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r__ GENERAL SCHENCK DEM). I He Suddenly Succumbs to an \ Attack of Pneumonia. His Notable Career as Diplomat, Statesman and Soldier. General Robert Cummins Schenck, Congressman, soldier and diplomat, and a leader in public affairs a generation or more a^o, died at 5 o'clock in the evemng of pneumonia, at his residence in Washington. It was not i until the previous day that it was known that he was seriously ill. He had been ail; ing for about two weeks, but attached very Uttle importance to his complaint. A week before he was out calling and seemed in his usual health, save for a slight bronchial cough. It was not until four days previous to his death ' that it was thought necessary to call in a physician. Dr. H. C. Yarrow was sent for. and found General Schenck suffering from capillary bronchitis. Within twenty-four hours limited pneumonia of the right lung I set in, and later the left lung also became involved. When Dr. Yarrow visited General Schenck he found him much worse, and it was discovered that a diphtheritic exudation was commencing in the right side of the throat. He grew rapidly weaker until the ?nd cam*. His mind was clear and bright to the very last. His three daughters. Mrs. I Bates, an old friend, and Miss Sedgwick Iwwit vYitu iniu at tut? wine ui 1115 ueAtn. General Scfaenck was iu his Slst year, having been bom in Franklin, Ohio, October 4, 1809. He was graduated from Miami University in 1S27, and after spending three additional years at the college studied law with Thomas Corwin. He served two years in the State Legislature, and acquit ted himself so well that he was electa 1 to Congress r.| a Whig, serving from 1842 until 1851. President Fillmore then sent him to Brazil as Minister Plenipotentiary. While serving in this capacity, he distinguished himself as a diplomat by taking a conspicuous part in the negotiation of treaties with Paraguay, Uruguay, and tho Argentine Republic, ^fter two years in Brazil he returned to Ohio, his native State, but took no part in politics. When the Civil War broke out he offered his services to the Government, and was commissioned a Brigadier-General by President Lincoln on Slay 17, 1861. He Berved with-his brigade in the first battle of Bull Run, in which the Federal army was defeated. He next served in West Virginia under General Rosecrans, and did some brilliant fighting at McDowell and Cross Keys. General Fremont then entrusted him with the command of a division, and while leading the I m llrst division or rranz bigers Corps at the | M ?3cond battle of Bull Run his right arm was 9 shattered by a musket ball, incapacitating M him for service for some time. In Septem- I IB bar, 1S62. he was promoted to be a Major[ft General, and in December of that year he ! took command of the Middle Department H and Eighth Corps at Baltimore. He renH dered effective service in the Gettysburg M campaign. General Schenck was nominated for ConW zress against the anti-war Democrat, ValjH landingham, and, though the district was Democratic, he carried the election, and re signing his post in the army took wHhls seat in tne House of Representa^ tives on December 3, 1863. He was ^ immediatelv made Chairman of the Com mittee on Military Affairs, and during this Hand the following Congress his position enHabled him to do valuable service to the FedjHeral cause. He was re-elected to the two j ^Bsucceeding Congresses, and throughout the j ^ exciting times, during and after the I RBwar, he took a leading part in the proceed.- j Hinc? of the House. During his last term Iie was Chairman of the Ways and Means | Committee and leader of the House, succeedng Thad Stevens in command of the Remblicaii party. He was Minister to Engand in 1870, and in 1871 was one of he Alabama Claims Commissioners, reaming this last office for five years, vhen he resigned. Sinca that time he las made his home in Washington, where he a warm favorite. He was a familiar ^n*e at Republican gatherings there, but Ltook uo active part in politics. His life Bid been several times despaired of during he last decade, but his hardy constitution tnd strong will pulled him through. Secretary Blaine was much attached to General Schenck, and sent an affectionate tote when he heard of his illness. In his took Mr. Blaine pays General Schenck a j earm compliment. "No man in Congress luring the present generation," he | ays, ' has rivaled General Schenck | ? a five-minute debater. Iu the five- j ainute discussion in Committee of the I Vhole he was an intellectual marvel. The | ompactness and clearness of his statement, i he facts and arguments which he could mar- | hal in that brief time were a constant sur- j (rise and delight to his hearers." T A mriT> tTTlTTTri MB LATJbit JNiiWa. B U.vnED States Minister Reid, who ar- j ^Hived at New York from Paris, stated thai ! ^Considerable disappointment was felt it I ^BYance over the location of the World's Fail j Chicago. ml Eighteen' residences, the bridge and a ^^Husiness block ia Bryan, Ohio, Lave been j ^Burned. mb Circuit Judge William L. Jackson' died 1 Louisville, Ky., from Bright's disease. | BH Justice James V. Campbell, of theMichi- ! j^Han Supreme Court, died suddenly from heart j H^Msease at his home in Detroit. Infl Archbishop Michael Heiss, of the Mil- I H^Kah Di<vp?? died at Lacrosse Hosnital. i ^^ lilwaukee, Wis., at tho age of seventy-two mi HB Thk Ways and Means majority decided to j^^Kstore hides to the free list. Warrants were sworn out in WashingB^^caXqr the arrest of C. A. Newton and J. J. ^^HwfjjL^pon a charge of violating the Civil Mr|^Hk law in soliciting and receiving conP^^HRitions from Government employes for NHolitical purposes. BS^Thz annual eight-oared boat race on the ^^Bhames between crews representing Oxford B^Hid Cambridge Universities, was won by |MBte former. HHJohn Godman, a young American, blew BBt his brains at a private hotel in Paris, B^K*ance. He was out of funds. HHa hurricane at Townsville, Austraha, j K^B>oded the town and caused much damage. j O^&veral persons were drowned. B|Hprixce Bismarck had a farewell inter- j H^Hew with Emperor William,and was greeted ! j^^Bth popular demonstrations of respect and ' n^Hfection as he drove through tho streets of 1 Sfl^Lrlin. HHa violent earthquake has occurred in ; B^p*ieste, Austria, and its vicinity. HHAbout fifteen hundred houses were de- J ^^H*oyed by fire in Tokio, Japan, and seventy- i were partially destroyed. Two persons j H^^kre killed and about twenty-five firemen ^^^ere more or less severely injured. On the raoHeceding day 187 houses were burned in the H^fty, and a week later about eight hundred ^Hd sixty were destroyed and several firemen [ jgjj^Kre injured. The fires wore of accidental | UMB'g'pH A BKAVI GIRL'S DEED. Donnelly Plackily Saves an Old Man's Life. ^^Hftamie Donnelly, sixteen years old, of New Hjj^Rrven, Conn., saved the life of an old man ^ the of injury to herself. The man's wedged between the track and the H^^fluat a crossing of the Derby Railroad, engine was rapidly approaching. |K Donnelly went to nis assistance. Her B^^Huggles to pull his foot from the fastenwere unsuccessful, but Miss Donnelly B^Ki determined to save the old man's life. Hh a pair of scissors she cut the laces BK shoes, pulled out the foot and got the HEjBn off the track just before the engine HKEB big crowd cheered the young girl as she re'Tea6edi followed Dy the old BHrs expressions of gratitude. GENERAL CROOK DEAD. The Famous Indian Fighter Suddenly Expires in Chicago. MAJOR-GENERAL GEOROE CRGOt Major-General George Crook, United I States army, in command of the Department of the Missouri, died suddenly at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, at 7:15 o'clock the other morning of heart disease. General Crook was born near Dayton, Ohio, September 8, 1828, and graduated from the Military Academy at West Point in the class of '53. He was immediately assigned as Second Lieutenant to the Fourth Infantry, then stationed on the Pacific coast. Here he hn/1 thn ?Hvanhft(r? of active frontier sarvicn till the outbreak of the Civil War in 1881. His principal Indian fighting at that time was iu the nogue and Pitt Rivers campaigns of 185&-57. He had attained his captaincy when he returned East to take command of the Thirtysixth Ohio Volunteers. His first service was in West Virginia, where he distinguished himself by his activity in that broken and difficult country. Thence he was transferred to Maryland and Virginia, attracting attention by his vigor and celerity, which led to his appointment to the command of the Second Cavalry Division in the Army of the Tennessee, July, 1853. After the war he held several commissions, and in 1873 was despatched to Arizona to settle the Apache question, which had beeD the chief problem of Pacific Department Commanders since 1848. He settled it, and settled it to stay. Probably no exploit stands at the credit of the United States Cavalry so arduous as General Crook's mountain campaign against the Apaches. At its end, both norses and men were worn out, but the Apache was worn out for good. I a?? in fKa Qi'nn v\r*a_ JUOIA714 AAA WIW, vuw WiVUA Vi VUViVJ J/l vsented tnemselv?3 for settlement, and the selection of a commander to settle them fell naturally on General Crook. He inflicted severe blows on the Indians at Powder and Tongue Rivers. The savages withdrew to make their successful attack on the gallant Custer. Crook received reinforcements, and pursued them so vigorously that by May, 1877, he brought them to submission. Trouble in Arizona called General Crook thither again in 1883. On this occasion he captured the whole band or tribe of Chiricahuas. He next reduced them to the habit of industry, aud within three years had them and neighboring bands self-supporting. General Crook was known to the country at large as a friend to all Indians anxious to do right and live at peace. His firm advocacy of the cause of the Dakota Poncas in 1881, and his unswerving friendship of such of the Apache bands as kept faith with the whites, attracted favorable attention throughout the country. He would have held his position four years, retiring in 1894. -. I A UA.BI urriuiin. A Child a Few "Weeks Old Commissioned a Lieutenant. The youngest commissioned officer in our military is no doubt John A. Logan, thfl third, who has been commissioned a Lieutenant in the Logan Rifles, a company of the Fifth Regiment of.Ohio militia stationed at Cleveland. John A." Logan, Jr., is Captain of this Company. The babe thus commissioned?for he is only a few weeks old?is a grandson of the late John A. Logan, and the commission was issued at the request of Colonel Gibbons, of the Fifth Regiment, who stated in a letter to Governor Campbell that the boy is intended for the army and suggested, "Considering Captain Logan's intense interest in the National Guard, as well as the little fellow's intended future, that a commission as Lieutenant in the Logan Rifles, ? c T? TrvKn oumptllljr' JZJj ruiu xuiauil J, WO i/vitii Alexander Logan 3, dated February 12, 1890." This latter date is the child's birthday. Colonel Gibbons added, "I am sure if General Logan were alive to-day he would be highly pleased." The commission wa| promptly made out and forwarded, PROMINENT PEOPLE. The Emperor of China has entered upon a career of energetic reform. Julia Wakd Howe is the best Greek scholar of her sex in this country. It is stated that Emin Pasha will shortly withdraw from the service of Egypt. Lord Sat.isbcry, the British Premier, is getting so fleshy that his friends are worried about him. President Carxot, of France, considers Americans the most interesting foreigners who visit Paris. William W. Story, the sculptor, is small of stature, white of moustache and musical 01 voice. The Empress of Germany has inherited seventeen rows of pearls from the late exEmpress Augusta. Lord Tennyson recently wrote to a London friend that ho would never again write a po9m for publication. W. J. Arkkll, the New York newspaper proprietor, is organizing an expedition to explore the interior of Alaska. Senator Dixon, of Rhode Island, says that socially the United States Senate is very like a large private club. Ex-Secretary Bayard is said not to have entered the Senate Chamber since he left it to become a Cabinet officer. George Francis Train has left Tacoma, Wash., on his trip around the world to beat the records of all previous globe girdlers. Ex-Esiperor Dom Pedro is said to have no id?a of the value of money. He continues to live in the most extravagant style. Secretary Tracy has already grown tired of hotel life and has about concluded arrangements for leasing a house on C street, in Washington. cv>nh parkiin rvmiqantafl clva to the world, through the columns of a Paris paper, his impressions of his recent tour through Europe. Senator Vance, of North Carolina, says that his State produced more gold prior to the discovery of mines in California than all other States put together. It is reported that ex-Empress Eugenie, of France, in her lonely and sorrowful age, has taken to writing verse, and that some of it is pretty good verse, too. Representative Gibson, of Maryland, is considered the handsomest member of the Lower House of Congress. He is also the best terrapin cook in Washington. Field Marshal Moltke still dons the military uniform, but ha3 laid aside his sword, which he only wears on formal occasions and when he calls on the Emperor. Senator Brown, of Georgia, has had a long public service. He is seventy years old, and has been State Senator, Presidential Elector, Governor for four terms, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, and United States Senator. The n?w Duke of Aosta. who would be come heir to the ltaliau throne lu the event of the death of the weakly and delicate Crown Prince, is a tall, handsome young man, with perfectly cut features. He is exceedingly ' wealthy, havis* inherited from his mother a fortune of $d/j00,000. Paralysis is stealing a march on M. Pas tcur, the distinguished French scientist. He had one attack some years ago, which left him with a dead leg. The eyelids are now all but inert, and the timbre of the voice has altered for the worse, and the speech is thick and embarrassed. There are wild twitches in the face. But the mind is as keen as ever. Ozark County, Mo., has a population of 12,000, of whom 9000 are not taxpayers. In Gainesville, the county town, is the county iail, a structure oi logs, eight by ten foetand twenty feet high. jfesfei FIF'TY-FIEST CONGRESS. In the Senate. 63d Day.?The amendments adopted in the Committee of the Whole on the Blair bill were reported to the Senate and accepted, ind the decisive question was put on the engrossment and tliird reading of the bill. It was found that on a call of tha yeas and nays thirty-six Senators had voted against a third reading, and only thirty-two in favor of it. Mr. Blair, after satisfying himself that there was an actual majority against the bill, changed his vote, for the purpose of moving a reconsideration at some future date; ana the final official announcement made the vote against the bill thirty-seven to thirty-one. 64th Day.?Mr. Sherman's Anti-Trust bill was discussed by Messrs. Sherman, Alliso/i, Hiscock, Vest and others. 65th Day.?The Senate bill to promote the efficiency of the General Land Office (increasing the salary of the Commissioner to *5000 and of the Assistant Commissioner to $3500) gave ris3 in the Senate to a long discussion, at the end of which it was laid aside without action.... The bill appropriating $300,000 for a public building at San Diego, Cal., was debated at length and passed... .Mr. Blair introduced a I new educational bill.... About fifty of the bills on the calendar were passed?most of | them privat3 pension bills. 66th Day.?Several petitions against the ratification of the extradition treaty with Russia were presented in the Senate from Massachusetts and Missouri... .The Sherman Trust bill was debated by several Senators, ?? "" am nroa fal/nn Mo inriftr onrl minority reports concerning the election of the Montana Senators were presented from the Committee on Elections. I CTth Day.?A good deal of progress was made with the Sherman Anti-Trust bill. Various amendments, proposed by Messrs. Reagan and Ingalls, were accepted and incorporated in the bill, until it was about four times its original length. ...Mr. Farwell introduced a bill to pension Mrs. Crook, widow of General Crook. Referred... .Mr. Morrill introduced a bill to establish an educational fund, by setting apart the net proceeds of sales of public lands and a portion of the receipts from land-grant railroads. Referred. 08th Day.?The Senate sat till after dusk trying to reach a vote on the Sherman AntiTrust bill. The most that could be accomplished, however, was the completion of the measure in Committee of the Whole and its report to the Senate The "World's Fail bill was received and referred to the special committee having that subject in charge A joint resolution was passed, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to remove th? naval magazine from Ellis Island, New York harbor, to some other site, $75,000 being ap propriated for this purpose, and a like sum to enable him to improve the island for immigration purposes. In the House. 72d Day.?The House resumed the consideration of the Mudd-Compton contested > 1 j- J eiocuon case, auu was uuui osdou **** .v/c? ton, the sitting member, in hi3 own behalf. A debate followed, and at the close Mr. Moore, on behalf of the minority of the Committee on Elections offered a resolution declaring Compton entitled to the seat. This was defeated?yeas 145, nays 155. The majority resolution declaring Mudd entitled to the seat was adopted?yeas 159, nays 145.... Mr. Mudd then appeared and took the oath of office. 73d Day.?Immediately after the reading of the journal the Houso went into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Burrows in the j chair) on the Pension Appropriation bill, j After a debate, in which Messrs. Cutcheon, Boothmau and Outhwaite took part, the committoe arose and the bill was passed. 74th Day.?Mr. Lawler presented the remonstrance of the Chicago Wholesale Shoe and Leather Association against the imposition of duty upon hides. Referred.... The Timber-culture law was repealed.... Eulogies were pronounced upon the late E. J. Gay, of Louisiana. 75th Day.?Mr. Henderson, from thf I Committee on Appropriations, reported bach 1 the Urgent Deficiency bill, with Senate amendments thereto, with the recommendation, that certain of those amendments bt concurred in and certain non-concurred in The recommendations of the committee were agreed to and a conference was ordered.... The bill to create a public park in the Dis trict of Columbia was discussed without ao tion....A bill for the erection of a public building at Elizabeth, N. J., to cost $250,000. was introduced oy i>ir. ueissennainer. 76th Day.?The Chicago World's Fair bil!' was passed with an amendment postponing the opening of the Fair to May, 1893. 77th Day.?Mr. Cannon, from the Com> mittee on Rules, reported a resolution making the Wyoming Admission bill a special i order for the day. The resolution was I adopted, and the Wyoming bill was then j taken up and discussed. CAPTURED AN AMAZON. An Old Woman Who Has Long Do fled the Law at Last in Jail. After many unsuccessful attempts tli* authorities of Accomack, Va., have fmallj succeeded in capturing Margaret Thome, who for many years has evaded arrest, though convicted by the court. She is about GO years of age. of immense size, weighing nearly 30G pounds,and as strong as any man. Her influence is great,especially with the "Charlestowu Tigers," an organization of young i'ellows who have no respect for the law. Mrs. Thorne has been again and again conlinimfuriMinul i lirtmicn has always kopt out of jail. On one occasion, when they came unexpectedly into her house she stripped oir all but one garment and then > defiantly dared tho officers to take her to i jail. Not cariug to take her through the j country in that condition, the officers with- I drew, nor was she again molested until [ Judge Gillett, recently elected, took his seat ' on the bench. He determined to enforce the law, and is- j sued a bench warrant for Margaret's arrest, | and ordered that she be placed in jail to serve j a six mouths' sentence imposed by the last court. Knowing the woman's desperate character, Constable Guenther assembled a posse and proceeded after midnight to arrest her. On reaching her house they broko down the door. Margaret was in bed and refused to get up i or put on any clothing. Some of the men j attempted to pull her out, but the woman fought like a tiger, aud for a time kopt I the officers at bay. Her daughter*, who, j like their mother, are of herculean build, ! came to Margaret's assistance aud a pitched battle ensued. After a fight, during which some pretty hard knocks were received on both sides, the old amazon \ was buud led in blankets, hustled into a car- I riage and driven ofi'. Her captors had only i time to withdraw when a detachment of tho 1 Charlestowu Tigers reached the cottago to help the old woman. Margaret is now in jail, abusing the Judge and swearing to get ! even when she gets our. A WILD GIRL'S FREAK. Disguised as a Boy She Steals a Horse and. Runs Away. Agnes Rankin, an attractive young girl, living near Trenton, Ky., was put in jail at Hickman, Ky., charged with horse stealing. One night she dressed up in boy's clothing, went to the farm of Thomas Spiller and stole the finest horse he had in the stable, rode the animal to Fulton and sold it to Emmet Reed, a livery stable keeper, for $30; then she fled from the State into Tennessee, landing in Greenfield, where she was arrested on telei grams announcing the theft of the horse by a boy. She proved sne was not a Doy ana was released, but was rearrested at Crockett's Station, Tenn., and transferred to the county jail at Hickman. She is a farmer's daughter, but of a wild disposition, and was inspired to her escapade by dime novels. BLOWN T0_AT0MS. An Explosion of Glycerine Kills Three People. "While a man named Barr was hauling a quantity of nitro glycerine at Stone, Ind., it exploded, blowing Barr to atoms and instantly killing a mother and her babe. Barr's horses were also killed and his wagon tortJ into splinters. The explosion dug up a circle of ground about sixty yards in diameter, tore the windows from the house in which the woman was sitting with her child, and wrought general havoc. No traces of either the man or horses were to be found, excepting smalJ pieces of flesh hanging upon the trees remote from the spotwh^re the explosion occurred. I WINDOM'S SILVER BILL. I Chairman Conner's Report iu Favor of Its Passage. He Says That It Will Gfive an j Impetus to Business. The report upon theWindom Silver bill by Chairman Conger, of the House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, is a very elaborate one, and has the endorsement of Secretary "Windom. After referring to the great importance of the silver question, it says: "The outlawry of silver by Germany, "the suspension acts of France and the other Governments of the T.atin Union, the results of our own legislation, the gradual retirement of national bank circulation, our rapidly increasing population, the unparalleled growth of trade, commerce and the important industry of silver, the depressed condition of agriculture, all demand some immediate and judicious legislation."' After stating the total amount of money in circulation on March 1 the report continues. "During the last year our national bank circulation was reduced by redemption of notes to the amount of $37,599,229. This retirement will continue in a greater or less amount from year to year, and yet our popula I tion and business is increasing at a marvelous rate. Some means must therefore bo devised to supply this deficiency and to meet these new demands. No better or safer plan can be adopted than to utilize our own precious metals, the product of our silver mines and smelters. This bill, in the judgment of your committee, provides a simple, practical, and economical method of converting this silver into money or its equivalent. Our people have not taken kindly to coined silvet as a general circulating medium, but very much prefer its paper representative. This is conclusively proven by the fact that, although the Treasury Department ships silver from Florida to Alaska, yet it has been able to put out and keep in circulation less than one silver dollar for each individual in the nation. The paper representation is evident ly what is wanted, and it is immaterial tc business whether it represents coin or bullioc ?whether a bullion dollar or a dollar's worth | of bullion, if equivalent and staple value. ltThe notes to be issued under this bill are | based on bullion, and are to be redeemed in silver bullion or gold at the option of th< Government, or in standard silver dollars ii the holder desires them. This value must therefore, be positively staple aud eannol fluctuate, for -whether the price of bulliot goes up or down, the note is always worth absolutely 100 cents. It is not true- thai silver nnder this act is demonetized 01 treated simply as a commodity, bat on th? contrary it is monetized in the highest and most desirable sense. This act opens ouj mints to the monetizing of all the silver dug from our mines or reduced in our smelters and it is hampered by no statutory limita tions or fixed amounts, but is left to the fret ant) natural course of production and trade.' The report prophesies that under- this acl the production of crude ore would increasi and prices advance, and the circulation o! money be increased by 15,000,000 per month Then it says: "A demand would thus be created for th< entire product of all our own silver mines The $2,000,000 sent abroad will be withhelf and the price of 9ilver ba materially en hanced thereby. Under the provisions o' this bill silver would unquestionably appra ciatc 111 value, ana me prooauiucy is mat i would rapidly Approach a parity with goli at the ratio long ago fixed by law, viz., lo tx 1. If this should happen then our mints cai safely be opened to freo coinage, as provide: by this bill. The silver problem, as respect; the world and our silver,, is in such a com plicated condition at present that i is impossible to make a cor rect and permanent solution a once. Ultimate freo and unlimited coinagi of silver, with proper use of paper represen tatives, is certainly desirable and ought to b attainable, but with the present attitude o the other great commercial nations towari silver, and with its present market price, i would be neither safe nor politic for ou Government to make the experiment o once. The bill is only tentative in it terms and character, but the conch tions to be met are exceptional am transitory. To risk a general disturbanc of values, and while professedly seeking to in crease the currency to threaten the with drawal from circulation of $504,112,007 o gold and gold certificates now outstanding relying solely upon the belief that th United States can execute such an un dertaking, is,, in our judgment, an ac which we. charged with the pub lie welfare, have no moral right to do. Ti give silver or it* representative full mone tary character, and yet interfere with nc great commercial interest, at the same tinu vastly increasing tlie market for silvo and swelling the volume of sound an< safe currency, is the public need whict the accompanying bill seeks to satisfy, The Treasury notes proposed will represent al all times their face value in bullion, and car nuit.hpv hr their- fihc.mnpss tlriva out othfll forms of currency,, nor by their clearness bi driven out. Through them silver will havi free circulation, limited only by the produ? lion of this lation, and bimetalism will b? established in this country as the recognized commercial ratio." The x-epcrt says this- act v/ill satisfy tilt manufacturer and tradesman, because it wil give frcsli impetus to business. It sliouk satisfy agriculturists for the increased volumo of money always raises price?, and i\ should satisfy the workman by increasing his wages. "It is a stop, and a long stop, ic the direction of free coinage at a fixed ana agreed national ratio, and, in our judgment, the largest step which can be safely taken ir that direction.'' NEWSY GLEAJyUMGS, Ix Tacoma, Wash., they have an electric street railway. The prospects are that California will have a big wheat crop. It is announced that all Russian import duties will be raised in June. The National House of Representatives has about 1100 bills on the calendar. The North Dakota Senate rejected all the appointments made by the Governor. The cold weather killed at least one-third of the tobacco plants in North Carolina. a movement in favor of a Methodist sisterhood is making muoh progress in London. The new French ministry announces a policy of active work and political conciliation. The Bulgarian Government is about to expend $15,000,000 upon the construction of railroads. Over 1000 men have been cutting ice on I the lakes around Pittsfield, Mass., for a New York company. [ Recent returns to the Department of i Agricultural show a revival of interest in sheep husbandry. Heavy purchases of bonds by the Treasury Department have reduced the available sur1 plus to about $20,000,000. I Thomas Hope, of New York, bequeathed $400,000 to found a hospital at Langholm, Scotland, where ho was born. The dock strikes in Liverpool had a serious effect upou transatlantic traffic, both as reI gards passengers and freight. It has been finally determined to putGene| ral Lafayette's statue in the upper part of Lafayette Square in Washington. A bill reducing the legal rate of interest from ten to eight per cent, has been passed by both Houses of the Iowa Legislature. The President has been authorized by act i of Congress to confer brevet rftnk on army , officers for gallantry in campaigns against I the Indians. j Efforts are being made in Toronto to enj courage the exportation of Canadian cattle to Ireland, whore, it is said, there is considerable demand for them. | Guards were placed on the endangered I levees at New Orleans with Winchester rifles ' with instructions to shoot any one approaching the levees at night. The Cifrp of Minneapolis has appropriated : the sum of $15,000 for the enrichment of its j public library through the purchase of rare cooks and manuscripts. After forty years of Mormon rule, all the : city of Salt Lake has to show Is some sets of books that the most expert bookkeeper in the universe cannot balance. The constitutionality of the Mississippi law compelling railroad companies to provide separate cars for white and colored people has been affirmed by the Supreme Court.! ' : M : THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. , The Legislative Committee in the Massachusetts Legislature reported a bill giving women the right to vote in municipal elections. A Hungarian woman told the police of Harrison, N. J., that a house that had been burned two years ago, and in which two lives were lost, had been deliberately set on fira. Six arrests were made. Lucius Tuttle, Trunk Line Commissioner, has resigned to become general manager of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Tiie house of Benjamin Downey, Stony Hill, Penn., was burned, and when the ruins were examined the charred body of Downey was found. Joseph J. Steck, a well-known oil man, was instantly killed at Reno, Penn., while as- J sisting to draw the tools from one of the wells. The fishing schooner H. A. Duncan, of I Gloucester, Mass., lost six of her crew in ' dories during a recant snowstorm. .The jury in the Flack conspiracy case in New York city found a verdict of guilty against the three defendants, Sheriff Flack' his son, "Will" Flack, and Joseph Meeks. The jury in giving the verdict, made a strong recommendation for extreme executive clemency. Samuel R. Green was shot and instantly killed by Ira E. Briggs. near Norwich, Conn. Green threatened to cut Briggs's throat, and it is believed that he was taken suddenly in* sane. The Coroner's verdict was "excusable homicide." Two trains collided near Pertage, N. Y., killing three men, and fatally injuring another. The engines and twelve cars were demolished. John S. Farlow, President of the Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland Railroad, died suddenly at his home in Newton, Mass. A bill to'provide for sixty scholarships in the-Agricultural College of New Jersey wa3 passod by the House at Trenton, N. J. An insane woman endeavored to burn the insane- asylum at Lancaster, Penn., and nearly succeeded. Great excitement: prevailed among the inmate3 of the asylum. The wholesale dry goods commission house of Ross Campbell & Co., New York city, failed with liabilities of about 3125,000. A Texas steer escaped from the abattoir at Jersey City, N. J., and it ran two mile9 I and wounded four prople before it stuck in the mud, and was killed by a policemen. Eight engineers and firemen on the Reading Railroad have been discharged for drinking. J. F. Anderson, collector of Milford Township, N.. J., for the last three years, is $4000 short in his accounts. A boy is said to hav& died of yellow fever near Reading, Penn. Burt Gardner, Dolphica Ranault and Michael Mulvey, painters, fell from a scaffold at Lawrence, Mass. Garduer was killed, and Mulvey and Ranault badly injured. South and. West. Dr. M. A. Rust, one of the oldest and most Drominect German physicians in Rich mond* Va, fell from a ladder at his residence and was instantly killed. E. B. McCuRDr. a train conductor, was shot and seriously wounded by a colored man j named Jake Daniels, and in turn the conductor shot and killed the colored man. It happened while the train was near Bay Minetta, Ala. C. A. Searles and W. C. Paine ware arrested in Missoula, Mont., for robbing the Northern Pacific Express office at Bramerd, Minn., of $15,000 about a year ago. The stearaboat-owners in Baltimore, Md., appointed a committee to confer with members of Congress to ask for an immediate repeal of the objectionable features of the United States inspection and census laws. A warehouse, bath establishment and oight cottages at Jacksonville, Fla., have been destroyed by fire, causing a loss of about $125,000. Dan Gruells, fanner at Kelat, K7., was taken from his home and hang6d. Several years ago he dealt in .cattle and gave bad checks, and fled to the mountains. A dispatch fromDansville, Va., says that more than 200 moonshiners have established a fortified camp in Franklin County, and openly defy tne authority of the United States. They have over 100 illicit stills in operation and are producing thousands of barrels of whiskey on which no duty is paid. The District Attorney at Jackson, Miss., made an affidavit against ex-State Treasurer W. L. Hemingway, charging him with embezzlement of State funds. Hemingway was arrested. A fast steamer has been fitted out in San Francisco for seal poaching in Behring Sea by a company of local and Eastern capitalists, who believe there are big profits in illicit sealing when every pelt can be sold for 813.50. Edmc.vd Nicholas (colored) was handed at Franklin, La., for the murder of a girl, and Prince Saunders (colored) suffered the same fata at Plaquemine, La., for the same reason. Tommy Wixeman*, twelve years old, shot and killed Bertie Polhamua, eleven years old, at Joliefc, 111., (luring a quarrel over marblas The body of A. W. Longley, of Dayton, Ky.t a well-known merchant, was found in the Ohio River twenty miles below Cincinnati. United. States Marshall Newlin\ with two deputies, boarded the brigantine Ernes- j tine at Delaware Breakwater, and brought j ashore five mutineers in irons who, by i refusing duty, had caused tho vessel to put in ' there. The business nortion of Hamilton, 111., has-j been destroyed by fire. The Cocopali Indians went on the warpatb i in Southern California. They were reported j to be murdering the Mexican settlers and | fighting among themselves. Mcch damage has been done in the Ohio i Valley by the river overflowing. Thesitua? j tion along the Mississippi was very threaten' , ing. William Ki.vnet, Peter McGinnis- and I Torn liurke. of Cincinnati, went out on the j Ohio River to look at the high water. Their skiff capsized and all were drowned. A NORTH-BOtLSD train ran into a misplaced switch in Nashv&Je, Teun.,, killing two inen, injuring severa) others, wrecking mauy freight cars and damaging the depot building. Ix searching the ruins of the recent fire in Seattle, Wash., the charred remains of three bodies were found?two. men and one woman. a torn-ado inflicted considerable damage | in portions of South Carolina, principally at Sumter and vicinity, au,d a number of fatalities were reported.' The Midway Hotel at Kearney, Neb., has bean destroyed by flro, and Harry Deming, of South Omaha, a guest, was killed by imnninor frrvm n windo W. It TVaS OUC Of tb.C linfsfc hotels in tin State, aud cost$100,000. Mrs. John Lowri-e, wife of a farmer living ut G'harlestown, Ohio, has given birth to four children?two boys and two girls?all alive and well developed. Fire in the business portion of Laredo, Texas, destroyed property worth $100,000. Colonel Richard Owen, a well-known Indianian, died from drinking embalming fluid by mistake. Four boys woro drowned in the Missouri River, near Florence, Neb., while out hunting. . One man was killed and seven iujurod in a train wi-eck near Huron, Mont. The Kansas prairie fires have been subdued. There was no loss of life, but the damage to stock aud farm produce in store is estimated at $250,000. Dr. J. S. Dorsett, Superintendent of the State Lunatic Asylum at Austin, Texas, was assaulted and dangerously injured by a lunatic named McD ermott. Mayor Davidson, of Baltimore, has received a letter from the British Consul-Ge:ieral to Jamaica, inviting the citizens of Baltimore to participate in the Jamaica Exposi| tion. Washington. The Journeymen Bakers' and Confectioners' International Union of America memorialized Congress not to ratify the Russian Ex- I tradition Treaty or any other oxtradition i treaty with Russia. The House Committee on Agriculture authorized Mr. Allen to report a bill providing for the transfer of the Signal Service from the War Department to tha Department ot Agriculture. The President has nominated John F, Seiby United States Attorney for - tha- District o? North Dakota; Major Thaddeus H. Stanton, Paymaster, to be Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy Paymaster-General: and Calvin T. Spaulaing, Postmaster at Brainerd, Minn. President Harrison has issued a proclamation warning all persons against entering the waters of Behring Sea for the purpose of killing otter, mink, marten, sable or fur seal or other fur-bearing animals with'n the limits of Alaska Territory or the waters thereof. Thomas Brown, alias George Carter (colored), was shot and fatally wounded shortly after midnight in Washington by Lee Quong, a Chinaman, who charges that Brown was trying to rob the laundry o? Hing Lee; JfoSTMASTER-GENERAL Wanamaker received a letter postmarked New York, inclosing a $1000 United Stat03 gold note, and one $500 gold note, which the sender desired him to place to the credit of the Consicence Fund. The House Committee on Elections voted in favor of the seated Democratic memben from the contested First Indiana and Ninth. Virginia Districts. Foreign. Emperor William has offered Prince Bismarck a Dukedom and made him a field marshal. He has also made Count Herbert Bismarck Minister of Foreign Affairs. The mine owners of England having agreed to raise the wages of the striking miners ten per cent, the men resumed work. The School Act, abolishing the right of the Roman Catholics to have sepa rate sehools and obliging all classes of the community topatronize the national secular schools has passed the Manitoba Legislature. Advices have been received from Quillimono Pnot. Afrinn thAt". VlA.fi A Pnrf.11. lunuoi I *** * *W??^ ' ? ? ?. - ? guese customs official and his escort of 300 natives have been massacred near Lake Nyassa. Several foreign Hebrews have b6en arrested at Leipsic, Germany, on th 3 charge of treason. While dispersing riotous workman at Koepenick, Germany, two policemen were' wounded. Alexander Shaw, a society leader in Montreal, pleaded guilty to embezzlement and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The amount of his stealings reacned $24,000. The British steamer Virent, from Sulina, Roumania. for London, has bean abandoned at fsea, with her shaft broken. The mate and fourteen other men belonging to the steamer were lost. Forged notes to the amount of 500,000 pesetas were discovered in a package of. funds brought to a bank at Madrid, Spain. FrvE hundred Russian students have been arrested for rioting at St. Petersburg. They demanded the restoration of liberal regulations. Much damage has been done by floods in Italy. The Labor Conference at Berlin adopted a resolution favoring the prohibition of the employment of children under twelve years of age in factories and mines. The steamer E. Gwendoline foundered off the coast of Wales, and several of her crew were cirownea. A baxd of Servian militia tried to capture the Bosnian villago of Granje, but was repulsed after a sharp fight by Austrian gendarmes. During the engagement several were killed on both sides. The Austrian Government has demanded an explanation of the affair from Servia. The German authorities have hanged a slave-dealer named Swahili for trying to embark slaves at Bagamoyo, on the East African coast. The Danish Minister of War announced in the Folkething at Copenhagen that Socialist workmen would not be employed in State workshops. The new extradition treaty between England and the United States was formally signed by the Queen and countersigned by the Premier. At Paliama, in Crete, a priest was dragged from his pulpit and paraded through Jthe streets amid the jeers of the mob. Sixtyfour of the villagers were starving in prison. ^ ALIVE IN ITS OOPFHT, Mourners at a Wako Frightened When the Corpse Began to Cry. Christopher O'Neii, of New Brunswick, N. J., called his friends to his houso to hold a wake over tho body of his child. The wake was in duo progress when tho mourners were suddenly terribly frightened, for the supposed corpse, clad in its'gravo clothes, sat up in the coffin and began to cry lustily. In a moment the baby's aunt recovered her presence of mind and grabbed the little one from its narrow bed, gasping out: "Bless the Lord, it's alive!" The wake became a night of rejoicing, for the doctor who was summoned said he thought the child was likely to live. But their joy was prematnre, for next day tho child was seized with convulsions and died. The second wake was even sadder than the first. THE LABOEWOELD. A t.a rnr bureau will soon b$ established at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum. The New England granite manufacturers will pay their men byihe hour after May 1. There are many silk ribbon_ weavers out of employment at present in ISevr York ana vicinity. The 5000 girls, who work in the stores and factories of Detroit average between $4 and $o a week. The Indianapolis. Builders' Exchange has notified the Building Trades' Union that it will oppose the eight hour movement. Eight thousand employes of the Armstrong gun works, at Elswick, England, struck for a working day of eight hours. The Pennsylvania Railroad Companypaid last year to their Employes' Relief Fund $70,160, and the employes contributed 1377,461. The committee of the Berlin Labor Conference, presided over by Jules Simon, agreed to the exclusion of children under twelve from factories. The lumbermen in the Adirondack region of New York are said to have cut twice as many logs during the last season as they did in the winter of 1885-9. Out of 10,413 members of the Brotherhood of Carpenters who have voted on the eighthour proposition, 9095 recorded themselves in favor of it and 34 against it. Bernard David, a well-known union cigar-maker of New York city, says that any i o rroro rroc 57 A WAfllf memutsr w uu w an ..uu ?. the year round is a lucky man. There is a movement on foot in San Francisco. to bring into a federation all the union men engaged there as sailors, firemen, dock laborers, stevedores and 'longshoremen. The Journeymen Bakers' Union is about to organize the men working in the cracker bakeries whose wages are very low, while their hours of labor are more than in bread and cake bakeries. A brass founder in Montreal died recently leaving $500,000 to his workingmen. Five hundred received $400 apiece, while three foremen are left to manage the business and are provided with capital to carry it on. A number of European manufacturers are trying the profit-sharing system as an experiment. A Norwegian manufacturer who paid his man 5100 per year tor wages laouwi s??w each of them $105 as their share of the annual dividend. Attorney-General Michener, of Indiana, has declared officially that the State Eight-Hour law is constitutional: He says that the State has powef to limit the hours of labor, just as it has the power to send children to school or to enact sanitary measures. John Devlin, of Detroit, who is a member of the General Executive Board of the Knights of Labor, is also United States Consul at Windsor, Canada. He was one of President Cleveland's appointments. His friends say that he has been assured that President Harrison will not attempt to disturb him. The distance traveled In the Interior 01 Africa by Mr. Stanley personally is estimated at 5400 miles, of which all but 1000 were on foot. The expedition occupied throe yean and rescued 300 persous at a coat 9? 1?5S tU&E $150,000. DESIGN FOB A RESIDENCE, A Handsome Conutry House?Description ot the Design. (Copyright by the author.) Bounteous crops and an unlimited dciman J for them at good prices, by reason of the partial failure of crops abroad, form a combina. tion of circumstances that never fails to elevate the horn of plenty. The last era of good times <1879-80; was inaugurated by thesame causes, aided by the resumption of specie payment which assured solia valuer ? ' for everything. The same conditions prevail to-day. During prosperous times, and especially at , . the commencement of prosperous times be PERSPECTIVE VIEW. * ' "jjjl fore'the-prices for materials and labor become inflated, the building of houses of moderate cost will certainly prove to bo iiH profitable ventures. When an American makes money he is pretty sure to provide an attractive and comfortable home for hia family. The design illustrating this article is submitted for his consideration. Brief description of the design: * Ajp Size of Structure: Front, including veranda, 30 ft.; depth, 48 ft, 6 in. . : Wi; Height of Stories: Cellar, 7 ft,; first gtorv, 9 ft. (lia.; second story, 9 ft.; attic story, 8 ft. , Materials for Exterior Walls: Foundations, stone or brick; first story, clapboards* second story, shingles; gables, dormers and ' . roof, shingles. Interior Finish: Hard white plaster; white ? .-iw pine trim; cherry staircase; plaster cornices and. centres in hall, parlor and dining room. ,:uiy ?o.'-pj ,|g_^ I l^teasssttK* OJ-lMsi : ; iJfew-nwS : .' 'MM | ?&fe ^jir - i "?- ' ; 'Swiii ! j Hi mA- i 1 J,: f||| | " ? - |^- ^ N'* l"Tludm^ BMI N FIRST FLOOB. Exterior Colors: Body of first story, buffi " fl shingles around veranda, shingles on second story and shingles on gables, medium light) buff; roof shingles, pale red; all trim?such a& window and door casings, belt courses;. brackets, veranda posts and rails and lattice, light green; chimneys, red; sashes, dark red: doors, natural color of wood with hard oil finish; blinds, dark buff; veranda floor and s ceiling, oiled. In exterior painting thereshould be one priming and two finishing. ^ coats. To get the best results the second finishingcoat should not baapplfW until at. least eight months have elapsed after putting. on the first. 'viS Accommodations: The principal, rooms and their sizes, closets, etc., are shown by the plans given herewith. In addition there is a cellar under the whole house and one finished room in the attic, with space for more rooms. in the attic. As the second floor plan pro- ? ^ vid&s mora closet room than is usually r<y- j ' ':f? r . ! P \: -:M v ~n 8?d R/mig- I /r iftoVtC? | | JF* Usui | ' " ^ f * 5 OitcJn^ I !i I 7/0xS;6*K W - ?-"v ;:' L?l ... I; -.-a l Hiom q"*0h 'i 7:0* I 7.6;j j ? -S SECONT> FLOOR. miirpri it is suera-ested that the three closets grouped in the centre of the house be omitted. The floor space thus acquired may bo combined with the dressing room, thus providing another bedroom which would be eight feet six inches by fourteen feet in size. Special Features: The dominating features?the windows, the dormers, the veranda and veranda posts^-of this exterior may. b? said to be Colonial. Shingling the second story and the gables, now become quitepopular, was copied from a ColoDial style. The polygonal bays of the dining room and the bedroom above make the two rooms referred to unusually attractive. But thore ia no lack of air and light for any of tha rooms. Cost: In localities where prices, for labor and materials are about the same as New York prices^ $3800. R. W. Shoppew* Architect. . KILLED BY HER OWN SON* A. Buy Cuts His Mothec'8 Head Off and Then Goes to.Play. A singularly atrocious murder has been committed at Somerville, Tenn., the victim being Mrs. Sally Hobson, colored, and the murderer ber eleven-year-old fcoy. Mrs. Hobsoa was a servant in the family of the Episcopal minister, and lived with, her four children in a small house in the rear of the parsonage. The other morning her husband, who had been in the country at work, called at the house in company with another man, and after a short stay started out for a walk. Returning a half hour Ia+am a fawiKIa maf kie atrao Ol> nnA side of the door lay the decapitated romains of his wife find several fe#t away the head. A stick of wood on which her neck had been placed when tba cutting was done showed three distinct cuts of an axe. The boy was found playing with the other children, lii3 clothing saturated with blood. He at first asserted that the blood came from a chicken which he had killed, but at the Coroner's inquost admitted he had committed the crime, lie said his mother laid her head down on the block and told him if he did not cut her head off she would kill him. The boy's story was not believed, and he was placed in jail Dendin? furt'ier investigation. The Russian Government will try to raise two English steamers sunk at Balaklava in the Crimean war. One of them is said to have on board a chest containing <300.000. An epidemic which appears to be similai to or identical with influemza has appeared U I Bombay, India, aud is spreading rapidly. ?