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r ~~ < \-V "liiTiMi Important News Gleaned From Two Hemispheres. ^ Ominous Labor Disturbances Occurring All Over Europe, Quite a serious riot grew out of the dismissal of a miner at Beuthen, Prussia. The comrades of the discharged men expressed their sympathy with hi:n by quitting work, and being in an ugly mood they soon became involved in trouble with the local polic?. They were two numerous for these functionaries to cope with, and it was finally found necessary to call out the military of the district. The rioters, when ordered to disperse, refused to do so, and a desperate encounter ensued. It was not until the military had fired two rounds that the mob was scattered and order re- 1 stored. Three men were killed and several wounded duriug the fighting. The National Seamen's Union of England, with a view of forcing the English shipowners to influence the Danish shipown- J ers, announces that a general strike of seamen will be begun, and that the men will not return to work until the de mands of the Danish seamen for wages equal to those paid English seamen are conceded. A conference between representatives of the Seamen's Uniou and the shipowners will be held at Sunnerland, England. The London Stevedores' Union has de- I clared a boycott against the steamers of the I Allan Line, plying to Montreal, and the j Wilson and Hill lines, whose steamers ply between Hull and London and Boston and New York, for employing non-union men. Two thousand factory strikers attempted to parade at Barcelona, Spain, but were dispersed by the police. The Government has issued an order forbidding processions and open-air meetings. The strike movement i3 becoming general among the factories. Business was largely suspended in Nova Scotia in honor of Labor Day. The parade of the various trade organizations was a grand success. Between 400-3 and 5000 perp sons marched and made an imposing show. There was a grand display of fla^s along the route of the procession. Nothing like the demonstration had ever been wituessed there before. The societies picnicked at McNab's. Several districts in Cuba complain of a scarcity of hands in spite of the high wages which planters are willing to pay. In con sequence of the lack of care weeds in the fields are doing much harm to the small cane. The New Constitution of Brazil The Constitution of the United States of Brazi', copies of which have just been received in the United States, greatly resembles that of the United States of America?after which it is copied. It provides that the President and Vice-President shall be elected indirectly through an electoral college for a term of six vears. The members of the Senate will be elected by the State Legislatures for a term of nine years. The members of the Chamber of Representatives will be elected by popular vote, and their term will be three years. There will be a supreme Federal tribunal, consisting of fifteen judges, I who will be appointed for life. There will be a Federal judicial system, and the capital of the Republic will constitute a Federal district, similar to the District of Columbia, but with the privilege of repre- { . sentation in the Chambers and the right to ) chose Presidential electors like any State. All the old Provinces will be transformed into self-governing States. With tho exception of persons who cannot read or write, menaicauis, pina m uc armj- and the members of religious orders, the right of suffrage will be universal. Religious freedom will be guaranteed, the Church and State will be separated and civil marriages will be made obligatory. Twenty Men Wantonly Drowned. A French despatch from Pembroke.eightysix miles above Ottowa, Canada, on the Upper Ottawa River, says that two days ago some miscreants cut the ropes holding a raft of logs to the bank where the twenty-two raftsmen on board were stopping over L ni^ht. W The raft, with the men all asleep on board, J drifted out into the river and then into the rapids a mile below, and ere those aboard .awoke or could collect their senses they were tossed about amid the rocks of the rapids and the logs of the raft, which had broken up. Of tho twenty-two men aboard the raft onlv two survived. ISO traces of the bodies of the other twenty have been found. They must have been ground to death. The authorities are trying to discover the man who cut the ropes. No further particulars were at hand. Smallpox Epidemic in Mexico. Smallpox is epidemic along the Mexican side of the Rio Grande border. At Piedras Negras twenty-five per cent, of the population has been affected, and the percentage of fatality has been very high. In New Laredo, there have been upward of 200 people stricken with the disease. The Mexicans have taken no precautions against the spread, and in many of their smaller towns it is reigning unchecked. All on Board Perished. The American schooner "William Rice has been lost at sea. Th9 whole crew, consisting of sixteen persons, perished. The vessel was on a voyage from Cape Ann to Iceland. The schooner William Rice was a vessel of 126 tons burden. She was built in 1869 at Bath, and her sailing port was Rockland. She was owned by George Gregory. Buflalo Bill Lassoes a "Wild Ball. Ten thousand people, of whom 503 were Americans, attended Buffalo Bill's opening in Berlin, Germany. A bucking bull broke loose and rushed toward the frightened people in the cheap seats. Colonel Cod v lassoed ihe furious brute amid roars of applause. A Cattle Plague in Ilussia. The Siberian cattle plague is ravaging the ? *>- t? :? M prOVlDCeOI X.jagau, HI nussiu. vmui;, UUI9C3 ^ and sheep are dying by thousands. Twothirds of the animals attacked die from the disease. A number of peasauts have also contracted the disease. Mob at a l.ace. A mob headed by betting men broke up the Bois de Columbus races at Paris, France, suspecting foul play on the part of the jocKeys. The crowd blocked up the course and destroyed the enclosures. A number r* arrests were made. A YOUNG FIEND. A Sixteen-Year-Old Lad Murders His Father and Mother. An almost incredible tale of youthful depravity comes from Goreville, 111., a small town in the western part of Johnson County, far removed from railway and telegraph stations. During the night whan everyone was asleep, a man, supposed at the time to bs a burglar, broke into the house of a farmer named Morris Sullivan. On being spoken to he fired a pistol at the bed in which Sullivan and his wife were sleeping. The ball struck Sullivan in the breast, inflicting fatal injuries. Mrs. Sullivan jumped out of bed and threw herself upon the murderer, but the pistol was discharged again, and she fell wounded in the left breast. Her injuries are fatal. By this time the alarm had been given and mfc) neiguours uailio lU. UU iKVUimj xuo | murderer he was found to be S alii van s sixteen-year-old son. A few months ago the I boy poisoned some water which he gave to I his parents, but this attempt at murder failed. He gives as his reason for committing the crime that he was tired of waiting for the old folks' DroDertv. HANGED IN_AN_ARMHOLE, r . The "Curious Means of Suicide Adopted by Barnes Foster. It has just come to light that Barnes Foster, aged sixty-four, who lived on the lonely "West Townsend road, near Fitch burg, 3Iass., recently killed himself in a novel manner. He was unable to obtain a rope, so putting his head through one armhole of his vest he placed the other over an old-fashioned bad- , P9?t and (UetUf sttftngulatigik ? ... THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. A terrible explosion o? gas occurred in blast furnace No. 1 at the Cambria Iron "Works, Johnstown, Penn., by which four men were badly injured, two of them fatally. The body of a new-born infant was found on the bank of the river at Burlington, N. J. The infant's lips had been stitcned with thread to prevent it from making an outcry. Severe gales, with rain and hail, visited Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The roofs of over tweuty houses in Trenton, N. J., were blown off. and fully three hundred trees were blown down. Michael Corcoran and Louis Schlegel, iron workers, employe! in Cooper & Hewitt's mill, at Trenton, were killed by lightning. The population of New York city, as determined by the official rough count at the Census Office iu Washington, is 1,513,501. The 20,000 striking cloak contractors and makers in New York city decided to repudiate their representatives' agreement with the manufacturers and refused to resume work. Josiah D. Richards, Postmaster of North Attleboro, Vt., and a niembar of the Democratic State Committee, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun while he was hunting. Jewels worth from $10,000 to ?15,000 were stolen from the cottage of CJeorge Bliss, a New York lawyer, in Saratoga, N. Y. The Supreme Court at Providence, R. I., allowed Miss Carrie E. Barnes Sl0,0j0 damages for injuries received in a railway accident. and gave bar 310,000 additional with which to pay her lawyer. The decision is against tne .novs* lorn ana j.>ew r,ngtanj road. A fire in the machine works of Josaph C. Todd, Paterson, N. J., did damage to the extent of $150,000. Thomas Farquhar, of Jersey City, X. J., was killed by a train after saving his three little children from death. Dr. Christian* He.vry Frederick Peters, Director of Litchfield (Conn.) Observatory, and Professor of Astrology of Hamilton College, was found dead in Clinton, N. Y. Death had resulted from apoplexy while he was making observations. Dr. Peters was born on September 19, 1S13, in Coldenbuttel, Schleswig, Germany. J. W. Watson died, after a lon? illness, at his home in New York city, of heart disease. He was born in that city sixty-eight years ago, and was famous as the author of the poem "The Beautiful Snow." The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen held a reunion at Hartford, Conn. Over 500 delegates were present. Alansox See, a retired contractor of New York, was fleeced out of $5000 in cash by card sharpers at Asbury Park, N. J. White frost formed at Pino Hall, East Canaan and other points in Litchfield CountT. Connecticut. Damage was done to plants' The Bradley woolen mill of Alleghany, Penn., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $75,000. South and West. A violent wind and rain storm damaged Monroeville, Ohio. Lightning struck Otto Goldner's house, killing three sons?Freddie, Willie and Otto?who were sitting on a lounge. The Farmers' Alliance Convention in Minnesota nominated S. M. Owens for Governor. The Natural Bridge property in Virginia has been sold to a Massachusetts and Virginia syndicate for ?330,000. It was purchased rrom Colonel H. C. Parsons and James G. Blaine, who have owned it for a number of years. John Steele, the Mayor of Tuscumbia, Ala., was shot by John W. Goodwin. He fell dead in front of Curry & Abernatfcy's drug store. Goodwin was fatally wounded. Green Jackson (colored) was lynched at 1 "PViH- W'Viit-a Vln hv npichhnrs nf Mrs. Rob- I ert Pritchard, a white woman whom he had attacked. Ctrcs Craig, for many years local agent at Maryville, Mo., for Bartlett Brothers, 1 brokers and real estate dealers, has disapEeared, anil it has been discovered that ho as defrauded the firm and others out of an amount variously estimated at from $100,000 to $175,000. John P. Bcchanan*. President of the State Farmers' Alliance, was nominated for Governor on the twenty-sixth ballot by the Tennessee Democratic Convention at Nashville after a heated struggle extending over four days. R. Or. Norton*, Jr., shot and killed two brothers named Willie and John Bird at Guyton,Ga. Norton refused to return a mule for which he had traded with one of the Birds. Congressman* James Peter Walker died of apoplexy at his home iu Dexter, Mo. Mr. Walker was born in Tennessee in 1S31. This was his first term in Congress. He was a Democrat, and a member of the Committees on Invalid Pensions, on Improvements of the Mississippi River and on Expenditures on Public Buildings. At Hubbard Mills, a small village in Knox County, Ky., the Smith and Messer factions met, and when the smoke had cleared away four were dead. The Messers lost two young men named Mills, and the Smiths lost Bob Porchett and Hubbard. While Louis Pippin was digging in a well near Anderson, Ind., his pick broke through into a hollow at the bottom. There was a rush of gas and Pippin droppel dead. His son-in-law, David Walker, was lowered into the well and he, too, was suffocated. The bodies were recovered two hours later. A single bolt of lightning at Nappanee Ind., killed Charles Hathaway, a well-known contractor, and Edward >'eufer, who was driving at the time. ? Of the eisjht Apache prisoners who murdered Sheriff Revnolds and deputy at Tucson, Arizona, anJescapaa, all save three have ! been killed, "Kid" and two others are at [ large. Lightning struck a shed at Minerburg, La., and killed Victor Marchand, fatally injured Edgar Charles and seriously hurt Edward Williams. A dairyman was also killed by lightning at Gentilly, La. No elevator in North Dakota will store grain this year, as has ba?n the custom heretofore, and hencj 4,009,000 bushels of wheat will have to be rushod on the market. This > action is taken b?caus? of the new law rnak- I ing elevators pay a license of $2.50 for each I 100 bushels stored. One mau, the engineer, was killed and ! thirteen passengers were injured in an accident on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, near Lirnon, Col. A hot wave still sweeps over Kansas, and there is further damage to the corn crop. The yield will not reach half that of last year. The Wisconsin Prohibitionists nominated Dr. Alexander, of Eau Claire, for??-overnor. "Washington. W. S. Lerty, United States Marshal for the District of Oklahoma, has resigned, and the President has accented the resiznation. The President left Washington for Cape May, N. J., where he was to spend several days with his family. The President filled tbe Assistant Secretaryship of the Treasury made vacant by the confirmation or (George Tictienor as one of the new General Appraisers by sending to the Senate the nomination of Oliver L. Spalding, of Michigan. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the following nominations: James Russell Soley, of Massachusetts, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; A. B. Nettleton, of Minnesota, and Oliver L. Spaulding, of Michigan, Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury; Henderson M. Somorville, of Alabama, I. Lewis Stackpole, of Massachusetts, and Ferdinand N. Shurtleff, of Oregon, general appraisers of merchandise. Brigadier-General R. n. Batchelder, Quartermaster-General, has bean relieved from duty in charge of the general depot in New York and ordered to proceed to Washington to assume his uew duties. Secretary of the Treasury Wisdom has suspended the daily purchase of United States bonds. Superintendent Porter began sending out checks in payment of the services of census enumerators. Checks are being sent direct to the enumerators, and are made payable at the Sub-Treasury in New York city. About 509 checks will be sent out daily until the whole number, something over 50,003 enumerators, are paid. Albert Hawkins, the colored White House coachman, has been dismissed from 1 his position by President Harrison. He had driven the carriage of the Executive family for twenty-two years. The Civil Servica Commissioners are promptly taking advantage of their increased allowance for clerical forca, and th3 new clerks will soon be at their desks. General Thomas L. Casev, Chief of Engineers, has been directed by the Secretary of War to superintend improvements connected with the establishment of the new immigrant station on Ellis Island, in New York Harbor. President Harrison* returned to Washington from Cape May, N. J. Foreign. Some citizens of Fez have been arrjsted for trying to take the life of the Sultan of Morocco. William GtRiffin*, elgnty years or age^ and his grandson, eight years old, were drowned in the Humbe! River, at Bolton, Canada. The boy fell into the river and the old gentleman attempted to rescue him. A whole family, consisting of father, mother and six children, was suffocated to death by charcoal fumes in a room in Paris, France. Lars Neilsen', a trader residing on the small island of Gela, in the Solomon group in the Pacific, and three of his native assistants have been killed and eaten by the islanders. Within the past year six white men have been killed and 4aten by the cannibals of this group out of a total white population of thirty. Influenza rages in St. Louis, France. The whole population of the place is affected. Business in the public departments is paralyzed. The Manchester Canal Company's warehouse in Liverpool, England, has been burned. An enormous quantity of cotton, grain and flour was consumed. The damage is estimated at ?300,000. Ecgexe Schutler, the American ConsulGaneral at Cairo, Egypt, is dead. Mahomed Bin* Cassim and three others have been hung at Bagamoyo, Arabia. Three years ago they murdered near Tabora, Gioseeke, a German merchant. Cassim belonged to a distinguished Arabian family. Osman Digjta is at Omdurman, Egypt, aud his followers have returneJ to Tokar. Osman is said to have lost 400 men by famine and sickness. Suicides by drowning and hanging have become alarmingly numerous in TOkio, Japan. The average is ten per day and on June 26 there were no less than eighteen. Much damage to crops in Canada was done by storm. Emin Bey, meeting Dr. Peters at Mpwapwa, Africa, authorized him to recover the ivory left by Emin at Wadelai. Dr. Peters has returned to Germany, hopeful of organ ? Is\y\ tta t".h IZlQg a uen cAutJimuii. v Uganda is entirely secured to German interests. Thomas Oliver killed his three children in Labrador and then committed suicide. Henry M. Stanley, the great explorer, has recovered from the illness with which he was seized just before bis marriage. A meeting of the residents of the Island of Heligoland, whose cession to Germany is provided for by the Anglo-German ageement, was held, at which a grateful farewell address to the Queen of England was adopted. A waterspout has wrecked all the railroad beds between Switzerland and Italy, and tourists are forced to continu3 their journeys by carriage. Half the Tyrol is under water, and terrific landslides have de- j stroyed the railroad between Maisbruck and Britain. Floods in the Eoang-ho River, in China, have destroyed the embankment at Lundwunnia=. Shang Taing is inundated. The Peiho River is rising, and the waters now cover the country into the walls of Peking. Hailstorms have destroyed the crops in upper Bavaria. pnst \ Rica and Nicaragua have formed an alliance with Guatemala. A number of Turkish soldiers, who were proceeding from their camp near Canea, Crete, to a well to draw water, were fired upon from ambush by a party of Christians and five of the Turks wer j killed. FIPTY-FIEST CONGRESS. In the Senate. ISSth Dat.?The day was spent in further discussion of the irrigation survey paragraph of the Sundry Civil bill Among the nominations received from the President were the following: Oliver H. Spalding, of Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; J. H. Stackpole, H. W. Somerville, and F. N. Shurtleff, to be General Appraisers of Merchandise. 159th Day.?A message from the House asking a conference on the Land Forfeiture bill was presented, and the request was agreed to. Messr^Plumb, Dolphand Pasco were appointed conferees on the part of the Senate... .The Sundry Civil bill was considered, and the amendment of the Committee on Appropriations regarding reservoir sites was adopted... ?Mr. Pierce introJuced a reciDroeitv feature in the Tariff bill. 10')th Day.?Mr. Frye, from the select committee oa Pacific Railroads, reported back tlifv Senate bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to settle the indebtedness to the Government of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad. Placed on the calendar The Senate resumed consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Many amendments reported by the Committee on Appropriation, were agreed to. The bill was then passed... .The Tariff bill was then taken up as unfinished business. 161st Day.?The discussion of the Tariff bill has begun, Mr. Vo or hoes making the only speech... .The bill for the transfer of Revenue Marina service to the Navy Department was discussed and laid aside without action Mr. Hoar, Chairman of the Committee upon Relations of Commerce and Business with Canada, presented the testimony which has been taken by that committee. 162d Day.?The Indian Appropriation bill was considered... .The Senate bill giving a pension of ?2000 a year to Mrs. Jessie Fremont was reported from the Committee on Pensions ana placed on the calendar. 163d Day.?Consideration of the Indian Appropriation bill was resumed Mr. Wamptoo proposed as an amendment 10 me pending Indian Appropriation bill a section providing for the paymout of the French spoliation claims, upon findings of the Court of Claims, amounting to SI,051,433. In the House. IGSth Day.?The Land Grant Forfeiture bill was passed....Mr. O'Neill presented a resolution of the Philadelphia Maritime Exchange protesting against th3 bill grauting to a corporation the use of the north pier at the entrance to the harbor of Buffalo, N. Y. 163th Day.?Mr. Hitt asked unanimous consent for the immediate consideration of a joint resolution providing that nothing in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill shall bo construed to delay or interrupt the prompt translation, publication and dis UlUUklUU Ul. bUD 1 LS VI WUC j/i of the International Conference.... It was decided to order the previous question on tha "Original Package" bill, and on the Bankruptcy bill... .The consideration of the Bankruptcy bill was begun....The House met in evening session, but nothing was done. Mr. Enloe raised the point of no quorum, on the first motion on private pension bills, and the House then adjourned. 170th Day.?Mr. McRao introduced a joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to suspend the issue of patents for lands to the Union Pacific Railroad Company until the adjustment of the debt due the'United States from said company ... .The House then resumed the consideration, of the Original Package bill....Mr. Henderson reporte 1 the General Deficiency Appropriation bill, the last of the regular appropriation bills to be acted upon initially bv the House. The bill makes a total appro priation of $5,140,440. 171st Day.?Mr. Comstock introduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to establish uniform grades of all kinds of grains transported from one State to another, or to any foreign country, which snail be known as American grades Upon announcement of the death of Representative Walker, of Missouri, tho House adjourned as a mark of respect. 172d Day.?The substitute of the Senate "Original Package" bill was passed by a vote qf 170 to 33... .Adebate was held on the Bankruptcy bill....Mr. Bingham reported favorably a bill to create the office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General at a salary of J4001 a year. 173d Day.?The President transmitted the Dorrespoudence between the United States and British Governments relative to the Behring Sea question .. .Th9 dobato <?n the Bankruptcy bill was closed, -vTICKS m SPARKS. ' The Latest News by Telegraph and Cable. Two Disastrous Cloudbursts in the West. At midnight a terrific cloudburst temporarily isolated the towns up Clear Creek Canon in Colorado from the world. At that hour an immense cloud burst near the forks of a creek, pouring within the narrow walls of the canon a deluge of water, which completely demolished the two iron railway Bridges at the forks, and carried away all the structures in the neighborhood. The restaurant, the railroad station and other buildings were swept away by the flood. The immense column of water, laden with wreckage went tearing down the canon, and now, as a result from the forks to Golden there is scarcely u vestige of railroad left. Tho greater part of the roadbed was washed away and all means of communication were destroyed. After the cloudburst a furious hailstorm set in, and it was reported that hail a foot deep was lying in the canon. At eleven o'clock in the morning a train loaded with bridge timbers and conveying 200 men left Denver for the scene of destruction. A cloudburst in tho foothills of Santa Rita Mountains, in Arizona, covered an area of a squaro mile. Tho water rushed down the canon in torrents, drowning a number of cattle and horses. A number of deer, bears and wolves were caught in the furiou3 flow. Crops, orchards and houses on the Schofeldt ranch were completely destroyed. A large freight train was caught in the flow and carried a mile. Labrador's Terrible Tragedy. The steamer Panther brought to St. Johns, New Foundland, the news of a terrible tragedy in Labrador. Thomas Oliver had lived for nine years at Pig Brook, Stag Bay, Labrador, with Jiis wifo and five children. One day ho told his son to go across tho river and hunt for partridges; no also sent his wife and daughter out to pick wild tea. Oliver then took his Bible ana lay down on the bed. When on the ice about half way across the Ht-ot- she heard thereDort of a eun. Looking around she saw the dogs running from tho door. Thinking nothing was wrong she continued her journey. After she and her daughter had gathered all the tea they wanted tney returned home. There they beheld a sickening sight. On the floor was tho baby, On taking it tip the mother discovered that its head had been battered to pieces. The next sight that met her horrified gaza was the body of her daughter, eleven years old. She was in a sitting posture on 'tnij floor, with her head fearfully mangled, while acros3hor lay a boy six years old, with his head split open. Mrs. Oliver next discovered the body of her husband stretched on the floor, with his gun clasped in his hands and a bullet hole through his head. The victims were buried nar the house in whic'a tho crime was committed. The gun was put in tho murderer's coffin. Melancholy caused the crime. Moonshiners Raid a Town. The particulars have just been received of a bloody flght and riot in Pocahontas, Va. Early in tho afternoon a body of about twenty desperadoes, headed by the notorious Jim Skinner, a well-known moonshiner, rode into the town and began drinking whisky. In a few hours thej- became riotous, flourishing their revolvers and firing on citizens as tney passed. After two colored men had been seriously wounded, the citizens and town authorities arrived to suppress the bandt and a general fight ensued. Two of tha mob wero shot and captured, while Charles Smith and an unknown colored man, resident of Pocohontas, received serious wounds, being shot in the head and arms. The desperadoes fled back into "West Virginia, where they have their headquarters in the mountains. A rumor reached Pocohontas that they would return to rescue their comrades, and created such alarm that the Mayor ordered out a posse of sixty men, who patroled the town in expectation of attack. Fatal Cyclone in the West. A special dispatch from Fargo, North Dakota, brings intelligence of a severe and ! destructive tornado, in which seven live3 were lost. Details from the cyclone were meagre. I The only thing learned was that the storm struck Bowen, Clifford and Galesburg, about twelve miles nothwest of Hunter, in the southern portion of Trail Land, in the northern part of Cass County. It was a regular cyclone, tearing and twisting across the country, lovplinc luiildine-s and destroying crODS. Five persons were killed outright, and a man. and his wife fatally injured near Clifford. Wires to the branch lines were prostrated and the reporters had to- drive a number of tnil(-s to the telegraph station. A hail-storm also did considerable damage to crops about twelve miles south of Fargo. A cyclone near Ghent, seven miles west of Marshall, Minn., killed two persons and injured several others. Eight Persons Suffocated. Eight persons were burned to death in a tenement house at. Cincinnati, Ohio. The first story of the building was occupied by Solomon Menaki as a second-hand store. Ai> the other floors were occupied as tenements, and while the flames were eating their way to the roof there were thirty peo> ale in the building. At the outset of the fire the> police, at the risk of their lives, managed to save some of the ton people who slept on the second floor. The occupants of the building were poor tvorking people. The bodies of the dead were taken from (Ko cwwnrl cfnrr winrlAtra Of /-v/>r*n_ aants of the building twenty-three escaped by the roof. Troops in Buenos Ayres. Thocity of Buenos Ayres, Argentina Republic, was agitated in consequence of tho iiscovery of tho plot to overthrow the Government. The place is garrisoned by four thousand troops and threo thousand irmed policemen. The Bourse was detnorilized. The trial of tha conspirators against tho government is proceeding. The feeling of ilarm is subsiding, however. The gold prenium is 211. Guards were stationed everywhere, and tho itreots were patroled by cavalry. Tho popuace was much alarmed, and a semi-panicky !eeUng prevailed. Two European Towns Destroyed. A cyclone is reported to have destroyed the ?wn of Slonim in Russia. Buildings wero azed to the ground, nineteen persons wero silled and the neighboring forest leveled to ;he ground. Slonim is a town in Russia, ivith a population of about 12,0)0. It has leveral churches, a synagogue, a school for aobles and various factories. Tho town of Hammerfost, In Norway, has been almost totally destroyed by fire. The inhabitants have been rendered homeless and ire in a starving condition. Provisions and ?1nfliinnr Vinva c/>nt frnm TmrnSOO to the sufferers. Three Victims of an Explosion. By tlio explosion of a threshing machine boiler on tho farm of James Morrow, six miles east of Princeton, Ind., Andrew Cretsinger and Chnrlos White were killed, and Andrew Mehan, fatally, and Hugh Morrow dangerously, injured. UXOKICIDE AND SUICIDE, An Ohio Official Kills His AVife and Then Hangs Himself. Mandeville Ault, of Hunterville, Deputy Recorder of Belmont County, Ohio, while laboring under a temporary fit of insanity, caused by tho death of his child and sickness, shot himself in the head with a revolver. The ball passed around the skull without doing serious injury. He immediately turned and shot his wife, who was standing near, killing her instantly. Ho then went to his father's barn and hangod himself from the rafters. The cargo of ice recently shipped from Norway to New York was impregnated with kerosene oil, which is tho usual cargo of tho I ihip, and it was sold to the poor of that city. : LATER NEWS. William and Asa Morrill, boys from Sandy Creek, Oswego County, went out fishing on Robert Corner pond, near Adams, N. Y. In trying to land a pickerel the boat capsized aud they were drowned. The police of Bangor, Me., captured an organized gang of boys who called themselves the "Black Avengers" and who are charged with many cases of storebreaking and kindred offences. Over 500 employes of tha Street Cleaning Department in New York city went on strike. They want more regular employment. A great storm struck the northern corner county, in the neighborhood of Sydney, North Dakota, and destroyed three thousand acres of grain. Two women and a child camping on Beaver Brook, in Colorado, were swept away in a waterspout and drowned. One hundred cattle were drowned in th3 Grand Canyon. The flouring mill of Mead Bros., at North Jackson. Ohio, was completely wrecked by the explosion of a boiler. George Mead, the engineer, and William Thomas, an employe, were killed instantly, anl William Mikssell fatally injured. Vidola Melexa, a Mexican, his wife and five-year-old daughter, were shot and killed at Hutton, Texas. James Gibbs and Andrew Sutton, neighbors, charged with the crime, have been arrested. The motive was supposed to be revenge. In a yacht race at Duluth, Minn., two boats were struck by a squall. One went to the bottom. Clark and Lintler were drowned. Purcell wa3 rescued in a dying condition. Amid great cheering th9 ordinance asked by the directors of the world's fair, granting the use of the lake front as a part site for the exposition, was adopted by the Chicago (111.) City Council. The city will furnish ?2,000,000 to fill 150 acres of the disputed part of the site?lake front?the property to revert to the city for park purposes after the fair. The Commissioner of Indian Affaire has issued an order to the Indian Agent of the five civilized tribes in the Indian Territory which requires all persons not members of tribes. Dursuine anv business in the Territory, to procure a license from the Indian Bureau. Professor Soley, the new Assistant Secretary of the Navy, formally assumed that office. Colonel Tichenor also relinquished his position as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and qualified as a member of the Board of Customs Appraisers. The President sent to the House of Representatives, in answer to the resolution introduced by Representative Hitt, the official :orrespondence of the United States and the 3k)vera ment of Great Britain touching the seal fisheries of the Behring Sea. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: To be Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States?Thomas H. Anderson, of Ohio, to Bolivia; Clark E. Carr, of Illinois, Jo Denmark; John W. Washburn, of Massachusetts, to Switzerland; John L. Stevens, jf Maine, to the Hawaiian Islands; George \Tonov r?P Tdrmdwpp to Paracruav and Uru juay. The United States Squadron of Evolution ivas enthusiastically welcomed to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Small pox is ravaging the villages between Manoourat and Zazazig in Egypt, rhe population is almost decimated. Admiiial Freemantle reviewed at Zanjibar, Africa, the British naval brigade and Seld artillery in the presence of the Sultan of Zanzibar. BAN DOWN A YACHT. Five Persons Drowned in a Collision on the Sr. Lawrence. The steamer St. Lawrence collided with the private steam yacht Catherine near Alexandria Bay, N. at 10:30 o'clock in the night. The Catherine had a party of twelve on board, five of whom were drowned. The names of the drowned were: Mrs. VT. D. Hart, Bradford, Penn.: Miss Margaret Henry, Bradford, Penn.; Eaward i Pemberton, Bradford, Penn.; Mrs. Edward Pemberton, John SenescalJ, engineer, of Alexandria Bay, N. Y. The yacht tvas crossing diagonally over from Alexandria Bay to Grenadier Island and was making directly across the track of the St. Lawrence when the crash occurred. Captain Baupre, of the St. Lawrence, says that Captain Joseph Senecal,of the Catherine, blew his whistle to take the right, and then took the left hand course. PEOMINENT PEOPLE. Jay Gould's health has much improved. Mrs. Grover Cleveland has just inherited $50,000. General Mahone has quit politics for the mining business. The Prince of "Wales is a crank on the subject of court etiquette. General Sherman's salary as a retired officer is $15,000 per year. Benjamin* F. Shillabkr, "Mrs. Partington," is seventy-six years old. Bismarck calculates that retirement from office will add ten years to his life. Dr. Talmage's income is ?34,000 a year, not counting what he makes by lecturing. \Tno C?n t vt Wiso Tannnnf Vina a r?a. culiar fad. Her Lobby is parasols, of which she has a wonderful collection. The Sultan of Turkey is describai as a thin, pale, black-haire.l man with a sharp eye. He is forty-eight years old. It is reported in Berlin that General von Caprivi, Chancellor of the Empire, is bethrothed to Count U'aldersee's niece. The ex-Empress Eugenie, of France, travels under the name of the ComtessedePierrefonds. At present she is in Norway. Theodore Tilton has been made master of an English lodge of Masons?the first time an American haa oeen thus honored. Miss Lillian* Blanche Fearing, the only woman in this year's graduating class in the Union College law school, in Chicago, III., is entirely blind. Senator Call, of Florida, is a Kentuckian by birth. He i3 six feet tall, weighs about 200 pounds, and is erect, dignified and courteous. His hair is black and his eyes blue. William Black, the English novelist, is very fond of athletic sports, and is also an expert angler. He has a charming home and family, and his house is noted for its entertainments. J. R. Haggis has more money invested in thoroughbred horses than any other man in America. The Rancho Del Paso, his breeding farm in California, represents an investment of more than $1,000,000. Horace E. Scudder, who succeeds Thomas Baily Aldrich on the Atlantic, is fifty-one years old, and has been engaged in litc-rarv pursuits ever since his graduation from Wifliams College, in 1853. The Emperor of Japan wants to ride expensively. Therefore he has ordered that s state coach be constructed, and has laid aside $175,000 for that purpose. Of course the ornamentation is responsible for most of this sum. Jat Cooke, the Philadelphia broker, owns several country places, but li's favorite resort is his farm at Felton Hills, a few miles out from Philadelphia. Here ho spends nearly every afternoon, giving personal attention to all the necessary details of practical farming. The New York city postoffice furnished n net revenue to the Government for the fiscal year fueling June?0 of $3.761,402. j jWESTERNUNION PARALYZED V The Greatest Telegraph Centre in the World Destroyed. New York Almost Isolated From the West, East and South, A disastrous fire that directly affected the business interests of the United States from Maine to California and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico broke out at 7 o'clock in the morning in the "Western Union Building, at Broadway and Dey street, New York city. By 9 o'clock it was under control, and at 10 o'clock it was practically extinguished, but during the brier interregnum of its fury it caused tne trade ol the country to almost come to a standstill. On the Stock Exchange the brokers were playing ball during the nours when they are usually making their heaviest transactions. On the Produce, Cotton and other exchanges the hum of commerce was hushed. Wall street was physically disabled, and was only able to attend to local financial operations, while extending through all parts of the land merchants and bankers felt the influence of the flames that had consumed all the costlr mechanical appliances of the big telegraph company. TUrt owAof Arkattflfinrr ?>AAm r\9 flift Wnetflnn XUD gJtaii U^CiOHU^ 4WUi Wl VUU fl\?ugiu Union, the largest in the world, had been gutted by fire, and sixty people hai narrowly escaped with their livei, and had it not been for the excellent discipline of the Fire Department all would have been lost. A vast deal of. inconvenience to business men was occasioned; New York city for nearly eight hours was cut off from telegraphic communication with the country, ana the lines to the South were not perfected until late that night. There were many valuable records destroyed and a considerable amount of property was ruined. Yet there is scarcely any way in which the exact responsibility for the disaster can be placed. It is simply known that somewhere in the city an electric arc light wire improperly insulated cros3ed a "Western Union wire and causad the latter to ignite the paraffine insulation of the wires in the battery room of the main telegraph office of the country. That is all. Night Manager Tobin, Chief Operator Robinson and about forty operators were at work on the sixth and seventh floors of the building at 7 A. M., when ttie flame3 started in the tottery room. Smoke warned the operators of the danger, and most of them, including a few women, lost no time in escaping to the street. Mrs. Adams, one of the woman nnoMt/ipa with her the dis patches which she was about to send, being too much excited to know what she held in her hand, The elevators, which ran only to the fifth floor, carried down the operators who first escaped, and a thoughtful messenger boy who sounded an alarm to call the firemen. "Mike" Sherman, one of the operators, kept at work at his key, sending a dispatch to the Grand Central Station, until the smoke nearly choked him. Before the firemen had arrived the flames had spread through the operating-room, ani escape by tho stairs from the floors above it was made impossible. Half a dozen women employed in the kitchen, and several men were obliged to climb through a scuttle to a balcony oa the French roof, high above the roofs of the adjoining buildings. There they stood in the sight of the multitude below, crying for help, while the smoke poured out of the windows below them and dairies curled up under the cornices. Their rescue later seamed almost miraculous. The fire was gotten under control at nino o'clock, after two hours of hard work. At this time the entire upper portion of the building was gutted. This embraced the battery room, the operating room, the gallery, the dressing room, the main office of Ppoca in t.hfl ton of the build Okie zxaov/i.IUUUU A * www ... ing and the restaurant. All the lower floors were literally flooded with water. Among the offices thus damaged are those of Jay Gould, Russell Sage, Sidney Dillon, Dillon & Swayne's law offices and th9 Commercial News Department of the Western Union. I The fire destroyed all tho wires and cables entering the building and it was thought it would take at least a week to repair this damage. Meanwhile business was badly crippled. William Henry Smith, manager of the Associated Press, estimates the damage to the organization at $15,000. The building is valued al*61.3'J0,000. The greatest damage will be the destruction of the vast network of wires which communicated with every section of the continent. ' It will require the assistance of the best electricians in the country to oven restore temporary communication. The wires centreing in the enormous 1 switch in the burned building wore appor- I tioned as follows: I Southward 185 wires , New York city 200 wires Westward 190 wires ' Eastward 150 wires Long Island 75 wires | Miscellaneous 80 wires , In the operating department were 453 op- 1 erating tables, 410 Morse instruments, six Phelp3 motor printing machines, thirty sets of duplex instruments, forty-nine sets of quadruples, five automatic printers, -V- Kn f+Y\? l-anwitars. six Wheats tone | i transmitters, eight type machines and ten , Wheatstone perforators, not counting the . numerous pneumatic and electrical contrivances which went to make up the depart- ! ment. j The Western Union Company purchased the site of its main building for $900,000 from one of the Bonapartes, and moved into < the building on February 1,1875. General Eckert and nis assistants think , that everything the Western Union Company lost can be replaced and repairs made I for between $80,000 and $100,000. The I witchboard cost S2500. \ A MtJBDEROUS FIEE. ' 1 Seven Persons Perish in an Incendiary i Conflagration at Quebec. t MoranH? An InsrirnnnA hroker. hi* ' wife and five children were found burned to death in their beds at their residence, on St. Joseph street, Quebec, Canada, shortly before daylight. The fire suspiciously started in a tavern on the first floor of the house kept by Joseph Delamarre, and was only extinguished atter i the interior of the house had been gutted. Delamarre, his wife and barkeeper, who lived over the bar and below the Mirandas, escaped, fully dressed, Delamarre having his policies of insurance in his pocket. They never notified either police or firemen that anybody lived above them, and the charred remains seven victims were only discovered long after the fife had bean extinguished. Coroner Belleau and Chief of Police Vohl then ordered the arrest of Delamarre and his wife, Georgiana Binet, and their barkeeper. Joan Gauthier, and all threo are now in jail charged with having caused the death of the Ma ran da family. Maranda had been employed in Boston for some time afid came on the day before th? fire for his family, who were to leave immediately for their new home. WAR ON THE ISTHMUS. San Salvador's Army Defeats the Guatemalans With Heavy Loss* The long threatened war has broken out i " * 1 * O?i?rf Ka.Tfln I between uuatemaia ana oaivauur, n , without the usual formalities of a declara- S tionofwar. L El Universal, a paper in the City of Mexico, 8 publishes an account of a battle between the l forces of Guatemala and San Salvador in 1 San Salvador, in which the former were de i feated with heavy loss. The Guatemalan force numbered 9000. c Privato telegrams from San Salvador say 1 that tho San Salvador soldiers captureI th> ( Guatemalan artillery in the battle. General Barrundia, the Guatemalan ref 1 ngee, has left Oaxica to take part in the war. He will probably raise the standard of revolt ] in Guatomalat t It was rumored that President Barillas, of Guatemala, thought oC resigning. " i So successful has Leon th? fishing of blue s 5sh this year that dealers in Ne w \ ork city ( aave been unable to dispose of all sent to ( them for sale, and consequently large num- ' bers have to bo thrown away, or rather are < thrown away in order to keep up prices. i POPULAR SCIENCE. About 34,000,000 people die everj year, or nearly sixty a minute. It is estimated that the sun raises 37, 000,000,000 tons of water from the earth to the minute. It is proposed to apply electricity in the irrigation of some of the dry and sterile districts of California. M. Lavasseur finds that the chances oi a person in the nineteenth century reach* ing 100 years of age are one in 18,800. ! m A room is ventilated best by opening the upper sash of a window, because tha ?$ hottest and worst air is always near the S ceiling. i If the salt held in solution in the ocean 1 were spread over the earth,it would fonri i a layer of more than thirty feet deep cov? ^ ering the whole globe. THe ratio of suicides is large in North? i'M era and small in Southern nations ol . "3 Europe. The same holds good of th# States of the United States. The experimental telephone line between Paris and Calais, in France, haa ' % proved a success. Another line will soon be constructed between Paris and Lon The fact, as reported, that tie German Army has the lowest death rate of .any in Europe is attributed to the practice of frequent bathing in warm water being ?jjja made compulsory. An electric hair curlcr is a new and convenient instrument. It is said to bo equal to the most exacting demands of the feminine coiffure, and the beard 03 mustache can be curled in any style ia' two minutes. -gjjgflj Photographs of seventy-eight old couples and the same number of pictures /iSS of brothers and sisters of a similar age ar* ^11 said to show that the former are mors like one another in appearance than the brothers and sisters. A "Virginia artillery company has beenj : using cheese in target practice,and it was shown that one of the cheeses fired' ; .rag against an earthen breastwork penetrated two feet further than a solid iroa ball. They carry at point-blank range further than shot or shell. .1 From August, 1889, to January, 1890, there were treated at the Pasteur Institute in Paris 850 cases of persons bittea by rabid animals, with but one death.? Under the old methods of treatment, orj ,?*31 without any treatment, the mortality in irg&m this number of cases would have been 110 deaths. The New Crater, as it is called at; Mammoth Hot Springs, "Wyoming, has had an eruption, and is throwing up ti column of steam, stones and water about 200 feet in circumference to the height of about 125 feet. An earthquake preceded the eruption and the whole basin is shaken by it. * Of the entire human race 500,000,000 are well clothed?that is, they wear garments of some kind to cover nakedness j 250,000,000 habitually go naked, and 700,000,000 only oover parts of the body] fifl0.000.000 live in houses. 700.000.000 in huts and caves, and 250,000,000 virtually have no shelter. The growing together of the middle and end bones of the little toe is of frequent occurrence, and has been attributed to tight shoes. A German anatomist, however, finds about the same percentage of cases in men and children as in women, and concludes that the pheaomenon is a normal tendency to a change Df structure just beginning before oui By saturating bullets with vaseline they may be easily seen in their coursi 'rom rifle to the target; their trajectory :ourse is marked by a beautiful ring of + % smoke, caused by the vaseline being ignited on leaving the muzzle of the gun, :he smoke being suspended for some ;ime in the air if not too windy. Much aetter scores,result when grease of some irind 5a userl hnlleta ri-a not so ant to split, the recoil is not so great, and it ii relieved the coarse of the missile is more irue. v>|hB Women Never Pleail Gnllty. A Louisville (Ky.) judge has got tha relation of crime to the height of the nercury down fine. "Why," said he, to :he Louisville Timet man, "if the mer:ury had gone any higher Sunday, and f it had not been for that thundei ihower, my docket would have gone to Dver eighty. "Another thing curiou3 about the criminal courts is that women rarehi plead guilty. I think there have been jut two cases in the Circuit Court here vhere women pleaded guilty, and io joth of these cases doubts of the women'! ianity were raised. One of those case* ,vas when Lulie Howard was given ten ears for arson. Another occurred about hree years ago, a woman pleading guilty ;o grand larceny. She was given foui ,'ears, as her crime was a peculiarly tggravated one. "I don't attempt to explain what it is ;hat makes a woman refuse to confess aer guilt, however clear the proof may je. But so it is, and I have seen one ;vhen the proof was clear as day get on :he stand and swear black was white vhen every man in the jury box knew ihe was perjuring herself. I have often leard Judge Thompson remark the same ;hing, and he is inclined to believe that i femalo criminal elaborates her story mtil she actually deceives herself into :he belief that the story is true and she s innocent." The Only Sea Lion Bom in CaptiYlty. Captain C. W. Bellaires, Superintend>nt of the Fair Grounds, has recently aad an experience that has never been hadj n the world. It was in having an old! iea lion cow give birth to a calf, the rnly one known in the world to have beeni jorn in captivity. The cow lias not been1 veil for some time, and between the flrstj iud second events of the Jockey Club uatinee races, Captain Bellaires was lastily summoned to look after the lion.; >he had, he said, been all right in thai uorning, but he answered the call quickly, ,nd found her in great pain. She waa Iriven to the house, and ten minutes Anonn/1 fhn ll OOr tn SPA iiiui iuc vapkatu upcav.u vuv vwv* ww? iow she was getting along. Ho was( greatly surprised to sec a young calf. The old cow's husband had died of heat >n February 4 when the thermometer * egistered eighty-four in the club house, ind that without a particle of artificial icat. The question now will be to raise lie calf. The only one known is in Cennil Park, New York, but it was not bora u captivity. It is a singular fact that a >ea lion calf cannot swim, but must be aught to do so. A house will be built :'or it specially, and Captain Bellaires is confident of being able to raise th^ rouagster.? St. Ism*Star Sayings, ... a , ' V -S. - _