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mm CMATEU. The Largest Insane Asylum ih America Burned. V A Frightful Calamity in Which I Many Maniacs Perish. > . A calamity of a peculiarly appalling nature occurred at Longue Fointe, nine J miles east of Montreal, Canada, in the destruction by fire of the insane asylum at that place, by which one hundred almost certainly and possibly two hundred of the inmates perished. The famous provincial insana asylum, which is known all over Canada and the United States and which contained over 1500 inmates from every portion of the continent, is a mass of ruins. The buildings constituting the St. Jean de Dieu Asylum are at Longue Pointe, a small place about ten miles from Montreal, fronting the River St. Lawrence. The asylum, which was established by the Quebec Government in 1873, consisted of a main building and four smaller buildings connected by wings, with a total frontage of 630 feet. The buildings wore of brick and cut stone. The principal building was six stories high and the other buildings five stories. The institution was I under the care of the Providence order of j nuns. About 11:30 o'clock in the morning smoke was discovered entering the chaplain's room in the centre building. The chaplain immediately rushed out into the chapel and made a desperate effort to save whatever be could, but he had to beat a hasty retreat, after being badly burned. In the meantime, the fire, which is supposed to have started in a cupboard iu the top of the centre buildiug, spread with amazing rapidity, and the buildings were in an iucredibiy short space of time enveloped iu flames. There were over 1500 inmates in the burning building at the time. The scene was well nigh indescribable. There were 163 Sisters in the asylum, and their first care was for the unfortunate inmates, who were . unable to care for themselves. Many of the inmates rushed from their rooms and jumped from the different stories of the buildings to the grounds beK neath, which were soon swarming with de mented peoplo rushing wildly hither and B thither Til tho lujokirrniinil ?t?rH tlin vnsh buildings almost entirely enveloped in flames, which shot high into the skies. Above the flames could be heard the shrieks and moaus of many of the de nented inmates who were being roasted to death in the upper stories of the buildings. At intervals men and women would appear at the windows, linger for a moment amid the smoke and flames, and then frantically jump to the ground below or fall back into the seething mass. Hundreds who had escaped wandered aimlessly around the grounds, some with nothing but their underclothes on and with bare feet. A few who had tern their garments off in their excitement were entirely naked. To add to the horrors of the scene, the rain was pouring down in torrents, and the frightened inmates, dazed with horror, were huddled around in groups, shuddering and moaning. The Sisters and men connected with the asylum worked like heroes to rescue the inmates from their terrible position. Many a Sister lost all thought of herself, but, filled with a noble heroism, rushed to tho -cells of the inmates and literally dragged out the inmates, who, in many cases, made frantic by the flames, refused, to move. To prevent the inmates from escaping, tho large gates leading to the grounds were shut, ana were only opened to allow the Sisters to pass out with groups of inmates, who were removed to the St. Isidore Convent, a large I institution near by. Meanwhile the fire continued to burn with unabated fury, and it soon became dangerous to approach within twenty-five yards of the burning buildings. The demented inmates, however, appeared to be entirely oblivious of all danger. Half a dozen of the more violent, frenzied by excitement, rushed from their keepers, and, jumping under the tumbling walls, started to yell at the top of their voices, tearing their hair, contorting their faces, and laughing like witches at the ruin that was being done. They had to be removed by force. SVhile the flames were at their highest TOny of the inmates still remained inside, although the nuns and doctors had done everything in their power to get them out. The flames seemed to have a terrible fascination for the poor creatures, who, in mauy instances, welcomed the horrible death that awaited them. All hope of saving those in the upper portions of the building was soon abandoned. Most of the men were got out, but many women, especially those in violent wards, bad to be left to their fate. Many acts of heroism were performed hv the nuns and doctors In tryiug to save the inmates. Dr. Bowique, one of the medical attendants, continued his efforts until he had to be carried out half dead from smoke. As soon as one body of rescuers was exhausted there were others to take their places until at least two-thirds of the inmates had been rescued. Asa rule the inmates were verv otiiefc. and H many of them were assisting in packing up HO the furniture that was being thrown from ?9 the windows indiscriminately and without regard to the heads of the people below. En Several of the women were assisting others B| to leave the grounds, the more rational E9 ones being accommodated in a house across Bfl the road. BB , One young girl in the midst of the drizzling SB rain, thinly clad, sat at a piano in the Bm grounds and played soft music while the H terrible (lames roared above her. fig Chief Ben sit, accompanied by several of 91 his men, rushed into the women's ward, SB where a frighful scene was witnessed. gnfl v_In the.violent ward were seen twenty-five BBm women huddled together with their arms en3U twined waiting for the flames to reach them. The firemen tried to break their ranks, but gj they resisted and the firemen had barely tiuu HW to escape with their lives. In another portion Kn of the uuildiug several firemen bad a hair pM breadth escape. They pushed open the door KM of one of the women's cells to rescue inmates when the door closed nKd them with a click and they found &MBj^H^selves securely imprisoned by a Joct. They were i.u a room Hllevl H^fi^Bh frenzied women, with au'l siyo'c^ MH^Bvery side. Rushing to the wiudow thoy I^BBroke it to pieces, and shouted for help. LadHB ders were raised, and the firemen descended M after several desperate attempts to save tlia HB inmates. Among those who perished in the HH flames were several Sisters who offered their lives as an heroic sacrifice. EdU In the infirmary, ou the fifth story, there was a sick nun, Sister Marie. Kuowing her M| helpless condition, three of the other nuns, Sisters Demerise, Gilbert and Lumiere, KM rushed to her assistance and bore her in a MH blanket to the staircase, but they were to> PSHlate They were caught in the flames and all 9|n| About half a dozen women, who seemed to ||Hb3 unusually violent, crossed the danger liuo inland, during the fire, were yelling at the top H^Bof their voices, some tearing their hair, with despair depicted in their faces, and others gHlaughing hysterically at the ruin that was BHjbaing wrought. EH At the windows a maniac would ba sa3u ISMpeering through the bars, grinning aud jabjSflbering at the bright flame that went up to BHthesky. As the heat becains inoro intan.se B^fshe would grasp the bars and remain there ^^funtil the fiames enveloped her. tg|j| At 2 P. m. the flames, after consuming the main building, attacked the two outside gl^wings, and it became evident that nothing I Out the outhouses could be saved. Shortly sifter ward the front wall of the main building fell in and was followed by the back wall, rhen with a roar tho roof of the eastern wing fell in, carrying the walls with it. In a little less than an hour the whole series of buildings were in flames, the remaining walls fell in with a rumbling sound like that of irtillery, and a dense cloud of smoke and* sparks ascended. When evoniug fell all that remained of the splendid set of buildings, ] which cost over $70J,000, were a few outliousss. the New York Hebrew Orphan Asrruaa, which is declared to bo the best in the United States, contains 559 inmates, of which 327 are boys and 228 girls. The total receipts for the fear were $lti6,'293, and the expenses $10S,S00. The expenditures for the year ending April, 1891, are placed at $118,000. The old John Brown Fort at Harper's Ferry, Va., is to be moved to Chicago. A jompany will remove this old structure to Chicago, and have it on exhibition at the fVorla's Fair It is announced from the flooded districts >f the South that the appropriation by Concress will prevent any actual suffering. { THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The eight-hour workday movement was be^un iii New York city quietly. Ouly about a dozen men went on strike. The socialist labor party and the Central Labor Union celebrated the day by a parade and mass meeting at Union Square. There were demonstrations, also, at Philadelphia, Boston. Pittsburg, and throughout the Eastern States generally. Jamks Palmer, convicted of the murder of Henry T. Whitehouse, of Portsmouth, was hanged at Concord, N. H. Cattle and sheep sheds and barns and stables, covering nearly eight acres of ground in the West Albany (N. Y.) Live Stock Yards, were laid in ashes by an incendiary's match. The Assembly in Albany, N. Y., passod a bill to abolish capital punishment. George Webber was killed at Belknap crossing, near Attica, N. Y., by being struct by a train. His wife's skull was fractured, injuring her fatally. The failure of the Bank of America in Philadelphia has been followed by that of the Gloucester City (N. J.) National Bank. At the time of the failure the deposits were about $40,000. The depositors are mostly poor working people. Fechheimer, Rau & Co., shirt manufacturers of New York city, have failed; approximate liabilities, $3-39,00J; assets, $275,000. Patrick D. Flaxxigan entered a saloon on 1 ocl-Q| \f ir?li a u) McDerinott to drink with him. As McDermott responded Flantiigan, without a word, emptied the six barrels of a 33-salibre revolver into McDermott's face and throat and then walked out. McDerinott died within an hour. The Fidelity Surety, Trust and Safe Deposit Company, of Camden, N. J.; the Port Norris Bank," the Merchants' Bauk of Atlantic City, X. J., and the Merchants' Bank of Pleasantville, N. J., suspended payment. Sharpers stole $1039 from tha Rev. Father Thomas J. Arieus at Bridgeport, Conn., and left a baby ouhis hands. Criminal proceedings have bean begun against the officers of the broken Philadelphia banks. Willie Hclse. aged ten years, son of J. H. Hulse, No. 3iJ Hudson streat, New York, was shot and instantly killed by his playmate, Charles Sickles, aged fifteen, at Good Ground, Long Island, N. Y. A runaway accident occurred in Maple avenue, Penn., in which Willie Fitzpatrick. eigat years of age, was instantly killed. His little sister was fatally injured, and two other children were badly bruised and cut, anri thu fnt-JiAi* nf hiv was saverelv injured. Mrs. Fitzpatrick bscame violently insane after tha accident. The entire business portion of South Dayton, N. Y., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $20,000. In New York and Brooklyn nearly all tha carpenters went to work under the eight hour day system. There was no striking necessary to gain this point. Washington Qcixlan, a member of the New York Stock Exchange, has disappeared owing about $100,000. John CrOMOCK, a morphine eater, killed his thirteeu-year-old daughter at Foxboro, Mass., and then committed suicide. The Singer Sewing Machine Works, at Elizabethport, N. J., "covering two acres of ground, were almost wholly destroyed by lire, together with a considerable amount of tlie railroad property adjoining. The works employed about 3-3'J0 hands. The loss is about"$3,'J00,000. South antl West. An explosion of a dynamite blast at a quarry near Sparta, Ga., killed two colored men. Is the flght batween union and non-union fishermen on the Columbia River, in Oregon, three men were killed and two wounded. The body of Editor Walker, of the Cosmopolitan yfagazine, who was accidentally drowned at Weldon, If. C., was found. The house of William Holder, near Cumberland Gap, Tenn., was burned and Holder, his wife and one child perished in the flames. Six other children escaped in their night clothes. W. F. Lixdsay. Deputy Postmaster at Helena, Ark., is $3590 short in his accounts and a fugitive. Thirty-five thousand toilers, advocates of the eight-hour movement, participated in the greatest labor demonstration ever witnessed in Chicago. The line was fully four miles long. There v/as no disturbance. T.iere were also pat ales of workin?m?n in favor of the ei?'at-hour movement at St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Omaha, Detroit, Cleveland and San Francisco. About thirty-two thousand men were idle in Chicago,pending a settlement of the eighthour question. The Wells-Fargo Express messenger on a Southern Pacific traiu was robbed ot' $45,003 at Eagleville, Texas. Dr. C. O'Reilly, of the Irish National League of America, has sent from Detroit, Mich., $12,500 to aid the Irish Defense Fund. Bloomixgrove, Texas, was struck by a hurricane and the postoffioe, Presbyterian and Baptist churches and other buildings were wrecked. The power of electricity as a death-dealing instrument was demonstrated at the works of the Brush Electric Light and Power Company at Indianapolis, Ind. James Clark, an eiunlove, was instantlv killed by a shock. John* Yates aul Gregory Squires, two miners, were kiiled in a ca^e accident at Butte, Montana. They fell 120) feat. Thomas Saunders and John Young were killed by lightning near Tioga, Texas. Tex dwellings in Hazlehurst, Wis., ware destroyed by tire. A ncRRiOANEstruck Wilspoint, Texas, and every house in the town is more or less damaged". Two persons were killed outright and several injure:!. Th:; hurricane also visitjl Mesquite, Thornton, Terrell and other points in its track, doing great damage. John' Low, a farmer of Winamac, Ind., hired Michael Conuor, a youth of sixteen, to kill James McMannis. The boy fired a load of buckshot into McMannis, killing him instantly. The private bank of Chas. A. Mather & Co., at Berlin, Wis., made an assignment to Joseph Yates. James M. Hawley, the junior member of the house, has disappeared. The assets are placed at #110,009, and the liabilities at $100,000. During a sjale of wind a large section of the tiu roof cm the Stato Capitol at Jackson, Miss., was blown off. Martin* Rvan, Con. Downey anl Will Cosgrove, fishermen, were drowned by the capsizing of their bo it in San Francisco Bay, in California. Ex-(Jovernor Andrew Shuman, ol Illinois, died suddenly on the streets of Chicago of apoplexy. Annie and Bessie Parlick, two young Bohemian girls employed as servants in a Chicago (111.) boarding house, wera found dead in their be Is, having baea suffocate! by escaping gas. The great carpenters' strike for eight hours in Chicago has been finally settled, the strikers winning a signal victory. The necessary papers were signed and ratified by both sides concerned in the arbitration. C. M. Burt and his bride, of Fairfield, Neb , who were at a hotel at Grand Island, Neb., on their wedding tour, blew out the gas. They were found in their room next morning dead. A howling snow storm prevailed in Iowa for two hours. A terrific storm passed over South Georgia, leveling acres upon acres of fine pine timbered lands, raising buildings, unrooting dwellings and knocking fences dowu. Washington. I.v the Supreme Court of the United States, on motion of former Attorney-General Garland, ex-President Grover Cleveland, of New York city, was admitted to practice. President Harrison has decide 1 again to pass the summer at Deer Park, M l. Tin President says he will go there just as sodu as Congress s'aa 1 adjourn. The President approved the act providing for the establishment of a temporary government in the Territory of Oklahoma. The public debt statement shows a reduction of 17,6-36,901 in the debt for April. Several members of the House of Representatives who argued against appropriating money to reimburse themselves for the salaries stolen from them by Cashier Silcott, have returned to the Treasury the money that has been paid them on that account. Acting Secretary of the Navy Ramsay issued orders for the squadron of evolution, last reported at Malti, to proceai to Brazil for duty on the South Atlantic Station, and for Rear Admiral Gillis, now in command of that station, to proceed home on the flagship Richmond. The President made the following nominations: John S. Durham (colored), of Pennsylvania, to be United States Consul at San Domingo; David E. Bryant, United State? District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas; Henry L. Whiting, of New York, member of the Mississippi River Commission. The United States Supreme Court denied the application for a writ of habeas corpus in benalf of Kemmler, the murderer condemned to be electrocuted in the penitentiary at Auburn, N. Y. A delegation of color jd men from Mississippi, headed by ex-Senator Bruca and Auditor Lynch, had an interview with the President in regard to the best method of relieving the sufferers by the floods in that State. The United States torpedo boat Cushing arrived at the Washington Navy Yard, having made the run from New York in twentyeight and one-half hours, aperformauce that beats all previous records for that trip. Mrs. Jeajtnette M. Thurber, of New | York city, announces that she is about to organize a national conservatory of music in Washington City, and to found a memorial music hall. The Seuate and House adjourned at once to attend the funeral of Senator Beck. Plain and simple exercises were held in the Senate Chamber, and the body was then taken to Kentucky for burial. Fore i urn The United States Squadron of Evolution sailed from Malta to Algiers. Captain Zku.ver, the African'explorer, is dead. Labor Day was celebrated all over Europes by parade and meetings, but because of the extraordinary precautions taken by the authorities there were few disturbances. Huge demonstrations in favor of the eighthour movement were made in Paris, Vienna, London, Brussels, Madrid and Lisbon. The Prince of Wales presided at a reception given in London to Stanley by the Emin Relief Committee. By an explosion on the Nueltas estate, near Camarones, Cuba, three Dersons were killed and fourteen injured. Th9 house in wrhin'n f'na a-rnlr??inn occurred WtiS toiallv destroyed. The British ship Iuchcape Rock, from San Francisco for Queenstown. experienced heavy weather, during which her decks were swept and Captain Armour aud four of her crew were washed overboard and drowned. A famine prevails in Tigre, Abyssinia. Owing to the misrule of the Government, hosts of people are migrating. Many of these have died from hunger on the roadside. o.ve hundred and seventy thousand workman met in Hyde Park, London; there were no disturbances. Strikes continus in various European cities. Six stores at St. Catharines, Canada, two unoccupied, were burned. The occupants were the Parker Dye Works, Thomas Orr, harness, and D. C. McSuira, wholesale liquor. The strike of the employes of the State railways in Austria has been settled, the authorities having conceded higher wages to the men. The labor troubles in Spain have ceased, except in Barcelona and Valencia. Senor Zertuche, Governor of the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, died suddenly at Tehauntepec. Emperor William opened the German Reichstag; the speech from the throne advocated principally legislation to protect workingmen. _ Henry M. Stanley had an audience with yuoen Victoria at wintisor, r^u^iuQu. LATER NEWS. Eddie, the thirteen-year-old son of Franh Scribuer, of Hillsborough, N. H., hangec himself because his father had punished him the day before. The United States Navy Department hai awarded to the Carpenter Steel Company, oJ Reading, Penn., contracts for the construo tion of about $300,000 worth of armor-piercing projectiles of different calibres. John* D. Davis, fire boss, and William Morgan, a miner, were found dead in the minss at the Gilberton Colliery, Mahanoy Plane, Penn. The cause of their death was fire-damp, which had accumulated during the night. William H. Guiom, of New York city,has embezzled bonds entrusted to his care to the amount of $30,000. Mr. Guion was at one time a member of the great shipping firm of Williams & Guion, who founded the Guion | x^inc:. Towns along the Connecticut River suffered graatly from high water and log jams. Bridges have been carried away and mucb damage done. Miss Emma Hall, aged twenty-five, of Ithaca, N. Y., and J. Hantler, of Wilkesbarre, Punn., were killed and seven hurt by a collision of trains at a grade crossing in Allentown, Penn. At Freeport, Neb., a young man named [ Clark, who has been courting Miss Mclntyre, daughter of wealthy parents, proposed to her, and when she rejected him he shot hei fatally. Ho then blew out his own brains. Governor Joseph K. Toole, of Montana, and Miss Lily Rosecrans, daughter of General Rosecrans, Solicitor of the Treasury Department, were married in Washington. The Secretary of the Treasury sent to Congress a response to the resolution offered r ^ i?II li:~~ n ffofomanf by senator jutum-u utuiu^ w> ? jl the movement of gold anil silver, national oank notes and exports and imports during the year 1S39. The deceunial convention of delegates from the leading societies and colleges of pharmacy in the United States met in Washington. Heavy trauds and peculations have been discovered in the customs department of Buenos Ajres, Argentine Republic. The loss to the Government is now thought to b;j 810,000.000. The Germans, under Major Wissmann, captured Kilvva in Exst Africa, driving out the Arabs. A tior.D mine has beeu discovered at Dunnode, in the western part of County Cork, Ireland, and a company is being formed to work it. I RIDDLED BY BULLETS, A Condemned Murderer, Who Had Been Respited, Lynched. Will Leaphart, a young colored man convicted of criminally assaulting Miss Rose Cannon, a white girl of sixteen, and sentenced to be hanged on April 11, but who obtained a respite, was lynched during the night at Lexington, S. C. A witness of the occurrence says that the men went directly to the jail, after securing the keys, unlocked the main door and entered door after door until Leapbart's cell was reached. This they could not open with the keys. Leaphart watched the mob, and, realizing that he would be killed, seized a long iron rod and awaited the attack. As the lynchers shot through the grating of his cell, he fought like a maniac, wounding one of the party. Some five hundred shots were poured into the cell, and the man war, literally riddled with bullets, which were picked up afterward in the room by handfuls. Leaphart had been respited to allow time for a motion for a new trial on the grounds of after-discovered evidence deemed sufficient by Judge Wallace. A grave-digger at Berlin, Germany, Tia. been sentenced to one month's imprisonmenl for cutting the hair from the heads of corpses and selling the same to dealers. EXCURSIONISTS DROWNED. Terrible Accident on the Ohic Near Wheeling, W. Ya. A Naphtha Launch Capsized With Fatal Results, A dispatch from Wheeling, W. Va., says: The naphtha yacht Gertrude, built to carry ten persons and used as a ferry between Wheeling and the island where the baseball park is located, was crowded with eighteen people besides the two men in charge of the boat during the afternoon. The game had just closed and the pier was crowded with people, who rushed psll mell into the boat, loading her to the water's edge. Among the passengers were two women. They had seats alongside, and when the boat neared the wharf, where the water is deep, one of the tiller ropes pulled part of one of the worren's dresses into the pulley, thus clogging the pulleywheel and rendering the steering apparatus useless. About the same time the naphtha tank containing the fluid by which power for the engine is generated began to leak, a small wooden plug having slipped out. The fuel ran down into the generating cylinder, causing the engineer to become alarmed and lose control or Ms mactnnery. xtie increased 1 amount of fuel caused the speed of the yacht to increase, and almost in the twinkling of an eye the bow struck under the sloping bow of a sand-barge and turned over. All of the eighteen passengers and the operators were thrown into the water, and the current being very strong and the big sand barge causing a suction, nearly all of them went under its flat bottom. The few who clung to the yacht were little better off, for the little boat was drawn under the barge almost like a feather. There were several 5ther boats and skiffs near by at the time, but they could not overtake the people floating in the swift current until several had sunk to rise no more. Mrs. John Mendel, one of the womeu in the pacht, caught William Scheele by the coaf;ollar, and he in turn caught a line thrown by workmen on the sand barge. Both were pulled from tho water. Although Mrs. Mendel is in a serious condition on account of the nervous shack and severe chill, ?he will probably recover. Mrs. Charles Hornbrook, the other woman in the boat, passed entirely under the full length of che barge and was caught by the tips of her gloved hands as she was sinking from sight. She remained un conscious nearly an hour. E. Wells, one of the leading architects in the city and a member of the firm of Klives, Kraft & Co., caught a grappling hook, but it cut through his hand, staining the water with his blood. He was drowned in sight of his friends. He leaves a who uuu iui cc children. One of the boat's operators was laught by a nail under the barge and drowned. His body was rescued by passing a cable under the barge. Michael McLaughlin, President of the Baseball Association, passed under the barge and was caught 300 yards below. He was rolled on a barrel ana was brought to I with difficulty. He is a very sick man and it is feared he will die. William English, official scorer for the Baseball Club and Secretary of the A. E. Smith Brewing Company,' passed under the barge and cut a gash three inches long in his scalp on a spike in the bottom of the barge. He was in a critical condition at midnight. PolicemaD Joe Daum and a companion and Joe White, one of the Wheeling ballplayers, were saved. All the others in the boat were drowned, and their friends have not called for them. They tire supposed to be members of a gang of carpenters who were working on the island. They came here from Cambridge, Ohio, only on the day before the tragedy, so it may be some time before they are missed by their relatives. The ticket-taker has tickets for the eighteen passengers on the boat. MURDERER AND SUICIDE. Abel Uerfferson Poisons His Two Children and Himself. xt t_ .?j news uns ueeu receiveu ul me suicide ac Spraugueville, N. Y., of Abel Bergerson, who first poisoned his two young children with rat poison and then took the stuff himself. Bergerson belonged to Eboulements, in the Province of Quebec, Canada, and was accompanied to the United States by a French Canadian girl known in Eboulements as Lucie. It was her desertion that apparently induced the commission of the crime, for he left a letter, in which he said: "I have nothing now to live for. My blonde Lucie is dead to me forever. I am satisfied to end my days, for nobody can have more trouble than I have." DROUGHT IN CUBA. Sugar Plantations Suffering?Pas tures and Woods Destroyed by Fire. The drought continues throughout Cuba T rtfr?lTT cfrnnfT winrlc hflVfl hppn blowinC Many fires continue to be reported, not onlj on canefields, but also on cattle breeding pastures and farms and even in the woods. The mortality among the cattle is daily increasing. It may be said that there is not a single plantation on the island that has not suffered more or less from fire. In many localities tht ponds and brooks have completely dried up, and the water in the rivers has fallen considerably. The damage to buildings and ma chinery caused by the recent explosion on the Harmonia estate is so great that it will be impossible to resume grinding this year. A VILLAGE DESTKOYED, The Entire Business Portion of Gilboa, N. Y., Burned. A fire broke out in the Arcade, a largo tvoodon buildiug in Gilboi, N. Y., and quickly sproal to adjoining buildings, which wero soon envelopid in fia:n3s. There being no meaus of extinguishing fire, the whole village was at th3 mercy of the flames. The entire business portion of the town was destroyed, twenty-two buildings iu all. Not a store was left in the townan l most of the stocks were destroyed. The loss is estimated at from $150,030 to $17.), 000. There is only a light iusuranca, estimated at about $50,000. THE LABOR WORLD, Americans dislike hot mill work. Strikes continue throughout Europe. Ship-building in Scotland is retrograding. New York grave diggers have struck for fewer hours. There is a lack of skilled dressmakers in this country. A strike of brewery employes is imminent in New York. It is estimated that there are 25,000 workmen on strike in Germany. Of the 169,000 cotton operatives in New England, 94,000 are aliens. A working day in the factories in Germany is about twelve hours. The regular street sweepers in Paris number 2000 men and 600 women. It is computed that since April 1 fifty-five strikes have been broken in Austria. Andrew^ Carnegie's hotel for working men near Pittsburg is to co3t ?ww,ihju. Moke than 2000 Italian workmen were employed on the Fo. th bridge in Scotland. The agitation among the workingmen of Hungary is assuming colossal proportions. The wage-workers in and about Cleveland, Ohio, have $33,000,000 in the twelve savings banks in that city. Extraordinary- precautions wero taken throughout Europe to guard against outbreaks on May Day. The working girls' convention in New York decided that all their clubs should be made self sustaining. For the iirst time in the history of tho Palace Hotel, San Francisco, white have replaced the colored servants. postmaster-General Wanamaker considers the proposal to make eight consecutive hours' labor a day's work for postoffico clerks, etc., impracticable, and estimates that the cost of doing this would be $3,373,727 a year. I FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. ^ In the Senate. 9~th Day. ?The report of the special committee which investigated the meat Droducts question was presented, with four hills suggested by the facts brought out in the inquiry. . .The debate on the Customs Administrative bill was continued....A bill was reported for the examination of certain officers of the army, and to regulate promotion. 93th Day.?The Customs Administration bill passed by a vote of 35 to 18, one short of a two-thirds majority... The Jones Silver bill was brought up... .Mr. Culluin presented the report of the special committee which has investigated the relations of United States commerce to the Canadian canals and railroads... .Mr. Vest introduced a bill to amend the Interstate Commerce law by providing t ^at all express companies, whether incorporated or not, shall be placed under the provisions of that law.. .The concurrent resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Dolpii requesting the President to enter into negotiations with Great Britain and Mexico, with a view to securing treaty stipulations for the prevention of entry of Chinese laborers into the United States was agreed to. 09th Day.?Mr. Frye reported two important bills. The first bill was to place the American merchant marine engaged in foreign trade ou au equality with that of other nations, and the s-jcond to provide for ocaan mail service between the United States and foreign States and to promote commerce ... The Senate bill for the relief of Nathaniel McKay and of the executors of Donald McKay (referring to the Court of Claims their claim for further compensation for the construction of the ironclad monitors Squando and Nanset and the stfewhesl steamer Ashuelot) was passed... .The following bills were passed: Senate bill authorizing the .Secretary of War to appoint a Board of three army officers to examine and report on a national harbor of refuge near the mouth of Delaware Bay, suitable for draught vessels; Senate bill appropriating $300,000 for a home for inebriates in the District of Columbia; Senate bills to establish a public park at Pagosa Springs, Col., and another jpark in Colorado, to be called the Royal Arch rark.... At a quarter past 4 Mr. Harris interrupted the proceedings, and as'.;ed that a bulletin whicn he had just received should be read to the Senate. The presiding officer read, in a voice betraying deep emotion, the following: Western Union Telegraph Lines. Bulletin: Senator Beck just dropped dead in the Baltimore and rotomac Station. Manager W. U. Tel. Co. "In view of that?fft fact" J said Mr. Harris, "I move that the Senate do now adjourn." The motion was agreed to. Mr. IngaLls instructed the assistant Sergeantat-arms to have the Senate flag half-masted. 100th Day.? Mr. Blackburn formally announced the death of Senator Beck, and I Mnssrs. Blackburn. Harris. Vance. Kenna, Dawes, Evarts and Manderson were appointed a committea to attend the funeral. The body then adjourned. 101st Day.?The day was given up exclusively to the funeral exercises over tne body of Senator Beck. 102d Day.?The Jones Silver bill was discussed in a desultory way for an hour or more. ...The Army and the Military Academy Appropriation bills were reported ... .The Revenue Marine Transfer bill was called up... .The House bill to authorize the Secretary of War to deliver to the State of Colorado the flags carried by Colorado regiments during the Civil War was passed .... Mr, Plumb introduced two bills, one for the organization of "The Grand Army of Labor," and ona "To establish a public farm in every county within the limits of the Republic" Conference reports were presented and agreed to on the bills for public buildings at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Atchison, Kan.; Burlington, Iowa; Lafayette, Ind.; Ashland, Wis.; Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Chester, Peun., and a conference was asked on the bill for a public building at Hudson, X. Y. In the House. 107th Day.?The Anti-Trust bill was passed with only one dissenting vote... .The International Copyright bill was debat9.i. Without acting upon the bill the House adjourned. _ . 108th Day.?The Uopyrignc oiu was defeated by 126 nays to 98 yeas... .Mr. Hitt reported a substitute for the resolution referred to the committee "to promote commercial union with Canada".... Mr. Flower presented the joint resolution of the New York Legislature in favor of an increase of pay to letter carriers. Referred. Also the protest of retail druggists against a duty of ten cents a pound on sugar of lead. Referred. .. .On motion of Mr. O'Neill, a resolution was adopted setting apart Saturday, June 14, for the delivery of eulogies upon the late Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania. 109th day.?Mr. McComas reported his bill to prevent gerrymandering... .The House then went into Committee of the Whole, (Mr. Peters, of Kansas, in the chair,) on the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill. After a long debate the committee rose and the bill was passed... .On motion of Mr. Henderson a joint resolution was passed appropriating 11,000,000 for improvement of the Mississippi River from the head of the passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, such sum to be immediately available....The conference re[ port on the Oklahoma Town Site bill was presented, but no action was taken, and the I House at *:ou aajourucu. 110th Day.?The Senate amendments to the Customs Administrative bill were nonconcurred in, and a conference was ordered. Messrs. McKinley, Burrows and Carlisle were appointed conferees....The House passed a bill for the sale of a portion of the navy yard and naval hospital lands in Brooklyn to the city of Brooklyn for market purposes.. . A message having been received announcing the death of Senator Beck, and inviting the House to be present at the funeral services, Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, offered a resolution accepting the invitation. The Speaker appointed the following funeral committee: Messrs. Breckinridge, of Kentucky; Holman, Blount, Bland, Hatch, Wilson, of Kentucky; Banks, Bunnell an 1 Butterworth. The House then, as a mark>sf respect to the deceased, at 2:30 adjourned. 111th Day.?Mr. Boutelle introduced a bill intended to repair the damage inflicted upon the State Prohibition laws by the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the original package case... .The Housa then adjourned to attend the funeral of Senator Beck. 112th Day.?Mr. McKiniey called up the new Tariff bill, upon which he aud Mr. Mills spoke. A TEXAS flYOLOKTE. A Number of People Killed ami Many Houses Demolished. A destructive cyclone visited Fall Crook, in the eastern part of Hood County, Texas. At the home of Lee Rhodes his large family and a number of visitors, about twenty persons ill all, were gathered. The wind blew a granary against a chimney, which fell on the roof, crushing it in and coming down upon the occupants of the room, a majority of whom were women and children. Miss Delia Carmichael, aged seventeen, was instantly killed, as were Mary Carmichael, aged ten, an I the little baby of Mr. Gibbs. Mrs. Rhodes and her twelve-year-old daughter (Nora) wore fatally hurt. Mrs. Gibbs and her ten-year-old daughter (Tillie) were seriously injured. Other children iu the house were bruised. Many houses were blown down at Fall Croak and the occupauts injured, soui9 of them fatally. At the house ou Robinson's ranch are the bodies of three of "Doc" Grittiu's children and his sister. The house of A. F. Johnson was an overcrowded hospital. The patients included D C. McCoy, who was Dauiy uruiseu aooub mo body a>:d legs. His wife is in the samo condition. Lying by her side was their baby girl, with a broken skull. Tho child could hardly live. Dr. W. January an l his wife were there badly injured. In the next room was the body of their four-year-old biy. Twenty-one houses were demolished ami the occupants more or less injured. The tornado was half a mile wide and demolished everything in its path. "Doc" Griffin and his wife were carried to the residence of John Block. Thoy were so badly injured that their recovery was doubtful. The little hamlet of Acton, Texas, on tho lino of Parker and Hood Couutios, was blown away by a tornado. Fonr persons were killed and seven seriously wouuded. A number of houses were blown down in that vicinity. I Walt WniMAS, the poet, has beiii made almost helpless by paralysis. His physical condition is so weak that his physicians have insisted that he shall not talk with any one for more than a few words at a time. He is poor, but not neglected, as his friends in Philadelphia constantly supply his wants. JAMES BURNIE BECK. The Kentucky Senator Dies Suddenly of l?eart Disease. Stricken Near the Spot Where Garfield Fell, James B. Beck, for twenty-two years a Representative and Senator from the Stat* of Kentucky, died in "Washington at 4 o'docb In the afternoon, the immediate cause ol lis death being fatty degeneration of the oeart, from which malady he had been suffering for the past five years. He was in the Baltimore and Potomac Railway station, within 100 feet of the silver star that marks the spot where Garfield fell when struck by Guiteau's bullet, when he expired. He had just arrived on the limited express from New York, and was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Goodloe, wife of Maior Goodloe, 3f the United State3 Marine Corps. He got off the train with the rest of the passengers and walked with his laughter the entire length of the platform md through the gate leading to the station proper. He seemed to walk with an effort ind to breathe with labor, but these svmp?ms were the usual accompaniments of ex rtion with him for some months past. After passing into the station the Senator and his daughter stopped and were joined by his private secretary, who had brought a carriage to take them home. A few words were exchanged with regard to the care of baggage, when tho Senator placed his hand to nis head, saying "I am so dizzy," and fell into the arms oc his companions. Mrs. Goodloa was so overcome that she, too, fell upon the platform. The Senator was carried to the superintendent's room and died before a physician could reach him. Ten minutes laier the sad news was conveyed to the Senate chamber. His colleagues were greatly shocked aud an adjournment was at once laken. Senator Blackburn, his colleague, was a judge at the race track when the sad aews rcacned him. Senator Beck's friends were not greatly surprised at his sudden death. They have known for a long time that he was liable to irop off at any moment. Sketch of Ills Life. Senator James Burnie Beck, of Kentucky, was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, on February 13, 1822. He came to the United States with his father, a hardworking Scotch farmer, some twenty-two years later and settled in JjQxmgton, i\.y., in io-io. n.e nan i fair academic education, an abundance of bard Scotch sense, and an iron constitution. He was penniless, but determined to get enough money together to pay his way through a good law school. He wished to teach school, but could find no chance near Lexington. He appiied to Druramond Hunt, a gentleman farmer in Fayette, County, for a job at work in the fields. Mr. Hunt made him overseer of his farm. Young Beck buckled down to work with a will that soon won him a big place in his employer's heart. He broke flax, sheared sheep, and mowed grass more skilfully and rapidly than any other man on the farm. Evenings he read books from Mr. Hunt's library and from the .office of a neighboring lawyer. He saved his wages with the strictest parsimony, and at the end of a year resigned bis job On Mr. Hunt's farm to begin his studies at the Transylvania University Law School. After his gradua-, tion he opened an office in Lexington. His speaking in court was so painfully bad that he was a butt of ridicule for all the young lawyers of the city. His first partners were Ben Graves and Sam Shy, the son of a professional cock fighter. Mr. Beck left the firm shortly to enter a partnership with John ? ~ ' '? ?u-i.?j .J..,* U. iJreCKinnogB, wuu uuu jusu muicu uu 1U <T office from Georgetown to Lexington. Mr. Breckinridge was famous for his oratory, but had a small reputation as a lawyer. He did the talking for the new firm, and Mr. Beck devoted himself to the hard le?al routine of the office. While In partnership with Mr. Breckinridge Mr. Beck married Miss Thornton, a stepdaughter of General Clark, of Virginia, and a collateral descendant of George Washington. "With Miss Thornton Mr. Beck got a dowry of $30,000. He invested the money in Northwestern land, from which he made enormous profits. He worked industriously at his practice throughout the war. Iu 1866 he was elected to Congress. He served four successive terms until 1875. In 187G he was elected to the United States Senate, and was appointed member of the Commission to define the Maryland-Virginia boundary. He took his seat in the Senate on March 4,1877, and retained it until his death. During his Congressional life Senator Beck served on many important committees, and took a prominent part in many notable debates. He was specially interested in economical questions pertaining to the tariff and the currency. Mr. Beck was a constant diner-out and one of the most entertaining msn whoever sat at table. His fund of anecdote was inexliaust Ible and talking came as easy to him as swimming to a duck. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Russell Sage is seventy-five years old. Adelina Patti was forty-seveD on April 9. Chauncey Depew is fifty-six years of age. Prince Bismarck is preparing his memoirs. Thomas A. Edison smokes almost incessantly. Ben Butler is reputed to be worth $5,000,000. Mr. Gladstone says he will cut down no more trees. Crispi, the Prime Minister of Italy, is seventy years of age. Emperor William will go to Sweden about the middle of July. The Prince of Wales recently appeared in a yellow vest and green gloves. Acting Governor Taggart, of New Hampshire, is not yet thirty-two years of age. GEORGE vv. UHrLDS uqs raisea j<w,uw iui the family of the late Congressman Randall. Buffalo Bill complains that each daily mail brings him several proposals of marriage. The Pope is so ascetic in his mode of living that he is said to spend less than $1009 a year on his immediate wants. Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of the late General Robert E. Lee, is a great favorite in the best circles of "Washington. General Mahone has recently purchased 20,000 acres of coal lands for a northern syndicate in southwestern Virginia. Chancellor Boggs, of the Georgia State University, is said to be the youngest man in the United States occupying such a position. J at Gould has lately taken a great deal of exercise in walking and a marked improvement in his health is attributed to the practice. James Whitcomb Riley's poems bring him $25 to $50 each. In the early days of his verse-making he was glad to get a tenth of these sums for his poems. The Maharsjah of Mysore is an enthusiastic and accomplished violinist, and has formed a string band of sixty players, to give open-air concerts at Mysore. Dr. C. T. Parkes, a Chicago physician, has received a fee of $25,000 for less than a month's attendance on a patient who was afflicted with a cancer in the face. John Ogden Armour, prospective heir to the millions of Philip D. Armour, is about twenty-six years old and good-looking,a club man, ulways carefully dressed and is rated at over a million of his own. Bonanza. Mackey is disposing of his various mining properties on the Pacific slope that are said to be worth about $10, 000,000, and expects nenceioria 10 maw uw permanent residence in New York. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Minister at Washington, is an expert with the foils and with the short sword. He is considered one of the finest-looking diplomats ever stationed at Washington. The little town ot Pankow, near Germany is preparing for an event which promises to make her name famous. From July 6 to 10 at least 10,000 German marksmen will assemble there to celebrate the tenth national German shooting festival by competing for ?li>0,000 worth of prizes. The arrests for the past year In TTew York city reached 82,200, and of these 21,184 were for intoxication, 16,810 for disorderly conduct, 93 for gambling, 0 for murder, 18S for attempted suicide, 0 for kidnapping and 631 for insanity. I temperance! .fl bbware! Beware, my boy, of the tempter's snare, Beware of his trodden way! From the lowest den to the palace fair, Too oft you will trace his footsteps there, Where ne bides in a secret lair, On thy precious life to prey. Beware, my boy, beware! jggsjg Beware, my boy, of the tempter's snare, Beware of his wily ways! Like a silken web for the foolish fly! , . . ym He weaves thee a net; never venture nigh, Lest you would a wreck in its meshes lie? A wreck of your youthful days, Beware, my boy, beware! Beware, my boy, of the tempter's snare, Beware of the sparkling bowl! From its depths cometh forth a bitter re^rom innocent blood of its millions slain, While the Are of hell seizes heart and brain, And mocks o'er the ruined soul. beware, mv boy, beware! ?S. Minerva Boyce, in Yanlcee Blade. THE HOT WATER CURE. A fjormon who mnfMSM that. h? l!hr>n1r not . less than nine drinks of intoxicants a day for many years," strongly recommends the hot ' '"'Ajw water cure, and says: "I have taken a great deal of the so-called 'drink cure, but it is very expensive and the system soon craves it like drink, but the hot water affords entire relief, if takeu at ouce in the morn.ng." , THE SUPREME ISSUE. The supreme issue is: The drink traffic is an unqualified crime and must b& suppressed. The rum power is the block in the wheel of . - ffiSI all wholesome political progress. The forces of honest labor, safe homes, and sound gov- . ernmentmust unite. The enemies of rum, monopoly, and corruption are in solid phalanx, standing by eacli other. The rum power is the king power. When it falls its allies fall. The supreme issue is: The drink traffic is an unqualified curse and must be suppressed.?Connecticut Home. THE SALOON AND BOYS. Some one bas said that saloons can no more be run without boys than saw mills without logs. Lately in Chicago "a school teacher noticed a knot of boys counting the number of holes in some cards. He called one of them up and insisted on knowing what it meant, and the boy told him that a saloonkeeper, who had his saloon near the school, had given them those cards, and every time they took a drink he punched them?one hole for beer, two for straight drinks, and three for mixed drinks?and each month he gave prizes. The boy who had the most noles punched in his card got a revolver, the second a life of Jesse James, and the third a meerschaum pipe." THE BIGHT KIND OF TRAINING. Elizabeth Harrison, Principal of the Chicago Kindergarten Training School, in - . S<32M discussing "The Root of the Temperance Question from a Kindergarten Standpoint," relates the following suggestive incident: "I know of the kindergarten-trained fiveyear-old son of a millionaire who refused Tsrhon tViAxr wftrp nno&vi tn him at the table. 'Why, my son,' said his father, 'do you not want some pickle? It is very nice.' 'No,' replied the boy, 'I don't see auy use in eating spiced pickle. It don't help to make me strong: my teacher says it don't.' If this kind of training can be carried out, such a boy will grow into the young man, who, when tempted, can easily say, 'No. I see no use in that. It will not help to make me a stronger or better man.'" CATTLE PRIVILEGES. It has often been remarked that half the z&re bestowed on the sanitary welfare of our domestic cattle would suffice to regenerate the human race, but savage nations at least are now and then permitted to share such privileges of their dumb fellow-creatures. A receut writer on the ethuological curiosities of Northern Asia informs us that "near- - 3 (y all the Siberian nations eat a species of toadstool, called by them muk-a-mur, which in small doses proauces all the effects of alcoholic liquor. Its habitual use shatters the nervous system, and its sale to the natives by traders is made a penal offence by the Russian Government." Yet that same Government derives a yearly revenue of 115,000,000 rubles from the sale of nerve-shattering alcoholic liquors to its civilized subjects. Those liquors, to be sure, are sold under highly attractive names, and the scope of pater- * . i<al legislation must be limited to muk-a-mur * ? ? 1 fWlV ~ ailU caiue-ioou.??nc r unr. NEW TORK'8 ANNUAL DRINK BILL. New Yorkers succeed in disposing of 47,000,000 gallons of liquor, beer and wine in a single year. The average drink is a gill, say making 1,504,000,000 drinks. If the big Croton reservoir at Forty-second street were filled with such beverages New Yorkers would empty it nearly two and on&half tirfies during a year. If the big Central Park reservoir, having . a capacity for 200,000,000 gallons, should be filled with liquor, beer and wine the consum- ?,< ers in the cities of New York and Brooklyn and the State of Now Jersey would empty it 1 n fwA rrao r*o . New Workers spend over $70,000,000 every year for liquor, beer and wino. There are in the city 7787 places licensed to sell alcoholic drink?. In order to exist the smallest one of. these places must sell at least $10 worth of drinks a day. Many of the best bars take in $125 to $150 a day. At the Hoffman House, where one has to pay fancy prices to bask in the smiles of classic art, the receipts are fully $500 a day. No bar can pay its way through tho re* ceipts tor beer alone. It is the hard stuff that brings in the profit. While a saloon would soon go to the wall if it depended on | the sale of beer alone, there axe numerous ' " i gardens like the Atlantic, Volks, Theiss'sand Blank's that thrive almost solely from the beer receipts. In the gardens the glasses are smaller and twenty are sold were ono is drawn from behind the bar in a saloon. Averaging all the bars in town, they tak? in about $25 a day or $70,000,000 a year. "You can divide the consumption of wine^ liquor and beer," said a well-informed whole* sale dealer to the Journal reporter, "into the fnllnivina'nroDortions: Wine. $1: beer, $20: liquor, $30." Estimating from these proportions there are expended by Now Yorkers at the licensed places every year: $1,700,000 for wine; $17,000,000 for beer and ^51,000,00 for liquor." "Then to this," continued the Jov.1~n.aV9 informant, ''you must add at least $3,000,000 spent in wiues, beer and liquor at the groceries. But for calculation your round figure of $70,000,000 is sufficient." The wine consumed by New Yorkers, from cheap clarets to the best champagnes, will cost on an average $2.50 a gallon, the bear eighty cents a gallon, and the liquor $2 a gallon. So we consume every year 680,000 gallons of wine, 21,250.000 gallons of beer, and 25.500,000 gallons of liquor. Then think of the millions of dollars that are expended to make the saloons look attractive.? New York Journal. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. nifinhnma. 1ms formed a White Ribbon circle. There were 11,11S women locked up in five police cells in Chicago in 1889. There is not now a ship in the 3ritish navy without a temperance society. John E. Graham, of Salem, Mass., has found a ?o bill on which is inscribed: "The last of 3100,000 for rum. Albany, June, 15, 1889. E. G. Taket." Mrs. McGurty, of Oaklaud, III., has socured a verdict of $1000 damages against Campbell & Rosenberry, who sold her husband intoxicants prior to his death from expos uro while iu a uelpless condition. In discussing lager boer a German critic insists that there is in the German vocabulary no such word as lager, which he believes to be purely a Vieuneso expression. There is also very little lager about a great dpm nf tlia hftAi* that is nut out-. , 4 The statistics of the Parisiau prefecture of Eolice show that from 1872 to 1888 the nurner of cases of insanity in tlie city has augmented by onc-thir J. Dr. Paul Gamier, the able police physician, attributes this startling increase to the use ot alcohol amoug the working classes. The Sheriff of Jones County, Iowa, in the exercise ot' his official authority, lately summoned a number of promiuont citizens of Cascade, Iowa, including the Mayor, most of the City Council anil other officials, as habitual drunkards, to appear at Auamosa, the county seat of Jones County, and to testify against the fourteen saloon keepers at Cas' cade. ?^____