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f ! OYER AHMDRED DEAD. Minnesota Swept by a Terrible j anil Fatal Cyclone. A Lake Steamer Upset and Scores of Excursionists Drowned, A dispatch from St. Paul, Mian., says: Minnesota stands appalled at th-3 wreck wrought by the ston^-inr. Sunday, July 13.. lS'JO, will be as the date of tho greatest catastr^hb ii^ the commonwealth's history. 1 There is death and destitution on every hand, and bits of crap? hang from the doors of a hundred homes. Three distinct tcrnadoes passed over Min- j nesota during the evening between the hours of five and half-past nine. The first descended I upon Lake Gervais at five minutes past five j o'clock, reaching its height at a little clump I of cottages in an amphitheatre at the foot of the lake and passing away into Wisconsin. The second descended upon the quiet village of Little Canada at a quarter to six o'clock, wrecking many house^ killing ona man and injuring many others. The last and most awful in its result was 'that which overtook the excursion steamer Sea Wing in Lake Pepin an arm of the Mississippi at two minutes to nine o'clock, overturning the little craft aud precipitating its load of human freight into waters lashed to fury by the winds. One hundred aud seventy-sight excursionists were 0:1 this boat, and it is believed that not less than 110 of them were drowned. The gay party of excursionists left Red Wing, Diamond Bluff and Trenton for a trip to Camp Lake View, where the First Minnesota regiment was taking a ten days' outing. The day at the grounds was pleasantly spent without special incident, and at half-past eight o'clock the party started back on the pretty little steamer "with a barge attached. As the whistle sounded for tne departure a bank of black clouds was seen coming up in the west. Tbis caused no fear in the hearts of the boat hands or the passengers. HP The steimer put out to the middle of tho p lak? an 1 the bank of clouis rose higher and j I hi<rher in the heavens, and as the shades of j night began to gather the hoaveus soon bo- ] came streaked with Hashes of lightning. The wind soon increased to a gale aud'tho lightning became fiercer and moro incessant. The boat's crew now began to get uneasy, and as a liuge black cloud was </. served to iie -approaching from below and mucir faster than the upper bauk of mountainous thunder beaivrs a tremor of deep concern was 110- ! ticeabb in the voice of Captain "VVethern, who was tae master. The wind now b;gan I to blow a hurricane and a hot wave of air from the advancing cloud was noticeable. The Captain vent to the side of the pilot and ! cautioned him to stesr the boat over toward the Wisconsin shore of the lake. A moment later and it began to hail, aud stones the size of eggs were soon falling on the heads of the now ejreit-jd and frightened people. The Captain was now thoroughly alarme J and iu an excited manner as his "trembling wife and twelve-year-old boy ran to his side called out to the pilot to turn the course of the boat and run her upon the b9ach. The piiot endeavored to put the order into * execution, but it was too late?the hurricane was upon them. Tho boat would not nnswer ner runner, turn uio sitr^ua'i mw wc became a floating raft at the mercy of the wares, which were running very high and washing over the lower deck. A wild rush was made for the several piles of life preservers, which ha:l been scattered about the decks previous to the spread of the alarm. The Captain was induced to cut loose the I floating barge. An order was given to put I the women aboard the barge, but in the excitement it were unheeded. The rope was [ cut and the birge drifted rapidly away and I grounded. Thirty men and women "were j aboard and were saved. Released from the weight of th3 barge, the Sea Wing tossed about like a cockle shell,and ber head could not be kept to the wind. ~^'Run for the thorp," commanded tho Cap- I |Apcain. Tho moment the bow was turned j toward the east the wind caught the j | craft amidships and whirled it clear j around. It righted and seemed safo, [ ' but even the howling of the storm was lost j in the wild aud despairing shrieks that came j from tho doomed passengers. Women clung ! to each other and to their children, an l the . shrill treble of their cries aud lameatatious ; went out and mingled with tho deep dia- j pas?u of the wind, that was now blowing a i hurricane. Men on tho uppsr deck could scarcely hang on, and two women had their exhausted hold torn away and were swept olf into tho boil ing waters astern. a little iuu came, ana j then a wilder burst of the storm. The bow of the Sea Win;* was lifted I into the air. Tho broadside of tho I vessel caught the force of the gale, and the boat was lifted almost bodily out of the water, turned over, and then dashed down into the river. The upper works wera smashed to splinters ana crashed beneath the weight of the hull, which was raised above the river. Scores of women and children sent up a last agon'zing shriek of terror and despair as they wore hurled into the water, the greater portion of them being carried underneath by the suction. The water about the capsize i boat was soon dotted with the head^ of tao stronger swimmers, and in a few moments some twenty-five or more were safely lodged -on Ine upturned bottom. Those first gaining the temporary placo of safety assisted the others in climbing up the slippery surface, and in ten minutes all the human beings in sight of the poor creatures wero on the boat and adding their efforts to the united cry for help from the shoro. The fury of the storm was soon abated, and just" as tho few remaining ones I were beginning to think there was hope of escape from death tho boat gave auother pluu^e and a^ain precipitated them into the water as it turned back on its side. There was another struggle between life and death, an 1 a few more lives were io.>& tfelore tut? siue *jl iuu* uu.u cjuiu j reached. A About midnight a band of reseuers congre^gated on Central Point and. commenced the work of removing bodies from the wreck, j By 2 o'clock fifty-two bodies were taken out ? and placed in a long row on the bank of tho lake. All ol th9 bodies that could be securod wero removed fi om tho boat, many more still remaining in tho cabin, which could not bo reached until the steamer was towed to tho shore after daylight. The bodies were later on taken on board tho steamer Ethel Ho.vard, and at 3:33 a. m., the steamer started up tho lake tj Red Wing. Tho bodies were ranged in six rows on the lower dock of the boat, and I as the steamer arrival at its destination at <5:10 a. u. hundreds of citizens of tho ill-fated city were on the dock ready to commence the work of identification. The Sea Wing had on board, according to tho best estimates, 207 people, including the crew. It is believe! eighty-one have beea j saved, leaving a death list oi 12o, which may j Ha rftrliic^ 1 siiffhtlv. Tho steamers Lulla and Haven, arter three j hours' work, succeeded in pulling off the cabin, and then the stoutest hearts grew j faint at the scene disclosed. Here a' young man's body is cold and stiff, j with the form of his sweetheart clasped I close to his heart. A mother with ! two children at her bosom floated by nest. Girls and boys, even babies, were locked together in the rigid embrace of death, somo with faces portraying tho sad struggle in which they died, and others with placid features. Nearly fifty bodies wero in tho cabin, and others"had been dragged down to the machinery of the lower deck. The wife and son of Captain TTethern were among tho dead. As rapidly as recov- [ crod the bodies were conveyed to Lnke ; City for identification and then forwarded j to their homes. Tho river is black with ? craft of every description surround- ; ins the wreck, and cries and shrieks ! follow rapidly the recovery of each body, j duvrrivx* t)in tinn of t!lO dead bv j their distratcted friends. Hundreds of strick- j en relatives who vainly clamored on tho | shore for the transportation on tho water aro i standing at tho landing, hoping or fearing j that each trip of tho funeral boat will briu^ s A the remains of the loved ones. The work of rescue is in charge of Adju- ] taut-General Mullen, of Minnesota, who has I ordere1 out tho first Regiment to assist. Slowly, and one by one, the bodies are now being recovered. Here is ono dragged by a grappling hook from tho hold of the steamer, and there a shout announces the discovery of a floating body further down stream. Every few minutes the boom of a heavy piece of ordnance > ' ' I . . ^~ t,V / -_ V -<t - ^ ' roars out over the water where Battery A is endeavoring to bring by concussion some body to the surface. Slowly the gaps are filled between the full list and the living, and slowly the despairing grou;> on the shore thins out as bodv after body is claimed and carried out. Thus the sad work goes on as night closes down upon tho scene, and by lanterns and torches the search will be carried on far into the night. The samo terriblo storm visited Lake Gervais, Minn. It swept all before it and completely laid waste the country along tho northwest shore of tho lake. The tornado formed to the north of St. Paul shortly after 5 o'clock, nad could be plainly se?n from tho city traveling in a southeasterly direction. It passed very close to [ Little Canada and struck the ground botween j that placa aud Lake Gervais, sweeping tho [ ground completely clear as far as tho lake shore, tearing up trees, knocking down buildings, and carrying with it everything that stood in its track. At Lako Gervais seven persons were killed. But one person was killed at Little Canada. She was Mrs. C. M. Melancon. In tho immediate vicinity of Littlo Canada no less than ten dwellings were wrecked. STANLEY MARRIED, The Great Explorer's Brilliant Wed din^ in London. Henry Morton Stanley the great Africat explorer, and Dorothy Tennant were mar ried at Westminster Abbey, London, England, in the presence of a company representative of all that is most distinguished in English society. HENRY M. STANLEY". The ceremony was not advertised to tike place until - o'clock, but as early as 10 crowds liad begun to gather about the Abbey, and at 1 o'clock both sides of the pavement from the square to Victoria street were completely blocked. Every available position was seize'i upon by thousands of spectators eager to obtain a glimpse of the explorer and his bride. Mr. Stanley arrived shortly before two o'clock and passed unrecognized into the yard. Immediately afterward .Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone drove up in an open carriage, and were applauded to the echo, and scarce.}- was the tumult of their reception stilled when the bride's carriage suddenly swept up to the western door, which until that moment had not been opened, and before the waiting throng was fullv aware of her I AI.W C!i. u. C5CUCO iiaa |M.tsru mvu i/iic n.uucj . uia boys and six girls of tbo little waifs from the Ragged School, whom Miss Tennant had befriended, all wearing white rosettes and their best clothes, were admitted by the cloister entrance, and the rest of the wedding party quickly followed. Stauley met his bride at the altar. Ho looked worn and ill, and leaned heavily on a stout ebony stick. Miss Tennant, stately and tall, cune in on her brother's arm. Canon Farrar opened the servkv.then the Bishop of Ripon camo down from the altar to the steps, and the two piighted their troth. The tears came into the bride's eyes, hut she bore herself with fortitude and made the responses in a clear, soft tone. After the ring had been put in its proper plac?, the bride and bridegroom walked to the altar accompanied by Mr. Tennant and the live groomsmen, Messrs. Parke, Nelson, Stairs, Jephson and Bonny, all Lieutenants of ruuiuuy Hi ills iaiu Aii ituu wuui'Mi^u, u* . Butler making a congratulatory address bringing the ceremony to a close. The bride's costume wa* wonderfully efTective, being an exact reproduction of a magnificent dress of the Tudor porioJ. While on the way to the altar the bride place! a wreath on the tomb of Livingstone. The list of presents makes a column in tin newspapers. Honors usually reserved for royalty were accorded the couple. It was aftar 8 o'clock when Mr. and Mrs. Stanley arrived at Melchet Court, a beautiful Elizabethan mansion placed at their disposal for the honeymoon by Lady Ashburton. They were received by the entire household in great state and conducted to a suite of rooms and apartments for their use. Mrs. Stanley is about thirty-four years old, and is very handsome. She is tall, and has fair hair, deeply-set blue eyes a straight nose, handsome teeth, a full mouth, and fair complexion. Her hands and feet are small and well shaped, and tho former are especially attractive because of their dimples. She is the daughter of a wealthy widow. Her father was a parliamentary lawyer. THE CASUALTIES OF "WAR. An Interesting Statement Prepared by the War Department. Commissioner Raurn, of the United States Pension Bureau, has prepare! with the aid of the War Department records, an interesting statement of tho casualties of the Civil War. and of other facts of sp3cial valu3 in connection with the pension legislation, of which the following is a condensation: Number of soldiers enlisted duriug the war for the Union, excluding re-enlistments, 2,'213,:i?)5. Number killed in battlo anl by other casualties, and who died of diseases prior to July 1, 1S05, 3151,110. Estimated number cf deaths of soldiers rlweli-iri'.-d ihiriiicr ? \v:ir nrior to July 1. lSoOsTisi. Number of desertions, 121,83 '. Number of survivors of the war July 1, 1S85, less deaths and desertions, l,703,0t)'J. Number of survivors July l, 18'J5, less deaths and desertions, wh? were subject to tha usual laws of mortality, 1,110,0'V.J. Number of survivors Julv 1, 1883, who because of wounus and other disabilities were subject to a higher rate of mortality equal to twelve years shortening of the expectation of life, 831,000. Number surviving July 1,1835, who arc probably subject to the ordinary life table*, ?31.081). Number surviving July 1, 1803, who arc subject to a greater death rate, 415,030. Total number of survivors, July 1, 1S33, 1,240,08'J. Number of survivors on the pension rolls January 1, 181K), 373,102. Number of survivors not on the pension rolls January 1, l"s'J'), 872,087. Number of invalid claims pending January 1, 1890, 182,035. Number of invalid claims on rejected files January 1, 1*!)0, '.>0,878. Number of widows' claims psading Janu 1 4W> urv i, Ku'ubr of widows' claims on rejected files Jannary 1, IS'.)), .'5S,?M'). Number of dependent mother? and others on rejected files January 1,1S1W, 'Jill. RUSSIA'S CHEAP ISLAND. Worms, in the Baltic, Bought for $1200,000. The cession of Heligoland to Germany lias, it seems, sharpened the appetite of other powers for the acquisition of outlying islands. Very few people havo ever heard of Worms Island, in the Baltic, which has belonged for many generations to tho Barons ot Stackelberg. Russia has Ion; wished to form a coaling station there, but the then owner refused an offer of $5,000,000. Its present proprietor has just parted with it to the Czar for a little I oyey $200,000. . : ' THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Mrs. Pakan* Stevens, a New York society laily, has baen robbed, at Newport, R. L, of diamonds valued at ?50,000. A careful survey of the ground covered and conservative estimates of the losses show that Eastern Maine suffered to the extent of over ?4,000,000 by the recent frightful cyclone. The damage was principally done to houses and boras, but the crops did not suffer greatly. Edwin Holt, a milkman, residing with his parents and an aunt on a farm about five miles from West Wilton, N. H., murdered his father, Warren Holt, aged seventy, and nearly killed fivcothers, including his mother and auut. He was insane from overwork. At Castleton, Vt., two daughters of Mrs. Jane Williams, aged seventeen and seven, are dead and the mother is fatally injured. It was supposed she murdered the girls and then attempted suicide. Foreman Christie Ackert, of Moran's Bottling Company, in New York city, and his son, Christie, Jr., were killed by the explosion of carbonic acid gas. Frederick Ackert, another son, received serious injuries. The Coroner's Jury in the case of tho Hill Farm mine disaster, at Dunbar, Penn., has rendered a verdict charging that the deaths U.J e T-L? ? j-m resimeu Lroni uuiiu iverwiu d upouiii? ci vxxm hole in an unlawful manner, by order of Robert Lang, Superintendent of the mine, who is held criminally responsible for the deaths resulting. Southeastern Pennsylvania has been infested with horse-thieves for several months. Hundreds of animals have been run off into Maryland and Virginia. Tiie census returns for Maine show that nearly every county has lost in population, and the farmers are growing poorer every year. The State will lose one Congressman. The wall-papar factory of Carey Brothers, in Philadelphia, Penn., with a lumber yard and planing mill, was destroyed by fire. Loss, about ?000,000. The Blake Manufacturing Company, builders of steam pumps in Boston, Mass., has been sold to an English syndicate at a price said to be $3,003,000. Mary Brunol, aged fourteen, and Clinton Schuneck, aged thirty-five, had a lovers' quarrel at Reading, Penn., which ended by Scimii 'ck shooting th? girl, killing her instantly.* He then shot himself through tho head, iuilieling a fatal wound. The yacht Marion, of South Mass., from Rye B^ach to Pigeon Cove, struck a rock near Portsmouth, N. H., an 1 was sunk. Three of the crew of four were drowned. Between 1203 and 2000 iron workers refused to go to work in th? New Jersey Steel | and Iron Mills at Trenton, S. J., which are I owned by ex-Mayor Abram N. He'vitt, of ->cw i ork city, because ot tnc reiusai 01 me j firm to sign the Amalgamate I Iron Workers' Association scale of wages ami recognize that labor organization. Ex-Alderman- Charles Dempsev, the la^t of the "boodle*' Board of Aldermen, of New York city to return from Cauadn, gave himself up and furnished ??.>:000 bail for trial. MissNaxcy Goodrich, llOycarsold, died in Bloomfield, Conn., her birthplace. She had been in good health and could read without spectacles. The cloakmakers' strike in New York city ; ended, a compromise having been effected, j The losses 011 acount of the strike and lock- i out are estimated to be: SIl.O}") to the I gutters, ?200,000 to tha tailors, $30,000 to tho ! contractors, and many hundreds of thousands Df dollars to the twelve firms composing the I Manufacturers' Association. A terrific thunder and wind storm oc- i curred at Fairlee, Vt., and vicinitv. Steam j tug Pearl capsized on Fairlee Pond, and Captain Frank Brown, aged thirty-threo years, was drowned. The steamer sank. Other boats were ups?t. South anil Wrat. Albert W. Webb, Chief of Polic-s of i Rockford, 111., committed suicide when his forgeries were discovered. Fred Armstrong and Frank Hawk were ! tilled by black damn in the shaft of an , ibanloned mine near What Cheer, Iowa. Smallpox is raging at Lartv.lo, Texas. A 'argo number of deaths have ahvady ov- j :urred aul many ne'.v cases are daily rc- i "o^ted. A fatal riot occurred between whites an 1 j tila^ks near Star's Mills, Ga. A pitched battle be^an, in which si:: white men were shot? Ccx, Callaway, two Drews an 1 two others, tii was reported that four colored men were killed. The refinery of the Southern Cotton Sea J Oil Mills, near Atlanta, Ga., was burned. Over two hundro 1 thousand gallons of oil were consumed. Loss $1UO,OJ;J. State Senator J. Fisher Smith, of Sabine. La., the man whose illness preventel :he passage of tho Lottery Franchise bill >ver tho Governor's veto, died during tho ifternoon at Baton Rouge. Thomas Clay McCreery, formerly foi > two terms United States Senator from "Kentucky, died at his home in Owensboro, Ky., .vhere he had suffered for several years from oaralysis. Ho was born in Kentucky in 1817. Congressman Butterworth, of Ohio, was elected Secretary of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, 111. - ^ r T"V TTT . ? JiZ-LIEUTKN'ANT VOVEIlNUil O. l\. DAit wick, of Stark County, was nominated by the Democratic Congressional Convention at Orrville, Ohio, on the seventy-fourth ballot. He will run against Major William McKinioy. I.vdianw farmers aro thrashing and marketing their wheat crops. The yield is turning out only from thirty to forty pjr :ent. instead of from sjv^nty to eighty, au 1 is of a light and inferior grade. Alf Cooper, colore 1, wa< hange I at Birmingham, Ala., for murdering a friend. William Johnson, colored, was hango.t at Now Orleans, La., for killing his mist res:. Armstead Jones, a sixteen-year-old colore I boy, was executed at Orangeburg, S. C., for the murder of his step-mother. Edward D. Gallagher, white, wus al?o hanged for mur dor at Vancouver, Washington. Firk at Ithaca, Mich., destroyed twontynine buildings. COUNT Leo vex Blucheb, a descendant of the Waterloo iJ.uoher, was driving through the streets of San Antonio, Texas, when his horses ran away. They came in collision with a street car and two persons wore killed. lJlucher was arrestjd. At Baden, Cal., a wagon containing fifteen neonlo was run down by a train. Tho people were tossed in all directions. Six were killed outright au.l the others were injured. A terrible cyclone swept over portions of Minnesota anl Wisconsin, and >t was reported that nearly 200 people had been IcilleJ. The Northern Pacific Express Company's oGico in Chicago, 111., lias been robue 1 of $14,000. There are conflicting stories as to how tho robbery was done. 1'erry Comstock, a well-to-do farmer o! Owasso. Mich., murdered his yo img wife, at tempted to kill his adopted sou, Oliver, au( then committed sui cide. Charles Farrott, a wealthy planter ol Cleveland County, Ark., shot and killed Calvin an l Thomas Huddlestone, two other rich planters, near Orlaudo, Ark. Thirteen people wore out in a boat on Alachua Lake, near Gainesville, Fla., and the boat capsized. Three of tho party?Mrs. L. J. Burknciin, Mrs. Burkhcim s son, a-^eil thrco years, and Miss Tillio Brown?wero drowned. The others clung to the boat ami were rescued. Hugo Bundsee, aged fifty, and lus two sons.wow fatally injured at a itilroad crossing in Chicago, 111., while crossing the tracks in a wagon. The accident was duo to the flagrant stupidity of a gate keeper. The seven story warehouse of the Security Warehouse Company, of Minneapolis, Minn., was uestroyeu by lire. .Loss nearly $1,000,000. i vr.wr.'* 1:1 ? ii?j \ a'liiu \ ui ?.?!<?gow an<l IJeigcr, Minn., were completely destroyed by win I and hail. Every chimney in tho town of Elgin, Minn., was knocked over. Washington. The July winter wheat report of tho Department of Agriculture represents the crop as harvested in nil except its more northern latitudes. I'll3 crop shows soinj advanca in condition whero it was lowest in June?in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri? and a slight decline in Ohio, Kentucky, the Pacific Coast and in tho Southern Stato3. The general average Is is 70.2, against 73.1 last montk. ; The President signed the act for the admission of Wyoming into the Union. B. Bowser,of Connecticut, has been nominated to bo Consul of the United States at Sierra Leone. The President has nominated Colonol Alexander McD. McCook, Sixth Infantry, to bo Brigadier-General; Major Augustus G. Robinson, Quartermaster, to bo Deputy Quartermaster-General, with the rank of LiCutenant-Colonel; Captain Edwin B. Atwood, Assistant Quartermaster, to be Quartermaster, with the rank of Major. TnE President approved the Legislative Judicial, Executive and Appropriation bills. The Senate confirmed the appointment of Denis F. Burke as Assistant Appraiser of Merchandise at the city of New York. The President approved the act incorporating the North River Bridge Company and iutnoriztng tne construction ot a bridge and ipproaches at New York city across the Hudson River. The Senate has confirmed the nomination Df B. Bowser, of Connecticut, to be Unitoi State Consul at Sierra Leone. The President sent to Congress a letter from Secretary Blaine on the subject of an interaational American monetary union. Secretary Tracy revoked the sailing orders of the United States steamer Essex so far as thev applied to the transportation of the body of the inventor Ericsson to Sweden, ind either the now cruiser Philadelphia or Admiral Gherardi's flagship Baltimore will perform that service. The President made the following nominations: Samuel Kimberly, of Virginia, to De Secretary of Legation in the Central American States and Consul-General of the United States at Guatemala; Ossian Bedell, )f New York, to be Consul of the United States at Fort Erie. Tiie President has signed the Silver bill. The President and Secretary Windom lave approved the designs of the new Treaslry notes provided for by the new Silver Dill. These notes will be of eight different ienominatlons,' as follows: ?1, $2, ?5, ?10, ( 30, ?50, ?100 and ?1000. The Secretary of the Navy ordered the acleptance of the cruiser Philadelphia. Tiie nomination of James J. Peterson, ot kVest Virginia, to be Consul of tin Unite.1 States at .Merida, Mexico, was with Irawn. Hf.hmaxx Niciiexs, of North Dakota, has icon nominated to be Consul of the Unite J States at Barranquilla. President Hap.risox sent to Congress the veommendations of the Committee on Exradition of the recent Pan-Vmericaa Conference. Foreign. Gexezval Polavieja was appeiutei Capain-General of Cuba Four huxdred.Icelandersarrive! at Monacal, Canada, who are going t j settle in tin Canadian Northwest. General Boulaxger Ins aske.l the French Government to grant hi:n a parIon. In Tokio, Japan, there is great suffering or lack-of food. Thousands aro living on jarbage. In tbo interior the situation is vorse, and European missionaries declare hat many will parish unless aid is furnslied. Fir*-: lias destroyed 253 houses in Maidan, Jovernment of Nijni-NovgoroJ, Russia, iix men and one girl were killed. A max named John Hart, living at Ballyteale, Ireland, murdered his mother and lien chopped her body to pieces. When the trim3 was discovered Hart was for nd lying >3side the remains eating a portion of thern. News has been received ot'a raid by the 'emuiour tribe on tlw camp of the Sultan's on, near Salee, Morocco. The camp was aken completely by surprise. Tho troops md slaves were mercilessly slaughtered by lie raidjrs, and liftseii prisoners were burned ilive. The Engadino Valley,, in Germany, is covired with snow to the depth of twelve inches, necessitating the use of sle !gt*s. The tem)eraturo is two decrees below tho freezing oint. The mail coach is snowed up in tlu Tu Her Pass. Two thousand Arabs, nv?n, women and thildrcn, are dying of starvation just out:ide o? fcjuakiu," Egypt. The potato disease has attackel the crop 11 south and west Ireland. Tho district nost affected up to the present is the coun:ry around Skibb^reen and Seliull, County 'Jork, which the famine of ISIS ravaged so -crribly. The London (England) postmen's strike las practically collapse i. Altogether 4.0) ucn have been suspended or dismissed. Immense damage has been caused by 3oods in Northern Italy. The Universal Peace Congress was opened at London, Eugland, by David Dudley Field, of New York. A LAJUiE tract of Bavaria is infested with worms, which are destroying verdure of all kinds. Upward of S'JO,00U pine aud flr trees have been ruined. The Government of Salvador declared the country to be in a state of siege. Jf ORTY-FOUr. ueauis ironi camera iiiivo uucurred among tho members ot' a battalion of Ghoorkas stationed at Dharmsala, ia the Punjab, India. The floods in Southern Hungary have caused much damage- a'ong the Danube. Ten persons have been drowned. The towns of Uciary and Schwierzen, in Russia, have been nearly destroyed by incendiary fires. The fire in the Stamboul quarter of Constantinople, Turkey, destroyed a thousand houses and ruined 125 timber merchant*. I was feared that many lives were lost. An increase of pay and other concession1 havo been granted by thy British Govern meut to the telegraphists. Baro.v Gravexreutu has been appointee temporary Imperial German Cominissioaei in East Africa. NEW YORK'S WATER SUPPLY The Stupendous New Croton Aqueduct is Now in Use. Twenty-five million gallons of water started on its way to the Central Park reservoir in Now York city from Croton Lake through the now aqueduct. Chief Engineer Fiteloy started the stream, and thus opaned the new Croton aqueduct. There was no fuss about the opening of what is now one of tho most remarkable examples of engineering still in tho world. Tho new aqueduct is somewhat over thirty-three miles long. In round figures it will cost ?2),000,00.) before entirely completed. About 103,000,000 bricks have been u?ed in its construction. Tho flowing capacity of the new aqueduct is 318,000,000 gallons a day. Now York need never fear a scarcity of water hereafter. Tho area of th3 Croton watershed is about 838 square miles. The area of tho Quaker Bridge dam, wheu complete 1, will be almost 301 square miles. When all is completed the total storage capacity will bo about 09,700,000,000 gallons? a comforting reflection during a dry sp?ll. It has taken about tlvo years to camp ete ,nf A HERO DROWNED, A.ftc:* llQ.scuin<? Two I'coplo Lieutenant Donaldson l*crishe.j. Lieutenant C. V. Donaldson, Company G, Twenty-fourth United States Infantry, piartered at Fort Grant, Arizona, find JIis3 Lottie Spurgeon, the daughter of Chairman Spurgeon, of the County Hoard of Supervisors, were drowned at Newport Bjaeli, a pleasure resort a short distance i'roui Santa Ana. Cal. Miss Kpurgson, who was an expert swimmer, ventured too far from the beach, and was carried out by the current, it V fin 11 ami his daughter went to her as sistauce, but their strength soon gave out. Lieutenant Donaldson then plunged through the sun and succeeded in rescuing Hall and his daughter. Ho then tried to rescue Miss Spurgcon, but just as hi reached where she was both disappeared. Their bodies have been recovered. , TOSTMASTEK-UEXERAL VV AXAM AlwSTt nas received ?-1500 from an individual who signs himself '-Conscience." It hR3 coruo along iu installments and Is, tho writer says, interest on money of which he defrauded the Government. Ho does not say how the Government is ever to got the principal. A wave of suicides, murders and other crimes seems to be sweeping the country. Strange to say, tho principals in all thisa affairs are mostly foreigners. LATER NEWS. Miss Lattra Egan, of Jersey City, N. J., died in agony of blood poisoning, caused bj a centipede's bite. Thomas Murphy, aged seven years, and John Philpot, aged seven, wero drowned while batbing in the Charles River at Newton, Mass. Charlie Jackson*, eight years old, picked up a pocketbook containing nearly $15,000 in gold, gold certificates and checks, near Nahant, Mass. The works of the Columbia Iron and Steel Company and the Pennsylvania Construction Company, at Uniontown, Penn., have beea sold to English capitalists. A bad break was discovered in the new Croton Aqueduct, New York city. William H. "Webb, of Now York city, has endowed a college and home for shipbuilders with $1,000,000. It will be one of three similar institutions in the world. Two children, between four and five years old, belonging to Timothy Sullivan and John Brull, of Colchester, Conn., set on flra a barn in that place, while playing with fire, and nerished in the flames. By the burning of John Hamlet's residence near Valparaiso, Ind., Mrs. Hamlet and four children, the oldest only eight years old, lost their lives. Thbee miners?Johu Hart, Thoma3 B. Bunney and Richard L. Abb?were killed by the timbers giving way after a blast in the Highland mine, near Lead City, South Dakota. Another man was killed in an accidont at the mino that sama afternoon. One of tho principal businos3 blocks of Denton, Texas, was burned. Los3, $100,009. The drouth in Kansas was ended by a soaking rain, tho first that had fallen there in twenty-five days. A xi'iiBEK of additional bodies wero recovered at Rod Wing, Minn., making the total death roll from the cyclone at present one hundred. The Ohio Republicans in convention assembled at Cleveland nominated Daniel J. Ryan for Secretary of State. Professor James R. Soley has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He was born in Roxbury, Mass., October], 1S">9. He was graduate J at Harvard iu 1S~0 and became Professor at the Unitod States Naval Academy iu 1S71. The five general appraisers' nominations were confirmed by the Smate. They are Charles II. Ham, of Illinois; James A. Jewell, of New York; George H. Sharpe, of New York; George C. Tichenor, of the District of Columbia, and Joseph B. Wilkinson, of Louisiana. The .President nomiuated General A. B. Nettletoiiy of Minnesota, to be an Assistant Secretary of tho Treasury. The strikers in the nitrate district of Chili number 7000; A conflict occurred bjtwoen a number of riotous strikers" and a body of troops, in which; forty of the strikers were killed or wounded. The Newfoundland bait cruiser Fiona fired' on a Freuch vessel which was taking bait off St. John's. A new Cabinet has been formed in Cape ? "?? If- T? ni.AKnV.la fVinf uoionv, OUUUl Alliua. Jtu is pi WI/K iuiii the railway policy of tho Government will ba modified, and that the lino3 will b2 oxt?nded in 1891. The twelve-yaar-oll son. of tin R)v. Dr McLean, a well-known Indian missionary, and a farmer named Battell were killed instantly by lightning while at suppar, near Mooso Jaw, Northwest Territory. A FATAL SPKEE. A Touffh Murders His Wife, Shoots a Peacemaker and Kills Himself. ' A fearful tragedy was enacted at No. 21: Locust street, Council Bluffs, Iowa, fifty fee' from the Second Presbyterian Church. n&llK. xiau, ix, mjiui tuus cuaiatta, Bhot and killed his wife, then shot Georgi E. Bennett, a neighbor, who canio to be; rescue. The police were called and lit ' retired to his house and stood over thi body of his wife with a revolver in his hand defying the officers to enter. Only tw( officers were present and when they retiree to get assistance Hall committed suicide bj plunging a knife into his own^throat, making a wound five inches wide. Jealousy and a week's- spree- wera thi cause. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Bismarck was at one tima a law-court reporter. Sir Edwin Arnold has been offered $100,000 for a new poem of GOOO lines. Rev. Sam. Jones received $2.W for his ten days' meeting in Richmond, Va. Senator William SI. Evarts, of New York, is sail to be threatened with failing sight. The Empross of Austria will start next monin up'JLi au uccau. V uj wj ilmu iuuk : months. Sexator Shermax lms a large fortuno, I which is said to yield hitn twelve per cant, annually. Edward Bursess, th> fam>us Boston (Mass.) yacht builder, is only thirty-two years old. General Albert Pike, who is at the head of the Masons iu this country, is seventy-four years of age. Last year tho Standard Oil millionaire Flagler built four churches of four different denominations. The Duke of Edinburgh, besides being a clever violin-player, is an enthusiastic postage-stamp collector. Citarlks Stewart Parxell is said to be a e!ose student of American newspapers and American litoratufe. Mrs. Reagax, wifoof tho Texas Senator, learned short hand to gratify herself to act as her husband's secretary. Louise Miciiel, tho Parisian Communist, says that many of the pleasantest hours of her life have been spent in prison. Stanley is said tohavoroceived ?70.000 in cash for his late>t book. The story that he was paid 4=300,00 J for it is absurd. Justice Stephen* J. Field has one of the finest houses in Washington, an! yet is the poorest man on tho Supreme Bench. Adeli.nw Patti, tho prima donna, sp?aks English without a foreign accent, and converses freely in several other languages. Mrs. Harrison", wifo of tho Prosident, is said to like the air of "Little Annie R >onej*," ami the Marine Baud frequently plays it for her. O.ve of tho tallest men in Congress is Representative Mansur, of Missouri. He is six feet three inches in height and is built in pro* I portion. i .T ft. Hao-jin". tho California turfman, is 1 reported to bo worth from to >10.006,00'J. Tlio greater part of his fortune is invested in a Montana copper mine. Mr. McLeod, the now President of the I Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, began I his railroad career by carrying rods for sur{ veyors. lie is about forty-two years old. j Senator Carlisle's successor in the National House of Representatives?W. \V. | Dickerson?is a tail, dark-faced man who looks more like a preacher than a politician. General Maxaoer Beck, of tlio Illinois Central Railroad, was once a train hand, and he can still turn a'switch or couplo freight I cars with an expertncss nequirod only by | long practice. | Will Carletojt. tho farm-ballad poet, lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. Ho is nearly sixty years old and is. growing gray, but Si physique is still strong and robust. Jd'o ie said to receive ?n averago of $3<XX,for bis ? xjoenw. . " GENERAL FREMONT DEAD. The "Pathfinder" Expires Suddenly in New York City, A Sketch of His Military and Political Life. GENERAL JOHN C. FREMONT. Major-General John Charles Fremont "the Pathfinder" of nearly half a century ago, and the candidate of the first National Convention of the Republican party for President of the United States, died at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon at 49 West Twenty-fifth street, in New York city, where he had lived since last September. He had been ill five days with inflammation of the , bowels. His death was primarily due to exposure and fatigue incurred when the weather was unusually hot. Dr. Morton and Lieutenant John C. Fremont, the General's son, were the only persons at his bedside when he died. He passed away peacefully and was conscious and perfectly rational up to within half an hour of his death. He did not think he was goiug to die; in fact, such was the hopefulness of his temperament, that he spoke confidently of completing a paper relating to his experiences in California for the Century Mayazinc. Sirs. General Fremont and her daughter Elizabeth, are in Los Angeles, Cal., and another son, Captain Fremont, is at Fort Snelling, Minn. Sketch of Ilis Career. General Fremont was born at Savannah, Ga., January 21, 1S13, was graduated from the Charleston College, South Carolina, and became Professor of Mathematics in the navy about 1835. In 1833-0, he assisted NicMlctt In the exploration of the upser portion of the Valley of the Mississippi, fie was appointed Second Lieutenant of the Topographical Engineers in 183S and three year3 later explored and surveyed the De3 Moines River. In October, 1841, he eloped with Miss Jessie, the daughter of Senator Benton, of Ylissouri, In May, 1S42, he undertook to explore the Rooky Mountains and to open an iverland route to the Pacific Ocean under iuthority of the Government. He ascended the highest peak of the Wind River Mountains, which is now called Frenont's Peak, and in the autumn of 1842 published an accouut of his discoveries. In the rammer of 1843 ho conducted another expedition up the Valley of the Platte, explored Sreat Salt Lake, and made several important geographical discoveries. Soon afterward Lieutenant Fremont was jromoted to the rank of Captain, and in the ipring of 1845 he ^conducted another exjedition to explore the Sierra Nevadas in California. He was attacked by Mexicans lear Monterev in March, 1846, defended himlelf successfully, was raised to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was appointed Govirnor of California by Commodore Stockon. whose authority was disputed by Geniral Kearney. Fremont continued to recoglize Stockton as his superior, was arrested ?y General Kearney, tried by court-martial 1 e > Ilk c ? Mill lUULiU KllUl/jr 1>1 XJlUlslll jr >um ui9v/veui>.uvw, 'or which, however, he was pardon&J by the President. He declined the pardon and resigned his commission. In 1S4!) General Fremont settlol in California, where ho had Durchasod a large tract :alied tho Mariposa Estate. He exerted his nfluence to make California a free State and vus one of the Senators chosen- to represent ler in the United States Senate in 1S50, bis ?rm expiring in March, 1831. In the spring of 1S55 Fremont, with his family, took up hi3 residence in New York jity for the purpose of preparing for publication the narrative of his last expedition icross the continent. He now begat x> be mentioned as an antiilavery candidate for the- Presidency, [n the first National Republican Convention, which met in Philadelphia Juno 17, T838, he received 35!) votes to 196 for John McLean, md on the first formal ballot Fremont was aominated unanimously. General Fremont was defeated, the choica Df the election falling upon Buchanan, Fremont receiving only 114, the-total votes from jleven States, covering New England, the Middle and Western States. But going South, Maryland alone cast her choice for Fremont. In 1858 Fremont went to California residing there for some- time, and visited Europe in 1860. Soon after the- beginning of the civil war he was made a Major-General in the regular army and assigned to the command of tho newly-created Western Department. _Whi!e in Europe he purchased arms for too unicsu States Government, and whan ha returns 1 he went to St- Louis, where he made his headquarters, fortifying the city and placing Cairo in security by a demonstration of 4000 troops. After tlie battle of Wilson's Creole, Au^usi 10, 1861, Fremont proclaimed marshal law, arrested active secessions, and suspended th= fmblication of newspapers charged with disoyalty. He issued a proclamation August 31, assuming the government o? the Scate, and announcing that ho emancipate the slaves of those in arms a-jaiost the United | States. President Lincoln approved of the proclamation except the emancipation clause, which he considered premature, and ' he asked Fremont to withdraw it, which the latter declined to do and I the President therefore annulled it himself in a public order. He was, after an investigation by the Secretary of War, November 2, lSfil, relieved from his command just as he had overtaken the Confederates at Springfield, President Hayes nominated him for Governor of Arizona Territory in June, 1S7&, * * " ?" ' tnt.hnt nost. ana 112 was <lllc?i~?<*iu a^/uiuwv* w 4 Since then he has done good work in improving that regiou. On April 22 last President Harrison sent the name of General Fremont to the Senate as Major-Genoral on the retired list. The nomination was confirmed April 26 and the President signed he commission April CO. FIVE WERE KILLED. Contract Hands Desert Their Employer and are Shot. Twenty-five colored laborers from tho plantations of A. Heffner, near Oak Ridge, Morehouse parish, La., and whose passage he had paid from North Carolina, made their way, under cover of night, into Chicot County, Ark. They were pursue 1 by a posse of friends of Mr. Helt'uer, ami nexs nioram^ nwu found in a dense thicket. "When notified by the posse that they were surrounded by a party of men who would do them no harm, aud only aske.l their return t> their homes, they expressed willingness to return, but when the posse went forward to meet them the colored laborers, le.l by the bold trouble maker, opened fire on the posse and for ono minute did some wild shooting. The posse returned the lire and the result was that live of tha colored men were killed. ?? rThe remains of Jefferson Davis lio in tlio receiving vault of tho Army of Northern Virginia in New Orlonns, La. They are guarded by three sentinels, a member of tha &. A. rl. by day anl two Confederate soi< liars at night. Thkue has be.m a maddogscaroiu Eastern Connecticut over since List fall, and sovera hundred dogs have been killed which wen thought to have displayed symptoms oi hydrophobia. Belgium expects to got a mortgage on tin Congo Free Stat3, and wili advanced,000,OX , cash and WOO,O0o'aiiauaUy for ten years. }~~ FIFTY-FIBST CONGRESS, In the Senate. 152d Day.?The conference report on the gilver bill was adopted by a vote of 39 to 28, almost a reversal of the vote of June 17 for free coinage. 153d Day.?Among the nominations r& ceived from the President was that of Colonel Alexander McD. McCook, Sixth Infantry, to be Brigadier-General...: Mr. Teller introduced a joint resolution for the calling of an International Silver Conference Tho Frye Shipping bills were debated by Messrs. Gibson and Coke, no vote being reached... .The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of the Senate bill to qstablish a United States land court and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in New Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Colorado, such claims being by virtueol Spanish or Mexican rights. t 154th Day.?The Senate resumed consid- - 'Iteration of the two shipping bills, and was addressed by Messrs. George, Harris, Frye, Stewart, Call and Teller. The vote was then taken on the amendment offered by Mr. Vest; providing for the foreign trade, but not for the lake or coastwise trade, for free ships. The amendment was rejected?yeas, eignt* een; nays, twenty-nine (a strict party vote). The bill was then passed?yeas, twenty-nine; nays, eighteen. The only exceptions to the vote being a strictly party one were that Mr. Payne voted with the Republicans in its favor and that Messrs. Edmunds and Plumb vnftul w/if V? tKfl riamAAl?otfl o nroitiof if TU/i tvswia luwu vuu A/wutwiuvg uguiuiib iU.mlUO vote was then taken on the Postal Subsidy bill, *1-4 and it was passed?yeas, twenty-eight; nays, sixteen?Mr. Payne voting aye, Mr. Edmunds no,and Mr. Plumb not voting... .The Tariff bill was, on motion of Mr. Morrill, takeu up, and became the unfinished business? After an executive session, the Senate adjourned. 155th Day.?The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was discussed at length by Messrs. Allison, Gorman, Edmunds, vest, Hawley ? and Frye. 156th Day.?The day was spent in discussing tho paragraph of the Sundry Civil bill relating to tho Irrigation Survey; no action was taken... .Mr. Sherman reported a substitute for a bill introduced by him to reduce the amount of United States bonds to bo required of National banks and to restore to the channels of trade the excessive accumulations of lawful money in tho Treasury. 157th Day.?The irrigation survey question was discussed, but no action was taken The House bill to establish a National military park at the battlefield of Chickamauga was passed... .The resolution offered by Mr. Cullom as to transportation of goods in bond lietween the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States over the Canadian Pacific Railroad was passed....Mr. Dawes reported tho Indian Appropriation bill... .Mr. Sawyer in troduceci a Dili to estaonsn a nmuea postal and telegraph service Mr. Teller introduced a bill givinz a pension of$2000 a yearto 2Irs. Jessie B. Fremont. In the House. 1G2d Day.?There was a long debate over tho rules....The conference reports on the "M Diplomatic and Consular and Agricultural Appropriation bills were agreed to....Ia Committee of the Whole tho Land Grant Forfeiture bill was considered....Mr. Williams introduced a concurrent resolution providing that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House be authorized to c'o3e the present session of the List Congress by adjourning their respective Houses on July 31, at 2 p. M. 1G3d Day.?Mr. Conger presented the conference report on the Silver bill. It was resolved to debate the report at once....The House then took a recess until 8 o'clock, tho evening session to be for the consideration of private pension bills. When the House met at 8 o'clock, on the first pension bill that was called up Mr. Enloe made the point of no quorum, and the House adjourned. 1G4th day.?Mr. Conger called up the con Terence report on ttie silver diii. it was discussed by Messrs. Williams, Conger, Cutch- ' eon, Hermann, Bland, Morrow and Cannon. The four hours allowed for debate having expired the previous question was considered as ordered, and the vote was taken upon agreeing to the conference report. It was agreed to by a strict party vote. Yeas, 122; nays, ninety. 165TH Day.?The "Atkinson bill," a railroad measure, was debated in Committee of the Whole... .The Senate bill to suspend further for ten years th3 statute iu relation to sjuano islands was passed Mi*. McComas reported favorably from ttre Htraw Committee on Education the Senate bill to apply a portion of the proceeds of the sales of public lauds to tho support of the- agriculture co!- , leges. The committee recommends the passage of the bill without amendment. IoGth Day.?The bill appropriating $033,ISi) for additional clerk hire in the Pension Office, made necessary by the Dependent Pension Act, was debated and passed... .Mr. Vanderver introduced a bill granting a pension of jtfOO'J a year to the widow of (jreneral John C. Fremont. 167Tn Day.?After the journal had been I read, Mr. Breckenridge objected to its apI oroval It was agreed to?ycasr 15S; nays, I i nnAUimiirQ/i onrl fwontv mpmhprfi wnra mnounced as paired on this vote Tha . ; House went into Committal of the Wholo )n the Land Grant Forfeiture bill, but no ictionwas taken. Only 142 members, less t :han a quorum, responded to their names on Che last voto. A resolution was adopted directing the Sergeant-at-Arms , to oring to the bar of the House such members as were absent without leave. ...A mo;ion to adjourn at 7 o'clock was agreed to? yeas, 77; nays, G2. INHUMAN CHIN'ESE. ciai Disabled. Soldiers. Buried: Alire by ? Their Comrades. Shanghai (China) papers just received bysteamer say that incredible cruelties hava been practiced on Chinese soldiers in Formosa. The mon were mainly opium smokers, recruited from the dreg3 of the big cities.: Aftr.w- frhn war ended. most of tho soldiers. were given passage- hack from. For.nosa, bat: were not supplied with food, a Lid. the result1 <1 was starvation and disease. Many of the sick were crowded in coffins: and buried alive. A Europsan witnessed one case 'vhere t'no victim struggbd to prevent the coffin lid being nailed down. A great tird at Kirwin, China, destroyed one-tit'th of the city, and causad a I03S of between two and three million dollars. It spread along the river, burning large timber rafts on which were hundreds of people Ten lives were lost. NEWSY GLEANINGS. \ \ Kansas is suffering for want of rain. ^ s- """ <* New Hampshire claims a large hay yield. Axtihiacite coal ? found in "Washington. There ore twonty-two ropublics in tha *> unu. Philadelphia has 500 building associations. There a_o 8,011,105 head of cattlo in Texas. Canada is sending oat armed sealers this season. The Gorman Reichstag has been prorvigued. Hot winds are now threatening the crop* of Kansas A cooo. many ico factories aro being built in Georgia. Fraxce Has imposed a duty of six c?nt3 oa Indian corn. Newfoundland will raiso 120,000,000 lobsters this year. Cat li has bought fourteen Krupn batterles tor $500,000. Camko&xia will give a 37,000,000 bushel cheat crop this year. ? - _ , , ? Tiie gold premium has aavaneoj to:.'i? per :cufc. at Buenos Ayres. Georgia will furnish 1*2,000 carloads of watermelons this year. Tria Island of Mafia, ofT Zanzibar coast, has boon ceded to Germany. The recent hot spoil has bio.a a bonanza for tho summer hotel keapors. New York's annexation sehomo enibraeos , i territory of U!K) square miles. Icshep.os in the Gulf of St. Lawreucj aro :ausi:ig mu'j'a trouble to navigators. Within ten miles of Kuoxvilte, Term., ' thirty marblo quarries are in operation. j Stan-let has given tho name of Equatoria :o tho provineo governed by Emiu Pasha. Rkoext forosfc fires in tho mountains of 3 Now Mexico have causal enormous damage. ! Chicago's twenty million dollar stock ' yards will remain under American control^ ' - ' ? .> ?