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are a bout 40,000 more men than
inhere
imen in Chicago.
L e wool interest in Australia has
ered severely from droughts. The
-
have died by millions. Never
, ep F supply of wool shows a steady
[eiess, the
crease. rrm
The largest market iu the world for
purchase and l sale of mules is St.
f, reaches $6,000,000
mis, where the trade
rear- Atlanta comes next with a
Lie of $2,000,000
I It is stated by the Commercial Adver
that the fourth centenary of the
■scovery of America wilt be celebrated
ft Genoa by the revival of an opera by
ftorlacchi, entitled “Christofore Colom
ft "composed in 1828.
I By the naval manoeuvers just now fm
Ihed in the Irish Sea, it appears that
■theaverage speed of even the best ships
■as much below the figure given ia any
ftuthoritative naval work.” A Cunard
■earner ran by them as though they were
■nchored. •
I The Mexicans are hard at work on the
ftanks of the Rio Graude opposite El
■aso, Texas, building wing dams and
lillow mattresses to prevent their ter¬
ritory Inrbulent from being washed away by the
river. They have lost much
|ii past years in this manner.
I Somebody delving in the history of
Kewburyport, Mass., has found, asserts
[he New York Suit, 1 hat lumber was
bee sent across the Atlantic Ocean in the
form of a raft similar to that which re¬
cently arrived in the port of New Y ork
from Jog_;ins, Nova Scotia.
I There are 800,000 freight cars oft the
larious railroad lines in this country, of
■which 60,000 are the property of the
tenn-ylvania Central road. They range
Bn value from $300, the cost of construct
hnga flat car, to $1500, the amount tix
[pended kor in building the average Tefrigera
car.
_
The Mikado of Japan has almost fin
fished his new palace, which has taken
pix years for its construction. There are
[400 rooms in the building, and tho din¬
ing hall will seat 127 guests. The furni¬
ture of the State Department came Irom
Germany, Not the least interesting ob¬
ject ju the palace is an American piano.
Daniel A. P.udd, a young colored news¬
paper man who spoke at the Cincinnati
meeting of the Catholic Young Men’s
National Union, said, according to the
New I ork Sun, that tho Humber o
colored people in this country who are
‘‘practical Roman Catholics'’ is 200,000
at least. Several of them have been or¬
dained, and several bright young colored
men are now studying for the priest¬
hood.
The open executive sessions of the
United States t enate on the Fisheries
■question were begun on the 28th of
May last, and the question occupied
the attention of the Senate to the almost
total exclusion of other business through
tw,nty-two sittings. No similar topic,
declares the New York Tribune, in re¬
cent times has consumed so much time
snd filled so many columns of the official
‘‘Record.’’
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun
says: “Louisiana has one parish which
ought to contain a lot of very happy as
Well as prosperous farmers. There is
Rot a single mortgage on farm property
of record in the parish. Few, if any,
counties in Georgia can make such a
showing, and probably every county in
the western states has any number of
farm mortgages. Sabine parish, La., is
a model for the whole country.”
The great Lick telescope in California
promises wonderful discoveries in the
skies. Professor Holden is very enthu¬
siastic over its revelations, and says that
e has had views of the planets, the
stars, the milky way and the nebulae
that oo other astronomer ever before
had. The telescope resolves the nebul.e
ln Lyra into wreaths of “sun stutf”
which are in the process of developing
into solid bodies, and the observation of
Jupiter promises to solve some of the
curious questions about that planet.
ihe Indian school at Carlisle, Penn.,
n the oldest pupil of any educational
.
institution in the United States. He is
sixt y years of age. Crazy
& .s his name, and he was once Chief
of Crow Nation. He bold
^wrioraad was a
*o learn an able ruler. He is anxious
receLing ,^ e w '*y g °f white men and is
instruction in blacksmith
School. During the ........... winter he wili attend
He is
todhas more ref toed faee than often
. is
■= Ik B. i, docile and
R “ t00 » of •wilization before he
dies.
CONYERS. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1888.
A MARINE HORROR.
A FISHING SCIIOOMilt CUT IN
TWO AND SUNK BY A STEAMElt.
Twen y-Oiie Fishermen Drowned and Only
W Four SaVcd.
On the ea-tern edge of the Banks of New¬
foundland, at ten minutes to three o’clock,
the other morning, the National Line steam¬
ship Queen from Liverpool bound for New
York, cut down fchft FFPnch fishing schooner
Madeleine, which had twenty-five hands i m
board, all of whom but four were drowned.
Captain Healey, of the Queen, was not on
deck, and the bridge was in charge of Sec¬
ond Officer Jackson. The weather was a lit¬
tle hazy, and the steamer was going at about
ten knots an hour, her usual speed being
eleven knots. Officer Jackson says that he
Saw the schooner ahead, showing only a
white light, which he supposed was at her
binnacle. As ho could see no side lights he
supposed she was at anchor, and bjr keeping
on his course Could easily tiiSar her.
An instants after he heard two lyats on a
fog-born from the schooner, signifying that
she was on the port tack. The Queen's whis¬
tle was blown furiously, but it tfib iate
to do anything, and the stBaiher crashed into
the schooner angle. striking The her amidships, slightiv
through on an the smaller big steamer crashed right
without stopping the vessel,cutting Queen’s headway her in two,
to
ftny appreciable extent. Immediately there
was considerable excitement oh the 'Queen,
The people in their berths weri
alarmed might by the crash, and were Afraid that
they never see land again. Lydia
Thompson and h’er theatrical troupe weri
among tho 149 cabin pas engers oh .the Queen,
and Miss Thompson said that ill were badly
jseared. The ftxdteifitSnl; was soon allayed
when it was round that the only damage
Buffered foretopmast by the Queen was the loss of her
and a trifling injury about hetf
bow. The steamer was run ahead for a short
distance for fear of the propeller being
fouled by wreckage, aud then the engines
were put at full speed backward.
In four minutes the first boat was lowered,
and two others were in tile water ft very short;
time atterward, while the fourth boat was
ready to lower in case Of necessity. Within
ten minutes folif then were picked up. No
others cOuin be seen. The Captain of the
Schooner, trunk Dominick Roulet, was floating on
a when rescued, and Jules Jaquet, Marion the
second mate, Charles Meniger, and
Solomon, the cook, were taken although out of the
water. No one else was saved, the
Queen lay to near where the collision took
place for nearly four hours before proceed¬
ing on heb 'ddiirse for New York at 7 o’clock
ih this hiorning.
| The Madeleine was a two-masted fishing
smack of 154 tons register. Every one on
bpard was a native I of Ffahee, been except the
colored cook, op even he had so long
there, and Oft French smacks, that he knew
so Other language. The Madeleine lia 1 been
out for nearly six months, arid waspreparing
to return homo when the collision occurred.
LATEST NEWS,
James B. 8«amN@e, the confidential cle-k
»f the Dftiphin Manufacturing Company of
Plainfield, N. J., has confessed that he has
imbezzled the company’s funds to the
»mount of nearly $10 010 during a period of
lighteen in'oft’ths. He was arrested.
Mary Griffin, an old inmate of the alms¬
house at Meriden, Conn., died after starving
herself for fifty-five days, during which she
took nothing but water.
An amphitheatre was erected to assist in
the big annual celebration of Quincy, 111.
Scarcely had the show begun wl«n with a
Brash the vftst structure 20 feet hi , i, 50 feet
Wide and 7C0 feet long fell with a crash,
burying 5000 in the debris. Over 500 people
were injured, half of them seriously and one
fatally.
John J. O’Neil, of the Eighth District,
St. Louis, has been renominated for Con¬
gress,
The Chicago rioters and striking street
car employes and the police came in conflict
several times. Clubs were used with good
effect upon the mob, which retaliated with
stones. Several shots were fired, but none
vv-'th fatal effect. Captain Aldrich was seri¬
ously hurt and a hundred people clubbed.
Fully fifty policemen were struck with
stones and other missiles, and fought their
way through the infuriated mob with blood
streaming down their faces and dripping
from the ends of their clubs.
A. S. Nesmith, of California, has been ap¬
pointed chief clerk of the Signal Service,the
new office created by Congress.
Judge Allen G. Thurman spoke for
forty minutes before the United States
L upreme Court in the famous telephone
The President has vetoed the bill paying
Laura E. Maddox for 4042 boxes of tobacco,
valued at $74,000, furnished by her husband,
H. A. Risley, an agent of the Government,
at Norfolk, Va., in 1864.
Chas. Winslow, Vice-Consul at Guerero,
Mexico, has died of cholera
The British forces in the Black Mountains
have captured Seri and. burne 1 many vil
la^es. The enemy is falling back to the In
and will negotiate for peace. Seri will
, be permanently .. occupied , by v,v tw, the R-irish B. it.sh,
Emperor W illiam of Germany has terirti
Tinted nat his visit to Austria. Before leaving
he embraced , , and , hissed the fhn Fmneror Emperor Francis 1 rancis
Joseph three time3, and t en emora e an
kissed the King of Saxony and the Regent of
Bavaria.
An nhio-t unje.t LCS^O lMiiii I.
junior (who has been dividing his sights at
tention tention between between his his grammar grammar and ana s-grus
of the window;—“31a, our old horse is a
noun, isn’t he?”
His mother—“Yes, my dear.
Junior— “And the filly is a pronoun?”
I»-‘
» win and when pa came home mst
„„„ , heard him tel! the rt.ble.ho.T th.l
Jfi * an '" A
HEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.
Phiirp PALLEnoNT, the Italian who, iij
.sold blood, murdered his brother on the even*
swysAgh""- “ •*
mander Behjamim Gleadell, com¬
o_ white Star steamer Germanic
md commodore of the White Star fleet, died
an the voyage from Liverpool. His body
was brought to the port of New York.
In Glendale, N. Y., William and John
resting; Herrick, William’s brothers, wehfc giiiining. while
charged and John gun was accidentally dis¬
was killed.
Two of the horses in a chariot race at the
Sussex County (N. J.) Fair became unman¬
ageable and plunged through the fence into
the crowd of spectators, knocking down sev¬
eral of them and dangerously, perhaps fa*
tally, old wounding three men. Grant Pellet,
to citizen, was struck in the breast and
knocked under the horses’ hoofs and killed.
In the village of Oakfield, N. Y., Mrs.
inent Joseph T, Moore, the young wife of a prom¬
She had citizen, shot herself herself through With the heart:
dressed great card in
Spdtlbfe white and laid upon a blanket on the
floor of her bedroom when she fired the fata!
shot. Her married life was unhappy.
In a collision of trains near Oswego; N. Y:,
one man was killed and six others badly hurt.
Me Tammany Hall Democrats met in
convention and nominated Hugh J. Grant,
the present Sheriff, for Mayor of New York
city.
That faction of New York Democrats
known as the Cotmty Democracy has homi
hated Abram S. Hewitt fori Mayor Of New
York city by ftcclftnlatiott.
•losEni Smith, broker and politician,
killed Plainfield; himself N, by J, iiihaliftg illuminating gas at
^H» collapse of a flooring at the laying of
a corner stone of a Catholic Church in Read¬
ing, Penn., resulted in the serious in jury, of
about a hundred persons, a number of then!
being fatally hurt.
, FKancis W. Williams, of New York,
the senior member of the firm of Williams,
Black & Co., brokers, who suspended pay¬
ment recently by reason of losses sustained
through suicide tho Chicago at wheat corher, com¬
mitted the Grand Union Hotel,
A wooden stable at the foot of East Thirty
fourth street, New York, was consumed bj
fire and two hostlers and twenty-six horses
were smothered to death.
At East Watertown, Mass., in a little
pond, May Crafts, a young Woman about
twenty years old, petite and pretty, deliber¬
ately drowned herself.
George E. Leavenworth, night editor
of died the Bridgeport, laudanum Conn., Morning News,
alter taking with suicidal in¬
tent. He left a letter to his mother saying
that he was tired of life.
South ancl West.
A section master named Williams, of Nor¬
folk, Va., told his gang to do certain work,
which they did not do, and he spoke to them
roughly. Three of the gang became exas¬ He
perated and made for fired him with pickaxes. all
drew his pistoi and six shots, killing
three of his assailants;
the 1'^ere ftaval is despatch great haste boat shown Dolphin in for preparing ac
sea
Mare Island, Cal., her presence in Callao
being urgently demanded because General serious
complications have arisen betweeii
Caceres, the President of Peri), and the
syndicate of New York business men who
to© largely interested in railway enterprises
in that country.
About 1000 Chicago street car employes
are on strike for higher wages, and three
fourths of the people of the city are without
transportation facilities. The police are
constantly on duty to suppress rioting.
Three trainmen were killei and six others
injured by the collision of express and Railroad freight
trains on the Baltimore and Ohio
near Washington. The accident was due to
the negligent'^ of the freight trainmen.
A colored man named McCondon was
shot and killed at Birmingham, Ala.,.by a
party of four colored men, who took him to
the woods and made way with him.
N. B. Wade, of Knightstown, Ind,, mur¬
dered Ins wife and his aged mo;her, and af¬
ter taking a fatal dose of poison set fire
to his reside'ice. - The three bodies were
partially consumed in the flames.
The Supreme Court of Utah has declared
the Mormon Church corporation dissolved,
and its property escheated to the United
States Government.
Justice of the Peace Lawrence and a
friend named Lacy, who was drunk, visited
the Anniston (A a.) Hot Blast office and de¬
manded a retraction of certain statements
which Editor Edmunds refused. Then the
shooting began, Lacy firing at EdmUndSj Chapman
shooting him in the ariti. John
and a plumber named Tipney were shot in
the head. Their wounds were fatal.
Neck, An explosion in a grist mill at Charity
Va., killed George W. Dawley, the
proprietor.
J. R. North, a farmer with the near Rev. Independence, G. W.
Kan., quarreled Methodist minister, and shot him
Puckett, a
fatally.
yards, Schunemann’s packing been destroyed house in the by stock fire.
Chicago, has
Loss, $125,000.
The employes of the Chicago West Side
street railroads have gone on strike to assist
their striking comrades of the North Side
road, making 2000 men now engaged in the
movement for higher wages. A fight
occurred between people the strikers injured. and police, in
which twenty were
Washington.
The President and Internal Revenue Com¬
missioner Miller have returned from their
brief fishing excursion to the Upper Potomac.
They caught a good string of bass.
wish ngto^’mjentiy to arg^' a'' caf^beforc
p be Supreme Court, spent several days with
President Cleveland at his country seat,
“Oak View,’’ near the Capital.
The Senate has confirmed the following
nominations: L. W. Crofoot and C. F.
Templeton,to be Associate Justices of Dakota;
E. D. Sinn, to be Collector cf Customs at
Saluria, Texas: John H. Oberley, to be Com
misgi0ner of lndian Affairs.
Congress has passed the supplementary
legislation thought to be necessary for the
counting of the Presidential vote.
Foreign.
Emperor William of Germany and the
Emperor of Austria have been on a five
days’fleer-stalking trip,
——■ Two students ’ ■ —*---- who were in financial trouble
by agreement shot each other dead in the
street in a suburb of Vienna
The troops of the Ameer of Ishak Afghanistan' Kahn
have defeated the forces of at
«5SS*diisf__________ Tashkurgan
The town of Tiacohur, Mexico, has been
floods. Over five
tress.
S.'SkTSEj!
of Pekin, caused the death of hundreds c f
natives, the destruction of many houses, and
the rain oi the crops.
rndettt sioffti at Nokejorie, iti Japan,
8000 houses were demolished, eighty-five v«e
r?um 5a,000 era totally lost and 500 wrecked, and
dependent persons wounded, injured, or made
upon public assistance.
TRSc British fnan-of-war Osprey has cap¬
l tured . off Mocha three dhows, having Oti
board 204 slaves. The captains of the dhows
md four of the slaves were killed before the
slavers surrendered.
The death is announced of Father Schleyer,
the parish priest of Constance, France, and
the inventor of the new language known as
Yolapuk.
Sir Anthony MusgrAvE, Governor of
Queensland, is dead.
CONGRESSIONAL,
Senate Proceedings. the
1S9th Day.—T he House resolution for
investigation of frauds in the building of the
new Hale and aqueduct was The explained debate by the Senator Senate
Tariff bill passed.... opened by Mr. Allison. on Mr.
was
Y' nRpp i'onliorl Bay.—T
19, )th he Senate took ftp arid dis¬
cussed the conference report on the General
Deficiency Agreed tb,... bill. special The conference bill Was introduced report was
A Chief-Justice
granting to the widow Of
Waite his salary for the remainder of this
year... .Mr. Hiscoek spoke upon the Senate
Tariff bill.
191st Day.— Mr. Hale submitted appointed the report inves¬
of the special committee to
tigate tjie the Civil Service....The Senate Chief-Justice passed
bill paying the family of
White the balance of his year’s of Tennes¬ salary,
ainounting to $8745.... Mr. Bate,
see, made a speech on the tariff.
Hons© Proceedings.
of 228th Day.— for dredging The bill appropriating and improving a sum the
Bn. money Clair ship reported fa¬
Flats canal was Action upori the
vorably Senate fiffim committee.... Maritime Canal
bill to charter the
Company, of Nicaragua, was twice defeated
.... A resolution for the appointment of a
joint committee to investigate the Washing¬ The
ton attention Aqueduct of the matter House was during: agreed thb rest to.... Of the
day was taken up with the private calendar.
229th Day—T he bill giving to fruit
brandy the privileges accorded other spirits,
of three years’ bonded period in warehouses
under gaugers and delivered storekeepers, tariff was passed. speech
.... Mr. Wheeler a
criticising the Senate favorably substitute......Mr. House
Wheelef from reported Cbnimittee td Expenditures thb
t the on bill
in the Treasury $500,000 Department, establish ft
appropriating for' yellow fever to refugees.
camps Senate bill
.... On motion of Mr. Turner the
was passed, providing for. the disposal of tho
Fort Wallace Military Reservation In Kan :
sas....The following bills were introduced
and preferred: By Mr. Breekenridge, author¬ the
izing the construction of bridges across
propriating Kentucky River; $200,000 bv Mr. Dougherty, infection ap¬ in
to suppress
the interstate commerce of the United
States, passed, without
230th Day.— The House
debate, a bill appropriating $50,000 Exclusion to en¬
force the provisions df the Chineie
bill... The Senate Supplementary bill efifi
cerning Mr. McRae Presidential called electors the bill was to passed.... indemnify
certain arid up purchasers of overflowed
States
swamplands. No quorum was present and
the measure Was withdrawn. appropriation
231st Day.— The last of the
bills has been passed, the house having Deficiency agreed
to th» conference report on the
bill. Fillibustering tactics were then resorted
to, and then the house adjourned for two
days,
AWFUL RAILROAD WRECK.
Two Trains Collide With Fatal Ef¬
fect in Pennsylvania.
A most appalling acc dent occurred be'
tween 8 and 9 o’clock at night on the Lehigl
Valley Railroad in Pennsylvania, at a point
midway between White Haven aud 1’em:
Haven Junction, near the little station
known as Mud Run.
There is not a worse spot on the line foi
such an accident The track there runs close
beside the Lehigh River, a steep embank
Went sixty to sevOnty-live tracks to the feet river. high, running
down from the
One section of an excursion train return¬
ing from the Father Mathew celebration
at Hazleton, Pena, crashed into another
section.
The cars piled in a shapeless The mass, one ail
being stood upon its end. cars were
crowded to the doors, many women and
Children being among the passengers. The
cars weire smashed to pieces and hurled from
the track, rolling down the steep embank¬
ments.
Several cars'of the forward section were
telescoped and forty persons were killed out¬
right, and the total number of dead is injured. placed
at about eighty, while 150 were
Fortunately the river was low, or the ca e
would have gone into the water, and ttf
loss of life would have been still more ter
ribie.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The Emperor of China is in his eighteenth
year.
Jay Gould says his health no longer wor¬
ries ninL
Patti, the great singer, is writing her au¬
tobiography.
The King of Portugal is a translator of
Shakespeare.
The Russian Czar is soon to make a visit
to Jerusalem and its holy places,
Lady Dudley, the famous English
beauty, is as white as a pond lily.
Mrs. Cleveland has been making use of
her fall outing in the Adirondaeks.
The Queen of Italy, whose teeth are fine,
keeps an American demist always at court. |
It is feared that the Mikado of Japan has
contracted a pronounced habit of alcohol
ism.
T he King of Denmark will celebrate the
twenty-fifth 15. anniversary of his reign on No- \
Vember
R. Gunner, Once Emperor Maximillian’s
aide; is now keeper of a news stand at Dal¬
las, Texas.
Since he got back alive the Emperor of
Brazil is receiving all Sorts of manifesta¬
tions Of the people’s joy.
Aaron Huknb, of the Russian Imperial
Guards, has married » daughter of ex-Min
ister Lathrop, of Detroit.
Robert J. Burdette, the humorist, has
been licensed to preach by the Baptist
Church, to which he belongs.
Frank drifted Hatton, the ex-Fostmaster the Western Gen¬
eral, has into business as
agent for a newly invented stove,
General Boulanger has resumed his
daily receptions in Paris, and the agitation
in his behalf has been recOitimeneed.
Father Schleyicr, the inventor of Volar
puk, is dead. A fund for a monument to
bis memory will be raised by his followers.
Ex-GoV. Albert G. Porter, of Indiana,
is a portly looking genUerriftn of.medium
height,-with a well kept gray beard arid the
air of a banker.
Mr. Gladstone has recommenced his
autumnal recreation of tree felling, lie pre¬
fers to ciit fifths, arid leaves the sycamores
for younger hands.
The German Emperor on his ri deS at;the
army manoeuvres is accompanied by ri
mounted soldier, carrying an imperial purple
standard on a lance.
It is said that Master Workman Fowderly,
Of the K, Of L., who will lias for some time applica¬ past
been studying law, soon make
tion for admission to the bar.
A PROMfftENT woman lawyer Of Ohio is
Miss Florence Cronise, of Tiffin. She has
been in active practice for fifteen years, aud
has Secured a competence and a large list of
clieiiti Jo
General Joseph E. hUST-W, the ex
Confederate leader, is living quietly at the
Palace Hotel, San Francisco. He is the last
of the officers of the Confederacy to bear the
full rank of General.
Congressman William Walter Phelps,
pf New Jersey, has a fortune of $12,000,009,
Which is invested about and equally bond3. in He real is estate large
tod railroad of stocks a
holder Washington real estate,
Both in this country and iri Ufioab Britain
the name of the great Irish leader Parnell is
pronounced by many as though accented on
the last syllable. The Call Mall Gazette
instructs its readers to put the accent on the
first syllable, Fame 11
B P. Hutchinson, the Chicago wheat
manipulator, is averse to having allowed his photo¬ photo¬
graph taken and has never a
grapher to point a camera at him. His son
said a few days ago that he would give $1000
to get a photograph of his father,
The richest man in the National House of
Representatives is Congressman W. L. Scott,
of Pennsylvania. His fortune is said to reach
$40,000,000, the bulk of which was made
from mines and railroads. Mr. Scott is also
noted for being one of the best dressed men
in Cfingr'esri
LABOR NOTES.
There are 280,000 women milliners.
The annual output of our nail mills is 800,-
500 tons.
About 200,000 women find employment as
dressmakers.
Striking cigarmakers in Havana are com¬
ing to the United States.
Over 100,000 anthracite miners are em¬
ployed by six or seven men.
Keokuk, Iowa, has adopted the eight hour
rule for all its city employes.
T. B. Barry has resigned from the general
executive board of the Knights of Labor.
Agitation has brought about tbo aboli¬
tion of contract prison labor ifi Minnesota.
The Pittsburg glass factories have employ¬ re¬
sumed work, giving 7009 operatives
ment.
Kansas will-make a vigorous and per¬
sistent protest against convict labor in the
mines.
There are 200,000 arc lights in use in the
United States, and 1,000,900 incandescent
lamps.
The biggest passenger engines used in this
country are the long-legged flyers Of the ;
Pennysylvania Road.
A Pittsburg man has invented a nail ma
chine which will do twice the work that pres
ent marines accomplish and at $5 a ton less,
A California company, with a capita! of
$1,000,000, will establish a big iron plantnear
Milford, Utah, that will employ about 2000
York, The has Hebrew requested Peddlers’ Mayor Union Hewitt of not New to j
allow boys under sixteen to pursue the voca
tion - rapid introduction of the electric light I
The
into Nortuwestem sawmills shows the pro
gressive spirit of the lumbermen of this re
gion. i
Typographical Union No. 7, of New
York, has engaged an instructor to teach its
Son" 8 the teCbniCal P ° intS l “ En *‘ i3b COm ‘
have Stumm offered Bros., of Neuenkirchen, of $2./-0 for Germany the best
a prize the mbalarlonof dust by
means of preventing
the workmen engaged m grinding clay. [
The Internationa) Brotherhood of Boiler
Makers and iron ^Shipbuilders and Helpers ,
was formed at Chicago, with J une, 1880, and 3500. now
has 34 branches a membership of
An Allentown (Pena) firm has exhibi- 1
on
tion the largest knife and fork ever ru mu- !
factored. Each Is ten feet long and each has
an ivory handle. The cost of inanuf, cture :
$1300. I
The yard, pay which of the laborers reduced at the Brooklyn
navy each class was becau-e twenty-five ;
vents a day in of a reported
deficiency of appropriation, ibe has been restored
by an order of Le.retary of the Navy.
The RussianWorkingmens Uniou of New * ,
York has succeeded in organizing its country
men employed union. in furniture-making The Russian establish- j
ments into a union will
organize all its countrymen into trades unions
and form a council of unions speaking only
the Russian language. j
NO. 34.
NEWSY GLEANIN GHS
Cholera prevails in the Philippine Isl¬
ands.
The attempt to organize a grave-stone
trust has failed.
Four German frigates have been ordered
off to Zanzibar.
Minneapolis bakers fix the price of bread
at seven cents a loaf. -
There will be a national exhibition in
Palermo, Italy, in 1891.
The Canadian Government has ordered a
survey of the St. Clair River.
England and Italy have formed a mari¬
time alliance against France.
Wisconsin cranberries have been dam¬
aged twenty-five per cent, by frost.
Extensive opium smuggling across the
Dakota border has been discovered.
Emperor William's tour has aroused
great enthusiasm throughout Germany.
Tom King, the once famous English pugilr
ist, who defeated Heenan and Mace, is dead.
There is now no lumber in the Canadian
market. All of next season’s cut has been
sold.
A shortage of $40,000 lias been found in
the office of the Public Administrator of New
Orleans.
Poisoned candy is being sent around
Canada by some unknown person through
the mail.
A Cunard steamer will Halifax shortly begin the
monthly service between and
West Indies.
F. J, Rees, Chief of Police at Milwaukee,
has been removed from office on charges of
incompetency.
The English Currency Commission has not
been able to agree on the question of a bi
metolic standard.
Seattle, Washington Territory, halibut is ship
ping large q uantities of fresh to
Gloucester, M ass
EThe amount of loss to creditors in Eng¬
land and Wales through bankruptcy last
year was $35,574,525.
King Otto, of Bavaria, is sinking very •v
fast, and his fits of insanity are now more
frequent and violent.
A beauty show at Wiesbaden, the competitors, Germany,
ends in a free light among
the result of jealousy.
Great destitution prevails in Dakota be¬
cause of the failure ot ibe wheat crop, and
an ajlpfftl is made for aid.
The court .bouse and jail at Sac City,
Iowa, has burned. A prisoner named Charles
Carson was burned to deaf ' 1 .
Pasteur’s sheep method for preverit-toK tinea anthrax
among and cattle has been eao
Ceesfttlly in New South Wales.
There are $402,000,000 in mortgages which on
lands, lots and chattels in Illinois, of
$142,000,000 arc in form mortgages.
Cornell University has put up a new n
building which will be devoted to the scien¬
tific breeding of bugs and other insects.
The New York Bureau of Encumbrances and 269,727
lias removed 211 telegraph poles of that city.
feet of wire from the streets
Amehicanb have captured fifteen three diplomas^ bronze
twenty-six gold, six Bilver and
medals, at the Brussels International Expo¬
sition.
A San Francisco jury estimates a man’*
legs at *50,000. at least that is the verdict,
given George Smith, whose logs were para¬
lyzed by i»n injury. twenty-two and fe¬
A young Woman of a
male companion stopped and held up a Lon¬
don, England, laboring man and went
through him thoroughly,
SaMUel C. Pratt wrs Nev., parboiled he having in the
baths at Hot Springs, A‘“
s '
Patti has concluded ft contract with a
Brazilian impresario for next Reason in
Buenos Avres for $0250 a night and a further
contingent interest in the receipts.
It is computed that this year’s corn would crop, fill
if loaded for railroad make shipment, train that would
2 878 571 curs, and a
reach 10,449 miles, or two-thirds of the way
around the world.
The British Government will pay $250,000
indemnity on account of the loss sustained
thrmjgn the collision in tho River Tagus of
the British ironclad Sultan with the french
steamer Ville de Victoria,
A GREAT WAR SKIP.
The new steel government cruiser Balti¬
more has been successfully launched, b»
tween showers, from the Cramps’ shipyard,
in Kensington, Penn., in the presence of a
great crowd of Philadelphians and many
United States Government officials,
f No cards of special invitat ion had been sent
out by the Messrs. Cramps lor t>.’ n event, ex¬
cepting those sent to Washington, bn* *“«
gates of the immense shipyard were thrown
open to the public, *n<l notwithstanding tC«
fuin thousands of people gathered to witness
the novel sight. The cars containing the Wash
ington visitors arrived at the arrived shipyard at JSen 1:4a
p. M. Secretary Whitney from
York a few minutes later, and with the
Washington visitors was escorted to the
platform erected on ft level with tbo extreme
tip of the bow of the cruiser. Hundreds ol
workmen were at once put to work driving
th( , wedges and sawing tho timbers support
j n „ vessel. out!’* from the
At 2:25 cries of “Look null
workmen gave notice that the huge was
moving, and a moment later, as it graceiPOy
slid away, Mrs. Wilson broke the champagne
Crttle on the “d christened tho vesse
lhe Ba timore. ‘tlftTouflo The cruiser slid slowly mi^tS Md
ttoehrereandstouteof the and horns. Tbo
and the blowing of whistles
anchor g we re immediately gracefully dropped, and the
Baltimore stood resting in tho
Delaware river, vessel
The Baltimore is the largest the yet
constructed for what is known as new
navy. Bhe is 335 feet long over all, her
beam amidships is 18 48.5 feet, her mean
draught is 19.5 feet, and her displacement is
SnesTs 73<X?a?nature! diTgCd W.180
drire'to^toong ™^ “ will atthe of nineteen'toote masts, fitted
“ “ military r H ho carry two
J, tops, and her crew will consist
She has a protective deck of
thick steel plates,and under this,down below
the water line, are placed the rudder and the
steam steering gear. being intended for effec
The new cru jser, will be armed
tive service in time of war,
with a main body of four eight-inch breech
loading rifted guns in sponsons 18 feet above
the water. There will also be a second
battery of six rapid firing six-pounders, six
Hotchkiss revolvingcannon, and four going
guns. She will also carry rpeao
winching tubes or F uns ' .
The Baltimore can haff-f^S . Atlantic
^n ^ ” to *4u f daV? ! *nTa
JJyTLL to tb a t of the great passenger
* ccaraer5 '
________ discovered in Helena,
5r~g5S _
tracts < wer# The
Montana A,;ft bv workmen digging Chance a sewer. Gulch,
0 n ureat Last
ii t panned out fifteen cents to the pan,
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