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Out of the enormous number of women n Constantinople—the population is nearly a million—not more than 5,000 can read or write. : :
Alabama has provided for coeducation in the state university. The only difficulty about coeducation is- that the boys are compelled to work pretty hard to keep up.
The demand for American electrical machinery is rapidly increasing in Europe. We seem to have an established lead in electrical appliances as well as in making bicycles. :
A well-known physiciap says excessive tea drinking shatters the nervous system, weakens the brain, injures the appetite, disturbs the digestive organs and causes cold feet, but the people will go right on drinking tea. -
Two branches of New York’s pneumatic tube mail system will be opened in October. The time seems to be coming when the delivery of parcels throughout a large city will be performed in a few minutes.
Two bicycle companies are said to have an understanding on the 1898 chainless, dustless, frictionless, workless, mile-a-minute wheel. By 1899 scorchers will not be touching bottom anywhere except on the hill tops.
An eastern scientist has discovered that “love is a disease.” He doesn’tsay whether it is contagious, or whether the treatment will come best under “gimilia similibus curantur,”’” or some other “bus.” Science, with its “survival of the fittest,” will get at the bottom facts doubtless if it keeps on and escapes a lunatic asylum.
In Florida, the land of the hungry alligators and phenomenal snakes, the idea of humor differs slightly from other states. The other day a man there asked two boys if they wanted to see something funny. On being told that they did he-called them into his room and there cut his throat in their presence. Unfortunately the account does not tell how the boys enjoyed the treat.
The new gold discoveries in the north may not add to the gayety of nations, butitmakestrouble for the philologists. The difficulty is to know how to spell the name of the region which has suddenly become famous. There appears to be no rule governing the matter, and therefore it is a go-as-you-please. Klondike, Clondike, Klondyke and Clondyke are the principal variations, As the simplest way is always the best, Klondike seems most likely to find faVOr.
There are no remaining public lands in any of the states of New England, in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Xentucky or Texas. There are 25,000,000 acres of public land in Ohio, 37,000,000 in Florida, 32,000,000 in Alabama, 28,000,000 in Louisiana, 36,000,000 in Michigan and 34,000,000 in Wisconsin. The other public lands are in the western states and in the territories. ;
As Europe’s wheat crop in 1897 will be from 100,000,000 to 120,000,000 bushels smaller than that of 1896, and as the reserves of wheat on hand at the present time are lower than they were at this season in the past eight or ten years, the wheat market for the next six or eight months is likely to be strong. This is a decidedly fortunate circumstarnice for the United States wheat grower. He wil, from present crop indications, have from 75,000,000 to 100,000,000 bushels more to sell than he had in 1896.
Just four months and twenty days after the present administration began its tariff bill was enacted. This is quicker time than was ever before made with a measure of this sort in the United States since the tariff first became a partisan issue. It isalso the quickest time that was ever made by a partisan or nonpartisan tariff except by the first tariff act ever passed in the United States, the one which President Washington signed on July 4, 1789, four months after tTle United States government went into operation. On that tariff, of course, party lines were not drawn. ; »
The death of Mrs. Aldrich, of San Die- " go, Cal., removes another of the women who are widows of revolutionary soldiers. A few years ago there were no less than 13 such drawing pensions from the government. Now there are but six, and it cannot be long before the last one is gone, for they are, of course, all very old. Mrs. Aldrich was born in 1800, or not till 18 years after the British evacuated New York. Her husband was, therefore, at least 40 years . her senior. Itisonly sucha discrepancy of ages which would permit a woman whose husband was one of the original patriots to survive to this day. . v The anxiety of some medical men at St. Louis that a murderer sentenced to be hanged should die a sane man re sulted in his death before the time for his legal execution had arrived. He bad received an inéury to his skull which had rendered him insane. The medical men were greatly shocked to think that the law should hang an insane man and they proposed to perform an operation which would restore his ~ reason. The operation was a success, but the mandied. Tender-hearted people are thus cénsoled by the knowledge that. if the murderer bad survived the
. [ ; Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, : FROM WASHINGTON, : Secretary Gage has definitely decided that the Dingley tariff act became effective at midnight on the 23d. The president has appointed Moses P. Handy, of Chicago, special commissioner of the United States for the Paris exposition of 1900. The president and his wife left Washington for their vacation on the shores of Lake Champlain. President McKinley announced the following recess appointments: T. V. Powderly, of Pennsylvania, commissioner general of immigration, and Robert J. Tracewell, of Indiana, comptroller of the treasury. The president has amended the civil service rules so that no removal shall be made from any position subject to competitive examination except for just cause and upon written charges, and has included within the classified service the employes of all custom house offices.. TS
For thé year ended June 30, 1897, the total receipts from internal revenue were $146,619,508, a decrease over the previous year of $211,106. - Tariff act-copies for circulation have been received at the document rooms of the senate. The law makes a pamphlet of 70 pages. President McKinley has appointed a board of engineers to make surveys and examinations for a deep waterway from the great lakes to the Atlantic tidewaters. :
THE EAST. At the age of 82 years James R. Doolittle, of Racine, Wis., died at the home of his daughter at Edgewood, near Providence, R.I. He was United States senator from Wisconsin from 1858 to 1870, and was one of the most noted of the old-time politicians. Merchants of Boston gave a banquet to Secretary of Treasury Lyman J. Gage at the Hotel Tuilleries and in his address Mr. Gage said that the country was on the way to better times and he counseled patience and the exercise of judgment. : Several finely-executed silver certificates of the new issue, raised from the denomination of two to five dollars, were discovered in New York. The death of Prof. Charles Henry Marcy, well known as a musician and composer, occurred at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 40 years. Notice was given by the Algonquin Woolen Mills company of Passaic, N. J., that wages in their mills would be increased from 10 to 15 per cent.
A handsome Carrara marble bust of President McKinley that is to be placed in the state capitol at Columbus, 0., arrived in New York from Naples. The newly appointed United States minister to Spain, Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, sailed from New York for Madrid.
Coal operators of the Pittsburgh district have adopted the “true uniformity” agreement. . : e
“The labor leaders issued a bulletin saying they were confident of success in the miners’ strike.
~ The seventeenth annual camp meeting of the National Temperance society began at Ocean Grove, N. J. : In New Jersey heavy rains flooded Rahway, Fanwood and other places and did great damage to property.
Gen. Sheridan’s chief of scouts during the war, Capt. John H. Johnson, died in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 51 years.
WEST AND SOUTH.
In Bridgewater;Mich.,Nathhn James, a farm hand, shot and fatally wounded Martha Miner, a domestic, and then killed himself. ;
Reports as to the condition of crops throughout the country were all favorable. %
In Minnesota withid 50 miles of Duluth a rich gold find is reported. Great damage was done by a wind and hail storm in Franklin, Kearney and other portions of Nebraska. Murdock, 111., was visited by a fire that destroyed most of the business portion of the village. . In Springfield, 111., James Mingle, a horse trader, killed Mary Briscoe, aged 19, with whom he had been living, and her infant child by chopping their heads to pieces with a hatchet. ;
Two men named Crownover and Beach were lynched by a mob near Little Rock, Ark., for horse stealing. The Maryland democrats in state convention at Baltimore nominated Thomas A. Smith for comptroller and adopted a platform that declares for bimetallism, but is silent as to the guestion of “ratio.” ;
The populist orator, Mrs. Mary E. Lease, has been selected as queen of the fall festivities, a harvest demonstration at Topeka, Kan. _ ‘At the stock brokerage office of C. E. Trice & Co., in Waco, Tex., B. F. Kivett and W. W. Kivett were shot and killed by W. Lamden, a member of the firm. In Knoxville, Tenn., James Henry, a bachelor, aged 104, and Miss Emily Boynton, aged: 97, both colored, were married. : Six Indians were killed and nine other persons were seriously injured in a wreck on the Central Pacific railway near Reno, Nev,
By the gold brick dodge Bascal Lastell, a saloon keeper in New Orleans, was swindled out of $7,000. In Des Moines, la., the prohibition convention nominated a state ticket headed by Dr. E. L. Eaton, of Des Moines, for governor. The platform is confined to temperance and woman suffrage. ‘ ;
Miss Grace White was killed and Mrs. Simon Kilduff was fatally injured in a runaway at Peoria, 111. At Houston, Tex., Jules Bunnell and his bride of a few days committed suicide with morphine. _ The leading merchants in 27 states report an increase of 50 per cent. in trade for the first half of the year over that-of the first six months in 1896.
At Roanocke, Va., the populist state convention nominated Capt. Edward R. Cocke, of Cumberland, for lieutenant governor. Other places will be filled if the democrats decline to fuse. A big strike.of copper near Houghton, Mich., caused great excitement throughout the Lake Superior mining district. ; While bathing two cousing nam:d Anderson were drowned at Foster, la, Joseph Dollar and. John Johnson were killed by falling timber in a mine at Athens, IIL In a mountainous region 20 miles south of Ashland, Wis., gold in paying quantities was discovered, -
Rev. E. L. Eaton, nominated for governor of Towa by the prohibitionists, is ineligible for the office, not having lived in the state the required two years. In session in Detroit the United States League of Building and Loan Associations elected as president L. W. Sanborn, of Galesburg, 111. : FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. It has been decided by the dominion government to place a royalty on all gold mined in Canadian territory in the Yukon district. Marquis Ito,former prime ministerof Japan, in an interview in TParis, said that there was no danger of war between his country and the United States over the Hawaiian question. Over 3,000 soldiers were killed in a battle with fanatics near Canudos, Brazil.
Several buildings were wrecked and a large number of persons injured by an earthquake shock in the Arno valley in England.
In a dense fog off Newfoundland the steamer Scandinavian cut in twain the barkentine Florence, of St. John’s, and four seamen of the latter and the captain’s wife were drowned.
A telegram from Athens says that the sultan has instructed Tewfik Pasha to sign the peace proclamation. The republics of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador have signed a treaty to go into effect September 15. The union is named the “Republic of Central America,” and the countries forming it will take the name of states.
The outposts of Havana were attacked by a large body of rebels, who, before the Spanish troops could be gathered to resist, swept through the suburbs, carrying all before them.
LATER NEWS.
Train wreckers threw an express train from the track at Thorntown, Ind., and Engineer Seth Winlow and Fireman B. Crickmore were killed and two other persons were fatally injured. In the vicinity of Rock Rapids and Sioux Center, la., 50 per cent. of the small grain was ruined by a hailstorm. "~ By dropping a lighted lamp Mrs. Wallace J. Scoby and her son were burned to death at Grand Rapids, Mich. Two freight trains collided at Depew Junction, N. Y, killing George Ellensbee, engineer, and Charles Eddy, fireman. L A hailstorm in Rock and Noble counties, Minn., destroyed 1,000,000 acres of crops. A cyclone did great damage to property near San Jose, 111, and A. C. MecDowell and his grandson, Miss Jessie Groves and Mrs. Samuel Brownlee and her three children were killed.
Miners in the Danville (Ill.) district are in destitute circumstances, over 400 families being without means. Maximo Martinez was hanged at Floresville, Tex., for killing Jesus Carillo and wife and Juanita Acosta on June 6.
Heavy hail destroyed crops at Carthage, Bristol, Waubay, Alexandria and Bryant, in South Dakota. John Johnson (colored) was hanged at Livingston, Ala.,, for the murder of A. F. Clarke, a white man, in January, 1896, and “Pig” Newell was executed at Selma, Ala., for murder. The bullion value of the silver dollar on the 30th was 44 cénts, the lowest in its history. There were 236 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 30th, against 227 the week previous and 281 in the corresponding period of 1896. Reports show an improvement of business without exception in every northern city of importance. Col. Fred Grant has resigned from the board of police commissioners of New York city. s The Glaw-Anderson bicycle race at Toledo, 0., for the female championship of America was won by Lizzie Glaw, of Chicago.
- The steamer Tasmania struck a rock and sank near Napier, N. Z., and six of the crew were drowned.
A dispatch from Constantinople says that the signing of the preliminaries of peace awaits only the reply of the Greek government fixing the dates for the payment of the indemnity. - William Cummings, the leader of the nonunion miners at Scottdale, Pa,, was shot dead in a quarrel with union men. W. C. Hubbs was arrested for the crime. There was no material change in the strike situation.
Advices from Capt Town say that all the Portuguese have been driven out of South Africa. :
Russia and Germany having counseled Greece to submit to the conditions imposed by the powers, M. Ralli, the premier, replied officially that Greece would never entertain the idea of financial control proposed, and that she would help herself.
Floods in Silesia and Bohemia caused a loss of many million marks and over 100 persons were drowned. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Hammond and Mr. and Mrs. Abner Morris were drowned in the Wabash river near Carlisle, Ind.,,while bathing. . :
Mrs. Christiana French celebrated her one hundred and third birthday at her home in Morristown, N. J. : Factory “B” of the Pioneer Fireproof Construction company’s plant in Ottawa, T 111.,, was burned, the loss being $lOO,OOO. :
The First national bank at Asheville, N. C., went into voluntary liquidation. Mrs. Margaret Lelong arrived at her home in San Francisco from Chicago on a bicycle, being the first woman to ride a wheel from Chicago to the Pacific ocean. :
Willie and George Young (brothers) and Henry Hall and Fred Bridgeford weredrownedat Kansas City, Mo., while bathing. : At least 150 persons perished in the recent floods at Kertch in the Crimea.
Frank Donahue, of Fort Wayne, Ind.. 28 years old, a slack-wire bicyeclist, fell from the wire at Ridgewood Park, L. 1., and was killed.
The month of July, just closed, smashed the heat record for the past ten years. '
Reports received from the New England, middle and western states say that the hay crop will be the largest in years. A rich lead mine has been struck on Main street, within a few blocks of the business' center of Joplin, Mo. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the Ist were: 'Boston, .700; Baltimore, .667; Cincinnati, ;653; New York, .603; Cleveland; .550; Philadelphia, .476; Pittsburgh, .463; Chicago, - .440; Louisville, 4355 Brooklyn, .425; . Washington, .372; St. Louis, .250, |
A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION. United States League of Blflldlng and Loan Associations at Detroit. Detroit, Mich., July 29.—Six hundred millions of dollars—every dollar of it the savings of the thrifty wageworkers of the United States-—were represented in the council chamber of the city hall at ten o’clock Wednesday Inorning when the fifth annual convention of the United States League of Local Building and Loan associations was called to order by the national president, Michael J. Brown, of Philadelphia. Every commonwealth had its state delegation, while in addition a large number of cities of the first and second class were.specially represented. A minority of the delegates were men prominentin the municipal or political affairsof their respective localities. Mayor W. C. Maybury gave the convention a cordial welcome in behalf of the city, and President Brown combined a response with his annual address, during which he referred to the fact that the league had distributed 5,000,000 copies of the resolutions adopted at the iast annual convention declaring against the monetary doctrine of sixteen to one. :
Detroit, Mich., July 30.—Omaha has been selected by acclamation for the convention of 1898, after Cincinnati and Niagara Falls had made somewhat feeble efforts to secure it. The following officers were elected: President, L. W. Sanborn, Galesburg, T 11.; first vice president, William L. Blocomer, Buffalo; second vice president, Timothy R. Foster, Vicksburg, Miss.; third vice president, Thomas J. Fitzmorris, Omaha; treasurer, William C. Shepard, Grand Rapids; secretary, Herman F. Cellarius, Cincinnati; assistant secretary, George F. Kostmayer, New Orleans. The members of the executive committee, one member from each state, were elected, and after brief remarks from the newpresident the convention adjourned sine die. UNUSUAL AMOUNT OF BUSINESS Bradstreet’'s Review of the Présent Condition of Trade. New York, July 31.—Bradstreet’s in his weekly review of trade, says: ‘“The unexpectedly early fall demand for staple merchandise which Bradstreet’s announced last week has increased and although not conspicuous at some of the larger eastern cities which it is approaching, it is notably so at points in the Mississippi and Missouri valleys, and in the larger wheat growing states. A special investigation by Bradstreet’s this week shows that increased purchases by country ,merchants in the regions specified, based on the prospective large wheat crop at home, in the face of short wheat crops ‘abroad, has increased business with western jobbers from 10 to 15 per cent., compared with fall trade at a like period last year. The total volume of this new business is not large, but it is unusual in this, the dull month of the 'year, and is growing. ““A number of western implement factories are unable to fil] all their orders for near-by delivery, and one order for shoes alone at St. Louis calls for $35,000 worth of goods. The depression among woolen manufacturers is less proncunced, because prices of cheviots and other woolens have hegun to advance, pointing to profit in handling high-priced wool. ‘“The greatest relative i{improvement among the jobbers and wholesalers in varous lines is. at Chicago, St. I.ouis, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Paul and Minneapolis, although at other points, notably in Texas, there is a pronounced feeling of confidence in an early revival of demand, which is already beginning to show itself, A number of large trunk line railways report that they are'carrying more merchandise than one, two, or three years ago. “Fewer manufacturing industries than expected have been compelled to close, owing to lack of ceal on account of the strike, the principal check being due to ‘higher prices for fuel. Iron and steel and the -<cotton goods . industry are more unfavorably situated than almost any other.”’
CROP CONDITIONS.
Favorable Showing in Jlowa, Ne- , braska, Kansas and Missouri.
Chicago, July 31.—The monthly edition of the Corn Belt says that crop conditions at the close of July in Towa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri are exceedingly favorable. The corn crop promises to be phenomenally large, and wheat, oats and rye are satisfactory. The yield of wheat in Nebraska will amount to nearly 40,000,000 bushels, and Kansas claims as much. If thereis an average rainfall in August Nebraska will harvest 350,000,000 bushels of corn. The corn crop yield in Missouri, with timely rains in August, will be very sat{sfactory. Winter wheat will yield from 20 to 30 bushels per acre; oats, 10 to 50 bushels. The fruit crop is excellent.
VICTIMS OF WRECKERS. Two Men Killed and Two Others Probably Fatally Hurt in Indiana. Thorntown, Ind., July 31.—Unknown train wreckers are responsible for the déaths of Engineer Seth Winslow, of Greensburg, and Fireman E. Crickmere, of Indianapolis, the probable fatal injury of Henry Pijne and Charles Cavenir, of Cleveland, and the wrecking of the “Big Four” Chicago express, due in Cincinnati at seven o’clock Friday morning. . Flames Do Bad Work. . “Michigan City, Ind., July 29.—At 11 o’clock Wednesday -morning three men went into the oil house of the Michigan Bash & Blind company’s factory bearing a lighted lantern. A quantity of benzine was stored in the oil house. Gas generated by the benzine ignited from the lantern, and a terrific explosion occurred. The list of casualties follows: Killed—James Bowman. = Injured—John Ray, fireman, overcome by the heat, will recover; Louis Schwartz, purned on body, arms, face and head, crit'lcal condition; Herman Luckow, burned about the body, will recover; Fred Peters, burned about the face and body, will recover. The factory burned to the ground, entailing a loss of $50,000. " Noted Horseman Dead. Cincinnati, July 30.—Dr. E. F. MecLean, the noted turfman, is dead. His death occurred under the most unusual circumstances at the Qakley race track just before the last race Thursday evening. MecLean’s horse, Taluea, won the Ohio stakes, the event of the day, and was run up to $3,000 by John Hoffman. In the excitement occasioned by this, the doctor had an attack of heart disease, and expired in ten minutes. The fifth race was thereupon called off. The greatest excitement prevailed, as Dr. McLean was one of the most prominent turfmen in the west. He was 55 years old, wealthy and owned a big string of horses. 4 Japan Accepts. . Washington, July 31.—The Japanese government has accepted the offer made by Hawaii to arbitrate the dispute between the two countries. The state department has been informed of the offer and the acceptance. B
GAGE AT BOSTON. 1 Business Men Banquet the Secretary ’ of the Treasury. ‘ Boston, July 28.— The dinner of Boston business men to Secretary Gage at the Tuilleries Tuesday afternoon was attended by about 150 of the leading men in professional and commercial life in the city. An informal reception was held preceding the dinner, which occurred at 2:45 o’clock. On being introduced Secretary Gage said in part: “We have met here in a period fraught with its own interests. Opposing forces met in November last and contended bitterly over the most vital of economic questions. While the issue was pendihg the profitable arts of industry came to nearly a standstill. Trade and mmerce declined to the narrowest lim&g, and in a breathless suspense those who could comprehend the deep import of the issue waited for its determination. That issue igffpow decided. The ballot, magic exponent the popular will, has recorded its impekative voice for honest money and for libérty regulated by law. It now rernains to bd seen whether from that decision there is to be any successful appeal. It is this that gives interest, anxious interest, to the prospective action of those who, clothed with legislative and executive functions, have it in their power to make secure the fruits of victory, or who, by failing to comprehend their high responsibility, may let slip the advantages so hardly won. ‘““The administration branch of the government will not sleep nor rest inactive. Its influence has been and will be for prompt and judicious action. The evidence of this fact is fresh at hand in the message just now submitted to congress by the president. A bill to provide for the necessary revenues of the government has already passed the house of representatives and the senate. .
‘“The two questions before the country in the last. political campaign were the tariff and the currency. One of them is already settled. Whatever the merits or demerits of the new measure in its particular items, it has become the law of theland. The revenues derived from it will, after a possible brief interregnum, be ample for proper government expenditures, and if the old aphorism be true that ‘the revenue of the state is the state,” we say without exaggeration that the state is reestablished. We have also réached a point where, with absolute data furnished, commerce and manufacture can make correct estimates and go upon their respective missions of exchange and production with a new sense of security. The responsible party in power, having successfully covered this one important issue, may bhe safely trusted to care equally well for the other. “On the financial side there is really no pressing need for haste. There is certainly no immediate occasion for anxiety. With ample reserves in the public treasury; with financial centers in a full supply of loanable funds; with interest invitingly low; with crop prospects most promising, and a good market favorably assured; with new mineral resources coming into view; with a territorial area sufficient to carry its present population many times multiplied; with a people advancing in the elements of intelligence and character, who dare indulge in doleful forecasts? We need not ignore the fact that there are many wounds to be cured, excited passion to be calmed, and many misunderstandings to be composed. Nor isit passing strange that this should be so. Within the limits of half a lifetime industrial methods and processes have been revolutionized; combinations, in labor and trade and manufactures, have superseded to a degree the former processes of individual movement. It is philosophical to believe that they are all evolutionary—tending to a final and a higher general good, but in their immediate effects they produce incidental injury in many directions. Perceiving the injury, the hurt cry out and cannot be persuaded that any good can come out of so great an evil. Time will do much to restore, and the natural laws, everywhere operating, will bring in at last their compensation.”
HAVANA ATTACKED. A Daring Raid Made by Cuban In=surgents—Panic Among Citizens. Havana, July 30.—Havana’s outposts dave again been attacked by a large body of rebels, who before the Spanish troops could be gathered to resist had swept through the suburbs, carrying all before them. They used, it is believed, rapid-firing guns and a large quantity of dynamite. The attack was made late Wednesday night. At the first sounds of firing the Spanish soldiers in the city and suburbs sprang to arms. They proceeded hurriedly to the southeastern part of the city, from where the rattle of musketry, followed by the boom of heavy guns or dynamite, could be heard plainly all over Havana. Then the sound of firing increased, and finally, after a few hours, died away, showing that the rebels had retired. Several wounded Spanish officers were brought into Havana and removed to hospitals after the engagement and several were killed. "
The insurgentleaders nearest Havana now are Brig. Gen. Castillo, with a large force at Mariano, nine miles southwest, and Col. Nester Aranguren, assfayanabacoa, across the bay, while Gen. Alex Rodriguez, rebel commander of Havana province, is near Truco, and Col. Raoul Arango is at Cutro Caminez. There is a belief in Havana that the rebel raid was led by Aranguren, who is noted as one of the most daring of the rebel chiefs. Capt. Gen.Weyler has left Havana for Matanzas, and the belief is expressed that the knowledge of the insurgents of this intention on his part led to the attack. Itisunderstood large bodies of insurgents have recendtly crossed from Pinar del Rio and MatanZas. ¢
To Plan a Ship Canszal. Washington, July 30.—The secretary of war anonunced Thursday the appointment by the president of Mai. Charles W. Raymond, corps of engineers, United States army; Alfred Noble, of Chicago, and George Y. Wisner, of Detroit, as a board of engineers to make surveys and examinations for a deep waterway from the great lakes to the Atlantic tidewaters. This board was authorized in the last sundry civil act, approved June 4, 1897, and is expected to complete the work undertaken by the deep waterways commission appointed by President Cleveland. A Land of Death. Benton Harbor, Mich.#wly 30.—The widow of Lieut. Schwatka, the Arctic expiorer, being interviewed here concerning the Klondyke gold regions, which country she has repeatedly visited with her husband, says that the government should stop the tide of immigrants pouring into the gold fields in Alaska. She says that the mountain passes are strewn with skeletons of unfortunate miners who perished from either cold, heat, malaria or starvation while trying to reach .the golden region. : New Car Ferry Line, - Milwaukee, July 31.—A special to the Sentinel from Manitowoe, Wis., says: The car ferry line between Manitowoe and Benton Harbor, with connectionsat Benton Harbor with the “Big Four” road, for eastern, southeastern and southern points, opened Friday. The tug Fischer, having in tow the Lake Michigan & Wisconsin car ferries Nos, 1 and 4, arrived with 54 cars of loaded freight for Manitowoc and western POt - o L e T
THEY AGREE. Coal Operators’ “True Uniformity” Conference Ends Its Labors. Pittsburgh, Pa., July 20.—The “true uniformity” conference of coal operators of the Pittsburgh district concluded its work Wednesday night at 9:15 o’clock after a two-days’ session’ of close and persistent work. The 21 sections of the uniformity agreement were thoroughly discussed and adopted section by section. The best of feeling prevailed throughout the meetings, the only exception being the bolting of Col. Rend at Tuesday's session. Just previous to adjournment, however, Judge Owens announced that Col. Rend had authorized him to state that any agreement the conference adopted would receive his hearty cooperation, and he would sign it if 95, 50 or even 290 per cent. of the operators were sincere in their sanction to it. The conference appointed a committee of five— W. P. De Armitt, J. B. Zerbe, J. J. Stoyter, J. C. Dyoart and N. F. Sanford, with Gen. John Little—to secure the signatures of the operators to the agreement. .
The agreement as adopted provides for cash payment of wages, 2,000 pounds to the ton, check weighmen on the tipples, miners to be credited with the full quantity ot coal contained in the mine car, abolition of company stores, semimonthly pay days, uniform price for pick mining in the thin and thick vein districts and screens not exceeding one-half inch. It also provides that in case of the violation of the provisions and terms of the agreement a penalty of ten cents per ton on the total output of coal mined by the violator will be charged, which penalty is to be paid as a commission subject to the right of further arbitration or appeal. Said penalty when collected is to be distributed among the signers of the agreement pro rata, in proportion to the total amount of tonnage or output made by them during the year. The commission is to be chosen annually and shall be known by the name of the uniformity commission. It shall be composed of nine members, the thick and thin vein operators having proper representation. The members shall be sworn to faithfully and impartially perform the duties of their office and will be authorized and empowered to enforce the judgments and awards. It shall also be empowered to subpoena witnesses with the same force and effect as a board of arbitrators duly appointed under the act of the assembly of the state of Pennsylvania relating to compulsory arbitration. The agreement shall not become effective unless it has been signed by 95 per cent. of the operators on or before January 1, 1898. After 90 per cent. have signed the agreement, if any 15 operators shall be of the opinion that enough have signed to render it effective, a meeting shall be called in Pittsburgh to declare it in force.
Columbus, 0., July 30.—Bulletin No. 2, from the headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America to the miners and mine laborers of the country, says, in part:
‘“We have greater confidence of vicory than ever. 2
“The supply of coal on hand is still low, and would have been entirely consumed before this time were it not for a few sections of West Virginia, southern Illinois and a portion of Kentucky, central and northeastern Pennsylvania (anthracite), where no effort as yet has heen made to have them join eur movement, which, when done, will soon decide the contest. ‘““The organized labor of the country, without respect to forms or past differences, are making our fight their fight, and have thrown all available force, morally and financially, into the movement. In western Pennsylvania 1,000 men have stopped work since the last bulletin was issued. This makes a total of 21,000 men now idle. In Ohio 28,000, or all, are idle. "n Kentucky and Tennessee little change has occurred since the last bulletin was issued. About 4,000 miners are idle there. “The miners are congratulated on being peaceful, and are counseled to continue so. “In Indiana the supply of coal is almost shut off, and 8,000 are idle. Fully 35,000 mine workers in Illinois have laid down their tools. The suspension is practically general. The only coal mined is in the southern field. Organizers believe that all will stop in a few days. “West Virginia has been the main battle ground. ‘ o . “The Fairmont district is completely tied up, with 13,000 mine workers idle in the state. Indications point to a complete cessation of work before August 1.”
Pittsburgh, Pa., July 31.—Legal proceedings are to be taken against the marching coal miners unless they disband and go to their homes. This was decided on Friday afternoon, and Sheriff Harvey A. Lowry will be expected to see to it that the assemblages are disbanded.
Danville, 111., July 31.—Miners in the Danville district are in destitute circumstances. Over 400 families are reported without means. Citizens and marny operators are contributing liberally with provisions and money. There is no evidence that the strikers contemplate giving up.
A HOME WRECKED. Cyclone Demolishes a Residence on an Illinois Farm. San Jose, 111., July 31.—Death and desolation followed rapidly in the wake of a cyclone which swept aeross this section of the country at seven o’clock Friday night. Seven persons were killed outright and three seriously injured. The house and barn of Dr. A. C. McDowell on the outskirts of the ‘town. were demolished by the fury of the wind. ; New Jersey Towns Flooded. New York, July 30.—The heavy rains of the last few days have flooded Rahway, Fanwood and other places in New Jersey. At Rahway the people who live in the low-lying parts were taken from their houses in boats. The towpath of the Delaware & Raritan canal at New Brunswick is submerged. Canal traffic between that city and Trenton has been suspended and the factaries along the banks have been compelled to shut down. A bad washout occurred on the Raritan River railroad near Milltown. where an embankment 80 feet high fell across the tracks. The low-lying sections of Newark fared very badly and several factories on the river front were unable to operate on account of the water in the boiler-rooms. Think Trade Improves. Chicago,” July 30.—The Wholesale Grocer publishes answers from jobbers all over the country to questions regarding trade. The replies were from jobbers in 27 states and show an increase of 50 per cent. in the volume of business for the first half of '97 as ~compared with the same period last year; 30 per cent. report sthe vglume about the same, and 20 per cent. note a decrease. The question if definite improvement in conditions was recognized was answered affirmatively by 70 per cent. Sectionally 64 per cent. of the jobbers in the southern states, 65 -in the eastern, 70 from the western and 95 per cent. from the central states said “Yes,” to the improvement question. * Capt. Johmson Dead. - New York, July 30.—Police Capt. John H. Johnson, of §frooklyn, died at his home in that city Thursday morning. after an illneas lasting almost a year. Capt. Johnson was born in ‘Aurora, 111, in 1844, He served during ‘the war as chief of scouts with rank of lieutenant under Gen. Sheridan.
. ‘WASHING A FINE ART. ‘Washing pretty summer gowns and belongings is a fine art, very easy to learn. A bright day, plenty of water and-a little pure soap are the necessary aids in the work. To do it, fill a tub two-thirds full of warm water, dissolve a cake of Ivory soap (which will not fade the most delicate colors), add it to the water, wash the garments carefully through it; rinse first in clear water, then in bluewater; wring, dip in thin starch; hang on the line in the shade. When dry sprinkle and iron on the wrong side. Gowns thus laundered will look fresh for the entire summer, - ELIZA R. PARKER. —_—— She Was ¢“Me.” A gentleman who has a tel.efiyhone in his house has in his employ a faithful but stupid German gir], who one day responded to the ringing of the telephone bell. “Who ‘is there?’ came' over the wire. “It is I,” replied Katrina. “And who is 177 : “Why, I am 1.” : “But who is 1?” came over the wire. J“I am me, my own self,” retorted Katrina. “How should I be anyone but me?” "~ “But who are you?”’ : “I am my own self.” ~ “What is your name?” “Katrina Rupper.” - “Well, 'who is Katrina Rupper?” “She is me, I my own self.” And when Katrina heard laughter at the other end of the line she said, indignantlly{': "1 vill not sthay here to be made a shoke of,” and she walked away from the telegho:ne,;grumblmg,: “How could I be an{one ut me? I let ’em know how to make a shoke of me!”—Youth’s Companion. To Whom It May Concern. This is to call the attention of the public to the fact that the Wisconsin Central Lines have two fast trains daily between Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Ashland, and Duluth,- toucixing all the important points in Central Wisconsin en route. The Company has thousands of acres of fine farming lands in Northern Wiscortsin for sale. For complete information on this subject, address Jas. C. Pond, General Passenger Agent, Milwaukee, Wis.
A Genuine “Mark Down.” Mrs. Shopper—Do you believe that any of these mar?:-downs are genuine? Mrs. Seizem—Some of them are, I know. My son got one of them. - “What was it?”’ ) -
“A wife. He married a girl in a combination store. She was 24—marked down from 39.”—Pittsburgh Chronicle. :
Half Rates to Indianapolis and Retarn,
Via the North-Western Line. * Excursion tickets will be sold August 17 and 18, with extended - limit to Neptember 12, at one fare for the round trip, on account of Y. P. C. Union. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R'y.
“It is so aggravating to go house-hunting every spring,”” said the lady in the city. ‘“We generally have to hunt ours up two or three times a summer,” said the cousin fro]m the cyclone belt.—Typographical Journal.
Mr. Moody’s Towa system, for which he has purchased 500 Sharples Dairy Se%&&rators, is turning out a great success. hy don’t some one in our community try to secure the local agency for these machines?
A Question in Grammar..—Mr. Kink (to e professor in Biddle university)—‘Perfesser!” “Well, Mr. Kink?”’ “Which is the p#st tense of the verb ‘to hoodoo’—hoodone or hoodid ?’—Harlem Life.
L. L. May & Co., nurserymen and seedsmen of St. Paul, Minn., want traveling salesmen to solicit orders. If readers of this paper will apply to the above firm for terms, positions can be obtained with good salaries,
Bride (who has eloped)—“Here is a telegram from papa.” Bridegroom (anxiously) —“What does he say?”’ Bride—‘“All is forgiven, but don’t come back.”—Collier’s Weekly. . .
A man is the moving factor in getting engaged, but the woman keeps things stirred up until the marriage is consummated.— Atchison Globe.
. Dead beats all know just what property is exempt from execution.—Washington Democrat. - . o ;
I believe Piso’s Cure for *Consumption saved my boy’s life last summer.—Mrs. Allie Douglass, Leßoy, Mich., QOct. 20, ’94. —— e It often happens when it is predicted that a man will come to some bad end that he comes-to two or three.—Atchison Globe. e TN The more commendabie your undertaking, the fiercer the opposition will be.—Atchison Globe. ———e ) s - Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken.internally. Price 75c. : —_— - No man gets as much mail as he seems to expect.—Atchison Globe.
- WISE WOMEN. Those Who Heed the First Symptoms of Nervous Derangement. v Special from Mrs. Pinkham, A dull, aching pain at the lower part of the back and a sensation of little rills of heat, or chills running down the ‘spine, are symptoms Of "‘g@ womb derangement. ! \ If these symptoms are not accompa= nied by leucor- D : ; rheea, they are & N ; g 0 / - of that ; ; weakness, Summm— : It is worse I / ’ ‘ than folly R -‘ to meglect [r=)/E ,a these symp- e\l 2 toms. Any wo- i man of com- 4 mon sense will ' B take steps to’ l ' cure herself. - \ She will realize that her generative system ’ §s in need of help, and ° . that a good restorative medicine is a positive negessity. It must bea medicine with specific virtues. Asa friend, a woman friend, let me advise the use of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 1f your case has progressed so that a troublesome discharge is already established, do not delay, take the Vegetable Compound at once, so as to tone up your whole nervous system; you can get it at any reliable drug store. You ought also to use a local application, or else the corrosive discharge will set up an inflammation and hardening of the parts. Mrs. Pinkham’s Sanative Wash is put up in packets at 25 cents each. To relieve this painful condition this Sanative Wash is worth its weight in gold. -~ MRs.GEORGE W. SHEPARD, Watervliet, N. Y.,says: ‘I am glad to state that I am cured from the worst form of female weakness. I was troubled very much with leucorrheea, bearing-down pains and backache. Before using Mrs. ‘Pinkham’s Remedies it seemed that I had no strength at all. I was in pain all over. I began tofeel better after taking the first dose of Vegetable Compound. I have used five bottles, -?:d;l feel like 2 new woman. I know it other suffering women would only try it, it would help fim" Vil Sa e A Gk TR RO AR i U AR E AR R I o BT R I Bl SR e o