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Washington.

JUSTICE BREWER, Of the United States
Supreme Court granted the application of
counsel for James E. Boyd, who was elected
Governor of Nebraska, for writ Of error to
the Supreme Court to test the questions in
yo,ved in the decision Of the majority OF the
Supreme Court Of Nebraska, who decided
that he was not au American citizsn, and
therefore not eligible to the Office Of Gov
ernor of Nebraska.
PENSION COMMISSIONER RAUM's son,
Green B. Raum, Jr.. resigned his position
as Assistant Chief Clerk of tAs Pension
Bureau, under charges Of Irregularities.
The Washington Evening Critic has
ceased publication and has been placed in
hands of a receiver.
ORDERS were sent from Washington
placing the American vessels in the ScIth
Pacific, including the Charleston, under
command Of Acting Rear-Admlral McCann.
The Solicitor of tho Treasury has decided
that Mr.. David F. Miller, of st. John, New
Brunswick, born in Milwaukee, Wis, but
who moved with his widowed mother to New
Brunswick, and after her death was adopted
BY an uncle, with whom he lived until he
came of age, cannot be considered citizen
of the United States.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has commuted the
sentence of the Navassa rioters to life i'm.
prisonment
THE first official act of the Postmaster
General on his return from his Western trip
was to authorize the establishment Of COM
plete mail service with Alaska, which will
be started Julyl.
SECRETARY RUSE mas issued an order re-
quiring that all sheep and swine intended to
be imported from Canada shall be quaran-
tined for fifteen days. Contagious diseases
exist in other countries, and Canada does
not quarantine against them.
SECRETARY FOSTER has approved Of the
suggestion of the Treasury Commission that
the use Of two silk threads running through
Treasury notes be abandoned and that a
''design Of double line localized silk fibre"
lie substituted. This, it is believed, will en-.
able the general public to more easily de-
tect counterfeits.
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+ THE LABOR WORLD.
PAp1s has 1876 600 dressmakers.

PARIS mas 1901 ,UUV VI eSSuahorS. rJ
THE strike in Belgium is spreading.
JEWELERS. are complaining of dull times.
New YoaK stonemasons get So. so for eight
hours.
GR1FFrTHs, the "Powderly Of the West, n
Is dead.
THERE are g., 900 coal miners on strike in
Belgium.
SPANISH quicksilver miners get twenty
cents day.
HUNGARIAN miners get from "a to 62111
cents day.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, will start tr ade school
fer colored people.
GREAT FALLS, (Montana) stonemasons
struck for s. day.
HoD-cARR1Ens' wa ges throughout the
country average s2.H.
IT costs the State Of Pennsylvania 81, 900
day to keep the militia in the coke regions.
The first plastering ever done by white
men in Amercus. Ga, was recently tin-
iShed.
The Supreme Court of Indiana, sustained
the new law limiting days work to eight
hours.
THE miners Of the Boone coal fields, Iowa,
have fixed the price of mining for the next
year at 81 per ton.
The National Convention of Machinists at
Pittsburg decided that colorel men were
not eligible. Scorter hours will be demanded
next May.
ENGLAND has more women workers than
any other country in proportion to popula-
tion; twelve per cent. o. the industrial
classes are women. -
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South and West.

The Kentucky State Democratic Conven-
I ton at Louisville nominated ex-Congress-
man John Young Brown, Of Henderson, for
Governor, and M. C. Afford, Of Lexington,
for LieutenantGovernor.
GEORGE E. GERowE, Superintendent of
the Indian Agency at st. Stevenson, North
Dakota, has been arrested on charge or
misappropriating Government funds
Gerows is an ex- Methodist minister. and for
merly lived at Sydney Centre, N. Y.
AN incendiary fire destroyed eight stores
aggregating loss of $35, 600, at Lamonte,
Mo.
DR.. THATCHER T. GRAVES was indicted by
the Grand Jury at Denver, Col, charged
B, Barnaby, by mailing to her bottle OF
poisoned whisky from Boston.
MAYOR SHAKESPEARE, of New Orleans,
has asked Governor Nichols to requast that
the Government recall the exequatur OF ltal-
ian Consul Corte.
JOHN D. MORRISON, one of the best-known
criminal LAWYERS of western Texas, shot and
killed his wife at San Antonio and then sent
a bullet through his right temple. Mr.:
Morrison was a trihe over fifty years old and
his wife nearly fifty.
NORTHERN OHIO was visited by frost un-
eoualled at this season in eleven years. The
mercury in some places went as low as
twenty-seven degrees, and ice formed to the
thickness of half an inch. Early fruit was
practically wiped out, and in many fields the
wheat was utterly destroyed. A loss of fifty
per cent. in the wheat crop is considered
conservative estimate for Northwestern
Ohio.
PRELIMINARY trials of the dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius, Off Newport News, Va,
showed good results in accuracy OF aim.
MUCH damage was done by tornadoes in
Texas.
The National Union Conference was he'd
at Cincinnati Ohio.
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EOreigE.

The Czarevitcn of Russia is more serious
ly wounded in Japan than is admitted by
the authorities. The assailaut of the Care
witch is nihilist who escaped from Sagha-
lien, and who succeeded in entering the
japanese police service.
The Portuguese Cabinet has resigned on
account of the financial troubles.
DAMAGE to fruit crops mas been done by
frost in England; snow fell at Belfort and
Nancy. France.
SEVERAL villages have been destroyed and
some people killed by the lava from new
volcano in Armenia.
A CONTRACT was signed between ths Rus
sian Government and the Chattelleraut
Arms Factory, Paris, France, by which the
plant of the factory and its employees are at
the absolute disposal of Russia, who has
given an order for three million new rifles.
TIE United States steamer Charleston
sailed from Acapulco. Mexico, and resumed
the search for the Chiliaa transport Itata.
By the collapse Of a platform at chill
dreu's fete near Chesterfield, England, two
boys were crushed to death and thirty 9th
ers were injured.
EX-QUEEN NATALIE was expelled from
Servia oy order OF the Regents and is sup
posed to have taken refuge in Roumania.
HERR WERMUrH, member of the Privy
Council and an attache of the Ministry of
the Interior, has been appointed Imperial
Commissioner for Germany at the Chicago
Worlo's Fair
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Independence Hall Has to Be Watched.

1t is fact not generally known that
Independence Hall in Philadelphia II
close ly watched on the outside night and
day. 1t is sail that if this precautiou
were not taken the historical old pile
would soon be defaced, if not totally
wrecked, By relic hunters. Despite the,
close watch kept the vandals once in a
while will manage to carry off Il piece.
One woman has beautiful gold mounted
brooch made from bit of one Of the
foundation stones, which she prizes high
ly. Another person, who lives on North
Broad street., has q model of Iudepend-
ence Hall carved from brick stolen
from the structure. The sculptor who,
did the work was paid $500 for his
trouble. In the old tower is tiny clock,
which strikes the hours on wee silver
bell. The ornament is mounted on a
nickel pedestal, and the owner would
not part with it for love or money.-New
York Commercial Adssrtiser. &
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I, DUNNO AND !. KNowIE

r. Dunno started out on a memorable trfnS
With valiant companion, I. Knowit;
"Let US feel our way slowly" says aiox 8
Dunno, -. u
I.Knowit says, LET us just go itr'
And one would 60 fast and one would gt.
In this trip Of l. Knowit and slow L Dunnn
l. Dunno picked his way, felt about with hig
cane
And carefully tested the bridges
I. Knowit rushed on, like q late expua1
train ssss3
Over mountains and rivers and ridges;
He looked back and cried, 'Get move on.
old slown' 80
"Ob, I'll go my own jog," said old slow = E
Dunno.
I. Knowit got tangled and lost in the swamp
And well-nigh submerged in the miro;
I. Dunno he found out, In his lsisurely romH
That the ground was too soft and wsu1s
higher, 81
'Tu poke with my cane wherever I 60
And stub along easy" said slow l. Dunno.
l. Knowit crawled out all covered with mnd
And banged and battered with bruises,
Says he, "a fellow With fire In his blsod
Can duff in just wherever he chooses. 80
"'Tis better to 20 kinder'mod'rate and ioss
And not get banged and battered" " said adafs
l. Dunno: ..- ss1sss
I. Dunno travelled slow, but he got Ear aheS3
OF the rapid onrusher. I. Knowit; q
L Dunno still said, LET US carefully trsdfs!s
T. Know it still said "Let us go It"
I. Knowit brought up in the swamp Of Don't
care
I. Dunno reached the beautiful land Of Get.
there. -., - 800
IS. ". Foss in Yankee Blade
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DISPERSED THE POSSE.

A Desperate Kills Deputy Sheriff
and a Policeman and Gets Away,
It became known the other day that Bob
Brewster. who started the Jesup Ga.) riots
Last year, was in Fernandina, Fla, and that
night Deputy Sheriff Toe Robinson informed
Chief OF Police Higginbotham. They organ.
lied posse of eight men, and at daybreak
they surrounded the house where he
was and demanded surrender. The colored
desperate answered the demand by poking
a Winchester rifle through the window end
firing at Robinson, the ball striking
just below his heart and killing
him instantly. AS Robinson fell the
the Winchester barkel again, and Policeman
Bud Higginbotham was sent to the ground
by a bullet through his thigh. Shot after
shot was then firel by the desperado, but
fortunately without effect. The posse had
to seek shelter.
Firing continued for all hour. After FIR
ing all his cartridges, Brewster made dash
for liberty and succ aeded in getting to the
woods, the posse being too snall to follow
him.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION REcoRr
ITALIAN IMMIGRATION,
Some Districts Nearly Depopulated
Of Men

The Unitel States Consul ct Gibraltar has
made report to the State Department at
Washington in regard to foreign immi grafton
10 the United States, in which he says thatno
less than thirty-one foreign steamships have
touched ut that port during the last four
months carrying ~, Uti5 Italian immigrants
to the United States, and that several other
steamships are expected to follow soon from
the same quarJer with immigrants in such
numbers as to constitute q regular exodus
from the Italian kingdom.
The United States Consul at Naples reports
TO the State Department that vast multi
tude Of immigrants are leaving that port for
the United States, every steamer sailing for
New York being filed to its utmost capacity
with Italians, principally from the provinces
"A very ignorant and undesirable popule-
ton. He says the Neustra on re-
cent voyage carried 1865 Immigrants,
the India, which sailed the next day, carried
$40. and that the Belgravia sailed with over
400. The Consul says he is informed that
certain districts in Italy are nearly depopu.
lated of men, leaving the work of cuitivating
the ground to be done by women altogether.
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LATER NEWS.

BUrNELL & SCRANTON, bankers, Of New
Haven, Conn, have made an assignment.
The liabilities will reach nearly $500, 600, with
comparatively small assets,
CLARA LONG, teacher of country school
atsEast Bluehill, Me-, was ringing bell from
the school-house window to open the session,
when it few from the, handle and st-uck
Ward Long, pupil, on the head, fracturing
his skull and killing him.
The Rev. b. J. Hamilton OF Homestead,
Penn, delegate to the Baptist Convention,
was killed while walking in the street in
Cincinnati, Ohio, by a large stone falling
upon him from building in course Of erec-
tion.
THE Kentucky Prohibition State Conven-
ton met at Louisville, and nominated full
ticket, with Joseph Harris Of Paducah, for
Governor. About 100 delegates from all
parts of the State were present.
The trial of the guns of the dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius took place in Chesapeake
Bay; little accuracy Of fire was shown.
CLAYTON LLOYD. a desperate convict
serving term at Pratt Mines, Tenn, at
tempted to set fire 10 the lattice work in his
cell. A guard fred at him as he struck the
match and killed him instantly.
The Cincinnati (Ohio, Conference oe the
Farmers Alliance leaders adopted 6 third
party platform and adjourned.
THE Kentucky State Republican Conven-
ton unanimously nominated Major A. 8.
Wood of Montgomery County, for Gov
ernor.
SENIOR DEL SOLAR, the new Peruvian
Minister, was presented to the President by
Acting Secretary Adee, Of the Department
Of State.
THE President made the following appoint
ments in the United States Navy: Commo-
dore John c. Irwin to be Rear Admiral;
Commander Louis Kempf to be Captain;
Captain Oscar F. Stanton to be Commodore;
Lieutenant Commander W. q. Brown to be
Commander; Lieutenant Richardson Clover
to be Lieutenant Commander.
Ex-QUEEN NATALIE. who was expelled
from Servia has been warmly received in
Hungary.
A SERIOUS accident occurred during the
artillery maueuvres at Wiesbaden, Ger
many. While the companies were galloping
across the broken country two guns were
upset, and in the general ENHANCEMENT that
resulted two men were crushed to death and
number badly injured.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.
needs pitchers.


RADBoURN, they say. is worth $50, 900.
PITCHER EHRET is Louisville's mainstay.
The American Association is prospering.
PITCHER HUTCHINSON is still Chicago's
mainstay.
MIKE LEHANE has been elected Captain OF
The Columbus team.
PITCHER BRAHAM. of Troy, N. Y, is said
30 be ambidextrous.
PHENOMENAL SMITH has beer released to
Kansas City by Pittsburg.
ARTHUR WHITNEY is playing a great
game for the Cincinnati Reds,
THERE are nearly two dozen varieties OF
gloves and mits for bail players.
GAFFNEY has made big sensation in the
Western League by his fine umpiring.
THE Rochester Club has signed Pitcher
Lev Shreve, formerly Of Indianapolis.
NIKE SLATrERY has not 50 far given sat-
isfaction to the Cincinnati League Club.
QUITE number Of valuable Western As
ISOLATION players are afflicted with grippe.
KANSAS CRY has larger proportion Of
lady enthusiasts than any other Western
city.
THERE hasn't been hitch or jar Of any
away.
The New York club has finally made up
it's mind to retain Bassett as substitute in
fielder.
WHEN Kelly is on the bench George An.
drews is captain Of the Cincinnati Assocla-
alton club.
JOIN GARRISON, of the Boston League
team, complains of weak arm and conse-
quently loss Of speed.
McALEER, Davis and Mexican, Of Cleve-
land, are certain to beat fly ball home from
the out6eld. All are speedy men.
THE New York team is well equipped with
substitutes for any position. In that respect
it is better off than any League team.
THERE does not appear to be any doubt
that the national game has tumbled head
over heels back to its old-time popularity.
CosnsKEY, of st, Louis, says Hoy is the best
man to lead off he ever had. He stands at
third and Hoy follows his instructions to the
letter, never hitting until he gets the tip.
RUsrE, of the New York League, is q
wonder. Players in public all say so. he Is
ready for work at all times, and would will
lingly, if allowed to do so, pitch in every
game.
LovErr and Tom Daily, the Brooklyn bat
terry, nrst exchanged signs 10 1000, wnen Guey
played together in the Wiliuantic team.
DAILY was tovetts first catcher at the begin
ming of his professional career.
WHEN Glasscock, of the New Yorks drove
line ball over second base in the fourth in.
ming of recent game in Pittsburg, Bier
bauer put up his right hand. stopped the
sphere, and it rolled down his arm and
dropped into his left hand
In the National League there have been FIVE
"whitewashes." The clubs to receive them
were: Boston, one; Philadelphia, two; Chi
cago, one; and Pittsburg, one. The New
Yorls applied the brush twice and Boston,
Chicago and Cincinnati one each.
RUs1E's strike out record at the end OF the
season will De large if he keeps up his present
gait. In one Philadelphia game he disposed
Of eleven men-the best record of the season
and he also struck out the game number in
one Of the Boston games two days after.
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DESTROYED BY LOCUSTS,
A Naturalist Falls a Victim to the
Plague.

The French savant, N. Kunckel Hercu-
lais, President of the chronological Society,
who was employed on the Government mis-
sion of investigating the locust plague in
Algeria, has met horrible death. While
examining deposit of locusts' eggs at the
village of Sidieral, he was overcome with
fatigue and the heat and fell asleep on the
ground. While sleeping, he was attacked
by swarm of locusts
On awaking he struggled desperately to
escape from the li,Gng Hood. He set fire to
the insect-laden bushes near him, but all his
efforts seemed ineffs:Sual, and when finally
the locusts left the spot his corpse was found.
His hair, beard, aph necktle had beer en-
tirely devoured. NJ. .ierculais was meal-
ber of the French Academy and the author
of several valuable works on insects.
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PLEASURE SEEKERS DROWN
Eight Go Sailing OH the Schuylkik;
Only Five Return.

Three lives were lost by the upsetting of
sailboat on the Schuylk;ll River, OFF Gibson's
Point, in the lower section of Philadelphia.
The victims were Mrs. Susan Pascoe and her
infant son and Miss Mary Carr. There
were also in the party Fred Tidman, Samuel
Peltz, Robert Chamberlain and Mrs. Mary
Jones, twin sister of Mrs. Pascoe, aai her
four-year-old son William
The party started out for a sail down the
river, Tidman, the owner of the boat, act
ing as sailing-master In an attempt to go
about the ropes became tangled around
Chamberlain'S feet and the boat upset. The
three men are all good swimmers and they
succeeded in gettin, the women and children
on to the bottom OF the u?turnei boat, but
they became hysterical and frequently got
into the water. Finally, Mrs. Pascoe, with
her infant and Miss Carr. sunk.
After drifting about for some time those
still cliuging to the boat were rescued. Mrs.
Pascos's body was recovered about en- hour
afterward. She held her child tightly claSped
an har arms.
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MUSHROOMS BIG FIRE.
Two Children Perish and an Invalid
Dies While Being Removed.

Two Children Perish ana an InVallu
Dies While Being Removed.
The fire which visited Muskegon, Mich,
few days ago devastated an area eleven
blocks long and from one to two blocks wide,
and comprising about three hundred and
thirty buildings. Hundreds of people have
been rendered homeless and destitute. That
night women and children wandered along
the streets, moaning and weeping over their
losses.
1t was reported to the Police Department
that two childIe en- had persisted in the dames.
Harry Stevens, Assistant Postmaster, and
son Of Postmaster Stevens was very Ill with
pneumonia, and the flames made it necessary
to remove him to place of safety. He died
amid the crash Of falling houses while being
removed.
A high wind prevailed, rendering almost
vain the efforts of the Fire Department.
Among the structures destroyed were the
Court House. the Cummings House (hoteD
and stables the German Lutheran and Hol-
land Churches. The inmates of the Jail were
transferred to the City Hail. The county
records were left in the vaults and are sup
posed to be safe.
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MISS ALICE PARKER, attorney at law. OF
Massachusetts. is endeav oring to amend tho
existing State laws of administration OF
estates. Her purpose is to equalize the right
of the wife in sharing property to that OF the
husband and to set aside to the widow with
minor children the entire estate Of the hus-
band if it does not exceed 81, 900.
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TEMPERANCE.
IT DESTROYS HE BODY.

The late Sir William Gull in his examina-
tion before the Select Committee Of the
British House Of Lords. for inquiry into the
prevalence Of insanity said: II think there
is great deal of injury being done by the
use Of alcohol, in what is supposed by the
consumer to be a most moderate quantity,
pie supposed to be fairly we'll 1t leads to
degeneration Of tissues 1t spoils the health,
and it stops the intellect. Short of drunken
ness, that is. in those effects Of it which stop
short Of drunkenness should say, from my
experience that alcohol is the most destruct-
i've agent We are aware of in this country"
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CREMATION fiourishes in Japan. Toxic,
has six crematories, in which the bodies OF
at least one-thirl of the dead are burned. In
1855, L, ,O23 Of the 81, 437 persons who died
were cremated, and since burial in the city
was forbidden the number has been In
creased.
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TEN years ago Tennessee potatoes were
unknown in the Northen markets, while
now the crop brings into Middle Tennessee
from 81, SOC, 600 to 81, 0OO,0 600 per annum.
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A ROYAL REFoRMER.

In speaking Of bill prepared by the Prus-
sian Government and approved by Emperor
Mida's Criterion, liquor paper, says it
fears that general law for the suppression
of inebriety will be enacted and put in force
in all States of the German empire before the
year ends. Ever since the Emperor sue
ceeded to the throne he has been collecting
statistics and evidence concerning the effect
Of drinking upon the industries, upon health
and morals, and this bill decreeing the with
drawal of saloon licenses and the imposition
of fines for selling to druudards is the result
of his convictions based up0n the facts thus
gathered.
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SOME of the striking curiosities at
the citric exhibition at Los Angeles
were horse-ears apparently made of
oranges; clock tower twenty-four
feet high, composed of oranges, LEM
ons, lines and raisins; q model of the
San Gabriel Mission, made Of small,
fragrant Tangerine oranges.
Gov. NICHOLS, OF Louisiana, Is
minus a leg, an arm, and an eye, but
is still accounted not only good man,
but one of the smartest Governors IN
the whole South. he complains less
than some men who have only aDapped
an ear. ~ ~ ~
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The Rev. s. E. Simonsen visited sixty ga
looms in Racine, Wis. distributing tracts and
inviting young men to his church. In well
known resort the proprietor asked the rever.
end gentleman if he would not take drink
before he left. Mr.. Simonsen replied that he
didn't care if he did, and ordered whisky, A
glass and bottle were passed. to him, when
be filled up the glass, passed ten cents over
the counter, and, pulling bottle out of his,
pocket, poured the liquor into it,. took the
number of the saloon and departed. In sew
eral other places he repeated the same act.
It is surmised that he intends to have liquor
analyzed and show the "boys" what they are
drinkino