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BOSCOE CONKLIE. The Career of New York's Noted Ex-Senator Closed. His Death the Kesult of Exposure \ in the Great Blizzard. The hardships endured by the Hon. Roscoe Conkiing while attempting to make his way from his office in New York to his hotel during the height of the recent blizzard were treated lightly by the athletic ex-Senator; j but the Bevere exposure resulted in an I abscess in his ear, causing intense pain. The ! abscess penetrated to the brain, necessitating | a delicate and difficult operation, by which the accumulated pus which pressed upon the brain, threatening rapid dissolution, was drawn off and momentary relief afforded. Mr. Conkling suffered intensely, and much of the time was delirious. His wife was a constant and devoted nurse, and many letters : and telegraphic messes of sympathy were j sent from prominent public and private men in all parts of the country. All hope of recovery was abandoned at j 12% o'clock Tuesday afternoon, when pul- j "monary oedema, the settling of blood in the | lungs by reason of gradual heart failure, was ( developed, and made it cei-tain that dissolution was only a question of hours. The rapid decline, which his physicians ! feared,began early in the day. He was hardly conscious in the forenoon, and he sanlc j swiftly into the coma that precedes death, | and he lay for hours with his pulse rising past counting:, until late at night its faint beats could not be detected, and his breathing quickened to intense rapidity. When at last 1:50 o'clock "Wednesday morning his breath left him and he was stiil, there were beside his bed his wife, his daughter, Mrs. Oakman, Judge A. C. Coxe, his nephew, Dr. Anderton, and the colored nurses Arrangements were made to bury him at j Utica, N. Y., the scene of his early struggles i and triumphs. Life of the Famous Senator. ?. *" ! Roscoe Conkling was born in Albany. N. j Y., on the 30th of October, 1828. His father, j Alfred Conkling, was a Judge of the United States District Court by appointment of President John Quincy Adams in 1825. Roscoe attended the common schools of Albany, and had no opportunity in his boyhood to study the classics. His father removed from Albany to Auburn and later to Geneva, where Roscoe studied law. He j was not noted iu those days as a student, al- I though be impressed all his associates j as a young man of ability. After he | had read law with his father for a time he entered the office ot/Spencer & Keroan : "In Utica. Couklinz was prepared for the bar ! before be attained his majority and made no j small impression as an advocate while yet a ! minor. His abstilities were so pronounced j that Hamilton Fish appointed him ! District Attorney for Oneida County a , month before he came of age. He was admitted to the bar on his twenty-first birth- j day. He was already actively interested in !' politics and was becoming a local leader, but even then his leadership was of the same j quality that marked it when he had the en- j tire Republican partv of New York State j under control. In all his career he kept ' himself at the front by force of his character j rather than by the condescending suavity of the ordinary politician. As a law- 1 yer ,he was remarkably successful j from the beginning in criminal practice, and : the nature of his public office in Utica kept j him constantly busy with criminal cases. ; In 1858 he married Julia Seymour, youugest sister of Horatio Seymour. Shortly j after his marriage Mr. Conkling was ] elected Mayor of Utica, serving as Mayor ! ana JJlSETlCt i\ Homey ut uie same uiuo. | In the fall of the same year he ; ' made his first attempt to get into Congress. His friends advised him | earnestly not to go before the Con- I vention. Mr. Conk ling had faith in his strength, however, and secured the nom- j ination and eventually the election. He was i not a marked man In the Thirty-sixth Con- i gress. He was re-elected in 1800, and in the extra session called by President Lincoln he took a leading part Mr. Conkling's attitude on the great questions of the time was pronounced against war, but not in favor of abolition. In i the bitter debates that occurred in the | Thirty-seventh Congress he was the i leader of the New York delegation, and j ^Almost tho only Northern representative j who used plain terms in speaking of the secession of the Southern States. Never- j tbeless Mr. Conkling was in favor of a com- | promise with the Southern 8tates on the ' slavery issue, if thereby a war might be' avoided. When war was inevitable, he was one of j the most ardent supporters of the Adminis- i tration of President Lincoln. He was re elected to the House in 1807, but l before Congress assembled he was chosen I successor to Judge Ira Harris in the Senate. > He resigned his seat in the House and entered ! the Senate on March 4, ISO". He was re- j ejected in ioio, auu a):iuu in iou. Thomas C. Piatt was elected to the Senate as Conkling's colleague on the under- j standing that he would support the Garfield Administration in its appointments. Almost the first batch of names sent to the Senate for confirmation included poli- ( tical enemies of Conkling's. 1'latt ptuck to his agreement for awhile and voted for confirmation, but Mr. Conkling retreated to the lobby. Finally the name of Robertson was sent in for the Collectorship of New j York. This was the last straw, and both Conkling and Piatt resigned. The New York Legislature was strongly pro-Conkling at the timo of the resignation, and for one dav few doubted that both he and Piatt would be triumphant- j tor re-elected. Such was the strength of the Conkling or "Stalwart" faction that a strug- j ele of more than six weeks' duration ensued J before Lapham and Miller were elected iu place of Conkling and Piatt. Since that timo Mr. Conkling has not ap- j peai-ed before the public as a politician. It1 happened that juit at the time of his res gna- | tion from the Senate a personal friend faded j in business. Mr. Conkling had endorsed i wionw v?ic onH with t.hft failure went every dollar that the Senator had accumulated. He opened a Jaw office in New York city ; and business rolled in. It is said that in two I years he made more money than he had I made in all his previous career. Since; he settled there he has lived most I of the time at the New York Club, | k.- ? his wife remaining at her home in Utica. j GREAT LOCK-OUT. 4,000 Brewery Workmen Quit Work in New York aud Vicinity. 8eventy-nine breweries in which lager ' beer is brewed in New York City, Brooklyn, I S la ten Island, Jersey City, Union Hill, and ' Newark, were closed Monday at noon, in pursuance of the resolution of the employers ; to lock out the men unless the men would agree to recognize in the breweries no authority but that of the bosses. . In other words, it was a lockout ol the Brewer's Union- If the breweries average fifty employes, there were nearly 4000 men locked out. It was done in peace and tranquillity, not an act of violence was reported, and the deserted and idle breweries were about as quiet as graveyards. The one failure to obey the orders of the journeymen^ union was in the case of the engineers, many of whom are Knights of Labor, and fourfifths of whom stuck to their jobs. Both Ides were sanguine of ultimate victory. k H THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The American Exchange, in Europe, of which Senator Hawley is President, and Henry F. Gillig, General Manager, has suspended, with liabilities estimated to be $4,000,000. The offices of the concern were in New York and London. The house of Joseph Bird, in Florida, N. Y., was burned and his wife and child perished in the flames. The vault of the First National Bank at St. Johnsville, N. Y., was blown open by burglars and robbed of $10,000 in cash. The Washington express train was wrecked in Philadelphia and seventeen persons were seriously injured. The fishing schooner James A. Garfield met with a heavy gale off Gloucester, Mass., and four of the crew were washed overboard and drowned. smallpox nas Deen prevailing iu 5-veioi sections of Philadelphia. South and West. The five year-old daughter of Thomas Baker, living near Wells ville, Ohio, fell into a burning brush pile. Mrs. Baker went to the child's assistance, and both were fatally burned. Mr. Baker also received serious burns while extinguishing the flames on his wife and child's clothing. Willie Gkady, six years old, accidentally shot and killed his sister Ella, three years old, at his parents' home in Chicago, while at play witn a pistol. A Pr*tn a mm Iaoc a# f.lia jrx vnxuauv popci u^uico up vuviuoivk w?v Burlington strike to the Brotherhood and switchmen at $601,580. The los to the company is 12,100,000. A man on the Muerto ranch, near Brownsville, Texas, was bitten by a mad wolf, from the effects of which he became wild ana fled to the woods. He entered the Asadore ranch and seizing a six-year-old child of Manuel Cantu, bit and tore it pieces. Cur Marshal Howard shot and killed E. L. Little, 9 colored preacher, at Conway, Ark., because the preacher had knocked him down with a can of peaches for unknown reason. Two white men, J. T. Halsey and J. C. Hulist, were returning home from Fort Bmith, Ark., drunk, and as they passed a cabin by the roadside one of them said, "Watch me kill that kid," whereupon he put a bullet through the breast of a four-year-old colored boy, killing him instantly. Major W. Z. Leitner, Secretary of'State of South Carolina,died suddenly of heart dis ease in Columbia. The.bakers and brewers of Chicago are on a strike. Max Moller, of Tribune, Kan., has died , of hydrophobia, contracted from a mad dog bite received two weeks ago. William Polk, an insane colored convict in the Tennessee State Penitentiary,at Nash viile, committed suicide by biting his tongue off, thus bleeding to death. The boom near Fremont, Wis., containing 15,000,000 feet of logs, has been carried away by the floods and the logs are scattered over an area of two miles square, many of them reaching the lake. A ATTiDPVT avap f Vin AwnArflliin nf n. handkerchief resulted in a riot at Spooner, Wis., which culminated in a fusillade with revolvers. Twenty shots were fired, William O'Hearn was fatally wounded. Charles Green had a leg broken by a bullet and three unknown men took to the woods, followed by a constable, who was killed. The residence of D. A. Hoffman, a widower, who lived near Oak Ridge, Mo., with eleven children,"was burned ana three children perished in the flames. Hoffman died from his injuries, and three other children were fatally injured. Two Indian policemen at Los Cruces, New Mexico, attempted to arrest Sacate, a Meeca lera Apache, and his son, who were drunk and raakinc trouble in the camo. In the fight that ensued one of the policemen was killed, Sacate's son was fatally wounded, and three women were seriously injured by stray shots. Sacate was secured. Captain R'Jsch, of the schooner Four Brothers, of Racine, was knocked overboard at Manitowoc, Wis., and drowned. The Louisiana State election was held on Tuesday, and resulted in a Democratic majority of about 40,000. The Legislature is overwhelmingly Democratic in both branches, thus insuring the election of two Democratic United States Senators. Washington. Thk daughter of Judge Curtis Hillyer, of Washington, whose elopement with a young man beneath her socially caused such a sensation a few weeks ago, has committed suicide. She had separated from her husband and returned to live with her parents. The Legislative, Judicial and Executive Appropriation bill, as agreed upon in the House Committea, makes a total appropria tion of $20,472,3.H, wbicb Is $y37,tiUo Jess than the estimates, and $209,246 le3s than the current appropriations for th3 same services. United States Minister to England Phelps, has returned to this country on a leave of absence sf sixty days to look after his private interests. Senator Stewart has given notice of a bill granting a pension of $>000 a year to the widow of the late Chief Justice Waite. By a unanimous vote the Hous2 Committee on Elections bas decided that, in the Nathan-Glower contested e'ection case, John M. Glover, the sitting memter from the Ninth Missouri District, is entitled to his seat. The President has sent the following nominations to the Senate: Eli H. Reynolds, to be Collector of Customs for the District of Newark, N. X; HV". T. Walthall, of Mississippi, to be United States Consul at Deme rara. The House by the strong vote of 138 to C4 declared that the Secretary of the Treasury has continuing power, under the act of 1881, to buy bonds with the surplus whenever he deems it expedient. The President has returned to the Senate unsigned the acts granting pensions to Hannah R. Langdon. Betsey Mansfield and Laura A. Wright. These acts are vetoed on the ground that the deaths did not result from injuries received during the war or sickness incident to army service, and that until it is established as a policy that all soldiers' widows shall be pensioned it is unfair and unjust to m*ke exceptions in favor of only such as procure the passage of special acts. The President also signed a number of private pension bills. Foreign. William E. O'Brien, the Home Rule agitator and Irish member of Parliament, has been again arrested charged with attending illegal meetings. He was sent to Dublin jail ana bail was refused him. TrfERE is a serious peasantry revolt in Roumania, and the Government has taken measures to repress it Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, died re cently at Cannes, France. General Boulanger has been elected to a seat in the French Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 96,627 votes. "Billy" Cook, the confidential clerk of Boss Tweed, who defrauded New York City out of such enormous sums of money, has just died in Paris. He was indicted along with his employer, but escaped imprisonment by fleeing with $500,000. Matthew Arnold, tne noted iLrignsn poet, scholar and critic, has just died in his sixtv-seventh year. An article by him in the current number of the Nineteenth Century Magazine on "Civilization in the United States" attacks America and the Americans. The British steamer Biela collided off Deal with the Spanish ship Vena. The Vena sank and sixteen of her crew were drowned. The conference to settle the dispute between the United States and Morocco will meet in Madrid, Spain, on May 1. The peasant rising in Roumania is extending. Several village mayors have been killed. Large bands are assembling with C.0 avowed object of attacking Bucharest THE Bncisn war snip uniuuuc lias laucu the English flag on three islands in the Pacific Ocean (Fanning, Christmas and Penrhyn), thus annexing them to Great Britain. Emperor Frederick, of germany, was reported mnch worse by his physicians on Monday, and signed an order appointing the Crown Prince to represent him. The steamer Neptune has landed 42,$42 seals at St. Johns, Newfoundland, the largest number ever brought in by a single steamer. The Canadian Parliament.af ter four hours' discussion, adopted the Fishery Treaty, recently negotiated by Mr. Joseph Chamberlain with the United States. Mr. John Baring, head of the celebrated banking heuse of Baring Brothers, London, is dead. FIRES AND FAILURES. Many of Senator Stanford's Valuable Horses Destroyed. The Leading Grain Speculator of St. Louis Forced to Suspend, The stables on Senator Stanford's stock farm at Palo Alto,Cal., were destroyed by fire, and seven of the valuable horses perished in the flames. The fire was discovered between 10 and 11 o'clock,and in a little more than live minutes the large structure was in flames. When the fire broke out there were 22 horses in the stable, and seveD of thom perished. The horses destroyed were valued highly by Sen- 4 ator Stanford,and it is estimated that the loss will reach $200,000. An alarm was promptly giveu ?ucu uu? fire "was discovered, ana in a few minutes the entire force of men on the farm were rushing toward the burning structure. The fire broke out near the centre of the stable, which is a one-story structure 216 feet long by 16 feet wide. While some of the men ran to turn on the water and get the hose line ready. Others opened the stable doors and tried to drive the horses out. Tho3e that were lost were so badly frightened that it wa3 impossible to either drive or drag them out of their stalls. Seeing there was no hope of saving the stable, tne men turned their attention toward saving the office and the lodging bouses occupied by the stablemen, as these buildings were in danger of destruction. The flames shot high into the'air, and the light attracted the attention of the neighbors who were soon hurrying over to the farm There were many willing hands who were anxious to rescue the infuriated horses which were still in the stable. Due tne uem# nus , intense and the fire spread so rapidly that tbey could not reach tnem. Clifton Bell was pot out of the stable safely, but became unmanageable, and breaking away dashed into the fire again. Fred Margrave, the stable foreman, was knocked insensible by a horse, but soon recovered consciousness. An hour after the fire broke out all that remained of the stable was a mass of smouldering ruins. A number of the horses that escaped from the burning stable ran off, and were not found until the following morning, when they were returned to their proper corrals. When the other horses were counted over it was found that the following had been burned in the stables: Rexford, brown stallion, five years, by Electioneer, dam Rebecca, by General Benton. Rexford had a record of 2:24 and a trial heat of 2:19%. He was valued at $10,000. Clifton Bell, brown Stallion, five years, by ] Electioneer, dam Clara Belle, by Abdallan Star. He had a record of 2:25. and was value^ at $10,000. Kris Kringle, black stallion, 7 years, by j Electioneer, aam Lady Thorne, Jr., by Will* I iams's Mambrino. Valued at fGOUO. I Lowell, bay stallion, il years, by Election- j eer, dam Lady Lowell, by ischuisess csu i Clair. Valued at $5000. I Howard, bay stallion, 6 years, by Elec- ; tioneer, dam Mamie, by imp. Hercules, valued at $5,000. Two bay geldings, 6 years old, both by j Electioneer; the Blarney gelding having a record of 2:34 and the Emma Robson guiding having a record of 2:28. Norlaine, the wonderful 2 year-old brown filly by Norval, was badly buir.ed, but it is ( believed she will recover. It is feared, how- , ever, that she will be blind. She is valued at , $20,000. Last fall she beat the world's record for yearlings, at the Bay District track by j trotting a mile in 2:31^. Among the valuable horses saved were -j Manzinita, Hindoo Rose, and Palo Alto, but the latter was considerably burned about the , body. Hindoo Rose has a 8-year-old record of 2:19, and $25,000 was refused for her. ( Palo Alto had a 4-year-old record of 2:20)^, , and is a very valuable piece of property. FIRES ELSEWHERE. A fire broke out at about 2 o'clock Wednesday morning in the Wyoming Pin Shop, operated by T. S. Carroll, at Winsted, Conn,, i and the building was entirely destroyed, i Hesley's block,near the shop, was considerably damaged, one house being nearly consumed. James Fitzpatrick's house, standing just west of the shoo, was badly burned, one side < and the roof being destroyed. The pin shop < had been running about four years, and furnished employment to only a small num- : ber of hands. The estimated loss is $15,000, and is partly covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown. A fire broke out in P. Walters's store, North Brad dock-, Penn., at 8:20 o'clock i Wednesday morning, and before the flames could be controlled twelve stores aud dwell- i ings were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $20,030. Fifty people were rendered homeless by the fire, which spread so rapidly that the occupants of the dwellings barely escaped with their lives. The origin is not < known. i A brush fire set by a farmer spread through the undergrowth at Gloucester, Mass., and reached the farm of an elderly widow named < Paine. This woman, with her daughter, aged 45 years, attempted to fight the fire with water, having failed to beat it out The mother went for water to the house. She was gone only a few minutes, but on her 1 return found her daughter burned to death. She attempted to put the flames out by < stamping on them, and the fire caught her clothings ' * i The Bridgeton House, at Upper Blacks Eady, Backs County, Penn., has been j burned. Loss, $15,000. Tho hotel was insured for $17,000, but there was no insurance "i on the furniture. The origin of the fire is a mystery. A Big Grain Broker Fails. The failure of Moses Fraloy, the biggest bear in the St Louis market, has Iteen announced, and created great excitement It has beep known for several weeks that the calls for margins on Fraley had been heavy nnd rapid He was short 2,000,000 bushels of May corn in Chicago, and 2,500,000 bushels in St Louis. Besides this he carried a heavy line of short wheat This line extended through all the options, and amounted to a total of 3,500,000 bushels here and in Chicago. For some time past the market bad been going against him, corn having risen from . 44X cents to 5'1% cents and wheat from cents to 84% cents. There had been most exorbitant calls for margins, and in this respect Fraley had been the principal sufferer, as the calls seemed to be.particularly directed against him. In an interview Fraley admitted that his losses were more than a half million dollars; others put it at three-quarters of a million. Five years ago he lost a like sum try;*wT "nrtior t.h? market, and he E&id up his losses in full. He is alleged to ave made nearly 000 on the Harper deal in Chicago last May, when the Fidelity Bank went under. I PLENTY OF ICEBERGS, , Reports of Great Ice Fields off the j Newfoundland Coast. Large quantities of ice are reported off the I coast of Newfoundland and are said to be rapidly drifting down into the routes of ' ocean steamers. Captain Dawson, of the steamer Portia, which has arrived at New 1 York, says that he was blocked in the ice at Newfoundland, with other vessels, for i three weeks. Continual strong east- I erly winds packed the ice so close to the shore that from the signal hill at the , entrance to the harbor, a height of G000 feet above the sea level, giving a range of view of over sixty miles, no open water could be seen, , and during that time the ice was so solid that , he walked over four miles to another vessel that was also blocked in. Finally a westerly breeze sent the ice a little off shore, and his 1 vessel was able too creep out. The following I /InTT a aa ai* f UiMf * ft ?1 f V\ ! r> uwr Hue OLtUllJOI piKOCU Villi UJ JVCIA.1 go TT1I/U1U a distance of thirty miles along the coast The steamer Austrian, which has arrived at Boston, was caught in the ice just as the Portia got clear. The Captain reported having passed forty icebergs in one day between St Johns and Car? Race. A LITE-DESTROYING- COW. She Wrecks a Train. Caneing the Deaths of Four Men. A construction train on the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad was wrecked sirty miles west of Birmingham, Ala., at 7:80 o'clock Friday evening. Four workmen were killed, one injured fatally and nine others seriously hurt. The train was backing at a high rata of speed and struck a cow and was ditchwL * SUMMARY OF OONQBESS. Senate Proceeding 76th Day.?A resolution was adopted instructing: the Civil Service Committee to inquire and report whether there has been (within two years) any fraud or maladministration in the New York Custom House in regard to the importation of sugar....Mr. Riddleberger offered a resolution for the suspension or the Senate rules as to executive sessions during the consideration of the Fisheries Treaty. Mr. Sherman objected to a consideration of the question, and it wont over under the rules....Conference reports on the bills to provide the great Sioux reservation into separate smaller reservations; and to ratify and confirm the agreement with the Grosventres and other bands of the Blackfeet Indians in Montana, were presented and agreed to....On motion of Mr. Farwell the bill providing for the investment of certain funds in the Treasury was taken up and Mr. Farwell proceeded to address the Senate on the financial question Mr. Spooner addressed the Senate on the bill for the admission of Dakota to the Union Mr. Stewart introduced a bill granting a pension of $5000 a year to the widow of Chief-Justice Waite. 77th Day.?A resolution was Introduced *?^ u iL. n T i_ instructing tne vuiuuiin/eo uu x uuuu unuus to investigate all the facts bearing on the general allegations made by Senator Call as to illegal and fraudulent conveyances of public lands in Florida In derogation of the rights of the United States. Laid over...,A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the amounts of United States money deposited in national banks, and whether the banks are allowed to use tbtf money withont payment of interest ....The Senate then went into Executive session for the consideration or jnr. Kiddieberger's bill for an open session during tbe discussion of the Fisnery Treaty....A bill was introduced to create and establish United States, District, Territorial, Supreme, and other courts in the Indian Territory. Referred to the Judiciary Committee.... A lively debate took place between Messrs. Vest and Edmunds over the bill for the admission of South Dakota....The Senate then passed thirty-five private pension bills. 78th Day.?The Committee on Foreign Relations reported back adversely on Riddleberger's resolution for open sessions during the consideration of the Fishery Treaty ....A bill was introduced authorizing the purchase of a site for a building for the Supreme Court of the United States The resolution for an inquiry into the alleged fraudulent conveyances of public lands in Florida was taken up and provoked along discussion. The resglution was adopted .... The Senate then resumed consideration of the bill to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpose of aiding in the contraction of railroads. House Proceeding* QTmrr t% a \r ?Tko nkonlain - tin A prayer in behalf of the recovery of ex-Senator Conkling from his dangerous illness The journal of the legislative day of Wednesday, tbe period of the long deadlock, was read in mere outline, consuming exactly one hour in tbe reading The Committee on Post Offices ana Post Roads reported the Post Office Appropriation bill. Referred to the Committee of the Whole ....A Senate bill for the purchase of a building in Washington for the use of tbe Signal Office was parsed A bill for the payment of a claim of $700 for the occupation of certain property in Memphis by United States troops in 1864 was dismissed without iction At the evening session private pension bills were considered exclusively) and a large number of them passed. 88th Day.?'The resignation of A. W. Cochran, for many years Journal clerk, was tendered, because the House refused to make the position an annual salaried one....The House went into Committee of the Whole for the consideration of the Mills Tariff bill, and Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, spoke in opposition tt> it 8!?th Day.?The following bills and resolutions were introduced: Providing that the daily sessions of the House shall begin at eleven o'clock; to equalize the bounties of soldiers and sailors;, a resolution directing the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds to investigate the management of the House restaurant; providing for the control and regulation of railroads acquired by tbe United States under judicial foreclosure or forfeiture: a resolution declaratory of the sense of the House, that the Secretary of the Treasury has power to use the surplus at any time in the Treasury for the purchase of nt fKo Kintoq- nnd tnnt sn much of the 6urplus as may from time to time accumulate in the Treasury ought to be so used . .. The bill has passed extending the time for the completion of the Arthur Kill bridge ?The consideration of the River and Harbor bill was begun, under a suspension of the rules The following bills and resolutions were referred: For the erection of an academic building and a gymnasium at West Point; for the construction of a revenue cutter for harbor duty at New York; for refunding* the income tax levied during the Civil War upon the salaries of commissioned officers of the Army and Navy; declaring all interstate pools or combinations limiting or controlling the production, sale or price of any article of trade or commerce to be unlawful and a criminal conspiracy. 90th Day.?Bills were placed on the calendar for the erection of public buildings at St Albans, Vt, Sioux City, Iowa, New Orleans, La., Brownsville, Texas, Hot Springs, Ark., Water town, N. Y, Helena, Montana, Hudson, N. Y., and Racine, Wis.; also increasing the appropriation for the public buildings at Troy, N. Y.... Bills were reported : To create Boards of Arbitration for settling controversies between common carriers and their employes?Committee of the Whole; prohibiting'the importation of convict-made goods; defining the necessary and proper expenses incident to the nomination, and election of Senators and Representatives, and authorizing the payment thereof; Mr. Enloe reported a resolution requesting fa infArm t.hfl ttnilra IUO X U3UUUOVC1 'UOllVt (M VW M. ?MV what instructions have been given with regard to the rates of postage on seeds, p'ants, bulbs, and printed circulara Adopted. The House then began the consideration of the Tariff BUI, Mr. Mills making the initial speech on the subject At the conclusion of Mr. Mills' speech Mr. Kelley made a reply in opposition to Tariff reform. 91st Day.?Mr. Belmont introduced a bill to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers into the Uuited States. Referred.... Mr. McCreary submitted the conference report upon the bill authorizing the President to arrange a conference between the United States and the South and Central American Republics, Hayti, San Domingo and the empire of Brazil. The report was agreed to.... On motion of Mr. Belmont, of New York, the Senate amendments to the Paris Exposition bill were non-concurred in and a conference or-' dered.... The .bill creating a Department of Labor was passed The bill providing for Boards of Arbitratiou was passed after discussion. NEWSY GLEANINGS, There are over 200,000 foreigners In Paris. Alaska ships cranberries to Eastern marlets. Uver 500,000 acres or southern timoer iana have been sold since January 1st. This country imports not much less than 2,000,000 bushels of potatoes a year. There are 180,000 liquor saloons in England, 20,000 of which are in London. Mrs. McElmore, of Texarkana, Texas, has had nine children in three years. The Germans have imprisoned Malietoa, the deposed Samoan King, at Cameroons. Paris was never so dull in the way of business as now. Over 20,000 flat apartments are for rent A large flow of petroleum has been struck at Leavenworth, Kan., at a depth of L800 feet A Denver firm has closed a contract to furnish a French army with 8000 head of cattle weekly. The Sultan of Turkey has prohibited the exportation of Arab horses from any part of bis dominions. John B. Fry, Henry Clay'sprivate secretary, is living at Sidney, N. Y., nearly sevjnty years old. The Chicago police have abandoned the learch for Tascott, the supposed murderer of Millionaire Snell. The Swedish Minister at Washington has sold to Speaker Carlisle his residence on K street for f 24,000. It is claimed that 500 tons of coal were stolen the past winter from the railroad sheds it Fond du Lac, Wis. Moritz Ritter von Goldschmidt, for fifty years manager of the Rothschilds banking: house in Vienna, is dead. James Bailey, a miner of SbamoWn, Penn., has fallen heir to fl,000,000, left him by the death of an uncle. Bailey has a wife and seven children, and for some months hai \ived in abject poverty. - >T^SSKSB V? - .* " !? v, .. - : ' SELF-DESTROYED. The Prevalence of an Apparent Epidemic of Suicidal Impulse. Eight Cases of Suicide in Various Places in One Day. In humble apartments in the basement of a house on North street,in Middletown,N. Y., On Monday lay the remains of an old Prussian veteran, an associate of Sigel, Hecker, Struve and other leading spirits in the revolutionary attempt of 18i8. The veteran, whose name was Frederick A. Bertram, in a moment of depression took an excessive dose of laud anum and ended bis life at the age or seventyone years. The few main facts known there concerning his early, history are to the effect that he was born of a distinguished and wealthy Prussian family. He received a university education, became involved in the insurrection of 1848, and was driven into exile and poverty in this country. He went first to Reading, Penn., and attempted to earn a livelihood by teaching, but was finally forced to take up the trade of a shoemaker. He married a German woman there, who survives him. Since coming to Middletown, five years ago, he has supported himself and wife as bost he could by cobbling and by giving occasional lessons in German. He sometimes talked of returning to his native country and making an efan Aofo+n fViof troo nnnfiapofivl for the part he took in the attempted revolution. A Man Weary of Life. W. A. Overmier, of Templeton, Iowa, while in company with his wife, brother and two friends, drew a pocketknife and tried to cut his throat The three men attempted to prevent him,but during thestruggle.iu the course of which he managed to leap into the kitchen, be managed to cut his throat with a butcher knife, the men still clinging to him. He died in a few minutes. Overmier was a leading citizen of Carroll County. He had been brooding over business troubles for some time. Left a Substantial Bank Account. Charles Porter, aged thirty-five years, belonging in Boston, died at the Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, from the effects of laudanum, which ne took at a lodging-house on Morgan street. On the table of his room was a farewell letter to some friends and a bank book showing a substantial balance in bis favor. Two Tragedies in One Street. Delia Keenan,aged sixteen years,and Amos Hurleys both'of whom resided on Jamer street, Kansas City, Ho., within two blocks of each other, took carbolic acid and died within a few hours. The causa of Hurley's suicide was family trouble, but the motive for the girl's rash act has not been brought I/O uguu An Ex-Confederate Officer's Suicide. Major John S. Rudd, who was an officer on the staff of General Longstreet in the Confederate army, committe i suicide in his room at the Montgomery Hotel, Coal Valley, W. Va., about five o'clock Sunday night. He had taken an overdose of laudanum and died twenty minutes after he was lound. The Fifth in Two Months. The suicide of Charles Lorenz, a saloon keeper of Coshocton, Ohio, twenty-eight years old. who shot himself in the head Sunday night, was the fifth tragedy of this kind in that vicinity within two months. Sixty Years All He "Wanted. Absalom Davis, aged about sixty years, a respectable farmer of Bremen, Ohio, committed suicide about five o'clock Monday morning by firing a thirty-two calibre pistol shot in bis right temDle. SELF-MUEDER IN JAIL. The Determined Suicide of Alston, Who Murdered His Child. J. N. Alston hanged himself in the county jail at Weather ford, Texas, last Saturday night Alston murdered his daughter, Mrs. G. W. Turpin, near Poolville, Texas, recently, stabbing her forty-three times with a huge butcher knife. Alston tore his mattress up and made a rope, with which he committed suicide. He took a water bucket and stuffed a blanket In it, so if it should fall over it would make no noise. Before kicking the' bucket from under his feet he tied his hands together with - ? ? > LI f Vi nm a string,ana ran uu iiguu vm vuku ?uuui, so as to keep his hands down in nis last struggle* His death was not discovered until the next morning. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. The Maurice Gran French Opera Company is in Cuba. Gavarre, the noted tenor, is going to sing in London during June and July. Rubinstein is the only Russian composer of consequence who makes music a profession. Clara Louise Kellogg and Minnie Hauk are to join forces and ting in opera next season. Dr. vox Bclow, the eminent composer, will conduct the last two London Philharmonic concerts. One of the richest of American actors is Joseph Jefferson, who is reported'to have a fortune of $750,000. Booth and Barrett will dedicate tbe new theatre now in course of construction at Pittsburg, next September. The first regular drama acted in Europe, &ocordiBg to Voltaire, was the "Sophonisba," of Trissim, at Rome, in 1515. Mlle. Blanche Deschamps has sung the role of Carmen at tbe Opera Comique in Paris a hundred times in a twelvemonth. Emma Abbott, operatic artist, says thirteen is her lucky number, and she expects some day to be killed In a carriage accident Mr. Augustine Daly, of New York, is the only manager in America that pays bis company full salaries fifty-two weeks in the fear. J. K. Emmet, tbe German dialect actor, has been made a-life member of the Actor's Fund, in recognition of his gift to that body of $1000. Count Zicht, tbe Hungarian pianist, who has but one arm, having lost the other in an accident while hunting, is giving concerts in Italy with great success. Tschaikowsky is the musical lion of the hour in London. He is a tali, stately Kus?ian,' with gray hair and beard, although only forty-eight years old. Miss Clara Morris invited some seven hundred clergymen to witness "Renee de Moray" at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, in order to judge its morality. Lotta, the popular actress, declares that this has been her best season for some years, and that the net results are nearly 106,000. When her tour finishes she sails for Europe. Daniel Frohman says that the prosperity of '-The Wife" at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, is such that it is likely that a supplementary season will be added to the present one. Something classic in the way of opera is to be attempted in Paris, a correspondent avers, with Sardou as librettist, Massanet as the composer, and the episode of Circe, from the "Odyssey," is the subject. The composer Lecocq compiains mat tie he has not receved one cent from the production of his operas In America. He has written thirty operas, though he is paralyzed and moves about only on crutches. Mme. Patti continues to command large sums for her services. She has been engaged to sing at two concerts in London after her return from South America, and will receive the highest price that has ever been paid for two performances in England. A woman at Argentine, Mich., has terrorized the who!e neighborhood. She keeps firearms in her house to shoot anyone who tries to arrest her; her landlord cannot collect his rent, and no one dares to refuse her anything w aha will till him or set fire to Lris house. At the funeral of John S. Brown,of Shawneetown, 111., at the family residency a floor gave way, throwing the coffin and all the articles of furniture, along with forty mei^ women and children into a deep cellar. A number were hurt, but none dangerously. * ;??.? 'v -- . .... LATER NEWS. Dr. Cornelius R Agnew, the eminent New York physician and specialist, died at his home Wednesday afternoon. He was considered the most skillful oculist in the country. Frederick Hates, aged twelve years, son of the Hon. A. L. Hayes, of Boonville, N.Y., committed suicide by hanging himself from a beam in a barn with a chain. The losiin Minnesota by the recent floods is estimated at $1,003,000, and over 15,000,000 feet of logs. Four persons were inspecting the Creamery at Hazelton, Kan., when the rapidly revolving separator exploded, wounding them all fatally. At Trempealeau, Wis., while five Indians were endeavoring to drag a canoe across a raft of logs the logs parted aud all were drowned. A Chicago syndicate has purchased for $1,000,000 the entire street railway system of Indianapolis. ? The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs has decided to reject the British Fishery Treaty recently negotiate 1 by Secretary Bayard. The bill passed by the Senate for the rel.'ef of Major Daniel N. Bash, Paymaster, U. S. A, the object of which was to release-Major Bash from all liability to the Government! for the loss of $7,350.93, stolen from him at Antelope Springs, Wyoming Territory, has been vetoed by President Cleveland. The English House of Commons has passe i the bill to legalize marriage with the deceased wife's sister. THE NATIONAL GAME; Boston's salary list for this season ii placed at $37,000. No less than ten of the Milwaukee team are total abstainers. The Indianapolis Club claims to have sold $6000 worth of season tickets. Gehrt Denny, the tall third baseman, ii to captain the Indianapolis team. , Pitcher Ferguson, of the Philadelphia? thinks New York will win the pennant Manager Mutrie thinks Crane, of tht New Yorks, will prove to be the speedier! pitcher of the League. Washington can boast of having four er ceedingly clever outfielders in Wiliuot, Shock, Daily and Hoy. Of tha four' League Umpire*?Daniels, Lynch, -Valentin* and Decker?Lynch is the only one new.io the League. * wumern xAKigue iius season wiu buys only four clubs?Charleston, Memphis, Bir mingham and New Orleans. -* President Byrne says the Yale Coll eg* bovs beat anything he ever saw cm the ball field in the matter of physique. An enterprising individual has invented a "catcher's hand-protector,^ which enables back-stops to do without a padded glove. Boston will be strong in the pitcher's department this season. They have Clarkson, Rad bourn, Sowders, Madden and Conway. Pittsburg now has but fourteen men undei contract, the fewest of anv club in the League, and not a single substitute infielder. Baltimore has three left-handed pitchers tn Kilroy, Shaw and Smith. The other pitchers of the club are Cunningham and Harkins. Harry Mitchell, who played in the Chicago reserves in 1884, was the biggest man that ever played balL He was six feet seven inches. He is now a policeman in New York city. Jackson, the tallest man in the baseball profession, measuring six feet four inches in height, who played with the IndianapoHs Leaprfte team the latter pare of last season, has joined the Allentown (Penn.) club. ' Umpire Gaffney, of the League, says: "You can depend upon it that the record of one hour and eight minutes for a game of nine innings win oe surpassed Deiore cue stjawu closes. I expect to umpire one nine-inning game? within an hour." The Boston club this season will prove a better drawing card than ever before. Their twenty-thousand-dollar battery, Clarkson^ and Kelly, and their seven-thousand-flvehundred-dollar pitcher, Sowders, will be advertised all over the country. t. There are to be no less than thirteen baseball organizations in the field this season, viz.: The National League, American Association, International Association, Western Association, Southern Le? gue, New England League, Central League, California League, Tri-state League, Central Interstate League, Texas League, Western League and Central Pennsylvania League. The eight League clubs have 143 men signed - j r*u: DunA/)Atnii{(i or uuuer iwcrvo. v_/uic*v#,u auu x luiauoipiua have 20 men each. New York 19, Detroit and Indianapolis 18, Washington and Pittsburg 17, Boston 14. Philadelphia and Chicago have 7 pitchers each, Detroit and New York 5, and the others clubs 4 each. Only Chicago has more than 4 catchers. The Athletics, of Philadelphia, have 21 men under contract. Interesting in a high degree is the statistical record of the Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869, and som6 of the figures are worth repeating. George Wright played in all the 57 games of the season, and in those games the club made 23Q5 runs, an average of over 42 per game. George made 339 runs and 804 clean hits, with a total of 614. or an average of 5.19 singles with 10.44 totals per game. He averaged a run to every time at bat. He made 49 home runs, Sweeny comic ft next with 80, ?nd Leonard with 21. He did notstrike out once. He put out 117; assisted 179 times. The highest score made by the club in a single gam'e was 103, against the Buckeyes of Cincinnati; the highest number of runs in iA 4.?. 1 1 1 m inn log was 4u; uie numu?r oi uuiuo iuus was 169. But eight men were put out on lirike during the season. The club traveled 11,877 miles in the season, and its games were witnessed by 200.000 doodIo. THE LABOR WORLD. There are over 2000 electric lights in n? in English mines. Italy's linen industry is represented by. 1,000,000 spindles. At Oldham, England, 2300 loms in the velvet mills are idle. J. B. Milroy has been nominated for Governor by the Union Labor Party of Indiana A revolution is promised in the glassjnaking trade by the use of granite, very finely ground. The New Jersey laborers have succeeded in gaining their demand of $2.25 a day, with two exceptions. Out of the 13,000 carpenters in New York City there are little more than one-third of them organized. There is lalk at San Francisco, Cal.,of importing 3000 girls from Europe to work as servants in that city. The San Francisco Girls' Association iustructs young women in household duties and furnishes girls to families. A single blast at Fair Haven, Vt, recently moved a block cf slate 60 feet long, 40 feet wide and 20 feet thick. The tubular axle works at McKeesport, Penn., has been put on double turn, giTing employment to (500 more men. The LTahoning Valley Iron Company, of Youngstown, Ohio, intend to erect a blast furnace that will cost $150,030. About 15,000 young women are employed in downtown New York business offices in one clerical capacity or another. A company with a capital of $1,000,000 is being established at Anniston, Ala., to build an ice factorv and cold storage p'ant Hungarians are nearly all leaving the Connellaville (Penn.) coke regions. YVages have recently been reduced three per cent. The Standard Oil Company is contemplating the purchase of 200 miles of natural gas pipe to build lines from gas fields to manufacturing centers. Delegates from ten States, representing 30,000 textile workers, met in Philadelphia recently and organized a national trade district of Knights of Labor. The only slate-pencil factory in the United States is at Castleton, Vt., near the beds. Thirty thousand pencils are made daily. One man sharpens 800 a day on an emery belt The authorities at Kalamazoo, Micb., It b stated, have secured a wholesale rate from a restaurant keeper, whereby hungry tramps will be led for sixty cents a dozen. - . : ; ; ' T " " "v V> .'?j ' '' ' '--V . ; ?vrcft9?3g^^H| ' . M THE FEUIT CROP. H ??? ' y..-^ ' Indications from all Parts of ttoe Conn try?The Vegetable Supply. ~.'9| The officers of the Missouri State horticultural societies furnish reports of the present condition of the fruit crop in practically all ^HE the fruit-raising sections of the entire cotrn- g| try. Peaches are rated at 'about half a crop, pears will be light, the apple crop, particularJy in the West and South, will be much HE larger than last year, bnt New York and other Eastern States will yield lightly. The East, however, will have plenty of ofheir fruits. mj The strawberry crop will be the lightest ftt " BH ten years. Missoury. Kentucky, Tennessee, |H and Arkansas will have about half a crop. Mississippi has a fair crop; Texas enough for . |H home use; while the Louisiana crop has been - groati y injured by rain. The grape crop promises to be better than for several , years. 9H The vegetable supply of the West and H South will be large as compared with last year's output, ana the Western markets are already crowded by Southern shippers with H the crops maturing this early. Unfa vorable weather is, however, reducing the J supply to some extent in several 01 toe wuwera States, but enough will remain to supplythe demand. A WEST VIRGINIA TBAGEDY. ' ' A Wife and Three Children Murdered and the Murderers Killed. A man named Jacob Haller, who lived in Calhoun County, W. Va., about forty mile* ^ ; from Charleston, had been to market with a " y drove of cattle. He had disposed of his stock and was returning - home. when a pedier named Treeda offered . to accompany him. They soon reached Haller's house, and seeing a light in the window they approached and looked in. The . siffht which met their ease almost froze with terror the Wood in their veins. Lying on the floor, weltering in their blood, lay Mr*. Hal* ler and her three children, all dead, while in the same room were fourstrahge men engaged in plundering the premises. The pedler drew his pistol and writ his companion around to make a noise at the back door, while be stood near the front. ??} Haller soon rattled the back door and the four men rushing out at the front entrance were shot by the pedJer as fast as they appeared Three or the four were killed and the fourth fatally wounded. PBOMDnBNT PEOPLE. Mas: Gabjbld's income is ISO,000 a year. Tax Queen of Italy has been photographed 103 timea Governor Hill's father was the captain ? of a canal boat It is said that the Carman Emperor, when a boy, learned the trade of cabinet making. Skwaxo&Hoab delivered the oration of "k the day at the centennial celebration at Marietta, Ohio. Qvras Victoria travel* as the "Counts* q Balmoral," bnt her baggage la TTi*r{r*<y .-J "Qneen of England." , ^ Thi ex-Qneen of Naples, who lives ia . France, has a large stable of hones and devotee her time to racing. . ' ' ~ Gladstone is preparing a reply to Robert' G. Ingersoll's attack on religion,' to Be published in an American magazine. '' Ross Elizabeth Olevelaitd, sister of thePresident, denies that she is doing any work for pubHcataoa Her penis busy on lectures* . for her pupils. United States Senator Mobmjx, of ' > Vermont, has just celebrated his seventy- ; eighth birthday. He has been a Senator fortwenty-one years. Judge Gresham's greatest happiness i* found in overlooking bus farm near Indianapolis. He is an especially good judge of the points of fine porkers. The tallest man in the United 8 ta teaSenate is Blodgett, of New Jersey. He is six feet four. Mr. Spooner, of Wisconsin, is the- . shortest man in the Saute. ; ; Mrs. Harriet R. ScHATTPCK, president of the recent Women* Convention at Wash- ington, lives in a charming nook at the edge of Middlesex Falls, the great forest park north of Boston. Coukt Zang, who died in Vienna a few weeks ago, made a fortuneof $8,000,000 by tne sale or Vienna bread, mire: ue opened the first shop.iff Paris for the prodnction of Vienna bread, and the bakery still exists. Oscar Wilde is described by a lady whorecently saw the former apostle of kneebreeches and long tresses as a brawny, wellknit giant of 6 feet, with a heavy face and an abundance of adipose tissue. He is sleek and silken-mannered, bat not over-careful of his dress. Thi Czar of Russia is said to do much more work than any.of his Ministers, and. >, can be found at his desk at almost any hoar of the day. He rises before any of his household, attends mass every morning, and is A scrupulously exact in the performance of all his religious duties. Mas. Mart A. Lowkaic, the new Mayor of Oskaloosa. Kan., is forty-nine rears old * and has led a busy life. She was formerly & school teacher and for nearly five years hasbeen chief clerk in the office .of the County Register of Deeds. She is the mother of two * - . children, a son and a daughter, each of whom is of adult age. Mazzantint, the noted Spanish bullfighter, now in Mexico, is a man of fine education, having been graduated .with honors* .. few years ago from a college in Rome. Hewas for a time the private secretary of one of' the confidential advisers of King Amadeus, of Spain. He is a first-class telegraph operator, was successful as a railroad man, is a good singer, and has no rival as the best bullA/ytifoi* it* fha rflt VlA ft fWlIV 2& I45?w* iu vug nv*iu~W4W . ww ^ , , t _ years o!<L v The fact is pointed out that many of the most brilliant men and women in American literature are crowing old and cannot hope for many more years of active work; Lowell is 70. Parke Godwin, 72; Joel T. Headley, Washington's historian, Is 74; "Mrs. Partington," 75; while Francis Parkman, the historian; Dr. Holmes, Mr. Whitfier, Dr. McCosh, Theodore Woolsey, Margaret Preston, George Bancroft and many others are far advanced in life. T1IE MARKETS. 16 *EW TORK. Beef, good to prime. 1 @ JX Calves, common to prime? 8 @ 10 Bheep J. Lambs K Hogs?Live 5 ?2, ^ Dressed 3% Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 55 & 4 75 West, good to choice 2 45 (?1 3 00 Wheat?No. 2 Red - @ 93% *** /a r,Q Rye-State g Barley?State.. ... * p | 70 Corn-Ungraded Mixed.... 6. | <0 OatB?White State (\ Mixed Western ? w Lard-City Steam 4 ?? S Butter-State Creamery.... <g g Westim.' Creamery 20 @ 22 Factor? ? @ Cheese-State Factory 10 @ 13 Skim* JK g * Western 1\X ? ; Eggg?State and Penn -- ? buffalo. Steers?Western 4 35 @4W Bheeiv?Good to Choice 5 0 J @6 0? Lambs?Western ? @ 7 00 Hoes?Good to Choice Yorks 5 55 @ 0 10 Flour?Family 4 03 (g 4 50 Wheat-No. 1 ? & ?, ? Corn?5a a, Mixed 57 <| Oats?No. 2, Mixed 36 @ 3? Barley?State. S8 & bostow. Beef?Good to choice . $ Hogs?Liive v Northern Dressed.... 7 Pork?Ex. Primo. per bbL.. 14 TO @16 75 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 70 @ 4 95 Corn-High Mixed. O5}?0 0i Oats?Extra White 44K@ 45\4 * 4 Rye?State 60 .1 WATERTOW.V (MASS.) CATTLE KAR^Er Beef- Dressed weight 7>^@ 7% , Sheep?Live weight 0 @ Lamb j 6 @ ii% Hogs?Northern. 6;i@ 7 PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn. extra family... 8 75 @ 3 85 Wlieat?No. 2, Red 94>??, 9)%'Corn?State Yellow &8%<.<5 59 Oate?Mixed...., 40 <g) 40}^ ,.j Rye?State. 52)f @ 58 Butter?Creamery Extra... ? & 27 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 13