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rzz.vxYs.' ... . '.,y * \* * . * v -Tr.\ ' mm OF THE WORLD. Topics of Interest at Home and Abroad. Anarchy, Rapine and Murder Rife in Morocco. AJnorrible state of affairs exists in Morooeo. Anarchy of the bloodiest character reigns in the whole domain of Emperor Muley Hassan. To avenge tbedeath of his cousin. Prince Muley, who, with his escort, was ambushed and slain by rebels, he has let loose the imperial troops upon the now wretched and helpless insurgents with full license to murder, torture, and outrage to the extent of their savage desires. Old men, young men, and children have been slaughtered without mercy. The mothers, daughters, and all female relatives of the rebels have been killed or seized as slaves. The wholesale slaughter has been carried on until no more rebels exist in the towns and> cities, and the bloody persecution has extended into distant districts wherever rebels are supposed to be. It is reported that the Emperor has gone so far in his inhuman work of extermination that he is now surrounded by hostile tribes who may serve him as he has served their allies. News comes via Madrid, which is the best present source of Mi rocco news, that norrible outrages hare been practiced, and to add to the public misery a famine prevails in many distrieta Legal authority is at a standstill. Gangs of thieves plunder and kill without check. The Arab priests are preaching a holy war and advising the summary murder of all infidels. The Reveil da Marac. a Tangiers paper, calls on all the foreign powers to send ships to protect Christians and Jews. The accounts may be exaggerated, but very possibly they are all true. One effect may be to hasten the solution of the Morocco question, which ha3 long waited adjustment of some kind. Fifteen Sailors Drowned. Fifteen lives have bean lost by the strandinc of the Norwegian steamer Bratsberg, out of a total of twenty two on board. The steamer grounded very near St. Felicite, below Matane, in the St Lawrence River in Canada, during a dense fog, and the sea commenced almost immediately to break over her. She had a cargo of cohI from Sydney to Montreal, aud her bold filled at once. Captain Neilson managed to get ashore, and wired the almost total loss of his crow, but without furnishing details. They were swamped in attempting to reach the shore. A good deal of excitement was caused, for the names of the lost cannot be had. The steamer went to pieces and nothing was saved. There was a good deal of anxiety for the fate of the other members or the crew, for no craft could live near the steamer while the present heavy sea continued. Concentrating the Currency. The movement of standard silver dollars from the different mints and sub-treasuries to Washington for 6torage in the large new silver vault in the Treasury building has begun. The shipments will be made in lots of f500,000 a day, and will continue until the vault is filled. As the vault has a capacity of #100,000,000 in silver dollars, it will take about six months to fill it at the rate of shipment decided upon. The shipments will be confined to the coin now stored at Philadelphia, New York, New Orleans and San Francisco. It is estimated that about $20,000.000 will be brought from each of the cities named. The first shipments come from Philadelphia The old vaults in the Treasury already contain $08,000,000 in standard silver dollars, and this vast sum will be swelled to $lb'8,000,000 when the movement to the new vault is completed. Ill-Fated Communists. A strange fatality seems to follow ex-communists in France. The other day General Eudes, while standing on a platform surrounded by a howling mob making fiery speeches on the commune, died by tne bursting of a blood ve>sel. Again, the day before that Citoyen Cenac, another lieutenant of the commune, was standing on a balcony making commu-> nist speeches to a socialist crowd at No. 19 dee uacnarriere, raris, wnen ne suaaeniy turned pale, and to the great consternation of the audience, just as he uttered the words: "11 n'y a pas de Dieu," down he fell dead as a hammer. The cause of death in this instance also was the bursting of a blood vessel. Grief and Shame Killed Him. A special from Little Rock, Ark., announces the death, under peculiar circumstances, of Rev. Jesse Pratt, the oldest Baptist minister in Arkansas. His son, J. R. Pratt, was on trial for a penal offense, and the father expre sad the hope that he (the father) would die before the verdict was rendered. He expired five hours before the jury came in sentencing the son to five years' imprisonmeir the penitentiary. Grief and shame killed him. THE LABOR WOELD. Cigar-makers are kept very busy. * German foundries emp'.oy 147,031 men. All the grocers' bags are made by 1569 hands. There are in the United State3 28,600 locomotives. The Krupp Gun Company employs some 15,000 men. One horse power equals the muscular labor of six men. German locomotives do about twelve and one-half year's service. Workmen in the shipyards of Calais, Frauce, have gone on strike. A mill at Lewiston, Me., is making 150S quilts and 12,000 towels a week. Two thousand cotton mi! 1-carders at Blackburn, England, are on strike. There are very few old men among the blowers in the green glass works. The largest iron casting ever attempted in America was recently made at Bethlehem, Fenn. The largest block of granite ever quarried in this country was recently quarried at Auburn, Me. The smokestack of the Allentown (Penn.) thread mill will be 227 feet high,the tallest in the United States. Not improved workmanship but rapidity is the distinguishing feature of mechanical arts and trades nowadays. The average yearly income of the working woman of Boston is $200.1(7, and her average expenses are reckoned at $ til, 30. In Poland the laborers work from 5 in the morning tul 8 aud 'J o'clock at night. Women are employed in all kinds of hard work. " * - -1? ?1-1 U.N? man to imy, wnu mwi oa> iu^ uo~ vices, can accomplish as much in a day as 500 men could do in the same tims fifty years ago. The mechanical industries of the United States are carried on by steam and water power, representing in round numbers 3,500,000 horse power. THEHEisash emaker in Buffalo, N. Y., who, working at hi> bench, has become a wonderful lin^uis; and bids fair one day to rival Eiihu Burritt Lynn (Mass.) shoe manufacturers claim that the pr.ceof labor is 8"> high inLvnn that they wi,l be forced to no to places where it is cheaper in order to ootain a living profit. In Birmingham, England, at one bookbinding establishment, a machine has just been laid down which has d.sp:aced the labor of two men and thirty youtus of both sexei. Two thousand men recently went out of the lumber mills at Graveuhurst, Canada, for a reduction of hours from eleven to ten. One year ago a reduction was secured from twelve to el ven. There is sa d to be so strong a feeling against the employment of old men in the carpenter business that carpenteis of fifty yeai s of age or more look toi warJ to beiug idle half the time. The trouble in the shipvards at Beirast, Ireland, which hasresu ted in the lockout of 5000 shipwrights, is c ue to a strike of ;;u.i boiler maiers When the strike was announced the employers decided to close the yards entire.y. In the Cathedral at Brussels Cardinal lavigerie recently announced that he would form acommitte to urganiie a volunteer expedition to suppress the slave tra.de m A rica. He estimated the cost at *2 KJ.0JO, and invitea xaoecnpcioiu to a fuud to defray the xpensea. THE SEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. DuRiNG a sham battle fought by opposing companies of the Third New Jersey Regiment, at Seagirt, N. J., Gunloader Peter Kneip and Gunner Fuller were killed by the premature discharge of a howitzer. Andrew Conklin, a rich miller of Ramapo, has committed suicide by shooting. Despondency, caused by a long spell of sickness, prompted him to take his life. John First, of Pittsburg, took his young son for a sail on Lake Chautauqua, ana when far from shore hugged the lad in his arms and jumped overboard. Both were drowned. A new building on Eighty-third street, New York, caved in, killing John Flynn, u workman, and injuring four others. A threshing machine boiler on the farm of Frank Stranahan, near Corry, Penn., exploded, killing William Clough, the engineer, and Arthur McCray, one of the workmen. Two others were badly injured. Two tramps stealing a ride on a freight train were hurt fatally, at Devon, Penn., in a wreck caused by the train breaking in two. Congressman W. L. Scott, of Erie, Penn., has declined a renoriiination on the ground of ill health. Ambrose Nui.ter, was killed by a train while walking on the track at Darien, Conn. Ex-State Representative "Jack" McCullough, a well known politician of Pnilaphia, has committed suicide by shootinghimself in the head at his residence. During a Harrison and Morton pole raising near Morris, N. Y., a cannon discharged prematurely, killing John Dickson, Albert Sergeant and Fred Sage. A party of seven persons sailing in the harbor of Hyannis, Mass., were thrown into the water by their boat capsizing, and three children, about twelve years old, were drowned. The Republicans of New York assembled in Convention at Saratoga and nominated er Senator Warner Miller for Governor, Stephen V. R. Cruger for Lieutenant Governor, and William Rumsey for Judge of the Court of Appeals. A high license clause was ! incorporated in the platform. South and West. The State Convention of Nebraska Republicans was held at Lincoln, and General John M. Thayer was nominated for Governor. A complete State ticket was placed in the field. Nicola Femmesetta has been executed at Buena Vista, Col., for the murder of Michael Casey, at Granite, in March last. An explosion totally destroyed the Giant Powder Works at West Berkley, Cal., and killed three white men and three Chinamen. Black measles of a most virulent type has broken out on the rice plantations on the Santee River, S. C. Fifty deaths have already occurred, and the disease has become epidemic. John Carter and Horace Christler, farmers of Elmont, Kan., quarreled about a cornplanter. Carter drew a revolver, when Christler knocked him down with a hayfork. Carter, rallying, knockcd Christler down, jumped on him, gouged out one eye, bit off his nose and one ear, and then thrust both prongs of the fork into his skull, killing him instantly. The toiler in James W. White's cotton mill at Hremond, Texas, exploded, killing W. L. Wooten, fatally wounding his two sons, John and Silas, and seriously injuring four others. The mill was demolished. In a political quarrel at Nashville, Ind., Jacob Peavey instantly killed Frank Hall and his brother Elam. The business portion of Clinton, Ind., a town of 1500 inhabitants, h is been destroyed by fire. While a flat enr was being raised to the track on the Michigan Central tumrouu at East Saginaw, Mich., the derrick fell over into the crowd of sightseers. Two brothers named Collier were instantly killed and three others were fatally injured. Forest Hr?s burned numerous houses in Nadeau, Bolton and Mumford, Mieh. A family of seven persons was destroyed at Mumford. Many farmers in that region have lost their houses and crops. CttARi,ks.w. waldron, one of the owners and manager of the Waldron Bank of Hillsdale, Mion., hasabsconded, taking with htm money and securities estimated at from ?()<>,000 to $80,000. A mob took John Graves, a sixteen-yearold colored boy from jail at Brownstown, Ark., and lynched him for an unprovoked murder he had committed. By reason of a flagman's carelessness a collision occurred at Krum, Io? a, in which three railroad employes were killed and six wounded. Ike Duncan, colored, while in court at Birmingham, Ala., being tried for an attempt to murder, dropped dead in the criminal's dock. Mrs. KH Cartwright ana lier biDy were ; killed at Norfolk, Va., by tho explosion of a ' kerosene lamp. William Henry Millkr, of Columbus, Ohio, son of tho lato John Miller, a prominent citizen and banker, while showing a revolver to one of his children in front of his residence, accidentally discharged it, and the ball struck bis mother, standing a few steps away, and instantly killed her. Thk cholera is raging in Presquo Isle county, Mich., and nine persons died in oue day. There are no doctors in tho vicinity. Washington. The President has nominated Charles F. I Tcmpleton, of Dakota, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota for the Eighth District. The Postolfice Department has given notice that tho free-deli very service will be established at the following post-olKces October 1: Fiudlay, Ohio; Oneida, N. Y.; Olean, N. Y.; Seneca Falls, N. Y.; Port Jervis, N. Y.; West Troy, N. Y.; Waco, Texas; Plaintield, N. J.; Monmouth, 111.; Pittston, Penn. President Cleveland and Colonel Lamont, accompanied by Internal-Revenue Commissioner Miller, recently went on a flshinsj excursion of two or three days in the vicinity or Uliiton forge, m me rsiuo xuage Mountains of Virginia. Tut report of the Secretary of the Interior shows that under the acts of Congress, 28,"53,317 acres of railroad lands have been forfeited; 21,333,6uu acres railroad indemnity restored and 21), 80'.?,772 acres restored under illegal entries. The total acreage restored to the public domain is 8'i,15S,!W0. The Secretary recommends that 1J8,179.528 acres in addition be recovered. The President has approved the act for the erection of a marine hospital at Evansville, Ind ; the act to provide aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States, and the act authorizing an increase in pensions j for deafness. Foreign. A violent hurricane swept over Lake Balatony, in Hungary, and a boat containing a number of reapers, with the fruits of their harvesting, was capsized and fifteen persons were drowned. Cholera broko out on the Portugese ^ f-Jl- ?US ~ U A ITttllbpurL luuia w Lii c uuuuu iu luv/.aiaui^uo, and within forty-eight hours there were thirty-eight cases among the crew and passengers, twenty-four of which proved tatal. Eight hundred workmen have been drowned by an inundation at Teng-Tcona, China. Sit John Rose, formerly Minister of Finance for the Dominiou of Canada, is dead. He fell dead whiie about to lire at a stag on his estate in Scotland. Russia has proposed, to the European Powers, to unite Rournania and Roumelia in one nation under the English Duke of Cumberland as Kin? Skve.v o'd wooden warehouses at Steinwarde, Germany, contain in-* cotlon, rice, sugar and saltpetre, value 1 at$l,750,(J00, have been destroyed by fire. Six persons perished in he flunks. Most of the property was insured in Eueian L By the inundation of the Miuiano Province, in China, 500 houses were demolished at Ibi Gamin, ami 150 were floated away. Fifty people per.she.L A conflict took place br-tween caribeents and smugglers on tne Bid&ssoa River, which forms part of the oundarv between Fran e and >Sj>a n. Two of he emu ig er< were shot dead, two were drowned, several were wounded and ten wero capture I. Thk Canadian Minister of Justice, J. S. D. Thompson, has been created a ivn g it of St. Michael and st. (Ji?orge in recognition o h s services on the Fisherv < o/innission. He will now tie Sir John Sparro v David Thompson. Only eighty of the 56!) convicts received last year in the Eastern Penitent iary of. fennsvlvania had trades when brought there. . , PENSIONS FOR VETERANS. Commissioner Black Submits His Annual Report. Over Sixty Thousand New Names Added to the Rolls, The annual report of Pension CommiMioner Blade, which has just been issued, hIiows that during the fiscal yeur ended June M, 1S8S, ttaero were added to the pension rolls 60,252 new names (the largest annuul increase in the history of the bureau), making a total of 452,557 pensioners on the rolls at the close of the year, classified as follows: 326,835 invalids, 92,U2S widows, minor children and dependent relatives, 37 Revolutionary widows, 806 survivors of the War of 1812, 10,787 widows of those who served in that war, 16,060 survivors of the war with Mexico and 5104 widows of those who served in that war. The names of 202-8 previously dropped were restored to the rolls, making an aggregate of 02,280 pensioners added during the year. During the same period 15,730 were dropped from the rolls on account of death aud various other causes, leaving a net increuse to the rolls of 46,550 names. Since 1851, 1,106,920 pension claims ljave been filed and 737,200 claims of all classes Lave been allowed since thut date. The amount paid for pensions siuce 1*61 has been $'.163,080,444. Increase of pensions was grunted in 45,716 cases. The average annual value of a pension at the close of the year was $ 125.30, a decrease of $4.80. The decrease in average annual value is due to the fact that a large number of Mexican war pensioners at the rate of 18 per month, which is below the average rat ', was added to the rolls during the year, and furthermore, that the death rate among high grade pensioners was greater than among pensioners of low rate. The average annual aggregate of pensions is $56,707,22(5^ an increase of ?3,882,571). The amount of pensions paid during the year was $78,775,861, an increase of ?5,308, 2S0. The total amount disbursed by pension agents for all purposes was $7y,646, 146. The cost attending such disbursements was in the aggregate $3,268,524, it being a fraction less than 4 per cent, of the total expenditure of the bureau. The total amount expended for all purposes was $82,038,386.59, being 21>$ per cent, of the total estimateJ gross income of the United States Government for the period. The total expenditures of the Government for the fiscal year 1888 were $267,924,801, so that the amount expended for and on account of pensions was nearly 31 per cent, of the entire outlay of the Government. The average duration of the lives of pensioners is sixty-seven years. The average length of time served in the army by those who are receiving pensions on account of the later war is more than two years. There were filed during the year 47,840 applications for original pensions?11.780 widows, 2785 minors, 2446 dependent mothers, and 1883 dependent fathers?making a total of 65,704. _ _ The highest number or claims on account of tho late war was received from Ohio: .Indiana followed next; then New York and Pennsylvania, and from Montana, Utah and South Carolina none was received. Up to June 30 last 26,581 claims were filed under the Mexican Pension Act, 151,788 being survivors and 0793 widows. All completed cases of this class?16,529 survivors and 5195 widow cases?have been allowed. The rejections were 2321 survivors' and 601 widows' claims, mainly because the applicants had not arrived at the required age of sixty two years. Forty-three of these applications were consolidated with claims already filed under other laws. Of these Mexican claims but 1892 were unsettled on June 30, the evidence filed bein?j insufficient. Over eighty-five per cent of all pensioners are paid by pension agent* within teu days after the quarterly payment is due. One hundred thousand cases of increase of pension under recent legislation have been settled without expense or delay to the pensioners. A table is furnished showing the total number of special pension acts which have become laws since 1861, as follows: 1861 to 1865, 41 (Lincoln); 1865 to 1869, 431 (Johnson); 1869 to 1877, 490 (Grant); 1877 to 1^81, 303 (Hayes); 18S1 to 1885, 736 (Garfield) and Arthur); total, 2001, 1885 to 1888 1369 (Cleveland). Grand total, 3370. In the fiscal years from July 1, 1882, to June 30, 1885, there were issued 191,221 cer tificates of all classes, and during cne tnree following fi6cal years 359,537, making aa increase for the last three years of 168,316 certificates. LATER NEWS. Dr. H. R. Miner, a prominent physician of Chester, Penn./ committed suicide by shootiDg himself through the head. He had been despondent since the death of his wife, which occurred a year ago. Joseph Breed, the Assistant Cashier of the Hartford (Conn.) National Bank, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a ra/.or in the bank hallway. He was an embezzler of trust funds to the amount of $:o,uoo. The Democracy of Iowa met in Convention at Des Moines and nominated a State ticket, with the exception of candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. The platform adopted indorses President Cleveland and the Mills bill, and condemn? prohibition as injurious to business interests and the cause of temperance. Ben' Bra.no, a desperado who had been detected in a burglary at Salem, S. C., was taken from his captors and hanged by a mob. Over one hundred cases of typhoid fever have occurred recently at Caldwell, Ohio, with twenty-five deaths. The Nebraska Democratic State Convention met at Lincoln and nominated John A. McSbane for Governor and Frank Fokla for Lieutenant-Governor. The Senate ha3 confirmed th9 following nominations: L. Austin Spalding, at Brunswick; J. Russ' ll Parsons, Jr., Atx la Chapelle; Charles Deblanc. at Puerto Cabello; and Ernest W. Smith, at Mozambique. President Cleveland has sent the following nominations to the Senate: Williurn Gaston Allen, of South Carolina, to bo ! United States Consul at Kingston, Jamaica; Vincento M. Baca, of Now Mexico, to be Consul at Piedras Negras, and J. G. Cisco, of Tennes-see, to be Consul at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. A heavy rain, accompanied by a gale, re! cently prevailed over England, doing ad| ditional damages to crops. As a result of t ho expected snorcnge in urenusi uns iuu uakers have raised the price of bread. Fivk hundred dervishes attacked on Egyptian fort near Waily Haifa and captured a portion of it. The Egyptians recei veil reinforcements from Wady Haifa and linally succeeded in driving out the dervishes, killing more than one hundred of them. The Egyptian loss was sixteen killed and twentyseven wounded. DAKOTA WHEAT CKOP, Grain fn the Golden IV'lt Damaged by Heat and Frost. The wheat crop in Dakota is in jured much more than had been expected or supposed. The injury results not alone from frost, but from heat, wind and dust. Mmy fields whieh promised twenty bushels per acre run from eight to ten. One farmer >aid he had . straw enough to yield twenty-five bushels, but gets five per acre. Some Ileitis are not Cut at all. I In Central and Sou'horn Dakota the crops I were not materially injured, while on the I lino of ih? Northern 1 acific Railroad, the ; M asouri slopp. and the country west of the j M s-ouri Kiver, the average yi?*'d was ; lo? ere.I perhaps ten percent. In the Ked t River \ alley the estimated loss varies from fllteen to thirty i>cr cent., and in the central and norihern part of North D kota, embracing the Devil's Like r -rion as its southern bi undary the loss is estimated at twenty- . fire to fitty per c? nt. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS, Senate Proceedings. 160th Day.?The President's retaliation message was read, and afterward discussed by Messrs. Edmunds, Hoar, Hale, Sherman and Morgan. 161st Day;?Messrs. Wilson and Walthall spoke on the Jackson (Miss.) riots Mr. Plumb from the Committee on Public lands, reported back the Senate bill to forfeit lands granted to the State of Michigan to aid in the construction of a railroad from Marquette to Ontonagon.... The Senate agreed to a now conference on the Army Appropriation bill, and Senators Allison, Plumb and Gorman were appointed conferrees. 162d Day.?The Senate considered the conference report on the Sundry Civil bill, and was addressed at considerable length by Mr. Allison in explanation of it. Speeches were also made on this subject by Messrs. Hale, Cockrell, Blackburn and Sherman.... The resolution calling on the President for copies of all communications with Great Britain on the fisheries question was agreed to. 163d Day.?A bill to permit the importation of jute bagging free of duty was referred to the Committee on Finance....The Committee on Appropriations reported back the Fortifications bill Mr. Gorman spoke on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill.... Mr. Georgo made a speech on the retaliation message The Senate then resumed consideration of the conference report on the Deficiency bill. The question of appropriations for public buildings was takeu up and discussed. Honse Proceeding. 195th Day.?The conference report on the T7??1? PuofAm TTntioa Kill woo norrftoH trt HOW i VI IV UUOUUIU UVU4V Mill ?Ma H().WVV. ?w. As decided upon, the bill provides for the purchase of a site at a limit of $;>50,00U and the erection of a building at a co9t not exceeding: $<>50,000... .The effort to reconsider the French spoliation claims failed for want of a quorum. 196th Day.?Mr. Payson introduced a resolution to revoke all leaves of absence, except for illness; this was carried, and an order for the arrest of absentees was issued ....Numerous private pension bills were passed. 197th Day.?The Committee of the Whole, by a vote of 105 to 59, sustained the decision of the Chair, ruling out of -the Deficiency Appropriation bill, the provision for the payment of the French Spoliation Claims. The Deficiency bill was passed.... Mr. Mason introdipced a resolution of inquiry into the Administration loans to National banks.... Another bill to define trusts and punish persons connected with them was introduced in the House by Mr. Anderson of Iowa. 198th Day.?In Committee of the Whole the bill to provide for printing Government securities m the highest style of art was discussed, but no action was taken....The Oklahoma bill was considered and debate was held on the amendment requiring that the land thrown open to settlement shall be disposed of by homestead entry. 1'.J9th Day.?The House passed a joint resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.... A bill requiring the Government securities to be printed in the highest style of art on handroller presses, and that steam presses be dispensed with, was passed. THENATI0NAL GAME. Jersey City has released Pyle. Indianapolis is strong in catchers. .Baldwin tias Deen reieasea oy ueiruiw. Nicol, of Cincinnati, leads all the basestealers. Burdick has proved himself a great pitcher. Murpht is the best catcher in the Cmtral League. Chicago has now shut out every clmb bat Indianapolis. Twelve games have been tied by I/eague teams this season. Among the Washingtons Myers is considered the most timely hitter. The Detroit players concede the League championship to New York. Nash, of Boston, is just now playing the best third base in the League. Errorless games are quite frequent in the International Association. Brooklyn paid $3600 for Tom Burns's release from the Baltimore Club. Substitute umpires in the League get $12.50 per game for umpiring. Detroit iB still taring to buy Titcomb and Murphy from the New York Club. Pinckney, of Brooklyn, is the first player in the Association to score 100 runs. Every member of the New York Club, except Brown, has made a home run. Catcher Robinson, of the Athletics, has made seventeen errors in 370 chances. Jimmy DoNOHUE.of Kansas Citv, can catch the fleetest runner with his rifle snot throws to second. Hartnett is said to b9 the quickest and most accurate thrower in the International Association. Powell is the oniy man of the present New Orleans team who started the season with the club. Connor, of New York, has passed Denny, of Indianapolis, and now leads the League in home runs. Bennett, of the Detroit*, says that in MoCarty the St Louis has one of the best players he ever saw. Robinson, the second baseman of the St. Lcuis Browns, is one of the trickiest players in the Association. A feeling is growing in International circles in favor of bringing Jersey City iuto the circuit next season. Van Haltken, of Chicago, is the only League pitcher who has retired a League team this season without a hit. In Beckley, Pittsburg, for the first time, has a man more than capable of filling the lamented A1 McKinnon's place. John Barnes, the manager of the St Paul Baseball Club, fell heir to $100,000 by the death of an u*icle in Ireland. The Indianapolis Club have their new uniforms of gray with dark blue caps, belts and stockinea. Thev were sadly needed. Old Ezra Sutton is looked upon aa a most remarkable player for his ajje. His work since be has joined the Rochester team has been first class. The Detroit Free Psess thinks it would be a good plan to try the twenty-flve-cent admission rate at Detroit. The iifty-cent rate is a failure this year. Fred "Dunlap. the popular and highest salaried second baseman in the baseball profession, is very bitter in his remarks about the 1 hiladelphia grounds. About half the teams in the League are just now negotiating for John Ward's release from the New York's. It is presumed he is wanted as a player-manager. Associatiok p'ayers are puzzled as to how Bnyder, of Cleveland, got his throwing ability back. He lines them down to the bases as well as he did ten years ago. Williamson, of Chicago, is playing better than any shortstop in the land. In ihe last tweniy-eightgamts he has ti.atle five errors and accepted 132 chances?an average of .L'66. Keefe, of the New Yorks, has pitched two of the most remarkable games this season. Against the Detroits he allowed but two singles, and in Washington Deasely got but one hit. Umpire Ferguson classes Fogartv, Johnston aud Welch together as the best outfielders in the country. Of the three, he considers the Bosion man entitled to the front rank. Bukdock is the best sacrince nuier on iuo Brooklyn team. He cares but little whether he gets a base hit or not so ong as he advances a base runner or makes a run count. This accounts lor his low batting average. .VA.TIO.VAL LB.VJUK RECORD. ICaimo' CInb. ir?*. Tstlt New York C:{ 35 Chicago 5(5 43 Detroit 51 45 Boston 5 "2 -10 Philadelphia . <IS) 47 Pittsburg 4l> 4S Washington ..... 37 tiO Indianapolis 35 05 AMEHICA.V ASSOCIATION JIICCOKO. Same of Club. jr<?a. Tsm. St. liOiiis GD Athletic (>l) 36 Cincinnati 59 33 Brooklyn 5' 4"' Balt'niore 40 f>0 Louisville.... 3H (51 Cleveland 34 CO Kansas Citv 3 J 63 A LUMBER Trust of all the North wostjrn Interests has been form-d, involving noun. $14,000,000. Options have been .>biainod ou all pine lands in jlinneoOta and Wisconsin. ^ ' 5l" "I'M/'-I^r* "^5?si ZJKSSfe" - : *-L'; ' j - V ,. ; . ' ' . . ' - ; '/ * > UROPBAN CBOPF^ An Alarming Shortage in the Wheat Supply. Unseasonable Weather has Euined both Quantity and Quality. The sudden activity of the wheat market in United States centers of grain speculation has led to a general commercial inquiry as to the crop prospects of Europe. The harvest of 1888 is generally thought to be one of the most curious in the history of European agriculture, and is raising constant discussions, and the newspapers are eagerly scanned as to the latest reports of the weather and the crops of Europe. The general outlook as to the European wheat crop is an extremely gloomy one. Throughout the whole Western Europe the climatic influences have been wholly adverse. Especially has this been been the case in England, which, though mainly important to the general market as a consuming rather than as a producing country, is a factor in the calcu'ation. It is estimated by competent judges that the English wheat harvest will prove one of the worst of the century. The total estimated number of bushels is about 60,000,000, so that England should be dependent on other countries for about 160,000,000, were it not for the gain of 20,000,000 bushels surplus from last year's late crop, which must be deducted from this amount England will have to import this year an excess at least of 4,000,000 quarters over her imports a year ago. The shortage in Italy will be 3,000,oOOquarters and in Germany 8,000,000 quarters, making in all Europe a shortage of certainly 16,000,000 quarter^ which will have to be supplied from Russia, India, (Australia and America Holland and Belgium are not qnite up to the mark, with a deficit of about five million bushels as compared with last year." In France also the wheat harvest will be very bad, due to similar weather to that experienced in England. Advices report that new wheat is so soft and out of condition that -it _is quite unfit for marketing. Austria-Hungary and Germany nave only poor crops, and the harvest ie finished. The quantity is a fair average, but it is generally of inferior quality. Russia has a fairish crop, but there also the weather has been very bad, and in both Central and Southern Russia large quantities of grain are reported damaged. Spain has also a poor crop. No other nation has sufficient areas under wheat cultivation to be entitled to a place in the computation It may fairly be said that from no substantial area in Europe is there a wholly satisfactory report Should the weather turn warm and fine the greater part of the wheat crop may be saved. France will suffer more than any other country and will find herself obliged to be a large buyer. The crop in the South of Russia will this year surpass both in quality and quantity anything we have known for fourteen or fifteen years, says another report The general verdict seems to be that the year, on the whole, will not be quite so disastrous as far as the quantity of whent goes: it is the quality which is causing farmers and corn factors to feel uneasy. The European wheat crop this year will not bear comparison with last year's; but then, it must be remembered that the harvest in 1887 was phenomenal, and this will form a very principal cause why the shortage will not be so great as anticipated. In 1887 the harvest was exceptionally good, but it was almost two months late, so that operators will have only eleven months to provide for, which will make a difference of twenty million bushels in the demand this year. The European harvest is not satisfactory in its quality, so much so that much of it will be unfit lor anyimng duo loaaer. iae demand, therefore, upon Russia and the United States will be tremendous. FATAL BOILEB EXPLOSION. Victims Mangled and Burled Under Tons of Debris. An awful accident has occurred at Neenah, Wis., by which fourteen persons were immediately killed and many others seriously hurt The calamity happened during the burning down of George Whiting's large paper mill, on the island between that city and Menasha, which took place at 11:30 o'clock in the evenThe fire caught in the boiler room, in a large quantity of fuel, shavings, etc. The fireman, Peter Nelson, had been out during the evening and a friend had worked for him. About twelve o'clock he went from his post to get a drink of water, and on looking back into the boiler room found flames among the piles of shavings. Before he could get the hose or pull the whistle to give the alarm the flames rushed through the room and drove him out A large crowd soon flocked to the scene, watching the flames devour the * * 1?:? OUliamtC. An lmmeuuu rnvuiviun uicw-u was in the heating room adjointbe fire room. It was filled with straw and rags. When the ro f over the heating room fell in the firemen turned the hose over the bleach, and instantly an explosion occurred, and ten tons of boiler aebris shot out of the building and across a side track through a throng of spectators, mo wins; them down like grass. The immense mass of iron shot out into an open lot two hundred feet away. It Its pas age it struck the heads of the onlooking bystanders, as nearly all the killed and injured were hit on the bead. The scene was indescribable. . The blow, bo sudden and crushing, stunned those it did not kill and maim. There was a moment of silence, and then a cry of horror went up from the multitude. The first strong impu'se to fly from further danger was soon overcome, and hundreds began the work of recovering the bodies of the dead, and rescuing en 1 caring for the injured. Body after body was found, crushed and mangled by the timbers and masonry almost beyond recognition, A number of men, women and boys were also injured by being hit by missiles from the explosion. The dead were all picked up, most of them being close together, and were taken to the City Hall, which was converted into a mort:ue, and undertakers fixed the bodies up as well as possible and placed them in oo 0V1 lionw was then ? 0.1IV0W, wuu .v.v/ _ turned over to its relatives. Seven of the killed were coopers by trade, and were all employed in the same factory. CLEVELAlTDrS MESSAGE, The President Asks for Enlarged Power of Retaliation. The rejection by the Senate of the treaty lately negotiated for the settlement and adjustment of the differences existing between the United States and Great Britain concerning the rights and privileges of American fishermen in the ports and waters of British North America has prompted President Cleveland to transmit a message to Congress asking authority to suspend the transmission in bond of goo>ls to and from Canada through the United States until Canada shall allow our fishermen to ship tish through the Lomiuion in bond to the United States. The President ites the Retaliatory Act which became a law in March. lSSi", and the mn in object of his messa/e is to ask for an i. lOvumit.iffl now^N in enlargement ui mo , ? order that if he deemed it n-H?ssary and advisable, he could put into operation a vigorous and effective retaliatory policy. He also calls the attention of Congress to the unfair treatment of American c tizens who navigate tho lakes and cana s within Canadian borders. For whie Canadian railroads and navigation companies share in our country's transportation upon terms as favora'.le as are accorded to our own c ti ens, yet in con trast to this cond tion, anl. evincing a narro.\ and ungenerous commerci tl spirit, every lock and canal which is a public *ork of the Dominion of Canada is subject to tolls and charges. In conclusion the President says: "I recom mend that such legislative action be taken as will give Canadian vessels navigating our cana s and their cargoes precisely the advantages gra ited to our vessels and cargoes ) upon Canadian canals, and t tat the sa ne be measure I by exactly the same rul? of dis- | crimination." Senator Blair, from the Committee on Education, ha< reported lavor.utly to tiie Senate the propns-?d joint i<solution tor the submission to the States of a proh.bit.on amendment to the federal constitut.on. SHOCKING DOUBLE TRAGEDY. A Wealthy Connecticut Dentist Kills His Son and HimselH A shocking doable tragady has occurred at Ridgefleld, Cona Dr. Archibald G. Paddock, a leading citizen, a wealthy retired dentist, formerly of New York city, shot his own son, aged eighteen years, and with the same weapon shot and killed himself. Of late it has been the practice of the Doctor to shoot at a target on bis premises in the rear of his dwelling, his companion being the son alluded to. Their usual habit had been to mark and set the target alternately, the doctor officiating for the son and the son performing the same duty for the father. Through some misunderstanding as to signals when the son was behind the target, the father failing to observe that the boy had drawn near the mark and was within range, discharged his piece, and the contents entered the unfortunate boy's body, killing him instantly. But a moment was require 1 for the horrified father to realize what he had dona He ran to the spot where his son lay and gave himself up to expressions of grief. These attracted occupants of the hou?e to the scene, who sought to comfort the afflicted man. He declined to listen, and even while the most earnest words of sympathy were being spoken he knelt upon tho gr junl over the dead body and placing tho:-ii.:zle of the musket to his temple dischi-j< <1 it, hlowing his own brains out ONE MAN KILLS FIFTY. Hair a Hanarea untnese snot ueaa by a Brave Spaniard. A mob in the village of Antique, near Hoilo, China, attempted to kill a priest and Ofty of them were successively shot down ind killed. The only white men in the community are i Spanish priest and another Spaniard who ived some distance away on his own estate, rhe natives attacked the priest, intending to put him to death by torture. The other Spaniard, who was quickly informed of what had occurred, took his rifle And cartridges and hastened to the rescue. As soon as he arrived at the priest's dwelling, which was surrounded by a mob howhng for blood, he opened fire on the crowd. He picked out tbe biggest and foremost men and shot them down one by one. When he had used up fifty cartridges fifty dead men lay before him. The natives,awestricken, fled in terror,crying that the Spaniard was assisted by the evil one, and that he had a gun that could shoot forever without reloading. They did not even come back to gather up and Dury their dead. ' It is believed that had it not been for the marksmanship and nerve displayed in this case the natives in the neighboring provinces would have risen and massacred the Europeans living there. NEWSY Q-LEANiroS. A famine prevails in Turkey. Dinizulu, the Zulu chief, has surrendered. Plainfield, N. J., has had a Quaker centennial Connecticut has reduced her debt by $500,000. Desperadoes have murdered the Mayor of Moscow, Miss. There are fifteen female prisoners in New York jails tor life. The Indian outbreak in Arizona has been thoroughly quelled. Since August of last year there have been 7572 suicides in Paris. The son of Cetawayo has proclaimed himself King of Zululand. The Turkish Government has just made a new loan of $7,000,000. Over 1000 Scandinavian? have just beet naturalized in Chicago. The crops in Ireland are better than they have been for many years. Petroleum in abundance has been discovered near Galatz, Roumania. About 1.200,003 dozen cans of aweet coin will be packed this year in Maine. A natural oyster bed has been discovered in the New Haveu (Conn.) harbor. The manufacture of soap from olive oil is to commence soon at National City, Cal There was never a more flattering prospect for a corn crop than at the present time. German capitalists now hold about $20,000,000 worth of Northern Pacific bonds. Dairy cattle are now being brought from Denmark to England and bring high prices. It is estimated that the wheat crop oi Europe will be short 75,000,000 to 100,000,Ofl() huflhela. About six men control the shipping of oranges from Frorida. One of them clears $40,000 a year. There is an alleged conspiracy to overthrow the Greenway Government in Manitoba, Canada. The largest marble quarry in the world is that of the Georgia Marble Company is Pickens County. There are 250,003 subscribers to the monument recently dedicated to Gambetta, the French statesman. Emperor William's son has been christened at Potsdam, with King Oscar, of Sweden, as sponsor. An epidemic of fever prevails in Wabash, Ind , due to che frightful condition of the bed of the Wabash ana Erie CanaL The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has just celebrated at Detroit the twenty-fifth anniversary of its organization. There are about 2,000,000 hog raisers in the country, and the 4(5.000,000 hogs raisod are estimated to be worth $1.>6,000,000. Derran Taylor, a native of Harpoot, Turkey, has been employed In an iron manufactory at Troy, N. Y., for some time. He has just left America for Turkey to obtain, lr ne can, cne consent ui me ou< w>u w uuo establishment of iron wor s at Harooot. Ix the Quitojotoa District, Arizona, a fevi days ago, the thermometers marked 115 degrees in the shade, and it was so hot in the mines there that the drills had to be handled with tunny sacks wrapped around them. THE MARKETS. 35 NEW YORK. Beef. City Pressed 7 (5) Calve#, common to prime.... 5 @ 1\ Bheep Lambs 5;*(?) Ty, Hogs?Live 6 5i> $ 6 75 Dressed Flour?City Mill Extra. 4 80 <gj 5 00 Patents 5 :i0 <g) 5 ti5 Wheat?No. 2 Red 1 DO @1 02 Rye?State 56 @ 58 Barley?State 82 @ to Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 5 54)j Oats?No. I White ? @ 4<S Mixed Western 8i @ <59 Hay?Choice Timothy ? @ 05 Straw? on? Rye 65 @ 70 Lard?City Steam 9 52 @9 66 Butter? State Creamery.... 21 23 Dairy 19 @ 20 West. Im. Creamery 15 (5} 15}< Factors ? & M Cheese?State Factory. 8%@ 9 Skims 2 @ 6^ If* H w estern Eggs?State and Penn 13 @ BUFFALO. 6teers?Western ... 4 00 @ 4 75 Sbeen?iie.iuuito Good.... o 50 ? 4 50 Lambs? airt? 5 5) @ 0 ?K> Hogs?Good to Choice \ orks i; '$'? @ (i 50 Flour?Family 4 So @ 5 25 Wheat-Na ^liel - <0 1 01 Corn?iNo. is Ye'low 5t @ 51,^ Oats?No. 2, W..i:e S4 @ 85 Barley?Stale ?j 91 BOSTO.T Beef?Good to choice. 0 @ 10 Hogs?Live 5^$ 6 Northern Dres<ed.... 6%.ft 7 Flour?Spring Wbeat pat's.. 5 10 $ 5 5 ) Corn? Sieani" * V l.ow 5 (ft 6) Oats?NV 8 White r,n (ft 5?! Rye?State 60 (ft C5)^ WATERTOWN (MASS.) CAT TLB HaHKII Beei- Dressed weiglxt ?> bheei>?Live weight 4)jf@ <> Lamb; 6 @ 6)i Hogs?Northern ? (S 9?, PHILADELPHIA Flour?Penn. family 4 ' 0 @ 4 2 > Wneat?No. a, Rod 97>*<& 93 Corn?No. 2, .u i ? 51J< Oats? n Tide W te. ... 3"J @ 35 Rye?No. 2 ? (ft f,H Butter?Creamery Extra... 19 Gj 21 Cheese?N. Yv Full Cream.. 9 @ 9)j WORDS OF WI81KML Improve the present. Meat is much, bat manners motet >t HuDger makes raw beans relish welL y Beauty is natural, but art can be beau* tifuL Humble usefulness is better thsif learned idleness. No man ever yet failed till he lost confidence in himself. Do not squander time, for that tbe> Btu f life is made of. He that waits on another man's trench*' er makes a late dinner. Our circle has no diameter, because truth has no boundaries. Preserve self-possesion and do not b* talked out of conviction. tr. Development is what a child needs,: more than ac juirements. Iamorant culture is like an empty barrel labelled, without contents within. A whole heaven is contained in *< drop of dew; a whole soul withiaj*; tear. Progress depends upon the virtues of the present, not t\e vices of the past. ; . s .v Ambition breaks the tie3 ef blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. It is the poorest way to get up Ja the world to be continually down in the mouth. .. Not to feel misfortunes is not t)>e put of a mortal, but not to bear them is unbecoming a man. The greatest event in a hen's life, if made up of an egg and a cackle. Boib eagles never cackle. ; When a man has no good reason for doing a thing, ho has one good reafcoo* for letting it alone. - Brushes or Infinite Tarlety. r "The manufacture of brushes," re? marked a maker of those indispensab'.* articles to a New York Sun reporter? few days ago, "is an entirely modern industry. The ancients, with all their boasted skill and wisdom, were ignoranf of both the broom and brush as we know them, or anything resembling them. & lieu of the brush and broom they em pioyea ruae instruments 01 ciuouy manufacture and material, and un?* manageable bulk and weight , St " "The modern brash, of infinite vaxifetjr and graceful design, is <a thing of beautr and a joy forever.' A well-made brow is a work of perfect skill and mechanical art This adjunct of oar modern civilization being med for everjf. conceivable Durpose.is accordingly made . of every kind of material. Wire,rubber,'1 wood and the hair of the hog, horpV > badger, sable, squirrel, bear and many other animals are used in brush making. ' The fine hair of the little Egyptian* ichneumon is largely employed In inak* ing artists' brushes. ' \ / '} Few people are aware of the oon1 summate slcill required in the production of a good brush. All fine brushes are hand made; the wood work alone being' done by machinery. Bristles "are mora ' freauentlv used than any other kind of i ' " ;M ,4Upon their arrival at the factory the , hairs are carefully bleached and sorted.' The latter is done by passing the hairs . through combs of various sizes. The thick nairs are lodged between the teeth'; i of a fine Comb, and are thus quioklv separated from hairs of smaller circum ference. When sorted the hairs ar< deftly and securely bound with wire ant placed into the little holes prepared foe their reception in the wooden body.. Ax ' ordinary house-painter's brush contain several hundred orifices, into each one oi which the hairs have to be -placed separately, and without the aid of aft* mechanical device. >>i "The process of brush making has ' made but little progress in the century, so far as the invention of new machinery for expediting the menu* fapfnrfl i? concerned. Of course, machin ery is employed ia making the wooden parts of a brash, bat beside the drill fori boring and the lathe used in turning thel ornamental rims and handles, no assist-;! i ance is obtained from any. mechanical I contrivance." ./ A Giant Couple. I Anna (Swan) Bates, the Nova Scotia giantess, is dead, and her death leads tal a desire to know more concerning thisfl wonderful woman, and her equally wofl-l derful husband, both of whom have de- B lighted and astonished hundreds offl 1 thousands of eyes. H When twelve years old she went Europe with B.trnum, says the Cincin-fl nati Times-8'ur, and when grown tori maturity she went with Captain Batefl^-I the Kentucky giant, and alio MillloH Christine, the Double-Headed .\ightin- fl gale, with two heads, two arms and twofl ' limbs, all being exhibited by Mr. Baivfl num at a charge of one guinea. Duriagfl their exhibition Captain Bates and Annifl were married at St. Martin's Church, Long Acre, London. They remained * , short time in London, then returned to I America, when Professor Langdon took them all over the United - tates, showing I , under canvas, in halls, opera houses, etc.*! Huge paintings were made of them oa'fl the outside of the canvas twenty-foarjfl feet in height* and various other paint?'l ings of them, representing the presenta-fl ! tion to the Queen, at the marriagoM ' altar, etc. B * - "-1? ?' >!? llDilll [ by tuts lime xjhlcs auu u?> amassed a large fortune; they left the! ' road and purchased an estate at Seville, 9 Medina County, Ohio, on which theyj! erected an immense house after their own fashion, large doors, large windows,1! in fact, every thing was on a large scale.! ' Even their coach, horses and driver were I of very large size. The Captain was a ! great worKer, fencing all his own farm. ? even d.gging the boles in the grotina! for the fence posts. \\ hen on exhibition! he would dress as a Captain in the First! j Life Guards of England, scarlet coat,! buckskin trousers, b g Hessian bobty! helmet and crimson plume; his wife! ! dressed in full dress of silks and satina,! , taking seventy yards for oue dreffltfl Their bedstead was six feet wide and! nine feet long, the timber being black! walnut and nf tremendous size. They! had one child born to them and that! while they were on the farm up in ftfe-! dina County, whch whs born alive but! ! only lived a short time, weighing the! enormous sum of twenty-two pom d?. It! is not known what the Captain will do! since his wiffe is gone, but it is thought! he may go on exhibition again. ! A Plague or Felines. fi Queensland, in the South Seas, is be-! i ing overrun by thousands of peculiar! cats. It is supposed they are following! the plague of rats which recently passed! / through there I he noteworthy fact is! j that the cats wh c:h are of ordinary! size and of the domestic species, are atl! pre'ty near of the snme color, namely,! sandy, which proves that they have re-! veited to the original stock. They are! in very poor condition, 8 -owing that! their migration is due to the scarcity of! ( their habitual food.?Phiia/ldphia