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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. • ■ 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. i ' ’ 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." 4 v f TJvvXk A 1 W 9 ll Sf 8- *fB R 1 1 - m 1 ila 1 1 / I 8 I ~ US! **ll 1/1 r li m £ 113 m**% s~LJ l.li LI LI 1 Jw®Ll-Ui \ \ VL a THE WIDE WORLD. 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.