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Washington.

DURING August our exports OF bread stufHs
amounted to $40, ,851 1886, against S22, $50, ,34S
year ago, and for the eight months ended
August last to SS5, ,S4s, III, against S129. $751;
102 for the corresponding period OF 1898.
The Secretary OF the Treasury decided
that 1t Is impractlcable to attempt to move
the Administration Building OF the Worlds
Fair In Chicago to Atlanta, Ga, whers the
Cotton States International Exposition Is to
be held. He has therefore closed the con-
tract with the Chicago Wrecking Company
for the sale Of the building tor $4,000.
A FAIRLY clear sky rendered dlscernible to
those interested the partial eclipse of the
moon. The rather ordinary spectacle, as
Economically speaking, was not deemed Of
sufficient interest to the official savants at
the Naval Observatory at Washington to re-
quire any extra telescope views OF the lunar
conditions, and, as consequence. no obser-
vations were made at that institution.
A. TOUCHING and pathetic case OF destttu.
ton has coms to light q: Washington In
President Tyler and the first male infant
born In the White House, has been found
Lying In an attic IN the outskirts OF the city,
suffering for the necessities Of life. with an
invalid wife and little baby dependent
upon him.
THOMAS J. TAYLOR, q young white man,
crazed by jealousy, shot and killed his
handsome young wife at Washington. Tay-
lor afterward attempted to shoot himself,
but bis mortally wounded wife, crying out
that she was not hurt, diverted his aim, and
he only inflicted flesh wound on himself.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has accepted an In.
vitation to deliver an address on the life and
character OF Robert Morris, at Batavia, N.
T., on October 13, the occasion being the
dedication Of the building so long associated
With the life Of the Revolutionary patriot.
- LIEUTENANT WILMER. the naval officer in
charge at the Carnegie armor mill during
the perpetration Of the armor plate frauds,
has been superseded by Commander Curtis.
THEsE was q general shake-up OF ains
military posts and all the artillery on
Governors Island, New York, was ordered
to DaNd's Island.
SECRETARY GRESHAM received cablegram
from Consular Agent Alfred Cooper. at La
Libertad, announcing the death OF Consul
General Alexander L. Pollock, at salvador,
from yellow fever. He was from Utah.
SECRETARY CARLISLE demanded the i'm
meiiate resignation OF jeremiah O'Rourke.
OF Newark, y. j., Supervising Architect OF
the Treasury Department
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MURDERER SHOT.

Six Rife Balls In His Breast From
the Guns Of the ExecutIoners.
=, Enoch Davis, the wife murderer, died at
10.45s- m, at Lehi Junction, Utah, with six
rife balls In his breast. About thirty off,
GERS and reporters were present at the exc
cutio1, but no minister.
At 1910 he was PLACED IN chair with
plank at Ii back. The penitenitiary doctor
pinned prescription blank with black
mark ovei his heart. Liquor was given to
Davis and he was strapped down. He pro-
tested, rs he said he wanted the sharpshoot-
ers out in plail sight instead Of In the tent
as they were, and he said he did not want to
die ''like an Indian"
At 1913 the Msrshalcrfed: '"MaSe ready,
take aim, fire."
Six shots rang out and Davis moved
slightly, and at 1915 gasped family. The
doctor said It was only contraction of the
muscles. Death was practically instantane-
ous. -Four balls pierced the paper, two at
the side, and one allpierced the black mark.
Davis killed his wife on June 5, 1892
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BRECKENRIDGE VS.. OWENS.
An Exciting Primary Election in tho
Blue Grass Region.

A Adispatch from Lexington, Ky.. on the
day after the Democratic primary election
said "The women OF the Blue Grass coun.
try nay sing song of triumph. They have
fought against Colonel BrecknridHe, ana
they have won."
VI. C. Owens has been chosen by the Dem
ocratic primaries to run as the party nomt-
nee for Congress in the November elections
instead OF ". C. P. Breckinridge. His plu-
rality over Breckenridge and Mr.. Settle was
estimated at about 400, though later returns
seemed to Indicate that Breckenridge was
beaten by only 140 votes.
Runors were atoar that the BrecAnridge
managers might attempt, through the Coun-
ty Chair nen in the district, to make aitera'
tions in the returns rom certain precincts ID
Henry, Owens and Woodford Counties SUM-
cient to overcome Mr.. Owens's slight pIu-
rality.
The contest proved the most exciting and
interesting ever waged in the State, and
Kentuckians are surprised that more blood
was not shed. It Is now considered that Mr.
Settles race was q mistake, and that II he
had remained off the track It would have
benefited Colonel BrecSinridge. kentuck-
ians all along have said that Mr. Settle was
running inthe interest OF Colonel Breckin-
ridge, but he refused to withdraw from the
contest, and said all along that he expected
to win.
The women who took part IN the move
ment, or rather who led the opposition to
Breckinridge. are jubilaat over the returns,
and special thanks offerings were made In
the churches on the day after the election.
The women held prayer meeting just be-
fore noon on the day Of the primaries In
which numerous prayers were offered for
the guidance OF the people in their voting:
Colonel Breckinridgeg friends asserted
that he was defeated at the Kentucky
primaries BY fraud. and contemplated con-
testing the nomination.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

K1Na LEOPOLD, Of Belgium, rides bicycle.
JUSTICES BREWER, Brown and shiras are
Yale graduates.
Of Germany, are learning to ride bicycles.
SENATOR DANIEL, of Virginia, Is figuring
as writer OF short stories for young people.
TIE Crown Prince, Frederick OF Denmark,
has celebrated his silver wedding. he Il
aity-one.
AUaUsrrH DAILY, Of New YORK City, has
Just completed his fpst quarter Of century
Of theatrical management.
SENATOR HILL, OF New York, uses neither
tobacco nor liquor. and Is said to be n
magnificent physical condition.
GENERAL COUNSEL. BAXTER, OF the Louis
Vile and Nashville Railroad Company, re-
ceives for his services $40, 900 year.
BARNEY LANerRY, the Democratic candi-
date for Secretary OF State in Kansas, owns
ranch Of 13, 900 acres In Chase County.
SENATOR BR1cE, OF Ohio, some time ago
walled up the front door In his house In
Washington 80 as to have nothing but a
carriage entrance.
De. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES fs daily
engaged In debating his "Recollecttons" to
bis secretary, but they are not to be pub
llshed until AFTER his death.
/ CONGRESSMAN BLACK, OF Georgia, enjoys
tho distinction OF being the only member
who never missed roll-call in the House of
Representatives last session.
PROMINENT Hebrew residents OF New York
are preparing for the erection OF bronzs
statue to the memory OF the late Jesse
seligman, the banker and philanthroplst.
Rev. Ds. F. E. CLARK, founder Of the
Christian Endeavor Society, has gone to
Europe for rest. While thers he will intro
duce the society into Germany, Denmark
and Scandinavia.
EMpERoR WILLIAM, OF Germany, uses a
rowing apparatus daily in his rooms to
timber up and harden his muscles. 1t was
constructed especially for him by Berlin
! ! physician. he finds it OF great benefit to his
health.
SENATOR GoRMAN, OF Maryland, is a man
OF frugal habits but his expenditure OF cash
Is large. How large his fortune Is nobody
knows, but q few years ago he received
$3.50 900 for some property near Cunber.
land, Md.
THOMAS MAST Is to lecture In London on
American Political Notables, and will Illus
trate his remarks with lightning sketches.
ADMIRAL TING, commander of the vanish
Ing Pel-Yang fleet, OF China, has been de.
prlved of his peacock feather for cowardice
and incapacity.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has been student
OF literature all his life. His reading covers
very wide range and he Is very fond of the
English novelists. he prefers Dickens to
Thackeray and is . great admirer OF Walter
Scott. his favorlte English poets are not
English, Burns being a Scotchman and
Moore an Irlshman.
REPRESENTATIVE HOLMAN, OF Indiana, II
he lives to serve out the new term for whicS
he has been nominated, will beat the Con-
gressional record. No man has yet served
thirty years In the House OF Representa-.
tives, although two members, both from
Philadelphia, came near it-Judge Kelly.
who was serving his thirtieth year when he
died, and Mr.. O'Neill, who had served twen-
ty.nine.
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LATER NEWS.

, GOVERNOR ROSWELL P. FLOWER, In state
ment, announced that he would not be
/ candidate for the Democratic Gubernatorial
nomination In New York. Mr.. sheehan, In
letter, said he would not be candidate fol
| Lieutenant Governor.
TIE New York Republican State Conven-
tion at Saratoga nominated Levi P. Morton
for Governor, Charles T. hxton for Lieu.
nant-Governor, and Albert Haight fol
Judge Of the Court Of Appeals.
Foua train robbers who stopped the Den
yer and Utah express on the Santa Fe Road
were shot at by an armed force. One rob
ber, who slightly wounded the engineer, was
himself MORALLY wounded, and, with con-
federate, was subsequently arrested.
The Dutch have captured three forts IN
Lombok, killing many Of the natives.
TIE Emperor Of China has deprived Vice.
roy Ii Hung Chang Of his three-eyed pea
cock feather, and 1t Is reported that the VI
ceroy has been deposed and has committed
suicide.
TEE Nicaraguan Government officially
denies that there Is danger Of q revolution
In that country, and announces that the
plotters have been frustrated and their
eaders arrested.
The Connecticut Republicans met at
Hartford and made the following nomina-
tions For Governor-O. Vincent Coffin, OF
MIdd!etown. For Lieutenant Governor
Lorrin A. Cooke, OF Barkhampsted. For
Secretary of state-Wllliam @. Mowry. Of
Norwich. For Treasurer-George W. Hodge,
OF Windsor. For Comptroller-Bsnjamin P.
Mead, OF New Canaan.
FIVE and eighteen one -hundredths inches
Of rain fell In New York City between
o'clock In the morning and 8 o'clock In the
evening.
DANIEL MULLASE, seventeen years old, OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, was shocked to death by
selling two iron railinss, charged by defec-
tive electric wires.
THE Democrats OF South Carolina met In
convention. John Gary Evans was nomin-
ated for Governor without opposition, Tim
norman for Lieutenant Governor, Buchanan
for Attorney-General and Bates for State
Treasurer.
TIE Ohio Democratic Convention adopted
resolution calling tor free silver, at a ratio
Of 16 to {; the friends and foes of Senator
Brice fought drawn battle iE the conven-
tion.
A11x trotted mile In :G3I at Galesburg,
ILL.,, lowering the worlds record quarter Of
q second.
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The story of the expedition is very thrill
in2. The first incident OF note was the
birth Of Mrs. Peary's baby, on September
n, 1898, a month after the Falcon left last
rear. The baby, Marie Ahnigito Peary,
same home safe with her mother.
During the month Of October last frightful
Storms swept over Falcon Harbor, smashing
the naphtha launch and washing away large
quantities OF oil intended for use for Hum
hating and heating purposes. ..
The various scientific observations were
pursued all winter. The meteorological OBJ
Servations were most successful. These were
laken by Mr.. Baldwin. On March last the
main expedition started across Greenland to
Independence Bay, the furthest point north
reached by Lieutenant Peary on his previous
Sourney. rs. .-.t
> The eight men, Lieutenant Peary, Entire
Kin, Astrup, DR.. Vincent, Lee, Davidson.
Baldwin and Clarke, with twelve sledges
and ninety-two dogs, met with frghtful
weather almost from the time OF starting.
After q week DR.. Vincent was so used
pp that he had to return. The storms
reached their worst point during
the equinoctial gales on March
20. The party was then In camp about fifty
miles from Anniversary Lodge, In q tempo
rary house at the head OF Bowdoin Bay.
The thermometer dropped to ffty-ave and
sixty degrees below zero, and remained 30
torabout two days, while gale blowing
sbopeffty miles an hour buffeted the party.
Davidson and Lee were both badly FROST
bitten, and Astrup, the Norwegian, Leuten-
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DEATH IN FLAMES.
SIX Lives Lost at Fire In Washing.
ton.


ton.
An alarm at noon called the Washington
Fire Department to Massachusetts, avenue
and z street, where fire had been dicovered
IN the mattress factory OF stumpth d
Brothers. This was soon followed BY q
general alarm, and In q short time all
the engines In the city were at
the scene, but 80 quickly did the flames
spread that the employees on the fourth and
fifth floors were obliged to fly tc the roof
and Jump fortheir lives before the trucks ar
rived. Four men jumped, one OF them,
James E. Vaughn, sustaining fractures OF
both legs and fatal internal injuries. The
other three escaped with more or less severe
injuries, but all will recover. !,
Sorapid and complete was the work OF
the flames, that In less than half an hour
from the time Of their discovery the greater
part Of the four walls had fallen In. At 8
o'clock the work Of searching for the bodies
Of those who were known to have been In
the building and not accounted for was be-
gun. so far as could be learned the missing
ones were Henry Fowler, Philip Ackerman,
Robert Reltzel, William Tennyson, William
Ashe, boy, and IN engineer, name un-
known.
The searchers soon found three bodies,
close together, about fifteen feet from the &
street entrance, cbarred beyond hope OF rec
ognition. At $50 o'clock the searchers
found another body within few feet OF the
engine on the ground floor.
The fire, besides destroying the Stumph
building, consumed the Woodruff building,
q factory where all the Government files
are made, and the falling walls CT these
buildings crushed Hall & Cammack's furni.
ture house, filed Benner's marble yard
and injured the Homeopathic Dispen.
sary building, on the Massachusetts, avenue
side. On the z street side, Ofenstein's
horseshoeing establishment, an oyster house
and building occupied By gospel mission
and the Horse and Cattle Food Company
were demolished. The loss will probably be
about $4,000.
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TIE LABOR WORLD
MAcH1s1srs have $50 lodges.
THERE are 5000 Union bakers
BosVox has. sixty-ave Unions.
r-r- n-o Ien hn.ho.ss TTDton4

THERE are 5000 Union bakers.
BosToS hal. si1ty-ave Unions.
THERE are 160 BARRIERS Unions.
CHICAGO has 1900 Union teamsters.
OmAHA has Polish Federation OF Labor.
NASHVILLE has colored ;barber's Union.
LOUISIANA fs to have an Arbitration Board.
CHICAGO painters get s21f cents an hour.
OMAHA QIeb. } city employees have Union.
TENNESSEE Is to have State Labor Con-
gress. '..
DETROIT (Mlch.) Union brooms are Ia
beled.
BRUSSELS, Belgium, makes 100000 hats
daily. -.
San Francisco Union carpenters get s2.25
day.
FEMALE farm laborers are numerous IN
France.
KANSAS c1rY CMo.) garment workers have
Union. . ... -.. &c.,.
BosroN Chinese laundrymen have fixed
scale Of prices.
SAN Francisco goldsudths get twenty-five
cents an hour.
AP1rrsBuaa restauraIlteur says girl wait
CTS are failure.
KANSAS CrrY CMo.) packing house Unions
have omalgamated.
THE second Wednesday in October Is Eight
Hour Day In New Zealand.
The municipality of Klinsenburs, Ger
many, runs the local factories.
A HAMMOND Nnd.) butcher dressed q beet
In six minutes and twenty seconds.
Rev. DR. PENTEcosT, OF London. has 800
domestic servants In his congregation.
FARMERS on horseback were feature Of
the Nashville Glenn Labor Day parade.
TIE English AmaIgamated Society OF En-
gineers has o yearly income OF 81, ,o7S,0O0.
A LONDON gas company distributed $780,
COO Of its profits for year among Its hands.
WASHINGTON Cd. C.) plate printers wore
81 bill as badge In the Labor Day parade.
THREE clergymen made addresses at the
Binghamton On. Y.) Labor Day demonstra,.
ton.
A NASHVILLE athletic club occupied float
On Labor Day and gave continuous per-
Torrance. ".e :. ,..
ITALIANS are deserting California. Many
are going home and not few have embarked
for Africa.
THERE are 1000 people In Paris who are
employed In the preparation Of human hair
for the market.
TIE trade unions congress at Norwich,
England, resolved to demand that the Gov
ernmenr prevent the landing Of destitute
aliens.
TEE Marquis Of Eorne is syfnpathizer
with strikes where the men have reason
able complaint. He has often been known
to contribute bis mite to strike fund.
OUTRAaEs by unionist sheep-shearers are
causing much concern In Brisbane, Aus
tralia. Since the beginning Of the month
five large wool sheds have been burned.
JOIN A. HowAnp, Democratic candidate
for Congress In the Wheeling (W. Va.) dis
trict, began his Life as glassblower and de-
voted bis evenings'to study In commercial
college.
TIE. petition OF the collar. shirt and cuff
operatives. 10000 In number, recently pre-
sented to CONGRESS, have been bound in one
mammoth book, 72x4s inches, weighing 392
pounds. It Is said that when the book Is
open boy OF twelve years OF age can easily
crawi through the back.
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A New Giraffe.

The new giraffe, the skin OF which
has been carefully secured and brought
TO England, is distinguished by COM
plete and whole body coloring of rich,
bright chestnut, scarcely separable by
very fine, almost invisible, lines of
creamy white of hexagonal and sexa-
gonal shape. In the South African
species, as indeed in the giraffe found
in the Soudan regions of North Africa,
which is indistinguishable from its
South African cousin, the markings
are widely and clearly defined; and
comparison at once shows how COM,
pletely the new Smaliland variety diff
fers from any form hitherto found.
At short distance the new giraffe
must appear as entirely of one color.
Every hunter of giraffes in South
Africa is well aware how, even at con-
siderable distances, the striking mot
things of the camelopard are visible to
the eye. In other characteristics, such
as shape and confirmation, the new
giraffe seems to differ little from the
old; but the extraordinary difference
in marking and distribution of color
ing arc at all events sufficient to war
rant the establishment bv biologists
of new variety-perhaps even a new
species.
Major Wood and his party seem to
have sighted at least seven diferent
specimens of this new giraffe; but,
until further skins and complets
skeleton are brought home, the ar.
thorities of the Geological Society and
the Natural History Museum will probs
ably wait before assigning an exact
title to this interesting form.
Girafes have long been impoxted
from Northeast Africa-chieay from
the Soudan region-and skins have
been brought home by hunters from
South Africa and the interior. The
mottled hides of these creatures are
well known. 1t is strange, indeed, to
have waited so far into the nineteenth
century before discovering this new
and singularly marked variety.-Sat'
urday Review.
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Foreign.

EXPLORATIONS OF American scientists near
Babvon reveal antiquities OF ten centuries
hitherto u1dsclosed
TIE International Peace Congress opened
at Perugia.
ALL Southern Korea Is reported to have
risen against the Japanese.
ANOTHER transatlantic record has been
made BIZ tho Cunarl liner Lucania, which
has reduced the eastward passage from New
Yolk to Queenstown by over two hours.
A TERRIFIC hurricane passed over the
southwest coast OF Spain, wreckine many
small vessels. The town OF Gotta was
partly destroyed by the storm.
TIE President Of Nicaragua has pardoned
political prisoners. among those thus re.
leased being John Taylor. Clay Ingram and
other Americans connected with the
Mosquito uprising.
Two battles have been fought In Korea, IN
one OF which the. japanese advance guard
was defeated by Koreans, and in the other
the japanese captured Chinese fortress.
TIE relations between France and Eng
land have become strained on account OF the
French mission to annex Madagascar.
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4 Monkey That Talks.

John d'AIma of Havana, Cuba,
noted trainer of wild animals, is at the
Palace. He has travelled very extern
sively, and has had over sixteen years
experience in educating all kinds OF
animals, from the ant-eater to lions
and tigers. Monkeys, however, are his
specially. Hehas big Javanese mon
KEY with him as travelling companion
and says it has almost as much lntell-
gence as human being.
"I have followed with the closest
interest the discoveries of Professor
Garner with his photographic expert
ments in the African woods" said
Mr.. d'Alma, "and it is apparent that
monkeys have a language which they
understand. I hsve found that out
myself. However, I have also learned
that they communicate their ideas as
much by the expression of the eyes
and face as by what may be termed
their crude words. There is no doubt
that monkeys instantly understand
each other in this way.
II look for very important develop
ments in philolog cal research with
these forms of life in a few years.
Professor Garner has had bad luck
with the specimens which he brought
from Africa for study. OF five or six
there were two chimpanzees. These
have all died since his arrival four or
FIVE months ago."
As for the rudim .ntary intelligence
of the monkey family being sufficient
to enable us before long to understand
what they are talking about, and what
they think of US, he has no doubt at
all.
'T have, like Garner" he said.
"studied their words. Plenty OF them
can say yes and no, after little teach
ing, and understand both fully. Their
other words, which to inexperienced
persons ere meaningless, are to those
familiar with them perfectly intelligi-
BILE. Ere long we shall know IN q
complete way what animals, at least
such animals, are thinking about
San Francisco Examiner
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NEW COUNTERFEIT BILLS.
A Five Dollar Note and Ten Dollar
Silver Certificate.

The Secret Service Division OF the United
States Treasury Department has issued cir
cular letters, announcing two new counter.
felt United States notes, one a s5 National
bank note and the other q counterfeit S10
United States silver certificate.
The National bank counterfeit Is on the
Fifth National Bank. Of Cincinnati, Ohio,
check letter A, series OF 1892, and Is calcu-
lated to deceive those who do not give money
careful scrutiny.
1886, check letter A, and Is q poorly executed
photo-etched production. Much Of the word.
Ing Is indecipherable and the face is blurred,
while the shading around the letter Is In
solid black, instead of fine lines, and the
note should be detected at O glance.
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HON0RING FORT M'HENRY.
Eighty Years Ago 1t Was Bombarded
by the British.

One hundred years ago Fort McHerry be.
cane the property OF the United States. It
Is on Milestone Point, near Baltimore, Md,
and had been owned by the State from ITS.
Il was not the scene OF any conflict in tho
Revolutionary War, but became celebrated
In the second war with Great Britain.
Eighty years ago was fought the battle OF
North Point. As part Of this battle the fort
wIthstood terrific bombardment BY the
British vessels.
On the anniversary day these events were
Jointly celebrated In song and story. The
old fort resounded with the strains Of Keys
immortal "Star spangled Banner" inspired
by the forts defense, while over the rum.
parts waved Old Glory, greeted BY voleys OF
musketry and chorus OF voices.
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A JAPANESE corps from Genisn ENGAGED
and routed the enemy at Sing -Chuen, Korea,
and the Japanese advancing army engaged
and routed the enemy at Chuen2-Chwa. The
Chinese retreated to Vingian. Heavy losses
are reported on both sides.
TIE strike Of the Scotch miners has col.
lapsed. Ten thousand miners descended
Into the pits and the pickets who had been
stationed about the works we're withdrawn.