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^APPALLING DISASTER ; Fatal Collapse of a Building in New York City. I Nearly Five Score of People ' Lose Their Lives. A rickety five-story brick building in Park place, New York Cit;-, co'.lapsed during the noon hour a few days ago, the debris bursting into llames. How many people were buriei and burneJ j in the ruins was not known forty-eight hours , after the accident. The number was estimated at seventy-five. Ib may reach one hundre'. Th * o Mapse was immediately proceeded by n:s explosion, according to some of tlioso within earshot. Oihers say then* was no explosion, th-it the walls and floors merely gave way. The fallen buildings comprised Nos. 63, 70, 72 an i 71 Park place. No. OS was vacant. Occupying the ground floor of the remaining three numbers were Louis Rosenfeld's bron/.i.nnd gold paint shop, A. W. Tripp's drug store, and Andrew Petersen's restaurant Eli:s ft Macdonald's bookbiniery took up the s-oond and third floors of Nos. 70 and 7:2, and the South Publishing Company the same floors of No. 74. The zourth and fifth floors throughout were occupied by Liebler & Maass, lithographer.-. Careful estimates made the day after the tragedy showed that when the fatal crash came there were thirty men in the pressroom of Liebler & Maass, who were buried in it; twenty-tire men in Petersen's restaurant; twelve men and women in Ellis & McDonald's bookbindery; eight men and boys in tho .South Publishing Company; teD men anl women in the paint shop of Louis Roseufeld; nine men and boys in the drug store of F. TV". Trippe, and ten passers-by on tho tide walk?making a total of 101. There is a considerable difference of opinion as to the cause of the disaster. People in the wrecked building who escaped say there was no explosion, but those who were on the street near the scene say they heard the report of an explosion. It seems probable that the weight of tho Printing presses, which were on the upper floors, together with the vibration caused by their motion, proved too much for the buildtig, and caused the collapse. It was just the noon hour and Petersan's restauraut in the basement was fairly well filled. It accommodated sixty persons. In the windows overhead girls an-i men could be seen catching a breath of air as they munched their luncheons. There were several people passing in the street, among them a woman with an infant i in a baby carriage. Three little childreu were playing together in front of tho druj | store,"and a horse attached ti an express wagon was standing by the curb. Above the noise of traffic in the street could be heard the din of Liebler & Maass's tea big presses on the upper floors. Tho building vibrated and trembled with every revolution, just as it had done for months before. Then there came a low rumbling sound. Some who heard it say it was accompanied by a heavy report, as of a cannon fired. It was followed by tho crash of falling walls and the grating, rasping sound of twisting beams and timbers. A dark cloud of dust filled tho air and rose to the height of the housetops. Before it had cleared Ire burst from the debris and lapped over to the adjoining buildings to tho west. The street was in an uproar in an instant. A dozen or more who had bee i slightly injured were helped into adjacent stores. Ona j man was discovered standing to his waist in i the debris. He bad a bad gash in his head. He was palled out ana carea ior. Another bad rolled down fro:n the summit ! of the wreck in a big arm-chair. He was ! helpel to his feet comparatively unhurt. J "he mother with her baby in the carriage ' the three little children at play could not. ui. ntly, before the frightened people in | ~*ed building could collect them- | 'ttempt escape, there rolled the ( ds of sraoice and the roaring one accord the p3oplo rushed -ance, on Park place. Al- j issable. And then, almost other, men and women, 1 ami fell down the tire >h street side of the Wf, streams playing \nd rear, while -? ruins from rter tha firebeen conthe dead > first ' ere t W' *Sr' V ifV?t' . I i % . Of the eighteen recovered dead thirteet have been identified. The five unidentified bodies were taken to the Morgue. Oue of the saddest features or tins disaster is that its long list of victims were in the main the fathers of families who leaned on I their support for tin necessaries ol : life, or sons and daughters with : those dependent on their earn- J ings. A larjjo majority of them were is youth and with few exceptions they were all < of the best class of American working pco pie. Nearly every death recorded means the desolation of a lioin?. i PROMINENT^ PEOPLE, i The King of Sweden is a great swimmePk Senator Plumb, of Kansas, is an enthusi- , astic bowler. Bismarck pockets $1000 a week as th? profits of his little poultry business. Ex-Empress Eugenie, widow of Napoleon ; III., has failed visibly during the last few months. Governor fra.vcis.of Missouri, has within ' the last ten years ainasse l a fortune of ' ?1.000.000 by judicioiu and lucky investments. I ? ' 1 i.1.. T? Fully seou.wu nas oeen spent on mo cm. | press of Austria's new palace at Corfu. The i wood-carving alone in one suit of rooms cost $15,000. , Blaine and Proctor are the only members of the Cabinet who do not smoke, and Secretary Foster is the most inveterate smoker among the others. The old Duke of Nassau, who at seventy- ( f?ve is hale and active, has a fortuna of $25, 000,000 and is consequently sat down as the < richest priuce in Europe. Officer Rollings, of Philadelphia, is said to be the largest policemau in the United States. He is six feet eight inches in heizht and weighs U) pounds. Father Tom Sherman", the ecclesiastical j son oi the late General, has recant^' , preached in Chicago, where he created a distinctly fuvorable impression. Captain* Palmer, the new commanderin-chief of the G. A. R., is going to bend his energies to the task of hastening the construction of the Grant monument. Among the several foreign gentleman wno are coming across this fall to enlighten America from the platform is Austin DobsoD, who is to give readings from his poems. ( The Emperor of Japan has decreed that i every man who provokes a duel or accepts a I challenge shall pay a heavy fine and serve from six months to two years iu the gal leys. 1 Although in his eighty-flrst year, Senator Morrill, of Vermont, is an ardent sports- i man, an I is often seen, gun in nana, engaged in the healthful pursuit of field sporta. Senator Gorvan is building a new ^ honsa near Laura), Md., to replace the one , that was burned last winter. It is described , as a commodious, substantial and unpretentious farm house. Mr. Frederick K. Binidge, of Cam- t bridge, Mass., who inherited a very large fortune, has within the last three years given to charitable, religious and municipal 1 institutions more than $3,000,000. I Mrs. Isabella. Bird Bishop, the well ' known author of books describing her travels in "unbeaten tracks," has received the honor ' of being the first woman to deliver an address J in the British House of Common?. Dr. Seum H. Peabody, President of the National Educational Association, has been i nominated and confirmed as chief of the De- j partment of Liberal Arts of the World's Fair, vice Professor Adams, resigned. Congressman- Livingstone, of Georgia, who is one of tli3 leaders of th3 farmers' movement, is about fifty-Sva years old, and lives at Covington, a little town within an hours' ride of Atlanta. He is a farmer, but j has always taken an active interest in poli- ( tics. 1 Mis3 Forbes- Leith, the Americin girl i who recently became the wife of Captain J Burn, the handsomest aide-de-camp in the 1 British service, is a tall and rather slender woman. She is hardly pretty, but is vary distinguished and attractive in her appaar- < ance. ; Lieutenants Thiesen and Arnold, of the Ninety-lifth Coburg Regiment, have per- i formed the remarkable feat of walking from ' Coburg to Bamberg, a distance of twenty- , six miles and return in sixteen hours aud thirty-five minutes with full marching , equipments. j ?-- 1 ARTIFICIAL KAitf. J 4 General Dyrenturtli Turns Arid ! Plains Into Grcfn Prairies. The lubors of the rainmakers whom Secretary of Agriculture Rusk sent to Midland, Texas, to try to pump water out of c!oud- [ less skies are practically at an end so far as that particular loc ility is concerned. General Dyrenfurth is highly pleased with the success of the experiments and has per >ct faith that the power of making rain has n secured. im a barren, dry alkali prairie Tom r'ouuty, Texas, has been transformed st-cfass pasture land. belongs to Nelson Morris, of vers 300,00') acres. Before < came there had been no nch for three years? "?ro intervals which * tho experiments >ne tremendous been a day -ass is getcon "V- | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern ami Middle States. Kate and Mary "Walton, sisters, aged nineteen ami twenty-two, belonging in Dorchester, Mass., were drownei in South Boston Bay on their return from a moon ight yachting cruise. Five man ware injured by an explosion of in o ctin.minrrr dt, HoWollsville. Penn. General W. L. Bragg, Interstate Commerce Commissioner, die 1 at Avon-by-theSea, N. J. Ho was born in Alabama in ISSS.and was appoint 3d Interstate Commerce Commissioner by President Cleveland In iss:j. A great throng of pjopl) listened to an address by President Harrison at Saratoga. After the address the Presi lent held a reception on the piazza of the Grand Union Hotel. Joa.v Gib vey ani wife and their four rear-old boy were crossing Union street bridge, Sc'.ienectidy, N. Y., when the chili fell through an opening in tlu iron work. The father jumpe 1 into th? water to save the child and both were drowned. The President spent Sun lay quietly at Saratoga, N. Y. Damage estimated at $100,000 was done by a cloudburst at Pottsville. Penn. The President was ths recipient of many sodal attentions at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. The sessions of the Chautauqua (N. Y.) Assembly for is'jl came to a close. The search for bodies in the ruins of the collapsed buildings in Park place, New York City, was continued; thirty-five in all had been taken out up to midnight of the third day; twenty-six were identified. r-z-.T-vuvrin Pinp of Vermont, informed Rddfiel l Proctor, Secretary of War, that ha wonld be appointed to succaed Senator Edmunds as Senator from Vermont. President Harrison* journeyed from Saratoga, N. Y., to St. Albans, Vt.; he made eight speeches in the courss of the trip. The National Convention of the Daughters of Liberty was held at Water bury, Conn. A membership of over nine thousand persons was reported. South and West. The American Wheel Company of Chicago. II!., has been declared insolvent. The assets are #4,105,000 anl the liabilities il,300,000. Two masked robbers held up a freight train near Kansas City, and, at'ter robbing the conductor, shot the brakeman dead. Edward Blair was hanged at Columbus, Ohio, for the murder of Arthur Henry. George Hamilton, of Ironton, Ohio, went out with his wife to make a call, ana when they returned home they found their three children, aged respectively eight, four md two years, smothered to death in a large tool chest. Charleb Hawki.vs, the murderer of a City Marshal Dan Bruce, was taken from the jail at Shelby ville, Ind., and lynched. Chandler Brothers, savings bankers, real estate and insurance a jants at Montgomery, Ala., have assigned, with assets of ibout $90,000; liabilities about fc>S,0j0. aifpt.r^ Behrwald was shot deal by her brother, Albart Zinkio, at thachristsning of her child in Chicago, 111. The bullet was intended for her husband. James Wells and son were cau;ht out ia a rain storm at Petersburg, Va., and sought shelter in a barn. They had been in the barn but a short time bafora the buildin* was struck by lightning, and both of them were killed. Killing frosts have fallen in the Northwest. A party of fifteen white men wearing masks descended upon three Chinese gardenars living near Missoula, Montana, looted their cabin, destroyed the structure, broke ill the furniture, cut off their queues and maltreated two of the Chinamen in a terrible manner. Andy Ford, colored, and a companion of Harmon Murray, the desperado who was recently killed, was lynched at Oak Grove, Fla. Will Lewis, colored, aged eighteen years, was taken from the calaboose at Tallahoma, lean., by eight masked men, and hanged tc i tree. Lewis was a druuken rowdy. The town of Charleston, Ark., has been burned. Total loss $50,000. The court house ecords ware destro3'ed. At Moody, Texas, i disastrous fire occurred, destroying hall he business portion of the town, including thi ) istolDce. The fire was the work of an insendiary. Near Nicbolasville, Ky.. a special engine an down and killed Mrs. Mary Richardson ind two children, aged eight and six. Washington. Secretary Noble has returned to Was'jnzton from his summar vacation in the Adirondack Mountains. It is said that ths British and United States governments will subscribe $1,500,000 to ?mplete the buUding of the Chiguecto Ship Railway. The British Government win turlish two-thirds of the amount. Before the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Washington Professor Riley real a pao?r entitle 1, 'The Grasshopper Outlook." He says there is no onger any danger of serious injury to the Tops by them this fall. The Bureau of American Republics at -Vashington is informed that the total cuaoms receipts in Brazil for the first six nonths of 1891 were $18,119,1>39, as compared vith ?U?,531,361 durin; the first half of 1399. The internal revenue receipts amounted to !5,G32,i32, as compared with $3,531,831 a rear ago. Secretary Noblk has instructed the >mmissioner of Indian Affairs to direct t Bennett, of the Union Indian Agency, *ndmn Territory, to seize all packages ->t may be shipped into the Indian ved at the War Department w that the carriage for ch-loa.ling rifle?the hicta has been on N'. J.) proving ctory test, "onstruc* it aS I repolice .0 in tho iley Falls, thoroughly jas captured jw resting at .z, an Austrian that th9 boiler of the Danube Company's steamsr Apostag exploded, kiilin? live parsons and seriously injuring two other?. Thk Peruvian Cabinet has resigned, the | Ministers having refus3d to answer the Senj ate's interpellations in regard to the atj tempted revolt of December 3. A new Ministry has been formed. An* explosion took place at a colliery near Merthyr Tydvil, Wale?. Two persons lost their lives by being suffocated in the mine. Eagle Star,the Sioux chief with Buffalo Bill's show, died from lockjaw at Sheffield, England. Kews has been received of a hurricane in Senegal, in which an Italian steamer and two cutters were wrecked at Rufisque and eighteen" persons were drowned. The Norwegian collier Frey, bound from an English port for Drontheim, caught flre and was burned to the water's edge when near Bergen. Eight of her crew were drowned. Seven were saved. Extensive floods are reported in "Westmoreland County, England. / LATER NEWS. The American Bar Association met in Boston, Mass. The Pennsylvania Prohibitionist?, in convention at Harrisburg, nominated W. \V. Hague for Auditor General and George Drayton for State Treasurer The Mayor and City Council of Altoona, Penn., were arrested on complaint of the City School Board for refusing to do away with a sewage nuisance. The body of Herbert Mapes, the Columbia College athlete, who was drowned while bathing at Fire Island, off New Jersey a few days ago, was discovered in the surf at "Water Island, eight miles east of the Surf Hotel. President Harrison spent the night at the house of ex-Governor Smith in St. Albans, Vt. Next day he addressed great audiences at Richmond, , Waterbury, Montpelier, Plainfleld and St. Johnsbury, Vt.; al Montpelier he spoke in the Capitol to the members of tho State Legislature. The search for bodies in tho ruined building in Park place, New York City, was ended, sixty-one corpses having been recovered. Of these, fifteen are unidentified. Secretary Tracy witnessed tho fleet manoeuvres of the North Atlantic Squadron I and the Sauadron of Evolution off Bar Har j bor. Me. The oyster polica forca has bean organI ized into the Maryland Naval Militia. LieuJ tenant H. G. 0. Colby, details! by tho S02* ; retary of the Navy, nasistei in deciding upon a plan of formation. There are about 120 men in the oyster police force. A pretty fifteen-year-old girl, Claudia Morson, daughter of a prominent mine operator, of Birmingham, Al9., want bathing atBlossburg. When s'ae reached the deep water she was seizsl with cramp. Sallie, her sir teen-year-old sister, sprang in to her rescue. They clasped each other aud sank j together. They never rose again. The Fifth International Geological Conj gress met in Washington. The Canadian census returns show that ; the population is in the vicinity of 4,930,000. Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories and British Columbia show ' ?~Kiif Prinna T.r? I UUtllUi easts vi (Ju^uianuu, i/uv ^nuw ward Island, New Brunswick and Quebec ara [ about stationary. Montreal ranks as the ' first city in Canada, with a population of ! nearly 230,000. The Ministry of Saxony has r^eoreed that j drunkenness shall ba considera J a criminal ! offense. I The only surviving officer of the battle of "Waterloo, General Whichcote, disi on a . recant day in London. A tremendous hurricane prevailed throughout Great Britain all night. Serious damage was done in England and Ireland | by the storm. Robert W. Carpenter, Trial Justice [ lawyer and Chief of the Fire Department of , Foxboro, Mass., has disappeared, charged with embezzlement and malfeasance in ofI fice. ! Samuel Clarke Fomeroy, formerly United States Senator from Kansas, died a few days ago, at Whitensville, Mas?. He was born in Southampton, Mass., January 3, 1616. President Harri30x made an address at i the fair of the Vermont Association of Road J and Trotting Horse Breeders at White River ' Junction. F. W. Vanderbilt's imported yacht Con; queror has been seizel by Federal officers In ; New York Harbor for customs duties esti; mated at $35,09'\ Washouts have cut off communication with Milledgeville, Ga., by rail and have 1 1 _ j ? 1 Art nrn L'BUM'U a uauiugc ui ciw,vuu. Emissaries of the ''home seekers" angered at th<? Government's permission to the | Cherokees to hold cattle in the Cherokeo j strip, Indian Territory, have already begun ; to burn the grass on the strip. j The sailors on the United States steamer I Pensacola, now at San Francisco and orI dered to China, say the vessel is unseaworthy. Twenty-ei^ht have deserted, j The Maryland Republican Stato Convention met at Ocean City and nominate 1 Willn G. Vannort for Governor. Treasury Department has recognized as Consnl-Gennral of Salvador ' 'emic in Teguecigalpa, i od pirates are * Wenchow, ">untry cold jurnei 1 hospi " ,d, women the miscre.a is 4,823,334, an m ten years. itorm swept over the cria. Lightning struck i. Thre3 women were hunting party was struck i3 msmbsr of tli9 party was _(Ot. iY "PLAYED JAIL," Smothered Three Children in n Little Iron lJo.x. x'iie mystery surrounding the recent tragdy in whic'.i tin chilireu of Mr. and Mrs. | Gejivu iiauiilioD, of Ironton, Ohio, were I found s !:oth.j:v I to ?io:ith in a chest in j whi.h they had been fastened has been | cleared up. "William TTarnick, h playmate of the j Hamilton children, admitted" to his mother ! ! that Kirche Gurliche and a boy named Peuiberton, together with himself, while "play- ! ing jail," locked the children in the chest, ] and being called to supper shortly afterward I i forgot to let them out. When told that Warnick had confessed the boys told the same story. The mothers of the children are crazed with grief, but it is not likely anything will be done in the matter as cone of the boys is over eight years old. ' A-:v "'-j vv'- - S\ ,iV? ^ * m ?mm EURLED FROM A BRIDGE. i t? rr :.. T?11 ? T?w?li + \ A raissen^er i rum r mn J&et Into a Creek. Over a Score Killed and Man;v Seriously Injured. A dispatch from Statesville, N. C., says The most terrible railroad disaster that has ever happened in North Carolina occurred on a recent morning at Boston's Bridge, which crosses Third Cre?k,two miles west of this place. The westbound passenger train on the Western North Carolina Railroad cNo. 0), which had passed Statesville on time (at 1:42 A. St.), was hurled from the bridge, a distance of about 100 feet, the engine, tender, baggage and second-class car, the first-class coacn, the Pullman car and the private car of Superintendent Bridge all going down into the creek. " The train was composed of a baggage and mail car, second and first class coaches. Pull man sleeper, and Superintendent Bridge's private car. Daisy. Tne sleeper, which was from Goldsboro, usually contains a good number of passengers from Northern points, and last night was no exception. The run to Statesville was made on time, a distance of twenty-five miles, but just afStntpsville there is a high stone bridge spaning Third Creek, and down into this creek plunged tho entire train, a distance of at least sixty-five feet, wrecking the whole train and carrying death and destruction with it. Twenty passengers were killed outright, J nine seriously injured, and about twenty ba4Jy bruised and shaken up. The scene at the wreck was awful. The night was dismal, and to add to the horror of the situation, the water in the creek was I up. It was only through the heroic efforts or those who had hurried to the scene of the wreck that the injured were not drowned. The accident was caused by the spreading oi the rails. The bridge was not Injured ana trains are running on schedule time. Twenty dead bodies are now lying in a warehouse at Statesvllle. Tho injured are having the best of care at private houses and hotels. A drummer named George Brawley, from Atlanta, and one or two other passengers who made their way from the wreck alive, came to town and gave the news of the disaster. The town was soon aroused and citizens and vehicles hastened to the scene of the wreck and began the work of rescue. * 3 frnm f-.hA I Some of the passengers uuu udkioim v>- --- f car windows, and were perched on the tops. The cars were cut open, and as many of the passengers as could be found were dragged out dead, dying and som9 alive and others mortally injured. By davllght 2000 people were on the ground. The dead and injured wore brought to town, the injured comfortably quartered at the hotel and private house?, where they could receive medical aid. The dead were laid side by side In a long row on the floor of a large tobacco warehouse, where the bodies were identified and tagged. It was impossible to say on the morning after the acident how many were killed and drowned. Up to twenty-nve minutes past five o'clock twenty dead bodie3 had been taken from the wreck and the second class car had not been reached, which is partially under the water. Twenty-five is not an overestimate of the number killed. Dr. Sikes, who was killed, had just been assigned to missionary work in China, an 1 was to have left for that country on September 26 next. He was married. The Moores, who were killed, are prominent in literary and social circles, and are well known throughout the South. They were returning from a summering in the Blue Mountains. The train fell from the north side of the track. The engine lies on the embankment j on the west side of the creeK, tne nnst uiuno car on top of the second class and Superintendent Bridge's car partially covers the slsdpor. It is supposed that as tho engine was running forty miles an hour on down grade, it struck the bridge and the rails spread. Tht ends of the ties are rotten at the approach. | and this was probably the causa of the acci- . dent. THE LABOR WORLD. Indian atolis talks of a labor hall. New York has 60,000 night workers. The flint glass workers have $500,000. New York has an Italian cloak-makers' tin ion. London button-hole makers get thirty-five i cents a day. The English Trades Union Congress has | !"00,00') member?. New York union laundry workers want j the Chinese boycotted. Only one person in four in London earns more thau to per week. New York letter-carriers want to be re- ; tired on half pay after twenty years' service. ' A State convention of typographical | unions is to be held at Syracuse NT Y., on October G. The co-operative foundry at Somerset, Mas.-., has failed after an existence of twenty four years. Missouri employers are obsci ving tha law compelling the payment of wages every two weeks. There are at present over 1*30") papers in this county devoted to the Labor and the Farmers' movement. The receipts on the street cars in New York City average about $-0 per day, while the actual cost is about $!). Municipal markets where meat is for sa'? at cost to the citizens having paid up their taxes for the year have bean established at San Cristobal" and Tres Equinas, Argentine Republic. The Brotherhood of Machinists,comprising branches in Pittsburg and Beaver Falls, Peon., and Youngstown, Ohio,have amalgamated with tha International Association o? Machinists. Out of 1*45 strikes in England last year, in whicb 344,54<i people tooK pare, 4if> wero i successful, 207 were failures and ninety-four j were undecided. The average duration of strikes was eighteen days. At the thirteenth congress of the New Jersey Federation of Trades, held in Patersou, ft resolution to petition the Legislature to appropriate an additional $'2000 per year to the State Labor bill for th? purpose of securing more definite statistics, and various recommendations were adopted. Wood-vorki.vg machines hav>3 caused twenty-six fatal accidents in Ohio last year, while 159 persons were disabled by machines, causing a total loss of wages of $10,8*2 ?.25. The report of the State Factory Inspector says that wood-working machines are more dangerous to life and limbs of workmen than uuy other machine-. Statistical comparisons show that wages are independent of the form of government. Mexico, a Republic, Malta and Coylou, un- I der British rule, Algiers and Tunis, French dependencies, pay less than Russia or Spain ! The Anglo-Saxon pays more than the German, the German more than the Latiu, the Latiu more than the Semitic and the Semitic oiore than the Malay and Mongolian. The highest average wages are paid In the Australian colonies, and the highest iu the United States at San Francisco. REVENGE OF A SWITCHMAN. He Wrecks a Passenger Train in Bo- j hernia, Killing: Twelve Persons. j At Bubsntsch, Bohemia, a passenger and : a freight train collided. Twelve persons were killel and many in- I jured in the wreck. Tho stiashun was caused by a Czech switchman, who had recently had a (luarrel with the engineer of the passenger train, and took this method of revenging himself for an alleged insult. The switchman was arrested, and but for strong police protection would have been lynched by the indignant villagers and passengers. Tex Chinamen were arrested on Whidby Island, near Port Townsend, Washington, and taken before a United States Commissioner, who ordered them returned to China. The Chinamen were found scattered about the Island, working on farina leased by ChiBesa formers. 4 WOELD'S FAIR NOTES. More than #5,000,000 of Exposition wort Is now contracted for and is in progress. Massachusetts will devote $10,000 to Its educational exhibit. The State's entire ap- L propriation is $75,000. The Sultan of Zanzibar has decided to make an extensive exhibit, and a request for space has been cabled. ry Guatemala has appropriated $100,000 in gold for its exhibit at the Exposition, and 120,000 additional for its building. LiETTEks recaivea oy 1110 tianu-.-imenuaa Department of the Exposition indicate t'aat Mexican women will take a prominent plac.3 C at tiie World's Fair. y The Art Department has issued a strong circular urging every architect in the United States to personally assist in tha exhibit of 51 American arcbi.. jture. a It is reported that the Princ3 of Wales, Emperor William of Germany, and tha Shah "V of Persia all seriously contemplate visiting s-i the World's Pair in 1893. ti A movement has been inaugurated by the ? Sons of the Revolution in New York to have October 12th celebrated throughout the ^ world each year as "Discovery Day." ^ The iffi'napers of the great naval exhibi- P tion at onelsefi, England, have consented to w allow the model of Nelson's ship, the Victory, to be transferred to ,the Columbian Exposition. p The flO.OQD painting of Christopher 0 Columbus, executed by the famous Moro in 15-10, and purchased in London by Charles P. p G-unt'jer, nas arrived at the Custom House ]< in Chicago, and will be displayed at the i: Fair. The photographers of the country want a tl crartofatn Viuilrlincr ot. fchn ErnnciUnn Jlrfftnted tl to a magnificent photographic exhibit col- f< iected from the whole world. A committee tl has been appointed to confer with the Ex- fo position officials upon the subject. ti The effort to have a trib9 of African pig- tl mies exhibited at the Exposition is pretty r certain to succeed. Tippoo Tib has giveu his b consent and the consent of the King of Bel- & gium, which also is necessary, can easily be t; obtains i, it is believed, through tha State D Department. & The Territorial Convention of the Liberal !! Party in Utah has vct9d to request the Legislature to appropriate not less than ?100,050 for the Territory's representation at the Exposition. It is reported that the Democratic and Republican conventions are cer- _ tain to take similar action. J Lieutenant H. R. Lemly, the Special Commissioner of the Exposition at Colombia, writes that a typical orchestra from j that country, consisting of ten musicians, playing their native instruments, which are c unlike those of any other people, has been p organized. It will appear at Chicago dur Ing the Exposition in connection with the ? exhibit from the Republic of Colombia. ' The Exposition European Commission, ? embracing Messrs. Buttsrworthj Handy, i Bullock,* Lindsay and Peck, is receiving ? very marked attention in European capitals r and other cities, and everywhere exceptional courtesies have been extended. The Com- 1 mission is doing a wonaerrui amount ui * to the Exposition inarousing interest abroad and insuring extensive participation by foreign nations. Chief1 Fear:* has received a letter from Consul-General Frank Mason, at Frankforton-Main. He says he has recently visited the old town St. Die, in France, where was published the the "Cosmographia Introductio," the book which gave America its name. He says he is collecting rare manuscripts in relation to the discovery of America and other valuable relics and will show them at the Exposition. Eugene and Faul Champion, of Neuillysur-Seine, France, have proposed a series of electrical fireworks for ttie Exposition. Neither gunpowder, dynamite, nor other explosive material is used in producing the dazzling effects. An operator sits at an instrument something like a piano and by manipulation of the keys produces designs of the most gorgeous fashion. The whole machine is run by electricity. The military feature of the dedication ceremonies ot is 10 do ?u impuut , one. Probably 10,000 soldiers will partici- < pate, and those of the National Guard who , will have the honor to take part will be crack companies from the different States? ] those that have shown that they excel in j discipline, marching and drill. (Competitive ( drills to determine which companies shall , take part in the great event will probably be j instituted in every State having a National j Guard. Lieutenant W. E. Safforo, U. S. N., Special Commissioner of the World's Fair to Peru and Bolivia, has secured for the LatinAmerican department of the Exposition five samples of the ceremonial dresses of the ! Jiberos and Zaparros Indians. One of the Jiberos costumes is reported to surpass any of the dresses of savage tribes yet discovered^ honnf.v and loveiv contrasts Of [ IUSw6w^ J colors. The two Zaparros costumes are , woven of human hair, and are ornamented with geometrical desigus. I No sideshows are to be permitted within I the Exposition grounds. The Directory has decided that the entrance fee shall entitle the I visitor to see every thing within the enclos- i ure. There will be, however, several theatres built and kept running, at which the finest i talent in the world, it is expected, will ap- I pear, and visitors who choose to attend the i performances will have to pay an admission fee. Such sights as "A Street in Cairo," will I be free, but natives of oriental countries in a I few cases will be allowed to charge a small I fee to special performances of a theatrical I nature. I Manj interesting relics from San Do- ' mingo, where Columbus landed, have been ' received by the Washington office of the for- J eign affairs department of the Exposition. ; The most valuable of these relics and the j most interesting, perhaps, is the first church ' bell that ever rang out in the New World. It was presented to the colonists of the first ' settlement of San Domingo by Queen Isa- f bella in appreciation of the fact that the ' first settlement bora her name. There is , also an exact reproduction of the cross 1 which Columbus raised immediately upon | landing. The material of the cross is the same exactly as that which Columbus nailed 1 up, having been taken from the wood of a c hnilrHnor erected in 1509. STARTED OUT TO KILL. Two Wen Slain and One Wounded bj j a Father and Pour Sons. Milton Kendall and his four sons?George, Lamar, Popsey and Milton?went into Georgetown, Ky., on a recent morning for the purpose of killing their nearest -| neighbors, John James and Burrill James. They succeeded in killing John, mortally wounding Burrill, at the fame tinia killing i John A. Montgomery, Coroner of Scott , County. t The Kendalls went tint morning to the . house of widow James, which is six miles from Georgetown and within half a mile of their own. They accused Burrill James of ? having robbed their watermelon patch and . said they intended killing the entire James family. As they wero armed the Jarues boys . ran away. John James swore out warrants for the Kendalls and they were arrested but gave bail to appear that day for trial. On the trial morning the James boys ar- > rived in Georgetown first. About 10.30 o'clock John James went to a barber shop , where he had left his riflo and secured the weapon. As he stepped out the door young f Milton Kendall, who was standing . within thirty feet, shot him through j the right lung. He was carrie 1 into a back j room whither Milton and George Kendall ' , tried to follow bun for the purpose of finishing him. The barbers bosrged them not r to shoot any more an i they left. <. Burrill James had in the mean time run k into John Montgomery's hardware store to get a gun, but old man Kendall saw him, und fired, killing Mr. Montgomery. Overtaking Burrill James at the back door, the elder Kendall fatally shot him with " his pistol immediately over the heart. He then joined his sons near the Court Ilou.-e, I and together they defie 1 arrest for half an j hour, finally giving up their arms an i going i o to jail. i i All the parlies are well connected Old I man Kendall has been a magistrate, and was for years Chairman of the Democratic Com- ! 5 mittee of Scott County. ! v i * o In* big trees the new State of Washing to.\ Ij is quite rich. A Seattle paper mentions a , fir in Sumas which is eight and one-half feet ' in diameter. Near Stanwood there is a cedar seventeen feet in diameter, thirtv a three feet from the roots and twelve feet it) 8 diameter 112 feet from the roots. Nooksack ' reports a fir twelve feet in diameter. 1 8 e ^ - ? CHILEAN CARNAGE. ; 1 ' tlooily Lattle Between Govern meat Troops and Kebeis. 'he Insurgents Repulsed After Losing 3000 Men, Details were received of the fight between ongressional ami Government forces near alparaiso, Chili. A dispatch from Valparaiso Fays: The inlrgents succeeded in landing 10,00.) soldiers t the Bay of Quintero, north of Valparaiso, 'herethey started alon? the shore toward 'alparaiso uuier the protection of x of their men-of-war an I eight armed -ansporw, bfsido.s all the boats of their =et provided witn mitrailleuses, end^avorig to surprise the city by a rear attack. l Government forcd of 5000 men as immediately detached from Valaraiso and succeeded ia delaying the crossig of the Aconcagua River near its moatb, diile a sufficient number of troop3 were loving by rail to protect Valparaiso and opose the insurgents by at least 15,000, witha"1 rospectjpf a further increase of forces from the? quartefcr""*-ST: '^ctrgSg The Government forces succeeded in stop- I ing the insurgents for forty hours, with "a jss to the enemy of about 30i)0 of their est men, r.otwithstan ling the fire of Se insurgent fleat, besides that of ae land force. This operation enabled *! be Government to select the best positions jr their 12,000 arriving troop3, although disadvantage coit the loss of half the earner of the division of 5000 men which conjsted the march of the rebels and heir crossing the Aconcagua River. The ebel fleet has been kept at bay y the fire of Fort Anles, and the insurgent Drees are deprived of the expected proteclon of their men-of-war, while the Governlent forces are constantly receiving reinDrcements from the interior. Now the ebel forces will be without any possible way f retreat. DAMAGE BY FLOODS. 3ridfjes, Dams and Tracks Swept Away in Pennsylvania, Great damage was done to property in 'ennsylvania by a storm, and much fear waa ccasioned, but fortunately no lives were retorted lost. Conternation reigned at the Bowman;:Evangelical Camp Meeting near Mohravilla, 5enn. Lightning struck a number of trees; ind some of them falling came dangerously lear crashing upon tents. A regular stream >f water rushed through the woods and car led away beddiag and furnitureNear WernersviJle, Penn., on the Lebanon /alley branch of the Reading Railroad, just ifter the engine of a freight train pawed >ver a culvert in safety, the culvert was vashed away and tde entire train of ten ?rs plunged into the culvert and were car* ied off. August Kohn, a tramp stealing ide, had a leg broken and his arm injured; Dver one-third of a mile of track was vashed away. Another culvert at Fritztown, Penn., on ;he Reading and Columbia Railroad,between rleading and Lancaster, was washed away. At Mohrsville, Penn., eight dams, each lalf an acre to an acre in extent, were vashed away and the hat factories ana mills vill be unable to resume until the dams? jreasts have been rebuilt. rn' ' J?? ?? 3 ninxn AP Paarlintv aae unuge auu iiucn uiius ul wb ind Southwestern Railroad Company at Sendelton, Penn., were carried away, and a nile of its track belonging to Daniel Riege), Fobn Mogle and Wiluam P. Koller, were lestroyed Dy lightning. The loss is 110,000. The breast of the big dam at the Robesolia furnace, which furnishes RobesonlaPenn., with water, broke and gardens fences, vegetables gardens and roads were ill washed out and trees uprooted. Over iOO feet of the Reading Railroad Company's track noar Robesonia Station was carried iway. The storm in Northern Lancaster County, Penn., was the heaviest in fixty years. Seven bridges, a number of buildings, sheds md fences were washed away and many lattle were drowned. At Millway an immense oil tank was carried 100 feet. Half a mile of track of the Reading and Columbia Railroad at Denver was washed away. PEASANTS STARVING, Many Russians Compelled to Eftt Grass aud Leaves. The PriDce of Wales is taking great inter* ist in the matter of the persecution of the Hebrews in Russia, and in the condition of ;hose who are coming to England. The Princess of "Wales is co-operating with him. A clergyman living at present in theProvnee cf Kazan, Russia, has written a letter n which he gives a harrowing description ; >f the sufferings of the unfortunate paasints of that province, brought on by ;he failure of the crops. Large lumbers of them, he says, are in an absolute itate of starvation. Many have been unable :o obtain bread for weeks, and in their efforts to sustain life they have been compelled o eat grass and leaves. In one of the vilages of the province, consisting of 140 houses he clergyman visnea an cue neasauw. uno vera found sixteen persons in a terri-, >ly emaciated condition, and slowly, ind painfully dying from starva.ion. Of all tho rtsidents of the houses >nly twenty were fouDd eating ordinary ood in a quantity sufficient to keep them illve. In other villages there was a similar itate of destitution and distress. In all of hem numbers of persons were found eithar Jead or dying from starvation. There is no immediate prospect of any >etterment In the condition of tne peasantry, ind it is feared that, driven on by the pangs >f hunger, they will attempt to gain food >y any means, lawful or unlawful. There Is avnitamaiit throuarhout the province imong the poorer classes, and an outbreak nay occur at any time. H DUEL IN A CAE. 1 Bryant, a Train Robber, Killed by B 9Tarshal Short, Who Is Also Dead. I Charles Bryant, one of the noted Dalton I jang of train robbers, who was captured the B jther day in the Cherokee Strip by Deputy B [Jcitcd States Marshal Ed. Short, was shot I ind killed by his captor after he had fatally B vounded Snort. The duel occurred on a B Rock Island train, on which Short had placed B lis prisoner, intending to take him B ;o Wichita, Kan. He placed Bryant in the B jaggage car, going outside to guard against B uy attempt at rescue. Ho left a revolver B vith the baggageman for protection. The B mggageman laid the revolver down and B Bryant soon secured it. B As the train was slowing up at a station B le opened the door of the car and immedi- B itely began firing at Short, who wt s on the B jlatform, a bullet going through Short's B iody. Short returned the fire and gaveB 3ryant a death wound. Short was B tlso mortally wounded, but both men B :ept on firing until their weap*B ms were emptied. Biyant was tneH irsiman to drop, and he fell h9ad foremost M lown tho steps. Short caught him by the H eg and held him with his head almost touch- H ng the ground. He called to the conductor, B ind when ho got to him, he said: M "1 have got him. Jim, and he has got me." H The prisoner was dead when picked up, and H Short died in ten minutes. K DESPERATE CONVIOTS. I riicy Seize a Train and Attempt toH Escape?Two Killed. gfl A desperate attempt to escape was made H ,ttho Walla Walla (Washington) Peniten-M iary by convict.-'. A train load of material H ras run into the brickyard, and aaH oon ns it stopped several con-H lets soiz'?d tho Warden of the prison, while H tliers got into the locomotive cab. The en-H ineer, however, reversed tho wheals andH [itched t-he train, which frustrated the orig-H nal piau of tho prisoners. H The Warden was being hurried a way to H mother gate by tho convicts when theH ;uards began shooting. The entire forceH Inally came to the rescue of the Warden, tnd after two convicts had been killed andH mother wounded order was restored. B|