fifo mix Svitseiomety The New York World prints a list of 109 New Yorkers who will have to pay an income tax of §1000 and up- wards. W. W. Astor's tax is set at $178,000. Mrs, Hettie Green pays more than any other woman, The despised rabbit of Australia is being anxiously inquired for by the British army contractor, records the American Agriculturist, who sees a possible supply of cheap and whole- some food for the army in that direc- tion. The stock of the Pullman Company, of 836,000,000, sell for 8174 to $172 a share (par value being 8100). The company pays on this $36,000,000 of stock a dividend of two per cent. ,pey- | able quarterly, or eight per cent. per annum. Alaska's mail service has heretofore | been dependent upon Eskimo dogs. Reindeers, however, are so much bet- ter for the purpose that the Govern- ment hos imported several families of mal, — : Three hundred Japanese reside in | | chances that New York City. They do not live to- gether in a colony like many other | foreigners, because they are divided by their interests into distinct classes, and, in addition, they are wealthy | enough to be able to live wherever they please. A promoter in California proposes to build an electric railway through the mountains sixty-two miles to the Yosemite Valley, and, by utilizing the water power, furnish electric light and motors for all that region. About #000 tourists visit the Yosemite every year, ride. paying $30 each for the stage French statesmen, notably M, Le- ville, are endeavoring to extend to France the benefits of the homestead, a the French tongue which is a proper equivalent for it, tho word ‘“‘home- stead” is retained in a bill that has been introduced in the Ch American nd as there is no word in am cehdd ber of Formerly the man with a hand or- |, . | "exceptional among American cities in gan strapped over his back and an up- right staff firmly fitted to one side of the instrument was a familiar sight; but now gne rarely sees this old men of music box. The musical piano, which is run on wheels, and which, if anything, Dect ~ nakes even more hideons noise, has almost entirely supplanted the old organ. t employed by the State iana reports that the supply. ntist of Ind of goon be ex! natural gas in Hoosierdom will » wausted, and that the sa: ial fate awaits gas fields wherever they may exist. He does not rest this up- on hisbare assertion, adds the Detroit Free Press, but gives reasons at length which admonish the holders of nataral gas stock to let go if thay can. In France the telophone is used on many railroad man lines, On a por- tion of the Vincennes Railway a rather novel system is in vogue by which at a given signal on the telephone instra- graph wires with a telephone for bal tralian railwzys use field ver. The large Aus- tel ith the tele- communication. ephones, which may be connected w graph wires at any point without in- terrupting the telegraphic communi- tations, ~~ mr 3 New York and Boston together have ten miles less of paved streets than has the city of Chicago. has forty miles more of paved streets than New York and St. Louis together, The question of pavement, which was formerly considered only with rela tion to the wear and tear, or, rather, the wear and pressure of vehicles, is now considered by the students of municipal administration generally in reference to the problem of strect cleaning, says the New York Sun, Germany has for years possessed the { Brooklyn, eig Philadelphia ' most efficient pigeon servico in Eu | rope. birds, at Metz 600, at Thorn 1000, and they are kept by the hundreds at other centres, such as Mainz, Cologne, Kiel and Danzig. The whole frontier is connected by pigeon post with the military headquarters and with towns in the interior. The service is sup. ported by an appropristion of about $9000 a year. At Strasburg there are 600 | The practical nse of ! the pigeon post wes fully demon | strated at the siege of Paris in 1870, Bince then it has become a recoguized part of the military [organization of | all European conntries except Creat Britain. Russia has now on her Pol- ish frontier alone, 3000 birds, and ap- propriates yearly $10,000 for pigeons; the French appropriation is twice ne large. Among the Sionx no lover ean have the girl of his choice unless he can out- run her. The scientists say this is a survival of the earlier method of am- busoading an intended wife and kid. napping her as a means of opening the courtship. | Edgar Fawcett says: ‘Some of our younger poets have regrettably fallen, I find, into the habit of writing with neither rhythm nor rhyme,” He might have included reason in his list, and been tolerably within the mark, adds the New York Observer. Lying about the weather will not be 80 easy hereafter as it has been in the past, avers the Chicago Herald. ingenious person has invented recording thermometer, which Some 11) self- makes a mechanical record every day of the extreme height depth of the thermometer course of each and in the twenty-four hours. The police over the country had no : | sooner taken to the bicycle than the Laplanders to teach the natives of | Alaska how to train and use this ani- | burglars followed suit. This, in the opinion of the Detroit Free Press, leaves things practically as they were except that the night pedestrian takes the good old days when crooks and “‘bob- bies' both did business on foot. were unknown in The dislike of Englishmen fi knickerboeks r a lopted women everywhere, ' the costume by bicyclists and naturally therefore in London, has al- most reached the stage of avers the New York Times, 34 in Parliament, prohibiting the these gi he public streets or legislation A bill has been prepared, but n yet presente ing of armen Poor ol 1 Handel i his honors, lam Picayune. Th plagiarist yey lore ong ago dem no thine ain works, except originni According to the Sun New York 18 umber of rail- ways which have a terminus within its limits. There are only five, the ‘ : respect to the small n sw York Contral the New York and | New Haven, New York and Northern, New York and New England, and the New York and the of Harlem. Chieago, on yther hand, is the land terminus thirty-five Fourteen | railroa Bt. Lon into Pittsbu king in direct railros ad of wl States, all other cities and of most ise where the nam in the daily traffic | 1 oo imber of phssenge r4 carried across the Hudson in a year is 37,000,000 to and from the railways and 35,000,000 to and from Jersey City, Hoboken, Hill and Fort Le. The number of passengers car- ried by the Brooklyn Bridge cars iu a $2,000,000, The number of 1 by the East River fer Union yoar is persons carrie rios in a vear is 65,000,000, and add ing the bridge foot passengers, those who cross in vehicles, and those com: - - - p + ing into or leaving New York by other ferries, the total in is about 360,000,000 There a year million ferries City Hoboken, and ten to other places, and - » v - - -or nearly a 0 $4 and thirteen ht to Jersey day. are - . : thongh the supposition was enter. tained at the time of the opening of result of its celablshment would be the breakdown of ferry business, such time, of course, the business of those and approaches were affected. rectly the establishment of the bridge has been the means of increasing the forry business, for by adding to the necessibility of those parts of Brook- lyn nearest the Fulton street term. inus, it has raised the rents in these and thereby caused the development of other parts of Brooklyn remote from the bridge cheaper and where access to New York is by the ferry, New York City derives tho whole benefit of the ferry franchises puid by companies whose boats ply between this city and Brook- lyn, this being one of the covenants in the original charter of New York. The increasing mildness of the climate of New York and vicinity in winter time has materially reduced the ex. ponsos of ferry maintenance, Nowa. days the Staten Island Ferry is the only ono which saffers in winter time from the weather, which takes, in the where ronts are lewor bay, a foggy form. RY i whie | . | New Hamps! the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 that one % | braska, Michigan, Iowa, Colorado and Wy- | sourl, Oregon, has not been the result, though, for a | | Louisiana and Mississippi p { tana, ferries nearest the bridge entrances | Indi- | | flecorations of the THEE, A RENCANPHENT | THE ANNUAL PARADEOF THE VETERANS AT PITTSBURS, The City in Gala Attire—~A Patriotie Demonstration Greets the Wearers of the Blue — Over 40,000 Vet- erans March by the Reviewing Stand, Londen skies and a drenching downpour that started the decorations colors of the elaborate street running and gave them tem- | porarily a demoralized appearance ushered 4 { in at Pittsburg, of the twenty-eighth National Encampment of the G. A. R. Nearly thousand ex-seamon, representing Penn., the opening day over the coun- th annnal parade of Naval Veter. out, and the he history of an Ad- the signal for form fa line the head yr to every parade for several yours past. But the spectacular feature of the parade, one : i H $ especially designated ’ tha as guard of Rear-Admirl, cadets wore PAF. lies of the N H fain Ke parades of he last ona 1 A growing in Inver of National that the rank Id and enfeabled long journeys, prep. , A8 wall as the risk of Hi- Mm eX] Forty thou- | soldier's ! Pittsburg and lar war tunes, to arndos rushed to | ot aration ness ros mure, the gitios «¢ fami and as the wr grooted route, the wow ded, solidly wire At from id the roped hod long the curl, 10.80 o'slock the parade started from | the historic Monongahela House, on the | banks of the riv from which it takes its | n First came Company A, Second Bat | slfon Naval guard of honor to Commander-in« ams, Then followed the departments of th A. BR. inthe fol lowing order: Wisconsin, Ohio, | New York, Conn wwaaohusotte, Now J Jersoy, Maine, Ca thode Isiand, ire, Vermont, Potomae, Vir- yrth Carolina, Maryland, Ne- Yas ovina Regorves, M ginia and N oming ; Kansas, Deleware, Minnesota, Mis. Kentucky, West Virginia, South Dakota, Washington and Alaska; Arkansas, Now Mexico, Utah, Tennessee, Fiorida, Mon- Texws, Idaho, Arizona, Georgia, Alabama, North Dakota, Oklahoma, [adian Territory, Indiana and Pennsylvania, The two cities were most lavish, It was stated by men who had attended many previous encampments that while individual displays may have heen ex- oalled in other cities, they had never asen decorations on such a generous and general pena, Hardly a dwelling, no matter how poor, nor how far from the route of the parade, but at least hada flag, and usually a display of bunting as wall, whils the business houses in every part of the oftles made a gorgeous showing, Governor Patti son, of Pennsylvania, with his sinff aod a number of notable men and women from all parts of the country, occupied the review. ing stand In the Allegheny Park, and saluted each division as ft swung around and passed in review. The arrangements for the esomiort of the marchers wera exnaliofit, At short distances apart wore stationed emergency hospitals, with the red aross fl uttering before the door, while along the route were men with cool water and lem« onade for the veterans, The Kentucky dele. gation, In recognition of his courtesies to them, has had made a handsomely de signed gold mounted gavel, which will be presented to Cleneral Adams on be. half of the delegation. The gavel is in ono piece and was out from a large tres on the Lincoln homestead, in Larne County Kentucky, Engraved upon a plate of 4 affixed upon ona face is a portrait of Line eoln. Upon another is a facsimile of the badge of the G. A. R., the handle also is oovored with beautiful dealgns of gold, On the third day in the Grand Opera the twonty-olghth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was formally opened, designated by handsome banners, sat the delegates to the highest legislative body of tho order.and tho three balconies wore packed with veterans of greater of lesser distinetion, The spacious nuditorium was olaborately and artistically decorated with flags and tel-colored bunting, arranged In arches, streamers and {nnumerabls devie [ the stage, boxes, pillars and balconies, the effect being heightenad by a network of monster streamers suspondod from the high dome to the supporting pillars on the main floor, It was a few minutes after 10 o'clock when Commander-in-Chief John G. B 8 O gold and declared the encampment open, Governor Pattison welcomed the delagntes in behalf of the State, Mayor Bernard Me Kenna spoke for Pittsburg and Mayor Will. fam M. Kennedy for the sister city of Alle ghany, Appropriste responses were made by Commander-in-Ohle! Adams and other delegates, Just as soon as the welcoming exoreisos had been disposed of, and before the doors wern closed upon th non-veterans, Honry Watterson introduced to present the plea of Loulsville for the next encampment, escort of the ““Btar-eyed Goddess” was in his best mood. Before his peroration had been reached the success o( the leading eclty of the Blue Grass Btate was assured, and the orator retired amid such an ovation as a Nationa! encampment has rarely bestowed even upon on of its favorite sons. Ck attention was paid by the the report of the Commander-in-{ and the frequent reference that it contained to the attitude of the Congress and of the pso pls of the Bouth toward Unlon soldiers and yRO to delegates ' hief, patriotic movements originating in the North were heartily applauded, The rep ! ti rt ol Meech on th Adjutant-General membership gavethese fl yure Members in good standing June 1893 “rs ‘ Galan by muster in Gain by transfer Gain by rel Galn from dels Total gain.... Aggrogate, ... Loss by death Loss by honorable transfer { the history of the order, Colonel T divided the plaudits of the Spautator r. { Bosklord, 1ll,, was elosted Fe: . vision composed of the Mary A. Logan Cs n a n-Chiel of the Grand Army of the | ! dete, of Columbus, Obie, which had been ; i fortwo monihe pations Ivan N. Thomas G ia euiogisti gates and visht ing sessions w { the Wome tion : I wore held in the Fourth Baptist Chur After one of the m pg! 4 ronlests homas Gi, Republic defeating his only opponsnt Colonel fvan N. Walker, of Indianapolis, by the nar row 1 rity of elev { |! ra inn todal vole 642 ing was Th n news { aevenioen on pany E, Ninetesnt? try, in June, 1961 Ha con wt ol na Minos § servi r Infas ng thre three mort! inanded hi furing the Atlanta paign ; was elected by the vote of his pany and placed upon the roll of } w by rder of Major-General R rrans : organized the Rockford Hiflss in 1854 He was elocted Colonel and comman | Third Regiment, Hiinois National Gaar paveral yoars, He was ford under the Hayes, son administrations the lumber and coal | oO post : fing 3 | is « 10 - sRINOEs, STATE OFFICERS ARRESTED. Governor, Auditor and Treasurer of Misstssippl Charged With Felony, Held to answer in the sum of $1000 to the charge of having feloniously issued money in the semblance of United States notes is the situation in which Governor J. M. Stone, Anditor W, W, Stone and Treas arer Evans, of Mississippi, now find themselves, The United States Marshall re- estved Auditor Stone's surrender at b o'clock p. m, Treasurar Evans was out of the city, and Governor Stone was attonding an ofMm- ola] meeting at the Penitentiary, The Gove ernor anticipated his arrest, however, by employing Judge Campbell, the most dis- tinguishod lawyer of Mississippi, to defend the State, which is in reality the party inthe onsen, William J. Burne, Special Agent of the Hoorot Service, charges the Governor and other officials with having, on June 15, 1804, “gniawiully and feloniously caused to be tinted, photographed, and made and aided n printing, photographing, and making a eortain print and impression in the likeness of notes of the national bank currency against the eo and dignity of the United Btatoe,” Then follow desoriptions of the five-doliar, ten<dollar and twenty-dollar Binte warrants, Governor Stone sald : “1 had no purpose to violate any United States law, and 1 do not believe such law has been violated, The matter will come before acourt in which 1 have the utmost sonienen, I therefore do not oars to discuss it." The penalty for the erimoe charged against the Governor, Auditor and Treasurer is a fine of not more than $5000 or im nment at hard labor for not more than fi yoars, or both, ——— In the parquet, thelr Btates being | | Adams | tapped the table with his gavel of cedar and { horses for cod, | in the Japanese dockyards CHINA AND JAPAN CONDUCT- ING ADESULTORY FIGHT. Famine in the Camp of the DBeselged in Korea Killing Cavalry Horses for Food War Ship Sunk--A Cowardly General Sheds His Uniform and Flees, A despatch from Shanghal says the neso foroes in the northern { Korea are hemmed in by Japanese and, being with- out supplies, are obliged to kill thelr cavalry A Japanese Chi part 0 All of the foreign employes " are being dis | missed, presumably to conesal the extent of | the injuries sustained | ships in recent engagoments with the Phostivertongued | A | Chinese defeat at Belkwan, | outpost, but had been repulsad, - I — . by the Japanese war Chi- nese, A despateh from Bhanghal says that, ao. ording to statements of Chiness officinale, the Japanese war ship Hiyel, after an en- gagement. with the Chinese cruiser Chen Yuen, sank whileendeavoring fo reach Japan in order to make repairs, The Japanese eruiser Yayeyama Kan has boen docked Nagasaki for repairs, The doc) guarded and no foreigners near it, Japanese advices say that the Mikado an the Japanese Ministers of War « ave gone to Hiroshima to observe arkation of large which are being sent to the seat of + The correspondent of the Central Shanghal telegraphs that the Chinese trans- port ship Chean, while prosesding for ¥F mosa, with 1400 troops board, wrecked at Chetung., The soldiers and crow were conveyed to the shore in safety, A French mall steamer about to sell Japan was boarded at her wharf in Shs officials who insisted I ip for Japanese passengers, med that a number of Japanese loors who had been trained nt is carefully are | On soearci ¢ y allow his ship ened to oall a Fren anos if the Chinese throat was « Three of t Chinese 8 dered to pr and join th steamers the h war ship Meinl protect} { nateh fr A despatch fr heir work w i of the terrilie powe other modern guns, areount know. available of the The Chinese camp was situated on a bill at Selkwan, an important position on the Gazan —or Yas road, about it oon froe ao! the Boy ory tiles Ons ) Crossed $ prety # the hirit vier AD : Fhe Japanese troo at nal with a sh skirn wore eighteen " raliled, i 08 this ixtoen were only iastod s fled, leaving beh nigetesn killed, itwo Among pris YAR, ) kill i ed and 40) w m ol over 500. The Jap loss in the se ond fight wasn little over twenty wounded The behavior of tho Chinese Goenaral Che utterly bellod his reputation, and showed him 10 be a man of no great military attain. ments, for when the Japanese troops attacked his carap he deseriod it, threw away his uni- form as an encumbrance to fight, and left behind papers which, as a Goneral, ho should pover have allowed to leave his side, It is pot known where he fled, The Japanese army pursued the Chinese for twelve miles to Yoran, a little village about five miles from Gazan., As a Chinese attack was expected that night, a strict out- look was kept, but the night passed quietly. Tile At four o'clock the next morning (30th) the | army marobed upon Gazan. It was axpected that the Chinese would make a desperate stand at Gazan, and there was a general | boding that the storming of Gazan would be | attended with heavy losses, but on arrival | there the army found, to its astonishment, | that the trenches were desarted, with many hundreds of thousands of rounds of powder | and six or seven hundred bags (containing toto each) of ries, They had all fled to | Koshu, only Afty remaining behind at Gazan. These had attempted a night attack oa the w— — —— A LIVELY TORNADO. | Babylon reveal antiquities of ten | hitherto undisclosed, THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Ensrern and Middle States, FExruneme hest and two kept Now Yorker were prostrat} Orxenan Bureninrs Killed by nn exple mvoived goods swindiers Marx: créensed Republic plurality mangers said of 30.000, Tux steamer Portl with a portion of the innd party She r schooner Dora M, Fr was lost but on Tn Pe pl ton South and West Foreign. curred in Russie Hayriax rebel polyte’s daughte were axocuted, Tax remains of the Comte boon deposited in the vault the Catholic Church of Weybridge, whers Louis Philipps and other members oi the Orisans family who died In England were buried. The Dae de Orleans made a formal announcement of de Paris have { his claim to the French throne, Exrtonartoxs of American seiontists near centuries Tue International Peace Congress opened nt Perugia. Arr Southern Korea is reported 10 have | risen against the Japanese, Axornea transatlantic record lise been | made by the Canard liner Lucania, whien | has reduced the east ward passage from New It Turns Over a Car and Kills Two | Persons, | southwest coast A tornado at 2.10 p. m. struck the rear conch of the Iron Mountain passenger train Ko, 47 when it bad reashed a point about a | a mile west of the Charles. | loft | | The Natives Defeated, With the Loss quarter of ton (Mo) Station, which had but a few minttes belore, The train was moving about twenty miles an hour, The whole train, with the exception of tha engine, was overturaed, Two parsons wore killed, one was provably fatally injured and poveral were more or less seriously hurt, The killed are: Frad MeQlellan, three yoars old; Mrs, Parmele Dempsey, Bert rand, Mo, The following wore the injured: A. D, Lehming, Alto Pass, IIL, probably fatal James Corle, express messenger, braised ; John Lawen, conductor, The whirlwind oame from the south, It was not moro thirty yards a width, A re markable thing about it was that it passed bot ween two small wooden houses standing it on the south side of the track, not more than twenty yards apart and not mors than thirty yurds trom the track. Youk to Queenstown by over two hours, A reamivic hurricans of Spain, small vessals, The town partly destroyed by the storm, passed over the wrecking many of Gola was S———— A GERMAN VICTORY. of 100 Kilied and Wounded, The German gasrison at Kudwa, Africa, was attacked by a fores of 2000 natives on | September 7, After two hours’ Aghting the natives were repulsed, with the loss of 100 killed and wounded, The Germans lost only two mon. A ronowsl of the attack was ex. pooted, - - Bronerany CAntisne has advised a Daltile Bota uate to bri hiv of yOrs over, an nskod whither the Nien contrhet inbor law would erfore t foot players are not ar- tists, but laborers,
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