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t. VMt SLYKB, CMsr aai NMMwr TBEKEWB GRIST., t Happenings In Evety Quarter of th« Civil- •;! izod Glob®. The Vftry Latest Flashed Intelligence Over the IWtr. craphlo Wires. LATEST DISPATCHES. •v: i,:: FIRE AND WATER. on a Lake Steamer--Over a Scon of Persons Perish. THE steamer Chaaiplain, of the Northern Michigan Line, bound for Cheboygan from Chicago, burned on Friday morning be­ tween Norwood and Charlevoix, at the month of the Grand Traverse Bay. The boat was running tea miles an hour, when flames suddenly shot tip from nnder tbe engine, driving the engineer from hi* post with his clothes on fire. He ran to the hurricane deok, plonged into a tank, and then re­ turned to his work, bat was too late to stop his engine or connect the hose. The alarm was given, the sleeping passen­ gers aroused, and when life-preservers Had been fastened on all gathered on the forward deck. Two life-boats and life- tafts were lowered, but the steamer was nuraing so fast that they got away. In ten minutes from the time the boat caught fire the passengers were all compelled to jtap Into the lake. Tha steward says that there were fifty-seven persons on board, including the crew. The lost are as follows, so far as known: Belonging to Chicago--Henry Brennan, clerk; two chil­ dren, believed to belong to one Martin Bow; Mrs. M. Kehoe; an unknown boy. Belonging to other places--Ella Cooper Smith, Robert Wilkes, George Wrialey, of Charlevoix; B. M. McKeel; Beans, steward; Captain Lucas, Petoskey; a fireman; a second cook; Mr. Russell, of the Jackson (Mich.) Corset Company; mln and boy from Milwaukee, bound for Mackinaw; one waiter; four Indians, deck hands; a lady and daughter from Frankford, names un- >' ktaown. There are seven not accounted for, the above list of lost comprising only those known to have perished. Those saved floated an hour and a half, when they were rescued by a yawl and fish boats Ao from the shore. Several of those saved were badly burned. The boat bnrned to V the hull and has been towed here. It is impossible now to tell the cause of the ;; i fire, but it is thought it may have been caused by a lamp explosion. ^ Seven bodies have already been recovered. : 5 The Champlain was valued at about $50,- 000. Caleb Russell of Jackson, Mich., died after being brought ashore. The shoe and foot of an unknown victim have been yiT leeovered from the hull, which was towed ^ ashore. Besides these there were twelve to fourteen deck-hands, whose names are unknown. Most of them were shipped in ? Chicago. The clerk, Henry Brennan, who ; jj tired on the North Side, in Chicago, WM / taken ashore, but he was burned so badly . that he died in a 6hoit time. t DEATH OF PROFESSOR HOPKINS. The ex-President of Williams College Expires at North Adams. PBOFESSOB MASK HOPKINS, ex-Presi­ dent of Williams College, died at North Adams, Mass., on Friday. Mr. Hopkins, who was by many looked upon as the fore- most theologian of the country, was born at Stockbridge, Mass., Feb. 4,1802, gradu­ ated in 1824 at the college of which he was •obaeqnently President, and four years later began practicing medicine in New York. In 1830 he was chosen Professor of Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy of the College, becoming President in 1830. ? Twenty-six years later he resigned the Presidency, but retained the professor- •kip. Professor Hopkins was the author of a number of philosophical works. His manly piety, great intellect, and good hu­ mor were strongly felt by every student who came under his instruction. It was Dr. Hopkins who first conceived the idea of illustrating mental and moral science > by means of diagrams, and in this manner •J- the most abstruse subjects were made clear. In Foreign Lands. AT Queenstown, on Friday, the customs oftetals confiscated a box belonging to a passenger on the Adriatic named Peter Coy, and which was supposed to contain explosives. Coy is detained in custody pending an analysis of the contents of the box. ' HUGH O'DON^ELIL, ei-Yice President of tike Home Bule Confederation, writes a letter from Cologne to the London Times defending the Parnellites against the ac­ cusations brought by that journal of com­ plicity in crime. The Timet* insists that Mr. O'Donne il evades the vital points .of the indictment against the Irish National­ ists. • Commerce. CATTXiB receipts at the Chieago Stock Tarda during the past week were the larg­ est on record. Prices are at the lowest figures reached since 1879, and stockmen ate greatly discouraged. The best swine Mllin the city at $5.17£, against $4.32£ a year ago. Latest general market quota- ^IJBSENT ETENfTS.' Serioud at Oak- 4.75 4.00 3.50 4.75 4.25 > follow: MEW YOBX. CATTU 4.50 Hoos *25 Wa*AT--No. 1 White No. 8 Bed Coax--No 2 OATS--White.. POBK--New Mesa . CHI6ACO. Gams--Choice to Prime Steers Medium Common Hoos--Shipping Wu>ub--Winter Wheat J.. WHBAT--No. 2 Spring COM--No. 2 Ouurs--No. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery...... Fine Dairy CHEESE---Fall Cream, Cheddars. Fall Cream, new Boos--Fresh „ POTATOES--Choice, new. per brl. row--Mesa „ MILWAUKEE. 6 5.50 0 5.75 J92 «S .93 OS ® MM .47 * .37 & .41 16.75 016.35 & 6.00 & 4.50 & 4.00 @ C.K m 4.75 .71* U.75 e 22.25 .77549 . 14.75 WmuT--No. 2 Co an--Ko. 2 DBTBOIK" w-. (A 4.50 & 4.75 .83 .39!yW .40)4 .29 <9 .30 14.75 «15.25 4.75 4 5. BCTFATX).' 0 .88* .4356 4.50 A 5.00 INDIAN APOUH. CATO* m 5.00 tS MS BAST. A JERSEY CITT dispatch pay* ftotiag ta reported t»,£av«<. ridge Park, Outtenbeig, Sudsy An anarchist nfenic for tha benatt of lbs Chicago anai&rists, at which ISR IM wtMf present, was being held in flue park. Several persons were hurt and more trou­ ble is expected." THERE was a panic in the Coffee Ex­ change at New York Monday, prices fall­ ing 3 cents from Saturday's closing quota­ tions, showing a decline from 21.30 cents two weeks ago to fifteen cents, or over 64 cents per pound. Three firms suspended --B. G. Arnold A Co., Norton. Weyl * Bevan, and Mackay &• Small. The latter owe abont $200,000, while B. G. Arnold's liabilities are estimated at $1,000,000. Brokers for "bull" operators precipitated the panio, while the "bears" made efforts to sustain prices. * THE statue to Nathan Hale, made by the authority of the State of Connecticut, to be placed in the Capitol buildingat Hart­ ford, was on Tuesday formally delivered by the commission to the State, It is a bronze figur* of heroic size*' ; WEST. THE comer in wheat which had existed at Chicago since March caxhe to a disas­ trous end on Tuesday, the phenomenal break of 18J cents closing the books of the oiique and bringing Chicago prices once more in line with those of the other markets of the world. The excite­ ment on the Board of Trade flopr was intense. Such a shouting, yelling, screaming mob is seldom seen, and as an occasional visitor in tne gallery said, "it did appear as if bedlam had broken looBe." No wonder, ruin staring them in the fate and only those who conld yell and scream loudest could get any kind of recognition sufficient to draw notice to tbe fact that they also had a few small samples to dis­ pose of to any buyer that wanted them. Three commission houses--M. Bosenfeld & Co., Hamill it Brine, and £. W. Baily --were forced to suspend. Their losses will aggregate from $2,000,000 to $3,000,- 000. The interesting story of the corner is thus summarized by the Chicago Inter Ocean of Wednesday: Ever since last April thera has been a syn­ dicate of capitalists which has sought to run a successful comer in wheat. The deal began with the May option, and when delivery day came around several million buBhels were dumped into the laps of the brokers or repre­ sentatives of this clique. Maurice Hoseniekl & Co., C. J Kershaw & Co., Irwin, Green & Co., were looked upon as the agents employed to handle the business for the syndicate. The deal was transferred to Juno, and millions of bushels of -wheat were bought to keep up this option. Prices advanced, and the shorts laughed at the idea of any clique attempting to corner the craln of the Northwest, the market of the world. When June deli very day arrived the clique bro­ kers took all the grain that was offered to them. Of course margins were in demand, and the banks were called noon to make advances on the grain in store. These advances were based upon a price not exceeding (50 cents per bushel, but it locked up millions of dollars in the busi­ ness. As June advanced the clique saw that they hiul undertaken to move a mountain, and they used every effort to prevent the arrival of the great crops of •wheat from Dakota. A corner in storage was effected and the railroads were blocked. Road after road served notice that no more wheat would be shipped to Chicago. This brought the shorts to the front with a vengeance. There are 1,960 members of the Board of Trade. About ®0 of the*4 B® con-sorabfttaats. of the re* mainlng 1,460 about l,£)J trade in wheat, and ot these 1,200 not more than 200 are on the bull side Of the deal. The other 1,000 are what are known as shorts. They axe more or leas small dealers, and do a commission business. Their custom* ers In the Northwest seeing the market going up and prices high, ordered them to sell the stuff, being well aware that they could not hope to get a much better price for their wheat. When the roads became blocked these customers began to Write letters expostulating with their agents for not pushing the matter. These shorts then went to the directors and made complaints, and the result was that the directors took up the matter and determined to crush out the clique in so far as the corner in Storage and blocking of the railroads was con­ cerned. The farmers and shippers throughout the Horthwest were advised that they could de­ mand that the railroads should take their grain tor shipment to Chicago. The railroads, seeing that the war was liable to hurt them, began to ery out, and tbe result was that the syndicate took fright. IN the Chicago wheat market the situa­ tion was chaotic and exciting on Wednes­ day. A number of additional failures were announced, a nervous state of affairs was witnessed, and the day was simply crowded with sensational developments. The situation on the Board of Trade was briefly thus: Kershaw it Co. announced in the morning that they would pay up, they having received money from Cincinnati. The supply, which was about $300,000, was not Dig enough, however, and before noon they had suspended. Before and af­ ter this fifteen firms failed, J. B. McCleary A Co. being among the prominent ones, The Chicago Tribune of Thursday, in an editorial on the collapBed wheat deal, says: The standard grade of wheat for delivery during the current month sold yesterday In this market for Vi cents per bushel. This is the lowest point touched in Chicago since the year 10S2. and it was reached only by vir­ tue at a teciiiM wUeh mast have been a ter­ rible ope to the unfortunate holders. The drop of the present week amounts to about 23 cents per bushel, which entails a loss of about fe,6(U,000 in the selling value of the wheat in store, to say nothing of the corre­ sponding shrinkage on an untold number of millions of bushels that had been bought for de4very this month and a smaller decline in longer tutures. The break carried the market down to about the figure allowed by the banks to tbe parties who borrowed monev on the property, and this fact induced good buying by men who think it must be worth at least that xnuoh. In other words, there is pretty good reason to believe that Hie stonn is over, though tbe commercial atmosphere will be unsettled for some time to come, and it will be several days before all the wrecks are cleared away. And the list of those wrecks is a long one. It embraces leading houses in the trade as we'.l as many of the lesser lights, all of whom had previously rated as good men. The extent of tbe disaster may perhaps be inferred from the statement that the aggregate of trading on 'Change the last three days cannot fall far short of '200/00,000 bushels, much the greatest part of which was don* for men who, on one aide or the other, wanted to get rid of the entanglements of the deal. They had fallen into the toils as a con­ sequence ot trading on an artificial mar­ ket, and tbe struggle to be free ent&ilad more of agony in a few. hours than falls to the lot of many individuals in the course of 4 whole lifetime. Nearly a score of stranded firms, with a total of losses to themselves and customers which wilt run up far into the tens of millions of dollars and a stock of more than 16,000,000 bushels of the speculative grade of wheat left on band, to be disposed of at the re­ duction, are visib'le remains of the terrible strife. THE Prospect Machine & Engine Com­ pany of Cleveland has made an assign­ ment. The capital stock of the corpora­ tion is $400,000, and is held by leading citizens in Cleveland. The liabilities are estimated at $200,000 and the asset* at $500,000. . than when the sabjset was osalty pcewmted me, the action of yon* dMMMmapl dtosetl the Stakes, oflsjtngto WflgjsT if desteed, to the State* the lfiigs by ~ forces, 6°a 9 6.3S » 4.75 & *.tl «• M8 I|| and attioot the Wer Department, lam of m option *s< thn «efw> ot the tefslathe mauSrthus c(W|lsni^lat(il is not authorised by exisfhg law, nor JasHfled as an exeoattve aeC I request, therefore, ttkt no further *te$s be taken ia the matter except to examine awl in­ ventory these flags, and adopt proper measures for their preservation. Any direction as to the Anal disposition ot them should originate with Congress. GBOVKB CLEVKLAND. "At the request of Gov. Foroker, of Ohio, that counsel should be retained to institute legal proceedings to enjoin the return of the Confederate flags to the Gov­ ernors of the Southern States, Gen. H. V. Boynton had selected Hon. Samnel Sheila- barger, of Ohio, and Hon. George 8. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, to take charge of the case. These gentlemen expected to have an application for a mandamus filed in the Supreme Court of the District Thursday afternoon, but were deterred by the non-receipt of a nec­ essary telegram from Ohio. Tho papers were based upon the claim that the Secre­ tary of War was about to dispose of public property without anthority of law. The letter of the President made further action by the attorneys unnecessary." The pro­ tests of the Governors of Ohio and Iowa and the publicly expressed indignation of the Grand Army of the Republic over the proposition to return the flags had the effect to stir up much feeling throughout the country. Governor Rusk, of Wisconsin, telegraphed his protest to President Cleve­ land, claim tog that the trophies, if sur­ rendered, should be given up to the States by whose troops they were captured. Gov­ ernor Martin, of Kansas, also wired his protest, alleging that the scheme was " an insult to the heroic dead, and an outrage on their surviving comrades." The Grand Army men throughout the entire West also made vigorous protests. The following statement with regard to the President's action concerning the proposed return of the battle flags was made at the White House to a representative of the Associated Press: "When the question was proposed to the President by the Adjutant General an impor­ tant feature suggested was the return to the loyal States of tbe flags which had been cap­ tured by the Confederates and retaken by our army at tbe collapse of the rebellion. They, with such Confederate flags as had been cap­ tured from the eueiny by our troops, had, it was represented, for a long time lain uncared for and neglected, packed away in boxes in the cellar of the War Department, and had been removed to the attic as a better place for their safe keeping. "The disposition of the flags, which seemed-to be answering no good purposo where they were, was the main point, and the consideration was presented to the President that some flags had been returned to loyal States, upon their re­ quest in individual cases, and the rest, if de­ sired, might as well be returned together. The return of the Confederate Hags which were with the others in the department was sug­ gested, but there was not the slightest thought of interfering in any way with the captured flags now held by any State. "The right of the department to make these returnB being questioned by the President, such right was distinctly asserted, and precedents alleged, and thereupon his oral assent was given to the proposed action. The matter was dismissed from his mind until comment there­ upon within the last day or two brought it again to his attention, when, upon personally exam­ ining the law, and considering the subject more carefully, he satisfied himself that no disposi­ tion of these flags could be made without Con­ gressional action; whereupon he directed a susvension of operations by the letter made public this evening." ^ INTERSTATE COMMERCE F;;; THE nnanimoaa decision of the Inter* state Commeroe Commission on the ques­ tion of continuing the order suspending the operation of the long and short haul clause of the law over the different roads through­ out the countfy that had applied and ob­ tained temporary relief was made public on Thursday. The order for temporary relief m>de in flavor Q£ the ipu'sville and Nash­ ville Road will be allowed to remain in force until the day originally limited for itB expiration. Of the other applications for relief, coming from the transconti­ nental lines, from the Southern, South­ western, Northern, Eastern, and Western lines, forty-five in all, it is decided that the temporary orders which have been made in some of these petitions will, in like manner, be permitted to remain in force until the expiration df the timo originally limited in each. No further order, the Commission says, will be made upon any of the petitions, for although some two or three of the cases may not, by the facts recited in the ap­ plications for relief be brought strictly within the principles discussed in the decision, yet they all present what are claimed to be different circumstances and conditions, adequate to authorize excep­ tions to the general rule; and if the peti­ tioners are persuaded that the fact is as they represent, they should act under the statute accordingly. The Commission de­ votes considerable space to a discussion of the proper construction of the long and short haul clause of the net, and the duty of the Commission in affording relief to petition­ ers by suspending this provision of the law, and sums up its conclusion in the fol­ lowing language: lie chorsing or receiving the greater com­ pensation for the shorter than for the longed naul is forbidden only whim both are under substantially similar circumstances and condi­ tions. and therefore if in any case the carrier, without first obtaining an order of relief, shall depart from the general rule, its doing BO will not alont convict it of illegality, since if the circumstances and conditions of the two haulB are dissimilar tbe statute is not violated. Should an interested party dis­ pute that the act'on of the carrier was warranted, an isniie would be presented for ad­ judication, and tbe risks of that adjudication the carrier would necessarilv assume. The lat­ ter clause in tho same section, which empow­ ers the Commission to make orders for relief in its discretion, doeB not in doing HO restrict it to a finding of circumstances and conditions strictly dissimilar, but seems intended to give a discretionary authority for cases that could not be well indicated in advance by general designation, while the cases which upon their face should be acted upon as clearly excep­ tional would bo left for adjudication when the action of tbe carrier was challenged. The statute becomes, on this construction, prac­ tical, and thiB section may be enforced without serious embarraK anient. THE Interstate Commerce Commission on Thursday heard testimony hpon the complaint of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company against the Pennsylvania Rail­ road Company for alleged violation of the interstate law. Swift & Co. and Armour & Co., the Chicago packers, filed com­ plaints of unjust discrimination and ex­ cessive charges with the Commission against the Eastern trunk lines. SOUTH. A CHATTANOOGA (Tenn.) dispatch re­ ports that five men had been killed and many wounded by the explosion of a dyna­ mite cartridge at the Inman mines, four miles from that place. The explosion oc­ curred in the mines of the Tennessee Cod, Iron and Railway Company, where most of the employes are convicts. The com­ pany of late has been employing English miners, and it is said these were the vic­ tims of the explosion. Dago Joe, a half-breed, who killed Wal­ ter Haynes, a young white boy, at Shelby Depot, Miss., on the 18th of May, was taken by a mob from the officers, who were conveying him from Duncan Station, Miss., to the jail at Austin, and huuged to mine, on Monday last. i: WASHINGTON. ̂ . 4 Ax Associated Press telegram from Washington says: "The battle of the stand­ ards is terminated and the captured flags of the dead Confederacy will remain in the custody of the War Department. President Cleveland on Thursday sent the following letter in regard to the matter to the Secre­ tary of War: : to-dagr eoasidere* with #Mie cat* W«w» and Notes of Interest to Both Employer and Smployed. CoBttawd Prosperity in the Tfg^pi bdutriea of the Country. ̂ .i • •W' , < THERE is a widespread movement among tha Knights for separate national trade as­ sociations. The harnessmakers will want one; the brassworkers have asked for one; the ironworkers have organized for one; and the coopers, painters, and decorators ' insist on separate control. A score of other crafts am asking for a separate room in the great Order where they can talk things! over. The experiments already made have shown that there is nothinv in the move­ ment of a disintegrating character, bat that in reality.this step is a cementing one. NEW ENGLAND textile manufacturers are generally improving their capacity and potting in better machinery to decrease cost. A New Hampshire firm has ordered a cargo of wool from San Francisco around Cape Horn on account of high freights. The Pepperell Mill, in Maine, has just divided a half million dollars in dividendsy and has a million dollars left. FIVE national labor unions hire just held their annual sessions--the printers at Buffalo, the shoemakers, at Brockton, the iron-workers at Pittsburg, and the ma­ chinery workers and miners at Cincinnati. There were 200,000 shoemakers said to be represented through 150 delegates at Brockton. The iron-workers had 180 delegates. . PORT WOBTH, Texas, is to be made a wool and sheep depot with immense stock yards and scouring establishments. It now costs $1.4j to pay the freight on 100 pounds of grease and dirt, and this is to be saved by the scouring establishments. Fort Worth says that she will yet rival Philadelphia as a wool center. FOUR railroads are now being built in Georgia to center at Atlanta. It will then be the greatest railroad center in the South. These roads will run through coal, lumber, and agricultural sections, and already syn­ dicates are operating along the projected lines, securing control of the most desira­ ble lands. THE New York silversmiths have surren­ dered and gone to work. Nearly all the cabinet-makers' shops of New York have established the nine-hour system. A new organ (monthly) has been established in New York to represent the National Fed­ eration. The Furriers' Union voted $45 to the Chicago anarchists. A. LONDON paper says there Is not one corner of Europe where American small- cost hardware is not for sale. Krupp, of Germany; Armstrong, of England, and Hotchkiss, of France, with all their vast resources are unable to produce a monkey or screw-bar wrench equal to the American wrenches. ^HE builders in the small towns all over the country are reporting an increasing »• ytw of Plot*--A Petitions. The present Sultan i* a man Who sits quaking in hi* kiosk at Yildic with his nerves all unstrung from fear of plots and Wa ears wi<|e open to every suggestion for securing, not the safety of his dominions, but his own personal safety, writes a corre spondent. To see him go to the mosque on a Friday in a closed carriage is abnmil lating spectacle to old Turkish officers, who remember how proudly Abdul Medjid and Abdul Aziz used to ride on horseback through crowded streets to St. Sophia. FOREIGN. IT is reported by cable that the British Government intends to prosecute Michael Davitt and Mr. Joseph Richard Cox, Na­ tionalist member of Parliament for East Clare, for their conduct in inciting the Bodyke tenants to resist eviction. A CABLE dispatch from London says: "From official sources it is learned that in­ formation has been received in London which leaves no doubt that dynamiters have arranged to commit an outrage, or a series of outrages, during jubilee week, but the authorities have a full knowledge of the conspiracy and those engaged in it, and are confident that they will defeat the plotters." A . London dispatch of Friday says: "James G. Blaine and family arrived at Sonthhampton yesterday. Mr. Blaine was met at the dock by a large number of Americans, prominent among whom was Mr. Pendleton, United States Consul to Southampton, and escorted to his hotel. He will probably remain a few days at Southampton before proceeding to Lon­ don. He positively refuses to disclose his prospective movements or tbe purpose ©r significance of his visit. All of Mr. Blaine's family are well." JOHN BRIGHT has written an open letter to Mr. Gladstone apologizing for inaccu f-ately quoting his recent speech at Swan sea, and expressing regret that his con­ science and judgment forbid, him from acting with him onthe lrish qusattf^ demand for small houses. The building and loan association fever is spreading in the West. The outflow of money from sluggish financial localities in the East is stimulating enterprise in a great many small channels. WESTEHN cities and towns are devel­ oping their manufacturing capabilities rapidly. Denver, Col., is becoming an important manufacturing center, and will produce $30,000,000 worth of products this year. Eastern manufacturers are pioneer­ ing over the West seeking opportunities. THE London papers are complaining that as fast as British workmen leave their shores the gap is filled up with German workmen and workmen from Russia. They don't want the pauper labor of-the conti­ nent "shot" there.- The remedy iB in the highest degree obscure. THE qtfeltion of employers' right to: em­ ploy non-union labor will not be surren­ dered without a bitter struggle. Boston building employers have been placing them­ selves in position to open the fight. The workmen, iu anticipation of trouble, are strengthening their lines. EASTERN farmers and well-to-do me­ chanics are lending, through agencies, much of their spare cash on Western mort­ gages. This exchange ought 'to have been built up long ago. Money commands very lew rates of interest East and exceptionally high rates in the West. ONE well-known make of boiler has been sold to the extent of 122,000 horse power in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jer­ sey. Great ingenuity and study are being centered on boiler-making, and marked improvements have been completed within a few months. AN enthusiastic Westener, who writes as though he were posted, says $50,000,000 could be safely invested in the Bugar- making and growing industry in the South, and that there are excellent opportunities for jute and ramie manufacturing. THE Northern investors in Southern pig-iron plants are greatly encouraged by the active demand in Western markets for the entire product of furnaces. This will lead to further extension of capacity. Coke is scarce. < AT Dallas, Texas, a half-million dollar cotton mill is to be built. The Roanoke Cotton Mills, Va., are to have a capital of $250,000. Another cotton mill ia to be started at Columbia, 8. C., with a capital of $500,000. THE question of co-operation is not favorably considered in the Knights' as­ semblies, and the land theories of George, while favorably regarded at a distance, are not consideted good matters to advance wages with. A GREAT many Philadelphia-made boil­ ers are finding their way into Eastern mills and factories. Four 125 horse power safety trailers have just been put in at East Ware- ham, MOSB. THE Kansas City carpenters are looking long way ahead. They announce that they won't work more than eight hours after next June, and want 35 cents an hour. THE miners are earnestly endeavoring to avert strikes in the future, anj), if met with half the candor they feel, measures will be devised by wiuich justice can be done. THE expressed opinion of labor dele­ gates at the various trade conventions is that tbe improving condition of things justifies the advances they desire to have made. FiiOrBiNO and grist mills employ 38 per cent, of all the water-power used; saw­ mills, 23 per cent.; cotton-mills, 12; paper* mills, 7; and woolen-mills, 4§. T«TE Pottsville (Pa.) silk-mill will em­ ploy from 600 to 1,000 hands, and the building, which will be 850 feet in length, will, including machinery, cost $300,000. THE Western lumber manufacturers are tiying to demonstrate that prfbes will be higher next fall, but buyers are not acting on that supposition. LAST year the South made $10,000,000 out of 20,000,000 gallons of cotton-seed oil, and used only one-fifth of the availa­ ble product. QUITE a number of mechanics bare found employment in Kentucky and Ten­ nessee during the past three months. OUT of the 1,056 puddling furnaces in Pittsburgh seventy-five are idle, and tbe muck bar production is estimated SyrZO tons per day. THE cotton goods manufacturers are generally well sold up, and many mills have contracts running far ahead. ALL the machine shops of the country are full of orders and have excellent pros* pects for the rest of the year. THERE is a quiet distribution of tbe Chinese population of the Pacific coaat throughout tbe Eastern States. LAUOB organizers are directing their efforts to hold tbe membership they have Abdul Hamid never lots anybody know an hour beforehand to which mosque he will go for the Selamlik. Visitors who have been invited to view the Bight from the corps de garde opposite the new mosque, which stands close to the palace gates, watch regiment after regiment march up the hill to Yildiz without any certainty that the cere­ mony will be held at this partiular mosque after all. It often happens that of a sud­ den cavalry and infantry, visitors in cabs and carriages, and sightseers on foot have to make a stampede down bill and race off to some other mosque a mile away. Yet, if there is any dancer for the Sultan's life and liberty, it can only be in his own palace, and not in the streets. Wherever he goes men bow before him in abject reverence. He could ride through any part of the city without risk of harm, and if by mischance soma madman were to raise a voice against him the insult would be instantly avenged by any Mussulman stand­ ing near. Faith in the Sultan's power and justice is kept up among the people by the privilege which the humblest folk enjoy of presenting petitions to his Majesty. While the troops are being mar­ shaled for the Selamlik, you may see a small crowd of wretched-looking people of both sexes with petitions in their hands, who are being ranged by a court official in a conspicuous position on the road which the Sultan has to pass. Flourishes of trumpets announoe his Majesty's coming; thousands of soldiers in fez, caftan, and turban--black troops from Nubia and brown-faced soldiers from Thrace--pre­ sent arms and raise guttural cheers; about a hundred field marshals, generals, and staff officers, blazing with stars and walking eight abreast, precede his Majesty's carriage, and then the Sultan himself is seen for just a few seconds. Though it may be a beautiful autumnal day, neither cold nor hot, he sits either in a brougham or in an open carriage with the hood up. If there be visitors of dis­ tinction in the corps de garde he leans for­ ward for an instant and makes a sign of the hand. Again he is seen for half a minute as he descends from his carriage and mounts the steps of the mosque, where he turns round and salutes the whole crowd by lifting his two fingers to his fez. Meanwhile an aid-de-camp has run forward to collect all the petitions, which are placed in one of the im­ perial carriages, and it seems that these petitions are always read, and that many of them are granted to the full in -a high-handed, lordly, capricious way, which makes the dispensation of imperial grace something like the drawing of a prize in a lottery. However, every case of lavish bounty or of wroug redressed (and there are some such cases every week) strikes deep on popular imagination and serves in a clumsy fashion to keep official extortion­ ers and bullies in order. One hears of pashas dismissed throagh the petition of old women who have tramped to Yildiz from the most distant villages of Arabia. These things are not fiction; and, in all that relates to the sudden setting-up or the sudden setting-down of placemen, the rule of Abdul Hamid differs little from that ot Haroun-al-Raschid. ̂̂ INTERSTATE COMMERCE. % : i jt- f ' Some of the Way* In Which the Law Af­ fects Travel. All persons except ministers of the gos­ pel must pay full fare. >, The press must pay full fare. <t No rebates allowed. t Passes can be granted to officers or em­ ployes of railroad and transportation com­ panies only. One company may exchange these passes with another. Railroad men must pay full fares for their families. Tariffs must be printed and posted in all stations. Rates may be increased by giving ten days' notice. Rates may be reduced by giving one day*s notice, posting tariffs in the sta­ tions. A lower rate cannot be given for a longer journey. Tbat is, if a war of rates should occur, and tbe fare between New York and San Francisco be reduced to $10, the com- pahies giving such rates could not charge more than that for conveyance to any in­ termediate station. No theatrical rates or passes to agents. In regard to passes, the law applies to travel between States only; passes may be given from one town to another in the same State. Excursion, mileage, thousand-mile, or commutation tickets are not affected by the law. Tbe extreme penalty of the law is a fine of $5,000 for each and every offense (giv­ ing a pass or cutting the rates), with a lia­ bility for damages to the man who fails to get the pass or the cut rate. 1. Companies also liable in damages to persons injured through violation of any of the provisions of the act; also costs of suit. The attorney's fees shall be fixed by the court. 2. No complaint shall be at any time dis­ missed because of absence of direct dam­ age to the complainant. Each and every violation of the pro­ visions of the act constitutes an offense. The Commissioners of the interstate commerce bill shall ait in judgment upon all cases. Work of the CommlnMon. Ifuch interest has been shown in a quiet way in the doings of the Interstate Com­ missioners. It has been learned that the railroad managers all over the country are waitine with impatience a final decision of tho application of the Southern roads for a permanent suspension of the long and short haul clause. There is no reason for this impatience, as the ninety days' tem­ porary suspension does not expire till July .5. Tne seventy-five days' respite given the transcontinental roads will be up later. Since the Commissioners got back from the South much of their time has been spent in executive session, and it is presumed that much of the testimony taken is by this time thoroughly digested. It is certain that every) ody who had facta ZVStmfcW*'*** *m Tbe Roes Between the League Clubs Becoming Closer and More Intereitittg. :>*• - ' ( FEIRF«?AOO COHBESPONDFILF^F Seven weeks of the League champion­ ship season have passed, and the pros­ pects for a close, stubborn finish, which seemed so dim and unsatisfactory two weeks ago have been improved to an ex­ tent that has aroused an increased interest among lovers of the national game throughout the country. In the Associa­ tion race, the walk-over which St. Louis will enjoy is so apparent that all interest as to the result of the race has departed, and whatever doubt remains is the fight lor second place between Brooklyn, Cincin­ nati, Louisville, and the Athletic*, anyone of which teams stands a fur chance of capturing it. Chicago is now a good fifth in the League race, and pushing Philadelphia closely for the fourth place. Baldwin continues to 6how improvement in his pitching, and with any kind of support is certain to win a majority of the games in which he plays. Clarkson is in fine trim, too, but he has had the misfortune .the past week of losing t«ro well-pitched games in the ninth inning by lucky scratch hitting of opposing bats­ men; and costly errors by the infield. Flynn iB still laid up with the split hand ho received in the Becond Philadelphia game. The day before the plucky little pitcher left fcr Philadelphia he told a friend that he would pitch ball or ask for his release. He was tired of doing nothing, he said, and now that he was in good condition he would demand that he be given t,n oppor­ tunity to relieve Clarkson and Baldwin. When he reached Philadelphia Anson put the youngster into the field, and the first ball that fell outside the diamond split one of his hands, compelling him to leave the field. WHAT THE MEN ABE DOING. The work of the Chicago team during the past two or three weeks has improved so wonderfully that all of the howling against the management which filled the base-ball columns of the Chicago papers during the first month of the race has now ceased, and the same old enthusiasm that maiked the work of the old White Stocking team of 1885, '86, and *87 is prevalent on every hand. Burns, Williamson, and Pfeffer are playing their average game,,al­ though the latter has not been doing much with the stick of late. Anson, on the other hand, has helped his rather weak batting record the past week, but his errors of Thursday and Friday have played hob with his fielding average. The work of Daly and Flint continues to win admiration. The little man from Jersey seems to have no trouble in handling Baldwin's terrific delivery, and his throwing to bases is very clever. Flint's wonderful improvement as a batter adds immensely to his value to the club. It appears rather strange that An­ son does not give that tremendous batter, Dell Darling, a little more work to do. Darling is a fine catcher, equally as good a base-runner and fielder, and whenever he playB with the team makes his work count, Doth in his position and at the bat. THE LEADERS. Tha fight between Detroit's heavy hit­ ters and Mike Kelly's Boston team is hot and bitter just at present. Boston seems to-be playing the better ball, but the series between the two nines in Detroit during the fiist week of July is certain to be of the cut-throat order. B urdock is still unable to play, and Kelly, who is attempting to cover the bag so ably guarded by the old second baseman, is making a show of him­ self. His errors are so numerous and costly that were it not for the splendid playing of the rest of the nine the bean- eaters would not be roosting quite BO high as they are at the present time. A feature of the Detroit games during the season thus far lies in Weideman's great work in the box, he having lost but one game rince the race opened. "Lady" Baldwin has gone amiss in his work, and it will certainly be a good thing for De­ troit when Twitchell recovers the use of his arm. The temporary retirement of White has caused a good deal of com­ ment unfavorable to the Detroit man­ agement, for it is claimed that bis work with the bat has more than offset his errors in the field., NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON. Last year it was the Philadelphia Club which played hob t with New York s chances for the pennant, and this year it is Wash­ ington that has succeeded in throwing "a damper over the spirits of the Gothamites. It has been nip and tuck between the Wash­ ington and New York clubs ever since the season opened, and a hurried glance over the scores shows that the statesmen have had a "shade the best of it." Of all the players who left the Chicago team Gore is the only one who has held his own as a batsman, fielder and base-runner. He is doing good work for the so-called "Giants," and his average3 'at the end of ihe season promise to be very high, bis Ro.'er Connor, like Anson, has begun to find the ball, he having made two three- base hits in Friday's game with Wash­ ington. Keefe has distanced Welch as a pitcher unde the new rules, and is win­ ning a large share of the games. George is so erratic and uncertain that it is doubt­ ful if he will appear in the box many more times this year. As for the statesmen, they are playing uncertain ball. Whi e it is not likely that they will creep above 6ixth place, they are certain to win just enough games to make themselves dangerous. Whitney, who has pitched so effectively against the New-Yorkers, was pounded rather heavily in Friday's pame. The Washingtons have a promising twirler in young Gilman, and Shaw may oe counted to worry the best of them. Pittsburg is playing a strong game for a nine >o far down in the column. Tbe club is dropping l enind in its batting, and this fact, no doubt, explains its present position. Barkley is still too ill to play, and Carroll, the big hitter of the team, is seldom seen on the field. The loss of two such men has counted against the club. Dalrymple is still Unable to find the ball. _ It is rather sad to see tbe ex-leader of National League batsmen and the present king of left field­ ers almost helpless with the club. Th«re was a time when this great player made the opposing fielders scatter like quail when he hit the ball in the nose. But Dalrymple has lost his grip, and no one appreciates this fact moro keenly than the left fielder himself. HOW THET STAND. The following tables will show the work of tha National League and Association teams up to Monday, June 13: THX JLKAOUK. 16 W.17|15,21|» Detroit Boston New York...... Philadelphia... Chicago Pittsburgh .... Washington... Indianapolis.... Games lost, ASSOCIATION. Athletic. Baltimase Brooklyn Cincinnati Cleveland Louisville Metropolitan... St. Louis Games lost. 4011S 30 21 8 21 .. 26 l-]80 3.22 ..! 9 1|21 2 9 -|34 r IUUSWSWmStATCRB.-? nn Bouse bffl vsovMtag far the aeqidsitito ****** homsstsad passeff the SeaaAS on the lath Inst, with an amend­ ment requiring that tba eustodiaa he a crippled , T!" passed the Hotiae bill .a--?-»»»*-« f>» ers upon teaehem' hutttuteT crajmSSSv ,Bf »bU] vraUbfliaa the sale ot tobacco to minors under 16 yean ai --- unless upon written otters of their sari ents or guardians. In tha lfau. Representative*, the vote by which the bill making appropriations for the enlargement of the Elgin Insane Hbsmtal tailed to pass was reconsidered, and the hill irtwnd It allows >177,800. The Honte passed theSen ̂ ate bills for the protection ot employes of em­ barrassed corporations in their claim tat wages,, and authorizing park commissioners to con­ demn lands for the widening of boulevards A bill appropriating 93,000 to Mrs. Terrence- Begley, whose husband was killed by Pinker- ton men daring the labor troubles la Chicago- last year, was introduced in the House by Rep­ resentative Wright, of Cook County. The House passed a bill prohibiting the manu­ facture and sale of adulterated or compounded vinegar. THE House bill making appropriation for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois National Guard, with the Senate amendment for the establishment of a permanent northern camp, was passed by the Senate on the 18th the Senate. It authorizes Recorders to do an abstract business and turn the fees into the County Treasury, the compensation be­ ing fixed at $1,000 per- annum. The House amendment to the Cnester Penitentiary appropriation bill allowing the Commissioners of tbat prison to use the contingent fund for employing uncontracted convicts was con­ curred in. A measure which provides that only soldiers who have been residents of the State for two years and who are not now inmates of national institutions shall be admitted to the Soldiers' Home at Quincy was passed by the Senate. The House of Representatives passed the Senate bill to create a general banking law and the Senate bill amending the act to enlarge the powers ot the Board of Live-Stock • Commissioners The general appropriation bill passed the House With some amendments. The total amount carried by the bill ig $2,893,000. THE House bill appropriating SI36,003 for tbe expenses of the Joliet Penitentiary and to keep the prisoners therein employed, was passed by the Senate on the 11th inst. The Senate con­ curred in the House amendments to the gen­ eral banking law bill. The House bill to punish boycotting passed the Senate by a vote of U0 to 6. Senator Johns called up the bill to pro­ hibit landlords including taxes in the rent of farms, and it passed. Senator McGrath called up the House bill providing that in oases of changes of venue the county where the crime was committed shall pay the witness fees and mileage. The bill passed without objection. The House of Representatives adopted the re­ port signed by the majority of the committee appointed to investigate the abuses in the Anna Insane Asylum. The Senate bill giving judges the power to appoint conserva­ tors of the estates of persons adjudg­ ed Insane in their courts passed the House with some amendments. The bill providing for instruction in the publio schools upon the effect of alcohol and narcotics upon the human system was defeated. TTie bill making tho fiscal year of the State charit­ able institutions begin Sept. 1 passed both houses. The bill amending the pharmacv act so as to prohibit physicians from acting as phar­ macists without pharmacists' certificates also passed both houses. The House refused to pass over the Governor's veto the Lillie claim bill. THE Thirty-flfth General Assembly of Illinois adjourned sine die on Wednesday, Jnne 15. Th^ joint resolution authorizing the appointment by the State Superintendent of a commission to revise the school laws of Illinois and report to the next General Assembly passed both houses. The bill providing a penalty for any employer denying an employe the opportunity of voting on election day, failed in the Senate by one vote. The Senate adopted the report of the special committee to investigate the death of B. G. Pedro, an inmate of the Anna Insane Asy­ lum, which censures the officials of that insti­ tution for negligence. The bill amending the medical-practice act was passed by the House with some amendments, which were promptly concurred in by the Senate. The House, upon a reconsideration, again refuted to concur in the amendment to the militia appropriation bill setting apart $20,01)0 for the proposed north­ ern camp. The Senate then receded from the amendment, and tbe bill was sent to the Governor In its original form. The total number of bills introduced in the Thirtyv fifth General Assembly was 1,287--House bills 85t>, and Senate bills 428. The total num­ ber passed is 201--House bills 86, and Senate bills 118 One Senate bill was vetoed, the wn providing for the payment of the furnishing of the Appellate Court rooms in Cook County, and one House bill was vetoed, the Lillie claim. Both veto s were sustained. The cost of the XXXVth General Assembly, as estimated by tbe State Auditor, is #875,000. The average cost of each bill passed is $1,8»H. The cost of the XXXIY7*h General Assembly was SiJ61,00(>, and the session was nine days longer than the one just closed. The amount appropriated for nil purposes this session is *7,8J0,0JJ, SJO.OOJ more than was appropriated two years ago. Nothing was accomplished' on tbe revenue question. A Springfield correspondent thus describes the closing scenes of the session: ."Ihe Senate proceedings were of rather _ mild character and there was very little wrang­ ling, which may be considered unnsual for the closing day of a long sess on. Everybody n in the best of humor, and the utmost good feel­ ing prevailed. Of the sc re of House bills on thira reading, all passed save three or four measures, and tbe principal one ot these was the farmers' drainage bill. The Senate practi­ cally concluded its labors at ti o'clock, and then va ted two hours for the House to take action on the northern camp amendment, and to give the finishing touches to the session. The wait­ ing time was spent in a recess, during which the dignified Senators gathered in the center aiBle, sang songs, and made humorous address­ es. When they tired of this and their luncs refused to serve them more they mounted a colored jauitor upon a desk and had him sing some good old plantation songs, while staid old Houthworth, dignified Judge Crabtree, and several others joined in and cir­ cled around, first on one foot and then on the other, joining in the chorus to the negro melo­ dies. To one not accustomed to such a scene, it was very amusing, and all joined in the fun. It was the usual ending to a session of the General Assembly. At least in the upper house. Tne proceedings in the House were very much after the stereotyped last-day af­ fair. The members were inclined to be ugly and noisy, and the business was retarded by all kinds of confusion. The noise was something tot soon to be forgot­ ten, and the members kept alternately howling and answering roll-call until the affair came to a natural end. 1 he calendar of bills on third reading was ent:rely exhausted. The militia bill only squeezed through by a scratch. The House refused to concur in the amendment for a northern camp, and the Senate receded just in time to save the bill. The Newberry library bill and the amendment to the medical practice set got through, as did also any number of matters of minor importance." The Hor.sc-rower Standard. The use of the "horee-power" as a measure of an engine's work came nat­ urally from the fact that the first en­ gines were built to do work which had formerly been performed by* horses. John Smeaton, who built atmospheric engines before Bolton A' Watt placed their more complete machiue upon the market, had valued the work done by a strong horse as equal to lifting a weight of 22,000 pounds one foot high in a minute. When Bolton & Watt be­ gan to bid for public favor they Agreed to place their engines for "value of one- third parts of the coals which are saved in its use." They also increased the value of the "horse-power" to 33,000 foot pounds, so that their engfues were half again as powerful for their rated power as those of their competitors. In this way they established the value of the horse-power. The following are the various ralnea of a horse-power": 33,000 foot pounda per minute. 650 foot pounds per second. 2.565 thermal unit per hour. 42.75 thermal unit per minute. The horse-power of a boiler depends upon its capacitv for e\ aporation. The | evaporat on of 30 pounds of water from 100 degrees F. into steam at 70 ponnda | gauge pressure, equals 344 pounds from and at 212 degrees F. is equivalent to | a horse power. The amount of water which a boiler will evaporate at an econom cal rate n , an hour, divided by the abo e quanti­ ties, is its cQmmex-c al horse-power. j A unit of evaporation is the heat re- I quired to evaporate a pound of water! from and at 212 degrees, 966.1 thermal | units. A thermal unit is the amount of heat I required to raise a pound of water one I Fahrenheit degree in -temperature at| its point of maximum density.