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fSt -. \ pi " . ^__ I "RAILROAD TRAGSBIEi Two Fatal Accidents to Passen ger Trams. An Awful Collision Near Ravenna, Ohio. Twenty persons were roasted to death and many others injured in a collision on the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad near Ravenna, Ohio. A train was thrown from a trestle on the Kanawha and Michigan road, near Charleston. W. Va. Thirteen people tfere killed an i over fifty hurt. A dispatch from Akron, Ohio, says: A [-* flagman failed to do his duty at Ravenna ^ before daylight this morning, and twenty* one maimed and lifeless human bodies are the awful results of his faithlessness. The vestibuled limited express on the New York, Lake Erie and Western road, known as the *'Thunderbolt," bound for the East, stood at the depot at Raveuna, eighteen miles east of this city at twenty minutes past 2 o'clock this morning and was crashed into by a fast freight train of twenty-four heavy refrigerator cars, which was coming on behind the "Thunderbolt" at thirty miles an hour. ; > Twenty persons were killed and at least a dozen otners were seriously hurt. The passenger train consisted of baggage and express car, three day coaches, then four Pullman sleepers and last of all a day coach containing forty glass blowers emSjoyed in the Richardson Glass "Works at indlay, Ohio. They were bays and young men, ranging in age iroin iourteen to twenty-three. and all unmarried. Thair parents live in Corning, N. Y., and they were going home for a vacation. The passenger train left Kent, which is the ena cf a division and six miles west of Ravenna, at ten minutes past two standard time. Five minutes later the fast freight, which had been following it closely, pulled out from Kent. At Ravenna tha engineer of the passenger train got off to fix his engine, and the train was held six or eight minutes. ' A flagman was sent "back to take care of the fast freight, but only walked about 120 feet. For several minutes he stayed there. Suddenly tbe headlight of the fast freight loomed up; the flagman ran toward the onrushing train, swinging his lanterns desper ately. The freight engineer whistled down brakes : and reversed his engine. The tracks were ghowere i with sparks from tbe scraping I wVia^o Km* tx'qc nA PiirKInor tha mr*. mentiin of the twenty-four heavily laden J cars. Tha freight eugine saul: itself into the day coach, witn its forty Find lay excursionists. A acore of men were tosaed upon the smokegtaci: pnd boiler and pinioned thera by the k debris. The lamps in the coach seemed to 5*; go out for a moment, but then flashed up and in an instant th9 woodwork was in a blaze. The day coach, in its turn, telescoped with the sleeper Warsaw, just ahead of it, and the ! Warsaw was pushed part way into the j Jamestown sleeper. All three seemed to blaze up at onca. The passenger engine screeched out an ' alarm that brought townspeople quickly to the depot. Several Ravenna passengers who ' Trere leaving the train ran Dack and with i trainmen and the uninjured passengers be- i gan trying to put out the fire and to extri- j cate the victims. The Fire Department played on the blazing i cars, but not in time to save the imprisoned ' yassengers. Through a Trestle. A leaded passenger train oa the Kanawha and Michigan road crashed through a thirty I foot trestle about eight miles from Charles- j ton, W. Va., early on a recent morning, and . only one of the passengers escaped uninjure J. At least thirteen people were killed outright ! and more than fifty were hurt, some of them fatally. It was Train No. 1, which consisted of an engine, combine! baggage, mail and express car and two coaches. The coaches were flllei with passengers, most of whom were laboring people out for ? a holiday in the country. The Order of United American Mechanics was en route to | Poea to spend the day, many of them accompanied by their wives. Many of the passengers were employes of ! the railway company going to their homes ' along the line to spend the holiday. The train was passing over a trestle when I there came a crash. 1 as coaches rooted ana shook, women screamed, and stout men ! turned pale with fear. A moment more and a fearful plunge -was j made. The forward pas39nger car rolled ! down the approach to the trestle, turned J completely, and rested right side up ten feet . below the track. ? The other cars rolled over the edge, turned i bottom up and fell twenty feet below the I track. In the terribb fall many persons wero J crushed and bruisad, but to add to the horror j the rear truck which remained on the track ' fell over on top of the car, crushing j everything under it and killing nearly every ; person who was in that portion of the car. I >. One dead body after another was pulled out through the window, most of them horribly mangled. Of the entire number on the train only j four escaped without a scratch. Nearly all j thft door! worn ont or bruised about the head, i immediately after the wreck relief trains j yrera sent out with physicians from St. I Albans and Charleston, who did all in their cower to relieve the s uttering of the In* jured. The burning of the ties, which caused the train to leave the track, is supposed to have been caused by the falling of hot cinders from a freight train that crossed during the night. The track walker, whose duty it was to inspect the track daily, had startod on his trip from the other end of his section, but had not reached this place. The engineer saw a slight smoke, but thought it an early fog rising from the creek until too late to save the train. The engine and first car got over safely. Walter Welcher and wife, with their infant child, wera going fof a holiday with friends. The parents were killed, and th9 little child of a year was bruised, and its little fingers cut off. It never whimpered, And its great bl ue eyes never shed a tear as the surgeons dress.*! the wounds. PARNELL BEATEN. The McCarthyite Candidate Carries Carlow by a Big Majority. The resuit of the election held at Carlow, Ireland, for a successor in the British Parliament to the late O'Gorman Mahon has reunited in a crushing defeat for the Parnellite candidate in the district which Mr. Parnell adraitt<Hl was his stronghold, and wherp. he said, if he was defeated, he - wouid admit that he had nothing left to fall back upon in political life. The result of the election, announced, was as follow*.* Hammond (McCarthy can didate), 3755: Kettle (Parnell), 1539; Hammond's majority, 221tt. Carlow is the smallsst county in Ireland and contains a population of about fortyfive thousand peoph and an electorate of about 3sven thousand, of whom 1000 are Conservatives Mr. Andrew Kettle, the defeated Parne'lite candidate, is a farmer of Dublin County, who has already been twice defeated at the polls. Mr. Hammond, the victorious McCarthyite candidate, is a popular merchant of Carlow, where, for twelve years past, he has held the position of Chairman of the Town Commissioners. Spea'cing at Carlow, after the result of the election was made known, Mr. Parnell said that he was not disheartened, and that he would continue to consolidate the independent men of every Irish county and city, and pat the issues he upheld before the country at every election. DIED AT THE ALTAR, Heart Disease Kills a Young Man Just After Marriage. - There was a tragic scene at Monticello, 111., a few days ago when Charles Huffman, . who had just been united in marriage with Miss Mary ?. Loghty, dropped dead with heart disease at the altar. The bride became almost distracted with grief. Huffman recently fell from the third I story of the Tremont Hotel at Mcnticello and survived the fail. He was twoaty-?ight and cat?* from Indiana to Monticello. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Sheriff Robi.vson', of Scran ton, Penn., was mortally injured by an asploding giaut firecracker. While a ferryman name! Mickey was rowing a party of ei^ht across the Monongahe'a River at Braddock, Penn., the boat was upset and Mickey and two unknown men were drowned. The party was attending a picnic and several of them were intoxicated. John LcTEYand Philip Forkel were killed by the explosion of the Moosic Powder Company's pres.* mill at Scranton, Penn., in which they were employed. The Cunard steamer Servia broke her shaft when two days out and was towed back to New York by the oil tank steamer Chester. Prince George, of Greece, was on board. Charles H. Burton*, Secretary of the Burton & Corry Cider an I Vinegar Company. of Albany, N. Y., is missing, and it is found that he owes from $30,000 to $50,000. The greater part of this is distributed among his relatives. The President and Postmaster General Wanamaker. at Cape May, N. J., discussed plans for applying the Postal Subsidy law. James Sloccji, Harris A. Smiler, Joseph Wood and Shibuya Jugiro, the Japanese, were executed by electicity at Sing Sing (N. Y.) Prison. The first namrJ was killed at 4:38 o'clock in th3 morning and the last at ~ o:w>. 1110 execution was a susce-ss, una ium murderers dying instantly. The Internal Revenue receipts from the Connecticut District, comprising that State and Rhode Island, were $>68,936.38 for the year ending June 30, the largest since 1881, when the district was formed. South and West. Galveston, Texas, was flooded alono: the waterfront, and the shipping there suffered severely from a terrific storm. J. D. Sbaw, editor of the Bishopville Eagle, was stabbed and killed by Dalles Kelly at a picnic at Camden, S. C. A terrible thunderstorm at St. Inigoes Villa, St. Mary's County. Md., caused Uui death by lightning of thre3 scholastics of Woodstock College?Johu B. LamD, Willlam J. Holden and James Walters. The Chilian insurgent steamship Itata, which ran away from San Diego, Cal., on May 7 without a customs certificate of clearance and with a deputy United States ma> shal aboard, arrived in the harbor there. Her envoy,the United States cruiser Charleston, did not put into port, but came to anchor outside, where she engaged in target practice. James Tillev, his wife and child were instantly killed at Boone, Iowa, by tha running away of their team. Moses Brothers' bank at Montgomery, Ala., suspended payment. The liabilities are about a half million dollars. They did a savings bank business and have many scores of depositors among the poorer people. Grasshoppers stopped tte Rock Island passenger train on a recent night east of Lamont Junction, Kan. They covered the track for a distance of five miles. A big labor demonstration wa3 held at Steubenville, Ohio. The drouth in Indiana is becoming serious. Grass is like tinder aud constant alarms of fire keep farmers along the railroads busy. Several wheat crops have already been destroyed by the fire. The Bank of Commerce, Sheffield, Ala., closed its doors. The failure is due to that of Moses Brothers, of Montgomery. The two fnasted schooner Silver Cloud, of MilwoiilfCA was wrecked near Port Washinz ton, Wis., and Captain Johnson and hiswiFe and child were drowned. Fiftt men, mounted ani armed, took Roland Brown, a colored man charged with assaulting Mrs. Berry, from jail at Blackshear, Ga., and riddled him with bullets. The Circuit Court at Los Angeles, Cal., dismissed the libel pcjainst the Robert and Minnie; the Attorney-General ordered that the Itata be libeller!. Washington. An interesting feature of tbo calebration of Fourth of July at Mount Vernon was the use for the first time of the handsome n^w flagstaff which was recantly cut and erected by the Navy Department. The tomb of Washington was e aborately decaratel Secretary Proctor by geueral order has abolished the divisions of the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Missouri and assigned to the ^ ^ wi|| ciop&rrnienls new uu.nuiauuo o, ?m hereafter report directly to the commanding general of the army. Ths Comptroller of Currency has written a letter to Bank Examines Drew, of Puila delphia, Penu., informing him of his dismissal. The reason given for this action is that he "has lost the confidence of the Treasury Department," because of the Keystone bank affair. Acting Secretary Chandler has approved the plan of operations of the Geological Survey for the fiscal year 1891-1892, as recommended by Director Powel1. The amount appropriated by Congress for the work of the survey during the present fiscal year was $59ti,40'). A bulletin issued from the Pension Bureau shows that the enrollment in the public schools in the United States has increased from 9,951.60S in 1SS0 to 12,59"},721 in 1899. Assistant Secretary Nettleto.v appointed Taylor Faunce aud Lawrence E. Brown, of Philadelphia, special agents of th-) TroAsurv Deoart.-uent to investigate thecasej of tlie Keystone an 1 Spring Gardea National banks of Philadelphia. Professor B. N. Evermaxit, of the Un ted States Fish Commission, started from Washington with a party for tho West, to make investigations of the rivers and smaller streams of Montana and Wyoming in reference to the establishment of a hatching station as directed by the last Congress. Foreign. Several fights occurrei in Carlow, Ireland, between Parnellites and Anti-Parnellit-es. Sticks and stones were freely used,and several persons were injured. Part of a ponton bridge capsized pn the Aar River, near Soieure, Switzerland, and eighteen soldiers wereurowned. Chinese mobs pillaged and burned churches and mission buildings in various parts of China. The riot is aimed against foreigners, the ultimate object being insurrection that will entangle the Government with foreign countries. Emperor William of Germany reviewed the Life Guards and the Scots Guam's, afterward attending church at Windsor with the Princoof Wales and other members of tho British royal family. Prince Aribsrt, of Anhalfc, an I the Princess Louise, dau?htu* of Princa Christian, of Schlvs.vig-Holstein, were married at Windsor Castle, England, in the presence of an unusual gathering of royalties. Emperor William, of Germany, reviewed the military battel ion composed of the students at Eton, England. Influenza is raging in the province of Toledo, Spain. Persia has accepted an invitation to the World's Fair and named Spencer Pratt as Honorary Commissioner. During a banauet to Emperor William, of Germany, at Windsor Castle,a water pipe burst and almost flooded the room. He afterwards reviewed the Life Guards. AN INCREASING INFLUX, Thousands of Immigrants of Wboiu Some Are Not Wanted. The Superintendent of Immigration at New York reports that 405,661 immigrants arrived at that port during the past fiscal year, as compared with 323,691 during the nrevtous fiscal year. Of last year's arrivals 74,383 came from Germany. 70,716 from Italy, 35.424 from Ireland, 33,504 from Russia, nni the others from other countries of Europe and Asia. It is estimated that eighty per cent, of all immigrants laud in New York. Nearly 170,090 of the immigrants in question settled in New York State and 58,009 in Pennsylvania, the next larger numbers going to Illinois anil Michigan. One-third of the immigrants are laborers. A marrying craze is reported to have broken one among the school teachers of Detroit, Mich., and over half of thsm are to fee wedded durwx the summer. *' ? CYCLONE IN LOUISIANAA Penitentiary Building at Baton Rouge Blown Down. Ten Convicts Killed and Thirtysix Iniured. " U The first cyclone that has visited Louisiana in the memory of the living generation struck Baton Rouge at 6:30 o'clock on a recent morning, wrecked the steam tug Smoky City, demolished 100 houses, blew down the second and third stories of the penitentiary killed ten convicts and wounded thirty-six others. Of the woundei, five, on the day after the accident, were not expected to live. Baton Rouge is situated on the left bank of the Mississippi, on a succession of high bluffs. The cyclonc whirled upon it from the southwest. It was 300 jards in width, and appeared to ricochet, jumping over some obstmctions and ruthlessly grinding others into unrecognizable debris. The terrible wind entered the town at Garig's brickyard, passed through a suburb of hovels inhabited by the poor classes of whites and blacks, and then went northeasterly to a point 100 yards east of the Governor's residence, when it turned north and Btruck the state penitentiary, i ne second and third stories of the north wing were entirely demolished. The second story was used as a hospital and the third as a manufactory of jeans clothing, and both were filled with prisoners. Ten of them were killed outrigot. viz: Whites. John Gibson, convicted of murdering Patrick Mealey, a prominent city ijolitician, and William Willow, of New Oreans; T^aac McClelland, of Caicasien; J. A. Waggoner, the famous desperado of Claiborne; Fred. Cage, Ouchita: James Van Metter, Natchitocnes. Colored. Nathan Chaney, East Feliciana, | Henry Celestin, New Orleans; Beauregard j Harden, Bossier; Edward Buctcner, Caddo. The live men fatally wounded are Melly O'Neil, Joe Vallere, Frank Arons, Henry McKay and Louis Claire, the latter also convicted of the Mealey murder. John Rhodus, a guard, was seated in a third-story window and was blown out, but the wind landed him gently on the ground. Iu addition tcr the north wing the cell building was unroofed and partially destroyed, while the roof of the women's building was torn away. Excepting the convicts, no one was killed, but J. H. \ oung and members of his family were seriouslv hurt by the collapsing of their house. Mrs. Cutting, a son and two daughters were painfully injured when their house fell, and a Mrs. Colton received a dangerous blow on the back of the head and internal injures by the falling of a beam. Beyond these there were no serious casualties in the town proper. At the penitentiary after the passing of the wind the scene was heartrending. A TPAA'Ifln Koomc covered scores of human beings, whose crie9 I and groans were most sickening. Relief came promptly. The lire alarm brought the entire department to the scene, and the uuInjured convicts worked with strained vigor to rescue the entombed living and brins; out the Jacerated bodies of the dead. Forty prisoners were at work in the jeans factory when the crash came. Of these six were killed and twenty-one wounded. In the hospital were twenty sick men. Four were instantly killed and fourte?u badly wounded. A pouring rain followed the storm, and yet the workers labored manfully, end from the pile of mortar and the mound of brick the bodic-s were steadily excavated, until by 9 o'clock the full extent of the fatalities was known. The tugboat Smoky City, belonging to Pittsburz, was lying at her moorings five miles below Baton Rouge, at the time of the storm. She was swept out into the river and hpr ton works literallv torn to pieces. Only one man was drowned, but several of her crew were badly injured. They were rescued by the steamboat Alto and carried to Baton Rogue. Shade trees on many of the streets were uprooted. The southern portion of the j city, styled "Catflshtown," suffered great ! loss and damage of property. In i | that section of the city several person? were I seriously hurt and bruised by Dying timber ! from falling houses and fences. The drug store of B. A. Day was completely demolished and gutted of its canteuts, the lo3s I amounting to $5000. Several of the small j grocery stores and stall shops ir. that vicinity i were destroyed. The brickyard of Garig, I Reddy & Co. was badly damaged. The cyclone did not make a straight sweep through the city, but would strike the j fround and bound forward like a bouncing all, and pass over several houses at a time I | and descending again tear its way for hun- ! I dreds of feet. The trunks of massive oaks j were popped off like pipe stems. So sudden | was tne storm that a number of bread carts, , express and other vehicles were caught and j wrecked in the streets, ani it departed as suddenly as it came. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. A herd of eiehty-five buffalo will be exhibited at the Fair. An enterprising Nebraska man says, that he will take to the Exposition a crowd of sn Oftf) school ehildran from Omaha and vir* cinity. It Vnext to certain that the Exposition will be open evenings ia all of its departments. The Directory has called for plan3 and estimates for lighting, by electricity, all of the buildings. An exhibit from Alaska will be collectei 11 under the auspices of the Government's In 1 dian bureau and geological department, pro! vided Congress appropriates money for that purpose, as it is expected it will. As soon as they can be prepared 100,000 J copies will be issued of a line water color | litaograph representing a hira's eye view of . the Expositton buildings and grouudj. The ! work will appear in sixteen colore. Kwoso Wo Chioxg, a Chinese merchant in Hong Kong, has applied for space for an | I exhibit or Chinese gooas. Applications iur ; space are getting to be very numerous, and already many have been sent in from foreign < countries. A permanent art palace will ba built also j in Lake Front Park, towards the erection of j which the Exhibition will contribute $200, (XX). During the Exposition this building I will be used by the World's Congress Auxili- I ary for the holding of soma of its numerous congresses. Lieutenant Little, of the Navy depart- i ment, has sailed for Europe to complete the ' plans for reproducing the caravais which j forme 1 the fleet of Columbus. He carries : letters of introduction from the State De- 1 | partment to Minister Grubbs and other re- | presentatives of the United States abroad. At a meeting of representatives of various religious, benevolent and reformatory or- j ganizations, held recently in New York for j the purpose, a committee of five wa< chosen to arrange, if possible, for the erection oE a separate building at the Exposition, in which can be shown the methois and results of every description of religious missionary and philanthropic work in this country. Thirty acres in the northern portion of Jackson Park, Chicago, have been reserved for sites for the State buildings. The ground has already been apportioned among the States, consideration being had for the size and importance of each and the amount it will probably expend upon its l uilding and collective exhibit. The entire space will be artistically divided by beautiful walks and driveways. EXPLOSION ON A WABSHIP. Two Officers and Four Seamen Killed i and Thirteen Wounded. The British cruiser Cordelia, Captain j Harry T. Grenfell, ten guns, 2330 tons and | 2420 horse power, has just returned to Sidney, New South Wales, after a most disastrous trip to sea for target practice with her big guns. Captain Grenfell reports that while practising with one of tne Cordelia's six-inch breech-loading euns the latter exploded, kil'ing Lieutenant William P. Hillyar, Lieutenant Gordon and four seamen, and wounding three midshipmen and ten seaman. The Cordelia is a single-screw corvette, built of steel and iron and cased with wood. She is attached to the Australian station. Lieutenant George M. Gordon, who is reported killed, was in command of the marines. The Cordelia was commissioned at Hong Kong February 18, 1890. THE NATIONAL GAME. The best fighting team m toe Jjeague w j Cleveland. "When the New Yorks fail to bat th6y always field poorly. A female base ball team is ravaging the Pennsylvania coal regions. McCluxg has been re-elect ad captain of Yale team for next season. Clarksojt, of the Boston League, Is rapidly regaining his usual effectiveness. Whitxey, of the Cincinnati Association, is playing a phenomenal tbird base this season. The once famous pitcher, Larry Corcoran, is umpiring satisfactorily in the Illinois-Iowa League. Catcher Daly, of Brooklyn, 13 making many of his wonderful running fly catches ! this year. Dahlen", Chicago's new third baseman, I is not twenty-one years old, and is the father | of two children. Clarke, the catcher of the New Yorks, was married recently to Mis3 Adele Forbush, of Charlestown, Moss. In Lowe, Brodie and Stovey, Boston's * 1 vio? faar J_reagllfc) LCULU UM au uuuioiii tiu.hi equals and no superior in the throwing line. Anson, of Chicago, has been hitting with bis old-time skill and strength of late, and has finally managed to get ahead of his colts in average. There is a possibility that "Buck" Ewing, of New York, has joined the dead-arm crowd. It is more than likely that he may not be able to play at all this season. In the League Joe Quinn leads Boston at the bat; Tisrnan leads New York: "Ward, Brooklyn; Hamilton, Philadelphia; Beckiey, Pittsburg; Anson, Chicago; Davis, Cleveland, ana Holliday the Cincinnatis. Brown, of Philadelphia, has mado more long hits than any other player in the country. He is credited with thirty-two, including sixteen double?, fourteen triples and two homers. Joyce comes next on long hits. In the Association Brouthers leads the Boston batsmen, Werden the Baltimorea, Donovan the Louisvilles, Kelly the Cincinnatis, Boyle the St. Louis Browns. Murphy tbe TVashingtons, Duffee the Columbus ana Wood the Athletics. Rusie, of New York; Clarkeon, of Boston, and Hutchinson, of Chicago, are having a close and interesting race for the honor of being the best winning pitcher of the League. Each leads his club in victories. For Pittsl Pinrtlnnnfi Mnllann uurg \Jiaviu ivrauo) iut v*mvimu?wi for Brooklyn Lovett, for Philadelphia Thompson, for Cleveland Young. Mator J. B. Sargent, of New Haven, Conn., created a sensatiou by appearing as a player in a hotly fought base-ball contest between the officials of the city and town governments. As the Mayor is nearly seventy-five years old his playing in the pitcher's box was something phenomenal. An immense crowd gathered to sae the game. Browsing received his release from Pittsburg for poor work in the field and obstinacy at the bat in refusing to sacrifice. He baa accepted the terms of the Cincinnati League Club. He will play centre field in place of Long John Reilly, who will resume his old jtand at first base. "Pete" will be paid at the rate of 13900 for the season, and will receive $300 advance money. national league record. Per Ptr tforu Loit. of. jtori.tott. rt. New York.36 23 .010 Cleveland.32 34 .485 Chicago...37 27 .278 Brooklyn..31 33 .484 Boston....3ft 27 .57L Pittsburg..24 37 .393 Philadel.. .31 32 .492 Cincin'att..25 3a .301 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECOHD. Pgr Per Won. Lost. et. tFon.toif.- et. Boston....45 24 .65*2 Cincinnati.33 38 .465 St. Lout3..49 27 .?45 Athletic...32 37 .<M Baltimore.3rf 28 .582 Louisville..29 4f? .387 Columbus .34 39 .4SO Wash'?t'n.22 44 ,33f HANNIBAL HAMLIN. 1 Tho Venerable ex-Vlce-Prcsident Dies ot Heart Disease. Hannibal Hamlin, one of the founders of the Republican party, who served as VicePresident during the first four years of Mr Lincoln's administration, and who was the last of the ex-V ice-Presidents elected by tho Deoo'e. died at the Tarratine Club rooms in Bangor, Me. The es-VicePresident visited tho club rooms that afternoon, as has long been his custom, and was playing with some friends his favorite game of "pedro," when he was stricken down with heart failure. He leaves a widow and two sons, General Charles Hamlin, Esq., a lawyer of Eilsworth, and Frank Hamlin, now living in Chicago. Mr. Hamlin had bean parcoptibly failing for a year. Hannibal Hamlin was born on a farm near Paris, Oxford County, Me., on August 27, 1839. His father intended to give him a collegiate education, but died while the boy was going through a preparatory course. Thereat Hannibal returned home to take charge of the farm and remained there until he was twenty-one years old. Then he went to town anl learned the printers' trade, and while at work at the case took up tho study of the law, and in 1833, being then twenty-four vears old, ha was admitted to practice in Hampden, Penobscot County. Here he made his home until 1848. Within three years after he was admitted to the bar he was elected as a Democrat to the State Legislature. In 1840 he received tho Democratic nomination for Congress. But ho failed of election that time. In 1842 and again in 1844, however, he succeeded. In 1848 he had become so prominent in the State that he was chosen to serve out the unexpired term (four years) of Senator John Fairfield, who had died. He wa3 elected for the full term in 1851, still as a Democrat, but in 1857 resigned because he had been elected Governor ol the State as a member of the recently born Republican part?. In less than a month?e. on February 20, 1857?he resigned his office as Governor because he had again been chosen a Senator for the State. In the Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln as tbe leader c{ the Republican party, Hamlin was placed second on the ticket. On his election he resigned his offlc3 as Seuator, and from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1365, presided over the Senate. He was soon after appointed Collector of ths Port of Boston, an office that he resigned a year later. In 1869 he was again elected to the United States Senate, and served there until 1881, when he was sent as American Minister to Spain. He held this oflice but one year. During tile p.ist few years Mr. Hamlin's public appearances have baati few. Early in 18S9 he mads au extended Western tour and was the recipient of many honors in Western citics. AN INDIAN EXECUTION, A Seminole Murderer Sits on a Rock and is Shot to Death by Two Brarcs. At Waheka, Indian Territory, the capital of the Seminole Reservation, Umest, a fultblooded Seminole, was executed. A month ago Umest engaged in a quart-el with a fellow Indian, and after knocking him senseless [ with a hoe, literally chopped his body to 1 pieces with it. He was tried by the Seminole Council, convicted and sentenced to death. The penalty was inflicted at noon on th? council grounds. Umest was led to a low, flat rock, and a bandage was tied over his eyes. He was not bound in any way, but sat erect, with his hands resting in his lap, and as much unconcerned as if his photograph was about to be taken. Two of the braves were selected by lot as the executioners. They were given loaded rifles, and at the word each sent a bullet into the condemned man's heart. The only evidence that Umest had been shot was a painful raising of the shoulders. The executioners quickly ran to him and laid bim at full length on the ground, where he expired in two minut's. His body was burned by the council on the edge of the council ground. the Krposition grounds at Chicago are m* closed by a high board feuee, and during the progress of erection of the buildings no one will be allowed inside the inclosure who doe3 not present a pass contersignod by President Baker, of the Exposition Directory. A yellow flr tree, measuring 111 feet in length and flfty-four inches in diameter, has ilroady been started towards the World's Fair, having been shipped from Seattle, Washington. 4 SSftfe* j _ . i: BARDSLEY SENTENCED. Fifteen Tears for Philadel* phia's Ex-Treasurer. To Pay a Fine Equal to the Amount Embezzled. John Bardsley, ex-City Treasurer of Philadelphia, P?nn., was taken into court before Judge Wilson to have sentence passed upon him for the confessed crimes of lending, speculating with, anl receiving interest on public funds intrusted to his care as the fiduciary officer of the municipality. As on the previous occasions that Bardsley has faced the court, when he was brought in that morning he was not placed in the dock, but was allowed to sit beside his counsel within the space reserved for members of the bar. The fact that Bardsley would come up for sentence was not generally known, so that when District Attorney Graham arose to address the court and ask that sentence be passed upon the prisoner, there was not more than fifty persons in the courtroom. The District Attorney spoke but briefly, but in the course of his address he denied Bardsley's contention, made in his statement to the court a week ago, that the ex-Treasurer had not misappropriated a dollar. Mr. Graham showed that by Bardsley's own statement he must have misappropriated the sum of at least ?220,000, as that amount was required to be made good by his sureties, according to their bond to the State and city. Mr. Graham practically admitted that Bardsley's declaration that he piacad $945.000 in the Keystone Bank, taking due bills for the money, was true, and that the money was deposited in the bank. Although not able as yet specifically to show where the money has gone, MJ\ Graham said that Bardsley's embezzlements would amount to between $400,000 and $590,000. Mr. Alexander, counsel for Bardsley, reviewed the statements made by his client, and appealed to the court for mercy on the ground of Bardsley's plea of guilty and his past services to the city. Mr. Alexander said that Bardsley did not g?t a dollar of the money he put in to the Keystone Bank, and that within six months it would be shown who did. While his counsel had baan speaking, Bardsley had sat with bowed head, nervously tracing imaginary lines with the back of his pen upon the table before him. With the exceptie'n of his brother-in-law, not one of the hundreds of friends that Bardsley had a year ago was present when he arose to receive the sentence of the court. As Bardsley got up. Judge Wilson motioned him to be seated while he delivered the lecture and words of admonition that a Judge usually prefaces his sentences with. Judge Wilsoo's severe words caused Bardsley the most palpable distress. When Judge Wilson spoke of the past friendship beAMil ?Vin tvinn nnrnl'h?lf? Vila I/WWU uiiuatTAi. uuu iuc luau anaiviug uio sentence Bardsley's hands opened and shut convulsively, his face flushed and paled, and his bead sank upon his breast. As Judge Wilson proceeded and plainly said that he could find no palliation fsr Bardsley's malfeasance, and that his offense was the more open to censure from his abuse of his official position, the prisoner almost collapsed and seemed about to sink to the floor from his chair. Nevertheless, before Judge "Wilson had concluded and ordered him to rise to receive sentence, Bardsley had completely regained his composure and received the words that send him to prison for fifteen years with apparent stoicism. The sentence of Judge Wilson was that Bardsley undergo fifteen years' solitary confinement in the Eastern Penitentiary, and that he pay a fine in the sum of $237,530, equal to the amount of bis embezzlement arising from the transactions to which he bad pleaded guilty. District Attorney Graham places the deficit at $553,835.38, which is $38,000 more than Bardsley admitted in his own statement. Th s amount will be reduced by payments to be made by his sureties, so the amount of the fine will not be determined until after the examination of the accounts shall be finished. Bardsley returned to Moyamensing Prison that afternoon, and it was expectei that be would be taken to the Eastern Penitentiary next day, where he will ba shaved of his beard and be given a striped suit, and thereafter be known by a number. THE LABOR WORLD. The Paris bakers' strike collapsed. Cincinnati has women carpenters. American railroads employ 3,000,090 per Sax Francisco blacksmiths work nine hours. New York Hebrew bakers run a co-op ?rative shop. Mechanics head the list as inventors, then come clergymen. Indianapolis sewing women recently held a mass meeting. New York Citt ha3 a K. of L. assembly of church choir singers. About 1000 Italians are engaged picking berries in South Jersey. The Welsh tin-plate workers threatens to come over here in drove3. Lowell (Mass.) union men demand that police patrol-wagons be covered. The Switchmen's Union withdraws fram the Federation 01 it.auway j&mpiwyttj. The Workingmen's Society of New York TOints a Friday half-holiday for clerks. A H0DCA.RRIER3' union composed of colored men has been organized in Brooklyn, 111. The managers of the Topeka (Kan.) penitentiary refuse to observe the Eight-nonr law. The United States Treasury Department Is called upon to decide if pugulisty are laborers. Y P 3II. A N'T I (Mich.) woolen-mill owners fine hands twenty-five cents for talking, and the mills run on holiday*. Some New York capmakers struck against depositing part of then* wages as a guarantee that they would not strika. r-A ?loVinr of: f.ha lrtftm? wulauiiru " making matting consider themselves lucky if they earn five cents a day by hard work. The formation of labor unions in FiulanJ had reached the point of resolving to hold a general meeting in Helsingfors this summer, but a ukase from the Czar stopped it entirely A convention of labor organizations located on the Pacific Coast will be called by the Trades Council of San Francisco, whicu will endeavor to form a labor federation independent of the American Federation of Labor. An enterprising Chicago man, who imported two "jinrikishas" and Japanese men to draw them, free, at the Chicago Exhibition, has been ordered to send the men back, as being brought here contrary to the alien labor law. The World's Fair Association of the Commercial Travelers, recently formed, decided to hold a two weeks' congress at the World'* Fair. All organized bodies of traveling men in the United States, and foreign drummers as well, will be invited to participate The National Association of Furniture Manufacturers, at its recent convention in Boston, decided to make an extensive exhibit at the Exposition, and provided for committees to look after the matter. The exhibit will occupy space in the main building for manufactures. FIGHT WITH MOJAYES. A Fatal Encounter With Marauding Indians ill California. Constable John Powers and Samuel Gann, with McCoy, a livery man, went out in the Mojave Desert, of California, to arrest some Indians charged with firing haystacks. A fight ensued and Powers and McCoy were kflled, also two Indians and two horses. Cann's mustache was shot off. but he managed to got Powers's horse and roJe to the South Fork of Kern River for help. Twelve men went back with him. Powers's throat was cut from ear to ear and the flesh was torn from McCoy's face in shreds. Men started in pursuit of the Indians. Op the 73,000 members of the Kansas Farmers' Alliance there are oaly 7500 whose taring aro not uxortzajyiri v r LATEB NEWS, As explosion of gas at the Green Ridge (Penn.) colliery ignited the inner workings and fatally burned John Dorsey and John b Pickmonti, and seriously injured Chriato puci uuuualaii. g Postmaster General Wakamaker, H. t< H. Yard and Editors McKean and McWade, of the Ledger, have been notified to appear _ before the Philadelphia Councils' Investig?_? c tion Committee. John Bardsley was removed to the Penitentiary. ^ A young man whose identity could not ba 81 established took a novel way to end his exist- n ence by plunging into the sewer through a manhole in New York City. His body was washed away by the strong current rushing through the sewer toward the East River. it The great building at Cincinnati, Ohio, g, occupied by A. E. Burkhardt & Co., manufacturers and wholesale and retail dealers in furs and fur goods, was destroyed by fire. Loss over $800,000. J p The Missouri P?iver has carried out several a: hundred feet of one of the expensive dykes ^ huilt hv the Government for the protection of East Atchison, Kan., two years ago. The ^ current also threatens the oth9r dykes. Robert Fbankovic3, Frank Miltovich, Peter Strau?le and J. Speech were drowned fo during a gale near North Point, Texas. a; They were all well-known Italians, who had been connected with tha fish trade in Galves- ^ ton for a number of years. In the report of the Eoard of Visitors to C( the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., g recommendations are made involving im- xi portant changes in the course of study. Rev. Dr. William A. Schubert, are- b tired Episcopalian minister, aged sixty, wa3 v. accidentally killed at Washington by a little 8' boy, James Gaut. As he neared Dr. Schu- o bert the bicycle struck a stone, and the boy n was thrown with great force against the d doctor, who fell dead on the asphalt pavement. j Professor Mexdejthall, of the Co&3t j si j and Geodetic Survey, and Professor Meni- . k am, of the Agricultural Department, have ri been appointed as the American Behring Sea si Commissioners. b The Secretary of the Treasury has au- ^ thorized the acceptance of the offar of the master of the Chilian steannr Itata to pay v $500 for violation of our navigation Iawa fi in having cleared from San Diego, Cal.. ti without the necessary permit. This is the d full legal penalty for such an offence. s' The Arab slave traders of Africa have a been routed by Congo Free State troops, and are suing for peace. e The Boer trek in South Africa has proved an utter fiasco and the British troops have ? been recalled from Bechunal. 8 The staging of the shaft at a colliery at ? Rotherham, Yorkshire. England, collapsed, killing four workmen and seriously injuring 8 four others. 0 a The Kaiser and Kaiserin, of Germany, ?'*?? Kr-oolrfocf inn. nrit-.h Outran ? drove to Frogmore and visited the royal mausoleum. They afterward luached at W indsor, and were driven to Cumberland Lodge, where the silver wadding of Prince 1 and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Hol T stein was celebrated. c M c THE DESEBT LAKE, I C The Flood Traced to the Place Where ^ It Leaves the Colorado. The party, headed by Mr. Carter, sent out e from Los Angeles, Cal., by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company to find the sourc9 of the Sal ton Lake, have returned. They report from Ogilbie that the water leaves the Colorado River at a point eight miles 8 from El Rio, and flows through several a channels from four to six feet deep ? and from thirty to sixty feet wide. It flows westward along the Sand Hills on the line of the old overland atage to Ogilbie, making a C 6tream 100 yards wide or more, and having a velocity of four miles an hour and gaining. It was too deeD to be sounded, but the old slough at this point was formerly twenty feet deep. This is about thirty-five miles v from the river. The party adds: . "We followed the stream two miles further in the direction of the Indian Wells. The water is all the way from a half mile to two t miles wide, and from two to four feet deep, having a velocity of two miles an hour. The main channel passes Cook's Well, then on to Alamo Mucho, making a distance of fifty-two p miles from Colorado River. This is the s point at which it enters the desert for Salton. The old stage route, with the exf *-* MV miloa ia all /VW0l?0'l I 1' KJL UfO V? iJIA UliiV) M ?* wfMww with water. The only way to reach this e point Is over the Sanl Hills. This settles fl the question of a water supply conclusively." ; CUBIOUS FACTS. ] The Gulf of Mexico has risen over a Coot since 1852. A fish with two tails is the chief curi- g osity at Madison, Penn. Brass bands are not allowed to play in ihe streets of. Nashville, Tenn. 2 Ten days per annum is the average t amount of sickness in hunfan life. There are about fourteen hundred places of worship in London, England. kThere is a difference of only twentytwo square miles between the areas of England and Iowa. Francois Coppee, the French author, is 0 fond of cats that surround his desk and aibble at his pen when he wiites. SJ Camden, N. J., boasts of a blind bar- jj ber who can shave as well a3 if he had t| perfect sight. He works every day and makes regular wages. Alabama has a new religious sect, one f, of whose tenets is to pay no taxes to the j, 3iipport of a secular government, even to j3 the extent of a dog tax. b Girls are no longer to be flogged in the si industrial schools of Kirkdale, in Lan- o sashire, England. Such Is the order of n the Local Government Board. d The famous four-post bedstead in Anne n Hathaway's cottage at Shottery, England, 1 is rapidly disappearing, being gradually ^ chipped away by relic hunters. c fl) The moat successful "farmer "In Aroostook County, Me., and the owner of the largest potato field in that section, is a ? man paralyzed from his hips down. The King of Ashantee is allowed 3333 ^ wives. Many of them are the daughters of the chiefs of tributary tribes over n which the King has jurisdiction, and are ^ sent to him as hostages. jt p Two Jtoung Japanese women lost their mental balance over Tsuda's attempt to assassinate the Czarowitz. One started out to see the Russian Prince and make an apology on behalf of her race. She failed to see him x, and committed suicide. Another attempted suicide by drowning, but was rescued. S< Tsuda himself attempted suicide and wa# u fatally injured. fll " tl Bradstreet's reports of failures in the United States foi the past six months show P an increase of 571 as compared with the total C of the tirst half of 1890, the totals being t< (5037 for 1891 and 5466 for 1890. The liabUi- a ties for 1891 are $91,270,253, against 162,867, * 1 062 for 1890. Assets, 1891. H$,205,9M against *30,025,116 for M J M ? . ^ . ;?*5 g 1 * POPULAR SCIENCE. Electric blasting is a success. , Sea water is heavier than fresh watef ?cause of the salt dissolved in it. Warming of street cars in winter is & lew possibility of the trolley electric ty? jm. Professor W. A. Henry found that * ound of mutton can be produced cheap* r than a pound of pork. For simple hoarseness take a fresh egg, eat it and thicken with pulverized jgar. Eat freely of it and the hoarseess will soon be relieved. It is said that Harry Edwards, theitor who died recently in New York,, . wned a collection of about 300,000i loths and butterflies, which he had in-' ired for $17,000. A sure cure for inflammatory rhcuma-i sm is made by taking one ounce pul-' erized saltpeter and putting it into a< int of sweet oil. Bathe the part* fleeted and a sound cure will speedily) e made. j Sir William Siemen's method of apply-* lg electric light to grow flowers and; ruit by night or on cloudy days haft, een employed with good success oni oard a W<est Indian steamer to keep! live exotic vines and other plants. A striking conclmion has been drawn' y Boulanger, that the great Cretaceous[ydrosaurus of New Jersey was the an-1 estral form from which three great roups of reptiles, the lizards, Pythonolorpha, and snakes have originated. The only proper way to keep a gun. arrel in good order is to wash it out' ith boiling hot water, dry with linen ivabs and oil with vaseline or cylinder il, every time that it is used. It should ever be laid aside unattended to for a ay or two after tiring. The sea-snakes are now regarded by, loulanger, on account of the different aape of the teeth in the three genera1 nown, as the descendants of three teristrial genera, the close similarity in the iape of the head, their color and habits eing due to adaptation to their pelagic fe.~ A handy lamp holder has been devised, thereby perfect comfort can be secured or the eye, while a bright light is mainlined. The holder can bo placed in any esired position and by use of a "half bade" the light cm be concentrated on ny subject?a desk, a type-writer, copytand or a piano?and all strain on the yeaight is avoided. Hailstorms do not occur in weUrooded districts, acccording to the obervations of a noted Swiss forester. Ia vidence of this he points out that a [iatrict formerly exempt from such torms has been visited by very fierce nes, since gaps were made in the forests, nd that upon replanting the cleared ground with firs, the storm3 cea3ed enirely. Blending as a means of effecting specal improvement has, it is well known, ong been used for raising the quality ol rine, but a new application of the pro- ' ess is now being made. A new method if producing gas from oil and mixing he same with coal gas has been invented n England. It is said that the new proess has a wonderful effect in enriching he gas as a whole. It ha3 the further ecommcndation of considerably cheapning the supply. A Billion Dollars. If you were to eat a penny cake every econd for 42,800 years, you would have bill of $1,000,000,000 to pay the iaker. Don't try it. " ? -1 _ _ _ A billion dollars stacKea up m a siagio olumn would make a pile 1404 miles ligh. If the dollar were taken up in the air nd thrown to earth in a shower, they rould cover an area of more than half a quare mile. The weight of $1,000,000,000 is equal o that of 41,645 American men. It would pay the salaries of 20,000 Residents of the United States, and supiort the royal family of Great Britain for everal years. Placed edge to edge $1,000,000,000 a bills would carpet an area of 3.7 quare miles, with a liberal fraction left >ver for repairs. Laid in line length (rise they would form a belt 3.0625 aches wide and 114,289 miles long, that rould go around the earth nearly five imes and reach half-way to the moon. A billion dollars in paper money would [lake, if spun together in one sheet and hen cut up into pieces of proper size, owns for 127,867 women, or dresses for 83,601 children. It would pay for the education of 50,000 children from the kindergarten o and through college, and bay a city 3t apiece for 50,000,000 persons?nearly lie entire population of the United Ysirle ArJvfirt.iaer. low a Wakeful tfau May Get to Sleep. A writer, evidently of a practical turn f mind, tells a contemporary how easily be wakeful dyspeptic can be made to lip off into the lands of dreams. He lys: "The dyspeptic, of course, eats a ght supper, may resort to the use of a awel, wet with tepid water, and covred with a dry cloth, the whole then pplied to the pit of the stomach. Beore the sufferer knows it he will float ato shadow land, such 13 the sympathy etwecu the organs of digestion and the rain. Owing to the position of the tomach, a light sleeper ought to sleep n the right side instead of the left, ever on the back. If there is a tenency to cold feet, a thin woolen blanket iay line the lower third of the bed. 'lie limbs ought not to be greatly exed, a position which presents free emulation, and they should rest one upon nother lightly. The night light, where sed, ought to be a tiny taper, and not as or kerosene, both of which dcvital:e the air. A darkened room is the est. Nature puts out her light, and raws the curtain of darkness for a purose. With good habits, physical and lental, and a determination not to deal rith anodynes, sleep may be won lrom s shyest lair to watch over the restltss illow.?Detroit Free Press. Smokeless Fuel. Pittsburg "is at last assured of a smokeiss fuel. During the last three years le Weatinghouse Company has spent iveral thousand dollars experimenting pon a process for the manufacture of rtificial gas. The gas manufactured at lis point will be piped to the various laces where it is put into use. The diffiulties which many mills had last winit on account of natural gas will be verted. It is said that the new inveuion will be cheaper than coal.--?iVft0 rork Telegram,. >