University of South Carolina Libraries
HAITI'S WAR ENDED. The Struggle for Supremacy in the Black Republic Over. Hippolyte Conquers Legitime and Enters Port-au-Prince, The war in . the little Black Republic ol Hayti is over. General Hippolyte is the vio. tor. Legitime held out with determination unui ewo weess ago. flimsier ae ?esmaisons had assured him that he had the sympathy of France, and that should all ether resources fail he would receive substantial, aid from the great European Republic. Legitime finally told Do Sesmaisoas the "resources" had all given out, and requestedthe oft promised aid from Paris. The bestthe French Minister could offer was an asylum on the French cruiser in the harbor. This boon was readily accepted by Legitime, and he placed himself under the protection of the French flag. Then the Northern troops entered the capital, after a complete surrender by Legitime^ Generals. The pent-up feeling of the mob Bhowed itself by commencing to pillage. A vigilance committee was immediately formea, and very soon the turbulent blacks were suppressed. The city is now quiet. Admiral Gherardi, of the United States Navy, now controls the situation, assuring safety to all foreigners with the American man-of-war Kearsarge, Her Majesty's steamer Forward and the French cruiser Kergu&len. Municipal affairs will be reconstructed immediately and the ontlock at the moment it that there will be no further trouble and thai the commerce of Port-au-Prince will be at once re-established. It is believed that not more than a thousand men lost their lives on both sides dim Ingthe war just ended, but considerabli property was damaged. History of the Struggle. During more than a year past the Republic of Hayti has been the theatre of a revolution in which all the horrors of barbaric warfare have made it anything but a pleasant home. In October, 1879, Louis Etienne Salomon, who had heretofore led a life of almost unequalled vicissitude, was > chosen President, receiving eighty-two out of the eighty-seven votes cast in the conRtitntioniiX ?lerrfcir>n hvth a Nations! AsspmVilv V Prom that date till August of last year he was virtually a dictator under the forms of Republican Government. He wns re-elected Resident in June, 1886, by the unanimous rote of the Assembly. Early in July terrible conflagrations made havoc in the Haytian capital, and seemed to be the signal for a concerted insurrection. A. few days later the flag of revolt was unfurled at Port-au-Prince. The insurgents advanced from the north croon the capital with such vigor that on the" 10th of August Salomon fled to Cuba. He went to Franc* and died in Paris October 19. When Salomon retired from the Presidency his successor was named in the person of Senator Legitime, who was the choice of the Catholic clergy, whose influence had largely contributed to the successful rising against the dictator. Legitime established his administration at Port-au-Prince. Meanwhile the whole country burst into revolt. Early in November a large army, headed by General Hippolyte, threatjened Port-au-Prince. All the ports were declared blockaded by the provisional government. France only of all the foreign powers formally recognized the government of Legitime. After a short and bloody battle December 5 Hippolyte captured . the town of Mirebalais, the forces of Legitime being compelled to flee in disorder. On the 25th of January, 1889, the troops of Hippolyte captured the seaport town of Granaseline ana butchered 300 of the army of Legitime. In several encounters the utmost barbarity of cruelty was displayed on both sides, the forces of the government usually being defeated. On March 10, Tjfccrifimn cant tKaineiircranf; tyanprol o /Vkm accompanied by M. de Sesmaisons, Jhe French Minister, "bearing proposals for *^ po&ce. They were disdainfully refused.v "**' Legitime took his revenge when, on the 7th' of April, at the head of 2000 menl he surprised the town of Petite Riviere, captured It and burned its 600 houses. England joined France . in the recognition of Legitime, while Germany instructed her ships to respect his block, ade of the Haytian ports. Our own government refused to recognize either party as a *", legitimate Power. Hippolite captured the towns of Marchand, Marmalade and St. Michael in the first week of May, opening communication between St. Marc and Gonaiyes. A week later two of Legi time's generals fled before the insurgents and Hippolyte rapidly advanced toward Port . iau Prince, while the army of Legitime was fast being reduced by panic and desertion. . Headed by our Minister, with the advice of Admiral Gherardi, the foreign powers generally declared Legitime's blockade ineffective, and the downfall of his power bocame from that date only a question of time as to his powers of endurance. ' ? (? PE0MINENT PEOPLE. Austria has made Von Moltke a Colonel. President Harrison is deaf in his right ear. The Sultan of Turkey is said to be aging rapidly. Four sons of Siam are being educated in England. Jay Gould is one of St. Louis' largest ownk ers of real estate. : The Czar of Russia spends an hour a day Chopping down trees. f Constantike, heir to the Greek throne, is In his twenty-second year. f Rev. t. DeWitt Talmage has a brother who is a missionary in China. Mexicans are extending much hospitality to ex-Speaker John G. Carlisle. 1 Emperor William, of Germany, is to make a tour of Alsaco-Lorraine. 5 Dr. Brown-Sequard, discoverer of the famous "elixir of life," is an American, fc 1 Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's war Gover9 kior, is now living on a berry farm near Iowa | City. ?; Ex-Senator Joseph MacDonald, of InI aiana, has a legal practice worth $15,000 a V year. t- Senator Evarts has gone to Europe for treatment for his eyes, which are troubling fiim much. JS^The Shah of Persia has one fondness which will increase his popularity in New England. He likes American pie. : The Hon. S. S. Cox. is the onlv living man In public life, who voted for the admission of (Oregon as a State, February 14, 1859. - Robert Burns Wilson, the rising Kentucky poet, began writing verse at an early ?ge and is now thirty-seven years old. Electrician Thomas A. Edison, will Visit the Krupp works at Essen, Germany, before the termination of his visit abroad. I The late S. L. M. Barlow, of New York city, left an estate of about two million dollars, largely accumulated in his law practice. Jay Gould's "History of Delaware County, New York," written when he was twentyone, is a rare book bow, worth forty dollars. J A son of Admiral Farragut, is modestly .werking as a clerk in a New York counting room, rather to have some occupation than for the money it brings him. i General G. W. C. Lee, a son of Robert E. Lee, who is at the Hot Springs in Virginia, Ss an uncommonly large and powerfully built man, -with grizzled gray hair and short beard. ; Fanny Bignon, who is praised by zoologists for a recent paper on the anatomy of the lachrymal gland of the green turtle, is ioneof the remarkable women of Paris. She studied zoology at the Sorbonne, and has combined the careers of student and teacher. . ? Geronmo, the Apache, who has been a * prisoner of the United States Government tor some time, has grown so fat that he looks Very little like an ideal chieftain. He was pot well at Fort Augustine, Fla., but at Mount Vernon barracks, Ala., he has increased in weight rapidly. Professor E. P. Crowell, of Amherst College, Dean of the Faculty and Professor at Latin, is totally blind. He is almost fifty years old and lost his sight Ave years ago through illness. His knowledge of Latin is ? |k> accurate that he has been able to hold recitations as if he had the open book before trim. k. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The United States man-of-war Galena has left the Brooklyn navy yard and sailed for Hayti. Captain Summers is in command. Milford. Conn., has celebrated its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary by a service in the First Congregational Church, and a re-union of tha Milfora family. Robert Clark, a seventy-year-old far mer, hanged himself to a tree near Plainfield, N. J. Charles D. Chambers, recently released from the Penitentiary at Philadelphia, boarded the Pacific Express on the Pennsylvania road, near Lancaster, Penn., and endeavored to rob the passengers. After shooting one of the porters he was overpowered and locked up. At Paradise, Penn., a German farmer named Philip Hemickle deliberately set his own barn on fire and perished in the flames. A combination of Eastern capitalists has ! been formed to purchase all_the coalj>rop- | erty along tbe Mononganeia mver in Pennsylvania, and control the river coal business. It has been decided that it will require $13,000,000 to complete the deal, including the aggregate of stock the sellers are willing to take. General Isaac F. Shepard died at Bellingham, Mass., aged seventy-three. He was a poet, statesman, journalist and soldier. A valuable vein of ochre, a rich yellow metal extensively employed in the .manufacture of paints, has been discovered on the south side of Neversink Mountain, near the Black Bear Inn, three miles east or Reading, Penn. Mary Ann Donnelly, a nurse-maid,r,was stabbed and fatally wounded at Atlantic City, N. J., by Jars. Hamilton, wife of Robert H. Hamilton, in the Noll Cottage. The water in the rivers at Johnstown, Penn., is getting very low, and as a consequence a great deal of pestilence-breeding matter is being exposed. The stench along the river bank is becoming unbearable. The body of a child was recently taken out of the sand near the stone bridge. Mrs. John Aston, of Taylorsville, Penn. poured kerosene on the kitchen fire. The oil blazed up and enveloped the woman and her babe in names, tho child being in a cradle near the stove. Both were burned to death. The house of Robert King, residing in Jef ferson Township, Penn., was burned, and Mrs. King perished in the flames. J. K. Toole has been nominated for Governor, H. Conrad for Lieutenant-Governor, and Martin Maginnis for Congress by tbe j Montana Democratic State Convention. An oil tank exploded in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, which did damage to the extent of $150,000. Ten thousand visitors and exhibitors from all parts of the country were present at the formal opening of the Grangers' National Exhibition grounds at Carlisle, Penn. South and "West. Jim McCoy, the noted desperado of southwestern Texas, has been hanged at San Antonio, Texas, for the murder of Sheriff McKinney. The west side of the town of .Fairmont, Vermilion County, 111., was entirely destroyed by fire. The loss is $30,000. The Montana Republicans met in State Convention at Anaconda and nominated T. C. Power of Helena for Governor. Four more men have been killed as a result of the Howard-Turner feud in Harlan County, in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky. Governor Cooper, of Colorado, has called the President's attention to the depredations of the TJte Indians in Colorado. He wants troops sent there. After a tour in the Western and Pacific States, the Senate Committee on Reclamation and Irrigation have arrived at San Francisco, where they will take testimony. Henry Shaw, the millionaire philanthropist, of St. Louis, and founder of Shaw's Garden, is dead. Henry Roberts was hanged at Butte, Montana, for the murder of J. W. Crawford, one of his employes. In a quarrel at a primary election at Newmens Grove, Miss., W. H. Bradston was killed, and his cousin, W. p. Bradston, mortally wounded. Four others were badly woundea. Perry Thrall, a bad character, of Mexico, Mo., on his deathbed the other day confessed to the killing of William Van Deventer and his wife, for whose murder Bill Dudy, a colored man, was hanged. S. L. Ensley and S. T. Fowler, while enraged in tjfce Buckeye coal mine, in Mercer County, W. Va., were killed by a large cut of coal and slate falling on them. The men leave large families. C. E. Lybarger, Postmaster at Milwood, tr n au:. IVIIUA v^uuiiuj, vjuiUy siiuu ai uia uau^uiu Daisy but missed her, the ball striking Mrs. Lybarger and fatally wounding her. Lybarger then blew out his brains. The T. J. Mahler Carriage Company, of St. Paul, Minn., has made a voluntary assignment to ex-Congressman John L. McDonald. The liabilities are placed at $400,C00. The trial of the six men indicted for the murder of Dr. Patrick Cronin has commenced at Chicago. Jacob Thomson, of Port Tobacco, Mo., hanged himself to a cherry tree because of a loss of $1800, which he had hoarded for many years. The Union Furniture Company at Rockford, Bl., has been burned. Loss, $127,000; half insured. Ralph Emerson, William Ward and Fireman Cavanaugh were knocked from a building by a hose, and fell forty feet. Emerson was lolled. Four tramps arrested at Moberly, Mo., for vagrancy, were put up at auction and sold, the highest price brought being $2. _ At San Francifco, Cal., the new United States cruiser Charleston had a satisfactory official trial. Fifty persons were injured in a railroad wreck at Kingman, 111. Reports from the Indian Territory state that cattle are dying by hundreds of Texas fever in that section. Thainmen on the Alabama Great Southern Railroads' train, report that they saw two dead colored men swinging to limbs of trees a few miles from Meridian, Miss. They were told in Meridian that two of the editors of the Independent, who were run out of Selma, Ala., were caught there and were lynched. "Washington. Nicanor. Bolet Beraza and Alejardo Urbaneja, two prominent editors, have been appointed delegates from Venezuela to the International American Congress, which meets in Washington next October. The Acting-Secretary of the Treasury made the following appointments: Cabell Whitehead, of Boise City, Indian Territory, Assayer of the Mint Bureau at Washington; W. R. Comptonj of New York, and J. F. Meyer, of Iowa, chiefs of division in the Sixth Auditor's office; A. C. Anderson, Assistant to the Superintendent of Construction of Lifesaving Stations for Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The official report on the Boston shows the accident to that vessel to have been even more serious than was at first supposed. It is thought that $100,000 will hardly be sufficient to put the vessel in condition for CPft CATfirA ACTA in Foreign. Count von Moltke's brother Louis, an ex-Postmaster-General of Denmark, is dead at the age of eighty-five years. Messrs. Gooderham & Worts have sold their distillery in Toronto, Canada, to an English syndicate for $6,000,000. Cholera is raging at Bagdad and Basorah in Arabia. Orders have been given tc place military cordons arnind the towns. An epileptic in a hospital for incurables ii; Ghent, Belgium, made an attack with a razor upon the other patients in the institution, who were in bed at the time. He badlj gashed the throats of twenty-four of them. The American sealing schooner James G. Swan has been seized in Behring Sea, witb 235 dead seals aboard, bv the United States revenue cutter Richard Rush. A hurricane at Buenos Ayres has sunk imany lighters and inflicted considerable :damage upon shipping and cargoes. A tower similar to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, but twice as high, is to be built in London, England. \ Captain Wissmann, commander of the v i ' i ' German East African * expedition, has inarched from Dar-es-Salaam to Bagamoyo and has repeatedly repulsed bodies of na tives which he met along the Kingani River. The wife of William R. Lewis, United States Consul to Tangiers, Morocco, -died a few days ago at that place. A severe earthquake shock has been felt throughout Greece. Serious damage was done in several towns. The owners of Canadian sealers have, through the Dominion Government, formally demanded the protection of Great Britain. William O'Brien and Mr. James Gilhooly, members of the British Parliament, have been sentenced to two months and six weeks imprisonment without labor respectively, for holding a Nationalist meeting which had been proclaimed. The crops have turned out very badly in Russian Poland and a famine is predicted f.Vi or a nnrl in Galieia. The earthquake shocks caused a panic in many Grecian towns, and the inhabitants passed the night in the open air, fearing that their dwellings were unsafe. The damage was done at Etalicon, where nearly half the houses were so much shaken up that they are no longer habitable. Half of the city of Dubno on the Ireva in Russia, has been destroyed by fire. The losses are enormous, and many persons are homeless. Dubno is in Volhynia, thirty-two miles west of Ostrog, and has a population of over 8000 people. An earthquake was experienced on the Russian frontier. In the village of Khenzorik 129 persons were buried alive. Four boys in Matamoras, Mexico, were struck by lightning and all lolled. A CIRCUS IN A SMASHUP. One of Bamnm's Trains Derailed Near Potsdam, N. Y. I The second of three trains of the Barnum & Bailey show has been wrecked about two miles and a half east of Potsdam, N. Y., while en route on the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad from Governeur to Montreal. A broken axle was the cause. Twenty-four ring horses, including one of the four chariot teams, and two camels were killed. Six cars were derailed and two were telescoped so that everything in them was crushed. On either side of the track were distributed the bodies of the dead horses, while here and there, tethered to fences, were poor beasts with injuries rendering them useless. At the 6ideof the highway were one camel, several sacred cows and steers and various other animals rescued from the derailed cars. The cars were crushed and twisted and piled up on the track. The elephants, which were in the first car that was derailed, were not hurt, and have been taken from the car. Barnum's partner, J. A. Bailey, says the loss will be in the neighborhood of J-40,000. He thought that the loss of the day's receipts , at Montreal would have been about $18,000, and some of the horses that were killed were very valuable, and cannot be replaced, for two years are required for training them after the right kind have been secured. DIPHTHERETIO SCOURGE. A Reigrn of Terror in an Ohio Town? The Disease Beyond Control. The State Board of Health has informs- , tion from Moscow, Clermont County, Ohio, a town of 600 inhabitants, which vividly [ describes a reign of terror resulting from ; disease at that place. There existed an epidemio of diphtheria in , the most fatal form. The disease broke out about two weeks before this report was re- ( ceived and spread so rapidly that when the State Board of Health was first notified there was twenty-six cases and several deaths. Since that time there have been twenty more cases and numerous deaths. The town was in a state of wild etcitoment. The citizens were building sulphur bonfires in their yards and sprinkling the public streets with lime.: Dr. McKibben, the Moscow physician, stated that the disease had become uncontrolable, and that medical assistance was TTa fAlocrrflnliP^ tr\ t.Vio Sfnffl "RrmrrV u. 1?-11" "" "" ~ ~ / THE LABOK WORLD, ? Bricklayers in London are prospering. The Paris Carpenters' Union is 600 years old. A KNITTING mill is to be built at Madison, Fla. The fire-brick makers in the West are very busy. New York painters get $3.50 for nine hours. Boston councils appropriated $1000 for Labor Day. California bricklayers work nine hours and get $5.50. The canal payroll of New York State contains 1300 names. Harvest hands in Oregon demanded $3 a day and board, and got it. The Cambria Iron Company, of Johnstown, Penn., has 3500men at work. IjAEUKEKH arc arriving m larjjo jiullluci a iv work on the Nicaragua Canal. P The national convention of brewery employes is to be held in Cincinnati.' There is a great depression in the clothing making trade among the worker?. There are 1500 co-operative unions in England, containing 992,428 members. Floods have interfered with manufacturing operations all over the country. Farm hands in France earn a little over a dollar a week and manage to save out of it. Cuban planters are struggling for good field hands. The wages demanded are very high. More than 10,000 Connellsville (Perm.) coke ovens are now being worked under the new scale. There are indications that the centralization of American labor organizations will bo effected. i The 10,000 washerwomen of Paris have formed a union. They will demand seventyfive cents a day. ; The demand for sailors is brisk just now, able seamen getting $20 and ordinary seamen $15 a month. |& Thirty thousand persons, mostly foreigners, are employed in manufacturing tobacco in New York city. j Ten years ago Indianapolis bricklayers made twenty-two cents per hour; to-day they make forty-five cents. i The Labor Conference which was to have been held at Berne, Switzerland, has been postponed until next spring. ; The mining troubles in Illinois and Indiana are far from being settled. Great distress continues among the operatives. .! Nearly every strike of recent occurrence has been of short duration and has ended in *1*" wjni-nww f 4 rllyoyp IUO vu uuai Y X\, tV?l J Vi. vuu oviiawt u, Chicago skilled hardwood finishers make from $2.25 to $8 per day. Painters get from twenty to thirty-five cents per hour. | The workmen in some parts of the country are combining and employing physicians to attend them at so much per 100 or 1000 families. ; The tailors of Salvador, South America, have signed a petition requesting the Government to prohibit the importation of ready made clothing. ' The Chicago City Council has authorized the Commissioner of Health to employ five female sanitary police to inspect factories and tenements. ' It is estimated that there are in London 814,000 persons wholly dependent on casual labor, and nearly 1,000,000 who never go inside of a church. i The National League of Musicians is about to adopt an insurauce system, under which the heirs of each deceased member shall be entitled to $500. ' TnoMAS Delwortii, a colored American who was once a slave in the Southern States, is now President of the Builders' Laborers' of St. Catharines, Canada. , In a good many tailoring shons in New York and Boston, persons work from fourteen to eighteen hours a day. A good many earn only from $2 to $3 per week. ! Georgia and South Carolina have between them 128 cotton mills, 873,728 spindles, 21,365 looms. This Is by 180,000 more spindles and 5600 more looms than the entire South contained in 1880. '! At Glenarm, on the coast of County Antrim, Ireland, there are whiting mills which give employment to nearly half the population, waiting is unslacked lime Sound down and cleansed. The wages of e men average from $3.80 to t4 per week. *....... GRAND ARMY VETERANS. Twenty-third National Encampment Held in Milwaukee. General E, A. Alger,-of Michigan, Elected Commander-in-Chief, GENERAL R. Am ALGER, OF MICHIGAN. Thirty-five thousand veterans took part In the parade of the Grand Army of the Republic at the'Twenty-third National Encampment in Milwaukee. General Sherman and Commander-in-Chief Warner shared the honor of the hour with General Logan's Widow, who, with Mrs. Alger and Senator Manderson, occupied the front tier ol the reviewing stand. The city was crowded with strangers, and the veterans, who came from all sections of the Union, were heartily cheered. The Pennsylvania delegation made the best appearance of any organization in the line. Overflowing central camp fires were held at night at West Side Turner Hall and Light Horse Squadron Armory, besides a dozen minor ones. At West Side Turner Hall Mayor Thomas H. Brown delivered an address of welcome and Commissioner of Pensions Tanner responded. General Warner Eresidedfand made a brief address. Genera) iucius Fairchild presided at the other camp fire. A monster war song concert, attended by 5000 veterans and others, was given in a large tent in Juneau Park. Mrs. John A. Logan held a reception at the Court House, ana was escorted there by the entire Illinois Department of 2000 veterans. Second Day's Proceedings. The real business of the Twenty-third Encampment opened on the following morning at Turner Hall, when General Warner called the delegates to order. About seven hundred were present. The Committee on Cre* ' * * - J !J UK niL* I ciennais occupitx* cuusiuwauit? cmie. iuo proceedings were held with closed doors. After prayer by Chaplain Wharton, of the Wisconsin Department, Commander Warner read his address. He said that the growth of the organization had been steady ana healthy. The net gain in membership during the year (in good standing) was 21,431. He commended the practice of the posts in the Dopartment of New York of presenting on February 22d the American flag to such public schools as are not yet in possession of one. On the subject of pensions, with which his address closed, General Warner said: "The last encampment, after much discussion, by a practically unanimous vote, recommended to Congress a service-pension bill, and what is known as the Disability Pension bill, the latter having received the reported approval of previous encampments. This action was the result of compromise, and, in my judgement, was as wise as it was just and conservative. My experience in Congress leads me to believe that you will greatly strengthen the hands of our friends m that body by demanding at Milwaukee the pension legislation asked for at Columbus. Let the Committee on Pensions take your recommendations to Congress, backed by a united Grand Army of the Republic, and there will be no failure. If we are true to ourselves, before the next encampment every comrade disabled by age, sickness or ? a J i.u. ?: A accident, ttllU UIU Wiuuna auu vij^uauo ui veterans, will be borne on the pension roll." Ex-Pension Commissioner Black and Secretary of Agriculture Ru.sk also made brief remarks. The reports of the Adjutant-General, Quartermaster-General, Judge AdvocateGeneral and Surgeon-General were then read, after which the Encampment took a recess for two hours. In the afternoon Boston was chosen as the place for the next annual Encampment, the steady quiet work of the Massachusetts men during the two days being rewarded by a handsome majority over "Washington and Saratoga. The annual reunion of the Veteran Signal Corps was held and elected Governor J. B. Foraker, of Ohio, President. Very unexpectedly the Grand Army delegates proceeded to an election of officers at the night session. General Russell A. Alger, of Detroit, had it all his own' way. Twenty men nominated him, Colonel James Sexton, of Chicago, first presenting his name. All the other candidates were then withdrawn and General Alger was elected by acclamation, Colonel A. G. Weissert, of Milwaukee, was elected Senior Vice-Commander, and John P. Lovett, of New Jersey, t?. ?v,-?? 0 ULUUi V I^o-vmillliaimvi , SKETCH OP THE NEW COMMANDER. 1 General Russell A. Alger was born or February 27, 1836, in Lafayette Township, Medina County. Ohio. His father came froir (Connecticut and his mother from Vermont. When but twelve years old his mothei died, and shortly afterward his father and elder sister were 6tricken with death, and the young boy was left without a dollar ii the world, and a younger brothei and sister to aire for. Obtaining places for these he started out in the world' ,In 1850 he hired himself out to a farmer, he tc receive $3 for the first month, $4 for the second, and S5 for the next four months. In 1800 young Alger went to Michigan, and with a small amount of borrowed capital engaged in the lumber business at Grand Rapids, winch soon afterward collapsed. He was married to Miss" Annette H. Henry, daughter oi TV. G. Henry, of Grand Rapids, in 1861, and iwhen the war broke out he entered the army, and was elected a Captain in the Second Michigan Cavalry. : At Boonville, Miss., Captain Alger had his side crushed in and five ribs broken by being dismounted, his horse being shot. By general promotion, after participating in sixty-six battles, he was brevetted Briga dier and Major-General, and resigned from the service because of injuries received from jus horse on September 20, 1864. After this he went into the north woods of Michigan, and, with funds furnished him by Franklin and Stephen Moore, entered Erernment lands at 31.25 an acre. 1867-68, with his wife, he took up life in the woods to work his way. In 1884 General Alger was elected Governor of Michigan. Although now worth about $5,000,000 it is said that General Alger never sued a man or was sued in his life. WHEAT GOES UP IN SMOKE. Ten Thousand Tons Burned at Port Costp, Cal. One of the ilcNear wheat warehouses at Port Costa, in California, with about 10,000 tons of wheat, has been destroyed by fire, as well as forty-two cars belonging to the Southern Pacific. The total loss is estimated at 8700,000. The five was discovered by the night watchman of the warehouse in which the flames broke out. He said the whole end of the building was in flames before he detected anything wrong. An alarm was sent out, but few firemen could be had and no tugs were at hand. As the wind was from off shore it was seen at once that the American ship Armenia and the British ships Honauwar and Kenilworth would go also unless they could get dear of the wharf. There were only four men on each, and they could not manage the large vessels in time. Almost in a moment the fire was leaping up the rigging, and by the time the vessels were cast on they ware floating pillars of fire drifting s.way across San Pablo Bay and lighting up Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo and the surrounding country for miles. Meanwhile on the shore the efforts of the firemen succeeded in stopping the flames. One engine, which was at nana, was utilized to save cars loaded with wheat, but the heat was so intense the work had to be abandoned and forty-two loaded can went pp in-smoke. ' 1 k LATEB NEWS. Tee Convention of the National Editorial Association has been held at Detroit. The Scotch bond holders of the Oregoni&n Railroad have unanimously agreed to sell the road to C. P. Huntington. "Gus" Klan, a tinsmith, who gave evidence in the Cronin case, was badly beaten (n Chicago by a gang of a dozen m en and boys. The American Bar Association met at Chicago, David Dudley Field making the annual address. The Ohio Democratic State Convention at Dayton nominated a full ticket headed by Hon. James E. Campbell for Governor. The platform favors tariff reduction. The President has appointed Charles R. Flint, of New York, and ex-Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, delegates to the Three Americas Congress, in place of Messrs. Whyte and Pitkin. The jury of the Paris Exposition has recommended mat a goia mea&i do awarueu to Boston for its educational exhibits. Similar recommendations have been made in favor of Cornell University and the University of Virginia. LONDON'S LABOR TROUBLES. Business Paralyzed Because 75,000 Workmen Strike. A cablegram from London gives the following particulars in regard to the strikes now in progress there: London is an inland town, and promises to remain such for some time to come. All communication with the rest of the world by water is as completely cut off as though the Thames had dried up. The great ships lying at the docks can neither load nor discharge their cargoes, and the immense traffic of the greatest commercial city of the world lies at the mercy of men commercially rated at $1.00 a day. The strike and its consequences touch every man, woman and child m this great city. ETo meat is arriving in London. The markets in Mark Lana are paralyzed, and maize' advanced $1.25 the quarter for immediate use. The strike which was begun by the dock laborers, and which subsequently spread to the carmen, has now extended to the Thames ironworkers, and the gas stokers threaten to join forces with the strikers. There was also talk of compelling laborers in all the trades to quit work and force matters to an issue at once. The ironworkers' strike adds 7000 to the number of unemployed. The men were orderly. The shipping business is completely paralyzed, ana mail steamers are leaving without cargQS. The tinplaters at Bermondsev, a suburb of London, have joined the strikers. In Rotherhithe, the shipbuilding district o? London, processions of strikers are marching continually. Eight thousand sailors and firemen and 2500 dockmen at Isle of Dogs, where several large, docks are located, have gone out. The authorities became apprehensive of trouble, and held the military in readiness to suppress on outbreak should it occur. The coal porters at Bang's Cross have also joined in the strike. In consequence of the strike thousands of tons of mutton are rotting, it being impossible to find men to handle the stock. All classes of workingmen are dissatisfied, and there is no telling where the strike will not extend to. It is estimated that over <5.000 men are on strike now. HIS OWN FUNERAL PYEE. Paradise, N. J., Excited Over a Horrible Tragedy. The town of Paradise, near the Blue Mountains, in New Jersey, has been the scene of a dreadful tragedy, which has excited the horror of the country people for many miles around. Philip Heinickle, a well-to-do German farmer, has for some time past made threats that he would burn the town, but little heed was paid to him, as it was not believed he would carry out his threat. The other day he went to his large barn, in which was stored all the summer harvest, so tha t it was filled to bursting, and kindled a fire at the four corners. The barn was soon blazing and roaring, while the flames and smoke shot high in the air, showing for miles around. Some of his neighbors wanted to put out the fire, but with a gesture he refused their aid, and they could do nothing but stand idly gazing at a distanco, for the flames were so intense that a close view of the fire was -uncomfortable. Suddenly they were horrified at seeing Heinickle deliberately throw himself into the flames when they were at their height. Nothing could be done to prevent his terrible act, as no one was near enough to him at the time. When the flames went down and the embers had cooled so that a search among the ruing was possible, his charred and halfconsumed body was found among the embers several hours later. ' FIVE MEN KILLED. A Rolling Mill at Towanda, Pcnn , Blows Up. The rolling mill and nail factory at Towanda, Bradford County, Penn., operated by Bostley, Godcharles & Co., has been partially wrecked by the explosion of a boiler, the disaster resulting in the instant death of five man. the fatal iniurv of two others and slight injury of a dozen other workmen. Tho force of the explosioon was terrific, lifting the entire roof off the southern portion of the mill, tearing away the rafters and girders and allowing the whols laass to crush into the mill and upon the terrified force of workmen, who were scafrtering in every direction and crouching behind all kinds of obstacles to escape the fury of the hissing steam, which was filling the structure from the nest of boilers that were displaced and broken in their steam connections by the exploding boilers, pieces of which were hurled through the mill. The larger portion of the burstcd boiler was cirried through the side of the mill, landing in a mass of scrap iron fully 150 feet away. The explosion's awful sound was heard all through the town and great crowds of tho inhabitants rushed to the mill to leara its effect. A CLOUDBURST. Five Dams Carried Away and Miles of Railway Track. Torn Up. . A cloudburst over Rockingham and vicinity, in North Carolina, destroyed the dams of the following mills at and near that place: The Foe Dee, the Rober Dee, the Great Falls, the Midway and the Ledbatters. The machinery on the first floors of the Pee Dee and the Great Falls mills were considerably damaged as was also the Midi ray building. The damage was estimated at $100, 000. Five hundred hands were thrown out of employment. The railroad track of the Carolina & Suffolk Railroad for fifteen miles was more or less torn up, and there were several washouts on the Palmetto road between Cheraw and Hamlet. A CHILD TO HANG. Twelve-Year-Old Henry Winford Sen* tenced to Death. Perhaps the yoUngest criminal to have the death sentence passed upon him in North Carolina is Henry Winford, aged twelve, just doomed to hang in Salisbury on October 25. Last March Henry went to the home of Mrs. Barger, an old widow who lives near Bostain's cross roads in Rowan County. It was about midnight. Raising the window the boy crawled into the bedchamber, where he soon gathered up a lot of jewelry. xaa meu lubub oil tu?uib upuu vuo sleeping woman. He fled but was afterward captured. It is asserted that nothing but his extreme youth saved* him from the grasp of Judge Lynch. At the grand review of the Knights of Pythias at Eagle Late, Ind., two largo .rattlesnakes obstructed the line of march and prepared to spring. They were speedily cut down by the swords of the Knighte. .... , ? HATTfs~?ASENDm The Struggle for Supremacy in the Black Republic Oyer. Hippolyte Conquers Legitime and Enters Port-au-Prince. The war in the little Black Republic of Hayti is over. General Hippolyte is the victor. Legitime held out with determination until two weeks ago. Minister de Sesmaisons had assured him that he had the sympathy of France, and that should all ether resources fail he would receive substantial, aid from the great European Republic. Legitime finally torn. De Sesmaisons the "resources" had all given out, and requested the oft promised aid from Paris. The best the French Minister could offer was an asylum on the French cruiser in the harbor. This boon was readily accepted by Legitime, and he placed himself under the protection of the French flag. Then the Northern troops entered the capital, after a complete surrender by Legitime^ Generals. The pent-up feeling of the mob showed itself by commencing to pillage. A vigilance committee was immediately formed, and very soon the turbulent blacks were suppressed. The city is now quiet. Admiral Gherardi, of the United States Navy, now controls the situation, assuring safety to all foreigners with the American man-of-war Kearsarge, Her Majesty's steamer Forward and the French cruiser Kerguelen. Municipal affairs will be reconstructed immediately and the outlook at the moment is that there will be no further trouble and that the commerce of Port-au-Prince will be at once re-established. It is believed that not more than a thousand men lost their lives on both sides during the war just ended, but considerable property was damaged. History of the Struggle. During more than a year past the Republic of Hayti has been the theatre of a revolu tion in which all. the horrors of barbaric warfare have made it anything but a pleasant hom9. In October, 1879, Louis Etienne Salomon, who had heretofore led a life of almost unequalled vicissitude, was chosen President, receiving eighty-two out of the eighty-seven votes cast in the constitutional election by the National Assembly. From that date till August of last year he was virtually a dictator under the forms of Republican Government. He was re-elected President in June, 1886, by the unanimous voto of the Assembly. Early in July terrible conflagrations made havoc in the Haytian capital, and seemed to be the signal for a concerted insurrection. A few days later the flag of revolt was unfurled at Port-au-Prince. The insurgents advanced from'the north upon the capital with such vigor that on the 10th of August Salomon fled to Cuba. He went to France and died in Paris October 10. When Salomon retired from the Presidency his successor was named in the person of Senator Legitime, who was the choice of the Catholic clergy, whose influence had largely contributed to the successful rising against the dictator. Legitime established his administration at ' Port-au-Prince. Meanwhile the whole country burst into revolt. Early in November a large army, headed by General Hippolyte, threatened Port-au-Prince. All the ports were declared blockaded by the provisional government. France only of all the foreign powers formally recognized the government of Legitime. After a short and bloody battle December 5 Hippolyte captured the town of Mirebalais, the forces of Legitime being compelled to flee in disorder. On the 25th of January, 1889, tho troops of Hippolyte captured the seaport town of Grandseline and butchered 300 of the army of Legitime. In several encounters the utmost barbarity of cruelty was displayed on both sides, the forces, of the government usually being defeated. On March 10, Legitime sent to the insurgent general a committee accompanied by M. de Sesmaisons, the French Minister, bearing proposals for peace. They were disdainfully refused. Legitime took his revenge when, on the 7th of April,at the head of 2000 men, ne surprised the town of Petite Riviere, captured it and burned its 600 houses. England joined Prance in the recognition of Legitime, while Germany instructed her ships to respect his blockade of the Haytian ports. Our own government refused to recognize either party as a legitimate Power. Hippolite captured the towns of Marchand, Marmalade and St. Michael in the first week of May, opening communication between St. Marc and Gonaives. A week later two of Legitime^ generals fled before the insurgents and Hippolyte rapidly advanced toward Port au Prince, while the army of Legitime was fast being reduced by panic and desertion. Headed by our Minister, with the advice of Admiral Gherardi, tne foreign powers generally declared Legitime's blockade ineffective, and the downfall of his power became from that date only a question of time as to his Dowers of endurance. ONE MORE FATAL~DAM. . Three Lives Lost and a "Wide Sweep of Country Devastated. The Spring Lake reservoir, near Fiskville, in the southwest corner of Cranston, about fifteen miles from Providence, R. I., which supplies a number of mill villages along the Pawtucket River, burst during the afternoon. Three persons were drowned and much damage was done to property. A man named Yeaw, who was about a quarter of a mile off, noticed the water coming through the masonry of the dam, as he describes it, as a stream about as big as a barrel. The hole was apparently growing larger very radidly. The only living object in sight was a cow, a few hundred yards across the fields; which Yeaw succeeded in rescuing, although the water was up to his neclr. Meanwhile down the vallev were Mrs. Greene Tew, aged sixty; a Mrs. Hawkins, aged ninety, and Mrs. Tew's son, seven years | old. They were walking through a strip of wood and were overtaken by the flood and drowned. Their bodies were found in thewood, through which the water quickly ran until it emptied into the Pawtucket River. The river rose rapidly and caused considerable alarm among people along its banks, arhn **inncrhfc tVifit the Ponecansett reservoir. the biggest in the State, had gone. Many ot them left their houses and fldu, but the flood subsided as rapidly as it had come. The dam was built in 1887 for the service of the Pawtucket Valley Company. The reservoir covered eighteen acres and contained about 35,000,000 gallons of water. The is 925 feet long, seventeen feet nine inches higli and eight feet wide on top and thirty-five feet wide at the bottom. AN OPERATOR'S BLUNDER, Three Men Instantly Killed and Four Fatally Injured. Tha accommodation train, due at Parkersburg, TV. Ya., at 11:10 a. sc., collided with a special east-bound train, carrying Baltimore and Ohio officials, at a point between Petroleum and Silver Run, twenty-five miles from there, on the main line of the Baltimore and | Ohio Railroad. The accident was caused by niUJSg uiucia ut/iug giwu w cuw vugww* o. The special train was ordered to pass the accommodation at Petroleum, the farther point east, and the accommodation to pass the special train at Silver Rim, the farther point West. At tho time of the collision both trains were going thirty-five miles an hour. They met on a sharp curve, and without a moments warning dashed into each other, wrecking both engines and a baggage car, instantly killing Engineer Layman, fatally injuring Engineer George Rowland, and instantly killing the two firemen, James Fletcher and John Builey, One of tho officials, named Hunter, was perhaps fatally hurt. A Mrs. Manley, of Central, W. Va., was badly injured. Councilman Robert Malley was cut and bruised. Baggagemaster Rose was cut. A colored porter on the special was thrown through a glass door and probably fatally injured. There wera some marvelous escapes. The returns or~a "recent scnoor electron tn Kansas show that 50,000 women voted on school matters, and that a large proportion of school officers this year are to be woman. < * I CCBIOCS FACTS. i ' The turnip originilly came from Rom?U The peach originally came from Pei'J ' eia. i fi: Ball fighting is getting a foothoL^ among French amusements. A five-year-old child in Monson, Me^ is said to speak three languages. The practice of feasting at funerals H ' still in vogue at Lancaster, Penn. A tree was cut down at Orting, Wash- . ington, that measured 310 feet long. : At Huntsville, Ala., a pink and whita chicken was hatched a short time ago. \ j ] Reversible trousers, to correct tho "bagging," are proposed by a beneficent tailor of Akron, Ohio. Old Mrs. Sidner, who died at Deckertown, N. J"., the other day, aged 105, had smoked a clay pipe for forty years. - A strange and fatal disease has appeared in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Victims fall in the street, vomit foam and blood, and die. They have a trained lion at the Paris circus that rides on the back of a horse around the ring and does all the customary feats. * :ft ' General Charles Williams, of Manchester, N. H., will give a fine park to that city, to be enjoyed especially by poor children. Large land owners in Scotland are ira- .' porting reindeer from Norway, in the hope that they may become acclimatized and increase. . A swarm of butterflies, so thick as to . \ almost obscure the rays of the sun, passed through Mott, Cal., recently. There were myriads of them. ' A rustic bridge just completed in Houston County, Ga., contains fiftyseven different kinds of wood and vines, and all were grown in the county. It is claimed for the Mitre Hotel, Oxford, England, that it was first opened 1 as a public house in 1400. No one to look at it can doubt the statement. i The California State Board of Trad^, reports that there are 13,000,000 acres of arable land in that State capable of being rendered productive by irrigation. / : ? The cemetery at Sea Cliff, N. Y., has been closed because there is so little use for it?only fifteen burials in four years, and the receipts not equal to the expend^ tures. ,4 . ?* f James Buchannan, of Ashtabula County, Ohio, cuts his hair in a very peculiar "j manner. He shaves all his forehead short, except a ridge from his forehead to the back of his neck, f Capt. Haskell, of San Francisco, re- ;,: cently witnessed a terrible battle between a swprdflsh and a whale in the harbor of San Francisco. The swordfish was finallly victorious, killing the whale. liie latest fad in mechanism is an ingenious contrivance in the form of a large ice-cooler, from which, if one drops a penny in the slot, he can obtain , a cupful of ice-cold Hjgeia water. A consignment of 600,000 kilogrammes of terra alba which arrived at New York on a British steamer 'a few days ago will be converted into candy for the delectation of the American' people. A novel idea in church building has been started in the neighborhood of Dawlish, England, where it is proposed to raise funds for a new church by debentures bearing interest at four percent. secured as a nrst mortgage on ine oner- ( tories. 1 Azoth, which was besieged by Psammetichus^ the Powerful, held out, according to Archbishop Usher, for nineteen years, and according to Herodotus for twenty-nine years. Troy held out for ten years. These are the two longest seiges of which there is any record. The latest and newest thing in New York shop windows is a huge spider web made of fine twine and remarbably' natural. It is at least four feet high and is as true to nature as though a .Gulliver-' like spider had used the window for a home. To intensify the illusion a spider as big as a man's fist, cleverly manufactured, has been placed in the centre oi the -web, while artifical butterflies are scattered promiscuously about. ' Our National Snake Charmer.. Perhaps it is not generally known that this country nas a national cnarmur, wuu is paid a good round salary by the Government. But such is the fact. The charmer in question is Professor A. Zeno Shindler, a bustling little German, whose headquarters are in the National Museum, at Washington. His principal duty is to make casts and drawings of all specimens of the snake family received by the Museum authorities. Some of the snakes are received in alcohol, but many of them are boxed up and sent here alive. The Professor has a large wooden cage in his room in which there is a collection of dangerous and venomous reptiles. A number of these he has succeeded in taming and he runs his hand in among them in a manner that caused cold chills to chase each other up and down my spinal column. Although he has been handling snakes for several years Professor Shindler has been bitten only once. He had received a queer looking little fellow from Mexico, which somewhat resembled a garter snake. Being afraid that his snakeship might escape, owing to the smallness of its size, the professor decided to put it into a jar of alcohol, and. thus preserve it until he was ready to make a plaster cast. He seized the little striped reptile by the neck as he had dbne "many a time" before and dexterously dropped him into the bottle. Upon touching t}ie liquid the snake sprang suddenly upward and fastened his fangs in Shindler's fore Snger. The latter quick]} seized a knife and cut the faugs loose, and then, placing the finger in his mouth, vigorously sucked at the poison, while he made tracks to the nearest barroom. There he drank a large quantity of whisky, and was afterward taken his home in a carriage and a physici/ In was summoned. He remained on c sick list for three months, during whi time he was twice or thricc near the poj of death. The snake, he says, must hi been fully as poisonous as a rattler,] SH tho wound has never fully healed, I occasionally breaks out into a viriJ 6ore.?New York Star. J A Congo Warrior's Outfit, f H A Congo warrior's outfit which hi B9 just been received by the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, from Lieutenant Taunt, United States commercial agent in the Congo State, consists of a bamboo shield six feet long and one wide, a spear four feet long, a knife that looks like a pruning knife, and a bow with bamboo strings and two iron-tipped arrows.?New Yori^