Disasters, Accidents and Fatalities.
‘miners were drowned in a coal pit at
sberry, Yorkshire, by a sudden rush of
1 ad collected in an old working.
Anna Bernstein, aged 18, who had just
from Poland, and Ida Harris, aged 5,
drowned at ‘Worcester, Mass, by the
g of a boat load of picnickers.
ore Fairy KiLLep.—A whole fam-
‘consisting of a man and wife and four
n, names unknown, were killed at
: 0 T. The family had been in that
buying provisions, and while returning
faim, on the Old Cheyenne reserva-
team ran away and over a preci-
member of the family and both
‘mortar charged with dynamite was ex-
} on Sunday near St. Alfonso’s church
Rome, and 11 persons were killed and 32
_ The victims include a number of
B. Sale and his two sons were drowned
river at Grignon's Point, Wis. = The
boys were bathing and got beyond their 3
Calling to their father, he pulled off
d hat and jumped in to rescue
}, when all were drowned. The bodies
pleasure steamer Ajax, with 100 ex-
ists on board, Monday might collided
narrow channel of Helsingfors with
steamer Runeberg. The Ajax sank and
y persons are reported missing. Thirty-
vy hodies have been recovared.
: apital, Labor and Industrial,
1iprne TrADES STRIKE OVER.—A gen-
eral strike of the building trades which was
y n two weeks ago in sympathy for the
material deliverers who had been
ed out by the Building Material Dealers’
ation because they refused to deliver
pplies to the buildings for which the iron
‘league held contracts is ended. The Walk-
Delegates have met defeat in a strike in-
‘solving nearly 20,000 laborers.
The New Castle, Pa., Wire Nail Company,
employing about 1,000 men in the rod, wire
and nail mills, has signed the Amalga-
smated Association scale and will resume
this week. :
Youngstown, O., will Jose the steel plant
‘which will be operated by the Ohio Steel
Company,recently organized. The company
has received good inducements to locate
‘wither at Girard, Niles or Struthers; and will
probably accept one of the three proposi-
men in the mines on Trout: Run,
Cambria county, Pa., have gone out on a
strike. They elected a check weighman and
demanded that he be installed as these of-
are at other mines, The General
Manager refused to allow him to go into the
‘scales, and informed the men that he would
all the weighing necessary. = ‘As a resuls
every man has stopped work.
The Riverside furnace of Steubenville, O.,
employing 175 men, blew out’ Sunday ‘and
will not resume for some time. The com-
y has a big stock on hand.
. The Switchmen’s Union, of West Superior,
Wis. will take a hand in the steel workers’
strike. Ata meeting of the Trades and La-
bor Assembly they promisek to handle no
‘ears containing the product of non-union
workers.
At New Orleans the ° entire force
of government employes repairing the goy-
ernment river steamers and tugs at the Au-
“Muboin park, La., went out on strike. The
amen claim that although the eight-hour law
. Aad been passed and signed by the presi-
_ dent, but that it has not teen promulgated,
they are compelled to worz under the old
40-hour rule.
The strike of the planing-mill men of St.
. Xouis, which hzg bain on for several weeks,
| Bas been declarel off and the men are now
. seeking their old places. The trouble arvse
wver a demand for shorter hours with no
wdecrease in pay.
The general strike of nearly all the
“Trades unions of New York, against the
Building Material Dealer's Association is
mow regarded as ended. It is estimated that
mot more than 1,500 strikers are out of
: : Fives
By the burning of two large cotton mills
. mt Brussels 150 families were thrown out of
work. The loss is 1,00.000 francs.
The Northern Pacific Elevator at Buffalo
£ striack by lightning and burned with
000 bushels of wheat, Loss, £25,000.
Baltimore, the furniture factory of
a Chatterton & Co., Green & Co.’s Hope
Works, Oppenheimers warehouse,
1's Orchestrian Hall and Fleisch man
's building, all on South Frederick
were destroyed by fire that originated
e furniture factory. Loss, $200,000; in-
ce about $75,000.
re at McKinney, Tex, destroyed Cof-
’s livery stable, J. W. Bradley's
hop, Harper & Roderick’s clothing
Barkley, Harrison & Ready, dry
R A, Rutledge, confectioner; Goost &
grocers; J. P. Dowell, hardware, and
Approximate loss, $100,000.
wmill and dry kiln of the Taylor
Company, Suffolk, Va., with 500-
perty,
Li % nd a a lamber shed |
taken from the officials shot to
{'death. He was accused oY Eamigng a white
woman.
2t Hartford, Conn, F. Wilson Rogers,
WHOSE bULAS #48 wccORILUNL Oc the .0cal
branch of the Iron Hall are being examined,
a deficiency of £1,000 having been already
discovered, denies that he has misappropri-
ated aby money. He demands a trial.
Miscellaneous.
At Memphis, Governor Buchannan
in Nashville, Tenn., commuted the rantence
of Colonel H. Clay King, who was to have
been hanged next Friday for the murder of
David H. Posten, March 15, on a public
street in'this city. = Unusual pressure was
brought to bear upon the Governor for the
past few days.
Sanitary,
In New York Tuesday one more small-
pox desdth and two new cases were reported
to the authorities. |
Four cases of yellow fever have developed
on board the four-masted American
schooner Eva Douglass, which ‘arrived at
Jacksonville, Fla., from Havana. The
schooner was thoroughly fumigated and
then placed in gmarentine for five days.
The schooner has been sent to Dry Tortugas
with yellow fever nurses. There is little
fear the disease will spread to the main-
land.
Political.
The State Convention of the Prohibition
party was held at Trenton, N. J., with about
500 delegates in attendance. Thomas J.
Gennedy, of Hudson county, was nominated
for Governor. The platform, adopted re-
affirms allegiance to the Cincinnati plat-
form.
The Prohibitionists met in convention ‘at
Providence, R. I., Silver Springs,and nomi-
nated presidential electors. A resolution
was adopted sanctioning the election of lady
delegates to conventions.
Crops.
Hot winds continued in Kansas Tuesday
to the great injury of the corn crop. Grain
men at Kansas City have advices from the
State which lead them tothe belief that
only one-half a crop can be harvested now
even under good conditions for the rest of
theseason. A continuance of the hot winds
for two or three days will still further re-
duce the yield.
Ball worms are playing bszvoc in many
fields in Texas, and nothing ean be dona to
stay their Tavages. =
: Mortuary.
; Funeral seryices over the remains of Mrs.
Mary Willard, mother of Miss Frances Wil-
lard, president of the World's Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, were held in
the First Methodist Episcopal church of
‘Evanston, Ili, on Tuesday.
The Very Rev. A. Mandine, superin-
tendent of the ‘sisters of charity in the
United States, died at Emmettsburg, Md.
He was 60 years of age.
Congressional Nominations,
"The Demdcratic conference of the Nine-
teenth (Pa.) district, renominated Hon. F.
BE. Beltzhoover, of Cumberland county. for
Congress.
Clinton county, Pa., Republicans in con-
vention nominated A.C. Hopkins for Con-
gress, James T. Taylor, of Lamar, for As-
sembly. :
The Republicans of the Twentieth Ohio
district ‘nominated W. J. White, of Cleve:
land, for Congress.
" Washington News,
The Navy Department has decided to send
the new cruiser, Newark, and the new gun-
boat, Rennington, to Genoa, Italy, to repre-
sent the United States in the Columbus cele-
bration there. Both vessels are at Cadiz, and
will sail for Genoa in time to be there early
in September,
Enrthqunkes.
Earthquake shocks were felt this morning
at Ems, Coblenz, Neider Nassau and Neider
Lahnstein. At the last named place they
were especially severe, and the people were
panic stricken. No serious damage wae
done at any of the points.
BEYOND OUR BORDERS,
A dispatch from Helsingtors, Finland,an-
nounces that a terrible marine disaster oc-
curred near there. A pleasure steamer was
run down cutside the harbor, and 45 of the
persons who were on board were drowned.
The scenes on the deck of the steamer im-
mediately after the collision are described
as distressing in the extreme.
A horrible bull fight is reported at Nismes,
in the far south of France. Twenty thousand
people were present. = Six liorses were dis-
emboweled, and two bulls killed. The
spectators applauded every incident of
brutality.
United States Consul Ryder at Copenhagen
has confessed that he is guilty of embezzle
‘ment ard forgery.
Seven soldiers were drowned at Neisse, in
Prussian Silesia, while practicing in the
military swimming school.
ordered to go into the water beyond their
depth, the preceptor supposing them to be
sufficiently practiced to be able to swim.
This proved not to be the case and they sank
without making any sign that they were
drowning: The fact that they were
drowned was not suspected for some mo-
ments. until they failed to come to the sur-
face. It was then too late to save them.
The correspondent of the Paris Tenps
has not been allowed to land in Venezuela.
He says the country is in a state of anarchy
and that General Urdaneta has proclaimed
bimselt dictator of the Western States. The
French vice consul at Corupino has been
seized by President Villegas, and France
has sent a warship to the scene.
Advices from Teheran. the capital of
Persia, show that the cholera is increasing
in virulence there. The deaths in the city |
now average sixty daily.
‘At Scharnitz, a village and pass in the
Tyrol. 10 miles northwest of Innspuck, a
landslip caused the death of five persons
who were overwhelmed beneath the mass
The m !
eh yore {and Secretary Madden, for the Amalgamat-
A STRIKER WOUNDED BY A
Santinel at Camp Black. He Insisted
on Passing the Guard Line. A Cir
cular Giving ths Sides of the
Men Isswed by the Fed-
eration. Sic, Lov joy's
Statement.
Robert Morton, a Homestead (Pa Suusiker,
#as thrust through the right thigh Jvith a
bayonet Sunday morning by 8. A. |
private of Company D, Fifteenth Regiment,
who was doing gnard duty. Morton at-
tempted to cross the guard lines and as
saulted ern, Lozue, the sentinel, who
his gon;
nd
appatent ak force nis
way into the camp other than the gratifica-
tion of a stubborn spirit. His wound is
very painful, and he lost a great deal of
The cident:
blood, but is in no da et. i
caused no excitement: at omestead :
Acting Chairman Crawford, of the Ad
visory Committee, was told about the affair
and said he was sorry it had occurred. e
thought, if it was as represented, that
Morton was:to blame, and said the affair
would causé no trouble or excitement. Bev-
eral strikers spoken to about the matter said
they i orton was where he had no
business to be
Both General Wiley and Colonel Kreps
#aid the bayoneting had been fully in-
vestigated and they did not see that Kel-
le could have done otherwise than as he
1d.
A CIRCULAR ISSUED.
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS ISSUE AN APPEAL In
RELATION TO THE HOMESTEAD TROUBLE.
‘The Executive Council of the Federation
of Labor, on Saturday night, met _ at the |
and issted a |
circular in connection with the Homestead :
‘Dugtesue Hotel, Piitsburg,
trouble.
It sas follow
dom in the histo
battle so
closely drawn upon the fi=id of labor as it is
witnessed at Homestead. The Caruegie Steel
Company, one of the most gigantic monop-
olies of the agé, has updertaken to reduce
the wages of their employes from 10° to 40
per cent. In their desperation and avarice
they hired and brought 300 armed mércena-
ries, Pinkerton detectives, to Homestead to
invade the homes of the meén who created
the miliions that the Carnegiesnow possess.
Undercover of the Pinkertons the conipany
endeavored to introduce a pauperized and
degraded set of laborers to supplant. our
fellow -American workmen.
with the Pinkertons and its results are well
Known.
“It is not true that the men are receiving
the high wages generally supposed, nor do a
largs number own their homes. We have
made a careful investigation and find that
| just before the lockout there were 3,421 em-
| ployed in the mills.
Of this number there
were 13 whose wages averaged about $7 50
per day; 46 averaged between $5 and $7 per
day; 6+ averaged From $4 to $5 per day; 1,178
averaged from §1 68 to $2 50 per day, and
1,625 received 14 cents per hour or less, and
further we find so many erroneous and false
statements have been published as tothe
causes for which the men are nobly con-
tending, their: conduct during the struggle,
the presen: situation and the prospect of
victory that we feel called upon to issue this
statement to the American public.
“From 8 to 10 per cent. own their own
homes, and ahout 15 per cent. more have
homes under mortgage; the remainder pay
rent and a number of these have been evict
ted by the Carnegies. It is nol true that
the men are only -defending the wages of
the higher priced workmen. It isin defense
of the 14 cents per hour men as much as
any other that the Homestead workmen are
making their gallant fight.
“The cunning calculating company pro-
posed that the scale should terminate” when
the cold blasts of winter penetrate with
biting severity. The company desired to
place the men in the disadvantageous posi-
tion of negotiating with them upon a new
gcale 3 in January instead ‘of as formerly in
uly.
“Notwithstanding the military forces of
the State of Pennsyly ania bave been under
arms at Homestead for nearly five weeks,
and the country has been ransacked to find
beings so low as to hire themselves to the
company, there are less than 600 persons in
the mill, and less than a dozen skilled work-
men who can perform the work required.
The situation is such we confidently” assert
that at no time during the struggle were
the prospects of vi: ‘ory as bright as they
are now. What the men need in this con-
test is your substantial support as well as
Jour sympathy. The poorer paid men in
omestead and other Carnegie mills where
men are now out to help their brothers at
Homestead are the ones who need your im-
mediate help and money is required to
maintain their manhood, honor and interest.
Every worker and liberty-loving citizen
should contribute to the financial support
of the brave men who to-day occupy the
position of the advance guard of the labor
movement of America.”
The struggle at Homestead represents the
issue between freedom and slavery, progress
and reaction, and must be maintained until
the workmen have some fair measure of
recognition from the Carnegies. We assure
you that every dollar contributed will be
devoted to the men engaged in the contest.
An effective system of relief has been
organized, with proper safeguards, and
every cent will be economically expended
and rigidly accounted for. We also advise
all workingmen not to come to Homestead
or Pittsburg for employment until the
pending dispute with the Carnegie Steel
Company is settled.
The circular ‘concludes by requesting all
contributors to send their money to esis
dent Weihe or Acting Chairman Thomas J,
Crawford. The document is signed by
President Samuel J. Gompers, P, Me-
Guire, President of the tare’ Brother-
hood; John B. Lennon, Secretary of the
Tailors’ Union; Secretary Chris Kvens, as
the Executive Committee of the Federation:
President Weihe, President-elect Garland
ed Association, and Hugh O'Donnell, Bar-
goss) McLuckie, Thomas J. Crawford and
avid Lynch, for the Advisory Committee,
LOVEJOY ANSWERS GOMPERS,
oat Lovejoy, of the Carnegie Steel
Oompa ny, said on Sunday:
e statement that the Carnegie Steel
Conta has a monopoly of the making of
steel billets is absurd.” Not to speak of the
many big firms in other parts of the coun-
try, such as the Illinois Steel Compan
the Pennslyvania Steel Company and ha
Cambria Iron Company, right here in Pitts-
burg there are many concerns making bil-
Jets. For Instance iors are the Linden Steel
ompany, Jones ughlins, 8 , Chal
fant & Co., the Carbon Iron ipa.
Smith Bros, owners of the LaBelle ‘Works;
Dilworth, Porter & Co., Wm. Clark’s Son &
Howe, Brown & Co., the Moorhead-
McCieane Com hg Park Bros. & Co,
Shoenberger & C»., Singer, Nimick & Co.,
the Sterling Steel t Company, and many oth
ers, who all make billets.
‘*The Carnegie Company has about 30 per
cent. of the total production of steel billets.
No man gets less than $1 40 a day of 10
hours at Homestead. Mr. Gompers's asser-
tion that some get #1 14to the contrary not
withstanding. The men get 14 cents an
hour. The criticisms on our bringing | Pink-
ertons to Homes! has no Aveight in the
face of the law, which penalia any man to
properly protect his a
gsers, and who in
RE |
ectively agains
rty. It iss
: 'y: of our ‘country’
have we witnessed the lines of
The contest
which he recovered in a. few days.
perty st tres-
‘the words of Judge
umerously and ef-
ob that attacks his |
ow a
however, that we will simply roi upon
law to protect ourselves against an oy
spiracies that may be hatch: or the
personalities indulged in by Mr. Gompers
and others towards the members of the Car-
negie Steel Company we have no re 1
make. The fight &
his s; on.
tack were santis
GOD'S WORD IN THE MILL.
The Rev. Edmund Belf yur, of the Grant
Street English Evangelical ] LutheranChuret
chi und to about 2,000
A y officials
(P 3 Steel !
Jouetond instrumental music, “the
hymns were sung from printed Tu "The
Rev. Belfour's disc was entirely
scriptural in its 0 direct
bearing on t!
text was She B ng the
devotion of a Christian to his faith. Before
the benediction the congregation joined in
the Jo \S prayer and the hymn “Sweet By
and By.’
Nm——— I ——— 2
CONGRESSMAN WARWICK DEAD.
ESE
An Apparertly Slight Afiment Leads to
Physical Exhaustion and Death.
Congressman Warwick. of Ohio, died at
the Briggs House, Washington, D.C, on
Sunday. The remains were taken to Mas
sillon, 0., his late home.
JOHN G. WARWICK.
Mr. Warwick was taken down about a
week ago with an attack of dysentery, from
His
strength was so thoroughly depleted, how-
ever, that constitutional prostration follow-
ed, and the patient was too exhausted to
rally. He was conscious to the end, His
wife and son were continuously at his bed-
side since his lings assumed’ a Sungyrous
phase.
A RAID ON CO! CONVICT MINERS.
The Free Miners sof ‘Tennessee Destroy
the Tracy City Stockade. :
NaspviLLE, TEN. Aug. 15—Saturday the
free miners burned fhe convict stockade at
Tracy City, then marched to the . mines,
ordered the convicts bromzht ott ant took
charge of them and the guards loaded them
in box cars, and ordered the train to leave
immediately. Being covered by guns the
men in charge were obliged to obey.
Governor Buchanan states that the con-
victs will be kept in the niain prison till a
new stockade can be built.
The free minersare well = supplied with
arms and ammunition and it will be diffi.
cult to dislodge them - should Governor
Buchanan attempt to send the convicts
back.
‘ No arrests have been made. Governor
Buchanan has had conferences with State
Superintendent of prisons Wade and others,
connected with the management of prisons
and the convicts, but nothing is known at
what will be done. The Governor says he
will go to the limit of the law in the matter.
CHILI WILL SETTLE.
A Commission to Adjast Long Standing
Axcerican Claims.
WasHINGTON, August 13.—Minister Egan
has definitely agreed with the Chilean Gov-
ernmentupon a convention for the settle-
ment of all unadjusted claims of citizens of
the United States against Chili by means of
a claims commissicu to meet in Washing-
ton. This action of the Minister chronicles
the satisfactory termination of a negotiation
which has been pending for a long time. No
general claims convention has ever been
celebrated with Chile and claims of Ameri-
can citizens date back for more than half a
century, though a great portion of them
have their orgin in the Chilean-Peruvian
war, 12 years ago. Mr. Egan reports thal
in all negotiations leading up to settlement
the Chilean Government has met him ina
most friendly spirit. Much satisfaction is
expressed at the Department of State at the
snccessful result of our Minister's efforts in
this and other matters recently brought to
a conclusion.
BIG STORMS IN JAPAN.
There Were Many Live Lostand Mucn
Property Was Destroyed.
Sax Francisco, Aug: 14—Advices from
Japan brought by the steamer Rio Janeiro
include reports of damage done by storm
and inandations at Okayama, Lokushima,
Yamanshi, Gumma, Saitama, Childa and
Hyogo. Of these Okayama seems to have
suffered most. Rain began falling July 20,
and was followed by a terrible $ypHoo
July 23. The Ashigawa river rose 24 feet,
causing the embankments to give way.
Over 5,000 hoiises were submerged and about’
100 persons drowned, in addition to which
several thousand acres of cultivated land
were laid waste, In Tokushima on the 23rd
a number of houses were blown down,
while the streets were inundated through
the effects of a tidal wave. Forty-one per-
sons ‘were eraser to death by falling
houses.
Reports fom Saitame-Ken concerning the
storm say the wind in its passage left a track
of destroyed and wrecked houses, in the
midst of which were found men and cattle
crushed to death.
Eight Negroes Drowned.
Eight persons, all negroes. were drowned
by the swamping of a ferry sloop Det veen !
Bullivan's Island and the Sataisnd. 8. C.
re h
Tw
“Gus animals were recently bittenby a mad
wolf at Lodz, Poland, and all are now rav-
ing mad and@beyond recovery. Their howl-
enty ad
| ings are terrible in theextreme.
Hotel Stratford, a new six-story building
at the corner of Fourteenth and H streets,
Washington, D. C., was. burned. Loss:on
furniture and fixtures is estimated at about
&, #14000. . Loss on build-
ye fully covered by insur-
seges, France. nae ht
E In ene
tached to the cage |
ed © the bottam ag
Gant
fire. in-
jured.
Heavy storms are : sweeping over Sheie.
and are doinig an immense amount of da-
mage. The rain'is falling in torrents and is
destroying the grape and olive crops. Much
damage has been doue by the rivers’ over
flowing their banks and in some places the’
low country adjacent tothe rivers resembles’
huge lakes. In Huesca the Tsuela: river is
out of its banks: The flood has already sry
ried away thirty houses and it is feared tha
other damage will e done.
Henry R. Lister, the head of the bigLister
firm of Buffalo, N. Y., plush manufacturers,
of Huddersfield, Eng,, is now a resident of
this country, and the famous plush. made by
that firm will hereafter be ‘manufactured
this country, the business having
moved from Huddersfield and brought here
in consequence to the McKinley, law.
At Rondout, N. Y., a romantic’ wedding
occurred. The contracting parties were a
‘daughter of Sitting Bull, the great Indian
“chief, and Peter Markle, formely of the,
United States army. Markle, it is said,
served with Chuster for a long time, and it
is reported that his bride once saved his life
when attacked by indians.
Mrs. Mary Humbird, of Folks Hills, Ind.
was fatally burned by exploding gasoline
which she accidentally spilled on the stove
as she was filling the reservoir. ‘A daughter
of Mrs. Humbird and James George, who
were standing near at 5 time, were also
seriously burned. /
An impromptu race between two
crowded excursion steamers at Peoria, IIL,
was enlivened by a fight with Winchesters
between the pilots of the rival boats. One
boat narrowly escaped being cut in two by
the others | §
An engin i |
crashed into Fandcar containing seven
Swedés in a rock cut near Schreiber. Three
were instantly killed and all the others dun:
gerously wounded.
Coroner McDowell completed the inquest
in the cases of Martin Reed and Hugh Coyle.
who lost their lives in the Noblestown, Oh. y
tragedy last Saturday. The jury rendered
a verdict that, after murdering Coyle, Reed
committed Shicide.
The loss is 3% 1000. Nox one Was
jon the New York, Lake
Erie and Western, Lehigh Valley or
Reading andthe Buffalo Creek are on
strike. { Its object is. virtually to obtain |
“higher ‘wages, although the question of the
10-hour day is involved.
Lossor WaGESIN A STrIRE.—James G.
Patterson, of Hartford, Conn., who built
Connecticut's great marble Capitol building
and now has the granite contract for the
$6,000,000 National library building at Wash
ington, says that so far the granite cutters in
New England have lost, in wages, by their
strike, about $2,800,000. . This sam would
have purchased half a dozen of the princi
pal plants in New England, with all the
cash capital needed for the business.
The puddlers of Hoover's rolling mill,
Norristown, Pa,, wer. granted an increase of
95 cents a ton over the rate now paid, mak- |
ing their wages hereafter $3.75 a ton.
MoxTREAL'S NAL STRIKE OVER.—The mill
workers’ strike, which began | in July, is
ended. All the factories have accepted the
scale of the Amalgamated Association with
a few slight amendments.
By order of the Illinois State Central Com-
mittee the Democratic campaign in Illinois
will be opened by a monster rally at Bloom-
ington, August 27. Prominent speakers
will attend. The local Democracy are mak-
ing great preparations.
Judge Gresham’ is at Thompson, Conn.
He denies the soports that he will take the
stump for the People’s party.
At What Cheer, Ia., the postoffice, Metho-
dist Church and ten other buildings. Loss,
$30,000; partly insured.
Nearly every business house in Havana
has closed its doors on account of the new
tariff imposed by Spain.
The Arch Priest Leonti has prohibited all
processions in Moscow, owing to:cholera.
At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Mrs.' Margaret
Van Fredenburg, of Red Hook, Duchess
county, celebrated the 104th anniversary of
her birthday.
Mrs. Lavinia Fillmore, a relative of Presi
dent Fillmore, celebrated her 105th birthday
at Buffalo on Saturday.
Republicans of the Ninth Michigan dis-
rict nominated John W. Moon for Con-
gress.
The Republicans of ‘the Third Kentucky
district nominated Hon. W. Gi Hunter for
Congress.
J. J. Serley, the presert Congressman ot
the First Iowa Congressional district, was
renominated by acclamation in the Demo-
cratic Congressional Convention at Fair-
field, Ta.
e Leagae Record.
The following table shows the standing of
the various base ball clubs:
t
Be
Cineitinati.......
ea.
: correspondents: faded 8
The — returns
of Agriculture show a :
in the condition of corn, raising
ly average from 81.1 in July, to
gust. In only four years since the
crop reporting, has there been, a
gust condition. In the year of worst
1881, it was 79, declining to 66 in
In 1890 it was 73.3, declining to 7
tober. In August, 1886, it was 80.
1887 it was 80.5. :
A slight improvement is. soled
States north of the Ohio river, and
States; near]
breadth west of the :
the lower States of the Atlantic Coasi
slightly lower in Alabama and Mi
| A small decline is seen‘in the Midc
except in New York, and alsoin the Este
States, though in both of these div sions
average is higher than in the West. |
The following averages of princi al
ois given: New York, 90; Pennsyival
5 Vinge, 90: Georgia, 97; Texas, 94 T
see,
Ohio, 81; Indiana, 74; Hing
Iowa. 79; Missouri, id Kansas, 81;
a pre
tendency to further improvement.
turns relating to the spring crop wer
lower, declining during the month
eneral average of 90.9 t0 87.2, The
‘tion was from 90 to 89 in Wiscon
to 87 in Minnesota, and 90 to851
..| Dakota. = There has been a
advance “in South
and Nebraska, with no change in Yo a.
the mountain States the condition is
ally high. In Washington a decline
ported from 90 to 78, a result of b
heat, and in Oregon from 91 to 76.
The eondition of other crop ave
follows: Spring rye, 89.8 instead of
July; oats, 86.2, a fall of one puint;
91.1 instead of 92; buckwheat, acre
condition 92.9; potatoes, 86.8, declining f1
90; tobacco, 88. 8, a fall from 92.7; hay. 93.
ANOTHER MILL STARTED
It is Promised the Homestead St
Works Will Be Running Full and
Double Turn Next Week.
HoxEsTEAD, PA., August 13.—All quie
Homestead. The 40-inch beam mill i
steel works was started up yesterday mi
ing with a crew of about a dozen m
Superintendent Potter said 101 ing
rolled during the day. “A college grade
was in charge asroller, and, Mr.
{understood the principle of thi
ism so well that, although he had nev
succeeded tolerably well the fi
while the last ‘beam was rolled ‘alm
i! as. the old men could do it.
h over the class of p
a. to work, they being nearly a
gent and in many instances very Ally
cated.
Twelve car loads of steel
+ shipped yesterday, it it i
fa hi Fl
new
ed from the company’s report. The report
showed that 6} tons of 2x2angles were roll
th
only two
were made. On June 2 the old crew aft
and made 41 cobbles.
is stated, that the old men were
careless while the new men are careful. :
The new hotses in the mill yard are ap !
proaching Som pletion, very fast; and it is:
‘said 8 or 10 of them will be occupied ito-day..
They are laid out on regular streets, ani
though very rude, will make quite
table temporary quarters. They ar
lighted: by electricity and hh
water mains will afford protection fi
The strikers sal insist that they
the victors. y
Potter, but think i is impossible | 10
5 ionists to fill the positions they
mysteriously disappear I
reporter asked some of the riRers
had become of their former companion
and received this reply: ‘Oh, those fel
have gone back to work; they zot sca
ideserted.” « This coming from ‘the .
‘themselves, isin contradiction tx
Crawford's
old men have returned to work.
me si
OPIUM SMUGGLERS,
A British Vesscl to to Bs. Saizad and tae ;
Moers ei
At Washington Solicitor Hepburn, of the-
department of justice, instructed the United:
States district attorney at Portland,
libel the British steamer Wilmington, a
prosecute with vigor sich of her office
ie ‘to ‘repofts received
treasury department, this
been engagzd for some . time
smuggling opium into the United States.
from Victoria, B.C. where there i isa larg
market.
The method of smuggling was fo, pa
opiim into barrels with some light
and to throw the barrels into the ©
river/at a point about 30 miles below Por
land, where they were secured by
ates in waitin and taken into the e
forshipment to the Eastern markety
anthorities have A watching this
for some time, and captured, tive
barrels thrown overboard on fer last :
and in this way secured good evidence of
her operations, y
COINCIDENTAL DEATHS,
Pwo Sisters, the Innocent V,
+ Harmless Ranaway, Drop
Reaching Home.
. LivooLn, NEB. August 10.—Ab 7 rman...
yesterday morning, Lizzie and Bertha Sch its,
‘aged 20 and 17 years respectively, w
ing from their country home into tow:
“when the team took fright at th y
‘ran away, throwing the
ground, They were assisted
Joiekly recovering hired a team
Bertha
This. proves, iti