THE SILVER SITOATIflg.
EFFECTS OF INDIA'S ESTOP
PEL OF FEEE COINAGE.
The Price of the Whilj Metal Takes
a Big Drop Many Mines in Col
orado, 31ontana and Utah Shut
Down-The Cost of Silver Produc
tionThe Opinion of Kxperts.
The demoralization in the price of .silver
Million, owing to the action of the Indian
Council in closing the Indian mints to the
free coinage of silver, continued in Wall
street, New York, until not only was the
price for silver bullion it3elf depressed, but
thif-rLWa3 heayy celling of other securities
which were supposed to be affected by the
decline in the white metal. The stocks of
those railroads whose earnings are depen
dent upon the carrying of ores from tho
mines to the smelters, and supplies, timber
and machinery to the mines, fell away
Sharply. On the New York Stock Exchange
Silver bullion certificates were quoted first at
71, then they were offered at 70fS,60, with
out receiving a bid. The dealing in mining
shares on the Stock Exchange of late
amounts to very little. At 60 cents for
bar silver, the standard silver dollar is worth
tntr.nsic:illy 53.40 cents.
The fall in silver caused dismay to the mine
owners in the Salt Lake (Utah) region. The
Daly-West mine at Park City was ordered
closed down. The Diamond mine at Eureka,
Nev.,andtho old Jordan and Galena at
Bingham, Utah, were also ordered closed.
The owners of mines as follows also decided
to close : Sampson at Bingham ; Bullion,
Brock and Champion at Tinti ; Caroline at
Eureka ; Yosernite at Bingham ; Crescent at
Park City, and Anchor at Park City. These
have all been steady and strong producers.
The drop of silver caused consternation in
Butte, Montana, among the mine owners and
miners. The sudden and radical jump wa3
totally unexpected, and therefore those most
interested were nonplussed. The principal
silver producers are the Ahco, Moulton, Lex
ington and Gagnon, and the managers of
each, on being interviewed, said that unless
there was an immediate change for the better
work would be suspended. With silver at
eighty the mines we're operated at a small
loss, but this was sustained, as itwasthought
to be cheaper to lose a little than to entail the
greater expense of a shut-down, the pre
sumption being that the price would before
long go up.
The following interviews bear upon the
subject of the low prices of silver :
State Inspector Hutchinson, of Colorado,
says : "Every ounce of silver taken out of
the ground in Colorado has cost 41.53. tak
ing into account the sums spent in prospect
ing and development work. There are in
the State perhaps half a dozen bonanza prop
erties which can produce silver at fifty cents
per ounce." The best informed men at As
pen, Col., figure that it costs from eighty
three to eighty-five cents per ounce to pro
duce silver in that camp.
President Ifagerman, of the Mollie Gibson
Company says .- "I do not know of a mine in
the Aspen belt, except the Mollie Gibson,
which could produce silver at sixty cents par
ounce. Silver at sixty cents to seventy cents
will close every mine in Aspen, which means
the closing of every other mining camp in
the State, with the possible exception of
Oreede. The stoppage of silver mining in
the United States will materially reduce the
ftold production, as so large a portion of
gold is obtained in connection with silver."
That the action of the Indian Government
in suspending the coinage of silver will have
a depressing influence in the United States
is the general opinion in banking circles.
Many consider that the only method of relief
lies in the immediate repeal of the Sherman
Silver law. This, it is thought, will not only
restore confidence in this country but will
have good effect abroad in showing that this
Government is willing to follow in the well
tried lines of Old World financial experts.
The newspapers in India generally approve
of the action taken on the silver question,
but express the hope that the Government
will compensate the banks, the holdings of
which are largely in siivec
THE LABOK WORLD,
Canada needs farm hands.
Esulasd has 1,500,000 union men.
French railroads have women gatemen. N
Boston has 1000 non-union female compos
itors Seattle's labor convention indorsed
Single tax.
Eighteen States have a ten-hour law for
children.
San Jose (Cal.) bricklayers get $3.50 for
eight hours.
An Elkhart (Ind.) band instrument factory
shares profits.
New York has fifteen unions of Brother
hood Carpenters.
Wednesday is half holiday for Toronto
(Canada') grocers.
Fort Wayne (Ind.) street car hands get
fifteen cents an hour.
A union organization of farm laborers is
being effected in Kansas.
Sweden intends to pension workingmen
who have reached sixty years of age.
Beading, Ya.. has an organization of 4000
hardware workers who will camp for four
days in July.
St. Paul and Minneapolis street car hands
won a strike against being liable for acci
dents and breakages.
At Boston the Central Union is consider
ing a proposition that will give union men
shoes at wholesale rates. Each man is to
pay 2 a year.
At Denver. Col., men are numerous ap
plicants for situations at housework and
shirt ironing. The latter position pays from
312 to $16 a week.
A convention of labor delegates at Seat
tle. Washington, declared for State or city
employment bureaus and in favor of Govern
ment control of railroads, telegraph and tele
phone. St. Pat-t. OTinn union h.ikprs created a
sensation by exposing the conditions under
wmcn oreaa is made m undergrouna saop
Orocers and the Mayor are investigating ti
matter.
the
Attorney-Genekal Olney declined to
take action against the Tonawanda (N. Y.)
striking lumber shovers who were charged
with interfering with the trade of the im
porters. Detroit (Mich.) telephone girls decided
to organize, but an interested person mailed
them theater tickets the night of the meet
ing, and the meeting could not be held.
Later the girls were allowed an advance of
from 2 to $5 a month.
r Four million seven hundred and fifty-nine
thousand seven hundred' vand sixty-two
pounds of maple sugar have been weighed
far inspection in Burlington Vt.,hisj-ear.
FOR $15 A WEEK.
Estimated Cost of Seeing the Colum
bian Exposition.
A few days 'spent at the World's Columbian
Exposition has given me some fair concep
tion of the vastness of thf magnificent struc
tures that compose this white city by Lake
Michigan, writes a Washington Star eorr
spondent. I shall not attempt any long de
scription of the thirteen palatial buildings,
whose names indicate clearly the purposes
for which they were designed, I will, how
ever, in passing, refer to the Administration
Building with its gilded dome rising above
the surrounding buildings, a gern of architec
tural grandeur, and one of the jewels of the
entire Exposition.
One of the notable features connected with
this build'r.g is the statue of Columbus,
standing upon a pedestal fourteen feet high,
directly in front of the east entrance to the
building. The figure represents Columbus
taking possession of America. This statue
was begun by Louis St. Gaudens, but finished
bv Iis3 Mary Lawrence.
Passing from this building. I entered the
Woman's Building, erected for the special use
of woman and her work. It was designed by
Miss Sophie G. Hayden. and indicates the
harmony of grouping and gracefulness of de
tail which evinces the architectural scholar.
To her was awarded the first prize of 31000
and also the superintendence of the design.
In one of the vast rooms connected with
the building will be found exhibits of paint
ings, ceramics, art work, manufactures, lib
eral arts, fancy work, embroideries, laces,
etc.. in short, the exhibit is pronounced the
most beautiful ever collected. Ladies of
royal birth have contributed to this depart
ment ; the Queen of England and her daugh
ters. and the Empress of Russia, the Em
press of Austria and the Queen of Italy have
each contributed to make the woman's de
partment wonderfully attractive.
In this building ample space has been al
lotted for the National Council of the Wo
man's Christian Temperance Union, Woman's
Relief Corps, the King's Daughters. Young
Woman's International Christian Associa
tion, Woman's Columbian Club, the Emma
Willard Society, Home for the Incurables
and numerous other woman societies which I
cannot now enumerate.
And now, perhaps, I ought to speak of the
extensive preparations which Chicago has
made to accommodate the millions of people
whom she expected would visit the "World'
Fair." I have been astonished to notice the
great number of hotels and boarding houses
that have been recently erected ; hundreds of
these I do not think will ever be filled. There
are three hotels within a block of where I
am boarding, and each of them has 200 to 400
rooms, and I am informed that not one of
them has boarders to any extent.
The question is often asked. "What will it
cost to visit the Columbian Exposition and
spend a week there?"
I need not speak of the railroad fare ; that
is well known ; but, referring to the expenses
after reaching Chicago, I have found that a
good room, comfortably furnished with new
furniture, can be procured for $1 to SI. 50 a
day. In some cases a double bed will be fur
nished, so that two persons can occupy the
room, thus making the expense of each less.
These are present rates. It may be that
next month there wilt, be an advance, but I
doubt it.
It will thus be seen that the price of a
room is very reasonable. Of ccurse the
figures above do not refer to the old portion
of the city, but to the new that is, in. the
vicinity of the Fair grounds which, as you
know, are eight miles from the center of the
city.
1 am staying on Seventy-second street and
ride to the entrance at Sixty-fourth street
gate, eight squares away, for five cents by
electric cars. The location is pleasant and
greatly preferable to the old portion of the
crowded city, at least in my estimation.
And now I have given you the expense of
a room I will close by adding the other
items : First, the entrance fee to the Fair,
fifty cents ; then you will need a lunch, cost
ing from twenty to forty cents ; your supper
on returning home need not cost over twenty-five
cents ; what you spend on the grounds
In addition to the above will be at your own
option. You will probably want to see some
of the attractions in the "Midway Plaisance;"
most of them will cost you twenty-five cents ;
and then you will want a "guide book,"
which will cost you twenty-five cents. To
sum up, a week can be spent here comfort
ably and the entire expenditure need not ex
ceed $ 15 or 820.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Michigan has an anti-Pinkarton law.
Cholera is raging in Southern France.
The Reading Railroad reorganization has
failed.
The drought in Europe i3 causing wide
spread distress.
South Carolina has 10,773 acres planted
in watermelons.
The losses by the forest fires in Wisconsin
exceed $2,000,000
The State of Texas has won a suit to recov
er lands grabbed by railroads.
CiNciNS'ATr, Ohia, is about t annex
twenty square miles of territory.
The English courts are busy at present
winding up the Australian banks.
Li Hcng Chang, the Chinese Premier, ha?
intimated that a new treaty with the United
States will be drawn.
Canada just now is agitated by the biggest
public works steal at Montreal ever known in
the history of the Dominion.
A Daughter of the Revolution sug
gested that ev;Ty bell in the land be rung at
12 o'clock, Chicago time. July 4.
A Spaniard who had just arrived in Monte
Carlo from New York killed himself after
having lost $250,000 in gambling.
The Anarchist monument at Waldheim
Cemetery, Chicago, was unveiled with ap
propriate ceremonies and a parade.
The prospects for passage of the Iris'n
Ilome Rule bill are becoming dark , there is
general dissatisfaction with the financial
clauses.
American naval officers are trj'ing to de
duce a practical lesson in naval architecture
from the disaster to tha English warship
Victoria.
It is regarded as certain that that the rules
of the next House of Representatives will be
materially changed in order to abolish fili
bustering. Rear Admieai Mabkhau, who commanded
the British ram Camperdowu when she sank
the Victoria, and his officers, are to be court
martialed. There is a riot, almost of the proportions
of a civil war. in progress in the streets of
Rangoon, East India, between Moham
medans and English troops.
Judge Hanfohd, of the United States Cir
cuit Court at Seattle, Washington, has ren
dered a decision declaring the anti-cigarette
law,of that State unconstitutional.
3Tas. Angelina De Marrie. who died a
few nights ago at Chippewa Falls, Wis., had
proof in her possession showing that she was
107 years old. and Thomas Randall, in his
history of the Chippewa Valley, claims that
she was 121 years old.
OFF FOR POLAR REGIONS. !
PEABY'S SHIP STAETS ON
HEB NORTHERN VOYAGE.
The Bold Arctic Explorer, Accom
panied by His Wife, Sails Away
From Brooklyn on His Second
Attempt to Solve the Mystery of
the North Pole.
After Laying in New York Harbor for three
days Lieutenant Peary's Arctic ship, the Fal
con, cast oft her moorings and backed oft
into the middle of the East River from the
foot of Dock street, Brooklyn, bound for the
North Pole. There were fully 200 people on
Excursion Dock, just under the east pier of
the big bridge, as the whaler moved away, and
they all raised their hat3 and cheered the
brave little craft that is to take an American
expedition to the nearest navigable point to
LIEUTKNAXT PEARY.
the North Pole. The Falcon wa3 decked
with hunting from head to foot, and Lieu
tenant Peary's personal flag hung from the
taffrail. The Eskimo dogs ran about the
quarter deck, and the Colorado burros stuck
their big ears up over the bulwarks and
wagged farewell to the cheerers. After some
manoeuvring the bells in the engine room
rang "Go ahead," and the queer ship
started up stream. The big Sound steamers
were just rounding the Battery, and as they
passed the gayiy decked Falc6n they blew
their whistles three times before going
ahead. The Falcon answered each salute,
but made no attempt to keep up with the big
white side wheelers.
MRS. PEARY.
Lieutenant R. E. Peary and his North
Greenland party number thirteen. Lieuten
ant Peary's yacht, the Falcon, is a ship
within a ship. Her timbers are double
throughout and her bow is protected with
iron, so that it can ram the ice. She has two
crows' nests, one on the fore and the other
on the mizzen mast. The ship is 311 tons
net and 162 feet long. She has twenty-six
feet beam and draws seventeen feet of water
when loaded. She was considered the best
of the whaling fleet at St. Johns.
The Falcon will carry an interesting cargo.
In the hold is a house which will form the
winter quarters of the party. It will be
33x14 feet and 7 feet high. The walls,
which are a foot thick, will be lined on the
inside with red flannel. The house will con
tain two bathrooms, as well as a separate
sleeping room for Lieutenant Peary, who will
be accompanied by his wife. It is to be
lighted with electricity, the engine supplying
power to the dynamo being run by oil.
The stores will be piled in boxes around
the houte to the height of five feet, and will
be protected by an extension of the corru
gated iron roof covering the house. There
will be windows of thick glass in the roof,
but they will let in but little light, for the
house will be entirely covered with snow
during the most of the long Arctic winter.
Air will be supplied by ventilators, which
will extend high above the roof.
The exploring party will consist of
Lieutenant Peary, his wife and her mai i ;
his colored servant. Matthew Henson ; S. J.
Entreken, of Westchester. Penn., who be
longed to the party which went to Peary s
relief on his first expedition ; Edward
Astrup, a Norwegian who accompanied
him before : Doctor Vincent. F. W. Stokes,
of Philadelphia, artist of the expedition v
George H. Carr. Chicago ; J. W. Davidson,
of Austen, Minn. ; E. B. Baldwin, of Nash
ville, Tenn- ; Hugh J. Lee. Meriden. Conn.,
and George H. Clarke, of Brookline. Mass.
The Falcon on leaving New York sailed di
rect to Boston and Portland. Me., Lieutenant
Peary's home. She will then go to St. Johns,
and from there to the winter camp above
Whale's Sound. Greenland. The party will
remain in the Arctic regions about two and
one-half years. The expedition is expected
to cost $25,000. which Lieutenant Peary has
aready raised.
FIFTY DOLLARS A TON.
The Europoan Hay Crop Proves to
be a Total Failure.
The price of hay in England has advanced
to i50 ton, a figure seldom, if ever before,
reached. The fields of England, France and
German.- are said to be parched.
The lack of fodder in Europe has led to
the slaughter of large quantities of animals,
which accounts for th3 low price at which
wheat is selling. .
r-iTA?rrETi-xf ejtcral stewart's statement
of the expenditures of the naval review at
New York shows that 76.S00 of the appropri
tion of $350,000 was used, leaving a balance
of $273,200. oi" which $250,000 will be covered
into the Treasury on June 30, leaving a bal
ance of $23,000 to meet any contingent ex
penses which may be reported late--
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Pietko Bcccita: has hanged at Read
ing. Penn. He killed a nurs in the hospital
in which he was being treat ed.
The steam tug having the Viking in tow
collided with a canal So at ttweea Amster
dam and Fultonville. N. Y.. on the Hudson.
The Viking's crew left the tug in a sinking
condition, came ashore and towed their ship
three miles to Fultonyille by hand.
A babe abandoned in a doorway and regis
tered as "John Doe" died in the arms of a
nurse in the Court of General Sessions. New
York City, while two Italians. were being tried
for deserting it.
Tee Pennsylvania Chautauqua held its
opening exercises at Mount Gretna. Tenn.
Ex-Pbesident Benjamin Harrison ar
rived in New York from Indianapolis, ac- j
companies by Mr. and Mrs. Mchee and their
two children. They wn on their way to
Cape May. N. J., where they will spend the
summer. " .
The eighteenth annual boat race at New
London. Conn., between Yale and Harvard
was won by Yale, with Harvard three, lengths
behind. Yale's time was 25.01 . Harvard's.
25.15.
The Kings County (N. Y.) Grand Jury
made a presentment ensuring Mayor Roody
and the Aldermen of Brooklyn for the man
ner in which railroad franchises were grant
ed. The Grand Jury says it regrets the law
will not allow it to present an indictment
against these officials.
The Harvard Baseball Club defeated the
Yale team at the Polo Grounds. New York
City, by a score of six to four, thus winning
the championship.
A foot beidge over the canal r.t Cohoes.
N. Y.. collapsed while William Fryer. John
Whittaker and two companions were crossing.
Fryer and Whittaker were drowned.
New York Day was celebrated at the field
of Gettysburg, Penn.. by.the dedication of
the State's monument to " its fallen soldiers ;
Governor Flower. Bishop Potter and General
Sickles made speeches ; monuments were
also dedicated to the Twelfth Army Corps
and the Excelsior Brigade.
South and West.
Reports from Tennessee. Mississippi and
Arkansas show that the growing crops aro
in good condition, but beginning to need
rain. "
Governor Altoeld was hanged in effigy
by the people of Naperville, 111., for pardon
ing tho Chicago anarchists.
In Reynoldstown, a suburb of Atlanta. Ga.,
Tom Fagan, an imbecile youth, nineteen
years of age, killed his mother by cutting
her head oft with an axe, and then split her
head open and otherwise mutilated the body.
Mrs. Fagan had been ill and was confined to
her bed.
Senator Stanford's will was filed for pro
bate.in San Francisco, Cal. All hi? wealth,
except real estate and $2, SwO.OOO, is left to
Mrs. Sanford. The S2,500.030 goes to the
Stanford University.
George S. Crawford, President of the
Crawford Mill and Lumber Company, com
mitted suicide at Cincinnati. Ohio, by taking
poison. This he did to avoid the disgrace of
an arrest on the charge of forgery.
Canadians celebrated at the World's Fair
the anniversary of the passage by Parliament
of an act which united the provinces and
formed the Constitution of the Dominion
Government. The Canadian pavilion was
the centre of attraction.
Edward M. Powell, lessee of the Lowndes
County (Miss.) convict farm, was shot and
killed by his brother, James C. Powell, near
Tibbe station. . The killing was premeditated.
Bad feeling had existed for a year.
Washington.
Secretary Carlisle has received a tele
gram from Portland, Oregon.' announcing
the arrival there of the Haytien Republic
with 500 Chinese aboard. The vessel was
seized by the United States Treasury agents.
The President has appointed Scott Wike,
of Illinois, to .be Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury ; James F. Tillman, of Tennessee,
to be Register of the Treasury ; Overton
Cade, of Louisiana, to be Superintendent of
the United States Mint at New Orleans ;
Theodore S. Wilkinson, Collector of Customs
at New Orleans.
The President left Washington immediate
ly after issuing his extra session procla
mation for his summer home on Buzzard's
Bay. He will remain there about three
weeks.
Tee President, before leaving Washing
ton, signed an order reorganizing the mili
tary Department of Arizona under the name
of the Department of Colorado, with head
quarters at Denver.
Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of
Census, has resigned, to take effect immedi
ately. Mr. Porter recently completed busi
ness arrangements with a New York enter
prise which demands his early attention.
The bureau will hereafter be in charge of
Chief Clerk Wardle.
Foreign.
Nellie Henderson, aged four years, and
her aunt, Isabella Early, aged twenty-six.
were killed by a Canadian Pacific train at
Renfrew, Canada.
In consequence of the scarcity of hay,
maize and fodders, caused by the long-continued
drought that prevailed throughout
Germariy. the Government intends to pro
hibit the export of those articles.
Two convicts named Cayetano Olivares and
Marcelino Garcia made an attack upon a
number of fellow prisoners in the prison at
Pueblo, Mexico, with shoe knives, killing
three of them and wounding seven others.
It required the efforts of several guards to
overpower the two convicts. They are. said
to be insane.
The survivors of the British battleship
Victoria reached Malta. Admiral Tryon is
said to have admitted, before tbe Victoria
went down, that the collision was his fault.
Mr. Gladstone's resolution that the Home
Rule bill should te reported by July 31. and
should be closured in four sections, was
carried in the English House of Commons by
a majority of thirty.
Rear Admiral Marshal has sent his offi
cial report of the Mediterranean collision to
the British Admiralty. All the evii-nce
points to Tryon s responsibility for tha dis
aster. SMOTHERED BY FLAMES,
Sad Death of Three of a Widow's
Children.
Three children were smothered in a fire In
the home of Catharine Neumann a widow,
in Saginaw. Mich. The firemen arrived
promptly, but did not know that the family
had not escaped until the flames encircled
the building.
The mother was laken out and s:nt to the
hospital. She was terribly and fatally burned.
Tilda Neumann, aged tweut- years : Lena
Neumann, aged fifteen years, and Frank
Neumann, aged twelve years, were sx.oth-:red
to death. Another daughter. Alina. agei
isvenieen, escaped with a slight scorching.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Tnr Brooklyn are playing rrat tall.
O'Neill, of thrt c. L u.s t-n. L ix tet
2 ;i inches taU.
Tatmr h.- : ' ld ru.vinei a; Captain
cftae Biltiruco :-a:r.
Carter. Yal ' p.thr Is the gratst eol-leg-
t wirier "! the rear.
The New York tern hi ! i lisi-p nnt
aient to neariy every on.
Dalt ani Shoch. ! BroVi'yc, ar?
utility m-n to be prou i V.
I'k.notan i ti'.l far an i away p.ttsburg's
most sx?s!u ba-stea'er
Cvn'atw is playing I eft VwM U;tcr than
any Cincinnati player e-,vr did.
DtFrT. of B"fn. w.i th tin! League
player to mak .-venty-:V.- hit-'.
Grim is - insidere 1 .y hi fellow players ol
the Louisvilles thir sur-;t batter.
Cv'kiskev. of Ciuinnati. is this e.a
bitting better than for --v-rAl jvarv
RrfiE, ofth-' New V r.-. L a bar 1 p:t.hr
for :. cateh-r t ban lie. II frNjueatlf
cross-s hi -iigr..
Bp.oki.tn piay. a grat .:--hlll gaiv. ant
is nver beiten unt:i th- la.-1: man is put out
in the last inning.
Waci, of N'fiv Yori. nv. ': bati- 1 harder
in his life, fie L- il tl-'l Lag w il. U?
weakness i in 'it -hing thr iw:i bills.
Ball players hive at: i ie i that sh ivia; v1
th- nioast.i h- ha a g i una tht
eye. and eoas ' iueutiy i:npr vt-s th- t.vtiag.
Beeiten-teis. the St. L ;: mthrtr. k'p
his eye on tlrst bas- all th- ttue when th
ball is hit. H ; is a valuable, man in his p -iition.
Knookint, pit hr -u! of th ' "x In n it
common an rr :i ?' .v it wa- t a. utn
ag. It will pr 'a'iy l even lei.s common
another m 'nth from u nv.
The secret of the mi s, fn -' Rotvi tani
i having in making hm- run- , it- wri
grounds is found in the fa 't that th-l-ft Meld
fence is elo-?. and th players haw ma lo a
study of lifting balls in its dire -tiea.
Inflated batting aver i rs areth rrtWhU
year. A man may fa e a ptt-her tlv ti:n
in a game, ge: hit by a pitch." i ball, go to
llrst twice on called balls, mak" on- siritle.
and a single hit an 1 still na ve a batting aver
age of 1000.
This is a had s i n forth- debut of y lung
pitchers in the big L 'ague. Almost all of the
youngster who a:ne to League clulw for
trial with big reputations have suffered at
the start, as, for instan-e, Parrott, Stafford
and Rhodes.
Ix the lirst game of the series Harvard beat
Yale at baseball on Holm'- Field. Cam
bridge ; the score was three to tw, and then
were ten innings. In the con 1 game Yal
defeated Harvard on th j Yale Ileid, by tha
score of three to 0.
Here is the New YorkV hospital list Mc
Mahon, broken finger : Doyle, broken, liga
ment in left arm; Davis, lame shoulder,
tschmidt, cut in the elbow : Klly. sick ; Rusie,
unsteady : War i, with strained leg, worried
In mind and tired.
EEC5BD OF THE LEAOCE CLCB3.
Ter r
Clubs. Won. Lost, ct.l Club. Von. Lor. ct.
Boston 35 IS .6C0!Baltimoro .'25 27 .431
Brooklyn.. 3i ; 9 .642 Cineinnati.2-; 2 .431
Philadel...34 VJ .fi42:Vash'c2a.2 3) .414
Cleveland. 27 21 .."W St. Louis. .21 31 .104
Pittsburg.. 27 27 .500; Chicago. . .21 31 .401
New York 26 23 . isi Loui.svilb' .11 32
A. J. DREXEL DEAD.
The Hanker ami Philanthropist A
Victim of Apoplexy.
A private .-iblegram to the firm of Drexol
it Company, Philadelphia. Penn., announces
the deatii at Carlsbal. (JeraiaiiV, of Anthony
J. Drexel. the hea l oT that well known bank
ing house and a member of the firm of
Drexel, Morgan ec Co.. of New York ; J. H.
Morgan '., of London, and Drexel, Har
jos .t Co., of Paris. ., Apoplexy was the cauo
of death. The news of his death caused wide
spread sorrow in Philadelphia, where. :ip ;
public benefactor, a philanthropist and a
public spirited citizen, ho is no less well
known than as a distinguished llnaneier.
Anthony Joseph Drexel was born in Phila
delphia in LS2fj and at the age of thirteen
entered tbe banking house of his fathr, and
of which he has been for many years th
head. He has been prominently associated
with the philanthropic work of his nativo
city, and has made liberal contributions to
charitable and elemosyuary obji. ts. Two
years ago he founded, in Philadelphia, and
endowed the Drexei Institute, an institution
patterned after Cooper Institute, New York.
In it young men and women may receive fr
a technical education in many bran hes of
human labor. Its buildings eo-t thrc quar
ters of a million dollars and the endowment
is sufficiently large to insure its continuance.
Mr. Drexel was the intimate friend of Mr.
George W. Childs and his partner in many
works of charity. Born of a father who lelt
millions, Mr. Drexel has largely increased
his patrimony, and his wealth will probably
exceed thirty millions
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
A Xet
Decrease During June ol
The public debt ttateTr.nt. just issued,
shows that there was a net de.-rease of tl,
416.25S.5 during the month of June. The interest-bearing
debt increased 1'J1). debt on
which interest has c.M'rl since maturity de-'
creased ..;)50. debt bearing no interest
decreased 224. 102.50. and cash in th
Treasury increased f,.)7.13-;.0-. The aggre
gate interst and nor;-:nterest-oearing debt
June 30 was iUG1.431.7J. 1J ; May 31 it wa
.Lrjl.750.8Ti.63.
The certificates an i Treasury nts oTset
bv an equal amount of cash in Treasury Jim
30 was -f 534.553,020. a decrease of ry,977.097.
The total cash in Treasury was -t!745.O04.-COl.y.
The gold res ry was 95.435.413,
and the net cash bala ;-' 2f.970.-S77.38. la
the month there wis a decrease of .0o3,
177.17 in gold coin and bars, the total at thn
clos? being 133.455.4 J2. 5'. Of silver them
was an increase of 5.3'iy.y05.C'J. Of the sur
plus there was in National bank depositaries
12.032.573.65. against 11.64y,142.5t at t her
end of the previous month.
The receipts for the month of June were
30, QS. 921.85. and the expenditures 2'J,
260.451.30. In May the receipts were 30,
y71.4'j7.C4. and the expenditures 30,872,502.
7y. Customs receipts decreased from 15,
424.853.83 to 1 i. '64.3.83. Revenue re
ceipts increased from 113,212,103.42 to 14,
003. 127.32. The payments for pensions d
crsased from 14.203.020.35 to U.411.301.tH.
Much interest has been aroused by the an
nouncement that Professor Emmerich, of
Munich, and his a-'si.tant. Professor Tsnboi,
of Tokio, have discovered that Asiatic cholera
is essentially a poisoning with nitric acid
generated bv Koch's comma bacilli.
Hexhy P.cssell, whose -Cheer, Boys.
Cheer," "A Life on the Ocean Wave" and
other songs were among the most popular ot
the time a generation ago, recently entered!
unon hia eizhlieth veax. . i