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JLmerica Restores Him to His
^ Native Laud.
'The Ceremonies Attending the
Eeception of the Body.
The body of Captain Joiia Ericsson hns
Tunrshln
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Beitimore at Stockholm, Sweden. Tko
transfer was made with much ceremony.
Upon sxriving there the Baltimore salutod
the Swedish flag on passing the forts. Soon
after the vessel ha I dropped anchor the
; American Minister went aboard to
announce officially the programme
for the ceremonies. The B.eception
^Committee, which included three officers of
tHe navy and four nephews of the deceased,
met on board the Baltimore. Speeches were
made by Captain Schley, of the Baltimore,
In delivering the body to the American Minister
by the latter in consigning it to Admiral
Peyron, and by the Admiral in accepting
charge of the body.
The remains were "then transferred to a
steam barge draped in black and silver,
which was commanded by a captain of tho
Swedish navy. Tha body was placed within
ft pavilion that had been erected for the purpose
on the bridge of the vessel, to which it
was carried by sailors from the American
war ship. The coffin was covered with
wreath.-.
A procession of boats was then formed.
First came Admiral Peyron and the Captain
and other officers of the Baltimore; then a
i number of American sailors, and then the
catafalque. As tho procession of boats
moved slowly along minute guns were firei
by the Baltimore and by the forts on shore,
while all the vessels in the harbor hauled
down their flag3 to half-mast.
"When the funeral barge arrived at tho
.landing stage the Governor of Stockholm
4pnally received the body, which was
then borne by the American sailors to
? large pavilion, handsomely decorated
in black and gold, which had been
-?-erected near the water's edge in the park.
While the body was being carried to the pavilion
bells were toiled, and the military
which were to escort the remains to the train
presented arms. An immense crowd had as
eembled in and around tne pavilion.
When the coffin had been placed upon the
bier in the pavilion dozens of wreaths and
other floral emblems were heaped up around
It. The services were very simple, consisting
of the singing of Swedish
hymns and the recital of a poem.
.When the services were concluded the
body was deposited in a magnificent hoarse
and the funeral procession was formed, in
which were representatives of the King, the
Crown Prince and the Government, the
American Ministers to Sweden and Denmark,
the officers of the war ship Baltimore
and tho municipal authorities of
Stockholm. In the line was the carriage of
the King of Sweden. The route to the railway
station was thronged with spectators,
who maintained a respectful silence as the
procession passed alon^. It is estimated
that a hundred thousand persons viewed the
procession.
On arriving at the railway station,
where a special train was waiting
to convey the body to TVermland, the
birth placo of Ericsson, the remains
wero placed in a handsomo funeral car
heavily draped in black. At twenty minutes
past three o'clock the train moved slowly out
of the station. The whoie ceremony was
conducted with great solemnity and mads a
profound impression.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Mas. Powers, of Kingston, N. Y., is worth
$3,000,000, and is 100 yetirs old.
Twenty million* acres of land in the
United States are held by foreigners.
There are 10,832 school districts, 62,373
teachers and 2,800,000 school children in
Japan.
The Johnstown flood commission has appropriated
?5000 .to continuo the search for
tie dead. ?
The current year has already witnessed
the burning of bIx theatres, half of this number
being in Germany.
A part? of expert oil drillers has just
- Bailed from New Tort for India, where they
are wanted to search for oil.
It is said that the Eiffel Tower cost tho
lives of about 100, and that 500 were more or
less injured in its construction.
Edward McDonald, of Allentown Ponn., j
thinks he owns the smallest dog. It is five j
months old and weighs four ounces.
Sixteen barbecues hava been given in j
'\Vilke3 County, Georgia, this year. Two I
hundred and thirty-eight carcasses were con- I
. sumad.
Boston expects, on the official records, to
be credited with 445,000 inhabitants. In the
preliminary figures its aggregate was pnt at
437,000.
The total trade of Charleston, S. C., for
the last year amonnted to $S0,619,717, an increase
on the business of the preceding year
of 13.906,2^3.
The Olyinpia Mountains, in Washington,
-arerich in gold, silver, iron and coal. Hundreds
of prospectors are there searching for
mineral wealth.
Germaitt sent to the United States last
year beet sugar to the value of ?16,000,000.
Two years ago the amount was less than a
million and a half.
According to the latest census reports all
the New England States have an aggregate
population of 4,425,900, and twenty-sir Representatives
in Congress.
Recent verv trustworthy calculations of
the population of the Chinese Empire by
Russian authorities reckon it at 382,000,000,
and the annual increase at 4,000,000.
A criminal whosa head was cut off in
France, the other day, was examined by a
physician, and his heart was found beating
six minutes after ho had been guillotined.
The Irish Registrar's annual report estimates
the population of the Green Isle at
4,730,566. The number of persons emigrating
to other countries during the year waa
70,477.
Is answer to the call for rat3 the Atlanta
Fair Association, which offered premiums
for their killing, received 20,94S rat tails.
One man killed 4300 on his farm and received
first prize.
It appears that the great majority of
persons committing suicide in Japan are
over fifty years of age. Next on the list
comes persons between twenty and thirty
years of age.
At the Riggs Farm, sixteen miles south of
Doland, S. D., while on the straw stack at
the thrashing machine, Peter Peterson was
instantly killed by a bolt of lightning from
?n nlmrvrfc <">lr.ir skv.
There is ono ward in Chicago, the Thirtythird,
that is ten miles long and three miles
wide. It embraces 19,200 acres, and con- I
tains sixty railroad stations, seven postofflces
and 100,000 paople.
Dallas, Oregon, claims to handle more
wool direct from the producer than any other
city in the United States. Large wagenloads '
come to town evfry day, and 5,UOO.OOO pounds j
will be handled this season.
1 The Chinamen of New York city have j
given to their Joss, at 16 Mott street, a new
umbrella which they had brought over from
China. It is covered with dragons and other
monsters with glittering eyes, and is said to
have cost MOO.
The King of the Sandwich Islands lives in !
a million dollar palace that was built of coral |
a few years ago by his loyal subjects. The !
natives do not seem to mind expense whero j
the King's pleasure is involved. When tho |
Princess died they spent $o),0J0 on her funeral
and $00,000 for a mausoleum to her.
BLINDED HEB HUSBAND.
A Drunken Man's Eyes Burned Out
With Hot Mortar.
At Mingo Junction, Penn., recently, Mrs.
William Frazier burned out her husband's
eye3 with hot mortar. Frazier was building
a new house and that morning stopped work
to go to Steubenville, Ohio, for supplies.
He got drunk and when he returned homo
his wife was engaged in hauling dirt from
the cellar. Frazier began abusing her. Mrs.
Frazier threw a shovelful of hot mortar into
his face. Frazier suffered intense pain and
lost his eyesight in a short time.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.' j
Eastern aud Middle States.
The whaling bark Petrel has just arrived
at New Bedford, Mass., after a whaling voyage
of over five years. She has taken 2500
barrels of sperm oil and 1300 pounds of whalebone.
Miss Laura Horn*, the thirty-one-yearold
daughter of Frederick Horn, of Hoboken,
N. J., committed suicide by hanging. Her
father, upon discovering what she had done,
shot himself, inflicting a probably fatal
wound. Miss Horn was suffering from insanity,
and her parents were about to send
her to Germany.
A heavv sque?ze in the money market led
mnnv \W Vnrk business men to petition the
Treasury Department for relief.' President
Harrison, at Cresson Springs, Penn., and
Secretary Windom, at Williamstown, Mass.,
were in telegraphic correspondence over the
matter.
Richard M. Johnson, who was Tax Collector
of Biddeford, Me., iu 1SS3, has been
arrested on the charge of embezzling ?10,*
000 of the city's money while in office.
Pennsylvania has suffered heavily by
floods. Many county fairs have been obliged
to close.
Secretary of the Treasury Windoji
had a consultation with a numbar of New
York bankers and merchants with regard to
the stringency in the money market, and he
ordered the revocation of tho Treasury regulation
in regard to the payment of advance
interest on registered four p>r cent, bonds.
A. B. Thompson, Secretary of Strite of
New Hampshire since 1877, died at Concord
a few nights ago. He was fifty-seven years
of age.
Warrants have been issued for the arrest
of Franklin S. Dickson, a young lawyer of
Philadelphia, Penn., on the char go of forgery
and having swindled the Sexennial League
out of about $10,000 by means of bogus
deeds.
An Erie pushing engine struck four Italian
quarry laborers near Susquehanna, Penn.,
instantly killing two and badly injuring the
others.
R. T. Bcsh, the well-known yachtsman,
of Brooklyn, N. Y., was killed by aconite
which ho took by mistake.
Georoe M. Kopp, a lineman, was killed
by electricity on a pole in New York city
before crowds of theatre-goers.
Messrs. Potter and Loyell, principal
members of tho Potter-Lovell Company of
Boston, Mass., which recently failed for
$3,000,000, were arrested and held in bail for
embezzlement.
"* ~ J v? 4.1,^
JU. O. JlLORRIS was noauuuieu uy wc wcuioccats
in convention at Hartford for Govern4
or of Connecticut.
During a thunder storm a funnel-shaped
cloud with a rushing noise swept directly
over the Union wharf store at Provinceton,
Mass. Lightning struck the building and instantly
kiSed Solomon Stanley, twenty-two
years old, and Captain Ralph At wood, sistytwo
years.
The recount of the Second Ward, of Now
York city, made by the Board of Health,
shows a population of 1190, against 923 returned
by tne United States official enumerators.
This is an increase of 29.70 percent.
Over three hundred persons said they had
been overlooked.
Seventeen thousand dollars belonging
to Bookmakers Garland & Saunders was
stolen from the Hotol Vendome safe in New
York city.
Chief Engineer Derrenbacher, of the
Fire Department at Rondo'ufc, N. Y., and
who acts as Treasurer, is a defaulter to the
extent of ?4000.
South and West.
Two colored men in Monroe County, Miss.,
have been lynched for assaulting white women.
Snow has been reported from Fort As3iniboine,
Montana. This is the first snow of
the season in the United States.
Prices of wheat, corn, oats and provisions
advanced several cents at Chicago on the
strength of the Government September crop
report.
Paul A. Johnstone, a mind reader,drove
blindfolded through the streets of Chicago
from the Auditorium to the Grand Pacific
Hotel, and thsre found a name on an old
register which had been previously chosen
by a committee. Afterward he fell into a
prolonged cataleptic fit.
A runaway locomotive at Cincinnati
struck another engine, killing William Howard.
Another man had nis collar-bono
broken.
Baron Yon Strauss, an Austrian nobleman,
who came to this country two vears
ago, committed suicide at Spokane Falls,
Wash., because he had been reduced to beggary.
A scheme to steal the children o? wealthy
parents, and hold them for a ransom, has
been exposed at Kansas City, Mo., by the arrest
of Henry Wilson, a livery stable keeper,
and leader in the plot.
The census population of Nashville, Tenn.,
is 70,309, a gain in ton years of 76.3 per cent.
The South Carolina Democratic Convention
at Columbia nominated Captain B. R.
Tillman, the Farmers' Alliance leader, for
Governor, together with a full State ticket.
The Wvoming election resulted in the sue*
cess of AYarren, Republican candidato for
Governor, and the Republican State ticket.
The Legislature, which elects a United
States Senator, is also Republican.
A YOCXG stock broker named Loring R.
Loomis, has left Chicago, 111., suddenly with
about $25,000 belonging to his friends and
brokers' Arms.
Two persons were killed and seven hurt by
a tree which fell upon a train in the Black
Hiils, near Elk Creek, South Dakota.
Ex-State Senator Robert Ray Hamlltox,
of New York City, whoso wife is in
prison for attempting to kill Nurse Donnelly
at Atlantic City, N. J., a year ago, has
been accidentollv drowned in Idaho.
The schooner Comrade, of Cleveland,
! Ohio, has been lost, with her crew of eight
men, on Lake Superior.
The National Commission of the World's
Fair met at Chicago, 111.
Traffic on the Northern Pacific Railroad
has teen temporarily suspended owing to
extensive forest fires.
The bodies of Mrs. Dr. G. w. Cooper,
Mrs. G. F. Rose and her nine-year old oon
were recovered from the South Pottawatomie
River, Garnet, Kan. The women had
been out driving and attempted to ford the
stream, which was greatly swollen by recent
rains. The vehicle was overturned and the
aDtire party drowned.
"The Montana Democratic State Convention
at Helena nominated Judge A. A. Dixon
for Congress. There were no State officers
to be nominated.
TA. Mexke was killed, J. J. Glaken mortally
wounded, and a son of Menke seriously
injured in a family quarrel at Perkins,
Cal.
The Coal Palace and Industrial Exhibit, at
Ottumwa. Iowa, was formally opened by
Governor Boles. Eleven thousand people
were in the audience room in the palace at
the time.
! The Upp?r House of the Oklahoma Territorial
Legislature passed a bill locating the
permanent territorial capital at Oklahoma
City. The lower was tied, one-half favoring
Guthrie and the ether half Oklahoma
City.
Washington.
Theodore M. Scht.eier, of Tennessee,
has been nominated for Consul at Amsterdam.
The Secretary of War has established two
new army posts?one near Newport, Ky.,
opposite Cincinnati, and tha other near San
Antonio, Texas. The former will be called
Fort Thomas, and the latter Fort Houston.
At a caucus of Republican Senators the
?rder of busiue.-5 for the remainder of the
session was decided upon.
The Department of Agriculture is sending
)ut a volume of nerly thres hundred pages devoted
exclusively to the sugar-beet inaus
try. It is said to be a carefully prepared little
work, filled full of valuable information.
A cable dispatch was received at the
Navy Department from Yokohama, an4-Unf
A ff-J.fn nf T? *1 OT1 T> OOT* -TWh T1 R
buau v v? ?
Baker died on board the United States
steamer Swatara, at Chefoo, Corea.
Superintendent Porter of the Census
Office, announced that the recount of Minneapolis,
Minn., shows a population of 164,7S0.
fnis, as compared with the census of 1880, is
an increase of 117,851, or 251.35 per cent.
Secretaby Wixdom has issued a call for
516,000,000 Government bonds and consented
to prepay a year's interest on about $00,000,
XX) siz per cants., besides giving assurance
that the new tariff laws will not De put into
operation before February 1.
John S. Crocker, "Warden of the District
jail, died at his residence, Washington, D.
C., in his seventieth year. He was a native
of New York State.
According to figures issued by the Census
Department the total population of Utah
Territory is 206,493, which is a net increase
during the decade of 03,535, or 43.44 per
cent.
The Tariff bill was sent to a conference
committeo after a debate of two hours in the
House.
coiciodoue Joseph S. Skerrett took
command of the Washington Navy Yard, :
; relieving Captain R. W. Meade, detailed for I
I duty in connection with the World's Coluin- i
bian Exposition.
Colonel Thomas G. Baylor, United J
States Army, commandant of tho Frankford
Arsenal and Senior Colonel of the Ordnance I
Department, died at Washington, a few days j
ago. He was fifty-seven years om.
The population of Colorado, according to '
the count of the Census Bureau, is 410,975.
This is a net increase during the decade of
216,01$, or 111.4'J per cent.
Foreign*
The Sultan of Morocco's forces have had a
battle with Zemmours, in which the latter
were defeated with heavy loss in killed and
wounded.
The Czar has given orders to the Governor
of Siberia to prevent any further immigration
of Chinese into that province.
A closed carriage was swept down an embankment
into the Elbe, near Ottenheim.
Austria, during the floods. The driver or
the vehicle and the occupants?Lorenz Grunther,
his wife and sister?were drowned.
DcRI-VG the first six months of 1890 the
number of emigrants from Italy was 140,000,
an excess of 15,000 over the same peroid
of 1839.
Twenty persons were entombed by an explosion
in a mine at Loederburg.
A German tourist and two guides have
been blown over a precipice in the Alps.
Ax extension of the triple alliance among
Germany, Italy and Austria, to May, 1897,
has been hastily agreed to.
Diphtheria is epidemic in Berlin,and there
are numerous cases of typhoid fever. The
hospitals are crowded with patients. This
condition of affairs is largely attributed to
the high price of meat, driving the poorer
portion of the populace to eat garbage and
diseased food.
French war ships have bombarded several
villages in the Society Islands. The
marines landed and laid waste the country,
keeping up tho work of devastation until the
natives submitted.
MocasA Bey, the Kurdish Governor of
Armenia, who was sentenced to exile for tho
outrages perpetrated by him upon Christians
in that province, and who escaped from custody
some timo ago, has been captured near
Broussa, fifty-seven miles southeast of Constantinople.
He broke one of his legs in attempting
to escape the police.
The birthday of President Diaz, of Mexi?
co, was celebrated at tho capital city of that
country.
S?The elections in Brazil havo resulted in a
I victory for the Government.
Lord Wolseley becomes commander of
j the British forces in Ireland.
I In a collision between two passenger trains
! it a point between Moatjolo and Kalterherberg,in
Germany, four passengers were killed
md fourteen injured.
LATER NEWS.
New Hampshire Republicans met at Con*
I cord and nominated Hiram A. Tuttle for
j Governor.
The Republican State Convention of
Massachusetts, held at Boston, nominated
| J. Q. A. Brr.ckett for Governor.
President Harbison visited Johnstown,
Penn_ and went to the burial place of the
unknown dead.
Samuel E. Merwis, of Neiv Haven, was
nominated for Governor of Connecticut by
the Republicans in State convention at New
Haven.
The stock broking firm of R. Gardner
I Chase & Company, of Boston, has failed for
$2,000,000.
The New York Central strike is over,
after lasting forty-one days. It has been
ordered off by General Master Workman
Pnwderly. Nearly 3S00 old men have applied
to the road for re-employment.
Secretary Tracy has rendered an
opinion construing existing law so as to al
j low the Marine Corps trie ranoa jjreai.ii w-u
J for the Navy, instead of t'je Army ration,
which has been allowed to the Marine Corps
j for years past. The naval ration is usually
j reckoned as being worth about thirty cents,
| while the army ration is worth about twentyJ
five cents.
The Department of State has bean officially
; informed that an International CoDgress,
I whose object will be to examine questions re!
lating to the reclamation of prisoners and to
the protection of children who have been
practically abandoned, will meet at Antwerp
on October 9.
In* reply to the circular of tho Treasury
Department inviting proposals for the salo
of ?10,000,000 four per cent bonds, the
Treasury Department received offers aggregating
about $"2-8,030,COO, of which $10,SS3,S00
were purchased. The stringency in
the money market has, in consequence, been
relieved.
Treasury disbursements for tho past
thirty-two days have exceeded the receipts j
by 865,000,000 and the surplus is getting very 1
low.]
According to the Census Bureau, the
population of Connecticut is 743,861, an increase
of 123,101, or 19.78 per cent.
Chas. "Wagner, General Superintendent
of the Munk & Roberts Manufacturing Company,
at Connersville, Ind., aged twenty-four
years, has committed suicide by shootiDg a
I bullet through his temple. It is said that the
worry of a strike caused him to kill himself.
The Tammany Committee of Twenty-four
decided to have a straight ticket in the fall
campaign in Hew York city, with Hugh J.
Grant for Mayor.
] I.v the course of the heavy storm lightning
| struck the telephone tower in Jersey City, N. j
J., and set it on fire, causing damage i
and stopping all telephone business.
Princeton (N". J.) College oponed with j
| the largest freshman class in its history.
While John Swanson, a farmer near Sey- j
mour, Ind., and his wife were feeding their '
cattlo they were gored to death by tin in- j
furiated bull.
Cn arles TViiallet fatally shot his wife j
and then shot himself dead at Portland, I
j Oregon; Mrs. Hester Reed was shot and ;
j killed b}' her husband, who afterward comi
mitted suicide at Kansas City, Mo.
Toe dwelling of Mrs. J. W. Savage at j
| Fark City, Utah, was burned. Her two sons j
were caught in the flames. One of them '
was so horribly burned that he died a few
hours later. The charred body of the other
was found after the Are was put out.
Ex-Governor Foster was nominated for
Congress in Ohio.
Disastrous floods have occurred in China
and Japan.
j Emperors Willi Air, of Germany, and
Franz Jossf, of Austria, met at Ilotmscoci:,
Saxony.
The Portugussa Cabinet has resigned,
owing to the popular dissatisfaction over the
African treaty with England.
The elections in Brazil have resulted in
favor of the Republican Government.
A MENAGERIE'S MASSACRE.
A Blood-Curdling Story From
South Africa.
Half a Score of People Killed by
Wild Animals.
Mail advices iust received from Kimberlev.
South Africa, tell of an awful occurrence
ihere at midnight on June 1 last. Some
ricious person or persons opened the doors
)f the cages in Fillis's managerie containing
the wild animals and set them all
free. The most terrible scenes followed.
Four attendants sleeping on the premises
were mangled tieyond recognition,
being actually torn limb from limb, bitten
md gashed in the most sickening manner,
nrhile the entire population within a radius
)f a mile was aroused by the roaring cf the
lions, the trumpeting of the elephants, the
growls and shrieks ox the leopards, chetahs,
jackals and frightened horses.
Four enormous male lions, Pasha, Abdul,
Caliph and Mustapha, sprang from their
:ages and made for the stables, where Pasha
leaped upon the back of Murat, the great
jumping stallion, and buried his teeth in the
animal's neck. The screams of the horse
iroused the attention of a Scotchman named
n-j.*. J i.1 U ...U * A
ratterson anu iiiieu ixuuu uvya, ?uu, m uieu
with stable forks, rushed to the relief of Murat.
From the dying words of one Kaffir,
who was the only one able to speak when
found, it was learned that they rushed
to unspeakable torture and met a fearful
death. He and his mates endeavored to
beat Pasha back, when they were attacked
in the rear by three other lions and one
chetah. They were thrown to the ground,
their arms and legs bitten and torn off, their
bodies mangled and torn open, their bones
smashed into bits, and with the exception of
the single Kaffir, their heads crunched into a
pulp. The one man who lived just long
enough to tell the story was without either
arms or legs and his body was a mass of
lacerations.
Having tasted blood, the lions, chetahs,
wolves and leopards saeraed to regain all
their natural ferocity and sprang at everything
that cp.mo in their way. Four performing
Hungarian horses, of which the
equine Deauty Black Bess was "one of the
number, were killed almost instantly, and a
number of ponies were devoured. An enormous
elephant known as Blood burst
through the heavy iron gate in his fright
and rushed into Curry street, followed by
nearly every animal that was in the
menagerie. A cabman named Nelson was
sitting on his carriage before the building
appalled by the uproar within, but not supposing
the beasts could escape beyond the
walls. Suddenly, as he describes it, he saw
the animals come forth in a perfect volume
of fprnmfrr first the elenhant loudlvtrum
peting, closely followed by a writhing, snarling
mass of lions, hyenas, jackals, baboons
ana every other quality of brute.
Nelson sprang for a post that supports an
awning around Glover's Athletic Bar and
climbed into safety, while his horses dashed
madly down the Dutoitspan road, snorting
with fear, closely pursued by two lions and
four wolves. The remainder of the wild
animals distributed themselves in every
direction.
A little child of James Grindley, happening
to be in a rear room opening on a garden,
was pounced upon by a chetah and I
dragged into the open air, where its agonized
mother saw it torn to pieces and devoured
without any power to help it.
Dther and equally harrowing incidents
iro reported, among which is the killing of
Qve women, who were fearfully mangled.
"When the mails left there were at largo
four lions, two lionesses, two tigers, three
bears, two wolves, one hyena, two chetahs,
jne elephant, one camel and seventeen
baboons. The police had been organized
Into hunting parties, and the town was in a
condition of siege.
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Ge.vep.al Benjamin P. Butler is en.
gaged in writing his autobiography, at hii
home in Boston.
The youngest member of the next Congress
will be J. iL Bailey, of Texas, who ia
cnly tweaty-fivo years of age.
Toe Empress of Russia is so thin and haggard
that tne friends who havj ni t seen he*
within a fewyears do not recognizo her.
The Sultan of Zanzibar is a bright young
man of thirty-seven. Ee is one of fifty-seven
children, all of whom except Ave sisters ari
now dead.
Hexp.t Fowler, the English member of
Parliament, is the rising figure among the
English liberals. He has recently developed
great ability.
General v on Moltke will be presented
the house iu which he was born at Parchim,
Mecklenburg, on the occasion of his ninetieth
birthday.
The largest individual taxpayer in Boston
is John M. Sears, who pays ?30,000 on $3,?
617,0C0 worth of real estate and a personal
estate of $125,000.
President herrera-r-obes,of Uruguay,
has no palace, but lives modestly in rooms
over a milliner's shop in one of the principal
streets of Montevideo.
General Greelt, chief of the Signal
Service, is in receipt of at least twenty letters
a day from cranks who solemnly hold
him responsible for the weather.
Probably the richest man in Alabama is
Josiah Morris, of Montgomery. He has a
fortune of $3,000,000, mad?, for the most
part, from dealing in real estate.
Prince Louis, of Battcnberg, i3 one of the
few royal personages of Europe able to support
themselves by means of a trade or profession
. He is a skilful typesetter.
The Pope never leaves his own rooms until
they have been swept and dusted, which
is done as soon as ho rises. He then closes
all the doors snd window and takes the keys
away with him.
Justice Miller, of the United States"
Supreme Court, has been on the bench
twenty-eight years. His commission was
signed by Lincoln, p^d dat^s basis fyrther
t>uuu wu*?v VI wu; UHU6I LUtUiUCl WUC tJUi W
"The mail brings more than seven hundred
letters a day to President Harrison. Only a
few of them reach his desk, the remainder
being acknowledged and answered, if necessary,
by Secretary Halford's staff of clerks.
raince * erdinand, ot .Bulgaria, has too
reputation of being one of the greatest gourmands
of Europe. His favorite dish is a pie
of linnets, ar.d when a fish is to be served he
has it brought to him alive for his inspection
before it is sent to the kitchen.
"VV. E. Gladstone has written to friends
in Canada, who invited him to this country,
that his age and engagements utterly disable
bim from crossing the Atlantic, and that he
cannot hope to see this great territory in
which he has always taken so much interest.
Princess Lilinokalaxi, the heir apparent
to the Hawaiian throne, is a fine looking woman
of considerable political ability. She is
married to an American, John Dominis,
though other foreigners do not find favor in
her sight. She has an annual grant of $10,000.
Sister Rose Gertrude, the English woman
who has been tending the lepers at
Molokai, is about to lea ve on account of native
opposition. She says there have recently
been several well defined cases of cure of
leprosy lately and is corroborated by Dr.
Lutz, the Physician-Governor of the leper
CCbMCmVUl.
Many people have expressed astonishment
at the fact that the Princa of Wales speaks
German with perfect fluency. The truth is
that his command of English is the surprising
thing. In the roval nursery German was
epoken until Albert ?dward was twelve years
of age. The Prince is also in thorough command
of French.
J. Hexniker Heaton, the British M. P.
who has come to the United States to discuss
penny international postage withilr. TVanamakc-r,
is a handsome blonde man, broadshouldered
and of medium height. His face
is strong and full of character. Mr. Heaton
is a journalist and the owner of three successful
Australian newspapers.
A. C. Chbistopheb, of tho Georgi. Hcnso.
In Orlando, Fla., has a peach tree m a is > aru
>f the large yellow cling-stono variety. The
tree is three years old, and has borno two
jrops since the frost in March last, the Grst
Oecoming ripe in July and the second in
August, and there will still be another crop
this month. The tree grew from o seed obtained
in middle Georgia.
A STRIKING DESIGN,
Description oft he Monnmnnt Which
is to Mark Grant's Tomb.
John H. Duncan,, whose design has been
accepted and who has been appointed architect
for the Grant Monument Association,
presented a statement to the Executive
Committee, which is an exposition of the
general subjcet as well as a description of his
own design. In it ha says:
"As I conceive it, the problem is to produce
an edifice which shall be unmistakably
a monumental tomb from every point of
view it may be seen* while as to its accessories
it shall contain a grand memorial hall
and a depressed mortuary chamber with a
doublo sarcophagus, where will repose the
mortal remains-of General Grant and his beloved
wife. In striving to solve this problem,
I have provided for certain portions of the
main structure to-bo built from time to time,
with tho amount of money in hand, and pro
videdthat such parts as are finished shall
give tho appearance of a completed structure,
as far as it is possible. * *
"In the lower portion I have chosan tho
Doric order of architecture,on account of its
simplicity, and above tho Ionic. The great
size of tho memorial hall, which I have designed
to bo both impressive, instructive and
useful, has led mo to leave the lintel
construction, and adopt the vault and
arch form.of Roman work. My main object
is to present in tho present draw
FP.OXt VXCW OF TITE MOXCMEJTT.
ings the form of my proposed mausoleum,
and therefore the equestrian statues of
Grant's Generals of the four principal armies
on the columns in front, the full relief
panels on the sides for portraits of the several
Major-Generals acting under him, the
group on top, as well as the other groups and
figures indicated, are simply suggestions
showing sculpture at points where the edifice
would best receive or require them. All
such details are a subject of after consideration,
which, in my judgement, should bo kept
subordinate at present to the general design.
"While my arrangement of plan recalls
the Tomb of Napoleon in the Hotel des Invalides,
so far as the open crypt is concerned,
I have placed it in an apse, leaving the entire
portion of the memorial hall clear for
any patriotic or civic gathering, such as the
annual meeting of tne Grand Army, the
Army of the Tennessee, the Society of the
Cincinnati, etc., while at the end of the hall
I have constructed a rostrum for the various
dignitaries, from which a complete view of
the large memorial hall may be seen. A
vista of the entire length is also obtained
from the entrance, terminating in the apso
and the guardian figure over the granite
tomb.
The general dimension cf my main structure
is as follows. A square base, 100 feet
bv 100 at the cround line, exclusive of the
steps, and the projection of the portico on
front and apse at rear. The total height of
the mausoleum would be about 160 feet from
the base line, or nearly 290 from the water
level of the Hudson River. From the centre
of the memorial hall floor to dome is 100 feet.
The outer galiery will be 130 feet above the j
ground line, affording a complete view of the ,
surrounding country for miles.
"The dome is supported on the interior by
pendentives, which fill in the transitions between
the square formed by the vault3 and
the under siae of the circular dome. These
should be of ornamentation with figure sub- I
jects, formed of marble mosaic. At this I
point I would indicate the special victories j
of General Grant in the war for the Union. !
Above these pendentives are thirteen open- j
ings into the inner gallery. In the panels j
above them I would place the ssals of the '
original thirteen States, and directly over ;
disks with the names, emblems, etc., of all i
the State3 which were reunited in conse- j
quence of General Grant's victories, while
above them all rises the coffered dome.
"The crypt I have made the subject of
particular study. It is the feature of the
Building worthy of the deepest consideration.
For material I selected white granite, being I
the stone least affected by climate. The |
crypt itself is large and roomy, reached by j
rear stairways and protected from intrusion. |
I have designed places in the crvpt for the j
display of banners, relics, personal souvenirs, J
etc., of the dead General, President and citi
zen. The whole mausoleum I have con- }
structed on the basis of 8300.000."
mTTT1 T 1 nrtT( TTT AT1T
mil lajjuii wuitlij,
Labor is so scarce in Colorado that railroad
construction is impeded.
Business in Melbourne, Australia, is prostrated
on account ot labor strikes.
A national convention of stonemasons
has just been in session at Baltimore.
Galveston boast9 ?2,000,000 put in factories
in that city in the past eighteen
months.
Despite the return of 1000 strikers to work
at Mons, in Belgium, there are fully 18,000 '
mineryon strike in that country.
I The annual convention of glasa manufac- ,
i
The Traclca Union Congress'at Liverpool, \
by a mSjfciny ct eight in a vote of over 330 j
decided In fa^or <}( legislative enactment to .
limit the daily hours of labor to eight.
A new town has been started near Pitts* I
burg, Penn., named Charleroi, the first |
great industry of which will be an extensive
plute-jrlass works giving employment to a
thousand men.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has reduced
the hours of machinists and boilermakers
from ten to nine at the same compensation i
per hour as before. The men contemplated j
striking for nine hours at ten hours' pay.
A mas of forty being recently examined i
before a magistrate at Bangalore, India, I
stated that be earned daily a quarter of an
anna (about l#d) by bottling ginger beer, |
and that he was quite satisfied with his wages
and position.
Sixce the culmination of tho eight hour
movement this year, the members ef the
Journeymen Tailors' National Union bare
reduced their hours of labor to ten per day
in thirteen cities, and in nearly all higher i
wages and better conditions were secured.
The annual reports of frieudly and beneficial
societies indicate that the condition of
English worklngmen is generally prosperous.
Six of them, not including the miners, agricultural
laborers, and otuer large departments,
show a surplus of nearly ?55,000,000.
All of the boot and shoe manufacturing
establishments in tho East have been in receipt
of heavy orders for tho coming season,
and work will bo resumed a little earlier ;
than usual. Prices for footwear aro a little
lower, considering the quality, than they
locf Troon
BY AN ELECTRIC BOLT.
Four Italians Who Sought Refuge ,
From a Storm Struck Dead.
A terrific thunderstorm took place recently
at Sodom, J*. Y., near t'ao Brewsters, on the
Harlem Railroad. At the new Sodoin reservoir
there is an Italian shanty.
While the storm prevailed one hundred
Italians sought refuge in the building. They
had been indoors but fifteen minutes when
lightuing entered the shanty and killed four
men.
The Italians became crazed with fear and
rushed from the building. Strange to relate,
the shanty was uniujured, and the lightning
Is said to have entered an inch aperture
in tho roof.
Half a mile from the fatal spot a woman
who was at work in h?r house was stunned
by a shock of lightning during the storm.
WORK OF TEE UMS.
Momentous Matters Telegraph- I
ed From Many Quarters,
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Two Indian Braves Almost Rout ;
the United States Armv.
Jules Semiole, an interpreter,-.brings from
the Cheyenne Agency, in Montana, the details
of the killing of Head Chief and Young
Mule, the murderers of Hugh Boyle. On
Sunday, the father of Head Chief iame to
Agent Coopar and endeavored, to: negotiate
for the surrender of the fugitives and to
secure their immunity from punishment by
giving up a number of ponies.. He* said the
boys were in the bills where they <ould not
be taken.
The agent refused to negotiate* saying the
Government did not treat murderers that
?>u.jr. i' muuj^ uio cuui to 11 lui/JCda uju imuci
said the boys would come into the agency
and make a fight, and that. h& would go out
and help them put on war bonnets and tie up
ponies' tails?the procedure incident to going
into battle?and that the soldiers had better
look out, as the boys would fight to the
death.
The place from where they would come was
indicated, and troops and Indian police drawn
up to meet them. In about half an hour
the two renegades were seen coming at
full speed in war paint and feathers. They
charged along the lull length of line occupied
by the troops and police, shouting
and yelling like demons. The soldiers fired
a volley or two in return, but failed
to do any damage. As soon as the Indians
were out of range they turned and rode back
again like a whirlwind, repeating the attack
as before, and escaping without damage.
They then started to climb a hill in front of
the troops. When half way up a chanco
shot-from the military hit Young Mule's
pony and brought him to the ground, leaving
Young Mule dismounted.
js Head Chief then turned and rode down the
hill at a terrific pace, making directly for
the lino of troops and police, meanwhile firing
his rifle as rapidly as possible. It is reported
the line of battle wavered and broke,
but just before Head Chief penetrated it he
fell, shot twice through the forehead and
once in the mouth, and was killed instantly.
Young Mule, noting the fate of his companion,
prepared to follow, chanting the
death scng. He started down the hill afoot
and was charging directly into the line of
troops when he was hit in the side. He
jumped into a hole in the ground and fired
one shot after getting under cover. This
was about one tfclock in the afternoon and
hostilities ceased until evening, when Young
Mule was found dead in his rifle pit.
Insurrection in Switzerland.
The Revolutionists in the Caaton of Ticino,
Switzerland, formed a provisional government
and convoked a popular assembly,
which declared the existing Government
and the Gftand Council dissolved and
ordered general elections. The insurgeuts
held Lugano, Mendrano, Chiasso and Locarno.
The Swiss Bundesrath was called in extra
session, and ordered Federal troop3 to be
sent to the scene of the disorder. The populace
supported the insurgents and the Civic
Guard occupied the telegraph offices, thus
preventing the suporters of the Cantonal
Government from communicating by telegraph
with each other or with the National
Government.
The rebels arrested Councilor Oreali, the
Federal Commissioner, who received instructions
to annul the decision of the provisional
government and the vote of the popular assembly.
;
The latest despatches say the revolt has
collapsed. The troc?3 have beau weU received
by the revolutionists. It has besn
agreed that the question of the revision of
the Constitution be submitted to a popular
vote.
Flames la the Alhambra.
A fire hrofee out at 10 o'clock a few nights
ago In the Palace of the Alhambra, in Granada,
Spain. It originated in the Alberca
Courtyard and soon spread to the galleries.
The news that the famous palace waa
on fire spread rapidly, and thousands
of citizens flocked to the scene,
They found the whole upper part
of the gallery on the right side or the Arrayanes
Court ablaze. The troops and firemen,
with the aid of willing volunteers from the
crowd, succeeded in confining the flames to
the portion of the palace in which the fire
originated. A supply of water was obtained
from the tanks ana fountains in the various
courts, and, after several hours of incessant
work, the flames were extinguished.
The magnificent Sala de la Barca and the
right wing of the Arrayanes Court were destroyed.
The remainder of the palace was
not damaged. Eight persons were slightly
injured while fighting the fire.
Hussars Swimming for Their Lives.
An exciting episode ot the great floods is
reported from Armelgostewitz on the
Elbe. The first squadron of the Ziethen
Hussars is quartered there. One night a
sentinel fell asleep, only to be awakened by
the rapid rise of the stream and to find that
the barracks had been carried away and the
entire squadron were swimming about in the
waters. The men were saved with great difficulty
in the darkness, as the entire village
was inundated, and only the strongest
buildinzs remained standing, the tops of
bouses and trees being filled with soldiers
and villagers. The horses of the troop were
drowned. The Colonel swam to the roof of
the highest house in the village, which he
made his headquarters, remaining during
the night, giving ordere for the safety of his
men and the village. He was finally rescued.
. Fonr Persons Killed by Lightning.
Peyton Huguley was struck and instancy
killed by lightning near Atlanta, Ga. lie
and bi9 Fife were picking cotton, and a little
cloud collected above and by one stroke of
lightning Huguley was killed and his wife
Severely shocked. The bolt struck him on
t*a-aide of ihe h4ad, brifclhg ttZ ^
ekin on"? nlacettae sire of a half doUar.
JVhilp the tnrSe children of Mr. Henry
May, of Washington County, Ga., were picking
cotton the same day, little Ruby was instantly
killed and the other two stunued by
a bolt of lightning, from which they died an
hour later.
GoJId Discovery in South Dakota.
An immense find of gold has been made
somewhere in the vicinity of Rapid City,
8. D., during the last few days, but the
finder refuses to indicate its exact locality.
Several pounds were taken to an
assayer, wno made several assays, the results
of which far exceeded anything yet found in
the hills. Four pounds of the rock yielded
L7 ounces. The nrosDector savs he can set
out without assistance 700 to 1000 pounds
daily.
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Settling the Indian Problem.
The council of the Prairie band
of Pottawatomies. held a fsw riavs a cm
on the reservation in Jackson County,
Kan., terminated in a row, in which three
of the leaders were killed and several others i
injured. The trouble grew out of the Presi- i
dent's order to sectionize, for the consideration
of which tho council had been called. i
i
New Method of Caring Consumption. 1
Dr. Koch, the notei German physician 1
who claims that he has discovered a method
of curing consumption by inoculation, is 1
about to begin experiments on human pa- 1
tients who are suffering from tuberculosis. I
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Twenty-live Killed.
An explosion occurred in the Maybach pit (
at Sanct Wendel, Rhenish Prussia, by which .
twenty-five men were killed. The other men j
in the pit to the number of S25 were res- i
cued. I
Sevcnty-tlireo Drowned.
The Austrian war ship Taurus, with a crew 1
of sixty-nine men and four officers, has 1
foundered in the Black Sea. All bands were 1
lost. ;
|
Farmer Cross, of Santa Rosa, CaL, 1
tnrnflri a valuahlfl mamintn n flplrl tliA nfchnr t
day In which was pastured a Durham bulL '
The animals got into a flght and ths maro
was killed. She was worth $500.
A pi~ce of the lithographic stone from 1
wh- '.h the $10 bills of the Confederate Gov- I
eminent were printed was discovered in a I
cemetery near Anderson, S. C., recently. i
FETY-nBST oosorasa.
In tho Senate
200th Day.?The conference report on thai
Land Grant Forfeiture bill was.- taken up.
Fhe main proposition in the report is contained
in tne first section,as follows: "That
there is hereby forfeited to the United States,'
and the United States hereby resumes tho
title thereto, all lands heretofore granted to
any State or to any corporation^ aid m the
construction of a railroad opposite- to and
coterminous with the portion , of any such
railroad not now completed and in operation,
for the construction or benefit of which
such lands were granted, and all sicb lands
are declared to be a part of the public domain;
provided, that this act shall not be
construed as forfeiting the right of way or
station grounds of any railroad company
heretofore granted." Mr.. Morgan spoke
against the report. .
207th Day.?Mr. Ingalls presented a petition
from citizens of Missouri asking: for the
passage of the Federal Election-bill....
Many petitions were presented for and
against the passage of the Compound Lard
bill?After the passage of several bills
of minor importance Mr. Morgan ended his
speech on the Land Grant Forfeiture bill.
Mr. Saundera then spoke in favor of the
adoption of the conference report. Executive
session.
208th Day.?As soon as the journal of
yesterday was read, Mr.. Quay offered the
usual resolutions of sorrow and condolence in
regard-to the death of Samuel J. Randall and
proceeded to address the Senate. Further
sloquent tributes to. the high character of
Mr. Randall and to hi3 honorable career in
public and private lif? were paid by Messrs.
Cullom, Gibson, Barbour, Plumb, Daniel,
Blackburn and Hiscock. And then, as a
further mark of respect, the Senate, at 3
p. m.. adjourned.
209th Day.?Tho Senate, on motion of
Mr. Frye, passed sixteen bridge bills on the
calendar... .The Land Grant Forfeiture bill
was considered*
210th Day.?The Land Grant Forfeiture
bill was passed....It was voted to buy the
Townsena Library of National Records....
The Anti-Lottery bill was passed... .Mr. Hiscock
introduced a bill to authorize the can*
truction of a tunnel under the waters of the
Bay of New York, between Middletown,
Staten Island, and New Utrecht, Long
island.
211th Day.?Mr. Blair made a speech, facoring
suffrage for the District of Columbia
... .Tne bill providing for the reorganization
of the artillery and infantry forces of tha
Army was reached on the Senate calendar
....At the expiration of the hour assigned
to tbe calendar the Senate resumed the consideration
of the Senate bill to established a
United States land court and to provide for
the settlement of private land claims in the
VVrrtm^ncr Anrl
OUIIC9 KJk lie*oua, W?v* uuw V* j w?
in the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona or
Utah. After a long discussion the bill was
laid aside without action... .The private
pension bills on the calendar were then
taken up, and eighty of them were passed in
thirty minutes.
In the House.
216th Day.?As Speaker Read entered tha
House he received a round of applause frorq
the Republican side of the House, and from
the spectators in the galleries. After prayer, >f.
Mr. O'Ferrall made the point that no quorum
was present. The Speaker, without
note of tne point, stated that the question
(Fas on ordering the previous question, on
approving the Journal of Tuesday's proceedings,
and directing the clerk to call the rolL; -M
The.vote stood yeas eighty-seven?nays forty*
four?no quorum; and on motion of Mr.
McKinlev, of Ohio, amid Democratic applause,
tne House adjourned.
217th Day.?A message was received from
the Senate announcing the passage of the
Tariff bill, with amendments. By direction
of the Speiaker it was referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means... .The previous
question on the question of approving Tuesday's
journal was ordered; yeas 113, nays 84
?the clerk noting a quorum?and the question
recurred on the approval of the journal.
On the approval of the journal, the quorum
disappeared and a call of the House was or-.
leredL On mpffon of Sir. McKinley tha
^^a<wurn?3r_ ' ' "J" ' V/r'
journals of Wednesday,
rhursdayana Friday IreFS read and aj>
proved witEBfif oSjSctlOfi, and. tbffl tqfc
House proceeded to pay Its last tributes* of
respect to the memory of Senator James B.
Deck, of Kentucky. Mr. BreckinridgeT of
Kentucky, eulogized the character and abilities
of the deaa Senator, whom he characterized
as a "round, ready and full man.''
A C+nr* aJAncLOcaa hr Mocarfl TIlinnAll. rtf IVCtft,
nesota, McCreary, of Zentucky~Stone, of
Eentucky, Blount, of Georgia, Henderson,
of Illinois, Caruth, of Kentucky, McMillln,
of Tennessee and Hooker, of Mississippi,
the House, as a further mark of respect, adjourned.
219th Day.?It was-agreed to non-concur
in all the Senate amendments to the Tariff "= >1
bill....A bill was introduced by Mr. Covert
at the solicitation of Erastus Wiman, the
purport of which is to make Brooklyn a
railroad centre.... The recent speech of Mr.
Kennedy reflecting on the Senate and Senator
Quay, was under discussion; two resolutions
of disapproval of the speech were introduced.
220th Day.?Mr. Connell introduced a bill
for the ere-Ttion of a statue or monument in
the city of Washington to the memory of
John Ericsson, at cost of $50,000....Mr.
Bayne's resolution to refer the Kennedy
speech denouncing Senator Quay to the Committee
on the Judiciary to determine the extent
of his offence and the reparation due to
the Senate was passed The Speaker ap?
pointed the following conferees on the TapH??. .
bill: Messrs. McKinley, Burrows, Bayne,
Dingley (Republicans); Mills, McMillin and
Flower (Democrats^.
221st Day.?The Langston-Venable contested
election case was considered... .Mr.
Stock dale introduced a bill to increase the
Mexican war pensions from ?8 to 112 a
month....A bill was passed amending tha
act relative to tho Brooklyn Postofflce so as
to provide that a one-story building may bo
constructed on the north side in order to facilitate
the handling of mails, j
KILLED HIS DAUGHTERS, |
\ Terrible TYagedy Enacted at Torts^
^ ^niontl). >. H. !'
FredH^Xa hard working^cooper
in the employ of the Eldridge Brewing Com,
pany at Portsmouth, N. H? Bhot and prob
?bly fatally wounded Charles W. Taylor, a
(veil known business man of that city, then
3hot and killed two of his own young daughters,
fatally wounded another, ana finally
wound up his bloody career by sending a
pistol ball through his own brain.
Hein is about forty-five years old, and up
to a few months ago lived happily with his
wife and three daughters. He discovered
then, however, that nis wife was unfaithful
to him, and as a result of his discovery she
left him. Since then his flfteen-year-old
daughter Carrie has been keeping house for
him. j
Hein's troubles preyed upon his mind unt
til he resolved to end them and to not only
kill the man whom he regarded as the partial
cause of his misfortune, but also remove
from temptation the three female members
of his household.
Charles W. Taylor, who is a stove dealer
on Market street, was the first victim. Tho
murderer rushed upon him and fired two
shots in rapid succession. Both of them
took effect in the small of his back.
Immediately after shooting Taylor Hein
made his way home, for shortly before eight
D'clock people living in the vicinity of nis
house were alarmed by hearing flvo pistol
shots fired in rapid succession.
The lower part of Hein's house was the
scene of the murderer's most horrible work,
and it shows evidence of a desperate struggle.
The kitchen was covered with blood
from one end to the other, and everything
was in great disorder. Just outside the back
door of the house lay two bodie3.
Carrie, the eldest girl, lay with her feet
' -1 it- -1 1 ? m'4L
cowaru tue uoor, wiiu uer iaua wwivu ?iui
blood, the bullet having entered the left side
af the face, passing upward toward the
brain, death having resulted instantly.
Across her prostrate l'orm lay Bertha, the
roungest daughter. "When found by Officer
Quinn and Dr. Clark she was unconscious
ind died in flfeeen minutes, the bullet that
caused her death having entered her head
[uit behind her left ear.
As the officers entered th 5 front chambsr
hey were horrified to see the dead body of
Bein stretched on the floor with n bullet
;hrouRh his temple from a 44-ealibre revol
."or, which lay by bis si da.
The only saioiei^s povrdsr Taatory la kie
United States is now erecting oa the Rita
farm in Wayne County, W. Va. Mr. J. TV".
Olen, of Now York,"has the contract for
atting up the buildings, which will be thirteen
xn number. The buildings will, alto*
cither, it is said. cover four acres of grouod?