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ED. L DLUF, Editor and Proprietor.
PERRYSBURG,
OHIO.
Tin; lnrgcst lawn clock in the world
Is In tlio tower of tho university at
Glasgow, Scotland. Tho clock weighs
nbout a ton and a half and has a pen
dulum weighing1 .100 pounds.
Ajjiihew Caiuwgik is n Scotchman by
birth. Ilo wns born in Dunfernshirc,
Scotland, in 1835. His father ennio
lo America nnd Bottled in Pittsburgh,
Pa., when Andrew wns 10 years old.
lie has since then been nn American.
llAimisoN will be in tho sixtieth yenr
of his ago in August, Cleveland is in
his fifty-sixth year. Weaver is in his
sixtieth year. Bidwcll Vill bo In his
sixty-fourth yenr In August. All of tho
iour candidates arc-gray-hnlrcd. Thrco
of them are full bearded, nnd tho other
vo wenr mustaches only.
Tub Salton lnko in tlio Colorado
desert, which was supposed to havo
come to stay last year, has disappeared,
but a sea of verduro nnd underbrush
now reaches to tho lino of inundation.
The ehnngo hns ndded to tho irrigation
boom, which has been such aji excite
ment of late in tho far west.
Hvattsville, Md hns adopted tho
single tax. It has no licence tax. Last
January it abolished the personal prop
erty tax, and a few dnys ngo the town
board of commissioners passed a reso
lution exempting improvements from
taxation and laying the sole burden of
taxation on the value of the land.
Tun lnrgcst artificial stone in tho
world forms tho base of tho Bnrtholdl
statue of liberty on lledloe's Island,
New York harbor. This immense stono
was made from broken trap rock, snnd
nnd American cement. Five hundred
carloads of sand and over !20,000 barrels
of cement were used in manufacturing
the monster.
Tun city of St. John's Newfoundland,
has been warned again by a general
conflagration that a great collection of
wooden buildings is unsafe. St. John's
had some public structures and church
es of which it was justly proud, but
they were surrounded by frame dwell
ings and stores andhavo suffered as in
the great fire of 18-10.
Tub new Pnsndenn observatory on
Mount Wilson, a peak on the Sierra
Nevada range, which is the property of
Harvard university, will soon rival tho
attractions of the famous Lick observ
atory at Mount Hamilton, on the Coast
range south of San Francisco. Mount
"Wilson is O.noo feet high and the observ
atory itself has a forty-inch telcscopo
with a considerably larger lens than
that of the Lick instrument
TnE building for manufactures at tho
Paria exposition, the greatest of Its
kind up to that date, covered thirteen
acres of 'ground. Tho building for tho
same class of exhibits at Chicago covers
over thirty acres and, including gal
leries, the floor spaco will be over forty
acres. There is tq be a world's fair at
Berlin in 189S and another at Paris in
1900, but it is doubtful whether either
"will equal tho Columbian exposition in
this particular.
The mace of the house of representa
tives consists of a bundle of thirteen
cuony rods entwined and bound to
gether with silver bands. The thirteen
ebony sticks represents the thirteen
original States of the union. They aro
surmounted by a globe of silver, upon
which the hemispheres aro traced, while
a silver eagle with outspread wings is
perched upon tho summit of the globe.
It was made in 18S4 nnd weighs twenty
pounds.
Outside tho Greek cemetery nt Ath
ens, on n little hillock, there is a simple
white marblo cross erected over tho
grave of Dr. Schlicmann, the great
urchnsologist On the cross are tho
words, in gold, "Henry Schlicmann,"
but at present nothing else beyond this
inscription. But there is scaffolding
around the tomb, and nn imposing mar
ble cenotaph is to bo placed there by
direction of the widow of Dr. Schlic
mann, who shared so ably in his labors
of research.
Tun bullion department of the great
Bank of England is nightly submerged
in several feet of water. This depart
ment is connected with the manager's
sleeping rooms, and an entrancecan
not be effected without setting off an
alarm near the person's head. If a dis
honest ofllcial during the day or night
should take even as much ns one from a
pile of 1,000 sovereigns tho whole pile
would instantly sink and a pool of
water take its place, besides letting
every person in the establishment know
ui me uiciu
Mits. Logan is said to be the historic
woman who drank out of a finger-bowl
to save the feelings of un embarrascd
guest from Podunk, and tho statement,
if true, proves the claim of her friends
that she is tho most courteous woman
in Washington. No such sacrifice to
politeness has been mudo since Lord
Chesterfield drank, without wincing
and with words of praise on his lips,
tho glass of vinegar that a thievish but
ler had substituted for the prime old
vintage the host intended to bet befoio
his expectant guests
A I'iiysiolooical observer says that
women huve a larger proportion of
brown eyes than men. Ho also finds
that the color of tho eyes in children
does not become fixed until they havo
arrived at about the ngo of ten. It has
been pointed out by an investigator
that when both parents have eyes of
the same tint the chances uro forty to
four that tho eyes of their children will
develop the same color as they grow
up, and that when the parents havo
eyes of different colors the chances aro
flfty-flvo to forty-fivo in favor of brown
as against blue or gray eyes in their offspring.
i
CURRENT TOPICS.
Amriucax tourists spend $100,000,000
each yenr in Italy.
Tun Gulf of Mexico hns risen over
ono foot sinco 1851.
Chinese silk fnns with enrved Ivory
bucks nro mo newest.
Chicago's new directory gives tho city
a population of 1,420,000.
EVKitY fifth boy In India is nt school,
but only every fiftieth girl.
As i.ate ns 1773 women rode astride
Side snddles nro modern Inventions.
Miss Kay Beveiiiijoe, of Snn Fran
cisco, is nn nccoinnllshcd bhmlrRmlth.
One pound of covk is sufficient to sup
port n man of ordinary size in water.
SiTTi.va Bull's daughter, Miss Stand
ing Holy, has joined a wild wost show.
The number of men employed in tho
railway industry in this country is
714,760.
The leaf of tho banana Is usually six
feet long by two feet wide. The flow
ers nro pink.
The Adirondack wilderness embraces
un extent, oi 0,000 square miles, or
8,000,000 acres.
The mouth of the Mississippi river,
curiously enough, is thrco miles higher
than its source.
la tho old testament only one wom
an's ago Is recorded, that of Sarah,
Jiurnnnmswilc.
The first king to whom tho title of
"mnjesty" wns applied was to Louis XI.
in France, in 140a.
The hardest wood known is cocus
wood; it turns tho edge of any ax, how
ever well tempered
Nkii. Hyiiant, one of the once famous
troupe of minstrels, is a government
clerk at Washington.
Twelve members of the senate have
been governors of states, and live havo
been cabinet officers.
Tin: German emperor is said to have
posed before a camera 40 times since he
ascended the throne.
Geo. M. Pullman gives his daughter
Harriet one hundred dollars for naming
each new Pullman car.
Lake Michigan boasts of a gospel
ship that makes a tour each year to the
lake villages and cities.
The longest journey taken by any
European train is from Paris to Con
stantinople, 1,8.57 miles.
At thobeginning of the present year
10G,S17 miles of railway were' in opera
tion in the United States.
Miss Adeline M. Im,on retires from
the Cambridge, Mass., corps of teachers
after fifty years of service.
A niece of the late James Russell
Lowell, Miss Ruth Burnett, is soon to
become a Sister of Charity.
toun pounds of gold were recently
-collected from the soot of tho chimney
of the royal mint in Berlin.
Columbia river contains trout covered
with large red spots. They havo been
named "Dolly Varden" trout
The constitution of Louisiana per
mits women to hold any oillce in con
nection with public education.
John C. Fiiejioxt, son of the famous
"Pathfidner," is acting as a reporter at
the scene of the Homestead riots.
The Presbyterians aro about to es
tablish a college in St Lake City, and
have purchased a site of 100 acres.
A South Jeksev paper makes tho re
markable statement that "thin people
are very thick in this neighborhood."
The Chinese, Japanese, Malays.
Siamese, New Zoalanders and the North
American Indians arc all but beardless.
Bishop John F. Huisst, of the Meth
odist church, is to bu mnrrinrl In ..n-
tember to Miss Ella Agnes Root, of Buf
falo. SECIlETAItY OF STATE FoSTEIt is the
only man in tho nation's diplomatic his
tory who has held three first-class mis
sions. The Avkansas City Traveler thinks
that the Fourth of July is nil right, but
thnt the oth of July ought to be abol
ished. No bird can fly backwards without
turning; tho dragon-lly, however, can
do this and can outstrip the swallow in
speed.
The nrico of resprvpil unntonttim's,,!.
livan-Corbett fight in New Orleans has
been fixed at 20 e.irdi. :mrl ..!..,;
?25 each.
Few lovers of Walter Scott recall the
fact that he wrote five plays, none of
which, however, has ever been put on
the stage.
Giieat Bhitain has two lady lawyers,
Miss Frances H.Gray and L-titia Walk
ington. Both are Irish women and na
tives of Belfast
Dancing is taught in many of the
public schools in Scotland, and made a
feature of the closing exercises at the
end of the term.
The longest canal in the world is the
one which extends from tho frontier of
China to St Petersburg. It meas
ures in all 4,472 miles.
The largest county in the United
States is San Bernardino county, Cali
fornia. It is over 400 miles long and
half that distance in width.
The longest strnhrlit. Ktwtii nf -ti
road without a curve, is on the Argen
tine Pacific. From Buenos Ayres to tho
foot of the Andes, 211 miles.
Ubatiiici: Veiion, a Chicago girl of
French parentage, has achieved a nota
ble triumph as a singer at tho Royal
court theater at Stockholm.
A keg of paris green was found in
tho well of the tenant house on Edward
Chars' farm near Woodbury, N, J.,
when tho well was cleaned out.
The highest point of railwuy In tho
United States is on the Denver and Rio
Grande railway. At Marshall Pass this
road attains un elevation of 10,850 feet.
A Buffalo (N. Y.) man proposes to
furnish the World's fair with nn attrae
tlon In the shupo of a collection of
snakes. Ho claims to bo ablo to show
as many as 2,000 different varieties.
The largest grain elevator in the
world was built nt Minneapolis Junc
tion in 1880. Tho main building is 330
feet long, 02 feot wide and 175 feet high.
Its storing capacity is 2,000,000 bushels
of grain.
A Doa at Canaveral, Fla., was bitten
in three pluces by a rattlcsnuki n short
time ngo. Fourteen spoonfuls'of gun
powder were given'lt Internally, and in
side of two duys the dog had entirely
recovered, J
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence) From All Parts.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Tlir. bill appropriating I5,000,COO for tho
world 8 fair with tho Sunday closing amend
ment nnd tho amendment prohibiting thosnleof
liquor attached, wns passed In tho senate on tho
I3t h by a voto of M to U... In tho house, a reso
lution that the Stewart Bllver bill bo taken up
was defeated by a ot of 130 yeas to 1M nays.
In the senato tho sundry civil appropriation
bill wns passed on tho Hth. Tlio bill contains
an appropriation of jn.OOO.OOO for tho World's
Columbian exposition with a Sunday closing
restriction, but thn amendment against tho salo
of lntoxlcnnls was rejected. A bill mbs Intro
duced to nuthorlzo retaliation for certain unjust
discrimination by tho dominion of Canada
against tho Unltul States,. .In the houso tho
iuiiiuri-ni-un.iorison mo diplomatic and naval
appropriation bills were agreed to.
Tun conferenco reports on tho lcglslatho, tho
navy, tho army and tho rortlllcntlon appropria
tion bills wero nirn-fil tn In tl,n ... .. ....
lath. ...In tho house all tho senato amendments
to tho sundry civil appropriation bill wero non
concurred in except tho ono rclativo to tho
world's fnlr, action upon which was set for tho
10th. A resolution was passed extending tho
temporary appropriations for tho government
until July w.
IN tho -senato the lust of the appropriation
bills that to supply tho deficiency for tho lis
cal year ended .luno 30, IfcK was passed on the
10th.... In tho house tho world's fulr appropria
tion wns tho subject of debuto during the cntiro
session.
Tiik deficiency trill was passed In tho sennto
on tho 18th, and un effort to consider tho anti-op-tlonbillwusdcfcatcd.
..Inthohousotho blllglv
ing William McGarrahan IO,C03,000 for a claim
that has been before congress thirty years was
passed. The senate Joint resolution wns passod
authorizing tho committee on labor lo m iko nn
Investigation or the slums of cities. An even
ing session was held for thrco hours, during
which tho world's fair appropriation was de-
DOM ESTIC.
PiiEirENT Il.vititiso.v has signed the
pension and river and harbor appro
priation bills.
Xeau Sedulin, Mo., a severe rain
storm, accompanied by a high wind,
utterly destroyed thousands of acres of
growing corn. Several small buildings
were ulso blown down.
Bawd's sawmill boiler at Hague,
Fla., exploded, killing two men nud in
juring live others, two of whom will
probably die.
The congressional investigation at
Pittsburgh into the causes and facts of
the Iiomstend riot was concluded and
tlie committee would report to congress.
The employes in the upper and lower
union mills of the Carnegie company in
Pittsburgh, Pa., quit work nnd flic gas
wns turned off in the furnaces. At
Homestead nil was quiet, the militia
being in control.
C. C. Wi.vnimip was held up by foot
pads near Centerville, S. D., and robbed
of 51,000.
Six Italian laborers iliVr-infr .,.,...
at a leather factory in Westport, Conn.,
were blown up by an explosion of a
tank of naptha and four were fatally
injured.
The miners' war in Idaho was
thought to be over, the strikers having
no desire to fight the federal troops.
A I'ASSengeii train on the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas road was held up by a
gang of masked robbers at Adair, I.T.,
and the express car rifled of 840,000.
Ciiaiii.ks Bi.ackma.v was hanged at
Greensboro. X C, for murdering his
wife.
John C. Quixcv, a lawyer, shot his
wife and himself fatally at Grand
Rapids, Mich. He was thought to have
ucen insane.
Xonr.E Kennedy, of Buffalo, aged
about 10, Committed suicide by jumping
over the American falls at Xiagnra
Falls. He left a card saying disap
pointment in love was the cause.
Jui.ikn Moselkv (colored) was
lynched by a mob at Httlley, Ark., for
assaulting his 7-year-old stepdaughter.
Floods in the Warrior and Tombig
bce rivers in Alabama haves wept away
cultivated fields and many houses, caus
ing a loss of millions to plantcis and
farmers.
The National Educational associa
tion in session at Saratoga Springs, X.
Y., elected Albert G. Lane, of Chicago,
as president
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the fxohiinges during the
week ended on the 15th aggregated
Sl,140,:i5t;,0S0. against S1,140,801,707 the
previous week. The increase :is nm.
pared with the corresponding week of
1S01 was 12.S.
Petku Daniels (colored) was hanged,
at Atlanta, Ga., for the murder of Silvia
Tyle, his mistress.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 15th numbered 100, against 170 the
preceding week and 274 for the corre
sponding week last year.
Two thainsien were probably fatally
injured and twenty-seven loaded freight
ears Finashed in a collision on tho Cin
cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton road near
Connersville, Itul.
At Spencer, Ky., lightning struck and
iiieu .mines ins ana Annie and Mary
Connor.
News was received in Omaha, Xeb.,
of the cscnpe of Solomon Gcrber, of
that city, from Siberia, whither he had
been exiled upon his return to pay a
visit to his native country, Russian Po
land. O.s-E-iiAi.r of the business portion of
Huron, Cal., was destroyed by fire.
The wool clip of Montana will aggre
gate from 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 pounds
this year.
A wi.s'DSTOitM nt Des Moines, In.,
blew down the large ampitheater and
other buildings on the state fair
grounds.
Gen. Cahlin arrested 100 union strik
ers for nets of violence at Wardner,
Idaho, and placed them under guard.
Miw. John Haiikinh, wifo of a Phila
delphia mechanic, surpassed all previ
ous records by giving birth to four girl
babies within a few hourb.
John W. Bahcook, ex-mayor of
Mcadvlllo, Pa dropped dead In the
Commercial hotel at that place, aged 02
years.
A BTOitM at Cincinnati unroofed many
buildings and did other damage.
A 'iKintiKio windstorm passed over
the northern portion of Humilton, O.,
causing great destruction to property,
unil injuring five persons, two fatally.
Cal Paiikb (colored) was hanged at
Caldwell, Tex., for murdering Mrs.
Jessie McDonough and her 7-year-oW
step-son
A PArKAOE containing $00,000 in
trusted to tlio cure of tho Adnms Ex
press Company wns lost in the trnnslt
somewhero between Xew York nnd
Xew Haven, Conn.
RtciiAitn RKEits' livery stable at Mll
wnukco wns burned, nnd sixty fine enr
rlnge horses perished In the flames.
Duiiino ii thunderstorm in Lnc qui
Parle county, Minn., four men wero
killed by lightning.
It wits reported thnt, owing to the
floods, hundreds of people were starv
ing and would speedily porish in Sum
ter nnd Marengo counties, Ala., unless
aid wns soon given.
In the second series of tho Xntlonnl
lengiie tlio percentages of the baseball
clubs for the week ended on the 10th
were: llrooklyn, 1.000; Xew York,
1.000; Philadelphia, .500; St Louis.
.500; Baltimore, .500; Washington, .500;
Louisville, .500; Cincinnati, .500; Cleve
land, .500; Boston, .500; Pittsburgh, .000;
L.nicngo, .uiiu. tho percentages in the
now soiies in clubs of tho Western
league were: Columbus, .750; Minne
apolis, .000; Kansas City, .545; In
dianapolis, .114; Omaha, .417; Toledo,
.417.
A WATEitspouT near Four Mile Creek,
Knn., did u grent denl of damage to
property, and many horses, cattle and
hogs were drowned.
The four young sons of Christopher
A. Ball were drowned in the river near
Princess Anne, Md., while bathing.
The West Superior (Wis.) Iron &
Steel Company has closed its works and
has notified nil employes thnt no mem
bers of the Amalgamated association
will be recognized hereafter.
uuisino .Mine last the total number of
imiuii'raiits arrivinc at nnrts nt n,n
United States from the principnl for
eign countries was 73,120, against CS,
:17 in June, 1M)1.
The fnctory of the Western Linoleum
Company at Akron, O., was burned,
causing a loss of S100.000.
The Baptist Young People's union in
session in Detroit elected Rev. L. L.
Uenson, of Baltimore, us president.
The Cunarder steamer Aurania beat
the Alaska of the Guion line, in a race
from Qucenstown to Xew York, 2 hours
und 15 minutes.
A hand of !!00 wild horses, the first
seen m Colorado for fifteen years, ran
by Kit Carson and twenty-five were
captured.
Hjima Snow, a waiter in a Denver
hotel, has fallen heir to 400.000.
Eleven persons have died as a result
of the riots at Homestead, P.i.
It has been decided to celebrate at
San Diego, Cal., on September 2S next
the ."50th anniversary of the discovery
of San Diego bay.
At Kokomo, Ind., John G. Coombs
died, and Mrs. Coombs, while taking n
last look at the remains, fell dead.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat
22,440,000 bushels; corn, 0,005,000 bush
els; oats, 5,504,000 bushels; rye, 200,000
bushels: barley. 422.000 bushels.
A sivirr containing John Smith and
Con Bognrt capsized in the Ohio river
near Cincinnati and both men were
drowned.
The steamers City of Xew York and
City of Paris will hereafter fly the
American flag and be officered nnd
manned by Americans.
At Wilkcsville. O., Dr. W. C. Cline
lost his entire wheat crop, consisting
of 1.200 doen sheaves, by fire.
Ihe Goshen (X. Y.) nntional bank,
which suspended business June 29
pending an official examination of its
financial condition, hns reopened its
doors.
Inkoumations were filed at Pitts
burgh by Secictary F. T. F. Lovejoy.
of the Carnegie company, against Hugh
O'Donneli, the leader of the strikers;
John McLuckle, burgess of Homestead;
nyivester t-ritclilow, Anthony Flaherty,
Samuel Burkett. James Flannngan and
Hugh Ross, who arc charged with the
murder of T. J. Connors and Silas
Wayne during the riot, and warrants
for their arrest were issued.
Mits. Matthew Mukky and Mary E.
Gallagher were drowned in the Dela
ware river near Gloucester, X. J., by
the capsizing of a skiff.
The Richmond grain elevators at
Richmond, Va., were burned, causing
a loss of S100.000.
John McKay, Joe Snnburg and Joe
Wanzel, aged M, 15 and IS respectively,
were playing a game of cards under a
.box car at Atlantic, la., when the car
started and all wcie fatally injured.
A heavy shower of frogs fell near
Valparaiso, Ind.
A rir.K in the stock yards at Cleve
land. O., cremated 200 hogs and burned
."00 tons of hay, besides the main build
ing. James McCloskey, of Wilmington,
Del., who was treated coolly by his
sweetheart, .Mabel Cloringbo'uld, shot
and fatally wounded her nnd then shot
himself fatally.
In thrco days seven persons in St
Louis attempted to kill themselves,
two being successful.
Many cuttle in Kansas were dying of
Texas fever.
Miss Ethel Ramsey, of Belle's Creek,
W. Va.. was attached and killed by a
bear whilo passing through a strip of
woods.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The following nominations for con
gress have been made: Ninth Georgia
district. Carter Tate (dem); Second
Iowa district, John Monroe (rep); Xitith
Iowa district, A. L. H tiger (rep);
Eighth North Carflina district, Will
Ham H. Bower (dem); Tenth Indiana
district, David Yeomans (people's).
The Kansas prohibitionists in con
vention at Topekn nominated I. O.
Pickering, of Olatlie, for governor, a
full state ticket being plnced in the
field. Rev. J. M. Monroe, of Wl.-hltn.
'Svus nominated for emiim'sinnm nt.
lurge. The platform declares for free
trade, free silver, the election of presi
dent, vice president, senators, postmas
ters and ull district federal officers by
a direct voto of the people.
Fhancis P. Loomis, lieutenant gov
ernor of Connecticut in 1878-0, died at
his home in Hurtfoid.
The people's party In state conven
tion at St. Paul, Minn., nominated
Ignatius Donnelly for governor. Effort
towutd fusion with tlir .l..ii...,.o
XaUeu.
Ihe following enndidntos for con
gress linvo been named: First Arkansas
district, P. D. McCullook (dem.); First
Indiana district, Arthur P. Twlnchnm
(rep.); First West Virginia district, B.
B. Dorcner (rep.); Tenth Georgia dis
trict, John C. Blnek (dem.); Eighth
Illinois district, Xormnn Kilburn (pro.);
Sixth Iowa rilnti-lnt- .t1. i.i r . .
(rep.); territory of Oklahoma, Dennis
Flynn (rep.).
The funeral of Cyrus W. Field took
plnce at Dobb's Ferry, X. Y and tho
remains were taken to Stockbrldire.
Mass.. for burial.
Xewton Booth, ex-governor of Cali
fornia and ex-United States senator,
died suddenly at his home in Sacra
mento. GEoitriE Gazelle (colored) died nttho
home of his son in -Adrian, .Mich., at
the age of 1111 years. He was born a
slave In 1770.
The democrats of the Third Tennes
see district have renominated II. C.
Snodgrass for congress.
Gen. James A. Cunningham, superin
tendent of the United States soldiers'
home at Chelsea. Mass.. diml nt. Mm n.
of 02 years.
Thomas H. Cauteii, of Montana, hns
been elected chuirmnn of the repub
lican national committee.
The Michigan democratic state con
vention for tho nomination of a state
ticket will meet at Grand Rapids Au
gust 17.
Mits. Rose Tkihiy Cook, the author
ess, died nt Pittsfield, Mass., of heart
failure, aged 00 years.
The Connecticut prohibitionists will
hold their state convention in Hartford
Sept A and 0.
The republicans of the Sixth district
ui -iiicingannavenomiiiateu U.U. Aitkin
for congress.
FOREIGN.
A school building was destroyed by
fire atBerkhamstead, England, and
eight children perished in the lla.nes.
The epidemic of cholera has spread
to the ports of the Crimen.
Twenty persons were killed by a
landslide nt Chamoun, France.
Mn. Gladstone has been returned to
parliament from .Midlothian by the
small majority of 000.
The Argentine torpedo catcher Rosalis
foundered in a storm off the coast of
Uruguay and seventy of the crew were
missing.
Steono measures were being taken
by the French eovcrnmnnt. tn &tmnn nut
cholera, and Spain was on guard at the
.-rcncii ironuor.
The British East Africa Company and
the French Catholic forces united with
the natives and Mohammedans were
engaged in a religious war in Uganda.
Sin Ciiaiu.es Dilke, after six years
retirement under a cloud, has been re
turned to the British parliament by a
large majority.
It was reported that by a volcanic
eruption on the island of Sangir. one
of the Philippine group, moscof the 12,
000 inhabitants were killed.
All except eighteen of the British
elections had been held and Gladstone
was sure of a majority of forty for
home rule.
Fifteen hundeed houses were burned
at San .Miguel dc Mayuno, on the Phil
ippine islands, leaving 9,000 persons
homeless and destitute.
Fiiie in the Iteiniekcndorf quarter of
Berlin destroyed six factories, and
three workmen and a fireman perished
in the flames
Tkains collided near Merritton, Can.,
and three persons were killed and sev
eral others ere in,ured.
Fun: almost entirely consumml tlm
foundry of W. Clendenning ,fc Son at
Montreal, the loss being So00,000.
3L,A.TE3a.
TnE president on the 10th sent to the
senate the nomination of George Shims
Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be associate jus
tice of the supreme court of the United
States.
Thb Atlantic hotel at Long Branch,
N. J., was totally destroyed by lire on
the 10 th. There were nearly SU0 guests
In the hotel at the time nnd a panic en
sued. In their anxiety to escape many
of the guests leaped from the windows
nnd several were hurt Many others
wero carried'out by the firemen. All
escaped In their night clothes and lost
their wardrobes. Upwards of SSO.OOO
n-ui-ui ui juweiry is missing.
Chili has paid 575,000 indemnity on
account of the assault upon the crow of
the Baltimore at Valparaiso last Oc
tober. This is satisfactory to the United
States. The money will be distributed
among the families of the two sailors
killed and the members of the crew.
Theee have been elected C07 members
of the house of commons out of the (570
composing that body. The parties now
stand: Conservatives .114, opposition
85:j. The three remaining districts are
certain to return supporters of Mr.
Gladstone, so tho hitter's majority in
tno next house will bo 42.
It is stated that the Prince of Wales
will visit Canada next year and make
tho trip to the Pacific coast over tho
Canadian Pacific railroad, visiting tlio
world's fair en route.
Ovek forty bucket shop keepers nnd
employes at Chicago were indicted on
the 10th by the grand jury under tho
gamming net. tho inttictcil men aro
all in the employ of Skakel & Muhoy
and the Mercantile Telegraph Com
pany. Other indictments against
kceners and einnlovcs of slniihii- nstnl,.
lishments are expected.
Lrm.K wub accomplished In tho senate on tho
lOlh except to discuss n financial proposition of
Mr. Morgan'H without result, and to rc.id tho
onil-ontton bill and to unicnd H ucrord'ny to
Mr. Washburn's views, leaving many other
uinundmcnts pending.... Tho advocates of nn
appropriation of jfi.OW.OOO for tho world's fair
had hard sledding In tho house and tho result of
tho d-,iy's work may bo hummeil rp us follows:
Tho appropriation Item hum otcd down, I ID u
ISi, and tho Sund.iy closing paragraph Inserted
by tho senate wns siistnlncsd by u voto of H7 to
01. 1 ho appropriations us made by tho senate for
tho geological survey wero concurred In. An
amendment was inserted forbidding tho lotting
of any contract by any Kovcrnmcnt olllccr to
any ono employlug tho Plnkcrton dotcctlvo
agency, or any othor organization employing
urmed forces, und prohibiting their cmplnyment
by tho government or tho District of Columbia
Tho sundry olvll bill wus then pubsod us
amended. A resolution was poised for tho up-
Klntmont ofnupuclal commlttco of live mem
rs toluvcHltgutotuodccllou lawmindniuth-
i u4 ... .uvtj ittiu uuuuijr vi i,H Hint. 1110
' loutcrcmo report on the forttllcatloug bill wus
greed to and tho house udjourucd.
GOLD BECOMES SCARCE.
Tho Amount In tho Niilitrcimury Hut 810,-OOO.nOO-llc.ivyllnUtd
Upon It from All
Sources Cutino a 1'iilllng Off In the
Amount of Avnllnlilo 1'unils.
Xew Yohk, July 10. The $3,500,000
of gold exported from tho United Stntcs
last week and the S7fi0,000 Wednes
day wero tnkon directly from the
United Stntcs treasury vaults, drawn
from what Is called tho free
gold, Instead of being furnished
by the banks, as the custom has been
heretofore, The United btatas treas
ury on July 1) hold 8111,071,87 In gold
above the obligations represented by
the outstanding' gold certificates. Of
this sum $100,000,000 Is held by tho treas
ury under the law, as reserve for the
redemption of tho greonbnoksor United.
States notes.' This leaves only 811,
071, 257 of frco gold. Heretofore
exports of gold havo been made in this
way: The foreign bankers went to tho
banks in this city, deposited legal
tenders, and obtained therefor gold cer
tificates for the amount of tho gold re
quired. They then presented the cer
tificates at the subtreasury and re
ceived gold coin for them. Although
tho difficulty may be safely bridged
over, and it probably will be, tho
United States Is just now menaced
with a serious shortage of gold. For
the first time in the history of gold ex
ports to Europe tho yellow coins hnvo.
begun to come out from the treasury
vaults and not from the banks.
By a deliberate and premeditated
move the officers of five or six banks,
through which these shipments are
made, now refuse to give up their
hoards of gold, as represented by
gold certificates, and the drain
is upon the subtreasury. But re
cently, under their management, the
banks have refused to give the ship
pers gold certificates, holding them in
stead of greenbacks or United States
notes. By the express terms of the
law United States notes or greenbacks
are payable in gold, but the treasury
notes are payable at the option of the
secretary of the treasury either in gold
or silver.
The treasury notes, however, have
been redeemed in gold without ques
tion at the subtreasury, and the $2,."00,
000 in gold shipped to Europe last week
was obtained from the subtreasury on
the presentation of greenbacks and
treasury notes, the banks holding on to
their gold certificates. If there were
no more gold coming in it would be a
question of a very short time
when the supply of free gold
now in the treasury would
be exhausted and the government have
no more gold to pay out The effect of
such a shortage in this financinl center
would be disastrous. The entire
amount of free gold in the treasury
vaults this morning is not more than
$10,000,000. This is acknowledged in
the financial world to be an uncom
fortably small amount It Is declared
that if this reserve should be wiped out
gold would at once go to a premium.
GETTING READY.
Frlrk Is Manning tlio Carncglp Mills ut
IIomi-Ktrxd, l"u., I'rpparntory to Hrsum
liir Work strikers Surprised und l)i-uppnlnt-il.
Hut l'carerul.
Homestead, Pa., July 10. Short
puffs of white smoke from the armor
plate machine shop and the annealing
shop in the Carnegie works convinced
both locked-out men and troops that
the managers intend to keep their word
and start the mills in operation. The
men were greatly excited over the signs
of business in the works. An inquiry de
veloped the fact that the pumps in the
two most Important? departments had
been started preliminary to a general
resumption of business. The locked
out men, through the reports of their
pickets, knew that no considerable
number of men had entered the town,
and wondered where the company was
securing workmen. At the offices of
the works it wns said that about
forty men, mainly laborers, with a
few men from the other Carnegie
works, were at work trotting
the machinery ready for use. It is not
the intention of the mill-owners to in
troduce new men until Monday. The
locked-out men offered no objection
to the signs of uctivity and kept away
from the vicinity of the works.
Labor unions in other cities are keep
ing the Amalgamated association ad
vised of the efforts of the Carnegie
company to secure labor. Their ef
forts arc said to be confined to Cincin
nati, Chicago and St. Louis, and in
each of these cities some have been
secured, altnough the reports of the
numbers received here are very contra
dictory. However that may be, the
fact is conceded that a body of non
union men has been gotten together by
the Carnegie company nnd thnt all the
preparations have been made for push
ing them into the works.
At .1 o'clock Friday morning fifty men
were unloaded at a point near Swiss
vale and escorted overland 1 mile by a
guard of the militia to the Monongahela
river opposite the Homestead works.
There they boarded the steamor Little
Bill and were transported across tho
river to the company's property.
About the same time cots, pro
visions and other supplies in great
quantity were taken into the mill prop
erty. There was enough stuff in the
consignment to accommodate at least
400 men. Superintendent Potter insti
tuted a eoinnlcto senrith nf ,.,,. .-
tion of the mills for dynamite- or other
explosives. If any was found the dis
covery was not mnde known.' It seems
now that It is only a question of time
till the mills ure placed in operation.
rivo Thousand Hollars to llo Paid for tho
Adair Trnlii Looters.
PAitsoxs, Kan., July 10. Tlio Mis
souri Kansas & Texas railway and the
Pacific Express Compuny have joint
ly offered a reward of $5,000 for
the arrest and conviction of each of
the men engaged In the robbery of
tho express ear on' the north-bound
truin on the Missouri, ICansns & Texas
railway at Adair station in the Indian
territory Thursday night. A largo
posse of men Is now scouring the In
dian territory, and from advloes re
ceived here theie is good reason to be
lieve that the robbers will bo captured
The amount stolen was 840,000.
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