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A Terrific Snowstorm Sweeps
Over British America.
A
Harrowing Recital of Death, Suffering
and Destruction,
' The unprecedentedly heavy snow storm of
the past week in Canada has resulted in an
interruption of train and telegraphic service,
much suffering and great loss ot lire.
From Hauchenville, Montreal, comes a report
that twelve persons perished in the blizzard.
Just before it broke six farmers
named Yiau, Lafiamme, Michaud, Xaud,
Piciie and Nude), the two former accomSanied
by their wives and the other four each
y a son, started for Montreal to dispose of
their Christmas products.
They had scarcely got on the ice when the
storm began and the ice commenced to break
up. No one could see the party from shore,
but those living on the banks assert that at
various times during the night they heard
cries of distress. It was impossible to reach
the party or extend any help. When morning
broke nothing could be seen of the party,
and all of them perished.
Hugh and Michael Walsh, two brothers,
have arrived at Carillon. Canada, in a fearful
condition. They tell a terrible story of
suffering. They attempted to cross tha ice
at Carillon to Point Fortune. The hurricane
overtook them in the middle of the river and
,the ice Lroke up. Their team was swept
away from them and they only escaped
by jumping on a large ico
floe. They spent a night in terrible agony,
drifting upon the river on their frail support.
At daylight the floe grounded on a
small island, and their perilous position being
seen by residents on the shore boats were put
out and they were rescued.
At McDonald's Point, Xew Brunswick,
Ernest Wright and Ernest McDonald attempted
to cross on the ice. They were
caught in the drifts and found frozen to
death in the morning. At Iroquois, Ontario,
when the gale had just begun, three men,
Dickie, Johnson and Oaks, came over from
the American side in an open boat.
When they attempted to return
home a gust of wind capsized the
boat and the three men were left struggling
in the icy water. Johnson was an ex.
pert swimmer "and made heroic efforts to save
Dickie, sacrificing his own life in the attempt.
Assistance was sent out from tho
shore, but it was too late, all three having
sunk. Johnson had a reputation as a inesaver
and last summer saved three young
men.
The destruction of fodder, stock and outbuildings
caused by the storm has create 1 almost
a famine in that section of the country,
and doleful accounts have been pouring in
upon Cardinal Taschereau, at Quebec,
pleading for assistance. Matters have
reached such a crisis that the Cardinal
thought it advisable to request a meeting
of the Provincial Cabinet, which -was accordingly
held in the Cardinal's palace. Premier
Mercier and his Ministers were in attendance.
The Government recognizes the i
necessity of taking immediate action for the |
relief of the farmers, and has promised to do
all in its power.
Quebec is almost entirely cut ofF from outside
communication. The streets in Quebec
are nearly all very narrow, and the drifts
have piled up in many cases as high as the
second story window, rendering ordinary
travel impossible. It is the severest
weather ever known in the proviwe I
at this time of the year. The cold is <
intense, the thermometer being twelve degrees
below zero. People are afraid to leave
their houses in Quebec for fear of losing
their way and being frozen to death. Tbe
linemen of the telegraph company are great
sufferers, and many cases are reported where
they have been badly frozen in attempting
to repair broken wires.
fri - fnoeKofs tn rirorc
A lit? blunu iiaa v-auocu vuv
of many border States. The Merrimac River
.in New'Hampshire swept away everything in
\ Its path.
The middle bridge of three bridge? spanning
the Merrimac River at Rooksett, N.
|H., used by the Suncook branch of the
Concord Railroad, and which was
undergoing repairs, was overthrown
by its supports being carried away
t>y the rough water and was precipitated
over the falls, carrying with it nine of the
eleven men who were working upon it.
, Three men were drowned: the remaining six
escaped death, but were more or less
seriously injured.
The two men who escaped going down did
so by clinging to portions of the bridge, on
which they floated to places of comparative
safety, when they were taken in boats.
The storm did great damage along the
Newfoundland coast. The ship Golden Gate,
from St Johns, Newfoundland, went ashore
at St Pierre. Miquelon. and became a total
wreck. The schooner Wright was wrecked
in the straits of Canso. The men on both
vessels have suffered from cold and hunger,
aqd many <?f th?m are badly frozen,
"LATER NEWS."
John* M. Doremus, the murderer of hi
son, has been hanged in the jail at Hacken |
sack, N. J.
John Beljox, aged six years, and Eertie j
Holmes, aged nine, were drowned by break- j
ing through the ice at Curtsis's pond, near ;
Worcester. Mass.
< ChaIU.Es F. Mayer has been elected j
President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
\V. TV*. Smith, Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Arkansas, has died at Little
[Rock.
Thomas Axworthy, the defaulting City
Treasurer of Cleveland, Ohio, has settled
with the city through an arrangement in
London, by which he agrees to pay $150,000
|to the city, and turn over his property in j
America in full settlement.
The census returns show the population of ;
Texas to lie 2,02f>,000, an increase of -0.54 j
per cent, since 1SS0. The increase in Kansas !
is 27.o5 per cent., and Nebraska 04 per cent, j
Thomas Burke, of Washington Territory, j
ihas been nominated by the President as Chief !
Justice of the Supreme Court of that Territory.
Alexander J. Jones, Consul to Barranguilla,
South America, now home on a
leave of absence, has forwarded his resignation
to Washington.
The-Sultan of Zanzibar recently ordered
*1^a fnn?.?iofirnc hflf] hnrl no
VUV7 cvucauilig^i. ivut liUVi ? vw ?. ?V- ?
trial. The sentence was executed in the public!
street with clumsy brutality, anil the
odies were allowed to lie in the streets until
evening.
A snow storm lasting two daj's prevailed
in the northern part of New Brunswick.
The Countess Costa was stabbed to death
in a carriage at Florence, Italy, by a Captain
in the army, who then committed suicide
by shooting himself with a revolver.
The Samoans under Mataafa have sue.
ceeded in capturing the principal portion of
Atna after a long battle with Tamasese's
forces. The losses included 100 killed and
several hundred wounded.
SECRET SERVICE BUREAU.
Report of the Treasury's Chief
Counterfeit Detector.
John S. Bell, Chief of the Secret Service
Division of the United States Treasury Department,
has prepared a report of the oper- !
ations of that service during the fiscal year. I
The total number of arrests was 40?, |
the majority of which were for
counterfeiting or passing counteneic
coin. Of those arrested, 14(i were convicted I
or pleaded guilty, 1<?.> were discharged, and !
ninety-six cases are yet undetermined. The j
fines imposed aggregated $2-.\4*J4, and sentences
aggregated :J07 year.*. Over liKKl dies
and plates were capture<l. Only two new
counterfeit notes appeared during the year.
Figures are given which show that the natives
of Italy continue to occupy the forefront
of foreign-born people as counterfeiters
in this country. Out of the 134 foreigners,
sixty-seven were Italians, just fifty per cent.
The representative vaiua of counterfeit
money captured during the year was *2,11?,522,
of which over ?2,UJO,OOU were imitations
and fac-similes of notes. I
FERDINAND EE LESSEPS.
The Noted Engineer's Activc
Career Practically Ended.
His Suez Canal a Success?His
Panama Canal a Failure.
With the resignation of M. Ferdinand de
Lesseps and the other officers of the moribund
Panama Canal Company, a new era, says
the New York Tribune, must begin in the
work of securing interoceanic transit for
ships through the American Isthmus. Practically,
too, the active career of M. de Lesseps
comes to an end?a career long and active
bevond ordinary mortal coniDa-s and full
of such picturesqueness as is seldom to be observed
outside the pages of romantic fiction.
At his great age, it is not reasonably to be
expected that he will become the promoter of
FERDINAND
any more such daring t<nd dazzling schemes
as those which have made his past life illustrious
and his name a household word the
world around. M. de Lesseps has been for
many years one of the most picturesque and
interestine figures on the world's stage,
where he has played a great many parts to
the perfect satisfaction of himself and of
those who have followed him.
Ferdinand de Lesseps was born at Versailles
on November l'.?, 1SQ5, and after acquiring
a thorough diplomatic education by
traveling about in company with his father,
entered the Consular service himself and
held the post of Consul at Barcelona,
Cairo and Alexandria, becoming ConsulGeneral
at the Egyptian capital
and receiving the Cross of the Legion
of Honor for bis heroism and devotion
during the plague. In 1848 he was nude
French Minister at Madrid, and the following
year was sent to Rome to effect negotiations
between the popular government and the
French army. Owing to his too favorable
opinion of the popular movement in Italy,
he was recalled In disgrace.
THE SUEZ CANAL.
Mohammed Said, son of Mehemet Alf, had
now succeeded to the Viceroyalty at Cairo,
and he invited the son of his father's friend
to go to Egypt as his guest. The idea of the
Suez Canal then took possession of De Lesseps's
mind, and Said became his
first convert. The Sultan and the
F.nclish hifctprlv onnosed the scheme.
but the company was formed in
18->4 with a capital of $40,000,000. The work
was begun in 1858, was .pressed with vigor
and enthusiasm, and the canal was opened
with imposing ceremonies on November 17.
18G0, the same year in which tha Union and
Central Pacific Railroads were connected
at Promontory, in Utah.tBeing her kinsman, '
PANAMA CANAL COLLAPSE.
Sufficient Funds Not Subscribed,
and the Company Bankrupt.
M. De Lesseps has formally announced the
failure of the Panama Canal loan in Paris.
Only ISO,000 bonds of the 400,000 necessary
to tide the scheme over the financial crisis
were subscribed.
A Paris dispatch says: During another
exciting scene at the Panama Canal Company's
office, on a call for M. de Lesseps,
Charles do Lesseps, bis son, appeared. He
announced that only 180,000 bonds had been
subscribed for, and that the company would
therefore commence returning the deposits
at once.
Referring to his father's remarks on the
previous day, he said: "My father is younger
<>-> oniric tVi:tn t. His remarks were made on
the strength of a hopeful report that I made |
him. The result is bankruptcj', or the wind- '
ins up of the company." He urged them to
petition the Government to come to tho
assistance of the company.
The coming bankruptcy of tho company
has of late been clearly visible.even to many
of its former defenders. M. do Lesseps has
be?n the leading spirit in tho canal company,
and such progress as has been made is the
result of his untiring energy.
It is, indeed, taking a charitable view to
assume that he was merely a self-deceived
enthusiast and not a monstrous swindler. In
the history of visionary undertakings and
financial bubbles there are few things comparable
to tbis old man s canal at Panama.
He has issued shares and bonds amounting
to ?400,000,00.) at par, and this immense sum
in obligations has been taken by the French
people, who have probably paid him over \
?2oO,(K)0,000 in cash; and the greater part of
this has come from the peasantry and srnnll
landholders of France. He has resorted to the
most unwarrantable financial devices in order
to avert the fatal day of bankruptcy, such as
issuing now bonds to obtain funds to pay interest
on former issues. The Canal scheme
will be abandoned for lack of funds unless
the French Government comes to its rescue
and advances necessary funds.
AN ELEPHANT EXECUTED,
Chief, a Noted Man-Slayer, Strangled
in Philadelphia.
Tho winter quarters of Forepaugh's circus
in Philadelphia have been the scene of an execution
not ordered by the courts. Chief,
the big elephant, was condemned to die. He
had become entirely unmanageable, and it
was found difficult to keep the great, strong
brute chained up. He tried to kill his keeper
the previous day, and it was decreed that he
should be destroyed.
At three o'clock in the afternoon the noose
was placed nround his neck. It was mado
in the middle of a piece of rope half an inch
thick and ten yards long. It was a ticklish
thing to pet the noose on the elephant's neck,
but it was finally pulled over his trunk and
^to?n,i ^in?n behind his ears. Then Basil anil
iiismarok, two powerful elephants, were
attached to the ends of the rope.
At young Adam Forepaugh's command
the two elephant executioners were prodded
and the line was drawn tight around Chief's
throat. Another signal was given and the
elephants applied all their power. Chief
tottered and fell, and was dead iu twenty
seconds.
Chief was an Asiatical elephant, ten and a
half feet high and weighing 10.000 pounds.
His body was hauled to the University of
Pennsylvania, where the hide will be stuffed
I and the skeleton set up for the university
| museum.
| Duriug his career Chief had killed eleven
I men.
The real name of "Black Bart," the California
highwayman, is Charles E. Boles, and
he was once a re pectable member of society
in Decatur, III. He has an estimable wife
and three bright children in Oregon, IU.
Do Lesseps had the sympathy and active interest
of the Empress Eugenie in this great
enterprise, and it was largely through her
patronage that he was enabled to carry it to
a successful conclusion.
The Suez Canal passes through a low,
sandy plain, and is about 100 miles long.
By constant dredging an average depth of
twenty-six feet of water is maintained, and
ships pass in and out at either end without
the hindrance of locks. The business of
the Canal has steadily increased. In 1SS5,
no less than 3024 vessels passed through it,
the gross receipts were S12,000,090; the shareholders
were paid a dividend of 17.08 per cent,
after the sinking fund had been provided
for, and t.ho tonnage of steam and sailing
v< ssels that passed through amounted to
8,935,411 tons.
THE PANAMA CANAL.
The idea of cutting through the Cordilleras,
and providing a waterway from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, at Darien, originated
with the Spanish conquerors, but their
plans lay ior ~'w years ouriea in
musty and dusty archieve* at Madrid.
The speculations of modern science revived
the idea, and when M. de Lesseps assembled
his famous Congress in the Low Countries in
DE LESSEPS.
May, 1S79, a variety of competing scheme!
were submitted to it. The tribunal was constituted
of men of all nations, for even China
had sent a representative. Four commissions
were appointed to report on the undertaking
in its different aspects.
The Congress must have brought bitter disappointment
to many daring and sanguine
projectors. The choice was finally nari owed
to the project of the canal through Nicaragua
and that of the Panama route. The Congress
finally resolved, by seventy-eight votes
against eight, twelve abstaining,that the canal
at the sea-level, without any locks, should be
made from the Bay of Limon to the Bay of
Panama; all the committees agreed in favor
of this resolution. Other recommendations
of the Congress have been followed by the
company which M. de Lesseps formed to execute
the work, styled "La Lompagnie Universelle
du Canal Interoceanique de Panama."
The intention was to conduct an open canal
across the Isthmus, connecting the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans. Its entire length, including
the channel dredged in the Bay of
Panama, was to be 45 miles and 17?9 yards;
the width at bottom, 72 feet; at the top. 131
feet; and the depth of the water, 29 ieet C
inches. The total cost of the work, allowing
ten percent, for contingencies, was estimated
in 1SS0 at $163,740,000; but the actual expenditure
up to June 30.1SS0, was $330,000,000,
and yet the work was little more than be^un.
Stocks and bonds aggregating at par about
$400,000,000 were issued by the Company.
This immense amount of obligations was assumed
by the French people?mainly by
small land-owners and farmers?who have
paid probably $200,000,000 in cash for the
furtherance of this gigantic failure. The
collapse of the Canal scheme and the bankruptcy
of the Company will entail a hsavy
loss upon the French people.
SUMMARY OF 00NSRESS, '
The Senate.
0th D/y.?Mr. Riddleberger withdrew his
resolution for the reorganization of the Senate
by the election of new officers....Mr.
Call presented a long petition^ for the instituting
and maintenance of a Federal system
of quarantine... .The Senato then considered
the Tariff bill. The paragraph (140) referring
to "wheels, or parts thereof made of iron or
steel, and steel-tired wheels, for railway purnoses"
(whoily or partly manufactured), im:
posing a rate of 2}(. cents per pound, and of
1 'J4 cents per pound on ingots for the same
without regard to the degree of manufacture,
was read, and Mr. McPherson moved to
amend by making the rates 2 cents and 1}?
Dents respectively. The amendment wes rejected.
10th Dat.?Mr. Motrill introduced a resolution
which provides for the daily meeting
of the Senate an hour earlier than usual, for
a recess at .r?.:J0 in the afternoon and the reassembling
of the Senate at Sin the evening,
an.l which totally ignores the customary
holiday recess.... A bill to establish a puro
food division of the Agricultural Department
was referred to the Committee on
Agriculture... .Jlr. Hale offered a resolution
railing on the Secretary of the Treasury for
information regarding appointments and
promotions in the customs service since
March 1 Mr. Farwell introduced a bill
for the "reorganization and increased ellifiency
of the personnel of the Navy"
The Tariff bill was discussed by Messrs.
Slierman, Vance and Voorhees.
11th Day.?Mr. Ulair introduced a bill
to construct a heavily armed, steel-plated
cruiser, to cost S-i.oOV.OiiO, and armaments
and forts to cost S-l.O.'KI.OOO. It provides two
submerged, turreted torpedo boats, armed
with heav}' cannon, and pneumatic torpedo
throwers, and a system of formidable torpeioes.
The forts would bo stationed in the
ricinity of Sandy Hook, N. J....Mr. Kdniunds
introduced resolutions aimed against
the connection of any foreign Government
with the projected Trans-Isthmian Canal....
The conference report on the Senate bill to
regulate appointments in the Marino Hospital
service of the United was agreed to....
The Senate passed, with verbal amendments.
the House bill to incorporate
>i.~ An.n..v.n,i mctsinVnl Association
l'lio debate on the Tariff bill was continued.
Schedules "D" (relating to wood and woodmwares)
and "E" (relating to sugar) were
passed over informally. Mr. Voorheesmade
a spaech during the clebati on tho Tariff bill.
The House.
11th Day.?The House passed the resolution
providing for a holiday recess from December
21 to January 7....A resolution
to make the Senate bill for the
admission of Territories a special
and continuing order was carried....
A bill 'was passed for tho incorporation of
the American Historical Association. Andrew
1). White, George Bancroft and
Justin Windsor are among the incorporators
....A resolution appropriating $'iUOO out of
the contingent fund of the Houso
to pay tho expenses of the Ford Imi
migration Commmittee was passed....
The following bills were introduced: Calling
on the 1'resident for information relative to
atl'airs in Madagascar: to modify existing
tariff laws; to enable th<- people to
choose their own postmasters and to
correct the Treasurers account
12th Day.?After a brief discussion as to
whether the ltiver and Harbor or Legislative
Appropriation bill should have precedence a
decision was rendered in favor of tho Appropriation
bill In tho debate on the
Legislative Appropriation bill. Mr. Cummings
moved to strike out the Civil Service
appropriation; a lively debate followed, but
the motion was lost and the bill passed.
13th Day.?Tho River and Harbor bill
was taken up and considered. In round
figures it appropriates ?12,000,000.... A bill
to allow members of tlia House clerks
was defeated by 05 to 100...
The House agreed to "the conference on the
Senate bill regulating appointments in the
Marine Hospital service....The conference
report on the bill to retire General A. J.
Smith with the rank of Colonel of cavalry
was also agreed to.
TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Mrs. Kaukf.mann and herdaughter.Alma,
nf berne, near Reading. I'enn., poured a
)argo quantity of hot tallow into a kettle,
which contained a small <junntity of water,
and tho explosion which followed killed them
both.
Harvey LunniNGTON. a boy fifteen years
old, killed his father at Hinsdale, N. Y., by
throwing a chair at him, fracturing his
skull.
Peter Dunn, of Troy, N. Y., after being
1 - - - J .\
out or employment lor montns, miauy uutained
work at the Breaker Island works.
His life was crushed out at noon that same
day by a quantity of iron oro falling on him.
NEr.so.v Wickmffe and James Van
Wickle.aged six and seven years respectively,
while playing on the thin ice on the Shrewsbury
River near Seabright, N. J., broke
through and were drowned.
Three workmen in Carnegie's steel works,
Pittsbure, Penn., were fatally burned by an
explosion of molten metal.
The Lackawanna River rose rapidly,owing
to the great rainfall and thaw, and flooded a
largo portion of Scranton, Penn., rushing in
torrents through the streets and up to the
doorsteps. The excitement was intense, and
thero were many narrow esrapes. Much
property was destroyed. The wooden bridge
which the Jersey Central Company wus
building across the river at the steel mills
was also carried away.
Northern* New York was swept by a
snow storm and much damage was done by
the freshets that accompanied it There
were numerous railroad washouts.
Sonth ami West.
United States Custom House officers
captured $20,000 worth of opium which was
shipped from Vancouver, British Columbia,
and landed at Port Huron, Mich., from a
small schooner.
The American Federation of Labor, which
has been in session at St. Louis, has adjourned
after re-electing Samuel Gompers
President. It was decided to institute a general
ei^ht hour movement in January, ls'jo.
Ii09t0n will bo the next place of meeting.
The body of little Irene, youngest child of
Dick Hawes, whoso arrest and protection
caused the tragedy at Birmingham, Ala.,
has been found in the lake at that place
weighted down witli railroad iron. Hawes
showed no emotion when informed that the
body had been discovered.
Chikk-Justicb Charles E. Botle, of
Washington Territory, died of pneumonia at
Seattle.
The day set for the abolishment of all restrictions
against entering Jacksonville,
Fla., has passed. The return of those who
left there in the early stages of the yellow
lever epidemic lias been signalized by a big
demonstration. The refugees returned by
train, boat and private conveyances and
afoot.
During the races at St Londry, La., a
family feud which has ox is ted for several
years between the Higginbothams broke out.
As a result of the fight two of tho participants
were instantly killed and one, who was
mortally wounded,died in a few hours. Four
others, including an elderly woman, were
wounded.
A wire cable used at the Plymouth mines,
Jackson, Cal., broke, throwing two men
named Millman and Pritchard to the bottom
of tho shaft, killing them instantly.
DirHTHF.niA and smallpox are raging at
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Chairman Quay, of the Republican National
Committee, has been consulting with
President-elect Harrison at Indianapolis concerning
the inauguration ceremonies.
The striking minors of the Texas Pacific
Railroad, in iirath uouniy, iexas, nave iwcome
riotous. '
Twelve stores and a number ot other
buildings at Iron Mountain, Micb., were
burned. Loss, $100,000.
Fire at Manchester, Kan., destroyed the
school building, leading business houses and
postoffice.
The Augusta (Ga.) National Exposition
has closed after a successful run of forty-five
days. Over X!00,000 people have visited the
Exposition.
An oyster schooner was upset in the James
River, Va., and the captain acd cook were
drowned.
Washington.
Quarters have been engaged for President-elect
Harrison and his party at tho Ebbitt
House, Washington, for several days
prior to tho inauguration on Marph 4.
The President has recognized Carolus
Fridericus Prehn as Consul of Austria-Hungary
at Galveston. Texas, and Harold Jackson
as Vice-Consul of Denmark at Baltimore,
Md.
It is said at the Navy Department that the
cruiser Chicago will be completed, including
armament, in January.
The Senate Committee on Military Affairs
has agreed to report favorably a bill providing
for tho retirement of W. 8. Rosecrans,
with the rank of Brigadier-General.
Judgment for ?107,fi7S in favor of the
Now York Central railroad against tho
United States Government, a refund of internal
revenue taxes, has teen rendered by
the Court of Claims.
The Military Academy Appropriation bill
has been completed. It appropriates
SOG. The principal item of new appropriation
is ?490,000 for a new academic building
at West Toint.
Tije President has sent the following nominations
to the Senate: Lyman S. Strickland
to be Collector of Customs for tha District
of Aroostook, Me.; Leon O. Bailey to be
Attorney of the United States for the District
of Indiana.
The Republican Senatorial caucus decided
that the Senate shall continue in session
without a holMayrecess until tho TarilTbill
is disposed of, letting the House take
a rocess if it so desired. It was also decided
to hold two sessions daily.
Secretary Whitney has said that a vessel
would l>e sent to Colon to protect American
interests if any trouble arose over the
failure of the Panama Canal Company.
Foreign.
Mh. Joh.v Hennikkr Heato.v, member of
the English Parliament, will visit the United
States, and endeavor to have a bill submitted
to Congress providing for the adoption of his
scheme of universal penny postage.
Two boys, aged eleven and fifteen years
respectively, sons of Mr. Herbert, a storekeeper
at Ferry Point, Canada, have been
drowned.
The committee appointed by the French
Chamber of Deputies to consider the bill
postponing the payment of the i'anaina
Canal Company's liabilities, has rejected the
measure, thus destroying the last liops.3 of
those who thought the company might bo
tided over the crisis.
Terrirle storms rajred for three days in
the Department of the Pyrenees-Orientales,
France,flooding villages and causing -wrecks
and much loss of life.
The steamer Jasper, from "Workington to
Glasgow, foundered ofT the English const
near Wigtown. Eleven of hor crew were
drowned.
A French man-of-war is going to Panama
to protect French interests in case of disorder.
Fioiitixo between the British and Arabs
nt Suakim goes on briskly, the heavy guns
getting to work and destroying the Arab redoubts,
the shells bursting in and around
them. There wns great slaughter, and a deserter
reports that the havoc made among
the dervishes who crowded about the
trenches was terrible.
Three men, named Johnson, Oaks and
Dickey, were drowned while crossing to the
American side of the St. Lawrence River
near Iroquois, Canada.
The Haytinn war vessels Dessalines, Touso.'nt.
T.onverture and two small etmbnats
opened bombardment upon Cnpc Haytian,
which is the stronghold ot' General Hvppolite
and bis army of insurgents. They tired fifty
shots at the town, which did little damage.
Then the foreign Consuls and the business
men of the town raised a Hag of truce so as
to allow the non-combatant-; to escape to a
olace of safety. An armistice was granted.
Tke night before election Charles F. Henderson,
a veterinary surgeon of Taylorville,
III., tortured fifty horses by infections sulphuric
acid and croton oil. The animals belonged
to Grangers who were attending a
political meeting. He has just been sentenced
to the Penitentiary for thirty years.
5e\ eral carloads of Colorado cabbage
have been contracted to go to Galveston.
lex as. One carload of these cabbages will
go thence to South America. Thev will bt
for the use of the army. Cabbage" is likely
to become quite an article of commerce in
tho years to coma
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stanleyTprisoner.
Held Hostage With Emin Pasha
by the Malidi.
Suakim Demanded or the Explorers
Will be Shot.
HENRY M. STANLEY.
Adrioes from Egypt leave little room for
doubt that Henry M. Stanley, the intrepid
African explorer, and the plucky German
traveler, Emin Pacha, have fallen into the
hands of Osman Digna, the scourge of the
Soudan, who is at present engaged in helping
to besiege the British and Egyptian garrison
at Suakim, Egypt.
? In the letter received at Suakim from Osman
Digna, and which is supposed to have
contained the announcement that Emin
Pasha and a white traveler (presumably
Stanley) had fallen into the hands of the
Mahdi, were inclosed copies of a disC'h
trom a dervish leader at
e to the Khalifa giving the date of
Emin Pasha's surrender as October 10,
nr>H n 1 offer tn 'Rmiri Pftshft from the
Khedive, which the latter handed to Henry
M. Stanley when he was at Cairo. General
Grenfell recognized the letter which Osman
Digna had inclosed as the original one which
he had drafted for the Khediva Thus
Stanley's capture is virtually beyond a
doubt
Osman Digma's letter was a reply to Major
Bundle's request of last August for news of
Emin Pasha. The letter asserts3 that the
Mahdi has conquered the whole of the
equatorial provinces. The Lado letter states
that one white man escaped
Along with his letter Osman Digma sent
several Snider cartridges, which, he alleged
were taken from the white traveler. The
Zanzibars in Stanley's expedition were armed
with Snider rifles, but there were none in the
possession of the dervishes.
It is rumored that Osman Digna in his
letter expressed a willingness to surrender
Emin Pacha and his white companion providedKgypt
would agree to abandon Suakim.
If this proposal is not accepted it is believed
that both captives will be killed.
The Brussels Court Journal says that England
will doubtless do everthing possible to
liberate Stanley, and that Mr. Gladstone too
bitterly regrets the abandonment of General
Gordon for Lord Salisbury to abandon Stanley
and Emin Pasha.
The Congo State officials have not received
any information on the subject from the
mouth of the Congo. The King of the
Belgians is much agitated by the event and
is receiving a great many dispatches regarding
it. He admits having been a large subscriber
to the expenses of Stanley's expa
ditjon.
Everybody in London believes that Emin
Bey and Henry 31. Stanley are both
prisoners of the ilabdi. It is at least certain
from Osman Digna's letter that the
Mahdi Is in possession of a number of
things which Stanley is known to have
carried with him,and it is assumed that both
the Europeans' lives are too valuable from a
hostage point of view to be sacrifled by
the Soudanese. In the light .of this
discovery it is probable that the Suakim
fight will be indefinitely postponed.
It has been known for some time, ever since
the rumors have been current about the
presence of the White 1'csha in the Bahr elGhazal,
or in the district drained by the
Ghazal River, that the Mahdi had sent
various expeditions up the White Nile in order
to defeat the ' 'invader," who, he imagined,
was intending to advance
upon Khartoum. The reports that
have hitherto reached us were
to the effect that the White Pasha
had defeated the Mahdi's forces. If the latest
rumors are true, and they bear the evidence
of great probability, the defeats were only
temporary. That Stanley has met Emin is
also possible and probable, as will be evident
after reading a narrative of the known journeyings
of the two men.
*PBETTI BOY'S" AMUCK.
ADrunkon Montana Indian's Triple
Murder and Suicide.
A terrible tragedy, resulting in tho death
of four persons and the fatal woundin? of a
fifth, has occurred at Fort Epeck Indian
Agcncy in Montana. For upward of a week
"Pretty Boy,"'one of tho Yankton Sioux
tribe, had been loado 1 with liouor. Agent
| Cowan endeavored to discover "Pretty
Boy's," source of supply, but in vain. The
Indian not only managed to get all the
whisky he wanted, hut had some to spare,
I and tbis he distributed among the younger
bucks at the aceucy.
This ' 'Pretty Boy" made a murderous attack
upon his squaw. Seizing a slick of firewood
h? dfa.'t tho help'ess creature a blow
on the hea 1 which cut a deep gash
in the sc?lp and fractured her skuil. Not
satisfied with th:s, tho bloodthirsty brute,
crazed by the liquor h*? had imbibed, jumped
upon the prostrate Imdv of th? squaw, and
takin;; a knife out of his belt made preparations
to scalp her.
By this time a crowd of nearly one hundred
Indians had gatlu red around the two.
In the crowd were a number of Indian police,
who rushed upon "Pretty Boy' and dragged
him from the body of the squaw. This so
enrajjed '"Pretty Hoy'' that, sluicing on ins
captors, ho rail to his tepee and secured a
Winchester rifle and at once opened fire on
the police, instantly killing two of them and
fatally wounding a third.
He then proceeded to where his squaw was
lying, and placing tho muzzle of the rifle
between her lips, fired four shots, literally
blowing the woman's head to pieces. This
done, the red villian attempted to effect his
escape, firing repeatedly at tho Indians, who
were in pursuit of him.
Finding escape impossible, lie halted on
tho brow of a hill about a mile from the
agency, and after severing the arteries in his
wrist with his hunting knife, shot himself
through the heart, death being instantaneous.
IN EXTRA SESSION.
Washington Relieves that General
Harrison IVill Call One in April.
A Washington special says that the remark
that General Harrison is reported to have
made to some Prooklyn gentlemen to the effect
that Congress mkht be in session after
I March 4, confirms the ojtia.o.i thut'the President-elect
thinks it is wise to call an extra
session. Ti e Senate will of course be convened
in extra ses.-ion after March 4 to act
upon tho new appointments.
There is little doubt in Washington now
that one of ( 'eneral Harrison's first acts will
be to call tho new Congress into extra session,
and probably to meet early in April.
Harrison entered the Senate with tho extra
session that followed Garfield's inauguration,
and he was then of the opinion that tho
President was saved 110 wear and tear becauso
tho House was not in session. ( In tlm
contrary, it was his opinion it would have
been to Garfield's advantage in some respects
if the House as well as the Senate had osen
sitting.
As the result of the strained relations between
Russia and Persia, the Russian Ambassador
to Teheran has been recalled. I
THE WHITE CAPS.
Secrets of the Order In Otilo Known
?Compelled to Disband.
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, says that a
detective has been amons the White Caps
since the first report of their midnight whippings
of obnoxious neighbors in that State,
and that the names of all members and the
eecrets of the order had been secured,
with such other evidence as would
bring any offender to justice. He says that
none of the members had been summoned to
his office, but that several of them had come
voluntarily, being frightened by the possibility
of prosecution, and the result of their
visit was that the organization had been
permanently abandoned and the members
had consented to quit their line of conduct.
The Governor said that the White Caps
wp a rpfiilar organized secret bod v. but
that thev had no connection with the organization
of White Caps in Indiana. They were
divided into lodges, and the entire order was
under a general officer known as a "Colonel."
There were nine lodges in Ohio, with a membership
of about 1000, among whom were
many of the best citizens of the communities
in which they were organized.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Detroit River is to be tunneled.
Boston wants a zoological garden.
Damascus, Syria, is to have street cars.
The population of India is now 260,000,000.
The White Caps are extending their operations.
France has advised the Pope to leave
Rome
In* the South there are 16,000 colored school
teachers.
A revival of the tulip mania is threatened
in Holland.
Philadelphia is stirred up about badlybuilt
houses. i
The Ohio cabbage trust has come to a
disastrous end.
Jacksonville, Fla., has been given a
clean bill of health at last.
Over 100,000,000 feet of pine lumber have
been sold in St. Louis this season.
The new Texas $3,000,000 Capitol has been
accepted by the receiving board.
Prairie chickens have appeared in Kansas
in almost unprecedented numbers.
The English Derby winner, Ormonde, has
been sold to an American for 885,000.
Extensive preparations are being made
to meet the threatened famine in India.
Dakota has an acreage sufficient to make
eighteen States of the size of Massachusetts.
Keely, the motor man, doesn't own one
penny's worth oi stock in his alleged invention.
It is said that there will be great Buffering
in the southwestern counties of Kansas this
year.
The clergy of the Church of England of
all grades, from archbishop to curates, number
28,000.
The roller skating craze is now at its
height in Washington Territory, Oregon and
Manitoba.
Ax order for steel rails has been placed at
$20 a ton, the lowest price ever reached in
this country.
The United States has 688 street railways:
Europe, 221; Germany, 47; Great Britain and
Ireland. 117.
A new iron bridge at Bridgeport, Conn.,
was tested by marching twelve large elephants
over it.
At the recent exhibition of goats at Trums,
Switzerland, more man one tnousana animals
were shown.
Gainesville,FI&, is the only city having
yellow fever which was not proffered aid
from outside sources.
Kaiser William has renewed his grandfather's
order that none of the imperial servants
shall wear a mustache.
Tite State of New York is the second
barley-producing State in the country, and
the largest producer of hops.
Tiie experiment of rice cultivation has
been successfully tried in California. There
are large tracts of land there adapted to this
grain.
Miss Fannie Keeling. formerly a servant
inthe Slawtey House at Chippewa Falls, Wis.,
has fallen heir to an estate in South America
valued at $3,000,(.'00.
Clark Dars, a convict in the Ohio Penitentiary,
at Columbus, who tried to escape,
was knocked off his three-story hiding place
by a stream of water, turned on at the orders
of the warden, and killed.
Major-General Oliver O. Howard, who
succeeds Major-General Schofield as Commander
of the Atlant c Division, United
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mand at Governor's Island, New York.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Rose Coghlan is thriving under her new
management
Gounod, the eminent French composer, is
losing his mind.
George Wilson is the richest negro minstrel
in the couutry.
Robert Maxtell made a hit as "The
Corsiean Brothers."
George France is writing a play on the
Whitechapel murders.
Sir Doxald Smith, of Montreal, Canada,
has a piano worth $27,000.
Will Carletox's poem, "Eotsy and I aro
Out," is being dramatized.
Maude Griffith is one of the rising
Boubrettes in the profession.
The latest American farce comedy is entitled
"A liushel of Wheat."
The comic opera "Dorothy" has received
its tOOth performance in London.
"Logaire" is the name of the play that
Harrigan lias just produced at hisJ.ew York
theatre.
Flotow's posthumous opera, "Die Musikanten."
has lately been produced at Magdeburg,
Germany.
Madame Cottrelly has been acting in
~ t.-uit !?
uennan ac raiawm a
with signal success.
Both Booth nnd Barrett, great though
they are, have all tbe actors' singular weakness
for gaudy furlined overcoats.
Joseph Jefferson and Stuart Robson
will be the only comedans in England or
America next season who will play legitimate
comedy.
Gilbert & Sullivan have received from
America as royalties on "The Yeoman of
the Guard" since its first production, the
handsome sum of $10,80J.
"Sweet Lavender" has entered its second
month at the Lyceum. New York, with its
popularity unabated. The piece is now in tbe
second season of its successful run in London.
Imre Kiralfy announces that he will revive
"The Black Crook" in Now York city
next season in a gorgeous manner, and will
expend not less than $75,000 in the production.
Fanny Davenport and "La Tosca" havo
made a sensation in Boston, and the big Boston
Theatre is not large enough to hold all
who desire to see this favorite actress in
Sardou's play.
Mme. Jane Hading, the French actress
now touring this country, mourns the loss of
S10 lO rpppnf.lv rionnsitcd bv her with a well
known Paris broker, who has skipped with
nearly a million dollars.
An American amusement syndicate has
been incorporated at Newark, 2J. J., for the
exportation of native entertainments. The
capital stock is placed at $150,000 in shares of
$100. Its immediate purpose will be to send
Buffalo Bill's "Wild West'' to the Paris Exposition.
An interesting experiment is about to ba
made at the Prince of Wales's Theafre in
London, where an operetta is to be performed
as a first pieco before "i'aul Jone-v' Tho result
of this commingling of music and drama
will be watched with some curiosity, although
it is not altogether without preceddent.
It is a positive fact that New York people
are now dependent for symphonic music upon
the liberality of a Boston millionaire. Were
it not for Mr. Higginson and the Boston
symphony orchestra which he supports, the
residents of the metropolis would have to
forego even the brief seasons during which
that organization visits New York.
Sim Rkeves, tho superannuated but popular
English tenor, formulates the paradox
that the present flabbiness of the tenor market
is not dne to the lack of a demand for
them, but because it is impossible to supply
the demand. On the other hand the market
was never so well supplied with prima donnas
as now, and yet the quotations are at the
highest point for a first rate articla
/
SHOT FROM AMBUSH. ' I
Particular'; of rim Race Trouble at 1
Wahalak, Miss I
Reports have reached Columbus, Miss., of I
the shooting of Ave whites aud the wounding
of six others by colored men at Wahalak,
Miss., a station on the Mobile andJflff
Ohio Railroad. Wahalak is a settle*
ment of about two hundred persons. The
particulars gathered from the most re
uuie buurueh ureas uvjv, v?w
white and the other colored, quarreled and
fought together. Mr. "Tom" Nicholson,
father of the white boy, attempted to
separate them, when George Murray, the
father of the other boy,set upon Nicholson and
savagely beat him. Nic-ho.son swore ont a
warrant against Murray, which was placed
in the hands of Constable Seth Cobb. The1
constable after searching for Murray found
him with quite a crowd of other colored men;
barricaded in a house. The colored men defied
Cobb, saying that Murray should not be
arrested. Not satisfied with defying an
officer of the law, they sallied out and beat
him until he was more dead than alive.
Cobb returned to the town and summoned
a posse of twelve white men, who proceeded
at once to the point where the colored men
were fortified, to demand the surrender
of Murray. The colored snen, however,
had abandoned the house and
were secreted in the woods nearby,
and as the constable with his posse ap-,
proached the house they were fired upon from
the ambush. The constable and four of his
posse fell deal at the first volley, and there '
was only one among the twelve*
who escaped uninjured, some of them.'
being very seriously wounded. The\
whites retreated, leaving their dead on !
the field. Upon the return of the remnant )
of the posse to the town the wildest excite-.y
ment ensued. The situation was tele- {
graphed to the neighboring towns and :
preparations were at once made to attack \
the colored men as soon as reinfore-1
ments arrived. The news of the
slaughter caused intense excitement wherever
it was made known. Offers of assistance
came from all quarters. A special train was
made up at Meridian witn aoout seventy-five
determined men aboard and left for the scene
of the conflict. This number was increased
at every station along the road. No engine
could be had north of Wahalak to take a
special train, but preparations were made at
all points to start by the evening train.
Meanwhile the colored men were not idle.
Scouring the country, they raised a small
army, armed to the teeth, and retrer.ting to
a swamp prepared to give battle to the whites'
Irom ambush. The colored men were armed J
with rifles, shotguns and pistols, end have an
abundant supply of ammunition. The whites
were well equipped with Winchesters. The .
bodies of the dead had been recovered.
The following whites were killed: Seth
Cobb, Bill Hare, Henry Maury, Tom Nicholson
and W.lliam Vaughan. The wounded
were: John Drew, Tom M. Giles, H. L.7
Harper, Bob Harper, Frank Maury and Jeff1*
Thomas.
Parties have been searching the swamps
and every other place where the colored men <
who did the killing are supposed to be n- H
creted, but not one of tbem has been.' HI
found. It is supposed they hava
left the country. All the persons who left EH
Meridian for the scene of the tragedy have
returned and report everything quiet at Wahalak.
Nothing remains of the cabins occuEied
by the colored man George Maury and;
is confederates but their smouldering ruins.
All the stock owned by Maury was killed, j
and everything around the premises was
burned. > M
SOCIALIST SCHOOLS. < 9
A Chicago Plan for Slaking Child
Converts to the Theory. H|
"Der Freisinnige Schulverein" (the Free- Hj
Thinking School Society) has been organized
in Chicago at a meeting of Anarchists and
Socialists. Its object for the present is
the establishment of secular schools on Hi
Sunday in Chicago. Discarding the Biblo
as unfit to be put into the hands of
children, it proposes to teach as cubstitue?
history, science, and socialism. The move- 'H
ment is part of tho most important work
now in progress among the Socialists of the
country. Similar organizations are per feetiug
in New York, M.lwaukee aud other
points, and are ostensibly the outcoma of a
resolution passed ac the last annual meeting H|
of the Northwestern Turner Bund. jfl
PBOMINENT PEOPLE. - I
WHirrrER is just eighty-one years old.
Jefferson Davis has become quite feebla
Mrs. Harrison is an enthusiastic china
painter. gB
Rorert GArrett, the erratic millionaire,
is improving in health. SB
Emperor William has every leading pa
per dissected for him daily. BBj
The Ameer of Afghanistan, intends to pay
a visit to England next year. BB
Mrs. Don Cameron is one of the most attractive
matrons in Wasington.
The Queen of Portugal is known among hH
her subjects by the title of "Angel of Pity." ^S|
The Duke of Cambridge has completed his |fl
fifty-first yeur of service in the British hH
army. BH
Dunsmcir, the coal king of British Columbia,
has an income of from $2000 to
SoOOO a day. m
The Crown Prince of Greece will be m'/r- [^1
ried to Emperor William's sister Sophia Che HH
first week of May.
Chief Judge Hannan, of the Farnell
Commission and the chief defendant in the Hi
case aid vegewu iau?.
Mrs. Bonanza Mackay will, under the
new French law, pay one of the largest income
taxes in France. BB
General Spinner, whose autograph on Hfl
our greenbacks is famous, is threatened
with death from a cancer. IH|
Edmund Clarence Stedman, the Amer EH
ican banker-poet, is small, wiry, active and HH
alert, with remarkably bright eyes. 8
Miss Ethel Mackenzie, daughter of Sir
Morell, is a journalist by profession, and the HB
correspondent of two American papers.
The Prince of Monaco will endeavor to revive
gambling at the Casino by the revival of
court festivities long fallen into disuse. Mj
Mrs. Sol'thworth has recently had all
the gold pens with which she wrote her stories
converted into two rings for her children.
THE MARKETS. 9
50 new york.
Peeves J? t?0 @ 5 9)
Milch Cows, com. to good...^0 00 (a>oO 00
Calves,common to prime.... 5 00 @ 8 50 jBK
SheeD !> 0U ($ 5 80 flflfl
Lambs 5 50 (jj 7 50
Hogs?Live 5 0 ) ^ 5 40 99
Dressed 0 @ 8
Flour?City Mill Extra. 5 '-0 & 5 45
Patents 5 75 @ 7 25 ^H|
Wheat?No. 2 Rod 1 0.?>i@ 1 00#
Rye?State 01 (? 65
Barley?No. 1 >S^ @ 90
< orn?Ungraded Mixed.... t>7 ($ 48
Oats?No. 1 v\ bite ? (<?40
Mixed Western ~"J & 32
Hay?No. 1 >5 @ ?J0
Straw?Long Rye. W 0 8.3 ^9H
Lard?City .^tea'ra ? <3 7.70c HjH
Butter?-* tare Creamery.... 20 <ff 29
Dairy 20 ?3 .23
West. Iin. Creamery 20 (<$ 20 MB
Factors* 13 01 15 |Ufl
Cheese?State Factor y
Skims?Medium.... 7 & S
W?>?t?rn > 10 @ ll^Bfl
Eggs?State and Penn '^bidb 24H^^H
BUFFALO. n||
Steers?Western C 25 @ 4 00
Sheep? .Mi'.i.nmto uooi ... 4 25 (gt 5 00
Lambs?Fairtoi-ool 5 50 (Q tj <J0 J^Hj
Hogs?Good to hoica iorka 5 ?0 @ 5 5J HI
Flour?Family 5 0J <<? 5 25 |^H
Wheat? ao. - Northern ? t-5 1
( oru?No. >. Y?'l!ovv 4 J
Oats?No. 2. White ? 33
Barley?State OS (? 70
Flour? -'pring Wheat pat's.. 7 10 @ 7 50
Corn?Steamer Yellow. ? (ty 5.)
Oats?Xo. ~ V\ bite SO
l:j*e?State 63 @ 64 DH
IViTURTnWV (MHJ 1 f!ATTf.*J
Peef? Dressed weight. t> @ S HH|
fcheej)?Live weight '} >& 5 BIB
lambs. 4;.]((g
Hogs?Northern ? (<j ?
PHILADELPHIA. BH
Flour?Penn. family 4 4 'JO H9|
Wheat?No. 2, Red, Dec... 1 01 "<& 1 Ol^^H
Corn?No. 2, Mixed, Dec... 42%ioj 43
Oats?Ungraded White ? (d 3i
Kye?No. 2..: ? @ 72
Butter?Creamery Extra... 8> & S4
Cheese?>'. Y. Full Cream.. 0 @