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[1 TICKS AND SPARKS. The Latest News by Telegraph and Cable. Rle Louisiana House Passes the Lottery Franchise Bill. Amid great excitement tho Housa of Representatives at Baton Rouge, La., passed the bill amending the Constitution granting a re-charter to the Louisiana State Lottery Company for a period of twenty-five years, in consideration of a yearly payment of $1,000,000 into the Stato Treasury for schools, charities and levees. The vote was sixty-six yeas, twenty-nine nays. Three members were absent. Twojnillions of the amount is to become available in 1S'J3 and -1891, without interest. The bill will now go to tho Senate, which is composed of thirty-six members, twentythroe of whom are outspoken in favor of granting the charter and several are on the fence. As it will be necessary to capture only one of these votes to" secure the requisite two-thirds to pass th9 bill the same difficulty will not be experienced as in the House. a ? fho PamoHfnfirvn hftra trt XVS OUlDUUUiCUlO ia/ vup \zvuov??uv>\'u ..m, v ??. . k be ratified by the people the proposition will 1 be passed upon at the general election in | In the course of the debate Mr. Jackson, | who had been counted in favor of the measure, said he could not vote for th9 bill unless the monopoly feature was stricken from it. Mr. Shaittuck, the lottery leader, who introduced the bill, said ha would accept an amendment to that effect. Thereupon the bill was put back on second reading and the clause giving Mr. Morris a lottery monopoly was eliminated. The bill was then put back on third reading. Just before the vote was taken Mr. Lawton, of New Orleans, said two-thirds of his constituents were in favor of submitting this nronosition to a vote of ths people, and H be desired to voic?their wishes in the mat ter, but could not favor the bill unless it B?was considered in connection with the NewHhs proposition, which offered the State |H?50,000 a year more than Morris did. Th'j should get the largest revenue possible the franchise. ggf Mr. Lawton was assured that while it was H too late to amend the bill at this time, when it went to the Senate that body would raise jfl the amount fro n ?1,099,000 to $1,250,000 a qfl year. Upon this assurance Mr. Lawton said ^&he would vote in the affirmative. M A Bad Storm in Iowa. An electrical storm struck Dubuque, Iowa. H Two inches o* rain fell in two hours and the H wind blew forty miles au hour down town. HOn the hills the" velocity was much greater. H The lightning and thun ier were terrible and H incessant. In Rockdale Valley, south of the city, the flood carried away bridges and ^ -drovepeople to the hills forsafety. H At Thompson's Mill, Iowa, drowned cattle ^ and horses were swept through the first ^Bstory windows of Mr. Titzij's residence, and the family sought refuge in the hills. The ^Abridge at Washington Mills, Iowa, on the ^BChicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis Road,went down with a crash. On the Illinois Central ^Btwo bridges were washed away between TWihtir.no ?nrf Julien. and 700 feet of track I was washed out near Farley. The Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City was washed out for thirty miles west and north of Dubuque. In the city the damage done was great. Many houses in the uppsr part of the city were flooded with water. The damage done is estimated at over $100,000. A Battle With Mexican Bandits. Senor Felipe Gonzales, a wealthy merchant andTancher cf Tampico, Mexico, arrived in Texas from the scene of the alleged revolutionary operations in Mexico. According to 8enor Gonzales the alleged revolution is nothing more or less than a jold attempt of a well-organizei rang of bandits to commit robbery, ionzales says that the bandits, under the eadership of an ex-officer of the Mexican irmv. attacked a train near Montereybear f id and silver bullion to the United . The train was well guarded by a iment of soldiers, and a pitched battle ?d in which several of the bandits were Their leader was captured, and has een shot. The bandits, Gonzales dewere Mexican refugees who crossed he Texas side of the river near Laredo. Cowbows Bun the Town. izn of terror has existed at Two Hig, lor several days. Twenty cowbows in from Hill & Runnell's ranch, t and ave run the town to suit themselves '. McSinnis, a merchant, was shot. A ger summoned McNeil's rangers, and aptured eight of the cowboys, the escaping to the brush. a who escaped returned and released soners, and shot all the windows out house of John Nicholson, the station who sent the message summoning the Killed the Entire Family. (A family feud at Yates Centre, Kan., nded in a bloody tragedy. A. H. Coe and rife lived on a farm about thirteen miles crathwest of Wichita. For several years ?oe and his two brothers-in-law, Nathaniel ind Adrian Anglin, who had farms adjoinag his, had kept up a family feud, the rigin of which is unknown. During the morning Coe went into the eld where Nathaniel was working and shot im dead. He then opened fire on Adrian nd shattered his left arm, leaving him Knead. He returned home and shot his wife ead. Coe then sent a bullet through his wn head, dying instantly. One Pistol Killed Both. Wiaa Annie Turner, the beautiful young aughter of Judge John S. Turner, comoait>d suicide at Groveton, Texas. Her father K^Brho was present at the time, took trie piscoi s^Krozn the bands of his dying daughter an^ ^Killed Professor Davis. Nothing is knn->to the cause of the tragedy. HI Professor Davis went there last March North Carolina and took charge of the ^B^kemy. He was a good looking young H Saicidc of a Mississippi Priest. Rev. Father C. F. Bohmert, who has b3en ^Bn ill health for some time past, was found ^Hdead in bed at the parsonage adjoining St. ^pUphonsus Catholic Church, Ocean Springs, ^Htfiss., of which he was pastor, |^Bdth two bullet wounds in his head, one b> ^Hiind his right ear and one in the right eye. ^^HYotn the surrounding circumstances it is HBtvident that he took lifs own lifa while sufHHtering from mental aberration. Gold Kxports. cfti The official report of the United States ^ Bureau of Statistics shows total exports of I^^Kold in the five months to May 31 $11429,4f>8, ^^Bind the total imports for the same time were ^^B4,914,957, thus leaving an excess of imports $485,499. The contrast is very marked five months of 1839, when the Ijxports of gold were $23,63S.919 and the imsorts oaly $3,706,412, leaving an excess of 119,982,50" of export-. Hundreds in the Sea. A foot bridge landing from a steamer to a Ending stage at St. Jean, France, collapsed ind hundreds of persons were thrown intc ;he sea. Seven bodies have been recovered ind many persons are still missing. Diverc ire engaged in a search for other bodies. Drowned Himself in Vinegar. Mason Haus Halter, a young man, drowned liniself in a barrel o( vinegar at Vienna, Austria. He first painted his initials ia red m the barrel and then plunged in. No mo ive is known. MEXICO'S EXPOBTS. ho Scuds the United States $10, 000,000 Worth a Year. Tho official report of the Secretary of State ! the Republic of Mexico for tho fiscal year ist ended contains some interesting compil55ns to people of the United States. Tho total exports from Mexico were valned ! over $60,000,000. Of this amount moro tan $40,000,000 went to the United States; 2,000,000 to England; $8,003,000 to Gerany, and $3,000,000 to France. Of the thirty-five custom houses El Paso ands first, Vera Cruz second, Progreso Jrd and Laredo fourth. Ei Paso did twen* five per cent, of tho entire business. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. A flood did damage in Steuben County, N. Y., and Tioga County, Penn. Mrs. Harrison* and Mrs. McKee, wifonnd daughter of the President, the babies McKee, Mrs. Dimmick, two maids and White House Steward Thomas McKim, arrived at Cape May Point, N. J., on a special train. They were driven immediately to Mrs Harrison's handsome new cottage, which had been opened, ready to receive them. The Vermont Republican State Convention at Montpelier nominated Carroll S. Pagro for Governor. His opponent was U. A. Woodbury, the present Lieutenant-Governor. William T. Mead, an ex-member of the Common Council of Camden, N. J., Has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for forging the name of D. H. Eruman to a note for $350. George York, fifty years old, has bsen arrested in Portland, Me., for setting fire to his father's house. A smallpox epidemic has broken out at Searsport, Me., and great excitement exists in Eastern Maine in consequence. Miss Idalene M. Frisbie, the twentythree-year-old daughter of Henry L. Fnsbrie. Superintendent of the Illinois Central Railroad, was kicked to death at Now Haven, Conu., by a horse. Michael Wtman, a farmer living five miles north of Newark, N. Y., and his son, Edward, were both drowned while engaged - vi. r??? in wasning saeup 1U a u? ooa. uuo \jl vuu sheap pulled Edward into deep water. His father went to baa rescue and both were drowned. According to the census returns the population of New York city is 1,637,337. In 1880 the population was 1,200,000. Mrs. Patrick Stanton, of Upper Prospect, Penn., was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Her husband and son were also shocked and fatally injured. Edward McCullock hung himself with a clothesline from a tree in the rear of his house at Rock Glen, N. Y., because of a disappointment in a real estate transfer. McCullock mounted a tree, a limb of which grew out over a gorge whoso bottom lay eighty feet below. He had calculated that if the rope broke he would be killed by the fall. Richard Croker, the head of Tammany Hall, was a witness before tha Fassett Committee, in New York city, and denied all charges made against him by Patrick H. McCann, his wife's brother-in-law. The boiler of the tug Alice D. Caraw exploded while the boat was lying at the foot of Van Brunt street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Two men were instantly killed and three others ? were injured. A terrific wind, hail and rain storm, accompanied by fierce and incessant lightning, visited the Juniata valley, renn., aoing much damage to growing crop3. Tnrej houses in Huntingdon, Penn., were struck by lightning and James Swoope was fatally injured. Miss Mary Hoffman, a twin daughter of John Hoffman, died from fright. Austin Corbin cabled from Europe to Philadelphia his resignation as President of the Reading Railroad. The American Gas Investment Company, with a capital of SoO.OOO.OOO, has been incorporated at Trenton, N. J. The New York Court of Appeals decided the Sugar Trust case adversely to the Trust; it also affirmed the death sentence of William Kemmler, upholding the constutionality of the Electrical Execution law. The sixth International Sunday-school Convention met at Pittsburg, Penn. William Reynolds, of Peoria, HI., called the meeting to order. South and West. John Smith, Thomas Ryan and John^Sul livan attempt?! to go asnore at eanta uruz, Cal., in a small boat. The boat capsized and Smith's two companions were drowned. Smith clung to the boat for saveral hour3 bafore he was rescued. A general tie up of the building trades is now on in Cincinnati, Ohio, which throws 10,000 men out of work. The Birmingham (Ala.) car works wera destroyed by fire. There was no insurance, and the loss is placed at $100,000. Dr. F. H. Rofus committed suicide at Lincoln, Neb., by cutting his throat from ear to ear. He was an old citizen and wellknown physician. He had lost three wive3 in the last seven years under circumstances which caused much talk, and it is believed this seriously affected his mind. Colonel J. L. Sheffield, chief clerk in the office of the State Superintendent of Education of Alabama, while at Gunthersville, Ala., shot and instantly killed Major Buck May, a prominent citizen. Colonel Sheffield is past sixty. Complaints of great numbers of rats and their destruction of grain come from all parts of the country around Golconda, 111. Neighbors meet and have regular rat-killing parties. The Park National Bank, of Chicago, ill., closed its doors. A singular and terrible railroad accident occurred near Ciiilds Station, Md., by which John McNamara, a fireman of the locomotive, was instantly killed,and Charle3 Ackenheil, an engineer of the Staten Island (N.Y.) Rapid Transit Company, was so badly injured that he afterward died. Among the injured was Bishop Keane, rector oi the Catholic University, Washington, D. C. Thirteen other passengers, including a son of Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, received severe hurts. Three children of John Lobar, a wellknown farmer ten miles south of Wichita, Kan., were burned to death. Lober and his wife left them locked up in their house while they went a couple of miles away visiting neighbors. Two colored men were killed, two whita men badly hurt and several others were shot and cut up in a row which ocaarred on an East Tennessee train, near Etlenwood,Ga. Worth Dickerson has been chosen by th3 usual majority to succeed John G. Carlisle as the Representative in Congress of the Sixth Kentucky District. Thomas Cox, the owner of a sawmill at Leesburg, Ky.; Joseph Gilk, the engineer, and two colored workmen were killed oy the explosion of the boiler. Chicago's population is put by the census returns at 1,000,000. Geokge W. McCreary, Secretary of War during President Hayes's administration, died in St. Joseph, Mo., at the residence of his daughter. He had been suffering with a tumor of the stomach for some time. He was born near Evaosviile, Ind., August 29, 1835. Trees were uprooted, fenee3 swept away and the growing crops prostrate! by a severs storm in Rockingham and Augusta Counties, in Virginia." Dr. Ormond Be.vttib,ex-President of Centre College, of Danville, Ky., diel alter a brief illness of congestion of the stomach. He was born in Mason County, Ky., August 13, 1815. J. W. Delaplane, of Hampton, Va., with his son, daughter and nephew, was sailing Thewon was knocked overooard by a collision 1 with another boat, and in trying to rescue him the other two men were drowned with him. A great strike took place on the Illinois Central Railroad at Chicago, 111. Over one thousand conductors, switchmen and brakemen quit work because of the alleged obnox iousness of Superintendent Uusseli. John L Sullivan, the pugilist, plead guilty at Purvis, Miss., to the indictment for prize fighting with Jake Kilrain, and was fined $500 and costs. He paid his fine and was dischargod. The entire business portion of Carrillos, New Mexico, fifty miles north of Albuquerque, was destroyed by fire. The los3 is about *100,000. The Illinois Remiblican State Convention met at Sprinjfield anl nominated Franz Amberg, of Chicago, for State Treasurer and Dr. Richard A. Edwards, the present incumbent, for Superintendent of Public Instruction. Washington. According to figures turned in by the enumerators the population of St. Louis, Mo., is 435,000, or 75,000 less than the most conservative estimate. Four special enumerators were set to work revising districts from which came reports of neglect. A colored man at titvingston, Texas, who cut the throat of a white mau named Morris a few days ago, was lynched by a posse of armed men. In reveDge a band of colored men killed two of the men alleged to be implicated. ' *. -.". W ytr -S t I Arrangements have recently been completed by the State Department, at Washington, for a consular convention in Paris, France, next August. The President has approved the Census Deficiency Appropriation bill, the act proI viding for tae exportation of fermented I liquor in bond without payment of internal revenue tax, and tho act amending soction 3-354, Revised Statues. The President has allowed to become a law without his signature the act authorizing him to take measures to obtain indemnity from the Venezuelan Government for damages suffered by the Venezuelan Transportation Company, of New York, by reason of the seizure of some of its vessels. The President has vetoed th9 bill "to change the boundaries of the Uncompahgra Reservation." The President has approved tho act granting a pension to Mrs Parnell, mother o? Charles S. Parnell. President Harrison has vetoed the bill "to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County, Arizonia, to issue certaiu bonds in aid of the construction of a certain railroad." The President has nominated Thomas E.' Milchrist as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and James A. Miner, of Michigan, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah. Indian Bureau officials have notified the cattle men occupying nnder lease the grazing lands of the Iowas that if further damage to Oklahoma settlers is done by their-cattle they will be summarily removed from the Indian Territory: Edward Grerly Loring, who was Judge of the Court of Claims at Washington for a quarter of a century, is dead. He was the United States Commissioner who in 1854 remanded the famous fugitive slave, Burns, to slavery. The President has approved the Military Academy Appropriation bill, and the act authorizing the President to causa carta in lands, heretofore withdrawn from market for reservoir purposes, to be restored to the public domain, subject to entry under the Homestead law. The President has appointed the following Commissioners-at-Large to the World's Fair at Chicago: Gorton W. Allen, of New York, in place of Edwin H. Amidown, declined, with Louis Fitzgerald, of New York, as alternate, and William M. Lindsey, of Kentucky, in place of Samuel W. Inman, of Georgia, declined, with Patrick J. Walsh, of Georgia, as alternate. The Senate confirmed the nomination of George J. Collins as Postmaster of Brooklyn, N. Y., and also the following Consuls: Edward D. Roper, Jr., of Massachusetts, at Zanzibar, and William Newell, of Washington, at Managua. A cable message was received at the MoTrtr n^oortmant in WRshinct^n from Con sul Garesche, at Martiniqua, West Indies, as follows: "Half of Fort da Franca burned. Martinique demands aid. Five thousand homeless people nead lumber, baef, pork, flour and other provisions. Cable quickly what the State3 will do." The flag on the War Department was at half-mast on account of the death of ex-Sacretarv McCreary. The Dapartmant was closed oh the day of his funeral. The President approved of the allotments made by Secretary Proctor for the distribution of the $100,000 appropriated by Congress for '^arming and ?quipping tha militia" for the conr'ng fiscal year. The Census Odlca will tabulate the returns from large cities bafore commencing work on the smaller cities and towns. The first estimate of the population of the District of Columbia, as made by Superintendent Porter, is 22*, 160. Tha population in 1880 was 177,631. Foreign. There has been a serious outbreak in Honduras of a disease closaly resambling yellow fever, and many persons have left the country A few days ago at Canaa, in Crete, a number of Christians ambushed and shot three Turkish soldiers and a Cretan Mussulman. A body of Mussulmans, in revenge^ have Killed a uansuau auj tui?mu tuivuv* ?wprisals. Russian authorities have expalled 159 Austrians from tha vicinity of Myalowitz, Poland. Emperor William arrived at Essen, Germany, and inspected the Krupp factory. In an address to seven hundred workmen he promised to continue his efforts to promote the welfare of the working classes. Notice of a motion to consider retaliatory tariff legislation against the United States was given in the British House of Commons. The dock laborers' strike at Swansea, Wales, is ended, the 8000 strikers having resumed work at a slight advance in wages. Colonel Sir Edward Ridley Colbourne Bradley, Political Undersecretary for the India Office, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Monro as Chief of the London (England) Police Force. The cholera epidemic is decreasing at Puebla de Rugat and Montichelvo, Spain. Fritz Dubois was hanged at Quebec, Canada, lor muraenng nis wue, ms iwu children and his mother-in-law, whom he hacked to pieces in a most brutal manner with an axe. Peter Edward Davis was also executed at Belleville, Canada, for murder. President da. Fonsrca. has signed the new Constitution of Brazil. Brigands near Sinekli, Turkey, havo captured Mahmoud Bey. a man of great wealth. They demand 830,090 for his release. Turkish soldiere have been dispatched in pursuits of the brigands. During the progress of the Magisterial election at Kalacsa, Hungary, serious rioting occurred. The mob having attacked the voting station. it was repulsed by the gendarmes with a loss of tore? killed and eight wounded. The English Government has withdrawn the licensing clause of the Taxation bill. The project to connect Berlin with the 1 sea by means of a canal is causing great excitement in Germany. It is proposed to extend the canal as far as Stettin. Tripoli is being devastated by locusts. The decomposed bodies of the insects fill the wells, infecting the water and rendering it unfit for use. A new Government has been formed in San Salvador, with General Carlos Ezeta as Provisional President. tut* pl-jcnno cv\nTfXIS at St. Petersburg, Russia, closed* its session. The Congress will meet in Paris in 1895. An explosion occurred in a parafflne warehouse at Lissa, Prussian Poland, completely destroying the building. Seven men were killed, twelve seriously injured and saveral others slightly hurt. The police of Bsrlin. Germany, have decided to refuse a permit to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show on tha ground that it is demoralizing to youth. The boiler of a steam engine belonging to Thomas Quick exploded on the farm of William Craig at Colchester, Canada. Gaorge Craig and Thomas Quick were killed and Frank Quick was fatally injured. Thomas Craig, Peter White, Frank Bondy and Lindsey, the engineer, were also s3V9rely injured. The large farmers of Pomsrania, Garmauy, intend hiring Chinese laborers, and so counteract the increasing demiuds of the home laborers. Large orders have in consequence been swit to Hong Kong for men. Judgment was given at Winnipeg, Manitoba, by Judge Bain in the famous sBparate school case. The Judge upheld the la'.v re cently pass3(1 by the Liogisiaturd auonsumg separate schools, aai grants aa injunction to restrain teachers in Catholic schools fro.n holding religious exercises. A MIDGET IN POLITICS. Colonel Leffcl Will be One of the City Fathers of Springfield, Ohio. Coloael Jo3 LjfTel, tho midget ex-musaum freak, was elected a Councilman in a special election held in the Fifth Ward of Springfield, Ohio, to (11' a vacancy. LjiTel is tho smallest official of tho kiud in the country. He is forty-six inches high, weighs sixty pounds, and Is fifty-seven years old. He was elected in face of heavy odds, his opponent beiug H. G. Marshall, an extremely popular Democrat. Mr. LolTel was the Republican nominee,and polled more than the full vote of his party. His majority over Marshall was 130 votes. It will bo rather ludicrous to see the midget in council, as ho will be hidden by his desk when he takes the floor to speak. He married a midget, who still lives, They have two full-sized children. IMMIGRATION'S TIE jiTicial Statement by tlic Bureau of Statistics. Tlie Influx of Foreigners During Eleven Montis. Tho following official statetn?iit has been issued from "Washington by tho United States Bureau of Statistics: The total number of immigrants arriving in the United States during the month ending May 81, 1890, was 82,994, as compared with 74,248 arriving during the same period last year. Of these 02,105 landed at Now York, 0019 at Baltimore, 5157 at Boston, 188 at New Orleans, 504 at Philadelphia and 439 at San Francisco. The respective numbers coming from the i principal foreign countries were as follows: England and Wales, 7118; Scotland, 1003; Ireland 13,114; Germany, 15,163; Denmark, 1907; Italy, 11.527; Hungary, 4005; France, 497; Poland, 3241; Kussia, 0320; Norway and Sweden, 8767. The total number of immigrants arriving during the eleven months ending May 31, 1890, was 401,609, as compared with 394,560 arriving during tne same penoa last year. Of these, 324,975 landed at New York, 25,344 at Boston, 24,791 at Baltimore, 3230 at ^ew Orleans, 19,924 at Philadelphia, and J145 at San Francisco. The respective numbers coming from the principal foreign countries were as follows: Hungary, 20,041; Germany, 84,000; England and Wales, 52,078; Scotlaud, 10,585; Ireland, 40,163; Italy, 45,837; Poland, 8397; Russia, 31,229; Norway and Sweden, 35,340; Denmark, 8467. The most notable increases and decreases in the number of immigrants from the principal foreign countries for the month and for the eleven months ending May 31, 1890, as compared with like perioas last year, were as follows: Hungary, for month, increase of 2959, and for eleven months, increase of 10,460; Denmark, for month, decrease of 38, and for eleven months, increase of 480; Germany, falling off of 0000 for the eleven months; England and Wales, slight falling off for month, decrease of nearly 12,000 for eleven months; Scotland, decrease of 800 for month, and of 1000 for eleven months; Ireland, decrease, of 3000 for month, and of 12,000 for eleven months; Italy, increase of 6000 for month, J -C Ai /tAA ? una ot s*,uw xur eiuveu iiiuubiis; Poland, increase of 2100 for month, and of 4000 for eleven months; Russia, slight increases; Norway and Sweden, decrease of 1000 for month, and of 7000 for eleven months. The immigration from France remains practically unchanged. The number landing at New York for the month shows an increase of 10,000 over the number landing during salne period last roar, while for tne eleven months there is an increase of 21.000. LATER NEWS. Commencement exercises were held at Yale and Harvard colleges. George W. Delamater wa3 nominated for Governor of Pennsylvania by the Republican Convention at Harrisburg. The Maine Prohibition State Convention at Portland nominated Aaron Clark, of Buxton, for Governor. An explosion in theSolar RoSnery at Lima, HUia lrilla/1 fwA mon William Topoint and Charles King were burned to death by the ignition of natural gas, for which they were boring near Glasgow, Ky. Five hundred ra'lroad freight handlers went on strike at East St. Louis, 111. The Secretary of the Navy decided to send Commodore W. P. McCann to command the South Atlantic station, with the United States ship Pensacola as flagship. The President approved the act constituting Irondequoit Bay, N. Y., a navigable water; the act for the relief of th3 Duluthand Manitoba Railroad Company, the act authorizing the acquisition of certain parcels of real estato in square No. 323, city of Washington, to pvovidean eligible site for a city postoffice; the act approving the funding act of Arizona and a number of acts granting pensions. The number of cases of cbolera in Valencia, Spain, up to a recent date 13 196, of which 113 have proved fatal. Rochfort MacGuire, Home Ruler, his been elected to Parliament from North Donegal, Ireland. Severe gales prevailed along the coast of Scotland. Three persons are known to hav.? been drowned. Six buildings, including the Po6toffice, have been - destroyed by fire at Rincon. Cuba. MAN ASD WIFE HATOED, Mr. and Mrs. Potts Die On th? Same Gallows at Elko, Nev. One of the most terrible scones in the history of death by the noose was witnessed in the Elko (Nevada) jail yard, when Josiah and Elizabeth Potts were hanged for the murder *of Miles Faucett. Hardened men shuddered and turned pale as they saw the soman's head nearly cut off by the rope ana the blood drench her clothing, while beside her swung in fearful contortions, the body of her husband. The Pottses have been in jail over a Sear for a particularly atrocious murder on ew Tear's Day, 1888. Faucett was a well-to-do bachelor, seventy years old, and born, like the Pottses, in Manchester, England. They were friends, hnf. nftAr Fancetfc's murder the Pottses disap peared and about a year afterward were arrested. At their trial, evidence, which was wholiy circumstantial, showed that for the sake of ready money the woman had struck her victim on the head with an axe and then crushed his skull to prevent identification. Not satisfied with this the two cut up the body and the woman tried to boU it aown, but could not on account of the stench. She tried to feed it to animals, and ended by burying the body under the house. On the gallows Mrs. Potts stood erect, clad in a muslin suit, draped in black, with a red rose in her bodice. I The scene which followed the springing of the trap was awful and the spectators turned away, pale and sickened. Mrs. Potts was so heavy and her flesh so soft and flabby that when the rope became taut it cut through her neck, severing the carotid artery. A stream of blood gushed out from under ber chin ana coursed down over the white dress she had made with so much care. "It was a spectacle not soon to be forgotten. The woman's form hung motionless, covered with blood and at its side swayed the body of her husband drawa up in frightful contortions which con tinued for fourteen minutes. I When the bodies were cut down it was found that there had been a narrow escape from an oven worse spectacle. The rope had so far cut through into Mrs. Pott's throat that had the drop been a little longer her head would have been severed from her body. Tho muscles of the back of the neck alon9 kept head and trunk together. The blood was hurriedly wiped off the wifos fac.% and the remains placed in ;offlns. TEN KILLED IN A FIEE, A Hungarian Village Destroyed, and. 1000 People Made Homeless. The village of Felsoe, Mislye, in Hungary, was destroyed by fire during a terrible gale of wind. Sparks from a locomotive engine fell on a thatched roof and in half an hour tho whole village was in flames. The church was destroyed, the bolls melted and tho tower laid in ruins. ^fen aged and ill people were killed and fifty injured. I Several children are missing and a thouI sand people are loft homeless and paoaUesi ^ L.'.y- ,rJ. r-: . ..'V .,, FIFTY-FIBST CONGBESS, In the Senate. 136th Day.?The House joint resolution to increase the number of members of the Board of Managers of the Soldiers' National Home (from ten to eleven), and to fill vacancies (with an amendment substituting the name of Thomas W. Hvde, of Maine, for that of Augustus B. Farnham), was passed.... The report of the Pan-American Conference Committee on Customs Union was received from the President.... The Legislative Appropriation bill was further discussed....Mr. Quay's resolution forbidding the Serge j nt-at-Arms to remove any of his subordinates before July 1, without consent of the Senate, was discussed.... Eulogies on Representatives Nutting and Wilbur, of New York, were delivered by Senators Evarts and Hiscock; the usual resolutions of regret and sympathy were adopted, and, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the two dead Representatives, the Senate adjourned. 137th Day.?The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was reported... .The Legislative Appropriation bill was considered, j amended and passed Several Senators expressed their opposition to the Geological I Survev. which Mr. Inzalls defended....Mr. Plumb reported the Postofflce Appropriation bill from the Appropriations Committee. It appropriates $<2,461,699?an increase of $473,000 over the amount appropriated by the House bill. 138th Day.? Mr. Dawes introduced and had referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs a bill for the relief of the Cherokee Shawnee Indians....The House bill supplementary to the act of March 22, 1832, in reference to bigamy was passed. It provides that all funds or property lately belonging to the Mormon Church shall be devoted to the , use and benefit of common schools in Utah .... Mr. Morrill moved to proceed to the con- ( sideration of the Senate bill to establish an educational fund, and apply the proceeis of the public lands and the receipts from certain lana grant railroad companies to th9 more 1 complete endowment and support of colleges for the advancement of science and indus- '{ trial education. Agreed to. 139th Day.?The Disability Pension bill was passed, ttyree Democrats voting with the Republican majority...,The Agricultural College bill, with Mr. Motrin's amendment, was passed... .Mr. Blair introduced a bill to incorporate the WOman's National Industrial J University and School of Useful and Ornamental Arts....Mr. Call offered an amendment to the River and Harbor bill to increase J the appropriation for improving the harbor of Tampa, Fla., to $100,000 A conference \ was ordered on the Fortification bill, and Messrs. Dawes, Plumb and Gorman were appointed conferees. 140th Day.?The Consular and Diplomatic < Appropriation bill was passed... .The Postoffice Appropriation bill passed without much debate, tne few changes made by the Senate Committee being acquiesced in generally on both sides of the Chamber....The Senate bills to adopt regulations preventing, and in relation to, collisions at sea, which embody the rules agreed to by the International Maritime Conference, were passed. 141st Day.?The bill for the admission of Wyoming as a State was debated....Mr. Call was attacked for alleged breach of privilege in printing certain matter in the liecord. In the Hooee. 14Gth Day.?An all-day battle was fought over Speaker Reed's reference of tha Silver bill to the Coinage Committee: finally Mr. Mills's motion, amended, to strike from the journal the Speaker's order of reference, was adopted by a vote of 1C3 to 117?eight Republicans voting with the Democrats... .The Federal Election bill was reported. 147th Day.?Mr. Campbell reported a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a marina hospital at the port of New York, at a cost not to exceed $250,000 ... .The controversy over the Suver bill was continued all day, seven Republicans voting fha riomwpota orrninat, fchn oneration of the House rules. The 1iou3e met at 8 o'clock P. M., but when a motion was made to go into Committee of the Whole to consider private ! pension bills, Mr. Enloe made the point of no quorum, and the House adjourned immediately, without transacting any business. 148th Day.?The House decided,by a vote of 144 to 117, to refer the Silver bill to the Committee on Coinage. Weight* and Meas- 1 ures. The following Republicans voted with 1 the Democrats against Mr. McKinley's motion: Messrs. Bartine, Connell, Da Haven, Hermann, Kelly, Morrow, Townsend and 1 Funston. These Democrats voted with the Republicans in fayor of the motion: Bucka- ! lew, Dunphy, Fitch, Gassenhainer, Marsh, McAdoo, Mutchler, O'Neill (Mass.), Quinn, ( Wiley and Stahlnedcer. 149th Day.?The Speaker announced the appointment of Messrs. Brewer, Butter- ' worth and Sayers as conferees on the Fortification bill . ..Mr. Wheeler reported with 1 amendments his bill to define the line of the- 1 Army and to increase its efficiency....On 1 motion of Mr. Grout, Chairman of th^Dis- 1 trict of Columbia Committee, the House went 1 into Committee of the Whole on District 1 business,taking up the Atkinson bill amenda- < tory of the act authorizing the construction ( of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in ' the District of Columbia. It was debated for 1 four hoars without action. ...A bill was in- 1 troduced by Mr. Watson appropriating $30, - 000 for the erection of a monument at Wash- 1 injton to the memory of John Ericsson. ( 150th Day.?The Silver bill was reported ] fininaere. and it was I decided after a long debate to take a vott ' next day. 1 151st Day.?A motion to concur in th<- 1 Senate Free Coinage amendment to the Sil- 1 ver bill was defeated?135 to 152?and a con- ' ference was ordered. Twenty-two Demo i crats voted with the Republicans and twen- 1 ty-one Republicans voted with the Demo crats.. ..Mr. Boutelle presented the confer ence report on the Naval Appropriation bill, and made a short explanation of the details 1 of the agreement reached in conference. Agreed to Mr. Dingley reported favor* 1 awy the bill recommended by the International Marine Conference for the prevention of collisions at saa. Mr. Dingley also reported favorably from the same committee the bill defining the duties of masters of vessels in case of collision. QUADKUPLE HANGING. Four Murderers Hanged Simultaneously at Memphis, Tenn. Frank Brenish, a white man, and Parker Harris, Ed Carr and Hardy Ballard, colored, were hanged in the County Jail at Memphis. Tenn. Brenish, Harris and Carr murdered their wives, and Ballard killed a street car driver. The colored men were hanged at the same moment, but as Brenish objected to going on the gallows with them his wishes were respected, and he was hanged later. Brenish suffered death for a horrible crime. His vifo had left him bocauso of his brutality, and though ho importuned her to return she refused. Ho mot her on the street tho evening of July 5, 1839. Sho was accompanied by her sister and her four-yearold daughter. As sho attempted to pass him he spoke to her, but sho stopped out of his way to avoid him. He sprang upon her from behind and cut her throat. Tlieu ho drew tho bloody blade across his own throat The surgeons inserted a silver tube and Brenish lived, but twice he endeavored to carry out his original intention by teoriug out tho tube. Parker Harris duplicated Brenish's crime. He killed his wife August 7, 1S89, by cutting her throat, and then attempted suicide iu the same way, out recovered, sum >v?s uuij mu and convicted. At four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, November 9,1889, Ed Can* entered the station house, pistol in band, and announced that ho had killed his wife, Sallie Carr. Ha gave as a reason that his wife was u:i faithful to him. Last Christmas, at eight o'clock in tho evening. M. E. Pinkston, a street car drivar, was stabbed to the heart by Hardy Ballsrd. Ballard boarded his car and upon being requested to deposit bis fare advanced to tho front platform and with the words, "Here's your nickel," stabbed Pinkston in the left breast with a knife. Death resulted iu a few moments. DEVOURED BY WOLVES. Hordes of tho Famished. Beasts Overrunning Galicia. Hordes of famished wolves a.-e overrunning Galicia, Austria, destroying thousands of sheep and many larger animals. In a number of cases men havo; been attacked by the ferocious beasts and devoured. In some regions it is oxtremely dangerous for the inhabitants to go abroad, and they have organised large bands of armsd aeiUo ^xterruinntQ the fcrur<r< " DISABILITY PENSION BILL. The Measure Passed by the United States Senate. Text of tlie Bill as Agreed Upon by Both Houses. The Disability Pension bill, offered by the Conference Committee on Pensions as a satisfactory compromise between the Dependent and Service bills, and accepted by the House some two weeks ago, passed the Senate by a vote of 34 to 18. Mr. Berry made a speech against it. The practical effect of it would be, he said, to put ninety per cent, of the Union soldiers on the pension roll. He believed that, under the operation of the pending measure, the annual pension roll would be $200,000,000. Mr. Gorman also opposed the conference report and said that if the bill became a law there would b3 a deficit of $100,000,000 in 1892.. Mr. Ingalls advocated the conference report. He was In favor of the removal of the limitation in the act of granting arrears of pensions. He did not care whether it cost one hundred millions or a thousand millions. Finally the discussion closed and the vote woo fnlrAn Thtt mnfftpftnoA rflnnrfc woq agreed to. Yeas, 34; nays, 18. Messrs. Call, Hearst and Tor pie, Democrats, voted with the Republicans in the affirmative. The following is the text of the bill as agreed upon: An act granting pensions to soldiers and Bailors who are incapacitated for the performance of labor and providing for pensions to widows, minor children, ana dependent parents. Be it enacted, etc.: Section 1. That in considering the pension chrims of dependent parents, the fact of the soldier's death by reason of any wound, injury, casualty or disease which, under the condition and limitations of existing laws, would have entitled him to an invalid pension, and the fact that the soldier left no widow or minor children having been shown as required by law, it shall be necessary only to snow by competent and sufficient evidence that such parent or parents are without other present means of support than their own manual labor or the contributions of others not legally bound for their support; provided, that all pensions allowed to dependent parents under this act shall commence from the date of the filing of the application hereunder and shall continue no longer than the existence of the dependence. Sec. 2. That all perrons who served three months or mare in the military or naval service of the United States during the late war of the rebellion, and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and who are now or who may hereafter be suffering frofh a mental or physical disability of a permanent character, not the result of their own vicious habits which incapacitates them from the performance of manual labor in such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support, shall, upon making due proof of the fact, according to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide, be placed upon the list of invalid pensioners of the United States and be entitled to receive a pension not to esceea 812 per month and not less than $6 per month, proportioned to their inability to earn a support; and such pension shall commence from the date of the filing of the application in the Pension Office, after the passage of this act, upon proof that the disability then existed, and shall continue during the existence of such disability, provided, that persons who are now receiving pensions under existing laws, or whose claims are pending in the Pension Offlco may, by application to the Commissioner of Pensions, in such form as he may prescribe, showing themselves entitled thereto, receive the benefits of this act, and nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent any pensioner thereunder from prosecuting his claim and receiving his pension under any other general or special act; provided, however, that no person shall receive more than one pension for the same period; and provided, further, that rank in the service shall not be considered in applications filed under this act. 8eo. 3. That if any officer or enlisted man who served ninety days or more in the army or navy of the United States during the late war of the rebellion and who was honorably discharged, has died, or shall hereafter die, leaving a widow without other means of support than her daily labor, or minor children under the age of six teen years, such widow shall, upon due proor of her husband's death, without proving his death to be the result of his army service, be placed on the pension roll from the date of the application therefor under this act, at the rate of $8 per month during her widowhood, ind shall also be paid $2 per month for each child of the officer or enlisted man under sixteen years of age, and in case of the death jr remarriage of the widow, leaving a child sr children of such officer or enlisted man under the age of sixteen yeara, such pension shall be paid such child or children until the ige of sixteen; provided, that in case a minor child is insane, idiotic, or otherwise permanently helpless, the pension shall continua [taring the life of said child, or during the period of such disability; and this provision shall apply to all pensions heretofore granted or hereafter to be granted under this or any former statute; and such pensions shall commence from the date of the application therefor, after the passage of this act; and provided, further, that said widow shall have married said soldier prior to the passage of this act. That no ascent, nttornev. or other person engaged In preparing, prt36flnng, op prosecuting any claim unaer tne provuiuua of this act shall, directly or indirectly, contract for, demand, receive, or retain for such Bervices in preparing, presenting, or prosecuting such claim a sum greater than $10, which sum shall be payable only upon the order of the Commissioner of Pensions, by the Pension Agent making payment of the pension allowed, and any person who shall violate any of the previsions of this section, or who shall wrongfully withhold from a pensioner or claimant the whole or any part of a pension or claim allowed or due such pensioner or claimant under this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall for each and every such offense, be fined not exceeding $500, or be Imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding two years, or both, in th? discretion of the court. The bill only required the signatura of President Harrison to become a law. A NEBRASKA CYCLONE. Several Villages Demolished and Many People Injured. A severe electrical storm, accompanied by wind and rain, swept over Omaha, Neb., effecting damage estimated at $20,000. Cellar J were flooded and much property destroyed by water. A team of horses attached to a street car were killed. K. A. Jacobson's house was struck by lightning. He was killed and his wife and children badly hurt. The roof of the Grand Central Hotel at South Omaha was blown off and the building flooded. R. S. Kuhn'a house was struck by lightning and burned. Mrs. Kuhn and two children were rendered unconscious by the shock, and were rescued by firemen from the burning building. The town of Sweetwater, Neb., a little 1 ~ ? 1 ?~ ??? Unn/?r?/vl in V) o Ki_ natniet oi icss tu>u uuo uuu^w .uu?w. tants, was swept away by a cyclone at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. None were killed tut a number were injured. A cyclone struck the village of Pleasonton, Neb., at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and destroyed every building in the place, rendering about 150 persons homeless. LASSOED OUT OF MONEY. Desperadoes Secure a $10,000 ChccU by Means of a Lariat. Three desperato men, with a lasso, secured a $10,000 chcck from J. H. Stewart, a Kansas City (Mo.) capitalist, the other day. Mr. Stewart is in a precarious condition from hi3 rough usage. He was riding near Hamburg, Iowa, in a buggy when John F., Charles B. and "Doc" Golden attacked him, threw the noose of a long rope about his neck, and dragged him ovor the dashboard. Ho was helpless in their hands and signed tho check to escape. TUo trouble grew out of litigation over t>,$ title to lands claimed by the Goldens ,?nd by Stewart. _ / V*.. "m j* ai RELIGIOUS READING, _____ WHERE TO SOW. y "An^el of the spring-time," said she, "Show me where to sow my grain. Sh3l! I plant it round my door-step , Or afar there on the plain?" "At thy feet!" the angei answered, "Sow at once the nearest field! First, tby door yard, then beyond it Let new fields new furrows yield. ''Fill the nearest spot with gladness, Fill thy home with goodness sweet; . "Wider fields shall ask thy sowing, If thou first sow at tby feet! "Thus for thee shall widening harvests Wave their manifolding gram, Till the sixty-fold, the hundred, Gild the dooryard and the plain!" ?[Christian Intelligencer. "blest be the tie that bikds." The history of a hymn often adds a new charm to it; and the followibg from the Christian Advocate will be read with interest: Many faithful ministers and congregft* tions .will appreciate this story of the Rer. John Fawcett, D. D. of Yorkshire, England, the author of the justly celebrated hymn, beginning "Blest be the tic that binds." Dr. Fawcett was pastor of 8 small Baptist church in Yorkshire, from which he received only a meager salary. " Being invited to London to succeed the distinguished Dr. Gill, he accepted, preached his farewell sermon. and beean to load his furniture on wagons for transportation. Wben the time for departure arrived his Yorkshire parishioners and neighbors clunz to him and bis family with au affection which waa beyond expression. The agony of separation waa almost heart* breaking. The pastor and his wife completely overcome by the evidences of attachment they witnessed sat down to weep. Looking into hi8 face, while tears flowed like rain down the cheeks of both, Mr?. Fawcett exclaimed: "0, Johu, John, I can't bear this! I know not how to go!" "Nor I either," said he; "nor will we go; unload the wagons, and put everything in the place where it was before!" The people who had cried with grief now began to cry with jov. He wrote to the London congregation that hi* coming was impossible; and so lie buckled on his armor for renewed toils in Yorkshire on a sa'ary less by two hundred dollars a year than that which he dcc iucd. To commemorate this incident in his history Dr. Fawcett wrote that hymn which has been sung so often under circumstances somewhat similar. Dr. Fawcett was converted at the age of sixteen under a sarmon preachcd by George Whitefield, and at first united with the Methodist Church. A TEST OF COURAGB. One of the severest tests of courage is to carry on one's life quietly and faithfully under the cloud of a great uncertainty?some11.:.. u i? a; iuiu? wuiui maivca it uuucilcuu tu nuai ur rcction one's activity fa hereafter to be put forth. This Is not an uncommon experience; but although it happens to many, it is never on that account the easier to bear. Living by faith had always involved a struggle even for the most heroic souls, and most of us learn it by the most painful processes. Nevertheless, if we are to live in any strength and peace, learn it we must, sooner or later. If one broods over an uncertainty, strength is paralyzed and work half done;, the man who worries loses the power which 1 comes from concentration and a calm putting forth of his whole force. There is nothing to be gained by this brooding; there is everything to be lost. A strong life is one which commands itself and does not give up the rudder to every wind of circumstance. "When the time of uncertainty comes to a strong man, he is not deflected from the thing in hand; if possible, he puts more strength and skill into it; not defying fortune, but accepting Providence by that calm doing of one's work which goes with the consciousness that the honest laborer is worthy of his hire, and that work well done today "means the opportunity of more work tomorrow. Take your life bravely and strongly; if uncertainties come into it, meet" them with quiet courage and good cheer. Above all, keep heart and Land iu your work, anu trust tne iuture to mat i?rae rnmdence which has ordered the falling of every sparrow,?[Christian Union. iiaa AN INCIDENT IN MB. SPURGRON'S MPS. Mr. C. H. Spurgeon says: When I was a young child staying with mv grandfather, there came to preach in the village Mr. Knill, who had been a missionary at St. Petersburg, and a mighty preacher of the Gospel. He came to preach for the London Missionary Society, and arrived on the Saturday before at the'manse. He was a great soul-winner, and lie soon spied out the boy. He said to me: "Where do you sleep, for I want to call vou up in the morning?" I showed him my little room. At six o'clock he called me up, and we went into that arbor. There, in tlio sweetest way, he told me of the love of Jesus, and of the blessedness of trusting Him and loving Him in our childhood. With many a story he preached Christ to me. He knelt down in that arbor and prayed for me, with his arms about my neck. Ho did not seem content unless I kept with him in the interval between the sermons, and he heard my childish talk with patient love. On Monday morning he did as on the Sabbath, and again on Tuesday. Three times he taught me and prayed with me, and before he had to leave my grandfather had come back from the place where he had gone to preach, r.nd all the family were gathered for morning prayer. Then, in the n.,... ?ii \r? v.?iii f/vftt- mo aii pre-tentc ui LUIUI an. mi, uum bis knee and said: "This cliikl will one day preach the Gospel, and he will preach it to great multitudes. I ant persuaded that he will preach in the Chapel of Rowland Hill, where I am now the minister." He 3poko very solemnly, and called upon all present to witness what he Mid. I was made to promise that when I preached In Rowland Hill Chapel the hymn "God moves in a mysterious way" should be suns. Think ot* that as a proiniso from a child. Would it ever be other than an idle dream? Years flew by. After I had begun for some time to preach 10 London Dr. Alexander Fletcher haJ to give the annual sermon to children in Surrey Chapel, but as he was taken ill I waa asked in a hurry to preach to the children. Yes, I said, Jwi.l, if the children will sing "God moves i 1 a mysterious way." I have made :i promise long ago that that should be sung. And so it was I preached in Rowland Hill Chapel, and the hymn was sung. My emotions on that occasion I cannot descril**. Still that was not the chapel which Mr. Knill intended. All unsought by me, the minister ut Wolton-underedge, which was 31 r. Hill's summer residence, invited me to preach there. I went on condition that the congregation should sing 'CJo<l moves in a mysterious way," which was also done. After that I went to proaeh for Mr. Richard Knill himself, who was then at Chester. What a meeting we bad: ' Clod moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform." * A. ? 1 oof linear Alter more man lull.; m.?u, . ?... ......... that arbor! No doubt It is a mcrotrillc for others to bear, but to me it was an overwhelming moment. The present miaistet of Stambournc meeting house anil the members of bin family, including his son and grandchildren, were in the garden, and I could not he p calling them together around that arbor, while I praised the Lord for His goodness. One irresistible impulse wa? upon me: it was to pray God to bless those lads that stood around me. I>ovou not see how the memory begat the prayer? I wanted them to remember when they grew up. my testimony of God's goodness to me, and for that same reason I tell it to you young people who are around me this morning. Remember that special promise, "I love tiicm that love Me. and those that seek Me early shall find Mc." What a delitrl^ful country Germany will bo for ft German to have anything to do with if General von Caprivi's proposed measure to tax all natives ineligible for army service and all German citizens living abroad should become a law! If he could only persuade tlus country to execute a treaty authorizing tlio taxation of all GermanAmericans, the cup of the Chancellor'! ambition would probably be full.