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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

In Tacoma, Wash, they have an electric
street railway.
The prospects are that California will have
big wheat crop.
IT is announced that all Russian import
duties will be raised in June.
The National House Of Representatives
has about 100 bills ON the calendar.
The North Dakota Senate rejected all the
appointments made by the Governor
THE cold weather killed at least one-third
Of the tobacco plants In North Carolina.
A MOVEMENT in favor Of aMethodist sister,
hood is making much progress in London.
THE new French ministry announces pol
icy Of active work and political conciliation.
THE Bulgarian Government is about to e1-
pend SIS, 900 upon the construction of
railroads.
OVER 1000 men have been cutting ice on
the lakes around Pittsfeld, Mass, for New
York company.
RECENT returns to the Department of
Agricultural show a revival Of interest in
sheep husbandry.
HEAVY purchases of bonds by the Treasury
Department have reduced the available sur
plus to about $40, ,000,O0
THOMAS HOPE, Of New York, bequeathed
s40O, 900 to found hospital at Langholm,
Scotland, where he was born.
The dock strikes in Liverpool had serious
effect upon transatlantic traffic, both as re-
CARDS passengers and freight.
IT has been finally determined to put Gene.
raj Lafayette's statue in the upper part of
Lafayette Square in Washington.
A BILL reducing the legal rate of interest
from ten to eight per cent. has been passed
by both Houses Of the Iowa Legislature.
The President has been authorized by act
of Congress to confer brevet rank on army
officers for gallantry in campaigns against
the Indians.
EFFORTS are being made in Toronto to en-
courage the expectation of Canadian cattle
to Ireland, where. it is said, there is consider
able demand for them.
GUARDS were placed on the endangered
levees at New Orleans with Winchester rifles
with instructions to shoot any one approach
ing the levees at night.
THE City Of Minneapolis has appropriated
the sum of SIS, 900 for the enrichment of its
public library through the purchase OF rare
books and manuscripts.
AFTER forty years of Mormon rule, all the
city Of Salt Lake has to show IS some sets of
books that the most expert bookkeeper in the
universe cannot balance.
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LATER NEWS.

UNITED STATES MINISTER REID who ar.
lived at New York from Paris, stated that
considerable disappointment was felt ir
France over the location of the Worlds FAN
b Chicago.
EIGHTEEN residences, the bridge and
Pusiness block in Bryan, Ohio, have been
burned.
CIRCUIT JUDGE WILLIAM L. JACKSON died
e Louisville, KY, from Bright's disease.
JUSTICE JAMES v. CAMPBELL, of the Michi.
an Supreme Court, died suddenly from heart
disease at his home in Detroit.
| ARCHBISHOP MICHAEL HEIss, of the Mil.
faukee Diocese, died at Lacrosse Hospital,
Milwaukee, Wis, at the age Of seventy-two
ears
THE Ways and Means majority decided to
estore hides to the free list
WARRANTS were sworn out in Washing
b1 for the arrest Of c. A. Newton and j. J.
cspon a charge of violating the Civil
IL law in soliciting and receiving con-
)fy6tions from Government employees for
olitical purposes.
THE annual eight-oared boat race on the
hames between crews representing Oxford
hd Cambridge Universities, was won by
be former.
JOHN GOODMAN, q young American, blew
It his brains at private hotel in Paris
rance. He was out of funds.
A HURRICANE at Townsville, Australia,
boded the town and caused much damage.
everal persons were drowned.
PRINCE BISMARCK had a farewell inter-
ew with Emperor William, and was greeted
ith popular demonstrations Of respect and
lection as he drove through the streets of
erlin.
A VIOLENT earthquake has occurred in
rieste, Austria, and its vicinity.
ABOUT fifteen hundred houses were de.
royed by fire in Toxic, Japan. and seventy
ght were partially destroyed. Two persons
Ere killed and about twenty-five flremen
ere more or less severely injured. On the
ecedipg day 1877 houses were burned in the
Fy, and a week later about eight hundred
ID sixty were destroyed and several aremen
Ere injured. The fires were Of accidental
Epin.
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Foreign.

EMPEROR WILLIAM has offered Prince Bis
marck Dukedom and made him q field
marshal He has also made Count Herbert
Bismarck Minister Of Foreign Affairs.
The mine owners of England having
agreed to raise the wages Of the striking
miners ten per cent, the men resumed work
The School Act, abolishing tho right of
the Roman Catholics to have separate schools
and obliging all classes Of the community to
patronize the national secular schools has
passed the Manitoba Legislature.
ADvIcEs have been received from Quill
name, East Africa, to the effect that Portu.
guese customs official and his escort Of 300
natives have been massacred near Lake
Nyassa.
SEVERAL foreign Hebrews hare been ar
rested at Leipsic, Germany, on tn charge OF
treason.
WHILE dispensing riotous workmen at
Koepenick, Germany, two policemen were
wounded.
ALEXANDER SHAw,' a. society leader ir
Montreal, pleaded guilty to embezzlement and
was sentenced to six months imprisonment
The amount of his stealings reached SA, ,OO0
The British steamer Virent, from Sulina,
Roumania, for London, has been abandoned
at sea, with her shaft broken. The mate and
fourteen other men belonging to the steamer
were lost.
FORGED notes. to the amount Of 500, 600
pesetas were discovered in a package OF
funds brought to bank at Madrid, Spain.
FIVE HUNDRED Russian students have beer
arrested for rioting at st. Petersburg. They
demanded the restoration of liberal regula-
tions.
MUCH damage has been done by. floods in
Italy.
The Labor Conference at Berlin adopted a
resolution favoring the prohibition of the
employment of children under twelve years
Of age in factories and mines.
The steamer E. Gwendoline foundered of
the coast Of Wales, and several Of her crew
were drowned.
A BAND Of Servian militia tried to capture
the Bosnian village of Granje, but was re-
pulsed after sharp fight by Austrian gen.
darmes. During the engagement several were
ment has demanded an explanation Of the
affair from Servia.
The German authorities have hanged q
slave-dealer named Swahili for trying to
embark slaves at Bagamoyo, on the East
African coast.
THE Danish Minister Of War announced
in the Folliething at Copenhagen that
Socialist workmen would not be employed in
State workshops.
The new extradition treaty between Eng
land and the United States was formally
signed by the Queen and countersigned by
the Premier.
AT Paliama, in Crete, apriest was dragged
from his pulpit and paraded through the
streets amid the jeers Of the mob. Sixty
four Of the villagers were starving in
DrisOn
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fore the prices for materials and labor be-
come inflated the building Of houses Of
profitable ventures. When an American
makes money he is pretty sure to provide an
attractive and comfortable home for his
family. The design illustrating this article
issubmitted for his consideration. Brief de-
seription Of the design:
Size Of Structure: Front, including
veranda, 80 it.; depth, 48 fl, 6 in. -
Height Of Stories: Cellar, it,; first story,
gift. Gin. second story, Off,; attic story, #.
Materials for Exterior Walls: Founda-
tions, stone or brick; first story, clapboards;
second story, shingles; gables, dormers and
roof, shingles.
Interior Finish: Hard white plaster; whits
pine trim; cherry staircase; plaster cornices
and. centres in hall, parlor and dining room
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

The Legislative Committee in the Massa-
chusetts Legislature reported a bill giving
women the right to vote in municipal cleo
tions.
A HUNGARIAN woman told the police Of
Harrison, N. J., that house that had been
burned two years ago, and in which two lives
were lost, had been deliberately set on fire.
Six arrests were made.
Luc1Us TUTTLE, Trunk Line Commission
er has resigned to become general manager
Of the New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad.
THE house of Benjamin Downey, Stony
Hill, Penn, was burned, and when the ruins
were examined the charred body Of Downey
was found.
JOSEPH J. SrEcK, well-known oil man,
was instantly killed at Reno, Penn, while as
ssting to draw the tools from one of the
wells.
The fishing schooner H. A. Duncan, of
Gloucester, Mass, lost six of her crew in
dorie5 during recent snowstorm.
THE jury in the FlacS conspiracy case in
New York city found verdict Of guilty
against the three defendants, Sheriff Flack'
his son, "Wiiw Fiaok, and Joseph Meeks. The
jury in giving the verdict, made q strong
Recommendation for extreme executive Glenn
ency.
SAMUEL R. GREEN was shot and instantly
killed by Ira E. Briggs. near Norwich, Conn:
Green threatened to cut Briggs's throat, and
it is believed that he was taken suddenly In.
sane The Corouer's verdict was ''excusable
homicide"
Two trains collided near Portage, n. Y,
killing three men, and fatally injuring an.
other. The engines and twelve cars were de.
molished.
JOHN S. FARLow, President of the Gin.
cinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland Railroad,
died suddenly at his home in Newton, Mass.
A BILL to. provide for sixty scholarshipsin in
the Agricultural College of New Jersey was
passed by the House at Trenton, NJ
AN insane woman endeavored to burn
the insane asylum at Lancaster, Penn,
and nearly succeeded. Great excitement
prevailed among the inmates of the asylum.
The wholesale dry goods commission
house of Ross Campbell &c Co., New York
city, failed with liabilities Of about s125,-
900.
A Texas steer escaped from the abattoir
at Jersey City, N j., and it ran two miles
and wounded four people before it stuck in
the mud, and was killed by policemen.
EIGHT engineers and firemen on the Read
ing Railroad have been discharged for drink
ing.
J. F. ANDERSON, collector Of Milford
Township N. j., for the last three years, is
$4,000 short in his accounts.
A BOZ is said to have died of yellow fever
near Reading, Penn.
BURT GARDNER, Dolphics Ranault and
Michael Mulvey, painters, fell from scat
fold at Lawrence Mass. Gardner was
killed, and Mulvey and Ranault badly in
jured.
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ALIVE. IN ITS COFFIN:

Mourners at a Wake Frightened
When the Corpse Beganto Cry.
Christopher O'Neil, of New Brunswicl, N.
j., called his friends to his house to hold a,
wake over the body Of his child. The wake
was in due progress when the mourn
ers were suddenly terribly frightened, for
the supposed corpse, clad in its grave clothes,
sat up in the coffin and began to
cry Justify. In a moment the
baby's aunt recovered her presence Of
mind and grabbed the little one from its
narrow bed, gasping out: "Bless the Lord,
it's alivem
The wake became night of rejoicing, for
the doctor who was. summoned said he
thought the child was likely to live.
But their joy was premature, for next day
the child was seized with, convulsions and
died. The second wake was, even saddsr than
the first.
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quired, it is suggested that the three closets
grouped in the centre Of the house be omit
ted. The floor space thus acquired may be.
combined with the dressing room, thus pro-
viding another bedroom which would be
eight feet six inches by fourteen feet in size.
Special Features: The dominating feat
ures-the windows. the dormers, the veranda
and veranda posts-of this exterior may. be-
said to be Colonial. Shingling the second
story and the gables, now become quitepopu-
lar, was copied from Colonial style.
The polygonal bays Of the dining room and
the bedroom above make the two rooms re-
ferred to unusually attractive. But thare Is
no lack of air and light for any Of tharooms.
Cost: In localities where prices, for labor
and materials are about the same as New
York prices, $500.
R. W. SHoPPELI, Architect. :.
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A BABY OFFICER.
A Child a Few Weeks Old Commits.
stoned a Lieutenant.

The youngest commissioned officer in our
military is no doubt John A. Logan, tbs
third, who has been commissioned Lieu.
tenant in the Logan Rifles, a company of the
Fifth Regiment of Ohio militia stationed at
Cleveland John A. Logan, Jr., is Captain
of this Company. The babe thus commits.
sioned-for he is only few weeks oid-ls
grandson of the late John A. Logan, and the
commission was issued at the request of
Colonel Gibbons, of the Fifth Regiment, who
stated in a letter to Governor Campbell that
the boy is intended for the army and sug-
gested, considering Captain Logan's in.
tense interest in the National Guard, as well
rs the little fellows intended future, that
commission as Lieutenant in the Logan Rifles,
Company E, Fifth Infantry, be given John
Alexander Logan 8, dated February l2,
1890" This latter date is the chilIs birth.
lay. Colonel Gibbons added, " am sure if
General Logan were alive to-day he would
oe highly pleased" The commission was
promptly made out and forwarded.
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KILLED BY HER OWN SON.
A Boy Cuts His Mothers Head on
and Then Goes to. Play.

and Then Goes to. Play.
Asirgularly atrocious murdsrhas been COM
mitted at Somerville, Tenn, the victim being
Mrs. Sally Hobson, colored, and the MUIR
derer her eleven-year-old boy. Mrs. Hobson
was O servant in the family Of the Episcopal
minister, and lived With her four children in
q small house in the rear Of the parsonage.
The other morning her husband, who
had been in the country at work,
called at the house in company with an
other man, and after short stay started
out for walk. Returning q half hour
later, terrible sight met his eyes. On one
side Of the door Icy the decapitated remains OF
his wife and several feet away the head.
stick Of wood on which her neck had been
placed when the cutting was done showed
three distinct cuts of an axe.
The boy was found playing with the other
children, his clothing saturated with blood.
He at first asserted that the blood came from
q chicken which he had killed, out at the Coro-
ner's inquest admitted he had committed the
crime. He said his mother laid her head
down on the block and told him If he did not
cut her head off she wo1ld kill him: The
boys story was not believed, and he was
placed in Jail pending further investigation.
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A BRAVE GIRLS DEED.

annie Donnelly Pluckily Saves all
Old Mans Life.
Mamie Donnelly, sixteen years old, of New
wen, Conn, saved the life Of an old man
the Stsk of injury to herself. The mans
ssvas wedged between the track and the
at a crossing of the Derby Railroad,
| an engine was rapidly approaching.
|ks Donnelly went to his assistance. Her
hggles to pull his foot from the fasten-
Es were unsuccessful, but Miss Donnelly
s. determined to save the old mans life.
lth q pair of scissors she cut the laces
bis shoes, pulled out the foot and got the
(n of the track just before the engine
bed.
big crowd cheered the young girl as she
hingly retreated, followed by the old
es expressions Of gratitude.
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BLOWN TO ATOMS.
An Explosion of Glycerine Kills
Three People.

An Explosion OF GIycerlhe NIIIs
Three People.
While a man named Barr was hauling
quantity of nitro glycerine at Stone, Ind, it
exploded, blowing Barr to atoms and in.
stantly killing mother and her babe. Barr'a
horses were also killed and his wagon torn
into splinters.
The explosion dug up circle of ground
about sixty yards in diameter, tore the win.
dows from the house in which tie woman
was sitting with her child, and wrought gen.
eral havoc. No traces of either the man or
horses were to be found, excepting small
pieces of flesh hanging upon the trees re.
mote from the spot where the explosion &C.
Cured. .. .-. ~ =. - ..-. .-
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Washington.

The Journeymen Bakers and Confection-
ere, International Union of America memor-
ializad Congress not to ratify the Russian Ex,
tradition Treaty or any other e1tradltlon
treaty with Russia.
TIE House Committee on Agriculture au-
tborized Mr. Allen to report bill providing
for the transfer of the Signal Service 1rom
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A WILD GIRLS FREAK.
Disguised as q Boy She Steals q
Horse and Runs Away.

Horse anu IunS away.
Agnes Rankin, an attractive young girl,
living near Trenton, KY, was put in Jail at
Hickman, KY, charged with horse stealing
One night she dressed up in boys clothing,
went to the farm of Thomas Spiller and stole
the finest horse he had in the stable, rode the
animal to Fulton and sold it to Emmet Reed:
. livery stable keeper, for $50; then she fled
from the State into Tennessee, landing in
Greenfield, where she was arrested on tele-
grams announcing the, theft OF the horse by
was released, but was rearrested at Crock
ett's Station, Tenn, and transferred to the
county Jail at Hickman. She is farmers
daughter, but of wild disposition, and was
Inspired to her escapade by dime novels.
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The distance Travelled In the Interior OF
Africa by Mr.. Stanley personally is estimated
at 54OO miles, of which all but 1000 were on
foot. The expedition occupied three years
and rescued 800 persons at cost Of less than
S150.QoQ,
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The eonstitutionality Of the Mississippi
law compelling railroad companies to pro
vide separate cars for white and colored peo
pie has been affirmed by the Supreme Court
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OZARK COUNTY, Mo-, has a population of
$4,000, of whom 5000 are not taxpayers. In
Gainesville, the county town, is the county
Jail, structure Of logs, eight by ten feetand
twenty feet high.
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The Russian Government will try to raise
two English steamers sunk at Balaklava In
the Crinean war. One Of them Is said to
have on board chest containing 100000.
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AN epidemic which appears to be similar
to or identical with influenza has appearedu
Bombay, India, aud is spreading rapidly.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-02
NEW HAVEN ORPHAN ASYLUM.

Donations 10 tho New Haven Orphan
Asylum From juno 20 to- July 81,
1890.
Annual subscriptions collected by Miss
Downs s., Mrs. Levi Gilbert 50, Miss E. B.
Gilbert 81.
Collected by Miss Hall $s7. Mrs. B. shon-
niger So, Mrs. James E. English, Mrs. J.
Starr Grihiug, Mrs. David Steele.
Mrs. S. P. Bolles, Mrs: g.: L.
Sanford, Mrs. J. English, Mrs. =. 8.
Rowland, Mrs. E. Stevens. each 81; Mrs. d.
b. Bunnell, Mrs. .. w. Scranton, Mrs. 3.
Z. Cannon, Mrs. F. Jewett, Mrs. William 81.
Russell, Mrs. D. q. Phipps, Mrs. o. B.
North. Mrs. Lewis Hotchkiss, each 81.
Donations-Lewis Fitch, SO; Mrs. W. F.
Day, So, to be spent for games for the play
ground; receipted bills, Tuttle, Morehouse &
Taylor, $57.95; John Bright, $1.73; discount
Thomas, $4.95; Robert Morgan, $2.43; Rob
ert veitch & Son. 81 40; B. b. Douglass &
Son., 40c.; VIM. E. Ford, medicines for the
month; Miss Charlotte P. Newton, girls
tricycle., Mrs. L. s. Henderson, two tennis
rackets; Mrs. q. Stevens, quantity Of
cut patchwork; Mrs. Henry Cham.
pion, q second hand set Of
croquet; Mrs. Mary E. LOOMS Of
Westchester, Conn.,, large package of car.
pet rags; Master House Painters associatiod
sandwiches and pie; Mrs. Hyde, secondhan
clothing; Mrs. j. A. Mcdonnell, 100 fans
Ray Morris, articles from his Christmas treei
Mrs. 81. 81. Bunnell, Mrs. e. H.English, Mis-
Winchester, Mrs. Champion, Mrs. Marvin, Mrs
Day, Mrs. A. Daggett, E. K. T., MATERIAL
for dressing dolls. Visiting committee fol
August: Mrs. E. I. Barrett, 67 Lafayette
street; Mrs. E. s. Miller, 472 Orange society
ELIZA 81. TwINING,
Recording Secretary.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-02
Free TO All.

The beautiful picture, "Will They Con.
sent2" is q large magnificent engraving,
printed upon a sheet 10 inches wide by "a
inches long. It is an exact copy of an origi-
nal painting by Kwall, which was sold for
5000.
lady standing in q beautiful room, near a
half-open door, surrounded by all that is
luxurious, while the young man, her lover,
is seen in an adjoining room asking the con-
sent of her parents for their daughter in
marriage. The fine interior decorations, to-
gether with the graceful position of the
beautiful girl is In keeping with the senti.
ment of the picture. It must be seen to be
appreciated.
Tbs valuable picture is fitted to adorn the
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This great offer is only good for six weeks,
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Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-02
THE FOURTH DAY I'm CAMP.
Ascension Choir boys Enjoying Them.
seIves-A Concert Mt the Island House
singing in Litchfleld Sanday-The
Daily Routine.

Ascension OnO1f nOyB B0lOy10R Thems
seIves-A Concert Mt the Island House
singing in Litchheld Sanday-The
Daily Routine.
"CAMr ORR" BANTAM LAKE,
LITcHFIELD, Aug. j.
Yesterday the boys arose at morning call,
z q. M, after splendid nights sleep, the
newness of camp life having now worn off.
Lieutenant Skinner and squad had charge of
the camp yesterday, and the work performed
was very satisfactory. The boys are catching
fine strings of fish. AT noon-call to-day
everybody was ordered to prepare to leave at
; p. m. for the hotel to sing, the occasion
being the annual races of the Litchfeld
Canoe club. They embarked in three boats,
and after row of one mile reached the
hotel. ~
The company gave fine exhibition drill
under the command Of Captain Ives, and
then went to the parlors of the house and
sang two selections. A solo was also rem
dered by Master Hutchinson. The crowd at
the hotel, ABOUT two hundred, were very
much pleased with the singing of the choir.
| The following boys were doctored by the
hospital steward for slight colds to-day;
Holt, Jessup, Leek and Shearer, but nc
serious illness ia prevailing.
To-day the boys will have short hare and
hound run, and few games and races.
The singing begins next Sunday by sing
ing at Litch6eld and the following Sunday
at Naugatuck.
Following is the daily routine:
TOO am, Morning Call.
| 1880 am, Toilet.
500 a M, Inspector and Captains Reports.
| s:l5 am, Breakfast.
| 1890 pm, Lieutenant's Call.
| 12:45 p. m, Lunch.
| 800 o M, Inspectors Call.
5:IOp.m., Inspector and Captains Reports.
| $50 pm, Dinner.
$3.50 pm, Retiring Call.
1O:O0 PM, Lights Out. w. II. NJ