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9 ~TOTOMA IN BERLIfl. The Queen of England Visits Her Afflicted Son-in-Law. Cordially Welcomed, but No Enthusiam Shown. Queen Victoria arrived in Berlin at 8-45 Tuesday morning, coining direct from Munich. She was received at the station by the Empress Victoria, the Crown Prince William, Prince Henry and the four Princesses, daughters of the Empress. All entered the royal saloon car as the train stopped, and embraced the Queen. The Crown Prince gave nis arm 10 tne vueen, assisted her to alight from the car, ana escorted her to the carriage. i The Queen bowed to a select few who were permitted to remain on the platform, among them the British Ambassador and his wife, and Private Secretary of the Dowager Empress Augusta, who, owing to infirmities, was unable to be present The party descended the stairs, which were car peted and decked with flowers, and ea- i tered carriages. They proceeded to the castle of Charlottenburgin the following order: The Queen, the Empress, Princess Beatrice and the Crown Prince William in the first carriage. Prince Henry and sisters in the second carriage. The route to Charlottenburg was lined with people, who cheered with some enthusiasm as the carriages passed, but as the party drew near to the castle the cheering subsided, and finally ceased altogether, oat of fear of disturbing the Kaiser. So the One*n and her dauchter entered Che palace in silence. There was in the whole reception no more ceremony than the ordinary and daily etiquette of the Court required. This was strictly in accordanoe with tiic wishes of the Queen" The Emperor rose early, and the arrival of Qcieen Victoria having been announced, passed into one of the salons to meet her. As the Queen entered he gravely bowed a welcome, making no attempt to 6peak. This mute welcome deeply touched the Queen. Al ter a brief interview the Emperor withdrew to his apartments. The Queen and the Empress, her daughter, drove to the Royal Palace in the city (Turing the afternoon and took tea with the Dowager Empress Augusta. The Queen received Prinoe Bismarck at noon, and later she visiied the British Embassy. The North German Gazette, which is the recognized official Court newspaper, referring to the visit of the Queen of England, ays: "Her Majesty will be welcomed by the whole population or Germany, and, above all, by the inhabitants of Berlin, with the veneration and sympathy so justly due oae who has for many years ruled a friendly State and who is the mother of our Empress. All German hearts will thankfallv accent as a token of the Queen's deep sympathy for the fate of our reigning house the fact that she comes to the sick bed of our beloved Emperor, and personally shares tbe deep affliction and great anxiety with which we are filled today. May she be enabled to bring comfort and hope, and, when she departs from Germany, to take with her the assurance that the sympathy she has displayed will always be kept in grateful remembrance here." A NAVAL RESERVE, .Secretary Whitney Points Oat the Importance of the Plan. In a letter written to the Naval Reservs Bub- Committee of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, Secretary Whitney has declared himself earnestly in favor of the establishment of a naval reserve. The necessity for the maintenance of a naval reserve, the Secretary says, is universally recognized at the present day. No nation main tains a standing army and navy adequate to defence. All of them rely upon reserves and noon the Drenaration previously made for expanding quickly from a peace to a war basis. The maintenance of a naval reserve, he asserts, is a measure of oconomy. Under such a system a body of men supporting themselves by ordinary civil pursuits is enrolled and maintained by the Government sufficiently for its purpose in the event of war at comparatively small expense. England, he says, maintains, with an annual expenditure of less than $2,? 000,000, an auxiliary naval force twice as large as the entire American navy. The suggestion that anaval reserve'should be established, the Secretary continues, has awakened the greatest interest in all parte of the country. He concludes his letter by saying: "In the judgment of the department it is both necessary and economical that the Government should have in reserve a fleet of auxiliary merchant ships, previously prepared with, the necessary fittings for in# ctant conversion into cruisers, which would ka Avntlaltla nnnn a m/vmonf^B nn_ CAVA? uv aTWiavio ujwu ? ? **w tl? for use by the Government in time of war." , , THE NATIONAL GAME. I St. Lotus is claiming the world's championship. , Ewing will again captain the New Yorks this season. Wilkksbarbi's new grounds will be the beet in the Central League. 1 Of the left-handed pitchers the League has even and the Association eleven. Tony Mvllans, of the Cincinnatis, can pitch a good game with either hand. Con DALLy, recently released by the Bostons, has signed a contract with Indianapolis. Pitcher Radbourne is to get $100 for -every game Boston win3 with him in the box. ^ Temperance Worker Francis Mcrphy xuia uiuucea IDS .Louisville Club to sign the pledge. The Cleveland uniform is iadigo colored trousers and shirt, with navy blue stockings, belts and caps. President Young,of the National League, flunks a baseball player ought to be in his prime at forty years of age. Ryan, of the Chicagos, is developing into a pitcher. Anson says that the center fielder it equally valuable in the field as in the box. In the Association games umpired by Gaffney betakes a position behind the pitcher when men are oa bases. It is said to work well. .... 4 Rev. Dr. Talxage witnessed the game between the Brooklya and Wiliiams College nines, this being the first he has ever attended. * The largest number of games ever credited to a ball player in any one season wa? Sam Thompson, or the Detroits, last season, as he participated in 184. ?* i Paul Eaton, of Washington, is the author of comic opera entitled, "Angela, or the Umpire's Revenge." The villain is a first baseman and the hero an umpire. Connor has the best batting average in the New York team for last season. His percentage was. 3S2. Ward is next with .371. Connor also made the longest hit. Tot* rSnninrtoft O v. A _ ? v.uvmu??i 4 iKtCO-UbUI U09 UUC1CU 9 line gold medal for the Cincinnati player making the highest percentage of runs during the coming championship season. Krock, of the Chicagos, and Ed Crane of the New Yorks, are counted the speediest pitchers in the country. Young George, of the New Yorks, ranks very near them. A Princeton College student is believed to have discovered curve pitching. Cu turnings, of Brooklyn, was the first twirler, however, to make a study of the science. The Cleveland team come pretty near ranking as giants. There is only one small man on the nine, and four?Faatz, Stemmeyer, Zimrner and Snyder?reach six feet or over. Al Spalding, of Chicago, will take twenty-six ball players to Australia next fall and Introduce our National game there. The placers will also have to be adepts at foot ball Eua cncser. The Cincinnati club have challenged the Detroits for another series of games in Jhe fall, the winners of a majority of the garnet to take a purse of $2,000, Each club is to . (take $1,000 on the result. Dorgan was released by New York for two reasons. The club believed it had secured more valuable men, and. moreover, Dorgan wished to remain in Syracuse and probably manage the club of that city. William Sowders, Boston's new pitcher, Is one of seven brothers, all of whom ore good ball players, five of them playing professionally the present season. Their home is > tn Indianapolis, and they usei to go out on the commons?taking the old man and one of the youngsters along to fill out a nine?and plqy the amateur clubs of the town. V 'V. ' " "~ THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Pastern and Middle State*. Andrew Carnegie has resumed opera tions in his great Pittsburg steel works with non-union men. refusing to treat any longer with his striking employes. He employs about 5000 men. Impressive funeral services were held in honor of the late Roseoe Conkling at Trinity Chapel, New York, after which the remains were taken to Utica by special train and there interred. William B. Dins more, founder of the Adams Express Company, and late President of the corporation, died recently at his home in New York city, in his seventy-eighth year. The famous trotting horse. Dexter, whose speed record was unbroken for so long, died recently at the New York stable of Robert Bonner, his owner. Mr, Bonner paid $35,000 lor the horse. Two men were kilted and three injured by I the explosion of a tug boat on Newtown Creek, opposite W iUiamsburg. N. Y. Rear-Admiral Charles S. Boggs, a valiant officer in tbe United States Navy, has r; died at fcis home in New Brunswick, J., aged seventy-eight years. Brigadier General William Dwight, of the United States Army, who was chief of staff under General Banks during the Civil War, died Saturday at Boston, Mass. Treasurer Wells, of the Seneca Falls j (n. x.) savings uanK, isaaeiauiser m me sum of $10,000 and has been arrested. His peculations -extend through a period of ten years. ^truth and West. Natoleox B. Lester, has been hanged at Lebanon, Tenn.,for the murder of Pension Agent Lane. Is Portland. Oregon, a dwelling occupied by the family of Fred Stoker caught fire from the explosion of a coal oil can. Mrs. Stoker was severely burned. Her fivemonths-old baby was burned to death and \ she herself died the next day from aa over- ; dose of morphine administered by & physi- i cian. A posse of Kansas citizens pursued a bund 1 of horse-thieves and surrounded them in the j Indian Territory. A fight ensued in which I one of the posse was killed. The entire gang of marauders was finally captured, and eight of them either hanged or Bhot. The Bethel flome, a cheap St. Louis ; lodging-house, was burned, and in it per- ! i6hed three men, and four others were sent j to ths hospital dangerously injured. The watchman of the building displayed great heroism in rescuing a cripple. A farmer of Cabool, Mo., named Lh&en&, became violently insane, and locking his family in the house proceeded to kill every member. He brained two of his children, aged 9 and 11 years, with an axe. Meanwhile hi* wife, with two younger children, escaped through a window. The maniac then cut his own throat with a pocket knife, and died beside his children. Philip Held, of Lemara, Iowa, killed his mother after a quarrel over a horse trade, and then committed suicide. The entire business portion of Summit. Miotu, was destroyed bv fire, causing a loss of $250,000. |The Tillage of Branchville, Va?, has been totally destroyed by flra A destructive cyclone visited Duquoin, 111, demolishing numerous barns and dwellings, and injuring a large number of people. Two men were killed, one fatally injured uada number hurt by an explosion of dynamite in a lumber camp near Baraga, Mich. John Pabson's wife and child were Killed by lightning, at Centreville, Ky. J. T. Boutwell, Treasurer of Orange bounty, Ind., has disappeared, leaving his iccounts short $8000. Georgia prohibitionists in oonvention at Atlanta, elected delegates to the National Prohibitiom Convention who were instructed :o vote for General Clinton B. Fisk, of New Jersey, for President, and George Bain, of Kentucky, for Vice-President B. F. Boydstox shot Miss Lulu Frazier at hooper, Texas, and then blew out his brains, rhey were engaged to be married last Saturlay, when the young lady incensed him by postponing the wedding. Washington. Bills approved by the President: The act for the erection of a public building at Texirkana, the act for the purchase of. the words of the late General James Shields, I the act for a Qublie building at Birmingham, A.la., the act for the construction of a revenue cutter for Charleston, S. C.,?tc. The total number of bills and resolutions introduced in the United States Senate and House up to late date was 12,568, exceeding by more than 2000 the number presented in the first 100 days of the last Con gress. Ho iar tbe nouse naa passea duis, and the Senate 881; and 155 House bills and twenty-four Senate bills have been sent to the President for hiB approval. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has gone to Washington She was met at the station by Mrs. Cleveland, and was driven direct to the White House, where she will remain for some time as the guest of the President. The Pension Appropriation Bill, as passed by the House, appropriates $80,280,000. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Thomas L. Turn stall, of Alabama, to be Consul at San Salvador. In response to Secretary Fairchild's proposition to buy Government bonds, $r,824,t>00 were offered him,but he only purchased $85,000, at prices ranging from 121 to 125. President Cleveland has promised to attend the reunion of the Frencn Canadian societies in Nashua, N. H, on June 38. The President has vetoed three more Pension bills, among them House Bill No. tTftntinsr a nension to Hannah C. De witt, on the ground that he had already approved an act the precise duplicate of it, which was passed by Congress earlier in the session, ana becaus3, in coasaquence thereof, the name of the beneficiary, in both cases, is already on the pension rolls. Frederick Raine, United States Consul General at Berlin, has given notice of his intended resignation. It is his intention to return to Baltimore and assume control of the German Correspondent, a daily newspaper owned by him in that city. Dr. E. H. Bryan, the American Consul at Lyons, France, has resigned, an l will be succeeded by Lauson V. Moore, the present Vice-Consul. The Senate lias confirmed the following nominations: W. T. Walthall, of Mississippi, Consul at Demarara; James B. Coffin, of i Massachusetts, Consul at St. Helena; James B. Chess, of Indiana, Consul at Durango; \ Ezekiel E. Smith, of North Carolina, Minister Resident and Consul-General to Liberia. Foreign. A despatch from Berlin says that an external ulcer has developed on the neck of the Emperor. Two internal abscesses were clearly visible. The town of San Fernando, in the Philippine Islands has been partly destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $1,000,000. Tl*e Hon. Thomas White, Canadian Minister of the Interior, is dead. As affray has occurred between Turks and Christians at Khania, Turkey. One Christian was killed and his body mutilated and one Turk was wounded. Five hundred Mussulmans threatened the Governor and the Christian inhabitants, but ten of the ringleaders were arrested and quiet was restored Count Herbert Bismarck has been appointed German Minister of Foreign Affairs. At Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Captain Ramon Arguelles, of the Mexican Army, becoming enraged during dinner with Adolfo Torres, a railway clerk, threw a wine glass in his face. Later in the day, the two meeting, Arguelles fired upon itirres, wonndinz him fatally. After falling the wounded man fired twice, instantly killing Arguelles about 1500 students assembled In Paris and marched to the Louvre,shouting: "Down with Boulanger!" where they attacked tho newspaper offices. The Boulangerist party, foTlowina nt.tn<-?!'aH t.hpi sfaiffonta with sticks, and many were wounded. Finally the police separated the combatants, and arrested a large number of them. A crowd of five hundred persons rescued a prisoner who had been arrested for attending a Land League meeting at Abbeyfeale, Ireland, and stoned the police. Fifteen officers were injured, four of them severely. The police were subsequently re-enforced and arrested fire of their?assailants. A party of student* held an anti-Boulangerist meeting in Paris and General Boulanger was burned in effigy. What is a great life? An aspiration of youth realized by age^?De Vigny. i ?? i?fc????>? ? ONE YEAR'S. FIREl Record of Losses in the United States During 1887. Amount of Property Destroyed Larger than Usual, The fire statistics, annually compiled by the Chronicle of New York City, are published for the current year. These records of fires and losses are the only elaborate ones kept, and are prepared in the interest of fire Insurance companies. The Chronicle reports 16,394 noteworthy fires in the United States during 1887, an increase of 1172 over 18S6. The valoe of the property burned was $119,2O9jS80?jan .ncrease "of $14,2^4,030 over 18S0. id? average loss by each fire was $7272, against $6760 in lb81 About 58 per cent, of the whole loss is estimated to have been returned to fire-sufferers by the insurance oompanies. The remaining 42 per cent, was on nnmsured property. The fire loss <*f the year was divided as follows: la New England, 10.6millions; in the Middle States, 31.4 millions; in the Southern States, 24.6; in the Western States, 42.3 millions; in tbe Pacific States and Territories. 10.4 millions. In the Middle, Southern and Western States the fire Joes was considerably above the normal average; in tbe other sections it was about DOimal. 'Hie Chronicle concludes that in t!te older sections of the United States, taking one year with another, there is no alarming _ growth in the destruction fey fire,' but in the South and West it is growing up with the country. The first quarter of 1887 was less disastrous as regards fires than the corresponding period of 1886; after that the losses were much heavier, the fire record of November being the largest of the year. Over $87,000,000 was lost on property where fires originated. Tbe rest of the $lli>,/MYI WAS Wf An nviAnot'f'.Tf hr PT WV|VW W?K> iVO V wu vj MWV? -J ? posure. Incendiarism and defective flues are reported an the chief causes of fires,the former leading. About 21 per cent of the fires of known origin are-said to have been incendiary. A brief examination of the principal fire causes, as distributed by States, shows that fires from incendiarism and defective fiues were most frequent in Onio and Indiana; from spontaneous combustion most numerous in Illinois, New York and Massachusetts; from lightning most frequent .in Pennsylvania, Indiana and New York; from miscellaneous sparks most frequent in Illinois and Missouri; from friction in machinery most numerous in Illinois, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania; from stationery engines and boilers most numerous in New York and Pennsylvania; from matches most frequent in Massachusetts, Illinois and Pennsylvania; from explosions of lanros and lanterns most freJiuont in New York, Pennsylvania and Caliornia; forest and prairie fifes most numerous in Arkansas, California and Illinois, and firee from locomotive sparks most frequent in Illinois and Missouri. The year 1887 was not a disastrous one in the agricultural districts, tbe list of distinctively agricultural risks burned being shorter than 1886. The burning or mercantile and manufacturing property was largely in excess of the recoord lit 1880. The loss of human live3 by fires was also much larger than during any other year in which a rechad been keDt. A HEAVY EARTHQUAKE. More Than Four Thousand People Killed in a Chinese Province. A steamer just arrived in San Francisco brings the following official details of a terrible earthquake in the Province of Yunnan as reported to the Governor of Yunnan by the Prefect of Lin An with Chi Hiens of Ship Ping and Kien Shui Ko. From the second day of the twelth month of the last year till the third day of this there were over ten shocks of eartquake, accompanied with a noise like thunder. Yamende, in the cities of Ship Ping and Kien Shui, were either knocked down or split right down, and temples likewise. In Ship Pinsr eight or nine-tenths of the honse8 in the south are falling down and half of those in the east; in the northwest a thousand being cracked or bent out of the per- , pendicular, 200 people, men and women, old and young, being crushed to death. The wounded and injured number over 300. At Tung Hiang over 800 were crushed to death, and about 700 or 80$ wounded. At Nan Hiang there are over 200 dead and over 400 injured. At Si Hiang there are over 200 dead and over 500 injured. About 100 killed and the same number injured at Peh Hiang. (The four places last named are suburbs.) > In the town and suburbs over 4000 people are either killed or wounded, eight or ninetenths of the bouses fallen down and the rest cracked and leaning over. At Kein Shui, in the city, seven were killed and many wounded^ In the northwest suburb 300 to 40J houses were overturned, 249 people killed and 150 or 160 wounded. NEWSY &LEATO&3, ' The increase in peanut consumption last year was over 6,000,000 bushels. The world's annaal consumption of wheat is estimated at 2,105,030,000 bushels. The German postal museum is said to have the largest stamp collection in existence. Laurel, DeL, proudly claims to be tha , largest fruit-shipping station in the world. A late estimate places th9 number of Sunday-school pupils in the world at 16,447,m. . Omaha expects to build a corn palace next fall that will be one of the wonders of the world. ( By the capsizing of a boat near Boitzen- , burg, on the Rhine; nine persons were , drowned. Several million young shad are to be < hatched in South Carolina and placed in the Congaree river. The chief clerk of the treasury at Athens, Greece, has been arrested for embezzling {1,000,000 of the public funds. The South African diamond fields last year fielded gems amounting to 3,640,899 carats find valued at over $20,000,000. ) It is credibly stated that soap, water and scrubbing,in the cleansing of its cars,cost the rennsyivania nanruau a year. Legrand, the wealthy Paris cooper who bought a decoration from M. Wilson, has been expelled from the Legion d'Honneur. Nearly 100,000 seals are reported as having been caugnt the last season off the Newfoundland coast, the largast catch for years. General Booth, the Salvation Army leader, is one of the sharpest business men in England and has accumulated a large fortune. Work on the Panama Canal goes on fast now, and it is thought that ships will pass through on the date fixed by Count de 1 Lesseps. The town of Bessemer, Ala., which has grown in a twelve-month from nothing to 3000, has just indulged in a rousing birthday ; celebration. South Carolina has a sensation in the shape, of its first woman candidate?Hiss ; Eliza Garneth, who aspires to be school com- i missioner of Union county. Lee Jerome, a waiter in a hotel at Wich- j ita, Kan., has married Mrs. Hettie Zimmerly, j a widow worth #500,000, whom he waited on at the table for nine months. i Twexty-eight people over eighty years old died in Philadelphia during one week recently?sixteen men and twelve women. The oldest was ninety-three years 6f age. The consumption of coal on the large ocean steamers varies from 300 to 350 tons i per day. This applies to all the different fast vessels of the CunarJ, Guion and White Star lines. Robert Mills, who before the war had some $3,000,000 in land and slaves, and was known in Texas fs the "Duke of Brazoria, ', died in poverty at Galveston lately, aged 70 years. There are2,917,S15 Baptists in the United States. The denomination owns f48,5tW,Gi>(i worth of property, and last year gave $8,937,491,30 to all objects. It has 20,417 ministers and 31,891 churches. At a late election. Kansas City voters who cast their ballots for T. .Robinson, thinking to elect a male fellow citizen, were astounded to find that instead they had made a councilman of Mrs. Tina Robinson, his wife. -.r"^Vv""; BPMMABY OF 00MBE33. Senate Proceedings. 80th Day.?The Chace Copyiight bill- was discussed... .The House bill prohibiting the making (in Washington or Georgetown) of "books'1 or "pools" on the result of trotting or runningraces, boat races, or baseball was passed....The Senate resumed consideration of the bill to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroads. After discussion the bill was laid aside without action.... Senate bill for the registry of three foreign built barges, owned in Sonth Amboy, N. J., and Hou9e bill for the sale of certain New York lands in Kansas were passed.... Cigarette smoking was discussed in the Senate. Senator Chace, of Rhode Island, presented a long petition relating to the sale of cigarettes and tobacco to minors under sixteen years of age in the District of Columbia. Mr. Chace went at some length Into the merits of the matter, stating his belief that the young generation was being ruined by the cigarette "habit." He wanted the petition with its signatures printed in the Congressional Record, which was agreed to.... Senator Beck introduced a bill Drovidine for the formation of a com mission to select a tract of land, not more than one hundred acres in extent, along the shores of Rock Creek, a stream separating Washington from Georgetown, such land to be used for the purposes of a zoological park. 81st Day.?A bill was placed on the calendar to provide for the erection of public buildings for postoffices in towns and cities where the postoffice receipts for three years preceding nave exceeded ftiOOO annually ? A resolution was offered directing the Civil Service Commissioners to furnish lists of all persons certified for appointment to the Patent Office from March 4, 1885,to March. 1888. Also lists of those selected and appointed.... The substitute proposed for the bill to provide for the establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry was considered....The Copyright bill was debated and went over The Senate then went into Executive session and passed a number of pension bills. 82d Day.?The following bills were placed on the calendar: To relieve certain appointed and enlisted men of the Navy ana Marine Corps from the charge of desertion: to enlarge the powers and duties of the Department of Agriculture ? The House ameniment to the bill giving a pension of $100 a month to the widow of General Ricketts (reducing it to $75) was non-concurred in, and a committee of conference ordered... .A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for the reports of Special Agents Beecher and Tingle as to the alleged smuggling of opium from British Columbia. The motion to refer the President's message was taken up. and Mr. Voorbe?s addressed the 8enate on the subject ...The bill to forfeit unearned land grants was laid aside without action! -House Proceeding*. 93d Day.?The Senate bill was passed authorizing the Kansas City, Texarkana and Gulf Railroad Company to construct bridges over the Red and Little Rivers in Arkansas .... The House resumed the consideration of the Indian Appropriation Bill, the pending question being on the motion of Mr. Randall to strike out the Choctaw judgment section. The motion was lost, and tne bill was passed ... .A Dill was re r erred ro me private calendar to place General W. F. Smith on the retired list with the rank of Major General .... The consideration of the Pension Appropriation Bill was begun by Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, making a lengthy speech, in favor of a full appropriation. The Pension Bill was then passed.... The Committee of the Whole went into the consideration of the River and Harbor Appropriation Bill, by paragraphs. 94th Day.?fhe Dunn Free Snip bill has been favorably reported....The Breckenridge Copyright bill was placed on the calendar .... The House then went into Committee of the Whole for the consideration of the River and Harbor Appropriation MIL The opponents of the bill made a strong fight to postpone its consideration but were unsuccessful - in the endeavor. Mr. Randall's amendment appropriating $250,000 for the improvement of the Philadelphia harbor was passed. 95th Dat.?A resolution was introduced accepting in behalf of the House of Representatives the invitation to participate in the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington, to be held In New York April 80, 1889?A bill was presented to execute certain treaty stipulations prohibiting Chinese immigration?A resolution was referred directing the Committee on Merchant Marine and Flsheri-s to fully and thoroughly investigate the fur seal fisneries of Alaska, and all contracts and leases made by the Government with any persons or companies for taking fur seals. Also a resolution calling on tne Secretary of the Treasury for information relative to the fur seal fish erie* of Alaska?A good part of the day was spent by the House in the discussion of items in the River and Harbor bill for the improvement of Texas harbors, especially that of Galveston, for which the sum of $600,000 is recommended by the Committee ?1500,000 for the entrance to the harbor,and 1100,000 for improving the ship channel in Galveston Bay.... The House passed with an amendment the Senate bill granting a pension to the widow of the late Major-General J. B. Ricketts. The Senate voted a pension of $100 per month, and the House cut the amount down to $75 per month. 96th Day.?The Committee oa Elections submitted the report in the contested election case of Frank against Glover,from the IXth Congressional District of Missouri. It finds the contest?*, Mr. Glover, entitled to the seat.... The Committea on Foreign Affairs, reported Senate joint resolution appropriating $30,000 to enable the United States to pnrticipate in the International Exposition at Brussels, Belgium....The Committee on Commerce reported back a resolution for the investigation'of the strike on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad....A bill was passed authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to award a gold medal of the first class to Captain Thomas Sampson, of New York City, for rescuing five boys from drowning The House then went into Committee of the Whole. Mr. Springer, of Illinois, in the chair, on the Tariff bill. Mr. Reed tried to come to some arrangement with Mr. Mills as to the time to be devoted to the Tariff bill, but pending the discussion the House adjourned. 97th Day.?The House went into Committee of the Who'e (Mr. Springer, of Illinois, in the chair) on the Tariff bill....Mr. Bynum, of Indiana, spoke in favor' of the Mill's bill ....Messrs, Browne and Dockery spoke in opposition to tariff reduction The Committee on Appropriations reported the bill making an appropriation of $150,253 to enable executive departments to participate in the Centennial Exhibition to be held in Cincinnati next July? The House then took a recejs until S o'clock, and devoted the evening session to further debate on the Tariff bilL . ' KE70LT IN BOUMAUIA, Terrible Outrages by the Peasants, and Soldiers Kill Many of Them. The revolt of the peasants in Rouraania shows no signs of subsiding. It is believed, however, that the measures adopted by the Government will speedily suppress the rising. The Telegraful says that if the Government desires to effectually quell the revolt it should demand the immediate recall of M. Hitrovo, the Russian Minister, whom he accuses of originating the ; rising. The revolt was widespread. The peasants destroyed houses and property in most villages. The houses of landowners and farmers were sacked and wrecked, granaries pillaged, and local officials ! barbarously treated, a number of them being killed. The territorial troops joined in the pillage, and fired upon the troops of the line. Since instruc ' tions were sent to the troops to adopt severe 1 measures for the suppression of the revolt a ' host of the insurgents have been killed and wounded or taken prisoners. The prisoni ttre crowded. i TERRIBLE MINE EXPLOSION. ' Seventeen Men Killed Ontrlcht and Many Fatally Burned. ( An explosion which occurred Friday 1 evening in St, Helen colliery at Workington, England, killed twenty-two men and injured several others. Almost the whole population of the mining town of Workington assembled around th( mouth of the shaft, where they remained all night. Most agonizing scenes occurred when th< i bodies of dead husbandi and fathen were brought to the surface. Many ol the bareheaded women and children had at some time or other previously lost a friend or relative from accidents in the pit, bul this was the most terrible blow that has faller on the town. The dead have been brought to the surface, ; but many of the injured have been so se- i verely injured that they will die, whish will i probably run the total loss of life up to forty. ; : -??' /' .. r*..*' ' *x~ iC ' TRAIN BOBBEBS KILLED. | American Bandits Hunted to their Death in Mexico. Biddled with Bullets as They Attempted to Escape, Captain Burns has returned to San Francisco from hunting the Stein's Pass train robbers in Mexico. From Sheriff Paul he heard the details of the deaths of the desperadoes Sheehan, Hart and Johnson. While the United States Marshal of Arizona and his deputies were locked up inSonora jail for crossing the frontier without permission Sheriff Paul appeared before the Governor of Chihuahua and asked for extradition papers to hunt the robbers in Mexico. Paul and Deputy Price went to Chihuahua and learned that th<j robbers had fitted out at that point. Johnson had been arrested before on suspicion of train robbing, but was released for lack of evidence. He swore to set even with the American authorities. In pursuance of bis plan be went to Chihuahua and induced Hart and Sbeehan to join him in the robbery. They bought rifles and horses and struck out in a northwesterly direction to the Southern Pacific. The distance from Chihuahua to Stein's Pass is 400 miles. Sheriff Paul suspected the robbers would return by the same route and decided to meet them. The Mexican authorities detailed a sergeant and four soldiers to assist the Sheriff. About one hundred and twenty-five miles from Chihuahua they learned that the robbers had been seen passing north and he determined to await their return. He posted men in tbe brush near a ranch and waited. At dusk a Mexican reported that the three robbers were eating supper in the house. The Mexican offered to secure their rifles. He found two and brought them out- then he returned for the thira. He found it on shelf, and just as he took it tho robbers entered and asked what he was doing with the rifle. He made some excuse, but the robbera an/1 irnnM nnf Inf. him looVA ! VU9]A}WbCUUlUI ouu ttviyu uvw *v w ?? .... ?via ?v the room. The Sheriff, alarmed at the Mexican's long absence, approached with his men and stationed them so as to command all tb? doors. The sergeant saw the robbers and rushed to the door as they closed it. He Eushed it open and was shot through the eart The robbers dragged the body inside and barred the door. Sheriff Paul ordered the men not to fire in the house, fearing to kill the friendly Mexican, and thereby [arouse the hostility of the neighborhood. Placing hi* men on guard he sent for the Alcalde of the district, who arrived with armed men. When the Alcalde learned that a soldier had been kilied be ordered the robbers to be shot on sight With reinforcements brought by the Alcalde the Sheriff surrounded the boose during the night He stationed soldiers ten feet apart and then went upon the roof with Price to prevent tbe escape of the prisoners in that direction. The rooms were full of women and children and the Alcalde had a hole dug under the wall. At daylight the 8beriff called to the outlaws to come out, and received a defiant ronlv. Then he scraped adobe from the roof nd fired the woodwork. As be did this the Alcalde got twenty-one women and children out through a hole in the wall When the fire became hot the desperadoes attempted to break for liberty. Sheeban appeared at the door and was riddled with ballets. The sodliers kept np a constant fire through the doors and killed Hart. John* son suddenly threw open the door and rushed out with a revolver in each hand, to be met with a volley from the Sheriff and guards. Johnson fell upon his face, but raised himself on his elbows and fired both pistols. In an instant be was pierced with bullets. Sheriff Paul searched Johnson's body and found $500 and some jewelry. The Mexican soldiers looted Hart's bod v. A BATTLE WITH INDIANS. Mexican Troops Kill Seventeen Yaqnis and Disperse the Rest. The Yaqui Indians, now at war with the Mexican Federal forces of Sonora, Mexico, have fortified different places and are making a determined stand against the troops. A few days ago Major Enciso and Lieutenant Yaltareal, with two columns of Federal troops, attacked the Indians at a strongly fortified position in the Zamalaquacs mountains, near the town of Agua Verde. A desperate fight ensued, but the Federals, after a number of charges, routed the Indians from I.UO IUf imtOWVU,*UUUKK>? vuwvu MMV* "V ? ing a large number. The Federal forces had one roan killed and several wounded. THE LABOB WORLD, AsAlviso (CaL) box factory is Ailing an order for 200,000 fruit boxes. The maplb sugar crop of new York for this season will be larger than usuaL Sixty-two wholesale sugar dealers, of Tokio, Japan, have formed a " Trust." The production of the gold mines of Nova Scotia in 1887 was worth about $500,000. The production of minerals in the United States is twice the output of Great Britain. The output of the 103 salmon canneries on the Pacific coast last season was 997,000 cases. Springfield (Mass.) switchmen can tell the different locomotives by the sound of their bells. A. St. Charles (Mo.) firm is filling a contract for 300 cars for the Mexican National Railway. Fittsburoers are shipping natural gas in steel cylinders to other cities for illuminating purposes. A Newark (Conn.) mill is making a 117foot belt that is to be 42 inches wide and will weigh half a ton. The cow catcher was first introduced about the year 1>53 on the Columbus and Xenia (Ohio) Railroad. Ix Massachusetts alone between U5>,uw and 300,000 women are earning a livelihood in industrial occupations. The largest milk condensing factory in the world is at Cham, Switzerland. Its output is 29,000,000 cans per annum. bTEKli rolls being made by a Pittsburg firm will weigh twelve tons each. These are said to be the largest ever cast in this country. There are fifty-eight cheese factories and twenty-five creameries in Chautuaqua county, N. Y. Last year's production brought $725,000. The national convention of the millers of the United States will be held in Buffalo, N. Y., in June. A European delegation is to be present Coal-mixkrs in the Hocking Valley, Ohio, are paid 70 cents per ton' from September 1 to May 1, and Go cents between May 1 and September 1. Kistccky's whisky industry produces 16,000,000 a year and gives employment to 300,000 persons. Fifteen million gallons are produced every year. The gloss works just established at Athens, Ga., are so successful in producing the finest quality of plate, that a larze plant from Pittsburg is to be immediately moved thither. A co-operative 'elass factory is being erected at Stoneboro, Penn. "The town donated a site and loaned the operators $12,00). This is said to be the first co-operative glass works. A Northern' textile manufacturer says that Eastern Tennessee is to be the greatest cotton manufacturing section. Coal is ?10 a ton. Some woolen mills there have made 27 per cent. Labor i3 cheap and abuudant. The mineral development in Great Britain during 13*7 was 178,049,705 tons. Over 500,0.).) nponle were employed, nearly 5500 of whom were women,and of tbe latter 100 were j umler It! years of a?e. Nearly 10UO persons were killed during the year while at work. A large number of English railway companies frequently employ engineers and firemen for eighteen hours and upward. Signal men are also frequently employed for eighteen hours. If, through the negligence of such signalmen, an accident should happen, tue companies employing them ought to be held responsible. There are forty-two crucible steel plants In this country, half of which are located in Peensylvania, thirteen being at Pittsburg. Pennsylvania has fifteen of the thirty-eight Bessemer steel plants, seven of which are in Pittsburg. There are are also nine ClapSrifflths steel works in this country, ail but two, those at West Wareham, Mass., and Billeville. 111., being in Pennsylvania. LATES NEWS. ? Tex Pennsylvania Republican State Con. vention at Harrisburg nominated James T. Mitchell for Supreme Court Jiidge and chpse Delegates at Large to the Republican National Convention headed by Senator Quay. The platform declares for protection to American industries. The Delamater Iron Works in New York City were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of 1100,000. Four fireman were severely injured by a falling wa!L At Yonkers, N. Y., four workmen were killed by the cavin j-in of the walls of a tunnel they were digging. A grand celebration waa held in New Haven, Conn., in commemoration of the 250th birthday of the city. The Massachusetts Republican Convention met at Boston and elected delegates to the Chicago Presidential Convention. It is an nninstructed delegation, headed by Senator Hoar. The platform is for protection. The Republican State Convention met in Fort Worth, Texas, and sent an uninstrncted delegation to the National Republican Convention to be held in Chicaga Florida's delegation to the Republican National Convention is uninstrncted. An examination of the books shows that James Cummings, manager of R. G. Dun & Co. 'e Business Agency, at Dayton, Ohio, who killed himself a few days ago, was $64,000 short. Samuel Dew killed the City Marshal of Nelsonville, Ohio, and then committed sui v1uo. The President has approved the act for a bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis: the act granting the right of way to the Dnlnth, Rainy Lake River and Southwestern Railway Company, through certain Indian lands in the State of Minnesota; the act making an appropriation for the erection of a building for the Chief Signal Officer of the Army. The Ways and Means Committee has decided to continue the debate over the tariff bill seventeen days. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays an 1 Thursdays the House will rise at 5:30 p. M., and reassemble at 8 p. *., the evening sessions to be for debate only. On Mondays and Saturdays the sessions will end at 5:30 p. m. Saturday will be devoted to pension legislation usual. The Prince of Wales has, for the fifteenth | time, been installed as Grand Master oi tne I Free Masons of the world ' WILL BUY BONDS. The Treasury Department Offers to Receive Proposals. The Secretary of the United States Treasury has issued the following circular concerning the proposed purchase of bonds: Notice is given that on Monday, April 23, and daily thereafter. at noon, until further notice, proposals will be received in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury for the sale to the Government of the United States bonds of the acts of July 14, 1870, and January 20, 1871. Proposals should state the specific character of the bonds offered, whether coupon or registered, and must be for the sale of the bonds with accrued interest to and including the day of sale. The right is reserved to reject any and all proposals for the sale of bonds if it is thought *" <n fa rant of tha Government to W W AVI i-*v r _ . do so. C. a Fairchhj), Secretary. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Thx infant King of Spain can now walk. Governor Gordon, of Georgia, is on ardent fireman. The Princess of Wales's favorite author is Charles Dickens. At Vienna they call the Prince of Bulgaria "Ferdinand the Silken." The Crown Prince of Germany is said to bate everything English. Thx ex-Emprees Eugenie's favorite amusement is playing checkers. Govzbxor Rusk, of Wisconsin, stands six feet three in his stockings. Thx Saltan went into monrning for Emperor William, although it is contrary to Turkish custom. Two sons of Charles Dickens and one son of Anthony Trollop?, are in the stock-raising business in Australia. Princx F*bdin and is credited with bav mg given away nearly tou,uuu in presents daring bis tour through Bulgaria. Worth, the French milliner, lives in the suburbs of Paris in a palace that covers several acres and is gorgeously furnished. Jakes Whitcomb Riley, the Indiana dialect post, is said by a Western newspaper to have made 120.000 during the past year by his peaand by lecturing. The London Vanity Fair asserts that the Czar of .Russia is afflicted with recurrent fits of insanity. He has to be closely watched to prevent him from injuring either himself or others. Ex-Seitanor Bruce (colored) is at Washington, preparing a new lecture. He savs he likes lecturing better than office-holding, and expects to devote the rest of his life to it It was Henry Ward Beesher who first advised him to lecture. Jay Gould has decided to give .up yachting as an expensive and unprofitable amusement. The steam yacht Atalanta, which he bought five years ago, has cost him $300,000, and it has caused him an annual expend! cure 01 tiw.wu. The widowed Grand Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenberg, the sister of the late German Emperor, celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday a few days ago. She was born daring a State ball at the then royal palace, now the Crown Prince's palace. Norfolk, va, claims the distinction of being the world's great peanut market It disposer every year of z,000,000 bushels of peanuts, most of which are grown in Virginia THE MABKETS, ' 17 KEW YORK. Beef, good to prime 7 @ 7% Calves, common to prime.... 8 @ 10 Bbeep f Lambs Hogs?Live 5 80 ut 6 00 Dressed 7H& 7% Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 55 & 4 75 West good to choice 2 45 @ 3 03 Wheat-No. 2 Red 93J*@ 94tf Rye?State 56 @ 58 Barley?State 82 @ 85 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 66 @ 67 Oats?White State 41)?<3 43 Mixed Western 87 <g) SO rT"" 85 (ch 90 UiCky iucu< wv ija uuv ? ? w Straw?Lons: Ry& .... 90 <g 91 . Lord?City Steam 8 CO @8 If Butter?State Creamery.... 25 @ 21 Dairy ? @ ??1 West Im. Creamery 18 @ 22 Factorv 16 @ 20 Cheese?State Factory 9}?@ 12% Skims 5 @ 9 Western 11% @ 12 Eggs?State and Penn ? @ BUFFALO. Steers?Western 4 35 @ 4 85 Sheep?Good to Choice 5 00 @ 6 00 Lambs?Western ? & 7 00 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 55 @5 90 Fiour?Family 4 03 @ 4 50 Wheat?No. 1 ? @ 95 Corn?No. 2, Mixed 57 @ 57)^ Oats?No. 2, Mixed 36 @ 83 Barley?State 88 @ 91 BOSTOIT. Beef?Good to choice. ;. 8 . Hogs?Live 6 Northern Dressed.... 7 Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbL..14 75 @16 75 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 90 @ 5 35 Corn?High Mixed. ? (g| 70 ^ *- A a- /Arris uats?txtra *?m?j Rye?State 60 @ 65 WATERTOWJf (MASS.) CATTLE MAUKET Beef- Dressed weight 7 @ 7}* Sheen?Live weight 6 @ 6J* Lambj 6 @ Hogs?Northern 7 PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn.extra family... 2 75 @ 3 10 Wheat?No. 2, Red 94;?@ 93 Corn?N.\ 2, Yellow ? @ 64 Oats?Mixed...., ? @ 19% Rye-No. 2 ? ? 72}* Butter?Creamery Extra... ? (2 27 ChMM?N. Y. Full Cream.. 12;-;ffl 13J>? yr*-:1-'^ COUNTERFEITING. I EXPOSING THE METHODS oH " SHOVERS OF THE QUEER." | Bow the Spnrloua Money is ManufacH tared, Distributed, and Detected I ?Facts Drawn from a Long BSB Secret Service Experience. Hn M "There is an immense amount oBS counterfeit money in general circula^^H tion," said a United States Treasury erHSj pert to an Atlanta Constitution reporter^Hj ''and a recent estimate by the Secret Ser^H9 vice Bureau puts the amount at not-leii^^H than $40,000,000. jWB "Hnw Hid art mn<rti rniintfirfeit get into circulationf SflH "In the first place .the counterfertenflMS are thoroughly organized. New YorlHB City lias for a lone time Seen headquarWBB ters for the profession in the OhitefflgM States, and their agents are scattered al^HH over the country. These agents are al^Q| shrewd, sharp business men, and whei^HH they 4 'do" a place the first step is. to ge^H| the names of all people in that piace tcH whom they think it worth while t<^H| write. -They keep & special lookout foifl people in straightened circumstances^ people with mortgages hanging ovefl them, and people unable to meet' somAEM peculiar demand for ready cash. ThalH list is sent off to New York, and manjHH and skillfnl are the plans to guard thet^Hl mail. The letter usually passes througM three ojr four hands before it reache^^H headquarters.. Then a circular letter sent to each person named on the list. IS usually reads simply: Bj Wa liAtrA rtn Vion/4 m lumra nnonfifr f\9 /tAnn.^1 WW O uavo UU IUMIU HIW^C I III I ll|III^M| terfeit If you take 1100 or leas we will fori nish -it at thirty cents on the dollar, or more at twenty-five, fifteen or ten cents, de-H pending on the amount. Now, the agent takes care to make hul list very complete, and by no means al^B on his list are good subjects for the cou^<^B9 terfeiter. But all ate written to, and theHH estimate is that twenty percent, of thpseHjfl addressed reply to the circular lette&^R When the answers reach New York theyHHj are read by counterfeit experts. TheyHH say that there is one old man in New^^S York win glances at those letters andME classifies them almost at a glance, JustW^Hfl he would sepaiate a package of bankj^Kj all mixed together.' The let ten are? marked N. G.t G. or 0. K. The^H first means that it won't pay to ahswer.BH It may be from a sheriff, or detective, orfl it may be simply doubtful, but those? letters are tossed into'the waste basket. fl The G. Gk people are ia earnest at th?Hd time, bat they are not prudent or reliabfoHH Some of those are answered, some nqtj and those that are answered are icraria-Bflj bly duped. You have seen these adveir'HR tisements for shoes, or investment com-^Hj panies, printed somewhat in in&^H tation of a greenback. - The confr-SE terfeiters answer the letter, andH the dupe goes down to the express offie^H for his C. O. D. package. A roll of these advertisements, neatly folded ahdM| carefully wrapped, is handed to the fel-HH low. . He pays' the money andhurrieffH| off. Not one in a hundred will everH| say anything about it, and tbe counter-BK feiters pocket the money. The ' O. K.'l letters will do to trust - The letter is an swered, and he ia informed that on a cer tain day, at a certain time, an agent vriil^El call upon him personally and make a HB " deal/' or " dicker," with him. At th&KB appointed time and places-provided the^^B agent continues to think the man is act-1 ieg in good faith?a square deal is made. the agent takes genuine money for cotufeflH "Wliat about those agents?" mm ' They are mighty sharp people, an<$l include all cla-ses. Those traveling^H agents take some profession.which' they* use as a blind?obtain, for example, aflH real position with a well-known house, M or travel lor a fictitious house, or preten#^HB to represent good houses when they do^^H And making counterfeits ?' "Making as thev do, such enormoqiflH profits, they can afford to pay for thg^B most elegant workmanship. The fineStSlH engravers and printers are secured, aad H it is admitted foi example that thecoun-^B terfeit $5 note on the Traders National I Bank, of Chicago, which made its appearance about two yean ago in the H| West, is greatly superior in point or^H workmanship and finish to the bona fide HH note. Those plates and presses were captured, but so excellent wasthecoun- |H terfeit that over $200,000are still in cir culation." 9B "Well, how does the Goverment pre- BjS vent that?" . KB "In a variety of ways. The piper for HI example?the Wilcox fibre?is hard to-^ imitate, and if yoa ever noia a genuine bill up to the light you will see the fibres, like hairs, scattered through the paper. Then some genuine bills are marked by a |H thread, and this also is hard to imitate, Then the ink is manufactured expressly for the ])urpose. Then it's hard to make counterfeit signatures free and flowfngy |Hj and the human figures, and su forth, as finished and artistic as the real. Bat the B most infallible way is to notice carefolly IHJ that "counter," or delicate lace work ^Bj around the figures on the bill Notice thit each bill has its peculiar pit* EH tern. That is done by the geometric lathe. The lathe works on the principle of a kaleidoscope?you turn a Hj screw and it weaves a pattera. Give it another turn and it makes another pat- |H tern, but it never makes the same pattern twice. So choosing a suitable device, there is no earthly way for a counterfeiter to get it except by taking an ac- M V- V.J <1,. tual impression. i!.Yen 11 ue uou tuo identical lathe he couldn't make that impression again. Now, if he does that work by hand some lines must Joe'deeper than others; and especially where two HJ lines intersect any irregularity can be detected by watching those minute. angles. It is impossible to do the work so perfectly by hand that an expert can't tell it, though nearly every other obstacle has been.overcome by the counterfeiters. But it's an easy matter to get the outline4, and then fill in with HH a geometric lathe, though it is simply impossible to do that perfectly,. * For ex- HI ample, take that line of lo. en ge-shaped HE spaces on a genuine bill. Now, supposing the counterfeiter gets the figures exactly right, the size is guess work, and when you consider that forty or fifty of those circles must come, one within the H| other, and the figures must tit, corner to corner, it is an impossibility, though |H wonderful approximations have beea made." .-' mKf The Morning Star is the smallest |H steamer that has ever made the run between England and the Cape. She was designed by her owner, Captain R. Dun- Bfl can ~of London, and was built at Leith. She is twenty-six tons, yacht measuremeat, is of teak, copper-fastened, and is classed Al. Her length is fifty feet be- Ittf tween perpendiculars, over all fifty-six fl| feet, with eleven feet two inches depth The little town of Kliningen, in Bavaria, is a perfect example of a Socialistic IH community, all the land being the prop- |H rty of the citizens in common.