The Nation

William Henry Harrison Ross, ex-gover nor of Delaware, is dead. A monument to Gen. Burnside wís unveiled at Providence, K I., on the 4th inst. PinkertOD non have been sent to the Pennsylvania coko regions to protect the workers. Anión P. MorrJH, ex-Gov. of Maine, died at his home in Augusta on the 4th inst., nged 84 years. President and Mr. Cleveland will attend the centennial cefebration at Clinton, N. V., on the IStfa inst. ■ The coinago of. the mints during Juue aggregated 14,837,802, of which $2,186.000 was ál standard dollars. Elizabethtown, Ky., had a $100,00) re the other nigbt, started by the explosión of a lamp in a drug store, A commission has been appointed to ar' range for a more equitable ndjustment of the salaries of po tal clerks. Kohert V. Ostendorf. a caerle in Jersey City, N. J., was shot and instantly killed in a street Ilght the other day. W. R. Huutington, postmaster at Delta, Ku ton county, Ohlo, wus fatally shot iu a sham battle at that place on the 4th. Mr. Chas. M. Hay es lias boen aj'pointed to succeed Col. Talmage, deceased, as gen era] manager of the Western Wabai. ..hui'. Madison Ham-I! has teen ap pointed private olprk for Gen. Shermaii' under the authority conferred by the last congress. The legislature of Illinois recently passed an act, whioh the goveinor bas now approved, making boycotting and blacklisting ponal offentes. A. A. Talniage, vice president and gen eral mnnager of the Wabasli Western rail way, died in his private car near Peru, Ind., on the 29tb uit. Yellow fever is making rapid strides at Key West, Florida. Tho seonre is beyond the control of the authorities, and striou apprehension is feit. Tho Northern Pacific railroad from Luk.Superior to Puget Sound is completed and the people of Tacoma, W. T., cele bratud the event on the 4th. Henry L. SnydSr, chief engineer of the navy, and superintendent of the state, war and navy department building, diod in Washington on the 30th uit. The Osago City water company ha; been organizcd in Osage City, Kan. Tho purpose of the organization is to assist agrieulture in that city and vicinity. 4The president has appointed Thomas A. Carter of Ozark, Ark., to be appraiser of the right of way of the Kansas & Arkansas Valley railroad through the Indian territory. Kishop James A. Shorter of the American Methodist Kpiscopal chureb, having charge of tho work in South Carolina and Georgia, died suddenly of heart disea e at his home at Wilberforce, near Xenia, O., iu the TOth year of bis age. Henton Milier, treasurer of Perry county, Ind., Is a defaulter to the extent of í67,000. He has disappeared with his young wife, leaving behind a large family of children by a formar wife. His prede ecssor was also a defaulter. A crowd of boys in Susquehanna, Pa., very anxious to see a game of base ball, climbed to the roof of one of the buildings on the ground, when it suddenly collapsed. burying those on the roof andthosc iuside in tho ruins. A number of persous were seriously injurod. The contract for the construction of tho lied River Valley railroad from Winnipeg to Pembina bas been signed and work will commence at once. Government bond for $1,000,000 were negotiated through :ocal brokers. There is great mitlnisiasm in the city over the results. During the month of June the circula, tion of standard silver dollars increased $84,687, and the gold holdings of the treas itry inc-reased $07,896. The incre ise of silver circulation during tbfe year was il, 336,000, and the increase in tho gold holdings during the same time was $27,946, 0U0. Private Thomas N. Bateman, troop of the Second United States Cavalry, shot and killed First Sergt Samuel M. Sopher of the same troop, at the Presido Barracks near Sau Francisco, the other morning. i-'ergt Fopher had reprimanded Bateman for breach of discipline. Bateman will be turned over to tho civil authorities. William Stichtenoth's malt house, on the southwest corner of Twelfth and Clay streets, Cincinnati, was totally destroyed by fire on the 4th inst. The lire originated from a sky-rocket which lodged in the tower. The loss will exceed $100,000. One man was killed by jumping from a window and another man was buried in the ruins. A loaded street car lef tFitchburg, Mass., (he other morning for the fair grounds to witnoss n gane of ba e ball. When a short distanee from the city the horses became frightened and ran away. The passeDgers became panic stricken and jumped from the car. One girl was in" staiitly killed, her neck being broken in the f all. A number of others were injured Iwo internally, and it is feared fatally. Thos. S. haldwin, a daring aeronaut, made an ascent from Quincy, III., ou the 1 1 li inst. When the balloon was a mile high iu air, ISaldwin mnde a jump and lnudeii in safety. Baldwin is a native of Quinoy and 26 years of age. He was for a numlier of years engaged in the newspa. per business there, but for tho last few years has been studylng athletics and ballooning. He made a similar leap in California, the distanee being 1,000 feet. Sixty skeletons have been discovered In a cave near Cookville, Ky. The entrance to the cave is on the pryicipal highways for travelers betweenKentueky and Geor. gia or South Carolina. A number of these caves are found along the route, and old citizens living near them say that these cuves were inhabited by men who would track travelers when they passed through with stock, and on their return with the proceeds of their sales, could waylay them and murder them. 'Ihe thre men captured in Alpena, Mich., somc time ago as the persons implicated in the murder of Detective Hulligan and the release of a prisoner named Mat. Kennedy, near Ravenna, Ohio, last spring, have been transferred from Cleveland to Kavonna. A few hours after the men had been taken to Ravenna the startling news was receivcd that Mat. Ken uedy, alias Harry McMunn, the prisoner who was rescud at Ravenna had been arrested in North Lansing, Mich. Ofllcers from Ohio went to Michigan at once alter the prisoner. Judge Dealy, iu the United States court in Portland, Oregon, says of the long and short haul clause of the inter-state commerce law: "The fact that there is competition in the carriage of persons and property to or from a particular place is a circumstance that justifies a common carrier, under section two of the interstate commerce law, to charge less for a long haul to and from said place than a short one included therein." He decides also that that section of the act in effect prohibits the giving of passes or free carriage to particular persons, and tbo exception allowed in section two in favor of ollicers and employé-! of the road does not iuclude the families of sucb persons.