THE WORLDS W. C. 1.1. Opening of the Third Biennial Conven- tion in London, POLYGLOT TEMPERANCE PETITION Miss E. Willard, of the United States, President of the Union, Presided | Frances and Delivered the Opening Address.-- Lady Henry Somerset, President of the | National British Association, Spoke. The third biennial convention of the | World’s Women's Christian Temperance Union opened in Queen's Hall in London, | England, at 9.30 a. m. with a prayer-meet- | ing led by Mrs, Charles Archibald, President | of the Meritime Provinces W. C, T. U. of | Canada. At 10 a, m. the ¢ was | called to order by the President, Miss ces E. Willard, of the United States the transaction of routine business, nvention Fran- | After lud ing the appointment of dress of welcomes Henry Somerset, Woman's Frances E ing. After remarks of Miss Willard discuss l'emperance Willard then ¢ ; THE MARKETS, Late Wholesale Prices of Country ro. duce Quoted In New York, MILK AND CHLEAM Decreased supplies caused an netivet the past week, At the various stations the platform teplus average of $1.12 per can of 40 « of the {a Receipts week, flufd sed milk, gals... . gals BUTTER Penn, Fresh, extra Firsts Thirds to nd flnal presentati the various Gr that the entire v sonciad i | y the . Qi spoke of the desire ofthe W.C.T. U. to union more and more an international institution, and of the satisfaction with which the grow- ing interest in England and Canada inthe work is viewed. Mise Willard's address was received with prolonged cheers, waving of handkerchiefs, ete, and the au finally it t their enthusiasm the f the soe the uml Hanon ZRYE § English : fon turing and iyn forts t A MAD MOTHER'S CRIME. Danford Gillis Polsons Her Three Children and Herself Mrs. Danford years, gay Mrs. Criliis, ldren n Indiana. H Mrs. Noyes, had a ndevender naepenasn started witl from the bh on the gr A Big Town Six Days OM, Ex i tJ . »- * the we growing rapiaiy being started six da and there were then On the hills were [ound tons and the remaants was inscribed in 1870 Lasione 15.530,208 School Children. Dr. William T arris, ( H Eduacatl the total nun 15.530.268, an increase the previous year of mmissioner « r 1804 that Sixty Men Killed, Sixty men were killed and three injured by an explosion of | ywder Balisle factory at Avigliana, Italy plosion was caused by the careles victims Maine Farmer Tries Irrigation, | A farmer In Saco, Me, Is puttiog lo an ir | rigntion plant, with an 85.000 gallon reser. | vole. lerigation ln the East is a new dea, Prominent People, Secretary of State and Mm. Olney pro-| nounece "Olney to rhyme with pony Prince Blamarck has expressed his dishe lief in an alliance bet wean Russia and France Senator Brice, of Ollo, has announced his intention of becoming a candidate for re election. | Northwestern University has conferred | upon Vice-President Stevenson the degree of LL.D. ! President Faure, of France, is one of the | kindest-hearted men in Parts, He dovotes { two mornings each week to visiv.ng the Los: pitals, Grapes, Dol Cherri Blac Muskn Waterme « ¥ basket, Catawoa ‘ . ries, Up-river, ¥ qt Booves, city ross Mileh Calves, olty Country Sheep, ¥ 100 the Lambs, ¥ 100 he HogsLive, ¥ 100 he Dresnd we, drvasend 2 A possen Newsy Gleanings, Chieago Is in danger Georgia's watermelon om water far Nevada will have an ave Misslaaiy is treasury | cash Moxi pects » reports good time Georgian peachion by mov ®, Mexioo is to send a Ince lanta Exposition The wheat croj aromises to be whine the carload are exhibit to the At France for this yea INTERSTATE COMMERCE REPOFT, Rallroad Mileage Was Increased During 1804 Over 2000 Miles, Fhe sevanth statistical reg ( } It covers the preliminary lished last Decomber. The report covers the last four nn ! lumbian Exposition, during whic! time there was an inereassd pis r traflle, The nd part covers + period ol widespread business depression I'he third, beginning on June 80, 1804. when 102 roads operating upward of 42,000 mile f and representing railway receive R apparent in sented The total raliway Btatos was 175.704 year of 2247 miles previous year was svivania shosy Florida, 284; North Georgia, 162: Maine, Wont Virginia, 117, an During the 80.3586 were | 1197 locomotive with automatic coup! The ul number , wns 779 608 submitted, completes ae line total nearly Aan VORT tted with trai nn 3M, 150 rill ess than in an » total amoun June 30, 18 f £200.28 pare 184 A FLAC DAY. The Anniversary of the Adoption of the Na- tional Emblem Celebrated, tint {the CANADA’ Ita Rival to the THE TEMPERANCE WOMEN. Many of Them Conducted Meetings In London Palpits, rid's Women's Christie eo (Convent 1 uh The W an TO NORTH POLE BY BALLOON M., Andree Going to Paris to Superintend the Manufacture of His Air Ship M. Andree will & rt y Dadi the Nort! Stole nn Ride to Death por tr ran into wr jumped as Four wore stealing { ground and the log Colorado's Mine Thieves, f very of o thefts re fr oe] the belief ably te m na of dol mines of Col rianized mit. nest Dise the Gold Fleece Mine ha that ore worth pr lars has been stole ado Io the last ten years band. The robberies haven ted by the miners, who are g« men, It was believed that with work and the spending of thieves might be caught n fr ¥ Ah A been con nerally bh detective ney the much m ugh Mis Life for a Cork Floater, Wasoott { Clint N. J twenty-one years old and unmarried, son ol while fishing from » { Arpanter, ax-Senator Carpenter, float in the Raritan River, got a bite, The pulling atthe line released the floater, Attempting to grab it as it was carried off by the ti de, young Carpenter fell overboard and was drowned, His body was recovered, rk Eleven Killed at a Funeral, A despatch from Rovigo, Italy, says that while about 100 persons were walting on a platform there for the funeral services of a conspicuous citizen, the structure gave Way throwing eve="ody to the ground Eleven men and wamen were killed and twenty others were injured, several of them fatally Mohibition's Leader In New Jersey, Henry W. Wilbur, editor of the Outlook, of Vinela «1, was nominated as the Prohibition eandidats for Governor of New Jersey lu the convention at Essex Lyceum, Nowa k. COLONIAL HI Monument Commemorai the Capture of Louisburg Dediented, The uns Breton) met Wars was a su fine, the ancient weacelul in its beau rom all | wrt decked with Colonial Wars Chalrma monument t Governor Daly, ad it in behal yf Aberdeen ” pas. 'Z % Phir oehindly T 0 " N APPLE A MONUMENT | " | To Be Erected Where the Baldwin Va. | ana riety Was Discovered, The Rumford Historieal 8 ty of Wot . will er the spread soars be known as t Kranite shiaft whiel 4 Rumford Historical Associati Woburn is seven feet high nd is surm ed by a representation of a Baldwin erected n of unt. in, the Wi Reward of the Yeacemaker Yang Yu, the Chinese Minister at Wash. ington, called at the White House and pre. sented President Cleveland with a document of yellow silk, ornamented with ribbons of the same color, and about two feet wide and several foot in lengt! It contained the of. fieial thanks of the Chinese Government for the friendly offices of the President In trying to secure peace between China and Japan, Oldest Rallroad Engluwer Dead, Rev, Ralph Swinburu, the engineer in the world, w with Robert Stephenson, the great inventor, died a few days ago near Charleston, W, Va, aged ninety yours, He was a native of Eag- land. oldest railroad was associated Patriots Successful In Ecuador, Nearly all the interior of the Guayas Prove igoe of Eouador bas submitted to the revolus tion. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Washilngton lems, rd giving in det , notification fo fled his guilt and shot t Frank Peterson an? Wiliam Smith were killed and four persons badly injured by a bioller explosion at the home of Charles Peters Attica, Ind W. W. Tavior ¢ He was taken asath. An inmat f ® : is son William ¥. N.Y, killing hin pers are sweeping « the three instantly ver Oklahoma umbers that they are de- The farmers are une . Jacob's Third Avenue City, was gutted by a fire, Loss, $300,000, Grasshoppers appeared (n clouds at Eok- bart, Ind., and came down upon fields of ), corn, and grass in such numbers that verything seemed (0 be alive with them. They ate everything green and left the felds bare and crops ruined The Sliver Convention at Memphis, Tenn. . passed resolutions advoosting the free and unlimited colnage of both silver and gold and then adjourned The New Jersey Legislature adjourned sine die alter passing several bills over the Gove ernor's veto The Bupreme Court of Ilinots handed down its decision declaring the Whisky Trust an illegal corporation, George Andrews, the colored wile mur derer, was hanged in the Warren County Jail in Belvidere, N, J. Mrs. Harriet Beeohor Stowe selebrtod her eighty-fourth birthday at her home tn Hart. ford, Conn, She is in excellent physioal health, y Eight prisoners, Including one charged with murder, escaped through the roof of the New Brunswick (N. J.) County Jail, heatre, New York Foreign Notes, Intense fooling exists in Encland on aoe count of the boom the Bt, Louis's flest trip gave Bouthampton The African explorer, E. J. Glave, died at Matadi, ninety miles from the mouth of the Congo. Mr. Glave was sent to Africa two years ago by the Century Magazine, i BY Ry Ribbon is growing and more 1 Pol HIAr. The Bishop of L mndon the ranks of the Transparencies of lace many of the skirts with effect. more has jois women suffragist are let yery ed Our mod a large head. in North Pa out twenty-four The Princes GUressy Da Vienua has a Ve ai f s fo girls to enable them to marry. year sixty-six were provided for. whict Or young Last Over 40,000 women are attending colleges in America, yet 1t is only twenty-five years since the first col- ened to womer 1 of ' in the land was ] Princess Man Wales is a colle band, value posal Beatrice That | YS girlish figu brown, gether with a sweet manners Dr. Helen Webster, of College, 1s the only woman ever earned the titleof d philosophy. She wert to Germany and literally won the honor by hard, unremitting labor Mrs. Emmons Blaine has presented to the First Presbyterian Church of lichfield Springs a new pipe organ and an addition to the church build ing as a memorial to her husband, It was in this church that they were marred. Mrs. Richard Watson Gilder, the wife of the editor of the Century, studied to be an artist when she was a girl. She says she hopes none of her three daughters will ever have any special talent for anything but being a truly good woman, Miss Ada L. Woolfolk, of the Uni- versity Settlement, at 95 Rivington street, was appointed a School Inspec tor for the Second School District, New York City. Miss Woolfolk has been identified with the college set- tlement work for several years. She graduated from Wellesley Col- lege in 1801, and is consequent'y a young woman, She takes ax active + iuterest in school work, in the big, lesley
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