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. 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.
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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
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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, .