The Baltic Canal is the outcome of a
project formulated Ho years ago,
When the Siberian Railway is com-
ro frofMondon toJapan
earth
plete one ean
in sixteen days, and girdle the
in about forty.
ht in their fine
und Nebraska
ro sen i
In their jubilant deli
Western
already profferin
to the effet
crops Kansas
are “relief”
Fast,
The mort lity among of lo at sea,
y from ern [ water,
formerly ixteen
)
per cent., while at
18 One
ton, to the (
ten graduate
wer
South
cy AF thw i }
Way nortawa 3 epiacing the
Northern hare. ngs finds that
i ancient Carthage,
several good quartz
vered at the old eamp
ence is building up again.
Sheep farmers, the world over, have
| Chiengo is running no chance of Les
h |
|
|
| Indies k
notes the Washington
under way
ing left behind,
She ha
bigger than New York's,
Star, n canal that
will be
faot
at down
that sixty-two literary
to dinner together in
London recently is viewed by a leader
| writer for an English daily as ominous
| and portentous to the future of man
| in literature.
| Stevens
| of the
been very busy during the last thirty.
In that
Lonis Star-Sa
has
five years. period the
increase been ten-fold in
St. |
yings estimates that the |
the |
Argentine, nine-fold in Australia and |
old in South Africa and
United States,
of the Civil War
five f
the clip was two
the |
At the commencement |
pounds per head of oar population; |
now it is five. New sources are also
being opened up to us daily by new
railroads, and clothing should go down
in prico at a very brisk rate. Darts
even of Ama now sending wool
westward, The Afghan **doomechee”
~@ sheep with a tail the heighth of
the animal broad aa its hind
quarters, furnishes good wool, as also
do some of the Persian nnd Thibot
sheep, but India, Chins and Burmese
sheep cannot do so. The sheep there
grow hair instead of wool, and another
peculiarity they poses is thet no one
ever saw a purely white native sheep
in Indias or Burmah,
Aare
and as
of
_- 1 -
HNOIOLY,
the
BAYH
Hiram Forges,
Institute of Tec!
that in fifty years from now two-thirds
and
their hand
Professor
work
will be
by electricity,
now done by men
women taken ofl
Paul, Minn., is anx
» motto, and the
st favor
one
exact change, is a matter
in the local newspapers, one of which
marks that
4 tes
this is tho re
ko Bt
101 he outbreal
With
ablishments the
the
pr
but the tendency is the same.
present
)OOss 18
In
class at Vanderbilt
Tenn., Hon
“The
of our country are in the South.
flood of for
has songht the West, Northwest and
In the Bouth we find,
else,
to the
University,
his address graduating
Nash
M. De-
opportunities
The
fifty yoars
ville, Chauncey
pew said: great
immigration
Pacific coast,
nowhere
fought at
Mountain and Yorktown.
ne the original stock
which Cowpens, King's
The intel-
ligent patriotism of the Southern peo-
ple in the last qnarter of a century
Lins overcome difficulties which seemed
msurmountable, The young men of
the South have no eall to tempt for-
tune the erowded cities of the
North and East, At their own doors
and within their own States are their
missions and their careers. Be not
deceived by the glitter of wealth as the
pole measure of success in life. The
moment that in your chosen voeation
you are sure of an income beyond the
requirements of a modest living you
area success, All the rest is camula-
tive.”
in
AWAVE OF DEVASTATION
weep Over Many States With
Fatal Effect.
Storms S
A FIERCE GALE IN CHICAGO.
Beware Storms in Various Parts of the West
and South---More than Forty
Perish nnd Loss Estimated at Millions,
Caused by Winds and Floods---Fields of
Grain Swept Hare,
and low
and
Ife ¢
with
Was
ware
West «
"AWN ngs
wend fu,
fered
wind
age was groat,
A terrific wind
Chicago, 1. , and
dedths, I'he first
at 6 p, m, in the shape o
dust whirled al
peed and belore
wiih
yw smas! {there the
and min storm struck
aused disaster and several
warning of the storm was
{ dense clouds
mg At a tremendous
which men found
diffloulty in standing It wa
than an half hour when the force of
the tornado had spent jtself, but the rin
oured ia torrents for an hour longer. At
I o'clock p. m. tho list of fatalities in the
city was sald to be at least eight
Charles Kline, John Ross and Charles Loos.
brook were sailing in a boast named the
Pilot, They had been out to the
Government Breakwater, about a mile
from the Chicago shore ot the
lake. They started for shorn shoetly
before the squall struck them, and they were
drowned in sight of thousasuds, The damage
to the property through the city was great,
sapocianiy in the business portion, Thou
sand of dollars’ worth of plate glass windows
were broken, and many buildings wer
flooded by the breaking of pipes, roofs sani
other parts of the buildings, The day
had been one of the most oppressive.
ly hot of the season, and tens of thousand)
of persons had sought the harks, The stora
oaught them and thousands wero drench Ad.
Up to alate hour, bedraggied women and
orying ohilaren erowded the street cars At
the Ball Park a crowd of 8000 watched the
Chicago-Cleveland contest and staved until
caught in the down pour. Teegraph
and eleetrio light wires were broken,
The Dispatch, a small stoam laursh, went
down in the middie of the lake, at Lake
Genova, Wis, at 6 a. m., and six persons, all
on board, were drowned, They were: Dr,
Frane, Assistant Superintendent of the In
sane Asylum at Elgin, Ill: Mrs Pmne, his
wife, and thelr child; Father Hogan,
loss
dam- |
f | alike un
or ten. |
Cn
People |
Fhird
shies [ARE
Fhe President's
“Giray G
reer Drowned in the Wire
Lady Lee on the Mississlg
I" asnen
She Owned the
Famous
the Great Chi
the
against
treaties Ar
AvaRiing.
roay,+ to he
it the story
sexd her tu a pite
an
ven
ACREED TO DIE TOGETHER.
S. A. Flelds Kills His Wife and Child asd
Then Commits Saicide,
8. A. Fields, nmtil
Post at Polo, Mo.,
rosently editor of the
cut the throats of his wife
and baby with a razor, then onded his
life in the same mannaer, The bodies were
found in a garden 200 yards from the house
of his father-in-law, five miles from Mead.
ville, Mo. Fields aud his family were visit.
sag there at the time. A note was found in
Mrs. Fielda's pocket saying that everything
they had was to be left to her mother, Mrs,
Thomas,
It is evident that Fields and his wife
agreed to dietogether, for
house after they had left it, put on an oid
dress, and then went bmek to be killed,
Fields was a lawyer by profession and was
about thirty-five years of age, but had made
a fallure of his practice, T'vo years ago he
attempted his owa life by throwing himsel!
out of a second-story window,
and
had
she went into the
Big Fire at Oswego, N. v,
At Oswego, N. Y., several buildings om
East Second street, occupied by mercantile
firms, were destroyed by fire, Tho loss was
$153,000 and insurance $80,450, Mrs, Ienne
Bond, 1 forty-seven yoars oid, was seriously
SLAUGL
| CARS TELES(
The
Gran
on
in Canada.
JOPED AND WRECKED
Second Section of an Excursion Train
Dashes nt
The %
ill Speed Into the First---
iethineg Were to
An Ene
Pilligrims
Shrine of $t. Anne de Bes pre
gineer's Awflful Blunder
) retreat
The Gover
Lincoln Day in Connecticut
Both H
Assembly ot
, October 15.
isos of the Conne
Hartford
October 15 a legal
Lincoln Day. The General Asse had
previously refused to pass a bill making Lin
coln’s birthday, February 12, a legal h
stiout General
passed
holiday, t wn ow
mbily
birthday, February 22,
The long session of the General Assembly
ol 1895, the longest in the history of the
State, extending over a period of more thas
six months, was then brought to a close,
Wheat Injured In Argentine,
The reports from the Argentine Confed-
eration say that the wheat there has boen ine
Jured by an excess of rain.
Murdered Father and Son,
Howlett Howfon was called to his door at
Lewiston, Ky., by a man unknown to him.
Ho was then seized by eight masked men
and taken to a barn in the rear of his house
and shot dead, The men returned to the
house and murderad Howton's father.
The old man begged for-merey, but the
men stood him h in the corner of the room
in the presence of his wife and daughters, so
that the shots would not hit any other mem.
bur of the family, and then fired several
times. No oause for the double murder
‘known, —
» - a
ITER OF PILGRIMS |
| were
iaay { h
on account of the nearness to Washington s
THE NEW WEATHER CHIEF,
| Willis Has nn ¥ ys
| tem of His Own,
|
Ler Moore orecasting
the |
was
wero able t
| their way
sorner, was als 1 )
f James B. Shaw and Edward H
f« und They had tried t
badly burned Of
ROS Stal iad in the ba
injured, They
about throes fost
moved safely.
were found
'
{ water and
Prominent People.
Three large rooms were neoded to he
the sightieth-birthday presents
givoento Bismarek.
When Dr. W. G. Grace, the English cricket
champion, makes a run be carries with him
260 pounds of flesh
M. Paure {8 the most popular President
Pranoe has had in many years,
Joseph B. Stearns, the inventor of the du.
flax system of telegraphy, died at Camden,
a, aged sixty-five,
Crispi'seont of mail recalls the fact that
Bismarck wore a stool shirt for some time af
ter be was fired upon in Derlin, many yoars
ago,
Three eminent German artists oelebrate
their eightieth birthdays this year—Schrader,
Menzel and Achenbach, the father of Max
Alvary.
General word Roberts has refused to as
sept the intent of Commanderdin.
Chief of the British Army, to succeed the
Duke of Cambridge.
Id all
recently