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JOHN BRIGHT. j The Great English Leader's Death After a Long Illness. A Sketch of the Statesman's Long and Eventful Career. _ After a long illness, John Bright, the English statesmau, is deal. His end was peaceful and painless. His four sons and three daughters were all present at his bedside. As soon as his death was annouuced the I church tells of London began tolling. In the House of Commons the Right Hon. William H. Smith, the Government leader, with much emotion referred to the death of Sir. John Bright. He said that he would postpone his remarks on Mr. Bright until Mr. Gladstone would be present Mr. Bright represented the Central Division of Birmingham in the House. Mr. Bright's Career. John Bright, the second son of Martha and Jacob Bright, was born at Greenbank, near Rochdale, Lancashire, November 16, 1811. Far back in his stock there were Jews, but his near ancestors were stanch Quakers. His hatred of civil and religious oppression had its birth in the experiences of his own family. As a Quaker, his father persistently refused to pay church rates and was habitually the ?worpont.c whir?h WAPfl satis- i vlcbllu vi uuuiv<m ?* ? w..kv) .. ..... - fied by seizures of the cotton goods ho dealt in. The circumstances of his boyhood strengthened John' Bright in the sentiments which inspired his political career. His earlier years were spent at Rochdale, which was the theatre of a constant agitation for Parliamentary reform. The first exercise of his oratorical talents was in a literary and philosophical society that had been organized at Kochdale. He read much, and was especially fond of Milton's "Paradise Lost'' and the Bible. He had become a local celebrity, when, at the age of twenty-six, he formed an acquaintance with Richard Cobdeu that did much, no doubt, to direct his intellectual energies into the course they too'.c. In 1S30 ha took part in open air Anti-Corn law meetings, and against the Corn laws and the church rate he subsequently delivered a series of powerful speeches. ^ In 1S43 he was elected to tb9 House of Commons as member for Durham. The rich rharvest of the following year delayed the success of his crusade against th9 Corn law, but the enthusiasm of his followers was not abated. Money poured in, tracts were circulated, and trained speakers visited every village in fthe country. Finally, in 1S40, the import duty on corn was repealed upon the proposition of Sir Robert Peel, the Prime Minister. On the last night of the debate Mr. RnVVifc aiilnwizfi.} Ppp) for the stand he had taken in terras that affected the Premier to tears. Ih ISC) Bright was associated with Cobden in the negotiation of the commercial treaty between France and England. He supported the repeal o? the paper duties, ;which made the penny newspaper press of England possible. During the American Civil War he was a friend of the North, both jin and out of Parliamant. In IS J5 he took a prominent part in th9 agitation in favor of the extension of the elective franchise, which ended with the passage of the Reform bill ,of Aug. 15, 18fi7. He also urged reform in Ireland and the disestablishment of the Irish iChurch. The latter was accomplished in '1S6J. Mr. Bright had now reached the zenith of his fame. He commanded the confidence of the Liberal party in no less degree than Mr. :Gladstone himself, and his name had been linked with every great popular movement of his time. It was therefore natural, when Mr. Gladstone was summoned to form a Ministry in 1S6S, that Mr. Bright should bo invited to occupy a place in it. It was natural, too, that public sentiment should , require a test of his ability to frame the legT?*>.,"f'on that he had so long advocated. ,p". -^'derations influenced him to ac. n?st of President of the Board*of^Trade."" e w23 tlrrt Quaker to hold office in the British Cabinet. A) r$ spect of achievement his political career ended with his acceptance of office. He was "President of the Bonrd of Trade pitil \?Z\ when he was appointed Cilauceiior of the Duchy of Lancaster. To this post he was again aligned when Mr. Gladstone was restored to power after the six years' interval of the Beaconsfield Ministry. He resigned in 1X32 because he disproved the Government's Egyptian policy, which culminated in the bombardment of Alexandria. As an orator John Bright produced with the simplest aids the greatest effects. His mini was free from the classical associations that have exercised an influence upon th3 diction of other great English speakers, and his speeches are splendid examples of the possibilities of the Anglo-Saxon toague. He was able to modulate his voice to suit the sentiment he expressed, yet his declamation was never merely theatrical. His words seemed to resell the hearts as well as the heads of those who heard him. He knew well how to mak** and humor perform the same service as -a pathos and tragedy, and w&s almost as quick as Disraeli in coining apt phrases. During hjs later years he sat in Parliament for the most bart in silence, appai- i ently living much in the past. When he" djd j speak, constant allusion to his own triumphs ! marred the effect of his utterances. From ? an early sympathy with the Irish, he fell into tho advocacy of coercive measures. When he took his stand against Home Kule the friendship that existed between Mr. Gladstone and himself for nearly half a century suffered a shock whose effects were never repaired. Nearly all his later public utterances contain unkind references to his former associate. His last great speech was at Birmingham against Irish Home Rule, and this greatly damaged Mr. Gladstone's side. His last speech in the Commons was on the Speaker's election in j 8 3G. His last prolonged speech in the Commons was on the franchise. This was a failure, showing signs of his mental decay. A CONSULATE SACKED. The Lawless Work of an Enraged Chinese Mob. The Department of State is in receipt of Information concerning the recent riot at Ching-Kiang, China. The trouble arose out < of the stoning; of tho Sikh policemen of the British quarter by a crowd of boys and young men. It occurred on a Chinese nonaay, when business wospractically suspended in the town and when the streets were thronged with idlers. The quarrel of the boys was assumed by the men, and a general fight ensued. A Chinaman was knocked down by the police, and the report was current that he was killed. Immediately the enraged mob . attacked and burned the police stations. The roadway was thronged with ?0,000 rioters, who surged toward the United States and British consulates. I- When the situation became a'arming 300 soldiers from the neighboring barracks appeared upon the scene, but their appearance served only to excite the derision of the mob. Undeterred by the soldiers, the gates of the United States and British consulates were assauitei and the British consulate burned, the Consul barely escaping with his life by climbing over a rear fence. With much difficulty the two Consuls, with their families, effected their escapo, and reached a mail steamer which had arrived just iu time to evade tho fury of the rioters, who were in hoc pursuit. The mob mad? various unsuccessful efforts to board tha vessel, but it was repulsed in each instance. The arrival of a brigade of soldiers in the evening and a iT British man-of-war the following morning had the effect of restoring quiet. \ '? - v % THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Eastern and Middle State*. The City Hall at Dover, N. H., was destroyed by fire. Several near-by buildings were also damaged. Loss nearly $100,000. Robert Craven*, of Philadelphia, the Secretary and Treasurer of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, has stolen over $10,000 and fled. Ex-Private Secretary Dan Lamont has been chosen President of the Houston, West Street and Paronia Ferry Railroad Company of New York city by the unanimous vote of the directors. Emily Schenckle was Albert Lindstrom's sweetheart four years ago in Sweden. She refused to marry him after he paid her passage here, and in Worcester, Masst. ho shot her, injuring her fatally, and then killed himself. Ex-United States Senator John Scott, President and one of the receivers of the Allegheny Valley Railroad Company, died at Pittsburg of pneumonia, in his sixty-ninth year. He was identified with a large number of financial and industrial institutions in Pittsburg, aud was one of the originators of the Edgar Thomas Steel Company. Owen McGoldrick and his son James, aged fifty and twenty years respectively, were killed by a train at Meriden, Conn. Oxe workman was killed and two were fatally injured by the collapse of an unfinished building at Binghamton, N. Y. Patrick Fleming, a hay dealer of Providence, R. I., has left town with liabilities placed at $40,000. W. H. Bigelow, of Maine, has been ap pointed Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service of Js'ew England. The probabilities were that the steamship Conserva, which sailed from New York to become a gunboat in the service of Hippolyte, the leader of the Haytian insurgents, was wrecked by collision and that not only did she go to the bottom, but also the unknown craft which struck her. The Commander of the steamer was John Henry Ankers, of Brooklyn. The crew was composed of twentythree Malays and Lascars. The explosion of a barrel of kerosene destroyed a hat factory in Williamsburg. N.Y., and there being no other escape for the eighty workpeople, they leaped from the windows. About twenty were seriously in jured, two fatally. E. Ccmmin-gs & Co., Boston leather dealers, have failed for ?3)0,000. South and "West. Two Mexican raiders who crossed the border into Texas with objects of robbery were killed by American officers. Three of the latter vrere wounded. A girl named Ada Lebrecht lost her life in the burning of the Standard Bagging Factory at St. Louis. Dan* Ward, sixteen years old, shot and killed Ed. Burke, two years his junior, at Birmingham, Ala. Burke asked Ward fcr a cigarette and the latter replied he had none. Burke called his friend a liar, when Ward shot him. The mill of the Chicago Lumber Company at Denver, Col., was burned. Loss, $75,000. Goldberg Brothers, of Milwaukee, Wis., dealers in laces, have failed for $110,030. The plant of the St. Paul (Minn.) Meat and Provision Company was burned. Loss ?300,000. Burns Hargett, aged twelve years, was caught by the foot and drawn between the rollers of a corn-crusher at Fredrick. Md. It was two hours before the body could be released, and then it was ground up into a mere mass of flesh and bones. Navigation is open for the season in all the Western rivers. Alvis Turner and Jeff King were going toward Cumberland Gap, Ky.. and James Burch was coming to town, and the meeting was celebrated by Alvis Turner shooting at Burch, the ball only striking Burch's gun. Burch returned the Are, promptly killing Alvis Turner, and then King fired on Burch, killing him and beating a hasty retreat up Clear Creek. Eight tramps were publicly flogged on their bare backs by a Citizens Committee in Fairbury, Neb., for impudent and boisterous conduct. A fire at Konny, 111., destroyed $100,003 worth of property, including more than twenty stores and business houses. A train near Dunlap's, Ind., struck a buggy containing Robert McCaffrey, aged twenty, and Miss Delia Love, aged eighteen, of Elkhart. Both were found on the pilot of the engine dead. McCaffrey's head was crushed, and the young woman's neck broken. Harvey Johnson, a thirteen-year-old boy, and a playmate found a small keg of powder in a barn at Sioux City, Iowa. The Johnson boy dropped a lighted cigarette into the keg, and an explosion followe-J, which killed them both. The Central Warehouse at Chicago, with its valuable store of teas and co.Tees, was burned to the ground, entailing a I033 of about $1,500,000. Lee Lyons, a colored ex-convict, was driven to bay at Franklinton, N. C., and as he refused to surrender, the Sheriff and his deputies fired six bullets into him, ending his life. ? Washington. Secretary Tracy lias ordered the steamer Thetis to proceed to Sitka, Alaska The President has issued a proclamation forbidding the killing of any otter, mink, marten, sable or fur seal, or ocher fur-bearing animal in Alaska. Penalties fixed for its violation are for each offence $201) to SI,000 fine and not more than six months' imprison ment, or botD, ana tse vessels wm do confiscated. The President has signed the proclamation opening Oklahoma to settlement. May 1 is set as the date for opening the Territory. Jcdge Chandler, of Independence, Ma, has accepted the place of First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Secretary Wisdom has appointed James H. Windrim, of Philadelphia, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, vice Will A. Freret, resigned by request. The President has reserved Monday to himself, and on that day sees those only with whom he has engagements. Colonel Fred D. Grant called at the Departnv^tof State and took the oath <?f office as Minister to Austria. Secretary Wisdom has issued the following instructions to customs officers in regard to the Paris Exposition: Manufacturers, articles or wares produced or manufactured in the United States which may be sent to the Paris Exhibition of 1SS9 for exhibition will upon their return to tho United States be admitted to free entry. Postmaster-General Wanamaker end the Hawaiian Minister have signed a convention increasing the amount of money -J ?U? tn ?1/lfl oruejs u:mern luc u??w i?w tiw, Postmaster-General Wanamaker has appointed the following division superintendents of the railroad mail service: First Division, W. H. Bigelow, Boston, Mass.; Second Division, R. C. Jackson,New York; Third Division, C. IV. Vickery, Washington, D. C.; Fourth Division, L. M. Terrell, Atlanta, Ga.: Fifth Division, George W. Peppor, Cleveland, Ohio. The Ministers have prevailed upon the the Queen of Holland to undertakfe temporarily the duties of Regent. The Cabinet has decided to convoke a Congress of the two Chambers for the purpose of declaring the King incapacitated for the duties of a S cvereign. TnE two Spanish coasting steamships Mindao and Visayas collided off Manilla. The former sank with thirty of her crew and passengers. Ex-President Cleveland was entertained at dinner in Havana by the Governor of Cuba. The Hon. Guy Dawnay, Member of the British Parliament, has been killed by a buf . 1-M- i M?C, fclanH '/itivihar iaio WUUO UUllklllg \JII .UO.-N. Africa. He was member for North Yorkshire, served in the Zulu war and was just forty years of age. Foreign. So far this year there have baen fiftoan duels and sixteen suicides at Monte Carlo, the groat Italian gambling resort. It is estimated that the losses due to the collapse of the French copper ring amount to $20,000,000. A French torpsdo boat has foundered off Cherbourg in a hurricane. Her captain and fourteen of her crew were drowned 1 Count Peter Schuvaloff. the distinguished Russian diplomat and General, died at St. Petersburg, aged sixty-one. The town of Pinsk in Russia has been destroyed by fire. Six persons were burned to death. w . J The barracks in the citadel at Halifax, Nova Scota, were burned, and the city was endangered for a time by the proximity of the fire to the powder magazine. An expedition of 0000 Mahdists proceeded in steamers and barges against Emin Pasha. Emin defeated the dervishes near Bohr, killing most of them and capturing their steamers and much ammunition. There have lately been sixty sudden deaths in a hospital at Florence, Italy, all preceeded by intestinal disturbance. Some newspapers attribute the deaths to bad food, others to cholera. An excursion party of seventeen persons enjoying a sail on Lake Chalpa,in the State of Jalisco, Mexico, were capsized by a gale and all were drowned. A white book on Samoa has been issued at Eerlin; Prince Bismarck repudiates the arts and utterances of Consul Knappe, the German Consul at Samoa. The Government has taken steps to prevent the introduction into Mexico of American lard, owing to the official announcement that it is detrimental to health. England has demanded of Morocco S250,000 indemnity for the massacre and pillage at the Mackenzie factory at Cape Jubyin 1$S* . , Minister Heemskerk has been appointed Regent of Holland. Cholera has broken out at Zamboanga, in the Philippine Islands. There have been C 1 J J live uuuurou uoauua o\j jloi. Thousands of canal workmen have left the Isthmus of Panama, and work has about stopped. King Charles's nephew, Prince Ferdi- , nand, has been proclaimed Crown Prince ol Roumania. The steamer Ocotlan fouadered on Lake Chapala, near Guadalajara, Mexico. A large excursion party was on board at th? time. Fifty bodies were recovered from the wreck. Many more were known to be stil' in the wreck. "lateFnews," The strike of the weavers in Fall River, Mass., is ended, and the operatives have returned to work on the old basis. The largest dry goods establishment in Scranton, Penn., owned by the firm of Clelland, Simpson & Taylor, who carried a stock valued at $200,000, was destroyed by fire. The loss is almost total. The pattern-shop of the Fort Pitt (Penn.) Foundry was burned. The loss is $100,000. Arthur Mattashed and William Gravelly Darling, two Englishmen, have been murdered and robbed by a half breed guide named Gray Bud in the vicinity of Sweet Grass Hills, Montana, whither they went on a hunting excursion. Ex-President Cleveland has returned to Florida from Cuba. Jim Turnet and Mack Francis were publicly hanged at Lebanon, Tenn., for the murder of Len Martin. "General" Turner's house at Pineville, Ky., was burned on Tuesday night, and Turner and his family perished in the flames. John Rosenberger. a farmer, shot dead Andrew Castaline in a row over a trivial matter near Creighton, Neb., then burned his own house to the ground and shot himself dead. General Luis E. Torres, Governor of Lower California, has sent a message to the press, stating that the reports of the discovery of gold in that couutry have Lesn grossly exaggerated. Ex-Representative Peter P. Mahoney, of Brooklyn, died a few days sinco in "Washington. He was born in 1S4S. Corporal Tanner has assumed direction of the Pension Office. President Harrison has received his first month's salary. It amounted to $3,S;8.SS, and was delivered to him in the form of a Treasury draft. It was for the month of March, minus the first three days. Mr. Cleveland received the President's salary for that portion of the month. Governor Beaver, of Pen nsylvania, was assaulted in Washington by a retired army officer named Armes. The Governor repulsed him with his crutch. The cause of the trouble was the exclusion of Armes from the Inaugural parade. The Duke of Buckingham is dead. He was born in 1823. Queen* Victoria and Queen Regent Christina met at San Sebastian, Spain. A disastrous collision is reported on the < Taku and Sientsin Railway, China, resulting in many deaths. J YELLOW_FEVER. Over 2000 Victims a Month at Rio, . Brazil. i In Rio, Brazil, at present there is but one j topic?the epidemic which is making such > great ravages among all classes. The official returns of the deaths from yellow fever since the commencement of the year sum up 1500 vict'ins from that form of fever alone, and the mortality from other types is unusually great. Tho inhabitants of Itio are in fact dying ai the rate of two thousand a month in a city of three hundred thousand, largely depleted by the flight of every one able to take refuge in the highland sanitaria. Children from ten years down are the special prey, even infants a few days old succumbing to yellow fever, and no medical skill avails to save the families of the most eminent physicians from decimation. No doubt the great severity of the epi demic arises from the complete failure of tue rainy season to make its appearance, resulting in a great scarcity of water and in the drying up of the swamps inside and gytside the city so effectually that not a croak of a frog is to be heard where in other years tha cars were deafened with their noise. KENTUCKY BANDITS. A Posse of Fifty Men Captnre Five Members of a Lawless Ganj. For some months a gang of law-defying characters have been making their headquarters on Stinging Creek, the wildest and most unsettled district of Knox County, Ky. Warrants have been repeatedly issued for them by the county authorities, Out they have always managed to elude the officers or drive them back at the muzzle of their Winchesters. The other morning the Shoriff and three deputies attempted to surprise the gang and bring them in, but were them selves waylaid and fired upon, and forced to beat a hasty retreat, barely escapin; with their lives. .1 udge D. N. Cull, who is presiding in the Circut Court at Barboursville, was no sooner informed of the route of the Sheriff's party and the defiant position taken by the lawless "Creekers," than he appointed a pro-tempore Judge, put himself at the head of fifty resolute men, and marched toward the locality oC the recent outrages. Only five of the gang were captured, as the rest had fled before the attack of tha Judge's party. A MOTHER'S ACT. Her Husband Dyfnc. She Kills Herself and Child. A few days ago F. E. Rand, a conductor on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad,diel of consumption at Rock Island, IIL, next day neighbors noticed that the Ran 1 house was unusually quiet. It was decided to force an entrance. Mrs. Rand was found dead in be J, with her children in her arms in a dying condition. Before retiring Mrs. Rand had placed where it could readily be seen an open Bible with the xxiii Psalm marked. Near by was a uote explaining that she was so grisf stricken that she had resolved to take her life and the lives of her children. She had told them that they would wake that morning in another world, and requested that she and her children be buried in the grave with her late husband. The prompt efforts of physicians and friends saved one of the children. The other died. The woman took a deadly poison and than turned the gas on. She was a young and popular woman in the society of that town. J - ? --r.. V- - - . GOVERNMENT OFFICES, j Presidential Nominations and Senate Confirmations. The List of Appointments in the Diplomatic Service, TVRITELAW REID, MINISTER TO FRANCE. Eighth Day's Nominations. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate durinir the afternoon: Miles C. Moore, of Walla Walla, Washington Territory, to be Governor of Washington Territory. Oliver C. White, of Dayton, Washington Territory, to be Secretary of Washington Territory. Henry N. Bland, of Montana, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana. John D. Fleming, of Colorado, to be United States Attorney for the District of Colo rado. Postmastars?John E. Mole, at Adams, Mass.; Seth Pratt, at Litchfield. Conn.: Charles E. Doty, at South Nor walk, Conn.; Henry P. Horton, at Philmont, N. Y.; Frederick R. Hoag, at Phelps, N. Y.; George H. Shufeldt, at Chatham, N. Y.; Herman F. Fox, at Geneva, N. Y.; Hu^h G. Thomas, al Granville, N. Y.; John M. Sutton, Woodbridge, N. J.; Steven A. Philley, Troy, Ala. j Carlos G. Wilson, Milledeeville, I1L; Alanson H. Reed, Flora, 111.; William R. Parks, Petersburg, 111.: Graham L. Rice, West Superior, Wis.; Daniel Ivorns, New' Philadelphia, Ohio; John F. Welch, Nolsonville, Ohio; George W. Eaker, at Athens, Ohio; James S. Reeves, Union City, Ind.; De Witt C. Carr, Fowlerville. Mich.: John P. Yost, North Bend, Neb.; John W. Banbury, Britton, Dakota. In the distribution of Executive patronage the offices had thus far been distributed as follows: New York 4, Massachusetts 1, Michigan 1, California 1, Minnesota 1, Indiana 2, Illinois 2, Maine 2, Iowa 2, Ohio 1, Pennsylvania 1, Wisconsin 1, West Virginia 1, Connecticut 1, New Jersay 1, Delaware 1; total 23. No resident of New Hampshire, Vermont. Rhode Island, Nebraska, Missouri, Oregon, Nevada, or any Southern State had received an appointment up to this date. Ninth Day's Nominations. Tho President sent the following nominations to the Senate during the forenoon. James Tanner, of Brooklyn, N. Y., to be Commissioner of Pensions. James M. Shackelford, of Indiana, to be Judge of the United States Court for the In* dinn Territory. Zachariah L. Walrond, of Kansas, to be Attorney of the United Slates Court for the Indian Territory. Thomas B. Needles, of Illinois, to be Marshal of tho United Stales Court for the Indian Territory. Walter P. Corbctt, of Georgia, to ha Marshal of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia. Edwin Willits, of Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. Commodore David B. Harmony to be Rear Admiral. Captain Francis M. Ramsey to be a Commodore. Cpnimandor William T. Sampson to bo captain. Lieutenant-Commander R. B. Bradford to bo Commander. Lieutenant E. H. C. Leutze to be a Lieutenant Commander. Ensign John U. (Juinby to bo a Lieutenant, junior grade. Lieutenant-Commander George A. Converse to bo a Cotntnan ler. Lieutenant F. I'. Gilmore to be a Lieutonant-Commander. Lieutenant FrankE. Beatty, junior grade, vo bs a Lieutenant. Ensign Thomas S. Rogers to be a Lieutenant, junior grado. Manly Fitch Gates, of Pennsylvania, to ^ an ussistant surgoon. The Senate late in the afternoon confirmed the nominations of A. B. Bradley, Assistant Justice of th2 Supremo Court of the District of Columbia; Frank K. Aikens, Associate Justice, Dakota, J. R. McFie, Associate Justice. Now Mexico; H. N. Blake, Chief Jus tiee, Montana; J. D. Flennery, District I Attorney, Colorado; M. C. Moore, Govirnor ot Washington Territory; 0. C. White, Socretary of Washington Territory; N. 0. Murphy, Secretary of Arizona; Julius Goldschmidt, Consul-General at Vienna; Edwin Willetts, Assistant Secretary :>f Agriculture, and a large number of Postmasters. After discussing tin matter for over threo hours the Senate confirmed Whitelavr Reid, of New York, to be Envoy Extra- j ordinary aw} Minister Ploniootentiarv to franco, and Fro! D. Grant, oT 77ew York, to ' be Minister to Austria-Hungary. Tho nominations of naval officers for promotion roported recently were all confirmed. James Tanner was born in Schoharie Co., N. Y. At tho age of seventeen be enlistod as i a jjrivate in tho Eight. New York Volunteers. For gallantry on tne lieia uo was inaae a corporal. A shell at Bull Run tore away both of his legs, and his career as a soldier was onded. A clerkship in the "War Department at Washington was awarded him. During his connection with tho department ho studied law, and in 1869 was admitted to practice. Sinc3,he has beon an active worker in tho G. A. R, Tenth Day's NominationsPresident Harrison during the afternoon seut the following nominations to the Senate Francis E.Warren, of Wyoming Territory, lo be Governor of Wyoming Territory. Benjamin F. White, of Dillon, Montana, to be Governor of Montana. l^ee Moorehouse, of Oregon, to bo A^ent for the Indians of Unatilla Agency in Oregon. Robert \. Bolt, of Maryland, to be Assistant Commissioner of Iudian Affairs. Oscar M. Spellraati, of Arkansas, to be Marshal of tho United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Charles C. Walters, of Arkansas, to be United Stites Attorney for tho Eastern District of Arkansas. Postmasters?Charles B. rVescott, a' folyoke, Mass.; Clarence M. Heed, at Dun kirk, N. Y.; Edward 13. Vreeman, at Salf manca, N. Y.; James M. Clark, at New castle, Penn.; Charles W. Jones, Martinsville. Va The following nominations were confirmed by the Senate: Jamos Tanner, Commissioner of Pensions. Jeremiah Sullivan, Collector of Customs for Montana and Idaho. .fames W. Wakefield, Collector of Customs, Bath. Me. netigman iiroi, social Hscal agents Navy Department at l/ondon. Ueorgo W. McB/ide, Collector of Customs for Grand Haven, Mich. Charles (j. Hdwards, Collector of Customs or Minnesota. Charles M. Bradshaw, Collector of Cusoms, I'ugot Sound, Washington Territory. Z. T. Walroud, Unite I Statos Attorney, Indian Territory. T. B. Needles, Marshal. Indiau Territory. J. M. Shackleford, Judge, fndiau Territory. Eleventh Day's Nominations. The President on this day sent to the Senate the following nominations: Robert Lincolu, of Illinois, to be Minister to Great Britain. Murat HaisteJ, of Ohio, to be Minister to Germany. Allen Thomdike Rice, of New York, to be Minister to Russia. Patrick Egan, of Nebraska, to be Minister to Chili. Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, to bo Minister to Mexico. John Hicks, of Wisconsin, to be Minister to Peru. George B. Loring, of Massachusetts, to be Minister Resident and Consul-General to Portugal. Marion Erwin, of Georgia, to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georeia. = - - ----- > \ i-"~ ' i. i , . V : r" : . ' ? - . * ' * V : m Tyre Glenn,of North Carolina,to bs United States Marshal for the Western District of North Carolina. Jame3 0. Churchill, of Missouri, to be Surveyor of Customs for the port of St. Louis. Postmasters?Abram W. Lansing at Platsburg, N. Y.; David A. Jones at Scranton, Penn.; Chester A. Wilcox at Quincy, 111.; Osceola R. Serviss at Kansas City, Mo. The Senato confirmed the following nominations: Albert A. Burleigh, Collector of Customs at Aroostook, Me.; Francis E. Warren, Governor of Wyoming Territory; Benjamin F. White, Governor of Montana: Robert V. Belt, Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs. OKLAHOMA OPENED, A Presidential Proclamation Openins the New Lands to Settlement. The President has issued a proclamation throwing open the Oklahoma lands to settlement on and after April 22. The bulk of the proclamation is devoted to a review of the proceedings by which the lands in question nave been secured by the Indians and the legislation of Congress providing for their opening to settlement. The proclamation then reads as follows: Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by said acts of Congress approved March 2, 1SS9, aforesaid, do hereby declare and make known that so much af the lands as aforesaid acquired from or conveyed by the Muscogee (or Creek) Nation of Indians, and from or by the Seminole Nation of Indians, respectively, as is contained within the following described boundaries, viz. [here the boundaries are described], will at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon, of the 22d day of April next, and not before, be open for settlement under the terms of and subject to all the conditions, limitations, and restrictions contained in said Act of Congress, approved March 2, 188'J, and the laws of the United States applicable thereto. And it is hereby expressly declared and made known that no other parts or portions of the lands embraced within the Indian Territory than those herein specifically described and declared to be open to settlement I at the time above named and fixed are to be considered as op3n to settlement under this proclamation or the act of March 2, ISS'J, aforesaid; and warning is hereby again expressly given that no parson entering upon and occupying said lands before said hour at 12 o'clock noon, of the 22d day of April, A- D. 18S9, hereinbefore fixed," will ever be permitted to enter any of said lands or acquire any rights theroto: and that the officers of the United States will be required to strictly enforce the provision of the act of Congress to the above eft feet. The Commissioner of the General Land Office issued an order establishing two land offices in the Oklahoma Territory, one at Kingfishers?State station?and the other at Guthrie. TWO BROTHERS HANGED. Timothy and Peter Barrett Strangled on the Same Scaffold. Timothy and Peter Barrett have been banged at Minneapolis, Minn., for the murlerof Thomas Tollefson, July 26, 18S7. The irop fell at 11:13 a. :s. Ine crime for which they suffered death was the murder of Driver Thoma3 i/oiieison or tne ueaar avenue street car une, July 26,1SS7. About 12:30 o'clock on the night mentioned, when the car was in the suburbs on its last trip, three men boarded it, and, holding revolvers to the head of the driver, demanded the cash box. He refused to give it up and was shot twice and killed. The murderers then fled, carrying the box with them. They secure 1 but $20. Some weeks later Henry, alias "Reddy," Barrett i was arrested on suspicion and finally confessed to tbe details of the murder, implicaing his two brothers, Timothy and Peter Barrett, who were tried for the murder and sentenced to death. DYNAMITE IN THE STOVE. A Fathers Carelessness Kills His "Wife, Son and Daughter. A terrible dynamite explosion occurred ten miles east of Logansport, Ind., destroying the farmhouse of Aaron B. York, killing bis wife and sixteen-year-old daughter, and fatally wounding his son. York purchased several sticks of dynamite, to be used in removing the stumps on his farm. That morning be found that the dynamite was damp, and ho promptly placed it in V.o nran nt tlia stOVfl. HlS Wiffl was cooking breakfast at tbe time, and there were four children in the house. York went out to look after his stock, but was not more than fifty feet from the houso when the explosion oc-' curred. The house was razed to the ground. Mrs. York and her daughter Victoria wero killed. Cornelius York, a son, was mutilated in a horrible manner and fatallr hurt. One little girl of four years and a baby of eight months were taken from the ruins unhurt. KILLED BY HAILSTONES. The Strange Fate of a Youn/j Man in North Carolina. A hailstorm which swept across New Hanover County, N. C., a few days ago, was the severest on record. The full extent of its damage was not known until next day. The strangest fact of all was the killing of .Benjamin Moore, a ycung colored man, by the haiL Moore was caught in the storm in the suburbs of Wilmington and was beaten by the enormous hailstones until he was completely exhausted. He was discovered after the storm lying helpless on the ground. He was bleeding at the mouth and nose, and his condition was so alarming that a physician was sent for, but before he arrived Moore was dead. The damage to crops, stock and building was enormous. THE LAB0R_W0RLD. John* Bright, the English statesman, employs over 2000 hands. York (Penn.) machinists aro sending engines to South America. As association of head waitar3 and chief Btewards has been formed. Thhhe is a man in Hartford. Conn., who has worked at forty-six different trades. The New York Furniture Workers' Union has declared in favor of sight hours in 1S9J. Less than ten per cent, of the wage earners of New Jersey work less than sixty hour3 a week. The National Textilo Workers' Union bas nineteen local unions and a total membership of o'J'JO. Over 4000 miners at Bromwoll, W. Va., have struck because of the varying sizes of mine-cars. A number of potters are now using electricity for the purification of kaolin and other porcelain clays. The New England Boot and Shoe Lasters' Union, organized December 27, 1S7(J, now has 10,000 members. Iron* making is about to be resumed in the district of Marquette, Mich., with co'ce in place of charcoal for fuel. The Workmen's Congress at Chatolet, Belgium, has decided upon a general and immediate strike of the colliers. Philadelphia reports her textile mills to be running on full time and with prospects of a fairly good season ahead. Spindles in the town of Oldham, England, have grown ia the last ten years from 7,500,0j0 to more than 11,000,000. Trrr evstem of workincmen's insurance, which is maintained by the German Government, is working very satisfactorily. England owns more than half the cotton spindles in the world, and with them consumes more than a third of the total cotton crop. Even the best workers, making cigars by liand, average only ?15 per week if working full time all the year round on first class material. The Commonwealth Boot and Shoa Factory of Marlboro, Mass., has decided to dispense with its live lasters in favor of maohinaa | Alexander, the thirteen-year-old King pf Servia, has written to hfs mother, exQueen Natalie, to remain absent from Servia, as, he says, her presence in the country would render hi? position a difficult one. The first Postmasters to receive commissions under President Harrison's Administration were Lensia L. Sayles, at Malone, N. Y.. end Lawson R. Muzzy, Pulaski, N. Y. - - r i TEE COMING CENTENNIAL.' How Washington's Inauguration Will be Commemorated. Notes Concerning the Parades and Exercises in New York. The New York Commercial Advertise says that the idea of the Washington Centennial, to commemorate the inauguration of Washington as the first President of the United States, originated with Colonel Peyton, of New Jersey, and through Clarence W. Bo wen was finally brought to the attention of Elbridge T. Gerry, who went into the tbing with intense enthusiasm and soon succeeded in interesting a number of prominent citizens. The procession which escortel Washington to his inauguration was necessarily a small affair in point of numbers and display when compared with the demonstration which will be made in New York on April 30 and May 1, One hundred years ago the paraders assembled at the President's mansion in Cherry street, New York. Thence they marched along Queen street to the great dock and by Broad street to the scene of the inaugural ceremonies, where the Sub Treasury now stands. The exercises at St. Paul's Church, it has been determined, must be^in at nine o'clock of the morning of April 30, at which hour President Harrison will be present. TUe services will only occupy thirty minutes. The ground floor of the church seats 530 persons; 1"0 stools may be used in the aisles; the galleries seat 350, and there is standing room for 150 more. So there is accommodation in the church for 12G0 and no more. The literary exercises on the steps of the Sub-Treasury building'are to follow immediately after the exercises at St. Paul's. These are considered by Mr. Gerry the most significant and interesting feature of the entire celebration, as they are directly commemorative of Washington's inauguration. These exercises will consist of an oration by Chauncey M. Depew, the reading of a poem by John Greenleaf Whittle.- and a ten-minute speech by President Harrison. The plan is to have these exercises concluded by twelve o'clock so that the great military parade may be started promptly at that hour. The military parade (in which arrangements have been made by Colonel S. V. R. Cruger) will be an affair of vast magnitude. It is promised that 50,000 troops will be in line Red that the entire National Guard of the State of New York will appear,something which lias not occurred since the war. This parade will be reviewed from a grand stand to be erected on Madison Square and from five to six hours will be occupied in the passin t nf thotrnnna. It has been (fetermiued to make the parade of the New York State National Guard a compulsory one. This will have <the double effect of adding to the impressiveness of the Washington centennial parade and of giving an ocular demonstration of the effective strength of the State militia. The arrangements for fireworks provide for displays in the different parks on the night of April 39. The finest display will be in Madison Square, and the next best in City Hall Park, and the third in excellence in Bryant Park. The others will be in Bowling Green, Washington square, Tompkins square, Mount Morris Park, Fifty-ninth street and Eighth avenue, Eighty-sixtn street nnd Avenue A and Washington Heights. They will all be more or less similar in character, each display to cost between $500 and $2500. The naval display will occur on the morning of April 29, and will continue during the time of President Harrison's progress from the point of embarkation to the foot of Wall street, where he will be received by Governor Hill and Mayor Grant, precisely as Washington was received 100 years ago by Governor Clinton and Mayor Duane. The Navy Department at Washington has promised its earnest co operation, and it is noped that the display will far surpass anything which has ever been seen on the bay. The will Aiirttinn tinf mnrd fVinn f.wn uuiauo niu t^vv mv?w v**v tours. A TRIPLE MURDER Defaulter W. H. 'Harvey Kills His Wife an<l Two Daughters. W. H. Harvey, bookkeeper for W. J. Lyon, of Guolpb, Canada, was arrested, charged with embezzling $4000 from his employer, and was shortly afterward bailed out by Dr. Lett. During the forenoon Harvey Surchased a revolver. The Chief of Police ad occasion to visit Harvey's residence during the afternoon find found the house closed. Forcing an entrance he found Harvey'slittle girl oF twelve years lying dead on the floor of the front bedroom with a bullet holo in her head. Turning from the awful sight he found the eldest daughter lying beside a bed dead. The chief then went down stairs and found Mrs. Harvey with a similar bullet wound. Harvey was se;n driving toward Schaw station, and was pursued and arrested. Harvey was Superintendent of St. George's Church Sunday-school. He attempted to murder his son and commit suicide before being arrested. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Tragedian* Ban-dhann has closed his tour. 2Iary Anderson's favorite game is chess. Verdi says ho intends to write no more operas. Minnie Palmer, the actress, is a native of Philadelphia. Margaret Mather is now one th9 best paying stars on the road. Dion Boucicault, the playwright, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1822. W. J. Florence will act with Jefferson next season on percentage, not salary. The London critics agre9 that Richard Mansfield's Richard III. is a great success. Lcdwtg. the world-famed baritone, was once a choir boy in a little Catholic Church in Dublin. Pauline Hall, the opera bouflfe artist, is quite ill in New York from diphtheritic sore throat. Materna, the German prima donna, is styled by the Brussels press "The Musical Elocutionist." Harrigan* and Hart are again friends, and will probably act together at Harrigan's New York theatre next season. Anton Sylva, the tenor, has been engaged at the Berlin Opera, at a salary of ?6259 for the season of four mouths. Mrs. Rosa M. Leland, widely known as a theatrical manager, died in Albany, N. Y.t a few days ago of nervous prostration. Mrs. James Brown Potter has decided , to add "Camille" to her repertory, and at present i3 busily engaged in studying the role. Joseph Jefferson's personal recollections, written by himsolf and edited by a personal friend, will be published in the autumn. Mme. Emy Fcrsch-Madi Verle, the singer, recovered a verdict for ?11,100 against the American School of Opera in the New York Supreme Court. Francis Wilson, comic opera favorite, has been discharg?l from the New York Casino Company bv Manager Aronson for insubordination and breach o? discipline. John W. Norton*, the Sfc. Louis actor and manager under whose tuition Mary Ander- [ son developed, has a new tragedienne in training. Frankie Davids is her name and Louisville is her place of habitation. Enrico Tamberlik, the greatest tenor of the century, has just died at Rome, Italy, aged sixty-nine. He was the contemporary of Rubini and Mario, and has had no equal in such opiras as "II Poliuto" and "William TelL" Mart Anderson* is seriously ill in Philadelphia, and has cancaled her engagement for the rest of the season. Arrangements have been efl!ecte:l by which Miss Julia Marlowe will play the bulk of Miss Anderson's Eastern dates. A performance of Mendelssohn's "Elijah" is to be given at the Crystal Palace, London, in June, which will enlist the services of Mesdames Albaui and Patti and Messrs. Lloyd and Santley as the principal vocalists and a band and chorus of 300^ performers under Mr. Manus. Willtam J. Calhoun, who was sentenced to be hanged at Dover, DeL, has been rej iplted by Governor Biggs until April, 1914. STANLEY_MATTHEWa S Deafh of a United States SupremeflH Court Jnstlco. jflJH The Hon. Stanley Matthews, AssocIat^HI Justice of the United States Supreme Court^^H who has been serionsly ill for some time pas^HH died at 10.30 o'ciock in the morning at home in Washington City. . When the Supreme Court met the chai^^H which had been occupied by Justice MatHH thews was draped in black. When the Jus^^^R tices had taken their seats and the Marsha^HH had opened the court, Chief Justice Fulta^^H announced that the court had just heard olHH the death ot Justice Matthews, and thaS^H therefore no business would be transarfm^^H that day. The Marshal declared the cour^JH adjourned until the following Tuesday. Stanley Matthews was born in CincinnatiSHj Ju'y 21, 1S24. He was graduated at Kanyoi^^H College in 1S40, studiei law and was ad^^H mitted to the Bar, settling in Maury County^HH Tenn. He shortly after returned to CIncin-? nati. He became editor of the Cincinnaft^HB Herald, the first daily anti-slavery paper that city. in 1851 ho became Judge ot the Court o^^B Common Fleas in Hamilton County, State Senator in 1855, and in 1856-31 wia| United States Attornoy for the southerr^^B district of Ohio. He served with distinction in the Uniot^BMj Army during the war, but resigned his com-^^H mission as Colonel in 1863 to become of the Supreme Court in Cincinnati. raH He was a Presidential elector on the Lln^HJ coin-Johnson ticket in 18ti4andon theGrant^^H Colfax ticket in 1S58. He was defeated oi^H| Republican candidate for Congress in 187(^^Bfl and in the next year was one of the connse^Hl before the celebrated Electoral Commisdong^^S opening the argument in behalf of the Ra^BM publican electors of Florida and making thfH principal argument in the Oregon case.v HH In March, 1877, he was elected UnitedflHfl States Senator in place of John SfaermanJBB who had resigned. hBI In 1881 he was appointed Associate Justicfl^^M of the United States Supreme Court by^Hfl President Haye3, just before the latter ra-BBM cated his office Mr. Matthews's nominationj^^B was not acted on, and he was renominated^^E by President Garfield. His appointmentHH was confirmed by the Senate on May 12,H The Funeral Service. Funeral services over the remains of the^HR late Associate Justice Stanley Matthews^^H] were held at the family residence, corner ofHH Connecticut avenae and N street, Washlnp^^H ton. The remains lay in tbe music room,H^H adjoining the reception room on the south,^^H and tbe apartment was almost filled withHB flowers. The casket was cloth covered, witb^^H silver rails and handles, and on the covex^^H was a silver plato bearing the inacription^^M Stanley Matthews, born July 21, 1834, died^BI March 22,1SS9. M The face and bust of the deceased were ei<^HE posed to view and presented a lifelike aspect. On the casket were bunches of Easter liliesBH and lilies of the valley. There were in attendance a large number^BH of prominent persons in all ranks of life, besides manv family friends in the priv-^^S ate walks of life." Among the earliest arrivals?? were the members of the Supreme Court, who had se&ts in the room where the bier^^H stood. In this room were also the PresidentflMH and Vice-President, members of the Cabinet^HB and the family. ^H9| The services, which were conducted byHH Rev. T. S. Hamlin, of the Chnrcb of the covenant, pastor or too urceaseu, ttau acv.^h Dr. Leonard, rector of the St. John'sJSjii?pe?i^MB pal Church, were brief. The remains were^^H taken to the Baltimore and Ohio station, whence they were conveyed to Glendale,^^H Ohio, for interment in Spring Grove aBB Cemetery. Mfl DTK AMITE'S DEADLY FOECE* Two Men Killed by an Explosion^^H That Was Heard Miles Away. A sound like the combined roar of hun-HB dreds of cannon, followed by the ascension ofHB a huge black cloud of smoke to a toweringJB height, startled the inhabitants of Lake<flfl wood, N. J., and those of other adjacent^H villages at 1 p. M. in the afternoon. The re-^^K erberation rolled over the country,and as itl^H traveled excited wonder, for the earth wasQU shaken as if by an earthquake, and it waal^H evident that a terrible force had been at^^| work. The cause was found in an explosion^^B in the works of the United States Dvnamite^^H Co., three miles from Toms River. The ez-HH plosion had occurred in the mixing room.^^H Thomas Haggerty and William 2Nicholas,^^H both of Manchester, the only occupants of^^B the room, were killed. Haggerty leaves a^^H family. Nicholas was uamarrieJ. The shock^Bj was perceptible in all the towns and villagea^^H within fifteen or twenty milei ? A TTP.nT WTTTAT fiPHP. Hi CL XJXU J_L J. II ILUlll. uj.iivi.1 Last Season's Yield the Lightest Six Years. fiflH The March statistical report of the United^HJ States Department of Agriculture gives tnoHfl result of the investigation,through its corre-^Ha spondents and agents and the Merchant lers, and the records of commercial^^H inspection of the average weight of^HN wheat by States during the current year. The general average is 56.5 pounds, tbe lowest average of six years. In. theHH spring-wheat region the range is from 53.5^^H in Dakota to 55 pounds in Nebraska. makes the crop equivalent to 391,OOO.OOOHfl bushels of 60 pounds each, less by nearly 35,-^^1 | 000,000 bushels than tbe quantity in meas-HB I ured bushels. TIIE MARKETS. 13 NEW YORK. _ Eeeves 3 <S> 5 15 aflH Milch Cows, com. to good...25 03 @45 00 Calves,common to prime.... 6 50 @ 9 00 BH SheaD ? @ 5 25 Lambs 3 00 @6 59 gg Hogs?Live^. 5*8 8 H Dressed . -j: 99H Flom-CTy lgaExw. i ? | 5 CO H ?Xf Rye?State .. ? ? ?? Barley?Two-rowed State.. 1 <9 ^ ^D| Lorn?Ungraded Mixed.... 40>?& 4o |J| Oats-No. 1 White - ? |9 Mixed Western -J @ 32 HM Hay-No. ?J f *2 H Straw?Long Rye ? fl ' ? Ml Lard?City Steam ? <& Butter?Elgin Creamery.... @ Dairv.tair to good.. 1? ? -J ^1 West. Im. Creamery lo @ 2L |H roctorv I- @ I m Cheese?State Factory. llj*@ ]2 B| Skims-Light 10 H Western p<r(rc?State and Penn 11 @ "OO BUFFALO* |^B Steers?Western 2 80 @ 4 25 HHj Sheep?Medium to (iool . 4 ^0 @ 4 75 Lamos?FairtoOoo 1 4 50 ? 5 50 j^H Hogs?Good to vhoicj Yorki 5 10 @5 15 H| Flour?Family 5 0J (tj 5 2o BflW Wheat?No. - Northern ? @ 1 Corn?No. 3, \'ello.v 37%@ .'}> H3B Cats?No. 2. White . 30)^@ 3 Barley?State CS @ 70 |^H boston'. BB Flour?Sr-ring Wheat pat's.. 6 SO @ 7 50 Hfl| Corn?Steamer Yellow. 4 )^@ 4 Oats?N<>. 2 "White 32^@ S3 Rye?Sfcite. ? @ 53 NHE WATIRT9W.V (MASS. CAlMiS StAB?8r. Beef-Dressed weight. ..... 6 HM Sheep?Live weight 4^? 4 Lambs ... $h@ Hogs?North?rn ? (S PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn. fumilr 4 5") @ 4 75 RI Wheat?No. 2, Red, April. 91 Corn?No. 2. Mixed, Aoril.. 4lV?5 41 Oats?Ungraded Whit*. ?' <8 33V^H Potato es?Early Rose S?* @ 4s' Butter?Creamery Extra... ? a 24 HI Cheese?Part skims.. 6 (3 8 M