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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PRESIDENT HARRISON has gold mounted
sun.
CYRUS W. FIELDS life was insured for
$3.50, 900.
PRINCE BISMARCK has an income of $3.50,
900 year.
JUSTICE SH1RAs is the only member OF
the Supreme Court who wears whiskers.
REPRESENTATIVE CABLE, Of illinois, Ia
declared to be the best camp cook in Con-
gress.
CHAUNcEY G. SMITH, of Hart ord. Conn $,
has been fifty years a deacon OF the First
Baptist Church ir that city.
SUpER1NTENpENT BYRNEs, the head Of the
New York Police Department, has just cell
ebrated his fiftieth birthday.
QUEEN VICTORIA is surrounded by COT
don Of detectives as many as those about the
person OF his Czarship OF Russia.
THE present lord Fairfax, who lives in
Virginia, is doctor and practices his pro-
fession. In England bis title is fully ac-
knowledged.
CHAuHcEY M. DEPEw says that while on
shipboard he sleeps upward OF eighteen
hours out of the twenty-fo in every day
Of the voyage.
SECRETARY J. ". FOSTER is the only
diplomat who has held three hrst-class mis-
sions Grant sent him to Mexico, Hayes to
Russia and Arthur to Spain.
PRINCESS MARY OF EDINBURGH, who by
her marriage to Prince Ferdinand will be-
come future Queen of Roumania, is not
quite seventeen years OF age.
GOVERNOR PECK, OF Wisconsin was once
a printer living on back street. He now
lives handsomely in the house in which Ole
Bull, the famous violin!st, once lived.
CAPTAIN FRED I. DEAN, of Washington,
D. c., though not an old man in years, is
said to be the oldest G.. A. R. veteran liv-
ing. He is one cf its original four organ
izers.
HENRY M. STANLEY has become so
angered by the illusions in the American
newspapers to his late canvass for Parlia-
ment that he declares he will never set foot
in the United States again.
ROBERT H. FoLGER, of Massilliou, Ohio,
is claimed to be the oldest practlcing attor.
ney in the United States. He was horn in
practice Of law thirty years thereafter.
EDWARD OLIVER WoLcl IT. of Massa.
chusett< who served as a private in an Ohio
regiment in 1854 and now represents Colo
rado in the United States Senate. has taken
Oakyiew, ex-President Cleveland's old home.
RICHARD CROKER, who rose from a ma
chinist's bench TO be the head of Tammany
Hall, was engineer Of the first steam fire en-
gine used in New York City. He afterward
became foreman OF Engine Company %,
position Of influence and Importance in pol
itics, and his election as Alderman a few
years later. in 1867, gave him start on the
career he has since followed.
JOSEPH SENIOR, whose death occurred
recently, was famous in England Tor the
verses he wrote while to;linz at his forge as
cutler in Sheffield. He published his
poetry under the title Of "Smithy Rhymes
and Gtithy Chimes" and the book had a
large sale. At toe age OF sixty-fve Mr..
Senior was stricken with blindness and he
thenceforth devoted himself entirely to
verse-making.
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Washington.

TIE names of che five Commissioners who
are to represent the United States at the
coming international Monetary Conference
have been officially announced. They are:
Senator William B. Allison, Iowa; Senator
john P. Jones, of Nevada; Congressman
James B. McCreary. Of Kentucky; exc Comp;
trolIer Henry W. Cannon, Of New York, and
General Fraucis A. Walker, of Mas
Bachusetts.
The United States Treasury Department.
is advised that silver touched .s525 cents per
ounce in London, the lowest figure on re-
cord.
TIE Department of State is in receipt OF
information that serious revolutionary con-
spiracy has been discovered in Bolivia
ACTING UNITED STATES TREASURER
WHELPLEY issued check for 81, 04O, 00O in
favor OF the owners Of the Mission street
property, San Francisco, recently selected
as site for the postoffice.
GENERAL JAMES W. DENVER, Of VII
mington, Ohio diel in Washington Of
urasmic poison. His illness was OF brief
duration. General Denver was born i'll
Winchester, Va, in 1917.
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CROP REPORT.
The Months Averages as Made by the
Department of Agriculture.

The Months Averages as Made by the
Department of Agriculture.
The crop returns of the Department. Of
Agriculture show slight improvements
in the condition Of corn, raising the monthly
average from 81. 4 in July to s25 in August
In only four years sincs the initiation OF crop
reporting has there been lower August
condition. In the year Of worst failure,
1881, it was 49, declining to 66 in October.
ber. In August, 1886, it was Se7, and IN
1887 it was 80.5, declining later only in the
latter year. A slight Improvement i. indis
Gated in the States north OF the
Ohio River, and a greater advances
in the States west OF the Mississippi
River, except Kansas and Nebraska. Con-
dition is high in nearly all the Southern
States, nearly ths same as in July in the
breadth west of tbs Mississippi higher in
the lower States of Atlantic Coast, and
slightly lower in Alabama and Mississippi.
A small decline is seen in the Mid
die States, except New YORK, and
also in the Eastern States, though IN
both Of these divisions the average Is higher
than in the West The following averages
Of principal States are given: New York,
80; Pennsylvania, Sc; Virginia. 80; Georgia,
81; Texas, "a: Tennessee, 90: Ohio 81; In.
diana. "a; Illinois, IS; Iowa, 70; Missouri,
SO; Kansas, 81; Nebraska so. Most corr
respondents Indicate present tendency TO
further improvement. ~
The returns relating to spring wheat are
lower. declining during the month from
general average of 9J.9 to s7.S.
Condition Of other crops averages as fol-
lows, Spring rye. S9s, instead OF 92.7 in
July; oats. s6.2 fall Of one point; barley
ell, instead Of g.; buckwheat. acreage.
1O1 3, condition, 939; potatoes, S6.S. declin-
ing from 90; tobacco. sS.s fall from 927;
hay, 93.2. II
The report shows reduction in the con-
dition of cotton during July from S6.9 to
S2.3. This is the lowest average since
August, 1885, when the general condition
was one point lower. The season has been
almost every where too wet, though in South
Carolina and Georgia alterations OF ex-
cessivs rainfall and blistering sunshine have
been injurious.
The natural result Of these conditions ap-
pears in grassy fields, rank plant growth and
small frnitage, with considerable shedding.
Grass worms and caterpiilars have appeared
in the more Southern and Western districts,
but no material damage has yet resulted.
The State averages OF condition are Viz
cinia, 81; North Carolina, So; South Caro-
lima, S3; Georgia, 81; Florida, 81: Alabama,
SO; Mississippi, 81; louisiana So; Texas 50;
Arkansas, IS; Tennessee. 20.
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A BABY THE PREY.
Two Eagles Fight for Possession of
q Child.

Two Eagles Fight for Possession OF
a Child.
Two eagles had a duel to the death for the
possession OF the six-months-old baby OF Pete
Shaw, who lives four miles north Of Allis
In Presque Isle County, Mich, few days
ago.
Mrs. Shaw had laid the baby down in the
grass and returned to the house for few
moments when an enormous eagle swooped
down on the infant and sunk its talons into
the little ones flesh and clothing.
The mother heard her baby's cry. but
came too late to save it The mothers
shrieks brought the father, who quickly
mounted horse and armed with arifs rode
to the shore Of nearby lake, where he
knew was an eagle eyrie in the cliffs.
Shaw arrived just in time to witness a
terrible sight. Two eagles were lowering
above a crag of rock, filling the air with
their cries and battling for possession OF the
baby that lay high upon the cliff.
Before the father reached the su mmit one
of the eagles had fallen to the ground while
the other had again taken up the child for
another fight. The father fred, and the
bird and baby fell Into the water.
The frantic father plunged into the Lake.
caught up the body, but the little one Was
dead. He took home the body ong with
those of the two eagles, one OF which naa
been killed In the fight over the prey.
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HONORS To RIGGIN.
The Dead Sailor Remains Reach
New York From Chile.

The body of Charles W. Riggn, the boat
swain's mate Of the United States cruissr
Baltimore. who was killed by the mob in
the riot at Valparaiso, arrived at New
York few days ago from Colon on the
Pacific Mail steamship Columbia.
The body was in charge of William B.
McCreery, United States Consul at Valpa-
raise.
A delegation from Philadelphia met the
body. The delegation had among its num-
Der John < Riggin brother Of the dead
sailor, and Major r. ii. j. Reed in charge
of the funeral ceremonies at Philadelphia.
The body was transferred from the steam-
ship, where it was slowed between decks
just aft of the main hatchway, to the wharf
The embalmei body was in a coffin which
was encased in an Theoretically sealed leaden
casket.
When it was removed to the wharf it was
wrapped in an American flag. The special
steamboat which had been engaged to trans
port the body to Jersey City was in read-
ness. Consul McCreery turned the body over
to the Committee of Arrangements. and le
was placed on board the waiting steam
boat.
At 10:30 o'clock the steamboat started for
the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Jersey
City.
The body was then placed on board OF a
special car rendered by the Pennsylvania
Railroad and at 2:20 o'clock shipped to Fhlia-
delphia-
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Foreign.

KING MALMroA, of the Samoan Islands.
has been presented with $4,000 by MIR. Black
lock, agent for a wrecking company, being
the proceeds from the sale Of the wreckage
OF the naval vessels lost In the great storm,
presented to the Samoans by the American
Government. Part has been distributed
among the chiefs.
SIX miners were drowned in coal pit
near Dewsbury, County Of York, England,
by q food from an adjoining abandoned
pit.
AT Rome, Italy, two hundred members OF
clerical associations, with bands playing and
banners flying, marched in procession to the
Pinciana Gardens to place wreath upon the
bust of Christopher Columbus A group OF
Liberals carrying National flags tried to
place themselves at the head OF the clerlcals,
whereupon a scuffle occurred, in which the
bust was overturned. The contestants were
dispersed by the police.
The Canadian Dominion Cabinet passed
an order IN council abolishing the rebate on
tolls on all east bound cargoes, whether
Canadian or American, shipped to Montreal.
This removes the alleged DISCRIMINATION
against American vessels.
Federico, Bishop OF Foligno, was mur-
dered in a frst-class railway carriage be-
tween Assist and Foligno, in Italy. Robbery
was supposed to have been the motive.
URGED on by their priests Persian fana-
tics at Astrabad wrecked liquor saloons IN
the belief that alcoholic drinks caused the
cholera plague there. The cholerine out
break in Paris was caused by drinking Inn
pure Seine water.
The Address from the Throne was read
in the British Parliament and the mo con
ftence" debate was begun in the House OF
Commons.
AT HelsingforS, Finland, q pleasure
steamer was run down outside tho harbor
and forty-ivs OF the persons VINO were on
coard were drowned.
HERR HERrURTH. Prussian Minister oil
the Interior, has resigned, and will be sue
caeled by Count Won Eulenburs, President
OF the Pruss an Council Of Ministers.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

CARUTHERs's pitching days are over.
KELLY is Nash's successor as Boston's cap
tain.
SANDERS is now Louisville's winning pit
cher.
THIS is truly the championship race of the
decade
PITCHER KNELL has signed with Phla.
delphia.
BAssErr is fielding and batting finely for
Louisville.
GLAsscocK, of St. Louis, is again playing
''dirJy ball"
The pace seems to be too hot for Getzein,
the st. Louis pitcher.
ANsoN. of Chicago, has decided to take
team to Cuba next winter.
NEW YORK was never such strong base
running team as at present
CRANE and Rusie are at last doing some
good pitching for New York.
| DAVIS, of Cleveland, is in the very front
rank OF all around ball players.
| GORE, late of New YORK, has been ap-
pointed captain OF the st. Louis Club.
THE st. Louis team is playing the best
! game Of any losing club in the country.
Four ex-Brooklyn players are now with
| Pittsuurg. viz, Terry, Donovan, Corkhill
and Bierbauer.
PORTER, the catcher of the Atlanta (Ga.)
| Cub, has only two fingers on his left hand.
but is clever backstop nevertheless.
THE New Yorks seem to have pickkd up
jewel in Doyle. He is not only catching
remarkably well, but is bstting hard and
effectively.
BURKE is playing a fine second base for
New York. He is quick in touching run.
ner on the line, and makes double play
without loss Of time.
SOME years age Gillespie, while with the
old Nets" insisted that he couldn't afford
to play for $500 per season. Now he Is
making about dollar a day at coal min
ing.
CH1cAGo's whilom grand combination OF
players-Flint, Corcoran, Goldsmith, Anson,
Pfeffer, Burns, Williamson, Dalrymple
Gore and Kelly is considered by experts the
best team ever put together.
ONE of the gratifying results Of the con-
solication is the discipline and good behavior
that now prevails among the players. Tne
Capitalization Of power in the hands OF the
magnates has led to the elimination OF the
rowdy element that once made life in the
same hotel with ball player a terror to ali
the other occupants.
BASEBALL is peculiar business and the
artists who play it are merely transients.
When their usefulness is at an end they are
bundled off the sporting earth with but
scant ceremony. Once New York raved over
Ewing. Two years ago he could have
straneled the Brotherhood. Now the threat
to put him OFF the team arouses no comment
whatever.
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clarad that be had never receive a m message

clared that he had never received a m essage
in his life that was more welcome.
A pile of pension bills had gathered on the
Presidents table by this time, and, after he
had attached his signature to the last one, he
arose with sigh of relief put on his hat,
and, accompanied by Secretary Iib6ott,
entered the White House carriage, which
was in waiting at the east front.
Just >aree minutes later the big bay team
that draws the Presidents carriage pulled
up alongside the tracks at the Baltimore and
Potomac station. The President and Mr..
Tibbott sprang out and climbed up the steps
of the private car.
Standing on the platform the President
waved the signal to the statIonmaster and
at 11:4 o'clock the train shot out Of the
station bearing the President to his sick
wife at Loon Lake.
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The President at tnc Capitol.

The President spent considerable time dur
ing the evening in reception room OH the
Senate lobby signing bills. Senators cam,
in to shake hands with him and ask about
Mrs Harrison.
Various bills were presented, and then
with unusual ceremony the Senate clerks
brought in the bill which was Immediately
signed. appropriating 81, 500 QUO to aid the
Chicago people to make the Worlds Far an
exhibition worthy Of the name.
About l0:30 the coumittes appointed to
notify the President that Congress hsd
completed its labors entered tne room. 1t
was composed Of Senators German and Al
Hson and Representatives McMillin, Eel
lows and O'Neill, Of Massachusetts,. The
President greeted each cordially and de-
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THE NEWS EPIT0MIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

JUDGE RUMsEY, Of the New York Stat.
Supreme Court, handed down decision de-
claring the recent Legislative Apporlon-
ment act unconstitutional.
II. G. FR1cK, manager Of the Carnegie
Steel Company, who was shot by the An
archist Berkmann, has returned to his oHcs
in Pittsburg.
JAMES RoDAN, known in the Eastern Peni.
tentiary, Philadelphia, Penn, as "a 8O74," !"
committed suicide by setting fire to his bed
ding and sitting down in the flames and
then drawing keen.edged knife across his
throat. Rodan was native of Ireland.
In drunken row on Chautauqua Lake,
N. Y, Patrick Dowd, Of Dunkirk, shot
George Hass, Of Jamestown. through the
heart. He then killed himself.
FkED PRIMER, the Pinkerton detective
who gave himself up at Pittsburg. Penn, on
the charge of murder made by Hugh Ross
has been released on his own recoznizance.
Judge Ewing holding that there was no evil
dence against him. His case was test. The
other Pinkerton men wanted will now give
themselves up and will also be released.
THE Board of Walking Delegates formally
announced the collapse Of the great building
trades strike in New York City. Over
10000 men returned to work.
The strikers at the Carnegie mills at
Duquesne Penn, went back to work.
WHILE the schooner Charlotte was get
ting under way at Portsmouth, N. H., she
drifted across the bow Of collier. Two Of
the Charlotte's crew went into small boat
between the vessels to kesp them from
fouling. The vessels unexpectedly came
together with considerable force, smashing
the boat and crushing one to death. The
other was forced under water and drowned.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL JAMES B. STREAT-
OR has been unanimously reelected to his
position in the Tenth Regiment at Home
stead, Penn, his term having expired.
Colonel Streator became famous for his
connection with the Private Iams case.
BRIDGET KELLY, aged twenty-one, of
Shenandoah, Penn, committed suicide by
saturating her clothes with kerosene oil and
setting herself on fire.
The New Jersey Prohibitionists held their
convention at Trenton and nominated
Thomas j. Kennedy, of Hudson County, for
Governor.
EDWARD, aged seven. and William, aged
ten, sons OF Frederick Bennett, OF Trenton,
N. j., were drowned in the Delaware River
few afternoon ago. The boys, with their
father, were fishing, but became separated
from him. The younger fell into the water
and the brother jumped in to say Q him.
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ERNEST NYE, aged sixteen, shot and
killed his sister Maud, aged fourteen, at
their home in Brookline, N. d. He didn't
know the rife was loaded.
BELLE McKENzrT, employed as q
stenographer on the fifth floor Of the new
Exchange Building, Boston, Mass, fell fvs
stories down an elevator shaft, headers.
most, distance Of eighty feet, and was
killed instantly. G
A sTEAH thrssher. operating on Thomas
Faultys farm, near Elizabeth, W. Va, was
blown to pieces and Samuel Booth and an.
other man were fatally and three others
seriously hurt. Dynamite had BEEN placed
in the machine, it is believed, to kill the
operatives.
The Democrats of Georgia met in State
Convention at Atlanta and placed in the
field full State ticket headed by w. j..
Northen for Governor.
In Talladega, Ala, R. L. Rasberry, q bar
tender who had been discharged by N. Sim
mons, met his former employer in the street
and shot him to death. Then he turned his
revolver against himself and sent q bullet
through his heart. .
INTENSE excitement prevailed at Mem
phis, Tenn, over the commutation by the
Governor Of the sentence of Murderer q.
Clay King to imprisonment for Life. Threats
to lynch King were made and he was taken
out Of town, but friends Of the man he muir.
dered said they would oversake and hang
him. A huge crowd gathered at the corner
Of Main and Madison streets where King
assassinated Poseeu, and hanged Governor
Buchanan in ehiyv. .@ @
A LANDSLIDE Cear Carrollton, Ga., re-.
suited in the death o; three workmen-JerrY
Collier. Sam Wimbush and Sam Waems
Five others were badly hurt
SECRETARY NosaE has appointed as d
commission to negotiate with the Yankton
Indians Of South Dakota for cession OF
I their surplus lands, ). c. Adams. OF Web
ster, South Dakota, W. L. Brown, Of Chi
cago, and John J. Cola Of st. Louis These
surplus lands aggregate about 49,, 600 acres
LETTERS have been sent by the Postofice
Department to about 2sJO postmasters at
county seats asking them to repeat this year.
some time between August and December
l5, the visits of inspection made by them
last year to the smaller postoficee in thefr
respective counties.
HEERY B. RIDER, United States Consul
ut Copenhagen, Denmark, has confessed to
smbe zzlement forgery and subornation OF
perjury.
VENEzUELA is in a state of anarchy. Gem
eral Urdaneta has proclaimed himsslf Die
tator Of the Western States The French
Consul at Carupano was imprisoned BY the
Venezuelan authorities, AMI man-of.war
was sent to demand his release. rs
EIGHTEEN Indians Of the Balls Coolla and
Wake Neb tribes, were drowned while en-,
gagged in sea lion hunt near Queen Char
lotte Islands, British Columbia. In the
dense mist their canoe struck a rock and
tie Indians were precipitated into the
water. EsS
AT Scharnitz, a village and pass in the
Swiss Tyrol, landslide caused the death OF
five persons, who were overwhelmed beneath
the mass Of rock and earth which came
laundering down from q mountain.
CHOLERA is increasing in Teheran, Persia.
The deaths now average sixty daily.
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SISTERS DROP DEAD.

They Had Been in q Runaway Short
Time Before.
At Fairmont Neb., Lizzie and Bertha
Shultz, aged twenty and seventeen years re-
spectively, were driving from their country
home into town when the team took fright
at the cars and ran away. throwing the oc;
cupants to the ground. They were assisted
to a house and quickly recovering, hlred a
team and started home. Bertha, while put,
ting away the horses, suddenly dropPeo
dead. Lizzie and her mother ran 70 1ne
barn, when Lizzie fell prostrate aimoS' OIL
the body of her sister and expired.
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EIGHTY-SIX DROWNED.
They Went Down in q Collision on
Finland.

Finland.
Later details Of the collision. attended by
a great loss Of life, between steamers near
the coast Of Finland, show that two coasting
steamers, the Ajax and the Runeberg, col
lided off the port Of Helsngfors capital Of
Finland. The Ajax was crowded with pas.
sengers from RelsingforA who were out for
q sail.
The Runeberg was in the coasting busi-
ness The Ajax had started out, and, hav-
ing been delayed on the return by heavy
fog, was not at high speed when the collis-
ion occurred.
The Runeberg was going at ordinary
speed, and struck the Ajax near the center;
SCATTERING that steamer so that the water
poured in in torrent. :,
The passengers on the Ajax, nearly all
Swedish Fins, behaved with notable cour-
age. The msn pushed the women and chit
dren to the life buoys thrown out by the
Runeoerg, and took their own chances at
struggling in the water.
There was no time to lower boats, as the
Ajax sank almost instantly, carrying down
nearly hundred passengsrs Eighty,sl1
persons were drowned and tnicty-nlne bodies
were recovered.
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A BANK ROBBED.

Twelve Hundred Dollars Carried on
From a Missouri Institution.
The other afternoon at o'clock four
masked men rode up to the bank in Benton,
Mo-, and two Of them dismountsd, while the
others remained outside. The men on enter
ing the bank presented revolvers at Cashier
Smith and ordered him to hand over the
cash in the bank.
The cashier gave the men about $1,000,
which they place in bag, and after caution
ing Smith to remain inside the buil1ln2 they
left. The men had hardly left tho building
when Cashier Smith gave toe alarm, but be-
fore a posse could be gathered they had
GOOD start. The men were well mounted.
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CONSERVATIVE estimates are that 40, DON
,aborers will be needed within the next
month in order to harvest the immense
grain crop of the Northwest. The acreage
Is q little less than last year, but the yield
promises to be equally great, If only the
.rop can be secured. In order to induce
laborsrs to come to the relief OF the wheat
farmers of the Northwest all the railroads
in that section have announced special
rate of IS from Chicago to the Dakotas for
farm laborers