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A DYNAMITE DISASTER. Fatal Explosion in a Railway Collision in Pennsylvania. Eight Persons Killed and Thirty Seriously Wounded, A car of Dupont powder exploded at a point on the Philadelphia and Reading line, between Mount Carmel and Locust Gap, Penn., at about eleven o'clock Saturday niVht. Eirrht nersons were killed, thirty more or less seriously injured, and property was destroyed to the value of $75,000. Through freight No. 67, bound for Williamsport, filled up at Locust Gap at 10 o'clock. We6twardiy there is a heavy grade, and the train acquired a speed of 80 miles per hour. At the foot of the incline there is a sort of fla?\ and at this point the coupling betwe^^ the third and fourth cars broke. The fust section ran a half mile before the tact that the train had parted was learned by Conductor Ziegenfose. Engineer Robert Gallagher whirled down Drakes, and had about brought the fir?t section to a standstill when the second section rushed down upon it The third contained Dupont powder, Eualin caps, glycerine, and other explosives, consigned to D. W. Hold, Newbury Junction. A moment after the collision these exploded, and sent death and destruction in every direction. At the scene of the accident the railroad runs along the mountain side 100 feet above the level of the Locust Gap Creek. Running norallal TOi'fVi +ha rfnwm j?r? two TOWS of houses owned by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and occupied by the company's miners. Midway between the railroad and the first row on the steep incline stood a little cottage where John Quinn and bis family of four children resided. This was reduced to ruins, and ignited by the cooking stove, which scattered its burning coals among the ruins. The father was caught under the stove and was burned to a blackened mass. His two little girls shared a similar fate. The other members of the family were rescued, but not before they had been seriously burned. i The flames next consumed the adjoining row of eight houses. In building No. 4 re- ) sided Simon Kerwick, his wile, his son Daniel, aged elfjht years, Alice, five years, J Mary and "Willie Cavanagh, adopted child-1 dren, aged eight and_ fourteen years, and a j newly-born babe. -Mr. Jterwick graspea his sick wife and narrowly escaped from the burning building. Next morning the charred remains of tne five children were gathered from the ruins to await the inspection of the Coroner. Almost simultaneously the inmates of the adjoining buildings were rescued. Brave men rushed into the flames and performed deeds which won the praise of the thousands who beheld the ruins. The Mount Carmel physicians hastened to the scene of the accident and rendered assistance wherever needed to the cut and bruised. So severe was the force of the explosion that every window in Locust Gap was reduced to pieces aod the plastering was shaken from the walls. The Catholic church windows were especially valuable. In Mount Carmel the French plate glass store windows were also destroyed. The car which contained the powder and a dozen others were blown to atoms. In all seventeen dwellings were destroyed by the fire and flying fragments of the cars. The families rendered homeless have been provided for by the Locust Gap and Mount Carmel citizens. The twelve freight cars that were wrecked contained valuable merchandise. One was lnarlati wifh (Mivinf inachinfls. After the I explosion nothing but scraps were to be found. Another was .loaded with glas3, and a third with rails, which were thrown in all directions through the woods, while others were loaded with flour, which covered the mountain side like a fall of snow. Vain attempts were made to find the powder car. For miles around the woods were strewn with fragments. So great was the upward force of the explosion that car wheels and axles were thrown a distance of two hundred yards. One axle fell through the roof of one of the houses on the lower street. On the hill above traces of the debris may be found a quarter of a mile away, while between that distance and the wreck there are quantities of the debris of the cars. "Trees near the train were uprooted, while one large one was blown half way up the top of a freight car. The lumber car was loaded with flooring. Where this was blown up the hill many of the long pieces are stuck in the ground. Beneath the wrecked train there is a large hole, probably fifty feet in diameter, the work of the dynamite. A DOUBLE HANGING, Robert Hall and David Vincent Executed at Philadelphia. Robert G. Hall and David Vincent were hanged Tuesday on the same gallows in Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphia. Both men were pronounced dead after seventeen minutes. The crime for which Hall was executed was killing Mrs. Lillian Rivers, the wife of James W. Rivers, an actor, on June 3. 1SS7. Hall made some pretensions of being an actor, and when on tne boards was known as Frank Burton, a low comedian. He was tried and convicted October 25,and sentenced to hang. Vincent, or "Italian" Dave, as he was known, was executed for killing George Carlifatti, a Greek seaman, on September 14,1887, who boarded at the same house with Vincent PROMINENT PEOPLE. Mrs. Ater, widow of the pill man, is worth $25,000,000. Sporgeon. the famous English divine, has received a g\ft of $40,000. , A daughter of Wade Hampton is a professional nu; se ia New York. Senator Morrill started in life behind the counter of a country store. The Emperor of China ia attended by thirty physicians and surgeons. ? Bishop Wilson is the oldest preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Thomas Nast lives near Los Angeles, CaL, having retired from regular artistic . work. Robert Grant, the 6tory writer, is a Boston lawyer, with a country residence at Nahant. Gladstone's study is so isolated that no I outside noise can be beard once the padded doors are closed. The Emperor Francis, of Austria, has worn the crown during forty yeare of the fifty-eight he has lived. President Carnot, of France, Is a good engineer, and did excellent service at Havre during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870-71. Elias J. Hai.b is serving his fortieth year as town clerk of Foxcroft, Me. He has never had in the forty elections an opposing candidate. King Humbert, of Italy, goes outo'nighta in disguise to hear what the people say of him. and he often hears criticisms that lead io reform. Boulanger visited the United State? in 1881. He came over as chief of the French Mission for the celebration of the Centenary at Yorktown. It is reported that in the event of the probable war, the noted General Gurko will be appointed Commander-in-chief of the Russian army destined to invade Bulgaria. Governor Waterman, of California, has a gold mine in San Diego County that is now paying mm a net prone or *ouu a day. He expects to take $1,000,000 out of it next year. Alexander Graham Bell, of telephone fame, may still bs spoken of as a young man. for be has only recently turned his fortieth ear. Twenty-five yeare ago ha was a poor no^ in Edinburgh. He came to this country Inl87& Senator Ingalls has had eleven children. seven of whom survive. The names given to his offspring have been Bomewhat peculiar: Ellsworth, Kuth, Ethel. Ralph, Addison, Constance, Sheffield, Faith, Marion, Muriel, Louise. The richest of the Georgia Representatives in Congress is Mr. Candler, whose fortune is estimated at $100,000. Twenty years ago he was a s;ho:>l teacher and ouite poor. His first money vras made in tne lumber trade, and real estate added t.he rest of it A stick of timber 151 feet long and 2< inches square, believed to be the largest piec? ever turned out from any saw mill, has beer ent from Puget Sound to an exhibition ii . ' ' '? . '* ' "l"""thenews epitomizedT Eastern and Middle State*. The strike in the Carnegie Iron Works at Braddock, Penn., has been declared off and work has been resumed. Adam Gitts, aged eighty-eight, of Shickshinny, Penn., tied a stone to his neck and drowned himself in the Susquehanna in three feet of water. The American Exchange National Bank of New York was robbed of $41,000. A package supposed to contain that amount in National Bank notes was forwarded to Washington by express, and on being opened at the Treasury Department was found to contain nothing but brown paper. The Chinese steward of the bark Gleneida, from Gibara, bound for New York, committed suicide at sea. He shot himself fourteen times in full sight of the crew. Frank L. Nelson, a wealthy citizen of Blockville, Penn., hanged himself. Lambaud & Ayrks's ban-el and box wofli- on Shooter's Island, off Bergen Point, N. J., have been destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $700,000. Governor Hill, of New York, has sent to the Assembly a veto of the bill to repeal the Saturday Half-Holiday law. Mrp. Willi am Webb and her infant child were burned to death at Fort Edward, N. Y., by the explosion of a lamp. The New Hampshire Republican State Convention met at Concord, and elected an uninstructed delegation to the Chicago Presidential Convention. Resolutions were adopted expressing opposition to the Mills Tariff bill. The bill for the execution of criminals by electricity has passed both houses of the New York State Legislature. The State Convention of Delaware Democrats was held at Wilmington. A delegation was elected which is pledged to support Cleveland in the St. Louis Convention. Resolutions were adopted urging the passage of the Mills Tariff bilL South and West. Two unknown men were killed and several badly injured at Sorento, Mo., in a railway WII191VU. The Town Hall, a church, with several stores and numerous dwellings in Melon, Ohio, were burned, causing a loss of over $125,000. A charter has been filed at Topeka, Kan., for a company called "The Farmers' Federation of the Mississippi Valley." The capital stock is $30,000,030, with 2,000,000 of shares at $10 each. The charter is signed by citizens of fourteen States and three Territories. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad has absorbed the 1000 miles of >-oal of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, this giving it the longest and greatest railroad system in the world. The Kentucky Republican Convention has elected an uninstructed delegation to the National Presidential Convention. The delegates were instructed for W. O. Bradley, of Kentucky, for Vice-President Seven persons were burned to death in a barn on a farm near Arlington, Nebraska. They were Mrs. Freeze, who was a widow, Fred Grateluschen, his wife and three children, and his brother, Louis Grateluschen. Tnxr TTniAn T.oh/M? rinntrAnf.i'nn nccomhlrv^ at Sedalia, Mo., and nominated a full State ticket headed by A. B. Mandring for Governor. Thirteen presidential electors were chosen. Two Mexican brothers attacked John Reagan, a wealthy 6tockman, at Del Rio, Texas, and he killed them both. A large portion of Saundersville, Ga,has been destroyed by lire, causing a loss of over $100,000. Conditions for cotton planting in Georgia have proved unfavorable, not more than Onehalf the crop having been in the ground on the 1st inst. At Bardstown, Ky., Reeves Simmons, a bachelor, who has reared his sister's three children, undertook to chastise Nat Reeves, one of them, twenty years old, when the nephew shot his uncle dead. George Hummel, a Cincinnati baker, shot himself, and after a surgeon had dressed the wound a New Foundland dog mounted guard over the wounded man, ana it became necessary to kill him to nurse his master. At Bessemer, Mich., the powder house of the Colby mine was blown up, killing Frank Robatsky and wounding three others'fatally. The steamer Eureka, of the Morgan Jme, collided with the steamer Benison off the Virginia coast and sank at sea, but the officers and crew all escaped. John J. Cornelsov, who in 1S84 horsewhipped Judge Heed at Mount Sterling,Ky., and was sentenced to three years1 imprisonment, has been carried to Louisville for safety from a mob. Judge Reed killed himself for shame. The Michigan Republicans assembled at Grand Rapids and elected delegates to the Chicago Convention who are pledged to support General R. G. Alger for ine Presidential nomination. \ Washington. J'\ E. Nash, the General Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, has resigned. The President has nominated Thomas Browne, of Montana Territory, to be United States Consul at Paramaribo. The Senate Committee on the Judiciary referred th9 nomination of Melville W. Fullortn hn Phiof .Iiictiivi tn ? Riih-pmnmif'.fcpn General James W. Ewixg, disbursing clerk of the United States Department of Justice, has been found short in his accounts to the extent of $S,000 or Foreign. A fine life-size marble bust of Garibaldi, the Italian patriot, with a marble pedestal about four feet in height, has been received at the Capitol and placed in a hall of the upper lobby of the Senate. It was the gift of citizens of New York of Italian birth. Hughes Brothers, one of the oldest wholesale dry goods houses in Toronto. Canada, has suspended payment. Liabilities, $370,000. By an explosion of gas in a tunnel near Messina, Sicily, six workmen were killed and many fatally injured. The Sultan of Morocco has agreed to submit tbe dispute between his government and the United States to arbitration. Ax ocean cable has been laid giving the island of Formosa close telegraphic communication with the outside world. i O.ve hundred and fifty persons were killed by a hail storm at Delhi, India. At Racebati, in Bengal, twenty persons were killed, 300 severely injured and 2000 huts destroyed by hailstones. Many of the stones weighed as much as two pounds. Three thousand persons have been drowned by a, flool in the Canton River, China. CHINESE MASONIC BUBIAL. A it v> i r ?vA n, iuun^uitaii orut iter ui tuu ajajwhv Tie Interred. Mr. Moy Toy Youi, a prominent Chinese resident of Chicago and Grand Secretary oi the Chinese Order of Free Masons in the United States, was buried Monday in that city with great pomp and circumstance. A military band played the marches and two Chinese bands made ineffectual efforts to awaken the dead with their alleged music. The deceased was a Chinese druggist, who died about a week ago. The burial ceremonies took place at Rose Hill Cemetery, and were marked by the usual layout of edibles, burning of incense sticks and other peculiarities of Mongolian funerals. The particular feature of the occasion was when Young Wah, master of the local lodge of Chinese Masons, stepped forward and chanted a dirge. He dropped on his knees, bowed his head low three times, and placed two tiny cups in each corner of a pan. Still oV*o?t.?r?o? tho Hirers hftrr?Aflnr1 r?t.irpr1 TVfii^io followed, and then two other Chinamen approached. Placing the palms of their hands together they waved them up and down, then knelt and bowed three times, almost prostrating themselves. Each then took a cup,and attendants, kneeling at thoir side, filled them with wine, which was spilled over the ground and the sashes of the mourners, which had been thrown down near the coffin. Two by two the Chinamen now came forward until nearly every one present had gone through the ceremony. Then the things were gathered up, the mourners marched in procession around the grave and hastened to their carriages. Chujt Lixg, a Chinaman, was received into membership of the fashionable Immanuel Baptist Church, in Chicago, a few nights ago. He is the first Chinaman to b? united with th& Baptist denomination in Chicago. . N. . - 7. Rg - . > - ' THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Occurrences of Widespread Interest at Washington. The Senate Passes the International Copyright Bill. The United States Senate has passed the International Copyright bill by a vote of 35 to 10. The bill amends Section 4956 of the Revised Statutes so as to make it read: "No person shall be entitled to a copyright unless ne shall, before publication in this or any foreign country, deliver at tne orace or the Librarian of Congress, or deposit in the mail within the United States, addressed to the Librarian of Congress at Washington, District of Columbia, a printed copy of the title of the book or other article, or a description of the painting,drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, or a model or design for a work of the fine arts, for -which he desires a copyright; nor unless he shall also, not later than the day of the publication thereof in this or any foreign country, deliver at the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, District of Columbia, or deposit in the mail within the United States addressed to the Librarian of Congress 'at Washington, District of Columbia, two copies of such copyright book or dramatic composition printed from type set within the limits of the United States, or in case of engraved works, photographs, or other similar article. two copies; or in case or a painting, drawing, statue, statuary, model or design for a work of the fine arts, a photograph of the same. "During the existence of such copyright the importation into the United States of any book or other article so copyrighted shall be, and it hereby is, prohibited, except in the cases specified in section 2505 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and except in the cases of persons purchasing for use and not for sale, who import not more than two copies at any one time, in each of which cases the written consent of the proprietor of the copyright, signed in the presence of two witnesses, snail be furnished with each importation. ^ "All officers of customs and postmasters are hereby required to seize and destroy all all copies of such prohibited articles a3 shall be entered at the Custom House or otherwise brought into the United States or transmitA-J *1 *1- TT^i^ Tr* m3'j iAJ tuc mans ui kuc ujiucu jlu the case of books in foreign languages of which only translations in English are copyrighted, the prohibition of importation shall appiy only to the translation of the same, and the importation of the books in tho original language shall be permitted. Each volume of a book in two or more volumes, when such volumes are published separately and the first one shall not have been issued before this act shall take effect, and each number of a periodical is to be considered an independent publication, subject to the form of copyrighting as above, and the alterations, revisions, and additions made to books by foreign authors, heretofore published, of which new editions shall appenr subsequently to the taking effect of this act, are to oe held and deemed capable of being copyrighted, unless they form part of a series in course of publication at the time this act shall take effect" The Inter-State Commerce Law. The Senate Committee on Inter-State Commerce has ordered a favorable report upon an amendment to the sixteenth section of the Inter-State Commerce law, which section now provides for a sum mary proceeding by mandatory or other process by United States Circuit Courts sitting in equity to enforce any lawful order or requirement of the Commission. The amendment continues the provisions of the section as they now stand as to any order or requirement of the Commission not founded upon a controversy requiring a trial by jury; but as to matters which under the Constitution require trial by jury it is proposed that the Commission, or any person interested, may apply in a summary way to circuit courts sitting as courts of law. The amendment makes provision for the speedy trial of such causes, and provides theft on the hearing the findings of fact by the Commission shall be prima facie evidence. It also provides that the court shall, by its order, fix a time for the trial not less than twenty nor more than forty davs from the date of the order. Pension Appropriation. The House Committee on Appropriations resolved to report a bill appropriating $3,500,000 to meet deficiencies in the appropriation for the payment of any pensions during the remainder of the present fiscal year. The appropriation is proposed to be made as an original item, the committee declining to accept the recommendation of the Commissioner of Pensions that a sufficient sum to supply the deficit be transferred to the credit of tne appropriation for army pensions from the appropriation for Mexican war pensions, where, he says, it is not needed. A Public Building Veto. The President has vetoed the bill appropriating $100,000 for the erection of a public building in Allentown, Pa., on the ground that there is no present necessity for the expenditure o? $100,000 for any purpose connected with the public business at that place. DRIVEN TO CANNIBALISM. Starving Indians in the Canadian Territories. The Rev. Dr. Brick, Church of England Missionary at Peace River, Northwest Territories, in a sermon preached at Ottawa, Canada, made some startling announcements in reference to the Indians of the Northwest. He said that hundreds of Indians who are not under treaty with the Canadian Government were dying every year from starvation. For the past three years game has been very scarce all through the northwest, and unless the Government forthwith furnishes relief the race must soon be exterminated. He instances many cases where the Indians have kept body and soul together for months on boiled leather and old moccasins, and others where horse flesh was the staple food of the red men during the winter months. Many cases of cannibalism have been reported, and he had personal knowledge of one case where a woman died of starvation, and the rest of the camp devoured her remains. The Government, he said, was not bound under treaty to furnish relief to these starving savages' but unless something was done at once the extermination of the race of red men would stand out as a blot on the good name of Canada. i?l.tiWi$X ULLAJNIJNliJS. Forty miles of double track cable will b? laid in Boston. A thousand Now York teachers are organizing a building association. The: world's annual consumption of wheat is estimated at 2,1U5,C03,0J0 bushels. Dan Rick, the old showman, owns 350,000 acres of land in Texas and New Mexico. The New York News offers $100 reward for any well-authenticated case of faith-cure. R. P. Gravet, treasurer of Scott county, Kan., is alleged to be short in his account* S'JO'JO. Thirteen persons in Richmond, V&, wero poisoned by eating bread in which arsenic wai found. Lord Leslie, a poverty-stricken Irish peer, i* traveling agent for a sewing machine company. A monument to General Robert Toomb3 was unveiled at Washington, Ga., on Memorial day. Four hundred and eighty-five deaths from pneumonia have occurred in Baltimore since Knv0nihflp 1. Prince Bismarck declines the title of duke because, he says, he is too poor to support the title. A recent estimate places the number of orange trees set out in California the past year at 500,000. A mob at Santiago, Chili, burned over thirty street cars because the company refused to reduce the fare. C'harles A. Howard, head waiter in a Milwaukee hotel, inherits a fortune of $1,000,00.) from an aunt in England. Senator Collum, of Illinois, withdraw* from the Presidential canvass, announcing in a public letter that he is not a candidate. The Cro-.vn Prince of Italy has been severely wounded by a premature explosion of dynamite while witnessing some exDeriment*. ' ' ,': i , SUMMABY OF OOTOBESS. Senate Proceedings. 88th Day.?A resolution was adopted instructing the Library Committee to inquire as to the expediency of removing Greenough's statue of Washington from its present location east of the Capitol to some other place on the grounds, and protecting It by a suitable canopy or otherwise.... The Senate passed the House joint resolution to eDable the President to extend to certain inhabitants of Japan a suitable recognition of their humane treatment of the survivors of the crew of the American bark Cashmere ... The consideration of the Railroad Land Forfeiture bill was then resumed. Without action on the bill or any of the amendments the matter went over....The Senate then j :j?kill vtwvtri'sla resumeu tousiueiauun ui mo uiu lu pu>^o for a Bureau of Animal Industry to facilitate the exportation of live stock and their products, and to extirpate pleuro pneunomia The Chinese Treaty, as amended by the Foreign Relations Committee, was ratified by the Senate in executive session. Its adoption was practicallv unanimous, no demand having been made for a vote'by yeas and na}-s. 8!)th Day.?Mr. Voorhees arose to a question of privilege and apologised for unparliamentary language used in a recent debate with Mr. Ingalls... .The bill to authorize the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company to acquire real estate for railway purposes in the District of Columbia was discussed with no action... .The Railroad Land Grant Forfeiture bill, after being discussed by Messrs. Berry, Spooner, Teller and Palmer, went over without action on Mr. Hoar's amendment affecting Michigan lands.... The House bills appropriating for public buildings at Bar Harbor, Ma, $25,000, and Hoboken, N. J., $00,000, were placed on the calendar,... TUa tVo PraeiHonf. nn t.ho l'm. Pressment into the French army of John russia, an American citizen was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations....Mr. Palmer got leave to have certain remarks made by him in a recent speech stricken from the Record. !K)th Day.?The Chace Copyright bill was passed after discussion by a vote of 35 to 10 ....The Railroad Land Forfeiture bill was passed. House Proceedings. 105tii Day.?Mr. Caswell began the day's session by making a lengthy speech on the Mills bill The rest of the day was consumed by speeches on the Tariff, Messrs. Wheeler, Guenther and McDonald participating in the debate. 100th Day. The debate over the tariff bill was continued.... Mr. Belmont introduced from the Foreign Affairs Committee a bill making the necessary appropriation in order to enable the United States to be represented at the Paris Exposition. The bill was passed. IOiTH Day.?The following bills were introduced: Appropriating $50,003 for the erection in Washington of a statue to the memory of Major General W. S. Hancock; directing the Secretary of the Treasury to use any money now in the Treasury for the payment of any of the outstanding interestbearing obligations of the Government, known as 4% and 4 per cent, bonds at pan and accrued interest; authorizing the publif>At.inn of the ''dof!iim?ntarv historv of the financial, fiscal and commerciaf records of the Confederate States;" for the appointment of a committee to inquire into tha existing irregularities in the compensation of officers and employes in the executive departments Mr. Blanchard moved to suspend the rules and take up the River and Harbor bill. The bill was pis?ed after lengthy discussion. It appropriates nearly $20,000,000. 108th day.?A letter was read from Mayor Hewitt, of New York, explaining his position in the case of O'Donnell, the Irish dvnamiter. Speeches were made on that subject by Messrs. Bryce, Brumm and Woodburn The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Tariff bill. Speeches were made by Messrs. Stockdale, Hopkins, Mansur, Taylor, Morrill, Richardson andMcAdoo. The evening-session was devoted to farther debate on the Tariff bill. 100th Day.?When the House went into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Springer, of Illinois, in the chair, on the Tariff bill, Mr. Morrow, of California, concluded his speech in opposition to the bill. Further discussion of the measure was held by Messrs. Houck. Wis?. Cogswell, Kennedy, Boutelle and Bynum. THE BLIND MADE TO SEE. Success of a Wonderful Operation Upon a Woman's Eye. The remarkable operation of transplanting a portion of the cornea of a rabbit's eye to that of a human being, recently performed in Philadelphia by Dr. L. Webster For, proves so far to be a success. Mrs. Annie Schick, thepationt.waj examined bv Dr. Fox a few days ago, and it was found that she could distinguish objects at a distance of several feet. With further bandaging and careful attention it i3 confidently believed that complete vision will be restored to the eye operated upon, and when this has been accomDlished a similar or>eration will be nerformed upon her other eye, which is almost completely obscured by an opaque surface. THE LABOR WORLD, There are comparatively few Idle printers In the United States, The big American sugar refinery at Ban Francisco, Cal., has shut down. Ix Massachusetts 12.000 children under 14 years of age are working in shopi Daitville, Va., is to have anew tobacco warehouse that will hold G000 hogsheads. Over one huudred thousand anthracite miners are employed by six or seven men. The Georgia granite quarries employs 400 men, who average 30,000 square yards a day. The capacity of the Southern Pacific Railroad machine shops at Houston, Texas, will be doubled. The largest silk factory in the United States is being built at Williamsbridge, N. Y., hv T)?dnn fir A thousand idle men applied for work in one day at the office of the Traction Railway Company in Pittsburg, Penn. The flint glass workers will start a co-operative factory at East Liverpool, W. Vo. Another will be started in Sandwich, Mass. The largest rolls in the world have just been completed for a Eittsburg mill. Tliey will roll armor plates from ingots weighing 30 tons. The McMillan Type Setting Machine Company of Glens Falls, N. Y., has been incorporated at Albany, with a capital of $600,000. The Knights of Labor estimate from the figures they have received that there are over 1,000,000 unemployed men and women throughout the United States and Territories. A sugar refining company with $5,000,000 .-i-l I I -i. I.'J VI? W..V in ^apiwti, lias u?ru oiaiuc*.i m non x ui wvr usa Mr. Henry Friend's new method of refining by electricity. The cost will be about seventy-five cents a ton. Examinations are now being held at the Berlin Tailoring Academy. Last year 903 students from all over the world attended the institution. Two came from Brazil, two from Cape Town, and one from Japan. John Crossley & Sons, of England, large manufacturers and weavers of carpets ana heavy woolens, have purchased forty acres of land near San Antonio, Texas. It is expected that they will establish large factories there. The Belgian Chamber of Deputies has adopted a bill declaring two-fifths of a workingman's pay inalienable to be taken even in legal process. Clerk's salaries are made free from liability of seizure unless they exceod 1210 per annum. The most powerful war ship ever launched has just been completed in England. She displaces 11,010 tons,' 12.0J0 horse power, makes 19 miles an hour, is plated with iron from 14 to 20 inches thick. She has four 67 ton guns that fire shot weighing 1250 pounds each, and has 32 smaller guns, besides machinery for firing torpedoes, eight at a time. one cobs *o,uuu,uuv. Anniston, Ala., expects to bo the greatest manufacturing city in the United States. It is building what it claims to be the largest pipo works in the United States. It has the richest ore fields near at hand, car works, car wheel works, rolling mills, and blast furnaces. Its car works building will be the most extensive in America, and will cost $1,000,000. It will need four thousand workmen this Tear. There are two hundred men in Cincinnati who carry an aggregate life insurance of $10,000,000. One well known railroad man has policies on his life amounting to $285,00), and Mr. Stewart Shillits, the dry goods merchant if insured for $350,000. ? - ; ; '"'- "" ' - --%-r .- .' y- ' - I ' ' ' FAILED FOR MILLIONS, W. T. Coleman & Co., of San Francisco, Assign. Liabilities Estimated at $2,000,000; Assets, $4,000,000, The assignment of the old established commission house of William T. Coleman & Co., of San Francisco and New York, has caused O Ki/.?onootinn T> no nno f.}i? nlrtfist-, hoiisea on ttje Pacific coast and was considered beyond suspicion of peril. At half-past four o'clock Monday afternoon the firm made an assignment for the benefit of creditors to L. L. Baker and Louis Sloss. The firm consists of William T. Coleman, i who came to California in 1849, and from tben to now has been prominent in business circles, and Frank Johnson, a well known young merchant. Mr. Coleman organized the first vigilance committee in San Francisco and in leS77, when the Kearney riots occurred, he organized the Committee of Safety. He has a lovely home in San Rafael, which town he has boomed enormously. He was considered the most enterprising merchant on the coast, had the biggest salmon canning trade, and did everything- to develop the fruit industries. Mr. Coleman's partner, Frank Johnson, is a brilliant young financier, who grew up in the Coleman firm and was taken into partnership on account of his ability. During the past five years the firm has tried to control the trade in dried fruit, nuts, salmon and borax. Mr. Coleman retired from the active management several years ago, and the business has been run by Frank Johnson, who indulged in all sorts of speculation. Last year Johnson lost heavily in salmon and fruit, his losses in attempting to corner the salmon market being placed at $2,000,000. The borax speculation was a good one if the firm had had larger capital, but everything putin was dead money, and when they trioa to realize they failed. The finishing blow was given to the firm by the Nevada Bank, which held a call loan for a large amount. The liabilities of the firm have been stated as being $2,000,000. They include an indebtedness to the Bank of California amounting to $190,030, of which $130,0^0 is secured. It is estimated that the firm owes the Bank of British Columbia $100,000; Nevada Bank, $220,000, and Bank of British North America, $100,000. It is stated that of the whole amount of Coleman & Co.'b indebtedness, one-half is in California and the other half is in the East, the greater part of Kv Naw FnflrlflnH Ha n Ira bUU IBbVCl LTUlllg UVlU WJ 4.1V II ^ ir.-i - -1 I I - . The house has agencies in Astoria, Oregon, New York, Chicago and London. It also acts as the agent for a large number of manufacturing establishments and for the principal salmon canneries of the Pacific coast The shipping department is agent for several lines of clippers to and from Australia, China and other ports. The business of the firm is said to amount to ?14.000.000 per year. A GREAT TUNNEL, A Notable Feat of Engineering in Washington Territory. At 12:30 p. m., Pacific time, on Thursday, the great Stampede Tunnel through the Cascade Mountains, on the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, in Washington Territory, became an accomplished fact The workmen from each end met in the heart of the Cascade range, and the last borings were completed. As soon as a bole large enough for passage was made, Mrs. N. B. Turner, wife of the foreman ot the west drift who had been waiting, stepped through the breacn, ana was taus cue ursu w pass from west to east through the bowels of the mountains. , { The formal opening of this great work will be about the first of June, after which it is expected that trains will run through regu larly, and the temporary road over the mountains via the Switchback will be forever abandoned. The work has been accomplished in less time and with fewer accidents than that of any other tunnel of its kind in the world, ana nearly every accident has been ' due to the peculiar nature of the strata. The contract for building this tunnel was let to Wilson Bennett, and work was begun in the middle of April, 18S6. The material and machinery had to be hauled in wagons a distance of ninety miles, over a rough country, with hardly a road, and some of the heavy machinery was moved by block and tackle the whole distance, and $135,000 had been expended before the actual wort began. Men were scarce, but the contractor procured them from all parts of the Union and from Europe, but until the Cascade Division was finished he had difficulty in keeping the work moving. mu- . 1 nocn f * ar,A lAfoaf. wiMo JL UC LUUliCl 13 fwv idcv ivug uuv> .. .?w by 203^ feet high in the clear,and ia intended for a single track road. The west end approach consisted of open cut through trap rock, while the ea3t end enters the tunnel by crossing a creek immediately under a cataract, which has a fall of 160 feet Before crossing this creek the track is made by cutting a heavy ridge or slide of earth and loose rock. These two approaches contained in the aggregate upward of SO,000 cubic yards of material, most of which was solid rock, which had to be blasted. The wci-k has been carried on by electric light, power for which is supplied by a small mountain stream which flows down the mountain and falls directly over the mouth of the tunnel. It is estimated that the tunnel cost over 12,000.000. Trains will be running through it within two weeks. THE FARMERS' TRUST. A Remarkable Plan to Control the Distribution of Farm Products. Tha State Farmers' Convention for the organization of a farmers' trust,at Topeka,Kas., was well attended, delegates being present from nearly all the Central and^ Western States. Ex-Governor Jiutler, or neorasjia, was Chairman. Colonel Walter N. Allen, of Kansas, the originator of the movement, explained at length his plan to form a farmers' trust, which shall regulate and control the shipment and distribution of all farm products. Ten central agencies are to be established at Chicago, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Omaha, St Louis. Cedar Rapids, St. Paul, Milwaukee and Louisville to do all the selling for members of the association. The territory tributary to these commercial points is to be divided into eight principal districts and subdivided into sub-district associations by counties. The principal of each central agency, together with a general superintendent of th3 association, is to constitute an Executive Board,with power to regulate and control shipments of products on the markets, an 1 to do all other things that shall in their judgment appear to be for the best interest of the association. Agents will lie appointed to organize the farmers, stock growers, and feeders into district and sub-district organizations, requiring pledges ani-l nhli'iratinnc nhar orders of the Executive Board with respect to sale and shipment of produce. MUSICAL AND DBAMATIO. The violinist Remenyi is giving concerts in Africa. Olea Bull, daughter of the eminent musician, is studying tbe violin. Mart Anderson, the actress, is called a perfect example of Greek beauty. At the age of 73 Karl Formes, the noted tenor, is to sing in opera in England. m liT". -J U ?1 _ ? v*TT iilS nou xiii33tii J a ucn vuiuxv; v|a?iu uj Stephens and Salomon, will te produced in London about Octrber. Berry Wall, the dethroned King of the dudes, talks of going on th9 stage, and has had an offer for next season. Helene Crosmoxd, a London prima donna and a daughter of Mme. Kochel, committed suicide by shooting herself in a cab. J. W. Piggott will star next season in "Fitznoodle." a dramatization of articles contributed by B. M. Valentine to Puck. Mme. Emma Nevada Palmer, the American singer, who remains in Paris, is, it 13 said, anxious to be heard again on the lyric stage. On the island of Nnmea is a band of 120 p!ayers. each of which is a criminal. This musical organization is said to be the Ijst in all Oceanica. It is announced frem Kieff that a Russian operatic company is about to visit Vienna, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, and London, toperform exclusively in Russian. ' - . > - a:" ; . / :v " -y. > LATER NEWS. Governor Hill has vetoed the Crosby High Liquor License bill recently passed by the New York Legislature, The new Jersey Republican State Convention met at Trenton and elected delegates to the National Convention who are pledged to support William Walter Phelp3 for the Presidential nomination. A eulogy on the late Roscoe Conkling was delivered by Colonel Robert G. IngerbqII, at Albany, N. Y., before an audience which included" nearly all the members of the State Legislature. The Georgia Democratic State Convention met at Atlanta and elected a delegation to the St Louis Presidential Convention which is instructed to support Cleveland and tariff reform. W. cxrinnell got drunk at Williston, Dakota, and began beating his wife with a pistol, when she threw him down and choked him to death. William Wright and James Turner, assailed by four highwaymen near Mexia, Texas, resisted, and in the fight two of the robbers were killed. The Alabama Democratic State Convention met at Montgomery and elected a delegation to the St. Louis Presidential Convention pledged to support Cleveland for renomination. Thomas Seary was renominated for Governor by acclamation. The Wisconsin Republican State Convention met at Madison and elected delegates to the Chicago Presidential Convention. The Co lvention adopted a resolution, favoring Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk as a candidate for the Presidency of the United Statei Robert B. Roosevelt, of New York, has been nominated by President Cleveland to be United States Minister to the Netherlands. The Canadian House of Commons has passed resolutions authorizing the raising of a loan of $25,000,000. The differences between the United States and Moorish governments have finally been amicably settled. A basd of Bulgarian exiles and brigands has been defeated by police at Radomir after a bloody struggle, in which many were killed and wounded. . THE NATIONAL GAME. Utica, N. Y., has a female baseball nine. Kansas City has developed unexpected strength. Foster, of the New Yorks, is an established favorite. Whitney has been exchanged by Pittsburg for Pitcher Gruber,- of Detroit Indianapolis is said to have offered tho Bostons $5,000 for Pitcher Radbourn. Hoy, the deaf mute centre fielder of Washington, is keeping up his record as a lino fielder. The score cards at the Polo Grounds, New York, are said to turn in about $4003 a year t/1 t.hfl munnonamarit: . Nobody need be surprised to see Tiernan, of the New Yorks, pretty near the top in batting this season. The three-strike rule has worked very well so far in the association. Comparatively few men have failed to hit the balL Melancholy Dakby is the nickname bestowed on O'Brien, Brooklyn's left fielder. He has the saddest smile in the business. The white stockings and bine uniforms of the Chicago club have been discarded for a neat?suit of bluish grav, with black hose and cap#. Kelly, of the Bostons, is playing a much stronger game this year than last, when he was handicapped by the empty honor of captain. Grant is now the only colored baseball player professionally engaged He is a valuable second baseman, and covers a vast amount of territory. Little Radford, of the Brooklyns, is as clever a centre fielder as can be found in the Association. He is always on deck whether at the bat or in the field. Ezra Sutton, of the Bostons, has played in the League for twelve seasons. In that time he has taken part in 979 games, and has a batting average of .291. * Catcher Bennett, of the Detroits, thinks that Dunlap is the king of in-field players. There is no pinch so tight, he says, that Dunny cannot squeeze out of. Umfjre Gaffney takes a position in tbe centre of tbe diamond when men are on bases. Tbe plan has worked admirably so far and seems to be the nearest approach yet reached to perfection with one umpire. The first serious trouble over the umpire has occurred. In a recent game between the Birmingham and New Orleans clubs of the Southern League, at New Orleans, almost a riot was created by Umpire Saunders's decisions against the home club. Saunders managed to escape. Captain Morrill is in ecstaciea over Sowder's work. Said h9: "I think' he will prove to be one of the finest pitchers Boston ever had. He delivers the ball as straight and as sharp as an arrow. Hi? actions resemble those of Whitney in many particulars. He is a hitter, too, and a worker, and they all like him." Manager Kelly, of Louisville, has introduced a new wrinkto in begioning games. When the team takes the field the gong taps once, and all the nine players in single file march from the dressing room to the plate. When the gong rings again they face to the left, and at another tap the players break and go on a run to their positions. One of the greatest games of baseball ever played was the Manchester-Harvard game. The game was played may 11,1877, and was continued for twenty-four innings without a tally being made. All the players were college students, and all, with tne exception of two, have dropped out of sight in the baseball world, the two exceptions ?_ m .. j r? rr* -a il. oeing xyng ana oay. ijujj, now ui iuo Philadelphias, was a great catcher, at that time having few equals in the professional rank*. _ Tilt MARKETS. 19 ITEW TORS. Beef, City Tressed 7 @ 8 Calves, common to prime.... ,5 @ 6 Sheep. 5j^@ 6% Lambs 5 @ 8 Hogs?Live 5 80 $ 6 10 Dressed 8 Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 55 @ 4 75 West, good to choice 2 45 @ 3 00 Wheat-No. 2 Red '.'4 @ Rye?State 56 <gI 58 Barley?State 82 @ 85 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 60 <?) 66% Oats?White State 41)^@ 42 Mixed Western 87 @ 39>? Hay?Choice Timothy 85 (?) 90 I 8traw?Lone Rye 00 @ 95 i Lard?City Steam ? @ 8 15 Butter?State Creamery.... 25 @ 26 Dairy ? ($ 20 West Im. Creamery 19 @ 23 Factor v 18 @ 22 Cheese?State Factory 810 Skims 3 @ 8 Western 11% @ 12 Eggs?State and Penn (3> BUFFALO. Steers?Western 4 35 ? 4 85 Sheep?Good to Choice 5 00 @ 6 00 Lambs?Western ? 65 7 00 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 ^ (Sj 5 00 Flour?Family 4 03 @ 4 50 Wheat?No. 1 ? & 9o Corn?No. 2. Mixed 57 @ 5?3^ Oats?No. 2. Mixed ? @ S7)? Barley?State 88 @ 91 BOSTON, Beef?Good to choice....'.... 8 I Hnm?T.iv-n 5V/<3> 6 Northern Dressed.... 7 Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbL.. 14 75 @10 75 Flour?Spring "Wheat pat's.. 4 90 @ 5 S5 Corn?High Mixed. ? (?) 68 Oats?Extra White 46^@ 47^ Rye?State 60 @ 65 WATEKTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET Beef- Dressed weight 7 @ 7K Sheen?Live weight 0 @ G)4 Lamb) 6 @ 7% Hogs?Northern 7 @ 7}f PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 75 @ 8 90 Wiieat?No. -'.Red 94%@ 95^ Corn?No. ?, Yellow 72 ? 73 Oats?Mixed...., ? @ 89 Rye-No. > ? @ 73^ Butter?Creamery Extra... ? @27 Cbees?-N. Y. Full Cream.. 10J*? 11 - . :v ' fl il THE GERMAN ARMY. I ITS GREAT STRENGTH AND PEA* Hfl - FEOT DISCIPLINE. -\ B ???? ' The Pay and Armament of Ge*? Hfj man Soldiers ? Their Daily Duties?The Other Great HBj Armies ot Europe. ?Gfl Berlin, and Germany itself for that matter, writes a correspondent of the New York Sun, reminds the stranger of a huge military barracks. There ard H soldiers everywhere, and every man in IMj the country, from the son of a monarclf Hi to the lowliest beggar, mast serve in thfl army. From this tnere is no appeal A IB million marks will not purchase immu nity from the service. It has made stalwart, methodical, fine-looking and H well-bred lot of men of the Germans. The army is the most common of aU HH subjects of discussion here. There are several branches which fall under thd H9 nominal command of the lesser German Hfl Kings in time of peace, but the Emperor of Germany is absolute monarch when- Hfl war breaks out. He-is a good deal .of & H monarch at other times, too, one flnd^ JJ Aiif offav A oV?vaoi^onaA in CoFniAiW I. vuw aibgi u oaa\JL? IMXUCUVV IU muumuj?I I met an officer of the Saxon branch of H the army last night whom I had knowii'/^H when he was in New York some yearsago. V "I'm in the army for good and aI}.;-:^H now," he said, with a shrug of his broad shoulders, "and recent events reconcile B| me to it." , , "You think the general.stirringnp of IB the Government here will turn gut & H| benefit to military men?" i). H| "I think that the accession to power H of a born soldier and warrior like our Crown Prince will send the finest army HB in the world to the [front. Prince Will- fl lam is ambitious and capable. With H| such a sovereign the chances of distinc- -HQ tion in the army will be limitless. :-J "It is well you look for distinctioninr HH stead.of money m the army." ^ ^Bj "Oh, there is no money in.the service-^ 1 here. Our soldier receives?I will giv9>^B the - equivalent sum in United States IB monev?about 11.18 for every ten dan? HB service, from which he has to pay th^ H| mess fifty-seven cents for.ten days' eating. A man can't acquire a fortune with. breathless rapidity at this rate unless- he, ^B practices a good deal of economy. The ,H| Government gives every man a pound. and a quarter of bread a day,' but the-^^B soldier must buy all necessary articles for ^B cleaning his uniform. Everything in th$-^^B way of linen, boots and clothing is sup^Hj plied by the nation." Hi "Have the arms been changed!" "The latest and most valuable inven?.,^H tidhs are secured1- at any cost Our pri- - ^B vate3 now carry the '84 repeating rifle.' MB The cannons are made by Krupp, of sen. The men are worked nard, JbutBB they seem to thrive on it. The average- |H private has four hours1 work inthemorn- /^H ing and about three hours in the after- B noon. In the evening he is taught: to- ^^B read and write, and is also instructed in fl| matters pertaining to the army. The- :^B men clean the barracks and do all thflp -Hj work# about the building. Between H| sixty and eighty of them sleep in every BB fTnrmitrtrir nnw hilt in t.hft newest haT? '^B racks only fifteen or twenty men w2Ts sleep in a room. A corporal command*.;j and watches over them. They can ?*&! practice shooting when ordered to b the commanding officer. Every soldier^: carries about thirty cartridges." 'The discipline is very aevere," said. "Very," said the Major. "It muft-.,. be; for there are many insidious and re-. bellious spirits at work in Germany now, and the iron hand is "the only on?that commands respect. A aoldier receives two days'imprisonment if hefaila to salute an officer when .he &es him.>It has a tendency to cure absent-mindedness. Soldiers must be at home in bar-' racks at 10 o'clock p. h., unless written consent to stay out later, signed by aifc officer; and finally, an officer cannot~ marry a girl who has a fortune of -her own of less than $10,000.. There arelots of restrictions in the life, but th?nfficers and men love it nevertheless." The number of'soldiers who will bd- M at the back of the coming Emperor of .H Germany is enough to keep Europe'seyes open. The future monarch is the H idol of the army. He comes from- the- H marriage of a Guelph and a Hohenzol- H lern, just as Frederick the Great dia^ . and he hates the English and the French. H It will be a shrewd prophet who Can H tell what he will do when he Jnds him- Bfl self at thenation's head. The' available force in Germany in case of war may be H roughly estimated as follows. Everj H German must serve; no substitution ia- /^H allowed: W Officers 35,000- Bj ILen in active service 1,500,000 H 7<W TH? B 1 ue XJlSUUUVll J One-year volunteers and Landsturm division.. .1 : l,15O,0Q0: v Trained and active soldiers.,.,. 3,385,000 Estimated number to be drawn from those not inactive service.. 2,900,00(WTotal available force of all < classes 6,285,000In addition the army ha9 at its dis- ' posal 312,731 horses and 2500 guns. - 1 Before I leave fgures it may be of in- v terest to show the forces that this army may have to meet?or may make its af-, lie?, according to the temper of sover~ ; cigns and the skill of diplomatists. The reccnt addition of 700,000 men to th?" German army lifts it to the head of the I list, but there are mighty forces in Eui rope, and the next war will be a scene ot i awful slaughter, if the military expert? are to be believed. The following figures give the trained and active war strength of four nations: j. Strength of Army- [' Population. Pence. War. . H| | Infantry..443,600 S,200,000 Germany....47.000,000 - Horse.... 81,000 81S.781 (Guns 1,S?4 2,600 . (Infantry.,290,000 1,070,000 Austria 83,000,000-< Horse.... 52.0'0 805,000 fl (Guns l.rOO \SOO I Infantry..750,000 1,900,000 H Rcseia 103,000,000 < Horse.... !30.000 466,000 (Guns 1,300 2,500 f infantry. .610, COO 1,600,000 H France 3S,000,000Horse.... 125,WO 8*5,000 B (Gant.;... l,siO 2,600 K i j :v *5^1 Cared bj the New Snake-Bite Remedy. It is said that the investigation intO:',*H the remedy for snake bites which has I been in progress at the National Museum fl has been successful. The antidote was fl iirst tried with great success on chickens, jH dogs, and pigs which had been bitten fcy B gar'.er and rattlesnakes. Last week .Mr. Edward S. Iiheem, in handling a 9 large rattlesnake was Diuen severely, me nn fangs of the reptile drawing blood from B| his arm. After the poison had begun H to spread the remedy was applied. Its effect was most satisfactory. Mr. llheem H soon recovered and is now as well as Bj ever.? Washington Post. In many cases the veil is worn to the K chin, covering the entire face and tight* I ly drawn. They nre sometimes of very H light gray silk tissue, are knotted be- H hind, the long ends brought around the I throat to the front and tied there in a fl voluminous bow. But generally the n veils consist of a yard of dotted tulle, dark red, black, or white with black JM