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THE NATIONAL GAME.

FIVE million pasebally have been made
this season.
O'RouRKE is doing the best work with the
bat for New York.
MACON claims to have the best running
team in the Southern League.
The 'sbig four" in the Observation-Disclosures,
Rowe, White, and Richardson-are doing
tremendous hitting.
BOBBY MATHEWS, Of the Athletics, has
been pitching professional ball longer than
anybody before the public.
THE Pennsylvania State League consists Of
six clubs, located at Altoona Lancaster,
Lewiston, Scranton, Wilkesbarre and VIII
Transport. y
The paid baseball players throughout the
country, Washington paper states, number
over 1,U0O, and draw annually salaries ag-
gregating about $500, ,O00.
THE Supreme Court of Michigan has given
decision to the effect that persons owning
houses overlooking baseball parks may erect
seats for spectators on the roof thereof, and
the associations have no recourse.
The National League was organized on
February 2, 1876, in New York city, by dele.
gates from the following clubs: Athletic of
Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Hartford, Louisville, Mutual of New York,
and st. Louis.
SPEAKING Of the National League giants
of the Metropolis, a New York paper says;
"Only give them little time and they will
come to the front again" But what they
need more than time, responds a Chicago
paper, are runs
THERE is statue in front Of the national
capitol, holding ball in one haud, which
has been known as columbus discovering
the new world" but it is now supposed that
the artist intended to represent baseball
pitcher, in honor of the national game.
THERE will be very material change in
the positions of the clubs in all the leading
organizations by the middle OF June. AS
soon as the wear and tear begins to tell on
the teams, those which have the most united
teams and the most enduring "batteries" will
take up their position in the van.
THE North Springfield, NO. Southwester
reports local baseball game with the fol
lowing new and unique table of points in Its
score: R-Runs. O-Outs. F. D.-Fel
Down M-Muffed the ball. Umpires- =
Sperry, Gates, Feeeman, Meischbach and
others One of the players had eighteen
''F. D. S" marked against him, and another
hal m. 36'' opposite his name. The large
number Of umpires show that the game was
an exciting one.
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AS an evidence of the growth of thrift
among the colored people of South Caro-
lima, the Charleston Neus and Courier
publishes statement showing that one
thousand and fifty-seven colored people
of that city have deposits in the local
savings banks amounting to s124, 936.
The person who has the largest deposit,
G,747, to his credit, is a pure-blooded
African, but born fnancier. He has
recently bought valuable plantation for
$4,000 and has paid $1,000 Of the pur.
chase money. The Neus and Courier
adds: s'There are thousands of active
and thrifty colorcd men in the State who
have bought land since the war, and who
are steadily collecting about them the
comforts and many of the luxuries of
life. Comparatively few of the colored
people entertain decided notions of
economy or have any faith in govern
ment savings banks, but the wealth they
have hidden away in old stockings and
the money they are investing from year
to year in lands and houses, if it could
rightly be estimated, would prove to bea
pleasing revelation.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

VICE ADMIRAL Don PATRIc1o LYNCH,
head of the Chilian Navy, died recently.
EDWARD c. KNIGHT, the Philadelphia mil
lionaire, began life as an errand boy a1 q
week.
MRS, SARroRIs is said to have not yet re.
covered her spirits since the death Of General
Grant, her father.
MR. MOODY is raising $500, 900 to start
training school at Chicago, for evangellzlng
work among the masses.
CHEF JUSTICE WAITE, OF the United
States Supreme Court. is goingt to Alaska 10
sncnd his summer vacation this year.
Mrs. GRANT is going to spend the summer
ot vast Point, and will be accompanied by
Colonel Fred Grant and his family.
SENATOR JOSEPH L. BROWN, Of Georgia,
is hard at work on book showing the ma
terial and social progress of the South since
the war.
SENATOR KENNA of West Virginia, keeps
q fine mack of deer hounds and beagles, and
is n crack shot. In one day recently he
brought down nine deer.
KING KALAKAUA is an active member OF
the Honolulu Fire Department. He runs to
fires with the engine, and is an expert operator
of the pump handle
THE Empress of Austria is going to Eng
land to visit the Edinburgh Exhibition. She
will be accompanied by the Archduchess
Valerie and will remain several weeks In
Scotland.
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David Van DYKE, of Mason, Ohio,
seventy years old, owns house and lot,
and that's ALL and owes large debt con-
tracted by going security for a friend.
AS long as Mrs. Van Dyke lived the
house and lot could not be attached fol
the debt, under the homestead exemp-
ton law. But Mrs. Van Dyke died a
short time ago, and suit was at once
brought against the widower and the
Sheriff advertised the property for sale.
Under the law Van Dyke could not now
claim homestead, as his wife had died,
and he had no minor children or unmar-:
ried daughter living with him. The
only way to escape was to marry again,
he thought, and so he went to Cincin-
natl and called on several women before
be found one to suit him. At last he
hit on Miss May Jones, who was willing,
and they were married. That was but
few days before the day fixed for the
sale, and the proceedings in execution
were stopped at once. The case was
then argued in the Common Pleas Court:
and the Judge has decided that it was
not necessary that Van Dyke should
have been a married man at the time OF
the levy on the property, but that it was
sufficient to cntitlc him to have the
homestead exemption by becoming the
head of a family any time before the ac-
tual sale.
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Apropos of the warlike feeling in
Greece, prominent Greek who was in
terviewed as to what his countrymen are
aiming at, says: 'We want Epirus and
Crete, and other smaller territories, be-
cause in alN respects-historical, geo.
graphical, chronological. linguistical and
ecclesiastical-they are Hellenic, inte-
gral portions of Greek territory, and by
natural right the inalienable possession
of the Greek race. The vast majority
of the inhabitants of those provinces are
our compatriots, eaten up and preyed
upon by Turkish banditti who have been
encamped there for four hundred and
FIVE hundred years. The Turks have no
more right to the possession of those
provinces than has band of pirates to
the ship which they have captured by
force or fraud. Epirus, besides, was
ceded to us by the treaty of Berlin"
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Foreign.

MANY Turks were killed and the Greek
General Loris was mortally wounded in
recent engagements on the frontier. The
Greek losses before Grizovai were $50 killed
and wounded. Quiet has been restored by
an armistce.
THERE has been q serious labor riot in the
town of TRAM, on the Adriatic. A mob
overpowered the garrison and burned doWu
the law court buildings, the town hall, the
custom house and theatre. Several per-
sons were burned to death and others were
murdered by the rioters.
FORTY Odd Fellows were injured more or
less seriously by an accident TO an e4cursion
train near Brompton, Canada
Mrs R1EL, wife Of the hanged Manitoba
rebel, has just died near Winnipeg.
A TORNADO at Wetzlar, Prussia, destroyed
a railway station and unroofed many facto.
ries and dwellings. Barges were hfted ou1
of the river Lain and carried considerable
distances in the air. In the nelghoorlng
country entire forests were uprooted
THE Derby, the leading English racing
event, was won this year by the favorlte, the
Duke of Westminster's bay colt Ormonde,
from field of nine starters.
PEACE prevails again between Turkey and
Graace The Powers will raise the blockade
of Greek ports.
TWELVE MEN were killed by an explosion
In dynamite factory at Valencia, SPAN.
THE Belgian Government has prohibited
the holding Of a contemplated immense 30
cialist demonstration.
THuspERsroRMs have been raging in Ger
many for three days Many persons and
hundreds of cattle were killed.
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LATER NEWS.

Ex-ALDERMAN DUFFY, one OF the New
York officials under indictment for bribery,
has been re-arrested upon fresh complain
This time he is charged with Offering e1-Al-
derman Waite, the man who has turned III
former, bribe to vote in favor OF granting
a horse car franchise on Thirty-fourth street.
FIRE destroyed a church, hotel and several
other structures in Franklin, Mass.
TWENTY ONE indictments have been found
against anarchists in Chicago.
A FIRM of grocerS at Saltwater, Mlnn',
have been arrested for selling butterine.
This is the first indictment in Minnesota for
this offense.
JOHN c. HENNING was hanged few
days ago at Charlottesville, Ind, for the
murder of Mrs. Iottie Vollmer, widow.
They were engaged to be married, but ton the
day appointed for the wedding Henning was
intoxicated, and Mrs. Vcllmer refused to full
fill the engagement Henning shortly after
ward shot Mrs. Vollmer to death.
THE nomination of Louis n. Church, OF
New York, to be Associate Justice of Da-
kota has been confirmed by the Senate.
A COMMISSION of British experts appointed
to investigate NJ Pasteur's alleged cure for
hydrophobia announces its confidence in the
Frenchman's discoveries.
CANADA will fit out six steamers and si1
,chooners tn protect her fisheries.
AUDRAN:s latest und greatest operatic sue
cess, ..Le Serment d d'Amour," which is now
running to crowded houses in Paris, will
most probably be given its first representa-
ton in America at the Hollis Street Thea
tre, Boston, by the Carleton Opera COM
pany.
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A marvellous conjurer named Bauti

A marvellous conjurer named Bautier
de Kolta, Hungarian, has appeared in
Paris, and among..other tricks which con-
founded company of adopts assembled
to witness them was this: After spread
ing newspaper on the floor he placed
chair upon it, and then asked young
lady to sit down. He threw over her a
niece of silk. which barely covered her
from head to feet. He then rapidly re-
moved the drapery, and the chair was
empty. As soon as the amazement OF
the spectators gave them time to applaud
the young lady walked on from the side
and bowed her acknowledgements. There
certainly was no trap in the door, the
chair was of the ordinary kind, and the
trick was done in q strong light. The
lady, in fact, disappeared before the very
ewes of the audience, but so quickly was
the trick done that no one present saw
her escape.
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CONGRESS- OF CHURCHES.

Important Gathering of Representa-.
tives of the Various Beliefs.
The second annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Congress Of Churches has just been held
in Cleveland. The meeting lasted three days.
A circular officially issued thus set forth
the scheme of this new departure in relig-
ion: "The American Congress Of Churches
has for its object to promote Chri-
han union and to advance the Kingdom Of
God by free discussion of the great relig-
tous, moral and social questions of the time.
The general mana cement of the Congress; is
in the hands Of q council Of twenty-five, in
which the various churches Of America are
unofflcially represented by clergymen or lay
men or both. This Council has no intention
Of establishing society or organizing plan
of union or putting forth creed. 1t simply
aims, by holding public meetings from time
to time, to make provision for full and
frank discussion of the great subjects in
which the Christians OF America are inter
ested, including those ecclesiastical and the
illogical questions upon which Christians
iiffer"
In the council of twenty-five the following
denominations were represented: Congrega-
tional, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran,
Disciples, Baptist, Swedenborgian, Christian,
Dutch Reformed, Unitarian and Methodist.
Governor j. B. Foraker, of Chic, was pres
ident of the meeting, with long list Of vice
presidents, including Governor Robinson, OF
Massachus setts; Congressman G. R. Breck..
inridge, of Arkansas; Rev. T. L. Cuyler, of
Brooklyn; Dorman B. Eaton, of New York;
Rev. Henry NJ Field Of New York; Rev. E.
H. Captice, of North Hampton, Mass. Cor
uelius Vanderbilt, of New York; Bishop
Rulison, of Pennsylvania; Chancellor G. N.
Sims, of Syracuse, N. Y, and many others.
Among the more import ant topics of dis
cussion were: "a True Church: Its Essen
tials and Characteristics" THE Present Ne
cessity for Restatement of Christian Belief"
"Readjustments in the Church to Meet Mad
ern Needs in City and Country and in Tor
eign Missionary Fields" Religion and Our
Public Schools"
On the second evening one of the burning
questions of the time came up for considera-
tion under the title "The Workingmen,s Dis
trust of the Church. Its Causes and Rene
dies" The appointed writer's and speakers
we're Rev. Wayland Hoyt, D. D., Of Phila-
ielphia; Everett P. Wheeler, Of New York,
well known as leader in civil service re.
form; Mr.. John Jarrett, of Pittsburg, one OF
the most prominent Of "workingmen," for
merly president of the Amalgamated Associa-
hon Of Iron and Steel Workers, and Mr..
Henry George, whose fame as a writer on
social and economic questions is world wide:
Mr.. George Is q member Of the Protestant
Episcopal communion; Mr.. Jarrett, Of the
Congregational.
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The yexed problem of whether bees are

The vexed problem of whether bees are
injurious to fruit may be regarded at last
as settled, OF least so far as the courts OF
California are concerned. A recent suit
for damages based on this question, after
an exhaustive trial before the Superior
Judge and jury In San Bernardino
County, has resulted in verdict against
the bees. A vast amount of ''expert"
testimony was given, and after pretty
thorough marshsling of everything that
could be adduced en- either side the con-
clusion mentioned was arrived at. Here
after, therefore, it must be accepted as q
legal proposition that bees are injurious
to fruit Gin California, at least), and the
owners of apiaries in fruit-growing re-
aions will have to govern themselves ac-
cordingly.
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In Vienna the goose is skinned before
it is sent to the market, and the skin
garnished with its down is sold as swans
skin or down. 1t is thus effected: The
skin of the back is slit, and the whole
is drawn over the head like shirt with
the greatest care, so as not to injure the
breast. Such a skin sells for two or
three francs, but the value of the bird
is lessened one-ffth The carcasses are
sent to Paris, and are eagerly bought up by
the work-people and tavern-keepers. At
Poitiers there are two houses which pre-
pare annually 100000 to $4,000 swan
downs, England and America being the
chief markets.
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An Indiana aeronaut says that a balloon

An Indiana aeronaut says that balloon
can be made to carry an elephant as
easily as mouse, 100 men as easily as
one man. He proposes to construct
cylinder-shaped balloon $50 or 200 feet
long, with which, to make captive and
free ascents. els believer in the theory
that the north pole may be reached by
balloon, and in no other way. His plan
for this project would be to employ
screw, operated by an engine to be car
ried in the car. By means of this screw
the balloons course could be controlled,
as already demonstrated by French ex-
periments.
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TURK AND GREEK
Severe Fighting on the Border--Ah
arnisticc Effected.

Severe Fighting on the Border'-Ah
Armisticc Effected.
Advices received in London say tnat So
we're engagements have taken place on
the Greek frontier between TURKISH
and Greek troops. The forces en-
osoed covered q distance of fifteen miles
The heaviest fighting was at Tirnova. MANY
have been wounded on both sides. Prlme ae
Minister Tricoupis Of Greece, telegraphed to
the general in command of the Greek forces >,
instructing him to endeavor to arrange sie az ~
arnlistice. The latter was at hrs1 unapie t,,o w.
comnlv with his instructions, owing to the me
difficulty of securing an interview VIII Tta
Eyoub Pasha, the Turkish commander: me
Greek Cabinet was in session at Athens anu
great excitement prevailed in the capital: no
A later dispatch from Athens says q truce
was effected and there had been no hghtine
since that time The casualties were heavy
ON both sides.
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South and West.

THE prospects are good for large Western
grain crops.
THE Knights of Labor convened in general
assembly at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 24th,
representatives of the Order from all over
the Union being in attendance. The discus
sion and adjustment of differences between
the knights and trades unions. a change IN
the laws of the order made necessary by q
too rapid increase in membership, and the
Board to prevent strikes and boycotting,
were the questions to which General Master
Workman Powderly had directed attention
in his CALL
WILL WHITEHEAD fatally shot Miss Laura
Harwood, at Calrollton, KY, and then
killed himself, because the girls parents OBJ
jected to him as a son-in-law.
A NOVEL strike occurred in Chicago, few
days since, the employees of large foundry,
whose demand for eight hours had been COM
piled with, striking for return to ten hours
day.
JAMES DAwsoN's house, near Rushville,
Ind, caught fire at night, and his three chill
dren, asleep in the upper story, were burned
to death.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY, of Illinois, presided
at large meeting at Chicago in favor Of
Irish home rule.
AF1RE at Wausau, Wis, swept over lum-
Der yards covering half q mile of territory.
The loss is 500, 900.
TWENTY-FIVE Mormons have been SEN
fenced at Blackfoot, Idaho, to various terms
ofdmprisonment for violation Of the law
against polygamy.
GENERAL MILES, with strong force Of
Americans and Me1icans, is in hot pursuit Of
Chief Geronimo and his murderous Apache
followers in Arizona. The General has
offered reward of $50 for each Indian or
head Of an Indian brought in and $1,000
for Geronimo or his head
ONE man was instantly killed and three
others were mortally wounded by the explo-
sion of sawmill boiler near Deshler, Ohio.
CECIL MARRIAGE, chief engineer Of the
water works at Oskaloosa, Ia and his cousin,
Miss Hettie Marriage, were drowned few
days since while bathing in the river at that
place.
A LARGE building in Chicago, occupied by
publishers and kindred trades, burn ed down
on the Goth. The losses aggregate 81, ,OOO. .00).
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The use of dynamite for proper pur-

The use of dynamite for proper pur-
poses has grown with great rapidity
within few years, and men who are
accustomed to handle the powerful eX-
plosive have learned that only reasonable
caution is needed to remove all danger.
Dynamite cannot be exploded by any Or
dinary conclusion, because the molecules
of the nitro-glycerine are too firmly held
by the fbrous substance which it sat-
urates. Thousands of pounds of it are
made every year at the Du Pont works,
opposite Wilmington, and shipped in
cars to all parts Of the country. One
frequent use to which dynamite is put
on the Jersey coast is to blow up sunkcn
wrecks which are dangerous to naviga-
ton.
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Washington.

THE President has vetoed four more private
pension bills on the ground that the claim
ants were not entitled to the money voted
them by Congress- The claims Of all four
had previously been rejected by the Pension
Bureau.
NOMINATIONS by the President: John j.
Finch to be Collector Of Customs for the
District of Sandusky, Ohio. To be receivers
of public moneys: Amos J. Harris, at Kirwin,
Kan. Alexander II. Baker, at Grand Rap
ids, Neb. Ezra W. Miller at Huron, Oak.
CoNF1RMATIoNs by the Senate: United
States Consuls-H. NJ. Jewett, of Massachu-
sets, at Sivas; Charles II. Wills, Of Mary
land, at Managua; Francis H. Wigfall, of
Maryland, at Leeds. Collectors Of Customs
John F. Mcdonnell, for District Of st:
Marks, Fla. !; j. MCGUIRE, for the District of
Pensacola, Fla: William A. Mahoney, for
the District of Fernandina. W. L. Dankins,
of Mississippi, to be United States Marshal
for the Southern District of Mississippi. d.
F: Stevens, of Michigan, to be United States
District Judge for the Western District OF
Michigan.
President Cleveland has vetoed two more
private pension bills
The revenues of the government during
May are about Sl6, ,O00, 900 in excess of the
expenditures during the same period.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

Eastern and Middle States.
THE discovery Of another big well. in the
Pennsylvania oil field has caused tumble In
petroleum.
FIRE has destroyed the main building OF
Harrison's Chemical Works, Philadelphia
the largest of the kind in the country. The
loss exceeds $100, ,060.
A CAN of kerosene exploded in the house
Of Michael Feehan, miner, near Mt. Pleas.
ant, Penn. Three of his children, who had
been playing with the can until it lgnited,
were burned to death.
R. s. SPoFFoRD, of Newburyport, Mass,
attorney for the American Fisheries Union,
SAYS that the inland fishermen will unite with
New England in opposing future treaties
with Canada bearing on that industry.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, has been celebrating
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary OF
its settlement by big procession and other
festivities.
AN Anti-Saloon Conference Of New Jersey
Republicans was held at Trenton on the
26th, delegates from all over the State at-
tending. E. A. Armstrong, Speaker OF the
Assembly, called the meeting to order. A
platform was adopted and State Commit
tee appointed.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

As many as 600 American girls are study.
ing music in Milan, Italy. ....s-cAg.,
ACCORDING to the latest reports Mime.
Nilsson has abandoned her contemplated
American tour. la
Mr.. JOSEPH JEEFERsoN's next season viii
comprise twenty weeks, beginning August
80, in Denver, Col
LESTER WALLAcKis going to do farewell
starring tour next season, beginning tne
middle Of September.
THE title of a new two-act comic operetta,
for which Max Maretzek Is composing the
music, is "The Peachblow Vase"
MISS EMMA ABBOTT is going to Eurcfe
this summer to secure two new operas, Which
she win produce in this country next sea-
son.
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The total annual cost to the govern
ment of the ZIG men employed in the
United States military bands is 1853, 724.
In addition they receive from the savings
of the post bakeries and from subscrip-
tions and outside earnings enough to
bring their total receipts up to 1926, 724.
Secretary Endieott says that the
musicians are trained soldiers, and for
that reason valuable part of the army.
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A great many people are unaware that
there are eight small reservations in New
York State, located in the extreme south
west portion. The Indians number over
5000, and consist of Senecas, St.
Regis, Onondagas, Tuscaroras, Oneidas
and Cayugas. The State provides
the reservations. The general Govern
mcnt makes a school appropria-
tion. General Eli Parker, formerly
of Grants staff and ex-Indian Commits
sioner, is the hereditary chief of the
Senecoe