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I THE PIVOTAL STATE. t j ? Conventions of the Two Leading Parties in New York. ? : The Delegates-at-Large Selected and Platforms Adopted. State Conventions for the selection of Delegates-at-Large to the National Conventions have been held in New York by the two leading parties?the Democrats in New York City on Tuesday, and the Republicans at Buffalo on Wednesday. We give | below a summary of the proceedings of both Conventions in chronological order. The Democratic Convention. The New York Democratic Convention for the nomination of delegates to the National | Convention was held in the Academy of Music, New York City, and was fully at- J tended by delegates from every section of the State. Chairman Edward Murphy, Jr., of the State Committee,called the convention to order, and Frederic R. Coudert, of New York City, was made Temporary Chairman. The Delegates-at-Large elected to the National Convention at St Louis are: Ros well P. Flower and Edward Cooper, of New ? _ York; Alfred C. Chapin, of Brooklyn, and George Raines, of Rochester. Tbe platform adopted is as follows: "The representatives of tbe Democratic party in the State of New York assembled for the purpose of selecting delegates who shall make known theDemocratic?eirtiments of the State at the approaching National Convention of the party, direct thoughtful attention to the fact that all the pledges and assurances made at the Democratic Convention of 1884 have been fully kept and realized. The allegiance and adherence of the State Democracy to the principles announced by the Convention of 1887 are hereby again * 1 "* 1* -5A 1 aeciarea, witn an uxpuuii sppi-ovu ui iuc doctrines affirmed in tfie last annual message of the President to the Congress, that unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation; that taxation for the mere purpose of unfairly benefiting the few at the expense of the many is a perversion of the national power; that the correction of the evils resulting from such a system will best serve the healthful condition of American industry and enterprise and promote the public welfare; that a large surplus in the National Treasury drawn by victous taxation from the channels of trade is a dangerous and indefensible abuse, and that in reducing taxation the interest of American labor should be carefully regarded. "The Democracy of the State is justly proud of the fact that one of its members was selected to carry to a successful issue in the last National campaign the contest for the supremacy of the principles of popular government and for ths defeat and destruction of the false theories and corrupt practices which threatened the happiness and welfare of the American people. His wise 'guidance and administration or pa one affairs as Chief Executive of the nation has exhibited to the Democracy of the land and to all our citizens the value and the beneficent results of a faithful dis r charge of public duty. During his incum'bency our system of government has been restored to the honest simplicity impressed upon it by its founders. Integrity and ability have been substituted for artifice and incapacity in public places, the civil service has been purified, elevated andjimproved, economies nave been inaugurated, useless offices have been abolished and business methods have been introduced in the management of Government affairs, millions of acres of the public domain have been wrested from the grasp of foreign and domestic speculators and restored to settlers seeking homes. The waste and corrupt misuse of funds appropriated for the rebuilding of our navy nave been exposed and corrected, and the scandals arising therefrom no longer offend the moral sense of the people. Thousands of the names of deserving union veterans nave oojh auue,i to the pension rolls, the right of every citizen has been maintained at home and abroad, sectional hate has been discouraged and friendly relations among all our people have V been promoted. " In the light of such achievements, recognition of faithful public service, to the end that reforms already inaugurated may be fully completed, and in strict obedience to the mandate of the Democratic and independent voters of the State, the delegates selected by this Convention are instructed to present to the National Democratic Convention the name of Grover Cleveland as their candidate for President of the United States, and said delegates are further instructed to act as a unit in all matters intrusted to their charge, said action to be determined by the vote or a majority or delegates. Resolutions were also adopted denouncing "Trusts'' and the "so-called Saxton Electoral Reform bill passed by the Legislature," and approving "the eminently wise, conservative and honorable administration of Governor HilL" Oswald Ottendorfer and Wilson S. Bissell, President Cleveland's law partner, headed the list of Presidential Electors as Electors-at< _ Large. The Republican Convention. The Republican Convention for the selection of Delegates-at-Large to the National Convention opened in Music Hall, Buffalo, with a large attendance, every district being T "V > -* <- avuau^/, vutMtuiuu vi uuu State Committee, called the conventioD to -order. Charles K Fitch, of Monro:, was made Temporary Chairman. A Committee on Organization was appointed by the Chair and the meeting adjourned to await its action. At five p. m. the Convention reassembled and it was announced that ex-Senator Edmund L. Pitts, of Medina, had been selected as Permanent Chairman. Mr. Pitts was conducted to the Chair, and he announced that the election of Delegates-at-Large was the next thing in or Tier, Al^Uot was then taken, and Senator Frank Hiscock, CZ-.\^Pator Warner Miller, Chauncey M and ex-5?n?^?r Thomas -C. Piatt," were uneslncu^ as Delegates-at-Large to the Republican National Convention. These delegates go to Chicago uninstructed for any candidate lor the Presidency. The alternates to the delegates-at-large chosen were ex-Senator James Arkell, David A. Baldwin, Senator 'Rainoa ex-Senator Daniel H. 'McMillan. I Mr. Bliss, from the Committee on Resolutions, then read to the convention the foliowling platform, and the document was adopted unanimously by the Convention: j "The Republicans of New York in conven"tion assembled, certain that the National convention at Chicago will present candidates for President ani Vice-Presidenj -vrhose devotion to American ideas an:i Tto the protection of labor, agricmlture and manufactures will command tbo approval ol the people, pledge to the Republican standard bearers in the National contest their united and zealous support, and enter upon th? canvass confident of victory. "-fteso/wdjThat all questions relating to tht policy of the Republican party as to the Na tional and State policy be referred to the Republican National and State conventions re ispectively to be held during the present year. "Resolved, That we approve the action o the Republican members of Con?res3 in op nosini the Mil's tariff hill, so-called, and we urge them to persevere in defeating e very de vice intended to place upon the statute book the free trade theories of Mr. Cleveland's annual message." y The following tribute to the memory of the late Roscoe Conk ling was also passed by a risinsr vote: "Whereas, by the death of Roscoe Colliding the Republican party has lost one of its most brilliant ana intrepid leaders, the State one of its most gifted sons, the nation one of its most distinguished citizens and the cause of human right one of its most eminent defenders; therefore " Resolved, We deeply deplore his untimely death, and his deeas ana memory are a priceless legacy, and will ever be an inspiration to the statesman and patriot. ' Sergeant Major Chatelain, of the French army, was tried by court martial at Marseilles on a charge of trying to sell a new Lebel rifle and a number of cartridges to the German Government. He was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the fortress and to forfeiture of his rank and medal. A man calling hims9lf William Shipsoy, a convict who escaped from Sing Sing Prison in 1873, has just surrendered voluntarily to Bead Keeper Connaughton. of that institution, and has begun to serve out his ten ye?t sentence. i Detectives Have a'ready travnled over 32,000 miles in search of Tascott, tUe Chicago murderer of Millionaire Snell, but thus fai not one reliable clew to his movements since the night of the murder has yet been difr J BflhhflPVWvL - THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Sixteen persons were hurt in a collision between two trains on the Erie railroad, near Jersey City, N. J. Littlewood, the English pedestrian, won the six days' go-as-you-please walking match in Madison Square Garden, New York, his his score being Oil miles; Guerrero 590, Herty 573, Noremac 533, and Golden 530. Henry Disston's extensive saw works at Philadelphia have been destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $300,000. About 1800 workmen are affected. Thomas Kehoe and Minor McNamara, of Greenbush, N. Y., were fatally injured by their horee backing with them over a thirtyfive foot embankment. President Cleveland has written Colonel R. H. Thomas, Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Grange. Patrons of Husbandry, that he will visit tne Inter-State Exposition at Williams Grove, Term., in August. Tab New York State Democratic Convention met at New York city and elected delepates to the*National Presidential Convention who are instructed to support Cleveland for re-nomination. Roswell P. Flower and Edward Cooper, of New York; Alfred C. Chapin, of Brooklyn, and George Raines, of Rochester, were elected delegafces-at-large. The platform calls for tariff reform. Lindley T. Brown, an old farmer, was fored to death by a ball at Gap Station, enn. Mrs. Phcebe Travis, tbe well-known centenarian, the oldest living person in New York, who was born in Putnam county Christmas Day, 1783, and married in 1800, died a few days ago at Career on, N. Y. Ronth and West. A hospital for the treatment of hydrophobia after the Pasteur method is about to be established in San Antonio Texas. Mrs. Robert Mulligan, of Wheeling, W. Va., gave birth to her twenty-fifth child a few days ago. A crowd of about one hundred men hanged a colored farm hand near Bowling Green, Ky. A farmer has had about twenty horses poisoned during the past year, and the oolnreri man w.is KiinrvncoH tn hfl thn miiltv party. At Vandalia, I1L, Henry Miller murdered L. C. Kinsey and killed his horse. Then he' shot at 'William Aderholt, killing him instantly. Miller after that went to his own house, set it on fire, and ?hot himself. He had been beaten in a suit against Aderholt in which Kinsey was a witness. Great damage has been done by freshets along the courses of the Mississippi and Red Rivers in Iowa, Missoari, Illinois and Arkansas. Mrs. Ida Jordon, wife of a wealthy grain dealer at Indianapolis, Ind., administered a fatal dose of poison to b?r four-year-old child, and then cut her own throat with a razor. J. Luske & Co., of San Francisco, CaL, operating the largest establishment for can ning fruits and vegetables m the world,nave made an assignment, with liabilities estimated to be $300,000. Zeph Davis has been hanged at Chicago for murdering a little child with a hatchet He was the first colored man ever executed in Illinois. Frank Mat was caught bv a saw at Fort Republic, Va., and his body cut in two. The entire business portion of Goldendale, Washington Territory, has been swept away by fire. The town had no fire department with which to fight the flames. The total loss will reach $175,000. Governor Taylor has been nominated by the Democrats of Tennessee for re-election. Acting Secretary of State Rives has received a cable message from Consul Lewis at Tangier, saying that all the questions of disagreement between Morocco and the United States had been settled, and that he had gained all the points contended for. Washington. The President has approved the joint resolution accepting the invitation of the French Republic to take part in an International Exposition to be heid in Paris in 1839. The House has adopted a resolution to meet hereafter at 11 a. m., and to adjourn at 5. o'clock. The House Committee on Postoffices and ! Prtct-rnorlc Vine a fflvnralilo ronnrt. nn J Chairman Blount's bill to provide a general law for the erection of postofflce buildings. The Postmaster General is authorized to construct postoffice buildings at any place at which the gross postal receipts for two years or more shall have exceeded $3000 in each year. The joint resolution appropriating $30,000 for representing the United States at the Brussels International Exposition has been signed by the President. John bigelow.of New York,has accepted the appointment as United States Commissioner at the Brussels Exposition. Foreign. John Dillon, the Irish Home Rule leader, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment without hard labor for inciting tenants to resist the landlords. Recent cablegrams from Berlin state that the German Emperor's condition is somewhat improved. A steamer was sunk in the Seine, near Paris, and fourteen lives were lost. A crazy cavalry officer, named Timoflef, made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Czar of Russia. All the Australian colonies have agreed to hold a conference on the subject of prohibiting Chinese emigration after the plan of the United State3. The Russian Count Strogonoff and his i sister, Princess Tscherbaotoff, with an escort ' of 150 men, have been captured in Asia 1 Minor by a tribe of Kurd nomads, who de- ^ mand aa immense ransom before releasing ; them. ( L. Volcanic eruption and a waterspout j have occurred in New Pomerania, New < Guinea, doing immense damage. Many natives and three Germans wero killed. I Admiral Sir William He wet r, of the i British Navy, Commander of the Channel Fleet, died at Portsmouth, England. G. F. Stuart, the American Consul at New Britain, has been wantonly murdered. The ' natives of the island had been fighting and they asked the Consul to arbitrate He - ? - 11 A. 4. 1 attempted to ao so, waeu no was auawm by one party and had a narrow escape, retreating through the bush. The natives kept after him and finally killed him. New South Wales has determined not to admit any more Chinese laborers to the colony unless they come provided with naturalization papers. The British government proposes to expend an amount equal to about 817,250,000 in defense works for the Australian colonies, j for Malta, Gibraltar and numerous coaling stations. A heavy freight, running at full speed, plunged into a crowded passenger train at 1 St. Petersburg, Russia, causing a great loss ] of life. Eleven bodies were taken from the ( ruins and thirty persons were injured fa- , tally. ] KICH VALLEYS INUNDATED. ; The Mississippi River Destroys the i Great Suy Levee. Specials from several points along the upper Mississippi River give accounts of great losses to the property owners and vast i inundations. The levee that protects the Sny bottoms gave way at an early hour J Monday morning, and the men who were engaged in strengthening the levee had to . run for their lives. An opening 100 yards wide was made and ; the water rashei through and into the bot- j toms with a roar. Couriers hastened i through the bottoms warning farn.ers of the break, and there was a wild chase, driving the live Btock to the highlands. The bottoms are in Illinois, embrace about one hundred thousand acres of land and reach fr >m a point opposite Louisiana, Mo., to a point opposite Hannibal. At the broadest plate they are nearly five mi!e3 wide and the o verflo w makes a great and turbulent sea. The break oc- j curred at Murphy's Bay, known as Turkey's : Foot. The last inundation in these bottoms j was in 1881. At 6 o'clock the Indian Grove Levee gave way and submerged 14,000 acres of lowland, 5000 acres of which were planted in wheat The lovee broke about six miles above Quincy, 111. For many hours men worked hard to save the levee By sinking barges fllloi with bay and rocks,'but t> no avail, and the break came so suddenly that they "were obliged to flee for their lives. On the Missouri aid.' the jtyreak at Alexandria has caused a great sea *. \ . \ MEXICAN TRAIN ROBBERI The Murderous Work of Six Masked Bandits. After Killing Four Men They Obtain Only $130 Booty, One of the most desperate train robberies that has ever occurred in the Southwest took place Saturday night about ten o'clock at Aqua Zarca, a small station on the Sonora Railroad, twelve miles south of Nogales, Arizona,in Mexico. The train left Nogales a little after nine o'clock and consisted of two passenger coaches, a baggage, express, and mail car, and five freight cars. Just as the train slowed up at the Aqua Zarca siding to take wood there were several shots fired, and Fireman Forbes fell IvkfiMAn fka naK on/1 Hi UUO pOOQt^jU TT D?J- uvvnwu VUO Vi*U MUU tender and died instantly, a large load of buckshot having struck him in the front part of the body. James Gray, the engineer,. jumped from his seat through the cab window, and secreted himself under the engine, thereby escaping. Almost immediately after the first fire the robbers made for the express oar and shot Isaac Hay, the messenger. One shot struck Hay in the head and another in the body, making u fatal wound. Conductor Louis Atkinson, who was in the baggageear.started out and was fatally shot just as be stepped out of the car door. W. H. French, a passenger, who was formerly a conductor on the Sonora road, but who is now on>the Mexican Central, was standing 4-1 J n.AO okAf ;n fk? Ill bUC WOtu auu TTOO ouuu m vuo bo iy, the ball passing through his body and lodging in his arm. When the robbers got into the express car the messenger, who had fallen to the floor at the first shot, feigned death, and the robbers turned liini over and took from his pocket the key to the safe, a small iron box. After getting the key they could not unlock the box, ana three of them carried it off. The passengers, of whom there was a large number, made a rush for the forward part of the train, but were met in the third-class apartment of t'nohforward coach by some of the robbers, and warned by one of the robbers, who spoke English well, to "Get back; get back." There were two Mexican customs guards'on the train?two guards go on each train in Mexico?and they were covered with guns and told to keep quiet, as were also all the passengers who were armed. Soon after the safe had been taken from the car eight Mexican customs line guards, who were encamped half a mile north of the station and bad heard the firing, appeared on the scene, but the robbers baa made their ascnne. The trainmen then side-tracked the freight, and brought the remainder of the train with the wounded back to Nogales. As soon as the train arrived a posse was made up and the train again started on its trip, taking the posse as far as the scene of the robbery, where they got off and followed th? Mexican customs guards who were on the trail of the robbers. The posse that pursued found the express safe a short distance from the siding. It had been unlocked, and the contents about J130 in American money and some papers, taken out There were six robbers in the party, all Mexicans, and all wore masks. They fired about a dozen shots. After leaving the train they took a southerly course for some distance, and then turned north for the purpose, it is supposed, of reaching the line and crossing into the United States. Soon after the train got back to Nogales Conductor Atkinson breathed his last The express messenger and French were both fatally shot. Conductor Atkinson and Fireman I'orbis. both of whom leave families, were buried next afternoon and their funerals attended by the major portion of the townspeople. Nearly all places of business were closed. A TOWN WRECKED, Havoc Caused in a Town In Colorado by Giant Powder. A collision between four cars and a caboose jf a freight train, and a passenger train on ;he Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Road at Fountain, CoL, caused a terriffic explosion of i can of giant powder at 3:20 o'clock ;his morning. The explosion killed three persons instantly, mortally injured three sore, and almost destroyed the entire towa Lt tore a hole ten feet deep and thirty by sixty feet in area in the earth, threw ron rails three hundred yards, scattered debris for half a mile, and demolished )r damaged every structure in the place. The report was heard for 20 miles and iwakened nearly every person in Colorado Springs. Its fearful effect can only be imigined and not described with any approach :o the true horror of the situation,which was leightened by the burning of a car )f naphtha ani the flames which issued fcam i half dozen burning ears and th9 whole'sta;ion buildings. The killed were: C. P. Smith, mnhor denier of Fonntain. formerly1 of Keokuk, Iowa. He leaves a family. ^Villain Whitman, disabled railroad brakeman, >C Greenland, Col.; Mrs. P. P. Widrig, of Fountain, a millinar. Those who are mortally wounded are: Lawrence "VVeibert, carpenter, of Fountain; 1 "W. Hutchina, merchant, of Fountain. FIBST IN THE FIELD. rhe Equal Rights Party Nominates Belva Lockwood for President. The national convention of the Equal Rights Party met in Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesiay afternoon. The convention was called to order by Mrs. Nettie Sanford Cbapin, of Marshalltown, Chairman of the National Committee. The arrangements had been made so that delegates unable to attend jould send their ballots by mail. The Convention procaeded to count the ballots thus received, with the following remit: For President, Belva A. Lockwood, of Washington: for Vice-President, Alfred H. Love, of Philadelphia. They received 310 votes and were declar.d duly nominated. There were 40 votes scattering for Blaine, Allison, General Clinton B. Fish, Elizabeth Cadv Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and others. The Convention adopiei a platform favoring woman suffrage, pen sions for all needy soldiers and sailors, pro tective tariff, with free sugar and lumner, and repeal of tax on whisky and tobacco and against unrestricted emigration, after which the Convention adjourned sine die. A PiaEON_SERViCE. Swift Birds to be Utilized by the Signal Otlice. The establishment of a pigeon message service in connection with the signal office at Key West, Fla., is a foregone conclusion, since the order has iust been promulgated by Seneral Greely, who has the matter in charge, I for the necessary loft fixture and training basket to be filled at once. The order includes nest pans, perches, drinking fountains. bath pans, and mating cages, also twenty-four baskets for carrying six birds and twelve baskets with a capacity of nine birds. The loft will be prepared to accommodate 500 birds, nsovidenced by the requirements of 500 leg bands to be marked "United States Signal Service, Key West, Fla.," and numbered from 1 to SOU consecutively. Tha first purpose of this service is to bring the adjacent islands, especially the Bahamas, into communication with Key West and thence by cable with the main land. Those familiar with the use of pigeons as message bearers in Europe, and who know the conditions under whicn the birds of this Key West flight are to be used, believe the experiment will bo a success. The only drawback they sea is tha loss of birds in the sudden storms. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Evert year sinco Dr. uamroscrrs aeata Fraulein Brandt, the contralto, wends her way to Woodlawn Cemetery, New York, and lays a cross of flowers on his grave. Manager Abbey's receipts from Patti's first performance at Buenos Avres were $22,000. Patti's receipts for this nUht were 111,000, the highest fee ever paid to any prima donna for a single performance. Otto Hegner, the new piano prodigy, over whom London is goin; into raptures, is said by careful critics to be gaining the hearty approval of professional pianists. He looks younger than his alleged ele /cn years, and is a pretty boy, with curly black hair and Intelligent face. ~ : SUMMARY OF OONOSE33, Senate Proceeding*. 92d Dat.?Senator Spooner introduced & bill providing for an issue of new bonds. The new securities are to be known as two-andone-half per cent interchangeable bonds, payable, principal and interest, in coin, and bearing two-and-one-half per cent, interest, payable in fifty years....Mr. Vest offered a resolution for the appointment of a select committee of five Senators to examine fully all questions touching the meat product of the United States, and especially as to the transportation of beef and beef cattle and the sale of the same in the cattle markets.... Senator Stewart, of Nevada, introduced a bill proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, so as to reduce from two-thirds to a majority the vote in each House overriding Presidential vetoes Senator Cameron introduced a bill relating to the Naval Academy. It provides that appointments made from the graduates of the Academy to positions in the lower grades of the Line or of the Engineer Corps of the Navy and the Marine Corps shall be not less than nineteen each year, distributed as follows: Fourteen to the Line, four to the En gineer Corps and one to tbe Marine Corps. 93d Day.?Mr. Hoar called up for action the report of the Privileges and Elections Committee on the Turpie case. Mr. Chandler dissented from the statement in the report that the Senate had no right to go into the question of the legality of elections of members of State legislatures?A joint resolution to amend the Constitution so as to allow the District of Columbia representation in Congress was introduced... .The Committee on Privileges and Elections was discharged from farther consideration in the matter of Senator Turpie....The House bill to limit the hours of letter-carriers was taken up and passed. It provides that eight hours shall constitute a day's work for letter-carriers Mr. Piatt introduced a bill for the appointment of a Commission to inquire into the use of dynamite.... The Pension Appropriation bill was considered....The House bill to establish a Department of Labor went over without action. 94th Day,?Senator Morrill has appointed the followingsub-committee to consider tariff and revenue subjects: Allison, Aldrich, Hiscock, Beck and Harris..'..Mr. Edmunds offered a resolution to amend the rules so as to make it the duty of the presiding officer of the Senate, whenever any general legislation i?* a fl-a?anal onnrnnriqt.inn nill f?nm. lu a uuv. ? -rff ? ing from the House, to direct the same to be struck out, subject to an appeal to the Senate ....The resolution providing for a select committee to examine the questions touching moat and meat products of the United States was taken up, and Mr. Vest proceeded to address the Senate on the subject.... The Senate passed the following bills: House bill changing the name of the port of Lamberton, N. J., to that of Trenton; the Senate bill for the issue gratuitously of meteorological instruments to voluntary observers in the Signal Service; the Senate bill for the presentation of the badges to the officers and men of the Greely relief expedition; the Senate bill fixing pensions for the loss of one eye at |16 a month, and proportionately for the loss of both eyes;, the Senate bill allowing aid to State homes for disabled soldiers at the rate of $100 a year for each disabled soldier and sailor maintained, and appropriating $350, 000 for that purpose; tne senate dius to pay various claimants for cotton taken by General Burnside to strengthen military works at Knoxville, Tenn.; tne Senate bill appropriating $500,000 for the beginning of the construction of a boat-railway in Oregon or Washington Territory around the obstructions to navigation in the Columbia River. Hon we Proceeding* 111th Day.?The House went into Committee of the Whole and the discussion of the Mills Tariff Reform bill was continued. Mr. Scott, of Pennsylvania made a lengthy speech in support of the measure. He was followed by Messrs. Gear and Haugen, who opposed any tariff reduction, and they by Mr. Dibble, who advocated the passage of the Mills bill. 113th Day.?A resolution wasjintroduced, which was unanimously agreed to, prolonging the Tariff debate a week beyond the time previously fixed upon....The House then went into Committee of the Whole and Mr. Kelley addressed the body on the subject a# Witlo kill tta -nroa fnllnnrAH in a. lengthy speech by Mr. Milliken. 113th Day.?a bill was passed authorizing the loan of arms and equipments to the ancient and honorable artillery company of Massachusetts.... The House then went into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Springer in the chair) on the Tariff bill, and was addressed by Mr. Hatch, who spoke in favor of that measure. The debate was further continued by Messrs. O'Nealland Stone....The House Committee on Invalid Pensions reported a bill-proposing to remove the restriction upon the payment of arrearages of pension in the case of claims filed before the passage of the bilL This measure, if passed, wouldC03tthe Government 1250,000,000,... A constitutional amendment was offered proposing to extend the term of office of the President and Vice-President to six years, and to make the President ineligible for a second term. 114th Day.?A conference committee was appointed on the Northwestern Exposition bill....The House passed the Senate bill granting right of way through the Cceur d'Alene Indian reservation to the Washington and Idaho Railroad Company....The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Tariff bill, and Mr. Butterworth of Ohio took the floor in opposition to the bill....Mr. Wise, of Virginia, from the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for a detailed statement of the work being done in deepening the Sandy Hook ship tktVvtt wnrlr Vinrl not". ULittULlCI, auu CUMUg nuj vuo nwin mv. been pushed forward more rapidly. Adopted. 115th Day.?The House met at ten o'clock and went into the Committee of the Whole (Mr. Springer in the chair) on the Tariff bill. The debate ou the subject was opaned by Mr. Baker, who spoke in support of tne protective tariff. He was followed by Messrs. Bound and Bayne. A lively discussion over the bill took place between Mr. Scott and Mr. Dalzell. NEWSY GLEANINGS, Austrian newspapers look upon war with Russia as inevitable. Thirteen new National banks went into operation during ApriL There are 600,030 Masons and 550,300 Odd Fellows in the United States. Barnesvtllis, Ga., has fixed the prioe of saloon licenses at $3,000 a year. Charleston, W. Va, has just given itself a rousing Centennial celebration, Mb. Miller, of Manlius, N. Y., has just lost six of his ten children by diphtlnria. Bessemer, Ala., is just one year oia, ana has between thi?a and four thousand inhabitants. Speaker Carlisle gives it as his opinion that Congress will not adjourn before September. It is stated that over 10,000 American pianos have been shipped to Russia in the last ten years. It is believed that if Bismarck retired, the new German Chancellor would be HohenloheSchillingfurst. It is reported from the Swiss Tyrol that the chamois have been destroyed wholesale by avalanches. In a Pittsburg iron mill a man's nose was cut off. and a physician had it on again inside of an hour. Dr. Everett Wagner, a Kentucky physician, in h;s will bequeathed his body piecemeal to relatives. A treaty of international traffic by rail has j'ust been signed between Chili and the Argentine Republic. In Brenham, Texas, natural gas in force to run a ten-horse power engine has been struck at the depth of 163 feet The maple sugar crop of Vermont is now estimated at I5,000,0'j0 pounds, including 300,000 gallons of syrup. James W. Fisk dropped from a balloon nearly a railo high at Paris, 111., and by means of a parachute landed safely. As the Boston Globe figures, the net profit of the billiard tabies kept in that city is snmethine over $2,000,000 annually. J udge Pugh has issued a mandamus ordering the Cincinnati Police Board to enforce the Sunday saloon closing laws. Frksh discoveries of gold have been made in Wales, the yield being estimated at five ounces of pure gold to the ton of matter excavated. A.t Fort Garland, Col., Billy Carson, son of the famous Kit. lately shot and killed his father-in law, Thomas Tobin, an almost eauallv noted s:out. Alfred Bmines died In Mexico, Mo., recently, at the age of ninety-eight yoars He had been a Mason for seventy-five years, and was said to be the oldest member of the order in the world. - ' 7- . ' ^ ' ' * FROM FAR AND NEAR. Dispatches of Unusual Interest From Various Quarters. Government Assistance for Building an Air Ship. Mr, A. De Bausset, of Chicago, who has invented the plan of an air ship for carrying freight and passengers through the atmosphere, has received a recognition of his scheme from the House Committee on Vent!-, lation and Acoustics, to which his bill was referred early in the session. Mr. De Bausset desired Congress to appropriate $150,030 to construct the ship. The bill as favorably reported provides that no money shall be put into the scheme by the government until Mr. De Bausset has put $75,000 into the enterprise and a commis - -i.-J I i.U. CI 4. i-U- XT-?? a Lou appuiuu*! uy lbb oecreutry ui mwiitivv is satisfied that the progress with the work is being made. The government will then advance $75,000 and another $75,000 will be paid to the inventor after a successful test of the ship shall have been made. Secretary Whitney is authorized to give Mr. De Bausset the use of the Washington Navy Yard for this purpose. Mr. De Bausset's invention consists of a metallic vessel divided into compartments and otherwise suitably braced ana strengthened against external weight or pressure,and of requisite size, so that when sufficiently exhausted of air it will by displacement of a bulk of external air greater than ito weight rise in tho air and sustain and carry a desired burden; said vessel to be provided with pumps for exhausting the air; also with rapidly revolvable blades or propellers for moving and for steering it; also with means for transporting, passengers and freight, the whole to constitute a conveyance for rapid passage at short or long distances, as for overland or for transoceanic passage and for general purposes of commerce, exploration, observation, etc. M. De Bausset is very confident of the practicability of his scheme, and this confidence appears to be shared by a number of .Representatives wno nave investigated tne matter. Brazilian EmanpipStion of Slaves. Advices from Rio Janeiro state that the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill for the immediate abolition of slavery. Senor Antonio Prado has arrived from St. Paulo and, as was previously arranged when he entered the John Alfredo Ministry, isabout to exchange portifolio3 with Senor Rodrigo da Silva so as to treat of the slave question as Minister of Agriculture. The measure he has prepared declares slavery extinct at once, out obliges the freedmen to serve until next Christmas, receiving wages. Another provision prohibits the exit of freedmen from their county for two years, and severe penalties are imposed for idleness. Full returns have at last been obtained of the slave registration of March 30, 1887. The total number was 728,410, of the declared value of 485,225,212 milreis, or about 240 millions of dollars. It is estimated, however, that emancipations and deaths have already reaucea tne aoove numoer ro ow,uw, wnosa value of 400 millions milreis will represent the pecuniary sacrifice the Brazilian slaveowners will be called upon to make this year. Emancipation by counties is going on rapidly in all parts of the empire. The Town Council of Rio has at last induced the Bishop of Bio Janeiro to abandon his policy of neutrality, and to promise his influence toward the proximate extinction of slavery within the boundaries of Rio. A Colored Preacher Hanged. George McDuffie, the colored preacher who murdered "William Cheney, also colored, was hanged at 12:30 o'clock, Friday, in Greensborough, Ga. He said he was fully prepared. The execution was in the jaiL Cheney was paying attention to Sarah Haines, a colored widow. McDuffie was also devoting himself to the woman, and was jealous of Cheney. He threatened to kill his rival. The murder was committed on the night of September 17. The public road going from Woodville to William Young's passed within a quarter of a mile of McDuffie's house. Leading from his house to the road was a narrow rath, ana iust where the path joined Oae road "was a thicket of small pines and undergrowth. On that night McDuffie took his gun, and going down to the road, secreted himself in the bushes. About 10 o'clock Cheney and Sarah returned from church. They were walking up the road arm in arm. All unconscious of the assassin lying in ambash, they turned into the path and started toward the bouse. At that moment McDuffie rose from the bushes with an oath, raised his gun, and fired, and the load plowed a great hole in Cheney's side. With a groan he sank to the ground, while the woman began screaming as soon as the deed was done. McDuffie turned and fled. A Lunatic's Fatal Leap. Miss Ellen B. Miner, an inmate of the Columbus (Ohio) Insane Asylum from Harrisod County, has committed suicide. She had been closely watched, having previously attempted destruction. Friday she found the door to an ante-room unlocked, ann at onoe ascended to the skylight, which she broke through, and reached the roof before her absence was noticed. From the roof the unfortunate woman t'nmnpH tn tfiA oronnH. a distance of sixtv feetliielow. She did sot lose consciousness, but talked rationally after being carried into the building. She lived but 15 minutes after the fatal leap. Singular as it may appear not a bone in her body was broken. Boodlers in Shackles. Ex-Warden Varnel and ex-County Commissioner Wasserman, Van Pelt, Leyden and Ochs, the last Ave county boodlers of Chicago, were sent to Joliet penitentiary, on a nine o'clock train Friday, to begin their term of two years' imprisonment. The once proud Commissioners had shackles on their limbs for the first time, but they seemed to accept the situation with stoical indifference. They have all been assigned to work in various departments. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Admiral Porter began life on the water at the age of nine. Kino KALAKAUA.of the Sandwich Islands, will become a coffee planter. It is said that General Baulanger is ve7y \Anii1on mifK fKo n??*r?f cor General Cogswell, of Massachusetts, fa President Cleveland's double. Prince Henry, of Germany, has had 703 different photographs of himself taken. Kino Humbert's favorite recreation ia riding on horseback through the parks of Rome. Senator Hearst, of California, recently posed for a photograph a cigar in his mouth. John Ruskin, th? ifinglish author, has written sixty-four books and his annual receipts from his publisher reach $20,000. Lord Lucas spent $800,0W to keep a railroad from crossing the place in England where Matthew Arnold, the poet, now lies buried. Cornelius Vanderbilt's income from his capital is said to be in the neighborhood of $1,000,000 a month, while that of William K. is not far behind it. Sir Morell Mackenzie, the German Emperor's physician, is really a Hebrew, ns-:ert some German papers, and his rightful nnmfiia Moro Mareowitz. Prince Oscar of Sweden and his bride have gone to Carlscrona, their future residence, in the south of Sweden. They are known as the Prince and Princess Bernadott'e. " The Prince of Wales wears a billycock hat, smokes a short pipe and driv?3 about in a hired carriage when at Cannes or Nice, and cuts everybody who attempts to treat him as a Prince. Prince Bismacrk haa been much concerned about his private affairs lately, as the inundations near Varzin swept away three of his largest sawmills, in which several hundreds of workmen were regularly employed. Justice William Strong, of the United States Supreme Court (retired),is now eighty years of age. He is a tall, flne-looking man, who does not appear to be more than sixty. His clean-cut face resembles Gladstone's, though it is not so wrinkled. Senator Palmer's favorite home is a log cabin that sits perched on the top of Fortune Hill, on hi3 Michigan farm. With an elegant home in Washington and another in Detroit, the Senator and his wife seek this cabin with eager steps and leare it with reerefc :. - r fp-.} ?w-' W:; ' ^ LATEB NEWS. The Republicans of Connecticut held theftConvention at New Haven and elected an uninstracted delegation to the National Convention. George Benson, the swindler who defrauded the Mexicans by selling them bojus tickets for the Patti concert, has committed suicide in New York, where he was awaiting extradition papers. The Ohio Democrat? met in convention at Dayton and elected a delegation to the National Convention pledged to support Cleveland. The Mills bill was approved of. The Missouri Republican Conventien at Sedalia nominated by acclamation Elbert E. Kimball, Commander of the Department of Missouri, Grand Army of the Republic, of Nevada, Mo., for Governor. A resolution was adopted declaring in favor of tariff revision. A BVlLlBjn OApiVOlUU VU a HTU yuvnwv MV Blue Creek Shoals, W. Va., killed the engineer, fireman and pilot The Nevada Republican State Convention demands the restoration of duties on lead, borax, soda, hides, leather and wool? The delegates to Chicago are headed by United States Senators Stewart and Jones. The Republicans of Alabama assembled in convention at Montgomery and nominated a State ticket, headed by W. T. Ewing for Governor. Resolutions ^rere adopted condemning the President's message and the MiL's bill. The Tennessee State Republican Convention met at Nashville and elected annninstructed delegation to the National Presidential Convention. The Democracy of Virginia, in convention assembled, adopted resolutions favoring 1 zco ?rtlrtrtf/vJ /? aTofffl fno frt fVlfl bOTlU rciuiill, auu viuvytu wv v?%. St. Louis Convention who are pledged to support Cleveland for renomination. In the Indian Nation Houston Fleetwood, owner of six thousand acres of land, and a leading Indian, was shot and killed by J. M. Trout in a quarrel about a fence. Fleetwood was unarmed. Marshal Bo wen, of Carthage, Ohio, shot and killed C. D. Phillips in the Council Chamber in the presence of the Mayor and the village officers. Bowen had refused to prosscute a man who owed Phillips $10.53. Fire in Blackville, S. C., destroyed twenty-four stores and residences. Loss, $55,000. The Republican State Convention of NeViMaVa ocanmhloH at Omaha and elected an ^instructed delegation to the National Con* vention. STBANQLED BY SUCTION. An Extraordinary Acoldent to a Little Child in Cincinnati. One of the most remark&oie accidental deaths . on record occurred the other evening on Wade street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Willie Rollwein, aged three years, stood on tiptoe rnder a nydrant in the yard, and attempted to suck water from the spOut, putting his mouth close against it. In some unaccountable way be was held there hv suction, and an hour later was found banging dead, with his face black and blue. THE NATIONAL GAME, Detroit would like Burdock, of die Bostons. Philadelphia^ are wincing under the fifty-cent tariff. Cincinnati draws better than any ot the Association clubs. 6t. Louis has a wonderful fielder and base runner in McCarthy. Dtjnlap, of the Pittsburg nine, is said to receive $7000 for the season. Morrill, first baseman of Boston, hai made but one error this season. In the first twenty games played bv the Southern League there were seven blank scorea . >. Young Mvers,of the Indianapolis team, is doing the heaviest batting of any man in the league. O'Day, of Washington, has already twice accomplished the feat of striking out three men in succession. Secretary VILAS is passionately ionaoi the national game, ana he attends all the matches at Washington. Pitcher Chamberlain has been signed bj Louisville and is to receive $1900 and $19 extra for every game he wins. Fob being caught napping at second, in one of the recent games at Louisville, Pets Browning was fined five dollars. At least eight base runners have stolen home from third base while the catcher stood at the home plate with the ball in his hand. Anson, captain of the Chicagos, has one big element of success. He infuses his team with confidence, and they all play ball to win. M anager Wright and the players of the Philadelphia club proposa to play a testimonial game for the benefit of Pitcher Ferguson's widow. In the second Mansfield-Lima game, Alleo bad seventeen chances offered him at short field and accepted fifteen of them, which is a wonderful record. Trrppw nnvflp mm sn many iniuries and ao cidents on the field as there have been this season. New York is about the only club that has not been crippled in this way. "The deuble umpire system" is only a question of time. Before long a judge of balls and strikes will be behind the plate and a ruler on base decisions will be on the infield. Is the first ten games Mike Kellr played in this season he made this record: Batting average. .447; total batting average, .735. He maae twelve runs, seventeen hits, and stole eleven bases. . The Detroit Club had to buy off "John Deppert, the individual who erected a "wildcat'' stand opposite Recreation Park and gave citizens a view of the game for ten cents. It cost the club $300 to settle Deppert Geobge Miller, of the Pittsburgs, will not be able to play for six weeks or two months. One of his ribs is broken and another fractured. Fred Pfeffer, of Chicago, who unintentionally did the damage, regrets the accident keenly. A peculiar thing happened in Brooklyn's first championship games. Pinckney struck at the first ball pitched, banged it for the first base hit, stole the first base of the season and scored the first run on the first passed ball and fielding error. President Day, of the New Yorks, has been receiving an average of thirty letters a day from cranks who make suggestions as to how to place the men on the team and what ought to be done generally. One man particularly, who leases two grand stand seats by the year, sends in a criticism of each gama In the last game of the first aeries between New York and Indianapolis, at the latter ?ity, eight home runs were made?seven by the New Yorks and one by their opponeuts. Connor alone made three of them. Three home rums were made by the New Yorks in cne inning, The score was eighteen to four in favor of New York. * Gaffne7, the umpire, and Bu3hong, the catcher, are probably the only men m the country who wear chest protectors under their shirts. They are small affairs, but an effective and great improvement over tne cumbersome big windbag that most catches use, aud wearv the sp?ctators by putting them on and off during the gama. NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD. Name of Club. Won. Lost. Chicago 15 4 Boston 15 6 New York 11 8 Detroit 12 8 Philadelphia 8 11 Pittsburg 8 12 Indianapolis 7 14 Washington S 16 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD. Kamt of CI'ib. Won. Lett. Cincinnati 18 5 Brooklyn 16 7 St. Louis 14 6 Athletic 10 11 Baltimore.... 9 11 Louisville 8 15 Cleveland 8 14 Kansas City 4 17 ' mm , * r,BB SHAKEN BY NATUBAL OAS. M Manj Destructive Explosions in HH Buffalo, N. Y. An explosion of natural gas in the kitchen H of Dr. Pierce1? Invalid's Hotel, Buffalo, N? Y., at 9 o'clock Thursday morning cau^pd a blaze that threatened the destruction of the . building. The guests were hurried EH out and preparations made to yacat? bH the hotel, but the gas was quickly turned off, Bfi| and the speedy arrival of the fire department confined the flames to the basement with slight damage. Fifteen minutes later another explosion oc- :f fl| cur rod in St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral situ- BB a ted on the triangle bounded by Erie, Church" and Pearl streets. The neavy doors of the Erie street vestibule were torn .H from their hinges,, thrown into the street and flames burst from the doorway. > > ?By the time the firemen reached the spot, the whole interior was in flames, and within half an hour the edifice was com- - H pletely gutted. The walls also crumbled ii> places ruider the intense beat, but the tall ' IH steeple remains standing and is believed to m be uninjured. HI At least a dozen other explosions occurred at different points throughout the dtjr. Ajk : explosion in the North Street Church caused a blaze, which was extinguished by the prompt action of the janitor. The residence of HarryHamlin, on Delaware avenue, also' I sustained slight damage from the same cause. M The reason assigned for the explosions is the breaking of a valve In the stand-pipe at East Buffalo, which controls thd-pressure Of gas in the city pipes. St Paul's Cathedral was one of the finest: I church edifices In Western New York, and cost #260,000. The rector is'Dr. John W? Brown, who has been ssleeted to succeed the*!. I Rev. William F. Morgan of St Thoma& H| Church, New York. The insurance on the church is $55j000, which, it is thought, will Bi ; cover the loss. IQ Just as the firemen were entering the H I kitchen at Pierce's Hotel a second explosion B occurred, badly injuring Foreman John ' W Moest, H. J. Duffy and Walter Mehoney of M| Engine 9, and Foreman Michael Brtmner off?. Truck 1. They were taken to the laboratory of the hotel and their injuries attended toy ' H It was reported that the Westminster Pres- I byterian Cnurch on Delaware avenue had ' .H narrowly escaped being destroyed in about the same way as was St Paul's. The sex- H| ton went to light the natural gas, and It I burst out with such a loud explosion ana large name uiat it uurtrt vuo meter, but the sexton turned it off .at the meter in time to prevent any damage. The natural gas meter* generally throughout the city appear to have given out The supply was then entirely shut off, the gate valves at various goints having all been closed, and there being no other source of supply. THE LABOB WOBLP, Union painters in New York City are paid . .. $3.50 per day. A new marble saw cuts two and a halt Inches a minute. ' ; The strike of ooal miners at Quaregnon, Belgium, has collapsed. /A Four tons of soft coal consume 50 tons of city garbage a day in Chicago. ^ The Midland (England) iron and steel workers will demand an advance of wage*. . v The shoemakers1 strike in Berlin, Germany, is extending. There- are now 5200 workmen out. Aherican companies have built 2800 out of the 3100 miles of railroad in Mexico, at a > ; cost of $30,000,000. /. Last year $18,000,000 was_ expended In Omaha on public buildings; zouu Douaingft or ^ aO kinds were put up. A Jodge in Connecticut recently fined ft ^ man $7 for calling a workman a scab." Ha ^3 claimed it was a threat. All departments of the Edgar Thomson. Steel Works (Carnegie's) in Braadock, Pen it, have started up on double time. The Amalgamated Society of Carpenten: V and Joiners has begun the publication of a. - > monthly trade journal in New York.. It is claimed that the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners has raised the wages of workmen in 179 cities to the extent of $400,0C0 a year. A disagreement between the miners at - > the Pratt Mines, near Birmingham, Ala., and the company culminated in a walk-out of * 7 about H)00 men. The silk looms of Lyons, France, and Spitalfields, England, are running neck and neck in the production of high art brocadea iUl OLUJ^IU O ^ . . . It is said that some clothes-pin box packers can pack 72,000 a day; They are paid one- cent for packing a box of four gross. At this rate they make 15 a day. There are abont 3500 hatters idle at Dan* bury, Conn., and it is believed that the number who will shortly be out on account of dullness in trade in that city and around will' reach several thousand. In one slaughter bouse in Chicago they have three killing gangs for hogs alone, and in the busiest season from 8000 to 112,000 hog* ' are killed and packed every day. Each pig* sticker kills nearly 500 animals an hour, and the gang of 120 men can slaughter, scrape and '" dress 4000 hogs in ten hoars, with the assistance of their machinery; whereas by the old method, the same number of men could kill and clean 1600 hogs. A huge steel hammer burst in a Pittsburg rolling milL As it descended with great force upon a billet of steel it broke into almost . ^ numberless pieces. One piece, weighing about HOO pounds, rebounding from the force of the blow, flew upward and passed through tbe iron root or me mm as biiuu^u m n>us . nothing bat paper. In descending it crashed through another part of the roof. Strange to say, no oho was hurt A year ago John Wanamaker. of Philadelphia, promised his employes to divide the profits or tbe twelve months among them. Recently the employes werecalle.i together '.. vi and a statement of tbe amount distributed through tbe year in monthly dividends was made, together with the allotment of $40,281.02 to such as have been in the emploT oi tbe firm continually for seven years. Th? cash distribution daring the past year ovei and above salaries, and including the sevenyear allotment is #109,4:i9.6& A V nrprftilg at Madrid SDaio. It Ail UpiUVMAlu m,m w . Wll, , la feared that the disease is of a cholemio yjSg nature, and its spread is attributed to the extreme beat and the drinking of impure milk. XHEMABKETsi j 20 raw TOBK. Beef, City Dressed 7 @ 8}f Calves,common to prima... 5}/? 6<Z Bheep 6^@ 6^ Lambs 7 Hoes?Lire ? tf8 6 ; Dressed 7^(1 7# Floor?Ex. St. good to fancy 4 80 <3r 4 00 West, good to choice 4 ?6 @ 5 10 Wheat-No. 2 Red 99 @ 99# Rye?State 5e @ 58 ; Barley?State 82 @ 85 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 66#<? 6f>3< - v. 4H (Jats?vvaiw stace ? , Mixed Western 37 @ .39# Hay?Choice Timothy 95 @ 1 00 Straw?Lone Rye. ? (<<100 Lard?City Steam 8 25 @ 8 25 Butter?State Creamery.... 2J @ 25 Dairy 19 @ 22 West Im. Creamery 21 (3 23 Faetorr 17 @ 22 Cheese?State Factory 9^? Skims 3 & 8 Western 11%@ 12 Eggs? State and Penn 14)$ 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 .r>5 @ 5 *K) Flour?Family 4 00 @ 4 50 Wheat-No. 1 98 & 96# Corn?No. 2, Mixed 5? <3 57)? Oats?No. 2. Mixed SO <a 38^ Barley?State. 68 (a 91 BOSTOIf. v> -:' Beef?Good to choice. 7K<?) 8Hogs?Live 5 6 Northern Dressed.... vyt % i Pork?Ex. Primo,per bbl.,14 75 ($16 75 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 90 % 5 85 Corn?High Mixed. 40 Oats?Extra White......... Rye? State 60 <j& WATXRTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET -* Beef-Dressed weight 7*Sheep?Live weight ft @ 6)? Lambs 8 Hogs?Northern 7 @ 7% PHILADELPHIA. .. Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 00 @ 3 2-5 . 1 Wheat-No. 2, Rod 93 @ 93 } Corn?No. 2, Yellow 73 eg 73 Oats?Mixed........ ? @ 39 Rye?No. 2 _ @ 73tf .] Butter?Creamery Extra... ? & 27