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J rSITTING BULL KILLED. ^?:The TVily Sioux Chief Shot by ! j Tiuli'.jn PftliVp. I r ) Atfc JL& A VA?VV? ?? ! i j A Sketch of His Turbulent and . V Murderous Career. i 1 < The following dispatch has been received from St. Paul, Minn.: Sitting Bull, the fa- | i mous Sioux chief, who has had more to do \ with instigating and keeping alive the j t ' widespread disaffection among the Indians I j of the Northwest than any other of his race, 1 was killed a few days ago by Indian police ' i while resisting arrest. The information comes from t'vo sources 1 to General Miles. The first dispatch was I ifrom Pierre, South Dakota, and ? as simply i f to the effect that Sitting Bull a id his son ( had been killed by the Indian pclice. The j second telegram, from Standi ag Rock Agency, was more circumstantir.1. According to this second telegram. Major j McLaughlin's Indian police went to Sitting Bull's camp at Grand River, about; forty-five miles from Standing Rock, with i istructions to capture Sitting Bull. They we re followed ' and supported at a short distance by two ' troops of cavalrv under Captain Pechet, and itho infantry, under Colonel ururn, iouowbu in the rear of the cavalry. The move was 1 ;made pursuant to instructions received from 1 headquarters; it baviug been learned that 'Sitting Bull intended leading about three ; hundred Indians into the Bad Lands to join ' the hostile Indians. It was deemed advisable |to arrest him before this movement could be made, and the Indian police were ordered to make his arrest at once. The police succeeded in arresting Sitting Bui), but his followers tried to rescue him. 1 [ .In the flgbt which ensued Sitting Bull was shot and left lying, apparently dead, upon L. the ground. Five of the Indian police were also shot in the fight. Indian Commissioner Morgan received at 1 Washington from Indian Agent McLaughlin 1 r the following dispatch, dated Fort Yates, North Dakota. Indian police arrested Sitting Bull at his i camp, forty miles from the Agency, this morning at daylight. His followers attempted his rescue and fighting commenced. Pour policemen were killed and three wounded. Eight Indians were killed, including Sitting Bull < and his sod. Crowfoot, and several others i wounded. The police were surrounded for some time, but maintained their ground until relieved by United States troops, who now have Dossession of Sitting Bull's camp, t with all the women, children and property. r~ Sitting Bull's followers, probably one hundred mea, deserted their families "and fled up the Grand River. The police behaved nobly, and great credit is due them. Sitting Bull's Turbulent Career. Bitting Bull (Tatonka Otauka), who for many years was the cruel and wily leader of the outlaw Sioux, was born in Dakota in k 1837. near old Fort George, and was the son I of Jumping Bull. "When he was fourteen " years old he killed an enemy and his name |- was then changed from The Sacred Stand b to Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull's followers K were outlaws from all the Sioux band?, and, &j| with few exceptions ne>er entered into treaty , relations with the Government. He was not recognized as a chief by such leaders as Red B Cloud, Spotted Tail and Young-Man-AfraidH ' of-His-Horses until about 186$, and prior to that time he was often in open conflict with 9 them. With their recognition his supremacy F over the bad Sioux was assured. k Sitting Bull began to figure as a bad chief durinstne Civil "War. In 1S67 Sitting Bull threatened the Gallatin Valley in Montana, and in 18GS he attacked the settlement of Muscleshell and suffered defeat. After this defeat he lost nraatitre. In 1869 and 1870 he devoted him self principally to the slaughter of ^ the Crows, the Mandans, the Rees, the Shoshones and all other tribes friendly to the whites, varying: this work by an occasional attack on the Missouri River forts. In 1874 he drove the Crows from their . agency and reservation and made war on all ' ' peaceable Indians. He spent the summer of v* 1875 in attacks on the Crow Agency and on Montana settler?. In 1876 Sitting Bull again took up arms . against the whites and friendly Indians. Tn June of that year ho defeated and massacred on the Little Big Horn nearly all of General Custer's auvance party of General Terry's column, which " was sent against " them. He was pursued by General Terry, but with paxt -of his band he escaped into British territory. In 1880, though the mediation of Dominion - officials, he surrendered on the promise of ? pardon, and was taken to Standing Rock Aeency, where most of the remaining years of his life were passed. Undoubtedly Sitting Bull was the most wily and astute Indian in the Sioux Nation. Gall will now undoubtedly succeed the nnne nowarful Sioux chief. [-* -?' Later Details Of tlie FiffSit. The expedition which startad from Standing Rock Agency,South Dakota, for Sitthigliull's lonely camp, forty miles distant, to take him dead" or alive, was no haphazard force of . semi-savage Indian police. The whole affair ! , was a carefully planned military mameuvre originating with no less a person than General Miles himself, sanctioned by the War Department and authorized by the President's Cabinet. Before Sitting Buil's dared adherents had . a chance to realize the situation the Indian police had pulled their panting animals up short on all sides of the Chief's abode. No time was wasted in ceremony. The proud ? old medicine man was hustled out, hoisted on a pony, and in a moment faced toward civilization. He raged and spluttered in a fury for a moment, then, straightening up, . shouted not for help, but a command to his followers. Despite the threatening of the police and Winchesters directed at his head and those ' of his kinsmen, the old man retained his presence of mind and with powerful voice continue to direct his own rescue. Suddenly there was a puff of smoke beside a tree aud the sharp crack of a Winchester. A policeman at Sitting Bull's right, grasping the _ Chiefs bridle, reeled in the saddle, and, topDtinz over, was trampled under the hoofs of iho ponies, now in the mad helt-r skelter of r a treat from the village. The shot was instantly answered by the police at the blanketed tribesmen, many of whom were already mounted and in frenzied pursuit. The police volley told with deadly etieet, and the Uring in a moment was geueral on both sides. Sitting Bull could be heard in the confusion still attempting, thoujli captive, to direct the fight. Raising his form, he was beckoning his sons aud warriors on when, without warning, his body straightened rigidly, then dropped limp on the hard grouuu. The police halted round the corpse, not knowing for a moment but that it was a trick of the wily old Chief. The sudden movement and the faii of Sitting Bull disconcerted both parties, the police using their ponies as protection. It was at this critical juncture that Captain Fouchet's men dashed up, and the machine guns, which had beau put in position, opened upon the redskins. Ihe latter were too undismayed at this unexpected onslaught; to stand even for a moment, and all bolted for. the river. The cavalry followed only a short distance, deeming it better policy not to drive to desperation the now leaderless mr?K "p. Ten or more hostUes and seven of the Indian police were killed. The Indian police killed in the fray resulting in the aeath of Sitting Bull were buried at Fort Ya'.es with impressive religious and military ceremonies. Sitting Bull was buried without honors of any kind. DIED IN HIS COFFIN. Death Finally Overtook Eccentric Barney Frickers. Barney Frickers, a well known character of Alliance, Ohio, died on a recent morning iu a coffin. For twenty years it has been his custom to sleep every night in a coffin of his own manufacture, believing that he was , about to di<\ He always robed himself in a akmnH KofnrA rAf.irincr Thn rnffln i<nf na!r. very strong, and covered with aUegoricai . subjects. Frickers was seventy-five years f old. A severe illness aud the death of his wife many years, ago are believed to have unsettled his mind. He had a small income. ' Mrs. Smell, widow of the murdered Chicago millioniare, has renewed her offer of ?90,000 reward for the arrest of Tascott. I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern aurt Middle States. Ex-Senator Fp.avk B. Arnold com-" nitted suicide iu his oftioa at Undilla, N. Y., ij shooting himself. Mr. Arnold, since his lefoat last Novamber for Congressman from that district, has heea despondent and at times acted straugely. Henry Blue, a clerk employed by rhomas H. Perkins <fc Co., stock brokers of Boston, Mass., has bsen arrested charged with the embszzlement of $17,015 from his im plovers. fx New Yoi-k City Henry Siebert, tobacco Merchant, failed with liabilities of $'259,000; Reliable & Heymau, liquor dealers, assigned >wing nearly $4')i),009; Tarlow & Hutshing, Manufacturers of worsted knit goods, sus3euded for $200, )')!). Peck, Martin* & Co.. tlio largest firm in ;he building material business in New Y.ork City, have made an assignment. The liabilities are $300,001), and assets $400,000. The tugboat Vandercook sank suddenly without known cause at a Jersey City (N. J.) Irv dock and two of the crow were drowned ii* their bunks. TniRTV-SIX patients have received injections of Professor Koch's lymph at five iifferent institutions in New York City, rhey are doing well. Secretary Wisdom went from Washington to New York City to discuss the financial situation with bank presidents. A disastrous fire occurred at Pottstowu, Penn. A high wind prevailed and the [lames, which originated from an overrated stove,spread with wonderful rapidity, Kui-nor! nnf hnlf a ilr>7J?n business firms and their buildings. The loss will reach 5150,000. Maris & Smith, bankers of Philadelphia, Penn., assigned, with liabilities of $300,000. The Lorillard Brick "Works Company, of New York City, passed into the hands of a rir ceiver. The liabilities are $1,500,000. Ex-United States Senator William A. Wallace's bank at Clearfield, Penn., closed its door. The depositors are safe by a mortgage on real estate for three times the amount of deposit. The liabilities are $350,000 and assets $050,000. Walter Potter, of the bankrupt firm of Potter, Lovell & Co., Boston, Mass., was arrested on a charge of embezzlement. South and West. The will of the late Horace Kellsy, of Cleveland, Ohio, gives $300,001 for the foundation of a National Art Gallery in that city. The Territorial Council of Oklahoma passed the corrected House bill, embodying some of Governor Steele's recommendations, locating the temporary capital at Kingfisher, j Governor Steele promptly approved the bill. | The hostile Indians have been fighting I ? d.,4 r Anrio I among memssivcs iu m-i u?ujj South Dakota. The fight was for leadership between Two Strike and Short Bull, eaca wishing to control the united bands. The fight was bitterly contested for several hours, and many were killed. white Caps visited the house of Thomas Burgess, a farmer, living in Meade County, ICy., to whip him. He shot and killed one ol the raidei'3 and wounde'l two others. With his wife Burgess fled to the wood3 through a rear door. Cuhtis G. Stood art, the banker, has been arrested at Chicago, III., on a charge of embezzling almost $3,000,000. The funds it is alleged he has embezzled are stock and bonds of the Kansas, Arkansas & New Orleans Railroad Ddpjng a terrific wind storm at Elliott,. North Dakota, a spark from a locomotive blew into the North Dakota elevator and the structure was burned down, together with 50,000 bushel* of wheat. Louis Scott shot his wife in a quarrel at Kalamazoo, Mich., and then killei himself, j They quarrele 1 some weeks ago and s!i9 left j him, going to worx as a domestic. A warrant has been issued at Columbia, S. C., for the arrest of Attorney-General Page, on the charge of political intimidation in discharging from the enrolling department T. F. Butler, a nephew of Senator But. ler, without adequate causa. Mr. Butler was " candidate for the Legislature on the Haskell ticket, and this incurred Page's displeasure. Judge T. A. S. Mitchell, of the Supreme Court of Indiana, died suddenly at his home, | in Goshen. Judga Mitchell was the only j Democratic member of the bench, and was ! re-elected for a second term at the recent ; election. He was about fifty years old. The town of Waterford, Ind., has been al- : most entirely wip?d out by fire. Two children, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Holnagel.residing two miles east of Saginaw, Mich., were burned to death in their home, which took fire during the. absence of Mrs. Holnagel. John Blvew was given a life sentence at Vanceburg, Ky., for she murder of four colored people in August, 18&S. He killed a whole family except two little children. The j case lias t>sen iougnt nveuij-nv? jmh auu I cost the State $25,1)00. In- a collision between freight trains near , Cincinnati, Ohio, Brakeman J. G. Stephens . was killed and Eugineer Hall fatally injured. | The accident was caused by th9 youug lady ' operator at Pine Knot not giving proper j orders. The bodies of James Lane anl George Serker were found lying in a road near City j Court House, W. Va. They are supposed to ] have frozen to death. The Baron de Cedarkrantz, of Sweden, I who was recently appointed Chief Justice ot ! Samoa, saded from San Francisco, Cal., on j the steamer Alameda for Apia to assume the j duties of his office. While Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schafer, aged i Germans,were crossing the railway track at | South Bend, Ind., their wagon was struck j by a train and both were instantly killed. A call for a third-party conference, to be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 23, has been issued by members of the Farmers' Alliance aud allied organizations. George Was aw, a Shoshone Indian, shot and killed a boy of his own tribs in To-tevcoks Lodge on Little Wild River, Wyoming. The boy was watching a gambling ?' nr. ? ?? game ju Wllicu Iiesnri was cu;?icj "ucu the latter pulled his gun and shot him dead. A tenement house at Monday's Mills, Texas, burned, in which Tom Webb and Bob Simonds, both colored, were burned tc death. a box of giant powder exploded ia the Sunday Lake Miue, Wakefield,Mich., killing i George Sage and John Fogan and severely injuring TV. B. Roberts. Tar. World's Fair directory voted to receive j the $5,000,000 offered by the City Council ol i Chicago, 111. The wife of Peter St. Georgo was found hanging in the woodsli9d of her bouse at Codalt, near Chippewa Falls, Wis. Her husband was suspected of killing her, and when about to be arrested he killed himself with a razor. Washington. By a decision rendered by the Treasury ; Departnasilt bicycles are held not to be tht personal effects of persons arriving in this country. The President hns nominated Naval Constructor Theodore D. Wilson to be chief of the Bureau of Construction and Rspair and chief constructor of t'aa Navy with the relative rank of Commodore. The Government now proposes to melt up the dimes, quarters and half dollars in the Treasury aud issue silver certificates igainst them to relieve the monetary situation. The members of the Senate Fiuance Com milium bV^VbUVi '?*WU cw wutmrnvcc, j jomprising Senators Plumb, Hale, Mitchell, McMillan and Power, have been named to confer and t'raim a schema for legislation tD relieve the financial condition of tlie country Postmaster-General Wanamaker Issued an order appointing Captain N. M. Brooks, tho Superintendent of Foreign Mails of tho Postoffice Department, and William Potter, of Philadelphia, delegates to represent the United States at the International Postal Congress, to convene in Vienna, Austria, May 20, 1S91. . Fension Commissioner Raum has concluded examining claims recorded to December 6 under tha new act. There are 171,9iG original invalid claims, 55,323 original widow claims and 298,330 claims filed by old claimants. This gives only 227,000 new claims filed under the new law, A report transmitted to the House by the Secretary of War is to the effect that the Connecticut River, from Long Island Sound to Hartford, is worthy of improvement, at an estimated cost of $130,000. - - - The annual report of the Chief of Chemical Division of the Agricultural Department, just issued, contains an account of a process recently perfected at the department with reference to the manufacture of sorghum i sugar. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations: Horace W. Metcalf, of Maine, United States Consul at Newcastle, England; John B. Jackson, of New Jersey, Second Secretary of Legation at Berlin, Ger- " many. The Secretary of the Treasury submitted to Congress the draft of a bill proposing important amendments to the laws regulating shipping and navigation, in accordance < with the recommendations of the J International Marine Conference. Secretary Tracy has decided to send the * Alert and the Marian to re-enforc3 the Asiatic squadron. ' The bill to iucrease from SMO to $1200 a < tronr thp nensinn of the widow of General ' Custer, who lost his life iu a gallant fight i with the Sioux at the battle of Little Big 1 Horn, was ordered to be favorable reported 1 to the House by the Committeo on Invalid 1 Pensions. Members of the Board of Control of the Centennial Exposition appeared before the ] House Judiciary Committee and urged the 1 favorable consideration of a bill to enable ] the financial affairs of the exposition of be ; closed up and the Board of Finance dis- ' solved. ' Foreign. _ j One hundred and fifty French convicts 1 who recently escaped from imprisonment al Cayenne, have starved to death in the'for- ' ests. Professor Bielroth, of Berlin, Ger- i 1 many, declares that the uso of the Koch lymph has produced a marked effect in cases of leprosy. The Dutch Government has consented to sign the general act of the Brussels AntiSlavery Conference. Dr. Welti was chosen President of the Swiss Republic. William Wallace Blakchard was hanged at Sherbrooke, Canada, for the ruur- i der of Charles A. Calkins, on November 18, i 1889. The men were of the lowest class. Prince Lubescky's porcelain factory at Cmilew, Poland, has been destroyed by fire. Eight operatives perished in the flames. Much havoc has been wrought by storms on the Southern coasts of Europe, especially around Sardinia, in wmca vicinity ueicu . persons aro known to bave been killed and dfty injured, while many vessels were wrecked and a number of houses shattered. An explosion occurred in the cartridge room of the factory at Zumdorf, Hungary, where the new explosive megatin is manu factured. Three women employed in the factory were blown to pieces. There is a reaction in Berlin, Germany, against the Koch treatment, eight persons having died soon after the injection of the lymph. On the Paramatta River, Sydney, New South Wales, a sculling match for $1500 a side and the championship of the world was rowed by Oarsmen Kemp and McLean. McLean was the winner. The Italian Minister of War has resigned. An extra session of the Argentine Legislature has been opened. THE TEAR 1891. Ii = L4*Lsisi-sl.Mi s l^lshiiSil s llllIlillMIlIi I Jan 133 July ... ...... i a 3 4 ; 456789 10 56789 10 11 111213:4151617 13131415161718 18192021212324 19 2021 22 2324 25 25 26127 :8 19 30 31 26 27 28 19 30 31 ... Aug 1 Feb. 1234567 23456) 78 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 9 10 11 12 ,3i,4 15 15 1617 18 19 20 2i 16 17,18 19 20 21 22 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 23 24 25 26 27 26 29 ! ? 3? 3' Mar. 1234567. Sept I 12345 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 6 7| 3 9 10 11 ?2 15 16 17 18 19 20 21I 131411516171819 22 23 24 25I26 27 28; 20 21,22 23 24 25 26 . 29 30 31 ...I J 2728 2930 ! Apr. 1234! Oct 123 5 6j 7 si 9 to ti, 4 5I 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18, II ia|i3 14 '5 >6 17 19 20 21 22 33 24 25) IS I9|20 21 22 23 24! 26 27 23 29 30 | 25 26 27 18 29 30 31 May I... 1 21 3 4 5 6j 7 8 ?; Nov. 1234567 to 11 12 13) 14 15 26. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 17 1819 2oj21 22 23! 15 i6;*7 18 ig|=o 21 24 25I26 27 23 20 joi 22 21 24 J5 26^7 28 31 ! _ 25 30 June ... 223456 Dec 12345 7 8 9 10 11 12 13; 6 7 ? 9 io|II i2| 14 15 16 17 18 192a 13 14.13 16 17,18 19 21 22 23 24 25 26 27. 20 2l|22 23 24j25 2b\ 28 talso ...I...I...I...1 2782820 30 ;il- ...| CHURCH DATS AND CYCLES OF TIME. Septuagesima Sunday Jan. 25 Sexagesiaia Sunday Feb. 1 Quinquazesima Sunday Feb. a Shrove fuesday Feb. 10 Ash Wednesday Feb. il Quadragesima Sunday Feb. 1.. Mid-lent Sunday Mar? ? Paini Sunday Har" Good Friday Easter Sunday Mar. Low Sunday Apr. ? Rogation Sunday May o Ascension Day May 7 "Whit Sunday May 1< Trinity Sunday MaY -4 Corpus Christ! MaJ" First Day in Advent Nov. 29 Sundays after Trinity are ECLIPSES FOR THE YEAR 1891. In the year 1891 there will ha four eclipses ?two of the Sun and two of the Moon?and a transit of Mercury over the Sun's disk. 1. A total eclipse of the Moon, May 23a, 1:15 in the afternoon: invisible here, but visible generally throughout the western part of the Pacific Ocean, Australia, Asia, Africa and Europe. 2. An annular eclipse of the Sun, June Oth, 11:34 in the afternoon; invisible here, but visible in the western part of tho United States, British America and greater part of Europe and North Pole. 3. A total eclipse of tho Moon, November 15th; visible generally in Asia, Africa, Eu rope, the Atlantic Ucean, riorcn ana ouum America, and the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean. 4. A partial eclipse of the Sun, December 1st; invisible in North America: visible in Southern part of South America and South Pole. A transit of Mercury of the Sun's Disk, May 9th; partly visible at Washington, and visible throughout western portions of North and South America. THE FOUR SEASONS. D. H. M Winter begins 1S90, Dec. 21, and lasts Sit 0 15 Spring ?l 1891, Mar. 20, 44 " 93 8 7 Summer 44 " June 21, 44 " 93 lft 41 Autumn 44 41 Sept. 23, 44 44 7 46 Winter 44 44 Dec. 21. M63NINO STARS. Venus, until Sept. IS. Mars, not this year. Jupiter, after Feb. 13 until Sept. 5. Saturn, until Mar. 4, after Sept. 13. Mercury, after Jan. 13 until Mar. 23, after May 9 until July 7, after Sept. 13 until Oct. 27, after Deo. 28. EVENING STARS. Venus, after Sept. 18th. Mars, throughout the year. Jupiter, until Feb. 13, after Sept. 5. Saturn, after Mar. 4, until Sept. 13. Mercury, until Jan. 13, after Alar. 23 until May 9. after July 7 until Sept. 13, after Oct. 27 until Dec. 28. PLANETS BRIGHTEST. Mercury, April 19th, August lfith, December lltb, "setting then just after the Sun; also February 6tn, June 5th, September 2Sth, rising then just before the Sun. Venus, January 8th. Saturn, March 4th. Jupiter, September 5th. Mars, not this year. KILLED IN A CAGE, Fatal Accident in a Belgian Colliery # o 1?nno uj W1?: uivaKMig W? .. ..?rv. A terrible accident occurred at the Escoufliaul colliery, at Hornu, province of Hainaut, Belgium. A shift of eighteen men had entered the cage and tho engine had started to lower them into the pit. Suddenly and without warning the rope connecting the cage with tho drum broke and tho men were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft. Every one of the occupants of the case was killed. PARNELL INJURED. The Outcome of a Fierce Faction Fight in Ireland. Lime Thrown Into tbe Face of the Home Rule Agitator, Parnell and Michael Davitt addressed everal meeting at Ballinakill, Ireland, and the result was a fierce fight, in which clubs, sticks and stones were freely used, and rnauy lieads were broken. Mr. Davitt, flourishing 1 whitelhorn stick, forced hia way through the crowd, and, with the aid of his followers, Irove back Parnell's adherents. In the nelee David had his scalp laid open with the OlOW o? a ctldgej. Alter ine ureaKius up Ui the rival meetings amid great confusion the leaders proceeded to Castlecoruer. On the ivay Parnell's carriage was stoned. Tho crowd threw mud and hooted as ha passed. They became so demonstrative that finally the police interfered. Quiet had been partially restored, and Parnell was driving iway, when the crowd made another rush md assailed him with stones, mud and bags of lime. One of the bags of lime struck Parnell fall in the face, breaking and completely blinding him. The police again charged the crowd and succeeded iu driving them away. Parnell was conveyed to a cottage. Before a doctor could be summoned he fainted from tho severe pain. A physician arrived soon and administered restorative?. Parnell in a short time became a liltle better, and the doctor advised his removal to Kilkenny. Od the road Parnell's suffering became so intense that a second halt had to be made at the roadside. The party finally arrived at the Victoria Hotel in Kilkenny. Mr. Parnell's eyes became inflamed from the effects of the lime, and he was immediately confined to a darkened room. Though his eves pained him intensely, ho was able at midnight of the next day to address from a window of the Victoria Hotel at Kilkenny a large crowd that gathered about the hotel when the misfortune that had befallen him became generally known. During the address his faco was covered with bandages. He detailed the occurcnces of the day, and the crowd became exasperated at the manner in which he bad been treated, and many threats of vengeance were made. Next morning Mr. Farnell's bream asc was sewed to him in bed. The-surgeon in attendance upon him, fearing that inflammation might set in, ordered that Parnell keep his eyes closed, and that hot-water foments be constantly applied to them. It was announced that afternoon that the surgeon attending Mr. Parnell feared that the injury to his patient's eyes might result seriously. He has given orders that for the present Mr. Parnell shall remain indoors. Mr. Parnell has issued au appeal to the hillside meu, calling on them not to submit to English dictation. In this he says: "Will you, countrymen of Grattan, volunteers of O'Connell, Davis and Wolt Tone, of the gallant Father Murphy, who fought and bled for the independenc30f our country; will you, inspired by memories of the past, abandon your chief? Will you give him up to the Saxon wolves that are howling for his destruction? Or will you rally around him, as your fathers did around the men of '98, and shout, with a thousand voices, No surrender! Hurrah for Parnell. the leader of the Independent Irish party! Down with a faction that would make the Irish people the servants of a foreign power! Gather, men of the hillsides, at Johnswell on Sunday, around your chief, and-hurl deflancs at his enemies and the enemies of your race." The city and county convention assembled Tho hnll in which the convention was heid was crowded with delegates and spectators. Tho name of Mr. Parnell was greeted with cheers by the delegates, but the crowd groaned it. The High Sheid of Cork presided. GENERAL TERRY DEAD, Connecticut's BraveSoldici Peacefully Passes Away. Major-Gensral Alfred H. Terry, United States Army, retired, died at his residence iu New Huveu. Conn., at 4 o'clock on a recent morning, aged sixty-three. He was a lawyer when the war broke out, and was given the Colonelcy of the Second Connecticut Volunteers, which ho led at the first battle of Bull Run. With his regiment he was present at the capture of Port Royal and at the seige of Fort Pulaski, of which he was placed iu command alter its capitulation. lie was promoted for his briliiant >:erv icas to the rank of Brigadier General on April 25, 1SG2, in which capacity he was present at the battle of Pocotaligo and t'ae demonstration against Charleston. During the Virginia campaign of 1804 General Terrv commanded the First Division Tenth Army Corps, Army of the Jauies. and sometimes the corps itself. His greatest achievement was the assault on Fort Fishe'- in conjunction with Admiral Porter, January 13, 1805, which resulted in the capture of the play*. On {September 1, 1860, he was mustered out of the volunteer service and put in command of the Dakota Department in the Military Division of the Missouri. In March, 1S80, after the death of General Hancock. General Terry was made full Major-General. General Terry was a brother of Rose Terry Cooke, the well-known writer. Generul Terry was retired about two years ago, on his own application on account of ill health. KILLED HIS FATHER, A Boy's Crime, With the Object ot Collecting Lil'e Insurance. Paul Holz, aged seventeen, rushed into the West Chicago poJiCa station, Chicago, 111., at 10:30 o'clock the other night and said his father had committed suicide by cutting his throat. When the officers arrival at the house they fonnd the elder Holz lying on the bed, with blood gushing from a deep gash on the neck. He raised himself upon his arm and pointing his finger at his son Paul, said: "He did it. He killed me for my insurance." The son was arrested and locked up. After DClilg Jll CUO C3II U lew iiiiiiuica vnv> fessa.l that he had made the attempt ou his tuthir's life. Tun bold project of a ship railway, in lieu of a ship canal, to connect the \raterg of Lake Huron with tlio3e o Lake Ontario is now being agitated The distance between those two lakes is sixty-seven miles by the proposec route from Georgian bay to the moutl of the Hutuber River, west of Toronto and it has been calculated that a rail way, with three tracks of the standard gauge, but with rails weighing fron 100 to 110 pounds per yard, could b< built for $12,0J0,000, or about half the cost of a ship canal of the same capac itv. The land along the route reachei a height of 604 feet about Lake Huron so that there would be some heavi grades or else some expensive work necessary. The proposed route woulc save 428 miles of lake navigation anc twonty-eight miles of canal betweei Chicago and Montreal, and would en able a propeller to roach Montreal fron Quebec iu less time than it can roacl Buffalo. The expected saving, thre'( days, in the time between Chicago am the seaboard U a consideration wliicl would warrant a large expendituro i the project is feasible from an eugiueer ing standpoint. The French minister of war lately offered a prize for t&e-flwittesi; Diru 11 a flight from Perigueax to Paris, 311 miles. There -were 2,^49 entries, an< the winner did the distance in 7 honn 34 minutes. LATERNEWS. Four Hungarian miners were killed by a Call of coal iu the miue3 near Hazleton, Penn. They were unmarried. The Lshigh Valley Coal Company ha3 resumed opera- . tions at all its collieries, which have been -i j e rpi* mM1 I CiOSCU LUl b'JUl? urn? [JUSI. xuis mu wnuoo the employment of many thousands of persons. Senator Gorman's residence at Laurel, Md., was burned to the ground. The Senator's wife and daughter and the other inmates of the house escupad in their night clothes. J. C. Callasby, County Treasurer of 1 Boone County, 3Io., is short $20,000 in his accounts, and he has assigned all his property to his bondsmen. In a difficulty at Pulaski, Tenn., Town Marshal Charles P. Davis was shot and almost instantly killed by ex-Policeman JoeFlippen. Robert Baker, a defaulting bookkeeper, shot and instantly killed himself in Chicago, 111. The act was done in the presence of his 1 *J': und Constable Scanlan. The constable bad gone to arrest Baker. Reports were received from Rapid City, North Dakota, saying that a fight had taken place there between United States troops and the hostile Sioux in which two officers and fifty men were killed. The rumors were i?j -t?? r>h; discredited at army, uoauquai reis <u uui- , cago. III., and Denver, Col. Thp.ee hundred civilized Indians on ranches near Chico, Cal., have begun the ghost dances. This dance is held every year about January, The Secretary of War transmitted to the Senate a preliminary report of the board on gun factories and steel fo.-gings for high power guns appointed by the President under an act of the last session of Coneress. The caucus of Republican Senators agreed upon a scheme of financial legislation, based upon the report of the Caucus Committee, leaving out the two per cent, bond scheme, and also decide J to have a closure rule reported. A hocse in the native quarter of Bombay, India, containing 100 inmates, collapsed. Thirty persons were killed and many injured. Another plot to murder the Czar has been discovered at St. Petersburg, Russia. The conspirators are members of a noblemen's club. Several Poles have been arrested for complicity in the plot and the clubhouse has been closed. Mr. Milne, the Collector of Customs, at Victoria, British Columbia, has seized the German schooner Adelo, which had just re turned from Behriug Sea, where it raided the Pribyleff Islands, killing 400 seals. WADE HAMPTON BEATEN. J. Ij. M. Irby Elected United States ? *71 C...lk r../>llnn senator r rum ouuvu vaiuuun, The election of J. L. M. Irby to succeed Wade Hampton as United States Senator from South Carolina has fallen like a thunder clap out of a clear sky. The General Assembly on the second ballot cast the following vote for a succas3Dr to Senator Hampton: Irby (Farmers' Movement), 66; Donaldson (Alliance man), 53; Hampton, 37; Hemphill, 1. On the fourtii ballot J. L. M. Irby was elected. The vote stood: Irby, 105; DonaldBon, 10; Hampton. 42. John Laurens Manning Irby wss born at Lauren?, S. C., September 10, 1854. He at- ! tended the University of Virginia and afterward Princeton. Leaving there, he read law for three years under Judge Mclvers, but practised his profession only two yee.-s. Since then he has lived on his plantation and farmed successfully near Laurens. He took part in the memorable Hamptoti campaign of 1876. When he entered the political arena four yeai*3 nzo he at once became a | prominent leader. While giving proper attention to his farming interests he espoused I the cause of the farmers' movement at its in! ception, and was an ardent admirer of Captain B. R. Tillman. A great many people have crape on theii coat sleeves at Charleston and Columbia mourning for Hampton's defeat and Irby's ] election. SCULPTOR BOEHM DEAD. Fouud Lifeless in His Studio Chaii by the Princess Louise. Joseph Edgar Boehm. the sculptor, died suddenly in his studio in Lon don, England, the other evening. He was engaged on a bus! j of Princess Louise, and the Princess had called at the studio in relation to the work. Upoi entering the place she found the dead body of the artist reclining in a chair. Mr. Boehm was born in Vienna in 1S34. He had resided in England since ISG'2, and waj elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of London In 1878. He executed a colossal statue in marble of the Queen for Windsor Castle in 18(39, bronze statuettes of th? Prince of Wales and all the Royal family and a colossal statue at Bedford of John Bunyan in 1872. He also executed a colossal "equestrian statue of the Prince ol Wales for Bombay in 1877, a statue ol Thomas Carlyle and a marble statue of King Leopold of Belgium for St. George's Chapel at W.^dsor. I1 he Government gave him the order to execute the statue of Lord ! Beaconsfleld for Westminster Abbey. He also made statuettes of Thackeray, John 1 Leech, MillaLs and others. AN ALPINE ACCIDENT, i I Seven Chasseurs Swept Into a Terrible Abyss. i The nJ*j of a horrible accident in the Alps has been receive 1 from Nice. Seven Alpine chasseurs who were working under command of an officer at th9 new fortress on the sumj mit of Mount Sacharal, betwesn La Brija t and Riviere, were swept,with their superior, 1 by a sudden blast over a precipice into a ter. riblo abyss. Five of the men and the j officer fell a distance of 2500 feet. . Their bodies have been recovered in a fright* fully mutilated condition. Two of the men I maua^ed to cling to some rocks and escaped death. ' Three priests, while crossing a frozen lake - near Grenoble, broke through the ice and [ were drowned. Si WHOLESALE MURDEK. i / After Killing Five Persons, Joplin 3 Commits Suicide. t Charles Joplin shot and killed five persons 7 in ona day recently, at the Jenny lead mine, - twelve miles from Fort Smith, Ark., and ? 'J V*** olinnfinrr himealP I Uien UUlUUlllbCU 8U1UUD UJ suuuuiug .....,irLflt, i Those h6 killed were John Miller, his wife, his grown daughter, Lou Miller; Dr. Stewi art, a prominent physician, and a man whose . name is not known. The shooting occurred late in the day. 1 The only clue to the cause of the killing lies I in a report that Dr. Stewart intimated that 5 Joplin was the cause of Miss Miller's trouble. ! THREE TRAMPS PERISH, f Burned to Death in a Barn They Had Set on Fire. Three tramps paid the penalty of smoking in a barn in Illinois on a recent night. They entered the large barn belonging to j John Bridsen, of Britaflold, and -v sought shelter in the hay loft. It is J supposed they smoked before goingto sleep, I and dropped "a spark in the hay. The barn . with all Ite contents and the three tramps war? totally destroyed. No one knows who men were or where they came from. i THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. News About the Yarious Departments at Washington. Report of the Record and Pension Bureau. The officer in charge of the Record and Pension Division of the War Department, in his report to the Secretary of War, says: On Juiy S, 1SS9, there were 43G5 remuster cas:s unacted on. Many of them had been in the office for years. By the 30th of September all were disposed of, including 725 received up to that date. From October 1, 1889, to June 30, 1890, 3601 cases of this class were received and disposed of, leaving none on hand at the close of the fiscal year, aud making a total of 8091 acted on during the year. On the 8th of July, 1889, there were on hand and unacted on 1342 cases reauirine in vestigation of the charge of desertion with a view to its removal under Act of March 2, 1889. The bulk of these cases had been in the office for months. These cases were all disposed of by September 30, 1889. From October 1 to June 30, 1890, 6310 regular applications and 5197 miscellaneous case3 were acted on, leaving none on hand at the end of the fiscal year, and making a total of 16,135 cases disposed of during the year. On the 8th of July, 1889. there were on hand and unanwered 23,4*24 calls from the Pension Office. By the 30th of September, 1889, these were all disposed of, together with the current receipts up to that date (39.029), leaving none on hand on the 30th of Saptember, 1889. From October I, 1889, to June 30, 1890,160,330 cases of this class were received and disposed of, leaving aone on hand on the 30th of June, 1890, and making a total of 222,783 acted on during the year. Altogether there were received 301,238 ;alls from all sources from July 8, 1889, to Tune 30, 1890. These added to tne40,550on hand July 8,1889, in the divisions transferred from the Adjutant-General's office, and 104 in the division transferred from the Surgeon-General's office,made a total of 341,$92. which were all disposed of, leaving none 3n hand at the end of the fiscal year. ueer ior tne iiisqmmaux. Captain A. M. Healy, of the United States revenue cutter Bear, and Dr. Sheldon Jackson, United States Commissioner of Education for Alaska, who has been in Alaska recently on the Bear, has sent a communication to the Washington authorities in regard to the condition of the Esquimaux in Northwestern Alaska. They point out that the Esquimaux are suffering great hardship, and in some cases are confronted with starvation, owing to the scarcity of deer, and particularly on account of the entire failure of the hunt during the past autumn. Captain Healy will propose to the Government that he be allowed to purchasa a number of reindeer, which abound on the Siberian coast, and transport them 011 the Bear to some point on the Alaskan coast where moss and feed are plentiful. He will also suggest that the Government enlist the services of some of the experienced Siberian natives to instruct the Esquimaux in the art of herding these deer, and, as the animals become more numerous, they can be distributed over Northwestern Alaska and form the food supply for the natives. Armament of the New Cruisers. Th9 policy of the Navy Department is to strengthen the armament of the new cruisers. This has been done in several of the vessels, t-ha last nhnncra hftinor in the 5500-ton cruiser. known as Number 6, whose battery now consists of ten 5-inch and four 8-incii guns. The latter pieces are of 40 calibre, a type designed in the Ordnance Bureau. It is now proposed to increase the strength of the armament of Cruisers 7, 8, 9,10 and 11 bj changing the present 4-inch guns to 5-incb weapons, and lengthening the 6-inch riflefrom 35-colibre to 40-calibre. The 6-inch guns of 40-calibre were designed by the Ordnance Bureau and forcings for two of them have already been ordered. The rapid firing feature, that is, fixed ammunition, cartridge case, charge and projectile in one, will probably not be adopted for this calibre on account of excessive weight. The Department has no Information that this calibre of the 9-inch firing variety has been entirely successful abroad. The change will make tha armament of Cruisers 7 and 8 tea 5-inch rapid firing guns and one 6-inch breechloading rifle; of Cruisers 9, 10 and 11 eight 5-inch rapid firing guns and two G-iucLi rifles. Still Fighting- the Lotteries. * The Postmaster-General issued the following order: "Postmasters will hereafter intercept the transmission in the mails and decline to de> liver at their respective offices any circulars in sealed envelopes brought into the United States from Mexico prepaid at less than th< five-cent rate.and will whenever such matiei is discovered in transit, or in the office of de livery, hold the same and report the fact tc the Postmaster-General for instructions a; to the disposal of it. "This order is especially intended to applj to the circulars of Mexican lotteries whicl have heretofore been received in sealed en velopes the corners of which have been clippei and the postage of which lias been prepaid b] Mexican stamps of the denomination of om esnt." To Invite Foreigners to the Fair. Ex-Senator Palmer, President of th World's Fair Commission, called on tfc President and submitted to him papers show ing that the World's Fair had reached tha point in organization that a proclamatio requesting foreign countries to participate i it should bo issued. The papers were r< ferred by tha President to Attorney-Genen Miller to examine as to the sufficiency of th financial guarantees, etc. A Contest in Pennsylvania, Thomas H. Greevy has served notice o Edward Scull, the .Republican Represent* tive elect to the Fifty-second Congress froi the Twentieth District of Pennsylvania, c his intention to contest the' right to h: (3cull's) seat in the House. Mr. Scull's xm jority on the fa?e of the returns was 520. NO PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. Annual Report of the Bureau o Animal Industry. The report of the Bureau of Animal Indus try, recently sent to the United State Rpnfttfl shows that during the las | year no discovery has been made c I contagious pleuro-pneumonia outside c the districts which were infecte last year. The eradication of tb disease, says the report, has been most rapi since April, and a most gratifying improve ment in the condition ot catt.e tliroughou the country is uoted. Regarding catt! shipped aboard, thi} report says the practical! complete success of the work of eradict tion of the disease from the United State removes the cause alleged by foreign Goverr ments for the exclusion of American cattl from their countries. Touching the question of inoculation an the discovery of bacillus of tuberculo3i by Dr. Koch, the report says that the poss bility of applying bacterial products t the prevention and cure of diseases wa first made evident by the investigations c the Bureau of Animal Industry, and that i Dr. Koch's remedy is of the nature suppose his method consists in the application of m>inr>inln discovered here. A HAITIAN TRAGEDY, Six Laborers Killed While Repaii inff a JJridge. The Atla3 line steamship Alvo just froi Hayti reports a terrible lo.-s of life and tl injuring of a small army of men iulaa twenty miles from Port Liruon. Tl aecide.:* occurred at Matina Bridge, twei ty-two jniles from Port Simon. A se tiou of the bridge seventy feet long, \vhi< rested on two heavy columns, fell while a most the entire force of men employed wei repairing it, Six men weru killed outrigli and almost every mau engaged was injure The bedding of the two columns had bei known to be bad ever since last winter, ai a large force of men was sent to strengthen i Four colored laborers were killed. T fireman, a white man, was killed, and tl fireman of the car shops was also killed. T number of injured was unknown. TEMPERANCE. -:|jj WHAT WRECKS HEX'S FACES. - *? Rum has no traducer like the face and fate of one of the men who, a short time ago. was pointed out to everyone as 'The glass o? fashion and mold of form." When his name < b spokeu now men laugh at it, while ladies who have heard of him and see him in these days for the first time, marvel aloud that sucn a iace ana agure ever wuiu ' ^10 rest. Late hours, deep potations, long- "V 3 continued self-indulgence?these are tne bacilli that have wrought that wreel: of which all the city talks just now. A CIM0T7S DREAM. A laborer at the Dundee harbor lately told his wife, on awakening, a curious dream which he had during th9 night. He dreamed that he saw coming toward him, in order, v four rats. The first was one very fat, and was followed by two lean rats, the rear rat being blind. The dreamer was greatly per- * pleied as to what evil might follow, as it -yji, has been understood that to dream of rati denotes coming calamitv. He appealed to his wife concerning this, but sae, poor woman, could uot help him. His son, a sharp lad, who heard his father tell the story, . -Xj volunteered to be the interpreter. ''The far / ; rat," he said, "is the man who keaps the public house, that ye gang till sae often, and the twa lean anes are me and my mither,and ' ^ the blind ane is yerself, father."?Scotch Paper. A STC"Y OF JOHN B. OOTTOH. On a summer night a temperance meeting t ."J wa? held in New Haven, Conn. A gentle- ^man, standing under the old elms ?f that city, saw Gough, partially drunk, wending his way to a saloon. He touched him on the shoulder, and, in a sympathetic tone, b? sought his "frhipwreckea brother" to ga - . along with him to the temperance meeting. Mr. Gough consented, and, greatly in* Eressed by the appeals to which he listened, e signed the pledge of total abstinence. His subsequent history as a temperance leader it tnnwn to the civilized world. The ?entl? inau who relates this incident says tKat ht nas never forgotten that moonlight meeting with Gough in New Haven. Whenever, is & after years, he heard the thunderous ap plause that greeted John B. Gough, on tn? ?. temperance platform, he caught tne echo a that soft tap on the shoulder, under the gran* old elms of the New England capital. 1." AFRAID OF HIMSELF. A big, tall Westerner staggered into a well-known hotel the other night at aboat eleven o'clock, and demanded his money, which was locked up in the safe. The clerk bluntly told him that he wouldn't have it. "Ain't the monish minef* V asked wrath- ' ??! fully. "Yes; but you can't Lave it till to-morrow. You'd bettor go to your room." The guest begged aud threatened and demanded, but to no purpose. Then he let a bell boy take him upstairs. When he had gone the ; clerk said to.a bystander: "To-morrow morning mat man win coma aown nere ana thank me for refusing to let him have the 'S money. Whenever he comes to town with Jii the inteption of going on-a spree he takes out, | of his wallet all the money he ivishes to spend : 'ijsl that night, and hands me the remainder, tell- '-\gk 1 ing me to lock it up for him and refuse to 1 let him have it until he gets seber: About :Jv| 1 midnight or a little later he will come In do as he did just now?try to make me gitk up the cash. But to-morrow morning he w^ m/1 come down and thank me for refusing.$ 1 New York Tribune. BLUE RIBBON \ 'VITATIONS. i "Blue ribbon invitatia is'' to dinner we & \\ <J locial innovation in thii city indicative of the steady progress of ttie temperance r? & form. According to the New York Tribune ?V there has com9 to be a difference in practice i "among people of good taste and position in New York, who enjoy the presence of their " friends at dinner," with reference to serving i wine. It says: "In many houses, as a mat ter of principle, wirje is njver placad upo* L the table, and in others wine is occasionally i omitted for special reasons. For a long tim? s i there has been a social neei in the city for i some quiet, pretty, and effective manner : i indicating in invitations to dinner, whethk' > or not wine will be served, in order that in* ~ ! vited guests may have fuil knowledge of tbff facts. A movement has been begun, origi* nating socially and seconded by one of the popular stationers of the City, for indicating that wine will not be served during the affair by attaching a knot of blue ribbon to the i lower lef:-hani corner of the invitations." A delightful dinner entertainment wa3 recently " . given upon this plan, attended by a large ; number or society people. i ne ? riuime av.iw"It is believed that the blue-ribbon invito tions will solve a difficulty, with which society has long contended, requests for on^s . -;j presence at a dinner to which the ribbon tl not attached speaking for themselves." I WIXE-JTAKIXG IX AMERICA. Wine-making in this country assumes larg* j and increasing proportion*. The Special I Agent of the Census for wines and grapes, in * a recent interview with representative of r the New Yok Sun. states that there are in-s vested m vineyaros and wtne-cel ars m the i > United States over $155,000,000. There are v ' i 3 -n round numbers 400,000 acres of land in ' this country planted to vineyards, of which ? r WO.000 were in bearing this year. This is an i increase during the past ten "years of 2 20,000 acres in the vineyard area, and of over $10.i 000,000 a year in the capital invested. CaliT fornia aloni? has 150,000 acres of vineyards, 3 including -'5,000 of raisin-grapes. Its total capital invested in wine-making is nearly $73,000.0C0. It is stated that between 30, 000,000 and 40,000,000 gallons of wine will ba e made iu t he United .States this year,of which California will produce more than oua-half . It is also stated thit sevemeighths of tha j? grapes of California go to the wins-press, n and that four-fifths of the grapes grown in n all the rest of the United states are for table H ** This large and increasing production of 10 American wine?, with the very large aggregate of capital already invested, and iucrossjng during the last decade at the rate of $10 000,000 a year, should sufflca to arouse all 7;i n friends of temperance throughout the land to i- a full realization of the importance of n a genuine and general revival of * >f total abstinence temperance teaching, esla pccially among the young. With a consumpi tion of wines, native and foreign, amounting to nearly a gallon a year, and of beer abous twelve gallons, for each of our 62,0GC\w3J people, there is indeed a most urgent need of an effective popular appeal against all ueverage use of intoxicants.? National Tent i iterance Advocate. ~~~~~~~~~~ TEMPERANCE NEWS A ND NOTES. The man who drinks a little drinks loo ' niu?h rt There are 1,900,000 children in Bands of >f Hope iu the United Kingdom, ,f "Rhfimewater1' is an appropriate^ name d given to strong drink on the Dark Contine eut d Forty'young women of Das Moines, Iowa, ?" have signed an agreement to receive the afctentions of no young man who drinks, chews, 8 smokes or swears. J One thousand two hundred ani 93vea .j licenses have been granted the last year in . the City of Washington to sell liquors, yieldg ing a revenue of $85,900. TheWomen's Christian Temperance Union, d of Detroit, Mich., ha* decided that the drinkIs ins of ginger ale, ginger beer, home-made i- wine, root b er and raspberry syrup "violates o the pledge." s The report of the E liaburgh Royal Asylum ? for 1S89 says: "We never, except in 1876, jj had so many Cases sent here in which the " assigned cause of the malady was alcoholic a excess as this year." In the Wesleyan Methodists' Connection there are now (552 adult Temperance Societies, with 43,481 members, ana 3509 Bauds of Hope, with 370,691 members. An antigambling pledge has been issued. r" The Lancet remarks that while England is taking a very active and creditable part in m the attempt to prevent the importation of alcohol into the interior of Africa, she cauie not do tetter than labo- to abate the ald, cobolism of home communities, thriving ie and well employed but kept back by drunkenness. alC, The recent W. C. T. U. annual convention .jj passed numerous resolutions on the usual j. subjects. Among these were a request to '' l 1 '-1 A? tUu fam. Pd DOtll capitalist ana ittu ;r tvj st/uuj vu? WMf perance question in the interest of their rela\ t ons and a commendation of the action 3P of the Government in refining the use of jd the mails to lotteries. it It is said that the first of next January, [je ?ill in all probability see the end of the use be ai' natural gas for manufacturing purpose^ *3 the supply is practically exhausted.