1 (General Schofield wants tho United Btates Army increased to 100,000 men. In some of the Pacific Coast States a horse is not worth so much nsa sheep dog. William Carrol, whe has 107 years’ experience of the world's of Brookly nD, affairs, says that it is steadily growing better. With the exception of Belgium, whose debt has been incurred for in- ternal improvements, every European National debt is debt. in great part a war The New York Mail and Express re- marks: ‘It is a hopeful sign whet more than 1,000,000 industrial work an advance of €I8 receive wares aver aging about ten per cent., during the | first half of the And the figures are official, vear 1893, hinks it amazing to see 80 many people travel A prominent physician t ing for their health with a rapidity that suggests they have been shot out of a gun, He thinks it rather remark- able that so few of kill selves in trying to them- | rot gel The fi journalism to the acknowledged “I like to first. I then know jt 4 go to annihilate him.’ pump-haadle” the er hit the idea of origin? asks sn he said it was rid like shakin’ paws over a barbed The truth of the matter is that 1t was originated by the Prince “that person: | ] was suffering from a boil unde: fonra Wire of Wales when august ange" the arm, necessitating the awkwar movement. Doesn't Shakespeare say, | “New customs, though they be never so ridiculous, nay, let them be unman ly, yet are followed.” of Speaking the harvest outlook, the New York Herald says that winter | wheat fared very badly, bat the loss is considerably repaired by spring wheat, the average of 102 n condition which is | and for all wheat the average | figures which indi rheat yield will be 1 : bushels, from three- | condition is 76.2-- cate that the tota over 400,000,000 fourths to harvest. four-fifths of an The corn is 99.3, and the acreage 107.8, as Average ol average condition compared with the area planted in 1804. pro duced in the United States was 2,060,- 1801. Bat if the present estimates of the Department The largest corn crop ever 000 bushels, in of Agriculture prove to be correct the | corn crop of 1805 will break even this | record. The New York of China's downfall is in her insulaticn, which has lasted for | thonsands of years, and strongly re- influences. She marked time while the West marched Ledger maintains that the secret pelled all exterior past, and her rude awakening has come from Western forces via Japan; that is the exaot trath of the situation. Perhaps the agonies she has endured in the late war may be the birth throes of a nobler National existense for Shins. Certainly, if the rulers were not so blind, there is not a more patient, quiet, endaring man than th Chinaman, and unpopular though il may be to say so, we believe that the Jast word has not yet been spoken nor the last gna fired, in the struggle for Adatic supremacy. The Jap © the Frenchman of Asia; the Chinaman is the German, Germany knew the bitterncss of Jena, and saw Napoleon enter Berlin, But she also knew hou to wait, and Sedan followed on Ber lin. History has always repeatec jtaelf, If China really awakes, she will be heard of in an irrepressive style Provision has been made for teach ing the Japanese language in the Chi- cago University, The Atlanta Constitution wants some scientist or other to explain the unusual meteorological conditions of the year, The telegraph messenger boys of Washington and Baltimore have been provided with and bicycles, every boy in those cities wants a position as messenger. The New York Recorder announces that Great Britain hae resumed silver coinage, producing the new ‘‘British dollar”—same weight as the Mexican -for colonial use only. Almost everywhere the question is how to the increase of Occasionally, as in Holland, account for crime, a slight decrease may be noted; but it | New | 1s only in England, the York Independent, that the study of the statistics avers demonstrotes worthy decrease, P noe- " The discovery of wood pulp as a | substitute for rags in the ms of paper will, it would seem, soon have to be followed up by the discov- | ery of a snbstitute for wood pulp. 18 estin nated that spruce logs It feot of to fill the of the mills for this VEeAr. SOO O00 000 . ’ will be needs requirements i; Second Army Corps, ther tr OPS, 1963, or a total iod: died i hh. i 1 —-— oo ~—t fA Mr RG WT KIT 14 dis 1 yunds, 31; di18 Own pala Stone and marble, both of which are to be found in considerable quantities near Cabul, enter largely into their yntain man construction, and they c¢ ¥ things specially : red Europe for the Afghan Court, includ ing ights, pianos the The Ameer's gardens are elaborately and tastefully laid out, manufact in ; electric | and phonograph. nd when he entertains at night the display of fireworks on his grounds would do credit to Lond New York, a or The Lon death of Robert Pate. Few pe recollect the circumstan n miilionaire, } +} 1 C8 WHICH maa netim ¥ years ago, relates the Pate so much talked abont at About rt nts Constitution, he was a dashing 10 Tenth Hussar 8, Vv ntenant i id apparently had a bright future, but one day he yielded to an insane imj toria with a cane when she ing the death bed of her late Duke The blow fell on the Queen's face and left mark which is still and was leav- uncle, the of Cambridge. n visible, It was a gross insult, in some countries Pate would have been sent to the gal- lows or to prison for life. He lost his commission and was sentenced to soven years’ penal servitude in Australia, In n few years he was released on a ticket ordered to remain He worked hard, made good investments and in time became a leading millionaire. But this ex- convict cultured, rich and respectable in the colony, was virtually a prisoner, He was closely watched by the police until the day of his death, although he enjoyed unlimited freedom so long as be romained in Australia. It was generally believed that Pate had no motive in striking the Queen, and that he was the victim of a momentary at. tack of insanity, but the good con. duet of a life time could not gain for him permission to visit his nativeland. During the last thirty years of his life, however, lio was a man of influence, and lived in luxury. of leave, but was where ho was, manufacture | nlse and struck Queen Vie- | CUBANS SURE OF SUCCESS Everytiing Seems Now to Favor the Patriot Cause. FEVER FIGHTING THE SPANIARDS. The War as Far Advanced in Five Months as Was the Last One In More Patriots In the Field Five Years-- Fewer of and Spaniards-«-The Calling Out the Spanish Reserves Consldered Significant the natural flows the New landing of 1 which | {fnheritance of blood of a + in whose veins 1 race, the Cubans in Santa nd a } pa "Irst Bpan- it. The Cubans regular ealled ten for mnths that the present re- the Cub it is said, 1 manded by Gv H — Ar Rodrigues ll: 1 fle 4 £7 . Yi nited States A MINIMUM FINE OF 8135300 Say Be Imposed on a Cold Storage Dealer Under the Game Laws milart itt ndered his de uilty of the illegy narks the Court the law clearly justified the deals ritt immediately filed notice to his bond was fixed at £10,000, Justice Pyle re efondant g me, In his re Polsoned His Whole Family. i. 0. Edwards, a Los Angoles ) ph tographer, who was despondent and out of Cal employment, poisoned himself, his wife, and | two children with éyanide of potassium. All were dead when found except the four-year old girl, upon whom the poison had failed tO ant, The family went to Ban Franoisoo from Los Angeles, and the father passed a day In a vain search for work. fre evidently In- duced his wife to agree to suicide, as she wrote a letter to a woman friend informing her of thelr design, The couple destroyed all their papers, England Grabs Trinldad, England elaima the Island of Trinidad as tor own, One cargo of coal, it Is reported, has been landed on the leland already, In view of this it was decided by Brazil's Cab inet to formally protest, dnd a message to that effect was at once sent to Brazil's Minis. ter in London, A Conscience Contribution From 1reland, The United States Treasurer received a five-pound bank note of the Ulster Bani, limited, Belfast, [reland, to be placed to the eredit of “conscience,” It was exe at 6 Washington baok for $24.25, 0 rons Ar aphex wen Lol hat CLOUDBURSTS IN THE WEST, Colorado and New Mexico tal Visited by Fa. Downpours, Adelaide, Col, a flourishing mining town on the line of the Florence and Cripple Creek Rallroad, Cripple rbout from of entire over fifty were drowned the rush aped drown Those lan, Frank Carr, pro- Lea Travey, peventy-fivo mile struck flooded devastated Three persons swopt nway hy of water and many narrowly es ing to be rendered drowned are RB. M. Gove, Dick D Colwell, Fatally injured: Mrs prietress of the Adelalde Hotel # walter; John Watson, a eo rush of water occurred at ) fn, m., and came down Eight Mila Creek in the shape of an immense wave, This resulted from a cloudburst at the head of the creek, fifteen miles north of the town. The Adelaide Hotel was carried away before the vast volume water, guests d their e in a mad Ives ) along in va} al WOINOS /i was that nnd Crook, by a the ries cloudburst district houses, and homel about 7 o'clock a scrambling rash to suave til the nmi down in bushus and washing through WERE COLON MEXICAN Pitiable Story of Fold Deception aored Victims L& iia attention ater ar Ha An » v had $ a 2s of that the pany are ther ty ¥ would pay KILLED IN A RIOT, Ala. Miners, Bloody Outbreak at Hrookside, Be. tween Colored and White CREAT BOOM IN IRON TRADI. s | Demand is So Groat That Plttaburg Flanis | Are Refusing Orders Pittsburg’s industrial bo ) such proportions that its enor } has rea ir | steal plants are unable to fully meet the de The flood lot manufacturers is #0 great that buyers wor | foroed to go to Philadelphia during the week for a supply. Local manufacturers decline to take orders for immediate delivery and ne contracts are being taken for shipment bn fore September Jillet prices for contract: are within fifty conts of the fgures of thro or four years ago, 821.50 being asked at the mille The rate on which the high wage sonle was based several years ago was $22 If billets continue rising tia plate manafae turers will be foroed to suspend, as it would be impossible to pay such high prices and moot {oreign competition, mand of orders upon local 1d Prominent People, Professor Stickel, of Jena, the orientalist, fs still lecturing at ninety-one, James RB. Koons, the owner of Domino, was a school teacher in his youth, There is no truth in the reports that the gone of Captain-Genoral Martinez de Campos wore wounded in Cuba, Lord Balisbury, the Deitish Prime Minioter, weighs 280 pounds, and suffers with neither insomnia por indigestiqn, Mra, Stanford will sell the Palo Alto stook in order to raise money for ruaning the Le Jand Stanford University during ths next n and | term. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Washington Items, saron Harden-Hickey protested to Becre. tary of State Olney against England's oocupa- tion of Trinidad. It was announced at the State Department that the Spanish Cabinet has agreed to pay the Mora claim in three instalments, The ballistic test of a turret, representing those to be used on the battleships Massa chusetts, Indiana and Oregon, will be mads ot the naval proving ground, Indian Head, in the near future, The Btate Department took ference to the York, at Ki the Instance un storm an wh in re f New st, at action Stern, His arre rrest mg Li ned t Willis, threats | this same death. genaria rea iar Violent hurricane was opt the ast of Japan, many vessels were wrecked a drowned. The loss of life on al The rthing of Norway ado; posal of the Military Committee 1 grant of 12,000,000 kronor for the naval administration, Of this 000 kronor is to be devoted to tion of two ironeclads st ran oxtr of the R000 astra joe im the « Lady Frances Rose Gunning, widow of the Iate Rev, Sir Honry Gunning, Bart... has been arrested in London, England, charged with forgery A despatch from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, says Mrs, Alexander Camp bell, of Montague, gate birth to five dag ters a few nights age. Her husband in a tailor, in his elghty-fourth vear Cornell University crew won the first heat at the Henley regatta in England owing t the failure of the Leander crow, thelr strong est rivals, to finish the race, The French Chamber of Deputies adopted a motion that the Government open nogotia tions with the United States for the conclu sion of a permanent treaty of arbitration, The Duke of Argyll was married at Ripon, England, to his cousin, Ina Erskine MeNeill, who is one of the Queen's exten ladies of the bod chamber, The Marquis of Lorne, son of the Duke of Argyll and son<n-law of the Queen, was present. The bride received Many presents, among them several fron the Queen. The Duke Is seventy-two yean old nnd his wife twenty-six, REV, EDWARD BEECHER DEAD Me Was the Oldest Member of the Distin. guished Family, Rev. Dr. Fdwnard Beecher, a brother of Henry Ward Beecher, died st his home, No. 1682 Macon street, Brooklyn, two old, His aye. He was ninety yours death was due to old vestigation we und that claims ha presented 20 pumerons other companies o AITRTY Ll a instructed Mr. 1 Deen fay ¢ + wa Wr tha we Mrs s hae r wv aonvit X At the irawing all ar agent at TAILORS ON STRIKE Nearly Cit 20,000 Coatmakers In New York , Brooklyn and Brownsville Out. r* went on a strike in WHETILIe. A i Br a return to hat the total : 20,000 persons nearly A AUS , rd- > 4 Sah field the refusal tractors to renew last year's agree. it, which provides that fifty-nine hours mstitute a week's work, and the min y rate of wages shall be as follows asters, #13 a week and upward: prossers, 10a woek and upward: bushellers, $13 and upward; None but be empl . 18 on f the union are to vormission is given by it t the Brotherhood to examine the ers; it abolishes the tenement. work system, and permits no settlement with any contractor who employs men in tene- ments or sweat shops, rod, representa f mem! Sweethearts Die Together, Edward Knevin, of Dayton, Ky., fatally shot Mary Schaeer, of Alexandria, Ky., and then shot and killed himself, The girl came to Cincinnati some weeks ago and went to live with a family in Clifton. She had no company except Knevin, and, tiring of him, notified him notto call any more, He pleaded, but she would not relent. This is the cause of the tragedy, He loft a lote dantifying himself, and say- tng: “It does not do to fool a person.” The murderer and his victim were each about twenty-five years old, Three Boys Killed by the Express, Waters Blundon, aged thirteen; J. Guy Brown, fiftesn, and Charles EE. Lyneh, thirteen years old, were killed near Rivers dale Park Station, seven miles from Wash. ington, on the Baltimore and Ohio Raliroad, The boys werd walking on the northbound track. To avoid an shocking train they stopped on to the southbound track, directly in front of a fast moving Royal Blues Express train, All three were instantly killed, S000 Deaths From Cholera In Japas, Bince the outbreak of cholera In Japan hare have bean 0000 cases of the disease and raging in Korea
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