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? - -- : GREAT FIBE IN BOSTON. ! I A Fearful Conflagration in the Heart of the City. Nearly Two Acres of Valuable j Property Burned. Just, as Boston was awakening to the most essentially Puritan of all feast days there came from the old city through the storm the ringing of bells, not in thanksgiving, but in warning, heralding to the business men in all parts of the town that flames were raging in the midst of the most valuable commercial district of Boston and that some of the terrors of 1872 were again before them. For nearly four hours they saw costly buildings and merchandise go up in flame anil smoke, they saw structures that have been erected in comparatively recent years, with every improvement and safeguard against fire, splinter aud crash together as though I they were of the most inconsequential material; and it was only after this long fight > of the firemen, who were made desperate by ! the fearful odds against them, and after reinforcements had come from more than a score of the adjoining towns, that the fire was controled. There stood at Bedford and Kingston streets a solidly built six-storied granite building, owned by Jordan. Marsh & Co., the great dry goods house, and occupied in part by them and in part by Brown, Durrell & Co., wholesale dealers in notions, and the "W'oonsocket Rubber Company. It was regarded as thoroughly fire-proof. Not very long after 8 o'clock a. m. a letter carrier saw a glare iu the upper part of the building and scarcely had heard the roar of the fire within before there was an explosion in .the upper story, aud. with a flash like that of the discharge of a field of artillery, the flames burst through the shutters and sashes of the | structure and sent the debris about his ear?, i There was no time for hesitancy, but it seems | that there was some, for the alarm from the fire-alarm box nearly op posite the burning ounuing was not rung m for several minutes after the discovery of the fire. It was raining as hard as Boston has experienced in many years, there was a very high wind blowing, "and everything was favorable for a rapjd extension of the blaze. Great buildings were all about, jammed with valuable merchandise. The flames, which, it was subsequently ascertained, started in the elevator shaft, bad full opportunity to obtain a powerful draft, and in almost as short a time as it requires to write it the interior of the edifice was as a furnace. There was nothing human which could stop the progress of the flames northward through the party walls of the adioining building of the .Shoe and Leather Exchange, and which were making this structure as dangerous to the surrounding property as the first one proved to be. Meanwhile a few engines had arrived, but for some reason the firemen did not seem to appreciate the enormity of the danger. They first sent in an alarm for assistance but it was not until the destruction of the Shoe and Leather Exchange was inevitable that the firemen were aroused. Thus the fire had a headway of quite half an hour before a force of firemen which would have been adequate at the beginning of the conflagration arrived on duty. The high wind fanned the flames and forced them across Bedford .street, a distance of not more than seventy feet, where they were dammed by the corner building and forced again westward acrossKingston and along Bedford street to Chauncey, where the fire was stopped for a time in the store of Farley, Harvey & Co.. the upper stories of which were burned. Three stores along Chauncey street were also de- 1 stroyed. On the south side of Bedford street j the flames leaped across Kingston street j from the furnace that still raged in Brown, i Durrell & Co.'s building to the biz sandstone ! structure owned by F. ?. Ames ami occupied ] by Taylor Brother?, completely destroying ! it. ' It was not long before steamer* from Wal- j tham, Cambridge, Maiden. Melrose, Law^ rence and Haverhill arrived, and some tim<M| after the Providence fire laddies made their j appearance with one engine. Then Waltham I sent in its quota, and it was with full ap- j preciation of the pathos of it all that the engine from Lynn arrived. There was a cheer which went up when the boys came in and went to work, though they had scarcely had time to recover from the great calamity which had visited their own city. But the effect of their pluckiness was contagious. Men who had not done more than their share up to this time bent their backs, and, with a whoop and a hurrah which meant all things save defeat, ?' the firemen, many of them badly scorched, went at the flames again with a will, and assisted by the storm, made further progress of the fire unlikely. Up to this time the number of available men was too small to surround the district and to fight the flames from all quarters. The heat from the flames, too, was more than it was possible fA wifV?c+r?rtrl cn t.hf fViA battle for the salvation of property was con- j tinued with the flames always in the van anil the firemen in their rear endeavoring to j quench them from the most unlikely point. The scene in 'Bedford street at 11 o clock was appalling. Bricks from fallen wails covered the street to a depth of five feet, and two helpless engines and a tower which had fallen victims to the great avalanche of sfone and brick mutely told of the terrible struggle which had taken "lace to stop the progress of destruction. At that hour the fire had supreme possess' "n o* many massive buildings, and the large freestone oICC- northwest corner of Kingston and Bedford streets was in an extremely dangerous condition. The firemen worked in and around it at moof bein" e?<mlfed ben ?>?> ' *the tottering walls of its" tippsr story. At 1 o'clock the fire was confined to the upper stories of the two large stone buildings at the corner of Bedford and Chauucey streets, occupied, one by Farley, Harvey 6c Co., and the other by Smith, Hogg & Gardner. At times it burned out for a moment, but under the well-directed streams of the firemen was BOOU SUUUUCU. Jiutuic IIM uiciivuuijjKinj Tinder control. A careful estimate of the area burned over before the fire was under control places the number of square feet at 75,(100, or about one acre and three-quarters. Seventy buildings were burned, most of them being mammoth wholesale business houses of stone and brick, fortified by every known modern appliance for the prevention of loss by fire. The aggregate loss is variously estimated at from H000,000 to $6,000,000. The scene of the fire was identical with that of the conflagration of 1872, when the total of losses were $75,000,000. The alarm was rung out, too, from the same box, No. - 52. Daring the fire fourteen firemen were knocked down in Kingston street by fragments of a broken wall, but all escaped serious injury. About a dozen firemen and policemen were sent to the hospitals suffering from lacerations, bruises and broken limbe. UNCLE SAM'S NEEDS. Appropriations Required l*or the Next Fiscal Year. Secretary "VVindom has transmitted to Congress the estimates of appropriations re" quired for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, lSyi, as follows: Objec'x. hor 1S91. For iW. Legislative $0,429,583.27 $0165.715.10 Executive proper liw.u-u.w iai.i-.M.uu State Department.... 1,981,435.00 2.112.4H5.00 Treasury Department 127,030.989.27 133,550.808.48 War Department 47.052,(173.95 46,GSS,507.52 Navy Department.... 26.440,159.79 27.51C.S73.74 Interior Department. 117,054,420.77 94.888,379.50 Postofilci-Dept. 9.119.131.65 0.39-1,304.90 Dept. Agriculture.... 1.208.430.00 l.CSO.lfiO.OO Department Labor... 15H.410.00 141.50O.00 Dept. Justice 4.800 700.00 4.518,770.00 Grand Totals SMI.423.977.70 f323,407,4KVM These estimates show an increase as compared with the appropriations for the current fiscal yen- as follows: Legislative. $71,541.00: executive proper, $10,880; War Department. $8,448,447.08: IN'avy Department. 52.092.9Hy.00; interior Department, $4.2'"i!?.fi02.*>S; Pwtofhev Department. $7,040,902.60; Department of Agriculture. >5119,392.02: Department of Labor. $14,170. The estimates arc less than the appropriations, as follows: Department of State. $490.251. Oti: Treasury Department, $3.030,379.77Department of Justice, $15,803.74, making a total net increase of *17.?33.040.91. The estimates for 1891 are $17,961,489.36 in excess of the estimates for 1890. The principal increase in the estimates is for pensions and public works, the former exceeding the appropriations for the present year by 58,827,816 and the latter exceeding ihe appropriations by 16,996,272.06. THE NEW SPEAKER. Sketch of ?lie Career of Thomas B j Reed, of Maine. THOMAS B. REED. congressman Tom Keed, of Maine, was j nominated in the Republican caucus on the | second ballot for Speaker of the House of j Representatives, and was elected when Con- i gress opened. Mr. Reed's career has been a somewhat un- j eventful one, being marked by little beyond his steady political promotion. He was born | in the old seaport city of Portland, on the I 18th of October, 1839. He was educated at j Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Maine, where he graduated at the age of twenty-one. This was in the year preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, and during the first part of that conflict Mr. Reed was engaged in the study of law. In 1S04, however, on the 19th of April, he accepted an appointment as acting assistant paymaster m the United States navy, an office which he continued to hold for more than eighteen months. On leaving the navy in November, 1865, after the close of the war, Mr. Reed returned to his legal studies, and was soon afterward admitted to the bar of his native State. He commenced to practice his profession in j Portland; but he took so active an interest j in public affairs, and his talents drew him so rapidly to the front, that with him law soon became subordinate to politics. In 186S ho was clected to the Maine House of Representatives, and after serving for two years in that body became a member of the State Senate in 1870. Then for three successive years he was Attorney-General of Maine, and for four more years City Solicitor i or roruanci. He was first elected to the National Legis- j lature in 1876, when the First District of his I State chose him as its representative in the ! Forty-fifth Congress. He has been at Wash- j ington continuously from that time, and is j now the foremost Republican member of the j lower house. life-saving service. Many People Rescued and Much i Property Saved in a Year. General Superintendent Kimball, of the Life-Saving Service, in his annual report says that at the close of the last fiscal year I the establishment embraced 225 stations, 172 being on the Atlantic. 45 on the lakes, 7 on the Pacific and 1 at the Falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky.' The work of the crews during the year is j summarized as follows: Number of disasters, ; 52S; value of property involved, $6,416,775; value cf property saved, $5,054,440; value of I property lost, $1,362,335; number of persons 1 involved, 3426; number of persons lost, 42; : number of persons succored, 787; days of ! succor afforded, 172G; number of vessels totally lost, 63; number of vessels otherwise i aided by crews, that is, worked off when stranded, repaired when damaged, piloted I out of danger, etc., 510; number of vessels ) warned from danger by signals of patrol- : men, 217; number of persons rescued who j had fallen fi om wharves, piers, etc., 34. ^ftoEITOIASTYKCEED, j From Jail and Hanged by a Maryland Crowd. About 2:30 A. M. a band of masked men came to the Upper Marlboro (Md.) jail, j overp^H^HAe keeper and broke open the ; cell <q^^^permillion, took him out and ! hangeo^^B on the bridge leading to the j village. Tlie caTse of the lynching was the burning | by an incendiary of several barns on the night of November 23 in Prince George's County. The incendiarism was due to a desire for revenge by Joe Vermillion, whose father was maltreated the night before by a number of men. All of the Vermillion boys ?X/.MA ammac^A/I /\V? 4UA /iliottrrA nf orcon linf ai jcaucu uu buc vuat vl uiovu^ uuv John told the officers that Joe was the cause of ad the trouble, and that he had fired the bard=. His brothers tried to dissuade him from it, but he followed his own impulses. MUSICAL AMTBRAMATIC. EowjN Booth is only fifty-six years old. "Bronson Howard will begin work on a new play in January. Mrs. John Drew is to remain with the j Jefferson-Florence Company next season. Mrs. Kendal, the English actress now in this country, is the mother of eight children, f Forty-nine theatres are now delighting Italian audiences with operatic performances, j M Coov7LTV has ha(l a brilliant success in | Hamburg, where he pin.rC.' * star enCa?e* | ment. ' . Mrs. Potter wili begin a professional tour j in Australia next spring, supported, as here- j tofore, by Kyrle Bellow. | Tite gossips have it that Henry Irving win i, retire from the boards a year hence, having ; accumulated a fair sized fortune. Mme. Modjeska has never seen Lady Mac- I beth played. Her conception of the role is | therefore said to be something remarkable. Madame Anna Mehlig, the celebrated | pianist, has once more appeared in public at j one of the London Crystal Palace concerts, j One Berlin (Germany) piano factory, ! during 1!>8S, shipped 90() grands and t>50 up- | rights to Mexico, Brazil and the Argentine j Republic*. Constaxze Donita, the American soprano ! who wou fame in Europe,lias made her debut I in New York at the Amberg Theatre in j ' Mignon.'' Miss Annie Patterson has been awarded | the first degree of Doctor of Music which ! any lady has yet gained at the Royal Uni- j versitvof Dublin. Marie Van Zandt, the American singer, | is at present in Paris, where she is preparing for her winter tour, which commences at Barcelona and finishes at Madrid. Charles Wyndham and Mary Moore are under engagement to play "The Headless Man' in Germany, and in German, after their return from their American tour. tttfr-pdirn w iAVCD cnr? s\f famAnc composer, has determined to devote himself to music, and has entered his name upon the roll of the music school at Frankfort-on-theMain. Mrs. Pkmbehton-Hinks is one of the fewprofessional singers who prefer to go before ail audience empty-handed. She haugs her arms at her side, with her palms in and her elbows out. Hubbard Smith sold his song "Listen to My Tale of Woe' to a publisher for 115. A few days ago a British house offered him $10,000 for the exclusive right to publish the song in Europe. Miss Elizabeth Robins, a talented young American actress, has recently appeared in London with marked success at an afternoon performance of a new play by Dr. Dobbs, entitled "Her Own Witness." The union of Joseph Jefferson and W. J. Florence as joint stars has proved so successful this season that theso two actors have decided to continue partnership, and contracts have already been signed between them for next season. The fire scene in "The Streets of London/' as Dion Boucicault's play is known in England. hits been fatal to a theatre at last. The iioj'al Victoria Theatre, Staleybridge, was destroyed the other day by flames which owed their origin to this realistic stage picture. -Ieksrr. Miller & Sibley, of Franklin, Penn., declined a cash offer of $30,000 for the yearling colt Electric Bell, full brother to their noted stallion St. Bel. This is the highest price ever offered for an untried t o ter. 1 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Princeton defeated Yale by a score of 10 to 0. winning the intercollegiate football association championship. Jacob H. H alderman. ex-Minister to Sweden. has died at Harrisburg, Penn., in his sixty-ninth year. Fifty-nine persons comprising the crew and passengers of the steamer Santiago, burned in mid-ocean, arrived at New York on the American ship A. J. Fuller They had been compelled to abandon the steamer in four boats, which were picked up next clay by the ship. While the Lehigh Valley coal train was entering the tunnel at Pattenburg, N. J., a landslide from the side of the mountain wrecked eight cars and a boiler house, and killed the engineer, William Bigley. The large three masted schooner Germania, of Bremen, from Stettin to New York, went ashore oil West End, Long Branch. The life saving crew went to her assistance, but she broke up in the surf. The mate and three of the crew were saved. Captain Windhorst, eisrht sailors and the cook weredrowned. The - ' i .1 1. TKn captain Is said ro nave Deen uiuim. j.uv schooner was very old. The bodies of four of the lost sailors were washed ashore near Sandy Hoolc. The three-months-old daughter of "W. A. Reyburn at Atglen, Penn., was found dead in lied with the family cat on the child's mouth and nose. Death was >?aused by suffocation. At the Merrimac County Farm, in North Boscaween. N. H? a woman named Bennett seized a slight, delicate woman,from Chester, Sarah C. Wood.carried her to a bath-room, threw her into a tub, held her down, and, turning on the cold water, fiually drowned her. At the investigation of the wreck of the Gerniania at Long Branch, N. J., one of the rescued seamen swore that in his opinion the vessel was purposely lost. One Italian laborer was killed and another fatally injured by a bank of earthcaving in on them at Brookline, Mass. Later reports put the number of buildings burned in Lynn, Mass., at 330, and the losses at about $1,300,000. The New York World's Fair guarantee fund of ST).000.000 has been completed. Charles H. Turner, the young iceman of New York city, has been elected to Congress in the Sixth Congressional District. The new steam ferryboat Gratin of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, while being taken to New York from Baltimore, *- Wrt AArt All 4-U^ burned at sea. one cuss .?uv,v/ui/. :ui wc crew were rescued. Ax explosion from tlie bursting of an ammonia pipe connecting with a patent ice machine, blew tho inside out of Charles Trefz's three story brick brewery in Newark, N. J., wrecking lifty huge vats, flooding the neighborhood with beer and causing a loss of $175,000. Earthquake shocks which occurred at Alton Bay. N. H., and vicinity caused stop page of clocks and breakage of glassware. A fishing boat, in which were Charles Hoyt, John Batchelder and Robert Bridges, was capsized off Norman's "Woe, Mass., and Hoyt and Batchelder, who lived in New Hampshire, were drowned. A dozen Connecticut Postmasters have been fined $50 and costs for selling stamps on credit. South and We6t. Dp.. Wm. R. "Waring, a well-known physician of Atlanta, Ga., aged sixty years, fell down stairs at his home and sustained injuries which caused his death. A disastrous wreck has occurred at Credo, Ohio. The train was thrown from tt-ui tr.'icV hv a washout. The engineer and two brakemen were killed. Patrick McGloin, sentenced to five years' imprisonment at Denver, Col., for grand larcency, made a partial confession that he was one of four men selected to throw bombs at the Havmarket riot, Chicago. Nine men were arrested at Berwin, Indian Territory, on suspicion of having robbed the Santa Fe train. A boiler exploded on John Bridges'* farm near Auburn, Kan., instantly killing Bridges and fatally wounding William Carr and Charles Webb. John McGoff and John Carroll, a nine- . year-old lad, were drowned in the Ohio , River at Benwood, West Va. McGoff drove j his team into the river to wash the wagon, ! but. he got beyond his depth, and the team I with the wagon and occupants were swept ; away. At least eight persons were killed and i twenty injured by a cyclone in Beaufort j County, N. C. Four little girls, children of Hugh Dunn, ! of Elliotsville, W. Va., found a keg of i powder in an abandoned shaft. "* In some way j they exploded it and were blown to atoms. ' Their mother lost her reason when told of j the fate of her children. Eighteen men and boys, suspected of. complicity in the lynchingof Hans J. Oleson, | an old and partially insane man who was j somewhat quarrelsome and had been ordered j by neighbors to leave the vicinity of Pres ; ton, Wis., were arrested and let go on bail. Six of the lynchers left the State. Four : boys in jail have made a confession. Judge R. B. Trippe, of Atlanta, Ga.. ' committed suicide by blowing out his brains. { He was thirty-five years of age,and had been ; Judge of the City Court of Cartersville, and | was afterward Assisymt United States District-Attorney. Professor Gilbert Motier Levette. of i Indianapolis, Ind., killed himself by blowing j his head off with a shot gun. He was a fine chemist and at one time occupied the office : of State Geologist, Ex-District-Attorney J. C. McKenny, i "t Milwaukee. Wis., was found lying uucon- j t-cious ou Broadway in that city. He had ; been badly beaten, and his skull appeared to ! be fractured, A number of alibis were disproved in the Cronin murder trial at Chicago. A detective j swore he found Dr. Cronin's knives on ' - ... i il.. .1 f.-? 1 L'OUgtilii), on? ?.u nit- avvmv.i, ? ?.? ?io arrested him. State's Artorney Longenecker'' began his address to the jury. c. S. King, editor of the Daily Union, of j Ogden. Utah, was shot on the street by ex- j Deputy United States Marshal Exurn, on account of the publication of an article reflecting upon the character of Exum's wife. Tiik steamship Gaelic, which arrived at San Francisco from China and Japan, brought news that the American ship Cheseborough was wrecked by running on the rocks off Sluchi-Ri-Hamar, nineteen of the crew being drowned. By the fall of some heavy timbers at the Salisbury mine, at Ishpenung, Mich., two miners were killed. The jury in the trial at Baltimore of the Navassa Island rioters found George S. Key Kuilty of murder in the first degree, Moses Williams not guilty, and failed to agree in the cases of the other sixteen prisoners. Two witnesses in the Cronin murder trial at Chicago swore that they had seen the two knives taken from Dan Coughlin, one of the prisoners, and identified by T. T. Conklin as belonging to Dr. Cronin. in Coughlin's ]>ossession prior to May 4, the date of the murder. Joh.v Stapleton" and his wife, aged about sixty j'ears, and their grandson, aged ten, were found dead at their house at Elgin, 111. They had been suffocated by coal gas. The- IVncliinnrfnn TTntV'l nf St P.Hll. Minil.. lias been burned. Two men. one a Swede and the other an Italian, perished from suffocation. | A colored man and his wife, living near Franklin, Ky., went to visit a neighbor, | leaving their three small children in the house. In their absence the house caught fire ! and burned to the ground. All three of the j children perished in the flames. C'Ylirs FiM.Mop.e.a brother of ex-President Fillmore, diet! at Lagrange, hid., aged eigli tv-sevtii. j * Washington. The annual report of General Hepburn, j Solicitor of the Treasury, shows that during j the last fiscal year 4MHi suits were instituted. I of which twenty-nine were for the recovery j of from defaulting public officers. ]'. I). Armour, the big Chicago pork | packer, testified before the Senate Committee ! on the dressed-beef monopoly. I A committee of the International Marine ; Conference reported that the establishment of a permanent International Marine Commission was not feasible. Jukt before the opening of Congress the Democratic members of the House held a caucus and adopted resolutions in favor of tariff reform as outlined by Cleveland's last message. , ' - i*S2w* -jf. f Fraxk McArthur, son of an ex-Judge of ihe Supreme Court of the District of ] Coiumbia, jumped from an express train near Washington and was instantly killed. He Vics insane at the time. Thf. public debt statement shows that the reduction of the public debt during November amounted to $4,869,(572.52. The total ! cash in the Treasury is $017,224,505.22. The United States steamer Enterprise, in English waters and under orders to come home, has been ordered by the Navy Department to proceed to Antwerp to receive the remains of ex-Minister Pendleton, and to convey them to the United States for burial. Government receipts in November wer? $:}(), 71 G.%7, and expenditures aggregated $25,334,758. The Civil Service Commission in its an: nual report says that about 28,000 Governj meat employes now come under its jurisdici tion. Foreign. A max belonging to the Bombay Lancers I ran amuck in the camp of the regiment at j Bombay, India, and killed Commandant i Hevland and two other officers. The Canadian Minister of Patents has sustained the Edison patent for incandescent j lighting and quashed the petition of tht j Royal Electric Light Company of Canada. Messrs. Kfxdler. the famous bankers ol Vienna, have failed, with liabilities of 2,500, J 000 florins. About 7000 dockmen and lightermen went j on a strike at Bristol, England, causing tht I trade of the port to be paralyzed. | M. Corviliax, the proprietor of the Antwerp Cartridge Factory, which exploded last September, and engineer, M. Delaunay, have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment,th? former to four years and six months, aud the latter to one year and six months. An explosion took place in a colliery al Bochum. Germany, by which fourteen per sons were killed and four injured. A plot to assassinate Premier Tisza, ol Hungary, was discovered and frustrated. Martin* Farquiiar Tupper, the poet, | died at his home in London, aged seventyi nine years. The draft of an Irish Land bill has beer j submitted to a committee of the English Cabinet by Secretary Balfour and Lord i Ashbourne. i W. II. Harvey, who in March last mur I dered his wife and two daughters, was | hanged at Guelph, Ontario. The execution | was one of the worst pieces of bungling that i was ever witnessed, the man being tortured j to death. I France has recognized the Brazilian Re I public; the old flag has been readopted bj the new Government. j The steamer Alagoas arrived at St. Yin1 cent, Cape de Verd Islands, with the exiled Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro, on board. Twenty people were killed and one hunI 1 1 A,.A V- 4-U* <*?11 O +1-.AO+1.A rrillarr Cireu tYUUIIUCU UJ iuu iau UL a. iiitaut gnweij in Japan. Moussa Bey, the Turkish official accused of murder, arson and pillage in Armenia, has been acquitted. Spectators at a bull fight in the City of Mexico grew angry because the bulls ref used to fight and demolished the plaza. Chicago gentlemen resident in London had a big banquet to boom the Lake City for the World's Fair. A terrible disaster has occurred at Weinliein City, in the province of Shantung, China, where a platform which had been erected to accommodate spectators at a theatrical display suddenly collapsed killing two hundred persons. LATER NEWS, Twelve persons were hurt, some it was thought fatally, by a collision between an express and a freight train near Greensboro. Peirn. Three Italian women were shot in a tenement-house fight in New York city ami fino rli/wl The text of the bill to be presenter! iu Congress for locating the International Ex" position of 1892 in New York city was agreed upon. In a riot among colored men at Robeson County, N. C., three men were killed and several others injured. David J. Brewer, of Kansas nominated by the President to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was born at Smj-rna, Asia Minor, in 1837, his parents being missionaries at that place. He graduated from Yale College in 1850, and in 1859 settled down as a lawyer in Leavenworth, Kansas. After holding several judicial positions President Arthur appointed liim United States Circuit Judge. The Board of Survey on the United States steamship Brooklyn, now at Norfolk. Ya., has reported to the Navy Department that she cannot be repaired within the twenty per cent, limit and she will therefore be condemned and appraised for sale. The National Wool Growers' Convention which met in Washington called in a body and paid their respects to President Harrison. a special uisoateh from Zanzibar states' that Henry M. Stanley has arrived at Bagamoyo, on the east coast of Africa. He is accompanied by Einin Pacha and two hundred other persons. Skirmishes have taken place between the Turkish troops and the people of Crete, in which three gendarmes and five soldiers were killed, The Turkish Government has instructed its delegates to the Anti-Slavery Conference at Brussels to oppose any intervention in the J trade in Circassian women. Tne publisher of the Munster Kvpycsa. an 1 Irish paper, lias been sentenced to two months' imprisonment for reporting a meeting at which boycotting was advocated. ? ?!<? Tnitrnmitrnlc. an Italian I l 111*4 UUilVI VI , ; paper printed in Trieste, has been expelled from Austria by the Vienna Government, for publishing seditious anil insulting artij cles. DASTARDLY LYNCHERS. ! A Partially Insane Man Hanged by a Masked 31ob. Hans Jacob Olseu, aged ftfty years, was torn from his house at Preston, Wis., and lynched by.ap?rtyof masked men. Olsen was partially insane and somewhat quarrelsome, and had been ordered by neighbors to leave the country. He was seized in bed, pulled out aud his hands tied behind him despite his desperate struggles and the screams of the family. Without even allowing him time to put on his clothes the men led him out of the house. Once outside Olsen learned what was to be done with him. He caught sight of a new rope hanging over the limb of a large tree which stands not more than twenty feet frOm the little cabin which was I his home. He struggled to free his hands, j tearing the flesh from his wrists until they I bled freely; but flndiug himself unable to get ! loose submitted in sullen silence. The rope ! ..-.ic nut. nround his ncck and willing bands ilrow him up to strangle. His logs were not tied and his kicking and struggling were i fearful. The lynchers remained some time, j however, lest he might bo cut down before ho was dead. Then, after shouting threats ] of lynching any ono who should dare j cut down the body, they dispersed. The body was discovered in the morning, but was not cut down until the Coroner arrived. No evidence as to the identity of the lynchers was offered before the Coroner's jury. In Preston it is common gossip that the lynchers were led by one of the most prominent farmers in Freston. Olsen had served five years in State Prison for loading wood with powder with intent to blow up the stove of a family at Blair. Arriving home from Waupun, he was shortly afterward sentenced to the County Jail for six months for threatening the lives of bis family. He had just returned home from the County Jail when he was hanged. Jp >: _ **. , !;A STATE OF WASHINGTON. 1 Its Two First Members of the United " ?. States Senate. ? JOHN B. ALLEN. John B. Allen was born at CrawfordsviUe, Ind., May 18,1843. iie nveu UU VI X1C?U MM native town until 1864, when, although not yet nineteen years of age, he enlisted in the 138th Indiana Infantry, and served in Tennessee and Alabama until mustered out. In 1865, with his parents, he became a resident of Rochester, Minn., where for a year he served as agent for a firm of grain men. Next he read law in the office of Judge Wilson, of Rochester, and soon entered the law school at Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1869 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1870 became a resident of Olympia, the present Capital of the new State, where he opened a law office. He soon became popular and obtained a lucrative practice. In 1875 he was appointed United States Attorney for Washington Territory. In 1881 he made the city of Walla Walla his abiding place, where he has built up what is probably the most lucrative as well as the most successful practice of any attorney in Eastern Washington. In 18S7 he was chosen to represent Washington in Congress by a majority of 7371 over his Democratic opponent, Charles S. Voorhees, who for two terms had been the Territorial Delegate. "When Washington Territory became a State he YifCt *J?cted to the United States Senate. sfljpp I WATSON C. SQUIRE. I Watson C. Squire was born at Cape Vin! cont, N. Y., on May 18, 1838, graduated from } the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1859. He studied law at Herkimer, N. Y., but was afterward elected principal of the Moravia Institute. At the breaking out of j the war he enlisted as a private and went to j the front. He was promoted to First Lieuj tenant of Company P, Nineteenth New York j Infantry, in which regiment he served on the j Upper Potomac until 1862, when he was honorably discharged. In the fall ; of that year he raised a crack corps of i sharp-shooters in Cleveland, where he J then lived. He participated in all ! the battles of the Army of the Cumberland. During the latter portion of his term of service he was Judge Advocate of the District of Tennessee. At the close of the war he was appointed managing agent of the Remington rifle makers, and in that capacity | visited the capitals of Russia, Spain, Turkey, Mexico and other countries. Later he was made business manager for the Remingtons, and during 1871 and 1872 he negotiated with the French Government, selling that nation over $15,000,000 worth of arms. In 1879 he removed to "Washington Territory, and in * ??rinvorrinr of the Ter loot ne wna oupiu?vu .----- -ritory by President Arthur. With Mr. Allen he was elected by the Republican majority in the Legislature of Washingtou to represent | the new State in the United States Senate. I APPOINTMENTS TO OFFICE, Several Gentleman Made United States Consuls. President Harrison has appointed the following United States Consuls: Eeckfonl Mackcy, of South Carolina, to San Jose, Costa Rica; Hiram J. Dunlap, of Illinois, to : Breslau, Germany; Mr. Dunlap is editor of the Champaign (111.) Gazette. William E. I Gardner, of Wisconsin, to Rotterdam; Mr. I Gardner has been for several years con! nected with the Evening Wisconsin, of MilI waukee. Delos H. Smith, of Arizona, toNoj gales, Mexico. John B. Osborne, of PennI ?ylvania, to Ghent, and William Monag'uan, j of Ohio, to Hamilton. Ontario. PROMINENT PEOPLE. I Buffalo Ejll is said to be worth $4,000,i \r\f\ ' jyjsj, j Governor-elect Campbell, of Ohio, is ?n inveterate smoker. j Mr. Gladstone has written a letter favor ing local option prohibition. ' Inventor Keely, of the motor fame, bei gins to show the marks of age. ! Secretary Rusk is making a collection Df orchids and chrysanthemums. ! Mrs. Harrison says that the stare of the i rrowcl is one of the trials of her life. i Mrs. QUay, wife of the Pennsylvania Senator, was a great belle in her girlhood, i Elijah Halford, the President's private , secretary, has taking to horseback riding. Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist, will remain in the South Seas this winter, j Hon. Samuel J. Randall is reported to be much improved in health and strength. Explorer Stanley will be able to eat his New Year's dinner in London if he feels like it. Mr. and Mrs . Emmons Blaine have taken : lut iuc luuitri uue ui lue imesi nouses JQ x>aii timore. ! The new biography of Roscoe Conkling 1 will contain 600 pages. The author is Alfred R. Conkling. I Secretary Proctor occupies the largest 1 house in the Cabinet circle in Washington, i It contains thirty rooms. I Vice-President Morton has already ' achieved the distinction of being the best dressed man in Washington. Mr. Phelfs, who was recently our Minisj ter to England, has determined to take up his permanent residence in New Haven, Conn. | John* B. Alt.e.v. a United States Senator j frcm the new State of Washington, is a nai tive of Maine who went to California in the : forties. | A fund for the benefit of the family of the j lnte Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, 1 has recently been started in London by | Grant Allen. Isabella, of Alcantara, until the recent I revolution Princess Imperial of Bruzil, is | very devout, charitable, self-willed, eccentric ?..?? uujjvs|>iucii. Wir.liam Hkvry Cilbt, who died recently at Limn, Peru, was one of the bestknown railroad projectors and constructors in South America. ONE of ex-Emperor Dom Pedro's last official acts was to confer the order of the Rose of Brazil upon M. Naudin, nn experienced horticulturist. If General Boulanger wants to make money, all he has to do is to accept the re cent offer made to him for a course of lectures in the United States. Sir Benjamin Phillips, who died recently in London, was descended from the famous Rabbi of Padua, Meir Katzenellenbogen, or Maharam, one of the influential Jews of the sixteenth century. SS& >" - is&... uSdate ' . ' : -V . . " . ' ? . ? -< V V''*-< FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. i The Nation's lair-Makers Once More in Session. New House Officers Elected and New Senators Sworn In, The Fifty-first Congress of the United States has started on its career at the Nation's Capitol. The House of Representatives was called to order at noon by John B. Clark, the Clerk of the House in the Fiftieth Con j gress. Long before that hour the corridors of the Capitol were thronged with men, women and children. The doors of the House galleries were closed against them for a time because of a caucus of Democratic Representatives in progress, and the first tendency of the throng was to turn in the direction of the Senate Chamber, where the galleries and floor were both open. The greater interest centred in the House, and a crowd gradually assembled about ite doors that packed the hallways and made progress through them a matter of extreme difficulty When the doors were thrown open not only the galleries but the floor of the House quickly ! filled with strangers. , i Magnificent floral designs were carried | here and there on the floor of the House by ! pages, and the odor of roses filled the air. A j nandsome but unobtrusive basket graced the | Speaker's desk. Two desks were necessary I to prop up an immense floral horseshoe and a ! floral chair, each bearing the inscription: | "Our Little Giant," sent to McCarthy of New York city by his admirers. Houk, of Ten' nessee, was the recipient of a superb floral j Ship of State. The roll call of the House showed 372 mem! bers present. Nominations for Speaker i were then made. Mr. Henderson, of Illinois, j nominated Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, and i Mr. McCreery, of Kentucky, nominated j John G. Carlisle, of that State. I The vote resulted: For ReecT, 16ti: for c'arj lisle, 154; Cummings, of New York, 1, ; (Cowles, of North Carolina) and Mr. Reed, j having been declared elected Speaker, was j ?Vioii- Viv Afpssrs. McKinlev i cacoi ICU IV tug v.u?it I and Carlisle amid applause, and the oatli of | office was administered. On assuming the ! chair Speaker Reed said: "Gentlemen of the ! House of Representatives: I thank yon for | the high office which your voices liave bestowed upon me. It would be impossible not to be moved by its dignity and honor; yet you may well imagine I am at this moment more impressed by its responsibilities and duties. Under our system of government as it has been developed, these responsibilities and duties are both political ana parliamentary. So far as the duties are political,? I" sincerely]hope that?they may be performed with a proper sense of what is due to all the people of the whole country. So far as they are parliamentary I hope with equal sincerity that they may be performed with a proper sense of what is due to both sides of the Chamber." Mr. Reed then took the Speaker's chair, and all the Representatives were sworn in. Mr. Henderson, of Illinois, next offered a resolution declaring the election of the Republican caucus nominees. They were Mr. McPherson, . of Penn sylvania, for Clerk; Mr. Holmes, of Iowa, for Sergeant-at-Arms; Mr. Adams, of Maryland, for Doorkeeper; Mr. Wheat, of Wisconsin, for Postmaster, and the Rev. Charles Ramsdell for Chaplain. All these I were elected save the ChaplaiD. This office, I after a_ close contest, went to Rev. Will I iam H. Alllburn, tne uimu After the drawing of seats -was oyer and a ' motion had been adopted authorizing the i Speaker to appoint Committees on Rides, Ac counts and Mileage and Enrolled bills, and ! the rules of the last Congress had been re| ferred to the Committee on P.ules when apI pointed, the House adjourned. 2D Day.?Soon after the reading of the 1 journal, the President's message was read by : the Clerk. The message was ordered printed ; and referred to the Committee of the Whole ! Under authority given by the last Sun' dfjr Appropriation' bill, the Speaker ap pointed Messrs. Baviie, Hitt, Carter, Culberson, of Texas, and Cummings as a committee i on the centennial celebration. Opening of the Senate. There was little or no excitement attending the opening of the Fifty-first Confess on the Senate side of the Capitol. The public curiosity seemed to be largely transferred to the House side. Flowers adorned the seats of several Senators. At noon Vice-President Morton entered the chamber, and the Chaplain, the Rev. J. G. Butler, opened the proceedings with an invocation for the Divine blessing, closing with the Lord's Prayer. Sen>iors Chandler, of New Hampshire, and E'ijon, of Rhoda Island, were sworn in. Theu followed Senators Moody and Pettigrev/, of South Dakota, and Senators Squire ant? Allen, of Washington. The two Senators from North Dakota had not yet reached Washington. i-tter being in session about half an hour the Senate adjourned. 2d Day.?Immediately after the reading of the first day's journal, a message from the House was presented by its Clerk, Mr. McPherson. announcing the organization of that body. Then Mr. Edmunds on the part of the Joint Committee to wait on the President, reported that it had been informed by the President that he would communicate with the two houses by a message in writing immediately. Thereupon the message from the President was ; nnounced and read by the Secretary of the Senate. 3d Day.?Many bills and resolutions wero introduced, after which the Senate went int executive session. TTTfn*-R/rT>T\ trr "dt7" t>t a "r/ttc! HJQluiYXXii; xix ?i ? xiiAmuu) Seven Deaths Caused by Fire in Philadelphia. Fire broke out about 2:30 a. m. in the three-story brick building at tiia corner of Second and Huntingdon streets. Philadelphia. The basement aud first floor were used by Gustave Gross as a bakeshop and store respectively. The second floor was occupied as a dwelling by Gross, his wife and four children, and on the third floor dwelt Joseph Bitner with his wife and six children. The flames, which started in the basement, burned quickly through the upper floors, and the following persons were burned to death: Mrs. Minnie Gross, Mrs. Annie Bitner, Ida Bitner, George Bitner, Gustave Gross, Bruno Gross, Mattie Gross. As soon as the firemen learned that there were people in the house, they turned their attention to rescuing them, but the flames had already made such headway that their efforts were almost fruitless. Truckman Hugh Smith climbed up the awning-post and into the second story window. He made his way through the smoke to the bed on which little Gustave Gross lay, and picking him up, got him safely out of the building. The lad had, however, inhaled so much smoke that he died half an hour afterward. TI-kA wJfft r\f Pifnov onrl twn of thfeil* children, Ida, aged six years, and George, a babe of nine months, were in tne third-story front room and were suffocated by the smoke. When found by the firemen after the flames had been subdued, the mother and her children were huddled together on the floor. Mrs. Bitner was clad only in her night dress, but she had her shoes on, as though preparing to escape when overcome by the smoke. Mrs. Gross and her children were asleep on the second floor. She clasped her two-anda-half-year-old daughter Mattie in her arms, and, hurrying to the third floor, jumped from a window to the street below. She was immediately conveyed with her child to the Episcopal Kosi pita), a short distance away, where the child I died soon after being admitted. Mrs. (Jross was horribly burned,and in addition suffered a compound fracture of the arm. She died shortly after 5 o'clock in the afternoon. After the fire the firemen found the dead body of Bruno Gross, aged five years, in the bathroom on the second floor, burned almost to a crisp. Freda Gross, aged seven.and Clara Bitner, aged fourteen, jumped from a second story window, and were caught in the arms of Mr. Gross. These two escaped without injury. Fritz Erdman, an apprentice, aged fifteen, also jumped from the second story and escaped unhurt. Ix the pottoffice building in New York city there are 800,000 European postal cards. Ten years ago Postmaster-General James ordered 1,000,000 of these postal cards, supposing they would probably bo used in a year or so, for they could go anywhere in Europe and cost only two cents. In ten years only 200,000 of tbem have been sold. - INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. A Synopsis of Secretary Noble's Annual Report?The Pension Question. The annual report of John W. Noble, See*, retary of the Interior, begins by calling attention to the consummation of the following important events that have taken place j during this Administration, namely: The- . ^ opening of Oklahoma, the successful nego- " tiation of a treaty with the Sioux Indians of Dakota, and the advent into the Union of the four new States, North Dakota, SouthDakota, Washington and Montana, noneh aving entered previously for thirteen years. The Secretary calls attention to the wantof Territorial Government in Oklahoma and urges speedy action by Congress. The eleventh census, while comprising alL the investigations undertaken in the tenth, will include two additional and important features: an inquiry'in relation to the recorded indebtedness of private corporations and individuals, and a list of the names, organizations and. length of service of surviving soldiers, sailors and marines, and their widows. It is recommended that the Census Office be made a permanent bureau. On the subject of pensions the report saffs: "The estimates for npnsions made for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1889, were not only inadequate but must have been known to be so when recommended to Congress. The estimate for the previous year was 180,000,000. But before this estimate for {; the present year was completed it was apparent that a deficiency would be incurred, as it was incurred, for the previous year, to the amount of at least $8,000,000, and tnat this added to the original eighty millions, would not be enough to meet the obligations accruing before the end of even that fiscal year. "It is recommended that a pension be granted to every soldier and sailor who did substantial service during the war in the a Army or Navy and was honorably discharged therefrom, and who, being dependent on his daily labor for his support is now, or may hereafter be^ disabled from procuring his subsistence by such labor. A due regard to its own dignity and character should prevent the > ; Government from allowing any of the men who fought to maintain the Union to suffer . v from want, when they have become , r m so incapacitated. It is well known to all our people that many who were never disabled in the fight or the service were yet those who met the greatest dangers of the war and who served continuously and faithfully. That Providence saved them from wounds or disease, and that their strong constitutions withstood the hardships of the field, give no reason why they should be left disregarded and unsupported now. The pension is paid by the Government in reward for ' - past services to those who fought to maintain its existence. It has the sanction of the law of self-preservation, which no Government in the treatment of its veterans can safely ignore. The preservation of the nation, for which these men fought and en ciurea so mucn vo secure, uu givou w ?> uu people a wonderful degree of prosperity and an unlimited ability to pay any obligations honor imposes. I am not disposed to confer upon all who may ask the money of the people, and would have confined to well-ascertained limits the claims of those who demand a pension. Nevertheless, a disregard -{> of those of the service named whose disability has become since the war so great as to make them dependent would be both unjust to them and unworthy of our country." The Secretary reviews the system of rerating and the payment of large sums of money i< as oack pensions under the rerating, and the work of the Committee appointed to investigate it He makes an extended legal argument on the question,with the following conclusion: "Increased pensions cannot be ordered at the mere will of the Commissioner; it requires a claim, an examination and a certificate; such increase is not a matter of sentiment it is a questionlaw." THE LABOE WOELD. > & There are over 20,000 coal miners in* Wales. / Three more cotton mills are to be started ""t in Georgia. The tile layers of Pittsburg want to form a national union. The ironmolders of Boston propose to start a sick benefit fund These are 240,000 men and women employed in Ohio's factories. The English Board of Trade reports 508 strikes during 1888, with 88,000 strikers. A good number of the Key West, Florida,'. cigarmakers who struck have gone to Cuba. The Commoner and Olassworker, of Pittsburg, says that organized workmen are with the Brotherhood of Baseball Players. The American Federation of Labor has appointed T. M. Gruellet of Indianapolis, a bitter enemy of the administration party of the K. of L., a general organizer. The green-glassworkers of San Fran ci see have requested Congressman Morrow to have the duty on beer bottles increased. They say , ( it is necessary to save their trade. Samuel Gompers, William J. Cannon, I John S. Kirchner and J. F. Mahoney represented the International Cigarmakers' Union j at the Convention of the American Federa; tion of Labor. It is proposed by the Knights of Labor, ! Farmers' Alliance and American Federation to unite in a memorial to Congress request. : 4.\- ~ ^ Kill immiflXa lug i/iie v/t u. uiu iw?.v....0 o tion, in the interest of the eight-hour law. ; Joh.v Burns, the leader of the London dock strike, has been prevailed upon to visit this country in the interest of organized labor. He is expected to arrive early in j February and will deliver a series of lectures j under the auspices of the American Federation of Labor. A charter of incorporation was recently 1 refused to the employing horseshoers of j Pittsburg on the ground that their purpose | was to regulate the prices and methods of | work. Judge Ewing, who so decided rei cently, refused to order a union to declare tiie ' strike at O'Hara's Glass Works to be at an j end. i The Seamen's and Firemen's Union is i making giant strides iu organization. It is ! said this is done to secure the effective co I operation of the American sailors and firemen ^ ! in case the Britishers are compelled to go 011 j strike for the eight-hour day next May. A H I recent attempt to organize the German sailor^ | failed absolutely. - THE POSTAL SERVICE. j Postmaster-General Wanamaker*ihj^| Annual Report Summarized. I^H Postmaster-General Wanamaker, in his ^ ! first annual report, recommeuds that the I offices of a Fourth Assistant Postmaster! General and of a General Secretary?the ! latter at a salary of $10,000?be made, so as i to enable the head of the department to render better service. Referring to his correspondence with the Western Union Telegraph Company, Mr. Wanamaker savs: "I respectfully ask that such legisiauuu ( be enacted as is necessary to empower the Postmaster-General to enter into contract with responsible parties for a term not exceeding five years, on conditions favorable to the Government, for the purpose of establishing a Limited Post and Telegraph Service." On the subject of Sunday mails Mr. Wanamaker says: j "I shall make use of all proper means tending toward the minimizing of postoffice work upon Sunday, because I believe that the Government should, as far as possible, make no requirements which will prohibit its employes from the enjoyment of a day of rest." In touching upon the subject of penny ; postage the report says: ' "Oue-eent postage is an easy possibility of the near future. It must com? as a matter of course. If introduced to-morrow the cutting in half of postage would reduce the revenue on letter postage by probably $13,0?'i>,000. "We are not ready for this while ti:o present deficiency exists. When the blessing of penny postage comes it should not require a tax in some other form to make up its cost. ^ Moreover, it would seem to br? wiser first to & improve the facilities rather than to reduce fl the postage while the service still remains S conspicuously imperfect." As to postal savings banks, the Postmas~^^H ter-General suggests that they be established at 10,000 of the tourta-ciass unices iui ^inconvenience of the people wauting a placs to deposit their money, but expresses uo opinion on the suggestion that the Government pay interest to depositors. The report refei-3 to the pressing need for the erection of a departmental building at Washington and urges. that this be done. j ?M A