow Water and With Anthra- cite Coal She Makes the Wonder- ful Speed of 21.75 Knots — The Contractors’ Trial is Satisfactory. A broom at the foretopmast and the figures 21.75 painted in big white letters on the fannel of the Minneapolis told every oraft In the Delaware River and the crow is on the shore, us the man-of-war steamed back to Philadelphia, the result of the big cruiser’s preliminary trind trip off the Dela | wars Capes and proclaimed to the world that the United Btates Government has another ship superior in speed to any vessel pos. sessod by other nations, The 21.76 knots were made in an off shore run off the Delaware Capes. The run was made under forced draught, in COM pPar- atively shallow water and with anthracite conl burning inthe furnaces, The Minneapolis left Cramp's shipyard, with Captain BR, W, Sargeant in command, and a erew of 407 men. Edwin 8, Cramp, the engineer of the firm, and Superintendent Lewis Nixon represented the builders of the ship, and had general supervision of the trial, About a dozen friends of Mr. Cramp were aboard ns guests The Naval Department wns ofleially repre sented by Naval Constructor John Hanscom, Past Assistant Engineer A. B, Willetts and G. W, Dengerfold, Inspacior of E jaipment, The eonditions were favorable for the ship, as she passed Five Fathom Bank light- ship, for her first run to the Northeast light- ship, The Minneapolis was running under natural draught, and passed Northeast Hight ship at nineteen minutes past 8, The ran was made at the rate of 18.78 knots, On the run back the speed on this run had increased to 19.14, and on the next run out to the Northeast lightship the speed went up to 230.52. The run back to Five Fathom Bank Hght was made in the same time, off wood draaght of the ship de- passed at ton | perfectly satisfied | trial that the ship | ip the river to the yard was not marked, 8 perfect dependence cannot bo placed upon the | patent log, and it was dificult to arrive at an knowledge of the spend made Caleuiations approximated it at 21.75 knots | for the hour's run, but it is more than babde thet it was greater than this, slumbia on her preliminary trial trip eande but 20.3% knots, As a result of the preliminary trial of the new oru ser her bullders and the officers on board pronounce her the best of her olass and the fastest of her size (n the world, 1 waive, an was Mr. Cramp with the proos lirootly Se minutes { exact PROMINENT PEOPLE. Cosaaemexay Daxinrs, of New York, was a cobbler for ten years, Tue Emperor of Germany is partial to horseback riding Purser Ax third son, Is exosodingly » , the Emperor of Germany's ta become a sallor Ex-Passipext Hannsox's cottage at Cape Mar. N. J. is advertised for sak A erates of Marshal de MacMahon fect high, is to bo erected at Autun, the new Senator from letter writer in that thirty Fraace, Parmior Warsn Georgia, is the busiest body Kiva Oscar, of Sweden, days one of the most accon Europe was in his young plished tenors in Spcaerany Hoxzx Ssrra deliverasd the sommencement address at the University of Korth Carolina Carrars Worsaw H. P. Hawes, of the Canard Line, has erossed the oocan 600 times and has never lost a life oldest Fron a few days eighty-one Perens, the | Rtntos, CAPTAIN NATHAN Mason in the Unit ago at Amesbury, Masa, years, J. L. Motroy, the song writer, Is an Bag- lish barrister, who divides his time bet ween his profession and music, which he con- siders a recreation. R. J. Garrixa, of Hartford, (Conn.) the nventor of the gun of that name, is seventy. four years of age, with snow white hair and a clean shaven face Tin 1 4 aged Sm Canteens Rosset, now Lord Russell, is sald to be the prospective successor of Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justices of Eng land, The salary Is $40,000, ixrva Lockwoop, the woman lawyer of Washington, Is sixty<three yoars old, She | began teaching school at the age of fourteen | and was married four years later, ! Gexenat, Preasoxrox, who, many yoars ago, was widely known as ‘Blue Glass’ Pleasonton, has lived very quietly for the last sixteen yours at a Washington hotel, Srxaron Joux Rueamax has sorap books covering the history of the United States for | the past thirty-eight years. He has been keeping his lottors wines he was fifteen, and everything of valas has been saved, Report Hearzoo, the “A. T, Stewart of Berlin,” died In Carlsbad a few days ago, saventy-nine years old. His store was known far and wide in Germany, and made him one of the wealthiest men of the eapital, although Ory three of the former United States ~Robert CC, Winthrop, who served in 1850- PBoutwell, who served from L. Dawes, whose from 1875 to 1808. Avnet Oumar, Princes of Monaco, got £1.500,000 as bis ast year's share of the profits of the notorious gambling establish- exceeded forty per cent, Prixor Braxanck, according to the book recently published by Hans Blum, “The Gor. man Empire at the Time ot Bismarck ™ ia not a woenlthy man in the American sense, The mortgage on his estates requires him to pay about $830,000 every year, The income from his Friedrichsruhe property has boon as much as $60,000 a year, but it has averaged only about halt that sum, His on tire Income is not far from £100,000, — The | i rave, 5 number | lured, €830.000 worth i the mine The | THREE EUROPEAN RULERS, The Emperors of Russia, Austria and Germany, Arbiters ot Ueace or War in Europe, STRIKERS RAMPANT. Disturbances Break Forth at Many Polnts. Labor Viclenes marked the aticuanoce labor strikes in many sections try, of the day showed that the sir yf the and a review Coal Mines, no and ball a body, soveral vyerae ol thers property abso- utely destroyed and many Lomes made desolate, was the resuit of an sttempt made by the miners of the Peoria distriot to ol h operated by the Little Brothers in Tazewell County, a mile or m back of Wesley City. Edward Blower, of Barton- ville, married, was shot in the side of the neck and killed instantly, Governor MaKinley has sent 1200 troops to ha "oe | Eastern Ohio, where strikers are stopping gen sral mliway traflle, The commandi belioves at lonst that the men will fght | ome point. . A mob near Harmony, Ini, stonasd a Van- dalla freight train and lostantly killed the engineer in his oah he presence of troops quistel the rioters at Frostburg, M1, but just before the sol dlers arrived the houses of a working miner was blown up with dynamite, A oall for ald eames from Round Pouszd in the Cherokee Strip. Men were tearing up raliroad tracks and threatened to kill any- body who attempted to repair them A battle between the army of deputiss and gold miners near Oripple Creek, Col, was averted at the last moment. The men said they ware willing to surrender to the mili. tia, and the deputies conciuded to await the coming of the Troops. Neither the coal operators nor the minsrs took kindly to the suggestion of the National Committes of the United Mine Workers that each mining district settio the strike for it- soll, The importation of new men Into the coke region of Peanayivania Increased and bid fair to defeat the strikers Judge Emery Speer, who onos made a de plslon unfavorable to organized labor, re fused at Macon, Ga, to require sagineers to work thirteen hours at a streteh, saying the lay of the law was to improve tha con lon of the laboring man wheeever possible, KILLED THEIR CHILDREN. Then Carl Seeger and His Wife Took Thelr Own Lives. Carl Seager, his wife and their four ohil- dren were all found dead in thelr home at Berlin, Germany. Seeger was a master painter, and at one time was well-to-do, but has been wsaable to collect money due him for work and became despondent, Mre, Seeger was groatly cast | down by her husband's financial embarrass. ment, and, judging from the evidence in the | hands of the police, the coxiple determined to | kill their four children, nineteen, thirteen, | ten and seven years old, and then commit | suloide, Proouring some ¢yanide of potassium the te placed the poison in the food of the two older children, from the effects of whick they died in a short time, though the eldest son apparently made a des o struggle before death relieved him of his agony. The other two ohildren, one a girl, were, for | some unexplained resson, hanged by their ta, After killing the children it is supposed that Seoger gave some of the poison to his wife, and immediately after she swallowed it placed a rope about her neok and strangled her Then Seeger made preparations for killing himself, Taking the rope with which he had strangled his wife, he placed the end with the noose around his neck, fastened the other end to a doorknob, and, with the aid of a chair, passed the middie of the rope over the top of the door. ‘When he had done this he kicked the chair from unde him and strangled. VIOLENCE AT M'KEESPORT. The Workmen Driven Out by a Crowd of HO00 Strikers, The expected trouble at the National Tube Works, MoKeesport, Penn. , has occurred, A erowd of 5000 strikers broke down the ene trance to the mill yard and drove the 240 workmen employed in the partments out of the tha men wero driven out worke they were surrounded by another crowd of strikers on the outside, beaten with clubs and chased th h the central rt of the eity, Several welders orossed the ola River, pursued by thestrikem, One of the men was caught and severely ah + His condition was A FARMER'S CRIME, He Shoots a Farm Hand, His Mother In-Law and Kills Himself lived of Oanan- husband's ’" y saw J still ali R MK Yara njury, i hit ue in the left arm. Rolsh says that Miller had from home for several months, family had no intimation of his being in the neighborhood The resson for committing the dead Is said to be jealousy, been absent and that the LYNCHED IN COURT. Disgusted With the Proceedings Against Two Murderers, Bd. Hill and George ¥. Parker, murderers, | wore taken from the jall at Colfax, Wash, and hanged from the balcony of the Court House, Hil killed Langford Sammers at Garfield noarly two years ago, and after a trial which eott the county nearly $30,000 he was found guilty of assault and sentenced to two years, His case was pending on appeal. Parker was being triad for the murder of A. B. Cooper, at Puliman, last October, and the jury sitting in his onse watched the iynehing from a room in the Court House, The mob awoke Jaller Newoomber, and, on plea that they bad a prisoner to look up, inthe jail. They took his keys, put ropes around the necks of the murderers, lod them to the second story of the Court-House and, without any parley, dropped them off the baloony Parker's arm caught in the rope and was lerked almost from its socket. Hill's neck was broken, DEAD BEFORE HANGED. A Mob Tortures Its Vietim to Remind Him of His Crime, Alexander MoCuardy, about thirty years of age, was convicted at Golden, Col., of may- hem. He had brutally assaulted his step- brother, Charles Berry with interfering with nes, MeCurdy was sentenced to three years in the psuitentiary, but had not been taken away yet, Early in the morning a mob seized Alexander Kerr, the jallor, choked him and made him give up his keys, Then the Jendors dragged MeCardy from his oell to the jail lawn, wheres he was tortured as he had tortured his stepbrother, MeCardy died under the torture, but his body was hanged to a trestle over Clear Crook. It was cut dowa st 6 a. m. whom he charged a his domestic happl- I —— IT'S HAWAITS ISLAND. 1 Its Flag Is Holsted by the Minister of the Interior. Hawall won the race with Britain and secured possession of Necker Island. The Hawaiian steamer walani boat the British eraiser Champion in the race to the barren bit of land, Minister of the In terior King returned to Honolulu and an. nouncad that he had hoisted the flag of Ha. wall on a promontory of the island. The new acquisition is perfectly barren, of no use whatever neg as a possible resting piace for the proposed cable, has TE LARGEST HORSE DEAD. He Stood 27 1.2 Hands High and Welghed 3024 Pounds. The largest horse in the world, King Will Inn, 27)¢ hands high, weight 3024 pounds, died at Chestortcn, Ind, a few nights ago, while boing shipped to Coney Island, Mr Westlake, his owner, had just been offered £10,000 for hiw. I ses ——— TEN DROWNED. | Cloudburst Carries Away a Charcoal Camp, A sloudburst occurred in the Sierra Madre Mountains about seventy miles south of Du rango, Mexico, and a camp of charcoal burners was washod away by the flood which oame Inging down the mountain guloh. bi 3 in The 030.58, Groat | TH; NATIONAL FIKKCES THE CURRENT MONTHLY PUB- LIC DEBT STATEMENT. A Net Increase in the Public Debby Less Cash on fland, of 860,603 030.58—A Net Loss of 822,000,- 000 In Gold Great Falling Off In the Revenue, inrronss United "he debt statement shows a net ihlio debt, less cash in the during May, of $6,603. The interest. labt 8400, the non erensod $640,870.50, the Treasury The balances of nt the Intorest-hearing debt, which Interest §1.85%,890 016.480 : total, The eertif } s Transury, bear ineressel ng ntorest-hearing dei de the §7 versal olnas in 243.450.08, og Of dats and cash Aecreased 1 the rlose of hn { ocensoed maturity, #350 has since jebt bearine no #1,016,918.560, 4 { Treasury notes offset h in the Treasury of the month were wroase of $1,188 650, To- tal cash in the 8753, 258,264.77 gold reserve, $78,693 267 ;: net onsh balance, £59,161.068.85, During the month thers was ns decrease in gold coin and bars of $22,124, 641, the total at the close being #145 567 ,- B16, Of silver there was an increase of 786,490, Of the surplus there was in the pational bank depositories $16,930,421, against $10 540,719 ut the end of the previous ¥ interest interest, by an equal am outstanding at end $621,125 445, an iz reasury During the sustained a net poses of §22.00 sontinues, neary nh fi month f th he Treasur) losing it in Boston, rk by withdrawals nsactions, The gol banks, In West tha Trenstry y West The Treasury i W nange f r nga 4 ; $400,000 in St tos delivered reocelvin £5.000,000, the rest © Treasury has a w $42,000,000, The fore, is considered m with less 2 at the curren the calendar ¥ H times greater thas ¥ balanoe is 1OUr it was then - —— — NEWSY GLEANINGS, Inmrayn has 107.774 paupors, New Yong has 3728 policemen Lospos hag ft De rar ns a popuation Joost 1 joni ster Cit Taxa: pruntry « months, ary this ox James MUnnas Chester Il. oe har of lye soag ower at about sents joy It is estimated that t Ia : ie was Penasyivania eatisel a loss to the in that State amounting to $2,100 of Washington a suitable | ascommo- outs in raliroads Hon IT seems that in the there are $000 age for whom thes dations Oxrorp Uxivensrt aoptod the challenge o contest in July, providing a r team oan be formed, A narssaren employed by a railway com: pany is sald to have precipitated a copious downpour over a part of Southern Nebraska and Northern Kansas, ' Suxz Casar stockholders voted, 1200 to 427, to pension the De Lesseps family, and by about the same majority re-clected two of the Count’s sons directors Soon is the glut of asparagus this season in New York City thet on some days it sells as low as seventy-fve and eighty oents a dozen bunches 10 canners, has an Yale for an athletic presantative MILLIONS SWEPT AWAY, Many Lives Lost in the Fraser River Flood. Four million dollars will hardly cover the joss by the Fraser River flood in British Columbia, The waters continued rising, and as the warm weather continues melt. ing the snow in the mountains thers was no immediate prospect lef. One promis rallway thinks the loss of life will 100. Bridges, irestlos, tunnels and tracking along the Oanadian Pacifio have gone, From Prevelstoke to the sea, 5% miles, the rallway is new a watery waste, The last point above Vancouver which can now be reached is Ruby Creek, eighty. two miles distant, Thonoe all 18 waler, Mission, Chilliwack, Hat. Langley Prairies, and of Harrison, Centreville Langley, Chilliwack and Mission are all under water, and not a farm build yo standing. ily ten thousand odit ve perish Tolegraph and rallroad services aro compietely demoralized, Ono raft was foun! with the bolles ofa man and woman and three children to it, and seven bodles wore found
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