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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. /? Mid-Summer Work of the Lawmakers at Washington. .The Bill Admitting Idaho Signed by the President, The citizens of the new States of Idaho and Wyoming were disappointed in their patrt otic desire to have President Harrison affix his signature to the admission bills on the Fourth of July. As far as the Idaho people are concerned, however, they are consoled in their disappointment by the fact that by the premature signing of their bill an important point is gainod. Immediately upon the passage of tha Idaho bill in the Senate the Delegate from the Territory, Mr. Dubois, who is to be one of the Senators from the ne r/ State, carried it personally to the White House. He explained to Mr. Harrison the deep desire of his constituents to have him add to ? their great satisfaction by signing the bill on the anniversary of American independence. Mr. Dubois was somewhat fearf?' that his request would not be granted, ^ because the President had arranged to be "^jth his wife at the Wanamaker cultagf on <>jVStffty Point on Friday. HntfchiSswas not what caused the President to deny the rtfquesV" idf "tig ^Lfcbat . If he should wait until the 4th of July to sign f tuo ULLX lb wuuiu in? ? ?uuio j oa.i before the additional star could be added to the United States flag. Under the law the star on the dag representing the new State cannot be added until the 4th of July following the date upon which the act of admission is signed. The President allowed Mr. Dubois to decide whether he should wait until Friday to sign the bill, or lign it at once and let the new star be added at once. Being aware of the widespread sentiment in the Territory to have a patriotic feature added to tneir admission to the Union by securing the President's signature on the Fourth of July, it was only after mature deliberation that Mr. Dubois decided to take the Btar instead. The President thereupon ^signed the bill and the star of Idaho went l^upon the flag on the 4th of J uly together Hrwith those representing North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington, which had not yet been added, as those Territories were admitted on the Fourth of J uly, 1889. The President presented Mr. Dubois the pen with which he signed the Idaho bill, and it will be placed in the cabinet of historical relics in the State House. Official Report oil the Philadelphia. The Secretary of the Navy has received the official report of the Board appointed to try the cruiser Philadelphia. It says that the average spe^d during a run of four hours was 19.678 knots per hour, and that during the trial the engines and boilers worked in a most satisfactory manner, the necessary steam pressure being maintained throughout the course. The Board estimates that the ship, while under forced draught, ran a distance of about 100 miles. At the end of tha trial the machinery and boilers were in good condition, no defects having been discovered, and only one slight accident having occurred in the arrangements for oiling the machinery. The Board reports that the vessel is sufficiently strong to carry its proposed armament, equipments, coal, stores and machinery, and that the machinery, including engines, boilers and appurtenance?, are strong and well built. In conclusion the report says that the vibration of the hull during the trial was at no time more than would be expected in a vessel of this type, and the sea being smooth there was iiardiy any perceptible roll or pitch. Stars and Stripes on the Capitol. > The Stars and Stripes floated over the Capitol on July 4th, although neither House was in session. It is a singular fact that never before has a flag floated on the exterior of that building except when Congress was actually in session. The new Sergeant-atArms of the Senate, having become aware of this state of things, called Senator Ingalls's attention toil. Architect Clark was then consulted,and the conference resulted in Senator <|!fgalls,who is President pro tempore, directing that the national colors be flung to the breeze on the Fourth of July. To run the flags up on the regulation flagstaffs was im B>ssible unless the rules of both Senate and ouse were to be fractured, so some other place had to be found. It was found, and carpenters were busy all the day before preparing: and putting in place at the foot of the tholus of the dome four flagstaffs, pointing respectively north, south, east and west. From each of these poles depended a twenty-five foot United States flag. Bills Approved by the President. The President has approved tho act authorizing the construction of a hotel for colored people upon the Government reservation at Fort Monroe, Ya.; the joint resolution extending the unexpended balance for letter carriers for extra compensation under th9 eighthour law to June 30, 1891; the act for the relief of the Union Railway Company of Chattanooga, Tenn.; the act for tho sale of the navy yard and hospital lands at Brooldyn, N. Y.", the act authorizing J. B. Bernadon, United States Navy, to accept two vases presented to him by the Government of Japan, and the act for the relief of Ex-Collector Asa Ellis, of California. Increased Duty on American Flour. The Secretary of State received^the fol lowing aispatcn irom ruiLuuuu ??miuuis, "United States Consul-General at Havana, Cuba: "Up to the 30th of Jun9 American flour paid $4.G9>? import duty, from which amount five per cent, was deducted, leaving the total not duty at $4.40, but from July 1 it will be $4.69}$, plus twenty percent., making the duty S5.03>$ on each barrel of flour from the United States. Spanish flour from the first of July enters free of import duty. Both American and 8panish flour will continue to pay discharging dues of 81 and harbor improvement dues of twenty-five cents lor each thousand kilos." To Make Valley Forge a Park. senator Teller, of Colorado, presented the petition of several hundred residents of Colorado urging that Congress purchase the historic field and land surrounding the headquarters at Valley Forge, and to convert them into a permanent public part. The petitioners suggest that the park be embellished by a grand column or memorial shaft to preserve the spot from the invasions of modern commerce, and to remain one of the landmarks for succeeding generatipn3 to look upon with pride and veneration. Scope of the Agricultural Bill. The Agricultural Appropriation bill, as agreed to in conference, is practically the bill as it passed the Senate, with one exception. The Senate struck out the provision for the transfer of the experimental station of the Bureau of Animal Industry to Arlington. Timi- icinn was inserted bv the conferees. II with a restriction limiting to eighty acres the area of land that may be utilized for the f statioD. NINE MINERS KILLED, I An Explosion in Mexico Causes a Great Loss of Life. At eleven o'clock at night a fatal explosion occurred in La Esperanza silver mine, in Pachusa, State oJ Hidalgo, Mexico, in which nine mea were seriously injured and two killed outright. Of the injured seven more have died. The explosion is said to have occurred while the miners were tapping a blast. The proznatura explosion also ignited other ex_??>?tin* nnfnrt-.nimta miners in 'J31Vt?, uiumujt IIU. ?. |.oll directions and causing a general stampede. HH'Ihe rescuing party carried tho dead and ^ wounded tatho surface, where relatives and friends had congregated. aB^Jhe authorities at once ordered a thorough flGj^fcstigation. It was believed that two ot? tho injured men are so badly hurt HBHMkhey would die. It has been announc3d that tho Roach HShlp Building Works at New York and in ^ Chester, Penn., have been sold to an English ^Hfeyndicate, who have established a company j^Pndith a capital of $3,OOJ,(XX). THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. _ General Gilman Makston, ox-United States Senator and a leading politician of New Hampshire, died at his home in Exeter. He was an intimate friend of "Webster and Calhoun, and a confidential advisor of Lin:oln. John* Ltrrz, a Hungarian, shot his wife fatally and then killed liimself in New York :ity. George Cunningham, of Millville, N. J., and Jacob Cunningham, of Philadelphia. Penn., were drowned while swimming in the river near Millville. President Harrison spent the Fourth of July at Cape May, N. J., with his family. The Fourth of July was celebrated in a particularly enthusiastic manner throughout the Eastern and Middle States. Congressman Russell, Senator Hawley and others spoke at Woodstock, Conn. Tae Society of the Army of the Potomac enjoyed a clambake near Portland, Me. Congressmen Crisp. Bynum, Caruth, Allen aud Springer spoke before the Tammany Society in New \ ork city. Ira and Doler Gauger, two sons of William Gauger, of Waynesboro, Penn., aged nine and fourteen resp actively, were drowned in Antietam Creek, while fishing. Ira fell in and in trying to save him Doler was drowned. The Rev. Benjamin Whipper, a noted colored preacher with a remarkable histiry, uied m Norristown, Penn., aged eighty-two. While W. E. Wetherbee, of West Rin lye, jy, Ji, or&S 3t house took fire "by the overturning of an oil sBbveT" Jfa3? .H^se and Mr. Wethsrbee's youngest child vr^rj^i1 burned to death. The four Hudson County (N. J.) election j oincers on trial ior conspiracy in cuuueuuu.i with the election frauds in Jersey City were sentenced, each, to eighteen months' imprisonment and $500 fine. At Philadelphia, Penn., Daniel Mason (colored) shot his wife in th3 shoulder inflicting a slight wound, and then blew his own brains out. Jealousy. The thermometer registered 100 degrees in the shade in New York city, and several cases of heat prostration were reported. A terrific storm of thunder, lightning and rain visited Meadville. Penn. The lightning played havoc with the electric lights and telegraph wires. Trees were blown down in all directions and the roads blocked in many places. South and West. The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company of Anderson, Kan., has made an assignment. It had $3,000,000 loaned out on Kansas lands, many of the loans being nearly worthless. A committee of Denver (Col.) citizens raised $500o to take a special census. The first day's work resulted in the unearthing of 800D names that had never been taken by the Government enumerators. Randolph-Macon' Academy, the Rugby of the South, was formally dedicated with j impressive and interesting ceremonies. It is of. AcKlnnH Vn Three firemen met death in tho burning of the 2000 ton steamer Iron King and a nor tion of theColumbu3 & Hocking Coal Com ; pany's docks at Ashland, Wis. Four other* wore injured, one probably fataUv. Loss ?200,000. The entire business portion of Pullman. Washington, was burned. The fire st artec in a livery stable, and in twenty minutes the whole town was in flames. There was no Are service, and in order to check the flames the building was blown up with powder, but it was witnout avail. The State Prohibition Committee of Alabama met at Birmingham and nominated Rov. S. L. Russ9ll of Cherokee for Governor. The business portion of Livermore Iowa, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000. Br the explosion of a siwmill boiler at Elamville, Ala., J. T. Barton, J. G. Sasser and Major Davis were killed and their bodies horribly mangled. A wagon, containing sixteen picknickers, was struck by a train near Louisville, Ky.t and six persons, two of them young children, were killed. The dry house of Hermann's furniture factory at Evansville, Ind., was burned with a vast amount of seasoned walnut lumber. Loss, ?175,000. Will Kent shot his mistress, Lizzie Hatcher, at Knorville, Tenn., and then himself. Both were dead when found. Kent was a member of the fire department of that city and of good family. Former State Treasurer Archer pleaded guilty at Baltimore to the charge of embezzling $132,000 of the State's funds, and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. A special excursion train of fourteen cars, carrying 600 Knights of Pythias and ladies to the biennial Supreme Lodge at Milwaukee, Wis., was derailed while entering | Manteno, 111., at a speed of thirty-five miles I an hour. J. H. Crowder, of Waco. Texas, ! was killed and a number of other Knights j badly injured. Governor Nicholls, of Louisiana, vetoed | th9 Lottery Franchise bill. The St. Louis (Mo.) Ore and Steel Company has applied for a receiver to prevent I famishment by New York capitalists on the j ilot Knob properties. The Donded indebt- i edness of the company is $2,700,000. Peter D Wiggin*ton\ who was candidate : of the American party for Vice-President in 18S3, died at his residence, in Oakland, Cal., after a short iilaass. Ha was bora at Springfield, 111., September 6, 1S39. The Lottery Franchise bill passed tba Louisiana House over the Governor's veto. Larkin* S. Hope, City Marshal of Columbus, Texas, shot and instantly killed Colonel R. E. Stafford and John Stafford, his brother. The victims were two of the most prominent and wealthy land and cattle owners in Texas. The shooting was the result of an old feud. Charles Gould,supposed to be a wealthy Englishman, was stabbed to djath by his wife in Murphy, N. C. The VanderbUts have secured a majority of the stock of the Union Stock Yards at Chicago, III., and Chauncey M. Depow is slated for the presidency of the reorganized company. The properties woro purchased for $19,003,000, and will ba capitalized at 521,000,000. Th9 bonds will be placed on sale. Washington. The President sent to the Senate tho following nominations: Arlam E. King, of " 1-_j TJ "W I XU.CLIJ lauu, VV/IIOUi'WCUetui c*w 1 mi it, *~m. . ah Allen, of Ohio. Secretary of Legation to Corea; Charles Heatb, of Massachusetts,Consul at Catania, Italy; James J. Paterson, of West Virginia, Consul at Merida, Mexico. Wyatt A. Wilborn, a clerk in the Treas ury Department. Washington, has disap" peared after forging the names of several of Lis fellow employes and others. Gambling on the races is said to be the cause, as he is otherwise a man of good habits. Wilborn has a wife and two children. Count Sala, First Secretary of the French Legation at Washington, had his ri^ht loj broken while stopping a runaway horse which was dashing toward some women and children only a short distance aws?y. The House and Senate conferee- agreed upon a compromise Silver bill, eliminating the bullion redemption features. The report of Major W. R. Livermore, Corps of Engineer?, in regard to river and harbor improvements on the coast of Massachusetts and in Rhode Island and Connecticut has beau received at the War Department. Brigadier-General Benjamin H. Grierson has been placed on the retired list of the army. President Harrison* returned to Washington after spending several days with his family at Cap? May, N. J. The House Elections Committee decided two Mississippi contested election cases? Hills against Catchings and Kernaglian against Hooker?in favor of the sitting \faear? Prt f r?h i n <r< flTiil Hooker. A NI'mrer of petitions from a half dozen or more States liavo been presented in the Senate praying for an acknowledgement; of Mmighty (iod and tin Christian religion iu tiis Constitution of ths United States. Foreign. Disastrous floods are reported in the proviuce of Tomsk, Western Siberia. Many lives have boea lost and a larga amount of property has been destroyed. The Fourth of July was observed in an ippropriate way by Americans in Europe. I Minister Reid presented to the American Art Students' Association in Paris, France, the flag sent to it by President Harrison. Minister Phelps spoke at a banquet to the American riflemen in Berlin, Germany. The new Spanish Cabinet is composed of extreme protectionists. It will pufsue an active colonial policy, but will remain neutral in European matters. Only Conservative papers express approval. All the independent aud Liberal papers condemn the , nasty change. The cholera epidemic in Valencia, Spain, has slightly increased. Eleven new cases and three deaths are reported at Rolova, and three new cases ana three deaths at Gandia. ! Count Nicholas Pejacsevitsch de { Verocse, commanding tha imperial army in ( Hungary, is dead. , Colonel Martinovtcs, commandant of [ the bodyguard of Prince Nicholas, ruler of , Montenegro, and cousin of the Prince, was murdered in the market place. The mur- 3 derer was immediately seized by the people j i n the market-place, and lynched on the , spot. Three hundred London (England) po- : licemen went on strike in consequence of the refusal of the Home Secretary to acceed to i their demands concerning more pay, reduction of term of service and alteration of the f pension scale. Outside the Bow Street Po- i lice Station great crowds of people were t rioting. Mounted police charged the people t indiscriminatelv. usine their Da tons freely, i Many received "injuries! c Turkev has demanded the fixing of a date f when the British troops will evacuate Egypt. There is no abatement in the financial j _jmnic at Montevideo, Uruguay. In order to t "sttTfr on the banks the Government j issued a decree miki&g. thz -tliSiSS- r pected crisis a national holiday. One million five hundred thousand dollars in gold was on I \ its way there from Buenos Ayres, and it was -j hoped that upon its arrival the financial dis- t tress would be relieved. An epidemic of mad dogs broke out re- I cently in the Island of Samo3. Several per t sons were bitten, among them being a f woman, who soon became raving mad, and 1 while in that condition tore her children to a pieces. 1 ii LATER NEWS, f s Ex-Alderman De Lacy and "Billy" Mo- t loney, of "boodle" notoriety, returned to J New York city from Canada and gave bail ? in $40,000 for trial. ? li The Health Board in New York cityde- ^ cided that the mains of the New York Steam Company were dangerous to health and safe- t ?? ?J ?J > Ka I ty, uuu uruti cu cuau auiut? ui uuv pipca w shut off. a The little town of Roseville, in Tioga County, Penn.,was almost destroyed by fire. | The fire started in F. C. Avery's hotel and ft burned that building, the hotel barns, the 1< Methodist Church, C. B. Hampus's store and ^ barns and eleven dwellings, besides ten or twelve barns. Twenty-three buildings in all I were burned. c The striking dock laborers attempted to j. prevent all work in West Superior, Wis., r and a riot followed. Two men were fatally ti shot and others were wounded. r L. H. Bartlett, freight clerk on a Sound 1 steamer, has been arrested at Seattle, Wash- c ington, on a charge of embezzlement pre- j ferred by the Morgan National Bank, Fort > Morgan, Cal. It is alleged that while he was J cashier of the bank in 1SS9 he misappro- ? printed over $50,000. c Johx Stansrerrt was hanged at Fort 6 Smith, Ark., for murdering his wife in the ' Indian country last October. r The President has to toed the bill extend- r ing the time of payment to purchasers of ^ land of the Omaha Tribe of Indians in N"e- I braska. The Senate has confirmed the following nominations: Consuls?W. F. Hollo way, of r Indiana, at Stratford, Canada; W. P, 1' Pierce, at Trinidad; C. D. Joslyn, at Windsor, Canada; J. E. Hayden, of the District of Columbia, at Breslau. c g It was reported that a girl shot M. Stam- f buloff, the Bulgarian Prime Minister, with a t revolver, at Sofia. e The first election for the House of Peers, e under the new Japanese Constitution took F place, forty-four members being returned. * Twenty-two of these are farmers, fifteen are merchants, and only one a noble- s f Tee letter carriers attached to the Central 0 Postoffice in London, England, Trent on strike. F THE LABOR WOBLD. ? , i] The nail-makers are busy. The pipe line builders'are very busy. j .Kallroad building ta tne soata is ox- " tremely active. The glassblowers have the best organic a- ' tion in tho United States. In the iron trade there are several indi- t! cations of a heavier demand. 0 The rush ia house building has led to an tl extraordinary demand for paper hangings. o There are about 2500 people engaged in ^ the manufacture of candy in New York : city. The manufacturers of American cutlery are enlarging their capacity on account of heavy business. a There is a growing demand among the 0 working classes of Liverpool, England, for p books of technology. a A snuff factory is to be built in Durham, t N. C., which, it is claimed, will turn out c 10.0C0 pounds of anufl per day. k The bituminous coal fields along the Alio- ? ghany Mountains are turning out 50,000 tons d coal per day for Eastern markets. ? The Norfolk and Western Railroad Com- a pany has 5000 men at work constructing 191 miles of road through West Virginia. uuniriu lilt? puau uvcuiuuius iui ly-sljl iit?w ^ branches have been organized by the e Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. The rail-makers expect to have a ru3h of orders, and have dropped prices in Pennsyl- a vania mills from $-34 to $30.50 to |3l per t ten. I A railroad brake equipment works v twelve miles east of Pittsburg has capacity p to turn out freight- brakes to equip 500 freight cars per day. A tract of 850 acres of land has been secured near Pittsburg, Penn., on which to erect immense works to manufacture Pull- * man electric cars. 11 Ja.'Ies Casey,despondent because he could ? get uc work, and had no money, committed suicide in New York city by throwing himself under a heavily-laden truck. The capacity of the Pennsylvania anthra- n cite coal region is about 1,000,000 tons of u coal per week; but for some time past less than one-half that amount has been mined. The German Emperor's servants in the Imperial Palace at Berlin and Pots lam are C so wrotchei'Jy paid that they have petitioned ii the Grand Marshal of the Court for a con- r siderable increase in their wages. s In France there were upward of 20,000 applicants for ^00 vacancies in the public service in the Department of the Seiuo. More t than 4000 persons applied for the placss of thru j office boys at the Hotel de Ville. The treaty with tho Shawnee Indians for the cessiou of their reservation to the Government has been signed. The allotment will be made at once by Major Porter. This will throw opjn to white settlement some 2400 farms of 100 acres each. Tho tribe has until February 8, 1SJ1, to take its allotments. In tho twelve Southern States there arc projected 7450 miles of railroad: there are located and under survey, 5147 miles: there are at present under construction, 2803 miles, and siuce the first of the year, 803 tniles have been built. AT HUE AND ABROAD. The Latest News by Telegraph and Cable. k Resume of the Havoc "Wrought by the Great Storm. Many persons were killed during the resent storm, and an enormous amount of >roperty was destroyed in New York, Maine, Vermont, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Inliana. The Lake Champlain Hotel, at Bluff Joint, sustained about $6900 worth of damige. During the storm on Lake Champlain the team-yacht Nellie foundered at Rouse's ?oint, and Capta>'n George Clark, his son ind one Hill, the engineer, were drowned. At the Hotel Champlain a man who was iut in a small boat lost his life. A number of narrow escapes but no fatalties are reported from other points. A valet named Vallay was out on the lake ishing when the storm struck him, overturnng his boat and drowning him. A man tamed Ryan had one leg and one arm broken >y the blowing down of his barn. Several cehouses are total wrecks. Camp Idlewild, in Grand Isle, was demolished and its occuvo r?f c norrnwlrocnflnoH Crews of men are busy clearing away the vrecksof the night's storm at Winthrop, He. The damage will be more extensive han first reported. Mrs. Palena B. Shaw, njured by the falling church belfry, !?*& ... Harvoy Foster, ~aof Walden, rt., w?c iustantlv killed in iJw^storin. Vhile shutting the barn door the windDi??*he door in his face, striking his temple. A tornado swept over Waldo Councy, Me. t was most violent at Thoradiko, Me., where he railroad station was moved from its oundation and other buildings damaged, 'he water tank was blown on the track, and . man named Leonard had his leg broken, 'he bark Carib was blown from her moorQgs, but was saved uninjured. A terrific wind, rain and thunder storm iassed over VergeniJfes, Vt., doing great amage. Hundreds of shade 'trees were ilown down, the new shed of the ihade Roller Company was destroyed, he lumber shed of Smith & letcham ruined, the chimneys on the itevens House blown off and tiie buildings iadly damaged. H. T. Roth.'* wfndmill was aveled. One hundred barns in Maine are reported o-J Ktt f.ha*Bfnrm. iCSH Uj'Cu auu uaiua^bu uj ?uW w?v. A wind-storm, one of the most severe of he season, swept over Central and Western ndiana. The wind was very strong and onsiderable damage was dona to property nd crops. Michigan was visited by a terrific westerly ;alo lasting from 10 o'clock until midnight, tain fell in torrents and lightning flashed acessantlv. A dock 400 feet in' length begging to* an ice company was torn away at lackinaw City, and several other local inislaps occurred. )estructive Drouth in the Southwest. A dispatch from Topska. Kan., says: 'All through New Mexico, Arizonia, some arts of Colorado, and also in old Mexico no ain has fallen for months, and thousands ipon thousands of range cattle are lying lead in the parched valleys, and thousands nore are dying for want of grass and water, .'he extreme drouth of this year in this ountry has dried up the grass, and what litle water there is is so remote from the grazag districts that the cattle cannot get to it. four correspondent, in riding over the Arizona and New Mexico Railway counted >ne thousand of these dead cattle lying along he track in a distance of two miles, and that mly on one side of the road. "Water and jrass are also dried up to a great extent in he Pecos Valley, in New Mexico, the whole ralley being strewn with dead cattle. These ange cattle are being shipped to the Kansas ' anches, whe^e there is plenty of grass and rater, as fast as cars to transport them can >e obtained. The Atchison has every availa. tie car in use carrying these cattle East." Seven Hundred Persons Killed. A most destructive cyclone has swept ovei i portion of Arabia, resulting in an appalling r>ss of life. Many buildings were destroyed n Muscat and the inhabitants buried in the uins. The greatest damage was done in the ountry districts, wnere wnoie namieus were wept away. Many plantations with the arm houses were leveled to the ground and he peasants killed in their frantic efforts tc scape the fury of the storm. Survivors who are straggling into Musat report the destruction complete in the tath of the tornado, which extended in a igzag direction for a distance of forty dies. At least 700 persons were killed, and thouands were injured by flying timbers and ailing trees which were uprooted or twisted iff by the force of the wind. Muscat is a seaport of Arabia, and has a lopulation of 40,000. A Drowning Catastrophe in Japan-. At Osaka, Japan, fifty-nine people wert Irowned during the launching of a new sailrig vessel. The launching excited considerble interest, and about 250 poople crowded n board the boat. The owner, Ir. King, however, bacame apprehensive nd ordered 100 of them ashore. When, the aunch began it was ebb tide, and,, as the opes useain securing her w^re too short, the essel keeled. Tho people on board in* lediately rushed to theotherside, which ha'l he effect of turning the vessel completely ver, and those on board were- thrown into fie water. A terrible sceno followed. Those n shore gave every assistance possible, oui heir efforts were genorally unavailing, 'ifty-five bodies were recovered. About iventy persons were more or less injured. Fivo Persons Killed, in a Smash-up. A fatal collision occurred on the Louisville nd Nashville Railroad, forty miles south f Birmingham, Ala., between the Rgular passenger accommodation traiu nd an extra freight train. The wo engineers, tha two firemen, both olored, and a white boy, age seventeen, were illed and nine persons were injured. Both ngines were completely ruined. The conuctor of the passenger train, whose dlsbedience of orders caused the disaster, fled nd has not yet been arrested. His Entiro Family Bnrned. The family of Mr. Watson, consisting of its wife, their eight-year-old son and an ighteen-months-old infant, were burned to !eath near Harmony, Ky. Mr. Watson had been away from home, nd on his way back from the top of a neighloring hill saw his home in flames, before he could reach the house the family, yho had gone to bed, were cut off and were leyond all hope of rescue. The fire was of acendiary origin. Railway Fatalities. The railway statistics compiled by the ^ondon (England) Board of Trade for tho ist three months show that during the eriod 114 railway employos have been killed nd 714 injured. The testimony accompanying these riiurns oes to show that a large majority of these asualities were due to the long hours tho icn were compelled to work, rendering them nflt to perform their duties. La Grippe Has Got to China. Dispatches and letters received from 'hina, report an extraordinary epidemic of lfluenzn, wh'ch has spread with terrible apidity throughout tho empire. Trade is usnended and public business is interrupted. Half tho population of Pekin and of S9%tral other large cities have been attacked by be malady, a large number of cases proving ital. THE BIGGEST LAND TRADE, Over 5,000,000 Acrcs in' Moxico llought by a Syndicate. Information was receivo 1 at San Antonio, Toxas, of the consummation of tho biggest land trade in tho history of the continent. Tho parties to tho contract were John Hancock, of Austin, and Robert Summerlin, of San Antonio, on tho ono side, acting for an English and Holland syndicate. The land lies all in ono body in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, within easy distance of tho Moxican National Railroad, and comprises over 5,000,000 acres, and also 75,000. head of cattle. Venus are private. GENERAL FISK DEAD, Tlie Late Prohibition Presidential Candidate Dies Suddenly. General Clinton B. Fisk died at his residence, in New York city, a few days ago. His death was not expected, for his general health was considered good. He had suffered from an attack of La Grippe since last win ter, and his death was due to a relapse. CLIXTON B. FISK. General Pisk was born in Livingston1 County, N. Y., on December 8, 1828. Hisfiarents removed to Michigan during his; inancy. After a successful career as aimerchant, miller and banker in that State he removed to St. Louis, Mo., in 1839. When the war broke out Mr. Fisk went;to the front,and early in the struggle was made Colonel in the Thirty-third Missouri Regiment. He was promoted to be BrigadierGeneral in 1862, and brevetted Major-General, of Volunteers in 1865. After the~waF'i?9-.was Ass'stap t Commissioner under General O. 0. HowjJffJ. in the management of the Freedman's BureaTril. Kentucky and Tennessee. He removed to New Jersev afterward. General Fisk actively aided in the establishment of the Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.,. in 1865, and it was named after him. Ho has ever since been identified with its financial and educational interests and was President of the Board of Trustees at his death. He was also a Trustee of Dickinson College, of Drew Theological Seminary and also of Albion College, Michigan. He was a Trustee of the American Missionary Association and also a member of the Book Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He rendered conspicuous services to Methodism in his efforts toward a reunion of the Northern and Southern branches of the church. He was particularly identified with the temperance movement, and was the Prohibition candidate for the Governorship of New Jersey in 1836.. He was also a candidate for the Presidency on the sam9 ticket in 1883. Siuce 1874 he was closely identified with the Board of Indian Commissioners, of which he was President. FIFTY-FIBST CONGRESS. In the Senate. I48th Dat.?Mr. Sherman offered a resolution instructing that committee to inquire into the expediency of purchasing the Maltby House, corner of New Jersey avenue and B street, for the use of the Senate.... Mr. Plumb offered a resolution to examine into the- affairs of the Union Pacific Railroad. The resolution was then agreed to .The- "unfinished business" was taken up, being the two postal and ship subsidy bills, and Mr. Vest continued his argument against the bills.......The conference report on the Agricultural Appropriation bill was presented and agreed to. The Senate then adjourned. 149th Dat.?A combination of Republicans and Democrats succeeded in defeating the attempt of the- Finance Committee to -havethe Tariff bill considered....The Federal Election bill was introduced....The Frye Shipping bills vrere discussed without action. 150th Dat.?The- conference report on the Silver bill was discussed by Messrs. Sherman, Teller, Stewart, Coke, Cockrell, Ve3t and others Eulogies were pronounced upon Representative S. S. Cox by Messrs. Voorhees,. Hiscock, Sherman, vest and Evarts. 151st Dat.?Th& Sundry Civil bill was reported by the- Appropriations Committee. It carrier an appropriation of $31,341,680, an increase of $3.181,060 The conferenca report on the Silver bill was further debated .....In executive session, the nomination of Lieutenant-Colonel Batchelder to be Quartermaster-General of the Army was confirmed. In- tbe House. 158th Dat..?Mr. Lodge aske.i for a reprint of the Federal Election bill as passed, with marginal notes. The request was not acceded to .Mr. Dorsey asked consent to offer a resolution requesting the President to-return to the Hous-j the bill extending the time of payment to purchasers of land of the Omaha tribe of Indians in Nebraska; but objection was made. Mr. McComas presented the .conference report on the District of Columbia Appropriation bill. After debate and pending a vote on the conference report the House adjourned. 159th Day".?Mr. Cogswell, by request, introduced a bill appropriating $1,000,000 to establish industrial training schools, and to provide-land for colored people, to be held under lease, with privilege of subsequent purchases....The House went into Committee of the Whole for tha consideration of the Senate bill to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroads, with a House substitute therefor. After some debate the bill went over without action The Speaker submitted a dozen requests for leave of absence. Mr. Dunnell inquired whether the grant of these leaves would not j leave the House without a quorum. The Speaker replied that that was a question for j the House to determine. Mr. Dunnell said that if there was to be a general stampede the House ought to kuow it. The leaves were granted No quorum being present, no further business was transacted. 160th Day.?The Senate bill for prevent-, ing collisions at sea was passed....Mr. Belknap reported favorably the bill granting a pension of $12 a month to all women.who served as army nurses in the laie war for a period of six months or more, and who. rendered services to the ill on the battlefield... .. The Senate amendments were concurred in to the House bill for the admission: of the State of Wyoming. 161st Day.?Mr. Hitt presented the conference report on the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill....A resolution was adopted calling on the President for correspondence since March 4, relative tc Behring Sea... .Mr. Farquhar called up tht conference report on the bill appropriating $75,000 for the relief of Albert H. Emery. The conference report was- adopted?yeas, 110; nays, 7fi. BBAVE MEW DB0WNED, i.ncf Thpip Liivos in a Vain Attempt to Save Their Children. Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson, Elijy Thompson, aged two years, and Baby Thompson, an infant; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smith, their little daughter, Priseilla, and Robert Smith, aged fifteen years, were all out rowing in a small flatboat on the Youghiogheny River, near McKeesport, Penn. l'ho boat upset from their weight, throwing all the occupants into the river. Thompson swam to shore with his wife and baby. He then returned to save his two-yoar-old daughter Eliza, but in this last attempt both were drowned. Richard Smith saved his wife, but was drowned with his daughter Priseilla while trying to reach shoro. Robert Smith, the fifteen-year-old boy swam to shore. The four bodies were recovered. C m OUR FLAG INSULTED. The Stars anil Stripes Iliddlcd With Bullets by Canadian Farmers. At Mount Hope, Canada, Undertaker Joel Smith hoisted the Stars and Stripes in honor of the Fourth. A deputation of neighboring farmers requested its romoval, but Smith declined, whereupon the flag T\-aa riddled with bullets and divided amor\" the crowd. I A second fltlg raised by Sjaito a simi-. | Uurfato. ... . _;L.. \\ A TERRIBLE TORNADO. Fargo, N. D., Devastated and j Hundred Miles Laid Waste. Seven Little Children Killed ir One Household, A few minutes after two o'clock in tha morning a tornado swept over a section of North Dakota and West Minnesota, making a path fifty mile3 wide. The force of the storm was first felt at Dalrymple, Cas3elton and Wheatland, small?stations on the Northern Pacific line, twenty to thiity miles west at Fargo, North Dakota. The wind did considerable damage at Mapleton, Fargo and Moorehead, and spent itself on the prairies of Minnesota near G-lyndon andMu3koda. The track of the storm was marked1 by unroofed depots and elevators, the destruction of small wooden building* and the complete paralysis of the telegraph service for fifty miles east and west and twenty mile3 north and south of Fargo. Several people were-injured, some of them fatally. In Fargo the storm levelled the electric lijfht towers, demolished the Manitoba) freight depot and unroofed a number of businesa houses. Davies block, on Broad*' way, was damaged by the windows being blown in. The tower at the Northern' Pacific crossing was wrecked. The front ot tho Opera House presents a dilapidated appearance. The roof of theRepublican office lie3 in a vacant lot adjacent to that building. The Keeney block suffered badIyT the roof being carried away, as were also those of the Continental and Garfield blocks and tbe Milwauke3 freight depot. The Congregational Church is destroyed,- Dozens of smaller buildings are W?<jked. The result of the storm occurred at the- rrabdgses ot the late Captain McCarthy, in the nortb?*,t?.r^ part of the city of Fargo. The house, coniaJfiOg Mrs. McCarthy and seven, of her children/Sfas^ borne from ite foundation t?ad moved a dis tance of four feet and then thrown upon the ground. This- was- all that was needed to take the lives of the seven children and cause severe injury to-tbe mother. PAssenger train Nov lr on the Northern Pacific, going west,, bad just pulled out of the yards and had stopped at the Milwaukee crossing. The train was made up .of three baggage, nine coaches and sleeping cars;, a party of Chicago and Northwestern officials in aprivate car. All of the coaches- and the tender were blown ' from the track, but no lives were lost. The lights had beenjputout, so-that there wasno fire or steam. Superintendent McCabs and the conductor,, brakemen and porters acted very coolly and calmed the frightened passengers, who were sent back to the city in special coaches. The desolation and-utter ruin is complete, and a sadder or more distressing scene could not be imagined. The force of the tornado must have been beyond calculation when the- evidences of its immense power are shown onevery hand. The powerful wind played many a wild and fantastic freak with the heavy obstacles which offered resistance to its will, and dozens upon dozens- of heavily-laden freight cars were overturned, some upon the left and some upon' the- right. The debris of the buildings- covers the lots and the streets, and so thoroughly did the hurricane perform its-work of annihilation and destruction that the houses are- flat on the ground, and the' contents and materials of construction scattered in every direction. From Fargo the tornado swept straight across the prairie, scattering fifty or more small frame houses like- so many feathers. In mostcasei there was nothing left to mark the site of dwellings but' the' collars. The prairies were strewn with timbers, furniture and clothing. The cars of a train on the Fargoand Southwestern were blown from the track at Buttsviile, but the passengers suffered only a few scratcnes. The elevator at Edmunds was struck by lightning and burned. An.elevator at Dalrvmple was demolished and. the roof was blown off the depot at Mapleton. During the prevalence of theMorm, though it was atcer 2 o'clock a. m;,. the temperature was ninety-two degrees. News from Fargo was carried, fiorty mile? on a hand car, ana reached St. F&ul, Minn., via Winnipeg. At Mapleton and Barnesville the storm was equally severe, dozens of buiBdings being wrecked. The storm extended over. Northern Minnesota, and was slightly felfr at Detroit, Minn., where it demolished.'the-plate glass front of the Record office and overturned a few small buildings, and one- house was struck by lightning and burned. Fargo lays claim to 10,000 inhabitants. It is situated on the Red River of the North just across the river from Moorhead, Minn., and in the centre of the most fertile* wheat region of the Mississippi Valley. .The celebrated Bonanza farms,eight in number and from 2000 to 30,000 acres in extent, producing an average of twenty bushels-of red. winter wheat, the finest in the world, to the acre,, are situated in Cass- County to the north, south and west o ? Fargo. Since- t&ey were first put under cultivation, about 1870, the whole fertile district about Fargo, extending, forty miles-westward and twenty miles eastward of the river, and embracing 10,000 square miles, .have- bean ssttled ana cultivated. Fargo-is-tho' distributing point for that, region. FIYE CHILDREN KILLED. KiltyPoundsoCPoMwler Explode witb lonriblto Kcsalts. A. bag containing fifty pounds of powder exploded in- August Smith's grocery store at Industry,. Penn.,. near Scott Haven, completely wrecking, tha building and injuring. seven children* Tha explosion was caused by sparks-fcom at firecracker which exploded prematurely in> the hands of August Smithy. Jr;,. ago fourteen:.. Tha store was a resort 1 ? *<? ior CQiuireiit ana iu. iub umo ul mn a>,uuvur & large number wero presant firing crackers. Young Smith's, body- was burned to a crisp, and ha- was otherwise terribly mangled. Five of the- seven victims of the explosion. J hav& died. Their names are August Smith, age fourteen- bis sister Mary, age two;. George and Willie Kahler, ages respectively m sight and sis; and John Brennan, age. ten- ! years. Emma Smith,aged nine, and Charlie Shaqra,, aged eight, the other victims, will recover. The father of young Brennan is crazed with, grief, and tried to kill Smith, the owner o? the building where the powder was stored* With a IliffU Number on. It* /?*/> . *0 :jm ' n y / 4 *? "1 : Pv'j, ? ^ |pgj^ First Burglar?"What do you like breaking into best, Bill??a bank?'' Bill?"No; a bank-note.''?Lipnincoll. A Daytox, Me., man say3 his tows doesn't owe a cent anil has $2,000 ia the treasury, and that neither a lawyer, doctor nor minister re-sides v.-thin its limits. Neither \s H?orc a.^v chn.rcU ia the towft.. - -r| RELIGIOUS READING. Torn nEAVENbf FATHEB KNOWKTH. All our burdens, a 1 our woes, All our load of care, God our loving Father knows Ere we lift our prayer. Still be bids us on him wait, Bids us seek bis face; Kot in vain we supplicate At his throne of grace. Kot in vain we tell each grief And our sorrows all; For he waits to give relief Unto those who call. In each sorrow let us seo Summons unto prayer; Let each want a channcl be, Through which grace to share Boldly let us ever plead With our (?od on high; Claim his promise for each need, Sure of his reply. ?[R. M. Offord. i STAND FAST. Tfyoa cannot make the headway in pro moting righteousness around you which yon -~~fi desire to make, can you not at least succeed , ^ in holding the ground which has been won? You can maintain your own high standard of conduct if you can do no more. There is great force in* that text: "Be ye steadfast, imraovab e." It presents a picture of one undergoing strong pressure from the people . or the social conditions around him to yield his moral ideal*, yet successfully standing firm, and loyal. The other clause of this test also contains a suggestion not to be overlooked. The whole sentence runs thus: "Be ye steadfast,immovable, always abounding iii' the work of the Lord, forasmuch as vc know your labor is not in vain in the Lord." You may not be able to advance at present, but you ean abound and overflow just where you stand. You may have to be like the fountain, rather than the river, bat you can do> good none the less, vou may "know" that your labor is not in vain in the sight, of. God. ?[Congregationalism -V,. or btessedwkss. Heaven is^ minThfe^JXom anxietv, from sorrow, from'all trouble -r itiTttt^rMfeHKiifa all pain 2nd crying eliminated ; it is life -?? juvenated> pUnfied,. beautified, full of blessedness^, a reunion on that other side where loved ones-have been gathering for six thousand years; it is a great home in the Father'i house; and it is to be forever,,eternal life through Jeans- Christ out Lord. And the * world today in its darkness and anxiety needs-simply the enjoyment that you and I possess as we look into this empty grave. The .Saviour says- to' us, "Why " weepest thou?"' He had come to dry the tears of the mourner, to make the bed of the dying soft, and light up with hope the departure oi those who love us-,, to comfort you and me with the blessed hope that our" loved ones are gathering in the life elysian, is the heavenly home; never more to go out. You who have this hope are not your own; you are bought with a price;: therefore glorify Christ in vour body and your spirit, which are his.?fjlew J. *G?. Butler,. D; D. step by st?p: One denial of spiritual truth leads' to another, until the first of departure-ends in the lulling away' ota dreadful apostasy. Jt. man plays Hanilet on. tbe tbeatre-etago who was some years since an ortbodo*Congregational minister in Brooklyn, X. Y. He first became unsettled as to the doctrine of the atonement, then successively abandoned the incarnation of God in 0'hrisi.and the inspiration of the Scrip'ures; then a future-state ol rewards and punishraentsi. He was called to suroeed'Rbbcrt Gollyei of Chicago, but so rapidly di?J he go- down into the abyss of utter unbelief,.that even the loose creed of the Unitarian waatoo confining to his ''liberalism," and' he startled that congregation of skeptics by announcing his inability langer todefendany distinctive doctrine of our hol-y fadtb. He-proclaimed himself an agnostic?sure of nothing, not even the existence of God, and so turned to. destroy the faith he once preached?an. awful warning of; the rapid apostasy that follows the denial of one fundamental doctrine. ?[A. T. Pierso%.D. D.,. iu Homiletic Eevicw. MAKE HA8TE!' Some rears ago, when travelling: through. j Palestine, we were nearlv beniehted. We had left Hebron in the morning, and had come leisurely along passing through Bethlehem, and visiting the* gardens of Solomon on the way. 1 lie sun began to<get lowere we caught our first glimpses of Jerusalem, and on reaching the plain of Kephaim we had to increase our speed. Jn.a,litt/e the sun set, and tve saw a man come out fromitho Jaffa gate and etaud upon a small hillock, shouting with all his might, as if. forewarning of danger, and gesticulating wildly, as if to call our attention, to what he was-announcing. ' What is-thc. man saying?!'- we asked our guide''I-Le h shouting, 'Yellah J Yfclbhr." ' What itocs that mean?!-' "Pome along! Come along!? "VVe now found that we wen- about to.be shutout aDd this messenger hadioome out to warn us-that the gate was about to be closed. We.made haste, as we did not at all relish the thought:of being kept all night outside the wails.. "We were just in time;, no more. . We entered, and the sate closed behind us. "Tbedoor was shut." (Matt, xxv.,10.) The lesson we learned was-"Make haste LM a.lessou which some of us never forget. So near.bring; shut out of tho earthly Jerusa- ? lem! What if wc were to be not almost,.but altogether,, shut out of. the heavenly cilyt ?[Ur?ii..Bonar. 1 ' '/- * ZKffLUXNCB?HOW; T??OAIff. IT. EV^n.tbc non-Christian who urgesyoti to ga with him to the play, and jibes you. as a strait'laced fool if voit deolinc, will lose hia confidence in your"piety, if you yield;, and when he gets an x ion*.'about his personal salvation, somehow or other, ex-plain it as you. will, it will not beyou that he will send for.. The world is all like the southern plantar, whose story mwst bavo been repeated a-good many times since President Finney told it years ago- The slave-holder had been a gay, pleasure-loving man, of the wuohl, and on intimate-terms-with hia paswho seems to. have bad w>. scruplea ab&ui joining him. on his pleaeure-sceking excursions. A close friendship sprang up between tbem, ai^i.continued.Ull the last illaess of the planter. Then one day the wife proposed to send for their minister to come and converse and pray with be.- husband. He replied: "No, my dear; he is not the man for me to see now. He waj.my conipanton, as you know, in worldly shorts and pleasure-seeking; I enjoyed bis society, and found him a pleas ant companion, uui i uvn ?*.??<,? u?>v& had any resl confidence in ills, riety, and have now bo confidence In the efiicacy of his prayers. I am a dying man, and need the instruction and prayers of somebody that can prevail with liod." The wife was greatly affected, and said: "What shall I do, then?" He replied: "My coachman, Tom, is a pious man. I have confidence in his prayers. I have often overheard bi'm pray when about the barn or stables, and his prayers have always struck me as being quite sincere and earnest. I never heard any foolishm ss from him. lie has always been honest and earnest as a Christian man. Call him." Tom was called, and came within the door, dropping bis liat and looking tenderly and c mpassionately at his master. "Come here, Tom. Take my hand. Tom. can you prav for your dying master?" The moral to which this story points is the folly of expecting to gain a Christian intluence over another by showing sympathy with his worldly tastes.? (liev. ! '. L. Hayes. Veby few people would seieot l^ussiaas a country in vkich to live, but one! may be reasonably certain of getting) unadulterated food there. Persons con4 vieted of selling adulterated and iujur-1 bus substances as food in Russia are liable to a fine of $210 or three months' impiisonwent for tho first offense.' Those penalties are doubled for tlio' second offonse, and for the third tha person loses his civil and political rights. We cau learn something evea from lUissw. '