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A Succession of Horrors at
Springfield, Mass.
Six People Killed and Four More j
Badly Injured.
The new office of the Evening Union, at '
Springfield, Mass., was burned out Wednes- j
day afternoon. The Maze was attended with i
the most sickening horror ever witnessed in j
that city. .S'ix of tiie employes met a terri- j
We deatii. Most of them jumped from the I
fifth story and were crushed into a shapeless
mass below. The fire was first
discovered in the mailing room, an 1 clouds of
smoke were pouring out of the lower story
windows before the fifty souls on the upper I
floor wereawareof their danger. The flames I
shot up an old elevator in the rear, cutting
off escape by the stairway, and most of j
the employes who escaped found their way j
to the ground by way of the roof in the rear. I
The unfortunate men ana women wno ;
crowded into the editorial rooms met a horrible
fate. Some were cut off in the
composing room, and the employes who ran
into the editorial room were cut off
f rom escape in the rear, and had to face the
horrible alternative of burning to death or
jumping to the sidewalk below, with the
probability of receiving frightful injuries.
A ladder was placed to reach
to the fourth story, and the sight of rescue
so near seemed to madden the suffering persons
at the two windows, and. one by one,
they dropped to the sidewalk below. Six
Iier'sons fell in this way. Some of them were
forced off and some leaped madl>, while the
crowd groaned and turned their heads away
as they whirled through the air.
There was no fire escape. Dense black
cmnl'A issued from the windows in clouds.
and by the time the Fire Department arrived
the top windows were filled with about
fifty despairing human beings, who did not
Rsein at first to realize their dreadful position.
The crowd underneath cried to them to have
courage, and on no account to jump or try
to climb down, and they at first sx-med disposed
to obey, but so slow were the ladders
in being erected that a panic seized the vie- j
tims. The scene as they began to fall from j
the blazing windows was horrible. Shrieks
tiroxe irom ine crywj as imu ui mo > ?; i
tims fell into the street b low. There
vas a great clapping of hands when a woman
was seen descending the ladder. A large !
canvas sheet was stretched over the side- I
walk, and three men jumped into this, but
broke through and fell out on to the pay- j
ment. A woman also fell through the can- j
vas and landed on the sidewalk insensible. |
With Editor Hill in the editorial room were 1
Dan Phillips,Timothy Dunn ithe galley bov),
Mrs. J. H. Farley, another woman and a
compositor. Mr. Hill opened the window and
shouted: "For God's sake, put up a ladder!"
\fVc Pnrlov caw t,h<? lander 00mine. In
her anxiety she could not brook the slowness I
of its coming aDd frantically jumped for it. I
She seemed to roll down the plane and struck I
on the walk in a heap. The copy holder |
started to follow, but Mr. Hill caught her by 1
- *' the waist and held her.
"Don't jump, the ladder will reach us," he 1
said, with as much composure as possible.
Forks of flames shot through the partitions. !
Dan Phillips began to choke. He could only !
sav:
"Ned (Mr. Hall), I guess our last day has j
come. I don't care for myself, but for my !
poor wife."
"I have a wife, too," said Mr. Hall.
' That is pretty hard, ain't it?*' said one, I
and then all prayed.
The woman was still struggling to free her- :
self from Mr. Hill's grasp and throw herself |
to the ground to escape the flames. The j
smoke curled around them. One and then
*inoth*>r drortned to the sidewalk, and the
agonized group at the windows could hardly |
keep back The impulse that sometimes
comes to a man to throw himself down a j
steep place seemed irresistible and overcame i
, the fear of death.
Mr. Hill was the last to leave. He swung j
himself under the ladder and made his de- |
scent, with another man in front. It was reported
that Mr. Hill was killed. Luckily
the report was not true. Choking and
blackened with smoke, he staggered on, groping
his way to the telephone office, and to'.d
his wife that he was safe.
'ihe list of dead and injured is as follows:
The killed?M. Brown, a compositor, killed
by falling from a window; Mrs. Fred- ,
erick E. Parley, Ja member of the editorial j
staff of the paper, killed by the fall: i
Henry L. Goulding, foreman of the compos- j
?-AAm +/"\ Hooth IV R WftVflV flf ,
Boston, killed by the fall; W. Lamzon. Que- I
bee, kille.i by jumping to the ground; Miss ,
G. Thompson, a proof-reader, was killed by
the fall.
The injured?Thomas Donahue, compositor,
left leg broken at the knee and bad cut
on the bead; Timothy Dunn, compositor,
arm and leg broken; I?. G. Ensworth, comTiositor,
compound fracture of the leg: Joseph
W. Witty, compositor, hand, neck and earn
burned.
DEPENDENT SOLDIERS.
Interesting Figures Furnished By
the, Pension Bureau.
Pension Commissioner Black has sent to
Chairman Matson of the House Invalid Pen- j
sion Committee a report furnished to the ]
Pension Office by its agents concerning J
the number of the disabled and dependent
Union soldiers in the different States. He i
has in this way learned, as nearly perhaps I
as possible, exactly the number of such
soldiers and their dependent relatives. The
reDort is so comDlete as to cover all but 83
counties in all the States. The grand totals
of Union soldiers supported in Government
and private charitable institutions was in
October, 1867, 86,953. Of this number 15,152
were in soldiers' homes, while 21,801 were in
State and county institutions or supported
by charitable aid in towns. The report by
States is interesting as showing in which
States the number of veterans dependent
UDOn alms is largest Massachusetts leads
the list, which is as follows:
Arkansas 6 j Mississippi........ 7
California 275 Missouri 2,000
Colorado 15 Nebraska IT
Connecticut 365 Nevada 1
Dakota. 17 I New Hampshire... S61
Delaware 18 New Jersey S61
Diet, of Colombia.. 72 New Mexico...... 6
Florida 4 ] New York 1,9SS
Georgia. 20 North Carolina.... 14
Idabo 2 Ohio 1,212
Illinois 991 | Oregon 10
Indiana 340 I Pennsylvania 3,679
Iowa 348 i lfhode Island 19
Kansas 75 Tennessee. 47
Kentucky 150 ' Texas 17
Louisiana 14 Vermont 174:
Maine 1,110 ; Virginia 14 !
Maryland 36 Washington Ter.. 12 j
Massachusetts.... 8,910 I West Virginia.... 5S
Michigan 509 ! Wisconsin. 170
Minnesota 92 ; Wyoming 1
TotAl 21,601
Those in soldiers' homes are as follows:
Eastern branch.. 1,9S3 I Sailors' Home, Mass. 51
Central branch.. 5,216 j Southern branch.... 2,697
Western branch. 1,611 I I)ist. of Columbia... 923
Northwestern.... 2,003 11nd. Hospital 605
Total
Grand Total 36,953
A large proportion of the inmates of
Boldiers'homes are pensioners, so that they
waiiW +/\ ha nrnvirlorl fnr iin/tar a
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dependent pension bill. I Very few of the inmates
of alms-houses are pensioners. Chairman
Matson will probably give study to the
elaborate reports sent to him by Commissioner
Black, and give an estimate of the
cost of the Dependent Pension bill, if it
is passed.
TOBACCO AND WHISKY.
^ The Ways and Means CommitteeInternal
Revenue Reductions.
A Washington dispatch says that the in
terual revenue reductions have been agreed
on by the Democrats of the Ways and Means
Committee and are to be considered
with the Tariff bill. They effect a
total reduction of about $24,000,000
or $2."),000.000. The tobacco tax, except on
cigars and cigarettes, is repealed, reducing
revenue about $19,01)0,000. Licenses abolished
will make a further reduction of between
$4,000,000 and $5,000,000.
There is no reduction on spirits of any kind.
The manufacturers of fruit brandies are allowed
to p<u?e their product in bonded ware- I
bouses and tol?? warehouse receipts for the |
same time as tlie whisky distillers now have. !
tioro# extreme ptDa:t:es have been lessened i
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. ' |
Fastern and Middle States.
Hknry M. Potter, aged sixty, jailor at .
Northampton, Mass., hanged himself be- J
cause he was accused of embezzling county
money.
Ernest Yovxg, Professor of Ancient and
Modern History at Harvard College, has ,
committed suicide.
Grand Master Powdkri.y, of the Knights
of Labor, has issued an earnest appeal for
aid for the miners in the Lehigh region, whose
condition and suffering, he says, are deplorable.
A defalcation* of $3$,000 has been dis- ?
covered in the office of the Treasurer of ]
Danphin County, Penn. I
Neal Dow, the combined candidate of the
Democrats and Prohibitionists, was defeated
for the Mayoralty* of Portland, Me., by 1
Mayor Charles J. Chapman, Republican,who
received an increased majority over the venerable
"Father of Prohibition."
Miss Louisa M. Alcott, the noted au- i
thoress. died Tuesday at her home in Boston, j
Mass., just two days after the demise of her i
aged father, T. Bronson Alcott. She was
born at Germantown, Penn., in 1832.
i he iNew jersey senate ana Legislature '
have passed the County Option High License
bill over the Governor's veto.
Sonth and West.
The new and incompetent men who have
taken the places of striking C., B. & Q. engineers
destroyed seven engines.
Seven* hundred conductors and brakemen
on the Atlantic and Pacific railroad in New
Mexico have struck against a reduction in
wages and business on the system is entirely
suspended.
The venerable banker, Valentine Winters,
of Dayton. Ohio, has distributed a half
million dollars among six children and the
heirs of two others. In 1SS2 ha gave them
four hundred thousand.
T.iV* RrPrnmn rorrlnn Vine incf Knan
visited by the worst gale aud snow storm of
the season, and the railroads were entirely
blockaded during its continuance.
The Sutter Hotel at Sutter Creek, Cal.,
took fire and from there the flames spread
and destroyed the entire town. The place
had a population of 1,500.
Albert West, (colored) confined in the
Workhouse at Indianapolis, Ind., attacked a
prison official, crushing his head with a stone,
when the guard shot West, killing him
instantly.
Newton, Kan., was visited by a tornado,
which killed W. J. Lacy, fatally wounded
two ladies and destroyed nine houses, valued
at $50,000.
E. A. McLeod, Postmaster at Palmyra,
Mo., whose accounts were recently found to
be f "CO short, committed suicide by hanging
himself to a chandelier in the Circuit Court- i
room.
Fire in the heart of the business section of i
Milwaukee, Y\ is., destroyed property to the
value of $300,000. i
Charles Duncan killed his employer.
Milt. Hawks, at Parkersburg, W. Va., ana
the indignant neighbors lynched him.
Three men were killed at Walkerville,
Montana, by reason of the cable breaking ;
with which they were baing lowered into a
mine shaft.
George "Watts, a striking engineer, tresJiassed
on the property of the Chicago, Burington
and Quincy Railroad at Brookfield,
111., while endeavoring to persuade a fellow
workman not to take out an engine, and a
Deputy Sheriff named Bostwick shot him
dead.
The village of Deep Creek, Va., has been
totally destroyed by fire.
Measles in a malignant form is rapidly
wiping out the bands of Nez Perces Indians
on their reservation.
A tornado in Grand Cotean Parish, La.,
destroyed a number of houses uprooted trees
and killed one child.
A collision occurred on the CincinnatiSouthern
Road, near Pine Knot, Ky., resulting
in the death of one man and fatal
injuries to five more.
A premature exnlosion of dvnamite in
the Cleveland Mine at Ishpominj, Mich.,
killed five miners.
Pullman Conductor Towxe was attacked
at New Buffalo, Dakota, ia his car by two
masked men, who robbed him of a large
amount of valuables, and, leaving him unconscious,
escaped.
Six tons of dvnamite exploded at Richmond,
Ind., killing David Hampton, seriously
injuring a woman a quarter of a mile
away, and shaking the earth within a radius
of fifty miles.
Rev. J. A. Asbi ry, a prominent Methodist
minister, dropped dead at Vincennes,
Ind., while conducting a funeral service.
Washington.
The President has approved the bill authorizing
the purchase of additional ground
for the Custom-house at Newark, N. J.
The Senate Committee on Education and
Labor has made a favorable report on the i
bill extending the provisions of the Eight :
Hour law to letter carriers.
United States Treasurer says that the :
aggregate loss on all the issues of Government
notes by destruction up to January 31,
1888, was not less than f8,700,000.
The United States pension office has j
granted the first pension claim ever awarded
a Chinese. Ah Lin, a landsman aboard of :
an American man-of-war off the Pacific
ccast, was injured in the leg by the bursting
of a gun fired in a salute. Ah Lin's pension 1
is $8 per month. i
The sub-committee of Congress that was
appointed to examine the Worthington-Post ,
contested election case, from Illiuois, has de- ;
i? fnmr nf Pnet thfl eif+fncr PnnrrrPBC
man. ' ? ? I
The President has sent the folloving nom- i
inations to the Senate:?John R. Read ol ,
Pennsylvania to be United States Attorney
for tne Eastern District of Pennsylvania; ,
George G. Sill of Connecticut to be United
States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.
Alex. B. Cooper of Delaware to be |
United States Attorney for the District of
Delaware; John Lee Logan of New York to
be the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of Idaho; Charles C. Jones of Nebraska to
be Register of the Land Office at Neliegh, ,
Neb.; Rev. J. P. Dolphin of Minnesota to be
Post Chaplain; George F. Hollis of Massachusetts
to be United States Consul at Capetown.
The Senate has confirmed the following
nominations: Moses j. J-iiaaeii 01 Louisiana
to be Associated Justice of the Supreme
Court of Montana: Charles H. Harrington to
be Postmaster at Essex, Conn.; George Cushing
to be Postmaster at Highara, Mass.; A.
"W. Doremus to be Postmaster at Boonton, N.
J.; E. F. Pedrick to be Collector of Customs
for the district of Marblehead, Mass.; T. H.
Kelly to be Assistant Collector of Customs
at Jersey City.
The Senate has so amended the rules of
procedure that by a majority vote treaties and
the discussions thereon may be made public.
The President has sent the following
nominations to the Senate: James M. Corbet,
to be Register of the Land Office at Grand
Forks, Dakota; Jabez C. Steele, to be Receiver
of Public Moneys at Huntsville, Ala.;
Edwin Eells, to be Agent for the Indians of
the Puyallupa Agency (consolidated) in
Washington Territory.
Foreign.
The French schooner Fleur de Lamer has
sunk off Cayenne, Guiana, and sixty passengers
have been drowned.
At Havana, Cuba, an inhuman mothei
chopped off the heads of two of her children
with a hatchet and held two others in a tub
of water till they drowned, and then cut
thpm mi
The Bishop of Cork, Ireland, has permitted
the body of the late Stephen J. Meany, the
Irish-American patriot, to be placed in the
Cathedral there on the condition that there be
no political demonstration.
Two villages in Switzerland have been toj
tally destroyed by avalanches. Five people
I were killed.
The bodies of over two hundred victims of
I the recent avalanches in the Italian Alps
! have been recovered.
The members of the Roumanian Cabinet
! have resigned.
Avalanches in the Trentino Valley, Italy
have killed twenty persons.
Two Mexican villages were attacked by
a daring gang of bandits. At the village of
Lleva nine men and one girl were killed, and
at Picacho seven were murdered. The robbers
sacked the post office and principal
stores and then fled.
The house of John Daly, near Cayuga,
| Canada, burned, and his wife and two chilj
dren perished in the flames.
Less argument and more work will
make person better off.
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GERMANY'S CROWN PRINCE.
Sew and Interesting Statements
Relative to His Sickness.
Why His Wife, the Crown Princess,
.Boxed a Doctor's Ears.
The Berlin correspondent of the New York
Sun cables the following Interesting and
hitherto unpublished foots concerning the'
[ierman Crown Prince's disease and the
I'omraotion it has caused in the royal sufferer's
family:
The Crown Prince has been suffering for
fears from occasional hoarseness before it
was deemed necessary to have his throat examined
by a specialist. In February
ICV>U J'Otti, UUHCTC1, VUC1V new uu v?
optionally severe attack, and Professor
Bergmann was requested by the Emperor
to examine the Prince's throat and
say in confidence what was really the matter.
Bergmann had no difficulty whatever in
pronouncing that the Prince was suffering
from a malignant cancerous disease, ana
that to insure the patient temporary relief
from pain and postpone for a few years the
inevitable catastrophe, it would be necessary
to extirpate the larynx.
On hearing of the nature of Prof. Von
Bergmann's report, the Crown Prin^ss summoned
him to her presence and questioned
him in an excited ana insulting manner. The
professor calmly repeated what he had told
the Emperor. The Crown Princess vehemently
denied that her husband could
possibly have an incurable disease,
and the professor courteously and
sorrowfully contradicted her, and the
audience ended abruptly by the Crown
Jfnncess, lorgetiiu or dignity, Doxing
learned professor's ear9. Not unnaturally,
Bergmann refused to have anything more to
do with the Crown Prince's case. It was only
at the last moment, and at the earnest and
repeated requests of the Emperor, finally
turning into orders, that he altered his decision.
It is pretty generally known that the Crown
Princess detests Prince Bismarck more than
anybody or anything in the whole world. She
knows that Bismarck reciprocates her feelings,
and she erroneously believes him quite
capable of intriguing against her husband's
rights to the throne. The Crown Princess exerts
great influence over her husband, and
Bismarck has not infrequently had reason to
know it. He consoled himself, however, with
the fact that, although the Crown Prince and
Princess were opposed to him, their son was
one of his most devoted admirers. Prince
William is not popular with the mass or the
German people, but his Bismarck worship is
the redeeming-feature in their eyes and saves
him from being positively disliked. He is in
truth a most unlovable young man. He
Blights his Schleswig-Holstein wife and insults
his mother at times by parading his admiration
for Bismarck and in other ways.
Such are his unfilial sentiments in regard to
his Euglish mother that he rarely visits the
parental palace, and then only when directly
commanded to do so by bis grandfather.
Daring the past few months the Crown
Princess s great dread has been that she may
live to see Prince William on the throne
which it has been her ambition to share
with her husband. As far as the public
have hitherto understood. Prince William
could become Emperor only
by the death of his grandfather and
father, but it seems the latter event is not
necessary, because there is a law on the statue
book whic h provides that no Prince suffering
from incurable disease can succeed to the
imperial throne. Upon this law hangs the
explanation of most of the curious happenings
at San Remo, which have been puzzling
nil Europe.
The thought that it gave Bismarck a
weapon by which he could strike a mortal
blow at her ambition terrified the Princess.
She saw that her only chance was
to obtain an authoritative expression
of opinion that the disease was noc incurable.
In her sore distress she appealed to her
mother, Q>ueen Victoria, with the result
that Dr. Morell Mackenzie was summoned to
the royal presence and taken into the royal
confidence. He went to Berlin, examined the
Crown Prince's throat, and, as arranged,
pronounced the disease non-malignant and
curable. One portion of the growth in the
throat which he extracted was very carefully
selected so as to enable Professor Virchow,
to whom it was submitted for microscopical
examination, to declare, with a clear conscience,
that it contained nothing to justify
the supposition that the throat was the seat
of a malignant disease.
Thenceforward Mackenzie became solely responsible
for the conduct of the case. The
royal patient's condition seemed to improve.
Mackenzie was knighted,and bis English practice
increased enormously. Acting on Mackenzie's
advice the Crown Prince went to
Toblach in the Tyrol, and there he had a relapse,
which, in absence of official bulletins and
other athoritative information,caused a storm
r\f mrUrmafiAn fhtV\no4irk11+. f^rmATTC" Thfl Q#>r
mans could not understand why tiio beloved
"Unser?Fritz" should be allowed to remain
in a foreign land under charge of a
foreign physician and nursed by a foreign
wife. The people clamored that the Prince
shouli' be handed over to the care of German
experts, for of course Dr. Krause, physician
in ordinary to the Crown Prince's
bou8?hold, could not be considered authority
in such an important case.
It was at this time that the German newspaper
crusade against Mackenzie commenced,
and it is still going on. Then, too, the agea
Kaiser intervened, and in spite of the protests
of the Crown Princess, commanded that German
and Austrian experts should investigate
the matter. The result of that memorable
November consultation is still fresh in the
public mind. The experts declared that the
frown Prince was suffering from cancerous
disease. Dr. Mackenzie signed the report,
but with very important reservations. He
again carefully removed particles from the
throat, and Professor Virchow again
failed to find in them distinct signs of
cancer. Then Virchow relieved himself of
further worries and responsibilities by going
to Egypt, where he now is away out of reach
of the telegraph.
When the ODoration of tracheotomy be
came neccssary, the Crown Princess would
only content to it after having been warned
that her husband's life depended upon it.
The Emperor again commanded Professor
Bergmann to proceed to San Remo,
but not until tracheotomy had been
actually performed. When he arrived
he received no facilities for seeing and
examining the Prince's throat, and his visit
cannot have been a pleasant ona He is still
at t>an Remo by the Emperor's commands.
The experts now in attendance are divided
in opinion on various points, and are jealous
of one another, although the Germans are
united in distrust of Mackenzie.
Ever since tracheotomy was performed
Emperor William has desired to have his
son removed to Berlin. The German experts
unanimously declared that the disease
is incurable, and that the patient may as well
be at Berlin as at San Remo, but the Crown
Princess resolutely opposed removal, and so
far she has had her way. The excitement
all over Germany, and especially for some
reason or other in Bavaria, is so intense that
Mackenzie's life would not be safe should he
venture to show himself in the Fatherland.
KILLED BY WOLVES.
A Farmer and His Son Eaten by
Ravenous Animals in Dakota.
A horrible story comes from Poplar Grove,
a small town thirty miles southeast of Fort
Totton, Dakota. A farmer sent his son out
to clear a path to a bay stack several rods
away. He bad been shoveling snow for half
an hour when his cries were heard in the
house.
The old man seized his shotgun and rushed
out in time to see his boy surrounded by a
pack of wolves, which were killing him.
After firing both barrels without effect, he
clubbed his gun and made a most desperate
effort to defend himself. But he was powerless
against the wolves. From the windows
of the house his agonized wife and children
witnessed the ono-siderl fight. The resistance
did not last long, and then for an hour tha
wolves feasted upon their victims.
The woman dared not leave the house, and
remained there until neighbors came.
Crushed bones, fleshless, and clothing torn to
shreds alone showed where the battle had
taken place. That part of the Territory is
sparsely settled, and the people, thoroughly
terrorized by the occurrence, have armed
themselves.
Charles Powers, the Williamsburg
(N. Y.) schoolboy who, it is said, went crazy
from being beaten by hi* teacher, has died of
(uiu) aoMaincrifcis and has rt diaja* '
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SUMMARY OF 00NQBE3S.
Senate Proceeding*.
49th Day.?The bill to regulate commerce
carried on by telegraph was reported from
the Postoffice Committee with adverse reports
on bills introduced by Messrs. Cullom ana Edmunds,
and the matter provoked a lengthy discussion,
engaged in by Messrs. Cullom, Cnace,
Blair, Reagan, Saulsbury and Gorman....
A bill was introduced to incorporate the Atlantic
and Pacific Ship Canal Company....
The resolution directing the Secretary of the
Navy to designate a National vessel of war to
convey the remains of ex-President Paez, of
Venezuela, from the port of New York to the
port of Laguayra was passed.
50th Day.?The President presented to the
Senate all correspondence relative to the re- j
cent fishery negotiations... .The House bill
for the purchase of United States bonds was [
#?> it/woww rormrterl a ioint resolution was ,
passed for the construction of a reservoir for
the storage of water in arid regions of the !
United States....The bill to construct a !
bridge across the Mississippi River at j
Memphis was reported adversely with a i
minority report from Messrs. Ransom, Coke
and Kenna.... Some important amendments
were made to the rules....Consideration of
the Dependent Pension bill was taken up and
short speeches made by Messrs. Berry,
Manderaon, Wilson, Sherman, and Ingalfs.
51st Day.?A bill to credit the late Collectors
of the Port of New York, Robertson
and Hedden (the former $2,3445, and the
latter $3,073), for moneys received by a dishonest
clerk as duties on books was passed. .A
bill was introduced to provide more efficient
mail service between the United States and
South and Central America and the West Indies
... A bill to fix the sea-pay of Ensigns in the
TJoinr ?t; ?1700 npr annum, their shore nay at
$1400 and waiting order pay at $1030 was' re- j
ported favorably The consideration of the
Urgent Deficiency Bill was continued with- ]
out the matter being disposed of.
House Proceedings.
55th Day.?A letter was received from
the Secretary of the Treasury estimating the
probable loss by destruction of United States j
bonds A resolution was adopted providing ;
for holding night sessions every Friday to j
consider private pension and political aisa- !
bility bills The bill creating the office of
Assistant Superintendent of the Railway j
Mail service, with a salary of 13,000 per J
annum, and fifty-four clerks at $2,000, was j
reported favorably....The House then went
into Committee of the Whole for the consideration
of private bills $20,000 was ap- j
propnated ior ine renei 01 me jrroiesisut
Episcopal Theological Seminary and High
School of Virginia.
56th Day.?An appropriation of $5,000
was made to pay the expense of the committee
investigating the Trusts.... The consideration
of the Pacific Railroad Telegraph Bill
was taken up as a special order of business
and passed by a vote of 197 to 4
57th Day.?Committee on Printing, reported
back a resolution directing that Committee
to inquire whether the scale of prices
in vogue in tne Government Printing Office
prior to January 1887. should not be re-established;
adopted.... Mr. Breckenridge introduced
a bill to declare' trusts" unlawful....
A bill was introduced to appropriate $1,000.000
to build a shij) canal around Niagara Falls
A bill was introduced for the appointment
of a Congressional Committee of nve to
investigate the Western Engineer strike....
Mr. Farquhar introduced a bill to authorize
flio Roprot-.nrv of the Treasurv to Dlace with I
the Comptroller of the Stato of ^New York j
$8,000,000 of 3 per cent bonds, theinterestof
which is to be used in the improvement of the
Erie and Oswego canals.
5Sth Day.?The appointment of Mr.
Thomas, of Illinois, on the Claims Committee,
was announced.... A bill was introduced
prohibiting the use of likenesses, portraits or
representations of females for advertising
purposes without cons?nt in writing. Referred....
The House then resumed the consideration
of the Alabama contested election i
case of McDuffie against Davidson. After a '
prolonged debate the House declared in favor i
of Davidson, the sitting member, and then I
adjourned.
59th Day.?A resolution was adopted calling
on the President for all documents and i
correspondence with Great Britain, relating |
to the question of disputed boundary between !
4,1? A??orirton nnlnnr nnH Vpn- !
tuo dhuou ouuiu aiuoli\^uu vvivmj mum . v.. |
ezuela....A bill to pension prisoners of war j
was reported The bill for the erection of a |
battle monument at Point Pleasant, W. Va.,
was referred.... A bill was referred to the
Committee of the Whole to create a Department
of Agriculture and Labor.... A bill was
agreed to ratifying and confirming an agreement
with the Grosventre, Piegan, Blackfeet
and River Crow Indians in Montana. Under
the terms of the agreement, the Indians cede
and relinquish to the United States the lands
embraced within the Grosventre, Piegan,
Blood, Blackfeet and River Crow reservation
and agree to accept and occupy the separate j
reservations.... A bill was also agreed to dividing
the great Sioux reservation into separate
smaller reservations The Outhwaite
Pacific Rail way bill was favorably reported.
THE NEW TARIFF BILL,
A Proposed deduction in Duties
Amounting to $55,000,000.
The tariff bill favored by Chairman Mills j
ana nis uemocracic associai/es 01 uie uuuk ,
Ways and Means Committee has at last been j
made public. Estimates of several reduc- j
tions in revenue afpected by the bill have not i
been completed in detail, but the aggregate
according to the best information in the I
hands of the Ways and Means Committee I
is fixed at $55,030,000. This total j
includes about $22,250,000 on account of the
free list, $17,250,000 on account of woolen
goods, $1,600,000 for china and glassware,
$750,000 in the chemical schedule, something
less than $500,003 on cotton, $1,500,000 on
flax, hemp and jute, and sugar about
*ii,iwv,vw.
There is no internal revenue changes proposed
by the bill, this subject being pur- I
posely left for lack of time to the eonsidera- j
tion of the full committee.
The bill makes the following additions to
the list of articles which may be imported
free of duty:
Wool, woolen rags and shoddy; timber,
boards, sawed lumber, hubs, blocks, staves,
pickets, laths, shingles, clapboards and logs; |
salt when imported from any country which j
does not charge an import duty upon salt ex- j
por&d from the United States; flax, hemp, |
jute and vegetable fibers; burlaps, bagging |
for cotton, artificial mineral waters; tin !
plates, iron or steel sheets, copper ore, nickel I
ore, quicksilver, antimony, marble cement;
all essential oils, petroleum, cottonseed oil,
glycerine, gelatine, spirits of turpentine, soap j
and soap stocks, coal tar products, barks for
dyeing, indigo, logwood.
Chemicals, crude and manufacture;l. including
potash, sulphur, borax, bluevitrol;
bone black, kaolin, ochre, umber, and
sienna; rags, rattans, bristles, feathers, j
curled hair, needles, pulp for paper makers, j
books printed in foreign languages; cocoa;
dates, figs, prunes, currants; meats, game j
and poultry; chicory, acorns and other substitutes
for coffee; crude opium for medicinal !
purposes.
The bill proposi-s besides putting many ad- j
ditional items on the free list, to fix the duty
on pig iron at$G a ton, on iron or steel railway
bars weighing more than twenty-five
pounds to the yard and slabs or billots of
steel, $11 a ton; on iron or steel T rails weighing
not over twenty-five pounds to the
yard, $14 a ton, and on iron or steel flat
rails, punched, $15 a ton. The bill also
provides for admitting free of duty after
July 1 "all woo!s, bair of the Alpaca goat I
and other like animals, wools on the skin, j
woolen rags, shoddy, mengo, waste and j
flock9;' and after October 1,1SSS. it provides
among other things, for a forty per cent,
duty on woolen worsted cloths, shawls and
all manufactures of wool not especially enumerated:
and on flannels, blankets, knit j
goods, women's and children's dress goods j
J ,'N mAA1
IUU1JAS3C9U 111 pan Ui HUV/l. J
AGED PEOPLE.
Matilda Riley, of Raynick, Ky., claim! j
to be 121 years old.
Mrs. Sarah Horne, of Dover, N. H., is
93 years old and is in perfect health.
D. T. Van Vechten, of Warren, Pa.,
claims to be the oldest G. A. R man in the
country. He is in his 90th year.
Patrick Daley, of Meriden, Conn., is 101
years of age, strong and hearty, and still doei
his own garden work.
After Mrs. William Dutton Had Jived luu i
years she stopped the use of tobacco for feai
it was injuring her health. She is still hale
and hearty at 103.
Mrs. Bridget Eagan, of Rondout, N. C.,
is 105 years old, and she savs it makes hei !
mad to have young folks of 80 or 90 years }
come round and ask if she is "feeling i
poorly." ... , j
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A DARING BANK ROBBER.
He Fatally Wounds the Cashier
and Another Man.
Then Commits Suicide to Escape
the Fury of Pursuing Citizens.
At 11 o'clock the other morning the clerks
in the Bradford (Perm.) National Bank were
all busily engaged at their desks. A stranger
entered the building and advanced to the
cashier's window. For a moment 110 atten- I
tion was paid to him. After waiting a short '
time the man said loudly: "Let me come in."
The tone attracted the attention of every- '
body in the bank, and he was immediately
given to understand that he would not be
admitted beyond the rail.
He hesitated a moment and then, stepping
closer to the window, he drew a pistol and
pushed it into Mr. Tomlinson's face, at the i
same time saying: "I must come-in." The j
cashier looked at him calmly and replied in a ,
slightly sarcastic tone: "Put that pistol away; !
you cannot frighten any one here."
"You don't scare worth a cent," acquies- |
ced the man, as he turned slowly from the
window. When he reached a point about
midway between the desks of the exchange
and discount clerks he suddenly turned, and,
making a spring, pistol in hand, he cleared
the railing with an agile bouna and stood
among eight astonishe J and frightened clerks,
who, after a second's deliberation, made a
simultaneous bolt for the rear of the bank.
Looking coolly about him the bold robber
espied a pile of a cash deposit which
had been recently made. This he had stowed
away in his pocket, when Cashier Tomlinson,
who had not joined the stampede of his I
clerks, grappled with him. Desperately they
struggled, the one for his freedom and the
other for the safety of his trust
Suddenly there was a sharp report and a
1S1.11 cv w ?rv oknnf. fha !
lILLItJ JJUIL UL 3LUUn.C VUUCU avwuv vuw .
swaying figures. With a groan Mr. Tomlin*
son released his hold upon the robber and j
Bunk to the floor, the blood pouring from a !
wound iust above the left hip. The ball en- j
tered here and passed clear through,
coming out above the right hip. The assail- j
ant, without a glance at his victim, turned to
the money drawer, seized a roll of money
amounting to SW5 and a twenty-dollar check
and rushed out by way of the cashier's door
into the street.
There were foflr persons in the bank at the
time besides the employes of the bank, and
when the cashier fell they made their way
hastily into the street. One of them
had the presence of mind, however, to |
give the alarm, and hundreds of citizens
eave chase to the assassin. Hearing the
cries of his pursuers the man suddenly turned,
and leveling his pistol fired into the crowd.
A butcher by the name of Lewis Bilch fell,
probably mortally wounded.
At what is known as the Elm street crossing,
about a quarter of a mile from the bank,
the desperado, seeing that his capture was
certain, put the revolver to his head and
fired. He died in ten minutes. * He was
identified as George A. Kimball.
Kimball was well known in the oil regions
and was the patentee of the Kimball
pump. In the accident on the New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, February
5 last, at Steamburg, N. Y., he was
injure 1 about the head and it is claimed he
has been deranged since that time. He was
twenty-seven years of age and up to this afV*?/1
VtAi?na a rrnnH ronntiflHon.
RAGING FLAMES,
A Disastrous Fire in the Heart at
New York City.
For the third time within a month thi i
ominous signal known as the "Three Sizes1' j
has been sounded in New York City, bring- |
ing into service nearly one-half of the com- ;
panies composing the fighting force ol j
the department. This has never befori j
t ecurred in the twenty-three yean !
of the department's existence. Th? |
firo which called for this remarkable j
massing of forces broke out about 12:HO j
o'clock m the immense structure at Lexington I
nvenue and Forty-second street, known as the |
Pottier & Stymus Building. This was a sub \
Rtantial structure of brick, six stories \
Tht? is now a mass of ruins. |
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From there the flames spread to the adjoining
property, and before the firemen could
arreat tneir progress six tenement houses, an
acre of small buildings and a factory employing
1^400 hands were completely destroyed.
The Vanderbilt Hotel and nine
other buildings were greatly injured.
Measured by cold figures twenty-fire families,
embracing 115 souls, were turned out is
the world without any of their effects left,
the furniture of eight others was damaged
and broken by water and remoral, and ovei
11,500,000 worth of buildings and stock wer?
destroyed before the flames would acknowledge
the supremacy of the firemen.
THE LABOR WORLD,
Chicago is to have an elevated railroad.
There are 12,40$ ovens in the Connellsville
(Penn.) coke region.
Bessemer's steel patents bave brougut mm
$35,385,000 in royalties.
The eight hour movement is asserting itself
strongly on the Pacific coast.
It is reported that Lynn, Mass., has upward
of forty Chinese laundries.
Carnegie's steel works, in Pittsburg,bave
ibut down, and the men are discharged.
Coal fovty-three inches thick has been dissovered
at Le Roy, Kansas, at a depth of 280
feet
It has been stated on good authority that
ft will require upward of 2,000 cars to trans|>ort
the orange crop of California.
At Irwin, Penn., a company has been
organized to manufacture hardware novelties,
lawn mowers and other machinery.
The Etna Iron Works at Pittsburg hava
tlosed down indefinitely, the puddlers and
lauorers, ovi m nuuiuw, reiiuuig iw 6^ -work.
The sewer pipe manufacturers of the
United States met in New York and stated
that owing to a fall in prices a trust will b*
formed.
Sinclairville, Chautauqua County, N.
Y., has a gas well 1,000 feet deep flowing
1,000,000 feet of natural gas every twentyfour
hours.
1 About $15,000,000 worth of tile has beeD
laid in Illinois, and the tile, if placed in a
continuous line, would reach around th<
globe three times.
The Brakemen's Journal says that the !
reason so many brakemen are injured on
some roads in coupling cars is that brakemeD
are cheaper thau Dumpers.
_ The Italian bootblack at the Produce Ex
cnange, x>tew 1 ovk, pays ww a jrtrur iu? u? |
stand privilege. He employs nine men and j
derives a neat income after paying expenses.
Lithographers will be pleased to know i
that lithographic stone is found in Dallas, |
Texas, fully equal to the stone imported from |
Europe. It costs from $40 to $55 for a stone j
o0x40.
TnE Pacific Coast Federated Trades As '
sembly has sent its president, "VV. A. Bush- !
nell, on to Congress to demand the passage [
of Congressman Mitchell's anti-Chinese ex- j
elusion act.
The Banker's Monthly states that P. D; i
Armour & Co. did a business in 18S7 footing ;
up $60,000,000. This, it says, is probably the
largest business done by auy one commercial I
house on the globe.
Jonx Skmple, Jr., as umpire in the Pitts 1
bnrer tube works arbitration, has decided that !
there schould be no reduction of wages. This i
decision will settle the wages of about five i
thousand nieu engaged in wrought iron pipe
making.
How Bismarck's speech went over the :
world i? shown by the number of telegrams i
sent out upon the day and evening of its delivery.
No fewer than 1,218 press telegrams, j
comprising 194,290 words about it, were sent |
from Berlin to 826 different places in Ger-|
many and abroad. The forwarding of these i
telegrams was effected by 285 officials on 22 J
instruments.
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, recent);.1
sent an emissary to Asia to purchase Arabian
horses. The emissary has just written home
from Jerusalem that his mission is a failure,
as the Sultan has ltcntly issued a lirmat.
prohibiting further exportation? of Ar;:bi;;i
torsea. 1
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LATER NEWS.
Cbarles Downes, the missing insane
teller of the Castleton (N. Y.) Bank, has
been found dead in a church at that place,
having shot himself.
Earthquake shocks are reported from
Nashua, N. H., and Pasadena, Cal.
The Hush University for colored students
of both sexes at Holly Springs, Miss., was destroyed
by fire, causing a loss of $25,000.
Mr. Milton H. Northrcp, editor of the
Syracuse Courier, has been nominated by
the President as postmaster at Syracuse,
N. Y.
France has relinquished all claims to the
new Hebrides and the transport Dives has
been ordered to take away the French troops.
Sir John Ross has succeeded Lord Alexonrlor
Pnccall a c nf fho T3t*iHqVi
forces in North America, with headquarters
at Halifax.
Emperor William, of Germany, waa in
so precarious a condition on Wednesday that
it was deemed necessary for the Crown
Prince, who was at San Rerao, Italy, to return
to the German Empire at once. The
aged Emperor suffered greatly from abdominal
disorder, and at times was in a
stupor.
MUSICAL AND DBAMATIO.
Patti's receipts for six nights of song in
Madrid reached $150,000.
The Boston critics consider Boucicaultfs
new play, ,-Cushla Machree," a disappointment.
Manager McCall, of the McCall Opera
Troupe, was a Colonel in the Confederate
Army.
The Comedie Francaise refused Coqnelin
an annual vacation of four months, and he
will soon retire from the stage.
Frederick Warde, the tragedian, continues
his successful tour in the South, where
he is appearing to large audience3.
Loudon McCorma'ck, who married Joaquin
Miller's daughter, and was once a leading
man, is teaching elocution in St.
Louis.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's
story, "Little Lord Fauntleroy," has been
made into a comedy by an English dramatist.
T. S. Arthur's great temperance drama,
"Ten Nights in a Bar-room," has been played
over 5,000 times, and over 1,000 times in
Europe.
W Prtnnolin nnH \fr?
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James Brown Potter will nil the entire fall
and winter season of Wallack's, New York,
for 18S8-9.
"W jllie Edotjin has purchased an adaptation
of Archibald Gunter's novel, "Mr.
Barnes of New York," and will shortly prodace
it in London.
Patti's mew tenor for her projected tour i?
M. GuiUe. He has .just been condemned to
pay $3,000 for breaking a former contract in
order to accompany PattL
W. J. Scan'Lan, the young Irish comedian
and vocalist, owns more real estate in New
York city than any other actor, and is constantly
adding to his holdings.
Denver's Mayor ordered the arrest of exSenator
Tabor, owner of the Grand Opera
tt ^ xtr T Porlofnn t.h#> oincrpr for
HUUdC) auu r? ? 0
giving a sacred concert on Sunday.
The production at the Madison Square
Theatre next week will be Mr. Josepu C.
Clarke's. "A Women's Duel." Mr. Clarke is
editor oi the New York Morning Journal.
Manager Harry Mann has decided not
to take Evans and Hoey to Australia this
spring, owing to the roller skating craze
which has taken possession of that country.
"The Corsair" ha* reached its "last
nights "at the Bijou, New York, and Mr.
Rice is now preparing to outdo its splendors
in his new Chinese piece, " The Pearl of
Pekin."
Louis Frechette, the Canadian poet, has
been commissioned by the managers oi the
Theatre Francais to translate "King Lear"
for performance in Paris during the exhibition
of 1889.
A cable from Paris says Victor Maurel will
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6&ii ior 11?w iui&owu ivi ? bv%M
new opera "Othello," in New York, Boston
and Philadelphia. M. Maurel is to receive a
salary of $20,000 a month during the .tour.
Maude Banks, the ambitious daughter of
General N. P. Banks, proposes to produce her
own play, "Joan of Arc" in French during
her Montreal and Quebec engagements. Miss
Banks has been starring in this piece all the
season.
Mas. D. P. Bowers has given up the
dramatic stag* and gone on a reading tour
through the South. She is accompanied Dy a
young actor named Beach, who was her leading
man, and who is said to have considerable
ability as a reader.
Josef Hoemann's autographs are rare.
Writing is not an easy matter with him. He
signs himself "Jozio Hofmann.'1 This is the
Polish way of writing his name, for, as the
little fellow declared to a reporter tho othe*
d?v "J ?m a Pole and a patriot!"
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Turkey refuses to occupy Bulgaria,
Socialists rioted in the streets of Ant
werp.
There are not more than 150,000 Quaker!
in America.
THro'itfTv.TrTrmT counties of Michigan havt
roted for Prohibition.
Warlike activity is noticed in the British
Admiralty Department.
Italy is talking of bringing home ber
loldiers from Abyssinia.
Russia has had bad luck with her best
Ironclad. It must be rebuilt.
There are thirty-seven Japanese students
In the University of Michigan.
Kansas City bids fair to become the racing
centre of the boundless West.
The Israel Putnam monument at Brooklyn,
Conn., is to be dedicated on June 14.
Ninety thousand Italian emigrants have
fone to Brazil during the past twelvemonths.
There are seven American defaulters,
bank-wreckers and murderers in Buenos
ayres.
The Government of Santo Domingo hai
(ranted concessions to American railroad
;ontractors.
The sarcophagus containing the body of
Alexander the Great has been discovered at
Saida, Turkey.
Fifty thousand bags of beans have arrived
it New York from Mediterranean ports dur
ng the last two months.
Over $50,000 worth of potatoes wera
ihipped from Halifax to the United States
during the last quarter of 1887.
Spain is to have an International Exhibition
tn 1888. It is to be held in Barcelona, and ii
to be open from April to September.
Johnnt Beall, the thirteen-year-old ranr
derer of his mother, of Columbus, Ohio, hai
been sentenced to life imprisonment
Altogether, 1,022 novels, of which 621
were reprints of English works, were pub
lished in the United States last year.
Charles Pomeroy, who started from Ne^
York to Havana in an open boat last fall,has
been washed up on the Florida coast, a
iorose.
The Grant Monument Committee of New
York has on deposit $126,162.39. The con
tributions of the last year aggregated aboui
110,000.
Tolbert Rollins, a crazy citizen of Perrj
County, Ark., filled his mouth with powdei
and placed a lighted match to it. He was
fatally injured.
A syndicate of French engineers bas con j
tracted to stop the breach in the Hoang-Ho i
River, whose overflow caused tlje groat disas- |
ter a short time ago.
There are now stored along the Hudson
River about 3,750,000 tons of ice, while froir
the lakes of the vicinity nearly 500,000 toni
more have been cut.
Collector Maqone's investigation ol
opium frauds at the Port of New York has
" J f Mniirlnloilf avr.Attf nfiAm I
K) iar reveiwcvl *i uuuuh,jh< ca^ui uiuuui
amounting to $1,300,000.
John F. Chase, a Maine war veteran whc
received forty-eight wounds and wears t
glass eye, has invented an atrial war ship foi
hopping dynamite on thi h<yr is of th?
enemy. 1
A van containing oil pa?t jnp. valued al
$150,000, was lately bur^f on tt)e Edgewan
Road in London. One/0f pictures, ownec
by a nobleman, was wv,rtb j^ow tb<
tire occurred is a mysU.ry
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WAB IN TEE SOUDAN. f|
Several Hundred Rebels Killed laH|
an Attack on the British. B
Notwithstanding the comparative quiet
that has prevailed in the Soudan of late, tbeHjH
situation has been strained and numerous eon* IHH
flicts have occurred between the British and HH
their swarthy foes, culminating Sunday in^^H
a desperate and well planned effort by a
large force of Egyptian rebels under com* IBB
mand of Osman Diema, to capture Bualdm.
After four hours' hard fighting the rebels BBi
retired, leaving several hundred killed and HI
wounded on the field. On the British sid? HH
Colonel Tap and five Egyptians were killed
and fourteen wounded. The British gunboats
Dolphin and Albacore assisted the ^^9
garrison, and poured a deadly fire on the re- HH
treating rebels.
PROMINENT PEOPLE. H
Mr. Robert J. Burdette, the humorist,
lecturing and preaching in California. jMH
Sknatob Ixgalls's private secretary is his ms
son Ellsworth, who is fresh from college andHB
is studying law in Washington. HBH
The youngest looking Congressman in
House, and one of the very smallest pbys-lBM
ically, is Mr. Yost, a Republican member
from Virginia.
The Princess of Wales frequently visits HH
the hospitals in London and entertains theflH
inmates with music and the sunshine of her HH
beautiful presence. BH
Miss Ebba Mcnck, who has married th?^H|
son of the King of Sweden, is said to have
little pretension to beauty, being rather in- H|
significant looking.
Governor Bcckner, of Kentucky, it ft
veteran smoker who finds more solace in
pipe than a cigar. He is rarely seen without
a cob pipe in his mouth. flB
Mrs. Letitia Tyler Sekple, a daughter
of the late President Tyler, is almost totally HH
blind, and is at present an inmate of the H|
T^inidfi Hnmo W ash in crt/in. T). C.
Governor Hill, of New York, neitherHH
smokes tobacco nor drinks champagne punch. ^^9
Ho is a lonely batehelor notwithstanding. hl?|^H
breakfast being shared by two dogs and
cat
Minister Hoon,the Chinese representative
at Washington, looks loveliest in gorgeous,
brocaded robes of snow-white satin. He
the most petted of all the foreign luminnaries.
MB
Mrs. Krupp, widow of fee great German.
gunmaker, by the terms of her late hurband's^^^B
will has permission to take from the estate ^H|
any income she chooses not exceeding $125,* HH
000 a year.
Russell Sage the ten-millionaire "pntanttlBB
call*" operator, walked boldly into a'New^H|
York clothing store one afternoon recently
and tried on and purchased a fifteen dollar
rait of store clothes. RH
General Albert Pike, of Arkansas, HH
*?* ka ivftra.
never uses any out quiu pcu?,
fully preserves them when they are woto.^^H
out. He has probablv 10,000 old pens stored-|^H
away in his cupboardk |SI
Prince Albert Victor, of Wales, now H
twenty-four years old. Bays he does not want HQ
an establishment of his own until he getl-^^l
married; an event which he has not yet even-^^H
begun seriously to contemplate.
Mme. Rilot, the wife of M. Alexandre-HH
Rilot, one of the ablest men on the Republi- HE
can side of the French Chamber of Deputies ^^9
is an American girl. She was Miss Bnrchc BM
the daughter of a wealthy Chicago banker. HN
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, the-HRf
President's sister, is ever busv. She will giveto
the world soon a life of St. Augustine.
It is said by those who aro in Miss Clevoland's
confidence to be a work which wilf
attract attention. Among
the gifts to the Prince of WalesIH
for his silver wedding, was a box of came?-B^H
containing gold dominoes, the spots marked HR
with nreaous stones, playing cards made of
silk and painted by famous artists, ana a se?
of gold and silver chess men. *. M
Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, IM|
is by far more stylish in his dress than any Q
other member of the House of Representatives.
His clothes are made in Fans and be HM
orders ten suits at a time. His shoes and bat*
are also the work of foreign artists. MM
General Longstreet, of Confederate
fame, has at Gains ville,Ga., an old-fashioned
mansion and a farm of 100 acres. His farming
is chiefly confined to jrrape culture.
There are some iron and sulphur springsoo
thQproperty, and a prosperous hotel has been
established. MH
Whenever Mr. Randall, ex-Speaker of
the House, has a moment to spare from his I
work he may be seen "in his seat with a
"jack-knife'' in one hand and a big red apple
in the other. He cuts the apple carefully ia Bn
quarters, pares each quarter, and bites naif
of it off at a time. BH
Professor Bell's wife lost, at the Bayard Hfl
reception in Washington recently, a diamond IH
pin valued at $2,000. A reward of $10o <vaa I
nfr?pi?d for its recoverv. A day or two
afterward it was picked up in the dressing mm
room, where Mrs. Bell had dropped it, by
Miss Bayard. On receiving the missing BB
Jewel, Mrs. Bell sent a check for $100 to Miss HB
Bayard, with the request that she would ap- |H
olv it in her own discretion to charity. DM
Charles Crocker, President of the Promontory
Cattle Company of Utah, has coil- HH
summated a deal by which his company secures
30,000 head of stock cattle, to b* Hfl
turned upon their immense ranch of over
i,000 acres near Salt Laka, H
At Economy, Penn., the twenty-eight old
men and women survivors of the Harmonj
Society, celebrated the eighty-third anninf
their establishment They owo MM
property., worth $15,000,000. mm
THE MARKETS. H
10 mew TOBX. I H
Beef, good to prime 8V@ 8#
Calves, common to prime.... 5V@ 6W HB
Bheep 5 00 @6 75 BBB
Lambs 6 75 @ 7 60 j <H3|
Hogs?Live 5 40 @ 5 75
Dressed 7\L\& 7$f
Flour?Er. St.eoodtofancy 4 40 @ 4 75
West, good to choice o 55 @ 4 15 BM
Wheat?No. 2 Red WX? BM
Rye-State 56 @ 59 ?
Barley?State ? @ ? : M
Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 61 @ 1 BH
Oats?White State
Mixed Western 88 & 40 ( Bfl
Hay?Med. to prime 85 ?g ~ BB
Straw-No. 1. Rye 90 ,
Lard?City Steam 7 65 ! KH
Butter?State Creamery.... 20 @ 36 BHj
Dairy 20 ? 23.) BB
West Im. Creamery 20 @ 22 MSf
chee^sSte?.^::::::
Skims '8 @ 10 JH
Western
Eggs?State and Penn 19 Eflj
BUFFALO. Mj|g
Steers?Western 4 35 @ 4 83 ' HQ
Sheep?Good to Choice 5 15 @ 5 50 HH
Lamos?Western 4 50 (gj 6 50 ; BHj
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 25 @ 5 40
Flour?Family 4 00 @ 4 50 HW
Wheat?Na 1 90%@ 91 ; KM
Corn?No. 2, Mixed 5%@ 57 HB
Oats?No. 2, Mixed ? @ 35% HH
Barley?State. oa (? ?a MB
boston. KB
Beef?Good to choice. 7}?@ 11 WW
Hogs?Live 5?(g 6 B9H
Northern Dressed.... 6%@ 7 H
Pork?Ex. Primo, per bbL.,14 75 @16 75 WW
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 70 @ 4 95 Hfl
Corn-High Mixed. 62)a'@ 6J& WM
Oats?Extra White 45 @ 46 H9
Rye-State 60 @ 65 X Hj
WATKRTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET HH
Beef-Dressed weight 7 <g 7 '4 M|
Sheep?Live weight 5 @ 5/?
Lamb; 6 @ 7
Hogs?Northern 7 (? HH
PHILADELPHIA. HD
Flour? Fenn.extra family... 3 7a (en :j ?. > iu
! Wheat-No. 2, Red 01 @ 91}^ HS
Corn?State Yellow o7 & 57%
Oats?Mixed...., 37 @ :fl)
Rye?State 52)f$ 53 Ml
Butter?Creamery Extra... 20 @ 30 HB
Chee66?N. Y. Fiill Cream.. ? @ 13^
KL'ItS AND SKIN'S. Bfl
Black Bear. 18 00 @25 00 MM
Cubs and yearling 6 00 @15 00
Utter, each 7 00 @10 00
Beaver, medium 4 00 @ 5 50 KM
Mink 40 @ 90 Hj
Red Fox 1 20 <?> 1 80 |H
Grey Fox 93 <ffi 1 10 HH
Raccoon, each 75 @ 1 10 B?
Skunk, black 1 00 @ 1 15
Skunk, half-striped.. 65 (S) 75
striped 80 @ 3r>
Skunk, "trklfe 15 @ IS
Opossum, large, ca?ed 38 @ 43 H
Opossum, meaium anUopen. 20 (? 23
Muskrat winter 16 <S> 18 '
Muskrat, fall 18 <g> 15 ! H
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