———————— ———— ————— ———— i ——— Berlin 1s said to be the healthies city in the world. It is said that no less than 8000.Chi- cago persons mysteriously disappear @VOry Year, Judge Henry, in Kansas City, re- cently decided that a man must pay his wife's debts, even if he is suing her for divorce. It cost 81000 to take a carload of fruit from Sacramento, Cal., to Lon- The rate now has been reduced to 8700, don two years ago. The universal postal union was vir- tually completed when it received the adhesion of Cape Colony, South Africa, the only large civilized community not yet included in it, Inclnding stocks and bonds the rail- ways of the United States are capital- ized at 360,000 per mile, while those of Great $220,000 per mile, or nearly Britain are capitalized at 100) cent. higher than in this country. per Dr. Conan Doyle picked up consid- siderable ‘literary material” and $12,000 during his trip in this coun- try. ‘No he great fi the Chicago Record. w finds America n successful au- thor,” exe New “(General Orleans Picayune ex- Booth is ountry for his schemes, Americas takes fu paupers on her ey for vd about fifty declares the New York Southern farmers are shead ina quiet, unobira- B1vi§ I the i. mant . h limate unag Pro void ing, but minding most exemplary anywhere ¢ soil unsurpassed ity, a wealth of fertilizers u Turface, and a dogged perseverance of a heretofore given age they r ntness are successfully lakes of the go Herald, have order beer that names might The Ind are often lated almost photographic picture lakes upon which the y were bestow The French names some of the likely to b by modern commonplaces, that supers Indian names, and are e superseded in tl are often pretty and historically sugges According to Major H HCD in woody, of the National We ather Ser vice, the weather Crop service National burean ranks next in ir iport- ance to the work of making forecasts, The system of gathering re ports upon which the weather crop bulleting ar based has been greatly perfected in The bulletins of the States have been improved, and are recent years. crop now more complete than at any prev. ious time, and the increased eircula tion that these bulletins have attained It is be lieved that there is no other class of amply attests their value. information to which so mueh space is devoted in the public press to-day. A file of these bulletins for all the States for a year will form the most complete history of the attending the growth and weather conditions develop- ment of tho several erops throughout the country, More than ten thou sand crop correspondents are to-dav co-operating with the National Weath- er Service through the State organi- zation; thyee thousand voluntary ob servers are furnishing monthly reports of daily cbsefvacions of temperature and rainfall ; and over eleven thousand persons assist in the work of distribut, ing the weather forecasts of tho Na- tional Weather Service, This latter work has been moro rapidly pushed during the past year than any other feature of State Weathor Service work, With the eontinuation of the present liberal policy toward theso services there will be in a ccmparatively short time no important agricultural com- munity in the United States, with the proper mail facilities, that will not receive the benefits of the forecasts. A scheme for supplying London with sea water for sanitary purposes is un- der consideration by the county coun- cil. Germany is considering whether it would not be better for her to buy part of her cotton supply elsewhere than the United States. Gymnastics are a healthy and At least it annual report dangerous sport, last society of Swiss ‘“‘turners.’ Appears so from the of a ' Daring the year, 324 of its 6299 members met with accidents while engaged in gym- nastic exercises—being hurt seriously enough to draw a sick benefit from the society during on average time of 16} days. joard Railroad The Kentucky of Commissioners has placed the valua- the State 852,357,010, while that submitted by the railroad tion of the railroads in at officials is 832,075,319, In 1893 the assessment was for 1804 been reduced 82,941,750, or a trifle 855,263, - 265, the assessment having over five per cent., becanune of the loss of revenue suffered by the railways, One effect, noted by the New of and hard times everywhere the of People in the central part York State that : : ean now be had for half of what they | at five / farms Ledger, emigration to th ing off in value farm BAY many holdings were rate These nor played out, n« or six years ago, are neither abandoned or has any ms decrease tlation o them il pop , but the { fever Arne rn and it trad courag experience 11 apparel first trou hat woul venirs, Nearly all le i written, though documents a countered now and the n been labori sly written on hand of one of the from the base of dome in sachusetts Statehouse, and the tives used to meet, will be abso: the ¢ the which the ¥ are soon to occu Inside old room in which Repres mber in now emble the this attracted why m, which notice som moved them to be ig movables from one room to the ridie 1l¢ ‘ should nored in the transfer of other is not explained, and it is even said that the codfish is doomed to figure in a museum, presumably historical. The following necount of its origin is given : “In 1866 Charles W, Palfrey, editor of the Salem Register, and 8 member of the House for several years, under took to gather all the facts that could be learned about the placing of the After sive researches, he found much econ- cerning the fish, which, luckily, had been preserved. On March 17, 1784, John ber figure in the chamber, exten. Wednesday, lowe, A meme from Boston, moved permission to hang the codfish in the house as a memorial to the importance of the codfishery to the welfare of the State. The shortly after the emblem was placed in posi- motion prevailed, and tion, and there it has remained undis- turbed through all the vicissitudes of the intervened, Once it wad repainted, but it has never been taken down from the iron rod by which it is held position, Mr. Rowe, who presented the figure to the years which have mn Commonwealth, was a well-known eiti- zon of Boston and a conspicuous patriot, being associated with Samuel Adame, James Otis, John Hanoook, and other leaders of the period. He was interested in commerce and an extensive property owner along the water front, Rowe's Whar! and son tiguous territory being among his possessions. Ho died on February 17, 1787." does not, he thinks, aff | | | | | Mr. I snecinl preinl { ton CLEVELAND AND HILL, | THE SENATOR DINES WITH THE PRESIDENT, HII's First Visit to the White House In Two Years—Greeted Cordially by Both Mr. and Mrs, THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Davip MoCrunre, appolated by the courts | in New York City to appraise the estate of the lute Juy Gould, has made a report showing the value of the testator's personal | estate to be upward of §50,000,000 and of the Cleveland as He Enters the Man- | sion—Decorations and Dresses. President Clevaland's annual dinner to his | 1 long of remembered as the state dinners he has be the Cabinet will ot *n., famous Hill among the and as a result, says a Washington fo the New York Herald, Washing fs ngog, What does 1f all mean? is the question soclety people and politicians are wking on all sides, When the President hands with Senator Hill in the East on his arrival it was the first time ess two distingaishel men had met since rable interview on March 8, 1808, sident gave Senator Hill a hearty and there was nothing in the man- ner of either to Indicate that they had ever been enemies, Mrs, Cleveland also re- "ved the Senator very graciously, and tted with him pleasantly while walting for some of the tardy guests, Immedintely after groot the Senator the President gave orders 10 have the Marine Band play “Love's 01d, i Ronator was inoluded LUTSIR, Swoet Song. guests had arrived the igned totha Indies they the dining roc Mrs, ested Benator Hil ort yw of the California Bena. ner was a particularly happy inl with st dinners, there t to to oR Ate nversation was of { spire pro= iin musie Mrs, n Carlisle y heat oO .6n roe rward nator x t i the Presi left, Senator Hill sat not far away, opposite President, i ¥ I nk that any | 5 1 4 y the I x Tate the dinner, since Maret White Hous Invited to a Whi he did he and tha table, to jent's . is the first tin 1 8, 1563, that he has been in and it is also true that though It ia true it invitation From act Genersl Tracey © why any one should attash Hill's presence, 1 either the person. between Lhe (WO an Hill not signifieanse to Benato al relat men. T Hare warn T-shaped ta or riyaix covers laid upon the year's In is b leaves, the drape Over A Knee a ploeven were wk las spreading dia the white brow, in, the sarface of flowers with Ialiing at rare fairs Mf oh 4 { solit liamonds, and md ornament was worn aire or syed ond ried Mrs, satin Lie 3 H 84) Amont n pink Miss Herbert, sea green satin, bows and belt of cherry velvet, Mra K satin, with jet and pale wanels, and Miss Morton, gray 1 with black and Mr, Hoke Mrs, Schofield wore a It was of sunset moire, and made en trmaine, 'k satin, combined with satin, the very atest with node, ¥ ’ a row groan ve Smith y elaborate gow: led with silver, Mrs. Crisp was in bla heliotrops, The follcwing Is the list o of the Cabinet : { guests outside I'he Speaker of the House and Mrs, Crisp ; Senator Hill, Mr. William L. Wilson, Mr. L. Clarke Davis, Seaator and Mrs, Manderson ; Senator and Mrs, Bate ; Senator and Mrs, Mel*herson ; Rena- tor Ransom, Mr, and Mm, Alexander E, O¢r, of Brookiyni Mr. and Mes, George B, Roberta, of Philadelphia ; Me, and Mes. Don M. Dickinson, Mrs, Hearst, Mre. Janin, Mrs. John G, Milbarn, of Buffalo ; Mes, Will- nm K. Carlisle, Mr, and Mes, Charles Tra coy, General and Mrs, Schofield ; Dootor and Mrs, Joseph D. Bryant, of New York, and Mrs, Perrine, HORSE THIEVES LYNCHED. Vigllants Mang Three Captured In Oklahoma, News was from Kingfisher, Oklahoma, of the hanging of threo horse thieves in the Cheyenns and Arapahoe country. The settlers have been the victims ot marauding bands of horses and eattla thieves, and fAnding the authoritios too slow in bringing offenders to justices, vigilanes committees ware organized, Horse thieves have been partieniarly bold of iate, and the vigiiants a fow days ago started on the trail of one band, followed it into the Panhandle of Texas, back, into the Cheyenne conntry, and overtook fit near Cans tonment, Here an bloody battle was fount, resulting in the woundiag of George Giskell and Simeon Campbell, After sevoral hours of hard fighting the vigliants sucoseded in routing and capturiog threa of the thieves, The prisoners refused to give thelr names or make any disclosures that would lead tothe arrest of the band, but were surly and defiant, After a fow moments’ consultation the vigi- Iants took the prisoners t& a ounvenient spruce trod, hanged them, riddie! their bodies with bullets and left them hanging as a warning to their fellows, received \ | Ing a of Major-General Nathaniel P, Banke, real estate &2,000,000, In New York City Cornelius, William K., | Vanderbilt | | extrieated, gave | Fraderick W, and George W, gave #350,000 for un addition to the Vander bilt Clinle, and William D, 2200000 to enlarge the Sloane Hospital, Rlonne Maternity ent his In Mayon 8rroxa, of New York City, first message to the Board of Aldermen, it he urged rapid transit, the separation o charities from correction, and promised to nake suggestions for other departments at another time, Tux Now Jorsoy Logislature mot at Tren- ton and organized ; a test vote showed that Franklin Murphy had greater strength for Benstor than General Bawell, Tux floods ut Pittsburg, other places began to subside Cuanres F, Wanwicx was the Republicans for Mayor of after an exciting contast, Penn., and nominated by Ph inlphin Corvis 1 a dicut, was Houses of SEPA (GrovERXOR i insugurated at Hartford the General Assembly met nine Both and or; Wis An Alarn death rate in New York ) prevalence of the grip and the dition of the streets Tus chusetts Housa at Boston, Russe] senstor, Republics Tren Damoerat and Bennte unanime South and West, elected Governor amid Ix Joint AUCUSe George C, Perkins w of the Republican States Senator, Washington Tau Nat reported a co bearing the names of W, § tegister, and J. N. Houston, Trea the portrait of Farragut Bexarons Hive, Lindsay and I been appointed by the Senate Judi mittee 10 investigate the oharg« against Judge Clark, nominated to Judge Key, of Tonness Bray has granted the demands Cuited States fn regard to the re-establish ment of a minimum tariff on exports fron this country to Cats and Porto Iie Tax Court of Appeals of the District Columbia, through Justice Shepard, has d« nied unanimously the application the Miles Planting Company lor 6 mandamus t¢ compel Becretary Carilsie to pay the 15M sugar bounty, Congress has no power to nal Park Bank interiedt ¥1i 0) ot | give such bounties, the judge declared, Pagsipexr CLEVELAND sent A communion tion 10 the Senate recommending aecquies | oonoe by Congress in British supremacy in | Neckar [sland for a cable, Bexaton Raxsow, of North Carolina, who | was elected President pro tempore of the Senate during the absence of Senator Har. ris, of Tennessee, resigned that position, | and Mr, Harris was ro-elected to the position Tux President has approved the act grant. snslon to Mary Palmer Banks, widow Turns was a distinguished gathering oi the ladies of the official circle in the Blue Room at the White House a few days ago, Mra. Cleveland having invited het friends to a musionls to hear her former schoolmate, Miss Katharine Willard, who Is a brilliant pianist, Foreign, Tur Royal Yacht Bquadron met in London and mooepted the stipulation of the Now York Yacht Ciub that the race jor the Ameriea’s Cup be safle! under the dead of gift of 1887, Evvoains of the lafe Senator Colquitt, of Geo were deliversd in the Senate, Rep. boil Bi Sibley, a Democrat from Penn syivania, made a bitter attack upon the President in the House, in enucus | Tar French and German arlinments re opened, and in both lively times with the Boolalists nre probable, Arren the French Chamber of Deputies had been called to order at Paris for the session of 1805. M. Henrl Brisson was re. elected President of the body by a vote of 272 out of 810, sxowsToRM, accompanied by s heavy wind, destroyed four houses at Celonza, Italy, Bixteen persons were burlod in the ruins of tho houses, Eight were dead when Tororo, Canada, wns visited by a big fire, which burne i furiously for four hours, destroying ten great wholesale houses and eansing a loss of anywhere from &750,000 to #1,500,000, Two women perished - tl ——— i“ 1" WORK OR BREAD! A Mob of Starving Newfoundlanders Calls on a Warship Commander, A mob of the unemployed, earrying a ban- ner inseribed “Work or bread !’ streots of Bt. John's, called on the captain of the British warship paraded the Newfoundland, then Toarmaline to know if he would fire on them il they broke open the stores and took food, The Tourmaline is housed for the winter the upper part ol tho harbor. Theorowd Ind the pler Bya y nh I sd fully i marin for exercise returaed marching through the quickly repressing any | try of glares, eoinel it one Aarme There were between three 1 sand, and hunger was written i; rk all Tha Richard Poore, der erowd wanted, » tives he sot Three deleg stated thelr conse, four wesks ago ) Bread Riots at St. John's ox 1 was wir hearts o to the dock vearnor that tha against then Nothing dsunted srowd set to wo joors and wind GREATEST FIRE. Two Firemen Were Killed and Oth- ers Badly Hurt Fire broke boller room Me in newspaper, ut at Toronto, Canada, in the of the buliding at Yonge and oscupied by the Globe st 3a m, and in less than an hour several firemen were fatally hurt and property valued at over 81,000,000 was de. ptr i. It was blowing a blizzard at the stroats, Company 000% - While eight truck on Me. presses of tha som- i the senond floor went through to tha ent with a that start'ed ¢ pia in their bods amile away. The north imbled into the str . and _soven of o buried in the debris, | Charles Smedley soon Both of Chief Ardagh’s logs were broken and he was compelled to hurt were Francis Fore RoYvert Foster, James Davidson an \D Aor Arash | retire, The others if the fire woul yi of the firemen An the whole west end of the elty, The only thing that saved a large portion of the city was the fall of wot snow which covered tha roofs of neighboring bulldings and saved them from taking fire, Among the Individual losses are MoKine non, $1%).000 on balldiag and stook : Globa, £150,000 ; Harry Webh, 8100,000; Toronto Lithograph Company, 850.000: Nicholas Rooney, building and stoek, £50,000, and Brough & Casewsll, #8).000. There wore & wonld swan | namber of other losses hy smaller persons | which will ageregate suffioieat to make over | 1.000000. The fire was the most disas trons Toronto has ever suffered, DEGRADATION OF DREY:U3, Deprived of His Military Rank anal Insignia, The formal degradation of Captain Albert Dreyfus, who was recently sentensel to deprivation of his military rank ani title in the French army, and to confinement fn =a fortress for life, for having divulged Government socrets, took pluos at 9 o'elock a. m. on the parade ground of the Eoole Militaira, Paris, fu the presence of $000 troops and a number of newspaper rep rosentatives and others, Some time befors daylight detachments from all the regimonis in the dietriot of Paris were on the march to the parade ground, A more painfully lpressive soone it is ime possible to imagine, In the presence of five thousand troops the of his rank wore torn from bis ualform, his sword was en in two and the plecos cast ‘at his fect, and in the name of the Pranos hoe was sent into ime ment for | ostations of in by the roll of the question of his in- discusssd, and the Moors dngradation has caused a throughout Fraooa, sills § fen STATE TREASURER SHORT | | | | { W. W, TAYLOR, OF SOUTH DAKOTA, A DEFAULTER, It 1s Alleged That More Than 8350.- 000 Is Missing — The State is Practically Bankrupt The Treas. urer Loaned the State Money and Could Not Get It Back Probably the most startling faila has ever occurred in the Nort od when William Walter Ta rons First National Bank Trust Ce { Blate Treasurer and Pre and Northwe guage Dakota, he Rett! Treasurer-eloc Taylor and regarded as tion Nnpany, sent word would Dis No money is he a TRAIN IN AN AVALANCHE. Snow Slide Five Miles Long fn the Al leghenies, ides in Pennsylvania covering five fies west of Lory Fyvem, on & Edie R 3 1 fx w 8 iw for a ot and soraned nd raj therant threaten frightful. attendad valley and the that were enous rt. nolds’ g the h a swish and a roar nerve the stogtest hen verwhelmed a Made the nonncement at Tne King Formal Seoul. I'he Central News rrespondent telegraphs that the temnle 5 » jeclared the independence o to the ancestra and accompanied by the members « and the other hich functionaries The royal party of soldiers armed style Ministers Jokohan were specially guardediby Japanese wiloemen, and the streets were kopt clear y the new Korean pollo “The Central News corrosj jent at Fusan reports that the Inhabitants of Kow-Yo-Ken, in Southern Korea, have seizad and beheadnd @ three of the principal lenders of the Tong- Hakrebels, The Tong-Haks were pursued by Korean soldiers, and in consequence of the death of thelr leaders the rebels fled ia al lirections, ernment, o0Y modern sent — SIAM'S PRINCE DEAD, Helirto the Throne of the White Ele. phant Kingdom Passes Away. The Crown Prince of Siam died at Bang. kok after a short fliness. He had been stricken with a disease of the kidneys, A ball was going on at the English Embassy when the news of the Prince's death was ane nounced. The festivities were immediately stopped, In Jsmissing bis guests Mr. de Bunsen, the English Minister, made a speech, expressing condolence with tie roy. al family in fis bereavement Maha Vajiranhis, Crown Prines of Siam, was only sixteen years old. He was born in June, 1578, and early in 1887 was proolnimed Crown Prince and heir to the Siemese throne, EIGHT PERISHED. The Result of an Iheendlary Fire U4 Georgia, At an out-olthe-way place near Willao. hoochee, in Coffee County, Ga., the houses of a colored man named Peter Viekers was destroyed by fire. “"Tom™ Vickers, 8 brother of Peter, three of Peter's children and four children of another colored man, making sigh in all, were burned (0 death, 3 ite that the fire was of facendiary
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