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f PAN-AMERICANS ADJOURN. | The International Conference j Ends Its Labors. , The Delegates Start on a Tour Through the South, The P.Tn-American Conference held at Washington its last session and then adjourned sine die. The minutes were read, approved, and signed by the delegates. Jlr. Zegarra, of Peru, said he could not allow the Conference to come to a close without expressing his profound gratitude for the honor which had been conferred upon him in making him first Vice-President of the body. He then moved that the Conference adjourn sine die. Before this motion was put, however, Mr. Alfonso, of Chili, offered this reso . lution, wnicn was ?uupu;u , Resolved, That in honor of the memory of , the immortal discoverer of America, and in gratitude for the services rendered by him to civilization and humanity, the Conference associates itself with the manifestations to be made in his honor upon the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. Mr. Polet Peraza, a delegate from Venezuela, offered the following, which was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the last word of this Conference be to express gratitude for the splendid and fraternal hospitality of which its members have received participation; expressing a wish for the perpetual prosperity of the United States. Just before the close of the Conference the following additional resolutions were adopted as explanatory in part of the arbitration scheme: 1. That the principle of conquest shall not, during the continuance of the treaty of arbitration, be recognized as admissable under American public law. 2. That all cessions of territory made durflng the continuance of the treaty of arbitration shall be void if made under threats of war or the presence of an armed force. 3. Any nation from which such cessions fehall be exacted may demand that the Validity of the cessions so made shall be submitted to arbitration. 4. Any renunciation to the right of arbitration made under the conditions made in the second section shall be null and void. If the pnnciple of arbitration triumphs and ttie treaty recommended is put in force, the Conference just ended will mark an almost unexampled step forward in genuine civilinfinn Mr Blaine then put to vote the motion for final adjournment, but before announcing the result he addressed the Conference as follows: '"Gentlemen: I withholdfor a moment the word of final adjournment of the International American Conference, in order that I may express to you the profound satisfaction with which the Government of the United States regards the work that has been accomplished j by the International Conference. Time will define and heighten the estimate of your work; experience will confirm our present faith; final results will be your vindication and your triumph. ' "I am Instructed by the President to express the wish that before the members of the Conference shall leave for their I distant homes they will accept the j hospitality of the United States in a j visit to the Southern section of the Union, similar to the one they have made to the Eastern and Western sections. The j President trusts that the tour will not only i be a pleasant incident of vour farewell to the j country, but that you will find advantage in a visit to so interesting and important a part I of our republic. "Invoking the blessing of Almighty God j tipon the patriotic and fraternal work which j has been here begun for the good of man- I kind, I now declare the American Interna- | tional Conference adjourned without day." i K; The delivery of the address was characterm ized by Mr. "Blaine's customary deliberate gf -emphasis, and also by evidences of deep feelm ing on his part. The members of the Confer^^^ ence then took carriages to the Executive ^B^lfansion to pay their parting respects to the SB President The delegates Srere received by the Pres- | uf ident in the East shortly after noon, I HS ^ach of them being Introduced by Secretary j BM Blaine. The delegates^en were driven to ; BB the station where they got^on board their ! UA 1 ct-aT-t-^H nn f.hirtmiir throucrh- I I U?IU *UU %rwv? O ? out the Southern States. ALL FIVE WERE DEAD. A Russian Family Prefers Suicide to Poverty. The city of Moscow, Russia, has been shocked by the discovery of the self annihilation of a family to escape the suffering of | poverty. The victims, who were the widow ; and five daughters of an army officer, locked ! themselves in a room and turned on the gas. | tion. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Iowa's Legislature has adjourned. The Argentine Ministry has resigned. Prussian* crops are in good condition. There are 80,000 spiritualists in Boston. Petroleum has been found at Richvill?, N. Y. Americans are already a large crowd in London. Mexican* oranges are coming to Chicago market. Rhode Island is being stocked with Tenmiail I Chicago embraces within her limits 174 square miles. Vermont maple sugar crop is shortened by mild weather. The fruit crop this year promises to be Unusually large. IChe Sataoati Treaty has been formally Wtifled iu Berlin. Leprosy is spreading in New Caledonia in t most alarming manner. v Just now the combined daily arrivals at khe Chicago hotels average 1S00. It takes three dollars of currency in Buenos Ayres to buy one dollar in gold. Two-thirds of the rubber product of Braril is shipped to the United States. The Health Department estimates the present population of Brooklyn at 859,612. Five hundred departed Chinamen are buried in various New York cemeteries. The mortality of the present Congress is now four R publicans and five Democrats. Sugar is sold in England for five cents a {/ound, while it costs sixteen cents a pound iu France. Monte Carlo authorities now suppress reports of the suicides of unfortuuato gamesters that occur there. The Canadian Government has voted to fipend *50,000 in purchasing seed wheat for Northwest farmers. The noted painting, "The Angelus," has been shipped over to Canada to avoid paying jaduty of $30,000on it. [ MAjip;D changes are about to be made in [the uniform of the German army to add to the invisibility of soldiers in action. I a 'RTT.T. onnrnnriatincr ?50.000 for the ex |?nses of Iowa's exhibit at tke World's Fair n Chicago has been passed by the Legislature >f that State. Ax English syndicate has made a proposiion to buy the entire sardine business at j Sastport, Me., which is being considered by i he factory owners. During the last year the failure of lirms | eho have been engaged in woolen nianufao- ! uring in Philadelphia have averaged more I han one in each week. The pork packing of Cincinnati for the I winter season was the smallest since 1846-7, j ritile the packing of Chicago was larger than | B- season siuce 1885-0. Brustin', Texas, has decided to erect the Ireatest dam in the United States, over the Colorado River. It will cost $1,500,000, and levelop 14,000 horse power. Destructive prairie fires have been ragng in the West. According to the estimate learly 200,000 acres in the eastern portion of Colorado have been burned over. Ernest Leon Dickinson, of the freshman Ias3 at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., has 'alien heir to a fortune of $3,000,000 through he dea;h of an uucle in France. f . ^ r-1 * - r - / _ - __ "~ " . v \ THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. Loi'is Franke & Co., silk importers and manufacture, of New York city, with a big mill at Paterson, N. J., have assigned. Tha liabilities are estimated at #800,WW to $009,000 aud the assets at $1,200,000. William Thorxe, fruit dealer, committed suicide at Albany. N. Y.. by jumping from the Senate staircase in the Capitol to the floor below, a distance of seventy feet. James S. Caswell, who is under sentence of imprisonment for life for the murder of George Gould, has been married at Montpelier, Vt., to Mrs. Laura Gould, the widow of the murdered man. The marriage took place through the bars of Caswell's cell. Richard H. Mather, Professor of Greek in Amherst College at Amherst, Mass., is dead at the age of fifty-five He was a famous Greek scholar and was born in Binghamtoii, N. Y. Mrs. Vaxdegrift, of Burlington, N. J., who is accused of attempting to poison her son. was followed on her way to court by a howling mob who wanted to" lynch her. In court she was held for trial and locked up iu default of bail. The funeral services orer the remains of Hon. Samuel J. Randall took place at the Pr-j^Ki-rorinn f'luirch in Wash ingtou. Thence the body was taken by special train to Philadelphia, Pennwhere it was interred with military honors in West Laurel Hill Cemetery. Thk New Hampshire Supreme Court has decided that a vacancy exists in the office of Governor, owing to the illness of Governor Goodel, and that D. Arthur Taggart, President of the Senate, must assume the duties of the office until the Governor recovers. The Murphy Varnish Company, of Newark, N. J., the largest manufacturer of varnish in America, has been sold to an Euglish syndicate. Thk use of Castle Garden, New York city, has been discontinued as a place of landing for immigrants, who now enter the New World through the Barge Office, at the Battery in that city, under Federal supervision. Peter Liuquist," a young Swedish farmer, with his wife and four children, were the last immigrants to pass through Castle Garden. Ex-Governor William Warner Hoppix, of Rhode Island, died at Providence, aged eighty-two years. Ex-Governor James Pollock died at the residence of his son-in-law, H. T. Harvey, at Lock Haven, Penu. He was born at Milton, Penn., on September 11, 1810. Daniel Mitchell, aged twenty-one, and Joseph Kani, agod twenty-two, were drowned at Gloucester, N. J., by the capsizing of a boat. Pretty sixteen-year-old Mary Stewart, of McKeesport, Penn., is under arrest for poisoninc her four-year-old brother. The trial of Commander McCalla, of the United States vessel Enterprise, for cruelty to seamen, was begun at the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Navy Yard. John Beeicman and Eiisha Dyer, of Hammondsport, N. Y., were drowned off Two Mile Point, Kouka Lake, by the capsizing of a boat. . Over five hundred acres of heavy timber have been destroyed by a forest fire, about two miles south of Egg Harbor, N. J., and over six hundred acres of pine from ten to fifteen years' growth have been laid in ashes. Soutli and West. A premature blast at Reed's cement mills, near Cellarsburg, Ind., killed three men?P. 1 C. Livingston, Samuel T. Chappel and ' Thomas James?who were hurled in the air with great force, and when they alighted, fully one hundred feet from the scene of the explosion, their bodies were an unrecogniza ble mass of flesh and banes. The Hon. John Cardwell, United States ( Consul-General at Cairo, Egypt, during the Cleveland Administration, died at Richmond, Texas, of heart disease. 1 Two men and two horses were blown 1 to atoms at Cygnet, Ohio, by the explosion of a wagon load of nitro-glycariue shells. Ben Elset, a young colored man, who has killed four persons, was hanged in Birmingham, Ala., for the murder of J. W. Meadows. He confessed all his crimes. Dan SNEEDand William Oxford, convicts, attempted to escape from the stockade at ' Palarm, Ark., and were killed by the guards. < The greater part of St. Elmo. Col., has i been destroyed by fire. Loss, over $25,000. ] Fritz Susemiehl, Recorder of Sco-tt County, Iowa, for four years past, committed suicide by shooting himself. His ac- ' counts are correct. 1 Three men were suffocated in a burning ] fn.il n?in? nf. Snrino- Vall<?v Til Henry Boyle, alias John Cox, a life con- ( vict at Joilet, 111., committed suicide by hanging himself with a towel in his cell. ! Captain W. L. Couch, the noted Oklahoma boomer, died at Guthrie, Indian Ter- | ritory. His death resulted from a wound in- . flictedby J. C. Adams, with a Winchester ' rifle, on April 4. ""Capt afifw ftgo^ss^nd _one_ o th ei , man were Killed and five seriously injur&ifey an accident in the Great Western Mine, near Norway, Wis. ! Harrodsburg, tho oide3t town in Ken tucky, has been partly destroyed by fire. , Tne loss is 5200,000. The schooner W. H. Brinsfield, Captaiu John Ellison, of Tappahaunock, Va., sunk 00 Point No Point, Md., and Mate David Prim, < Seamen John Harkum, Johu Betts and Robert Ellison, a passenger, were drowned. For the third time in three yaars the bus i- 1 ness portion of Knightsville, Ind., has baea < burned. Loss, $35,090. The large wholesale business block at Davis and California streets, Sau Francisco, burned. Loss, 4100,000. Samuel Nelson, a Hesperia (Mich.) Swede, ' shot and killed his sweetheart, Annie Nelson, because she refused to marry hiui. He then , fled into the woods, and was found dead witu a bullet through his head. A body of striking carpenters caused a riot in the southwestern part of Chicago, and as a result about fifty ot them are locked up. Malignant diphtheria is epidemic in the village of Vining, in Otter Tail Couuty, Minn. There have been twenty deaths in the place since April 1. 1 < Washington. 1 The River and Harbor bill was reportea rr t4. ? tu tuc nuu5C. itimuM aii apui viji imwu of a little less than $21,000,000. The Pan American Conference practically finished its work. Reports of the Com mittees on International Law and General Welfare were adopted. ^ Senor Roqce Saenz Pen*a, one of the delegates from the Argentine Republic t*. the International American Congress, received at Washington a cablegram from hi? Government informing hiru of a change of Ministry and of his appointment to the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs. A musicals was given by President and Mrs. Harrison at the White House in honor of their guest. Miss Jessie Shcpard, daughter of Colonel Elliot F. Shepard, of New York. The Postmaster-General and Mrs. Wanamaker gave their final reception of this season, and their house from nine to twelve o'clock was a brilliant scene. Carroll D. Wright, the Commissioner of Labor, has submitted to the President, for transmission to Congress, his fifth annual report. The single subject treated is railroad Delegates from the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania and New York State societies of Sons of the Revolution met in Washington and organized a general society of the Sons of the Revolution. Reports received at the War Department for the nine months beginning witli^July 1, 18S'J, show that tliere nave oeen ioo ucm-itions from the regular army during ttiat period. Secretary Bi.ai.ve recalled the PanAmerican excursion train from Richmond, Va.. because only two of the foreign delegates were in tho party. Secretary Tracy has recommended au appropriation of ?*500 by Congress to pay W. H. Arnoux, of New York, for services as counsel upon the occasion of tho Congressional investigation into the facts connected with the Jeaunetto Expedition. Chief Justice Bingham, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, has admitted C. E. Kincaid, w'ao shot and killed ex-Congressman Taulbee, of Kentucky, to bail in the sum of $30,000. Pr23Xdent Harbison' gava a reception at the White House to the officers of the Army ami Navy. A parcel post convention has bean concluded betwean the United States and the Republic of Costa Rica. The President sent to the Senate the folowing nominations: John C. Fre.nont, of New York, to be Major General, United States Army, on the retired list; John T. Ensor. United States Attorney for the District of Maryland; William Fairey, United States Marshal for the District of Maryland. Foreign. The British steamer Euclid has been sunk near Hartlepool, England, in collision with the British steamer Altyre. The Captain and three of th9 crew of the Euclid were drowned. The riotous coal miners at Ostrau, in Moravia, Austria, have compelled a complete cessation of work in the mines. The strikers attacked a part)' of soldiers, and in the fight that followed three of the miners were killed, and many wounded. In the Ostrau and Karwin districts there are 30,000 miners out ou strike. Heavy rains prevailed in New South Wales. The ' Darlinjr River overflowed its banks and the town of Bourke was inundated. Bandits have created a reign of terror in Cuba. Henry M. Stanley and Sir William Mackinnon, Chairman of the Emin Rslief Committee, arrived in Paris, and after remaining there one day left for Brussels, to visit the King of Belgium. A fire at New Sandec, Austrian Galicia, has destroyed 130 houses. The army of the King of Dahomey is advancing on French territory in Africa, burning villages and causing a panic among the people. A coal vessel, bound from Shields for Loudon, has foundered at sea. She carried a crew of fourteen hands, all told, eleven of whom were drowned and three saved. Henry M. Stanley was enthusiastically received at Brussells, Belgium, and Major Serpa Pinto, the Portuguese explorer of Africa, met with a grand ovation on his arrival at Lisbon. The British steamship Bilbao has been lost in the North Sea, aud fifteen persons were drowned. Five hundred houses at Taungdwingye, near Rangoon, Burmah, including the commissariat stores, containing 230,000 rupees' worth of grain, have been destroyed by fire. Recently 300 houses were burned at Aomati, Japau. The day after over 500 buildings were destroyed at Noshiro, and over 300 at Mimuro. The latter fire raged six hours. Dalmatia, Austria, is being scourged by an epidemic of La Nona, the "sleeping disease." At the conclusion of a bull fight at Guadalajara, Mexico, a section of the amphitheatre collapsed, precipitating thousands of spectators to the ground and fatally injuring a number. Owing to the troubles arising from the embezzlement of $200,000 by the Treasurer of the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, all the members of the Cantonal Government have resigned. LATEE NEWS, The Etna Iron "Works, of New Castle, Peun., was partially wrecked by a boiler explosion that resulted in the immediate death of three workmen and injuries to almost a score of others. The bottom of a cupola in the foundry of the Susquehanna Iron "Works at Middletown, Pean., fell out. The molten mass of iron exploded when it struck the ground, and streams Df liquid fire leaped in all directions. George Matthias and William Strock, moulders, were caught in one of these streams and burned to death. At Deering Point, Ale., Piobert Hamilton, aged sixteen, while playing with a revolver, QL-cidentally shot and instantly killed his half brother, Perley Offeri, aged twelve. Fop. three days continuous rains fell all 3ver Texas. Rivers and bayous wore up and jut of their banks, bridges were swept away and travel delayed. AH stock in the lowlands and canebrakes were drowned. The little town of Kyle. Texas,was visited by a cyclone, and many houses were overturned and several swept away. Several persons were injured. The Kyle Seminary, i large frame building, was lifted from its foundations and carried some thirty feet iway, but it was not seriously damaged. Members of the late Pan-American Conference went to Mt. Vernon as the guests of Secretary Blaine. Frank B. Looms, of Ohio, has been appointed Consul at St. Etienne, France. St. EtfenflSirtho ?&. theribbon, silk and steel manufacturing in France. ? Mrs. McKee, daughter of President Harrison, gave a dance at the White House in honor of her guest, Miss Shepard, of New York. This is the first ball held there for aver ten years. All Jthe striking workmen in the Ostrau md Karwin districts of Austria, with the exception of fifteen hundred, have resumed svork. pitched battle between the French and Dahomians in Africa resulted in the loss of 500 of King Kondo's men. One Frenchman ^ras killed, fifty wounded. Twenty native lilies were also killed. FREMONT RETIRED. rhe President Approves the Bill Placing Him on the Ketirecl List. President Harrison has approved the bill making General Fremont a Major-General an the retired list of the Unitel States irmv. JOHN CHARLES FREMONT. Major-General Fremont, says the New York Herald, is now in his seventy-eighth year and resides on Staten Island, N. Y. The lovelv driveway which extends from New Brighton around the shore is lined by statelv old mansions with Corinthian pillars, as well as with more modern Quean Anne and Gothic cottages. In one of the latter is the present homo of John C. Fremont, the daring and half-forgotten Presidential candidate, with whose name the country once ran? from end to end. Old he is, but feeble not at all. He carries his years with a st;;p as springy and a form as straight as they wore when ho carved a pathway over the Rocky Mountains to the new El Dorado nearly fifty years ago. His snowy white hair and whiskers are as neatly kept as wore his blond locks iu the days when he stole the heart of pretty Jessie Benton In spite of her father's protests. The National Starch Manufacturing Company was organized recently under the laws of Kentucky, with a capital of $10,000,000. It is composed of nineteen large starch firms, which includes all the principal starch companies in the country with two exceptions. The spring influx of immigrants is expected to excoe^that of last vear and many preceding year j by at least tnirty per cent. . , \ *" . *.' '."-'S' l-r?'5' J >. ' . i --i' r LOUISIANA UNDER WATER. The Great Morganza Leyee Gives Away. Thousands of Miles of Plantations Inundated. A dispatch from New Orleans, La., say:;: The disaster that has been impending for the past month has occurred. There has been a serious break in the Morganza levee, the most important dyke in the State. The great heroic struggle is over, and a general surrender has been made all along the. line. After a desperate effort to save Bayou Sara from the flood, a surrender was made to the great Father of Waters, when the guards reported that the levee had given way at the foot of Fountain street. A general alarm was sounded, and the people responded promptly to the call. The break was closed, Out on examination it was found that the rising river was running over the front icvetf. Every impromptu boat and raft was brought into requisition. Lanterns could be seen everywhere, and the cries of men, women and children attempting to save their effects were heard on every side. Not a house in town had escaped. The beautiful Fisher Building, the home of Mayor Irvine, suppossd to be the highest point in town, was flooded. Nothing out chaos and destruction meet the oye. The Taylor levee has given way. The first serious break in +.he levees in the vicinity of Natchez, Miss., occurred when twenty-five feet of the Lake Concordia levee gave way at the Helena plantation. The water swept through with irresistable force and the embankment continued to crumble until, at 5 in the evening, the opening was 150 feet wide and ten or twelve feet deep. The water from the break has flooded all the lower portion of Concordia parish. In Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge 8000 men had been at work for several days strengthening the levees, and at Bayou Sara probably 20,000 more had been trying to hold the line of dikes: but the rain and wind storm coupled with the high water, overthrew all these preparation's, and in twenty-four hours no less than fifteen breaks occurred. But the greatest disaster occurred later in the day when the Morganza levee gave way. This news naturally caused the greatest consternation, because Morganza protects a large portion of Southern Louisiana. It is one of the finest levees on the Mississippi, with a. 200-foDt base and to thirty feet high, constructed jointly by the United States and the State of Louisiana. It cost close to $250,000. The break will severely affect Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, St. Lanary, Assumption, St. Martins, St. Mary, Iberia and Terre Bonne Parishes, and 2500 or 8000 square miles, with between 40,000 or 50,000 inhabitants, will be more or less affected by the overflow. The country is planted in sugar cane and similar crops, which are destroyed by overflows if under water ten days. The amount of loss will depend upon the duration of the flood, but it sill certainly mou^t wejl up in the millions. Bftck of this levee there are a number of settlement on the ridge or highlands. An ugly break followed at Myrtle's Grove plantation, forty miles below Bayou Sara, on the plantation of Congressman Wilkinson, and one that it is scarcely possible to close. A number of other breaks, but of smaller extent, were reported at St. Sophie, Jesuit's Bend, Point a la Hache and at Martinee Place, ten miles below Baton Rouge, to which relief was sent at once. The suffering in Pointe Coupee was terrible. It was reported that people were resorting to trees for safety. Skiff loads of people were passing through inundated streets seeking safety on the hills. They certainly piake a sad and gloomy procession, women, children, babies and dogs; they tell the same tales of woe and destruction. The situation in Bayou Sara is frightful; not a house in town is above the flooc. At New Orleans the east winds tiyit have prevailed drove the water from the Gulf of intrt fVin lol'n TUif fa fka -uuaivv tiibu buo ianc. x uj.i, jwiucu bu buc water from the Nita crevasse, equal to onefifth of the whole volume of the Mississippi, raised the flood level of the lake, and the water, pouring over the ridge or through the levees along the canal, overflowed the rear of the city. West End and Spanish Fort, the two lake resorts of New Orleans, wero floodeJ. The water spreading toward the city badly overflowed the truck farms in the rear of the city, and later in the day Orleans, Toulouse, St. Peter's and other streets were under water, the latter reaching as far as Maries street. Gentilly ridge was overflowed, and the beautiful Metaree Cemetery was a lake of water. The mound that shelters the remains of Jefferson Davis was an island in the sea, while the tomb was under seven feet of water. A protection levee in front of Vidalia, opposite Natchez, Miss., broke, also, but tne whole town responded to the alarm bells and turned out and raised the embankment, stopping the flow of water into the town. At 10 o'clock the Lake Concordia levee broke, and at dark the break was 200 feet wide and the Vufer through like a mill race. The railroads ceEtQng at New Orleans have suffered severely by tfe^-floods. The Louisville, New Orleans and TeSfr-Bailroad was out off some weeks ago by the Nita crev&SNuJ The Illinois Central was stopped by the same [" break. The Louisville aid Nashville was stnnr>f?d hv thn fliinrl from f.ntcA Pnntrhnr train, and the New Orleans and Gulf was severely afflicted by the several crevasses below the city. Business at New Orleans has suffered in consequoice, and State and simiar securities fell. MONTANA'S SENATORS. The Republican Claimants Win it the United States Senate. Montana is represented in the United States Senate by two Republicans. By a stricl party vote?32 to 26?Wilber P. Sanders and Thomas C. Powers have been declared en titled to the long vacant seats for the new State. After some debate Mr. Butler, ol South Carolina, endeavored to have both the majority and minority reports recommitted to the Committee on Privileges and Elec tions, but failed. Later Mr. Butler offeree a resolution declaring that in the judgment of the Senate there had been no choice o: United States Senators from the State o: Montana. This was defeated by a partj vote?yeas 23, nays 31. The vote in favor o: Messrs. Sanders and Powers followed, and the two new Senators immediately took the oaths of office and their seats. Tho newly seated Montana Senators, Messrs. Sanders and Powers, drew lots, ic accordance with a resolution offered by the Committee on Privileges and Elections, to determine which should serve out the threeyear term and which the live. Under the terms of a resolution presented in executive session by Mr. Hoar tue Cleri placed in a box two papers of equa. size, bearing the numbers one and two Senator Sanders drew No. 1 and Sona /-?? PA*uoi?a Ka 9. VioA-Prouiriont \f nr. ton thereupon announced that Senator Sanders would be placed in the class of Senators whose terms expira on March 3, 1803, and Senator Powers in the class whose terms expire on March 3, 1395. The two Montana Senators have had their desks moved over to the Republican side, and they will be near neighbors in the future of Senator Pierce, of North Dakota, and Senators Moody and Pettigrew, of South Dakota. FIH"D BY NIHILISTS. One of the RussiAu Char's Palaces Burned to the Ground. Tho Pvussian Imperial Pa/ace, of Oranienbaum, on the Gulf of Finland, has been burned to the ground with all its contents. The fire was started by Nihilists, who had frequently threatened to burn the palace. The flames broke out in the night, and spread with such astonishing rapidity a3 to indicate that tho fire was set simultaneously in different parts of the buildinjj. Seven inmates, cut off from escape, perished in the flames. The palace was a favorite residence of the Czar Nicholas. It contained many historical relics of great value, including the coronation garments of the Empress Catharine, locks of the same Empress's hair, and a set of ship-bulldera' tools, which belonged to Peter the Great. A COUNTRY HOUSE. A Modest and Attractive Design?Description, Material Needed, Etc. (Copyright by the Author.) John "Wise, the intrepid old aeronaut and quiet philosopher, used to say while sailing through the clouds that he abhorred the idea of returning to earth again. Leaning over the side of his car he would declar? that everything on the surface of the globe was mean; dirty and insignificant. When passing over a city he would call attention to the smoke and dust enveloping it and to the little black ants rushing and crowding with great but purposeless activity through its streets. The little black ants were human beings. Viewed from the higher altitude of reason it does seem strange that many intellectual people prefer to livo within the narrow limits of a city. Life in the country is broader, PERSPECTIVE VIEW. sweeter, purer, freer. City houses no longer monopolize all the conveniences. "Witness the modest though attractive design for a country house submitted herewith. Size of Structure.: Front (width) 84 ft., depth, 51 ft. 6 in. Height of Stories: Cellar, 7 feet; first story, 9 ft. 6 in., second story, Ift. 10in., attic, 7 ft. 6 in. Materials for Exterior "Walls. Foundation, stone and brick; first story, clapboards; second story, shingles, gables, shingles and panels; roof, shingles. Interior Finish Hard, white plaster throughout, plaster cornices and centres in hall, parlor, sitting and dining rooms; oak trim in hall and dining room; Georgia pine trim in second story, white pine in remainder of house; main stairs, oak; mantels to cost $80; stained glass in staircase window; house piped for gas. jjjj jjjf' jffiiz?i&& J i&oyjro; J <Ca i i \ ?*& | ^ j LtoxieiQ4 Viruxti. ' >^r fed-: ' :""J' FIRST FLOOR. Exterior Colors: All clapboards, light brown; trim?waftl* table, corner boards, casings, cornices, bands, veranda posts ana i rails, dark seal brown, frontdoor finished ! with Hard oil, an other outer aoors ana outside blinds painted dark seal brown, rainwater conductors, dark seal brown^ gables, dark buff with dark seal brown panels; sashes, dark buff; veranda floors, dark brown; veranda ceiling, varnished natural color; panel work in first and second stories, dark seal brown for stiles and rails and light brown for panels, side wall shingles, buff; roof shingles, dark brown. All shingles should be dipped in stain before laying and have a good brush coat applied after laying. Accommodations: The principal rooms and their sizes, closets, etc., are shown by the floor plans, printed herewith; beside these there are two rooms and a nail finished in i i N- '"""Tin d?~ '""ll P I II | ' rJ~R' Bti fie:*D>;?* jp - llmfe". iVTVfeHII ""'Htlt6-Q"AII:Q'^3 fcapxiit^ |2:oVl5:c* [ - r ^ >i?)3onjr i secoxd floor. the attic, and there is a cellar under the whole house. The combination of front and back stairs economizes space. There is a coat and hat closet in the hall, and a closet containing a wash-basin under the main stairs. Stationary tubs and sink in the kitchen and a large pantry adjoining. The lobby entrance to the kitchen from the back porch has a recess for an ice-box. By enclosing the balcony with netting an open air resort is provided that will be proof against mosquitoes and other insects. Special Features: An attractive and roomy house, large enough for a modest rich man and small enough for an ambitious poor man who intends to become rich. Cost: Built as described, for all localities where prices for materials and labor are about the same as those of New York, $3300. Built with brick walls in place of frame, ! $4000. R. W. Shoppell. Architect. DRIVEN INSANE BY LOVE,j Sad Fate of a Girl Deserted by Her Affianced Husband. Tho funeral of Miss Mary McNerney, who died violently insane, took place from St. Mary's Church in Norwalk, Conn. Four months ago Miss McNerney was one of the brightest girls in Norwalk, but one day she was introduced to Thomas Murtha, a young man well known in South Norwalk. A brief courtship followed, and one day he asked her to become his wife. She consented, and the wedding was fixed to occur on Easter Sunday. For a while Murtha was the most devoted of lovers, but one day his visits ceased. He gave no cause for his non-appearance. Miss McNerney knew of no reason why he should act in this manner, and she was too proud to inquire. The matter preyed upon her mind so much that she became silent and restless, aud was noticed to be drooping day by day. A few days after tho time set for the wedding she became violent- . ly insane, and continued in this condition until death relieved her sufferings. During her illness Murtha called to inquire as to her conditiou, but evinced no regret at the wreck his infidelity had caused, and, to all appearances, he acted in a manner to impress witnesses as to his utter ignorance of tho subject. The funeral was largely attended, and among the mourners appeared Thomas Murtha, whose apparent stoicism was a matter of much coinmeat. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. In the Senate. 80th Day.?The Montana Senators drew lots, Mr. Powers getting the five-year term, and Mr. Sanders the three-year term... .The House resolution for thirty additional medical examiners in the Pension Bureau was amended and adopted in Committee of the Whole Several public building appropriation bills were passed Mr. Quay introduced a bill directing the Secretary of the Navy to reopen League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia. .. The bill for the appointment and retirement of John C. Fremont as MajorGeneral was passed....On motion of Mr. Gray the House bill to transfer the revenue cutter service from the Treasury Department to the Navy Department was taken up for consideration. It was debated during the remainder of the session, but no vote was reached. Mr. Sherman strongly opposed the transfer. STth Day.?Mr. Piatt introduced a bill for the admission of New Mexico The following were among the bills passed: The senate bill appropriating ?75,000 for a public building at Haverhill, Mass; increasing to SoOO.OCO the limit of expenses for a public building at Troy,N. Y.; increasing the limit of cost for the public building at Newark, N. J., from $350,000 to ?650.000: giving Lake Contrary, to the city rf St. Joseph, Mo Mr. Hiscock introduced a bill to provide that National banks may secure their circulation Ktt r\f finrjrnmont. Sf.ftfp rflll\Vfl.V aud municipal bonds... .The resolution of the Dolph Investigating Committee, concerning executive session "leaks," was defeated.... Mr. Pajne introduced a bill to appropriate S100,000 for the erection of a monument at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, commemorative of Oliver H. Perry and the men who participated with him in the naval battle of Lake Erie. 88th Day.?The bill authorizing the pur| chase of a site for a building for t'ae accommodation of the Supreme Court of the United States (the square directly east of the Capitol) at the estimated cost of ?600,000 was passed. 89th Day.?The World's Fair bill was pas52d with the amendment providing for a naval review in the harbor of New York in 1893; the debate on the matter occupied the entire time of the Senators. 90th Day.?Mr. Mitchell spoke on his resolution providing for the popular election of Senators. At the conclusion of his speech the concurrent resolution was referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections ... .The Senate passed the District of Columbia Appropriation bill. 91st Day.?The Oklahoma bill was passed .... An amendment to the rules, empowering the presiding officer to count a quorum, was introduced and referred to the Committee on Rules... ,Tb9 Senate bill appropriation foi5,U<W for an equestrian sfcatuo of Major-General John Stark, at Man Chester, N. H., was disctpsed... ,Jhe Senate joint resolution for the appointment of Charles Davens, of Massachusetts, as Hegen? of tee Smithsonian Institution, and for the reappointment of Charles C. Welling:, of Washington City (whose term has expired), was passed A bill introduced by Senator Frye provided that hereafter it shall be lawful for citizens of the United States, engaged in the foreign trade, but living abroad, to own vessels built in the United States, to have them registered as United States vessels. In the House. 9Sth Day.?Mr. Wallace reported, with amendments, the bill he recently introduced providing for the sale of navy yard and naval hospital lands in Brooklyn.... An adjournment was taken, immediately after the reading of the Journal, our of respect for Mr. Randall. 97th Day.?The Court of Claims bill was recommitted Mr. Henderson reported the River and Harbor Appropriation bill; and it was referred to the Committee of the Whole The House then went into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Allen, of Michigan, in the chair) on the private calendar... .Mr. Cannon submitted a disagreeing conference report upon the National 'Zoo" bill. The report having been agreed to, Mr. Cannon moved that the House insist upon its amendment, which requires the District of Columbia to bear half the burden of the expense of the maintenance of the park. The motion to insist was agreed to?118 to 27....The House at its evening session passed fifty private pension bills. 98th Day.?The day was set apart for the delivery of eulogies on the late S. S. Cox, of New York. The attendance on the floor was unusually large and the various speeches were earnestly followed. The Speaker's gallery was reserved for Mrs. Cox and the immediate members of her family. The list of speakers included many of the best known members of the House. Among the number were Messrs. Cummings. McCarthy, Covert, Quinn and Turner, of New York; McAdoo, of New Jersey; Holman, of Indiana; Bauks, of Massachusetts; Butterworth, Outhwaite and Grosvenor. of Ohio; Mills, of Texas; Brockenridge, ofc Kentucky; McMillan, of Teanessee; Bland, of Missouri, and O'Don .n '-Oil, Ui ^ittui^au. 99th Day.?The report providing for a temporary government of Oklahoma was adopted?The bill to pension prisoners of war failed of passage... .Mr. Dorsey, of Nebraska, introduced a joint resolution "that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to increase the Treasury purchase of silver bullion to the maximum amount authorized".... A bill was passed providing that soldiers who lost their limbs during tne late war shall be entitled to receive an artificial limb every three years... .The bill appropriating $.'333,500 to provide vaults and safeguards for the security of public money in the custody of the United Treasurer, was passed Mr. Morrill called up the bill to pension prisoners of war. The motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill was defeated?yeas 143, nays ?8, not the necessary two-thirds. 100th Da v.?The legislative Appropri- | ation bill was discussed without -8.cU?,Yi.-.. ."'| -The 'Wo^d^Fairfrtfrvvas passed, with Sen- | ate amendments, and was sent to tue President.... Mr. Hitt, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill. The total amount appropriated by the billis?l,4'J0,92o. 101st Day.?The Speaker laid bofore the House a letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates of appropriations aggregating $l29,0;>3, required to supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the pay of the Army for the fiscal year 1890 ....In Committee of the Whole the Legislative Appropriations bill was discussed during tne whole session.... Mr. Stewart, of Texas, reported the Senate bill providing for the completion of the im r-Uo..K?,. To-rns The pnjvemcut IU uoiTuaiuu bill makes an appropriation of $0,200,000. DEATH AT A BAPTISM. A Bridge Falls and Carries Man} Spectators With It. A terrible accident occurred at 1 o'clock in the afternoon at Springfield, Ohio, during t'ne baptizing ceremony in Buck Creek ol the Third Baptist Church, colored. The fait weather had brought out about two thousand people, mostly whites, to witness the immersions. The banks were lined and an adjacent bridge was crowded. Elder Green had just emerged from the water, after haying fixed his stake, when a part of the Limestone street bridge went down with a crash, carrying with it one of the foot bridges over a mill race. The following named were fatally injured: Mrs. Margaret Flannery, aged 70; Andrew Lehman, aged 65; Mrs. Charles Myers and son, Ollie, aged 6 years. All of these had broken bones and internal injuries. Horace, son of General Keifer, had an arm broken in two places. Over fifty others received injuries ranging from severe bruises to broken bones. BLOODY WAR IN AFRICA. The French Force Makes an Assault and Suffers a Se\'ero Loss. '/'jnine nf Pn r*Ic en iv flint- o ]?r?nr?nl, force, consisting of 350 troop s, made a reconuaissaiiC3 of the position held by the Dahoni i:iian.j, seven kilometre.; from Porto Novo, in Africa, and subsequently ma le an attack upon the pi no-?. Tin Freusli fore? was compelled to retreat to Porto Novo after thirty French soldiers and twenty of their native allies were killed or wounded. The loss of the Dahoinians was heavy. More bridal couples are said to have visited Washington this spring than ever b> fore. One of the hotels makes a present of a bouquet to each bride that enters the dining room, and its flower bills this season hava bee a enormous. POPULAR SCIENCE. - A rifle ball moves 1460 feet per secThe transportation of wine in tank cars is now looked upon as being sue- p| Sun spots are believed to be evidences of great activity in the fiery envelope of ' An electric indicator of the names of railway stations is coming into use in Inventors everywhere are trying to discover an artificial ga3 fuel that will end the days of solid fuels. The electric light is not only injurious, but absolutely ruinous to the sight and inducive of paralysis of the eye. Sun storms take place when the earth is free from them. Earth storms abound when the sun is quiet and inactive. It is one of the unfortunate facts of the age that the way fuel is now used about seventy-five per cent, of it is wasted. A new mineral oil lubricant having the cuusisteucjr ui uutici auu n?uuu? appreciable odor is being extensively used in France. Dr. Rankin, a surgeon at Muncy, England, is said to be using hypnotism successfully as a substitute for chloroform in his practice. In a recent bulletin issued by the Ohio Experiment Station, a hst of eighty-two insects is given as feeding upon our common red clover. The nutritive value of salads is held by eminent French authority to be due to the presence of salts of potash, which in ordinary vegetables are lost in the cooking. -'.'xpSgj The brain receives an impression as swiftly as electricity can photograph a flying bullet; but the difficulty is to convey that impression to the consciousness of another. A rotary arc lamp having revolving carbon disks instead of the ordinary pencil carbons will,* it is claimed, run continuously for forty hours without the renewing of the carbons. In the new high explosive invented by Maxim of raachipe-gun fame gun cotton is tne c^Te/ ingredienT "Castor oil is also used, and it is found to increase the i i?-- ~Ton/? diminish ita luuguucaa ui ciac pi vuuvv liability to deterioration. T? ?***> The changeable and brilliant hues which are notieeable. in the scales of herring, shad and mackerel are held to be due to the retraction of the rays of light as they glance of! the surfaces 'of thin plates or ridges in the scales. German naval authorities are said to have Been making experiments lately with a torpedo-boat built of compressed paper. The vessel is eleven feet, and wa3 found tc show great strength and ' 3? more elasticity when rammed by another boat. An extraordinary feat in telephoning was recently accomplished between St. Petersburg and Bolo?ue, a distance of 2465 miles. Conversation was kept up, notwithstanding a rather high induction. The Russian engineers propose to converse by telephone over a distance of 4665 miles. Evaporation From Trees. If any of my readers next June will m put the end of a bough of some mapletree into a pint bottle and stop the mouth ot toe DOttie witn wax, so mat no vapor may escape,he will see in a few moments the inside of the bottle become clouded, and in about half aD hour small drops will begin to form on the glass and run downward to the bottom. And at the * eud of several hours he will discover that he has from twelve to twenty grains of water deposited in the bottle. And all this will have been yielded forth from the two or three leaves on the end of the twig enclosed in the bottle. Now, a maple-tree of eight or ten ! inches diameter,well formed and growth ful, has on the average 25,000 leaves on it, and it is a safe computation to say that such a tree will throw ofi in the space of every twelve hours 340,000 grains weight of water. Now an acre will easily contain 600 or 700 such trees, and as the weight of one pint of water is 7000 grains, troy weight, it will be found upon calculation that from a single acre of forest laud 3875 gallons of pure water are thrown ofl and distributed through the body of the surrounding atmosphere in every twelve hours. If this seems incredible to you, I can assume 50Ji that-.it seems so only because you have no knowledge of . You. probably have beeii accustomed to look upon them as collections of unforccful ^ bulk; whereas they are active creatures, and are forever at work. In one form or another they are always busy,and of them it may truly be said that they not only adorn the landscape, but they rule the atmosphere. They are thoroughly vital formations, and are always in action. They are as full of sluices and channels as the human body is of veins,and the tidal movement going on beneath their bark is one of prodigious force. The amount of water that their normal condition demands for their circulation is so great that only knowledge can credit it. But, once apprehended, it becomes in truth a key which fptlocks many of the closed doors behind which are concealed the the mysterious changes now going on year after year in our New England climate.?Boston Herald. The Confederate Gray. A memoer of the Military Committee on the Lee Monument, at Richmond, Va., states his belief that to the visit of the Seventh Regiment, of New York city, in 1857 was due the adoption of the gray uniform by the Confederate Army. When the Seventh Regiment came to Richmond on that visit the First Regiment and other military commands of Virginia's capital had such uniforms as each organization chose. The handsome gray dress of the Seventh Regiment attracted a great deal of attention in military circles, and soon after their return home the First Virginia Infantry of Richmond adopted a similar uniform. This was just hofnre Hip Piuil War broke Out. The committee man is confident that the Confederacy took the gray uniform of the First Regiment as a model for the army. ?JSrew York Times. A Natural Mint of Money. The origin of French commerce in Dahomey is very funny. A French trader fouud that the only money in the country was cowry shells^ lie also discovered that cowry shells came from the coast of Mozambique. lie went thither, scraped up two shiploads of cowry shells, sailed back to Dahomey, and with his "money'' bought immense privileges, which were the foundation of the French trade.