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THE LABOR WORLD.

IN Italy bakers get 81 week.
GERMANY has 24O, 600 Union men.
MINERS in the far West are on strike.
TIE Z. OF L. claims 75o, 900 members.
DETROIT box makers have organized.
TELEPHONES employ 10000 Americans.
ILLINOIS miners average S35 month.
FIFTEEN American firms cut diamonds.
SAN Francisco has Chinese shoemakers.
COLORADO has a cooperative association.
DEBs spoke at Omaha, Neb., on Labc
Day.
BUSINESS is improving among the building
trades.
DIAMOND cutters from Holland are locating
In Providence, R. I.
TIE cost OF the British Labor Commission
will be over S230.00O.
In Illinois mines last year sixty-nine min
ers were killed while at work.
ONE man can make 6O0o tin cans a day BY
the aid Of improved machinery.
SYRACUSE On. ~ teamsters struck against
increasing the size OF wagon boxes.
THE Amalgamated Society Of Carpenters,
organized In 1861, has Al 900 members.
The dues OF the Newsboys' Union Of Oak
land, CAL, are twenty-five cents month.
ST. LOUIS carpenters protest against fire.
men doing their work around engine houses.
In the textile trades and mines of Austria
q week OF seventy-tTo to ninety hours IS not
uncommon.
An impression Is growing that strikes
against large corporations are hazardous
experiments.
THIS year, for the first time, Labor Day
was celebrated throughout the country as a
National holiday.
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND men are said to be
employed In producing and handling New
York's oyster crop.
A DIAMOND cutting factory is In course OF
establishment by firm from Amsterdam,
Holland, In Brooklyn.
CoLoRED men are being imported to take
the places Of striking miners at Rosiyn,
Wyoming. The miners get eighty cents
ton.
TIE Chinese laundrymen OF Boston are
about to form trust for the purpose OF keep
ing prices for work up to the proper stan
dard.
EMPLOYEES OF Manchester (England) iron
works have done more and better work in
year under the eight-hour plan than ever be-
lore in nine hours.
THE Boston Board OF Aldermen has dectd.
ed against contract labor on city work, ana
advocates that not less than 81 day shall
be paid to laborers.
The report for tho year Of tho Brother,
hood OF Locomotive Firemen shows 6,50O
members and an expenditure for death and
disability claims Of $1,000. 900.
EDWARD PERo, the Oldest locomotive en-
cineer in Canada, was crushed to death in
Westville, Nova Scotia, by the wheels OF his
locomotive. He had been running an engine
On the tracks of the Intercolonial Mining
Company for q quarter OF century.
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Cost of Hunting in England.

a few years ago the usual estimate
for maintaining thoroughly first
class pack was $2500 for every day
hunted; then it went up to $4,000, and
now it will average very close to $o''
ZOO. making an entire cost OF $l0,|
500 for one weeks chase OF the little
red, animal, while in the "shires" it
will fall but very little short OF sl5,-
600, if, indeed, it will not In some
instances run higher.
And all this is tribute to fashlonl
The sportsmen of the old regime
we're not go fastidious as to pink and
tops, nor required such q ret1nue OF
servants. Hunting was the sole In
centiye, and they had fully as much
sport and killed just about as many
foxes. even if their hunts were moi
turned out in such elaborate fashion
Nowadays, however, the master wha
ueglects to put the hunt ateld IN tne
best style fails in Office quite as muca
as if he missed giving good sport
The huntsman, two whippers'ln, ano
two second horsemen must all pe
turned out in pink and feathers, ano
the huntsman and first whip have two
good horses day; and it take'
money, and plenty OF it, to supper!
hunt on this scale. Then there Is ths
servant who goes afoot to dig out inc
fox when he has gone to earth, ano
the eight to ten dollars to the game
keepers for each find on their respec,,
tive beats. Besides which horses and
hounds have frequently to be CON
veyed by train to distant meets, wnile
there are few hunts that are not
Obliged to hire coverts to save them
from falling into the hands OF SHOOT.
inc tenants to say nothing of the care
and expense of keeping them up once
they are rented.
It is not very difficult to see where
$4,000 to $4,000 per week goes
when it is remembered that the basis
of all this sport and fashion is the
kennels and stables, with their tifty to
sixtv couple of hounds and thirty to
forty head of horses, that must be
fed and receive the very best of care
from the most capable and trust
worthy attendants. s.-Harper's Maya
zine.
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LATER NEWS.

TIE steamer Portia arrived at New York
with portion of the unlucky Cook Green
land party. She reports colliding with the
schooner Dora NJ. French, all of whose crew
was lost but one.
TIE Peoples Party Convention, at Sara
toga, N. Y, nominated q. B. Matthews, OF
Buffalo, for Governor, and sold convention
decorations at auction to raise campaign
funds.
". F. BREcKMAN, farmer of Roseman,
Oregon, shot and killed his wife and stepson,
Robert Ring. The tragedy was the out.
growth of domestic discord.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has informed the
sugar growers that he has no longer au'
thcrity to appoint bounty officials.
FOREST fires Of immense proportions have
broken out in North Africa and In the south
Of France.
MORE than 5000 deaths from cholera oc-
CURED in Russia in the last week.
In the United States Circuit Court OF Ap-
peals at Philadelphia the decision OF the
United States Circuit Court OF New Jersey
in the Observation-Disclosures infringement
case In favor Of 1ison was reversed and the
costs put on Ellison.
THE Republicans of Colorado nominated
Albert W. McIntire for Governor.
A TORNADO swept over the north end OF
Memphis, Tenn, which badly damaged the
Louisville and Nashville shops, tore up a
dozen residences, turned over bridge, AMI
injured several people. Raht Culp was
killed, Wilkes Vandall fatally hurt and
several people badly injured. Property loss
about s5o,ooo.
The Nevada Democratic State Convention
at Carson nominated General r. P. Keating
for Governor and J. E. Gignoux for Con-
gress, with full State ticket. The platform
contains an Endorsement OF President
Cleveland. 's.. .
THE Secret Service Division of the Treas
ury Department has issued circular letters
announcing two new counterfeit United
States notes; one s5 national bank note
and the other counterfeit $40 United States
silver certificate.
: GENERAL ScHoF1ELD has decided to re-
lease all Indian scouts in the army, filling
the places made vacant by regular soldiers.
HAITIAN rebels fired on President Hip
polyte's daughter, and ten Of therlngleaders
were executed.
TIE remains OF the Comte de Paris have
been deposited In the vault OF the Catholic
Church of WeYbrldge, where Louis Philippe
and other members of the Orleans family
who died in England were buried. The Due
de Orleans made formal announcement of
his claim to the French throne.
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HELMHOLTz rs DEAD.
The Eminent Physicist Succumbs to
a Stroke of Paralysis.

Stroke Of Paralysis.
Professor Herman Louis Ferdinand Helm
holtz, the celebrated psychologist and physl-
clan, died at Berlin, Germany, at the age OF
seventy-three years. Death resulted from
second stroke OF paralysis.
Herman Ludwig Ferdinand Won Helm
holtz, the celebrated German Psychologist
and natural philosopher, the most distin-
guished man of his day In his special field
of research, WAS born in Potsdam, Prussia,
on August 81, 1891. His father was on in
structor In the local gymnasium, and bis
mother, whose maiden was Caroline Penn,
came from a branch Of that family which
settled in Germany at the time OF the relfg-
ious troubles In England. He, from his
sciences. After his graduation from Ber-
lin medical school he became attached
to one OF the hospitals OF that
city. He then enlisted as IN army
surgeon. He was appointed to the chair
OF anatomy In the Academy OF Fine
Arts at Berlin in 1s4s, and remained there
until 1855, when he removed to Konigsberg
and practiced rs a professor of physiology.
From there the professor went to Heidel.
berg, lecturing on the subject Of physiology.
He was the author Of many standard
works on the physiological condi.
tions OF the Impressions of the senses.
In 1878 the Copley medal of the Royal
Society OF London was awarded to him In
recognition of his eminent services to science.
He had already been admitted to foreign
membership at the French Academy In
1883 Emperor William I issued decree by
which he was raised to "the status OF
nobility" Finally, in 1891, he was made
President ald Director of the Imperial Tech
nlcal Institute of Physics at Charlotten.
berg, foundation under the control OF
the Department Of the Interior for the ex.
perimental turthering OF exact natural in
quiry and the technics of precision. The
Government, in professional way could
confer upon him no higher honor. Helm
holtz Was arlstocratic In tastes and In ap-
unusually broad shoulders, and we'll
built figure. His face was cleanly shaven,
save for the iron gray moustache, and
he had a 6na, straight nose, and a
pair Of penetrating steel-gray eyes. He
was always recognized on the streets, even
in a crowd, by his fine carriage and figure.
He was very popular among the students
and beloved BY the German people OF all
classes. On the occasion of Helmhotz's
SEVENTEEN birthday anniversary In 1891
he received honors which few men have
won. Addresses, honorary titles and
presents were showsred upon him seem
ingly in endless procession. Every civilized
land paid its tribute to his genius. Helm
holtz came to this country last year to see
the Worlds Fair, and delivered lecture on
his discovery OF the ophthalmoscope. he
spoke in English, and the many persons who
had gathered to hear him listened with rapt
attention. Professor Helmholtz was
ranked by the scientific world as one OF the
greatest men that ever lived. His especial
gift was the application OF mathematics to
OH
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

QUEEN VICTORIA pays over $4,000 year IL
doctors fees.
SESAToRs CHANDLER and Hill are warm
personal friends. ..
THOMAS BAILEY ALDaIcH gets 5000 for a
poem Of two verses. ~
TAwH1Ao H., the Maori King, Is dead. His
death was due to influenza.
IT 1, estimated that the Emperor o! Ger
many travels about 5000 miles year.
HELEN GOULD will beautify Roxoury, N.
T.. the birthplace Of her father, BY building
lake.
DOUGLAS T11DEN, the young artist who Is
making so great q reputation rs scu ptor,
b a deaf mute.
TAx living war Governors are sorsgue, OF
Rhode Island Curtin, OF Pennsylvania, and
Oglesby, OF Illinois.
COUNT CApR1v1's organ, the Reich bote. Is
advocating the cultivation OF better relations
between France and Germany.
GENERAL HAnR1soN has hal his huir and
vhiskers so closely cropped that his inti'
mate friends scarcely recognize him.
IT was the hoast OF the late John Atkins,
OF the Rocky Mountain News, that he went
through the war without rising above tho
rank OF corporal.
AD1sPATcH aLnounces the death at Ktdy-
sart, Ireland, OF Lieutenant Hem, owner OF
the cutter Galatea. which competed for the
Americas cup In 1886.
IT is said that the Ohio Southern Railway
has the youngest railway superintendent in
Ahe word. His name is Homer I. DICK aud
he IS twenty-three years OF age.
A WAR correspondent, in the person OF
Julian Ralph, has gone out to Japan 10
gather incidents OF the Oriental contentious
Tor the benefit Of Harper's Weekly.
TIE diploma comforting the freedom OF
the university town OF Jena on Prince Bis
marck Is the thirty-frst document OF the
hind received by the ex-chancellor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26
OFFICIAL CROP REPORT.
STATISTICS FROM THE AGRI-
CULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

The September Condition Of Corn,
Wheat, Oats, Rice, Tobacco and
Apples-The Area Under Clover
Heavy Decline In the Corn Aver
age.
The report OF the statistician of the De.
partment of Agriculture for the month OF
September shows decline IN the condition
OF corn to 6s.4 from 6s.1 In the month Of
August and IS In the month Of July. This
is a decline Of 81 from the August and 91.6
from the July condition. The change is
marked In nearly oil OF the great corn
States. The present condition Is 70 In Ken
tucky, 70 in Ohio, IS IN Michigan, 80 In In
diana, IS In Illinois, 81 In Wisconsin, go In
Minnesota, 40 In Iowa. 70 In Missouri, 45 In
Kansas. Is In Nebraska. and 16 In South Da-
kota. In most of the Southern States the
condition has risen and O good crop Is GER
tain.
In addition to the unfavorable prospects
arising from the low condition Of the grow
ing crop, reports from eight States, VIZ. In
diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota, In re-
sponse to special inquiry. show that out OF
an aggregate Of 4O,s73, 984 acres planted in
der or abandoned $500, 900 acres, or SO per
cent, which is little over 20 per cent. Of
the entire area planted in the country. The
percentage of that cut up or abandoned by
States reporting 1s as follows: Indiana, .06 ;
Illinois, 10: Wisconsin, 81; Iowa, 35; Mis-
souri,, 16; Kansas, So; Nebraska, 81; South
Dakota, 81.
winter and spring varieties, when harvested,
was 1877 against 74.0 last yeaI and 85.3 In
1892. The reported conditions from the cor
States are as follows Ohio, 102 :; Michigan, 81 /;
Indiana, 1903; Illinois. 101; Wisconsin, 90 |;
Minnesota, 81 Iowa, 90 Missouri, 81; Kan
sas, SO Nebraska, 10 South Dakota, 80 North
Dakota, "a California, SO Oregon, SO Wash
ington, 81. In the East New York, SO Penn
sylvania, 81 Maryland, 9S. Virginia reports
IS; Tennessee, 7s; West Virginia, 50; Ken
lucky, 90; Texas, 90. In the principal wheat
States there has been considerable improve
ment In condition since July report. In
parts Of the wheat region the crop Is fully up
to expectations, and In other parts the yield
has exceeded anticipation.
The average condition of oats IS reported
at 77.8, against 1876 on August l, 77.7 on July
1, and 81 on June l.
The returns for rye show an average OF
SO. 8, against 80 year ago. -
The condition Of barley has risen nearly
two points during the month, the September
average standing at 71.5 against 6s.S in Au-
gust.
There Is decline in September condition
OF buckwheat Of 12H points from that OF
August, the general average being 69.2,
aginst IT'S last year.
The area under clover seed Is reported as
71.9 Of that for 1898. The condition Is given
at 6a2, which Is much below the average,
thus indicating very short crop.
The general average Of condition for rice
Is 1914.
The average condition OF apples has fallen
during last month from 40 to 40.8.
The condition Of peaches Is 21.1 potatoes,
62.4, decline Of twelve points since last
month. ..E
The condition Of tobacco Is 74.5, agatns
75.9 last month.
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THE NEWS EPIT0MIzEl
Eastern and Middle States.

THE New Hampshire Democratic State
Convention at Concord nominated Colonei
Henry o. Kent for Governor.
NOEL MA1ssoN was executed IN Pittsburg,
Penn, for the murder OF Mrs. Sophia Raes.
POLICE CAPTAIN JOHN T. STEPHENSON was
dismissed from the New York Department
for accepting bribes.
J. COLEMAN DRAYroN has begun suit IN
New Jersey for divorce from his wife, the
daughter Of the late william Astor. Hallett
Borrows Is named as correspondent.
SOME 20, 900 men have resumed work IN
the Braddock manufacturing district In
Pennsylvania.
The largest steel plate IN the world hes
been rolled at Chester, Penn.
J. 8. sHEEHAN and David Forsht were
killed and nine others wounded at LOCK
Haven, Penn, BY q collision between IN en-
CINE and a freight train. Thomas Green
and James Kane were seriously hurt.
". T. W1YsoR, a retired business man OF
BROOKLYN. shot himself to death in room In
the Astcr House, New York City, the motives
for the deed being unknown.
TIE power house and pumping station OF
the Pocantico Water Works, near TarrytoWn,
N. Y, was struck by lightning and burned.
The towns OF Tarrytown, Irvington, .Oobos
Ferry and Hastings were LETT without rum
ming water.
TIE two months drought In the Eastern
and Middle States was brought to an end by
arefreshing storm from the West. A Violent
rainstorm visited New York City and vicinity,
accompanied by thunder and Lightning.
William Smith was killed by lightning In
Newark, n. j. .-.
ARA1rRoAp wreck occurred short DIS
tance from the central shaft IN Hoosac Iun-
mel. North Adams, Mass. William Iurpeny,
of Fort Edward, N. Y, and George MlnnicR,
of Fitchburg, both brakemen, were kll,eo anu
two passengers were seriouslyln1ured.
EXTREME heat and two thunder storms
kept New Yorkers uncomfortable. There
were many prostrations.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT JAMES A. BRY'
DEN was killed by an explosion IN one OF tne
Pennsylvania Coal Company's mines In Pitts
ton, Penn.
The Lexow Committee resumed Its inves-
tigation OF the New York Police Department.
Evidence was brought out showing collusion
between detectives and pawnbrokers In :tne
handling of stolen goods. Captain Meakim
was involved in the protection OF green
goods swindlers.
MAINE went Republican by a largely IN.
creased majority. Henry B. CleaVes, the
Republican candidate for Governor, mas
plurality over his Democratic opponent, MS
managers said on the day after the election,
Of 80, 1000.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

Disease is often cured by ocean
travel.
When q person Is hysterical often
times portion of the body has abso.
lutely no feeling.
Species of snakes that are enemies
of one another in captivity will coil up
into their winter sleep in the same
bundle.
Sanctorious, an Italian physiologist,
estimates that fve-eighths of all the
solid and liquid food taken are ex-
hailed by the skin.
The liver secretes kind of animal
sugar. In the hepatic tissue this has
been found in the proportion OF two
parts in thousand.
Blind persons acquire SO great a
delicscy of touch at the tips of their
fingers that they may really be said to
see with their hands.
Lieutenant Bersier, of the French
Navy. has invented compass which
does away with a steersman, as the
compass steers the vessel itself.
Involuntary muscles are generally
pale or nearly white, and are COM
posed of cells or granules about
1-3000th part of an inch in diameter.
Professor John Milne, one of the
greatest living authorities on ea1th-
quakes, says it is not likely that they
ever result from electrical dis
turbances.
The tensile strength OF wrought iron
rods varies as the square of the di'
ameter. A one.inch rod will support
1000 pounds and a two-inch rod
$4,000 pounds.
Seasoned timber is but little liable
to decay under the influence of dry
atmosphere and will resist decomposl-
ton for an indefinite period when
kept totally submerged in water.
Berlin naturalists are interested
over the arrival in the Geological Gar
den of three Damara ostriches from
South Africa, a species said to have
never before been seen in Europe.
Maxim's semi-fying machine, or
eroplane, travelled distance OF 800
feet clear of the track provided for it,
and then, lifting the car off the track,
landed it and smashed it in field.
The scientists have decided that the
average workngman requires daily In
his food not less than tour ounces OF
proteids, two ounces of fat and
eighteen ounces of the carbohydrates
DIR. Goriansky, a Russian physician,
claims to have found that the juice OF
raw cranberries given freely, pure or
diluted with an equal part of water,
Is an excellent means of relieving
thirst and vomiting in Asiatic cholera,
Abram Barton, OF Bristol, England,
has devised submarine boat for
which he claims speed OF fifteen
knots. It is k-shaped and is pro.
PEELED by twin screws located at what
would be the fans of the duke In the
| fish.
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CRUSHED BY A REDWOOD.
Two Women, Who Waited After a
Warning, Were Killed.

A party from San Francisco, including W.
". Higginson, second officer of the steamer
Oakland, hi. wife and daughter, William
Spohn and Ed. Reed, were camped on Gar
ella River, ten miles from Point Arran, Cal.
Early in the morning they were awakened
by the cracking of large redwood tree.
The men ran, but the ladies stopped to
dress. The tree fell over both tents, killing
IIrs. Higginson and her daughter Sadie, and
breaking a leg OF both Spohn and Reed.
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A LIVELY TORNADO.
It Turns Over a Car and Kills Two
Persons.

1t Turns Over a Car and Kills Two
Persons.
A tornado at $40 p. m. struck the rear
coach of the Iron Mountain passenger train
No. AZ when 1t had reached point about a
quarter OF a mile west OF the Charles
ton (Mo.) Station, which it had left
but q lew minutes before. The train
was moving about twenty miles an hour.
The whole train, with the exception OF the
engine, was overturned. Two persons were
killed, one was PROBABLY fatally injured and
several were more or less seriously hurt.
The killed are: Fred Mcclellan, three
years old Mrs. Parmelie Dempsey, Bert
rand, Mo.
The following were the injured: A. D.
Lehming, Alto Pass, ILL.,. probably fatal
james Coyle, express messenger, bruised !
John Lawen, conductor.
The whirlwind came from the south. 1t
was not more thirty yards In width. re-
markable thing about 1t was that 1t passed
between two small wooden houses standing
on the south side OF the track. not more than
twenty yards apart and not more than thirty
yards from the track.
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MURDERERS HANGED.
Two Criminals Executed the Same
Day In New Jersey.

Day In New Jersey.
At jersey City, N. j., Bernard Altenbergeri
the murderer OF Katie Rupp, of Rome, N. Y.
was hanged at 1904 o'clock a. NJ, on the day
fixed for his execution Lawyer Salinger at
9 o'clock had applied to Judge Lippincott
for writ OF error. This was refused. At
the gallows Altenberger was pale, but cool.
At 1928 o'clock he was pronounced dead.
The body was cremated at Fresh Pond, Long
Island. Altenberger made statement, say
ing he had no idea Of killing Katie Rupp un-
til he reached Jersey City from Rome, N. Y,
with the intention Of getting married. Then,
he said, 1t occurred to him that II he got out
OF work he could not support family, and
he asked her to live with him without being
married. She refused and he shot her.
At Mount Holly, N. j., Wesley Warner was
hanged for the murder Of Lizzie Peak. The
drop fell at 1896 a. m. The crime was COM
mitted September 16, 1892, in jealous rage.
Warmers only defence was that he was very
drunk at the time.