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T A MINING DAI BURSTS. Swept Away by the Weight of Water it Was Meant to Retain. Fearful Destruction of Life and Property in Arizona. The fine largo storage dam built across Hassavatnpa River by the Walnut Grove Water Storage Company, of Prescott, Ariz., at a cost of $300,000 gave way under great pressure of a heavy flood and swept everything before it. Forty persons are known to have lost their lives, ak tne town oi \> lcicenDurg, thirty miles below the dam, was on the same stream, at the writing of this report, great fears were entertained for the safety of that town, but as there is no telegraphic communication no news was obtainable of its fatec The service dam of the company, fifteen miles below the reservoirs, and fifteen miles of flume just approaching completion, were also swept away, although the company had spent over $800,000 on the enterprise of steering the water. The hydraulic mining machine had arrived and they expected to commence operations the next week. The dam which held the waters back was 110 feet long at the base and 400 feet at the top. It was 110 feet thick at the base and ten feet at the top, forming a lake three miles in length by three-fourths of a mile wide, and 110 feet deep. Lieutenant Brodie, in charge of the work, was absent at Phoenix superintending the shipment of the machinery to the works, and was saved. Among those known to have been drowned are: J. Haines, wife and four children; H. Boone and daughters, JohnSilby, Joseph Reynolds, Mrs. McCarthy, S. McMiller. Not the slightest doubt had been entertained of the safety of the dam, and numerous houses had been erected by miners at various places along the course of the stream. These were uplifted by the raging waters as though they bad been corks, and floated down stream until they were dashed to pieces. The first intimation of the appalling disaster was a sound resembling thunder, and at the same instant a perpendicular wall of water fully fifty feet high cauio msning | down the narrow valley with almost incredible speed. Fortunately there were but comparatively few people living near the bottom of the hillsides, and of these a large number were warned by the awful sound and escaped to higher ground. The valley widens above Wickenburg, and much of the town lies upon the lowlands close to the course of the stream, and it is almost certain that the vast body of water which rushed out of the reservoir carried away many houses at that place. It was believed at Prescott that fully as many people were drowned there as immediately below the dam. The ruined dam is cut from the top almost to the bottom, as though a section nad been dragged out, and the water above was only a few feet deop. Heavy rains had fallen for several days, and it was apparent that the water in the lake was approaching the danger line. The rain continued throughout the night, and early in the morning the water rose to the top of the dam and cut a small passage near the centre, which rapidly widened and deepened as the water poured over it, until in less than twenty minutes the little stream had becom? a roaring cataract. The storage company is blamed for not having provided a sufficient outlet for the water in times of danger. The only way of letting off the water was through the flume, r\n nnnpppiflhlfl rftlinf. This is the first of the grcatstoroge reservoirs projected in the Territory and it is believed the disaster will operate to discourage the construction of similar dams. No further news had reached Prescott of tSHJqss of life or the damage caused- by the br&^ ill the Walnut Grove dam. Arthur j Alle^aprmerly in the enterprise, and John ! McD^tid, owner of the Blue Dick mine, Md just returned from the Dozoris 1 Divide, \ fourteen miles south of the town, > from where a view of the j dam could be had. Wash Waterway could be plainly seen with their wowerful glasses 1 iign upoij the side of the cliff, while the break in the stone work of the dam was also (plainly jseen. j The break in the dam is stopped to the eastward, leaving the impression that the main break was on the east side. No accurate estimate could be made of the loss of life or of property, but the latter would preach into the millions, while the loss of life | would, no doubt, be great, as many of the (families were living near the stream in the narrow canons. FURIOUS STORMS IN JAPAN, 1 IT'tchino Rnoto T,ntt iuauj juuuutvu * With All on Board. I Advices from Japan state that the storm which swept along the Bosbu Coast was disastrous. About 1000 fishing boats, with ; between 2500 and 3000 fishermen, drifted out to sea. J^iae hundred of these boats, with all the men aboard, were lost. Most oi the bodies drifted upon the beach and were """tilled cir? relatives. Tlie scenes uy the families and friends were heartrending, j: The same day eleven boats were wrecked i in the sea off Tobishima during a storm, and fifty fishermen were drowned. Twenty-three fishermen were drowned on the coast of Maschawa. News has also been received of the disastrous storm which swept over the coasts of Toukomo and Chosie, Kadsusa district. More than 300 fishing boats that were out never returned. Funeral ceremonies for about GOO fishermen supposed to have been drowned have been held. Whole villages are in mournins. ' A HARROWING FIRE. i Four Children Suffocated in Bed? The Father and Mother Injured. At a late hour in the night a fire broke out i?> ?twn st/irv frame dwelling in Kingston, * Canada, occupied by John Liston and his family. The fire had been burning for some time before it was discovered, and when the firemen entered the building, four children were found dead in bed. Death was caused by suffocation. Mrs. Liston, after vain endeavors to rescue her children, jumped from the second story window with a babe in her arms. She had a leg broken by the fall. The baby es^apnd unhurt. Mr. Liston also made heroic efforts tn save the children, and left the building only; after he was probably fatally burned. Then! were seven children in all, three of whonj were rescued, but all were more or less iu' jurei A TERRIBLE ALTERNATIVE, One Man Had to Die That One Hundred Might Live. As the west-bound Nickel Plate passenger train reached the 150-foot hieh bridco over Walnut Creek, near Swantown, Penn., the engineer saw a man in the middle of the bridge. The train was running at the rate of forty miles an hour and to reverse it on the bridge would have imperilled the train and its 1(10 passengers. Although the poor fellow stood wringing his hands in agony and looked pleadingly at the engineer, the brave man at the lever kept on and sent one man down 150 feet into eternity rather than imperil the lives in his keeping. The man was unknown and was penniless. THEIR HEADS CUT OFF. Summary Punishment of Nearly 20C Rebels in Morocco. The troops of the Sultan of Morocco art reported to have been very successful in several engagements with the rebels. According to the accounts current, the chiefs of th? rebels were captured and beheaded, and theu heads have been forwarded as trophies to tin Sultan. All the prisoners who were takei were killed, and 1S8 heads were sent to deco rate the walls of Fez. The insurgents, how ever, are still presenting a firm front in som> parte of the country, so that the danger is bp no means over. It is said at Tangier that li the rebellion should extend toward AJgerii France will intervene. THE IEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. A congress of tho Scotch-Irish in America is to open in Pittsburg, Penn., on May 29 and continue through June 1. At least 8000 representatives from various places will Y\n cr?r*f. inr?lnrlinrr n Inrcrp? r^nreSGIltatiOIl from the South andSouthwest. Charles E. Wallack, late President of the Lenox Hill Bank, New York, and two other men have been arrested for trying to wreck that institution. Five murderers will be hanged on April 9 at Harrisburg, Penn. The death warrants have been issued by the Governor. John Jacob Astor, the head of the Astor family and owner of the largest part of the great Astor estate, died from angina pectoris, at his home, in New York city, aged 07 years. While the schooner Marion Grimes, from Georges Bay to Gloucester, was at anchor during a heavy gale three sailors were washed overboard and drowned. South and West. The Montana Legislature has adjourned after ninety days spent iu the Capitol and not a bill passed. The Republican Senators issued an address to the people, as did the Democratic representatives. T)r,Tr Tawv XT T.a vfp Vioc Koon mtirrlppwl in Union County, Ga. The crime is believed to have been committed by moonshiners fearful of exposure. George McBriety, a wife beater, was tied to an electric light pole at Salisbury, Md., stripped of his coat and vest, and severely horsewhipped. Marti.v and Hugh Brainerd, brothers, were instantly killed by falling to the bottom of a shaft in the Mollie Gibson Mine, at Aspen. CoL. a distance of 150 feet. Both men were at work on a scaffolding when it gave way and precipitated them to the bottom. The Indiana Prohibitionists held their State Convention and nominated a full State ticket. Their platform declares against local option and favors the exemption from taxation of clothes and necessities of life. The bill to exclude meat killed out of the State has been signed by the Governor of Virginia. The long deadlock over the appointment of officers in the Iowa Legislature has been broken, the Democrats getting the Speaker and Second Assistant Clerk, and the Republicans all the other important officials and five leading committees. The seventeen men found cuiltv of murder and rioting on the Island of Navassa have been sentenced at Baltimore. Three received the death penalty, and the other fourteen were sentenced to terms of imprisonment in the Albany (N. Y.> Penitentiary, ranging from two to ten years. Mrs. Ezell, wife of Milt Ezell, a wellknown Democratic politician, was killod at Tamalco, 111., by a stroke of lightning. The village of Aurora, Iowa, has been entirely wipea out by fire. Frank Trowbridge, of Big Rapids, Mich., shot his wife and then put a bullet in his own body. No cause for the deed is known. Henry Duncan, a white Free "Will Baptist preacher, was hanged at Ozark, Ala., for the murder of his wife in July last. He confessed giving his wife morphine to kill her. The Mississippi Legislature has rejected Representative West's memorial to Congress asking for the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment. Sixteen persons?thirteen women and three men?were fined %5 each and costs for wrecking liquor saloons at Spickardsville, Mo. An appeal was taken. The tobacco factory of Cameron & Sizor, at Richmond, Va., has been burned. Loss, f250,000. . The. Supreme Court of Tennessee has desided that the making of books and the selling of pools on races run outside of the State is in violation or law, and tnereiore indictable. Ax explosion occurred at the ArmourCudahv packing-house at Sonth Omaha, i Neb. It res-ulted in the instant death of at I least one man, the subsequent death of a . second and the probably fatal injury of others. Will Leaphart, a young colored man, has been sentenced to death in the Lexington County (S. C.) Court for criminally assaulting a girl of sixteen. Three children of Hunt Bead, of Franklin County, Ga., were burned to death in their fathers house. They were aged respectively six, four and two years. The skeleton of the youngest was found in the arms of the oldest. Mrs. Samtha Baker and her eight-yearold son were burned to death in a stable at Salina, Kan. The bill making General Robert Lee's birthday a legal holiday has passed the Virginia House of Representatives. The Superior Ice Company's building at Rnwflal/1 Wic PAllancoH Dno man woe fa tfllfy and several others more or less seriously injured. Charles Hanley and William Dobson were found in *a round-house at Terre Haute, Ind., the former dead and the latter unconscious. They had entered through the windows during th* ni^ht and became asphyxiated by escaping gases. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations: Joseph A. Wingfield, to be Supervisor of Census, Third District of Virginia, and Albert F. Price, Uuited i States Marshal, District of North Dakota. Heavy rains have occurred at Bowling : Green and Hopkinsville, Ky. The streams were swollen, and at Bowling Green tho flood from Green River drove many families from their homes. At Hopkinsville about ??* 11mamm/Io rtf n?ne /laef UUC UlillllSU puuuua VI. ?? 1*0 ucsviv;\A(. County Treasurer Fltnn, of Custer County, S. D., is short in his accounts $12,000. During a revenue raid on an illicit distillery near Hillsboro, N. C., a colored man I connected with the distillery was shot and killed by tho officers, and Revenue Agent Kirkpatrick was shot in the face and had one eye put out. Brownsville. Tenn., was visited by a severe cyclone and five minutes later the town was almost in ruins. Later news received at Phoenix, Ariz., from the scene of the Walnut Grove disaster is more appalling than the first reports. Four couriers arrived from the dam and brought tidings that fully 150 lives were lost and $2,000,000 worth of property destroyed. A terrible hurricane swept over a part of Northern Texas. The Masonic Hall in Gainesville was torn to pieces, the Court House uprooted, the Santa Fe Railroad depot wrecked and twenty buildings blown down. Nobody was killed, but several persons were injured. The damage will aggregate $209,000. A little colored girl, aged seven years, was burned to death at Clayton, 111., by matches having set fire to her clothing. In her death agonies the child tore large strips of burned flesh from her body. Three Louisville (Ky.) physicians and twc colored assistants were surpr ised in a New Albany (Ind.) cemetery robbing graves. One of the assistants was killed, two of the doctors arrested with one of the colored men, and one doctor escaped. A passenger train was wrecked above Vincennes, Ind., by the giving away of a bridge over a small stream. The whole train, excepting a sleeper, went through into the water and mud. The engineer and fireman were killed, and several other persons were injured. "Washington. Both Houses of Congress have agreed upon a bill requiring the Superintendent of Census to ascertain the number of people who own their farms and homes, and the amount of mortgage indebtedness thereon. Bids for the Alaska seal fisheries privilege have been opened at the Treasury Department. The anniversary of Washington's Birthday was quietly observed at the Capital. Business was generally suspended. The local military organizations paraded the principal streets, and the usual number of anniversary dinners were given. Additional nominations by the President: Harold M. Sewall, of Maine, ConsulGeneral at Apia; Henry W. Andrews, of Ohio, Consul at Hankow; John Fowler, of Massachusetts, Consul at Ningpo; William B. McCreery, of Michigan, Consul at Valpariao; John S. Tweels, of Pennsylvania, Consul at Naples; Charles E. Fitch, of Rochester, Collector of Internal Revenue Twentyeighth District of New York; Richard 0. Banks, Collector of Customs for the .District of Norfork and Portsmouth, V? ForeignTwo clerks employed in the Admiralty Office at St. Petersburg, Russia, have been arrested for selling to Germany plans of the defences in Finland. An alarming rebellion is in progress in Morocco. The royal troops were defeated by the rebels atWessan. The latter afterward besieged the town. In the German elections to the Reichstag; the Government parties lost fifteen seats and the Socialists doubled their vote. A Russian agent has been arrested in Sofia having in his possession papers implicating General Ignatieff and the Russian diplomatic corps at Constantinople in the re- | cpnt, assassination clots in Bulgaria. Leprosy is spreading in Not Caledonia, the French convict colony in the Pacific Ocean. Three thousand aborigines and many convicts have been attacked. Vajtbeweren, Domela and Mewenbaus, leaders of the Socialist party in Holland, were arrested at a hotel in Berlin, Germany, and expelled from the country. The Congo Free State has empowered the Brussels Anti-SIavely Society to send an expedition to Africa to aid in suppressing the slave trade. Secretary of the Navy Tract stopped in > Philadelphia, while on his way from Wash- | ington to Brooklyn, and spent the afternoon | in looking over the Government cruisers ; Philadelphia and Newark, now being built at the shipyard of Cramp & Sons. Mary E. and Carrie E. Tyler, sisters and teachers in the Newark public schools, jumped from a carriage and were killed near Waverly. N. J., and a third sister narrowly escaped death at the same time. Rudolphs Dcbois murdered his wife, his mother-in-law and two children at the vilj lage of St. Albans, Quebec, by chopping I them with an axe. Dubois for some time has been on bad terms with his mother-inlaw and quarrels with her were frequent. Natives attacked the Portuguese in South Africa, but were restrained by the Scotch missionaries. Five hundred of the King of Dahomey's troops attacked the French posts at Kotonou. Senegal. The French repulsed them and killed sixty of their number. A barrel of powder exploded at Cienaga Station, a suburb of Havana, Cuba, destroying a house and injuring thirty workmen, seven of them severely. While a large number of workmen were engaged about the Flora Concert Hall, which is being erected in Hamburg, the new cupola fell, burying thirty-eight men in the ruins. | Five were taken out dead, and eight were rescued severely injured. Five others were missing. During the Portuguese election at Cozimbra there was a riot. The District Administrator was shot and seriously wounded. Several supporters of the Government were injured. Seventy murdered bodies of infants were found on the premises of Skoliiski, at w arsaw, Poland, whose house was recently burned. * LATER NEWS. John Jacob Astor's will was admitted to probate in New York. $700,000 is left to public institutions, and the bulk of the estate to his son, "William Waldorf Astor. The Coroner's jury at Great Falls, N. H., found a verdict against Isaac B. Sawtelle, charged with killing his brother Hiram. The School Board of Boston, Mass., decided to drop Anderson's History from the list of text books. This is the book which caused so much trouble on account of its reference to religious matters. George Clark, convicted as one of the . murderers t>f-William McCausland, an Alle- I gheny City drover, was hanged at Waynes- j burg. Penu. A ?.l i A ULUUlrj>UA91 taUdCU *UUi lUilUtlU VI cca, I near Cambridge City, Ind., to rise so quickly that a woman and throe children of the Hall family were drowned. They belonged to a party of gypsies encamped near the stream. The County Court House at Vancouver, Wash., which was also used as a jail, has been completely destroyed by fire. Loss. $100,000. The City Council of Charleston, S. C., , unanimously adopted a resolution inviting Vice-President Morton to visit Charleston on his trip to the South, and appointed a com mittee to make arrangements to receive him. "Norfolk and Western," the first-class coach of the Eastbound passenger train, was wrecked at Roanoke, Va., by the truck jumpi AT A 1 1 I.A.: ing toe wa.cn ana up^'iiuig uie uuuuij. juio cu i persons were injured. An enormous body of earth, including several acres of surface of a hill which rises i abruptly from the Ohio River on the Kentucky side, opposite Lawrenceburg, Ind., slipped into the river with a frightful sound, i Trees and boulders were carried as if the hill bad been upheaved by an earthquake. The ran-American Congress adopted resolutions providing for a railroad connecting all the nations represented in the Congress. The House Special World's Fair Committee has appointed a sub-committee to draft a Chicago Fair bill. Contracts for the construction of gunboats Nos. 5 andC have been awarded to the Bath Iron Works, at Bath, Me., at their bid of $637,000; for both vessels. A French torpedo boat went ashore at Costa de Mira, Portugal. Her crew were saved. A band of Albanians made a descent upon the villages of Bablgak, Robuci and Babrush, in old Servia, Turkey, and plundered them. Many of the inhabitants were tortured to death by the robbers. Russell Harbison, son of President Harrison, arrived in Havana, Cuba, on the steamer Mascotte, from Tampa, Fla. Abraham Lincoln, the only son of Robert T. Lincoln, the United States Minister to England, has died at London. TRIES TO BURN CHURCHES. People of Harrisburg Terrorized bj an Incendiary. The fourth attempt nas Deen maue iv ucstroy churches in Harrisburg, Penn., by an unknown incendiary. The last effort involved a damage of about $2000 to the Salem German Reformed Church, which was fired under a pulpit used by the Reformed and Lutheran congregations in 1787. The result of the fire was the destruction of everything j in the lecture room. A chair in the main audience chamber was also fired, but aside from the burning of portions of it no damage was done. On a recent Sunday the early discovery of smoke issuing through the floor of the United Brethren Memorial Church saved the congregation from a panic and the building from destruction. The same evening an attempt was made to firo the basement of thy Church of God while services wero in pro gress, and the incendiary narrowly escaped capture. Among the papers used were several taken from the United Brethren Church. Shortly after the discovery of the fire in the Church of God a man tried to get into tin lecture room of the Lutheran Church. The sexton hearing him working at the lock ?l the outside door proposed to admit him, but by the time he reached the door the follow had disappeared. The next day a lamp missing from the Church of God was found neai the lecture room entrance. It is the intention of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, as soon ns one of their new Pacific steamers is completed, to carry the first Canadian excursion party around the world, It is estimated that the round trip will be made within sixty-five days. With a fast Atlantic service the trip could be made in fifty-three days. Wew South Wales (Australia) people are growling about the scheme for printing advertisements on the backs of postage stamps. They say that the ink leaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth of the licker of a stamp I .7 ,*u-- -r? .-7'V" ~^THE WORLD'S FAIR. The House of Representatives Totes to Give It to Chicago. The Western City Gets the Prize on the Eighth Ballot, The National House of Representatives, upon the eighth ballot, by a majority of three voted to have the "World's Fair of 1892 held in Chicago. A "Washington dispatch gives the following details of the balloting: Eight ballots were taken. On the final ballot 154 votes were necessary to a choice. Chicago received 157. New York got 107. The scene in the House was such as is rarely seen. The galleries were crowded. The session lasted until 6 o'clock, p. m. The ex citement was intense. At first there were noisy demonstrations. Then faces depicted the most intense suppressed anxiety. At times the silence was painful. The distinguished leaders of the lobby moved about among the members. They had worked hard for days. There were hurried consultations here and there. Members were pleaded with. Arguments often used were employed for a last time. The scene as viewed from the galleries was a thrilling one. When it was all over, everybody felt relieved. Nerves that had been held at their highest tension were relaxed. The relative position of the various cities did not change during the entire day's balloting. Chicago, which had 117 votes on the first ballot, had 121 on the second, 127 on the third, 131 on the fourth, 140 on the fifth, 149 on the sixth, 155 on the seventh and 157 on the eighth. New York's vote was 72 on the first, 83 on the second, 92 on the third, 97 on the fourth. 110 on the fifth, 116 on the sixth, 112 on the seventh and 107 on the eighth. St. Louis received 62 votes on the first ballot, 54 on the second, 53 on the third, 48 on the fourth, 38 on the fifth, 28 on the sixth, 27 on the seventh and 25 on the eighth. Washington received 56 votes on the first ballot, 46 on the second, 34 on the third, 29 on the fourth, 24 on the fifth, 19 on the sixth, 17 on the seventh and 18 on the eighth. New York and Chicago gained some strength from both St. Louis and Washington on the early ballots, but after the sixth ballot the New'England strength, which had largely supported New York, began to break away to Chicago. Speaker Reed voted continuously for New York. Mr. Candler, of Massachusetts, Chairman of the World's Fair Committee, omitted to vote from first to last. Mr. Carlisle voted for St. Louis continuously. A few of the members who are opposed to holding a World's Fair at all omitted to vote, the highest number of votes cast during the day being 312. At night the Chicago headquarters at Washington were in a blaze of enthusiasm. Speeches and felicitations were the order. The News in Chicago. When the news of Chicago's success reached that city there was intense excitement. A moment later cannon were booming on the lake front. Such a crazy demonstration was never seen in Chicago. Men made speeches on the street, while others paraded along the sidewalks with banners ahd tin horns. Over in the west division where bulletins were posted as soon as the ballots were announced the enthusiasm was furious. At 8 o'clock, when the final vote was announced, Madison street, from Halstead to Ogden avenue, was ablaze with Greek fire. Uown town tne noiso was inaescrioaDie. t-. gray-haired man in a plug hat got on a box in front ol the Herald office and harangue< the crowd for nearly a half hour on the pa triotism of Congress. Over on the north side men paraded tin streets with horns and castanets, and band* of music played in front of the Palace Hotel At 9 o'clock the White Chapel Club, oChicago, received the following telegram from Mr. Depew: "Washington*, February 24.?I am at )our service when ordered and quite ready after to-day's events to contribute my body for Chicago science unless you would prefei a transfer of our Xew York guarantee fund. "Chauncey M. Depew." A DOUBLE EXECUTION, \ Two Murderers Hanged on One Scaffold in Philadelphia. Jacob S. Schoop and Thomas J. Cole have been hanged at Moyamensing rrison, rimadelphia, for unusually brutal murders. The crime for which Schoop was hanged was the horrible butchery of Anton Schilling. The remains of Schilling, who was formerly Schoop's partner in a little grocery business, were found by four boys in Fairmount Park, in the water pipes, on December 20, 1888. Schilling boarded with Sc'.ioop, and several attempts were made by Schoop tc poison him, and then get possession of the little money he was supposed to havo. On I Christmas morning Schoop arose eariier than usual and proceeded to the kitchen, where i the previous evening he had left some food from the evening's meal, but it was gone. At this time Schilling came iu. Schoop charged him with taking the food. Some words ensued, when Schoop knocked Schilling down, and then grabbing the knife stabbed him until he was dead. He then cut the body up j and placed it in sacks, which he afterward carted to the park and placed it in the water pipes. Schoop was tried on February 20, 18o9, convicted and sentenced to hang. The murder for which Thomas C'ole suffered the death penalty was one of the most brutal in the annals of crime. On July 5, 1888, Walter McAllister, a brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, was found murdered in bed at his boarding-house. He had re turned from his work and hart .just gono to bed when bis bed-fellow, Thomas Cole, entered the room, and \vithout any warning whatever severed his head from his body with an ax. Cole loft the house and escaped. McAllister's sister found the mangled corpse, and immediately sounded an alarm, which resulted in the capture of Cole in an old barn. His clothing was clotted with his victim's life-blood, and the mystery was quickly solved. The only defense the prisoner made was that he had quarreled with Mc Allistcr about a young lady from West Philadelphia, but the young lady could never be found. Cole was of an euvious, vindictive disposition, and, in fact, committed his awful crime on no pretext whatever. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. This is the year for the performance of the "Passion Play" at Oberammergau. It is said that Mrs. Langtry has canceled, all the dates held for her next season in the West. There will be three Amer'can plays antL American companies in London during th^ season to begin in May. The rumor thnt Mrs. Agnes Booth is to visit Australia as a s.'ar is described as an "interesting improbability." English dramatic papers announce that Miss Agnes Huntington is about to bring an operatic company to this country. "The Prince and tho Pauper," with the company now at the Broadway Theatre, New York, will probably piay an summer m Chicago. Mmk. Sarah Bernhardt announces that fit 10 designs playing tho character of tlie Virgin Mary in n new "'Passion Play" which she has hail written for herself. "Siikx a ndoaii" is rapidly approaching its two himdreth performance nt Proctor's Twenty-third Street Theatre, Now York, and elaborate souvenirs have lieen prepared to celebrate the event. James Whitcomb Rir.kv, the Hoosier poet and ox-partner of Bill N)*e, hns refused an offer of per night and expenses to lecture, under the management of Theatrical Manager Davis, of New York. The new opera, "Asraol," written by Franchetti, n nephew of Baron Rothschild, has been performed with great success nt Hamburg. It is said to exhibit tho influence of AVagner the author's mind. Emanuel Chabrier, whose "Gwendoline" was sung last winter with much success in Carlsruhe under the direction of Felix Mottl, has gone there to direct the production of his comic opera, "Le Roi Malgre Lui." London is being made aware of the forthcoming production of "The Old Homestead," which has been running for a long while in New York, by an elaborate system of advertising such as has not been hitherto known in the British metropolis, .. ... ?% . \ FIFTY-flEST CONGRESS, In the Senate. 43d Day.?A lively debate arose over a resolution calling on the Attorney-General for information concerning the killing of Deputy United States Marshal Sanders, in Florida Mr. Blair finished his speech on his Education bill. 44th Day.?The conference report on the bill to increase the pensions of totally disabled pensioners was dresented by Mr. Davis and was agreed to Bills were passed increasing the limits of cost for public buildings as follows: San Francisco (site), to ?800,000; Sacramento, Cal., to 1300,000; El Passo, Tex., to$200,000; Omaha, Neb., to ?2,000,000; also making appropriations for public buildings as follows: Annapolis, Md., $75,000: Kansas City, Mo., $3,500,000; Los Angeles, Cal. (additional), $350,000; Allegheny, Penn., $230,000; Beaver Falls, Penn., $50,000; New London, Conn.. $100,000; Youngstown, Ohio, $100,000; Atchison. Kan., $100,000; Martinsburg, W. Va., $125,000; Selma, Kan., $150,000; Zanesville, Ohio: Emporia, Kin.; Danbury, Conn., and Waterbury, Conn., $100,000 each.... The bill to amend the law relating to copyrights having been reached on the calendar, Mr. George objected to its consideration. After some discussion the bill was laid aside.... Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill to punish crimes against officers of the United States while in discharge of their duties; and (by request) a bill to reorganize the rank and pay of the personnel of the navy. Referred. 45th Day.?Mr. Chandler offered a resolution that certain sentences in Mr. Call's recent attack upon him, appearing in the Record, and not uttered in debate, be expunged from the Record. A debate followed and Mr. Chandler's resolution went over for one day The Blair Educational bill came up and Mr. Faulkner addressed the Senate in op position to it.... Mr. Paddock introduced a bill to amend the Interstate Commerce Act. The amendment; is intended to provide relief for tho fnrmprs in the West. who are unable at present to market their crops on account of the high freight rates prevailing on the long haul. 46th Day.?Mr. Call, speaking upon the Chandler resolution of the previous day, attacked Mr. Chandler in vigorous language, and was rebuked by Mr. Sherman.... Among the bills reported and placed on the calendar was one by Mr. Jones from the Committee on Finance, to authorize the purchase of gold and silver bullion and the issue of Treasury notes in payment therefor.... Among the* bills passed was one granting a pension of $100 a month to the widow of Major-General Judson Kilpatrick The Blair Education bill was taken up as unfinished business. Mr. Coke spoke for and Mr. Stanford against it. 47th Day.?Twenty-six pension and private bills were passed?also several public bills, among them the following: Appropriating $100,000 for the enlargement of the public building at Topeka, Kan.; appropriating $75,000 for a public building at St. Albans, Vt Mr. Ev&rts, from the Committee on Library, reported favorably a bill appropriating $30,000 for the erection on the battlefield of Trenton of a monument commemorating that battle Mr. Call introduced a biil providing that a duty of $1 shall be collected on every box containing 200 or more oranges imported into the United States, and that a ' ? j?a.? j ?? ?,n corresponding auty saau uc uupusca uu an packages of oranges imported....The Blair bill was further debated. In the House. 49th Dat.?The claims of New York, Chicago. St. Louis and 'Washington for the World's Fair wero presented by many speakers. 50th Dat.?The debate on the World's Fair bills was continued and came to an end, New York having the last hour of the discussion, as it had had the first. 51st Day.?The House voted on the question of the site for the World's Fair, with the result of choosing Chicago on the eighth ballot. At the first ballot, the House gave a preliminary opinion in favor of Chicago as against New York by a vote of 115 to 72. St. Louis received 61 and Washington got 56 on the first ballot. The Speaker's announcement was, on the last ballot, as follows: '"The whole number of votes cast on this ballot is 307, of which 154 is a majority. Of these votes Chicago has received 157; New York, 107; St. Louis, 25, and Washington, 18. Accordingly the order of the House has been executed." 52dDay.? A bill to discontinue the coinaga of SI and S3 cold pieces and the three cent | nickel piece was passed... .In Committee of the Whole the House resumed the consideration of the Oklahoma bill. 53d Day.?The Atkinson-Pendleton contested election case was debated.... The following were among the bills introduced: By Mr. Clunie?Reviving the rank of LieutenantGeneral of the Army. Also for additional Inspector-Generals, with the rank of major. By Mr. Peters?Providing for the appointment of nine Irrigation Commissioners, whc are to be charged with the preparation and execution of general plans for the irrigation of arid areas of the country. PBOMINEFT PEOPLE. General Rodrigues Arias has been ap, pointed Governor of Cuba. Wili, Carleto.v. therroet. is getting stout, I lives in Brooklyn, N. Y.* and acknowledges ! to five and forty. The Mikado of Japan is described as a cor- j pulent. man, about five feet seven inches tall. . He is fort}*-five years old. Vice-President and Mrs. Morton are exfiecting to spend several weeks in the South n search of rest and pleasure. Loud Stanley, the Governor-General of Canada, is broad shouldered, patrician mannered, and nine and forty. It is gravely asserted that Lord Randolph Churchill, the English politician, has never crossed London Bridge nor visited the Tower. King Carlos has subscribed $45,000 to the Portuguese defence fund. The Queen and Queen dowager have subscribed 120,000 each. President Giluan, of Johns Hopkins University, writes from Algiers that he is remarkably well and delighted with his travels. "When Ezra Cornell opened his first telegraph office in New York he was so poor, it is said, that he could afford but one meal a day. Mark Twain expects to go to London to participate in the reception to Stanley, to which he has been invited by Sir Francis de Min ton. Secretary Tracy has recovered sufficiently from his recent severe affliction to be able to resume his duties at the Navy Department. Russell Saoe, the New York millionaire, is said to pride himself on keeping more ready monoy 011 hand than any otner man in the world. The last surviving signer of the Texan Declaration of Independence, Colonel S. W. Blount, has died at his home in San Augustine, Texas. General N. P. Banks began life as a bobbin boy in a Waltham (Mass.) factory. He I afterward became an editor and then a dancI ing master. John D. Williamson, who is at the head nf thn Chattanooga. Rome and Columbus' Railroad, is the youngest railway President in the country. Count Herbert Bismarck. lve Chancel-j : lor's oldest son, h&s strongly chiseled feat-' j ares, a heavy cavalry mustache, and the I bearing of his father. Tiik death of Sanpovonao, the most influen' tial of the Utes, calls attention to the fact that [ Sitting Bull is now the oldest Indian of prom| iiumcii in the country. It is announced that James R. Garfield, ' second son of the late President, is to many Miss Helen Newell, daughter of John Newell, I President of the Lake Shore road. Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimperly, un! til recently the Commander of the Pacific ; Squadron, but now waiting orders, has taken j up ins residence in Boston until he shall be j oruered on duty again. Kx-Empkror Dom Pedro's mind is partly ! unhinged by nervous disease. He lives in 1 daily expectation of being recalled to Bi ?zil, aud refuses to diminish his former expendi| ture. He is in danger of bankruptcy. Baron Rothschild, the Paris banker, ! lives in fear of the Commune. His cellars ' are almost impregnable, and his pictures and ! jewels are protected in such a way that the j most grasping mob could not reach them. Right Rev. John Shanlev, the new Roman Catholic Bishop of North Dakota, is having a railroad car buiit in which to make his episcopal visitations, so scarce are spare beds and accommodations for strangers in his diocese. _ . _ . . ... . , ' !>*. - : FORTY MEN SENTEMir Two Judges at Baltimore Seal the Fate of Navassa Rioters. Three Men Condemned to Death, the Others to Imprisonment, George Singleton Key, the murderer ol James Mahon; Henry Jones, who murdered Thomas Foster, and Edward Smith, thi murderer of Samuel March, on Navassa Island, on the 14th of September last, have been sentenced by Judge Bond, in the United States Circuit Court, at Baltimore, to b? hanged on the 28th of March. Fourteen of the other rioters, who were convicted of manslaughter for participation in the sam? crime, were sentenced by Judge Morris tc long terms at hard labor in the Albany (N. Y.) Penitentiary, and twenty-three others, who were convicted simply of rioting on th? island, were sentenced to the Maryland House of Correction for terms ranging from six months to two years. The court room was packed while an idla crowd, mostly colored people, congregated around the building. The sentencing at one time of forty human beings to death or imprisonment for crimes ranging all the way from murder to rioting, was an event never before witnessed in a Maryland court room, and seldom seen in any tribunal of justice. The prisoners were placed in their customary seats, and soon after Judges Bond and Morris took their places upon the bench. A motion in arrest of judgment was overruled. The prisoners were in fine spirits, and indeed some of them appeared in high glee while while they waited for sentence. Not even those who were to receive the death sentence appeared the least concerned. George Singleton Key, who murdered James Mahon, was first ordered to stand up. He was closely guarded by Deputy Marshals and a squad of police officers from the Middle District surrounded the whole party. Judge Bond, addressing the prisoner, asked him if he had anything to sav. to which Key, with bowed head, repliedt "if I haan't shot tbat man he wouia nave snot me. mat is all I have to say." Judge Bond then sentenced Key to be hanged on the 28th of March. The prisoner listened attentively, and then coolly walked back to his seat apparently as composed as if his days had not been numbered by a feilow-being. Henry Jones, the murderer of Foster, and Edward Smith, the murderer of March, were next sentenced to death. Judge Bond then advised the condemned men to seek pardon for their sins. Judge Bond left the bench and Judge Morris proceeded to pass sentence upon the fourteen who were convicted of manslaughter. The men were ordered to stand up and all of them said that they had nothing to say, except Alfred Jones, alias "Texas Shorty," who made a short speech. Each prisoner was sentenced to hard labor in the Albany Penitentiary, and in cases where any of them had been convicted twice of manslaughter, the sentences were concurrent. Alfred Jones, alias "Texas Shorty," was sentenced to ten years; Chas. 0. Smith, five years; Jas. Robinson, ten years: James Philips, ten years; Edmund Francis, ten years; James Johnson, five years; Alfred Brown, two years: Edward Woodfork, five years; Charles H. Davis, ten years; Stephen Peters, ten years; James Tasker, ten years; Norman Wooster, five years; Caesar Fisher, ten years; Amos Lee, two years. In addition to the term of imprisonment, a fine of $100 was imposed in each case. The twenty-three men convicted of rioting on the island were then sentenced to terms in the Maryland House of Correction. Eighteen got one year each, two got two years, and three got six months. The prisoners received their sentence with apparent unconcern and laughed and talked in merry tones. When they ware being taken back to jail they had scarcly reached the street when one of them struck up: "Good-By, My Lover, Good-By," in which the gang joined. When they got into the jail wagon Key and Jones stood up, swung their hats and led the following chorus: We spent one day on the Island, Good-by, my lover, good-by. Charles W. Roby, the superintendent of the mines at Navassa at the time of the riot and for some years before, will return there. There are now about one hundred colored laborers at the island and fifteen white officers. The men sentenctd above were laborers at work on the phosphate beds on the island when they revolted. Three other white officers will go with Mr. Roby, which will make a force of nineteen officers. The officers are now well armed with repeating rifles in case of an outbreak similar to that of SeDtember 14 last. Mr. Roby says he will never carry arms unless he is certain that the men mean trouble. He believes in moral suasion but will rule firmly. DYING- LIKE SHEEP. Frightful Ravages of the Influenza in the City of Mexico. Privates letters from the City of Mexico state that the grip has been more widespread and persistent in its ravages there than anywhere else on the American continent. A letter of recent date says: "The progress of the influenza h?re and its results nave been truly terrific. The poor have died absolutely like sheep?sometimes 125 a day. Just now the supply of coffins is exhausted and many bodies are buried without them." THE LABOE WORLD, Mayor Davidson, of Baltimore, wants that city to build its own gas works. Labor prophets predict that next summer will be one or strikes all over Europe. There are seventy lodges and 4195 members in the Ancient Order United Workmen of Iowa. The Waiters' Union is hard at work in its attempt at uniting "all waiters of New York in one organization. The Bethlehem Iron Company, at Bethle hem, Penn., has advanced the wages of em ployes fifteen per cent. The combined labor organizations of Brooklyn are about to establish a general employment bureau in that city. A bill before the Massachusetts Legisla ture will abolish fines for bad weaving. In some cases men have been fined $3.50 out of a pay of $8.50. There are 2,000,000 organized farmers in the Alliances, principally in the South and West. They run'co-operative stores, mills, warehouses, etc. Senator Collins, of New York, will introduce a bill into the State Senate which has been requested by the labor organizations of the State to abolish prison labor. Twenty-five Central Hudson Railway engineers, who have been in the employ of the company thirty years, will take a trip to California April 1 at the expense of the company. Claus Spreckels, the sugar refiner, has! decided to build another refinery at Bound Brook, N. J., and put it in operation as soon as possible, and will employ not less than 500 hands. Many New York labor unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor are in favor of ma'-iing that city the center of the' eight-hour strike, instead of Pittsburg, on' May 1. The condition of the unemployed at S.vd-' ney, Australia, is serious. On a recent nighti 500 men and women were counted asleep in th? nnrks of that citv. all without money op homes. At a meetiug of the Amalgamated Build-j iug Trades Council in Boston a committee of five was appointed to confer with the Master Builders' Association in regard to the estab-1 lishment oi eight hours for a day's work. Four hundred thousand miners in Great Britain have decided to adhere to their demand for an increase of ten per cent, ia their wages. It is probable that the men will strike. Should they do so the coal output will be decreased three-quarters. Thirty-two conductors, the entire force; of the People's Street Car Company of St. Joseph, Mo., went on strike. The cause of their grievance was that the company inJ structed them to use a uew cash fare register, shaped like a coffee pot. The company gave orders for the men to present the muzzle of this peculiar contrivance to the passenger,1 who would drop his nickel in the slot. The annual carnivalallxew OfToalis opens* with a procession of nineteen tableaux 01 floats And 20,000 maskers through the street? A SUMMEB COTTAGE." Design for an Ideal Home, With Fait \^Description and Estimate of Cost. ) (Copyright by the Author.) W (Every close observer knows that the aver^ *he length of life is increasing. The thirtyfjhree years' average, computed from date collected early in the century, is believed to b^ a number of years short of the trne avertga of the present time. Adults who ha^? souind minds and bodies may hope, not with/ out > reason, for one hundred years of lifoi The fimprudent even may reach eighty year* and/weaklings cover the span of three scort inflten. Setter food, purer air, less medicine, athletiVs and systematic exercise, hygieniff clotbu'ng, sanitary dwellings?all these con* tribute to the increasing fullness of years. But dwellers in cities are indebted for tlx greatet^t benefits, perhaps, to the recent custom of/exchanging their city homes, during the heated term, for homes in the country. ( Boarding accommodations offered by farm houses ) ana seaside and mountain hotels do not fully answer all requirements. The ideaJ f . h summer" liome, where health, comfort and; sconomy are ever present, is found in the Sumnier Cottage. i ] Th3 preferable site for a Summer Cottaga is one that has a dry, sandy or gravelly sour there no cellar is needed and the expense pfj ;> building it and the danger attenawg th?/ neglect of it for the greater part of they ear,'. ire eliminated from the plans. Following will be found a brief desv^^aB rjj it the design illustrating this article: ' Size of Structure: Width (front), Including verandas, forty-eight feet; depth, isolnding veranda, thirty-fiv%feet. jjvv Height of Stories: First story, eleven Frrnf connnH c+i^mr t^n J Materials for Exterior Walls: Foundations, posts or brick pi?rs; first story, clap- 1 boards; second story, stingles and panels; < roof, shingles. j Interior Finish: Stairs, white wood or; ] clear pine; trim, soft wood; floors, pise. No- { plaster is used. The partition walls are mado3f one and one-quarter inch planks covered with paper. Exterior Colors: Body of house, light. ' brown; all trim, cornices, piazza poets, batp a :ony rail and balusters, dark brown; sashe^L \ I ^ ^ I;: !" -T* -?JI rlain ~*f* " ( strst floor. ? . dark red; front door, dark brown with light brown panels; veranda floors, oiled; rafterst and ceiling of verandas to be varnished; roof shingles, dark red. Accommodations: The verandas, all roomaand their sizes, and all closets are shown by the floor plans given nerewitn. i ne roomsare small, but they are well lighted and well ventilated, and there are many of them for a small house. Summer residents "Ave" on the verandas and in the halls, which should be -'fc ample as they are in this design. To enlarge^ rooms build the house six feat wider (tbrSfj feet on each end), which will add three feet j to the size of each room. This addition to I size will cost about $150, and will not changed! the style of the exterior. Special Features: A strong and serviceable I cottage with an attractive exterior and am- I pie room for a family of average size. In- "j tended for summer occupancy only, but by J sheathing the exterior and plastering the in- | terior it will be warm enough for winter use. A large hall with a fire-place provides acheerful place of re6ort during a stress of weather. If a detached kitchen is built as .? preferred in the South, it should connect ' with the pantry by a covered way; then thepresent kitchen may be used for othes purposes. I *7g.i!i/( || r[&UF3' j! f tf!J *T>> " I " !?! second floor. The store room on the second floor may b?converted into a bath room. The plumbing, for a cold water supply is simple and inexpensive. Cost, built as described, in the neighborhood of New York city, $1200. Without a doubt this estimate will be disputed by smali^| wits who, haying no exact knowledge aboa^H anything, deride everything, and by build^^H whose interests are involved. Buildc^H ought to get more money; they are poorl^H paid for the skillful work they do; there is n^H disputing that. But competition among^B them makes the price. When the price is too low there is nobody to blame but themselves. ^ R. W. Shoppell. Architect 1 A MAGNIFICENTGIFT. * President Harrison Opeus a Free Library at Allegheny, Penu. The dedication of the Carnegie Free Library of Alleghany, Penn.. has taken place, and-the Institution was declared open by the~Prest*-%_ lent. Mr. Harrison in bis address said: "I congratulate you that you have a man imon? you who could conceive of this and hope that his influence will spread until those who have accumulated wealth will hold it but is trustees for mankind. The capitalist may say: 'May I not do with my wealth what I like?' I say yes; but how much higher, how much Qobler an example of the use of wealth have we before us to-night? How wide will be the streams of intellect which have their origin in this building? How broad may be the advancement which may come from here! "The entire world may be raised to a higher standard. This library is left in your ?harge, citizens of Allegheny; see to it that the trust is worthily bestowed. "I now declare the library formally opened. T charge you to be zealous and circumspect, that it may not fall below the idea of the man who gave the institution for the public use." President Harrison was followed by Mr. Pratt, of Baltimore; Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania: Congressmen Dalzell and Bayne, fnd others. The Presidential party was then escorted through the art gallery, after which they entered carriages, and were taken to the Duquesne Club. The doors of the library building were then thrown opeu for the balance of the evening, and the public inspected the various departments of the handsome structure. The building cost $300,000, and includes a library, art gallery aud music hall. It is said semi-officially that Mr. Carnegifr has decided to increase his donation for a library to Pittsburg to $2,000,000. The original donation was $500,000. ^ After a light lunch at the Duquesne Club^B President Harrison was driven to the deo|^H where he took the night train for Several thousand families from^^^^^B and Denmark will be settled in the quin Valley, Cal., this season. A of land has been cut into twenty-ac^^^^HI farms, and the colonists are now way from the old world.