Show LATEST TELEGRAMS uy by W V U telegraph to this the army affairs Afra AB irs 10 lOA nArmy officer here has prepared a statement franj tile records from the department showing owing sli what chances nn all officer in the regu regular lar service ever has of reab reach h years years tile retiring agoto ago to say nothing of M of forty two officers offic cra entering service at 11 au nil all but four have died before for reaching the ae age of 62 of entering at 22 years but nine survived at 62 of entering at 25 years but four survived at 62 of forty six entering at 27 years but two suri survived ived at ga of forty two tuo entering at tit 29 years none readied reached 62 of awen twenty ty four who entered at 32 2 and lind 30 36 none reached 62 of 1391 off offic lecis cis wh choso whoso agog ages were on record who entered service at various ages from 17 to 01 but 84 ever attained tho the ago of ga or a almost most exactly 10 16 in ill he ile then goes on to av eay ky it will be readily seen the greater the ago age fixed the less benefit accrues to tho tile service the object of the compulsory retirement is 13 to relieve the tion in promotion under tile sixty four year law there would bo be in eight years only eleven retirements in the cavalry nino nine in tho the artillery and twenty two in the infantry iio ile thinks it would bo be much better if congress would make tho the ago age sixty or an even fifty especially as fa far r as tile lino line is concerned such an argument as tile above will bo be used by tho house when it comes to insist upon the 02 62 years in in conference committee tho the irish bishops DUBLIN juno 11 the ali e irish basli OPS issued an important address P promising r the support odthe of the clergy to alio i 0 people in peacefully agit agitating atiz ig for tit c I 1 r rights but condemning as the worst enc enemies inies of tho the country the men who recommend an all illegal course particularly elioso belonging to secret societies alio bishops condemn alio recent horrible terrible murders ug e but believe they were duo due to evictions which it is the duty of to stop at any cost vents LONDON juno JUDO 10 A democratic meeting was held in hyde park this afternoon aft ernon to protest against the repression bill thirty thousand per sons were present several english engliski Engli sli and irish members of parlia parliament ill ent attended joseph cowen radical member of parliament vigorously denounced tile coercion tile balloon which ascended from maiden malden yesterday landed near Arras france horror of f CHICAGO june 10 caspar Sye boldt is a baker who works nights last night when ho lie left homo his wife began preparations for a terrible deed they had four children aged 12 7 21 2 years and one four months she site dressed them in clean white clothes with bright ribbons gave them etrych strychnine nine and when they died laid them out careful carefully with flowers in in their hands and au alio surroundings were made as beautiful as Rs possible then she took a dose of poison herself se af having put on a whito chemise ribbons in it this Thi was just benbro the return of tier lier husband at 5 oclo ck this morn ing when it lie 0 aphea appeared red at tho elwe bh alio met him told him to come in and see bee tho the children all dead and gone to heaven to see liow bow pretty they were with the nice flowers for angels ono one 0 of f the children was alive but lias has since died mrs Sye boldt died about 7 this morning the cause of the demented womans comans act is not known reducing postage washington juno 12 11 the thc po post t office officials say tit the surplus of the receipts over bar t the to expenditures for the past year will foot up in the vicinity of one million dollars this fact is expected to prove a fruitful cause for many debatable propositions in in congress when it becomes known at the end of this month just what tho the saving has been there isa is a large party in congress who argue the department hag has no 1 right to be self sustaining or at least be made a source of revenue to the government in anticipation of tho the fact that tho the years oper operations ati onswill will disclose a margin of the receipts over the expenditures a number of bills arc are pending looking to a reduction of cost of postage to tho tile public one or two reduce alio letter postage to two cents abolish tho tile postage on oil second class matter and introduce a secret message card which would take tho the place of short letters and would cost one cent the postmaster general is understood to be favorable to some kind of reduction hut but ig is opposed by many of the other officials of the department senator ferry has reported what appears to bo be the most practical measure for public convenience it authorizes the department to use a secret message card this is nothing more than a postal with a flap gummed the edges to be sealed fike like an ordinary envelope to cover tile message the card is to cost no more than the one now in use to weigh no more but could bo be used for all private business as s safely asa as a letter tho the bill is on the senate calell dar As tho the Congress iren arc are getting in a hurry to go homo home it is not at all certain that anything will bo be done this session the chellie Kh ellie CAIRO juno june 12 at a ft meeting of the tile military leaders it was decided to petition the Khe diveto abdicate it was declared that if lie did not lie would bo be massacred it is rumored the cavalry and artillery will not join any auy conspiracy against tho tile Klie khedive dive |