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SirRAPHTC TOkT ~~ A Budget of Dispatches Received From Various Sources. A Steamboat Wrecked and Six Persons Drowned. The towboat Port Eads, Captain Nelson JDavis, of the St. Louis ami Mississippi Valley Transportation Company, was sunk in the morning at 7 o'clock at the site of the new railroad bridge, two miles below Memphis. She carried a crew of about forty men, and for a time the wildest rumors prevailed, the loss of life being placed at from twenty-five to thirty-five, but it was soon learned that only seven persons were drowned. The Port Eads had a tow of six grain-laden barges and one fuel barge, destined for New Orleans from Cairo. They passed the city shortly before 7 in the morning in a heavy fog, hugging the Tenuessee shore closely. The steamer approached the bridge as slowly as possible, but owing to the dense fog, she ran upon the sunken pier. A moment later she was seen to stop suddenly, hang stationary for a minute, and then swing round with heavy force and settle on one side. Men ran from every direction to the yawl, fighting each other in panic-stricken desperation to reach it. One man detached the ropes holding it and was about climb in, when water rushed in over the boat's deck and all ran to the other side. Another wave closed over the boat's deck, and all ran to the side when she settled lower. Ten of the crew were taken to the United States Hospital near by, suffering from cuts and bruises, and the remaiuder were cared for at the houses along the shore. The Port Eads was valued at $50,000. The barges and contents are uninjured. A Woniun Flogged by Women. Hattie Frasier, a colored woman, and the mother of a mulatto child, is the victim of a severe handling. She was one of the colored persons who did not join in the chorus of condemnation of the Barnwell (S. C.) lynching. She said the murdered men had only got what they deserved, and this opinion was very openly expressed. ""--l 1 ? VV UllO Odicqj 111 JUCi UUU3U niU4 UV1 AX?*u**w the other night, she was aroused by some one trying to get in at the door. Not suspecting anything, she went out, with her child in her arms, to see what was the matter. At the door sho was seized and thrown down. Her infant was jerked from her arms and thrown on the ground. She was then dragged some ways from the house, and subjected to a fearful beating. The assailants were in male attire, and wore black masks and caps. \ After the departure of the Black Caps the woman dragged herself back to her house, where she found her child lying on the ground. The next day sho identified two of her assailants. They were colored women living near her, and were at once arrested. These women turned State's evidence, and confessed that the flogging was done by a band of twenty colored women, who were dressed in men's clothes. Upon their testimony fifteen of the womeD were arrested. A Drink. Cost Him His Life. J. McGoldrick, aged between 50 aud 60 years, a tanner by trade, reached Rome, N. Y., from Taberg, on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad at 0:30 A. M., intending to take a train a few minutes later for Fonda, where he was going to work. While waiting in Rome he crossed the track and went to the little Stanwix Hotel to get a drink. In returning he slipped aud fell upon the east-bound passenger track of the Central road. He carried a bundle of working .1 _ j. T1? ; Ci'JUies AUU U UlUliers hull'.'. iiic auao na? i 18 inches long and 1% inches broad. He fell in such a way as to drive the knife about six inches into his right side, the* bl.irle entering between the second and third ribs and penetrating his lung. He managed to rise, pulled out the knife, and staggered across tne remaining three of the Central's tracks, falling in front of the depot. He died about half au hour later. Ho leaves a widow and three children. He was an industrious man and had worked for many years at Owens's tannery in Taberg. Boats Blown to Sea. The storm which prevailed on the Virginia coast for two days proved most destructive, and a number of oyster boats were blown to , sea. The sloop Golden Rule sank in Lynn Haven inlet, and Captain Jones died from exhaustion after being rescued by life savers. The sloop Annie has been missing and her crew were thought to have psrished. The crew of the sloop Wyandotte, which went ashore at Virginia Beach, was rescued by the life savers, as was also the crew of the schooner T. M. Thomas, which sank in Ocracoke Inlet, near h'atteras, It is estimated that twenty lives were lost in the vicinity of Chesapeake Bay by the storm. St. Louis Gets a Shaking Fp. i At 7:93 o'clock the other morning two distinct earthmtako shocks were felt in St. Louis. The disturbance was most powerful | in the southern portion oE tho city, where many people were so badly frightened that | they ran into the streets. The bottles in drug stores and barrooms were shaken together, | and in some instances broken. Reports from j the southern suburb of Coromlelet show that | the shocks were very violent there. At firafc i it was supi>osed that 111? powder magazine r.t Jefferson larracks had exploded, but the powder was discovered intact, and then the true solution was discovered. Children Faint in Church. The other night while vesper services were in progress in St. John's Catholic Church, at Westminster, Md., some of the children nnmnlninfwl r\f f^plinT hfulll* fttlll illlllledl* ately after fainted away. "While they were being carried out into" the open air other children were similarly affected. AfU-i reaching the street nearly ail quickly revived, but there are several who were afterward confined to their beds. Some of the adults also felt sick. The man in charge of the furnace had permitted the gas to escape into the church. The Steak Strangled Her. "While Mrs. Lucius Skinner, of Taberg, N. Y., was getting breakfast the other morning her little daughter Jessie, aged two and onehalf years, asked for something to eat. Mrs. Skinner gave the little girl a piece of steak, which she put in her mouth and ran into the bedroom. On the way the meat slipped down her throat. She tried to tell her father what had happened, but could not make him understand, and was strangled to death in a few minutes. Went Down in the Pacific. The German steamer Sakkarah, with hei cargo of 19,000 bags of coffee, has been totally lost at Punta de Kemedias, near Aca jutla, in the Pacific Ocean. The crew were all saved. ALL WERE MURDERED. A Ghastly Spectacle on the Frozen Prairie. Four bodies lying on the cold, wiudswept prairie were the ghastly marks of a tragedy discovered by two cowboys near Wichita, Kan. James Horner and Thomas Hemps were riding along when thoy camo upon a mover's wagon, from which tho horses "wore missing. A short distance from the wagon was the body of a man apparently about fifty years of age. There were four bulletwounds in his body. Near the man lay a woman, apparently the same age. The body was evidently that of his wife. There was bullet-wound in the sido of her head and a hole clear through her breast. Two feet away was the corpse of a beautiful girl evidently twenty. Tlie face was turned upward. She hail been shot through the head and the congealed blood bad matted her hair, making an awful picture. Near by was the body of a boy. An ugly bullet-hole in the forehead showed how he met his end. The object of the murders must have beon robbery, for the whole of the traveling outfit was completely stripped. There was nothing left to show the identity of the dead people. The discovery was reported to Purcell and a deputy-marshal set out to investigate. The cowboys say that from the condition of the bodies the shooting probably occurred ten days previous. Letters from Tientsin, China, report terrible suffering from overcrowding and starvation. The roads leading to the large citim are crowded with famishing refugees; and th* people are offering their children for sola. ' Li . . . .j :the news epitomized. Eastern and Middle States. Sarah Rice and Amelia Vallancourt wer? fatally burned in the onc-story waste hous< of the Tremont and Suffolk Company's mill, at Lowell, Mass. A Kif.e which broke out at Rochester. N. Y., caused a loss of nearly ?100,000. J. K. Hunt's largo box factory and two adjoining building were entirely destroyed. The American Federation of Labor, according 1o a Boston dispatch, proposes t< raise a gigantic fund of $3,000,000 to supporl the contemplated eight-hour strike of May 1, 1890. More than 0000 peoplo attended a publit reception to Rev. T DeWitt Talmage ir Brooklyu. General W. T. Sherman and Mayor Chapin were among the speakers. Alaska shaft at Mount Carmel,the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company's largest colliery, has been closed. One thousand hands are thrown out of employment. The new glass works at Blairsville, Penn., were blown down during a severe storm. Charles E. Barr, Superintendent, and a Mr. i Bierney were killed, and a number of per- j sons injured. A fearful storm has raged throughout "Western Pennsylvania. Snow hail, rain and wind played great havoc. In Pittsburg no damage was done by the wind, but the snow and slush blockafled many of the streets and stopped street-car traffic. Governor Hill sent a message to the New York Legislature advising it to pass the World's Fair bill as originally presented. A train wreck occurred near Harrisburg, Penn., which resulted in the death of the fireman and injuries to four other persons. The accident was caused by a misplaced 6\vitch. The house occupied by Miss Caroline Lane, in Luneberg, Mass., was burned to the ground. Miss Lane, who was 80 years old and lived aloue, perished. The sardine factory at Machiasport Village, Me., its wharf, some coal sheds and 30,000 feet of lumber were burned, it is thought, by an incendiary. South anil West. F. A. Walton, a trusted employe of the Pacific Express Company at Dallas, Texas, absconded with a package containing $35,000. A writ of error has been granted to the Chicago Anarchists in Joliet Penitentiary, so that their case may again be brought before rVio TTnit?H Sftatps Simrema Court. Five Chinese on their way to Dutch Flat, Cal., were overwhelmed by an avalanche and killed. The Navajo Indians in San Juan County, New Mexico, have been harrassing the settlers on account of the recent killing of an Indian. About five hundred warriors left their reservation, and the settlers were greatly alarmed. After the adjournment of the Montana Senate, eight Democratic Senators, incensad i at the ruling of Lieutenant-Governor Rickards in couuting them present when they refused to vote, took trains going in different directions. They said they were going beyond the State line to get out of reacn of the Sergeant-at-Arms. Their absence blocked all legislation. The election for Governor of West Virginia in November, 1888, has just been decided by the inauguration or A. Brooks Fleming, the Democratic candidate. Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota, I has commenced an open warfare against Chicago for the World's Fair. There are said to be fully 6000 people in North Dakota who are in need of assistance. The afflicted people are mostly Americans and Scandinavians. News was brought to Birmingham, Ala., of the killing of two white men and the wounding of three others in a fight with colored men which occurred in Bibb County, fifty miles south of Birmingham. A dispatch from Stephen, Minn., states that the worst blizzard within the recollection of the oldest inhabitant was raging. The wind was from the north, and the air was a cloud of snow. The mercury registered ten degrees below zero, and it was growing colder. President Fitzgerald, of the Irish National League, issued an address from Lincoln, Neb., calling for funds in view of coming elections in Great Britain. Seven boys were drowned in the river at , Carrollton, near New Orleans, La., by the sinking of two yawls in which they were < taking a ride. A great rush of settlers to the Sioux Reservation in South Dakota was made when the President's proclamation opening that 1 territory was issued. Tho best lands were soon literally covered with claimants. Nearly half a block of buildings have been destroyed by fire at Morris, Minn. The Legislature of West Virginia passed a resolution favoring the pensioning of all Federal soldiers of the war and instructing Senators and Representatives to vote for the passage of such a bill. Seth twombley, Charles Bufovd and Henry LaClocke, crew of tho ill fated train which collided at South Euglewood, Chicago, in which seven people were killed, have been placed on ti-ial for murder. Jim Seals and his family attempted to Dross X eliow urosK in a wagon near Jiurnsville, Miss., and. the wagon capsized, drowning four children, aged from two to ten years. A scheme to legalize lotteries in North Dakota was defeated in the lower house of the Legislature after it had gone through the Senate. William Ferrell, a farmer of Ironton, Ohio, was killed by his son, who is less than twenty years old. Young Ferrell interfered to protect his mother in a dispute between ber and his father. "Washington. Senator Sherman and Murat Halstead, the Cincinnati editor, succeeded Governor Campbell, of Ohio, as witnesses before the Bouse Committee on the Ballot Box Forgery. Nominations by the President: James W. Remick to be United States Attorney for the Distinct of New Hampshire; Paris Kilbourne, to be Surveyor of Customs at San Francisco; Collectors of Customs?Alanson W. Beard, district of Boston and Charlestown, Mass.; George B. Edmonds, at Fairfield, Conn.; Louis McKenzie Bell, at Alexandria, Va.; J. H. Pinkerton, at St. Mark's, Fla.; Frank A. Vaughan, at Saluria, Tex. The Colored Convention elected P. B. S. Pinchback President of the new organization and adjourned after issuing an address to the country. Tiik Senate Committee on Territories directed Chairman Piatt to favorably report the bill for the admission of Idaho as a State. The President sent to the Senate the name of Charles Emory Smith, of Pennsylvania, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia. The President has signed the proclamation opening the Sioux reservation in South Dakota. He has also issued an order establishing land offices at Pierre and Chamber lain. Diplomatic nominations bvtho PresidflritSamuel Marrill, of Indiana, to be Consul- 1 General at Calcutta; J. Fenner Lee, of Mary- i land, to be Secretary of Legation at Rio de , Janeiro; Harris B. Newberry, of Michigan, to be Secretary of Legation at Madrid. United States Consuls: Edward Bedloe, of , > ennsyivania, at Amoy; C. I. Croft, of North j Dakota, at Carthageua, United States of ; Colombia; James R. Danforth, of Pennsylvania, at Kehi; Ferdinand A. Husher, of Minnesota, at Fort Stanley and St. Thomas; Frank D. Hill, of Minnesota, at Montevideo; ( Henry K. Myers, of South Dakota, at San Salvador; Levi \V. Myors, of Iowa, nt Victoria, B. C.; Felix A. Matthews, of California, at Tangier; Frederick M. Ryder, of Connecticut, at Quebec, Canada: L. R. Stewart, of Virginia, at San Juan, Porto Rico. Judicial nominations: James O'Brien, of Minnesota, to lie Chief Justice of the Supreme Court iif New Mexico; Cornelius H. Hanford, to be United States District Judge for the District of Washington; George N. Wiswell. of Wisconsin, to be United States Marsha) for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Postmaster-General Wanamaker appeared before the House Committee on Postoflices and read an elaborate statement in favor of a system of postal telegraphy. Foreign. The Pope has issued a decree empowering the Bishops in all countries recently visited by the influenza to absolve the faithful from fasting until further notice. The municipal authorities of Lisbon have i riven 100 contos to the Portuguese national defence fund. The Archbishop convened y k~mm land. The Sioux Reservation in Sontli g Dakota Open for Settlement. J ti A Great Scramble by Settler? si for Desirable Locations, J o p Tho President by proclamation hns c opened tho Sioux Reservation in South ti Dakota and established land offices at c Pierre and Chamberlain. Reciting that the ^ different bands of Sioux Indians had relinquished all claims to the land in question, w provision is made by the proclamation for tho future homes of the tribe, and any ? lands occupied by religious societies are ? given such societies. The proclamation ? provides that all the lands in the Great Sioux Reservation, outside of the , separate reservations for the Indians, ex- , cept American Island, Farm Island and Niobrara Island, regarding which islands p special provisions are made, and sections six teen and thirty-six in each township (wbicb aro reserved for school purposes) shall bedisposed of by tlio United States upon th? terms, at the nrice and in the manner set B the clergy and directed them to collect funds for this purpose in every parish. The Colonial Federation Conference was opened at Melbourne, Australia. James Service, Prime Minister of Victoria, was elected to preside. Much enthusiasm was manifested. General Salamaxca, Governor-General of Cuba, died at Havana, after a brief illness. While the British man-of-war 'Barra^Duta was testing her boilers off Margate, England, one of the cylinders exploded, killing two of the crew and injuring ten others. At a meeting of the Canadian Farmers' Ik6titute held at Toronto a motion advocating "free corn from America" was carried. Farmers claim it is cheaper to import corn than to raise it. One hundred and seventy bodies were recovered from the mine at Abersychan, England, where the explosion occurred. Many affecting scenes were witnessed. Among them the discovery of grouped bodies of a father and five sons. The Duke of Orleans, son of the Count ol Paris, pretender to the throne of France, was arrested in Paris for violating the Expulsion law by returning to Franco. Prince Augustus, of Saxe-Coburg, grandson of Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, is suffering from dementia. He has been placed in an asylum at Gratz, Styria. General L. Chinchilla, formerly Spanish Minister of War, has been appointed Captain General of Cuba. The Greek steamer Spyridion Vagliano was wrecked near Falmouth, England. Of those who were on board eight persons were saved. The captain of the vessel was drowned, and thirteen others were missing. Cardinal Pecci, brother of the Pope, who had been ill for several days with pneumonia, died at Rome, aged 83 years. There is a row in social circles in Canada owing to the fact that only twenty members of Parliament out of a house of 215 were invited to the big annual dance at the Government House. The Pope received Archbishop Corrigan. of New York, with every manifestation or friendship and approval. The British Parliament was opened and the Queen's speech was read from the throne by the Lord High Chancellor. The Portuguese Government has forbidden the holding of a patriotic meeting which was to have taken place at Lisbon. A contemplated patriotic procession through tho i streets was also prohibited. Senator Aristides Lobo, the Brazilian Minister of the Interior, has resigned in consequence of a disagreement with General Fonseca, the President. LATEK NEWS. The -wife of J. G. Fisher, of Rutledge, Penn., committed suicide by setting her clothes on fire. The annual Convention of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association met in New York city. James W. Scott, of the Chicago Herald, President of the association, was in the chair. In the recent hurricane that swept tha North Atlantic, the herring schooner Isaac A. Chapman, of Gloucester, Mass., is thought to have been lost with the eight men comprising her crew. A landslide occurred on the mountain above the Suislaw River, at Florence, Oreburying the house of A. F. Andrews and killing Mrs. Androws, her daughter and little son. Andrews and an elder son were thrown into the river, and after floating on the debris all night, were picked up several miles below in an almost dying condition. An express train was wrecked on the Wid consin Central road near Mellen Junction and six passengers were injured, but nona fatally. A fatal railroad ollision occurred nt Coaling, Ala., in which an engineer was killed and a dozen persons injured. When the case of the men indicted for attempting to bribe the Cronin jury was called before Judge Waterman at Chicago, the four defendants pleaded guilty. There is great excitement in Lathrop, Mo., and in the surrounding towns over a crusade inaugurated against liquor. The movement is spreading rapidly, and all the women have abandoned domestic duties to attend meeting. The House Committee on Territories decided to report favorably Delegate Carey's bill for the admission of the Territory of Wyoming as a State. The Senate in executive session nave nnany i disposed of the nomination of Thomas J. Morgan to be Commissioner of Internal Affairs by a vote in the affirmative. Secretary Blaine resumed his officii! j duties at the State Department for the first time since his recent bereavements, and one of his first acts was the appointment of S. A. Brown, of Washington, as Chief Clerk of the Department. A fire in Paris has destroyed Osborn's library, valued at *400,000 and containing many unique historical documents. The Duke of Orleans, who went to Pari.' with the avowed intention of enlisting in th? I French army, and who was then arrested oz j the charge of violating the law exiling from Franco all pretenders to the French throne, was arraigned before the Tribunal of the Seine and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. A gux burst on one of the ships of the . German squadron off Smyrna and killed one I sailor and injured two. Thomas Kane was hanged in the jail yard at Toronto, Canada, for the murder of his wife in November last. He met his fate resolutely. The Manitoba Legislature decided to abolish the official use of the French language in : that province by a vote of 26 to 10. The French-speaking people are very indignant and will appeal the matter to higher tribunals trrnmm GREAT MINE DISASTER. t\ Hundred and Fifty Men Entombed in an English Colliery. A cable dispatch from London says: An explosion occurred in a colliery at Abersyrhan, in Monmouthshire. Three hundred miners were imprisoned and for severed hours no communication could be had with them. Au opening was finally effected, and at noon many of them had been rescued. Rescuing parties are still searching for those remaining in the mine. It is feared that It will be impossicie to rescue lue uiuiera nuu Clio oiiu imprisoned. Up to 4 o'clock in tho afternoon Corty bodies have been taken from the mine. The cause of the explosion was tho flooding of pits adjacent to that in which the explo? sion occurred. By the flooding of these pits gas was dislodged and forced into the pit, where work was in progress, and there it ignited and exploded. There must have been a great quantity of gas, as tho explosion had tremendous force. It was heard at a distance of a mile. All tne gearing in tho shaft was thrown into the air as if from tho mouth of a volcano, and simultaneously a vast bright volumo of flanio shot upward, followed by a dense heavy column of smoke. The first party of rescuers organized endeavored to penerate the pit through the old workings. They got far enough to ba * * * * xi.. j 1 a Die to see groups 01 mu ueau, uuu they could not reach them, and were compelled to retreat by the suffocating volumes of smoke that rose in that direction. Upon the first appearance of a diminution in the volume of smoke rescuers went down the main shaft and reached the scene of the catastrophe. They rescued a large number of miners yet aliva, but all very badly burned, >nd they brought out sixty dead bodies, nearly all so multilated that the recognition of their identity is impossible. TbeJfttest estimate of,the dead J* 160. ^ ' - * - v.;, ;' forth in the Act of the Commission, to actua' V settlers only, under tho provisions of th< Homestead law (cxcept section 2301 thereof), and under the law relating to town sites. If l is provided, however, that all persons who, y between February 27, 1885, and April 27, ? 1885, entered upon or made settlements with H intent to enter tho same under the Home t stead or Pre-emption laws of the United j States upon any part of the Great Sioua K Reservation have a right to re-enter upon ^ said claims and procure title thereto undei p the Homestead or Pre-emption Jaws of th< United States. A dispatch from Chamberlain describes _ the rush for the newly-opened territory as ? follows: There was a rush for the Sioux Reserva- y tiou hours before it became known that tho j( President's proclamation had opened the ^ new territory. It was a grand sight, viewed (j; from the high bluffs on tho east side of the river, to see the teams with their great lumber-loads dashing across the river on a dead run, up the bluff on American Island and Anally being lost to sight in the heavy p' timber. " The Indian police, to the number of nearly *1 nna liurwlrosl iinil hpoM nlared as n. fruard to ' vue ..U..U,W, r- , o . prevent any premature invasion, but they f stood dazed and helpless as they viewed the " gjeat and irresistible rush for the reservaf.inn A most, novel sit? lit was the moving n of a large building, under which had been a placed heavy timbers and wheels. This, like r the other wagons, was pulled across the n river by galloping horses. " It took but a few minutes for the several ? sections on the valuable bottom to be liter- J! ally covered with claimants, and it will take a score of lawyers to solve tha problem as to 0 who are the rightful owners. P The local town-site boomers undoubtedly t secured an advantage over the other organ- ' izeil boomers by a few minutes, but among ? the boomers are a number who intend to se- ? cure homestead filings if possible, which if J persisted in, will complicate the matter to " such an extent as to result in a protracted legal struggle. While this rush and conflict"' >? was going on for the bottom lands iapojr iS other intending settlers rushed promptly into: z, the uplands and began at onco th& erection ;? of houses, and these are prepared to .defend P their rights as against later fielfcferra, cletdP' p* mincdly guarding against any invasion, oi . * their lands. $ At night the settlers encamped on their ? claims. The new land office will be organ"'' ized at once and be in running order by the ' ? time the lands are surveyed, when filings ' will be tendered by settlers. The land is as i yet unsurveyed, and settlers will for the present have to secure squatters' rights. ? There were a number of smash-ups in the rush, but no fatalities were reported. The P City was m a greac uproar, uuns iiugiug, whistles blowing, cannons booming, shout- ? ing of excited men and the rushing of teams t made a veritable bedlam. , d POSTAL PRIZES. I Twelve Gold Medals for the Quickest p Men on Railway Routes. d General Order No. 803, just issued by the General Superintendent of the Po3toffice Do J partmont, notifies the railway postal clerks i] throughout the country that at the close of ? 1890 twelve gold medals will be presented to q the most efficient men. f They will be known as "The Postmaster General Medals." and one will be awarded to the clerk in cacn of the eleven divisions who shall have made the best general record on the largest number of cards representing j postofilces distributed by routes or by counties, modified bv the class of tbo clerk, the error slip record and the car work. The twolfth medal will be awarded to the i ^ clerk of auy class in any division who shall ! , during the year correctly distribute, in the | ; shortost time and with tho largest number j ii of eeparatioiis, cards representing tho greatest number of postoffices. Committees to determine the award of the : i division medals will bo selected by the clerks ! in their respective divisions, in a manner to j ( be arranged by the Division Superintendent j ^ and a committeo to award tho twelfth medal ! will be designated by tho General Superin- ! ^ tendent. r THE LABOR WORLD. ' The South's manufacturers employed 4S3,- ~ 260 persons last year, and 215,428 in 18S0. ? Michigan* has seventy-eight furniture fac- o tories, half of which are in Grand Rapids. a Ox the Hudson River alone 10,000 men 1 usually employed on the ice harvest have been idle. j The postal clerks of Chicago have organized. They waut eight hours a day and graded salaries. y Pennsylvania's master painters and w decorators have declared th?ir opposition to the eight-hour inovemeut. ? The Massachusetts Federation of Labor ^ will hold a convention in Boston on March j 16to boom tho eight-hour movement. I g English mine owners are preparing to a form a federation to protect their interests against the organizations ot employes. j Ax eight-hour badge has been adopted by q the American Federation of Labor. It is simply a figure eight made of nickel plated Q metal. Si Christopher Woods, Treasurer of the Switchmen's Union No. 4, of Kansas Citv, Mo., has disappeared with $1003 of the P union's money. ' The New York State branch of the Ameri- *i can Federation of Labor seems to be in a prosperous condition, as the per capita tax v could be reduced one-fourth of one cent. The journeymen plumbers and steam and gas fitters of Allegheny County, Penn., * numbering 2000, are arranging to affiliate with tho American Federation of Labor. The cio;ar making industry of San Fran cisco is almost dead, because of Chinese com- r petition, and goods from Pennsylvania are sold cheaper there than they can be made at home. There are at Sheffield, Ala., enterprises '' now under construction or contract to be completed there within six mouths to the extent P of $660,000, including a $300,000 rolling mill, *300,000 railroad shops, etc Thic London owners of docks, wharves and ? warehouses have formed a union to combat the demand of labor unions. Lockouts on ? oho hand aurl new strikes on the other will probably follow in qnick succession. Women employed on the Vol^a River in ? Russia work from four o'clock in the morn- J[ ing till sunset. Tlioy carry 140 pounds of j freight up high ladders. Men get twenty- j two cents per day, women eighteen cents. Moses Boyd, of Dedham, Mass., has been j n Boston and Providence Railroad conductor j for forty-six years, and he is said to be the c oldest conductor in active service ou any t road running out of Boston. He is seventy- a four years old. Dix Island, which contains the granite j. quarries from which came the granite for j the New York and Philadelphia Postoffices, j, the Treasury Building at Washington and the v Brooklyn Bridge has been sold to an English v syndicate, which is to reopen the quarries. r Miss Frances E.williard,who has lived for many years in a Chicago suburb, says there are women in that city who make a t dozen skirts for seventy-five cents, and find f iheir own thread. Also that there are chil- t dren who work twelve hours a day for a doJ- I Jar a week. 1 FAMILY OF SIX PERISH. Father and Mother and Four Children Drowned. A chain of four lakes, known as the B limewaters, is located along the line of the "Waterkill Valley Railroad, a few miles from Kingston, N. Y They are great resorts for pleasure seekers, both summer and winter, as they abound with fish and are surrounded by woods. The third Binnewater, which is between six aud seven miles from there,has been the scene of an appalling accident. The four children of Jacob R. Slater went skating on the lake, the ice being hardly two inches thick. They had been skating a little while only when the ice gave way and they were struggling in the water. Their cries for help were heard by their parents, who hastened to the scene only to find that their loved ones were far from the shore beyond their reach. The mother, frantic with grief, and with uplifted hands, ran wildly in the direction of her children in a frt rocoim fham. A<3 she an ; ... 1 ' PIFTT-FIEST CONGBESS. In the Senate. 34th Day.?The Senate took up the bill to rovide a temporary Government for the 'erritory of Oklahoma, and the Clerk finished lie reading of the bill, which had been begun tie dayprevious. V arious formal amendments rere offered and agreed to... .Mr. Blair reurned his speech on his National Educational ill.... Mr. Gibson introduced a joint resoluion providing for an appropriation of $4,000,- j 00 for the improvement of the Mississippi liver and the harbors of New Orleans, >iathez, Vicksburg and Memphis In execuive session, a motion of Mr. Edmunds to reonsider the vote bv which the Samoan treat? I fas ratified, was called up and laid on the abb by a vote of 30 to 13. 3">th Day.?Mr. Hoar introduced a bill finch provides that all soldiers who have ! >st the use of both hands shall receive 1100 month in lieu of the pension they now reeive The Senate resumed consideration f the bill to provide a temporary governlent for the Territory of Oklahoma. An mendment was offered to incorporate "No lan's Land," but the Senators voted it own....The Senate bill for the organizaion of the National Zoological Park and the [ouse bill to constitute Albany a port of nmediate transportation were passed. 36th Day.?The Senate resumed consideraion of the bill to provide a temporary overnment for the Territory of Oklahoma ... The Educational bill was taken up, and [r. Blair continued his opening speech in ipport of that measure The Senate took p the nomination of Thomas J. Morgan to e Indian Commissioner and debated for an our and a half without coming to a vote.... Lmong the bills introduced and referred rere: By Mr. Pierce?To create an agricullral commission to investigate the present epressed condition of the agricultural interrtsof the country, and by Mr. Ingalls? Istablishing a free bathing beach on the otomac River, near the W ashiiigton Monulent grounds. 37th Day.?The Morgan resolution, conratulating the new Republic of Brazil, a isolution inviting the King of the Hawaiian ilands to send a delegate to the Internaonal Conference, and a motion of Mr. ones to authorize the construction of a ridge across the Arkansas River in the Iuian Territory were passed. In the House. 38th Day.?The Democrats carried out aeir policy of silent protest against the rullgs of the Speaker by declining to vote upon ae question of approving the journal. It roe hnwmrnr nnnrnVfili hv B. Vote of VeaS. ' ? I ?re ? -w ? . . 53; nays, 0?the constitutional quorum beig counted by the Speaker... .Mr. Cannon, rotn the Committee on Rules, reported the ew code of rule?, &nd it was ordered printed nd recommitted.... Mr. Tarsnev offered a esolution reciting that it is charged that lany hundred individuals entered Oklahom in violation of the act of Congress, and irecting the Speaker to appoint a committee a investigate the matter. Referred to the !ommittee on Rules... .A bill for the relief f the survivors of the Samoan disaster was assed. 39th Day.?Bills were passed increasing to 100 a month the pension of General Duryea, f "Duryea's Zouaves," and appropriating 40,000 for the maintenance of the Marion ranch of the National Home for the Voluneer Soldiers for 1890. 40th Day.?1The journal of the proceedings i f the previous meeting was read, and, Ithough the Democrats did not demand a etailed reading of that document, they inIstockupon a yea and nay vote upon its aprovaL It was approved?yeas, 149; nays, 1 g,iMr. Wickham introduced for reference j r bilC.-'the purpose of which is to prevent j .ttrym'andering in the States. It provides hat the Representatives elected to the Fif tyecond Congress shall be returned from the i ame districts as similar Represents- j ives elected to the Fifty-first Congress ; ...Mr. Cannon, from the Committee on tules, reported back the new code of rules, nd the House proceeded to consider it. Lrguments wen? made in opposition to the roposed rules, especially the clause making : 00 members a quorum in the Committee or , he Whole. Pending further discussion the ' louse adjourned. 41st Day.?The journal of the previous ! lay's proceedings containing a yea and nay j imnn whiph t.hfi Snpatpr counted a quo- ! um, the Democrats would not by tfieir I ilence acquiesce in its approval, and a roll j all was rendered necessary. It was ap- i iroved?yeas, 150; nays, l....The general I ebate on the new code of rules was continued. 42d Dat.?The journal having been read, Ir. Boutelle asked unanimous consent for tg approval, but objections came from the ' )emocratic side, and a roll-call was made , lecessary. The journal was approved.... I Tie general debate on the new code of rules or the House was continued. A M0KM0N DEFEAT. The Gentiles in Control at Salt Lake City for the First Time. The Gentiles, after au excitiug election, lave obtained control of the Municipal kmncil of Salt Lake City for the first time 11 its history. Tho oflicial returns give George B. Scott Gentile) for Mayor a majority of 809; Louis lyains (Gentile) for Recorder. 53!); J. B. Valden (Gentile) for Treasurer, (>59; li. R. 'lute (Gentile) for Assessor, -100; J. M. 'ouus (Gentile) for Marshall. 773. The renaiixler of tiio Gentile ticket, including if teen Council mon, are elected by majorities anaina from 300 to 400. Speaking editorially upon lbs contest, udge C. C. Goodwin, of tlie Salt Lak < City "ribune. says: "A great wave of thankfulness will ? veep 7er Utah to-da}\ Tlie blow delivered esterday upon the Mormonisni as a poliical power was a terrible one, and the news f it will strike upon thousands of hearts like , visible answer to prayers. February 10, 8i>0, marks an epoch in Utah's history." MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. William S. Gilbert, the librettist, says lat he never reads criticisms of his own forks. London's theatres are said to have had a flat, stale and altogether unprofitable" rinter. Karl Merz, known throughout the United tatcs as an eminent musician, recently died t Worcester, umo. I "The Gondoliers," Gilbert and Sullivan's itest comic opera, will shortly be sung in rerman in Munich. William Crane in his new play, "The lenator," is said to make up so as to reemble Senator Plumb, of Kansas. Miss Adele aus der Ohe, the eminent ianist, has been playing a number of sucessf ul recitals in Boston and Providence. The production of "As You Like It" at tie St. James's Theatre in London was postoned in consequence of the illness of Mrs. iangtry. Hexrik Ibsen, the Norwegian playwright, i thought by sorue good critics to be the lost original dramatist of the nineteenth entury. A plat at one of the English theatres has ust had to be modified because the actors ad a superstition against the appearance f a peacock or its feathers on the stage. Sims Reeve, the once famous tenor, is liv,ig in London, at the ago of seventy. It is aid that while his voice is apparently unimaired, he does not wish to sing in public any lore. Wilson Barrett was offered $1000 to give performance of "Tho Silver King" in Chiago on a Sunday night, but refused on the round that it would be an affront to his labbath observing friends. The most noted colored actress of the day ? Henrietta Vinton Davis, of Baltimore. h<ii< (Intuit, in Washington, in 1SS3. ! nd has been well received iu?sucli roles as uliet, Desdemona, Queen Elizabeth and y.'ali. It 1ms been determined to give a concert in jonclon during tho ensuing season, which Dr. oacliim will bo asked to conduct. The proeeds will be devoted to the general fund for ho establishment, in the house of his birth, of , Beethoven museum. Mrs. Ervixg Wi.vslow, the Boston acress and elocutionist, has been giving readngs of Ibsen's plays, "A Doll's Home, "Pilars of Society," "The Lady of the Sea," etc., vhich have been received with much pleasire by the admirers of the Norwegian dranatist. Ad vices from California brought the news hat in the Sierras the snow was seventeen eet deep on the level, and in many places It tad drifted to a depth of thirty feet. At mints along the railroads the telegraph poles vere entirely out of sight. i - i . ! proached tlie spot where they had broken through, the ice gave way beneath har feet, and she, too, was floundering about in the water. Mr. Slater, who was only a few feet behind his wife, also fell in, and all were drowned. News of the accident spread rapidly, and by nightfall hundreds of people lined the shore of the lake while efforts were being made to recover the bodies. DISASTROUS FLOODS, v Great Damage to Property in Oregon and Washington. Heavy rains and melting snow have resulted in disastrous floods in Oregon and Washington. Portland, Ore., was partly submerged, and the only travel through the principal business streets was by small ooats. Many bridges were swept away. All railroad communication south and east of Portland was cut off for five days. The wagon bridge across the Willamette River at Salem, Ore., was carried away. The structure was 1000 feet long and cost about $75,000. No less than ten million logs have been swept away on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers. Large quantities of sawed lumDer ana a numoer uj. Mwuima the river have also been carried away. The damage was estimated at over $500,000. At Tacoma, Washington, the Willamette River was higher than for twenty years past, and much damage was inflicted. LOST m A SNOWSTOEM. Picnickers Have a Thrilling Adventure. A party of young persons living in Colorado Springs, Col., have had a thrilling adventure. They left the city early for a day's picnicking in Cheyenne Canyon. At the hour of starting the weather was like a June day. A storm came upon them suddenly, and frave fears were entertained by their friends. earching parties were out all night, but without success. Next morning word came that they had found refuge in a ranch building. Several of the party suffered from exposure, but none of them were in danger. The searchers were not so fortunate, as several of them were badly frostbitten. J. E. Webster, a contractor of Denver, lost his life in the blizzard. He had been out in the country on business, and returning home he was overcome, sank down in a drift and was frozen to death. A WTfiMSTPnTTfl TflF.TVF/R.rL XL ^IVXIUXIIUUU 1VUVUUVII One 700 Feet High and a Mile Long Passed by a Steamship. Reports of dangerous icebergs lying directly in the path of Western-bound steamships still come in, and the hydrographic officers have warned mariners of the dangers attending a "northern passage." Captain Evans, of the British steamship Mineola, which has arrived at Philadelphia from Hamburg, reports having passed within a few miles of a floating island of ice 700 feet high and a mile lone. PROMINENT PEOPLE, General W. T. Sherman is just seventy years old. Senator Ha wist practices on the violin every day. Mr. Gladstone keeps six private secretaries at work. Spain's little King has an income of one million dollars a year. Ttth TTnnse will soon contain a Dor trait of Grover Cleveland. Chief Justice Corliss, of North Dakota, is only thirty-one years of age. Senator Gorman is an expert on baseball, and was formerly a noted amateur player. In June next King Leopold's jubilee will he appropriately celebrated at Liege, Belgium. Cardinal Newman is eighty-eight years old, but still clear-headed ana physically spry and active. Postmaster-General Wanamaker never permits wine to be served at any of his entertainments. James "Whistler, London's eccentric American painter, iscominingover for a visit in'the spring. UALVIX i3. iiKIL't, Uliios new ocuaiAji, nui occupy James Gordon Bennett's villa at Newport next season. Prince Bismarck's friends are apprehensive again about his health, which is said to be much impaired. Senator I.vgalls's daily luncheon at the Senate restaurant consists of nine oysters fresh from the shells. Dr. McCosn, ex-President of Princeton, didn't stop teaching until he had educated thirty-seven college Presidents. Robert J. Burdette, the humorist, is a little man who talks in a sharp, quick way. He is tired of humorous writing. Among the many messages of sympathy rec?ived by Secretary Tracy were cablegrams from Queen Victoria and the King of Italy. Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, will, according to a London journal, shortly wed "an immensely wealthy American Catho ulv The richest man 111 Alabama is H. P. De Bordeleban, a Birmingham iron manufacturer, who is supposed to bo worth about f8t000,000. _ Oliver "Wendell Holmes always retires at the same hour, eats dinner in the middle of the day and walks at least two miles every tweuty-four hours. Monet is being raised for the erection of a monumental statue of Commodore Vanderbilt on the campus of Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn. Charles Dudlet Warner has a full beard, dresses better than most authors and lives at Hartford, between Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and his wife will have receptions in every Canadian city and town they visit during their tour through the Dominion. Buffalo Bill is quoted as saying that he does not wonder that Christopher Columbus wanted to get away from Spain, as he felt very much that way himself. Senator Wade Hampton comes from an old and formerly wealthy Southern family. At the out! reak of the war he had from 3000 to 300C slaves on his plantations. The Khaa of Khiva and the Emin of Bokhara are to make a tour through Europe this year, but the Russian Government stipulated that they ara not to visit England. The Eaiperor of Russia has been in a state of insane panic, the result b >ing that lie has sunk into the deepest despondency, and constantly insists that his end is approaching. Astonishment is expressed by many people upon learning that Mr. Blaine and Mr. Randall never studied law. One began hi? " " mi- ?s b mprnhant. and the other as a jour nalist. Tiie first cash John D. Rockefeller, of Standard Oil Company fame, ever had was twenty-five cenlr, whic i he earned by working for a farmer io that he might go to tua circus. Mo.yta.va is in a bad state. Her appropriation funds *a?e exhausted, and the Treasury will pay no more bills until the Legislature makes an appropriation. There is no money for the support of convicts, and the people are calling loudly on the Legislature to nustle. - ~ SPONGE MYERS. % . ia V A PERILOUS OCCUPATION IN THE* MEDITERRANEAN. Sponges Obtained at the Deadly Peril, Of Divers, Who Use no. Appar- Jfl atus and Remain Below /i Several Minutes.- ; Vf 1| Sponges soft as the skin of a babe come from the Grecian Archipelago, where; thousands of lives are lost every year in' procuring them, and forty dollars has often been paid for fine ones in New . York. No man in the city knows more about this annual sacrifice of men than *J.[ ^3 Papadopolo. He was born in Greece,' witnessed the operations of the sponge-: getters there, and himself seen many o? these fearless men eaten by sharks orj otherwise killed in t^e water. "In the Archipelago the divers are' ^ prepared to take many chances," he said J ! "Under water they can hold their breatlr -i for four or five minutes and can see as well beneath the surface as above it,f keeping their eyes constantly open.' ^ They use no mving apparatus, neiiaer v helmet nor anything else, and are clothed! / just as nature made them. They are ac-j customed to the work from the time theyj are six or seven years old, and when a boy is sixteen he has become as expert as his father." - ! The skill they attain does not pro-j long their lives, and few of them reach' or pass the age of thirty. Often theyj are brought up from the bottom of the sea more dead than alive, having becomeunconscious before they could give thef- 1 signal to be raised. ' ] Mr. Papadopolo said that though theiif skin is fair enough, being only somewhat. _ tanned, it turns actually black when the^ divers have been suffocated by a lon^^H stay below. Their occupation render8^P| all of them deaf?the pressure of the'" ! water ruining the delicate structure in4 J side the ear. J Every vessel that goes out on the- jj Mediterranean on a voyage for sponges- 8 returns with several dead bodies, or re-' a norta that missine men had been de-i I voured by sharks! The wife of every! V diver anticipates widowhood when she'- I kisses him adieu. Sponges come from the Onlf of Mexico, 1 the coast of Florida and the West- 1 Indies, but only in the Mediterranean do- J those who get them brave the monsters- d of the deep by jumping in the water- 1 and cutting the sponges loose from thft ,1 rocks or coral to which they are fastened.' : I In the other waters men remain in boats, ' and, with long poles to which hooked knives are joined, they tear each sponge- J< away. i But the Mediterranean sponges are the- , finest; they are such as the Yanderbilts,; Astors and nabobs of the world use in: -v their bathrooms, and they are considered precious enough to risk cheap v human lives for. . "The diver holds a heavy rock witlv* \ both hands when he jumps into the water, so that he may sink to the bottom rapidly," said Mr. Papadopolo. "Moments- ' are valuable to him then,and none should 1 A ATTrn A 1Q \ ue wasiuu gumg wiTu. jj. _ ened to this rock and another to a belt I around his waist. "When he reaches bot- I ton, a hundred feet, perhaps, or' more)' 1 he drops the rock, and with a knife like^J a Turkish yataghan detaches spong^A^ from the coral. He has a larger knife^^H his belt to protect himself against shark^S and other fishes. : |9 It means danger or death to a diver tb-^B forg.it where the rock is deposited, asthe-jH rope attached to it is the one used to sig- V nal with. When he has been down S longer than usual another diver is sent tolook for him, but by that time he may be drowned. The second rope is used to- M draw him up when the other diver sig~ nals. No attention is paid to pulling on I it as he is roving around below. The bag which every diver carries sus? jfl n./innrl Vlio nool- ismodp rtf liwht.'-flB jjuuucu aivj^ o?i^m tough netting. The stuff he throws into 3 it rapidly is unattractive in its original ? condition. Mr. Papadopolo compared the sponge when brought up to a piece of dark liver. An integument surrounds it, and between this outer covering and the sponge-., itself is a thick tarry-like substance, which the sponge men call "milk." Thesponges are tramped on by the divera when thrown on the vessel's deck, and this thick liquid crushed out. Otherwiseit would dye the sponge so black that no \ - ~ if TtoIIatT "Rlparh Uieat-'Uillif cuuiu uuav ii. jv.nu... ing confers the yellow color, and ?. bleacher who does not know how to han- B die the acids delicately will cause & sponge to rot in the process. 9 "When a diver is uescending or is at B the bottom," Mr. Papadopolo remarked; |fl "sharks do not attack him. He may der: W fend himself then with his knife, as he can see them below or around himi I Whiie he is down, the shark, a coward-^J ly fish, will hover around him or rcixtajfl|^l in one spot watching him intently, parently knowing that his breath wi^^H give out, that he must rise to the surface and that then will be the time to attack I him from below. The diver remains at I the bottom as long as he can, anu when I he gives tne signal 10 oe urawu up uq has not breath enough left to take time.to fight the shark. Up he goes; the shark follows and seizes his man often^' times as he is about to be drawn on declc^' The shark jumps up above the water and catches a diver's leg;' the crew on thfl deck pound it with the oars of theif small boats or iron bars; but it does no^ Jet go until it has severed the leg or cut the man in twain. Such scenes are common in the archipelago." ^ It might be thought that large remu-2 aeration comes from this perilous employ-' ment, but the pittance the divers get barely maintains them and their families,' and they continue in debt to the men who hire them from one generation tu auumci. ? They live on the islands in the archipelj H ago. They keep at the work all the year H round, save during the two months or S0|fl when storms sweep the sea. It is no^ because hurricanes wreck their vessels that they remain idle then, but because I the winds roughen the waters, which arei H usually clear to a great depth, as are B those at all the sponge beds, and thus they H are prevented from seeing where the H sponges are. a H The best sponges are got by diving, as-1 they grow finer in the cold and darknes^ *S of the depths of the sea than higher up*-1 H where the sealight reaches thera aqdi I warms the water. The supply of sponggs.1 fl which arc thought vegetable matter bajB some scientists and animal by others,]^ will never be exhausted, as they thrive(<H when cut just as human hair does.?: H York Journal. H The waters of Japan furnish 250 differ* I ent varieties of fish suitable for food. ?' fl a.