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V \T"* >? ?*'" ' / . SIGHT DROWNED. Fate of a Pleasure Party oh Wat up pa Lake, 3Iass. k^Aii Over-Crowded Boat Causes the Tragedy; A dispatch from Fall River, Mas?., says: Eight live? were lost in Watuppa Lake at about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. A boat was overturned twenty feet from the shore, and of the twelve occupants only four were saved. Friends of those who perishei were within hearing of the cries for help, but assistance was not available before they were drowned. The day was bright, and anionz the thousands wise went for a stroll it? the country were Samuel AVhittlesand (its wife, who tooK their three children, aged from eight to twelve years: John Buckley, his wife and their two children, and Walter Turner, a shorthand instructor in Holmes's Commercial College, with his boy. night years old. The twelfth member of the party was a boarder in Whittles'^ family named George Hauler, who acted as a rescuer. They walked briskly across the Narrows and strolled along the east shore of the lake unmindful of the distance until the children began to complain of fatigue. They were too tired to walk home, and it was concluded to row across the lake. A flat-bottomed skiff was obtained from a farmer. The party being large, it was decided not to take any one else along to row, and it was arranged with the owner of th&skiff that it should be left on the opposite shore. The skiff was only ten feet long. It was made to hold eight persons. The six adults and six children crowded into it. The weight sank the boat so low that the water came up to the gunwales. When it had neared the lauding at the water works a breezo ruffled the surface of the pond. Little waves rose and leaped over the a sides of tlie boat, une 01 tue cnuaron j screamed and jumped from one side of the I skiff to the other. The other children imUfr mediately did so, too, and the boat was capsized. Turuer and Hamer could swim, and they B^Hbuickly reached the shore. Turner is very aelicute. and at once fell in a dead faint. Hauler agaiu spraug into the water, and went to the rescue ol his friend--, who wore clinging to the boat. He grasped one of the Whittles children and returned to land. Then he made another trip and saved John BuckJey. The other people could not long hold to the liURt. The screams of the women an<l children reached the ears of men in the pumping station, but liefora they could untie their boat and get into it the last of the victims had sunk oul of sight. Grappling parties were formed and bodies were secured. Police emergency officers and physicians made vigorous but vain efforts to resuscitate tiiose who were thus brought ashore. Intense excitemeut prevailed. In the crowd that gathered were many intimate friends of the Buckleys and Whittles, and as^ one after another the bodies wore placed in a inr) lifV* woe v.rrtnniinnoil lhi> friends wept. Others m the crowd were forced to tears by the speclaclo. Little Edwin Avhittles, who had been paved by Hamer, had lost his father, mother and two brothers. Mr. Buckley could not believe his wife was dead, aud for two hours tried to restore her to life. Their two little children lay lifeless beside her. Turner, whose weak system had sustained a severe shock, was taken to the hospital mourning for his little son, whosa body had not been secured, although grappling parties continued to search for it by the light of the niooL. The drowned are: Mrs. Levina Buckley, aged thirty-five; Fred:k Buckley, aged three: Willie Buckley, aged eight; "Willie Turner, aged nine: Samuel Whittles, aged fifty. Mrs. Whittles, aged forty-five: Henry Whittle!, aged ten; Samuel Whittles. Jr.. aged twelre. Mr. Whittles has been prominent among the English citizens and was generally respected and liked. For years he had been a trusted employe of Cobb, Bates & Yerxa. kHe was President of the Humboldt Scientific Society and was to have addressed it that evening. Mrs. Whittles1:? father met his death by an accident a short time ago. THE LABOR WORLD. Iron seems to have touched bottom at last. There is much activity displayed in building. A new blast furnace is to be erected at Bristol. Tenn. Teh Adams Express Company now employs 20,000 men. The demand for stenographers in Washington is on the increase. The '-arpenters in Boston are still fighting for an eight-hour work day. The locomotive builders hava more work 'on hand than for three years. The trade of electrician, one of the very newest, begins to be crowded. Cap. w.jRKS are to be built at Bessemer, Ala., with a capital of 11,509,000. Forty new locty.aotives have been ordered ! by the Central Railroad of Georgia. The largest ueam hammer in the United | States is to bo put up at Bethlehem, Tenn. The rarrvut year promises to be the best in the history of the American iron trade. The makers of mining machinery east of the Mississippi are all crowded with orders. As industrial city is to be started near Knoxville, Tenn.,with Pennsylvania capital. Nearly every railroad company in the. country is figuring on additional equipments. Sir George Elliott, the wealthy English coal baron, started in life as a common miner. The Knights of Labor, of Lancaster, Penn Save opened a workingmen's free circulating brary. Taking the country all through, there has never been a time when labor was so fully Misemployed. A dozen* cottonseed oil mills have been projected at different points in th? South since February 1. Weekly payments for all working people in New York State become compulsory after July 1. Forty laborers in Los Angeles, Ca!., have formed a co-operative company and taken a ?ewer contract. Less than $200 is the average annual income of the Toal-miner in the Monongahela Valley, of Pennsylvania. ' John Burns, the English labor agitator, had an offer of $100 for the old straw hat he wore during the great dock strike in London. The Supreme Court of Saxony has decided that boycotting is equivalent to disorderly conduct in the first degree, and punishable as such. Wheeling (W. Va.) iron and steel manufacturers are greatly inconvenienced and troubled over the irregularity of the natural gas supply. A day laborer in a Florida saw mill is reputed to be the brother of an English baronet and the heir presumptive to his ancient baronetcy. A general strike of plantation hands for shorter hours and better pay is now in progress in Jamaica, and the result is to increase the price of bananas. A new vitrified fire-brick is being manu' factured in West Virginia, which can belaid down as a pavement, in cities, at a cost of $2.25 per square yard. The Government has introduced a bill in the Hungarian Diet providing that workmen t shall perform no labor on Sundays, but shall have continuous rest for twenty-four hours. '"A GOOD deal of excitement prevails in tho phosphate fields of Florida consaquent upon the word received from Washington that all phosphate lands will be claimed as miueral lands, and that those who have taken homeSteads must give them up. A small army has been in the field staking out mineral ^ ~jaloims. It is stated that rich discoveries of genuine asphaltum have been made in the north west portion of Logan County, Ky., and tiiat great excitement prevails among lau4 -owners in that section, where wild lands which had been selling at? 1 aa acre are now fetching $20 to S30. \ FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. In the Senate. 115th Day.?Mr. Dolph introduced, in tho form of a bill,tho regulations adopted by tho recent International Maritime Conference for preventing collisions at sea.... Mr. Daniel spoke on the Silver bill....The Naval Appropriation bill was taken up. 110th Day.?The Naval Appropriation bill was discussed and amended Mr. Stanford introduced and explained his loan project ....The Tariff bill was introduced and referred to the Committee on Finance Mi*. Butler introduced a bill appropriating ?30,000 for an equestrian statue of General Francis Marion in Columbia, S. C. 117th Day.?Mr. Blackburn presented the credentials of John G. Carlisle as Senator from the State of Kentucky for Mr. Beck's unexpired term, which commenced on March 4, 1S8P. They were read and placed on tile The Naval Appropriation bill was then taken up, the pending question being on the amendment reported irom the Committee on Appropriations to strike out the item of ?50,0tX> for improvement of the plant at Portsmouth Navy Yard. No action was taken... .Mr. Davis presented amendment to be offered to the Tariff bill, removing the duty of 1% cents a pound on binding twine, and placing it on the free list. 118th Day.?Tho Naval Appropriation bill was discussed. Tho Cockrell amendment striking out the provision for three battleships was defeated. Mr. Blair's amendment asking Great Britain to disarm her naval and military forces in the Western Hemisphere was also defeated. On motion of Mr. Butler, an item was inserted, appropriating $200,000 for a dry-dock at Port Royal, S. C., the whole cost not to exceed $500,000. The bill was then passed.... Mr. Carlisle was sworn in as a United States Senator, and took a back-row seat on the Democratic side of the Chamber. 119th Day.?Mi-. Carlisle, the new Senator from Kentucky, took the place on the Finance Committee left vacant by Mr. Beck .. .The "original package" liquor bill was discussed in its constitutional aspects, but no action was taken. In the House. 1.5th Day.?The bill amendatory of the Census act was passed. It prescribes a penalty upon any supervisor or enumerator who shall receive, or any person who shall pay any fee or other consideration in addition to the compensation of such supervisor or enumerator. ..Mr. Quinn introduced a bill reducing to one per cent, an ounce or fraction thereof the postage on drop letters in cities of ono hundred thousand inhabitants ! or over....In Committee of the Whole tho | River and Harbor Appropriation bill was discussed. I 1OfVrir Hiv ?Tho Pittoi* nnrl fforhnr hill was considered and tlia point of order was made that the Hennepin Canal was not rightfully included in it....Mr. Flower introduced a bill subjecting oleomargarine to ; tho provisions of the laws of th? several i States. Referred.. ..Mr. Parrett introduced ] a bill to increase tho pension of persons who ] have lost a leg or an arm to $50a month; of , those having lost both legs or both eyes to I $100 a month, and of those having lost both ! hands to $125 a month... .Mr. Flood introduced a biil appropriating ?100,003 for the erection of a public builditig at Ithaca, N. Y. 127th Day.?During the delivery of the opening prayer, in which the Chaplain announced the death of Speaker Read's mother j in Maine, the Speaker occupied the chair, but | while the Clerk was reading the journal ho I left the hall, designating Mr. Perkins, of I Kansas, to preside in his stead... .The House i went into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Bur! rows, of Michigan, in the chair) on the River and Harbor bill. The pending question was the point of order against the Hennepin Canal proposition. Tnis was lost On motion of Mr. Henderson, an amendtnent was adopted, reducing from $3,000,000 to $1,000,000 the appropriation lor the improvement of the Mississippi River from the head of the passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, $1,000,000 having already been appropriated in a I :-i t-:Ti nr_o_ J.. j ? w;il Spei'lUl Ulll . . . . JLLl . UttUU Ui'lUUUWU vfc Ulli providing tfiat the pay of letter carriers, after three years' service in first-class posfr\ offices, shall be $1-J00 per annum, and after two years' service in second-class postoffices $1050 per annum... .Public business was suspended at 4 o'clock, and the House proceeded to pay fitting tribute to the memory of the late David Wilbur, of New York. Atter eulogistic addresses by Messrs. Sherman, of New York; McCormick, of Pennsylvania; McRae, of Kansas; Russell, of Connecticut; Tracey and Farquhar, of New York, the House, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, adjourned. 123th Day.?The ssssion was devoted to matters pertaining to the District of Columbia. The Rock Creek Park bill was passed Mr. Bingham introduced a bill to amend the Revised Statutes relative to the punishment of burglars of postDffices, so as to provide that any person who shall break into, or attempt to break iuto, any postofrice building shall* upon conviction be punished by a fine of not more than $1000 and by imprisonment at hard labor for not more thau twenty years. 120th Day.?The River and Harbor bill was considered, and several amendments relating to the Mississippi River were defeated ... .Mr. Flower introduced a bill appropriating ?^50,000 for the completion of the Grant H ...4- ?? p?,.l. Vrv-?r Vnrt city Mr. McKinley submitted the conference report upon the Customs Administration bill. The report was adopted?yeas 12?; nays 13?the Speaker pro tern, counting a quorum V bill was introduced by Mr. Russell for the construction of a lightship, with fog signal, at Cornfield Point, Conn., and one by Mr. Quinn, of New York, providing that all railroads shall use automatic danger signals ani alrrnis oa all traits. CHINESE DfiOWNED. Soventy-Sevpn Coalies Perish in the Behrin;* Sea. Captain Anderson, of the ship Oneida, arrived at San Francisco, Cal., on the schooner Mary Kimball. He reports that his ship was wrecked on April 2S oa Hennines Rock, Lanck Island, in Jie&ring oea, ana seventyseven Chinese were lost. The Oasida had on board 110 Chinese and forty-five white man, nearly all of whom were on their way to & salmon cannery on Lanck Island. On the afternoon of April 20, when the Oneida had nearly reached her destination, Captain Anderson made a run of about thirty miles to clear the southwest point of the island. At 9 p. M., he supposed he was a long distance from the island. He could not see on account of a heavy fog. He put back about three miles, expecting to pass on the opposite side of the point. Instead the vessel struck on Hennines Rock, on the southwest end ofth? island. A heavy sea was on, and in a short time the Oneida was a total wreck. The white men and thirty-three Chinese escaped in boats or floated ashore on pieces of the wreck. Seventy-seven Chinese were drowned. The Oneida had on board material for building and running a salmon cannery, which was to have been erected on the island. She was built in Maine in 1866, was of 1300 tons burthen, and was owned by Leon Sloss. A Chiskse mandarin has powor to order a subject's Lead lopped off at a moment's notice, but within threo months he must forw ard to the emperor an aflidavit from two citizens that such execution was in the interest of religion and good government. He has no trouble in procuring these affidavits, as the man who refused to make one would also lose his head. Vaccination at sea has been declared by a number of New York doctors as more dangerous thau small-pox, and C'unasd passengers who claim that they are suffering from blood poisoning in cousequence of being vaccinated on ship board have brought suits against the great steamship line. An* Englishman who insulated his bedstead by placing underneath each post a broken off bottle says he had not been free from rheumatism or gout for fifteen years, and that he began to improve immediately after the application of the insu lators. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. A Budget of Important Foreign and Domestic Dispatches. The Eleventh Census Eeport on Public Indebtedness. The Census Office made public the first results of the eleventh census in relation to State and local finance. It consist? of a preliminary report by Mr. Frederick Upton on State indebtedness: also a preliminary report by Mr. T. Campbell-Copeland, in charge of local finance, on the indebtedness of the 2S09 counties in the United States. The report shows that the principal of the State debts at the present time is $228,679,817. Of this amount *104,954,200 is bonded debt and 533,723,010 floating debt. This shows a net decrease in the total debt during the last ten vears of $54,459,484, the bonded debt having been decreased by $64,083,249 and the floating debt increased by $9,623,764. The changes in the same debt by geographical divisions have been as follows: Eastern States total in 1890, $39,934,000; decrease, since 18S0, $11,298,117. Middle States total in 1890, $33,493,412; decrease since 18S0, ?11,387,482. Southern States total in 1890, $107,010,077; decrease since 1880, $28,032,964. Western States total in 1S90, $47,591,261; decrease since 1880, $3,732,920. Grand total in 1899, $22$, 679,817; decrease since 1880, $54,459,4S4. The States have reduced their debts to this extent, says the report, mainly by applying to the redemption of their obligations the revenues not needed for current expenses. In a few cases, however, a reduction of the debt has been effected by the enforced redemption of obligations at a discount, but the amount of reduction through this process cannot be ascertained until the statements of outstanding debts in tjiose States have been compared with the cash"receipts and expenditures on account of the debt for the same period and the differences noted. The total bonded debt of the United States is shown to have been $1,709,993,100 in 1880 and $719,17S,570 in 1S!!0. The bonded debt of the several States in 1880 was $250,037,456 and $191,954,205 at the present time, making a total decreasa of $1,051,897,780. As to county indebtedness, the report shows the bonded debt of the 2809 counties in the United States and Territories to be $130,734,959, as against $104,493,752 in I860. The floating debt of these counties in 18S0 was $16,745,331. The present floating debt of these counties is $14,958,881, a decrease of $1,780,450. This shows an increase in the total debt of the counties of the United States during the last Jen years of $24,454,756. Canadian Railway Statistics. The railway statiststs of Canada for 1889, just issued by the Department of Railways and Canals, show that there are 13,325 miles of completed road in the Dominion and 410 miles under construction. These railways represent a paid-up capital of $700,570.440. The working expenses for 1889 were $31,038,015, and the earnings $42,149,615, leaving a net income of $11,111,570. Over the 12,0*28 miles in operation 12,151,051 passengers and 17,928,620 tons of freight were carried. Of the passengers 37, or 1 in 328,407, were killed. Besides the passengers S9 employes and 84 others were killed, bringing the total number of fatalities up to 210. The greatest mileage under one systam is that of the Canadian Pacific Railway. This road owns or leases in Canada 4973 miles, the Grand Trunk coming next with 3114. Forty-six years ago there were only sixteen miles of railway in operation in all British North America. The total mileage has doubled in the last ten years. Estimating the population at 5,000,000, there is one mile of railway to every 375 inhabitants, a proportion greater than in any country in the world, except, perhaps, the Australian colonies. These colonies, exclusive of New Zealand, have about IH300 miles of railway and a population 01 more inan | 3,000,000. Nominated by the President. The President sent to the Seuato the following nominations: Edmund W. P. Smith, District of Columbia, Secretary of Legation and Consul-General at Bogota; George H. Wallace, of Missouri, Consul-General at Melbourne. United States Consuls?Aquilla J. Daugherty, of Illinois, at Callao, Peru; Rounceville Wildman, of Idaho, at Singapore; Samuel L. Gracey, of Massachusetts, at Fco Chow, China. Rockwell J. Flint, United States Marshal for the "Western District of Wisconsin. Withdrawn?Samuel L. Gracey to be Consul at Cardiff. Boetius H. Sullivan, Surveyor-General of South Dakota; Thomas P. Cheney, Pension Agent at Concord, N. H.; William R. Hoy t, of Wisconsin, Commissioner in and for the District of Alaska; George C. Giuty, United States Marshal for the Western District of Wisconsin. Both Brothers Murdered. A great crowd of Mexicans assembled at Tondri brothers' vineyard, near Los Lunas, New Mexico, to witness a horse race. Wine i tiowed freely and nearly every one became intoxicated. Vincent Artiga and two brothers named Conway became involved in a quarrel, Wnen Artiga shot and killed one and fatally wounded the other. An officer attempted to arrest Artiga, and would have been killed had not a couple of women jumped between Amiga s revoivur anu iubuuiwi, uiuo pi wventiug the shooting. The murderer was finally arrested and jailed. Fighting 3Ianiaes. The lunatics in the great asylum for the insane at Bicetre, Paris, France, broke into rebellion. A maniac named Jolly burst the bars of his cell and theu released forty others, who attacked and drove away the guards and sacked the keepers1 dwelling. The maniacs fought madly till the fire hose was turned on them, upon which they got frightened and cowered together in a corner, drenched and trembling, and were thus captured. Killed by a Kicking Horse. Mrs. George Graham and Mrs. Lucy Berger, of Urbana, Ind., were riding with their children in a buggy. The horse kickea over the dashboard and struck Mrs. Graham's son on the head just back of tlio ear, crushing in the skull. In leaning over to grasp the child Mrs. Berger brought her own infant in range with the horse s hoofs. It was struck betwersn the eyes, and its forehead was mashed in. Earthquake in Armenia. The village of Repahie, in Armenia, has been destroyed by an earthquake. A number of mineral springs spouted from the crevices mad9 in the eartn by the shocks and th? flow of water was so great that the adjacent fields were flooded. The earthquake was proceded by rumblings which caused the inhabitants to flee from the village, and they thus escaped death from the falling houses. No lives were lost whatever. Fatal Boating Accident in Germany. "While a party consisting of several army officers and a number of ladies was out boating at Potsdam, Germany, the boat was accidentally upset and six of the officers and several ladies were drowned. By a similar accident at Danzig, Germany, seven persons were drowned. Fatal Explosion m a Torpedo Factory. An explosion occurred in the torpedo factory at Nikolaiev, Government of Kherson, Russia. An officer and four sailors were killed. MURDERER AND SUICIDE. A Salvation Army Captain Kills Tivc Farmers an?i Himself. Charles Moore and his son Jamss, who lived near Sedalia, Mo., disappeared from horns a few days ago. Their bodies have just been found buried on the farm, the former in the cellar, and the latter in the yard. The young man was struck on the back of the head with an axe, and the father was killed while in bed with a club. Thomas Williamson, a farm hand, fifty-eight years old, did the killing, and finding that he would be caught, walked intc the city park and took a dose of strychnine with fatal effect. The double murder wa< committad for the purpose of getting posses sion of the property. Williamson w*s a Sal vatiou Army captaiu. / ' ?r-7rjF; TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The United States man-of-war Pensacola returned to New York harbor from her cruise to Africa, bringing the scientists who went thither to observe the eclipse. Miss At.icz G. McGee, who was admitted to the Warren County (Penn.) Bar a few days ago, is the third lady to be admitted to practice in the courts of Pennsylvania. She isa beautiful blonde, tall and willowy, with a graceful poise of the head, and is an ?dep*( in correct gesticulation.' Two construction trains on the New York and New Haven road collided near South Lynne, Conn. Three Italians-were reported killed and eight or ten injured. Speaker Reed's mother. Mrs. Matilda Prince Reed, died at Deerin^, Me., at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Llisba W. Conley. She was eighty years of age. The steamer Aurania, of the Cunard line, ran down the yacht Yeada near Bedloe's Island, in New York harbor, drowning Charles and Henry Biel, brothers, who were on the yacht. Herman Kempixski arrived in New York city from Russia after spanding nearly thirteen mouths in prison, from which he was released on demand of Secretary of State Blaine. Indictments were found against sixtyeight election officers in Jersey City, N. J. The village of Port Leyden, Lewis County, N. Y., has been again visited by a fire, m which the total loss reached about $80,000. This fire and that which occurred last fall have nearly wiped out the village. Ai,van J. Van Buskirk and Henry J. Freeman, of Boston, were drowned in Ipswitch (Mass.) Bay by the capsizing of their pleasure launch. South and West. Father S. M. A. Barrett, a Catholic priest, was shot and fatally wounded in Chicago, 111., by Patrick J. Keady, a crazy blacksmith. Patrick Molloy and his son (jeorge, of Seven Mile, Ohio, quarreled over the disT-\**r\r%arf-A7 onrl MVOIrttr ah.'if*. I jbliUUVU/11 auiuw ?v.Vw his son and then blew out his own braids. T. J. McMaHOK, a farmer of Washington, Lake Township, Minn., fatally shot his wife and then took nis own life. A distressing situation exists at Barboursville, Ky. Flux, measles and typhoid fever are prevalent. Two hundred persons are ill. Business is at a standstill. Physicians and undertakers are overworked, and the grave diggers have not been so busy for years. Ben Knot, the son of a farmer in Darlington County, S. C., was shot by his brother, Murray, and instantly killed. The brothers had been on bad terms for some time. The Rev. J. F. Martin, a noted Episcopal minister, who recently removed to Wynne, Ark., from Brooklyn, N. Y., applied to a drug store in that town for morphine capsules and by mistake the clerk gave him strychnine. He took one of the capsules on retiring and died a few hours later in terrible agony. Two men were killed and twjnty-five mora or less hurt by the explosion of dynamite iu a storm at Lucas, Ohio. As unsuccessful attempt was made to blow up the monument marking tha soane of the Haymarket riots in Chicago, 111., presumably by Anarchists. One month ago, Kalo, near Fort Dodge, Iowa, was a prosperous mining town of five. hundred inhabitants. On May 1 th3 miners struck work, the mines were shut down and all the miners left town. Not a dozin houses are now occupied. Jay Hill, the terror of the naigh borhood and an idiot from his birth,died n9ar Trinity College, N. C. He was seventy years old. For tifty years he had been chained to the floor Oi the house in which he die;l. He was a monstrosity, his head resembling a lion's more than that of a human being. While men were trying to raise a small cottage at Port Washington, Wis., the supports gave way and fh? house fell, crushing Juliu? Hobers and Augnst SyolL: to death and fatally injuring Louis Beyer. The Congressional Committee began the investigation of violations of the Alien Labor law in Chicago, 111. Over thirteen business buildings in Cambridge, Wis., were burned. Lo33 over $135 000. L. D. Hopsov and Frank Moore, of the geological surveying party, were drowned at Eagle Rock, Montana, white sounding the river. William C. Chapman*, twenty-ono years old, aud Wellford (?. Dean. his cousin, thirty-one years old, of Richmond, Va., were drowned inamillpond at Providence Forge, Va. Petti?p.ew Brothers, commission merchants of Versailles, Ky., have fleeced farmers in the neighborhood out of some $15,000 by selling grain for the farmers and pocketing the returns. Washington. The House Tariff bill was received into the Senate at two o'clock in the afternoon and referre J at once to the Committee 011 Finance. Twi thousand copies were ordered printed for the use of the Seuate. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that Luis Oteizay Cortes, charged with embezzling 000 "from tho Spanish Goverment at Havana, must b? taken back to that city for trial. The Conscience Fund of the Treasury Department now amounts to more than u quarter ol a muuuii uuums. a j and nearly every day Treasurer Huston receives one or more envelopes containing | money from unknown persons. The President has directed that the Union flag shall hereafter fly daily over the Executive Mansion from sunrise to sunset, instead of as heretofore being hoisted on special occasions. Speaker Reed left Washington for Portlaud, Me., to attend the funeral of his mother. Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, was dosignated to act as Speaker pro tern. during his absence. Ex-Speaker Carlisle has been sworn in as United States Senator, from Kentucky. The Senate and the House reached an agreement in Conference Committea upon tho features of the Customs Administration bill, which had been in dispute for three weeks. The House has yielded to the Senat? on nearly all the points at issue. The President has approved the act in regard to the aiding of vessels wrecked or disabled in coterminus waters. President Harrison* commuted the death sentence of Lewis Williams, a colored boy of Washington, who was to hav& been hanged the following Thursday, to imprisonment for in t-kn alhnnir w v l Penitentiarv. Foreign. President Krugeh, of the South African Republic, tendered bis resignation, but was induced to remain in office. Princess Louise* wife of Crown Prince Frederick, of Denmark, has given birth to a daughter. The Bianchi Company's sugar storehouses at Cardenas, Cuba, have been burned. The company had an insurance of $310,000. The labor agitation at Pilseu, Austria, has been renewed. Strikers have pillaged stores, inns and vicarages. The Squadron of Evolution reached Tangier. Morocco, on its way to Brazil. The British, German and American Consuls at Samoa have established the new Go vernment and have opened a custom-house. Severe storms, followed by floods, are reported in various parts of Germany. At Alvensleben, a house was undermined by water and sixteen of the occupauts were drowned. At Suplinger five persons were killed by lightning. Smith, Wade & Co., leading dealers in lumber in Quebec, Canada, have failed for $2,000,000. Queen Victoria has created Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, Duke of Clarence and Avondale and Earl of Athlone. The Russian General, Von Witten, committed suicide by shooting himself at a sanitarium in Wiesbaden, Germany. At a place called Zechu, near Ningpo, China, a miser named Chang, while delirious from fever, murdered his wife, sou and daughter, mutilating their bodies, and afterward committing suicide. The town of Sefron, near Fez, in Morocco, has been ruined by floods. Fifty-three Hei brews and many Moors oerislied. ' v - ^c" . | '.' ;> " ^.* '' ' *. -- ':' ' ' A FATAL HURRICANE. Death and Destruction in tli? Wake of a Western Storm. #t Several Persons Killed by Lightning in Pennsylvania, The heaviest rain and electrical storm known in years passed over a large section of Western Pennsylvania during the even ing, doing great damage to property, and resulting in ths loss of several lives. The storm struck Pittsburg about 4 o'clock, but no serious damage was done in the old city. In the East End, however, the wind played havoc. Houses were blown down, trees uprooted and small buildings demolished. On Winebiddle avenue five new frame houses were lifted from their foundations and destroyed. Another house, on Black Horse Hill, occupied by John Miller, was lifted from the founda- I ' ? ? :J U1- I tiODS ana Diown a tuasiuciamc ujsuiii^.-r. The family were in the sitting room at the time, but were not injured. At least a score of other houses in the vicinity were unroofed. A large number of persons received slight injuries The loss is estimated at from $25,000 to $30,000. At McKeesport, Penn., hailstones as large as walnuts fell while the raia poured down in sheets for a full half hour The heavy ice striking horses caused a number of runaways. The lightning struck siveral buildings in that vicinity, and considerable dam- | age was done. Tha greatest injury was done by the water j which came down White's Hollow in a stream seventy-five feet wide. The water was five feet deep on Fifth avenue at a point below I Centre street, and a number of houses which | were below orrade were submerged. The water reached the second story'of the Berktolder residence, causing great damage to that place and also the places adjoining. It was by far the heaviest and most unexpected rain storm for the year. At Greensburg, Penn., William Fry, the gardener at St. Joseph's Academy, was struck and instantly killed by a bolt of lightning. A cow standing near him was also killed. me neavy rams cuuaeu gi cai uaui" age by the flood in the lowlands in that vi- | cinity. Cellars and basements were flooded. Lightning also struck Colonel HufFs palatial residence, the First Reformed Church and othej- buildings, doing great damage in every instance. Near Washington, Penn., lightning struck a derrick in course of erection on the Colonel Robert Miller farm, shattering it and killing William Furman, single; seriously injuring William Gates and stunning two others. J In Fayette County, Penn., th9 rain fall J [ was extensive, and did much damage to the railroad. In the Third Ward swamps the Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad tracks were flooded several feet deep, and trains were held several hours. The Baltimore and Ohio is a heavy sufferer. At Bradford the tracks were covered with water. A heavy landslide occurred at Oakdale, and as it was being cleared away a still I heavier one came down, blocking both tracks. The flood in Mountz Creek carried away many small buildings. At Layton Station. Penn.. an immense amount of mud, rocks and trees came down on the Baltimore and Ohio tracks about flve o'clock in the evening. The east bound track was cleared at nine o'clock, but it was again covered for a long distance by more of the hill coining uowu. me ram buncuuiuuu?.u almost to a cloudburst. Trainmen say the streams for the hills flowed over the track. At Scottdale, Penn.. the storm was parlicularly destructive. Cellars ail along the principal streets are nearly filled with water, and the goods that many of the merchants had stow<?fl away are saturated. A despatch from Oil City, Penn., says: Heavy raiu falling almost steadily since last midnight raised the water in the river and creek to the highest point since 1833. The river stands now at fourteen feet nine inches, [ a rise of six feet sinc9 ten a. m. The ground floors of the lower portion of the towu were flooded, including the basement of the Oil Exchange aal the Derrick press room. _ J At Wheeling, TV. Va.. about two and a half inches of rain fell in twenty minutes, deluging the streats and flooding ? number of business houses in cellars and first floors. Travel on the Elm Railroad was stopped for several hours by a heavy landslide. The [ newly plowed farm land in the viciuity | suffered severely At all points along the Allegheny, Youghiougheny and Monoagahela Rivers the rainfall was unusual. At Alliance, Ohio, George Patterson, his [ wife and two children were Kiueii oy u?mning. Many houses are reported as having been demolished a:ui their inhabitants injured. A westbound freight train on the "Nickel Plate*' went through a bridge at Crayton, [ near the Ohio State line. Engineer Ellis. Fireman Nicholson aud Head Brakeman Johnston, went down in the mass of engine J and twenty-five cars. All three came out alive, but the engineer will die. The bridge was a wooden structure aud was 150 feet in leugt'i!. LATER NEWS. I The Presbyterian General Assembly at Saratoga, N. Y., has adjourned. I Tue trial of the1 Justin dynamito gun at Porryville. N. Y., resulted iu the explosion and wreck of the gun. The Rhode Island Legislature convened at Newport and formally elected John W. Davis Governor. Ho was immediately inaugurated. Johx Keen an, who has for over half a decade been an exile in Canada bocause of his connection with the '"Boodle"' Board of Aldermen of 18S4, returned to New York city and furnished bonds in $40,000 to answer the "boodle" indictment. Alvin Peterson and Gust Carlson, living near Centre City, Minn., went down in a well and were suffocated by foul air. Adolph and Gustav Wilke, aged twenty and eighteen years, who lived twelve miles north of Sheboygan, Wis., went out on the lake, and the boat capsizing, both were drowned. James O'Co.vnoh, Roman Catholic Bishop of Nebraska, died in Omaha, aged sixty-six. The Andersonville (Ga.) prison stockade has been purchased by the Georgia Eucampment, G. A. R., acting for the National body. Karema has reconquered Uganda, Africa, and dethroned King Mwanga. Two Land League meetings in. Ireland were broken up by the police and military. The President transmitted to both houses of Congress the plan proposed by tho PanAmerican Conference for an international American bank. The Democratic Senatorial caucus a^raed to the placing of Senator Carlisle oa the Committees oa Finance, Territorial and Woman Suffrage. He takes Senator Blackbum's place on the Committee oa Territories, who goes to tha Committee on Appropriations. KILLED WEILE PKAYING, The Dreadful Calamity Which Occurred iu a German Village. The village of St. Mahlen, near Hilde sheim, Germany, has been visited recently by severe hailstorms, which have done rf" great deal of damage. The people gathered in a church to prav for a cessation of the storm. While the services were in progress a thunder-storm came up and the church was struck by lightning. Four persons were instantly killed and twenty were injured, four being rendered completely blind. The people were panic stricken, and in the mad rush for the doors two children were crushed to death. TnntSTr Bostonions have to sit at tables and order fooi in order to entitle them, lelves to be sarvad with alcoholic drinks. , ' . 5 ' " STATE ELECTIONS. What the People Will Vote Foi During 1890. ^ All States and Territories elect representatives in Congress at the elections this year. Besides these? Alabama elects (August 4) Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor. Attorney-General and Legislature. Arkansas elects (September 1) Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney-General and Legislature. California elects (November 4) Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Comptroller, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Attorney-General, Surveyor-General, State Librarian, three Railroad Commisssioners and Legislature. Colorado elects (November 4) Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney-General, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Legislature. Connecticut elects (November 4) Governor, T.i?iif-onnnt--finv??rnni\ Secretary of State, Treasurer, Comptroller and Legislature. Delaware elects (November 4) Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor and Legislature. Florida elects (November 4) Legislature. Georgia elects (October 1) Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney-General and Legislature. Illinois elects (November 4) Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Legislature. Indiana elects (November 4) Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Attorney-General and Legislature. Iowa elects (November 4) Secretary of 3tate, Treasurer and Auditor. Kansas elects (November 4) Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney-General, ConofinfonHant. nf Pllhlir> Instruction and Legislature. Maine elects (September 8) Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer and AttorneyGeneral. Massachusetts elects (November 4) Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney-General and Legislature. Michigan elects (November 4) Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer and Auditor. Minnesota elects (November 4) Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer and Legislature. Missouri elects (November 4) a Legislature. Nebraska elects (November 4) Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney-General, Superintendent of Instruction and Legislature. Nevada elects (November 4) Governor, Lieutenant-Governor. Secretary of State, Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney-General and Legislature. New Hampshire elects (November 4) Gov r Cl i.4-~ TV en T*nr* onrl I ernor, secretary ol otaic, Legislature. New Jersey elects (November 4) Treasurer, Comptroller and legislature. New York elects (November 4) a Legislature. North Carolina elects (November 4) a Legislature. North Dakota elects (November 4) a Legislature. Ohio elects (November 4) Secretary of State and Legislature. Oregon elects (June 2) Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Superintendent of Schools, State Printer and Legislature. Pennsylvania elects (November 4) Governor, Lieutenant-Governor and Legislature. Rhode Island elects (April 2) a full Stata ticket and Legislature. South Carolina elects (November 4) Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Comptroller, AttorneyGeneral, Superintendent of Instruction and Legislature. South Dakota elects (November 4). Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Superintendent of Instruction, Attorney-General and Commissioner of Lands. Tennessee elects (November 4) Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney-General, Superintendent of Instruction and Legislature. Texas elects (November 4) Governor, Lieutenant-Governor. Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney-General, Superintendent of Instruction and Legislature. rr?awi-.a rSentembar 2) Governor V DI IUUUU v?wv~ x L I and Lieutenant-Governor. Virginia elects (November 4) a Legislature. West Virginia elects (November 4) a Legislature. Wisconsin elects (November 4) Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney-General, Treasurer and Legislature. In mo3t of the States Judges of the various courts are elected during the year. qc? KEMMLER'S DOOM SEALED. The Supreme Court Decides That Electrocution is Constitutional. The Supreme Court of the United States has denied the application for a writ of error in the cas? of KemroJer, under sentence of death by electricity at th9 Auburn (N Y.) Penitentiary. The opinion was by Chief Justice Fuller. Kemmier's last chance, so far as any legal question is concerned, has thus been exhausted. The opinion follows very closely that of the New "k ork Court of Appeals. As to Lawver Sherman's claim that car tain rights guaranteed to citizens by the fifth and fourteenth amendments had been abrogated in Kemmler's cas?, the court says: As due process of law in the amendment refers to tnat law of the land which derives its authority from the legislative powers conferred upon Congress by the Constitution of the Uniced States, so, in the fourteenth amendment, the same words refer to that law of the land in each State which derives its authority from the inherent and reserved powers of the State, exerted within the limits of these fundamental principles of liberty and justice. Undoubtedly the amendment forbids any arbitrary deprivation of life, liberty or property, and in. the administration of criminal justice requires that no different or higher punishment shall be imposed upon one than such as is prescribed for all for like offenses, but it was not designed to interfere with the power of the State to protect the lives, liberties and property or its citizens. The enactment of tnis statute was in itself within the legitimate sphere of the legislative power of the State. In an interview at Auburn, N. Y., W arden Dorston said that he believed that Kerumler would be electrocuted some time * ? - C*1 in August. Wbetaer ne or me ow u?. I Erie County would electrocute him would undoubtedly be determined next month. Besides Kemmler there were four other convicted murderers in New York State whose fat? depended upon the Court of Appeals decision. They are: Ju^igo, who killed a fellow-Japanese in a Doarding house in New York city. Mcllvane, who stabbed Grocer Luca to death in Brooklyn. Slocum, who killed his wife in New York with a baseball club. Wood, a colored man, who killed a fellow* laborer named Charles Rufiin on the Croton aqueduct last year. FAMINE IN THE SOUDAN. People Dying by Thousands and Cannibalism Prevalent. In the British House of Commons Mr. Henry H. Howorth (Conservative) asked whether anything had beau done to relieve I the sufferers from the appalling famine in I the Soudan. Atnoa. Accorums ?,? n I worthy advices the population was starving and cannibalism was prevalent. The people were eating anything, dogs, cats, rats and snakes being used for food. Around Tokar and Kassala hundreds of persons were dying daily from starvation, and in other parts the state of affairs was even worse, nearly the " whole population having perished. Sir James Fergusson replied that relief had been given in every district that could be reached by the Government, but in places in the interior, which were beyond the control of the Government, famine was rife and many deaths had occurred. Around Suakim 2000 persons were being fed daily. The failure ol crops for successive year?, added to othei causes, had led to the present iutensa distress. France and Germany have agreed, in order to avoid dispute on the frontier, to strip a large space of ground on either side of the boundary line aud place, at frequent intervals, large stones, marking the Uue Qf de- ' limitation conspicuously. . 1 A SAHARA OASIS. \ S ; . .. \ SMALL SPOT WITH A CROWDED* POPULATION. I I "VI ' - ''? A True Picture of Life in a Desert'? Garden Spot?All the Inhabitants Dwell in One .. j Lar^e House. '.'M ^ Dr. Jacquot describes the firet oasis he saw in the Sahara as "a little green corner, fresh and shady, cheered by the murmur of waters. The dates waived their elegant plumes high in tfce air; the pomegranates and fig trees crowded between the columns of the palms; the wheat and barley clothed the soil with' verdure; the water flowed in every direcL:? ~-j 4u. i :.j ..?? LIUU, ULiU LUC UUIU1U VU[JU13 ViVJLiACU. tug foliage. One could not help trembling for the little spot, it seemed such a feeble thing in the immensity of the desert, surrounded by desolate plains and menaced by moving sand hills." Dr. Jacquot's description is slightly erroneous ; it may do very well for poets, but as true description it is wrong. An' oasis is not an immense wild garden,1 where numerous species of fruits and flowers crowd each other in wild confusion, but it is niggardly nature cultivated almost to the extreme by human industry, which refuses space to every fruit or > flower which doe3 not aid to sustain life. An oasis is usually about a mile and a quarter in length and about five-eights of a mile in breadth. In nearly every case it occupies the bottom of some ravine, which shelters it in every direction. It is enclosed by a mud or stone wall about eight feet in height and about a foot in - * jj thickness. At regular intervals about this Vail are round stone towers; these are sentry boxe? on the flat roofs of which arc stationed nightly guards to protect the place from pillage. The gardcas of the oasis lie against this outer wall, and are divided into small enclosures, each of which is the property of one person. Next to the gardens, toward the centre, are fields of corn, barley, and onions, divided into parts as in the gardens, which are watered and tended like our favorite flower beds; in the centre is a little rivulet, which run9 from springs near one of the extreme ends. The inhabitants of this oasis do not live each family in a separate dwelling, but in one large house called a ksar, which is usually built of stone, giving it the appearance of a solid moss, perforated . . here and there with a small window and diversified with jutting angles. The halls are narrow, dark, ill-smelling, uneven passages winding about the building. The apartments are low-ceiled,- : filthy places, lighted by a single aperture in the wall. The whole place reminds one more of a dog kennel than a human habitation. In some of the ksars, about three or four hundred men, women and children, a sickly generation, are hud died together in a building which would seem to a European hardly able to contain more than a hundred. The only interesting thiDg about the whole oasis is the marabet or sepulchral chapel, which stands outside the walls. It is generally square, surmounted by a cupola, the whole being built of stone or brick, executed by artisans brought from Morocco for that exprass purpose. v 'vj Occasionally the principal cupola is flanked by four similar ones, the interior presenting a court, surrounded by a gallery supported on Moorish arcades. In most cases the ostrich egg crowns the summit of the cupola, but occasionally a stone or metal ball may be found occupying the exalted position. The inhabi- && tants of the oasis choose to reserve all the luxury and magnificence of their architecture to adorn the little temple around which they excavate their restiDg places. They are not like the habitations of the living, subject to the ravages of foe3, but are universally held sacred; and the conqueror, covered with blood, approaches here with reverence and prostrates himself in lowly worship. Life is so uncertain, when the arms of the enemy combine with elements of nature tothreaten its existence, that it is no wonder the inhabitant of the oasis cares to lavish all his wealth, not on the dwelling which will probably shelter him but a ! day, but on the place which will shelter him forever from the storms of life. In the gardens near the outer wall of the oasis are grown the date palm, which is the principal "food all over the Sahara. The trunk of this palm is usually about fifty or sixty feet in height, and is crowned by a tuft of radiating leaves. i The calyx has six divisions, and the fruit is- a drupe, somewhat larger than the ?J wl%?r? finn onri ia acorn; it is h rcu uuiui >tu&u h^v ? enclosed in a hard kernel, from which it is easily separated. It is pulpy, firm, esculent and sweet,with a slight astingency. The tree is raised from shoots, which arrive at maturity in about thirty years, and continues bearing for about seventy more, producing yearly about fifteen or twenty clusters, which weigh, usually, about eighteen pounds each. "When any one wishes to create a date garden, he summons the neighboring gardeners to his assistance; and thus he accomplishes his work with economy and despatch, for their services cost him nothing, except the obligation to return the same when demanded. The sani is first removed to a depth of several feet, in order that the rooti may reach water, beside a trench is- dug around the tree at a regular distance, and into this, when necessary, water is poured, in order that, sinking through the soil, it may effectually reach the fibres which require it. This irrigation is chiefly committed to mmpn .ind children, by those who have no slaves; and the precious fluid i& carried in skins of animalg or baskets of balpo flouted so closely as to be waterproof. In most oases canals are cut in every direction, communicating with the springs which supply the oases; and when restriction is necessary, each gardener pays so much per hour for the use of the water in his garden. In some oases, each proprietor has the right to the springs for an hour or two, according to the title deeds of his estate. 'The time is measured by a rude chronometer held by the officer who opens and shuts its conduit. In the above imperfect account I have endeavored to give my readers a description of the oasis as it is, and not as the poets or romancers would have us to believe.? The Commonwealth. Of the living and the widows of the dead there arc now 435,000 names on the United States pension rolls. They receive an average of $131 per year. Canadian railway statistics show that Canada has 12,628 miles in operation, an. j increase of 56(5 miles during 1SSU. - L