le ———— EE SS TWO CABINET ANNALS, | REPORTS OF SECRETARIES SMITH AND MORTON, Review of the Operations of the In terior Department—-The Pension Statisties—The Work of the De- partment of Agriculture—~Sugges- tions by the Secretary. Rearotary Hoke Bmith has transmitted to the President his annual report on the oper- ations of the Interfor Department, The Bocretary reviews the problem of effective work for the advancement of the Indians. He disousses the subjest of eduaation and of allotments of lands In severalty, and urges that the education of the Indians should be for the purposs of fitting them to perform the particular responsibiii- ties most likely to fall to their after lot. Hae presents the possibilities of the reservation as land to be Improved and developed, to which the Indians should be taught to apply those modes of awrioulturs recognizad in civilized life, Thelr education should fit them for this work, and they ernment, in aealing with this make no further of it for the benefit to settle upon fit, eral appropriation for flald matrons for the Indian Serviea the Secretary has “no doubt that #50,000 spent in this wav would accomplish more than any $50,000 spent in any school that we support.” of those who wish In urging a lib the United States to and order the Indian Territory, where at pres. ent a state of lawlessness prevails, The Secretary condemns In strong terms the establishment of saloons upon the line of Indian reservations. The report shows that the public lands disposad of! during the past fisoal year aggregate 10,477,224.72 acres and approximates the vacant lands remaining at 606,040,813.71 acres, exclusive of Alasks which contains 860,000,000 acres and military and other reservations, Twenty-nine million acres in round num bers are embraced in the lists of selections by railroad and wagon road companies awalting examination and settlement at the close of the fiscal year. The aggregate se- lection of swamp lands since the passage of the act of 1840 is 80.556,153.51 acres. Dur- ing the past year 133,150.47 nores were pat- ented under this head. The great !mport- ance of the special service division of the Genera! Land Office is urged. Congress Is asked to make suffielent appro- priations to employ i dent on each reserve, and upor reserves to provide a sufflelent foree « sistantsto prevent public property from be- ing wantonly destroyed, Uader the head of pensions the report ghows that the entire number of pensioners upon the rolls on June 30, 1894, was 060.544. The total amount expended for pensions during the fiscal year was 2139,804,461.05, leaving a balance from the appropriation in the Treas- ury of $25,205,712.65. The estimate for the fiscal year 1806 Is 140,000,000, The number of pensioners added to the roll during the year was 30,085, while the total number dropped was 87,951. The greater part of the cases now pending In the bureau are old cases, Many of them have been pending for years, and had been examined one or more times prior to this Administration. Upon examination it had beea found in many instances that proof was not sufflcient to sustain a pension.” The attention of the applicants having been called to the de- fect in some cases, efforts had been made to supply the needed testimony. The great discrepancy between the number of rests upon pres serve law at least one cases now being allowed and the number | allowed two oh more yew KWo FrOWS out of the fact thal the ponding cases consti- tute a remnant of an immense number of claims, of which those well established have been adjudicated. The number of appeals, motions, ete., flied from April 15, 1893, te November 1, 1804, was 5847. The number of motions, appeals, ete, that have heen acted upon by the Board or Pensions and Assistant Becrotary from April 15, 1893, to November 1, 1804, was 10,714. This volume of work, so- complished in eighteen and a hal! months, is unprecedented in the history of the de- partment, and the Secretary says Is more than twice the number of cases disposed of in a like period by the prior Administra- tion, There were 21.548 patents grant- ed, Including redssues and designs, and 1856 trade marks registered during the past year, The number of patents which expired was 13,187. The total expenditures of the Patent Offlos amounted to $1,053,962. The receipts exceeded the expenditures $129 580, The total dis bursements to date for the Eleventh Cen- sus amount to $10365676. In the last annual report it was state! that something less than $500,000 would ba ample to finish the census, It is now apparent that §275 - 000 will complete the work. A large por- tion of the fores of the Census Offles has been discharged. By January 1 the force will be reduced to about 200, and by March 1 it with the exception of a small number who willbe retained to supervise proof read ing and actual publication. The Secretary closes his report with a recommendation for an additional building for the Interior De. ment, as $352,659 was paid out for rental of bulldings in which several branches of the department have thelr offloss. The Agricultural Report. Secretary Morton, who fs in bis mental characteristics a most interesting member of the Cabinet, has given to the farmer a lot of Interesting reading in his annual re. He doesn't deal with seeds and and thistles exolusively, At the very of his report he drops agriculture for finance, and, after telling the farmer that 2 r 1894 amounted to upward of #628.- 000, he asks abruptly “Would the $60,000,000 worth of farm prod mets from the United States last year to foreigia nations have been as re- when shall be made of metal after it is melted as worth ns it If the American manufacturer law to submit to the measurement of the value of the gets of their efforts by a sliver standard, will not the foreigner in buying those products always use the same measure? With his heel, pork and cereale the American farmer buys money, and why should he not demand as super: Iative quality in that which he buys as the domestic and foreign purchasers insist upon, in that which he seils? II those buyers de. mand ‘prime’ beef and ‘primes’ pork, why farmer, are oom- perous? ror and polled by should not the farmer demand ‘prime’ eur. | rency, the best measure of value, the most | fair and facile mediation of exchanges, In the most unfluctuating money which the world of commeroe has ever evolved?" Jom, he great bulk of all we send abroad, and that she pays Americans less than she pays Canadians and Danes and others for similar exports, be. oats they onter to British taste with or sucoess than Americans do, Mr, orton gives a dig at potato raising by show fog that British potato exporters do not look to the United States markets for sales until ‘the New York raises to about $4.95 a A sontinnes : i ——t in Sr is a should | be led on with the assurance that the Gov. | land, will | treat the Indians with perfect honesty and | effort to trade them out | The | Secretary calls attention to the duty whieh | throughout | will be disbanded, | theimnports of farm proddets for the flaca! | Of the act of July 14, 1890, silver contained | amounting to #299 old | 3528 of the Revised Statutes of the munerative to the Amerioan farmer if they | Btates, had been pald for in silver as they have been | paid for in gold or its equivalent? | “When the standard coln of the Republic | much | purports to | be worth in coin, and the mint valas and the | bailion value of all coined money is nearly | the same, will not the Ameriesn farmer and | all other citizens become more permenentiy made from bullion which had accumulated | the commercial value of the same belay $46, - Mr, | Morton devotes a lot of space to our ex. | 1s shows that Great Beitain takes | Hie sho | yenr 1803 show 157,228,100 in gold aud American horses, Daring the first nine mouths of the year 1804 the English market took 2811 Amerioan driving horses, at an av ernge value of 8189 per head, average price of those shipped was $230, A sound, light, draught horse, in good condi tion, of the size and weight adapted to omnibus work in elties, will gener ally bring, in Liverpool or London, #180, The Becretary rocommends that the pur chase of seeds for gratultous and promis cuous distribution be utterly abol- fshed, and that not one cent up- propriated for such distribution, During the fiscal year ending June 50, 1804, the Seed Division gave out to Senutors, tep- resontatives and Delegates in Congress 7,440,018 papers of vegetable soods, 640 065 papers of flower seads, 63.746 papers of tobacco seed, 152.542 papers turnip seed, 35 quarts of mangel-wurzle seed, B21 quarts of sugar beet seed, 4878 quarts of rape seed, 50 quarts of onts, 25 uur ol sorghum, 11,706 quarts of corn, 10,166 quarts of grass seod, 9248 quarts of clover seed, nnd 21,166 quarts of cotton seed. In the distribution, Benators, Representatives and Delegates In out 8,885,120 packages ; stutistionl correspondents of Agricultural Department, 507,661 ; State statisti. cal agents of the department, 141,129; experiment stations and experimental farms, 02,228 ; agricultural ussociations and miscel- laneous applicants, 469,180, so that the agrregute number of packages of sood gratuitously distributed by the Government of the United States in the fiscal year is 9,555,818 The cost of this enormous distribution, not in- cluding the carriage of the packages, which amount in weight to more than three hun- dred tons, as dead matter by the postal ser- vice, is $128,642.01. be of Py ul Congress Be county the PRINCESS BISMAROK DEAD. The Wife of the German KEx-Chan- collor Expires After a Long Hiness. Princess Bismarck, the wife of Prince Bismarck, died at Varein, Germany, a fow mornings ago. Bhe had been for some time, and on the day before her death suf. "1 aa tered a relapse, and great anxiety was felt in | regard to her condition by the Prince and | | thirty, JAPANESE FIELD Last your the | The Branch of Service Conspleuously eclent at Port Arthur During Its Recent Bombardment bgue Japanese Troops, { barge containing the Southbridge ¥. M { football eleven i crossing the tracks at ( | bridge, i flald to play the Worcester Polytechnio i3- | stitute eleven, and as a result of the disastir | serious injuries, 4 » {OW yl h -~ 7 EL 4 ‘ An dy bh Z H \ FOOTBALLERS KILLED. Run Down by a Locomotive on } Grade Crossing, The 0.35 a. m, passenger train on the Neg York and New England Rallroad struckh . A wg mitre streat, South on the way to the footbsl f and substitutes as it Mass, , s dead, five othies, r the tragods, others receive! two of the young me it was thought « fatally « burt, The dead are Oharles Gauthler, Southbridge, farm hand, wife and two ohlidren ; Joseph ( eighteen, son of Mrs, Fannle Cook, bridge, employed in the American Works. Those who nel leaves a k, aged Soath- Optiosl wore probably mortally in- {| Jured are: PRINCESS BISMARCK, by ber attendants, All the family wore | hastily summoned to her bedside, Count ! Herbert Blemarck was present when his mother away. Although it is feared | that the affect of his wife's death upon the Prince will be serious, it fs satisfactory to add that the great Chancellor has been in | better health lately and that he has beea able to resume his dally drives, | In 1847 young Count Bismarck married woman Who has passed oul of Lis fo. She wns Johanna Von Puttkamer, | Bismarek's courtship was ardent and un- ooasiag. Herr Von Puttkamer was preju- | diced and uncompromising, and bitterly op- | posed the young man's sult. The Chan- osllor to be was then a rather wild young man, of po apparent future. He had left his university with no particular distinetion, and was, the family thought, In no way suited to be a son-in-law of the Von Putt- kamers. One day Blamarek resolved to take matters into his own hands, He went before the family oirels of the Von Puttkamers, folded the young woman in his arms, and looking Herr Von Putt. kamer in the eyes said sternly © “What God has joined let no man put asunder.” After that things went all Biamarok's way. He loved his wife with devotion and fidelity, and his home lite was an ideal one, Politios | did not enter there, Princess Bismarck was an essentially German woman, She took | but little interest in affairs of State, She bore Blamarok two sons, Count William and | Count Herbert, The former is a country | squire. The latter, in a measure, took up | the father’s interest in polities. The affect of the death of the Prinosss upon the ex- Chancellor will be watohed with anxiety, | Ho great was the sympathy between the hus- | band and wife that {liness on the part of one always affected the other, i WORK OF THE U. 8. MINTS. | The Gold Colnage the Heaviest Ever | Known, | R. E. Preston, the Direstor of the United States Mint, has su’ nitted to the Secretary of the Treasury his report of the operation of the mints and assay offlee for the flseal yoar 1804. The value of the gold deposited Is stated at $140,042,000. The deposits and purchases of sliver during the year are 22.- 148,661 fine ounces, the eolning value in fiver dollars being $29,409,000, Sinoe the repeal 01 the purehasing clanse in gold deposits, bar charges and fractions, fine ounces, costing $53,008, was purchased for the subsidiary coinage, under the provisions of Beotion No United The coinage of the year was: Cold, $99, 474,912.50 ; #'lver dollars, 158 ;subsidiary sil- ver, $6.024,140,80 ; minor coins, $718,919.26 total, $106,216,730.08, the gold coinage be. ing tae largest ever sxeouted at the mints of the United States in any one year, Of this coinage, £76,219,912.50 was exeon- tod by the mint at Philadelphia, and was at the New York Assay OfMos since 1880, and which, to mest the requirements of the Treasury, it became necessary to transfer and ooin, The Director, In his report, states that the highest price of sliver daring tho year was 20.7645, and the lowest, $0.5018, showing a fluctuation of §0.1725 per flue ounce, The Director esiimaies the value of the old used in the industrial arts io the United tates during the calendar year 1893 at $12, 523,628, and sliver at #0.584.977. Of the gold $8,354,452 and of the silver $6,570,787 was naw ballon, The produation of zold and silver in the United States during the calendar year was ; Gold, 1,739,828 fine ounces of the value of $35,055,000 wmiiver, 69,000,000 flas ounoms, 800,000 and the coining value 877.576 C00, Rovised vetimates of the world's produe tion of the precious mals for the onlendar €209,165,000 iu sliver, — Tue United States Sesret Services of the Tronsury Department has this flseal your mads ft= record. It has arrosted 6537 conn. torfoiters and convicted the majority, the files levied amovating to 85967. The nots taken amountad to $21,800, the coins te $10,756, A great numover of p ota,, were also seiged, John Strest, aged twenty-two, Loe, Mass, brother of the quarter back on Williams College aleven and himself hall back on the freshman eleven ; skull fractured, internal injuries, Andrew Taylor, Bouthbridge ; skull fras- tured, both eyes lost, internal Injuries, Yictor Nelson, aged tweaty-three, South. bridge ; skull fractured, leg broken, internal injuries, Alfred F. Hughes, aged nineteen, South. bridge ;: skull fractured, internal injuries, Charies Simpson, aged seventeen, son of Andrew Simpson, Southbridge ; leg troken ia two places and internal injuries, The train for Worcester, due to leave Bouthbridge at 8.45 a. m,, was delayed at the mation | a «5 Brak FP. Carlson, Whose foot was crashed, snd the train was running fast to make ap time, The football eleven of the ¥. M. C, A. bad #Marted from thelr rooms to walk to the Erounds, and mesting the barge that had Oarrind their opponents, the Woroester Poly- technic Institute eleven, returning, they tumbled in and urged the driver to hurry as they ware ate, The horses were on the trask at the Cen. tral street crossing when a sharp whistie from the locomotive, hidden by a curve and a high buliding on the left side of the street, was the first warning to the sixieen oocu- pants of the barge, Driver E. D, Chamberiain lashod his horses and the men on the seat by his side jumped, They were too Inte, The engine struck the barge on the left side, between the wheels, and tore along for 150 yards, crushing the barge. The crowd on the foothall fleid could see the engine when it came to a standstill, and scores of persons were soon al work search ing for friends and relatives in the wreck, Charles Gauthier was found dead near the crossing, evidently instantly killed by being dashed against the rooke, Pinned debris in frout of the engine were John Street, quarter baok of the Williams College eleven, who was visiting the Taylor boys, his college friends, and was to help oul on the Southbridge aleven Joseph Cook died in twenty minutes al the slectrio light station were the injured men wes taken. Everything possible was done for the injured men, but little hopes of recovery were expressed for four or five of them. y md Bog until next May. in the! The Worcester Toohnology team returned | home on the noon train completely une nerved by the aecident, the game haviag been abandoned, — SENATOR MORGAN ELECTED. The Alabama Legislature Selects Him to Succeed Himself A ballot was taken in both Houses oF che Alabama General Assembiy at Montgomery for United States Senator to sucoesd John T. Morgan, Morgan received twenty<hreo | the boat house at the time, votes in the Senate and sixty-ons in the | House ; Warren Roose (Pop.), ot Montgom- JORX T. MORGAN, ory, received nine votes in the Senate and twenty<four in the House, A joint conven tion wns held next day which declared Mor gan (Dem, ) wiected, y it was said, would contest theseat, and it was said that the ballot for him was the first step in the organization of the Kolb government, ——— BO A Kranxy (N. 1.) horse slaughterer, while nominally preparing horss onronses for ex. jor to France, as mont, has really boon sell. ng franly to New York butehers, and the horses were mostly old and worn out, lato the bargain, ; THE LABOR WORLD. trike of 1834 cost tho State loads all others in ap- » fa “4 * 1 ‘ versprond the greatest part of borers, near Venloo, work of island opuiation ated Bociety of Carpenters f Groat Dritaln and Ireland are Ar | PS of :nglish labor les ler, has nd the meeting w Teapx [ better tf gays the is the larger inbhor everywheras, ha Eveay work cap and on his bus! an in Japan wears on his bis back an loscription giving ness and his employer's name, Jenar C compulsory arbitration in an address to Post-Graduate Club at Ann Arbor, Mich, Guxznar Masten Wonkxax Soverxiox, of the Kulghts of Labor, bas voluntarily re duced his salary from $8500 to #2500 a year, Bosrox garment workers propose to os- tablish co-operative shops, un lor the juris- dition of the Usited Garment Workers of Ametioa, Tun object of the Federal Union of Kansas City is to gather into one organization mon whose occupations are not represented ia the VArous unions, WILEY pointed i out the dapgers in ‘he Five noxouxp chooss factories in Door, Brown, Kewates, Mantowos and Oustags- LCoungis Wisconsin, have shut down Fora muxpaxy men employed in the Can. ton Copper Works at Baltimore, Md. have been notified that on next pay day wages will @ indrensed tea per osat, At ons stroke the Italian Gover suppr ffty-ftve labor assosations ¥ sooletios were oonlers of dan nds an the working red the public peace gE was fined for working foursden years of age Under the shop not be om JAr® a wook ns y-four b rags Tren has boon a large exodus of Canadian familis to the t Btates of late, It is estimated that nearly 3000 have left Canada for Lowell, Holyoke and other milling osnters In Massachusetts sineathe mid ile of October Jupor Datras, of the United States Court in Palladeiphia, decided against the petition of Reading employ who asked that their proposed dismissal by the poseivers beonuse of their connection with the Brotherhood of Baliway Trainmen be prohibited. EE ——— FATAL LANDSLIDE. Two Acres of Tacoma Siide Into Puget Sound, oe Shortly after 11 o'clock p. m. forty-five feat of the south end of the Faget house of the Northern Paciflo Raliroad on the water front at Tacoma, Wash,, including the office of the road, the oeattle and the pump house for hydraulic work of Alling in tide lands, sank into the bay. Just what caused the disaster Is a mystery which no one has as yot explained. John Hansen, a watchman, was Sound ware. in the pamp house, and he was drowned. | Close by to the south was the boat house of H B. Alger, bullt partiy on made land and partly on piles. This tarned completely over. A family of six persons ware asleep in All were roscamsd ox a fifteen-year-old girl named Emma Stubbs, who is missing. | Atan early hour the land seemed to be | | still slowly slipping into the bay, peared to be a tidal wave was observed by | Sorgeant Harris at Old Town, more api thelr mile away. Several ships parted cables, but ware secured bLelors sustaining any da {nto the bay was from to 800 yards long and from sixty to seventy feet wide The cave-in of the Northern Pacific Rall. way's water front property is found ister to be much more disastrous and attended with more loss of life than was at first Subpieed, The length of the strip whieh caved in is about 1 foot, and the damage done eox- tends back in places 100 feet, Many of the boats served pagisoping apart. ments for their owners, and for t reason ft was thought several lives bad boen Jost besides those of Hanson, the watchman, and Emma Stubbs, fifteen years old, the step. danghter of H, B. Alger, The damage to property will be over §50,- 000. Muoh freight was standing on the wharves and stored in the warehouses which collapsed, Inthe Northern Pacific freight ofMas which went down was a safe containing $14,000, The bodies of Watchman John Hansen and Emma Stubbs have been recovered. The barbor is strewn with wreckage, Three thousand oases of canned salmon and thirty balls of grain sacks are all the freight tha went down, About two acres of land have slid into the Bound, Ixpiaws about Wontaches, Weak, , are wild over the blasting of a big sacred rook Great Northern Railway workmen, The roo was coverad with hisroglyphie records of battles, deathd, ste., and was regarded with reverenoe, scons — i Arana has sont wn delegate to Washi ton with instructions to secure, if 4 the sama laws lor Alaska as are now in in Oregon, together with high loonse pos fe or ho sheds | What ap- | The strip of land which slid | FALL OF PORT ARTHDR | JAPANESE CAPTURE THE CHINESE STRONGHOLD, | A Btrong Defence Made—Severe and | Incessant Fighting for Thirty-six Hours—Losses on Heavy-The Road to Pekin Opened for the Conquerors. Port Arthur has fallen ! The backbone of Chiness resistance has | given way, and the mountain passes that | ile between the great naval station and Pekin | now shelter the scattered remnants of the | | Emperor's forees. Word has just been recefved that Port Ar thur fell after a battle that lasted eighteen | hours. Tha reports of the fighting are very meagre, but it is believed that both sides suffered heavily. China's loss, it is sald, exceeds that of Japan, for, undisciplined as the Emperor's | 80 Hers were, they fought with the despera~ tion of tigers, The attack on Port Arthur by Japan's Seo. ond Army under General Bi WAS 80 carofully planned that when fire was opened the Japanese troops assailed the city at every point, The fighting was terrible, and was only ended when the Chiness, unable to struggle any longer, withdrew in retreat to the mount- ain passes near by, leaving the city at the nfbroy of their foes, The fall of Port Arthar slears the way to Pekin for Japan. Whether or not that city will suffer a like fate must depend upon what action China will take within & very fow days, Already China has asked for pease on the terms of paying 250,000,000 tesls, or $175,- 000,000 for it, With Pekin in peril no ons can estimate what figure Japan will place upon poeane, The plans of the Japs for an advance upon Pekin bave succeeded completely, At Moukden advanos through the interior was #0 hazardous as to be almost impossible, The Becond Army was scat to silence Port Arthur, and it has done so, With tho great naval station in Japan's bands, and with Japan's victorious fect guarding that place on the water side, China's fleat is powerless, Japan on the other hand has a slear road by land around the Lesoton Gulf, thonos ong the westerly shores of the Pe-Chi-Li y Tien-Tein the Japanese army in pursuit, the make thelr last stand in the intains that are in the path to Tien Tein, n passcs may be held for a long time If can be rallied sufficiently to make a stand, It is not belleved that China will continue the war any longer. Port Arthur is re- garded by all European military and naval eritics as the keystons of ina's defense, and without which she will be at Japan's meroy. “The capture of Port Arthur means the end of the war,” sald Admiral Fremantle, Great Britain's representative at the seat of war, several days ago. Port Arthur has fallen, and it may mean that all is already over for China. Port Arthur is the strongest and mont Im. portant naval arsenal in North China, It lies Gt the extremity of the peninsulas between the Guif of Korea and the Gul! of Lisa Tong snd is simost due north of Che Foo. Ass naval base it possesses remark- able natural advantages, The town fissif fs rather small having a population of hardly more than 7000 persons, most of whom moved away some weeks ago. The gare rison, when on & peace footing, consisted of about 4000 men, sald to be well drilled and broke out the fromthe of the Chinese army. On the sea front Port Arthur was guarded by a number of wer- fui forts and batteries along three and a half miles of the coast. Twelve of the coast bat- teries were mounted with about forty Kropp rifles, ranging in oalibre from six to nine and a hall inches De- sides these there was a formidable array of rifled mortars and rapid-fire guns The inst trustworthy reports as to the strength of the garrison place it at 20.000 Chinese troops well armed and provisioned. Port Arthur is the key to the gates of Pekin, and in gaining it the Japaneses have placed a firm foot on Chinese soll and made the fact of a hold In Chiness waters even greater, as the dook yard facliitios will enable the Japaness 10 refit thelr damaged cruisers without recourse to a long Journey to taelr own docks, THE TREASURER'S REPORT. Figures Relative to Money in the Treasury and in Circulation. The Treasurer of the United States bas submitted to Secretary Carlisle his annual report, in which he states that the lowest point touched by the reserve was $52,180 500, on August 7, 1854, With referencs to the retirement of Treas. ury notes, the Treasurer says that prior to August, 1803, the Treasury had been able to srovide for the redemption of Treasury notes fn sliver dollars out of the holdings of free sliver, so that there had not been, up to that time, any impairment of the total amount of the silver fund. The silver dollars and bullion in the Treasury on the third of that month, how. ever, had become reduced to the amount re. quired by law to ba retained for the paymant of outstanding Treasury notes and certifi. oaten, and the demand for the redemption of notes continuing, in consequence of the saurcity of small denominations of eurreney, it became necessary to draw upon the dol- lars coined especially for that pu The sliver fund being thus impaired, the notes redeemed wore cancelled, in order to pre- serve the required squalily between the sii. ver in the Treasary and the notes outstand- fing. The total amount of the notes retired in this way up to October 81 was $4,700 434, The amount of the new issues of United States paper currency put into eoireulation | daring the yoar was $350,950,190, having bewn exceeded but onee, in 1892. The amount of worn and mutilated notes redeemed was $319,002,200. This bas aiso been exoeeded but onoe, in 1868. The total paper eclreulas tion reached ita highest point in May last, when it stood at 81,175,000,000, There has been a slight contraction since then, caused chiefly by the gradual redemption and re- tirement of gold certiflontes, the issue of whioh was suspended, as the law requl when the gold reserve of the below one hundred million dollars, Ee. tS WHOLE TOWN ON FIRE. High Pressure Natural Gas Waa Durning 500 Residences. By mistake the natural gas high pressure was turned on in the low pressure mains, and at midnight it was discoverad that per haps 500 stoves and heators In various parts of Bhelbyville, Ind., wore melting under the intense hont and many bulldings were on fire Bells wore rang, whistles blown and eitl gens aroused, The flow of gas was arrested, and oniy threo houses burned. If the glarm had been twenty minutes later no power ould have saved the oity from annihilation, Raniata at Shiner, blew up a vault containing a large sam of money t secured ; the explosion causod & did $105,000 damage. Tux Democratic mombers of the nest e—————— a rr asth ol Mason Both Mides | | PROMINENT PEOPLE, bu Presioenr CLeveraxp suffers still from! { rhenmatio gout, | Crew, Ruones, the Premier of Can | ony, Bouth Afriea, Is worth $15,000,000 | Fuawcis Komsvrn has taken the osth of | allegiance to Emperor Franz Josef, of Aus | tris. Axpiew Canxeoix, the Pittsburg ironmas- | ter, say« that “a man who dies rich dies dis- | graced,” Col« | M. T. Myoumz, the Chief Justios of the Sg. {| preme Court of Japan, 1s a descon in a Cone | grogational church, Ecoxomic writers declars that ths income | of the Czar of Russia is equal to §25,000.per day every day in the year. Tunze Englishmen are lecturing in Amore loa this season—Conan Doyle, Dean Hole and David Christie Moreay, lonenr Loum Brevexsow's estate Bamon includes 400 sores of forest lan 1. atl is situnted at an elevation ranging from 600 to 1500 feet, Carrary Cuanres Kina, the novelist, has | boon offered the Adiutant Generalship of Wisconsin. He and Governor Upham were classmates a! West Point. Tax Bishop of Chichester, England, the Rev, Dr. Dunford, now in his nine year, has just returned home frou trian tour in Bwitzerland and the lakes Oscan WiLoe wears an enormous « and hie coat tails are s little longer thas body else's, He is adorned with a gold ol bracelet, and his little finger of his left han is ringed to the nail Czar Ricnoras means to abolish the Rus Sian secret police, and to allow greater free. 2 rrr 4om to the press. Hosays that {f be is fated wad y 10 be murdersd, all the ssoret police in the Ouxenar Winriax H , Ohio, recently, “General Bill He was born in Tl seveniy<ivwo Grimsox died in Tit He was known in Ohlo Gibson, the silver tongued Jefferson County, CRIS B20, Count Carnvy, the ex-Chanos! ¥, had never been ac to offi r of Ger- S42 hb Tai Ph 1] a invests } ‘ then the paid £124,564 in ow worth more than wr, of Vermont by aah ‘ $80,000 , HAS ONS y every Mass, has thisto vie re- ariie Parkhurst was a likeable fellow. He relished lively conversation and jokes, and see to 10¥ willy sarcasm particularly well, He was A persistent with strong purpose, But he was only a fair salesman.’ Ts yo p fellow, NEWS Axzuica has 2000 breweries, Caxapa is to have a world's falr, Carsronrxia’s wine crop is very short, Drenrazusa is epidemic fn Detroit, Mich. Gaxx $s plentiful in the Indian Territory, Excraxp's hop crop is exoeptionally good, Be, mittens Ir cost Yale 2260 a day for football last season Parraipoms and quail are in a supply. A 6000 bieyele can be bought in France for §15 Sricives are frequent among charged clerks in Washington. Hoo among the Lovie, Mo., wapts a Lexow ©Om- dis- cholera is oausing consternation farmers of Central Illinois Jarax has placed an order in New York for 250,000 yards of cotton dusk for tents, Pissexaxn agmts of the milroads ranning South anticipate a heavy travel this winter, Mong sugar bess than ever will be planted in Nebraska in 1805, They pay betier than whent, Paxsroexr Monars, of Brazil, has decrees granting amnesty to all pc fenders, Tax hostility betwoesn England and Ger many is rapidly besoming more marked on both sides, Ir fs not probable that all the 23.000 World's Fair diplomas oan be issued befors Deosamber, 1855, Brans are so numerous in Centre County, Pennsylvania, that farmers have organized to exterminate them, Curxa and Japan being silver using nations, there must soon bea demand for sliver from the far East, Hosaxe officers investigated the report that President Cleveland's horses had been docked and found it untrue, Curoanoe will borrow $457,651, mortgage on the coming tax levy, have to issue soript to pay salaries, Baxuns of Reading, Pann., will be com- pelied to observe a law passed in 1797 re- quiring them to sell bread by weight | Gzxznar Casey, Ohisf of Baginecers of the War Department, urges the securing of fortifloation sites at ail large seaports. Muxiorpar. construction of mpid transit, according to the official count, had a ma~ jority in New York City of 88,731 votes, Huxpaens of wolves have been driven | into Wyoming by the prairie fires that re- | oontly raged in Northwestern Nebraska, | Pawns and connections of the Barings | have taken over from the Bank of England! he satire mount of the remaining Baring | nasets, Tux Executive Committe of the Youans Ohristain T Tofon met at Cleve- | land and decided to hold the next annual | convention at Baltimore, Md. Tux Plorida orange crop is being shipped at the rate of 25,000 boxes a day, or about i 1,500,000 ora The State's orange product has risen from 900,000 boxes in 1885 to 5,050,000 in 1808, Tuzax will be no colored members in the next C Murray, of South Carolina, and Cheatham, of North Carolina, the only Congress for giving a and may colored men that have been in yoars, are both defeated, ——— ONE YEAR'S IMMIGRATION, Commissioner Stump Reports the Are rival of Nearly 300,000 Persons, The annual report of Herman Stump, United States Superintendent of Immigra- tion, shows that during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1804, 288,020 immicrants arrived in ghia country, of whom 2350 wors debared from landing Ry Of the
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