The Nation

Gov. Swineford and educational agent Jackson have arrived at Alaska. Crop.i throughout the country are hopeIcssly ruiiiocl Juy tbo long drouth. Judge B. Markley Boyer, ex-congrestman from Pennsylvania, is dead. Massachusetts democratie state convention will be held in Worcester, September SI. Four persons were killed by the cara oear Five Mile River, Conn., the other day. George Bartlett and wife of Van Weat, 0., were thrown from a carriage and killed. James B. Davis, superintendent of the ordnance foundry, Washington navy yard, iius been dismi-sed. Several British schooners haye been captured off Alaska for violation of the "tatutes for the protection of seal fisheries. ÍShaít No. 1 of the Ashland mine, near Hurley, Wis., caved in the other afternoon and three minero were oinstantly killed. A passenger coach plunged through a eulvert near Terre liante, lnd., the other tnorning, and 13 persons were seriously injured. The July flre record for the United States and Cnnada foots up loases at $14,üa'),5oo, nearly 5J per cent above the July average. The commiasioner of patents has rendered a decisión to the effect that inventors must describe their in veiuion j in deünite, plain terms. United Stiltes Senator Riddleberger of Virginia was arrested in Woodstock, Va., the other day, and committed to jail and fined for contsmpt of court. Uon. James tí. Blaine went to Cork a few days ago for the purpose oL witnessing evictious and gathering material for use in tne coming campaign. The Wüite Kiver Utos in Colorado are on the war-patti. Residente of Meeker and aurrouudiug towns have asked Gov. Adams for troops and ammunition. Mr. Whiting, who has long fllled the position of clnuf draughtsman of the bureau of steam engineering, navy department' üas been disinissed from the service. President and Mrs. Cleveland have received invitations from alinost every city in the west and south, including San Francisco, New ürleans and Galveston. W. J. Stanley of Lampasas, Texas, who has been i.etive in prosecuting norse thieves, was called out of his house last night and bis body riddled with bullets. 1 1 .vu. Gairchild, commander-in-chief of tliuG. A. K., has written a letter of thanks to J. W. Drexui for his gift to that organi zation of the cottage on Mt. McGregor la wbich Gen. Grant died. Aaron A. Sargent, ex-United States senator from California, died in San Francisco on the Mth inst. Since his retiremeiit from the senate he has been practicïng law in San Francisco. Two men were arrosted in Kentland, Ind., the other day, on suspicion of being the men who set üre to the bridge near Chatsworth, 111. The proof gaiust them is considered very strong. Over a score of persons in l'ittsburg were made seriously ïll by eating cake, purchased t'rom a baker, which is supposed to have contained chrome yellow or some oth er equally deadly compound. Nearly $;M),oU0 worth of property was destroyed by flre in Chicago the other day. i'he Ure started in a prairie in the suburbs of the city and spread with frightful rapidity despite the eft'orts of the üremen to check it. The situation in the vicinity of Meeker, Col., is becoming criticai. Ihe Utes have been committing depredations of thn most llagrant kind, and the citïzens are thoroughly alarmed. The state troops have been ordered out. The govL-rnmeut is making preparations to prosecute the directora of the Pacific railroad ring. 'Ihe government and the Central and Union Faciflc roads have been outrageously plundered by these rings out of about $75,UUO,OÜO. The president bas appointed Rev. W. J. Cleveiand and Uenry T. S tan ton of Keutucky, a couimission to appraise and allot cui iain lande in the L' maulla reservation belonging to confedérate bands of Cayuse, VV'alla Walla aud Umati.la Indians. E. C. Whittlessey, business manager of the Day of New London, Conn., was shot down in his office by Frederick A. S. Ferry, a crank who touk offense at a published article. Whittlesey died from the effects of his wound the next afternoon. A statement prepared at the treasury department to show the status of the 3 per cent loan inakes thelollowingexhibit: Total amount of the loan, $3i,5,oSl,250; redeemed under calis, $21)9,475, 650; purchased, t;),bi)2,'öu; called and outstanding, $i,7b3,1X1. Fred Hopt, who murdered John W. Turner in Park City, Utah, July 3, 1SS0, was shot on the lith inst. Ue was given his choice between shooting and hanging, and chose the foriner muthod oí execution. Hopt had been tried four times for the crime. The ofllcers of the Women'j Christain Temperance Union have sent out a cali to ( 'hristimi women iu every land and of every denooiiuation to observe the 12th and 13th of November next as days of prayer for the success of the temperance cause. The coroner's inquest in the cases of the victims of tbe accident at the launcb of the sMamer Win. H. Wolf in Milwaukee, ïesulted iu the exoneration of the builders Messrs. Wolf & Davidson, as they had given the people on the slied which collupsed fair warning. i ho Irou and Steel Bulletin says the imports of iron and steel during the fiscal year eniiing June 30 were greater than over Leiore. They were l(X),UU0 tons greater than iu 1SS5 and l6ti combined. The llulletiu bees no indication of a cessation oi importation, much as it regrets the fact. l'ittsburg, Pa., had a $1,000,(00 the other night, when the center of the square bounded by Fifth, Wood, Smithfleld streets and Virgin alley was a smouldering ruin aud $l,U)0,UUU of property had been consumed. It was the most disasiruus Üre siuce the Pittsburg riots of a decade ago. The United States treasury having ac. cumulated a supply of $1 and $2 silver certifleutes sutlicient to meet the current heavy demund, has arranged for the prompt delivery of these notes to banks, banUers and others muking the required ilipusits. The isue of these notes has been suspended since the ürst of May last. News has just been received of thedeath at Rangoon, llurmah, of the well-known Baptist missionary, the Rev. Dr. J. B. intou, who had been in that field twenty six years. His age was only 47. He leavei four children all of whoni except the youngest are in his country. His wife ia also reported to be seriously ill at Rangoan. McGarigle, the ( hicago boodier, has been iudicted before the grand jury in Toronto on a charge of couspiracy, and a bench warrant hits been issued for his ar rest. Crown Prosecutor Greenshields eayc that a territorial magistrate residing ia Ottawa wiU be sppointed, who will uot refuse to indorso a warrant whcn the law authorizes him to do so. A fiendish attempt at train wrecking on the Burlington & Missouri River road at a place ten miles west of Kebraska City, Neb., is reportod. As a passenger train was crossing a trestle bridge across a deep ravine the woodwork was discovered to be on tiro. An investigation disclosed the f act Ihat the stringers and braces were entirely consumed and the bridge in a shaky condition. The train was unusually light and this alone prevented a fearf ui catastrophe. Detectives are working up the matter, Following are the new offlcers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science : President, I. W. Powell, i United States Geologist at Washington; vice-president. - mathematics and astronomy, Prof. O. Btone of the University of Virginia; physics, Prof. A. A. Michelson, Cleveland; cliemWts, Prof. Munroe, Newport; mechanical science, Prof. VVood" worth, Washington Univeraity, St. Louis; geology and geography, Prof. Cook, geologist, Rutgers College, New Jersey. The next meeting will be held at Cleveland. John Clay, the only remaininff ton of Henry Clay, suddenly died at his farm near Lexington, Ky., recently of heart disease. Mr. Clay was 67 years old. He had no children. He was married about twenty years ago to his nephew's widow, Mrs. Col. Irwin. Col. Irwin was killed at the battle of Perrysville, while command ing a confedérate regiment. John Clay possessed but few of thecharacteristicB of his illustrious father, being a plain farmer, devoting much time to raising thoroughbred liorses. He bacame a Catholic twenty years ago. A most horrible tragedy occnrred the other night about twelve miles from Ma con, Ga.,. Capt. Richard Woolfalk, a well known farmer, his wife, four children and Mrs. West, an aunt of Mn. Woolfalk, were [Ound murdered in the house, having been knocked in the head and their throats cut. Tom G. Woolfalk, son of Capt. Woolfalk by his flrst wife, is suspected of the crinje and was arrested. The prisoncr was taken to Macon and safely lodged in ja.il, where he talked of the crime coolly, but made no admissions. His motive is said to be the desire to gain possession of his fatlier' s property for himself and two sisters, children of the first wife. The report of the Hudson Bay exploring expedition bas been published. Capt. Gordon is of the opinión that the straits, to specially constructed vossels up to 2,000 tons, are not navigable before July 1, and he estiiuates the season of navigition to termínate about the first week in October. He is f urther of the opinión that in an iron ship making a voyage between, say, Liverpool and Hudson Bay, on arrival off the western end of the straits, the compass will not work, owing to magnetic disturbances. Altogether he considera the navigation of Hudson's Straits as being more tban ordinarily dillicult witli shores inhospitable and bleak, presenting a picture of foneliness. The only safety in thick weather lies in the constant use of the lead and keeping a sharp lookout as the deadreckoning is frequently in error to a considerable extent.