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HfflfflB FOR FOOD. Terrible Suffering Among tlie Labrador Fishermen. Fifteen Hundred Persons Believed to Have Starved to Death. . Further particulars of the distress among tho fishermen of Labrador have been re- ceived. The seventy Esquimaux who de- manded, food from tho stores at Mugford, •which could not be given them owing to the needs of the inhabitants and the small supply, made a rusk for the bar- bor storehouse, where the flour and flsh were stored. The men of the small settle- ment gathered to dofeud their only hope of existence, and a desperate fight ensued, in which four of the marauding Esquimaux wero nearly killed and two of the store- house defenders were seriously injured, ' The Esquimaux, finding that they could not obtain food 1 by force, retreated, and sent in several of their number to ask for a small quantity of food, which they said was absolutely necessary to the continued existence of their wives and children. Two hundred •pounds of flour and about fifty pounds of frozen cod were given them. It was reported that in Astoria alone, out of thirty-five or forty families, or a total of 800 persons, more than 100; mostly women and children, had died. In Nain the catch of flsh has not been suffi- cient to afford food to the inhabitants. Tho season which opened on May 1 was very back- ward, and had it not been for the seal indus- try, which was tolerably good, hot a soul would be living. Along Hamilton Inlet and Sandwich Bay there is not soniu -h suffering, although many have died. In Wobuok and Indian harbors fish is the only food besides a small quantity of corn meal. Tho inhabi- tants have had no vegetables since March 1, and are almost without clothing. At Hope- dale not more than twenty-five families re- main out of the entire former pop- ulation. Many have gone oast along the coast in tho »hope of getting Into better suppUsd.settleiuenis, while eighty persons, of which forty were squaws and thirty-five children, died from starvation in Jane alone. There were some deaths in April and May, but the e were principaUy from exposure to tho cold; The Okk'ah Indians are suffering greatly. There were not asmariy deaths among them as was at first reported, only twelve persons having died this spring but of the 125 who made up the tribe. The whole settlement' is,, however, on the verge of starvation. The' places spoken of db not include the whole district ' where there is tbibe found destitution and death. In the country lying, ba?k from Okkah,H me- dale, Nain and Capg Milgford there are a large number of families, most of them In- dians or Esquimaux; among whom the suf- fering is really greater than it is in the more thickly populated settlement-\ The deaths here from starvation cannot be estimated, but it is-thought, judging from the reports now and then brought in, that the number is very large. In Newfoundland, along the north coast, there is great destitution. Prom Cape Bauld to Heart's Content hundreds are in a dying condition. In White Bay alone forty-two persons died last month, and no one knows how many since. Not less than 1,500 persons must have perished, butthe exact figures can never be known, owing to the isolated region in which tho suffering exists. NEWSY GLEANINGS. OHIO has 80,503 government pensioners. THERE has been no rain in certain sections of Michigan for three months. PEOPLE are leaving Kansas for Louisiana to engage in agricultural pursuits. THE Bartholdi statue is booked for comple- tion the latter part of September. NEAR Cannelton, Penn., the ground heaves and pulsates just like the human breast. THE calf crop on the Wyoming ranges thi» season is the largest for a number of years. ^ A PEAT deposit, forty acres in extent and seven feet deep, has been found near Neligh, Neb. AN Amador county (Cal.) man has applied for a patent on a process for making butter by boiling the cream. COLORADO farmers claim that English com- panies have taken up all the water rights and established a gigantic monopoly. THE use of paper has been extented in Vi- enna to the manufacture of gas and water pipes, and in other places to tiles for roofing. THE camphor laurel, from which the cam- phor gum of commerce is obtained, has been successfully introduced into California. It is a native of China. AT one point on the Cascade branch of the Northern Pacific the railroad describes a horseshoe, which is two and a quarter miles around, and only 1,500 feet across the hill a( the open end of it. IN the chateau of the late King Louis of Bavaria at Bery have been found coffers filled with diamonds, pearls, rubies and all Kinds of jewelry whose talue is equal to a magnificent fortune. THE Polish Alliance of the United States asserts that there are 1,000,000 Poles in this country, and recently a prominent Wiscon- sin Bohemian declared that there were 5,000,000 Bohemians here. HiWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. PRESIDENT CLKVBLAND.Private Secretary Uaniont, and Secretaries Bayard, and Whit- ney •were the .guests of Govemqr Hill at Al- bany oil the 22d. The President reviewed tho parade in honor of tho city's 200th birth- day, took part in the bicentennial exercises later on, and in the evening attended the cit- izens' reception given in nls honor at tho Capitol. Late at night he departed for Wash- ington. THE Vermont Prohibitionists have nomi- nated a complete State ticket, headed by Prof. H. M. Soely for Governor. LEGAL resistance to the boyoott has begun in Massachusetts; a Salem firm of boot and shoe manufacturers haviug debided to prose- cute the Knights of Labor on the ground of conspiracy, etc. SAMUEL G. SHELLING, for twonty-seven years Treasurer of the Lowell Bleachery Corporation, a large and wealthy Boston con-! cern, has been removed, irregularities in his accounts amounting to any where-from $200,- 000 to $500,000 haviug been discovers! The company can stand the loss, but has tem- porarily suspended payment. MASSACHUSETTS Knights of Labor, at! their convention in Worcester, voted to sus- tain the policy of Mr. Powderly as opposed to the faction favorable to a combination with trades unions. AN explosion of combustible malt dust in George Ehrot's big brewery, New York, re- sulted in a fire and damage of about $40,000. MATTHEW ARNOLD, the English writer, was overcome whi'e bathing at Long Branch, and had a narrow esoape from drowning. BRODIE, the New York newsboy who jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge, will ex- hibit himself as a dime museum curiosity. THE Cunnrd steamer Umbria, which left Queenstown recently for Now York, had among hor passengersGeneral James H. Van Alen, of Newport, R. I. A few days before the steamer reached New York General Van Alen, who was seventy years eld and quite feeble, was missed, and a search revealed that he hadjbeen lost overboard. SKWALL FAUNCE, of Boston, aged fifteen, was killed a few days since and a young lady was injured by the fall of a celebrated snow arch which forms every year in Tuckerman's Ravine, White Mountains, and is a great ob- ject of interest to summer tourists. South and West* A CALL has been issued for a National Anti-Saloon Republican Conference to take place in Chicago on September 15. ELEVEN white men have been arrested for terrorizing negroes during the past year in the vicinity of Hickory, Miss. A COPIOUS rainfall throughout Arkansas has se6urcd?the-safetjP of the State's cotton and cbrhjcropsj which were to danger from '. drought J. J. McGARNEVy of District Assembly No. 101 of the. Khigh'tsof Labor, has been nomi- nated at St. Louis to contest the district now represented by Congressman Glover. GREAT excitement has been prevailing on bojih sides of the Rio Grande river over the arrest of a Texas editor named Cutting in Mexico. The arrest was followed by secret negotiations between the Americau and Mexican governments. Washington. THE emigrants who arrived in the United States during June numbered 44,643; in the twelve months ended on June 80, 328,917. THE feeling in favor of private retaliation if our Government fails to grant public re- taliatory measures in the fishery disputed with Canada is increasing at Portland, Me. GENERAL LOGAN-left Washington on the 2Sd in a special car to attend the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Re- public at San Francisco. 1 IWILLIAM HUNTER, Second Assistant Sec- retary of State, the oldest officeholder in con- tinuous service in the United States, died the other day in Washington. He was eighty- five years old, and had held office since 1829. INTERNAL revenue collections during the past fiscal year were $U6,902,84i>, against $112,421,121 for the previous year, showing an increase of $4,481,724. Foreign. CANADA now has a Cardinal, Archbishop Taschereau having been in tailed into that high office of the Catholic Church on the 21st at Quebec, with imposing civic and religious ceremonies. A long procession and immense crowds were features of the occasion. ASIATIC cholera is extending in Italy. RICHARD, the four-year-old son of Captain Simeon Tufts, of Loug Beach, N. B., deliber- ately threw the ten-months old child of Enos Serat off a bridge into a running bi'oofti where the little fellow was drowned - THE Eclipse Stakes, for $50,000—the largest sum over raced for in theworld—was won at the Sahdbwn course, England, by the six- year-old horse Bendigo in a field of twelve starters. SIR CHARLES DILKE, a leading follower of Gladstone, has been disgraced by the result of a divorce suit brought by a Mr. Crawford against his wife. The jury found Dilke and Mrs. Crawfordequally guilty, and the disgraced baronet, whohas been for years a prominent figure in English politics and lit- erature, announces his intention of leaving England permanently and residing in France; A BATTLE between Mexican troops and 1,203 Yaqui Indians in Mexico resulted in the defeat of the latter with a loss of forty kille X and twenty taken prisoners. The cap- tured Indians were immediately shot. A YOUNG-woman of Ithaca has nearly one thousand silk worms suspended in paper cones, and all spinning away industriously. Secretary Bayard's Action Re- specting the fishery Seizures. Great Britain Oalled Djpon to Pay! for All Losses to Vessels. The President has transmitted to the Sen- : ate areport from Seoretary Bayard made in compliance with tho Senate resolution re-. spectingtheiseissure of American fishing ves- sels asfbUows: \Instantly upon receiving au- thenttoinformationoftheallegedsoizurofrom the owners of the vessols or their agents, or fromtheconsularofflcers'of the United States iu Canada this department gave instructions to tlio consular officers to make full and com- plete investigation of the facts in each case, >atad wherever an infraction of treaty rights ; •or of commercial rights and privileges of cit- izens of the Unite 1 States appeared to have ocoiirrodi representation was promptly made to «©r Ajrifannio' .Majesty's iuufster at this , Capital, calling for redress, and notification given of demand for com. ensation for all loss and injury to the vessels iu question and • thoir owners. \In order properly to assert and maintain | the rights of our citizens and our international i rights under conventions and by the law of ; nations which might be brought in question ! by these proceedings and by the aotion of! ! the Canadian Government, the profes- i sional services of two gentlemen learned ' in the law — Mr. George W. Biddlo, i of the oity of Philadelphia, and Mr. ; William T. Putnam; of the city of Portland: : Me.—wore retained by the Executive, and since the 20th of May last these gentlemen • have bestowed their careful consideration ' upon the circumstances and the law in con- ( nection therewith in each case. Proceedings have been commenced in the Vice-Admiralty Court at Halifax, N.S., iu the name of Her ; Majesty the Queen, as plaintiff, against the schooner David J. Adams aud the schooner Ella M. Doughty, in both of , which cases the complaint is substantially i the Bathe. Copy is hereunto appended of the complaint signed by the solicitor for the At- ! torney-General of the Dominion of Canada, against the Ella M. Doughty, which sets : forth at length the alleged grounds for the seizure and detention of that vessel. \Concurrentwith theseevehtscorrospond- enee has begun and is still proceeding be- tween this department and the British Min- ister at this capital, and also between the ! Minister of the United States in London and the Foreign Office of Her Britannic Majes- ty's'Go,vernmeht to obtain suitable reebgui- ! tion and enforcement of our rights un- der treaty a'-.d international law and the ', laws and commercial usages of both, countries, which are brought in question by the action of the Canadian authori- • ties in making seizures and detentions of American fishing vessels herein, referred to and described. Upon this correspondence, which it is believed must soon terminate in amicable settlement, mutually just and hon- orable, and therefore satisfactory to both '] countries and their inhabitants, the unde> ' signed iB-unable to-reebmmendthe President to communicate its contents in. its present in complete s!atus, believing that to do so , would riot be compatible with the public in- ; terests as connected with the transactions re- ferred to. \T. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State.\ There ore twbinclosures. The firstmerely ' gives in. tabular form the names of the ves- sels seized and detained, the date, amount of ' bail or fine, or length of detention. The »tner,.a very long legal document, embodies the charges against the Ella M. Doughty. • EXTRADITION TEEATT. The Provisions of an Agreement Signed, with England. The text of the Convention recently signed in London by Minister Phelps and the Earl of Rosebery, extending and adding to the extradition, provisions of the Treaty of 1842, has just been made public. The Convention extends the provisions of Article X, of the iPreaty of 1842 to four crimes not therein named, as follows: Manslaughter, burglary, embezzlement or larceny involving the amount of $50 or £10, and malicious in- juries to property, whereby the life of any person shall be endangered, if such injuries constitute a crime according to the laws of both countries. It is also Tprov'ided that the provisions of Article X. shall apply to per- sons convicted of the crimes named in the Treaty bf 1842 and the new Convention, as well as to those charged before trial with commisslonbf them. The Convention is not retroactive, no-surrender is to be demanded for a political offence, and no trial is per- mitted for any other offence than the one for which extradition is requested until the person extradite! has had an opportunity to return to the State by which he was sur- rendered. In a letter to the Seoretary of State, Mr. Phelps says it-is understood'between the two Governments that the Convention shall not stand in tho way of a more elaborate treaty, if one is desired, but he expresses the opinion that a new treaty will not.be necessary. , The Cbhventjion went before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, from which it was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Ah early and favorable report to the Senate was looked for, though it was thought the Convention might not be rati- fied at theprcseat session of Congress. LATERJIWSr \ HUBBRT O. TnoypBOtt, leader of tho Now York County Democracy, es-Gbmmis.iblier of Public Works, and for years tt.prominon't figure in Metropolitan politics, was found dead in bod a fe\y days since. Ho was thirty- seven years old, and bis death was caused by cerebral-apoplexy. THE celebration of Albany's bi-coiitennial was continued on the 22d with all imposing military parade, in which President Oleve-s land, Governor Hill and Secretaries Bayard and Whitney participated, Governor Hill delivered on oration, and short addresses were made by the President and the two Cabinet members; A dinner glvon by Gov- ernor Hill in honor of bis guests, a publio re- ception at the Capitol and splendid fireworks were the other noteworthy features of tl e day's celebration; THn great Boston pork-paoking. establish- ment of John P.Squire & Son has discharged all employes. This aotion is understood to mean war on the Knights of Labor. Mr. Squire said in an interview he oeuldnot ccn= tinue business with employes who are liable to strike at any time when ordered to do so. A SUPPOSED; attempt \has bean made ,;to blow up the Brazilian Prince, Dom Augusto Leopoldo, grandson of Emperor Dom Pedro, with a dynamite bomb, The Prince is making atour of this country, and the alleged bomb was discovered oh board a steamer from Coney Island, to which he had boon taken on an excursion. Two cattle herders wore struck by light- ning near Andrew Station, Nob., and in- IPtantly killed. \' COLONEL W. H. BOLTON, Superintendent of Second Class Matterat the Chicago Post- dfllce, and Weigher Stewart have been ar- rested on a charge of conspiracy andembez- zlemeht. The amount involved may reach $100,000. DURING tho past fiscal year the postoffice appdintihents made numbered 22j747—an in- crease of 18,200. The total number of post- offices is 53,014. THE Senate lias confirmed the nominations, bf J. S. Hagar, Collector of Customs at San Francisco, and Israel Lawton, Superintend- ent of the Mint in that city. THE President has, nominated Charles Sti Thomas, of Eentiucky, to be Asspe'ate Jus- •tice of the Supreifie'G6urtoT,fia£btat.Nittfian. D, Bates, of Connecticut, to be Marshal ftir the District of Connecticut; 'Ezra Baird, to be Marshal for Idaho; Dupont Guerfy, to be Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. SENATOR BLAIR; from the Committee on Education and Labor, has submitted a favor- able report to the Senate froni the majority of the committee, On a joint resplution pro- posing that an amendment to the Constitu- tion in relation to alcoholic liquors and other poisonous beverages besubmitted to the Leg- islatures of the States for ratification. The amendment provides that from and after the year 1900 the manufacture and sale and im- portation of distilled alcoholic intoxicating liquors except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical and scientific purposes and for use ih the arts,.shall cease. SERIOUS conflicts have taken place at Amsterdam, Holland, between the populace and the police and troops, arising;from the prohibition of popular games on Sunday. The rioters erected barricades.and were fired .upon by the police. Ten persons were re- ported killed and many- wounded. KBd<3C£-«l Estimates of tho rrobairte Yield—Damage by Drought. A report prepared for the Chicago Far- mer's JRciiew, indicates that the prolonged drought will have a very serious effect upon all the late crops. Tho spring wheat outlook has been in nowise improve*d,and the average condition of the crop lias declined since July 1, when it was expected that'the probable to- tal wheat yield of tLe United States would not exceed a ivund total of 420,000,000 bush- els. The tenor of the latter reports indicate that this estimate will have tobereducedby from ten to fifteen million bushels. The re- ports from Nobraska,Iowa,Wisconem,Minne- sota and Dakota do not indicate an average of six to toh bushels to the acre, with many fields entirely ruined. Corn is reported very uneven in Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska; and, while looking clean, is in need of rain, and a - shortage itt the yield-is threatened. In Minnesota cbra is looking well, bufcis beginning to feel the effect of the drought. Tho oat crop will fall short of an average yield in Wisionsin and Minnesota and three-fourths of an average in Illinois, Mijhan and Iowa. The pastures in all the Southwestern States are reportedas short and in large'seo- tions ruined by thef drought; ACCORDING to recently published ofHcia reports Servia lost.in the late war with Bul- garia 75 officers and 60S) men in killed, and 515 officers and4,055 men in wounded.
