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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. By the will of William J. Syms, a wealthy New York wholesale gun dealer, $359,000 was left to Roosevelt Hospital to build and eudow an operating theatre. There were two cases of sunstroke in Pittsburg, Penn. Thermometer registered 82 degrees. Three children of Nathan Powell, of Miners' Mills. Penn., died of typhoid fever within a few hours of each other. The 114th anniversary of the battle of Lexington, Mass.. was celebrated. About two hundred persons partook of an old fashioned breakfast served in Massachusetts Hall. At an auction sale of Secretary of the Navy Tracy's trotters in New York ninetynine'horses"brought $112,960, an average of $1141. Tatt*? 4 "XTtott t r?r PrvvrvflTT t \T o rrnrl "jcmTof flames. A Tremendous Fire Along New York's River Front. Five Immense Buildings and Other Property Destroyed. t One of the biggest fires known in New York city for many years broke out in the "Wilcox Lard Refinery, at the foot of Wiest Fifty-ninth street at about 4 p. M. It destroyed the refinery, Rossiter's stores aud two immense grain elevators, with their covered wharves aud connecting buildings and nearly half a million bushels of grain, besides a great quantity of fl^ur, rosin, ale, oil, lard and other commodities on storage. The loss was estimated iv in: a/, via/, partly coverea u^y Uisurziuue It was the biggest lire, measured according to the standard of the insurance companies, upon which will fall the whole of the loss, that New York has known of recent years. Far into the night the flames raged with fury, throwing a lurid glare over the whole city and for miles into the surrounding country. . A spectacle of more appalling grandeur was never witnessed. The cries of fright of thousands of animals imprisoned in the pens of the great Union Stock Yards added to the horror of the scene. The flames started in the "Wilcox Lard and Refining Company's massive five-story brick factory, at the foot of Fifty-ninth street. Nearly one hundred laborers and a dozen clerks were at work in the factory at the time. In spite of then- utmost exertions the flames gained rapidly, and after ten precious minutes had been wasted the men became panic stricken and fled from the building. With a roar like an explosion the flames burst up from the cellar and rushed along the oil-soaked floor of the first storv. The police had turned in a second and third alarm, and the sound of engine bells was heard on every hand. Four "Truck arrived just as the crowd discovered a man in one of the third story windows. He screamed for help, and the crowd screamed and shouted. The firemen pulled a ladder off the truck and raised it to the window. "Come down 1" yelled the firemen. The man made a feint of clambering on to the ladder, but he was filled with fear or his i strength had left him. "Come down!" shrieked the crowd. The man threw one leg over the sill. and. with each hand clasping the frame work, looked down at the crowd with staring eyes. A tongue of flame in a heavy cloud of thick smoke burst out. The man would be burnt to death if he remained there much longer. A fireman ran up.the ladder and grasped"his leg. He pulled as hard as he could, but the man hung back and the fireman retreated slowly, urging the man to follow him. Suddenly the man fVirntr* V?Jc Vionrlc in tha oir onrl l.ionocl out. He fell on the sidewalk, aud was smashed so badly that he died in a few minutes. He was Henry Benning, a laborer employed in the factory. Within fifteen minutes after the fire ' started the flames reached a lot of wooden fences and shanties between the factory and the river and flashed across them to the New York Central pier, at the foot of the street, known as Dock C. It was crammed with lard and oil awaiting shipment and the , flames swept it from end to end with a rush. j At five o'clock the flames had gained full j sway in Rossiter's warehouse, and all eyes i were turned anxiously on the big elevator. At five minutes past five a little wreath of smoke curled up from the apex of the southernmost gable, and from 10,000 throats went up the cry: "She's going?' A moment later a red glow appeared with- ; in the topmost window beneath the gable end and it was evident that the elevator had caught .fire in the timbers of the roof. No spark of flame communicated with it, but it ! simply became ignited under the heat of the ( raging furnace ahundred feet away. ; Like wildfire the flames crept along in the timbers behind the slated walls, peeping out here and there and breaking forth fiercely at thQ upp?r windows. <7 For three hours the firemen succeeded in 1 keeping the flames from spreading further, but when the great walls of the storage house t fell and left a mountain of burning ruins ^ nearly as high as the building had been, the i heat was so intense that grain elevator "A," of the New York Central Railroad, 200 feet ? north, was so heated that it was impossible 1 to keep it from catching fire. The building . was 225x75 feet and 125 feet high. < " While Elevator A was wrapped in flames ] from end to end, Chief Shay looked anxiously J at Elevator B, near by. and sadly exclaimed: "I've done all I could do, but I'm afraid she'll V o T*.I flfrt fnA I'' T *7*V^ w ivv. , ? | . ^ "As tile words left bis lips a huge blazing j brapd whirled through the air and fell on thS roof near a skylight. Elevator B blazed, if possible, more rapidly than its companion. Within six hours after the fire broke out the building in which it started, a freight pier at the foot of Fifty-ninth street, and a smaller storage pier, two great elevators, with the contents of all of them, had been absolutely destroyed, involving a loss in money ot over $i.(KJ0,000, and at least ouelife was lost. . The area of the fire is greater than that of any other fire that has occurred in New York for many years. The space burned over measures'300 feet along the river front from Fifty-ninth street to Sixty-fifth street, a Siart-er of a mile. Nothing"in the course of e fire escaped. Piers, sheds and outhouses between the larger buildings were burned up so rapidly that people who saw them disappear were astonished. All the buildings destroyed were the property of the New York Central Railroad Company. Chief of them was the huge building, 200 feet high and covering almost a full block of land, known as Grain Elevator A, but often referred to as "The Pride of the New York Central." Each elevator was 125 feet high, 375 feet long and about 50 feet wide. They were twelve years old and stored with nearly half a million bushels of grain as dry as powder. The immense surface they presented to the heat induced a degree of temperature inside of them which made the spontaneous combustion of their contents certain. Over five hundred thousand persons, ac cording to tne estimates made by veteran j police officers, visited the scene of what is " now known as the great North River fire between the hours of four o'clock in the after- * noon and ten o'clock at night. 1 W : A HERO OF" 1812, ! J JDeatlTof John Fielding at the JRipe k. Old Age of HO Years. ; John Fielding, a soldier of the war of 1S12 and a native of Virginia, died in Laurens < County, S. C., a few days ago at the age of ) 110 years. In 1787, when Fielding was eight ^ years of age, his parents moved to South ( ^Carolina and settled on the Tiger River. At j ithe breaking out of the war or 1812 he volunteered, and served until the war ended. He jmarried three times, the last time at the age ,of eighty-five, and his wife is still liviug. He (had three living children by his first wife, and [they are aged men. He was a successful farWr, and although impoverished by the late : war; he leaves his widow well provided for. vTJntil within the past three years he has been ;remarkably active, and in 1884, when at the age of 103. he walked four miles to vote the national Democratic ticket. One or two of ;his sons, then middle-aged men, were in the jllexican war. . , A HORRIBLE CRIME. j A Familv of Six Murdered and Their ; House "buniccl. A horrible crime was reported from Macon | County, X. C. IV. P. Wood, an industrious farmer, lived iu the country at least five miles from any neighbors. His family { consisted of his wife, three sons and two (laughters. Three of tho ] children were grown, and the other two were j aged twelve and fourteen years. Wood had ) saved some ?700, and had always ,* kept . his money in an old trunk, -j W ood was called away from home 011 business. When he returned he was horrified to find his house in ashes. A short distance from the ruins he found three axes and two bowie * laiires, r.ll stained with blood, and the old 1 trunk in which he had kept his monej'. The 1 trunk was broken open, and its contents were " gone. Among the ashes charred bones were found, showing that the cutirc family had 1 been murdered before the house was fired. .v There were 110 clues to the murderers. ( i Professor Hornady, of the Smithsonian ( Institute, estimates the total number of wild JmffaLoes now is aiisten/? .. , ? Department, has been accepted by the Postmaster-General . Rear Admiral Kimberly has forwarded to the Navy Department a report stating that the engine of the Nipsic, which passed through the hurricane at Samoa, has been tried and marked well. The report says that the ship can be moved by steam if required. Surgeon General Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital service in Washington, has been informed by the President of the Board of Health of Sanford, Fla., that a case of yellow fever existed in that city. The Secretary of War ordered the commanding officers of all military posts to fire a national salute of thirty-six guns on April 30. Foreign. Notice has been served on the Belgian Government that the doings of the Boulangists in Brussels displease the French Government. Generai Boulaxger was warned that nine and live years respectively, sons of a Spratt Hill (Pelin.) miner, ate wild parsnips and died an hour or two later. After a lingering illness Henry George Pearson. Postmaster of New York city, died atHighwood, N. J., at the home of his fatherin-law, ex-Postmaster-General Thomas L. James. He was born in 1842 and had been Postmaster of New York for eight years. Don Sebastian Lerdo l>e Tejada, exPresident of Mexico, has died in New York city of bronchitis and pleurisy. Ex-Presideht Lerdo had lived there in retirement since 1870, when he left Mexico on account of political troubles. He was born in Jalapa April 25, 1S25. Several heavy veins of copper have just been discovered on farms in Wayne County, Penn.v and farmers in that section of the State are greatly excited. The New Jersey Legislature adjourned sine die. George T. Rtder, of the firm of George T. Ryder & Co., the leading dry goods merchant of Middleboro, Mass., has committed suicide. Dread of insanity and weight of business cares are supposed to have prompted the act. During a terrific thunaSr storm at Trinity Lake, Westchester County, N. Y., the house of Levinda Adams was struck by lightning. Noah Adams, eighty years old, and Mrs. L. Adams's daughter were killed. He.vrt A. Thomas, of Massachusetts, has been appointed Superintendent of Mails at Boston, Mass., vice Peter J. Hughes, resigned. Bt a majority of 44,552, Massachusetts decided against the proposed amendment to its Constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. A fierce forest fire raged in the vicinity of Bellows Falls, Vt., for forty-eight hours. About ten square miles of woodland was swept by the fire, which destroyed many thousand of dollars' worth of logs and corcl wood. The steamship Missouri landed 365 of the passengers and crew of the wrecked Danmark at Philadelphia amid general rejoicing. The saved people praised the kindness and pluck of the crew of the British vessel Missouri. Captain Murrell was presented with a floral ship and a dinner given in his honor. < Ax explosion of natural gas occurred in , Armstrong's cork factory in Pittsburg, Penn., . wrecking the building and machinery and , killing two employes. A large public reception was given Captain Murrell, the rescuer of the Danmark's passengers, in Philadelphia, and in the evening he was the guest of the Sons of St. George. King Christian has intimated his : intention to bestow a decoration upon him. < South and "West. Sylvester Grcbb, the murderer of Gertie Downey, has been hanged in the jail yard at Vincennes, Ind. Abram W. Marshall, a leading citizen ; ind office holder of Lunenburg County, W. Va., formerly one of the richest men in his section, blew out his brains with a shotgun in the presence of his wife. The steamboat Everett, a lumber raft boat, was sunk at the head of Otter Island, [owa, and five of the sixteen persons on board n-'ere drowned. Five Mormon missionaries who had formed i colony in Dale County, Ala., to go to Utah, ivere severely whipped by indignant citizens md driven from the county. '' Malachi Allen,a one-armed colored man, ind James Mills,half Indian and half colored, I vere hanged at Fort Smith, Ark. Allen was f ;onvicted of murdering Shadrack Peters and Silas Love in the Chickasaw Nation, and ,i Mills lulled John Wirdom, in the Seminole j eservation. . . Two men were killed and three injured in ;he wreck of a mixed train near Berwick, . til. 1 Forest fires in the interior ef Wisconsin i lestroyed East Depere and Buckabee, both inhbering towns, and did considerable . lamage to Marion. Loss about $1,000,000. J A fire at Denn's Hotel, a cheap lodeing louse at Detroit, Mich., caused the death of ? :hree men and serious injury to a fourth. Mrs. A. H. Lucas, her two daughters and 1 i hired man were attempting to ford a swolen creek two miles below Carthage, Mo., in c i wagon, when the rushing water carried' hem down stream, drowning the horses and ] vhole party. The trouble between the Minneapolis , Street Railway Company and its 000 and >dd striking employes culminated in a . jloody riot, in which upward of fifty per>ons, including thirty policemen, were more >r less injured, two fatally. The rioters were * dubbed into submission. " Frank Lynn shot and killed his landlady, e Mrs. Noah, at Lebanon, Ohio, and then coninitted suicide. j Simeon Houts. of Attica. Ind., killed his vife and then shot himself through the head. ; lealousy was the cause. A robber entered the railroad station at j Pattonsburg, Mo., and robbed the safe of beween $6000 and $10,000 in money. He cov ;red the agent with his pistol while ho was marching the safe. Three men were drowned in the lake four niles west of Grayling, Mich. Nobody knew vho the men were or where they came from. Forest fires have done great damage' in . Marathon County, Wis. * T. F. Burgess, the Treasurer of Durango, ^ol., is a defaulter to the extent of ?12,000. 3e has fled. ? Scott Bailey, a colored man. was taken Tom the jail at Halifax Court House, Va.. md lynched. He was accused of attempted F issault on a yoimg lady. r The Morgantown Female Seminary, at Morgantown, W. Va., was burned. Loss s P25.000. 0 The New York and Philadelphia syndi- . :ate, which about three weeks ago paid l_ P3,500,000 for the Laclede gas works of St. Louis, has just captured the other gas company at a nominal cost of $5,500,000, making a i total investment in St. Louis o? ?9,000,000 a Ln less than a month. t Washington. 1 Sir JutjWi.n Pauncefote, the new British Minister to the United States, has arrived in * W*??hineton. * Further appointments by President Harrison are: Solon W. Stocking, of Onon- ? daga. N. Y.. to be an Examiner-in-Chief in t the Patent Office: Ralph W. Wheelock, of Mitchell, Dakota, to be Receiver of Public 1 MoneysatMitchell, Dakota; Harrison Kelley, c of Jacksonville, Oregon, Receiver of Public Moneys at Drewsev. Oregon: James R. Hayilen. of Ol vmpia. Washington Territory, Re- ? reiver of Public Moneys at Seattle, Washington Territory*: Morris B. Wickersham, of Alabama, to be Attorney of the United ' outers lur me ooumern uistncr 01 AinDama. > Robert McCokmick, of Chicago, has been lppointed Second Secretary of Legation at London. -Mr. McCormiek is a son-in-law of Joseph Medill. editor of the Chicago Tribune. The annua! meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington has ended. I)r. Hamilton. Surgeon General of the Uarine Hospital Service, says there will bo mother genera! yellow fever scourge in Florida this season" and that there are ovileuces of it already at Jacksonville and rampa. With the application of the Civil Service ules to the railway mail service there will K' a total of 27.20(1 oliiees of the Government mder thex* rules, the list, including the delartmenta!. customs, postal and railway mail ervice. President Harrison appointed the folowiug >in!iiission to negotiate with the >ioux Indians iji Dakota: General George J rook, LT:iited States Army: Charles Foster, >f Ohio, and William Warner, of Kansas Jity, Mo. The resignation of Nicholas M. Bell, s >v^eri?teod?o^ qf Foreign M?iic Postoffij?e * he must leave Belgium of his own accord or the Governmeut would expel him. He decided to go to London. A party of Soudanese attacked and defeated some Egyptians who were building a fort at Port Halaib, Egypt. The Egyptians lost ten killed and wounded. Lord bromlow-^vill succeed Lord Londonderry as Viceroy of Ireland. Three public meetings in Edinburgh, Scotland, protested against conferring the freedom of the city on Mr. Parnell. The strike of the carmen in Vienna has become very serious. Already many persons have been injured in the collisions which have taken place between the strikers and the police, find the trouble threatens to extend to the inclusion of workmen of other occupations. Ex-Kixg Milax has become a Monk of Jerusalem with a view to eventually becoming Patriarch of all the Servians. The body of Mr. Ash worth, the British rice-consul at Castellamare, Italy, has been found at the foot of a precipice at Vieo Equense, on the Bay of Naples. It is believed that he committed suicide. Queen Victoria has arrived at Sandringham Hall on a visit to the Prince and Princess of "Wales, whose county seat she not seeD since 1871, at the time of the dangerous illness of the heir apparent. A battle occurred in Hayti which resulted in the capture by Legi time's forces ol the village of Petite Riviere. The village consisting of 600 houses was burned. It was said that 200 men lost their lives in the battle. The German Emperor and Empress went to Dresden to visit the King of Saxony. The freedom of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, was tendered to Mr. Parnell by o vote of fourteen to thirteen. A SON'S QUADRUPLE CRIME. Patricide, Arson, Assault and. Suicide by the Same Hand. At West Farms, a hamlet about five miles from WestSeld, Mass., Joseph King, aged seventy-eight, a whip manufacturer for half a century, well-to-do and highly respected, was shot while sleeping in his bed by his dissipated son of fortv-four vears. After shooting his fatner he attempted to kill his aged maiden aunt, Miss Cynthia Tuttle. He then burned down the house, and three hours later, within a dozen rods of the burned buildings and within hearing of the neighbors who were about to institute a search for the murderer, put a bullet through his own brain. Where had stood, a peaceful dwelling, nothing but a few charred embers remained, and a few rods distant, in a small deserted house, lay the dead bodies of father and son. The father had pistol-wounds in chest, neck and eye, either of which would have been fatal. The son had a ball through his temple. THE NATIONAL GAME, McGlone is captain of the Detroits." T?. TT . 1*131 HAttl UliC UU3WU 'nJoe Gerhardt captains Jersey City, _ Stagg will pitch for Yale this season- \ The Philadelphia Club is in very bad shape. The President of the Columbus (Ohio^ Club is a brewer. Des Moines, Iowa, is in the field with a ftrong club. Wise, formerly of Boston, has signed with [Vashington. Brooklyn has a very strong in as well as i good outfield. The Pittsburgs look like a flock of orioles n their gay uniforms. The price paid for Morrill and Wise by tVashington was $8000. Captain Anson has traded off Ryan for Philadelphia's Fogarty. Crane. New York's pitcher, has improved greatly since last season. The All-Around-the-World Baseball Toursts traveled 27,679 miles. Six business men are at the head of the ! lub at Chattanooga, Tenn. A prominent physician says the game of baseball produces heart disease. The Indianapolis uniforms are dark blue, vith orange stockings, belts and caps. It is a poor ball player in Pittsburg that lasn't a juvenile ckib named after him. Captain Ewing thinks that the New Yorks rill play better ball this year than last. Geop.ge Washington Bradley, the vetiran, has signed with Sioux City, Iowa. "Tommy" E9terbook,_ an ex-New York | licked nine on Fast Day. Indianapolis, with Boyle, Whitney, Shreve and Burdick, will be very strong in he pitcher's box this season. Manager Hart fixes the total amount ost by the Western Association last year >wing to high salaries at $90,000. Pitcher Ramsey, of Louisville, says he iven now can't explain his curving; all he mows about it is that he can do it. John K. Tener, of the All-Americas, vas badly wanted in Rome as a model. He vas offered $2000 to pose for two months. Baseball cranks are plentiful in Cuba. 3ver 000 people traveled 140 miles to see a janie between Havanna aud Matanzas. They tccupied three special trains. Frank Rixgo. the old catcher, who once i ' )layed with the Detroit, Pittsburg and Phila- j 1 lelphia clubs, took a dose of morphine at iansas City with fatal effect. f The New Yorks. by winning, took the en- i , ire crate receipts of the- first two games with j ( Brooklyn. They won over $5000. The Brookyns captured the third and last game of the leries. The Louisville press considers Pete Brownng the greatest mystery on the ball field tolay. After a winter's dissipation and with>ut a day's practice or preparatory training ] 10 walks out into left field and plays in perect style. A peculiar thing happened in a game be- , J iween the Metropolitan and Commercial j earns at Weehawken, N. J. Gough, of the ' Commercials, allowed twelve runs to be made < iff him in the first inning. Upon having his 1 irm examined after the game one of the bones 1 vas found to have been split. _ j <1 TEE PROMISED LAB. A Wild Race for Homesteads in Oklahoma.; The Signal Sounded and 30,000 Pioneers Cross the Borders, The gates of Oklahoma were swung open at noon on the day appointed by President Harrison, and resistless torrents of humanity began to pour upon its soil. From the Cherokee strip came the great fleet of prairie schooners across the Canadian; from the Chickasaw Nation came troon after troon of sturdy ponies, cach one carrying a boomer; from the Arapahoe and Cheyenne reservations on the west came a yelling mob of horsemen, who fired volley after volley to celebrate their final victory. The Kiowa of the Southwest and the Cherokee and Creek Nations on tho east, also furnished their contingent of boomers. Punctually at noon the trumpeter of Troop D, 5th Cavalry, at a sign from Lieutenant "Waite, sounded the '-dinner call." It was the signal agreed upon for the start. Immediately there went up shouts and cheers. A hundred pistols discharging their contents into the air but faintly echoed the joy, the enthusiasm, the feeling of relief on the part of the crowd that the supreme moment had arrived at last. Away aashed the horsemen in mad gallop, lashing their horses as if life depended upon reaching the top of the hill yonder. They were followed closely by buggies, l^uckboards. and road wagons, and the rear was brought up by the heavy drays, all lashing up that steep incline. At the starting signal they moved all together, great waves of cheering breaking upon the air. The wagons continued on over the level green plain until thev were about half-way across the northern fier of claims, and then upward of a hundred of them were brought to a standstill. The others rolled on to the lower tiers. Men, women an4 children poured from the stationary schooners, and in an incredibly short time the foundations for the pioneer homes of Oklahoma had been laid by willing hands. Every farm had more than one claimant, all feady to swear that they crossed the uui utri iiiau, ui:u uuai tuciia >>uc> mu ur^t 1111provemeuts. So it is all over the Territory and especially on the sections adjoining Guthrie and Oklahoma City. Between 20.000 and 30,000 people were dumped at Guthrie, Indian Territory, by the Santa Fe road, which run twenty immense trains from Arkansas City. The trains moved across the Cherokee Strip and arrived there scarcely more than five minutes apart. At the last station outside of the Oklahoma Territory there was a great crowd of boomers who had forsaken their teams and hoped to get in quicker by rail. There being no room inside, they climbed to the top of the coaches, and the entire train from one end-to the other was lined with them. In this way the line was reached about 12:05 o'clock. Before the late dead line was reached and passed, however, the great transformation scene had begun and was plainly visible to the watchers from the train. First came in view the wliite-topped wagons in groups in the level prairie or in the little valleys which diversify the face of the country. It was at once noticeable tliat the teams were not to be seen in any of these camps, and it was plain they had been taken out of the harness to be rode across the border by hard riders, who we're to locate claims. A little further on and this conclusion was proven to be correct, for aayer, is captaining the Liouisvuie team. Grant, the colored player, late of Buffalo, rill play with the Cuban Giants this year. Tat rnrt OViio Vine nn nmnfpnr lpflonip rnm. >osed of players under nineteen years of age. The Kansas City Court of Appeals has deeded that playing baseball on Sunday is llegal. Over ten thousand persons witnessed the ipening American Association game in Cininnati. Chicago, it is said, offered the Cincinnatis 5000 for Catcher Earlc's release, but it was efused. Tomnev is a great head-first slider. He is onsidered the best base-runner Louisville iver had. Krock and Hutchinson will do most of the Etching for Chicago this season, with Far* ell as catcher. Dureix, of Princeton College, is conidered one of the finest fielders in the imateur arena. Charley King, of the St. Louis Browns,* las got a new curve. It is a zigzag, in and iut, up and down. Six runs on one hit is a feat recently iccomplished by the "Worcesters in a game Lgainst the Lowells. Of all countries visited by the Spalding ourists, Italy appeared to be least able to inderstand baseball. The reason John Morrill was released by lie Bostons was his refusal to captain the the entire face of the country, as far as the best field glass could carry the sight, was overrun with horsemen galloping to the southward. Their fleetest horses had evidently been picked for the work, and they were carrying their riders rapidly to the longed-for goal. Out of tne dust which arose toward the east could be seen, after the train had reached a high ridge, a wagon caravan fully two miles in length, and which was driven to the utmost speed of its horses. These caravans were plainly out-distanced by the horseback riaers, and, after several miles of the territory had been traversed, it was seen that the best riders were winning the best prizes. One homesteader who had secured a magnificent quarter section of rolling land, had dug a hole two or three feet deep at the corner 01 it where the surveyors' section was located. There he drove his stakes. It was a curious sight to watch the boomers after they had got fairly on foot. The majority of them seemed to be dazed by the vastness of their surroundings. Many of them gazed stupidly to the north, south, east and west and then moved like men who were lost. Despite the orders relating to town site associations, there were already indications of bad blood among those speculators who have been dreaming of wealth to be gained in cities founded by them. In Pureell rival companies for the same site across the river, known by one company as Lexington, and by the other as East Purcell, issued incendiary dodgers headed: '"Defend your rights with rifles if necessary." Soon afterward a little bill addressed to members of the Oklahoma League was posted up warning the members, "by order of the league," to prepare to hold against all comere the claims and town sites selected and staked out by them. A disturbance Xook place there between rival land speculators and their adherents, in which revolvers and Winchesters were fired freely, however, without any serious result. Tom Myers was shot in the head, Joe Martin in the arm, one Simpkins, colored, was struck in the leg. At daylight the fighting ceased. Two troops of cavalry arrived at Pureell and will probably prevent any actual outbreak. The streets and hillsides of that town were covered with men, four-fifths of whom were speculators, determined to enrich themselves. A FATHER'S FRENZY. Fr.inlt Hancock, of Addison, N. Y.^ Kills His Four Children aud Himself. Mrs. Frank Hancock, of Addison, N. Y., on opening the bedroom door of her house discovered her husband's dead body suspended from a rafter, and four of their children lying dead in pools of blood. One of the boys, only a year old, who was sleeping in the cradle, was unharmed. The father had left a note, found on the cradle with a silver watch, in which he said: "I leave my watch to baby. Care for him. and when he grows up give him the watch and say it is from papa. Burv me and the children in the cemetery at Sabinsville." The fiendish father cut the throats of all the four children, and, not content with that,disemboweled them. The oldest was ten and the youngest four. The father's body showed that he had stabbed himself twice in the abdomen and gashed his throat. These wounds not being fatal, he slipped a rope around his nock and over a ratter and stood upon a soap 1 -1 il kin, nn/l UOX, UUU MltUl Ult'Kl'U it 11VU1 uuuci iuit* strangled to death. An examination of the father's body showed that he stabbed himself twice with a butcher knife and haggled his throat beforo hanging himself. At tho Coroner's inquest Mrs. llancock said that she and her husband had not been living happily together. She admitted that she and her husband had agreed to separate on Ma)' 1, dividing the children between them. A WONDERFUL RECOVERY, A. Bullet Extracted Prom a Would-Bo Suicide's Brain. A year ago, while crazed with drink, George Lucas, of Dubuque, Iowa, fired a bullet into his brain from a 32-calibre rerolver. He recovered from the wound sufficiently to attend to his business. A few lays since he visited his physician and complained that he felt something in his head. The wound was probed, and the doctor succeeded in extracting the bullet, it had penetrated the front lobe of tho brain 5\*er an inch. The doctor says there is no loubt of Lucas's complete recovery. Tho -ase is an extraordinary one and has been svidely discussed by the medical ^fraternity. Desxis T. Fly.vn* is the name of the man vho will enjoy tho honor of being the first bona fide white settler in the new Territory of Oklahoma. Mr. Flynn is a former resident )f Buffalo, N. y. He is a young Irish Amercan, twenty-eight or thirty years of age, vho drifted West a decade ago to grow up fith the country. LATER NEWS, The Edison General Electric Company, with $12,000,000 capital, has been incorporated in New York city. The company's object is the purchase and sale of electrical machinery. Returns from all cities and towns in Mas. sachusetts show that the majority against the prohibition amendment is 44,499. John W. Brockie, ex-Postmaster of Mount Carmel, Penn., has been arrested on the charge of issuing about $4000 of fradulent money orders. John Wade and wife, an aged couple, living at Appleton, Md., and John M. Linderman, a boy of Wilmington, Del., were instantly killed by an express train at Newport, Del. They were in a carriage, and were driving across the railroad track when struck by the train. The wife of ex-President Cleveland has leased the cottage of Rev. Percy Browne, at Marion, Mass., for the coming season. The house is located on Bartlett's Hill, next north of tho summer home of R. W Gilder, the editor of the Century Magazine. The Simpson dry dock at Newport News, Va., the largest in the United States, was formally opened in the presence of a party of distinguished visitors. At Grigsbys Precinct, W. Va., during an election on the liquor license question, a difficulty occurred between William Porter and Swin Howell. Porter was shot three times, and expired in a few minutes. While trying to quell the disturbances Joe Sargent and Martin Johnson were mortally wounded. A tremendous storm of rain and hail broke over Atlanta, Ga. The walls of the Jackson building, which was gutted by fire fell, killing two firemen and injuring several others. The Secretary of State is informed that Russia will send delegates to the Marine Conference. which meets at Washington on the 16th of October next. The Postmaster-General made the following important appointments: W. B. Cooley, of Pennsylvania, to be Chief of the Money Order Department; Frank M. Smith, of Maryland, and S. G. Sullivan, of Ohio, to he Superintendent of Mails at Baltimore and Cincinnati, respectively; John A. Chapman, of Illinois, to be Chief of the Inspection Division; Edward G. Carlin, of Pennsylvania, to be Assistant Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service. Commissioner Taxxer has discharged twenty traveling pension examiners because the appropriation for their pay was exhausted. TV. F. Dulmage, Crown Timber Inspector at Rat Portage, Manitoba, left town suddenly a few days ago, ?20,000 short in his accounts. Ax explosion has occurred in the Brancepeth Colliery at Durham, England. Five persons were killed. The street car strike in Vienna has been ended in favor of the men who have returned to work. A British expedition has destroyed the chief town of the Weudeb tribe, on the Sulymah River, Africa, and released 3000 slaves. A bridge on the Aroya Railroad, in Peru, valued at *500,000, has been swept away by a cloud-burst. General Boulanger, Henri Rochefort and other members of the General's partyleft Belgium for England, and arrived in London after an extremely rough passage across the channel and established headquarters at the Bristol Hotel. FIVE MEN DROWNED. ? ? A Whole Party Lost Through One Man's Lack of Nerve. At the Alabama Midland crossing of the Cattahooche River, near Bainbridge, Ga., two boats, with seven and eight men respectively, were crossing the river, when one of the boats commenced sinking, and one of the men jumped to the other boat and capsized both boats. Five men were drowned. They had been breaking rock for the Alabama Midland bridge. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Edwin Booth has "sworn off" smoking. Rose Etyxge is going a-staring through California. Dr. von* Bulow will .return to this country next spring. Irving's profit out of' 'Macbeth" is reckoned at $2500 a week. ( Mlle. Rhea has made a hit in her new play "The Case Vidal." The transportation of the Wild West show from New York to Paris will cost $16,000. ? me a vnrtjcnv hoc ifmflph if! l/p iviiss jilajttx -rxn l/iji.ov.i mmm ? Queenstown, greatly improved in health and : spirits. It is said that M. Coquelin's acting in this country netted him about $50,000 for om season. , Leon'a Dare proposes to astonish Paris by leaping from tne Eiffel Tower during the ; coming exhibition. Sarah Bernhardt said recently that in , her opinion Ellen Terry was the most perfect actress on the stage. In Mrs. J. G. Blaine, Jr.'s, support next season will be H. B. Conway, an English actor of high reputation. ' Pauline Hall, the comic opera prima donna, has renewed her contract to appear 1 with the New York Casino Company. J. TV. Scanlan. the Irish comedian, be* gan a three months' tour of ten large cities of Great Britain, opening in "Shaun na ' Laun." George TV. Childs, of the Philadelphia I Ledger, surprised everybody by going to the theatre the other night, for the first time in many years. A new opera, "Gorinshka,"' by Anton j Rubinstein, will be brought out at the Imperial Opera of St. Petersburg during tha < present season. Ash Wednesday no longer interferes , with theatrical performers in London. Formerly all theaters closed on that day, but this year not one did. Manager P. P. Proctor has secured a J life contract with Charles T. Ellis, the comedian, and will star him as long as he remains on the stage. "PnoriiT pt cvroir n fVio rvlmr fnnndpfl on ' Mrs. Ward's novel, has been drawing good houses at the Hollis Street Theater, Boston, ! and the critics speak well of it. The candle in Othello and Desdemona's bedroom, now being- played at La Scala. < Milan, is an electric light, no other form of ' illumination being permitted there. The Prince of "Wales now practices upon \ the banjo or "California harp." as it is styled in his district, with great persistency, "and the Czar is hard at work upon one"of tho j lower wind instruments. I Helen Dacvbay Ward, after having engaged nearly all her company and booked i her tour for next season, has now decided not < to return to the stage at all, but to return instead to domestic life witli her husband. John j Montgomery Ward, the baseball player. It is of record in a single copyist's office in New York city that 1000 plays were worked , oii on the typewriting machines of the liouso ' within one year. Of the total only five ever ' saw the boards and of these five there was not one that could properly be designated a i good drama. < The latest freak of English society is an amateur minstrel company, headed by a i noble Lord, and embracing" among its mem- c bers many distinguished persons of the aristocracy. They black up, do clog dances s f.nd sing plantation melodies. They give per- c foraa&iices fgr charities. - # t RESCUED IN MID-OCEAN. The Sinlciug Danmark's Passengers Saved by the Missouri. PtftVod TTr* ^no on^ ToTran +/i J. XVAkVU W jj mu fJUUJ UlULU XUiH^ii IV the Azores, The 672 people wlio sailed from Copenhagen on the ill-fated Danmark March 26, and who were feared to be lost., are all safe. The glad tidings were flashed across the Atlantic cable to Punch, Edyc & Co., the New York agents of the Thingvalia Lino. The cablegram they received read as follows: Message received from Lisbon: Passengers and crow all saved. Brought to the Azores by steamer Missouri. Three hundred and forty passengers follow Missouri to Philadelphia. Remainder still at the Azores. This message came from Lisbon, Portugal, via Copenhagen, the information having been brought there from the little steamer which plies between that port and Fayal, in the Azore Islands. The Danmark, when she lefl* Copenhagen on March 20, had C2S passengers on board and fifty-four officers and crew. The first news of the disaster was when the City of Chester, which arrived at Queenstown early in April, reported having passed the Danmark on April 8 in latitude 48 north, longitude 37 west in a waterlogged condition, and without a soul od board. All the boats were gone and a chain dangled from the dow! It was thought at first that some steamer had endeavored to tow her, and, finding that the Danmark was soon to sink, had taken her passengers and crew on board and abandoned her; but as day after day went by, and arriving steamers brought no news of the missing people, the belief became gevr eral that all had been lost after taking to tlK boats. A cablegram from Lisbon, Portugal, givet the following particulars: Officer Lahan and forty-two of tne crew of the steamer Danmark are coming here from the Azores. The Danmark broke her shaft on April 4, when SOO miles Dff Newfoundland. Immediately after the accident Engineer Kass was found dead in the engine room, evidently struck by a wheel that had been frasl by the breakage of the shaft. The officers acted coolly, and the crow behaved well. The vessel, powerless, drifted in the trough of the sea, ana a leak astern made things look serious. Distress signals were raised, and the day after the accident the steamer Missouri came up with her officers volunteering to do all in their power toward relief. She made room for twenty cabin passengers, and fastening hawsers, began towing the disabled steamer. After the first day's towing, the Danmark began settling noticeablv. The second day it grew worse, and sne dragged heavily. In the interim the 700 steerage passengers were growing restive and hard to control, and the officers inaugurated military discipline. the crew obeying admirably, greatly assisting in preserving order in the steerage. At the end of the third day after the accident the o(Heel's of the Danmark saw that the water was continually gaining on the pumps, and the after portion of the vessel became untenable. The Missouri had no more room for passengers, but by moving her cargo managed to make room. The situation on the Danmark grew desperate on the third day and the passengers were transferred, the boats of both vessels being used for the purpose, those of the Danmark being afterward abandoned. When the officers of the Danmark left her deck her bow was clear of the water and her stern almost submerged. The Missouri sailed from London March 28 for Philadelphia, but with the emergency of her burdensome complement of passengers, headed for the Azores as the nearest point. She arrived there safely and left 820 passengers, together with the officers and crew. The first officers immediately started back tn Cnnpnlinrrpn The Missonri continued her voyage to Philadelphia with 340 of the Danmark's passengers aboard, which port oho reached without incident. The Azore Islands are about 700 miles west of the coast of Portugal. The spot where the waterlogged Daninark was sighted by the City of Chester was about 325 miles northwest of Fayal, almost in mid-ocean. The Danmark was in the trough of the sea, and had apparently been abandoned some time. NEWSY GLEANINGS. A sugar famine is possible. France has 178 war vessels. England has 7000 flour mills Crop indications are all favorable/ The sugar trust has been dissolved' Boston money-lenders are very busy. About S00,000 wooden cars are in use. ^ Baltimore has a population of 500,000. Chili owes this country and won't pay. Chicago is rapidly becoming a club city. v Natural g? has reached Louisville, Ky.' Prairie fires have been raging in Dakota. It is unlawful to keep bees in Los Angeles, Cal. There is activity in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In Pans there is one suicide to every 2700 people. Maple sugar is abundant and of good quality. Five Kansas towns have elected women as Mayors. Both Etna and Vesuvius are m an eruptive i condition. The Austrian wheat crop is said to be j nearly a failure. Over 1000 letters are received at the White ! House every day. The European exodus is not only larger but j earlier than usual. California roofing slate is said to be the j Bnest in the world. The Mavor of Denver, Col., cowhided a man the other day. Priscilla Davis (colored), 105 years old, 1 is dead at Baltimore. Rich veins of copper have been found in Southern California. -Galveston-, Texas, is going to have a semicentennial celebration. A colony of old soldiers is about to start a township in Oklahoma. There are 26.000 members of the luormon i Church in this country. Japan leads the world in the number of houses destroyed by fire. Spring wheat is backward both in the United Kingdom and in France. The highest peak in New Guinea is to be j named after William E. Gladstone. Fish pirates on the St. Lawrence are giving the Canadian authorities trouble. Boston is said to be the greatest market in I the United State for the sale of lottery tick- I 2tS. A number of.towns in Vermont are prepar- J jig to choose their postmasters by popular rote. Trrt* ca/MirdH rnntrnl of I uore than "half the trade in Russian petro- j !eum. Farewell banquets to retiring American j ministers and consuls are heard of all over Europe. Owing to the scarcity of water the area of j :otton culture in Egypt this season is much ! restricted. The German court dress is to be changed i to a style similar to that in vogue at time of | Frederick I. There are said to be 213 clubs of women i in New Orleans ilevotod to the study of po- j itical economy. A cantilever bridge, to cost 810.000.000, . s to be built over the St. Lawrence River at ) Quebec, Canada. The total of failures in the United States, from January 1st to recent date is 3S73, igainst 3302 in l^S. Wisconsin has been transferred from the Military Department of the East to the Department of Dakota. The annual report of the Canadian Departnent of Fisheries shows a decided decline in he value of the fisheries. Secp.etart Blaine estimates that there i ire upward of 3500 applications on file in his I lepartment for 210 consulships. , The prejudice against horse flesh has now j < o faded out in Paris that there are 132 rectgnized butcher shojps where horse flesh is I j >pealy sold. <. j < - ' -.'rr-rita HEADLONG TO DEATH. ; Sensational Suicide in the Presence 6 a Crowd. James Hogan, who had been staying atth Spain House, Chicago, became suddenly ill sane from an over indulgence of liquor, am rushing to the roof near midnight swung him self over. He was singing and shouting, an soon attracted a large crowd which stod spellbound. "Don't' jump!" shouted a spectator, art Hogan climbed to the roof again, laughfa boisterously. Several times he repeated thl performance, singing and shouting all time, the crowd, which by this time ha) swelled to hundreds, watching him Bresti lessly. Two policemen rushed upstairs and ou upon the roof, but the maniac discover^ them before they could seize him[ and rot ning to the edge of the roof, swung his bod' into space, hanging tightly with his hand from the cornice. A woman in the crow tainted ana mere was a rush to dear til sidewalk. "Don't you touch me," Hogan screamed as the two officers crawled toward Mm, t'c I'll let go." Just then the crazed man saw an officii climbing the fire escape and within a ferc feet of him. "No, you don't," he shrieked, and suddenl; released his hold. His body shot downward, turning in ii descent, and striking a sign which ertendei out from the second story it rebounded am then struck the stone sidewalk wit a sickening crash squarely on the 1"^ Hogan's brains were scattered all ovt the Sags and the front windows of the- hotel death resulting instantly. The head w8 literally broken to pieces. One of the officer who rushed to lift the body became sick ti the sight reeled and fell. The suicide was a man of middle age. am was well off at one time. His only relative in Chicago is a married sister. THE LABOB WORLD, | Shop labor is busy and well paid. V "1 There are about 7,000,000 workers in EnJj land. Electrical appliances are In great di mand. * .-v A great deal oi cotton machinery haa bM moving South. Four or five new glass works are to i Luilt in Pittsburg. T?^t Chicago carpenters are organising 1 secure better wages. <" Is New Bedford, Mass., $13,000,000 are fi vested in industries. The low price of copper has caused the Al zona mines to shut down. The wood-working machinery makers pit pose to form a combination. i, Three dollars a week are the wages of' working milliner in London. A new cotton mill is to be built in Blddj ford, Me., with 90,000 spindles. In England the eight-hour question is eve more vexed tnan in tms country. As an unskilled laborer a man will reed's double the salary paid a woman, ;? ; Statistics show enormous reductions f the weights of marine steam engines. The shoemakers of the country are hnnria in unions, but only for sick benefit purposes Ix a German shoe shop the foreman is pad $6.50 and 87 per week; good operators, $5 t 86. Textile manufacturers are orderixi enormous engines from 250 horse-power i 500. ^ A gbeat sugar refinery is to be establish^ in Baltimore, with a capital stock of 81,00 000. , ' Australian paper makers are orderin paper making machinery from Ohio mom racturers. ; .2! A one-armed-printer in Connecticut tff 1200 ems an hour and can get along as wo as anybody. \.? A cut of cloth consists of about forty-id yards. Some weavers can weave over a CX a loom per day. The agitation for reduced hours of labofl creating quite a stir among working clone on the continent. . ^ : Watch movements are now made su&a^al oy macmnery intu, way tusi/ an nuuioowia than a dollar apiece. Deaths from mfa<ng explosions in for 1888 were only forty-three. This Is fit lowest record since 1851.. v, Union trade marks are legalized and pn tected by the New Jersey law, as a bill to tin effect has passed the Legislature. Thebe are tailors in New York city wh make a specialty of turning coats inside ot and remaking tnem for customers. The statistician of the National District < Paper Hangers reports a favorable conditio in most cities, but not in New York. It is thought that if railway servant*. I Great Britain worked only eight hours th railroad companies would have to emplo about 800,000 extra hands. Rubber waterproof goods are now to I manufactured in Guatemala,Central Anuria from native rubber to be obtained from th neighborhood of Escuintla. A Bennington (Vt) manufacturing coi cem claims to have the first and only machii in the United States for making the km French welt in knitted underwear. The National Assembly of machinery coi structors, moulders, pattern makers, an boiler makers has withdrawn from the K. < L. and joined the American Federation < Labor. The cotton'industry is developing rapid] in Italy, and numbers of people are crowdin into the cities. The number of spindles lu increased in five years from 880,000 to nearl 1,200,000. ' % In some shoe suops in Lynn, mass., girM are charged $5 for tuition to learn howto sefl shoes, and at the expiration of one day discharged for incompetency and new gir^H taken on. - . A new shoe has been brought out for iroH workers. It has an iron frame and the bo^H Is filled with asbestos, which makes it a noiM conductor of heat. TTiey are now being matfl in England. THE MARKETS. I 17 NEW YORK. B Beeves 3 95 @5 10 Milch Cows, com. to good.. .25 00 @45 00 Calves, common to prime... 4 00 @5 25 Sheep 3 25 @6 26 HC Lambs 5 00 (8 7 0(M Hogs?Live 5 10 @ 5 35^H Dressed.... Flour?City Mill Extra 4 25 @ 4 50^1 Patents 5 10 @ 6 35 "Wheat?No. 2 Red 86>f@ son Rye?State 58 @ 60 H| Barley?Two-rowed State... 85 @ 90 Corn?Ungraded Mixed 41 @ 45^H Oats?No. 1 "White ? & S9H[ Mixed Western 33^B Hay?No. 1 75 @ 95 Straw?Long Rye 70 @ 75 Lard?City Steam ? @ 6.70^H Butter?Elgin Creamery ? <& 27^H Dairy, fair to good. 20 & 24^1 West. Im. Creamery 17 @ 23^H Factory 20 Cheese?State Factory 8 @ ll^H Skims?Light 5 <3 S^H Western 9 @ 10^B Eggs?State and Penn 12$?@ ls^H buffalo. 9 Steers?"Westera 2 80 @ 4 25 Sheep?Medium to Good.... 3 25 @ 4 75 Lamus?Fair to Good 5 25 6 00 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 00 (? 5 05 Flour?Family 5 00 @5 ?5^H Wheat?No. 2 Northern ? <$ SS^H Corn?No. ' !, Yellow ? (ft 38^H Oats?No. 2, White 32 (j 32^H Barley?No. 1 Canada 70 (? 72^H boston. u Flour?Spring Wheat Pat's.. G 40 @ 6 00 Corn?Steumer Yellow 45]V@ 47^H Oats?No. 2 White ^ Rye?State 65 @ 70^H WATERTOWX (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef?Dressed weight 6 @ tj^B Sheep?Live weight 5 (g 5^B r.amos fl Hogs?Northern 0 @ 6^H PHILADELPHIA. 9B Flour?Penn. family 4 50 @4 7o^| IVheat?No. 2, Red. April... 90 @ 91 i?orn?No. 2, Mixetl April.. 42%@ 43 Jats?Ungraded White ? @ 33^H Potatoes?Early Rose 28 @ 35^H 3utter?Creamery Extra.... 26 @ 27 B Cheese?Part skims 6 @