Show TIDINGS major powell and make important geographical researches Ee searches paul friends aall on postmaster general genral gresham the late french minister of war thi laudin baudin endorsed indorsed Indor seaby sed by friends A granary fa floor 0 or falls on fourteen men lien killing four edmunds will resign the presidency of the senate the sessions bradley bribery oase going on Roum anians getting into a il how row with austria py by western assil press to the herald 11 telegraphing NEW YORK oct 10 the annual report of president green of the tle western union telegraph q company kompany shows the company to bo be in in a very flattering condition financially financial lv the coni company pany holds securities in various tel telegraph e raph telephone and other coin panics th the e marketable value of which is now over and according to report most of these securities are appreciating rapidly in value these securities do not represent stock in telegraph companies leased to the western union company most of these are owned by it aggregating some more tho the company has miles of wire and 2917 offices forty million six hundred and eighty one ono thousand ono one hundred and seventy seven messages were handled during the year the tile receipts from which were ivere against last year the expenses forthe for the ye year arjust juat closed wera leaving a net profit of 7 the report calls attention to the and increase of property and bu business of the company since jan lico during this period tho the lines have been iiA increased creased four fold told with n nearly ll 11 at six times as many offices handling ing seyen seven times as many mes ines jaees earning three limes times as mu much gross revenue and making threefold us as murli much net in one year not withstanding that the average rate per message has been reduced from til 1017 10 17 in 1860 to GS 68 in 1883 the pasty post year car exhibits an increase in creaso of 1334 miles of line or an increase nalo 10 per cent and nn tin increase or bs miles of wire being 15 per cent aver over the previous year while the show an increase of 2340 or about 14 per cent and the net profits an increase of 53 ar or about slier 8 percent cent oyer the precede year the increase of ia or IS 18 per cent in the gross e expenditures pen di sli tures ia is because of the rentals paid or american cables cuban cables nd the ho gold and stock steel telegraph company Comra nv all rentals maidby paid by therom I 1 any being chanced in the current while cheso rentals were paid for far only a sm allper cent in the h e t preceding receding year alio percentage g cost 0 o t 0 of fope operating rating land lines of tho company has bas been pen headily i reduced the company is is pursuing a policy of steadily reducing rates to me and lias has extended a rate of 25 enta cents per aage to and from now new york city until that rate 1 a lAr aier geruT na il than ia is embraced in the whole of great britain the net earnings fur for the year were over or 9 0 per cent on oil the tile capital stock above the fixed charges and the management a believes it will be considerably al 13 increased for the current year in conclusion the president congratulates ula tes th the e stoc stockholder k h ol 01 d ero 0 on n t h e s ful il ending of litigations against the company om Y and says it only ony remains to lo be 10 T determined et ernane d to what ht extent rt peri ro sons soils who have tried to em embarras barrau its operations and depreciate its properly property can be held answerable to tile company for the loss and damages it has thereby sustained the following board of directors was elected chares being voted upon 0 out of a total of norvin green broel thomas T eckert john T terry john van home horne augustus Sc liell harrison arrison II Du duricek Durl tec jay gould russell sage alonzo B cornell sidney dillon cyros CYMS AN W F field beld john render pender M P henry weaver percy it payne robert lenox kennedy hugh J jewett J pierrepont morgan frederick L amea Ame sJohn john hay william D bishop C P george B roberts frank work samuel sloan E erastus rastus wyman john johl J aster astor geor george e G gould chauncey Chaunc cy air depew emes james W clendenin christopher C baldwin the changes are john flay in place of E D and frank frauk work in place of Z G simmons deny AVAS HIGTON oct 10 surgeon general hamilton received tho following replies to the telegraphic in quirica quiri cs yester yesterday daVo as the truth of tho tile reports of 0 tho the appearance of yellow fever at brewerton Alaba alabama map and I 1 galveston eslon and pensacola do not believe any alarming r reports e there Is not fl 4 case of fever in brewerton gimian GUTHAN prest board of Ile health alth galveston gal veston no typhoid fever no yellow fever fevers no suspicious case in in tins tills port COOK cool post assistant burgeon surgeon mediation IA PARIS ItIs oct ct 10 lo it has been said that tho the chin es 0 ambassador marquis mares is Ts teena enz anten intends ds to request tile qu mediation edia tion of england in tho the ton tong king 04 oct ct 1 lo 10 ed munds na imi been been in the cit city y several days ile behas has stated moat most P positively sinco since his arrival that does not in ills position of preal tend to retail of the tile 4 enat tf he ile dent pro tern tempore pore intends to real eresian in immediately mediately after the organization of the tile senate and senator An anthonly thollY w will ill bo elected his place geog graphic I 1 washington D C 0 oct C 11 alj major ill h IV powell director of tho the geographical survey submitted to the secretary odthe of the interior yesterday his report odthe of the operations of that bureau for tho the in month anth comparatively little is known of the wilder wilderness vess of wes virginia nine teen triangular stations covering fir teen teca to eighteen thousand square miles were located and compute dand signatures placed thereon llie reon in the district of the rocky mountains the geographical geological and to topographical p 0 works was pursued w with it h vigor particular attention being paid to the re region ion about fort wingate new mexico to the gunnison mining region and tho the yellowstone Yellows tono national park in the district of the pacific surveys were mado made by a num her ber of parties kerr an and thompson doing the topographic work in the cascade mountains while 11 offman carried on successfully tho the work of napping in detail the new now adri idria a quicksilver region in all the above mentioned important regions geological work has been done don particularly in colorado where in view of 11 the 1 1 great eat interest manifested in artesian 1 wells especial pains have been taken to make careful ecological geological researches which will be particularly useful T two parties T ties under the direction of prof irving have hivo concluded the he 1 investigations ions of tho the cob coppers pers scaring bearing rocks on lake Sp superior perlor largo large and valuable collections of minerals nine rals and fossils have been made in n several fields of research and been sent to the bureau for classification and further tudy audy vandervoort eort A number of friends of paul vandervoort late chief clerk of the railway mail mall service at Omaha called on 0 n the postmaster general yesterday and had a conference with him last ng two hours it is supposed that he object of the interview was the reinstatement of vandervoort in the position losi tion from which he was removed for good cause ED gag gas PITr anuno oct 10 dr david EIo and 11 II jellets Sel leis lets whose wealth is almost unlimited havo corn com panics panie sinthe in the country and are absorbing hie natural gas companies ilso also under their charters they will laye the exclusive privilege of furnishing gas in this country where the monopoly is said to be worth nil lions SA SAN x FRANCISCO oct 10 the last night was the heaviest hero since the great one n 1860 1808 buildings groaned and roof ings cracked and many persons rushed half undressed from louses and hotels liot els recollections of ts being within one day of theanna the anniversary of the earthquake in IM seemed to increase their fears aria and nany n y 1 I r xnia cu u me ine streets an light ji t 1 in n pr preference e rr r er e ince to re entering heir their houses earthquakes are re res boned to have occurred during the light night and morning at several places long along the coast the weather is topi bp oct 10 moody an and sancy began a series of in the royal theater to lay day tine the building wea was crowed crowded to ts utmost capacity the se rices consisted of tin t binding in ilg by fc ankey and tw two by moody the audience spellbound under moodis wrenching 0 EL PASO oct 10 A times special correspondent gives ho tho following acts facts which will appear tomorrow to morrow ilie the indians have established a trad ug c iipp andrayo fanned two campi n san minel valley over t the a angiono ang geno cono is jus juls and the other al tl they le get at drunk only in pairs lit at the tile eting g camp catul ju lias has not shown himself and it is aid said lie fears the tile treachery of the mexicans ins there is ii no bt caling ealing of stock because the san miquel valley abounds in wild berds loft left there thero by ranchers who abandoned them thein victorias Vic expedition to rescue INIc mccomas Comas will make another attempt wine SAN SAX r oct 10 the chronicle will publish tomorrow to morrow interviews nith anh prominent wine mine merchants of this city showing g this years wino wine crop to be 40 per cent less than was supposed the yield not exceeding was jig gallons the immediate cause of this due to a disease in the vinca vines known in prance I rance as con leme which manifested itself liere here for the first time tins this year mission gr grapes are held beld at 22 to 28 per ton zin zinfandel an and muscat at 33 to 1 40 these being the highest prices yet obtained for grapes Fe li drat washington oct 10 the war department and its bureaus will bo be closed tomorrow to morrow out of respect to tile inet nory of surgeon general crane the following have been elected as pall bearers secretary ll 11 lincoln in admiral Rodger silon C schenck henck Bc gen macfeely Mae Alike feely rochester rucker drum baird bonet hunter holabird abird wright and perry commodore Fille braum dr J al brown U S army ross ray and charles knapp T the lie general court martial has been appointed to meet at fort arizona october for the trial of col A P Ilor morrow tow of the sixth cavalry formerly on the staff of gen sherman She rinau on a charge of drunkenness and conduct unbecoming ig to an ollices and gentleman geni loman preferred by brigadier general ic crook comman commanding in the department of arizona up lip to the close of business today to day there has been received at the treasury department for redemption on 23 of U S bonds embraced IL in th the fall call bearing still outstanding of bouda included in that call admiral rodgers and chief angi en gl neer loring called upon the pres dent tins this aller afternoon noon it is understood that the latter will be made chief of the bureau of steam engineering of the navy department vice shock retired secretary folger today to day decided to accept tho tile terms of the compromise offered by A C Ile slug of chicago in settlement BeU lement of tile JU J judgment d g ent against blesing held field by the government the amount involved was the amount offe offered red fearful 1 minneapolis oct to 0 A special the tribune 2 fr from moorhead loo minnesota says A terrible and fatal accident occurred on a farm near north iffs effs eight miles from moorhead in which four men were killed and benmore ten more narrowly escaped with their lives the fourteen men were members of a threshing crew who had been threshing for northie Nort North hiff iq the previous day and were sleeping g in in the lower story of a granary in the upper story of which were stored 1400 bushels of oats in the night wh he all were fast asleep the floor suddenly gayo way and completely buried eight who were sleeping in the end of the building where the floor first gave way six men who wera were sleeping in the other end of the room were partially crowded through the side of the house which gave wa way to the sudden pressure of th tho descending sc grain and mado made their escape e without difficulty after giving the alarm they set to work to rescue their eight comrades who were buried beneath the oats when the unfortunate men were finally reached four of the number were dead from suffocation and some of the others so nearly so that it was a matter of doubt for several hours if they would not lie die revenue BALTIMORE oct 10 A meeting of he the railroad directors of the baltimore fc ohio railroad company took place today to day prest john W garrett presiding A dividend of five per cent payable nov next was ananis declared on the stock of the nain main stem and washington branch in n connection with the dividend de lared in august the company barnea carneu the largest revenue in its history ory namely and in sep ember and at this kinle time ill the equipment of the company is is ully fully employed skipped penn oct 10 at the jan caster county prison this even evem ng two watchmen were on duty ke buzzard of the notorious broth rs of that name got out of his cell nd locked the watchman in cecur ng the cell keys he released eleven prisoners riso ners the worst criminals in the nil afew helping themselves to food hey left by the front door taking the eye with them previously interrupt i og ug telegraphic communication with ho he city spain fadrie ocilio the spanish min stry has virtually resigned prime linister minister sagasta considers it a to leave to a new ministry the ask task of adopting final measures aurira in france the latter avitia refused to give tier satisfaction to spain for the to alfonso and regarding t the he at an end after prime minister edrys apolony had leen been published j 0 o official card cards STLOUIS ST louis oct 10 advices advises from ayette ville ark say that U S deluty luty marshals perry and while guarding some indian monday night arf aled over a game gaine of cards lu drew r ow revolver ey olver and killed each other one iring firing three and the other seven hots Plas tres PARIS oct 10 the governor of jochin cochin china lias has completed the agreement gre reenie ement nt with the king of odia it confirms the establishment if french protectorate provided s for iberal liberal institutions and security of robertv roer tv recognizes the ive tive and judicial system and entirely abolishes slavery it also provi provided dei ci or the collection of indirect lax tax to be in to french of officers ficere france rill will receive pias tres annually nar harracks racks PEST oct II 11 A sensation exists here alerc because of a 1 dumber number of arounia nian nan soldiers having crossed the frontier ier and taken pomes sion of tile austrian barracks barrack commanding the ain pi pans in the southern carpathia ins the Roum anians assert the baracks barracks are doumanian Rou manian territory A lom orn pany of austrian i infantry fantry a recapped ture many tle barracks hl micron iaron BAN SAN FIZAN FRANCISCO CISCO oct 10 among he the statements made by miss hill through her counsel in her claim of im nar irria riago ge to senator sharon was one that liat governor brichat of wisconsin while lebero hero attending the marriage of aharons Sh arons daughter to sir thomas iles keth elli beard sharon acknowledge miss nin to bebis be his wife governor brichat 1 las telegraphed saying paying he never 1 leard icard the senator acknowledge miss hill to be his wife nor he ever 1 beard him refer to her in any way whatever rol oct 10 A Greenli bu pa special says six children 0 of john stouffer of Li gonier were |