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Washington.

TIE plans submitted for the gigantic rail-
way bridge across the Delaware River to
connect Philadelphia with Camden, N. j.,
have been approved by the War Department.
COMMISSIONERS MILLER has prepared
statement showing in detail the collections
OF internal revenue taxes for the past two
months, The aggregate Is stated to be $751;
924,s7s, against $25.O9 1904 for the CORE
spending period OF 1898.
The chief translator for the Chinese Lega-
tion at Washington has resigned after q
quarrel with Minister Yang Yu-
REPAIRS to the White House are rapidly
approaching completion, and for the first
time in several years the mansion typifes It's
name. The President Is expected to return
to the capital about October Is.
THE Indian Bureau has perfected plans
under which Indian children are to attend
public schools in the localities where they
live. This will bring them i3to direct asso-
citation with the white children, and 1t Is e1-
pected will result in great improvement In
their condition.
By operation Of law Brlgadier-General
John P. Hawkins, Commissary- General OF
Subsistence since December, 1882, has re-
tired from active service.
GOVERNMENT surveyors in Alaska found
Mount Logan to be 1000 feet higher than
Mount ST. Elias.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIaHTY-THREE nom
commissioned artillery officers have been
arrested in Berlin. Germany, on the charge
OF being connected with an anarchist
socialist propaganda.
The decrease in National bank note circu.
lation since September l has been 1927, ATT,
leaving the amount outstanding October l
S2O7, 7,471, sol. National bank circulation
based on United States bonds decreased In
the same period to s1,o35,9l5.
{ DURING the month OF September the
= Treasury coined 672, 200 standard silver dol
lars out of a total coinage Of 2,044, sos pieces
of the value OF s5, ,9lo, ,Os3. The gold coinage
was 663,OO5 pieces Of the value of $685.
692; silver coinage. 1.9S0,000 pieces. of the
value Of $76,370. and minor csin, 700 pieces,
of the value OF $21.
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THE LABOR WORLD.
PARIS has 1000 hair workers.

PARIS has 1000 hair workers.
ONE man can make 5000 tin cans In q Gay
BY the aid of improved machinery.
P1TTsBuRa employs more chemists than
my other city In the United States.
REApY-MApE clothing industry OF Boston
was paralyzed by strike CT the operatives,
Involving $500 employees.
LOCOMOTIVE firemen In convention at Har-
dsburg, Penn, agreed not to strike Us long
Is contracts were not violated.
THE Brotherhood OF Railway Trainmen
held two days celebration at Baltimore,
Md, OF the eleventh anniversary OF the or'
der.
THE head draughtsman at the Edgar
Thompson steel works, at Braddock, Penn. 4,
Is said to be Count Camille Mercadere, OF
Austria.
FOURTEEN to sixteen hours Is the days
work for most girls employed In factories
and shops In Scotland. Wages are often as
low as 81 50a week.
NEEDLE makers are said to be predisposed
10 pulmonary troubles more than any other
workers IN metals. Sixty per cent. OF tnem
die Of consumption.
WITH the new and improved methods OF
mining 1t is thought that 1t will cost lessthan
mine gold In Colorado.
TIE iron furnaces of Scotland rely for
their profit not on the pig iron they turn out,
but on the products obtained from the waste
gases which, In this country, are not put to
use.
TIE Westinghouse Electric Company has
contracted for glass factory with cspac-
lty to turn out bulbs and shoppers for O,0OO
lllcandescent lamps day. The company
now receives 5000 bulbs and shoppers per day.
IT is calculated that during the nine weeks
Of the Scottish coal strike SO, $50, 900 have
been lost In wages to the miners. There has
also been loss of six and q half million tons
Of coal which the collieries would have pro-
duced.
In London there are two faithful servants
who have probably beaten the record OF do
nestle service. They sre sisters, one OF
whom Is sixty and the other six years
younger. They have been In the same
family for the better part OF half century,
the one having served for forty years and
the other for thir.y-hve.
The Brazilian Government Is advertising
for laborers, OF whom 10000 are wanted In
the State Of Para and SO, 900 in San Paulo,
while Bahia, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro
and Mlnas Garaes want large number.
The soil Is fertile and the climate good, but
let no one go there unless he knows what
the guarantees are, and that he will not be
treated like many former colonists, who
were exposed to prlvations and misery.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.


Harvard and Yale Universities were re-
opened with large increase In the number
OF students.
PROFESSOR SHoRTr1DaE, OF Media, Penn,
on trial for wife murder, was acquitted on
the ground OF insanity.
ANDREW D. JOHNSON and Clarence Dewitt
Goodnow, Cornell students, were drowned
IN Cayuga Lake, Ithaca, n. T., while canoe
ING.
The Cunard steamship Lucania made the
trip from Queenstown to New York In fve
days, seven hours and forty-eight minutes,
breaking her own and the best record OF
other vessels by fifty minutes.
THE students Of Princeton, N. j., at g
mass meeting, decided that hazing should
be abolished.
Miss NETT1E LEE, a daughter OF New
York millionaire. was burned to death while
"brandying" peaches. The liquid was up
set on the stove and set fire to her clothing.
THE New York Constitutional convention,
at Albany, adjourned sine die.
JAMES A. BAILEY bought at Bridgeport,
Conn.,, the interest OF the Barnum nelrs III
the Barnum-Bsiley show.
JEpurHAS NEWTON, a well-to-do farmer OF
Norwich, N. Y, and Mrs. Edward Southern,
domestic In his family, were struck and
instantly killed by the express at a grade
crossing.
FURIOUS gales prevailed along the Allan
tic coast from Coney Island to Atlantic City,
N. J., causing considerable damage at many
shore resorts.
Town elections in Connecticut resulted In
heavy Republican gains.
The National Bank of Fayetteville, N. z,
closed its doors.
TIE British tank steamer Allegheny, laden
with LII, 900 gallons of oil, was in collision
of Ship John Light, near Bombay Hook, In
the Delaware Bay, with the Belgian steamer
Caucsse. The Allegheny was sunk. Loss,
$3.50,
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FLORIDA sTORM-SWEPT.
The Damage to Property by the West
India Hurricane.


Dispatches indicate that the late storm was
ss severe In the interior Of Florida as on the
coast. It struck Tampa and then travelled
northeast for Jacksonville and. st. Angus.
tine. At Ocala and Orlando, interior points.
several sea gulls and sea eels were found
after the storm passed.
It Is safe to say that the storm has cost
Florida more than S1.000,000, though no
lives have been lost, unless at Key West,
Tltusville, Jupiter and other east coast
points.
The damage to the orange growers Is In.
calctable. Special dispatches say that in
the large groves the ground 1s covered with
green oranges. The loss Is fully twenty per
cent.
At least fifty tin roofs In st., Augustine
were blown away. The yacht club house on
the sea wall was demolished, and all the
wharves and piers washed away save one.
South Beach ferry was badly damaged. Al
DAYLIGHT thewaterthat had dashed against the
sea wall at night, throwing spray hundreds
OF feet, rose twenty inches above 1t, cover.
ing that part of the city. For On hour water
was thrown fifty feet high by the surf that
rose and fell oa Bay street. Then for halt
an hour the wind and rain increased and
suddenly died down, later shifting to north.
Nearly all sthe windows In st. Augustine
were blown IN and the houses flooded with
water. The Ponce de Leon Hotel was dam.
aged in this way. The loss on the hotels
furniture is heavy.
A despatch from Palatka announces great
damage at that place to river craft. The
steamer Princess, valued at s12,0oD, was
sunk between PaIatkR and Picolata. The
steamer Edith was driven ashore. The
Mt I.t-- J1Nk hn
draw-brfdge and wrecked. The steam yacht
Maude was sunk near Crescent City.
Between Green Cove Springs and Palatks,
on the St. Johns, twelve wharves have com.
pletely disappeared.
At Tampa several large cigar factories
were destroyed. The First Presbyterian
Church and the Tampa Bay Hotel were bad.
ly damaged. The total loss on buildings At
Tampa Is estimated at S50,0o0.
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NEWSY GLEANINGs.
TRoLLEYs go In 500 American towns.
VAssAa COLLEGE Is crowded this year.

TnoLIEYs go In 500 American towns.
VAssAB COLLEGE Is crowded this year.
JAPAN has started Bed Gross Society.
A CHINESE theatrical company Is making q
tour Of France.
THERE were 2143 disInterments In Phila-
delphia last yea.
FLORIDA will put 100000 pineapples On
the market this year.
TEE wheat crop Of Kansas this year is es-
timated at over 70, ,000, 900 bushels.
New Panama Canal shares to the amount
Of &6, ,000, ,00C were issued In Paris.
RIcH gold discoveries in the Yukon River
region, Alaska, have been reported.
The bankrupt Chickasaw treasury will
compel the closing OF the native schools.
BRApsTREET's reports continued improve
try.
TIE State Of Minnesota has sued lumber
company for the value OF 100000 feet OF
logs.
TIE first crop OF raisins In California this
season will be about one-han OF that OF last
year.
GOVERNOR CRouSsE, OF Nebraska, will en-
dearor to provide relief for the drought
stricken districts.
IT Is claimed that adventures are destroy
in0 all the animals IN Alaska BY the tndis-
crfminate use OF poison.
UNDER the name OF the Old Guard new
political society has been formed In Ireland
by old Fenians and Invincibles.
ACCORDING to the latest information OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission there are
178,461.07 miles Of railroad In the United
States.
TEAS will go up, It Is said. The high
grade Of teas from China Will likely rule
high, II the war between China and Japan
continues.
The town 'of defiance, Ohio, is to have
what Is known as "street fair" Twenty
thousand people will assemble In the streets
and the various exhibits Of fowl, pumpkins,
horses and cattle will be along the curb
stone.
TIE waning season of 1894 now challenges
comparison with previous years, and from
reports Of hotel men from various parts OF
the country 1t would seem that the summer
resort business OF 1894 has been better than
that OF 1893.
ACCORDING to report, the Department OF
Agriculture distributed Z, ,704, ,94S packages OF
seeds during the fiscal year ending June 80,
1855, at q tOtal COST OI Slou,uuu. LUG boeQS
distributed. comprised 3s7 varieties. The
total weight Of the seeds was about 275 tons.
TEE largest and most important offering
OF silks at auction ever made took place IN
New York City, few days ago. There were
cataloged about 5000 pieces OF domestic and
foreign goods. The total number Of pieces
sold amounted to nearly 5000 with value OF
$500, 200.
Tsp Wnr Dam rtrnant haa isanad an ordor
concentrating the army and doing away with
several posts. This action was taken In view
OF the necessity Of larger forces within reach
OF prominent places in the East, as instanced
In Chicago and previously In Pittsburg and
olaawhara.
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South and West.

TOM SMITH, q colored desperate, shot and
killed three colored United States Deputy
Marshals and seriously wounded two white
officers while they were attempting to arrest
him at the Muskogee (Indtan Territory In
,ternational Fair.
GOVERNOR MCKINLEY opened the Ohio
campaign with speech at Findley.
The following nominations were made By
the Nebraska State Democratic Convention
at Omaha: For Governor, SIlas A. Hol-
comb, the Populist candidate Lieutenant:
Governor, ]. N. Gafan; Secretary OF
State, F. J. Ellick; Treaturer, q.
A. Lirkhardt; Auditor, J. c. Dahlman ,
Attorney General, D. B. Carey ;supertntend.
ent OF Public Instruction. W. A. Jones
Commissioner Of Public Lands and Build
ings, 8. ]. Kent. With the exception OF El-
lick, Linkhardt and Dahlman, the nominees
had been previously put up by the Popuhsts.
One hundred anG four men bolted and put
another ticket In the field.
EUGENE Fu1Ks and "Tom" Moore were
hanged at Paris, Texas. for murders com ).
mitted in the Indian Territory.
WHEAT sold in Chicago for fifty cents a
bushel, the lowest price on record.
.FLY1Na JIs paced mile at Chiliicothe,
Ohio, in 1.501s, the fastest mile ever made
In harness.
Ar Chicago Miss Belle White dropped dead
in the chair of beauty specialist who was
treating her face for disflgurements.
LEWIS JOHNSTON, a colored laborer, while
digging post hole on E. B. Shepard's farm
neaa Mobile, Ala, came upon an iron box
containing S1100 in gold coin. he turned 1t
over to hi, employer. None OF the coins
bear date less than fifty years ago.
LorTERYMAN KLINE, OF Kansas City, says
he paid money 70 Kansas Populist officials
for protection and didn't get It.
THREE inches OF snow Is reported at Mot
lev, Mimi. with fall also at Brainerd and
out along the line OF the Northern Pacific.
A CYCLONE struck Wichita, Kan. The
damage in the city Is $4,000. Two people
were killed.
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CRUSHED TO DEATH.
Five Boys Who Stole a Ride on a
Train Killed.

An accident by which five boys lost their
lives and two were injured, one seriously,
occurred near Woodstock, ILL.,, on the Chi
cago & Northwestern Railway.
The dead are. Territ Davis, Of Mount
Morris, Ill. Ed -, known as Milwaukee
Ed, of Milwaukee, Wis. ; Bert Little, OF Free
port, ILL.,, and two unknown boys.
The injured are: John Grady, Of Fall
River Sam Newman, OF Freeport, ILL.,, and
an unknown man. whose leg Is broken, and
who Is injured internally.
AS heavily loaded freight was approach
ing Woodstock the axle OF one Of the cars In
the center OF the train broke, throwing the
car and two others from the track. The car
causing the accident was loaded with lum-
ber.
1t seems that the boys were riding on top
OF the lumber inside OF the car, and the car
leaving the track caused the lumber to slide
over and upon them, killing five and injar-
ing the others. The dead are all boys rang
ing in age from thirteen to twenty-one. and
some appear to be OF respectable families.
Sam Newman and Bert Little, the two
Freeport (Ill. lads In the Woodstock wreck,
were each thirteen years old. They ran
away from home month ago.
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HELD UP A TRAIN.

Bold Robbers Get Away With a Small
Sum Of Money.
The Southern Pacific eastbound express
was held up two miles east OF Maricopa'
Arizona, by three men, two Of whom were
masked.
They boarded the train as 1t vas leaving
Maricopa, capturing the head brakeman. he
was compelled to turn on the air brakes and
stop the train. The engineer and the head
brakeman, with pistols at their heads, were
compelled to 20 back to the express car and
induce the messenger 20 open the door.
One OF the bandits was then put IN the
car, and he searched for valuables while the
others guarded each side Of the train. The
train men were then marched away snort
distance and liberated, the robbers mounting
their horses and striking southwark. Inc
amount taken Is not known, but 1t Is sup
posed to be small.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
TEE Pope's annual income Is 81, $50, 900

THE Popes annual Income Is 81, 43O,OOu.
HARRIET BEEcHEB STOWE was born In 1911.
TIE Duke Of Edinburgh can speak seven
languages.
TIE Count OF Parls's fortune amounted to
about s20, 100000.
JUDGE GAYARRE, the Louisiana historian,
Is nearly ninety years old, and Is IN gooo
health and good spirits.
KING OSCAR, Of Sweden and Norway. Is
said to be the only European monarch who
accepts the Darwinian theory.
Two prominent lawyers Of New York,
Judge Fitzgerald and John W. Gof, began
life as porters in dry goods store.
LORD RoTHscHnD on every Christmas
gives 10 each policeman in London briar-
wood pipe and one ounce OF tobacco.
The first product Of Bret Earte's pen, q
poem, was printed in the New York Atlas
when the author was eleven years old.
GENERAL WILLARD sLocUM died IN Ash
land, Ohio, aged seventy-iour. BE was
brevetted Brtgadier-General In 1865 for
bravery.
PROFESSOR VIRcEow. who Is more than
seventy-three years old, attended five great
international congresses during his summer
vacation.
GOVERNOR WAITE, Of Colorado, was
accompanied on his campaign tour by Miss
Public Instruction.
THE Governor-elect and Lieutenant Gov
ernor-elect OF Vermont, both Colonels, have
lost one in the war.
Ex-SENAToR EDMUSDs, Of Vermont, has
been elected one Of the Vice-Presfdents OF
h. I,ao
has accepted office.
The King Of the Belgians has become
devotee Of bicycling, and rides constantly,
accompanied by an aid-de-camp, who Is also
proficient wheelman.
LINN BOYD PORTER, nominated for. Con-
gress by the Populists in the Eighth Mas
sachusetts District, Is better known to fame
as "Albert Ross novelist.
KAISER WILHELM carries with him small
but serviceable revolver. either In his pocket
or In bis belt when he Is In uniform because
of the threats OF the anarchists.
CAPTAIN W. A. G1AssFoRD, United States
Army, takes premier honors as the most sue
cessful heliographist OF the day. He has re-
Gently signaled distance OF 1873 miles.
MR. KuR1No, the new Japanese Minister
to Washington, Is said to be an American IN
all but birth. He wears American tclothes,
and can hardly be distinguished from ma
tive Vhen seen on the street.
TERENCE Y. PowDERLY, ex-General Mas
ter Workman Of the Knights OF Labor, was
admitted to the bar OF Lackswanna County,
Pennsylvania. It Is said that Mr.. Powderly
may leave Scranton to practice law In New
York.
LORD HAwKE, captain Of the team OF Eng
lish cricketers now in this country, Is d.
rect descendant OF old Admiral Hawke OF the
British navy, who died in 1881 after lie
spent in thrashing the French In desperate
sea fights. The Admiral won his place IN
the peerage In 1776 and the title has been In
tho family ever since.
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FEDERAL PENSIONS.
How the Expenditure for the Past
Year Was Divided.

How the Expenditure for the Past
Year Was Divided.
The report of the Third Auditor Of the
Treasury for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1894, shows the total disbursements at pen
sion agencies to have been s1S7, ,636,9S1.
The amounts paid to pensioners under the
general laws were as follows, cents omitted /:
Invalids, s5s.6s2, ,1l9; widows, s1S, Az, OIL ,
minors, $780, ,204; dependent relatives,
sS, 1861. The amounts paid under the
act OF June 81. 1890, were as follows 1
Invalids, s4a, ,666 ,Oe1; widows, 1856, ,ss2 ;
minors s697,0O4; dependent relatives,
81. ,s29; helpless children SSO65.
To pensioners of the War OF 1912 Survivors.
s5Si2; widows, s645,2s7. Under the Mexi-
can War act Survivors, 1888, 7O7; widows,
ss09,345. Indian wars claims: a377,sss to
survivors, s456. .652 to widows. Army nurses
received S65, 5,6s2; about 9650,000 was paid
to pension examining surgeons and the bal
ance was for expenses OF pension agencies.
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MURDERED HIS SISTER,

Carr and His Victim Had Trouble
Over Their Mothers Property.
William G. Carr, aged forty-one, an en-.
ploye in the Grove street mill of the Wash.
burn & Moen Manufacturing Company, mur.
dered his sister, Mrs. Ellen Lucier, aged
forty-iour years, at Worcester, Mass.
There had been trouble in the family over
the disposition Of property left by the
mother, who died last January. Angry
words passed, and then the woman
screamed and ran out Of doors. Carr went
out by another door and met her In the
yard. Here he fred one shot from q re-
volver at short range. The bullet entered
the left temple and passed directly through
the brain.
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THE ANTWERP EXHIBITION.

King Leopold Distributes the Awards
The United States Get.122.
The King OF Belgium went to Antwerp to
preside over the ceremony Of the distribu-
tion OF awards at the exhibition. After o
speech by the Minister OF Public Works, NJ.
de Bruyn, who stated that the exhibition
had proved a vast success, the commtssnries
general Of the exhibition stated that the
humber OF awards obtained By each country
were as follows: ~
France stands at the head Of the list with
2793 awards, including 159 grand prizes, 2G7
diplomas Of honor and seventy.seven goIa 30
medals. The United States receives 122
awards; Honduras, twoi Germany, 7o6 !
Great Britain, SeS Belgium, 247o, including
ITO grand prizes China, eight awards
Japan, twenty-five, and number to the
Congo Free State. ..-
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FROM A LIVING TOMB.
Four Imprisoned Miners Rescued
After Fifty-four Hours.

After Fifty-four Hours.
John J. Tanning, William B. Mitchell.
George Barney and Andrew Klohesky, the
four miners who were entombed In the slope
OF the Northwest Coal Compaey at Carbon
dale, Penn, have been rescued. All are
alive and we'll and do not seem much the
worse for their long imprisonment.
As soon as an opening was made, refresh
ments were passed through to the prisoners,
and their hunger and thirst had been salts
fed before they reached the surface. The
men were without light and food for fifty
four hours. They procured water from q
miniature we'll which they dug IN their cell.
In consequence Of having been so long in
darkness, Tanning, when taken out Of the
shaft, was unable to see lamp held two feet
away from him.
None Of the men could remember whether
or not they had slept, and said that the SEN
sation was like that Of person In trance.
There was rejoicing when the men were
brought to the surface and escorted to their
homes,
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LOST IN THE FLOOD.

More Than Seventy Houses In Sagua
la Grande Swept Away.
The sagua River overfowed its banks and
the city of Sagua la Grande, Cuba, Is flooded.
Many OF the residents Of the city have been
drowned and the damage to property Is I'm.
mense.
More than seventy houses have been car
rled away, and many others have been dam
aged. Thousands Of persons saved them
selves by taking refuge on roofs OF their
houses, whence they were rescued by pass
ing boats. The water In the streets Is now
SIX feet deep.
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DROWNED BY DRINK,
An Intoxicated Father Sacrifice
Seven Lives.

Seven persons were drowned at Chaskd
MINI. Louis Scharf and family, who ha|
attended the fair, started home at o'cloc
p. m. Scharf was intoxicated and wa
driving fast. When within block OF th|
river he was stopped by J. Kunze, d
Minneapolis, who told him to driv1
slower. Scharf promised to do so, but n|
sooner was he released than he whipped hA
horses furiously and dashed down the rive
bank, over the ferryboat and into the rtvei
His wife, five children and Miss Mary Roi
kus, Mrs. Schart's sister, we:e drowned, q
were the horses. Scharf clung to the wagoj
box and was rescued. The bodies OF Mr1
Seharf andtwo OF the children were reco1
cred,
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FOUR WERE BURNED.

Three Sons and q Daughter OF B. b.
Pierce Perish In Their Homes.
The residence OF B. B. Piece, OF Wilmot,
Wis, was destoyed by fire few nights ago.
Three sons, at ages ranging from twenty
five to thirty-ave years, and daughter Of
eight years persisted In the flames.