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WARNING TO FARMERS.

Agricultural Bureau Has Something to Of.
fer as to Bogus Foreign Seeds.
WAsHINoToS, July 3.-Some interest
ing statements and words Of warning to
American farmers are given in a report
on pure seed investigations submitted to
Secretary Wilson. 1t says thousands of
pounds, probably tons, of grass and
clover seed are shipped annually into
the United States which contain all
sorts of vile weed seeds. In this way
such pests as the Russian thistle, Can.
ada thistle, wild mustard, chess, dod.
der, wild daisy, trefoil and plantain
were introduced here. Nearly every
year witnesses the advent of additional
pests of this character, brought to
America in the same manner. The
difficulties in the way Of eradicat-
ing such seeds when they are once
established in q community are well
nigh insuperable. The wind, stock
and railroads, it is said, scatter them
far and wide. A large amount of cheap
seed, it is said, is now being sold as nov.
elites at fancy prices through manipula-
ton Of the name, and the report says
that the German coffee berry, which
many seedsmen are now advertising as
q cheap substitute for coffee. is really
the common sofa bean. which can be
bought cheaply anywhere. The lack of
suitable places for impartial tests by
both the seed dealers and the buyer
have been met in Europe for nearly 30
years by the establishment of seed con-
troll stations, now numbering about 100.
and OH whose tests guarantees are based.
Experiment stations Take 1t Up.
Several experiment stations in this
country have taken this matter up. and
recently committee from them had a
conference at the agricultural depart.
ment concerning methods and appar-
atus. For three years the department
has been investigating the quality of
agricultural seeds. The testing is itself
an immense task.
Prominent seedmen, it is stated, fire.
Quently sell five or six alleged different
varieties of an article out Of the same
bin. 4 collection of $1,000 walls of seeds
from nearly ell parts of the world, has
been made a: the department to assist
in identifying the foreign seeds found
in commercial use, and the department
will thus be able to give warning against
new or dangerous pests.
The report says most Of the imported
seed could be successfully raised here,
opening new avenues Of profit to Amer.
lean husbandmen, and it particularly
points out sugar beet and hairy vetch
seed as capable Of being made an impor
| tant industry.
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Ambassadors Informed That Such IL the
Decision of the Turkish Cabinet.
LONDON, July 3.-A dispatch to The
Times from Constantinople says: Tewfik
Pasha will announce to the ambassadors
of the powers that the cabinet main-
tains the indefeasible right Of Turkey to
retain Thessaly by virtue Of conquest.
A dispatch to The Standard from
Constantinople says that Edhem Pasha,
commander.in.ch chief Of the Turkish
forces in Thessaly, has rendered his res
ignation OF command to the sultan on
the ground that under the proposed
peace conditions he win be unable to
guarantee the discipline Of the army.
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Wardner's New NewsDaDer.

JENNINGS, Mon, July 3.-A copy of
The International, the new paper at
Wardner, the new town up the river in
British Columbia, has been received
here. To take 10000 pounds Of mate.
rial. including two power presses and a
gas engine, off the boat one day and the
second after, in building without
roof, window or doors, get out q hand.
some 4.paged 7-column sheet is evidence
of enterprise in a Western mining COM
munity
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Will No Doubt Endorse 1t.

PlTTsHuRG, July 3.-The official cir.
cular ordering national strike of coal
miners in Ave states, on July 4, was re-.
ceived at the district headquarters from
Columbus, o., at 10 a. m, and copies
were at once sent out to the different
mines. Action on this circular will be
taken at the district convention of
miners in session in this city. There
seems to be no doubt but that the dele
gates will come instructed to declare q
strike
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TANGIBLE RESULTS.

Something Accomplished by the None
tary Commission in France.
PARIS, July 3.-The United States
monetary commission, headed by Sena.
tor Wolcott Of Colorado, will start for
London at the end Of the week. The
commissioners express themselves as be.
ing well satisfied with the results OF
their negotiations here and the general
outlook. There is strong belief in
this city that the commissioners have
accomplished something tangible il,
France
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MANY THOUSANDS HOMELESS.

Recent Floods in Roumania Caused Ter
rible Destitution.
LONDON, July ga dispatch to The
Daily Mail from Braila, the principal
port Of Roumania, says that 10000 in.
habitants Of Galatz, in Moldavia, are
homeless as result of recent floods.
Most of them are destitute and camping
in the streets, where they are fed by
the military. The Roumanian gun
boats are busy rescuing families still in
danger. It is estimated that no fewer
than 100 persons have been drowned.
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Depression. .despondencyand despair come
10 a women when there is any irregularity in
the performance Of the functions of her wo
manhood. Even healthy women are nerv.
Gus, irritable, cross and blue when there is
any slight arrangement Of the organs dis
tinctively feminine The whole body seems.
to be Influenced by it. The nerves are or
edge. Temper and tears come without ap
parent cause. These things show the i'm
portance Of womanly health These things
show that there is great urgent, corstap,
need of such a remedy as DR.. Pierce's Fa.
vorite Prescription. This great medicine
works directly Gu but one set Of organs in q
womans body: 1t soothes any inflamma::
ton that may be present. 1t purifies and
invigorates. 1t cures when doctors have
failed. and it does away with any necessity
of distasteful examinations and local treat.
ment. which are SO frequently insisted upon
by physicians. The "Favorite Prescrip
tion" is the preparation Of an eminent ant.
successful practitioner. 1t has been used
by Dr. Pierce in his daily practice in the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at
Buffalo, N. Y, one of the leading medical
institutions in the world. It has cured
thousands of women and relieved them Of
the pains and distress that many times leaG
directly to death or insanity. It can be
obtained at any drug store.
Every woman in America ought to have Dr.
Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser. and
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STRIKE ORDERED
Over Three Hundred Thousand
BituminOUS Coal Miners
to Quit.
Formal Ukase Issued From Unit.
ed Mine Workers Headquar-
terS at Columbus.
Differential Rates Between Penn.
sylvania and Other Sections
Responsible.

COLUMBUS, O., July 3.-A general
strike Of miners of the United Mine
Workers Of America has been ordered
for July by the national executive
board, whose Headquarters is in this
city, and also by the district presidents,
as the result Of meeting held here
June ~, 25 and 26.
The officers here says $4,000 men are
involved as proposed strikers. So far as
anything can I've learned here from of.
,icials, the call for the Pittsburg meet.
ing of miners is to decide how the strike
is to be conducted in that district. They
have to consider plans to take care Of
the women and children during the
strike. President Ratchford says this
is the best time to settle the question of
wages. as during the summer the men
can make use of their little garden plots
ia obtaining subsistence. The needs OF
clothing are not SO great as in winter.
What Il Sought to Be Gained.
The proposed scale is intended by the
miners to make work profitable to them
i'll the Pttsburg district and elsewhere.
pittsburg, as claimed. is paying "a cents
II ton, and Ohio 81. To make the diff.
.lerential what the Ohio operators claim
it ought to be, they threaten to reduce
the Ohio miners to IS cents per ton. OF
9cents below Pittsburg. The miners
propose, if possible, to raise Pittsbure
prices so as to prevent Il reduction III
Ohio to IS cents, and the possibility OF
even farther reduction here, in case
Pittsbury should keep Oh lowering as
Ohio lowered to maintain the differen
f,n1 ,f re
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ier, have closed in all of the department
governed by the wage scale.
POLICE BADLY INJURED.

Over Score of the Calcutta Force Likely
to Die.
CALCUTTA, July 3.-1n the fighting
which took place in the suburb of Chill.
pore, between the police and rioters,
many policemen were injured. A party
of "a members of the native police were
surrounded by mob and so roughly
handled that all Of them are expected to
die of the injuries they received. The
rioters suffered heavily, but they carried
off their dead and wounded.
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Semi Officially Stated That the
President Still Wants q
Commission
Whose Duty It Shall Be to Form
ulate Some Financial
'' Scheme,
And That He Will Ask Congress!
to Give Him Authority to
Name One.

WASHINGTON, July 3.-1t is selni-of.
ficially announced that the president
will send special message to congress
next week, recommending the creation
of a currency commission to consider a
revision of the monetary system Of the
United States.
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Short GO. 100 and sufcided.

BRADFORD, Pa, July 8. George
Blakely, proprietor Of job printing
Office and secretary Of the school board,
is dead, aud Miss Lillian Spatz, q
waitress in the Williamson restaurant,
is in precarious condition, the result
of laudanum, supposedly taken with
suicidal intent. Blakely was collector
of taxes for part Of the city and is
$b, 100 short in his accounts.
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ROCKHILL GOES TO GREE
Former Assistant Secretary of the I
ury Gets u Good Place.

Former Assistant Secretary Of the :
ury Gets Good Place.
WASHINGTON, July 3.-The president
has sent the following nominations to
the senate:
William Woodville Rockhill Of the
District Of Columbia, to be envoy extra.
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary
and consul general to Greece, Roumania
and Servia; Arthur S. Hardy of New
Hampshire, minister and consul general
Of the United States to Persia; Abraham
A. Smith of Illinois, consul of the
United States at Victoria, B. G.
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simmons sparring match scheduled for
July 5 at Ambrose park. He has in
structed the police not to allow the
match to take place under any circum-
stances. The park officials will not even
be allowed to begin the erection Of
platform TOR the fight.
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GREATLY EXAGGERATED.
Bannock Indian Trouble Not As Serious as
kepOrtpd.


Reported.
WASHINGTON. July 3.-The Bannock
Indian trouble in Idaho appears TO have
been greatly exaggerated by the settlers.
Dispatches received indicate that the
number of Indians off the reservation is
much less than was stated and that
there was little basis for general alarm.
Lieutenant Irwin. the agent at the Fort
Hall reservation, wired that the situa
ton was not as serious as reported.
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Fifteen Hundred Idle.

NEW KENsINaToN, Pa, July g.
Chambers glass works and the two tin
plate works at this place have shut
down pending settlement Of the wage
scale. About 1900 men are out Of work
as q result.
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Great Northern Loses $3.50.

HAxKlSsoS, n. D., July 3.-Bnrglars
broke into the Great Northern and
500 depots during the night. They
went through the safe at the Great
Northern and sccurcd $3.50, but at the
500 ONLY Is cents we're taken.
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No Chance to Spar in

No Chance to Spar In Brooklyn.
New YORK, Jaly S.-Superintendent
McKelvy Of the Brooklyn police has
eifectually blocked the Sullivan. .Wts-
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Gas Belt Factories Close,

ANDERSON. Ind. July 8.-All tin plate
works in the gas belt, particularly El.
wood, Atlanta. Gas City and Montpel.
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Japanese Minister Thinks He Has y
Been Treated Right.

Japanese Minister Thinks He Has Not
Been Treated Right.
CHICAGO, July 3.-A special to The
Times He.s!d from Washington says:
Toru Hosni, the japanese minister, is
likely to be recalled at an early date.
While officials of the japanese legation
here claim to be in ignorance Of any
such probability, well informed opinion
in state department circles inclines to
the belief that Mr.. Hoshi will ask for
his papers within short time. Tho
reasons for the minister's recall are two.
fold, not the least potent of which is
said to be the feeling Of the mikado' s
government and the minister personally
toward the United States over the
Hawaiian difficulty. The minister him.
self feels insulted because the state de.
partment did not appraise him Of the
negotiations which led to the signing OF
the treaty for the annexation Of Hawaii,
and while the japanese home govern
ment is incensed on account Of this and
what it terms a lack Of consideration OF
its rights in Hawaii in the framing OF
the treaty itself. the condition Of Jap
anese politics affords q second reason
for the minister 5 recall.
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Killed in Her Fright.

MEcKuNG, S. D., July 3.-Miss Eva
Thorson, teacher, died under strange
circumstances. She was at Vermilliol
ut summer school and last Thursday
night she was awakened by the entry OF
q man to her room by the window. The
girl started to run down stairs, but
tripped and fell the full length Of the
stairway. Injuries received FROM the
fall caused her death.
WILL ACK EOR HIS pApCPC
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ought TO read the several Chap
tiers Of the book devoted to the
reproductive physiology Of wo.
man. II is of the most vital
importance that every woman
should know about these things
and they are told in plain. sim
pie, straightforward language by
1 physician who has made Z spe'
cialty Of the diseases Of women
The book contains over 1901
pages. and q copy. paper rcorered
may be obtained absolutely JIkl
ne.eent stamps, to cover the, cost al
!, the Worlds Dispeusary Medical
daio, N. Y. II French eloee bind 4
The times., 1897-08-01
The MessIanic Trust.

1t is satisfactory to note that some few
of our contemporaries are beginning to
recognize the certain coming of the one
universal trust, as a result of combina-
tion of all the various trusts and nionup-
olies, and the absorption of the whole by
the greatest of them all the Standard Oil
Trust. The Times has been preaching the
advent of this messianic trust for months.
Now its approaching shadow is visible
even in New York.
Recently we have noted the Inhalation
of the glucose industry by the Havemeyer
monopoly, already considerably dominated,
according 10 report, by the Rockefellers.
Now we heal, by way OF the New York
journal, that the gathering in OF all the
other trusts by the great petroleum family
Is regarded as only a question OF time.
The journal believes that these enterpris-
ing citizens ate about to obtain control
Of the lead, tobacco and whisky interests,
together with a combin alton Of gas inter
ests, including Chicago Gas. THE stand
ard OIL masnates already control the busi-
ness or the country in oil, iron ore and
sugar; they are on the point of conquering
the steel and coffee industries; they own
much of the shipping of the lakes and
most of the great tourist hotels OF Florida;
they are directly Interested in several
lines of railroad, and they can dictate terms
in the matter of freight rates to the entire
transportation system of the Union,'' etc.
All right When the hydra becomes
unacceptable. it viii be all the easier to
cut off one head, when the people come
to their own again, under restored
system of bimetaIlism, competition, and,
hence, prosperity.
The times., 1897-08-01

One of the interesting articles, as it is
the leading article, of the August Cen tury,is
1.-THE Lordly Hudson by Clarence Cook,
and the particularly delightful feature
of it is the work OF the illustrator, A.
Castaigne. Tho individual and peculiar
style Of this artist Is one which cannot
be forgotten. 1t has q strength and free
don which are refreshing.
A long article on 1.-The Alaska Trip"
by John Muir, author of ''The Mountains
of California" is of especial interest Just
at present. For those who are not ready
to go to Alaska this summer there is a vision
of another delightful summer trip in "a
Day In Norway" by Horace Scudder, and
Another Day in Norway" by that Ameri-
canized Scan dinavlan, Hjalmar Hjorth
Boy esen. A good accompaniment for the sc
is the Jenny Lind literature which follows,
with two fine portraits of the great singer
This number might be fifty called
travel number, for there are no less than
eight articles which deal with foreign
lands, and which will have their interest
to those who travel forth strange countries
for 20 see. Besides Alaska and Norway,
there are ''Up the Matte rhorn In Boat"
down to Jaya. IA Journey in Thessaly,n
London at Play the Hudson River
article, and a sonnet on the Caribbean
Sea. The Illustrations throughout are un-
usually fine.
The times., 1897-08-01
TARIFF ACTS COMPARED.
Experts Figure on the Dingiey and
the Wilson Laws.

Experts OF the Ways and Means Com
mittee OF the House yesterday completed
portion OF the comparison between the
Dingley and the old law Their figures
show that the average ad valorem or Ii the
schedules un der the Wilson act claw of 'S4)
was 4O.lo per cent The average under the
Diugiey law il 54.66 per cent The aver
ages are figured out upon the basis or the
value OF importations In various classes In
1896
The averages of the important schedules
show the following comparisons:
The chemical schedule is 3o.67 per cent
for the new law as against 2S.53 per cent
under the Wilson law. The average equiv
alcnt ad valorem of the wool schedule Is
1854 per cent, against ~ 62 under the VIII
son law, the silk schedules 53.4l per cent,
against &c 90 under the Wilson law. The
new earthenw are and glassware schedule
is 52.47 per cent, against 30 per cent under
the Wilson law. The metal schedule is
1924 per cent. against 3S11 under the
Wilson law. The wood schedule has an
average rate of 17.49 per cent, against
2476 unccr the Wilson law.
The equivalent al vaiorem or rate under
the new sugar schedule is given at 74.16,
against 1924 per cent under the Wilson
law Tobacco is 121 80 per cent against
1896 under the Wilson law. Agricultural
products average 3e.42 per cent, against
% Al under the Wilson law. Spirits, wines,
etc. average 6S.S3 per cent, against 81 .54
under the Wilson law. Cotton manufac-
lures average 80 33 per cent, against 1915
under the Wilson law.
The duties expected TO be collected
under the new law in the more important
schedules have been figured out, and show
that the duties from the chemical schedule
in 1895 amounted to S5.619,239 The
estimate Under the new law is SS,423,0S4.
Fart henware, etc, schedule in 1896,
SS,OO6,839; new law, S12 900, 4S. Metal
schedule, S13,196,416 this year, ST.
4S7 ,4S2 Wood schedule. S6o5,749 in
1886; this year, S2,439,536. Sugar pro-
dUced $50, ,910,7o3 in 1896; estimate for
the new law, S54,207 ,642. In 1895 the
tobacco schedule produced revenue to the
amount of S14,S59,117; the estimate for
this year is $4,000 ,0S0. Agricultural
products in 1896, S7,727, ,614; new law,
S14,597,eO1. In 1896, spirits, etc, pro-
duced revenue to the amount of 6,935.64S;
new law SS,160,626. Cotton manufac-
lures, 50 9.3I1,7O1 in 1896; new law,
$11,134,T64
The comparisons in detail have not
been completed, but are of interest chiefly
TO the trades dealing in the articles enum-
Grated
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The klondike Outrage.

In our evening edition OF yesterday we
called attention to the unbearable outrage
attempted 10 be put upon us by Canada
in our Alaskan territory, and, we have
reason to fear, with every prospect of
success. In region which, let us con-
cede for the sake OF argument only, is
dehatable ground between the United States
and a British dependency, we allow the
Canadian government to seize and oc-
cupy the ground without notice, and
to inflict harassments, pains and pen
alties upon our citizen miners without
lifting Il hand for their protection, for the
honor of the American nation, or for the
Integrity of its soil. This is infany incon-
ceivahle.
According to the best maps and aliases
accessible 20 the public, the Tron-dyk or
Kondik River, now called "Klondike,'' is
altogether within the American boundary.
Whether iU be so or not. the officials of
the Interior Department admit that, on
settlement OF the boundary question, the
gold fields may be found to be entirely on
the American side. From what The Times
nized as our territory from the time Of
the Russian cession until recent years,
when Canada assumed to change the line
by dInt Of india ink and pen in the sur
veyor generals office at Ottawa
Now we are In the presence of grave
emergency, and OF national insult,
amounting to specific and positive act
of war on the part OF the Canadian au-
thorities. They send a military expedi-
tton OF country some of which positively
and all OF it probably is within the bouE-
daries of the United States. They not
only do that, but they propose, and, with
out much doubt under existing circum-
stonces VIII accomplish, the subjugation
and grinding civil administration Of all
that region.
They propose to collect duties upon the
outfits OF American miners entering what
reasonably may be assumed to be, and
what we are satisfied is, American ter
ritory. Then they have issued orders to
their military police to collect SO in ad-
vance for the registry of mining claims;
500 Il year assessment for holding them,
and 10 and 20 per cent royalty on their
gross output. according to yield, under
penalty of confiscation. Yesterday it was
reported from Ottawa that they would
reserve every alternate claim for the ben
eft of the Canadian government. and
that trespass on these reserved claims
would be punished by 1.-The cancellation of
the trespasser's own claim, disability
from registering any other and election
from the country"
In the face of all this insolence and out
rage, SO far a we can see, the Government
The times., 1897-08-01

What American prisoners In Spanish
dungeons may be suffering may be sur
missed from the following, quoted from
a Liverpool press dispatch of Friday.
1t was dated July 20 and said: "a band
OF anarchists exiled from Spain arrived
here today on their way to London. Sew
eral were interviewed and related their
experiences in Spanish prisons. They said
that they had been fed upon salt fish
and had been deprived of water for eight
days at time. The prison authorities
promised to give them water il they would
make confession. owing to this treat
nent one of their number went mad and
was shot down In his cell. Others We're
branded with hot irons, had their nails
pulled out and were tortured in other
ways"