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VOL. I.
New York leads the States in the num
her of times she has been represented in
the Cabinet, to-wit: twenty-six times.
About 1,400 members of Cambridge
University, England, have signed reso
lutions protesting against the admission
of women to the university.
On the truck farms of the United
States in 1889, by the labor of 210,705
men, 9,2s4wqmen, and 14,874 children,
aided by 75,806 horses and mules, work
ing -$8,971,000.70 worth of implements
upon 534,440 acres of land, valued at
$70,156,292.59, there was produced
truck valued at $70,517,155.
The poverty of the peasants around
\v?rsav>-, i'Giuuu, IS SO great taint vviiOio
gangs of them have made it a practice to
steal coal from the freight trains which
enter the city by night. Some of the
gang jump on the trains in motion and
throw the coal on the road, which their
coadjutors gather in sacks and wheel
barrows. The railroad companies have
obtained permission to place guards on
each train.
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X series of experiments are being
carried on at the New York navy yard
by naval engineers with anew chemical
compound, named by its inventors
“kem-kom.” This is a solution which
is claimed to greatly increase the efficiency
of coal as a fuel. The coal is drenched
with it, and it is claimed it supplies
greatly increased quantities of oxygen
to the tire in combustion. The trials are
giving very good results, though no
definite information will be attainable
until the board makes an official report.
I The German Government has just fur
nished some of its women employees
with a uniform that is as picturesque as
it is becoming. The fortunate ones are
the telephone operators of the govern
ment service, and every operator receives
b summer and winter outfit. The sum
mer waist is made of some light woolen
stuff, striped in white and blue, while the
winter jacket is of fine tricot cloth of
postilion blue. The waists have a collar,
breast revers and cuffs, bound in red,
and they are very natty and attractive.
The imperial telephone service of Berlin
is entirely in the hands of women of
from eighteen to thirty years of age, and
they make a very pleasing picture in
their new uniform.
The Detroit Free Press remarks:
There is certainly a reaction irom the
tendency to ape all that is English, at
least we are justified in so judging if
the protests to be found in almost
every newspaper and magazine are cri
teria. With characteristic patience the
real Americans for a long time contented
themselves with ridiculing the cheap and
vulgar imitation of foreign dress, man
ners and customs that is seen on every
hand. Now they grow impatient and
ashamed, and there is a tone of indigna
tion when they speak of these people
who, like all vulgarians, are ostentatious
and are apt to attract the attention of
strangers and be accepted as types of
Americanism. They would be greatly
hurt at this, and so would their sensible
countrymen.
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Frank Leslie's says: “The new Federal
building at Texarkana, Texas, the corner
stone of which was recently laid, is, in
the matter of site at least, unique and
peculiar. As is well known, the State
line passes through the centre of Tex
arkana, dividing Arkansas from Texas.
Two postoffices, two city governments
and two sets of courts convene regu
larly. This building is located in the
most prominent part of the city, and
immediately over the State line, half
being in Arkansas and half in Texas.
The United States Court of the Eastern
District of Arkansas, and kindred offices,
und one general postoffice to take the
place of two which the Goverment now
■maintains, will be located in the build
ing. It required a special act of both
State Legislatures, and a special pro
vision of Congress, 1o wipe out the juris
diction of the two States over the same
building before the plans could be car
ried out. It will now be a question
whether service can be secured by the
States over individuals within the in
closure, and whether the power- of one
court over two States can ever be con
tested, in the event of a defendant cross
ing the hail into the other State during
the trial. This is believed to be the
only instance cf its kind, and it will no
<iubt be of interest in the future."
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GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Ox Brief Items of Interest Fxom
Various Sources.
The Central National bank, of Bioki-n
Bow, Neb., closed its doors Friday.
The Excelfeior Company, of Phila
delphia, made an assignment Monday for
the benefit of creditors.
Earthquake shocks were felt Monday
at Castelnuevo, Preschiera, Somna cam
pagna, and Desenzano, Italy.
The architectural iron workers of Chi
cago are on a strike for a reduction of
hours and an increase in pay.
A New York dispatch siys: Fritz
Emmett, the actor, died at 11:15 o’clock
Monday Morning, of pneumonia.
The tugboat Devo ran into and sunk
the yacht Emilia in the Hudson river,
opposite One Hundred nnd Tenth street,
New York City. Tsvo meu were
drowned.
Advices of Sunday from St. Peters
burg, Russia, state that a barge convey
ing 500 convicts to Siberia sank in the
Volga at Nijni Novgorod. Many con
victs were drowned.
A cablegram of Sunday from Rome,
says: Earth tremors, sometimes of terri
fying violence, continue in the Verona
district, threatening complete the de
struction of the town.
A tenement house fire in .New Yoik
Sunday morning resulted in the death of
three members of one family, tenants of
the fifth or top floor, Phillip Brady, his
wife, and a thirteen-year-old son.
A. I). Cooley and C. H. Anderson, of
Cedar Rapids, la., and two young ladies
living at Rockford, went out boat-rid
ing at Rockford Sunday evening. * The
boat capsized, and all were drowned.
The world’s fair fine art building, it
was definitely agreed on Tuesday, is to Le
put in Jackson park instead of on the
lake front, down town, several miles
away. This places the whole exposition
at last on a single site.
Carl Jockheck, an original package
agent representing a Kansss City liquor
house, was fined $1,500 Friday in the
district court at Topeka and sentenced
to ninety days in the county jail. Under
the Kansas prohibitory law this is equiv
alent to a sentence of 1,590 days.
Sunday morning a fire broke out in the
main building of the Philadelphia Abat
toir Company, Thirtieth and Arch streets,
Philadelphia. The structure, together
with two refiigerating houses, containing
valuable machinery, 1,000 carcasses of
dressed beef, and 10,000 green hides, was
consumed.
The case against Thomas P. McCrystal
and James Cooney was called in the
criminal court at New Orleans Monday.
They are charged with having promised
to pay the expenses of the family of
Frank J. Oorsley, a tales juror in the
ll< nuessay case, while the latter was de
tained by service on the jury.
A cablegram from Bale, Switzerland,
says: The lower one of the two railroad
cars suspended over the broken bridge
near Moenchenstcin, were the accident to
an excursion train took place Sunday,
was lifted Tuesday, and more dead
bodies were found, The exact number
of dead and wounded is not yet accu
ratly known.
Fire broke out in Buckalew's stable, at
Seabright, N. J., Tuesday afternoon.
The flames spread through the business
center of town, causing a loss of $400,-
000. It is alleged that a drunken man
deliberately threw a lighted match on a
bale of hay, which ignited. Over 100
families are left without homes—in fact,
completely financially ruined.
The National Chautauqua, at Glen
Echo, a suburb about seven miles from
Washington City, was opened Friday
with a series of interesting events. The
main building is an immense amphithea
ter 206 feet in diameter, capable of seat
ing (f,OOO people, and constructed of solid
stone, at a cost of $150,000. It was in
this edifice that the exercises were held.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Ayer,
Mass., says: The bank examiner has
concluded his final < xamination of the
books of the North Middlesex Institution
for Savings, and fiuds that the total
amounffof ex-Cashier Spaulding’s defalca
tion is $2,000. The comptroller will
levy an assessment on the stockholders of
the bank of probably 50 per cent.
An official’cablegram of Monday from
Admiral McCann, at Iquique, to the sec
retary of the navy announces that the
Itata sailed under convoy of the Charles
ton at 9 o’clock Saturday night for Sau
Diego, Cal. It is not probable that she
will be forced, as her machinery is in bad
shape, so that it is expected that a month
will be occupied in the homeward trip-
C. Mason Moody, for the past fifteen
years treasurer of Franklin couDty.Mass.,
has confessed to taking $1G,168 of the
county’s money and using it in his pri
rate business. Friday night his relatives
and friends turned over lo his bondsmen
property wffiicb,taken at a low valuation,
will more than make them good, and the
bondsmen will at once indemnify the
county against loss.
A Baltimore dispatch says: Mr. Gus
tavus Ober, who holds thu option upon
the stock of the Macon Construction
Company, returned from Georgia Friday.
His option was renewed for ten days
more. Such a very large sum of money
will be needed to carry out the enterprise
of the company and pay off its debt®, th <t
negotiations must proceed slowly and
cautiously.
A dispatch of Monday, from Ottawa,
Out., says: Abbott, Sir John’s successor,
TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1891.
has succeeded in forming h : s cabinet,
which will remain as ii was, except
the head. 'This is a temporary arrange
ment to enab’e the government to pull
through the session. It is understood
that Sir Henry Langvin and Sir Adolph
Caron will will retire after the session,
and it is also reported that Sir Charles
Tapper will succeed Abbot as premier.
A Washington dispatch says: The
statement to Secretary Foster, by E. S.
Lacey, comptroller ,of currency, of the
facts leading up to the final closing of the
Keystone National bank at Philadelphia,
and the appointment of a receiver there
for, was made public Sunday. Sir. Lacey
says the first information received by him
in reference to the Lucas defalcation was
contained in a communication received
January 26th from Bank Examiner Drew.
A St. Louis dispatch says: During a
severe storm, which came up between 1
and 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, some
twenty-five picnickers were huddled to
getner man outhouse m r orese pane,
near the police station, for protection
from the rain. They had scarcely got
inside the building when it was struck
by lightning. Nearly all of the occu
pants of the outhouse were more or less
injured, one being killed and three very
seriously hurt.
At the International Typographical
Union convention at Boston, Mass., Fri
day, the constitution was amended so a3
to make the president of the International
Typographical Union a delegate by vir
tue of his office, to the American Federa
tion of Labor. A resolution thanking
the United States senators for support
ing the copyright law was adopted, and
it wes decided that at the next session,
in Philadelphia, a plan should be de
vised for the representation of the cruft
at the world’s fair.
A Chicago dispatch says: The world’s
fair directors,Friday evening, tookaciion
on the nomination made by Director
General Davis of Walton Maxwell to be
chief of the bureau of horticulture. The
committee appointed to investigate the
accusations against Maxwell reported that
there was no proof to sustain the charges
against his character. When the nomi
nation was put to a vote, however, Max
well was defeated, twenty live to eight.
Director General Davis, thereupon, sub
stituted the name of General-' N. P.
Chipman, of California, and General
Chipman was at once confirmed by the
directorj.
PROCLAMATION ISSUED
By President Harrison Regard
ing 1 the Seal Fisheries.
The President, on Monday, issued the
following proclamation:
Whereas, An engagement for a modus
viveudi between the United States and
the government of her Brittanie majesty,
in relation to the fur seal fisheries in
Behring sea, was concluded on the 15th
day of June, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred ninety-one, word
for word, as follows:
Agreement betwew the government of
the United States and the government of
her Brittanie majesty for a-modus vivendi
in relation to the fur seal fisheries in
Behring sea. For the pfirpose of avoid
ing irritating differences, and with the
view to promote a friehdly settlement of
the question pending betwi en the two
governments touching their lespective
rights in Behring sea, and for the preser
vation of the seal specks, the following
agreement is made without prejudice to
the rights or claims of either party:
1. Her majesty's government will pro
hibit, until mayrnxt, seal killing in lhat
part of Behring sen lying ea.tward of
the line of demarcation described in arti
cle No. lof the treaty of 1807 between
the. United States and Russia, and will
promptly use its best efforts to insure the
observance of this prohibition by British
subjects and vessels.
2. The United States gftvernment will
prohibit seal killing for the same period
in the same part of Behring sea and on
the shores and islands thereof, the prop
erty of the'United States (in excess of
7,500 to be taken on the islands for sub
sistence and the care of natives), and
will promptly use its best efforts to in
sure the observance of this prohibition
by United States citizens and vessels.
[Here follows a proviso for the appre
hension of offenders and punishment of
same, also, an official attestation by As
sistant Secretary Wharton and Minister
Paumccfote.]
Now, therefore, be it known that I,
Benjiunin Harrison, president of the
United States of America, have caused
said agreement to be made public, to the
end that'the same may be observed and
fulfilled with good faith by the United
States of America and citizens thereof.
In witness thereof, I hcreouto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed. Done at the city of
Washington, this 15th day of June.
Benjamin Harrison.
ASSOCIATED PRESS SUSTAINED
An Important Decision Affect
ing News Agencies.
The general teiraof the supreme court
of New York, on Saturday, sustained
the decision .of Judge O'Brien in deny
ing the motion of the Dunlap-Daiziel
Cable News company for an injunction to
restrain the Associated Press from re
quiring its clients to observe the rules of
the association in relation to the patron
age of outside news agencies. The im
portance of this decision cannot be over
estimated. The claim of the Dunlap
company, if sustained, would have been
iu effect to establish the right of au indi
vidual or association of individuals to
share in the benefits of the work of the
Associated Press, which would have
been deprived of the power to enforce
any rules to regulate its business. The
decision sustains the right of the Associ
ated Press.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
The first shipment of block tin, con
sisting of seven tons, from the temescal
tin mines, in San Bernaodino county,
California, was received at San Francisco
■Jfbuday.
Hon. J. N. Gilchrist, a prominent
young member of the legislature from
Montgomery county, Ala., committed
suicide at Montgomery, Friday morning,
by taking eight grains of morphine.
A fire at Danville, Ky., Tuesday morn
ing destroyed the hemp packing estab
lishment of Cogar, Paas <fc Cos., with
065,000 pounds of hemp and 40,000
pounds of twine. Loss, $50,000; insur
ance, $31,000.
On Friday the trustees of the newly
established State Normal and Industrial
school for white girls, of North Carolina,
unanimously decided to locate it at
Greensboro, that town having made an
oiler of $30,000 to scure it.
Rev. Frank D. Lee, residing near the
theological seminary in Fairfax county,
Yu., in a spell of temporary aberration of
the mind, on Monday put an end to the
life of h s only son, aged nine years, to
whom he was devotedly attached, and
then committed suicide with a pistol.
The census office, on Monday, made
public the tobacco statistics of Tennessee.
The total number of planters in the state
during the census year was 16,624; total
area devoted to tobacco, 51,471 acres;
total product, 36,3G8,395 pounds, and
value of the crop to producer, estimated
on a basis of actual sales, $1,841,464.
The grape growers of Bibb county,
Ga., and the surrounding section wish
to form an association. A meeting has
been called for the 27th instant at Macon
at which it is expected to have at least
half a hundred vineyards represented.
The movers in the matter say it means
much benefit to the grape growers, and
will result in much good.
In the district court of Travis county
Texas, Attorney-General Culberson has
tiled a suit for for injunction against the
Texas Insurance club. The application
is based on the law against trusts passed
by the Twenty-first legislature. It is the
f>rer attempt to praotioally oufoioo that.
law, and the outcome,*!! be of profound
interest to insurance men in Texas.
The American Nurserymen’s associa
tion, at its recent annual session in Min
neapolis, selected Atlanta as the location
for its next meeting.^This selection is a
great compliment t(®ihe capital city of
Georgia, for this association isjfixteen
years old, composed of the
gent and experienced horticulturists in
America, having a membership of over
4QO.
A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says:
Ben F. Burch, charged with shooting
and killing ex-Congressman C. M.
Shelley’s son, in Selma, had a prelimi
nary hearing Tuesday in Selma and was
denied bail. The case is exciting great
interest in Alabama on account of the
prominence of the parties. An effort
will be made to get Burch released on a
writ of habeas corpus.
A few weeks ago the large wholesale
shoe store of W. R. Singleton & Cos., of
Macon, Ga., made an assignment, and
Mr. Eugene Leonard was appointed
assignee, but on Saturday certain credi
tors, among whom were the First Na
tional bank and I. C. Plant & Son, asked
that the assignment be set aside and a
receiver appointed instead. Accordingly
Judge Miller ha appointed Mr.
Leonard receiver, and not assignee.
About 200 negro drillers orquarrymen,
on Venable Bros.’ works at Stone Moun
tain, Ga., went out on a strike Tuesday
morning. They have made no demands
on the company for an advance in wages,
and it is not known for what they Live
struck. They were being paid from
SI.OO to $1.75 ]er any. It is
supposed they want $2 per day. '1 he
works are all closed down in consequence
of the strike, and about 300 mi u are idle.
The United States circuit courtroom at
Richmond, Va., was crowded Tuesday
morning with distingui-hed lawyers and
citizens to witness the imposing cere
monies incident to the inauguration of
the new appellate court, comprising the
districts ot Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia and North Carolina. Chief
Justice Fuller, of the supreme court of
the United States; Judges Hugh L. Bond,
of Maryland, and J. J. Jackson, of West
Virginia, presided.
A telegram from Dothan. Ala., a town
in Henry county on the Midland road,
says fire broke out there Saturday morn
ing, and burned the stores of J. C. Guil
ford, J. A. Balkham, Watson's bakery.
B. J. Moody, H. G. Pitman, Powell fc
Kirkland, Bush’s barber shop, C. W.
Reaves, Brantly & Cos., Robert Evans,
Mrs. Murphree’s millinery, and Mitchell's
confectionery. The fire originated iu
Watson's bakery, and is believed to have
been the work of an incendiary. Loss
$50,000; insurauci, $30,000.
The executive committee of the Stite
Funeral Directors’ Associations of Geor
gia, Alabama and Mississippi, held a
joint meeting at Birmingham, Ala.,'! ues
day, and formed a tri-state association of
funeral directors, and A. B. Wagner, f
Meriden, was elected president; M. F.
Fleming, of Georgia, vice-president; Sam
Garner, Mississippi, secretary and John
D. Miller, of Birmingham, commissioner.
The purpose of the organization is ta
work for harmony and uniformity in th
trade of the three states. They adopted
regular by-laws and constitution, and
represent over 500 undertakes in the three
states named,
A dispatch of Tuesday from Rome,
Ga., says: Anew arrangement has been
made on the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia railroad. Some two weeks
ago a secret session was held in Cincin
nati of a committee of one engineer and
fireman of each subdivision of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail
road. Much work w'as accomplished by
the secret committee. The engineers
and firemen will not be paid by runs, but
per mile. They will receive 4 cents per
mile on through freights, 3J cents on
passenger traius, and cents on locals,
being an increase of from 20 to 70 per
cent on their earnings. The firemen
will get 53 per cent, of the engineers’
earnings in proportion on the Queen and’
Crescent.
THE DROP IN COTTON.
The Lowest Price in Thirty-Six
Years.
On Monday spot cotton in New York
reached 8J cents, the lowest price since
1855. The price of August futures was
8.26, the lowest figure in the history of
future contracts. “The trouble is,” says
the Atlanta Constitution , “that the crop
has gone 1,250,000 above the conserva
tive estimates at the beginning of the
season and we begin the new cotton year
with an enormous surplus. Intelligent
estimates of the crop last September
were 7,500,000; now experts think a
crop of 9,000,000 bales was actually
gathered. In this state of affairs the
price of cotton is lower
than it has been in thirty
six years. The only years in that
long period when spot cotton has ap
proached the present quotations were
1855, when it was 8 cents, 1858, when it
was 8 1, 1878, when it was 8 13-16, and
1886, when it was again 8 13-10. In
spite of this depression, there is no panic
in the cotton market, as there was three
years ago. when so many southern men
were caught and squeezed before a few
strong operators like John H. Inman put
their shoulders under the market and
stopped the avalanche. This year there
has been a gradual fall in price, as the
returns came in, showing each month a
larger estimate of the crop. With this
slow but irresistible process, there has not
been much to allure the outside specula
tor, nnd many who might have been
caught in an eccentric market were
slowly forced out with comparatively
small losses and few' failures. The acre
age, which was supposed, to have been
much reduced, turns out to be only 21
per cent loco than that of laefc yt'ltr. Tho
large ncreage in Texas has counteracted
the decrease in the acreage elsewhere,
and it is estimated that we have now
planted 20,779,205 acres against
20,852,320 in 1890. The gov
ernment’s report of the condition of the
crop is 85 7 against 88.8 last year at this
time. If these conditions continue a
crop of not less than 8,500,000 bales
may be expected for this year, in addi
tion to the large suplus carried over.”
A HOT' WAVE
Makes a Pop Call Through the
New England States.
A Boston dispatch says: The ther
mometer at the United States signal
service office registered 92 J degrees at 1
o’clock Monday aftqjnoon, and on down
town streets more reliable ones ranged
from 94 to 98 degrees. Signal office
statistics show this to be .the hottest June
day for eight years, with the exception
of June 23, 1888, when the minimum
temperature was 9<i.
Reports from Maine points show a
range from 82 to 90, the latter at Port
land. Of eighteen towns in New Hamp
shire, but one shows below 90, and that
is the Fabyan house where the thermom
eter is 85, while other towns report from
90 to 99, the latter figure at Contocook.
White River Junction, Vt., reports 92;
Woonsocket, R. 1., 95; Newport, R. 1.,
78; Springfield, Mass., 94 to 98; Hart
ford, Conn., 91.
TIIE RECCED BROKEN.
A Providence, R. 1., dispatch says:
At 2 o'clock Monday morning the ther
mometer stood at 73 degrees. At 1:30
o’clock in the afternoon it showed 107, a
rise of 34 degrees in a little over eleven
hours. This breaks the record. Com
plaints come from all over the state as to
the excessively hot weather and need of
rain, in order to save what little there is
left of the crops.
At New York the record has been
broken, and Monday will pass into hist
ory as the hottest 15th of June ever
recorded. At 8 o’clock in the morning
the thermometer on the street level stood
at 70 degrees and at noon it had jumped
to 85, but at 2:30 o’clock the record was
smashed and the mercury indicated 97 J.
A LIVELY RACKET
Between New and Old Boards of
Police Commissioners.
A Bridgeport, Conn., Dispatch says:
There was a sensational episode in the
police imbroglio Monday night, when
Patrolman Murphy suspended for
drunkenness, but acquitted and ordered
to report for duty by the new democratic
commissioners—was ordered from the
ranks at roll call by Chief By
lands. Murphy refused to obey,
when, by the chief's orders,
he was forcibly removed, after
a struggle, by two other officers and
his badge t.ken away. Chief Rylands,
who is acting under Mayor Marigold’s
orders, is intrenched iu his office, which
is guarded by < fficers. He says he in
tends tto meet for.e with force, and ic is
considered certain that if a forcible at
tempt is made to oust him and install the
new chief there well be bloodshed.
NINE HOURS A DAY
Has Been Decided Upon I’of Job
Printers.
A Boston, Mass., dispatch says: At
the convention of the International Ty
pographical Union, Saturday, a telegram
from Ottawa was read expressing the
grateful thanks of Lady Macdonald for
the message of sympathy sent by the
union on account of the death of Sir
John. The following, from the commit
tee on fewer hours, was adopted by a
vote of 100 to 2:
Resolved, That this convention heartily
endorses the movement regulating the
hours of labor in the book and job
branches of the printing trade to be not
more than nine hours per day, except
Saturday, when not more than eight
hours shall constitute a day’s work
throughout the jurisdiction of the Inter
national Typographical Union, and refer
the matter to subordinate unions for rati
iluauun, the bailiC lO gO into effect Oil
October Ist, 1891.
In order to insure the enforcement of
the law by printers, a tax was levied for
the support of all members of the craft
who may be obliged to strike, and a fine
of sls was imposed upon all printers
who failed to obey the nijle-Lour rule of
the International Typographical Union.
BUSINESS OUTOOK.
Dun & Co.’s Report of Trade for
the Past Week.
The weekly trade review of li. G. Dun
& Cos. is encouraging to the legitimate
business interests, but says, “there i3
nothing rose-colored in our report as far
as respects the chances of speculators and
gamblers. ” The state of trade is well
maintained, in spite of the large exports
of gold. The iron market at Philadel
phia is strengthened by western orders.
Hides are quiet with cheering prospects,
though the shoe trade is but
fairly satisfactory; the paper
trade is fair and hopeful; to
bacco and drugs unchanged; paints dull
and the liquor trade good. In groceries
there is a d'smal lack of speculation, but
tea moves more largely than last year.
Business men throughout the country re
gard the situation as favorable, and look
upon the moderate shrinkage in trade as
a natural result of last year’s short crops.
Failures for the week number 219 in the
United States and 25 in Canada, against
212 for the corresponding week of last
year.
A CLOUDBURST
Does Considerable Damage in
a Tennessee Town.
At Newmanville, Greene county,
Tenn., Saturday, a cloudburst did great
damage. The place is remote from the
railroad and telegraph, but information
was received at Knoxville, Monday, of
the calamity. The fall of water was
something tei riffle, and a small creek be
came a raging river 100 yards wide and
many feet deep. The store house, resi
dence and all outbuildings of T. N.
King were swept away, the flood coming
so quickly that ne did not have time to
even close his store doors. The post
office was kept in his store and every
thing was lost. An iron safe weighing
1,500 pounds was carried one-fburth of a
mile by the forco of the water. A num
ber of other houses were carried away,
nnd all crops along creek bottom land
destroyed. Considerable stock w r as
drowned, but no life lost, so far a3 re
ported.
LABOR DEMONSTRATIONS.
Washerwomen on Parade—Om
nibus Strike Ended.
A cablegram from London, says: The
laundresses of London, supported by nu
merous trade societies, aggregating 80,-
000 persons, held a demonstration in
Hyde park Friday. They marched to
the music of bauds, many of them carry
ing banners, and presented a curious
spectacle, the bright colors of the women’s
dresses contrasting strongly with the dark
mass of the men in the procession. John
Burns and all the labor leaders spoke in
favor of a work day of eight hours, and
Louis Michel talking to the crowd from a
socialist platform. A resolution was car
ried to the effect that the laundresses
should be assisted to secure the benefits
of the factory act. It was rumored as, th
meeting that a tramway strike was im
minent. Active agitation and organiza
tion are being carried out. Omnibuses
have resumed running.
Hone was out.
Count of Uncle Sam’s Cash in
the Treasury Vaults.
A Washington • dispatch of Friday
says: The count of the cash in the
treasury vaults of the treasury, conse
quent on the recent chaDge in the office
of treasurer, has so far resulted in the
discovery of a discrepancy of sl. This
is missing from a bag of silver in a vault
containing nearly $70,000,000. The bag
broke open by its own weight and decay
of the canvas, and its contents were scat
tered among other bags in the vault. It
contained SI,OOO in silver dollars, all but
one of which were found, and that one
will probably turn up before the ex
amination of the vault is c included.
Otherwise, cx-Treasurcr Huston will have
to make it good.
Petticoat Strikers.
A London cablegram states that three
hundred laundresses of North Londou
held a meeting Tuesday attended with
the usual incidents of speech-making,
resolutions, wrangling, etc., and started
a strike for eight hours daily labor and
42 pence per diem. These demands are
considered excessive by the employers cf
laundiesses and haygieen refused,
NO. 8.
