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I } ' A PANIC'S ATOL RESULT. Another Disaster in Ill-Fated Johnstown. i Many People Trampled to Death , in a Theatre. : Johnstown, Penn., thecityof disasters, has j had another horror. It came in the night, ; and though its dead and injured victims do cot number more than one hundred, all told, | ft came upon them with even less of warning ! or preparation than the awful deluge of ] .Jday 31. Twelve persons at least were j killed and thirty-five seriously injured as a j result of a fire rianie at the Johnstown Ouera I House, which was opened to the public only j a week or two ago. Stetson's "Uncle Tom's j Cabin" was the play, and there was a large j audience present, considering the very j limited means which Johnstown people ! now find at then* command for any ' bind of amusement purposes. Dur- i ing the performance the cry of "Fire!" | was raised. To a people among whom any | sudden warning might mean so very such, to j those who had passed- through the flood I and had not forgotten its horrors, this cry was J contagious. It spread like wild f:ro, and was j pn every lip in an iustant. Terrified and pianic stricken the hundreds of people in the audience rushed, over seats and struggling bodies, toward the one means of exit. There was only a single, narrow stairway, and over one another, headlong, the frightened people tumbled, regardless of the consequences. By 1:45 o'clock a. m. nine dead bodies had been recovered from the wreck of the stairs and auditorium, and dozens upon dozens of the injured had been assisted to doctors' of- i fices and drug stores for relief and restoration. By 2 a. M. ten dead bodies had been counted, and it seemed as if the number might yet be swelled, possibly doubled. The number of injured at that hour had reached thirty-five, and there had been only the most superficial and hasty of searches for either the rescued or the dead. It was found uecessary to turn a stream of water on the crowd from a fire engine to force it away from the doonvay below, &o arm TrnnnHwl nrmlrl Hn Iron rvnt When the jam was cleared the following persons were found dead upon the stairs: Miss Clara Burns, Mrs. Nerter, George Horner, Charles Fiaut, Mrs. Lister, John Miller, A. Weiss, John Wyman, Richard Worthington, Isaac Tolar, John Carr and an i unknown woman. Among the seriously injured were Charles Vaughn, Albert Owens, and a man named Welmer. There were about thirty others ' injured. The alarm was false, and there were many threats against the unknown man who started it. CONGRESS BOBBED, j The Cashier of the House's Sergeant- j at-Arms a Defaulter. Edward Silcott, cashier of the Sergeant- j at-Arms of the House of Representatives has ; fled, carrying off about $?2,G00 of the funds j entrusted to his care. Silcott was a trusted employe, who cams j to Washington from Ohio, and was appointed j by Sergeant-at-Arms Leedom when thai j gentleman assumed office, six years ago. H? had good business qualifications and soon ! possessed himself of the unlimited confidence I of his superior. One day recently he notified Mr. Leedom that he was going to New York | and would be back the following night. As | he did not appcr.r on the day after Congress I opened Mr. Leedom becaa an investigation, j The information that Silcott hail drawn his j bank balance deepened these suspicions. The enormous safe in the Sergeant-at- j Arms' office could not be opened at the mo- j ment, as Silcott bad tne combination; out i when an entrance was finally eft'cc-ted. it was I found that some *30,000 set apart for the use I of the paying teller was intact. The nest in- I quiry was made at the Treasury Depart- j ment, and Mr. Leedom was informed that j .Silcott hp/' callcd there and had drawn about 172,000. it was possible for him to draw this j large sum without exciting comment, as he ! had for a long time been charge with the j - duty of collecting tho money with Vhich the [ salaries of the Congressmen are paid. I The announcement of Silcott's defalcation ! was made in the House, and Speaker Retd; at Mr. Leedom's request, appointed a committee to investigate the accounts of the Ser.. .geant-at-Arms, C!!coa is under bonds in the sum of $50,000, his sureties numbering about fifteen persons. This is, however, an indemnity bond given to the Sergeant-atrArm?, and Mr. Leedom, who is himself bonded in tne Sum of $50,000, is di- 1 xectly responsible for the shortage. Some Congressmen may lose from one to ! ? gix months' salary, and others the deposits? ! tDetr private funds?which they had made i with the cashier. Silcott is supposed to have fled to Canada j with a woman with whom he had become Wo "lnffc a family? in Wachinrr. I toru J ? I / THE LABOB W0E1D. 1 ! i An eight-hour agitation has been started | b Berlin. ' A sailors' and firemen's union will be formed in Baltimore. ' Union' cigarmakers who work over eight I hours a day are fined. LAs immense electric light establishment j to be built at Pittsburg. The carpenters of Saginaw, Mich., have ; adopted the eight-hour rule. j Nearly four thousand women are em- , ployeu arouna .angnsn coai miiies. i The woodcarvers of Baltimore have formed ' a union. The membership is forty. I A State Convention of the Massachusetts j fcnights of Labor was held in Boston. [The National Farmers' and Laborers' j Pnion has been organized in St. Louis. ! The English Board of Trade reports 509 i Strikes during iSSS, with S8,000 strikers. ; A general agitation against tenement | bouse factories is being carried on in Boston. [ A journal will soon be issued by the | Sailors' and Fu-emen's Union of New York I City. j Seven thousand men are enrolled in the j thirty-six branches of the Boilermakers' | jUnion. [ A National Convention of tin and sheet , Iron workers will be held at Omaha on j January 14. ! The Denver Tailors' Union refused to re- j commend Chicago as the place for the 1 World's Fair. j The Knights of Labor value their Philadelphia property at $100,000. It cost them ! about ?60,000. I It is reported that a new watch factory, to ' post ?50,000 and to employ 100 men, wiO be j ?Ann cfor+iw? of. T.ir>r>oln ?1|_ j English workingmen are now trying to | prevent the immigration into England of j iworkingmen from the Continent. I The trade of cabinetmaking is very dull in j Ban Francisco. A woman is working as a | Varnishcr in one of the cabinet factories j there. I The Debardelben Coal and Iron Company j has increased the pay of miners at the Blu9 Creek Mines, Alabama, from 40 to cents j per ton. A number of workingmen's wives in ' Ironville, England, have smarted a eo- I operative laundry which is said to be very i successful. Although there are about seventy-five j thousand union men in Massachusetts, Mr. < Marks, the Labor candidate for Governor, i polled only 111 votes. An Assembly of the Knights of Labor has I been formed by the ropemakers of Belfast, I TroianH Thpv rwpnt.lv held their first regu lar meeting, which was largely attended. Having learned that some oue was inducing American cigarinakers to go to Melbourne, Australia, thecigarmakers' Organization of that city has sent word that there are do vacancies there for anybody. Car works which will employ 1000 men will soon be in operation at Laredo, Texas. They are the property of the Mexican National Railroad, and the total cost of their construction will be over $600,000. A street railroad corporation in London compels drivers to wear tall hats when on duty. A driver who recently wore a derby for a day, while his high tile was being flocked, wag suspended for a week. ___ __ ] '*- l-v V f ' >," THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Henry Carlton was hanged in New York | for the murder of Policeman Brennan. The workingmen of New York city held a meeting at Cooper Union to indorse the World's Fair project. The demonstration was arranged by the Central and Independent labor bodies of the city. A terrific mill explosion occurred at Marion, Del. Three men were killed and seven injured. The Monongahela House, the largest hotel in Pittsburg, and one of the best known hotels in the country, has been damaged by fire to the extent of about $100,000. The New York Chamber of Commerce at its monthly meeting pronounced the Chinese Exclusion act ill-considered legislation, and passed a resolution asking the President to resume the interrupted negotiations with China. Johx Greenwall, convicted of the murder of Lyman S. Weeks, whose house he had entered "for the purpose of robbery, has been hung at Brooklyn, N. Y. Two children, who were locked up in a room in New York city by their mother while she went marketing, set fire to the furniture and were smothered. Charles Frohock, aged 12 years, of Lincolnville, Me., was shot dead by the accidental discharge of a gun by a companion of his own age. John Ross was on a ladder painting a school building at Paterson, N. J., when Maria Norman, aged twelve years, thoughtlessly caught hold of a guide rope and began tugging at it. The ladder and Ross feD on the child and killed her. The United States squadron of evolution, comprising the four new vessels, left Boston for Lisbon. A big blaze at Union Square and University Place, New York city, destroyed property valued at about $200,090. Four firemen were injured. Weitxey & Co.. New York dealers in woolen and silk goods, have failed for $500,000. Petep. Clausen, a lineman of New York city, while on a pole repairing a wire was L-iliorl Wic Hnrfu Vlllnfr- for th irtV millUt S b? fore it couid be taken down. Clacs Spreckels' big sugar refinery, with which he intends fighting the Sugar Trust, has begun operations in Philadelphia. It cost about S3,000,000 and has a capacity of 2,000,000 pounds of sugar a day. It was decided that no delegation from New York city be sent to "Washington until Congress should have taken up the Exposition bill. Mayor Grant issued another appeal for subscriptions. The American Federation of Labor met in convention at Boston. Oliver Johnson, the prominent antislavery agitator and newspaper writer, died at his home in Brooklyn. Thomas N. Hart, Republican, has been re-elected Mayor of Boston by about 5000 majority. All the schools of Marlboro, Mas?., were closed owing to the prevalence of diphtheria. Sonth and West. In a fight with four drunken Indians at Melrose, Kan., City Marshal Snyder was instantly killed and one Indian fatally wounded. Miner's Hotel at East Tawas, Mich., has been partially destroyed by fire. Two charred bodies were found in the ruins. Five men were seriously injured. The Senate of South Carolina unanimously nrionfrprl n resolution exnressintr the sense of the General Assembly that the city of New York is the most suitable place in which tc hold the World's Fair in 1892. Iowa's official count shows that Boies (Democrat! had for Governor 180,111 votes to 173,538 for Hutchinson (Republican). All the other Republcaa candidates on the State ticket were elected. The Prohibition vote was about 1000, and the Union Labor vote about 5500. Three Apache Indians, who were to have been hanged at Florence, Arizona, tied strips of cloth tightly about their necks and stran gled themselves. W. H. Fcrsmax, a missing loan broker of 1 Pontiac, 111., is charged with forgeries ' amounting to $200,000, and covering a period 1 of ten years. i By the upsetting of a buggy in Portland, Oregon, one lady was killed and another fa- 1 tally injured. 1 The Pacific Mail steamship China reached ) San Francisco from Yokohama, Japan, hav- { ' lng beaten the record by seventeen hours, J ten minutes. fiv? L A pr 1 , 1 iiii extensive noiir umis ui iuiiustty u. j Robson, of Humboldt, Kan., have been de- j stroyed by fire. Loss $100,000; insured $45,- \ 000. t Caspar F. CLiSBV.of St. Louis,committed f suicide after shooting four other persons, two 1 of whom were fatally wounded. 1 The Pan-Amercian Congress adopted the j report of the Committee on Committees, and 1 elected two Vice-Presidents. President Harrison and Vice-President ! Morton were present at the opening of the ; Chicago Auditorium, the largest opera house ] in America. The President made a speech ( of congratulation. The great edifice cost j $3,000,000. The Capital Loan and Investment Company, which was organized about sir months i ago at Lincoln, Neb., with a capital stock of $10,000,000, has gone into voluntary liquidation. A eoiler in Dean & King's sawmill, near Birmingham, Ala., exploded, killing three men. Colonel Justus H. Rathbone, founder ; nf f.h? Order of th? Knichts of Pvthias. died ' at Lima, Ohio. He was born at Decrflekl, N. Y? in 183P. A train ran off the track at Watertown, South Dakota, causing the death of the engineer, fireman and brakemau. Willie Johnson*, aged twelve, of New Haven, Ky., shot and killed Tommy Ford, aged fourteen. The two had quarreled and Ford was attacking Johnson. "White Caps, at Holvoke, Col., horsewhipped J. S. Bennett and W. D. Kelsey, ' two prominent attorneys of that plac-e. The 1 horsewhipping is the result of a county seat war. W. C. Chesterman, a conductor, was nin over and instantly killed at the depot in Norfolk, Va. His foot got caught in a frog and he fell backward. The train passed over his body, cutting it in two lengthwise. "Washington. The aggregate total collections of Internal Revenue for the first four months of the current fiscal year amounts to $4(5,783,850, as against $42,?43,0S5 for the corresponding months of last. year. Congressman Tost Reed, of Maine, the new Speaker of the House, has appointed Amos L. Allen, of Alfred, Me., as his Private Secretary. William H. Smith, colored, for several !rears Arsistant Librarian in Washington, ias been promoted to be Librarian of the the House. mrs. Scott Lop.d. sister of the President's Wlfw n "Ipr Kfivoral mnnt.Yic' illnpcc hoc rliori Sip. Julian Pauncefote, the British Minister, and his wife gave a reception to the delegates to the Marine Conference. Tee following nominations have been confirmed by the Senate: Robert P. Porter, of New York, to be Superintendent of the Census; Lewis A. GrofF, of Nebraska, to be Commissioner of the General Land Office; William M. Stone, of Iowa, to be Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office; James M. Townsend, of Indiana, to be Recorder of the General Land Office. Foreign. John M addles and his wife and child were j burned to death as Kingston, Ontario. Their home took fire, and while they were trying to extinguish the flames their means of escape were cut off. The Rothschilds have consented to continue their financial support of the Brazilian I Government, provided the union is maintained and order is preserved. Tur.ee persons were instantly killed and many others injured by the fall of a railroad train down an embankment in Brandenburg, Prussia. Mrs. Mackay, wife of the California bonanza king, has won her libel suit against the leading paper of Manchester, England, which had charged that prior to her marriage to Mr. Mackay she was a washerwoman In Nevada. The paper has apologized. . ' StS ... .' v.,..:... : & y ? Five persons perished in the snow during the storm which prevailed at Waag, Hungary. A famine is threatened in eiffht southern districts of India, owing to a total failure of the crops. A large number of officials of strategic railways in Russia have been dismissed and their places filled with armj&officers. A large sugar mill at Swefenlowes, Bohemia, collapsed from the weight of the sugar, of which there were 1500 tons stored therein. Eight persons were killed and many injured. The Austrian Minister of Commerce has written a letter strongly favoring an adequate show of Austrian products at the proposed World's Fair in America. At a meeting of American missionaries in Constantinople it was resolved that those present should insist on the American Minis -- ? ^ ^? tr ler mains inem to prosecute luoubsu. jjuj, whose trial there on charges of incendiarism. pillage, murder and robbery, committed in Armenia, had ended in acquittal. Shortly after Stanley's arrival on the east coast of Africa Emin Pasha fell from a balcony, sustaining a fracture of the skull and severe internal injuries. Mr. Stanley was compelled to leave him at Bagamoyo, and proceeded with the most of his followers to Zanzibar. Emperor William, of Germany, ordered that daily reports concerning Emin's condition be telegraphed to Berlin. A palace conspiracy has been discovered at Tangier, Morocco, and the Sultan's brother has been put in prison. It is reported that General Boulanger has been engaged to lecture in the United States, and that he will deliver the first lecture in the New York Academy of Music. Methodist Episcopal missions in China have been wrecked by natives. The United States steamer Pensacola, with the Eclipse Expedition on board, have arrived at St. Paul de Loanda, Africa. Nine persons lost their lives in a blizzard at Presburg, Hungary. Earthquake shocks have been felt in the central portion of Italy, but they caused no loss or damage to property. Mount Vesuvius is in a state of eruption. The new Government of Brazil has issued a decree proclaiming a Provisional Federal Republic. i)om Pedro, ex Emperor of Brazil, and his family, have arrived at Lisbon, Portugal. A Russian* newspaper states that an Englishman was arrested at SebastopoJ, in the Crimea, while engaged in making sketches of the batteries and forts of that wlorta /VmnwAmicinw /Innumontc troro fnnnrl |<IOVC. ULUiOiU^ UVVUW.UVWI OV4W *v?uav? in his possession. A revival of cholera at Bagdad, Asiatic Turkey, has caused a panic and the utmost distress, and trade is paralyzed. A dispatch from Adelaide. Australia, reports that Henry Searle, the champion single sculler, is dead. Confirmation* of the massacre of Dr. Peters. the German explorer, and bis party in Africa has been received. The camp was surrounded by 1300 Somalis and attacked at midnight. None escaped. Nearly three thousand freedmen attacked the office of a Republican paper at Maranhao, Brazil. Twenty-five soluiers fired on them, and a brief fight followed. Two soldiers and six negroes were killed and fifteen negroes wounded. Mr. Macdoxald, the manager of the London Times, is dead. The Germans, under Lieutenant Schmidt, had an engagement with the Bushiris, on the east coast of Africa. Twenty-eight Bushiris were killed and the others escaped. Colonel Clibborn Booth, the chief of staff to the commander of the Salvation Army, has been arrested in Geneva for infringing the decree by which he was expelled from Swiss territory. The Swiss Federal Assembly has elected M. Louis Ruchonnet President, and Dr. E. Welti Vice-President of the Republic of (Switzerland for 1890. OUR FIRST PRESIDENT. rho Centennial of His Inauguration Celebrated at Washington. The ceremonies in commemoration of tho nauguration of George Washington, the irst President of the United States, have jeen held in the House of Representatives at Washington. In the area in front of the Speaker's desk ivere placed massive chairs and sofas for the iccommodation of the President end his Cabinet and the Jnstice6 of the United States Supreme Court. The two front rows I in the Republican side were occupied by :he Diplomatic Corps, while the correspondng seats on the Democratic side Tvere assigned ;o the District Judiciary and the mem>ers of the Court of Claim?. The members of the International American Conference and the Marine Conference were assigned seats to the rear of those occupied by :he Diplomatic Corps. Nearly the wnole of he right wing of the chamber was reserved 'or Senators and Representatives; and in :he triangular spaces behind the semi-circle ){ desks ww placed chairs and sofas for the iccommodat/on of distinguished invited I quests. While the galleries (to which admission was to be had by ticket only) were comfortably full, there was an absence of the [ :rush around the doors which has characterized similar occasions in the past. In the private gallery were seated Mrs. I Fuller, wife of the Chief Justice, and her { laughters; Mrs. Morton, wife of the VicePresident, and the families of the delegates bo the Pan-American Conference. Mrs. Elaine, Miss Blaine, Miss Leiter, Mrs. and Mis^Halford and Mrs. Wanamaker occupied eats in the Diplomatic gallery, and Mrs. Reed and Mrs. Carlisle were accommodated in the seats set apart for the friends of the Speaker. The President and Cabinet occupiod seats of honor in the body of the House. The hum of conversation was hushed in the House when, at precisely 1 o'clock, tho President of the United States and his Cabinet were annonnced and filed down the main aisle. At 1:10 all were seated and the VicePresident called the vast assembly to order. After prayer by the Rev. ?T. G. Butler, Chaplain of "the Senate, Chief-Justice Fuller was escorted to tne uieric s aesit oy ornwr Hiseock aad Representative Bayne, the Chairmen of the committees in charge of the arrangements. The Chief-Justice then read an oration in which he paid a strong tribute to the character of the illustrious Washington. At the conclusion of Chief-Justice Fuller's speech the Rev. W. H. Milburn, the "Blind Chaplain," pronounced the benediction, and the ceremonies were closed by the Marine Band playing "Washington's Grand March.1* CONGRESSIONAL AID. National Commemoration of tlie Discovers' of America. Senator Ingalls has introduced a bill to aid and secure the commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. The bill provides that the President shall appoint, by and with the consent of the Senate, a Commission, consisting of two members from each State, of different political affiliations, two from the District of Columbia, and one from each of the Territories. The President is authorized to exteud an invitation to all the American uations and States, inviting them to unite in celebrating the anniversary. Should Italy, Spain, or other European powers desire to join in the celebration they shall be invited. The bill provides that the Commission shall meet in Washington after thirty days' notice and organize. It shall then secure a site, by purchase or otherwise, for the convocation of nations, of an area not less than 300 acres of ground. The President shall ajiportion the land for the buildings of the'various countries, each one to select itsown style of architecture. The appropriations are as follows: For the purchase of ground, $5,000,000; for grading and dealing, >1,500,000: for buildings of the United States, ?500.000; for incidental expenses, 51,000,000; total. $?,000,000. EXPL03IG1J OF SAWDUST. Fatal Injuries to Chicago Workmen in a Furniture Factory. A quantity of sawdust in Horn Brothers' furniture factory. Chicago, exploded, fatally injuring Martin Czarwinski and John Horn. The explosion occurred in the shaving room, which is next to the boiler room and is constantly filled with a thick dust. A loud report was heard and the next moment the dust and shavings burst in flames. The men named were terribly burned. The flames were speedly extinguished. . -v"'; JC?. -. vV-s' . _ - i,' ' Ztk'll h fc r'v& /?; . ^ g| FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, In the Senate. 4th Da v.?Bills were introduced to limit the* jurisdiction of the Circuit and Districts Courts of the United States, and for the retirement of the United States legal-tender and national bank notes of small denominations, and the issue of coin certificates, in lieu of gold and silver certificates Mr. Voorhees offered a resolution in reference to tariff revision. which he asxed to have laid upon the table for the present. 5th Day.?Mr. Edmunds offered a petition for the incorporation of an annex to Howard University for colored people, and Mr. Manderson presented a memorial from the State Board of Agriculture of Nebraska in favor of Chicago's claim for the World's Fail-.... ! Bills were introduced for the admission of j the States of Wyoming and Idaho into the | Union, and for providing pensions for indi! gent parents of deceased soldiers... .Mr. Sherman offered a resolution requesting the President to invite, as fit occasions arise, negotiations with any Government with which the United States has or may have diplomatic relations, to the end that any dif. f-- ? J: A? l?i n*? ; lereuces or uispuw? uclwcch ujc mu uu>ernments that cannot be adjusted by diplo| matic agencies may be referred to arbitration and peacefully adjusted by such means. 6th Day.?Mr. Morrill, from the Finance Committee, reported back adversely the bill j to provide for the organization of the naI tional banks with less thaji S50,000 capital j ... .Bills introduced and referred were ones [ by Mr. Chandler to amend the laws relative to the elective franchise, and one by Mr. Gray for the relief of junior naval officers Mr. Turpie, who had offered a resolution regarding trusts, addressed the Senate in oppostion to them....Mr. Evart's bill for celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by an International Exposition in New York city was read the first and second time The programme for the ceremonies in the House in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the first inauguration of George Washington was presented and adopted.. The Senate in executive session confirmed a number of nominations. 7th Day.?Mr. Hale, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported back the bills heretofore introduced by him to promote the efficiency of the enlisted force of the navy; to amend sections 1529, 1530 and 1531 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the navy; and for the relief of sufferers by the wreck of the United States steamers Trenton and Vandalia, and the stranding of the Nipsic, at Apia, in the Samoan Islands, and they were placed on the Calendar Mr. Hoar introduced a bill for a statue and monument to James Madison, and Mr. Call a bill authorizing the President to open negotiatious with Spam for the acquisition of the Island of Cuba... .The Senate proceeded to the House to participate in the ceremonies commemorative of the first inauguration of George Washington as President. In the House. 3d Day.?The Speaker appointed committees on rules, on accounts, and on enrolled bills.... A communication was received from J. P. Leedom, late Sergeant-at-Arms. stating that C. E. Silcott, late cashier, had departed without settling his accounts, and requesting an investigation. A committee of seven Representatives was thereupon appointed to infVio v csvigaw vuv juwwv^.4 . 4th Day.?Charles H. Turner, memberelect from New York city was sworn in.... A resolution was adopted authorizing the Speaker to appoint tlie various standing and select committees, and specifying the jurisdiction of each Mr. Payne introduced a bill defining the duties of the Sergeant-atArms....Mr. Springer offered a resolution for the appointment of a committee to which shall be referred all propositions relating to arid lands. ...Mr Hall offered a resolution for the appointment of a World's Fair Committee. 5th Day.?On motion of Mr. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, a resolution was adopted directing the Clerk to inform the Senate that the House was in session and ready to proceed with the centennial ceremonies. At the re- j quest of the Speaker, the members then retired to the seats assigned to them, and upon the arrival of the Senators, together with the President, Vice-President. Cabinet members, Supreme Court Justices, etc., the ceremonies in commemoration of the inauguration of George Washington, the first President of the United States, were carried out, Vice-President Morton occupying the Speaker's chair. BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT. j Deotloro De Fonseca, Provisional Head of the New^Republic. PRESIDENT DEODOHO DE FONSECA. j The New York Sun gives the first picture 1 printed in this country of the Provisional ; President of the new republic. Deodoro de Fonseca, the organizer and head cf the ] revolution, and now Provisional Presi- ' dent of the United States of Brazil is a man sixty-three years of age, who has been a ^ soldier all his life, and who is said to be de- j < votedly attached to the profession of arms. J tie servea wita aisuncuun in mo .raraguay campaign, and was wounded at the battle of ' Itororo. STANLEY'S RETURN. I ; i The hong Journey For Emin Pasha's y Relief Ended?Sad Accident. j Henry M. Stanley has amved on the east , coast of Africa, opposite Zanzibar, having j i with him Emin Pasha and about two hun- 1 dred people whom ho has been for many months conducting from the interior of the j continent. Tho dispatch which announces j their arrival stated that another detachment i of the rescued community was safely nearicg ( the point of rendevous. > Thus ends successfully one of the most re- i markable expeditions of modern times. < While General Gordon was Governor of the ( Soudan a German named Edward Schnitzler, j now known to the world as Emin Pasha, be- " came Governor of a province of Egypt in the ( equatorial interior of the continent. To res- ) cue him from bis isolated position the expedition was organized, which was put in charge f of Stanley, in February, 1SS7. From that ( time to this tho public has watched for news > from the adventurer and his command with ] increasing interest. Frequently stories of his j death have been published, but they proved j u> Demise. I Mr. Stanley brings with him not only the t people whom lie set out to relieve, but an additional store of experience of life in interior Africa, which we may erpeet him to reduce to print for the benefit of geographical and etiological science. A dispatch from Zanzibar announced that ! ; Emin racha had met with a probably fatal . accident. Being near-sighted, he walked I out of a window by mistake, and fell on his , | head, fracturing his skull. , RIOTOUS WOMEN CONVICTS. J A Kansas Penitentiary Official Fatal- ) ly "Wounded. A revolt among the female convicts in the penitentiary has occurred at Leavenworth, < Kan. On Sunday, when the women were es- ' corted from the chapel, Mattie Brown, a vio- , lent prisoner, assaulted one of the guards. ( For this she was confined in the dark cell, j Next morning all the other women prisoners , made a demand on the matron. Mrs. Hanks, | that Brown be released from the cell. This , was refused and they drove the matron out | and attacked the cell with hatchets. Captain Hanks, husband of the matron, was summoned, and when he appeared the infuriated women turned on him with hatchets and in- * dieted mortal wounds. His skull was crushed N and he was left for dead on the floor. All the ? guards were then summoned and the riot was b , quelled. * V _ . . ;jv ' ; r v-t v -r,r . n ' ..; 00 JEFFERSON DAM , ' \ Death of the Ex-President of the Confederate States. 5e Passes Away at New Orleana After a Brief Illness. JEFFERSON DAVIS. Jefferson Davis died in New Orleans a few nights ago after a brief illness. He had been ill for several days, old age being apparently the main cause of his sickness. The physicians were hopeful almost to the last that his life might be prolonged. It was found, however, that he was unable to take nourishment, so that all efforts in his behalf were unavailing. At nine o'clock the physicau?, Drs. Chailleand Bickham. held a consultation. Previous to this Dr. Bickham had called and found Mr. Davis so much worse that he sent for Dr. Chaille. At 12:45 a. m. the aged leader of the "Lost Cause" passed into the eternal keeping of that history where the "Lost Cause" itself passed a quarter of a century ago. Sketch of His Career. Jefferson Davis was born in Christiana County, Ky., June 3, 1805. During his childhood his father removed to the State of Mississippi. He graduated from the West Point Military Academy in 1828, and served with distinction against the Indians until 1835, when he resigned his commission, returned to Mississippi and married the daughter of General Taylor, after j tj Y> UI U I1U31UCUU W mo V uu*ito. He became a cotton planter and continued in tbe business until 1843, when he interested himself in politics as a Democrat, and took a prominent part in tbe election of Polk. Re was sent to the House in 1845 and took an important part in the debates on the tariff, the Oregon question, the preparations for the Mexican War, etc. Upon the breaking out of this contest, he was elected Colonel of the Mississippi Regiment of Volunteers, when he resigned his seat in Congress, and joined the army of General Taylor on the Rio Grande. He was engaged in the storming of Monterey and the battle of Buena Vista. At the close of the war ho was offered by President Polk the rank of Brigadier-General of Volunteers, but declined it. In 1847 he was elected Senator for Mississippi: in ISoO he became Chairman of the Committee on | Military Affairs., and was noted for ; iha energy with which he defended slavery, and by hi? zealous advocacy I of State rights. In 1S51 he resigned his j scat in the Senate to enter upon a canvass j for Franklin Pierce, who, on being elected | President, appointed Mr. Davis Secretary of j War. He was again elected a Senator in 1858; but the election of Lincoln in 1860 J and the consequent secession movement j caused him to withdraw. When the move ment receiver! saupe uuu iuj m uc ?? tuus i Provisional President of the Confederate States. February 4, 1861. In 1862 he was elected as President for six years. After the fall of Richmond. President Davis, while endeavoring to make his escape, was captured at Irwinsville, Ga., May 10, 1865. and remained a prisoner at Fortress Monroe for two years awaiting trial. He was released on bail in the summer of 1S67, and all proceedings against him dis? continued. He visited Europe, became President of a life insurance company, and in 1881 wrote "The Rise and Fall ol the Confederacy." After a lapse of almost a quarter of a century of retirement Mr. Davis consented, upon the earnest solicitation of his friends, to take part at the unveiline of the monument to the late Senator B. H. Hill, of Georgia, on May 1, 1886. I On his way to Atlanta he waa given an 1 ovation at" Montgomery, Alabama, which entirely eclipsed anything like it in th? South. In October, 1887, Mr. Davis visited Macon, Ga., and received another tremendous ovation, many ex-Confederate soldiers from various p'arts of the South coming forward 1nn/io moi-n nnnn the fo?tiiras of their former chieftain. The Death Bed Scene. Four weeks ago while traveling on a river j -tenmer he caught cold, and his condition became so serious that his physicians refused to allow him to return to his home in Mis- I rissippi. He was taken to the house of bis [fiend, J. U. Payne, in New Orleans. Mrs. | Davis was seat for and immediately joined : aer husband and remained with him con- j jtantly until the end. From the beginning of his fatal illness Mr. j Davis insisted that his case was nearly or j juite hopeless, though the dread of pain or :ear of death never appeared to take the I slightest hold upon liis spirits, which were | ouoyant from the beginning of his attack. At 6 o'clock in the evening previous to his j leath. without any assignable cause, Mr. , Davis was seized with a congestive chill, ivhich seemed to crush the vitality out of his ' ilready enfeebled body. From that, moment | until his death the history of his case was j that of a gradual sinking. At 7 o'clock Mrs. Davis administered some medicine, but he ' ieclincd to rcceive the whole dose. She urged j lpon him the necessity of taking the re rtainder, but putting it aside, he whispered: r 'Pray, excuse me/' These were his last words. Gradually he I jrew weaker and weaker, but never for an nstant seemed to lose consciousness. Lying peacefully upon his bed, and without a trace )f pain in his look, he remained for hours, silently clasping and tenderly caressing his life's hand, ne awaited the end. By 11:30 >'clock there were assembled in the death hamber Mrs. Davis, Drs. Chaille and BickjHin, Associate Justice and Mrs. Fenner, Vliss Nannie Smith, grand-niece of the dying (^-President, ana Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Far ar. Finding that Mr. Davis was breathing omewhat heavily as he lay upon his back, the loctors assisted him to turn upon his right With hi-; cheek restine upon his right j land, and with his left hand drooping across lis chest, he Jay for fifteen minutes, breathug softly but faintly. More and more feeble jecame his respirations, till they ceased for>ver. Official Action. The Governors Ot the Southern States sent j licssages of sympathy to Mrs. Davis, and I Southern State Legislatures passed resolu- j ions of condolence. Throughout the South j he expressions of sorrow camo from every I juarter. Mayor Shakespeare, of New Or- I cans, sent the following telegram to the j Secretary of "War: i "I have officially to inform you that the | Hon. Jefferson Davis, at one time Secretary I )f War of the United States, died in this j ity yesterday. His funeral will take place | lore ('Ji December 11, at 12 o'clock, noon." ! Secretary l'roctor replied to this communi- I ;ation as follows: "Your telegram informing me of the death j >f Mr. Davis is received. In refraining from | mv official action thereon, I would not, and j lope I do not, add to the great sorrow of his j family aud friends. It seems to me the right :ourse and the best one for all. You will, I im sure, understand that its adoption is prompted also by a sincere wish and purpose ;oact in the spirit of peace and good will, vhieli should fill the hearts of all our people." The Eiffel tower will remain unvisited on be Champ de Mars at Paris, this winter. In be spring it will be reopened to visitors. M. iiffel has a chamber at the top. into which e can retreat when he wishes to be alone and rorkhard. -v : : THE SOUTH IN MOUBNING, Ceremonies at the Bier of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans. The funeral of Jefferson Davis ?,t New Orleans was attended by thousands of people, representing the prominence and wealth of the Southern States. Seven Governors were present, attended by their staffs and bringing with them great ! delegations of people. The military parade was a marked one. A dozen companies from Georgia, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama took part, and the Louisiana State National Guards and Volunter Militia, of New Orleans, participated. The crush on the streets equaled anything that has ever been witnessed at New Orleans on the occasion of carnival festivities. In Lafayette Square, just opposite the City Hall, a dense multitude gathered, and adjacent streets were crowded with people from ail over the country. The floral decorations came from every State and city in the South. The town was draped from one end to the other with most elaborate showings of black. Business fronts and residences were covered, and every bit of buntine there was in the city flew on a staff at half-mast. At an early hour the streets were thronged with soldiers and firemen in uniform, members of various civic organizations, and representatives of every profession, avocation and association all en route to their respective meeting stations, from Whence a few hours later they concentrated in Lafayette Square. As soon as the doors of the City Hall were opened a stream of visitors began to pour through the death chamber to take a farewell view of the remains of the Confederate leader. The crowd of visitors was even greater than that of previous days, there being hundreds of people from abroad whose visit tt> the city had been delayed until the day of the funeral. It was not until 11:30 o'clock that the lid of the casket closed down forever i upon the features of the dead. The remains , were then conveyed to the front portico of the City Rail, where the simple but impressive rites of the Episcopal church were performed. | Lafayette Square, in front of the City , Hall, was densely packed with people, and the balconies and every available space was crowded in the extreme; At the conclusion of the religious services the coffin was borne by a detachment of soldiers to the caisson on which it was to be conveyed to the cemetery. ] The caisson was drawn by six black horses, two abreast, caprisoned in artillery harness and plumes, and j each animal was led by a soldier in uniform. The various battalions wheeled into line preceded by a detachment of the j city police, and followed in turn by the ( clergy, pall-bearers and so on, in their respective order. As the procession traversed 1 tne streets, from every church a knell was ] tolled, while dirges blended witn tne booming of the minute guns. Great crowds lined the streets through which the procession passed. The entry of the procession into the beautiful cemetery away out on Metairie Ridge was made with all the pomp and circumstance of a military and civic occasion. Metairie is the prettiest cemetery in the South. Within i it lie the bodies of thousands of Confederate veterans, and here are most of the tombs of the military and veteran associations of New ' Orleans. It is in this cemetery, in i a subterranean vault, that the Sonth- I ern leader was temporarily laid to | rest. The tomb of the Army of Northern Virginia is beneath the marble monument .to i Stonewall Jackson. Beneath a heavy slab , af marble is an underground chamber with I vault? running all around. It was in one of i these that the body of Mr. Davis was placed, i The monument was decorated with extreme ] simplicity. The mound was covered en- | fcirely with green moss, and around the < shaft was wound a chain of laurel and oak leaves. An immense throng of people wit- | nessed the exercises in the cemetery. I A TERSIFIC EXPLOSION, j Two Men, a "Wagon, and Team Blown to Fragments by Xitro-Glycerine. At a quarter past 9 o'clock the other morning Butler, Perm., was shaken from centre to circumference by a nitro-glycerine explosion at the Butler Torpedo Company's magazine. two miles south of the town. The explosion occurred when cans were being put into the wagons at the factory. James 0. Woods and William Medill and their wagon and team were blown into unrecognizable fragments. The larger part of the factory buildings are demolished. The factory was crushed down, and only the smoke stack re- 3 mains intact. The rafters of the magazine fell down over the glycerine there, but it did not explode. Woods's shoulder and right arm were found twenty rods away. A small part s of Medill's trunk was taken from the top of ] a tree. The theory is that Woods let a can of the explosive drop when handing it up to s Medill, wno was in the wagon. A great nole I was made in the ground where the wagon t stood. i PROMINENT PEOPLE. | Ex-King Milan of Servia will make his j home in Paris. t Senator Pierce, of North Dakota, is the j autuor 01 several novels. * The London Times suggests Stanley for f Governor of East Africa. Secretary Rusk is making a collection of g orchids and clirysanthemums. General Boulanger is doing very well, p He is supported by his admirers. a President Harrison is an expert -walker, and likes a tramp of :several miles. The letter carriers' monument to S. S. Cox "will probably be erected in "Washington. The Lord Mayor of London was for some part of his early career an operatic singer. Even the? Czar of Russia suffers with influenza, which is epidemic iu St. Petersburg. Ex-President Cleveland says our exPresidents should earn their own living like 1 other people. i Sir Morell Mackenzie, the English doc- 3 tor, is seriously considering the project of an 1 American tour. j Ex-Pension Commissioner Tanner and 1 W. H. Dudley have formed a business part- 1 nership in Washington. Lord Salisbury, the British Premier, has the proud distinction among Englishmen of wearing the biggest hat. Oastelar, the Spanish statesman, says ( that another half century will wind up the monarchial business in Europe. * Historian Bancroft takes a long walk I v every pleasant afternoon, often with a vol- j ume of Shakespeare in his hand. j 1 Mr. Campbell. Governor-elect of Ohio, is j * a Knight Templar, a Knight of Pythias and j an Elk. He is also a Presbyterian. The late Father Damien, who died in tne " lepor settlement at Molokai. Sandwich Isi- n ands, has been succeeded by his brother. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Min- ? ister at Washington, is devoting a good deal a of time 10 the study of American literature. ^ Henry C. Kelsey, the present Secretary of State of New Jersey, was the editor of a > small country newspaper twenty years ago. j, Jules Verne's real family name isOlchewitz. The novelist is now sixty-eight years v old, and engaged in the production of one of his greatest works. The exceptional honor of the crown and and brilliants pourie merite has been conferred upon Count von Aloltke by the Em- , peror of Germany. I 11 Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist I s reports himself in good health and spirits ! _ and disposed to spend yet another winter * among the islands of the South Pacific. j a Charles Colby, the new President of the I J Canadian Privy Council, was born in the ! United States. " He is the first native of this ; F country who ever entered a Dominion Cab- j inet. ; ' Mr. Gladstone has been speaking in Eng- i * land for fifty years, and yet people are go j t anxious to hear him that they would at any ! . time fill a large hail if the seats cost ten I 11 dollars. ! s Spurseon. the great London preacher, j says that the "perfect"' members of his flock t give him more trouble than his sinners. He j now gives notice that his fold is for black sheep only. Mark Twain passes a great part of his j time in his library, where he sits in a com- j n fortable armchair, his feet tilted up on the i a window-sill and a thick halo of' tobacco | smoke encircling his forehead. f< Physically, Speaker Reed is the largest ]< man in the House. He weighs as much as Ex-President Cleveland and is taller. He is 8 an accomplished French scholar and reads {l every new book nublished in Paris. LATER SEWS. *4 Three United States internal revenue* 3 gaugers have been arrested in New Yorlc city, and two others indicted for extorting money from merchants on the ground of expediting the gauging of spirits. Tightman McDekmed, a school teacher, 1 and his wife have been drowned in the White - V River, near Shoals, Ind. I The Indians on the Great Siasefcon Reaer- ; vation, in South Dakota, have voted to sell 1,000,000 acres of land at $5 per acre, throw- ing this large tract at once open to settlement. v 28 A working train on a logging road ran into a washout near Whitesboro, CaL, and "was badly wrecked. The engineer and section hand were killed and the fireman badly [ scalded. Several houses were swept away anyone M man drowned by a cloudburst in Santa Cruz ' County, Cal.; rain had been falling all over - v the State for eleven days, and the Sacra- '-Vjaj mento River was alarmingly high. . The First National Bank of Abilene, Kan., ' " has suspended. Liabilities, $116,000; assets from all sources, $300,000. In a deserted cabin on a ranch not far S from Coolidge, Kan., the dead bodies of man and his wife were found, who had evidently been murdered for their team of horses. Tunif ao Pr/lfttw orracfn/^ of panfan aiiia "a', AUVAAO AMUUMJll, ?* * VOMW4 UV VMIWU^VIUV) confessed to burning his father's house to Im- V-.* plicate his elder brother, so that he would ** ; V sent to prison and Thomas would inherit his' . father's wealth. Louis Witkowski, Mayor of Starke, Fla., ^ was shot and instantly killed at GainsviD?by Albert Thrasher, of the law firm of Ash" ley & Thrasher. The shooting took plade in the office of the law firm. President Harrison, accompanied by^" Sg Private Secretary - Haiford, has returnaft&jfl from Chicago. A commission has sailed from France inspect the Panama Canal. The Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs , sent by cable to the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs a formal request that - -1 lie would proclaim the recognition of the Brazilian Republic. A TERRIBLE ACCUSATION. < Saspccted of Causing1 the Fire fit \ Minneapolis. Charles Ostrom, cashier and bookkeeper of the Minneapolis department of the Pioneer . % Press, is in i/iil r*lmrnrpH wifli , ? y t>? ...V** *** V JUg CiXJT ,/r.Vf bezzled ?2200 of the funds intrusted to hi* '? charge and suspected, furthermore, of hav- " Ing fired the Tribune building, in which seven ' persons lost their lives. When confronted with the charge of steal- . ing he confessed a shortage and offered to y% issist in hunting the matter up. He was ;V "orced to admit that $2200 was the correct imouut. At once the rumor spread abroad that he had deliberately fired the Tribwnt Building to destroy the evidence of his : y. peculations, and the Grand Jury will make a icarching investigation. He said: "I expected this charge would je made. I certainly had every incentive 7 to destroy those books. If they had been turned up there would have been no proof igainst me. It is natural that 1 should be ' uspe;ted. As additional proof against. \ ne, I left the books out of the f afe on the night of the fire. I . lad often done this before and nothing vas thought of it. I think I can prove, howtver, that I was not at the building that ught. I left at 5 o'clock, intending to y eave the country. I went to the Summit louse for my wife, and visited several other (laces, going home about 9 o'clock." > A detective had been shadowing Ostgcisjft. or a week before the fire. Ostrom rtattd hat the money had been lost gambling. GOVERNORS IN COUNCIL. ; | Pnp n Mnniimpnt tnrommemorate thfl Declaration of Independence. The Governors of Pennsylvania, New Jerey, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New lampshire and Arizona were present in peron, and eleven other States were represented >y proxy, at a meeting held in Washington *' o petition Congress for the erection of a v nemorial monument at Philadelphia to Com- ; nemorate the Declaration of Independence - 2 ind the one hundredth anniversary of Con- titutional Government in the United States. Governor Green of New Jersev, presided, and lelivered an address giving a 'history of the jresent movement, which, he said, was started is far baci^ as 1852. After a general discussion a draft of a bill vas adopted to be presented to Congress. It locates ten acres in Fairmount Park, Philalelphia, for the monument,provides for a comuission comprisiug one citizen from each State and Territory and thirteen citizens of Philadelphia^ and asks Congress for an appropriation to erect the monument, th? amount beintf left blank. FIKIM HIMSELF. I An Extraordinary Scene in a CalifoN I nia Court. A few days ago Judge Alexander Laidlaw,. H of Oakland, Cal., got druirk and created m H scene in a saloon. He was not arrested, bat H a. report of his unseemly conduct was pnb- Bj Iished in the papers. He wore an air of uo* j H usual dignity when court opened the other morning, and in presence of a large crowo lectured himself for breaking a city ordi- ' nance, pledged himself to resign it itoo- H purred again, imposed a tine of $50 and it to the bailiff. General Cassitcs M. Clay, the lat^B /olonel Goodloe's great uncle, has a ecord with the knife which is note- H rorthy even for a Kentuckian. He had B hrce personal encounters before the H :ar in which knives were used, and in H ach case he succeeded in killing his H 4 frmrfli nVf.im hn <mt. ftl lost to picces, but the man was j^B titched up and recovered. A few years Hj go he killed a negro who had insulted H im, again using the knife. Governor Varmoth, of Louisiana, saved his life 1 New Orleans a few years ago by ivisecting with a knife a man who at-.^^H empted to assassinate him. An experiment in ocean time-saving fl| as just been tried by having the Ml teamship City of Borne discharge her assengers at Milford Haven instead ol M| t Liverpool on her last voyage out. lilford Haven is the extreme western aH oint of England, aid it is believed hat sailing direct from New York to hat point will save from eighteen to wenty-four hours in the passage. It i likely to become the great point o{ ailing oeiween me iwu vimubixc?. . m .... _ :J?~ The old saying that the man who linds his own business will loney is not true. Charles Cochra?a^H| Canadian, has remained on his fara^Hj Dr fourteen straight years without E9 saving it and has not spoken to a tranger in all that time, and yet he '^B 3 poorer than when he began, ^Hj B B