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important Doings of the LawMakers
at Washington.
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jNaval Commander McCalla Suspended
for Three Years.
! The action of the Secretary of the Nary
In the case of Commander Bowman H.
McCalia, late commander of the United
States steamship Enterprise, has been
made public. He was tried by courtmartial
on five charges, as follows: Striking
another person in the navy (Fireman John
E. Walke:); violation of the Twenty-fourth
article of the Articles for the Govern*
ment of t':e Navy (inflicting improper punishments);
maltreatment of persons subject
to his orders, conduct unbecoming an officer
of tho navy and violation of the tenth clause
of the twentieth article of tho Articles for
the Government of the Navy, in failing to
read to the ship's company the Articles for
the Government of the Navy.
I The court found him guilty of all the
charges^ and sentenced him to '"be suspended
from rank and duty for a period of
three years and to retain nis present number
on the list of commanders whilo so suspended."
The Secretary approves the finding of the
court, "except in that part which finds
.that Commander McCalla caused men to be
kept standing upon their feet, toeing a seam,
on the quarterdeck of the vessel from about
9 p. m. to about 1 a. m. for four consecutive
nights."
; The Secretary reluctantly approves the finding
that in ironing the meu together McCalla
did not impose unauthorized punishment,
and does so only because the court seemed to
think the ironing was necessary at the time.
i Accompanying the record in the case is a
recommendation to clemency, subscribed by
ten of the twelve members of the court.
| The Secretary is of opinion, however, that
.there are "no grounds which would, in the
(judgment of the department, justify a mitii
gation of the punishment imposed by the
court.
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A Statue ot Secretary Stanton.
The House Library Committee has made
a favorable report on the bill introduced by
Mr. Boutelle tor the erection of a statue iii
Washington City ot Edward ja. Stanton,
Lincoln's Secretary of War. The statue,
which is to be of heroic size, is
to be east, if possible, from the bronze of
condemned cannon used by the Union forces
in the War of the Rebellioa, and is to
stand in the open plaza at the front of
the State, Navy and War Department
Building. An apppropriation of $50,000
is made tor the statue and
pedestal. This is not a good year for statues
to public men, but the Library Committee
hoped to get through without difficulty so
worthy a project as the erection at the Capital
of a fitting memorial of one of the most
commanding figures in the history of the
Civil War.
The Sale of Liquor in Army Canteens.
The Secretary of War has amended paragraph
329 of the Army regulations as follows:
The sale or use of ardent spirits or wines
in canteens is strictly prohibited; but the
commanding officer is authorized to permit
light beer to be sold therein by the drink, on
week days, and in a room used for no
other purpose, and, when practicable, in
a building apart from that in which
the canteen is located, whenever he is satisfied
that the giving to the men the opportunity
of obtaining such beverages within the
post limits has the effect of preventing them
from resorting for strong* intoxicants to
places without such limits, end tends to promote
temperance and discipline among them.
The practice of what is known as "treating"
must not be permitted.
,1 To be Returned to China.
I As a result of correspondence between
the Department of Justice and the Treasury
Department, it has been decided to send back
to China the twenty-one Chinamen who
vers smuggled into this country
rfrom Mexico, and who are now in
custody in San Diego, Cal Thoy will
tmn c?f>rrorl tn San FrmpLipn and nlfica.'l
on the first steamer sailing for China.* This
action is taken on the theory that it is cheaper
and better for the Government to bear the
expense of their return to China, than to
send them back iuto Mexico, and run the
chance of having to re-arrest them and send
them back indefinitely.
Minister Palmer Resigns.
Ex-Senator Palmer, Minister to Spain, arrived
in Washington and called on the President.
He announced his intention of resigning
his post at once, unless it shall be decided
that there is some diplomatic necessity for
his return to Spain. Secretary Blaine will
be consulted on this point, and it is thought
that no reason wiil be found why Mr.
Palmer should not remain in this country
and become a private citizen. It is uruleritood
that the matter of his successor has
already been practically determined upon,
but the name of the coming Minister is not
i i-T. ?:ii
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Senate Committee Appointments.
' Vice-Fresident Morton bas announced the
following appointments on Senate committee?:
Senator Sanders,of Montana-Irrigation and
{tecldmation of Arid Lands, Improvement of
(he Mississippi River. Enrolled Bills andEximination
of the Several Branches of the
Civil Service.
; Senator Power, of Montana?Immigration
ind Naturalization, Railroads, Revolutionary
Claims, Transportation and Sale of Meat
Products.
President Harrison at tho Circns.
Baby Benjamin Harrison McKee had a high
>ld time at the circus. Accompanied by the
president, Mrs. Harrison, Captain Dinsniore,
frivate Secretary Halford and hisnursa,
[faster McKee visited Barnum's. He had lots
Of fun with "Tom Thumb," the baby elePphant,
and enjoyed the privilege of getting
>n his back and riding about the ring. Later
Baby McKee got astride a pony colt and
trotted him about the ellipse.
urenuvuiiiig inc zauiiv;.
: The Secretary of the Navv has ordered a
nirvey oa the Yantic at the Kew York Navy
Yard to determine the cost of fitting her for
another cruise. Her boilers need considerable
repairs, but in other respects she is in
very good condition. She will not probably
get to sea again before lato in the summer,
as there will be little money available for repairs
until the beginning of the next fiscal
y&ar.
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Jay Gould was born May 27, 1836.
The Xing of Holland is now practically an
imbecile.
The Prince of Wales is said to be practising
t3*pe-setting.
Chauxcey Depew is a cousin in the third
degree to both Senator Evarts and Senator
Hoar.
Ex-Secretary Bayard follows the English
sfv!<> and simnlv has "itr. Bavard" on
his cards.
Jean* Ingelow, the poetess, is nearly sixty
years of age, but looks quite young, and is
very active.
Princess Bismarck never addresses or
refers to her illustrious husband otherwise
than as "Bismarck."
Queen* Christine, of Spain, is thirty-one
years old. She is said to be tho most popular
Queen the nation ever had.
Dr. Catling, the inventor of the famous
gun, is now an old man of 80, with snowwhite
hair and a clean-shaven face.
' The Queen of tho Belgians is one of the
best equestrians in that country, and can
drive a six-in-hand with grace and safety.
? Ex-Senator Sawteii, of Alabama, now
earns his daily bread as a second class clerk
. -in the War Department at Washington.
B The youngest millionaire in New York is
Marshall O. Roberts, son of the late Marshall
O. Roberts. He is ten years old and worth
$5,000,000.
Mue. Carnot, wife of the President of
France, is said to be unpopular in that country.
She is nevertheless praised for many
acts of charity.
' TT Is estimated that there are 3000 'horsrback
riders in the Central Park, New Yor*
every fafr day in the season, and tha"
Aardlr day bum ritbovt an aoddtofc Jt
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. |
Eastern and Middle States.
Brigadier General Nelson* H. Davis
(retired) died at Governor's Island, New
York harbor, of heart disease.
Mrs. Cordelia F. Hall, wife of President
G. Stanley Hall, of Clark University,
Worcester, Mas?., and their eight-year-old
daughter, Julia, were found deau in" bed at
their residence, suffocated by illuminating
gas.
Three little boys were killed by a bank cf
earth falling upou them in Brooklyn, N. Y
Oliver Bell Bunce, editor, author and
playwright, died suddenly in New York
. city.
Three Italians wero killed and several
others severely injured by the collapse of a
coal bank at Olyphant, Penn. The mass
started from the height of 100 feet and fell
upou the victims.
Five men sought shelter in a des?rted
cabin near Moose River, Me., and built a fire
on the floor. There was a keg of powder
buried there. Two of the men are dead, the
other three were terribly injured, and the deserted
cabin is no more.
The Excise Commissioners of New York
city were indicted for misdemeanor by the
Grand Jury for neglecting their duty.
Commander McCalla was detached from
command of the Enterprise at the Brooklyn
(N. Y.) Navy Yard.
Governor Bulkelet, of Connecticut, assisted
by his staff, inaugurated the Soldiers'
Hospital at Noroton. There was a big crowd
present.
sylvanus kan'd, agea eignuesn, anu ms
sister Josephine, were drowned by the sinking
of a row boat at Portsmouth, N. H.
A trite bill was found by th9 Grand Jury
atScottdale, Penn., in the case of Edward
Callaghan against General Master Workman
Powderly, of the Knights of Labor, for alleged
conspiracy in defeating Callaghan for
the Senatorial nomination in 18S8 and ruining
his business.
Jacob S. Reisinger, for many years the
Superintendent of the County Poor Farm,
was murdered with an axe at Freaport, 111.,
by an insane man named William Wilhelin.
Arthur Pell, Frank Griffith and Jamas
Wilcox wvro drowned in Fox River, ne.^r
Yorkville, 111. They were out in a boat fishing
and it is supposed had bean drinking.
Covington, tha notorious saloon town
across the river from Sioux City, Iowa, has
been totally destroyed by fire.
Aleck Strecks, color ad, wa> hanged at
Donaldsonville, La., for the murder of Lettie
Washington. His neck was instantly dislocated
by the fall.
The Secrstary of the Navy has orderad
the North Atlantic Squadron to rendezvous
at Portlaud, Me., on J uly 3 and 4, on tha occasion
of the twenty-first auuual reunion of
the Army of tha Potomac.
Ex-Goverxor Elisha Dyer, of Rhode
Island, died in Providence, aged seventynine
years.
Owen Evans and Thomas Burke * were
killed in tha Empire Colliery at Georgetown,
uy uu e.vyiuaiua ui gaa.
Bastino Ipoldo, an Italian bootblack,
was killed in Now York city, in plain sight
of many passersbv, by a live electric wire.
Captain* Malvern Gp.ixdle and his
brother Frederick were drowned at Castine,
Me , by tha capsizing of a boat.
He.vry Martin*, of Piscataway Township,
N. J., died in his ona hundred and first year.
He was the pioneer oysterman of the Raritan
River.
Jeremiaii Ccrrier, nineteen, of Manchester,
N. H., snapped a revolver at his
twelve-year-old brother. Tho gun happened
to be loaded an I the boy dropped dead.
The Public Grain and Stock Exchange,
limited, of IS Wall street, New York city,
tlje largest bucket shop in tha country, has
suspended with liabilities of about $2,00J,000.
Floods have ruined crops and washed out
railroads in Central New York. Canutoo,
N. Y., was inundated, and great damage was
iuSicted at Utica, Buffalo, Hornellsville and
Binghamton.
i\iu21a;;l> v au a. ^ourja ai; w ti^ ciawu w
Congress from the Third District of Pennsylvania,
to succeed S. J. Randall.
John Maro.vey, a scoopsr, fell into tho
hold of the steam barge Italia at Buffalo, N.
Y., and was instantly killed. His sister, Mrs.
Thomas Hanrahau, upon being notified of
his death fell dead from heart disease.
The Union Labor Convention of Portland,
Me., has nominated I.R.Clark for Governor.
Lcdwig Marquardt, an artist, of Philadelphia,
Penn., murdered his wife, Frederilca,
by shootiug her several times, and died
shortly afterward from the effects of poison
he had evidently taken before attempting hb
wife's life.
Boston* striking carpenters have received
a draft for *.>090 from the Amalgamated
Society of Carpenters and Joiners o? England.
Sontli and West.
The Rev. Dr. W. E. Moore, of Columbus,
of Ohio, was chosen Moderator of the Presbyterian
General Assembly at Saratoga, N.
\. The annual sermon was preached by th9
Rev. Dr. W. C. Roberts, the retiring Moderator.
John Colmski and Michael Vocintz were
instantly killed arid Peter Basco wa^ seriously
injured by a fall of rock in a tunnel near
Park Place, Penn.
The Winona Mill Company's immense
a ; III .iTIT: rt I
uuuilllg mux til hiujuu, lau^uv uiu,
ana the entire plant, including the mil!, elevator
and surrounding buildings were destroyed.
The total loss on the property is
estimated at $300,003.
C. M. TVnittaicer anl G. M. Stubbs were
crushed to death in a granite quarry near
Monrovia, Cal.
The General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian Church, at Asheville, N. C.,
elated tha Rev. Dr. James Park, of Knoxville,
Tena., Molerator.
Ax east-bouud train was derailed near
Butte, Montana, and the sleeper, containing
the N. C. Goodwin Company, rolloi down an
embankment, Manager Dutfie and two other
members of tha company being killed.
Fire, which started in a saloon from the
explosion of a lamp, destroyed half a block
of frame dwellings at Spokane Falls,
"Washington. Two persons were burned to
death. The loss amounts to about 850,000.
Columbus, Texas, has been almost entirely
submerged by the Colorado River.
John Siebep.ry, of Ft. "VVayne, Ind., playfully
pointed a pistol at his eighteen-year-old
wife and pulled the trigger. It was loaded,
and she was killed.
Lewis Smith and Edward Elkins, traveling
salesmen of Montgomery, Ala., quarreled
over a vouug lady and began to shoot.
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Destructive storms and frosts were reported
in North Carolina, Kansas, Missouri,
Minnesota and South Dakota.
Alexandria Starks (colored), twentythree
years old, was hanged at Donaldsonvine,
La., for the murder of Lillie Alice
Washington, a little colorod girl six years of
age.
John G. Cap.isle was nominated by acclamation
by tho Democratic caucus at
Frankfort, Ky., for United States Senator,
to fill tho unexpired term of the late James
B. Beck.
Marion Tccker, a farmer living a short
distance from Stanton, Neb., while 011 rowing
on a small lake on his farm with his two
children, upset the boat aud the three were
drowned.
THE millers ot soutnern Illinois ana eastern
Missouri hav? formed o, trust and will
operate the sixteen mills as one, thus controling
the price of flour iu the South and
Southwest.
Ex-United States Senator Jones, of
Florida, was committed to an insane asylum
near Detroit, Mich.
Dupont, Ga., wjs visited by the heaviest
hailstorm ever known in the history of the
to?vn. Tne stones averaged troni threeI'aarters
of an inch to an inch in length.
Crops will bs t'>t:illy ruined by the severity
af t!ie storm. The hail lasted from twenty
to thirty minutes.
B03 Crawford, a white convict, cornmitie
1 suicide at tin Piatt mines near Birmingham,
Ala., by blowing himself up with
dynamite, which halbaen given him to blast
mines
Senator-elect Carlisle, of Kentucky,
decide! to continue to occupy his seat in the
House until the McKinley bill had been voted
upon. .
Kate Kane, a lawyer of Chicago, was
admitted to membership before the bar of
the Supreme Court in Washington on the
motion of Robert G. Ingerjoll. Miss Kane
is the eighth woman lawyer to add her
name to tne Supreme Court list.
City Trf.\surkr I^eake, of Kansas City,
Mo., was suspended from office, a shortage
of between $17,000 and 120,000 having been
i discovered in his accounts.
Edward Fladung, a German, shot and
kiiled his wife at San Francisco, Cal., and
then shot himself, inflicting a fatal wound.
His wife had left him on account of a domestic
quarrel.
A mare belongiug to William Barnes, near
Eltnwood, Mo., recently foaled a trio of
colts. It is believed to be the only case on
record.
Washington.
The Secretary of War has amended the
army regulations so as to prohibit the sale of
liquor in canteens to soldiers.
The President has approved the act providing
for the disposal of the Fort Sedgwick
military reservation in Colorado and
Nebraska to actual settlers, under the provisions
of the Homestead laws, and the act
providing for town site entries of lands in
Oklahoma.
Pay Inspector Stewart has been ap
pointed Paymaster-Genaral of the Navy.
The Secretary of the Navy has written a
letter to the Ssnate calling attention to the
importance of an appropriation to provide
a?ms for issue to the recently organized
naval militia.
Colonel W. H. Canady, SergeantratArms
of the United States Senate, has tendered
to Vice-President Morton his resignation.
Mr. Canady resigns for the purpose of
engaging in private business.
Senator Chandler presented the petition
of 00,000 residents of New York city and
rjeL-incr hoT(? Badloa's Island. unon
which stands tho Bartholdi Statue of Liberty,
converted into a free Government park for
the benefit and enjoyment of people.
The Secretary of the Treasury has apSointed
Professor William Few-smith, of New
ersey, to be Government Actuary at a
salary of $2250 per annum, vice Mr. Joseph
S. McCoy, transferred.
The Senate in executive session confirmed
the following nominations: United States
Consuls?J. C. Chambers, of New York, at
Batoum, Russia; Henry Ballentine, District
of Columbia, at Bombay; J. S. McCoughan,
of Iowa, Aldurango; W. H. Abercrombie, of
New Jersey, at Nagasaki; Charles Neglev. of
Maryland, at Rio Grande do Sul; S. D. Pace,
of Michigan, at Port Sarnia, and Charles
Ware, of Iowa, at Vera Cruz.
Miss Margaret Isabella Blaine, the
daughter of Secretary Blaine, and Mr. Walter
J. Dararosch, son of the late Dr. Leopold
Dauiroscb, of Now York, were married by
the Rev. Dr. Douglass, the rector of St.
John's Church, in the old Seward mansion at
Washington.
The United States Supreme Court rendered
a decision in the Fiske will case adverse
to Cornell University, of Ithaca, N. Y.
This result means a loss to the university of
about $1,750,000. Decisions were also handed
down declaring the dressed beef law of Minnesota
to be unconstitutional, and declaring
the confiscation of $750,000 worth of property
belonging to the Mormon Church to
have been just.
The President sent to Congress a letter of
the Secretary of State submitting the plan
rv rvv/iliminortr curi-av fr?r a rniliv/iv line
IV! *i piciiiuiua.j on. . - ? J
to connect the priucipal cities of the American
Hemisphere, in accordance with the recommendations
of the Pan-American Conference.
The share of the United States iu
the cost of the survey will be 665,00!).
Senator Blair introduced a joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the Constitution,
providing that neither the United
States nor any State shall pass any law authorizing
the establishment or maintenance
of any lottery or distribution of prizes by
chance. . ,
The seat in the Sonata formerly occupied ,
by Mr. Beck will hereafter belong to Mr.
Iteagan, of Texas, and Mr. Carlisle, when he
is sworn in, will be assigned to one of th9
chairs at the end of the outer row.
Foreign.
Mr.. Charles Emory Smith, the new
American Minister to Russia, presented his <
credentials to the Czar. The Czarina sub- ;
sequently gave an audience to Mr. and \
Mrs. Srmf.li_
A small uprising against the Government
in Rio Graude do bul, Brazil, was put down. 1
Several striking miners at Bilboa,
Spain, were killed in a conflict with the 1
gendarmes. (
A marriage engagement has been entered ,
into between Henry M. Stanley, the African
explorer, and Miss Dorothy Tennant, a 1
young English lady of aristocratic tendencies
aud greatly admired for her beauty. (
The city of Tomsk, in Western Siberia,has j
been almost completely destroyed by flood
and fire. Many lives have been lost.
Tite Dominion Parliament of Canada has '
been prorogued.
O.ne of tho boilers of the steamar Ville de
Tangier exploded at Marseilles, France.
Three of tue crew of the steamer were
killed and four were badly injured. The
steamer sustained much damage.
Thomas McCheane,Consular Agent of the
United States at Portsmouth, England, has
committed suicide at Southern Castle, near
there.
The steamer Harold, bound from Bilbao
to Glasgow, has foundered off the Irish coast.
Six persons were drowned.
Sir Alfred Kirbv, owner of the Deptford
Distilling Works, London, England,
has failed, with liabilities estimated at $1,- .
100 000.
The new Japanese Cabinet has been
formed, the Minister of Agriculture being
the late Minister to the United States.
Kussia has made one ot her periodical rie- 1
Hands on Turkey for the payment of tha
war indemnity. The Russian Ambassador
?t the Porte has threatened that unless the
arrears from the new loan are paid Russia
will reserve the right to take further measures.
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The International Miners' Conference
opened in Brussels, Belgium.
The marriage of Miss Clare Ward, of Detroit,
Mich., and Prince de Caraman Chimay,
son of Prince de Chimay, Belgian Minister
of Foreign Affairs, took place at Paris. Tho
witnesses for the bride were Mr. Whitelaw
Reid, the American Minister to France, and
Lord Lytton, the British Ambassador.
A serious collision between the striking
colliers and the troops occurred at Pilsen,
Bohemia, in which five of the strikers were
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KlliUU UUU rrrvcu nyuxtuvu.
SEVEN DBOWNED,
A Schooner Capsized Near Kingston,
Canada.
About one o'clock in the afternoon the Jessie
Brock, a two masteil vessel, capsizid off
Nine Mile Point, Kingston, Canada. Many
people watched her as she struggled against
the storm. The steamer Hiram Calvin
started up the lako and an hour later
found the water logged Brock floating on her
side. Tho crew were drowned, as the vessel
capsized too quickly for any to be saved. The
crcw included:
R. Davidson, a sailor, of Kingston; George
Frank, a sailor, of Kingston; 'Ihos. Mackie,
the captain; Joseph Mackie, the inate; John
Mackie. .1 sailor; Maria Mackie, the cook; ,
W. Mullen, a sailor, of Kingston.
The Mackios were all of the satno family
and they lived 011 Wolfe Island.
It is thought that the lifeboats had b33n
washfd away, and when Captain Mackie
hauled the vessel up before the wind sho
filled and went over. The schoonor was on
her way from ioieuo to uararju imj.uu, muber
ladeu. She was valued at $5000 iud uninsured.
VICTORIOUS FRENCH.
They Capture Two Towns and. Kill
1500 Daliomian? in Africa.
The Temps, of Paris, publishes a despatch
from Senegal, Africa, stating that ths French
have captured Segou and Auosebougon after
conflicts with the Dahomians. The forces of
the Dahomians at the battle at Auosebougou,
which took place on April 25, numbered fifteen
hundred. All of them were killed. The
French loss was fifteen killed and seventytwo
wounded. ..
The Common Council of Chiffiea, 3Tass.,s,t
a meeting roconaidered its recent vote to petition
the Legislature for a change of name,
owing to the common use in neighboring
cities of tho expression "as dead as Chelsea,"
and the city will retain the name of Chelsea
that it received as a town in 1739.
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George W. Roberts, who for twenty
years has been the book-keeper and confidential
manager of the Smith & Grigg3 Manufacturing
Company, at Waterbury, Conn.,
was arrested, charged with embezzling
$10,000.
C. F. L. Kinxier, cashier of the Pennsylvania
Gas Company, at Warren, is a defaulter
to the amount of ?10,000.
A freight wreck occurred at Elizabeth
Furnace, Penn. Fifteen cars and one engine
were demolished. An engineer, a fireman
and two brakemen were killed.
Six washouts were reported on the Upper
Coos Railroad, in New Hampshire. A
wrecking train that started out to make repairs
went through an undermined bridge
six miles north of Stratford. J. Twohey,
Superintendent of the road, and a section
man wero buried under the engine and killed.
A laborer named James Hendrickson,
sixty-five years old, in Chicago, 111., unsuccessfully
attempted to shoot his daughter,
Mrs. Peterson, fatally wounded his wife and
killed himself within a minute.
Grant Anderson, colored, was taken
from the court room at Columbus, Miss.,
where he was being tried for assault upon a
thirteen-year-old girl, and hanged to the
nearest tree.
Hotel Keeper Littlefield, of Jesup,
Ga., shot and killed County Surveyor McCall
and his unfaithful wife, Mrs. Littlefield.
The resignation of Sergeant-at-Arms Canaday
was presented in the Senate, to take effect
June 30.
At a Cabinet meeting the British proposals
for a settlement of the seal question
were rejected, and the United States war
ship Bear has been ordered to seize and dismantle
British vessels engaged in sealing in
Behring Sea.
President Harrison signed an act providing
that all mail matter, of whatever
class, restive to tho census, and addressed
to the Census Office, to the Superintendent
of Census, his chief clerk, supervisors, or
enumerators, shall be transported free by
registered mail.
The President has nominated Isaac W.
Dyer to bo United States Attorney for the
District of Maine.
J. D. Abrahams, Deputy Controller of the
Currency, tendered his resignation to the
Secretary of the Treasury.
The United S tates Navy Department has
formally accepted the cruiser Vesuvius from
the contractors, the Pneumatic Dynamite
Gun Company, of New York.
Francisco Romero, a tax collector in
Merida, Yucatan, committed suicide by
shootinp because he was found to be SSOOC
short iu his accounts.
Eyp.aud, the Paris murderer, was captured
in Havana, Cuba.
The Provincial Government of Nova
Scotia is sustained in the elections by a large
majority. Twenty-eight Government candidates
are reported elected out of a House
of thirty-sight members.
Dispatches from Acheen, Africa, say that
the Dutch lost three killed and fourteen
wounded in a futile attempt to recover a position
from which they had been driven by
the natives. The latter lost fourteen killed.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayros, Argentine
Republic, says that twenty-six persons
were killed and forty-one wounded in the recent
rising at Puerto Alegre.
Chile declines to sign the Pan-American
treaty for compulsory arbitration.
At Conselice, Italy, a mob of 500 women
and 200 navvies who had gone on strike
tried to force an entrance into the Town
Hall, shouting "We are starving!" The
;rowd stoned the troops who were guarding
the Municipal Building and the latter were
compelled to use their firearms. Several
persons were killed and a number were
wounded.
THE LABOR WORLD.
An epidemic of strikes is prevailing.
Silk culture is being revived in Ireland.
There are 75.000 idle men in California.
The great Pittsburgh strike was in 1877.
Fresh strikes are reported from Austria.
In the old countries cigars are made by female
labor.
An industrial school is to be startel at
Newport, R. I.
The gas workers went on strike at Hamburg,
German}'.
TnE iron and steel makers are complaining
of low prices.
The railmakers all over the country are
crowded with work.
A Boston gun making concern is about
moving to Blufftou, Ala.
Labor controversies cause less interruption
than was ant:cipated.
Andrew Carnegie's naw hotel for workingmen
at Pittsburg will cost $200,ODD.
An organization of newsboys and boot1,1
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uiu'jjva uua uoca cucui>cu in xswuroi, wv?.
A dozen or mora rolling mills are projected,
nearly all of tham to ba built in the
South.
A new labor conference composed of delegates
from all over Germany is to be held in
Berlin.
Inquiry among the London trade unions
develops the facts that they were nover more
prosperous than now.
In some German towns manufacturers
have established a "strike fund" with which
to fight their workmen.
A Providence (R. I.) concern has secured
an order from the Government for four
mora steel torpedo boats.
A gymnasium and sewing school have been
attached to the Workmen's Free School of
Yorkville, New York city.
The Canadian labor unions have recommended
the Government to establish a scheme
of compulsory insurance for 'he working
classes.
The growing probability of a general
strike among the iron workers of this country
is giving employers a good deal of uneasiness.
The wage workers throughout the country
have by their actions of the past year put
themselves in a stronger position than they
have ever oceupiaJ.
The Williamsport (Penn.) Wire Company
has just made a cable for tha Reading Railroad
Company, one mile long, two and onehaif
inches iu diameter, and weighing 40,QW
pounds.
The laboring cla^sas throughout Germany
aio responding loyally to the young Emperor's
proposals for battering ta) coalition
of working people, an 1 the workingmin lose
uo opportunity to cheer tor the Emperor.
There are to-day not less than 101,000
Italians in the city of New York. Thasa
fellows enter into immadiate compatitiou in
tho realms of cheap labor. To such an extent
is this a fact that cigarmakers who
easily earne l $12 a week a few years ago now
find it difficult to get?4.
The Mexican Postoffice Departmenl
is about to adopt a novel device. A
phonograph is to be placed in eacb
principal oflico in the country, for the
accommodation of the numerous citi
zens who cannot read or write. The il
literate Mexican will go to the post
ofiice, take his message into the receive]
of the phonograph, and when the cylin
der rcachos its destination the persoi
addressed will be sent for and the mes
sage will be repeated toLim by anothe'
machine.
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ENTOMBED IN A MINE.
Over a Score of Men Perish at
Ashley, Penn.
First Came a CaYe-in, Then Carelessness
Caused an Explosion,
The long series of mine disasters that have
visited Pennsylvania within the past year
reached a climax in the entombing of twentyseven
men in the Hartford mine of the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Coal Company at Ashley,
three miles from Wilkesbarre. At 9 o'clock
in the morning the community was excited
when the news spread that an extensive
cave-in had occurred in No. 6 colliery, covering
an area of more than ten acres. Thousands
rushed to the scene of the disaster and
found that the surface almost as far as the
eye could reach was seamed and cracked
wiin Jong circular nssures, some ot wuicu
were over two feet wide.
The colliery employs, iaside, about three
hundred men and boys, and they went to
their work as usual at 7 o'clock. At about 8
o'clock some of the men at work in the lower
split saw signs of a cave-in. The mine began
to uwork,:I as the miners term it. The roof
cracked, bits of coal and rock fell and
chipped off from the sides of the gangways
ana breasts. Such tokens are never disregarded
by miners, and those who noticed it
at once flung down their tools and made for
the slope.
The first crash told every man in that part
of the mine what was going on, for the falling
rock drove the air out from under it with
a mighty rush that extinguished every light
and sent clouds of dust and smoke through
the workings. Every man in that part of
the mino flung aside tools and everything
else and ran for his life.
Crash after crash followed as more of the
superincumbent rock fell in. Men rushed on
in the darkness amid flying coal and rock.
Some were knocked down by falling pieces
and crushed under others before they could
get on their feet again, but every man that
could pushed on for the gangway and the
foot of the slope, conscious that
that was his only hope of life.
Rescuing parties were at once organized ,
and an opening broken through into a man- ,
way along the bed of a mountain stream
where the chambers in that part of the mine
came within a few feet of the surface, All
day long these men toiled at the stubborn
rock, while the weeping wives and little
ones of the doomed victims stood around the
opening and rent the air with their cries anr
lamentations.
Gang after gang relieved one another until
at 5 o'clock the news was passed that they
had succeeded in breaking through the chambers
beneath the cave. .
The men toiled on in silence until 6:30,
when there was a commotion at thi
mouth of the dark opening, and the foreman
crawled out on his hands and knee
and announced that they had fount
one of the victims. He was lying at the
bottom of a fifty-foot plane, and in order
to rescue him it became necessary to lower c
miner down with a rope. This was done, anc
the charred and blackened form of Antnonv
Frovne, the first of the victims, wa3 hoiste;
to the surface.
The rescuing party worked all night, and
did not give up hope of taking the men out
alive until George Russ was found next
morning. Russ was in advance of the other
men in his efforts to escape. He was working
toward the abandoned workings, which
he knew the rescuers would enter first, when
he fell down from exhaustion. He died just
before he reached the surface.
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The rescuing party wuu uiuu.^u^..
and entered the chamber. They stumbled
over six blackened corpses near the
opening, none of them recognizable
Pursuing their search, they found
thirteen other bodies, all more or less
burned. The si^ht was so terrible that
three of the exploring party fainted. Many
of the unfortunate men had held up their
blackened hands as if to ward off the deadly
gas, while others were lying on their faces as
if to escape the damp which suffocated those
who were not burned by the explosion.
The bodies were found nearly a mile from
the entrance and tha work of bringing them
out was exceedingly difficult. The scene,
when, about nine o'clock, the men carried
out the bodies of some of the miners, was
heartrending. Notwithstanding the strong
guard about the entrance of the mine frenzied
women would rush forward and tear
the blankets from the limp forms and try to
discover in the blackened remains the faces
of sons, fathers and husbands.
Owen Williams's body was identified only
by his shoes. He was a Sunday-school
teacher in the Welsh Methodist Episcopal
Church. Williams was one of the most expert
miners in that region.
Another victim named Henry had never
worked in the mine before. Patrick Monahan
asked him if he would not work for him
on Thursday, as he (Monahan) desired
to attend the funeral of a friend.
Henry said no aia nut uno hj tu ?
work in a strange mine, but he would accommodate
his neighbor. Henry's daughter
was to have been married next day.
John Allen, the assistant fire boss, and one
of the three men rescued,died next morning,
making the number of the dead twentyseven.
He. too, was horribly burned by the
explosion. Allen was the man accused by
the survivors of causing the explosion. When
the cave-in occurred all the lights were put
out.
General Superintendent Phillips says:
"The men lost their lives through the negligence
of Assistant Mine Boss Allen, who insisted
on relighting his lamp in the presence
of a large volume of gas. Had he not done
so the men now dead could all have been
rescued alive. There was a good current of
air passing through the chamber where the
men had taken refuge after the cave-in had
taken place."
In many of the houses of those who were
killed there is no food, and the company is
looking after the wants of the families.
The cause of the cave-in was the great
amount of coal removed from the supports
and the thinness of the roof. James Sullivan
had an extremely narrow escape. He was
standing in the gangway talking toa boy when
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arms and ran for life, closely followed by
John Henry. After going a short distance
he heard a crash, and looking back saw a
great pile of rock fall on Henry, crushing
him.
At 8 o'clock next morning all operations at
the mines were abandoned. There were still
six men in the fatal chamber. Six mules
were taken out alive during the afternoon.
The bodies of five Polanders were buried together.
no one having claimed them.
FATAL EXPLOSION,
Over Thirty People Blown to Atoms
at Havana, Cuba.
At eleven o'clock at night a fire broke out
in Ysasi's hardware store, in Havana,
Cuba. In a short time tlio flames
reached a barrel of powder in the buildiug
and a terrific explosion followed.
The whole structure was blown to pieces and
many persons were killed. Among the dead
are Senoro? MusiaL Zencoviec'i, Oscar Conill,
Francesco Ordonez and tin Venezuelan Consul,
Senor Francoso Silva.who happened to
be in front ot tlio building at the tima of tin
explosion, and four fire chiefs. In addition
to the killed, which were estimate ! to lumber
thirty-four, over one hundred parson*
are injured.
The explosion caused the wildest excitement
throughout the city, and thousau Is
fiockoI to the seen > of the disaster Th e
Governor General, the Civil Governor an I
all the principal authorities of the city
were promptly 0:1 the ground and did
everything in their power to aid the injure 1
and calm the grief-stricken relatives of the
victims, tieverai nouses aujacouc to ne
wrecked building were damaged by the explosion.
Gangs of men immediately went to work
on the debris. Many human limbs haw
been takon from the ruins.
The conduct of tho authorities is the sub
ject of univorsal praise. Tho highest olli
cials have incurred porsonal risk in conducting
the search for the dead, aud have offered
tho use of their own carriages to convjy tin
injured to the hospitals.
Over the theatres and tho Chamber of
Commerce and many other buildings flags
wero placed at half mast. Everwhore weiv
signs of mourning.
Losses of cattle and sheep in Northern
California are reported a3 heavy on account
of the unusual rainfall. Estimates run from
twenty up to fifty p?r cent, of range stock, j
It is 'jiought it will affect the California |
beef and mutton market tho coming season. J
KEFi'tJCKY'S NEW SENaTOI
Ex-Speaker John O. Carlisle Elects
to Succeed Senator Beclc.
JOHN G. CARLISLE.
The Hon. John G. Carlisle was elected
United States Senator by the Assembly in
JV4UW auootuu ttV i'litu&iuri/, IV.y,, I/Q Iill HI10 llilexpired
term of the late James B. Beck. He
received 107 vote3. Mr. Adams, Republican,
received 15.
Mr. Carlisle's Career.
John Griffin Carlisle was born in Campbell
(now Kenton) County, Kentucky, September
5, 1833. His early life possesses no particular
point of interest. He was compelled to work
hard for a living, and his education was
mostly attained in the unpropitious atmosphere
of a district school, as opportunity
afforded. He was a diligent student,
and before he had attaiued his
majority he was earning his living by teaching
school, He employed his leisure hours
in reading law, and qualified himself for the
Bar, to which he was admitted in 1858, when
but twenty-three years of age, after a term
in a dingy law office, and has since, wheu
not in the National or State service, devoted
himself to his profession.
In ho was elected a member of the
Kentucky House of Representatives. He
opposed secession when the CivillWar broke
out. In ISOi he was nominated as Presidential
elector on the Democratic ticket, but
he declined the honor. In 1SU6 he was
elected to the Senate of his native State and
again in 1869. He was present as delegateat-large
from Kentucky, at the National
Democratic Convention, held in New York
city, iu 1868. His nomination for Lieutenaut-Governor
of Kentucky in 1871, by the
Democratic Convention, caused him to
resign his seat in the Stato Senate,
and being elected, he served
from 1871 to 1875 in that position. Ho was
chosen a Democratic Elector-at-Largo for
Kentucky in 1870. He was chosen to represent
the famous Covington District in the
Forty-fifth Congress, and has served there
continually over since. After an exciting
canvass, he was elected Speaker of the Fortyeighth
Congress. He was re-elected Spsaker
in the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses. It
ts said that no decision of his was over appealed
from in the House.
FIFTY-FIBST CONGRESS.
In the Senate.
109th Day.?Mr. Teller finished his speech
on the Silver bill: Mr. Coke also spoke on
the same measure....Among the bills reported
from the committees and placed on
thfi Senate calendar were the following: The
Senate bill appropriating ?100,000 for a public
building at Allentown, Penn.; the House
bill authorizing the erection of a hotel (for
colored people) on the Government reservation
at Fortress Monroe; the House bill
granting a pension to Mrs. Delia Parnell....
Mr. Blair offered a resolution (which was
agreed to) calling on the Commissioners of
rwu*>n*/?f nf Pnlnmhia for information as
to the employment and payment of laborers
on public works in the District, and whether
they are required to work more than eight
hours a day.
110th Dat.?Mr. Sherman mad9 an
amendment to the Silver bill, and the views
set forth in the debate by Mr. Plumb gave
rise to much discussion.
111th Day.?Mr. Chandler reported a joint
resolution authorizing the Secretary of War
to improve the whole of Eedloe's Island, in
New York harbor, on which Bartholdi's
Statue of Liberty stands, as a free public
park. The bills on the calendar were taken up,
and the following (among: others) were passed:
To pay the assignees of John Roach $33,840
for extra work on the monitor Puritan and
$20,274 for the care of the monitor Roanoke;
Senate bill increasing from $75 to $100 a
month the pension of the widow of General
Joseph A. Mower; Senate bill appropriating
$100,000 for a public building at Norwich,
Conn.; Senate bill appropriating$300,000 for
a bronze equestrian statue of General Ulysses
S. Grant in the city of Washington; Senate
bill appropriating ?200,000 for the construction
or a ary dock at Port Royal. 8. C. (the
whole cost not to exceed $075,000); appropriating:
$50,000 for a public building at
Meridian, Miss.
112th Day.?The Naval Appropriation
bill was reported... .Mr. Dolpa spoke in
favor of the Windom Silver scheme; Mr.
Mitchell dissented from the views <5i his colleague.
113th Day.?Mr. Iagalls introduced a bill
to abolish metal money The bill to regulate
the control of the liquor traffic in States
was discussed without action Eulogies on
the late William D. Kclley were pronounced.
114th Day.?Mr. Stewart spoke on the
Silver bill for two hours Mr. Evarts debated
for several hours the bill restoring to
the States the control of the liquor traffic
within their own borders.
In tbc House.
119th Day.?The Committee on Rules reported
a rule, which was adopted, providing
a vote on the Tariff bill on the following
Wednesday. ...The Speaker laid before the
House the Senate bill to change the route of
the Rock Creek Railway Company of the
District of Columbia. The bill was passed
... .Messrs. Morrill, Sawyer and Yoder wore
appointed conferees on the Senate Dependent
Pension bill....The House at its evening
Eession passed 139 private pension bills.
120th Day.?The general debate on the
Tariff bill was continued.
121st Day.?The House went into Committee
of the Whole (Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio,
in the Chair) on the Tariff bill. Speeches
were made by Messrs. McKinley, McMillen,
Cameron, Breckinridge, Allen, Dockery,
Bynum, Bayne, Springer and Outhwaite.
122d Day.?The tariff debate was resumed;
Mr. Funston's amendment for the free admission
of silver ores and ores containing
lead was neteatea. opjetuw wc uauc uj
Messrs. Keliey, McAdoo, Tarsney, Carter,
Hopkins, Crain. Henderson and McClammy
123d Dat.?Tbe House went into Committee
of the Whole (Mr. Grcsvenor. of Ohio, in
the chair) on the Tariff bill. Several amendments
were acted on, and speeches were delivered
by Messrs. McMillin, Sayers, Pries,
Stewart, Dorsey, Coleman, Morrow and McComas.
124th Day.?The House went into Committee
of the Whole (Mr. Grosvenor, of
Ohio, in the chair) on the Tariff bill. A
number of amendments were proposed and
voted on. The entire hour set for the
vote was occupied in discussion.
When the Chairman of the Committee of the
Whole reported the bill to the House McKinley
moved its engrossment, third reading and
passage together with the amendments
agreed to. On a rising vote on the call of the
previous question Buttervrorth, Kerr. Dunnell
and Coleman did not vots with the Republicans,
but on the yea and nay vote all
the Republicans voted for the bill exmnt
rv?!?nmn nf Louisiana. The re
suit was: Yeas, 151; nays. 143.
The House spent the afternoon in voting on
the various amendments. The amendment
li sing the duty on tin plate at 22.10 cents
par pound was passed by a vote of 150 to
149. Tho bill was then voted on in its ontirety
and passed by a vote of 162 to 142. It
was a strict party vote, with the exception of
Mr. Coleman (Rep.), of Louisiana, who voted*
with the Democrats in the negative, and Mr.
Featherstone, of Arkansas, who also voted
with the Democrats.
A Sioux maiden, the daughter of Chief
Crowfeather, recently took the vows of a
Benedictine nun in Faukton, South Dakotx
Her special mUsion will be to educate the
children of the Sioux nation, and she will be
known in religion as Sister Catherine.
The discovery has been maaa at the
Treasury Department that instreui of General
John C. Fremont being indti"ted to tho
Government the Government >'? indebted to
him. '
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MY PICTURE.^
Do you want to seo my picture,
V: The one I love the best?
i It comes when dying sunbeams
Lead nature to her rest, >
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The background to my pictnre '
.. Is a mountain towering high,
Whose rugged pet&s are softened
*" In outline 'gainst the sky.
The stars look brightly downward
I see them in the lake,
And of its silvery whiteness
A magic mirror make.
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"With giant limbs extending,
Behold ray noble trees. . .
Their branches gently bending
To softest perfumed breeze.
The flowers have closed their dainty cupl
And try to hide from sight,
The moonbeams touch the tree-top<
And paint them glistening white
Oh, artist! can'st thou paint ma
A scene like this of mine,
Can'st make the dewdrops glisten,
- The silvery moon to shine?
Oh, paint me little flower-cups,
Whose perfume fills the air,
Bedew their lovely petals? I
Display their beauty rare. \
The stars?my living diamonds?'
Those brilliant eyes of night?
Can'st draw their shape, oh, artist I
Their colors, too?their light*
The brush divine that painted tlm '-m
Is not to mortals given?
The colors and the Master Hand
Are only found in Heaven.
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PITH AND POINT.' I
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"Every clog has his day, Cynicus/
"And every crank has 'his turn.'1?Neat
York Sun.
It improves your memory to lend a
friend $5, but it destroys the memory of
your friend.?Picayune. :Hj
The course of true love never did run
smooth, and it would not be half the fur
if it did.?Elmira Free Press.
Cholly Peachblow?"Ow! I say, bah*
bah, that razor pulls." Barber (con^
temptuously)?"Pulls what?"?New Tori
Sun. ..^3
The incandescent electric lights hav#
a bad habit; they want to go out too ofj
ten during business hour3.?New York
News.
At 12 o'clock?George?"Well, I dei
ciare, sauy, tnenre nas gone out: oauj
?"Well, George, you may go after it.1
?Light.
She?"You tell your sister I meant to
write her a note, but didn't." He?
"Thanks. She'll be glad to hear it."?
West Shore.
Briggs?"I did not see you at church
last Sunday." Braggs?"No; I didn'l
get in until you had gone to sleep."-'
Terrc Haute Exrress.
"Are these handkerchiefs all pure
linen?" Salesman?"Yes, on my hon?
or." "So I see; half cotton, I supposa
then."?Flitgende Blaetter.
"Always pay cash as you go. That'l
my principle," said Seedle. "Humpj
Tiiat'accounts for your slowness, I prei
sume," remarked a friend.?Munsey^s.
"I come." the lecturer began.
And tnen came a gentle cough,
For in the audience a man
Irreverently said: "Come off!"
-New York Herald.
The Conductor (to train robbers)-^
"Boys, there's no money in this jobj
the Pullman porter ha.3 just jumped on
Mm train nnd planed."?Scribner's Mao*
mine.
Proprietor (firralj)?"Tour account
Mr. Weeks, has now beeu running foi
six month3." Weeks (blandly)?"Wellj
suppose we let it rest for a year or two !*
?Mercury.
"And now, Professor, what do yoij
think of my voice?" "Well, it all de* ,
pends. You haven't told me yet. Df
you intend becoming an auctioneer or
huckster?"?Philadelphia Times.
Gamin (to street peddler)?"Say, mi?
tcr, are you really blind?" Peddler?* . A
"No; I sell these cough drops for mJ
blind brother, who stays around the corner
to look out forcop3."?Society.
"3i5Ieurre, why don't you stop drink)
ing'<" "I have often tried to, but i!
seems I can't." "0, pshaw! All it rej
quires is strong will power." "Well, ii *'3
requires strong water power, too, and thai
I haven't ifot.'*?Neio York Herald.
See how small investments pay. A
man, poor but enterprising, paid $6 for
a revolver. That same evening he earned
81000 by simply pointing his $6 revolve!
at ft maa who nappenea. to nave mr
amount specified iu his inside pocket.?
Mnnseys.
Mrs. Oallcr?'.'There's a horrid dog
running across your garden." Mrs. Athome?"It's
our puppy, Jack. We hir?
one of the neighbors' boys to tie a wet
sponge on his tail and chase him an hout
every day. It waters the garden nicely."
?Frank Leslie's.
"Confound it, anyhow," said th?
mother-in-law joke when the Angel G?
briel blew his horn. "This is the seven*
teen million, five hundred and twenty*
one thousand, four hundred and sixty?
seventh time I have been resurrected.''?
Washington Post.
Old Grump (to his son)?"No,I shan't
give you fifty dollars or fifty cents! In?
stead of wasting your money for nothing
you ought to keep it to pay your debta.*
Young Grump?"Wasting it for nothi
ing! Why. what do I got back for it,
father, when I pay a debt?"?Texas Si/t
ings.
This is the happy time of year when
the tenant asks for a new roof, a large!
cellar, a hundred dollars' worth of walli
paper,a more commodious kitchen range,
an acre more of ground and a diningroom
extension, in the hope of getting 4
reduction of live dollars a month on hu
rent.?Puck.
"So that fellow Brrwn married the
popular Miss Jones and sh; had a dozen
better men at her feet?" "Yes, and h?
calls her lE pluribus unum.'" "'B
pluribus unum?' What does he mean bj
that?" "Won from many. Brown is 1
great Latin scholar, don't you know."?
Washington Star.
The Chinese Remcdj for Croap.
The following is theThinese rcmedj
for croup: "Collect from old walls seven
nests of large-sized spiders, two oi
which, at least, should contain live spt?
ders. Make them into a paste,with thir<
ty grains of alum previously dissolved.
Then, after it is well mixed, reduce th?
paste to ashes, and apply it hot to th?
throat. This, it is said, will effect an ia?
stantaneous cure of the disease,, ho we vej
severe till; attack." ~*F..'v..
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