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I 1 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and MiddleJ^tates. Thrke Polish laborers were struck by ? train at Buffalo, N. Y., and instantly killed. In New York City last year the deathi numbered 40,230, the births 39,250, and mar ! riages 14,992. Estimated population in Jul j was 1,631,232. Nearly all the Clinton Prison buildings at Dannemora, N. Y., were destroyed by fire. The flames were discovered first in the hospital and all efforts to check them proved [ *[ 8M1B ?1IMS. ' j iArmy Provision Wagons Intercepted and Attacked. s V. iThe Guards Fight Behind Breastr* " works Until Relieved. Another engagement has taken place , near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. As a number of wagoas with supplies were known to be coming on the road from Rapid i City to that point, it was thought best to send out a detachment to protect them. So thirty men were picked and immediately started down the road. They had not cone over ten miles when they discovered the wagons thirteen in number, drawn up in the form of a square, and attacked by about fifty Indians. The detachment put their horses to a full gallop, and the Indians w.t'ikdrew to an adjoining hill. i The detachment now joiuei the teamsters, who numbered only nineteen. Sacks of grain, bundles and boxes were thrown upin front of the besieged as breastworks. The Indiana, noticing this, immadiately returned and began the attack, circling around the wagons, bul keeping at a distance of SOD f yards. As a result the shots from their Winchesters were not very effective, often falling short of the mark. The carbines of the soldiers were used with much more effect, a number of Indians being seen to fall from their horses. Meantime their number was augmented until they numbered 100 warriors, besides some they had posted off in the adjoining hills. One soldier, while arraneiner the breast works, was shot in the shoulder, but not seriously wounded. A soldier was detailed to return to camp and report that the detachment was besieged by the Indians, and .that they were attacking the wagon train. :He selected a fast horse and made a break at an opportune moment. As soon as the object of the move was seen about twenty Indians gave chase to Private Collins and fired shot after shot at him, but he distanced them. They then returned with the others to the attack. i Three more Indians were seen to fall from their horses and were picked up and carried away by their companions. Four calvary horses were shot and silled. "While the large ibody of Indians was engaged by the majority of the soldiers and citizens, a few Indians scattered about dismounted, and, getting as close as possible, began firing into the horses and trying to stampede them. This they nearly succeeded in doing, and had not some of the soldiers been guarding and holding the horses, they would undoubtedly have succeeded in attaining their object. By this time things were getting pretty hot xor me ue&iegeu ptu by auu ouuuj ?no ujm6 as thickas hail stones. The citizens bad been flghtinr them for six hours and the soldiers about three hours. A little before 2 p. M. a commotion was seen among the Indians, and they gradually retreated, when it was seen that troops were coming at full speed to the rescue. The Indians scattered in all directions, and Troop F gave chase. They were pursued until nightfall, when the chase was abandoned, t the wagon trains and everv one returning to ! camp, bringing the dead Indians and some l.-? . ponies with them. f PROMINENT PEOPLE, Parxkll is only forty-threa years old. Ex-King Milan, of Servia, is sojourning in k London. * Queen Natalia, of Servia, is writing her memoirs. The Empress of Russia is now forty-three years old. Db. Henry Schliemann, the archaeologist, is dead. Bismarck is not a good conversationalist, - and he is a worse orator. Emperor William, of Germany, is an ardent amateur photographer. Rider Haggard, the larid novelist, is in Mexico delving after Aztec treasures. A son of the late Senator Riddleberger, of Virginia, has been appointed a page in the Senate. OAM-KS rAITUR V UUKtlEtS, 6UU <JL lU'J ladlana Senator.has written a drama based on his novel, "A Tale of Wealth." ; Thk French President and Mme. Carnot devoted Christinas Day to charity, distributt log about 16000 among the poor. i Mbs. Samuel J. Randall Is living very . quietly in Washington on Capitol Hill, her youngest daughter being her constant companion. Justin McCabthy, the Irish Home Ruler, literary man and novelist, is fifty-nine years Did. He is small physically, but the concen tration of energy. The German Kaiser rises every morning it seven. He takes a cold shower bath, is ihaved and shampooed and by 7:30 is ready for breakfast with the Empress. Sebgius Stepniak, the famous Russian revolutionist, exile, and writer, arrive ! in . New York a few days ago. He will deliver 18tfty or more lectures in this country. Sra John Pope Hevvessy, who is now playing a prominent part in Irish politics, is " said to be the original of Anthony Troliop's character of "Phineas Finn," the Irish mem hftn Senator Warren, of "Wyoming, is six feet tall and bis form is as straight as a Rocky Mountain pine. He is blonde, ?rather good looking, and talks and dresses well. v The Saltan of Turkey has conferred upoc "Mrs. W hi tela w Reid, wife of the United ? States Minister, the order of Shafkat, the highest Turkish decoration that can be given to a woman. Rev. Edward Everett Hall is sixtyBight years old. He was a newspaper man > In his youth, and even now, if called on, he : could set type or report a Are in an entirely creditable way. Stobt, the American sculpture, now living in Rome, has been chosan to design the statue of George Washington, which will b? presented to France in return for the gift of the Bartholdi statue. The famous Lafayette family, of France, ha3 become extinct by the death of Senator Edmond do Lafayette, a grandson of the General. He was a wealthy bachelor and gave largely to charities. MANY CHILDREN PERISH. Unhappy Endiugof a Sunday-School Festival in England. | Six children have died from a terrible ao cident at Wortley, near Leeds, England. The tragedy began in the dressing room oi the church school, where a number of chil dren were preparing to take their parts in tableaux vivants, held under the auspices of the Episcopal rector in aid of the church. The children were in gauzy attire and were getting ready for their parts when a lamp upset ana set fire to the dress of one of the girls. In their flight and confusion the flames . rapidly spread and the little ones rushed, a burning mass on the school-room stage. Parents flew to the rescue and smothered the ; flames as rapidly as possible. Many mothers fainted. Some of the sufferers were taken to the Wortley infirmary and others to their homes. More deaths were expected. VTT.T.T.T) AT A CROSSING, 'Sad Accident to a Party of Male and Female Students. A Central Massachusetts train at Hadley, Mass., struck a team and s'.eigb, contain* ing six young people, on the crossing, and instantly killel Henry, son of Dr. J. B. Learned, and Mabel R., daughter of the Rev. Frederick A. Hinckley, of the Free Congregational Socicty. Both horses were killed. The other occupants of the sleigh were Charles, son of Judge D. W. Bond, of the Superior Court; Edward Bond, his nephew; Fannie Plympton and Lulu Adams, of Northampton, all of whom were injured, Miss Adams's injuries being the most severe. The flesh was torn from her face and one eye was injured. Edward Bond's lec was bruised. Henry Learned w&3 a student at tho Agricultural College, and Miss Hinckley was a member of ^ the Capen school for girls. Two others wer# college students. unavailing. Los3, S300.UUU. Joseph Kohler, a New York Citj butcher, after drinking hard imagined he was a wild steer and ran amuck on Seventh avenue with horns on his head and a knife in his hand. He stabbed four persons. The old Wilkinson & Green mill at Providence, R. L, was eufcted by Are. Loss $125,000. Insured. The mill was built in 1818. More than 6000 pouuds of live poultry were destroyed in a fire in West Washington Market, New York City. George F. Kibli.vg, of Norwich, Vt., has been fined SSOOO by the Supreme Court for sailing liquor to students at Dartmouth College. A heavy fog checked commerce in th? rivers and harbor at New York City and gave trouble to railroads; in a collision od the elevated road one man was fatallj injured. Hon. Daniel Clarke, Judge of the United States Court for the District of New Hampshire, died suddenly at Manchester. C. H. Willis, Treasurer of the Stockbridge (N. H.) Savings Bank, is a defaulter to the amount of from $22,000 to $25,000. j The funeral of ex-Treasurer Spinner took i place at Mohawk, N. Y. Troops of the New Jersey National Guard | were Ueia unacr arms i*> queu a. nuu 100 unpaid Italian laborers at Barnegat Park. Edward Spires, nineteen, Henry Spires, fifteen, and Henry Slover, twenty, lost their lives while skating at Eeyport, N. J. Mayor Grant, of Now York City, In his annual message to the new Board of Aldermen, said that the city had been well governed and that the municipal debt had been reduced $000,000 during the year. Both branches of the New York State Legislature met at Albany; Lieutenant- I Governor Jones and Speaker Sheehan made j addresses; the Governor's message was trans- | mitted to both Houses; rapid transit bills were introduced. Patersok (N. J.) street car drivers and conductors had their working time reduced from fifteen to twelve hours a day. South and West. R. F. Taylor, of Gainesville, has been appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by the Governor of Florida. Leo Klsi.v, a German, of Chicago, 111., through jealousy, fatally shot his wife and then killed himself. Monroe Clark, a colored man, was hanged at Palatka, Fla., for a murder committed at j Interlachen five years ago. Death was instantaneous. The Wallace County Bank, at Abilene, ' Ken., closed its doors. Liabilities about | $45,000. The towboat Anna Roberts, of Pittsburg, ! exploded a cylinder head, at Portsmouth, Ohio, instantly killing five men and terribly wounding many more. General Miles is throwing a circle of troops around the hostiles in the Bad Lands of South Dakota, hoping to starvo them into subjection without further bloodshed. The Ohio River and its tributaries are greatly swollen by rains and the thaw. The Avenue Hotel, a wooden structure, took fire at Corsicana, Texas, and a woman, two ! men and a boy were burned to death. Deputy Marshal Tom Lilt had a desperate battle with three whisky peddlers iu the Chickasaw nation, Indian Territory, while trying to arrest them. Fifty shots were fired, and two of t'.ie poidlers were killed and a third fatally wounded. Lily was dangerously wounded. T. O. Lucas, a young Methodist minister, was killed near Brownsville, Texas, by fail- j ing into an old well. His horse, which he was leading, fell in on top of him. George W. Frexch met with a terrible : death at the Erie fiats, Chicago, 111. He and an expressman stepped on an elevator, and owing to tha brake not having been put on, they were precipitated to the basement. French was killed ana tne oicer iauuiy mjured. Democrats and Republicans organized separata Houses in the Montana Legislature at Helena, but the Satiate and the Governor recognized only the Democratic House. George W. Peck was inaugurated Governor of Wisconsin in the Assembly Chamber at Madison. Emma Abbott, the opera singer, died o1 pneumonia in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the age of forty-one. She left over a million dollars' worth of property, which goes to her aged mother and father. Three small children of M. G. Bell, a farmer living in Barber County, Kan., strayed away from home and got lost in the snow. A search was made for them, and their dead bodies have been found. They had been frozen to death. The Legislatures of Ohio, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota met at their several cupiutis. Sixty-three squaws and children war? killed in the fight at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Colonel Forsyth, who commanded at that battle, has been suspended, pending an investigation. The Dueber Watch Company of Canton, Ohio, has assigned. Tho nominal assets are $150,000, and the liabilities $450,000. Frederick Remington, Harper's war artist, was captured by a small party of hostiles at White River, South Dakota. Remington was unarmed and the Indians turned him loose and told him to go home, after taking his tobacco and sketch book. "Washington. The President and Mr9. Harrison held the usual New Year's reception at the White House. Secretary James G. Blaine's Dupont Circle mansion was partially gutted by fire. The loss on furniture and tne house will probably exceed ?20,000. Secretary Tracy has written a letter of censure to Lioutenant-Commanlier Reiter, who was in command of the American manof-war atthe time of the arrest and killing of General tiarrundia. General Miles has written to President Harrison, urging tho transfer of certain Indian agencies in tho Sioux country to the charge of the War Department. The reductiou in the public debt during Decomber, as shown by the monthly statement issued from the Treasury Department, was $11,005,397. Tho total debt, less cash in the Treasury, is SS62,430,541. The Secretary of the Treasury has appointed A. L. Drumruond, of New York, to be Chief of the Secret Service Division of the Treasury. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has, in compliance with a request from the Secretary of the Interior, submitted amended estimates of amounts required for subsistence and civilization of the Sioux Indians for the fiscal year 1892. Secretaty Blaine's note rejecting England's latest proposals in regard to Behring Sea was delivered to Sir Julian Pauncefoote a few days ago. He intimated to Mr. Blaine nf ft RrificV) xtqcqqI nii fctrio iuab auj ouibu* o wt ? IVMU >V?^V? the three mile limit would be met by immediate and forcible resistance. Randolph Coyle, Assistant United States District-Attorney for the District of Columbia, died recently in Washington at the age of forty-seven years. A statement prepared the Treasury Department shows tnat there was a net increase of 824 199,340 in circulation on January 1 as compared with the circulation De UCU1UCI X. Secretary Tracy has established a new system of inspecting vessels, which is to facilitate repairs. Associate Justice Brown, of the United States Supreme Court, called on the President and thanked him personally for his appointment, it being their first meeting since his nomination was sent to the Senate. He was accompanied by Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justice Brewer. The President submitted to Congress correspondence on the Behring Sea controversy, with u letter from Secretary Blaine to Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Minister. Judge Brown, of Michigan, was sworn I (n as an Associate Justice of the Supreme ' Court of the United States. Major A. F. Farrar, formerly of Indianapolis, and a brother-in-law of the late r Major Gordon of that city, died in Wash - * ington of paralysis. Major Farrar was about forty-eight years old, and was employed in the Patent Office. President Harrison gave at the White m House the first State dinner of the season to i members of his Cabinet. Secretary Windom sent a letter to the House asking that an appropriation of 1100.D00 be made to complete the projected build ings on Ellis Island, New York Harbor, which are being placed in readiness for use P? as an immigrant station, and to provide si< means of transportation to and from the ]a city of New York. % Foreign. The inundations have caused great damage throughout southern Italy. Many cotton mills owned by twelve comSanies were destroyed by fire at Cologne, lermany. w Seven suicides took place almost simul- to taneouslv in London, England, the persons tr guilty of self murder choosing the last hour of the expiring year for their act. m Admiral Aube, of the French Navy, for- ? merly Minister of Marine, is dead. Prince Ch'un, the father of the Emperor w of China, is dead. tv There was a terrific explosion of coal damp in the Heinrich Gustav coal shaft at Bochum, d< Germany. Sixteen dead and ten wounded M have been taken out of the debris. ol The Queen Regent of Spain presented the Pope with a Malacca cane as a New Year's J* present, and when the recipient touched the stick the top opened, ?mitting a small shower of gold pieces. bl Thomas Kelly and James Hanratty, who g, werfi convicted with eight others at the Bel- | fast (Ireland) Assizes In 18W3 ror connection with an Irish patriotic brotherhood at Cross- w magher, have been released from prison. bi Dr. Bobs, of Kaschau, Hungary, has dis- P covered a remarkable cure for diphtheria. He has been using it in his private" practice 6t for some time, and reports that only two and i n: a half per cent, of the cases treated prove | fatal. B A family of five persons without a home, who have been tramping through England, H were found by a roadside near Cambridge all i frozen to death. | * Professor Koch has asked permission of , ^ the German Government to reveal the secret 1 a of his lymph for consumption. There has been an almost total failure of j C the coffee crop in Java, which is estimated i D at only about sixteen per cent, of former an- B nual averages. M The Pope has consented to act as mediator ? between Belgium and Portugal in connec- S tion with the disputes as to "the frontier in Africa between the Congo Free State and A? j auKuta. 1 r> A terrible explosion of fire damp took , D place in the Trinity pit, near the Polish town ai of Ostrau. Fifteen bodies have been re- ai covered, and twenty-four miners nra miss- ! w ing. The 350 other men in the miuj escaped a! by open shafts. A company has been organized in Jamaica i " with a capital of $250,000 for the purpose of , ?' cultivating fruits and vegetables on a very , large scale for the United States market. | * Nine persons have died as a result of the school festival disaster at Wortley, England, g! The wifo of United States Minister I? Terrell died at Brussels, Belgium, of rheu- J r matic fever after an illness of nine weeks. The railways of Germany and Denmark C are blockaded by snow. j ci Messrs. Parnell and O'Brien held an- ; other conference at Boulogne, Prance. j 111 An unknown English vessel foundered on ^ the Sicilian coast, and twenty-four men were drowned. | g, The Scotch railway strikers attacked a : Li dormitory at Coatbridge, near Glasgow, oc- m cupied by non-union men, and were repulsed pi by the police after a lively fight. tv The wholesale millinery house of J. A. ** Patterson & Co.. Montreal, Canada, has made an assignment. The total liabilities are placed at f200,000. I NOTED THEATBE BTJBNED , t I 0. The Fifth Avenue in New York ; tl Totally Destroyed. j ^ A half-burned cigarette thrown Into a tl bunch of inflammable debris in the property & room of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New J York City, started a conflagration a few if nights ago and within an hour a famous play- la house was practically destroyed, Herrmann's 5* Theatre was on fire and the entire block in si srave peril. The Sturtevant House, 10C is feet front, across Broadway, was set on fire M and emptied of its guests. Fanny Davenport played "Cleopatra" at p the Fifth Avenue Theatre the night of the b, fire. The play was over at ll:3o, and five c< minutes afterward the audience had left the U theatre. No one was left in the building, ex- i b; cepting the^ old watchman of the Gilsej j h properties, Benjamin ?~inn, auu iwu who were dressing. a Finn was on the stage passing through the theatre when he smelled .-moke. The firs! alarm was rung at 11:50. Five minutes afterward a second and a third alarm were n sounded, bringing a dozen fire engines. ic The firemen found the theatre filled with ti smoke, lighted by only enough fire to redden a its rolling volumes here and "there. Thej si chopped holes in the flooring opposite ths t< entrance and turned their streams into the ^ black space under the auditorium. f( Then began a series of violent explosions, tl each of which was followed by volcano-like bursts of fire and glowing cinders. There gj were half a dozen or more of these explo- n sions. They were the blowing up by the p, heat of tanks of oxygen and hydrogen gase- ^ used to produce the calcium lights tor scenic ^ effects on the stage. t( A shower of sparks flew across the street and the woodwork of the windows of the ^ Sturtevant House took fire. The hotel brigade extinguished this, but in less than five minutes it was ablaza again. ? The fire was under control at 1:40, but the ? ontire efforts of the Department were re ?' quired to protect the Sturtevant House, ;jj Herrmann's Theatre and the buildings 01 ? the adjoining blocks. All this property was finally saved. The Fifth Avenue was refurnished and decorated by Manager Henry C. Miner, last summer, at a costot $50,000. This Mr. Minei had partially insured, but his loss, which wil! I be large in consequential damages, from th< C inability to complete his contracts, will s' be very great. Fanny Dapenporl f lost all the costumes and scenerj P of "Cleopatra," costing over $40,000. 1 The estimated loss on tho Fifth Avenue Theatre was $100,000 by E C, Miner and $100,000 by the Gilsey estate. KILLED BYA P0WDEE BLAST ' Four Men Meet Death and Four Fatally Injured. By a blasting accident near the village of ^ Stafford, four miles west of Leroy, N. Y., Andrew Hunt and three Hungarian laborers were instantly killed. Four other Hungarians received injuries which it was believed a would result fatally. J The accident happened on a railroad exten- )V sion. A blast had been fired, and a second was placed near the placa where the first was fired. The explosion tore up the rocks and 511 earth in great quantities. Tt; is thouzht that some of the fire from | the first explosion remained in the ground and ignited the powder placed for the second 50 on?. The blast was in a cat, and the d<?ad ^ and injured were covered by the earth and sj? snow. tv A YEAR'S FAILURES. ? se Business Disasters in This Country and Canada in 1890. tr The business failures occurring throughout ti the United States for the entire year of 1S90, ^ as reporte 1 by R. G. Dun & Co., the New ^ York Mercantile Agency, are 10,907 in num- si * 1 * ? 100ft ?,t. f ( Der, Doing oniy so greater cuhii m icxm, ?uc? -the number was 10,882. The liabilities, how- tr ever, show a very large increase over 1889. being $189,000,000, as against $148,000,000, an n increase of $41,000,000. These are the largest f< liabilities since 1884, when they amounted to li $220,000,000. *< In Canada the failures for the year are 1847 in number, as again11777 the year previous. The liabilities are $18,000,0(50 in 1890, * as against $14,000,000 in 1889. i TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. mportant Gleanings From tl Latest Dispatches. Tie Elections Bill Set Aside f< the Silver Bill, The Federal Elections bill, which has be snding in the Senate during the present a 3n of Congress and during many weeks st session, has been abruptly sic acked on motion of a Republic snator, who, with the aid of sev epublican colleagues and twenty-six Dem atic Senators, executed a successful coi etat. When Mr. George took the floor to cc ?-?? "? mi A.;, nue bis speecn on tne ruecnoa om, a muw as interposed by Mr. Stewart, of Nevad i take up the bill to provide against co action of the currency. Mr. George yielded the floor to have th otion made, much to the discontent of A1 oar, of Massachusetts, who tried to ii ess upon the Mississippi Senator his ov ,ea that the course adopted by Mr. Geor as at variance with the understanding b reen them. Mr. Hoar was not permitted, however, svelop his ideas in that line because fro t. Gorman and other Democrats came t' jjection that the motion was undebatab! id Mr. Harris, of Tennessee, who was le Chair, sustained the objection. The m on was put and carried. Thus the El< ons bill was displaced and the Financii 111 taken in its place. The Republicans who voted for 1! tewart's motion were Messrs. Jones, evado; Shoup. Stanford, Stewart, Tell< Washburn, Scott and McConnell, of Idah ho bad only been sworn in about half i jur and used his first vote against t orce Dili. The vote was taken by yeas and nays a ood: Yeas, thirty-four; nays, twenl Ine, as follows: Yeas?Messrs. Bate, Berry, Blackbui utler, Call, Carlisle, Cockrell, Coke, Dani ustis, Faulkner, Gibson, Gorman, Grs [arris, Jones, of Arkansas; Jones, of I! ada; Kenna, MoConnell, Morgan, Pas< ugh, Ransom, Reagan, Shoap, Stanfoi tewart. Teller, Vance, Vest, Wtlths 7ashburn, Wilson, of Maryland, and W )tt?34. Nays?Messrs. Aldrich, Allen, Allisc ameron, Casey, Cullum, Davis, Dix( olph, Edmunds, Evarts, Frye, HawU [iscock. Hoar, McMillen, Mandersc [itchell, Morrill, Piatt, Plumb, Fow< |uay, Sanders, Sawyer, Sherman, Spoom tockbridge and Wilson (Iowa)?29. Five Guilty of Mortfer. The trial at Macon, Ga., of six citizens odge and Telfair Counties for conspira ad murder in the killing of John C. Forsj t Norman dale in October last was endi hen the jury brought in a verdict flndii [1 but one of the defendants guilty. The case, which has been on trial for fo eeks in the United States Federal Cou udee Emory Speer presiding, Is the most larkable in the criminal annals of Georg he land troubles from which it sprung beg number of years ago when a decree w ranted in the United States Court vesti: i George E. Dodge, of New York, titles irtain extensive tracts of land in Dodf elfair and Montgomery Counties. L. A. Hall, a lawyer at Eastman, DoJ ounty, was convicted of violating this c *ee by selling lots irom tne uujkb mu^ u ?r bogus deads, and he served five montl riprisonmant (or contempt. Captain J. C. Forsyth, of New York, w 10 Georgia representative of the Dodge 1 ite, and as such stocd in the way of the la: rabbers. Charle3 Clements and Richa owry, alias Herring, a notorious color ian, were hired to murder Forsyth, t rice to be SGOO. Lowry crept up under t indow of Forsyth's library, where he t lading, and shot him dead. Pears for the Levees. A repetition of the evils of last sprinj rerflow is feared along the lower Miss ppi, owing to the unfinished and unsa )ndition ofthe levees, and the heavy sno orth, with r.rospects of a thaw. Mai lousands of dollars have been expended le past year in levee work, which is bei ushed forward as rapidly as possible by t le contractor^, who have doubled thi >rces along the line and hope to comple leir work before the spring rise, as tl ould prove destructive to the entire systi Icaugnt in an incomplete condition. I .ys of hands and teams from Mempl enn., and ports further north are bei lipped to the works, and all possiblo ha being made to complete the work [arch 1. A long delay has been occasioned on tl art of the work in front of Helena, Ar] y the fact that two contracts made for unpletion and ratified by the Board nited States Engineers were not approv v the Secretary of War when submitted im. Consequently a third advertiseme ad letting will have to take place before in be completed. The Deadly Dannbe. While on enormous crowd of holid lakers were amusing themselves on 1 se-covered surface of tne River Danube, 1 iveen Buda and Pesth, Hungary, the i fter a series of alarming, crackling repor lddenly gave way in several places, irrible panic followed among those w rere upon the river. A cumber of peoj ill into the water and were drawn unc 19 ice. Those who were lucky enough to escape, 1 sted by others upon tne shore, did their 1 lost to rescue the endangered people. Ma eople are reported missing ana are believ > have been drowned. Four bodies ha een recovered from the scene of the dis >r. l Joke Tbat Ended, in Two Death Richard Reid and another colored mt amed Bill, of Albany, 6a., stole and 1 jmeJood belonging to Joe Moore, also c rarl nrirl th*n lanerhinplv told him of t )ke they had played on him. Moore r irychnine on some fish, cooked it and at] ivitetion the other two feasted on it. Th re dead and Moore has fled. Killed in a Shaft. Eleven or twelve men were killed in 1 Itica mine, Angel's Camp, near San Andre ,'al. A load of men was being lowered oi kip and when about one hfinared and fl, set from the surface the rope broke, pre litating all a distance of 450 feet to the b om of the shaft. Sixty Mine Victims. A dispatch from Vienna states tbat si: lersons wer? killed outright by the explos hat occurred in the Trinity coalpit in Pol )strau, on Saturday last. MILES_0F FOG. restern Telegraph System Aban * UliUU lur a f. iiuu. A telegram from Chicago, 111., says: rge pari of tha telegraph system of t nited State3 irsi idle to-night. Throug it the West and Coufchwest a heavy mi vered the land, and the wire3 from city by were lifeless. Scores of telegraph operators sat at the ble3 in this city watching for a chan ick of their sounders The first symptoms of trouble were notic uth of Louisville, Ky., and the troul ew to such proportions that long cireu id to be abandoned and roundabout roul ere substituted. Last nisjht t! e country west and norl est of Chicago began to b3 affected, ai -day the efficiency of the eastern wires v, riously impaired. To-night the situation had grown csperato that an Associated Pr< unk line, usually working in cc uuous circuit between Washingtc [inneapolis and New York, taki nil the imDortant intermedin tie?, was cut into short lengths, scarcely xth of the usual distance, and extra opei >rs provided at cach sub-r^rmiuua. Ev lea very little business ?vas done. The aspect of the streets here this afti oou and evening was remarkable. A dei )g prevented more t.han the shadowy o nes of objects being seen more than a /, jet away. The great cracker trust ba3 planned rect the largest building in New York 1 factory at a cost of $2,000,000. LATER NEWS. Thb Republicans organized the New LP Hampshire Legislature and elected Hiram A. . Tuttle Governor. General Charles Devens, a Justice ot the Massachusetts Supreme Court, died sud- f ' denly in Boston. Democrats in the Massachusetts Stati Senate, dividing that body evenly with thi en Republicans, allowed the Republicans tc ? organize it, in order not to delay the inaugu- j of ration of William E. Russell, the Democratic le- Governor-elect. an Connecticut's Legislature became dead- t iocKca on tae eiectiou ui vruvomui. iu< ? ?" Democratic Senate declared Luzon B. MorrL * elected, but the Republican House refused ( in- to concur. 311 The Illinois House of Representative! j J. elected a Democratic Speaker, and the Sea ate a Republican President pro tern. of ^ j, Captain George D. Wallace, who waj I n- killed by Indians in the battle of "Wounded ; rn Eeee, South Dakota, has been burled in thi 5? cemetery at Yorkville, S. C., his old home. ] Sever Serley, County Treasurer, is be- ! t0 hind prison bars at Chippewa Falls, Wis., j charged with being an embezzler and do < le, faulter to tho amount of nearly $19,000. ^ Railroad towns in Nebraska are full of i ;c- fugitives from the Indian country who are j panic stricken. General Miles tak<23 a more ! ^ hopeful view of the Indian situation. In0j dians are gradually leaving the camp of the jr, hostiles and coming into Pine Ridge Agency. jq The President has nominate! Horace C. - * ' i-- *- - c*4?4m r?a? I he Jfugn, 01 maiana, to oe umwu ouiuca wusul at Palermo, ItaJy. ad y. The amount of 4% per cent, bonds redeemed to date is $.9,177,459. Orders were Issued from the TTar Depart* I iy, ment directing that Army officers should act f?* as agents at Pine Ridge and several other Indian agencies; the correspondence showing jl'( tha Indian policy of the administration waa al- made public. )n Two Idaho Senators drew lots for terms, >n, and to Mr. McConnell, the pan-handle memTi ber, fell the two months' term, which expires 5?' on March 4. !ri Secretary Tract severely censures Commander G. C. Rotter, of the Navy, for failing to give a proper protection to General of Barrundia in the harbor of San Jose, Gua^ . nrr loof ciimmor TT? i3 relieved of the ^ command of the Ranger. og The International Monetary Conference met at the State Department. Secretary Blaine made a brief address of welcome. On re- motion of Dr. Zagarra, of Peru, Senoi ia. Romero, of Mexico, was chosen Temporary au Chairman. 03 ng Thirty families in Paris, France, were to made homeless by a fire; the total loss was >re* $200,000. go Focr persons have died of the injuries 'c* they received by the explosion which oc1S curred on board the new steel torpedo rair Vesuvio at Genoa, Italy, a few days ago. ^ Rome, Italy, was visited by a terribl3 Q(j hurricane and storm of snow and rain, S rd the midst of which the Palace of the Pro.ed 2ftnda was struck by lightning. tie ~ he at FIPTY-FIBST CON&BESS. In the Senate. is- 26th Dat.?Although the attendance wai fe far abort of a quorum, no notice was taken svs of tbe fact and business was proceeded with ay ....Mr. Manderson offered a resolution, in which was agreed to, directing the Superinng tendent of the Census to report at the earliest he possible moment the population of the United air States, according to the census of 1890, te by Congress districts and counties.... iat The joint resolution directing the Archism tect of the Capitol to cause to be placed on te- the east and west fronts of the main portion lis, of the Capitol building flag3taffs, and to hav? ng the American flag float therefrom from sunate rise to sunset each day of the year, and ap by priating ?500 therefor was passed....The Force bill was further discussed by Messrs. iat Morgan, Sherman, Hoar, Evarts and Teller. it 27th Day.?The Senate simply met and its after roll call adjourned for three days. - OCmrr Hir TWa Tlamn/^ro ta wif.h til A ftifi I ed of eight Republican Senators, voted to disto place the Election bill and take up )Qt the Financial bill....The Financial bill it was then discussed, and was strongly denounced by Mr. Sherman.... Mr. McConnell, of Idaho, presented his credentials and was sworn in... .Mr. Piumb introduced a bill to create a board of women Sg commissioners of immigration... Mr. Sawyer introduced a bill to create the office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General with a salary v;1 of $4000 a year. 7 29th Day.?The silver debate was revT newed, Mr. Teller speaking on the Financial bill and making a reply to the criticisms on P , his action in voting to displace the Election bill.. ..Mr. Evarts offered a bill for the relief of the assignees of John Roach, in placa of one which was pocketed last session by the ut~ President." 30th Day.?Messrs. Daniel, Plumb and 6(1 Hiscock discussed the Financial bill....Mr. 've Teller introduced a bill for the colonization as" of colored people in Lower California.... The House bill to provide for elementary and industrial education in Alaska, appropriating lf!- $00,000 for 1892 and $70,000 for 1393, waa m f\o ite ^ ~ ,he In the House. ?ut 23d Day.?Roll call revealed the presence liis of only 101 members, so the House adjourned ley for three days. 24th Day.?The Urgent Deficiency bill was passed?Mr. Post Introduced for reference a bill to convert United States legatee tender notes from Government prom- , as ises to pay into legal-tender Government i a a promises to receive and to restore to cirfty culation tbo gold held in the Treasury for jcf. the redemption of United States notes.... 0t- Mr. Clunie introduced a bill to place cassiterite, bar, block and pig tin, coal, bituminous and shale and coal slack or culm on the free list. , 'ioTH Day.?The Shipping bill was taken f" up and discussed. ...Mr. Dingley, of Maine, . P called up the bill repealing the law author13u izinc: the President to suspend tonnage dues , ...Mr. Spocner reported the Military Academy Appropriation bill. Calendar.,.. On motion of Mr. Farquhar, a bill was passed to limit and govern tho changing of vessels' names. Also a bill requiring vessels d- to display th3lr names on both sides of their bows. 'JGth Day.?Mr. Dingley made a speech in support of the Shipping bill... .Mr. Funston he introduced a resolution setting apart Tuesu day, Wednesday and Thursday for the -onnf th? 'Mentions" hill... Sir. Clancv ist introduced a bill appropriating $000,000 for to the purchase of land as an addition to the site of the public building now being built in Jir Brooklyn....Mr. Cutcheon called up the ce Senate bi'l increasing from fifty to seventyfive the number of army officers who may be ed detailed to military colleges, and explained ale that the bill did not Increase the expenses its of the Government one iota. Tho bill was tes passed.. t ' TERRIBLE "MASSACRE. as Three Hundred Foreigners Killed by 80 Natives. 5S3 >n- Herbert L. Rand, of Carthage. 111., racenfc,Di ly appointed American Consul to the Carolino Islands, has just received letters from j a his brother, who ha3 been a missionary in a- those islands for sixteen years, giving the acen count of outrages committed by natives. In their revolt against the Spaniards 3r- the natives have killed 300 foreigners, in j.u ?l lse eluding ninety opum&u 3. A UOJ UU ? W 1 at- looted and burned the houses of all missionsw aries of PonapC The Rev. Mr. Rand lost his library, worth $1000, and all his personal and household effects. The missionaries to have now been transferred to a neighboring for island for safety, but the natives of the whole group are excited and more massacres are feared. '-:2r'*;^r RECKLESS REDSKINS. 1 Detailed Account of the Battle in South Dakota. rwenty-five Soldiers and Nearly a Hundred Indians Killed. The battle with the Indians on Wounded ?nee Creek in South Dakota was bloodier ind more deadly than the first reports indicted. Twenty-five soldiers were killei and hirty-five were wounded. Nearly 100 Indiins fell before the sheet of flame that swept lown from the batteries and guns of the Jnited States troops. The manner in which Big Foot's band turned upon their captors, tooi before the terribly raking fire and shot lown so many soldiers rivals anything that ias accompanied the Indian wars of Amer ca. Though encumoereU Dy their squaws ind pappooses,they almost snatched victory rom defeat and displayed a degree of reckess daring and bravery that has rarely been qualed. .Big Foot and his band were surrounded at I o'clock in the morning by the Seventh Cavilry and Taylor's scouts. Four Hotchkisa runs were stationed on a hill about two hunlred yards from where the Indian warriors vere encamped in a semi-circle. The poaiion taken was so strong that it seomed a lopeless task for the redskin braves to make i n v cnrt. nf Motafan/Hk Kxr oldiers and diractly in ratine of the Bbcet of lamo and shot, that might come from the lgly looking Hotchkiss guns, they seemed to realize that resistance meant death to them, while the foe was in comparative safety. Vlajor Whiteside arranged this line of bat;le with a view of overawing the Indians and :apturinK and disarming them without jloodshed. The first show of resistance was made when the Indians were ordered to surrender their irms. They had been ordered <o come forward by twenties and disarm. Only three of the first squad to come forward displayed their guns. Major Whiteside therefore ordered a detachment of A and EI troops to search the tepees and take away all arms found. The order aronsed all latent forces >f the redskin nature. They seemed to regard the surrender of arms as tbe giving np >f their lives. Probably they feared that ;hey would be shot down without mercy as won as they were made defenoeless. and they letermined to die fighting and In defence of '.heir arms. With desperate bravery the 120 Indians iurned upon their foe and poured a frightful rolley upon the soldiers that were gathered losely aDout the tepees. The determination ? fight and the execution of the design were 10 sudden that the soldiers were completely mrprised. They had not expected resistance n the face of such overwhelming odda. They lad come so near the tents and were gathered to closely together that the first volley jwept down before It a score of tte brave nen who had been sent forward to disarm Big Foot's desperate followers. The return fire came upon the Indians just is suddenly as their own, but Its effect was nore deadly. The soldiers, maddened at the right of their falling comrades, hardly iwaited the command, and In a moment the whole front was a sheet of fire above which Ua omnlra ohcAllHnO't.hft PPTlfr/ll QPflTlfl !rom view. Through this horrible curtain lingle Indians could be seen at times flying Defora the fire, but after the first discharge !rom the carbines of the troopers there were few of them left. They fell on all sides like jrain in the course of the scythe. Indians and soldiers lay together and, rounded, fought on the ground. Off toward the bluffs the few remaining warriors fled, iurning occasionally to Are, but now evilently caring more for escape than battle. Only '>he wounded Indians seemed possessed >f tne courage of devils. From the ground where they had fallen they continued to fire antil their ammunition was gone or until j silled by the soldiers. Both sides forgot jverything excepting only the loading and lischarging of guns. It was only In the early part of the affray ;hat hand to hand fighting wa3 seen. The :arblnes were clubbed, sabres gleamed and :var clubs circled in the air, coming down ike thunderbolts. But this was only for a ihort time. The Indians could not stand ;hat storm from the soldiers. It was only a itroke of life before death. The remnant led and the battle became a hunt. It was now that the artillery was called in<0 requisition. Before the fighting was so Jose tnat the guns could not be trained with>ut danger of death to the soldiers. Now with the Indians flying where they might it was easier to reach them. The Gatling and 3otchkiss guns were trained, and then began i heavy firing, which lasted half an hour, irith frequent heavy volleys of musketry and :annon. " It was a war of extermination now with .he troopers. It was difficult to restrain the iroops. Tactics were almost abandoned. Ibout the only tactics were to kill while it ?uld be done, wherever an Indian could Ixj ?en. Down into the creek and up over the )are hills they were followed by artillery and nusketry Are, and for several minutes the ingagement went on until not a live Indian was in sight. More than ninety Indians were killed by the ieadly fire from the Hotchkiss guns and the merring aim of the soldiers. But when the imoke cleared away it was fcund that the Iring of the redskins had been only a degree ess effective than that of the well trained Toopers. Twenty-flve brave soldiers were icattered on the field and thirty-five others vere suffering from wounds that may yet jrove fatal. Father Francis M. J. Craft, i Catholic priest who had hastened to the !ront to lend his services in settling the difflmlties with the red men, lay on the field with i mortal wound in the lungs. The death of :his brave man, in addition to the killing of Captain Wallace and the wouding of Captain Myles Moylan and Lieutenant E. A. Gar lingion, moke up a list of casualties which wDl iause this strife to be regarded as a most expensive one. A late dispatch from Pine Ridge Agency tays: "General Miles has assumed command >f the forces here, relieving General Brooke, ;vho started into the fisld with the Second Infantry, goins by way of Oelrichs to a point iome fifteen miles north of here. "Amid as wild, blinding and bitter a wiuler's storm as ever swept this bleak and barren country, were laid away to their last rest thirty of the bravest boys who fell with .'ace to the foe in the blooay encounter at Wounded Knee. "The graves were in rows of six, close together, in ths southwest corner of the cemetery, and overlooking the camp. After the reading of the burial service by the Rev. Sir. Cook, the Episcopal clergyman here, aided by nis assistant, tho bodies were lowered into the grave. Owing to the intensely critical condition 01 the surroundings, -with hordes of the enemy flocking about the agency threatening an attack, the usual salute of guns was omitted, while soft notes from the bugle and the wail of the storm whispered a last-loving goodbye. "The remains of Captain Wallace will be sent to Fort Riley, Kansas, for interment. Those of Captain Mills, who was found deal in his tent from rheumatism of the heart, were sent to Omaha.'' GENERAL SPINNER DEAD, j The Famous Ex-Treasurer a Victim of Cancer. General F. E. Spinner, ex-Treasurer of the United States, died of cancer at 8:30 o'clock on a recent evening at Jacksonville, Fla. Francis Elias Spinner was born in German Flats (now Mohawk), N. Y., oa January 21 1802. His father, a native of "Baden, who was once a Catholic priest, and aftsrward a reform preacher, died at German Flats in 1848. Francis Elias learned the trade of confectioner in Albany, and afterward that of a saddler in Amsterdam. He engaged in trade in Herkimer in 1824, and was Deputy Sheriff of the county in 182!). He was an active Republi can from ttie organization or too partjr. no i was twice re-elected to Congress, ssrving altogether from December, 1835, to March, i 1S01. He was appointed Treasurer of the United J States by President Lincoln in 1801, and held ! the office until June, 1375. He suggested and inaugurated, under Secretary l.'hase, the practice of employing women in the Government offices. He signed the Treasury nota in a peculiar handwriting i that became famous for tho purpose of pre- i venting counterfeiting. General Spinner ! went South for his health after leaving office, and has for several years lived in a camp at Fablo Beach, Florida. ?___ TEMPERANCE. " GRAJTDFATHEB GBKY'S LMSOIT. "I want you to listen," said Grandfathei Grey, To the two little boys who lived over ttw - , A way; "That a man can never a drunkard be Who keeps from the burning cap totally free. And never a drunkard was anywher* 7-> known Unless from a moderate drinker he'd grown. ' And so, if ^ou never would have the dto* 1 . - -. gxui.w Of a staggering step and a bloated face; Of a wretched borne and a rained soul. Be sure not to tonch the foaming bowl, Let it alone, nor look with desire On the wine that is red, on the liquid fire. -M 'Beware of the little, now and then. If you take it once, you will want it again; The moderate drinker is never secure. A drunkard he'll die yon may almost be sore. To keep from the curse, there is only one * way: Rn frtfnl nlwfoinorc cnfrl H-rfiTT ? > V|| NEW rsz FOE THE BLUE BXBBOIT. The proposition to attach a knot of bluo ' */ ribbon to invitations to dinnen at which wine will not be served has led to much discnsssion and comment in town. Undoubt* edly there arc many families whose convenience will be greatly promoted at times , . x by having this pretty nttle device at theif command to indicate to their friends what to expect at dinner. In England the blue ribbon has already been used in certain ways socially with great success.?New York Horn* Journal. A CHILD DIES or ALCOHOLISM. Little James Halloran, who xnn only nine years old, lived with his parents in HoSoken. He went out with two companions to make New Year's calls and returned in the evening so intoxicated that be fell on the floor haB unconscious. His mother and little sister put bim to bed and then went out to spend the afternoon. When they came back, late A in the evening, they found James dead. He had been seen staggering through the street! with bis companions several hours before he went bome, and there is littla doubt that h? % died of alcoholism.?iVeic York Timet. THJJ DRUKKABD'8 VTWL. ~ I leave to society a rained character, wretched example and a memory that will Boon rot I leave to my parents, daring the rest /* of their lives, as much sorrow as humanity in a feeble and declining state can sustain. I leave to my brothers and sisters as much ; mortification and injury as I could bring on them. I leave to my wife a broken heart and a ?> life Qf wretcnedness and shame, through which to weep over ray premature death. I give and bequeath to each of my children, poverty, ignorance and low character/ -'J3R and the remembrance that their father was < %? a monster. TEMPERANCE 11? HUAITO. In Helsingfors, Finland, is a temperance y: ^3 society which was organized just five years ago, and has a membership of 3000. This ^ society tries to militate against drnnkenneag. '$3jM instituting popnlor theatricals, readings ana other entertainments, and keeping m the . crowded parts of the city tea ana coffee houses where poor laborers con get a meal ^ for nothing. It makes it a special business to open such tea honse3 in the neighborhood of rum shops. December 2 this society cela- '.3* brated its fifth anniversary, at which the highest Government representatives were wsj present, and complimented the leaders oa the useful work they carry on. There is leas Sit drunkenness in Helsingfors than in any other city in the Russian Empire. , **'' * WOESE THAN WASTED. While many In our overcrowded centres of jA population aro pinchcd for bread, the great V' waste of grain in whisky and beer maHng " l' continues and increosos. According totters port of the Commission of Internal Revenue for the last fiscal year, ending June 30,1890, the quantity of grain used in tho production ?g of distilled spirits the last year was 25,209,29L : bushels, an increase over tho fiscal year end- -j. isg Juno 80, 1889, of 4,211,977 bushels, and an ^ increase over theyoarly average for the last jj ten years of 3,636,954 bushels. This large ag- .% gregate of grain ie worse than wasted, because the whisky made from it is the source . J of untold misery and crimo. Add to the ^ 25,000,000 bushels of grain used in themanufacture of distilled spirits, the very large ag* ag gregato of barley consumed in the manu; lacture of beer, together with the wholesale destruction of wholesome and nourishing infrt wi'no nn/1 hmn/lr mftMnir ftnH thl * ?5 total food waste is simpfy enormous.?No- ;T-j tional Temperance Advocate. DRUN^XTrESSwS1i?Wa>WOMIIT. Dr. Lucy M. Ha)J, lecturio^-^t Cooper Union on Tuesday evening, report^ that she Las fouud, as the result of carefuNnveetigatlons of the subject, that drunkenness, is <3? becoming alarmingly frequent among women. Habits of drinking are extending,.^- ;;3 more especially among tbe girls employed in factories and workshops, and, as they are ' ' "7 more likely to generates morbid dependence on stimulants in women than in men, the vice, or disease, of inebriety grows rapidly there, according to the observation of this -r woman physician. It is undoubtedly true that the women of y this country in all circles of society drink ~A mere alcohol now than formerly. The amount of tbe stimulant consumed by them per head must be considerably greater than it was twenty-five years ago, or atany previous period since the great temperance agita- r-,-% tion which resulted in the passage of the fa- g mous Maine Liquor law in 1851. As wealth and luxury have increased tho number of tables upon which wine is served regularly has multiplied enormously, and the women of the households partake of it very generally. The introduction of lager beer during the last generation has also had a tendency to increase greatly tho consumption of alca- * hoi among women. A large part of the workinz people of all the large towns drink lager beer regularly at their meals, baying 16 by the quart at neighboring saloons. Th? crowds at the beer gardens in the evening are composed usually of about as manjf - women as rnon. Every corner liquor shop, ,'->w also, has a side door by which women are admitted to a special compartment for their use. The great majority of the women of > % New York are more or less regular constim* ers of alcohol in some form. ?New York Sun. 3 -,-jwjk TEJrP?RA.NCE NEWS AND NOTES. "V Ton Moltke is a teetotaller, even to beer. Miss Willard wants the World's Woncan'a Christian Temperance Union to hold Sunday . services at the Columbian Exposition. George Ehret, the celebrated brewar of New York City, is the owner of chattel mortgages on over" 203 beer-saloons, valued at --r, #042,000. The Sheriff of Glasgow says 30,000 people ' ?i. J 1. gel tLTULlfck III LUUb Mii/Jf k^uvui uuj 1U5UV, -J and that crime is increasing six times faster tban the population. A Montreal saloon-keeper has b3en compelled to pay $100 and costs to a woman Tvhos3 husband he furnished with liquor after having baen forbidden. While druuk on a recent Sunday night, Francis Campbell, a farmer near Fortville, Ind., fatally shot his aged uncle and tried to kill his wife. Is not the devil in the cup? ^ r\9 Voa7 Vnrlr inhftpifc uuoiica uuuiciuvu, v* &<vff w??, _ ed ?S0,000 fifteen years ago. As soon he Vfs got his money he went on a big spree, from which he has just emerged without a cent. Formula for solution of the liquor problem: Inherent right of n citizen to sail intoxicating beverages, 0; inherent right of G2,G22,250 citizens to authorize the sale of in toxicating beverages, The offices of the National W. C. T. U. have been removed from Chicago to Evanston, the suburb in which Miss YVillard and Mrs. BueU, the Corresponding Secretary, j reside. The {.resent arrangement will prob- i ably hold until the completion of the temple, ^ when the various interests of the W. C. T. U. will again be centralized in Chicago. A drunken man was lying in the road with a very bloody nose, upon which he had fallen, when a pig passed that way. '"You wallcw jretty well," said the pig, "bu>^\v 4 fine fellow, you have much to leapp^ \ rooting.''?Am Francisco Exayr \ man who gots drunk and pla<x \ the gutter can expect to \ hog, who has been there ir us9d to it?Foice,