Fair play., 1889-06-01

| THE Aged " Orkmen's Insurance bill
! was passed in the German ReicAstag on
the 9th. The bill provides that small
| monthly am1nGt be deducted from TIE
! wages of all working people, the money
| thus collected to be laid aside for iu-
sIrauce against old age and sickness.
! The state adds to the insurance fund
a sum equal to one-thiri the ampant col
! lectej.
/ The warden ot the Hudson County IN,
| j. penitentiary, at Snake Hill, discov-
| cred plot, on the 2lth, for a general de.
| livery Of cOuyicts confined in that insti-
! tuition. The cells and persons Of FIVE
| long term prisoners being searched, flies
! knives. saws, drills. a pair Of compasse-
| and a key which readily unlocked the cell
and corridor doors, were discovered. The
| culprits We're placed IN close confinement
on bread ani water.
THE German Keichstag adjourned on
the 2ith.
THE Shah of Persia arrived at 81.
Petersburg on the 9th. He Was received!
! by the Gar and Czariua, b. a Banquet in
the Winter Palace. at which the Shah sat
at the Czarina's right. The Gar offered
a toast III honor of his guest, anl the
Shah responded by tpastiug the Czarina.
The concert at the Academy ot II !sic
in New York City, on the night of the
%. h. for the beuetI; OF the family os the
late civil justice, Miclac! Norton, realized
sl9 900
The Bellows Falls (Minn.) Times bull l.
Ing aud "A number of stores Were blrueG
early on The morning al III. 9jlA. Loss.
$4,000.
REV. JAMES II. HARDING. formerly
cnaucelor of the Diocese ot Connecticut.
died, On the 2G,h, at ST. Francis Roman
Catholic Orphan Asylum, New Haven,
where he had lately acted "a chaplain.
He was eiGhtyone years old.
\ FIRE nj Lubbock. Germany, on the
2Gtn, dslroyed several extensive ware
houses filled with cotton and lax. The
loss is estimated AZ c>i.OlO.
Mr.. KG2ERr MCLhNE. the retiring
American Minister IL France. sailed Cor
New York ou the 10Th. His wife and
dausht' r viii remain in Paris Tor the
present.
An adjourned meeting for the purpo sc
% completing tho organization OF "A New
England cducatioual society was held nj
Boston on the 2Jth. The report of the
committee on organization was read and
an amendment alpp.ei that the pro-
posed association be made national III
character.
The Dominion Government announced.
on the 25tt:, that an order in council had
been PASSED reducing the clearance fees
charged on American vessels eutrriu:,
and leaving Canadian ports on the great
lakes to fifty cents for vessels of any tom
mage.
L will r4.fI
England, in July, tor the purpose of bring
ing Lady Pauucctote and daughters 10
Washington.
ir has been decided at the Navy De-
parimcnt that the remains Of the inventor
Ericsson shall be taken back 10 his native
land in n National ship, and it is UNDER
stood that the Chicago will be selected
for the duty.
tpCNr iGThTICS has been appointed
assistant Minister Of the Interior of Rus
sia.
\ SPECIAL from Pomona, Cal, says that
Dwi -iIt ". Lord, cashier of National
bank AT Omaha. who arrived at Pomona
on the 10Th. CLAIMS to have been robbed
on the Santa Fe train between Nee
dies and san Bernardino Of $l,3)) i'll
money aud 5000 in notes, which he car
ri,'d ii his saciiel.
THE i-bnund train on the Rich
moui Il Petersburg railroad ran iutn the
rear end of IA lumber train. on the 18th,
six miles from Richmond, Va. The lum-
Der train was on IA side-traCk, and not
clearing the main track, the mail train
plunged into l.. Several irainmen were
injured, but no passengers.
J. G. CLARK, of Boston, has presented
to III" Main" State College his herbarium
one Of the tiucst in the country, contain
ing about thirty thousand specimens. Il
WAS collected by the late Roy. Joseph
Blake, of Andovcr, Mass. ami was pur-
chased by Mr.. Clark for $1,000.