THE MIDBLEBDRGH POST. OEO. W. WAOEX9ELLER, Editor nd Proprietor Jli.l.llf hnm, Va., Xovi mlicr 2, .MIS Franco has Ihrro Lniii.lrc.i Senators, aliilo tins country Las but eighty- It in estimate I tli:lt of tic Ri i fit lulu - fi r OWT l.,(lill),00i) tons, ic 10,000.000. tlio ootnniereo lSOj will run uf n vulno of L:rl Wind!!- ill hum about $.i)0, D0iiivfiir of "tun mud increment" frtun the in i n. uf thu eoutu oi Hug" uihil nu.I Wales. ALIO 1'lllllsll .', "Vcriiinriit iw cut .iilor 0,000 i rirs ii ir n j rcj.ct t H.fll.l 1,0. crown to Mij.j.i v lino wi.rtiiy i.il, wtli farms. Jt would by u y,,0d KftttlUllt. ' John llnhhtl tun Miys tlmt ho i ' V- till!,' tUolli'V ll-olll ' i I, ntul tin,. Imx.I. I, )00, tliom-li 1,,. ,, plll.ilalu v j. . lliU'li'n UiLiim" J'liid him iind work to ilnd 1 tolli'li .t. 'ill 111) IlIlHi iiVluil and utiMiiltiililc ri-.ollsli:.ty ., th l-allot'' if Wi.ilt II liu.. muni., i- f iu.I-h ntml New Ynrk won, i'ii cull tin "r:-ht" for which a i"i iiJiuiy in ii. r wi.i, ii n iiiillo". A inf .Ii.nl imtlii.ni v on tin; virtues of vni ions kitnH of food d. chircH that the Ii. i nn ; jrivts thu mtiM-I, c3a tio ity, thu l.ndy stMii.'ili nnd tlm hmin vigor, mid is not n.,: i!, sh-foi luiiijj. Shu rnuu'in-n's Viro J t- rt moii t Uoininitt.it.' hit il I'liucd nfninst t ill buildings iind n coinnii nd.'d thu t.i--uitfO of mi ordiiiuuco prohiliititi'.; the iliftioii of lir' iouf limMing of u Rri nti r hi'itiht tli:ui l'Ki feet, mid j ro vid. 'd t li nt l.iiildui-H tlmt nre not lire Hoof bhuil not txcifd eighty feet in height. The hpeed witli whioh Aitt rnliau milling eiiinim Kiiddi'iily iK veloji into targe cities it shown 1 .y Coolgmdie, tbe centre of the new mining district West Aii-tralin, tlmt Muti the edge of a grout desert. Two years ngo it wits unhiiowii to the world on Wcdnemlny n firo liurned u whol.. block iu tho centre oi' the toui, ii uil llie . mcati. ninti d at 1, 1 - Tl ' derful devel UIHO 8ot.u , S.-utli f ,,., n rjva,, tveu ti8 room growth of California cities in idoiiecr iIh vh. lr. 'riilniage j. reached in i'itt-lmrg on u recent Sunday, mid the (luzett.: of that city heads its ivitort of the er inon as follows; "Iu olil. ;d rimh thoiiMinds gathered yesterday to heal Ir. Tiilmagi. pieiich. Fought to get into church. Women healed thi fence and climbed m the. windows. They had to start u hospital. Thirty I'olici'llieu Wire I'owerh'ss t keep tho crowd iu ordei. Women fainted and Sunday clothes wern badly damaged. Tho crowd begun te gather for the evening service at .') o'clock. iiy church time twenty thousand people were gathered in front of tho church. Stopped tho tdrcct earn." A recent census bulletin, hays Worn tnkkind, dealing with the occupations of the people of the United States bhows that IS per ct lit of all jk isoiih, tnah) nud female, moro than ten years of uge are engaged in kouio gainful occupation. Tho total number of WKU14 people is 'J-.'.Ta.j.f.Cl, o which lH,8J0,'.ioi) uic men, and 3,'JU, 711 women u gain of l,'J07,o5i wom en Hince lS'iO, a rnto of iucreaso nearly threo and ouo half times us great as tho increase of working men. A study of the tables in tho bulletiu re veals Homo inter.'hting cjiupariHoUH. In 1RS0 thero was ono woniau archi tect iu tho country; in 1S00 then wero 'Jj; thou thero weio livo lawyers. fen veins but later thero Wero 208; thero were (17 women clergymen in 1K0: in IN'.M, 1 2:1.). Tho number of nctresscH increased from C02 to 3,010; artists ntnl teach ers of art from 412 to 10,810; don tints from 21 to a:i7; designers, draughtsiiif n and inventors, .from 1;) to 300; journalists. 35 to 88S; musi cians and tem lii rs of music, 5,733 to C4.510; government oilioials, 4H tc 4,8715; ph siciMiis aud Kiirgeons, .'27 to i,5,"i."); tiieat.-r managers, hhoivuieu, etc., 100 t t!3l ; Ii nikeepers, account nuts, clerks an. I cooyists, iroiu 8,011 to 1)2, K2; M. noi.'inp er mid tye writers, I mm 7 m 2 1, 1 No ; saie-womeu, from 2,77.i to ,0 s io. two Vetel iu II ' s I ms chemists and us-a iu nouu or eith.'i . ..S j. Tiiern weie iind loriV'sij lM !, against Tbe Secretary o g 1 -uuure ssvs tbat tht exportation of Imrses o (treat Uritaln ha Dor than duubl -d nre 18JJ, THE SLIPPERY SULTAN. A BUTCHER IN POWER Bhrl Fuhk Pnt to Chart of Tnrklah Troops t Aleppo. la ipite of the Balisa profwwlon of ollo. Ituds for penco saj bis sppsreat snxletyto reitore trnullltr, STldenceii by Ins relrne ArmenlsD suapecu from prison so 1 tbe pro. niulKHon of urent orders, tbsrs bns occur red it furtborlnttsncs of manifest IdsuU to tbe powers, especially (Jrent Drltsln. Thl, was tbe arpolntment of Dhrl titiihnss mill tsry romninnili-r In the Aleppo dmlrlot This notorious eftlclsl msls blnmelf so eotisilriious t bis eruelty to the Armenians ami msln.lmlnutrallon of bis dlmrlct whi-B Bovernorof Yen. that Ilritlsb AmbMalor (arrle demnnded his removal, which was donoonly after iDflolie Ironhle. Following this dii;radntlon the Hull no cooly nave Eog and a slnp In tho face t.y for.-lvlnir tho Mitchrr. and t eMowlnir upon blra tbe decor ation of the Order of the ()mRE.Ph. Hoon afterward It was sold that Itahrl l aba was lo I appointed to command tbe Inme oreet "f Tiirkih trooa lielnn concentrated at Inrah for a movement upon Zeitoun, whleh l field by tho Armenian. Tbls report rained sneh n storm of induration that tbe plan was ntandoned. Now. however. Tahrl Pah ban been ap polnti'd military commander of the Aleppo diKtrlot. The bad luiprenalon which this has produced can hardly be oxainreratn.!. for the dlplomals feel that It will te almont Impoju sltiio to prevent him from punmlug tbe some Jactlm nt Ale po aa be did at Van. I'pon rec ivmir the news of Jlahrl Tsuha's appointment to the military command of Al I'PI o the representative of th powr bMd a nn'i'tlinr nnd dioiied the matter. The re. suit was that they have Joined Iu a note lo the Turkish sov-rnment ravin that thov rniir.ot nnnwer for eotiiieiiiencee which mint ensue- nhould the Armenians of Zettoun be maacreil after llieir surrender, which the Armenian ittrlareh. at tie instance of the powers, it endeavoring to brinv about In or der to irovent fiirtlier hloodshed. Aleppo is Hunted Mbout "5 mile distant from Mara.h which is ntiout IS inflo from Zeltoun. and Is the capital of the vilayet of llaleb, in whlcO Loth Miirash and Zeltoun are altuated A dispatch from Constantinople says that '.'0 vllliufi s have I een burned (n the north western portion of the district of Aleppo, and that the inhabltaLts have been massacred. The Kurd nre Ratherlng on tbe border ol ti e I uplirnte, preparing to march Into Srrln for tho purr one of niassacri'lngtb Christians AIMED AT THE TURK. Prominent Men of New Tork Troteat Anainet Barbaritlea in Armenia. A large audience assembled at (.'bickering Hall. New York, at the call of tbe Armenian liellef AsHoclutlon to protest agalnat Turkish tmrl iirltli'S and to appeal to tbe powers to protect Christians and Armenians In Turkey. l resldent hetb Low. of Coliimola College, presided, nnd made a ebort addre. ev. l aiher Iucev made a speech, and Varlan Inllognn.au Armenian Christian. who escaped the massacres of lust summer, relntod bis vx perle cce. Tho tollowlnc resolutions wer adopted ' I bat it Is ur opinion tho Kultnn of Turkey bna forfeited all right to rule OTurthe Armen ian people. "That wo respectfully urgn our Oovero. ment to make every possible effort to induce the governments of Christendom to rouse themselves from their apathy aud put an end " 'bl lntolerubl stt of affairs which litens wide extermination of thousands boutands of Innocent fellow Chrktians. , ! Jat we urire apon our government also to do everything In it power to preserve tb fruits of American missionary toil. "That we express onr ardent sympathy with tbe unutterable sufferings of this perse cuted raee, nnd that w call upon all the peo ple of t hrlstendom to Insist that these un utterable suffering shall case." l'residi-nt Low, in Iks speech, said that the I owers of I'.urope wero to blume for the ex isting state of ii (Tu Irs. and particularly 'ng. land, for she had, niter the Crimean war. practically guarautecd the protection oi ( brii-tlnns In T urkey. MORE RECRUITS FOR CUBA. National Guard and West Point Otlicer Now Reudv to Etubivrk. The Cubuti revolutionary party iu New York bin bui-u very actlvo durlug tbe last week iu completing tho Dual arrangements for tbe transportation of tbo largi at expedi tion to Cuba since tbe bontllitle begau be tween the insurgent and the armies ol Spaiu. Lvery ati-p Iu this movtmsat has been conducted with the greatest secrecy, and so well bns tbe affair been uiauaged that the local leader are satisfied tlmt tbe au thorities will not be able to Interfere with tbe ktar:liii,' of the filibustering. This expedition is net made up of the or iliuary duns of recruits. Auiuug the men are several inoiul.ers of the National (luurd of New York and New Jersey, aud sevoral grad uate from West 1'olnt, who have sjeu active service. Teesuare thu kind of men whom tbe insurgent le id-r say are most needed now la spend their cause aloug 1 resilient l'uluia 1 quoted as f..low regardlug bouds: "I urn iiwaitlug for a promiuent Cuban, who wnl nrrive hero from Kurope in a few day. 'J lieu 1 will appoint a committee, at the bead ot which I will place that gentle man, I dun't kuow as yet tbe amount w will issue, t.ut we ueed lute of money, and will probably issue t30,UO0.0(JU worth. 1 do Hot expect to place tb.tt nine imt, but I will take ie iiiucli a I oh ii. We will pay six pet cent, iuteni.t. mid the priu-.-ipal will be paid oou alter the wur as piible." DEADLY FEUD IN ALABAMA- Tlirea Men Killed Because Ona Was .de bused of Stealing Melon. As a result ot a feud between th Handley, Joui-situd Kilgore families, nearllirmlugham, Ala., Joseph Kilgore aud Jobu Jones are dea l mi l John Handley is fatally injured. Tho trouble started over Joues accusing ll'iiidli'y ot stealing watermelon. ii in liey, accompanied by Frank Kilgore, a ri'.H'.ive, w -ut to Oak itun to trauact soma Imsiiiiss. Doth men carried their rifles. Jones iiu. I Joseph Kilgore, a cousin of Frank followed and overtook them nsar Marietta.' Jones told llaudley It be would submit to a cowlilding that would settle matter. Hand ley rejected tbe proposltlou, aud Jone and bis friend opened fire. A pltubed battle toi lowed, i'.a.'li tuna tired until bis weapon was exiiuiisied, fully two dozen shots being x changed. Frnuk Kilgore, who was unhurt, (led. ' Will Train tbe Negroes. Tho Koutb Carolina consinutioual conven tion mlopted a ropositiou providing for the esiabliHliinonl of un industrial, meohanical and mutual s"hool for uegroes under flat control. 1'. was alto provided Ilia tlio di. peusary . roll s outside of what Is gheu to tliHCouuties and muuiclpalitiiis sbull be ap pliwd t9 tbe school fund. .1 Biaok boa Fleet. I lATtUpntch from hebnttopol lays that the Iliacit K Htff t which 10 iluys ago was erder J to lay up for tbe winter, bus been rscom nlissloued, nod that tbe troop stationed at Odessa bave iieen warned lo I In readiness for aotive stirrice. TRADE REVIEW. Iron and Btel Prodnot Show a Dorsa With Competition for Order. ft O. Dua A Co., say: Of rssctioo In busi es there I boo. Effort to explain It or to attrlbot it to Ibis or that temporary Influence r all wasted. In svery builnes men now rrcelv i the fact that th purchases In ad. vanceof current dlstrlt utlon, which wer load when price wer booming, Involved of a necessity a season of baiting when th rise stopped, and until tb actual demand for eon sumption basdeen measured. Iron and steel products are lower, averag. lt.Hl per cent for tbe week and 1 per oent for the highest, liesseiner, anthracite No. 1 bar are quoted lower, while sales below quo tatlons are frequent. Tber Is competition for orders, moat works having little abead, and new business Is remarkably small. Htructurnl work Is cut down bv tbe strike ot house workers here, and quite a num ber of mills, principally bar. bav etono-d wiiiun a few dnys. The associations re affirms prices, bnt do not well enough to keep works busy. The demand for cheap boots and shoe a hade better, but many shops are Idle, or working part time, and buyers generally bold n "'"0UKD considerable reduction arenow offered by manufacturers, on men's split tbocs and on grain, grain-glove and bull polish ana polka shoes. Hhlpments for the month are 'ii.7 per cent lea than last year. Leather Is weaker, though only one class It quotod iowenbut bide at Chicago bave again declined about ii per cent, and averag rola tltely lower than leather and shoe. Troducts am lower, without disturbance or sign of paulc. A reputable estimate of " -OOO.OUO bushelt of wheat excites little remark. 1'rlce have declined about 1 cent for.. .i. clined t a cent further. Fork product also bave reason tor weakening; lard 15 cents per 100 pounds and pork 23 cents por barrel. The cotton market has teen assisted all the week by small receipt and remarkably ttllT state ments of scarcity, but baa gained a sixteenth. Kxports are small, portly because took abroad are heavy and partly because tho manufacturer abroad doe not Ilnd a market for tho usual iuuntlty of goods, tbo ltrltlsli being especially embarrassed. In this coun try tbe cotton manufacturer has fared better escaping an excessive rise and the resulting decline. lleiall distribution baa hardly kept pace with manufacturer' order or vllb sale to retailers. The opining of clay worsteds by two leading mill at advanced price has not yet been lollow- d by other, aud it la doubted whether foreign prices, after London wool sales ae.xt week, will be hopeful. Failures lor be week bavo been .120 in tho l ulled Mates, against ivu last year, and 42 In Canada, against Jl last year. BEAR AND LION. England aud Busala. Arranging a Little Private Turkey Dinner. Tbe Odoa correspondent of the London "Iiaily News" says that It Is reported in of ficial circles that In view of tbe possible dis ruption of Turkey, ltussla and F.ugland are negotiating an agreement which will gtvothe cr.ar a free hand for the occupation or annex. atlono Antoila, while Englaud will bave the right to establish a purmaueut protectorate iu cgypi. The "Chronicle" prints a dispatch from Vienna, which asserts that tbe news that ltussla has backed out of concerted F.uropcau arraiigeuieui lor in (otiiemeut 01 tne 1 urk let question, produoed a beavy full In the bourse there. Tho correspondent explains that ltussla bus agreed to the assembling of the fleet In the Levant, and that tbe ccar Is willing to negotiate measures in tbe futare. Tbe Telegraph publishes a dlSDatch from Constantinople which asserts that no news oi rresu disturbance iu Asia Minor ba been received since Haturday, and tbat coullduoce is apparently being restored. At Aleppo It Is uupeu mat mo wont it over, ana it Is be lieved that quiet bos been re-established iu fcuropeuu Turkey. 1 tie correspondent also announce tbat tbe Armenian women of Constantinople hav ad ilressed a memorial and an appeal to Lady iinury oomursci, wen Known lor ner wtrk in tne . c i. l. in arti.-jlur. and fur bet efforts a a humanitarian in general. WHITE HOUSE SAFEGUARDS n Foliio Frotectlou Orea'er Than Any Tim Since the Wur. The sentry boxes that wore placed in closo proximity to tbo various eutraucos to the White House a year ago, nud which wero re moved for the summer, bnvo beon replaced. They are so located that overy approach to the mansion can bo commanded by their in mates. Daring the summer whllo the Prejldent and bla family were absent from the city. tne police patrol of tho White House aud surrounding ground was mulutiiined, and ai present tne force ul guards, watchmen and pollcemeu on duty is greater than at any time since the war. They are on duty within and without the mansion at all hour of the day aud night, nnd their detail are so ar ranged that thero are never lea than tlx officers on duty Iu the gr.iuudsat all times. in auuitlon, the e)tem of automatic alarms conuectlng thu maualon with police headquarter nud with the military post at Ft. Meyer, tbe Marine barrack and elso where, ho never b'.eu o perfect a now, and the inmates of tbo Wblto House fuel sufo from Intrusion. BAD BOOKS SPOILED THEM The Boy Train Wrecker Who Will Be Held For Murder. Tbe coroner's Inquest in the wreck of a New York Central tralu, near Home, N. , by four boy, shows tbat they expeeted to rob dead aud dying passengers ot about (30.000. The confostlon of Watson Hildreth, leader cf the gang, was supplemented by two of bis companions. Herbert Flato and Theodore Hubbard. They say reading sensational novel caused tbe crime. The fourth boy, Frederick liristol, It tileut, but his compan ions Implicate blm. The boy are Iu jail, and do nut teem iu the least remorseful. Two puaseugers were killed and a number Injured in tbe wreck. When the boys real ized tbe result of their work, they became frightened and fled. They will be tried for tnurdur. CRISIS IN EUCADOR. Forty- threeFeraon Arretted for Being In an Aaalnation Plot. A cable from Panama says: ''Gusyqull, Eucador, advices state that sd promiuent members of the Conservative party bave been arretted there and charged wltb being Im plicated in a conspiracy to assassinate Presi dent Alfaro and bis cabinet, as well as other government officials, A ministerial orlsls reign lu the republic, and one mlulster ba resigned. Mormon Elder Chased. Elders Nebecker and ltogers, who oame to Tallahassee, Fla., to sow sued ot tbe Mor mon fultb, were arrested. They were charg ed with being a meuauce to tbe place, dig nity and good morals of tbe city, nud were flued 2uu or CO day In jalL Judgment was held iu ubeyauue fur one hour, to give them time to leuve. which they did. Make Children Legitimate Th Bomb Carolina constitutional conven tion took action adopting an ordluauoe pro vlding tbat court should reoogoUe dlvoroet granted heretofore and hereafter In other states of tbe union, uuderoertaln condition. It passage logltlinatijie hundreds of children In th stst. KEYSTONE STATE CULLING; THE DYNAMITE LET LOOSE Apd Three tnn Wr Hurled Hundred Feet. Several On hundred pounds of dynamite, which wa being tbawed out on a screen abov stove In a shanty at the North Lebanon stone quarries, exploded with terrible forse. Wil liam Thompson, Harry lllllard and Tierce Fletter, who were standing nearby, were burled several hundred feet. Thompson, who stood nearest tbe bulldlag, was terribly In jured, bis face and body being filled with splinters of wood and small pieces of iron and tin. Almost all hi hair was burnt off bis head, and he will lose the sight ol both syes. Fletter bad bis arm broken, but Hil- At Tarentum a bold robbery was perpetra ted Tuesday morning by three men. who broke open the store of Hs, Lindsay .V Co , on Nogley avenue. The robbors secured only 70. ss Mr. He bad deposited oves f-SOO yesterday. Evidently tbe work was well p anned, as Friday was pay day at tbe plate glass works and tbe firm generally has large sums paid in at that time. Court at Washington sentenced Jules Ilolse to a fftoo fin and four months in the work house for keeping a speak-easy at Primrose. The shortage of 3D0 In the accounts of tho postmsster at Cassandrla. Cambria county, bas been made good by bis boudsmen. John Miller wns kllcd in the railroad yards at Lock Haven while coupling cars. Mrs. WllBon. Hint organizer, Instituted a women auxiliary of tbo Order of Hallway Conductors at Altoona. Albert Hamilton, of Sharon, sentenced to two years in the Columbus, O., peultentlnry for complicity lu many burglaries in eastern Ohio, I lu a critical con. Ilium lu prlon, the reult of attempting sulcido by swallowing sulphuric acid used In tho poinding depart ment where ho was working. The Leaver Falls and Denver electric street car company is to be revived at New llr ghton. The therIK bas closed Hamuel Lewln's clothing store at It-llefoiite. Liabilities about 25,001); asset, 7,1)00 to H,t00. F. J. Talosseter, of Connecticut, a Nickel Flate brakemau, was blown from tbe top ol his train near AsbtnWula nnd bad his skull fro -lured. Ho died en route to Erie hos pital. Lizzie Moore, formerly Lldit Thomn. ol Now Castle, wa sentenced at Cleveland tc five yenrs in the penitentiary for licking pockets. ' " Tho Pennsylvania Society Hons of tbe Auiorlcau devolution held their second anni versary meeting of the organ. gallon nt the Hotel lmquesue. Pittsburg. Thieves stole i5 chickens and 25 turkeys from Mrs. lumoud. of (ireensburg. Thorns I. Jone. of (iicensliurg, hi b e I appointed general manager of Coulter-Hut! works. Fire cuused a lo of, over 3,000 by de stroylug a building used as a sample room by tbe Logan hotel, ut Altoona. I'rofs. J. 1). Truell, of Claysville; Hall, ol California Normal school; Stevenson, ol Ilurgettstown, and Iuilbey, of Monongahela, nre all candidates for school superintendent of Washington county. liavld Harris, colored, of Itocbester, wnl fatally crushed by a safe fulling on blm. John Bbepao was crushed to death by fall of rock at Lemout, Fayette oounty. J. W. Frasber was appointed Dost muster at Smock, Fuyetta oounty. Judgo Oannison, of Erie, sentenced John Cuddy, the Lake Shore A Michigan Southern railroad robber, to threo and a bait yours to the penitentiary. Fire at Coopertown, 10 mile south of lint ler, on tbe Duller plunk road, destroyed H. Il.McCrea's restaurant. C. M. btoddard's residence, M. Kline billiard room, Mr. Les lie's dwelling and the store ot Jiolli A Co., and McClelland A Uurch, Ibo total loss is $5.1)1.10. Frederick Held, who kept a tailor store In I. at robe, bas been mysteriously missing since T hursday last, when hu left home with I0 that he said be was to deposit in tbo bank. He did not reach the bunk and nuthlug bos been beard from blm. The New Castle City Conncll bas ordered tbe city solicitor to bring criminal proceed ing ngalost tbe Sbeuungo (Ins compuuy fur tearing up it roe la In violation of a city ordi nance. George. Jones fell from a Titttburg and Western railreud trestle between New Castle and Ellwood on Mouday night He lay in the gulch until Lext morning, and was seri ously Injured. Tbo resilience of W. H. Stewart, at CTavs vllle, was destroyed by lire on Monday. The new water work fulled to be of any value, at the hose and lire engine were locked up and tbe keys could not be found. The retidenco of William Htonobakor, at Tyrone, was destroyed by lire, Loss, vl.OOO. David Stoner's bouse, barn and othur buildings at beottdale, were destroyed by lire. Loss, vS.OOO. Will Msrtln. colored, aged 18. Is in jsil nt Cnloutown, charged with assault upon Hob ort Hurd ol Iiuubar. Ilurd Is dying. IRON TRADE OUTLOOK.. Scarcely Life Enough to Create Any Intereat. Tbe "Iron Trade lteview" says. There it scarcely life enough In the Iron market to create auy interest In the limited business that a week brings forth. Settling prices for fig lrou and steel; weakness, though less pro uouuoed.lo nearly every form of flulshed pro duct j a prolongation of tbe wait In iron ore, that now tiroinise lo un nn until Ihsra mm disiiuct sU-us of new conditions In secondary turn sein iuib is ine situation in brief. TO ere Is plenty of ontlmlsm abroad in the trade In spue of the quietness, and there are those whose prediction of 20 Ilesttmer iron were made freely and oonfldeutly three mouth ago, who are ttill giving utterance to their faltb in the plentiful buying and the re munerative price that aie lo ooni with the opening ot tbe new year. Coke Production. The coke shipments for tbo last week of record were considerably over 10,000 cars, and would have beon larger If the railroads bad beon able to carry them. The production fell o 10,010 tons from tbe previous week aud consequently 82,700 tons of stock coke were snipped. The production was not in excess of the demand, but is being regulated to correspond wiin ine laciiiues tor tnippiug. j oe number of active ovens Increased 83. making u total oi HI. IIS iu blast and 1,829 Idle. The total shipments for tbe week end Inn November 10 were 10.241 cars an lnorease of 708 oars over tbe previous week. Sovereign Ketlgned. In executive session of tbe general assem bly K. of L.. Assembly 49 ot New York, mad charges ot general mlsmanagameut agalntt General Master Workman Sovereign, where upon tbe latter resigned. The great majority of the delegate ilded with Sovereign, and after very heated debet b was rs-slectsd. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Queen Victoria' dally Income Is 19000. Gladstone will spend tbe winter at Mont Carlo. Onneral Boho-ftelJ has concluded to return to Chicago to live. Senator Hill, of Vow Tork, will loctnre on "Liberty" In ten cities. Lieutenant Perry announce that ho ha learned the Eskimo language. Pdchard Watson Oildor Is probably the best known of New York's poets. J. M. Coe Forsaythe, the fntum king ot the Cannibal Islands, is worth 3,000,000. It is said that the Prince ot Wales recnlvcs 200 bogging loiters, on an average, every day, Henry Wattorsnn, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Is going to Europe to write a life ot Abraham Lincoln. Count Tolstoi recently refused two big offors for a story he had written, and gave it to magazine for nothing. Sir A'gernnn Birthwlek, editor of the London Morning Post, is the first Journalist Who bas boon raised tj the Iiritish peerage. Governor flrown, of Kentucky, propose to move to Louisville aud engage iu tho practice ot law at tho expiration of his torm of office. Count Padenyl, the, new Trimo Minister of Austria, is diwended from nt Italian cook, who was In the sorvicn of ono of tho last Kings of Poland. Ho has not a hair on bis head. The poet of the Fifty-fourth Comrrfcn Is rtowland Uloiinnrh iet Miihunv, frum the Thirty-second New York District. He Is a native of UufTalo,nu'l tins ha I a stiff struigl" with fortune. 8. M. Inman, of Atlanta, Chairman of tlio Finaneo Committee, of the Suit hern Htnins and Cotton F.xposltion, ha donate I 430,00) to pay the floating deht, and the other mem bers paid the other 50,t)00. Ex-Empress Eugenie, In her latest will, has constituted herself the godmother of nil male children born In Franco on tlio birth day of her son. The number amounts to 88:14, nil of whom sho has remembered la her will. Marlon Uutler, of North Cnrolina, young, est of tho members of the new Senate, is thirty-two yean old. His father was an ex tensive slaveholder, nil I he woe roared on n plantation, but tho war deprived him of his fumlly possesions. Jatnoa B. Garfield, who was elected Stato Senator from his father's old district In Ohio, was nominated on July a, the four teenth anniversary of hie. father's iiM.sas.siuu. Hon. He la thlrty-tlir-m years old, aud close ly rosnmblcs tho Into Pruxldent. Frnnk H. Clack, Representative In Cou cress front tho Nineteenth NUW York Iie- tnui, De gun inn as a rarmlmnd and now looks like a oollogo professor. He Is a Mainu mnn by birth, nnd taught school nfter he gave up farm work. Later ho was a news-0 papor reporter, and then he studied law, a profession in which be has been invosful. Oeneral Duchesne, commander of the Fronoh army that routed the Hovns iu Mada gascar, won the Cross of tho Legion of Honor at Sol Torino, nnd Is uow llfty-oight years old. Ho dietlngiilHhiHl himself in tho war of lS7(i and In the Toniiiln campaign. At present ho Is on the high tide of popular esteem and If he doslres may perhaps succeed lloiilnuger in the role of the "man on horseback.'' J. Frank llanley, from tho Ninth Indiana District, Is the log-cabin man of the Fifty fourth Congress. He was born thirty-two yours ago, amid tho forewts ot Cham'pnlgn County. This was a spamcly settled section, and his parents wero very poor. They had no neighbors nearer than four miles. When six year old his father purchased a "History of the Civil War," and from this tbo boy loarncd to read. RECEIVER APPOINTED. Proceeding to Bring th N. Y. P. & O.. in a a Part of the Erie. Tbe Farmer' Loan and Trust company, of New York, (lied a petition In Common Tleii court at Akrou asking for a receiver for the New York, Pennsylvania nnd Ohio railroad' which Is ii portion of tbe Erie exteudiug from Dsyton, O., to Salnmniini'a, N. Y. Herman Drlsler nnd W T. Nelswauger, trustees, ute also named a defendants. Tbe plaintiff company bold a mortnse ou the road of 37,0U0,Uul), mnde In May, lHS l.oo which Interest bus never biou paid. Tbe plaintiffs und iteleudants selected Charles Whitehead, of New York, us receiver, but Judge Vorls could not appoint him, us bo is not a resident of tbo State. Jobu Tod, of Cleveland, vice president of tbo line, wns ap pointed. This Is due to pay the debts of tbe road, tbat It may become part ot tbe reorgan ised Erie. TWO GREAT FIRES. Five Live and Haifa Million Dollars Lost. During a Ore which swept through the Dry Goods and Woolen Exubuuge building at Chicago, Friday, five firemen were carried through a floor a buried under ton of wreck age by the collapsing of five floor above. Four of tbe men are dead, but tbe fifth was not seriously injured. One girl fell from a window and received lojurie from which she died. A dozen other men, women and girls were hurt or overcome by smoke, aud many were rescued from Imminent deutn. The property loss to the building and coutent Is estimated at 1400,000. A Ore Thursday destroyed f 500,000 worth of property. Tbe seven-story brick building extending from 170 Canal street to Jackson street, a nine-story brick aud a great part ol a four-story brick building adjoining are In ruins. Tbe seven nnd nine story building were owned by Wuiren Springer, nnd tbe four-story structuie by William J. Wilson. Tbe loss on the buildings, 1150,000, Is amply insured. Control of the Benat. Not eountlng the disputed senatorship from Delaware, tbe ltepubltuan will have ij ten ators.requlrlng two more to make a majority of th 87 senators holding unchanged seats The Demoorats will bave 80, and the Pop.' ulist 6. When tb two Ulan senators both llepublicans, are admitted early iu tbe com ing year, tb uumber ot tenator will be In created to 90, or 89, allowing for tbo Dela ware vacaosy. Forty-six will ba majority of a full senate, while the Itepubllcaus will bave only 44, being as far from a majority as they r now. Tb admission of the Utah senator and tb decision of tbe Delaware contest In their favor will not give them a majority. As tbe aenate, unlike tb bouse, It cuuuuuuue uouy, ana aiwayt organised for butlnti, tbls complication will nut Interfere With It taklug up legislative work at lb opening of the session, as the old officer will bold over until superseded by new elections. Powderly' UuccesaOr. . At Thursday' t"stion of tbe general as sembly of tbo Knight of Labor J. A. Wright, one ot tbo origlual members of the order, and en lbs rolls ot local tssembly No. 1, ot Dis trict No. 1, of Philadelphia, wat appoluted past general master workmen, a posmou va cated by tbe suspeosiou ot Mr. Powderly. Tbls appolntmeut is made as a llttlug recog nition of the service ol Mr. Wright through out tb many years ot bis membership In tb order. Millar Appeal to Congress. rvlh w?mU,,7 C0nn' of tbe Winter Wheat Millers' association of tbe central tale deolded to make a vigorous fight be foro oongreat in behalf of reclprooity mea sure wltb nations tbat may be luduoed to buy Amerloau Hour. Tb committee deolded to formulate itatemeot whlou shall be pre ntd lo Coograss and a suboutmitte will fo to Washington sad lobby. NEWS FROM THE CAPITA! THE COLD STANDARD. Annual Report of Director of th it, A -rscon. Dlreetor of th Mint Preston. In hit tnBt report to the Secretary of th Treasury, i,.J th approximate stock of money In tbe ftlJ eipai countries of tn world Is: Ooij, j(l OM,ttOO,000; full legal tender silver i. 4:19.300.000; limited tender allver, C.'H.(r.l, uuu; uiiiidii a loiai silver fioca of f I 500.000; uncovered notes. 2.4i;l.).500.0u,i' Mr.I'restoa state that th real .lemon,!,, I lion oi silver iuuk lunue in inoa. wnssnj ... i . V. . r I. - I .. I . i . -1 ..... . '.-i wcigu. vi tew uiti-i.uai cuius wat reiugj about 7 per cent. Thi wa not an acoi.i. l or oversight, It was expressly declare J in nouso oi rerresemauve mat the lm.. tlon wa "to make gold the sole ttandaM value" In large transactions, nnd silver i-j-J servieni iu 11 lur siunii ones. Mr. l'reston ttates that tbe eurreno i af tbe United States tlnce I87d are not m j 1U..-OUSISICUI, urn i-ouirnuiciory, oostruntif. each other oberatlona and mutually i1:r lla 1 1 m . . I'. I h.l nn T ..... .. 1 .. ..' - uaie ui me resinupiiuu oi specie payai-ti'J th ouly currency, except coin ertllWt-, .J . . i i ... i .. ...i ..... i i . . 1 Hinirii iv i iBHvmrn ,u KUIS VUltl WM4. oiii,ii-.i,uiii, ii-gui ifuui-r notes men 0. . .t.n.lm. whlith Ik. Him. ....... treasury was o: mo opinion mat ago!. Bvivn oi ii'v.wir.uuv SUUIU LIS SU Ifl.'lMQf maintain, to long ns there was no Inci-iJ out me paper curreuey reueemable cn i., ..nl ..I.... I. . . h. n In.. A . I .rumiivu u an w.u h.-.utti. V ..)), I.i 1 I issueu in pavaieu: or inn stiver rmniuut. cbasej under tbe act of July 14. ls:ij. Of thse notes there were outstaiilin. November 1. 1 ll,0!i'J,'.J0. making th " government obligations n money, t,-;;- kuu, reaeemai'io on preseutauon. Ai i fr i lh.u there were outstanding N'hmii,1 Itill i l l". J-.il .rut I.. .11.... ...n.... . ns ins u'-i oi juiy i, iti iieeinrei jt J the established policy of tne Uulted s;u:m maininin ine two mentis ai parity wi:u . i outer, upon ine present legal ratio, or I bi-j us hint un ii u . iucu 117 inw, 1 II '-re J a total 01 f sai.aa.o;ii. resting ou the 1 ft) , ine goiu reserve 01 iuu. tuo.DUU, an J m c- i'j uisiuuiiu iuo parity uei ween,iue iw t n.r' lue goTerniiiriii 1111s oeeu compelled lot row Titj'.'.uuu.ijou in goia witnin the r u..;. years. Grant of Arid Lands. Secretary Hoke Smith, in bis annunl rr will recommend that the Carey law gr.it J l.uuu.uou acre 01 nrlit lands to rni-!i -!;. which such lands are situated, be 11:1 ft. so mat tne grant tie mmle to the s:a rignt, ana It he miidit responsible 'or rlgatlon ef the lands. L'nder the luvr. i l uowsiaiius.tr woubi no many ynr t; the state would receive the benefit i f . graui, sou M-srstary Mmltn believes thtt : state can carry out batter tbe Itn-i.iicn cungrets if It get control of tbe entirs v ai once, insieaa 01 wuitlng until wuivr u . curea tor tne iqna APPALLING CRIMES The Sultan Ordered the Mattacrecl. 000 Christian. Tbe following letter bas beeu roVr.l Doston from a reliable correspondent mtJ stantinnple: "Tbeturks have induced some of :it- sidlzed Kuropean papers to speak of t:l crimes as Armenian outbreaks, etc.: tot i ambassadors bave full reports. wDirh J ought to publish, that reiute all ttu 1 show con.-lusively tbat the ultiui. miLi day or two alter lie tinned the tefor:n scb-d ordered the Armenians to be inu-Mrrfl order that there should be no question ot I Armenian majority In any ot 1 lio ptovm J 1 ne people soiignt tne spoils obtain:,. so did not execute the sultuu's ui'ti tcl fullest extent. Hut tbo loss of I.I-U-tJ awful. Moreover, there teems t le no. ol preventing more of the same si.rt. "It is the most awful crime of tl.ecvo' because it it bo persistently falsiikJ tj uuinort. -jvery wnere xue story is tne sumc-i I liberate preparntbai, and ttien a s'.ery 1.: F.urope that the Armenian nttuekei '.tn- ollensive Turks, and were reduced to cr after a few had been killed. "Wcrso time are iu store for U". 1 is uivKiej in counsel, anil the Turk.. that nothing is donu for tin crime, mi:, to extremities. Tho highest Jb em has declared that the sultuu eaiin .t U 1 be restrained in thu exercise of Ins wi , , be la thu representative of God lor tl: earth. "From l.'.OOH to 2 1.000 people L.it siaugnierea curing the last mmitli. nt. consenitence no les than 10D.mil ir- heretofore dependent ou them for tluirJ iooa, are now 111 want, rue c.ui.ii;ki- wlll witness n vast amount ot suiVrici Is not alone at Sassouu, but nil over tlm wueretuese occurrences have ti keii ( racv A dispatch to tbe London Dally Sews:' l.oustautluople, giving a gem-nil rv:ti' .11 jf tbe situation, declare that the r"-eu: ml cres put the earlier outrages of ii.H.moi . IV Mousb entirely in the backbrcun.l. If' li !.r h;i. Knglund or France or ltussla should pc 1 the stone reported olllclally bv tln-ir ' beaded consul all Europe w.tj.J tl aghast at the proof, surprised to th n things possible. Wlierover these eou-u'i' Investigated matters, they have kuuJ the accusation that tho Aruieuiutii ru'-j tne riot are false. PROF. PERDUE LYNCHEtl A Graduate of Tale and Pr mul Mason Put to Death by a M l 1 , Frot. L W. Perdue, a white man I VI :-1 taken fro-n jail at Mt. Vernon, ' n.ir, lynched Haturday morning by u u. -rn was charged with having be: ray. I M:l lui, Tun lie Grady. Tbe grand jury did u 't true bill, presumably becaue the ui" j , mi able to appear before tlietu. At 1 u" ill 1 Saturday morning i'i white arme l men 1 to Sherlll MtfUreg, or's home uuJ m l 1 r '.in Mm him, tayinc they baa a negro they put lu jail. At tbe sheriff came out aud start'.! ' tv. lall be wu ovei nnwere.l rel:esl 0. pistol and keys nud carried totlij4 wa locked lu a coll while the ii...t. due from the Jul. drugged him nt"': ihn-. 'JOB Utile through tun woods nud kii eJ 1','J l'rof. Perilue urn a gradual" el ' lege aud a prominent Masou. 11 and three growu clui Jrou who ai t.' specled. 'tiS. lher :riou I) L-rt it 1 tllMt Battlu lit Crete. Iteports bave been received ut Alii"1' J fro 'tic collision betw.icu the Turkish irii'i"' Christians ut Crete. Several of the U" Hi said to bave been killed aud wout l-'. advices s the reports ol the coll s'1! tween the Turkl-h troop uud tli" lt'''l tHr Mt-r at the Isiuuj 01 l retu have t-eeu t"-1 It I estimated that thirtv Dt-rsuUi li-n1 luil killed and wuunded. Strike Ended. ' tin.. hn P-u t. The structural ironworker's Krik ' Nu.li was deelared several week uaosg et:-' BucbuuHii. the contractor erect 'M the i Park building, Pittskurg, bus been off by the tirusldent of the llr.dk'" ulJ' Ms iiu pjflr ural Ironworkers' union, and thu D'' I ' lll 1 return to work. The strike bus en.M ,: L'aiyi vusly for the employes, and bere:t'' meu ouly will be employed. not &0t "urn, Thm iihiniimr i,,i... v Poster w ' Ku Ttnllu.l UUIs. .Oil.. I. Is l tilt 1"'1 IWnt. breakwater, tutuecied of buviuif "l 'Msr mmiinlllnii alumni lor CubllU iDJ"l None were found, but tbo vessel 1 taiusd.
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