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FOR FUGITIVE ROGUES. Extradition Treaty Witli England Ratified. Manslaughter Defined and False Pretenses Excluded. The extradition treaty between the United States and Great Britain, which was negotiated last year by Secretary Blaine and Sir Julian Pauncefote has been ratified by the Senate. Certain chancres were made in the language of the document, however, aud these will require the consent of the British Government if the treatv is to stand as ratified. When the treaty was discussed in secret session, some of the Democrats, led by Mr. Gray, made an earnest effort to strike out manslaughter from the list of offences made extraditable. The publication of this /act was very annoying to some of the Senators, who think the public ought to be kept in entire ignorance of their doings. When the treaty was taken up again, behind the closed doors, there was a good deal of fault finding and sharp criticism because some of the Senate secrets had been exposed. Senators, therefore, were disposed to be unusually reticent about the day s proceedings. It was known, however, as already stated, that amendments were made to the treaty before it was ratified. Mr. Gray's proposal to strike out manslaughter from the new list of offences was defeated by a majority vote. It was argued in behalf of the motion that manslaughter was not the same offense in the two countries, and many decisions of British anil American courts were quoted to show the different legal interpretations of manslaughter which the courts have put on record. The arguments did not prove strong enough to induce the Senate to eliminate manslaughter, but it resulted, it is understood, in the insertion of a definition of the ofl'ense of manslaughter, as the United States intended it to be understood in carrying out the terms of the treaty. It is not believed that there will be any hesitation on the part of Great Brit- j Ain in nrnmntlr nprr>?"?tinrr tlu>ivicnHn/l ifofim* 1 tion of the offense of manslaughter. After disposing of the manslaughter provision it was proposed to omit from the list of extraditable offenses the crime of obtaining money, goods, or valuable securities under false pretenses, and over this there was a long discussion, resulting, it is believed, in the adoption of the amendment. These are said to be the only changes of importance made in the treaty, which was ratified by a vote much larger than the necessary I two-thirds. The treaty makes the following crimes extraditable in addition to those specified in the treaty of 1842: Manslaughter, counterfeiting or altering money or putting the same in circulation: embezzlement, larceny, fraud by bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, director, member, or officer of any company made criminal by the laws of both countries; perjury or subornat'ion of perjury; rape, abduction, child stealing, kidnapping; burglary; piracy, by the law of nations; mutiny at sea, j wrongfully sinking or destroying a vessel or attempting to do so, assaults on trie high seas; Crimes ana offenses against the laws of both countries for the suppression of slavery and slave trading. Extradition is not to be had for political . offences, nor shall auv person surrendered by i eitcer party oe tried ror any other offense ! than the one for which ho was extradited. The treaty shall not apply to any crimes committed before its ratification. Sir Juliaii Pauncefote, the British Minister, was greatly pleased with the action of the Senate in ratifying the first treaty he has negotiated, atul * it has given him fresh * TSicpuragement in the work he is now engaged in with Mr. Blaine, of trying to settle the fisheries dispute, the j Behring S?i trouble, (ind the | "Slaska boundary jjuestion. Tho British Minister was not disposed to spend much time upon these treaties unjil ha had learned something of the Jempef of t\ie &euat?t<? : ward the work of Mr. Blaine. From the fact that the Minister has been in daily confwenwwith Vr4 Slaln^ foi" the preyjous ten day6 or more Upoii the fishefy matter, it is inferred that Sir Julian had received assurance that the extradition treaty would lie ratified and that the Senate was in the humor to back up the Secretary of State and the Administration. 1 A PLUCKY FAEMEE. Seventy Years Old, Yet He Defeats TT. Two Burglars. One burglar shot dead and another badly wounded is the story of a struggle at a farm house, one mile east of Cresline, Ohio. Shortly after nine o'clock Justin FrengI* and his wife, both over seventy years old, were startled by a rap at the door and the announcement from some one without that j he had a despatch for Frengle. The door ,was opened and in rushed two men, i ?n? of whom grappled with Fren- ! X* tZ Ctuer tarea^** Mrs. Frengle with instant death if she made an j outcry. She screamed lustily, whereat the burglar seized her, threw her to the floor and attempted to gag her while his accomplice ; was in a desperate struggle on the floor with i Frengle, who is a powerful man despite his j Tears. Frengle finally succeeded in drawing ' Ids revolver from his pocket, but unable tc j chnnt. Hie own assailant he took aim at the I man who was choking his wif> and shot him through the heart. The man struggled to his feet, reeled through the . room and fell a corpse just outside the door. The other burglar then ; released his hold on Frengle and started to ' flee, but the plucky old man fired a second I shot, which caused him to stagger. He got away and disappeared in tne darkness, j though evidently badly wounded. The body of the dead burglar was taken tc Crestline to await possible identification. The man was about thirty-five years of age and probably a professional burglar. In the struggle he dropped a satchel that was found to contain burglar's tools. THE LABOR WORLD. A ? ?? in/>?>Aaca loef WOftf 0\ ATLA^iA uaima au iuvi vuo J mmw jvw? ?- . 800 new industries, smal! and great. Henry George is said to be one of th? ; fastest typesetters in this country. According to the shop reperfcs of tha ! Locksmiths and Railing-Makers' Union the demand for labor is larger than the supply^ at present. The Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics haq decided to begin a thorough investigation into the system of mortgages which prevails in that State. The Atlantic ship owners have held a meeting in Liverpool at which they arranged a combination to defeat any possible strike on .thejpart of the stevedores. The contract for three and a half miles of elevated railway in Chicago was let to Carnegie, Phipps & Co., of Pittsburg. The price will be between $800,000 and $1,000,000. The eight-hour movement is gaining ground in London, but the Government refuses to take jpart in the eight-hour dis uuivbiun wj ue uciu at i>ci uc kju. iu vjut*v*v** w? the Swiss Republic. . The Knights of Labor in Canada will petition the Canadian Parliament for the, appointment of a board of arbitration, to which all matters in dispute between capital and labor will be referred. It is announced in England that John Burns, the leader of the dock strike, is coming to this country for a short rest, and to study the labor problem here, upon the invitation of American labor leaders. The Journeymen bricklayers' Protective, Association, one of the strongest labor unions in Philadelphia, after a long and spirited discussion defeated by a vote of 192 to 91 a proposition making eight hours a day's work. The German Socialists have abandoned their idea of organizing a universal labor strike in May owing to the favorable utterances contained in the recent rescripts issued, by Emperor William with regard to the working classes. The treatment of coolies on German liners was the subject of a question put receutly in i the Reichstag, and the Secretary of State, i von Boetticher, stated iu reply that the Ger-1 man Government saw no reason for stopping the employment of lascars and coolies. The fact that the labor movement is in-! creasing again appears to be evident from; the fact that new trade and labor weeklies j are published at a rate of about three per; month. Since in 1887 the movement co]-' laosed over thirty labor papers bare died. }, .7 /?.; {x-wwe**- ' : . v-' '' *" r THE NFWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. A syndicate of English capitalist? havo ! < bought the rubber mills of Trenton. N. J. * for ?750,000. The body of Hiram F. Sawtello. a missing fruit dealer of Boston, was found in a wood near East Lebanon, Me., and many strong pieces of evidence against his brother Isaac are in possession of the police. John Campfell, of Newtown. Conn., a wife boater, was taken out at ni^ht by four masked citizens and flogged until unconscious. The National Bank at Lincoln, Penn., p which was plundered by Cashier Bard and P. "\\r. Hull, has dosed its doors under tht orders of Bank-Examiner Greene. * The King of Italy has sent to Mayor Hart, * of Boston, a communication thanking The e Board of Police and Captain Cain and his of- s ficers. who risked their lives in rescuing j. Italians at the recent fire in the city. A trust in farm implements was formed e at Utica, N. Y., with a capital of $1,000,000. t Five large concerns form the combination. p s< Soutli and West. ? The color line has resulted in a split in, ^ the Louisiana and Mississippi Department of the Grand Army of the Republic. There are t now two sets of officers. n Jim Butts and Ed. Johnson, both colored, c were hanged at Ferry, Ga., for the murder si of Captain Miller. * j ii A Deputy United States MxHsr al was p waylaid and shot at Quincy, Fla., L v men " accused of election frauds. 11 The National Electric Light Convontion jt which met at Kansas City expressed opposi- p) tion to executions by electricity. o] The Sai.em (111.) National Bank has been e; robbed of ?10,000 in cash and some securi- A ties. The burglars drilled through the vault t< door, entered the vault and blew open the burglar proof safe. tl Dennis Hardrick, colored, while fighting tl drunk, fired into a crowd of dancers at hi Santa Rosa County, Fla., and shot four per- iz sons, two men and two women. One of the F latter is dead, and the others fatally hurt. A passenger train on the Monon route collided with a freight train two miles north ? of Mitchell, Iud., and three men were killed. P Two Cincinnati Southern freight trains p, collided at Melville, Tenn., and Engineer H, jz Crow, and Brakeman William Gray were j, killed. The collision was caused by the neg- tl iigence of the flagman. w One wing of the insane asylum west tc of Little Rock., Ark.," has been burned. The loss is between $30,000 and 1=40,000. The tl four hundred patients were removed to th* ai ground floor, and although an indescribable ot panic prevailed, there was no loss of life. tt The Terre Haute Milling Company's flouring mill in Indiana has been burned. Loss P( ?100,000. tc It was discovered in Salt Lake City that an attempt had been made to steal the re- r, cords of the Utah Commission. The steamer Louise,of the Jacksonville and fa Mayport line, ran into an obstruction neat so Hunter's Mill, on St. John's River, Fla., and f0 was sunk. One man was drowncJ. Smallpox is spreading in Texas. On one tli ranch in Duval CouHty sixty-five persons n( died of the disease. There is a great scarcity tli of nurses and physicians. ra A local freight train jumped the track al Founding Mill, va., and the enfrinner, brake- 01 man and another man were killed, and tht Wl engine and five cars were wrecked. jV A seminary for girls has been burned at m San Marcos, Texas, and three of the girls wj were seriously burned, and thirty others only escaped death by jumping from the third story windows to a gallery, from which thej escaped on ladders. Many were hurt in making the jump. nar0le0x Laval called at the store of B Jo Feldeman & Co.. Charleston, S. C., and an asked to see his wife, who had been separated from him for some time. When the womar came down, Laval shot her, and then, enter ; ing the store, shot Feldemau. Both of the victims were fatally wounded. in Latham Sholes, the inventor of the Ixnnmni'fan nmrl o mAriaAl> -WStl * ? ? oUcf /li/U? 01 S\l. vj ,T11 ?uu ? |;iuacci jv/ut iiiiii>7V| mi Milwaukee, Wis., aged 71 years. at Ellison* Mounts Avas hanged at Pikeville, Ky., for participating in the murder of Misi ? Alafair McCoy and her brother. J. B. Kelly was arrested in St. Louis and identified as J. B. Simonds, wanted for com plicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin al p( Chicago. The tobacco establishment and stock of Black & Co., Wheeling, W. Va., estimated ls to be worth more thau $100,000, have been po seized by United States officers on account of alleged overfilling of tobacco packages. W Washington. The House Special Committee on World's Fair has reported in favor of building an br International Exposition in 1892. ov The Judiciary Comm-'ttee of the House ju has ordered a favorable report to be made on an international copyright bill. A call has been issued for a convention of colored business men of the United States, pli to be held in Washington, for the purpose of establishing a permanent organization of colored business men. The Senate id secret session confirmed the 1 u following "nominations: Charles Emory Smith, Minister to Russia; J. Fenner Lee, of w Maryland, Secretary of Legation at Rio de Janeiro, and George W. Irvin, Marshal for Montaua, and a number of census supervis- bi ors and army officers. Secretary Windom has terminated the 0f contract between the Government and the ^ Commissioners of Emigration of New York , e city. The President directed Major Calvin C. A) SnifTen, Paymaster, to temporarily perform a ( the duties * of Paymaster-General of the Army, vice General William B. Rochester, 1 retired. 0j, The President has issued a proclamation on directing the removal of all cattle from crazing upon what is known as the Chero- &? kee Outlet in the northern part of the Indian Territory. The removal must be completed Tr by October 1. ^ ?~ C< 1- oreign. tv The beautiful University building of Toronto, has been destroyed by fire. The fire broke out while preparations were being Bi made for the annual conversazione. The University buildings cost $500,000. The library was valued at $100,000. *a The British steamship Ludcate Hill, bound aE for London from New York, collided with es the British steamship Deaside. The latter vessel sank and seven of her crew were drowned. of At the Australian Conference iu Mel- ar bourne Sir Henry Parke's motion in f avor sii of Colonial Federation was unanimously adopted. At a wedding party at Pontivy, France, the vehicle convoying the bride and bride- Si groom and a number of their friends was wj upset ana the whole party of twelve were precipitated into the river and drowned. A recent election in Hawaii has resulted si< in a sweeping victory for the native party. Fi The new Sultan of Zanzibar, Seynoid Ali, Wl received all the European residents of . Zanzibar, and formally hoisted his flag. 1)4 The passenger steamer Duburg foundered . in a typhoon in the China Sea, and her 400 \ Chinese passengers and crew were drowned. The only traces of her ever seen were float- p, iug bundles of rattan that formed part of her cargo. Count Julius Andrassy, the Hungarian statesman, who has been ill for some time at <>ii Volosca, is dead, aged 87 years. ^ A duel between two officers of the Czar of t1 of Russia's hussar guard, at Tsarskoe, in w hich both were wounded, one fatally, has A inranml tJiA Emncror who intends ce to make an example of the survivor. ct The passenger steamer Coral Queen has * been sunk off the River Tees, England, in a collision with the steamer Brinio. It is re- at ported that sixteen persons on tho Coral fe Queen were drowned. At Muhlhausen, in Saxony, there was a fight at a socialist election meeting, which went so far that the soldiers were called to restore order. Thirty persons were wounded. ^ Between 800 and 1000 Indians, credited tc the DiwiTs Lake Agency, in North Dakota,1 tc hre wholly destitute of everything and in tho last stages of starvation. Disease ha.~ brought c; fully one-half of them to the verge of tha la brave, and the recent inclement weather en- ^ lumced their sufferings. j k, ? Tbb bill in the Canadian Parliament to 1 abolish the duty on American corn imported Into Canada to distill has been defeated. , *u A RIOT MANSAS. ~j" Sanguinary Election Fight in i the Town of Harper. \ Proposition to Issue Railroad j Bonds Results in Bloodshed. A hundred men or more have had a des I erate fight with guns, knives, clubs and j arious other weapons at Harper, Kan. . Vhen the battle ended two men had received 1 heir death wound, and nearly a dozen oth ' rs were cut, bruised or s-lior, several of then: , o badly that there is little chance of theii t ecovery. j The trouble grew out of a railroad bond j lection, and the stealing of their ballot < toies, which have not yet been found Re f orts from the scene of the conflict, which is l oventv miles southwest of Wichita, agre< t hat a large number of men were badly in { ured, the list so far as definitely ascertained t eing as follows: ' t Tom Sabin, a cowboy, slashed with a knife, 1 fterward died; John Tilford, a merchant, lortal wounds, Robert C. Thomas, badly f ut probably fatally injured; Henry Morgan, g hot in arm, head bruised, John Mulvey, cul t i left side and hit with a stone; Clarena j .ogan, head badly bruised, Oscar Reed, shot s 1 the neck; Samuel Clayton, left leg badly urt by a bullet, amputation probably neces c iry; Silas Adams, dangerous knife Wound t i the breast; Thomas Claucy, frightfully > it on neck and shoulder, left ear cul T; Mike Murphy, uose broken and left C je> knocked out! an unknown man from f .nthony, cut in the abdomen, injuries likely 1 > be fatal. h An election was held at Harper to vote on fc le proposition to issue $100,000 in bonds to d le Sahna and Gulf road. The project wai c itterly resisted by many of the leading cib ens, and as bitterly advocated by others, or a week both parties had mado every ef >rt to carry or defeat the proposition. The fight over the bonds was complicate*! i r ad made bitter by the fact that Anthony,? C ival town three miles west of Harper, proin r ed to issue tlie bonds it tiie rauroaa com c my would locate its line at that place. Cit v ens Jiving between the two towns were alsc d seply interested in the struggle, and whet v le election was held at Harper the towi as filled with interested outsiders anxioui n > take a hand in the matter. t] The company preferred to run its lim n Trough Harper if the bonds could be voted c id had sent a large gang of graders an< n ;her employes to help carry the projec o i rough. v Many stonny scenes were witnessed at th? ai ills during the day, a'd half a dozen fighti ok place, but a general riot was prevent? "V f the coolness of the leader?. When th< F )lls closed it was believed that the bond T id carried. The ballots were nob al si muted, and during the night tho boxes con a< ining the votes were stolen and disposed o: w effectually that they have not yet beer und. b: The only ward estimated as going a gains lc ie bonds was the First, and its ballots wen $ )t stolen. When the affair became knowi st * ' 1. mi. /V e next aay mere was great excitement, x m ilroad crowd bad a number of arrest) $' ade, and warrants were sworn out foi p hers who could not be found. An ofiforl n as made to arrest Tom Sabin, who has beer 0 ;owboy in his day. He made a fight, and vi s friends joining, ft hundred men in a feM inutes became engaged in a desperate bat< ci ;th the results stated above. th LATEK NEWS." ? 111 An express train, while passing through Vi hnstown, Penn., struck and killed two men id fatally injured another. They were ^ alking on the track. co Mrs. Ida Walker, a saloon passenger 011 ^ e steamship British Princess, which arrived Philadelphia from Liverpool, committed icide by taking laudanum, and was buried sea the following day. ^ Ihe count of the votes in Philadelphia ' " ' ?. -n T? T oweu cnat <j onn n. rvey uluh uua uocu uct tcu succeed Judge Kelley in Congress. $7 A sensation was created at McKeesport, ^ inn., by the arrest of Mrs. Giles Collin9 cj. d daughter for shoplifting. Mrs. Collins the wife of a leading politician of McKees- th rt, and is well known. de nc A boarder who was living at the house of illiam Taylor, near Phillipsburg, N. J., I th iced a dynamite cartridge in the oven of tu e kitchen stove. Mrs. Taylor was cooking eakfast, and as she was about to close the en door the cartridge exploded, fatally inring her and her two children. [t is proposed when the statue of General M ibert E. Lee reaches Richmond, Va., to ice it in a wagon to be drawn through the y by a rope a mile long. Men, and women en, are clamorous to have a hold of the a{ in pe. Homer H. Brow*, a man sixty years old, | ,-n bo had been confined in insane asylums in ra attle, Wash., for twenty years by his rich others, has been declared sane. 111 The bill establishing the Australian system , Dl ballot has passed the Washington State ^ nate. ar Mardi Gras was celebrated at Mobile, ia., by elaborate parades, illuminations and 58 * i 11 I nt costume ball. The President has approved the joint res- I 0e ition congratulating the people of Brazil , wi i their adoption of a republican form of I ivernment. ^ Joseph Gills Biggar, the well-known j ish Home Ruler and member of the House | fr Commons for the west division of the ( >s )unty Cavan, died at London, aged sixty>o years. fa In the Canadian House of Commons Mr. hi iusol?il's amendment to Mr. McCarthy's V1 11 for the abolition of Freuch as an official J ^ Qguage in the Northwest was lost. The j cij nendment was that affairs should remain ' lai :aetly as they are. n . v.?? r\f fVio firnrpmment IIL'^91 A uaa ucuiau\iwu v* ? ^ Eulgaria the payment of 3,000,000 roubles, ye rears of money due on account of the Rus- f in occupation during 1878 and 1879. J Three boys?George Bailey, Norman Sco ld and Frank Fairchild?were drowned in lver Lake, Ontario, by the ice breaking E hile they were skating. A dispatch received states that an explo- * m had occurred in a colliery near Liecize, ^ ranee. It was not known how many lives ere lost, but already thirty-four bodies had g] sen recovered. ^ STRANGLED BY A TOOTH, g eculiar Death of a Lady of Dubuque d, Iowa. a: Mrs. L. W. Bradley, the wife of a wealthy ^ tizen, died suddenly at Dubuque, Iowa. ^ 'hile out calling in the afternoon she E urnoiea, ana, in ine iau, urose ner arm. surgeon was sent for, and before proeding to set the arm ho administered 11 iloroform. While at work upon the arm & > discovered that sho was sinking rapidly id soon died without recovering con- h iousness. It is stated by the physician that p I artificial tooth, of which he was unaware, b II down her throat and strangled her. SNOW IN TEXAS. J n llnpi-ccedentod Snowstorm Mailed ^ as a Blessing by .Farmers. f, Dispatches from several widely-separated li >wns and cities in Texas say that an unpretdented snowstorm has prevailed over a C] rge area of the State, and that snow lies on j ^ ie ground from 2 to 14 inches deep. It is J b lilid as a blessing, especially iu the western irt of the State, where the land was very I, y, and*11 grain crops will be greatly bene- ! tJ ?d. Sto&k is in fine condition and will net c] ffer from C<}ld. f< FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS." I In the Senate. 30th Day.?About sixty bills were taker) j from the calendar and passed, among whicb ' fvere the following: Providing for an Assist- | int Secretary of War, with a salary of $4500. j Authorizing the aeceptanco by l5r. W. J. j Hoffman of certain decorations from foreign i powers. For the relief of soldiers or sailors ] who enlisted or served under assumed names. . Appropriating $125,000 for a revenue cutter ; for services on the Pacific coast, with head- j luarters at Astoria, Ore. Providing for ; :nirty days' annual leave of absence for ofll- j ?ers and employes in the Customs service of ! :he Government who receive per diem com- j sensation. Also the concurrent resolution I x> invite international arbitration as to differences between nations. 40th Day.?The Pacific Railroad Funding ! sill was reported from the Special Commit- | :ee.... Mr. Blair continued his speech on the [ Educational bill... .The Senate Dill to estabish two additional land districts in the State >f Washington was taken from the calendar md passed. The Senate then proceeded to jusiness on the calendar, and passed about wo dozen bills, among which was a bill to imend the Revised Statutes concerning the egulation of steam vessels, and another to snable the Secretary of the Interior to locate ndians in Florida upon lands in severalty ...Mr. Dawes presented over 240 petitions rom Massachusetts stating that more than 100,000 gallons of intoxicating liquors are anmally exported from the United States to Africa, and praying that that sort of thing j hall be stopped. 41st Day.?Mr. Blair continued his speech ! >n his Education bill In executive session, I he British Extradition Treaty was ratified, I vith two slight amendments. 42d Day.?The resolution offered by Mr. I Chandler, calling on the Attorney-General j or information as to the assassination of W. 5. Saunders, Deputy United States Marshal ! a the Northern District of Florida, was | a ken up, and Mr. Pasco proceeded to ad- | ress the Senate upon the case Mr. Blair ontinued his speech on the Education bilL ????? In the House. 44th Day.---After the journal had been j ead and approved, Mr. Chandler, from the | tommittee on the World's Fair, submitted a : eport, wmcn* was oraerea printed ana reommitted... .The consideration of the rules ! "as then proceeded with, and after a long j ebate they were adopted by a strict party ote of yeas 101, nays 145. 45th Day.?Mr. Dunnell, from the Com- i littee on the Eleventh Census, reported back ! lie Senate bill providing for the ascertain- j lent of the mortgage indebtedness of the ! ountry. Mr. Dockery offered an amend- ! lent providing that Sections 18 to 16 of the riginal Census Act shall apply to the proisions of this act. The amendment was dopted, and the bill as amended passed. 4(5th Day.?A resolution of the Special World's Fair Committee, that the World's airbills be made a special order for the next hursday and Friday, and that balloting for te be begun on the following Monday, was iopted ? A number of bills and resolutions ere introduced, and some were passed. 47th Day.?The Pension Appropriation ill was reported. It is made up of the foliwing items: For the payment of pensions, )7,090,761; fees and expenses of examining 1 lrgeons, $1,000,000; salaries of agents, $72,- 1 K); clerk hire, $220,000; fuel, $750; lights, 1 "50; stationery and other necessary ex- j snses, $35,000; rents, $18,200... .The House i f Vimmitfcpn nf tho -Whnlo Hism<ispri t.Vin ' klahoma bill and the Senate measure pro- ! iding for an Assistant Secretary of War. ' 4Sth Day.?Mr. Adams, from the Judiary Committee, called up the bill to divide le judicial district of North Dakota into ur parts. The bill was passed, as was a irresponding Senate bill, with amendments, i oviaing for the division of South Dakota ! to three parts In Committee of the . 'hole the Oklahoma bill was considered, the 1 mate bill providing for an Assistant Secre- I ry of War was reported favorably and ; e majority and minority reports in the j ntested election case at Atkinson against i sndleton were submitted. ' MILITIA CALLED OUT, '! \ he Chickasaw Nation to EjectXon- i Citizens. The Chickasaw Legislature, in special 9es- ( jn have passed a resolution appropriating 1 000 to equip the tribal militia, which will j 1 called out by Governor Byrd to eject non- ( fcizens who have refused to pay their perit taxes. There are several hundred of ese people, and as they are well armed and ifiant serious trouble was expected. The in-citizens were refused representation in e Legislature by the full bloods and defend eir course on the old principle of no tara>n without repre.. station. PBOMINENT PEOPLE. Senator'Wolcott. "of Colorado, fs thicks t of build, broad of body and short of neckj Chauncey Depew, the railroad President, )t a dollar and a balf for bis first fee as d wyer. George Bancroft, the historian, at the ;e of ninety, retain.") liis mental powers un- j lpaired. A reporter who saw Rutherford B. Hayes Chicago says of him: "He is aging very ipituy." Prince Bismarck is a miller, a paper- 1 aker, a brickinaker, an ironmaster, a coal' . iner and a brewer. Thirty-seven former pupils of Dr. Jame^ ; cCosb, ex-President of Princeton College, ^ e now college professors. t Captain Trivier, the French explorer^ | i ys that the natives of Central Africa can' j t it be civilized for centuries. Governor Scales, of North Carolina, is j ? leof the largest men in his State, ana J J sighs nearly three hundred pounds. Mr. Blaixe's recent loss of an uncle, a 1 j, ;ter, and then a son and daughter, has won L r him the sympathy of the entire country, ;j Mb. Cleveland's guaranteed income ] om the New York law firm with which ha j connected as special counsel is $25,000 a ,j ar. ,1 Lord Tennyson says that since he became mous he has at least 100,000 applications fen* ' s autograph. He has favored only 500 indi< duals. Lord High Chancellor Halsbury, ol lgland, patterns after Gladstone as a wood opper. Felling trees is one of his particu-' ' r enjoyments. Robert Bonner's sons sent the poet Whit;r a check for $1000 for his poem, "Thd iptain's Well," written,in his eighty-second ar, for their paper. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. "Lohengrin" has been sung 250 times in i erlin since 1859. | P. T. Barnum says that 1,500,000 people , ;tended his show in London. A new comedy being played at a Polish' | leatre is called "The Influenza." I Henry Austin Jones, tho well-known En- i lish playwright, is to visit this country in i [arch. Next season Fanny Davenport promises to ; ive Sardou's "Theodora' the handsomest roduction it has ever had. "Joan of Arc" is to be produced in Lonon in May, with Bernhardt in the title roll ad all the French scenery. Mary Anderson has written to William lack, the novelist, confirming the report or er engagement to young Mr. Navarro, ot few York. A dramatic representation of the advenlres of Stanley is being prepared for one of le English theatres, which will present it in rand style. The Beethoven Society at Bonn,Germany, as acquired the last piano used by the comosor, it having been made expressly for him y Conrad Graff. Congressman Crisp, of Georgia, is the an of an English actor of repute who played i the old Park Theatre, Aew York city, lany years ago. It is Joseph Jefferson's idea that the unappiness of the late Edwin Forrest arose rora an irritable temper, which he had under ttlo or no control. Henry T. Finck, the well-known musical ritic, is busily occupied in the preparation f a series of lectures on the history of msic, which are ultimately to appear in ook form. The London authorities hare put a stop to la holding of lotteries for the benefit oi laritable institutions, which have hereto >rc been winked at when quietly conducted. \ . ACROSS THE^WM A Batch of Newsy Stories Told By tlie Telegraph. Vitriol Thrown in a Girl's Face and Her Lover Shot, The town of Erie, Penn., is excited over an attack made by some miscreant upon Miss Emma Fischer, a young lady of prominence and respectability. On a recent evening Miss Fischor weut to the door in response to a summons, and a man who stood close by, with masked face, threw oil of vitriol in her face and ran. Dennis McCarty, the young lady's lover, hearing of i/uc uuuagc, wo uuii tu uiiu wie ljiuli. About midnight McCarty lieavd a conversation in an old building, and, on being well satisfied that he was on the track, attempted to enter the door. The men on the inside fired upon McCarty, who was wounded, but the brave fellow pressed on in the direction from which the shots were coming and ordered the would-be assassins to surrender. They refused, and sent a ball through Mccarty's body. Ho stood by the door, cutting off escape by that channel, hoping that his calls and the shots would secure help, but the vitriol thrower escaped, leaving the evidence of the foul deed behind him. McCarty was painfully, but not fatally wounded. Miss Fischer's eve3 escaped the fiery fluid, but she will be disfigured. Wholesale Executions. Dispatches received in London from China give details of a wholesale execution of criminals in Pekin. The condemned were fourteen in number. Tbey were dressed in red, their hands tied behind them and a heavy chain was fastened around their necks. At the place of execution the wagons stopped, and an Imperial Commissioner read the decree of condemnation. Nine of the prisoners were to be beheaded and five to be hanged. The former were placed in front of the place destined to receive their bodies. Their faces were painted red, their red clothes were stripped from them, and each one was forced to dig a grave for himself two feet in depth. The subsequent work of the executioner was speedy, and in a very few moments tho niuo were beheaded and the hve strangled. The bodies of the later were stretched on the ground, and officers pinned on each a large paper, giving the name and crime of the condemned. Later the bodies were exposed to be the prey of carrion birds. An immense throng flocked to Pelrin from the neighboring country to witness the executions. Her Hair Torn From the Scalp. "While Katie Daegler, aged 15, was attempting to adjust a belt at her work-bench in Lauberbach & Co.'s stocking factory at Lancaster, Pann., her hair, whicn she wore down her back, was caught and she was dragged down to the shaft, her hair torn completely from the scalp, one ear torn off, her face disfigured almost beyond recognition and one arm broken. As soon as the machinery could bo stopped she was removed from the shaft arouna which she liad been twisted. Though unconscious she breathed and late in the evening was still ilive. Physicians pronounced her case hope loss. Slowly Starving. Twenty days before this dispatch was written, Samuel L. Bayless, of Fort Wayne, Ind., ivas almost strangled to death by food which mtered his windpipe. It was taken from the irachea and the patient afforded temporary elief. Three days later the muscles of the | hroat refused to act. Since that time, he had lot taken a morsel of food, cither liquid or ;olid. A few injections had been made into ;he stomach, but these afforded practically 10 relief. Tho patient weighed 172 pounds hrce weeks previous and now weighed 120. Life may be prolonged, but the physicians tvere expecting death momentarily. Never Forgot the Thrashing. A young man named Booth, nineteen fears old, waylaid Rev. Mike Whisman near Dompton, Ky., and fatally cut him with a cnife. Whisman lived two hours after reviving his wounds. Booth was accompanied Dy a man named Sparks Whisman had )nce punished Booth while the latter was a schoolboy, and Booth had threatened then a be revenged. He never forgot his fancied vrong. Officers were after the murderer. fVolf County is a moc. ?in county, but it is lot a lawless community. Three Men have ieen hanged there for murder within the ast two years. Seized an Embodied Spirit. Three Chicago reporters and a detective attended a dark cabinet seance in that city, and vhen tho proper time arrived one of them enirif nri/1 onftf.lior cfriipt ICJ^CU CUD OU4WUiVUa|/U?V UUVA MUVV'V* W*. MV?? i light. The result was screams and a sensa;ion. Then a patrol wagon drove up and tfrs. Carrie M. Sawyer and Miss Kittie danger, who played the parts of spirits, and Frank Burk, manager, were bundled in and jarried off to a police station, charged with )btainiug money by false pretences. . A FEARFUL FATE, nfuriated People Chop Off a Murderer's Lunbs. The particulars of a tragedy at Crawfordsrille, Ar?., have been received from the >rother-in-law of the murdered girl, who esides in Memphis, and who ha; just re urned from the scene. Miss Gosswas missed daring the night an:l i search was made, but without success until laylight, when her mutilated corpse was 'ouna about 800 hundred yards from the louse. She had been assaulted and then uurdered. The whole neighborhood soqp gathered, and search for the murderer began it once. Suspicion pointed to Corvett, who liad been aroimd the house the night before in an intoxicated condition. From his wife it was learned that he came home early in the morning drunk and informed her that lie had murdered Miss Goss, at the same time threatening to kill her if she did not keep his secret. Without waiting for the slow process of the law the infuriated people took Corvett to the scene of the murder, and with an axe cut off his arms and legs and severed his head from his body. When Miss Goss's brother-in-law left the mob w/-s preparing to cremate Corvett's remains, A BOY'S DOUBLE CRIME. He Shoots at His Sweetheart and Then Hills Himself. Eugene Callahan, of Cheyenne, "Wyo., the iixteen-year-olil son of poor Irish people, has loved to distraction pretty little Maud Hall, iged fifteen, whom he met at school. She 3id not care for him and told him so. He brooded much over the affair and the other afternoon, left home on horseback with his revolver, saying if could not have Maud no one else could. Toward evening he met her coming from church. She greeted him pleasantly and he responded affectionately. Maud turned to continue toward home when Callahan forced his horse almost upon her and fired three shots at her, none of which took effect. He then rode a hundred yards away and killed himself. * ? ? ? ln.J *ttVi A WAnl.l J ne t)Oy was n, ruumuuv; iuu, nuv nvuiu i have nothing to do with his hard working brotlieiv, but studied painting and music. His Bister, who had boon a variety actress, com- | initted suicide with laudanum two years ago. WENT TO JAIL FOE PAT. A Hired Substitute for tho Ileal Au ilior of a Crime. The Ohio State prison authorities hav? just discovered that one of their prisoners ii a hired substitute for the real author of tin crime. Two prisoners were taken to Spring field to testify in the prosecution of Samuel Landis, a wealthy saloon-keeper, who is ao cased of receiving stolen good--. In th? courso o? tho investigation it was pretty well established that Landis was the guilty man in the case which sent one of the prison ers, James Shehey, up and that he had beeu hired by Landis, for big pay, lo 6wear tilt crime on himself and take Lke punishment Landis is rich, and it Is said has been ic prison before, ? that he was iu danger ol Being caught under the habitual eriminaJ act should he be ,?ent to prison again and b? held indefinitely. Therefore he felt that hi could well afford to hire a sub. " ;' " " ? <- . t\ ' " " . - ? -.'^^V . ' '' > BRAINY BLIND MEN. fcHEY PERFORMED SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE TASKS. A Blind Theologian, Poet, Naturalist, Musician, Botanist, Sculptor, Inventor and President of a Manufacturing Company. | "Whore tho list of blind -wonders j properly begins it is difficult to learn. Every century has had them. Eusebius, I the blind theologian, who lived near the begiuning of the Christian era, may very appropriately head the list. Henry, the author of "The Poetic Life of Wallace," was born blind. Hermann Torrentius, a blind Swiss, born in 1520, became one of the principals of the University at Bern, the author of a poetical dictionarv of merit, besides works on history and botany. Francis Huber, the Swiss naturalist, lost his sight at an early age, became an eminent entomologist and wrote on bees, ants and other insects. John Metcalf, a most wonderful production of the last century, was born at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England, in 1717. At the age of four years a hard attack of the measle3 struck him totally blind?so blind that the brightest rays of the sun gave him no perception of light. At first he learned music, and, at thj age of twelve, was the most expert violinist in all England. When he arrived at man's estate he was owner of a house, a small farm and a horse and carriage. At the age of twenty-three he Ttro o wftll-lfnnwn ryjm'nr ort rro rror\ in ?? CfcO U llbli ilUVIIU VUiilVtJ VU5U5VU the occupation of carrying persons through the crowded streets to and from places of amusement. Besides his street work he frequently engaged to carry travelers to York, a, distance of sixteen milc3. In all this hazardous work he was as trusty as any man with two eyes, and got into but few difficulties from which he could not easily extricate himself. He became a great hunter and followed the hounds with as much pleasure and as surely as the most keen-eyed hunter. He had his own horse, and could tell the baying of his own hounds among hundreds. At the age of forty he began the study of surveying and bridge-building. This not for idle pastime, but for profit. At one time he was the official surveyor of Yorkshire. Even to this day there are dozens of monuments to Joseph Metcalf in his native shire in the shape of plpcrnnfc mfid-sioms rind finlendid hridrrf"?. ~ D O 1 O? At Huadersfield one of the finest and moat substantial bridges is known to have been constructed by him. ? A namesake of our great American tcmperaDce lecturer, John Gough, also an Englishman by birth, became quite celebrated as a botanist and writer on subjects pertaining to natural philosophy. He was totally blind from the age of three years, the sense of vision being so deadened that he could not perceive the glare of sunlight upon the snow on the brightest winter days. Disabled by this appalling affliction, he studied botany, his wife, brothers and sisters doing his reading, and collected and arranged, by the sense of touch alone, and without the least aid from any living VtAin/* An A A f Tor/vAef on/1 mnof liULUUU UCIU^, UUt VI bUbiUI^vgb UliU U1V4V valuable collections of dried herbs and grasses at that time (1780) known in Britain. i That wonderful invention, the string alphabet for the blind, was invented by' a man who never saw his queer-looking machine, the face of his mother, or the "glad sunlight" of which he so feelingly wrote. David Macbeth was blind from birth, yet a perfect genius in a dozen different ways. He was an accomplished musician, a perfect prodigy in mathematics, and an inventor of no me in order of merit. Besides his string alphabet, he was the inventor of one of the earliest known revolving-barrel churns, of a clamp to be used by book-binders in stitching leaves together, and of a selfoiling attachment for wagons and carriages. He could take his watch to pieces and put it together almost as quickly as the man who made it could have done. It was without a crystal, and by gently touching the hands with the tips of his fingero he could tell within one second of the time of day or night. He was an expert at the national game of cricket, and was reckoned as being one of the most valable men in some parts of the game, but useless in others. When he died he had been engaged for years on the perfection of a fire escape, which has 6ince, with some slight changes and additions. made a London firm indepcnd ent. Vidal, the blind sculptor, is one of the wonders of the French capital. He has been blind since his twenty-first year. We can quite easily understand how a blind farmer would cultivate the ground with the plow, spade and hoe. How he would feel around the tender plants and gently loosen the dirt from their roots, or how the blind Birmingham, Ala., miner tells, with the sense of touch alone, the direction and to what depth to drill his holes before putting in a blast; but the work of Yidal stands out in bold relief, unique, wonderful and incomparable. To be a sculptor it is generally supposed that one must have the "mechanic's eye" and the artist's taste and perspicuity. The latter faculties Vidal has to an exceptional degree?even more acute, he believes, than if the former were not lost to him forever. uy siowiy passing j his hands over an objact he notes its external proportions, and imitates them in clay in a manner which strikes the beholder dumb with surprise. Henry Fawcett, the blind English Postmaster-General, who died in 1884, was a greater man by half after the unfortunate accident which deprived him of sight than he ever was before. He was born in 1833 and lost his eyes in 1858, at the age of twenty-five, from the elfect of a gunshot wound. At that time he was a poor law student. "Within less than ten years, through constant association with John Stuart Mill, he became only second to that great author as a | writer on political economy. In 1855, | eight years after his misfortune, be was ' elccted to the House of Commons from Brighton, and soon became one of tinleaders of that body. Mr. Ilerrcshoff, the blind President of i the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, j of Bristol, 1?. I., seems as much out of i his element in his present capacity as J either the blind sculptor or the blind ; Postmaster-General. Aside from Edison. : the Government has recognized him as j being one of the greatest inventors of j the times. The Prince of Monaco recently promised his wife to close the gambling bank if another suicide occurred. The suicide has happened, but the bank ia still open. Warts. i Beneath the epidermal, or outer Iayei of thi skin, the tissue is thrown up into little moundo or cones, called papilla;. Into these run the small blood vessels and the sensitive nerve-endings. ' Sometimes one of these pupils takes on an ab- 1 normal growth, which projects above the level of the surrounding skin, and is known as a wart. t Since the enlarged papilla may have one of various shapes, the wart may be pointed, or round or flatteifed, and may be attached to the skin by a base which is broad, or by a small pedicle. Some-! times the papilla is branched, and chenJ the wart appears to be split. <? In what is known as the "seed wart," which is very broad and Assured in various directions, there is a series of branches of the underlying papillh, each branch being covered with its layer of epidermis. 3 Warts grow generally upon the face and hands, but no part of the body is exempt from them. They are seen most freouentlv in the vounf* and the verv old; -x - y ? j O J 1 persons of middle age being less frequently attacked. ?< Sometimes a crop will appear all et once, almost in a night, and they maj disappear with equal suddenness. Thq reason for such appearance and disap^ pearance is rarely known, but the' fad has given rise to a widespread but baseless superstition that warts may tic charmed away. \ No one cause can be given for. the appearance of warts, but probably loca irritation has something to do with it u many cases. It; is a popular idea thai they are contagious, and certainly therj are facts which seem to point that way but what the nature of this contagion iff if there be any, is yet to be discovered Warts rarely appear singly, and may k reach enormous numbers as well as largt p proportions. ... & Z Though in themselves all warts "ar< harmless, it is undoubtedly true that thej or/a anrnflfimflQ a ofarfinr* r\Ainfa fnr non: Ul? OV/UiVlUii^j tuu IJUUX IlUg |/V1UM7 . ^uu cerous disease. This is more likely t< occur when the wart is unduly rubbed ox irritated. The commonest,treatment is by the use of some form of mild caustic. Rathei more satisfactory, however, is the treaty ment by surgical procedures, either bj the knife or the sharp scraping ^spoonJ \ The process, whatever it is, must be a thorough one, for if the papilla is noi j entirely removed, the growth will_'speetfj 1 ily occur.? Youth's Companion. ' /-" Competition Among: Plants; The principle of competition tive and so vigorous in the .vegetabjj > >j world that it keeps up a sort'of domestic ? -j warfare among plants. The struggle w get on in the world is less noticeable in - % our latitude than it is in tropics. \Wher| the possibilities of reaching the molt gy 1 gantic size are the greatest", there'"Itieiridividual plant struggles most eagerly"tofget into the foremost place. Plants'" are! much like ourselves.. < As an instance of how one tree wi? . . ' take advantage of another tree,' may bt * mentioned the conduct of what is called the parasitic fig. The seed of this plan) is distributed by birds. Suppose one oj tnese seeas nappens 10 ioage in tne ..lor* of a jack fruit-tree. It germinates^ju well there as it would on the grbund:;^ The young plant sends a long root ^ down until it reaches the soil. - Then' ?; _ grows vigorously, and its first develop ment is toward spreading itself all ,'ovei the jack fruit-tree until it has smothered and killed it. The fo3ter-child steps into i the shoes of its foster-parent. ^ . v't Quite as fierce a struggle, though a , more open one, is maintained among * members of the same family. The case! is reported in Nature of a species, of heracleum which was allowed to seed freely] - , On the first of June, 1880, there were five > hundred and seventy-three seedings. On. ? \i the nineteenth of August following, only one hundred and five of them remained.] I Tho micsincr nnP9 Viftrl hppn niishpd to the! wall by the more vigorous survivors, A more striking instance still, of fierce and fatal competition, is found in the case of the Brazil nut, inasmuch as here the conflict goes on among those that ares of the same age. This fruit contains from fifteen to twenty-four seeds, which all germinate at one time. The mosS vigorous one gets first through a small hole at the top to the open air, and there-' upon it strangles and feeds upon all the rest. " # -j All the reflections of modern scientific tedching, whenever these examples are touched upon, are made with regard to] the remorselessness of Nature; to the care I for self, and the absolute disregard forj others. The one observation is that "ini 5, all cases the weakest goes to the *val).\'i This is looking upon plant life as we too~ often look upon our own lives. May it \ ' not be that plants are even more like our- \ selves than the common view of their his- \ tory admits, and that we may look upon \ their fate with the more humanizing sen^ timent, "Whom the gods love, die young?"?Youth's Companion. / ' v t t . i Makiu? Pearls to Order. Whether the pearl has gone out of fashion because of the facility with which artificial ones have been made is a matter that may be accepted as in a great mcas- .. ^ ure true, for the pearl is one of the most beautiful of gems. In addition to the ef-' forts, successful, too, toward making artificial pearls, efforts have also been made from time to time to force tbe oyster itself to produce the pearls by introducing foreign substances within the shells, which have not been altogether successful. In the South Kensington! Museum in London the writer has seenseveral evidences of these attempts, as well as shells which came from China' containing small images of Buddha. It! ;< cnM fViof thoen vcerc nrifrinallv molded! " ?"?? ? o V in tin-foil and then placed between the; shell and the mantle of the oyster. The shells were then returned to their natural beds, and after a time a layer of mother-, of-pearl coated these figures and attached' thcrn to the shell. In some instances] they are cut out and sold, and it is said the Chinese priests claimed them to be evidences of their miraclc-working powers.?Denver Nieics. , An Ancient Decree. A singular inscription has been found by M. Lambakis in excavating around the I Ilaghios Andreas in Athens. It is a frag- I mcnt of a decree dating from pre-Eucli-j I dean times, in which a certain Kallicratesj I is charged with the construction on the / 1 Acropolis of a kind of railing aronmJl/^M .some sanctuary or inclosurc to prevent' V any fugitive slave, garment stealer or| J pickpocket (lopodytes) taking refuge 1 therein. The duty of watching over this I inclosure is intrusted to three guardians, 1 chosen by turn from the tribe holding thp 4 prytanea. /