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SHERIDAN BEAD. The General of the United States Army Breathes His Last. Death Bed Scenes and Sketch oi His Great Career. v ^SHgSSgiMfc , BSSSMB^ GENERAL P. H. SHERIDAN. Genen? PhDlip H. Sheridan died very suddenly at his cottage in Nonquitt, Mass., at 10:20 o'clock Sunday evening of failure of the heart's action. The end came without warning, and was unexpected by his physicians, and is a cruel blow to his family. Previous to the sudden appearance of heart failure at about 9:30 there had been no premonitions of any unfavorable change in his condition. His voice was strong, he took a full supply of nourishment, slept occasionally, a? usual, and ihe doctors and his family were in hopeful nniriti At 7 oVlor-k p. m. Mrs. Shiridan and the doctors went to the hotel for tupper, and soon after their return the usual preparations for the night were made. At about 9:20 Colonel Sheridan said good-night to his brother, and went to the hotel, there having been, through the day, no sign whatever of any change in his condition. At 9:30 o'clock symptoms of heart failure appeared, and Dre. O'Reilly and Matthews, who were with him at the time, immediately applied the remedies which proved successful in all similar previous attacks, but without avaiL At 10 o'clock a messenger came,' bareheaded and breathless to the hotel, and demanded the immediate presence of Colonel Sheridan at the cottaga Five minutes after another messenger summoned the Colonel's wife. 5 Mrs. Sheridan received with composure the news, and exerted hereslf to make as comfortable as possible the last hours of her husband's life. Mrs. Sheridan had summoned the four children, and they were brought into the sick room. Colonel Mike was present, as were also the physicians. Ihe General was conscious up to within a few hours of his death. He had, however, lost the power of speech, and indicated by signs his desires. Mrs. Sheridan sat at the bedside. Next to her was Colonel Mike, and ranged around the bedside were the four The Sisters Maban and Justinian, and the | faithful body servant Klein, were also at his bedside throughout his dying hour. The General gasped as if trying to ^ough. He was unsuccessful, and seemed so be awfully distressed at some internal attack jrhich he could neither relieve nor indicate to the physicians that they 1 might apply remedies. H? gradually sank into a stupor and remained unconscious to the Mrs. Sheridan held his hand and Dr. O'/iellly noted the flutter Sg pulsation of the heart. They became weaker and weaker until 10:20 when the heart ceased to beat forever, and the life of the gallant General of the Army was ended in peace. General Sheridan's illness began about the middle of May. On May 25, however, it was acknowledged that he was in danger. A severe relapse on May 81 again prostrated General Sheridan. A slight rally on June 11 encouraged his physicians to" hope once more for his recovery. On June 20 it was decided to place him on the United States steamer Swatara to be taken to his cottage at Nenquitt. General Sheridan arrived at his Massachusetts cottage on board the United States steamer Swatara on Sunday afternoon, July 8. The journey from Washington had been made by easy stages, and Drs. Robert M. O'Reilly and Henry C. Yarrow declared that their patient had improved since leaving Washington. > At the end of a fortnight the distinguished patient had apparently reached a stage very near to convalescence. * A d&ys ago it became evident that the I General was really retrograding instead of j progressing. The reaction which had been occasioned by the change of climate, had been exhausted, and symptoms of rapid de cline were noticed. JJr. uneiny was nascuy Summoned, and on his arrival acknowledged that the case was hopeless The following official bulletin was issued at midnight: "General Sheridan died at 10:20 this evening. The immediate cause of death was heart failure. The remote cause was disease of the mitral and aortic valves, the existence of which was known to his physicians, to himself, and to bis family in November of last year. The complications which have occurred have been nervous exhaustion, pulmonary infarctions, pneumonia, pulmonary oedema, anasarca, and hemorrhages. The last day of his life he was ~~ somewhat restless, but not more so than he has been several times since his arrival at Nonquitt. At about 9:30 symptoms of heart failure suddenly appeared. The remedies which had hitherto been successful were vigorously applied, but proved ineffectual, and hp saslj rapidly, dying painlessly at tha hour named. * * " ' i Robert M. O'Reilly, Burgeon United Stales Army. Washington Matthews, Assistant-Surgeon United States Army. Sketch of His Life. General Phillip Henry Sheridan was born in Somerset, Ohio, on March 6, 1831, in a house that is still standing near Columbus street in that town. His parents were Irish, and had come to America three years before his birth. He began to earn a living for htrwoif m 1844 ss a clerk in a dry goods store. H? got on well till he read that there was a vacancy at West Point from the Somerset district. So he sat down, without asking anybody's advice, and wrote General Ritchie, the Congressman, a plain, homely application. The General knew the Sheridans well, and so K?il went to West rolnt in 184?. It toolc him five years to graduate, because he was dropped a year for thrashing an upper classmate. He received his commission as brevet second lieutenant July 1, 18 >3, and soon afterward was sent to Texas. In 1855 he began his active life a9 a soldier, having been ordered to the Pacific coast to take part in the campaign against the Yakima Indians in Washington Territory. At the battle of the Cascades, March 20. 1856, he gave his first evidence of that military genius which afterward made his name conspicuous among the leading captains of hn world's history. The Indians bad at tacked the block-hou^e at the Cascades of the Columbia, and the force within, although outnumbered and hard pressed. he!d out Sheridan led the advance of the force ana rescued the beleagured garrison. In the meantime he had been promoted to the rank of Captain, receiving his commission at Yarn Hill in Oregon. In the fall of 1861, as Captain of the Thirteenth Infantry, he was ordered from the Northwest to the Southwest, and then was assigned to the position of Chief Quartermaster of the Army of Southwest Missouri. In the Pea Ridge campaign he had charge of the transportation ana supplies, and took no active part in the engagement. Tbea Sheridan went away to the Corinth campaign as quartermaster to General Halleck. Finally the Governor of Michigan gave nim his first fair chance to develop bis fighting qu*iitf *s by making him a Colonel of the Second cavalry of that State. Sheridan's earliest exploits a? Colonel of the Second Michigan Cavalry occurred three ; 1 ... . . . days after he took command of his regiment, when he was off on Elliott's raid to Boonville, Miss., and one month and five days after he took command of the Seconi Michigan he won his stars in the brilliant engagement known as the second battle of Boonviile. For this Sheridan was made a brigadier of volunteers, his commission to date from that day. In command of the Eleventh Division of the army of the Ohio he led the advance into Kentucky, and at the battle of Perryville, one of the most desperate, for the numbers engaged, of the war, ha held the key to the position and acquired additioual laurels. Afterward assigned to the army of the Cumberland, he took an active part in the battle of Murfreesboro, after which he was made Major General of volunteers. In the operations about "Mfcnnooga, and the battle of Missi< nary Ridge? 'ovember 23-25, 18K3 ?his saga ity, boldness tnd sound judgment were consp.v uously sho /a. Two or three months later General Grant was made General in Chief of the armies, and Sheridan took command of the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, and from May, 18(>4, to the following August led some of the boldest maneuvers of the war. m* fircf. wnrk on the Potomac was on the flank during the battles of the Wilderness, and on the 8th of May he was off on his raid around Richmond, in which he actually car- ] ried the outer works. It was during this raid he fought the battle of Yellow Tavern, which resulted in the death of General J. E. B. i Stuart. In October Sheridan was summoned to Washington. Early saw the advantage and drove back the national forces. But Sheridan J had left WashingM? and slept in Winchester, twenty miles from his command. Artillery firing was reported early the next morning, I and at 9 o'clock Sheridan rode out of Winchester. The sound of heavy battle was unmistakable, and half a mile from the town the fugitives came in sight. He at once halted the trains, stretched a brigade of his troops at Winchester across the country to stop the stragglers, and with an escort of twenty men pushed to the front. The effect | of his presence was electrical. He rode, J swinging his hat and shouting as he passed: "Face the other way, boys! race the other way!" and hundreds of the men turned at once and followed. He gave some hurried directions, and rea. ffa woe in uumeu uu uuiicvu iuu J.U^IUH^. ..^ , in Major General's uniform, mounted on a j magnificent horse, man and beast covered with dust and foam; and as he ros? in his stirrups, waving his hat and his sword by turns, he cried again and again: "We are going back. Face the other way, boys; face the other way 1" The scattered soldiers took up the cry: ' 'Face the other way!" They followed him to the front, falling into ranks as they went, and many who had fled panicstricken in the morning had covered themselves with glory before night. Sheridan led a brigade in person, and the enemy everywhere gave way in terror before the sweep of the cavalry. All that had been lost to tho Union forces was retaken. This battle ended the campaign in the Shenandoah Valley. Sheridan was made a Major-General in the regular army. General Grant sent Seridan to the Rio Grande as soon as the war was over. He was appointed to the command of the Department of the Gulf in 1866,and of the Fifth Military district, including Louisiana and Texas, in 1867. Then he was assigned to the Department of the Missouri, and in 1S69 was made Lieutenant General, in command of the Division of the Missouri, with headquarters at Chicago. His management of the Indians was singularly successful, and his course after the Chicago fire gained the applause of the country. During the Franco-Prussian war he visited Europe, and was present as a spectator at several famous engagements. On Nnromhw 1 1RSS. hu rlirpp.fcirm of President Arthur, he assumed command of the Army of the United States in place of General Sherman, who was relieved by request. Washington and Grant are the only other lieutenant generals in the national history. In May Congress vested him with the additional title of General of the American army. While stationed at Chicago a few years ago he married Miss Irene Rucker, daughter of Brevet-Major D. H. Rucker, and his home life thereafter was a happy ona He leaves a widow and four children, ''Liitle Phil" Sheridan, a lad of seven, and three girls?Irene, who is twelve, and Mary and Louise, the latter teing t win sisters, and a year younger tbap Irene. A Nation Mourns. The body of General Sheridan on the day after bis death, la/ in the main parlor, which he occupied since his arrival at Konquitt A sheet covered it, and its appearance showed how well the embalmer had done his work. The body was encased in loose, light underwear, and presented a most natural appearance. The process of embalming has been concluded, the utmost care having been taken. The body lay in the front parlor. It pre sented a natural appearance, only tne lower limbs being at all emaciated. The chest and body showed but little effects of disease. All the distinctive features of the face were clearly preserved. The familiar iron gray mustache and goatee were shaved off, and the clean shaven face presented a calm appearance. When the doctors declared him dead, Mrs. Sheridan could not beliave it She took him by the shoulder, and implored him to recognize her; but in vain, and as the cruel truth forced itself upon her, the devoted wife, overwrought by the culmination of her sorsows, fell to the floor. Up stairs the children slept, ignorant of their father's death. They had bade him "Good-night" for the last time. When they awoke Mrs, Sheridan told them of their 10s3, and the scene became pitliul. The father always petted his children. Little Phil can hardlv comprehend what has happened. Mrs. Sheridatt has borne herself nobly through all the sickness, and now she bears herself as a brave man's wife should. The following executive order was issued by the President as soon as he received the sad news: Executive Mansion, 1 Washington, Aug. 6, 1888. f "As a mark of respect to the memory of General Sheridan, the President directs that the national flag be displayed at half mast on all thn hnildiutrs of the axecutive deDart ments in the city of Washington until after his funeral 6hall have taken place. By direction of the President. "Daniel S. Lamont, Private Secretary." The President sent the following despatch to Mrs. Sheridan: Executive Mansion, ) Washington, Aug. 6,1888. ) 'To Mrs. Sheri'lan: "While the nation mourai its loss and shares your sorrow, let me express to vou my personal grief and mostaincere condolence. "GROVKB Cleveland." The President also issued an order commanding MljoV General Bchofield to report at Washington and take command of the army. This was subsequently reroked and Major General Schofiela was ordered to Nonquitt to take charge, of the funeral arrangements and consult Mr& Sheridan's wishes in this respect. It is the request of Mrs. Sheridan that no one excepting members of the family be permitted to view the remains. All Government buildings display the national colors draped in mourning. The flags on the Custom Houses and City Halls in the principal cities of the country were placed at half mast The " family decided that the body of General Sheridan should be interred at the National Cemetery at Arlington, Va. The cemetery occupies the estate of General Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy, and is situated on a commanding hill across the Potomac. The remains of over 13,0 0 soldiers, both Union and Confederate, are buried there. General Sheridan had always expressed a strong dislike for displays in funerals, and it voa rtjvwlaH that; t.Tia <i?r (should be Of as simple a character a? possible; that requiem high mass be celebrated at the church, after which there should be a military funeral under command of Major General Schofleld. The body was in charge of a detachment of the Third Artillery, stationed at the Arsenal i barracks, from the time of its arrival until the final interment. General Schofleld took charge of the ar- i rangements. It was decided to convey the remains of General Sheridan in a special car from New J Bedford to Washington. When both Houses of Congress assembled, , Secretary Pruden was announced bearing a | messago from the President. It was at once ! received and read in both Senate and House. 1 It was the official announcement to Congress of the death of General Sheridan and was as follows: Executive Mansion, ) Washington, August 6,1888. \ "It becomes my painful duty to announce to the Congress and to the people of the United States the death of Philip H. Sheri- I dan. General of the army, which occurred at a late hour last night at his summer home in the State of Massachusetts. 1 "The dfcfvtb of tbis valiant soldier and patriotic ?on of the Republic, though his long ityiptt'llM teW regarded with anxiety, has neverttalaw nocked the country and caused 'M I.i'&&&$ . ""He" lad established for himself a stronj; hold in the hearts of his fellow countrymen!, who soon caught the true meaning ana purpose of his soldierly devotion and heroio temper. "His intrepid courage.his steadfast patriotism and the generosity of his nature inspired with peculiar warmth the admiration of the people. "Above his grave affection for the man and pride in his achievements will struggle for mastery, and too much honor cannot be accorded to one who was so richly endowed with all the qualities which make his death a national loss. Grover Cleveland." The Senate then adopted appropriate resolutions of respect ana condolence. Senator Palmer introduced a bill granting a pension of $5000 a year to Mrs. Sheridan. The bill was referred to the Committee on Pensions. The Senate appointed a committee consisting of Senators Hawley, Manderson, Cullom, Stewart, Hampton, Gibson and Gray to attend the obsequies of General Sheridan. In the House the chaplain made a touching allusion to General Sheridan's death. The I clerk read the communication of the President, after which the resolutions drawn up by the Military Committea and presented bv | General Hooker, of Mississippi, were adopted. The following pallbearers were selected: Speaker Carlisle, General Wesley Merrltt, Mr. G. W. Child?, Mr. Joseph Fulferton, Mr. : rrariK luuxiiuauii, ui tuo jicuuajiT?ui? 'v?u, I Secretary Whitney, General McFeeley, Marshall Field, of Chicago: Senator Joseph R. Hawley and General William Tecumseh Sherman. Invitations to attend the funeral were sent to Colonel Fred Grant, Colonel J. S. Crosby, General J. W. Forsyth, Colonel G. W. Davia and Colonel George VT. Forsyth. The corpse was laid in the coffin with the insignia ot his rank, a full dress uniform and a sword on the lid. THE LABOR WORLD, Oregon saw mill men get $4 a day. Dakota farm hands are paid $2 a day. Eight thousand laborers are on strike at Paris. Campaign literature is now in demand and the printer is happy. On the California railroads they are using iteel rails from Eng'and. The K. of L. co-operative watch-case mill at Brooklyn employs 100 hands. An East Saginaw (Mich.) firm has an order from Liverpool for 10,000 doors. About 370,000 persons are employed on Great Britain's 19,332 miles of railroad. At To'edo, Ohio, women Knights of Labor have started a co-operative knitting-mill. Pittsburg expects to carry off the palm for the biggest demonstration on Labor Day. Large numbers of English miners have left for the gold mines at the African Transvaal Servants get 12 and $3 a month in western North Carolina and parts of South Carolina. Thure are now over 150 local unions in the Ericklayers' and Masons' International Union. A benevolent and protective association is being talked of for street railway men of Boston. According to BradstreeVs the number of strikes in the United States from June 1 to 15 was 1597. German manufacturers instead of riveting the joints of boilers weld them at a slightly greater cost The glass bottle blowers have arranged a satisfactory wage scale, and work will be resumed September 1. The Grand Lodge of the Pianomaker's Union has decided that each Jacal unionTiust have an American flag. At London a machine which takes the place of the glassblower has been patented. It does twice as much work as the man. A recent conference of tanners of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts formed an Inter-State Federation for mutual protection. In many places in Georgia, Florida, Alabama. Tennessee and North Carolina farm bands are paid from thirty-five to fifty cents per utiy. Eighteen special agents of the National Bureau of Labor are now engaged collecting statistics regarding employment on railroads in the Eastern States. There are fifty co operative stores In New England under the management of the Sovereigns of Industry. The yearly sales amount to 15,500,003. York, Penn.. is said to have the greatest rag carpet works in the United States. Six hundred women and girls make carpet rags, and there are 100 weavers and spoolers. The first strike of workingmen in this country can be attributed to the journeymen bakers. The strike occurred in 1741, and was against a reduction in wages. T. Daw, a Japanese civil engineer, has been up at the Connellsvile (Penn.) coke ovens getting points about the manufacture for copying in Japan, where ovens will be established. All the shipyards along the Delaware river are crowded with orders. Several yards have been obliged to double their working capacity. Roach'syard has five large ships, one to cost $1,500,0(50. Comparatively speaking there are now very few shoe-makers in this country who onn mAUo An pnfcirn shoe. A repent census of ft-adaB unions shows that it takes, on an average, about sixty men to manufacture a complete boot from the raw materials. It is a fact, though a rather stranze one, that three-fourths of the bakers who are employed in the United States are men of German birth. Comparatively few women ar6 engaged in the occupation, although some establishments employ women for fancy work. Thb Eighth Cavalry Regiment is on its way from Concho, Texas, to Dakota, making the longest march a regiment h&s made since the war, the distance being 1500 miles. They make from sixteen to thirty-six miles a day, and expect to reach Dakota September 1. Pao, a relative of the Chinese General of the same name, has just been decapitated for trading in forged decorations. The engraver who did the work received 100 lashes and was banished for three years. On her last voyage from Sandy Hook to Queenstown, the Etruria beat the record for the easterly transatlantic passage, making it Szi six days, four hours and fifty minutes. THE MAKKETS. 82 niwtobk. Beef. City Dressed 6 @ 9}< Calves.common to prime.... 5 @ 6 Sheep 5 Lambs 5 <gj 6% Hogs?Live 6 40 yj 6 75 Dressed 8%(2) 9}^ Flour?City Mill Extra 4 C5 @4 85 Patents 5-00 @ 5 10 Wheat?No. 2 Red. ?3 Rye?State 56 @ 58 Barley?State 82 @ 85 Dora?Ungraded Mixed.... 57 @ 57><j Date?No. 1 White ? @ 44 Mixed Western 85 @ 39 Hay?Choice Timothy 95 @ 1 00 Btraw?Lone Rve 80 @ 85 Lard?City Steam ? @ 8 70 Butter? State Creamery.... 20 @ 21 Dairy M @ 14 West Im. Creamery @ 16 Factory 12 @ 15 Cheese?State Factory 8 @ 9% Skims <> @ 7 Western 7 <?) 8)^ Eggs?State and Penn 18 @ 18% BUFFALO. Steers?Western 4 0J @ 4 75 Sheep?MeJiu nto Gk>od.... 4 20 @ 4 50 Lambs?["'airti oo 5 51 (<Q 0 00 Hogs?Good to Choice 1c orks 5 '.<0 @ (i 05 Flour?Family 4 8.5 @ 5 25 Wheat-No. a Red '. OX? 92 Corn?No. 2. Yellow 5 51 Dats?No. 2. Mixed ? @ 31 Barley?State 88 (g 91 bostoic. Beef?Good to choice 0 @ 9U 5ogs?Live 6 Northern Dressed..., 7 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 l'O @5 25 Dorn?Steamer Yellow. 00 (ft 60>? Dats?No. 2 White * 4!1^ Rye-State 60 (ft 65# w1tibtowk (KA3S.) CATTLE maRKKT Beef- Dressed weight 0 @ 8% >heep?Live weight 5 @ 5% Iambi 6 @ 7 clogs?Northern ? @ 7/? Philadelphia. flour?Penn. family 8 75 @ 4 00 tfheat?No. 2, Red 9i^@ 91>* 3orn?Ko.2, Mixed 57 }ats? Tngraded Wuite 4J @ 42yf Rye?No. 2 ? @ 76 lutter?Creamery Extra... 18 <2 19 !!heeee?N. Y. Full Cream.. 9 @ 9% _V:--> . Cl.g v"?.V 4.-~ ' .' ft.' . - - . SUMMARY OF OONQRESS, Senate Proceedings. 145th Day.?Speeches were made by Messrs. Edmunds and Gorman on Mr. Cullom's resolution instructing the Interstate Commerce Committee to investigate the relations between Canadian and United States railroad lines. The resolution was adopted without dissension Following this debate, Mr. Teller addressed the Senate in opposition to the ratification of the Fisheries treaty. 14Gth Day.?Mr. Vance spoke in favor of ratifying the Fisheries Treaty Mr. Jones offered a resolution instructing the Committee on Finance to inquire into the alleged combination or pool of the producers of cotA V*J11 TTTnn whammM nriyi'nflp IASII uaggiu^;. t .A UJU niw pgaouvou ui^iujt that the President be requested to open negotiations with the Government of Her Britannic Majesty (in which the Dominion of Canada and the several political sub-divis( ions thereof shall be represented) with a view to the settlement of all differences between Her Majesty's Government and the United States? A message was received from the President announcing the death of General Sheridan. The reading of the message was listened to with respectful attention, and upon the motion of Senator Edmunds the Senate adopted the following resolutions: Resolved, That the Senate has learned with profound regret of the death of Philip H. Sheridan, late Gteneral of the Army of the United States. Resolved, That the Senate hereby expresses its grateful sense cf his great and patriotic service in the cause of his country, its deep sensibility of the loss which the Na{ tion has sustained in bis death, and its sympathy with his family in their bereavement. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions ! be forwarded to the family of the deceased. 147th Day.?The House bill placing General William F. (;'Baldy") Smith on the retired list as Colonel of the army, with an amendment changing the grade of Colonel to that of Major of Engineers, the rank which he held when he left the army, was passed....Mr. Sherman then took the floor [ ana occupied ic during ine enure aay s session while delivering an address against the ratification of the Fishery Treaty. 148th Day.?The concurrent resolution to | print 100.003 extra copies of the tariff law of 1883 and the Mills bill as recently passed by the House, with a comparative statement to be prepared bv the Committee of Ways and Means was adopted....Mr. Stewart moved that the regular business (bills on the calendar) be laid aside and the Chinese Prohibition bill be taken up. Agreed to?Yeas, 40; nays, 3. The bill was then passed without a divis'ou.... The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of the Fisheries Treaty in open executive session, and was addressed by Mr. Evarts in opposition to its ratification. House Froceedine*. 179th Day.?Debate on the French spoliation claims began in the House when the fourth section of the General Deficiency bill was reached. It appropriates $741,006.63 to pay claims which have been favorably reported by the Court of Claims under the act of January 20, 1885. No action was taken ....An amendment to the General Deficiency bill to pay the claims of army volunteers was ruled out of ordef.... The Speaker laid before the House a letter from Governor Green, of New Jersey, presenting to Congress, in the name of the State Wfliu Tflneaw ohifoa r\t Pi/tVior/) KfYV?lrfr>r? and Philip Kearney, to be placed in Statuary Hall in the Capitol. On motion of Mr. Phelpt, of New Jersey, a resolution was adopted assigning August 21 for the consideration of a concurrent resolution accepting the statues and returning thanks to New Jersey therefor. 180th Day.?A joint resolution was referred authorizing the Postmaster-General to appoint a commission of three persons to investigate the subject of the rapid transit of mails in the city of New York and the adjacent postal districts.... A bill was introduced to establish an interstate minimum rate ol wages in the United States. The rates ol wages are to be placed as follows: Every male citizen or alien over tweni;y-on> who may be employed as a laboreT in any capacity, shall be entitled tc and shall be paid not less than $1.50 per day of ten hours; every womai- of over eighteen shall be paid not less than $1, and every minor over fourteen and under eighteen shall be paid not less than seventy-five cents per day. The Inter-State Commerce Commission is to assume charge of the operations of the act, and f1,000,000 is appropriated to carry it into effect. A message was re ceived from ^resident (Jieveiana announcing the death of General Sheridan- On motion of General Hooker the House adjourned out of respect. A committee of seven was ap? pointed to confer with the family in regard to the funeral, and to take such other action as may seem appropriate or necessary under the circumstances. 181st Day.?The resolution instructing the Committee on Finance to make an investigation of the cotton-bagging pool was adopted .... The Speaker then appointed the following members of the Military Committee as the House Conferees on the Army ADproEriat on bill: Messrs. Pownsend, Maish" and aird....The Senate bill making an appropriation to enable the Government to be represented at the Ohio Centennial Exposition in Columbus in September and October was discussed, but the Dill was lost at last for lack of a quorum, only 150 members being present. 182d Day.?The bill to abolish trusts wai debated.... The French Spoliation Claimi section of the Deficiency bill was considered but no nation was taken.... The bill granting permission to the Park Commissioners oi New York to beautify Governor's Island waf passed. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Mrs. Langtry is worth $500,000. James Payn, the novelist, has eleven daughters. The German Emperor's favorite flower is the blue lobelia. William IL has followed his father in beI coming a Freemason. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilx pays her physician $10,000 a year. Edison says he tries nothing that doesn't promise dollars and cents. The Queen of Denmark has been made deaf by a bug crawling into her ear at night. Emin Bey, the African explorer, is familiarly known in Germany as Edward Schnitzer. Queen Victoria is troubled with insomnia, and at her age there is no remedy for the affliction. I ^Lgfoi. the Russian novelist, is to be proceeded against by the Russian authorities for insanity. Thk new German Field Marshal, Prince George of Saxony, is heir-presumptive to the Saxon crown. Ex-Senator Davis, the wealthy West Virginian, was once a brakeman on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Queen Margherita, of Italy, is as vivacious as any high-born lady untrammeled by cares of the State should be. Governor Bob Taylor of Tennessee goei to barbecues, plays the fiddle, dances with the girls and runs foot races. General Harrison's wealth, it is said, does not exceed $50,000, the income from which is not more than $1500. Mrs. Deua Tudor Stewart Parnell, the mother of Charles Stewart Parnell, ia about to mount the lecture platform. Mrs. Langtry's two children have come to this country with their grandmother, and will remain here permanently, it is said. Since the dsath of the late Marshal Lebceuf, of France, only two marshals of that country survive, MacMahon and Canrobert Ex-Secretary of the Navy Robeson has hung out his shingle as a lawyer, and is preparing to take a fresh start in life at sixty. Senator Chace, of Rhode Island, has never had his picture taken, although photographers have often tried to entrap him into a sitting. " ** ? 1 1??3 ?U/* Vtno fioon JN Et,UE IrtlANT'S nusuaim, nuv uaa significantly entitled a "dulTer" and a "chump," has become rich through the death ' of his brother. Austin Corbiv, President of the Reading I Railroad, and one of the brightest of the vounger generation of rich men, was a lawyer and small banker in Davenport,Iowa, Vifcwa he came Hast in 18K5. General g B. Fisk, tho Prohibition candidate for the Presidency,is an epicure in seafood dishes, and nothing tickles his palnte so much as a delicately prepared fish dinner. From having made his fortune in the fish and oyster trade be is sometimes known as "CiatnBake" Fisk. There are at least half a dozen literary women of the present day whose good looks refute the ancient slander that a woman to be literary must be homoJy. Mrs. Burnett, Maud Howe, Amelia Rives Chandler, Dudu Fletcher, Blanche Willis Howard and Km Lanza are all handsome women. ./- rrr ;v*z <7-.- -1*.? ---t ; ;~ - v..* : -V ? V IN A DEATH TRAP. .1 Fatal Fire in a New York Tenement House. Eemmed in by Rames Seventeen Meet a Horrible Death, The most [lamentable scene that New York Has beheld in years was that which was enicted Friday afternoon in the Bowery. In broad daylight, in fnll view, of fully 1000 people, almost within reach of 100 firemen, whose hearts ached that they could lot fcelp them, a score of human beings ran frantically to and fro in a burning death trap screaming for aid, which it was imposlible to give. They fought with one another for the last vantage ground, struggling on In i vain hope and only finding that their efforts but added to the sufferings which must Inevitably end in death. Those who perished early suffered least. It was the rear tenement at 197 Bowery, id joining the People's Theatre on the south. A.t 4 o'clock in the afternoon sixty people who lived there or worked there at tailoring were busy in the crowded rooms of the sixstory building. At 4:30 only the dead were left Mrs. Emma Stephenson, the janitress of the building, had lighted a fire with which to prepare the evening meal for herself and husband. She made the fire in a kerosene itove and went for a moment into the cellar. While there she heard an explosion. She hastened up stairs to find her rooms one sheet of flame. The old rickety building, filled as it -was with clippings and thread and cottons, was mere sport for the flames. A stairway in the centre of the building served as a conductor for the fire. The tenement was only twentv-five feet long by fiff/xon foot-. wiHo nnH was sit stories hieh. UDOn each floor there were small rooms and lofts, separated from each other by wooden partitions. A fearful volume of black smoke and flame rolled up from the burning floor, faint and mothered cries came from beneath it and above it, from the three upper windows of the tenement hung men, women and children,stretching their hands out and imploring some one to save them. It was evident that some of the people were really crazed. Some managed to get down by the fire escape, some climbed to the adjoining roof, some jumped to the floor of the court yards in the front and rear, and some, so the survivors say, sat down and abandoned themselves to their fate. In twenty minutes the structure was gutted and about twenty-five persons were more or less seriously injured and one was killed, and when the ruins were explored seventeen charred bodies of persons of both sexes and of every age were discovered. Or.? man died after he had been taken to the hospital. Those who were at the northern and northeastern side of the building sought an escape on the fire ladder, and cheers rose from the crowd when an aged man, to whom grim despair alone gave strength, and two young girls cams out upon the thread of hop*. The firemen cheered and waved them encouragement, but to their horror they discovered that the ladder led only into an area or cell surrounded by solid brick walls. The only escaps from it lay through a door which led into tne burning mass. A shriek of terror rose from the crowd when they saw the three doomed ones at tempt to curao again. Frantically, madly moaning, screaming' and shrieking for mercy, up and down that iron ladder went those poor mortals. They struggled on the ladder for hilp while brave men used to hard scenes turned away their head?, and many a fireman dropped a tear. For full five minutes those people in that cage raced for the life that was soon to be ended. They fought with each other for position? they tore their hair?looked piteously for aid and then sank back into the fiery furnace that boiled within. The smaller of the girls, with face an ashen hue, to which the fiery background added intensely, stood on the window sill of the third story for a moment 'She will hurl herself to the ground 1" "She is going to commit suicide!" cried some in the crowd. The people almost hoped that she would do 10, but she did not Suddenly there was a curling of the long black tresse*. The flames had seized upon them; a gleam shot from her clothing. It was on fire. "Have mercy I" she shrieked in agony, and then all was over. She had fallen into the flames. The old man went next. The other girl apparently went to her death insane. On the landing of the fourth story she turned to the people who were grouped on the roof of the theater, laughed, and then tucking ber skirts about ner, stepped into cue names that ended her life. As soon as the fire had been quenched and the firemen were able to approach the gntted building the work of searching for the poor wretches who had been seen in the windows besran. Floor after floor revealed ghastly masses of burned human flesh and bones. Not one of the dead was recognizable. All were burnt to a crisp, men, women and children. Almost all semblance to human shape was gone. A more revolting scene was probably never presented. As the bodies were discovered they were placed in fire nets and carried to the roof of the People's Theatre, and when tue available 6pace there was exhausted, the roof of the tenement factory in the rear was used. After a search of nearly two hours the bodies of fourteen had been discovered and laid out in this manner. A call was then sent out to the Morgue for the dead wagon, and the bodies were placed in rough pine boxes and lowered from the roofs to the narrow alley below. The body of Mrs. Gruft was in a frightful condition. The unfortunate woman was about to become a mother at the time the Bre broke out, and the intense a<jony of seeing all hope of escape shut off brought on the pangs of maternity prematurely and mother and child were burned together. And at her side lay the charred corpses of her other two children, Joseph and Cecilia. It was a heartrending: sight, and that the poor father and husband who gazed on it aid not lose his reason on the spot seemed marvelous. In his arms he held a baby boy, 1 '* - ? 1 - U?? ? sne oniy inemuer <jl uu imuuj nUU nlH rescued besides himself. Five more persons, who were fatally injured were removed to (he hospital MILLIONS OF MOTHS. Pennsylvania Visited By a Dense Swarm of Ootton Bats. The Central portion of Pennsylvania has just had a remarkable visitation of moths. Myriads of them infested the air, resembling at a distance a snowstorm. Millions of the pests have been killed by fluttering about the electric lights at Reading and Easton, and the same st^te of affairs is reported from all sections of the Lehigh Valley. In Easton alono over forty bushels have been killed, while other places report fully as many. They are gathered up in the morning, saturated with crude oil and then burn el Fires were built under the lights and heaps of the moths were burned. The doors and windows of dwelling houses had also to be kept closed to keep them out Entomologists say the insects are a species of cotton bat, usually called moth, and that they spring from the cotton fields of the South, and always precede a hot wave followed by a dry spell. Scientists say they disappear as soon as the hot wave passes. Their greatest ravages occur every twenty one years. In the years 1804, ISio ana two the whole cotton crop of the South was nearly destroyed by them. They devour both the short staple and the long staple cotton, and rarely, if ever, touch any other plant. A MIDNIGHT COLLISION. Frightful Accidcnt to an English Excursion Train. A frightful railway collision occurred at midnight Tuesday, near Hampton, Wick, England. A train of empty freight cars was turned ! by a blunder of the signal men on the wrong I track and dashed into a train filled with exI cursionists, which was coming along at full . speed. The locomotive and guards' van I of the freight train mounted up over the locomotive of the passenger train and landed on the foremost passenger carriage. Two of the passenger carriages were telescoped. Both trains were piled lip in a mass of ruins, out of which arms, bands, legs and heads pro ruded, and the srreams were terrible. In the darkness the work of rescue was difficult. The driver and the stoker of the passeneer locomotive and four passengers wore ins faintly killed, and from twenty to twenty-five Injured, four of them fatally. v1' " ~ ' ' ? 'v THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Two young bods of George Harrington anil . Harrison Loomis, of West 8pringflela, Mass., J were drowned while bathing near their home. Ex-Mayor Vroom has been chosen as United States District-Attorney of New Jersey. f Consideraele damage was done in New York and suburbs by an electrical storm, which was especially severe on Long Island. An accident in a quarry near Birmingham, Conn., caused the death of two men. "Workmen were engaged upon a trestle un- ] der a bridge at Mapleton, Penn., when a car loaded with hugh blocks of stone fe'l on six of their number and crushed them into the 1 Juniata river, fifty feet below. Three were i instantly killed and three crippled for life , South and West. Emanuel James lulled bis brother John at Sandford, Ky.. during a quarrel about sheep. The father or the James boys shot and killed his brother twenty-one years ago. Mrs. McLaughlin ani her two sons were killed by lightning in their house at Hazlewood, Minn. Mr. John Robinson, the veteran showman, has died at hia home in Cincinnati in the eightieth year of his life. He spent almost his whole life in the management of circuses, being succeeded by his sons within the past few years. Blackstone, a thriving town of 1500 inhabitants, in Virginia, has been almost completely destroyed by fire. ' Edward Shafer and Josiah Smith, old enemies, quarreled at a picnic in Leatherwood, W. Va. Sbafer staboed Smith fatally, and when Miss Smith tried to defend her brother she, too, was killed. A disastrous storm has visited the central section of Missouri. Crops were greatly damaged and the losses on town property are heavy. In the vicinity of Glasgow crops are injured fifty percent, while the damage to dwellings and business houses will exceed (50,000. In Saline county the damage will reach $30D,0()0. The loss at Norbone and vicinity reaches $100,000. At Slater the Baptist church and two business houses were destroyed. Tv frViA 'Wnt.iVm a family nnm?1 ? Myers?man, wife and two children?were J murdered ten days ago on the Red River, t forty miles above Denison, Texas, by a band j of half breed marauders. a Two hundred imported Italian laborers on f the new railroad at Findlay, Ohio, have been ( placed on cars lor shipment back to Italy. I Hermann Kempner, Otto Bergmann and I Edward Hogenbaum, all young boys, were E shot and killed by a man named Roder, at Quincy, Dl., while robbing his apple orchard * Charles Perkins, a noted horse thiel 8 and murderer, shot and killed two deputy fc marshals and a citizen at Marshall's Ferry, f Indian Territory, while they were attempt- t ing to arrest him. a The Rev. J. W. Hanford, Indian teacher r and missionary at St. Stephen's Mission, ii Dakota,was thrown from a mowing machine s and so badly mangled that he bled to death p before assistance could be procured. a George N. Miller fell into a vat of hot d liquor at Salem, Mass., and was literally ? boiled to death. * George Stamper, a tenant on the farm ol g Rev. John Giddens, in Bradley County, Tenn., had a quarrel with his landlord, dur- , ing which he fatally cut the preacher's { throat. p The Sioux Indians, who have been holding t a council at Standing Rock Agency to con- r Bider the proposition of the Government o to throw open their reservation to settlers, c have adiourned. after threatening to kill the r first one of their number who~should sign the treaty. ? Returns from the Alabama State election 11 show that the Democrats have elected their t ticket by a majority of 100,000. The Legis- d lature is overwhelmingly Democratic in both r branches, while Governor Seay and the E Democratic State ticket carried every county 8 by considerable majorities. z Washington. f The President has nominated Captain a Win field Scott Schley to be Chief of the li Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting with a the rank of Commodore. f A statement prepared at the Treasury t Department shows that there was a net de- * crease of $4,497,776 in the circulation during v July, and a net increase of $18,153,223 in ' money and bullion in tl Treasury. The Q total circulation is $1,368,18 ),092. President Cleveland has approved the J. act making Decoration Day a legal holiday _ in the District of Columbia aud the act to extend the leave of absence of employes of ^ the Government printing office to thirty j days each year. r Should the bill granting Mrs. Irene Ruck- b er Sheridan, widow of General Sheridan, a [] pension of $5000 per annum, introduced in * the Senate by Mr. Far well, become a c law, it will be the only case where this t amount is given to any person except a widow of an ex-President of the United States. Tn? nnoo+irm r\f the Ruepfissor to General Sheridan in the command of the array has been settled by an order directing General Schofield, the senior Major-General, to take command. 1 The President has approved the act for-the erection of an appraiser's warehouse in 1 Chicago and the act for the relief of certain settlers upon the school lands of Washington Territory. Foreign. A Russian cruiusr has been ordered to ( Behring Sea to prevent English and Ameri- ] can vessels from fishing in Russian waters. The Emperors of Germany, Russia and . Austria are to meet in autumn on the Austrian frontier for consultation. i A destructive: forest fire has been raging 1 in Canada and for an area of five miles i around Canadian Junction, on the Canadian , Pacific Railway,consuming houses and everything lying in its course. All the valuable 1 timber limits on the Ottawa River have been 3wept clean bv the devouring element. Th3 . loss reached $o00,000. Pi Bis art Island, in the Pacific Ocean, ( has been annexed to Germany. The Gov- f Brnment prohibits the introduction of arms ( and ammunition. * Large districts in Western Russia have 1 (vmconnonnA of the over LXXJLi luuuuaicu tu >.unuw^?i~ _ _ Bow of the River Vistula, and the destruction has been widdfpread. Silesia has been devastated by terrible Boods, the worst known in thirty years. By reason of recant heavy rains in France the hay has been destroyed, and the peasants have been compelled to kill their animals, being unable to feed them. Corn cannot ripen, and potatoes are rotting. The loss to agriculture is estimated at $1,000,000. Devastating bush fires caused great damage near Ottawa, Canada Eureka, a suburb with fifty houses and stores, and a large lumber mill, has been destroyed The Steamer Alameda went ashore near Adelaide Harbor, New Zealand, and of twenty-seven persons in the vessel the Captain and all others were drowned, exceptinz the first and third officers, four men and four apprentices. | T here is a great deal of yellow fever in Cuba, and fourteen deaths have recently oocured therefrom. The charter of the American Foresters has been revoked by the parent organization In England until discrimination against colored persons in the order was stopped. The Spanish Government has decided to > impose a heavy poll tax upon Chinamen im- | migrating to the Philippine Islands. Lawrence M. Donovan, the jumper who made himself famous by leaping from the Brooklyn Bridge, jumped from the Hungerford Bridge. London, a lew days aeo, and ( ! was drowned in the Thames, one hundred feet below. J SIX HUNDRED PERISE. j The Devastation Wrought by a Vol- , cauic Eruption in Japan The vo'cano of Mount Iwahaasi, within sight of Wakamotfioa, a large city in Japan, I burst into activity re.ently, and in a short time fifty houses In Iwasenura were destroyed. The eruption continued several days w.th great destruction and Joss of life. About six hundred persons and thirty houses in a village called Bira were buried under sand and ashes thrown out by the volcano, and all perished. Among those buried were some fifteen visitors at the hot springs in the neighborhood. The Auscqan government htia announced o Sujfar Bounties CoavenUon if the United States and Brazil da i ' ' * ? PROHIBITION LEADERS, i . | ..p Letters of Acceptance From ? Gen. Fisk and Dr. Brooks* -1 * J5p rhe Prohibition Nominees Express * Their Views. 11 * The letters of acceptance of the National Prohibition party candidates for President ind Vice-President have just been made pnbic. The opening paragraph in the comma* ncation of General Clinton 6. Fisk expresses \ grateful sense of the honor conferred upon iim by the Indianapolis Convention and formally accepts tbe nomination. It then )roceeds in part as follows: "It is lot enough that we reform the individual; we must reform the State. The jolicy of great commonwealths of a whole jeople must be remade and put in harmony with sound economic principles, the true oojperation of industrial effort, the essential sonditions of national prosperity, and genu xie orornernooa or man. "The National Democratic party in its 3l at form utters no word in condemnation of :he greatest foe to the Republic?the liquor raffia That party having steadfastly n its utterances at National Conventions maintained it* allegiance to the American saloon, it was no disappointment a any one that at St Louis in 1888 t reaffirmed its old position on this, the greatest question now being debated among nen. It was with great reluctance that 1 same to admit the imperative need of a new wrty while yet the party of my choice?the National Republican party?maintained iti >rganization- It cost me the sacrifice of '.berished associations when four year* igo I enrolled myself in the f~vJ anks of party Prohibitionists under the flag >f prohibition, bleached snowy white by the ears of smitten women and children through 'enerations of sorrow and want Every lay since then has shown yet more claary the logio of my course and th* uevitable truth of my conclusions. In liichigan, in Texas, in Tennessee, and Oregon, so-called non-partisan effects to eetabigh prohibition have failed through parisan necessity,born of liquor elements in old >arty composition. In Iowa, Rhode Island ind Maine the laws have been shamefully deled for like reasons. From the Suprema Jourt itself has come with startling em>hasis a declaration so nationalizing this reorm that it can never be made of local or Jtate limitation again. "The first concern of good Government,'* aid the recent National Republican Contention at Chicago, "is the virtue and obriety of the people and the purity of the lome. I search the long Republican plat orm through in vain to find condemnaion of the saloon, or hint of purpose to .ssail it, or any sign of moral conscioas- r' 1698 that the saloon it a cone, and hi a come too unholy for the nation to hare. If the first concern has no place in a tarty1! platform, and a party has no policy a to that first concern, that party does not eserve the support of men who lore good [overnment and would see it maintained. !*he Prohibition party's first concern is forhe purity of the home and the virtue and obriety of the people. "That party is not labor's truest friend , rhich would bar the importation of pauper* rom abroad, or close the tariff door of com- ' , petition to -pauperize foreign industry, and hen by a liquor system perpetuate the aanufacture of paupers and criminals in our ' wn midst, with whom honest labor moltorapete, and whom, largely, honest labor- ~ oust support. I "I rejoice that, standing on the platform o well framed at Indianapolis, which so admirably recognizes other great principles ban this of prohibition, declaring, as we doled are, that citizenship rests on no-- ' nece circumstance of color, MX or lationalityt and tvfflrming, as we always hall affirm, the full righte of citienship for all, standing ever, as we must, or the defence of the, weak and the optressed, we can and do assert that prohibiion is the dominant issue in national politics; nd we can and do invite to full party feljwship all who on this one dominant isroe m TiritVi 11 a octp<jaH haltavintr that aS re settle this broad question for he right so shall we best conserve the wel-r , are of our entire nation and of every class rithin it, and so shall we make certain the ? rise and speedy settlement of every lesser [uestion involved and arising." Dr. John A. Brooks, in his letter accepting - . he Vice-Presidency, after acknowledging be honor conferred upon him, denounced "/ monopolies and trusts, and says that trusts re against a wholesome revision of th#> ariff. He commends the platform of th?Prohibition party and concludes by some emarks regarding the sanctity of th? ome, refers to the evil influence of saloons, idorses woman suffrage and th6 work at -i romen for prohibition, and again thanks the onvention for the honor or the nomina ion, t " A LATEE NEWS. ~~~ Colonel Carroll D. Wright has agntd as Chief of the Bureau of Labor 8t*? . iistics of Massachusetts, and Horace G. Wadin has been appointed to succeed him. The firm of John Taylor & Co., Trenton, ;he leading pork packers in New Jersey, has , .'ailed, with liabilities estimated at $250,000. Fire broke out at an early hour Wedne? lay morning in the basement of a crowded Sew York tenement house. The family o| ItiefoTTo Pnpflr o VtantanHor whn thfl ?p floor,'were unable to escape from the lames and were burned to death. Thej ivere Gustave Berg, aged forty years; bit prife, aged thirty-sir; Mrs. Krauss, his moth-' irin-law, and his daughter, Lizzi>, aged leventeen. The residence of William Graven at Pittsburg, was struck by lightning during a relent severe storm. The current was attractid to the steel springs of the bed on whicb 3raves and his wife were sleeping, and botb ivere killed. The State Convention of Indiana Republicans assembled at Indianapolis and nominated a full State ticket, beaded by General * * *? ^ rT anrl Trfl J. S.1V1I1 r. novey i?r uurnuui, ??. ?? __ ^hase for Lieutenant Governor. The Chi* xigo platform was indorsed in every par* icular. . - ' Mrs. Frakcis A. 8cott, widow of a dia;inguished Confederats General, has committed suicide at Memphis,Tenn., on account >t her extreme poverty. Fire destroyed the immens3 lumber mill* )f C. See & Co., at Saginaw, Mich., causing i loss of over $500,000. The Alabama Democratic State Convention met at Atlanta and renominated John B. Gordon unanimously for Governor. AW ;he State o?B<ura were renominated and an Sectoral ticket was selected. A demented employe of the Rockwood pottery at Cincinnati, William Achland,after quarreling with the engineer, James Flyer, Irew a revolver and fatally shot him. Tha ireman, Joseph Bailey, then interfered, and Achland killed him and then committed suicide. The bill providing for a commission to examine into the charges made by the Loo ion Times against Hr. Parnell, the Irish H leader, and other members of Parliament,, H bas passed the House of Commons by a vote H ot ISO to 6L n Serious conflicts took place in Paris be- h tween the police and striking navies^ H Numerous cafe3 were sacked and sixteen. H persons were badly injured. B During a severe gale two large barks, one H English and the other French, sanlc in the H harbor of Valparaiso, South America, aftoi H having been in collision. The crew of th< Kj English vessel, consisting of seventeen hands, H and seven of the French crew,were drowned. H Five other vessels were blown ashore dashed to pieces. The residence of the widow of George Oo- BE vonette, in the parish of St Ignatius, Ca- B nada, has been burned and fire of her chil? H dren perished In the flftiBM. 9