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Captain Bassett, who has been an em- J p!oye of the United States Senate for fifty years, is engaged in writing his reminiscenses. He ought to be able to tell 6omethin?r interesting. The letters and papers collected by Mr. Beecher, when he contemplated writing his autobiography, will be used as the basis of a biography to be written by his son, William C. Beecher; hi* son-iu-law, Samuel Scovil, and his wife, Mrs. Henry \Vorrl iRopr-lipr. Many California women cultivate fruit farms. They can do much of the work, such as picking, packing, making raisins and canning fait. Crystal ized figs and apricots are the products of woman's labor, as well as jellies, jams and marmalades, which are sent all over the world. Deadwood claims to be the greatest Chinese town in the country. The Mongols have drowned out opposition in the washce business, they compete successfully in the silk, tea and other lines, run restaurants, raise pigs and chickens and patronize opium dens and joss houses. The pronunciation of geographical names changes according to fashion, it often seems. Sometimes the spelling is varied. The last important change is a new spelling in Japan which places yo in place of io. Tokio has now be come Tokyo; Kioto, Kyoto; Hiogo, Hyogo, etc. Familiar names look new. The German government is not apt to "go off at half cock" in its military expenditures, and hence the announcement that it has paid an inventor $200,000 foi a steering apparatus for balloons is a reasonable guarantee that a practical device has been thought out finally by which the chief obstacle to aerial navigation lias been overcome. jfcrr Professor Leslie says: "I take the opportunity to express my opinion in the strongest terms that the amazing exhibition of oil and gas which has characterized the last twenty, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless not only geologically, but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon?one which young men will live to see come to its natural end." Forty years ago an old lady in Baldwin, Fla., about to die, made her children promise, not to bury her body. She threatened to haunt them if they did,and so when she was dead they placed the body in a stout coffin of Florida pine, placed it on the surface of the ground in the graveyard, and built a strong log pen around it. The log house is in good condition now, and so is the coffin withiD it. "Harking on De Lesseps' Panama Canal cannot be very cheerful employment. A visitor says that few of the laborers livt longer than six weeks after they arrive, and that in the rainy season ten funeral trains arc run each day from the canal tc the funeral ground. Notwithstanding this drawback the company obtain all the men they want. If that canal is evei completed, more human lives will havt been sacrificed than in a first-class war. Nebraska reports a remarkable case ol long delay in bringing a murderer to the gallows. The crime was committed fifteen years ago, but the body was not found for over a year, and it was ten years before the murderer was arrested. Four years of the law's delay followed, the accuscd being three times sentenced to be hanged. Now the Governor has 6ignedthe death warrant, and the doomed man has apparently no further chance of escapc. The United States Ordnance Department has been making some computations of the weight of the equipment thnt a soldier is required to carry which show that when the soldier is equipped with rod, bayonet, rifle and cartridge t. .li. ai ~ u iaa iJCii, lurtru ua> a tuujitu iuuuu>, juv rounds of ball cartridges and "kit"' of clothing lie carrics a total weight of 53 pounds 2.58 ounccs. With Springfield rifle, bayonet, scabbard, cartridge boxes and leather belt, clothing and ammunition, etc., the load is 54 pounds 1.84 ounces, and with Springfield rifle, bayonet, scabbard, cartridge belt, clothing, ammunition, etc., the weight is 53 pounds, 15.% ounces. The coming woman has come. She is here?that is, she is in Boston, and the Record has found her and interviewed her on the house-cleaning question. '-I never clean house," says Mrs. B.; 4,I used to read a great deal about the beauties ??f never cleaning house, and about five years ago I determined to leave of! my annual tornado and I accomplished it. My brother, who boards with u<?, says that I must be cither a very tidy or a very untidy person, he can't decide ^hich. One thing I know, my house is never torn to picccs and I never go around looking like the Witch of Endor. I take one room to pieccs at a time, and tuiiieiiim's 1 uuiy latic iiaii <% iuvlii at u \ time. The unfailing and never misleading barometer of commercial prosperity is the iron trade, and particularly that allimportant feature of it, steel rails. A mrvey of the whole area of production reveals a condition of activity which is actually unprecedented. A careful inquiry show)- that for the current, year 21,347 miles of new railroad track arc projected, of which the laying of over 15,000 miles is assured. Of old track, do less than 16,000 miles will be relaid. This gigantic construction will require' 8,250,000 tons of steel rails, and it is easy to infer from these facts what, for Ihe ensuing twelve months, will be the general condition, North and South, of ibc iwc trade. . , ; I I THIRTY-THREE LIVES LOST. ] A Trading Schooner Wrecked oft'the Coast of Oregon. Twenty-Eight Indians and Five White Men Drowned. A sivfH'ial from Victoria. British C'oSumKin. I gives an account of a terrible shijiwreck, accompanied by the loss of thirty-throe lives, which has occurred off tho coast of Oregon, about thirty miles north of Cape Flatter)' Information was first brought in by four Kyuginot Indians, who arrived at Victoria, having occupied ten (lavs in making the overland journey from the scene of the wreck. 1-or some time past great anxiety had Wn felt regarding tfie schooner Active, having on board five Swedes and twenty-eight ('layaquete Indians, and which was long overdue. The schooner was owned by Guttman & Co., of Victoria, and was registered at 4'iO tons. The Active was engaged in general coast trade, and had a valuable cargo of assorted merchandise on board, which, however, was not insured. Tho schooner apjtears to have lieen caught in a storm, and to have l>een dashed on the shore, where she speedily went to pieces, and ali hands undoubtedly perished. As far as known, no one witnessed the disaster, the Indians having their attention first attracted by the large quantity of wreckage washed asbore. Bunks, Indian mats, bedding, etc., were all washed up, but nothing actually 1 tearing the name of the vessel. The general description, however, with the nature of the articles reported to have lieen recovered, leave no doubt ttiat the vessel was the Active. Among those who have perished are Mr. i Jake Guttman, one of the owners; Captain Gotscbamel, Affa Jacobson, Charles Frederick, and Billy Lessong. besides the twentyeight Indians. The latter belong to Chief Kilsormat's tribe. Chief Kilsormat himself was on board, the other Indians being hunters. The death of the chief is tantamount to the extermination of the tribe, and KiLsoramt's tribe will soon be extinct According to a custom of this tribe all the huts of the unfortunate man have been burned. THE TONGA ISLANDS. A Revolt in tlie Southern Pacific Promptly Avenged. A steamer which has just arrived at San Francisco brings the latest particulars regarding the attempted assassination of Premier Baker, of the Tonga Islands, by converted Wesleyan natives. The correspondent of the Sydney (New South Wales) Herald at Suva, Fiji Islands, writes that Mr. Baker believed that an organized attempt to kill him and to overturn the Government was to be made by the Wesleyans. He sent for soldiers, and a large number of indiscriminate arrests were made. Mr. Baker put the prisoners through a form of trial, condemned them to death, and the sentences were execute I the same night. Before the sentences were carried out the acting British Vice-Consul, W. E. Giles, used the utmost exertions to prevent the executions. Things were growing quieter when the newly appointed Vice-Consul, R. B. Leefe, arrived at Tonga, and after an inquiry decided that be had no power to interfere. The storm again burst forth with redoubled fury. The Wesleyan Mission College was invaded by an armed mob. "Wesleyans were brutally beaten ana their houses wrecked. Mr. Leefe was again appealed to, but again refuse<l to interfere. Among the earliest j>ersons arrested and condemned to death was an ordained Wesleyan minister, David Finan, a man of the highest position and repute. Many persons were under arrest, and six executions were to take place the day after t he departure of the steamer which brought the above news to Suva, and thirty more the day following. The French and Germans have sent for men-of-war, and urgent representations have been made to the Governor of the Fiji Islands to interefere and depose either Mr. Baker or Mr. Moulton, a Wesleyan missionary. The Tonga or Friendly Islands form a group in the Southern Pacific Ocean. They were discovered in 1GC) and were visited in 1773-77 by Cook, who gave them the name of Friendly Islands from the apparentlv hospitable reception he met with from the inhabitants. It has since been learned that it was fear alone that prevented the natives from attacking Cook, many of the natives l>eing wild ana ferocious. There are 1S*2 islands, about thirty of which are inhabited, the population being estimated at from gTi.OOO to 50.00. They are divided into three grbups, the Tonga being at the south. The climate is healthy, but humid. Earthquakes are frequent, but not formidable; hurricanes are loth frequent and destructive. The natives cultivates yams,sweet potatoes and fruits and a little corn is grown. Missionaries introduced the cultivation of orauges. Cocoanut oil is the only important article of export. Nearly all the people are now Christians. They were visited first by agents of the London Missionary Society, but in 1.827 came under the care of the* Wesleyan Society of Great Britain. There are three main missionary stations and the smaller islands are intrusted to the supervision of native teachers. The ail of printing has been introduced and many of the natives can read and write. A king rules all the islands. Catholic missionaries from Franco have established themselves in the southern group of islands ami converted many of the natives to that faith. PLOUGHING UP GOLD. A Texas Farm Yields a Crop of Twenty Dollar Pieces. On Sunday morning two men drove up to _ the residence of William Tubl>s, Sr., who . jives near Fort Worth, Texas, and told him that in 1805 an Indian woman, J fearing that she would bo plundered by , raiders, buried an iron vessel containing i $1,000 in gold under a corner of the house now occupied by Mr. Tubbs. Upon moving | away slio concluded it was safest to leave it . where it was. Upon her deathbed, a short j ainii) ago, .she revealed the secret to these two men, and in return for kindness they had shown her, she be- i queathed to them her buriea treasure. With Mr. Tubbs's pel-mission, they dug at the ' spot indicated by the Indian woman. The iron pot was unearthed, and in it was found i a canvas I wig containing gold coin to the , amount of more than $1,09<>. After these facts had become generally known Capt. Bewley, who lives n.'or Mr. Tubbs, said that on last Monday afternoon, while ploughing in a field near his houfe no saw sticking in the earth a shining substance which prove-l to be a i'M gold piece. As ho ploughed 011 he found more gold pieces, and then he called his hired man, Ed. Carpenter, from an adjoining field. By nightfall they picked up ^82 coins, all gold pieces, which amounted to *5,010. Tills startling discovery has set the country wild, and every person whoow nsas much as t ?n acres of ground has gone to diggin; for gold. Hawk Hensou says he found in Confederate money in an old stump 011 his pla/rc. The n??xf day he received an offer of? 100 an r ere for his place, but he refused to sell. In 1M9 the Torkawa Indians sold to the Texas Government a part of their reservation for $40,000 in gold. As the tribes were cnpntmtftfl fill* liinn otw.nt irli/iM Captain Bewley's farm is, it is probable that they hid a part or all of this money where they then were. Bewlcy thinks theie is more gold hidden in this lield, so he hu>; posted his entire farm, and warns all persons lot to come on his placo with a pick. A PEEMATURE BLAST, Six Men Killed ami Others Injured in Colorado. A premature blast killed six men and wounded seven others at a railroad camp near Buc-na Vista, Col. The men were working in a sixty foot cut on tho Midland grade. A twenty-foot polo had l?een put down to blow oir the face of the <ut and sprung with twenty kegs of black g'ant jK>wder. The foreman was loading the charge, and when ho had fitted ill ten kegs the charge prematurely exploded, throwing masses of rock into the cut" where thirteen men were working, instantly killing six and wounding the other?. The wounded included Mr. Bernard, one of the firm of emolovers. The killed are Timothy Sullivan, William Conway. W. S. Corcoran, William 0,Nen,.fV"Uliam Kopas, and an nn'aiowu mau. - - - - r i f NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. Fire at Dover, N. H.. destroyed the main building of the Cocheco Print Works, a large structure, causing a total loss of about $180,000 and throwing 000 operatives out of employment. Many of tne operatives were obliged to leap from the second story windows. Tiie acid from dynamite factories along Stonv- Creek, Penn., has killed millions of I fish. The peach trees of Delaware and Maryland are in such bloom that a plenteous crop is promised. Many boot and shoe cutters of New England have become dissatisfied with the | workings of the Knights of Labor, and have i fnminri an indnnonrlpnt union. The obiect of the new union will be to settle all difficulties by arbitration. A firk in New York burned out the offices | of three German papers and the countingroom of the Morning Journal. The flames were attributed to incendiaries, as four previous fires have occurred in this building within a month. About fifty New York grocerymen and [ restaurant dealers have just been fined $100 each for selling oleomargarine as butter. A mysterious explosion on the schooner George S. Marts killed Mate Nute and a colored seaman and badly burned another sailor. The rost of the crew took to the yawl and were picked up by a passing steamship and brought to New York. A heavy snow storm in April is a weather phenomenon with which man}' sections of the North Atlantic States have been visited. In some places sleighing was resumed. A New York local Assembly, K. of L.? containing 1,500 workers in tin and sheet iron, has rebelled against the District Asseni bly, been suspended, and threatens to leave the Order entirely. A wagon containing John Becker, his wife Catharine, Mrs. Emma Becker and her twoyear-old daughter, was struck by an express train at Lancaster, Penn. Man and wife were instantly killed.Mis.Emrna Becker was fatally injured and the child was found unhurt on the platform in front of the locomotive. South and West. Tlivnrr TrnrrrT Ttrifo murvlffrpr fltlll Pa-n I Brown (colored), slayer of three men. were hanged?the former at St. Louis and the latter at Nashville, Tenn. PITTING cold water in an overheated boiler wrecked a mill and killed three men near Lancaster, Ohio. Henry ZcGBuscH,a schoolboy at Williamsburgh, Wis., fell dead while his teacher was flogging him. - The tatter fled. While viewing the wreck of a freight train near Palatine, 111., six persons were killed and two fatally injured by the bursting of a large water tank. Hie jury In the case of John Arensdorf, the brewer, charged at Sioux City, la., with the murder of the Rev. George C. Haddock, the Prohibition advocate, disagreed, standing eleven for acquital and one for conviction. By the burning of a house in Seven Mile Ford, Va., two girls last their livos and three persons were severely burned. The Socialist element has gained entire control of the Labor party in Chicago, and a sDlit is threatened. F. W. Flowderdon, a Nebraska farmer, had a fierce fight lasting half an hour with a maddened steer. Both man and brute were killed. In* a storm at Pikeville, N. C.. Farmer Eastman and his son were struck by lightning and instantly killed. A cyclone in Naaseinond county, Va., prostrated many houses, bams and fences and killed several .persons. The police of South Bend. Ind., have bad a pitched battle with a gang of thieving tramps. One of the tramps was shot dead and eleven were captured. Washington. Chief Justice David K. Cartter, of the Supremo Court of the District of Columbia, is dead in his seventy-fifth year. The mission to Austria, which has been vacant since the Government at Vienna refused to receive Mr. Keiley, has been filled by the appointment by the President of General Alexander R. Lawton, of Georgia. An old Sunday law compelling complete cessation from business is being vigorously carried oUt in Washington. Appointments by the President: William J. Allen, of Springfield, 111., to be United States District Judge for the southern district of that State; Colonel Wesley Merritt. of the Fifth Cavalry, to lie a Brigadier-General. A New York genius has invented a " vac uura car," with which he asserts his ability to navigate the air at a high speed and drop with Tirwis-inn nnnn the decks of war vessel's or in fortified places. The Navy Yard will investigate the invention. Sigourxky Butler, of Massachusetts, has been appointed Second Comptroller of the Treasuiy, and E. A. Mosely, also of Massachusetts, has been chosen Secretary of the Inter-State Commerce Commission. Foreign. Vicar-General Quixn, Rector of the St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathedral in New ! York, died a few days since in Paris. A crowded Amsterdam (Holland) hotel 1 caught fire, and four of the inmates were kill Si. ' I Land troubles in Russia and Poland have j resulted in the murder of seven estate owners ' ?three of them noblemen?bv peasants. During a hot debate in the British House 1 of Commons on the Coercion bill, Major Sanderson, (Conservative) said the National League was supported mainly by criminals, uynamners, una murderers across me Atlantic. Mr. Healy (Nationalist) called Major Saunderson a liar amid great uproar, and was suspended a week. The British Government has ordered the j customs officials to keep a strict watch over all ships arriving from American or European ports, with a view to prevent the landing of dynamiters. Magistrate Haoarty, an unpopular member of the judiciary, was shot at from ambush in Cork and severely wounded. The second reading of the Irish Coercion bill was agreed to in the British House of Conunons, after a shai-p debate, without division. Ex-Marshal Bazaike, the noted French exile, was stabbed in Madrid by a Frenchman. supposed to be crazy. Bazaine. who is seventy-six years o.'d, was not believed to be 6eriously injured. Thk London Times has created a sensation by printing what purported to be a letter from Mr. Parnell to Patrick Egan indorsing the assassination of Burke and Cavendish, in Phrpiiix Park. Dublin, in 1882. The letter was given in fae. simile, but only the signature of Parnell professed to be that gentleman's handwriting. Mr. Parnell vigorously denounces the letter as a basa forgery. Ni'mkrous evictions are taking place daily in Ireland. In many instances the evicted tenants are resisting with all their might. The Ameer's troops in Afghanistan have been defeated by rebels. The various Central American Republics have agreed upon a treaty of unification by which a citizen of one cau become a citizen of all without naturalization. A SOUTHERN CYCLONE. Narrow L". scape of School Children j ?Cutting a Wide Swath. A recent cyclone in Chatham County, N. C.. thirty miles from Raleigh, did much damage. It came from the south, and first struck the farm of J. T. Brewer,destroying his barns, ' table and workshop. The public schoolh< use, in which I5ev. Jaine: <'l?'gg was teaching iv?viu-. riiiHirrij. w;i> inriKMi iruiuiu iill'l moved souse l)til. not a child was hurt. | The tore ?,f ,\. Knighl \wis torn to j pieces. and lbe yood-; were scattered in all (ii i rc-tions. Tli, cyclone then unroofed the dwelling of Ni-iil k'ni^ht, twisted n part or' it around and demolished his gindiouse. barn, stables mid blacksmith shop. Two of his daughters were injured. The Imrn ami stab.Vs of S. T. \\ onililo wore swept away and some vacant, buildings were wrecked near the same place. The cyclone swept a path through the wo>xls four to five hundred nards wide, for a distance of Jive miles. It was the greatest storm (.in record in that, county. China has ceded to Germany the Chu?an Islands on its eastern coast, a very important acquisition for that Power. Chusan was captured by the British in 1840 and restored to China in lS4tf. J - - FROM FAR AND NEAR. Interesting News Matters From Various Quarters. Lieutenant Danenhower, of Arctic Fame, Commits Suicide, Lieutenant John TV. Danenhower, of Arctic fame, was discovered at 10 A. M. the other morning dead in his quarters at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., with a ballet hole in his right temple. He was found lying on the nig in front of his fireplace with a tag tied to his buttonhole, saying: "Send to my brother at Washington." Although ho had mental troubles since he returned from the Arctic regions, what immediately led to the suicido is thought to have been the recent grounding of the United States ship Constellation, on its way to Norfolk, which he had charge of, and for which it is supposed he had a fear of being court-martialed. Furthermore, he was very intimate with young Robert W. Gate wood, who recently committed suicide on the Carolina, and whom he saw in death. It is supposed that this death suggested the mode to him. His wife, formerly Miss Sloan, of New York, was away with her parents. Lieutenant Danenhower leaves two children. He was about thirty-five j'ears old and an intelligent and polished officer. The suicide of Lieutenant Danenhower at Annapolis caused considerable commotion and great regret in Washington. Danenhower had not been a well man since his return from the ill-fated Jeannctte polar expedition. His sight was almost gono and he was permanently weakened in other ways by the exposure he had endured on that trip. He was not considered insane, however, but he was always and constitutionally des|?ondent and morbidly sensitive. Ho was bom in 1*41), and was a fine officer and j} man of high character. In 1879 he joined the ill-fatecf Jeannette expedition, being second iu command under Lieutenant De Long, and escaped the fate of most of his companions after great sufferings. liord Salisbury's Offer to Settle the Fisheries Dispute. It is officially announced in London that Lord Salisbury, in a dispatch sent to Wellington on March 24, says that the British Government, understanding the action of the United States in denouncing the fishery articles of the Treaty of Washington to be in a great degree tbe result of disappointment at being called upon to pay ?1,1(M),000 under the Halifax fisheries award, offers to revert to the old condition of affairs without pecuniary indemnity, which offer, it trusts, will commend itself to the American Government as being upon that spirit of good will and generosity which should animate two great and kindred nations, whose common origin, language, and institutions constitute so many bonds of amity and concord. The Secretary of State at Washington de elines to either affirm or deny that Lord Sailsbury has sent such a despatch. The subject matter of the despatch is not exactly news in Washington diplomatic circles, the same prop option having emanated from a Canadian source some time ago. Well-informed persons incline to the opinion that the offer has been indirectly and unofficially made as a "feeler," to ascertain in advance of an actual tender how such a proposition would be received by the American people. A Leper in Louisville. Louisville physicians are much interested over the discovery of a genuine case of leprosy in that city. The patient is John Hastings, who lives with his parents on Wilson street. He contracted the terrible disease in Honolulu about three years ago, and his entire body is covered with the eruptions peculiar to lepers. Etastings is thirty years of age. He left home about five fears ago and went to Hawaii, wberohe contracted the terrible disease. Tfce steamer City of Peking brought him ba:>k to San Francisco, and he was sent home to his relatives. He succeeded in keeping f rom his jiarents <11 knowledge of the disease, and it was not until a few days ago that they know of their ton s ailment. During the last two years he bad been treating himself. Two of the best physicians in Louisville now have his case in a and. Evicting in Irelnnd. Nine tenants on Lord Lansdowne's Luggamrren estate in Ireland were evicted the >ther day. The onlookers groaned, but no resistance was offered." Tlie same evening placards bearing reprelentations of crossbones and coffins were posted in Listowel, threatening with violence iny man who should take a fann from which ;be tenant had been evicted. At Mayo Bridge a woman resisted eviction fiy barricading her house and throwing boilng water on the evictors, who retired defeated. Six Nihilists Sentenced to Death. Bix of the men arrested in St. Petersburg "or complicity m the plot to assassinate the L.'zar, which was to have baen carried out on March 13, have been sentenced to death, rhe other conspirators have been sentenced io imprisonment for life. \ Landowner Fails For $1,000,000. George Clarke, the largest landowner and lop dealer iu Montgomery county, N. Y., and ilso in New York State, has assigned, with iabilities placed at ?1.000,000. Ho owned rast tracts of land in Oneida, Otsego, Madiion, Chenango and adjoining counties. musicaland dramatic. Mr. Ji-cfkerson may go to England next fall to piny " Rip Van Winkle." Vida Crolt, daughter of "Jennie June,'' will adopt the stage next season. "My Partner" is played out , and Louis Aldrich nill abandon it this Spring. Clara Louise Kellogg will make a tour shortly tlirough New York State and Canada. "Wilson* Barrett's "Hamlet" has, on the whole, been favorably receivod m New York. "Sidney "Woollett, the elocutionist, is said to have memorized more than ;!(.<),000 verses of poetry. The Princess Beatrice, Queer. Victoria's rlfiiMrVifar rrmcir* nnH nlni c fhi ninnr* and organ with marked ability. Princess Beatrice has written a musical setting for Heine's "Sunny Month of May," and the house of Boosey has publis hed it. Miss Marie Enoel, who has just made her debut in London in Colonel Mapleson's company, is a Chicago girl. She joined his company during his last season in America. | |Gayarre, the Spanish tenor, has contracted to make fifty appearances in opera for 170.000. Sixteen years ago ho was singing in a Madrid music hall for 8j cents a night. Mrs. Langtry will close her season, in July, in San Francisco, and will remain tnere for the summer, opening her fall seasm at the New York Fifth Avenue Theatre in August. A New York manager estimates that one theatre there in one month passes 3,people. The thirty New York theatres encourage 157,350 deadheads every thirty days, or in one year 1,888,200. Wilhelmj, the violinist, is novr playing in Hungary. At a recent concert in Vienna he ; is said to have been recalled t went y- niue times j and that like enthusiasm had not been j manifested since the days of Paganini. NEWSY GLEANINGS. iDAno and Nevada are governed by broth ers. 1 There are $:>0.000,000 worth of three per cent, bonds subject to call. Thirty-three hotels are being built in Los Angeles count}-, California. At Carson, Nov., Chinese opium smokers are made to clean the streets. China has the fastest torpedo boat in the world. Her speed is twenty-four knots an hour. I Five thousand bodies, on an average, are taken to the morgue in New York city every year. Thomas ke^^tlie first white child born in Montana, died recently, aged tiventy years , and three months. The owner of a vineyard near Livermore, Cal., has thirty-four cats who keep the rabbits and gophers in some sort of subjection. Lulu Williams, a child of eleven years, is an applicant for divorce in an Omaha court on the ground of cruelty and failure to support. Tr--V- f..\ ' '.^V, * LATER NEWS, Memorial services for President Arthur were held in the Assembly Chamber at Al bany. Governor Hill presided, and impressive addresses were made by ex-Attorney General Brewster and Chauncey M. Depew. Tiie Massachusetts House passed the Higb License bill to its third reading by a vote of 1SS to 89. Six New York firms doing nearly all the silver manufacturing in the country have combined in opposition to the Knights ot Labor, and have locked out their silversmiths . ?about 1,200 skilled mechanics. There are only about 2,000 silversmiths in the whole country. Two neighbors?John Ray and William Carson?quarreled about some land near Chattanooga, Tenn., and shot each other dead. A large number of Illinois cities have been holding municipal elections, the principal feature being the license question. The majority of cities declared for license, but in the smaller places the anti-license ticket was uniformly successful. Additional appointments by the President: Samuel P. Bigelow, of New Jersey, to b3 Attorney of the United States for New Jersey. Consuls: H. L. Merritt, of Illinois, at Chemnitz; L. A. Spalding, of New York, at Air La Chanellp. The sealing vessels have nearly all returned to St. John's, N. F. The fishery this year has been a romparative failure. The police at Kieflf aud Odessa have dis:overed plots to kill the Czar by blowing up the imperial train in tho event of the Czar's visiting southern Russia. A land slide at Fuller Station, Fer.n.i caused the wreck of a coke train, and tho death of two train hands. Captain W. W. Bush, the first Union volunteer in tho war, was buried the other day with civic and military honors at Lockport, N. Y. Major JohnE. Blaijje, paymaster (broth* er of the Hon. James G. Blaine), died a few days ago at Hot Springs, Ark. A fire at Meridian, Miss., destroyed two colored churches. Scvvv mmi wf.vn iniiirw). 1.hi*AP of them fatally, by a dynamite explosion at Murphy & Sons' camp in Upper Michigan. Three men were killed and two fatally injured by the partial wreek of a construction train near Taswell, Ind. In* the Florida Legislature a vote cast for United States Senator was distributed among thirty-two names. Commissioner Si'arks, of the General Land Office, has ordered a re-survey of an immense tract of land in New Mexico, containg about 500.000 acres, and said to be held by fraud. A Paris dispatch states that M. Sohnaebeler, a special French Commissary, had been decoyed across the frontier, arrested after a fierce struggle with German police agents, and taken to Metz. The affair has caused 1 considerable excitement, and the renewal < f war rumors. Romk advices state that the Pope's recognition of the Knights of the Labor has displeased many of the Cardinals, and that a remonstrance has been sent to the Vatican. A discussion of the Irish question at a meeting in Kensington, England, ended in a free fight, during which many persons, including two members of Parliament, were j injured. A sharp shoc-k of earthquake has been ' felt over the whole of the Island of Jersey. The British budget estimates the Governments^ revenue for the coming year at $455,775,000 and the expenditures at $450,000.0001 SWEPT~BY A CYCLONE. A Large Area in West Virginia and Ohio Devastated. A tornado the other afternoon wrought devastation over a section of country extending from St. Clairsvilie, Ohio, ten miles west. The storm was first felt at St. Clairsvilie at 3:15 j v m. It appeared to be traveling i from the West and in the form of a funnel - shapad mass of cloud. Houses were .demolished, trees snapped off like pipestems, horses and cattle prostrated and carried bodily hundreds of yards by the gale, and tho skv was darkened with the clouds of flying debris. The First National Bank block was almost swept from its foundation. The National Hotel, Mrs. Evans's j large brick house, and probably forty or more other houses, were less seriously damaged. > TTnit/v 1 Pivwlivtorinn Clluimh. a lftl'20 brick edifice, was totally demolished. The los; in St. Clairsvillo will reach $200,000. The town of Bridgeport, just across the Ohio River, escaped, but a funeral was in the cemetery on the hilltop at the time, and the carriages were blown over and carried against trees, tombstones snapping of! as they blew over them. Martin's Ferry, W. Va., on the < opposite side of the river at the north ] end of town, suffered even more severely than St. ClairsviUe. The Elsou Glass Works had one brick building blown down on the hill. In the town proper seventy-five to 100 1 houses were more or less damaged, and the loss will reach $105,000. Walnut Grove, a fine park, lias but few of the S00 lofty trees standing. The city cemetery adjoining was , similarly unfortunat?. The stove foundry was partially demolished. James Roilly's house and liquor shop were l/.own down, and Mrs. . Reilly was pulled unconscious from the ruins, 1 and may die. Besides Mrs. Reilly, the only casualties reported were James Reilly, her hnsband, both legs broken; Mrs. Wilheim, collar-bone broken; Mark Davis, of the Martin's Ferry Stove Works, probably fatally injured. A German lady was also dangerously injured. AY hen the storm struck the river the water ' shot up in a perpendicular wail aoouc twenty j feet and then fell back in seething foam, and j simultaneously a shower of fence boards. | posts a>id timbers, with some large sections of j nouses, fell in a sheet on the waves. The Fair- I view schoolhouse, one mile west wai totally wrecked, and Miss White, the school-teacher, I badly hurt. Several families were rendered homeless. The I>afayette Rink was engaged : by the city authorities as a temporary shelter i for the homeless, and a meeting of citizens : was called to devise measures of relief. It was believed the aggregate losses would exceed SI.000,000.. i Tlie section of country surrounding Wellsville, Ohio, was also "visited by a terrific storm, which inflicted great damage. The tornado crossed the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad at Rummitville and was accompanied by a huge water-spout, which burst just on the outskirts of the town, destroying J fences und farm property, tearing up trees and prostrating telegraph wi-es. Mrs. Michael Maloney, during a severe hail storm at Niles, Ohio, went into the second story of her house to close a window when lightning struck tho house, killing her instantly. FATAL PRAIRIE FIRES. Fifteen Lives Lost in Kansas?Property Lost in Dakota. A despatch from Atchison, Kan., says : <-No less than fifteen persons have been burned to death by the prairie fires which, starting near Nicodemus, Graham County, have swept northwest 011 an air line into Norton County, destroying everything in a path that in "places is from two and a half to seven miles wide ?a grout roaring sea of flame rolling in tremendous sheets under the impetus of the high wind which prevailed all day Saturday and night. Thousands of head of stock of all kinds have been burned, and thousands of tons of hay, corn and wheat, and from 1U0 to 175 houses and barns have been destroyed. The burned district extends a distance of over sixty miles, with the fire still spreading." A Sioux Falls (Dakota) special says: "Ko ports of loss of property from prairie fires continue to come in Eighteen miles west of this city a tremendous tire started and swept the country for miles. Many farmers lost their houses and barns. It was the most destructive fire that ever visited this part of the country and the total loss will exceed $100,000. A RAILWAY KING GONE. Death of President Mitchell, of the St. Paul Road. Career of a Banker, Railway Manager and Politician. Alexander Mitchell, President of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad Company, and reputed to be the financial monarch of the Northwest, died of pneumonia at the Hoffman House in New York on Tuesday after a very brief illness. Mr. Mitchell had been spending the winter months with Mrs. Mitchell, at their elegant residence, Villa Alexandri, near Jacksonville, Florida, whither they went, because of Mrs. Mitchell's health, in December last. Mr. Mitchell left his wife in Florida a little more than two weeks ago and came North in response to business calls. He traveled in his own private car, accompanied only by a servant, and arrived in New York in perfect health and vigor. The change from the mild, almost summerlike climate of Florida to the capricious ani frequently cold and stormy weather which has prevailed in New York was quickly felt by Mr. Mitchell, who soon contracted a troublesome cold. But he gave the ailment no serious thought until at last he felt so prostrated that he summoned medical aid, and Dr. E. H. Bradley prescribed for him. Not experiencing prompt relief, and Dr. Bradley himself detecting alarming symptoms, Mr. Mitchell's family physician, Dr. Mackie, of Milwaukee, was summoned by telegraph. John L. Mitchell, the only son of the invalid, and his wife, were also at the hotel in constant attendance beside the sick bed." At- i ter Dr. Mackie's arrival the patient seemed to improve, and neither the physicians nor family entertained any apprehensions of a serious result. He was,however,a very sick man,but perfectly conscious and tractable. His condition remained unchanged and without alarming i symptoms until within three hours of his j death, when an unfavorable turn developed | itself, defying the skill of the physicians, and he gradually and rapidly sank until his death at the hour named. Ho icmained conscious to the end, fully recognizing his son and daughter-in-law, as well as the physicians, conversing with them until too feeble and exhausted to articulate further. His end was peaceful and easj, and he was apparently quite resigned to it Immediately after death the body was embalmed and forwarded to Milwaukee in Mr. Mitchell's special car. Mr. Mitchell was born in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, October IS, 1817. His father was a farmer. While yet in his teens he essayed the study of law in Aberdeen. This did not suit his taste, and he soon abandoned it to enter a banking house in Peterhead. His abilities and natural adaptcdness to financial affairs attractel the attention of Mr. George Smith, the then famous Chicago banker, but a native of Aberdeenshire, who induced him to come to this county in 1839, and placed him in charge of the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company at Milwaukee, which was practically owned by Mr. Smith, and was in reality a branch of his Chicago banking house. The insurance company had banking privileges, but no authority to issue bank notes. But Mr. Mitchell was more widely known ns a railroad man. The earlier Wisconsin railroads had been organized by small and weak companies, and in 1S63 were in a general state of bankruptcy. Mr. Mitchell then stepped in, and backed by the bondholders of these feeble concerns, merged the whole of them into one corporation known as the Milwaukee and St. Paul, of which he was made President In 1874 the Chicago and Milwaukee road was consolidated witn the combination, which then became the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, which, under Mitchell's Presidency, quickly became the strong and powerful corporation it now is, and of which he retained the Presidency until his death. Mr. Mitchell was an old Whig, but supported Lincoln during the war; then became an admirer of Andrew Johnson, graduating as a decided Democrat. In 1870, and again in 18?2, he represented the Milwaukee district in Congress- In 187(i he was a delegate to the St. Louis Convention, where he took an active part in the nomination of Samuel J. Tilden ' for President. Long before this Mr. Tilden had met Mr. Mitchell, and formed a high opinion of his financial ability and business worth. It was current gossip at the time tliat in case Mr. Tilden had taken his seat, the Western banker would have been made Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Mitchell had never since actively participated in politics. Mr. Mitchell was married in 1841 to Miss Martha Reed, who survives him, and by whom he lias had six children, of whom only one son, John L., who was born in 1S43, survives. The wife of Dr. Mackie, of Milwaukee, is his adopted daughter. His estate is variously estimated at from $15,000,000 to $25,000,000. It consists largely of securities of various kinds, as, outside his magnificent residence on Grand avenue, Milwaukee, the Chamber of Commerce and Mitchell Bank buildings in the same city, he has comparatively small landed poss?ssions. THE CZAM5_ ESCAPE, How Russia's Ruler "Was Saved From Assassination. It is now learned, says a special Berlin dispatch to the New York World, that the Czar oud Czarine would probably have been assassinated upon tbe Kith of last March if it had not been for two anonymous dispatches of warning from London. These dispatches were in exactly the same words and were in a cipher, the key to which is only known to the highest officials of the Russian police. The messages asserted that tbe Emperor's life would be attempted on his way to the requiem service in memory 01 ms imner. m spite of this warning both the Czar and Czarina attended the servico.driving to the church in closed carriages. The police arrested the conspirators and carried thein off without any resistance. So quietly was this done that not over twenty people in the street noticed the arrest. The Czar l-eturned to the palace by another route, and when he reached nome he gave way to a fit of terrific rage, during which not even the Empress or any of his children dared to approach him. Soon after the conspirators were arrested, the whole court, strongly guarded, 9etout for Gatcbina. On the way thither he had another providential escape, as obstructions of iron and wood had Deen placed upon the rails. The train was nearly wrecked, but it providentially remained on the track. The mon " arrested ultimately confessed where the factory in which tb.? explosives had been manufactured was looted. The police surprised the inmates by means of a stratagem. On arriving outeide the suspected hou? a sleigh was, in accordance with a prearranged plan, upset and ono of the shafts thereof apparently broken, which necessitate ! the occupantsinnoceutly requesting some of th3 inhabitants of the housa in question to allow the sleigh to be drawn into the courtyard in order to be repaired. This having been granted without suspicion, two more sleighs drove up. nnninininir r.<\mnn?linns of I Up|KllCUhlJ tliosj in the first one. Hardly had they done so before some of them made "a rush for the doors of the building and easily succeeded in occupying all the apartments, while tho rest surrounded tlie house. The inhabitants some twenty in number, among whom were two women, baing taken completely by surprise, surrendered without resistance; but the police had a narrow escape from being blown up along with the whole house, through one of the inmate trying to kick a bomb having tha appearance ot an ordinary large Russian prayer-book, with silver clasps. The attempt was" frustrated by one of the otlicers tripping the conspirator up. The book was an infernal machine. While the prisoners were being conveyed to the fortress of St. Peter and * St Paul one of tho officers inquired what had induced them to engage in such a crime, to which the reply was: Poverty. They asserted that they had been seduced by large sums of money, part of which was found in their possession. The fact of these prisoners being in ik>s session of so much money and the large quantity of explosives found tend to show that more than the mere killing of the Czar must have been intended. The county of Clermont, Ohio, has a citizen who has worn the snmo pair of boots continuously, day and night, without once removing them, for eighteen months. He expects to wear them six months longer, and thereby win a bet of ? 109. j THE NATIONAL GAME. ^ There is a promise of big records this season. The Detroits' outlay this season will be over $50,000. This will be a good year for home runs. The crop is unusually large already. Or the Chicago team Anson, Baldwin, Sullivan and Darlmg are all over six feet talL The new rules give the fielders plenty to do. It is not the batteries who play the gam* now. _.<< ir f. Baseball has at last received a boom in Washington. The public have gone wild over their club. ... The New York League Club was defeated in the exhibition game by the Columbia College nine?8 to 6. . V<v<in<nr CI.il.J.1.L1.. ? waai x , i/i iuo fuuoucupuias. nvu a siuv i of clothee offered by a clothing firm for the first local player mAing a home ran. v j Larry CorfooHAN, who was at one tim? the greatest pitcher in the country, has goM South with the hope that a season there will " help his arm. The Boston battery?Buffington, pitcher;. Gunning, catcher?have been sola to the Philadelphia^ for $500. All the League club* have consented to the transfer. There are 2,541 pounds, or over one ton, of batting material in the Brooklyn Ameri- j can Association Club, divided as follows: Startwood, 190; Harkins, 171; Toole, 158; 1 Porter, 142; Terry, ICS; Henderson, 208: O'Brien, 186: Peoples, 188; Clarke, 165; Phillips, 202; McClellan, 156; Smith, 159; Pinkney, 143; Burch, 180; McTammany, 15$.. The Captains of the League and American Club teams for 1887 are as follows: Leagu* ?Chicago, Anson; Detroit, Hanlon; New York, Ward; Philadelphia, Irwin; Boston, Kelly; Washington, Farrell; Pittsburg, J Brown; Indianapolis, Glasscock. American < Association?St. Louis, Comiskey; Brooklyn, ] 8 wart wood; Louisville, Hecker: Cincinnati, v A Fennelly; Athletic, Stovev; Metropolitan,. Orr; Baltimore, Greenwood; Cleveland, Snjr- : der. || PROMINENT PEOPLE. | ??? H General Sheridan has taken to using Indian clubs to reduce his weight. Paste cr has lost his forty-fifth patient, a- 'r man who was bitten by a mad wolf. Senator John H. Reagan, of Texas, has- j pronounced in favor of liquor prohibition. Prince Alexander, of fcattenberg, will -v5 visit the United States during the coming autumn. Attorney-General Garland is the only member of the Administration who is a total abstainer. Fifteen years ago David Hoetettor was a peddler. To-day ne is worth $16,000,(jp0. H?- ? Is a great ad vertiaerin newspapers.'' ^ Mrs. Hendricks denies that she is preparing any biography of her late husband, and says she has no intention of doing so. , , Major-Gbneral ' Terry is to deliver the oration at the dedication of the Soldiers1 Mon A. .A XT TT T umeat at new aavcn, vomi., on ?;uae itw. Count Von Moltke is the oldest member of the German Reichstag, although twentyfour of his colleagues in that body are ovwrseventy. Professor Richard A. Proctor is going ^ to Germany next summer to witness the- ^ total 9olar eclipse which takes place on Au- -] gust 18th. .3ji Gen. Greely, Chief of the Signal Service, finds it difficult to get acclimated at Washington, and is obliged to leave that city every " few weeks to recuperate. . , v Alsace P. Walker, of the Inter-State " Commerce Commission, stands six feet two in his stocking feet, and tips the beam at the two hundred and fifty pound notch. The President and Mrs. Cleveland have inaugurated the custom of walking about the city. Their walks aare chiefly confined to the vicinity of the Washington Monument. Miss N. B. Ctjmmings, now the Librarian ? of the Department of Justice at Washington, is a daughter of a former justice of the .1 ouprBiuo MJUI b vi i euu^yivauiu, aim is ic- * garded as one of the best authorities on hiw ^ books in the country. ANARCHISTS DISBAND. Formal Dissolution of the Notorious $ Chicago Organization. The organization which filled Chicago with "* < terror and excitement last year has just died. The anarchistic groups of the International Working People's Association disbanded at a meeting attended by the various groups. One of the leaders said: "You have no organ. Your nam? is mentioned with horror and contempt even by workingmen. If the lives of the eight convicted men now in the county jail are dear to you,. disband and let all past experience? be forgot' ten forever. The motion waft submitted to a vote and carried without a dissenting voice. A PROFESSIONAL Jumper, of St Catharine1*, Canada, as his share of the celebration of the Queen's Jubilee, on Hay 36, will encircle himself with bladders and a rubber suit. - <* swim down the Niagara current to a point opposite the Saul Davis1 place, and make a clean leap over the Horsehoe Falls. He will avoid the American Falls on account of the rocks. Captain Nathaniel Pish, of the Cherokee- , Nation, thought a centenarian, is as active as a man of sixty. He walks into Tahlequahfrom his farm, seven miles away, onoe or twice each we.'k, and back, and is in sound health every way. He cut two new teeth r?? cently. A report from Billings, Montana, states that even the game in that vicinity is s) weak from hnnger that antelope and elk can be killed with clubs. A party of hunters recently killed six moose in that way. Recorder Trotter, of Washington, is said to bo a lineal descendant of tht > white John Trotter who taught Washington how to dauce tho new and fashionable figures at Newport over a hundred years ago. He was never a slave, nor have any of his ancestors been in linndiurA since the davs of John Han cock. r THE MARKETS XEW YORK. 16 Beef, good to prime < 7#<3 8Jf Calves, com'n to prime 8 @ 10 Sheep ; 7^@ 8>$ . Lambs 9 @ 10 Hogs?ljve 5}^<:<a 5% Dressed Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 3 15 <g 8 95 West good to choice 3 70 @ 5 00 Wheat-No. 2, Rod 92%@ 9l<}? Rj-e?State CO @ 61 Barley?State ? @ 75 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 50)$ Uats?White State 37^<g 87 Mixed Western 85 @ 87 Hay?Jkled. to prime 75 @ 80 Straw?No. 1, Rye 55 @ 60 Lard?City Steam 7-10 <3 S 10 Butter?State Ct eamery.... ? @ 25 Dairy.... 20 @ 23 W<?t Im. Creamery 16 30 . Factory 21 @ 14; J . Cheese?State Factory 11 @ 12^ Skims 11>^@ 12>4 Western 12% @ 13 Kggs-State and Fonn ? @ 18? j HUKFAI.O. 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