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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.