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? * -U- I ? f' BLOWN INTO ETERNITY. A Tremendous and Fatal Explosion of Natural Gas. Two Buildings at Columbus, Ohio, Hurled Into tlie Air, While the streots of Columbus, Ohio, ^ere fuU of shoppers and persons going to their homes after their day's toil a little after five o'clock in the evening, an alarm of fire was turned in from the corner of High and Maiu streets. The clanging of the l>ells on the fire engines and the general confusion attracted a great crowd. The alarm was caused by an explosion of nrcc in a linncn nh t.lin corner of "Wall UOVUI Ul ?? M UVWM ?- - and Noble alleys. While the crowd surrounded the place a second explosion occurred in a house across the alley. Without a thought of danger the crowd rushed to the scene of the fire. It was found that the first explosion had occurred in a two story dwelling at the southwest corner of Wall and Noble alleys, at the middle of the square bounded by High and Front and Main and Mound streets. The police were quickly on the scene, but the people were permitted to crowd by hundreds into the narrow alley and push up close to the house. The cries of the injured people within the wrecked house could be plainly heard. Moans and shrieks mingled with the hoarse calls of the firemen, the clanging of the alarm bells on the engines and the murmurings of the crowd. A whisper ran through the throng that a natural gas main ran east and west through Noble alley, but this was soon put at rest by the statement that the blaze was due to a gasoline explosion in the house, and the people about did not heed the warning. Th<* fire was almost under control and the people were standing about. The alley was crowded with lookers on, mauy of whom were turning to go home, when a terrific explosion rent the air. A sheet of flame burst from the building at the northwest cornor of the alley, and a great mass of bricks, beams and stone that thirty seconds before had constituted a two story brick building went Hying with ? ?- * *1 u remac iorce imuugu iuc <??. ^mu uiun, the quiet of death. The scene that followed was terrible. The people fled, shrieking, in all directions, while the alley was covered with a mass of debris, from which the moans of buried humans came. Pallid, trembling women tottered and ran across the alley and streets, moaning or shrieking. Men with foreheads and shoulders drabbled with blood staggered from among the debris. ' Petty Merrotte, enveloyed in a sheet of 1 flame, bare headed and frenzied, ran shrieking from the house across the alley. A man ] tore off his overcoat and ran to throw it i around her, but a fireman who held the nozzle of a hose saw her danger and turned the stream on her. It knocked her down, \ but saved her life, as the water extinguished | the flames. She was lifted from the ground i and hurried into a neighboring house. Every inch of the clothing had been burned from . ber down to the waist. , An old man, venerable and with white ' hair and beard, was dug from the ruius and hurried to a place where medical r.ss:stanco could be given him. His frosty beard was ' covered with blood and he seemed to be in a dying condition. , A mother, with her heart frozen by fear I and grief, staggered from the rains, holding | tight to her oreast the seemingly lifeless | form of her threc-raonths-old babe. I The explosion, as near as can be ascertained, resulted from an accumulation of | natural gas in the cellar of the house occu- , pied by Michael Bowers and Mr. Merrotte. No natural gas pipes were ever put into the house, but a natural gas main in Noble alley leaked. The eround was frozen and the gas ' entered the cellar. It has no odor and its 1 presence cannot be detected. mi., r c it-- -? JLUU IU1 UU UL LlIU CApiUaiUll JU uici t v/vw v and Bowers house took a westerly and north- 5 erly direction, and scattered bricks and lura- 3 ber and lathing for a distance of twenty feet. : The side of the Merrotte house was blown out, and the roof, freed of its support, .fell ( over, hanging from the top of one side of the j house to the yard below. The exploded gas, after doing its terrible . work on the south side of Noble alley, leaped J over to the north side of the alley and com- 1 pletely destroyed the house at 34 West Noble, f occupied by Edward Otstot and Mr. James. ' This house was a story and a half brick structure, with three rooms down and two up C stairs. Here the terrible force of the ex- l ploded gas was shown. Everything was blown to chips. A force , of workmen at work for a week could not ? reduce the house to kindling wood so thor e oughly as did this explosion in one short moment. The explosion was upward, as bricks, doors, window sashes, lathing, siding, etc., were piled in a heap all about tne building and only a dozen feet from it. I, The work of getting out the dead and car- 5 ing for the wounded was attended with great 3 excitement. ? By the two explosions six persons were killed and nearly thirty injured, many , fntjillxr . | J ARRESTED AT THE ALTAR. j Detcctivcs Break Up a Wedding Party at Buffalo. A merry wedding party was broken up at i Buffalo, N. Y., in a highly dramatic man- 5 r.er. Pretty Linnie Hyman was to have married John Brennan at the residence of ( Frank Geiger, on Kehr street. The guests, t bridemaids, best man and the clergyman were t all there. As the blushing bride stood up be- t side the smiling groom and the minister got all ready for business two special detectives . entered the bridal parlor, and then and there | art-ested the groom on a charge of forgery, to t the great consternation of the assembled ? guests. He was removed to the station-house and locked up. The bride went nearly frantic in the confusion that followed the appearance ' of the detectives. She now lies ill with fever. 1 Brennan is a man of about thirty years of age, well known, and a pleasant talker. He i was employed by William Brenuan, a pro- 1 duce dealer. The younger Brennan has for 1 some time been swindling his employer by forging orders for grain to be used on the ( employer's farm. 1 < * MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. ' Joseph Jefferson has received $12,000 for 1 his autobiography. Mart Anderson is thirty years of age, ' and has boen on tho stage fourteen years. ! M. Paclus, the French originator of the , "Boulanger March," is coming to this country. Johann Strauss denies the report that he is to come to Ihis country with his orchestra. Victoria Vokes has closed her season. Bad business, bad plays and ill health are the cause. Clara Morris is going on a tour of the Northwest next season under the direction of Klaw & Erlanger. Stragglers from stranded theatrical com?mies are as frequent on Broadway, New ork, as bees in a hive. Max O'Kell, the French writer, has begun his American lecture tour. Tremont Temple, Boston, gave him an audience of 2500. They disapproved of Tamagno, of Patti's opera troupe, in i_;nicago uecause ne r??vc? $2000 a nigut and tipped the hotel waiter with one-cent pieces. Diox Boccicault has completed a new play for Sol. Smith Russell, which will bo seen for the first time at Daly's Theatre, New York, next fall. Miss Van Zaxdt, the American prima donna, says she never enjoyed singing so much anywherensinSt.Petersburg, although the climate tried her voice very much. Saint-Saexs's new opera, "Ascanio,"which has been in preparation for months at ili? Paris Grand Opera Ilouse. was held back for want of a contralto to till one of tbe chief roles. It was announced that Henry E. House would bring a suit for damages against Samuel E. Clemens (Mai'k Twain) in connection with the dramatization of "The Prince and the Pauper." SiGNOR Salvini, the Italian tragedian, ; has a most wonderful appetite, and it is reported of him that once when the cholera was raging he preserved hig health by fasting on 1 three oeefste&ks a day. : THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. The four-story brick block, 65 to 101 Bristol street, Boston, has been gutted by fire. Five men were injured, and the loss is estimated at ?100,000. Adam Forkpauoh, the veteran showman, died at his residence in Philadelphia of pneumonia superinduced by grip. He was sixtyeight years of age. Two little girls named Walker were killed by a train near Alleghany Citj', Penn. Several men were shooting at a mark near Snow-shoe, Penn., when Mike Bordner, one of the party, shot and killed a man named Stachick who was replacing the target. Mr. and Mrs. George Comstock, an aged and wealthy couple of Wilton, Conn., while returning home in a carriage from the funeral of a relative, were struck by a train and fatally injured. A quintuple wedding took place in Daviess County, Ky., the other day. The five brides, dressed alike, came in one carriage and the five grooms in another. li. HUSH, ft lire man, wuu ivas lujureu ujr it | "wild train," has recovered $40,000 from the j Northern Pacific Railroad. He lost all use of his legs. By the explosion of gas reservoirs at Sioux I City, Iowa, several workmen were fatally j hurt, several buildings wrecked, and $10,000 worth of machinery destroyed. The Woman's Christian Temperance i League was organized at Cleveland, Ohio. Albert Paul Smith, manager of the Chicago Clearing House, dropped dead of heart disease. Nicholas Meyer, of Chicago, 111., murdered his pretty twenty-year-old wife in a fit of jealous rage. Five men were killed and several injured by the premature explosion of a blast, caused by a cigarette, in Willies County,' N. C. As a funeral procession was crossing a railroad track in Chicago an express train dashed into it killing three persons and wounding another. Heavy storms have prevailed on the Atlantic, and a number of steamships have arrived at New York considerably battered by the waves. Addison* M. Sawter, the millionaire of Athol, Mass., inventor of the ''Sawyer pun,"' which was used during the Civil TV ar, is dead. George G. Lounsbert, for many years cashier of the New York Postofflce, shot himself at the home in Hackeusack, N. J., after he had been told that he must give up his place to another man; a shortage of $27,X)0 m his accounts was found. By the sudden cave-in of an embankment in an ore mine near Norristown, Penn., three men were smothered beneath twenty tons of dirt. During confirmation services at St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, i young man arosa from his seat in the :hurch, and pointing a revolver at Bishop 0. W. Whitaker, who was taking part in the services, fired a shot at him. Immediately there was great confusion, and the would-be murderer was taken into custody. The body of J. G. Ditman, a banker in Philadelphia, was found floating in the Schuylkill River. Tobacco-growers in session in Syracuse, ST. Y., passed resolutions demanding protection from Sumatra leaf. Sixteen* miners' families at "Walston and Adrian, Penn., were put out of their houses ay Sheriff Sater. The Sheriff was accompanied by fifty-four Pinkerton police with iheir Winchesters, but the miners made no ;rouble. General Lester B. Faulkner, the wellcnown Democratic politician, died at Canaieraga, N. Y. George Ritchie, of Moose Hill, Me., aged [6, was shot and killed by his cousin, 3ernard Ritchie, who mistook him for a leer, while hunting in tho woods. John Haffy, of Centralia, Penn., went J lome drunk and threatened to beat his wife. | She gave him some laudanum to make him I leep, and it killed him. No one will prose:ute. James Knap p. at Danbury, Conn., kicked lis wife to death because she hid his supply if whisky. The Congregational Church at Danvers Centre, Boston, has been burned. The church s a historic one. It was the successor of the mcitnt Salem village parish church in which he witchcraft troumes Degan. John Votozil, a Bohemian cigarmaker, of I Jew York city, in a fit of insanity flung liis x>y through a window and killed him. W. H. McHEifRY and Alexander Carmen fere blown up by nitro-glycerine near Bradord, Penn., while preparing to torpedo a rell. South and West. John* Gibson fell into a tank filled with Dgs and boiling water at Grand Rapids, Iich., and was scalded to deatb. Two other aen while trying to help him received possiilv fatal injuries. Ex-Senator Riddleberger, of Virginia, lied at Winchester, aged forty-six years. A railroad collision occurred at Camp j lill, Fla., by which two engineers, two train lands ana one fireman were Killed and several j lersons injured. Three boys who were coasting down hill j rom the Lakeview Hotel to the Mineral ' lange Railroad track in Hancock, Mich., ran I inder a freieht car coming down a steep jade. Oneof the boys were killed and an- | ither fatally injured. Ira Gate, foreman of the Red River ; battle Company at Springer, N. M., shot and | lilled two Mexican sheep herders because of | heir trespassing on the company's reserval j ion with their flocks. The Denver and Rio Grande Salt Lake sin-ess of seven coaches, containing about one j lundred passengers, was lifted from the j Back at Monument, Col., and sixteen pasengers were injured. Thirteen houses have been burned in 3unker Hill, Ind. Firemen from Logans- I )ort saved the town from destruction. Charles Sage, railroad brakeman and a lephew of Millionaire Russell Sage, of New ifork, fell between two cars at Lee's Summit, klo., and was instantly killed. At a meeting of the Territorial Democratic ^omnmiee ai> wneyenne, w yommg, a i kw ution was unanimously adopted favoring Statehood and urging Congress to take immediate action looking to this end. The State Supreme Court decided that the Republican Legislature of Montana is the legal body. The Ohio and the De Soto, Mississippi River steamers have been lost, the first being sunk and the second burned. Intelligence received at Denver, Col., "rom the Stanton railroad surveying expedition shows that one-fourth or the entire party perished in Marble Canon. Washington. Senator Sherman, who has been con fined to his home for some time suffering from influenza, has quite recovered. The President a few days since sent to the Senate a large batch of nominations, including three Collectors of Customs and numerous Supervisors of the Census. Postmaster-General and Mrs. Wanamaker gave their first card reception at the Capital. It was one of 1 lie most gorgeous affairs ever witnessed in Washington. Tns sub-committeo of the House World's j Fair Committee decided to ask the ful com- j uuttee for permission to frame a World's Fair bill, omitting reference to site. TnE printc-1 report of the International Marine Confer en 2 lias been issued for the i information of mariners. It makes many changes and modifications in the foi mer code, ' simplifying many of the signals, and milling greatly to their efTiciency. The Sub-Committee of tlio House "World's : Fair Committee received permission to frame j a World's Fair bill, leaving open the question of sit*1. Mrs. Harrison gave her first reception to j the public at the White House. Important deplomatic nominations by the j President: Augustine Heard, of Massachusetts, Minister Resident and ConsulGeneral to Corea; Richard Guenther, of Wis- j consin, Consul-General at the City of Mexico; j Louis Gottschalk, of California, Consul at j Stuttgart. John F. Winter, of Illinois,Consul j at Mannheim; Thomas McDermott, of Ten- j nessee. Consul at Saint Thomas, West Indies; i George M. Pepper, of Ohio, Consul at Milan. The House Ways and Means Committee is | busily at work preparing the draft of a j tariff bill. Robert P. Porter, the Superintendent of the Census has appointed Miss Phoebe Cozzins, of St. Louis, a Special Agent of the Eleventh Census. The President and Mrs. Harrison, assisted by Mrs. Morton and the ladies of the Cabinet, gave a reception to the members of Congress and the Judiciary at the White House from 9 to 11 o'clock. The bill for the relief of the survivors of the wreck of the United States vessels at Samoa was considered by the House Naval Committee, and an amendment bringing those who have since died of injuries received in the disaster under the provisions of the bill was added. Foreiffn. The tremendous patriotic f ury in Portugal against England is abated, The Anglopliobists are nearly silent, and the excitement and the demonstrations in the provinces have ceased. Five persons were killed bv an explosion in a coal mine at Pontypool, Wales. Nine hundred thousand arrobes of sugar cane on the estates Iturralde and Curbelo, near Cienfuegos, Cuba, have been destroyed by fire. ' 1 r-:i? a large numDer UJL Ittuuin Uaicvaiuiot at Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, amounting to about $10,000,000. I Three thousand Portuguese citizens left their cards at the French and Spanish Legations in Lisbon, to show their appreciation of the sympathy with Portugal shown by the French and Spauish in the Anglo-Portuguese dispute. Edward Rothschild, son of Baron ai phonse Rothschild, became involved in a dispute with Marquis de Gouy. A challenge was sent and accepted, and the duel was fought near Paris. The Marquis was wounded. The steamer Sardinian, which arrived at Liverpool, reported that one of her funnels was broken by a heavy sea and the fourth engineer, Tillman, and two firemen were burned to death and four others badly injured. Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, took luncheon | and spent the afternoon witn Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden Castle, in England. The National Bank of the United States of Brazil was incorporated at Rio Janeiro, the capital of $100,000,000 being subscribed within four hours. The Canadian Government was asked in | the House of Commons to impose a probimtory duty oil United States dressed beef coming into Canada. A fierce storm prevailed in Great Britain and Ireland. Much property was destroyed, great damage was done to shipping, and a number of sailors were drowned. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage and his wife sailed from Liverpool on the steamer Aurania for New York. There has been a prolonged snow-storm in Hungary and Styria. Houses are demolished and many lives have been lost. A treaty has been signed by Brazil with the Argentine Republic which settles the protracted dispute regarding the frontiers of the Missiones territory. The Roman Catholic Church at Beauport, Quebec, valued at $300,000, has been burned. The schooner G. C. Kelly, of Boston, went ashore at Tusket, Nova Scotia. Tbree of her crew were drowned. The British ship, Loch Moidart, went ashore at Callantsoog, Holland Thirty of her crew were washed overboard after she struck and all perished. General de Fonseca, head of the Provisional Government of Brazil, is said to be " " * " * *- ? T?; _ r : dying in a notei in a suduto 01 ruo utuieiru. The United States brigantine George 0. Whitford was seized at Colon by the Colombian authorities and Captain Foster was cast into jail. The vessel was searched for arms and held in spite of the clearance papers issued by Consul Calderon. Queen* Christina^ Spain, and the whole court attended at the Royal Chapel in Madrid a thanksgiving service for the recovery of the baby King. The Indians of the San Bias coast, Colombia, have raised the American flag and defied Colombian law. The Czar of Russia has declined to arbitrate iu the differences between France and Holland over boundaries in their South American possessions. LATER NEWS. ' Hamilton Hall, at Salem, Mass., built in the Revolutionary times under the name of Assembly Hall, and named Hamilton Hall in 1805, in honor of Alexander Hamilton, has been gutted by Arc. William Messtenheffer, foreman of the stone quarries near Lancaster, Penn., was killed by an explosion of dynamite. The Sharp Rifles, of Lexington" Ky., j receivea oraers to oe reaay to marcn to Harlan County. The occasion was the apprehension of trouble there when the Circuit Court opened. Kinney Graham, a farmer of London, Ohio, while intoxicated, shot and seriously wounded "William Woodhouse and his wife. An old grudge had existed between the parties. Three Chinamen were killed by a snow slide at Green Valley. Cal. Tiie colonial assembly which took place in the theater at Richmond, Va., was the most brilliant and original social event ever witnessed there. The assembly was gotten up by the ladies composing the Association for the Preservation of Rare Antiquities of the ouii/e. The new Brazilian Government was formally recognized by President Harrison. J. J. Noah, a newspaper correspondent^ has been appointed a special agent of the Xlth Census, to assist in the collection of statistics relative to newspapers and tho periodical press. By the capsizing of a ferryboat at Grimlinghausen, Gel-many, seven persons were drowned. Heavy floods prevail along the Rhine, Germany. The bridge of boats at Dusseldorf has been broken by the rushing wat?r, and sections of it have been carried away. The steamship Lake Superior, from Hallfax, arrived at Liverpool, having lost 335 head of cattle, which were washed overboard. Major Sep.pa Pinto, the Portuguese : 1 -x t army omcer, arriveu ai< jjuuicuwj .um i^uc^, on Delagoa Bay, South Africa. He stated that at the time of his leaving Mozambique that province was tranquil. IMPALED ON A SHAFT, A Young Man Meets a Horrible and Carious Death. S. B. Paul, a young man living in Baltimore, has died from injuries sustained in a singular manner. He was out driving with Julius Klisties, a friend, wheu the horse became frightened and ran off. In avoiding a street car, the horse swerved to one side and collided with a team coining from an oppo- ! sito direction. Paul and Klisties were j thrown out, the latter falling on his face and . bruising it severely. Paul was hurled direct- I ly over the buggy's dashboard, and was iin- j paled on the end of the shaft of the other j vehicle, the iron end of the shaft entering his J thigh just below tho lower rib, and coining ! out at the back. The horse leaped back wan 1 and released the shaft from Paul's body. A QUEEN'S PERIL, Queen OIga, of Greece, Narrowly lis- j eapes Death by Electricity. Tho Queen of Greece has had a narrow j escape from a frightful death. While driving | through the streets of Athens in an open j carriage an electric light wire broke. A portion of it fell upon the Queen and , tightly enwrapped her. Several officers i sprang to her aid and quickly extricated her. ! Within a minute after the wires were re- I moveid from her the current was turned on, ' so her escape is regarded as almost miraculous. L. 1. j BURNED AND MANGLED. Many Persons Cremated in a Railroad Wreck. A Woman's Children Almost Roasted Before Her Eyes, Within seven miles of the place where the Broad Ripple Railroad disaster occurred anotherMonon passenger train has been wrecked and thirty-two of the eighty-five persons who were on the train bear the marks of the accident. Six of them were killed, and others were fatally hurt. The train left Chicago at 11:35 o'clock. It was within sixteen miles of Indianapolis, and was approaching the village of Carmel, Ind., when the jarring of the cars made the passengers aware that part of the | train was off the track. A rail had slipped irom its piace or an (iiie woo iuua.ch juju oo a bridge over a small stream, known as "Wilkinson Creek, was reached. The locomotive rushed ahead and, with the baggage and smoking cars, passed over the bridge in 6afety. But the structure fell with the third car and the Pullman sleeping-car. When the accident occurred the train was behind time, and was running at unusual speed. The engineer, who was ill, had gone back into one of the passenger cars, and had placed in charge of his locomotive a substitute, who got on the train at Frankfort. Immediately after the fall of the bridge fire broke out in the wrecked cars, and those who were injured too badly to move were burned to death. The passengers who escaped injury at once began giving such assistance as they could render to their less fortunate companions, and some of them did heroic work. One of the most active was J. P. Altizer, a Chicago commercial traveler, who was in the third car. Another was Lewis Nauman, of Cleveland, who, though himself badly injured, worked for others until he fell unconcsious. Farmers soon gathered from the neighborhood, but the flames which spread over the wreck prevented them from rescuing those which were caught in the ruins, and they could do nothing more than aid the injured, i Some of these were found wandering about in the fields near the scene of the disaster, insane from their injuries and from excitement. One of this number was Conductor AngelL, who, with the blood streaming down his face, | was running round and round in a circle, and when recalled to consciousness was so weak that he could not stand. Mr. Altizer, the Chicago man, who took the lead in the relief work, was sitting just behind a lady and her two children when the train fell through the bridge. The woman j and children were talking and laughing when the first jar of the car was felt. "I staggered to my feet," Mr. Altizer says, "and found that I was not seriously hurt. Near me were three women piled in a heap. The car was full of dirt, gravel and smoke. I grabbed the woman on top of the heap, and dragged her through the broken timbers to the outside and laid her on the bank. I ran back to the car and was joined by a brave fellow, whose name I do not know. We each brought out another woman, and the conductor, who was caught under a seat, was released. I could do no more. The car was on fire. The little children, who five minutes before had laughed so gleefully, were held down by the unturned stove roasting them to death." Nauman, the Cleveland commercial traveler, was the other man to whom Altizer refers as having helped in the heroic work. In a dazed condition he rushed into the burning car and tried to rescue the children, whose cries, as the flames crept about them, were agonizing. His efforts were futile, and when he was driven from the car by the flames he fell fainting, with his hands and face badly burned. He has been unconscious ever since. The mother of the children was dragged from the car, her face and head covered with blood. She started mck into the car, crying pitoously for he children, and had to be forcibly led away. Otto Gresham, who was slightly injured and escaped with only part of his clothing. | hurried to the telegraph office at Carmel ana sent to Indianapolis the first news of the disaster. A relief corps was sent to the wreck. An early morning train from that city reached the place an hour after the accident. The passengers on this train at once joined the relief corps in the work of preparing the injured for the trip to the city. Nothing could be done for the dead and their bodies were not taken from the wreck until 4 o clock in the afternoon. The injured were taken to Indianapolis on the relief train -.t 11:20 o'clock. Several of the sufferers were taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, among them Lewis Nauman, of Cleveland, who received probably fatal injuries in trying to rescue ictims of the wreck. When the relief train was approaching the city, an old man, Henry Muston, in attempting to board it, fell under the wheels and was killed, PKOMINENT PEOPLE. President Harrison plays billiards very [ often. President Diaz, of Mexico, is largely in- ! teres ted in the marble business. Evarts, Depew and Ingersoll are said to take scarcely any exercise at all. Benjamin F. Butler says that he will have nothing to do in future with political parties. One of the leading members of the Maryland Senate is Mr. Poe, a relative of the late Edgar Allan Poe. Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, the famous Baptist, is cnppiea witu tne sciuurca auu is ujiamc w leave Mentone, France, A farewell dinner was givenj to Henry George, in New York city, previous to liis departure for Australia. The little King of Spain is described by those who have seen hiin as a nervous, irritable child and very homely. Archbishop Corrigan has sailed on his journey to Rome to consult with the Pope about American church matters. Atlanta has decided to bui'd a city hospital to be named after H. W. Grady, for which over $45,000 is now on hand. Appleton Longfellow, son of the poet, ; is at Nice, France, the guest of James ! Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald. Rev. John Jasper, the Richmond colored preacher, has repeated his "De Sun Do Move" cormnn nno hnnrlrorl nnrl cpvpnf.tr.fivp t.imfiS The Duke of Veragua, who has been appointed Spanish Minister of Commerce, is a lineal descendant of Christopher Columbus. Mr. Gladstone says he is opposed to nationalization of land. He does not see how the State could be a good and capable landlord. It is reported that the Czars doctors have observed in him symptoms of cutaneous ; poisoning after wearing his German uniforms. It is related that when Calvin S. Brice. the next Ohio Senator, went to college he often found it hard work to pay his necessary expenses. John M. Clark, the new Collector of the port of Chicago, is fifty-three years of age, and estimated to be worth half a million dollars. Secretary Proctor has a fortune of nearly $300,000 and some valuable marble contracts that bring him in $10,000a year besides his official salary. One of the hale old men of Great Britain is Professor Blackie, the famous Greek scholar, j who at eighty is still able to lecture to the Edinburgh students. Thomas Cook, the founder of the Cook's tourist industry, was said to be contemplat ing a journey to that country whence no traveler ever returns. With the exception of the time he was in the Cabinet, Senator Sherman lias served continuously in Congress since the assein- I ulage or the Thirty-fourth. Mark Twai.v works on!}' thres montlis in the year, and then does his writing on a farm near Elniira, N. Y., where he Ims an octagonal glass room in which he works. Andrew Carnegie, the iron man, says he intends to give Pittsburg a larger public | library, art gallery and music hail building than the ono he has given Allegheny City. Professor David Swing, the famous Chicago preacher, says that the fate of the first sermon he tried to preach would have discouragtu most men from continuing in the ministry. John Ruski.v, the great leader in English critical literature, has become hopelessly insane. His health has been lailing for years. He is growing steadily weaker and it is doubtful if he ever leaves his bed a<rain. ; FIFTY-FIRST CONGBESS." In the Senate. 26th Dat.?Mr. Vest presented the credentials of "W. A. Clark and Martin Maginnis as Senators elect from the State of Montana. They were read and referred, on Mr. Vest's motion, to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. On his motion also the four gentlemen claiming to be Senators elect were admitted, pending the contest, to the privileges of the floor....The concurrent resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Chandler for the investigation by the Immigration Committees of both Houses of matters connected with immigration was taken up and agreed to.. .A bill was passed authorizing the Secretary of War to procure and present suitable medals to the survivors of the "forlorn'hope st >rming party" of Port Hudson... .Mr. Ingalls spoke Tor two hours on Mr. Butler's bill for the emigration of colored people to Africa. 27th Day.?There was a long debate over the Chandler resolution concerning the recent hanging in effigy of Secretary Proctor at Aberdeen, Miss. ...The House bill to sim plity the laws in relation to the collection of customs revenue was presented to the Senate, and on motion of Mr. Morrill was ordered to be printed and referred to the Finance Committee Mr. Chandler presented a minority report upon the Hale bill, authorizing the construction of eight battleships and certain other vessels... .Among the bills introduced and referred were the following. By Mr. Hale?To require the Superintendent of Census to as?ertain the number of people who own their farms and homes, and the amount of mortgage indebtedness thereon. By Mr. Pasco?To reimburse the several States for the interest paid by them on money raised for war expenses in the late war. By Mr. Cockrell?To repeal the silver coinage act of February 28, 1878, and to require the purchase and coinage of $5,000,000 a month in standard silver dollars On motion of Mr. Call the adverse report heretofore made from the Committee on Foreign Relations in regard to the establishment of a republic in Cuba was placed on the calendar. 28th Day.?The Direct Tax Bill was passed ... .On motion of Mr. Sherman, the Senate bill to relieve the Treasurer of the United States from the amount now chagfd to him, flnH rlpnncitp*] with t,h*? fiflvprfll States. "Was taken from the calendar and passed.... Bills were introduced: By Mr. Paddock?Providing that soldiers entitled to 169 acres of land under section 2304, Revised Statutes, may take an extra 160 acres without improvement or residence, and by Mr. Cameron ?Providing for the organization and rate of pay of a veteriuary corps in the United States Array. 29th Day.?Mr. Mitchell spoke on the silver question... .Mr. Ingalis introduced a bill to provide a monument to Lincoln at Gettysburg.. .The report of the Naval Policy Board was received. In the House. 26th Day.?A bill concerning national bank circulation was reported and recommitted The Smith-Jackson contested election case was reported.... In Committee of the Whole fourteen sections of the Administrative Tariff bill were passed. 27th Day.?The House, in Committee of the Whole, disposed of five sections of the Administrative Tariff bill, leaving ten sections to be passed. Most of the day was devoted to debate on Sections 15 and 19 and amendments thereto. 28th Day.?The Customs Administrative " l.j a r% Dill was reported irum vAiiiiiunio; <_>i mc Whole and passed, by a vote of 138 to 121. The bill, as it finally passed, is left substantially as it came from the Committee on Ways and Means. Its object is to simplify the existing laws for the collection of revenue duties. 2'Jth Day.?A bill was passed, placing a duty of fifty percent, on silk ribbons Mr. McCreary offered a resolution, which was referred, congratulating the people of Brazil in their just and peaceful assumption of the powers, duties and responsibilities of selfgovernment as shown by their assumption of self-government; declaring that the United States of Brazil is recognized by the United States of America as a free, sovereign and independent Republic, and providing that the* President shall give proper notice of this recognition to the President of tha United States of Brazil Among the bills introduced and referred were the foliowiug: By Mr. Covert?To increase the efficiency of the military. By Mr. Barnes?Making the United States arsenal at Augusta, Ga., an arsenal of manufacture, construction and repair; also to refund the cotton tax. By Mr. Mason?Appropriating $2,000,000 for a postoffice at Chicago. By Mr. Struble?For tne appointment of a Commissioner of Immigration; also, prohibiting the transportation of intoxicating iiquors from one State or Territory to an other State or Territory in violation of the laws thereof. By Mr. Kelley?To pension the widows and orphans of people killed for political purposes since the close of the late war. By Mr. Burrows?For the erection of a monument to Isabella of Spain.... In Com mittee of the Whole, the House proceeded to consider the bill appropriating $1,500,000 for the erection of three United States prisons and for the imprisonment of Unite 1 States prisoners. 30th Day.?Mr. Dorsey called up his National Bank Circulation bill, and it was debated at some length, but finally went over A bill was passed providing that in cases of pension claims of dependent parents it shall be necessary only to show the Pension Office that the parents are without other means of support than manual labor. 31st Day.?A long and heated debate was had over the motion to call up the contested election case of Smith against Jackson. The wildest scenes were enacted when, after Mr. Breckenridge had raised the point of no quorum, the Speaker directed the Clerk to record the names of members present but not voting. Mr. Breckenridge denounced the action of the Speaker as revolutionary. TONS OF FLYING ROCK. Three Laborers Killed and Several Fatally Injured. An accident has occurred five miles east of Shamokin, Penn., by which three men were killed, three fatally and many others seriously iniured. Tho men were engaged in enlarging a cut through the mountains to enable the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company to lay a double track. They were foreigners and known only by numbers. In the morning three blasts were set, but, unknown to the men, only two of the charges exploded. The men returned to the cut and began removing the shattered rock, when a terrible explosion followed. When the great cloud of dust cleared away men came from the debris in all directions, shrieking in their agony, some with their eyes out, others with heads laid open to the skull, while others could be seen beneath the rocks covered with blood. The men who were uninjured did not wait to succor their wounded companions, but ran in a perfect panic to the boarding-shanty a few rods distant. Thomas O'Neil, a cartman. was the first to return to the scene of the disaster. John Gordon, the pit foreman, had the back of his head almost torn off and is internally iujured. Three of the laborers are missing and four horribly injured and bevond recovery. the 12:30 train on tho Northern Central road took almost the entire medical force of tho town to tho scene. Meanwhile a large rang of men work d away at twenty tons of Jebris to gather the men supposed to bo underneath. "Not one of the entire gang escaped unscathed. Gordon, tho foreman, was hurried from the scene as quickly as possible, as it was thought the friends of the victims, Ignorant as to how the accident occurred, would attack him. Two bodies were taken from the debris in tho evening, known by numbers only. EXPLOSION IN A SCHOOL. Many Students and Tcaclicrs Terribly Hurt. A remarkable and disastrous accident has occurred in tho high school at Lexington, I 111. I'rofessor Jess was conducting experi- ! merits in chemistry in which oxygen was J general?1 in a retort composed in part of | iron, with iron pipe connections. While the ! apparatus was surrounded by pupils ami | teachers the retort exploded with a deafen j iiv< uoi.se that was heard all over the town, ' and brought scores of territied parents | flockiiigto the scene. Pieeesof the iron were i driven through the brick walls, and the j win.lows were blown out, followed by clouds of steam and smoke. Twenty persons had received injuries more or less severe, while almost miraculously 110 one was killed outright. A piece of the iron had been blown through a can of gasoline, which was ignited, but fortunately tho flames were extinguished before much damaee was done. WOMAN'S WORLD. PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. PROPER FOOT GEAR. A woman with large feet should never wear a patent leather shoe. On this point it is best to be truthful with one's self and one's bootmaker. You need not tell your intimate friends that your feet are too large to look well in patent leather boots; wear an unobtrusive boot and they will discover how small your i feet are. If, however, you have small feet wear the patent leather vamp and the black kid uppers, or of yellow or gray kid, according to the color of your gown. Then there is also a boot with cloth uppers, patent leather vamp and Hn trifVi mnr1r>rntf>W Viirrh v*r> -?J ?e BOSTON'S LATEST FASHION. The very latest fad,which has traveled about the country in the wake of the celebrated English Egyptologist, has struck Boston with full force. This is the adoption, by ladies of fashion, of Egyptian costumes at their afternoon teas. These costumes, which in many cases are said to be very "fetching," are modeled after the manner of the times of the Pharaohs. One of them, worn by a beautiful brunette, is described as of soft brown silk, with long, flowing sleeves, and yoke embroidered in silver. The petticoat is of striped Syrian silk in rosecolor and silver, with a wide sash of the same colors. The slashings of the outer gown show linings of Egyptian red. Over the shoulders hangs a brown gauze veil, embroidered in silver. Slippers in rose velvet, embroidered in silver and seed pearls, flesh-colored stockings, a brown pendant of dull gold and an antique necklace of cornelian and silver complete the costume. These gowns will no doubt be all the rage before the season is over.?Boston Advertiser. woman's dress. A great many people think that woman's dress, although radically different from the old Greek costume which is considered the height of grace and beauty, is, on the whole, as near perfection as it is ever likely to be. Mrs. Celia Whitehead, however, does not agree with them. In a little volume called "What's the Matter?" she says: "Let men and women change clothes for one year. Let all the men begin at their heads and tie up their hair into twists and braids, frizzes, crimps and baDgs, and get a hat with a crown so small that long pins must be used to hold it in place, cut out the neck and cut off the sleeves of their shirts, get good, strong, glove-fitting corsets and draw them tight enough to cut off one-half their breathing power and leave an ugly> ungraceful depression at the waist-line, put on a garment reaching from waist to feet that hinders a natural step and requires unceasing care to keep it dry and clean, and finish up with shoes set up on little pegs in the middle of the foot. Let them adhere to this steadfastly for one year, except when they arc sick in bed, and give the women their outfit and if you then call for proof that woman's dress is ruinous to health I'll muster the long array of doctors' testimony which I have on hand." eOJiE FAMOUS BLONDES. It is possible to make an extended catalogue of noted English and American women whose personal charms have been of the blonde type. Harriet Lane, whose reign at the White House in James Buchanan'8 day is still a social milestone, was a blonde with "golden hair, deep violet eyes, and a peculiarly beautiful mouth." Kate Chase, the belle of Lincoln's Administration, had auburn hair. Harriet Williams,rthe Georgetown beauty, who married Count de Bodisco, the Rus sian Minister at Washington, and became the belle of#St. Petersburg,'was a "magnificent woman with golden hair and brown eyes." Saidee Polk Fall, the belle of Nashville, has reddish-golden hair. Beautiful Consuelo Yznaga, now Lady Mandeville, has brown eyes and black eyebrows, but her hair i9 a mass of gold. Miss Mabel Wright, perhaps the prettiest girl in New York society, has been called "the most exquisite blonde ever seen on this side of the Atlantic," and Mrs. Adolph Ladenberg, the married belle, has a pink complexion, blue eyes and curling hair that "is like spun gold." Amelie Rives has straw-colored hair, which she ties in a Pysche knot, and violet eyes. Marie Bashkirtseff, the fair Russian artiste about'whom the world is talking, was a slender and delicate pinkcheeked blonde. Many of the ladies in the Administration circles at Washington, including Mrs. Morton, Mrs. McKee and Miss Mildred Fuller, are blondes, and the list might be extended indefinitely. If the blonde is going out of existence she is, from all indications, going out in a blaze of glory.?Epoch. A BEAUTY AT THE LATHE. Miss Nellie Paterson, one of the prettiest girls in the village of Mount Carmel, Conn., has just completed a four years' apprenticeship to the machinist trade. She is now working at her lathe | aad vise in the factory of the Mount Car! mel Belt Company, and there isn't a mechanic in the whole shop who can do a better job or in less time than the fair young workwoman. Four years ago, when Miss Nellie began to think of the means whereby she must earn her living, she looked over the whole field of woman's work. Among the trades or occupations which the pushing women of this country had made their own, there was none she especially liked. She was a bright girl, with a great deal of Yankee cleverness, and considerable ingenuity and inventiveness. The remark was made by a friend : that she was so fond of inventions she ought to become a machinist. The seed thus idly sown took root, and she ap- , plied for a placc as apprentice. For the ; past four years she worked faithfully, and a few days ago her time expired, and she is now a full-fledged machinist. She is nble to block up a piece of work on the planer or turn up an arbor ou the lathe. She uses the drill or handles a file as well ns any man in the shop. Her specialty, however, is tool making, and to this she proposes to devote herself. She cau also draw plans, figure out dimensions, and from the working drawings she can make anything. She is not afraid of the grease and grime of the shop, and her beauty is not in the least marred by a long swipe of dirt across her dimpled cheek, nor a spot of oil on her nose, ller hands are not as white as those of some of her sis- ; ters, but they are by no means large, though they are strong. She is a great favorite with her fellow workmen, aud is the pride of the little country village. JH New York Sun. j PRETTY FINGEE NAILS. J ij| "Your nails always look so nice !'\. 1 overheard one damsel remark to anothe^^ not long ago," says a writer. "Do yoiS go to a manicure every day?" ^ "Oh, no, I have never been to one, for 1 it is the easiest thing in the world take care of one's "Own nails?just a litflHj care every day." . "Well, I've tried and tried, and can'^B make mine look decent. Tell mc wha you do." Here I listened for the prescriptioi^H which in sum and substance was as folS "In order to keep the skin back fromfl the nail I use a nail brush freely, using i^| on the nails particularly. Then, in dry^J ing my hands, I work the towel from the point of the nail back toward the finger.1 I cut my nails often, and don't let them ?x A - - i T?_ ?Li.:? a. gtJt lUU IULIJJ. jjy uuttuig tuo uauo M.u such a way that the corners do not ad-| here to the skin,hang-nails can be avoided and the shape of the nails changed.1 When the nails are thin and inclined to break, frequent oiling is necessary, and the nails should never be polished, except when some oily substance is used besides the powder. This keeps the nails more pliable, and no matter how thin they are,' if properly treated they are no more liablej to break than thicker ones. Another thing that is bad for the nails is polish-] ' ing them too roughly. They should be lightly touched and not rubbed until they become heated. This is one cause * of white spots coming on the nail and marring its beauty. A little attention! eveiy day will make any hand look nice. To this conversation which I overheard let me add a word or two about ' the hands. To make them white they should , be occasionally rubbed with lemon juice -! and water. The hands should never be h allowed to remain long soiled with &ny?*J thing that will stain them. But unl?as- ] +V10M ia anma roaann fnr if. it. 10 hptfw- 3 lUV/i \J 1>J DV1UV AWUWVU AW* AO j av ?- ... not to wash the hands too often. They : should be dried with a soft towel. t. ? FASHION NOTES. ./Jg Princess skating costumes are madeentirely of fur. .vj Fur trimmings are more extensively used than for many years. Favorite fur 3 for trimming are seal, otter, beaver and Persian lamb. , A becoming garniture for a low cor- i sage of black velvet is a narrow border- { of closely curled ostrich plumage. i Lace is again used as a garniture, butis set on flatly, as insertions around the skirt, or in rows across side breadths, i "White kid gloves are worn with whiteevening gowns, and bid fair to rival those of tan color to wear with colored' gowns. \ ij The ribbons used for loops, both on hats and bonnets, are of a very heavy quality and stand almost as stiffly as if* made of metal. . ?$? Busiles; they were always bad form,' and now they are recognized as not onlybeing out of the line of beauty, but in' extremely bad style. Astrakhan is much liked on red hats and bonnets, and proves so decorative that all further garniture, save a bow of' ribbon, is unnecessary. Among petticoats recently made for a bride was one of rich black moire, satinwadded and scented, the perfume being1 m introduced between the linings. *J| The high coiffure is gradually being. J superseded by the catogan. In many! * cases an excellent and becoming effect is - j attained by the union of both styles. <j J Shell slides covered with gold filigree and hinged like bracelets are worn to en? J circle and hold in place the catogan I braids so popular with young ladies. i " Selvages, which once served only as a. i firm edge to textile fabrics, and were- * often woven in a amerent coior, are uuw as carefully finished as the rest of the fabric. Velvet trains for women of average- ' height are made of four breadths,and are round or oval at the end, with very/ ) straight sides. Their greatest length is | seventy-five inches. ' The finger nail worn in the French, j style is pointed; in the English style- , rounded. The fashionable style of the- j little finger nail in pointed style is about a quarter of an inch. The fancy for boas is said to have de-' veloped into a mania with Parisiennes.1 Very dainty ones are made of soft lace or slightly tinted or white ostrich feathers,' and worn with lew dresses at the theatre. ' j A handsome costume of black marquise 1 lace has for its vest and side breadths wfori net. with two wide borders, like J*-"? ?) ? insertions, near the foot, and smaller wreaths of medalions of jet embroidery above. Violet, gray and black, the colors of half-mourning, with white, are favorites this season with Parisiennes, who wear them out of mourning. It is predicted ^ that those colors will be favored here foi J spring ard summer gowns. i \ Five Generations in One Honse. In the home of Mrs. Plummer, out on Madison avenue, live five generations of women. Mrs. Plummer is herself^!" woman in middle life, and with her lives^ her mother, -who is nearly eignty, auu her grandmother, who is 102 years old, and without doubt the oldest woman in New York. Mrs. Plummer's niece, with her two young children, live in the same| house. When the family is gathered to^ gether, therefore, one may see the fiye generations represented as follows: The . children, the children's mother, the chil-j dren's great aunt, her mother and her grandmother, who is the great-great-1 grandmother of the little ones. The centenarian is not altogether the sprightly old soul of orthodox newspaper fame. She does not split wood or do the family mending, or walk live miles to church. But she is very well preserved and vivacious old lady for all that, and finds much to enjoy still in life.?New York Sun. ; Paper From Si>i<lor Webs. George West, of Ballston, is in possession of a curiosity in paper, sent him in* .1 friend in Ilonir Kong, China. It ia a sheet eleven by fourteen inches, made from the web of the "sacred whito spider" of the Flowery Kingdom. It is as light as air and almost as transparent,' but is also beautifully printed, containing about two columns of matter, giving iu English the story of how "Midslug^,man Copplestone Was Presented at the * Court of Pckin." Americans know much about paper making, but it is safe to say that there is not a spider web paper factory outbide the almond-eyed kingdom.? St. Louis Republican. 1 : ^ .~r