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Baffiawr, [ RESCUED ALIVE. V. I , I Thrilling Experiences of Threa r I Imprisoned Miners. I Shut Up in a Nanticoke (Penn.) f | Colliery for 115 Hours. John Rineer, William Cragle, and Michael Shefc'.ong, the threa man ciught by a mine Vol in slopa 3 of tha Susquahvim, Coal Jompany at Grand Tunnel, oppasita Nanticoke, Penn., were rescuel alive from their underground prison, after baing confined 115 hours. The point where they ware found was fully 4')03 feet from the mauth of the slope, and almost 3D0 feet from the main .gangway where the water rushed in upon the place in which they were at work. Here they remained captives in the flooded mina, without fooJ or drink, and in total darkness, for 115 hours. The story of tha rescue, as told by George Bendell, who was the first to reach the three men, is thrilling. When the mine pumps had got the water ? :-* ? -..11 aown UJ a puiliu VVUICU nutuu aaun Ciiv Vft a boat, Bondell, finding no boat available, I got upon a raft constructed of brattice t boards, and pushed along through the I i gangway. He managed to get under two I low sets of timbers by lying flat upon, the float and pulling himself | along by the roof of the mine. Reaching a t third timber sat, h9 found it so low that \ there was scarcely room for the raft. But, \ on looking between the water aul the roof, he noticed that just beyond t'ae timbers was , a rise in the top of the gangway There- . ' upon he slid into the water from the raft, shoved the raft under the timber, swimming alongside, and so passad the obstruction. He lost his lamp in the attempt and called for a light. In answer William < Bowen and Anthonv Jones plunged into the < murky abyss, wading part of the distance and swimming the rest to where they could i reach Bendeli. i Bowen got to him firet and pushed his j !??? awan *V?a fart r\ F tho f.j m Hai* I il^UVCU lautp V?Cl UU9 Vk vuw , w ith this Beudell pu9hoi on to the other side ( Of the dip and got out of the water. As he ; went up along the bratticework, about sixty feet from the timbers, he heard a coll: . "For God's sake, hurry up boys, and get us from hero." It was Rineer calling to him, and he responded: "All right, men; we are coming as fast as we can." Then he ran back through the water to . where he could call to Bo wen and Jones. "1 have found the men; they are alive, : alive!" he shouted, ani the cry was picked up by the men at the pumps and sent on up the slope to whore other men were resting 1 from their manv hours of hard work, for I some of them had not been out of the mine | j since beginning the work of rescue five days i before. ] | - Then Bendell went back to the men. The first one he reached was Rineer. who threw j his arms about him and cried with joy, and , | i said: j "God bless you, Geoigo. How is the j water?" Being told that it was nearly low enough to permit their escape out, the men all 1 offered up thanks to God for delivering them 1 from death. 1 It was nearly 5 o'clock before the men could be taken down from the cross-heading 1 where they had found a refuge. They floated one at a time on the raft across tne gang- ] way, and then were carried to a place where they could receive medical treatment. The ] only nourishment allowed them was milk in { very small quantities. , At C o'clook the men were taken from the j mine and removed to their homes?Cragle .and Rineer to West Nanticokeand Shetlong to Grand Tunnel. I The two villages went wild over the rescue J -of the msn, who had been given up for dead ' by the mins officials and all familiar with the working of the mine, excepting tho3e ' who had a slight hop3 the men might have ( -escaped into the airway. This they could not do, however, and their lives were only j .saved by a narrow margin. The story told \ by the rescusd men is as follows: < They were at work off from the main gang- 1 way about one hundred feet when they hoard the distant roar of the rushing water. ] They feared there was danger, and dropping their tools, ran from the gang:i way. The water was already at hand, but when they reached the door the volume of the torrent fairly burst upon them. It was a race for life, as they i turned and ran back to the point they came 1 tram, th9 water in swelling billows reaching now and then to their feet, but with hastening step they kept safely ahead of it until they reached a cross heading, running from Rineer's gangway to the old workings of the mine, ana about ninety feet from the point t where they had been at work. This cross I heading if sixty feet in length, and runs up at a pitch of forty degrees. Its head was th9 i highest point in the mine the men could reach. \ Beyond it the old workings pitched down in l either direction deep into the mine, but there was no way of escape through them. g Up the pitch they crawled to get away ( from the water, and up the slope it came r after them until they reached the top of the heading. It was useless to go further, and they prepared themsalves to meet the fate j which seemed in store for them. One ' miners lamp still flickered and cast 1 its dim light about them, and looking down the heading they could see re- i fleeted in the water a dance of light as the flood kept creeping toward them. On and ( on it came until it was almost within their j reach, until it was within eight feet of them. Then it stopped, and finally settlod until it stood about ten feet below them. Shut in by water on one side and no way of escape on the other, the men still hoped ? that help would reach them from the outside. They believed that their fellow workmen would leave nothing undone to rescue them, 1 ana id uus lsutu awaitea cue signs icai wouia tell them the work of rescue was under way. 1 After a timj the great mine pumps, 600 \ feet away, were heard throbbing aud draw- ' ing on the water. The moment was a 1 thrilling one to them, and gave them great encouragement. Then the solitary 1 lamp which had guided them in their t flight from the flood gave out, and they were ] left in inky darkness. They now did not dare $ to mTe from the logging that gave them t rest, for a single misstep upon the rough ] mass of broken rock that clutered the head- t ing would have plunged thern down into the ? abyss which was filled with water. Sleep deserted them, and together thev waited the time that would bring them succor. In the first few hours of their imprisonment , they felt the pangs of huuger, but this so">n ceased.and the greater one of thirst came over them. This they could only appease by getting their faces against t'ue rib of the heading ' and licking tae trickling water at it dropped ! from the roof and ran down the side of their Erison walls. But this source of supply was i ladequate, and t'ueir sufferings were iuten- < .oift/vsl V. tt Ka fonf f Iiq f f ha mSna fin fo if Ka. OiUCU UJ IUU ICK/b biiav l/UV IIUUV IfCd ICwV UW low them was flooded with water they could not reach. As the facts of the wonderful rescue havo become known about the thickly populated mining regions the people are intensely interested and excited. Tae story of their escape is accepted as one of the most wonderful known in the long list of mining accidents, where the man of the subterranean passages are frequently imprisoned, but rarely rescued alive. OYER THE VETO, The Dallas (Texas) Public Building J Bill Passed by the House. In the House of Representatives Mr. 1 Abbott, of Texas, from the Committee on ' Public Buildings and Grounds, reported back the bill providing for an extension of the ] public building at Dallas, Texa3, at a cost of $300,000. Tbis bill passed Cod gross last session, but was vetoed by the President, j The recommendation of the committee is that the bill be passed over the veto. The j fcill was passed?yeas, 141; nays, sixty-nine: the necessary two-thirds voting in the offlrmotirrt. ' KILLED WIFE AND SELF. ' The Woman's Face was Partially Eaten Off by a Cat. 1 Charles Knack, of Leopolds, "Wis., sbot and killed his wife and himself last week. ] The bodies were not found until six days i afterward. The face of Mrs. Knack had been partly eaten off by a cat which was in ' the room. Knack and his wife did not live ' agreeably together, and it is supposed the %e4j*M.d^_d?uing a quarrel. _ _ < 'V'.v' ' I ' C-. ' M V?s "THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. I Eastern and Middle States. The Workingmen's League of Haverhill, ?lass., is trying to affect an alliance with the armers' organization. Fire at Caledonia, N. Y., burned from Brady's block to and including the Moss louse. Tne loss was estimated at 875,000. The extensive nut and boit works of J. H. sternbergh & Son, at Reading, Penn., have )een completely destroyed by fire, involving i loss of about $350,030^ J. S. McCullough, First Vice-President >f tho Pennsylvania Railroad, died at his lome in Alleghany City, Penn. John McKeown, the oil prince, died at Washington, Penn. He was born in Newton, bounty Armagh, Ireland, in 1838. He had >ractically no education, but succeeded in (.massing a fortune estimated at $0,000,000. "While Christian Zimmorn.an, a wellcnown farmer near New Cumberland, Penn., ivas blasting logs a premature blast oc:urred, killing him instantly. Ex-Chief Justice John Appleton, of tfaiue, died in Bangor, aged eighty-seven rears. Ten thousand miners went on strike in he Connellsville (Penn.) coke region against i reduction of wages. Miss Mart Coffee, an artist, was so bady burned in her studio, at Danbury, Conn., hat she died shortly after. A can of benzine lecame ienited from a match and Miss Cof fee's clothing took fire. The strike of coke workers and miners in ;lie Connellsville (Ponn.) region is general Ml the plants have closed down. Order prerails at all points. Over eighteen thousand nen are idle. The Conemaugh River at Johnstown, Penn., has just given up another flood vie;im. The body, which is that of a woman, s fairly well preserved oxcept that it is head.ess. The Connecticut House in session at Hartford voted to recede from Its position and ;oueur with the Senate. James Redpatb, the well-known abolitionist lecturer, journalist, author and Irish lationalist and Vice-President of the AntiPoverty Society, who was run down by a lorse car in New York City, died from thu jffects of his injuries, in the fifty-ninth year >f his age. A westbound passenger train was wrecked it Groveland, N. Y. Two passengers were ttuicu uuu ocvciai ugutvu. South and West. By the washing away of the temporary jridge of the Alabama Railroad Company >ver the Coosa River, Ala., three colored non were drowned. New Mexico has a free school law for the irst time in her history. Two miners were blown to atoms and ihree terribly injured by the explosion of riant powder in the White Quail Mine of iokomo, Cal. Bishop Engle, of tho Church of United Brethren of Kansas, has been deposed and ] :xpelled from fhe ministry for speculating in < and?, whereby he failed, with $50,000 liabilities over as3et3. W. G. Howells, son of one of the most imminent, lawvers in Southeast Missouri. iad at one time a member of the Legislature, ' >vas lodged in jail at St. Louis, Mo., by 1 [Jnited States officers, charged with a stage < robbery. ' Fire did over $200,000 damage at the 1 Pullman Car Works in Illinois. , The town of Ellisville, Fulton County, , [11., was swept by fire. Only three house! J ire left standing in -the place. The towc j tvas a small one, and there were no means U. j ight the fire. > Tbe Hon. Jame3 Phelan, member of Con 1 n-ess from Memphis, Tena, died in Nassau. < New Providence, of pulmouary consumption. Adolph Trauerbkck shot and mortallj ' rounded his wife and then commit tod sui:ide at Cincinnati, Ohio. Miss Millie urayton, on the day ap | ( pointad for her marriage to Charles Bard' ;ve!l at Austin, Texas, was drugged, and, j ,vith the acquiescence of her parents, forced ] :o marry one Blakely, a rejected suitor. ( The carnival was begun at New Orleans, i La., and Galveston, Texas. i The Idaho Legislature voted to elect a 1 United States Senator to succeed Mr. Mc 2onnell. Two boys, aged ten and twelve, sons of j i German "farmer named August Ford, were Tound dead two miles northwest of Utica, ' Minn. They were caught in the blizzard. j. i; Washington. i Toe gunboat Concord has been accepted by 1 ;he United States Government and is now >eing fitted out at New York City. The President approved the act extendng the time to thirty days within which ] vacancies in the heads of departments shall >o filled. ] O.v the invitation of the Prosident, Acting ] Secretary Nettleton took part in the last I Cabinet meeting as the representative of the i rreasury Department. < A $4,000 000 contract to furnish armor for he Navy nas been awarded to Carnegie, Phipps & Co., of Pittsburg, Penn., by Secretary Tracy. The report on the "Wounded Knee fight ivas sent to the President. The report of the R&um Investigation "Jommittee was made public. It exhoneratea < &e Pension Commissioner. An important and valuable report has re- ( :ently been made through the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey,to Assistant Secretary Spaulding of the J Treasury Department. The President approved the act granting a jension to Major-Greneral Franz Sigel; the ict making an apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States mder the eleventh census, and the act mak- 1 ng appropriation for the enlargement of the < mlitary post at Plattsburgb, N. Y. Baron de Fava, the Italian Minister at | IVashington, gave an elaborate dinner at ' he Metropolitan Club in honor of James G. Blaine, Secretary of State. The other i juests were Secretary of War Proctor, Postnaster-General Wanamaker, Judge John Davis, A. A. Adeo, Secon l Assistant Secre;ury of State, and John Moore, Third Assistmt Secretary of State. The credentials of D. W. Voorhees, of Indiana, and H. C. Hasbrouck, of North Dakota, Senators-elect, were Drasented in the United States Senate and filed. The Sioux Indian delegation had a con ferencd with Indian Commissioner Morgan, who promised to visit their agencies next spring. The Department of Agriculture reports the cottou crop at 106 per cent, of the product of last year. The President made the following nominations: To bo United Statos District Judges?Jamos H. Rood, of Pennsylvania, for the Western District of Pennsylvania; James H. Beatty, of Idaho, for the District of Idaho. Foreign. Kixg Humbert, of Italy, has acccpted Siguor Crisni's resignation, and has directed Marquis di Rudini to form a Cabinet. Professor Hench. of the medical faculty of the University of Berlin, German, reports unfavorably upon the use of Koch's lymph for children and hr s .stopped its use. At Ruetti. in the canton of Glar us,Switzerland, an avalanche swept down the mountain side, burying alive a party of twenty-two woodcutters. The Russian anti-Semitic measures have been suspended. A defalcation has been discovorol in Ihe pay department of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and as a result one of the clerks to . vrr. Parsons, the disbursing officer, has been discharged. Thk Chief of Police of Gal way, Ireland, Kinea mmsoir by snooting witn a revolver, Dwing to the fact that he was charged with having been concornod iu stirring up the recent rows between the soldiers and police. The saw mills of James McLaren at New ! Edinburg, Canada, and five hundred thousand feet of lumber have been destroyed by tire. Loss. 1125.000. The now Italian Cabinet was sworn In by Kins Humbert; the King has offered Signor Crispi a title of nobility, which he refused. General von Schlieffen has succeeded General von Waldersee as Chief of the General Staff of the German Army. A few days ago there were two desperate combats near Mier, Mexico, between oustbma guards and smugglers, in which four of the guards wero killed and one of the smugglers wounded. Three Chilian menof-war have seceded from the revolutionary fleet, and have ar- flr rived at Montevedco in safety. to A decree has been issued under the au- pa thority of the King of Italy, forbidden any one to emigrate under the age of twenty-four unless accompanied by the father of the emi- Fi grant. This is intended to jhit an end to the N< padrone traffic in children. ^ M. Victor Mace, a Paris (France) banker has disappeared, leaving due to depositors about RuOO.OOO. st lii MEN OF MAKE. ? in Career or John P. Lovell, ot Boston | ?Fifty Years in Bnsiness. ? J w; n % * w 1 : Ft JOHN P. I.OVELL. ha Xlio goiciou anniversary 01 mo uusiuuss i ? career of Mr. John P. Lovcll, one of Boston's 1 most widely-known business men, was ap- "V propriately colebrated in that city recently. Ill Speaking of Mr. Lovell's career, which br might Veil "point a moral and adorn a tale," di tho Turf, Field and Farm, says: "John P. Livell was bora in East Braintree, Mass., July 25, 1830. At the ago of Co eleven ho left school and went to work in a j cotton factory. One year later his mother opened a boarding house in Boston and John aS had another year of schooling. With this I scant equipment, but with ,\n indomitable , determination to succeed in life, the boy of ce thirteen entered into tho i rena of life's an battle. Bi "The years that followed witnessed the lad ! r making a noble fight against the dia- | advantages with which he was surrounded. 'eA-fter au eventful life in various lines of j in trade, he settled down to the gunsmith business in the employ of A. B. Fairbanks, I hn tuiinm hn hsnjmn aDnrenticed at a weeklv I co salary of $2, with ?25 yearly allowance for it< clothes, and a raise of fifty cents per week and $10 per year additional clothing allowance for each succeeding year until the age ue af twenty-one. "The qualities which in later years de^eloped tho man of large enterprise and unswerving integrity took firm root in the gun- sh smith boy, and Mr. Fairbanks was so grati* th Bed with bis success that, when John was twenty years of age, the old gentleman yfi voluntarily took him in as a partner with onotialf interest. At this timo John had not a ? iollar in the world. i "Thus, fifty years ago, -was formed the firm ! .vhich to-day is represented by tho groat i jouso of John P. Lovell Arms Co, whose ! business radinte6 throughout the world. 1 "Jo'an'sprofH for the first year was $700. In I < L841 Mr. Fairbanks died and Leonard Grover antcring. tho firm became Grover & Lovell. tn 1S44 John P. Lovell bought out his particr'.ssharo and with renewei zeal pushed liis business toward the high mark of sue- i :oss which ho had sot before himself in his , Couth. As the yeare sped by, his name and !ame traveled from city to city. Through the rauks of tho sporting goods dealers of Li America he hewed his way from the lowest to the highest place or success, uuui mm ugutm, | m pri'lo he felt his feet securely planted on the ' i iigh ground to which in boyhood days, when i :n poor aud unknown, his ambition had aspired. , tlis family had grown up around him in the | intervening years, an 1 he now beheld his j ha ons, developed into meu ready to assist him j in his old ago to carry to a further success ; Y tho enterprise begun years before. "In 1874 the business was removed to the | re present spacious buildings in Boston which iro located in the business centre of the city. I "Hero daily may b> seen John P. Lovell,no j Pc ion^cr the young mau whose steps are elastic in the pursuit of lofty ambition3, but John ! si P. Lovell tho man of years, who has trodden j iife's pathway through both tho bitter and j ev Lhe sweet, and has emerged from its shadows j ind contests, a man of success both in the I ievelopment of wealth and of character." ( C< PROMINENT PEOPLE. 1 he Pope is confined to his bed with a cold. gi Senator' Carlisle is now fifty-five years >ld. bi Vice-President Morton indulges a weak- j less for ham sandwiches. j ec James e. Murdoch is probably the oldest dt * Via will anon Ka Airrhtv vaars I tiuim iuiu at;(AS* , **vr T? *? tsw*. ?_?m >ld. | al Mougel Bet, who originated tho idea of J laming the Nile for purposes of irrigation, j ^ dead. i hi It is said that Chauncey Depew, the j a' famous New York after-dinner speaker, has | 500 namesakes. I cc Senator-elect Pef-fer, of Kansas, is I er aid to be taller and even more slender tnau I Senator Ingalls. | ht The remains of Miss Emma Abbott will ' 8 not he cremated, her mother strongly object- m ing to this method. Lieutenant Schwatka, of Arctic fame, tl] will be a cripple for life as.a result of his recent accident at Mason City, Iowa. 01 King Milan will soou return to Belgrade ; to assert his rights under the constitution as "? father of King Alexander, of Servia. General Miles is referred to affection- ' ately by his old soldiers as "Paddy Miles," though he has uo Irish blood in his veins. ^ Rider Haggard, the novelist, came up for !>" membership in the Society of Antiquaries in London, England, recently,but was pitilessly blackmailed. j es There is a female revolutionist in Japan I who is described ns young, pretty and wealthy, but who is burdened with the name Kageamer Hiddo. m J. R. McKee, son-in-law of President Harrison, has arranged to settle with his ' - * ** Vt iamuy ;a jjuatuu, wv?w?uuuu a businoss connection there with an electric company. ' . Gi Berry Wall, the ex-king of the dudes, Is making a success as a hard-working life insur- I * ance and domestic man. The transformation j of this young gentleman is as striking as that of Oscar Wilde. P? Queen Victoria's experiment with the sitting-still mode of prolonging life is said to ^ be encouraging so far as she has gone. The process is a simple one. When her Majesty tfeels like taking a walk she do3sn't do it. W. Clark Russell, whose sea 6tories i hare such remarkable da3h, breeziness and l out-of-door freedom, has long been a hope- J less and well-nigh helpless iuvalid, chainel to an indoor existence in an inland town. Gi American' Horse, the Ogallala Chief, is J known as the Daniel Dougherty of the Sioux tribes. fclo is tho most eloquent, silvertongue1 aborigine on the continent. Me is naturally a man 01 greac luuuouto umuug v_l tha Iudians. ' q? The fortuaa of the richest Californian, je] Senator Leland Stanford, is estimated now t?. at 850,000,000. He is a native of New York [j", and was a lawyer in a Wisconsin village b> 0f foro he went west iu 1830 with the other Argonauts. CI Siqnor Crispi, the deposed Bismarck of he Italy, ia a Sicilian by birth. His tall figure l>u and snow-white moustache have made him an one of the most striking individualities in ro the Chamber of Deputies. He has been an cr ndefatigable worker. to Senator Edmonds, of Vermont, is one of be the few Congressional orators who preserve in the "town meeting attitudes." He is simple in his language, old-fashioned in his manners, and there are but few flights of fancy or $2 flgurea of speech in his speeches. . ai HATER NEWS. The State Senate at Albany, N. T., conmed the nomination of James F. Pierce, be Superintendent of the Insuranca De" .rtmant; six Republicans voted for him. Harold E. Spaulding. Cashier of the , rst National Bank and Treasurer of t.hn >rt'a Middlesex Institution for Savings, at per, Mass., has disappeared and with him is gone about $23,000 in cash. The two initutions have closed their doors. The official statistics of loss of life and nb in the Third Anthracite Coal Mining istrict of Pennsylvania for the year 1890 ow that this was the most disastrous year the history of the region. One hundred en were killed, fifty-five of vhom left idows, with a total of seventy-six orphans. The Secretary of Agriculture ha3 just med his Texas fever regulations "to the a.-iagers and agents of railroad and transirtation companies of the United States, sckmen and others," in accordance with i act of Congress. The conference of Sioux with t!is Comissioner of Indian Affairs ended at Washgton. The Acting Secretary of th9 Treasury ised warrants for the payment of $1,000,000 i account of pensions aggregating $30,000,0 due in the quarter ending March 4." The tter amount represents the present availile cash balance of the Treasury, so that e only Treasury surplus that will exist ter these payments shall have been met is >w estimated at less than $10,000,000. Judge W. H. Claggett was elected uited Statos Senator by the Idaho Legislare; he will contest the previous election of aboi3. Nathaniel Greene, bookkeeper for irnsworth & Ruigles, San Francisco, Cal., s been arrested charged with the embezsment of $30,000. George J. Gibson, Secretary of the Vhisky Trust," was arrested in Chicago, and held in $20,000; he is charged with ibing a gauger to blow up an anti-tru3t stillery. rHE Kentucky Union Land and Railway impany has gone into the hands of a reiver, temporarily, as a means of protection ainst numerous suits. A collision occurred at Ingleside, Mo., tween a west-bound Wabash extra train d an oast-bound freight train. W. M. ish and Keefer, brakemen, were killed, hn Broderick, a conductor, and John Conr, a fireman, of the Wabash, were seriously jurcd. Mr. Pa fi .yell has abandoned hope of ming to aa agreement with fhe McCarthys; Mr. O'Brien has issued a statement ncerning the reason for the failure of the gotiations. Information received from the Rio do la ata districts of the Argentine Republic ows that locusts and drouth have reducoJ e maize crop to a quarter of what the crop I as in 1890. The United States steel cruiser Baltimore iled from Toulon, France, for Chill. THE LABOR WORLD. There is a dearth of sailors. roE South has 1,621,335 spindlers. Chicago, 111., has20,000 unemployed. Denver, Col., boasts 100 manufactories. Four thousand strikes occurred in 1890. The Iron Moulders' Union pay $100 at ath. New York has a Hebrew Federation of ibor. Brooklyn' (N. Y.) furniture hands work ne hours. There are about 75,000 female typewriters this country. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers \3 60,000 members. Sheep butchers at the Chicago (111.) Stock ards are on strike. The strikers on all Scotch railways have turned to work at last. Armour, the great Chicago (111.) porkicker employs 6000 meD. Another outbreak of strikes in English ripping circles is threatened. Eight-hour demonstrations will be held in ery Dart of Portugal May 1. There ara 100,000 miners in the anthrate coal regions of Pennsylvania. Girl delegates have been admitted to the ;ntral Union of San Francisco, Cal. The Fur-skin Dressers' Assembly is being organized. It died three years ago. Balfour's light rail ways in Ireland have ven work to 7412 unskilled laborers. Of the 3000 striking cigarmakers at Hatnirg, Germany, not one deserted the union. At Cologne, Germany, 1300 idle men will ba nployadby the city at eighteen pence a iyThe Ohio House of Representatives passed bill making eight hours a day's work, except ,rm labor. A brewers' union at San Francisco, Cal., is nearly doubled waged and reduced hours most half. Of the 17,000,000 wage earners ia thl? luntrv, 7,000,000, or forty four per cent.,are igaged in farming. stenographers and typewriters can be id in bunches at $4 a week. Cook6 at $30 month cannot bo found to supply the deand. The laborers working at the salt works in ie Government of Kursk, Russia, receive reive cents for twelve hours' hard work? ie cent per hour. C. G. Conn, horn manufacturer, of Elkirt, Ind., has determined to divide seventyro per cent, of his profits for the year in muary, 1892, among his employes. Frederick H. Fishery railway engineer ho died iu Chicago, 111., recently, had been active service tor over thirty years, and iring that time never had an accident. The Federation of Labor has decided to chew politics, maintaining that labor orinizations which went into statesmanship ive waned in influence and membership. The New York factory inspector recomeuds that women under twenty-one and >uths of eighteen in mercantile nousaj be nited to sixty hours a week, and the prentiou of overcrowding. The dwellings for workmen which the ?rman Government proposes to build in irth Berlin will cost $1000 each. They will i purchasable on terms equal to a deposit $75 and weekly payments of $1.25. Many labor organizations have of late aplinted press secretaries, whose duties conit in furnishing correct reports to the iwspapers, all other members being fordden to talk to reporters or write to edirs about the business of their oiganiza>ns. LOOD, FAMINE AND FIRE. re;?t Loss of Life, Destitution, and Destruction oi' Properly in China. A. letter from Shanghai gives the details terrible floods and famine in Northern lina. The Governor-General of Li Hiug tang reports that the people of Shuan sufred terribly by a flood which destroyed nples, bridges and city walls in no less an tsn districts. Ill Wen Chuati the lo3S \:c~ ?.;n mnasiU fniiir a tlmiuaiul. Immediately following the floods at Pel iang firo started and destroyed thirty-five uses. In three other places houses were irned to the number of 200. Tho suffering nong the poor is something terrible. Tho ads everywhere are difficult of passage, and owds of starving wretches are on their way , _ w'fK fltatri will stmnguai, ana now wj ucm i aa anxious and difficult problem for those power to solve. Japanese silk merchants last year lost 5,000.000, and according to present appeartees toe loss will continue for some time. , . -i-' . S AT HOME AND ABROAD. . it Domestic and Foreign News by Telegraph and Cable. A Fearful Blizzard Rage3 in the Western States. A dispatch from Cheyenne, Wyoming, says: Six Union mail, passenger aud express trains are blockaded by a blizzard at Cheyenne, Sydney, Neb., and intermediate sta tions. Three of them, with 400 travelers, are on the side tracks here. Tha storm, which is a characteristic howling blizzard, opened at 10 o'clock in the night and continued furiously for seventeen hours. Snow is piled up, packed and crusted. The wind was sharp and the temperature below zero. Severe range losses are predicted, but it is doubtful if much stock will succumb, as this is the first storm of any sort. Cattle will be chilled, but, under sunshine, will recover. Sheep, if out of the pens, huddle in packs like sardines and smother themselves. There is not a little distress in towns along the roads. Only the strongest men have cared to face the storm. Many were caught short of food and fuel. The storm is pretty general in the Northwest, although North Dakota seems to have escaped to some extent. In South Dakota the storm has extended over the entire State. Aberdeen, Huron, Pierre and other points reporting a very severe blizzard. The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press correspondent at Pierre says the worst blizzard since 1SS8 occurred there. The thermometer went as low as twenty degrees below zero. The Huron corespondent of the Pioneer Press says the snow storm developed into a gigantic blizzard almost equal in fury to that of January, 18S8. It raged all day, the wind blowing at a velocity of from thirtyfive to forty miles an hour, driving the snow in blinding clouds and driftine it as hieh as the fence tops. Starvation in the Leeward Islands. Sir W. F. Haynes Smith, the Governor of the Leeward Islands, has forwarded to the British Government a report that a serions famine exists in Anguilla, one of the little islands constituting the colony of St. KittsAnguilla. This island has an industrious black population of about 4500 people. The natives have no industries such as su^ar or cocoa raising, and depend entirely upon provision crops. Their last crop has utterly failed, owing to long-continued drought,and they have been on the verge of starvation. The Government of the Leeward Island has been compelled to give food to at least 3500 r?f fkonrt fA Trann nQfV> yi buoua w uucui ituui ucawu. All the assistance thus far has been in the shape of food. Four months more will elapse before any other provisions can be raised. The Government has provided the people with seed for the next crop, and meantime has made special provision for the sick, aged and children upon whom the calamity has fallen with special severity. All the children are provided with one substantial meal each day at the school houses, and the aged and infirm are being taken care of through the agency of the poor laws. The Governor says that all the' islands are doing their utmost to relieve the distress, but that the tax upon them is very heavy, and he appeals for help from England. Prey of the Jungle. The latest official statistics from India show that in 1889 22,970 were killed by snake3 and wild beasts, as well as 76,271 cattle. Of the former number 20,571 deatli3 were duo to snake bites, 975 to tigers, 184 to leopards, 139 to wolves, 110 to bears, 57 to elephants, and the remainder to dogs, crocodiles and other animals. The remarkable fact of these statistics is that, although every effort is being made to destroy snakes and ether animals Injurious to human life, the mortality, both of persons and cattle, from these causes of death is increasing. In 18SS 20,709 wild beasts were destroyed aind 511,948 snakes. The local Governments of InJia have ju3t been consulted on the question whether nothing can be done to diminish the terrible mortality due to snake bites. The general opinion in India is that the efforts to reduce this mortality by offering rewards for snakes killed has failed, and in some localities has even stimlated the breeding of snake3. Some of the local Governments express the opinion that the most effective way to check the evil will ba to destroy the cover for the snakes near tho villages, and this experiment will be tried. The provinces most seriously affccted are Bengal, Ouhi, and tho northwest provinces. Mine Disaster. By a:i explosion of gas in the new shaft at Simpson & Watkins's mino at Wyoming, Penu., two mon were instantly killed and two fatally injured. Gas from a feeder in tho side of tho shaft was iguited from the lamp of ono of *he workmen. It exploded with terrific force, dashing the men against the side of the shaft. Those who were killed were Nat Kane and Charles Kirk, both married, and William Ross and Luther Michael were fatally injured. Drowned Off the Scilly Islands. The steamer Chiswick, bound from Cardiff to St. Nazaire with a cargo of coal, struck a 1 ,rt c* -III? f?i J nnn|. Banu-our OH OClllJ xaiauiua uuu 9AU&I X UD Captain and ton seamen were drowned. Eight men, who had lifo-belts around them, clung to an overturned life-boat for ssvea hours, until they were rescued by boats from a lightship. A steamer conveyed them U Penzance. Three Children Burned to Death. Mrs. Hampton Shrout, living a few miles south of Martinsville, Ind., left her three children alone in the house on a recent evening, while she went on an errand. A flvayear-old girl began playing at the fireplace. Her dress ignited and she was burned to death. The other two children were fatally burned. Six Killed by an Explosion. By the explosion of a boiler in Giles's steam sawmill, sear Reidsville, Tatnall County, Ga., six men were killed?four colored and two white. DEATH OF A HERMIT, He Begged for Food, Though He Had Amassed a Fortune. Thomas Thomas, a hermit, aged seventyfive years, residing at Carmautown, N. J., died a few days ago after several months' suffering from a cancer. The deceased was well known throughout the county and had lived the life of a miser for many years, and since his wife's death has lived by himself, doing his own housework. The old hermit, it is said, is worth about $59,000 in money and owns several flno houses. Ho has been known to beg food and on election day himself and five sons voted for the party who paid thom best. During the spring of last y^ar a fierce forest fire raged in the woods near his house, and, fearing that his property would be destroyed, he ran into the house and in a few moments came out again' carrying a chesl full of money, it is said,all in $20 gold pieces. Six children, all married, survive him. He owned a considerable quantity of real estate in different Darts of the countv. DEATH IN THE BLIZZARD. Six Lives Lost ill tlie Storm ill Nebraska and South Dakota. The blizzard ia the Northwest having ceased,tho work of restoring interrupted railway communication went on as rapidly as possible. Tho blockaded trains on the Union Pacific, near Cheyonne, Wyoming, were the first moved. Reports show the loss of six lives during tho big storm. In South Dakota a man and woman who drove out of Rapid City, bound for Elk Creek, have been found frozen in their buggy. Near Ru?hville, Neb., Mrs. Milton Cummings was also fatally frozen in her buggy. Near Kearney, in the same Stats, two boys, Eddie Chedstor and Steve St. Peters, were frozen in a cornfield while trying to make their way home from a hunting expedition. M. L. Lissent is missing from Chadron, Nab., and parties are looking for bis body. HFTY-FIBST 00NGKES8, f** In the Senate. 52d Day.?The Pension Appropriation bill was passed. It appropriates over 1130,000,000... .Mr. Ingalls made a statement regarding his recent position on the closure rule. * 53d Dat.?Mr. Wolcott introduced a resolution concerning the Nicaragua Canal Company..., The Eigut-Hour Labor Claims bill was discussed, and the Senate bill passed last Congress was substituted for it... .The Naval Appropriation bill was reported, with amendments.... Mr. Hawley offered a resolution (which was agreed to) calling on the President for the correspondence in reference to tho conduct of the senior naval officer present at San Jose de Guatemala on the occasion of the arrest and killing of General Barrundia, and the action of the Navy Department. . 54th Day.?The joint resolution to correct an error of punctuation in the Tariff act was taken up. It amends paragraph 362 (as to cables, cordage, etc.) so as to include in the parenthesis only the words "except binding twine." Mr. Berry objected, and the joint resolution went over... .The order for night sessions until eleven o'clock hereafter was passed... .The House bill for the adjustment of accounts of workmen, laborers and mechanics under the eight-hour law was discussed... .The death of Mr. Phelan, of Tennessee, was announced, and Mr. Harris offered the usual resolutions of regret and condolence, which were adopted, as well as a resolution for the appointment of a committee to attend the funeral. Senators 3arris, Jones, of Arkansas; Faulkner, Stockbridge and Pierce were appointed such committee, and as a further mark of respect the Senate adjourned. ; ( 55th Day.?The Lithographers' amendmant ?r\ a f1 rmtrrJrrVif l>fll rtflParaH Kr M?? UiCUV W VUV vwf;4,6uu fc/J *>*?? Frye, was adopted....By a vote of yeas twenty-eight, nays twenty-nine, the Senate refused to reconsider the vote recommitting the Eight Hour bill to the Committee on Education and Labor, and the bill therefore stands recommitted. t- 66th Dat.?The Naval Appropriation bill was considered and the Naval Militia amendment was adopted....Mr. Hoar reported an original measure, a bill to divide the judicial districts of the United Stat93 into ten circuits... .The House bill to revise the wages of certain employes in the Government Printing Office was passed with a substitute offered by Mr. Gorman, .providing that all-night employes be paid twenty per pent, ill addition^ to the amount paid for day labor V Tha rawlnfirtn Af t.hfl TTnnco in rolafi.~n to the death of Mr. Walker, late Representative from Missouri, was presented, and, Mr. Cockrell offered resolutions expressing ,the profound sorrow of the Senate and suspending business in order that fitting tribute Depaiato his memory. Mr. Cockrell delivered a eulogy on him, and was followed! by Messrj. Berry, Carlisle and Vest. Tho resolutions were adopted, and as a further mark of respect the Senate adjourned, f 57th Day.?The Naval Appropriation bill was passed House bill amending section 4176. Revised Statutes, providing for the 'marking of vessels' names on bow and 'stern (with amendments) and for ithe marking of the draught, was passed .The appropriation carried by the District of Columbia bill as reported is 18,807,595, an increase in the House bill of $2,750,000. This 'addition was made for the purpose of redeeming District of Columbia bonds iwhich fell due July l....Mr. Teller 'offered a resolution (which was agreed to) calling on the Secretary of the Treas'ury for alist of all persons, firms or associations by whom silver bullion had been offered (under the act of July 14, 1890). In the Honso. 60th Day.?The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was considered....On motion of Mr. McKinley by unanimous consent it was ordered that during the remainder of the session the House sUall meet at eleven o'clock. 51st Day.?Tbe Rev. Dr. Phillips Broo'cs, of Boston, Mas3., delivered prayer....Th3 Bland free-coinage "rider" to tho Sundry Civil bill was ruled out on point of order.... Mr. Bingham reported the Postoffice Appropriation bill ana it was placed on the calender.... At its evening session the House passed 115 private pension bills and adjourned. 52d Day.?The House went iuto Committee of the Whole (Mr. Paysonof Illinois in the chair) on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Tbe pending question was the decision of the Cnair on Mr. Mason's point of order raised against Mr. Chandler's flmpnHmonf fn f.Vio Wrtrlrl'a TTair* if am The World's Fair wa3 discussed at great length. Without disposing of the bill the committee rose....Mr. McMillin said that the sad duty devolved on him of announcing the death at Nassau. There he had gone m search of health, of the Hou. Janrie3 Phelan, member of Congress from the Tenth District of Tenues3ee. Mr. McMillin then offerod the following resolutions: That the House ha3 heard with profound sorrow and deep regret of the death of tlie Hon. James Phelnn. That a committee cf seven members of the House, with such members of the Senate as may be joined, be ap) pointed to attend the funeral. The Speaker appointed Messrs. Washington, McRae, Wichman, Enloe, Stockbridge, Montgomery and Coleman as said committee, and then, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, the House adjourned. 53d Dat.?Mr. Geary introduced a bill providing for the free coinage of all silver the production of American mines....In Committee of the Whole, the Sundry Civil and Legislative Appropriation bills were discussed; the former measure was afterward passed in the House... .Mr. Lodge introdue d a resolution proposing two amendments to the House rules intended to prevent the use of the Journal of each day's proceedings as a meani of obstruction. 54th Day.?The Barrundia affair was discussed, Mr. Dalzell defending Commander I anfirtn anrl Mr T.rk^<rfl nnhrtlfilnw th? Secretary of the Navy... .T^e Dallas (Texas) Public Building bill was passed over the President's veto....The bill increasing to S100 a month the pension of the widow of General Custer was passed. 55th Day.?Messrs. Adoo and Pitch spoke against the shipping bill....The Legislative Appropriation bill was considered .. .A resolution was adopted calling on tha Secretary of the Itterior for information as to what rules of evidence are recognized by the Fension Bureau governing examiners in the adjudication of pension claims....On motion of Mr. Evan3. of Tennessee, a resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of War for a list of the names of retirel army officers now iu the Civil Service. THE MARSHAL KILLED. ' The Blockader W!iom He Tried to Arrest Fatally Wounded. William B. Jones, Town Marshal, was shot and instantly killed at Forest City, eighty miles from Charlotte, N. C., by John Parris, a blockader, who was also mortally woundod in the affray. Eighteen or twenty shots were exchauged Parris and his brother had boon around town selling liquor on the sly. Jones, assisted by a Mr. Harrill, attempted to arrest them - - . ?i-? - ...iti. I wnen Joues resisrou, usmg a pmLvn oi?u >.uu above result. As Jones fell Harrill fired, I hitting Parris in the right shoulder. Parru was not expected to live. ORPHANSBURNED TO DEATH Horrible Scenes at a Fire in an Asylum in Russia. A terrible fire occurred in an orphan asylum in Moscow, Russia, on a recent night. The building was burned to the ground, and most horrible scenes wcro witnessed as the youthful inmat63 were being rescued. As it was nine children were burned .to death, and a number of others were so seriously injured that their lives were despaired of. It is nearly twenty years since JoHn W. Keely announced to the world that lie had discoverel a new force wntcu was destined to revolutionize the whole system of locomotion. The inventor is now fifty-four years old, and it seems probable that his secret, whatever its value, will die with him. The original capital of the company formed to develop the discovery was half a million [ dollars, and after this had become exhausted Mrs. Bloomfield Moore supplied the inventor with funds to proceed. Now she proposos to retire from the ooncern, and its finances will suffer accordingly. ^ ? ~~ iemperance. COUNTING THE COST. Crouched on the dingv, old stone pier, Watching the water dark and defy, , Bits poor, old, blear-eyed Carl Le More, * Mut'ring as one io troubled slesp; "0 artful fiend, with cursed bowl, . (. You've robbed me of all that man count* dear; urownea an ray nopes, my me, my sum? > Now mo ;k in delight at 017 pain and fear. .JS "Friends. Lome, happiness, heaven and restj Relentless you've taken. What have 1 now!'" The voice ro3e higb6r; the hands war? pressed In anguish against the fevered brow; '1 "For all of this, 0 fiend accurst, What have you given? You answer well? It sweeps o'er my soul in burning thirat, An earnest, in truth, of the drunkard's helL" Backward he sank to the pier again, Mut'ring, and gazed in the water daap; "Oh. for an end of the gnawing pain, Oh, for the old-timo restful sleep! Water, you ever have been a friend, Cover and hide mv wretched face; . Let me come to the bitter end, Cradled at last in thy cool embrace." | The veil of twilight sank over day, Along the headlands the beacons shone; '< But never a cheering, hopeful ray t.hnf. gaiiI ac if: The night wind echoed th9 sailor's song, The waves moaned sadty against the pier They had not meant to do a wronz In answering poor old Carl Le Mere. Sadly they sobbed along the shore, And laid their burden upon the sands. Then rolled away, with muffled roar, To boat the "death march" in other viwa lands, And passers look on the wreck, shore driven, And looking, linger to count the costHome, happiness, life and hope in heaven, : -.i'W All staked with a demon, and. lost?ftR lost. ?Jenny L, Eno, in Temperance Banner. . . ??? 'r-flSEi THE ONLY SAFE WAT. ; J|| Archdeacon Farrar, in one of his temper- ' anca addresses, remarks: "Cruikshank, the ' j artist, offered #500 for proof of a violent crime committed by a total abstainer; and the money remains unclaimed to this day. I offer as much for proof of any one case? either in the church or out of it?where drunkenness has beeu cured without total r abstinence. Under present circumstance^ ^f~Jj the only safe way of drinking?as an Irish- ? man put it?is to 'leave off before you : ^ begin.'" THE DRINK EVIL IN RUSSIA. In a private interview with Miss Willard, . y George Kennan says: "One of the worst tear -^j? tures of the Russian Government is, that the tax on whisky is the largest item of the trea , i Jgu sury. Still worse, the sale of intoxicants ia sanctioned by the Russian priesthood." The ^ , .& dedication of a church is an occasion for the whole population, to go on a spree, priests included. If, however, the men of a com- ^ muno get together and declare they will not bavo liquor sold, it is prohibited. In this way . r.,,?gj many village^ have prohibition. There has < been no general temperance agitation, but the people are becoming educated by seeing " ^ the terrible effects of drink, and there is ' now a clsss of total abstainers, numbering some fifteen millions. These are the dissent- 95 ers from the State churcb, and are the best people in Russia. . I TCT1T TOT.TrtR A HT.TS V kfTTA AT HRttHmTTr. 7 '' , .7-^3 "I have drank whisky every day for thirty- M five years," remarked a gentleman of sixty, rather proudly, "and I don't see but I havrV.'" ^ as good a constitution as the average man al . T.jjjm my age; I never was drunk in my life." H? was telling the truth, but to learn the whole g truth you would have to study hie children. * Toe oldest, a young lady, had perfect health; the second, a young man. was of a remarkably nervous and excitable temperament, aa :-'ii different from his phlegmatic father as pos- : sible; the third, a young lady of seventeen, ;% was cpileptic and always u?.d very poor health. Did the father's wbisky-drmktnjj^ have anything to do with these facta! The r-ig instance may be duplicated in almost every . community. Think over the families of your . acquaintanco in which the father has long been a moderate drinker, and observe the . facts as to the health of the children. The .^5 3uperintendent of a hospital for children at Berne, Switzerland, ha3 found bycarefol ' observation, that only forty-five per cent, of ;ho3e whose parents used intoxicating liquors im habitually nad good constitutions, while - aighty-two per cent, of the children of tern- . ^ perate parents had 9ound bodies. Of the children of inebriates only six per cent. walB healthy. Can any man "drink and take the . '.M x>nsequencfls," or mu3t his children take the jonstquences??The Voice. WHO BUILD THE LIQUOR PALACES? In p paper presented to the Twentieth An-' nual Convention of the Catbolin Total Absti- 7-vj nence Union ol America, Mr. T.V, Powderly ;j said: "Before the delegates to this convention ;? separate to go to their home^ I would Mk. jg them to go on root inrougu uie oumu.m Pittsburg and study the temperance que*tioa as they go. They will see handsome buildings devoted to the sale of liquor on tha' -j-: principal streets, and if they estimate the' cost of one of these buildings they will learn* that it runs away up into toe thousands, far:' ^ above the reach of the workingman's income.' On one of the streets of Pittsburg will ba{ V Jjj seen a saloon, the plate-glass front of which' Is worth $5000, the bar and fixtures are worth #10,000, the paintings and other decora-! *>i-^ ations are valued at $7000. All of this i?. ' % separate and apart from the building itself,' and of the plot of ground on which it stands, j Stand guard at the door for twenty-four. hours, and thousands of men will be seen' passing in and out. Of the number, nind-. tenths will wear the garb of labor; they will. 33 be the workers in the mill and factories that mako Pittsburg famous and foremost in tha -? history of manufacture in the United States. Follow one of these men to his home and " contrast its appearance, condition and sur roundings with the palace he stopped at on1 his way home, and not one lota of semblance' will been seen. Inquire if he owns the house he lives in, and it is more than likely J >Jjj that the answer will be in the negative. Askj him why he cannot afford to live in a better, or more comfortable home, and hia reply; ?jj will be: "I cannot afford it." Take a walk. .'J through the entire city and it will be seem that the palaces in which liquor is sold arei I costly and well furnished, wnile the homes. of the toilers are cheap and poorly furnished, j Go still further and it will be discovered that! the men who live in the illy-ventilated, I poorly-furnished, stuffy, unhealthy tene-; mentis or dwellings, are the very men whose; . ":V; dimes and dollars havo furnished thej Jg 'Palaces of Hell'with plate-glass windows, i expensive bars and fixtures, costly paintings! and neat surroundings." ' , TEMPERANCE YEWS A.VD XOTSS. i ' The San Francisco Chronicle gives thai I wine product of California for 1890 as 18,-1 t!00,000 gallons. ! The Sheriff of Glasgow, Scotland, says: 30,000 people get drunk in that city every I Saturday night. ! - . U'SvS The Chicago Inter-Ocean estimates that ai saloon keeper can live and even get rich if) ho has twenty "regular customers." The King of Siam has issued a proclama-. ***v*v%ikitinir thp nurchase. sale, or use of! HUM pn/u.U.,.?e f , ?. t intoxicating liquors in his dominion. Germantown (Tenn.) ladies,at a late villagaj election, nominated a Prohibition ticket,and' prevailed on their husbands, brothers and! ioas to elect it. Recently a vessel sailed from a Belgium; port for west Africa, having on board fourteen missionaries, four hundred and sixty] casks of gunpowder, eleven cases of gin and] t?n thousand casks of rum. The Woman's Christian Temperance* Union, of Washington, D. C., has been! petitlonad by a mother who wishes the' union to usa its influancs to stop the sale of rock-and-rye drops to children. Along one side of the Victoria Road a London paper says that every fifth hou36 is; '* ?ill a 1H1DUJ nouse?WUILU, UCIU| inn-, ?, ? a grog-shop?and, on n late Saturday evening, from S o'clock to 11, the appalling uum-; ber of -JI'JiJ persons was counted entering one oi them. Dr. Kate Bushnell left Chicago on her. great tour of the globe in the interests of th9, ? woman's Christian Temperance Union. Sherepresents 500.000 women, and wherever sh? goes she will "organize, instruct and en-, courage" the branches of the Order. Shej has traveled extensively and is a physician, j orator and author of acknowledged ability.,J