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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

JUDO is disappointed in her American
tour. She only realized 100000.
P. S. GILMORE has been having a success
full Western tour with his brass band.
MISS ANNA DICKINSON has given up all
idea of ever attempting stage life again.
RUBENsrEIN, the pianist, has begun in Lon
don what the papers call "cycle or seven
historical pianoforte recitals-"
IT is reported that Nine. Patti. has na1e
an engagement with Henry E. Abbey for an
other farewell tour in the United States.
OUEENV1cToRIAh has ordered tho royal box
put in preparation for occupancy during the
Forthcoming operatic season in LONDON.
THE pleuisphone, AN instrument that unites
the tones of the violin, viola, cello ana
double bass is recent invention OF Buffalo
musician.
NEXT season Miss Fanny Davenport Will
employ a diversified repertory, including
'As You Like It," London Assurance"
"rhe School for Scandal" and ''Leah."
A ONE act play called "Synlpathetlc
Souls" written BY Mr. Sydney Grundy, has
been acted in London at the Princes Thea
tre Mrs. Langtry played the leading part
Mr.. EDMUND c. STANTON Of tho Metro
politan Opera House, New York, has Sc.
cured Frau Wolter. well-known singer OF
Berlin, for the next season Of German opera.
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Both Chicago and Milwaukee are be-
wailing the decadence of the grain trade
that has made them great. The loss is
more notable in wheat than in other
cereals, although the receipts ofcorn have
also greatly declined. Both cities are at
tributing the decrease to what they call
excessive elevator charges, which in the
course of year amount to thirty per
cent. of the present value of wheat and
more than sixty per cent. of the value OF
corn and oats. Elevator receipts have
been shown in Chicago on Which the
charges exceeded the value of the grain.
1t is argued that such excessive rates are
strangling the grain trade of the city and
forcing shipments by way of competing
routes. Another reason for the decrease
is probably the fact that there is not as
much grain shipped as in former years.
Certainly not much is shipped from the
West to the East, as stock-raising is fast
changing the form in which corn is trans
ported to other markets.
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SEVEN LIVES LOST.
A Tenement House Fire In Chicago.
An Incendiary's Work.

A Tenement House Fire In Chicago.
An Incendiary's Work.
Seven persons lost their lives in an incen-
dwellings at 73l and 739 South Canal street.
Chicago. They were Michael Murphy, aged
30 years; Mrs. Michael Murphy, aged about
IS; Annie Murphy, years old; Nellie Muir
phy, II years old; Mrs. Mary Durkin, aged
SO years; Patsey LAWN, aged 4, a son of Mrs.
Mary Durkin by q former marriage; and
William Hand, aged 6S.
The fire broke out in the cellar of T33, and
spread through the wooden walls of the base
ment to T31 Both houses were filled with
smoke before any of the occupants were
aroused. Some of the sleepers were doubtless
smothered in their beds. The fire, following
rapidly after the smoke, burned the bodies
until they were unrecognizable.
the Durkin and Murphy families The fire
men in searching the ruins of the houses
found some of the victims lying in their half
awakened before death came upon
them, were clutching each other in
groups on the floor. The upper floor
was occupied by VIM. Hand. His father
lived with him. They were aroused by
the smell of smoke, and the young man
caught up the children and jumped from
the second story window with them, after
assisting his wife to the street He wanted
to help his father down, but the old
man insisted on his jumping with the chill
dren. The aged and decrepit form of the old
man was seen at the window O moment, and
then disappeared as he was about to leap.
The raging fire prevented the making Of an
effort for his rescue.
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THE CROPS.
Report of the Agricultural Depart.
ment-The Outlook.

Report of the Agricultural Depart.
ment-The Outlook.
The crop report of the National Depart.
ment of Agriculture makes the area of spring
wheat nearly the same as last year, about
twelve million acres Winter wheat is not so
promising as on May l. A slight de'lin in
condition is reported in the West and
the low condition of the Southern crop pisstill
more reduced. Yet the average is only re-
duced two points, from 94.9 to 92.I. In the
South it has been affected with rust, shrirel-
ling the grain harvested. There has been
injury from droIth in Texas, rains aud
floods in Ohio. and hail storms
in Missouri The prospect is good
for small fraction above twelve bushels per
acre. Rye has also declined from general
average of 95. to 94.4 during the last month:
The barley acreage has been increased
three per cent, aud condition a:er-
ages 10J: last yeur in June, 80. The
large acreage of oats in 1885 has not
been extensively increased. The increase
will approach half u million acres; Condi-
ton averages NJ against ~ in lSS! The
tendency to increase the area of cotton
has been checked in the Eastern States
of the cotton belt. The net increase is
about 100000, acres, an advance
of one and three-eighths per cent. The rec
ord stands; Virginia, 80; North Carolina,
100; South Carolina, ~; Geargia, 9S; Florl.
da, 103: Alabama, 80; Mississippi, lR; LouiSl-
ana, 1O2; Texas, 1OI; Arkansas, los; Tenn
esSea 101,
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

THE Third Avenue Horse-car Company
having been successful in its fight with its
employees, who struck eight weeks ago, as q
last resort all the other surface railroads In
New York and Brooklyn were cited up" on
the 5th, to the great Inconvenience Of the
public. The drivers and conductors OF the
various roads resumed work next day, how
ever, without having accomplished any
thing, and the Third avenue strike was
practically abandoned.
WILLIAMF. BOYLE and James P. Graham,
of Labor in New York, have been
arrested on the charge Of conspiring to pre-
vent the Third Avenue Company from run
ming its cars.
The International Typographical Union
has been holding its annual Convention at
Pittsburg.
ONE man was killed, two were fatally in
jured and four badly hurt by an ex-
plosion in a coal mine near Wilkesbalre,
Penn.
AN explosion in rail mill at Troy, n. Y,
killed one man, fatally injured four more,
and inflicted injured of serious nature on
six Others
A CABLE dispatch reports the death at
Florence, Italy, Of Colonel r. NJ Hoe, the
we'll known New York printing press manu-
facturer, in his seventy-fourth year.
The sum of $1,000 was presented to the
International Typographical Union on the
last day of its session at Pittsburg. This
sum was the joint contribution of Publisher
George w. Childs and Banker A. j. Drexel,
of Philadelphia.
THE extensive woolen mills of w. E. Har.
ding g. Co., Stamford, Conn, have been to-
tally destroyed by fire, loss S225, 600.
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Captain John Miller, Of Jimtown,
yhickasaw Nation, was recently on trial
It Fort Smith, Ark, charged with muir
Ter. This was not novel experience to
Captain John, for, says the St. Louis
Globe Democrat, he has, according to his
OWN account, killed thirty men during
mis- life, not counting those he may have
slain in the war. Though often tried for
murder, he always escaped conviction,
and in this last case was released on the
ground that the court had no jurisdic-
tion in the case. Captain Miller was
born in Choctaw county, Miss, in 1916,
and is now seventy years of age, though
no one would take him for more than
6ftv
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An earthen mug, about six inches
high. with cat-tails painted on the out
side, that was purchased at the sale of
Ferdinand Wards household effects, has
been presented to lady in New York.
Accompanying the mug is the following
"pedigree:" When General Grant was
travelling along the Lake of Killarney he
met little peasant girl, whom he asked
for drink of water. The child dipped
the mug into the lake and handed it to
him with a pretty little Irish courtesy
that impressed the distinguished trav-
eler. When she learned that it was the
great American soldier and President
who had asked her for the cup of water,
she begged him to accept the piece OF
pottery as souvenir of the time and
place. This the general gracefully did,
and aftcrward presented the mug to his
partner
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GLADSTONE DEFEATED.
The Home Rule Bill Lost by q Ma.
.jority of Thirty.

The Home Rule Bill Lost by Ma.
.iority of Thirty.
Premier Gladstone's Irish Home Rule bill
failed to pass it's second reading in the House
of Commons, on the night of the
7th, by vote of 81 to 34l. Mr.. Glad
stone Immediately novel an adjournment
until Thursday and the motion was adopted
The final debate in the House was opened
at o'clock P. NJ, by Mr.. Goschen, who
spoke against the bill at great length He
was followed in turn by Mr.. Parnell, Sir
Michael Hicks Beach, who also spoke against
the bill, and Mr.. Gladstone, the Premier
closing the debate.
Mr.. Gladstone entered the House at ASS
and proceeded straight to his seat. When
his presence was noticed he was greeted with
tremendous cheering. The Parnellites gave
the Premier an enthusiastic welcome. He
wore q white rose in his lapel and smiled as
he took his seat. Every inch of space on the
main floor and in the galleries was occupied.
The Opposition loudly cheered Johu Bright
and Lord Harrington as they entered and
took their places.
In special cable dispatch, T. P. O'Con-
nor, q Parnellite member, says: "The gen.
eral opinion tonight is that at least three
general elections will have t. be held before
Gladstone 1nQS nlmSelr at Gne nedQ OIL SOilu
working majority, and that the country is
now fairly in for a long term of excitement,
unparalleled in the history of Great Britain
since the time of Cromwell.
I'm the result the government was defeated
by thirty votes The scene was one of the
most intense excitement, such as the oldest
members cannot remember to have wit.
messed before. The Tories frantically waved
their hats and handkerchiefs aud jumped
upon the benches, shouting and gesticu-
lating wildly. The Nationalists, after a
pause, followed their example, and gave
three rousing cheers for the Grand
Old Man. and success ion of unearthly
eroans for Chamberlain, and shouts OF
Judas" which were taken up as the news
spread like wildfire through the lobbies
and halls to the outside, where an inn
mense multitude had gathered awaiting
the announcement of the vote. Among the
crowd were great hunters of Irish from
all parts of the country, in condition
of irrepreSsible excitement. Mr.. Gladstone
throughout the scene sat quiet and composed,
as though he had fully expected defeat as
the inevitable first sten in a long and arduous
struggle, and was perfectly prepared for re.
newal of the con ess at the proper moment. =
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A City of Mexico letter asserts that "if
the tourists who leave the Eastern and
Middle States during the bleak winter
months to seek health and pleasure in
milder climates knew Mexico as it is, they
would flock here. The country is, and
has been, during my five years residence
as safe as the State of New York, to live
and to travel in. The people are quiet
and as rule courteous to all strangers.
Violent crime is less in proportion in
Mexican than in American cities. There
are fairly comfortable hotels in nearly all
the principal towns, and many new ones
are being built and furnished. The food
furnished is nutritious and plentiful. The
mode of cookery is generally distastcful
to Americans, but the keepers of restau'
rants are adopting American customs in
many instances to get their trade. Hotel
and restaurant charges are little lower
than in the United States. Police service
is as effective in all the larger towns as
in the United States, and the Mexican
police are more patient and courteous than
those of the American cities. Several
tourists, who were entirely ignorant of the
Language, have told me of their having
been picked up, when lost in the city OF
Mexico, and returned promptly and cour-
teously to their hotels by the police, and
they are as ready to serve the old and ugly
as the more attractive or younger. OF
course it is hard to make residents of the
Eastern States realize that the climate is
such that you may dress in light wocllen
goods, and, with light overcoat for
night journeys, be comfortable the year
round: but it is true" .-.--
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Balloons as an adjunct of warfare are

Balloons as an adjunct of warfare are
attracting much attention in European
military circles, and their possible value
in time of peace is not entirely over
looked. An English writer remarks that
the recent successful attempts at balloon
steerage in France have led many
thoughtful persons to believe the day not
&c =, Ear distant when we shall see bal
looms plying in well-paying passenger
traffic between England and the CONT
nent. Another writer adds that such a
result would be no more wonderful in its
way than the discovery and development
of the telephone, which, though scarcely
a decade old, is already so familiar to US
that it no longer seems strange.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

The Syracuse IN. " Stars attend church
In body every Sunday.
DAILY. the one-armed pitcher of the Wash
ington League Club, has been retired
The batting averages are unusually high
so far, both in the League and Association.
CHATTANOOGA is the first Southern League
club to play an errorless championship game
JOHN THOMPSON, Cleveland's new pitcher,
recently struck out seventeen men In seven
innings.
THE Detroit National League Club won
seventeen straight games before it met with
q defeat.
THE Charleston team is claimed to be the
finest looking in the aggregate in the South
ern League
IF Atlanta again wins the Southern League
pennant, every player will receive sub
stantial present.
PLAYERS in Memphis are usually paid SO
when they make home run and record bat-
ting is the result.
GRANT. the colored sc cond baseman Of the
Msridens, is distinguishing himself by good
batting and fielding.
THERE are three pitchers named Smith IN
the Southern League-one in Nashville, one
in Chattanooga and one in Macon.
u.
s3OJ to catch one week for New York when
that club was in crippled condition.
The total fine imposed on the players OF
the st. Louis American Association Club
this season amounts to something like S6Oo.
THE New Yorks won the first six games
that they played with the st. Louis League
nine. Three were won in New York and
three in st. Louis.
NEW YoRK's fielding feat at Kansas City
in keeping the cowboys down to five runs,
after they had made q total Of twenty-five
bases OH balls, has never been equaled.
CAPTAIN JOE START, of the Washington
Club. has been on the diamond quarter OF
a century, and is playing better ball than
the majority of first basemen. He COM
menced to play with the Atlantics in 1850.
MORRILL, leads the batting for Boston,
Anson for Chicago, Brouthers for Detroit,
O'Rourke for New York, Denny for st.
Louis, Hines for Washington, Rowe for
Kan:as City and Andrews for Philadelphia.
RAMSEY, of the Louisville Club, has
struck out eighty nine men in ten games he
pitched, an average of nearly nine men to
game, and Kilroy, Of Baltimore, in nine
games pitched struck out seventy-two, an
average of eight to game.
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The erection of an American hospital
IL the City of Mexico has now begun in
earnest. Americans in and out of
Mexico" says the Tuo Republics, "should
make it point of honor to supply ample
funds for the completion of the enter
prise, which is demanded in the name of
humanity, as well as in the interest Of
the good name of the American people.
Contributions may be sent to the Ameri-
can Legation in Mexico, whose head is
the President Of the American Benevo-
lent Society in Mexico, which has under
taken the building of the hospital"
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The word month is not likely soon to
be defined in its statutory use by national
enactment, though bill with that end
in view has been introduced by Senator
Platt. In England legal month is the
lunar month of twenty-eight days. This
was the common law Interpretation, hut
Georgia is the only State which now ad-
heres to that Interpretation; all other
States go by the calendar. AS the ques-
tion has never been raised in the courts
the Judiciary Committee concluded that
there was no call for any legislation on
the subject, and reported the bill ad-
YerSely
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"Sketching by telegraph" is the latest
novelty. An ingenious system of adapt.
ing the alphabetical messages of the
electric telegraph, or any other signaling
apparatus, to the reproduction at distant
points of some kinds of drawings has
been contrivcd by Alexander Glen, OF
England. 1t seems likely to be of much
utility in military operations, as it is es-
pecially suitable for the transmission Of
small maps or plans Of a locality, and
for indicating the position of troops,
batteries, and points of attack. BY it,
it is claimed, portraits and sketches can
be reproduced with fair degree OF
fidelity
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EvANGEL1sTs Jsnes and Small have gone
TO Washington.
PRESIDENT ARTHuR says that insomnia is
his only trouble at present.
THE Sultan of Turkey has given banquet
In honor of United States Minister Cox.
K.F. KNOWLES, loom manufacturer OF
Worcester, Mass, has bought s6OO, ,OOo hotel
in Florida.
Mr. JOHN L. SMITH, Philadelphia type
founder haspresented s., 600 each to hospitals
In that city.
JUSTICE FIELD Of the United States
Supreme Court will travel in Europe tbs
summer with his wife.
QUEEN VICTORIA has fourshing poultry
yard at Balmoral The chicken house IS a
palatial structure, built in the semi-Gothlc
style.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH has voted to give
Henry Ward Beecher vacation 1or four
months, and he will 60 abroad with MIS-.
Beecher.
THE Prince Of Wales is an enthusiastic
amateur photographer, and most successful
one. He purchased his camera ani OUTFIT ID
this country. -
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Washington.

SECRETARY LAMAR has revoked his recent
order withdrawing all public lands from
entry under the timber culture, pre-emption
and desert land laws.
THE Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Governor Swineford, of Alaska.
TIL. WINSTON has resigned as United
States Minister to Persia
The House Committee on Invalid Pensions
has agreed to report as substitute for Sen.
ator Hairs pension bill bill providing for
3 uniform pension of $12 a month for all
soldiers and sailors who are absolutely dis
abled and unable to maintain themselves,
and recognizing no distinctions of rank.
TEE Presidents wife will receive from the
estate Of her grandfather, Colonel Folsom,
who died recently near Buffalo, N. Y, about
$4,000.
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Killed. Wounded. Ddmdg
A dollar month will keep Bengal

A dollar a month will keep a Bengal
man alive. Here is certainly the spot on
earth where contentment, suficiency,
paradise should be. A distinguished
Brahmin recently quoted from official
reports the statement that 50, 900, 600 OF
of the Hindus are always in state of
semi-starvation; that most of the dis
eases are the result of hunger; that
5000, 900, or 4, 100000 die every elev-
enth year of acute famine. Over large
portion of China famine is chronic. Only
few years ago 1000, 900 people starved
10 death in one visitation.
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Theatrical COnfiagratiOns.

The number of theatres burned in
creases every year. From 1900 to 1910
there were seventeen destroyed by fire
throughout the known world. From 1910
to 1920 the numbec was eighteen; 1920
to 1880, thirty-tw 1880 to 1910, thirty !!
1910 to 1850, fifty-four; 1850 to 1860,
seventy-six; 1s 10 to 1870, 1903; 1870 to
1880, 100; 1880 to 1885, 174. The num-
Der of victims sometimes attains fright
full proportions, as Will be seea from the
following table:
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The annual average of suicides for
every million people is II i'll Spain, 80 IN
Russia, 81 in Italy, SO in Hungary, 70 in
England and Norway, 93 in Sweden, 1872
in Austria, 127 in Bavaria, $50 in France,
1854 in Wurtemburg, 167 in Mecklenberg,
174 in Prussia, 900 in Denmark, 3o5 in
Thuringia, and 377 in Saxony. Suicides
are becoming more frequent every year
in highly civilized countries, but espe-
cially among the poor German races.
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South and West.

JOHN STEVENS, mulatto, is charged with
tine murder of DR.. Pyles and wife and
three other persons, all residents Of Coffey-
vile, Indian Territory, the motive being re-
venge and robbery.
THOUSANDS of women and children, rela.
tives of strikers, stood between the rails OF a
track at Chicago the other day, and refused
to allow trains to proceed.
THE following executions took place on
the 4th: At Lebanon, Tenn, Jim Baxter; at
Winchester, Va, Wes Honesty and Tably
Banks; ut Nashville, Tenn. Allen Herbert;
ut Opelolsas, La, Alfred Taylor All wore
colored.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and his wife at-
Sunday of their honeymoon, and were the
centre Of attraction for a large congreSa.
tion.
BROOKS, alias Maxwell, was found guilty
at st. Louis of murder in the first degree.
His victim was Preller, wealthy young fel-
low Englishman, who was travelling with
Brooks. After numbering Preller the CORPSE
was concealed by Brooks in a trunk. The
murder has excited much attention both in
this country and England, where Brooks had
most respectable connections.
THE United States Grand Jury at Seattle,
Washington Territory, has found indictments
against ten leaders of the recent anti-C Chinese
riots in that city.
WESTERN crops have been injured by
drought, and the prospects are only fair.
THE detachment of United States soldiers
on guard at Garfields tomb, Cleveland, Ohio,
since his burial, has just been withdrawn.
THIRTY thousand people witnessed the run
ming race at st. Louis in which the mare Miss
Woodford represented the East and three
other horses the West and Pacific coast. TIL.
stakes were $4,000. Miss Woodford Won.
Just as the race started the press stand fell,
and q number of newspaper men were more
or less severely injured.
THE Loughlin Nail Works at Martins
Ferry, w. Va, have been partially burned
loss, 100000.
SIX ps sssengers--three men and three young
ladies-were killed by trains plunging
through treStle into the Santee river, near
ST. Stephens Station, S. G. The conductor
and mail agent were badly injured.
FIRST returns from the Oregon election
showed victory for the Democratic State
ticket and close vote for Congress.
HOWARD REMrIs. boy of six years, shot
aud killed little playmate at Akron, Ohio.
EDWARD MCMANUs, q lani agent, arrested
on charge of forgery at Clereland, Ohio,
admits peculat:ons to the amount OF 1000.
THE greater portion of Ravley Springs,
Va, including two hotels, has been destroyed
by fire.
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One would naturally imagine that this
lew country was better wooded than tho
I'D and thickly settled nations of Europe.
But, according to forestry authority,
mch is not the fact. In Europe, 1t is
claimed, twenty-eight per cent. of the
and remains in timber, while only sixteen
md one half per cent. thus remains in the
ITnitel States