— Our export trade is rapidly increas- ing. It is estimated that, on an average, gold in circulation wears out in 240 Years, The that it will give 1000 guineas in prizes London Engineer anncunces for the best forms of horseless veli- cles, The new Salisbury Government has gone into power in England absolute- ly untrammeled. It published no platform and stated no issues, And now a chap out in Kansas in: gists that the Russian thistle is good fodder for mileh cows, and declines to desist from raising a nice patch for the purpose, The system of kindergartens estab- lished on some of the Indian reserva. tions bas proved so successful that it is to be widely extended, especially in the Southwest, where the Indian chil- dren are extremely shy. For some remarkable reason made apparent to the New York Portland, chief Pine Tree State tr tri tickets for k tickets are good only up ter which time night for twenty-five cent entitled t The com The holder of a ticket is general transfer privileges, any's chise run i | pany’s franchise runs for thirty years. | wege culting up capers in Pendleton, thie city reserving the right fo chase the property at the end of t time, The English so often illustrated that it for certain ex tion of a with Was great Engl new materials days. Comme the lished on nting or Oeing H tion Engineering American railway mausgers w have had the job done in a few hours and would have considered the loss of a day's traflic as inadmissible, Says the New York Times: It would ple to tell shape the Arctic probably puzzle most pe off band, in what regions have of 000" uppied even a quarter “the ducts worth 81,200,000, id the mdon had Greely to In L, Cieneral geograph mbled come ont the past two he | continuan upon which I wsed & vigorous ‘ xploration Voyages in that di are usually regarded as to frightful tragedies, rather than to any practical leading benefit for mankind, These tragedies, indeed, have developed and served t display heroism never surpassed and perhaps of the measured never equaled in other parts but that vy, valuable world, cannot In mont a pos session as it is, and, of course, does the First among the things that do, no doubt, not hundred count In twelve millions, are the whales, vast numbers of which bave been captured in the icy seas since the hardy ex- plorers proved that those waters were not impassable ; othvr Aretic prodncts are fossil ivory, the mineral eryolite, rich in aluminium ; the furs of seals, bears, foxes and a fow other animals; small quantities of gold—aad about there the list begins to become diffi: cult to lengthen, though specialists could probably continne it through a line or two more, Some day the North Pole—an object less, or more, worthy of respect than the equator will be added, Lat even then the enor- mous sum mentioned by General Greely will seem quite beyond the average statistician’s power to aceount for, no be ] | about one-third of the whole number. | The New York Evening Post asserts that the recent reports of startling crimes are most of them baseless, The New York Times calculates that New Yorkers expend annually about 25,500,000 on churches, while theatres absorb about 86,500,000, The New discovered the rather curious fact that Haven Register has just there 18 no copy of the Bible in the public library of that city. The very poor of Berlin are better housed than those of any other large city in the world, The German capi- tal 1s absolutely without ‘‘slums.” It is estimated that eighty per cent. of the iron manufactured by Tennes- the Southern the iron with pipe, plow and stove mak- ers in the East and North. sold ontside of It is said to be see 18 States, favorite The fire hazard in electricity has led to the formation of an electrical | bureau by the National Board of Fire The ago, where an efficient system Underwriters, headquarters are inspection and testing and has been ues to in- rita Ors repo skin and his ) subdued. Two Indians on horseback egon, and broke few minutes several city ordi Marshal and the r Dorses ne in a ans started to arcest them, and The Marshal Esti rves: local Indian popa- of Alaska, at 248, Ad with another ease at the rate for the past twenty: ears would verify this prediction. » the f Texas annexation o ation was Mn) A deer Ase of vo 1870 shows ater rible rate of decline, the most rapid hat has bee u kn of a centary, Pat there are hopeful signs to relieve this dark picture, 1871 the reservat of Indians on 237,478, number INR WAS two-thirds of all. This year there are ou reservations only 183,417 Indians, This comparison shows how sticoess fully the effort farms of their own has been prosecuted. to settle Indians on A majority of all our Indians are now | The has said to be self-supporting. im- provement amoung them been stea’y and thero is reson to expect that it will continue even more satis. factorily. Some of the civilized tribes are wealthy, and among nearly all ot them there is a growing appreciation of the people. The Indians generally appear to # proper sense of their situation and the enitivation of the is progressing in nearly all the tribes. It is evident that the rate of their decrease for the past twenty five years will not con- tinue, and we shall not be surprised seo at the next census a substantial in crease of the number of Indians ow reported. There is no danger of the extinction of this interesting race, virtues whieh strengthen a be soming to peaceful arts ! WN in any quarter In the ] more than | THE MISSION MASSACRES, Detailed Account of the Butchery of Christians in China, THRILLING TALES BY SURVIVORS Only One American, Miss Mabel C. Hart- ford, Was Hurt, But Nine Hritigh Sab- Jects Were Hrotally Killed---Many Wounded and Much Prope rty Destroyed ~=Fanatios Perpetrated the Atrocities. Dr. Gregory, an Ameriean missionary, who | escaped from Kucheng, China, gives the fol. | lowing ascount of the massacre thers to the | representative of the New York World in Foochow “At 12.30 p. m. on Thursday, An native Christian rushed fnto ing that gustl, a several of the foreign ladies twalve miles) fro been killed that houses had been } n thae ironed, Mr. Phillips « ve were dead, the IT PErsOns were and Inter an the he pe y to Hwasang. os Yamen, where had already ri my study, say- at | Rwangtung Hwasang, a mountain resort four puo (about | y of Kucheng, had | morning, and that two | Piftean minutes | firmed this, | son how matters wera, Ye returned in hall an hour, telling me to coms home, that five ladies of the English Mission had heen killed and some had been wounded, but that my house-—a rented native house—~had not | been troubled at all, “I went home to find Miss Codrington much eut about the head and beaten all over; Mildred Btewart, twelve years old, with knee cut and bleeding very hard; Her bert Stewart, six years old, eut on the head and almost dead; Baby SBtowart, with one eye bineck and swollen; the second Bteward | girl, Kathleen, eleven vears old, with the | second boy, Evan, three years old, were | beaten and pierced with a spear, but not | seriously Injured The hoy vomitted all | day, but we thougnt it was from fright.” MORE MISSIONS ATTACKED. | Infariated Moh Demolishes American and British Hospitals, A Hong Kong special says that the British and American Missions at Fat-Shan, near Canton, wore attacked by a large and infuri- ated mob, and the hospitals were demol- ished, i Bome of the missionaries fled to Bhameen, while others remained. A Chinese gunboat has been despatched to the riot, It is reported that fusion will so troyed and the ven to the treaty ports rinns | organized jue mil mn be de the n Aare ar CHENG, OF THE TYPE WHICH THE CHRISTI wing t » as possible, | { the Methodist | The Lowest Catton wn as the Vago. hir ngma 1 it out ims having set intimati { the intention t [ y minutes from the time need not a singles Vege grounds of the » Asaangit the tarian was to be seen near Lhe the ma Miss Codi shit MGR Ve that the ladies a ian h they were t ind an J aptivity, Af smta wore r their Hives t time t leader appeared i the ogang. sh r order re wy wavering of Me ‘You know itright!" These fed you orders were at “Iti have given the matter inn has been ene praged n ato b inck In earing for foraigners’ lives and property within her territory by the fact that heretofore a money indemnity has hoan acces ptel as the price of foreign blood spilt by murdur “Just ax long as the for i fied with such a settle 3 { , barbarous destruction of life mg will China fall to govern her she should govern them in this « century. J. J. Garoony.” is 8 War: Are MABEL HARTFORD'S STATEMENT. A Loyal Servant Saved Her From a Chis | nese Assassin's spear, Misa Mabel C, Hartford, the only Amer onn at Hwasang at the time of the massacre, makes the following statement “August 1, at 7.5) a m., 1 heard shouts They were the yells of servants, who rushed fu shouting to me to get up, for the Vege tarians were coming, tearing down the | houses on the hill belonging to the English Mision. A few minutes later a teacher eae to my door and told me to run, I put on my clothes and rashed to the door, [ was mot by 4 man with a trident spear, who yelled ‘Hore ia a foreign woman.’ ; “He pointed the spear at my chest, 1 twisted it to one side and it just grazed my ear and head, He threw me to the ground and beat me with the wooden end of the spear, A servaat came and wrenched the spear away, then told me to run. “I jumped down the embankment and ran along the road. A servant eame and pulled me along until I got up on the side of the hill, 1then lay down thers to get mors breath, After resting twice I reached & se. eluded spot and lay there, “All this time the yells went on and two houses were burning to the ground. Aftera while the yells stopped. I supposed the Veg: had gone away, A jervaat west to {48 a minor, in con 1 las {of Crown Polot COMMITTEE] AN MISSIONS ol ONS. JULY CROP C ~ ry Ll ' Average Ever Reported Other Crop Conditions, since | 0221 The points since &3 2July1 Spring rye Jaly in. R50 1804 Appine, poaches whi vear 1.5 ast Po at has an per 60.9 ar 66.7, Against iti PLS In July Woraan Becomes Sheriff Mra H | Bheriff, to the Kherif? gave an bond f Greeans ( { $20.000. ¥ he rea } that she rely Iargely of Og Lhe Killed on the Track, At Onelda, N. Y., a train struck a man and ynan who were walking down the track at the lower Lak instantly killed, y 4t root Doth wer H ' Randall, » or ney wore W and Miss Helen farmer's daughner, ing sang Ee} Cuba's New President, An election was held by the insurgents a few days before August 1 at Camaguey, Cuba, and General OG. Masso was elected President, and Camaguey was declared to be the temporary capital, Vomen May Vote In Utah, Judge Smith, of the United States District Court, decided that the women of Utah may vote on the adoption of the new Constitu- tion, A Great Fire In Newark, At Newark, N.J., the plant of the Central Stamping Company burned. The loss Is ty $500,000, The company carried 250 HX tnsuranos, Spaniards to Overwhelm Cabana, THE . A.B. ENCAMPHENT. The Twenty=ninth National Convention to Be Held At Louisville, Ky FIRST MEETING IN THE SOUTH, The Kentucky Metropolis Prepared to En. tertain of 300,000 Visltors--The Warriors the the Confederacy Will Welcome Roldiers of the North-..The Programgaue Arranged by the Order, A recent Lint } wipubie warriors unt of s Chras 1 Arr one-third Bpain 12 about to send 80,00) more troo tags aba. " Loulsvill« National pike, is lor, the 2 and Palo J buried int} Taylor farm, 1 by a granite statue of the Are "h linn Alar ture r : yy Al immniog pleted, and will y the Big ¥ ment A hundre the Mamn visited by veteran: The battieflelds of Bowling Green, Cynthiana Munfordsy all within the city ited with a deal interest by many of the old wariors who saw them 1n Jess peaceful times Colonel po | an Ohio man, will be the Grand Marshal of the big parade It is expected that fully 1200 delegates, with voting rights, will attend. The official en campment badges have been stroek blended metal of two both which figured in the great struggie, one on the Union side and the other on the Confed. erate side, a at Perryville Wild « CARY TI'ea ile are T ‘ % fi YY Wii Tw ¥ hen, CAnNOnA, Prominent People, The King of Siam owns only five white elephants The Duke of York has developed into an expert polo player, Archbishop Ireland is the only archbishop who wears the button of the Loyal Legion, Gladstone's health is sald to be better than it has been at any time during the past five years. Lord Rosebery declares that the Premier. ship of England was to him a purgatory, from which he was glad to escape, Professor Leyden, the eminent German physician, was paid $25,000 for his attend. ance on the late Czar in bis last illness, NEWS EPITOMIZED Washington Items, Harrison, hung In be AD and nes t judges. lery ex. Presiden in the AMOS filed nhow of the le Ara n | 4 Foreign Notes, Tientsin, close itedly de. settiement aaries and formally 1 Speaker ™h in Bremer. have r ny, is ’ PT { the Elbe. Crathi 0D agalost the Ram a sen I Xpenn Are nb view of lgting W: don, by electricity, y Austria r in Esseg climax in : nade with a sinister Abbey, Lobe Cornell University erew won the first heat at the Henley regatta in England owing to the {allure of the Leander orow, thelr strong. est rivals, to finish the mee The French Chamber of Deputies adopted a motion that the Government open negotine tions with the United States for the conclu Sion of a permanent treaty of arbitration, New York City's Delt Increases, Comptrolier Fiteh made public a statement of New York City's debt. Oa July 31 it was S181 808,821.28, of which #71.100,088 44 was in the sinking fond, leaving the net debt $110,748, 260%. The net debt December 31, 1884, when the Tammany admisistration went out, was $104,978, 720.51. During July the increase was over #2,000,000, A Large Cranberry Crop, The crauberry erop of New Jersey prom feos to be the largest on record, ex even the millioa-bushel crop (a 1898,
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