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CHIEFS AT THE CAPITAL,
Sixty-One Prominent Sioux at the
Interior Department..

Sixty-One Prominent Sioux at the
Interior Departments.
The sixty one chiefs and sub-chiefs from
the great Sioux reservation in Dakota, com
posing the delegations from the several
tribes of the Sioux nation, which have come
to Washington to confer with the President
and the Secretary of the Interior, and to
present their objections to the law recently
passed by Congress for the REIMBURSEMENT
of II, ,00O, 900 acres of the reservation, were
escorted to the Interior Department at IL
o'clock the other morning by their respective
agents. All the chiefs, as we'll as
the interpreters, wore civilized dress,
with the exception Of moccasins, but each
wore conspicuously earrings, ornaments, or
trinkets Of some kind peculiar to their race.
Rarely has SO notably a delegation of In.
dians appeared in Washington. Prominent
among them were Sitting Bull, who ''made
the medicine" for the Custer massacre; Gall,
who commanded the Indians in that fight;
John Grass, said to be the most intelligent
Indian in The whole Sioux nation, and sew
eral others of prominence among their peo-
pie. Assistant Secretary Muldrow, the
members of the Sioux Commission, Indian
Commissioner Oberly, R. V. Belt, Chief OF
the Indian Division Of the Secretary's office
Committee, and Delegate Clifford of Da'
kota occupied seats near the Secretary.
When all had been seated the Rev. Mr. Cleve-
land. member of the Sioux Commission,
offered prayer in the Sioux language, ask
ing for the presence and guidance o! the
Great Spirit in the council. The Indians
stood with bowed heads during the prayer
and at its close Secretary Villas addressed
them. He explained in details the methods
which he had adopted to secure faithful
and honest and free expression Of their
wishes with respect TO the law. He said that
the Commission had been instructed to fully
and with absolute faithfulness interpret to
them the provisions Of the act Every Indian
over lS years of age had been furnished with
q copy of the act, so that he might have il
interpreted for himself if he doubted the Off
cial Interpretation. The Secretary said tina,
the chiefs before him had been selected tc
come to Washington and lay before him and
the President their objections to the act. BE
would gladly hear their objections and would
give them every opportunity to explain fully
their wishes in the matte-.
Several of the Chiefs responded through
an Interpreter, saying they we're too tired
after t.eir long journey to talk, and at theil
request the council was postponed for cou'
y,le of davS
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QUEEN VICTORIA has begun to de.
velop a great fondness for the game O
whist. She is not satisfied to let 9 day
go by without having her rubbsr. She
is not a brilliant player, but she tr1es
conscientiously to satisfy her partner,
Those about here are beginning to b.
bored by her incessant longing to IN
dulge in the game. She can stand
long siege at the table, and otter
wearies those who are playing witt
her by her disinclination to quit. 1t 4
said that she hates to lose her mone1
as much as though she were poor-to1
she plays the good old English game q
a guinea corner. i
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

Eastern ana NJ M1Oule StaCeS-
CoNGREssMEN AsHBEL P. FITCH and Sam
uel S. Cox have been renominated for Con-
gress by Tammany Hall in their respective
districts in New York City.
Mr.. AND MRS. HENRY COwELL, Of Oster-
vile, Mass, and Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Lowell, formerly of Osterville, but now of
New York, tried to drive across the track at
West Barnstable. Mass The engine struck
the wagon and Mr.. and Mrs, Lowell and Mr..
Cowell were instantly killed. Mrs Ccwells
arm was badly mangled and she was inter-
nally injured.
THE United States gunboat Petrol has
been launched from Cramps ship yard at
Baltimore in the presence of a number of
distinguished army and navy officials. She
is the smallest of the vessels that compose
the new navy.
TwENTY-SEvEN victims Of the Mud Run
disaster were buried at Pleasant Valley,
Penn.
JOHN WATERS was stoned to death at
Pittsfield, Mass, by party Of drunken men
whose orgies he and his wife had inter-
rupted.
WHILE Mrs. William Morgan, Of Donald
son, Penn, was sitting in her dining-room
nursing her infant her six-year-old SON
picked up shotgun and discharged it.. The
entire charge entered the head, face, breast
and shoulders of the unfortunate woman and
the back and head Of the infant, fatally
wounding them.
FIRE resulting from an explosion of gas
DESTROYED the Cameron Colliery at Shamo-
kin, Penn, entailing loss Of $4,000.
A FREsHET in the Penobscot River has
caused great damage to pulp mills and paper
actorieS. Bangor, Me-, has been partially
under water, and the damage to machinery
and buildings is enormous.
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THREE lads at Drummond, England,
aged ten, eleven, and twelve years,
were caught by the police seeing how
near they could come to killing each
other with a shotgun without doing it
The boys took turns, standing against
a sand bank with q mark over thei3
heads, and the others fred at th}
mark. The boys liked the sensation o|
hearing the shot whistle near them
Before this they laid their hats and
coats in heap, and fired into them un|
til they were riddled with shot holes
The queerest Fart of it was that th}
youngest boy had an official gun i
cense.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

WASHINGTON Is negotiating for wise and
Conway, Of Boston.
CALVIN, of Pittsburg, has surprised all by
bis skillful pitching this year.
BOSTON is weak at first and second bases
, and deficient in base-running.
! CHICAGO papers estimate the club prohts
! for the season at about $751; 900.
TOLEDO this season has had seven pitchers
and an equal number of catchers.
THREE times this season have the New
Yorks been shut out without run.
THE Allentown, Easton, Davenport and
Sioux City Clubs have dsbanded.
LANpMAN, Jersey City's phenomenon, won
every championship game be pitched.
DALRYMPLE will winter in Chicago and
resume hisregular winter railroad work.
THE addition Of Corkhill and Collins has
greatly strengthened the Brooklyn Cub
KELLY's work for Boston this season has
In all departments been disappointment
Poor playing and cold weather can't keep
the people away from the games IN Boston.
THERE have been thirteen games this sea-
son where nine has been shut out without q
hit.
IT has been so cold in Milwaukee that
several players wore ear-muffs during one
game.
BEARD, of the Syracuse champions, is said
to have struck out but three times this
season.
THE Jersey City Club has retired from the
field for TIE season. 1t Is said that the clup
lost 81. 90.
CoRKHILL's last act as member OF the
Cincinnati Club was to strike out with TWO
men on bases.
BROOKLYN will play a number OF ex-
hibition games with League clubs before the
season concludes.
THIS is the first season in the history Of the
Association that the Louisvilles did not cut q
figure in the race.
In the fifteen games played last season for
the wor S championship, Latham stole half
the bases for st. Louis.
IT is O curious fact that Clarkson, Of the
Bostons, received his worst pounding of the
year from his old Chicago team.
THE Philadelphia Club has only made six
teen home runs this season, six of which were
credited to Wood and three to Andrews
SINCE Burns, Smith and Purcell were re-
moved from the Baltimore club, there has
been marked improvement in the teams
playing.
New ORLEANS Is working industriously to
organize league and wants to take In two
or three Texas towns, but Charleston don't
want any Texas
.ZAcK" Phelps, Of the Louisvilles, is
spoken OF as President of the American AS
ISOLATION next season in place Of Wheeler
Wikoif, the present mead.
A sl:oEr time ago Anson offered Duffy to
the Bostons for 5000; now the Chicago
captain says the little rightfielder cannot be
purchased for triple that sum.
FOR a small man Ryan, of the Chicagos,
has done terrific batting this season. His
record includes sixteen tome runs, ten threa
baggers and thirty-two doubles
DONOVAN, of the Londons, who is in such
great demand by League and Association
cluIs, made I'D hits, lis runs and stole 81
bases The London Club asks $500 for his
release
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THE death of Benjamin Deri1, OF L.
Sale, which occurred suddenly, say
the La Sale Democrat, removed fron
this life the largest man in La Sall|
County. On Saturday last when q
seemed quite we'll, he weighed AZ
pounds, and he jokingly remarked thd
he could run block quicker than AMI
young man III tosn. His coffin meaa
ured 81 inches dep inside: 80 inchd
broad, and was 6fsct and 3 inches LONG
The body could not be gotten into
bearse and was taken to the cemetef|
in wagon. 1t took eight men
place the corpse in the coffin and 4
many more to lower it to mother cart
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FATAL COLLISION.
Eight Hungarians Killed Through
FIagman's Carelessness.

Eight Hungarians Killed Through
q FIaSman's Carelessness.
A terrible railroad accident has occurred
ON the Pottsville branch Of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad. which resulted in the kill
ing of eight men and the injuring of twenty:
four others. A Lehigh gravel train and a
Pennsylvania Railroad fast freight collided
near Tamanend Siding, Penn.
The graval train was backing on siding
when the freight train, which was running
on orders. approached at high rate Of
speed and went crashing into the cars ahead
It is said that the fagman did not get 6ack
far enough to signal the freight, which
struck the caboose of the gravel train, the
latter containing a batch of Hungarian
Iaborers, six of whom were instantly killed.
Twenty-six were injured, two OF them dying
while being conveyed to the hospital.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

THERE are 2S0, 900 women milliners.
TIE annual output of our nail mills is S0O,'
600 tons.
ABOUT 100000 women find employment as
dressmakers.
STRIKING cigarmakers in Havana are com
ing to the United States
OVER 100000 anthracite miners are en-
ployed by six or seven men.
KEoKUK, Iowa, has adopted the eight hour
rule for all its city employees.
T. B. BARRY has resigned from the general
executive board Of the knights OF Labor.
AGITATION has brought about the aboi'
tion Of contract prison labor in Minnesota.
The Pittsburg glass factories have re-
sumed work, giving 1000 operatives employ
ment.
KANSAS will make vigorous and per-
sistent protest against convict labor IN the
mines.
THERE are zoo, 600 arc lights in use in the
United States, and 1,OOO,O0O incandescent
lamps.
The biggest passenger engines used in this
country are the long-legged flyers OF tne
Pennsylvania Road.
A PITTsBURG man has invented nail ma
chine which will do twice the work thatp pres
emit machies accomplish and at IS ton less.
A CALIFORNIA company, with capital or
s., ,U00 QUO, will establish big iron plant near
Milford, Utah, that will employ about 2ooo
men.
The Hebrew Peddlers' Union, OF New
York, has requested Mayor Hewitt not 70
allow boys under sixteen to pursue the Voca'
tion.
THE rapid introduction Of the electric light
into ortnwestern sawmills shows the pro-
eressive spirit of the lumberlnen or THIS re-
gion.
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION No. Z, OF New
York, has engaged an instructor 70 Geacn lts
members the technical points IN Ensnsn coin-
position.
Sruxn Bros, of Neuenkirchen, Germany,
bava ofFered prize of So. 0 for the best
means of preventing the inhalation OF dust by
the workmen engaged in grinding clay.
THE international brotherhood of Boiler
Makers and iron Shpbuilders and Helpers
was formed at Chicago, June, 1851, ana no"
hns "a branches with membership OF oooJ.
An Allentown PENN firm has OH exhibi-
tion the largest knife and fork ever MANU-
factured Each is ten feet long and each has
an ivory handle. The cost OF manufacture
was SljJ0
THE pay of the laborers at the Brooklyn
navy yard, which was reduced twenty-five
cents q day in each class because of reported
deficiency of appropriation, has been restored
by an order Of the Secretary OF the Navy.
THE Russian Workingmen's Union Of New
York has succeeded in organizing its country
men employed in furnture-making establish.
ments INTO union. The Russian union will
organize all its countryinen into trades unions
and form council Of unions speaking only
the Russian language.
THE beet.root crcp Of Europe for 1889 Is
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A WRITER on German customs fe-
marks, in the Womae's World: "Oht-
GERS may not marry without the con-
sent of their superiors, and their Tree
choice is restricted by the regulations,
which require that their wives must
possess certain amount Of property.
Money in Germany being much more
plentiful in the lower or burgher class
than in the upper, middle, or profess
sional class, it comes about with in
creasing frequency that officers marry
daughters of brewers, farmers, inn
keepers, butchers, and millers, thus
adding one more to the many existing
natural causes which, athwart any Tel
naming aristocratic prejudices, are
rapidly effacing caste in Germany. SD
far as the lives of the people 60, she i
already perhaps the most socially levi
eled and democratically behaved na1
ton on earth, and in this respect ofers
the strongest possible contrast to twd|
adjacent countries. Austria and Russis.
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Foreign


EMPEROR WILLIAM, Of Germany, paid a
visit to the Vatican in Rome and held an in
terview of twenty-three minutes with the
Pope.
THE election Of representatives in Hayti to
choose President resulted IN favor OF Sena-
tor Legitime. The palace was attacked by
General Thetemaque, the opposition candi,
date. The forces under Legitime repelled
the attack, and desperate battle ensued, in
which Thetemaaue and 100 of his followers
were killed
The greater portion Of the village Of Point
du ChenefNew Brunswick, burned. Loss,
$100,0
A REVOLUTION has taken place in Bolivia.
The leaders of the revolt are two men named
Pacheco and Rivadeneira. President Arce
es" aped to La Paz where he is busily en-
gagged in organizing troops. Sucre was oc-
cupied by In liuns, and the mutinous troops
have disbanded. The only authorities in the
capital are the two leaders of the revolt.
A CONSPIRACY against the Dutch residents
in Java has been discovered at Madinn.
Forty two of the ringlea lers in the move
ment were arrested, and eleven others who
refused to surrender were killed.
FORTY thousand copies of DR.. Mackenzies
book on Emperor Fredericks case have been
seized Mt Leipsic by the police. The book is
not allowed to he sold in Berlin. The police
have seized copies exposed for sale at book
stores in Berlin.
THE French Chamber Of Deputies has
assembled. and Premier Floquet introduced
his bil to revise the Constitution.
LORD MOUNT TEMPLE, wealthy and fa-
nous Englishman, is dead. He was seventy
seven years Of age and leaves no heir.
THE German Emperor, accompanied by
King Humbert of Italy and the Duke q, Aosta
vimted Nap;es. AM was enthusiastically re-
ceived by the populace.
a COURIER has arrived from the Congo
tAfrical Free State bringing details of the
1eath of Major Barttelot, who was killed by
porter in the Stan ey relief expedition In
revenge for ill-treatment. The murderer
was placed under arrest and has since been
hanged.
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PETROLEUM EXPLODES.
The Bodies OF Victims Scattered
Broadcast in Calais Harbor.

The f; g of an explosion of petroleum gas
on board the French steamer Vile de Calais,
which had just arrived at Calais, France
from Philadelphia, tore off the deck and
partly carried away her sides. Only the
forward portion of the vessel sank, and the
fire ragel hercely in that portion above
water Other shipping lying in the vicinity
of the steamer was much damaged by the
explosion.
The less of life was great Portions of a
dozen bodies we're found lying on the quays,
arms. legs and heads being scattered about
in shock NJ confusion. 1t is supposed that
the ignition of gas generated in the hold
caused tha explosion. Four bodies have been
found. Fragments of iron were blown in
credible d stan.es, and all the windows of
the ca riagcs in the railway stations were
broken tv tile explosion.
The 6 an,lard Oil Company of New York
received :: cable dispatch announcing that
-om rwen:y to twenty-five persons perished
the explosion.
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FLOODS In CHINA.

More Than 1O.OUU People DroWneu
in Single District
News Just received from China is to the ef-
feet that on the night Of August l3 seven and
half inches of rain fell in Peking, and i'm
mense volumes of water collected In the
ravines about Lien -Ho and suddenly broke
in upon twenty villages More than 10000
people were drowned and large number OF
draught animals
The villages in the valleys near Peking are
in danger every season, as the hills are dest1'
tua Of trees and the waters flow together in
fearful torrents unimpeded by tho vegeta.
tion. News Of the catastrophe was brought
by missionaries who have been living near
the scene of the disaster.
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South and West.


FIELDS, the outgoing County Treasurer OF
the sum of S2O,00O.
THIEVES robbed an excursion train on the
Wabash road in Indiana and secured S20,0 ,0UO,
after which they escaped.
AT Bevier, Mo-, striking coal-miners at
tackled their substitutes, fatally woundlng
several, and killing Thomas Wardell, the
principal mine owner.
APAY train, containing $4,000, plunged
into gap at Reno Gulch, Dakota, and three
masked men attempted to rob it. Paymaster
Reemer opened fire on the robbers and in
stantly killed John Clark. John Wilson was
fatally wounded. and the third man, named
johnson, escaped. The three were ranch
men of the Black Hills
ALL the cracker bakers between Pittsburg
and the Rocky Mountains have agreed to
advance the price of all crackers on account
of the wheat corner, the range being from
half to one and half cents pound.
A CoLoRED girl named Pauline Mccoy,
nineteen years old, has been hanged at Union
Springs, Ala, for the murder Of Annie Jo-
rand, fourteen-year-old white child, last
February, whom she killed in order to OBJ
tain her clothes. The execution was private.
THE strike of the Chicago street car EN-
ployes has been settled and the men have re-
sumed work. A practlcal victory was won
by the strikers, although concessions were
made on both sides.
DR.. C. K. GREGG, son Of the Episcopal
Bishop of Texas shot and killed himself at
Mckinney, Texas, while suffering from the
effects of a hypodermic injection Of Co
caine, with which he was experimenting.
CHARLES MORAN, JR., son of the New
York banker of the same name, was shot
and killed near Waco, Texas, by G. w. West,
with whom he had forced a quarrel.
CHANG YANG HUEN, the Chinese Minister
to the United States, has arrived from Peru
and proceeded to Washington.
The non-fulfilment of the full terms Of his
agreement by Yerkes, the Chicago street
railroad man. has led to a renewal of the
street disturbances and Of the strike.
JOSEPH JOINER was lynched by citizens,
indignant at his career Of crime, on his way
TO jail at Hulto Texas.
LEWIS EDWARDS, q colored murderer, was
shot dead by party Of masked men who
broke into the Jail at Jessup, Ga.
Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH, better known as
"Long John," a wealthy citizen and q
famous pioneer of Chicago, has died of old
age.
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Washin gton.

Jupcs SAWYER of the United States Cir
cult Court IN Washington, has issued two
wrIts of habeas corpus to test the validity or
the Chinese Exclusion act.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has nominated E.
P. Earle, of Alabama, to be Consul at Cog
nae.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has been informed
that large crack in the sternpost Of the re-
Gently launched steel cruiser Baltimore will
delay the completion Of that vessel several
months.
Mrs. CLEVELAND has returned to Wash
ington from her vacation in the Adrondacks.
She was accompanied by her mother, MIS-
Folsom, and DIR. Ward, of Albany. The
party was met at the station by the Presi-
dent and were driven to the Executive Man.
sion.
A LARGE delegation of Sioux chiefs has
arrived in Washington, to consult in refer
ence to the proposed cession of part OF
their reservation.
THE President approved the act for the re-
lief of settlers on the old Camp Sheridan
military reservation; the joint resolution for
the enclosure of certain points on the battle
field of Gettysburg; the act in regard to the
settlement of boundary lines between Con-
necticut and Rhode Island; the joint resolu-
ton in aid of the sufferers from yellow fe-
N6I, duu Ouo dSU ludhiE OiuoVSA AAASA Va eAAS
signal corps responsible for public property.
ADHESION has been rendered by Judge
Sawyer in the United States Circuit Court,
San Francisco, upon two test cases under the
recent Chinese Exclusion act. The Court af-
firms the constitutionality Of the act, and
holds that all Chinese now in the San
Francisco harbor, as we'll as those on the way
from China, must be sent back.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has approved the
act authorizing the establishment of life
saving stations along the coast.
MRS. ADA NJ. BETTINGER of Lincoln,
Neb, has been admitted to practic before
the United States Supreme Court, being the
third woman accorded this privilege.
THE Senate has confirmed the following
nominations: Harry E. Shields, to be Re-
ceiver of Public Moneys at Seattle, Washing
ton Territory; George S. Duryee, to be
United States Attorney for the District OF
New Jersey, and James A. Moore, to be
United States Marshal for Nevada
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RACES O? gold were discovered in Helena,
Moutane, Il workmsa digging sewer: The
CITY is built on Great Last Chance Gulch.
Tie dirt panned ont fifteen cents to the pan.