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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. !
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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.
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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.
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' 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
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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
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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,
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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
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