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TEE TROUBLE IN SAMOA. The American Fla? Fired Upon, Torn Down and Burned. ? Number of Americans Stabbed by German Sailors. The trouble in Samoa between the forces cf Mataafa and Tamasese, rival aspirants for power, the latter being indorsed by the Germans, has resulted in a serious affray. A r?nQCAncrpr trhn Yviq inct. orriro/1 of. Son Francisco from Apia, Samoa, on the steamer Alameda, furnishes particulars of the row. He says: "On the night of December 10 nearly 200 German sailors came ashore at Apia and entered the stores, saloons and native houses in search of Americans, Englishmen and half castes. They entered __ the residence of George Scanlon, United States Marshal in Apia He was not in, but the sailors found him and his brother, Morris Snyder, also an American citizen, further up the street, and, starting a quarrel, stabbed both of the Americans in the back. "The Americans escaped to a native church, where their wounds were dressed. The German sailors ran through the streets attacking all persons they met except the Germans Some of Mataafa's soldiers came In from the bush and were anxious to begin shooting, but were urged by United States Consul Blacklock not to fire. "The following day the United States Consul sent a protest to the German Consul, asserting the conduct of the Germans had been outrageous. That same night the Germans attacked the town of Matafogatele and quite a number were killed and wounded on both sides. "On December 20 the German man-of-war Adler bombarded Ladly, which had been evacuated the night before. Thirty-four shells were fired by the Adler and then four boat-loads of sailors landed and burned the village. "The Olga went to Matofogatele December 21 and began firing shells on shore and destroyed the village by fire. The three houses of " E. L. Hamilton, an American citizen, were burned. A large American flag, formerly used for consular purposes, which had been placed on on one of the houses, had been burned by the German men-of-war and then torn down. Fragments of the flap were then taken to Apia and delivered to Consul Blacklock, who has forwarded it to Secretary Bayard. "The German Consul afterward wrote to Consul Blacklock that he had been informed that Americans had led the Mataafa forces on the night of the 1Mb, and fired the first shot. Consul Blacklock replied that he had investigated the rumor and found it to be untrue." The Samoan Times, published at Apia, gives the following version of the fight of December 18: At two o'clock on the morning of Tuesday eighty German sailors from the steamer Olga were landed at Mataafa and forty more were sent in boats along the coast. \ At a German farmer's plantation the sh'ore party were reinforced by all the imported laborers thus employed. This placed King Mataafa with his force between the 200 men who came down the beach the previous day and the German sailors and laborers. Realizing the danger of interfering with the Germans, Mataafa retired inland a few hundred yards. The Germans followed him and fired into his men, killinga son of the chief. This terribly excited the chief, but be was prevented by bis own people from returning the firing of the Germans. While struggling against this opposition the chief was himself shot and fell dead beside bis son. Mataafa's men then, by a common impulse and without orders, returned the fire, jl heir first volley killed six Germans and wounded ?ome others. Several of Tamasese's men then fled, and the laboreis from the plantation refused to fight. '1 he sailors thereupon beat , a hasty retreat to their boats, Mataafa's warriors following them for some distance. Mataafa lost about ten killed and wounded, while the German loss is stated at twenty killed. Among the dead is Lieutenant Beeger. A Washington telegram says: "A copy of the above despatch in regard to the alleged 1 insults to Americans and the American Hag at Samoa by German soldiers was shown to Secretary Bayard this evening. He said the disturbance referred to was undoubtedly the same as that briefly de- i scribed by Consul Blacklock m bis cable i message to the department on the 5th inst. i The Consul's account, he said, was not nearly so sensational as the one just received from . Ban Francisco, but contained later inform.*- j tion, as it told that the Americans who were seized had been released immediately afterward. The Secretary added that the depart- ' ment is in constant communication with Samoa, through its agents, and tbe latest information received is that affairs are quiet, 1 <uiu in at no benoua ir'juuio nas occurrea since the 5tb inst" . i The United States steamship Vandalia has sailed from San Francisco for Samoa. , Origin of the Trouble. The Samoan or Navigator's Islands, are in ' the Southern Pacific, about four hundred miles northeast of the Feejee Islands. They include nine inhabited islands, have an area of 1125 square miles, and have a population of about thirty-six thousand people. The in- ] habitants are fine looking, the women being , equal with the men socially. They are olive in complexion, with straight hair, and many ? have beards. They pratice polygamy, but ' two wives do not live in the same house. They were ruled by native chiefs until 1873, 1 when a special agent was sent there by President Grant In 1878 a native king was elected, and the agent retired. The Ger- > mans subsequently went to th-3 island, and for some time there has been a rivalry be- ] tween the claimants for the supremo authority. j An agreement was made between the Ger- t man, English and American Governments ( that the three should look after the welfare of the Samoans, with the distinct understanding that the islands were under the ' 6pecial protection of this country, by ar- 1 rangement with the people prior to the ad- 1 vent of the English and Germans. The 1 latter, however, have pursued so aggressive I a course since tbey took up stations in those waters, that the Department of State has i taore than once been compelled to protest < It was sd bad at one time that impressive t language was used in Washington, and a meeting was arranged between representa- ] tives of England.Germany and this country, f The German Minister aeain assured the others that his Government would respect the j agreement already entered into, but while he ^ was talking his Government was taking its ^ own way in Samoa. Malietoa, the deposed t King, was taken 10 Africa and brought back s in a German man-of-war, and the Germans ( appear now to be taken sides very actively in the local quarrel. Quite recently Secre- , tary Eaynrd was oblieed to call i he attention ; of the authorities at Berlin to the course of J their representatives in Samoa, but while ? ' here have been lots of assurances that things . would be all right, they have been long all ' wn. ng. That appears to have been the cause J from the start, and whether a change will be J made remains to te Been. t "later newsT An explosion of gas occurred in the Stis- , quehanna coal mine at Nanticoke, Penn. i Seven mine engineers were surveying, when the gas caught from one of their j lamps. Two were killed, three fatally hurt ( and two seriously injured. Willi an C. Smith, aged about thirty- ( two. a teller in the office of the City Treasurer of Providence, R. L, has committed I suicide by shooting himself. He left a f memorandum in his drawer: "Cash shortage, 1 *iow. . A fight occurred between tho Pocahontas ] (Va.) and Elkhorn (W. Va.) miners, in which five white men and two colored men were killed, and several wounded. General William II. Washburn was elected to the United States Senate by tho Minnesota Legislature. 1 Senator Plumb, of Kinsas, has b?on re-e'.ected without opposition. j Reinforcements for tho German fleet at Samoa have left Bremerhaven. A large lira recently occurred on the island of Samoa, and the German Consulate , was among the buildings destroyed. The German gunboat Olga has taken Malie- 1 too, ex-King of Samoa, to the Marshall < Islands is eiila. ' , THE MEWS EPITOMIZEH Eastern and Middle States. The oldest oak tree in America, said to be 2000 years old, at Woodbridge, Conn., is being cut up into chairs. Major-General Charles P. Herring, a Union war veteran, dipd in Philadelphia, in the Wth year of his age." Edward J. Anderson, an old New York lawyer of some prominence, blew his brains out at the Putnam House in New York city. A manvfacttrer of safes in Boston has received an order for a safe for a Philadelphia bank. It will cost $100,000, and will te the largest and heaviest safe ever constructed . Supervisor "William Howells and Assistant Supervisor Cox, of Division C, Pennsylvania .Railroad, were arrested in New York city charged with stealing ?12,000 worth of property from the company. Before help could reach her, Mrs. Anne Sullivan t was burned to a crisp in her resi aence ac naversiraw, xs. x. Isaac Bell, Jr., ex Minister Resident to the Netherlands for tho United States, recently died in St Luke's Hospital, New Y ork city. Mrs. Mary J. Hale, a lady aged sixty years, was killed at Riga, N. Y., by Chris. Burger, a boy aged sixteen years. The murderer killed bis victim with a boot, pounding her head and face to pulp, breaking the froncal bones of the skull and crushing the nose and forehead. The second trial of Cleary. one of the alleged New York "Boodle" Alderman, began a few days since. It has just been discovered that the late Henry P. Marshall, Cashier of the Seamen's Bank"for Savings in New York, and prominent in church circles, died a defaulter and a betrayer of heavy financial trusts. The barge Josephine went ashore at Point Allerton, Mass., with a crew of four men, three of whom were drowned. John McNeill, who lives on a lonely road leading from Shamong Station to Indian Mills, N. J., shot his brother-in-law, James Dellet, Jr. Death was instantaneous. The tug Morse, one of tho finest and largest boats in New England, was stranded off Hull, Mass., in a hurricane. Her tow of two barges was wrecked. Seven lives were lost. The Hull life savers rescued sixteen men. Rather than run the risk of catching yellow fever, five patty officers of the steel cruiser Atlanta, which sailed recently from the Brooklyn Navy Yard for Hayti, deserted. At the annual auction sale of pews in Rev. Dr. Talmage's Tabernacle the first choice brought S5U0. Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, has been re-elected for the third time. Charles L. Rubsamen, a wealthy retired broker, committed suicide at his home in Hoboken, N. J. South and West. One hundred persons have been indicted by the Grand Jury at Parkersburg, W. Va., for illegal voting, bribery and intimidation during the recent election. Adam Berkeley, who was floggod by White Caps near Sardinia, Ohio, last November, has brought suit against sixteen citizens of Brown County, for ?10,000 damages. General W. D. "Washburn succeeds Senator Sabin to the United States Senate from Minnesota. They have been enjoying a cold wave in the Northwest. At Neche, Dakota, the thermometer registered forty-two decrees below zero; at Morris, Minn., it was thirty degrees below. Calvin Bloodgood has been ki'led at the mining town of Sam's Fork, Wyoming, by his wife. A bridge over Green River at 8pottsville, Ky., was wrecked, causing a loss of five lives. The Territorial treasury of Dakota is said to be bankrupt, or ?C5,00J worse off than nothing. Three colored men were killed in a race conflict at Ty Ty, Ga. By a collision between a passenger and freight train at Elmwood, Mich., James H. Macdonald, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan; William S. Cochrane, of Escanaba, and one other man were instantly killed and five seriously injured. Macdonald leaves an estate of $500,000. The deadlock in the West Virginia Senate woo Kmbon Kr t.ho olopfinn c\f R 54 Pnrr An Independent, "as its President Al. Harrison, twenty-one years old, of respectable parentage, was shot dead at Wilson's Landing. Ky.. while burglarizing Wilson's store with several companions. St. Paul, Minn., has lost its principal El ace of amusement, the Grand Opera House, y fira Total estimated loss, 8100,000. Seventy-seven politicians have been iniicted by the Indianapolis Grand Jury for violation of the election law. United States Senator Coke, of Texas, has been re-elected. Senator Cvllom has been re-elected by the Illinois Legislature. The Oregon Legislature has re-elected Senator Dolph. M. W. Ransom, of North Carolina, has aeen reelected United States Senator. Washington. A memorial to the President and Congress of the United States has been adopted . ay the New Mexico Legislative Assembly ay a unanimous vote, praying for the admission of the Territory to the Union of ' States. Tiie collection of internal revenue for the first six months of the current fiscal year > were $03,312,5(55, an increase of $SG8,957 on the corresponding period of the previous ( iscal year. 1 The President has vetoed four private pension bills. the men-or-war vanaana ana iuononga * ie!a have been ordered by the Secretary of :he Navy at once to Samoa, as the condition >f a flairs there is said to be critical. The House has passed the Fortifications Appropriation bill. An amendment appropriating $25,320 for military paraphernalia md officers' quarters at Sandy Hook, N. J., vas adopted. The bill, as passed, appropriates ?'J15,:;20. A movement is on foot tmong political ind personal friends of General Grant to ask )f President-elect Harrison the appointment is Minister to China for Colonel Fred. Grant. The President has nominated Archibald 3. Grimke, of Massachusetts, to be United States Consul at San Domingo, West Indies. President Ingalls, of the United Statts senate, has refused to receive the electoral rotes of Texas, Maryland and Delaware, as lelivered to him by the messengers, owing o some clerical irregularities, lhis necesitates a reconvening of the Electoral .'ol leges of those States. The Harrison and Morton Inauguration Committee has decided that the Inauguraion ball shall be practically repeated for hree nights after inauguration day. The jail room in the court of the Pension Buildng will be thrown open to the public on the lights of March 5, C and 7. An admission ee of $1 will be charged. All the gorgeous lecorations and the music of the inauguraion night will be repeated. s George O. Jones, Chairman of the National Committee of the National Green- E back party, has issued a call for a general r conference of National Greenbackers, to r meet at Washington on March C. Fouk examiners and five samplers in the New York Appraiser's office have been re- r moved by Secretary of the Treasury Fair- s child. The cause of the removal is said to j, fce disregard of the orders of the Secretary, 'c who has been personally investigating tne Dffice. j The Army Retiring Board has reported , that General Swaim, now under sentence of ] suspension, is not incapacitated for further j service. ( Thk annual convention or the national Woman Suffrage Association has just been ( held in Washington. , Foreign. The fund to pay the expenses of Mr. rarnell in ln's litigation with the London 2\nirs amounts to more than ?150,000. Pom ions of Scotland have been visited , by an earthquake. i Two men were blown to atoms by an ex- t plosion of dynamite at Slierbrooke, Quebec, 1 L'anada. < a young woman and man from Lyons were found dead in a room in a hotel at ] Monte Carlo. In a letter to a friend they ] said they had suffered losses at the gaming i tables, and intended to commit suicide to- c getber. t A portion of the imperial Palace at Pekin, ? Uhina, has been burneu down. . ? i^mmmmm An explosion of fire damp occurred in the Hyde Colliery near Manchester, England. There were 107 miners at work at the time, and of these twenty-five were killed. The Czarina of Russia is said to be insane. Admiral Monts, Chief of the German Admiralty, is dead. Mr. Robert Seymour, Vice-Consul of the United States at Queens town, Ireland, is dead. A schooner making a trip to Skidepate, British Columbia, sprung a leak and sank. Eight Indian passengers were drowned. The captain, a white boy and seven White Boy Indians escaped. Three hundred houses were destroyed in the Sarabat Valley, Asia Minor, by an earthquake. Seven persons were killed bv a fall of rock in a tunnel at Abergwynfi, Wales, A. British cruiser has been sent to Samoa to protect England's interests there. A RIOT occurred at an election campaign meeting held in Paris. Sticks were freely used and twenty persons were injured. During the progress of the meeting frequent cheers were given for General Boulanger. The German warship Eber, which left Samoa on January S, has arrived at Auckland. The officers denounce the reports sent from Apia by way of San Francisco, and declare that the statements regarding the alleged tearing down of American flags, burning of houses of Americans and firing on British officers are unfounded. Eleven native policemen, headed by a British officer, in a conflict with a party of Warboys at Sulymah, West Africa, killed 131 of the enemy with a Maxim gun. United States Minister Phelps had his last official conference with Lord Salisbury, the British Prime Minister. OFFICERS AGAINST MOB. Fatal Battle Between Citizens and a Sheriff's Posse. Between 10 and 11 o'clock at night Deputy United States Marshal Johnson started to remove six prisoners from the jail in Graham, Texas, to the jail at Weatherford. The prisoners were the four Marlow brothers, ueld for murder, and two men named Hart .ind Pierce, held for offences against the Government. For several weeks threats of lynching the four brothers have been made. They were desperate men, and were charged with every crime in the calendar. On Uecember 17 the sheriff of Willbarger county placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Wallace of Young county a warrant for the arrest of Boone Marlow. Marlow had been in jail charged with offences committed in the Indian Territory, and had been released on bond, when Wallace received a warrant to rearrest him on the charge of murder. Wallace found Boone Marlow at his brother's house eating dinner. The deputy sheriff ordered him to throw up his hands, and he replied with a Winchester rifle,shooting Wallace, who died in two days. Boone Marlow escaped, but his brothers were arrested as accessories. The four brothers broke jail recently, but were recaptured. Then it appears that the mob determined to take the law iuto their own hands and hang the brothers. Deputy Marshall Johnson received orders to convey the four Marlow brothers and two prisoners, Hart and Pierce, to the Parker county jail at Weatherford for safe keeping. He started with the six prisoners under a strong guard at ten o'clock that night. Tiio people soon heard of the fight and a mob of nearly 100 collected and started in pursuit They overtook the guard and Erisoners four miles from town and a redot fight followed. The prisoners were defenceless, and a hand-to-hand fight took place. Then some one shot one of the Marlows, and two of the guards opened fire on the mob. Two of the Marlows snatched guns from the guards and poured n deadly fire into the lynchers. The marshal's guard retreated behind trees, and the prisoners scattered. Over 200 shots were fired. Four of the would-be lynchers were killed and three wounded. Two of the Marlows were killed and the other two escaped, but are believed to be badly wounded. The prisoners, Hart and Pierce, also escaped. The brothers made a hard fight, and if properly armed would have killed a Rcore of their assailants The guard did not fire into the mob, but over their heads. The prisoners saw this, and one of the brothers said: "We know we are gone, boys, but give us a chance to fight" Three of the guards then handed their guns to the brothers and told them to nght. I he moo went in pursuit of the prisoners. THE LABOB WORLD. Tack machines make 275 per minute. The coopers are to form a National Trade Union. Austrian cotton operatives get $4.30 to I9.C0 per week. Philadelphia's working people are contented and prosperous. New York has a $000,000 order from South America for locomotives. The Lehigh Valley Railroad has ceased almost entirely the use of soft coal. Thirteen' cotton mills in and around Augusta, Ga., employ 4o00 persons. The boot and shoe makers produce an iverago of five pail's daily per operator. Aiiout 150,000 carbons are burned daily in the eiectric lights used in the United States. There are 350 skilled tack workers in America. They make from $150 to $250 per month. National Disthict Assembly 217,Knights of Labor, which once numbered 10,(JUL) iron workers, has collapsed. There are SO,000 men in the Stationary Engineers' Association. The union was "ormed in New York in 1SS2. Cal;fornia fruit growers complain of the scarcity 01 lie a jauurcrs since me vuiuese estriction bill went into effect. Carpenters in Toronto, Cana la, get $3.50 io $5 per day, while bricklayeis, plasterers , ind stone masons are paid ?0 per day. Thkke are about 70,Out) lace makers in Normandy,and in all France there are nearly 200,000 women engaged in this industry. The Order of Railway Telegraphers is exclusively beneficial, and imposes expulsion jpon any member participating in a strike. An iron factory in Buffalo. N. Y., which las been shut down for over twelve years, , ;vill soon start up with a force of two hun- j lred men. There were three firms in the United . states during 1SSS which built over two hunIred locomotives each, and seven which built iver one hundred. The Chinese are getting lamp chimneys roin the United (States. A Pittsburg firm , ecently shipped to China 100J boxes of | hem, or 6000 dozen. s Paul Misoxxe, a Belgian who recently s lied at the age of ninety, had been in the . ;ervice of the coal mining corporation of f A.merca?ur for seventy-seven years. Peace has been secured for the year in the ] nills of Fall River, Mass., by the action of he Spinners1 Union in accepting the new chedule drawn up by the mill owners. 1 Hamilton & Brown of St. Louis demand ( i deDosit of $50 from every workman as a 1 ;uarantee that he will not leave without living two weeks' notice. If lie has not that um they hold back $1 per week. The Rev. George Guirey, a Baptist clergynan of Paterson, N. J., recently delivered a ermon in which be advocated the passage of i "general law fixing the minimum of wages >f a hard-working man at $2 a day." The marine engineers have concluded at Baltimore the labors of their fourteenth anliinl i-nnvunfinn ('hnrlpstnn. R_ f>._ WflSHW ected as the place, niul the first Monday in 1 fanuary, lS'JO, as the time for the neit annual invention. The Burlington railroad strikers have re eivod an official copy of the agreement by i vhich the strike was terminated, and were >rderod by the Grievance Committee to report for work to the Burlington oflicials before February 1. The Workingmen's Society of New York 1 ;ity has hit upon a plan to aid poor sewinpvomen and others. It will adopt a "fair vages label," which will be lurnisbed to nanufacturers who pay wages enough to tnable working girls and women to live lappily. The society also proposes to entourage buyers to purchase goods bearing ;he new label. 1 The employes of the New York Elevated , Railroads have a very strong organization. Svery member who is sick or out of work low receives $7 a week until he is able to ac- J ?pt a paying position. The plan has strucK , ,he employes of Philadelphia street-railway j ompanies so favorably that they propose to , idopt a similar one. ; TAKIFF BILL PASSED. The Senate Adopts the Substitute for the Mills Bill. Scenes in the Chamber During the Final Vote. By a strict party vote of thirty-two to thirty the United States Senate, at two min utes btfore eijiht p. M., adopted the amended substitute of the Finance Committee for the Mills bill, passed by the House July 21, 18S8. The Senate substitute was reported to the Senate on October 2, and engaged the attention of that body until the adjournment of the first session, and has occupied its attention most of the time since Congress reassembled in December. While several Democratic Senators, notably Senators Brown and Payne, voted with the Republicans for a number of amendments proposed by the Finance Committee, they joined their party associates in voting against the substitute itself. The fact that a vote was to be taken drew to the Capitol a very large crowd of people and the Senate galleries were thronged all the afternoon. The scene in and about the Senate Chamber during the last hours of the consideration of the bill was an animated and attractive one. It was known that all debate must close at 5 o'clock and voting on the amendments begin. Just before that hour the galleries began to fill up with the great crowd of the people who in Washington will always turn out for any kind of entertainment The ladies were present in great force and several social parties were made up to experience the novelty of a night session. Members of the House came flocking over and rapidly filled up the sofas from which President Ingalls, by a recent order, has excluded the employes of the Senate. All of the amendments proposed by the Finance Committee were adopted, and they included several of great importance. There was also adopted, on motion of Senator numb, a provision lor tne appointment 01 a permanent commission on the tariff. Among the amendments adopted was one increasing the rates on oranges, lemons, limes, etc., from twenty-five to thirty-three per cent, according to the bulk of the packages. At (i o'clock the Senate had thinned out so that less than a quorum was present. A flood of amendments was then poured in by Senators Call, Morgan, Vest ana George. Roll call after roll call was demanded, until the Senate lost its patience and the presiding officer enforced the rule which requires that a demand for the yeas and nays shall be sup? ported by one-fifth of the Senators present. Among the amendments offered by Senator George was one to place on the free list the tools imported for the use of workingmen. Since December hearings have also been granted to the representatives of many industries, and the result has been some important modifications of the substitute as originally framed. These changes are noted below: Mr. Aldrich's amendment to insert in Paragraph 301 the words, '"white pine $1.50 per 1000 feet, board measure." was agreed to. Mr. Vest's motion to admit pine clapboards free of duty was rejected, Senators Brown and Call voting against it. Mr. Aldrich's motions to insert after Paragraph 209 the words: "Heeds, 10 per cent, ad valorem; chair cane. 15," and to increase the rate on sawed boards of mahogany, etc., from 15 to -0 per cent ad valorem, were agreed to. Mr. Vest moved to put on the the free list wood unmanufactured and sawed boards of mahogany, etc. Rejected, yeas 21: nays 30. Mr. Sherman offered a proviso (which was agreed to) to Paragraph 207 taxing fresh fish 1-3 cent p?r pound; that the duty shall not apply to fresh fish caught by citizens of the United States on the high seas or in the open waters of the lakes forming a boundary between the United States and Canada. Numerous amendments from the Finance Committee were agreed to as follows: Reduc mg ttoe duty ou nicKei in ore irosn o to & cents per pound, and on nickel in matte from 10 to 5; reducing the duty on cocoa matting from 10 to 8 cents per square yard; and on cocoa mats from 5 to 4 cents per square foot Inserting in Paragraph 417 (which imposes a duty of 35 per cent ad valorem on manufactures of leather, guttapercha, eta) the words "vulcanized India rubber, known as hard rubber." The amendment to Paragraph 402 ^elating to gloves) was agreed to. Paragraph 412 (calf Rkins, etc.) was amended by increasing the ad valorem rate on sheep and goat skins from 120 to 25 per cent, and on skins for morocco from 10 to 15 per cent. The amendment to Paragraph 3^1 (as to stockings, hose, eta) was agreed to. The rice paragraph was finally amended by making the rates i 1-2, 1, 1-2 and 1-4 cents on cleaned, uncleaued, paddy and broken rice. An amendment putting rough diamonds, etc., on the free list was agreed to. The amendments were disposed of right and left, Mr. Ingalls wielding the functions of the chair with lightning rapidity, and the reading clerks performing their duties with the celerity of machinery. There were no speeches delivered and no demonstrations were given of approval or disapproval, either on the floor of the chamber or in ihe galleries. At last all the amendments were disposed of. Mr. Allison now moved the vote upon the bill as amended. J t was exactly 8 o'clock. The doorkeeper, from his post beside the President pro tempore of the Senate,sounded the electric call bells in all of the committee rooms, document rooms, the corridors and restaurant, announcing that a roll call was about to bo taken. The Senators were all in their seats except ing Mr. Allison, who stood beside his desk, awaiting the finalitv. It was very generally understood on the floor that the vote would be a party one, but as each name was called, ntn?a ii*v\n tlm Qnnnfah Kofnrn lin cjca Tfvr* d tuiucu upvii uuo i^&uuwi i/viviv uu responded. '1 he amendments agreed to m Committee of the Whole were agreed to, the date on which the biJl was to go into effect was changed from February 1 to July 1, and, amid considerable excitement, the final vote was taken, and the bill w as passed by a vote of 32 to :J0. FIVE BODIES IN THE RUINS. \ Woman and Four Children Killed and Their Home Burned Tlio houso of Mrs; Minnie Hall, a young vidow living four miles south of Brookfield, tfd., was burned down on a recent night. When the neighbors gathered there they "ound the charred remains of the five jeeupants. The eldest child was nine years jld and the youngest about two. There aeing fresh snow on the ground, it was discovered that hay had been placed around the house and fire set :o. The tracks of a man's feet were ;een leading toward the city. This clue reiulted in the arrest of a young man named James A. Howell, at the Bobb Hotel. Howill held in his possession an unloaded revolver. He was going to take the early morning train, so he said, for Laclede and would walk from there south to the Prairie Mound school-house neighborhood, where he bad been teaching. Howell is a cousin of the woman burned to fleath. Public opinion inclines to the theory that the woman aied of malpractice,and that Howell shot the four children and set fire to the house to cover his crime. He had for some time been spending Saturdays and Sundays with the murdered family. The prisoner is twenty-four years oH. He says he is innocent and knows nothing about the crime. MISSIONARIES KILLED, Tragic Scene at a German Station In uast aiuuu, The Arabs have destroyed the German missionary station at Tugu, fifteen miles nest of Dar-Es-Salem, in Africa. A majority of the slaves captured by the German man-of-war Leipzig were lodged at the Btation. One missionary succeeded in escaping from the Arabs, but eight others were massacred. Three bodies, one of them that of a woman, wero found mutilated in a barbarous manner. The Arabs carried off the servants and slaves at the station. The French missionary stations, especially those situated near Tugu, are in imminent danger. The Arabs who are now joining in the slave trade come principally from Kilwa and Lindi, and aro richer and more influential than Bushiri, and are likely to overshadow him. These accessions to the ranks of the slave traders will have the effect of roInvigorating the revolt, which would have 2ied out if the Germans had not retained Bogamoyo and Dar-Es-Salem. .- ... SUMMARY OF CONGBESS, The Senate. 28th Day.?The Senate resumed consideration of the Tariff bill, the pending question being on the amendment reported from the Finance Committee, allowing a bounty of one cent per pound on sugar produced from beets, sorehum. and suear cane crown in the United States. Mr. Reagan opposed the *7iendment. Messrs. Mitchell, Teller, and Dawes spoke in support of the bounty. Finally the discussion was closed, and the vote taken on the sugar bounty amendment. It was agreed to by a vote of 27 to 23, party lines being maintained on it, except in the case of Mr. Payne, who voted with the Republicans, and Mr. Quay, who voted with the Democrats against it 29th Day.?Tne Tariff bill was further discussed. The Finance Committee's amendment reducing the duty on table and other knives valued at not over $1 a dozen from 20 cents a dozen to 15 cents and 80 per cent ad valprem was adopted without debate....The annual report of Governor Swineford on the operations of the Alaska Commercial Companv 'was presented... Mr. Blair introduced a bill for tne construction of four semi-submerging jtorpedo boats, with armored, protected, deflective decks.... In accordance with a Senate resolution Secretary Fairchild transmitted to that body a copy of the manuscript! report of frauds in sugar in New York and Philadelphia. i 30th Day.?The Senate bill to authorizo the Omaha, Fort Dodge and Southern Railway Company to buila its road across the Fort Hayes Military Reservation in Kansas was passed.... The Senate at 11:80 took up the Tariff bill, and Mr. Allison asked unanimous consent to have the debate limited by the ten minute rule after 3 o'clock. The question being on the amendment offered by Mr. Brown, increasing the rates on rice, Mr. Morgan made a speech on that subject, and was followed by Messrs. Butler and Aldrich. Mr. Aldrich said that while the present duty on rice was 113 per cent ad valorem, and while it would be fifty per cent under the substitute, the duty on woolen clothing was only forty per cent above the duty on woo!. The amendment to place wool on the free list was defeated. Oiai I'AI. "" v tuiuuo ujoijivi icaio iroio pro" | .sented... .The Senate at 11:30 resumed con- J sideration of the Tariff bill?the pending j question being the amendment offered by iMr. Reagan to the wool sectioa Mr. Reagan made an argument in favor of changing jthe duty on all grades and kinds of wool to twenty-five per cent ad valorem. After remarks by Mr. Turpie against, e nd by Mr. Harris for the amendment, a vote was taken jand it was rejected. Yeas, twenty-two, inays, thirty-one. Mr. Vance then moved a proviso that no article in the wool and woolen ischodule should pay a rate of duty exceeding Seventy-five per cent, ad valorem. Rejected; yens, twenty-seven; nays, thirty-three. A final vote was then taken and the bill was (passed by a strict party vote of 32 to 30. 3'Jd Day. ?On motion of Mr. Hoar the jeonenrrent resolution for the counting of the ielectoral vote was passed....On motion of Mr. Sherman, the bill to declare unlawful trusts and combinations in restraint of trade and production was taken up for consideration, and amended....Amendments to the Diplomatic and Consular bill were reported, appropriating ?500,000 for a coaling station in the Samoan Islands. The House. 80th Dat.?The consideration of the Territorial bills was resumed, the pending question being on the MacDonald substitute for the Springer Omnibus bill. The substitute was rejected?yeas, 117; nays 122. Mr. Springer then offered an amendment to the Omnibus bill, providing for a division of Dakota. Debate over this consumed a large part of the day. The Springer ''Omnibus" bill wcus finally adopted as a substitute for the Senate bill for the admission of South Dakota, by a vote of yeas MS, nays 120; this bill admits South Dakota and Montana. SIst Day.?The Fortifications Appropriation bill was passed in Committee of the Whole....The Ford Investigating Committeo reported an Immigration bill, which was placed on the calendar. 32d Day.?Mr. Vandever.of California, introduced a joint resolution requesting the President to'open negotiations with th? Republic of Mexico for the cession of Lower California to the United States.... After a half-hour of debate the rules were suspended bv a vote of lf>4 to 7G, and a "continuing order" was made under which the Oklnhoma bill is to be considered for four hours by the Committee of the Whole, at the expiration of which time the House is to vote on the bill. 33d Day.?When the Clerk finished the rending of the journal, Mr. Crisp called up, as a privileged matter, the contested election case of Smalls vs. Elliott The House refused ?yeas 100, nays 100?to consider the election case.... After a delay of half an hour, caused by filibustering tactics, the House went into Committee of the Whole, Mr. McMillin in the Chair, on the River and Harbor Appropriation bill. 34tji Day.?Immediately after the reading of the Journal the House went into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Dockery in the chair, on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Mr. Landes raised a point of order against the clause of the bill providing that . for the use of the steam presses in the Bureau of Kngraving and Printing a royalty shall l>e paid not exceeding one cent per thousand impressions. This clause occupied the atten UUU U1 LUU UUUjr UUHU^ IUU cui/iiu kxiaj LYNC5INGS. A Number of Desperadoes Executed by Mobs. Henry Thomas, a farmer in the town of Bo'ar, Mercer County, Mo., had four daughters, Hattie, Margaret, Nancy and Jane, ages sixteen, eighteen, twenty and twenty-two respectively. Last Wednesday night Samuel and Charles Hasburn, brothers, procured a ladder and helped Margaret and Jane out of a secondstory window of their father's house. As they were about to elope with the girls, the old man appeared on the scene, but too late to prevent their escape. He mounted the best horse he had and with a shotgun started in pursuit. About twelve miles from home he overtook the fleeing partv. He immediately opened fire on them, killing both the boys and seriously wounding Margaret. After getting nearly home with the girls he was told that the other two, Hattie an.1 Nancy, had also eloped with "Ned" Gleason and Thomas Allison. He at once left the girls he had with him in charge of some neighbors and started after the others. After securing the other two girls without nny serious trouble, he starte 1 back, but when about two miles from home a mob strung him up to a tree. The old mart was strict with the girls. He would hardly let them out of his sight, hence the elopement. He always bragged that he would not be I bothered with lazy sons-in-law. AC i lptonvme, ienn., a ian<unji on sne Mississippi >river, about oue hundred and fiftv nules north of Memphis, some weeks ago a young man married the J daughter of Mrs. J. F. Atcheson, a widow. The young man's father learning that his son's mother-in-law pos- ' sessed $300 or $400 concocted the plan for him, his son and the young wife to murder the old lady for the purpose of robbery. The ' plan was agreed to and the crime was com- . mittod. The neighbors learned of the crime, fixed , the guilt upon the trio and the latter hastily j departed. A posse of indignant citizens j followed, overtook and hanged the entire j party to the limb of a tree. A PALACE AFIRE. i Enormous Loss by the Burning of the Chinese Emperor's Home. The fire which broke out in the im- a porial palace at Pekin, China, on the 17th was still raging three days afterward. The * loss is enormous. The palace enclosure is a v city in itself, and about a quarter of it Is in P flames. The great audience hall, with its f elaborate ornaments and valuable works of ' ! art, is destroyed. The treasury building and J most of its contents are in ashes. Whole 1 - * -? -T i i StrCPlS Ol Ullltca, o wivuuuooi anu i cniuoiucs of ollicials of the court have been swept s away. The quarter of the palace in which * the Emperor and Empress Mother lived was 1 saved, but the panic was terrible. Their Jj Majesties were hastily conveyed to the ? fortress, at a safe distance from tlie flames. * The palaces and warehouses were heaped c with costly stuffs and treasures, which had ' been accumulated in preparation for the * marriage of the young Emperor. Immense ' quantities were destroyed. The loss far ex- P ceeds that of the looting of the summer 0 palace by the English thirty years ago. M The calamity has had a depressing effect ^ on the superstitious Chinese. It is regarded as an evil omen, having occurred in the midst of the preparations for the wedding e festivities of the Emperor. The marriage I f will have to be postposed is consequence of I fc the disaster. i \ IIM i WORK OF TIE WIRES Some Notable Happenings Transmitted by Telegraph. A Bill to Admit Five New States : Passes the House. i The House has passed the bill for the admission of North and South Dakota, Mon tana, Washington and Isew Mexico, by a vote of 144 yeas to 98 nays. All the Democrats j voted for the bill, as did also quite a number of Republicans. ; It provides, in brief, for the admission of two new States, South Dakota and Montana, and that North Dakota, Washington and New Mexico may be admitted after they . have formed and adopted State Constitutions, and whenever Congress shall have passed special acts in their oehalf?that is, at soma indefinite date in the future. The main provisions of the measure are as follows: South Dakota is to be entitled to ] two Representatives in Congress,and is to be i admitted into the Union upon proclama tion by the President, provided that ( at an election to be held on November 5,1889, a majority of the voters of North Dakota and South Dakota, voting separately, shall decide in favor of division; and that the Constitution of 1885 shall be ratified by a majority of the voters of 1 South Dakota. If either North Dakota or South Dakota shall vote against division, neither of them will have any separate i status, and Dakota Territory is to be ad- i mitted as a single State, if at all, under this i measure. In other words, Montana, in that case, will be the only actual beneficiary. i Montana is to be admitted upon proclama- < tion, if a majority of the voters at the elect- , tion on November 5,1889, shall ratify the Constitution of 1884. The Territories of New Mexico and Wash- ' ington are authorized to elect delegates and hold constitutional conveutions and frame and adopt constitutions. but the fledgling States are to be kept 1 out of the Union until Congress by ' special acts shall open the door and admit 1 inem. i>ortn jjaKoca is to nave me same < privileges, provided that both North and South Dakota vote for division, but not < otherwise. It will be observed that the ad- < mission of Montana under the bill deoends on i a single condition? the ratification i of the old constitution adopted five years ago, while the admission of South Dakota j depends not only upon the ratification of the | constitution of 188.), but also upon a majori- j ty in favor of division in North Dakota as j well as in South Dakota. Veterans In Politics. A number of leading Republican ex-sol- 1 diers, members of the G. A. R. and Union 1 Veteran Union, have organized themselves ] at Bloomington, 111., into Camp No. 1 of a new organization, to be known as the Re- ; Eublican Soldiers' League of the United tates, and have chosen Colonel John Reed j President. The object of the organization is j openly political. It is founded for the ex press purpose of concentrating the political j power or the Republican soldiers of the Union. Organizers will be chosen at once , to introduce the Order throughout the State and the United States. ! A dispatch from Fort Dodge, Iowa, says: xue movement ior me organization 01 a society of Democratic veterans of the war is ' not confined alone to Indiana. Steps are be- * ing taken for the organization of a camp in , this county, and eighty-one members of the proposed organization have already been ob- 1 tainedL His Wife Was Petrified. A remarkable case of what is alleged to be petrification has just come to light. Sixteen years ago a half-breed named Kolade buried his wife about twenty miles from Winnipeg, Manitoba. A few days ago he exhumed the remains, intending to carry them to another burying place. Lpon opening the coffin the body was found perfectly preserved, the eyes and mouth being partly open and the hair quite black and natural. When an attempt was made to lift tbe body it was found quite impossible, as it was completely petrified. Examination showed that a small | spring of alkali water had been running through the coffin, and the action of the water on the remains had caused petrification! Assistance was procured, and the body was raised to the surface and transferred to the city where it was weighed. The weight was found to be 700 pounds. i A Relic of the Revolution. j The old blast furnace at the Oxford Iron Works. Oxford. N. J., is beine torn down to give way to modern improvements. The furnace is one of the oldest relics in the ( county, and was erected over a century ago. It is the oldest stack in New Jersey, and rendered valuable service in manufacturing ? ammunition for the Revolutionary War. New Panama Canal Company. The Banque Parisienne has assumed the ' entire cost of the issue and constitution of the new Panama Canal Company, but it j stipulates that after the opening of tho canal it shall receive annually one per cent, of the . net profits. CONGRESSMAN BURNESDEAD < Stricken With Paralysis in the 1 House and Soon Expires. . Mr. James N. Burnes, Representative in Congress from the Fourth District of j Missouri, died at a quarter to one a. m. in j ' Washington. Mr. burnes was stricken with paralysis the* 1 day before at the Capitol. Tne first j 1 symptom of the approaching attack was experienced when Mr. Butterworth in tbe | I House called Mr. Burnes's attention to a j 1 passage of the Sundry Civil bill, then under consideration. * j Mr. Burnes then remarked that his tongue j appeared to be affected so that he had great difficulty in speaking. Noticing that his face appeared to be somewhat drawn on the left j 7 side, Mr. Butterworth insisted on Mr. Burnes j 1 accompanying him into tho fresh air on the east portico. r Mr. uurnes in a s^urw uujo cApmsm mm- ; ? self as feeling better and went to the room of j the Committee on Appropriations, where be j B was induced to take some stimulants and lie j] upon a sofa. He soon bejjan to breathe in a labored manner and to lose con- ? seiousness. Messrs. Gallinger, Atk inson and Shaw, who are physicians as well as Representatives, were hastily summoned from the hall and a messenger was a'so despatched for . Dr. Sowers, who has been attend ng Mr. i Burnes during the winter. Tho physicians f labored with their pntienc for an hour or J; more when he suddenly expired. ^ Mr. Burnes wns a resident: of St. Joseph. J He was born in Indiana August V3. 1838. his 4 parents removing to Piatt County, Mo., T in 1SI17. He was a graduate of the * Harvard Law School in tho class ^ )t 1H53. Appointed Circuit Attorney } n 1S50, he was a Presidential elector on the I Buchanan and Breckinridge ticket the same f rear. From l&W to liJ7:i he was Judge of the V Common Pleas Court He had been a mem- * jer of Congress since December, 1S81, hav- r ng been elected as a Democrat g FISHTING A ROOSTER I L'errlblo Strujjjjle of a Child "With a Huge Plymouth Rock. While driving out on the prairie road. ear South Bend, Ind., Orlando Martin Heard he screams of a little child near the farm of ^ lenrj Kale. Martin at once got out of his g ehicle and ran into the yard, and was sur- y irised to se9 a large Plymouth Rock rooster I tanding over the prostrate form of a little girl ? The rooster was crowing in triumph, and as j Jartin approached he saw that the cock had teen fighting tuo little girl, who was lying on (; ler back with her hands over her face and (j creaming from pain and fear. Her hands, j vrists and face were covered with blood. The rooster had savagely attacked her anil t, lad attempted to get at her eyes, as was ovi- ^ lent from the spur marks on the child's r ace. Martin's arrival had been timely, as the o hild was almost exhausted from her* contest rith the rooster. The little girl's name is Sthel, and she is two and a half years old. E Yhile her mother was engaged in a remote S lace the child had started out to hunt eggs L nd had the encounter with the enraged H owl. Her injuries are severe, but it is bought her eyesight will not be impaired. p ? V The first sample of silky-leaved tobacco of C xcellent quality has arrived at Hamburg 0 rom the Cameroons, Africa. Good news P as also been received from the cocoa and B anilla plantations. J CI i wmn I pmbhmbmmmhmbmmbhmhmi MUSICAL AND DBAMATIO. Mas. Langtry is writing ber life. < Edwin Booth is worth $1,000,000. Italian opera is dead in this country. Fred Warde, the Florences and Dixey are in the West There are fewer pantomimes than usual In London this year. Mary Anderson never refuses a photographer's request for a sitting. . Emperor William, of Germany,is to heal two of Wagner's operas in private. Will 8. Rising, the comic opera tenor, it to be starred next season in a musical comedy. The New England Conservatory of Mutl< is asking the Massachusetts Legislature for I grant of 1300,000. Patti, at the end of her present tour, wfljH probably return to the Paris grand opera and remain there for good. Walter s. Mathews, the young Louis-* viMe actor, is said to have memorized "Ham-a let"* entire wben only fourteen. There are over 20,000 young women Jafl Great Britain studying music with the ideaV of some day blossoming into stare. A Ihre Kiralfv will present his spectacular? pieces, "Mazulm" and "Excelsior," in the CitjS of Mexico during the present season. N " An infant pianist, five years old, who playM Chopin wonderfully and is named fiaowH Koczalski, has appeared in St. Petersburg9 Russia 9 "Annie Brunfl" a German dramatizafl tlon of William Black's novel, "In Silk AtH tire." has been very successfully produced a^H Antwerp. , > Clara Louise Kellogg is suffering fronfl a broken collar bone, due to a fall on th^l stage of a Syracuse (N. Y.) theatre. She ha^H to sing with her arm in a sling. 9 Marie Van Zandt, the American prinuH donna,has had an immense success in Llsbon9 where she appeared as Roeina in the "Baruo^l of Seville." She goes thence to Madrid. *9 The will of John Leeter Wallack, thq9 actor, has been filed by his widow, Emitol Mary Wallack, who is made an executri r.M All nis property is given to his wife for lifft The city authorities of Worcester, Mast, I recently forbade the appearance of aal accomplished female whistler at a SundaV concert, unless she agreed to whistle sacred^ music. . -'V&yH rtrrwnn Rt.ttt fVia vnndarfnl llHla maffib :ian who amused the boys and girls of th country, thirty years ago by his perform mces.has just been sent to the insane asyltm at Harrisburg, Penn. ... Young Coningsby Disraeli,the nephew an heir of the late Earl of Beaconsneld, ha been achieving great success as the leadin low comedy man of Lady Folkstone's amateur theatrical entertaimentin London. , ^ Wire curtains are now used when Jame Owen O'Conor, the "uncrushed tragedian, ippears on the stage. These protect fain from recurring blizzards of decayed veget* bles which the gallery gods contribute for tiis spocial benefit ' (?/!! Opera is rather curiously performed at Buda-Pesth, the capital of Hungary. M. Lasalle, the famous baritone, has been sluging his part in Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine" H the French tongue, the prima donna lz Italian, the other principals in German ant the chorus in Czech. Nat. C. Goodwin, who is now playing ij Philadelphia, has refused the largest' salary ?ver offered an American actor. The Ne*( York Casino Company, desiring to haVehfcfa take the place of Francis Wilson, who leave! the company next stetson to star for himself, offered him $36,000 a year of fifty weeks* with a guarantee of the same for three yeara The offer was refused, as Goodwin has outlide interests to attend to. NEWSY GLEANINGS.\ 1 India has 14,191 miles of railway. < Montreal is building a fine ice palace. The Nile is lower than ever before n cordedThere is a boom in silk cnltnre in Call luruiu, France has become a large buyer oH wheat B Last year pneamonia killed 450 people Cincinnati. , W The Cincinnati police arrested 15,907 pe^H sons in 1688. D Rhode Island business failures last yea9| numbered 132. , fl9 Berlin tram-cars carry annually nearlS| 10,000,000 passengers. M Canada dairymen are giving increasoJH attention to cheese-making. B The Tripoli,of the Italian nary,is the nex^B fastest vessel to our Vesuvius. W The fishery dispute between France anfl^ Newfoundland is growing bitter. B, The yield of wine for the season of 1588 i^B California was 17,000,000 gallons, The unusually mild weather has npset a^H :alculations in the butter market. A stringent anti-trust bill has been intrc^H luced in the Nebraska Legislature. B New Orleans is going to have an ezhib^H tion building constructed of cotton. _ . Austria, Germany and Italy are ail adopj^H Ing the Lee pattern of magazine rifles. H There are now sixty-four "wet" an^H leventy-four "dry" counties in Georgia. HI Six Illinois railroads during 1SS8 failed t^H ?arn enough to poy operating expenses. HR The tobacco crop of the United Stafc^B iverages about 50-J.000.00J pounds a year. The consumption of tea in Great BritaJ^H ncreased over 8,000,000 pounds during 188'^H The exports of apples from America^? x>rts for the season have been 1,04(5,740 ba^H -els. IB Chicago Board of Trade clearings fc^H .898 were $105,758,105 against $75,1708(0 .887. . The receipt? of live poultry at New Yor^H >y freight during 18&> amounted to 791 ci^H oads. BH The output of American copper mines f<^H 888 was 5-4,275 tons of mineral against 47,6.^H a 18S7. K Massachusetts has just placed a loa^^B vith New York bankers at 2.9-10 per cen^H nterest. BH Lord Sackville's successor will lamed after President-elect Harrison's luguration. On the 15th of May an International Co^Hj :ress of Scotch-Irish will assemble at C^H timbia, Tenn. 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