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| BEADLT TORMM ti. _ . r. Its Fatal Work Near Mount r, k Car in el, Peiin. A Coal Breaker Demolished and , ? Seven Men Killed. The Patterson Coal Company's breaker, f- one mile trom Mount Carmel, Penn., was crushed to pieces by a tornado soon after 3 o'clock on a recent afternoon. At tfre time the wind struck the colliery it was in full operation. Suddenly there was a crash and the hut;e structure swayed to and fro for a moment and then fell to the ground, a mass of' ruins When the crash came many of the employes rushed from the breaker panic-stricken, while others who were less fortunate were caught in the flying tim? bers and crushed to death. The killed are J. N. Blossom, aged forty, of Hawley, Penn.; B. Dodson, aged thirty-five, of Shickshinney, Penn.; Walter Robert, aged twenty-seven, T ??r) William Ui UUAC1UO SJVivu^u, ACUU*| * Lodge, aged twenty-four, of Luzerne Borough; the bodies ot three others, all Itaiiaus, whose names cannot be learned, were removed from the ruins that evening. :iy Five persons were injured, two probably fatally. > The breaker was situated oo the summit of the mountain. It ran almost due east and west and was about 300 feet long and the highest point was 185 feet. Lodge. Roberts and two of the unknown men were latere, and were engaged in roofing* the breaker at the time of the accident, i. The other two killed were carpenters and ? met their death while at work on the inside. Soon after noon the sky in the north became * black and the darkness grew in intensity. The men perched on their high tower looked at the advancing storm, expecting to descend in time to avoid the rain. Suddenly there was a flash of lightning, a thunder peal that shook all the neighborhood 5 followed, and the next minute the terrible wind-gust gathered up the great structure as though it weir a feather, and whirling it arouou, uasuea jo iaj i uxu. auc ucu nuo mangled almost lieyond recognition. i Atter the accident occurred the wildest exf citement followed, and the employes, as well as the people living ?ear by, flocked to the scene of disaster and aided those who were ? ; fortunate enough to escape in removing the d?ad and injured from the wrecked breaker, r Hie storm was one of the worst that has ever visited the Mahanoy Valley. A passenger on a Philadelphia and Reading express train which passed through the storm, said: "Wtoen the train reached Locust Summit i>.' on its way to Philadelphia I saw the storm approaching from the south^ west. We had not gone far when it struck Sp-,* the train. A panic followed and it was et- feared that the entire train would be hurled from the track. Trees were uproote i on either side and the noise produced by the rushing wind reminded me of the s- roaring of musketry. The storm seemed to increase in violence every moment until the. train reached Gordon, some miles east, when it abated. After the wind had subsided it began to rain. The lightning was awful." Thd damage wrought by the storm will probably reach $150,000, including the breaker, which was owned and operated by Pitts ~urg, Philadelphia, and Wilkesbarre people. ?? } - PE 0M1JM JtiJN x rLurii t?, &&K Gladstone has suffered another relapse. Edison looks when at work like a boy apjrentice. Secretary Proctor is devotedly foud of whist and horses. General Schofield is thirty-six years older tban his bride. The cost of burying the late Grand Duke . Nicholas of Russia was $300,000. Bill Arp, the Georgia humorist, is sixty years old and the father of nine children. General DaFoxseca, President of : Brazil, will shortly pay a visit to Europe. Count D'Abraz. the French consul at Hew York, has a neat little salary of $11,000 year. , Sardou, the great French playright, 'writes a hand so fin? that it almost requires a magnifying glass to read it. Ex-Emprrss Eugenie left Paris a few days ago for England, after au affectinj interview with ex-Queen Isabels, of Spain. Donald G. Mitchell, "Ik. Marvel," was^ one of the class of 1^41 at Yale, and takes part in the semi-centennial observance this year. John D. Rockefeller's wealth is estimated at $ 1'20,01 (J,0JO, oi which SOS,000,000 is Standard Oil stocl;. His real estate is worth $10,000,1)00. A. J. Drexel hoa s the list of Philadelphia rich-men with s2~>,0 )0,000. The city has 160 millionaires, whose total holdings foot up over $400,000,000. The Duke of Edinburgh is reported to bs ?? the most niggardly man in Englanl. He is forty-seven years old, a confirmed miser, a fine violinist and a good sailor. General Armstrong, founder of the Hampton (Va.) School for Indians, was born / on one of the Sandwich Islands, and is now upon a visit to his early home. The Prince of Wale? was born November 9,1841, visited the United States in lSGOani married a daughter of the Kiug of Denmark, March 10. Ib03. He will be fifty years of age in Xovemoer. General Don* Carlos Buel, who lives a & retired life on a farm in Kentucky, occasionally shows himself in LouisviUe. His form is erect and well preserved, aud ho is an entertaining talker on military and oth?r topic.-. One of the Souths most succ3ssful evangelists is William Evan lor Penn, who has ~K lust finished a great revival in Mississippi 5t';, He is a man of sixty-three, and has been probing day and night for sixSpftJP^MlE youne Queen of Holland has |K>rKj^Pormea"her first public-function in laying jH^the corner-stone of a hospital. She made the official speech, "I hope this institution will be a blessing to Amsterdam," very neatly. She was dressed in light colors, with black lace. The Haytian President, General Hippolyte, is about sixty years of age an J of coalblack complexion. He is the political itlolof the pure Diacks, whoso blood has not been contaminated by intermarriage with the Creoles. He is the son of a college professor of Port-au-Prince and is a man of considi/" ? able learning and cultivation. i STORMS IN GERMANY, Whole Villages Swept Aivay hy a Fearlul Cloudburst. Great destruction of life and property by cloudbursts and thunder storms is reported from all quarters of Germany. At Coblentz on the upper Rhine, whole districts are fearfully devastated. At the fortress of Ehren Breitstein the lower parts of the town and of the fortress were flooded. The people were driven to the housetop? for safety and the garrison was called out and dispatched to the assistance of the inhabisints of Pfaffendorf and Horchhein, who were in great peril and distress. All along the Rhine and Moselle the vineyards have suffered severely and great feare are entertaioed for the future vintage. Near Widcheringen, on the Moselle, some peasants going along the road in a cart were overwhelmed by a cloudburst and swept down the embankment into the river. One of them were drowned, but the others saved themselves by swimming. All the railroads between Treves and Metz are impassable, owin? to the floods. A tremendous cloudburst did great damage to the Soden Meiieinal Springs, and the villages of Holzeudorf, Wernsdorf and Murk have been totally destroyed. Houses, roads, bridges, walls, cattle and crops have been iwept away, and the inhabitants of those district are terror stricken and in despair. A ssw disease has broEen out among the Hungarians in the Pennsylvania coke regions greatly resembling the terrible "black leg" malady which some years ago infested Europe. There are twenty patients now in the "West Moreland Home and 200 cases in the region. New Yobk milliners average 82.50 a week; j Bhirtmakvs, *8; underwear-makers, $3; ! cloakmakers, $3.60 boxmakers, *4; feather worker*, |4; man'* clothing-makers, |4. j . TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The monument of the tilth New York Volunteer Infantry was dedicated at Gettysburg, Penn. Benjamin B. Snow, of Auburn. N. Y., delivered the oration, and G. D. MacDougall of the same plac?, made an address The benediction vras pronounced by Rev. S. G- Hopkins, of Palmyra, N. Y. Dcrixg a baseball game at Johnstown, Penn., a few days a*o, one of the plnvers discovered the body of an unknown flood victim. A scaffolh erected at the Worthingtoa pump works, Elizabethport, N. J., on which seventeen bricklayers were at work, suddenly fell and precipitated tM men forty feet to the ground. Michael Nolan, thirty-five, unmarried, and Gabriel Williams, thirty, also unmaried, were instantly kflloi. T^9 other men were all more or bss injured. The great Yale-Harvard University four mile boat race at New London, Conn., for the sixteenth time in the history of the an iiiim event was wou oy narvar.i, leaving Yale with a record of eleven out of the twenty-s?vea contests which have taken place between the two great rival institutions. Yalo was beaten by eleven lengths, time twenty-one minutes and twenty-three seconds. The Governor of Vermont decided to ea'l a special session of the Legislature to consider the disposition of the Direct Tax money. Rev. W. M. Ogdex, rector of the Church of the Holy Cross at \Varrenaburg, N. Y., fell dead in the pulpit while preaching. He was fifty-five years of age and had been pastor of the church for twenty years. Allie B. Dorr, aged twenty-five, a servant, committed suicide at Bar Harbor, Me., by hanging. Her twin brother, Edward Dorr, and Lester Stevens, weredrownei by the upsetting of a sail boat in the harbor a short time before. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Haslett, wife of a wealthy citizen of Brooklyn, met a shocking death by leaping from a window, after having accidentally set her clothing on fire. The funernl nf frederick Brokaw. drowned while trying to rescue a servant ?irl, took place at Elberon, N. J. Two thousand persons were present. It was attended by prominent people from New York, Philadelphia and all seaside resorts; President: Francis L. Patton, of Princeton College; several of the Faculty and a large body of the students. Mercantile circles of New Bedford, Mass., were startled to learn that J. H. .T. Doane, a clothing dealer, had disappeared, and was a forger to the extent of *12,009. Doane is a son of the late Simeon Doane, a retired whaling merchant. Judge Butler, in Philadelphia, Penn.. directed the Ceutennnial Exposition Board of Finance to distribute a balance of $13,103.01 among the stockholders. There are 18,915 holders of stock. The dividend will be about two cents a share, and the board doesn't know how it Is going to make the distribution. The boiler of shifting engine 23) explode! it Mauch Chunk, Penn. Engineer Tripp and Fireman Pope were blown to atoms and cannot be found. Brakemen Gallagher and Smith were found among the debris, having been killed instantly. There is no witness living to tell the story. Captain F. M. Bruce, United States Navy, took command of the United States Naval Training Station at Newport, R. I., relieving Commodore 0. F. Stanton. The ladies of the Christian Church of Brushton, N. Y., gave an ice cream sociable. Forty-three people who ate the cream were poisoned. The pastor of the church and two ladies died, and all the others were, for several days, in a critical condition. At Lawrence, Mass., John Rauscb, twentyfour years old, shot and killed his sweetheart, Maria Burcket, sixteen years old. and then shot himself through tho head, dying immediately. Rausch was extremely jealous. Prince George of Greece, who saved the life of the Czarowitz of Russia in Japan, arrived at New York City from Chicago, en route, by Atlantic steamer, for home. There were fully 1000 Greeks at the station to honor the coming of their royal countryman, and their enthusiasm was marked. Sonth and West. At the Moqui Reservation in Arizona, ths Indian agent and another white were murdered, and T50 bucks in war paint encamped '.n Xeam's canyon, armed with "Winchesters and ready to fight. Troops from Fort Wingate went to disperse them. State Treasurer Woodruff, of Kansas, has been indicted for the embezzlement State funds. The town of Moville, South Dakota, was nearly wiped out by a flooi. The inhabitants were compelled to camp out in a field. Thomas Thurmam. Joseph Zins, Miss Edith Zin?, Miss Catherine Case and Mis3 Kate Riddle were drowned while boating on the Ohio River, opposite Covington, Ky. The boat was run down by a barge. State Comptroller Colga.v, of California, has been advised by his attorney, J. A. Barhan,not to pay the *300,000 appropriated by the Legislature for California's exhibit at the World's Fair on the ground that the appropriation is unconstitutional. Thomas Harris, colored, was hanged at Shreveport, La., lor the murder or Ella Franklin. Two colored men living in Cass Count v. ten miles east of Daneerfiela, Texas, named Will Hartsfield and Mun Sheppard, were taken out and shot to death by unknown parties. Thomas W. Bacid, of Little Rock, the largest wholesale and retal machinery dealer in Arkansas, has failed with liabili ties of #100,000. All but one of tha fourteen flint and window glass factories of Findlay, Ohio, have shut down until September 1 and probably longer, giving over 2,000 employes a two month-.' vacation. The doors of the Red Cloud (Neb.) National Bank were closed by order of Bank Examiner McKnight. Levt and Joseph Straus, malsters, have made an assignment at Baltimore, MU. Liabilities over $809,000. The wholesale and retal grocery establishment of David Nicholson, St. Louis, Mo., was completely destroyed by fire. Loss, $200,000. Arnold Siegfried Jahn, son of Frederick Ludwig Jahn, founder of the German Turners' Society, was buried at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, 111. The bodv was followed to tb ? tomb by one thousand Turners in unilorra. Six Chinese women perished In a lodging house fire in Chinatown, Sau FranciscD, Cal. A falling wall killed Patrick Hagjrerty, Richard T. fcienniwitz, and John Flaherty at Janesville, Wis. A destructive hurricane swept over a large area iu Kansas and Missouri. Vocdenot Crumpton was hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., for a murder committed in the Indian Territory in 18S9. Lieutenant-Commander George A. Norris, of the United States steamship Omaha, died at San Francisco, Cal., of pneumonia. Washington. It was decide I by the President at a Cabinet meeting to coin the trade dollars into standard silver dollars. A bulletin issued from Washington by the Census Office shows that the production of limestone in the United States for the census year 1889 had a total value of $19,095,179. The expenditures for wages, etc., were $15,092,714. The capital invested in the industry, amounted to $27,022,325. Superintendent Portbr has appoints T. tvos.s Calhoun of Philadelphia as Special Census Agent. Mr. Porter will detail an extra force to clos^ up the Philadelphia work. There are manufacturing establishments yet to be scheduled, not including a number of expert industries. The State Department has received a despatch announcing the death of Alexander Clark, United States Minister to Liberia. His remains will be brought to the United States for interment. The plant of the Washington Critic? exsept the press, was sold at auction by the reuelver, under direction of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. The property was purchased by A. T. Hensey, proprietor of the Washington Sunday Herald, for $10,150. Colonel George Thom (rstired). United States Array, died at Garfield Hospital, Washington, of exhaustion followin g an attack of apoplexy. He was born in New Hampshire. He was by brevet a Brigadierjeneral. Ex-Sexator Isoalls made his first appearance as a lecturer at the National Chaucauqua at Glen Echo, near Washington City, i few days a$o. His subject was "The Proo.ems of Our Second Century." Oliver P. Hallasi, of Nashville, 111.,, has oeen appointed assistant chief clerk of the Pension Office, vice Green B. Rium, Jr., resigned. Y.he "Weather Bureau was transferred from th9 War Department to the Agricultural Department; Professor Mark W. Harrington, of Michigan, was appointed its Dhief. Foreign. The Congressional party of Chili accuse the police under Balmaceaa of throwing imitation bombs at the Ministers to afford a pretext for the arrest of the Congressional aegotiators. Outrages upon foreigners in China continue. The famous Captain Eyre Massey Shaw has resigned as Cnief of the London (England), Metropolitan Fire Brigade. He recires alter thirty years' service. There is some mystery about his action. Ovrma to a declaration by the Marquis di Rudini in the Italian Chamber of Deputies at Rome that the Dreibund Alliance would be maintained a Bcene of great disorder occurred and two members nearly came to blows. The harvest prospects of Russia have become worse, and there are fears of a partial famine. Because of the bad condition of the crops it is proposed to prohibit the exportation of corn. The Sultan of Turkey has ratified the Brussels Anti-Slavery Convention" act. The Triple Alliance among Germany, Austria and Italy has been renewed for six years. The Governor ot Newfoundland has been directed by the Imperial Government to revoke his assent to the Order In Council refusing bait to Canadian as well as French fishermen. Election returns in New South Wales give the Ministerials fiity-one members, the Opposition fifty-three, Labor Party twenty-six, and Independents three. The widow of Sir John A. Macdonald, late Premier of Canada, has been raised to the British peerage. Great distress Has been caused m ttussia i by the drouth. Emperor "William left the Island of j Heligoland on board the steamship Prince ! Bismarck. The vessel was escorted by two German ironclads. From Heligoland the Emperor went to Wilhelmshaven, where he launched the new ironclad Kurfuerst Fredrich Wilhelm. THE NATIONAL GAME. Carttthers is Brooklyns winning pitcher. Stovey leads the Boston League team in long hits. Ward, of the Brooklyns, is still a favorite in Gotham. The New Yorks have played seven errorless games. The Brooklyns are better base ruanera than the New Yorks. Pitcher Keefe, of Ne.v York, is stouter | this year than ever before. Hereafter Sunday ball playing will not be interfered with in Cincinnati. The average daily attendance at the first New York-Chicago series was over 8903. Despite bis great size, Connor is one of the the best base-runners on the New York team. Bkckley, of the Pittsburgh up to a recent date leads the first basemen of tin country. McAleer, of ClevolanJ. has the distinction of bainz the best left tieldfar in the business. Su.vday has again refused to join the Cincinnati League team at any price. He has retired. It is now said that "Suck" Ewing, Captain of the New Yorks, may not play the rest of the season. Pitcher Nichols, of the Boston League, has never yet pitched a winning gam.' against Cleveland. I Whitney, of the Cincinnati Association Club, leads the third basemen of the entire | country in tteliinj. Slattery has been release! by Cincinnati | at bis owa request. He oas not oeeu wen i since leaving iN'ew York. Holidat. of Cincinnati: Tiernan, of New York, ani Wilmot, of Cleveland, lead the League batters in borne runs. The Chicigos have two weak points. They do not s.ug the ball steadily, and. aside from Hutcbinsou, are weak in the box. "Ed"' Williamson, of last years Chicago Players' team, weighs pounds an i plays short stop in a fat men's nine of Chicago. The Brooklyns present the neatest appaarance of aay team in the Leaguo. In addition, they are a fine-looking lot of fellows. Bassett plays a remarkable third base for New York. He was not new to the position, as he played it for Provideuce part of 1833. Jennings, whom Louisville picked up without record or reputatiou, has tmjuedout to be a good man in all departments of the game. To strike ouc twenty-four men in two games is a record to be proul of. That is tha record of Nichols, of the Boston League, in the two games he has pitched against tha Pittsburgs this season. The Board of Aldermen now insists that the New York Club shall erect a roof or covering of some sort over the bleaching boards at the Polo Ground, and has given the management thirty days to do it in. Brouthers, of the Boston Association Club, has taken to sliding of lata, and does it well. His slides are features of the Boston games. He never fielded as well as this season, and his hitting is immense. A glance over the history of past seasons will demonstrate that while the clubs with the best batteries have not always won the League pennant, yet no team that wa3 weak in that department ever finished in first place in a championship race. Lovett, the Brooklyn pitcher, did not give the hard-hittiug New York team a single hit ? * T'Urx WflC 1 Til 0 ill iu u rf.'cui ^aiuo, xuo jwig '. ? - ? . iavor of the Brook lyns. This is the most J remarkable pitching ?<*at in years. Ansox, of the Chicago League, takes more I advantage of the substitute rule than any j other manager, which is perfectly natural, ! considering that he was the originator of tha idea permitting an unlimited number of substitutions by a manager during a game. national league record. Per rcr VTan.Lott. ct. Won,la>t. ct. New York.33 21 .611 Philade1...28 .401 Chicago.. .33 23 .589 Brooklyn..23 30 .483 Boston....3J 27 .526 Pittsburg..22 32 .407 Cleveland.30 29 .503 Cincin'ati..22 35 .380 aiis rue A.v association record. Per iv Won. Lost. ct. Won. Lost. ct. Boston....41 21 .661 Athletic...29 35 .453 St. Louis..45 24 .(552 Columbus .30 37 .448 Baltimore.36 26 .581 Louisville..27 42 .391 C/incinnati.32 33 .492 Wash'gt'n.19 41 .317 KILLED BY THOUSANDS, Suppression ot Africa's Slave Trado Causes Horrible Butchery. * A letter ju3t received from Sierra Leone, Africa, says that the vigilant suppression of the sluve trade along the coast and consequant Inability of the warlike races to dispose of their captives at a profit, has caused a revival in the most terrible form of the -ceiaes of slaughter and bloodshed which formerly ma ie every chief town of the int'.rior a Golgotha. Cuomassie, it is said, has again witnessed the killing of as many as 200 victims in one lay, and the death drum is hoard In the streets even more frequently than before the l.ritish Asbantej expedition, when it was hoperl such sceues were put to an end forever. The savage Wangarus recently made a raid into Dagomba. completely devastating the villages, and carrying off over two thousand captives. They were unable to get rid of the prisoners as slaves and held a sacrifical i.asc, which lasted for three days, in which ?.very captive perished, not even children bs'ing spared. It is universally admitted in the settlements taut the approaching extinction of th9 slave trade in western Africa is making warfare more merciless than it used to be. HAYTIAN HORRORS. The Atrocious Conduct of President Hippolyte. Scores of Suspects Executed Without a Trial, By tbe? new steamer Adirondack of the Atlas Line, which arrived a few days ago at the Port of New York from various Haytinn portF, bringing passengers and mails, a number of New York merchants received advices from correspondents in the leading cities o?f the republic, which show that the rebels are still active, working silently but in desperation, making themselves felt in sporadic tKo flAPominont: nn tn within a few days before the mailing of t^e advices, had continued its massacres with merciless persistency. The report of the assassination of President Hippolyte was made an event for great rejoicing by the people of Hayti and met with no interruption from the soldiers, who, it is said, were secretly glad themselves of hid removal. The report, when it reached Hippolyte, had one salutary effect on him, for he immediately ceased his wholesale slaughters, and modified the penalty against enemies of the Government to exile. These were the tactics which he was following when the Adirondack left the Haytian country. Political prisoners were arraigned before the Governor of the jail in which they were confined and were ordered to leave the country. They were then taken to Port-au-Prince and brought before Hippolyte, who banished them from the island, imposing the penalty of immediate death should they return. At least one hundred men were tnus treated. Suspected enemies of the Government were executed daily, belore their ruier got a " ! >ka W twinge ot conscience, wuuuut crcu iw iwmality of a tria . In towns about Port-au-Prince, where the distance was too great to allow the Government to have speedy revenge on its enemies the governors of the jails were allowed to act on their own discretion in the matter of executions. When a number of prisoners were under surveillance, suitable enough to make a display, they were led out and shot. Just outside of Port-au-Prince, in a small village that does not contain a prison, some few days before the date of tne advices Irom which this incident was quoted, three men were killed in the interest of "law and order." Some men had been overheard talking treasonably in a public house,and tne leader ot the jail was speedily notified. It was at night,and an extra squad of men was taken with the regular detachment, to the house. which was at once surrounded, iivery one found in the place was arrested, one of them being an old ruan tvho ciaimed to have gone in there in search of a profligate sou. He was thrown into jail and was executed within twenty-four hours, as though he had been guilty of the vilest misdemeanors. The story is told of how one of these same soldiers had insulted two men on the streer, and when they retaliated by knocking him down they were arrested and eventually shot, "for the good of the com- | nionwealtb," it was explained. During the J entire insurrection Hjppolyte acted, according to the advicts, like oue bereft of reason. He was moved neither by pity or reason. . Ever since the killing of al. Rigaud, the French merchant, on Fete Dieu, May 'id, and the French Minister at Port-au-Prince demanded indemnity for the murder, foreigners bave been treated with consideration. Hannibal Price, the Haytian representative at New York City, received a letter in which it is said that the Government was strong and proposed to subdue the revolutionists. Advices from Hayti states that 280 in all were killed in Port-au-Prince and 100 exiled, but Minister Price denies it. THE LABOR WOBLD. Austria has women hodcarriers. Detroit (Mich.) newsboys have a union. Railway telegraphers want a federation. Germany bricklayers averago 5200 a year. Firemen's Brotherhood has 22,000 member?. New York City has a Hebrew tinsmiths' union. Australian Italians have a National Union. New York colored waiters have a K. of L. Assembly. Federation sentiment is growing among Union railroaders. California fruit farmers will be asked to discharge Chioese workers. A National Union of Architectural Iron Workers will be formed. Many of tbe hotels iu Virginia aro substituting white for coloroi waiters. A proposed law in Spain prohibits Sunday work by persons under eighteen. The American and European harness makers talk of an international union. Illinois has passed a law prohibiting tha employment of children under thirteen. Indians at the Carlisle (Penn.) Govern ment School are making wagons and harness. At Garnett, N. C., women wash for fifteen ceuts a day. Farm hands get $8 a lliouili. Evert workman in Japan wears on his cap and on his back an inscription giving hia business and his employer's name. The strike of horsecar men in Bordeaux, France, has been settled, the company agreeing to the demand for a day's work of twelve hours. The law passed in the British House of Commons prohibiting the employment of children under eleven year3 affects 200,030 little workers. In nearly all the large retail shops in London, England, the saleswoman sleep and eat as well as work in the building. Even the black silk dresses they wear during their working hours belong to their employers. The Brussels (Belgium) waiters have formed a syndicate to redress their grievances. A leading complaint is that they have to pay fiom twenty cents to ?L.20 to the proprietors for the privilege of serving. tub labor organizations of Denmark have | 6ucet-oJed iu causing tho Government to make June *J5, the anniversary of the adoption of tho Constitution of 1849, a legal holiday. They will now agitate to election day a legal hoikiay. NERVY CONFIDENCE MEN, Tliey Chlorolorm ami Kob Farmer Trice, Then Take Him Home. Confidence men and their oonfederate3 robbed Steven Trice, a wealthy farmer near Lathrop, Mo., on a rcceut afternoon, of $3500 and a fine team and buggy. They purchased his farm and persuaded him to draw $3500 from the bank to buy some land adjoining his. After drawing the money he left town with theiu in a carriage, when they met a confederate, who joined them and proposed a game of cards. Alter all out Mr. Trice had lost their money, they threw a cloth over his head, chlororormed him and robbed him. The confederates, four in number, left, but the two men in the carriage, who gave their name9 as Dr. Starks and Judge Hays, of St. Louis, coolly took their victim home, telling him that if he left home or told any one Deforo Sunday he would be killed, and that the attack was in settlement of an old war grudge. Mr. Trice was so frightened that he mentioned the affair to his wife only next even- I iag. ICELAND TO ALASKA. A Scheme to Transport All the Population ot the Island. Ludwig Von Dolcke, the noted Icelander, who has been practicing medicine in Detroit, Mich., for the last year or two, left that city a few days ago upon an important mission. He is bound for his native country, and when he arrives there be will interview the Government authorities at Reykiavek, the capital, on a scheme to transport the entire population of Iceland to Alaska, there to establish a colony under the Government of the United States. It is understood that Von Dolcke will receive substantial backing from a number of capitalists interested in the development of Alaska, and the United States Government looks favorably upon tho sohame. DESERT MADE A LAKE. Strange Natural Phenomenon in San Diego County, Cal. The Great Colorado Basin Filling Up With Salt Water. A despatch from San Francisco, Ca\, eays: The Colorado desert basin in San Diego County is the scene of a strange natural phenomenon. It is an inland depres Bion s/u reet below t&e level of the sea in its | deepest part, and covering an area of 300C square mile3. On Saturday evening the workmen at the great salt works at Saltoa were amaz3d to see streams of water trickling down the valley. These increased in size until for several miles around the earth was covered by a shining lake of salt water thirteen inches in depth. The water had risen only two inche3 siac? Sunday, making fifteen Inches, but is spreading over a wide area and is causing tb< Southern Pacific Railroad people much anxiety. To-day an exploring party will be sent on with a boat from Los Angeles They will get off the train at Indio, and as soon as they strike the lakt will launch the boat and follow the stream up to its source. The current shows tht water is coming from the direction of New River, which receives its water from the Colorado. The theory of those familiar with the desert is that an earthquake or some other convulsion has forced an underground artesian stream ol water up through the sandy soil. The theory that the drying up of an artesian welJ at indio, caused the flood, was spoiled by the well resuminz its natural flow after a cessation of twenty-four hours. This track bears evidences of having bean flooded many years ago, and Indian tradition declares that a great inland lake stretched at one time from this region to the San Jacinto Mountains, that separate the desert from the orange groves of San Bernardino County. The Southern Pacific Railroad passe3 through the basin more than fifty miles, its lowest point bein? 263 feet below the sea level. The Colorado river is 160 feet above the sea level at Yuma. If the subterranean passage connects with the Colorado above Yuma the lake will be over four hundred feet in depth and over fifty miles long. If the waters continue to rise the Southern Pacific track will be submerged nearly one hundred miles, and the great desert of Colorado will be converted into a vast lake. When the story of the rising water near Sal ton, Arizona, first reached the Southern Pacific officials at San Francisco they paid no particular attention to the rumors, but they finally decided to make an investigation. An Indian runner was sent out with instructions to find where the water leaves the river, if such be the case, and to make a thorough examination as to how it passes through the sand hills and reaches the desert. It is believed that the water leaves the river just above Pilot Knob, near Yuma, nearly sixty miles M ? ,1 ?..-I,- TT lruixi OUltUlJ, auii wuiftaiw no; iuiuu^u uuiy dry sand to the low ground this side-of the river. A fourteen-foot boat with two sailors was sent from San Pe jro to Salton. From, that point a boat provisioned for a week's cruise will sail south and attempt to reach the source of the flow,, while the Indian runner follows che bank of the river from Yuma. As the water does not come within a mile of the railroad track there is no obstruction to traffic and no immediate trouble is apprehended. Advices from Yuma said the water at Salton is rising and is from fourteen to sixteen inches deep aroudd the salt works. One hundred square miles are reported under water. The railroad company have men out to ascertain the depth of the water and probable causes. SAMPAN VICTIMS BUSIED, Nineteen of the Drowned Sailors Interred on Mare Island, Cal, The bodies of the nineteen sailors who were drowned at Samoa in the great hurricane of March, ISS9, were interred with imposing ceremonies in the Naval Cemetery on Mare Island, California, a few days ago. The bodies were taken to the cemetery seven in one hearse and twelve on a caisson constructed of gun carriages, and were escorted by a battalion from the marine corps, a company of sailors from the Independence, members of Farragut Post, G. A. R.; Commander JBesson of the French frigate Bubourdieu, Admiral Irwin and staff, and Comniauder Wilson, a survi or of the disaster. Commander Clark was in charge of the escort. At the graves the religious services were conducted by Chaplain J. K. Lewis, and at their conclusion a parting salute was fired and the last call was sounded by the bugle. KILLED WIFE AND BROTHER Jealousy Leads to a Doable Murder in Alabama. Jesse Cartwright, of Baldwin County, Alabama, killed his brother, John W. Cartwright, and cut his wife's throat. The Cartwrights lived in the backwoods of Baldwin County, and the news of the crime was not received until next day. Jealousy is said to have caused the double j murder. Jesse called John out of his house on Pine I Log Creek on the night of the murder and filled him full of buckshot. John died in ten minutes. Proceeding home Jesse seized his wife by the hair, pulled her over his knees and cut her throat. She died in less than a minute. Jcst before the JRoman cohorts marched from thoir dressing-rooms into the Madison Square Garden in New York at the performance of "Nero" the other night, a muchfrightened gray cat that ha! strayed in from somewhere scampered across the Uoor. The noise of the band and the fierce appearance of the oncoming warriors drove the cat into a panic, and it danced around in a most amusing manner. All the spectators at once lost interest in "Xero" and gave their attention to the cat. The occupauts of the boxes leaued out to see what it was going to do, and the multitude in the galleries and in the reserved seats stood up and shouted. For about two minutes the noi.se of the j baud and the tramp of the soldiers j was drowned in the roar of laughter and the shouts of the audience. Then pussy desperately leaped into oue of the boxes, causing no little panic there, and scampered through and around the seats until it found shelter In some hidden nook. Tiie Imperial Bank of Germany (lieichsbank) has the right to issu6 paper to the extent of $75,000,000, am] as much more as it has gold and silvei on hand as security for, and practically to any extent beyond this; but on the excess they must pay 0 per ceut. interest per annum to the government. The bank has not uf late availed itselJ of this privilege, possibly because it would not pay, and has coufiued its issue of bank notes of the regular $75,000,000 and the amount of gold and silver on hand, or say $225,000,01)0 in all. The Indiana Supreme Court decided in favor of the teaching of the German language in the schools, holding that the law is compulsory and the language must be taught wherever the requisite number oI patrons shall petition for the same. Tr?n ni?n a kt/i v f TOTW rr DOWN*, BOTSl If urged to lift the glass that tempts, In city grand or humble town; Be he that tempts, the king or czar, I Quick, turn your glass and set it down! If those that ask vou vex and tease. Perhaps condemn you with a frown, 4 Be firm, mind not the laugh and sneer! Quick, turn your glass and set it downl If health you crave and strength of arm, Would keep your hardy hue of brown, Nor have the scarlet flush of sin, Quick, turn your glass and set it down! If in your trouble others say, "In sea of drink your sorrow drown,"' Look out lest drowned the drinker be! Quick, turn your glass and set it down! Cold water, boys, hurrah, hurrah. Will help to health, wealth and renown; If urged to give these treasures up. Quick, turn your glass and set it down! ?Rev. Edward A. Rand, in Advocate. PROHIBITION m MATTE. Last winter's temperance legislation fn the State of Maine is producing good results. At least so we judge upon the authority of Zion's Advocate, published in Portland. J.hat paper says: "It is evident that the amendments to the prohibitory law enacted last winter have reduced the sale of intoxicating drinks in Maine to the minimum, and this action of these fifty hotel keepers, whose places have at last ceased to be grog-shops, is a witness to the practical result of these amendments. In other words the prohibitory law, instead of being a failure as these men claim, seems to be working fairly well, and if business in Maine is suffering because of this fact we should like to see the evidence of it." That is very gooi news, and we shall gratefully chronicle more of the same sort.? Obsei'ver. an hottest rumseller's advertise stent. Friends and Neighbors:?Grateful for the liberal encouragement received, from you, and having supplied my shop with a new and ample stock of choice wine?, spirits and malt liquors, I thankfully inform you that I continue to make drunkards, paupers and beggars, for the sober,, industrious community to support. My liauors may excite you to riot, robberv and bloodshed and will certainly diminish your comforts, augment your expenses, and shorten your lives. I confidentially recommend them as sure to multiply fatal accidents and distressing diseases, and Hkely to render these incurable. They will agreeably deprive srariftof life, some of reason, manv of char actor, an 1 all of peace?will make fathers fiends, wives widows, mothers cruel, children orphans, and all poor. I will train the young to ignorance, dissipation, infidelity, lewdness, and every vice?corrupt the miuisters of religion?obstruct the Gospel? defile the church andcause as much temporal and eternal death as I can. 1 will thus "accommodate the public." It may be at the cost of my never dying soul. I have a family to support?the trade pays ?and the public encourages it. I have a character from my minister, and a license from the magistrate; my traffic is lawful; Christiana countenance "it; and if I do not bring these evils upon you some one elsa will. I know the Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill," pronounces a "woe unto him that giveth his neighbor a drink," and enjoins me not to '"put a stumbling block in a brother's way." I also read "that no drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God," and I cannot expect the drunkard-maker, without repentance, to share a better fate. But I wish a lazy living, and have deliberately resolved to gather the wages of iniquity, and fatten on the ruins of my specias. I shall therefore carry on my trade with energy, and do my best to diminish the wealth of the people, and endanger the safety of the State. As my traffic floarishes in proportion to your iznorance and sensuality, 1 will do my ut most to pervert your intellectual elevation, moral purity, social happiness, and eternal welfare. Should you doubt my ability, I refer you to the pawn shop, tha poor house, the police office, the- hospital, the jail, and the gallows, where so many ot' my customers have gone. The sight of them will justify you that 1 do what Ipromise.?Judas Heartless. the motive force. The strain at this moment is the ramorseIess pressure of a huge commerce in liquors. There is money in it, and that is the motive force. Money nerves every man; money palliates every conscience. Say that the commerce is wrong, prove that it is harmful, yet you are at a loss to put your finger on the line that divides the guiltless from the guilty man. Would you condemn the peasant who tills the vines under the suns of i'a **/*<?' * + r\f iiuiv: 1 cu buau is vuu acai biu^ puiuu ul wine. Is the farmer blamable who raises hops, or his neighbor who sowes barley? Yet beer comes therefrom. Is the culture of corn culpable. Yet we remember the humor of the canny Scot upon his native heath who dryly remarked: "We do Dot raise corn in our country, but we destroy a mighty lot of it after it has been turned into whisky." Is the workman to be chided who accepts employment in a brewery wheD, perchance, he can obtain it nowhere else* The brewer king will aver?"I manufacture ?no one is obliged to drink, much less, if he drink, obliged to undo himself by excess." The retailer behind the bar will proclaim his irresponsibility for any who patronize him. Were we fighting the battle of temperance with guns we would hardly know where to shoot?at least where to shoot first. It teaches us to drop the thought of individuals. It permits us to dispense with per j.-innlitips. do awav with hates and maledic tions and all that opprobrious declamation and these damnatory epithets, that go so far to aggravate persons, to embitter discussion, and to disgust well disposed classes who really want to see temperanca succeed. No, we can array ourselves against the liquor commerce. The term is sufficiently definite. Those in it are fast organizing for their own defence. It needs no prophet to say?"Thou art the m^n." By their own association, combination and coucert of action, they say plainly enough?"We are the men.'' It is sufficient for us to keep steady aim at the business, regardless of persons. Let them identify themselves. Be sure their sin will find them out. The liquor manufacture and commerce is producing and offering a commodity which it wants to sell. It is greedy of profits, and ! profits require trade. Profits are larger, the j larger the sales. The business believes in j pusning tilings, oeue?es m puutui^ guwou^ou tiie people. It searches for markets as eagerly as the weaver and merchant of cloths. It opens markets. It fosters demand. It is goin; to leave no stone unturned to stimulate trade, to increase consumption. to multiply buyers, to swell the volume of transactions, "and so pile up wealth. This is the Goliath that confronts us to-day, and defies the armies of the living God. Against that giant lies the stress af battle.?Temperance lieview. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. "Perpendicular drinking" id again lawful in Boston. Dr. L. D. Mason says that sprees usually begin on beer and wine. It is not the last drinla that makes a man a drunkard, but the lirst. The abstainers amonast the English troops in India now number 1*6,570. The apprehensions for drunkenness in London had risen from 20,658 in 18S7 to 57,355 in 1889. The Stat? Viticultural Commissioner of California proposes a Viticultural Trust in the interest of the wine and brandy makers of that State. One of the pamphlets widely distributed by the Brewers' Literary Bureau the past year is very appropriately entitled '"The Art of Drinking." Dr. Descartes, of Paris, writes, that over half the income ol all medical men of France comet directly or indirectly from excessive use of spirits. On a recent Monday morning, Topeka, the capital of prohibition Kansas, an 1 a city of 32,000 inhabitants, had but one case before the police court. San Francisco has 4500 saloon3 or places where liquor is aold at retail. If the population of the city id 330,000 there is one saloon to every seventy-three persons. It the voting population is 50,000, there is a saloon for every tUirtwa and a half votes. * - ' - * ; ^Bgm Cartons Facts About the Sea. ; y The oceans and seas are the great \ teservoirs into which run all the rivers of the world. It is the cistern whicb finally catches all the ram that falls not only upon its own surface, but upon the surface of the laud as well. All of this water is removed again by evaporation as fast as it is supplied, it being estimated that every year a layer of the enj tire water surface of the globe over fourteen feet thick is taken up into the clouds' 4;o fall again as rain. This vapor is fresh, of course, and if all the water o? the oceans could be removed in the same way and none of it returned, it is calculated :hat there would be a layer of pure salt 230 feat thick left in the bottoms of these great reservoirs. This, is upon tho supposition that each three feet of ocean water contains one inch of salt, and that the average depths of all oceans is three miles. At a depth of 3500 feet the tempera-* tore is uniform, varying but a trifle between the poles and the equator. In many of the deep bays on the coast of Norway and other Arctic countries the. water often begins to freeze at the bot-i torn before it does at the surface. Ab the same depth, 3500 feet, waves are not felt. Waves do not travel?that is,| the water does not move forward, al-j though it seems to do so; it remains sta-j tioaary. It is the rising and falling that1 moves- ?a. The pressure of the water increases) rapidly with the depth. At a distanceof one mile the pressure is reckoned as, about one ton to the square inch, or more than 133 times the pressure of the: atmosphere. To- get correct soundings in deep water ia-difficult The best invention for that purpose-is-a. shot weighing about, thirty pounds-, which carries down & line. Through this- shot or ' 'sinker"' ? hole is-drilled, and through the- hole i?i passed a rod-of iron' which, moves easilyj back and fourths At the end ot the bar a cup is dug ouk, the inside being coatedl with. lard?. The bar is- made fast to the linej a sling holding the shot in. position-, j When the bar, which extends- below the shot, touches the bottom, the sling ua-, hooks and. the shot slides- downward andi drives the lard-coated cup into the sand' at the bottom. In that way the-charao-, ter of the ocean's floor is determined,. If the surface of the Atlantic waslowered 6564 feet it would be reduced to exactly half its- present width. If the Mediterranean were lowered 660 feefe Italy would be joined to- Africa,, aad! three separate seas would remain.? Louis Bepublic. Conditions of Vigorous Old! Age. The present greater proportion than formerly existed of men whc pass th? age of seventy years, reach fourscore,, or are active at ninety years, points to>oneof the brighter pnases of our civilization.) The association of this vigor with differ-] ent physical types is suggestivo of. a cer*| tain generality of origin, and oncouragew the hope that it may be partly dependent! on personal conduct. As a first condi-j tion toward obtaining effective longevn ity, Dr. B. W. Richardson advises pa-l rents to begin for their children by savingi them the infliction of mental shocks and[ unnecessary grief, and making every-J thing as happy for them as they can. Thei persons themselves, when older,, should! avoid grief and eschew hate, jealousy^ unchastity, and intemperance, all ot{ which hasten the coming of old age;.; When old age has really begun,. ita| march may be delayed by rule3 securing the least friction and the least waste; subsistence on light but nutritious- lood,. varjriuij at'tuiujui^ iu buc otucvu^. uuwi moderate in quantity; dressing, warmly,; but ligbtly, so as to enable the body, toimaintain its even temperature;; keeping; thu body in fair exercise and the mind| active and cheerful; maintaing an ioter-l est in what is going on in the world,anij participating in reasonable labors and! pleasures; securing plenty of. sleep dur-i ing sleeping hours, in a room kept at a moderate temperature; and avoiding passion, excitement and luxury. The weaker man may thus sometimes- show himselP the more tenacious of life.?Popular 8ci-\ ence Monthly. Nature's Healthf?lness> Mr. J.. R.. Werner has, in his account] of his visit to Stanley's rear guard, some^ - ? 1- *.L. L?Uvr..].AnM pointed remarKs oa iuc ucanuiuiucw u*.! nature a3 compared with the' unsanitary] conditions induced, by civilization. He, says: "Nature,, when, loft alone, does- her own scavengering; but a<* civilization advances, the works of inan often interfere with the natural drainage,, without providing any substitute; and it is only when the population has been decimated by disease that men's- eyes are opened. The primitive savage living in his hut has no need of dust-bin or dust-cart. The ants from the large hill close byi will soon make short work of any meat j he may have left on the bones. The'i sexton-beetle will soon bury what re-| mains out of sight; and the wind and j rain swecD all feathers and dirt i$to the i river. As civilization advances,' reads arc made, the ant-hills get destroyed, and hawk3 and carrion birds disappear before the death dealing shotgun. The natives congregate together in large towns, without any improvement in their j sanitary arrangements, where the salutary effects of wind and rain are probably neutralized by the way in which the streets are built; and so things go on till disease is generated and men fall byi hundreds." Funeral by the Electric Light. The idea of imparting an element of cheerfulness to a funeral is hardly in accordance with the orthodox practice of? to-day. There seems, however, no good' reason why the lugubriousness of such in occasion should not, to a certain extent, be modified. Such a modification has been made with satisfactory results; it a funeral in Middlesex, England.': The remains of u member of a county; family were interred in the family vault] in the quaint old church in the grounds! Df Twyford Abbey, and the vault was brilliantly lighted with incandescent iiunps. The effect is said to have been, striking in the extreme; every screwhead ind nail in the old oaken coffins (some af which are over 100 years old) couldj be easily distinguished, and "the death :humber seemed to look quite cheerful." Not only was the whole vault flooded; with light, but the artistic effect of the; grouping of the various colored shades) crave a new element of beauty to the. illumination.?Commercial Advertiser. Trains on the Brooklyn Bridge makft faster time (by two miles an hour) than did the first railway train than ran be* tweea New York and Albany.