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mm mm i????? A MILLIONAIRE SHOT. A Wealthy Cliicagoan Killed in | His Home By Burglars. The Thieves, Disturbed By Their Victim, Shoot Him Down. Amos J. Snell, millionaire, owner of the toll road running through Jefferson, III., was found murdered in his bed the other morning at his residence, No. 425 Washington Boulevard, Chicago. At 2 a. m. a servant girl heard a noise like a pistol shot coming from Mr. Snell's room, but paid no attention to it Later he was found with a bullet hole in the left breast, and one behind the left ear. Entrance was effected by the murderers through a back door. They had taken out the panel and sawed out the lock. Mr. Snell was one of the largest real estate owners in Chicago, owning a "great number of houses, which he rented, ana all this business was transacted in the basement of his own house, which was fitted up as an office. Ti.e windows and doors were heavily barricaded, and there were several large safes in the rooms in which the millionaire's business vas done. The theory of the murder is that a carefully planned robbery had been arranged. It was known that during the first part of each month large sums of money?the rents from Mr. Snell's houses?were kept in the basement. It is believed that the burglars were at work at the safe, when Mr. SnelT, hearing the noise, went down to the basement ana surprised the thieves at their work. His body was found in the hall, just at the entrance of his office door. The burglars who entered Mr. Snell's house made a raid during the night on several houses in the neighborhood, the tracks in the snow showing that they went from one back yard to another. On reaching Mr. | Snell's they bored sixteen or seventeen a.u<?er holes through the kitchen door and finally effected an entrance. From the kitchen they proceeded to the office, which was in the front of the house. Here it appears there was | nothing of any value to he found. The safe ; and desks were filled with papers, and after ransacking these, they proceeded up the stairs to the parlor floor. The door at the head of the basement stairs was skilfully forced, and the men were in j the front parlor, when it is supposed that Mr. Snell, who sleeps directly above this ! room, heard them. He left his bed-room, j and, taking a revolver, went down the front stairs. The folding doors leading into the parlor were shut, but it is supposed that he heard the noise in the room, for he fired a shot through the door. The burglars opened the door and returned the fire, the bullet striking the wood work and, rebounding, hit Mr. Snell in the breast, who then ran 1 back toward the rear of the hall. The burglars must have followed him and shot again, for the murdered man was found at i the head of the basement stairs with a bullet hole just behind the ear. The Snell house is a large three-story basement structure, solidly built of brick and 1 stone, and one of the most imposing resi- i dences in a neighborhood noted for its fine j architecture. But its only occupants at the 1 time of the murder were its owner, a man sixty-four years old, two servant girls, and l two little girls, grandchildren of Mr. Snell, j who were spending a few days there. Mr. Snell leaves a wife,two married daugh- ! ters and a son. Mrs. Snell and one of the j daughters, Mm. Frank Coffin, were on a visit in Milwaukee. Mr. Snell was one of the wealthiest and best known residents of the west side,and had j been connected with Chicago's history for a t Ereat many years. He was born in i ittle Falls, New York, and came "West in 1844, stopping for a few months in Cincinnati, and then coming to this city. A little later he went to Milwaukee, returning here in about a year ana opening a noiei at acnaumoerg. a iter a residence of six years there he removed to ! Jefferson and there laid the foundation of j the fortune, which amounts to about $3,000,- i 000. The police began at night an indiscriminate I raid on suspicious characters. A man with ! a bundle was arrested on Clark street. The bundle was found to contain a complete set 'of burglar's tools, a jimmy, augers, bits, j drills, a dark-lantern, giant-powder and dy- | namite. The auger was exactly the size , of that used to bore through the kitchen door at Mr. Snell's house. In the prisoner's pocket was a revolver with empty shells that ; nad recently been fired. It was of the same ' 6ize as the bullets that killed Mr. Snell. The j Si it oner said his name was Charles W. Bene- ! ict and he was nineteen years old. A Rorowint.nf th? T.nlfA StrAAt. Rtntinn nr. rested two men with burglar's tools whom be found prowling about Ada street, \ near the Snell residence, just a few minutes before the shooting took place, j They gave their names as Thomas Walton and Joseph Burke. The police say they are j notorious crooks and were undoubtedly- ! watching the outside of the house while otn- 1 ?rs of their gang were at work within. THE LABOR WORLD, 15 Europe a brick maker makes 800 bricks per day; here one makes 3,000. Last year 2,280 locomotives were built in i the United States and Canada. England has one district assembly and seventeen local assemblies of the Knigbts of Labor. ! i The total number of coke ovens in the United States up to the time when last noted ms 22,597; building, 4,154 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has just placed orders at Altoona for 100 locomotives and 3,500 freight care. The 3,003 employes in tha Baldwin works at Pittsburg turned out two complete loco- I motives every working day last year. Carnegie Brothers have bought twelve acres of land at Suter Station, Penn., where it is said they will put up several blast fur- j xwcea, The Brotherhood engineers on the Pitts burg division of the Pennsylvania Railroad j have asked for an advance in wages and a 'efcange In houri It is claimed that in every case where j manufacturers have adopted the use of union j labels of organized labor they have proven profitable to them. a syndicate of Lancashire (England) cotton spinners are negotiating with Lord Tredegar for the purchase of a tract of land in the vicinity of Cardiff Docks, on which it is intended to build eleven cotton mills, each of which is to hold 50,000 spindles. Silk stockimgs are woven in England, France and in this country. Many of the stockings sold as French are made in America on French silk looms. All the cheaper stockings in market are of American make, and many of the best stockings too. The sugar refinery of Moller, Sierck & Co., in Williamsburgh, N.Y., is to be closed and the firm have notified their employes that they are going out of business. This is the fourth refinery absorbed by the sugar trust, whose capital is estimated at $60,000,000. The general reduction of 10 per cent, in j the wages of the employes of the Cambria | Iron Company, at Jamestown,Penn., ordered ! some time ago, has gone into effect. Upward ! of lO.OJO men are employed in the works and , mines, and all are affected by the reduction, j The National Tube Works Company of j McKeesport, Penn., employing about 000 i men, have posted a notice ordering a reauc- I tion of 10 per cent, in wages of all employes, j If the reduction is not accepted the firm J threaten to shut down the entire establish- j ment Eduardo H. Gato, the "King of Havana Cigar Manufacturers," will shortly build in ' Key West, Fla., the largest cigar manufac- j tory in the United States. The building is | xv K<? nt Vir-i^k irnn nnri ctnnn with n mnncit.v for 1,000 cigarmakers,enabling them to manufacture 200,000 cigars a day. The carpenters of Pittsburg and vicinity have notified their employers that on the 1st of Mny next they will demand an advance of ten per cent, on their wages and half pay extra for all overtime. The employers claim that if the demand is enforced a general paralysis of business will be the result. The State Assembly of K. of L. of North Carolina met recently in Greensboro. One hundred and fourteen delegates, nearly half of them colored, were present. It was reported that the membership had increased iOJ per cent, within*the year, and that there are now 150 local assemblies in the State. Resolutions were adopted expressing sympathy for the striking railroad men and xn.ncrs in Pennsylvania. * - * ..... .. : frfaJ-iV-'-i.'- - . . ... . -.V y ' . I I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle State*. A committee of experts has declared the j ceiling of the Albany (N. Y.) Assembly room | unsafe, and the Legislature has vacated and sought another place of meeting. Captain Ritchie, of Boston, who saved the shipwrecked crew of the steamer TriumEhant, has been presented with a gold watch y President Cleveland in recognition of his | heroism. j The bodies of murdered twin babies were found on the railroad track near Fernwood, ; Penn. The elevator rope broke in Holis's Wool! dressing Factory, New York city, and three men plunged from the fifth-story to the cellar, all sustaining serious injuries. The steamship Blanche Henderson, loaded I with bananas and cocoanuts, sank when only ten feet from the Philadelphia wharf, and fourteen of her crew were rescued with difj ficulty. Twentv striking miners of the William I Penn Collieir, at Hockbauk, Penn., attacked I | a gang of Hungarians and Poles who had J I taken their places and injured a number of : them. The Coal and Iron police charged the J | rioters, when they opened fire on the officers, I and compelled them to retreat. | William Lavely and Thomas Larney.in- i i mates of thd Soldiers' Home at Bath, N. Y., ! I had a flght, and Larney killed his adversary, j Woonsocket, R. I., has had over a hun- | dred deaths from scarlet fever, and public | i funerals are prohibited until the epidemic j | subsides. The police authorities in New York City ! ! seized and burned the carcasses of fifteen cows affected with pleuro-pneumonia just as ; the owners were placing them on sale. The trouble between the coal minejs and the police at Shenandoah, Penn., was renewed and three Poles and two Coal and Iron policemen were shot. The wife of Oliver Wendell Holmes died in j Boston, of pneumonia, in the sixty-ninth j year of her age. At Port Murray, N. H., Paul Turner, aged J ; 15, killed his brother, aged 20, with a pitch- | fork. Fire destroyed the residence of George D. i Hill, near Bolivar, N. Y. Mrs. Hill and two j small children perished in the flames. The I father was so badly burned that he was not expected to recover. Jennie Barker, of Brookline, Mass., a girl not quite sixteen, being driven to de- | speration by the brutality of her father and I stepmother, committed suicide with a pistol. | An unknown old man committed suicide [ by jumping in front of a.train on the Elevated i road in New York City. . j. c. Crowley, a prominent lawyer of j Boston. Mass., has absconded with $75,(XX) which he held as trustee. Sonth and West. Sherman Hubbard, of Seymour, Ind., was to have been married; but he was too bashful to go through the ordeal and committed suicide in order to escape it. James Pope, of Long View, Ga., made his ten-year-old brother-in-law drunk. In his drunken frenzy he murdered Pope's three small children by bsating them to insensibility with an iron bar and then immersing their bodies in a kettle of boiling j water. An unknown dead aeronaut and a tattered balloon were found in the woods near Duluth, Minn. Five men were killed and several seriously ! wounded by a boiler explosion at Belmont, j . Ohio. Lester Sin'Glktart, of Columbia, S. C., I locked his six children in the house and went \ to church. During his absence the house [ caught fire and the children, ranging in nge i from thirteen years to thirteen months, pernhed in the names. Jim Cornkmus, a colored boy, age 1 14 years, was handed in Webster Parish, Li., j for the murder of Ernest Wren, a white 1 child, aged 5, by beating his brains out with j a club. An explosion of natural gas at Anderson, ! Jnd? fatally burned three women anl ! Vrecked a large tenement house. Tom Elms, editor of the Hornet, of Bir- j mingham, Ala.,was fatally^shot by Policeman ' Sullivan, who accused him of libel. Amos Grant, of Newton, Ga., murdered j his wife, his tbirWen-year-old son and his | wife's sister, with an axe, and then commit* | ced suicide. Jim Cornelius was hanged at Minden, La., for the murder of a boy four years old. Ax ep demic of winter cholera is raging in Atchison, Kan., and 450 patients are suffering from it. Matthew Busch, of Chicago, without ^a ! moment's warning cut his wife's throat in- j the presence of their three children. Thk Metropolitan National Bank, of Cin- I cinnatti, has suspended under suspicious cir- ! />nmotan/iAa on/) tlm line Kaati i UUVI IliU V 4 V. vx I^IUUIV u<u ucvu 1 arrest?. 1. An explosion in a dynamite factory at Hancock, Mich., blew the building to frag ments and killed three men. William Summerville, eighteen years old, touched with a piece of iron an electric light wire, at Memphis, Tenn., and was instantly killed. The old Libby Prison building at Richmond, Va., has been sold to a Chicago syndicate, and will be moved to that city. Near Stewartsville, Mo., William Bull, superintendent of a farm, shot nnd killed the daughter of his employer because she refused to marry him, and then committed suicide. Ex-Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, Ohio, | has been arrested for misappropriating funds i of the Metropolitan National Bank, of which j be was President. Miss Anna Utbey, of Columbia, S. C., was j standing before an open fireplace just before i going to be married, when her dress took fire j and she burned to death. William Saloxe, a desperate murderer, j while attempting to escape from jail at I Vicksburg, Miss., was shot dead by the > guard. S. S. Totman, under sentence of eleven j years' imprisonment,choked himself to death | with a handkerchief in the Medina County (Ohio) Jail. Burglars stole $30,000 in money and jewelry at Norfolk, Va., and escaped from jnountcd police officers. Washington. President Cleveland has approved and promulgated the new Civil Service rules which are to go into effect on the 1st of March next. The Civil Service regulations have also been revised to conform to the new rules. The general rules are nine in number, and are applicable, except in one or two particulars, to all parts of the classified service, and to some parts of the service not yet classified under the law or rules. Owing to the alarming frequency of attacks bv robbers on mail trains the Postmaster General has decided to arm all postal employes, at the expense of the Government. Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, was taken suddenly ill and was carried home in an unconscious and precarious condition. Speaker Carlisle has recovered sufficiently to resume his duties in tfce House. The House passed a resolution of thanks to S. S. Cox for the able manner in which he had presided during the Speaker's absenc e Speaker Carlisle has issued an order to Mr. Clark, architect of thd Capitol, directing him to remove at once all the private telegraph lines from the corridors of the House. The Diplomatic and Consular Appropria tion Dill as reported to the House inaices a total appropriation of $1,403,Ntfo, as against appropriat on of $1,419,042 for the past year. Mr. David T. Bunker,United Stites Consul at Demerara, British Guiana, died a few days ago of yellow fever. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: James K. "VVrig' t, of St Louis, to he Register of Land Office at Grayling. Mich., and F. R. Falkenstein, of Maryland, to be Second Assistant Engineer in the Revenue Service. Foreign# A chemist, of Manchester, England, made desperate by poverty, murdered his wife and siY r'biUlppn r?v nHmmiitprinn' r?mson. And then committed suicide. The treaty of alliance between Germany and Austria has been made public. It is purely a mutually defensive one, and Russia has been formally notified that to uttack either is to attack both. Thomas Callen, of Lowell, Mass., and Michael Harkins, of Philadelphia, Penn., who were ou trial in London, England, for | complicity in a dynamite conspiracy, have j been sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment | each. t Font persons were killed by a a explosion in a gunpowder factory at Hanau, Germany. London police authorities are closely guarding the House of Parliament to prevent the use of dynamite. General Frebault, a life member of tho French Senate, is dead. A brilliant anniversary celebration was held in London in commemoration of the novelist,, Charles Dickens. Nearly two million people are utterly destitute in China through the Hoang-Ho floods. LATER NEWS, The Bank of Harlem has been designated as the depository of the funds of the State of New York. Stephen J. Meany, a prominent Irish patriot, died a few days ago at Waterbury, Conn. Carelessness of employes on the Erie Railway at Newburg, JX. Y., caused an accident which resulted in the death of two men and serious injuries to three mora John Weissner, a rich farmer of O'Hara, Penn., hanged himself while temporarily insane Two men were killed by the breaking of a % a. -ii _i. ji ] ni uurr siune in a u)ru una tib di uouiouu, iu. John L. Nally, from Lafayette, Ind., while in delirium from typhoid fever, rushed jnto a thicket near San Diego, CaL, tearing his clothing to shreds and nearly scratching all the skin from his body. He died soon after being found. Miss Louise M. Roice, the school teacher at Plainville, Neb., who, during the late blizzard, lay on the prairie while three pupils died in her arms, has bad both feet amputated. Secretary Bayard has submitted to the Chinese Minister a draft of a proposed treaty between the United States and China which absolutely prohibits Chinese immigration to, this country. Senator Vest state3 that the reports of the Postoffice Department show that a larger amount of mail matter is distributed in Kansas City, Mo., than in any office in the country, not even excepting New York City. John Curry, a farmer, shot and killed tt ~ run neiJI j luaiu, a. uaimoi auvi ui uaoi , vi uaibt Canada, and then committed suicide. Lord Lanrdow.ye, at present Governor General of Canada, has beon appointed Viceroy of India to succeed Earl Dufferin, who will return to England and enter the Cabinet. Lord Stanley, of Preston, will become Governor General of Canada. The German Military bill was passed by the Reichstag as a whole without discussion. Mr. Gladstone returned to Loudon from France vastly improved in health, and was greeted by an immense crowd of friends on his arrival. A SERIOUS OUTBREAK. A Battle "With Policemen in Which Six Men AVere Wounded. The bad feeling engendered by the miners' strike has culminated in a sjrious riot at Shenandoah, Penn. According to a dispatch from that p'ace the miners returning from work were attacked at three different places on the outskirts of the town by bands of Poles. The Coal and Iron policemen, act ing as an escort, in their efforts to protect the men were set upon with clubs and stones and all of their prisoners except one we're resuced. The officers fired into the crowd and six men were shot, two of them in the act of assisting the officers. Two officers who us'Ki their revolvers were arrested by the town police and taken to Squire Monaghan's office. The rioters followed them, gathering in force in every street and alleyway until they exceeded 2,000 in number. After the men were taken inside, the Squire's office was assailed, the windows and ddbrs bro'.en in and the Squire himself was assaulted and painfully bruised, while the arrested men saved their lives only by jumping out Ol a ubuk winuuw. iu? rioters who were arrested were taken before Squire Shoemaker, whose office iu another part of the same street was similarly assailed by another crowd of about three hundred, and the fact that the office was on the second lloor alone saved the magistrate from personal injury. For over two hours the principal streets of the town were in the hands of a crowd, with which the local police force were powerless to deal. Had it chosen to do so, every store in town could have been sacked and the lives of hundreds of innocent persons sacrificed. Fortunately, however, its efforts were directed entirely to rescuing the prisoners taken by the Coal and Iron police, and wreaking vengeance on the latter. The names of the wounded men are as follows: Michael Heffron, aged twenty-four, a well-known baseball player, under engagement to play shortly with the New Orleans Baseball team, shot in the jaw and seriously injured; a part of the roof of the mouth shot away. He was at first a bystander, but went to the assistance of a Coal and Iron policeman,who was hotly beset John Cather, aged twentytwo, a member of the firm of Cather & Brothers, iron founders, flesh wound in the upper part of the left arm. He was helping a Coal and Iron policeman to hold his prisoner. Joseph Schwincefski, a Pole, ago unknown, shot in the cheek not seriously: one of the rioters, a Pole, name unknown, upper half of left oar shot off; a rioter, role, about twenty-five, name unknown, shot through right arm and flesh of right side; a rioter, a Pole, about thirty, name unknown, shot through the scalp. Squire Monaghon received painful bruises on tbe chest and leg from stones and clubs. Lieutenant William H. Moyer, in charge of the Shenandoah Division of the Coal and Iron police force, had the scalp on the top of his head cut open by a blow from a billy. anTnfmt firebug. Mary Wilson Fires a Now York Hospital, Causing a Death. The origin of the three mysterious flros which have occurred in the Ne.v York XT ..4_1 l Q.?vf,,**,,! o..H rv'r. .la l hnvn nUSpiUU LUi UUD ivupwwiwu w?v* w. .J/J/.V.. *.? v been traced to the agency of a little wrynecked inmate named Uary "Wilson. The first fire caused a panic among tho hundred helpless iumates of the hospital, but they were all rescued, with the exception of Mary Donnelly, vrho was suffocate I to death. The second fire was thought to have been caused by an overheate l resist t and was discovered in time to prevent damage. Tho authorities then placed a watch upon the building and the young firebug was caught in the act of lighting the third fire and the following confession extracted from her: "I am 11 years old. I have been here for three years. I made all the fires in tho hospital. I don't know why I did it. I went in the doctor's room, saw some matches there, and made the fire on his bureau. Tneu I wt nt to the bath room and got matches there an I set fire to the clothes in the hampar. To-day in the dining room I found a box of matches in the closet, and made the fire in the drawer. It was 1 who put the matches on the regi-ter in the Doctor's room. I do not know why I lid it. I am very sorry that I did it. My father's name is Richard Wilson. He lives in 129th street, 158 East. Mary Wilson." She is directly responsible for the death of Alary Donnelly and is now under arrest charged with murder nn 1 arson. INCREASE OF PENSIONS. A Bill to Aid Utterly Helpless Sol* dicrs and Sailors. The United States Senate has passed the bill reported from the Committee on Pensions to increase the pensions of certain soldiers and sailors who are utterly helpless from injuries received or diseases contracted while in the service of the United States. The bill provides that all persons who are or who may become totally helpless from injuries received or diseases contracted while in the military or naval service of the United States, shall be entitled to receive a pennion of ?72 per month, and that the increase allowed l>y this act to those persons who may hereafter become totally helpless shall be ina le to begin in strict conformity with section i.fi'JS, Revised Statutes. EUROPE'S WAR CLOUD. " Prince Bismarck's Pacific Address on the Situation. A Highly Dramatic Scene in the German Reichstag, The recent concentration of large bodies ol Russian troops on the Austrian frontier, to* gether with the publication of treaties between Germany and Austria for protection against Rus3ia, and Germany and Italy for protection against France, revived the war scare through- i out Europe. The announcement that Prince I Bismarck would speak on the situation in | the German Reichstag was therefore regarded as a matter of unusual interest. A Berlin dispatch gives the following particulars: Berlin, although not saying so much about it as Vienna and Festh.has been deeply stirred by all these months of obvious Russian pre a un wiw ^uu?>u wruaj wuou rcvow crowds assembled all the way from the Radezwill Palace past the Imperial castle and up the whole length of the Unter den Linden to the Parliament House, packiftg the sidewalks and roadway alike and cheering the Chancellor on his way thither as he rarely has been cheered in Berlin before. There had been a terrific iam for seats, over 3,000 applications having been made for the gallery, which only seats 200, and there are stories of as high as $60 being paid for a place to the fortunate holder of a ticket. Unprecedented telegraphic press arrangements had been made For circulating the speech verbatim at its conclusion. Under the inspiration of Prince Bismarck's closing words about Germany's position, wedged between enemies, and her determination to seek or provoke no war and to fight to the death if attacked, there was a spectacle rarely seen in the Reichstag before. The leaders of every one of the groups into which the body is divided rose and earnestly echoed his words, and swore fealtv to the cause of the fatherland's defense. The whole scene, as described by an eyewitness, must have been wonderfully dramatic and impressive to the spectators. The entire diplomatic corps was present in the Reichstag, and Prince William was in the box reserved for the imperial family. Prince Bismarck was enthusiastically cheered i by the crowd,and his reception on entmngthe House was wildly enthusiastic. The applause that greeted him was repeated over and over again. Immediately after entering tbe Keichstag Palace, at about 1:30 p. m., the first reading of the Military Loan bill was begun, and tbe President of the Reichstag gave the Chancellor the floor. Perfect quiet prevailed when he began his speech. He said: 'I do not believe I can add anything to the true state of the case regarding the bill. I do not address you on that account. My object is to speak of the general situation of Europe. I may confine myself to referring to what I said on the same subject over a year ago. There has been very little change since then, when I feared war with Franca Since then France has elected a peace loving President, and a pacific disposition has prevailed. I can j therefore, reassure the public that as far as Franco is concerned the. j prospect has become more peaceful. Regard- , ing Russia, also, I am of no other opinion j j than when I said we have to apprehend no ! , attack from Russia. The situation must not j be judged from press comments. | ( * i nave no raiin at an in fiussian newsua- ; pers, but I have absolute faith in the word of the Czar of Russia. The situation on the whole is not different from that of 1879. I grant that the concentration of Russian troops on the frontier may appear serious, but I perceive no cause or pretext for a Russian or a European war. Russia has no interest to conquer Prussian or Austrian provinces. "I go jo far in my confidence as to say that even a war with France would not necessitate a war with Russia, although the latter eventually would involve the former. It is true that I cannot command an explanation from the Russian Foreign Office regarding the concentration of tooops on the frontier, but, having been well acquainted with Russia's foreign policy for a generation, I may have my own opinion on the matter, i believe the Russian Cabinet intends to make Russia's voice heard at the next European crisis, and therefore wishes to push her military forces as far westward as possible."! Continuing, the Chancellor pointed out the fact that Germany had only a secondary interest in the advances of Russia in the East, and must refuse to be involved 'in any attempt to check them. He thought that the Czar was developing his military resources with a view to giving his country greater weight in the diplomatic consultations of European powers rather than with the idea of precipitating a European war. In conclusion Prince Bismarck took a brief retrospect of the relations between Prussia j and Germany since 1884, and showed that I on many occasions, of which the public j had no cognizance, affairs had as- j sumed a threatening aspect, but that in each case the calm, self-reliance of I ] German diplomacy had averted bloodshed. 1 Wa Vio/4 ru>rcnnnllv nnt t.hfi slightest doubt that I i asimilarresuitwould follow in the present \ complications. j I A DESPERATE BOY. ? He Kills a Girl and Himself Bccanse j She Rejected Him. ( An awful tragedy has occurred two miles 1 northwest of Plattsburg, Mo. Neva Everett, a pretty girl of sixteen, was one ] of the belles of the neighborhood. < One of her most persistent suitors i was William Ball, a * youth of 1 20. He made no attempt to conceal his < affection for Miss Everett and haunted 1 her footsteps continually. She received his addresses in a pleasant way at i first, but when he began to assume ! so much persistence she began to dis- 1 courage them. This maddened the boy and ' he told her that he could not live without her, and if she refused to marry him something terrible would be the result. She told him that she did - * * not desire to marry yeu, uuu that he, too, had better bQ thinking of some other subject The other day ho called at her home and renewed his suit. There was no one at home but the girl and her mother. She still maintained that she did not desire to marry him. The rejected i lover then pleaded with the mother and begged I her to influence her daughter in his favor. Mrs. Everett said that sne would not allow j her daughter to mairy for several years yet. | No sooner were the words spoken than Ball stepped back and, drawing a pistol, shot the poor girl dead. He then placed the muzzle of the weapon to his own head and blew his brains out. Both were dead in five minutes and the unfortunate mother is demented. PEOMINENT_ PEOPLE, Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts, was a school teacher and country editor. Senator Leland Stanford, of Califor nia, was a country lawyer in Wisconsin. i Quekx-Regent of Spain has asked Presi- i dent Cleveland's wife for her photograph. j The wealth of Austin Corbin, president of j the Reading Railroad Company, is estimated at $1-2,000,000. George P. Lathrop is to read a poem at the Gettysburg reunion of the Army of tho Potomac next July. Quern Victoria will probably stay in Paris a n'ght on her way to Italy, in order to receive President Carnot. E. C. Allen, the millionaire publisher of Augusta, Me., used to sell raspberries from a tin pail in the stree:s of that city. Emperor William is said to have lost the i faculty of counting, so that figures, dates or the cost of anything no longer convey any meaning to him. Ex-Congressman John Cessna of Pennsylvania never made a memorandum, never j carried a watch, never broke an engagement, j and never missed a train. Archdeacon Faruar, of England, op- I poses the verbatim reports of sermons, and has recently declined to allow his to be printed under such circumstances. i The Shah of Persia has abandoned the trip 1 mapped out for his tour through Europe this ! year. Ho will make the visit next year, 1 though, lor he wants to see the Paris Exposi- ' tion. I 1 - ... . j-... . -v. - V. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS, Senate Proceedings. 32d Dat.?The following bills were reported: To grant certain lands in Willamette < Valley to the State of Oregon for a public park; to grant lands in Wyoming for public purposes; to provide an additional mode of taking depositions of witnesses in United States Courts; to incorporate the Soldiers', Home Company of the District of Columbia J ? Mr. Hoar reported a joint resolution on, Celebration of trie Centennial of the Consti-: tution which provides that in addition to such other celebration as. may hereafter be provided for,the two houses o? Congress shall meet in the hall of the Housa of Representa- ?. tives; that the Chief Justice of the United States shall deliver an .oration, and that the B. President of the United States, the Justices ti of the Supreme Court, the members of the Cabinet, the Executives of the several States and Territories, and such other persons as "1 may hereafter b9 determined upon, shall be t invited to attend. After considerable argu- 0 ment on the subject of detail the measure was I tl passed.. K 33d Day.?The following bills were re- j] ported: For the relief of women enrolled as a army nurses: to restore pensions in certain f cases; for the relief of importers of animals f: for breeding purposes A resolution was v offered to inquire into the expediency of c Congress assuming control of the erection of c all bridges over navigable waters within ? State limits....The consideration of the President's message was taken up. h 34th Day?A communication was received jj from the President with a draft of a bill to a ratify an agreement with the Shoshone and Bannock Indians to surrender the Fort Hull Reservation in Idaho for a town site and ? right of way for the Utah and Northern RR. ?j The Secretary of the Treasury presented j information as to tho?greement with Canada touching the transportation of goods in bond ... The Secretary presented an abstract of the n militia forces of the United States The ^ Secretary .of the Interior suggested legislation ^ for the disposal of public timber lands.... ]E The joint resolution to appoint Andrew D. y White one of the Smithsonian Regents was e] laid over... .The resolution asking the Committee on Foreign Affairs for a statement of the political organization of Canada was adopted?The bill to authorize the sale ? of mineral lands to aliens was discussed ~j favorably by Mr. Stewart... Mr. Riddleberger renewed his fight to secure f; consideration of the British Treaty in ? open session, but was ruled out of order ana requested by the Chair to take his seat. Ho ? appealed from the ruling, but was not sustained, and he left the .Senate without taking his seat....In secret session it was decided to "j, postpone consideration of the British Extradition Treaty until next December ? #1,200,000 was appropriated to erect a public building at Kansas City, Mo. Honse Proceedings. 33d Day.?The Senate bill fixing the pun- jj ishment for robbery, burglary and larceny in the Indian Territory was passed ? The 8t Committee on Judiciary submitted adverse x reports to the bills to create a Court of Cus- gjtoms and to empower Congress to grant aid w to the common schools of the several States. Laid on the table.... A bill to reimburse the w several States for interest on money expend- p] ed in raising troops for the late war was re- Br ported. w 34th Day.?The bill to incorporate the ^ Nicaragua Canal Company has been referred to a sub-committee?The bill to prevent (j, menhaden fishing within three miles of the w coast was called up and argued at length. m Many fishermen sent protests againt the pas- ^ Bage of the act.-...The bill to apportion apDointments in the executive departments among the several States on the basis of population was acted on adversely. :55th Day?The following hills were intro iuced: .To exchange worn, defaced or mu- " fcilated coin for new money; to refund Gov- w eminent 4 per cent, bonds; to repeal the oleomargarine tax; to place a tax of five hundred dollars per annum on wholesale a butter dealers and a tax of one dollar on a re- a< tail dealer; to purchase a site for a post-office 61 building in Washington; to require the Secre- 8C tary of the Treasury to make a thorough in- ?! cestigation of the New York Sugar Trust: to fV seize unlawfully imported books; to divide i w the money surplus in the Treasury on July i j" 1st, 1888, among the States and Territories to J*1 lid the common schools; to creato a Board of Education in Washington; to make ~ i treaty of trade and commerce "c jetween the United States and Canada ....The consideration of the Lowry-White contested election case was taken up, and ipon a vote being taken, Mr. "White, the Re- tt publican, wasueciarea enuueu iu ms sea?<; | sc fe&s, 187; nays, 105. Forty-seven Democrats y? rotod to seat Mr. White....Mr. White, of bi Brooklyn, rose to a question of privilege, and H nade a denial of the newspaper reports that C ie had a private wire running from the House ai a his ofllce in Wall street. pi o6th Day.?A petition was presented from fn 190 woolen mills urging the classification of T worsted cloth as woolen cloth. Referred ... w A. resolution was adopted calling on the tl lYeasnry for information, whether, in 1S76, w when the limit of United States notes was tl placed at $340,081,000, such an amount was n existence, and if any had been destroyed . since.... The resolution to limit the time that people may be employed daily in textile jy Manufactories was reported adversely and n aid on the table...'.The bill in relation to ^ narriages between white men and Indian cj women was placed on House calendar The jj( Dill to organize the Territory of Oklahoma Bj was reported, as was a bill to appoint a sj. Fourth Postmaster General. Committee of ai IVhole.... A bill was passed amending tnere- ja rised statutes providing punishment for de- tj. 'aultinc or negligent bank officials, so as to nciude batik examiners.... A bill was passed 'or the appointment of eleven d rision superntendents of the railway mail service, at a salary of $2,500each.... A bill was passed elieViiig from the charge of desertion any ippointed or enlisted man in the naval service fc tvho can show upon satisfactory evidence ;hnt ho served until theexpiration of his term j )f enlistment, or was prevented from completing his term of service by reason of wounds received. P1 37tii Day.?The petition asking for a liistoric investigation of the Icelandic (lis- in ?overy of America was referred.... The ifternoon of February 20th was assigned for Q] the delivery of eulogestic addresses m the life and character of the !ate Seth C. Moffatt, of Michigan . ..The bill was passed making bills of lading conclusive evidence. .. Messrs. Tillman, n( Chinman. Anderson, and Parker were appointed a special committee to in- ft restieate the labor troubles in Pennsylvania, ti THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. ? Legislation in Great Britain?The Irish Question. P1 c< Queen Victoria's speesb has been read at ti the Ministerial banquet in London. The Bpeech,after congratulating the country upon is pacific foreign relations, announces the f' intention of the Government to introduce a bill declaring squares and thoroughfares unsuitable for public gatherings, u bill bf broad F scope dealing with Irish land valuation, and d an English local government bill. p The speech expresses satisfaction at the diminution of crime.and th3 improved social I * condition in Ireland. The other measures p announced are bills relating to land transfer, \ tithes, the amendment of limited liability companies' auts, employers' liability for ac- p cidents, and improved technical education. The speech does not refer to the European j crisis. The reference to foreign relations is devoted L-hielly to tho Afghan boundary sectleinent and the sugar bounties eon- J? terenee. The speech promises that " attention will be given to the ques- s' tion regarding coaling stations and docks at home and in the colonies, and an- ft nounces thut Parliament will be asked to re t< ceive estimates of expenses connected with tl the Australian squadron. a A HEEOINE DEAD. ? <v ir The Nebraska School Teachers "Who Braved the Blizzard. B Miss Etta Shattuck, the Nebraska school n ' !? 1 Hnvs . ceacnor wno was impribuutru *ui ???vV ?^ - 5I in a hay stack during and after the great January blizzard, has died Both her logs g below the knees had been amputated. N The teacher who spent the whole night ai fighting death to save her three little pupils le in an open field, Miss Louise ltoyce, has had a a] part of one fo >t and one hand removed, and the surgeons have amputated the other foot cj below the ankle. gi A fund of about $4,000 had been raised for hi Miss Shattuck, and subscriptions are in prog- fc ress for Miss Royce and Miss Minnie Free- n man, who saved sixteen children by tying them to one another and to herself and leading them three-quarters of a mile through J t( the storm. Miss Freeman has had twenty- ' b line offers of marriage since the itoro. i b ? ^ FROM FAR AND NEAR. Some Matters of Moment From Various Quarters. four Persons Killed and Others Injured on the Rail, Train No. 8, Chicago express, east-bound, I the fastest train on the New York, Penn7lvania and Ohio. About 11 o'clock A. vl he other morning it passed Steamburg, N. r., running down grade, at terrific peed. A freight train stood on the side *1* T4 im n.<n??AnA^ flin 1 /VAATYt Af^TTO Utuft* JLU IS DUp]A/OCU luau IliO i\swua\suj? r c? f the passenger train broke the frog between he main track and the switch. The moker and baggage car passod safely, but be day coach behind them left the track nd plunged .into the caboose of the reight train. The sides were stripped rom both car and caboose. Passengers ?ere thrown from their seats and many reeived slight injuries. Tbey poured from the ars that escaped damage, and soon removed he dead and dying from the wreck Miss Abbott, of Sheffield, 111., was so badly ijured that she died in a short time. With er were Mrs. Bottey, injured internally, nd Miss Bottey, injured slightly. Both are rom Sheffield. William McNeal was removed to the hosital. He has two ribs broken. He is be chief engineer of the Edison United lanufacturing Company, Covington, Ky. In the caboose the train crew were eating inner when the accident occurre L Brakelen James Dean and Shaffer, of Meadville, rere killed, and the Conductor, George Ellis, ) badly hurt that he died several hours iter. A man who sat on the same seat with lem escaped uninjured. Ten or twelve othr persons were more or less seriously hurt. Killed by an Electric Shock. Isaac Morton, a colored employe of the ew York Central raiiroad, was killed by ectricity, at Buffalo, on Sunday morning, obert Taylor was driving a delivery wagon, id the horse suddenly fell to the ivement. Taylor applied the whip, and relived an electric shock which made him unmscious. Morton saw the incident id went to the young man's asstance. Taylor quickly regained his inses, and Morton, who was a large, jwerful man, then took hold of the horee, ipposing it was alive, but as he did so an unirthly shriek rent the air and he fell, ping on the animaL Policemen alev and Hennessy ran to the >ot" They concluded that it was a case of ectric shock, and sent for the Emergency capital doctors. Meanwhile they dragged iorton from the horse, receiving slight locks, and took him to a drug store, be doctors think that Morton received the lock through the horse, Tor both hands ere burned, indicating ttiat tne circuit id passed through his body in that ay. It was found that a teleaone wire, broken by the weight of wet tow, had crossed a Brush electric light ire and had fallen to the pavement he horse, coming in contact with , received the fatal shock. Morton's jath was almost instantaneous. His atch, keys, money and knife were highly lagnetized. He leaves a wife and two chil-en. Taylor recovered. Ten Civillians Killed. In an encounter between Rio Tinto (Spain) liners, who were out on a stride, and the oops, ten civillians were killed and five ounded, and two soldiers were wodnded. The miners had joined the peasants living ithe vicinity in protesting against open-air Urinations. The Civil Governor of Hueiva, jcompanied by two companies of troops ad some civil guards, arrived at tne ?ne on Saturday, and found the streets :cupied by a threatening mob, numbering tout 14,000. The Governor spoke from le balcony of the municipal building, id tried to restore order, but the crowd rowned his voice with shouts and red pistols and threw dynamite cartridges ; the soldiers. The troops were then ordered ?fire. The crowd was finally dispersed. An Increase Refused. At the recent meeting of representatives of ie miners of the Wyoming region, it was relived to ask for an increase of 15 per cent in ages. Officers of the Lehigh and Wilkesirre Coal Company, the Delaware and udson Coal Company, the Hillman Vein ompany, the Susquehanna Coal Company id the Bed Ash Coal Companv, being the incipal coal operators or the Wyomig Valley, were seen by reporters, bev all emphatically declared that they ould not grant a 15 per cent, advance to ie miners at this time. The reasons given ere to thd effect that they were paying all tey can afford to at present. Important Foreign Treaties. The treaty by which Germany and Austria ive combined for mutual protection in ue of an attack upon either couny by Russia has created great extement throughout Europe. It is be3ved in many quarters tnat it is a ap in the face for Russia, which ie must resent somehow. Germany id Italy also made a treaty which stiputesthat if France attacks either country ie other shall send an army of 300,000 men i the French frontier MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. The noted actor. Osmond Tearle, was irmerly a drug clerk Rubinstein's opera of "Moses" will be proiiced abroad In March. The French actor Coquelin is said to have rofited $30,000 by his English tour. Herb Ernest Possart, Germany's teadig tragedian, is playing in New York. The latest musical prodigy is a ten year A oldT-innot-iof. nnmoH Hrthorfc Smith. Hfl Ls i London. Lotta used to dance and sing for the boys" in the Sierra mining camps. She is 3w very wealthy. Genevieve Ward has resumed her prosssional work. She is making a ten weeks' ip through England. Mr. He.vry E. Abbey has closed a con act with Mrs. Potter for her second season, >mmencing on Monday, the 19th of March, m Goldmark's "Queen of Sheba" has been srformed in Milan and scored a great suc>ss. The composer was recalled a dozen mes. Thk Sultan has decided to close the Turkh Theatre at Constantinople, because he links it conduces to the demoralization of is subjects. "Pete" is evidently a fixture at Harrigan's ark Theatre, New Vork. Harrigan's renering of the title role is one of his best ieces of work. Perugini made a succassful appearance 'ith thej-'arl Hosa OperaComjmny in Liver ool as Don Jose in "^arineii. uc [cCaull's forces in May. The piano was lately hoard in St. Paul's athedral, London, in the Passion music, and i is regularly heard in a Knightsbridge hurch in the Sunday service. A woman was turned out of a Baltimore pera house during a performance of " The fladiator " because she was discovered to be :ealing the play by taking short-hand notes. Maida Craikex, the first "society girl" to ice professional footlights, has gone to Bos)n to play in the "Bells of Haselmere" at le Museum, where she mate her first appearnee. Cait. Maucel Voter, a staff o.\lcer in ie French Army, who a few years ago en jyed celebrity in Fran -e as a plau.sc, wj i |>|w ir in concerts in Sew York city next lonth. Zazel, the wire aeriaii-it, will go back to arnum and her lii-sc famous hit n.:xt sumut. I Jitter iy she has been a successful rima donna in light opera. With the circus le will also do an equestrian act. William McFaiilaxd, who had been fiftyve years on the stage and had supported [cCready, the elder Booth, Edwin Forrest nd all the old timers, died i>oor and hai mssly insane at the County JailinMiuuopolis, Minn., recently. The Rev. Robert Collyer. of New York ty, recently addressed a note to the Manair of the Lv.-tu u Theatre, speaking in ighest terms of praise concerning the per>rmanco of "The Wife," which has been inning tor several months at that house. The cattle on the Snake River, Washing* Territory, go out on the ice in large numL>rs to get water, and as a result the ice rtaks and hosdrvda of thea are engulf*! j. HARPS. ~ I WHERE AND HOW THEY ABB MB MANUFACTURED. They are the Latest Fad in Society IB ?The Princess Beatrice s Harpist?Some Expen- Hfl sire Instruments. The New York Commercial Advertiser I H says that the latest fad in the musical HI line is the harp. For years this leantiful instrument has been to a cer- 'MB * i i.j A- AL- i:~A IB^I win extent reiegaieu 10 ui? nab ui 011104- I^BS uities, while its manipulation, except Rfitt by strolling musicians, has almost be- HK come one of the lQst arts. Within the year, however, a mania has set in which BHI bids fair to become a.popular one among H those who can afford a rather expensive RH luxury. 'HE A visit to a harp factory disclose* BHH many interesting facts in this connection^ KB and in starting out for such a visit one Bfl need not stop to make a selection. He is saved all that trouble for there is but BB3 one such manufactory in the United HQ States. H "That harp sounds all right?" said & visitor who stepped in to this concern MB yesterday to see what a real harp was. ? MM "All right!" exclaimed the proprietor* "well I should hope it wa9 all right. Its a new instrument just in from the factorv, and I was trying the strings and OR studying the tone. 1 never let an in- H strument go out until I have learned all about it and its peculiarities; for they do differ a little in spite of every care." ' "How long have you been building SH harps?" MM "About fortv vears. I succeeded J. HH F. Brown, who introduced the present form of harp into this country, though |M the form was invented in France about |H 1810 by Sebastian Erard, and has never -WM since been improved on to any great ex- H9 tent. The mechanism of couraeis finer, H but the geueral form and the tone an<l HP elTcct arc nearly the same. The demand for harps has been very limited for many years, and there is barely business- Kfi enough to keep one concern moving." "How many manufacturers are there HI in Europe?" JC " Only two, and they are operated by mS the descendents of the original Erard. One of the factories is in London and the^ |H other in Paris, and these two, with ours, H| are all the manufactories in the world. I ~ 90 cannot say what number of harps' the- fl Erards turn out, only the demand ia H Europe is greater than it is in America. The crowned heads,.the nobility and the IH wealthy affect them more than our peo- HD pie. I only 4urn out on an average ? j^fl twenty 01* twenty-live' a year, although . j^H I ilx? Uoi 'aw v?A?fVia t-V?? ^omon^ Kflfl in. m LUC ICO UiUUiug vuv Uh? creased greatly. The advent of the piano B| in the earlier part of the century almost flfl drove the harp out of the market, but I 1 HI fancy people are becoming tired of pianos--. to some extent and are returning to their old love of the sweeter, more musical in* HI st rumen t. Before the war the harp business was far better than it has been since < Bg until the last few months." J ''How did the war affect the harp business?" "The Southern- people were more given to the music of the harp than we -- were in the North. Young ladies-from the South would come North to school, H take harp lessons and then purchase in- - Bfl struments to take home. The war, of Hj course, put an end to that trade, and it has never revived." M "Do you keep many harps in stock?" H "No, it wouid hardly pay to do so. These you [see here are jnostly old in* |H struments sent in for repairs. We only IS make them as they are ordered, as a H general rule. It takes about three months- |H to make a harp, as the work is very par- H ticular, and is mostly dune by hand. We :H can use but very little machinery in || the work. There is a good deal of fine . H mechanism about a harp, though it is not H visible. The seven pedals in the foot of H the herp connect with steel wires* M that extend up through the column and H underneath the upper bar, where they H act upon the strings and change the- n notes. You will notice that there are - H two notches below the upper bearing. 9 When the pedal is at rest in the upper - bearing the notes are fiat; when pressed . H into the first notch the notes are natural, H and the second notch gives the sharps. H Before the introduction of this mechanism harps were supplied with three sets H of strings instead of one set, as now, and. BB were much more complicated and difficult- H to play." H "What wood do you use in the manu- ffl facture?" Kg "In this country we use maple mostly HO as a base, and spruce for the sounding O board. In England beech and sycamore S are used, with spruce wood sounding. 9 The frame must be very strong to stand H the strain; when the strings are taut The Hfl pull is about three tons." Hi "And what are harps worth?" B| "Anywhere from $400 to #1,000. Beyond $1,000 it depends on the ornamen- H tation, and to that, of course, there is no limit. However, a $1,000 instrument is good enough for most anyone, though the widow of General Barr'os, of Mexic o, has one that cost $2,500, and H many of the royal and noble ladies in Europe expend large sums on the em? 'H| bellishmentsof the harps they buy. The H Princess Beatrice, of England, has a H i an/q nnf nnlv that, but is Ueuutuui uaij>, ?uu ?v> - j t _ a very accomplished player." H "Where can people learn to play the 0 harp, and is it difficult to learn?" M "Yes, it is a dirlicult instrument to H master thoroughly, and requires study H and application. But, for that matter, fl so it does to learn to play any instrument vfl well. As to teachers, there are several very competent ones in New York, but H I think most of the young ladies who M learn to play learn at convents, most of H which liavc excellent teachers among the H sisters. Some of them are very fine 29 players indeed, though they are seldom H heard outside their convent walls, and H cansequently are unknown to th& (5 world." "Who are supposed to be the best H harp'sts in the world?" H "Oh, well, that is hard to say. But H perhaps Professor Charles Obertheurs,of H Berlin, or John Thomas, or Apthomas,of H London, though, by the way, these last N two are Welshmen, and probably come Bl bv their talent by inheritance, as Wales was always a great country for Harp h music, and minstrelsy flourished there S long after it had died out iu Eng'and 9 aiui Scot aud." H Finder Lengths. 90 A comparison of the lengths of the H first and third lingers has been many H years in progress. Ancient Greek art H seems to have found the greater beauty H in a longer forefinger, but in the Apollo- H Bclvjdere there is no appreciable differ- B ence in the lengih of the two. Gorrillas, H orang - outnngs and Bushmen have a . I longer third linger, while among Euro- H peans and Americans the longer finger is M sometimes the first, sometimes the tnird, M and sometimes both appear of equal H length. 9f Paris has lost 10,000 population in the year past. fl . ,