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"BOASTED TO DEATH.
Seven Brave Firemen Killed in
Baltimore, Mil.
Property Worth a Million and a
'jffp- Half Destroyed.
Ten of the largest business houses on Hopis
place, Baltimore, Md., were destroyed
fire, and while trying to extinguish
[ the flames seven firemen lost their
lives and two were seriously injured.
The fire was discovered at about half past
four in th9 toy warehouse of ?. A. Prior <e
Co. by a policeman on the beat. Chief Henneck,
soon after his arrival, saw that it was
going to be a stubborn fire, and directed a
general alarm to be turned in, bringing to
the scene the entire department. By the time
the firemen got to work the entire building
was in flames, the toys with which the warebouse
was stocked burning like tinder wood.
Finding it impassible to save this structure
the chief bad his men direct their efforts
toward saving the adjoining buildings.
The wind was blowing a perfect gale at
the time, and soon swept the flames into the
hardware store of Tabb Brothers & Dimmock,
a large warehouse adjoining that of
Prior & Co. The flames then attacked
Winkelman & Co.'s drug house, and the
three big buildings blazed together, throwing
out a light that could be seen from every
part of the city. i
Suddenly and without warning an explosion
in the Prior Building shook to the very
foundations every house in the block. The
firm carry, in addition to the stock of toys
and china ware, an assortment of fireworks,
which were stored in the basement.
When the fire reached the explosives, of
which there were some 15,000 cases,
the result can be imagined. The walls,
already skaky.were lifted from their foundations
and fell with a crash. Fortunately,
none of the firemen had ventured into this
building, and this explosion did not cause
loss of life.
i The flames,now released from all restraint,
shot in every direction, and soon the entire
[block was blazing.
| A hole had been cut through the wall to
enable the men to play on Tabb's storehouse,
jand they did good work. Encouraged by
(their success a number of other firemen
{climbed higher. They were strung along
[the stairs and were easing the hose upward.
iThnn beean a series of explosions which
Intraded to the firemen like a cannonading.
fThe firemen could not imagine what it was.
All thi? happened after the Pi-ior House had
fallen, and still the firemen stuck to their
posts. The cannonading kept up, and Captain
John J. Leddon.who was standing without,
Giving orders, noticed that the walls of
the Winkelman building were slowly parting.
He saw the danger and called to the men to
come out. He repeated the cry, and those
standing at the foot of the steps rushed out.
.Those above, however, did not get the warning
in time, but when they realized the
danger they started out on a run. Before
they could get to the door there was a
tremendous explosion, more deafening than
any that had yet been heard, followed by a
crash. The wal's had fallen in and bore
each floor down under its weight As
it fell one of the firemen, John
Murphy, was standing at the door. He was
shot out into the street, and escaped
without injury, but the same wall which
saved Murphy caused the death of three of
his companions who were immediately behind
him. It closed each of the three doors
that led to the street, and as they swung to
they shut in the others. Had they been three
seconds quicker they would have been
saved. The beams and timbers fell
upon them and crushed the life out of two,
while the third was terribly hurt McAfee,
Lecombe, Ryan and Kearns were caught further
hack and bo rue down. When the walls
fell Captain Brannan of No. 2 Truck was
coming down from the third story. Kelly
was immediately behind him, burnt, hleedinff,
and terribly hurt. Brannan hauled the
injured man through a window and suc
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As soon as the walls fell the firemen ceased
playing on the building, and directed their
Attention to their buried comrades. All day
v3ong the firemen worked to recover the bodies,
and succeeded in getting out all except two,
1 those of Ryan and Leco.nb. The lntease
*x?31 several times drove the firemen !rom
the building where the bodies were
lying under tons of brick and iron, but they
persisted in the search, and soon after noon
the first body, that of YVazner, was brought
to light Near the spot was the body of Henry
JWalker, standing erect, as though packed in.
Near him was found what was left of George
Bowers, but no other bodies were found until
nearly 6 o'clock, when that of George Kearns
was uncovered. The bodies were terribly
disfigured, the flesh being burned off in many
places. The saddest death is that of Harry
\ Wa3ker. Though a young man, he was one of
t the bravest and most daring on the force.
\ Five years ago a medal was awarded
fcim ior saving the lives of three children
from a burning dwelling. He was drum
major of the American Band and Drum
Corps, composed of the boys, and when they
beard of their leader's death they flocked to
the ruins and cried bitterly.
The row of buildings was one of the finest
in the city, none of the warehouses beinz less
than five stories high, nearly all of them
being newly erected. Among the buildings
partially bnrned was the Maternite, on
Lombard street Its inmates wero removed
with difficulty. The total loss will probably
reach >1.500.000.
DISTILLED VS. MALT DBINKS.
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Internal Revenue Report on the
iiuimiliu|lliuu vi JUI4UUIS.
Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Henderson has prepared a statement of the
per capita consumption of whisky, beer,
etc., at the present day as compared with
the consumption per capita forty-seven years
ago, before the enactment of the internal
revenue laws imposing a tax on the same. It
hows fiat the consumption per capita during
the year ended June 30, 1840, to be as
follows: Distilled spirits, 2.52 proof gallons;
wioes, 0.29 gallon; malt liquors, 1.30 gallons,
making a total of all wines and liquors
of 417 gallons. Since then there has
been a steady diminution in the per capita
consumption of distilled spirits, and a corresponding
increase in the consumption of
malt liQUore. The per capita consumption
during the year ended June 30, 1&S7. was as
follows: Distilled spirits, 1.19 gallons; wines,
0.54 gallon; malt liquors, 11.H3 gallons, making
a total of 13.0-i gallons.
A CENTENNARIAN DEAD.
Colonel Georce L. Perkins, of Connecticut,
Dies of Old A?e.
Colonel George L. Perkins, for fifty years
Treasurer of the Norwich and Worcester
Railroad, died of old age Wednesday even*
ing at the Fort Griswold House, in Groton,
Conn, where, with his family, he was
pending h.s annual vacation.
He had been failing for a week, but was
conscious until within an hour of his death.
He had voted for every President since Madi?on,
was a paymaster in the war of 1812, organized
the first Sunday-school in Norwich,
was organizer of the Par* Congregational
Church and honorary member of the State
Firemen's Benevo ent Association, and an
honorary member of the Arcanum Club.
He was one hundred years and one month
old. Hi3 centennary, which occurred recently.
was made the occasion for a mon <ter
reception and complimentary celebration in
his honor.
FUBIOUS WATERSFOUTS.
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Thirteen Drowned at Hoe Springs,
Ark., and St* at Pueblo, Col.
The destruction and devastation by a
waterspout at Hot Spring*, Ark., wero appalling.
The house occupied by Mrs. Mattie
Fletcher was fir t swept away, and she, with
her four children, was lost. The bodies of
a woman and t.er one-day-old baby were
found in the rear of the Waverly Hotel. Sov
eral persons, nearly all colored, perishei,
but ttieir names could not be ascerta ned.
There have b-ien thirteen bodies recovered,
t" A party of six tired cowboys went to skjep
iN r in a camp at Pueblo, Col. A waterspout
burst, which formed a stream six feet deep,
and all the party was drowned. Their b-die.were
found scattered along the bed of ihe
stre m.
A waterspout burst; at Flomingsburg, Ky
fy Many bridges and tiestles were wash';J
j away, and great damage done to crops.
Mr, Osborne, a Cincinnati eaiiirrupb opei'
tor, wrote correct'y words in tive
niniit-*g. and will hold the championship oi
|ba world until this record is broken.
THE HEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle State*.
EliasKohn, an insane old man, killed bis
wife in Sixth street. New York city, and
then committed suicide.
Frank W. Price killed an unknown burglar
who was robbing his store at Cliftondale.
Mass.
In response to a lengthy petition of citizens
of the Fifth Congressional District. Boston,
Mass., General Banks has consented to
the use of his name as the Republican candidate
for the Congressional nomination.
Labor Day was universally observed in
the great cities of the country by parades
composed of the various trades unions.
The Democrats of Connecticut assembled
in Convention at New Haven and placed in
the field a complete State ticket, headed
by Judge Luzon B. Morris for Governor.
The State Convention of New Hampshire
Republicans met at Concord and nominated
David H. Goodell, of Antrim, for Governor.
The (Jonnecticut State Labor Convention
was held at New Haven. Albert F. Andrews
was nominated for Governor.
Five men were killed at Monroe, N. H., by
the fall of a bank of earth and rock.
The Gubernatorial election in Vermont
resulted in the Republicans carrying the
State by an increased majority over that of
1884.
South and West.
A woman named Thompson recently gave
birth to a child at New Lisbon, Ohio, ana her
husband celebrated the event by getting
drunk. This so preyed upon her mind that
she arose from bed with the child, and going
to a small brook near the hou;e lay down in
the water. Mother and child were both
drowned.
P. W. Van Antwerp, a Cincinnati officer,
attempted to arrest Frank Kline, a notorious
train robber, in Chicago, when Kline killed
him by crushing his sltull with some blunt
weapon and escaped.
Wife murderer Burke Mitchell, colored,
has been hanged at Houston, Texas.
Widespread prairie fires have devastated
the pasture ranges of Northern Montana,
between Maria's River and Sweet Grass
Hills.
George W. Cox has been hanged at San
Andreas, Cal., for the murder of nis son-inlaw,
Henry G. Cook, last November. Cox
manifested the utmost indifference as to his
fate.
The valley in which Hot Springs, Ark., is
situated was swept by a mighty tidal wave,
-which destroyed six lives and inflicted damage
to the extent of $100,000.
A young man named Hare shot and killed
two other young men while returning from
church, near Parkersburg, W. Va.
A battle was fought in No Man's Land
between eighteen horse thieves and a force of
fifty Colorado settlers, and all the outlaws
were killed, together with three of the vigilantrs.
Fire in a hotel at West Superior, Wis.,
caused a loss of six lives.
By the explosion of the boiler of the Perry
Stove Works, at South Pittsburg, Tenn., six
workmen were instantly killed.
At Delhi, Ohio, a Mr. Steinle discovered
that, hie nifn nnrl two ohilrlrpn horl h??n
drowned, and it is believed that the mother
in a fit of insanity dragged the children into
the river with her. They were a girl and a
boy nine and ten years old.
A large storage tank at Oil Centre, Ohio,
burst and the ou taking fire burned three
men to death.
Returns from the Arkansas State election
show that the Democratic ticket was elected
by a majority of over thirty thousand.
Samuel Wheeler, aged sixteen, of Staunton,
Ind., was impaled on a broken pitchfork
and died in great agony.
The wholesale grocery and supply store of
Klauben & Levi, at San Diego, Cal., was entirely
destroved by fire, causing a loss of
*245,000.
BThe Centennial Exposition held at Columbus,
Ohio, in commemoration of the 100th
anniversary of the settlement of the Northwestern
Territory, has been formally opened
by Governor Foraker.
An Italian and two Germans who were
walking on the track in Chicago were struck
and killed by the fast freight train.
The bodies of two wealthy young men, &
Morris Wain, of Philadelphia, and Charles
L. Strong, of New York City, have been
found on the plains near Rock Springs, Wy
oiuiiig. .mejr wero uu a iiuuuug uxpcuitiuu
and it is supposed they were murdered by
their guide.
Washington.
The annual report of the Postmaster-General
shows a large increase in postal business
during the past year. The number of Presidential
postoffices has increased from 2836 to
2o02, and the salaries paid Presidential postmasters
have amounted to $4,202,800.
There has been passed in the House of
Representatives a very stringent bill against
Chinese immigration, and it was immediately
sent to the Senate, where it was at once reported
and debate on it began.
President Cleveland has nominated
Charles E. Boyle of Pennsylvania to be Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington
Territory.
Mr. A. L. Drcmmond, who for more than
seventeen years has been a member of the
Secret Service Division of the United States
Treasury, and for more than nine years the
Chief of the service in New York city, has
sent his resignation to Washington.
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
the forfeiture of the contract with
E. F. Goebel, of Chicago, for the construction
of the Postofflce building at Brooklyn,
N. Y., and the forfeiture also of the $1000
which accompanied his bid. He was to erect
the structure for $600,0J0.
Foreign.
At Einerz, Hungary, a man murdered his
five children and then committed suicide.
China refused to ratify the American
treaty restricting immigration.
The infant son of Emperor William has
been baptized. He was christe ned Oscar Carl
Gustav Adolph.
W hile Bishop da Rousseau was addressing
5000 pilgrims in a church at Jumet, Belgium,
a platform collapsed, killing three
persons.
The British steamers Cairo and Snaresbrook
crashed into each other off Tarifain a
fog. The Snaresbrook was sunk and eleven of
her crew drowned.
A very serious emeute occurred in the
Philippine Islands, growing out of the refusal
of the natives, including ten thousand
Indians, to pay newly .mposed taxes. During
a riot a number of rebels aud one policeman
were kil ed.
At Tokushing, a town of Awa Province,
Japan, a storm occurred causing an inundation,
by which 160 houses were destroyed and
forty-six persons drowned.
The floods in Bohemia have reached
alarming proportions. At Budweis fifteen
thousand persons are homeless. The inhabitants
have tak*n refuge in the hills.
Six vi lases in the va ley ot the Poprad,
Austria, have been submerged. The villa*
gers fled to the mountains. Crop3 and granaries
have been swept away.
A BIG BRIDGE"COMPLETED.
The Strnctnre Over the rfndson at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Finished.
High upon the symmetrical intarlacings ol
the iron work of the Poughkeepsie (N. Y.)
Bridge a group of prominent citizens and
city officials gathered Thursday afternoon t<a
witness trie Closing 01 tnB gau in spans nva
and s x. and the completion of the double intersecting
truss ami triple cantilever spanned
bridge over the Hudson River at that point
Precisely at twenty minutes to seven r. M.
Chief Engineer O'Rourke gave the signal,
an 1 the giant pin that fastened the t-wer
cords of th" span was driven in and the
bridge was formally declared closed. Simultaneously
a cannon th?t had been hoisted to
the trp of the bridge belched forth a salute.
The party crossed the newly erecte 1 ironwork
and now proudly cl.iim the honor ol
being the first to cross the Poughkeepsie
bridge.
From th? commencement of the work, two
Kirs ago, to its completion, there has not
n a hitch.
The bridge is 4000 foet in length. Including
appr laches, it is 6?7? feet long The estimated
cost of the stru-turo complete is
$5,001,0; '0.
Railroad connections with Pennsylvania
and the East will be ejected n a few months,
and tra ns w i 1 be running over tho sti uo: lire.
The Bridge Company tendered a Imnqu^t to
their emjjioye-i at the Ari n^ton i 'afe in commemoration
of the event Covers were laid
for three hundred.
DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS.
Annual Statements from Various
Government Officers.
The Communication from the Superintendent
of Foreign Mails,
The annual report of the United States
{Superintendent of Foreign Mails Bell showB
that the total cost of the service for the last
fiscal year was $190,067, of which amount
$26,649 was the transportation of mails of
foreign origin. The transatlantic steamship
companies received $353,262, or an increase of
$38,s62 over last year; the Pacific steamship
companies, $37,302, or $1,163 less than last
year; and the Central and South American
service cost $58,553, or $7137 more than last
year. The estimated cost of the service for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, aggret7#n
nnn
The report shows that the first parcel post
convention ever concluded between the
United States and any foreign country was
that of October 1, 1887, with Jamaica. Since
that date conventions have been concluded
with Barbados3, the Bahamas, British
Honduras and Mexico. The conclusion
of the convention with Mexico,
he report says, "is of special importance, as
that country, with its large population and
i with rapidly developing industries, naturally
looks to the United States for every possible
aid in strengthening the bonds of commercial
relations between the two great sister republics,
whose interests are the same, and it will
be found that new and hitherto almost inac|
cessiole markets have been opened to American
merchants. Parcel post conventions are
j now pending with all the Central and South
j Amerk?an States, and it is hoped that the time
is not far distant when the three Americas will
! be embraced in one grand parcel post union
I which will, in its way, aid this country in fulfilling
its eventual mission, viz.: to control
the markets of this hemisphere and become
the leader in its industrial and commercial
progress."
The report says the system of paying for
the mails as cargo, at so much a pound, has
proved so advantageous that it is hoped
there will be no return to the old
method, involving the payment of subsidies
for the mail service. If it
should be the pleasure of Congress to make
an approDriation to aid American steamers
plying in trade with foreign ports, it would
be a detriment to the efficiency of the foreign
mail service to charge it with the adminisof
Kiirh an anDronriation.
Disposition of Public Lands.
The annual report of the Commissioner of
the United States General Land Office shows
that during the year ended June 30, 1888,
there were made 59,095 cash land
entries of all classes, aggregating
6,007,254 acres, for which the Government
received $11,20S,071. Of these cash entries,
8318 were sales of land subject to private
entry; 23,151 were sales of land subject
to pre-emption entry; 1314 were sales of
mineral lands; 14,208 were commuted
homestead entries; 2385 were original
and final entries under the desert land
act, and 152 were sales of coal
lands. The sales of timber and stone
lands aggregate 2420 entries, nearly all of
which were ma<ie In California. The whole
number of entries of all classes, including Indian
lands, made during the year was 255,119,
embracing 24,485,833 acres. The total receipts
of the foregoing were $13,522,185. Of
the whole number of entries. 46,236 wero
original homesteads, embracing 6,676,(516
acres: 22,413 were final homestead entries,embracing
3,175,400 acres,and 24,472 were timber
culture en tries,having an area of 3,733,305
acres. This year the land granted railroads
made 40,786 selections embracing 9,525,800
acres. Under school, swamp land arid
other grants by the Government to the
several States and Territories, 8029 selections
were made, covering an area of 1,265.452
acres. In addition to the 24,485,833 acres
entered under the various public land laws
during the year, the area of commuted
homesteads, final desert entries, final homesteads,
and final timber' culture entries,
aggregated 5,647,543 acres.
Report of i he Patent Commissioner.
Benton J. Hall, United States Commissioner
of Patents, in his annual report, says
that the total number of applications received
duringthe year was 40,177, a decrease of
847. The number of patents granted and
trade marks and labels registered was 22,101,
as against 23,217 for last year. The total receipts
for the year were $1,122,941,a decrease
of $27,102. The expenditures were
$953,730, a decrease of $27,914. The
surplus covered into the Treasury :
was $169,264. On June SO last |
there were 7227 cases on hand awaiting action,
as against 7601 on June !>0, 1837. The
Commissioner renews his recommendations
of last year relative to needful legislation
and again calls attention to the urgent need
of increased room for his bureau.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Only about one in ten die of yellow fever.
A kull sugar crop is expected in Louii
ana.
The Afghan insurrection has been sup
pressed.
Vancouver Island coal is to be mined at
the rate of 2000 tons per day.
Queretaro, Mexico, has had rain fox
twenty-seven consecutive days.
The aggregate value of the output of our
mines is set down at $538,0 )6,345.
A London crank has been arrested foi
threatening to murder Gladstone.
It is announced that the Czar and Czarina
of Russia will found a monastery in AbysBinia.
The New Zealand Parliament has voted to
renew the contract with, the Spreckels line it
steamers.
Colorado is to have an observatory 15C
feet nearer the stars than any other in
America.
A hunter in Clarendon County, S. CM
shot and killed bis companion, mistaking him
for a bear.
Bolivia, which has a population ol
2,(KM),000, is without a single Protestant
missionary.
The agricultural exports constitute over
seventy-live per cent of the entire exports ol
the country.
It is estimated that 50,000 mocking birds
are caught monthly in the immediate vicinity
of New Orleans.
Since the beginning of the present year,
411# members of the Grand Army of tbe
Republic have died.
an American boy is reported as having
been shanghaied on board of a British ship
at Portland. Oregon.
feTiiE railroad from Paris to Constantinople,
which has been completed, is opposed by the
Turkish Government.
Ralph Kino, of Kansas, aged ten, is in
jail for stealing somo Ufty horses in the
i course of the past year.
I Turkey is undergoing a Cabinet crisis '
owing to a scarcity of money in the Treasury
I to pay the army and navy.
I It is now not only denied that the Whit*
i Pasha, of Afnca, isJStanley, but denied that
there isany White Pasha at an.
| Florence Mouse, twelve years of age,
bas ascended Mont Blanc. She is the youngest
touribt that ever made the ascent.
FoRTY-Nir^K suicides have occurred at
Monte Cario, tlte Italian gambling city,
during the last two and a half months.
Pension C immissioner Black's annua,
report shows (JO.i'W new names on the rolls,
during the year $r8,775,8t><i were paid to pensioners.
Numerous veinsof gold, silver, copper and
load have recent y been discovered in Mun
roe, Fayette and Kanawha counties, West
Virginia.
The German Government has paid $100,000
to an Austrian engineer named Mannl chei
for a patent cylinier stopper for quick-loading
riHes.
Immigration into Canada from Europ?
thus far tn 8 year lias reached 5U'0). Of this
number 40,000 have proceeded direct to tli?
United States.
Margaret Fbnnicat* one of the smallest
women in the world, fifty-five years of age.
and only thirty-four inches in height, has just
died at Carlis e, Fenn.
Kino Leopold, of Belgium, will soon visit
Berlin for the p irpose of conferring on a
propositi to put a stop to the importation of
gunpowder into the uncivilized regions of
Africa.
Sacramento Citt, Cal., has voted to send
lo Florida for 5n00 wild orange trees and
plaut them in the streets for shade trees.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate Proceedings.
165th Day.?The Senate passed the Fortifications
bill with most of the amendments
recommended by the committee, and a committee
of conference, consisting of Senators
Dawes, Plumb and Gorman, was appointed
on the disagreeing vdtes with the House. The
amendment appropriating $500,000 for experiments
and tests and providing that the
contracts for guns and breech-loading mortars
shall not involve the expenditure of
over $0,000,000 was adopted....A bill
was introduced authorizing the President,
in case of an outbreak of a contagious
disease, to counsel the Treasury to frame
regulations to prevent its introduction at
ports or transmission from point to point....
A bill was introduced permitting importers
of goods who bond them for interior points
to remove portions of the invoice at New
York or other points and send the remainder
to the interior under bond The resolution
calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for
information regarding the transit of Canadian
goods in bond through the United States
was taken up for consideration.
166tii Day.?The Scott hill to exclude the
Chinese entirely from this country was
discussed by Messrs. George, Mitchell, Butler
and Sherman, but no action was taken.
167th Day.?Mr. Teller spoke in favor of
the bill excluding the Chinese from this
country.... A resolution calling on the Secretary
of War for information as to the ownership
of the St. Clair flats, whether the waters
are in the jurisdiction of Canada or of the
I United States, was adopted.... The bill in
troduced to suppress Trusts proposes the
seizure and forfeiture of all shares of stock,
and all property used in furtherance ot the
purposes of a Trust.
1B8th Dat.?Mr. Sherman offered a resolution
(which was adopted) requesting the
President to inform the Senate whether the
recent treaty with China, and the amendments
adopted by the Senate, have been ratified
by the Emperor of China When tha
Senate resumed consideration of the Chinese
Restriction bill no Senator sought the floor,
no amendment was offered to the bill, and
the question was announced to be on its passage.
The rote was then taken, and was
unanimous. Yeas thirty-two: nays none; but
as there was no quorum present the Senate
adjourned, leaving the Chinese bill undisposed
of.
Hons? Proceedings.
801st Day.?The House technically adopted
the Sundry Civil Service bill, though several
amendments opposed by the House were not
acted upon. Its conferees were oi-dered to
insist on the disagreement to the Senate
amendment relative to the Congressional
Library Building The resolution extending
appropriations for the government was
passed.... At the evening session Mr. Bingham
caired up the bill granting a pension of
fi5500 perannum to the widow of General
Philip H. Sheridan Due no action was Lateen.
Twenty-seven private pension bills were
passed.
202d Day.?The Retaliation bill was reported
back by the Committee on Foreign
Affairs and made a special order....The
Senate amendment to tbe Sundry Civil bill
j in regard to the irrigation of arid lands was
[ discussed, but no action was taken.
203d Day.?The consideration of the Oklahoma
measure prevented the consideration
of tho bill to authorize the President to issue
I his proclamation suspending tbe collection of
all customs duties on imports of any species
of bagging and substitute therefor, suitable
for wrappiilg cotton, and on jute butts for
six months Mr. Scott introduced a bill to
exclude the Chinese from this country,which
was passed The bill to detail Army and
Navy officers to educational institutions was
passed....A bill was introduced by Mr.
Wheeler placing cotton bagging on the free
list
204th Day.?The House agreed to the
Army Appropriation bill conference report
.... Mr. Kelley introduced a resolution of inquiry
as to improper advances being made to
Architect Smithmeyer by a member of Congress
The Retaliation bill was considered,
and was advocated by Messrs. Belmont and
McCreary, and opposed by Mr. Hitt.
205th Day.?The Retaliation bill was
aeain brought up for consideration, and
Messrs. Scott, Phelps, Belmont, McCreary,
Davis and Cogswell spoke on the measure.
A ~rn?V POT?. TTTIT.P.
F'ever-Strlcken Jacksonville Appeals
to the Country for Aid.
The following appeal to the people of the
United States has been issued by the yellow
fever-stricken people of Jacksonville, Fla.:
"We, the authorized representatives of the
citizens of Jacksonville, recognizing the fact
that the epidemic has now reached such a
stage that our own funds are insufficient
either to cope with the
many cases of absolute necessity, to engagee
nurses or for the numerous other demands
upon us, and owing to the absence of all business,
many of our ablest citizens are unable
to furnish further funds, we now think we
are justified in accepting the many willing
offers of aid that have been received from
you.
" We therefore wish our fellow-citizens of the
United States to know that we will gratefully
receive the aid they have offered,
and that any contribution will be used
for the benefit of those in need and
where they will do the most good. We
request that anv such contributions may be
forwarded to James M. Schumacher, President
of the First National Bank and Chairman
of the Finance Committee."
A Jacksonville dispatch of the 6th says
that "the cry for help has gone forth none
too soon. Up to about five days ago
the number of cases reported was
comDarativelv small every day, and to all
the doctors were able to give prompt attention
and nurses were available Now
reporta of thirty, forty and fifty a
day are becoming the rule, and if the low
death rate is to be maintained more doctors
and nurses must be brought here at the expense
of the public. It is impossible for the
doctors to properly attend a'l the cases pouring
in now, and if not attended to the deathrate
will eo ud and keep up."
Two horses belonging to Elzy Harris, ot
Palmer township. Ohio, were stung to deatk
by honey bees. The bees attacked them neai
the hive, and in less than thirty minutes bott
horses were dead.
The wif? of Anton Crislak, gave birth to
four children at Duiuth, Minn., all healthy
and well, two boys and two girla. Their
combin jd weight is 21)4 pounds.
THE MARKETS.
30 new york.
Beef. City Dressed 7 @
Calves.common to prime.... 5 &
Bheep J @ **
Lambs ? @ L
Hogs?Live.... oiy
Dressed 8%@
Flour?City Mill Extra. 5 Oo tg 5 2.>
Patents 5 3o @ 5 80
Wheat-No. 2 Red 1 00 (g 1
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82 @ 85
Barlev?ntate r, e.s/
Corn?Ungraded Mixed..., 51 &
Oats?No. I White @
Mixed Western J? 90
Hay-Choice Timothy ? ?
8traw? one Rye ? 70 @ fl J"
Lard-City Steam ~ @ y
Butter-State Creamery.... f~ ?
Dairy f? @
West Im. Creamery 14 @ ?
Faotorv <g ?
TTftofcorv &?$?3
Skims T. 4 ?
Western J?y
Egrcrs?State and Penn 1^/4(9 ^A
BUFFALa
Steers?Western 3 25 @ 4 25
8heer?Me.j.u<nto Good.... 4 00 @ 4 35
; Lambs?. air to <?> 4 53 (ft h til>
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks H 1? <g) H 25
Flour?Family 4 S5 @ 5 25
Wheat -Na z Ke 1 1 01 (a) 1 Ot
Corn?No. 2. Yellow 50X& 51
: Oats?No. 2. Wnite ? & S4
I Barley?State 88 (&) 91
BOSTOX
Beef?Good to choice. 0 @ 10
Hogs?Live 6
Northern Dressed.... 6%$ ?
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 10 (^6 0)
Corn?bteame'- Ytjiow. <0 6$ 61
Oats?Vn. 2 White 4*? ? 4 5
Rye-State 60 ? 65
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Beoi.?Dressed weight....... 6 @
r-heen?Live weight 3 @ 4
Lamb; 6
Hogs?Northern ? (g) 7%
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?Penn. family 4 00 @4 2>?^
W. eat?No. 2, Red ? (gj 1 0!
Corn?iSo. 2, Alixwl ? ^ 5^
Oats? nmude.i W.nte 32 @ 3 tyi
Rye?No. 2 ? $ 51 I
Butter?Creamery Extra... fcO ffl 28
Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 8 @ 934
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DEADLY DISASTER^
A Collision Between Two Trains
in France.
The Accident Causes Many Deaths
and Injuries.
A terrible railway accident occurred at
half past two o'clock in the morning on the
Paris, Lyons and Meditteranean line between
Malain and Velars-sur-Ouche in France near
the viaduct of Le Combe Fouchere. The
down express No. 11, from Paris to Dijou
and Lyons, which started at twenty
minutes past nine p. u., was due at
Dijon at a quarter past two a.
m. It ran off the line, and some of the can
were thrown in a heap on to the up track.
Before news of the mishap could be sent to
Dijon the up fast train had left that station
at eleven minutes past 2, and, rushing along
at high speed, it ran into the wreck in the
pitch darlcness.
The collision was terrific. Both engine:
were smashed to pieces. When the casualties
came to be counted eighteen passengers were
found dead or dying and forty others dreadfully
wounded.
Both engines were burled down an embankment,
and eight cars were smashed intc
pieces.
Happily there were no Americans among
the victims, but several English were
killed, namely: Miss Marriott, Mr. Barengalland
Mr. Howden, an English student.
Captain Marriott was dangerously wounded.
The other victims identified so far are French
or Swiss.
An English gentleman, traveling by easy
stages from a holiday trip to Italy, said: "1
was half asleep after a long journey, when 1
was aroused by a violent shock. ISo damage
was done to my compartment,but on alighting
I found myself in the midst of a ghastly scene.
There was not a light anywhere, and shrieks
and groans came from an indistinguishable
mass. Before I fairly realized the situation I
was out and helping to pull the injured people
from the debris of the wrecked cars, twisted
axles, broken glass and panela I can hardly
tell how I spent the first hour or two after
the break up. One hideous scene followed
another. When day began to dawn we survivors
realized the extent of the catastrophe."
T O .< DL.I.J.t.t.!.
Wllll&IIl li. IJUWl/, U1 X uuauoipuia. oaiu,
"I never had such an experience. How ]
got out of that I can't tell you. They say
we ran into another train tnafc^was thrown
off the track. I remember a shock and
hearing horrible groans, then I fainted.
A lady had her child and husband
killed beside her, but she herself
escaped injury. In frenzied despair shd
rushed to the nearest telegraph offld
to wire her friends. With true official
stolidity the man in charge refused to
accept any message till seven o'clock. Am
other lady on trying to get out of the cai
shrieked with fright as she stepped on th<
jmangled body of a gentleman with whom a
few minutes before she had been playfullj
discussing her holiday experiences."
Most of the victims were taken back td
Dijon. All the passengere who were well
enoueh went on to Paris.
LATER NEWS.
George C. Grady & Co., of Eastport, the
largest sardine packers of Maine, have assigned
to Dr. James Grady.
The Democrats of Massachusetts met is
State Convention at Springfield, and placed
in nomination for Governor, William E.
Russell, the young Mayor of Cambridge.
Thfl nlfttform commends President Cleve
land's financial, foreign and civil service policy,
and adopts the St. Louis declaration of
Democratic principles.
JahesP. Bennett,an extensive New York
dealer in coffee and tea has failed for $100,000.
Prominent New York bankers are engaged
in a great banking scheme to secure
the control of the world's silver market and
transfer itrto the metropolis.
The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention
assembled at Milwaukee and nominated
James Morgan for Governor.
Abe Mann, of San Francisco, cut his
wife's throat in a fit of jealousy and then
committed suicide.
John Ford, a prominent citizen of Columbus,
IncL, while insane from typhoid fever,
killed his wife and one child and severely
wounded another child.
Louis Larson, a factory operative in
Chicago, went into an iron cylinder to clean
it talon? a liehted candle and a bucket of
benzine. He soon screamed The cylinder
was filled with flame. No help could reach
him, and he was roasted to death.
The State Convention of Colorado Republicans
was convoked in Denver, and on the
fifth ballot J. A. Cooper received the nomination
for Governor.
Secretary Fairchild has decided tc
award the contract for the construction ol
the Brooklyn postofHce building to Mr. Gallagher
of that city at his bid of $860,000.
The transfer of Lieutenant-Colonel Thoa,
M. Vincent from St. Paul to Washington
under an order issued by the War Department,
means that he will be made Assistant
Adjutant-General to the new commander oi
the army, General Schofield.
.Havana, uuDa, was swept, uy ? uidc?h^
cyclone. Several vessels foundered ih tb
harbor, and two sailors were drowned. Many
persons were injured. Many street lamps,
walls, trees and fences were blown down, and
znuch damage was d^na to wharves.
. THE LABOR WORLD.
Oermany has 133,695 iron workers.
The Lyons, France, hatmakers have gone
On strike.
The wage-workers of Massachusetts have
{206,000,000 in the banks.
There are very few idle workmen in the
country excepting tramps.
In the United States there are altogether
even terra cotta factories.
A good deal of Western mechanical labor
has been drifting southward.
Atlanta, Ga., has a six-pot furnace running
ou shades, chimneys and potties.
Of the $1,000,000 worth of china made last
year at Limoges, one-half came to America.
Prince Bismarck has been made honorary
master of the corporation of German Tailors.
Four thousand persons are employed in
Montreal (Canada) thirty boot aud shoe factories.
The Steele works at Landore, Wales, have
been shut down and thousands of men are
out of work.
Of the 200 gold beaters in New York not
one is a woman; while of the D00 gold cutters
not one is a man.
The Pennsylvania Railway Company will
build $501,000 shops at Altoona, Peon., to
i ftmnlnv 1 (M)() now man
At Portland, Maine, a contractor on the
water works pet* per day for Italians to
whom he pays but sixty cents.
Bkp.lin, it seems, has gradually become
the headquarters of the carved wood industry.
supplanting Switzerland.
Five thousand miners in the Newcastle
district. Sydney. New South Wales, have
struck for an advance in wages.
A rood green-glass blower gets $25 a week,
but the work is so unhealthy that few old
men are found among the workers.
1 he British steelmakers are experiencing a
heavy demand for all kinds ot material, and
some works have orders for six months to
come.
St. Louis has no less than seventy-eight
Chinese laundries, and piys out o?er #l()i).000
annually to Mongolians to hnveils washing
done.
Thk workingmen of the town of Grafton,
Mass., have bought 1(10 tons of coal on the
co-operative plan, an I hare saved about
*11)11 nn traiNn/'t-ion
The Alaska Commercial Company's st?amer
?6. Paui h us arrive I at 8 in l?r.uicisco with
.he season's capture ot4"furs on St. George
tnd St. Paul is.ands, the estimated value of
ivhich is $^,000,U00.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.
The Brooklyn* are weak at the bat,
George Gore's band is well again.
Bam Wise will be released by Boston.
Pittsburg is endeavoring to sell ManL
Pittsburg will clear about 16000 this sear
on.
The Athletics have a new uniform of navy
blue.
There will be no mere Sunday games at
Rochester.
Boston and New York are playing the best
ball in the League.
The release of "Phenomenal" Smith, of
Baltimore, is for sala.
No catcher can gather flies in better style
than Daly, Of Chicago.
Gomer Price, an old ball player, died recently
at Scranton, Penn.
Fred Dunlap, of Pittsburg, is again laid
op with a sprained ankle.
Ttwaw 1/wlro lilra Mav Vnrlr ortr^ Rf. T/*Tlii
(or the world's championship.
NicoL.of Cincinnati, leads both the League
and Association in stolen bases.
Pitcher Meade, of Harvard College, is
now a full-fledged professional
Esterbrook and Shomberg have been released
from the Indianapolis Cluh.
Browning, of Louisville, never before had
ao low a batting average as this season.
Roger Connor, of New York, swings the
heaviest bat of any player in the League.
Milwaukee claims to nave the best baserunning
team la the Western Association.
Pitcher Duck, of Sandusky. Ohio, had
several ribs broken in a collision a week ago.
Worcester, Mass., is mentioned as a
likely Association city in case of a vacancy.
. Connor, Ward, and Ewing are the New
York players who have made over 100 base
hits.
Mullane, of Cincinnati, has lost every
game he has pitched against Baltimore this
year.
Hot, Washington's deaf mute player, has
this season stolen ton bases in two games on
Mike Kelly.
In Boston they consider one victory over
Philadelphia as good as two over any other
League club.
Bakely's feat of shutting out the Cincinnati
two successive days breaks the record
in the Association.
Baltimore is fast losing its grip as a baseball
city. Six hundred has been the average
attendance this season.
There are but three real out-and-out fiftycent
ball towns in the country?Chicago,
Boston and New York.
In Boston this year the Philadelphias have
drawn the largest and the PittSDurirs the
smallest crowds of the season.
The Cnbian Giants have won the colored
championship. The prize, which is a silver
ball, has been presented to them.
Aldrich, of Kalamazoo, Mich., has probably
won a greater percentage of games than
any pitcher in the Tri-8tate League.
"national" lkaqu* "record.
Sameo* Club. Won. l/ni
New York 67 3H
Chicago 59 46
Boston 57 48
Detroit . 54 43
Philadelphia 51 50
Pittsburg 49 53
Washington 38 66
Indianapolis 39 68
american association record.
Xame ofClub. Won. ?/>? ,
St. Louis 70 83
Athletic 64 37
Brooklyn 63 44
Cincinnati 60 42
Baltimore 43 63
Cleveland 41 60
Louisville 38 66
Kansas City 34 68
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Justice Lamar is a famous horseman.
Mrs. Cleveland is an expert lawn tennis
player.
The Shah of Persia is making a tour of
EuroDe.
Representative Chain is the only native
Texan in Congress.
Lord Tennyson has passed his eightieth
year with alight heart.
Milan, of Servia is said to be financially
the poorest King living.
\ The Duke of Argyle has declared himself
to be in favor of cremation.
Mrs. Sheridan, widow of the General, has
Cherokee blood in her veins.
Wendell Phillips' body lies in an unmarked
grave at Milton. Mass.
A son of President Tyler has been chosen
President of William and Mary College at
Williamsburg, Va.
Mrs. Hopkins-Searle has bought 1250,000
worth of paintings in Paris for her mansion
at Great Harrington, Mass.
Amelie Rives Chanler, the Virginia authoress,
receives al out thirty letters a day
from admirers of her works.
John Hoey, President of the Adams Express
Company, has sailed for Europe, where
he will organize an express system.
Mr. Whitebread, a member of the English
Parliament, is said to make over $1,000,000
per year from his beer brewery.
Lord Randolph Churchill is an enthusiastic
student of Gibbon, and can repeat bv
heart long passages of the "Decline and Fall
of Rome."
The Queen of Spain has set her heart upon
making St. Sebastian, on the Spanish coast,
an Autumn resort of the fashionable world*
of all nations.
Empkror Francis Joseph, of Austria,
takes beer at luncheon, a limited amount of
champagne at dinner and smokes the commonest
kind of cigars.
Princess Beatrice, daughter of Qneea
Victorin, has sent some of her own musical
compositions to the exhibition of woman's industries
in Sydney, Australia.
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iilMPEKUK VTXL.I>lAjn ll. vt j
passion for having bis photographs taken.
Since his accession to the throne he has flooded
Germany with his pictures.
Thk Earl of Rosslyn is a candidate for
laureate laurels. Queen Victoria has apEroved
of his two sonnets on the death ol
Imperor Frederick and "commanded" him
to publish them.
Mus. Carlisle, who is keeping house at
Washington for the first time, enjoys having
guests at dinner, and the Speaker has instrU'
tions to bring home friends with him in
the afternoon whe j the house is not full of
vis, tors.
uenkral ciuktis, ttie American rartys
candidate for President, is bright and cheery
and evidentlv sincere. He is interested in
various steel companies In New York City
and New Jersey, is sixty-six years old, is
reputed to be worth $2,000,000 and lives at
Bridgeport Conn. .. . .
An interesting family reunion wa?
held at Davisville, E. L, recently bj
the descendants of Mrs. Elcy Chase
Vaughn, who assembled at the resi
dence of her eldest son to celebrate
her ninety-seventh birthday. Earlj
in the day her children, grandchildren,
and their families began to arrive,
' until by noon she had gathered aboui
I her a party of seventy-eight, five gen<
1 erations being represented. Two ol
| her sisters, aged respectively ninety
| three and seventy-seven jewo,
also present.
The total area under cultivation in
corn, whe at, rye, and oats in the United
States this year is about 140,000,000
' acres, or nearly 219,000 square miles.
This is less than half the 322,000,000
acr. s of public lands whioh have not
yet been surveyed, much of which is
well adapted to the cultivation of the
' cereals. The crop possibilities of this
country nra far from having reached
their maximum.
Tiirkk are only e ght towns in the
fnitod States tho n in sol which b,;gir
wit i X. Sev. n of t u se are Xenias
* and the other is Xenophon.
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SUPERSTITIONS CONCERNING
THIS REPTILE.
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Given an Odious Reputation in the
Mythology of All Races?Medieval
Legend*?The Miser
and . the Toads.
The personal appearance of the toad
is such as to have given it a bad place in
the mythology of all races, says C. G.
Leland. The Algonkia Indians?wflo,
like Napoleon and Slawkenbergius, were
great admirers of men with fine bold
noses?after having studied the plane
physiognomy of the toad, decided that
it indicated all the vices, and made of
the creature the sother of all the
witches. Nothing could have been
more condemnatory; since in their religion?as
in that of the Acadians, Lapa
and Eskimos?a dark and horrible sorcery,
in which witches conciliated evil
spirits, was believed to have preceded
their own nobler Shamanism, by which
these enemies of mankind were forced
or conquered by magic. Once the Great
Toad had, as ihe thought, succeeded in
organizing a conspiracy by whicn Glooskap,
the Shamanic god of Nature, was to
be destroyed Then he passed his hand
over her face and that of her fellow conspirator,
the Porcupine; and from that
time forth their noses were flat, to the
Seat scorn of ail honesty well-beaked
dians.
The old Persians made the toad the
symbol and pet of Ahriman, the foe of
light, and declared that his CharfetUr, '
or attendant demons, took that form
when they persecuted Ormuzd. Among
the Tyroleee it is a type of envy; whencei
the proverb, <4?nviousas a toad." In.
the middle ages, among artists and ini
many church legend?, it appears as greed
or avarice; there is even to this day,: in'
Bome mysterious place on the right bank
of the T.hine between Laufenberg and
Binzgau, a pile of coals on which sits if
toad. That is to say, coals they seem tci
lia nnrld Put t?Ha ia ill nnrn wnld.
and the toad guarcfa it; and he who! , knows
how can pronounce a spell which
shall ban the grim guardian. And there
is a story told by ilenzel that long ago
there lived in Cologne a wicked misery,
who when old repented and wished to
leave his money to the poor. Bat when
he opened his great iron chest he found
that every coin in it had turned to a
horrible toad with sharp teeth. Thi*
story being told to his confessor, the'
priest saw in it divine retribution, and!
told him that God would have none of his
money?nay, that it would go hard
with him to save his soul. And he. being
willing to do anything to be free of sin,;
was locked up in the chest with the
toads; and lo! the next day when it
was opened the creatures had eaten him N
up. Only his clean-picked bones remained.
But in the Tyrol it is believed that the
toads are themselves poor sinners, undergoing
penance for deeds done in human
form. Therefore they are regarded with y
pity and sympathy by all. The geneaal
belief is that toads are,for the most part,
people who made vows to go on pilgrimages,
and died with the vows unfulfilled.
So the poor creatures go hopping
astray, bewildered and perplexed,
striving to find their way to shrines
which have perchance long since ceased
to exist. Once there was a toad who
took seven years to go from Leifers to /
Weissenstein; and when the creature
reached the church it suddenly changed ,
to a resplendent white dove, which,flying } ,
up to heaven, vanished before the eyes of '
a large company there assembled, who
bore witness to the miracle. And one ,
day as a wagoner was going from Innsbruck
to Seefeld, as he paused by the
wayside, a toad came hopping up and
seemed to be desirous of getting into
the wagon"; which he, being a benevolent
man, helped it to do, and gave it a <
place on the seaf beside him. There it
sat like any other respectable passenger
until they came to the side path which
leads to the church of Seefleld, when,
wonderful to relate, the toai suddenly ,
turned to a maiden of angelie beauty,
in nrhitA who. thanking the
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wagoner for his kindness to her when she
was but a poor reptile, told him she
had once been a young lady who had
vowed a pilgrimage to the church of Seefeld.
But as heedless maids often do,
she had put it oS. from time to time till
she died. But now, bj his help, her
soul was saved. And, saying this*, she
too winged her way "to the joyous
realm where the pure dwellers are."
In common with the frog, the toad it
an emblem of productiveness, and ranks
among creatures which are ty pe-t of erotie
passion. I have in my possession a
neck'ace of rudely made silver toads of
Arab workmanship, intended to be worn
i by women who wish to become mother#.
Therefore, the cre'atuie, in the old world
as well as in the uew, appears as a being
earnestly seeking the companionship of
[ men. Thus it happened to a youth of
Aramsach, near Kattenberg, that, being
one day in a lonely place by a lake, there
looked up at him from the water a being t
somewhat like a maid but more like &
' hideous toad, with whom he entered into
conversation; which be ame at last
friendly and agreeable, for the strange
I creature talked exceeding y well. Then
' she, thinking he mi^ht be hungry, asked
i him if he would lain have anything in
particular to eat. He mentioned in jest
a kind of cakes: whereupon diving into
thfl lake she brought some up. which he
ate. So he met her many times; ana
whenever he wished for anything, no
matter what, she got it for h ra from the
> waters- the end of it all being ihit, despite
her appalling ugliness, the youth
fell in love with her and offered mariage,
i to which she joyfully consented. But
r no sooner had the ceremony been performed
than she changed to a lady of
! wonderful beauty: and, taking him by
the hand, she conducted him to the lake,
; into which >he led him, and "in this life
r they were seen never more." This legend
evidently properly belongs to frosjlore.
1 According to one version, the. toad after
i marriage goes to a lake, wa-thes away her
j ugliness, and returns as a beauty with
the bridegroom to his castle, where they
live in perfect happiness.
An Evil Prophecy Abont Books.
"Second-hand book stores are in"
t'unr) f.PVfiral
crensmu, smuageiiMBuau,
g ntlcraen nre making collections of old
books. Some buy any books uat so
they are old and others make special
selections. vew books are almost as
cheap as old ones. Neither are in great
demand; the newspapers of to-day
publish all that is valuable, pa-r, p-esent
and future. Quarterlies crow-led out
books; magazines made wav w th the
quarterlies, and now the new-pipers have
almost rilled the place of the mirazines,
there not bein?: ? ? many of the-e as there
were before the war, a otmrier of a
century ago. As soon a-< capable press
and ink are invented to print at high
speed accurately the fin lines of an
engraver, then the fine i lus rations of
the magazines will appear in the dailies
and the former will fade away."?:
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