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fmmmmmmmmmammmtmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmami WALKER BLAINE DEAD. The Secretary of State's Eldest Son Suddenly Expires. Acute Pneumonia Developed From La Grippe the Cause. Walker Blaine, son of Secretary James 6. Blaine and Solicitor of the State Department, has died from pneumonia, following an attack of la grippe. He had been ill only five days,and although it was apparent that he was in a very critical condition, death finally came to mm aimosc without a moment's warning. President Harrison had called at the house at 7:30 o'clock, and had been told that Mr. Blaine was then in a profuse perspiration, which was regarded as a very favorable symptom, and had gone away assured that the patient was not in immediate danger. Three-quarters of an hour later the President was notified by ' telephone that Walker Blaine was dead, and within ten minutes he had return >d to the house to render any service he could to the suddenly-afflicted household. The news of the death spread through the city like wildfire, and very soon callers began to reach the house to offer condolences. Nearly every member of the Cabinet, all of the Senators and Representatives from Maine, and scores of other persons reacheS there before 11 o'clock. Many of them were in full evening dress, having hastened there from receptions and dinner parties. Young Mr. Blaine first felt the symptoms of la grippe four days previous when he was ' attacKea with chills, followed by a high fever. | During the night both lungs gave evidence | of catarrhal trouble, and the family physi- J cian. Dr. G. Lloyd Magruder, was summoned, j He was able to give his patient some relief, but the catarrhal affection continued. Two days before his death there was some imErovement in the condition of the left lung, ut the doctor detected the presence of pneumonia congestion in the right lung. No remedies seemed to help the case, and all the bad symptoms bacarne greatly aggravated. Dr. Joseph Tabor Johnson was called in to act with Dr. Magruder, but they were powerless to overcome the disease, and pneumonia became well developed. Mr. Blaine became delirious early in the day, and he remained in that condition until he died, at 8:20 o'clock. A few moments before his death he was thought to have shown some slight improvement, and when the end came it was almost as sudden as if it had been caused by heart disease. All of Mr. Blaine's immediate relatives wero present except one sister and one J brother. Mrs. Coppinger, his sister, was in New York with la grippe, nncl James G. Blaine, Jr., his brother, had left for Maine, not supposing the patient's condition was dangerous. Telegrams were sent to him and to Colonel Coppinger at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, telling them of Walker's critical condition. Mr. Blaino was not in good physical condition to withstand a severe sickness. He had never entirely recovered from the fall by which his leg was broken last spring, nor had he fully overcome the effects of a malarial fever from which ho suffered last autumn. Walker Blaine was born in Angusta, May 8,1855. He finished his collegiate studies at Yale College in 1870, and ttien pursued his legal studies at the Columbia LaT. School in New York. After being graduated there Mr. Blaine entered the law office of Senator Davis at St Paul, Minn., where he remained until President Garfield made him Third Assistant Secretary of State, his father being the Secretary. A few j weeks later he and William Henry Trescott i were sent, by Secretary Blaine, on a special j miccinn South America. After the death of General Garfield and J the retirement of James G. Blaino from the ; Cabinet, President Arthur appointed Walker j Blaine Assistant Counsel for the United 1 States before the Court of Commissioners o. j Alabama Claims. Ho retained that office ; until the court ceased to exist, January 1/ 18S6, when he went to Chieago to practice law. A few days after his father entered President Harrison's Cabinet Mi*. Blaine was nominated to be Solicitor of the State De- . partment, and the nomination was con-' j firmed. _ m ; PROMINENT PEOPLE. Inventor Edison expects to go abroad ?gain in March. Ex-E.iirEROR Dom Pedro has received over *00 telegrams of sympathy. Secretary Blaine spends an hour or two jvery day in literary work. Prince Bismarck, it is assertsd, doss not sxpect to live through the year. Rev. Dr. John Hall, of New York, is ?aid $30,000 a year by his church. Americans in Loudon will give a banquet to Stanley on his return from Africa. ^Secretary Rusk is acquiring a great reputation in Washington as a story-teller. General B. F. Butler's eccentric attire is the Clihifv't of r>nnc:irW<>h]<? tmssinin Wash. ! ~ o -- ? -- o"?-r ? tngton. The Pope is supposed to have an annual injome of considerably over half a million sterling. B. P. SHiLLABER,who is known to the pub. ic as "Mrs. Partington,'1 is seventy-five pears of age. Minister Lincoln has returned to London from Paris, where he visited his son, who has seen seriously ill. General Spinner, e--Treasurer of the 'Jnited States, is now ninety years of age ind nearly blind. The only colored mau in Congress is Rep esentative Cheatham of the Sejoai District >f North Carolina. Senator Ingalls has a great weakness ,'or red neckties and i? rarely seen wearing "Tfee of a different color. Gladstone is eighty years old, but his nind and body are in as fine a condition as vhen he was only three score. The Emperor Francis Joseph is one of th9 cost accomplished horsemen in Austria, vhere good horsemen abound. Alexander Montgomery, of San Franiisco, has given $250,000 to the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of California. Philip Armour, the rich Chicago porkjacker, began his fortune in California, where ie went with the Argonauts to find gold. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, first enlered Congress in 1654, and for over twenty fears has been in the Senate. He is soventyline years of age. Baron Fava, the Italian Miuister to this xjuntry, is dean of the diplomatic corps, . which has been completely reconstructed lurijg the last year. JoiGE Gresham, of Chicago, savs the ftandard of excellence in the legal profession Is not as hi~h as it was twenty-five years ago. Too many lawyers go into politics "is the rea?n. Emperor William, of Germany, who is fond of hunting, is obliged to use a short gun made especially for him, as he has the use of inly ope hand. He uses his rifle as he would % pistol. Senator Pettigrew went out to Dakota is a laboi er in the employ of a United States rarveyor with a few dollars of borrowed money in his pocket. Ho is a Vermont man t>y birth. Postmaster-General Wanamaker is an sarly riser. He is always out of bed by six o'clock, anfl half an hour later he is at the breakfast table. Than he reads the morning oapers and at eight reaches his desk. President Harrison is becoming noted it Washington, as he was at Indianapolis, :gt his fondness for ijuiet little walks about ' he city unattended by any distinguishing vdjuncts that would indicate his oflicial prejminence. Orion Frazee, the sculptor, whom tbs 'ate Editor Grady sent to New Orleans to pro;u/a a death mask of Jefferson Davis for the nonumentin Atlanta, did not sea Mr. Grady again until ho went to take a mask of him. Both masks are perfect. Colonel James Belger, who stands next to General bherman as tha oldast living officer of the regular army, is spanding the winter in Kansas City, Mo. Colonel -Belger was placed upon the retired list ten years ?go after serving forty-one years in the vmy. M. Pasteur, the famous French scientist, is in very precarious health. He has never been able to regain his strength since the serious illness of two years ago, and he has devoted so much time and thought to the wori of his institute that ha hag hod no chance tc recuperate. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Two people were killed and several injured by the falling of a wall of the Throop Avenue Presbyterian Church, in Brooklyn. By a natural gas explosion at Carnegie's Lucy Furnace, Pittsburg, Penn.. Thomas vVelch, a workman, was killed and five others seriously hurt. The British steamship Stag,which arrived at New York, brought the crew, eightfeen in number, of the German ship Shakspere, who had been taken from their vessel, which was in a sinking condition, in mid-ocean. JOHN* Hartwoojj and John Lieh. section hands, were struck by a locomotive near Albany. Hartwood was killed and Lien was fatally injured. Nine shoe manufacturers in Haverhill, Mass., locked out their workmen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York, has purchased from the Earl of Dudley the famous picture "The Grand Caualof Venice." The price paid for the painting was $100,00!'. The funeral of William D. Kelley, the "Father of the House,"' took place at Philadelphia. There was little show or display, privacy being insisted upon by the members of the dead man's family. a freight train ran into another freight train at Snydertown, Penn. Conductor John Peifenderfer was killed, several of the crew injured and the locomotive and ten cars were wrccked. Several tons of metal fell at the Bethlehem iron works at Easton, Penn.. killing Engineer Stollmaker and fatally injuring Morris Riegel. South and West. The Sub-Tropical Exposition was opened at Jacksonville, Fla. Calvin S. Brice was nominated by the Democrats in Columbus, Ohio, for the United States Senate. A train struck a horse and wagon at a crossing near Nashotah Station, Wis., killing Olaf Johnson and fatally injuring his wife, who died a!:out an hour after the accident. Henry Ward, the colored bov who mur dered XV. H. Benson, an employe "of Frenche's Circus, at Bayou Sara, La., was taken from jail by masked men and hanged to a tree in Courthouse Square. A fast mnil train was wrecked near Sidney, Neb., by a broken rail. The two mail cars and the baggage cars were burned. Most of the mail and all of the baggage and express matter were destroyed, and several people were injured. L. P. Scoville, of Chicago, a nephew of Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, has disappeared. He was the Secretary of a local building and loan association, and it is alleged that he is short in his accounts to the extent of about $5000. Julius Hammel, a German, died from the effects of inhaling cvoid fumoc at tba phri<:phate works of the Walton & Whann Company in Baltimore, Md. This makes the third death of this character in one week. a boiler in Morris & Co.'s printing establishment in Chicago exploded, and eight employes, mostly girls, were injured, some it was thought fatally. J. Claude Parrish, forty-two years of a?e, was hanged in the jail yard at Raleigh, J*. C., for assaulting his own daughter, about thirteen years of age. The town of Greenwood, ten miles south of Indianapolis, Ind., has been partly destroyed by fire. The Monarch distillery, in Peoria. 111., which cost ?5,000,000, was damaged by firo to the amount of $125,000. Bell Boy, the phenomenal three-year-cld trotter, and forty-two other horses, many of them valuable trotters, were burned to death in their stable at Versailles, Ky. Last July Bell Boy brought $51,000, up to that time the highest price ever paid for a horse in America. The other bunied trotters were valued at $93,000. John Kerns was fatally hurt and three Dther men were seriously hurt by the explosion of a dynamite blast at Quio, 111. * Elevator Xo. 3, on the north side of the Patapscu River at Baltimore, used by the Northern Central Railroad Company, was burned with all its contents. An engineer, fireman and seaman perished in the flames. The pecuniary loss is between ?500,00U anil ?700,000. Henry and Martin Reimers were run iown and killed bv a locomotive near Wheeler Station, Ina. Miss Lucy Ray, a young lady who lives in the outskirts of Dawson, Ga., shot and instantly killed H. A. Suggs. She says that Susrgs came to her door about eleven o'clock in a state of intoxication, demanded admittance, and upon being refused cursed aer and tried to burst the aoor in. At the opening of the Iowa Legislature a deadlock occurred over the election of olH- j :ers in the House by reason of the five Independents voting with the Democrats and creating a tie. E. K. "Wilson has been re-elected to the JJr?itcd States Senate by the Maryland Legislature. A package containing $11,000 was stolen :rora the Wells Fargo express offices at Dalas, Texas. Just how the money disappeared is a mystery. The largest saloon in Dubuque, Iowa, was ;losed, as was also the principal brewer v. This was the first attempt to enforce tne prohibitory law in that place. Great exeitejient prevailed. Miss Loc Asiibury, Dan Ashbury, Lizzie Bowler and Will Rose were drowned while rowing on a Carmi (111.) lake. PROFESSOR CHARLES A. CLARK, iTin:ipal of Albion (Wis.) Academy, is dead of lydrophobia, believed to be the result of the bite of a cat, received last March. Judge McConxell, at Chicago, grante.l i new trial to Kunze, tho Cronin convict. )ut denied the applications of Burke, Coughin and O'Sullivati: the last threa were taken :o the penitentiary*. Washington. Congressman William D. Kelley. of Pennsylvania, the "Father of the House," died in Washington, age seventy-four. The President and Mrs. Harrison were entained at dinner by the Vice-President and Mrs. Mortou. Collector Eriiaudt, of New York, has been in Washington making arrangements to deprive the Netv \ ork State authorities of tbe control of imjnigrants landing at Castle Garden. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of J. R G. Pitkiu. of Louisiana, Minister1< the Argentine Republic; Clark ?3. Can*, o.' Illinois, Minister and Consul-General to Denmark; William W. Bates, of New Yor.-: Commissioner of Navigation, aud a larg niunbcr of other nominations. The funeral of Judge Kelley was heid i tho Representatives' Hall of the Capitol. The World'* Fair delegation, which wen from New York to Washington to present the claims of the metropolis to the Senatorial Committee, proceeded iu a body to th* White House, and the members were introduced to the President. The delegation, which numbered about eizhtv. was head" by Chauncey M. Depew. who made the principal address for New York before the Senate Committee, and Mayor Grant. A ^brilliant reception was tendered to tno rsew xorK memoers 01 uie world's Fair Committee by Representatives Flower and Belden, at the Arlington Hotel, Washington. The delegations from Chicago arid St. Louis attended, and speeches were made by Chauneey M. Depew and others. The National Executive Committee appointed at the St. Louis Silver Convention last fall met in Washington. Hugh A. Goldsborough, Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, Navy Department, Washington, has died from pneumonia. Mr. Goldsborough had been employed in tho Navy Department for j more than iifty years. I Foreign. The recent defalcation in the Havana (Cuba) Treasury Department, at first estimated at $250,000, has grown to ?700,000. There was an extensive conspiracy to plunder the Government, and many officials are implicated. Thorstex Nordenkeldt, manager of the company engaged in the manufacture of the famous gun of that name, is bankrupt in Ensrland. His liabilities amount to $350,000. The Portuguese Government at a Cabinet Council, having decided to yield to England's ultimatum concerning Africa a band of students smashpd the windows of the British Embassy at Iibsoa and cried'''down withihe Mwig&naS' A small band of Republicans cut the railroad near Venta-Caraenas, in Andalusia, Spain, but were put to flight, and pursued by the civil guard. The funeral of the Dowager Empress Augusta of Germany took place in Berlin. M. Solotouchink, Chief of the Russian Secret Police, was shot and killed at Moscow by a female Nihilist, who afterward committed suicide. At the annual meeting of the Dominion Line Stock Association held at Toronto, Ontario, a resolution asking the Government to impose a prohibitive tariff 011 dressed meat from the U uited States was defeated. The Portuguese Cabinet resigned, and the republican press tried to incite the people against the monarchy. The body of a women was found at Gruenne, in Hungary, with the throat cut and otherwise mutilated. The crime resembles those committed in the Whitechapel district of London. During the absence of her husband, Mrs. Alexander Austin, of Carleton, New Brunswick, a paralytic, was burned to death in her home. i A woman* and three children were sufToI cated by escaping gas at Bew, Hungary. Their dead bodies were found lying together. Colonel Voieikoff, on officer of the Czar of Russia's body guard, and some other officers of the same corps committed suicide. It is supposed that they were implicated in a recently discovered plot against the life of the Czar. The steamship Herschel, which arrived in New York from Brazil, brought news from Rio Janeiro that in a military revolt in that city more than 100 of the mutineers were killed or wounded, and twenty-ono of the ringleaders were executed next day. LATER NEWS. The boiler of a steam shovel used by the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway Company in excavating at Fallston, Penn., gave way and one man was killed, and about fifteen injured. TnE National Colored Convention met in the Madison Street Theatre, Chicago. More than one hundred delegates were present. In a street fight in Macon, Mo., between Morris Norris and Dr. W. G. Larrabee, the I Dnffnr Denutv Sheriff Pearson and S. W. I Wiggins were fatally wounded. Carmval week opened in Augusta, Ga., with the turning over of the keys of the city by the Mayor to King Cotton. In the night there was a trades' procession with 300 floats. A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Columbia, S. C. It was Btrong enough to make lamps vibrate. Thr black measles are rac'nz atFordsville, Ky., in epidemic form. Mrs. Mitchell and two children have died, and Mr. Mitchell was in a critical condition. Over one hundred coses were reported in the neighborhood. The President has appointed Major J. B. Harlow to be Postmaster of St. Louis. Major Harlow is Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service. The police arrested seventy persons who were parading the streets of Lisbon, Portugal, shouting "Down with England." Messrs. Artola & Hermanos, bankers, who have offices in London, Paris and Madrid, have been adjudged bankrupts in London, with liabilities amounting to ?2,000,000. The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage has canceled his London and provincial engagements on account of the prevalence of influenza. It is reported that Don Carlos, the Spanish Pretender, who is now at Gratz, Austria, is plotting a rising in Spain. At Chili whack, in Vancouver, Canada, George Rutherford shot aud killed Edward Hall and John Segars and then killed hiinsslf. He accused Hall and Segars of attempting to put poison in his food. Ix accordance with a request from Major Grant, of New York city, the Mexican Minister in Paris has applied to his Government for authority to have transported to New York the Aztec palace, which was one of the most interesting exhibits at the Exposition A THEATEB COLLAPSES. The Wall Gives Way and Over 200 People Are Killed. Further particulars regarding the theater collapse near Shan Tung, Cliina, on October 13 last, show that the temple where the performance was being held stands on a high terrace in the middle of the town. The entire wall gave way, either from being defective or from the great pressure above, and the whole mass of men, women and children were hurled to the street below. The people who had first fallen, some | of whom had escaped with only bruises, were i Iri'llarl /MiJ.riorht. ? mnmpnt, Intel* hv their com- I rades falling upon them. Many died of suffocation, aud others were momentarily stunned, or met death by being trampled upon. All the time the immense blocks of stone and concrete from the broken wall fell. Heads were burst open, bodies crushed, arms and legs broken, and in a number of cases al- j most severed from the body. A total of 200 dead bodies have been taken from the ruins, and it is thought that the list of the dead may number 250. A SON'S DISCOVERY, He Finds His Father's Body on a Dissecting Table. Just as the class in waiting at the Cincinnati (Ohio) College of Medicine was gathered about the body of an old man on the disspctinir table the other afternoon, and the knife of the instructor was about to be used, a young man entered the room, and giving one look at the dead man, threw himself upon the body, crying: "My father, oh, my poor father!-' The young man was John Daly, and the body on the dissecting-table was that of his father, Carroll Daly. The old man was addicted to drink and had died without his relatives knowing anything of his whereabouts. They saw the death notiec, howover, and began a search for the body, with the result above described. The body was given to the son. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Fanny Davenport ha9 decided to add "Theodora" to her repertory next Beason. Wilson Barrett is to deliver a locturein Richmond, Va., on "Society and Drama." Mlle. Janotha, the pianist, recently played 5503 notes in four minutes and three seoonds. The Russian pianist and composer, Rubenstein, has a pension of 3000 roubles from the Czar. It is estimated that the Kendals will make between $75,000 and $100,000 by their tour in this country. Mary Anderson will open a dramatio season at the Broadway Theatre, Now York, on October 28. Benjamin Lttndkck, the author of "My Jack," the English melodrama, is only twenty-one years of ago. Patti has been on the stage sinco 1850, when as a child of seven years of age she appeared ia New York city. Gounod, the composer, is a man of frupal habits, lie smokes little, armies jcss, turn does not eat a great deal. Mr-LE. RriEA bad a severo attack of tho grip While playing at Rochester, H. Y., but she pluckily played all tho time. TriE new opera of Gilbert and Sullivan, the "Gondolier," has been produced in New York. The general verdict is that it is not up to the standard of their former work;. Mr. Elwell, of Brooklyn, has made a contract with Strauss to take hia whole orchestra from Vienna to America for a three months' engagement. They will sail May 7. Steele Maceate's play, SColonal Tom," which will afford the first ftppearance by' proxy on the dramatic stage of the noted Colonel Thomas Ochiltree, will be produced in Boston for a run of one week shortly. ;; ' ' .- "; ' '' ' SIXTEEN MEN KILLED. A Most Appalling Accident in Louisville, Ky. Workmen Meet Their Death by a Falling Bridge Caisson, Sixteen lives have been lost by the giving way of a caisson at the new bridge now building across the Ohio River at Louisville, Ky. Most of the victims were colored. The caisson, known as No. 1, was about one hundred yards from the Kentucky shore. As the workmen of tho pumping station were looking for the men in the caisson to put ofF in their boats, leaving work for the night, they suddenly saw the low, dark structure disappear in dashing white waves, and heard, before they could realize what K#w1 UnMnnnnrl 4-Ua Ap +V? A flirlAIIQ til fl ol* UttU uappcticu, CUV X vat VI VUV 1UI ivua (UMV. strom. A runner was despatched to the life-saving station and tlireo skiffs were manned and pulled to the scene of the wreck. The site of the bridge is at the upper end of the city, just below Towhead Island. Within an hour from the disappearance of the caisson 3000 people wore on the shore straining themselves trying to see something of the wreckage. Dozens of boats ; were plying about over the spot where the | caisson had stood and lights danced to and fro with them, but there was no trace of the massive structure of stone and timber which had kept off the hungry river, to give hopa to the anguish-stricken mothers and wives who stood in the throng on the shore. The men saved are Abe Taylor, Lewis Couch, James Murray and Frank Haddox, all colored. The last man out of the caisson was Frank Haddox. He was barely saved by Murray, who dragged him from where he was caught waist deep in the quicksand. Taylor savs ne stood nearest the iron laader, by which they got in and out of the caisson. He heard a rumbling and there was a rush of air almost at the same instant. He jumped up the rungs of tho ladder, followed by the other men. They had hardly gob clear of tho caisson when the water burst through the manhole in a surge knocking them all into the river, where they were picked up. Haddox says he saw Ham Morris, who was climbing next be low himself, swiftly drawn uiider by the sand and heard his cries for help, but could do nothing. John Knox, the gang boss, took charge of the work three days before. The colored men who escaped say ho had them dig too deep before letting the caisson settle, and the digging was too close to the shoe of the caisson. Just before tho accident Knox gave some order to Robert Baldwin, tho keeper in charge of the upper door to the exit. Baldwin then opened the door, and the compfessea air TtWdi huyt; ?* ~or out, letting in the stream. The men say they were working in an ugly quicksand at the time. The caisson was about forty feet by twenty, and built of timbers twelve inches square. It was protected by a cofferdam, but the river is very high and the pressure of tho water very great. The most plausible theory as to the cause of the accident is thus given by one of the survivors, Louis Crouch, and his story receives not a little credence from the Superintendent of the work. Knox, the foreman, had been seen near the key which controls the air supply, and it is believed that he cut off the air more than he really intended to, causing the caisson to sink into the sand. "fATHER OF TEE HOUSE." Judge Kclley Passes Away After a Long Career "William Darragh Kelley, the "Father of the House of Representatives," is dead. Ho whs born in Philadelphia, Penn., on A.^ii 19 1RU Wh< n he was vcrv young his "1" -- ?I - - - . . _ father died, in consequence of which his opportunities for acquiring an education were very limited. When sixteen years old he began his struggle with tbe world as an apprentice to a printer. After spending some WILLIAM D. KEI.LEY. ilme in sorting type he tirod of tho business, ind, proceeding to Boston, apprenticed liimlelf to a jeweler. l? was while actively engaged at the latter trade that he first gained i reputation, both as a writer and orator. when he was twenfcy-six years old he returned to Philadelphia and began to study law. The following year he was admitted to the Bar, and managed in a little while to work up a considerable practice. Much of his time while practicing was devoted to literary pursuits, and he contributed several articles to various magazines. In 1815 he became Attorney-General of the State, serving until the close of the following year, when he bacane Judge of tho Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia. Ho occupied tho Bench in that position until 1860. Until withia two years of the expiration of his term he was a .Pomocrat and a Free Trader. Iu 1851 ho cnangeU his politics and became at oncc a Republican, a Protectionist and an ardent Abolitionist. In that year, ' * -4-1 1 trorn a piatiorm ill jtiuiuui;iijuiu,iio uciiiuuu an address on "Slavery in the Territories," which became known all over the country and gained for him a National reputation. At the National Republican Convection in 1S00 he was one of the delegates, and w?s a warm supporter of Abraham Lincoln. From his long sorvico Tn Congress, Ju lge K#ey obtaiaed tho title of the "Father of the House." He fir.sk became a representative immediately after the convention of 1800, and served uninterruptedly until tho time of his death.-He was from time to time a member of nearly every Committee,but was espec; ally identified with those on Naval Affairs, Agriculture and IudianAdairs. He was Chairman of tho Committee of Weights and Measures in the Fortieth Congress, and of that of the Centennial Celebration. He always took an active part in tarifT discussions. "Pig Iron Kelly" was a name given to him many years ago. During the last two sessions of Congress Judge Kelley has W&on in failing health. On the opening of the Fifty-first Congress his condition was so feeble that he declined the Chairmanship of tho Ways anl Means CqCt mittce, which he had held for savoral terms when tho Republicans had control of the House. He \v.w appointed Chairman of tho Committee on Manufactures, bat continued ill-health prevented him from attending to his duties regularly. SHOT DEAD ON HIS CAE. ? "" ITillrwl litr a A 1/UiUlKU VUMUUkWi nt"t<u mj ? Passenger. While collecting farca on a State street car, in Chicago, Conductor John L. Moore received from George Jordan, a colored man, a one-dollar bill. In return he gave the passenger three tweuty-five-cent pieeos and two dimes. "One of these quarters is 110 good; It's nicked," said the colored man. "I do not want it." "All right; hore you arc," returned the conductor, as he took back the objectionable piece of money and deliberately counted out twenty-five one-cent pieces. "Are you trying to make a monkey of mof yelled Jordan, with an oatli, at sight of the copper pieces. "I'm no chump," and the man rose from his seat and violently struck the conductor in the face. The latter stepped to the rear platform. Jordon, possibly fearing that the conductor intended attacking him with a car hook, drew a revolver, and, taking deliberate aim, fired. The ball lodged in Moore's lung , inflicting a fatal wound. The colored man jumped from the car and few down the street. He was captured, af. ' tar an exciting oha?yv OHIO'S NEW SENATOR, Calviu S. Brice Elected to the United States Senate. .J: calvin s. brice. Calvin S. Brice (Democrat) has been elected United States Senator by the Ohio Legislature, receiving 76 votes. Charles Foster (Republican) received 66 votes. Mr. Brice will succeed Senator Paine, FIFTT-FIBST CONGRESS, In the Senate. 18th Day.? A number of bills were introduced? A message from the AttorneyGeneral was read, stating that he had issued no instructions to District-Attorney Chambers, in Indiana, and had no correspondence with him, about the arrest of TV. W. Dudley .... In executive session a large number of nominations were confirmed. 19th Day.?A number of petitions were presented and referred, among tham one signed by the wives of Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Field and Harlan, and by the wives of a number of distinguished officials and citizens of Washington, pray.ni for the appointment of women on the Board of Managers of the Exposition of 1892....Mr. Plumb called up his resolution of inquiry concerning the proposed releasing of two seal islands to tho Alaska Commercial Company, and proceeded to criticise the company f 1 1 j a ocrcicAj', a geueitu uouiitu iuuuweu.,,.A number of nominations were received from the President. 20th Day.?Bills were introduced extending the right of pensions to steamboat men and others acting under orders from United States officers and authorizing the President, with the consent of the Senate, to place on the retired list, with rank and pay of Brigadier-General, any General at of the United States in the late war, who uUoii malri?.Application for such retirement, provided he was in command when one or more battles were fought and won, was promoted for gallant and meritorious service in the field, and by assignment of the President commanded a military department or district Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on Finance, reported favorably Senator Sherman's AntiTrust bill, amended by the Committee.. . In executive session several nominations were received from the President. 21st Day.?Mr. Morgan's resolution recognizing the United States of Brazil as a free, independent and sovereign State was taken up, ana air. 1 urpie attacsea ine poucy ox Administration, and declared he favored the immediate recognition of Brazil.... Mr. Sherman introduced a National Bank bill.... Among the bills passed was one for the erection of a Hall of Records in Washington.. In executive session the Russian extradition treaty was considered. In the House. 15th Day.?The death of Mr. Kelley was announced by his colleague, Mr. O'Neill; and, after the appointment of a committee of nine to attend the funeral, with a committee from the Senate, the House, as a mark of respcct for the memory of Mr. Kelley, adjourned. IGth Day.?As a mark of respect to the late Judge Kelley, the House adjourned without action. 17th Day.?Mr. Adams, Chairman of the Silcott Investigating Committee, submitted a report, accompanied by a bill appropriating 575,000 to cover the deficiency caused by Silcott's defalcation. . .On the call of States a number of bills were introduced and referred.... A concurrent resolution for the printing of 25,000 copies of the address of Chief Justice Fuller on the occasion of the commemoration of the inauguration of George Washington was agreed to. 18th Day. ?A bill was introduced bv Mr. Bingham for marking the lines of battle and the positions of troops of the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg, and appropriating $310,000 for that purpose... .The report of the Silcott Committee was received, accompanied by a bill appropriating $75,000 * ;~i T; oolo-i-c JLUI I ClUJtUUi ouig mcmucia ivi iuc oaaiu itc lost. 19th Day.?After a long debate the bill appropriating $75,000 for the reimbursement of members who lost their salaries by the Silcott defalcation was defeated. A motion to reconsider, and a motion to lay that motion on the table were entered. WOMEN WITH AXES. Eight of Them Chop and Smash at a Saloon. At Hatton, a small town north of May ville, South Dakota, the saloons have had it all then* own way for some time, and openly defied the law. The other night eight women from the country whose husbands have been spending nearly all their time in these places prepared themselves witli axes nnd other weapon?, marched in a body to llie saloons and began chopping and smashing. The leader was a auiet and unassutniner woman, but when she learned that she had signed n mortgage on the farm in order that a saloon bill could bo paid she could stand it no longer, and got together seven other women and made the raid. A BOY FIEND. I Confessing How He Planned the Murder of His Parents. John Wesley Elkins, aged twelve years, arrested at Elkador, Iowa, for the murder of his father and mother, made a confession in which he stated in substance that he planned the murder of his parents two or three days before he committed it. On the night of tne murder he took a rifle, and going to his parents' room, placed the gun within about J two feet of his father's face and fired. He then got a club and beat out his mother's brains. Then he dressed the baby and leaving the house, told the neighbors that burglars had killed his parents. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. THE LABOR WORLD. T3 | The early closing movement in St Paul, Minn., has been quite successful. There are now over sixty women's exchanges in this country, all efficient and In working order. The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servant* of England demands shorter hours and no Sunday work. The long strike at the Cabanas tobacco factory, Havana, Cuba, has ended, and the men have resumed work. Convicts were used to defeat the miners who struck recently near Birmingham, Ala., and they succeeded iu doing so. CniNESE tanners at San Francisco get from $1 to $1.-5 per day, while union men at their sides get from $2 to $2.50. Pittsburg horse-shoers were refused a charter of incorpc ration on the ground that the union was to regulate wages, etc. The Belgian Government stopped the ex- ( portation of coal owing to the scarcity of that commodity, caused by the strike. London hotel proprietors are having a great deal of trouble with their waiters, who protest against the employment of foreigners. In Germany the law makes servants give a month's notice before leaving. The mistress must give similar word before discharge. The International Miners' Congress has b?en arranged by the British Miners' Union and the German miners5 organisations, and will be held at Berlin. WORK OF A TORNADO. Lives and Property Fall Prey to Its Destructive Sweep. Houses Unroofed, Trees Torn TJp and Buildings Blown Down, A dispatch received from St. Louis, Mo., stated that at twenty minutes after four o'clock in the afternoon a gale of wind swept over that city, killing three persons and damaging more than 300 buildings. The day was showery and sultry, the thermometer reaching seventy degrees at noon. An hour later stacks of black clouds began to pile up in the southwest. The wind increased, and at four o'clock it was blowing violently with the clouds scudding before it. Suddenly a deluge poured down, surpassing any rainfall in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. In five minutes the streets were flooded, the sewers choked, and the lower portions of the city covered with water. At this moment a sulphurous cloud was seen approaching from the southwest. It assumed the twisting tornado form, and on reaching Lafayette and Grand avenues, in the extreme southwestern part of the city, it began the work .of destruction. Two brick houses were first unroofed, and Mrs. Miller and her child dangerously hart. The wind continued in a northeasterly course across the city, blowing down steeples, telegraph poles, roofs, fences and houses. The greatest damage was done in the northern part of the city, where it passed across the river into Illinois. Near the corner of Ninth and Mound streets, the roof of a two-story brick building was carried away. The house collapsed, end a man, woman and one child were killed by falling walls. All the houses in an area of two blocks by four in this neighborhood were wrecked and damaged. The killed are Mrs. Maggie Connors, age forty; Bernard McConnell, age forty, and "Joe" Weaver, age nine. The McConnell and Connors families occupied the house jointly. There was a party for children in progress when the building went down. Four persons were seriously hurt. One child was taken out from under the roof 100 feet away, and, though badly injured, will live. The wind passed over the lumber district on it3 way to the river, and literally filled the river with lumber. Whole stacks of pine were picked up and carried over to the Illinois snore. Among the buildings damaged were the Anchor Mills, the Hodgins School, the Missouri Pacific Hospital, the First Lutheran Church, the Second Presbyterian, the St. Lawrence O'Toole Cathedral, "Warbrook's furniture factory, Kingsland's & Ferguson's factory, the Advance Elevators, n -hundred others. The churches named lost tficir steeples. A messenger which had just arrived from the east side of the river said that the storm in St. Clair County, 111., was unusually severe. Brooklyn, a village of about 500 people, seemed to nave suffered most, as the damage at East St. Louis and at Venice was largely confined to railroad property and small dwellings and telegraph and telephone poles. Brooklyn is about three miles north of East St. Louis. Its population Is largely composed of colored people. Though several persons were injured, no lives were lost. A number of dwellings were in ruins. The Baptist Church was entirely demolished,and t,Vi? M?t.hodist Enlseonal Church, a frame building, unroofecf and turned clear around on its foundations. At Belleville, 111., several public buildings were unroofed, but no one reported injured. A late Wabash train arrived at the relay depot in East St. Louis about 8.15 P. M. The engineer and conductor reported that during the storm they feared that their train would be thrown from the track, so great was the force of the wind. The storm passed over Clinton, Ky., at ten minutes after 6 o'clock in the evening. Ten persons were killed in wretched dwellings, and fully sixty were injured, many of whom will die. The financial loss is estimated at $50,000. The storm shivered to splinters every dwelling in a path one block wide. The course lay through the eastern portion of the town, and it fortunately missed a young ladies' seminary which contained about 100 inmates. The dead ;aud wounded were all taken from the ruins of their homes. The work of rescue was at once organized. Cairo, 111., responded with physicians and i6upplies,and offers of aid came from Hickman and Paducah. ^Over $1000 was collected next morning, and it is believed that the town can take care of the sufferers. News from the country show3 that the nTorrrt.hinf in its T)ath to thfl 'north and south of the town. Clinton has {1200 inhabitants and is the county seat oI Hickman County. : At Wickliffe, Ky., the storm was destructive. As in the case of Clinton, the town is 'situated on a bluff, all except the railroad station. Thirteen of the principal houses, embracing all the business houses, were wrecked, and twenty-two people were more jor less injured, none fatally. Fire loaded freight cars standing on the Illinois Central track near the depot were lifted off the track and thrown against the depot platform, twrutr feet awav. The town is wrecked. A FATHER'S AFFLICTION, Losing His Wife and Five Children and Obliged to Bury Them Himself. An awful tale of misery comes from the mining district of the Upper Licore, in Ontario, where, of a family that consisted of a father and mother and flvo children, only one remains, diphtheria having caused the deaths of the others. Recently the two youngest children were attacked with the disease, and soon died. The neighbors of the afflicted family thereupon forsook them and would not go near them. The other three children, one by one, suecumbedj and at last their mother, worn out by nursing and watching, died also. The father had to dig the graves, make the coffins and bury the members of his own family without any assistance from bis fear-stricken neighbors; YERY OLD PEOPLE, Men and Women Who Recently Passed Their Hundredth Year. | At Salem, N. H.. there died recently Mrs. Job Coburn, who had just stepped across the century mark. Born in Harrisburg, Penn., Mrs. Elizabeth Schuman is now 102 years of age. She lives in Pittsburg. Huntington, Ind., was proud of her centenarian, Joseph Shavcy, who recently died just after passing his 100th birthday. The oldest woman in Vienna is Frau Magdalena PoDza, who celebrated her 114th birthday last Christmas. She is cared for by her 80-year-old daughter. East Templeton, Mass., boasts of ace tenarian in the person of Mrs. Polly French, who celebrated her birthday recently, and was the jolliest of all concerned. Francis Christian belongs to a family of centenarians. His mother lived to be 104, a cousin is now in his 100th year, whiltf Christian himself is just rounding the century mark. He belongs in Muskegon, Mich. Mary Mulhall, of Pittsburg, is 104 years of age. She came from Ireland when 50. All her faculties are unimpaired. She has three children, twenty grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren living. Ono of the happiest celebrations of New Year's Day was Charles King, of Middleton, Mass., aged 109 years. He is strong and vigorous. He was born in Quebec, and Is the last of ten sons, one of whom reached the age of 110. One of the most remarkable colored men of Maine was Lorenzo D. Carter, of Warren, who died recently at the age of 101 years. In the war be was captured by a Confederate privateer. He was an oldfashioned Methodist, and u:> to the time of his death his voice filled his cabin with the music of the old revival hymns. Uncle Hub. Horn, of Ozark, Mo., was to give up the weed after reaching the century mark in life, but on that birthday his friends placed cigars and pipes, and all the standard brands of tobacco at his side, and he reconsidered his resolution. Only last October he patted and danced the "Rabbit Hash" breakdown, but rheumatism has held him in check since. He has been married six times, losing three wives in slavery. He has been the faiher of twenty children, all of whom have died but two. AN OCEAN HARVESTA J GATHERING SEA-WEED ON THE ,? BRITISH COAST. A An Occupation in Which Thousands \ A of People Are Engaged?Burning the Weed Into Kelp ? Its Commercial Uses. B By far the larger portion of the sea-wee J V harvest along the coasts of Scotland, Ire- fl land and adjoining islands comes ashore S in the early spring and in the late fall. ' The fall harvest, together with that which v .' winter adds, is suffered in most localities > to lie untouched on the beach until it has been carried out to sea again and lost forever. It is only the spring crop which a receives special care. Thousands of j women and children, and a small sprin- A kling of men, may be seen flocking to the - A beach during the month of May, armed ( with rakes and wheelbarrows, or driving / low carts, whose wheels are made broad | enough to prevent their sinking in the- I sand. The wet weeds are raked into piles, and carried either by batrow or 1 cart to a conveniently safe distance from - V the water's edge. Usually a sheltered nook is chosen, if near at hand, and in \ it is stored a great mass of the weed J f Here it is left to dry under the summer's' hot sun, meanwhile exhaling odors of no; J. dainty description. There are well-re4 1 cognized liberties and restrictions in re-: J gard to sea-weed accorded to landlords 1 J and peasantry who dwell along the shore.) 1 The landlords have most of the liberties,1 while the peasants enjoy the restrictions.; V Conflicts of sea-weed rights have been \ known to occur, in which cases the shil-j ( lalah has had an important share in the gathering of the crop. When the weed is dry?that is, in the latter part of July and the first of August /X ?the owners of the sea-weed heaps un-' dertake to burn them into kelp. Th& burning is done in the crudest and most W wasteful manner. Shallow pits, often J dug right in the sand, are filled with | weed ana tne mass iguiieu. upou iw ! first charge fresh quantities of weed are . . thrown from time to time, the wholemass burning more or less rapidly in pro- portion to the dryness of the weed. There resuus, hntto.ms of these pits, a. black mass resembling~Tron-3log in ap- -,jj| pearance, though not in hardness, which, , being sprinkled with water while hot, breaks up into large lumps suitable for transportation. Owing to the carelessness- ? with which the weeds are raked up, this- \ crude kelp-slag always contains a large percentage of sand and other impurities,1 , sometimes amounting to one half thetotal weight of the product. The im3providence of this is the more marked in view of the small amount of valuable salts which even at best can be fount} in the kelp, and the rapid ratio in which! the cost of transportation diminishes the profits when half of the slag iB' ' dead weight. The improvidence extendsequally to the burning itself. This takes place in full access of air, and at a temperature so high as to volatilize muclif "RflQl/lflC oil t.VlO fMCPAna ui lug iv/uiug. w?? vUW -,BJ. __ products of the combustion are lost and1 the escaped gases overcloud whole town-' i ships, and impart to miles of sea-shore I ' the peculiar odor characteristic of burn-: | ing kelp. To save these gaseous pro-] ; ducts by distilling the weeds in closed] i retorts, at low temperatures, would' j mean the production, at little extra cost,! A I of valuable amounts of ammonia, parafin,i JB i acetic acid, naphtha, etc. In addition,! ^ i the charcoal left would be much richer, in iodine than the ordinary kelp, and its1 : mechanical form much easier of sub?.' J sequent extraction. Attention has been' i called time and again to the enormousj waste of material and the easy means of" , improvement in kelp making, but thusifar little inroad has been made into this- c European species of ancestor worship., ; The crofters cling to traditional methods' and primitive tools. When kelp, such as has been described,1 is brought into market, it is purchased by those directly engaged in making the; ! salts of iodine and the alkalies. In their, hands it becomes the subject of careful treatment to separate the valuable ingredients from the gross impurities with' which they are associated. This is commonly done by breaking the kelp into; small lumps and lixiviating in suitablej vats filled with hot water or supplied; I with steam vapor.?Popular Science. Monthly. j - ! Flowers and Perfames. ! I '/*. The rose is extensively cultivated in. : the Balkan Peninsula, chiefly for the 1 sake of the perfume it affords. The Prov| eace or cabbage rose, it is said, will yield | in the second year from one to two hun dred bushels of flowers per acre, weigh-; I iug six pounds to the bushel. The rose harvest at Adrianoplc sometimes yields about ninety-four thousand ounces of a? tar of roses; the average of the Bulga-i rian harvests in the past ten seasons hasj been fifty-seven thousand ounces. The price 01 tills penumc uao u^uuw. per cent. aince 1883. The Moors in Aln geria extract an attar of moderate value from the indigenous double white musk! rose. Twenty-eight tons of rose leaves were imported into Aden iu 1889, of which hah* were shipped to Iiidia. The, ' ixora extract" ia made from the soka-j flower; frangipanni, from the flowers of. aperies of Piumeria, native to the Weat Indies and some parts of South America; the essence and pomade of cassie, of the' French perfumers, from the flower# of Acacia farncsicina. About one hundred tons of these flowers are used in Cannea yearly, individual makers working upj one hundred thousand pounds. The fintr I grant white flowers of Blighia sapida and! I of the Bukul are used for making dijH I tilled waters; and the flowers of spiko-- 9 nard are employed in Algeria lot pe^' B fuming hair oils aud cosmetics. Moorish fl women form garlands to ornament the lit* I terior of their dwellings from the flow*. I ere of the jasmine, and obtain a perftuhi I by steeping them witb oil in oouiesy k which are exposed to the sun. The same I process is applied to the flowers of the tuberose and the cassia. Hungary water H is distilled with spirit from the tops of H rosemary flowers. Twenty tons of violet^1 H are used annually iu Nice and Cannes,' I and one hundred ami twenty tons of I orange blossoms in Nice. Orange flower ' I water is one of the most agreeable vehi cles for nauseous ncdiciucs that we have.; Rose buds are made into preserves in I Arabia; the blossoms of the shaddock are used for flavoring sweetmeats, and tie I fleshy calyces or flower bracts of the Indian sorrel, having a pleasant acid taste/I^^H are nade into tarts, jellies, and refr&hing drinks in India. The petals of ?pwers are much used in Roumania for fla voring preserves, of which not less than I one hundred and fifty varieties ar<5 tpgfa- I -^Pfipulat Mcietux Monthly. v } >T-1 M