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PRAIRIE FIRES. Eastern Dakota Swept by Disastrous Flames. i Villages, Farm Houses and Live Stock Destroyed. I-*' 1 ? V A dispatch from Scotland, Dakota, says: Another terrible prairie fire swept over the country south of Scotiand during the afternoon, and its path whs marked by the smouldoriag embers of many hemes. A very high wind prevailed all day, and with the grass as dry as tinders the terrific force of the lire is beyond description. At thre.i o'clock word was brought to town that the prairie was afire north of West Town, and immediately a hundred men started in team3 to" ward ofT the approaching flames armed with brooms and sicks. Arriving at Alfred Brown's farm, two miles north, all his barns, dairies and cattle siifHis were une u;a.'.iii^ ?*!*?.* the efforts of the crowd were directed to saving his residence and beating tho lire out that would in a short time have swept down upon the town. Brown's residence was saved, but all his household goods that had been carrie i out by the family were burned. One mile north of Brown's "the lire burned Henry Hagelfry out of every possession. His hous?, barns and stock were consumed, and he barely escaped with his family. Across from 'Hagelfry lived D. "R. Tomlinsou, a prosperous farmer, and everything about his place except his house was swept awav. Five houses and several head of Uto stock ware among his losses. His wife was at home alono when the fire began, and could do nothing to save the property. By evening the Srein the west had beea extinguished, but it is still raging in the southeast. The town of Olivet, the county seat of Hutchinson Couuty, eight mil6S north, is reported to be more than half burned up- Th9 bridges on the railroad west of the town were burned. The loss for the two days were fully ?50,000. Almost tho entire population of Boaver Creek. Minn., about thirty miles east of Sioux Falls, were aroused by the flames and turned out to fight them, but not before tliev 'J ? T],'. Had consume*! consiaeraoie property. n,o ^ telegrauh wires running into Minnesota g from Sioux Falls have been burned out aud W communication practically cut o!T. 1 At Kapid City, Dakota, the ilames were [ driven before a sixty-five mile gale, destroy' iug three houses in their course. In one of these was Mrs. E. G. Bailey, Eloisa Madison, and a mate servant named Aston. This party abandoned the burning house and ran through the prairie fire. Mrs. Bailey and the man escaped wita slight burns, but Miss Madison's clothing was ignited and burned from her body, indicting fatal injuries. Several buildings in the neighborhood of Blunt were destroyed, J. L Richardson losing 500 sheep and many other farmers their homes. At L)esmet $10,000 damage was done. The fires extended over an area of nearly fifty miles and wero contined almost entirely within the Territory. The damage will amount to nearly a quarter of a million of dollars. Leola, the county seat of McPherson County, thirty-five niiles north of Aberdeen, was destroyed by the prairie fire during the whirlwind. The fire came from the West, woe Wrtf lmfil it- efminl' flia fntvn ttli.4 T? W UUO avuvcu UUVU *v OVA U^.u vuv .. on account of the terrible storm. Sixty dwellings and business houses were burned, entailing a loss of $150,000. Tho only buildings remaining are the court house, two store.; and six dwellings. C. W. Old and Thomas Wardell were terribly and fatally burned Leola is an interior town with no railroads or telegraph and further particulars cannot be ootained. Persons who drove across the country to Westport, the nearest railaoad station, say that the surrounding country is nearly devastated. Hundreds of farmhouses are in ishes and the bones of burned animals are lying about the road. NEWSY GLEANINGS. , Scotland has a gold fever. r;~ . Scarlet fever is raging in Chicago. Japan wants more doctors and dentists. They have a fire-brick trust in England. There are several goat ranches in Texas. The University of Berlin has 5790 students"Wild geese are numerous in South Dakota. There are 9000 Chinese in New York city. Germany has 224 inhabitants to tho square mile. Iowa has lifty-five jails without an inmate. Strikes are spreading throughout Germany. There are S4SG Browning clubs In this country. A coal mine trust of the United Kingdom is proposed, The Straits of Mackinaw are already open for navigation. The Pope's fainting fits have become more ? frequent of late. Wild ducks are swarming on the Kankakee (111.) marshes. The taxable property of Missouri aggregates $750,131,13 J. About S,000,000 acres will soon be addel to the public domain. CIhis-a and Coren have arrived at an ami cable understanding. Caxada proposes to have another transcontinental railroad. ; The estimate ot the total ice harvest of Maine is 1,171,0)0 tons. Tii? British Government will lay a cable from Bermuda to Halifax. The Australian wheat crop has fallen short of the estimated product. * Hyde COuxfv, Dakota, farmers have or*v_ ganized a hail insurance company. Of the fx>>,00 ) barrels annual product of cotton seed oil, 40),000 go into lard. People in China, oppress? 1 by famine, are selling their children to buy fool. The famons Verrugas Railroad bridge in Peru has been swept away by a great flood. Vanilla plants are selling in Papantla, Vera Cruz, Mexico, at from ?70 to $S5 per 10W. nearly 30,0>d people went up the Washington Monument elevator at inauguration tim.\ The population of^hoProvincoof Qiw'.iec, Canida, has fallen otr vsjjtw in tnepasc nvo years. Tfie British gunboat Spider, which was to have proved such a marina terror, is a failure. Columbus, Gb., levies a tax of ten cents on each dressed carcass sold within the city limits. The great stallion Prince Wilkes has boon sold to a gentleman of Buenos Ayres for $oO,OJa There have been six defalcations in the government of Hoboken, N. J., within as many years. 0.\e hu.vdr.ed .vxd ten* prisoners escapad recently from the Zacatlan Jail, State of Puebla, Mexico. During the past two years $1,412,039 of the national debt of Honduras has b?en paid, and only $772,53G remains. Farmers in the Northwest are sowing with frostel wlnat, as experiments have lately dem mstrated its value. The losses of the exploied Parisian copper syndicate are stated at $30,0J0,(K)}. All the onfhniij r\f fKc arA rilinft.i. Germany h&3 accede! to the request of I France for the transfer of th9 remains of I Generais Carnot and Marceau to Prance. I A permanent association is to be formed in New York to widen the field of trade with Spanish-American States and compete with Europe. The State of Massachusetts has granted a charter to the Meigs Elevated Railroad Company, which will build an elevated road in Boston. Barnum's Hotel, Baltimore, opened in 1S'25, and which Charles Dickens said was the best hostelry in America, is to be sold &nd closed. Gold in large quantities is said to have been discovered on the Sweet Grass Hills, Montana, .and adventurers are Hocking there in great numbers. A\* examination of the books of the bankrupt Riadinjj (i'enn.) iron works shows that the company instead of having rnaie a proiit of SG'JO.oy;) in the last four years, had sustained an annual loss of $*? >,(WD. f he poor of the District of Columbia profited $^>,00!J by tbe inauguration of General Harrison, as a check for t&at sum (the excess of rec-ipts over expenses) has been turned over for their banaflfc. THE BIG CELEBRATION. Completed Official Prosrammo of ?Iie Exercises. The following is the official programme of the Washington Centennial Celebration exercises at Now York: Wednesday. April 17.?formal opening o? the Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits in the assembly room of the Metropolitan Opera House, at 8 v. m. Monday, April 2!>?Arrival of the President ami Cabinet at 11 o'clock, a. sr., at Elizabethport, where they will embark at once for >>ew York city on the United States steamer Despatch. Governors, Commissioners ami other guests will embark at 9.30 o'clock, a. :-r., on the steamer Erastus Wiman r.t tlr> ferry slip foot of West Twenty-third street, and proceed to Eliza bethport and to meet tin 1 >espatcli and accompany her to the city. The steamer Sirius will also accompany -the Despatch. The line of United States war ships, yachts and steamboats will be formed in the upper '>ay ami after saluting will follow in this order: 1, President: Governors and Commissioners: ' >, other guests. On arrival at the foot of Wall street, a barge manned by shipmaster from Lho Marino Society of Vew York, Captain Ambrose Snow, coxswain. will row the President ashore. lie will than be received by Chairman William It. Hamilton, of the Committee on State?. The Presidential party will be escorted to the Equitable Building, where a <?llation will be served and a reception ifiven. This will consume the time from 2 until 4 o'clock. After U19 reception at the Equitable Building the President and Gov- 1 ernors will proceed to tho City Hall, under military escort-, where there will be a public reception in the Governor's room, from 4 to <! o'clock. In the evening occurs the Centennial Ball. Tuesday. April :10?Services of thanksgiving in the churches of New York and 1 throughout the country at nine o'clock A. if. I A special service of thanksgiving will be given at St. Paul's Church at nine o'clock m., which the President will attend. At 10 a. m. the commemorative Centennial exercises will take place on the south front j of tLe Sub-Treasury Building, the scene of | the inauguration ceremony 011 April 30, j 1789. The exercises will consist of prayer | by the Rev. Dr. It. S. Storrs, a poena by j John Greenleaf Whittier, an oration by j Chauncey 31. Depew and an address by j President Harrison and benediction by the | Most Rev. Michael Augustine Corrigan, j Archbishop of New York. After these exercises the military parade j trill tnko place uuder command of Major- j central John M. Scofield. The right of lino ! is given to tho military and naval cadets, j followed by the troops of the regular army, I and the Natioual Guard in the following order, each State contingent being headed i>y its Governor and his staff: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island. The other States will follow in the order in which they were admitted into the Union. Following will be two hundred companies of the Loyal Legion, and then the posts of the Grand Army. The routo will be up Broadway to Waver!ey place, to Fifth avenue to Fifty-ninth street. The reviewing stand will be at Madison Square and Twenty-fourth street. From 5 to T o'clock a reception will be ?iven the President by the Art Committee at the Loan Exhibition rooms in the Metropolitan Opera House. At 7 o'clock p. m. the lanquet will occur. "Wednesday, May 1?The Industral and Civic parade. "Wednesday, May S?Close of the Loan Exhibition. PROMINENT PEOPLE, The President has an office cat. ' Prince Maurice of Hanau is dead. King Alexandria of Servia is thirteen. General Bo clanger will visit London in June The King of Denmark is the Czar's fatherin-law. Miss Braddon has written over fifty novels. Cardinal Newman is now in his eightyninth year. Postmaster-General Wanamaker is a Presbyterian. Chief Justice Fuller is popular with his colleagues. A son of Charles Dickens is arising states- J man 01 Australia. The KingoV Greece is an enthusiastic and successful iisherman. The Emperor William of Gsrmanv will isit Constantinople in the fall. Senator Hkarst, of California, has $100,000 invested in thoroughbred hors;s. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone are preparing for the celebration of their golden wedding. A Texan poetess, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Hartford. is said to be a lineal descendant of Walter Scott. It is noted that "President Harrison's Sunday mail lies unopened on his desk till Monday morning." Pierre Lorillard, the wealthy tobacconist, is a great bird fancier anl delights in raising pheasants. Only three of the War Governors are now living?Blair, of Michigan; Curtin, of Pennsylvania, and Kirkwood, of Iowa. Captain John Ericsson left an estate valued at about $I.V?,UOO, which is divided among his relatives and business associates. The wedding of His Grace of Newcastle I leaves the Dukes of Portland and Somerset the only bachelor Dukes in the English peer- | age. j William E. Boudixot, at whose suggestion tbe Signal Service was established, has just died at Pittsboro, N. C., at th> age of ?eventj-five years. Mr.Charles Jonxsox, aged twenty-three, soil o{ a Kansas City grain dealer, has been offered a situation as artist for Harper's Weekly at a salary of 510,000 a year. The famous French physician, Charcot, tbe spsciaiis1" in nervous diseases, has a royal I income from his practice. His fee from thf Emperor of Brazil alone amounted to $300J. The Emperor of Austria intends to visit England this year in such strict incognito that no one but himself and his attendants will kuow anything about it till he is at home again. Bishop Lightfoot, of Durham. England, makes it a rule to spend his Episcopal income ($3->,0Qil a year) on church and educational work, and not a shilling of it has gone into his own pocket. Dr. Nathan- Hazev, of-Marshall, 111., is remarkable as being probably the so'.? survivor of the battle of Lake Eric, fought Heptemler 10, lSl.'j. He served on Perry's flagship, and is now ninetv v?ars o!d. The annual sales in Marshall Field's great dry-goods store in Chicago aggregate $30,000,000. This vast business employs .*1000 people and is personally directed "by Mr. Field, who is at his desk from 8 o'clock until 5. Mrs. Margaret E. Saxgster, has accepted the position of editor of Harpers Bazar, made vacant by the death of Mjss Mary L. Booth. Mrs. Sangster has been for several years the "postmistress" of Harper's Young People. Dr. Richard M. Gatling, the inventor of the famous gun, is now orer seventy years old, with a full, gray beard and such a kindly face and mild pair of eyes that no one would ever suspect him as the inventor of murderous war weapons. Postmaster-General Wanamaker has a special telegraph wire running from his business establishment in Philadelphia directly to his office in the Postoffice Department By this means he is kept informed of what is being done in Philadelphia, and can be consulted at any moment. His correspondence has reached such immense proporM??> tfcat etill retains in thft rif.v nis rnn fidential clerk, who accompanied him from Philadelphia. rOSTHASTER-UEXERAL VVANAMAKER lias a special telegraph wire running from his business establishmBnt in Philadelphia directly to his office in the Postoffice Department By this means he is kept informed of what is being done in Philadelphia, and can be consulted at any moment. His correspondence has reached such immense'proportions that lie still retains in the city his confidential clerk, who accompanied him from Philadelphia. The mail which arrives at the White House shows no signs of decreasing. Since j March 4 th9 President|sjBftitiias been very heavy, averagito 700 letters, and on soaPfl&ys running as high as 100J letters. Resident Cleveland's letters rarely i exceeded 390 a day. . A REJECTED NOMINEE. Murat Halsteacl, Whom the Senate Refused to Send to Germany. Murat Halstoad, nominated by President Harrison for Minister to Germany, and rejected by the Senate, is one of the best-known figures in American journalism. Ha was born in North Carolina in ISoO, but moved to Cincinnati with his parents in 1S43. He be gan life as an oflice-boy and then became a reporter. Later he entered Farmers' College, and continued to contribute to the newspapers. He worked on several papers after leaving college, and in lS.i4 became a member of the firm which owned the Cincinnati Commercial, a paper afterward consolidated with the Gazette. Mr. Halstead has for many years been a force in Ohio Republican politic?, although he has made some remarkable changes of opinion. He strongly criticised General Grant's course during the war and was opposed to the US9 of colored troops. He was one of the Liberal Republicans who supported Horace Greeley for the Presidency in 18*2. He was formerly an opponent of Mr. Blaine, but is now a warm friend of tho Secretary of State. Six of the Republican Senators?Messrs. Quay, Teller, Ingalls, Plumb, Evart-3 and Dawes?are understood to have voted against Mr. Halstead, and two Democrats?Messrs. Blackburu and Call?for him, making the vote 25 to ID against confirmation. Eleven Republican Senators in all are said to have ; been ready to vote against him if more votes I to reject had been required. The Republi- | can opposition to Mr. Halstead was because i of attacks upon Republican United States | Senators which he ha l made in his papar a few years ago for refusing to investigate charges of bribery in connection with Senator Payne's election by the Ohio Legislature. nerviest"3f robbers, A Banker Forced to Sign and Casli a Bis Check. A startlingly bold bank robbery occurred in Denver, Col., at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. David H. Moffat, President of the First National Bank and also President of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, was the victim, though the loss, $21,000, will fall upon the bank. At 11 o'clock a well-dressed man of middle age walked into Mr. Moffat's office in the Rio Grande Building and requested an interview with him. His first remark was to ask Mr. Moffat if he had a blank check about him. Mr. Moffat, supposing: this had something; to do with the man's story, sent out for the blank. When th9 clerk brought it and had departed the stranger drew a revolver, and. pointing it at tho President's head, coolly said: "If you make a move 01 spaak a word I will kill you on the spat. 1 am in desperate circumstances, and you must give "me $21,0JO. I have counted all the risks in this undertaking, and have thoroughly laid my p'ans. If you say a word, or by any act convey to any one any sign, I will kill you in an instant." Th9 man had a light overcoat over his arm. His pistol was iu the right hand. He removed the coat from the left to the right arm and drew the weapon under the folds of his coat. This precaution was taken in Mr. Moffat's presence, and, without another word of warning, the bank President and the robber walked into the large banking room where there were perhaps a score of persons doing businoss and thirty clerks and employes were behind the railings. 'I he two walked to the window of the Paying Teller, Thomas Keeley. The stranger laid the check down on the counter and Mr. Moffat nodded to the teller signifying that it was all right The bold rascal then said to the Teller: "Count it out in big bills, the larger the better, and one thou sand in gold." He then requested Mr. Moffat to order the Teller to bring the money to the President's private office. This Mr. Moffat did, and at a suggestive nod from the robber the two men walked back across the large counting room and entered the President's omce. i Once inside, the stranger again cautioned . Mr. Moffat at the peril ot his life not to give any warning. He kept up this running talk for at least ten minutes, or until the Teller appeared with tho money. It comprised one ten-thousand-dollar bill, ten one-thousanddollar bills, and $1000 in gold Mr. Moffat assisted in putting the gold into a bag,brought by the leller for the purpose, and the Teller retired. The robbei then threatened Mr. Moffat that if he created a scone within fire minutes his comrade, who was in the counting-room outside, would kill him, and then he left, walking out into the crowded street. Mr. Moffat did not believe in tho comrade lingering near, an:l at ones gave the alarm. The Chief of Po'ics has offered a reward of ?2o00 for the arrest of the robber and gives i the following description: ' The man's age is thirty-two, height five j feet eigne mcaes, swarcny complexion, weight 140 pounds, haavy brown mustache, badly sunburned, derby nat, light brown overcoat, wears long-linked plated watch chain," THREE RAILWAY TRAGEDIES Twelve Persons Killed and Many Injured in the "West. A collision occurred on tho Northern Pacific, near Helena, Montana, by which three passengers were killeJ and three wounded. The east bound passenger train leaving Helena ran into a double header freight train standing on the side track, wrecking three enginas and piling them in a promiscuous mass on the track. Of the killed only one was identified, Charlie Green, a fireman, whose home is in Baltimore. The injured were Harry Conger, A. L. North, mail agents, and Joseph Jackson. The station agent is blamed for not closing the switch, knowing that the passenger train was due. Two yard engines in the Chestnut street yards of the Omaha Road collided at St. Paul. Minn., and two men were instantly killei, two others fatally injured and three more badly injured. Fergus Flanagan, the yard master, and an unknown parson supposed to be a young man named Funk, were killed instantly. James Davidson and William Utz were fatally injured. A freight train on the Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad broke west of Cen* - * 1 l-'ll-.l treviue, ina., anu mhou u>o ^ciouns, supposed to be tramps. ANNIHILATED HER FAMILY, A Despairing Mother Destroys Herself anil Three Children. Mrs. Margaret Kinlein and Uer three children were burned to death in their home at Milwaukee, Wis., eirly in the morning1. The home is a small two story frame building two doors from Walnut street, and Mrs. Kinlein, with her children, occupied the three rooms on the lower tloor. Upstairs an old mauaiamed Lawrence Jung lived with his son and two daughters, and they were awakened al>out ' o'clock by the sm?ll of smoke which seemed to couie irom the room bslow. The son got up and going outside saw smoke pouring from the lower rooms. He smashed in a window but got no response, and then turned in a fire alarm. I In the middle room on the lower floor, the door; of which had been tightly closed, the charred bodies of Mrs. Kinlein und two sons, John and George, aged six an l four years respectively. werrf found. Later the "body of the infant son Richard, aged two years, was found in the basement, a hoi? having burned through the floor, through which the body had fallen. There was every indication that the mother had deliberately burned herself and her children to death by building a fire beneath the bed in which they all slept. Mrs. i Kinlein lost her husband about a year ago. ' j TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED [' Eastern and Middle State*. A challenge to the New York Yacht Club to contest next fall for the possession of the America's cup has been issued by the Earl of Dunraven. The Earl suggests that the contests be three out- of five races, and the day of the first race September 30th. His boat is the Valkyrie. The Standard Oil Company has purchased the entire Crofton oil field in Pennsylvania. Flames among the oil tanks at Long Island City, N. Y., destroyed property worth $150,000 and burned one workman to a crisp. Tobias Samms, a colored man. about thirty-five years old, was murdered in New York city by nis brother Reuben, twenty-two years old, with whom he had quarreled. The violent wind and snow storm from the northwest, rendering tan atmosphere a3 dense as a London fog, causa l five collisions off New York harbor, in which four vessels ware wrecked, ouo life lost and many more jeopardized. TnE widow of General Stonewall Jackson, to whom was tendered the office of postmistress of Lexington, Ya., has declined to accept the same. Terrible prairie fires were raging near Cavour, Dakota. Five companies of troops were in Oklahoma clearing out the invaders. A destructive wind storm prevailed in Southern Ohio. Two men were drowned by the capsizing of a small boat near Lawrencenut* uui?, uuiy, Both houses of the Wisconsin Legislature have passed a bill adopting the Australian system of voting. Two miners, Hermann Manti and Peter Jacobson, were instantly killed by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge, which they struck in drilling, in the Copper Falls mine at Houghton, Mich. Noah spengler,a well known contractor and builder of Bethlehem, Penn., committed suicide. Excessive drinking drove him to the commission of the deed. Ex-President Cleveland hag been appointed, by a New York Supreme Court Judge, one of three commissioners of Esti- ! mate and Assessment in the matter of the High Bridge Park. Judge Alexander McCcje, Assistant Treasurer of the United States, died of paralysis at his horns in Brooklyn. He was sixty-two years old. On the day before his death President Harrison nominated Ellis H. Roberts to succeed him as head of the SubTreasury in New York. The St. David, a full rigged ship, reached Philadelphia from Havre, with the steward in irons, a hopeless lunatic; the first mate down with acute bronchitis, the second mate a victim of rheumatic fever, and a seaman also suffering from a complication of diseases. Howard R. Swift, agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company at Hartford,Conn., recently committed suicide in that city. Financial embarrassmont was the caus9. A big land slide occurred in Pittsburg, completely covering the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Thieves broke into the old Statwriouse at New Haven, Conn., and entering the rooms of the New Haven Historical Society, carried away the sword of Admiral Foote, held by the Society as a relic. It is a preservation sword studded with jewels and precious stones valued at iG'JOO. The change in the offices of the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer of New York will necessitate a count of all the moneys and securities in both offices, and will take at least four weeks to accomplish. Sonth and West. An engine and three coaches fell through a bridge near Queen City, Mo. John Arthur, engineer, and Luther Chamberlain, fireman, were killed. A Deputy United States Marshal was killed by a band of Kentucky outlaws. Jed Twitchell, colored, was hung at Chatham, Va., for assault upon a nine-yearold girl Twenty stores and several dwellings were burned in Ash ton, 111., Loss, $60,000. E. IV. Blatchford's six-story building, filled with inflammable materials, burnei in Chicago, causing a loss of $330,000. A general strike of carpenters occurred at St Louis at 9 o'clock in the morning. Over 1700 men demanded eight hours as a day's work. A rcrrnnT froin ntnnoraH fchrnil2h a bum ing bridge over Hart's Creek, W. Va., and two tramps were burned to death in the wreck. John Boyles, of Clinton, Mo., attempted to cross Grand River, which was much swollen, with his wife and six children in a wagon. The wagon was overturned in midstream, and four of the chiidren were drowned. William Edwards, a white man, who had the mail contract from Washburn. Dakota, to Coal Harbor, has been murdered by his Indian wife. James C. Calhoun, a tmner, prominent in business, religious and social circles at Darton, Tenn., crazed by financial losses, attempted to kill his family aud himself. He and his wife were fatally injured. The Koderack, trading schooner, was cruising between Graham aud Moresly Islands, Alaska, when five seamen?two Americans, Henry and Anderson, and three Kanakas?landed, taking some trinkets for barter with the Indians. The Indians demolished the whale boat in which the sailors came ashore a'nd then killed the five. Henry L. Hogue, Superintendent of the Electric Light plant at Fostoria, Ohio, was instantly killed by coming in contact with the current while repairing a dynamo. Cregier (Democrat) was elected Mayor J of Chicago over Roche (Republican) by 10,- j 0<.:0 majority. The village of Mount Pleasant, Dakota, was almost entirely cousumed by a prairie fire. Every business house and nearly all the residences are destroyed. The depot, together with about fifteen or twenty freight cars and four large elevators, is gone. The loss will be nearly $."500,000, with very little insurance, and a hundred families were left homeless and utterly destitute. The first United States Court ever held in the Indian Territory has Just been opened at Muskagee. General MCConnell, of Osage, Kan., a prominent politician, lias committed suicide. Lansing Lossing, treasurer of Greenwood Township. Mich., is Sl'iOO short in his accounts and is under arrest. Mrs. Minnie D. Moyax has been elected Mayor of Cottouwood Falls, Ivan. The next City Council will be composed entirely of women. tTaihinpton. The President has appointed the three Commissioners who are to treat with the Cherokee Indians for their share of the Okla homa lands. The gentlemen named are J Otis Humphrey, of Illinois; Alfred M. Wilson, of Arkansas.and ex-Uovernor George D. Kobinson, of .Massachusetts. The United States Senate has appointed Messrs. Mierman, wawes, uuuum, .nuwu, Hampton, Eustis, Colquitt and Ingnlls as a committee to represent their body at th?Washington Centennial celebrutiou in I>ew York. Queen* Victoria cabled a message of sympathy to President Harrison for the loss of life aboard our warships in Samoa and the President sent an appropriate reply. The Secretary of the Interior has issued an important order directing that heads of bureaus and other officers of the department will not call for resignations except by direction of the Secretary. Duking March lOO.i fourth-class postmasters were appointed by the new PostmasterGeneral: 4-0 were appointed to succeed postmasters who had resigned, and 584 to take ' >--i ? the places 01 Oiuer.s suapenucu ui rciuur?vi? Major Marcus A. Revo, formerly of tho United States Army, is dead, in his fiftyfifth year. For failing to go to General Custer's relief at the P>ig Horn massacre, Maior Reno was dismissed the service in IS*). The Navy Department has issued orders I for the following ves>?:s to go at once to Samoa: The Richmond, now in Rio de la Plata. South America: the Alert, now in [ Honolulu, and the Adams now fitting for sea at the Maro Island Navy Yard, Cal. TiiK reduction in the public debt during March amounted to ?13,005,H.to, and for tho first nine months of tho current fiscal year, *50,!K)0, '>!) !. Tho total debt, less cash in tho Treasury, is ?lt114,iiSo,flG?, Cash or surplus in the Treasury is u^ainst S-ks,C!J.;,15S a month ago. The new Assistant Secretaries of tho Treasury, Messrs. Tichenor and Batcheller, took the oath of office, and began at once the discharge of their new duties. > The White Hous? was a scaneof brilliancy | at the reception given to the Prince anil Princess Tnkihilo, of Japan. The Marine Band rendered choice selections of American and foreign airs during the evening. President and Mrs. Harrison were assisted in receiving visitors by all the ladies of the Cabinet except Mrs. Blaine. Foreign. A widespread plot to kill the Czar has been discovered and many arrests made in Russia. The annual boat race between crews representing Cambridge and Oxford Universities was rowed on the Thames, London, over the usual course,four miles and two furlongs. Cambridge won by three lengths. Eulogies on fch9 late John Bright were pronounced in the House of Commons by Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Smith,Lord Hartingcou, Justin McCarthy and Mr. Chamberlain. The French Cabinet has unanimously resolved to prosecute General Boulanger for unpatriotic agitation. The Belgian mail packet Comtess9 do Flanders was sunk in collision in the English Channel. Fourteen lives were lost and the mails were lost with the vessel. The funeral of John Bright took place. He was buried in the old Quakers' burying ground at Rochdale, England. Legitime has sent a peace commission of three to Cape Haytian by the steamer Delta. Thn mm miss ion is eiuDowered to confer with Hyppolite about establishing soma basis of relationship on which tho war can be denloroH nff. John Henry Pope, Canadian Minister of Railways, is dead. A letter from Henry M. Stanley, dated September 4, 18SS, has reached a friend ol the explorer in Edinburgh. Mr. Stanley sayi ho is well and in good spirits. He met Emic Pacha on the shores of Albert Nyanza. They were together for twenty-six days. Countess Josephine Radetzky committed suicide at Vienna, Austria, by shooting herself with a revolver. The German men-of-war Alexandrine and Sperber hare been ordered to Samoa to replace the lost vessels. The Government of Ifew Zealand has placed the steamship Hinemoa at the dis posal of Admiral Kimberley, in command oi the United States squadron at Samoa, for the transportation of the survivors of the recent disaster to America. The steamer, which is a rapid cruiser, has already left foi I Samoa. The debts of the late M. Vandertasleu, th? merchant prince of Belgium, who committed suicide recently, are estimated at with assets of $240,000. LATEB NEWS. A mit.k trust has been formed at Pittsburg. The Trust will handle all the milk, some thirty thousand gallons, which is brought to Pittsburg daily. Adam Maul was found drowned in a spring 0:1 bis farm, near West Sand Lake. N. Y. He was sixty-five y?ars old, and is believed to have committed suicide. Booth, the great American tragedian, was stricken with incipient paralysis during his appearance in "Othello," at Rochester,N. Y., and the performance had to go on without him. All his dates for the season have been canceled. The Rhode Island State election resulted in no choice by tho people on the general ticket, and the General Assembly will be called upon to elect State officers. Fire destroyed 10,000,000 feat of lumber at Hannibal, Mo., and at one time threatened the destruction of the entire city. A oale in Baltimore unroofed many houses, doing great damage. Secretary of State Blain-e has re ceived information of the sale, by the Colonial Government to an American syndicate, of the entire Jamaica railway system. Colonel W. 0. Bradley, of Kentucky, has declined the Corean mission, to which he was nominated a few days ago by President Harrison. The contract for the construction of the machinery of the United States armored cruiser Maine has been awarded to N. F. Palmer & Co., of New York, at $735,000. The Roumanian Ministry has resigned. Emil Treitel, one of the largest grain dealers in Berlin, has suspended payment. His liabilities amount to $1,500,000. King JonN of Abyssinia was defeated and slain in a recent battle, and the whole country is in a state of anarchy. It is said the King's death was due to wounds received in a battle with the forces led by the dervish M<?ttema. General Boulanger fled from Paris at the request of friends, who were informed that he would be tried by an exceptional tribunal, and that he would not escape alive. Boulanger is at Mons, Belgium, under the pseudomym of Monsieur Bruno. Tho Government has notified General Boulanger that he will be expelled from the country unltss lie abstains from political intrigues in France. A BIG WHALING STORY. j A Schooner Shaken by Collision | With a Monster Whale. I Captain Samuel Pedrick, of the schooner James H. Gordon, which has arrived at Baltimore from Charleston, S. C., reports that when about seventy-five miles E. S. E. of Cape Henry, a school of whales was met. They came so close to the vessel that pieces of wood were dropped on tboir backs, a5 which they squirted fountains of water in the air. At one time th^ sea appeared like a mass of confused fire from the gamboling of the creatures. Lines of phosphorescent light, sometimes as far as the eye could reach, were visible from the ship's deck, as the whales raced after one another through the water. All that night the mighty fish played around the vessjl without accident. At 0:30 o'clock on the morning of tha 25th thfl Gordon suddenly "brought up," being shaken from stem to stern. Looking over the bow, it was seen that the vessel had struck a monster whale. Th-j water was discolored and bloody, showing that the Gordon had struck the fish a terrible blow. The whales disappeared from about the vessel shortly after the collision. Captain Pedrick is confident there were 100 whales in th-3 school, all of which, the first mate, an ol I whaler, says were sp-rm whales. It is supposed they were attacted in shore by following the schools of mackerel now off the coast. THE PARNELL COMMISSION, Sir Charles Russell Makes His Opening Speech for the Defense. The Parnell Commission resumed its sitting in London. Sir Charles Russell opened the case for the Parnellites. He declared tuat the fcestimonv of the 310 witnesses produced l.y Attorney-General Webster, leading counsel for the Times, was irrelevant. Flo admitted that crime prevailed in Ireland to a greater or less degree, and said that the collapse of the Tim es\s case in the matter of the alleged 1'arnell letters abolished the pith nnd marrow of the inquiry. The court was asked by the Times to indict a whole nation, a uroceeding which F.urko had declared to be infeasibls. Judicial rules were invalid when a whole people moved. He declared that thoughtful minds were convinced that the timo had coir.e to try the experiment of home ru'e in Ireland. A RUSH FOE LAND. Many Thousands of Settlers Seeking Homesteads in Oklahoma. A flood of applications for immigrant rates to < tklahoruu is noariag into tho St* Louis railroad odices. There is only room for 10,WO homestead.', and applications for over :X>,000 persons seeking low rates of transportation from St Louis have been receive!. Much suffering is anticipated thus coming summer and fall among the shufc-ouc pilgrims, many of whom will undoubtedly I "move on" to Texas and Kansas. SIX WAR SHIPS SUNK. ~ American and German Vessels Lost Off Samoa. Many Officers and Men of Both Nationalities Drowned. Dispatches from Samoa state that the American men-of-war Trenton, Vandalia and Nipsic and the German men-of-war Adler, Olga and Eber were driven on a reef during a violent storm and totally wrecked. Of the American crews four officers and forty-sir mon were drowned, and of the German crews nine officers and eighty-seven men lost their lives. The storm occurred on March 16. It was also reported that sixteen merchantmen were lost. The American war ships wrecked were all attached to the Pacific station under command of Rear Admiral Lewis A. KimberJy, whose staff is as follows: Captain Norman H. Farquhar, chief of staff; Lieutenant Henry 0. Rittenhouse. flag lieutenant; Lieutenant Greenleaf A. Merriam, secretary. The Trenton was a shiprieged wooden cruiser, and was built in 1876. Her displacement was 3900 tons. In 1SS1 she was made the flagstaff of the European squadron, and continued in mat capacity up 10 me umo ol this disaster. The Trenton was considered the best wooden vessel in the navy. She was built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Nipsic was the best known of the United States war vessels at Samoa. She was put in commission a year and a half ago, arriving at Apia last November. She had long been rated in naval circles as a second-rate cruiser, having a wooden hull bark rigged. She carried six guns, mostly smooth bore, in her main battery. She had e displacement of 1375 tons. The complement of the Nipsic was 174 marines and blue jackets, although some of her short time men were sent home from Samoa when the Adams left for San Francisco in January last. The Vandalia was a bark-rigged w?oden cruiser (second rate), with a displacement of 2100 tons. She was rebuilt in *1874, and in 18S1 belonged to the North American squadron. She carried a battery of eight guns, mostly smooth bore 9-inch Dahlgren's for her broadside battery and two Parrot rifles for pivots. The Olga had been the most formidable of the German vessels at Apia. She is unarmI ored and unprotected, a single deck cruiser. ' built in 1880, and equipped with a battery of eight six-inch Krupp rifles and a number of Hotchlciss revolving: cannon. She had a speed of fourteen knots and a crew of 2C7 men. Her displacement was 2200 tons. The German war vessels Adler and Eber *?i? ? u~?.u J were lllienor wj kilt: ujrh uukii 1U ai/.o auu strength. The Adler carriod four Krupp guns and the Eber carried three. The Ebsr was equipped for torpedo serrice. Captain Fritz, who commanded the Adler, was one of the seamen and fighters of whom Germany wa3 proudest. Further Details. Further particulars of the disastrous storm at Apia, Samoa, hare just been received. The hurricane burst upon the harbor suddenly. The German man-of-war Ebcr was the first vessel to drag her anchor. She became unmanageable and was driven helplessly on the reef which runs around the harbor. She struck broadside on, at G o'clock in the morning. The shock caused her to lurch and to stagger back, and she sank in a moment in deep water. Most of her men were under hatches, and scarcely a soul of them escaped. The German war ship Adler was the next to succumb. She was lifted bodily by a gigautic wave and cast on her beam ends on the reef. A terrible struggle for life ensued among the ollicers and sailors aboard. Many plunged into the raging surf and struck out, some reaching the shore in safety. Others clung to tbe rigging until the masts fell. Of 4. - J 41 1 ?tf-t.. rru. tnese two gameu me auuro saieiy. ? uo tain of the Aaler and several other officers were saved. In the meantime the United States warship Nipsic had been dragging her anchors and drifting toward the shore. The Captain, however, managed to keep control and ran her on a sandbank. Boats were immediately lowered, and the whole company were savad, with tho exception of six men, who were drowned by the capsizing of a boat. The United States vessel Vandalia was carried before the gale right upon the reef. She struck with a terrible shock, and the Captain was hurled against a Gatling gun and stunned. Before he could recover a great sea swept the deck and washed hira away. The vessel sank Cfty yards from the Nipsic. Several of the officers and men were washed overboard and drowned. Others perished while making desperato efforts to swim to the shore. home remaiued for hours clinging to tho rigging, but hoavy waves dashed unceasingly over them, and one by one they were swopt away. By this time night had set in. Many natives and Europeans had gathered on tho shore, and all wero anxious to render assistance to I he wrecked vessels and their unfortunate crews, but, darkness having fallea oil the sceno, they were wholly unable to bo of service. Soon after the Vandalia had sunk, tho American warship IVenton broke from her ] anchorage and was driven upon the wreck of the Vaudulia, whence she driftod to the shore. The bottom of the Trenton was completely stove and her hold was half full of j wmer. As morning broke the German man-of-war Olga, whicb bad hitherto bravely withstood tho gale, although mucli battered by the heavy seas that constantly broke upon her, became unmanageable and was driven upon the beach, where she lay in a tolerably favorable position. The following is a record of tho officers and men lost: Eber?Tho Captain and all the other officers except one, and seven ty-six men. Vanda'.ia?The Captain, four officers and forty men. nipsic?teven men. Adler?Altogether fiftoon persons. Mataafa sent a number of meu, who rendered splendid aid in trying to float tho Olga. The Vandalia lost four officers namely: Captain Schoonmalcer, Lieutenant Sutton, Paymaster Arms, Pay Clerk Roach. A dispatch from Admiral Kimberley in command of the squadron says; "There was a hurricane at Apia. Every vessel in the harbor is on shore, except the English man-of-war Calliope, which got to sea. The Trenton and Vandalia are total losses, l'ho Nipsic is beached, and her rudder gone. She may be saved but the chance3 are against it." MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Kate Field is lecturing on Prohibition. Christine Nilsson was born in Sweden in 1843. Clara Morris, th? actress, is ill in St Louis. Ada Rehax, Augustin Daly's leading lady, Is worth fl50,000. Booth and Barrett will pay Modjeska $1500 a week for next August. Comedian William J. Florence was born in Albany, N. Y., in 1S31. Marte Van Zandt is having great success in Italian opera at Kroll's Theatre, Berlin. "The MiKAno" has been produced with much success at the Uartnerplata Theatre in Munich. A new theatre, to cost nearly $7,000,000, is ?- ?-h? fhamn d# Mars, St. Peters 1<J Ut L'UU l> KJkL vnv ~ r burg, Russia. Edward Scovel, the American tenor, ha? met with distinct success in Chicago as Faust and Boa Joso. Daniel S. Maguinxis, tbe weil knowD comedian, died in Bonton a few days ago, as;ed lifty-fiv?. Cor N't Vox moltke, though eiehtj-six years o!d, fully retains his lore for music, and hardly ever misses a court concert. He used to be a frequent performer on the piano, too, but has given it up. Manager Abbey has had unusual ham luck with some of his greatest attractions during tho past two years. Last season Gerster broke down at the very beginning of her American tour, and young Hofman deserted his manager just as a substantial return for the preliminary outlay was beginning to be mad#. Now, Miss Anderson has been forced to retire at a time when her illness will cost her managers in the neighborhand of $30,000. , % FOE rOREIGN_MISSIONS. I R T. Lincoln for England, Egan for^H| Chili?Pension Commissioner. ROBERT T. LINCOLN. Robert Todd Lincoln, nominated by the^^J President as United States Minister to Enz~^^| land, is the son of the late President Abra-HH| bam Lincoln, and was born in Springfield, III, in 1848. From a local school he was sentHH to the Illinois State University, and thence^KH to Harvard in I860, where he graduated 1864. He entered the army in the winter of tbat^BH year as a Captain ou General Grant's staff, and took part in the operations which rosuited in the surrender of Lee at Appomat-^^H tox. at which be was present President Lm-^^H coin received the first news of Lee's surrender from his son, who reached Washington April 14. The President was assassinated that evening. Young Lincoln resigned his commission in the army and entered the law firm of Scammon, McCagg & Fuller, in Chicago. He has^^H continued to practise at the Chicago Bar, with some interruptions, ever since. He went^H|j to Europe in 1872, where he remained S9veral^H| months. President Garfield appointed him Secretary of War in his Cabinet in 18SL Since his re- ^HF tirement from that position he has frequently been mentioned as a possible Presidential candidate. BB Mr. Lincoln is married to a daughter of ex-Senator Harlan, of Iowa. SB ^ - v'i/ ^ r///r ?i ? I'ATRICn: sgaw. i " IB Patrick Egan was born in County Long-H^H ford, Ireland, about 1840, and received a- Bfl good English education. He moved to Dublin when a boy and became a clerk in a mercantile office. Later be became Secretary of th?-^H City Milling Company and had a stand ii*.HH the Dublin Corn Exchange. He was connected with the Fenian oreanlzation in 1365,and later was somewhat prominent in Isaac Butt's Home Rule movement.. H9 He was, with Michael Davitt, one of the BB original members of the Land League, and Mfl was its first Treasurer. To avoid the seizure-^^B of the funds by the English Government on [ the passage of Secretary Forster's Coercion Act he moved to Paris in 1881, and managed the finances of the organization from therefor two years. Returning to Dublin he resumed his bu*i- H ness in grain and was also interested in aseries ot bakeries and provision stores. Learning that the Government intended. arresting him he made his escape to tbis-^Q country and settled in Lincoln, Neb., six years ago. There he has been engaged in the ??{?. ^iiC{n?ee aw/1 in rool aetata t.rflngflptiflnt. gllUU UIM1UW *** N' ever since. Ml CORPORAL TAX.VER. MB The above is a portrait of Corporal Tanner,. HB of Brooklyn, N. X"., the United Stat?s Commissioner of Pension?. Commissioner Tanner is now in possession of the office to which i he was nominated, the Senate having conf firmed him the day after his name was sent in by the President His Chief Clerk is A. W. Fisher, of North Carolina. i ~ | TEMPEST-TOEN TAHITI, The Society Inlands Swept by Ear-.^H ricans and Torrents. The same hurricane which raged so dla- ^H| astrously over the Samoan Islands March 15 was felt with terrific force at Tahiti, u? win/? nnrl |H j where the island was swept ujflood, and thousands of lives were said to have been lost. The waters poured over the level lands forming the outer portion of the island, and the capital city, fapeiti, was entirely sub- USm merged in the torrent Houses were carried away, the public buildings ruined and devastation was spread everywhere. The interior of the island is mountainous. Soms of the people managed to reach these high lands and thus escaped the flood; but the number who perished is far larger ^Hj and was beyond calculation. The level tracts of land in the island are fertile, and the chief dependence of the inhabitants for food has been upon the fruits and vegetables raised there. Thesa crops were destroyed and the people who escaped the flood found themselves confronted by the HH danger of famine. Tahiti is about 1500 miles from Samoa, in an east south-east direction. It is thirtytwo miles long, and the island is under French control. Its capital city, Papeiti, has about a thousand inhabitant^ On th?^^| Island of Tonga thirty persons perished and I the storm did great damage. BUKNED AT THE STAKE, B Three Cattle Thieves Tortured to^H Death by Indians. A band of masked men took three of the ^^9 accused cattle thieves, Gannon, Babco-kand Uemus, from their homes near Ains worth, HAM Neb., across the line into the reservation and delivered them to a hand of Indians. As soon as the trio were in the hands of the redskins the latter made the prisoners take oft' their clothing. The Indians then tied them to three stakes, at each of which slow fires were built. AH Not satisfied with this cruelty,thay tortured HH their victims with sharp pointed sticks, and us the tire increased and burned their legs the redskins increased their torture until the prisoners wero u aeons ,'ioui. Then with rifles they filled ths bodies with bullets and allowed the remains to be cre-^H| mated.