A St. Louis court has ruled that an engaged girl has an insurable interest in the life of her fiance. Gladstone said recently that he was too old to have an opinion on the new woman. His “ileal woman had not altered in the last three score years and ten,” It has been recently calculated that during the eighteen years ending with June 30, 1890, no fewer than 1826 per- sons were killed in cyclones in the United States. The Kansas City Journal observes, facetiouslv: People seldom kill them- selves in the city of Brooklyn. When they gef tired of life they simply quit dodging trolley cars, “The eraze over roller skates some years ago is nowhere near so sweeping and widespread in its effects as the present craze over the bicycle,” ma tains the Chicago Record, A society for the suppression of scandal has just been started at Inster- burg, in East Prussia. Every scanda- lous story spread in the town will be traced and the originator prosecuted by the society. The New Orleans Fieayune is aston. ished because Henry ¥. Rall, of New York, has been sentenced to prison for a year for shooting himself, and the game day, in the same city, a woman, who had tried to murder her husband, was discharged. Two reasons given in the New York Bun for the falling of inancial strin- States cialis a Clerks an easily from a distan gave in the whee An internatio monument to Her mann von Helmholtz is to be erected in Berlin. It promises, remarks the Washington Star, tobe a unique mem orial, for the money with which it will a urease is being cantribnted by 4 4] Tree to Rhet >; aby Russia and the United States. Science knows no nationality. d to the trade « Denby, United St \ rid, f the w ates Minister at kin, in a late report, predicts that Japan, in making a treaty with China will, to a endeavor to great coxtent, remove many restrictions nov ing on foreign trade. Miss Estelle Clayton, an enterpris- ing New York actress, is trying to have every one else enjoined from acting the part of Trilby avers The Pathfinder. She says she has with bare feet a copyright on bare Io that case the et on the stage, Iaw requires her to gend two speci Library of C Thera ing bare feet in the Congressional Li- mens to be filed in the What's to be 13 no provision for stor- INL ess, done? brary. The growth of cotton mills in the South cent. in five years, has increased nearly 100 per The total number of spiudles in operation in 1895 was 3,001,340, against 1,600,082 in 1890, and the number of looms in operation in 1895 was 70,874, against 38,8635 in 1800. 1t is said that New England manufacturers, who represent 1,500,- 000 spindles, have recently been inves. tigeting the sdvantages of the South for cotton manufacture, There have been few deaths of Cab- inet officers since the war, Mr, Gres ham being only the fourth to die in all that time, General John A. Raw. line, who was Secretary of War under President Grant, died while still in service, Charles J, Folger, who was Becretary of the Tyeasury under Ar. thur, died in 1884, and William Win- dom died in 1801, after making a speech at the Chamber of Commerce banquet at Delmonico’s, At that time he was Secretary of the Treasury in Harrison's Cabinet, Mr. Gresham is the fourth Secretary of State to die in service, The others were Hugh 8, Legare, who died in 1543 while Acting Secretary of State under Tyler; Abel P. Upshur, who followed him in the game Cabinet, and who was killed by the explosion of a gun on board the war vessel Princeton, and Daniel Web- gter, who at the time of his death was Recretary of State in Fillmore's Cabi- net, in the receipts Car fender patents have of late been jssucd from the Washington Patent Office at the rate of seven a week, The General Assembly of the North. ern Presbyterian Church has resolved that it Las and will have control of the theological seminaries, whether the trustees consent or not. affair the Atlanta the old Mora Spanish Govern- Anent the Allianca Constitution recalls the ment nine years ago the claimant 81,500,000, and has never yet paid a cent. elaim, on which promised to pay Onr Chief Naval Constructor, Hich- born, says that twelve-inch guns are the largest neccessary to get the best resulte. His conclusions are based on the experiments of foreign Powers, and the outcowe of the Japanese war, Booth, of the Army, is planning to send such an in- dustrial colony to Capada as will as- orld. His prehends the transportation of 10,000 General Salvation tonish the we scheme com- wersons, and he is sanguine that these I ' A people will stay and prosper there. With a population sbout half that France retti this conutry, is ing ng toward the billion The in annual expenses hal i bt 8 837 the Nati the cost of the The O00, O00, estimated at 86 cit of 14 \ dollar mark interest on 0, 000, 600, and NAVY RIN } - Year are and a det about 31 Known, sun, that ‘the territory to this I erally annexed city present Ff ATCA INeas new anoexation it will be a little short New York a of sixty-four square miles, Pe Tl - a - in area of the large American cities.” from. f he shows strength, if he demonstrates his abilty to thrust his the existence, if he bes shown the power a 2 way to the front in struggle for to push the weak aside or even if he is excellent without being ag- } gressive, he is watched in the hope that his sire ) can be added to that y governing class, { there waa ever an historical event of peace that deserved commemoration by painting or statuary it was the lay- ing the Atlantic cable, maintains the New York Independent. In our own history the Declaration of Inde- t Oi pendence or the signing of the Eman- cipation Proclamation may be greater, but they were evemis of war as well ns of peace, It is highly proper that the of York City should have honored the memory of Cyrus W. Field snd the distinguished men who were associated Chamber Commerce of New with him—Peter Cooper, Moses Tay- lor, Marshall O, Roberts, Wilson (4, Hunt, Samuel F. B. Morse, Chandler White and David Dudley Field, by the unveiling of a noble painting of the projectors of the Atlantic cable, by the venerable artist, Daniel Hunt- ington. Mr. Field is represented as standing by o table in the presence of his sented associates, and explaining to them his project on a map. Mr, De. pew delivered the address in honor of Mr, Field. Two brothers of Cyrus W, Field are now living, one Justice Field, of the United States Supreme Court, the other, Dr. Henry M. Field, of the Evangelist. Justice Brewer, of the Suvreme Court, is his nephew. FOUND WATERY GRAVES. A Long Chain of Summer Drowning Accidents. FOUR YOUNG WOMEN PERISH. Of a Party Bathing, of Seven Girls Who Went Three Only Were Hescued.- Died to Save Another... Three Boys Lost «Half in the Lake at Cleveland, Ohlo # Score Sink In Russia. Details sulted in the drowning of Run, of a distressing accident, which re- four girls at Big a hamlet pear Dut The party of seven is, Penn., have just been recejved, unfortunate ones were members of a whose They called Ma- girls ages ranged from thirteen to sixteen, were bathing in a wll stroas honing Creek, Their names were Sadie and Maggie An- aud C Rugh. Only 1 swim, and . Rosa Rimer ro when Mag- } in & hole of the girls coul fe Anthony = f deep water a panio All wera so 1ddenly disappeared bevond the lepth an or aid I'he girl who e her m pani fore aid had disaj the surface, i* Life to Save a Woman, Mrs, Joh R Boys Drowned Try His Body Found in the Hudson, The body of Prank B. Hull, Atorngs, Hal. 0 STrehing was found in the N.Y. Hull bad week, aud it is LL Ea RL Mother Saved | Five Children Lost the 8tint Lak STUDENTS SHOT BY A COLORED MAN Two Freshmen Hecelve Desperate Wounds at Princeton (N. J.) College. CREAT CLOUDBURST IN CERMANY, Many Persons Drowned and Mach Damage to Property Done in Wartembuarg. The Germany Black Forest district of Wurtemburg, was deluged by a cloudburst, in- undating a vast tract of territory. A large number of persons were drowned and almost incaloulable damage was done to property The volume of falling water wed the River Eyach to overflow, and a b houses in the villages along were swept away One h in Balingen, with nine pants, was carried away, and as yet n of it has been found, Four houses were de stroyed {in Frommern and fifteen of the per. sons who occupied them are missing Ten are known to have been drowned in Balingen, seven in Frommern, fifteen in Laufen and several in other vil- lages, DPesides these many others were miss ing. Ee] persons Growth of Cremation, At the meeting in Boston of the New Eng- land Cremation Society President John Rtorer Coth gave interesting statistics, show. ing that the number of cremations in America bas steadily increased from thirty-six in 1985 to #76 in 1804, To-day © Are seventeen erematories in operation, Wazirie Show Fight, Wakiristan tribesmen made an attack npon Fort Sandeman, in the Waziri territory, In- dia, killing Lieutenant How of the British Army and eleven of his attendants, Breaks His Arm in Throwing. William H. Soper, a '9 dental student trom Greensburg, Wis, met with a curious acoldent on the baseball fleld at Ann Arbor, Mich, He was playing in a class game, and in making a throw home from the outfield gave his arm a jerk that broke it near the Cola. Tha dootors are much puzzled as ow the fracture could have oecurred. Killed in a Mine Collapse, The top of the Doe Run Lead Mine, at Flat River, Mo., eaved in, killing three men and badly injuring a fourth, The dead are Robert Penborfy, Robert Labuyure, John \ Deorona trace A CONNECTICUY MEMORIAL, in Memory of the Regiment, Thre first regiment of Connecticut which has adopted plans for a State monument to be erected on one of the battlefields of the war under the new law isthe Twelfth, and the tes timonial will be placed in the National Ceme- tery ut Winchester, Va State Monument Twelfth Gu Le a) CTICUT THIRUTE. be erected to rest, the ne 'wptain in the Twelfth, Lieutenant Frank H. Pack, of New Haven wounded while leading erin shester Beptember 19 1804 The Twelfth wis the fire hat aj {in front of New tad 1 "y titan ariicipa CUTTING A JASH" Ex-Tammany Chief Croker Gives Numer ous Dinner Parties In London, hard Croker. t} i KILLED A SCHOOLGIRL A Married Man Falls in Love and Com- wits Murder and Suicide, the home Mr. Colen by the family of the ieman forbade his Litkey made the and gave a was noticed , and Mr N girs trifiles to several few he with her iw | at 8 30 halsit f 1 ol and speaking with her, an | her way as he met the children he fired tw shots at one of put missed him. He then asked him what he had to say about turning him out of doors, The boy replied ‘1 did not say that, Father was the one who sald it Litkey then turned to the girl and shot her twice, The first shot went through her mouth and the second shot took effect in the back of her head and neck. As she fell dy. ing. he turned the Wenpon upon himself The ball passed through his head and he died instantly. He was about fifty years oid. brothers, started for intercepted her on t the boys Olney Sworn in as Secretary of State, Richard Olney was sworn in as Secretary of State at Washington. Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States Supreme Court, adminis tered the oath of office, The ceremony, which took place in the diplomatic room at the State Departmont, was witnessed by Secretary Lamont, Assist ant Secretaries Uhl and Adee of the Btate Department, Mr, Landis, Private Secretary to ex-Secretary Gresham, and Mrs, Aubrey, daughter of Chief Justice Fuller, Treasury FHeceipts Increasing. The United States Treasury receipts are partaking of the general business revival, and while they still do not quite reach to the point of equaling the expenditures, are nearer to striking an even balance each dey, The prospects are that there will be no de. teit for the month, a condition not =xisting belore for pevernl yoars, _- lh — To Wateh for Fillbusters, Soorctary Herbert jssued orders to the United States man-of-war Raleigh to procesd at onoe to Key West, Fila, She will be re tained there to watch flibusters and see that no more expeditions leave this country for Cubs with contraband of war or wen for the insurgents. i girl recent. ! ming to | | ment in sending warships t | Interest tothecomments of the Germ | a French ship in the Red Sea. NO AID FOR THE COBANS, —— ————— The President's Proclamation Gives Warning to American Filibusters, ————— NEUTRALITY MUST BE PRESERVED People Within Our Borders Must Not States Enjoined to Execute the and Bring Offenders to Trial and Pun- Ishment---Guarding Florida's Coast, President Cley to the them 1 Orv the Us based pon the ish Minister that some official steps be to prevent American the belligerents in Minister Re eland issued a procls of the itizens adm intry the neutrality ited States and Spain argent re f the 8p juest pan. taken wetnry fori 13 1% wd og 1. Grover Cleveland, President |< United States of America, do hereby admon- ish all citizens and other persons t Fuiyo arm pr referred a het x n I an TN warn them that 3! LMI t Spain Will Push the War, der way nharg erop= in the | planters to market, Yel sland. HELPED BY A CERMAN IRONCLAD. She Goes to the Assistance of a French Transport in Distress. The debates in the French Chamber puties upon the action of the Paris Gove Kiel have a f German o k On May 25, y ship Commorin rerman ironciad Katser, in the Red Sea, to signal that she upon a recent instance artesy t the French transport was obsarvad by the eruising | was unable to proceed owing to a disarrange- ment of her engines. The commander of the Kaiser sent one of that vessel's engineers on | board the Commorin to render what fesis- tance he could. The German engineer helped to put the Commorin's engines in or- der and Commorin for a short time, Ohl of Princeton Dead, Frederick P, Obl, aged nineteen, one of the two students at Princeton (N. J.) College shot by the colored man Collins, died in the Isabella MoCosh Infirmary, where he was taken for treatment immediately after the shooting. His father and other relatives and peveral members of the faculty were st the bedside, Peritonitis caused by the wound and sud sequent operation was the immediate cause of death, His body was taken to his home in Sharon, Penn., for burial, Prominent People, Dr, Parkhurst has sailed for Europa, The Marquis of Lorne is going to write the libretto of an opera. The Empress of Austria is subject to free quent fits of insanity, The German Emperor has again taken to riding before breakfast, The King of Stam In his state aitire is worth more than $1,000,000, Erupp, the German gun manufacturer, pays an income tax of $200,000 a year, The dignified Charles Francis Adams bowl ing along on a bioyole 1s one of the sights of Boston. Laws / | made at the White House | H . | hours & the Kaiser afterward towed the | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Washington Items. The President directed that Paymaster H. R. Bmith of the navy be dismisse] from the service for drunkenness, The State Department is co-operating with the Navy Department in preventing filibus- tering expeditions from lenving the United Bates to aid the Cuban insurgents. President Cleveland will visit the Atlanta Exposition in October, This agreement Was when the delega- the “Gate Oity of the Bouth” the President and {invited him to tion from waited upon | attend the x iti Help the Patriots —O Moers of the United | © , Ar ©X pos President Clevelan r his Miller, ( nue, anda secrets ‘retary Herbert . fiv-two baildings were fire if : Uy Cameron, W. V | ut H Bie at Milwankes, Wis, destroyed the | Forster Lumber Company's yards. Ubrig's : am barge Ealeigh, of De "as ¥ A ad | his new Justioes of Special Sessions giving the 1s independent » to Tammany, other free silver ermined to organ. seven Foreign Notes, Three more survivors of the Colima disas- | ter bave been heard {rom in Mexico, : The new-born An finished the erican liner St. Lo reditably her maiden voyage across Atlantic. Her actual time from Sandy k t he Neadlos was seven days, three 1 fifty-three minutes, She made an averuge speed of 15.57 knots, Her engines worked to perfection y Gomez invaded the prov. { Puerto Principe, Cuba, with a force insurgents The cloudburet in Austria washed away a great number of bridges and houses in the communes of Schwarzenbach, Schiastten and Hochwaoltersdort, Twelve persons were drowned in the town of Schwarsenbaoch alone, The Greek Ministry resigned; M. Theodore Delyannis was summoned by the King to form another Cabinet, Further news from the Roberndor! Valley, in Austria, which was swept by a storm, shows that seventy persons were killed, The British, French and Russian Am basse. dors made a formal demand upon the Sultan of Turkey that be disarm the Jeddah Be- douine and pay indemnity for the attack upon the Consuls, The French Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 362 to 105, declared its confidence in the policy of the Government. M. Hanotaux declared that the visit of the French squad- ron to Kiel, Germany, was merely an sot of politeness A statue of the lato Rir John A. MacDon- ald was unveiled at Moutreal, Canada. The new Italinh Parliament was opened by King Humbert, plevniom General Maxim ince ’ Cholera has become alarmingly in the Zaborze district of Prussian
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