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Sxpervisors of Agents, 2 PARK SQUARKH, BOSTO |, - MASS a] correspondence to aine has on wrapper. nsions » Cor. 17th ¢ M lane pisability Bill is a Law SOLDIERS DISABLED SINCE THE WAR ARE ENTITLED. dent widows and ose sons died fro! clude JAMES TANNER now depen y ser: d,address Late Commissionea of Pensions. Washington, D. C. We Preach—Yo. fares sucee We start THIS WEEK'S NEWS. A Summary of Current Events—The World's Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered and Condensed for Our Readers. General. Yellow pine prices have been advanced slightly. ‘Texas’ corn crop is the largest ever raised in that State. Whitelaw Reid will take the stump at Springfield, Ill., on August 18. Pension Commissioner Raum will take the stump for Harrison and Reid. Diphtheria rages in the Park Hotel at Madison, Wis., owned by Senator Vilas. Friends of the late Senator Plumb seek to erect a monument to him in Washing- ton. Mrs. Alden and Ellen Egan were killed by lightning strokes at Buzzard’s Bay, Mass. An effort will be made to place Gen- eral Mahone at the head of the Richmond and Danville. It is estimated that the strike of the New England granite cutters has cost them $2,800,000. A drought of three years duration in Northern Texas was terminated by heavy and general rains. The Peoples party leaders claim that Judge Gresham will give his support to their national ticket. ‘The Italian Minister of War has com- pleted plans for increasing the army by ten cavalry regiments. California fruit growers claim that the prune crop of the State will not be 65 per cent of last ye: ‘The health authorities in New York are taking every precaution to prevent the spread of small-pox. Heavy rains have greatly damaged the grape and olive crops of Spain. At Hu- seca thirty houses were washed away. Mrs. Hawley, of Norwalk, Conn., had her arm and jaw broken and was nearly suit cated by being trapped in a folding bed. Congressman W. Bourke Cockran, of New York, has tendered his services as campaign orator to the Democratic Na- tional Committee. President Harrison and ex-President Cleveland are likely to meet at Glouces- ter, Mass., at the city’s 250th anniversary celebration, In consequence of the anti-lottery law the business of the New Orieans Post Office has fallen so much that clerical salaries have been reduced. The loss of the Mexican market for Texas corn has reduced the price on the American side of the Rio Grande to 25 and 40 cents a bushel. “Sam’l of Posen” Curtis, who is under bail for murder at San Francisco,has also become involved in a civil suit with the Forbes Lithograph Company. Consul McCreery, of Valparaiso, Chili, has arrived in Washington, and was fur- aished with a copy of the charges against aim by the State Department. Two Lansing, Mich., boys while play- ing crawled into an ice chest. Their movements caused the lid to fall and clasp and both were suffocated. Marvin E. Hall, of Michigan, has been lected Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Veterans, and George W. Pollitt, of New Jersey, Senior Vice Commander. The great search light on Mount Wash- ington will bein operation mext week. It will be seen over 100 miles away and at that distance will look like a comet. Various committees of the Richmond ferminal met in New York and decided to work together to secure a thorough and effective reorganization of the sys- tem. The twentieth annual convention of the National Asscciation of Uvion ex: Prisoners of War will be held at Washing- ton during Grand Army week, next moath. Lloyd Lewis, who has been president of the Wells-Fargo Express Company, has resign’d and J. J. Valentine, form- erly manacer, has been elected to suc- ceed him. Congressman W. C. P. Breckenridg who opposed the Fair Appropriation Bi in Congress, has indorsed a newspaper article suggesting his resignation as ora- tor of the day, October 21. Mrs. Preston Twitchell, of Cincinnati, shrough the State Department and the payment of $400, has recovered from Mexico the body of her husband, who was murdered there six months ago. Rev. Dr. Thomaa D, Beavan, pastor of the Church of the Holy Rosary, at Hol- yoke, Mass., has been appointed Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Spring- field, to succeed the late Bishop O'Reilly, The Executive Committee of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor will shortly hold a meeting in New York to devise, it is said, retaliatory measures in regard to the New York and Homestead strikes, Mrs. Rushlain, her daughter, her brother, and several farm laborers, liv- ing near Laurel, Sussex County, Del., were poisoned by drinking water from a well, Arsenic had been placed in the water. A cousiu of old-time President Millard Fillmore, Mrs. Lavina Fillmore, a Clar- ence, (N. Y.) widow, who was living when George Washington was inaugu- rated, celebrated her 105th anniversary on Saturday. Fifteen hundred persons broke a chol- era cordon at Platana, near Trebizond. On refusing to return, Turkish troops fired upon them, seven being killed and many wounded in the first volley. They then fied back to the lazarette. Among the officers elected by the Knights Templar at Denver are Eminent Grand Commander Hugh McCurdy, of Cerunna, Mich. ; Deputy Grand Com mander, B. H. Lloyd, of California; Grand Captain, H. D. Stoddard, Texas, The biennial German tvangeticai Latheran Conference of the United States is in session at St. Matthew’s German Latheran Church, New York. Twenty States are represented. Rev. Dr. ing, of Milwaukee, was re-elected @tesident, TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. Ason of Senator Dolph, of Oregon, has eloped from Tacoma with Miss Arm- strong, of Seattle. Fifty houses have been robbed in four nights in Southern St. Louis, Mo., and $100,000 worth of goods stolen. President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, has decided not to voycott the Carnegie Company, on the ground that the output of the concern is insufficient to warrant such action. John W. Warwick, member of Con- gress from the Sixteenth Ohio District, died at Washington, aged 61. At Crete, Ill., a stranger without prov- ocation, fatally injured Howard Palmer with @ piece of saucer and then threw himself under a passing train. The great search light at Mount Wash- ington in the White Mountains was tried and miles of territory illuminated. The new British st: amer Thracian cap- aized near London, England, Monday. The crew of 25 men were saved. Ex-Senator Spooner has consented to accept the nomination for Governor of Wisconsin on the R publican ticket. An agent of the Carnegie Steel Com- pany was in Newark, N. J., this week, looking for men to take the places of the strikers at Homestead and the other mills of the company. Maine orchardists, whose crops will be fairly large, expect to reap a golden har- vest this year on account of the practical failure of the apple crop in New York and Michigan, the two great apple pro- ducing States. Joe Burgoyne, the hunter, trapper,and moose tamer of East Branch Farm, Me., has sold his famous pair of pet moose to a circus for $400, and is now sorry he didn’t ask $2,000 for them. The moose are fast trotters and have made fast miles on race tracks. The people of Little Rock, Ark., are much amused over the discovery that Whipple, Republican, and Carnahan, People’s party, candidates for Governor, are not only making a joint canvass for the office, but are also riding on a joint railroad pass, Whipple carrying the book. The Sheriff of Erie county bas sworn in 50 deputies to prevent any further trouble in the Lehigh Valley freight yards at Buffalo, N. Y. The switchmen on strike say that they are determined to win the fight, and they assert that the roads are losing heavily by not having men to perform the work of the strikers. The entire town of Red Mountain, Col., alively mining camp, was wiped out by fire the first of this week. Sixty build- ings were destroyed, including stamp mills, ore and shaft house of a number of mines in the place, all the business houses, and many residences. The total loss is estimated at $175,000, with but little insurance. Miss Lottie E. Swatwood, a midget, was married on Sunday, in New York, to Leopold Kahn, better known as “ Admiral Dot.” Rev. Dr. Wise, of Temple Rodef Shalom, performed the ceremony in ac- cordance with the Jewish rite The bride is 28 years of age, and the bride- groom 28, She is 49 inches in height and he is 48, Both were with the Royal Midget Company last year. FOREIGN NEWS3AND GOSSIP. Two hundred German soldiers were or- dered to swim across the Neisse River in linen suits and carrying their rifles. Seven of the men were drowned. Berlin has a horse steak restaurant on the Paris plan. War along the border has prevented the Ameer of Afghanistan from meeting Lord Roberts, who seeks him on an im- vortant British mission. Russia’s cholera plague has reached St. Petersburg, the capital. The Belgian government will send troops to check the Arabs’ uprising along the Congo. Asa means of clinching the effect of their intrigues in Morocco, the French are alleged to have bribed the Sultan’s Moorish ministers with $10,000 eagh se that the British treaty should not be signed. Strikers Were Desperate. As an outcome of the switchmen’s strike on the Lehigh Valley, Beffalc Creek and Erie Railroads at Buffalo, N Y., the incendiaries’ torch was applied in several places in the great yards of the Lehigh Valley road at East Buffalo, and damage to the extent of $50,000 was the result. A number of freight and paseen- ger coaches were destroyed. The strikers assaulted some of the men in the com- panies’ employ, and for a while a general riot seemed imminent. EDWARD CHADWICK’S MILLIONS They Are Phi o Twenty years ago this month, accord ing to a Philadelphia dispatch, Cornelius Chadwick, a real estate agent at 207 South Fifth street, first learned that he was next in line to the heir at law of the fabulous wealth of old Sir Andrew Chad- wick, who died in England in 1768. Af- ter persistently fighting in the Court of Chancery with the 101 English agents and barristers this score of years, the enormous estates of the old English knight are now in sight of the American claimant, and a compromise is soon ex- pected by which Mr. Chadwick, who is now the heir-at-law, anda powerful New York syndicate, which is furnishing the sinews of war to prosecute the claim, will receive a large portion of the estate, valued at not less than $187,000,000. At the time of Sir Andrew’s deati his pos- sessions had grown to £1,100,000, mainly in London real estate, where he o.ned over 1,000 houses, He had no children. The Philadelphia claimant had not the means necessary to prosecute his cluim, so he took a wealthy New York syndi- cate in with him, and their leading law- yer has been in London for over a year prosecuting the claim. Everything bas been done through liberally paid English barristers, and now they report that @ compromise is about to be effected by which the opposition of counter claim- ante will be withdrawn, Official returns in Alabama place Gov- ernor Jones majority at about 12,000. ‘The political managers of both parties are hard at work at headquarters in New York. : : ‘The window glass scale is settled, an¢ all the factories will start up either Sep- tember 24 or October 1. The excessively hot weather has al- most depopulated Washington. All who could get away are gone. Four Methodist bishops have concluded at Buffalo a reconstruction of the course of studies for candidates for the minis- ay. iipoits to the Agricultural Depart- ment show that the corn crop has in- creased, spring wheat is lower and cot- ton has raised. 3 A sharp clap of thunder so frightened Mrs. Margaret Davies, of Hyde Park, Pa., that she died in afew minutes. She had been asleep. : The revenue cutter ‘Bear in its recent trip to King Islands rescued 200 natives who would have perished had they re- mained till winter. News from Teheran, is to the effect that the cholera is increasing in viru- lence there. The deaths in the city now aumber sixty daily. The warship Kearsarge has been or- dered to Navassa, where the employes of the American Guano Company are agalp rioting owing to ill-usage. Schweinfurth, the Illinois “ Messiah,” has purchased two “heavens,” one oD each aide of the boundary between Mis souri and Iowa, near Keokuk. A syndicate of New Yorkers, headed by Banker Jesse Seligman and Perry Bel- mont, are negotiating for all the street car lines in and around Boston. ‘The Treasury Department has decided that a foreigner who makes acontract in this country to work here and then re- turn to his own country can not come back. Dr. Gallagher’s case is being investi- gated by the State Department pursuant to a resolution of Congress. He is con- demned for life in an English prison as2 dynamiter. For the G. A. R. Encampment at Washington the veterans will erect on grounds adjacent to the White House a model of the old warship Kearsarge, from the deck of which addresses will be made. A rival of the Salvation Army, organ- ized in San Francisco, is about opening a campaign against the Devil in New York under “General” Maybell, formerly first lieutenant of Dennis Kearney in the “gand lots” agitation. A gigantic jelly combine, with $12,000. 000 capital stock, has been formed by about 150 of the largest preserve anv and Canada. Headquarters will be es tablished in New York. Mr. Gladstone was summoned to meet the Queen on Friday at her residence on the Isle of Wight. The Tory cabinet sent in ite resignations on the same day. Mr. Gladstone will undoubtedly be iv sever again during the coming week, A DAY’S OUTING AT BAY RIDGE. Boating, bathing, fishing crabbing, sailing: a ride gn steamer Columbia, sixty miles, for 10 cents; pienic groves, riding horses, merry- go-1ounds, electric and gravity roads, concerts. ‘B, &O. trains at 9:15 a. m.. 130 p, m., 4:28 p.m. Sundays 9:35 a. m., 1:30 p m 3:15 p.m. $1 round trip. SOFT CRABSUPPERS AT BAY RIDGE. Free concerts by meal is 0 Hungarian Band while in progress B, &O. trains at 9:15 a, P.m..4:2 p.m, Sundays 3.15 p. m. $1'round trip. a.m., Thos. H. Clarke, REAL ESTATE AND LOANS, 908 F Street, N. W WASHINGTON, D, C. pp IE LITLIL RE AR a to SI ADVERTISERS can learn the exact cos' of any proposed line o advertising in American papers by addressing Geo. P. Rowell & Co. Newspaper Aavertising Buresu, 10 Spruce St, Nw York. Wee? “Geta 9 nce Pann Oi 66. / Book Agents Wanteadto Seu THE LIFE OF Sn BEECHER. AGENTS), By Lyman Abbott and Rev. astor of Pl arch, iy by Mr. Beecher Himself oad ts gid'and approval: the jelly manufacturers of the United States | }and lots purchased on Cents Per Week $5 CASH ~AND~— 50c. Per Week Will buy you a home in the CITY OF BOWIE. 50 CTS. PER WEEK. The first opportunity offered colored people to secure Homes on Weekly payments of vu! cente a week or Two Dollars per month. 1000 LOTS FOR SULE. In the city of Bowie, State of Maryland. Only 20 minutes ride from Washington. Double track 22 trains stop daily. Fare to and rom Washington, only Six cents by commutation ticket. The junc- tion of the Baltimore and Poto- mac and Pope Creek Railroad. Telegraph and Express offices, The best depot on the Baltimore and Pot 7c ralroad, Stores, churchesan. hools already built, The most healthful spot in the State of Maryiand. Title to prop- erty perfect. No Taxes, and pur- chasers of lots will receive their deeds, with certificate of title “Free.” PAIGE OF LOTS OMLY $10 "TERMS OF PURCHASE: Five dol- lars cash and two dollars per month, with no interest. Halt cash, 10 per cent discount; all cash 20 per cent discount. Money will be advanced to par ties desiring to build. If abusband purchaser dies, before his purchase is completed, a deed in fee will be given to hia widow, if the property has been improved, or if not. the amount already paid will be returned her ‘The above presents an opportu- nity never before offered the Col- ored people of the city of Wash ington to secure a valuable lot, either as an investment or fora home on monthly payments, and jat the same time, entitled them j to a vote and a voice in the Gov~ ernmept of the country. Those who apply first, will have the first choice of lots, Already many have made their homes in the “City of Bowie, the above terms should double in vulue with- | in the next six months For further information apply to W. Cavin Cuase, Agent, 1109 1 St., 0. w | or CAMPBELL CARRINGTCN Owner, 505 D St., n: w., Washington, D, C, CAPITAL SAVINGS BANK OF WASHINGTON, D. C. 804 F St. n. w. Receives deposits, loans money transacts a geneial bankng busi- ness. Location central and con- venient. 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