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V "SUNSET" COI. DEAD. Death of the Weli-Known New York Congressman. A Sketch of His Long and Eventful Public Career, Congressman S. S. Cox died about halfpast 8 o'clock in the evening at his home, No. 13 East Twelfth street, Now York city, from peritonitis. His wife, Dr. Lockwood and a few friends were at his bedside. He was conscious almost to the end. During the day ho recognized his wife, some of his friends and an old colored servant who came on from caa Kim ' /' Only a few days before, Mr. Cox was preparing a speech on tb. new States, embodying his recent observations in the West, for delivery before tb< Judge Steckler Association, a Democratic club in Second avenue, ?iew York c'ty." The title of his lecture was "The Wonderland." The members of the society-net at their rooms, and sat about in gloo'-iy groups reading with anxiety the frequent bulletins from Twelfth street^ and at 1jngth the news came that their friend had jap gone to the Wonderland of which he could i tell them nothing. ; * There were many callers at the house during the day, and telegrams were received from the Turkish Minister and other well-known men. Among the friends who called were: General Fitz-John Porter, George Francis Train, Congressman John J. O'Neil, of St. Louis; ex-Judge Charles P. Daly, James M. Seymour. United States Marshal McMahon, General Roger A. Pryor and John T. Agnew. Mrs. Cox's brother, E. B. Buckingham, of Zanesville, Ohio, arrived in the afternoon, as also did her sister, Mrs. Hardenburg. About two years ago Mr. Cox had a serious illness from which it was not thought he could recover, and the recollection of his wonderful rally at that time, after the physicians had pronounced his case hopeless, caused his friends to cherish the hope that the same thing might happen again. Almost his last words were in regard to the new States of the * great Weet, and plans which he had formed for advocating the admission of New Mexico and Wyoming at the next session of Congress. \ A change which told of the approaching end took place early in the day, and in spite of his cheerfulness and a bravo effort to hold on to life, he sunk gradually, and even at five o'clock the doctors thought death so imminent that members of the household were summoned to the bedside. Sketch of His Career. Samuel Sullivan Cox, better known as "Sunset" Cox, was bora in Zanesville, Ohio, September 30, 1834. His father, Ezekiel Taylor Cox, was a leading politician of Ohio and a member of the State Senate in 1833-33. The mother of S. S. Cox was a daughter of Samuel Sullivan, who was Treasurer of Ohio in 1818, and had a high reputation for probity. Mr. Cox attended the Ohio University at Athens, but subsequently became a student of Brown University, Rhode Island, where he graduated with honor in the class of 1846. He adopted the profession of law, and after being aamitted practised many years successfully. He then made a trip to Europe, and on his return published a very readable and popular book on travels, entitled "The Buckeye Abroad." In 1853 Mr. Cox became owner and editor of the Columbus (Ohio) Statesman, the Democratic organ of the State. In 1853 President Pierce tendered Mr. Cox the position of Secretary of Legation to England, but he was not able to accept the honor. Subsequently, however, he accepted the secretaryship of the Legation to Peru. On his resignation and return to Ohio, Mr. Cox was elected from the Columbus district to Congress, his Congressional term commencing on the same day as Buchanan's Presidential term. He was thrice re-elected, serving continuously from 1857 to 1805, or throughout the memorable years of the administrations of James Buchanan an9 Abraham Lincoln. In 1863, on the assembling of the Thirtyeight Congress,. Mr. Cox was the caucus nominee of the Democrats for Speaker against Mr. Colfax. Upon the expiration of the Thirty-eighth Congress in 1865, Mr. Cox removed to the city of New York, where he afterward reU? l\lif-Vi 4-V? #% 4- TTAnw fVia 4"i_ Mucu. jiJLuuuuiioacu vuuv jotu , uuuci vuw wtie of "Eight Years in Congress," a book of his experiences and observations while a member of the House. In 1868 Mr. Cox was again put into the field for Congress, this time by the Democracy of his adopted home, and was elected. Before the assembling ot Congress he again visited the Old World, touring through Spain and other parts of Southern Em-ope and Northern Africa. On his homeward trip he tarried long enough in England to write an interesting book of his travels, which he published in London. It was entitled "A Search for Winter Sunbeams," and has had an extensive circulation in this country. In 1870 Mr. Cox was re-elected, over Horace Greeley, who was the Republican candidate. In 1872 he received tne nomination from the Democratic State Convention for Congressman-at-large, and led the balance of the Democratic State ticket. The majority against Mr. Cox was 15,000 less than the majorities against Greeley for President and Keraan for Governor. The death of Congressman James Brooks occurring the following spring, Mr. Cox was nominated and elected to fill the vacancy. He has been again andagain elected; once with only fortyone votes against him. Mr Cox was a candidate for Speaker to fill the term left vacant by the death of Mr. V mtkeAAiionflTT Vin n+nn nmimin iXCi 1;? JULC ?T00 OUUOV^UCUWJ UvUvvli 111 VUUVIU by Mr. Randall, though coming within a dozen votes of success. On the 25th oi March, 18S5, President Cleveland nominated Mr. Cox to succeed General Lew Wallace as Mnister to Turkey. This post he resigned and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph Pulitzer, and was re-elected to the Fiftieth Congress. His best known book, "Why We Laugh," is an analytical description of American humor. In the summer of 1882 Mr. Cox visited Sweden, Norway, Russia, Turkey and Greece. The volume describing this trip he called "Arctic Sunbeams, or From Broadway to the Bosphorus by Way "of the North Cape." In May, 1885, he published a semi-historical and semi-biographical work entitled "Three Decades of Federal Legislation." He received the name of "Sunset" soon after he had become editor of the Ohio (Columbus) States'/nan, thirty-two years a^o. Ho wrote for his paper a highly sophomosical account of a fine-sunset lie had witnessed, which was so rudely commented upon and ridiculed that he was dubbed Sunset Cox, and he never got rid of the soubriquet, though very few persons who use it have anv idea of its orisrin. CUT OFF BY FLAMES. Men and Women Leap From Fourth Story Windows. ^ McArdle's large bag and general paper ?tock warehouse at Albany, N. Y., has been destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire was the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags on the third story. So quickly did the flames spread through the grease saturated building that the employes, consisting of fourteen women and girls at work in the sorting room and ten men in the office or about the building, were forced to jump for their lives. . The majority escaped by leaping to the roof of a neighboring house. Carrie Swartz, who weighs over 200 pounds, jumped into the yard and crashed through the roof of an outhouse, receiving serious injuries. Mrs. Ellen Mack jumped from the fourth story, a distance of seventy feet, and fell upon a pile of scrap iron. Her condition was critical. Richard Gamble, a bookkeeper, in his endeavor to avoid the flames fell through the shaft and was badly cut and bruised. The inhalation of flame, however, was the direct cause of his death, which occurred soon afterward. Mrs. Ellen Frank, who jumped from the fourth floor, and Mrs. Ellen McShane, who fell down the elevator shaft, sustained fractures of the limbs and severe bruises, but not necessarily fatal injuries. Several others received severe injuries. Loss about 8S0.000: insured. Grand Rapids, Mich., offered a bounty for the killing of English sparrows, and up to date boys have slaughtered over 10,000 cf the pests. In addition the boys have filled a horse with bird shot, punctured the leg of one of their number with the same, and put out the ere of another if. .It' %.. > / vv ' - .. ' \ . - ' Si?PPP THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern ud Middle State*. General F. D. Legitime, ex-President of Hayti, has arrived at New York on the Ward Line steamer Manhattan. He was accompanied by his family and several officers of his army. President Harrison and PostmasterGeneral Wanamaker were among the speakers at the anniversary of the founding of the Old Log College, the cradle of American Presbyterianism, at Hartsville, Penn. Upward of 200 stevedores and longshoremen are idle in Boston on account of the London strike. ? Dennison D. Dana, for thirty years treasurer and general manager^ of the^ Douglas Axe Company, or .boston, nas emoezzieu a large sum and disappeared. The New York Prohibitionists have nominated a complete State ticket headed by Jesse H. Griffin for Secretary of State. The Old Log College celebration has been held on the Tennent farm near Hartsville, Penn., a number of distinguished persons, including the President and Postmaster-General, being present. A train on the McKeesport and Bill* Vernon Railroad struck a cow near Webster, Penn. The cars left the track, killing one man and fatally injuring another. A supposed chicken thief shot and killed "Washington Dilliard on his farm near Bethlehem, Penn. The murderer escaped. A race riot has occurred at New Castle, Del., between gangs of Irishmen and Poles and Hungarians, which resulted in the death of one Hungarian and the wounding of an Irishman. The new United States cruiser Philadel phia has been successfully launched. A vestibule train ran into a freight train near Shenango, Penn., killing the bag gagemastcr and seriously injuring the engineer and fireman. "Steve" Brodie, the bridge jumper of New York, alleges that he went over Niagara Falls in his rubber suit, thus eclipsing the feat of Graham, who was carried over the great cataract in a barrel. Brodie has three witnesses of his performance. Dick & Meyer's great sugar refinery in Williamsburg, N. Y., controled by the sugar trust, was destroyed by fire, together with 8,500,000 pounds of sugar which it contained. The loss amounts to fully $1,000,000. TT-'? ^J aw +V?o P.oefx*m jnilrH LltltJS littVD VA^uxicu vu v**w coast, and some damage has been done to property. The authors of the incendiary fires which have recently occurred at Roslyndale, Mass., have been arrested in the act of setting fire to a house. A jtjrt in Worcester, Ma96., has decided that the Rev. Father G. Ely Brochu, a priest of Notre Dame Church, must pay $1720 for denouncing a parishioner from the pulpit. Leon Abbett has been nominated for Governor by the New Jersey Democratic Convention. Mrs. Aaron W. Dilliard, widow of the farmer who was murdered near Easton, Penn., has confessed that she and William H. Bartholomew planned the murder and that she assisted in carrying out the plot. Bort & Snow, the oldest house of woolen jobbers in New England, have failed. The amount of liabilities is estimated at between $80,000 and $100,000. South and West. Jacob Scoll was working in Purcell's ele. vator, Chicago, when one of the doors gave way and an immense quantity of wheat poured in upon him, burying him so that he was smothered to death. Two men have been blown to atoms and two others injured by an explosion of dynamite on a Government lighter on the St. John's River, Florida. The South Dakota Democratic Convention has declared for tariff reform and nominated a State ticket headed by P. F. McClure, of Pierre, for Governor. The Union Labor party 0f Iowa, in convention at Des Moines, has nominated S. B. Downing for Governor, and Ezra Brownell for Lieutenant-Governor. A fire in Laird, Norton & Co.'s lumber yard at Winona, Minn., has destroyed property to the value of $314,000. The Republican Territorial Convention of Washington, which has been in session at Walla Walla, has nominated ex-Governor E. P. Ferry, of Seattle, for Governor, and John L. Wilson for Congress. The business portion of the town of Linkville, Oregon, has been burned. The loss amounts to about $160,000. Mrs. Myers, the wife of a blacksmith of Bourbon, In<L, threw vitriol in the face of Dr. F. J. Linn, a prominent physician, depriving him of sight. He had assaulted her while on a professional visit. Fourteen colored men have been whipped at East Point, near Atlanta, Ga., the whip ping party consisting of white men whose identity is not known. Dr. David Tilton Brown, formerly physician in charge of Bloomingdale Asylum, who had become insane and had been reported dead, hanged himself in a barn on his son's farm near Batavia, 111. a mob oi armed wmw men surroumnju mo jail at Columbia, Mo., and took from his cell George Bush, a negro 17 years old, and hanged him from one of the windows of the Court House. ' The city of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, has drilled in r. gas weft which shows a capacity of over 50,000,000 cubic feet daily. Forty five thousand people visited the place in one day, and the excitement is intense. Three farmers while standing under a tree near Albany, Ga., during a storm, were struck by lightning and instantly killed. Lotus Nelson and John Coleman were killed at Minter City, and Wilson Porter was hanged at Sunnyside. This swells the total number of colored men killed in the Mississippi riot to twenty-five. President Harrison was present at the first day's exercises of tho celebration in Bfltimore of the battle of North Point. Two freight trains came into collision on the Lake Shore road near Millersburg, Ind* Thirty-six cars and two engines were wrecked at a loss of $200,000. Two Italians working on the Midland Railroad, near Clarksburg, TV. Va., were blown to pieces by the explosion of a cartridge, and others were seriously injured. The canvass of the contested votes for Governor in West Virginia, has given Judge Fleming, the Democratic candidate, a majority over General Goff. The thirty-ninth anniversary of the admission of California into the Union was celebrated in San Francisco by public holiday. By a freight wreck on the Norfolk and Western Railroad near Lynchburg, Va., Charles McDowley, a fireman, has been killed, and a brakeman fatally injured. The Aurora Watch Company, of Aurora, 111., has made an assignment. The liabilities are about $200,000. Five farmers have been killed near Carbondale, 111., by the explosion of a threshing machine boiler. ? Eight colored men have been arrested near Norfolk, Va., on suspicion ol! being con cernecl in the murder or a storekeeper nameu T. L. Waller. Dr. H. H. Tucker, one of the leading Baptist clergymen of the South, and proprietor of the Christian Index, has died through falling from the window of his house at Atlanta, Ga. The Washington Democrats have placed a State ticket in the field headed by Eugene Semple, of Tacoma, for Governor. The striking miners of Spring Valley, 111., havo refused the employers' terms. They ask the Governor to use the State Emergency Fund in their behalf. Eleven* influential citizens, of Marian, Ind., have been arrested charged with being implicated in the White Cap outrage, in which Mrs. Aseneth Street and her daughter were taken from bed at midnight aud flogged. George Allex, one of the colored leaders in the recent labor uprising in La Flore County, Miss., was taken to Charleston, in that State, and handed. It is now estimated that 100 colored people were killed in the Le Flore County riots. Washington. Secretary Tract has designated Lieutenant Aaron Ward, naval attache of the United States Legation at Paris, to represent the Navy Department at the International Meteorological Congress to be held in Paris. The President has appointed Thomas H. Anderson, of Ohio, to be Minister Resident ' -v: ; and Consul-General of the United States to Bolivia. The reason given by St. Domingo for refusing to participate in the Congress of American Nations is that a treaty negotiated by the representatives of the two countries several years ago failed of ratification by the Senate of the United States. The President has been advised by his Cabinet not to call an extra session of Congress this year. The President has appointed George TV. Lyon to be Surveyor of Customs for the Port of New York, Theodore B. "Willis to be Naval Officer of Customs in the District of New York and Ernst Nathan to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of New York. Fabius H. Bosbee, United States District Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, has resigned. During the last three months 33.436 patents were issued by the General Land Office. The issue for June, 10,523, exceeds that of any month in the history of the office. The President has appointed Honry_ C. Warmoth to be Collector of Customs at rsew Orleans. The President has designated Colonel William P. Craighill, of the Engineer Corps, to be a member of the Lighthouse Board to fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of Colonel Wilson to West Point. Foreign. The town of Tlacalula, in the State of Hidalgo, Mexico, has been entirely destroyed by floods. General Boulanger has written to M. Tirard, the French Prime Minister, demanding a trial by court-martial. Three sealers from Behring Sea have arrived at Victoria, British Columbia, with 5500 sealskins aboard. A Canadian Cabinet Council has been held in Ottawa to discuss the refusal of the Imperial Government to interfere with the Rush's work in Behring Sea. An explosion in a colliery at Penicnick, near Eainburg, Scotland, resulted in the death of fifty miners, only fourteen out of the sixty-four men at work in the pit at the time having been rescued. The French Minister of Justice has notified the bishops throughout France that any ecclesiastic violating tne law by attempting to influence the elections will be vigorously prosecuted. An American flag" which was suspended across Water street, in St, Stephen, >.ew Brunswick, was torn down, dipped in a driuking fountain, dragged through the street and left hanging to a barber-shop door. A German bank has contracted to provide the Mexican Government with capital to construct a railroad across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The Krupps are to furnish the iron and steel material for the road. Later reports put tne numoer Kwea dy the explosion in an Antwerp (Belgium) factory at 200 and the wounded at abont 500. The fire which followed the explosion lasted two days. The village of Austruwell, inhabited by artisans, was completely destroyed for hundreds of yards, and in its vicinity not a building escaped damage. All parts of Antwerp mow more or less damage, and portions appear as if bombarded. While a christening party was enjoying a sail on Lake Killarney in Ireland, their boat capsized, and before assistance could reach them five persons were drowned. The municipal authorities of Paris have given a grand banquet to Edison, the inventor. * O'Connor, the Canadian, ha&been defeated in a sculling race for the world's championship on the Thames by Searle, the Australian. The entire Bench of Judges, District and Circuit, of Riga, Russia, have been arrested for using the German language, after they had been ordered to use the Russian. The Industrial Exhibition of Toronto, Canada, has been formally opened by Sir John Macdonald in the presence of an immense concourse of people. The losses by the Antwerp fire will be nearly $7,000,000. LATER JNEWS. A dispatch from "Wilmington, Delaware, states that thirty vessels went down in the terrible gale which has prevailed off the Atlantic coast for three days. The gale has done immense damage at Lewes and will be as memorable a? the famous blizzard of March, 1888. The contour of the Atlantic Coast line has been changed in many places to a remarkable degree by the great gale. The New Jersey Coast was a heavy sufferer in this respect. While the members of the G. A. R. Post at Marabile, Mo., were cleaning their cannon ft was prematurely discharged, frightfully injuring six men, one with fatal results. Mrs. Starr, a wealthy widow, of Decatur, 111., was shot dead by her son Harry, who mistook her for a burgrlar. A boiler in the California sash, door and blind factory at Oakland, Cal., exploded, killing four men outright and injuring several others. A colored man and a white man, both murderers, have been lynched atMorganton, N. C. The President has appointed to be Collectors of Internal Revenue: John S. Lothrop. of Iowa, for the Third District of Iowa; James W. Hearne, of Texas, for the Fourth District of Texas. Charles III. Honore, Prince of Monaca, is dead. He was born in 1818. A number of cases of cholera have occurred in Greece. The Prefect of the Seine has refused to accept the declarations of candidacy for membership in the Chamber of Deputies made by General Boulanger and Henri Rochefort. The Senate of Mexico has been formally inaugurated and Senor J. M. Couttoleno was elected President. The Directors of the Paris Exposition have docided that it must close October 31st. Servia and Bulgaria are making warlike preparations while protesting that nothing unusual is transpiring. IN" THE FAR NORTH. .Stories of Starvation Among Indians Because of a Lock of Snow. A terrible tale of suffering in the far North is told by the Rev. E. H. Black, a Church of England missionary near Fort Simpson, who has just arrived in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Last winter was a very hard one for the Indians, owing to the absence of reindeer and the impossibility of hunting moose successfully iu the absence of much snow. Ten persons succumbed at Fort Wrigley. Mr. Black fears that the mortality during the coming winter will also be great, unless there comes a heavy fall of snow. Provisions gave out at the fort last winter in the beginning of January. Flour is dear enough at any tune, the regular price being $30 a bag at Fort Wrigley, while it is $27 a bag at Fort Simj>son. But Mr. Black says he would have given $200 a bag last winter if he could have purchased some and have given the Indians a share. The distress in that district was terrible. He had to leave to avoid starvation. At Fort Liard seven died from starvation last winter. NEWS OF STANLEY. 171 ? tr HU wav Through Hostile | Tribes in Africa. Advices from Brussels, Belgium, state that Henry M. Stanley is marching toward Mombassa, after fighting his way through the hostile country of the Umjaro and Uganda tribes, and conquering the natives. He has established the authority of the British East Africa Company over the country from the upper Nile to the East Coast. The advices declare that it is doubtful if Emm Pasha, to whose relief the Stanley expedition was originally sent, is accompanyme Stanley to the Coast. r a ' 7 * V ' . ?, ... **"' , HDHBREDS OF VICTIMS. ~ Terrible Explosion in an Antwerp Cartridge Factory. 4 A Great Fire Adds to the Horrors of the Calamity. Dynamite exploded a few days ago In a cartridge factory, in Antwerp,. Belgium, and by the explosion and resulting fire probably QlYl lAof fVinir Iiwao w"? ar*TT /\f fV?om ^iOVUi} 1UJU VUUU II T tOj UUUiJ VJ> VUCU1 factory girls, about 1000 others were injured, and property valued at many millions of dollars was swept away. The factory was situated behind the docks, where millions of cartridges were being loaded upon the shipping. Close by were the petroleum stores. The Bourse was so near that it was struck by burning fragments when the explosion occurred, and sat on fire. The building was crowded at the time, and a panic ensued, in which many persons were slightly injured. In a workshop in the factory a large number of men ana women were actively at work breaking up old cartridges, and about twenty-five million had been partly taken to pieces" when the accident took place. So rapid was the spread of the flames that it was difficult to rescue those who had been hurt, let alone removing the bodies of those who were instantly killed. The police, gendarmes and the troops were called in to help fight the fire, while priests and Sisters of Charity looked afte;- the wants of the sufferers. The force of the explosion was such that windows three miles away were shattered. By 7 o'clock the fire had spread over an area of two acres. Flames were shooting up high in the air, and the whole city was enveloped in dense smoke. In the ruins of the factory and on the neighboring docks, above the roar of the fire there was a constant succession of sharp reports, supposed to be caused by the io-nirinn onH a-rr>ln<rirvn nf the tiackas'es of cartridges. As the fire spreacC two large Eussian petroleum warehouses caught. Eighty thousand barrels of oil were burning at one time. Nobel's sheds, and warehouses beyond them, soon became food for the flames. The shipping was in a position of great danger, particularly at the Africa and American dock*;. Before they could be removed, several vessels were burned. So intense was the heat that the firemen could nowhere approach the flames nearer than 100 yards. Many soldiers and workmen received severe injuries in this fight with the fire. The Corvileian cartridge factory, whertf the trouble began, had been condemned by the Communal Council, but the Deputation Permanente had allowed work to continue. At the American docks all the ships were saved, owing to the favorite direction of the wind. The dock sheds and hydraulic cranes were greatly damaged. The soldiers of the' garrison and a large number of citizens assisted the firemen. Many dropped from suffocation. The scenes at the hospital were heartrending. King Leopold sent a telegram expressing sympathy. The people are incensed at the Deputation Permanente for allowing work to continue in the cartridge factory. ATLANTIC CITY. Great Destruction of Property by the Furious Gale. The loss caused by the storm at Atlantic City has been enormous, the velocity o? the wind being at the rate of sixty miles an hour, and the waves dashed on the beach twenty feet high. The summer bath houses, only remodelled last spring, were totally wrecked, and the Windsor Hotel suffered greatly. While standing on the pavilion outside of the board walk and a short distance below Howard Pisr, a woman holding a child in her arms was lifted uo by wind and thrown into th^ water. Tor a few minutes great excitement prevailed. Mr. Walter Field, a photographer, realizing the situation, j'unped into the water and rescued the couple. Thirty thousand dollars will not repair the loss from Griffith's carousel to the Chelsea pavilion. Two large boarding houses, the Gladstone and Cincinnati, each containing twenty rooms, were raised from their foundation and crushed like kindling woo<L These houses are worth at least $5000 each. St. Monica'6 Roman Catholic Church at Chelsea, although greatly exposed, remained standing. The first morning train to Longport started in the morning, but was compelled to rehnviner heAn washed I1WEV. No trains for Philadelphia were able to start out upon either road. All day residents of the city were rowing out to the unfortunate tenants of houses beyond Baltic avenue and the Thoroughfare. They had to be taken from the second story windows. These people were principally colored and quite poor. Several nouses were thrown from foundations and are now unsafe to live in. The tin roof of the United States Fire Company blew off. A portion of it struck the feed wire of the electric road and threw it on the fire alarm wires, causing an electric fire for several blocks. The current had to be cut off. The most careful inquiry established the certainty that there was no lives lost, although there were many instances of bravery and daring in cases of rescue. The schooners R. R. Leeds and Rebecca Si. were lost. The masts of two. large yachts which were caught on the drawbridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad had to be cut away in order to allow construction train to pass. One of the Knickerbocker ice company's schooners broke her fastenings and dashed against the same bridge, making a partial wreck of it. TEN MINERS KILLED. Water Floods the White Ash and Smothers the Men Working in It. , One of the most serious mining accidents ever known in Colorado has occurred in the White Ash coal mine, near Golden. An old abandoned mine runs alongside the White Ash, and has for months been full of water, which, without a moment's warning, burst through into the White Ash mine, filling it full of mud and water. Ten miners are known to have been at work in the White Ash mine at the time of the accident, and not one of them could have lived five minutes after the -surging mass broke in upon* them. It will take between two and tnree weeks before their bodies can be reached. Work will be commenced at once by hundreds of willing hands in order to pump the mine out, but old miners who have been through the mine say it will be impossible to clear the mine and reach the bodies under two and perhaps three weeks, fart of the men leave families who were dependent upon them, while the rest were single, and all highly spoken of. A TEBBIBLE FOBEST FIRE. Several Lives and. $1,000,000 Worth of Proj>erty Lost in Montana. Information has been received at Helena of one of the most destructive forest fires yel reported in Montana. It occurred in the St. Regis district, Missoula Comity, and the Cokeley ranch was made a barren waste in less than thirty minutes. Cokeley and the hostess of the ranch mounted horses and barely escaped with their lives to the river, less than a quarter of a mile away, reaching the water after having their clothes nearly all burned from their bodies. They remained in tho water over two hours, and even there the heat was almost suffocating. A Swedish prospector unmed Andersou tied his horse in tho gulch about half a mile from tho Cokeley ranch and went up the hills to his claim. Both horse and man perished in the flames. J. C. Veeder, who has returnod from tho St. Regis country, says that several men perishod in the mountains. The destruction of property will aggregate fully $1,000,000. The German powder factories are all at work night and day turning out the new smokeless powder for the army. They are also crowded with orders for the Austrian and Italian Governments, both of which havo adoDted the powder. The Farmers' Alliance has purchased tho plant built for a gin fr?ctory at Florence, Ala., and say they will be making 5000 yards or bagging per day in thirty days. Machinery has been ordered from New Orleans. Rain in the valleys and snow in the mountains have extinguished the fires that have been raging for the past month in Montana. I ... I ' k^} > THE WHITEOHAPEL FIEND, Another Feminine Victim of "Jack the Ripper" in London. * At 5:30 tho other morning a policeman found the body of a woman lying in a corner of a railway arch spanning Cable street in Whitechapel, London. Examination of the body showed that the head and limbs had been cut off and carried away and tho stomach ripped open, leaving the bowels lying upon the ground. The police authorities immediately placed a cordon of officers around the spot, but no arrests were made. A policeman passed the place where the body was found every fifteen minutes throughout the night, and saw nothing to arouse his suspicions. Physcicians who examined the body believe that the murder occupied nearly an hdur, and it is surmised that tho murderer carried tho head and limbs away in a bag. The ? i- ?- 1 muruer is uie musv uuniuio ui mc nuuic Whitechapel series. Tho dissection of tho body showed that the perpetrator possessed considerable surgical skill. The murdered woman was about thirty years of age, and was evidently addicted to successive use of spirituous liquors. Her clothing was shabby. As yet she has not been identified. The murder created tremendous excitement, and a large crowd of agitated humanity surrounded the morgue, whither the body was taken. Further examination revealed the fact that there was no blood on the ground where the body was found, nor was there any indication of a struggle. This confirms the general belief that the woman was murdered in a house and her body taken to the spot whero it was discovered. Experts are of the opinion that the woman was killed two days previous to the discovery of the body. Three sailors, subsequent to the finding of the corpse^were found sleeping in the adjoining arcn. They were arrested, but convinced the police that they had neither seen nor heard anything of the murder or the body lying near them, and were discharged. Tne generally accepted list of the Whitechap?l fiend's victims up to date is as follows: 1. Unknown woman, past middle age, Whitechapel outcast, found dead in October, 1887, with body horribly mutilated. Little attention paid to the case. 2. Martha Turner, found August 7, 18S8, stabbed in thirty places, probably with a bayonet. 3. Polly Nicholas, found August 31, head nearly severed from body. 4. Annio Chapman, found September 8, horribly carved. 5. Young woman, near Newcastle-uponTyne. found September 23, slashed as were the others. 6. Elizabeth Stride, found September 30, k 1tt iMPm irhpn fnnrwl hnt. mnt.ila.tad Hire the others. 7. Catherine Eddowes, found the same morning, body and face horribly disfigured. 8. Unidentified woman, found October 2, with head and arms severed and the usual mutilations of body. 9. Mrs. Mary Jane Lawrence, found November 9, head nearly severed, face lacerated almost beyond recognition; body literally hacked to pieces. 10. Elizabeth Jackson, body found in sections between May 31 and June 25,1889. 11. Alice Mackenzie, alias Kelly, found in Castlo Alley dead, but with body still warm, July 17, 1889. Mutilations not completed; knife evidently dull. 12. The present case. FISHING FOB PEARLS, A Find of a $3500 Gem in Wisconsin Causes Great Excitement, The pearl excitement in Albany, Wis., is at its height Although clams are getting scarce and the divers have to dig in the mud in the bottom of the river, the finds are more numerous and valuable than ever. The largest and by far the most valuable pearl in Wisconsin was found recently. A New York buyer offered $3500 for it, but his figure was considered too low. Hundreds of small pearls are found and eold daily. The purchasers are agents of Chicago, New York and Paris houses. Visitors and clam hunters are pouring into the village, and the banks of the river for miles nrn rint.faH with tanta. PBOMINENT PEOPLE. Colonel North, the "nitrate king," is an Englishman. Mbs. Hap.Met Beecher Stowe's favorite diet is bread and butter and pineapple. Edward Burgess, the noted -yacht designer, of Boston, is forty years of age. President Harrison is not a reader of books. But he keeps up with the newspapers. Whenever Edison, the inventor, appeared at the Paris Exposition, the band played Yankee Doodle." i King Humbert, of Italy, has bought a phonograph, by means of which he corresponds with Queen Marguerite. Mrs. Philip H. Sheridan and her children are living at the cottage in Nonquitt, Mass., in which the General died. James Russell Lowell, is living at Whitby, England. His frienas deny current rumors of his intention to marry again. General John C. Freemont is now seventy-eight years old, and his friends say he looks good for ten or fifteen years more. Queen Victoria welcomed her imperial grandson, young Kaiser William, by giving him two real nice kisses?one on each cheek. Arumee Aedallah, the probable successor of Hadjie Hassein Ghooli Khan, Persian Minister to this country, weighs 347 pounds and is the fattest man in Persia. It is not generally known that Mr. GLidstone has only four fingers on his left hand. The index finger was shot off, forty-seven years ago, by an accident in the hunting field. Alexander Mackenzie, ex-Premier of Canada, is in delicate heaJth. Mr. Mackenzie was offered the doubtful honor of knighthood ten years ago, and refused it. He Is a bricklayer by trade. Charles Dickens, the reader, has a lone novel in manuscript whichhe has never haa the courage to publish. Jie realizes inai ais work would be compared with his father's and he does not dare to brave the test. Mrs. Delia Stewart Parnell, the mother of the man who has made the amelioration of the condition of the Irish race his life work, is slowly dying of old age and its attending infirmities in her home at Bordentown, New Jersey. Ira D. San'KEY, the Gospel singer, who has bsen Evangelist Moody s companion in much of his work in this country and Great Britain, has bought a farm in Suffolk County, on Lon? Island, and will probably spend the remainder of his life there. F. C. Burnard, the present editor of London Punch, was, in early life, a member of a Catholic ecclesiastical establishment at Bayswater, near London. His intention was to become a priest, and he was even admitted to tonsure and minor orders. Old John Hanks, the boyhood friend and distant relative of Abraham Lincoln, has died at his farm, near Decatur, agea eighty-eight years. It was on his farm, and while in the employ of Hanks, that Lincoln became noted as a rail-splitter, and it was old John Hanks who, in 1860, introduced the rail-splitting feature into the excitement of the Lincoln campaign, furnishing rails from his farm split by Lincoln. Chief justice fuller and Judge Ear* -1??A -Iwawo fA?ynfV?ai* nnH n T*A lan are iuhjuso mnajio ? ?_ daily seen walking to and from the Capitol in Washington. Judge Field and Judge Bradley are close friends, and are at each other's house frequently. Judge Blatchford and Judge Lamar walk or drive in company every pleasant afternoon. Judge Miller in his walks or drives "goes it alone," but he is the friend of every Justice, and his society is gladly welcomed by any of them at all times. Expected Too Much. Merchant?You think your son would make us a satisfactory errand boy, do you ? Mrs. Moriarity?"Whativer 'e do, eor, 'e do it very quick. Merchant (turning to boy)?James, take this note up to Capt. Centerfield at the ball grounds and be back in twenty minutes. Mrs. Moriarity?Niver moind, Jimmy ; coom ahn nome. It's not a bye I they're wantin', it's an angel.?Life. f "7" \A DEVASTATING &ALE. The North Atlantic Coast Swept by a Furious Cycione. G-reatDamage Done at Noted Seaside Resorts, A tidal ware which swept the Atlantic Coast Sunday- evening, causing damage and injury to life at various points. annears to have been merely & preliminary skirmish. It was followed by a series of disturbances in the elements calculated -to moke memorable the month of September and the fag end of the seaside resort season of 1889. The weather all along the coast, following a period of delightful atmospheric conditions, was rainy, cola and windy. Finally a furious storm of wind and rain brought about the worst mixture of the disagreeable seasoiLand put a summary end to the season at all the popular places by the ocean in the vicinity of New York. Stories of the severity of this storm came from many points and stamped it as one that will probably prove historical. It was peculiar in its large sweep of territory, in the prolonged character of the disturbance, in the great velocity the wind attained, in the rainfall, and in the destruction to coastline property by tides of extraordinary height, activity, and volume. Tho water along the New York city front reached the highest point this year. Not for a long time bad the Atlantic Ocean been more turbulent. Like a huge monster with an insatiable appetite, it bit huge pieces out of the coast line along New Jersey, Coney Island, Long Island, Staten Island and other exposed points. Old landmarks were washed away and new channels cut in the sandy soil: Magnificent seashore hotels tied improved proper ties that were supposed to be beyond the reach of the devastating elements are no llowhere was*there better evidence of the havoc caused than at Ntsw York's most popular summer resort?Coney Island, particularly Manhattan Beacli and Brighton. A large part of the island was inundated, and the two principal hotels were in danger of destruction. The sea had made such a sweep at and around Manhattan Beach tha t it was. not only an island, and a dangerous one for those who had the courage to remain on it, by itself, but one so isolated that the inhabitants were cut off from escape and entire communication. The Couey Island season was summarily ended. On the southern shore of Long Island the wind assumed the character of a cyclonio hurricane, its speed varying frcyn thirty to sixty-five miles an hour., At Long Beach, Fire island, Arverne, noctaway, Point Lookout, Par Rockaway and other summer resorts the tide rose so high that many hotels and cottages were in danger of being floated from their foundations, while outhouses aud pavilions have already been carried away at all these points. Wide channels appear in nearly all tne beaches, and swift currents sweep inward to the low grounds. The damage on Staten Island was very serious, while all along the New Jersey coast, from Sandy Hook to Cape May, the same condition of affairs existed. The cliffs at Long Branch were crumbling, and the sea surged through the streets and avenues of Asbury Park, Ocean Grove and other places in that neighborhood. Atlantic City was cut off from the main land. On Long Island Sound the tide caused havoc to the wharves at Greenwich, Stamford, Bridgeport, and towns on the Connecticut coast were overflowed aud the streets flooded. New Rochelle, Willett's Point and all the islands lying in the neck of the Sound experienced the full vigor of the storm, for the tide rose to an unprecedented height and poured immense volumes of water over what lias always been considered high land. Nowhere could the storm and tide be combated, only temporary makeshifts being possible toward saving threatened property. Measured bv dollars and cents, the storm caused more damage along the coast at seaside resorts than could be approximately estimated. TANNEE EESIGNS, The Head of the Pension Bureau Goes Out of Office. President Harrison has received the reeig nation of James W. Tanner as Commis sioner of Pensions. In his letter conveying the resignation, il is said the Commissioner writes that he recog nizes that differences exist between him sell and Secretary Noble, of the Interior Depart ment, respecting the administration of th< Pension Bureau; and that, those difference: being radical, in the interest of a thoroughly satisfactory administration of the office h< should resign. THE LABOR WORLD. The United Hebrew Trades claim a membership of over 3000. All of the slate quarries of North Wales ire to be worked by an English syndicate. It is a matter of history that inventions which have eased labor have increased wages. John Swinton*, not long ago a power in I the labor movement in New York, is writing x labor novel. In Holland, anew law for the regulation of the labor of women and children in factories has been adopted. An immense new cotton mill, with a capacity of 5000 spindles, is to be built at Halifax Court House, Va. A workingwoman's society has been established in Liverpool, England, to organize factory and shop girls. There has been a great growth of manufacturing and trading co-operative establishments in Great Britain within the past few years. A master carpenter on the Pennsylvania road moved a bridge 358 feet long, weighing 2500 tons in twelve minutes; it was moved forty-five feet. The Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America, which was founded in Baltimore two years ago, has now branches in 130 American and Canadian cities, with a large membership. The American Flint Glass "Workers' National Union, in its latest report, shows a yearly income or ?iuu,wu, ana a towu membership of 5955. There are less than 100 nonunion men in the entire trade. Fewer passenger conductors have been discharged from the Missouri Pacific road, it is said, than from any other railroad in the West. Many of the conductors in the road's service have been with it from the start. A letter has been sent by "William O'Brien, the Irish M. P., to Thomas O'Flvnn, manager of the Irish National Colonist, "Boston, Mass., asking his assistance in promoting industries in Ireland with American capital. * There are two large carpenters' societies in the United States. One is the Amalgamated Union of American Carpenters, comprising 464 branches and 25,236 members. The other is the American Brotherhood of Carpenters, which has a much larger membership. There are several spinning mills in the County Down, Ireland, in connection with which the employers have built villages for their employes and let the houses to them, They also own the village store from which the employes must purchase everything they need. The rapid growth of the Italian barber shops in New York city is alarming the old * * 1 1 TtnlCnn Airo.nQnf cliavinn lime Doroers. xm- luuiau u?c-vtuu shops are now to be found not only in -'Little Itafy" and the other quarters in which swarms of Italians have taken up their abode, bul also in other localities up town, down towr and on both sides of the city. If the reports are true, the London streetcar drivers seem to have anything but a pleasant time. They are required to wort fourteen hours a day and are given only one day's rest in fourteen. Their pay varies from one dollar to a dollar and a quarter a day nominally, but a system of fines for the slightest infraction of discipline reduces these rates. At a conference of the bakers' unions held recently in Berlin, Germany, it was resolved that the working day should not exceed twelve hours and that the weekly wages shoui-*-. be at least twelve marks ($4.80). I< was also resolved that Sunday labor should bo discontinued and that organization shoulc still go on in spite of obstacles raised by the Government. . ' I ! SABBATH SCHOOL. ! INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 29. / The Quarterly Review?Golden Text&Wn Pa. cxvilL, 9. ' 7 Plan of a Review?The facts of the past twelve lessons may be easily remembered, if v 'l thoy are arranged in the following three groups: 1. Samuel and Eli (Less. 1-4). 2. Samuel and Saul (Less. 5-7). ST Saul and Davidi (Less. 8-12.) We have then the call of three' esrsons in succession: Samuel, Saul and! v avid; the death of five noted persons: Ett,[ Goliah, Samuel, Saul and Johnathan. Thus! history and biography unite to impress the* lesson, Obey Godv j Sketch of a Review?Hannah, the 'wifer. " i of a Hebrew of Mount Ephraim, asks theLord for a son. The Lord gave her a son inj pnowoi" tn nnnror Rtl? fnllpH lllm Rflmnpll ' +g and gave bJm to the Lord In his childhood.) . He Jived with Eli the priest VEhe Lord] called Samuel one night, and told him that Eli's sons were wicked, yet Eli had notcor-^ rected ttjera. So the Lord said He woqldi Sunish Eli and his sons. The sons were shun! 1 battle, and Eli fell over and died, when!. . * he heard of their death. Samuel told the people they must obey God; but the people ashed for a king. So the- ~ Lord had Samuel tell them what a Hng would make them do, and gave them Sam for a " king. Samuel then gave up his rule over tb? people, and made a farewell address. But Saul disobeyed God, and Samuel was told to IB anoint David as the king of Israel. Goliath, a great Philistine giant, dared the arnjy of Israel to send men to fight with him; out' V, David slew Goliath. Saul's eon Jonathan loved David, but Saul was jealous of him and tried to kill David, yet David nobly spared Saul when he could have easily killed -f j him. In a great battle with the Philistines the army of Israel was defeated, Saul's son* slain, and Saul fell upon his own sword and died. QUESTIONS. Introductory?What were the Hebrew* now founding? What organization had they before this? Tribal. 1. Samuel and Eli?What is the Samuel's mother ? Who called Samuel ? Tc : ( whom did Samuel go? How many times f What did the Lord say to Samuel? What 4. caused the death of Eli ? Who had captured--, ; the Ark? What did Samuel call on the pec pie to do ? see Lesson 8. What did they ask / i of the Lord in Lesson 41 2. Samuel and Saul?Why did they want > ; king ? Who was chosen king ? What did Samuel say of the conduct of their king! 1 Sam. viiL, 10-18. Who was witness fW %/;.Z I Samuel ? 1 Sam. rii., B. Who rejected Saul! Lesson 7. Why did tne Lord rejecs nim r uRedte the Golden Text of Lesson 7. 8. Saul and David?Who was anointed to succeed Saul? By whom? Where? What giant dared the army of Israel to send a warrior to fight him ? Who offered to go against / ;.{ Goliath ? Which one was slain ? who loved David "as his own soul?" Whose son was Jonathan ? How did Jonathan find out that his fatsr meant to kill David? Where did. David spare Saul's life? 1 Sam. xxiv., 4.; What did he say to Saul after that ? 1 Sam.' 5 xxiv., 11. How were Saul's sons slain? In what battle ? Where ? Who refused to IdlK Saul ? How did Saul die ??Lesson Helper. ' An Ingenious Fruit Fitter. J|j One of the latest devises for fruit-pitting is a small machine like a rope pulley. * The wheel has four spokes and a grooved * 1 rim. At two places diametrically oppo- 'V; site each other there are <?ups.in the rim. - ; of the machine, into which a peach, apricot, nectarine or other fruit can be ^ placed. The wheel revolves on a small overhung bearing and is turned by hand, / ;,. there being a handle fastened to the rim midway between the two cups. The pin on which the wheel resolves is fastened to a bracket, which, in turn, is screwed' down to a tabic. On the bracket therf is a projecting arm which curves over the <; grooved rim of the -Wheel, holding at the "lJj end a little guillotine-like knife and a SLj corer or pitter. Thfe fruit is placed the cups as each comes up to the knife, j i The stem or pit is forced out and slides \ down the groove into one basket, while . the rest of the fruit is carried around and dropped into another. As there are two cups on each wheel, two peaches, apricots i or plums are pitted in one revolution of . the wheel. This is the only handy rotary E fruit-pitter on which a patent has been granted. : " y.? I The only difference made in pitting r cherries is in the size of the cup and ' groove which are, of course, smaller than for peaches or apricots.?San Frandteo Chronicle. - r .i , A Smart Bird. There is a lady in the eastern part ot the city who has a remarkably bright mocking bird. He is just two years old and can sing as divinely as though he had caught the tones from heavenly spheres. It is amusing to hear him practice? he is vain?and loves to do well; so re-"" l" liia nwnpr tried to teach tCUblJ ^ nuvu Amu v?.?. ? him to sing "Johnny Get Your Hair < Cut," he would stay awake all night and practice "Johnny get"?it didn't quite suit him, so he began again, "Johnny get your hair!"?again there seemed to be a discord?but pereeveringly he went back to the beginning and that time he succeeded satisfactorily. For weeks this was kept up every night to the annoy- ' ance of the sleepers in the house, but finally when the tune was learned it stopped. This bird tries many airs, and ^ > " -i ?1?. t iv J sings some oi tnem reai v.tru, iui m- . stance: "The Elephant Walked the Jf~~ Rope," "Molly Put the Kettle On" "Sntt^ i the "Kimball House Waltz," are on hia ) list.?Atlanta (GaA Weekly Journal. Here are some advertisements which recently appeared in the London papers : "A smart young novelist wan^j^^^ at once. Salary about fou^^iudsflH^^H crease to six pounds. Good connection." "Agents wantS/*' I sell a beautiful portrait of the Iuj Hon. W. E. Gladstone, printed up* ^Hj wood cut down by himself." "Yotm man wants secretarial engagemetf^^B with literary man. Qualification^- {S ! Considerable ignorance, fair capacity, | V for labor, some literary enthusiasm,. 1 and the ability to write shorthand." r\ Capt. Murrell, the heroic com- i , mander of the steamship Missouri, J ; who rescued tho passengers of the \ disabled Danmark, has received a | medal for bravery from the people of Cardiff. If he were to fall overboard ' while wearing all the watches and I medals which lie has received in just ? recognition of his heroism, his case would be hopeiess. To a modest man, ? such as he undoubtedly is, these repeated presentations must become just i a little burdensome. i Mrs. Charles Carletox Coffin 1 has sent to the War Department a new > design for the forty-two stars in the * flag. It has thirteen of the stars madey^^ I into a six-cornered star for the center, " j to symbolize the thirteen original , States. The rest of the stars are to be arranged about this in straight I rows. The device is much admired by J army officers who have 6een it. ' jt