"In all of Persia twenty miles of railroad. The overhead trolley has succeeded in providing itself more deidly than the underfoot banana peel, remarks the Washington Star, A newspaper man, who recently took a stroll the Bridge, heard ten different languages the lan- ACTOSS Brooklyn on besides profane guage, way, The British and Continental press generally agree that the election of M. to the Presidency conservative moderate republican victory over the Casimir-Perier French is a and radicals and socialists, Secretary Morton, in the interest of farmers, urges better protection for the birds, he SAYS, “It is a melancholy fact,” “that our women and our bovs are the birds’ most destructive and relentless enemies Dr. Dale, of London, wh been writing book reviews says that he beli > W | right in their minds. the most har written pe this is about pation for such people. The Baltimore San to the fact that wheat sold { pound in the Baltimore other day while oats sold and a half a pound, oats selling fifty per cent. more than wheat. is pro! this Sun remarks that unprecedented. By irrigation 25,000,000 made fruitful India Egypt there are about 6,000,000 acres, and in Earope about 5,000,000 acres, The United States have just begun the work of acres Are in alone. In improving waste area and have already about 4,000,000 acres of irrigated land. Malhall estimated that the agri cultural earnings of the United States are $3,490,000,000; the earnings from manufactures, $4,330,000,000; mines, $480,000,000 from ; from transporta tion, 81,155,000,000 ; from commerce, $160,000,000 ; from shipping, 860,000, - 000; from banking, $260,000,000, — Buffalo, living chiefly in a own where English N. Y., has 40,000 Poles, quarter of their is little spoken, nd many business signs are in Polish or Russian. The colonists retain ma: their slowly conform The colony elements native characteristics to Americ the of one of eign to American city of the third class. is There be nonsense abont duelling in the Russian army herea! ter. The Czar has issued a decree ap pointing a court of honor to deter mine in each case whether a duel is the proper thing. The decision is to will no be final, and under it any officer wh refuses to accept a challenge will be cashiered in disgrace. Officers wh are not adepts with the foils will now have to guard their tongues. Fresh finds of rich beds of gold and silver are the order of the day, The latest announced in a despatch from Manitoba, to the effect that an immense bed of auriferens ore, a mile wide and two miles long, in one tract, has been discovered between Rat Portage and Port Arthur, seventy miles south of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which assays an average of 85 in gold and 84 in silver to the ton of ore. is The miners who gotothe new camps in West Anstralia and New South Wales will, in the opinion of the San Francisco Chronicle, earn all that they get. No mining in this country is ats tended with such dangers and hard- | chips except in a few places on the Mojave and Colorado deserts, At Coolgardio water is so scarce that it commands twelve conts a quart and all provisions are extremely dear. Camels are used for transport, ns the desert | heat and dronght prove fatal to horses | and mules, Says the Boston Advertiser: Thore is growing a strong public opine ion that the law in its modern opera- tion haa been abused so gravely thata good, shrewd lawyer with no ease at all cnn save a cliont from proper pun. ishment for months and even years al though it is patent to everyone that no valid resson exists why jastioe should bo delayed & day, Legal “pleading” is now such an intricate and many-resourced art that plain, old fashioned justico must stamble and grope through wearisome and de vions pathways before she can oluteh an offender who has sharp-eyed coun. wel to guide him. there are ouly It that exports more wheat to the markets of Europe than the United States, is now asserted Arzontius The Pope recently told General | Thomassin, of the French army, that the great duty of the nations just now was a general disarmament, Lord Rosebery, the British Premier, thinks that the House of Lords should include eminent medical, legal, liter- ary and commercial men as well as the bishops. Henry Cabot Lodge, speaking at Harvard, the fault of American universities is that they are gald great training men to be critics rather than men of deeds, The Canadian law defines the imita- tion of food or food products as direct counterfeiting, and the man handling such the goods is subject to SAILS punishment as if handling money. A population of two to six to the square mile indicates a grazing coun- try; of six to eight, a farming region of eighteen to forty-five triet higl hly developed in an early state development ; armi y B 1g dis- : A greater name ber a manufacturing region. formed to es- New Mexie to Paradise.” what is man's tend Rocky of the establishme nt etal, Carlo on the Mediterranear building in the shadow Mountains sn that will rival, in every d In 1 element, Missouri and Kansas the fo liate dese comprises over a foarth of the popula- or its imme dant tion ; in Ohio, a little over a third: in Iowa and Nebraska, between vis, Michigs consin, Minnesota, North aud a half; in Illin Wis South Dakot A, the persons of foreign | of the birth, or their descendants generation, outnumber population Mme. Carnot is reported t oe had a presentiment of the fate that awaited | her distinguished husband, been in constant dread of the assassin’s weapon, which had twice failed against his life, would at last | reach it, ward to the end dent, and it was her fears thst largely | the nd influenced Carnot not soek Presidency of France for a term. More than 37,000,000 ac are infested by the rabbit toria, Australia During the eleven years the Colonial Government has expended nearly 82,000,000 in forts to abaty the pes of bits are trapped penditures indi for 150,000 pelts have monthly in the town. The authorities ra decided for of some districts ha to em wheat ploy phosphorised struction of the rabbits The currency agnscar, notes the New Orleans Pica yYune, A royal proclamation has beer issued declaring the silver coins o States not included in the Latin union | The | tobe no longer legal tender. increased importation of Mexican dol- lars was perhaps the primary cause of the currency proclamation Practically, the of silver token Madagascar becomes # currency dependent on the gold reserves of France, The San Francisso Chronicle ob. serves: Superstition seems to be still strong in Missouri, for we finda young lady in that State having a madstone applied to the wound made by a rabid dog. It may be that there is some virtue in such a stones, as thera often is in the herbs applied to wounds by but that the stone prevents hydrophobia there is proof. Pereaps its greatest service is that it fortifies the patient and pre- vents that fright which, than anything else, brings on hydropho- bia. Indian doctors, no LOT) The notion that the power o! the toes of the men and women of modern times is destroyed by the binding up of the feet in leather through a great part of life is incorrect. In comment: ing upon an English professor's re mark, ‘The toes are not used,” Dr. T. 8, Ellis says: ‘How is it, then, that the muscles of the sole and of the log, which act on the toes, do not strophy for want of uso? I have long insisted that, even in ordinary walk. ing in ordinary boots, the toes, and all of thom, are used, and sorve a very usoful porpose.” Thero can be no donbt of the rightfaluess of Dr, Ellis’s judgment in this contention, the New York San, a third | Dakota and : native | She has late that' She anxiously looked for- | of his term as Presi- | | that any effort to 4 | tr trated Darkest Africa, even unto Mad | | added that if necsssary not a STRIKE INVESTIGATION fle Agrees to Appoint an Arbitration Commission on Condition That the Strike Should Be Ended and All Violence and Mob Rule Cease- Commissioner Wright's Aids. Presid Hy ing or ‘ut Cleveland Informed a committee would mission the Labor shall r 1063 of the inquire into and investigate » cases leading up to the labor ff the country cement was made at ion nt 5 o'clock Pp ‘retary of the snd C, A. Franch, nen oalled appoint. tarrangsd earlier in the day, They were 1 into the President's working room, t they presented thelr credentials and formal application to the President to Board of Arbitration under the IANIZS 1 labor that he nthe pear future, appoint a con oa members, whom pte] Stat imissioner of t the Chnlrman, under Chapte the Ex m., to J. W, al Se Knights of L MeGalre by an Hstenod to t r we and then to isnt to making buy ‘resident men | n that, “4 must io alle ial s and tod them that law and before ys tf OK ANDY Monte first | ¢ » institutions ander which we live We therafore ask you to come to Oliloago, : or ifthe sate of public business does pot | warrant such a course, that you will deput- | ize some one as your represéutative 1 was sigoed by President of the Amer iis telegran ara Haring { an Federa : Lab Pr fonts vans and Trea y sevenieen and interns and ass nad in REGULARS KILLED. A Traln Ditehed In California With Fatal Results. Cal. ves and three A dispateh Rasrament anys 2 lost their ther , one fatally, in t attempt to “at the United States troops had possession of the railroad, the strikers made good their threat to prevent its operation The strikers had waited about ths depot nd river nearly all night, armed and angry. said the troops eould not land, and y iid the signal move trains point of the bayonet TT. i ov a Ww tor Bloo However, the strikers went home, ani the pu met no resistance when they landed from the steamer and took of the lepot and mliroad yards, Bat it was soon evident that the strikers did not to allow tralas to ran, They ished postession inten ssid so rail woul be ieft in place, Chere wore 650 regulars, a ing Joined them on the way, The troop wore landed, and under command of Colonel Graham, marched direct to the depot and took possession, A plokoet was quickly es tablished about the place and armed sentries placed on duty. Io sddition to the regulars there were about 750 men of the State militia at Sacramento At noon a train with mall cars and Palle | mans was made up and started for San Fran. cisco, under guard of a portion of Battery L. Fifth Artillary, No attempt was made to prevent its departure, but about two miles from the city, on a trestle, the train was | diteahed Four men wera killad and three injured in the wreck, The dead were: Samuel Clark, engineer ; James Burns, private John Lubberden, private; David Clark, private, The Injured men were: James Dougan, private, fatally hurt; Michael Ellis, private, injared internally ; William | Wilson, private, injured about the head, The trestle was a complete wreek, Fish piates and spikes had been removed and timbers sawed. The work had been done after 9 a. m., as the trestle had been in spectod at that time. Strikers assert that no one connected with the A, R, U, was con- nected with this dastardly act, Two soldiers were stationed on the en gine One war mangled horribly and the other foll into the river and was drowned His eartridge balt weighed him down, A eavalry company went to the wreck on a gallop, but there were no strikers about, Two men, heavily armed, were arrested noat the trestle, and taken to the guard houss, Groat indignation prevailed at Sacramento and the strikers lost many sym pat hisers, LOOTED BY A MOB, Stock Valued at $40,000 Carried ON From a Company's Shop. A mob of Lithuanians, men, women an! children, gathersd in front of the coal som. pany's store at Spring Valley, IL, 1000 strong. They first hurled stones through The Windows. Pp 300 folawed by breaking in of the doors, 0 toni all the gouda he could case}. Yury vy h sompany hav The store contained astook valuad at $40 000, and there was not a dollar's worth in | lem Savings B { 10 “xg reds | strikers | Were | York | the | the American yacht gained rapidly in THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Fastern and Middle States, Tax Boston Houses of Correction prisoners mutinied and showed fight until the oMoers opened fire and shot of them in the cheek, Cosmonone Pyrre, of Boston, has received notice of his promotion. Ha will be made tear Admiral, to sucecead Admiral errott At his own request the latter will be put n the retirad lst, Tus ane winvention to | New Jersey mot at 1 Tre United States cruiser | tained a maximum speed | ty-one n ' her He up ty upon I 1sotts coast, the Massac! Gronar Honog, be New shares oO yok kenana ink, York rested on the the institution. Ix New York ( ocartificate of rensonat Erastus Wiman forgery. He gi MONSTER wer Un AUsSpl ity, Judge Parrett gavas foul in th | ie 4 w of the ingmen Western Henry George and Father ne the spe work am IKers I. D. Arexaxren & Co. City, have |! 1, with Habilitis £200,000 and assets of £150,000 ANKOrs, « Mie South and West, 1 ' ay f Wave Was widesprea Washington. nt sett tothe Rens (raire, Su ra Carthy Marshal for James Parker, Mars ' ‘ Je 5 William A. Beach, Internal Revenue Colles tor ior the Twenty New York District, and EK J. Taylor, Customs Collegtor at Niagara, N. ¥ Tee President nominated Theodors Bruener, of Mingssota, to tw Register of the Land OfMos at St. Cloud, Mina, A sa f stone weighing foar o rT the roof of th wun thet i 0 } iret 5% mn here {1 sho Foreign, ' p Viadimir Hosein, was san uiian stenamahis wast of the Cri rare between the nt and the Prinoee Clyde, Sootis: ¥ ihe in Britannia on the Britannia drifted was awarded to her ViorLext earthquake shocks were felt Constantinople, Turkey; about fifty lives were reported to have been lost, and a panie was onused among the inhabitants Wales s in the 240 Poles arrested in Warsaw for on the Kiliusky centenary, 160 have Siberia Or shearing bean banished to Fue Vigilant was again, and for the fifth time, beaten by the Prince of Wales's Brit annia, on the Clyde, Seotland Jarax chartered sixteen steamers to land 10,000 troops in Korea, and will accept no terms but those dictated hy herself Tux United Btates cruiser Chicago wag ran into while at anchor near Antwerp, Belgium, by the tank steamer Azoff. The damage is estimate at $12,000 Jarax ncospted Kagland's offer of media- tion in the Korean pute, Taz French Chamber of Deputies rejected M. Cavaignac's proposal for an income tax, and voted confidence in the Ministry, Tux Britannia defeated the Vigilant for sixth time the Clyde, In Seotiand ; the latter part of the race, but was unable to | overiake her riva HAWAII A REPUBLIC. The New Constitution Ordered Fro. claimed on July 4, on The correspondents of the American press at Honolulu, Hawaii, writing by the steamer Monowal, which arrived a few mornings ago at San Francisco, Cal, say that the Consti- tutional Convention on June 26 adopted the following resolutions Resolved, That the Constitutional Conven- tion arranced to close its labors on or bafore Tuesday, Jaly 3, and that a public proela. | mation of the Constitution of the Bap tie of Hawall be made on the 4th day of July, at such a place and hour as may oe approved and be it further Resolved, That the Hon, Sanford Ballard Dole, then and thers take oath as President of the Republic of Hawall, and announce the names of his Cabinet ; and be it further Resolved, That a committee of five mem bers of this convention be appointed to make all necessary arrangements, The convention on June 28 completed the second reading of the Constitution and ad. ourned to the 30th, appointing a third read. on that day. Trovan P. D, Armour, the Chicago pack. or, has a desk full of raliroad passes he pover uses one of them, but always pays his fare like ordinary mortals. He is disposing of his fopats to his sons as fast os they show Phe qualifioations to use it aright, it 10 be wiser to ses his wealth in proper hands while he is still alive, He has no faith in wills, — Taz were a THE PRESIDENTS ACTION 'A PROCLAMATION TO THE | CHICAGO STRIKERS, This Move Decided Upon After a Long Night Conference of the Executive and His Cabinet—Mobs Ordered to Disperse Immedh ately-—Cltizens Warned, | | | | | PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVEL President Cleveland Issue to ford night “ part fomented at mi , warning all ¢ ing ainst tak in the troubles vy the Ar and telling then Arm used t It was axactly, bu ihe Prosiden ool autho ox an by the Foderal auth the n n WAS commun by Secretary Lam lows dieg has desmed it best to ring proclamation, hange the You wil yor Hop message sent Miles by Becrotary Lamont in i with the prociamation, showed that there bad heen no extens ary authority Boelore Pres slamation was given to the pu? wears seat by General Bchofield ordering troops from Backett's Harbor, New York other points to start westward immed! Gen- eral Howard, command! vision of the Atlantic was wired at Governor's Island, New York City, i une kins the ¢ tha ¥,. 10 order ot der his command to prepares 10 move sta moment's notica When these reinforoe ments should arrive, 1 was estimated the Federal troops ia Chisago would number fully 4000, Toe REgplamation issued by the President WAS an follows © “Proclamation by the President of the United States “Whereas, Br reason of unlawful obstrao- tions, combir iages of per- It Bb be in ticable, in the t f the President, to enforoe, by ial proosedings, Htates within the ally in the city anid Stat and ha aa of the r regiments wr jud United ope enforoing laws of the property United States mai : aforesaid, the President has nployed a part of th f the United States, I. Grover Cleveland, ‘nited Btates 10 hereby itizens and all persons hin the pur{ : 1 States and protecting its ren the br . nations and 1 hereby warn all ns engaged in or in any way connectad with such uniawial olwtructions, combina tions and assemblages to disperse and retire senceably 10 their respective abodes on or Jia 12 o'clock noon on the th day of July [hose who disrogary this waraing and sreist in taking part with a riotous mob In on ly resisting and obstructing the execn- tion of the laws of the United States or in- terforing with the fonstions of the Govern. ment or destroying or attempting to destroy the property belonging to the United States or under its protection, cannot be regarded otherwise than as publio enemiss “Troops employed against such a riotous mob will ast with all the moderation and forbearance consistent with the accompiishe ment of the desired end, but the necessities that confront them will not with oer tainty permit diserimination between guiity participants and those who are mingied with them from curiosity and with out erimizad intent. The ualy safe course, therafore, for those not actuaily unlawfully participating is to abide at (heir homes, or at least not to be found in the neighborhood of riotous assemblages “While thers will be po besiiation or vaceilation in the decisive treatment of the guilty, this warning is especiaily intended to protect and save the innocent, ‘In testimony, whereo! | have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed, ‘Done at the city of Washington, this eighth day of July, in the year of cur Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety. four, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred snd sighteenth, “(Signed ) “By the Presid ent, (Signed) actions ge and assemblages pers Grovex CLEYELAND, W. Q Gamenan, “Soeoretary of State, A Second Proclamation. The President followed up his first prooia- mation by issuing another of the same rioters but I ad nople of nine States and Ter. North Dakota, Mon. i Wyoming, Col pen) New Mexico, It torney-General, The second BY THE PRESIDENT OF THR UNITED STATES OF ANMERIOA “A PROCLAMATION. - es ———— perty belonging 4 or its protectio and of preventing obstructions of the Unit States malls and of commerce between the States and Territoties, and of securing to the United Btates the right gusrantesd b law to the use of such roads for postal, mil. itary, naval and other Government servics, the President has employed a part of the military foroes of the United States ; Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hersby | command all persons engaged in, or in any | | tive abodes on or before thres o'elosk in the | afternoon on the tenth day of July instant, way connected with such unlawful obstruoe tions, combinations and assemblages to dis perso and retire peaceably to their respec In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United Btates to be hereto affixed, Done at the city of Washington this ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, and of the independencs of the United States the one hundred and nineteenth, Guoves CLEVELAND, By the President Ww . Q Grraman, Secretary of State, ———— THE NATIONAL GAME. Tur tons, thi His re without an error syerage of 998, LovisvriLe's poor record ds brightened five deleats of oid rivals f Ci from whom Louisville, in would have rather won the shamplonship, She also won rom the Brooklyns a ATnesan $ sar Baltimore 41 20 Boston.... 45 22 New York.39 26 Philadel. . .35 26 Pittaburg..58 29 Brooklyn. 955 2s 574 Chicag 567 Loulsrille 556 Wash'ng'n. 16 48 ——_—— FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, The Senate. 6m Dav. The House joint resolution enable the Secretary of the Navy to ear ry out the work of increasing the navy was adopted. —Mr. Allen offered a resolution forthe appointment of a committes of five Senators, no more than two to be of the same political party, to investigate and report on the advisability or necessity of Government ownership of railroads and telegraphs, and especially on the existing trouble between employersand employes 14711 Dav. The Senate passed the Naval Supply bill, «~The Legislative bill was re- ported with amendments increasing the House appropriations by $339,202 1480 Day. The Senate passed without discussion the House bill to admit Utah into the Union, The Senate passed also the Postoffioe Appropriation Hil, and took up the Diplomatic Appropriation bill, ——Mr. Peffar's resolution as to Government control f rallroads was taken up, and Messrs, Davis and Gordon scored the Kansas Pope list for his utterances 140rn Dav.-<Mr. Daniel's resolution ine dorsing the action of the President in re. gard to the great strike was unanimously adopted, ~The Benste passed with amend ments the Diplomatic Appropriation Mi the Pension Appropriation bill and the Military Academy Appropriation bill, «The River and Harbor bill, with the total appropriation mado by the House, increased by $3,087. $90, was reported, 150rn Day. Mr, Hale introduced a reso. lation asking for information concerning the moatings of the Tariff Conference Commits too. «The Army and FPortifioations Ap- propriation bills were passed The House, 168 Day.~The Gorman compromise Tariff bill was sent to conferencs by the House after a short but sharp debate and then the body adjourned, 160rn Dar. "To regulate railroads en gaged In Inter-State commerce,” is the title of a long bill introduced by Mr, Straus, of New York, «Mr. Baldwin, of Minnesota, intro. duced a bill for a mrvayof the most practi onble route for a ship oanal to conneot the Groat Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. 1701 Day, ~The House passed a bill pro. viding for the opening to settlement of 8. 000,000 nore of the Uneomphagre and Uintah Resorvation in Utah, elt adopted a reso. lation declaring Mr. Enlos, of Tennmssss, an- titiad to his seat, which was conteste! hy B. E. Trashor. The rest of the day was in debate of the bill forfeiting 8%, 000 « nares of railroad lands op o and 00 terminons with lines not constructed within the period of time fixed by the grants, 171ar Dav, Me, Richardson, of Tenneson, was chosen Bpeaker pro tem, in the absence of Speaker mea The Land Forfetiure bill was taken up, detated and passal and the House adjourned. 308 4 1 3
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