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B8BSB3H9I^R ' pKirYORKSTORMBODB. ^Almost Dead to the World for t a Day. c The City's Vast Network of I Wires Kuined. ^ ??? r For a psriod of twelve hours, which began at about 10.30 the other night. New York suffered from a storm which is generally ad- ^ mitted to have been th3 most destructive to t . property, especially that of tha telegraph, s telephone and electric light companies, since j the great blizzard of March, 1S5S. I The storm, wLich possessed many of the elementary svmptoms of a blizzard, was I ushered in mildly enough by a light rain j shortly before 11 o'clock. In less than half ' I en hour it changed to snow, and huge whito fiakes beat down mercilessly upon the heads 1 of passing pedestrians. ( Tho destructive effects of the storm ex- 1 tended over a comparatively limiteJ area. ^ A short distance balow Philadelphia was tho Bouthern limit of telegraph demoralization, and Eoston was the northern limit. The t Btorm was practically confined to the coast, , and extended no further north in New York State than to Peekskill and Haverstraw. It started as a comparatively harmless affair rdown in Texas. Its centre was in Alabama ' while the entire Gulf was deluged with rain. 1 A heavy northeast wind preceded the ' Btorm. Its maximum velocity was forty miles an hour and minimum thirty-six. The 1 precipitation was 02,100, which would be equal to nine inches of snow were it dry. As it was not. a iearrui siuso, ants. w utx-p, ?as < the result. The storm did not reach the lake regions, but disappeared as mysteriously as it arose. ( Great damage was inflicted throughout the Atlantic regions. Freight and passen- j ger traffic was suspended for hours through_' out New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylx vania, New Jersey and the Southern States. Hails were delayed from four to eight hours, and at every point wires of the various telegraph companies were completely pros- | {rated. The storm proven the most destructive which bad visited New York in many years. It completely prostrated the wires ot all the telephone ana telegraph companies, and in the high wind which prevailed even the Btout wooden poles were uprooted, and fell ! with tremendous forco in the streets. This was notably the rule in the upper portion of the city upon the west side. On -v West Thirty-ninth street, between Seventh and Tenth avenues, not a pole was left standing, and the wonder is no lives were lost. At West Fifty-ninth street the elevated poles fell over the Ninth avenue track and delayed traffic for a considerable time. jftvcry principal bvivrv >*oa cwu tuvumbered with tangled wires. Not only was there a vast amount of damace done in the morning hoursby the falling o? gigantio telegraph poles" laden with their Intricate masses of wire, but the danger of still greater destruction was made imminent by the cripple 1 condition in which the Police and Fire Departments were left in two short hours after the storm hid be- I gun to exert its force. Perhaps the scene of the storm's greatest work of destruction was in Park avenue, between Fifty-ninth and Ninety-ninth streets. There the entire line of telegraph poles fell at different times in the course of the morning and lay across the driveway like immense hurdles. These' wires are owned by the Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company, and it will take days to repair them. When those who dared to go out to church passed along this street in the morning they were in constant danger from the poles which came crashing i down every few minutes. One of the largest fell on the roof of the railroad station at Eighty-sixth street and crushed it like an egg , fihel!." The lively snapping of wires, under the weight of the snow, had their part in making trouble on the elevated railroads. On the Sixtli avenne line the engineers of the trains earlv in the morning were oblige 1 I to proceed" with much caution and to kesp a sharp lookout for obstruction. Wires were not only broke and stretched across the track at various points, but some even sagged down so as to catch the smokestacks of engines as they passed along. Several engineers noticed the wires too late and ran into ttiem. The station porters and trackmen were kept busy in clearing away the wires when the storm was at its height. It was such a storm as the telegraph companies have not been called upon to combat m ten years. Old telegraph hands said that there has been nothing like it sinco the famous sleet storm of bunday, January 23, 1SS1, just ten years ago almost to a day, when the telegraph lines all through the East were paralyzed. Every instrument in the office of the Postal Telegraph was silent, for every wire out of the city was lost. Even the blizzard tad not so absolutely demoralized the service. The Western Union could boast of just three wires in use at eight o'clock at night. These ran to Buffalo and Albany, and by these routes all business, north, south, east and west must be transacted. The loDg-dlstance telephone lines which withstood the blizzard bravely, surrendered completely to this storm. The Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company is probably the heaviest loser by the storm, as its entire system has been prostrated. A notable incident of the storm was the stopping of all the clocks exposed on public bouainss and church steeple3 and towers. The hands appear to have been clogged by thejca, and slush was force i into the works. . The reports received i >m suburban sea tions on the day after the storm were necessarily meajjre. owinz to the interruotion to telegraph and telephone lines, but the scenes of destruction which were witnessed in Now York City were repeated in the outlying districts of Long Island, New Jersey and Westchester County. In Brooklyn telegraph and telephone wires were prostrated in every direction, and the damage will be very heavy. In J?ew Jeraey the storm was very severe. In Jersey City, Newark, Plainfleld and other cities heavy damages were caused by the wrecking of telegraph and telephone poles and wires. The wires used in electric lighting in Jersey City and Plainfleld were destroyed and there were no lights in their streets that night. Five lines of wires across the Newark meadows looked as if a cvcloae had pass.?d 1 over them, so completely had the damp cling- 1 ine masses of snow done their work. Trains and mails were delayed in all sections of the great region in which the great storm prevailed. On the New York Central, Pennsylvania Central, New Jersey Central, Erie, Southern and Western roads the trains were all from fonr to six hours behind scheJule time in the early part of the day, and from one to three later on. DAMS SWEPT AW AT. A Historic Building in New Jersey Destroyed by Floods. One of the historical spots in New Jersey has been destroyed by a freshet that has in- j undated the lower portion of Morristown and j rendered homeless scores of poor people. Two i miles above the city is Speedwell Lake,a body of water over four miles in circumference, i On the bank of this lake is the iron foundry I formerly owned by Stephen Vail, the builder t\t fha flrof cfnam t?ocoq) fA /^abo flia Aflonfin In this building the first telegraph instrument invented by S. F. B. Morse was stationed when the initial message over a telegraph i wire was sent to Boston in 1835. The building is an autiquated wooden structure, and t during the past five years many-New York r capitalists nave endeavored to purchase it j for its historical associations. About 4 o'clock in the atternoon the resi- . dents in the vicinity of the building were ' notified by a loud noise that the ice on the ? lake was breaking up and that the dam was 2 in danger. Tons or water swept over the t dam and every minute crept nearer the Vail c building. t Soon a break was Doticed in the dam, aud Almost before the spectators could reach a . place of safety the dam gave way with a \ thunderous noise, and carried with it a lar^e r portion of the old building. Speedwell Lake j empties into Lake Pocahontas, and tho broken ica and dobries crashed through this t body of water, an-1 five minutes later had j broken tho dam of the latter and completely inundated the low lying districts of Mo.vistown. Many horses and cattle were drowned, 1 and over two score of houses half submerged 1 and the occupants had to be taken out in boats. 1 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. George Kendall died from hydrophobia it the Chambers Street Hospital, in New fork City, after suffering terrible agony. The population of the State of Massa:husetts for 1S90 is 2,33S,943, an increase of :55,858, or 25.57 per cent, since 1880, the lopulation at that time being 1,783,085. The loss by the freshet in the Housatonic ~alley of Connecticut is estimated at $1,00,000. Focp. storms in two weeks did $1,000,000 lamage at Birmingham, Conn. A double funeral took place at Netherirood, N. J., when Elizabeth Hewson, age linety-three years, was buried beside her ;od, General Michael Butt Hewson, age ieveuty. Mother and son died within two lours of each other. The annual dinner of the New York Police Department took place in Delmonico's. - J - 1 -? PloVA. 5ix?ecli.'s were maae uy ui-i in?w.v.v.. anil and Chauncey M. Depew. The Postoffice, Schatt's restaurant and :he Johnson building at Holmesvillo, Bucks bounty, Penn., were burned. It was only i ay the" most strenuous efforts that the village ivas saved from total destruction. Lons Hitchcock, a guard in the New i'ork State Priion at Sing Sing for over thirty years, was killed while on his way to ,vork by an express train. Thomas Clark, of New York City, who had kept the pledge of temperance four years, rras tempted bv his aunt, Mrs. Riordan, to 3rink wine and then went on a spree which Lndtd in cutting her throat and killing her. In* the New York Assembly two resolutions were introduced?one denouncing the Federal Elections bill and the other dec;ar- | iDg that in the event of that bill becoming i a law New York State would take no part in j the World's Fair at Chicago. The first international convention of press ; clubs of the United States met at Pittsburg, } Penn. The meeting was held in the Select j Council Chamber, and prominent journalists j from all over the country were present. The Mayor delivered an address of welcome. After several meetings at Meadville, Penn., the creditors of the Delamaters have concluded to accept the proposition made by the bankrupt bankers to pay fifty per cent, to their creditors in two years' time. Sotith and West. Ex-Congressman* Haxsbrough was elected United States Senator at Bismarck, North Dakota, to succeed Fierce on the seventeenth ; ballot. The Democratic vote went to Hans- j brough. The Supreme Court of Colorado rendered I a decision in the Speakership contest of the ! House of Representatives. Speaker "White j is considered duly elected and Hanna impeached for overstepping his authority. At Maguire's Crossing, near South BrookInml, Md., the train ran over and killed James E. Owens, age J seventy-nine, and his wife Nancy, aged seventy-four. Dcrixg the snowstorm at Nashville,Tenn., countless fish were seen to fall. They were abcut an inch long and resembled carp. j The Kaukauna Paper Mill, of Appleton, ' Wis., was destroyed by fire. Loss, ?175,- J DOC. EX-ADJfTAXT A.vd IXSPECTOr.-GEZfERAL j M. L. Bo.\HAii, of South Carolina, made ! gcod to the State $55'28 shortage in his ! account. He had been under surveillance, j but Governor Tilman provided him with a , letter giving him liberty to leave the State. | The savings bank o: Wichita, Kan., has j failed. Liabilities about ? 31,000; assets, | ? 75,000. Lucy, the eighth wife of the late Brizham ! Young, the Mormon, is dead at Salt Lake J City, Utah. Only seven of Brigham's wid- I ows are now left, including the favorite j Amelia. Ltjl-ORGE JlI. DKYDhK, Ul buv \% Ct*J tmcau citizens of San Marco, Texas, shot and killed | bis wiie. Chris Abramsos, aged thirty-five years, I wonted to marry Mamie Ronnigan at Westport, Minn., and because she refused he shot ner dead, then blew out his own brains. The parties were well connected. Eoth Houses of the Wisconsin Legislature j rlectcd William F. Yiias to succeed John S. Spconer as United States Senator by a strict party vote. The Republican members voted for Senator Spconer. When the new administration took charge 1 of the Texas General Laud Office the ac- ; counts of the Receiver of the office, 0. H. | Hoilingsworth, were found Saort about S12.0CU The first stake was driven and the first spadeful of earth was turned on the Lake i Front for the World's Fair in Chicago, 111. The digging was begun for the laying of the foundation of a temporary building to be used by the chie: of construction and bis assistants during the erection of the Fair buildiugs proper. t oeert d otson" and Job n 3anks fell under the wheels of a passenger train at Memphis, Tenu., and were iustantly killed. The men were stealing a rids. A special train, conveying about 400 United States soldiers to Fort Riley from the Pine Ridge (South Dakota) Agency, collided with a passenger train at Florence. Kan. Sergeant Schortbat and Private Meii were killed and twenty others wouuded. Washington. The thirteenth edition 'of the digest and ! nienual of the rules and practice of the ' House of Representatives has just been issue .1. The President has nominated Marcus W. Achesou to be United States circuit Judge for the Third Judicial Circuit, and Colonel Daniel W. Flagler to be Chief of Ordnaace of the Army. The President has appointed commissioners to test the coinage of tne mints for the calendar year 1S90. The Conference of Labor Organizations adjourned at Washington to February 22, -1 4.,- E>.,? TV nil nt TAT.c 1CS7?? III I CI c:cunus uou iCJioii, v/i. President aai adopting the Ocala (PJo.) platform. Secretary Proctor instructed Adjutant-General Kelton to select about ten young officers of the engineer corps of the army for duty in connection with the proposed intercontinental railway. The Senate confirmed the nomination of N. P. Hill, of Colorado; Wiliiam A. Russell, of Massachusetts, and Lambert Tree, of Illinois. to be Commissioners to consider the establishment of an international coin or coins. Sfajx has agreed to the proposal of the United States Government for the negotiation of a treaty of reciprocity with Cuba. | Senator Cameron, Mr. Flower and others testified before the Silver Pool Investigating Committee. A conscience contribution of ?150 in a letter postmarked New York City has been i received at the Treasury Department. Second Lieutenant Samuel Seat, Jr., Twenty-first Infantry, United States Army, has been detailed by Secretary Proctor as Professor of Military Science at the Florida Agricultural College, Lake City, Fla. The President gave a reception and dinner i to the Supreme Court Justices. Mrs. McKee i took the place of Mrs. Harrison, who is suf- ! fering from a severe cold. Covers for forty- ! ?even were laid. Attorney-General Miller made his re- j jly in the Behriug Sea case before the United j States Supreme Court. , Foreign. The insurgents are masters of the situation n Chili. The motion to repeal tho prohibition of he importation of American pork into Gernany was lost in tbe R.eichstag by a vote of .33 to 103. Cardinal Janos Simor, Archbishop of >ran and Primate of Hungary, is dead. He ras born at Stu hlweissenburg ou Angus*; 13, 813. He was the son of a poor cobbler. )utl he rose to be Prima to of Hungary and >ne of the wealthiest of all the prelates of bat Kingdom. A new Ministry hns been formed in Era- I til. The Ministry of Public Instruction and | the Ministry of Posts have been abolished. . ["he new Ministry is in full accord with the j President. Fop.ty miners have been killed and thirty , seriously injured by an explosion in one of the pits of the Hlbernia mine, at usiseuxn*:hen, Germany. A sudden thaw has caused a flooding of many towns in Belgium, with much suffer- j ing. The latest intelligence from Chili says that a Dart of *the troons who have hitherto been faithful to President Balmaceda, have Joined the revolt. Chilian Government newspapers continue to be filled with reports of defeats suffered by the insurgents. Volcanic disturbances in the sea between Genoa and Spezzia, Italy; culminated in a submarine volcanic eruption. An avalanche at Floresta, Italy, destroyed eleven houses and killed ninteen persons. A serious r:ot occurred in "Weymouth, England, between artillerymen and civilians. The Scotch strikers are everywhere yielding. The rebels have bombarded Coronel. Chili, and several persons were killed and wounded. The Government troops are trying to surround the insurgents in the CoHictrirt. ? Three neighboring houses were crushed at Rome, Italy, and seven people were buried in the ruins. Among these was a whole' family, three children and parents. The carbineers were able to extricate one of the children, but the other two with their parents and three other people were killed. The cashier aud clerk of the People's Bank at Csabn, Hungary, committed suicide on the discovery of extensive embezzlements committed by them. LATER NEWS. Georgb H. Engejian* and four other managers of the Clifton (X. J.) race-track were fined and sentenced to State prison for one year for allowing poolselling on their track. The report of the Hous? Committee on Canvass of the Votes in Connecticut was presented, declaring that there was no election of State officers oscept in the case of Staub, Controller; a resolution to that effect was adopted. Frederick Steix, brother-in-law of the cresent Mikado of Japan, died a few days ago in the Charity Hospital on Black well's Island, New York City, of a complication of diseases. He was forty-seven years of age, a German by birth, and had a most romantic and checkered career. Ox the day after the accident one hundred and six dead bodies were removed from the mammoth shaft of the Frick & Co. Coke Company at Mount Pleasant, Penn., as the result of the fire damp explosion. It was then estimated that a total of 151 miners bad perished. CkarlesViller, aged fifteen, who murdered two boys named Fisbaugh and Emerson in a freight car within the borders of. Wyoming, while they were en route fron taeir home in St. Joseph to Denver, has been sentenced to be hanged on March 21 A picture of one of the farmers' member.? in the Illinois Legislature was recognized by prisoners in au Ohio penitentiary as that o.' ja paroled convict who never returned. Rv the cavine of the roof of a mine c'lam bsr at Ameret, Mo., two men were killela::' five buried under debris. Captain* William D. Dietz, assistant surgeon, United States Army, and his wife w.-.v found dead at Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, Cal. Captain Dietz first shot his wi and then himself with a double tan\*".i shotgun. A daring safe robbery was co^^tte 1 at Saltillo, Tenn. The safeofCraver & Williamson, merchants, was cracked by dynamite, and several thousand dollars stolen. The explosion awoke a nu:nber of citizxu but the burglars escaped in a skiff dow.i th Tennessee River. Joseph H. Choate concluded his argument before the Supreme Court in behalf o the British Government, the petitioners i.: the Bearing Sea case. A YOCNG English woman sufTerini from consumption, who was treated by the Koeh method in Berlin for two weeks, has siutv then tied at Cannes, France, of blood poisoning. The French squandron cruising in th? waters of New Zealand has been ordere I t > Chili. Sexof. Felipe Poet, the Cuban philosopher and naturalist, is dead. He was bora in Havana in 1502. PBOMINENT PEOPLE. The King of Siam has taken to literature. F. L. Ames, of Boston, is rated at $25,000,000. J at Gould's daily income is said to be about $7500. Prince George, of Wales, will open the Jamaica exposition. Sweeping reductions in the Pope's household expenses are to made. Professor Koch takes a horseback ride at three o'clock every afternoon. Lo' j> Salisbury, the English Premier, is eaid i*> work fourteen hours a day. Sir Edwin Arnold gets $25,000 for his latest poem, "The Light of the World." Mrs. Hodgson Burnett's income from her books and plays amounts to over $25,000 a year. The only daughter of Senator Voorhees, of Ind'ana, has joined the Roman Catholic Church. Queen Victoria has done much to promote photography in England, as she has always been a great collector of photographs. Captain John Ericsson, tbe inventor, made in his will specific bequests of $125,000, but it turns out that bis estate does not exceed f00,000. Tee King of Sweden is heavily embarrassed in bis personal finances, and has had to borrow money from wealthy merchants of Gothenberg. The Right Hon. James Augustus Sinclair. F. R. S., sixteenth Earl of Caithness, is d?ad. He was born in 1827, and was for many years a banker in Aberdeen. \\ . l. Dismukes the new President of tae Tenne^se-? State Senate, is thirty-six years of age. He is a lawyer by profession and served in the lower bouse last year. Mr. Talmage prides himself upon being able to turn out an excellent sermon more rapidly than most men cau write a letter. Spurgeon is an equally quick composer. John Fitzroy de Courcey, Lord Kincade, who recently died in England, was one ot the two British noblemen entitled by royal grant to keep their hats on their heads in the presence of royalty. Edwin B. Winans, who is the first Democratic Governor that Michigan has had in thirty years, is a conservative, bald-headed old farmer, with a neatly-trimmed beard and k'ndly eyes beaming out of gold spectacles. Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, is said to have reduced his weight sixty-five pounds in six months by eating four or five times a day?as often as he desires to eat, in fact? but taking as little food as possible to assuage the pangs of hunger. Ho also avoids fluiils. Probably the most extensivo farmer in all Pennsylvania is Dr. Livingood, of Womelsdorf, Berks County. His farms cover about 2000 acres and are worth from $ 200,000 to ?230,000. He nets an average of four per cent, on his investments and is satisfied. Mayor Salter, of Argonia, Kan., besides attending to the public affairs of that enterprising little city, does all the household work at home, including cooking, washing and ironing for a family of six. It is perhans unnecessary too add that Mayor Salter is G, Wuiiiai, General i.irev\E A. Carr, one of the generals campaigmi.fr n^^inst the Indianwith Miles, is a West Point41'^'<inte of long standing. He is a medium-sized of muscular figure, rather bald, and some\vunf peppery in temperament. Socially be is hoi pitable and most popular. It is said of David Jacks, tho Monterey County (Cal.) millionaire, that he can ride a. i-_ M:i?. o cfi'U i rrY\ t ]{nO linHTl hlS OWI1 iwentj- llxuw m a onuiaui, ??MV laud. He is a Scotchman, and in 1849 stowed himself away in a barrel on a vessel bound ! for California. Now he has a fortune of 17,000,000. He is a devout Presbyterian. I " .* ? "*- - "r^^ -T.. ' ' *"* - * FIRE DAMP'S mm. ~] Dreadful Disaster in Frlck's Mine, Mount Pleasant, Penn. Scores of MinerB Perish in a Fiery Tomb. A dispatch from Mount Pleasant, Penn., fays: Fuhj 110 miners were suffocated by gas which exploded this morning in the mammoth shaft of the H. C. Frick Coke ComDanv. about ten miles from this place. "We want volunteers to go down tfceshaftf' yelled a grimmy-faced man at the entrance to the Mammoth No. 1, a little after 9 o'clock this morning, as he flashed his torch in the the countenances of scores of men with blanched faces who crowded around. There was no lack of response, for down in the earth lay the bodies of more than a hundred of their comrades. About 9 o'clock there had occurred the worst disaster ever known in a bituminous coal mine in the State of Pennsylvania. Mammoth was the scene of the catastrophe. It is situated on the Sewlckley branch of the Southwestern Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. There are two mines, No. 1 and No. 2, belonging to the Frick Company. No. 1 is entered by a shaft, 107 feet deep, and No. 2 is entered by a slopa. The mines are connected by interior workings. Fire damp, the dread of coal miners, has always been remarkable at this place for its absence. No trace of it had ever been found in the mines, and for that reason the common coal diggers' lamp was used. Early in the morning Fira Boss Tv"m. Smith had made bis tour of the mines in accordance with the laws of the State, and had found everything apparently in order. The men were oraerod to work. One hundred and ten of them, it is estimated, went down the pit shaft, where in a short tim? fViotr wore tn meet death. They went down with laughter and with jests. A few minutes after 9 o'clock there was n dull rumble like distant thunder mattering behind distant hills. Then a cloud of smoko and dust shot up the shaft of Mammoth No. 1100 feet above tho tall derrick. It slowly settled, and for a few moments there was silence. Then the workers from Mammoth No. 2 began pourihz out of the slope. All rushed toward the shaft of No. 1. Many of these men bad been bruised and shaken up by the force of the explosion, but none were injured seriously. Superintendent George Keighley called for volunteers, and at once twenty men step: e: forward and were lowered down the shaft iu the cage, which had not been injured by th: explosion. When the party reached the bottom of the shaft cne glanca and the odor of the deadly fire damp told the story. Death was stalking in the underground corridors. The party returned to the top of tho shaft, an*: the ventilating fan, one of the most powerful in use at anv coal mine, was at once started up at its utmost speed. Again Superintendent Keighley and hi.party wentdown. The force of the explosion was visible on every hand. The coal wagons usea in me mmeo ?<ji v i splintered to pieces in some cages, and in j others several nad been jammed together::: J a solid mass. Mules were seen which had been driven against the ribs of the working.with such force that their bodies lost all resemblance to living reality. Here and there lav human bodies. So:n were mutilated, ana all were blackened by the flame which had swept through t! works. The bodies of those who had been killed I * the effects of the explosion lay in distort-?*) attitudes, whilo those of the others who l:n apparently escaped the flame and concussion, but had rushed from the rooms in which th?y ware working into the flats and had succumbed to the stealthy suffocating flre damp. Jay in sleeping attitudes. Some lay at fill .length, with heads resting upon their han ?. as if asleep. Others were face downwn:-.! with their heads in pools of water. One man had climbed into a wag which had not been wrecked, and there, w it his dinner bucket by his side, had laid do w. as if to dream. | Enough had been seen for experieuo-:* miners to know that all the men in flu Nos. 2, 3 and 4 of the Mammoth mine hi perished. General Manager Thomas Lynch at on." notified the managers of the other con mtues belonging to the Frick Company, a i i sent messengers to Mount Pleasant, Gree:u burg, Scottsdale, and surrounding town j for nhvsicians. Doctors Wilson, Painter, Brown, Myo:\McCormack and Clark at once resporide and, while they could render no aid to t'.v dead, took charge of tHe arrangement of th I bodies, attended tho rescuers who were ove come, while working in the mine still fou'. | They helped in many instances to distinguish traces of humanity in tne heaps of debris. When the news of the explosion was carried to the miners' families in the little houseclotted on the hillsides mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, and sweethearts rushed to th * shaft. But the story was soon told. "All the men in flats Nos. 2, 3 and 4 are dead. As fast as we get their bodies out and they are identified and fixed for burial we will send them I home," was what was told them. There was no loud expression of emotion. A so', could be heard here and there, and man or woman walked away with a bowed head, returning to a desolate home to await the arrival or the dead. The women bore the news heroically. As soon as the mine experts had arrived a systematic plan for the recovery of the bodies was agreed upon. The first party went down the shaft to flat No. 4. Three hundr^i feet from the shaft they found a pile of earth, coal, wagons and human bodies which blocked further progress. Thi3 was tunneled through, ana the party turned off at right angles along a haulage road, and at the c-xtremityof this there was a man with his head blown off. At this point several of the party, among thitn Superintendents Pvobert Ramsey an-1 Laird, were overcome by the after damp and had to be carried back to purer air. The entrance to each room opening Into three flats was hastily closed with brattices to give a clearer sweep to the air that was being rorc^ into the mine. In the haulage roads of flit No. 4 thirty-flve bodies were found, and tifteen were countel in on3 heap in flat No. 2. One man had both legs blown off. Thibody of a boy was found with a stick driven through his arm. Time Boss Wm. Smith was torn almost to pieces. The big pumps, which lift tons of water at a time, were broken and scattered as if they had oeen made of straw. 11 was only a few minutes after the explosion when the first body reached the surface. The body was still warm, but life was extinct. The next man brought up appeared to be still breathing, but the utmost i-xertions of the physicians failed to revive him. Then began the procession of the dead. All day long the victims were brought up. , A morgue was hastily improvised in a Iwo-story frame structure formerly used as i residence by a'superintendent. At 10 o'clock ihat night twenty-four bodies out of sixty dad been recovered. !.t has been estimated tbat there &re sixty wives and families that are left wholly de pendent on the charity of the world for sustenance by this disaster. In fact, they are nlmoet penniless, as the plant has not been running full for some time, and work has been exceedingly scarce since dullness has set in in the demand for coke. Once or twice fires were discovered where the explosion had ignited small heaps of dry coal dust. For a tune it was feared the horrors which attended the Dunbar disaster were to be duplicated. Large quantities of water w ero turned on the flames, and after several hours of hard work they were extinguished. Then a bucket brigade was organize J. Every little spark was suppress;*! before it could spring into llaute. The Mammoth plant embraces 509 ovens, one of the largest plants iu the coke regions, but it is difficult or access. It is situated near the United Works, wliyro an explosion recently destroyed the entire shaft. HIS LAST TBIP. Krakeman Davis's Prophetic Words Come True. "This will be ray last ruu, as I intend quitthe road to-night," remarkod Al. Davis, a ^'akeman on the Louisville Southern, as he Ifrt Lexington, Ivy., on a recent morning. - Two hours afterward an express train daSheJ into the rear of his freight train, instantly killing him. His car burned up and his *ody was cremated. , . - - ... ^.--v - " - ' '" ? ' ; c FIFTY-FIBST C0NQ-BE3S. In the Senatt?. 40th Dat.?By the aid of rulings of the _ Vice-President, the deadlock of the last few J days was broken, and the Aldrich closure resolution was made unfinished business; a recess was then taken. 41st Day.?The Senate resumed the session which was interrupted by tho recess of ? 0 o'clock tho previous eveniDg. The closure oil noTT nnmai*Atio Sono_ 1 UIO ntUUiOV/UK^U liU UUJ, uuu^wtvuri tors participating. 42d Day.?There was no prayer, no journal anil no morning hour, but there was a call cf the roll, which showed that there g were forty-five Senators in attendance?ex- .. actly a quorum. Mr. Stewart addressed the Senate against the closure resolution. a 43d Day.?The Aldrich closure resolution t was displaced by a vote of thirty-five to g thirty-four, and the Apportionment bill was taken up,...Tho Army Appropriation bill * was reported.... Mr. Blair moved to proceed a to the consideration of the 'House bill pro- ' viding for the adjustment of the accounts of E laborers, workmen and mechanics arising * under the eight-hour law. ? 44th Dat.?The Journal of Thursdav (covering the proceedings of Thursday, Friday, * Saturday and Monday) was approved.... ? The credentials of Mr. Stanford and of Mr. * Irby, as Senators-elect from California and 1 South Carolina, for the term beginning * March 4, 1891, were placed on file The ^ Apportionment bill was taken up....The s Senate will meet hereafter daily at 11 a. m. ' 45th Day.?The House Apportionment f bill was taken up. After a long debate, participated in by Senators Washburn, J Davis, C-ormas. Carlisle and others, the bill ' was laid aside.... A conference report on the < bill for a public building at Rockford, 11L, 2 was agreed to, and the House bill, increasing ' to $75,000 the limit of cost for a < public building at Portsmouth, Ohio, < was placed on the calendar.... The House bill to confirm agreements with < the Sac and Fox nation of Indians and the 1 Iowa tribe of Indians, of Oklahoma Terri- ' fnTO troo rvncoAi-1 _Tha conference reDOrfc ' on the bill For a public building at Pueblo, 1 Col., was agreed to. The appropriation is 1 reduced from #400,000 to $250,000. In the House. j 83th Dat.?The District of Columbia Ap- : propriation bill was passed, and the Naval ' Appropriation bill taken up. 89th Dat.?The Journal having been read in its usual form, Mr. Breckinridge, of : Arkansas, objected to its approval until th9 < remaining portion (relative to the reference ; of bills, etc.) was read....The House then went into Committee on tho Whole (Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, in the chair) on the ? Naval Appropriation biH General debate ou the bill was participated in by Messrs. 1 Herbert, McAdoo, Adams, cf Illinois, and Lodge, of Massachusetts. 1 40th Dat.?The session was almost eatirelv 1 devoted to the reading of the previous day's i ir% 4*0 c.rfannfl/1 fnrm flnH a narlia- I mentary wrangle over the approval thereof .. .'.The House then went into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, in the chair) on the Naval Appropriation bill. Pending a disposition of tha bill, the committee rose ana the Hduse adjourned. 41st Day.?The usual skirmish took place as to the reading and approval of the Journal, but it was finally approved?yeas 141, nays 107....Tho Naval Appropriation bill was passed. 42d Day.?The approval of tho Journal occupied half an-hour.... The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Military Academy Appropriation bill.. 43d Day.?The Journal of yesterdays proceedipgs was approved without quo3lion.... Tho Sdnate resolution for the printing of 15,000 extra copies of the report of tha Irrigation Commission on the imgation of the arid lands was agreed to....The Speaker, laid before the House the resignation of Johu H. McCarthy as Representative from the Seventh District of New York. Laid on tho table The House considered the Military Academy Appropriation bill, but no action was taken. ' "* thelaboTwoeld, Elmfra N. Y., has a female shoemaker. Scotland's railway strike cost $1,250,000. j Hartford (Conn) unions will build a * V C1 O" a ' atutiiau^, injillwi, vttl uilioogovfwa i day. Berlin, Germany, has 75,000 idle workmen. The coal miners' strike in Alabama Is over. ' Nashville, Tenn., has a colored painters' j anion. A Southern PeciSc track walker uses a bicycle. Ban* Francisco (Cal.) bos sawers work nine hours. Brooklyn, N. Y., has a "Workmen's Dramatic Club. California ci.rpenters recently held a State convention. Ninety vhocs <nd are out of work in the east end of Loudon alone. The railway strike in Scotland has spread to the Southwestern road. The Granite Cutters' National Union has a membership of more than 20,000. San Francisco (Cal.) shoe dealers who sell Chinese-made goods will be boycotted. Switzerland machinists secured the passage of a law making eleven hours the legal day. The farm laborers of England are forming a union resembling in some points the Irish League. jriri^>t}L m# (itriiu./ uio mj cia *cccuwj struck for $4 a day and a Saturday halfholiday. Masons at Atlanta, Ga., get twenty-one cents an hour; at St Louis, mo., forty-nine cents is paid. The Philadelphia Postofflce females have ?ormed n protective association for mutual advancement. Caeix boys on board yachts and messroom boys on United States men-of-war get/ from $10 to 812 a month and found. Brooklyn, N. Y., skylightmakers now work eight hours at from $3 to J ).50 per day, the latter price being for outside workers. Tee finished output of iron and steel in the Pittsburg district last year has never been surpassed in the history of the trade in this country. The Women's Union of Paris i3 askine for ' yearly subscriptions of twenty cents to help establish a home for women out of work in ' that city. Robert T. Paine has offered two prizes j of S100 each for the best essays by Harvard ] University students on the social and labor i questions. The British Government now has ten lines jf railway started in Ireland, and several 1 thousand persons are employed at from $3 to i $3.25 per week. 1 In the building trades the six cities In j which the highest wages are paid are New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, St. Louis, Galves- j ton and San Francisco. ' The working classes of California hava : aow over 8104,000.000 to their credit in the ( banks of that State. The total indebtedness jf th e Stato is $2,462,000. , A Norwegian woman, Mrs. C. Loudt, has c given two houses and 50,000 crowns to es^ i lablish a home for aged women servants no s anger able to work for their own support. ^ St. Locis pays the highest wages for ma- 1 lonry. New York for carpentry, San Fran" c :isco for painting, Chicago for plumbing, Santa Fe for roofing and Galveston for com- ; nou labor. -< ? INGALLS DEFEATED. Kansas Elects Tfeffer as His Successor iu the Senate. A dispatch from Topeka, Kan., says: I Promptly at 12 o'clock the Senate file.l into tho Representatives' chamber for the purpose of joining the House in joint convention j to elect a United States Senator to succ3?<i j John J. Ingalls. Lieutenant Governor Fel,' took the chair and callcd the House to 1 order. t Tho roll of both bodies was cation at on.1 * au l resulted as follows: William Pfeffer, lul: a John J. Inzalls, 5S; Blair, 3; Morrill, 1; t Kelly,1. The chair then declared Williasii a Pxeffer Senator-elect to succeed John J. In- t calls. The result was received with applause t from the Allinncj members. * For the first tlino in the history of th3 fc State a United States Senator has been * chosen who owes no allegance to the Ripub- t lican party, and who was elected without its 6 aid. The vote is substantially the same as y taken in each House separately. I ? . : CLOSURE SET ASIDE. Phe Aldrich Resolution Shelved j in the United States Senate. |; !1 Six Kepublican Senators Vote .; With the Democrats. i i By the aid of six Republican United States ' enators?one of whom, Mr. "Wolcott, of J Jolorado, made the motion which brought | bout the result?the Aldrich closure resolqion was sent tack to the calendar of the lenate at Washington. This was effected by he passage of a motion of Mr. Wolcott, soon Iter the Senate met, to take up the Apporionment bill Mr. Dolph moved to lay this notion on the table, but this was rejected by he close vote of thirty-four yeas and thirtyive nays. "When the Senate met at noon there was no Dtimation of what was to come. Mr. Mor- i ;an, of Alabama, had the floor to continue lis speech against the closure rule comnenced Saturday. There was every prospect hat he would hold the floor all day. The Republicans, who had said that the rule was ure to pass and to carry with it the Force >ill, baa no thought of reaching a vote for lome days. Everybody expected a dull day. Mr. Morgan had been speaking a little >ver an hour when Mr. Wolcott, who has ;een an opponent of the proposal to apply :losure in toe Senate, asked him if he would Field the floor "for a moment." The Alaaama Senator was agreeable, and Mr. Wolcott moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the Apportionment bill. There were not twenty Senators in the chamber when Mr. Wolcott addressed the Chair. By the time the motion naa Deen rtated by Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut, who happened to be in the chair while Mr. Morton was at lunch, there were forty Senators on hand, and the active pages were darting through the committee rcoms in search of others. Mr. Aldrich was not in at the moment, but Mr. Dolph, realizing that the friends of closure must gain a little time to rally their forces, moved to lay Mr. Wolcott's motion on the table. Mr. Gorman, Mr. Cockrell, and other Democrats insisted that such a motion wad not in order, and Mr. Aldrich, who came in on a run, admitted that he was ia doubt as to its admissibility, Mr< Piatt, however, having as a precedent! the Vice-President's recent ruling, decided mat tot. uoipn was m oruer, uuu the Democrats did not appeal from his de* rision. They felt that the sooner the decisive rote was taken the better. A dozen Sf natorfl called for the yeas and nays, and they were ordered. It was the test vote, and for once thd clerks had no difficulty iil hearing the re* sponses to the roll-call. Senators themselves were listening. Mr. Faulkner and otherj kept tally. When the roll had been called it looked as if the closure rule men were ahead a vote or two, and the Democrat'! began anxiously to "hustle" about to transfer pairs to absent col< leagues, so that ell those present might vote. Other Senators came in in time to get their votes recorded, and finally a broad smile on Mr. Faulkner's face wad rlgTitly interpreted as meaning that the anticlosure-rule men were ahead. But Mr. Daniel, who was paired with Mr. Squire, did nol want to run any risk. He announce! that he would transfer his pair j to Mr. Stanford, but there was a quick i storm of objections from the Republicans. I Mr. Aldrich declared that Mr. Stanford was in favor of the rule, and Mr. Stewart declared just as emphatically that the Califor' nia Senator was opposed to it. Mr. StewarS said he would exonerate any Senatot who would pair Mr. Stanford against th i rule. After a lively wrangle, Mr. Daniel assured that Mr. Dolph's motion was beaten anyhow, said he would let his pair stan I; and forego his.v'Qtg. ThoQ Mr, Morton, who had been callel ujt from lunch, announced the motion to lay I Mr. Wolcott'p motion on the tabb had been I lost by a vote of thirty-five to thirty-four, aa follows: Yeas?Messrs. Aldrich, Allen, Allison, I Blair, Carey. Casey, Cullom, Davis, Dawes, I Dixon, Dolph, Edmunds, Evarts, Farwell, I iTye, Jtiaie, nawiey, mscccn, noar, jic Council, McMillan, Manderson, Mitchell, Morrill, Paddock, Piatt, Power, Quay, Sawyer, Sherman, Spooner, Stockbridge, War- | ren. Wilsop, of loyra?thirty-four. Nays?Messrs" Barbour; Bafe, B.-rry, Blackburn, Butler, Call, Cameron, Carlisle, CockrelL, Coke, Eustis, Faulkner, George, Gorman, Gray, Hampton, Harris, Jones, of Arkansas; Jones, of Nevada; Kenna, McPherson, Morgan, Payne, Pugh, Ransom, Reagan, Stewart Teller, Turpie, Vance, Vest, Walthall, Washburn, WilsoD,of Maryland; Wolcott?thirty-five. The success or the anti-closure rule and Force bill men was due to the reinforcement of Mr. Cameron's vote and the absence of Mr. Stanford without a pair. Had the Republicans allowed the California Senator to be paired against the rule, as he should have done on Mr. Stewart's statement, there would have been two majority against the measure. Mr. Allison was so anxious to aro on record in favor of closure that he transferred his pair with Mr. Ingalls to another Senator so that he could vote. The resolutior for tho junendment of the rules having thus been displaced and relegated to the calendar (as the Forca bill had previously be6n), the 3enate proceeded to the consideration of the Apportionment bill, FLOODS SPEEAD EUIN. nni. - r*AMPAi3 t* rAnnOA. ALIC OU9II U1 ll uwn ? vvuuvvticut Dam to Give Way. Wreck and ruin struck the Housatonic Valley at Birmingham, Conn., for the second time in a few days. This time the worst fears hare been realized from damage by the floods, and a portion of that gigantic wall of masonry known as the dam of the Housatonic Water Company, weakened by the storm of last week, crumbled before the swift current, letting great quantities down into the valley. Houses and barns are afloat, mills are dr.maged, the water power Is gone for a length of time that c;annct be estimated and the desolation appears complete. The freshet grew heavy under the immonsa ) fall of water and 150 feet of the biz dam i cave away. A guard had been posteiat the Jam, and when the first piece of granite coping went off the top he rushed to Wilkinson's paper mill and sounded the fire alarm. Incense excitement prevailed. Tha spile-driver of the Housatonic road, which was repairing the bridge damaged by the storm of last week, floated down stream md out into the Sound. It was lost. Two tiundred feet more of the trestle work were swept off, and the railroad company will not do able to run trains across the river for over i month. This is one of the most sirious "eatures of the flood. JLlgUtCCa 1U1113? UJMJLl U1WU bUC LU1 I n the valley really depend for support, are jlosed, and cannot resume for fully a month. The dam was finished in October, 1870, and vas considered one of the strongest in the :ountry. Tho length was 637 feet, with an ibutment of 167 feet, making 800 feet of olid masonry. The abutment washe J away vas about twenty-five feet in height. The lamage by the breaking of the dam will imount to fully $300,000. The waters of Still River, Danbury, Conn., vhich overflowed its banks, did considerable lauiage. All the manufacturing establishnents along its banks suffered. A number >f small bridges were swept away, and also t number of small buildings. RAVENOUS WOLVES, n Default ot Deer They Are Devour ing Indians. The Rev. J. Sette, missionary among the ndiau tribes arounl Lake? Winuipag an I | lauitoba, statas that camp, of Indians ! uniting on tho east side of Lake TTiunipeg, | lot very far from Bloo.l Vein River, near ' )og Head, were visited by a band of wolves. ;bout a hundred in number. They atacked the camps and killed many Indians ,nd devoured them. One Indian killed .wenty wolves; another Indian climbed up a . iree with his gun and shot down twenty. { jne got upon n siage wmcn was ni>i very tigb, an 1 the wolves got him down and de- j 'oured him. There is a great panic among ! he Indians in that quarter. The Indians ; ay. that there are no deer, consequently the i rolves are ravenous. ' i CHAPTER OF AOCiDEBTTS,... i A. Series of Piio Fatalities in Jersey " City, N. J. A chapter of accidents hinged upon a fire n a Jersey City (N. J.) tenement on a recent ifternoon. An aged woman was badly in- ; fared by jumping from a window, and one , Vfji man was found dead in an upper room of the burning building. As one of the engines , used at this fire was hastening to another, it was run down by an express train at a crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the iriver was killed. A young colored woman who was standing near was injured, probably J totally. Meantime at tbe fire in Grove street Chief Henry E. Farrier was killed by an explosion, and Fireman John McDonald was badly injured . The saddest accident was that of old MVo Wonnon fiho trflfl HHrfln hr tho flamM < to a window, and before a ladder could be raised for her rescue she was forced to Jump. She struck on a empty piano box, crushing through it, and was picked up for dead, but recovered consciousness, and it was found her right leg was broken and that she had sustained internal injuries. At 7:30 p. M. the same day an alarm came in from the box at Pavonia and Grove streets. i Daniel Dinan, stoker of Engine 8, took the . t reins in the absence of Thomas Dillon, the regular driver, and drove from the engina house. Ab he approached the Pennsylvania railroad crossing the gatemaa swung his ; ta>itern as a signal to stop. The horses were under such headway, how- ' aver, that Dinan was unable to check them. . He pulled the horses to one side, and the angina struck one of the iron pillars of the - 'a! elevated track. This frightened the horses, I 3 and they dashed across the Pennsylvania track directly in front of the incoming Florida vestibule train, which was running it high speed. The locomotive struck the fire engine and smashed it. Dinan was thrown from hii "*' "sg seat under the wheels of locomotive. His head was severed from the body. The body was picked up afterward about halfway between Barrow and Grove streets, and. after a loDg search, the head was found near Grove street. Mary Sneed, a colored woman, was standing near the tracks waiting to cross.' A piece of iron from the fire engine struck : ^ her on the head and knocked her senseless. ^ She subsequently recovered and was taken home in a patrol wagon. One of the engine horses was killed, and the other so badly injured that he had to be shot A few hours later on the same day Tire -J? Chief Henry E. Farrier, of Jersey City, "was ,il kiiied in Boltwood'3 hardware store, at ' Grove street and Pavonia avenue. Boltwood's hardware store Is a four-story brick building. The fire was easily put out and the firemen were making preparations to ieave when a terrible explosion was heard , ga and Fireman John McDonald, of Engine No. * 6, came out from a cellar, his face and hands bloody and burned, and reported that Fire Chief Farrier was in the cellar. Fireman , McDonald, with Fire Commissioner Brown, who had heard the explosion in in his house a block or two away, rushed into the cellar. They found Fire Chief Farrier's body lying on its back at the reta* of the cellar. Life was extinct. No marks of violence were visible. It appeared that he was in the front of the cellar when the ex-. ' plosion occurred and was carried by its fore# , forty feet to the rear. _ j4 FATAL HBE. ' ?f|l Firemen Killed andlnjared at a Vastv'; Buffalo (N. Y.) Conflagration. Fire, about 9 o'clock in the evening, was discovered in the catting-room of L. Marcos y? & Son, wholesale clothing, in the building ' owned ar.d occupied by "Warner Brothers & '^$3 Co., at the corner of Terrace and Pearl . street^ Buffalo, N. Y. The flames rapidly spread into Zingsheim & Harris, wholesale clothing, next door, and Darling & Schofes's clothing-house adjoining.' All of Jhe. ?b<jve places were totally d?. sfroyed. The total loss is estimated at botween ?400,090 and $500,000. Foreman Fisher, of. the fira department* i jvascausM bj fii]Jin^w-!'i ir^njly kHIe-l. Fireman MurpuJhl9 idgDfdkei .'if Fireman Hart, of Engine No. 12, received J a fractured skull, injuring him fatally. - V>jfa | Fire Commissioner Beyer was struck in the face by flying beams and seriously in* ;^Jj I lured. Five or six other firemen were _.]m ' known to ba seriously injured and it was, . thought that two or thrw w^r$ buried ' der the walla, 1 TEE WORK OF COKSBESS. , | Proportion of Private Bills to Public Much Smaller Than (Jsnal. The percentage of bills introduced in Con* gress that reached the last stage of legislation?the approval or disapproval of tha | Executive?is very small Up to recent date, ! including this session anl last, 13,250 bills and 275 joint resolutions have been introduced in the House. Of this number 12,209 "|2 were putin last session. Of these 3515 have been considered by committees and reported to the House. Three thousand two hundred and fortv-three were reported-last session and 272 tnis session. \ Of the 12,200 bills introduced last sesadba only 1095 became laws. Of this number 86i\ were bills of public interest, the others pri- \j?3 vate pension bills, claims, etc. During this ; session the total number of bills which have A passed and received the signature of the tf President is sixtv-five. Of these thirty-three rjj were public bills and thirty-two private. This is a very unusual proportion, as ordin- Vy arily the number of private bills passed is four or five times greater than the publio , bills. The indications now are that the record of the Fifty-first Congress when final- 3 ly made up will show that the number of ' bills introduced has been greater than in any other Congress, and the number passed will be smaller than in several other Congresses. ' d I ? Ti * mmr r* rrn rruTT TIP A TXT I ii JD.&1 XXlJj XV/ X XLiJ X/JbLCLAUl ja | Fierce Fight Between a Stallion and I a Jackass. I A battle to the death took place a ton - 3 ; days ago in Mercer County, Ky., between a : valuable saddle stallion and a Jackass belongiog to William Thomas, a stock raiser. A mad dog bit Thomas's little boy and also the A:;3 J horse. The latter went mad, and kick- : ;fi ing down the door of the jackass's stable bepan biting him. The jackass retaliated, and for fifteen minutes they fought, using teeth, SB heels and fore feet. Finally the jackass tore "M loose the stallion's left ear with his teeth.and . the horse then bit a pieca from the jackass's neck. This made the jackass more ferocious " than ever, and, grabbing the lower part of the horse's neck in his teeth, he tore out his ^ windpipe. Even then the high-mettled stallion did ^ not give up. Before falling he kicked the * - ?1 ' ? it 4iiet. ha. jacxass on tae muu iL-g, .? ~~ low the liock, and then fell dead. The -<=? jackass indulged in a long, loud bray and j| went into his stable. He was covered with blood, aud so fearfully wounded that hla "-3% master killed him to put him out of misery. ...S LABOE'S GEBASEST BATTLE -I Fully 150,000 Miners Will Straggle for the Eight Hcrur Day May 1. The miners of the United States hare just completed their plans for the greatest Industrial battle ever inaugurated in America. The conflict between the miners and the mine owners for eight hours will take piece on May 1 and will involve one hundred and fifty thousand men. This statement m made in Pittsburg, Penn., a few days ago by W. J. Dillon, United States Organizer of the American Federation of Labor. He said : "In the States of Illinois, Alabama, Ten- : > r"?a.?1? on/1 Ohin fhwrn n&5SC , iVfUILK'KJ, xuuiauu auu vimv ?v. ? ^ are at least 75,000 miners. In the anthracite region of Pennsylvania there ore 25,000 miners. On the rivers and railroads in the 3 j Fittsburc district there are nearly 12.000 men, Up in Clearfield and the surrounding counties there are 10,000 more. In the agpre^ate we figure on about 150,000 miners in the United States. Although miners are - ? -* i t/> generally pnm oy ins ousnei me.> uc:Ut _ place aliruit on their working hours." -J A sttrseox of Decatur, III., has jast com- J lie ted a novel surgical operation. He re- I nove 1 parts of four ribs of a cat and in- ?I ;er:od them in the nose of a young lady and I 'ormed a perfect bridge for her nose. This I s said to be the first operation of the kind I | mown in the aunais of surgery. J