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TELEGRAPH AND CABLE;
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON¬
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM'S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
It. is generally understood at Washing¬
ton that the Behring sea negotiations
have failed.
Waring Brothers, of Elkton, Ind.,
manufacturers of fertilizers, have made
an assignment.
John Keenan, of 1884 “boodle” aider-
man notoriety in New York, on Tuesday
gave bail in the sum of $40,000.
Collection of internal revenue fur the
ten months of the fiscal year ending June
80, 1890 amounts to $114,546,276.
One of the New York Central freight-
heuses, at Albany, burned Thursday
nigllf Loss $125,000; insurance un-
known.
The Weber Piano factory, in New
York, was gutted by fire Monday after¬
noon. Loss, $125,000; insurance,
$80,000.
The United States squadron of evolu¬
tion sailed from Gibraltar Monday for
Tangier, whence it will sail for Rio de
Janeiro.
The Iowa Indians, in Indian Territory,
have accepted the offer of the govern¬
ment for their lands. This will add 221,-
618 acres to the public domain.
J. S. Meadows, postmaster at Alma,
Arkansas, has been arrested on a charge
of stealing registered letters. Decoy
letters were used to detect him.
S. A. Kean & Co., of Chicago and New
York, have taken $250,000 five per cent,
thirty year bonds of the city of $253,127 Chatta¬
nooga, Tenn.. paying thereof
An “original package” case has been
made at llcnning, Minn., by a saloon
keeper, who had no license, but sold
original packages in defiance of the local
laws.
In consequence of over-speculation in
timber and decline in prices in England, Wade
the leading lumber firm of Smith,
& Co., of Quebec, is in financial difficul¬
ties. Liabilities about $2,000,000
President Dear, of Mexico, places little
importance in the report of filibusters
crossing the line from lower California,
and says the Mexican government has suf¬
ficient forces to repeal any invaders.
A Washington special says that the
Chilian members of the Pan-American
conference have filed their formal objec¬
tion to the compulsory arbitration adopt¬
ed by the majority of the conference.
George Francis Train arrived at Taco¬
ma, Washingt n, at 7 o'clock Saturday
night, having completed his trip around
the world in sixty-seven days, thirteen
hours, three minutes and three seconds.
An attempt was made, Friday night, to in
blow up the Haymarket nitro-glycerine monument
Chicago. A tin can of
was placed on the base of the monument
and the fuse lighted, but the fuse charred.
At Canandaigua, N. Y., Frank Fish,
who killed John Callinain on the 26th of
January last, was sentenced to die by
electrocution at Auburn state prison dur¬
ing the week beginning July 13th.
A number of gentlemen, prominent in
political and literary circles of Marid, as¬
sembled Monday, and appointed a grand
committee to arrange for a suitable obser¬
vance by Spain of the Columbus centen¬
ary in 1892.
The St. Pifris Petersburg, Ciecle publishes giving the a details telegram of
from
a conspiracy, the center of which is said
to be in Berlin, for the organization of a
rising against Russia in the Baltic pro¬
vinces.
A London dispatch of Thursday, says:
Advices from Buenos Ayres state that
there has been an on "°ak in Puerto
Allegro. In the r iflici .ventv-six sol¬
diers were killed. Forty soldiers were
injured.
The committee appointed to examina
the affairs of the defunct Bank of Ameri¬
ca, in Philadelphia, reported to the de¬
positors on Tuesday their belief that fifty
per cent or more would be realized on
their accounts.
Dr. W. C. Hatler, of Russelville, Mo.,
charged with the murder of one Sloan, an
Indian, in the Cherokee nation twenty
years ago, prominent physician
slaughter, lie is a
of Russelville, Mo.
A Chicago paper says that Dv the com¬
pletion of three deals within the past
few days, the school book publishing
trust has been completed, ninety in the per United cent
of that entire business
States having been taken in.
The Kansas City Star has reports from
grain men throughout Missouri, and says
that as a whole the indications dispatches are excel¬ en¬
couraging, and the are
lent that this year's wheat crop will equal
that of the past year. 30,000,000 bushels.
A special of Monday from Ottawa, says
the Dominiou government have informed
the owners of sealing vessels on the Pa¬
cific coast, that they can offer no assur¬
ance that their vessels will be free from
molestation if caught by American cruis¬
ers in the Behring sea.
An earthquake shock was felt in the
vicinity of Tribes Hill, N. Y., soon after
7 o'clock Sunday morning. The build¬
ings trembled, dishes in the cupboards consid¬
rattled, and the inhabitants were
erably alarmed. The duration of the vi¬
bration was one second.
Michael Sheehan, aged Steve twenty-one Brodie
years, attempted to imitate
by jumping from the Mohawk rivet
bridge, in Amsterdam, N. Y., Monday
afternoon. The distance was over 360
feet. Sheehan jumped head first, and
after the water did not rise again.
Four aldermen and seven ex-aldermen
of DesMoincs, Iowa, have been indicted
by the grand jury for wilful misconduct
in drawing from the city treasury illegally
sums aggregating $12,000. Most of them
gave bond for trial, and will claim they
had the right to the money as pay for
their services on committees.
A dispatch from Berlin, Germany, says:
While a party, consisting of several army
officers and a number of ladies, was out
boating at Potsdam Tuesday, the boat
was accidentally upset, and six of the of¬
ficers and several of the ladies wera
drowned. By a similar accident at Dan¬
zig, seven persons were drowned.
Lord Knutsford, British colonial secre¬
tary, has received an angry address to the
Queen from the Newfoundland legisla¬
ture. The address protests in the strong-
est terms against French aggressions,
bounties and smugglings, which it says
the English government appears lu tol-
erate, and absolutely declines to consent
to the arbitration of the lobster dispute-
THE KEMMLER CASE.
TI1E SUPREME COURT DENIES APPLICATION
FOR A WRIT OF ERROR.
A dispatch from Washington, says:
The supreme court of the United States
on Friday denied the application for a
writ of error in the case of Kemmler, un¬
der sentence of death by electricity. The
court quotes the opinion in the Hurtado
case on the meaning of the phrase “due
process of law. ” The change in the form
of death was within the legitimate sphere
of the legislative power of the state. The
legislature of the state of New York de-
termined that it did not inflict cruel or
unusual punishment, and its courts have
sustained that determination. This court
cannot see that the prisoner has beeu de¬
prived of the due process of law. In or¬
der to reverse the judgment, this court
should be compelled to hold that the
court of appeals had committed an error
so gross as to deprive the prisoner of his
constitutional rights. The court has no
hesitancy in saying it cannot do this. furth¬ It
is stated that Lawyer Sherman will
er delay the execution of Kemmler by the an¬
other appeal to the supreme court of
United States. He claims that there was
no ruling on the writ of habeas corpus
case in Judge \\ allace’s court.
THE COMMISSIONERS
AT LARGE OF THE WORLD’S FAIR AP¬
POINTED BY PRESIDENT HARRISON.
The president Monday afternoon ap¬
pointed the world’s fair commissioners at
large as followers: Augustus E. Bal-
lock, of Massachusetts, with Henry In¬
galls, of Maine, as alternate; Thomas W.
Palmer, of Michigan, and James Oliver,
of Indiana, as alternate; Richard C.
Iverons, of Missouri, and Robert W.
Furnas, of Nebraska, alternate; Edvviu
II. Ammidown, of New York, and
Gordon W. Allen, of New York, as al¬
ternate; Peter A. B. Widener, of Penn¬
sylvania, and John W. Chalfant, of
Pennsylvania, alternate; Samuel M. In¬
man, of Georgia, and William Lindsay,
of Kentucky, alternate; Henry
Exall, of Texas, and Henry L.
King, of Texas, alternate; Mark L.
McDonald, of California, and Thomas
Burke, of Washington, commissions as alternate. He
also signed appointed the the of com¬ of
missioners by governors
forty-nine states and territories, includ¬
ing Oklahoma and the District of Col¬
umbia.
A CASHIER’S THREAi
TO EXPOSE PROMINENT CITIZENS AS IMPLI
GATED IN HIS SHORTAGE.
A Binghampton, N. Y., dispatch of
Tuesday, says: In the judgment of lead¬
ing citizens there is a shortage in ac¬
counts of C. A. Thompson, cashier of
the suspended Oswego National bank,
variously estimated from $20,000 to $75,-
000. Bank Examiner Geteinan, of Al¬
bany, refuses to make any statement and
Thompson is equally noncommittal, ex¬
cept to declare that if Oswego's pushed to most the sub¬ wall
he will expose two of
stantial citizens, who are implicated in
the shortage.
A SHAVE AND A DRINK.
NOVEL SCHEME OF AN ALABAMA BARBER
TO DRAW CUSTOM.
Ed Robinson opened a barber shop at
Robinson was arrested charged with vio-
lating the revenue law, He was carried
to Birmingham, 011 Friday, for trial. He
made a strong case, claiming that he
charged nothing for the liquor, but gave
it away to his customers. He was bound
over to the federal court
A BIG AUCTION.
2,468 SEAL SKINS DISPOSED OF TO THE
HIGHEST BIDDER.
A San Franciaco dispatch says: Mar¬
shal O. Spartcr, of Alaska,sold on Thurs
day, in this city at auction, 2.468 seal
skins seized in the Behring Sea last illegal year
by the revenue cutter Brush, from
sealers. Almost the entire l it was pur¬
chased by the North American Commer¬
cial company, the present lessees of the
seal fishing ground. The aggregate will
amount realized was $24,256, which
be turned over to the United States gov¬
ernment.
A good deal of excitement prevails in the
phosphate fields of Florida consequent upon
lauds, and that those who have taken home-
steads must give them up. A small army
cVmT* n m the f stakm “ Ut uuner * 1
HOW A BASEBALL IS MADE
WATC HING THE BUILDING OF THE
LIVELY SPHERE-
The Nucleus is a Rubber Ball, Around
Which Yarn is Wound—Covered
With Horse Hide.
The building of a league ball is a most
careful and skilful job, and it requires a
nice judgment to follow accurately the
League rules as to the measure and weight
while the ball is in process of building.
It must weigh exactly five ounces and
measure niuo inches in circumference—no
more and no less—otherwise some cranky
official of a club will kick, and make his
kick respected, from the retailer back to
the jobber and the manufacturer. The
w0rkskop in a baseball manufactory is not
a tid lace Thfc pre ttiest sight about
ifc is t h a t of barrels of balls ready for
ki and looking like some kind of
fruit in a market stall. One
of the most noted baseball manufactories
is in Dey street. On the door of the third
floor in the rear is the legend, “No ad¬
mittance.”
Let us step inside and watch the work¬
man build a League ball. He is a quick,
nervous American, one of many who
stand beside the windows at a funny lit¬
tle apparatus which does duty as a work
bench. It is an upright standard of hard
wood, waist high to the workman, and
about six inches square at the top. In
the top of the standard is a cup like the
half of a sphere. It is not as large as a
baseball. Beginning the building of a
ball, the "workman takes from an old
peach basket full of rubber spheres one
of the little globes. It is the nucleus of
the ball. It is made in this country by
a rubber company expressly for baseballs.
For many years, and until three years
ago, the rubber balls were imported from
England, but there was complaint that
the rubber was too dense, and an Ameri-
can rubber company, after many experi-
ments, made a solid rubber ball with a
livelier rebound than the imported. The
rubber balls are run into moulds like old-
time musket balls, and. as with them, a
rim is left around the ball by the failure
of the gides of the mould to exact iy fit
together. Taking the rubber ball in his
left hand the workman holds it at the
ends of his fingers, and taking an end of
blue woolen yarn he winds it on the ball
with a motion of his right hand so rapid
that you cannot follow it, while with the
left hand, as the ball grows larger, lie
turns it so slowly one way and another
that the ball can scarcely be seen to re¬
volve. As it grows larger it is worked
down from the fiuger tips into the hollow
of the hand. The yarn is the old-fasb-
ioned blue stocking yarn, and the play¬
ers will have blue yarn or they kick.
Why they insist on its being blue no one
knows, for the natural wool is white. It
is bought by the manufacturer in lots of
2000 or 3000 pounds. the
Now the workman shows use or
the standard with its cup-shaped hollow.
Every minute, or sometimes every few
seconds, he puts the growing ball on the
standard and with a wooden mallet, flat
and rather wide and short, he beats the
ball, turning it about in every way as he
hammers it. To make the ball more
solid the yarn is dampened.
The ball is approaching eight inches in
circumference, and he knows by long
practice when be has wound enough yarn
to give it this circumference. The ball
must be eight inches in circumference,
including a horse-hide cover. The horse
hides are bought in sides and in lots of
200 or 300. The hind quarters of the
sides, however, arc cut off before pur-
chase, as the skin is too heavy for use in
baseballs.
For League balls the finest parts of the
side of leather are selected. It is tanned
especially for the making of baseballs in
a way to make the leather tough so that
the stitches will not break out. i he cut-
ting is not done by hand. It is done
with a steel die, and boys work at
nothing else all day but with a die and a
mallet over a bench and leather. When
the builder of the ball begins his work
he throws forty or fifty stamped pieces
of leather into a tub of water. The
leather must be wet through, so that
when it dries it will be as tight as the
bark to a tree and as hard as iron. The
workman takeg twoof the cur ious shanerl
thread > he begins anywhere on the seam,
aad sews rapidly around until he has
made the circuit of the sphere.
The chunk is laid away to dry. The
best makers let them lie w eeks to dry,
but the workmen will take tip one of the
dry chunks and finish a ball for us. He
winds the horse-hide covered ball with
blue again until it approaches the regu¬
lation size. Then comes the last wind¬
ing with camel’s hair thread, imported
for the purpose. The thread is damp¬
ened, and it winds far more tightly
around the ball than the finest silk. The
pounding of the ball is continued until
it is supposed to be heavy enough and
large enough. To make sure that the
rules are being observed, the workman
from time to time puts the ball into a
scale for weighing letters. The scales
hang ou the side of the window.
The final process of building is putting
on the last cover. It is necessary that
the cover should be dampened, and
about the process of dampening the
workman says there is a secret, and you
mustn't ask him ho. it is dons, the
cover must be dampened so as to stretch
0D tightly, and not too tightly. If it is
too damp it will be spotted and won’t be
pretty. The sewing is with either ted
or white Irish flax linen, most of the
League players preferring red. After
sewing on the cover there remains only
the wrapping of the ball in tissue paper
and afterward in tinfoil, and finally the
packing of if in a stout paper which it
comfortably fits.
A League ball costs to jobbers $1.50
at retail. The manufacturers sell them
for $12.50 a dozen. It is estimated by
Mr. Brock, of Brock & Son, manufac¬
turers, that $2,000,000 is a small estimate
on the amount spent every year in this
country on baseballs. They are sent to
South America, Australia, the West
Indies and Canada, and an active trade
has recently sprung up with Germany.*•-
New York Sun.
V-'r SELECT SIFTINGS.
English street cars have seats on top.
In Matabele-lands, Africa, a wife, costs
five cows.
It is contrary to law in Illinois for first
cousins to marry.
Eggs with dark colored shells are the
richest and best.
Chinamen use the skin taken from the
sturgeon by tanning it into leather foi
shoes.
Wine is now transported in Europe in
tank cars, like petroleum in the United
States.
Boston has a cat hospital where the
neglected, ailing or superannuated feline
is made comfortable.
The city of Boston has four women in
her School Board and two colored men
in the Common Council.
The lamp posts in Cincinnati were
draped recently in memory of a deceased
director in the gas company.
Twin gorillas were born at the London
“Zoo” the other day. They are the firsl
of their species ever born in England.
The largest canoe ever constructed ia
the United States is that now being buill
for the Rochester (N. Y.) Canoe Club. II
will be manned by sixteen paddlers.
The daily rations of a pair of ostriche*
on a farm in San Diego County, Cal., an
forty pounds of beets for breakfast, an4
half a peck to a peck of grain fw
dinner.
A Virginian, who has sung at 385
funerals during the past two years, in¬
tends to put some of his most affecting
pieces on phonograph cylinders, to bi
used at his own funeral.
In China, the man who lives nearest
the scene of a murder is accused of the
crime, and he must prove his innocence
or else stand the punishment. It doesn’t
take a Chinese detective long to find a
clue. *
A man named Catoni, a giant above
seven feet high and proportionately stout,
with an enormous head, has just died in
Italy. Before his death he sold his skele¬
ton to the Anatomical Museum at Rome
for $2000.
Plowing by steam has been introduced
in Walla Walla Valley, Washington, and
is pronounced a success. Heretofore it
has cost $2 per acre to plow, while un¬
der the new system it can be done for
forty cents.
A Pittsburg couple are the happy pos¬
sessors of a girl baby that is something of
a freak. Its skin is blue, as though the
little one had been rinsed in indigo water.
The doctors say the peculiarity is due to
faulty action of the heart.
Telegraphers have ways of communi-
, eating to each other unknown to common
folks. Said one of them: “If I am sit-
ting next to an associate in an audience
room, I never speak. I simply tap out
my message on the hand of my friend.”
In the time of Alexander the Great,
painters knew but four colors, viz.:
-white, black, red and yellow. The
wor ds to designate blue and yellow were
wanting to the Greeks in the mest an-
c i eQ t times of their history, they callin'*
these colors black and gray,
A Novi woman doesn’t claim to be con-
nected with the English aristocracy, but
just the same she was born on the same
day that ushered Queen Victoria into the
world, she was married on the same day
that the Queen and Prince Albert were
wed, and her first child wa3 born on the
same day that Albert Edward assumed an
entity.
During a complete calm the sea is said to
j iave suddenly receded from the shore,
leaving it ba ^ e *° a de P th of ten fathoms,
The water of the port rushed , out to sea,
teann g many of the ships from anchorage,
and causing a great amount of damage,
*^Her a short time the sea resumed its
ususd level,
Bismarck’s Successor.
As a suave, intelligent and colorless
administrator, offending none and en¬
deavoring to please all, the Emperor has
made a good choice in the new Chancellor.
He will not attempt to overshadow the
personality of his master, whose purpose
it is not to diminish his own brilliance
by employing ambitious and clever
Ministers. Caprivi, moreover, is s
bachelor. The Bismarck gatherings in
the Wilhelmstrasse, wherein the midst
of small Parliamentary stars, the Prince
played the part ot King, will be known
no more; nor will those famous diplomatic
dinners on the old Emperor’s birthday,
when the Princess would light the
cigarette of any plenipotentiary whose
favor was to be cultivated, be seen in
the Prince’s old garden room again__
London World.
NEWS OF THE SODT
BRIEF NOTES OF AN |J
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALE POINTS J t
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS J
FLOODS, ETC.
The Suburban Press associat'
was at Norfolk Ya
day.
In St. Louis it is claimed that t
placing of horse-cars by electrical!
propelled cars results in a saving
least 40 per cent.
Tuesday night at and a meeting of 4
Ga., job printers publishers .
lanta branch of the United Typo: J
America was organized. I r
A cott on seed oil mill will be ]-|
lishcd in Jackson county, Ga. Alliance!
under the direction of
cost will be about $15,000.
Beu Myers, catcher of a colorj Monti
ball club, while playing in at moutl
Monday, was struck the ij
ball thrown by the pitcher and
killed.
John Cass Stevenson, and James Ala., Cumming^ pluck*
ers, near f!
chewed some poisonous died herbs al
river bank. Both within
afterwards.
Governor Buckner, of KentucJ il
called an election for a successor Junl
tor Carlisle, to be held on
There arc a number of candidates,! (I
ing Theodore Hallam, formerly
law partner.
Governor McKinney, of Virgin* all!
issued a proclamation ordering ui!
offices closed on the day requesting! of the
of the Lee statute and secull
of the state to refrain from
ployment ou that day. J
Information was received blackbenP at ?!
N. C., Friday, that the
will be short in the Piedmont seq
the state, where it is a source a
revenue. time So there far as ev*er can failed be learnej l|
the first to
crop of blackberries.
A dispatch of It Saturday is generally from Foj cd
ley, Ga., says: j
now that the peach in this entire
is a failure, and with the than most faj
circumstances not more oue-tq
the quantity will be shipped frol
that was shipped the past past railroaJ seal
It is reported that the
west of the Mississippi three are to M
binod into not over great sya
the Northwestern, the Southwest! absorb
the Middle divisions. The Fvanciseo|
the St. Louis and San
Santa Fe is regarded as a fuithe:
this direction.
A Chattanooga, Tcnn., dispatch!
The committee on the confedei
nounced union, to that, occur there Thursday in July, eveninj hj
on given!
3, an entertainment will be
large tent, for the purpose of ral
fund to erect in that city an eqq
statue of General N. B. Forrest.
A bill has been introduced in thi
iaua house of representatives, authl
the governor to offer a reward
rest of Edward A. Burke, late
urer. The act provides that
Burke must be delivered to the
Louisiana. It in appropriates the
of any funds treasury
wise appropriated.
Captain Anderson, of the ship
arrived at San Francisco Monday:
the schooner Mary Kimball. He
that his ship was wrecked April 'll
Hennine’s rock, Lanck island, ini
sea, nud seventy-seven
The Oneida had on board one
and ten Chinese and forty-five
nearly all on the way to the
nery, on Lanck island.
A bill has been favorably which
the Louisiana legislature
every contract, combination in till
of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy
restraint of trade or commerce, or
or limit the amount or merchandise quantity
article, commodity or produced !
manufactured, mined, provides
in the state, illegal, and
penalties for its violation.
A dispatch of Saturday, from 3a
burg, S. C., says: The Gaffney has put Ciq
and Improvement company
from the old Magnetic Iron eo
about 7,000 acres of mineral lands
county for $60,000. For the p* !
months iron capitalists from Pd*
Pa., have been quietly buying t
rights to property adjacent Magnet* to these]
In ante-bellum days the and"
company operated furnaces
mills on this property.
Home-made Arms, i
When two years ago, William Y
of Rockland all the lost both arms in and a lin] j
quarry, surgeons
-pecialists said there was no way be nj
ing an artificial arm that could
luted by the unfortunate man so
could feed himself, as his arms
putated near the shoulder.
fellow-workmen. Wilbert C.
Timothy E. McNamara did not
so easily, but determined, if Mr
Mher way to find arms for
-hev would make them themselves
•ordingly they set to work, and ' T
setter tools than jackknife,
itc., they not only made himself two
which Mr. Spear feeds
nany other things, but have also
i patent on the invention, bv wind
to be hoped they will make lots of 4
—[Rockland (Me.) Courier-Gazotw
It is -predicted that three
there will not be a horse-car in
service in anv city in this country.