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wr MONTREAL'S ICEP1LACE. | A Gay Army Storms the Frozen Monarch's Citadel. The Carnival of Winter Sports in i Canada's Capital. I ??? A dispatch from Montreal, Canada, says: j The thousands of people who arrived in | Montreal early this week have been joined i by thousands more, who came to witness the j magnificent spectacle promised in tho storming of the ice castle. A good sized blizzard struck the town just about the same time. j Into the fourteen hours intervening | between 10 o'clock in the morning and mid- J night spectacular events that would have i done credit to a programme covering a j week's time met the delighted eye of the j visitors. The storm during the earlier part | \ of the day was of such magnitude that the i carnival committee was forced to close the I toboggan slides for the day. j The horse trotting on the ice was also postponed on account of the great aeptu of the snow. The rinks, however, were scenes of unusual activity, and at two o'clock in the afternoon the 6nowshoers started their races at the park. The Governor-General of Canada, Lord Stanley, of Preston, and Lady Stanley were among the 4000 people who witnessed this sport. The snow was soft and drifting, so that no attempts at record breaking were made. It was not till evening, however, that the real sport of the day began. As soon as the visitors had finished their suppers?tliey eat snpper instead of dinner in Montreal at C in the evening?the streets began to fill and from then until 0 o'clock every street and avenue within half a mile of Dominion Square, where the ice palace is located, grew more and more crowded. Shortly after S o'clock the throngs were rewarded by the sight o* the advancing warriors, with their bright and vari-colored torches, from Mount Roval. Eighteen snow shoe clubs participated" in theTnarch, and, I later on, in the attack. The formation of march was in single file on a serpentine path, forming two deep. The march down the I mountain to the palace, amid blazing torches j and an incessant fire of skyrockets, was a magnificent scene. The palace itself was brilliantly illuminated with bright lights of all colors, and as the various clubs marched around the palace a ringlet of skyrockets, which encircled the top of the tower, shot upward, illuminating the clouded sky in a manner that would have made Old Sol hide his face in shame, even on his brightest day. No sooner had this died away than an equally magnificent display arose from the four smaller towers, aud then the attack began. It was a. spectacle that can't be described. For one hour Roman candles, skyrockets and every other description of pyrotechnics illuminated the sky in a circle thousands of foot in f>itv?iiTnforpnr?p Thousands of eves were rive'^d on the scene, and murmurs of admiration were audible from thousands of delighted spectators. At times the castle, which appeared perfectly transparent, from different colored lights within, looked as though it was one molten mass ready to fall, and the trans' parancies reflected by the falling rockets on Xhe outside blended in a delightful manner with the inside transparency. The windows of the Windsor Hotel, which faces the ice palace, were crowded with guests, and every place of business and every residence in sight was lined with eager eyes fearful lest they should lose a single feature' Of the grand spectacle. Between 1800 and 2003 snowshoers participated in the march and the attack. Thev were all dressed in white uniforms with red and blue stripes and tuques of the same designs. This alone presented au appearance well worth seeing. The grand carnival drive was the feature of the day. An effigy of President Cleveland was one of the attractions of the parade. He had the seat of honor in the car of the Royal Scots' Snowshoe Club, and wore for the occasion the full dress uniform of an officer of the Royal Scots. TiTTRNED IN MID-OCEAN. A Pet Monkey Discovers a Ship on Fire and Save9 the Crew. With every sail drawing, aloft and alow, even to her skysails, tho British full-rigged ship Stephen D. Horton passed out of the harbor of Calcutta, India, in a spanking breeze, bound for New York. One hundred tons of saltpetre were stored in her hold, besides 2500 tons of jute in bales. The stor> room held provisions of every sort, the "weather was fair and everything looked favorable for the homeward voyage. Now the charrel hull of the ship lies v fathoms deep, over four hundred miles east of Pernambuco, and with the ship perished two of her crew. The others reached land after terrible privation ana on tne steamship Advance, lately arriving uo from Pra.-ilir>.n port? were Captain Lewis and his wife. They saved not even a change of clothing and were glad to escape fromthe burning vessel with their lives. With them was Mrs. Lewis's pet monkey, who was the first to discover the fire on the ill-fated Horton. The voyage up to December 27 was very uneventful, Captain Lewis said. The ship had touched at St. Helena on December lti, and was at eleven o'clock of the 27th about four hundred and twenty miles from Pernambuco. The weather was almost dead calm and the scorching heat of a tropical sun beat upon the slowly moving vessel. Suddenly Chief Mate "William Coalfleet's attention was attracted by the strange actions of Jocko, the pet monkey, who was perched on one of the ventilatory leading down below. The monkey would sniff at tho opening, and then running along the deck, chatter at a great rate. The mate went over to the ventilator, but before he reached it saw a thin column of smoke coming out. The truth hashed upon him at once that the ship was on fire. Picking up Jocko he went below and quietly informed the CaptaiD, who gave or-I -? UClo tu vnc ui buu unci uaw^uca. AW was done and a deluge of water was poured down by the laboring crew. The smo:<e increased and rolled upward in a black cloud. Then a square hole was cut through the decks and water poured in upon the burning cargo. but it was of no avail, and Captain Lewis had the hole closed again and the hatches sealed up tight, while all sail was crowded on and the ship's course laid for Pernambuco. The wind was light, and she made but little progress. At half-past three in the afternoon the expected crisis came. "With a dull report the hatches flew upward, wrenched from their fastenings by the force of tho explosion. The fire had reached the saltpetre. A cloud of smoke poured through the open hatches and enveloped the doomed vessel. Flames were now breaking out above the hatches and two boats hanging at the davits were at once lowered. There was only time to tumble a few case? of sea biscuit into each boat and a couple of casks of water. The llames were rapidly gathering headway when the boats struck the water. Nine or ten sailors jumped into the sea and were hauled on board the boats, but John Davis, a seaman.on striking the water threw up his hands and disappeared. He was seen no more, ine monkey climbed down one or the davit ropes and nestled in Mrs. Lewis's arms. The boats were rowed away from the burning vessel. Then it was discovered that Henry Younger, the carpenter, was missing. He was seen a few minutes before the lowering of the boats near the starboard rail, and he is supposed to have gone after his money and to have perished. Long tongues of flame were running up the Horton's taper masts, and soon the entire ship was a mass of flames. She burned like tinder, and the blazing craft conld be seen by those in the boats far into the night. In the morning she had disappeared. The weather was intensely hot, and the sailors suffered terribly as they rowed. They wre 400 miles from land, and in order that their provisions might hold out the rations were made ons biscuit per day each. On the forenoon of the third day thov hailed the bark Twilight, bound from Cardiff, England, to Valpariso and were rescued. The Stephen D. Horton was built at Spencer Island, N. S., in August, 185v>. The fire is supposed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion. King Joh*. of Abyssinia, is making preparations to fight his vassal, King Menelek, of Kboa. Menelek can put 80,000 soldiers in the , field armed with guns and lances, and makes l jus own gunpowder. j TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED , Eastern and Middle States. The handsome residence which P. T. Bar* num was erecting and had nearly completed, near the historic Waldemar, at Sea Side Park, Bridgeport, Conn., has been destroyed by fire. Samvel rothschii.n the wealthiest Hebrew merchant of Hartford, Conn., has committed suicide. Mrs. Matilda Grirwold Frelinghuysen. the widow of the ex-Secretary of State, recently died at Newark, N. J. The boilers of a towboat exploded at Pittsburg, killing George Wilson, engineer, and Robert Cochran, fireman. Otto Kayshr. a street car conductor in Philadelphia, killed a young woman named Annie Klaus, afterward cut his wife's throat, inflicting a fatal wound, aud then committed suicide. Adam Lefevke, a prominent farmer of West Lampet?r, Penn., was found suffocated at his own lime kiln. He had fallen asleep while attending to the fires. Jay Cowdery, a faith-cure doctor of Hartford, delivered a lecture on mental science in West Haven, Conn. Just after saying: "A Christian scientist can defy death," he fell dead. Severe weather was reported in Northern New York and New England, the mercury standing at thirty to forty degrees below zero. Nine barns have been burned in succession recently in York County, Penn., by incendiary fires. While James Reagan and John McCormick, arm-in-arm, and so intoxicated that they could scarcely stand, were crossing the railroad at Foorman's Crossing, Conn., they were struck by a train and instantly killed. A big cave-in is taking place in the coal mines of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, at Carbondale, Penn. William Soktwell, an engineer, pinned in the wreck of his engine at Somerville, Mass., was killed by an ica train that ran into it South and West. The heaviest snow storms since 1S75 have bsen raging in Alaska. Carbon, Ind., has been entirely destroyed by fire. Loss, ?.*>0,000. The neighborhood of Warsaw, 111., is alarmingly afflicted with black measles, j Ovnr 300 rasps nrp rpnnrtor] There is an i average of fivo deaths a day. A. J. King, a conductor, was run over by his own train and killed at Belleville, Mo. An old deaf toll gate keeper named Abrahams, while looking at the remains, was run down by a freight train and his body ground to pieces. John Frye, a blacksmith, a bystander, was so overcome by these events that he deliberately threw himself in front of a third train, meeting instant death. Dr. Charles P. Burns, of Baxter. Ark., was shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff Childers, who had gone to the doctor's house to arrest him on a warrant, aud the doctor resisted him. A switch engine struck a frog and jumped the track at Springfield, Mo., killing three men outright and fatally injuring three others. A colored butler in Chicago killed a Swedish girl who had jilted him, and then cut his own throat. Mr. and Mrf. James Olson, with their four children, were drowned in the Missouri River, at Bismarck, Dakota. They were crossing the river in a wagon, when the ice broke, and the horses, wagon and occupants m ere an lose. Mr. and Mrs. Frf.d Pollinger, of Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, left their ' two babies in their house and went visiting. While they were gone the house caught fire, and the children were burned to death. , General Harrison has completed his inaugural address. High wind blew down the Max Meyer brick building at Omaha. Neb., which was recently gutted by fire. Two buildings on * the east side were wrecked. Six persons lost ] their lives and seven escaped, more or less injured. At Hastings, Neb., the central school was 1 almost totally wrecked, four persons being i so severely injured that recovery was imposible, besides a large number slightly injured. One of the scholars was killed out- : right while another was injured fatally. , The teacher, Miss Aldrich, was fatally injured. The six-year-old son of Jacob Kroll, of 1 Terre Haute. Ind., died a few days ago from the effects of hydrophobia. 1 Colonel John S. Mosdy called upon President-elect Harrison by invitation to ] discuss the Southern question. Mns. Harrison, the wife of the President- ! elect, and her daughter, Mrs. McKee, after spending a week, in New York devoted to shopping, have rieturned to Indianapolis. President-elect Harrison has leased , the "Spencer Cottage" at Deer Park, Md., ' for a summer residence, and his family expect to take possession about June 1. Washington. j It is authoritatively stated that Senator ^ Allison has declined the portfolio of the Treasury tendered to him by Presidont-elect ; Harrison. The reduction in the public debt during i January amounted to $12,2Hi,284. The total 1 debt now, less cash in the Treasury, amounts ] to $1,121,S45,973. The net cash or surplus in , the Treasury now is $04,903,943 against | $00,63(3,2(54 a month ago. ] Mrs. Cleveland, for the first time since < her marriage, allowed herself the enjoyment s of dancing at the card reception given by Secretary and Mrs. "Whitney. Mrs. Cleve- i land waltzed with Representative Scott, of 1 X t'UIISJ lvamu, auu iaiu uouwu tu ootwaim V quadrillea s Judge William M. Merrick, of the Su- 1 preme Court of the District of Columbia, re- c cently died at his residence, in Washington, ' of gastric complaint, in his seventieth year. 1 The House resolution making an appropriation of $.".00,000, to be paid to the heirs of . Captain James 13. Eads, has been passed by the Senate. j Secretary Bayard has consented to a t resumption of the conference with Germany { concerning the Samoau affairs which was ] suspended last year. The scene of the nego- j tiations will be removed from Washington to Berlin. t Foreign. Advices from Samoa say Tamasese's sup- J porters are reduced to 600. Three thousand seamen and firemen j have struck work in Glasgow, Scotland. ( Only two steamers sailed from that port aud j they were manned by officers. ^ Marines from the United States man-of- ' war Ossioee were landed on a wharf at t Port-au-Prince to resist an attack by a mob ( of Haytians on a petty officer of the ship. < A frktujit train running into Beaver, [ North West Territory, was precipitated . down from the summit of the Rocky Mount ains, smashing the engine and nineteen [ cars. C. Fiddler, fireman, and C. J. Phelan, 1 engineer, and five Chinamen were instantly i1 killed. A young lady of noble birth committed suicide at Meyerling on the same night as the Austrian Crown Prince. A train at Brussels, Belgium, struck a , fillar of a bridge, causing it to collapse, ourteen persons were killed and fifty injured. Achmed. Sultan of Vitu, Zanzibar, Africa, is dead. His nephew, Tamobakari, has been 1 proclaimed his successor. < Seventeen persons were drowned in two i wrecks off the British coast. The first number of the New York i Herald's London edition was published. 1 An* Irish police inspector was killed by a mob while attempting to arrest an Irish j priest at Dublin. Valencey E. Fuller, of Hamilton, Canada, has made an assignment. Liabilities about SI.000.000. Three pilots of Heligoland were drowned in the North Sea during a heavy storm. A collision* occurred in the English Channel between the Steamship Killochan and the ship Nereid. Both were sunk and twenty-four persons drowned. ; Exokmous crowds viewed the body of Prince Rudolph of Austria as it lay in State. Some of the Vienna doctors discredit the theory of suicide, and believe that the Crown 1'rince was assassinated. Heavy gales are reported from the coasts of Great Britain, with shipwreck and loss of j life. There has been a heavy fall of snow in j Berlin, accompanied by a thunder storm. In , the mountain districts heavy and continuous ! raiDs have fallen and further floods were ( feared. , Mandalay, Burmah, has recently been visited by two immense tires. In the first the flames destroyed 632 houses, a bazaar, and a Buddhist monastery. In the second, iiUO houses were burned. Both fires were of accidental origin. A know storm interfered with the Montreal (Canada) carnival somewhat. Six women have been murdered and mutilated in Managua, Nicaragua, after the ghastly method of the Whitechapel fiend. The French Chamber of Deputies has confirmed the election of General Cluseret as member for the Var. It was charged that he was an American citizen, and therefore ineligible to hold office under the French Government. LATER NEWS. President Cleveland and his wife visited New York a few days since to make arrangements for their permanent residence in the Metropolis after March 4. Two miners were killed by on explosion of gas in the Penn shaft at Pittston, Peiin. jTiie strike of Brooklyn street car employes has ended, the men agreeing to return to work as individuals. The company on its part promised to pay the old wages. Christian Drescher, sixty-two years of age, was instantly killed in New York city by an elevator, which struck the back of his head and severed it from his body. Western and Northern New York were swept by a snow storm that entirely suspended travel in many localities. a slight earthquake shock was felt at Charleston, S. C. The vibration was of brief duration. W. F. Bradley, son of ex-Judge Bradley of Iowa, shot and killed his wife and then himself at Chicago. Bradley and his wife were reporters on a morning paper. Warsaw, 111., is afflicted with black measles. Over 300 cases have been reported and thirteen deaths. Public schools have been closed and public m'ietings of all kinds prohibited. The Chicago police officials, Inspector Bonfield and Captain Schaaek, who were charged by the Times with corruption, have been indefinitely suspended by Mayor Roche. A terrible blizzard raged for two days in the Northwest, it being especially severe in Michigan. ^#?W. Bcssey, teller of the Eagle and Pha-nix Bank of Columbus, Ga., has ab sconded with about $(>5,000. The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Whitney entertained the President and Mrs. Cleveland, with members of the Cabinet and others, at a dinner. Governor Hill, of New York, and Speaker Carlisle were among the guests. The Secretary of "War has awarded the contract for the construction of seven dynamite guns, with all accessories, including ammunition, steam power and machinery for operating, etc., to the Pneumatic Dynamite Gun Company, of New York, at their bid of $395,500. The President has referred the bill creating a Department of Agriculture to the Attorney General for an opinion. He has some doubts as to the constitutionality of the measure and as to the public necessity for so great an addition to the annual expenditures. Fuaxk B. Posey, of Indiana. Governor Hovey's successor in Congress from the 1st Indiana District, appeared and took the oath of office. Ho is a man of fine personal appearance and is about forty-five years old. General Salamanca has been appointed Captain-General of Cuba in place of General Marin, who has resigned. Cardinal Ledochowski, formerly Primate of Poland and Archbishop of Posen, is dead. He was imprisoned by Prince Bismarck, but was released on his promisa to reside abroad. The bark Largobay collided off Beachyhead, England, with an unknown steamer, which sank in eight minutes. Over one hundred lives were supposed to have been lost. BIG FIRE IN BUFFALO, Forty Buildings Destroyed, Causing a Loss of Over $2,000,000. The most extensive fire that ever occurred n Buffalo,N. Y., started at 2:45 in the mornng on the fourth floor of the five-story Root TTpnt-.intr hkti'lHintr nt Onrrnl 1 nnrl Wella streets. The flames quickly reached the top story and roof, and also worked their way :lown to the lower stories, and by 3 o'clock the building was a seething mass of flames, rhe whole city was illuminated almost as bright as day, and people living three miles iway were awakened by the brilliant reflection on the windows or their houses. The Sre extended steadily and rapidly along the jast side of Seneca street, gutting the JBroe:el House. Tha official records show that the wind naintaiued a velocity of thirty miles an lour, and at times between three and four i'clock, reached thirty-five miles. The fire spread in all directions, but chiefly to the lorthward and eastward. Wells street is a :omplete desert from Seneca to Exchange itreets?an appalling chaos of brick, twisted ron, and an inextricable tangle of wires. At about noon a number of firemen were it work in the ruins at the rear of the Arling;on Hotel, when the western wall of the rear sxtension fell without any warning. John tfoest, Foreman of Engine 9, was struck on -ue utttiu uy butuu ui lub uiium>, receiving a )ad scalp wound and being otherwise injured. Oorainick R. Morion, of Engine 10, was bured in the ruins. The total area included in the burned dis;rict is roughly estimated at seven or eight icres, and the total number of buildings detroyed or gutted at forty. The principal osses are figured about as follows: Hoot & Keating. $350,000; their tenmta, $:200,000; S. S. Jewett & Co., #00,000; Broe/el House, $100,000; Sibley t Holmwood, ?150,000; Fowler & Sons, >'J0,00J; D. F. Egan, $40,000; Sidney Shepard t Co., ?50,000; Arlingtoa Hotel, $40,00o; A. r. Kerr & Co., $30,000; Strootmun building ind tenants, $500,000. The losses on Exchange street are $75,000; on the north side jf Seneca street, $-0:},000; other losses $150)00. This would make a total of $3,785,000. While busy at work Chief Hornung, of the Fire Department, had one of his wrists badly :ut by pieces of falling glass. He had the wound aressed and returned to his post of luty. As to the origin of the fire nothing ietinite could be ascertained. CHAINED TO A RING. Funeral of an Insane "Woman Iruj prisoned Tor Thirty Years. The funeral of Mrs. Daniel Zimmerman? an insane old lady of Berne, Penn., who was chained for many years, has just taken place, and there was a great qutpouring of the people of the neighborhood to look upon the features of one whom death has released from such a long imprisonment. It appears that she was eighty-four years of age at the time of her death, and had been insane for thirty-five years, during most of which time she bad been chained. An iron Kor.^ nmHo Viv a blacksmith. was olaced nrouud one of tier lower limbs and fastened by a chain to a ring in the floor. The room in which she was confined was in the house where the rest of the ramily lived. Notwithstanding her confinement and the violence of her maniacal frenzy for many years she was at the time of her death one of the oldest persons in the neighborhood. Mrs. Zimmermann in her fits of frenzy would frequently break her chains, though they had been previously tested by horses. In the house there is now a whole barrel full of fetters and chains which she has broken. Rev. R. D. Zweizig, of Pittsburg, who was the pastor of the family, says she was a most remarkable woman in spite of her violent insanity. During her brief lucid intervals she was able to recite the whole of the church lathechism, all of the Psalms and nearly all of the New Testament. , SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. The Senate. 30th Day.?The Senate rejected by a vote of 38 to 15 the British Extradition treaty.... A bill was introduced authorizing the Lighthouse Board to complete the pedestal of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, at a cost not to exceed $50,000, and J for the continuation of the construction of a sea wall and general lighthouse depot at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, at a cost not to exceed $40,000.... A bill to place General VV. S. Rosecrans on the retired list of the army with the rank o? Brigadier-General was reported favorably. 40th Day.?The Senate considered Mr. | Sherman's bill "to declare trusts unlawful." Mr. Jones spoke in favor of the bill ... the I Union Pacific funding bill was taken up and read The report of the committee on the , Texas election outrages was received. 41st Day. ?The conference report on the bill amendatory of the Interstate Commerce law was read.... A resolution was introduced to give $50,000 to the widow of General Sheridan The Oklahoma toill was referred to the Committee on Territories....The House joint resolution for the payment of $500,000 to the representatives of the late - ? ? J mu, T James U. .baas was passeu....iuo .uegiaiative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was then taken up, and an amendment was made to increase the salary of the President's private secretary from $3250 to $5000. An amendment offered by Mr. Hawley, to increase the clerical force of the Civil Service Commission, provoked a discussion on the question of Civil Service reform. 42d Day.?The Senate resumed consideration of the Legislative. Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill?the pending question being the amendment to increase the clerical force of the Civil Service Commission. Mr. Daniels spoke denouncing Civil Service Reform.... Mr. Hiscock reported a proposed amendment to appropriate $300,000 for a suitable celebration of the adoption of the constitution in Washington in 188!) Mr. Hampton proposed an amendment appropriating $828,256 to pay the findings of tne Court of Claims for spoliations by the French prior to July 81, 1001 An amendment appropriating $100,800 to enable the President to protect the interests of the United States at tne Isthmus of Panama, was reported. The House. 42d Day.?Mr. Clardy presented the con ference report on the Nicaragua Canal bill, and in order to enable the members to examine its provisions it was ordered printed and laid over The House passed the bill organizing the Territory of Oklahoma by a vote of 14S to 102.... Without a division the conference report on the bill "to create an Executive Department to be krown as the Department of Agriculture," was adopted The Senate bill granting a pension of $25 per month to all female nurses in the late war who served six months and whose services were approved by Miss D. L. Din, the superintendent of women nurses, was reported. 4?>d Day.?The House resolved itself into a Committee of the W hole for the consideration of appropriation bills. Mr. Hatch reSorted the Agricultural Appropriation bilL tr. Blount reported the Post Office Appropriation bilL The Naval Appropriation bill was passed, with an amendment devoting $100,000 for a coaling station at Pago-Pago, Samoa. The bill appropriates $10,M8,577.12. This is 134,000 less than the amount appropriated for the current year, and ?7,858,000 less than the estimate.... a dui granting tne right of way through Indian Territory to the Choctaw Railway Company was passed .... Mr. Springer moved that the House insist upon its amendments to the Senate bill for the admission of South Dakota. Messiu Baker, Barnes and Springer were appointed conferrees for the House. 44th Day.?During the call of States for the introduction of bills. Mr. Payson inaugurated filibustering tactics by having sent to the clerk's desk (with a demand that it be read) a long printed bill for the establishment of a Court of Appeals. His opposition was directed to the Union Pacific Fund bill....Mr. McCreary aeked that the House disagree to the Senate amendments to the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill. It disagreed to the .Senate amendment, and Messrs. McCreary, Hooker and Hill were appointed conferrees. 45th Day.?The Plouse concurred in the Senate amendments to the House bill retiring General Wm. F. Smith. It authorizes his retirement with the rank of Major of Engineers.... The report on the Nicaragua Canal bill was presented and discusse i without action. 40th Day.?By the decisive vote of 177 !to f>0?nearly three to one?the roportof the Conferonce Committee on the bill to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua was adopted....Mr. Dingley's resolution requesting the Secretary of the Treasury to lMorm me nuu? wuui urimn were given tx> the revenue cutter Richard Hush respecting the protection of the seal fisheries in Bel)ring Sea last year was adopted. THE PATENT OFFICE, Report and Recommendations of the United States Commissioner. The Commissioner of Patents has transmitted his annual report to Congress. He recommends that the law relating to trade marks be amended so as to specify what devices shall be registered as trade marks; that the patent system be amended by providing that patents issued hereafter be extinguished by the Government at any time upon the payment to the owners of the invention of a reasonable amount of money, to be determined by arbitration or otherwise, as may seem appropriate to Congress; that the law providing that patents first hv Americans in foreign countries shall expire in the United States with the lifetime of the patent in the foreign country in which it first expires be repealed. The total receipts of the office for the past year were 81,118,510, and the total expenditures $U74,10S, showing the net income of the office to have been $144,403. The patent fund in the Treasury January 1, ISS'.i, amounted to $i!,401.8H8. The number of original patents issued during the year was 20,431, of which 1530 were to citizens of foreign countries; reissues, 86; trade marks registered, 1059, and labels registered, 21,fe9i. In the year 11,687 patents expired. A WOMAN DISMEMBERED. Drunken Indians Tear a Settler's Wife Limb From LimbOne of tbe most horrible tales of Indian cruelty that have ever been told has come to light from Little Current, Manitou Island, one hundred and fifty miles east or Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Five Indians?Most; Escmimoaux, Jack Douglass, Henry ISandni, Bob Bandni and Sam Bandni?started from the village of Little Current for the cabin of a white settier named Togosh. There they found Christina Togosh. the settler's wife, alone. They demanded drink, which was given them by the frightened woman. Becoming inflamed with liquor, they att3mpted to kill her. She fought bravely to defend herself, and during the struggle the interior of the cabin was completely wrecked, and the Indians literally tore the poor woman to pieces with their hand;:. They pulled off both arms and one leg in their drunken fury, and to finish their crime scalpe 1 her and cut off her ears. The woman's husband returned, and was horrified at finding the body of his wife dismembered and so frightfully mutilated. The five Indians had been seen near the cabin and vrere arrested and locked up. One of the Bandnis has confessed and given all the particulars above related. A n/nwrnrru THV JTTTNn1 lYiiiMUIUXXJ. i ua uui, 11 More Than 8000 People Take Part in One in Illinois. The most successful fox hunt ever held in Illinois took place in Pike County a few days since. Hunters came by the hundreds from the surrounding counties, and fully 8000 people took part. The Indies were among the first flights. It was decided to include in the drive the whole of Hardin Township, which is heavily wooded. Over fifty hounds and innumerable curs took part in the chase. The timber proved to be alive with the reynard family. The dogs ran down an old wolf that has been a terror to the sheep for many years. Two dogs were killed and then the wolf. succumbed. A pnnther was corraled with the foxes. The panther made a dash through the lines and the hunters scattered. He leaped through the timber, and although a few random shots were fired at him he escaped. Thirteen foxes, twenty-five coons and one wolf were the result of the hunt. i V > o V , . - . / . 7 . - < ?1 : . . ^ ?. ' OYER THE VIBES! A Batch of Interesting Stories Told by the Telegraph, New York's Great Car Strike Declared Off, The great railroad strike in New York city is over. After a bard struggle of eight days the Knights of Labor gave up tbe fight and the companies scored a victory, but a very costly one. Seeing that matters were going against them, the Executive Board of Division No. 1, of National District Assembly No. 226, called meetings of all local assemblies to decide as to whether fV?A ofrilrA eh/Mil^ Ko />Anfmn<v1 n r n nf The meetings were called for nine o'clock and deleeates from the locals to the District Assembly, as soon as a vote was reached, hurried to the headquarters of the Executive Board, at Forty-fourth street and Ninth avenue, and announced the result. Master Workman James H. Magee, with the other members of the Board, were on hand, and the reports did not surprise them. The men had ordered the "tie-up," and it remained for them to decide whether the fight should continue or not. When the reports were all in it was found that the vote was in favor of ending the strike. A meating of the District Assembly . was then Held,and at midnight the strike was officially declared "off." The saddest event of the car strike occurred on the last afternoon of the tie-up. James McGowan, one of the strikers, was shot and killed at 1.15 o-'clock while attacking one of the cars of the Fortv-second street and Manhattanville road. McGowan was in a crowd of about seventy-five men that had stoned an Eighth avenue car at Fifty-eighth street and Eighth avenue. The car escaped with one or two broken windows, and then the mob turned its attention to the Boulevard cars, against the President of which line they are very bitter. Car No. 9. cominGr downtown, was stOODed by the crowd at Sixty-first street and the Boulevard- Frederick Kindorf, of No. 141 Ludlow street, was driver and Charles Walker, of No. 156 Third avenue, conductor. Officer Thomas K. Snyder of the Eldridge street station was on the platform acting as police escort. The men in the crowd had laid in a big supply of stones, and began showering them on the car. The windows were smashed and one of the passengers was struck on the neck by a stone. Three ladies, who were riding in the car, ran out, terror-stricken. Several stones whizzed past Officer Snyder's head, and he drew his revolver aud fired two shots in the air. While he was shooting he was hit in the face with a piece of brick. This promiscuous shooting did not frighten the rioters. They kept on throwing stones and threatened to overturn the car. Foremost among them was a brawny fellow, James McGowan, a striking stableman of the Belt Line Company. As he approached the car. with a brick in hand, Officer Snyder saw him and warned him back. The fellow raised the brick: "If you throw that," cried the officer, "I'll shoot you." McGowan did not hesitate, but threw the brick, cutting a fearful gash in Snyder's face. Snvder was nearlv stunned. There was a flash, a report, and "McGowan dropped to the ground. The bullet from Officer Snyder's revolver had panged clean through McGowan's head. This tragedy appalled the rioters, and in a minute they scattered and disappeared. Seventeen Men Drowned. Twelve teams and teamsters who were driving over Canada Lake, N. Y., broke througn the ice and all were drowned. No details could at first be learned. Later news state that twenty-four teams started from the upper end of the lake to drag logs to the receiving point. Some of the logs drawn were genuine monarchs of the forest, of great length and girth. The enormous weieht thus laid upon the ice may therefore be conceived. The party had got nearly opposite the camp, where many of the loggers lived when there was a warning cracking, and the next moment teams, logs and drivers were mixed in confusion with the big chunks of ice in the water. The scene that followed is described as heartrending and awful beyond description. The men who remained in the camp, the women and the children crowded to the brink of the broken space in the ice, but found themselves powerless to do more than drag half a dozen of their fellows out of the water, and stood I there shrieking and piteously bemoaning the 1 - - ? i 1 J late oi uromers, nusuuuus ur latuci?. Seven of the drivers escaped. Seventeen drivei*s and all the teams were drowned. A Scene in the New York Senate. The session ofthe Senate a few days since was opened with prayer by the Rev. S. V. Leach of Albany. After referring to alleged corruption, which, ho said, largely influenced elections in great cities, he prayed for deliverance from the "political gamblers, who buy up the votes of ignorant immigrants, who "comprise such a large proportion of the population of the large citios." The "Amen'' had hardly been pronounced when Mr. Grady, of New York city, arose and said: "I move that the officer bayipg charge of the selection of clergymen to offer prayers in this body be instructed hereafter to give no invitation to do 59 t9 the person who has just assailed the Thfepe of Jlercy with a very peculiar petition. It is outrageous that prayer should be made a cover for assailing the political ma jorities in our cities as ignorant immigrants steeped in superstition Mr. Erwin said he thoucht the prayer was meant for Senator Grady, whereupon Mr. Murphy said it made the insult worse, because it came .from a clap-trap politician, who had been a perennial candidate for Chaplain of the Senate. The row was ended by the Lieutenant-Governor declaring the discussion out of order. Injured by the Fall of a Scaffold A scaffold twenty-six feet high was recently built for the use of workmen employed in finishing the dome of th9 new Cutholic Church at Now Iberia, La. When the workmen gathered at one end of the scaffold for the purpose of placing a large circular sash in position, the structure gave way, precipitating the occupants to the floor, twenty-six feet below. The Rev. Father Permontier was on the scafTold at the time, and was severely hurt. His left thigh was broken and he suffered from other injuries. Pierre Julien, carpanter, had both legs broken. John Gonzonlin, carpenter,hurt his back. Charles Platsmier, carpenter, was badly bruised about the head and face. A Female Ontlnw's Violent End. Word has been received from Eufala. Indian Territory, that Bolle Starr had been Kuiea mere. isene was me who u?. w? Younger, her third husband. Jim Starr, her second husband, was shot down by his wife's side. Belle Starr was the most desperate woman that ever figured on the borders. She married Cole Younger directly after the war, and left him and joined a band of outlaws in the Indian Territory. She bad been arrested for murder and robbery a score of times, but always managed to escape. Fatal Explosion in an Insane Asylum Two toilers at the Insane Hospital, three miles from Lincoln, Neb., exploded. The building is detached from the isylum proper and contained six persons at. the time of the accident, four patient-i and two engineers. \V. H. Hantley . aud T. K. Sanders, patients, were instantly kiilfliJ. a D. Gifford. a patient, wascrushea and scalded fatally. John Norvin, engineer, was fatally scalded and crushed. George Davis, assistant engineer, and John Hall, patient, were slightly injured. The hospital was left without light or heat. A Queer Story From New Mexico. A remnant of the cliff dweller tribe of Indians, which has been supposed to be extinct, is said to bo living in the San Mateo Mountains of New Mexico. The are very small?mi over three feet in height? and wild. They have been seen also in the Black ranze, and as soon as the snow melts parties will go out to capture them, if possible. The facts are vouched for by reliable | men. In* Liverpool the rate of infant mortality is 1S.8 per cent. Every fourth funeral is that of a child under a year old, and every second funeral that of a child under live years old. :J- f . ;' * V .J, THE NEW SENAU. Two Men Who Will Take Thelt Seats After March -4. We present this week the portraits of two new United States Senators who will take their beats for the first time after March 4. ANTHONY HIGGINS, OF DELAWARE. Anthony Higgins, the first Republican Senator ever sent to the upper branch of Congress from Delaware, is a leading lawyer of that State. He is forty-one years old, and from 1869 to 1876 was United States District-Attorney for Delaware. Hon. William D. Washburn, just elected as United States Senator from Minnesota, was born in Maine, January 14th, 1831. He is the son of Israel and Martha Washburn, and att^Urtjerof the famous family of that name whicl baa furnished the United States so many stat ?suien and soldiers, though never before a Unu States Senator. He gradu WM. D. WASHBURN, OF MINNESOTA. ated at Bowdoin College in 1854. While pursuing his collegiate studies ho was almost entirely dependent on his own efforts for support, and defrayed his expenses by teaching school and other.labor in vacation time. Curing one vacation he was Clerk of the House of Renresentatives of Maine. He studied law. but business pursuits soon engaged his attention, and in the fall of 1S57, while still engaged in legal practice, he became agent of the Minneapolis Mill Company. In 1861 President Lincoln commissioned him Surveyor-General of Minnesota, and he them removed to St Paul Four years later he removed again to Minneapolis, where he built a large saw-mill an.l engaged in the lumber trade, which has more or less engrossed his attention and energies ever since. In 1874 he was elected to the loafer House of the Minnesota Legislature. In the fa'l of 1878 he was elected to Congress from the otd Third District by SCO'J m ijority. Two years afterward he was re elected. In lS8'il-e beat Dr. Arnes for Congress in tbe Fourth District, and at the end of the term declined re-election. WOBKING WOMEN. The Commissioner of Labor on the Industrial Condition of Females. Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of the Department of Labor, has submitted to tbe Secretary of the Interior his fourth annua] report, which deals exclusively with the subject of "working women in great cities." Commissioner Wright says: "A quarter of a century ago women were allowed to enter but few occupations. Now there are hundreds of vocations in which they can find employment The present report Hemes 342 of them Whenever any industrial operations are simplified to sucn an extent that the weaker person can perform what was done of old by the stronger one the cheaper labor comes in and wages must of necessity be lowered temporarily, whether to the one formerly performing the labor or to the new comer. So, as the adult man in light occupations has given place to the woman or to the young person, wages in specific employments have decreased as compared with the former wages of the man, but they have vastly increased as compared with the former wages of the woman or the young person. "For an increase in wages women must depend upon industrial and economic conditions, and not upon legislative enactment, of even upon concentrated actions of persons charitably and benevolently disposed/' MUSICAL AND DBAMATIO. Madam Ristori is now in Parte. Mrs. Langtry has a fortune of $550,(XXX George Miln, the preacher-actor, is in Australia. The next part Mrs. Potter will essay will be that of Rosalind. There are seven red headed actors in Kate Claxton's company, Boucicault's school of acting in New York begins to show signs of a break-up. Marie Gkistingicr, the great German actress, is dying at Klagenfort, Switzerland. A piano is being built at the 8teinway factory at Hamburg which is to cost $36,000. Paulus, the comic singer who has mad? Boulanger, receives an income of $20,000 a year. Herrig's festival drama, "Martin Luther," has been produced on an elaborate scale in Berlin. A thirteen-year-old girl,named Dautin, has made a sensation in Paris by her violin playing. Falstaff will be personated next season by William H. Crane and William J. Florence. Eugene Wetherell's will has been probated. He left $500,000, all to bis wife, Fmnaa Abbott, the singer. The two thousandth performance of "The Littfe Tycoon" was celebrated recently at the Acaaemy of Music, New Orleans, La. Sir Morell Mackenzie attends professionally the leading actors of Knzland. ' ??(?. himself, it is .tie is aomemiug ui an av.v. . said. Mart, the daughter of Charles Dickens, the novelist, is playing a part in "Little Lord Fauntleroy" upon the English provincifi.1 stage By a careful estimate, the box ownership in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, represents an aggregation of capital of 1800,000,000. The great Auditorium at Chicago is to b opened in November with the most elaborate presentation ot Italian opera ever attempted in this country. The inscription upon the urn in which are the ashes of poor, cremated Mme. <li Murska in Gotha, is: "These ashes are all that remain of a nightingalei" Signor Italo Campanini made a succesaS1 debut in English opera at the Boston, ass., Theatre, in "Carmen," with the Boston Ideals. He sang in Italian, however. In a run of twenty weeks "The Oid Home** 5 v^??? vrtrb hv stead" has ueen wanesseu m j.^ *14<i,000 persons in exchange for $2*0,01)0. Out of this Denman Thompson's profit has been $85,000. Mrs. W. g. Jones, has studied more lines than any other woman on the American stage, having played everything, from a midshipman to Lady Macbeth. She is sixtyone years of age and still on the stage. Prince Nicholas, of Montenegro, is the latest recruit in the ranks of the noble army of dramatists. He has just produced, at the theatre of Cettinje, a drama entitled 4,The Czarina of the Balkans," which is said to be a highly exciting wor*. J,: ' ' .. . I . V - r V . ' 'M BISMAECZ BACKS DOWN. "Withdrawing Offensive Demands-^ Documents in the Case. The German Minister.at Washington has notified the State Department that Prince Bismarck had cabled the German official! In Samoa, modifying their recent objectionable proclamations and virtually restoring the status quo, so far as foreign residents of the islands are concerned. The President sent to Congress another message on the Samoan question, accompanying it with copies of the correspondence which has passed between the State Department and the German Government; also a dispatch from the Consul at Samoa. The President's message is very brief and makes no comments, except the bare announcement that he sends the documents mentioned. Tlia /lArtiima?fn om O flVMTl XUO UWV IAJ U. * UBV| M vu* Consul Blacklock, which says that the Gter* man Consul declared Germany at war with. Mataafa and Samoa under martial forces. The second is a telegram from Secretary Bay- I ard to the United States Minister at Berlin, In* \ which the Minister is instructed to inform V the Government that the German Consul } at Samoa declared Germany at war with t Mataafa and Samoa under martial law. ) Count Arco had notified the United 8tates Government of the declaration of war, bat that Germany would, of course, abide by tbfr agreement of America and England touching Samoa, but, in view of theaavicea from Apia, that this Government pr^ sumes that the officials will be instructed to refrain from interference with American ' citizens and property. No declaration ot martial law could extend German jurisdiction over American citizens. The last is a communication from ttu? German Minister to Secretary Bayard, a? follows: "When the state of war was declared against Mataafa the commander of the German squadron issued a proclamation by which the foreigners established in Samoa were subjected to martial law. International law would to a certain extent prevent such a measure, but as Bismarck is of the opinion that our military aut.hnrifr hna cnrtp ton far in thia i r? c hn r?no military commander has received telegraphic orders to withdraw the part of his proclamation concerning foreigners. In negotiations with Mataafa,cur Consul at Samoa has asked that the administration of the islands of Samoa might be temporarily handed over to him, which demand not being in conformity to our previous promises regarding the neutrality and independ-, ence of Samoa, Sir Knappe, the German Consul at Samoa, has been ordered by telegraph to withdraw immediately his comxnand. The North German Oazette (Bismarck's organ) denies that there has been any forma) declaration of war in Samoa. nTiTmrtT) rvD'DTr1 XT TUfrrDTanXTTTV XlUULUXIi V/ JDXUbii luuitmuiiiuf . A Desperate Fight Against Assam- ' ing the Convict Garb. ' Mr. William O'Brien has been' taken to Clonmel Jail, Dublin, Ireland, to serve the sentence imposed upen him for offences under the Crimes act The prisoner refused to ondiess and don the prison costume, and the wardens stripped him and shaved off his beard by force. Mr. O'Brien made a desperate resistance to the wardens, but be soon became exhausted and was prostrated by weakness. His con* dition grew so bad that a priest was sent for. 4 ' Jw; His jailors evidently felt that their prisoner would die from the effects of the rough treatment given him. AFFAIESJN CHINA. A Consulate Wrecked by Rioters?* 250,000 People Starving. Advices from Shanghai state that a riot y has occurred at Ching-Kiang-Foo, and that the British Consulate and seven houses belonging to foreigners have beon wrecked by the rioters. The British man-of-war Mufcine has been despatched to Ching-Kiang-Foo to protect the lives and property of British subjects. The severity of the winter is increasing the distress caused by the famine in ShanTung and Manchitria. It is estimated that 2o0,o00 people are starving in Chen-Kiang. PROMINENT PEOPLE. King Ja-Ja, of West Africa, is flfiy-two. Osman Digna means Osman the bearded. Lady Brassy's posthumous work is jutf out. The Princess of "Wales is forty-five years old. Senator-elect A. Higgins, of Delaware, is a bachelor. Claus Spreckles, the sugar king, Is worth 120,000,000. The Pope is said to have made seventy-six speeches in one week. Japanese Minister Kcki owns the most gorgeous equipage in Washington. Two Chicago maidens, the Misses Armour, have something like ?5,(XX),000 apiece Senator Wolcott will be the youngest man in the next United States Senate. * ' a * The Sbah of Persia is to make a tour tu n Europe, beginning at St. Petersburg in H April. The Prince of TV ales has laid more corner stones for public build/ngs than any man living. Two sons remain of the band of twenty flj children who once called John Brown father. II Hon. Levi P. Morton* has five pretty lit- I tie daughters, between the ages of eight and fifteen. H Senator Morrill, of Vermont, entered H the House of Representatives thirty-four years ago. Mrs. NelAe Grant Sartoris has ar rived in New York from England, on a visit to her mother. H General Harrison is said to be shortest' in stature of any man ever called to tne Presidential chair. K Mrs. Polk, who was mistress of the White House over forty years ago, is now in H her eighty-fifth year. THE MARKETS. I 0 new tors. m Beeves. 3 65 <3) 5 00 n /=vir i.A Milch Cows, com. to good. ..s? w ^ Calves,common to prime.... 3 -? g 4 w Hog*"aSM " Flour?City Mill Extra. 5 CO & 5 15 Patents 5 <*? $ y? Wheat-No. '& Red Rye?State ? ? g Barley-No. 1.. J* ? Cora?Ungraded Mixed.... 40 @ 45# Oats?No- 1 White - @ g* Mixed Western Hay-No. 1 ? @ j? Straw?Long Rye ? b0 ? f }SL Lard-City titeam - @ C-J;? 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