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A writer in a medical paper says that j 5n experiences in Colorado and Utah he never saw an Indian with a cold. He concludes that it is our hot rooms that give us colds. Although they have been brought to a high degree of perfection, it will be many years before the telephone and phonograph will succeed the woman with a sun bonnet, who lives iu the centre of the village and inquires daily over the backyard fence what the news is. Another inventor claims to have settled the question in regard to the prospective exhaustion of coal fields; that is, as claimed, he has perfected an engine in which the steam is returned to the boiler and as is said, "used over and over again," the saving in coal thus effected being calculated at "80 per cent." Boston rejoices in the application of steam power to boot polishing. In a ehoD located in the midst of the disciples | of Blackstone has been fitted up an engine with a complex arrangement of straps by which brushes are whirled at a surprising rate. The customers are seated on a broad beach and are polished off in a very short time. The Invalide Ji'/tse, the official journal of the Minister of "War, gives the effective . # forces of the Czar on the 1st of January, 188G. According to this account the Russian regular army numbered at that time 824,762 soldiers and 30,655 Generals and officers. The reserves amounted to 1,600,815 men. And this without counting the Finland regiments. There is a little railroad running between Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. CM a distance of ten miles. It has a president, three vice-presidents, a secretary, an auditor, a general traffic manager, a general freight agent, a general ticket agent, a purchasing agent, a superintendent of motive power and an assistant * .re : 11 general manager?unrieen uniuers m an. Bismarck and Von Moltk? were tackled the other day by an autograph fiend. Von Moltke wrote first, saying: ''Luge vergeht "Wahrheitbesteht," which is translated thus: "Lies pas9 away, truth lives for aye." Bismarck wrote after this four lines of German, which have been put into English as follows: ** In yonder world, full well I know Truth will at last the victory gain; But 'gainst the lies told here below A marshal e'en will fight in vain." A Chicago church that paid its pastor $6,000 a year, and let him spend several months in Europe, paid the assistant pastor $300 a year and required him to stay at home and do the work. The assistant pastor is now crazy as a result 01 pursuit by his creditors. Commenting on this the New York American says: "A town in which things like this happen should, as soon as it hangs its Anarchists, institute a search for local wises of anarchy," r?~ - ^ ? ?V- C*. A The people of Rising Sun, Texas, make everybody work. Recently a family of idlers prepared their land for planting in fi slipshod manner. They were visited bv a crowd of twenty neighbors, who compelled them to do their work over and do it well. The idlers were then warned that if they failed to plant or work their land well in the future they would be driven from the community, but they | Vere assured that if they worked as other people did they would be in no danger. j ' ?3gJonas Cr. Clark, founder aim President of the new Clark University to be established at "Worcester, Mass., Mfe given for the institution the sura of $2,000,000, to be divided as follows: Three hundred thousand dollars for the erection aud equipment of buildings; $100,000, the income of which shall be devoted to the maintenance of a library; $600,000 for an endowment fund; real estate, books and works of art, to the value of $500,000; and $500,000 for a professorship endowment fund. Chinese laborers will not work in the big canyon through which the Cascades division of the Northern Pacific road runs, because several Chinamen have been killed there. They think that it is inhabited by devils with strong anti-Chinese sentiments. Nine Chinamen were killed there some time ago by falling trees, and ten coffins were sent up. This was looked upon as a bad omen by the Chinese, and they were very uneasy as long as the spare coffin lay around camp. It was not long till a rumpus occurred, and a Chinaman was shot. The Chinese thought that this death had be?n brought about in order that the odd coffin might be filled, and they concluded to leave the place, and fA (TA Vtftplr t(1UUUl vv According to Bradttreeft, Grefit Britain continues to be supreme in the manufacture of tin plates, notwithstanding the fact that it no longer relies on Cornwall for its raw material. Nearly all the tin used in the manufacture is from East India or Australia. The latter ores are rich in metallic tin. Cornwall ore only possesses from 1 to 2 per cent, of pure tin, and is therefore but little used. Germany j is next in importance as a manufacturer of tin plates. "Wrought iron has been supeseded by steel as the base of tin plate manufacture. About S,000,000 boxes are produced each year, each box weighing 115 nnimds. if of standard srautre. Each r , ? - - ~ sheet weighs one pound, and consequently there are 112 sheets to the box. In a box weighing 112 pounds 97J per cent, of the weight is made up of steei plates and 2J per cent is the tin coating, i Of the total British manufacture of tin- j plates two-thirds?or about 5,300,000 boxes?are exported. The manufacture ? centered in South Wales, chiefly in Glamorganshire, Monmouthshire and ' C'aermar then shi re. i A TELEGRAPHIC TOPICS. I j Important News Matters From Various Quarters. The Fisheries Dispute and Editor O'Brien Discussed by Lansdowne. Lord Lansdowne, the Governor-General o f Canada, was entertained by the National Club in Toronto, the other night. In an address he said on the fisheries question: "It must be a source of pain that we should for so many months have been unable to adjust a dispute which, although not without its local importance, is, after all, not one of first rate magnitude. In spite of all that has happened, I may say that both Governments have shown the'great-est anxiety to avoid any local action likely to increase the tension ot feeling existing upon the spot. 1 am surprised, not that there should have been so much friction upon the spot, but that there should have been so little. The case is eminently one in which each side ought to make someallowance for the other. If each side will approach the question in a moderate spirit, and with the determination to make some allowance for the difficulties of the other, we need have no apprehension of the result." He made this reference to Editor O'BHen: "During our visit a slight touch of electricity has been perceptible in the atmosphere, and certain stars have shot madly from their spheres into your quiet firmament. They have experienced the fate which usually overtakes such erratic constellations. The disturbance has been brief and inconsiderable. I trust that it will leave no traces behind it. As far as I am concerned I may say that ow*j\vnin* HiidnuK this incident, has not for an instant interfered with my happiness or convenience. I might add that it is to the fact we were not the only visitors of distinction to Toronto that we owe the extraordinary demonstration of loyaltv and good will which we have experienced. Your conduct has, in fact, onco and for allf established that the Queen's representative in Canada, so long as his conduct in his official capacity has not been impugned, jo lon<* as his conduct in any other capacity has not been called in question by constitu| tional methods in the legislature either in Canada or of his own country, may safely leave his public or private reputation in the custody of your people. It has shown your abhorrence for the methods of those who seek to achieve by intimidation and persecution what they know could not be obtained by legitimate courses.'' Shooting at the Czar. A few nights ago, while the Czar and Czarina were driving in an open carriage from a ball given by members ot the nobility at Novo-Tcherkask, a shot was fired at them from the crowd on the street. A great uproar followed. The man who nrea tne snot was so inaureaieu uy me peupjw that he was insensible when the police secured him. The culprit had in his possession a bottle of poison, six cartridges, a revolver, and a dagger. He refused to answer questions. A Vienna paper has received a telegram from Odessa saying that the Czar returned to St. Petersburg from the Don Cossacks country three days earlier than he had intended to. This was due to an attempt made by a student to kill him on Wednesday night during the festivities at Nova Tcherkask oy firing at him ns he rode by in a carnage. A Defaulter for $85,000. Mercom L. Seguin, manager of the Philadelphia Umbrella Company, has left the Quaker city, Jeaving a deficiency of $85,000 in his accounts. Before departing Seguin made a confession to his friend and business associate. George C. Baker, declaring at the same time his determination to fly from the disgrace that must fall upou him if he should remain in Philadelphia. His last request was that Baker should break the news to his wife. This the latter reluctantly did. Mrs. Seguin is almost crazed with grief. Not knowing what to do she closed up her pretty home yesterday, and with her three childrent went to her home in Trenton. Seguin's victims are mostly members of his own family. Stock speculation is the main cause of his downfall. He is only twentyeight years old. A Set Back for the Panama Canal. Advices from Panama state that in one of the largest, longest, and deepest cuts, high up above the prospective canal work, water has >>??? Tim nmniint-. of pnrth nnrl rrvL taken out of the section referred ' to represents millions of dollars, and all this work is to-da)- valueless, as the water has washed from the side of the mountain more than sufficient to till all the cuts. On the Isthmus, as in other geological formations possessing the same characteristics, the purest water is found among the higher strata, and not in the mud. The .President's Vacation. The President left Washington on Thursday evening in a special car of the Pennsylvania road, and proceeded direct to Saranac Lake, in the Adirondacks, making only the neces- J sary stops on the route. He was accompanied by "Mrs. Cleveland and Col. and Mrs. Lamont, and expected to return to Washington within two weeks. Death* From Lightning. .Tame* L. Butler, at Dexter, Mo. Robert | ? 1 1 oml I i\iaiUH wa> ptuaij zcu ut uic oaiuc . foot* other men were severely shocked. Michael.Welch was killed while crossing c. wlieat-*fleld at Whitehall. 111. Katherine Williams, a colored woman, was | struck dead while gathering kindling wood at | Hillsdale, near Washington, D. C. AN INVITATION ACCEPTED, The President and Mrs. Cleveland to Visit St. Louis in September. A delegation of leading citizens of St. Louis, headed by the Mayor, called at the White House on Mouday and extended an in" ritat ion to the President and Mrs. Cleveland to visit the Western city next full. The invitation was contained in a large, elegantly bound book with carved wooden covers, the carvings representing the great bridge and the principal municipal buildings of St. Louis. The clasps and edges of the book were of solid silver bearing the initials ' G. C." The invitation was beautifully engrossed on satin, and is signed by over '20,000 persons. Mayor Francis made a short address, in which he said that while the people of St. Louis would be glad and honored to receive a visit from the President at any time, it would probably aftiord them great pleasure if he uuuiii tuieuigc t\? 111 ou. ijuun uuiuig the Grand Army Encampment in September next. The committee, ho said, desired to supplement the invitation of the Grand Army men, but if the President could not come during their encampment they would like him to come whenever he found it convenient and they would assure him a warm welcome. The President made a brief reply in which he said that while it was absolutely impossible to anticipate the exigencies of the public service so far ahead as September, lie could not now see why he should not visit St. Louis at the time indicated?about the last of September. He said therefore that he would take pleasuro in accepting their kind invitation. The committee subsequently extended invitations to members of the President's Cabinet. SOME OLD PEOPLE. William Ingham, of Danube, N. Y., is ninety-three years of age. Mks. Miriam Bennett, of Glendola, N. J., who died latelv. was 91 veurs of ace. After living to be GO years of age without the measles. Mis. Sail}- Shackleton, of Delaware Station died of tketn. Although Harvey Sanderson, of Springfield. Mass.. is ninety years of age, he goes to and from his business as regularly as in his youth. The oldest printer in Canada is William Brown, of Tiverton. He is ninety years of age. and did book work in Scotland for half a century. , Thk combined ages of the Nelson sisters, three in number, of Sutton, N. H.. make 324 years. They were I torn in the same town in which they now live. Thk oldest man in the State of New Jersey died at Browntown on Sunday, May 23. His name was James Preston, and he retained his faculties until the last. He was born in I Scotland in 1"K.\ and was therefore 10.r> year | and five mouth* old. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. Reynolds, the man arrested at Morristown, N. J., for blasphemy, was found guilty on Friday notwithstanding "Bob*' Ingersoll's plea on his behalf, and sentenced to pay a fine of *25. The great strike of coke workers in the uonnellsvuie (renn.) region a as resuiieu m bloodshed, two workmen at Sehoonmaker's works being fatally and others badly beaten by a crowd of strikers. Five whites and three negroes were whipped from five to ten lashes each at Newcastle, Del., on Saturday for larceny, and William Norris, colored, convicted of assault with intent to kill, stood one hour in the pillory. A letter has been published in New York from the Pope to Archbishop Corrig?in, upholding: him in the matter of the suspension nf the Re?. Dr. McGlynn, and condemning the suspended priest's doctrines. A pleasure yacht containing eight persons capsized in the Delaware river at Philadelphia. Three young men and two young ladies were drowned. Miss Ida Wesner, the beautiful and only daughter of wealthy parents at Glendonville, Peun., has eloped with her father's colored coachman, a married man. She left a note saying she had become strangely infatuated and could not help her action. A lion belonging to Actor Frank Frayna escaped from his cage in a barn near Madi| son, N. J., and killed a valuable horse. Frayne succeeded in lassoing the lion, who was making a meal of the horse, and dragged him back into the cage, but was bitten in the arm during the struggle. A New York infant of two years died in intense pain from the effects of a spider's bite. Rev. Dr. McGlynn, the suspended New York uriest, has been ordered by the Pope to go to Home within forty days under pain of excommunication. South and West. At Coowescoowe Court House. Cherokee Nation, Sarah Field, a Delaware Indian woman, has been convicted of infanticide and sentenced to be hanged August 1?. Thomas Nelson's horse Clydesdale killed his keeper, Mahlon Redmond,in Clarke County, Ya Redmond is the third man killed by the animal. At a school exhibition in KeiTville, Tenn.. Maggie Long's dress took lire and she was burned to death. The audience rushed out panic stricken, and many persons were seriously injured. The two train robbers?Henry Schwartz I and Newton Watt?who murdered the ex press messenger Nichols have been sentenced to imprisonment for life at Morris, 111. Willi a I? ANDREWs";an amateur balloonist, was making an ascension at Oskaloosa, Iowa, when his balloon caught fire and the aeronaut fell TOO feet, his body being crushed beyond recognition. ' Grant .Best, the seventeen-year-old colored boy who killed three of his companions I and wounded two others, has been found I guilty of murder in the first degree at Wilmington, N. C. __ JJJU Washington. The Mint Director estimates the production of the precious metals in the United States last year to have been: Gold, $35,000,000; silver, $51,000,000. Thess figures .show an increase of $3,200,000 over the gold production of 1885, and a slight decrease in the silver production over the previous year. The opening formalities of the National Drill took place on Monday in Washington. The city was filled with troops from all parts of the country, who had come on to participate in the competitive drill. The President has appointed Andrew H. Dill to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Charles M. Stafford, of Brooklyn, has been appointed United States Marshal for the Eastern District of New York. The President has denied the application for a pardon in the co.se of James J. Stanley, who was convicted April 13th of fraudulent registration and sentenced to 90 days' imprisonment in the jail at St. Louis. Foreign. The vaults of a leading banking house in the City of Mexico have been robbed of $300,000. The London Times has another installment of the series of articles in which it is trying to identify Parnell with dynamiters and the Pboenix rark murders. At the auction sale of the French crown jewels in Paris the famous "Regent"' pearl brought $37,000. Strikes are extending in Belgium, and a number of attempts h&ve been made to blow up buildings with dynamite. Collisions between strikers ami the military have also occurred. Mcch damage has been done in Hungary by floods. The proceeds from the nine days' auction sale of the French crown jewels in Paris aggregated 6,864,000 francs (about $1,372,800). The chief lot, a diamond headdress, was sold in sixteen pieces for $130,000. A FIRE near St. Petersburg destroyed sixty houses. A Sepoy shot ten persons at Calcutta, and afterward committed 6uicide. ma2zantini,the famous Spanish matadore, has been seriously wounded by a bull at a bull-fight in Seville. ROBBERY ON THE RAIL, A Band of Texas Freebooters Capture an Express Train. The north-bound express train on the Missouri Pacific, which left San Antonio, Texas, at 7 o'clock the other evening, encountered a gang of train robbers about 10 o'clock at McNeill station, twelve miles north of Austin. Harry Landa, a commercial traveler who was on the train, says that before the train reached McNeill the robbers had se cured the station agent and firmly bound him. As the train slowed up the robbers, to the number of twelve or fifteen, fired several volleys to intimidate the passengers. Landa, hearing the shots, raised his window aud looked out, when an order was given him to draw his head Imrk and close the window. Before he had time to comply he was wounded in the arm and badly powder-burned by a shot. There was considerable confusion aboard the train, and the passenger lay down on the floor and crawled under the bunks to escape flying bullets. The train was held up for nearly half an hour, after which time it was allowed to proceed. The door of the express car was forced open and about *4.000 was taken. The messengers were compelled to throw up their hands, and were ordered to hand over the cash and registered letters. S. R. Spaulding. the railwav jjostal clerk, told the robbers he had none, as the day line carried all the registered letters, and was informed that they did not care for them as they were not after "Uncle !jam's money, but Jay Gould's. The j obbers were in very good humor.ami, after going through the express car, bade a pleasant good-night and decamped. Some of the men were not masked, but the one who gave the orders wore a mask and was tall and dressed like a cowboy. Express messenger Xothaeker, who was ordered to turn over the money, handed the robbers only a small amount, and was beaten over the heu'l. A brakeman was wounded duiv 1 ing the fusilade. Postal Clerk Spaulding says ho distinctly heard the order given by the leader: "Don't touch any of the jiassengem and don't shoot any of our own men!"' The messenger also savs that he believes the men were green hauis in the busiI ness. MILLIONS^ LOST. Gieat Damage Caused in Michigan By Forest. Fires. The Michigan forest fires have resulted in immense losses. News from twenty-eight localities indicates diminishing fires. At Oscers, seven miles from Houghton, 1,300 cords of wood were burned and many acres of timber destroyed. Bestinan's cordwood yard, near the village, which contained 28,000 cords, was burned. Gillette's mill, six miles south of Marquette was surrounded by flames. Along the line of the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Kailroad west of Marquette the fires are nearly burned out from lack of fuel. Several lumber and construction campK are burned west of Michigamme. Forest fires near Calumet, Red Jacket and Houghton destroyed 40,000 cords of woods and 50,000 cedar ties. The damage is already estimated at ^>,.'500000, exclusive of to-day s lire at Lake Linden. "flames in a theatre. Frightful Tragedy at the Opera Coiniqiie in Paris. Many Persons Burned to Death or Killed in a Panic. The Opera Couiique in Paris took fire on Wednesday evening, and the wholo building was soon wrapped in flame. The lire broke out during the first act of the opera "Mignon." One of the wings caught fire from a gas jet, and the entire stage was immediately enveloped in flames. The fire soon spread to the whole house. Mme. Mergvillier and MM. Tasquin and Bernard were on the stage when the fire broke out. All the actors ran out in their stage costumes. The audience got out easily, but the gas was turned off before all had left the building, and it tiers. The roof soon fell in, sending showers of sparks as far as the Place de la Bourse. With the exception of Mme. Sellier, who perished in the flames, all the actors escaped, though several of the supernumeraries were injured severely. Five bodies, terribly burned, were conveyed to the National Library. Among them was the body of a woman clasping a little boy in her arms. The money receipts were saved and deposited in the Gaulois office. The firemen showed the greatest courage. MM. Goblet, Thibaudin, and Gragnon were on the spot soon after the fire started, and they remained throughout with the Are officials. The Military Club rendered great assistance in the work of rescuing j>eople from the building. Nineteen pei-sons were known to be dead. Many of these were supers. An artificial fire ftnruiratus. which had been placed in position in readiness for the burning of the palace in the second act, rolled down from its place near the rfiof and exploded below. Women, half clad and carrying their costumes, fled from the stage screaming. The flames spread with such rapidity that in fifteen minute; the stage was a vast furnace. Several actors escaj>ed by climbing to the roof on the side of the Rue Marivanta, where they were rescued by fire escapes. The audience was delayed a few minutes by dense smoke and insufficient light. The killed includes four firemen. There was not a frantic rush in the theatre, but it is believed that the staircase became blocked. M. Tasquin implored the audience to remain seated until the exits were opened, which they did. If they had made a rush for the doors the loss of life would have been terrible. The police outside were unable to restrain the crowd who besieged the building inquiring for friends inside until a military cordon was formed. One man who wanted to rescue his brother and sister raveu ana tore nucnair auu ( menaced with a stick the-people who stopped him from rushing into the blazing building. The scene outside was one of the wildest ' excitement. Falling embers struck horses in the surrounding streets, causing them to plunge and rear. Flumes shot out of every window, forcing the crowd into the narrow streets, where the crush was terrific. A member of the company says there were l.'iO persons on th? stage when the fire broke out. She heard the gla.ss falling like a hailstorm, but told the other girls not to mind j it. But while she was speaking a column ol flame burst through the wings with a roar and all rushed j>eli-inell from the stage. Only a fortnight ago M. Steenackers called attention in the Chamber of Deputies to the dangerous condition of the Opera Comique, which was the oldest theatre in Pans. The newspaper Fiijaro also called attention to the same thing after a recent twelve-hour benefit performance. The iron curtain was lowered in front of the stage, and this prevented the fire from spreading immediately to the auditorium and allowed the audience time to escape. The men who carried away the money chest report that when they left, the auditorium was quite empty. The fire brigade distinguished them selves,ana many 01 ttieni imu narrow em-apra. Most of the casualties so far reported were due to nervousness. Many persons who were unable to trust themselves to walk the narrow ledge of the cornice around the building jumped off in their terror. One woman coolly walked all around the cornice while flames were bursting above until she reached a fire escajx;. The victims were almost all singers. LATER NE WS. . John Vanderburg was arrested at Rockville, Mo., for an outrageous assault upon Miss Jennie Anderson. While the prisoner, who had l>een identified by Miss Anderson, was being examined in Court three shots rang out and Anderson fell dead. Two of Miss Anderson's brothers, who were present, were arrested. The Michigan Senate has passed a rigid high license bill which makes saloonists and bondsmen liable for injuries resulting from sale of liquor. A wind-storm at San Angelo, Texas, blew - -- -* akmaIA u down lue LUUn nuuw uujA/ia, utii uuicvi w dozen dwellings and injured all the churches, inflicting damages aggregating over $o0,000. Appointments by the President: Henry F. Downing, of New York, Consul at St. Paul de Loaudo, Portugal; Edward J. Hill, of North Carolina, Consul at Montevideo. Postmasters: Ellis Hunter, Brunswick, (.la.; Alex. D. Ross, Litchfield, Minn.; William T. Marsh, Rich Hill, Mo. Henry J. Rams dell, a prominent Washington correspondent, died suddenly a few days since in the National Capital. The Derby, England's greatest annual racing event, was won by the colt Merry Hampton, the Baron, a strong favorite, coming in second. This was Merry Hampton's first race. A how-boat containing John Thomson, his wife, mother-in-law and three children upset in a squall at Hamilton, Canada, and all were drowned. Two hundred Canadian veterans who participated in the late American civil war are about to form an organization, ana it cue regulations will permit they will become a part of the Grand Army of the Republic. NEWSY_GLEMINGS. There are 14,000 American residents in London. Boston sp.'nt f 15,000 entertaining Queen Kapiulani. A plague of caterpillars is reported in South Carolina. One of the attractions in a St Louis dime museum is a tattooed pig. Years of tea tasting nave finally made blind the wealthiest tea merchant in the world, M. Mylokanoft", a Russian. Sadie Mover, of Lansford. Penn, is ten years old, weighs lit") pounds and is taking on fat at the rate of two pounds a week. The prnijosed monument to General R. E] Lee at Richmond, Ya., will not be begun until fall, and the corner-stone will probably be laid in October. In London the other day the Prince of i Wales christened the $5,0(10,000 diamond from the Cape of Good Hope "The Imperial." It outshines the Koh-i-noor. There were eight persons kille l by rail? fcturlniul last; vear. uuainst "nj atciucuiio w m w six the year before. The injuries stood at 615 for 1880, aga list 41)0 for 1885. The United States have 10:i,?>S4 fishermen and 0,(505 fishing vessels, while- Great Britain was reported to have 120,000 fishermen on January 1,1887, with 9,0'!7 ve ssols. a monster snarK, tmrtj'-nve reet long, twenty feet in circumference, and weighing over four tons, was captuivd recently in Monterey Bay, off the Pacific coast. The winter wheat report from the Department of Agriculture simply shows a shortage of from 50,000,000 to (<0,0(10,000 bushels in the territory covered by the Eastern trunk lines. { The invention of the war cycle, a velocipede that carries ten soldiers, is considered so valuable in England that the}- are to build tme for twenty-six men. thirteen to work the c.Vcle and thirteen to ride. AN OCEAN COLLISION. Two Great Atlantic Steamers Col ltde?Loss of Life. A collision between the great steamers the Britannic and the Celtic, both of t)ie Whit< Star Line, occurred about 350 miles east ol Sandy Hook in a thick fog Thursday afternoon about 5:'i5 o'clock. The Celtic was coming to New York and the Britannic was on the second day of her journey to Liv erpooL The Celtic struck the Britannic three times on the side, cutting a big hole ir her beneath the water line and inflicting other serious damage to both vessels. At least four steerage passengers on th< Britannic were killed instantly by the falling bars and plates of iron. Others were thoughl to have been swept overboard and drowned. About twenty persons were injured. The story of the collision is as follows: The Celtic had about 870 cabin and steerage passengers on board. The Britannic car ried some 450 passengers. The weathei was foggy at the time and the sea calm. The Britannic's fog bell had been kept ringing all the afternoon, but ner speed had been kept at a high rat?, The Celtic was notsightw until the moment before the collision,although her bell had been heard. The Britannic, under commando! Captain Hamilton Perry,was kept straight or in ner course. The Celtic appeared on the port side of the Britannic ana when she saw her. reversed her entrines. but it was too late. Approaching in an oblique direction the Celtic .struck the Britannic a slanting blow, right abaft the engine room, glanced off, and then, carried forward again by her own momentum, struck the Britannic a stunning blow, almost at right angles, a few feet further aft. The prow of the Celtic crashed through the railing, breaking into the cabin and cutting a hole in the Britannic below the water line. -Her nose entered the Britannic's side fully 10 feet. The steerage passengers were gathered there, and at least four of them were killed outright by the crash of the Celtic's prow and by falling pieces of iron. A number were "seriously injured. The Britannic was still moving, and, as she drew off from the Celtic, the Celtic was shunted to one side, only to advance a third time on the Britannic, a few feet further on, and ripping open her side for a distance of twenty feet. Then the Celtic shot behind the Britannic and stopped about eighty rods off on her port side. Every one thought the Britannic was sinking, and Captain Perry ordered the boats lowered. Some of the men tried to enter the lifeboats, and a party of fifteen firemen got in a launcn ana startea ror tne critic. The Captain drew his pistol and threatened to shoot anv of the crew who would repeat the act. Some of the women and children were then transferred to the Celtic, and when it was discovered that there was no immediate danger, the panic was allayed and the vessels lay to. The Captains of the two steamers consulted together, and, lying motionless about five hours, the weather cleared a little, and in company the two disabled steamers journeyed sLowly toward New York. Before the sun rosfe the next morning the solemn service of the burial of the dead at sea was read, and the killed passengers were dropped overboard to their graves at the bottom of the ocean. The steamships Marengo, of the Wilson Line, and the British Queen, both bound for New York, overtook the Celtic and Britannic Friday,the day after the accident, and accompanied them to Sandy Hook. The passengers were in consternation all the time, and went about with life preservers bound fa*-! to their bodies. THE NATIONAL GAME. President Cleveland's private secretary Lamont, is a base ball enthusiast. It is estimated that $850,000 will be paid in salaries to baseball players this season. Moolic, of last season's Chicago Club, is doing some clever batting for the Boston Blues. The National League and American Assoeiatiori use about 4,000 balls in the course of a season. ualvix, or tne .ritreoiirgs. is sua w uc uue of the greatest base-watching pitchers in the League. The Detroit and St. Louis Cluhs are holding the lead manfully in their respective associations. The strength of the Pittsburg, "Washington and Indianapolis Clubs seem to have been underestimated. Governor"s Island, in New York Bay, has a fine ball team, composed of soldiers iitationed there. Old Pete Browning,* of the Louisville Club, is proving himself one of the greatest letters in the country. Hardie Richardson made the first home run at Detroit, His reward is 100 shaves at a first-class barber shop. Ramsey, the pitcher of Louisville Club, has been fined J5U and indefinitely suspended by Manager Kelly for getting drunk. New Haven made tlie first triple play of the season. On the following day tho Ath. letics followed suit in the game against Bal timore. There are now two one-armed pitchers in the profession, not including Daily, namely Ed Rabbets, of Jersey City, and England, of Sandusky, 0. The first catcher to wear gloves behind the bat was Delaverage, of the Victory Club, of Troy, I860. The first to wear a mask was Thayer, of the Newarks. in 1875. Glasscock, of Indianapolis, is playing tn? greatest game of his life at short, covering a great extent of territory, and making marvellous stops and throws. At the bat, however, l.?9 has shown up weak so far. Professional baseball players make plenty of money and many ot them are wise enough to save it. There are probably at least twenty-five players in the National League who have bank accounts of from $10,000 to $50,000. Of tbe International League players now with the League and Association, Griffin, of Baltimore, is the only one who is holding up his end. Morrison, of the Mets., Darling, of the Chicagos, and Morrison, of the Clevelands, have not yet played up to last year's form. A singular thing occurred in the sixth inning of the thirteen-inning Detroit-Pittsburg game. Miller was at the bat and struck a ball foal into the air. A sparrow was at that instant skimming over the field, and the ball struck the bird squarely, bringing it to the earth dead. The Detroit management in a circular says: "The management feels confident thai the Detroit Ball Club will be able to win the championship of the League, and trusts that its patrons, at the end of the season, may hare the pleasure of witnessing a series of games for the world's championship with the champions of the American Association^" ' I want my men to play with their heads as well as their hands and feet," says Manager John Kelley of the Louisville Club. "No ^lnh ran win if it does not resort to strategy and science, and there is as much of tliis in baseball as chess, cards, or anything else. I have been driving this notion into the heads of the boys lately, and now, for the first time in their lives, they us3 signs in fielding, batting and base running to a Rood advantage.* THE NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD. iron. /-o*/. Won. Lost. Detroit IS 2 1 Boston 14 ii Pittsburgh... 7 11 | New York. ...12 Philadelphia.. 0 ]1 j Indianapolis... 4 ]"i Chicago 7 11 | Washington... G IS THE AMERICAN* ASSOCIATION*. iron. Lost. IF'on. Lost. St. Louis. 21 5 ! Baltimore 15 11 Brooklyn 14 it | Cincinnati....U5 12 Louisville 1('? 11 Athletic 11 b Metropolitan.. 4 19 | Cleveland 0 11 THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. Lo.il. Won. Lost Newark 14 2 Syracuse S 5 Rochester. ...10 8 Binghamton.. 8 1( Toronto 11 0 Hamilton 7 11 Buffalo 12 7 Jersey City... i Oswego :> 15 Utica 5 1< EASTERN* LEA (.IE, Won. Lost. Won. Lost New Haven... 8 10 Hartford 12 < Bridgeport....15 8 Waterburv 9 i Danbury 5 13 Springfield.... 5 l: THE COLLEGE LEAGUE. ? '?' Harvard 2 1 I Princeton 2 ! Yale 3 0 | Columbia. 0 The thirteen Irish constables who resigned their offices because they were compelled t< carry on evictions, and who arrived at New York recently, have announced their inten tion of becoming citizens of the Unitec States by filing their application in the Cour of Common Pleas. The palace of the Mikado of Japan has keen lighted for some time by electricity, and the Edison Company has closed a eotitract to illuminate the city of Tokio. ElfiHT SHOTS FIRED. > Attempt to Kill Editor O'Brien 3 in Hamilton, Canada. E ___ r * He and His Friends Tired Upon in : Their Cab. ! 1 Editor O'Brien was more enthusiastically received at Hamilton, Ontario, than in any ; other place lie has visited since he began his [ tour. No demonstration was made against him during his passage from the depot to the 1 hotel, or from the hotel to the Palace Roller . Rink, where he spoke Monday even ing. The meeting itself was a most enthusiastic one, and there was no disturbance, ex. I cept that made by a few persons outside,who were quickly disfjersed by the police. When L Mr. O'Brien left the rinjk, had he gone out of 'the front door, where the police had [ cleared and were guarding the street for him mere wouiu nave Deen no attempt upon ms [ life to record. But some foolish friend adi vised him to go from the rink by the private side entrance on McNab street. Mr. O'Brien consented, thinking merely to escape the crushing in the crowd which awaited nim if he went out at the front entrance A closed coach was in waiting on McNab street, and just as the meeting closed Mr. O'Brien i went quietly from the rink and entered the carriage. He was accompanied by Mr. Kilbride and Messrs. McMahon and Roach of the National League. ! O'Brien and Kilbride sat on the back seat of tne coach, and McMahon and Roach in front. The coach was driven by John Nelson. President T. P. O'Brien, of the National League, eat on the box seat with him. As Nelson whipped up the horses and faced for the hotel, a crowd suddenly appeared, which provea unfriendly, for no sooner had Mr. O'Brien and his friends taken their places than they set up the usual hissing and groaning which proved to be a signal to a group of five men who lurked around the market building, in Market Square. The men who hissed and groaned followed the carriage, and as it wheeled into Market Square there was a sudden click, the horses pranced and a flash of light suddenly overspread a group of buildings where the men lurked. The reins dropped out of John Nelson's hands, and with the exclamation: "Oh, ray God, I'm shot!" he fell forward on the seat Crash, crash, crash, quick as lightning, and through bright flashes of flame sped the bullets from two revolvers until eight distinct shots had been fired. Mr. O'Brien stretched forward to look out, and as he did so a ball whisked by his face and passed through the opposite window without harming anybody. T. P. O'Brien, Nelson's companion, who had been amazed and dazed, now grasped the reins and lashed the horses through the square into James street and down to the hotel. Here there was another hostile crowd, who ? U/i/\^yu] n n f Ua *\n?4ir tw/ul f/\ agaui UUUWU UO lUC UCUIJ niKUUt VllCU IA/ open the door, but could not Mr. McMahon jumped over the door, and drawing a revolver, held the crowd at bay, while Mr. O'Brien and his friends were making their exit from the carriage also in the same uncomfortable way. As the party stepped into the corridor of the hotel a volley of rotten eggs was hurled at them, bu'*io one was hit. Chief of Police McKinnon and his men then rushed up, but all was over. Nelson was taken to the City Hospital. Dr. James White extracted the bullet. He said the wound is dangerous. It is in the left wrist. The day previous (Sunday) Mr. O'Brien had > spent quietly at Niagara Falls. He vas suffering considerably from injuries received in I the attacks upon him at Toronto and Kingi ston, but expressed a determination to keep ' his engagement to speak at Hamilton, and did so witn the result above described. SEDUCED TO ASHES, A Town in Michigan Completely Wiped Out of Existence. A fire broke out the other morning in Newmann & Trelease's general store, at Lake Linden, in the Lake Superior region of Michi gan and rapidly spread to other parts of the town, the prevailing dryness greatly adding to the rapid progress of the flames. At the same time the town seems to have been partially or wholly without the means of making -headi way against any serious conflagration. The village is located on the west bank of Torch Lake, in the Keweenaw Peninsula. Its population is about 3,000. The Calumet and Hecla's very valuable stamp mills are situated there. The village contains a saw mill, three churches, a bank, newspaper, and the usual complement of mercantile houses and residences. The stamp mills are some little distance from the village, directly on the lake, and were unharmed. The entire business part of the town was wiped out, only one saloon and one meat market being saved from the sweeping destruction. Three hundred families lost everything except what they had on their backs. The helpless situation of the town speedily rendered the people panic | stricken and unable to do what little might have been done to save property. 1 Both Houghton and Hancock Fire Companies responded nobly to the call for assist) auce and did great work. Nearly every family turned out report great loss of household goods and surplus clothing, the flames reaching out with such rapidity that householders quickly realized that their only safety i was in instant" flight. ! About 270 buildings in all were destroyed. ; The loss will exceed 51,000.000, with insurance [ of *.">00,0;X) to $700,000. Lightning struck the house of Andrew Pearson, near Independent Hill, Va, the other ' day, and killed lus two daughters, his five> year-old boy, and Mr. Luther Wright, who had taken refuge from the storm. Two other children were prostrated, but will recover. Thk Duke of Rutland will not allow pas 1 anywhere in Belvoir Castle, his ancestral seat. Lamps are used all over the immense building and a servant who has spent fifty years in the ducal services occupies his whole 1 time in filling the bowls and trimming the ' wicks. THE MARKETS. NEW TORK. 21 ! Beef, good to prime fi <$ "7% < Calves, eom'n to prime 0 & 8 . Sheep 8 @ f Lambs Hogs?Live ~>H(& 1 Dressed ?/?(? S).j Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 75 (a] 4 85 1 West, good to choice o 85 3 00 Wheat?No. 2, Red ' 00^(3) ! Rye?State '8 Barley?State (K) ?ti 75 l Corn?Ungraded Mixed 47 (<$ 48J? 1 Oats?White State ? @ 38 Mixed Western 34 (a) 30 Hay?Med. to prime *0 @ 90 . Straw?No. 1, Rye fiO (3) 05 Lard?City Sleam G 70 @7 25 , Butter?State Cieamery.... 19 @ 20 I Daily 10 @ 18 p West Ira. Creamery 15 17 ; Factory t:> <Ji> 15 Cheese?State Factory 10 @ 10}/ Skims 0 id J? Western 133a @ 13>i j Eggs?State aud Penn 18Ja'@ 13! .J ; BUFFALO. > Sheen?Wood to Choice 4 10 @ 4 30 Lambs?Western 4 75 cm 5 <hi Steers?Western 4 ;!5 $4 (Hi ( Hogs? Good to Choice Yorks 5 10 (J 5 15 . Flour 4 75 5 15 Wheat?No. 1 {?{ @ . Corn?No. 2, Mixed ? (dr> 43j* . Oats?No. 2, Mixed .12 <u: 33 Barley?State. 04 (? boston. Beef?Good to choice i'-@ 15 ' Hogs?Live 5 V? 0 > Northern Dressed.... 0j?@ ' Pork?Ex. Prime, j>er bbl...12 00 (a}l2 50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 "0 (</; 5 15 Corn?High Mixed (<? 52 Y > Oats-Extra White 41 @ 41 ?? 4 Rye?State fiO (a; 05 WATERTOWX (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. ' Beef? Dressed weight 0J4 & 1\? ' Sheep?Live weight 4 ?# 5 r Latnbf ,5 & 5>? Hogs?Northern 01 C% ' PHILADELPHIA, t Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 75 @ " 00 Wheat?No. 2, Red 95)4 @ 90 Corn ?State Yellow 50 @ 50) ? Oats Mixe 1 35 <?? 30 Rye-btate ? @ 53 Butter?Creamery Extra.. 21 (<t 22 ; Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. Il5><a 12 .;% . Kf ? MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. s. 'J? Madame PATt; is learning to play on tb* rither. Gounod is composing a cantata to be dedicated to the Pope Mr. Robert Buchanan's "Sophia" has passed its 300th consecutive representation at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. Mozart's piano and Haydn's baton, more recently the property of the immortal Tijsft, were willed by him to the city of Vienna. According to the Louisiana Sunday law, liquor stores, cigar and barber shops must be closed on that day, but theatres may remain open. Modjeska will produce a new play, next season: "The Witch," an adaptation by C. M. Rae, an English dramatist, of "Die Hexe," a German drama of six years ago. ; Anthems were first composed by Hilary, Bishop of Poictiers, and Sc. Ambrose, about the middle of the fourth century. They wer? introduced into the church service in 386. Mr. Augustin Daly's New York company has been playing with brilliant success at the Boston Museum. There -was immense demand for seats for -'Taming of the Shrew." Edwin Booth met his banner audience at Indianapolis. He played "Hamlet" there Thursday night, May 5, and his receipts were $4,770 from an audience of 2,119 person* Booth was paid $2,500. The new Opera House at Odessa, whan, completed, will be one of the grandest in (4- _~*11 JLjUlUpC. Xb Will piVUttUlJ^ UO UpCUC^l III MOT the management of Mr. Mapleson in th? autumn. It has been erected at a cost of 11,000,000. Madame Jasacschek, the well-known. >c tress, a few nights ago fell down an entire ' I flight of stairs at her hotel, in Newport, R. I., and broke an arm, besides sustaining other injuries. The accident will compel the disbanding of her company. Next October Charles Dickens will begin in this country a course of public readings from the works of his father. He is about forty-five years old, with brown hair and moustache, and of nearly the same height and build as the elder Dickens, but less pronounced in dress. . .. Saixt-Saens's Opera, "Henry VHL," was recently hissed down at its first performance at Marseilles. The manager had to ring down the curtain and announce to those who were not satisfied that they could have their money returned at the box-office if they I wniiln Ipavp A crxiH manv of th? malfYin tents availed themselves of this opportunity to get their cash back, and then the performance proceeded peacefully to the end. . ; PBOMINENT PEOPLE. Mrs. Grant's health continues to improve very slowly. ? . Qcekx Kapiolani, of Hawaii, is the fin) Queen that has crossed the White Hoon threshold. Kaiser Wilhelm has survived seventy- ^ . two reignmg monarchs who were his coS: tempo rarife. Jay Gould's purchases of Arkansas land* cover fully 10,0WJ acres, located in three different counties. Isaiah Tuppins, Mayor of Reedville.Ohio, 1 is the first colored man elected to that offlot r North of the Ohio River. JohnB. Finch, Chairman of the National Committee of the Prohibition party, is going to Texas to stump the State. Mrs. Garfield's delicate health prevented her attendance at the unveiling of her hue S band's statue in Washington. Her two sons, however, were present. Grand Master Workman Powderly wat presented with the biggest cowboy hat that could be found in Denver, and haa his photograph taken while wearing it. Mrs. Gladstone nearly always accompanies her husband to the House of Commons and she never fails to wrap a stout comfortei roimd his neck when he leaves for home A few years ago Joseph Brown was the ' Mayor of St. Louis, rich and ambitious to en ter"the United States Senate. A local new* paper now records the fact that Mr. Brown has just accepted a small municipal offi? worth $1,800 a year. Lieutenant FuppER,the colored graduate j, of West Point, who was dismissed from th? * service for malfeasance in office, is in the syndicate which has discovered the old gold and silver mines in Mexico*and the probabilities are that before long he will be the richest 'jj negro on the continent. General Boclaxgeb. the French "Wai Minister, is described by a recent interviewer as "a short man, rather stoutly built, with brown hair, brown beard, rather a red face} above all things quiet-looking,almost to commonplacenes?. He wore the ordinary French civilian's dress of black frock coat and < trousers, with only the ^single red spot in hi* i buttonhole." An old Congressman, writes a Washington correspondent, was remarking* npon the length of time that Repre- " f Bentative Kelley, of Pennsylvania, had been the "Father of the House," which moono nnf f>in mpmViflr nf InnCPflt, Rer ">'"uu """ ? o rice, but the member of longest continuous service. If S. S. Cox had not missed one year of service in Congress by resigning aud going to Turkey as United States Minister, his service in / Congress would have covered just- the number of years which Mr. Kelley has to his credit?twenty-six?but his chances of ever being "Father of the House" are very remote, because there have been several breaks in his service, < and now, as a candidate for the papaship of the House, he must start hi* career anew, and behind every man who has served throughout the forty-* ninth Congress. Looking over a list ' of the members elected to the Fiftieth Congress, this old member had the curiosity to figure out the nearest heirs to the distinguished and honored j>osition of "Father of the House," and this I is the list he produced, with the father I Iha Viaa/1 * aw iuu uvhui Tears. I . Years. WilliamD. Kelley....86ijame? H. Blount....U Samuel J. Randall....24!JosephG. Cannon... 14 Charles O'Neill 22 Wm. M. Springer....12 W. S. Holman 22;'D. B. Culberson .13 -I; Richard P. Bland.... 14 W. H. Forney li Roger Q. Mills 1-iiThoe. J. Henderson.. 12 Many valuable improvements have been lately made in the manufacture of asbestos paint in England. In the tests made of its efficiency, a piece of light pine wood, about six inches long by four inches square, painted with five coats, was placed for upward of half an hour in an ordinary grate tire, but, although the wood within was reduced to charcoal, there was no blaze urbAtAver emitted durincr the charring. Again, a small model theater, built of wood, with set scenes and accessories, was sprinkled with turpentine and set on fire; every portion ignited, and the whole was consumed. A similar model, with the set scenes and the wood framing all painted with asbestos, was drenched with turpentine and set oil fire, but the thin scenes were only partially charred at the lower ends with the turpentine flames, while the timbering was not even ignited. Congressman Scott, of Pennsylvania, say6 he voted for the interstate commerce law in order to give the men trV>n mn railroads on Daper an oppor tunity to see how their theories would work if put in practice. He thinks the nonsense has gone far enough, and will vote to repeal the law next winter. He is likely to have plenty of backing. I