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SEALING TROUBLES. The Gravity of the Situation Causes Congress to Ask for Information -The British Reinforcements in the Pacific. WASHINGTON, July several months the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House has been engaged in a discussion of various phases of the Behring sea sealing matter. There has been little communication between the committee and the State Department with relation to the affair, though Chairman Hitt of Illinois is a close personal friend of Secretary Blaine. The negotiations have been regarded as of and confidential a character that Secretary Blaine has preferred not to inform a greater number of persons than absolutely necossary of the progress made.

Tuesday Chairman Hitt called the Foreign Affairs Committee together, and agreed to report to the House at once a resolution calling upon the President to send to the House all the correspondence on subject of sea question that might properly be made public. Mr. Ilitt hurried into the House as the hands of the clock pointed to 4:45, and in the turmoil that preceded the adjournment he was unable to present his resolution. Yesterday the resolution was presented to the House and adopted. Speaking of the matter, Mr.

Hitt said: "It is possible that all the correspondence between Great Britain and United States will Hot be sent to the House, as the resolution is so drawn that the President may, at his discretion, omit such part as in his judgment should remain confidential." Representative McCreary, of Kentucky, the principal Democratic memof the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has devoted a great deal of attention to the Behring sea dispute. In speaking of the resolution, Mr. MoCreary said: it is an exaggeration to say that we are threatened with war, it is nevertheless a fact that an unusually large British fleet is being assembled in the North Pacific. There already two war vessels lying off are, Esquimault-the Amphion and the Champion. I see by the telegraph reports that the War Sprite, Admiral Holtham's flagship, is daily expected to arrive there, accompanied by three other war vessels carrying in the aggregate thirty-six guns.

We are also told that two British torpedo boats have crossed the Atlantic--the first of their class to make re the trip. What do all these preparations mean? Congress should not proceed in the dark on such all important subject. We should know just what has been done, and what it is expected may be done. In other words Congress should have all the information obtainable on this matter." WHAT PAUNCEFOTE (SAYS. New YORK, July World has the following from Washington in regard to the Behring sea complications: "Sir Julian Pauncefote was seen by the World correspondent yesterday.

He repeated the diplomatic denial which he made Monday night, but said that he preferred to add nothing to it which might lead to friction or be misconstrued. He added, however: "There is no doubt that our in the North Pacific are there to protect the British flag and our CLINTON B. FISK DEAD. The V.ell Known Temperance Advocate and Prohibition Nominee at Rest. New YORK, July Clinton B.

Fisk died at his residence, No. 175 West Fifth street, this city, at 10:30 o'clock yesterday, in the sixty-second year of his age. The funeral services will be hold at the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church on Friday three o'clock. The burial will be held at his old home, Coldwater, Saturday. Clinton Bowen Fisk was born in York, Livingston County, N.

December 8, 1828 His parents removed to Michigan in his infancy, After a successful career 19 Inerchant, miller and banker in Michigan he reanoved to St. Louis in 1839. Early in the war he became Colonel of the Thirty-thi. Mis. souri regiment in the Union army and was promoted to be Brigadier-General in 1862 and breveted Major -General of Volunteers An 18:5.

After the war he was assistant commissioner under General 0. 0. Howard in the management of the Freedman's Bureau in Kentucky and Tennessee. He afterward removed to New Jersey. He actively aided in establishing Fisk University, Nashville, in 1865, and it was named from him.

He had been identified with its educational and financial interests and was president of its board of trustees. He was also a trustee of Dickinson Col'eze or Drew ological Seminary and ais of Albion Col. lege, Michigan. He was a trustee of the American Miss onary Association and member of the book co nmittee of the M. Ic.

Church. He had rendered conspicuous ser. vices to Methodism in his efforts toward a reunion of the Northern and Southern I ranches of the Church and had always been selected to act as delegate to the general conferences of that denomination since the war. He had been actively identitied with the temperance movement and was the Prohibition candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1886 and in 1888 he was nominated for President by the Peohibition party and polled the largest vote ever obtained by a National candidate of that party. During the past few years he was actively engaged in building up the material interests of the "New South." Ile had heavy interests in pine lands and mines in Tennessee and Georgia and was considered very wealthy.

ile had been president of the Board of Indian Commissioners since 1874. Seven Hundred Lives Lost. LONDON, July 1 terrific cyclone has prevailed at Muscat, Arabia, and in the adjacent country. Great damage was done in the city and in the surrounding country. Many houses in Muscat and on the plantations, were demolished.

The loss of life was appalling. Reports thus far received show that over 700 persons were killed. Five Killed. BIRMINGHAM, July of orders caused a collision between a freight and passenger train on the Louisville Nashville railroad eight miles south of this city at six o'clock yesterday morning. Five people were instantly killed and a sixth fatally injured.

The killed are Engineers John Green and John Webb, of this city, colored Firemen Jim Armstead and Bob Wilson and a white pumpman named Parr. Ben Swope, colored, an extra fireman, was fatally injured. None of the passengers were killed and so far as can be learned none were seriously injured. Fatal Railroad Collision. MEMPILIS, July A serious accident occurred yesterday afternoon at 6:30 o'clock at Sibley, four miles west of Memphis, the outgoing passenger train of the Memphis Little Rock being crashed into by a freight train of the Kansas City railroad.

One coach was demolished, a sleeper knocked off the track, a baggage car wrecked and an engine ditched. Four persons, three men and one woman, were killed, all negroes. A dozen others were injured, some of them so seriously that tbey will probably die, SIX CONVICTED. Verdict in the No-Man's-Land Murder -Six of the Murderers of Sheriff Cross and Five of the Defendants Acquitted Scenes in Court. Paris, July morning the jurors in the famous Cross case came into the United States Court room and announced that they had agreed on verdict.

There was a moment of suspense, after which the foreman handed the judge the verdict, which he passed to the clerk, who read: "We, the jury, would respectfully represent to your henorable bourt, that we find C. 18. Cook, 0. J. Cook.

Chamberlain, Oyrus Freede, Lawronde and John d. Jackson guilty of murder as charged in the indictment. We find William O'Connor, A. M. Donald, Smith Grubbs, J.

W. Calvert and John A. Rutter net guilty, AB to Ed Bowden We tgree it was a mistrial," The verdict what expected, though the features of some of the doomed men seemed lightened. The judge directed that the convicted. be returned to all and that those who were acquitted be set at liberty.

a dress Then the William court. His O'Connor face was arose livid to with adrage. As he proceeded it Was evident that he wanted Excoriate the prosecution, but Judge Bryant stopped him and toid him that he was satisfied that every man connected with the case had done his full duty. Friends of the defendants then went on the streets and indulged, in a great deal of wild talk vigorously de. nounced Texas juries.

They were particularly angry at Hon. J. E. McComb, who conducted the case in benalt of tHe Government, and it was intimated that violence would be offered but deputy marshals were on the qui vive to guard against any thing of that kind. It was said that the friends of the convicted men threatened to break open the jail, and a strong force was put oh duty to prevent it should it be done.

The wives of all the men except Jack Lawrence, who is a bachelor, are here, are inconsolable. All the men who were connected were at the hay camp at Wild Horse lake on the night of the killing. There are nine others yet to be tried who there on the fateful night Of these Ed. Bowden, B. A.

Jones, Charles Moore, Frank Balsley and George B. Thermos are under bond; Sam Robinson the Colorado penitentiary, and the whereabouts of George Smith, Sylvester Maher, and Fred Brewer is unknown. The trial just closed was for the killing of John W. Cross. There are still indictments against all of the men for the murder of Hubbard, Eaton and Wilcox, and for assault to Tonney.

It is believed that at the next trial the Government will make a still stronger case. A motion will be made for a new trial and it overruled the case will be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Sudden Increase of the British Fleet in the Pacific. VICTORIA, B. July many months the only British warship in Esquimault harbor has been the Amphion.

Yesterday the Champion steamed into the harbor, followed by the Daphne, Nymphe and Espiegle, all smart sloops of war. The Warsprite, carrying the flag of Admiral Holtham, will arrive at Esquimault not later than July 20. She will be the largest steamer that ever entered these waters. Admiral Holtham is a fightor, and his appointment to this station is very suggestive, in view of recent events and the fact that some thirty Victoria schooners are by this time hunting seals in Behring sea. Everybody here is wondering what this sudden gathering around Esquimault arsenal of all these British game-cocks portends.

Our sealing schooners went to Behring sea with the almost certain conviction that they could conduct their business of hunting seals in perfect peace. Now they are very nervous and expect so zures. A Shocking Death. DENVER, July D. Beardmore, a young man employed on Beardsley's ranch near Platteville, was sitting in his wagon in the street last Friday when some boys threw a bunch of firecrackers under the horses.

They ran away, and in crossing a culvert Beardmore was thrown from his seat and fell on one of the front wheels, his limbs becoming entangled in the spokes. In an instant he was twisted and crushed between the wheels and wagon-box and wound around the wheel. The horses ran over a mile before being captured. The body of the unfortunate man was mangled beyond recognition. Every bone -in his body was broken and his skull was crushed from which the brains were oozing.

Receiver Wanted. ST. LOUIS, July T. Allen, representing the Farmers' Loan Trust Company, has filed a bill in the United States Circuit Court asking for a receiver to take charge of the St. Louis Ore Steel Company's properties.

In 1886, at a meeting of the Ore Steel Company, an issue of bonds aggregating $2,650,000 was authorized: The property included in the mortgages given the Loan Company to secure their loan was a tract known as the Pilot Knob iron mines in Southeast Missouri; the Vulcan steel works, which included mills, machinery, rails and other property, and coal mines in Jackson County, Illinois. The company defaulted in the July interest. Double Killing OKLAHOMA CITY, July authorities have been notified of a double murder that has just come to light in the Chickasaw Nation near Lapeer. It appears that two brothers named Graves and their father were in partnership with young Henry Bouten in a cotton crop. July 1 Bouten started out bunting and met the Graves people.

An altercation ensued and Frank Graves, the father, was shot and killed. The Graves boys then shot Bouten twice with a Winchester, he dying an hour afterward. Both men were buried at Lapeer Sunday. The New Packet Ship. Kansas CITY, July steamer A.

L. Mason, of the new packet line, arrived at her wharf last evening and was met by salvos of artillery, cheers and lemonade for the crowd. She is a fine boat and will be fully ployed running between here and St. Louis. Left For Washington.

CAPE MAY, N. July 9. -The President, accompanied by General and Mrs. Sewell, s8 Sewell and Secreta and Mrs. Halford, left here this morning on a private car attached to the nine o'clock express for Washington NATIONAL EDUCATORS.

The Convention at St. Paul-Officers Elected -Archbishop Ireland's Paper on Compulsory Education. ST. PAUL, July -The third day's session of the National, Educational Association was by air other immense crowd. The committee bf nominations reported in favor of the following, officers: Preeta William or Nashville, vice: prosidents, James H.

Canfield, of Law. Fence, W. F. Beadie, 8f S. Mrs.

E. Williams, Br ware, 0. d. M. baker, of Denver, 1 Tulare, of John Buchanan, of Kansas City, H.

Jones, of Erie, Mary E. Nicholson, of Indianapolis, J. P. Preston, of. soh, Miss: R.

Moblroy, of Salem, M. C. Fernald, of Orono, and Solomon Palmer, of Montgomery, secretary, E. H. Cook, of New Brungwick, N.

treasurer, J. M. Greenwood, of Kansas City, Me; and director froth biol slate Fepresented in the convention. The report, was adopted after an, uhsuccessful attempt of Mr. Vitil, of nois, to substitute Dr.

E. W. Hewitt, of Ohio, for president. The first subject of the morning was "'Compulsory Laws and Their Enforcement." Archbishop Ireland, of St. Patti, read the frat pater on the toplo, The State School and the Parish School; Is Union Between Them Impossible?" Archbishop Ireland said in substance: 1 Will be permitted to make at once iny nrotession of faith.

I declare most unbounded loyalty to the Constitution of my country. desire no favors. I claim no rights that are not in consonance with its letter and its spirit, tights Which the Constitution allows! do claim and in so d6- Ing I ain but the truef and more loyal Amef. loan. 1 unreservedly favor State laws making instruction compulsory, Instruction Is 90 much needed, By each citizen for his own sake and for that of society that the father who neglects to provide for his child's instruction sins against the child and against society, and it behooves the State to punish him.

Of course, first principles must not be forgotten, and, since instruction is primarily the function of the parent, the parent enjoys the right to educate his child in the manner suitable to him provided always that the education given in tHis manner suffices for the ulterior duties of the child toward himself and society. Compulsory education implies attendance at schools maintained and controlled by the state only when there is no attendance in other schools known to be competent 4o impart instruction in the required degree. The compulsory laws recently enacted in certain States of the Union are, to my judgment, objectionable in a few Incidental clauses. These, I am confident, will readily be altered in approaching legislative sessions. With the body of the laws and their general intent in the direction of hastening athlongst us tiniversal instruction, I am in most hearty accord.

The secular instruction in the State schools is our pride and our glory, and I regret that there is a necessity for the existence of the parish school. The spifit of the parish school, if Hot the school itself, is widespread among American 1 Protestants, and is made manifest by their determined opposition to the exclusion of Scripture reading and other devotional exercises from the school room. There is dissatisfaction with the State school as at present organized. The State school, it is said, tends to the elimination of religion from the minds and hearts of the youth of the country. This is my grievance against the State school of to-day.

Believe me, my Protestant fellow- citizens, that I am absolutely sincere when I now declare that I am speaking for the weal of Protestantismas well as for that of Catholicism. I am a Catholie, of course, to the tiniest fiber of my heart, unflinching and uncompromising in my faith. But God forbid that I desire to see in America the ground which Protestantism occupies, exposed to the chilling and devastating blast of unbelief. Let me be your ally in stomming the swelling tide of irreligion, the death knell of Christian life and of Christian civilization, the fatal toe of souls and of country. The State school is non -religious.

It lgnores religion. There is and there can be no positive religious teaching where the principle of non -sectarianism rules, It follows, then, that the child will grow up in the belief that religion is of minor importance, and religious indifference be his creed. Tue great mass of children receive no fireside lessons and attend no Sunday school, and the great mass of the children of America are growing up without religion. The State need not teach religion, but for the sake of its people and for its own sake it should permit and facilitate the action of the Church; but it hinders this action. Let the State look to itself.

The mind which it polishes is a two- edgedsword-an instrument for good or an instrumnent for evil. It were fatal to po ish it without the assurance that in all likelihood it shall be an instrument for good. You say the State school teaches morals, but morals without religious principles do not exist. Secularists and unbelievers will interpose their ghts. I do not impose my religion on them, nor should they impose their religion of secularism on n-.

Again, there are differences among Christians, and Catholics would not inflict their belief upon non- Catholics, nor should Protestantism be inflicted upon Oatnolics. Some compromise becomes necessary. Taxation without representation is wrong, and while the minority pay school taxes their beliefs should be respected. America is trying to divorce religion and the school, although religion perVades our systems and the school was originally religious, through and through. As a solution of the difficulty, 1 would permeate the regular State school with the religion of the majority of the children of the land, be it as Protestant as it can be and I would, as they do in England, pay for the secular instruction given in denominational school according to results-that is, each pupil passing the examination before State offcials and in full accordance with the State programme would secure to his school the cost of the tuition of a pupil in the State school Another plan: I would do as Prottestants and Catholi in Poughkeepsie and other places in our own country have agreed to do, to the great satisfaction of all concerned and the great advancement of educational interests.

in Poughkeepsie the city school board rents the bui.ding formerly used as parish schools and from the hour of nine a. m. to that of thres p. in. the school is in every particu ar a State school, no religious instruction coming between the hours named and the school being in charge of the city school board.

In conclusion, I protest against the charge that the schools of the Nation their enemies among Catholics. The Catholics are loyal to the country and demand the Christian State school. Murderer Hanged. FORT SMITH, July Stansberry was hanged here yesterday for murdering his wife in the Indian country last October. He displayed remarkable nerve throughout.

After a hearty breakfast he smoked a cigar and then made his toilet with care, but declined slippers offered him, saying he preferred to die with his boots on. He declined to have any religious exercisos on the gallows, saying it would do nc good. He refused to make any statement to any one except that he not guilty. His neck was broken and he died without a struggle. Double Tragedy.

CHICAGO, July 11. -William Rittamel, a German carpenter, shot his wife through the head yesterday. The murderer's son, thirty years old and just completing an eight-year course 01 study for the Lutheran Evangelical ministry, heard the shot and entering the room encountered his father who held the weapon still in his hand. A terrible struggle ensued and the son was finally forced to shoot his father it order to rescue his mother. Young Rit tamel was arrested.

Both husband ant xile are badly wounded and little hope outertained of the recovery of either. GRAIN RATES. A Decision of the Railroad Commissioners Rejecting a Petition of the Farmers' Alliance-The Reasons of the Board for 80 Doing Set Forth. TOPEKA, Kan. July 11, -The State Board bf Railroad Commissioners lias issued its decision in one of the most Important cases that has evor come fore Tt.

On April 11 a number of potititions, very numerously signed by Members of the Farmers Alliance and farthers of Kaists, was filed offlee of the Board, asking r6F a of local rates from Kansas points to the Missouri river on corn, wheat, oats, hogs, cattle and other farm products. The specifie reduction asked for was A rate of from 4 to 10 dents froth Rison to the Missouri river and corresponding rates for all other distances. The Railroad Commissioners contend that if the rate from Hutchinson, to Kansas City was reduced it would make the Chisage rate from Hutchinson on corn 30 cents and to St. Louts 35 cents instead of 933 to the present figures. Discussing the proposition of the torneys who represented the farmers, that the rate east to the river should be lowered correspondingly, the board says: "In each case the reduction asked fot, it the were to take dis at our wold and make them effective in the only manner in which they could be made so, would advance the cost of transportation of corn cents per hundred.

But it would be unfair to create the impression that the gentleman who advocated this proposition intended to bring about this result; and when this wha ed Bit hit the heating is a very brokers probable gave result, is the their Kansas assurance City plait we would adopt the proposed local; they would take care 8t the rates east of the river, and Major Jones stated that they proposed to go before the Inter-State Commerce Commission for a reduction of the rates east of the river. What they proposed to do, and the extent of their ability to do in this respect, was loft in a state of under tainty. We should hardly feel justified in putting the Kansas farmer in the position above ifidicated, trusting to the vague assurances of others to do some: thing else to relieve him from that dilemma. But the plain implication conveyed by these assurances is that these gentlemen would endeavor to obtain such reductions in the rates east of the liver 83 would prevent the sum of the local rates exceeding the present through fate." "Under the present arrangement of rates," continues the board, "farmers upon the Missouri river pay 20 cents per 100 pounds to get their corn to Chicago and the Kansas farmet living 200 miles west of the Missouri river pays cents; to St. Lou's the former pays 15 cents and the latter 181.

Or in other words the Kansas farmer living 200 miles and upward west of the Missouri river is only cents further from market than the farmer living upon the Missouri river. This is now the extent of the disad vantage the farmer living 200 miles west of the Missouri river suffers compared with those living on and near to that stream. "Under the arrangement proposed, assuming that Major Jones and the other gentlemen should succeed in bringing about the reduction in rates east of the river this would be the situation: The farmer on the Missouri river would pay to get his corn to Chicago cents per 100. The Kansas farmer in the region of Hutchinson would pay To get his corn to St. Louis the Missouri river farmer would have to pay cents, and the Kansas farmer 200 miles west would have to pay cents.

The total cost of transportation would not be changed, but the relative situation of the Kansas farmer compared with those who live nearer the market would be very materially changed. The difference in cost of transportation of corn for Eastern markets, charged to the Reno County farmers, and the farmers upon the Missouri river, is now cents. Under the proposed arrangement the difference would bo 10 cents. This would push the Kansas farmer cents per 100 pounds further from market, compared with his more Eastern competitor. How this would help the Kansas farmer was not explained.

The Kansas city grain brokers had no difficulty in showing 118 how it would help After quoting the cross-examination of Mr. Davidson, a Kansas City grain man, in which he said that prices were based on Chicago prices and a through rate, the board says: "From foregoing it will be perceived that the Kansas City grain man don't buy of the Kansas producer, but of the Kansas grain dealers; that they buy with reference the current market as fixed from day to day in Chicago and other grain centers, and that the Kansas elevator man buys on the same basis from the farmer, so that all the vague talk about the Kansas farmer being benefited by the railroad being required to dump all the Kansas grain upon the banks of the Missouri river before being taken forward to market vanishes into thin air when the witnesses are required to be Crops Burning Up. TOPEKA, July 10. -Fourteen families of colored people just returned from Oklahoma to Topeka. They say that every thing is burn ng up down there, and that the settlers are leaving as fast as they can get away.

Parties from Topeka, who have recently been through Oklahoma, confirm these reports. Crops there will be almost a total failure. COLUMBIA, July 11. -Tuesday night Mrs. John Hudson, the wife of a well-to-do young farmer, took a dose of rough on rats that killed her in a short time.

She leaves a baby four months old, and was evidently insane at the time. W. W. Payne, of the grocery firm of Scott Payne of this place, shortly after dinner yesterday purchased two ounces of chloroform, retired to his room and took the entire dose. When discovered he was unconscious, but as the physicians very hard with him the probabilities are that he will recover.

Missouri Population. KIRKSVILLE, July 11. -The population of this district by counties and towns is as follows: Counties--Marion 26,000, Clark 15,000, Chariton 26,000, Shelby 15,500, Monroe 20,500, Schuyler 11,250, Adair 17,800, Ralls 12,000, Randolph 25,000, Linn 24,200, Lewis 15,100, Putnam 16,800, Howard 18,400, Knox 12,500, Sullivan 18,200, Scotland 19,600, Macon 30,000. Towns -Hannibal 12,500, Moberly 8,800, Brookfield 4,500, Kirks ville 8,450, Macon City 3,350, Canton 2,200, Fayette 9,300, Palmyra 2,500, Salisbury 1,700, Brunswick 1,750, KababR 1,400, Edina 1,450, Glasgow 1,800. AWFUL EXPLOSION.

Disaltef to a Huge Lake Steamer at Chios-Several Killed and Many InjuredDamage to Property. Chicago, July 12. -4 frightful explogion oteurred last night on the steamer great lakes. Thirty-eight people were Tioga, bag st the largest vessels on the aboard the steamer at the time. When the work of rescuing survivors, which commenced almost instantly, was well under way only two persons could be wh8 escaped tinhurt: To make matters worse fire broke out on the wrefleed vessel and Huge volumes of flame and smoke impede the searchers for the dead and dying.

The bursting of the steamer's boilers was the cause of the catastrophe. 10 wits CHicage fiver at the foot of Washington street that the plosion occurred. This locality is in the heart of the business section of Chicago and the terrific shock of the explosion brought people running in L8FFOR otit of the tall buildings blocks away. Most of the victims were Chicago who were unloading the vessel. Only three of Ute Tioga's crew were reported on the list.

The fire proved stubborn one and made it imposs. ble at time to verify the report that the boilers had exand a statement was current thAt the explodi8n wats dite to the accldental lighting of a large Quantity of combustibles in the deep hold near the stern where the fire held sway. Through the bursts of fire could be seen a great jagged cleft in the Tioga's decks and cabin and aloft off the till stoke stacks dangled a huge framework of timber fantastically swaying backward and forward, telling of the terrific force of the explosion which sent it there from thirty feet below. About it was estimated, would cover the datage to the vessel and cargo. This amount was belleted to be fully insured.

The explosion did much damage to surrounding buildings, and windows were broken half a mile away. Up to midnight seven dead and wounded men had beet taked frotH the boat, and it was then believed that not more than eight 8thers were in the hold. DUN'S REPORT. Hopeful Feeling and Steady Growth of Business- -The Midsummer Dullness. NEW YORK, July 12.

-R. G. Dun weekly trade review says: in spite of the usual midsummer dullness, aggravated this year by exceptions ally hot weather, the volume of ness continues larger for the season than in any previous year, and in all quarters high hopes are stimulated by excellent crop With scanty reserves here oil wHich to begin the fall movement, and money tight at Boston, active at Philadelphia and in sharp demand in Chicago at 6 per cent. on call, the prospect is less clear than it has been, though rates here are comparatively steady. From many Northwestern cities special reports show distinct improvements in trade because of crop prospects, which St.

Paul calls the best for years. Yet of wheat Have advanced cents sales of 15.000.000 prices, bushels; corn cents on sales of 000,000 bushels, and oats cent, while cotton is unchanged with moderate dealings. Hogs and lard are higher, with potatoes and eggs, but oil is 2 cents lower, and the absence of buyers causes disappointment in coffee, though prices are held. Slow consumption of sugar is also noticed. But the general average of prices has advanced fully 1 per cent.

Reports from all quarters are hopeful. Midsummer dullness prevails at Boston, increased by monetary stringency, and at Philadelphia and Pittsburgh by the fact that higher wages have been conceded to iron workers, though higher prices for products do not seem obtainable. The traffic of railroads is still very large, for the last week of June about 8 per cent. and for the month about 11 per cent. above last year's, while the reports of July show still larger gains.

Receiverships for the half year covered but $47,000,000 of stocks and bonds of 1,380 miles, while foreclosures for the half year covered $92,000, 000 of stocks and bonds and 1,930 miles of road. The steady growth of the country is illustrated in National bank reports, showing an increase since 1880 of 66 cent. in the number of banks, 37 per cent. in deposits and 90 per cont. in loans.

CENSUS FIGURES. hooks. An Offer to the Cheyennes. A Surpriso for New Falls Far Below the Estimate-Other Great CitiesPower of the West. WASHINGTON, July is a great surprise in store for New Yorkers when the official returns of the enumeration of the population of their city by the Census Bureau are made.

The rough estimate of the population was put at 1,700,000, but the returns, which will be in late to-day, will show that the population is about 1,500,000, or something like 200,000 less than was anticipated. Even with that falling off New York will, of course, stand at the head of the list. It is nip and tuck between Philadelphia and Chicago for second place with a population of about a million. Brooklyn will be fourth, St. Louis fifth, Boston sixth, Baltimore seventh, Cincinnati eighth, Minneapolis ninth and St.

Paul tenth There is a marked contrast in the per centage of increase between the East and West, and it is very evident that when the apportionment of Representatives to Congress is made the West will be the legislative ruler of the country. Overcome By Black Damp. DES MOINES, Iowa, July 12. -A dispatch from What Cheer, Iowa, states that a lad named Ray Hawk, while playing around an old air shaft, started go down, was overcome by black damp and fell into the mine. Fred Armstrong saw the accident and went.

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