———.... Mr —— ——— - — — Hard times have decreased meat wonsumption. Over two-thirds of thé population of Utah are of foreign birth or ex- traction. There are 1785 separate railroad companies in the United States. The German Emperor has advised | the universities to establish rowing | | clubs, after the English model. The Japanese have a better scien | tific knowledge of earthquakes than | any other nationality. The population of Massachusetts is nearly ns large as that of all the other | New England States combined. The gold production of this coun. | try for ten years has varied but little from $32,000,000 annually. Americans own sixty-four steel or iron steamships, of a gross tonnege | cided that foreigners The High Court of Republic in Africa has recently de- | to | military service after two years’ resi- | the Transvaal | are liable | dence in the country. of 197,108 tons, sailing under foreign | fags. A Brooklyn public official says that be cannot see why so many widows | are moving into that city, The latest census report shows that there are | more marriages in Brooklyn in pro- portion to its population than in any city of the Union. enough?" Picayune. “Isn't that reason asks the New The ornamental features of the pame pas alone are known here, says Mrs, Harriet W. R. Strong, in the Los An- geles (Cal) Times. I discovered that the plumes could aot be destroyed in water. Hence, as a product for bank note paper they are valuable. the fiber will make rope. Again, This was brought out in Jackson Purk through one of the judges of awards, who in- formed me that at the present time the strongest rope in the world is be- ing made in South America, where also they have tested qualities of the plumes. the paper-making They also weave a cloth with which they make dresses for their women. Reports from United States consuls in Mexico to the State Department warn Americans sgainst emigrating to Mexico, to settlement, with insufficient means, or with a view permanent without informing themselves in a re- hable way as to the prospects for earning livelihoods. Many Americans have been induced by alluring state. ments as to the cheapness of coffee raising, ete., to emigrate to Mexico within the past year, and some have lost their all by doing so. There are good opportunities in Mexico for en- terprise, frugality and thrift if backed by the resources necessary to success in a new country. { going Orleans An old gentleman, of Dexter, Me., has been doing a great deal of public of | Assessors, as a delicate compliment, | When he found it out he was very much annoyed, and | good in his town, and the Board reduced his taxes. to the Assessor's office, swore them up again, Railway construction in the United States for the six months ending June dedi 10 was 525.25 miles, built by fifty- Colo- rado led with fifty-four miles; South ne lines in twenty-five States. Carolina added fifty miles; Florida, forty-e ight : West Louisiana, forty-eight ; Pennsylvania, Virginia and forty-two, and New Jersey and Texas each thirty-four. now cheaper than iron, seems hardly possible, It the estimates Steel 18 remarks Joston Cultivator, but the yf cost in a recent bidding fora bridge in Pennsylvania to be made with steel stringers and steel rivets was lower than a like estimate idge rivets, Four made with iro: were mad yuld than of ir iron snd in each case the bridge « cheaper if ste he successful bi was R1965 against $2157, which was the lowest bid the weight of metal in the steel for the iron bridge. Owir LF 4 greater strength of steel, bridge is much less than it must necessarily be for one of iron. The American Register, of Paris, is authority for the statement that the descendants of Queen Victoria are either now in possession of, or will in to of the British Empire, the German Empire, the natural course of events come occupy, seven thrones-—those the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of —— A peculiar solution of England's problem in India may evolve before many years, predicts the New York There among Independent. is & growing tendency Indian princes to marry European wives; and the re. sult is likely to be that many of the Btates now governed by them will in course of time pass into the hands of Eurasian rulers. the rage among the Rajahs and Na- wabs to have European wivesas it now If it should become is to have European horse trainers, etc., then the headsof the great native States will before long be of mixed race, and such a state of things would put a new pbase on the political des tiny of the conntry. Attention was so centered upon the labor troubles that the Ban Francisco Midwinter close of the Fair on Fourth of July passed almost ticed. Yet the comment. he unno- event was worthy of The Fair, despite the hacd times and the interminable industrial difficulties, was a remarkable success There were more than 2,000,000 paid admissions, which is a most gratify- ing showing considering that the Pa. cific const contributed practically all tho attendants, Exposition and the people of San The managers of the Francisco deserve the highest credit | for their pluck and enterprise in car. rying the Fair to a successful conclu. sion. They will find their reward in the advertising which it them. enne has just rendered a decision of great interest to insurers, as it inval fdates the clause found in most poli- clos, that no agent has authority to alter the clauses printed on a poliey. It appears that a Mr. Henderson went to au agent there and applied for an insurance on his life, stating that he " was afraid of being shot by an enemy, who, he had reason to believe, was will give | y the Svamdedinabg ol Mass, the Duchy of SBaxe-Coburg and Gotha, the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen this the Anglo tou and Saxons niversal rule in oming be the universal language of the world Possibly in this way, I'ren ton (N. J J muses the American, the universal | 1 | H i 1 lepublie, so long predicted by dream- ers, may be established, This is called the age of electricity, the New York We Yel. That, in the opinion of ler, 18 a haven't mistake threshold The ad vance has been wi however the United Patent Office did all the nderful, In 1870 two examiners in States work of the bureau; now twenty are re nire hen I, and they are months behind two electrical patents were 1ssu« | a week ; now there are fifty. Notwith all this int of 4 from a pound of standing advance the Anal AIn« electric energy obtained ml is sufficient to every inventor in this effort. The step will be to dispense with the boiler, stimniate to line atl renewed next gre engine and dynamo and create electric Until is done the age of electricity will not energy direct from fuel. that have begun As an offset to the general disarmament of Europe there movement for a bas recently been going on a discus sion as to its probable effects on the labor market. Mr. Loughurst, Honor | ary Secretary of the English Chamber | of Commerce in Paris, has come out The United States Court of Chey | boldly in favor of large armies in the | He interests of the working classes, | shows that the armies of Europe ou a keeping peace at home, how could the remainder be provided for if dis- | banded? looking for him. The agent told him | he would give him a policy covering his case, and Henderson paid him the | throw the liberated men on charity Shortly afterward he was | preminm, killed by the enemy, as ho had antiei- pated, and the company refused to poy the insurance to the widow, as the policy contained a clause expressly ex empting the company in case death resulted from the doings of some par ty with declared hostile intent, The court says that the clause does not count, aud that the money must be paid. a Ter 3,775,000 men. Allowing 775,000 to be retained for peace footing number They could not find ocou- pation in the fields or the factories, beeause production has far exceeded consumption. A fall of wages would become inevitable, and the struggle for life be much severer. Rather than he argues ‘that it would be better for them to remain in the regiments, The cost to the nation would not be more, and service in the srmy is loss de moralizing than idleness. Besides a military training has ite advantages. It teaches habits of order and dis cipline,and it prevents early marriages, which in countries that have no con- scription are among the chief causes of poverty and distress. AT HOHE AND ABROAD. LATE DOMESTIC AND FOR- EIGN TELEGRAPHIC NEWS, John Craig Killed His in Law, Wife, Mother Father-in-Law, Brother in-Law, and Then Tried to Kill Himself — Murderers Hanged -« Rumors of War. Fy» hn Craig, Los Angeles, killed his brother-in-law, Cal., shot and William Hunter Hunter ; his Hunter, and his his father-in-law, mother-in-law, Mary George wife, Emily Hunter Craig. Cralg drove to Glendale, five miles from Los Angeles, where his wife, from whom he was divoroed three months ago, was stopping with her brother, George, and deliberately | shot and killed them both, Hethen returned | to Los Angeles and wont to the homes of his father-in-law, William Hunter, and killed him, after which, stepping over the body, he walked to the dining room, where he shot and killed his mother-in-law. Heo then turned the pistol against his fore head and fired two shots, hoth of which failed to kill him, He was taken to the po- lien recelving hospital and will recover. Ho» states that be was hounded by his | wife's relatives and wanted revenge, but was sorry he had not succeeded in killing himself to complete the whole business Cralg was prominent in polities, ing grow out of trouble of community property. the character of a desperate few friends. The kill. over the settlement Cralg has borne man, and had Down a Shaft to Death, ympany offi slals { Exoter mine, ons of illeries at West Pittston party nprise ionel A, Robe Enginser yf shigh Uni. | William Wil foreman, Jaco! Lohigh ( tour of in the company's Pent I'he Mason, of Pittston, the superintendent ort Merour, of the Professor nd Inside With the wml { went ons srymet be Pp \ Corps arsity. a nm Wal of Dyiestown Mrs, San soens at the sheriff if ho had anything fate was a warnis about twent Burt was pronounces Rightly and wera over eolahty years of age and lived pear Richboro, Bucks Conuaty, Penn Thiey ware murdersd for their money Burt was a half-bread Indian, who had we ad for then The first clue to the murder was a piece of tobacso dropped near the dead man, which a neighbor recog nized as the kind used by Bart, The fellow afterwards | his 1 “ rk | ws fosend invalld Burned Alive. George W farmer, miles west of Burlington to death in his house, Dee, a Hv? Towa, was eight burned Wil around | law. Scott Devaule, at of the house to walk anid partly dragged r Fen th Lames h Was Doss bad. acoverad the flamss word His » nin bat : Rumor of War Declared, News of Loudon has Khanghnal : beens Aeclared The rea The Central despateh from “War has and China King of K NY Japanese have and hold him prisoner Eleven Chinese steamers are on thelr way t Korea, Most of the troops aboard them are woo lies, armed with bows and arrows “Some steamers waleh have ar. rived at Korea have been preventsd by the Japanese fromw lan ling troops It is report od that the Japanese artillery sank of then { hinmse } fevera. Two Men lustantly Killed, wd Milt While John Eve a Black were engaged nr spine three mile 3 { lad it broke down While Bia ira K was rof were, started the stantly A New Japanese Minister. Gozo Taten Japanoss M art ington, has been recall Kukino, & ap inted to su his change is made ! yn satisfaction at tho mann viel Miu de Tateno has conducted the rotintions with the Washington Government, looking to the modifieation of the territorial treaties 5 sad Mr exporie was been wooed hin axtra Two Girls Drowned, Katie Johnson and Sadie Jo fourteen and twelve years respectively, were | drowaned in a little pond of one sere in ox tent, at Bay View Heights, West Chapel Hill, N. J... while bathing. The children with nearly one hundred othors fron 81, Chrysos tom Chapel, New York, wero haviag a two woeks' recreation, neon, aged | Murderer Executed, Charles Wilson, anlored, war oxscutad In the jail yard at St, Louis, Mo, for the mur der of Moses Hodge ia a quarrel overs woman, SHOT IN THE RIOT. Strikers In Puarsnit of Children Ran Into Deputies and Workmen, The display of arms made by the coke strikers at their mosting in Riverview Park, Connellsville, Penn,, resulted In a riot, In which three men wore wounded, two mor tally, After thelr mosting the strikers marched through the town, While passing Moyer they were hooted at by colored ohildren, The strikers fired their gana as a warning to their tormentors, whion caused a stampada among the children, who fled to the company store, pursusd by several of the strikers, At the store wore several deputy sheriffs and colored workers, They were armed, and, sealing the strikers’ weapons, they opennd fire on the men, Many shots wore exchange! and it I known that at least theres of the strikers wore wounded, two mortally, When these men full the others ran. III 44H A snoox resembl an cited all the geysers the ax Yollowstone Park, into great la, | tain telegrams | the | Gorman, THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States, Inookrys Aldermen voted an approprin- tion of $750,000 for an increased water sup ply. Cuanres Winrnen anarchist, and John meoting in Clarendon on the subjects of anarchy and Tuoras B, Rexp Congr n Maine, Tuovsaxps of small but iy in the streots of Cambridgeport, ing a heavy shower, MownnAy, the English Most addressad a large Hall, New York City, ommunism, for was renominatel Tur onuual convention of the International Order King's Daughters and Bons Wis opened at Osean Grove, N of Tuner men were killed and two wounde 1 by the fall of an elevator in Clausen & Price's brewery, in New York City. Winsox SBovee, a millionaire of Rochester, N. Y., was killed in a runaway accident Porice Carrarx Donerrty and his ward men, Hook and Mechan, of New York City, ware found gullty of the charges against them and dismissed from the foroee charges were also prefered against five sergeants and two purolmen, who were suspended until trial, South and West, Govenxonr TiLimax issued a proclamation announcing the reopening of the dispensaries in South Carolina on August | A Lyxcuixo took piace at midday in New Iberia, La. The victim was Vance MoClure a colored hostler, who attempted to assault a young lady, the daughter of his employer, Presipext Dens and his associate jeaders of the American Hallway Union appeared in court at Chieago to charge of contempt in violating th oderal inj and in thelr answer denjed having ordered a strike or ms the on miiroads striking rove off tv lepuaties Two Ala. miners ) POSES Five women jain River, Fresno her jepth, and iz three of the o and dr Washington. Tax United Zarioh advises Ameri sand surplus stock to is a great scarcity of Mates Consul saltie Rwitzeriand eattle there this year A cavcos of Dem Tariff bill reached atic Senstors on was held, but =n y © Bexaron Hity defeadel the tari! letter In the and sttacked Mr told how dictated the sugar schedule Maus. Sraxronn notified the G that she will not pay the claim of Presi lent Henge Caffery the vernment 15,00 earnestly requested the United States not to recogaisze the Republic Democnar to have th Sanators in {arift mittee with at conferences votel il sent back tot | insiroct LAs defended t nate, A Forelgn. sd the Vigilant in a urse of the Roya Ireland the o India have ps. Many wide ln Wester: damage fo the or lives have bv lost Wan between ( He hina and Japan was sail Japaness gunboats were bombarding Korean coast to reported to be towns Urto Jans he plague inevitable 7 over 1500 persons had died in Hong Kong. China Tux Vietlant defeats Britannia in mos at Quacnstown, making th 1; ‘ , ah ity ile sours tt ) f 4 An polar « fensity of the K's Ar and Foundian v oat Mira: wird, ran St. Johns wing to In, with into an Now Dr. Co jonberg and Mr and corruption tion and were une Warrewas guilty of brewery fland sie fled, ind in the Newloun seated and disquall IMPALED ON A SHAFT. James F. Foyle Killed by a Runaway Team at Paterson, N. J. James F. Foyle, an agent of the Metropol tan Insurance Company, had just turned the corner of River and Mulberry streets, Paterson, N. J., when a team of horses that William Milis, a lHveryman. had been exer olsing, eames dashing down River street, The wagon collided with a Selagraph pole and broke part of the harness, he horses then became unmanageable, and Mills, to save himself, slid out of the back of the ve hiale, When the horses reached the corner one wanted to turn into Malberry street and the other puliad in the direction of River street, They ran into the corner house with a erash, | impailng Foyle on the shaft against the house's side, The shaft plerosd his chest, Foyle dropped from the end of the shalt dead as the horses were caught and backed dawn from the sidewalk, I asa— c— A VOLCANIC GAS WELL. Great Boulders Thrown Into the Alr and the Earth Shaken, Shortly after mid night a series of subtler ranean explosions oocurrad at a natural gas woll situated a short distance from Coffey. ville, Kan, People were awakennd and found tue town brightly flluminated and the earth trembling, while showers of rocks could be peon bursting from the gas well, Thess were hurled high in the alr, and descending, crashed into the epttages in the neighbor. hood of the pit, As far as known, however, no one was hurt, tors up as it by a voleano, non Is unaceou ——— EE —————— a] Owixa oA y Hngariats’ are raving for Barone - phenome | ] ] i PROMINENT PEOPLE, Tue Pope's annual income is £1,450,000, Wasamaxen's life is 000, ently Wirtias Warren Prerrs left Yale College, Mr. GLADSTOXE'S eys Is worse, other operation will be necessary the nos woman of Ohi fifteen oligt, has de- suffrage, WirrLian D, Howeres, | clared himself in favor of 1 | Bexaron Joux Bugesmax, ! all his letters since he was yours old Bexaton Hawrey has been thirty-six | In nective newspaper service in Hartford Conn. Tre favorite amusement of is playing the violin, of Franoe, was and Tue late President Carnot, a lover of American horses, many in this country. James BR, Gopernoy, the ast chief 0 Miami tribe of Indians, died a few days ago, ut his home near Fort Wayne, Ind, Bisnor Joux M, Warpex, of the Epis opal ( hureh, began life by an Ohlo River flathoat for fifty Methodist cents a4 any of Co Ir is sald that Senator Wolcott ado, approaches nearer to the ideal orator than any man pow in the United States & ate, AMoxa the many other feats in Mr. Gladstone has transiated the hymn, ‘Rock of Ages, verse, teratur ' of into Greek Bo dreadful is the midday glare United States Senate Chamber that Hale and Benator Carey wear to preserve their sight Mus, Peanrxe arrived at gluszari's Mass. from Buffalo, on a few weeks v her daughter, Mrs President, at Gray Gables Cleveland ) Asin {f E4 ferick the or Sox Englishmen visiting country have names qu as unique as thes for which Georgia has become famous, They are Bir Ughtred K Shuttiewortt Rir Geoffrey Phipps Horatn Sir Redvers Buller and Sir W in this Bir Nowell Balmot Hut growing on his Cali. TOM oe Ha believes gether . therefor he } or his mother, ft Grabs Joaguiw Mirien is fornia ranch a families live too closes t in piace of building one erected four amall ones — done for his brothers, one for his own use and the fourth for his guests, " ’ mie OF iarge house, ' me He wan a t 000 against hor husband's estate, yours of age an | weighe! 3 Pn, x President sent a messageto Cos ~tess Reraxsxxrarive Pav Sona, of Ohio, who ad Goon asada lmatanle 1 we | LY 3 ht ex-Qusen LUTUSKAIRHT nad + rwtoh fast aid. ans ol ¥ richest men in the State, began Hie fo West Virginia, where he was born, as a tobacsd stripper, earning a few dollars a mo 3 employs 1000 men in his Middleton, Oblo, and it is hi 1 knows them by face never reduced thelr had a strik Borg ——— THE LABOR WORLD. BOXT ‘anads, has a Unioz Poricemxx telegraj Massa amsOcistion Bailding Labor Austria mast understand Tonoxro (Canada cents an hour, A Texas K, 0 members city laborers get fifteen of L. District Assombly has MASSACHUSETTS State convent) Leapwonkixa is the trades to the health A Ps razanens’ Uni ized in Indianapolis, Ind A vxiox of shirt r workers has boon « New York pembly © nares yrIanined State Workingmeon's mdemned prison labor and laundry Tux As Wasrrixo had the A UNION ately in the Brookiya Labor Lyceum Was pent of and Lake Erie raliroaders have ii per dent, cut restored yf workingwomen was organizsd Facoxa s al ish unions the on are opposed to anual labor schoo Printers’ Union uted $5500 1 A Br, Pave striker was ing off air brakes and tion Ine Chicago months qistri has in four idle members, final 850 for tura- tempting intimida- Loxgsuosemex’'s Nationa! Association ro ecoptiy beld Hs annual convention in Ban fusky, Ohlo Tee annual convention f the Harness and Saddle Makers’ Interoational Associa tion was held In Pera, Ind Cureano milway oMoalale announce that they will manage thoir properties indepen dent of Inbor unions hersafter, Tux American Labor Union was success fully launched at the stockyards, Chiloago. The plonmer lodge has 1548 members, It is reported that 5000 discontentel for. | eign-born workmen have loft Cleveland, Ohto, recently and returned to Europe, No employes on the face of the earth hava | A more certain tenure of oes, it is thought, than those who stood by thelr roads daring the recont strike nidest strest oar driver In the world, distances equal to twenty-five the world, Anovy 65,000 mincrs have strook against a proposed reduction in their wages, acoord- nz to advices from Edinburgh, seotinnd, nnd 20,000 ston] workers are now idle ia con- woquence of the lack of fuwl, Eowanp Myarre, of Syracuse, N. Y., says “There are three branches of organized Inbor which ean paralyse the business of this toyntey oil ons ond to the other, These are the ralironders, the telegraphers and printers,” : : w—— ———— ampioys 61,000 men on oe elalm is Tar Ponnsyivania fia linea east of insured for $1,506, Qurex Vioronta speaks ten languages flu- | £100,000 to and an- , has kept Years Fhoeodors Havemeyer, the New York multi-niliionalre, purchased ¢ f the working on Joux Byarss, 0! Poston, claims to be the | He | has been at It Jorty yours and has traveled a | times around | THE NATIONAL GAME. Enncr is Boris Tur le Ing passe Dwyen Weur will again i the new Wane Esper hard this year, he ing H { Washingt as been hit coers in wrod tarenty our vith in Twenty ga * With , Wild or hiiting a rer jends the | usad in game at the Polo Yorks and Balti- ined in I nt use until the the ninth inning, after tv) men It was a record bees his un : H n. That once great player has reached the end of his brilliant career, Gases, eatcher of the Boston Baseball more this sesso TT. | this fine all-round player was a big surprise, Ganzell said that it was no surprise to him, e was not earning bis salary this year, npiaint to make, “My arm me all the season, but 1 thousht aad all ric and I think ite tha eat go in now ont intend 10 sure that | ri [he only regret | feel wrtinge with He Boston rep i 1 is work, and & release LAGUTE 1's fon] the hove Clubs, Won, Los a Boston... .51 27 Baltimore . 46 28 New York.46 30 Cleveland . 43 32 Brookivn..41 32 Pittsburg ..42 37 Tube om S54 Phlindel. . 38 63% Cincinnati 87 605 8t, Louls .38 & £78! Chicago... 81 45 562 Loulsville 24 52 582 Waah'ng'n. 22 55 85 8K FIFTY-THIRD CONGRES The Sen ut, Preside on wa in which Messrs, Hill, f part, Me. Hills nts letter 157: Dar Chairman Wil febate, ut Clay the s and others tool view of the Preside no alternative but to Mr ola receda Vilas 2 cent bill amendments wne-sighth refined sugar 158m Day farecs report out the The consideration of the con- nthe Tariff bill was resumed, Mr, Gorman made an attack on the Presi. dent for the letter to Chsirman Wilson ;: his statements ware sorroborated by Messrs Vest, Harris and Jones, The bodyadjourned without acting on the tariff conference re- port 150m Day The consideration ort on the disagreement RO was continual, Mr speach defending the President's conse, and arfticlead Mr, Gorman, Mr. Caffory ex- plained the sugar schedule 160m Day, Mr, Allen introduced a bill to prohibit Federal Courts interfering with the axecution of State laws «Meotsrs, Callory, Daniel and Hunton spoke on the tarlff come plications 16187 Day. Mr, Vilas defended Prosidont Cleveland's Jetter to Chairman Wilson in a long speech, and Mr, Stewart eriticiosd the President : Mr. Hill's motions for free coal and tron ore were voted down, { the re- of the Tariff con- Hill made a long The House. 179 Dar. ~The Tucker resolution slection of Benstors by was discussed, 18010 Day. The House passed the follow ing : The joint resolution proposing a cone stfiutional amendment providing for popular elections of Senators | a bill forbidding Unit- tod States courts to interfere to prevent the collection of State, county and muniel taxes out of property of ~orporations in the hands of receivers appointed by such courts ; a bill providing for the inspaction of immi- grantt by United States Consuls at ports of epartures, 181er Day. Adjournment was taken early to lot the members attend the tariff debate in the Senate, At no time was there a quoram for the popular vote present, 1520 Day, «The bill diresting the re-sm- oyment of ratlway postal alerks who were lemissed from March 15 to May 1, 1880, was . Yoas, 180; nave, 58 Fourteen from the Committees on Public Lands wore passed, 188 a. «(nly routine business was PaEsioExT Dene, of the Americ Rall way Union, was donated $2000 for a Europes th by the Brotherhood of Firemen, but he not take the . In 1%02 they offered him #1500 a year to adit their but be Would BOt take more than $300. ©
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