California the golden poppy as the State flower, has just adopted On the Belgian State railways fares aro lower than anywhere else in Europe. Seventy-five per cent. of the enlist- the were of Americans. last year ments in regular army Something like a boom 1s reported in the gold region in the North Caro- lina foothills. The field like that of Georgia's. Lord ‘“‘new Eastern question” gravest that Englan called to consider. thinks that the me of the Roseberry 18 ever been Professor Frank Parsons asserts tha in New York City it costs a man 830 to 2100 a year for the same am erli of transportation he gets in 84.50. Clevelan 1, Ohio, the city of bri is to have the first bridge operate electricity and compressed air. bridge will be poised on huge stone piers, and give a clear channel over the river of 115 feet. A league has been forn ed in France to assert the against rights bicvelists, agree never to gat gel a bicycle; they think Health Ma desire AT azine ob- The child for candy and sweets is a natural one and should not be stifled. and BErves. in a Good eandy Sweets told ol War Department pible The story engaged in castin at the Woolwicl st his balance and fell into » l outa tons ufacture of ordnance Arsenal | ning twelve molten steel. The wetal was at white heat, and the min was utterly cou- sumed in less time than it takes to tell of it. ties held a conference and decided not The War Department authori- to profane the dead by using the metal in the manufacture of ordnance, and that mass of metal was actually buried ) “i aT Ciergyinan and a Church of England read the service for the dead over it. Exit Sir Philip Francis in the role New York Fraser Rae, in exclaims the Ww Athenmum, of “Junius, Independent. Mr, a letter to the introduces new and ynvineing evidences that not thor of the “Letters of Junins,*' as he Francis could have been the au- has discovered in the London Morning Chronicle of August 24, 1774, a hither to unnoticed letter of Junius, pub lished Sir Philip bad sailed for India, aud refer. nearly five months alter ring to current political events which There concurrent testimony of several lead {ng statesman of the time that they knew who Juuias war, and that it was Lhe could not have known. i uot Bir Philip Francis, His vanity, however, encouraged prople tribute the letters to Lim. to at of the St. Enogat station, Philadelphia is to be ““Lexowed” by A committee of Senators. seven Penpsylvunia Over eight hundred English crim- inals have been executed in England gince the accession of Queen Victoria, The New England Homestead notes that ‘‘the tives and use of endearing diminnu- nick-uames has almost en- tirely passed away.’ fore ign rs with the to Rev. Dr. need of the according the one country just The Brooklyn Alderms low the trolley cars to New York Advertiser thinks, might help to reduce the bells, which, the rate there, towns have der eixteer o'clock at the times of the “In the of two or three gen- the Indian the 18 tl ourier-Journal, gavs that mite ' CIIV 18 a suburban business. kK at all, When lions as Thomas Daie, the r nailed three of y became rel well as idle them t the ear and then hanged then ing the ear to the pillory was a favor ite punishment in mediaeval England. It was one of the penalties imposed for "‘bulling"” the provision market, A singular fact is rec the Moniteur Industrial, namely, that on in the shore of Brittany, between St Malo and St. Lunaire, in the vie nity at a place ealled Port Blane, the tides have late- ly displaced a considerable amount of sand, say to a depth of some nine to thirteen feet. markable phenomenon is the fact that to buried for periods covering some eighteen or Accompanying this re- forests known have been twenty centuries have been brought to light, and a vast forest has, it ap- pears, been discovered in process of transformation into coal; ferns and the trunks and barks of to be seen in an advanced state of decoms- trees are position, being already beyona the peat formation, showing, in fact, the films and flakes which are found in coal, and, while some of the trunks are sixteen foet in length and still very distinet, they bowing rap. idly transformed, WALTERQ GRESHAMDEAT The Secretary of State Expires Sud- denly in Washington City. CAREER IN WAR AND PEACE. That Shocked His Family and the Public. His Was With A Fatal Collapse Burprised and Allment Acute Pleuriny Complicated Pneumonia and Heart Fallure, Secretary ted at 1.15 Ariingt Heo was fis i ) od grestly du Irage after the neumonie Lisepaon, y fre sullering ety ber in the Aw 8 (ros 1 iti LL i* part aughter, afterward Judg : dejegn in iG a I “I ra Brigadier-Gens Whi i \ sheer gott's Hill} Atla was shot Int Cireshiam from whioh When Gres the front and he vered to t ded Major-Geners and He resumed Albany, Ind 1¢ President offered General Gresham the Coliestorship of the Port of New Orleans, and subsequently the District-Attorneyship of Indisna. these offers ware refused, General Gresham twice ran for Congress and was defeated by Michael C. Kerr, He accepted President Grant's appointment as 1 Bates District Judge for ladiana Cand during the twelve years that he that District Judgeship not one of ons reversed, President led him m & bench member of his Cabinet In 1588 {nee that time Mr, Gresham been gous fAgure in National politics. He y portfolio In President Arthur's left vacant by the death of Post mastear-Genoral Howe Perhaps the noticeable Incident of his career as Post. mastar-Ooneral was the exclusion of the Loulsiania Lottery Company from the use of the mall, Near the close of President Ar thur's term, on the death of Secretary Folger, Mr. Gresham wae appointed Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Gresham, however, longed han ANT n ~r was terad the service practice of law at Now General Grant boos he wne byes has most un- | the | reced- | When | Both of | | ] ] | : | | for & return to the benohy, and in ths closing days of the Arthur Administration he w appointed Circuit Judge to Judge Drummond for the Seventh Judicial District, This was an appointment for life He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1884, aud again in 1888, He received 111 votes on the first ballot in the convention in 1888 to 123 on the third ballot, and then windled to fifty-nine on the eighth and last, He refused. it is sald, the nomination by the People’s Party in 1892 Judge Gresham announced his intention o oting for Grover Cloveland inthe last Pres sntial campaign, In his letter, dated Octo. ber 27,1 and addressed to Major Bluford Wilson »] that he th Mr. ( , he publi party 0] puocend R99 announo 1zht an could vote for leveland When THE EPWORTH LEACUE Programme of the nt Second Conference Clmattanoogn, nister rhe Ass addressed ootings will be { seating 10 pening ser nn wil Galloway and the rai | service by RLY ® Bis} Hah and 1 Nuchanan, the Wife Polsoner, Hesentenced The New York ( in fA .MAlbany dered that Dr. Buchanan, the wile pois electrocuted during the week be ginning Monday, July 1 Chief Judge Andrews saying that there was no appeal to the United Btates Court, and sentenced Bueh- anan to be alectrocuted during the week beginning July 1. Ain oner. " reviewed the case, “Poor Varma’ Schemes a Success, rt has Leen sent it by Buperinten 1 Now York City Lota, saving that the quarteracre plots of wl to the unemployed poor sa su embryo farmers, a ding to the re enthusiastic, and w ate at thelr gardens, Kjelgaard, of the 2 Vacant giving EA Are rs New York Dark at Noon, An Intense darkness was caused throughs out New York City about noon by a heavy storm cloid, Lights were lit all over the town. International | arly and | | His vote | | | CHIEF BYRNES RETIRED. The Head Policeman of New York City Placed on Half Pay, : THE REFORM BOARD SUPREME. By Unanimous Vote of the Polles Commis. sloners the Famous Detective Leaves the Service With an Allowance of $3000 Per Annum--=Served Thirty-two Years Inspector Conlin Acting Chief After more mous ete resent sta » revolution in the w! b tat il Ah I t i Dat nt ' | areer is } The National Game IAD WAS very try : we] Griffin frou {f the Br Clneiny Wester iu! aving ths Hest ball « against the East MeaCarthy seams t the Dost this At Cincinnati, Pitcher Rhines Pitcher Stein senseless with a pit Boswell won the first fall game he for New X that too frow the burgs be the timely hitter of n team Season as he was last kad ball kt Lat] tahed ire is Carey's flelding at first bass {is great. He has saved toe timore (nfielders dozens of wild throws already nis hitting like a bh usidered a fixture lace of Burke The ory for pitchers ia one that will never die out The supply will always smaller that the demand, Bann may bee team in § nse aflre, and Ol the New York Hawley ing re balking ther League pitehers « i guess ful thay midned ali Long, of Boston, leads the League in home rons ap todate, and he also has the lowest flelding average of any short stop The best pitching find of the season Is unquestionably young Wallace, of the Cleve land team. He js improving steadily aad Las very little to learn now Wulinue i of Pittsburg, is given oredit for do- | the | NEWS EPITOMIZED ashington Items, Domestic, 1 Q Hagu Formosa a Republic, hersel!l a repu bile dragon on & blue Chang Ting Sung ent I A Was ia in the Shimonoseld roy More World's Fair Dividends : t i ent that Chicag } ro. They have ready received ten per cont. and the ad i tonal reture on the investment will am int to two and and onehait por cent. Sino the close of the Falr claims have been reduced from 500 t y "air sto fier nit A New Atlantic Recon, The Cunard steamship Lucania has ese tablished a new Atlantic record ered 2987 knots at an average spead of 22.01 knots an hour The best previ record held by herself, was 21 #9 knots Khe cov. us A New York Village Burned, Fire destroyed » large part of the business portion of Angelion, N. Y., including six tore Moe, barber shop, phos tograph gallery, two Jodge rooms and Sed. o— # Opera House, The loss is about $100. WA & DEwspaer
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