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7 SK" . -i Sv'* par ; A STEAMBOAT IN FLAMES. A Number of Her Passengers Drowned and Burned. The Gallant Conduct of Her Pilot and Captain, The steamer Quinte has been burned to the water's edge near Deseronto, Ontario. Four lives were lost and many of the passengers and crew were injured. The steamer left Deseronto at 5:30 P. sr., Captain Christie in charge, with a crew of twelve and twenty passengers. When but a lew moments irom tne oock fire was discovered in tbe wood work near the fire hole by a deck hand, who notified the engineer, when the pumps were set at work, but without avail. Captain Christie was notified and when he saw there was no checking the flames he ordered Pilot Collier to beach the boat on a shoal, which was done. The Captain and crew were at their boats and all efforts were made to save the passengers, who lost self control and plunged into the water without taking life preservers or anything to keep themselves from drowning, with but two or three exceptions. Pilot Collier stood at his wheel until the boat was grounded and the engines had stopped, the engineer, Thomas Short, leaving his engines running. The flames drove him away. Pilot Collier left the pilot house when the flames burst in and he was severely burned ou the face and hands. Engineer Short was also severely burned before he left his post, both officers endangering their lives to insure the safe deliverv, if possible, of those who had consigned tneniselves to their charge. Before help could reach them from Deseronto the crew of a sloop lying close by put out in boats to the rescue and picked up all that they could find. The steamer Deseronto, lying at her dock there, and the steam yacht Ripple went to the rescue and brought the survivors to the town, where medical aid was afforded them and every assistance and comfort was afforded that the owners of the burned boat, the Rathbun Company, could give them. . Captain Christie was energetic in saving his passengers and was severely bruised and only realized his injuries when he was taken to a hotel and cared for. A. Harte. a traveler, was in the water and saved a boy named Charlie Anderson. Both of them sat on the paddle wheel of the burning steamer " 1 -CD 1 Al ? until tney were lasen un me ticw ul mo i Deseronto. It is known for certain that four persons lost their lives, and that by burning probably, as none of them were seen to jump overboard. Mrs. Christie, mother of the Captain of the boat, and her twelve-year-old son, were in the ladies' cabin a few moments before the alarm was given, but have not been j seen since and must have been burned. Mrs. | Stacey, assistant to the cook, and her young ; son were in the dining hall and perished in I the flames. None of the freight nor anvthing belong- j ing to the crew was saved. Engineer Short had a large sum of money in his stateroom | and it was lost. Many of the passengers I lost valuables. The passengers were in the j dining saloon at tea when the alarm was I given. The steamer Quinte was owned by the : Rathbun Company and was the best in their i lake service, and was the most popular boat j on the bay and had but three years ago been thoroughly overhauled and made almost a 1 new boat. She was valued at $18,000 and j was insured for two-thirds of her value. A HORRIBLE CONFESSION, j An Eleven-year-old Boy Who Killed His Father aud Mother. The Grand Jury at Dubuque, Iowa, has returned an indictment against Wesley Elkins, the 11-year-old boy who murdered his | parents in July last. There was no evidence ; against him, excepting his own statement in writing over his signature, which is as follows: "I was sleeping in the barn, and I wanted to get away from home. I had run away Irora Home a nuniDer or times, dui- raer i brought me back. I thought I would kill | them, so I went up to the house just I before sunrise on the morning of j July 16. and went softly into the | house to see if my parents were asleep. I j speked into their bedroom,and saw that they I were fast asleep. I then went out to the | road in front of the house, to see if anybody j was coming, and, finding the coast clear, I j went to the corn crib and got the club, which was a part of a flail, and then went into the house softly, and put the club in ray bedroom J and set it down. "I then took up my father's rifle, which was always hung up in my room loaded, and ! I stepped out of my bedroom to father's, and, i his door being open, I put the gun to his face and fired. I immediately went back for my club, knowing that I would not have time to j load the guu. I got the club, nnd when I got j back to the dooi'mother was upon the floor | , and stooping over. I thought she was look- | ing at father, who lay on the front side of the bed. I struck her on the head, and she j straightened up and fell backward on the j bed and over father. I then got up on the bed and struck her a great many tunes on the j head, until I thought she was dead. "Then I heard father make a noise in his | throat, and I struck him two blows on the head that smashed the skull. I then took I the baby and hitched up the horse and started for grandpa's. Nobody helped mo in any way, nor told me to kill them. I did it all i alone.'1 The boy is an intelligent little fellow, ' weighing only seventy-three pounds, and is very fraeile in appearance. UTOEEDIBLE BEUT.ALITY. I Fiends Torture a Baby Before It9 ! Mother's Eyes. A crime has taken place in Tallapoosa County, Ala., that has rarely been surpassed I in its horrible details. It seems that while 1 Albert Smith and his three oldest children | had gone some miles to church, five colored men approached the house and asked Mrs. i Smith to give them something to eat. On be- ' ing refused they went into the house, and learning that there was no one home but Mrs. Smith and her babe forced her into the yard and began ransacking the house. After appropriating all they could find in the way of money and valuables, they set fire to the house and added horror to the terrible scene by forcing the distracted woman to witness the most brutal of fiendish deeds?the tossing of her little baby in the air and lettiug it fall back almost on the point of sharp knives which they hel 1 under it. Tne brutes finally heeded the frantic woman's entreaties and went away,leaving het with nothing to greet the return of her horror-stricken husband and children but her half dead babe and a smouldering heap of coals where was. only a few hours before, their home. People for miles around have been searching the country for the villains, and three of them have been caDturcdSWEPT BY A TIDAL WAVE, Eight Hundred Lives Lost on the Japanese Coast. A tidal wave has occurred in Japan in which nearly 800 persons lost their lives and about 2000 houses were washed away. At Okudo all the houses, twenty-three in number, were washed away, and out of ninety inhabitants fifty-four "lost their lives. At Jitsuroku forty"houses were washed nway, and about fifty out of the population of 250 were killed. At Ikuta-Mura 120 houses were washed away, about twenty broken up, and about forty of the inhabitants killed. >t Yoshida-Mura 350 out of the 050 houses were washed away, and 028 of the population of 3260 were killed. At Toba-Mura, containing 820 houses and a population of 1130, ten houses were broken up and ten persons perished. In addition to those already enumerated, 369 bodies have been found, and there are yet 280 persons missing. The Emperor and the Empress have sent $1500 and $300, respectively, for the relief of the sufferers. IN" one neighborEbofl In Dakota recently there were only two lucifer matches to go around among twelve families, and persons were detailed to build fires and keep them alive night and day until a supply could be ..i- J J THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Three lads, each about eighteen years of age, were run over by a locomotive at Hud| son, N. Y., and were all killed. By the breaking of a scaffold at Bethlehem, Penn., two men were killed and three severely injured. I Ex-Congrersm a n Amos J. Cummings has been nominated by the Tammany Hall Con! vention of the Ninth Congressional District, j to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman S. S. Cox. 1 A construction-train", loaded with 200 | laborers, jumped the track near Confluence, i Penn., and two men were killed, and many j injured. I Benjamin T. Babbitt, the well-known j soap manufacturer, died a few days since in New York at the age of eighty years. He left a large fortune. i The Finance Committee of the "World's Fair, at New York city, adopted a subscripI tion form for the $5,000,000 guarantee fund ! and ordered 1000 subscription books printed. The American Public Health Association i began its annual session in Brooklyn. General B. F. Butler has been elected j President of the San Miguel Gold Placer | Mining Company, of Colorado. The Protestant Episcopal General Conveni tion, at New York city, decided to make the j communion service part of the marriage serI rice, but rejected it for funerals. Smith and West. F. F. Kimball, United States District Atj torney for the Western District of Missouri,. | has died in Kansas City. By the explosion of a boiler in a saw-mill I at Marshall, 111., two men were killed, and three badlv injured. James Hickey, who had confessed to being concerned in some brutal murders, was lynched in Chilton County, Ala. R. F. Pettigrew and Gideon C. Moody , have been elected United States Senators by the South Dakota Legislature. The Presbyterian Synod, which has been I holding its annual session in Baltimore, conI eluded its labors and adjourned to meet in I Wilmington, Del., next year. | A traix struck a broken rail at Howell, Kan., and was ditched. Over twenty people were injured. Five Apache Indians, convicted of murder at Florence, Ariz., have been sentenced to be hanged. William L. Jordak, son of the Postmaster of Richmond, Va., has been arrested for robbing the mails. The police have discovered that the incendiary fires which have occurred in Kansas City, Mo., were started by a band of scnooibovs. They were regularly organized, and called themselves "'Captain Kid's Pets." Henry Desobt went to Grosse Tete, La., with the intention of killing Henry Wilbert, manager of the Rosendale Lumber Company, but not finding him he killed the foreman m the yard. Governor Hill, of New York, and party visited Knoxville,Tenn., and received the attention of all classes of people. The Texas and Pacific roundhouse at Longview, Texas, with six large freight and one passenger engine, has been destroyed by fire. The total loss is $155,000. Police Commissioner Richard C. Anderson, a leading citizen of Dayton, Ohio, was shot in his office by an assassin, who suddenly opened his door and fired at him. The village of Curtiss, Wis., has been destroyed by fire. Loss is ?100,000. A terrific explosion occurred in the Bryant Switch coal mine near Fort Smith, Ark. Sixteen men were injured, five of them fatally. Extensive forest fires have been raging in the Northwest. Mrs. Hiram TVhittier, of Greenbush, Minn., was burned to death. The residence of George Kessler, six miles south of Van "Wert, Ohio, has been burned, and his six-year-old daughter and her aunt perished in the flames. A crowd of colored men lynched a colored mail at Lake Carmorant, Miss., for I outraging a young colored girl. Frank J. Bowman, a notorious attorney, was shot and killed at Ferguson, Mo., by B. M. Chambers, ex-publisner of the St. Louis Times. Reports from Northwestern Minnesota and Western Dakota state that nearly one thousand families are destitute from failure of crops by drought. A passenger train was derailed forty miles from Portland, Ore. James Nolan was killed and the engineer fatally injured. The Belford-Clark Publishing Company, of Chicago, which failed some weeks ago, will resume business. An engineer and a fireman were killed by the explosion of a locomotive boiler at Wellsboro, Ind. In the village of Woodville, Ohio, there have been in one week ten deaths from typhoid fever and as many more from diphtheria. Lord Hinton, son of an English Earl, is said to have been engaged in some swindling transactions in Cincinnati, Ohio. A complete jury lias at last been secured in the Cronin murder case at Chicago, 111. The residence of ex-Mayor Ballard at Lex ington, Mo., has been burned, and Mrs. Ballard, who was of unsound mind, perished in the flames. Washington. The International Maritime Conference at Washington has completed its organization and entered upon its deliberations. President Harrison has appointed Oliver C. BosnyshelL of Pennsylvania, to be Superintendent of tlie Mint of the United States at Philadelphia, and Richard E. Sloan, of Arizona, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona. The Simpson drydock at the Norfolk Navy Yard, which was recently opened, has been formally accepted by Commodore White, Chief of the Bureau of Docks and Yards. The dock cost the Government $495,737. Commodore Ramsey has been appointed Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. The State Department has transmitted to Portugal President Harrison's expression of condolence over the death of the King of Portugal. President Harrison is already busy at work on his forthcoming Message. The President has appointed Oscar F. Williams, of New York, to be Consul of the United States at Havre, France. Superintendent Porter, of the Census Bureau, has appointed Charles H. Cooley, of Michigan, a special agent of the bureau for the collection of railway statistics. It is announced at the State Department that the Venezuelan claims commission is now ready to consider at once all claims presented. Foreign. The Russian gunboat Nasr-ed-din-Shah has sunk at Batoum, in the Black Sea. The , crew were drowned. General Hippolyte has been unani| mously elected President of Hayti. | A serious outbreak of smallpox on the i island or reiee, in Lifike trie, is reporteu. The wildest excitement exists there. Thk Emperor and Empress of Germany started from Berlin on their trip to Athens to attend the marriage of Princess Sophie and the Crown Prince of Greece. The fisheries have altogether failed at Esquimaux Point, on the Labrador coast, and over a hundred families are starving. The local government authorities will send sufficient food to relieve their immediate wants. The Empress of Austria, while passing through Hiva on the Lago di Guarcln, was hissed by the inhabitants, who are all Irridentists. The Italian Government has made official apology for the insult.. The Italian Government has refused to re, ceive Washan Effendi, whom the Porte ! wished to appoint as Turkish Ambassador to : Italy. The Hawaiian Cabinet declares that it wants trade reciprocity with the United ; States, but not annexation. The King (if Portugal is dead. The eldest I son, the Duke of Braganza, succeeds to the j throne. The Bazar Du Centre, at Le Mans. FranceT has been destroyed by fire. The proprietor and three assistants were burned to death. While Prince William of Wurtemberg was driving to church at Ludswigsburg he was fired at by a man named Klaiber, who, upon being arrested, exclaimed: "It is high tune Wurtemberg had a Catholic King." _ ' ! HE PENSION OFFICE. Facts and Figures From the Commissioner's Report. Green B, Kaum Succeeds Corporal Tanner as Head of the Bureau. The annual report for the fiscal year 1SS889 of the Commissioner of Pensions shows that at the close of the year there were 489,729 pensioners. There were added to th? rolls during the year the names of 53,921 new pensioners, and the names of 1754 whose pensions have been previously dropped were restored, making an aggregate of 53,675 pensioners added during the year. There were dropped from the rolls for various causes, 10,507 pensioners, leaving a net in crease to the rolls of 37,168 names. The average annual value of each pension at the close of the year is shown to have been $131.18. The amount paid for pensions during the year was $88,275,113.28. Ihe total amount disbursed by the agents for all purposes was $89,131,968.44. Amount paid as fees to attorneys, $1,363,5S3.47. In the aggregate 1,248,140 pension claims have been filed since 1861, and in the same period 789,121 have been allowed. The amount disbursed on account of pensions since 1861 has been $1,052,218,413.17. The issue of certificates during the year shows a grand total of 145,298. Of this number 51,921 were original certificates. At the close of the year there were pending and unallowed 479,000 claims for all classes. Commissioner Tanner recommends that Congress be asked to amend the act of June C, 1874, so as to extend the benefit of all pension laws, as to rates, to all pensioners whose pensions have been granted by special acts passed subsequent to said date, and that pensions bo granted to the widows of soldiers who died from causes originating in the service prior to March 4, 1861. General Green B. Raum Made Commissioner of Pensions. The President has appointed General Green B. Raum, of Illinois, to be Commissioner of Pensions. General Raum was born in Golconua, 111., December 3, 1829. He received a common 6chool education, studied law and was admitted to the Bar in 1853. In 1856 he removed with his family to Kansas. He returned in the following year to Illinois and settled at Harrisburg. At the opening of the Civil War he made his first speech while attending court at Metropolis, 111. Subseouentlv he entered the armv as Mayor of the l<ifty-sixth Illinois Regiment, and was made Brigadier-General of Volunteers on the 15th of February, 18C>5, which commission he resigned on May 6. In 1866 he obtained a charter for the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad Company, aided in securing its construction and became its first President. He was then elected to Congress, and served from 4th March, 1867, till 3d March, 1869. In 1876 he was President of the Illinois Convention, and in the same year he was a delegate to the National Convention in Cincinnati. He was appointed Commissioner of Internal Revenue August 2, 1876, and retained the office till May 31, 1883. During this period he collected $850,000,000 and disbursed $30,000,000 without loss. He wrote "reports" of his bureau for seven successive years. He is also the author of "The Existing Conflict Between Republican Government and Southern Oligarchy." He is at present practicing law in Washington, D. C., and is a prominent member of the G. A. R. GENEBAL HAETBANFT. j Death of a Noted Pennsylvanian? | Sketch of His Career. General John P. Hortranft, ex-Governor of Pennsylvania, died a few days ago at his : home in Norristown. A short time since the General was brought to his bed by a severe attack of pneumonia. This would have yielded to the efforts of the physicians had not uremea developed as a result of an unsuspected derangement of the organs which had existed for a long time. John Frederick Hartranft was born in New Hanover, Montgomery County, Penn., on December 16, 1830.' He graduated at Union College in 1853, and alter studying law for a few years was admitted to the Bai in 1859. At the outbreak of the Civil War he raised the Fourth Pennsylvania Regimenl and commanded it during its enlistment. H? then organized the Fifty-first Pennsylvania Regiment, and was commissioned its Colonel July 27, 1861, and accompanied General Burnside in his expedition through North 1 Carolina. He led the charge that carried j the stone bridge at Antietam and commanded j his regiment at Fredericksburg. He fought j in many other important battles, and was | breveted Major-General in August, 1864. He j was elected Auditor-General of Pennsylvani* in October, 1865, was re-elected in 18C8 and in i 18?^-8 was Governor of Pennsylvania. At j the close of his second term he removed tc i Philadelphia, where he was appointed Post- | master in June, 1879, and Collector of the i Port in 1880. He was also Major-General commanding the National Guard of the Statf of Pennsylvania. SWEPT BY A TIDAL WAVE, Kight Hundred Lives Lost on the .TananP'JP Pftflfif. A tidal wave has occurred in Japan in which nearly 800 persons lost their lives and about 2000 houses were washed away. At Okudo all the houses, twenty-three in number, were washed away, and out of ninety inhabitants fifty-four lost their lives. At Jitsuroku fftrty houses were washed away, and about fifty out of the population of 250 were killed. At Ikuta-Mura 1^0 houses were i washed away, about twenty broken up, and j about forty of tho inhabitants killed. At , Yoshida-Mura 350 out of the 050 houses were washed away, and 02S of the population of j 8260 wero killed. At Toba-Mura, containing 220 houses and a population of 1130, ten houses were broken up and ten persons perished. In addition to those already enumerated, 369 bodies have been found, and there are yet 280 persons missing. The Emperor and the Empress have sent $1500 and $500, rerpectivefy. for the relief of the sufferers. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Jay Gould has been offered $50,000 to write his memoirs. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, reads no book until it is a year old. Empress Frederick, of Germany, will ; spend the winter in Italy. Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, is ! regaining his health at Carlsbad. Private Secretary Halford has decided i to form a Bible class in Washington. Seth Low, ex-Mayor of Brooklyn, has been elected President of Columbia College. Governor Biggs, of Delaware, realized j large profits on his peach crop this year. It is announced that King Leopold, of Bel', gium, contemplates a trip to the Congo, in | Africa. Mr. Gladstone has been chopping dowi> ! many trees at Hawarden of late, with all hi^ old vigor. George Francis Train says New YorK city cannot secure the world's "fair without ; his assistance. Tuet Gwok Ying, the new Chinese Minis-- ( ter to this country, is a good-looking man about fifty years of age. Emperor William, of Germany, spend I [ most of his leasure time studying political geography or talking about war. ? Vice-President Morton is one of the inj corporators of an extensive coal-mining company now formed to work in West Vir7 | ginia. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett was I earning a small salary as a school teacher 1 down in Tennesse when she wrote her firs* stories. j Amanda M. Douglas, the writer, hasi written two novels a year for the past sixteen' years. Her pen has supported a family 03 four persons. , William Waldorf Astor is a man ofi Btrong literary and artistic tastes, and if h<| had not been a millionaire's son he would probably have been an artist. Claus Spreckels, the sugar manufacturer, has removed most of his personal prop-) erty from San Francisco, and will make hii) home henceforth atPhiladelphia, Perm. LATER NEWS. Peter Baranowski has been hanged at Pottsville, Penn., for the brutal murder o? two women. Snow fell in many parts of the Middle States a few days ago. The American Antiquarian Society met at Worcester, Mass. The Episcopal House of Deputies, after two secret sessions on the subject at New York city, postponed marriage and divorce legislation to another convention. Nearly 200 Chinamen left New York city for China the other afternoon to return no more. Many of them are going home to join inei>auonai army, oiners to wur& ou the new railroads of China, instead of washing shirts in this country. The first furnace of the immense steel works of the Pennsylvania Steel Company at Sparrow Point, Md., has been put in operation. An important convention of wheat growers of the Mississippi Valley opened at Sfc. Louis, Mo., in response to a call by the Farmers' Federation. Governor Foraker, of Ohio, who has been seriously ill, has gradually improved until his condition is now favorable to rapid recovery. The large flouring mill of the L. C. Porter Milling Company, at Winona, Minn., has been destroyed by fire. The loss is approximated at $150,000. The Baptist Union has presented a me- I morial to Lord Salisbury, in which the Government is implored to use the moral influence of England to suppress the atrocities by the Turks upon Christians which are reported from Crete. The Prince and Princess of Wales upon their arrival at Athens were met at the railway station by King George of Greece and the Czarewitch of Russia, and were given an enthusiastic reception by the populace. SLAUGHTER OF SEAL. Over 200,090 Killed This Year by Poachers. Charles J. Goff, United States Treasury Agent in charge of trie Seal Islands, 'who has returned from Alaska, says: "Unless effective measures are at once taken by the Government to stop illegal sealing operations in Behring Sea, the seal will be totally extinct within five or six years. I don't think that more than 50,000 seal can be taken on Seal Islands next year. The Alaska Commercial Company had difficulty in getting 100,000 seal skins this summer, and were obliged to kill many inferior animals. There were thirty illegal sailing vessels, British and American, in Behring Se^ this year, and they took 40,000 seal skins to \ ictoria. "They kill six seal in the water where they get the carcass of one. So they have killed over 200,000 illegally this year, half males and half females, tne latter beinc; equal po two animals. ine popular iueu. mm. iuc ocai Oic increasing is wrong." The United States cruiser Thetis has returned to Sitka, Alaska, after an extraordinary cruise in which she completely circled around Alaska, past Point Barrow to the Mackenzie River's mouth in the Artie Ocean. A fleet of whaling vessels went with the Thetis. Ice caught the war ship near Point I Barrow and she narrowly escaped being j wrecked. Only two exploring vessels have over got to the Mackenzie and no Government vessel ever was that far before. A HEROIC FARMER'S BOY. He Saves a Woman's Life and Loses His Own in a Railroad Collison. Details of a collision at Nolin, Ky., when the Bowling Green accommodation train was run into by the fast mail from the South on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, give the following incident: Vandyke Heyser, tne eighteen-year-old boy who was injured in the wreck, died in the afternoon. He was a farmer's boy, and was coming to Louisville to get employment. "When the mail train made its appearance, and all on the other train began to flee, Heywson nnrl n towarfl thfl COaCn door. He was almost out on the platform, and in a second more he would have been safe, when a frightened woman reached his side nearly fainting with terror. She would have fallen had not he seen her condition and given her his assistance. Supporting her with one arm, he stepped to one side and helped her to pass him, gently forcing her out to the platform. Before he could follow her, the mail train crushed into the accommodation. The heroic boy was caught in the ruins and fatally injured. THE LABOR WORLD, 1 The Pittsburg, Penn., maltsters have asked for shorter hours. Two assemblies of the K. of L. have been formed in Ireland. St. Louis musicians average about .$770 a year, or $14.85 a week. There are nearly 80,000 carpet workers of both sexes in Philadelphia. . Sixteen' hundred men are working at the Chester, Penn., shipyards. There will soon be a national organization of the tile layers of the United States. The pantaloon makers of Boston, Mass., have started a union with seventy members. An advance of fifty cents a day has been given to the plasterers at Connellsville, Penn. The worki-.gmen in Chicago have subscribed to $300,000 worth of the "World's Fair stock. The Chinese tailors in Hong Kong are fighting against the introduction of sewing machines. The eight-Hour system is saiisitii;iiuru,y working in the British colony of Victoria, Australia. The recent dock strike in London has, according to John Burns, the leader, been the means of raising wages in at least 200 trades there. The second annual convention of the Journeymen Barbers' International Union of America will be held in Detroit, Mich., December 3d. At the request of the tailoresses of Boston, the labor organizations of that city will adopt a label which is to be placed on unionmaae clothing. In the newly drafted Constitution for the State of Wyoming it is provided that "eight | hours shall constitute a day's work in all mines and on all State and municipal works." The now locomotive works of the Pennsylvania railroad at Altoona, Penn., are to have a capacity of 500 engines a year, and are so constructed that their manufacture can be increased up to 1500. Fifty miners were lately killed by an explosion in the ironstone pit of the Maurice Wood Colliery, Scotland. Subscriptions are being raised all over the country for their widows and families. Co-operative stores are gaining ground in England and workingmen seem everywhere anxious to buy stock in them. Co-operative hat stores are flourishing in all the large bint's auu uavc pv?su u> vm? muv??ww. In order to replace the field laborers who have emigrated to Mexico and South America a company has been formed in Havana, Cuba., to make contracts with a number of workmen in Spain to bring them to Cuba with their families. Woukingme.v in Paris are agitating for the eight-hour movement. A letter to that effect has been sent to the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor in New York city. The movement is the outcome of the visit of American workingmen in Paris. A New York unionist, who is in Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, writes to New York saying that it is not hard to get work there. He says, however, that it would be foolish for any mechanic to go there expecting to get an easy job or to become rich. Carpenters get from $3 to $3.50; bricklayers, from |3 to |d, and bakers from $1.75 to $3.25. AGGRESSIVE OUTLAWRY. Desperadoes' Threats to Attack a Court House. Armed^Men Ready for a Battle Witiitiie Authorities. A desperate state of affairs is once more prevailing in Harlan County, Ky. The State troops sent' there two or three months ago were withdrawn a few weeks since without anything being effected, and when this report was written the outlaws, under the leadership of Wils Howard, had taken fresh courage. Howard had organized them near the town of Harlan Court House, which is occupied by his old enemies, the county authorities, and was preparing to storm and carry the place at all hazards. County Judge Wilson Lewis, who led the old fight against Howard, was in town and had taken charge of the Law and Order forces. They numbered about forty or fifty men, and were armed with Winchesters, pistols, muskets and other weapons. They were entrenched in Harlan Court House and were preparing to defend the place. On the other hand, Howard, it is thought, could bring from fifty to one hundred men into the field, and he openly avowed his intention of making a charge upon the village. The trouble was brought about by an event which occurred recently when it was thought that all the trouble was over. John Howard, nineteen years old, a brother of Wils Howard, the leader and disturber, was in Harlan Court House, where the father of the Howard brothers lives. Finley Smith, a son of Wash Smith, one of the wealthiest men in Harlan County, who is spoken of as one of the best of citizens, was also in the town. The Smiths were related by marriage to John Cawood, the wealthy farmer, who with his hired man, Hezekiah Hall, was killed on Friday, October 11, by Wils Howard's cane. A nephew of John Cawood, named Charles Cawood, married a daughter of Wash Smith and the sister of Finley Smith. They belonged to the Law and Order party. John Cawood was a brother-in-law of County Judge Lewis, and like the latter he was active in the attempts to stop crime and to bring all the desperadoes to the bar. Wils Howard wanted him out of the way and he and Hall were killed. The Law and Order party were greatly exerci^d over this, and the good citizens were considering means by which Cawood's and Hall's slayers could be brought to justice, when the last fight occurred. Just how it was brought about no one seemed to know, and the point is disputed as to whether Finley Smith or John Howard fired first. Each man's friends claim that the other was the aggressor. There were no words between the young men. John Howard was walking along the street and Finley Smith was in the door of the Cumberland Hotel when they saw each other. Howard pulled his pistol and young Smith seized a vvincnesier rme, wmcu was: uc?i him, and both began to shoot. None of the bullets were buried in the targets they were intended for, but it was thought at first that Howard was killed. One of Smith's bullets frazed his temple and the shock knocked im down. White he lay there stunned for the moment Smith left and Howard did the same thing. This shooting occurred about 5 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon. John Howard lost little timo in communicating with his brother Wils, and the latter vowed vengeance. Early the next morning word was brought to the town that Wils had said that he didn't intend to put up with the trouble any longer; he would wipe out his enemies or he would die trying. A little later the report was confirmed from another source, when the news came that the Howards were organizing and arming. A little later reliable messengers of the Law and Order party brought the intelligence that the outlaw had sent word to all his men to come well armed to a rendezvous a few miles from the county seat. Wils was implicitly obeyed by his followers, and the messengers said a large crowd was gathering at his summons. The seat of justice of Harlan County, which is converted into a citadel by the Law and Order party, is thirty-five miles from Pineville, which is the nearest railroad point. It is on the Virginia border line. Some be lieved that Wils Howard would post detachments so as to shut off all communication between the town and the outer world, and await the moment when he could make an attack on tho town with the best chance of carrying all before him. Harlan Court House is so situated that a war may bo waged upon men in it with the attacking party well protected. The town has about four hnndred inhabitants and is on the banks where Martin's Forks joins the Middle Fork of the Cumberland River. Poor Fork empties into the main stream about a mile below. On both sides of the town rugged hills rise. These are so close to the place where Judge Lewis and the citizens were entrenched in the court house building that the Howard gang could pour a fusillade into the structure from tho hills. In doing this they would be fairly well protected and will have the citizens at a disadvantage. Howard is related to nearly half the people in the county, and has relations in surrounding places and friends at Pineville. This fact has so far aided him in escaping arrest. He is vindictive toward those who oppose him, and has sworn that he will nover Be capturcd. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. It is said that Buffalo Bill will take his "Wild West" show from Paris to St. Petersburg. Sarah Bernhardt is reported to have made an immense hit with "Theodora" in Paris. Mr. and Mrs. Kendall, the English artists, are doing well at the Fifth Avenue theatre in New York. Maggie Mitchell made her first appearance in New York city the present season in her new play, entitled "Ray." P. T. Barnum and his circus have gone to England for the winter. They will be back in !New York probably next April. H. B. Farnie, whose name as an adapter of comic opera is as well known in this country as in England, died recently in Paris. Dr. Nanse.v, the distinguished explorer of Greenland, will visit this country next spring for the purpose of delivering lectures. His young bride will accompany him. Edward Grieg, the composer whose works arc just now so popular among musicians, is a native of Bergen, Norway. He was born in 1843 and is accordingly 46 years old. Max Alvart, who was such a pronounced favorite at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York city last season, has made a great hit at Carlsrune in the role of Siegfried. Robert J. Burdette, tho humorist, who has been acting as pastor of the Lower Merion Baptist Church, near Philadelphia, during: the summer, has started on his lectur ing tour. Dn. Hans von Bclow will he heard in New York city next spring. The eminent pianist has been engaged for a series of twenty concerts in the principal cities, bo* ginning March 20. Ir is said that there are at least 20,000 actors in England, of whom only about onehalf make a comfortable living. If England has 5000 actors who deserve to make a comfortable living on account of their histrionic capacity, she is at least twice as lucky as the United States. Christine Nilsson, the famous prima donna, owns quite an amount of railroad property in South America. Some of it does not pay. Recently a judgment was recorded in her favor in the Washington City Court for $175. It was for interest due on bonds of the Bogota City Railroad. Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan have rent the synopsis of a new opera to Rudolph Aronson, the New York operatic manager. It is of a much lighter texture than ''The Yoeman of the Guard," and the scene is Venetian. Rehearsals were begun on the opera at Savoy Theatre, London, with locked doors. The resources lavished upon the revival of "The Dead Heart1' at the London Lyceum contrast markedly with the pecuniary value of the piece as originallv assessed by its first proprietor, Benjamin Webster. Two hundred and fifty dollars was all that Watts Phillips received in the first place for the copyright, though he was afterward presented with $500 as an honorarium. The Czar's presence at Berlin was not characterized by enthusiasm, while the court dinner Is said to hayVbeeri a dismal affair. j 1 CURIOUS FACTS. A Kansas City boy has an Irish setter dog which he claims can trot a mile in 3:89. A citizen of North Hampton, N. H., has* been a justice of the peace for more than fifty years. In 1855 James G. Blaine and Melville W. Fuller, the present Chief Justice, were reporters on papers in Augusta, Me. The Mississippi plan,under their prison law, is to hire out the convicts to the highest bidder, $7 per month being about the highest price. Within the past few years the area of grapevines destroyed by phylloxera in France equals about one-half the vineyards of that country. In Galway, Ireland, It is considered so unlucky to catch sight of a fox that fishermen will not put to sea if they notice rvna -rrrVi iIa r*nin rr +A Virtltfl vug I^UiUg ?V vuvu wvwbw* A recent estimate places the amount of South Carolina phosphate rock mined and sold in 1888 at about 510,000 tons, or 300,000 tons more than in 1880. Two Indian skeletons, one of them that of a child, were unearthed [in a gravel pit on a farm near Columbus, Ind. The grave also contained powder horns, deer horns and the bones of animals. According to a Massachusetts paper the town of Plymouth boasts of the tallest windmill in the world. This windmill stands ll9 feet above the ground and has a wheel eighteen feet in diameter. Several cases have been reported during the past season of honey bees that have been killed in their search for honey on fruit blossoms sprayed with Paris green for the codling-moth. According to a paper read at a congress at Strasburg, Germany, thirty-two per cent, of railway passengers in Prussia travel fourth class, twenty-one per cent, third class, 20.5 second and only 8.9 first. A mine of natural shoe-blacking has been discovered in Utah. It contains sixteen per cent, carbon, thirty-four per cent, aluminum and the remainder clay. n /\f oooil tt Ih prUUUUCS U UiiC ^vuou uvv viwiij uwstroyed. The Irish Pasteur, McGovern,in whose family tradition has handed down a successful cure for hydrophobia, recently received $60 from a certain board of guardians for curing four patients sent to him by them. Forty tramps went about St. Helena, Cal., begging for employment. They were set to work in a vineyard, but by the next afternoon all except three had "folded their tents like the Arab" and silently disappeared. Herr R. Fricke, the African traveler, says that traveling in the Dark Continent is so perilous, owing to the cannibalistic tribes, that he has been forced to carry a phial of poison which he intends to drink if he should ever be captured. The Countess Masrri, better known as Mrs. Tom Thumb, is said to have fine business ability, and she plans the routes and makes arrangements for her traveling company. She is the possessor of $5000 worth of jewelry, which she wears at her performances. William Crawford, twenty-two year? old, who died recently in Chicago, was peculiarly afflicted. He had only one skin, which is to say that he had no outei skin at all. The veins stood out all over his body in the plainest manner possible. From the time he was six years of age young Crawford h#d been subject tc bleeding spells, which were liable tc break out at any time and on any part of his body. A Cnrious Story of Mistaken Identity Prom Chicago comes one of the mosl curious stories of mistaken identity known to the annals of crime. In April, 1887, Michael O'Brien, a policeman, wa? murdered. Timothy O'Grady was convicted of the crime and sentenced to the penitentiary for seventeen years for manslaughter. At the trial O'Grady refused to enter a r>lea of self-defense, which his friends urged him tP make, but stoutlj declared he was unjustly accused,though the circumstantial evidence was conclusive that he was the person who killed the officer. A few days ago, however, John J. Scanlan, the leader of the "Mollie Mott" gang, confessed that if was he and not O'Grady who killed O'Brien. It seems that Scanlan had s quarrel with O'Brien and was seeking to murder him. Just as he was skulking behind a corner to shoot the officer he saw him engaged in a row with O'Grady, and he seized the opportunity to kill his victim under circumstances that threw all the blame on the man with whom he was fighting. At the trial it was shown that the fatal bullet did not match thf revolver which O'Grady carried, but th< jury ignored this fact, which now proves to be very material. O'Grady will now he pardoned. A Wonderful Dinner. One of the most marvelous dinners ol modern times was served in Antwerp t - A- - a# tyion lin lew clays ago to a cuuipauj m un.u uuv go about the world buying up animals fot menageries. There had been a sale ol the surplus stock of the famous Antwerp zoological gardens during the day, and buyers from all parts of the world were there. In the evening the Anvers Zoological Association gave a banquet to th( most prominent persons present. The menu was indeed a curious one. Daintv omelets were made from ostrich eggs. Rare fish from waters in the tropics were brought thousands of miles for this special occasion. The guests were served with Indian antelope fillet; with hamcul from the Russian bear; with Lady Amherst pheasants; with a delicious young tapir, roasted to a crisp; with tongue of the South American bison, served witb spinach; with lima cutlcts and broad beans. The King of Holland sent a fine boar from his forest, which was served in the fashion of an ox at a good old American barbecue. This altogether remarkaable repart covercd twenty course?, and it took six hours to serve it. Story of a Violin. A gentleman living in Richmond, Va., owns a violin which is associated with *? 1-;-i Vit./?ini0 Tt ic nnp tue eany uisiujj w ? of four violins connected with the early history of that section of the country. It'is marked, "Nicolaus Amati fecit, Cremona, 1651," This violin was brought to this country by Robert Bollinz, the husband of Jane Rolfe, the granddaughter of Pocahontas, who was the daughter of the mighty Indian King Powhatan, of Virginia. The violin is of superior tone, volume and finish, and has been used by many prominent performers during the past century. RELIGIOUS READING. "" OMISSION. It Isn't the thing you do, dear. It is the thing you leave undone Which gives you a bit of heartache \ At the setting of the sun; The tender word forgotten, B The letter you did not write, ^ The flower you might have sent dear, ' Are your haunting ghosts tonight. The stone you might have lifted Out of the brother's way; , . i The bit of hearthstone counsel You hurried too much to say: The loving touch of the hand, dear, The gentle and winsome tone That you had no timet?r thought for; With trouble enough of your own. These little acts of kindness. So easily out of mind, These chances to be angels, Which even mortals find? They come in night and silence, Each child's reproachful wraith, ' When hope is faint and flagging, And a blight has dropped on faith. For life is all too short, dear, And sorrow is all too great To suffer our slow compassion That tarries until too late: j And it's not the thing you do, dear, It's the thing you leave undone, Which gives you the bitter heartachi At the setting of the sun. ?Margaret E. Sangster. SUNDAY SCHOOL STATISTICS. The latest table of statistics for Sunday schools in the United States shows that thereare in all 101,834 Sunday schools, with 8,345^431 scholars and 1,100,104 teachers, making a total 9,445,535 in the Sunday schools of . the country. Pennsylvani i continues to bathe banner state in the number of schools? J.< 8,729?though New York has more scholar*. ,: Pennsylvania has 964.699; New York, 979,415. Among the states, Louis- ?3 iana seems to stand at the '-W foot. It has only 522 schools and 32,617 scholars. The little state of Rhode Island ^ exceeds in its scholars by about 12,000t Of N; the cities, Philadelphia is in the lead, with ) , C16 schools and 17a,865 scholars. New York ^ v comss next with 600 schools and 172.000^ scholars. Brooklyn, the city of cburcne* has 263 schools and 97,033 scholars, easily holding the third place. A PRACTICAL RELIGION. TTa wont a roliin'nn thflt snftAM thft KtflTV and tunes the voice to melody, and check* the impatient exclamation and 'harsh rebuke, a religion that is polite, deferential to superiors, courteous to iuferiors, and considerate to friends; a religion that goes into the family and keeps the husband from be? ing cross when the dinner is late, and keeps the wife from fretting #hon the husband tracks the newly-washed floor with bis muddy boots, and makes tbe husband mindful of the ecrapar and door mat: keeps the mother patient when the baby is fretful, and amuses the children as well as instructs b them; cares for the servants besides paying them promptly; projects the honeymoon in- . to the harvest-moon, and makes the happy home like the Eastern fig-tree, bearing on its bosom at once the blossoms and the glory of unripened fruit We want a religion that shall interpose between the ruts and gullies and rocks of the highway of life ana the sensitive souls that are travelling over them. ? v .if DRINKING A FARM. My homeless friend with the chromatic nose, while you are stirring up the sugar in a ten-cent glass of gin, let mo give you a fact ,, to wash down with it. You say you have longed for years for the free, independent life of the farmer, but have never been able to get enough money together to* bur a . . farm. But this i* just where you are mis- ' yi rnl-cowopol TOBN -COlt hftVO Heflll " *0 drinking a good imp: ovtd farm at the rate of 100 square feet at a gulp. If you doubt i this statement figure it out for yourself. An .'jS acre of land contains 43,560 square feet. Estimating, for convenience, the land at143.56 per acre, you will see that it bring* , the land to just one mill per square foot one cent for ten square feet. Wow pour1 y down the fiery dose and imagine you ar?. | y.:-. swallowing a strawberry patch. Call inry*. five of your friends and have them help you \ gulp down a 500 foot garden. Get on a pro- \ longed spree some day, and see how long a time it requires to swallow a pasture large enough to feed a cow. Put down that glass of gin; there's dirt in it?100 square feet 6C good, rich dirt, worth $43.56 per acre.?Bob Burdette. ' god's work and man's work. Man's work in beautifying the earth is very different from God's work. God's work is seen in majestic peaks which pierce the sky, in foaming waterfalls, iu pathless forests, in tangled bushwocds, in rich valley^ I in ever-changing outlines 01 earm sou heaven. Man's work appears in prim foot- , paths, in monotonously trimmed hedges, and m beds of flowers S9t out with mathematical exactness which suggests a neat diagram in Euclid. We never tire of God's work in beautifying the world; there is a newness of surprise in it which never fails. We do grow weary of the dead levels, the hard, straight lines, the mechanical balance of circles, triangles and parallelograms, into which man "improves" God's work. And wheo we turn to the Bible and see that here a'so appears ! *hf> tnnclpd nrripj- of God's f ?ation? depths and wandering maz>s, which defy I the utmost reach of the human mind?w& . recognize that the beauty of God's work in the Book is like the beauty of God's work in the world; and are thankful that, at least within the covers of Holy Scripture, man cannot introiuce the prim order of a dead system. Humanly spaaking. the Bible would not have been so new or so living a book today, if it had not been written in the order of a logical treatise, beginning with an exact definition of God, and ending with a * ;i-' Ao/kkafftl/VTV ' VW minutely precise exposition 01 oo\,u?w.v6^. _ God gave the Bible, as be gave the world, in that apparently disorderly order wherein fl appear the truest beauty and the deepest v unity. God left to no man the work of making trim flower-beds an 1 equally trim systems of theology.?S. S. Times. The people of God act a3 if the fields so fully open to missionary labors would ways be open, but this is not the case. not occupied by Christian missionaries they are apt to bo pre-occuped by other forces, which are som.times even more difficult to - encounter than the original heathenism of I the people. Commerc -, with the immoral- B itv of merchants who com3 "D1!*"* eral name Christian, is a terrible hindrance I to missionary labors, if it goes into a hea- I then country before the people have learned ' H the nature of missionary work. In Western Africa todav the race is between rum and H religion. Where rum has gone first, real re- J ligion has had hard work to make headway. H Moreover, if Protestants delay, the repre- H sentatives of a corrupt Christianity H are always ready to enter in H and make the peopl-3 nominal con- H verts, who are harder to b3 won to Christ H tbun real heathen. The American Beard H started a mission to Unizila's kingdom in H southeastern Africa iu 1881, but through H various caus-es it was not fully b9gun. Last B year two missionaries arrived at the capital H to begin the work, but the Portugese had B| got there ahead of them, and they were <ent H away with these words from ti e king: 'Tell H those who sent you, your feet have de'ayed H too long. Had y>. u been the fir.?t here to B mourn th? death of mv father, yours would H be the place now occupied by the Portugese. H They came fir?t to mourn the death of my IH father. They are my teachers and the teachers of my people. I cannot manage two sets c f teachers at one and the same time.?Baptist Missionary. ]M Tee Afghan Ameer's method of yengeance on his rebel prisoners is pretty Bfl highly dereloped. One batch, num- H boring three hundred, were pat to death three a day. One of the trio was always hanged, dressed in yellow and 7green, another was dressed in black and blown from a gun, and the H third was dressed in red and cut up with a eword. Kalakaea, Ulng of the San$wicfl jfil Inlands, is writing another book. Its subject has not been announced, but qj rnvaltv 011 it is &&aiir?ui flfl