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. RIOTS IN IRELAND. Numerous League Meetings Dispersed by the Police. ! Many Persons More or Less Seri- j ously Injured. Some policemen who were trying to prevent the erection of a platform for a meeting announced to be held on Sunday at Kilrush, j Ireland, were pelted with stones by a mob j and charged the crowd. Many citizens were I badly injured. Mr. Tanner, member of Parliament, held a I meeting outside Macroom at 5 o'clock Sun- j day morning. He there burned a copy of the Government proclamation. At 2 p. M. the advertised hour, he attempted to hold another meeting, when the police removed him from the cronnd. There was only slight ex citement? About 6000 persons belonging to the va- I rious League branches of Kilrush assembled at 2.80 p. m. There was a large contingent | on horseback. The police, led by Magistrates Welch and Irwin, charged the crowd, injuring many. A number of triumphal arches were torn down. Father Glynn of Kilmihill was attacked by two policemen with rifles. A farmer felled one policeman to the I ground with a blackthorn stick. A riot being imminent, the Berkshire regiment, with fixed bayonets, led by Captain Lynch, charged the crowd. Two perrons were seriously wounded with batons and bayonets and two mounted policei men were injured with stones. Order was somewhat restored on the crowd being appealed to by priests and Messrs. Redmond and Crilly, members of Parliament. Mr. Redmond then attempted to organize the meeting which had heretofore been announced, but was prevented by Magistrate Irwin. Mr. Redmond protested that the Government's action in vproclaiming the meeting was illegal and. together with priests, advised the multitude to nisnereo tfhere are three serious cases in the hospital. The town was quiet throughout the evening. Davitt, O'Connor, the Rev. Mr. Corrv and other League leaders left Carmody's Hotel, in Ennis, at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon and drove ten miles into the country, followed by eighty hussars under Colonel Turner. By a preconcerted arrangement Mr. Condon, member of Parliament, remained in town to hold the proposed meeting in an unoccupied corn store. This programme leaked out and a cordon of soldiers was placed around the building. The doors of the building had been barricaded, but soon gave way to sledge hammers in the hands of the police. This aroused desperate resistance on the part of the people, and many were injured. Fifty persons were arrested. At Longhrea Editor O'Brien held a meet ing. While the police were disparsing the oeoDle Mr. O'Brien spoke for 10 minutes. fee called the police cowards for not arresting him instead of ill-treating the people. Mr. O'Brien left the Bishop's residence at 2 P. M., followed by a crowd numbering 40)0 persons, and took his way toward a field outside the town, where a platform had been erected. He was met by an imposing force of police and military, which barred the way. Mr. O'Brien then called to the people to halt, and addressed the magistrate to the following Affect: "I wish to hold ? meeting to tell the people the truth about English rule in Ireland, but no meeting will be held if it has been resolved to disperse the people forcibly/' The magistrate replied that he could not allow the meeting to be held. Mr. O'Brien then insisted upon his right to hold the meeting, saving that he took all the responsibility upon himself, and asked the magistrate that if force be used to use it upon him, not upon the people. A long colloquy between the two then ensued, Mr. O'Brien insisting that his arrest would end the meeting and that if any other action was taken the responsibility would rest on the police. The crowd then advanced toward the platform and the police immediately attacked them, knocking down those .who resisted. Only Mr. O'Brien and two clergymen were left on the reporters' stand. Stones now began to fly rapidly, and the police brought their batons into requisition. At this critical moment, Father Meagher in a few wellchosen words begged the crowd to desist from violence, but his efforts were only partially successful The police then pressed upon the people and, cleared the field, several civilians receiving scalp wounds in the operation. At 4:30 o'clock Mr. O'Brien addressed a meeting at Temperance HalL A few clergymen and about twenty of the leading Nationalists were present. Police arrived on the ground after the meeting had closed. A rklnrtoc in Trftlftnd ineptinc*; held, with more or less success, the police in most instances dispersing the crowds. A CONVICT'S REVENGE. Murderous Assault on all Concerned in His Conviction. A man whose sentence for homicide had expired was recently discharged from prison at Teaesvar, Hungary. He had long nursed the idea of revenge, until it became a monomania. He went directly from the prison to the residence of the judge who had sentenced him. There he found the judge's wife, and, drawing a revolver, shot her dead. He then went to the houss of the notary who was engaged in his trial and killed his chief clerk. Thence he Bought his own home and there cut his wife's tnroai ana Deat out cis cniinren Drains, ne i then disappeared and left no traces of his ! whereabouts. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Sonnenthal, the great German actor, is j building a new theatre in Berlin. A French actress recently celebrated her 1 ninetieth birthday by taking leave of the j stag* * Xlt. Robert Mantell has obtained a gen- j nine success with his new heroic play of ' "Monbars." Madame Patti was recently hugged and ! kissed by the King of Spain. His royal highness is two years old. f "The Wife," at the Lyceum Theater, New I York, celebrated its 150th performance re- j r-ent.lv with a nrpttv souvenir. A harp to be played upon by keys, as in a piano forte, is one of the latest inventions shown in the City of Brussels. The Span sh Government orders that all the theatres in the kingdom shall adopt electric lighting within six months. Mmk. Minnie Hauk is making a tour of ! Germany. After singing in Copenhagen am' ] Stockholm she will go to London. The actual receipts of the Booth and Bar- j rett engagement in San Francisco were $6S,OUU, it is said, for the three weeks. The Robson and Crane engagement with " The Henrietta" will wind up the regular season at the Chicago Opera House. Carmen Stlva, which is the literary nom de guerre of the Queen of Roumania, is writing a ballet entitled "The Jewels." Mrs. Scott Siddons, who has not been een in New York since 1879, is arranging j for an entertainment in Steinway Hall in that city. Mary Anderson, the American actress, ! was called eight times before the curtain at a j recent benefit performance in London, and ! the last time she appeared she made a speech, j Little lone Mathis, of Oxford. Ala., onlv i tLree and a half years old, has just composed | a piece of music, "Ione's First Thoughts," I which the critics pronounce to be wonderful. ( A Tekonsha (Mich.) girl, who is only six j yeai's old, bangs oif the most difficult piano I music with neatness and despatch, although she can't read a note. She is the marvel of the community. Three are five American singers in the Italian Opera Company which Mr. Augustus Harris has just organized for the forthcoming London season. They are Madames Albani, Vallerie, Minnie Hauk and Nordico and Signor Perngnini. Arthur Bird, one of the most gifted of young American composers, who is now living in Berlin, has finished a two-act comic opera entitled "Rubezahl."' The book is founded upon old legions of the Riesengebirge?the Giant mountains?in Siberia. General Boots announces that the Sal vation Army conducts SI00 processioni through the streets of the United Kingdom every week, or an average of 1300 daily. 'Ci' ...... SL.. v - I T 4 TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Kastern and Middle StatM Mrs. Mary Sharp was making whiskey at Wanemie, Penn., when the pot containing it tipped over. Her dress caught fire and she was burned to death. Three children, who tried to save her, were also fatally burned. Major-General Q. A. Gilmore, of the United States Army, died recently at his home in Brooklyn. N. Y. He was a distinguished Union officer in the late war. Three railroad employes were killed at Craigville, >T. Y., by the explosion of a locomotive. The remains of ex-Attorney General Benjamin H. Brewster have been buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Philadelphia. "While practising rifle shooting Mrs. John G. Ritchey. of Patterson, N. J., accidentally killed her husband. Two men were killed and five persons injured in a railroad wreck at Bellows Falls, Yt., caused by a culvert being washed away. Josephits Sooy, ex-State Treasurer of New Jersey, who was convicted of defalcation and pardoned out of State Prison after his embezzlement had been made good, dropped dead in Camden, N. J. The New York Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction and sentence of O'Neil, the Boodle Alderman. There was a minority decision by Judge Andrews. The local elections in Albany, N. Y., and at Jersey City, N. J., resulted in favor of the Democrats, and at Lockport, N. Y., in favor of the Republicans. * South and Weot. Fifteen* school children while at play fell down a deep well at Palmyra, Mo. , and two were drowned and seven fatally injured. Prophet Frazer was hanged at Waterboro, S. C., for murdering his wife by burning her alive. rr\? t-??j? lrnia. xt\E. ?x.ina jl~uviier mui ks an luuioi, xnu., exploded, and the bodies of three emyloyees were literally torn to shreds, and the unrecognizable masses blown hundreds of yards, Kennedy Porter, son of the ex-Governor of Tennessee, was shot dead at Paris, Tenn., by Wm. Edmunds, his sweatheart's brother. Marietta, Ohio, the oldest city in the territory northwest of the Ohio River, has brill iantly celebrated the centennial of its founding. The entire business portion of the city of Cherokee, Kan., has been burned. The inhabitants of the Wabash Valley in Indiana are suffering from measles. At Craw fordsville there have been over eight hundred cases, many of them proving fatal. The Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute has been totally destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $275,000. The building was the finest in the State, and was uninsured. The town of Tavares, Fla., has been almost entirely burned to the ground. Fifteen business houses and all the residences in the place were destroyed. A crowd of strikers in Chicago hurled stones through the cab window at Charles Sommers, a Burlington engineer, when he fired into the mob, killing one man and seriously injuring another. Forty Kansas farmers made a raid on a a i, ? t artii UCU VI UUldO (/U1CTCO 1U HV muum. Four of the thieves were captured and hanged to the limbs of the nearest trees. Nine others were chased into the sand hills and surrounded in a cave. Very heavy rains in the vicinity of Nashville, Tenn., caused floods which swept away fences^ crops and stock in large amounts and delayed railroad trains. Treasurer Weir, of New Albany, Ind., is a defaulter to the extent of $70,000. He has fled to Canada. George Bairla, the thirteen-year-old son of a wealthy resident of Jeffersonville, Ind., committed suicide by hanging because his father forced him to attend school. The Arkansas Republican Convention met at Little Rock and nominated delegates to the Chicago National Convention. None of the delegates has a preference in the matter of a choice for President. The delegation will go uninstructed, and will vote as a unit and tor the candidate developing the most strength in the convention. < Washington, The President has Approved the act amending the laws relating to navigation, and the act for the relief of importers of annuals xor ureeumg purposes m wnoiu cases. The Committee on Postoffices have agreed upon a bill appropriating $60,133,340 for operating the Postoffice Department during the next fiscal year. The President has nominated Brigadier General George Crook for the position of Major-General, made vacant by General Terry's retirement. He 'will command the Division of the Missouri. The President has approved the act grant- i ing a pension to the widow of General J ohn A. | Logan; the act to increase the Dension of the wido.v of General JBlair; and the act to authorize the purchase of a site for a public building at Buffalo, N. Y. President Cleveland has been invited to Austin, Texas, to assist in the dedication of Vhe new State Capitol on May ICth, and it is highly probable that he will accept. 1 The United States Supreme Court has 1 1 1 - j? D?I reiiueruu a. ueuisivn duduaium^ mo x cnuoy ivonia law regulating the sale of oleomargarine. The United States Supreme Court has adopted resolutions presented by Attorney General Garlflnd eulogistic of the late Chief Justice Waite. The President has nominated Jasper N. i Hammond to-be Postmaster at Seneca Falls, , N. y. The President has approved the act au- i thorizing the construction of bridges over the j rivers St. Mary's, Satilla, Little Satilla, and Crooked, in Georgia and Florida; the act for the erection of a public building at Lowell, Mass.: the acts for the relief of Grosvernor i A. Curtice, of Hampshire, and several other persons. i The President has nominated Henry B. Lovering, of Massachusetts, to succeed General Banks as Marshal of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. Foreign. A battle took place at Sooloo, in Phillip pine Islands, between the Spanish garrison and the Malay natives. Ten Spaniards and 200 natives were killed and seventy Spaniards, including a number of officers, wounded, The Italian Government has decided to cease military operations against the Abyssinians in Africa during the suramer,and the troops will return to Italy immediately. A famine was threatened in Posen, Pomerania and Silesia by reason of the incalculable damage done by the recent floods, and the Empress of Germany went to Posen to superintend measures for relieving the sufferers. A Vine rlnnA dnmice in the native quarter of Dacca" India. Nineteen persons were killed. The Sultan has agreed to leave the dispute between the United States and Morocco to the decision of a Moorish representative and the American Consul. If they fail to agree a European representative will be chosen whose decision shall be final. Large crowds assembled at Kilrush, Ennis a?id Loughrea. Ireland, to hold political meetings, but the police and the troops were in attendance in such force as to prevent or- i ganization. The soldiers charged the crowd I with bayonets and seriously wounded twelve I persons. Genrral Boulakger has been elected by a majority of 24,000 votes to represent a Department in the French Chamber of Deputies, I but he has declined to accept the seat John and David Bowman?, farmers, aged ' eighty-two and eighty-four years, living j alone a few miles from B jrrie, Canada, were ourneu 10 ueaiii in ineir noiw. Prince Bismarck lias abandoned his opposition to the marriage of Prince Alexander, of Battenberg, and the Princess Victoria, having gained certain other concessions, and all the differences between the Emparor and Prince Bismarck have been settled. A fire broke out on the steamer Hvakkan Morn, on Haumanada, an inland sea in Japan. Out of sixty-seven passengers on the vessel sixteen lost their lives. The captain and several firemen were severely injured. An explosion occurred in a dynamite factory at Grenoble, France. Nine persons were killed and others were seriously injured. William Millman has been hanged in Prince Edward Island for the murder of Mary Tuplen. The late Emperor William of Germany left the sum of thirty marks (about $10) to everv invalid soldiftr nf th? war of 1K70. TOLD BY THE TELEGRAPH. Hatters or Interest Gleaned From Yarions Sources. Butchered His Daughter?Five Men Killed in Tennessee, Mrs. G. W. Turpin was brutally murdered by her father, J. N. Alston, at his farm residence, near the village of Poolville, fourteen miles north of Weatherford, Texas. The unfortunate victim had married, clandestinely, G. W. Turpin, a successful business man and respected citizen of Poolville, against the wignes or ner lamer. Alter tne ceremony Alston effected forgiveness and friendship for the married couple, and invited them to his home and be treated as his children. They repaired to Alston's residence, and he received them with affected cordiality and kindness. He insisted that they remain over night, but they declined to do so. In compliance with an urgent request by her father, Mrs. Turpin returned the next morning to vend the day with her mother, who was not very well. Jlrs. Turpin had been in the house but a few minutes when her father came in, and after upbraiding her for disobeying him, seized her, and while holding her, with his left arm around her neck, he stabberl her with a large pocket knife fourteen times in the breast, besides gashing her face and neck in a shocking manner. Believing he had killed her he left the room, leaving her lying on the floor weltering in her blood. Returning and finding her not quite dead, he stabbed ner again repeatedly, slashing her breast in a fearful manner. Believing that now she was dead he again left. A third time he returned, and finding his victim still breathing again repeated the hor rible butchery until he lecame satisfied that he had killed her, when he started for Poolville and surrendered himself,holding out his bloody hands and knife, saying: "This is the heart blood of my daughter." Fearing mob violence, the sheriff hurried the prisoner to Weatherford and placed him in the county jail. This hasty removal prevented his being summarily lynched by the enraged crowd which gathered at Poolville as soon as the horrible murder became known. Alston, who is a Georgian, was cool and collected. He says he deliberately murdered his daughter to got her away from her husband, and is willing to hang for it. The Women's Victory at Oskaloosa. An Oska'.oosa (Kas.) despatch to the Chicago Tribune says: "lbe result of the city election Tuesday in this city, in which the Mayor and five members of the City Council, all consisting of women, were elected, seems to have atfvanKiH attanf.inn all nvor t.ha pmintrr. AC telegrams are coming in from all quarters asking for particulars. The reasons for the somewhat remarkable action can be stated in a few words. There has been a vigorous kick from the lawand-order element in the city on account of. the lax manner in which former administrations have managed municipal affairs, and so advantage was taken of the State law permitting women to vote and hold office in cities of the first, second and third class, and a ticket put in the field and triumphantly elected corffposed of representatives of the gentler sex. Mrs. Mary D. Lowman was chosen as Mayor, and the following ladles were elected as members of the City Council: Hannah A. Morse, Sarah E. Balsley, Emma Hamilton, Carrie L. Johnson, Millie Colden. These are representative women, the wives of well-known citizens who are prominent in business and professional circles. The experiment is not looked upon in the nature of joke, though there was a hilarious serenade given to all the candidates the night of the election, but as the new Mayor had her bangs put up in papers, she was unable to appear longer than to dow her thanks, and.therefore, her speech of thanks for the honor will not go thundering down the ages." Assaulted With Shotguns. There has been serious trouble between laborers employed on a tunnel which is being built at Cumberland Gap.Tenn., by the PowellsValley Railroad andagang of strikers. Saturday about 100 laborers struck for an in crease in wages from $i.25 to $1.50 per day. They notified the contractors and the people * it 3 i.U.4 I Lor nines uruuuu urni* wnu ever uLcoujj.ru?u to fill their places on the job might expect to be killed. The contractors hired a new lot of men and put them to work. About noon a large force of the strikers under the influence of whisky and armed with Winchester rifles, shotguns, and pistols assaulted the men, who were also well armed, and the battle lasted for several minutes. Five men were killed and more than a Jozen wounded, some of them seriously. A Courier arrived at Knoxville, with instructions to buy a large supply [>f arms and ammunition, as further trouble was expected. A row occurred the same day it the Kentucky end of tbe tunnel between the men and the contractors, in which two men were wounded. The Sheriff of Claiborne County has gone to the scene of the difficulty with a large posse. Two Youthful Criminals. Moses Murphy, 13 years old, and Moses Brown, 16 years old, cf Orangeburg, S, C., quarreled about "egg picking," an amuseindulged in for weeks after Easter, fhey began to fight, and Brown L- -1- O i O anfA/TAnirf tlioronnnn I l/UUJL iJIgllU uia anta^vuiob uivi cu^a/u burled an open pocket knife at him, the blade Bntering his back up to the hilt and penetrating the lungs. Brown died in a few minutes. The young murderer has been arrested. In Union County, the same State, Libbie Ashe, a little girl eleven years old, was stabbed and instantly killed by Laney Walker, a nine-year-old boy. The girl was at a spring with a negro woman who was washing clothes, when Laney Walker came up, cutting a stick with a pocket knife. The children got into a quarrel and began throwing sticks at each othor. They then clinched and fought until the girl broke away and ran. Tne boy overtook her and plunged his knife into the girl's heart. She died instantly. Suicide of a Wealthy Lady. Frederick, Md., was very much excited by news of the suicide of Mrs. Lucy Markey, the daughter or one 01 me leaaing cmtens w. Western Maryland. The family is the wealthiest in the county. Mrs. Markey had " been twice married. Since the death of her mother several months ago, Mrs. Markey has given evidence of teing very much worried by the trouble incidental to the administration of the estate. When called for supper, she failed to respond. Her son went to ner room, where he found his mother hanging by a rope to the liigh bedpost of her antique bed. THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP. An Expression of President Cleveland's Views. A United States Senator, who has confer red with the President on the subject of the vacant Chief Justiceship, says that the President indicated these points: (1) That ho will promote no Associate Justice; (2) that he will not make the assignment from the South; (:5) that he will not appoint any man over sixty years of age, and tnat he hopas to find a mail "from fifty to fifty-five if possible; (4* that ho prefers a Western man. He indicated also that he would be glad to receive any information from this Senator which would aid him in making a selection within the limitation indicated. This is probably the first intimation that the President haa given to nny one ns to the drift of his opinion with respect ?v.!o it would serrn. therefore. that the President has concluded not to promote Justice Field. Many of his friends have believed that because ho waa for so many years the solitary Democrat on the Bench he would be promoted. It is known ! hat several of the members of the Bench hove privately indicated that thoy would be very much pleased to have Mr. Field promoted. Tho President, while indicating that ho prefers a Western man, did state that lie should not stand upon the location provided a suitable man could be found elsewhere, although he said he should not appoint at pros ent another Justice from the South. Chong Tong, a Chinaman, who professed Christianity at Augusta, Ga., lateJy, is th< first of this race to join the Baptist Churcb in the South. He is the proprietor of t grocery and a Chinese novelty store it Augusta, and has accumulated a property ot several thousand dollars. ? \ SUMMARY OF CONGRESS, Senate Proceedings. 71st Day.?A draft ot a. bill for the revocation of the withdrawal of lands for the benefit of certain railroads was presented from the President and referred.... A bill was introduced authorizing United States District Attorneys to swear witnesses and to compel their attendance for the purpos3 of investigating the facts of a case pending for trial; referred A joint resolution was passed appropriating $25,000 for representation at tne International Exhibition at Barcelona, Spain....The bill to authorize the sale to aliens of certain mineral lands was taken from the calendar, and after discussion laid over until Monday.... Mr. Riddleberger introduced a resolution asking the President to take such action in regard to the seizure by Great Britain of Venezuelian lands as was compatible with public interests The House bill granting right of way to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company through the Fort Crawford Military Reiervation was passed A bill was introduced to repeal the statutory prohibition against a former Confederate soldier serving in the United States Array....The following pension bills were passed: Giving a pension of $25 a month to Dr. Mary E. Walker as a "late assistant surgeon United States Army;" giving a pension of $500 a year to the widow of General Charles P. Stone; one to increase the pension of the oldest Revolutionary pensioner on the rolls, Nancy Rains, ninety-six years of age, from $15 a month to an amount not fixed but left to the Secretary of the Interior; giving a pension of $-">0 a month to the widow of RearAdmiral Nicholson; giving a pension of $100 a month to the widow of General Judson Kilpatrick; $100 a month to the widow of General Robert Anderson: pensioning a soldier's "foster mother:" eivine a pension of $oO a month to the widow of "brigadier Gen eral Taylor, and one of SoO to the widow of Commander William Gibson ? The bill to prevent injurious and destructive deposits within New York Harbor was passed. 72d Day.?An executive communication was presented asking an appropriation of $100,OJO for a gymnasium at the West Point Military Academy A joint resolution was passed accepting the invitation to participate in the International Exhibition at Brussels, Belgium, and appropriating $'fl),003 for that Eurpose The bill to make valid certain ina patents that had been irregularly signed was passed.... A bill was introduced for the establishment of a permanent court of arbitration between the United State3 and Great Britain and France The bill to authorize the sale to aliens of certain mineral lands was warmly opposed with the result of its being laid aside A bill to remove the political disabilities of Robert Johnson, of New York, was passed The West Point Academy Appropriation bill was reported from the Senate Committee on ADDroDriations without any change in the amount (?315,OJO) appropriated by the bill as it came from the House... .Mr. Piatt spoke in behalf of the admission into the Union of the State of South Dakota.... Mr.JChandler introduced a bill to re-enact the Direct Tax bill 73d day.?A bill to remove the political disabilities of John Rutledge, of South-Carolina was passed....The Freedman's Bank bill was taken from the calendar and referred to the Committee on Finance A petition urging the preservation of the Yellowstone National Park was introduced and provoked prolonged discussion The bill regulating the times for holding terms of the United States Circuit and Districts Courts for the Northern District of Iowa was passed ? The Senate resumed consideration of the bill to authorize the sale to aliens of certain mineral lands, the question being on the amendment requiring a majority of the stockholders, trustees, or directors of a mining company to be citizens of the United States. The amendment was rejected by a vote of 31 to 20. 74th Day.?The motion to refer the President's annual message was taken up, and Mr. Morrill addressed the Senate on trie subject i .... A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretaries of War, Navy and Treasury for statements as to the officers of the army and navy and judicial officers retired on half pay. The following bills were taken from the calendar ana pa^sea: House diii, to purcnase i of the widow and children of the late Gen- j eral James Shields certain swords, at a cost : notexceeJing $10,000; for the erection of a ! monument to the memory of General Joseph Warren, who fell at Bunker Hill; for a ! public building at Bridgeport, Conn., (with an amendment increasing the appropriation from $100,000 to $150,000); bill appropriating $75,003 for a fireproof workshop at the National Armory, Springfield, Mass.; hill appropriating $10,030 for a monument to Briganier-General William Lee Davidson, who fell in the battle of Cowen 6 Ford in February, 1781. The bill for the purchase from Miss Virginia Taylor Lewis of a sword of Washington for $*30,000 was taken up and discussed at length. House Proceeding*. 81st Day.?The House at 11:45 entered upon the fourth day of its contest over the Direct Tax bill, the legislative day of Wednesday still continuing. Mr. Reed immediately demanded the regular order, which the Speaker stated to be the vote on the motion that when the House adjourned to-day it be to meet on Saturday next. Mr. Oates in behalf of the opponents of the bill, proposed that they be allowed two hours for general debate, but the supporters of the measure obj cted. Efforts at a compromise having failed, the usual filibustering motions were again submitted, and the round of roll caus Degan. 82d Day?The obstruction methods that have been employed to prevent a consideration of the Direct Tax Bill were continued when the house met in continuation of Wednesday's session. Both sides were as firm as ever and nothing was accomplished durthe entire day. 83 rd.?The House met in continuation of Wednesday's session, this being the sixth consecutive day of the deadlock and the day was consuined in filibustering over the Direct Tax bill. 84th Day.?The House convened at 11:45, the legislative day of Wednesday still continuing.... Mr. Phelan, as a privileged question, submitted the conference report on the bill authorizing the construction of a bridgo across the Miss:ssippi River at Memphis, Tenn. The Senate amendment repealing the bridge charter now existing was agreed to. The report was adopted.... Mr. Blount asked unanimous consent to report the Postoffice Appropriation bill, but a demand for the 1 Poor) nrjTn as an 1 Og lutu U1 UOI 11V1U Ml. *?VV>. objection; and the seventh day of the contest over the Direct Tax Bill was formally opened, and filibustering over that measure consumed the rest of the day's session. 85th Day.?The House was still constructively in session as of Wednesday of last week. The session was continued all night, and no business whatever was transacted, the opponents of the Direct Tax bill objecting to every measure introduced, yet refusing to adjourn until the bill was voted on. A SPY NJEARLY HANGED. A Whisky Trust Detective Ill-Used by Anjjry Workmen. The only distillery in Chicago that is out ide th9 whisky "Trust" is that of H. F. Shufeldt & Co. Ever since the formation of the Trust last August it has waged bitter warfare on the Shufeldt firm to force them to come into the fold. To help this on the Trust hired J. T. Wolck, a private detective, to watch the firm and obtain the addresses of their customVn'n vtfAKlr woe nanorf.qiriAfl erS. IDOUUJOCTW uo num " -? by the firm, when Ellison & Harvey, of Richmond, Va., wrote Shufeldt & Co. that they had been offered gin at six cents par gallon less than they sol i it at by a Trust distillery. A lawyer was consulted, but the firm found that they had no legal redress against the spy or his employers. Wolck, who had been hanging arotmd the distillery trying to get access to to it on all sorts of pretenses, finally asked one of the partners for employment as a workman. Ho was readily engaged, but the other workmen were informed who he was. The spy had just pulled out his note book to copy the shipping directions on some ban-els, when forty workmen surrounded him yelling, "Hang the spy." Wolck ma le an effort to draw a revolver, but he was knocked down and disarmed, besides receiving numerous kicks. A rope was then thrown around his neck, and the workmen would have lynched him, had not the distillery proprietors interfered Wolck begged for mercy and agreed to tell all he knew if he was only let go. The workmen tied him to a post and a notary public was sent for to whom Wolck made a statement giving tne names OI nis employers, men tne workmen kicked him out into the street and as he fled showered stones after him. Nearly $15,000 has been subscribed to the fund that is being raised in Omaha for the relief of the brave teachers who were overtaken by the terrible blizzard. One contribution of * 15. .50 came from Denmark. STORM AND FLOODS. Great Damage Caused by Overflowing Western Rivers. Large Tracts Covered With Water ?Deaths by Lightning. A special dispatch from Sioux City, Iowa, states that during a violent electric storm a cyclone passed over the city from southwest to northeast. The funnel cloud was seen by many and was accompanied by a roaring noise. It struck in but one place on the extreme northwest part of the city, and then rebounded in the air, passing rapidly over the western suburbs. At the place where the cloud struck it picked up the residence of Mark Modlin and hurled it to the ground in the rear of the lot. Mrs. Modlin was severely injured. The house of Mr. Richmond was wrecked and a barn near by was split intOKinaiine wooa. mr. juoann says ne saw two clouds form and meet, and in a moment his house was hurled from its foundation. At Sibley a tornado swept over the country, doing immense damage to property. Without a moment's warning the wind rose from a slight breeze to a hurricane, and in a 6bort time chimneys, fences, lumber, and other property were torn from their resting placet and hurled through the air. A large chimney on the public-school building crashed through the roof into the midst of a teachers' institute, but aside from a few bruises no one was hurt. The agricultural warehouse of Grant & Hanna was moved from its foundation, and now8tands at an angle of forty-five degrees. Reports from the farming region brjng intelligence of damage to stock. The house of Jacob Brooks was lifted from its foundation and torn into fragments. The flood on the Missouri immediately above Sioux City has been the highest and most disastrous since the memorable inundation of the spring of 1881. The region inunia fVin fnw crounds on the Dakota side above Sioux River. During the break-up of the ice two weeks ago, an immense gorga formed in the curved channel of the Missouri below Elk Point. A dam was formed, and the whole expanse of low country overflowed. In every direction for miles the whole country was under water. Elk Point was a diminutive island in a vast sea. The country there is thickly settled, and many farmers had already removed their live -stock to the blufls. Most of the bouses are built on eminences, but in most cases the flood overflowed these also. Just below Elk Point the county authorities have dug an immense ditch along the line of the lowest depression, northeasterly towards the Sioux River, to carry off flood waters. This ditch carried a flood of water with great violence into the Sioux River above the St. Paul Railroad bridge. There was thus a vast river several miles wide sweeping across, the lowlands. It ploughed out the ditch and threatened-to change the channel of the Missouri in conformity with it, tore away fence3, hay-stacks, small outbuildings, and everything in it# way. About four miles of the railroad track were washed out this side of Elk Point. The Cedar River at Stansgar, Iowa, was higher than it has been for several years. A wagon load of men and boys, in attempting to cross a small swollen tributary, were washed down the stream and four of tne boys and the team were drowned. The names of t.hn HrnwnnH are Frank BuTidy, Isaac Lan strom, Frank Rabmes, and Andrew Golberg. Only the body of Andrew G-olberg has been recovered. The high water has damaged considerable mill property also. A terrible wind and rain storm passed over Delphi, Iowa. At Sleeth's, five miles north, it was of the nature of a cyclona Several houses were blown down, and a freight train on the Monon line was lifted from the track. Telegrams from a dozen points in Dakota report heavy rains and raging rivers. The river was bank full at Washburn, and the bottom lands below were flooded for miles. At South Hart the railway bridge was swept away, and all trains were temporarily abandoned At Mankato, Minn., tne ice moved in immense cakes, and a gorge was feared below the city. Twenty head of stock were drowned on the lowlands. The river rose fifteen feet in one night. A remarkably severe thunder-storm passed over Centreville, Minn., doing much damage to property and causing the los3 of three lives. James Parsons's barn in Sherman township was struck by lightning and destroyed, Mr. Parsons arid h;s little child and a Mrs. Yakes being instanly killed at the same time. m i PROMINENT PEOPLE. Mr. Gladstone plays the violin?with no great success, however. Every few days the Queen Regent of Spain sits for a new photograph. Rev. E. P. Roe and Mark Twain each make over $20,000 a year by their pens. Rkv. Mr. Spurgeon, the London divine, sometimes wqars a single-barreled eye glass-. "Bob" Garrett, ex-President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, is hunting tigeri in India. The daughter of Prince Nicholas, of Montenegro, is to be betrothed to the Czarewitch of Russia Dr. John Hall is worth a million and preaches to a New York congregation worth $400,000,000. The Prince of Wales's income from the Duchy of Cornwall was nearly $.500,000 for the last year. Robert Lewis Stevenson, the author of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," was paid $S000 for his latest novel. William l. Scott, of Erie, Penn., pays his cook twice the salary which he himself re ceives as Congreslhian. While W. W. Corcoran, the philanthropist, was on his death-bed he drew a check for $500 for the widow of a young man who had committed suicide. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, has presented his large and valuable collection of medical and surgical books to the Medical Library of Boston. J. E. Fitzgerald, of Montana, the President of the Irish National League in America, was fifteen years ago earning 50 cents a day. Now he is* worth $5,000,000. United States Senator Reagan has held public office for fifty years, his first appointment being to the position of surveyor of public lands in Texas, along toward the ena of the thirties. Henry bergb, the late New York humanitarian, was a lawyer and drew his own wilL Each of the two codicils were witnessed by a single witness, and was therefore invalid, as the law reouires two witnesses. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the woman suffragist, is still a noticeably fine looking woman with great masses of white hair and a strong, intelligent faoe. She avows herself as enthusiastically enlisted in the woman suffrage campaign as ever. Joaquin Miller is living at present in a little red-wood house, about twelve feet high by something like thirty feet in length, perched away up on the side of a naked and rocky mountain near Oakland, Cal., at a height of several hundred feet above the tea. United States Senator Palmer has a lake on his Michigan farm stocked with carp, and wishes he hadn't. He calls them the "bog of the sea," because they wallow and burrow in the mud and keep the water continually dirty. He has tried to seine them out, but he cannot do so. It is said that the first work Governor David B. Hill ever did outside of his schoolin? was to sell apples on the trains that passed through Havana, N. Y., his birthplace. From the money thus acquired he bought a!I his s-. hoolbooks, and what was left he saved and gave to his mother. {4i7ZAf av P.r ivrn ivlin nfc nrpsr>nt time is the prominent figure in Venezuela, is describe:! as a ha ndsome man of venerable appearance, who possesses great ability, unbounded ambition, and inordinate conceit. He is enormously wealthy, and gave $500,000 to his daughter on her marriage to a French noblemanGordon Taylor Hughes, aged seventeen, rod of the American Consul at Birmingham, England, has won a scholarship at Cambridge valued at 52000. Young Hughes won over fifty-two competitors, although ho was so sick during the four days' examination that he was obliged to dictate his answers to a stenographer. The gastronomical director of the aristocratic Capital City Club, of Atlanta, Go., is a colored woman who is noted far and near 1 for her skill She is paid $1500 a year and allowed 11000 for an aesirtact LATEK NEWS, In New York City two workmen were killed by a defective wall falling on tbera. A falling wall at Pittsburg, Penn., buried three girls beneath it, two of whom were killed and the other fatally injured. Work has begun on the Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and New England Railroad, which is to form a through line from the Lehigh Valley to Springfield, Mass., by way of the Poughkeepsie bridge. It will b9 completed this season. The Maryland Republican State Central Committee has fixed May 17 as the date and Easton as the place for holding the convention to nominate delegates to the Chicago convention. Albert Dumkee, of Columbus, Nebraska, in a drunken frenzy murdered his aged wife with a club and then assaulted his daughter, but he was overpowered before injuring her seriously. Silas Banks killed three brothers named Monroe at Parkersburg, W. Va., as the result of an old feud. He himself was wounded four times. The Kootenai Indians, in Montana, are getting ugiy ana inreaien 10 aveuge wo banging of three of their number for murder by the white people. The Governor has been called on for troops. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of J. L. Rathbone, to be Consul-General at Paris, by a vote of 44 to 8. S3X0R Galindez, the wealthy merchant who was recently kidnapped at bis estate in Santa Rita, Cuba, by bandits, has been released on the payment of a ransom of $17,000 in gold. Captain Campeeio, the African explorer, has sent messages from the interior announcing the safety of Emin Bey. He says he was taken prisoner by King Traxiore, whom he finally persuaded to become friendly to Emin Bey. Eventually Traxiore charged him with a mission to negotiate an alliance with Emin Bey. The letters state that Stanley had not arrived at Wadelai np to the time the despatch was sent JACOB SHARP'S DEATH, He Dicft While Awaiting His Second Trial for Bribery. Jacob Sharp,ex-President of the Broadway Surface Railroad in New York, and the man charged with bribing the "Boodle" Aldermen of 1884, is dead. He died at his residence in the metropolis in presence of his family. At the time of bis death Mr. Sharp was awaiting a second trial 'for bribery. His first trial resulted in a verdict of guilty, and for some months he was incarcerated in Ludlow street jail, but the verdict was reversed on legal grounds by the Court of Appeals, and a new trial ordered. He was seventy-one years old, and left a fortune estimated at everal mil lions of dollars. THE LAB0E_W0ELD. a large scale works will be built at Rome, Ga., costing $100,000. A national convention of union laster* will soon be held in Boston. The output of Pittsburg's glass industry ia laid to be valued at $10,000,000 a year. The boss carpenters of New Jeriey are organizing. They do not like the proposed eight-hour Saturday. There are forty one less anthracite pig iron furnaces in blast >u Pennsylvania now than in the spring of last, year. "CwrtTVTi'r'De Viotta nolnn1 of'Vtof tliarA ara 40,000^000 tons of coal accessible in the Dan River coal-fields In North Carolina. A company has been organized in Petersburg, Va., for the manufacture of wooden butter dishes, veneers, woodenware. etc Minneapolis people, according to recent rtatistics, consume 45,000,000 cigars a year, but only 9,000,000 of this number are made by its 300 cigarmakers. A bill is being prepared by the Working Women's Association to be introduced into the Ne w York Legislature asking that women factory inspectors be appointed. The Board of Trade of New York Jewelers has voted $10,000 to defeat the sixty rtrikers who quit work in the Dulbar Watch Case Company in Newark, N. J. General Master Workman Powderly has departed South to visit the co-operative town of Powderjy, which was started eighteen months ago, near Birmingham, Ala. The weighers' laborers connected with the Boston Custom-house say tbey have been unjustly deprived of their customary fifteen minutes' rest during each forenoon, and threaten to strike. Firms in Chicago, Pittsburg, New York Boston, Philadelphia and other cities are binding themselves not to employ female | help in any department where boys or men can oe maae useiuj. The largest soap manufactory in Philadelphia, at which 1,100,000 pounds are boxed every week, was founded in 1833 by a thrifty German, who walked into the city with only 125 in his pockets in that year. A $200,000 stock company has been organized at Wilmington, N. C., to distill sawdust, producing turpentine,creosote oil,wood alcohol and pyroligneous acid. The works are to be ready by May 15, and will give employment to fifty or seventy-five men. Leon, the greatest manufacturing town in >*ew Mexico, has no large factories. Nearly all the work is done in the homes of the makers. There is a weekly production of 10,000 saddles, 25,000 ordinary blankets, 10,000 fine blankets, 28,000 pairs of men's shoes, 20,000 pairs of women's shoes,and 39,000 pairs of children's shoes. The 5,000 men employed at the Edgar Thomson steel works, Pittsburg, declined Andrew Carnegie's co-operative proposition. Mr. Carnegie thereupon telegraphed from New York, ordering the complete shut down of the great plant until January 1,1889. This decision was received with dismay by the large army of workmen, as they did not apprehend any movement of the kind. NEWSY GLEANINGS, The Czar's stables cost $1,300,000 annually. The late Chief Justice Waite left his heirs OAA /Wi fWVjUW, The Emperor of China has a fortune of 145,000,000. There, are 600,000 Free Masons in the United States. Maine turns out over seven billions of toothpicks annually. Florence, Italy, proudly boasts that she will soon hold four Queens. Harvard College distributed $53,000 to indigent students last year. Mexico Citv had 130 bull fights last year, and only two matadors were killed. Mayor Duncan, of Burlington, Iowa, has disappeared, leaving no trace behind. The postal note, four years in use. has just been counterfeited for the first time. In Connecticut there are over S5,0D0 acres along the Sound Shore devoted to oyster cultivation. A physician says the use of the typewriter is destroying the muscular power of the right arm. The late Barghash Bin Saed, Sultan of Zanzibar, leaves twenty-seven widows and 232 children. A Georgia man put up 5003 acres of land at auction, and it was knocked down to the j highest bidder at i prixce bismarck IS said 10 own ujmiiici i ies %vhich produce annually more than half a j million gallons of whiskey. I Mrs. Cleveland, as one of the heirs of j the late Colonel John B. Foisom, of New York, gets an eighth of fT.jO. Mr. Ci.avs Sfreckles says that certain persons offered him $7,00?,000 to go to Philadelphia with his sugar refinery. The Emperor of Austria and the Queen of Spain performed the usual Holy Thursday ceremony of washing the feet of the poor. The curator of the National Library in Paris has recovere 1 the whole of the parchments and manuscripts, sixty-six altogether, J valued at $203,000, stolen from the establishment. I Rev. Hart F. Pease, one of the oldest Methodist ministers in Connecticut, died recently at Norwalk. His wife died a few hours later. Both were buried in the same grave. A FATAL PLUNCEE. A Train Drops into a Chasm, Killing Six People. v ; A dispatch from Charles City, Iowa, says that a terrific rain storm 6wept over that portion of the Stata Thursday night Water fell in sheets, and the thunder was deafening. The Wapeipinicon River.' which runsthrough a rolling: country near New Hamp- ' ton. was one of the first streams to overflow its banks and scatter its winter ice upon the knolls. Four miles west of New Hampton the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul road crosses the river on a wooden bridge. Thenight express was tearing through the intense darkness at 4 o'clock in the morning, when the engine guddenlv plunged, into a barrier of ice, which had been piled high upon the bridge by the raging waters. In an instant the driving wheels of the locomotive left the track, and the entire train, with the exception of the sleeper, plunged headlong into the swollen stream. Th? coaches crashed into each other as they piled, upon the locomotive, filling the river with> wreckage and screaming passengers. The scramble for life in the inky darkness and the frigid waters was terrible. Men and * women seized each other in midstream, and ' battled desperately in their efforts to reach I i - - J mi ? A.V. - ? ?X ? 1J . ia.ua. i iilt*: m wie lurwaru cuku nuuiu w tainly have perished had not the second coach demolished it, and sent its occupants scurrying through the waters. The passengers in the second coach escaped without serious injury. Four passengers and a little girl four years old in tb? first coach and Engineer James Scagel, of Mitchell, Dakota, were instantly kitted, and twenty-two others were injured, six of them fatally. As last as the dead and wounded were recovered they were removed to the sleeper, where they were placed in the berths ana stateroom. The wreck some believed was caused by iceon the track, while others say it was the result of the spreading of the rails. Theengine jumped the track first, and the- , baggage car and tender plunged over the engine into the water The smoker struck on top of the engine and was badly smashed. The engine was entirely under water,and the baggage car was almost covered by water. There w?re about thirty people in the smoker at the time, four of whom were killed, and the engineer was crushed to death between the cab and smoker. The fireman escaped unhurt. The baggageman and route agent were welidrenched, but escaped through th?window without much injury. One Chicagotraveling man and the conductor kept toepassengers quiet till they could help them out , THE NATIONAL GAME. It cost an even $100,000' to run the Detroit club last year. The St Paal Club has furnished free past* es to the clergymen of that city. "Buck" Ewirro will captain the New York League nine in the comingstruggle. Even the best batsmen will do well thisseason to reach .350 under the three-strike rule. - ^ John M. Ward, of the New York LeagueClub, is writing a history of the National'1 game. S-^'f Hot, Washington's deaf-mute fleldir, made eight base hits in three games at New Orleans Harry Wright, the veteran manager of the Philadelphia League Club, is fifty-three years of age. V... A Hot Springs physician declares thatKrock, the new Cnicago pitcher, is "builtUke a gladiator." ? The Tri-State League, comprising West Virginia, Ohio and Michigan, has three deaf-mute players. The Brooklyn American Association team this season cost almost $40,000. Bix of the players are bridegrooms. It is asserted that neither the Cincinnati. Washington or New York clubs benefited materially by their Southern trip. The baseball fever has invaded Georgia in epidemic form, and the colored women and girls m parts of the State indulge in the-, game. V? It is claimed that there are more veteran i players in the Boston team than in any other' club in either the League or Ajoericaa Associations. I The Boston directors have decided to arrange their in-field as follows: Morrill, first. - base; w nite, second bas9; button, snort- < stop, and Nash, third base. The petition of Harvard graduates to the Governing Board of the college in favor of ' allowing the Harvards to practice with pro-' fessionals has been refused. , . v "Mike" Kelly,the $10,000 baseball player, appeared at the Park Theatre, Boston, a?? Dusty Bob in "A Rag Baby" for a week and is said to have been succ-essfuL M. L. Axderso.v, of the Haverly Base* ball Club of Oakland, CaL, recently dropped dead while practicing on the ball field. An. . autopsy showed that heart disease was the \ sause. ' rj ' : C. Scott Stratton Is a young pitcher,, barely eighteen years old, picked up by Manager Kelly for the Louisville American Asso-, nation club. He has a record of striking outnineteen amateurs. J ' Clabk80!7, one of the leading pitchers in the country, has been sold by Chicago toi Boston for $10,000. Clarkson's accession will make Boston a prominent candidate for ... championship honors. The Akron (Ohio) Baseball Club has been declared insolvent by the courts and a re-' ceiver appointed. Judgments amounting to112,900.80 were entered and the stockholders ordered to pay $20 a share, which will enable <the club to settle at 50 cents on the dollar. If the St. Louis American Association ehampions capture firsr, second or third' place this season President Von der Ahe will! present each player with 1100. He has also promised each player, under contract with him, J'-io if no fine is imposed daring the jeason. ( The Boston League Club within one year oas paid out $53,830 for players, has acrread te give over $4000 in increased salaries this teason, and is building a grand stand which will actually cost $75,000. They will pay this year *18,700 in salaries to five players? Sowders, Clarkson. Morrill, Radbourn and Keliy. mmmm_m^^ wmmmmmm "f THE MARKETS. 15 !?ew york. Beef, good to prime 8 @ Calves, common to prime.... 7 @ Bheep ? ?. 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