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The Federal Soldier Dies at His j
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A. Sketch of His Eventful Civil J
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GENERAL SHERMAN".
Genera! W. T. Sherman, the last great
Qgure of the Civil T\~ar. died of erysipelas a
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few daj's ago, at c:s uuiuc m ncn ? ,
City, after an illness of ten days. His death
eras cause.I by the accumulation of mucus in
the lungs, which he was unable to throw off.
rh ere was no sign of death beyond a faint i
grasp and stoppage of the breath. I
The end was painless, and tbe only persons
who noted the change were the physicians.
Around the deathbed were General bikerman's
four daughters?Misses Lizzie and
Rachel Sherman, Mrs. Thakara and
Mrs. Lieutenant Pitch?his son, P.
T. Sherman; his brother, Senator John
Sherman; I)rs. Jauewav, Green and
Alexander, and tho nurse, Miss Price. General
O. 0. Howard, General Thomas Ewing,
General Henry W. Slocum and Mrs. Walter
Damroscb, daughter of Secretary Blaine,
were in the parlors. General Sherman's
son, who is a Catholic priest, did not arrive
" ^ ? >?*?? to wit.nt?a his father's
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last fight.
General Sherman caught a severe cold ten I
days before bis death, when he ottended a
theatre party at the Casino ia New York
City. On that occasion a special invitation
had been sent out to the military officers in
the city, and General Sheraian sat in one of
proscenium boxes w,th a party of friends.
He seemed to be then in the best of health
and spirits and apparently enjoyed the performance
immensely. He returned to his
home immediately after the performance,
and the next morning when he woko up he
found that he had taken a severe cold.
This gave him no anxiety at first, but
when on the following day the symptoms of
erysipelas began to show themselves he sent
for Dr. Alexander.
On the third day he was worse, and, when
Dr. Janeway was called in. his face and neck
were very much swollen and inflamed, and it j
was realized that his condition was much
more serious than was at first supposed.
He continued to grow worse, and all his
family were summoned.
Four days before his death the first intimation
of the serious nature of his illness became
public, but there was no general alarm.
Next day the General was thought to be
- dying, and extreme unction was administered
by a Catholic priest, but the old soldier rallied
and became so much better that through all
of the day prior to his death his family and
Inends were cneerea anu wu u ?
the possibility of ultimate recovery.
Hope was abandoned for the last time
just at daybreak on the day of his death.
From that hour till death came it was only a
question of how long the almost exhausted
vitality could hold at bay the enemy.
The 'erysipelas which had seemed to withdraw
returned with renewed force. The
inflammation became acute, and all during
the forenoon the sick man's lungs were being
slowly choked.
At 1:45 in the afternoon breathing began
to grow less and less frequent The lungs
were gradu^ly filling, and breaching was
becoming more and more difficult. Tneold
man had given up the struggle, and, unconscious,
was letting life pass from him.
All at once the breaths, which came now at
longer intervals, grew shorter. Dr. Alexander
glanced around, and then all eyes were fixed
upon the one form. It was like the turning
down of a light. Slowly, quietly, painlessly
the General died. There was one short
fcreoth like a sigh, and there camo upon nis
face that change which needs no interpreter.
All saw that he was dead. But the nurse,
leaning over, lifted his head and said in a
whisper:
"He is dead."
' Only the crackling of tl.e fire was now to
be heard. The breathing had ceased, and
with it the life of the last American to bear
the high title of General passed. It >vas just
ten minutes of two o'clock.
Lieutenant Fitch made a semi-official
statement, giving the details of the scsne at
the deathbed later in the afternoon.
"At 11 o'clock," he said, "the General lost
consciousness, and Dr. Alexander said that it
was the beginning of the end. The General's
head at the time rested high on a pillow.
As the moments flew by his breathing became
more difficult, and little by little the pillow
was lowered to ease him. At 1:20 o'clock
the signs of approaching dissolution were
seen. The tips of the dying man's fingers
became icy cold. Slowly the cold feeling
spread through the hands and then up the
arms. The breathing became more and
more difficult. The lunes were filiinz
with mucus, the doctor said, and the
dying man had not the strength to
tnrow it off. Ho was being strangled to
death. The pillow was pressed lower and
Iower, and finally it was taken away altogether.
Only a few minutes afterward j
there was no long sigh and the nurse said,
'Heis dead.' So peaceful had been the death
that even the watchers could hardly realize
it."
The undertaker completed the process of
embalming the General's body about 5
o'clock, and then it was laid back ou the bed 1
where he had died. The arms were folded.
The only trace of the erysipelas that was
visible was a slight swelling uuder the eyes,
and a swelling on the right cheek. After the
embalming a few of the persons who called
were permitted to look at the features.
In Washington.
The President had just finished his luncheon
and was walking upstairs to his office when
the bulletin annouueinx the death of General
Sherman reached the White House. The telegraph
operator handed the despatch to PriTT?fn
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c*.ACtc*ijr iiauviu, UttMUlifU L<J in*
form the President aud mot him on the stairway.
The President was very much shocked.
He sent for General Lewis A. GraDt, who is
acting as Secretary of War, and MajorGeneral
Schofield, and gave instructions foi
full military honors for the dead soldier.
He also prepared a message to Congress
on the same subject and <
issued the following executive order *it
is my pamrui duty to announce to tne (
country that General "William Tecumsch
Sherman died this day at 1 o'clock and
fifty minutes p. m., at hi3 residence in the
city of New York. The Secretary of
War will cause the highest military
honors to be paid to the memory of ,
this distinguished officer. The national flag
will be floated at half mast over all public
buildings until after buriaL and the public ,
business will be suspended in tho Executive
departments at the city of Washington and .
in the city where the interment takes place ,
on the day of the funeral, and ia all places ,
where public expression is given to the national
sorrow, during such hours as will en- j
able every officer and employe to participate ,
therein with their fellow citizen?. ,
"Benjamin* Harrison, ,
4'Executive Man?ion, Wasliiugton, D.C."
Following is the President's message to i
Congress:
To the Senate and House of Representor ,
lives: ]
The death of William Tecumseh Sherman, j
which took place to-day at his residence in j
the city of Now York at 1:50 P. ai., is an 1
event that will bring sorrow to the 1
heart of every patriot citizen. No \
living American was so loved and ]
vonorntAil nc Tr* IrvVIr nnnn }->i?
face, to hear his name was* to have one's love i
of country intensified. He served his coun- ,
try not for fame, not out of a sense of pro- 1
fessdonal duty, but for love of the flag an.< (
of the beneficent civil institutions of ]
which it was the emblem. He was' 1
an ideal soldier, and shared to !
f the fullest the esprit da corps of j
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he army, but he cherished the civil instlutions
organized under the Constitution, and J
vns only a soldier that these might bo per- <
jetuatea in undiminished usefulness and 1
.ouor. He was in nothing an 1
mitator. A profound student or mili- (
ary science and precedent, ho drew {
rom them principles and sug- 1
jestions, and so adapted them to novel condi- f
;ions that his campaigns will continue to bo
he profitable study of tho military profossion '
ihroughout the world. His genial naturo ;
nade htm comrade to every soldier '
>f the great Union army. No pros;uc3
was so welcome and inspiring nt
he camp fire cr commandery ns
lis. His career was complete; his honors
ivere full. He had received from the Gov;rnment
tho highest rank known to our
nilitary establishment, and from the people
instinted gratitude and love. i
Ko word or anno caa U'-lvi bu iua iuiuci |
death has followed in startliug quickness
that of the Admiral of the Navy, and it is a
sad and notablo incident that when Iho department
under which ho served shall have
put on the usual emblems of mourning four
of the eight Executive departments will bo 1
simultaneously draped in black, and ono
other has but to-day removed tho crape from
its walls.
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Executive Mansion.
The President also sent a telegram of condolence
to the family, in which no auffjtostoJ
that the body bo brought to Washington
on its way to St. Louis, and that 1
it lie in state in tho rotunda of tho Capitol
at least ono day. Tho acting Secrc* <
tary of War in the afternoon issuea a
eeneral order to the army announcing th?
3eath of General Sherman. It includod the
Pre&ident's message to Congress and the j
Executive order issuod by him to the Exoctl*
tive departments.
This was accompanied by another order Is-'
sued by Adjutant-Gonornl Kelton by command
of Major-General Schofield, as follows! j
"On the day of the funeral the troop9 at '
every military posit will bo paraded and this
order read to them, aftor which all
labors for the day will cease. The
national flag will bo displayed at balf
staff from tne timo of the receipt of this
order until the clone of the funoral. On the
day of the funeral a salute of Bovonteea
guns will be fired afc half hour internal*,
commencing at 8 o'clock a. M. The offers
of the army will wear tho usual badgos of
, WAfrf.
mourning, ana me coiors di uiu s?>t?rui
ments and bat all ions will be draped "i
mourning for a period of six months.
"The day and hour ot the funeral will
he communicated to department command*
ers by telegraph, an l by them to their
subordinate commanders, Other necessary
order3 will bo issued lioreaftor relative td
the appropriate funeral ceremonies."
When the President's message announcing
General Sherman's death reached the Senate,
discussion of the subject under consideration
(the Copyright bill) was suspended, and Mr.
Hawley offered the folio wing:
. Resolved, That tho Senate receives with
profound sorrow the announcement of the
death of William Tecutnseh Sherman, late
General of the armies of the United States,
Resolved, That the Senate renews Its ao
knowledgment of the inestiraablo services
which he rendered to his country in tho day
of its extreme peril, laments tho groat los3
which the country has sustained, and
deeply sympathizes with his family in its
bereavement.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions
be forwarded to the family of tho deceased.
Brief eulogies wore then delivered by
Messrs. Hawley, Morgan, Manderson, Davis,
Pierce and Evarts after which the Sonata
adjourned.
In the House, about three o'clock the message
was received from the President announcing
the death of General Sherman, but
after a consultation between tho Speaker
and Mr. Cutcheon, of Michigan, and a few
others it was decided by Mr. Reed, in
view of the near expiration of tho
Congress and of tho necessity of getting
tho appropriation bills over to tho Senate as
soon as possible, that it would not be advisable
to lay the message before the House
until near the usual time of adjournment. It
wfts then referred to the Committee on Military
Affairs. ;
uenerai snermans career.
William Tecumseh Sherman was born at
Lancaster, Ohio, on February 8,1S20. Ho
was called Tecumseh after tho great Indian
chief of that name, who had been a warm
friend of William's father, Judge Sbernian.j
Young Sherman graduated from the Military
Academy at TV est Point in the class of
1S40. After his graduation he served with
distinction in the Florida War and sxbse-?
quentlyinthe vrar wi*li Mexico. Ho next
held a staff position in the army in Califor nia,
Missouri and Louisiana from 1847 to 1853,
when haresigued. Giving up the tent for tho
counting room ho became a banker in San
Francisco and was in that business for four
years.
He had while in the army studied law,
and, thinking this profession more to his
taste, he practised it tor the next two years.
He became Superintendent of the Louisiana
State Seminary of Learning and Military
Academy in 1859, but resigned in 1SG1, at the
beginning of the Civil War.
Generul Sherman was at once commissioned
Colonel of a regiment of infantry and
commanded a volunteer brigade at the battle
of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. He was soon
appointed Brigadier General of Volunteers
and assigned to the command of the Department
of tho Cumberland, but froiii some
cause was removed, aud was for some months
in command of a camp of instruction near
St. Louis.
He took part in the Tennessee and Mississippi
campaign, commanding a division at
Shiioh, April 0 and 7, 1S62, and in the subsequent
seige of Corinth. On Maj 1, 18G-, he
was appointed Major General -f"Volunteers,
and was frequently engaged during the sum
mer and autumn of 1863. He took an active
part in the Vicksburg campaign, and was
made Brigadier General in the regular army.
General Sherman succeeded General Grant
as Commander of the Army of the Tennessee
on October 25, 1868. Ho took part in the
operations around Chattanooga and the assault
and capture of Missionary Ridge. He
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the spring campaign of 1SS4. On the 12th of
March, 1864, he succeeded General Grant as
Commander of the Military Division of the
Mississippi, embracing the departments and
armies of the surrounding regions. On May
2,1864, he entered on the Invasion of Georgia,
making A tlanta his first point, and between
that date and September 1 fought many
pitched battles. He received the capitulation
of Atlanta, September 2,1864, and occu{?;ed
it as a military post until November 15,
664.
Having sent about twc-fifths of his force,
under General Thomas, to repel General
HooiJ's movement into Tennessee and destroy
much of Atlanta, he marched southward to
thesea, with a forceof 60,000 men, in less
than a month passing over about three hundred
miles with his army, without anv important
action till he reached Fort McAllister,
below Savannah, which he captured
after a brief action December 13. Savannah
surrendering December 21, 1S64. He commenced
January 15, 1865, his invasion of the
C'arolinas, being about six weeks in passing
through South Carolina. He fought two
battles in North Carolina, March 16 and 2i>21,
1863; occupied Goldsboro' March 22, and
having given his army a few weeks' rest,
captured Raleigh, April 13, and negotiated
with Oeneral J. E. Johnston terms of surrender
of all the Confederate forces in the
field. These terms were pronounced inadmissible
by the Federal Government, and
General Snerman, under General Grant's instructions,
demauded and received General
Johnston's surrender, April 2G, I860.
General Sherman had been made a MajorGeneral
in the United States Army August
12, 1SG1, for his Atlanta campaign, and after
the close of the war continued in command
of the military division of the Mississippi
for more than a year. On July 2>,
1800, General Grant having been promoted I
to be General of the Army,General Sherman
ivns advanced to be Lieutenant-General, ond
was assigned to tho command of the military
division of the Missouri.
In Marc'o, 18(i9, Grant having resigned tho
doueralship in consequence of his election as \
President, Sherman was promoted to tho va?anfc
rank. In November, 1871, he obtained !
leave of absence for a year's travel in rJu- ;
rope and the East. Upon his return ho
made his headqmtrh^rs nt "WaKington, but :
toWa'i-a tOe CToSo oribTTcuangoT fhorri to St.
Louis. Throe years later ho returned again
to Washington, taking un his residenco at 1
No. 817 Fifteenth street, Northwest. In 1870 ?
tuid In 1880 bo was prominently spoken of as
i candidate for the Presidency.
On the 8th of April, 1SS3, Presdent Arthur J
Issued an order announcing the retirement 1
jf General Shorman. Ho at onco retired to ?
private life and moved to St. Louis, wliero 1
ie resided for a short time. Ho then took ,
jp his residence la New York City, where 1
ie has ?Iuo? lived, and where hU face has S
jcou & familiar one, 1
Gknerdl'Sheraoh ttm ft TH2ow?r, having
oat his wife in 1888. Hie wife wan ft Roman
Jatholie, and her children were nurtured in
bat faith. The General was bom ft Presjjterian.
The surviving membere of the
jpnc-ral's familvafe the Iter, Thomas Ewing
Sherman, a Cat-hollo t>i4e&^ in Europe when
lis father became ill; Philomel Teeumseh
ShermaB, ft member of ft prominent New
Vork law firm; Mrs. A. H, Thaknra, of
[losemonti, Penn.; Mw. T, W, Pitch, of
Pittsburg, and Miii Rachel and Miss Liz2ie
Sherman.
LABOR WORLD.
Skilled Japanese get a penny a day.
In* New York City 100,000 men are idle.
St. Louis (Mo.) painters work eight
hours.
The Austrian shoemakers strike h as collapsed.
New York's bakers' union runs a class in
languages.
Rochester (N. Y.) shoemakers lost an
eight months' strike.
Tns Amalgamated Society of Engineers
has 90,000 members.
New York granite cutters will demand
eight hcurs on April 1,
There are symptoms of depression in the
iron and textile industries.
A general strike of trainmen on the
Canadian Pacific is threatened.
New York slipper makers working from
sixteen to eighteen hours a day get SI.and
?1.50.
Some Boston (Mass.) railroad laborers only
get 81.35 a day, while others roads pay ?1.75
and $2.
Sixteen* thousand men and boys are out
of employment in the Connellsvilie (Penn.)
coke mines.
A brewers' union at San Francisco, Cal.,
has nearly doubled wages and reduced
hours almost one-half.
The K. of L. invites all unions to join in
the movement to form a third party with
the Farmers' Alliance.
The coal miners' risks are shown by the
thousands of widows and fatherless children
in Pennsylvania's coal region.
Organized labor in Chicago, 111., passed
resolutions against the employment or nonunion
labor on the World's Fair.
Pi Trunin omnlnres_ srufferincr indirect,Iv
from the granger attacks on railroads, will
organize against such legislation.
Berlin (Germany) police have coma to
the conclusion that they are inadequately
paid. A strike is possible unless their wages
are advanced.
It cost five cents to swear in a certain
Grand Rapids (Mich.) factory, and the box
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nearly full is to be sent to the heathen.
The labor organizations of Indiana demand,
among other things, that the inhabitants
of towns of more than 10,000 population
shall have the right to vote on franchises.
If you wear side whiskers don't apply to
the Pennsylvania Central Railroad for a lob.
It has long been the rule on that road aud its
branches not to employ aside whiskered man
in any capacity.
Joseph w. Smith, a former brakeman on
the Boston and Albany road, was awarded
$10,000 damages in his suit against the company
at Boston, Mass., for the loss of an arm
while coupling cars in 1S82.
m ti l r* i 1
i he rrencu uuauiutu ul .ire^uiies aa>
adopted a bill regulating the employment of
women and children in factories. The bill
has already been passed by tiie Senate. It
provides for a working day of ten hours and
a day of rest in each week.
The average wages of the workingmen
throughout the world are not moro than fifteen
cents a day, those of the laborers in
India being ninety-six cents per month, and
those of China about $7 per year. The highest
wages are paid in tue united States,
where the average is not quite 61 a day.
The German Kaiser has ordered a census
of the unemployed. Policemen will go from
house to house through all but the most aristocratic
parts of the city, searching out the
unemployed and asking thia cause of their
idleness. It is estimated that thcro are S0,000
able bodied men in Berliu oa tha verge
of starvation.
CHILIAN EEBELS. ,
Their Victorious Advance Places the
Government lu uesperatc straits.
The Chilian Government troops have been
defeated at Coquimbo and Quillota. The
insurgent forces are rapidly increasing
in numbers, and they are advancing upon
the capital, Santiago do Chili.
Only a Jew towns remain loyal io the
Government. The destruction of the railways
by the insurgent forces hampers the
movement of the Government troops.
President Balmaceda is well supported in
the capita!, and is said to be hopeful of being
able to repel the rebels.
It is feared that the effect of the rebellion
will be disastrous to the finances and commerce
of the country.
During tho course of a battle fought at
Tarapaca, 145 miles southeast of Ilo, the
mines at Tarapaca were set on fire, and afterwards
were flooded in an attempt to extinruish
the flames The German miners who
were employed in the mines there fled into
the interior.
Tarapaea is only ten miles from the mouth
of a river opening into the Pacific Ocean, so
it is inferred that the destruction of property
at Tarapaea was the work of a lauding
party which came ashore from one of the insurgent
war vessels.
The coal depots at Coronol have been pillaged
by the insurgent sailors sent ashore to
obtain coal fortho rebel vessels. Coronel is
twenty-five miles south of Concepcion.
TREATED LIKE SLAVES,
Terrible Sufferings of Polish linmigrants
in Brazil.
M. Dygasinski, the special correspondent of
the Warsaw (Poland) Courier, who was despatched
to Brazil by that paper to report
on the condition and treatment of immigrants
to that country has returned from his
mission. M. Dygasinski made a tour of the
Provinces of San Paulo, Parana and Santa
Catharina. He asserts that, every possible
obstacle was thrown in his way by tbo Government
of Brazil, and it was only with the
greatest difficulty that he ascertained the
truth concerning the emigration question.
Some time ac;o, he says, Brazil decided to
import 10,000,000 emigrants, aud the North
German Lloyd Steamship Comnany had already
landed 140,000, receiving #100 each for
them. Immigrants were not allowed to
t oun 1 colonies, but were scattered in forests
and abandoned to die of hunger, fever and
snase Dices or u> De uevourea Dy Dcasts ot
orey. Unable to communicate with friends,
a few who survived made their way back to
Rio Janeiro, begging food of planter#, for
which they were compelled to render slavish
services.
Arriving at Rio Grande, M. Dygasinsk;
found 700 of his unfortunate countrymen dy
ing, huddled together in a wooden chapel,
while thousands were camping in the open
air, in the streets of cities and in the prime
val forest alike.
BOLD SNEAK THIEVES.
London (England) Rank Clerk
Robbed oi Over $00,000.
A decided sensation was cause; I in London,
England, by a daring bank robbery committed
in broad daylight. A stylish drewe I
nun accosted in the National Provincial
Bank of England, No. 112
Bishopgate Within, a clerk from the
London brauch of tin Bank of
Scotland, who was standing at the public
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;he act of inakiug a deposit of money. While
he conversation, whichlastod only a moment
>r so, was going on, a man, who was eviJently
an accomplice of the stylish stranger,
;natchetl from the clerk a satchel containing
wnds and checks representing over $00,000
ind ran out of the bank.
The clerk who was robbed is a youth
lamed McKenzie. He is only seventeen
fears of age. The two thieves are described
iy the police as boing "dudelike" In the exrerne.
The police officials are of the opinou
that they are expert American thieves,
vho have probably watched McKenzie for
veeks. The police say that this is the "bigjest
haul" of money made by "bank sneaks''
n a generation.
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ADMIRAL PORTER DEAD.
Fatty Degeneration of the
Heart Killed Him.
A Sketch of tlie Naval Hero's
Long Career,
' DAVID D. PORTER.
Admiral David D. Porter, who has been
in failing health for some time, died sudden*
ly at 8:15 o'clock a few mornings ago, at his
residence in Washington City from fatty degeneration
of the heart.
Dr. Wales, the physician attending Admiral
Porter, was hastily summoned to his
bedside, but the Admiral was dead before he
arrived. All the members of the family
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came suddenly, it was not unexpected by the
family.
Sketch of His Life.
In the death of Admiral David Dixon
Porter the country loses the last of a trio of
naval commanders who sustained in the
Civil War the finest traditions of the old
navy. Though far from being alone in this
record of gallantry, the names of Farragut,
Foote and Porter have a pre-eminence of
their own.
In every man his ancestors live over again,
and the biography of David D. Porter begins
in the person of that David Porter, born in
Boston, 1780. Five generations of his family
have served in the navy. Alexander, the
grandfather of Commodore David, commanded
a Boston merchantman, giving his
aid to the colonies, and his son. Captain
David, the Commodore's father, commanded
vessels commissioned by General Washingtan
in th9 Continental service. Commodore
David Porter's career was distinguished
throughont, culminating perhaps in his
gallant fight of the Essex in the harbor of
Valparaiso, Chill. This breach of neutrality
was a favorite reproach of Americans
against the British until we found it needful
to follow their example in taking the
Florida.
David Dixon Porter was born in Chester,
Penn., June 8, 1813, and thus lacks a few
months of completing his seventy-eighth
year. David D. had his first experience in
the Mexican service in 1827, being then
fourteen years of age. In 1829 he was appointed
midshipman in the United States
Navy, and attained his lieutenancy in 1841.
He served during the entire Mexican war,
had charge of the naval rendezvous at New
Orleans, and was engaged in every action on
the coast.
Afterward he commanded for some years
steamships in the Pacific Mail service between
New York and the Isthmus of Panama.
At the beginning of the Civil War he
was appointed to the command of the frigate
Powhatan, on service hi the Gulf. In Farragut's
attack on New Orleans, Porter now
promoted to Commander, commanded the
mortar fleet. Farragut, having destroyed
the Confederate fleet of fifteen vessels, left
the reduction of Fort Jackson and Fort St
Philip to Porter while he preceded to the
city. The forts surrendered in April. 1S63.
Porter then assisted Farragut in all the latter's
operations between New Orleans and
Vicksburg, where be effectively bombarded
I the forts and enabled the fleet to pas3 in
sa (sty.
For his services at Vicksburg Porter received
trie thanks of Congress and the commission
of Rear Admiral, dated July 4,1863,
) the date of the fall of that town. He ran
past the batteries of Vicksburg and captured
the Confederate forts at Grand Gulf
j which put him in communication with Gen!
eral Grant. In the spring of 1804 Porter co!
operated with Banks in the Red River camI
paign, and later fn thjj year was trarisi
ferred to the North Atlantic" squauroil, ^nd
reduced Fort Fisher, General Terry comI
mantling the land forces. Rear Admiral Porter
received a vote of thanks from Congress,
which was the fourth that he received during
the war.
Rear Admiral Porter was promoted to be
Vice-Admiral on July 25, 1606, served
awhile as Superintendent of the Naval
Academy, and was then transferred to
Washington. On August 15, 1870, he was
appointed Admiral of the Navy, the highest
grade in the service. In 1885 Porter published
"Incidents and Anecdotes of the (Jivil
j War."
He was married in 1839 to Anne Patterson,
a daughter of Commodore D. T. Patterson.
He leaves one son in the Navy, one in
the Marine Corps, besides two others In private
life, and two daughters.
Buried at Arlington.
funeral ceremonies over me remains ot
Admiral Porter took place four days aftei
his death from his late residence in Washington
City. The event was very imposing, tht
greatest honors known to naval regulations
being paid to the dead Admiral.
The officers of the Government, including
the President, members of his Cabinet, Samtors
and Representative Justices of the
Supreme ^ourt, aTOTy officers of every rank,
Vice-Admirals and numberless naval officers,
m$jjb$rs of the' diplomatic corps, and mea
dbSnzuisheii Tn letters and science wen
present.
All the Executive departments,the district
offices and public schools were closed. The
throng about the residenca during the services
was great.
The P^ev. Dr. Douglas, pastor of St. John's
Episcopal Church, officiated. It was nearly
3 o'clock when the funeral cortege moved to
Arlington, where the remains were interred
with full honors.
The funeral procession was composed of
more than 5000 troops, consisting of marins?,
militia, United States regulars, artillery
and cavalry', in charge of Rear Admiral
Kimberly. Following the former were the
President and members of the Cabinet in
carriages,and a long line of carriages con
tainiug array and navy officers and distin
cuishod Dersons.
" The pall beam's were: Yice-Presideni
Mortou, Senator Manderson, of Nebraska
Senator McPherson, of New Jersey: Senatoi
Hawley, of Connecticut; Governor Pattison,
of Pennsylvania; Major General Schofleld,
United States Army; Roar Admiral Rodg
ers, United States >"avy; R.*ar Admiral
Howell, United States Navy* Rear Admira!
Crosby, United States Navy; Rear Admira
Stevens, Unitod States Navy; Rear Admira
Almy, United State3 Navy; Rec.r Admifai
Worden, United States Navy; Rear Admiral
Jewett, United State# Navy; Rear Admira!
Queen, United States Navy; General Josopfc
E. Jolmstou, the Confederate officer; Representative
Boutelle, of Maine.
The body bearers were ei~ht sailors from
the crew of the United States receiving shi^
Dalr>.
The dead Admiral was dressed in the fuli
uniform of his run!;, thoG. A. K. badge, tin
decoration of tho Sons of the Americac
Revolution and the badge of Porter Posl
of Massachusetts being upon his breast, Thi
casket was covered witn royal purple vol
vet, with silver handles and ornaments.
Upon a silver tablet on tho lid was the following
inscription:
"David 1). Porter, Admiral United States
Navy. Born June IS, IS 13. Died Februnrj
13, IS'JI."
All a!on2 the line to Arlington wore
hibited signs of mourning.
The United States steamer Dispatch rode
at auchor on the Potomac closo by the ceine
tery, and fired a funeral salute of seventeen
guns as the interment took place.
The most powerful and best organize?
body among the British workers is the Coal
Miners' Union. Of the 500,000 men employed
in the mines of England, Scotland and
Wales, 100,000 are organized. There are five
of their members dircctly representing these
organizations in Parliament. And Michael
Davitt says these unions, with other great
combinations of workers, will lay hold of
I the political power and gain supremacy ov?r
tested u-.t??1
FIFTT-FIBSTCONGBESSs
In the Senate.
58th Day.?The Copyright bill was up,
but no action was taken....Several pension
bilJs, among them one for General N. P.
Bank?, were passed.
59th Day.?The Senate resumed consideration
of the Copyright bill. Th? discussion
having closed the vote was taken on Mr.
Sherman's amendment, and it was agreed to
?yeas twenty-flve, nays twenty-four. The
Convrieht bill was then laid aside without
further action Tributes to the career of
Admiral Porter were delivered, and the Senate
adjourned out of respect to his memory.
60th Day.?The vice-President announced
the aDpointment of Messrs. Manderson
and Waftholl ns members of the Board
of Visitors at the annual examination of
cadets at West Point Military- Academy,
and of Messrs. Chandler and Harris in a
similar capacity at the Annapolis Naval
Academy... .The resolution authorizing
the Select Committee on Relations
with Canada to. continue its investigations
during the recess was agreed to
... .Mr. Daniel moved to amend the proviso
in the Copyright bill requiring copyrighted
books to be printed from type set within the
United States or from plates therefrom by
adding to it the words: u0rshall b9 otherwise
produced in the United States from
process executed in the United States." The
cliscussion on this amendment was interrupted
at 3:30, when the message of the
President announciug the death of General
Sherman was laid before the Senate. After
several brief eulogies the Senate adjourned.
61st Day.?Mr. sawyer reporteu an
amendment to the Postomce Appropriation
bill permitting members of Congress to
franlc mail matter directed to Government,
officials Mr. Hale offered a resolution,
which was agreed to, directing the Secretary
of the Interior to consider the expediency of
the establishment of a permanent Census
Bureau and to report to the Senate next
Congress. ...The conference report on the
Fortification bill was agreed to An
amendment to the Diplomatic bill was
adopted, providing for the establishment ot
telegraphic communication with Hawaii;
also one raising the Mexican mission to the
first-class... .Mr. Quay denied explicitly th-j
charges against his conduct in the Stat?
affairs of Pennsylvania.
02d Day.?The Diplomatic bill was pass? 1
.... One amendment was made to the Copy,
right bill.... An adverse report on ths Stanford
Land Loan bill was presented.
63d Day.?The Sherman and Frve anientmsnts
to the Copyright bill were adop^i
and -the bill was passed by a vote of 36 to 11
... .The Indian Depredations bill was considered...
Mr. Higgins reported favorably
the Senate bill to provide for the payment
of the French spoliation claim... .The bill foi
an?w Custom House in Bowling Green, New
Yofk Uity,was passea... .come aozeu peu-w.i
hilli were passed, including bills increasing
tho pansions of the widows of General Coster,
Admiral Wilkes and General Danie! CJ1!
maun to ?100 a month.
In the Hod6c.
53th Day.? After disposing of busies; of
minor importance the House went into Committee
of the "Whole (Mr. Payeon, . of Illinois,
in the chair) on the Legislative Appropriation
bill. The appropriation for" the
clerical force of the Civil Service Commis
sion was stricken out on a point of order. .,
The Senate bill granting a pension of $100 a
month to General N. P. Banks was passed,
57th Dat.?The House went into Com
mittee of the Whole on the Legislative Ap
?VwJll a nnf.nnr trrjnyl :
Ipi UJJi IttClVU V/AJ1. AiVW* MtAVWMW*
over the Civil Service Commission, th:
House passed the bill.
58th Day.?Mr. Flower asked unanimou
! consent for the passage of the bill for tin
| erection of a new Custom House in Nev
I York City, but Mr. Dunnellobjected... .Th
j House then went into Committee of th
Whole (Mr. Dingley, of Maine, in tho chair
ou the Indian Appropriation bill. Whei
about a third of the measure had been dis
posed of the committee rose....The Nava
Appropriation bill was sent to conference...
I The Speaker having laid before the Hous
the message from the President announcing
the death of General Sherman, it was re
ferred to the Committee on Military Affair
and the House adiourned.
59th Day.?The House adopted the con
ference report on the Army Appropria
I tion biU.inOn motion of Air. wheel?
| Senate bill wqs passed providing Americai
I registers for tfoe steamers Monta\ilj.and Min
i neoia....Mr, Owen reported a bill amend
! ing the various acts relative tp the iainjigrj
! tion and th? importation o? aliens tyide
j contract....The House then went into Com
mittee of the Whole on the Indian Appro
uriation bill, but no action was taken...
Mr. Langston introduced a bill to mak
National holidays of February 12, Abraham
nnrt Ani?il 97 f-.3n.vs:
j Grants birthday.
I 6Qtu Paja?In pursuance of a vrritte:
designation by the Speaker, the Hous? wa
| called to order by Mr. Payson Mi
; Thompson reported a resolution for the in:
! peachmejnt of Alexander Soarmali, Jut3g
' of tli3 United States District Court fo
' the Western District of Louisiana, fo
! high crimes and misdemeanors Tii
j House agreed to the conference repor
on the Fortification Appropriation bill...
j The House went into Committee of th
I Whole on the Indian Appropriation bil
I Mr. Carter, of Montana, offered an amend
I ment appropriating $946,000 to carry ou
i the agreement with the Crow Indians c
Montana. Adopted. The consider.-,
tion of the bill having be#
concluded, the committee recurrj
to ths aiaaen^lment for tlje carrying out o
certain treaty agreements with the Sissetoi
and Wahpeton and other Indians: and i
was agreed to. Mr. Holman, of Indiana
' offered an amendment providing that th
! Cherokee Nation may negotiate with th
I Secretary of the Interior for the sale of th
I Charokee outlet. Adopted. No further ac
tion was taken.
61st Day.?The Indian Appropriation bil
was passed The Postofflce Appropriate
bill was considered.
JOHNSTOWN FLOODED.
| The City Submerged and Eighi
Bridges Swept Away.
A dispatch frOul Johnstown, siys
Johnstown is experiencing many of inST)??
rors of the flood of June, 1SS9. Owing tc
continued heavy rains the river began
rising, and by noon had reached an alarming
height. From that time on the volume
of water increased more rapidly, the rivet
rising at the rate ot' one foot an hour.
By night both the Conomaugh aud Stony
Creek were running over their banks.
Eight temporary bridges, which were
erected after the flood of May, 18$!), were
washed away, with a portion of a new steei
bridge which was in course of erection.
The loss to the bridge company who had
this contract in hand will amount to several
thousands of dollars. The water flooded the
lower parts of the city.
The Cambria iron works were flooded an l
were compelled to shut down. The other
mills havo also shut down. Cellars were
flooded, and the merchants were kept busy
moving their goads to higher ground.
Communication by wagon with the Pennsylvania
Railroad and the lower part of the
city was cut olT entirely, the only means of
communication being by the Cambria Rail
road AJriage. itoports receivea rroai up tae
country say that the rivers are higher than
at any time since the famous tlooJ, 1SS9, in
which saveral thousand people lost their
lives.
Owing to the water covering the floors of
tho City Prison the doors wero thrown open
and the seven prisoners confined released.
The people are still greatly excite! over
the report that tlio log boom will break an 1
the streets are crowded with excited men
running hither and thither. A mounted
patrol has been established and every precaution
taken to give immediate warning of
impending danger.
A FLOEIDA LYNCHING,
Two Outlaws Taken from the Gainesville
Jail niul Huii?.
A special from Gainesville, Alachua
County, in the western part of Florida, reports
a lynching there of two members of a
.-.--Derate gang of thieves and pluuderers.
rv.r last act was the shooting 01 T. B. McFh'.'ivon,
who kept a store just outside of the
city limits.
Miko Kelly, white, the leader of-the gauz,
and Jim Champion, a colored ex-convict,
were capture ! uexfc clay and taken to Gainesville.
McPherson died during the night, and tho
Citizens were so infuriated that they rose en
masse, took the murderers from the jail and
huag them to two big pines nearby.
PBOMINEMT PEOPLE,
Bradlauoh was an errand boy.
Dr. Koch* the consumptive curer, is In
Egypt.
The Sultan of Zanzibar will shortly visit
Berlin, Germany.
The Emperor of Germany now smokes a
dozen cigar3 a day.
Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, is in poverty
at eighty-four.
Ex-King Milan, of Servia, now calls himself
the Duke of Pavolo.
The death of Meissonier removes the for*
most French artist of the day.
Premier Rubin l of Italy, says peace can
only be secured by continuing the Triple Alliance.
Ex-President Cleveland has accepted
an honorary membership in the Society ol
Old Friends.
President Diaz, of Mexico, is said to be
broken down in health and to be preparing
for a trip to Europe.
Mr. Phelps, the American Minister ic
Berlin. Germany, is said to receive marked
attention from the Kaiser.
Colonel Macfarlane, who was Kalakaua
s chamberlain, says the King left an
estate worth about $100,000.
Explorer Stanley says that Edison, the
electrician, has the most wonderful pair ol
eyes that he has ever seen in a human head.
James Parton, the historian, wears well
Tliongh about entering his seventieth yeai
he regularly spends about six hours a day al
his desk.
Senator CockrelL, of Missouri, is saic
to be the only man who has ever had th<
audacity to smoke a pipe within the sacred
confines of the United states oenate.
John Foord, late editor of Harper'i
Weekly, has gone to Europe as chief advise:
and secretary to Mr. Pulitzer, of the Nevi
York World, who is leaving this country foi
his health.
The O'Shaunessy brothers, the Tennesse*
millionaires, claim descent from the kings o;
ancient Ireland. Their fortune has been ac
quired almost entirely through investment
in real estate.
Nine Congressmen?Cummin^s, Farquhar
De Haven, Fithian, O'Donnell, Moore, Hans
brough, Wyckham and Craig, of Statei
Island?State Senator Brown, of New
York, and Erastus Wiman were printers
"devils."
General John* B. Newton, of New York
has been voted by the Board of Trustees i
salary of $10,000 per annum as consultiuj
engineer of the Chicago (111.) Drainage Shi]
; Canal. Chief Engineer Worthen was vote*
an equal salary.
! Colonel F. H. Hain, Generil Manager o
the Manhattan Elevated Railway Company
of New York, draws a salary of $25,00011
. year. When be began his business career ii
a sman jrennsyivama viuage ais wages wer
fifty cents a day.
The Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond, Va.
who gained celebrity by his "iun-do-move
lecture, doesn't let "his salary move. Hi
congregation has several times tendered hin
an increase, but he declared that #50 a mont!
is ample for his neeis, and h9 declines to ac
1 cept more.
John' D. Rockefeller, the Standard 0
' Kins, is of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, an
his face shows the heavy lines and prominen
nose that are characteristic of that ancestry
He is a quiet, retiring man, wholly unassum
j ing in dress and manner, and always speak
in low, well modulated tones. His home lif
is noted for its simplicity.
s General Count Alfred von Schliei
3 fen, who succeeded General von Walderse
i- as chief of the general staff of the Germa
a army, is regarded as one of the most abl
? officers on that staff. Count von Walderse*
)' the retiring chief of the general staff, too
^ formal leave of the staff attaches in Berlin
In a speech, in which he showed deep emc
.1 tion, he said: "The Emperor has ordered m
. elsewhere. A soldier obeys ordars withoc
q asking roasona."
1 A FAMILY CREMATED,
. A Mother and Four Children Perls
i- in a Brooklyn (N. Y.) Fire.
2 A whole family lost their lives in a fire
i- the cellar of the baker-shop of Fritz Rot
* fuh9, Brooklyn, N. Y. The fire had be<
caused by the carelessness of one of 21
i- Rothfuhs's journeymen, Jacob Emmericl
b who was at work alone in the place at tl
time, and was due to the overturning a p?
e of boiling lard on the hot stove.
a The pot contained fr?m J;weJve to fi?te<
J quarts.of fat. When tna fat began to be
it ran over, and in attempting to remove
a | ?mmerich overturned the lard. The ne:
j instant tne zac was iu a uiuzs.
RotMuhs. aft^r telling ?^a<yich to {
1- out and senu in an alarm, started to arou
0 the occupants of the building. Emtneri*
r wasunable to finda fire-box key, and ful
ir ftjbalf hour elapsed before the alarm reach!
e the Fire Department. In the meantime tl
t occupants of tho house Tjegin to run froi
. the building.
All were believed to have escaped when
I. cry for help was heard coming froin tfc
[- open window on the top floor, which was 01
: cupied by Mrs. Mary Henry, a widow, wit
if her four children. The woman could be see
by the aid of the glare of the flames tbroug
!i tao dense volumes of smoke which poure
d from every window in the house. Tl
f crowd below were helpless to rescue h<
1 and her children from the terrible fate whic
t awaited them. They implored her to jura
,, to the sidewalk, but she failed to do so. 8h
e was tben soon lost sight of, and when h?
g charred body, with those of her childret
e were found, they were lying around tfa
> threshold of the bedroom door leading int
tho hnll.
1 Mrs. Henry was dressed in a wra]
i per and in her arms nestled her younj
est child, a babe a few months old. >~ea
her lay Woodsey, four years old; Harrj
eleven years old, and Julia, nine years ok
Tho boy Harry apd girl Julia were bot
;lresied, a.od Hc-?ry's right arm was locke
I in htf sister's. l"hey had met death whii
following their mother.
I the unfortunate woman attempted t
f ' maka W escaP? as soon. 88 b,hd
a^j-oneri (not. ' of stopping to dress lie
- i ^ '-9 would have beo
, children, it is believea c...
saved with the other families. *
1 The charred bodies of the mother anu ^
four children were laid side by side on th
> floor of the old building, which has beei
' turned into a temporary morgue. Mrs
Henry was twenty-eight years old and hai
been a widow less than a year. She sup
ported herself and family by doing washing
j EX-GOVERNOR SIBLEY.
Death ol the Hero ot the Siou.T Wai
?A Romantic Career.
Ex-Governor Sibley, after a long illness,
died a few days ago at his home in St. Paul,
Minn
frflnprnl FT. H. Sihtar who was nhont
eighty years old,had lived a romantic life. At
twenty-three years of age he was taken in as a
partner in the American Fur Company, and
stationed at Mendola, Minn., as agent
for the company. That point was the only
settlement on the frontier. He entertained
there Captain Marryatt, Colonel Fremont,
Featherstonehaugh, "the traveler, and other
distinguished wanderers. He was sent as
the first delegate to Congress from the Territory
of Minnesota.
He was the first Governor of the Stats,
and signed, under compulsion of the Supreme
Court, the $7,000,000 of thrice repudiated
railroad bonds, which afterward were
redeemed at fifty cents on the dollar. His
management of the Sioux War was severely
criticised for its delays and apparent disr<j
|ard for the suffering captives, but at the
md it was shown that his knowledge of Inlian
character and sagacious modern warrare
was tho means of saving liuudreds of
iives and of releasing every captive safe and
iound. When the war was over he hanged
forty-three warriors at tfankato and settled
the Sioux troubles permanently. They have
iiveti peacefully on their reservations in Dakota
ever since". He had been aa invalid for
rears.
0.ye hundred acres of land, just south of
Jackson Park, Chicago, 111., recantly was
sold for $1,000,000. The laud is under water.
il was sum ior ma ueiiiuui iiuru .lauomi
Hank, which will now pay $1.00 on each
dollar of its capital stock.
Seventy-eight deaths from intemperance
in Boston, Mass., in 1890, au increase of
tweuty-fivo per cent, over 1889, when it was
not necessary for a person to sit in order to
got a drink.
FATAL BOMnPLQSlQHJ |
A Factory in Quebec, Canada^
i Totally Demolished.
Over a Score of Bodies Taken
From the Ruins.
A boiler in the Quebec "Worated Company*i ^
factory, at Hare Point, Canada, In the out* . '
! skirts of the city of Quebec, exploded at 'V~rg|
about 9:45 o'clock on a recent morning, ccm> v'^yjs
pletely demolishing the engine house and ft
part of the factory. A large number of the '
truipiujrca wcio uiui^ ui ruiuSf tuiu uu -wy
the morning after the explosion twenty-flTO .''-^aa
bodies had been taken from the debris.
The late morning services in the Roman
Catholic churches were attended at ths time
t by thousands of Lenten penitents, when the
I services were interrupted by a shock as of a
mighty earthquake, and as the churches ' " ^
swayed came tne thick, heavy thud of a
startling report. I'"ZM&m
In some churches, and notably In 8t.Roch'?,|
there was quite a panio, and the clergy with . -/-a
| difficulty induced the people to leave thp*
1 building quietly.
The explosion was that of the boiler of.
the Quebec Worsted Mills, an immense CsrjK
" building at Hart* Point, 500 feet long. I Zv?|3
I The factory had been closed a fortnight'
while repairs were being made to machinery. > j
[ and on the day of the disaster the boilers' <
j were being tested preparatory to work being .tS?s
[ resumed when the explosion occurred. No-! '
body knows how or why. Those who could
muutj LUIVO MJIU uio awry uuw no wxu m
r deatb- -it'&gSSM
T Arthur Tweddle, Superintendent ol the
. Quebec and Levis Ferry Company and aj -ajjjffij
skilled engineer, was superintending .the
work, assisted by the engineer of the tat>
3 tory, Thomas 8tiles, John Lee, engineer, ofC
Montreal, and by three master mechanics
* named John La Montague, Joseph Michaodi
3 and William Francoeur, all of whom ware - i
killed. ,
, The explosion lifted the roof of the
. house a considerable height in the air and
i carried It some distance away. The walls of
7 the structure and the lofty smokestack tot-1 ;
tered and fell. The dyehouse and two .3*1
hundred feet of the factory building ware- -i9
levelled to the ground. Had the factory:
I been in full operation the loss of life woald .'
have been numbered by hundreds. i $9
\ Eighty operatives who came to see if work : ^
I would commence that day had been seat
home ten minutes prior to the explosion.
About half the number were in ana about' . :
? the building, and some are numbered with 4-Jg
'? the killed. Many more may still be burled' ffia
a beneath the ruins. i \ittt
1 Willing hands worked hard all day at the
9 womAval r\f fVio HoKrio onH /w>o?{nna1lv ' . / ? SwG
labors were rewarded by the discovery of, \
, masses of humanity, sometimes little mors'
" than limbs, at others armlesspr legless bod- ; '<$&
3 ^es*
i There are portions of human remains
h aro recognized only by fragments of the
r clothes they wore. - c*
The injured and dying were removed Into
il the Marine Hospital, close to the factory,
d where all the doctors in the city and &' ' /$
t number of Sisters of Charity attended them.; * ;
, Most of the wounded are so disfigured as to " '"z
be almost unrecognizable, and harrowing
s scones ware witnessed on all bands as wivev
e sisters or children, rushing among the row*
of mangled, bleeding bodies, shrieked out the . *338
name of the husband, brother or father that
' they had identified.
_ Firemen, factory hands, police and dti- J
wns, and men of the regular regiments of Canadian
cavalry and artillery worked Ilka
? tieroes all day long among the debris and the ' -''M
snow to recover the dead and dying. The
' damage to the factory will probably exceed
g 1100,000.
1 Mr. Harvev. foreman of Messrs. Carrier, zaH
Laine & Co., of Levis, who were carrying :
Dut repairs to the machinery and boilers, V*v5i
says that he was in the engia?-roonx
when the explosion took place. He
instinctively threw himself under the
i, | jtielter ol a large wheel, and so escape! bo
i j)g crushed by failing bricis ani rafterg._
I He was rescue^ a hair hour later, and has .
jn , inly slight injuries. He cannot account for
the accident.
The cause of the accident is not at present i.fjJS
m known, but it is thought some of the pipes -,,-jafl
p. may have frozen while the flre3 were oufcjand '' r-jaB
V 30 caused a stoppage when steam was started. Jj|
DEATH IN A PIERY MINE.
)il =**
it Four Men Killed rQ a Shalt Near Scott- ;
st dale, Penn.
rQ -A- dispitch from Scottdale, Penn., Bayir
"The Moyer Mine, about three miles from ;^?0
;h this place, is on fire. A large body of me? .-.-IfS
|y are at work trying to subdue the flames and "$?
j0 rescue the imprisoned miners.
m "The fire was kindled bv a miner acci* .'j-'i&S
dentally dropping a naked lamp at the bota
torn of the shaft, which is 100 feet deep.
is The lamp exploded, igniting the accumu- : ',vM
3. Jated mine gas, which exploded with a terrl- V3a
h flc report and scattered the flames in every
,n direction. The mine caught fire, the large
h shaft used for ventilating the mine waa^^^^D
d stroyed and the interior of the mine seemTl^^^n
,e be one mass of flame. A large number ofl^HK
>r men are at work turning water in the mina.^HH|
h Moutz Creek has been turned from its coarse
p into the mine shaft and is pouring a large ' :'X
e quantity of water into the seething abyss. ?l
)r "The Moyer coke plant, one of the largest
1 in the region, employed 500 men. The mea ']-.i
,a at this place had rsfused to join the ranks of '
o the strikers, and the works were running1
full. Fifty miners were at work at the time " gg
y. of the explosion. All escaped except four
r. pumpers, who are known to have been ..*?1
^ killed, and six or seven men who are reported {a
- mining."
lg Non Committal. ;
n -a.
1 1
| Girls (c^citediy)?uOh, Mr. Tumble*
down, are you killed?"
Tumbledown?"I can tell you better
after I reach the bottom! I ain't dead,
up to the present time, but the prospect
before me is pretty serious,"?Argosy, j
Mrs. Mat French Sheldon, who is \
to lead an expedition to tlie Congo in jfl
Stanley's footsteps, is a physician of no m
mean .ability and has also won a reputation
as an author and sculptor. She
has an enviable position in literary and
scientific circles in Loudon, where her
husband is the manager of a bankinghouse.
...
(f
Gen. B. F. Butler delivered an ad<
, dress at Tremont Temple, Boston, on
Wendell Phillips, nml announced that
tills would be his last apj earance on
the lecture platform. ;