So—— «Stateswomen” is the correct thing to call the Australian tician, female poli The Japs will before long be a fore the naval powers, predicts the St. Louis midable factor among world's Star-Sayings. In France it is decided that the makers of bieyeles are responsible for damages when an accident occurs through a structural fault in a ma- chine, During the last two months of 1804 the number of serious crimes reported in Egypt was 234, as compared with 484 during the same period in 1803, This is regarded as very satisfactory. It is estimated by some that the present coinage value of gold bullion is about forty per cent of its market The remaining sixty per cent. is the value given it by demand for use in the arts, the North Caro cites The Sceretary of lina Board of Health cases where neighborhoods almost un- numerons inhabitable on account of malaria be- came healthy when artesian water was that from substituted for steams or surface wells. through States and ‘arolina, This r are the coo during the heated term. The manner of construction is as follows: ““The farmer cuts the slabs of sod for building for transplan as sod is cut The buffalo grass indigenous t« ester: purposes : : just } Kan- S48 COUnLry i 8 Ine | DICK INA The students of sociol and par vs 4} y that branch which relates to our foreign immigration, will be in by Wil- Curtis, of the Chicago Record terested ina table compiled liam E. which shows the proportion of foreign- the United States homes in citizens of the which they the of thos homes that are free from incumbrance, The in fifty-eight cities of born who own live, and pere following gives the percentages more than 50, 000 population : English and “els and Hun anal Austrian English ( Russians and Poles inns Canadian French Italian, ... The average of ownership for the whole population of the fiity-eigh cities is 24.88 per cent. and 61.64 per of The average home ownership for natives ol the United States in 23.41 per cent. and 61.86 per cent, are cent. are Iree incumbrance, these citios is free of incumbrance, It will be no ticed that the are least given to mortgages, that the Italian, rlthough he seldom buys a tome, 1# accustomed to pay for it, Frenchmen and A . ; . . ys The Scoteh banks have reduced the rate of interest on de posits to one per cent., the lowest rate known, There are 40,000 professional and it the people 29,000,000 annually to sup- tramps in the counery, costs port them in idieness, St. Louis Star- the to the Sayings, *‘detrolleyized”’ is New York scribe Brooklyn's According new de- during word has coined to condition the street car strike. Statistics are quoted to show that in New York City were caused by coal 347 fire by by matches and only forty-eight last year oil. 23) ne, a the use of electric Might and power, The copper pro Inetion of the world last year was 330,600 tons, and with the increasing use of electricity there Washing- lin. is a possibility, thinks the ton Star, of an almost unlimite crease in the demand for it, ‘New York society is on ncedles and pins over the rumor that William Waldorf England and re- the 'n ] (he orge Spence r, of a Washington Astor is going to forsake stablish himself as a States,” the metropolis, to “The chang citizen of said Star reporter reason given for his of plans is his desire children in the Unit s¢ who know him well in muitary knowledge and i! magnificent Grand the m to put it into active og arms. ‘‘It is an idea of mensions that the Army post selects 1 ration are has conceived, and en ing about the | be ready tos po and eflicier rhapsody : uniforms, and some of the braves them too to twelve-year-old West Virgin are young vote, ia school- to about his death ten boy who was found frozen with his arms clasped year-old sister was a hero of the truest For he off and wrapped his sister in it in the life at the No Spartan at no grizzled veteran of sort. had taken his own coat vain effort to save her of Thermopylm, ex pense his own. Napoleon's Old Guard, no man who Pickett's charge at Gettys- burg, or who stood unflinchingly un- joined in der the Stars and Stripes against that memorable onset, ever won the title of hero more worthily than thisnameless lad. His nll the highest elements of heroism, 12 was conduct had in it not inspired by love of glory or hope of reward. It was born of instinctive chivalry and inspired by dauntless courage, To die in the blaze of bat- tle, with nerves quivering with excite- ment, the comrades, is far less difficult than under eyes of cheering to perish by inches, after having deliber- ately sacrificed the last chance of safe- There could be no sterner trial of heroism than this, Yet boy stood the test, ty in order to save another, this West Virginia and the Nation that has lost him has reason for pride ne well as regret. He was made of the right stufl for American citizenship. While our country produces lads of this type, there can be no feur for the Republic, SILVER PARTY LAUNGHED The Bimetallic League Issues an Ad- dress to the People, A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT, | Joseph C. Sibley, of Pennsvivania, Recom- mended by the League---Sig ners of the Address Hepresent Sixteen States.--A Nautlonal Organization to Be Form ed, With Representatives in Every State, of the Territory IL. Bin alightl NEW CHWANC ig Town in Man ard Fighting. Takes China's churia After | Japan gives this in ‘As arr Chwang, Ti the morning ots Yingkao, the h ed the Japa: “Th Japanes gtreet, until had col . yale he Chinese 1 nded unaend, by noot great quantitie ners and prov somewhat at ve 200 killed and w Spain's Demand on Us, Captain-General Calleja has demanded the recall of the American CO Havana, Cuba, At a Cabinet eouncil at Madrid it was agreed to support the demand, meu l-General at USE OF THE KNOUT ABOLISHED, An Imperial Russian Decree In Convicted Peasants, Behalf of A despatch from St. Petersburg says that nn imperial decree ins boon issued abolish- ing the use of the knout for offenses come mitted by the peasantry, who have been completely at the mercy of the local judges Statistios, It 18 said, were submitted to the Cezar, showing thet during the last ten yeam 8000 persons died as the result of being whipped with knouts, and that the er number of them were only guilty of having stolen produce from farmers. i {| out equal in their ¢ CREAT NAVAL DISPLAY. The United the Opening of the Kiel Canal, States to He Represented af The gant at number of I to Ix Kiel will fur sur warshipg expects the pre opening of the great Canal in Germany this spring pass any gathering in recent ve not [0 capting that of our naval review, when there were about forty vessals in Now York Har- bor, Gireat Britain, § wee and Russia will pend large fleets, while Italy, Spain and other smaller continental powers will be represen ted by some of thelr latest crack warships The United Btates will have the flagship Ban Francisco and Marblehead, and probably one of the two triple and the New York. Reorotary SOrewW Cruisers Herbert has notifie Amer can Minister at Berlin to inf official that two shig and { Kiel in accordance aquest, The opportu Columbia and Mi and New York with the Blake, an f nearly the same lieved may be taken tary Herbert, who displaoemen ny HRs be the Wey fis FICHTING THE INCOME TAX. Distinguished Counsel In Battle the Array Supreme Court, UNCLE SAM AND SPAIN, Inquiry as to Our Attitude on the Insurrection. Caban 1 the Bpanish Gov ws at Madr fod States 1 t Ts) 1 RE 10 Lh ati ’ by attitude of the { general were manner in received at e gunboat had who had the Span- untries Senate Premi Sagasta was asked her or not the Us i States had offered elp quell the revolt in He an gwered that the effect was une oded no assistance iha NL y this ie, adding that Spain Y | in subduing th Suicide of a Bank Cashier, Henry F. Wing, Cashier of Mass, ) Jank, shooting himself with a pistol in his barn, Wing was seventy years of age, had been cashier of the bank for thirty-eight years and had aleo served as Town Treasurer, Owing to difficulty in the settlement of several es. tates of which he was executor, there were geveral sults, aggregating more than $200, - 000, pending against him, the Grafton Savings committed suleide by Seven Persons Killed by Indians, A courier has just brought ews of an- other outbreak by the Yaqui Indians in Mexico, A band of about fifty hostile In- diane left their rendezvous in the mountains and struck the Yaqui River Valley. They at- tacked a number of ranches and killed seven bersons, among the victimes being two wos men, Large quantities of grain were also burned, Murdered All His Family, In South london, England, an unems ployed plasterer named Taylor, despondent from idleness, murdered his wife and five children and killed himealf, | $4000 to $5000 could be O'Reilly and others, started from Was! | on mander Benjamin P CEORCIA'S NEW SENATOR Major Bacon Haus Long Been Prominent In sate and Local! FPolitles, Major Augustus O. Bacon, who was elected United States beginning March of Troe to represent Georgia in the Sennte for the long 8, 1805, is, like his ef sliver coinage on the basis of sixteen to ne and this fact has imparted more than He had been term Heague, in favor nary luterest to his = FS 1, paved stro ue cables torn dow TEN THOUSAND ON STRIKE. Miners in the FPlttsburg District Go Out En Masse TORTURED BY MASKED ROBBERS Barglars Get 8353000 by and Wile Roasting Ma Over the Flames. and 86000 in o set having & large sm 1 his house, I'he place was entered by en. Ademand was made on the for his money, and upon his refusal to the hiding place the robbers roasted his } ver the flames When the agony be id where #1200 was Was subjected to the and she finally ant of m same unbearal connie His same cruel treatment told her torturers wher found in a barrel « salted moat, The President Goes Duck Hunting. President Cleveland, accompanied by Dr. Hinge on his trin down Tucks, on the Hghthous Violet is to make her tion in the lighthouse district, including the sounds of North Carolina, The President was accompanied by Dr, O'Reilly, his physi- Han; Commander George De F, Wilde, Naval secretary of the Lighthouse Board, and Com. Lamberton, Inspector f the Washington lighthouse district. Toe trig was plannet] to last {for a week or ten days the Potomac tender Violet, regular t after The Ar « { inspe - Bills That Falled, Fifty-six acts of Congress that reached the President failed to receive his signature be- fore adjournment, and are, therefore, of no sffect, About 100 bills failed to become laws weause they did not reach the President in ime, A Revenue Cutter's Precious Salvage. One United States revenue ootter, the Crawford, has given a good account of itself and proved its public usefulness, It was sruieing in Chesapeake Bay during the re. sont blizzard and it helped to save thirteen vessels and 189 lives, The Labor World, Cwrer Navan Coxsrnvoron Witsox worked i the Navy Yard when a boy. Kxvex lives were sacrificed through the re. rent trolley strike in Brooklyn, Tue New Jersey Assembly passed a bill abolishing the State Board of Arbitration Late Wholesales ’ ordi. | E MARKETS, Prices of Country duce Quoted In New Yor 10 MILE AND CREAM During the past week the platio it $1.70 ge price the shipper. niy er quart, net t of the week, fluid 1,450,577 12,440 26,198 MHeary Orders Fron to Souther: Vill contin the Northerner AS CREAT AS BESSEMER'S. May Iron Industry, A Discovery That Revolutionize the been at Springfield, Ohi Experts have from all parts of the country for two weeks examining the discovery of George Haley in the manufacture of iron, Capitalists from Chicago, Detroit and where are investigating his method of pro. ducing malleable iron direct from the mould, like cast iron he Harley Iron Company already has $1,000,000 capital with furnaces Harley has been at work {cr years backed by enthusiastic believers in the plan. If the making of the (ron provor as great a SUcoess commercially ns it has experimeZZally, the discovery will be the greatest since that of Beasomor Specimens of the malleable iron produced by the process were submitted to experts in Chicago without telling them that it has been produced direct from the mould. The iron was pronounced first class, revolutionizing ele. Decrease in Cirenlation, The United States Treasury statement of circulation for February shows a decrease for the month of $39,122 958, reducing the aggregate circulation of all kinds of money to #1.574,5684,657, a decrease for the year end. ing Mareh 1 of #116,000.000, The ciroulation pet capita, based on 69,881,000 of population, as boen reduced to $22.69, Immigration Decreased Forty Per Cent, Commissioner Stump has prepared statis. tios showing that during the past seven months immigration to this country has de- creased forty per cent,
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