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THE LABOR WORLD.

In India agricultural lsborers get five cents
day.
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, Is to have q co-opera-
tive factory.
A BUILDING trades council Is to be estab-
hshed In Paterson, N. ].
FALL RIVER CMass.) weavers' wages have
lately been cut thirty per cent.
FULLY one-third OF the female population
Of France are laborers on farms.
EFFORTS are being made to establish trade
assemblies throughout New Jersey.
IT Is said that 1000 Illinois manufacturers
have combined to kill the eight hour law.
OPERATIONS are being generally resumed
at the iron mines In the Lake Superior region.
THERE are more iron safes made In Cincin-
natl than In all the cities OF the Union COM
bined.
A REDUCTION Of twenty-five per cent. In the
earnings Of Boston hatters has gone into
effect.
AFTER stormy session the bootblacks Of Chi
cago formed union and elected Jefferson
King President.
TIE Laborcrs' Union In New York City Is
divided into English, German and Italian
speaking branches.
TIE shops In Altoona, Penn, OF the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company have been opened
for work on full time.
The union wages for laborers on buildings
In New York City Is thirty cents an hour,
eight hours to constitute days work.
THE committee Of the striking miners aban-
don their hope Of efecting National set
tlement and call for district conferences WITH
the operators.
The Brooks Locomotive Works, Schenef
tady, n. Y, have received an order Tor thln
ty passenger locomotives and thirty locomo-
tives for the Central Railway OF Brazil.
DELEGATES from France, Belgium, Eng
land, Germany and Austria are expected at
the coming international Congress OF Tex
tile Workers, which Is to be held In this
country.
GarpnEs and conductors on the Third
avenue line, New York City, had their wages
increased to $3.50 and s225 day, respec-
lively. They are to make five round trips
day Instead OF four and half, as heretofore.
Az appealis contemplated to be made by
the iron trades unions to the New York
State Constitutional Convention for an
amendment to the Law which WILL hinder
contract prison labor competing with Tree
industry.
TEE only ones among the textile workers
OF this country whose wages have not been
reduced during the panic are the spinners,
who have an organization comprising over
ninety per cent. OF the spinners In the
United States.
Cousr GEORGE Sz1RsEY, who claims to be
the son OF q wealthy and powerful Austrian
nobleman. whose estates were squandereo
by the trustees while he was in his minor.
ity, Is picking slate in coal breaker 81
Wilkesbarre, Penn, for sixty cents day.
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University, Colonel George ". Balm, Of
Kentucky; J. N. Stearns, Of New York. O
great temperance worker Bishops Bowman,
Fitzgerald, Foster. Mallalieu, Walden and
Foss, of the NJ. E. Church the Rev. DR..
C. E. Vaudeville, OF Chicago, who will de-
liver seven lectures on the "Seven Churches
of Asia )" Mrs. Rev. DR.. Wheeler, Professor
J. R. Sweny, sweet singer, and Mrs. DR..
Palmer.
Leading events are the opening OF the
season July I, celebration of July 4. tenn
perance convention OF New Jersey July 5
and 6. Ocean Grove veSunday.school Assembly
July 9 to 90, Christian Arbitration and
Peace Day July 81, Sabbath Observance
Day July %, Kings Daughters July "a,
Epworth League July 25. African NJ. E.
Church jubilee July 27, twenty-lfth ami:
versary of Ocean Grove July 2s, annual
meeting Of National Temperance Publica-
tion Society Ausust1. Ocean Grove Memorial
August 6, dedication Of the auditorium
August 0 to 12, Woman's encouragement
meetings August 10 to II, Woman's Foreign
Mission Society August is and 19, camp
meeting August 20 to 80.
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TWO RESCUED.
Fatal Accident to a Boating Party
in q Reservoir.

1oSoA <ASNAoSho w 9 ~oSAArs - 80
in Reservoir.
A terrible accident occurred on Tully Fos-
ter reservoir. Brewsters, N. Y. A party con-
sis.lng OF Bessie Blainey and Maggie Blainey,
sisters; Kate McClusker, Martin McClus-
ker, Thomas Scanlon, and Patrick Ma
rooney, took boat ride on the reser.
yoir Everything went smoothly until ~
o'clock, when the boat overturned, throw.
ing all the occupants into the water. The
women screamed for help, and the men did
all in their T over to keep on the surface OF
the water. By the merest chance Kate Nc
Clusker caught hold Of the upturned bout,
and held fast, shouting ut the top oi her voice
for assistance. Patrick Aspel AMI Thomas
Donohue, who were in o boat some
distance from where the accident ocsurred,
hastened to the spot and rescued her. They
then looked for the rest OF the party, but
only one Of them was 10 be seen. Patrick
Marooney was the only member OF the party
that could swlm, and he had started for the
shore.
Thomas Lynch, who saw the boat keel
over, and who has boat moored at the rear
of his house, set out to the rescue. On the
way 20 the place where the accident oc-
cured he came upon Marooney and pulled
him into the bo.s. In vain the rescuerS
looked for the rest OF ;he purity, but not one
OF them could be seen.
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THE NEW METHODIST AUDITORIUM.
Exclusively to Religious Purposes In the
United States.
Largest Building Devoted

Methodists from all over the land will as
semble at Ocean Grove, on the Jersey coast,
during the summer. The regular programme
OF summer services will be inaugurated in
the new auditorium on July 1, and the inter-
est in the great religious revival which IT is
proposed to conduct will not be allowed to
flag until August 80, when the summer
campaign against the minions Of evil will
close with ten-day camp meattng.
The auditorium, which Architect F. T..
Camp, OF New York, will turn over to the
Building Committee, will be the largest ediace
exclusively devoted to religious purposes In
the country, its seating capacity Of $500 be-
ing In excess Of that Of the great Mormon
Tabernacle in Salt Lake City.
The auditorium Is built on the beach with
Its front facing old ocean, and Is 224 feet
deep by 161 feet In width, outside measure
ments. The centre Of the roof Is eighty-fre
feet clear from the concrete floor. The height
from the cornices on the side walls IS an
even fifty feet, the interior thus made being
grand and imposing In its effects. Four
towers will adorn the roof the main one
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CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
THE REPORT OF THE AGRI-
CULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

The Drouth in Many Parts OF the
Country Has Affected the Grow
ing Grain-The Wheat Estimates
The Peach Crop Said to Be a
Commercial Failure.
The report OF June Of the Agricultural
Department makes the acreage OF winter
wheat sown, compared with that which was
harvested last year, 80 per cent, being de-
crease OF one point. There Is an increase OF
acreage as compared with 1898 in only ten
States, the principal part OF which was made
in Kansas and Illinois. The percentages OF
winter wheat acreage ofthe principal states
are Ohio. 95. Michigan, IS; Indiana, 81
Illinois. 1872; Kansas, 126, and California.
10S. The percentage OF spring wheat area
for the whole country Is 87.S per cent. be.
ing reduction from last years average OF
1872 points. The percentages OF spring wheat
area of the principal States are: Minnesota
81; Nebraska, 81 South Dakota, IS North
Dakota, 90.
The average percentage OF acreage for
both spring and winter wheat for the whole
country Is 95.3. making total area In round
numbers OF So, 600, 900 acres. The condition
of winter wheat has improved since last re-
bort a little less than two points, being $50
Der cent. against Sl4 on May 1. The
percentages Of the principal States are
as follows Ohio, Sc; Michigan. 50; Indiana,
90; Illinois, 81 Missouri, 80; Kansas, 81 !
California, 60. The condition Of spring
wheat presents an average for the entire
country OF So per cent, and for the principal
spring wheat States as follows Wisconsin,
Sc Minnesota. SO: Iowa, go; Nebraska, #
South Dakota, 70 North Dakota, ~ WASH
ington, SO , Oregon, s6.
The preliminary report places the acreage
Of oats at nearly one point less tnan last
wear. The general average for the whole
country is 99.L The returns show the con-
dition to be 81 against SS.9 last June. The
preliminary returns OF acreage make the
breadth devoted to barley 98.5 per cent. OF
that OF last year. The average condition,
June 1, was S2.2, against 1873 on the
same date last year. and 92.1 in 1892. The
acreage in rye is 95.3 per cent. OF that OF
last year. Average condition, June l, 1872.
A very decided increase in the acreage OF
rice Is shown by June returns. The breadth
seeded In 1894 Is but 1854 per cent. OF last
years acreage. The average condition ts
97.1.
The peach crop, commercially considered,
Is practically failure. The condition OF ap-
pies Is rather better than that Of peaches.
Conditions are high in Northern districts,
but relate principally to BLOOMS. No fruit
1s expected In the Piedmont an Ohio Val.
lev districts, and little In the Missouri belt.
Prospects are brighter in the mountain and
Pacific States. The area of clover decreased
S.S per cent. below that otlast year. Cond1-
tion reported at S7.S. The general average
of spring pasture is 90, against s7.7 last
mOnrn.
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SOLDIERS THRASHED THEM.
Ohio Militia Whip Mob Of Strikers
With Their Fists.

About 9 o'clock a. m. the troops of Com
pany Z, Eighth Regiment, were at the mouth
of the dangerous cut at Nc McClainesville, Ohio,
and were aroused by terrific yell. I'm.
mediately mob of thirty strikers descended
upon them and began an assault upon the
troops with stones and clubs. Captain Wey-
brecht and his company (K) We're on their
feet In minute and ready for them.
The mob showed fight. Captain Wey-
brecht saw they had no arms, and that he
had more men in his company than they
had, and he ordered his men to put
down their arms and whip them unarmei.
He would not shoot unarnsd men.
The soldiers put down their arms and
leaped in among the men, and in
less than two minutes the Hungarians. Poles
and Italians were scattered all around the
mouth OF the cut, but none seriously hurt.
Captain Weybrecht beat them completely.
There was not one OF the soldiers scratched.
The mob went away, disappointed crowd.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States

PROFESSOR ". D. WHITNEY died at his
home in New Haven, Conn.
THE L ancaster ship OF war returned to the
Brooklyn.(N. Y.) Navy Yard, after three
years cruise.
WILLIAM McGEAR and Chester Loud went
out in boat with four girls on Tumbling
Dam Pond, n. j. One Of the girls stood up.
This caused the boat to rock, and she fell
overheard. The others In trying to rescue
her upset the boat. Miss May Hires and
Miss Mlllie Powell were drowned.
SECRETARY LAMONT was entertained By
the cadets at West Point, N. Y, by splendid
target practice.
AT New York City E. B. Bartlett Co..
made an assignment, and the Union Ware
house Company, controlled largely by mem
bers Of that firm, went into the hands OF re-
ceivers.
COMMODORE BESEDIcT's steam yacht
Oneida. with Mrs. Cleveland, Ruth, Esther,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Benedict and Miss Bene-
dict aboard, arrived ar Ruzzard's Bay. Mass.
The party went Immediately to Gray Gables.
DR. MEYER, the poisoner, was sentenced to
Imprisonment for life in New York City and
taken to Sing Sing
THREE strikers are known to have been
shot and many workmen were injured In
riot at the Silver Brook penn colliery.
RICHARD CROKER. ex-leader OF Tammany
Hall, sailed from New York City for Europe,
where he will stay till after election. His
friends say he Is in bad health his enemies
say he has fed from the Lexow Committee.
The injury to the cruiser Columbia proved
to be slight when examined In the dry dock
at the League Island Navy Yard, Phila-
delLhia, Penn.
CYRUS ". FIELD, JR., youngest son Of the
late Cyrus ". Field. died of quick consump-
tion at New York City. Returning from his
consulate at Brunswick, Germany, he con-
tracted In London the illness that provel
fatal.
The New York socialistic-Labor party's
State Convention at Syracuse nominated
Charles s. Matchett for Governor. and WILL
lam Steers for Lieutenant Governor.
The final drill and dress parade OF the
class OF "a took place at the West Point
CN Y J Military Academy; the graduating
hop was given In the evening.
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panels. Those OF the lower tier can be re-
moved, so that the breezes of the ocean may
blow through the whiskers of the elders and
vibrate the flowers on the bonnets OF the
young people. Sections of the two upper
tiers may be moved to meet the demands OF
the weather. This interesting piece Of archi-
lecture will cost $4,000 when completed,
and has been constructed under the SUPER
vision Of the Rev. Dr. E. b. Stokes, OF Ocean
Grove, President, General Manager and su-
perintendent E. Il. DeHaven, the we'll known
stock broker; T. J. Preston, OF Newark G.:
w. Evans, Of Ocean Grove ". b. Skirm, OF
Trenton, and D. n. Brown, of Brooklyn.
Among the distinguished divines and
Christian workers who are to take leading
parts in the two months programme are
the Rev. E. b. Stokes, the Rev. DR.. Thomas
Hanlon, Of Pennington Seminary Evange-
list Charles q. Yatman, the Rev. G. b. Nc
Anney, of Tarrytown, N. Y. Mrs. Emma
Bourne, President Of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union of New Jersey the Rev.
DR.. B. B. Loomis, the Right Rev. Bishop
Vincent, Joseph Cook, the great evangelist /;
the Rev. J. R. Day, Chancellor OF Syracuse
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BATTLE WITH STRIKERS.
Seven Deputies Repulse Three Hun
dred SIavs.

A hattie between seven armed deputies and
a mob Of 300 strikers occurred at o'clock
a. N. at the Lemont No. 8 works of the Nc
Clurc Coke Company, Uniontown, Penn.
One striker, Slav, was killed instantly, and
two other Slav strikers were fatally wounded.
The deputies were surrounded and fired up
on by the strikers before they shot.
The incidents leading up to the battle be-
gan In the night, when amob OF several hun
dred strikers, mainly from the Trotter
works of the Frick Company, gathered at
the Pennsylvania Railroad station at
four four work,nen who are e. employed
at the Valley works Of the Frick
Company, and were on their way home at
Leisenrinc. The names Of the worknen are
John Delaney, Oliver Attleby, John Britt
and John Furlough. When they stepped of
the train the mob surrounded them and
marched them away. Tho four men were
covered over with chalk and big plac.
ards, bearing offensive epithets. and
wero then marched through the streets be-
tween the company houses. The strikers
jeered them and the women spat upon them
and hit them with stones and clubs. They
were even marched past their own homes,
IN sight Of their wives and children.
Sheriff Wilhelm dispatched Deputy Sheriff
Allen with seven deputies to rescue the
workmen. Allen arrived at O'Clock. At
no time was he able to overtake the mob
having the men in charge. and he finally
learned that the men were being passed
mob to mob. 1t was found that the
four men had been taken to Morrel
from there to YOUNGSTOWN, and then to Le-
mont, where the battle occurred. Early in
the morning, after placing the deputies to
prevent the strikers from taking the prison.
ers away, Allen returned to Cniontown for
further orders, and was directed to rescue
the prisoners. Returning to Lemont he found
two deputies retreating before bowling
mob OF Slavs. As Allen rode up O Slav
fred revolver at him, the bullet passing
over his head. Several OF the mob then be-
gan firing at the officers. Aliens revolver
was detective AMI only two shots were fired
by him. Five OF his assailants came up and
began firing with their Winchesters. About
slowly advancing, the deputies retreat
ing until reinforced by other deputies,
when stand was made. The mob then be-
gan to disperse. Sheriff Wilhelm was again
informed, and sent thirteen more deputies.
An hour later, twelve OF the mob were ar
rested and brought to jail.
The Slav who had been killed was found
lying In the -oad, shot through the body by
Winchester ball. Two others were found
h houses near by, both said 10 be MORALLY
wounded, having been shot through the
thighs. The strikers refused to give the
names OF the men killed and injured. One
Of the men arrested was shot in the arm.
Many others were believed 70 have been
wounded. None Of the deputies were in
iured.
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WAR COLLEGE OPENED.
Assistant Secretary McAdoo on the
Naval Situation.

The Naval War College was opened at
Newport, R. L, by Assistant Secretary Of
the Navy William McAdoo. In his address
the Secretary said he had not come to eulo-
gize the navy OF the United States. It's proud
record was a complete answer to its bit.
terest critics. It was exceedingly fit. he
continued. that school for the study,
both theoretically and practically. Of the
art of naval warfare should have been
founded contemporary with the National
effort to rebuild our navy. naval nation
must be possessed of two things.
The best modern shipS,' we'll armed
and equipped, manned and officered; and,
second. the power to reproduce these as
quickly as possible when lost. or to add to
their number when desired. The mere pos
session Of ships does not Of itself make ma
ton a naval power. The United States,
therefore, while it does not possess a great
navy In the number o. its ships has within It's
limits colossal plants, both public and pri-
vate. and great armies Of skilled worknen,
led by contractors, designers, and inve-.tors
of marked ability, and It Is therefore essen
TALLY and substantially capable Of national
defence, and, If need be. OF offensive opera
tionS.
The naval problem, Mr.. McAdoo said, con-
cerned US much more deeply than our mill
tary progress on land. It was utterly impos-
sible, he said. that the Cnitei States could
ever be successfully invaded even BY an aIli-
unce which embraced more than onr OF the
great military nations OF Europe. The only
hope Of military or political domination from
Europe on this continent could come troE /;
dissolution Of the Union rs the result OF
secession. Mr.. McAdoo said that as m cd
ditional incentive TO the fact that whatever
our wishes might be, whatever theories
may have been laid down in the past,
we were driven by inexorable circum-
stances into a relationship toward the
whole South American continent, which
begets for US moral duties and grave ma
tional responsibilities, and from which there
was absolutely no escape. To the grand sum
of our national wants and responsibilities it
is only short course of time when We will
have the interoceanic canal.
In conclusion, Mr.. McAdoo mentioned the
pride he felt ut the splendid pre-eminance
given to the great naval historian, Captain
Mahan, who was so long connected with the
college.
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FIFTEEN HUNDRED DEAD.
About 100 Deaths Day From a
Plague In Hong Kong.

plague is epidemic among the Eatives at
Hong Kong. China. Fifteen hundred havo
already died, and half the remaining num-
Der have fed the city. Many Europeans have
been seized with the scourge, but thus far
only one death in the European colony has
been reported. The average daily number OF
deaths among the natives is 1CO. Bus:-
ness is at a standstill and labor is COM
pletely paralyzed. The Government expects
n total failure of the revenue from opium.
I. is proposed by the Government to destroy
the native quarters, which are exceedingly
filthy, and have long been the source OF
most of the diseases which have afflicted the
community.
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THE PLATE WINS.
Value of the Harvey Process Proved
at Indian Head.

Without notice, Captain Sampson, Chief OF
the Naval Ordnance Bureau, slipped quietly
out OF Washington to the Indian Head prov
ing ground, AMI fired two shots from the
tweive-irch rifle at the seventeen-inch Beth
lehem armor plate, against the testing OF
which. under standard conditions, the CON-
pany had vainly protested.
The result was the complete triumph OF
the plate. and the demonstration of the
value and practicability of the Harvey pro-
cess as applied to plates OF this thickness.
The plate was curved, representing 300 tons
of armor intended for the barbettes Of the
battle ship Massachusetts. 1: measured
eight by twelve feet, and weighed thirty
tons.
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with its cupola rising to height Of 125 feet,
presenting striking Landmark, visible many

with its cupola rising to height OF 125 feet,
presenting striking Landmark, visible many
miles at sea.
In building OF such proportions and de-
signed for its special purposes, the architect
must necessarily devote much OF his skill to
the securing Of proper acoustics, at the same
time providing for the fullest ventilation. To
secure the former the roof has been made
vast sounding board, the lines Of the ceiling
being parabolic from front to rear and side
to side, while the ends are polygonal. At the
rear Of the speakers platform a parabolic
sounding board Is attached to the vertical
wall, and smaller sounding board Is placed
directly over the platform. By this arrange
ment the voice OF speaker is forced out
ward in such amanneras to preclude echoes.
This arrangement Is also assisted by q sys-
tenn Of exhaust register placed In the floor
toward the rear, By which o gentle current
of air Is drawn from the direction of the
speaker, and by the further use Of fans
thrown up through the two front turrets
above the roof.
The rear and side walls Of the auditorium
are constructed In three tiers Of portable