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partment, will hereafter be entitled to thirty
days leave Of absence each year.

unJS leave VI dDSSuCe etCu Jcel.
The President made the following ad-
ditional appointments: Frank G. Crosby, to
be Pay Director in the Navy; John W.
toms for the Port of Paducah, KY; AleXan-
der McMaster, of New York. to be Supelvis-
ing Inspector of Steam Vessels for the Ninth
District buffalo, N W. To be Collectors Of
CustomS-Henry Fl. Lyman, OF New York,
for the District of Oswego, n. Y: Robert
Hancock, Jr, of North Carolina, for the Dis
trict of Pamlico, N. c.; John F: Horr, of
Florida, for the District of Key West, Fla.
To be Collectors of Internal Revenue-Frank
E. Orcutt, of Massachusetts,, for the Third
District of Massachusetts,; William 81. Ga
briel, of Ohio, for the Eighteenth District of
Ohio; John Steckete, of Michigan, for the
Fourth District of Michigan.
PRESIDENT HARRISON, accompanied by
Secretary Window, Mrs Window and the
Misses Window, arrived at Deer Park. Nd,
from Washington in Mr.. Robert CARROTS
private car Baltimore" to spenda few days
with Mrs. Harrison.
AN armed body of men, about l5O White
and thirty colored, broke open the jail at
Lafayette, La, and took Felix Keyes, colored
to tine house where the night before ne mad
murdered his wife, and there hung him.
The President made the following addi
tional appointments: Jesse johnson, OF New
York, United States Attorney for the Eastern
District Of New York; Eugene Marshall, Of
Texas, United States Attorney for the North.
ern District of Texas; Charles S. Varian, Of
Utah, United States Attorney for the Terri
tory of Utah: Elias 81. Parsons, Of Utah,
United States Marshal fol- the Territory OF
Utah, and Lars P. Edholn, of Utah, Judge
Of Probate, Morgan County, Utah.
UNITED STATES TREASURER HUSTON has
directed that hereafter in the redemption Of
legal tender notes only the three-fifth rule,
used in redeening national bank notes, shall
be observed. The three-ffths rule provides
that where three-hfGhs of a note is presented
for redemption the full amount OF the note
shall be paid.
THE Secretary of the Interior has made a
ruling which allows pension attorneys to
collect from veterans S25 for services, Tor
which they were previously allowed only 70.
SUPERINTENDENT OF CENSUS PORTER has
appointed Edward Stanwood, Of Boston,
Mass, the editor of Youths Companion,
O special agent Of the census office, to
collect the statistics Of cotton manufactures
throughout the United States.
The contract for the exterior walls Of the
Congressional Library Building at Washing.
ton has been awarded to the New England
Granite Works of Hartford, Conn, of which
James G. Patterson is the President 1t ia
for 81, 1921 ,6O0.72.
R. J. HARTMAN, of Findlay, Ohio has
been appointed chief of the division Of &C.
counts in the General Land Office.
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Dakota Crops a Failure.

The wheat crop of Dakota is thirty million
bushels short. The total production cannot
exceed twenty million bushels.
Outside Of the valley Of the Red
River all the grain grown will probably not
fill five hundred cars. The best crops and,
in fac5 tho only fair yield, will
10 in the counties of Pembina, Walsh, Grand
Forks, small portion Of Trail, the centre
of Cass and Northwestern Richland. Else
where the ground is as bare and almost as
brown as though prairie fire Ind crossed it.
In Nelson County, famously prolific, wheat
will not yisld as much grain as was seeded.
Ramsey is bare, except in the immediate VI
cinity Of DEVILS Lake, and in the famonsT Turtle
Mountain region, the rich soil of which has
hitherto been regarded as drought proof;
there will be but little wheat for export.
Along the main line of the Northern Pacific,
in the once famous bonanza farm district,
the elevators are closing up and the country
tributary to Bismarck is as barren as sand
hill. The Jim River Valley will barely feed its
people, and, in short, nowhere in Dakota
will there be any wheat for export save
along the main line Of the Manitoba road
from point thirty miles north of Fargo, the
boundary. The cry of famine that was
raised last winter in the western part OF
Walsh County will finds its echo all over the
Territory the coming winter.
There is another danger which will be felt
very severely, and that is the want of fodder
for the stock Tho oat crop is bad and the
meadows away from the river bottoms are as
parched as the prairie.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

! PRESIDENT HARRISON is very fond Of fish.
QUEEN VICTORIA has reigned ffty.one
years.
MISSIONER, the French painter, was mar.
ried recently.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE has produced twen'
ty-nine novels.
GOVERNOR FORAKER, of Ohio, is forty.
three years old.
THE Prince of Wales is quite a successful
breeder Of cattle.
GENERAL BoULANGER thinks of visiting
the United States
HERMANN, the magician, has his life in.
sured for 100000.
MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY, the writer, i,
George Francis Trains sister.
r. w. GLIDER, editor of the Century, gets
$50, 900 year for his services.
The late General Simon Cameron. OF
Pennsylvania, left fortune of 81, 500, 600.
ALLEN G.. THURMAN is again suffering con.
siderably from infammatory rheumatism.
THE Earl of Zetland, the new Viceroy OF
Ireland, has an income Of over $1,000 day.
CHAUNcEY M. DEpEw, President of the
New York Central, has gone to Europe for
the summer.
hlNC1 olomAnSh, NhaSo ulO1 o PACesSoA0 ~
recounring the duelling and drinking feats Of
his student days than in relating any Of his
triumphs in the field of craftsmanship.
JOHN DILLON, member Of Parliament for
East Mayo, Ireland, will soon sail for America.
He goes to Denver, COL. and thence to Cali
fornia, and expects to be absent whole
year.
THE widow of n P Willis, the poet, is
living in Washington. She is pleasant, at
tractive woman of sixty, and S occasionally
seen in society. Her son, Bailey Willis, is
member of the corps Of the geological sur
vey.
FRANK G. CARPENTER, the traveller and
newspaper correspondent, is just back from
a trip around the world Carpenter is an odd
looking chap. as slim as fence rail, with
somewhat ungainly figure, startling red hair
and noustache and homely face. His is a
persistent and voluminous writer and arapid
talker. He lives in Washington, where he
has delightful home, and makes $l. 900 to
S15, 900 year. :
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

JOHN MULvLNEY and James Crosby were
killed at railway crossing in Newark, N. >.
MISS AMY CRocKER, a niece OF Charles
Crocser, the Central Pacific Railway mag
nate, and the divorced wife of 4. Porter
Ashe the well known turfman, was married
in New York city to Henry NJ. Gllllg, OF the
American Exchange. The bride is worth
S10,000,0GO.
A DESPERATE and bloody fight between
Italian laborers occurred on the Schuylkill
g. Reading Railroad, between Stalington
and Reading, in Pennsylvania. KNIVES and
clubs were used on both sides, and the battle
was fierce one Twenty men and one wo-
man were reported as having been fatally cut
or clubbed.
FOSTER WELLS, aged seventeen, and Geo.
Hussey, aged fourteen, were drowned while
bathing in Messalonslee Lake, Me.
T. c. EVANS, an advertising agent of Bos-
ton, has failed. Liabilities, $40, 600.
SAMUEL FEssENDEN, Treasurer of the
Cape Cod @1ess.) Ship Canal Company has
failed. Liabilities about 5,OOO.
The new United States cruiser Baltimore
returned to Cramps yard, Philadelphia, after
a satisfactory test of both speed and sea
man9uvering.
CHARLES HARMAN and Denton Reifsnyder
were killed in barn ten miles south of Get
tysburg, Penn, by stroke of lightning.
C. H. TREAT & Co. and the C. II. Treat
Manufacturing Co., Georgetown, Del, have
failed with liabilities amounting to about
100000 They employed about three hun
dred persons and manufactured crates,
baskets and plaques.
DR.. WILLIAM B. WHITE, medical electri-
clan, of Boston, Mass, seventy-fve years OF
age, shot his wife, Ellen, who is an attractive
young woman, about twenty-five years OF age
and then committed suicide.
JAMES MONTGOMERY and two brothers,
Charles and Emmanuel Escassi, were drowned
while bathing in New York Harbor.
The conference between the officers of the
Amaleanated Association and the firm of
Carnegie, Phipps G. Co., ct Pittsburg Penn,
ended in a satisfactory agreement to both
sides and full recognition to the Amalgamated
Association. Over 5000 men are affected.
The strike is of.
Two Swedes were killed by locomotive at
a crossing in Asbury Park, NJ.
THE diver who examined the foundations
of the stone bridge at Johnstown, Penn, for
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. says
that the bottom Of the Conemaugh River,
near the bridge, is full Of dead bodies and
that probably hundreds are lying there, one
upon another, held down by tons OF wire.
MICHAEL BoLAK has been hanged in the
jail at Belvidere N. j., for the murder OF
Michael Bollinshire.
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DEATH TRAPS BURNED.
Snow Sheds That Cracked Brake
mems SykulIs DESTROYED,

Snow Sheds That Cracked Brake
mems SKULLS Destroyed.
Within the past six months six Union Pa
cific brakemen have failed to stoop while on
top of trains passing through snow sheds be-
tween Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Laramie
fifty miles west. All of the men were almost
instantly killed.
The Brakemen's Brotherhood petitioned for
the removal of the sheds or the revocation of
the rule compelling the men to stand on top
Of the cars while passing through artificial
tunnels. No attention was paid to their re-
quests.
A shed one thousand feet long was myste-
riously burned on recent night. A second
one nearly three thousand feet in length, was
burned next day, and at three o'clock in the
afternoon third big one was fired. Three
remain, and these are closely guarded.
The officials say that sparks from passing
engines caused the damage, but it is generally
believed that the brakemen have turned in
eendiaries iu self-defence.
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DEATH IN A CESSPOOL.
Four Men Perish at Lincoln, Ne5.
From Poisonous Vapors.

Four Men Perish. at Lincoln, Ne5.,
From Poisonous Vapors.
During the afternoon four men lost their
ives in Lincoln, Neb, under peculiar circum-
stances.
A watch was dropped in cesspool and the
men were endeavoring to recover it.
They dug large hole at the side
Of the pool. This hole was filled
with water by the rain. One man stood on
q ladder above the water and made an open
ing into the cesspool. The foul air and gas
rushed out and overcane him and ne fell
into the water.
A friend went to give aid and was likewise
overcome. Others came to help and one by
one seven men fell into the water, which by
this time was full Of muck and slime from
the vault Three were rescued, some BY
men who afterward perished in attempting to
save the others.
The dead are James Crawford, a bricklayer;
Albert Kunkler, laborer; John Cieery,
blacksmith, and Frank Meloney, a plasterer.
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SCOTCH.IRISH IN AMERICA.
Their Executive Committee Decides
to Issue q History.

The Executive Committee Of the Scotch
Irish Society Of America met at the Glenham
Hotel in New York city. Robert Bonner
presided, and there we're present Rev. DR.. J.
S. Mcintosh, of Philadelphia; Professor
George McLoslie Of Princeton, Colonel
T. 4. Wright of Nashville; Secretary
A. C. Floyd and Treasurer lucius
Frierson of Columbia, Tenn. The chief sub
iect of discussion was the publication OF the
ssScotch-Irish in America" journal treat
ing historically Of the part taken by tho men
of tho North of Ireland in building up this
country, and DR.. Mcintosh and
Secretary Floyd were appointed to
which will be furnished gratis to the mem.
bers of the Society. The Committee also
considered where next years Congress
shall be held, and Philadelphia, New York,
Pittsburg and Nashville were mentioned,
but no decision was reached.
Colonel T, T. Wright, to whom the Society
owes its existence, says he was led TO con-
ceive tho idea by observing, both from his
tory and personal contact the remarkable
number Of influential men of Scotch-irlsh
birth in this country. He said the first Declare.
tion of Independence was drafted by men OF
that lineage in Mecklenburg, n: G., Wnlle
Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the thliadcl-
phia Declaration, was of the same STOCK, as
were Presidents Madison, jackson and FOLK.
''Sam" Houston and "Davy" Crockett were
also Scotch-Irish.
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BIG BANKING ENTERPRISE.
1 Syndicate Puts Up $15,ooo,Ooo to


A Syndicate Puts Up $15,ooo,O00 to
Boom Beet Sugar.
A conference of delegates from the coun-
tries engaged in the production of beet sugar
was held in Brussels, Belgium. The confer
ence founded syndicate bank, which will
establish branches and agencies in all the prin-
cipal cities of the world. The capital will
be SIS, 100, 600. The bank will do no spec1l-
lative business, but will sell sugar on COM
mission and make loans to manufacturers:
The profits of the bank will be divided
among the members Of the syndicate. The
bank will also furnish the members with news
concerning the sugar market. The books for
subscription to the capital stock ware to BE-
opened simultaneously in tho European CEN
ters.
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Foreign.

tOrelSu.
THE International Deaf Mutes Congress
convened in Paris. Delegates were present
from the United States, England, Ireland,
Canada, Belgium, Russia, Switzerland, Iur-
key, Austria and Spain.
A FORCE of Egyptians cut of sixty der.
wishes from the main body to which they be-
longed, and in the fight which followed all
the dervishes thus cut off were killed.
The Germans bombarded Tanga, on the
East Coast Of Africa, and carried the town
by assault.
HApJ1 HAssEN GHooLY KHAN, the Per-
sian Minister, and his Secretary, Mira Nah,
moud Khan, have left Washington and
sailed for France. He is disguised with
America because Of newspaper comment on
his royal master, the Shah Of Persia.
THE Russian Government has totally sup
pressed the Lutheran Church in Russia.
ENGLISH troops are being hurried to Malta
and Egypt in such numbers as to foreshadow
serious fighting.
ONE-HALF of the town of Djarkend in
Semiretchinsk, Russia, has been destroyed by
an earthquake.
A CONSERVATIVE ministry has been
formed in Norway, with Herr Stang as Min
lister Of State.
GENERAL BOULANGER has been indicted at
Paris for the crimes of an attental against
a Secretary of State, Of conspiracy and OF
embezzling public moneys amounting to S5O,-
400.
IN slirnishes with the Egyptian troops
the dervishes have lost ninety men.
The 1OOSh anniversary Of the Fall of tho
Ssstile was celebrated throughout France
and the rest of the world by patriotic French
men.
THE steamship Rapel. from Valparaiso,
struck on the rocks at the Hamblin or t!i2
Socorro Islands, in the Atlantic, and inlmedi-
ately went down. Eleven Of her crew were
lost.
WILLIAM A. BUSHNELL, the noted swindler,
has been captured in Chill. He robbed Wall
street (New York; firm of $75 1000 ten years
ago.
A COLLISION occurred at Grenoble,
France, between O passenger train and q
goods train on the Paris, Lyons and Mediter-
ranean Railroad. Twenty persons were
killed.
Mr.. LINCOLN, the United States Minister
to England, and his wife and Russell b. Ear
rison, son of President Harrison, dined with
Queen Victoria al Windsor Palace.
MANUEL LOPEZ, British Governor Of the
Bay Islands, in the Bay Of Honduras, South
AuleTlCe, - ueefu'
THE International Socialist Congress
opened in Paris.
TIE session of the French Parliament was
closed in Paris amid some excitement.
A FIGHT has taken place at Puerto del
Aqua, State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, between n
q party of thirty smugglers and a force OF
custom house guards, in which two guards
end three smugglers were killed.
A wATERsPoUT destroyed the town OF
Chilapa, State Of Guerrero, Mexico.
The Bundesrath (SwitzerlenG has post,
poned the time for holding the International
Labor Congress at Berne until ne1t spring
GENERAL GRENFELL, of the English army,
hss assumed command of the Egyptian
troops now fighting the Dervishes.
THE Chinese Emperor has issued an edict
ordering the immediate building OF the pro-
iacted lung Chow railway, and has ap-
pointed Marquis Tscng general director OF all
railways in China.
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THE WHITECHAPEL FIEND.
Another Victim of the Mysteri-
ous Murders in L0nlOn.
A Policeman's Discovery Of a
Woman's Mutilated Body.

A low part of Whitechapel, London, called
Old Castle street, has been the scene of an
other atrocious murder of the too we'll
known Whitechapel type. A large mass of
clotted blood and traces of desperate strug-
gle bear testimony that "Jack the Ripper"
has again resumed his deadly work Of cutting
up the bodies of unfortunate women.
Four months ago the extra force Of London
policemen and detectives who had been on
duty specially for the purpose of trapping
the assassin were withdrawn, as 1t was
thought that there would be no more
of such terrible outrages committed;
But it seems that the cruel-hearted, unnatural
beast is still living. The scene of the crime
is in the same restricted area, and once again
the murderer is able to shield himself from
discovery so as to leave no trace.
At 1870 the other morning constable was
walking leisurely down his beat when he
noticed the form of woman lying in the
shadow of doorway. Hc. was
about to rouse the woman when ne
was Mortified to discover that she was dead
and that there was q gaping wound IN her
throat. The body was lying in pool of
blood, which had run in streams from
terrible cash in the stomach, evidently in
Gicted by sharp knife or razor
An alarm was raised and crowd of de-
tectives were instantly on the spot. The
murdered woman seemed to be about forty
years of age and belonged to the most de-
praved class of Whitechapcl unfortunatcs.
On September 9 last news Of the murder
and horrible mutilation of a depraved woman
in the Whitechapel district Of London was
cabled all over the world Three weeks later
came the news that two other women, OF
similar character, had been mysteriously
murdered and mutilated in the Same
manner. This was on September
30, and the next day all Christendom was
shocked with the announcement OF two more
such lives sacrificed to some unknown demon
in human FORM The death Of the eighth
victim was flashed over the wires on
October 4, and that of the ninth
and last in 1888, on November 10:
One more victim fell early this year, and
mans body were fished out of the Thames
which may or may not have been the
eleventh.
Chalked upon q board surface near some of
the murdered women were notices signed
'tJack, the Ripper" announcing that speci-
fed number had been slain, and that when
the fifteenth had died the murderer would an
nounce himself and surrender to the author
tiles. The throat Of each was cut and slashes
forming cross upon the abdomen were made.
Several arrests were made, but the perpe-
traitor of this most astounding series of muir
ders on record has not been apprehended:
Since these crimes came to light
similar deeds have been reported
in France Germany, Cuba, Texas
and other places, while the "Whitechapel
fendn has chased unprotected women In Bos-
ton and numerous other cities and towns of
the United States.
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A Legend of Forget.Me.Nots.

The poet Shiraz gives the following
legend of the forget-me-not:
tIt was in the golden morning of the
early world, when an angel sat weeping
outside the closed gates of Eden. He
had fallen from his high estate through
loving daughter Of earth; nor was ne
permitted to enter again until she whom
he loved had planted the flowers of the
forpet-me-not. When their task. was
ended, they entered Paradise together;
for the fair, without tasting the bitter
ness of death, became immortal like the
angel, whose love her beauty had won,
when she sat by the river twining the
forqet-me-not in her hair" -
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HEAVY FLOODS IN CHINA.

A Tornado browns 6o0O People and
Renders 10000 Homeless.
The City of New York, from Hong Kong
and Yokohama, has just arrived at San
Francisco, Col.
She reports that q tornado burst in the
district northeast of Kwang Lung, China,
June 2, and flooded the level country.
Seven villages were inundated and houses
were swept away.
Moro than six thousand persons were lost
Other districts suffered greatly and hun
dreds Of lives in those places were also lost.
More than ten thousand survivors are home.
locc
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"The Angelus" is Ours.

NJ Proust has written letter in which he
announces the withdrawal of the request to
the Chamber of Deputies for q credit for the
purchase of Millet's 'The Angclus," for
which he had bid $110, 600. The painting will
lean Art Association of New York city.
The agent of the American Art Association
will exhibit ''The Angelus" in Paris for two
months for the benefit of charitable institu-
tions.
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THE WAR In EGYPT.
Terrible Slaughter Of the Advancing
Dcrvishcs.

The dervish prisoners arriving at Assouan
Egypt are terribly emaciated, having suf-
fered greatly from hunger and thirst.
Among them are many women and boys.
An Italian woman, Marietta Cavacalo,
says she was brought from Kordofan,
Soudan, by Nad-el-Jumi. There were
five nuns and two priests still
alive at Khartoum. The dervishes loft Don
COLA with 5000 men and six guns. Nad-el-
Jumi hoped to reach Bimbau without fight
ing. On the march many died and deserted,
while many others were killed. Colonel Wode-
house, in command of the British and Egyp-
tian troops, estimates the dervish killed at
$500.
The Government Is forming grain depots
along the Nile for the purpose of supporting
fugitives who are fleeing before the advance
of the dervishes. Many tribal sheikhs are
rendering their services to the Government.
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A Mexican Hanged,

Jose Abram Ortez Mexican, who last
March murdered O miner named o. Z. Leduc,
has been hanged at Antonito, Col. The
crime was committed while Leduc was asleep
and for the purpose of securing possession OF
q bag Of gold dust valued at $50. On tho
scaffold Ortez acknowledged the crime and
asked forgiveness of all present
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THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR.

Their Next General Assembly-Pre-
sent Condition Of the Order.
The next Gensral Assembly of the Knights
of Labor will be held at Atlanta, Ga, on the
second Tuesday of November, 1889.
Concerning the present condition of af-
fairs among the Knights Of Labor Mr.. Pow
derby: I'm the beginning Of 1885 we had 81;
900 members. Six months later we had
100000. At present We have 100000. When
I am asked TO explain the falling Off I ask
why should so many come in? This present
number is really an increase which strong
" opposed. Much Of it is made up of those
people who think the strike the solution Of
all evils. I have opposed this membership
from the beginning"
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Washington,

The extra session of Congress is to be con-
vened to meet Monday, November 4.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has recognized
Nephtali Guerrero Lorrain as Consul General
Of Chill in the United States.
UNDER q decision of Secretary Tracy the
the per diem employees of the Navy De-
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ARABS in large numbers have swarmed
down upon the villages in East Central
Africa, burning and pillaging the houses and
robbing and numbering the people. The
women and girls have been subjected to the
grossest indignities, and several babies were
roasted alive in the presence Of their pa
rents