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' IfORfSffElT STATES. ? p . A Tornado Courses Over Ohio,' j Michigan and Illinois. Wf A Factory at Norwalk, Ohiol ? "Dashed Like an Egg Shell. LU. . J - A cyclone struck Norwalk, Ohio, about five o'clock in the afternoon. The storm swept a track about half a mile wide from the eastern limits of the city and a long distance in the country. The umbrf 11a factory of Sprague & French was in the path of the cyclone. | A part of the building, in which about thirty ' young women were employed, was crushed ' like an egg-shell. Many of the girls escaped, | but others were caught in the falling building. ! Dora Palmer, aged nineteen, received fatal j injuries and died in a short time. Her skull i was crushed. Nellie Harding was seriously injured about i the head and upper part of the body. Mis; Brush had her collar bone broken and was otherwise badly injured. Several other girls received injuries. Barns balonging ( to Colonel Sprague, O. M. Hames, John Copsey, John Myers, Charles Barer, Dr. L. A. Severcool, William Perrin, D. Zwick and John Parker were blown down " and other small buildings were wrecked. Trees were uprooted and fences torn down r in all directions. The force of the wind was ^unprecedented in that section. At seven o'clock that same evening another terrific storm visited the city, the wind blow- j ing a gale and hailstones as big as hickory ; nuts fell, smashing windows and demolish- ! Iing greenhouses. A heavy rain storm visited Oberlin, Ohio, flooding cellars of business houses on College ' street to a depth of four feet. The water j . rose rapidly in Plum Creek, and people on i I the flats expected to be compelled to leave j their homes before morning. A great electric storm passed over East Liverpool, Ohio, about 11 o'clock a. m. The Methodist Church steeple was knocked down ! and the church damaged. The telephone j central exchange was burned and the ser- j (vice destroyed. The operators were compelled to fly from the room. Coursing Over Michigan. A terrible cyclone passed over the northern part of Charlotte, Mich., about three i o'clock in the morning doing several thousand dollars of damage. The heaviest loss was to the Richardson Mill Company, the ! roof being torn off the main building, entailing a loss of $2000. Mayor Packard's barn was torn to atoms. A wing to Mr. Barhat's residence was wrenched from tho main part and lifted into an adjoining lot, completely demolishing it. The house of ' Dr. Rosenkrans was damaged to the extent i of foUO. Trees were uprooiea auu uuuieruuj i outhouses were carried away. At Battle Creek, Mich., a tornado passed I through during the night leveling buildings, j fences and windmills. The summer cottages at Cognac Lake, two miles south of the town, were blown down, but no lives were lost. ! A cyclone passed over Kalamazoo, Mich., J early in the morning. The gale descended in the northwest part of the citv, and the roof j of the Woodward Avenue Scnool was raised and the building damaged. Sheds and chim- 1 neys were also blown down. At Mount Clemens, Mich., Mrs. Fred Ebar- , lein, of Frazer, was instantly killed by lights ; ning, which accompanied the cyclone which j passed over the neighborhood. A cyclone struck Allegan, Mich., at three I o'clock in the morning. The storm was pre- j ceded by a high wind and rain j storm. It destroyed the barn, kitchen j and fences of George Frayer. Johu ; Germain's barn was turned completely j around and his corn crib, sheds and fences ! are a total wreck. The wind unnx)fed houses j and barns and tore down fences in Watson j township. No lives were lost, though several . l persons were injured m Trowbridge. The Storm in Illinois. Bne village 01 jrropnets&uwij, iu,, was nut i )ed out of existence as was first reported, I was any one killed there. About seven j lock in the evening, however, the wind in- j ased to almost a cyclone and swept over j town. rpon the appearance of a black cloud j littes were gathered together and safety j ght in the cellars. This precaution evi- i tly saved many lives. At the south- I it edge of the town the wind picked up J arn and demolished it. A little fur- j r on the home of Edward Hammond, oc- ! lied by Mr. Hammond, his wife and two j Idren, was carried sixty or seventy feet I I then torn into kindling wood. >ne of the children, who reached th9 1 ar, was found in the water nearly wned. Mrs. Hammoned was slightly in- j Ed. '. G. Reynolds, his wife and three daugh- I i and Mrs. Reynolds's aged mother were ; heir house, which was carried in the air j re than a hundred feet when it collapsed, j Ti 1 1 l-~ J all I xveyuuiu^ >vas KUUL&ca scuacicw uuu till | HH the other inmates were bruised. IK The roof of the Chicago, Burlington and | BH Quincy station was blown off and the tel- 1 H egraph wires prostrated. The grain elevator of Olmsted & Matts, thirty by sixty feet, i 9gH was crushed. Hw A hundred other buildings, large and ' small, show the effect of the wind and hail. 1 BSC For a distance of ten miles up and down ! BS the Rock River Valley the heaviest hail ever | known fell and barns and sheds were wrecked, ! though no casualties are reported. At half-past sevon o'clock p. m., great masses of hail began to fall in the vicintyof fl Roberts, 111. The storm continued about ^Hten to fifteen minutes with considerable NHviolence, and nearly all window j^H glass on the west side of houses NHwas brokeff. borne of the hailstones meas Hured seven to eight and one-half inches in ^ circumference, and some weighed as high as ^Hseven ouuces. No lives were lost, though ; IHseveral persons were severely bruisedI TAKING THE CENSUS. HH The Quest ions That Will be Asked by j ?h? rcnciiu Tfllcnrs I . The work of taking the United States Cen by ill bi^in on June 2, and will, it is exP^ted, occupy a month. The questions that will be asked by the census takers are as follows: 1. Give Christian name in full and initial }f middle name, surname. 2. "Whether soldier, sailor or marine during the civil war (United States or Confed;rato), or widow of such person. 3. Relationship to head of family. 4. Whether white or black, mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, Chinese, Japanese or Indian 5. Sex. 6. Age at nearest birthday. If under one rear give age in months. 7. Whether single, married, widowed oi ! livorced. 8. Whether married during the census year June 1,1S69, to May 31, lS'JO). 9. Mother of how many children and num>er of these children living. 10. Place of birth. 11. Place of birth of father. 12. Place of birth of mother. %T ' B ? ? IrnifA/l I 113. tfuaiDer 01 yetu-Mu tuc v. uum . 14. Whether naturalized. 15. Whether naturalization papers have \ >een taken out. 16. Profession, trade or occupation. 17. Months unemployed during the census 1 June 1,18S9, to May 31, 18'JO). 18. Attendance at school (in months) dur^thecensus year (June I, 1839, to May 31, 19. Able to read. 20. Able to write. 21. Able tc spsak English. If not, tht inguasje or dialect spoken. 22. Whether suffering from acute ot hronic disease, with name of disease and sngth of time afflicted. 23. Whether defective in mind, sight, hearlg or speech, or whether crippled, maimed, r deformed, name of defect. 24. Whether a prisoner, convict, homeless hild, pauper. '25 and 26. Is the home you live in hired, oi I it owned by the head or by a member of tin imily? 27, If owned by head or member of family, house free from mortgage incum Ke? TO. If the head of the family is ft farmer, the farm which he cultivates hired, or is owned by him or oy a meml>er of his imiiy? 29. If owned by head or member of family, the farm free from mortgage incumbrance! 80. If the home or farm is owned by head o: ember of family and mortgaged, give the ifltoffice address of owner. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. In the Senate. 75th Day*.?The House amendments to th? Senate bill for a zoological park in the District of Columbia were laid baforo the Senate. After considerable discussion the amendments were non-concurred in and a conference asked....The following Senate bills were taken from the calendar and passed: Appropriating $75,000 for a public building at Aurora, 111.; appropriating $100,000 for a public building at Leadville,Col.... On motion of Mr. Hale, the House bill to amend the Census law by providing for the enumeration of the Chinese population was taken from the calendar and read, with the amendments reported by the Committee on the Census. Mr. Evarts suggested that the bill should be allowed to go over for three days, and Mr. Hale assented to the suggestion The Montana contest was debated Mr. Ingalls was elected President pro i tem. 7<iTH Day.?The Edmunds bill, providing for an inspection of meats for exportation and prohibiting the importation of adulterated articles of food and drink, was passed ....By request, Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill providing for a system of banking by United States, proposed by the Wa-'eworkers' Alliance The House bill to provide for town site entries of land in what is known as Oklahoma was passed. . .The following were among the Senate bills taken from the calendar and passed: Appropriating $500,000 for an additional fireproof building for the National Museum; to amend Section 1754 of the Revised Statutes?concerning the preference of honorably discharged soldiers in appointment to civil office; for the appointment of an assistant general superintendent and n chief clerk of the Railway Mail Service (with r\f nnrl ?->()00 r??sn<*ntivelv? Nimi ICd V4. vvuvw V? 1 ^ House bill); extending to the whole of the District ot' Columbia the laws in force ir Washington against selling liquor on Sundays or to minors After a short executive session, private bills on the calendar wert taken up, and 113 bills were passed in just ono hour. Among them was one giving a pension of $50 a month to Mrs. Caroline B. i Stevens, daughter of Senator Baker, of Oregon, who was killed at the battle of Ball's Bluff; and one giving a pension of $100 a month to the widow of General John F. Hareranft. 77th Day?Messrs. Spooner and Vest discussed the Montana election case....Mr. Evarts announced his intention to speak on the Chinese Enumeration bill... .The bill to promote Rear-Admiral Jouett to the rauk of Vice-Admiral, reviving that rank for the purpose, was reported adversely....The House amendment to the joint resolution for the removal of the naval magazine from Ellis Island, N. Y., was concurred in....Mr. Pettigrew introduced a bill authorizing the President to enlarge the Missouri River Commission by the appointment of three additional members?one from Montana and one each from North and South Dakota. 7Sth Day.?The Anti-Trust bill was passed by a vote of 52 to 1.... Mr. Spooner concluded I his speech on the Montana Senatorial contest, and then Mr.Tugh argued in favor or tne mi- i nority report, declaring Messrs. Clark and J Maginnis entitled to seats... .Mr. Hoar pre- I sen ted a memorial of Universalisfc ministers j of Boston and vicinity, declaring profound I regret at the defeat of the Blair Educational bill, which they considered as "the calamity of the nation" Mr. Morrill reported back the House bill to admit, free of duty, articles intended for the St. Louis Exposition, in i September and October, 1890, that may be I imported from the Republic of Mexico, South j America and Cauada A bill appropria- | ting $100,000 for a public building at New- I burg, N. Y., wasplaced on the calendar. 79th Da v.?The Chinese Enumeration j bill was discussed for an hour or two Mr. Wilson, from the Committee on Interstate Commerce, reported, with amendments, the bill to amend section 3 | jf the interstate uommerce aui. ... : The House bill appropriating $75,000 to supply the deficiency occasioned by the defalca- j cion in the office of the late Sergeant-at-Arms | of the House was passed... .The Montana ?lection cases were debated. In the House. 84th Day.?The Idaho Admissiou bill was passed, 129 to 1?the Democrats not voting, ind the Speaker counting a quorum.... A petition from the New England Shoe and Leather Association against the imposition if a duty upon hides and skins was ordered printed in the Record... .The Senate bill tvas passed to enable the Secretary of tho Treasury to gather information as to the present condition and preservation of the fur-seal interests of the Government in the ' region of Alaska, as compared with its conliiion in 187C; also full information as to the impending extinction of the sea otter industry.... A Senate concurrent resolution was lgreed to, requesting the President to invite from time to time, as fit occasion may arise, negotiations with any Government with tvhich the United States may have diplomatic relations to the end that any differences or disputes arising between the Gov>rnmont? whiiMi rnnnot bo adiusted by di- ! plomatic agency, may ba referred to arbi- ! tration. 8oth Day.?Thirty-five private pension bills were passed, and the House then ad- j journed till the next day. S6th Day.?The Senate joint resolution providing for the establishment of an immigrant station on Ellis Island, New York Harbor, was passed.... In the morning hour j the followiug bills were passed: Author- { zing the town of Mablehead, Mass., to improve and beautify Fort Sewall; reorganizing the artillery force of the army into seven regiments of not more than twelve batteries each, with the same regimental and battery organization as now exists. except that there shall be but one First Lieutenant and one Second Lieutenant to each battery; providing that in making appointments to the army from civil life the President shall give precedence to graduates of West foint wtio nave oeen nonoraoiy uischarged, to meritorious members of the National Guard, and to deserving graduates of institutions of learning having army officers detailed as instructors; authorizing the construction of a hotel on the Government reservation at Fortress Monroe. .. .On motion of Mr. Hopkins, a bill was passed for the erection of a public bulldingat Aurora, 111., at a cost of $75,000....The hour of 3 o'clock having arrived, public business was suspended, ana the House proceeded to pay tribute to the memory of Newton W. Nutting, of New York. 87th Dat.?An effort to suspend the rules and pass the Dependent Pension bill was defeated by 169 yeas to 87 nays, the necessary two-thirds not voting for the measure Mr. Boothman introduced a service pension bill. 8Sth Day.?Mr. McAdoo, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, called up the bill to prevent the enlistment of aliens in the naval service of the United States, and it was passed after much debate... .The House then went into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Butterworth In the Chair) on the Naval Appropriation bill....Mr. Chipman introduced a resolution instructing the Committee on Invalid Pensions to report forthwith a per diem Service Pension bill.... Mr. Butterworth reported the bill appropriating .$3,000,000 for the erection in Washington of a building for the use of the Patent Oflica Mr. Walker introduced a bill to abolish the National Bauking system.... Mr. Funston reoorted with amendments the Butterworth bill to define options and futures and to impose a special tax upon dealers therein. S9th|Da y.?In Committee of the Whole, the Naval Appropriation bill was considered.... The Senate amendment was non-concurred in to the House bill providing for town site entries of land in Oklahoma... .Aconference was ordered on the Senate bill for the improvement and maintenance of the National Zoological Park, with House amendments (providing that the District of Columbia shall pay half the expense)... .Mr. Marsh reported the bill appropriating $3,447,945 for the payment of damages sustained by citizens of Pennsylvania from Union and Confederate troops during the late war. A PLAGUE OF MICE, ^Millions of Them Devastating Crops and Gutting Granaries in Russia. A terrible plague has swept through Charkow, Russia, and over a large section ol Southern Russia. Millions of field mice, in such numbers as to be irresistible, have overrun those provj inces and are passing northward. They have ruined cultivated fields, completely gutted granaries and wheat stacks, and killed and oaten several hundred dogs. They swim rivers and climb mountains, and there seems to be no way either of exterminating them or of arresting their progress. The New Jersey State Board of Assessors, in a compilation of railroad statistics, place 1 the total length of track in the United States on January 1st, 1890, at 161,031 raitos. QUADRUPLE HANGING. four Men Ascend the Gallows in a Day in Pennsylvania. Scenes on the Scaffolds and Particulars of the Crimes. Four murderers?William Bartholomew. Alfred Andrews, Zach Taylor and Charier Carter?were hanged the other day in as many different towns in Pennsylvania. Details of the executions, and of the crime? for which the four men suffered capita! punishment are given below. William Bartholomew, at Easton. William Bartholomew was hanged at Easton for the murder of Aaron W. Dilliard. The drop fell at 10:34 o'clock. Bartholomew walked quietly to the scaffold, but after reaching it became violent, and cursed his accusers and his accomplice, Mrs. Dilliard, demanding that the latter be hanged. His last words were oaths. A few moments after the drop fell Bartholomew was pronounced dead, and the body was turned over to his friends. Early in the morning religious services were held in Bartholo mew's cell, but lie retusea to join 111 tuem. The crime for which William Bartholomew was executed was the cold-blooded murder of his friend Aaron W. Dilliard on Friday, September 0, 1S89, after having led his wife astray. The preparations were made with coolness, Bartholomew unfolding his plans to Mrs. Dilliard. At first she would* not listen to him, but finally he persuaded her to play her part in the terrible crime. Bartholomew decoyed Dilliard into the road at midnight and riddled him with shot. Zach Taylor at Waynesburg. Zach Taylor was hanged at Waynesburgat 11:12 o'clock in the forenoon. In a speech on the scaffold he said he was an innocent man. that he never saw the man who was murdered, aud that he was going home to Jesus. After religious services Taylor shackled his own ankles. He bade and kissed all present good-bye. When all was ready at 11:12 he dropped the handkerchief as a signal to spring the trap. The fall was three feet, ana his neck was broken. His body was coffined and tfcken to his home in Masontown, Fayette County. On Saturday, September 10, 1887, William McCausland, a well-to-do stock dealer of Alleghany City, was murdered in Cumberland township. Green County. A revolver bearing the initials "J. I\ C." was found beside McCausland, and was the clew which led to the arrest of JohnT. Clark and Zach Taylor. At the trial, George Clark and Zach Taylor were found guilty. George Clark was respited half a dozen times, but was hanged February 26. Charles Carter at Ebensburg. Charles Carter, the murderer of John Matthews, was hanged in the county jail at Ebensburg at 1:50 o clock in the afternoon. Charles Carter was about twenty-two years old. a native of Richmond, Va., and was a rather good-looking colored man. He had a very bad reputation and came from a family of criminals. His brother, Jesse Carter, was hanged in Allegheny County several years ago for the murder of a man of the name of Foster. Another brother is no# serving a term in the Western Penitentiary for killing a man two years ago. The murder for which Charles Carter was hanged was committed in November, 1889, in Johnstown, in the house of John H. Roberts, also colored. Roberts was married to a white woman. Carter and his victim. Matthews, became infatuated with Emma Dunn, a white girl who was also a frequent visitor at the Roberts house. Carter and Matthews quarrelled about the girl. Carter shot Matthews through the breast killing him. Allred Andrews at Bellefonte. Alfred Andrews was hanged at Bellefonte for the killing of Clara Price. The drop fell at_ 11:03. it was just lu:4o o'ciock wuen tnemarcn w the scaffold began. The prisoner was entirely self-possessed. When ou the scaffold he read the fifteenth chapter of Romans, and exhorted all present to forsake their sins and meet him in heaven. He then prayed and bade a'l good-bye. Audi ews's neck was not broken by the fall, but Ik tlied from strangulation. About 500 persoui witnessed the execution. The crime for which Alfred Andrews was hanged was the murder of Clara Price, sixteen years old, the daughter of respectable and well-to-do parents, living at Kartliaus, Centre County, on November 27, 188'J. All of the evidence at the trial was circumstantial. After conviction by the jury, Andrews voluntarily confessed his guilt. WOEK CF THE T0MAD0. The Loss of Life and. Damage Done in Three States. Complete returns of the fatalities caused by the recent tornado which wrought such * f ? * nnrl Tn. I leanui uuvuu m mwuu, juui/uv^ diana are not yet in, but the reports are sufficiently complete to approximately estimate the loss of life. In Louisville the number of those killed outright and receiving fatal injuries will not be far from 120. In other parts of Kentucky 207 persons were killed, the largest fatalities being as follows: Clay, f>3; Glasgow, 30; Blackford, 29; Pooltown, 17; Kuttawa, 12; Eddyville, 11; Dixon, 8; Sabree, 6; Marion, 7, and Bremen, 6. In twelve other towns 31 persons were killed, the total for Kentucky being 358. In Illinois 50 persons were killed, the largest fatalities being as follows: Shiloh, 16; Little Prairie,. 9; Grand Tower, 7; Mount Vernon,.5; Vienna, 4; Poplar Ridge, 4; Metropolis, 8, aad Carbondale, 3. In Indiana 22 wore killed?18 at Green River and 4 at Evansville. In Tennessee 9 were killed?8 at Gallatin and 1 at Rogana. The total is 445, but it is probablethat iu round numbers 500 lives were lost. It is almost impossible to make an accurate estimate of the value- of property destroyed, but it may be generally stated as follows: Kentucky, $3,000,000; Illinois, $300-,0(K); Indiana, $325,000; Tennessee, $150,000. It is just learned that Harper's Ferry,. Henry County, Ky? was almost completely destroyed by the tornado. Tho village, composed of less than two dozen houses, is a considerable distance from any railroad. The houses wero not far apart, and every one of them directly in the course of tho tornado. Mon, women and children wero buried beneath t&e ruins, not a uuu?? njium.. standing, and iho whole surrouudiug country was covered with wreckage. Mrs. Laura Thomas, tho wife of a farmer, was found dead by the side of a large tree about one hundred yards from her home. An infant ehild of a farmer named Fletcher was found beneath 1 he ruins of its father's residence smothered to death. Soven or eight were injured badly, but no others fatally. FOR A FAITHFUL DOG. \ Fine Coftin ami a Tombstone Provided by llis Master. An old man, bent nearly double with age, with a small black terrier trotting faithfully close to his tottering steps, has bnen a familiar sight in the neighborhood of Ninth and Walnut streets, Philadelphia, for many jroirs. The affection between the two showed itself in their daily walks, for they were always together. The old man is John Patterson, a wealthy bachelor, without kin in the world. "rruice, ine terrier, oecame sick. mu ui three weeks ago, and his master grew very apprehensive. lie consulted the different dog doctors, but "Prince" died and the heart of liisold bachelor master was almost broken. The same afternoon old Mr. Patterson went to a neighboring carpenter shop and ordered a small walnut coffin. This was upholstered as though for a human being, and was silvermounted. On the lid a silver plate was put, and on it the name of the little terrier, his age and pedigree were inscribed. When the coffin was brought to the old man's house the body of the dead terrier was placed into it by his master and carried to the backyard, where it was buried with great solemnity. A tombstone will be erected at the h?ad of the grave to his memory. An Indian burial place discovered In May, 1888, near the Winthrop Centre depot, In Winthrop, Mass., is being excavated by Professor Putnam and his assistants of Harvard College. Several skulls and one whole skeleton havo thus far beeu found, I A COUNTRY HOUSE. Description of an Attractive Design for a Dwelling. (Copyright by the Author.) Following will be found a brief description of an attractive design for a country house: Size of Structure: Width, including porch at end, 5(5 ft.; depth, including veranda and rear porch, 51 ft. Height of Stories: Cellar, 7ft.; first story, 3 ft.; second story, 8 ft. 6 in.; attic story, 8 ft. Materials for Exterior Walls: FoundaPERSPECTIVE VIEW. tions, briclc; first story, clapboards; second efr\fir nroKlac flnrmors onri rnnf shincrlftq Interior Finish: Hard, white plaster throughout. Soft wood.trim throughout, stained and finished like hardwood. Double floor in the first story, the flninishing floor being hard pine. The main staircase in both stories is finished with quartered oak. Inside sliding blinds for all front windows; outside blinds for all other windows. Exterior Colors: All clapboards, light drab; trim, including water table, corner boards, casings, cornices, bonds, veranda posts and rails, dark drab; outside doors, stained to imitate hardwood; outside blinds, FIRST FLOOB. bronze green; sashes and brickwork, Pompeian red: veranda and porch floors and ceilings, oiled; shingles on side walls treated with linseed oil and burnt umber; shingles on roofs left unfinished. Accommodations: The main rooms and their sizes, closets, etc., are shown by the plans given herewith. Beside these there are throe rooms finished in the attic and there is a cellar under the whole house. The cellar has a concrete floor and outside and inside entrances. The first floor I second floor. roon9 ore large. The parlor Alcove hoe a fireplace and ia furnished with bookcases, Over the bookcases are pretty windows which may be glazed with stained glass. There is a fireplace and an upholstered seat in the hall. The bedrooms are of fair size, and there are many of them?an essential requirement for a large family. Colonial features predominate in the exterior. Cost: In the vicinity of New York city, $3700. To reduce cost, omit finishing the attic rooms to save $200; substitute aah for oak stair finish to save about $100; build a smaller cellar, say under the kitchen and hall only to save about $100. R. W. Shoppell. Architect. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Emin* Pacha will return to Central Africa a German Governor. It is reported that Evangelist Moody has converted many Yale students. iuimstek tked UKA.M says lie HI1U Ilia wife are having a delightful time in Vienna. Pri.vce Bismarck is compiling, a memoir of the last twenty-five years- or his- official life. Inventor Edison" has been ele?ted an honorary member of the Berlin Eteotrical Society. The Prince of Naples, beir apparent to the throne of Italy, is suffering trom overstudy. Oliver Dalrymple, the bonanza farmer of Dakota, expects to raise this year 30,000 acres of wheat. Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg million* aire, will speak at the Scotch-Irish congressin that city next month. The venerable Sir Edwin Chad wick, the great English sanitarian, uses-no tobacco, and eats many green vegetables. It is proposed to give a complimentary banquet to Allan G. Thurman on the occasion, of his seventy-seventh birthday. C. B. Evarts, the New York Senator'soldest son, devotes liisattention to managing, his father's big farm at Windsor, Vt. The King of Dahomoy was educated in. Paris,, but the cruelty was- not refined ou? of him. He is just as bad as. any of his savage ancestors. Senator Cockrell, doe&his owu marketing in Washington evory morning, and makes his $5000 salary cover all the expenses of a large family. Don Pedro, the ex-Emperor of Brazil, has refused io accept the proceeds of the forced sale of his Brazilian property ordered by the Provisional Government. Joshua Hoodv one of the committee appointed to welcome General Lafayette during his visit to this country in 15?4, died recently in Baltimore at the age of eightyseven. Ernest Rexan, the French philosopher, indulges in a hobby of not ridiug in vehicles of any kind, preferring to walk, although his health is feeble, and a stout cane is necessary to support him. Rewi is the last survivor of the great fighting chiefs of New Zealand. His defence of Orakan against the British troops is one of the most brilliant achievements in tho history of savage warfare. Senator Brown, of Georgia, is a devoted member of the Baptist Church. He has givon ?50,000 to the Baptist Theological Semiuary at i*>uisvuie, ivy., aim iui u ut>w Baptist Church in Atlanta. Dk. Bruknnes, an American, has been appointed professor of orieutial philology at Heidelberg, this beinj the second instance in which an American "has been appointed a professor in a Germany university. Ferdinand de L,esseps, of Su?a Canal fame, leans heavily forward as he walks, and his hair is white as slacked lime, yet he still retains a buoyant flow of animal spirits, and his handwriting is anything but shaky. The Czar of Russia indulges in pretty heavy hypodermic injections of morphia, to the extent of between twelve and fifteen grains a day. He tried to give up the habit, but it was too strong for him, and he remains it?> willing slave. M. de Fkeycinet, who has become for the fourth time Premier of the French Republic, is a peculiar creature. He is small and insignificant physically, and his countenance hab itually bears a furtive, scared expression, which has led to his being dubbed "the White Mouse." The morease in the population of the United States since 1880 has been a Utftto raws than three per oeat. per aanmri. V .- - ; - :r:-y T'. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. A farmer nsar Egg Harbor City, N. J., burned his house and died in the flames. He was crazed by the foreclosure and sale of his property. Fire has destroyed the homestead built by Horace Greeley at Chappaqua, N. Y., forty years ago, and occupied by him until his death, in 1872, at the close of his unsuccessful campaign for the Presidency. The returns from the election in Rhode Island showed that the choice of State officers would be left to the Grand Committee of the Legislature. The New York Chamber of Commerce passed resolutions condemning the Chinese exclusion legislation as a violation of the Chinese treaty of 1880. Edward Sylvester, Charles Mason, and Harry Williams, three noted counterfeiters, have been arrested in Buffalo, N. Y. They had a number of counterfeit dollars in their possession. The first Connecticut River shad reported has been caught at Windsor, forty miles above the mouth of the river. The passenger station and freight depot at Roxbury, N. J., have been burned. Antrim Osborne, a retired and well known manufacturer of Rose Valley, Penn., was run over by a locomotive and killed. Ex-State Senator Edward J. Slattery, of South Framingham, Mass., received a letter from the "White Caps of Massachusetts" ordering hiui to leave the State lorthwith or suffer the consequences. Twelve election officers, of Jersey City, N. J., were arrested for connection with the ballot box frauds, and warrants were issued for forty-eight more. The Dittmar dynamite works at Baychester, N. Y., blew up, killing J. H. Kelmeir aud Max Shultz, and shattering window panes for miles around. Engineer Potter and three other trainmen were buried in a landslide on the tracks of the "West Shore Railroad at Diefendorf Hill, N. Y., and all were instantly killed. The rolling mill of the Johnson Forge Company and two dwellings adjoining were destroyed by fire at Wilmington, Del. The loss was estimated at $400,000. Georqb K. Sistare's Sons, Stock Exchange brokers in New York city, announced their suspension because of a defalcation amounting to about $300,000 on the part of Douglass Hilger, managing partner in charge of the Philadelphia branch of the firm. Rereree Meeks went to the Tombs in New York city to serve the thirty days for which he was sentenced for his participation in the Sheriff Flack divorce proceedings. Frederick Kimball, teller of the People's Savings Bank of Worcester, Mass., has ibsconded with about $40,000 of the bank's funds. Orestes Cleveland was re-elected Mayor of Jersey City, N. J.j for the sixth time by a greatly reduced majority. Sontli and West. Will Hicks and Robert McCoy, both colled, were handed at Homerville, Ga.. for the murder of William Hughes ani wife, an iged white couple, on November 6 last. The arrest of the murderers of the railroad station agent at Poseyville, Ind., led to revelations that a gang of murderers contemplated :he destruction of the town by fire and the nurder of several of its inhabitants. The house of Wilhelra Brown, near Huron, South Dakota, was burned, and his three children perished in the flames. One of the worst storms that ever visited Dallas, Texas, ragdd in that neighborhood. A.11 the water courses were over their banks, *nd many bridges were swept away. The jrops were badly damaged. A lively contest occurred among the stock holders of the World's Fair in. (jnicago over the election of directors. A whirlwixd struck Monmouth, 111., sweeping over the principal portion of the ;ity. . Part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy round-house was blown down. Several buildings were damaged and their roofs blown away. Professor Cvru3, Principal of the schools in Huntingdon, W Va., was about to punish a boy named Ernest Welsh for misbehavior, when Welsh drew a knife and stabbed Cyrus in six places in the- arms, chest and back. A hundred Northern born citizens met at the Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta, Ga., md took preliminary steps toward the organization of a Northern society. Government boats have been busily engaged in taking the people and stock from the overflowod districts of the Mississippi. Another break wa6 reported in the levee near Greenville. This time it was at Catfish Point, and the water added .greatly to that already in the Yazoo Delta. Railroad travel was much impeded. The Sioux held their last council, on the old reservation in South Dakota. George E. Noonan and wife, of Chicago, 111., have died from the effects of poison, placed in their food by a demented servant girl. Eagle Horse, a crazy Indian, shot and killed at Rushvillo,- Neb., Frauk E. Lewis, a Government school teacher, and then com mittod suicide. Three colored thieves were killed in Birmingham, Alai, for resisting arrest and fatally shooting an officer. The town marshal of Irondale,- Ala., was shot by three colored thieves whom he tried to arrest; the colored men were killed by his deputy. Between 5000 and 6000 Chicago carpentersstruck for eight hours a day and forty cents an hour. Building operations were practically stopped. Confederate Decoration Dat attracted thousands of visitors to tho Southern cemeteries. Elections-for municipal officers were held ih all the citie&and towns of Ohio. A. light, vote was polled, in nearly every oifcy. Moses Fraj.ey, the greatest jrain: specu i?nor in ai. Lrouis, nas iaiit>u. nu jusso ui St. Louis and Chicago are over $500,000. At Harlan Court House,, in Kentucky, the Spurlocks, Days and others- involved m the Howard-Turner feud, held a conference-and agreed to lay aside their quarrel. They agreed that in case of any further assassinations both, sides should turn out and bring the murderer-to punishment. In consequence of the-inundation of machinery at the city waterworks a water famine was prevalent at Dallas, Texas. There was no. water to sprinkle the streets or to run electric street lights,, and for several nights the city was in darkness. Thirty cases of trichinosis have been reported to the health authorities in Aurora, 111. Six of the cases reported resulted from the eating of bologna sausage, E. B. PCTtCELL, proprietor of the Manhattan (Kan.) Bank, has mado an assignment. 1 The doors of the bank were closed. Tht liabilities are $561,000. Nineteen prisoners have escaped from th? jail at Spokane Falls, Washington. The jailer was bound and gagged by four of the prisoners. All the successful candidates at the Edgerton (Kan.) election?The Mayor, Police Judge and ttve "Councumen' ? are women. "Washington. The President has approved the act to amend the act providing for taking the eleventh and subsequent censuses. The House Judiciary Committee appointed a sub-committee to investigate alleged corrupt nets of Federal Court officers in the South. The House Judiciary Committee has voted to report an amendment to the Constitution providing for the election of United States Senators directly by tLo people. The House Committee on Naval Affairs has directed u favorable report on iho McAdoo bill to preveufc the enlistment of aliens in the navy. The Treasury Department has sustained the appeal of John Wanamaker from the decision of tho Collector of Customs at Philadelphia, assessing duty at the rates of fortyfive and fifty per cent, ad valorem on certain so-called bead ornaments. The Senate has confirmed the following nominations: G. B. Patterson, Attorney for tho Southern District of Florida; Clarouoa D. Clark, Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Wyoming; John C. Mitchell, Pension Agent at Columbus, Ohio; Edward H. Harvey, Pension Agent at Detroit; : Charles 3. Kelsey, Indian ^nifc &t Green , 1 Bay President Harrison has nominated Brigadier-General Nelson A. Miles to be MajorGeneral. Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson. Tenth Cavalry, was also nominated to be Brigadier-General. The nomination of General Lewis A. Grant, of Minneapolis, Minn.,to be Assistant Secretary of War, was sent to the Senate by President Harrison. It has been definitely announced in Washington that James S. Clarkson, First Assistant Postmaster-General, would retire from his place on June 1. The House Committee on Pensions ordered a favorable report on the Bfookshira bill, granting a pension to Mrs. Delia T. S. Parnell, daughter of the late Admiral Charles Stewart and mother of Charles Stewart Parneii. The original bill, which provided for a pension of $100 her month, was amended so as to reduce the pension to 150. The House Committee on Elections has appointed a sub-committee, consisting of Messrs. Lacey, Cooper,. Bergen, Outhwaite, and Wilson, of Missouri, to visit Arkansas immediately and collect testimony relative to the contested election case of Clayton against Breckinridge, and the alleged assassination of Clayton. The Secretary of the Navy issued an advertisement for proposals for the construction of three naval vessels?an armored cruiser, a protected cruiser and a naval academy practice ship. Representative W. H. H. Cowles, of North Carolina, received a telegram in Washington announcing that his young son had been killed at a North Carolina college, by the accidental discharge of a pistol. The tibwq was fnmm11nitpr? tn thn f?f.hor hv Senators Pvansom and Vance and he was almost overcome. President and Mrs. Harrison gave their third State dinner at the "White House in "Washington, and the Justices of the Supreme Court were the guests of honor. It was the largest dinner of the series. Covers were laid for fifty guests and the spread of linen and flowers was the prettiest of the season. Foreign. A preliminary sitting ,of the International Industrial Conference was held at Madrid, Spain. Senor Moret was elected President. The State Treasurer of the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, has been arrested on the charge of embezzling 1,000,000 francs. A fire at Santiago de Cuba, in the building occupied by the Chamber of Commerce, resulted in the destruction of a dry goods store and its contents, and the burning to death of two white women and a colored girl. A slave dhow has been captured on the African coast by the British warship Sultan. James Lee, Charge d'Affaires of the United States in Brazil, has presented General Deodoro da Fonseca, the President, with the congratulatory motion adopted by the United States Congress and approved by President Harrison. After a chase of two years Detective riUKerfcUU uas uriBsmu ui opumsu auuuuroa Edmund Starts Crawford, who stole a package of $41,000 in bills sent by the American Exchange Bank, of New York city, to the Adams Express Company. Crawford confessed and implicated others. A revolution has broken out near Ignala, in the State of Guerrero, Mexico, the Government of which is unpopular. The British expedition recently sant out against the Soinalis, East Africa, having failed to accomplish its mission, another expedition has been started. Negotiation's looking to the withdrawal of British troops from Egypt have begun between England and Turkey. The Emperor of China, accompanied by Li Hung Chang, the Chinese Grand Chancellor.and a retinue numbering 10,000 persons, has started on a visit to the Eastern Mausolea. General Chinchi .la, the new CaptainGeneral of Cuba, has arrived in Havana. The French Government has ordered the construction of thirty torpedo boats in private yards. Major Serpa Pinto, the Portuguese ?*- 1 i UU.J T iUXlCCUl eij;iurer, uas bwinuu iui juiouuu. The American Consul at Plauen, Germany, has been robbed in a hotel of jewels valued at $5000. Six persons were drowned at Kleinlunfenbui^, on the Rhine, Germany, through the capsizing of a boat. Prince Bismarck has been granted a pension of $6750. He has disposed of the diamonds in his St. Andrew's cross and his Russian decorations to a jeweler for $50,000. E&cperor Menelek, of Abyssinia, has written a letter to Prime Minister Crispi authorizing Italy to represent him at the Brussels Anti-Slavery Congress, and affirming the intention of Ethiopia to follow the example of civilized Christian nations and to repress the slave trade. Richard Davies, who, together with his younger brother George, was sentenced to death for the murder of their father, has been hanged at Crewe, England. George Davies was respited by the Home Secretary a few days ago. A meeting of representative workmen was heldatOlten, Switzerland. Two hundred and forty-seven delegates, representing 120,000 workmen in various trades and callings, were present. J11ISS .tiTTiE suarey, agea seventeen years, and Miafi Tres. Huffman, aged nineteen, were crossing the river in a small boat at Dresden, Canada, accompanied by a young man named Charles Hart, when the boat was swamped andthe young ladies were drowned. Justus Morgan, the distinguished American banker, and the partner of George Peabody,. the philanthropist, died at Monte Carlo, Italy, from the effects of injuries received in a runaway accident there. He was seventy-seven years old. A btot of striking and unemployed workmen: in Vienna assumed serious proportions and was only quelled by the military after ' several persons nad been wounded. LATER NEWS.. .Tames Monroe Shellenbergeiv of* Dovlestown, Fenn., a lawyer, is a aeiauiier and a fugitive from justice. The amount of spurious judgments, straw mortgages and worthless notes he has sent out is estimated j at from $40,000 to $50,000. A violent rain storm caused damaging: floods in Western Pennsylvania. At West Elizabeth two children of George Beattie, a. boy and girl, were drowned on their way to. school. The Conemaugh River and Stony Creek were again on a "high" and the lower, portions of Johnstown were under water. A cave-in* at Mayville, Penn., swallowed, up two houses in the.hoart of the village. The Bank of Fort Morgan, Cal., has mado. an assignment. Asseteare placed at $40,000, with liabilities of over 000. Cashier Bartlett has disappeared. John Murray and William Travers. were drowned by the capsizing of a boat in, a gal* near the mouth of JTcrton Creek, Md. George Fields, (colored) has been, hanged at Scran ton, Miss.,, for the murder of Jennie Moseley, a colored woman. The blast house of the Crozier furnace at Roauoke, Va., was blown down by a cyclone, killing Fred Phillip?, Nelson Johnson and ;! Henry Casey. C. P. Hcxtingtox was chosen President of the Southern Pacific Railroad to succeed Senator Stanford. Nearly seventy-five per cent, of the whole crop in. the counties of Ceok, Grayson, Collin. Dentou, Wise and Montague, Texas, has been destroyed by insects. Twe President has sent to the Senate tbe following nominations: James C. Kerr, of Delaware, to be Post Chaplain in the Army; Samuel A. Harper to bo United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin A railway train went over an embankment at Frankfort, Germany, and twentyseven workmen were injured. A Better dated January 20th has been received at Zanzibar from Dr. Peters, the noted Afrioan explorer, wfco w$8 reported to hav? two murdered^ MADE A MAJOR-GENERAL. |jf Nelson A. Mfles Promoted to Sueceed General Crook. A Civilian Who Became a Noted } Indian Fighter. Brigadier-General Nelson A. Milea has been promoted to be-Major-General, to succeed Major-General Crook, deceased. (General Miles, who was in Washington at the time of his promotion, was the recipient of hearty congratulations. In company with Major-General Schofleld, General Miles called on Secretary Proctor and thanked him for his promotion. General Nelson Appleton Miles was born in Westminister, Mass., August 8,1839. Ha was-engaged in> w mercantile pursuit when MAJOR^eENEBAL NELSOff A.MILES. the war broke out, and on September 9,186L ' :>gjl entered the volunteer service as- Lieutenant in the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry. He was afterward commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sixty-first New York Volunteers. He was engaged in the battles _ of the Peninsula, before Richmond, and at Antietam, and after the latter battle was made Colonel of the regiment. With the e?* ception of the surrender of Lee at Appomattox Court House he was engaged in all the battles of the Potomac, and was wounded three times. For gallantry at Chancellorsville he was brevetted Brigadier-General of Volunteers. and on May 12, 1864, was advanced. to the full rank for other gallant services In August of the same year he was brevetted Major-General of Volunteers. On October 21, 1865, he was commissioned Major-General and mustered out the following September, having jtist received an appointment in the regular army as Colonel of the Fortieth Infantry. In 1875, after being transferred to th? Fifth Infantry, he defeated the Cheyenne, Kiowa and Comanche Indians at Slater Plains, and in 1876 subjugated the Sioux and' sq?? other Indians in Montana, driving Sitting Bull across the Canadian frontier, and breaking up the bands led by him. A third exploit of remarkable skill and success was his defeat and capture of the Nez Percd band of Chief Joseph just as the long retreat of that able warrior promised to result in his eseapa across the northern border. In 1878 Colonel Miles defeated and captured a band of Bannocks. He was commissioned Brigadier-General of the United States Army on December 15, 1880, and commanded for five years the Department of Columbia. In July, 1885, he was assigned to the command of the Department of the Missouri, and in April, 1886, was transferred to Arizo at where he aecom- ' plished the surrender of the Apache scourge, Chief Geronimo. Various Western Legislatures passed votes of thanks to General Miles for ridding the frontier of this scourge^ and the citizens of Arizona presented him with a sword. While already the third officer in rank; in the army, General Miles, in the ordinary course of events, will before many years be the first, as General Howard retires in 18M. leaving General Miles to succeed General Rr>V?->fla1rl na cnrnmnndcr rv? th? armv on tha latter's retirement in 1893. His-career during the last thirty years has-certainly been most remarkable, canning him, as it haa, through a series of brilliant and memorable achievements from civil life up to his present " high rank. FIGHT FOE DIAMOND*. A. Thief Entices a Jeweler-Into Hi? Room for Purpose of Robbery. An exciting hand-to-hand encounter for 11500 worth of diamonds occurred in a- room x at the Palmer House, Chicago. One of the j combatants was a young man who registered at the hotel under the name of Ralph Allen. V; That noon he sent to Hyman's jewelry store, and several other similar establishments, asking that diamonds be sent to him for inspection. ^ rwn In making the request, he - wrote, incidentally, that he was confined to the hotel with a sprained ankle. Salesman W. A. Bieler was sent by Hyman & Co. to make inquiries concerning Allen, and round mm bathing one ankle with arnica, and wanting the diamonds to make a present. The salesman was suspicious, but.decided to. return with an assortment of gems, and take the precaution to have a hotel porter, named rerret, stationed near at hand. When Bigler re-entered the apartment with tho $1500 assortment of diamonds Allen made a careful selection, and then bobbed around back of. the-salesman ostensibly to get money to .pay for the purchase. Instead the fellow pulled a heavy cane-from under a. mattress and. felled Bigler to the floor. The- salesman,, a sturdy uix-footer{ struggled to his feet and grappled with Allen, meanwhile yelling to the porter. Before the latter individual could collect his-wits Allen had hroken the oane in . ;four pieces, over Bigjar's- head and dashed down the hallway. To. persons who ati tempted , to stop him-he-shouted, "Catch that insane man,"pointing back as he ran. Timekeeper Gregg; of the hotel staff; was the only person not fooled by this cry. Gregg overhauled Allen in a room into which he had dodgedi and taken refuge under a bed. Allen's papers indicate that he came from Washington, and his-right name is said to be George B. Pierce. The salesman had a number of scalp wouuds. Stone of the*diamond' were lost. tw nArfATTniT OH/IT JjA-DUUJILJjH wuuu. uuvxi He Was (he Furs* Mayor ol Oklahoma City. Captain W. L. Couch, ex-Mayor of Oklaiioma City tuul the renowned leader of th< Dklahoma boomers for yearSv is contestant for a valuable claim west of Oklahoma Citj on which J. <?. Adams had filed. Tho other afternoon Coueh and his son began setting fence posts, on the claim, when Adams appeared and ordered them to cease. A quarrel ensued, when Couch soizsxl Adams, disarmed him and began using his revolver on him. Couch was a poor shot and Adanas was unharmed. Adams wont to his house, secured his Winchester and shot Couch in the left leg, breaking both bones and probably necessi fating amputation. Adams at once swore out a warrant before United States Commissioner Scott for the arrest o? Couch and his son. The Cbuches went to Commissioner Monroe and swore out a warrant for Adams for atmurder. A)1 were arrested and put uiV-br bonds. CHURCHES PILLAGED. Outrages Upon Christians in Crete by Turkish Soldiers. Bodies cvC Turkish troops have pillaged Christian churches and insulted Christians in the province of Candia, Crete. At the request of the foreign consuls, ChaWr Pasha, the Governor, has ordered an inquiry to be made intp the outrages. The Mixed Commission wdl Inquire as to th$ extent of tha damages the Christiana have suffered, iand the ^Vrka will be Qtntapelled to company thevftq\oiint is ascertained, .