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THE PRESIDENTIAL YOTE.
The Electoral College and Pluralities
in the States.
Tabulated Statement of the Next
Senate and House.
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THE ELECTORAL VOTE BY STATES.
Wnr Cl+velnml For Ilarruton
Alabama 10 California 8
Arkansas 7 ; Colorado 3
Connecticut 6 I Illinois 22
Delaware. 3 j Indiana 15
Florida 4 Iowa 13
Georgia. 12 Kansas 9
Kentucky 13 Maine 6
Louisiana..... 8 j Massachusetts 14
Maryland 8 Michigan 13
Mississippi 9 Minnesota 7
Missouri 16 Nebraska. 5
New Jersey 9 Nevada 3
f; . North Carolina....11 ; New Hampshire... 4
Cftnth Carolina.... 9 i New York 3f'?
Tennessee 12. Ohio 23
Texas 13 Oregon 3
Virginia 12 Pennsylvania 30
i?V.. ? Khocie Island 4
Total 162 i Vermont 4
Wisconsin 11
Total 2:^3
Necessary to choice 201
West Virginia. 6
ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL PLURALITIES.
Harri- ClcvStatc.
son. land.
A loKuma _ ?. AO Mil
Arkansas ? 10,001)
California 5,000 ?
Colorado. 8,000 ?
Connecticut ? 3^5
Delaware ? 2,300
Florida ? 5,000
Georgia ? 25,000
UliDois 20,000 ?
Indiana 5,0!J0 ?
Iowa 20,000 ?
?. Kansas 50,000 ?
Kentucky ? 40,000
Louisiana ? 15,000
Maine 22,500 ?
Maryland ? 5,00!)
Massachusetts 30,T34 ?
Michigan 12,000 ?
Minnesota 15,000 ?
; * Mississippi ? 35,000
Missouri ? 25,000
Nebraska 2S.OOO ?
Nevada 1,000 ?
New Hampshire 3,000 ?
New Jersey ? $,000
New "York 12,0C'0 ?
v ?V/? 1i Oflfili.'l
.i^ui'ha v.cu ? **v,wv
Ohio 21,000 ?
Oregon 5,00^ ?
Pennsylvania 75,000 ?
Rhode Island 4,000 ?
South Carolina ? 40,000
Tennessee ? 1S,(.'00
Texas ? 100,000
Vermont 27,500 ?
Virginia ? 3,000
West Virginia ? ?
Wisconsin 15,000 ?
? TEE KE5.T SENATE.
Dem. Rep. Dem. Rep.
Alabama.... 2 .. Mississippi... 2
Arkansas.... 2 .. Missouri 2
California.... 1 1 Nebraska 2
Colorado 2 Nevada 2
Connecticut.. .. 2 N.Hampshire .. 2
Delaware.... 1 1 New Jersey.. 2
Florida 2 .. New York 2
Georgia 2 .. N. Carolina.. 2
Illinois 2 Ohio 1 1
Indiana 2 .. Oregon 2
Iowa 2 j Pennsylvania .. 2
Kansas 2 i Rhode Island .. 2
Kentucky.... 2 .. j S. Carolina... 2
Louisiana.... 2 .. i Tennessee.... 2
Maine 2 I Texas 2
Mar3'land.... 2 .. Vermont 2i
Massachusetts.. 2 Virginia 2
Michigan 2 ' W. Virginia.. 1 1
Minnesota. 2) Wisconsin 2
Total Democrats, 36.
Total Republicans, 40.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Tho result of the vote in the various States
for Congressmen indicated when this' side of
cur paper went to press that the Republicans
would have a majority in the next House.
The following tabulated statement is given,
subject to changes in some districts where
the vote was so close as to require an oliicial
count:
Dem. Rep. r Dcm . Rep.
Alabama.... 8 ?j Mississippi... 7 ?
Arkansas.... 5 ?j Missouri 10 4
California.... 2 4 ; Nebraska ? 15
Colorado ? 1 i Novada ? I
Connecticut.. 1 3 I N. Hampshire. ? 2
Delaware.... 1 ?'New Jersey.. 3 4
N.- Florida 1 1 New York.... 15 1!'
Ceor^ia 10 ? ; North Carolina 6 u
Illinois....'.. 7 1* Ouio 6 IS
Indiana 10 3 : Oregon ? 1
Iowa 1 10 Pennsylvania. 7 21
KansHS ? 7; Rhode Island. ? 2
Kentucky.... 9 2; S. Carolina.... 7 ?
Louisiana.... 5 1 ' Tennessee 7 3
Maino ? 4 : Texas 11 ?
Maryland.... 4 2 ; Vermont ? 2
Massachusetts 2 10 j Virginia 7 3
Michigan 3 81 West Virginia S 1
Minnesota.... ? 51 Wisconsin .... 2 7
Totals 100 1C>
Republican majority o
TERRITORIAL DELEGATES.
Arizona?M. A. Smith ....D
Dakota?C. A. Mathews R
Idaho?F. T. Dubois R
Montana?W. R. Clarke D
New Mex co?Antony Joseph D
Utah?J. T. Came Mormon
"Washington?C. S. Voorhees D
Wyoming?J. M. Carey R
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE.
Astronomers Go to California to
Make Observations.
One of Iho corps of astronomers attached
to the Harvard College Observatory will go |
to California with telescopes and other ap- :
uarnti:s to be usp<1 in'observinsr the total solar
eclipse which is duo on New Year's Day.
Later in the month Professor W. H. Pickering.
A. Lawrence Rotch, Samuel Bailey. E.
S. Kiin* and Rob?rt Slack, the remaining
members of the expedition, will join him.
The party will occupy a position nfar the
town of Willow, in the Sacremento Valley,
the observation station having an altitude
of 20(f) feet above the sea level and being
about two hundred miles from San Francisco.
Tne telescopes to La taken are of thirteen
inchr s and eight inc hes diameter, and they
will remain for a time on Wiison's Peak, in
Southern California, after which they will bo
taken to Peru and placed in the permanent
observatory there to be established by Harvard
University to co-operate in the Southern
hemisphere with the observatory in Cambridge.
The work of making a complete survey of
the Southern heavens upon the Cambridge
plan has bc?n for a year or mora in contemplation.
hud is to be prosecuted with all the
appliances commanded by modern science.
JUMPED TO DEATH,
Six Men Killed and Four Fatally
Injured In Rochester, N. Y.
The most disastrous fire ever experienced
in Rochester, N. Y., has occurred at the
works of the Steam Gauge and Lantern Company.
It was located in a building of seven
stories, with two basements. It was situated
at the Gent see Falls.
The fire broke out at thirty-five minutes
past seven. The flames spread like lightning,
and in fifteen minutes from the time the fire
was discovered had reached the roof. A bcut
forty people were at work, mostly on the
third fioor. The smoke was very dense and
the men could not reach the fire escapes, and
they were forced to jumD from
he third story. Fourteen jumped on
tue west side of the building and were frightfully
injured, six of them dyinjr within an
hour. Four others were fatally injured.
The building is a total loss. It was a sevengtorv
brick structure, owned by W. a
Gor Jiue, and valued at $10(1,000. The machinery
aud contents were worth ?17o,000,
all insured.
The colossal sfatue of William Penn,which
Vb to surmount the tali tower of the new city
hall at Philadelphia, will be the large-t
bronze figure ever-cast,^standing thirty^even
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED J,
Eastern and Middle States. | pos
Frank Turner, ot* West field, Mass., who j wil
was confined in the Springfieid jail awaiting a ti
trial on a charge of perjury, committed sui- i
ciae in his cell by hanging. the
By the falling of a mason's scaffold in thi per
"U'eed building at Stamford,Conn., five men Sir
were thrown to the ground, two being killed pol
and three others severely injured. nat
Fire in a paper house on the Five Points, I
New York City, destroyed property valued chc
at $300,000, and seven men were injured ?
while escaping from the burning structure. Un
The anarchists of New York, Pittsburg the
and other cities observed the first anniversary El
of tbe hanging of their brethren in Chicagc int<
for causing the Haymarket riots. j can
Frederick Knorr and his wife, with j
their eleven-year-old daughter Anna, | I.
perished in their burning dwelling at Ver- dor
non Center, N. Y. Knorr was a laborer, I inji
thirty-five years old. The origin of the fire I i
is unknown. I stai
Boodler Jaehne, of New York, musl ; wh
finish his terra in Sing Sing. The Supreme | Fis
Court of the United States has rendered a ma
decision on his application for a writ ol atr
habeas corpus, in which the decision of the wit
Court for the Southern District of New York vie
is affirmed. anj
After traveling abroad for sixteen A
months Mr. Carter Harrison, ex-Mayor of for
Chicago, has returned to New York by the An
steamship Alaska. T
Mrs. Sarah J. Robinson*, who was tc has
have been hanged at Boston for the raurdei ova
of her brother, has had her sentence commuted
to imprisonment for life.
George Coopek, of Portland. Conn., mur
dered his wife as she lay asleep in her bed. The
crime was committed with an axe, the woman ?
being struck three fearful blows over the i ^aL
head. |
Henry Betzer, a German residing al
I Middletown, Conn., committed suicide by T
shooting. Despondency following a pro j^r
tracted spree caused the act. ran
A fire in Watson's marine store*, at Brooklyn,
caused a loss of over a quarter of a mill- A
ion dollars. yea
j Per
South and West. I chil
AT?nT*T ififl minors wnrp at work in a mine | rr
near Pittsburg, Kansas, when an explosion | *
occurred. All but two miners were 112 feet j Wi]
below the surface, and the entombed men , wei
were buried beneath many tons of debris. j
The stage nenr Downieville, Cal., was i_ *
robbed by masked highwaymen, who secure<l ,
about $23,000 in bullion and coin. | 1
Edward Hai.l, one of the striking "Q"en- | Lai
gineers, was shot and instantly killed a( ' ^a)
Cre-ton, Iowa, by one of the new engineers ,
named Charles Huston. j a Vl
Tiik .Jasper freight train crushed through . der
a trestle at Birmingham, Ala., and three j y
tramps, who were stealing a ride, were killed, j an .
W. H. Schumaker, Postmaster at Carbor. 1 q
Hill., Ala., and a very prominent citizen,
was shot and killed by his wife, who is only Ou]
seventeen years old. She did it in self-defense.
Eight buildings in the business part ol
Brandon, Wis., were Durueci causing a iu?c ? of>5J,00J.
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A number of disasters are reported as the | j
result of a heavy snow storm, which began |
in the West and continued about twenty-foui j the
hoars. The storm raged furiously through rep
Northern Kansas, Missouri and Colorado, jarr
impeding railway travel and interrupting ,
telegraphic communication.
News has been received from Tishomingo, A
I Capital of the Chickasaw Nation, that Gov- Tac
ernor Guy has been assassinated.
Petkr Howe, senior member of the bank- j y^.
ing firm of Howe & Son, and his wife, the ,
former aged seventy-three years and the lat- "ec*
ter sixty-nine, who lived about half a mile p
from the business portion of Wenona, I1L, . ^
have been barbarously murdered with an ,nS
axe by a domestic in their employ. Jen
Three Mormon elders who were proselyt- terc
ing in Marion i;ouncy, .0.1a. , ?w e soitw "j ; 10 u
fifty of the best citizens of that neighbor- j 1
hood, and tarred and feathered. The Mor- i
mons beeged for their lives and promised to j T
leave at once, never to return. !
Marie Berth use, wife of Louis Berth- i jjcu
une, fell senseless as she recognized the | .
mangled body of her husband as it was j
drawn up from the wrecked mine at T
Fror.tenac, Kan. She was taken home a j ? *
raving maniac and that night set fire to her '
hut and perished in the flames, with four of | T
her children. ! gj.Q
Thk bodies of Eula Jones, a chambermaid, | _rel
Major White of Atlanta and Thomas Moore j
of Bloomington, 111., have been found in the l T;
ruins of Bryant's European Hotel at Chat- j tugi
tanooga, Tenn., which was burned.
Five hundred acres of corn along the 1
Ohio river below Evansville, Ind., are sub- j
merged and the crop destroyed, owing to ! D
the recent heavy rains. j Irisl
Unknown men exploded dynamite under i OV01
the Court House at Henrietta, Texas, and it I .
was destroyed. j twa
Washington. ! Q.Q
The report of Adjutant General Drum I
shows the entire force of the army to be 27,- {
dOO men. The well equipped, organized ! tfh<
militia of the country has increased from '
ii'i" fiiin mm sinpa 1885. He recom- I
mends the supplying of uniform arms to the j T1
militia by Congress and the reduction of the ! cu]t
term of enlistment from five to three years. ,
A request has been made by this Gov- ! j?j
eminent to Canada and Mexico to prevent j .
Chinese from crossing their borders into m 1
the United States. wea
A naval party under charge of Lieuten- I 3uri
ant Norris will start on a scientific trip | ro"
through Mexico and Central America to de- j
termine longitude by telegraph. j The
It is said that President and Mrs. Cleve* >
land will make their future home in "Wash* | Y0t
ington. I >
Tub United States Supreme Court has de- I seas
nied the application for a writ of habeas | the
corpus in the case of David S. Terry of Cali- i pre
forma, who was convicted of contempt of | ran
j court for a violent scene in which he and his I gro
wife, Sarah Althea Hill-Sharon-Terry, both I nnd
attacked the officers of the court. Mis
The report of Commissioner Harmony, Iftst
Chief of United States Yards and Docks, nesi
shows that $l:Jl,5oo,85i) was expended last Sta
year. The Naval Asylum at Philadelphia at1
cost ?60,000 last year, and the estimated cost
next year is placed at ?.80,000. He recom- .v-e'
mencis thatall yards be lighted by electricity. Hn(1
AX insufficiency in the appropriations has
made necessary an order for the general suspension
of work at all the United States P
navy yards.
The United States Treasury Department wjj2
! has decided that silver powder manufactured rp
i for ornamental purposes must pay a duty of an,
I twenty-five per cent.
yiel
Foreign. seri
I An explosion occurred in a coal mine in ^or
Aulinania, Sicily, in which thirtv men were . ^
killed. ' bus
Seventy thousand followers of the ju'g
Mahdi attacked the town of Wadai in the ?n
Soudan. we-c of Darfoor. The garrison re- __n
pulsed the assailants ami killed three thou- j, "
I sand, but the Mahdists reattacked and cap- i t
i tured the town. The Su:tan of Wadoi Hed ? .
to Ghiri. ?.]
A terrible storm played havoc with sbipj
ping on the British coast. Two fishermen
j were drowned off the Merecombe. The (j(J
i steamer Akaba was wrecked off Yarmouth
and seven lives lost Two ship's boats
marked Glasgow and seven boJies came I Sei
ashore off the Cornish coast
An attempt has been made to assassinate ^
Prince Ferdinand, the ruler of Bulgaria. ar-s
The heavy rains of the past few days have ' - ,
caused floods in many districts of England. j _
Lord Randolph CHURCHTLLhasarraigned
the Firrlish Government in the House of j P7.
! Cor/.mons for scandals connected with the 't,
! ju.Uciary- | JSf,
German guards on the eastern frontier ' an,
j between France and Germany have shot (
: three? French sportsmen, killing one of t]10
I them. ma
Many children perished in a fire which de- t'io
1 stroyed a large amount of property in the "**3
i vicinity of Viletta, Colombia. *
Cox plaint has been made recently con- i roc.
! cernine the condition of the St. Ambrose Kec'
(Canada) city reservoir water. The authori- enc
i ties emptied*the water to discover the cause.
nnd found the remains of eleven infants at i
i the bottom of the tank. abc
i Political riots have occurred in Spain. | du<
!,Rioters assailed the carriage of Senor Cano- ! we;
j vas, the conservative leader, in Madrid, and j fea
: injured his wife. | l-rc
I Joseph Chamberlain, member of the |
: British Parliament, and negotiator of the ^
; rejected fisheries treaty between England
and this Government, has arrived in Wash;
ington for the purpose of marrying Miss -+. '
1 Mary Endicott, aaughter of the Secretary of Pf
aa ^ w
'iie Navy Department has ordered all
rk on the Saratoga at the Portsmouth
ry Yard suspended, and, also, as far as
sible, on the Portsmouth. The Saratoga
1 be given to the State of Pennsylvania as
nining ship.
N* consequence of the severe criticism of
police on their inability to capture the
petrator of the Whitec'hapel atrocities,
Charles Warren, Chief of the Metropolitan
ice of London, has resigned, and his resigion
has been accepted.
L niece of the dowager Empress has been
sen as consort for the Emperor of China.
Japtai.v T. H. Logan, commanding the
ited States troops at Fort Hancock, on
Rio Grande, some seventy miles below
Paso, Texas, has been arrested and thrown
o prison by Mexican gendarmes who
ight him while on a hunting expedition in
xico.
it j ? ^4?-v^i. T
LllUL'SE COIiajJSeuun llUJIJllciu 3uoct,iA/u*
i, causing the death of six persons and the
iiry of twenty.
.ondon is again thrown into a terrible
te of excitement by the Whitechapel flond
0 has murdered a woman nameid Lizzie
her, this making the ninth victim of his
nia for butchery. Unlike the previous
ocities, this awful crime was committed
bin a building. The mutilation of the
tim was more frightful than in the case of
r who preceded her.
lLL the plans have now been completed
Empress Elizabeth of Austria's visit to
lerica this winter.
'he first through express train from Paris
arrived in Constantinople amid great
itious and excitement
LATER NEW&
1 partially completed ice house in Dedn,
Mass., was blown down and thirteen
a were injured, three of them fatally.
'he iron workers of Pittsburg, Penn.,
eaten a general strike against a re-argeraent
of working hours.
l colored man named Showers, sixty-five
rs old, has been hanged at Harrisburg,
in., for the murder of his two grandIdren.
he house of Mrs. Frank Knecht, at
Ikesbarre, Penn., was burned while she
it out to get "some milk. On her return
woman saw her two children fall back
he fames and burn to death.
he General Assembly of the Knights of
>or has begun it1* annual session at Innapolis,
Ind. Reports were read showing
ist decline in the membership of the Oras
well as an almost empty treasury.
he Chickasaw Indians are on the point of
inter-tribal war to determine who shall be
,'ernor of the Nation in placoof Governor
p, who was recently assassinated,
[iss Belle Bridewell, a teacher in a
sol at Streator, HI., -was so badly kicked
he breast by a boy whom she attempted
lunish, that she died in a few minutes.
udge Wood, in Indianapolis, Ind., drew
attention of the Federal grand jury to a
arted conspiracy to influence voters on a
;e scale by the usa of money, and recomlded
an investigation.
. package containing ?10,000, shipped to
oma, Washington Territory, by the
them Pacific Express Company, has
i stolen by one of the clerks, who has
resident Cleveland made the followappointments:
Howard Ellis, of New
>ey, to be United. States Consul at Rotlam,
and Charles R Trail, of Maryland,
i? Secretary of theUnited States Legation
JraziL
he State Department at Washington has
i informed of the passage of a law by
lador allowing foreign vessels to enter
r coasting trade.
hirty miners were killed by an explosion I
ire damp at Dour, Belgium.
he mysterious white Pacha in the Bahrazel
district of Africa, has fought a
it battle and killed many dervishes.
he Tagus> Douro and Lizo rivers in Por>1
have overflowed their banks, flooding
surrounding country and doing exteni
damage.
ouglas Pyne, a noted and aggressive
h member of the British Parliament, fell j
rboard and drowned while sailing be- |
sn Holvhead and Dublin.
VERNMENT CROP REPORT,
5 Yield of Cotton,Corn, Potatoes,
Hal' and Buckwheat.
be United States Department of Agriure
reports a good season for cotton
:ing duriug October in tho Southwest
only moderately favorable weather
the Atlantic coast States. The wet
ther of September proved very inous
to quality, prostrating plants and
ing bolls, causing blight and shedding,
injuring prospects of the top crop,
re is much strained fibre and quality is
:h poorer than that of the previous year,
n'ocinto onmmfinninir.hut there has as
been no killing frost, rendering possible a
fcial compensation in the lengtn of the
on. Indications of yield per acre average
same as last yeur at this time, though the
pious condition of the plant scarcely warts
the expectation of so much late
wth and harvest outcome in November
December. The States west of the
sissippi report a slightly larger yield than
year, while Georgia, Alabama and Tensee
indicate a slight reduction. Other
tes indicate nearly the same expectation
his date.
he returns of the yield of com indicate a
Id per acre quite as large as that of 1885,
I larger than any other crop since that of
). The aggregate growu on a larger area
1 exceed that of any previous American
duct, bftin-x very close to 2,000,000,000
hels, or about thirty two bushels per
ita. The general average will fall someit
under twenty-seven bushels per acre,
here is a cood supply of maize in nearlv
larts of the South, so that comparatively
le will be required from the West. The
Ids of the Atlantic States are moderate,
ously reduced by frost on the Northern
der.
otatoes give an averacre of about eighty
hels per acre. The total product is about
000,000 bushels, or <51.OH),000 more than
estimated product of 188".
lie average yield of buckwheat is apximately
twelve bushels per acre, and the
i> nearly 1 l.Ci(K),000 bushels.
[ay is slightly above an average in yield,
1.22 tons per acre. It has been nowhere
iously injured by drought.
IMPLICATIONS WITH PERU, j
Iznrc of a United Statca Consulate
by Arinod Troops.
l serious international complication has
Jan between Peru and tbd United States,
building rccupiai by a resident of the
ited States at MolJendo, Peru, was seized
a squad of soldiers on the assumption that
^longed to the Arequipa railroad and was
refore State property. The United States j
isulato in the building was seized, locked j
I the coat of arms removed.
In instruction from hi* home government, I
United States Minister at Lima dended
an apology, which wns refused,
ugh tho (mi-ding was vacated aft?r six
*s| occupancy. Thereupon tho Minister
s instructed to send full particulars to his
rernment before talcing further steps. Tho
ent treaty between tho two governments
ures all consular archives from iiitcrtere.
i'liERE has been an average shortage of
>ut twenty per cent, in the raw silk proition
of the present year, owing to bad
ather in Italy, China and Japan, and it is
red that the speculative interest will be
lught to bear on the situation. In 1885, a
idicate forced the price up thirty per cent,
far there has been but a slight increase in
price of the raw material.
Sjiperor William tells thevBerlin news- j
pers that are talking ta
MATH IN A SHAFT.
IJIIfliU 1X1 AX wuu* ?
Fatal Firedamp Explosion in a
Kansas Colliery.
j
Many Entombed Miners Meet a
Dreadful Fate.
I
A terrific mine explosion, that broko windows
in the little village of Pittsburg, Kan.,
and spread consternation among its inhabit- ]
ants, occurred at dusk. For a few moments
the startled people scarcely dared to i
fetir out of their buildings, the violence of the 1
shock having been so great as to burl dishes '
from their shelves and demolish chimneys.
The explosion occurred on the east side, and
is attributed to the inexperience of some of 1
the new men. Before the men outside could '
recover their senses, one of the miners appeared
at the air shaft.nearly suffocated. He i
was helped out and followed oy otners unui a
large number had escaped; how many is not
known. There was plenty of help at hand,and
those at the top devoted their attention to
rescuing their entombed companions. The
fan house, only slightly damaged, was first
repaired, canvas being tacked over the
holes that had to be closed. About 12
o'clock the fan house was ready and fresh
air was pumped into the mine, driving back
the poisonous gas. The company had more
orders than they could fill, and in their
attempts to keep up they have been
running an unusually large force of
miners. On the fatal morning 164 men
were lowered into the mine. At noon the
shots were fired all right, and later
the miners descended for afternoon duty. At
5:o0 they were ready to fire their shots again.
The firsb shot had bsen fired, but before a
man could be hoisted a terrible rumbling
noise was heard above, and a black cloud of
dirt, slate and dust shot into the air from the
mouth of the shaft, tearing away the tracks
upon which the cages are hoisted and filling
the shaft with fiying debris.
Attention wbs then turned to repairing the
cribbing so that the cages could be lowered.
Men lowered into the shaft, by rope and
bucket,could accomplish nothing. At 2 a. it.
the cage was ready to descend, and tha first
rescuing party were lowered into the shaft.
Owine to the bad air they could not remain
long. "On the first return of the cage it con- l 3
tained a number of uninjured but badly da- I ^
moralized men. The bottom of the shaft was j
badly damaged and it was difficult to get at i
the dead As found they were piled together at E
the bottom, while the living and badly
wounded were hoisted to the top. At 4 a. j
m. five had been rescued, and at 1 P. M. four (
more were brought out alive. At this time ,
they struck an entry containing twelve more
dead, and at 2 p. M. twenty-five dead and .
nine wounded had been found, with manv
still missing who were supposed to be dead.
A large number of the killed are French and \
Italian miners. *
A temporary hospital was prepared in a J
blacksmith shop near by, where the most '
heartrending scenes were witnessed as the *
mangled and badly burned men were carried
in. Late that afternoon ninety bodies had (
been recovered from the mines, and it was i
believed there were still forty-six entombed, t
There is scarcely a cottage in that town or b
in Frontenac that is not in mourning, t
Nearly every family in the two mining vil- i
lages nss lost a relative The stores were
closed, and the blinds of the cottages are j,
tightiy drawn. The only place of business B
open was the little undertaker's shop, which c
has been c.earo 1 of its stock of coffins, j
Streamers of crape llutter from the doors of j.
cottages at every st?p, and the village bell j
was to.led without intermission from sunrise.
For hours after the explosion the scene at
the pit was distressing. Poorly cl$id women, t
wjtli babies clasped to their breasts, cama T
through the darkness in the light cast by the f
bonfires. One poor woman, whose hus- 1
band and two sons were in the pit, laid her 6
three youngest children beside a blazing fire J
and then fell in hysterics among them. She ?
1,.?J in. ??fji
lay unnutireu in uuia puaiwu uiuu ucaw
morning, when she was removed to her 1
home.
The bodies of the victims that have been I
brought to the surface are all shockingly '
mutilated. Some are so disfigured as to be ?
unrecognizable. There was nothing left of
one man but a bleeding trunk, the head and
the arms and the less having been blown off.
Many of the searchers faint?d at their work.
Some of the victims were found buried be- 1
neath immense weights of slate, whiio others I
were discovered in groups and in all kinds of
positions. Two men who have not yet been s
identified were so tightly locked in each ?
other's arms th&t it was with great difficulty
they were torn apart. *
Only four mon escaped from the mine .
alive and uninjured. The latest estimate of
the number of miners in the pit at the time
of the explosion is 16 J. The explosion is now *
?Imon r-mic<vl hv firaflnmn
The principal difficulty in ascertaining tho
names of the victims of the horror lies iu the
fact that there was a larger number of now
men who ware not known to the Pittsburg
people, and many may never be identified. "
POSTAL REPORTS,
Expensos of the Railway Service and
Money Order Divisions.
The annual report of the Second Assistant
Postmaster General of the United States
shows that the mail service is in operation on
nearly 25,000 routes, covering nearly 500,000
miles. The expenses for the year were $31,450,847,
an increase of more than $500,000
over the previous year. The expenses for
next year are estimated at $34,878,942.02. He
calls attention to the fact that he saved $00,000
by collecting old mail bags and having
them repaired. There were 30:),000 mail
bags repaired at a cost of $10,000. He recommends
the establishment of a repair shop
here. |
The report of the chief of the money order |
division of the Post Office shows receipts of |
$541,272.77 from money orders, an increase
of eight per cent, and $117,885 from postal '
notes, an increase of six per cent He re- j
commends an increase to $100 as the maximum
for international money orders.
THE LABOB WOBLD. J
The Farm and Labor party la a Minnesota *
institution.
Dear bread this winter is what the labor- I
ins men must look forward to. ?
Mrs. M. Thomas is a practical shoemaker f
living in Camas, Indian Territory. New
Britain (Conn.) Knights have debates
on the tariff at their meetings.
English co-operators now number abou I ?
S50,000, representing over $4,000,000. | q
Five New York Union cfgarmakera were ' E
fined $26 each for working daring a strike, j I
The stone-pavers of Omaha, Neb., have j *
organized a union, with 100 charter mem- ;
hers. *
Switchmen along the line of the Northern j ^
Pacific Railroad have struck for an increase r
in wages. j
There are thousands of idle carpenters on c
the Pacific coast and no hope of immediate (.
employment.
The strike of house carpenters in Dundee, I
Scotland, for an advance of a half-penny an 6
hour has been successful. I
"Iiiose who build palaces should not *
dwell in hovels," is the motto of the Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners.
The latest statistics from London show a (
marked increase in the number of women j
employed in the different trades.
f
There are now about twenty shirt manu- r
factories in San Francisco, employing alto- ' c
gether about 2*)i)0 men ami women, and turn- 1 .
injr out manufactures that wdl be worth this ,
year $1,600,000. j
Nearly 5MW delegates, representing tlm }
o(M employes of the Ken-lmg KailrouJ, )
met at Heading, 1'enn.. to act upon Presi- (
doDt Corbin's scheme to <-route a relief assy (
ciation lor the company's employes. ! j
WHEN the new mills are completed Trion, i
Go., will contain ?1.41)0 spindles, GOO looms, j j
and will consume 11.0(H) bales cotton per j (
year. The number of operatives will be fcliO (
and the pay- roll *20.000 per month. I
A MEMBEit of the New York Musical Mu- j
tual Protective Union denies the report that j .
"dummies" were placed in ban.is supplied by j s
leaders of the union for political parades. . j
The Balfe Club allows members only to play j j
in bands.
Farmers in the sections of Now Soutb )
Wales that are suffering from drought lind (
consolation in the fact that the dry spc-11 haf (
cut a wide swath through tho rabbit army. ]
In some localities there are scarcely any ol j
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Mr. Gladstone will stay in public life
until the Irish question is settled.
Thk Prince of Wales and the Czar of
Russia ave uo mean performers on the banjo.
There is a possibility of the young German
Kaiser taking a trip to America after
the close of bis journeying in Europe.
Count Von Moltke has loaned to Cornell
University for three months a large number
of volumes from the archives of the German
Empire.
Mr. Bryan, once a department clerk in
Washington, and the organizer of the postiffice
system of Japan, now has an income of
f KfyOOO a year.
Sir Charles Russell, the noted English
bar rister, makes his own terms as counsel at
the bar and usually charges at the rate of
over $15 a minute. *
The Parisians having nothine else to do
just at present are amusing themselves by
A# A MAW efttln hof wViink PrMl
lent Oarnot now wears.
Ras Alula, the Abyssinian general, is a
striking looking man, about five feet nine
inches in height, extremely muscular, a maglifieent
horseman and a fine shot.
Sir anthur Sullivan does not look like
m inspired musician. He is short and stout,
with a low forehead and short curly hair,
black eyes and a square bull dog chin.
The widow of James K. Polk lives a life
>f comparative seclusion in the old Polk
mansion near Nashville, Tenn. Her intellect
is still bright, but her memory is poor.
The Prince of Wales owes at present over
?f>00,000, and is thinking seriously of appljing
to Parliament for an allowance for
Prince Albert Victor, who now keeps up a
aousehold of his own.
The 'fortune of Russell Sage is estimated
it sixty millions of dollars. The old finan:ier
is over seventy years of age, married,
md childlesa He is in splendid health, and
loes not look his years.
The little Crown Prince of Germany is
following in the footsteps of his warlike anjestors,
and is drilled at Potsdam every day
tor half an hour by Sergeant Hauk, of the
First Regiment of Foot Guards.
King Khoulalonkorn, of Siara, has just
forwarded his wedding present to his royal
brother of China. It consists of a footstool
)f massive gold, studded with large rubies,
md represents a value of S200,00U.
Miss Daisy Garland, the attractive
roung daughter of tlw Attorney General,
will be the only Cabinet debutante the comng
season. Her brother, Mr. Rufus Garland,
who lately entered the Catholic Church, is
studying law.
Secretary Fairchild, of the Treasury,
s said to be more easy of approach than any
>ther public official in Washington, and notwithstanding
the great pressure to which he
s constantly subjected he maintains a renarkable
evenness of demeanor.
Old Emperor William as Jupiter, Emperor
Frederick as Mars, Empress Augusta as
luno, and Empress Victoria as Minerva are
'our statues of s-and-stone which have just
jeen placed in niches above the grand
in trance to the Royal Schloss in Berlin.
M. de Brazz a, who once tried to explore
Central Africa in opposition to Mr. Stanley,
s in a terrible state of mind. He is ore
ihat wicked man Stanley is on a sort of
till hunt, having for its object the annexaion
of all Central Africa by "perfidious
Albion."
A brother of the late ex-Marshal Bazaine
b still living in France. He is an engineer,
tnd has two sons who are promising young
tfficors in the French army. They have
on*Viwrrnrl tA t.Viair* mrtt.har'o noma
o thoir futher's, and arc given in the army
ist as Bazaine-Hayter.
Senator Plumb, of Kansas, is an Ohio
nan who settled at Emporia, Kan., when
lineteen years old and started the Emporia
V-ws. Without assistance he gathered the
terns, wrote the ringing Free State editorials,
et up the type and worked the hand-press
mtil the enterprise had developed sufficiently
o allow him to hire helm
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Patti gees to bed at 9:80 p. M. and rises at
1:30 a. it.
W. S. Gilbert, the English librettist, has
Iramatized George Eliot's "Romola."
"Shenandoah" has finally teen decided
ipon as the title for Bronson Howard's new
>lay.
Stuart Robson will star alone next sea.
on in "The Henrietta" and in a new play by
steele Mackaye.
Teresina Tua, the violin fairy, has bid
arewoll to Berlin, and retired into the coinort3
of home life. . ,
F. F. Proctor has iust leased the Worccs?r
(Mass.) Theatre. He now controls sixteen
)laces of amusement.
Emma Abbott, the opera singer, is said to
eceive net annual profits of $75,000 from her
eal estate in Denver.
Duff's "Queen's Mate" has captured
3hicagoans. The first two weeks' receipt*
ire said to have aggregated $22,000.
The receipts of "The AVjfe" at the Hollii
Street Thpntro. Boston, for one week ari
laid to have reached upward of ? 10,000.
A new comic opera, to bo called "Yetiva,'
with the scenes laid in Albuquerque. N. M.
s to be shortly produced in San Francisco
Mr. J. K Emmet will produce his new
>lay, "Fritz in a Madhouse," at the Four
?enth Street Theatre, New York, on Apri
!3d.
Mrs. Laxgtry has a fortune of 1550,000
31ara Louise Kellogg has $300,000; Fannj
davenport $150,000, and Kate Claxtoi
512.=),000.
Rose Coghlin continues to be very sue
iessful in her new play of "Jocelyn/' wiiict
ihe is now presenting in the West to largi
ludiences.
Fanny Davenport is having the most suo
:essful season thit she has known in recenl
rears, and is plajing "La Tosca" to crowd ec
louses everywhers.
An inventory of the estate of Willian*
CVarren, the Boston actor, has been m&de
md it is found that the actor left $210,69i).92
ill in stocks and bonds.
The flint-bottle manufacturers of Pitts
lurg and vicinity are about to form a oi|
iYust, which will, when the deal is consume
nated, take in the greater portion of the
lint-bottle manufacturers in this country.
A FUL.I* cargo of iron, 121 carloads, from
Jirmingham, Ala., the first shipment from
savannah north, left that port for Philadel>hia
some days ago.
THE MARKETS.
45 NEW YORK.
Seef 3 05 5 SO
!alves. common to prime.... 2 64 00
IheeD 3 00 (($4 00
Ambs 5 50 (?)6 NO
logs?Live 0 00 id: 0 10
Dressed 7 @ 9
lour?Citv Mill Extra. 5 10 ? 5 50
Patents ft ">0 <?? 7 50
Fhcat?No. - Ked 1 1,1
lye?State 70 OS 72
Parley?No. 1 ? (ft S7
torn?Ungraded Mixed.... 51
tots?No. I White Mate.... ? ? 40
Mixed VV esteru -1 @ j?
lay?No. I S3 @ V0
itraw?Lone Rye - ? 75 ($ SO
<ard?City Steam ? @ s*^c
tatter?Stato Creamery.... ->> ~J
Dairy <'!>
West. Im. Creamery ~~ uQ ~4
Factor'" li?v.j^ 14>2
Jheese?State Fact<*y lOfjfffl 10-V
Sk-jins?M"dnim.... '"2
Western yjH
!pjrs?State a:ul Penn ~-)
UO'FFALO.
Steers?Western 5 00 @ 5 25
ilieep?.dim ..iato *Tin?I iM {-ji a :J5
jjunbs?K?jrti "o i 5 <0 uti 5 50
logs;?Gofl to Choice \orks 5 45 (<? 5 5i
''lour?.'';tin:ly 5 >)J ut, 5 25
>Vhent ?Nu. v .\o:\:.er.i ? uo 1 25
\>n:?No. > 4V.^{..j 4*it.J
Jats?N<?. 2. Waite ? SI
iarley?State OS (g( TO
BOSTON.
^our?Spring Wheat pat's.. 7 40 @7 75
3om?Stiaiin'i* Yellow. 50 Q? tiO1^
Jats?No. 2 Wliito "OVtf?
iye? State 63 (uj Gt
WATBRTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKS?
3eef? Dressed weight ? ($ 0}^
iheep?Live weight 3 (cij 3'4
jamb3 4!.j(^ 4 ,
Jogs?Northern 7 ~yi. 7;?
PHILADELPHIA
lour?Penn. family -1 75 (ft ,j CO
V'heat?No. 2, Red. .\ov... I 05-..'@ 1 Oft
!3orn?No. 2, nix- Mixed... 52 \<g 52]4
Jats?flnr/raded "White ? (53 31
iye?No. 2 ? & 72
SILVER DOLLARS STOLEN.!
Peculations From Government
Express Packages.
Theft of Treasury Funds Enroute
From New Orleans,
Some enterprising thief has been helping
himself to bright, new silver dollars out
of the coin that is being received daily at the
Washington Treasury from the New Orleans
Mint The robberies were not mentioned
outside of the Treasurer's office until Treasurer
Hyatt called upon Assistant Secretary
Thomson, who was then Acting Secretary,
and told him that somebody was stealing the
Government's money.
The Secret Service bureau was called
into action, and since then detectives have
been hard at work trying to discover the
thief. Details of the robbery are bard
to obtain, but it is known that the thefts
were at first of very small amounts. The coin
comes to the Treasury iu strong canvas bags
holding $1J00 each. The bags are inclosed
in heavy wooden boxes, whicn are carefully
locked "and sealed with a Government seal,
which must be broken before the boxes can
be opened. The thief began by abstracting
only $4 or 95 from a" bag, but
he soon grew bolder, and when he
took larger sums he replaced the coin
with shot and lead of very nearly the
same weight, so that the loss would not be
quickly discovered when the bazs were
| weignea. investigation stowed that the broken
Government seals were replaced by impressions
of a silver twenty-flve-cent piece
on the wax. As nearly as could be learned
from the Treasury officers the total amount
stolen is not yet known, but it is positively asserted
that the sum will not exceed $5000.
While the detectives have not run down the
thief, it is declared in the Treasury Department
that the robberies must have taken
place while the coin was on the way from
New Orleans to Washington, and in the care
of the Adams Express Company, which is,
therefore, held responsible for theloss. It is argued
that if the money was stolen by auy of the
Government employes who handled it here
or in New Orleans, the Government seal
was at hand to repiace the broken ones, and
would have baen u.<ed instead of tba silver
quarters. The coin boxes are supposed to
be very carefuliy guarded from the moment
they leave the mint until they
reach the Treasury vaults. In this
city they are carried from the
cars to the Treasury Building in express
wagons, which are really big steel cages, and
armed representatives of the Treasury and the
express company ride with the boxes in the
cages. The fact that a number of boxes were
tampered with and on different occasions
leads to the belief that there was collusion with
either express company or Government employes,
and that the robberies were part of a
systematic plan by which it was hoped to obtain
more money by many small thefts
which might escape discovery than by one
big haul which would be at once found out.
when one of the boxes was opened at the
Department a day or two ago it was found to
contain nothing but shot A second box was
opened and one of the bags in it was found to
contain nothing more valuable than lead.
HfDIAfl 0E5IES..
A "WlnnebaffO Buck Sacrifices a
i'AUIUeil IU l lie ilUMtlll^ UUU.
Great excitement prevailed at Red Wing,
Minn., over the report of a crime committed
by some of the remnants of the old Winnebago
Indian tribe which formerly was located on
the Winnebago reservation,near Trempeleau,
Wis. At the opening of the hunting season
cacb year they indulge in certain ceremonies
to procure a good season's hunting.
Having secured a quantity of ammunition
and fire-water, they began their
orgies. During the dance and excitement
a young buck, with his hunting knife in his
hand, jumped into the centre of the ring of
dancers, and seizing a young girl bv the hair,
dragged her into the centre and stabbed
her several times in the breast. He then
dabbled his hands in the warm blood which
gushed from the wounds and smeared it over
his face, which act was followed by several
/vfUoro
ALASKAN STATISTICS.
Governor Svrineford Reports Progress
in Our Icy Possession.
Governor Swineford, of Alaska, reports to
the United States Secretary of the Interior
that the Territory is getting along nicely,
and bns 49,850 inhabitants, of whom 0500
are whites, 11)00 Creoles and 2950 Aleuts.
He urges that Congress make it possible
for present squatters to acquire title to
their laud, and says if this be done the
Territory will develop more quickly and
satisfactorily. He deserilies the mineral resources
of the Territory, and says it has fourteen
public, eight Protestant, two Catholic
and seventeen Grreco-Roman schools. The
Alaska Commercial Company, he says, treats
the people as little more than serfs where its
rule is supreme.
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
The King of the Netherlands is not expected
to live.
The only railroad in China is daily crowded
with passengers.
Both Houses of the English Parliament
will discuss the Sackville case.
Brooklyn's population is estimated by the
health department to be $05,i>55.
The hide dealers of the Northwest are
agitating the formation of a trust
The Catholics of Australia and India have
presented the Pope with $1,000,000.
It turns out after all that Father Schleyer,
the inventor of Yolapuk, is not dead.
The corn crop at Campton, N. H., and
vicinity is the greatest failure since 1S36.
j The honey season has not been a successj
ful one in either the United States or Canada.
It is said that the British Government may
give Lord Sackviile the mission to St. Petersburg.
The women of America expend ?8,000,000
j annually for pairit and powder for their
I faces.
This country purchased half of the china
! made in Limoges last year for 4,000,000
j francs.
Indianapolis c'aims that hers was the
! first Union railroad depor. It was erected
j in lSoi
j A severe drought has nearly exterminated
the rabbits in some parts of New South
j Wales.
j The .Spanish Government has been erect
i ips fortifications aloug the line of tlie I
! Pyrenees.
j The Fontainebleau forest was flrod by ini
cemtiaries at five different points and the
I damage was $2.jo,0 0.
I Rl'S-ia gets nearly 3W).000,000 pounds ol j
| cotton from foreign t ountries, especially the [
I United States and Egypt.
England is importing six times as much '
; wheat from Russia and twiea as much from j
i India as at tiiis t.rno last year.
j The whole court at Berlin is now entirely
composed of new people. Tim friends o: the
; late Emperor have disapp.-.iitd.
; A retired German oflicer. convicted as u
spy by the French authorities at Nice, is se:i!
tencetl to five years* imprisonment.
' In Washington, X. II.. apples are sold on
! tho trues for twent y-fivn cents a barrel, and
j cider apples for two c-.n's a ou-neL
Toronto medical students hooted and
threw stones at a pro;? - or. who pulled a!
revolver an ! s::ct om; of them in the le.'. I
Thb suit UvuiriiS ?>v il:*neral lindeau j
acaiust Airs, limit for wor.c done on l;er
; distinguished husband's memoirs lias b.'e'i
settled on the payment to tue former of
J 10,000.
! George C.Ha ri wood, an incurable lunatic
' in Longview Asylum, Cincinnati, has ju-^t
I>een awarded a pension of $1:2 a month and j
J bank pay amounting to Sl-,OlM. lie has no |
; relatives.
The Lody of John Groshart, a ranchman, |
has been found in an isolated spot in Cariton i
County, Wy., with a bullet hole in his bead, j
It is the fifth mysterious murder in that I
county in as many months.
; The budget for the Dutch East Indies !
shows a delicit of J VJOO.iXi.). The Finance i
Minister proposes to increase by one llorin j
the native license tax for the cultivationfjof j
coffee and to appoint a royal commission to:
inquire as to means for developing the cof-1
fee industry. 1
LITTLE THING&
One little grain in the sandy bars;
One little flower in a field of flowers;
One little star in a heaven of stars:
One little hour in a year of hours?
What if it makes or what if it mars?
But the bar is built of the little grains;
And the little flowers make the meadowt
gay;
fV?o HHio c+ore fV?? YimvahIt nlainil
And the little houra of each little day
Gives to us all that life contains.
\
PITH AND POINT.
A violin?A low tavern.
A private affair?A mu9ket.
A notable feature?The nose.
A cold water party?The frog.
A suit-able place for dudes?Th?
tailors.
Many an arm of sea encircles a wast*
of land.
Greatest smokers in town?Factory
chimneys.
A dinner fit for a bookkeeper?iu
pigeou whole.
T 4- io?'f AifAKff n/?mnnoar wllA 1*4*1 &
II; 43 U 1/ \J Y V/l J VVUi|IV9VA u uv w
Handel to his name.
The old shoe very often finally bocomes
an alley-gaiter.
The man who colors clothes is never
afraid of any dyer results.
Aeronauts are generally "well up" ia
balloons, unless they are sick.
The broad highway that leads to destruction
is the route of all evil.
Funny, isn't it? The only way a
clock can do bnsiness is on tick.
The complaining witness?The one ,
whom the shyster lawyer browbeats.
People whc never read a word of Kant
on Philosophy can tell you all about
Canton 1'annel"
The under dog in the fight may be
right; but the top dog is more than that
? he is all right.
The match trust is another striking
example of the necessity of extinguishing
these mouopolies.
If you want to hear a tale of hard luck > i
and destitution jnst ask a fellow fof the
money he owes you.?Judge. I
The reason that an undertaker is rarely /
a melancholy man is because he can al- . '
ways bury himself in his business.?Siftingx.
>
The duties of a critic a*e apt to be 1
sedentary. Be is always s.tting on I
somebody or something. ? Harper's
u '
Smith?"Was Shakespeare a broker?" 1
Jones? ''No, of course not." "Well, ' .
then, how did he come to furnish so i
many stock quotations."
A man ia Nebraska is in jail for stealing
sausages. The evidence against him
is sa;d to be conclusive. Not a link it
wanted.? Chicago Tribune.
Now the ardent husker sizes
I 'Mid the com, each cob and spear, j
And he drops the crimson prices ?
To impress a maiden's ear. I
?Si/tingt. 1
Stranger- "Well, boys, and how did "3
the game go to-day?" Boys?"We lost." i
Stranger?"What have you got in that ?
bundle?" Boys?"The umpire."
"Did you ever take the pledge?" asked
a temperance advocate of a tramp.
"Often," said the tramp. "Where?""At
the pawnbroker's," was the bitter
rejily.?M/tings.
"I hope you appreciate the fact, sir,
that in marrying my daughter you marry '
a large-hearted, generous girl." "I do
sir (with emotion); audi hope she im
herits those qualities from her father."
Dude?"Can you?ah?sell me?ah?
a blue cravat to match my eyes? ah?" \
Salesman?"I don't think?an?that I
can; but I can sell you a very soft hat to fl
match your very soft head?ah!?Texat I
M/tings. I
Mr. Clumsy?"What do you think of I
my riding:" Teacher?"Vou haven't got I
any talent for riding, but if ;ou insist I
on trying to lide, you ought to practice 9
failing oil without getting hurt"?
Texas Sif'tin<j8. I
"Are you on friendly terms with th? I
defendant.'" demanded a lawyer of a
witness in our Circuit Court yesterday.
"Well, I ain't throwing no bouquets to
him," was ihe quaint answer.?Z'A&kW.
p/iia Record. H
He W^s Penniless.?Judge?"Frisoner, B
the evjtueuce shows that you brutally aa- n
aaulted the piaintm. -nave you auj
thing to oti'er in extenuation?" Prisoner H
? "No, sir: my lawyer took all the H
money I had."?Time. I
Scientists have demonstrated that B
there is more actual nutriment in twenty- H
five cents1 worth of potatos than in H
twenty-five cents' worth of sirloin steak.1 -'H
But who is going to pay the undertaker's 9
bill for the man who eats nine pounds H
of potatoes at a sitting? H
An Ocean Voyager's Predicament. B
A queer incident at sea comes from
Liverpool through the passengers of the
Anchor Line steamer City of Home. A HI
saloon passenger named Hilmans became
very hilarious as the steamer dropped
anchor off Queenstown. He was in his
stateroom at the time, and in his exuberance
of spirits shoved his head through
the port hole to gtt a better view of the KS
pretty little Irish town on the hill beyond.
Hilmans saw all he wanted to, but lot
when he tried to withdraw his head he
found he could not do so. In the mean
111116 tnc iiau. obaibvu. ?mv
was stormy and the big waves dashed H|
into the face of the unfortunate HilmansThen
the Rome began to roll, and every
time she careened to one side the victim
of his own curiosity wa.< ducked into the
sea. His vigorous cries finally brought KH
assistance, but not until he had fainted U
a number of times and was nearly exhansted.
It took over an hour to extricate
the man from his perilous posi- BS
tion, and then it was only by sawing out
enough of the steamer's plate to enable HI
Hilmans to take his head out of chancery. HQ
?Stic York /Jrexs.
Chinese Bc-'gars. ^B|
A writer in a Shargl-.ai journal, re- ^Hj
ferring to the beggars of China, says HB
that large donations are given to them^^J
by the people, but these are in the^^H
nature of an insurance. In the cities
th;: beggars are organized into very
powerful guilds. more powerful by farHH
than any <>r.raui:-uio:i v.itli which they^^H
have to coi.lend, '.or the beggars nave^^H
nothing to lose and no.htng to fear. ia^^B
which respect they stand alone. The^^H
shopkeeper who should refuse a donation^H|
to a stalwart beggar, alter the latter has^^H
waited for a considerable time and has^HK
besought with what lawyers call "due^^H
diligence," would be liable to invasion^^^D
from a horde of famished wretches, wko^^H
would render the existence even of
stolid Chinese a burden, and would^^fl
utterly prevent the transaction of nny^^H
business until their continually rising^^M
demands should be met. Both the shop-^^H
keeper and the beggar understand thi^^^H
perfectly well, and it is for this reasoifl^H
that the gifts flow in a steady, if tiny^^H
rilii?London Times. H
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