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DARING TRAIN ROBBERY. Two Desperados Get $25,000 From an Express Car. They Overawe the Trainmen and Shoot a Tramp. One of the most daring train robberies in | the history of California has occurred between Tulare and Goshen, on the Southern Pacific, when two men "held up'' a train and got away with express and mail matter valued at $23,000. The way in which tho robbery nut cVinws that the men were old i Lands, anil it is suspected that they were tho same men who roboed the Southern Pacific train at Delano, about one hundred miles below Tulare. At 4 o'clock in tho morning, during a heavy rain, two men boarded tho front of the express car at Goshen. When a few miles out the engineer heard a noise as if some one was crawling over the coal bunker, and, turning round, he found himself covered with I revolvers, held by two men, who woro dark J slouch hats and masks. They at once ordered I him to stop the train, and when he hesitated I he heard the click of the revolvers as they were brought to half-cock. With tho assistance of the fireman ho soon brought the train to a standstill. The robbers next compelled the engineer and fireman to jump from the | cab and go back with them to the express I car. w "Tell that fellow inside to open the door,'' commanded one of the robbers, "'or we will make short work of you." The engineer oDeyect ana unci pulleying for a time the express messenger threw open the door. He was ordered out of the ear and told to stand alongside the track with the engineer and fireman. "While one of the men kept the train hands covered with revolvers, the other sprang into the car and ransacked the express pouches. The messenger was forced to open the treasure-box and the contents were crammed into a barley sack. The robbery was so quickly performed that many passengers knew nothing of it until after the train reached Tulare. After securing all the booty in sight, the robber left the car and joined his "pal," who was holding the train men under arms. A brakeman who was in the rear car then came up the track to ascertain the cause of the delay, but he quickly returned when one of the robbers <lrew a bead on him. Had he kept coming toward the party when ordered back, he would probably have lost his life,for the desperadoes were ready and prepared to kill. After satisfying "themselves that the brakeman i had gone back to the rear, the robbers invited the engineer and fireman to take a I drink with them. Tho invitation was not declined. An unfortunate tramp, who bad been stealing a ride on the brako beams crawled out from under the cars just as the robbers were going. He wanted to see what was the matter, and his curiosity will probably cost him his life. The robbers mistook him for one of the train hands, and shot him in the head. They left him writhing along the track, and forced the engineer and fireman to accompany them several hundred yards from the train. "You can walk back slowly," said one of I the masked desperadoes, "but do-.'t try any tricks." i When the train hands got back to where ! the tramp lay they nicked him up and placed j him in the express car. The train then moved j ahead, and a- few minutes later dashed j into town with the news of the robbery. Tho wounded tramp was in an unconscious condition when the train arrived, and it looked doubtful if ho would recover. A posse of armed men started off in search of the robbers, but were unable to get any trace of them. LATER NEWS, The historic church in the "West Roxbury District of Boston, where Theodore Parker preached from 1837 to 1845, was burned by incendiaries. One man was killed and several persons were hurt by an explosion of natural gas in Pittsburg, Penn. A mob of armed Poles invaded the cemetery at Plymouth, Penn., and, tearing open the graves of the Lithuanian children, threw the bodies in the street. Governor brlkelet, of Connecticut, has dishonorably discharged Lieutenant Colonel Thompson and Major Smith, of the First Regiment, for insubordination, and requested Brigadier General Charles F. Graham to resign for concurrence therein. By the explosion of four boilers at the Mount Jessup Coal Company, at Scran ton, Penn., Fireman Munley was killed and several German laborers fatally injured. The building of the Freeman Wire anil Iron Works in East St. Louis, 111., was gutted by fire. The loss was $100,000. The keeper of two large cinnamon bears in Paso del Norte, Texas, got drunk and made the bears drunk. He then took off the muzzle of one of the bears to feed it, when the animal attacked him and lacerated him so terribly that he died from the wounds. The annual meeting of the Illinois Dairy ?_ a -'-a? l.1j men s .association was uciu ai ucivmwc. There were over 300 dairymen and farmers present from Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. The World's Fair Committee of the House after a short session decided to report to the House that the committee could come to no conclusion. General Alger, during his visit to the Capital, called on the President in company with Assistant-Postmaster General Clarkson. William L. Btrd, Governor of the Chickasaw Nation, sent to the Senate protests against the proposed establishment of a Territorial form of Government for Oklahoma. James G. Blaine, Jr., has been appointed to be the Clerk of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House by Congressman R. R Hitt, Chairman of the committee. Bids were opened at the Navy Department for the construction of three new vessels for ttie navy?two iwu-ton gunooais ana one 800-ton practice vessel for the Naval Academy. In the secret session of the Senate the 6eal Df secrecy was removed from the Samoan Treaty, signed at Berlin, June 14, 1889, by the Plenipotentiaries of the United States, Germany and Great Britain. CHOtERA is raging in Mesopotamia, Asiat ic Turkey, and 3000 deaths are reported have occurred from the disease. Another conflict between Christians and Turks is reported at Sphakia, Crete, in which many were killed on both sides. The powder mill at Roslyn, Scotland, exploded. Five men were killed and many injured. A DOG SAVES SIX LIVES, He Alarms the Occapants of a Burning Building. A hie Nfiwrfoundland doer has saved six lives in Allegheny City, Penn. The dog belonged to F. D. King, and was asleep in one of the kitohens in the rear of the Boyle business block. King was awakened by the animal's barking. Repeated efforts to quiet the brnte failed, and looking out of the window, King discovered that the Boyle building was in flames. He gave the alarm, and Henry Arnfeld, the janitor, heard it. Then the men started to arouso the families on the third aud fourth floors. Thomas Graham and wife, Mrs. Ritchey and daughter, and Janitor Arnfeld's wife were gotten out of the already smoking rooms in the nick of time. They were hustled into the bitter cold night in their night clothe* just as the flremeu rosbed up stairs with the hose. The dog had n ved fdx lives and to-day was the hero of JBojJc'i Block. ' * _ _ ; THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Hexry Howard, of Worcester, Mass., lost much sleep in nursing an invalid mother, , became insane and cut his throat with a , razor. Rev. Lyman* Abbott was installed pastor j of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. A reception to Archbishop Corrigan to wish him godspeed on his visit to Rome was held in New York city. Lela De Gax, two years old, of Syracuse, N. Y., while playing about the house fell ~ /-*f kailino- wator nnd i Uttcii?ai u imu a pew* ut ( died. After nearly three years of litigation in | New York the Stewart estate, valued at ; $12,000,000, has been finally settled by the signing of an agreement between the heirs and the executors. Peter Hexdersox, the well-known New York seedsman, died at his home in Jersey City, N. J. Edward Gallagher, aged seventeen: Michael Gallagher, his brother, aged fifteen, and Mrs. Kate Stockhouse, a married sister, aged twenty-five, were struck by an : express train at Morrellville, Penn., and killed. John* Moore, of Washington, Penn., was killed by an oil well plug which was blown out by gas. The New York City Postoffice made a profit last year of $3,512,989.48. The total receipts were $5,678,250.42. The daily mail contained2,702,396 pieces, audit weighed268 tons. The money order department did a total business of $91,004,253.55, an increase of ?3,705,094.60 over the year before. The Mayor and the heads of departments of New York city, after making some slight changes, indorsed the bill to empower the +s\ criontl 41 ft Of Wl (WV) frvr t.llA World's Fafr. Newburg, N. Y., was the scene of a remarkable electric wire tragedy. A current escaped to an awning frame, and a horse touching a post was felled. Thomas Dawson touched the harness and was killed, and Robert Salts, going to the rescue, was laid prostrate. The Russian epidemic has considerably abated in New York city, and there has been an encouraging and corresponding fall in the mortality record. A freight train ran into a landslide near Shamokin, Penn., and ten cars were thrown iuto a creek. Engineer Clark Hoffman was instantly killed and Fireman Gensvl and Brakeman Startzel were severely injured. Leon Abbett was inaugurated Governor of New Jersey at Trenton with elaborate ceremonies. South and AVest. The Afro-American leasees in convention at Chicago elected "VV. A. Pledger President. Three hundred people at Carmi, 111.,have been compelled to leave their homes by a sudden rise in the Little Wabash River. By the swelling of dry timbers au 801000 gallon tank collapsed at Jeffersonville, ind.. fatally injuring Joe Gable, Lowell McCloua and William Halm, workmen. FotTR men were killed and several others badly wounded by the premature explosion of a blast at a camp near Johnson City, Tenn. Three cars were hurled down an embankment at Hampton, Utah, and eleven persons more or less seriously injured. Jacob Etti.vger, a railroad conductor, was run over at Union Station, Baltimore. Both legs were cut off, and be died on the way to the hospital. The Afro-American Convention, in session at Chicago, decided to indorse no political party. William Brax.von*, a violent patient in the insane asylum at Chattahooche, Fla., broke the doors of two rooms adjoining his own and murdered three other patients. A postal clerk named J. B. Devine was arrested in Chicago, charged with 600 thefts. Four lives were lost by the sinking of the steamer Katie Robbins in the Mississippi River. A train wreck has occurred near Birmingham, Ala. The engineer, William Derry, was killed, and several others were seriously, perhaps fatally, injured. Diphtheria is epidemic at Hayes,^ I1L, party crossea in saiety, out me umer u?c, who rode too close together, broke through the ice and were drowned. A Fort Bend rioter when placed on trial in Galveston, Texas, was snot dcwn by a brother of a man he had killed; a general fusillade took place in the courthouse. Constable Long, of Guyandotte County, Ky.. was murdered and his wife desperately wounded by a band of ruffians who broke open the door and found the couple in bed. Sheriff Davidson, at West Plains, Mo., attempted to arrest John Langston. When he approached Laugston the latter made a motion as if to draw his revolver, when the Sheriff shot him dead. A serious fight between whites and colored mill hands occurred at Apalachicola, Fla. Frank Home was killed. The Sheriff appealed to Governor Fleming for guns, ammunition and troops. The snow blockade on the Western railroads has been raised. The first train in a week from the East arrived at Portland, Ore. Six hundred passengers and fifteen hundred sacks of mau have been released by the opening of the road. "Washington. The Senate Committee on Territories authorized a favorable report on the bill for the admission of the State of Wyoming. The funeral of Walker Blaine took place in Washington. President and Mrs. Harrison and all the members of the Cabinet were present. Orlow W. Chapman, Solicitor-General of the Department of Justice, is dead at the age of fifty-nine years. Secretary Windom seat to the House a letter requesting ttiut tne limit or oostoi tn? Postoffice and Court House at Troy, N. Y., be increased from $300,000 to $500,000. The Chinese Embassy gave a grand dinnei in celebration of the Chinese New Year a1 tne Legation In Castle Stewart. Many distinguished statesmen and officers or the army and navy were present. He*ry A. Phillips, of New York, the Chief of the Middle Division in the Pension Office, baa been dismissed by Secretary Noble. He refused to resign. Foreign. Ex-Emperor Dom Pedro arrived at Cannes, France, looking terribly aged and enfeebled both in body and mina. Hs will spend the whole winter there. Mr. Parke, a London editor, has been found guilty of libeling the Earl of Euston, and sentenced to one year's imDrisonment. The Canadian Parliament was opened by Lord Stanley, the Governor-General. Ln/lv Stanley was too ill to be present. The Governor-General made no allusions in his speech to the fishery dispute or extradition treaty. The editor of El Progresso, a newspaper published in the City of Mexico, has been sent to jail for defaming the character of Adelina Patti. Sixty thousand people attended the funeral of the Socialist editor Wedde at Hamburg, Germany. The Duke of Aosta, formerly King of i Spain, died at Turin, aged forty-five. a gale prevailed in the English Channel which wrecked a number of vessels. A public meeting called in Lisbon to protest against the action of the British Government in the dispute with Portugal wa? held. A isaaanc ?*!&. accompanied by light ttiig, prevailed in the Irish Sea. Mucn damage was done to property along the coast. Several persons were killed by lightning and a number were drowned. Over 170,000 people attended the funeral of Heury Searfe, the oarsman, at Sidney, Australia. The Mayor and Alderman formed part of the procession. The Rothschilds have refused to float the new loan desired by the Russian Government. A Brazilian decree requires that foreign corporations doing business there bring twothirds of their entire capital to that country* The European powers having declined to mdiate between England and Portugal; the latter country submits to the British premier's demands under protest. Thirty-nine persons, chiefly Polish and German nobleman, have been banished from Russia. Nathan Marcus Adler, D. D., chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregatio s of the British Empire, died at London. Four thousand of the leading merchants of Lisbon, Portugal, paraded the principal streets shouting war to England. The transatlantic steamships Gallia and ! Catalonia arrived at Queenstown after exceedingly rough passages; three firemen were killed on the latter by an explosion. John Gosley and three children perished by fire at St. John's, Newfoundland. Gorley died in the flames while making a third attempt to rescue his children from a burning house. His remains were found with his Sead burned off and a child in his arms. (Tver T70, 000 people attended"th? funeral of Henry Searle, the oarsman, at Sidney, Australia. The Mayor and Alderman formed part of the procession. The Rothschilds have refused to float the new loan desired by the Russian Government. A Brazilian decree requires that foreign corporations doing business there bring twothirds of their entire capital to that country. A TERRIBLE BLIZZARD, Ten People and Thousands of Cattle Perish. Af ton hnman beincrs and thousands of cuttle and sheep perished in the blizzard which raged over "Washington for a week. Reports received at Tacoma from the Colville Reservation are to the effect that cattlo are dying by hundreds from starvation and thirst, and that the ground is covered with over two feet of snow on the level and in some places is drifted mountain high. Tho keeper of the stage station twelve mJes from Alma started to walk to town. Two days after his body was found on the prairie, only a mile from his home, frozen stiff. The maHcarrier at Wild Goose Creek perished on the same day, and eight cattlemen are known to have lost their lives in the storm. Cattlemen estimate that they will lose- one-half of their herds. six Indians hanged, Wholesale Execution at Fort Smith, Ark. Six Indiana have been executed at Fort Smith. Ark. Sam Goings and James Burns for the murder of Houston Joyce, a 1 /oung white man, in November, 1888, in the Choctaw Nation. John Belly and Thomas Willis were conricted of the murder of W. B. Williams, a tvhisky peddler, in February, 1889. .Tefferson Jones, a Choctaw Indian, was and several a earns nave occurreu. mrw chUdren in the family of James Woods died within two days. Elmer Freed, Silas Tracy, Charles Wilson and Alexander Whitmore, of Gladstone, 111., started for a dance, when their team became unmanageable and backed the wagon into the nver. All were drowned. Freight trains collided at Waverlv, Ohio, and E. Stapleton, brakeman, was killed. Att the r-ailmaris t.hat cross the Rockv and Sierra Nevada Mountains were blockaded by the snow drifts. .Ai.' Unionville,Mo.,the residence of Lather McCalment was burned to the p round, and Mrs. McCalment's aged mother and two children were burned to death. Peter Oglesby, n?phew of ex-Governor Ogle?bv, of Illinois, accidently Bhot ani killed liimself whi e hunting near Denver, Col. A band of thirteen Indians attempted to cross the Flat Head Lake^ Mont. Eight of^the jonvicted of the murder of George VY. Wilson, an old white man, in Creek Nation in March, 1689. Austin James, a Chickasaw Indian, was banged for the murder of Thomas Elliott, a fouug man from Alabama. KILLING- INDIANS. La Grippe in Its AVorst Form Wiping Out a Band in Manitoba. A band of 800 Indians on St. Peter's reserve, a few miles east of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is being rapidly wiped out. The Indians are afflicted with la grippe in its most severe form, and being without proper medical attendance rapidly succumb to the malady. In most cases the influenza has developed into lung diseases, to which the Indians are subject. Seventy-flve per cent, of them aro down with the epidemic, and if speedy action in tliB wav of sendine physicians to them is not taken by the authorities few will survive. The Indians have never before been afflicted with a malady of this description, and have no idea how to treat it. ?\ PBOMINENT PEOPLE. ' j Speaker Reed, of the House of Representative, is a great reader of novels. ~ P. T. Bahnum, the showman, has refused an offer of $20,000 for a book on Europe. Boston1 Corbett, the slayer of John Wilkes Booth, isinaWestern insane asylum. The Khedive of Egypt conferred upon Stanley the Medjidieh decoration at Cairo. General Bingham, of Philadelphia, is said to be the best-dressed man in Congress. Henry Watterson's father, at the age of eighty-three, continues to write newspaper letters. General, Sherman had the "Tyler grip," half a century ago or so, but he hasn't sampled this one. Historian Bancroft is remarkably well this winter. He ascribes his good health to the warm weather. Marshal Fonseca, Chief of the Provisional Government of Brazil, speaks and writes nve languages. The Czar of Russia is said to be suffering from recurrent epilepsy, brought on by the Bouki railway accident. The late Congressman Kelley accquired his strong voice while acting as copy reader In a Philadelphia printing office. Three members of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, offered to erect an addition to it as a memorial to Henry "Ward Beecher. Portugal's new Bang, Carlos, is a devoted sportsman, an accomplished musician, speaks seven languages, and paints in water colors. The Prince of Wales was recently fined a dollar and a quarter in a London police court, for lotting his dog go abroad without a muzzle. John I. Blair, the millionaire of Hackettstown, N. J., presented his Private Secretary with a check for $30,000 on the occasion of his recent marriage. a close personal friend of John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate, estimates his wealth at $130,000,000, and predicts that in ten years he will bo the ricnest man on earth. Senator Walcott, who is the youngest man in the higher brauch of Congress, is described as a man of imposing ohysiaue. with broad shoulders, a deep chest and'polished manners. Congressman Joe Wheeler is said to scad out more public documents than any other three men in Congress. He employs four clerks especially to put up and address such matter. Max O'Rell, the well-known writer, says: "The thing that most strikes a European in this country Is the entire absence of stupid looking faces. Everybody here works and is proud of it. Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, has served longer in the United States Senate than any of his colleagues. On April 5,1889, he will have been in the Sen .to without a a single break twenty-four years. Congressman W. C. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, has accepted the invitation of the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society to deliver an address at its first annual bauquet, to be j given in Philadelphia on February 13. Cthus W. Field is now three score and ten years old, but still in active business life. His first employment was an errand boy for A. T. Stewart at $2 a week. His duties required him to open and sweep out the store. Thomas B. Allen, of Flemington, W. Va., claims that he was the oldest soldier that served in the late war. He was over seventy years of age when he enlisted. He is now ninety-eight years old, and served under Wellington at Waterloo. Senator Turpie, of Indiana, is said to be a perfect master of no less than seven languages besides the English. He reads Latin, Greek and Hebrew almost as fluently as he does English, and can speak French, Spanish, German and Italian. He baa also pursued studies in Indian, Celtic and other tongues. ^3V? 1 WRECKED AND BURNED. A Frightful Railroad Accident Near Cincinnati. A Vestibule Express Plunges Into Another Train. Glendale, a suburb fifteen miles from Cincinnati, Ohio, is largely inhabited by leading business men and prominent citizens. A special accommodation train is run for the town by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road, stopping only at Winton Place. It was at this point that a shocking collision has occurred. The accommodation had just begun to move away from the station when the Chicago vestibule train, drawn by one of the new strong engines and running from fifty to sixty miles an hour, plunged into its rear. In making up the accommodation the baggage car had been put on the rear end. To this is due the comparatively small loss of life. The big engine plowed half way through the baggage car, pushing it and the two coaches in front off the track into a ditch. The stove in the baggage car set tire to it ana the three cars were soon in a blaze, while a number of helpless people, pinned in th-a debris, were screaming for relief, or in their madness cursing their fate. The baggagemaster, Bob Stevenson, and his assistant, as well as both the fireman and engineer of the vestibule train, were gotten out by hard work. All were terribly injured. Stevenson has died while the others are fatally hurt. The scene about the burning cars were Indescribable. The hundreds on the trains who had escaped uninjured, reinforced by hun dreds from the adjoining suburbs, stood almost crazed with grief at, their helplessness. A score of wounded persons were gotten out by heroic effort and laid in ghastly rows on the station floor. Inside the blazing cars could be seen here and there forms caught by splintered timbers. They writhed and twisted in their awful agony, biting their flesh and tearing their hair. The number at the time this report was written had not been definitely told because of tho number missing and because of the possibility that all the bodies were not found. rr,? a e?_ l vro nre companies nurn uuiuuiuu nuc soon on tlie scene, and, with a relay of police, began searching the ruins. The body of John H. Wilson, Superintendent of the New York Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, was the first one found and identified. Two of those injured in the wreck were taken to the hospital at Cincinnati. Their names are James Staley, of Carthage, Ohio, terribly burned about the face and arms; William Klamitz, also of Carthage, a plumber, aged nineteen, scalp wound and burned hands and arms. Botb have since died. No. 77 was an acommodation train of five cars. No. 31 was the Chicago vestibule train of a baggage and three coaches, all the cars extremely long. No. 77, the accommodation, had stopped at Winton Place, and had just pulled out and rounded a curve, when No. 31 came thundering past. Side tracks at that place obscured the engineer's view till he got within 200 yards or less of the train in front. He reversed the engine, turned on the air brakes and jumped. His was the Strong engine No. I. Mr. Strong, the manufacturer, keeps an engineer with that engine all the time, but he never turns a throttle. Picked engineers in the employ of tho road do that. This exfm rlid not vimD. He sat like a statue on his seat and was not hurt, not even scratched. Not a passenger and not a car on No. 31 was hurt. In Train No. 77 were thirty passengers, nearly all in the front car. Xll who were killed or injured were in the rear car, which was a combination baggage and smoker. The blow of Train No. 31 smashed this car and piled up the next two in front of it in a common wreck, and the two rear cars burned up. The Cincinnati police and the Fire Department from near stations rushed to the scene and citizens poured in from tho populous suburbs so that no one suffered or perished from delay in rescuing. A MAD MOTHEE'S ACT. She Shoots Her Children and Poisons Herself. Postmaster McLean, of Warsaw, Minn., got out of bed early in the morning to build n flro in thft Vitchen. and while he was cone bis wife bolted the bedroom door, and taking a revolver from a bureau drawer shot three of her children. Two of them died instantly. The third, a mere baby, was shot through the lung with fatal effect. The mad woman then poured carbolic acid down the throat of her fourth child, and completed the tragedy by swallowing a dose of the poison herself. The child to whom the acid was administered was in a critical condition. Mrs. McLean had been despondent and nervous for some time, but it was not thought that her mind was affected. The Postmaster ran to the bedroom door as soon as he heard the shooting, but was unable to force an entrance until the tragedy was finished. EATEN BY A WILD BOAK, A Sickening Occurrence in tbe Chickasaw Nation. A family named McMullen, halfbreed Ocmro Tmlinns rAsidincon Wild Horse Creek. Chickasaw Nation, Texas, had a little girl named Clara, six years of age, who was left alone at home while the mother went to the creek, some quarter of a mile distant, to do the family washing. "While she was absent a wild boar entered the cabin an.l attacked the child. When the mother returned the ferocious animal was just eating the last vestige of the little girl. Tho horrible scene caused the mother to faint, and she remained in an unconscious state an hour or more till discovered by a neighbor, who happened to come along. The wild hog escaped into the swamps when the woman appeared. THE WOELD'S FAIE, Appointment of the Special Commit The Speaker of the House of Representatives has appointed the World's Fair Committ eas follows: Candl r, of Massa husetts; Hitt,of Illinois; Bowd. il, of V rginia; Belden, of New York; Frank, of Missouri; Springer, of Illinois; Hatch, of Missouri: Wilson, of West Virginia, and Flower, of New York. Of the location for the Fair the Committ.e stands as follows: For Chicago, Hitt and Springer; for St Louis, Hate a and Frank; for New York, Belden and Flower; f r Washington, . Bowden and Wilson. The Chairman, Mr. Candler, is satifactory to c.11 the contending parties as one not committed to the interests of any p rticu a- city. ^ ? 5 THE LABOR WORLD. \ Ohio machinery makers are busy on orders for heavy machinery to be shipped to the far West. A MiLT/ is to be built at Fall River, Mass., to manufacture its own yarn to spin cotton thread. The grip temporarily silenced the music of two hundred looms in the Whittendon Mills, at Taunton, Mass. A tanner of Havana has discovered an electrical process by which he is able to tan hides of the largest sizes in sixty hours. Under the energetic supervision of several wealthy English women tue work of organizing the unskilled female labor of London is making some progress. The latest report of the Journeymen Tailors' Union of America shows 125 unions with about 10,000 members scattered all over the United States and Canada. Another 1000 foot shaft is to be sunk near Pottsville, Penn., into a very rich vein of anthracite coal. It will give employment to 1000 men. The anthracite coal trade is dull at present. A Pennsylvania railroad man sa;. s young men are selected as engineers of the locomotives on fast trains because old men do not have the nerve to stand the strain of the terrible speed of these trains, and even the nerviest young man gets afraid of them after a while. Then they get to letting up a little in speed, the trains run behind time, the engineers are given other runs and new men are put on in their places. g. * ...? ?. - ' ? " ' -J_ ' v./-' - X " *" r': /**' * / ** '"**: 1'-' if BIO'S BLOODY STREETS. An Account of the Slaughter at the Artillery Barracks. Nearly Two Hundred Soldiers Shot or Executed. Advices received from Brazil indicate that affairs in the new Republic are not progress ing as peaceably as has been supposed. Rio Janeiro has been converted into a military garrison, and the whole country seems to be practically under martial law. The severe methods of the President, General Fonseca, and his Cabinet have apparently turned many ardent supporters of the Provisional i Government against it, and the ranks of the Imperialists are largely augmented from this cause. The English steamer Halley, which arrived at Brooklyn from Rio Janeiro, brought full details regarding the revolt of the Second Artillery regiment in which nearly two hundred men were killed. Captain Moore, of the steamer, did not go ashore during the vessel's stay in port, but Chief Officer J. Rangdale spent several hours in the city and learned all the details of the trouble. "From what I understand," said he, "the trouble had been brewing ior some time. When the new Government took charge it promised to raise the pay of the soldiers, but this was put off until the regiments became exasperated. Among the artillery officers were a number of sympathizers with Dom Po/lrrt Tehn riPTOr Inst an onnortunitv to malign the new Government and incite the privates to open rebellion. A number of small revolts resulted. Even the newspapers, although printing glowing accounts of the enthusiastic reception of the new flag in the various provinces, had begun fault finding with the Government. "This sort of thing continued until the Second Artillery regiment, with whom Dom Pedro had been very popular, broke out in open revolt. At about seven o'clock in the evening they hauled down the Republican flag and hoisted the Imperial standard, at the same time firing artillery salutes. Hastily summoning his Cabinet, Fonseca inquired the meaning of the cannonading and on being informed ordered his officers to suppress it. "Two brigades of infantry were ordered out and the barracks in which the rebellious troops were lodged was surrounded on all sides. The streets leading to the scene of the trouble were blocked with soldiers. The doors of the barracks had been barricaded, but were smashed down by the Republican Isoldiers, and several volleys were poured linto the ranks of the insurgents with terrible results. "The artillerymen made some show of fighting, and ten of the Republican soldiers were killed. It took nearly two hours to i snhrhie the revolt. When the fighting | stopped 114 men and two officers were found to have been killed. All of the officers and ringleaders, together with a number of citizens who had joined them, were arrested, and the remainder of the regiment was put under guard. Those arrested were tried by court martial two days later, and fifty men and seven officers were executed. There were eight citizens who joined in the uprising. They were placed on the German steamer Lisbon and sent to Hamburg, with instructions not to return. Since this took place everything has been quiet, but I think more trouble will break out at the first chance the soldiers get. Everything is ruled by the army, and the people are getting tired of it." Captain Moore stated that an ominous ,quiet prevailed during the time he remained |in port. He could see no change in the state i ;of business since the Provisional Government | Iwas established except that there appeared | to be a shortness of laborers. He could not isocount for this. Little was said in the newspapers regarding the uprising, and it was j treated simply as a revolt by drunken J j soldiers. The papers continue to print de| ! spatches from the colonies telling about the t ei"ir\rv*rf." onVPTl fco til ft I1GW Government, but nine-tenths of these despatches are written by Republicans, and all are sent over telegraph wires controled by the Government. FIFTY-FIRST COMBESS. In the Senate. 22d Dat.?The Senate took up the bill introduced by Mr. Butler to provide for immigration of persons of color from the Southern States, ana Mr. Butler made a long speech in support of the bill; speeches in opposition to it were made by Messrs. Hoar and Blair....Theodore Roosevelt's appointment as Civil Service Commissioner was confirmed. 23d Day.?Bills were reported from committees for the admission of the State of Wyoming into the Union, and to provide a temporary Government for the Territory of Oklahoma... .Mr. Pasco delivered an extended speech on the question of federal election laws. Mr. Chandler replied and spoke at some length of the charges of election frauds in Florida. Mr. Pasco made an extended denial of these charges.... Among the petitions presented and referred wore the following: From the American Federation of Labor in favor of the Blair Education bill; in frvf a rtonsinn 1?W tn All 6I1T viving soldiers of the late war; for the repeal of the limitation on arrears of pensions; for the free coinage of silver; for a law to prohibit speculations in grain and other farm products. 34th Day.?Mr. Blair presented the memorial of the Board of Missions of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of America in favor of the Blair Educational bill, and j asked to have it printed in full in the Record A bill, which was introduced early in j the session by Mr. Hale, was passed i providing that the number of persons who j may at one time be enlisted in the navy (inj eluding seamen, landsmen, mechanics, firej men, and coal heavers, and 1500 apprentices ! and boys, authorized to be enlisted annually) shall noz exceed huuu. ... xne auvers*? ic^ut? ou Mr. Berry's bill concerning the collection of farm statistics for the census was debated. 25th Dav.?A warm debate occurred over a proposition made by Mr. Teller to recommit the bdl requiring the Superintendent of the Census to ascertain what percentage of people own their own farms, the number of I farms under mortgage and the amount theref of.... Mr. Blair's bill was put on the order I of "unfinished business." i In the House. 20th Day.?Mr. McKinley, from the ComI mittee on Rules, reported to the House a resoI lution for the appointment of a committee on the World's Fair, to consist of thirteen memI bers, which committee shall within three days j report a plan by which the House can deterj mine the site of the proposed Fair, and subsequently report a bill providing for the Fair. I A long debate followed, and the duty of rej porting the bill was left with the Committee of Foreign Affairs The Speaker laid before the House several reports upon the operatione of the Woman's Silk Culture Association of the United States, and of the Ladies' Silk Culture Society of California. 21st Day.?The resolution calling for the appointment of a Special World's Fair Committee was adopted, the vote being 140 to 136....A bill was introduced by Mr. Mills providing for reciprocity in trade between the United State and Mexico. 22d Day.?Mr. Frank introduced a bill | placing the World's Fair at St. Louis, and | creating a corporation to carry on the same, I and Mr. Kinsey introduced a bill in relation j to the naturalization of aliens. Both were I referred....In Committee of the Whole it was resolved to prohibit any United States marshal, deputy or agent from acquiring land in OkJanoma. 23d Day.?The Speaker announced the appointment of the World's Fair Committee, which consisted of Messrs. Candler, Hitt, Bowden, Belden, Frank, Springer, Hatch, Wilson and Flower .-..In Committee of the Whole the Oklaho^t Town Site bill was further considered. 24th Day.?Mr. Bland appealed from the Speaker's decision not to allow a demand for tellers; a lone; debate followed, and the House, by 140 to 136, tabled Mr. Bland's appeal .... A letter was received from the President urging that legislation be enacted at once that will put a stop to the wholesale destruction of the public forests by fire and theft. 25th Day.?The Speaker was sustained in a decision upon a point of order raised by Mr. Holman A number, of bills were passed, among them the Oklahoma Town A bill has been parsed in the Mississippi Senate which provides for the formation of a new county caLed Jeff Davie County. coast sentTnelsH i INFORMATION ABOUT AMERI- ] CAN LIGHTHOUSES. ' < The Different Buildings and Lamps ?Notable American Lighthouses ^ ?Number of Persons Employed 1 and the Cost of Maintenance. "" I The latest report of the United State3 Lighthouse Board gives for this country 1 alone the following grand showing of ] our coast sentinels: In 1888 there were i 2230 lighted and 4696 unlighted aids, i making a grand total of 6926 aids to i navigation, consisting of lighthouses," j graded from the first to the sixth order, 1 lightships, fog signals, day beacons and < hnnva of everv description. The reDOrt ( """"J" "" " " " "JT & further goes on to state that in the con- 1 straction, care and maintenance of these i various aids are employed twenty-seven j vessels which are used in the construction of the different works and in carry- 1 ing supplies; the service also giving < employment in different capacities of < light keepers, crews of lightships and 1 laborers to 3035 people. i As it was found necessary that each j signal should present something peculiar < to itself that would render it a protector ] in truth and not a misguiding and con- < fusing indicator, a variety of lights was ] introduced. The complete system as i used at present comprises eight varieties 1 ?namely: fixed white, fixed red, flash- < ing white, flashing red, fixed white varied 1 by red flashes, fixed white varied by red j and white flashes and flashing red and i white alternately. Only the two colors, i white and red, are employed, the latter ] color being obtained by either using a i chimney of ruby glass or panels of red i glass outside the lens; red is thus choscn as being the one color whose rays, above ; all others, best penetrate the thick and : murky atmosphere of a fog. i Of the 2230 lighted aids to navigation : fifty-two are what are termed first order ; lights. The height of the tower is % regulated by the elevation of land on which 1 it is placed, and the angle of vision sea- < ward that is desirable to establish, and a3 ! it is necessary that by day as well as by i night distinct difference should exist be- < tween the different stations, variety of ! shapes, number of out-buildings, differ- ; ent coloring and different combinations of color are employed to give to each 1 station its own idiosyncrasies, making it i a totally separate and individual thing i from any other of its fellows. 1 The Absecon Light, Atlantic City, 1 N. J., which divides with the Fire Island i Light the honor of being the first land- 1 mark discerned by incoming vessels, is i 167 feet high, and to give some idea of ] the thickness of its walls, it will be suffi- 1 cient to say that while the outside diam- j eter at its base is twenty-six feet ten 1 inches, the interior measurement is but < ten feet. Its color or day mark is white i part of the way from the base of the ( LUYYCXj aiiu lb CV/iu^tvbwo iuu<mv?ui?Mvj by two horizontal stripes of red and 1 white for the remainder of the distance : upward. 1 The oldest lighthouse in the United i States is the Boston Light, on Little 1 Brewster Island, at the main entrance to ( Boston Harbor. It is a light of the sec- { ond order, flashing every thirty seconds, thrown from a tower 111 feet above sea * level and visible for sixteen and a half j miles. So greatly was this' light es- ' teemed that in 1718, when the first < keeper, a certain George Worthy lake, * lost his life in a storm, together with < that of his wife and daughter, Benjamin f Franklin wrote a ballad thereon and $ hawked it about the streets of Boston. ^ During the Revolution this light passed 1 to and fro between the -British ana Americans, until, when the British fleet evacuated Boston Harbor, it was blown up by them. It was, however, restored t by Massachusetts in 1783, and rebuilt in ] its present shape in 1859. ] The_Farallon Light, on the largest ot j the Farallon Islands, off the entrance to ' San Francisco Bay, Cal., commands the t surrounding sea from the great height of < 360 feet. It is lonely enough, this j Farallon Light, with its conical, white < tower perched. upon the very highest ? point of the rock, with no neighbors ^ save tbe screaming gulls, and a weird c and mournful sound issuing from the t depth of the rock every forty-five sec- i onds, a first-class steam sirec or fog horn j occupying a subterranean cave. 11 The well-protected Boston Harbor can | e also boast of another fine light, the cele- 1 brated Minot's Ledge Light, founded < veritably on a rock, holes twelve inches t in diameter and five feet deep being i drilled therein to receive the heavy i wrought iron piles on which this octagon i tower is built. Such is the present struc- f ture, the first one being swept away in i ^ 1851,after the labor of eleven years having i been expended upon it. So important 1 was this warning signal considered, that 1 in May, 1855, the work of rebuilding it a was begun, and completed in 1860, and s as the sun went down on the evening of < November 15 of that year, the magnifi- t cent star of Minot's Ledge Light shone <j out steady and clear from its tower. The r "Outer Minot's," on which this light ( stands, has rarely a surface greater than s fn-ontiT.-fiTTo fpp+. whirh is left uncovered s by the sea; the lighthouse tower is 1 therefore the realm in which the keepers ^ must live and move and have their being, j The structure is divided into five stories, with a sixth compartment directly under the lantern, constituting the keepers' rooms, store rooms, etc., and the entire s cost of this light was $300,000. ? Such structures are likely to be super- ? seded^by towers of iron instead of masonry, j as being lighter and especially adapted to sites, where altitude and lightness of < weight are both indispensible. The two g rsnresentative ones of this order are those s r n the Fowey Rocks and American Shoals, \ Florida, and which rest on iron piles j driven into a foundation of coral rock. s The first of these fine structures built at ( Fowey Rocks, at the northern extremity of Florida Reefs, was begun in the spring s of 1867, and completed on June 15, f 1878, the whole sum expended being i but $175,000. f Lighthouses are divided into various s orders, from first to sixth, according to i the strength of lens apparatus. They are j s placed on capes, rocks and headlands, and f vary from eighteen to twenty-seven nau- c tical miles in the carrying power of their lights. Second and third order lights t nre employed to mark islands, reefs, r sandbars, etc., while the lights of an in- t fcrior order are used at the entrances to t harbors and channels. The river lights I are very simple in their arrangements, c consisting of a pole with an arm at its top to support a lantern, or sometimes an 1 iron spindle inserted into the rock in the t bed of the river. i Pier-head lights are peculiar to the i fl harbors of the great lakes, and are parallel piers of crib-work filled stone and run out into the lake. On pier is placed a light of the fourth or fift^H order, in a frame structure, either squarsV or polygonal, in whiclris a room for sup- 1 plies and a place for the keeper to sleep.. J Buoys are used to mark channels, and are j of two varieties, lighted and unlighted, j there being but few of the former, and M those lighted by compressed illuminating I gas and electricity. It may have been a matter of wonder' to the many in this age of electrical appliances, that that agent has not super- jj seded the use of mineral oil in the major- "! ity of lights. This is partly owing to the fact that the clectric light being a 1 ii^nno nr\4- oViaw oc ^uxg VTUibc u^ui uyvo uvv ouvr? uo vuirtinctly in the white opaque atmosphere if a fog as does the yellow illumination rf the mineral oil, and partly to the fact that electric application is not yet sufficiently perfected to render it thoroughly reliable. The lightships are schooner strongly ' built, brilliantly painted, and with a colDred disk suspended from each mast to iistinguish them from ordinary vessels by day, while at night there are powerful lights hoisted, consisting of eight or nine lamps with reflectors arranged in a circle, inclosed in a lantern, which are ij lowered to the deck into a small house luring the daytime. These vessel's are provided with a fog-bell and sometimes i fog-whistle, and are stationed on shoals where it is impossible to establish any Dther kind of warning light, being held fast in their position by an anchor weighing about 3000 pounds, and carrying its name "mushroom anchor" by its peculiar . shape. There are twenty-three of these1 lightships now in position on the coast, ind they are much used in the English % service. ' In all of the States heavy fines and im~ A prisonments are meted out to those whb^ y interfere with these aids to navigation, / ind in Florida the penalty of a certain' number of stripes to be applied to theperson of the transgressor is added. The manufacturing establishments of the Lighthouse Board and the general * iepot of supplies for the United Statesire on Staten Island, and these supplies- ire distributed by the aid of steam ten iers. The whole cost' of tne united States Lighthouse Service foots up per*- j pear to the grand total of $1,415,500. The coast is divided into fifteen districts, each district having a naval officer is inspector, who is expected to examine- * ill the stations in his district once every i three months, making reports to theboard monthly covering all things connected with each station, furnishing to? the engineers notes of needed repairs, and. attending to salaries of keepers and sup* plies of stations. In addition, each sta*' ;ion has an engineer, an officer of thairmy, who has charge in some cases of' i two or three districts, and to whom is :onfided the construction and repairs ofill fixed aids to navigation within thelircuit. '"-'-M The number of lighthouse keepers for* j the fiscal year ended June 30, 1888, was 1024, their salaries varying according to- . the importance of lights and cost of living in different sections of the country; for out of their salaries the keepers areexpected to pay for their uniforms and ;ostof living. The salaries paid on thePacific Coast are about $1000, while ilong the Atlantic there is but one, the m Minot's Ledge keeper, who gets unount. As a rule the keepers of lights)f the first order receive from $700 to6800 per year, whilst those of the lower, jrders range from $500 to $600. Thesalaries of assistant keepers vary from> : M00 to $550, whilst those of the Cap-" iains of the light vessels are from $750'' j :o $1000. ?New York News. Gladstone's Daily Life. . a Mr. Gladstone lives a very regular life- J it his home, says a London letter to thePhiladelphia Press. He breakfasts light? y about seven o'clock, and shortly be- 'ore eight walks to the church for prayers. Po the intelligent observer the sight of' ;he great statesman walking to church at his early hour in the morning cannot ail to be interesting. Clad in a long .j :oat, tightly buttoned, with a long- i ihawl wrapped closely around his neck, rearing a soft felt hat, his appearance ifl- , lecidedly picturesque. Upon his return j o the castle from morning prayers, he- etires to his study, when he reads and inswers, with the aid of his secretary^ J lis enormous mass of daily correspondincc. There is no regular hour for(l uncheon at the castle and it is partaken,' >f by those at home at various times. Lt; he afternoon Mr. Gladstone takes a! valk in the grounds, and if the weather s propitious usually engages in his favorte exercise of tree chopping. He dines J it eight o'clock, afterward reads 01^ vrites, and at ten o'clock retires for the1 light, Though abstemious in his habits,* le usually drinks bitter beer with hia unch and a glass or two of claret or port it dinner. Mr. Gladstone is not in \ iense ascetic, is a generous liver and is ij': jreat believer in the virtues of a glass ofj jood port wiue. When engaged iir ipeaking his fillip is a compound of sher^ y and egg, -which is prepared by Mrg.j Gladstone with as much anxiety and care is if it were the elixir of life. Mr.Glad-j tone never smoked. He acquired hiaj, labits at a period when tobacco smoking' vas generally regarded as somewhat vul* jar among the better classes. Natural SealsklH. The glossy Crown of seal fur, so mud idmired by the female sex, coUectivelyj md individually, is not the color of lh.8, 1 immal which originally wore the ex-, , Densive apparel. Jj The natural color of sealskin is a sort ' ** U-j* rmrwi TT~lfV? ft fillflj )i suvery, grujiou uiuwu, mvu - --p,^ jestion of several other tints. It is quite, is pleasing to the eye as the unrelieved-' >rown of the dyed fur, and the wonder( s that garments made of undyed skin^ ire so rarely found ia this section of the :ountry. j On the Pacific coast they are frequently een. The Eastern woman who becomes he possessor of a saeque made of thflf v lighly valued fur in its natural color eel proud in the knowledge that she hna oinething uniqne and very pretty, but 10 doubt her pleasure will be tainted with " orrow at the thought that so few of her riends will recognize the garment as one >f sealskin. Perhaps the fact that none but thoj lyed fur ifi placcd on the market hero nay be explained by the other fact that? he high price of sealskin is mostly 0 the dyeing, which has to ba done*injJfl| ingland. as no American has thus for^ liscovered a process equal to the English;? I Of coarse, the transportation to Eiig-J 1 and and return, and the dyeing add tp I he expense very materially, and expense' M 1 one of the principal charms that lurk d the velvety fur of the mild-eyed ?eal*J fl