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V-V > j APPALLING CYCLONE. A Terrific Tornado Sweeps Over Western Pennsylvania. It Brings Death and Havoc to Reading and Pittsburg One of the most appalling catastrophes accompanied by loss of life that have ever visited Reading, Petin., has occurred. It had been pouring down rain all day and at 4 o'clock it cleared up nicely. The sun shone brightly until about 4:30, when a black cloud formed in the southwestern sky and moved rapidly toward the city. in torrents ALSV laiu p.'UiC*4 UV??U iu for fifteen minutes, when a funnel-shaped cloud cut its way through the city, overthrowing many trees, telegraph and electric light poles. The wind blew harder and harder, until a roaring cyclone was in progress. Its course was from west to east, and covered a path of about 3 K? feet. In its course was the Heading Silk Mill, located in the northwestern portion of the city, in which about operatives, principally females, were at work. Before the storm reachcd the large mill, however, the girls saw its approach and sa*v it precipitating all the house-roofs in its path. A panic ensued and the operatives made an effort to escape from the building. Before they could get their wraps the cyclone struck tne five-story buildinz, and in an instant the massive brick work and heavy machinery were piled pell mell on the unfortunates, from tbe fifth to the first story. The building was a large structure, most substantially built, four stories in heigbt.and had a basement besides It occupied an entire block of ground. The budding itself was nearly i!00 feet in length and about 150 feet wide." It was surmounted by a massive tower, fully 10'J feet from the ground. The funnel-shaped cloud struck the building directly in the centre on its broadest side, which faced the west It fell to pieces as though composed of so many building blocks. Nearly !2(K) human beings went down in tbe awful wreck. Human tongue can never tell the terrible scenes of that hour. The walls gave way, the floors fell down, one on top of the other, and . carried their great mass of human beings to the bottom. The bricks were piled up in the greatest confusion,while, amid the hurricane and whistling, rushing, roaring wind, terrible cries for succor were sent up to heaven. *.,11 Almost simultaneously wmi wei?iv> y..= building came the awful cries for relief.Girls with blackened faces, bruised and broken limbs, their clothing tattered and torn, dragged themselves from the ruins. Probably seventy-five to ono hundred escaped, or were dragged out by their friend*. These, of course, worked on the upper floors, and were thrown nesr the top of the debris. At some places the bricks were piled twenty feet deep, and underneath were lying human todies by the score. The entire polico force was called out, the ambulance and relief corps, and a thousand people were in among the debris carrying out bricks, pulling away timbers, and assisting wherever they coulcl?all at the same time, but their work was slow compared with the demand for the rescue of the victims of the disaster. Here a young woman was taken out, all bloody, suffering with cuts and bruises. One body as it was dragged out had its head cut off. Others were in various postures, the living all suffering from the most t rrible wounds,and some almost scared to death. The reporter entered what was once the basement of the building, j and. gropinir his way through the debris, noticed five bodies of young girls lying close together. He tried to pull them out, but they were pinned down, and it was impossible to get them out. They were dead, and beyond all human aid. Auzustus Rosay. foreman of the second eill- ,v>iIIc ctv-c t.h?t 91."i nnprfttors DllUI J v/l I1IW OUft Mill - I were at work when the building was wrecked. He says: "It was about 5:15. just after I had" turned on the electric lights. All the floors of the mills were brilliantly illuminated, and thy girls were all busy. Suddenly I heard a strange rushing noisa of wind, and I thought it sounded like a cyclone. Then the building shook as if by an "earthquake, and the end of the large room in which I stoo 1 went down first. At least, thirty girls rushe.i to me and wildly screamed and tore their hair. I was he!p'e;s. Th<? other end of lb? room seennd as if up a stefep hiiL The girls became panic stricken, shrieked, ! and left their machines. The next instant the building collapsed. I shall never in all :ny life forget the heartrending screams of those 200 girls just before many of their voices were hushed torever in death. At first we had only hand lamps to see by. Under the wreck girls were piled six deep, mangled and bleeding and helpless. The first dozen bodies removed were covered with blood. One girl had her heid cut off. The sight was heartrending, and I can say no more." At Pittsburg. There was an awful catastrophe at lioO in the afternoon at Pittsburg causcd by ti}? same cyclone that wrought such ftav^c at Reactfng. At least fifteen persons ^ twenty-nine injured and several uere missing. The high wind that struck the city at that hour completely demolished the large brick building in pro ess of construction in Diamond alley, immediately in the rear of "Weldin & Ca's big bookstore. The building haa been completed to th^ seventh storv. It is a complete wreck, and as it went down crushed the barber shop next to it The falling debris was thrown against We'din & Co.'s store, the front of which was knocked out. The rears of all the stores on Wood street es far up as the hat store of Paulson Bros, were wrecked. Six m?n were in the barber sbop. Two have been recovered alive, two are dead and two were still uuder the debris. There were at least fifteen printers in the rear of Weldin & Co.'s store on the second floor and many of them were badly injured. As fast as they cou d be brought cut they were carried on stretchers to the various hospitals. One man, who was on top of the new building, fell into the basement. His skull ! was fractured and both legs were broken. 'l hrouzhcut the atternoon the firemen and police worked hard to rescue the victims or recover their dead bodies. A large number of physicians arrived at the scene, rendering ali possible assistanca to the injured. At the time the whirlwind struck the building most ot the men were on the tirs". floor. It was the dinner hour and the men were sitting around the fire eating. The whole rear of J. A. (iallinger's chinaware store was crushed in. Every ? few seconds during the afternoon pitiful cries would come from under the mass of wood end brick, and encouraging shouts would go uu from the crowd. The sight was heartrending. and moved mativ to tears in the midst of their work of resjup. At Weldin's store the wreck beggars description. The moans of the victims encased under the debris were heartrending. The cries of several men could be heard from the cellar. Yet it was impossible to get at them and they perished, as the water was running on them in torrents from broken water mains. It is known that a* least twenty-five men were at work on the Willey building and not one of them has been heard Irom bat the three taken froin the ruins, and the supposition is that all the others are under the ruins stilL Later in the day another section of the wall fell down. Three firemen and Kev. Father Canavan were buried under it and it is believtd that they were killed. Father Canavan's l:ead was cut and his back cut and bruised. At 9:.'i0 the d?-al body of a colored boy, name unknown, was taken out and removed to the Morgue. A few moments later the elevator boy. James Garinz. employed in Weldin's store, was removed. He was unconscious and fatally iniured. Other Places. A rain and wind storm came up suddenly at 5:-iO p. m., and blew over two of the stacks of the Sunbury (Fenn.) Kail Mills. They crashed through the *l?t<? roof, completely demolishing the puddling department of the mill. Thirty-five were employe 1 in this department, and half of them were buried in the ruins. Six men were taken out dea>?. A number of buildings were destroyed at Steubenville, Ohio. Several buddings were blown down at Jeannette. on the 1 ennsyivania road. Telegrams report damage in all the interior towns. Several bridges were blown down at Altooun. Brooklyn has been .visited by a genuine cyclone. It came from the southeast, and in less than t&ree minutes did many thousand fk'il.rrr' rt.01uL :Vy ACROSS TIE WIRES. Some Stories of Interest Told By the Telegraph. Legitime's Army Thrice Defeated and His Government Tottering. Tho deposition of Legitime, President of Hay ti, by the dissatisfied citizens of the capital, or 1)3' advancing victorious troops of the North, under Hyppolite, appears to be shortly expected by all but the immediate supporters of Legitime. He has thrown into prison all prominent citizens and residents of the North in Port-auPrince suspected of opposing him. Three battles have been fought and lost by the Legitimists in the past ten days. During the rapid retreat on the capital two divisions of the Southern Army, under General San Fi?in Paul niiH (ieneral Rosa, deserted roofed, trees torn up, and the United States Marine Barracks at the Navv Yard were demolished. Twelve marines were injured. Two gas tanks belonging to the Citizens' Company exploded, wrecking nine houses in the neighborhood. PLEUROPNEUMONIA, Report of the Bureau for Stamping Out Tliis Disease. The Commissioner of Agriculture has transmitted to the House his report of the operations of the Bureau of Animal Industry during the year 1SSS. The chief work of the bureau has been the continued effort to secure the eradication of the j contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle. No I cases of the disease have been found west of ! the Alleghany Mountains since the last re- I port The most serious outbreak, outside of ! the known infected States, is now in progress | in Orange County, New York, where the i existence of the plague has been concealed for a year by interested persons. All together there have been inspected during the year 30V-S0 animals. Of these 031 herds, conSi'.4:3 animals, were found to be infected, as they contained 1-J4G diseased animals. There ' were purchased for slaughter 204! t affected I cattle, at a cost of $07,0SI5, and 54!t0 exposed I of ? oost of The total ex- ! penses of the work were S1S1.5S0. The Commissioner says thai the present is the most critical period in the work of eradication. In Maryland, New Jersey and New York the plague continues to develop at greater or less intervals. The Commissioner submits the draft of a bill to enable the Department to successfully cope with the plague. THE LABOR WOELD. The strike movement is subsiding in Belgium. A strike of silk ribbon weavers is imminent Cleveland (Ohio) city workmen labor nine hours per day. At New Bedford, Mass., a new automatic j shoe-laster is at work. ^ Wome.v in Lynn (Mass.) cotton mills make j $7 and men $12 a week. This country now leads the world in the manufacture of perlumes. The barbers are to liavo a national organ, and its name is to be the Uliaver. The German -speaking bakers throughout the United States are largely organised in unions. The Seaman's Union, of Buffalo, N. Y., has restricted its membership to American citizens. Of the fioOl brick-layers, stone-masons and stone-cutters in New York city, 4354 are of foreign birth. Delmonico's chief cook in New York city is said to have received over $700 in tips on Christmas morning. The coal mines at Monterey, Cal., which i have been idle for years, are to be reopened | and vigorously worked. Bakkrs in Chicago are now required to j stamp the weight of the loaves and their 1 names on every loaf of bread. According to BradstreeVs, there were fif- ' teen strikes in the United States in December, | lKSt>, in which 2!(ol persons were concerned. | Powderly's salary as Grand Master of the ! Knights iif r.nlmi- is iL'i.iOO this voar. He wag voted $5000, but would not accept so much, j The Oxford Iron and Nail Company's works at Belvidere, N. J., have been closed indefinitely, throwing 1400 employes out of work. Steam machines for cleaning out the retorts in gas works are being used in Philadelphia with great success. One machine does i the work of eight men. A large amount of business has been done ' at the marble quarries. West Rutland, Vt., in fulfillment ot a Government contract fov | 20,000 soidiers' gravestones. A company has been chartered in Washington for the purpose of building railroad cars from sheet steel according to methods | lately invented in California. BtsiDEsthe 2S00 all-night bakers in Phila- I delphia, there are 1400 male and female work- | ers in twenty-two steatn bakeries for the mak- j ing of cakes, cruckers end knick-knacks. The gauge of the Cleveland and Canton Railroad, in Ohio, 161 miles |in length, was entirely changed to standard on a recent Sunday. One thousand men were engaged in the work. Thlre are twenty cotton factories in Japan now in operation, with a total of 82.6S0 j spindles. There are twenty factories now in process of establishment or extension, with j an estimate.! capacity of 180,080 spindles. The Pope having expressed a desire for j the organisation ot workingmen's pilgrim- | ages to Rome next September, arrangements i j are being mude for taking 10,0110 French art- I jsans thither, under the escort of the ArchI bhhon of Rheirns. . The International Trade Association of Hat Finishers of America was organized in Philadelphia, June 5, 1*54, with 12 local unions. It now numbers 15 locals with 4000 members and has almost complete control of every liptcing center. MUSICAL ANDDEAMATIC. Mxe. A lea xi is Queen Victoria's favorite singer. Koeert Maxtell is presenting "Monbars" in Canada. Dixey's "Adonis'' is nearing its two thousandth performance. Mme. Tkkbelm, the famous French contralto, is recovering from a paralytic stroke. Ikvixo's naw version of "Macbeth" at the London Lyceum was only a partial success. Mme. Modjeska refused a salary of SI.'jOJ a week to join the booth Barrett combination. The Duchess of Cambridge pays a well known vocalist S4U00 a year to sing to her daily. At the Theatre au der Wien. Vienna. "The Yeomen of the Guard" is announced to be sungiin German. Fait charges more every year for her ab bUIULU liinsncji ?>UI UWIIj^. OUC 13 liU ?V 2>1U?U1? in Englaud lor ?'.'?jOU a night. The famous tenor Miisini is to receive the comfortable sutn of ?ito,ouii for a season ot Italian opera in Buenos Ayres. Mary Anderson is understood to have concluded an engagement f< >r another Ameri- i can tour under H. K. Ab Ley's management. Mme. Bernhardt has declined an offer of ?4 .OU frcnithe Sultan of Turkey for a single performance at his palace at Constantinople. Joei'H U'hkelock has been engaged to play Mitcdulf to tlie Macbeth ot Charles j Coghlan and the Lady Macoeth of Mrs. Langtry. The oldest musical society in the world, the Antlitzgesflbclmft,lias just celebrated its 27uth amiivvrsiry at St. Call, in Switzerland, with gn at eclat. Agreeaule to the wishes of the German I Emperor the theatres have resolved to abolish all Frccc-h theatrical terms which have crept intc tttt language. Edward Foy, who has recently made such a hit in New York, is the only comedian of prominence who battles recognition by his "make-up" on the stage. Sara Jewett, who used to be leading lady at the Union Square Theatre, New Y'orK city, is recov ering her health, and will reappear on the i.tage next season. Rubexstzin has written a cantata to celebrate the preservation of the Czar and Czarina m the recent railway accident. It will be given in St. Petersburg. IT has b3?n definitely settled that Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., will go on the stage, probably under the management of Laniei i Frohman, of the New York Lyceum. This year there will be a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Verdi's debut as a composer. His first opera "Oberto di Sail Buonafacio," was produced at Milan, ou November 17, ISo!'. It is reported that Denman Thompson contemplates keeping "The Old Homestead'' on the l>oards of cua Academy of Music in .New York for three yaars. Its present prosperity would indic ats a long stay. As a steady tonic for the amity between Germany an.~ Italy, ICaiser William has ordered each ragi mental band to play at j least once a week the march of the Bcrsaglien and the Italian Infantry march. The next com'c cpera that will be brought from Kurope is era by Franz von Suppeihat has been MK'ce?-:vefv produced in V ienna. It is entitled "Die Jagd naih dem Gluck." literaily, "The Hunt After Luck.'' The building No. 10 Gramercy Park. New York city, presented by Kdwiii Booth to the recently organized 1'iayers' Club, of which he is President, has been converted into an elezant and commodious club house. It ttas loraa^y oa New Year's iive. to the pursuing Northerners. Both these Generals had supported General Thelamaque, but had been twibed by Legitime to support him. General Paul was captured and shot by sentence of a drumhead court martial under Hyppolite. General Rosa escaped and sought protection at the French Minister's at Port-au-Prince. The army of the North are entrenching themselves some twenty miles from Port-auPrince, reorganizing their army and awaiting the arrival of recently purchased arms and munitions of war. They are devastating the great agricultural section where they are now encamped, and from which Legitime received the greatest portion of his supplies. Exc esses of every kind are the rule- The horrid cannibalistic rites of Votidooism are revived, and reports reach Port-au-Prince of a meeting oiseveral thousand Haytians near Jacomel, and the sacrifice of a young girl and the greedy scramble for some portion of the half-cooked flesh. A United States war vessel will remain in the harbor to protect the lives and property of American citizens. The French Minister, by his open backing of Legitime, is most unpopular. The schooner Aurora, captured in San Domingo waters, was iounn u> contain letters implicating some thirty prominent persons in Port-auPrince. All Lave been thrown into prison, and it is feared that all will bo shot or beld as hostages. Many of these persons beld bigh positions in Legitimes government. Destructive Canadian Storm. Half way between Montreal and Toronto, in Canada, all the wirSs are 6trewn on the ground. Poles by the dozen are stretched along the railroads, and a general demoralization of travel und communication exists in Lower Ontario generally. Reports are coining in by mail only, and these indicate that incalculable damage has been done by an easterly storm, which, beginning Sunday morning, did not cease for four days. The wiud blew at times as high as seventy miles an hour, accompanied by rain. The greatest damage was done between Cornwall and Napanee, including Kingston. In the latter city the hurricane picked up three trees two feet in uiametor and blew them through the streets like straws. Earl. Park, Wellington and King streets are impassable with uprooted trees and demolished fences. The city park is a mass of ice. Hundreds of trees were torn down by ice and wind, their crashing and bursting "of the ice sounding like rolls of musketry throughout the night. There is hardly a telephone or telegraph wire up in the city. Several tall chimmeys fell during the storm. In the country the damage has been fully as destructi* e. P>ailroad tracks are impassable in some places, having a foot of solid ice upon them and the telegraph wires and poles bestrew thom at short distances apart. From Vandreuil, Coteau Landing, ltiver Boudette, Lancaster, Cornwall, Morrisburg, Iroquois, Prescott, Brockville, Gananoque,Rideau and at Ogdensburg and Malone on the south side of the St Lawrence similar reports are made. The damage cannot now be accurately estimated, but it will doubtless approximate clos3 upon a million dollars. Five tJhips jLosr. The agents and owners of five ships, ranging from 140 to 200 tons each and valued, with their cargo, at fully $1.10J,0J0, announced on the l^ew Vork Maritime Ex- ! change that their vessels have teen missing Bince the big storm of November 26. The I gentlemen are certain that th?ir ships are j lost. These are the vessels: Samona, steamship, New York, November 22, for Hayti. Nile, trig. West Indies, about November 10, for ?ew Yojk, L. W. P. Aru.strong. brig, Gaudaloupe, November 13. for New York. Ella A. Warner, schooner, Porto Rico, November 24, for New York. E. M. Bacon, schooner, Porto Rico, November 15, for New York. The number of liVes lost is put at fiftyfour. The value of the ships and cargo is estimated to be about $1,HO<I,UOO the greater part of which is covered by insurance. A Convict for a Brother's Crime. Ten years ago Jacob Bird was sent to the j St. Paul (Minn.) penitentiary from Dakota I County to serve a life fentence for murder. Recently the brother of the prisoner died, and on his deathbed confessed the murder for which .lacob was then suffering an undeserved punishment. Tlje presiding Judge, the prosecutor and others connected : with the original trial petitioned for Bird's! pardon, nnd the Governor has approved the j application. Battling in Burmah. The British troops have had an engagement with the Burmese rebels at Lwokow. The latter were defeated with a loss of loll killed. The British lost only live killed. REDUCED TO ASHES. A Monmlnj Father Cremates the Body of His Daughter. F. B. Gocldard, of New York, has just cremated the body of his dead daughter Gen* evieve, at the Buffalo Crematory, conducting the ceremony himself. Mr. Goddard went to Buffalo with the body of his beautiful daughter, and accompanied bf bis two sons, one of whom was so ill that he oould not attend the ceremony. The cremation was private, only two or three Buffalo friends of the bereaved father viewing it. The father would have no minister nor any assistant except the regular attendant at the crematory. He read a chapter from the Bible and a prayer from the Episcopal service. Then lie placed the body on the car and consisted it to the flames. "I could not bear to have any other than my hands touch her," said he, "and I prefer this method of disposing of the remains to buriaL Why should not the cloukis receive her dust rather than the cold earth? I believe that in the future this will be the preferred mode of disposing of the dead, when cremation shall be surrounded by the tears nnrl flowers and music which now are ex hibited at interments. To think of the loved one appearing: in the radiant sunset is not so dreadful a nightmare as to think of her appearing in the festering grave." A DYNAMITCR LYNCHED. A Bohemian Who Killed Pour People Promptly Strung Up. John SbaeJTer, Bohemian, was lynched at J balf-past one o'clock the other day at Gilman, Washington Territory, a coal mining town. Thy cause was as follows: La<t spring SchaefTtr was arrested for assaulting with intent to kill the wife of James Bodoy.a. Ha was convicted and sent to jail for three months. He then swore vengeance on Bodoyla, and I soon alter his release he attempted t> blow the house up, but only succeeded in destroy- I ing the front porch. The morning of the lynching, nt live o'clock, however, he was more successful. He placed a large charge of dynamite under the house and the explosion tore the place to atom*. Bodoyla had his two legs broken, his daughter was killed outright and his wife died from her injuries two hours afterward. Two men who were staying at the house Rere torn into unrecognizable pieces. The Bohemian was searched tor immediately. When found he was changing h;s clothes, the ones discarded being covered with dirfc as though he had been crawling under some housa He wss arrested, but the outragea j I community soon rose, took the murderer to j the nearest tree and strung him up, ( ) THE MEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. Nathan C.Blanchard, h wealthy farmer of Aurelius, N.Y., has committed suicide by hanging. Rev. Fielder Israel, sixty-two years old, pastor of the First Unitarian Church, at Salem, Mass., was found dead by his wife in his study in the church with his throat cut. He had been unsettled mentally since the recent burning of the steamer Maryland, on which he was a passenger, barely escaping with his life. The process of refining sugar by electricity has been found to be a myth by New York stockholders in the concern, who broke open the secret rooms in the factory at Williamsburg, N. Y., and discovered that the mysterious machines for converting the raw material info absolutely pure sugar wera only cleverly devised appliances to induce them to invest their money. It is said that $1,000,000 have been sunk in the electric bubble by credulous English and American capitalists. Shares dropped in London during one day from .WOO to $G0. A Nrw York artist named William Mann killed his niece and then committed suicide. Through the ignorance of a new man at a mine near Uniontown, Penn., three men met a horrible death in the shaft. The twenty-five cities of Massachusetts have all inaugurated their governments for 1880 by the installation of municipal officers. Joseph Jaeger, a Hoboken (N. J.) carpenter, forty-two years old. who lived with his wife and three children, literally blew his head of? with an old army musket loaded with a charge of shot. Ill-health and poverty were the causes. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has been rohhed of brasses from cars to the amount of $100,000 during the past year. The work was done by regularly organized gangs of boys at points along the line between Cleveland and Philadelphia. Wholesale arrests have been made along the line of the railroad. The body of Augustus J. Pierce, a wellknown resident of North Andover, Mass., was found hanging from a hedpost in the house of a friend where he bad been visiting. He was sixty years old and in comfortable | circumstances. He was undoubtedly insane. South and West. The prevalence of small-pox at New Wilmington. Ohio, has caused a general suspension of business. The United States inspectors who are investigating the burning of the Mississipp, River steamer Kate . Adams, at Plaquemine La., have obtained evidence which convinces them that forty-two persons were lost instead of fourteen, as they reported several days ago. It appears that eighteen children among the deck passengers and ten of the boat's crew perished in addition to the vie tims previously reported. There is great suffering and privation among the Isorwegian citizens in Walsh County, Dakota. Seventy families are said to be almost totally destitute. Most of them have no shoes and thin clothing, and are living on porridge made by cooking frozen wheat and oats. While a number of farmers, who had fathered at William Porter's grist mill at few Hope, W. Va., were talking in the boiler house, the boiler exploded, completely wrecking the mill. Four inen were instantly killed, one has died since, another was fatally hurt and two others were seriously injured. A fovr-corneked duel between River > Crow and Gros Ventres Indians, in which | all the participants were killed, took place at j Sweet Grass Hills, Indian Territory. M. E. Gaffnev, outgoing County Clerk of Ashland, Wis., put a bullet in his brain. I His accounts are about $i!00U short. Ex-As-istant Cashier Benjamin E. J Hopkins, of the Fidelity National Bank of i Cincinnati, when it was wrecked in the famous wheat deal of JSS7. released from the Columbus (Ohio) Penitentiary a few days ago on his nardon by President Cleveland, has died at his home in Cincinnati Governor Hoard has been inaugurated Governor ot' Wisconsin at Madison. The 1 oath was administered by Chief Justice Cola I The dredging vessels pirating the Mary-1 land oyster grounds are giving way before j the State navy. The police steamboat Governor McLane has added two more captures' | to her list. She swooped down upon a pirato ; fleet, and captured two ships and dispersed I the others. Legislative Assemblies met in California, Kansas, Colorado, Florida, Dakota and j Ohio. Governor Foraker's annual messapo1 shows that Ohio has a surplus of nearly ?1,000.000. The village of Red Springs, Va., has been nearly destroyed by fire. Loss. ?S0,00>. Thii wife of Postmaster Heckling was killed by falling timber. Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, ha l begun a series of meetings in San Fraucisco, Ca1. The steamer G. H. Vaneatton of the Red River Coast line struck a snag eight mile3 northeast of Texarkann, Ark., and sunk. | The cargo, which consisted of 210 bales o! cotton and 1500 sacks of cotton seed, was lost. Washington. Rear Admiral Iace telegraphei to tho Navy Department at Washngton from Kingston, Jamaica, that owing to an out' break of yellow fever on board the Yantio that vessel had sailed froin Port-au-Prince, Hayti, for a Northern port in the United States. The President has transmitted to Congress a recommendation that an appropriation o.! $15,000 be made for the relief of tho t'amilie I , of certain Japanese subjects who were killed outhe Island of Ihisma in March, 1887,by tho guns from the United States steamer (Jmaha. while that vessel was engaged in targe I practice. United States Treaki-rer Hyatt ha; signed a Treasury check, payable to himself, for $5^,000,000. This was to reimburse himself for money expinded during the p st month in the purchase of bonds, etc., which i he has theoretically paid from his own pocket. Mr. Hyatt said this is the largest i check he has signed since he has been in office. The President has approved the act to incorporate the American Historical Associa tion and the act to regulate appointments in i the Marine Hospital service. The Sundry Civil Appropriation hil) ha* been completed by the Committee on Appropriations. It carries an aggresare appropriation of $22,.v5-J,!KHi, being ?(i,72J,4'>l lt-ss than | the regular and special estimates, and less thau the appropriation for the current year. Admiral Luce lias informed the Navy Department at Washington that two more vesse's will be needed to relieve the Galena at Hayti. The Board of Naval Officers appointed to examine the plans of Representative '1 bonnes, of Illinois, for a submerging monitor cruiser j reported to the Secretary of the Navy recommending the adoption of the plan. The House Committee on Appropriations has completed the consideration of all the regular appropriation bills, except th: General Deficiency bill. The result i f '? Jabors is a reduction of the appropriations carried by those bills from $137,85t>,093, the provision for the current year, to $131,229,935. President Cleveland has sent to the Senate the nomination of Charles Baker, of Maine, to be Collector of Customs for tht district of Belfast, Me. Foreign. At Ekateronburg, Russia, during one recent day, 175 persons were frozen to death. ^ The floods are extending to Bastia, Italy, and have done much damage. In one bouse which collapsed twelve persons were killed. Heavy snows in the south of Russia have engulfed several trains and stopped all kinds of traffic. Seven* skaters were drowned in the Ludwig Canal at Nuremberg, Germany. Famine nnd drought are prevailing in the Interior of China and are increasing in severity, causing terrible sufferings. In the province of Shang tung crops htive been destroyed by an overflow of the Yellow River. A new Panama Canal Company is being formed in Paris by the shareholders of the present company. The Chinese Government has demanded that, Corea depose her King, and that Corea declare herself dependent on China. -T?l. Meline has been re-elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies, receiving !' 3.">3 votes against 141 for M. Andrieux. In the Windsor (Canada) election SoL White, the advocate of political union with the United States, wan baaten bv S8 votes out of a poll of 1500. This is the first contest ! on this issue that has taken place at the polls ' * The greater part of the village of Brancon, Switzerland, has been destroyed by fire. Many cattle were burned to death. The fir was ignited by a madman. Cochin, of the Malabar Coast, has been almost totally destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $1,500,000. A passenger train was blown from the rails near Fiume, Italy, on the Adriatic, during a violent storm. Three persons were killed and many injured. The German man-of-war Olga lost twenty men killed and thirty wounded out of a party of 120 men sent to assist Tamasese, the rebel, against Maraafa, King of Samoa. The Germans were compelled to retreat to their boats. Prince Henry, of Battenberg. who married Queen Victoria's daughter, has lieen appointed Governor of the Isle of Wight, vice Viscount Everslev, deceased. Severe weather is reported on the Black Sea. During the past fortnight many sailing vessels have been wrecked and over a hun area seamen nave lost cneir lives. ~LAT.b.K NEWST The New Jersey Legislature organized by electing George Werts President of the Senate and R. S. Hudspeth Speaker of the Assembly. Governor Green in his message says the total revenues last year were $1,353,578.77 and the disbursements $1,542,007.72. The State debt is $1,298,300. The Connecticut Legislature assembled and the caucus nominations were confirmed. John H. Perry was elected Speaker of the House. In the Senate John M. Hall wa* elected President pro tem. Both bouses adjourned to meet and elect a Governor and other State officers. Judge Barrett, of New York, has decided the suit of The People against the North River Sugar Refining Company. He declares the charter of the company forfeited by joining the sugar trust, and finds that the whole sugar "combine" is illegal. The business portion of Newton, Ala., has been burned. Governor Frank P. Fleming,of Florida, has been inaugurated at Tallahassee. At Coela, in Livingston Parish, La, Jim \V hite killed his uncle, Buck White, in selfdefense. Lewis McMullen, Appraiser at New York, was reouested to resien by Secretary Fairchild, but refused to do so. The President therefore directed his removal from office. A Canadian mail courier from Perce to Gaspe broke through the ice at Douglastown. Man and horse were carried under the ice and drowned. The mails will be recovered. A SHIPBOARD TRAGEDY, A Russian Sailor. Goaded bv Cruelty. Huns Amuck With a Knife. The Sun gives the following translation from a Russian paper of an account of the crime for which a St. Petersburg court sentenced Jan Umb, a Russian sailor, to ten years' penal servitude: -The Russian schooner Johannes had hardly left Riga when Jan Umb denied an accusation of Laving stolen clothing. Induced alternately by floggings and Captain Harhoo's promises, a confession was extorted which was followed by further whipping and confinement in a dark cell for several days without food or water. When released he was abused by the crew, and to put an end to his misery jumped overboard. The Captain promised better treatment if be would _ii i* a aiJOW LiIIII>fii iu iks i catucu, aiiu a uuai umiig lowered he was brought back. While changing his wet clothes he received a brutal kicking a!:out his bead and naked body and was again put below. "Next night he was ordered to take the wheel, and, unable through weakness to perform that duty, he was struck by the Captain in the facc. As the Captain was picking up a piece of rope Un b?now a perfect maniac?siezed a handspike, struck and killed the Captain. He then killed in a like manner the two sailors on deck. Procuring a sheath-knife he stabbed the mate and proceeding forward killed two more sailors in their sleep. The c abin boy was killed next. A Danish steamer sighted the schooner, which it towed into Copenhagen, where Jan IJmb was delivered to the Russian authorities." PROMINENT^ PEOPLE. Anna Dickinson is forty-six. Lko XIII., the Pope, is seventy-eight. Skcretary Bayard has a strong bent for farming. Fkudinand de Lesseps was born November l'.?, 1S05. Vice-President-elect Morton is a Congregationalit. Gladstone ha? iust celebrated his seventy ninth birthday. Bismarck. Gladstone and Disraeli were all born on Friday. John Bright, the English statesman, is gradually recovering. Hox. Chauxcey M. Depew carries a life insurance of ?olU,uOO. President-elect Harriso:; has taken out a life insurance policy. Kcang-Hsc, theyounz Emperor of China, has thirty cooks and as many doctors in his household. Mr. Sik, the Corean representative at Washington, plays the banjo with consummate skill. Alpho.wse Daudet, the French novelist, is nearly sixty years of age, but does not look it by at least ten years. There nre five Grand Dukes Nicholas, three Grand Dukes Michael and two Grand Dukes Alexis, Sergius. George, Alexander and Constantine. The humorists of Congress are Allen, of Mississippi; Taisney, of Michigan; William E. Mason, of I.linois, and William G. Laidlaw, of New York. Victoria Woodhull has purchasfnl a house in France lor ?400,OuO, in which she nop.es to lounu an institution lor me iree education of women. The only two members of the Congress of ISo'J now living are H. M. Wattersoii, father of Henry Watterson, and P. F. Thomas, of Maryland. It is said that the Sultan of Turkey aspires to a literary career,and has ordered the poet laureate of the Empire to affix the royal signature to his poems hereafter. Geokgi: 'William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly, is laid up with a lameness earned by water on the knee. The trouble was brought about by over-exertion in playing tennis last summer. Osman Dkjna is a Frenchman, or of French descent,formerly a merchant at Suakin. His name was Vinet before he abjured it and h:s religion to marry one of the late Mahdi's numerous daughters. The latest story about Henry M. Stanley is that he is enamored of a charming Philadelphia widow, and that her coldness is of such a phenomenal degree that it has driven him again to the burning lands of Africa. Hadji Sclyman Saba, of Constantinople, who died the other day, was ninety-eight years of age when he took his last wife, and lived to be 132. He had sixty sons and nine, daughters and seven wives, and survived them all. The senior lady among the wives of the justices ot the Supreme Court is Mrs. Miller, whose social experiences in Washington ex> tend hack to 1*Wi. She is of English parentage, ber father having been a Baptist minister in Bristol. 1\* TVit t t i \?C fUn Vv i cf am n n a/ the African race in America, has recently returned Ironi Europe laden With the fruits of a lont search through the libraries of the Olil World lor matter pertaining to Toussiant 1'Uuvemire, the San Domingau hero. James A. Stewart, the newly elected mayor of Griffin, Ua., is one of tbe youngest mayors on record, his twenty-second birthday having been celebrated in August last. He is the son of Congressman J. I). Stewart, who was greatly surprised when he heard of his Lov's election. John Wanamaker, the millionaire merchant prince of Philadelphia, has a deeoseated objection to sitting for a portrait, lie has repeatedly declined overtures of his family and friends who are anxious to secure a counterfeit presentment, and up to the E resent time it is not known that his features ave been transferred to paper in any regular manner. . ;< % r / - : * ;>Vf 7 - -.*} \ . * SUNK BY A SNAG. The Steamer Paris C, Brown Wrecked at Hermitage, La. The Ninth Mississippi River Disaster in Three Weeks, A dispatch from New Orleans, La, says: The ninth steamboat accident on the Mississippi or its tributaries in this vicinity in the past three weeks has just occurred in the sinking of the Paris C. Brown, of the New Orleans and Ohio River line,near Hermitage, about 160 miles above New Orleans and four miles from Bayou Sara. The Brown, while nassine Hermitaee, was signaled by the Steamer Oliver Beirne to land there. The Brown waited for the Beirne to back out As the latter did so she attempted to land, but struck a snag or some other obstruction. It went completely through her hull, broke her hog chains in two, the cabin fell in, and the vessel collapsed and became a complete wreck within two or three minutes. The shock of the accident aroused every one in the boat, and the passengers and crew rushed to the front to see what means of escape there was for them. Nothing could be done to save the Brown, and it was evident that she would be ar. the bottom of the river in a very few minutes. The Captain ordered the crew to cut the lifeboats loose and launch them. Fortunately the accident was seen by resident of Hermitage, William Glass, who happened to be on the river bank at the time. He sprang into his skiff and rowed to the sinking steamer, which was only a few yards from shore. He took the lady passengers. chambermaids and others to the land, returned and carried the other passenger# ashore and a numb?r of the crew. The river was filled with hogsheads, lumber and other wreckage from the steamer, and therefore difficult of navigation. The crew who were not taken off by "Glass's skiff, endeavored to reach the land by means of these floating articles, but. although the distance was very short, nine of them were carried away into midstream by the strong current of the river and drowned. One of the passengers, a man named MitcV ell. from Vicksburg. could not be found, and is supposed to have been locked in his stateroom at the time the steamer went down. The Brown sank within a fe v minutes of the accident, only the top of the pilot house and a portion of the "texas"' being visible. She is a complete loss, and so is her careo. A cabin passenger named Miller, from Vicksburg: one of the cabin crew named William Mitchell, from GalliDolis. Ohio: Jadies' cabin man William * Marshall, of Cincinnati; barber and porter, names unknown, from Cincinnati; James Harrison, second pantryman, from Memphis; William Taylor, night watchman, from Cincinnati; John Bo'an, shiner, from Cincinnati: Suel Grey, fireman, of Cincinnati; Abraham Mitchell, fireman, of New Orleans, were lost. The cabin passeneerssaved were: Dr. Graham and wife of Pawtucket, R. L: Messrs. Donly and Shafer, and another cabin passenper and wife, names unknown, of Boston,and Ben Jolly,of Bavou Paul. A lof the crew, except as ahove stated, are accounted for and saved. One of the cabin bovs eot to the ri ver bank, but could not climb up the slippery mud, fell back into the river and sank before assistance could be rendered him. The Brown left for Cincinnati on Friiay evening at 5 o'clock. Her car^o consisted of about 400 ton3, mainly sugar and molasses, and she picked up about800 tons on the river on the way up. She had fifteen passengers aboard her when she left here. She was Owned by C-irtain A M.Halliday, of New Orleans, and Captain Chris. F. Young, her cleric, who was in command at the time of the accident She was valued at $25,000, and insured for ? 14,000 in the insurance agency of George W. Neare, of Cincinnati. A STRANGE EXPERIENCE. A Man's Hand Held Seven Hours By a Girl In a Trance. Robert Watts, a young farmer from Chatham, 111., who came to Springfield the other day to attend a faith-cure meeting, announces himself quite satisfied with his experience up to the present time. Among the recent converts is Anna Delaney. of Taylors ? twont.v venrs Vine, 11 young v> utuau auvuv j old. Since her conversion she has taken up her residence in Springfield, and in a regular attendant at the afternoon and evening meetings, going into trances upon the slightest provocation. "While in a trance she sometimes walks about the halL At a meeting the other afternoon tne girl was in a trance as usual, and in walking up and down the aisle passed young Watts, who was standing among a croup of sightseers in the rear of the halL As she did so she caught hold of his hand with a grip so firm that although he struggled to get loose lie was unable to do fo. Several men tried to stop the girl, but she continued walking, and Watts was compelled to follow her. It was 4o'clock in the afternoon when Anna took her companion by* the hand, aud it was seven and a-half hours before he regained his freedom. When she walked Watts had to walk, and when she stood he had to stand. All the afternoon nnd evening he suffered as he probably had never suffered before, and wiped great drops of perspiration from his forehead while the faith-cure band prayed, shouted, and sing themselves hoarse. Shortly before midnight ~Mis? Delaney fell to the floor. She wa:<? acXl upon a stretcher, and in about five minutes let ro her hold of Watts, greatly to that individual's relief. The j-ounaj farmer lost no time in getting out of the hall. His hand was swollen so that he was unable to use it for several days. Miss Delauey came out of the trance next day, but bas no recollection of what occurred. TRACHEOTOMY. Two Successful Cases of a Difficult Surgical Operation. One of tbe most remarkable accidents on record occurred a few days since at Greensboro, N. C. A young lad named Orrell, in running through a field, ran against acuckleburr bush, and, as he was urawing in bis breath at the time, one of tbe burrs was inhaled into thelarnyx. producing great pain and danger of immeditatj sulfocation. Physicians wer* summoned and found it necessary to perform tracheotomy so the patient could breathe. At last accounts the boy was doing weJl. Little Annie Riley, aged four, is at the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, in as comfortable a condition as a child can be who had a three-inch shawl pin with a large brass head on the inside of her throat for eleven days. Annie swallowwl the shawl pin on Christmas Day. She did not say anything about it for fear of punishment Hy her mother. So sharp was this fear that when th? doctor was called into her father's house she said it was only a little pin she had swallowed, and that it no longer troubled her. Spasms of coughing continued, however, and the little girl was taken to the hospital. There, as she grew no better, tracheotomy was performed, and a vio ent fit of ccugliing supervening, the tube which had been inserted after the operation was removed. The point of the pin then revealed itself to the astonished doorors. It was easly taken out, and the child will soon be out of the hospital. NEWSY GLEANINGS. For the first time in years the Czar of Russia sent a friendly Christmas greeting to the Pope. The number of war veterans in Vermont is t?71, and the amount yearly paid to them is S!SS2,L01. The drinking saloons in Berlin number one to every 112 inhabitants; in Heidelberg one to eighty-seven. Jim Curky, the Texas desp?ra lo, who has murdered nineteen men,has ut last been sent to prison for a long term. The German army consists of 3,513,4 completely drilled inun not counting me reserves and the LaudMurni. It is reported that one hundred of threading business nicn of Denver. Co!., will .-ittend the inauguration at Washington dressed as cowboj's. Tuf.re are 2*00 members of the Michigan Anti-horse Thief Society, and during the past year they did not have a cent's worth of property stolen. Osman Digna has 1000 men and five guns at Handoub, Egypt, where, it is asserted by deserters, he intends to make another formidable aland against the Egyptians aud blacks. SUMMARY OF C0N6BESS. I The Senate. fl 10th Day.?Mr. Edmunds's resolution in - Vj regard to foreign interference in Central America in the construction of ship caualf H was reported favorably Mr. Sherman re- H ported a resolution calling on the President H for information regarding recent occurrence! H in Hayti....On motion of Mr. Aldricb, the R Senate rules were so ninendod as to includ< M anions the persons ent.tled to the privileges of the floor the President-elect and the VicePresident-elect Mr. Hoar introduced a bill to reorganize and equalize the rank and pa; o' IJaval officers The Tariff bill again discussed. A motion by Mr. Vance tc amend paragraph 323, referring to Hainburj edgings, by reducing the rate from forty-five cents per pound and fifteen per cent, ad va-^H lorem to forty per cent, acl valorem, gav?^H rise 10 aeoace, wnicn was continue} at great length and was participated in by Messrs. Mcrherson, Dawes, Coke, Reagan and Morgan. Mr. Vance's motion was rejected and 1 the bill laid aside. 17th Day.?Mr. Sherman called np the joint resolution declaring the sense of Congress in relation to the counection of European Governments with an interooeanic canal, and nsked that it be passed immediately. After discussion the resolution went over till Monday The Senate resumed consideration of the Tariff bill at the cotton schedule.... Various amendments were offered, but they were all rejected by the usual party vote, and when the paragraph referring to laces was reached the Senate adiournei. 18th Day. ? Mr. Chandler reported % ! resolution (which was referred to the Com- \ mitte on Contingent Expenses) instructing 1 the Committee on the Mississippi River to ? continue its investigations The resolution} reported from the Committee on Foreign < Relations in reference to the Panama Canal,' was then taken up and discussed in secret , session The Edmunds resolution prohib-i iting the interference of any European Gov- ' ernmeut io interoceanic canals on the Amer- ! can Continent was passed, only three votes being cast in the negative. | 15)th Day.?The Postoffice Committee re-ported the bill providing that the omissionto pay the lawful postage on a "special delivery'' letter shall not prevent or delay ite transmission and delivery, but that the lawful postage shall be collected on its delivery, which was passed The Senate then, at 12::-:0, resumed consideration of the Tariff r bill, at paragraph 357, relating to collars and \ cuffs for men's wear, and fixing the duty on , ' those composed entirely of cotton at fifteen- I j cents per dozen pieces and thirty-five per cent, ad valorem, and on those composed en- . tirely or partly of linen at thirty cents per > dozen piece* and thirty-fir? per cent ad valorem. Mr. Vance moved to strike outthose rates, and to insert forty per cent al valorem. The amendment was rejected by the usual party vote?yeas 19. nays 24. No V amendment was offered to paragraph 338, N taxing hemp or jute carpeting six cents per square vara, and it was passed. The bill thenwent over till next day. Mr. Allison giving notice that unless better progress was madewith the bill he would move for evening sessions, or to meet at 11 and sit all 6 or 6:3& p.m.... Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to. make and alter regulations as to the time, place and manner of holding elections for Representatives in Congress. !Wth Day.?The debate on the Tariff bill was continued. A motion to put coal on the f.ee list was discussed. The House. ]Sth Day. ?The House passed the Nicara^' gua Canal bill by a vote or 157 to :U. Therewas no debate, and all the amendmentsadopfed by the Committee of the Whole were ratified by the House except one. The amendment offpred L>v Mr. Wilson, of Minnesota. providing that no certificate of stock shall be issued until at least ten per cent, shall be paid for in money was agreed to Mr. Reed then called up the resolution abolishing the call of States for the introduction of billsfor reference on "sus|.L'ns:on" Mondays. The filibusters resumed their tactics in order t<v defeat consideration of this raeasurs and nothing further was accomplished. I'.hth day.?Mr. Reed calle I up the resolution to abolish for the remainder of the session < the call of States for the introduction of bill* on the first and third Monday of each month. TLe House filibustered over the measure during the entire day's session. 1 pyiith Day.?Immediately after the reading of the Journal the contest over the proposed' change of rules abolishing the call of State* on suspension Mondays was resumed; Mr. Reed calling up the resolution from the Committee on Ru'es. The pending question being on ordering the previous question, the Clerk proceeded to call the roll. Dilatory tactics were resorted to by both sides, ana the filibusters succeded in postponing action for another day. # 21st Day.?The contest over the proposed chance of rules abolishing the call of State* on suspemion Mondays was resumed and oo* ?tin entire Bosnion Tne filibusters again won on a motion to recommit the resolution to change the rules. The vote was 120 yeas to 117 nay p. * :< " I 2Jd Day.?The entire day was consumed in filibustering, nothing whatever being ao complisb'u. ?. V-? SHE FOUGHT WILDCATS. A Pluckv Little Woman's Single* Handed Struggle. On a farm ten miles west of 3Iandan, Dak., lives Charles Casperdone with his family, consiatin-^of a wife and two little boys. On j Sunday night while Mr. Casperdone was afc ' Mandan ihe chicken-roost was visited by. wildcats. When Mr*. Casperdone heard the no.sj she bounced out of bed, grasped an axe and sallied forth. Vj" At the door of the hennery she encountered a wildcat, which spraug at her. catchieg ona of its daws in ht-r left arm and lacerating it . terribly. Pushing the animal away, 6he struck it a blow which rendered it uncon-. scious. Another of the cats sprang at her, seizing the calf of her rieht leg and cutting I it severely with his teeth. Mrs. Casperdone aimed a blow* at the beast, which missed, but I the animal became frightened and ran into tha woods. b Tbe tliir.I cat, which had been crouching H in a corner, then sprang upon tbe plucky H little woman, getting its t^eth entangled in I her clothing and tearing it almost into H j shre.ls. She succeeded in pushing tbe in- B furiated animal from her, and, as it sprang D at her tbrout the second time, dealt it blow which killed it. Mrs. Casperdone was so H overcome that she fell in a faint, and waa H found there by a neighbor who had been H i summoned by one of the ljoys. She is still H | surtering from ber wounds, but will recover H unless blood poisoning sets in. H THE MARKETS. I 2 NEW YOBS. I 1'eeves 3 50 @ 5 10 H Milch Cows. com. to coot.. ,S0 (X) (a50 U) ! La Ives, common to prime.... 0 00 @ y 00 Sheeo 4 ?5 ($ 0 00 H ; Lambs 7 00 (g 7 to H j Hogs?Live 5 30 {jt 5 i.'O H Dressed 0 (?1 B Flour?City Mill Extra. .r? 15 @ 5 -'5 H Patents 5 00 (jj 7 00 H Wheat?^o. Ked 1 0i%<$ \ Q>'y? Rye?Statfl .*?s (g 02 H I Barley?No. 1 b') <j$ 90 H I rorn?Ungraded Mixed.... 38 @ 4f>% H 1 Oats?No. I White ? @ ii)% H Mixed Western su ? oI Hay?No. ) -5 Straw?Long Rye 85 (? 9U I I.ard?City >tearo ? @ 7.tSc Butter?Mate Creamery.... 20 <g 2'$ Dairy fair togood.. 18 @ 20 West. Im. Creamery 17 (<? 22 Factorv 13 @ 20 Cheese?State Factor y 115a Skims?Medium.... 5)iJ@ Western W & 11/4 Kgps? State and Penn 18K@ l'J BUFFALO. Steers?Western S Ji @ 4 00 Sheep?Meit.umto ooo.l ... 4 25 @ 5 00 LaniDs?Fair to (^ooi 5 50 @ K 00 hogs?Good tovhoice ?orks 5 00 @55)' Flour?Family 5 0J @ 5 25 j Wheat? No. u Northern ? (i# 1 21}? Corn?No. !. Wllow 4 ' <g 4)}? ' nrs?No. 2. White ? ?n !>) Farley?State OS Q '0 Mi 1ST' >N*. I lour? ;pring Wheat pat'i. 7 10 @7 5) Corn?Steamer Yul.ow. 43}^'<3 -4<i ] Oats?No. 2 White 'V,(3 C Bye?State 63 @ 64 WATBRTOWJf (MASS.) CATTLE HARKST. f'eef- Dressed weight '/?<?) ' Sheep?Live weight 4>?,<ai 4 | Iambi 4 @ GJ<? j Hogs?Northern ('K O 0% PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn. family 4 4 75 Wheat?No. 2, Red, Jan... J)? Corn?No. 2, Mixed. Jan... 424-j^ Oats?Ungraded White ? @ 3 j Pot<r r.'ar y ho*7... .... ?5 'as 45 Butter?Creamery Extra... ? @ as ] Cheese?Part s^ums ? <jjp 0%