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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
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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.
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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
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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*.
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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
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^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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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THE GERMAN ARMY. I
ITS GREAT STRENGTH AND PEA* Hfl
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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.
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"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
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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
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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